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on the weekends. And so that is how it works. Danny, I would like to think Roberto who came on, he didn't have to do that. He doesn't work for the company anymore. But that's the big show. We'll talk you a little bit about that. But Roberto was on the Friday podcast. So if you had a chance to sample that. If not bad job by you. It is available to download right now. You can hear Roberto talk about his time at Fox Sports Radio and FSR and all of that.
How cool is that.
I've had situations I'm not sure if you ever have in your radio career where you didn't get to say goodbye to your audience. You just disappeared. It was almost like you were there one day and gone the next and back. When this happened to me, there was no Twitter or anything like that. I couldn't send out a message to the masses saying thank you so much and I enjoyed my time and you know, I appreciate you listening and all that. That's what radio hosts do nowadays.
When I couldn't do that, I saw some listeners later down the line and they were pissed at me. They were like, how can you just leave like that? You'dn't even say goodbye or anything. And I'm like, well, you don't understand how broadcasting works. They come and give you your pink slip right after your show is over.
Usually.
Yeah. I remember when I was younger and I skipped school and I watched the History Channel and they had a documentary about Joseph Stalin and how he would make people disappear where they would be there one day, they would go to work and then they would never come home. And not only would they never come home, he would like erase all the back in those days, the books with their names in them, the picture all disappear, like everything,
any trace of the people would go away. And it's a similar concept in the radio business, which is fascinating how they decided that is the way to go. But I was told by a program director that the reason we do that is to protect the license because if we put somebody on the air that and we say, oh, I get a final show, they are going to destroy us and they are going to tear down the radio station and they're gonna steal stuff, and you know all that.
They were so paranoid, I know. And that's the thing is that there is no way in hell.
After seven years at the radio station I helped build to number one, there's no way that I would go in there at a steal something and b say something bad on the air, because you know in broadcasting that burning bridges is a no no, a big time no no, because you're gonna somewhere along the way work with those people again, somewhere down the road. Radio is a small community, and you're gonna see one or two of those folks
sometime again in the future. And even as a youngster in radio, I knew that, So there was no way I would do any I wasn't gonna pull any shenanigans. I just wanted to have a fun final show and say goodbye to the morning show listeners. Instead, like you said, they even erased my voice off of the commercials and suddenly you're Mia. You're on a milk carton immediately.
Yeah, And it's all the media, Like I remember when Tucker Carlson got let go from Fox News, like he was like their number one guy, and they obviously they got rid of him, I guess on a Friday and immediately like any trace completely. So it was great to have Roberto on a retrospective on Roberto leaving the show. He's actually the guy that replaced you, Danny, when you went to the morning show. Yes, Roberto stepped in for you,
and I hope you heard the chat. Roberto been a key part of the show the last five years, almost five years, I think it's just a little short of five years, and he's the guy that played the drops most of the drops. Eddie plays some, but most of the jobs come from Roberto. But change is part of the business. And as we've been through a lot of different people over the years, both of us in our different travels, our roads and radio and any job. But I feel like radio is more of like a Greyhound
bus station. And I was going through my head. I was driving in and I was thinking about all the different board ops and producers that I've worked with since I started at Fox Sports Radio back in like two thousand.
That must have been a long drive.
Yeah, And I'm like, well, that guy became a team this guy's a baker, that guy's an insurance salesman. I don't know what happened to that guy. He moved back to Boston. I don't know what happened to that guy. Then the other guy, the last I heard, he was in rehab. Then there's the guy that I used to work with who's a real estate mogul. And then there's another guy who's like a program director at a radio station. But I don't really talk to him, but I used
to be close to him. And you name it, someone formally has passed through the building who is now doing something totally efferent. Some of them are still working in radio. But people, that's the old thing. People will come and go in your lives all the time, and it's radio is a transient business. And what's the old thing. It's not your fault. It's the universe just making room for new people, I think, is Yeah.
And when we came up in broadcasting, we were told, if you're able to stay at any call letters for three years, that's an accomplishment because usually something happened in three years, whether it's a lineup change, a programming change. And for me, at that station I mentioned, which I helped build for seven years, it was a management change and it was a guy from across town who had
run the AC station in our market. And when he got over to our station, he called a big staff meeting and he proclaimed, why.
Would I change anything?
You guys are number one. And right after that meeting I told my assistant program director.
I was like, you know what that means, right, He's going to change everything?
Of course?
Yeah? Yeah.
I had I had a boss this really before I got the Fox. I had a guy at one of the stations I worked at that was like this really slick sales guy. He wore the power suits, you know, the purple jacket. One day had the bright red jacket, the next had the power blue jacket.
You know.
He's a and he was like into the whole Tony Robbins thing. And we were in a labor negotiation because it was a union shop, and we were in a labor negotiation and the guy they turned this what had been an f It had been a music station and they had a contract where it was like a union contract. They flipped it the sports. Well, the sports station had no audience. When you start a new station, new format, there's no one listening. It takes a while to build
an audience. And so they had to pay us ridiculous money that they had been paying the DJs that had been at the radio station. And they were trying to negotiate a lower pay because they're like, well, no one's listening. Pay these guys that kind of money. And this boss came into the meeting and he violated every labor law on maagement. This is a long time ago. The statute of limitations has run out. But he said, if you guys,
do not take this deal. I will system I don't think he's used systematic, but I will take every one of you away and I will flip on. At that time, it was sports fan Radio, which was the network out of Vegas, and I will I will just put that on and I'll have the same number of people listening and I'll save all this man. It was like he violated every possible law you can do, and then he didn't even end up doing anything. He just ended up paying us and then and so it was a complete
waste of time. But you know, it's listen, things things happen. I love Roberto, I'm gonna miss him, and uh, it's one of these things. I mean, you you get used to people and then you got to get use to new people.
And yeah, and my point was that not only do we wish him well, and he's been a raider friend this whole time. In fact, on Sundays he's the one guy I know that's gonna text my phone with some filthy language because he's down to few and he's like fucking Derek Carr. I can't believe fucking Derek Carr. Yeah, I'm like the lifeline. I'm like the guy that has to save him from drowning and his alcohol. And I'm like Roberto, it's all right, it's the third corner. We
have time to come back. I'm the positive one.
Yeah, And I recall telling Roberto I think in the podcast we were talking about, you know that I'll still text him whenever the Dodgers screw up Dave Roberts makes the wrong pitching change or micro manages the front you know, the front office micro manages and they you know, this guy's only he's pitching a shutout, but he's thrown seventy eight pitches, so we have to take him out of the game because his arm will fall off on seventy nine. And this week we go back and forth on that.
So I'm sure, especially when the playoffs come around for the Dodgers, I will be texting Roberto quite a bit. And you know it's it's people have been emailing me. I told Roberto this as people have been asking me what happened. You know, he told the story from his point of view, and I think it really is more of a it's a money thing, but it's a schedule of thing. And I think if the money was the
same and he had daytime hours. I think you'd be fine, but people that all work overnight, you have no idea how difficult it is. It seems like you'd get used to it, but and I'm pretty used to it, but some people just go crazy and it's just not good and it creates Yeah, a lot of the issues are not necessarily with yourself.
It's with your family family.
I was just going to say that no one really realizes until you're in it and you're trying to do it, that your family expects you to flip your schedule around immediately every weekend, and you do your best, so you pretend like it's not bothering you, but you kind of feel like a zombie and everybody else is, you know, laughing and having a good time on the weekend, and it's just a weird feeling because you want to do it and you're trying your best, but it sucks, man,
because your sleeping clock is completely twisted around.
It's very rude of society, Like you can't go to a bank four in the morning. If you do, you're robbing it. You can't, I mean, you can't see as someone at the bank. You can't get a doctor's appointment at that time unless you're in the emergency room and then you've got to wait for seventeen hours and all that. Like, it's not designed. Society's not designed for people that work overnight. But I mean there are restaurants open, there's obviously people working. There's a lot of people working.
The third shift in the first shift is the backbone of our country.
Yeah, I mean it's like it's people stocking shelves and driving trucks and putting food out and cooking food and all that stuff. So some of the things, you know, we've obviously talked for a while here, but some of the things we've got to get to. We have Ben and Ben mister Miagi and the Word of the Week, and we'll see if we get to anything else. We might have to say pop culture and that other stuff
for the Sunday podcast, but we'll start with this. So this past weekend, the Malord Mansion turned into a bend and breakfast. That's a bed and breakfast. It turned into my wife invited a childhood girlfriend of hers, her husband and their toddler to stop by from they live in Oregon, just outside Portland, Oregon, and they stopped by for a very long visit. They came on a Thursday early in the day and then they they left on Sunday, so the mallord bed and breakfast. Now I did not know this, Danny,
this was unexpected. I knew they were coming, but they didn't know all the details. My wife kind of gave me some of the details and not all of them. I pretty much keep to myself. I talk a lot. We both talk a lot for our jobs. So on the weekends I shut her down. I go to second year. You know, stay in your lane. I don't make waves. But the one one thing that's very important to me is my domain, my my ecosystem, my world. I need. I need that unsullied. I need that untouched. That's my
my domain, right, that's my spot. And I don't want, you know, somebody coming over for a couple hours for visit. I have no problem with that. I think that's great. I have family, We have family over all the time. But you start staying there and I mean, I'm trying to play nice and all that stuff, but I'm like, there's too many rogue actors running across the Serengetti, and I don't know whether they're going to try to eat me or anything like that. And so but anyway, I
was fine. So I was okay. The first couple of days. I even went into the Mothership on a day that I normally don't go in so they could sleep and not hear me barking about some NFL scandal or the NBA finals that my wife and this was all in the brochure, but I didn't see the brochure. My wife ife rolled out the what I call the VIP package at the Mallard Bed and Breakfast, the club package, and
it included the all inclusive. She went shopping with them and they picked out a few items at Costco, and then when they were checking out, much to my wife's surprise, she said, no one stepped up to buy said items. So by I guess they just assumed it was part of the y.
They at least water or grass for you.
So they well, we'll get to that. So we got like seven pounds of pasta because their kid likes pasta. Their kid, by the way, who just turned two. More on that in a minute, so fine, whatever, you know, there was pasta and a few other items. My wife didn't realize she was purchasing for them. She thought when they got to the teller they would buy the items. But they didn't do that. And maybe I'm wrong on this, Danny.
And I'm going to ask you the listener. I'll ask you, Danny, if you stay at someone's house, is it true that you should buy your own stuff? Is that? Is that? Basically? Really?
Now, my grandfather got even a question that you need to ask.
It's a bit of a rhetorical question my grandfather. There's a Yiddish term hawser. My grandfather would say, but but you know, find you maybe it was a rookie mistake by them. So my wife then just this. I knew about this, She said, you know, the kid's turning to there's no one they're not They live in Oregon, they don't live in California. There are a lot of that are from California. So they have a lot of family
and friends. And they want to have a birthday party for the two year old who will never remember anything about this party at all.
So, you know, my wife, somebody else said this, I completely agree. Birthday parties are kids that young. They're not for the fricking kids. They're for the el to take pictures.
Yes, and that is about to become your world, Danny, in August, possibly sooner. That is going to be your new new normal. So get ready for that. Uh but but anyway, so she said, my wife, she doesn't do anything small. So she we're gonna have a we're gonna have a party. We're gonna have a big party.
We're gonna get Oh so we're going to invite other people to your house.
Yeah, that's the problem. So yeah, yeah, so not only do we have three house guests, now we have a party. I went out, I had to buy We bought a couple of cakes. We bought one of those blow up pools from Walmart for the kids, so we had a pool for them. There are other kids there.
Like the Platinum package.
Yeah, this is this is all out. So now, as you said, Danny, there are more strangers that are now in my house. Now I know some of these people casually there there, and I like them. They're nice people. But again, you know, it's more invasive and and all that.
And uh so then we got through that, and I was so burned out I had to get away, Danny, and my wife realizes I was about to lose my lunch and I was gonna need the people on the white coach to come get me for I was about to I'm pretty calm, but when I blow up, it's like a volcano. It's molten lava everywhere. I don't do it very often, but when I blow up, I get my money's worth. So she's like, we got to get
out of here. And so we went to the beach and hung out, and then she realized that, you know, she was like, well, maybe we should invite them to dinner. And I'm like, are they gonna pay for dinner? You know, they're gonna pay for dinner, And she's, I don't know, probably not. So then we just like we stayed out. We went out to I wasn't planning on going out to EA, so we went out to eat. So we went to the beach for like an hour and a half.
Then when and we were walking around trying to find a place to eat, just to kill more time to avoid coming back to the to the home. And so yeah, it was quite quite the adventure. And and know they didn't buy us one meal. I find like I've had other people stay at the house and they've always at least the common courtesy is on your way out. You buy the host the meal.
Yeah, you know, and.
They did, thank us. But it's you know, I said, Ben and Ben because Benjamin Franklin Danny was right when he famously said that guests are like fish. They begin to smell after three days. I would argue they begin to smell after about a day and a half, so we might have to update that to a day and a half. And that's about it. But if anybody wants to stay at the Malor Mansion, the Malard bed and breakfast all inclusive, you'll get you know, food at Costco
if you want, just put that in the cart. You know, we'll pay for it.
Why not?
What the hell? And knock yourself? Knock yourself.
Well, you could have used some of mister Miyagi's breathing methods. Man, I don't know how you got through that. I would have been cursing by the second day.
Wow, wax on and wax off?
Right, Yeah, yeah, I remember when danielsun walked in on him meditating.
That's what you needed to do.
Oh me, holy shit, I think this thing is going to get July. I'm confused. Where are we in the NBA schedule?
I don't even know, it's very rare. They usually it's an odd schedule because they played on Friday, which is, as you know, Danny, a bad television night because people usually go out, although it's different now with on demand, but the NBA's live programming, so they put it on a Friday, and then there's no game on Sunday, which is where they usually want to put the game because there's travel, so they have to give him two days.
So the next NBA Finals game is on Monday. It's very odd scheduling, scheduling Game three.
We were talking about it as a show on Cavino and Rich that we hadn't gone to Buffalo Wild Wings in a while. Every couple of months will go as a show and we'll watch a exporting event there and get some boneless nuggies. And we had a lot of fun, but I had a party foul bit. Rich took a picture saying, I can't wait to talk about this on the show tomorrow.
Danny g for like twenty minutes, was trying to get her attention, trying to get a coke right, excuse, excuse me, let's let's years sitting register, you know, to her ears because it's so low she was like, she was like.
The heat because she disappeared the entire third quarter. She come on, hey, excuse me, excuse me.
Well, I'm sorry, I didn't hear you calling me for the last twenty five minutes.
Got got another doctor pepper.
So so Danny g finally gets his soda and.
I don't even do you want to take it from here? How spill it? Yeah? So I didn't know that Rich ordered a dessert.
No, leave it to Rich, because when we were in Vegas he did the same thing, and when he thought that it was a comp meal, he got two desserts for the table.
Rich, Yes, bring him on.
Then he found out his personal credit card was going to be used, and he was like, can we send one of these desserts back. So a dessert comes to the table and very nicely, Rich started passing out forks because they put it. She put it right in the middle of the table. So I scooped back a little bit to make some room because I'm like, yeah, dessert
a cheat night. As Rich passes me my fork, I do a karate chop to get it, and my mister Miaki trained karate chop hit the top of my PEPSI cup spilled full cup, Thank goodness, not on any of you, guys. But it kind of came down the tall tabletop like a waterfall, got your phone on PEPSI waterfall on my legs and my phone.
So now Danny G's calling the same waitress over hey, sorry, spillach, I got a spileach right, And she's like, don't worry, guys. And it was kind of embarrassing anytime it happens, and I try to pick the heat up off. It is funny, but like you feel like an ass, right, it's a major party foul, it is, she said, to worry it heavens once a day.
But it's usually a kid.
It's usually a three year old, not a forty three year old, you know, son, Yeah, kids probably get better service around here.
Oh man, so that's a party foul.
It happened. We laughed about it. No big deal, no big foul, no big crime. She cleaned it up. But there's a more important question and it doesn't have to do with spillage, and it was you know, I do you do?
You know?
Wor's the worst part about it though, when she's there mopping it up and you're just like, oh, you keep mopping him. Yeah, not only did Danny have this spillage, but she like busted out the mop and everything, and then she put up that that uh piece of mojaveo wet floor sign, this big giant like a big giant sign on the floor.
That's great.
Now, I gotta give Rich and spot credit Covino. He eats more like a girl. He's always watching his big ear.
Ah, you can't live like that.
Come on. He didn't partake, He didn't partake in the dessert.
But do you think I think that Rich and spot a waited for me to dry the area and then we could all eat the dessert together or b they demolished it and by the time I was dry, it was gone.
Yeah.
I think you were going to the ice cream shop over there to get some dessert, right, I think, Yeah, the dessert was gone, gone, gone in It's in my belly, my belly right now, in my belly.
Yes, they took out the dessert, just the way the Nuggets took out the heat in Game three.
Yeah, I've not been to the galleria, you know. I right across the street, the Shriman Oaks Galeria where what is the movie they filmed there?
That great fast Times at Ridgemont High.
Film, but it looked much different when they filmed it there. It's been completely renovated. We have the word of the week. Are you excited for the word of the week, Danny? Are you fired up for the word of the week? Yeah? Okay, word.
We're word word word the word a week. So in honor of the mega mega mega mega mega sports merger that happened this week, so much that gasbags and blowhearts that only talk about golf four times a year unless Tiger Woods is involved in a scandal, all of a sudden, we're chowing down on the low hanging fruit of a merger between the Live Saudi you know, finance Live Golf
Tour and the PGA Tour. A massive story and as I mentioned a few times on the radio show Overnight, this is the first time in my life something this big has happened in sports. I remember hearing stories when I was a kid because it was kind of I guess it might have happened when I was little. But the NBA ABA merger that took on, like the Denver Nuggets who were in the finals, the Indiana Pacers and
some teams the Nets became NBA teams in baseball. In the early days of baseball, the American League in the National League joined forces, but they were separate outfits and they formed Major League Baseball NFL, the NFL AFL merger, like all these things, and like sometimes we'll do stats about since, you know, since the merger will be what we we mentioned and so now we have another merger. Not that we're big golf people, but massive, massive move and hypocrisy to the next level. But the word of
the week this week is merger. That's the word of the week, following the Live PG eight tour merger and that is the word of the week. So the word merger as a noun goes back to seventeen twenty eight. So the word is almost you know, you do the math on that's that's that's old, three hundred years old almost. But in the legal sense it says extinguishment by absorption.
It was originally for real estate. The term merger was for real estate and it was used in France, and it wasn't until eighteen eighty nine that it was used in business. But that was for security for a debt, like if you had debt by the creditors, stay with me on this. The word of the week merger, But the modern way we use merger, like two businesses merging together. That did not become common until nineteen twenty six. So the word is in the way we use the word.
It's you know, it's old, but it's you know, it's not one hundred years old. It's close to one hundred years old. But the general meaning any act of merging, that was like eighteen eighty one. But the I'm in the term nineteen twenty six. So the war the week, merger, merger, merger, merger, merger. Anything you got going on today, we'll push back to the Sunday podcast. We'll do some pop goes the culture
along with the mail bag and all that. Anything going on today, Danny, you want to promote, Yeah.
I'll use the word of the week. I'm trying to merge my storage with my wifies. Last weekend, I cleaned out a storage unit that I had in West Lake Village smoke weed every day.
I downsized it.
If you know anything about storage units, they jack up your rent every six months.
It's ridiculous.
So I stormed into the office and I said, I demand a smaller unit, and so they gave me the smallest closet they had, and I threw some stuff away. I did the old trick where I took pictures of old crap and then tossed it.
Good. The garage is clean.
And I think now I'm going to start setting up my podcast area.
Okay, did you do the move where you considered putting it on offer up or eBay the stuff that you ended up throwing out, or did it only have sentimental value to you?
Sentimental value because a lot of it was older electronics like old boomboxes and speakers and stuff like that. It's not modern enough to where people would have been, you know, fighting for it on offer up.
Gotcha, Yeah, I gotcha. I have nothing going. My wife's actually working.
No house guests.
Yeah, no house guests, thank god. So my wife's working an extra shift. So I am considering if anyone listening, if you're listening this early in the day today, if you're in southern California and you are going to be at the Angels game, I may make an appearance. I was going to try to go out and have a nice meal with my buddy, have like a guy's night, but he's he told me his worst nightmare. He's going camping.
He hates camping, but his wife loves camping, and so they're taking the kids camping and he was complaining about that. So I will rather than do something other but maybe go to the Angel game for a little bit. Check that out. See the Big A haven't been out there in a while. And that is it. We've got the mail bag. Slash pop goes the culture. We'll get to that on Sunday. Have a wonderful Saturday and we will catch you then.
Yeah, have fun watching Otani. Later, skater got a murder. I gotta go