Vic "The Brick" Is Feelin' You!

Happy April Fool's Day. So exciting. Here we are together on April Fool's Day, and I am fired up. This is someone who I've wanted to get on the podcast and have not been able to put off the last couple of years. I don't know why. That's that's an outrage, It's not right, but we are fired up to welcome in someone that I have known for almost thirty years. It shocks me to think that I've known anyone for that long, that I'm even that old to have known

someone for that long. But a staple of Los Angeles Sports Media, a part of the Fox Sports Radio Alumni Association and a man with tremendous bohemian tendencies, the very quirky, eccentric Vic the Brick Jacobs, a true free spirit and a man who was a pioneer ahead of his time. And I've wanted to get Vic on the record because he told me some amazing stories back in the day

about how he started his journey in radio. Now, if you're unfamiliar with Vick, Vick worked at Fox Sports Radio with the Loose Cannons and and worked on FSR for a number of years. He's part of the FSR Alumni Association. But he is still a beloved hero in Los Angeles radio on AM five seventy, the flagship home of Fox Sports Radio, the Dodger station in Los Angeles. Very unique, uh,

A breath of fresh air, Vic the Brick. These are all phrases and things that you can say about the unconventional approach to broadcasting, the high coups and all that. But we have been through a lot over the years. Myself and Vic we helped launch AM eleven fifty, the all sports station in Los Angeles that became the station that it is today, moving down the AM dial. But rather than me go on and on and give you the very distinguished resume of Victor Brick, who has traveled

the globe. He's a globe trekker with his unorthodox style, which is ironic because he's very koshert but certainly outlandish at times. So let's get in to it with the great Vic, the Brick Jacobs and Vic welcome. First of all, good to have you, and I consider you the Dean of Los Angeles Sports Radio. Vic. Is that an accurate statement? My man? Well feeling you, Ben, and that statement it's a delusion because you were deluded and I love that

about you. Well, no, there's only one dean. There's only one dean, but Brogan the dean, Well Fred friends, the dean of like TV. Right, But I'm telling I'm just in you know, in radio. I know you did TV too, Vick, But radio, the radio airways, just radio alone, Vick, that medium that is your domain. Well, again, I believe you. You are experimenting with the Pilotybic Mushroom said, beginning to experiment with the game, to gain clarity and again to

be part of the at the rainbow of radio. For me, it's a great blessing because we love it so but that the pick of me in those growing toms been. I believe you have a you get them to the secret source about you? Well as you know, you know me a long time, Vick. We go way back, mean you and but I know what I wanted you to do. We people turn over. As you know, Vick, a lifetime broadcaster, you know that people turn over and whatnot. The audience

turns over. So I was like, how can I explain the magic for somebody who has not heard you over the years, somebody not in l A. Somebody. Let's say there's a person vic in des Moines, Iowa, who maybe has never heard of the legend of Victor Brick. How would you describe, Vic, what you bring to the magic radio box? Your your style, you're you're a debonair personnel. How would you describe that big That's an excellent question. I bring the soul, I bring the tranquility. I bring

the purity. Think of an ancient Japanese walking teeth ceremony, and that is where I try to embrace right from the soul, right from the essence, attention to detail, leave no stone unturned, but the presentation must be beautiful and from the heart and That's how I presented. It's it's all. It's all from the sports soul. Try to get to the essence and try to give it Clary. Try to bring tranquility from the tumult and Clary from the chaos. You you calm, And this is really important, especially the

last couple of years. I've not I've not run into you, and I haven't seen anybody. We've all been in our little caves here Vic over the last couple of years. But you are right your coming influences. I'm trying, like, when's the last time I used to run into you all the time? When's the last time we hung out? It had to be at least twenty eighteen, maybe twenty nineteen, It's it might even be before that. It's been a long time. Then we gotta hang out one of these days.

Then it had to be before a Clipper game, because I know you're you're always a big fan of the Clippers. You're not a band ragging Clipper fan, but you believe in the Clippers. Before we have the media really bored into the Clippers with the vibe of the Clips. And it had to be at a Clipper game, probably at pregame press coppers. Yeah, that's my that's my best. Yeah.

It was probably something like that or a dodgery game might have been a dodgery game, dodr game, a Laker again, but I'm gonna go Clippers because it's the odds, the it's the odd squawed out. Yeah. Well listen, I know, do you do you own a Clipper poncho Vick? You do not, right, you only have the Laker poncho. I don't end the Dodger one lacer poncho Lake, the Laker amulet forged by Laker and in Linwood. It was a stainless steel Laker amulet that I would rock on my neck.

And I'm shocked that I would not say a chiropractor twice a week. We'll we'll get that now. My favorite, I got a couple of great Victor Brick when when your name comes up Thick, I always tell tell a few victim Brick stories. But the one that I wanted you to share that you told me you told me years ago, is you have an amazing tale about how you got into the media. You've had an amazing run here in in radio and TV and all that, but you didn't really plan on doing. Is that accurate? You

were in Guam hanging out at a restaurant working? Is that? Am I getting the story right? I remember you told me the story? Is that accurate? Thing? What's accurate? That I was living on the Autoi Guam, Micronesia and I'm big, very big hot fi day sports pants, all about Tomorrow Brothers and on the island of bomb the Great. Uh. Really, how territory? How did you pick? As? I mean, I'm

trying to figure out the actual, uh political nature. It's a trust territory of the United States, like Puerto Rico basically. And I was traveling and my goal was always to get on TV. That was always my goal. I wanted. I wanted to be a telebrate, his sportscaster. And I knew, I knew my my destiny. I just was trying to

forge your destiny. And I was working as a assistant beverage manager at the Granmrif Hotel on two month day, beautiful two month day and bam, and I was attending a Korannas club lunching when all of a sudden, a camera crew uh came into the the top of the reef ball room and I was shocked because a I flew and it slept through the island. About six months before, I had knocked out old TV stations, so I didn't even know there was a TV station on the air,

but they were on the air. They came back on the air and they were they were doing a little, uh you know, afternoon's voice over deal with a local political type. And I said, wow, you guys are back on the air. Do you guys need a sportscaster? They said, yeah, you know, it's not we need a sportscaster. I don't wet the person. I said, you're kidding. They said, you should, you should apply, So I, you know, I applied the next day for a sportscasting gig and I got it.

And that was my first job on the airwaves as a as a sportscaster on Guam Cable TV, g C t V just a Circle nineteen eighty and so, how how long did you last in Guam before you moved on to something else? Well, one year I had an amazing teachers. I had Felt Hawkins, who was a adventure journalist from the East Coast who had great experience, and he came and became the news director. He became a news director, and he guided me, you know, he gave

me the you know, the fundamentals. Was a sensational teacher. Felts Hawkins is my original news director and I believe he's I'm not sure where where it Felps is now? Is there a great name Felts Hawkins rich news director? And oh it was a really cool dude. Man. He was incredibly I'm trying to compare them to someone you know on the air today. He was just a multi skilled journalist and just the pure heart. I mean it had to go to to guaB to be a news director.

You know. He had a great sense of adventure. But he was my really, my first um television professor. You know, he said, he he laid he laid down the basics for me and I just a wonderful team. You know, I'm gand Cable TV and worked there for a year. Put together an audition tape. And I was still working at a systant beverage manager of the Grand ref Hotel, so I was busy and I was you know, I was serving drains and managing the you know, the Top of the Reef hotel. Had a great band who were

bad Fracasini band. He was Italian. He played the flute. He was the leader of the band, you know, a great Tomorrow local stiner. She was fantastic at a bass player from Newark, New Jersey. I just uh, real cool. They played the hits. So I was up there at nights, you know, supervising the room and you know, you know, digging with the band a little bit. And by day I was doing sports for gan Table TV. So it

was really a fun, fun time. But you know, my sites were set of course on coming coming back to the United States and getting a gig somewhere in America, small station somewhere. So I started sending out to you know, my three quarter inch video tapes back in the day the way you know, but before digital, before computers, there was a tape and film, and you know, these archaic troums of communication not even used today. I don't believe there's a three quarter which we see used today in

any market. I don't think so I would I would hope not, Vick at this point, I would that makes you a long way to go. But enjoyed the journey. Enjoyed the journey. So after being rejected bad by about you know, two hunded stations, they said, you are not you an animals stay in grob You're a circus act. Yeah, because I had very high energy and I was not

influenced by anyone, because I had movie. I had been on the road for about you know, five years, traveling so East Asia and the South Seas, and you know, if I really had no template, I had no I had no one to base any style on except my own guts. So with my own gut, I developed a style which was fun, you know, communicative facts, frenzy and a video boo. And it was really too too harsh of a concept at the time, you know, succer ninet TV America to accept such a style, so I was rejected.

I would say, every market, small market, large market, from Laredo, Texas, you know, to to Chico, California. Everyone said, you know, you're a freak. You're a freak. You know, North Dakota,

South Dakota. You know. It was nuts, I mean, everybody said no. But finally, finally I returned home and made the great loop, you know, back to New York halls, back in Queens and New Yorks and the tapes, and I got a big break when Dave Brown, who was a news director at k b I, MTV and Roswalell, New Mexico and number one eight eight market in America. Beautiful Roswell, New Mexico. Of course you know, home of

the Hall of the Aliens. But this was doc in the eight eight, two eighty I'm sorry, nineteen eighty one. They said, Dick, why don't you come in for an interview. Let's talk it over. So of course I grabbed the greyhound bus from New York to Roswell, two and a half days across the country, grabbed the interview with Dave Brown, and I got lucky. We connected. And the only reason we connected it is because his parents would teachers on the island of Gum. We had the gland connection. He

hired me, and he hired me. He said, okay, z he'll do you know, you shoot, you shoot the video on the weekends and during I mean you'll do shoot there during the week and on the weekend, will be the sports guy. I said, fantastic. And that was that. That was a Eureka. That was the That was the big America. That was a big mainland break. So God blessed Guam, God blessed laws in New Mexico, Dave Brown and KB I am the CBS affiliate and beautiful Roswell

in New Mexico, Southeastern New Mexico, now VIC. When you were in Roswell, did you ever see the the aliens? You think you think they were still hanging out there? No, when I was there. It's funny, this isn't either way. Before David Duchovny and X Files, they were really sweeping it under the table. They really didn't want to be

affiliated with that alien vibe. It wasn't until years later they discovered, you know what, there's millions and dollars of tourism money to be discovered if we reconnect with our with our alien connection. And they did. But when I was there in nineteen eighty, it was really under the under the radar, so to speak. You know, it was nowhere to be seen. Yeah, so I really had no. I I would have loved that. I would have will because you know, obviously I'm an X File fan, always

have been. You know, I still have you know, X Files memorabilia. You know in the endo, you love D Company, love D Company. He loved the show and you know the writing is unbelievable and it's just one of those great TV shows. I think they will live on in the history of the medium. Yeah, you could have totally played that when when you said Roswell vic my in my head, I visioned you on television wearing like an

alien costume doing the sports in my head. But as you said, they didn't really embrace that back in that would have been that would have been a good concept, but the aliens were not in the in the mindset of the people at that time. It really wasn't almost an embarrassing thing, uh for the people you know of southeastern New Mexico, because they hadn't come to grips, you know, with with with you know how popular it Uh, you know, I got the fible flying objects was going to be.

And of course alien life in the eighties was you know, was shunned. And basically if you're a point that you know you was coined the phrase alienated, but you were alienated if you start talking about aliens, because it was it was it were almost tat blue. So I never really ran into anyone who were counted aliens when I was in Russell for that one year. But you know, obviously, you know they cashed in later. But you know with the advent of X files and the gray alien claze.

You know that's still going on in this country because you know, we're fascinated without a space and inner space, and of course my favorite the ocean. I'm still I'm a digualte of the deep blue sea. That's where the answers are in the ocean, So at the bottom of the ocean, that's where everything. Now, over the years, Vic, I've had people that say the Earth is flat, that the Earth is hollow. Uh where you ad on that,

vic A that yeah, the Earth is hollow. You think there's like a hole somewhere in the middle of and going deep down in the Give me like, no, you know, let's take such an incredible technology. Yeah we should know. Body help you the track that Kyrie irving exactly. Now. I gotta ask you this, Vic. When I my first memory of seeing Victor break, you were on Channel thirteen in l A. You had the crazy jackets on and you were throwing these foam bricks at the camera, which

I thought was great. I love that that was that was It was hilarious to me. Vic. You were so different than everyone else on TV doing that. Where did that start? Did that start in Roswell. At what point did you decide you see the break just like that? That's a great question. I was meditating on the a pollto Guam. He in a stick? I said, what rhymes with vic? What rhymes with vick? I know how about

the brick? And what I'll do is I'll have a full rubber brick and throw it at the camera and in my moments of anguish and frustration and exasperation, I will throw the brick at the camera and create a crashing sound effect when the when the brick hits the camera, and that will be outrages. It'll be fun. So the little start of the island of Guam, that was where the concept began. That was the genesis of the brick.

I was searching for stick, as we all are. You know, we're searching for were searching for something that will move the audience and move you as well. And once you are moved and the audience has moved you, not the magic. Yeah, and you people don't. I don't think a lot of people You've talked about this, but you went to Cornell, right, that's a major it's an Ivy League institution. You you went through a big time university. Uh, back in the day.

What was Cornell like back then? High above Cayuga's words, sensational institution of learning. Uh. I don't know how I

got in. Basically, I get very lucky because I spent my first two years of Courtland State in in Carton, New York, home of the Red Dragons, and I had taken a lot of creative writing courses, and I had an incredible professor and Paul Blackburn, who was the leader of the of the Black Mountain Movements, who had studied and had written with Alan Ginsburg and Joe Oppenheimer and some of the great American poets over time and space.

And I had taken courses with him, and he was teaching me how to write, which, of course just the core of every sensational communicator is writing. Because once you can write, and you can flow with your spit with your with your writing, then you half were there. But I sensational sensational academia at Courtland, but I really ran out of courses and Cornell was thirty miles away, and it was a great school, Ivy League school, and I petitioned for an interview my mom my marks were high,

but I didn't have the pedigree. He didn't have the I didn't have the uh, the taple of fair you know, really of the typical Cornell student. Basically, I told him, listen, I write a lot of poetry. I told my admissions guide. I wrote, I write a lot of poetry and I play a lot of basketball. They said, you are an unusual, unusual Cornell flavor. You have to come in for an interview. I said I would love to. So I came in for the interview, and I really went desperation. I went

desperation on the interview. Don't asked y. His name was Gordon Peck. He was the head of admissions. He was a cool dude. And I just said, Gordon, listen, if I don't get into Cornell, I will slip into the bowery and start drinking and become an alcoholic. Do you really want it on your consciousness? And he starts laughing, and it was great, that is a last. We don't have many people like you were Cornell. Let us reconsider your application at six six weeks later, I was in wow.

I was sorry. It was a lucky break. You know, this was you know, pre digital, pre computer everything. It was done on the phone or in person. Yeah, so you just you know, this is struck a nineteen what right, mid seventies, seventies I'm thinking seventy two two. So you charmed them to, you charmed them, You charmed your way into Cornell. I got lucky. I had a He was a very embracing dude. He was open. You know, he didn't want the same type you know of Cornell, you know,

a's across the board private school. Uh. He wanted a little something different, and he was willing to take the chance. And I said, Gordon Peck till till this day. He was a tremendous dude, an adventure and in that academic careum fighter. Well, there have been some Cornell's a famous school. Anybody did you go to school with anybody that also made it in the business. I've been a number of media people that came out of Cornell over the years. Did anyone around that time that you went to school

with turn out to have a big career? Well, Keith Alberman, Oh my god, Cornell. Am I was not there when when uh when Keith was there? But I think we just sort of overlapped one another. Okay. I think Bill and I went there too. That science guy, I think he do not the science guy. Yeah, there's some notable alumni, absolutely, Yeah, notable notable alumni. Some point. I s stational school, our

gorgeous school waterfalls on campus. Uh. I lived in a dorm my first year at Prudence Risley Hall, which was right above a beautiful gorge, a sensation thirty ft drop that engineering students would so sometimes plunge into after a pretty down semester. But bottom washers. I never told I couldn't take it that seriously because I was basically you know, getting sees. But the it was an intense academic regime, especially for myself. But I got through it, you know,

grinded it out. But there's a sensational school, no doubt, and the higher rough CAYU resorters and a big shout out, you know to all the cornell all the Cornelians out there and everybody grinding through because it's you know, let's basic. You know, college is tough, Coate College. It's such an unlike and likely experience I recommended. But you know, in these times of you know, incredible overnight success stories, you

know via social media, it's it's amazing. The transformation, especially you know in the broadcast enter industry and how it's all it's all changed. You know, that's unbelievable. Yeah, and if you would, if you had been around, you know, if you'd start out now, you would have been like a YouTube star or a TikTok's kikok man. Yeah, you're all TikTok. Yeah, tiptok. Everything would be tiptok. Yeah, I play TikTok. I'm not shocked. Look at me. I'm on TikTok.

I love it. Yeah, it would be so different. There be no tape to be very everybody will be digital. Everything would be you know, on the web, and it's a it's a different it's a different adventure right now when I and I employed everyone who goes on that

great adventure and enjoy it. Yeah. And you when we were starting out AM eleven fifty which became now you know M five seventy in l A. You hosted, you were alongside, you were the John Stockton a radio with Carl Malone back in the beautiful back in the day. And I remember when we walked into Mike Thompson's office and you know, not you were not part of that, but he explained that he was gonna hire Carl Malone.

At the time, Malone was still playing for the Utah Jazz and it was only supposed to be like a temporary type thing, and Victor break that thing lasted a long time, the Carl Malone show. And you you were right alongside setting the Mailman up. What do you remember about that? What was your favorite part of that show? The greatest part and thank you for love for the Mailman carm alone was it was was called honestly because

he knew from the beginning. I definitely had some serious attitude towards him because of his uh archaic uh attitude towards Magic Johnson, of course, and and the whole age controversy when he when he came out looking, you know, so ridiculous and sheltered, and I held it against call can not be you know, more open, you know, to the situation. But he gets did He just didn't have

the knowledge, uh as a lot of people didn't. But obviously, after spending so many great sessions to call and talking to him, I realized he's really a great, a great soul who just didn't lack knowledge, and I tried to enlighten him give him a knowledge and he you know, he broughtened his spectrum and I was surprised, you know at his amazing array a subject matter that you know, he could speak so beautifully on, you know, from from you know, flying airplane, uh, to chopping wood, you know,

to his trucking empire. Uh. You know, we we we didn't talk much to It was mostly about life. Calm Alone on life, and he was sensational. You know, we talked about a zen are we're talking about We were talking about in a life, philosophy and family and gun control and you know flying the airplane. Always wanted to be you know, uh in the aeronautics industry. And his amazing uh you know, business acumen. And of course you know food, you know what he'd had to lunch that day,

what he was the menu? It was up fascinating And of course you know I grew up to you know, to up Calm Alone, a good friend of mine. It was really an open spirit and uh, I really I cherished those days with the mail man. Yeah, that was a fun, crazy time we had. The Malone came in, Terry Bradshaw came in shortly after that. It was a wild time. At that station. But I gotta I gotta go back to around that time. I think it was the year two thousand, Dick, one of my other favorite

Victor Bricks stories. The Lakers were playing the Indiana Pacers in the NBA Finals, So whatever year that was, and I was doing a show with Dave Smith out where there's a store now at what used to be Staples Center, and we were gonna do this post game after the Lakers, you know, gonna win the championship and all that, and so we were gonna do the postgame thing. Well, they had a bunch of fans that were watching the game on the video board, and the Lakers won, and there

was civil unrest there were we were watching. This happened right in front of us as we were preparing to do the show, and uh, there was a fire that was set. People were running around dancing. It turned out to be a like a small riot in downtown l A after the Lakers had won. And I remember, Vic, we sent you out in the Mayhem as our roving reporter, and I will never forget the people loved you, but we were concerned about you. But there were police everyone

right gear and all kinds. It was a lockdown situation and you were strolling around VIC. Do you remember that night in the middle of all the chaos that was going on around that arena, there was a point of lake. It was amazing, great course rows of emotions for everyone, and I did. I roamed into the into the frame. Uh. It was my heart was torn because I saw the see of God being you know, being you know, split when we all should have been under the umbrella of love.

But obviously it was an opportunity, you know for negative energy to enter the situation. And I believe they had set fire to a police car. And I went into the fray and I saw about I would say, fifty fifty to a hundred, uh, police and riot care just standing there around the bonding police car. And I went into that frame with the fans and was reporting what was happening. That's you know, there was a you know, a a section of the city that was out of control.

But you of of the fans were you know, we're celebrating beautifully, but there was you know, there wasn't an ugly percentage you know that had lost control. And obviously we all lose, you know, with the optics when everyone sees, you know, the the flames and the overturned vehicles and me and the broken window. So everyone loses when when

those optics are revealed, you know, to the world. But being there, I knew it was just a very small fraction you know of Los Angeles that had that had releases, you know, this toxicity you know, on this beauty, on

this beautiful moment. And I reported it as I saw it, and I know you were very concerned, but I was safe at all times if fans had my back, But I just wanted to, you know, report the truth what was going on, you know, right in front of which was then Staples centered the downtown Hoopoe which is now you know Crypto dot Com. But at that time it was since a very very razor's edge of motion, and it was scary, no doubt. I was, you know, I was. I was. I was in fear for the city. I

was never in fearful for for myself. I wasn't fearful the for the city of losing it. But the people came together and great patience for the l a p D and the and the riot squad in their patients, but they did not make any major MUVEs of of violence. You know, they protected you know, the brunt out police car, but they did not descend on the crowd and they let the crowd you know, break up and you know, peaceably.

So I'm not saying it was handled, you know, with incredible skill, incredible skill, but it was scary, and I know you guys were inside I would I'm I'm reporting it as best I can. And there's some very hot start conditions. But let's face it, Uh, this this is what we do. We have to spread the truth and tell the people what's going on. And that's that. That was that was vital and to be that people are yeah, no,

and we were there. We had a glass window in front of us, and we had the window to the where we we could only see what was going on right on the street in front of the arena as they were dancing around a bonfire. And I remember walking back to my car that night, Vic and it was the police car that was burned out. There was a TV news van from Channel two in l A that also got burned up in that and the smell of that, well, it was crazy. But the fans just loved you and

and all that. Now moving on, you don't have too much time, so I wanted to get to this. Now. You have been beloved by the athletes in l A and I was trying to think, is there a top five list of athletes over the years, VIC that have really bonded with the pont Choke. I can think of two off the top of my head. The Lake, Kobe Bryant. You had a good relationship with Kobe and and Yasi from the Dodgers. Who else would be on that shortlist? VIC?

Of guys that really got you and you connected with Kobe Bryant got among men is of course my all time blots that brother. He is a spirit that will live on eternally. That's just hear less hands listened around the world, and I love that man. I missed that man so much. We all do bless Code, Bless Code, and bless Vanessa and the girls. He connected and always

had my back. I just saw a recent post where Steve Nash was a member of the Phoenix Suns and we're doing they'll play the Lakers during a polities And I also really no question to Nis said Steve, do you expect so much production from the Laker boost tonight? And I'm wearing my local punstre of course, and the Laker and the Laker analyism, you know, the purple and goals for Mike for and Nash he was he was funny. He says, do I detected New York sack accent? And

if so, why are you a Laker fan? And I said, Steve, I'm locking the purple and gold and we're in this town and it's a Laker town man and the Lakers or the squad. And he said, I'm disappointed. And so two days later, Colby's at the podium, same series and code are masking Cobe asking Kobe a question, and even before I asked the question, Kobe says that I don't know what Steve Nash is talking about, but I got your back, man, I got your ball with So we're

wearing the Laker puntre. And this is before I even spoke, and he said, Thanky Cobe, thanky man had my back. We'll just grass here, said he. That's just the class of Kobe Bryant, the incredible dignity and class of Kobe being Bryant. We love him forever. Hold us connected with the point show up. I have to say many Ramire's love many Ramiro's. Of course, you see how queed right now in the current the current Dodgers justin Turner at Summurai, very very into the way of the poncho, the way

of the Summurai. Another Dodger, I would say, Dave Roberts also very in tune with the poncho and the way of the warrior. And bless the oars old to see her. Freddy Freeman is gonna have an amazing game. And I'm just I'm just you know, coming to see what an altar curb current ball there. But Freddy Freeman swing. Wow, I mean, this is this is we haven't had a I can't think of a sweetest swing in a while.

He makes in contact so it seems so simple. And when he goes opposite field, I just love how he inside outs, you know, I late just a single to left. I just love that. It kind of reminds me. We know, Bellinger was in the groove of a couple of years ago in the NBP season, you know, when Billy was such a zone. You know, the praise in that zone like every attack, that's the listen, We're in the Goldilocks zone with the dodge. I mean we've been around for

a while. You've been around longer than I have. But you remember the Dodgers back in the day, they'd go years, or they'd be kind of mediocre, average teams. The last ten years of Dodger baseball, they've become like the old Yankees. They're in the playoffs or the Atlanta Bridge there in the payoffs every year. It's a birth right now to be in the playoffs for the Dodgers. There, you're almost guarantee a joke. It's a joker knut. It's a joker nut. And I don't I believe that Billy had one more

starting pitcher. What the one starting get total domination. The starting lineup is really strong. Other other clubs improved, But that's pretty Freeman into this. Commix just gives Day Roberts so much mobility and freedom to X and match and you know, get incredible setups. You know, left right, left, right,

left right. If there isn't an easy out, if you've better grind through a lineup man and you got to go through Freeman, and you're gonna go through beds, and you're gonn to go through the turners, and then you gotta go through monthly and then you know you gotta go through Will Smith and then you know it's just wild, you know, Chris Haylor, it's just you know, it's you know, it's just a wild lineup. I just love it. So it's just a tremendous thing to see. And I just

love seeing Clayton car shot. Pie was so all by the way, if anyone for me, the revelation of the spring has been Clayton show every day. The ball seems to have a nice break, nice velocity. You know, it seems like he's going to be the Clayton you know, I think Clay's gonna win towards the fifteen games this year, and that's gonna be uh sensational. Oh yes, it's gonna be a wonderful year. And you know, and of course the boat tend of looks strong and walk compusersm you know,

a warrior. It's it's going to be wonderful watching Dodger Baseball to see it. But I'll tell you there's a lot of clubs up there. You know, Dave Roberts gave the guarantee, so let's play him out. That's have some fun and enjoy the game. We got hoartball man, that's the key. Yeah, we got some heartball man. We got baseball's coming, baseball, real baseball coming. They got the baseball. Ben next week, Vic, I gotta I gotta go out and see at the ball park. I'm gonna hang out

and we gotta break bread. Me and you. I have not seen you in too long. Vic. We're gonna break bread at some point. That's in the near future. Mack. We gotta make that happen. Gotta make that and more. They're finding some health issuels. But you know, day by day, day by day, Ben, how are you doing? I gotta ask you, but I know you Mom momento, I saw still the enemy. It's just amount of control. You know,

I'm just controlling it, you know. Day by day we just you know, you know, I'm grinding to a very tough at back. Alright, alright, whatever we can do a top of that, and uh, let's stay. Every picture is a blessing. Yeah, you're a Hall of Famer, Victo. You're in the aren't you in the Southern California Jewish Sports Hall of Fame? Right? I read that you're a few years ago you how about that Hall of Famer Victor brick in the Hall of Fame. Awesome, Save Hartin was

parting all right. Listen, Vick, I love you man, get that health back. You keep fighting the fight and uh and thank you for doing this. I appreciate it well. Thank you. You've a wonderful show. Everyone listen to Ben Malla man. It's a stake and sill. Ben. You are a warrior as well. Your longevity and your your tape and your content have been fantastic for decades. I always love listening to you and hanging with you. You are great vibe, loving you, Bella. You're the man. Vic, Thank you do