July 19, 2025 • 32 mins
Ben Maller & Danny G. have a fun Saturday podcast for you! They talk: Dodger Tough Love, Lump of Coal, Lost at the Park, Neon Pink Plastic Sausage, & more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:02):
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(00:23):
Hour with Ben Maller starts right now.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
In the air everywhere The Fifth Hour with Me, Ben
Maller and Danny g Radio. On this nineteenth day of July,
we were hanging out early in the morning here settling
into a Saturday Saturday Saturday and Danny.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Back with us here on this day.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
We have the lump of coal lost at the park
and the neon pink plastic sausage that we will discuss
in great detail today, which is very important to cover
on the Fifth Hour podcast. As we are are here
hanging out and there's no dopey holidays, I wass.
Speaker 4 (01:08):
Looking at dope.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
There's nothing today.
Speaker 4 (01:09):
That really Oh that's good. We could talk baseball for
a second, because our Dodgers picked up right where they
left off.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
Tremendous offensive baseball team. The Doyers the greatest team ever assembled.
I learned that before they had played a game. This year, Danny,
I learned the Dodgers the greatest team in baseball, greatest
team ever assembled in baseball, the reigning World champions. This
is another magical year of Dodger baseball. They have actually
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a good record.
Speaker 4 (01:39):
That's why it's so good to have money in the
bank when you start sucking, and when life starts sucking,
you have some money to fall back on.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
Yeah, it'd be nice if some of the guys the
Dodgers gave the lottery too would actually show up and contribute.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Uh it does anyone who were Blake? What is Blake?
Do you know where Blake Snell is? Danny g or
we are we aware of you? Have you him? Have
you spotted him?
Speaker 4 (02:06):
I can't even remember what that dude looks like, to
be honest with you, except I know he's got a
punishable face.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Very punishable face. And what the other guy they wanted.
I know he's got a blister problem for the Yankees,
but he's been an All star. Max Freed, who grew
up a Dodger fan, and instead they signed David Vasse's
buddy Blake Snell, who's been malingering all two starts. The
guys made two starts all year for the for the
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Doyers who got shut out last night and had how
many hits? Not one, not to just three hits against
the Brewers. And now I know this guy, Quinn Priester,
I guess is his name? The other guy that the
guy's got a good, good record, good numbers. Had you
ever heard any of you?
Speaker 4 (02:55):
You know, I mean, I'm fall Yeah, earlier in the season,
I remember seeing some highlights from a kame through on
Sports Center. But that's the sort of picture that when
you have a strong lineup, you still should be able
to hit that dude. Three hits is pathetic.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Yeah, well, they're still in vacation mode.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
You know, when you come back to work after you've
been on vacation, you're still on your in vacation mode.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Clearly that's the issue doing some.
Speaker 4 (03:19):
Bullsh isn't it. You said going into the break they
went break. Currently now they're on an extended break. That sucks.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
Oh, they're all gazillionaires. They don't have the laser like
focused Danny.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
They don't.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
I mean, it's obvious they're just this is the thing
they assume and it Last year they didn't look like
they were gonna win the World Series around this time.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
They're so arrogant over there. They're like, oh, when we.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
Get to late August, we'll flip the switch, and you know,
until proven otherwise, maybe they will.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
I wouldn't bet on it. They don't look like.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
A championship team to me from what I've seen this year.
The bullpen has been overused. They're gonna have to trade
for two or three relief pitchers. The starting rotation is
like they have. It's just there's a lot of things
fed up with that. But enough of that.
Speaker 4 (04:09):
I was gonna say, I like this though. It's like
a little taste of what we got on AM five
seventy LA Sports when you were on the air with
Jonas Knox.
Speaker 5 (04:16):
Oh yeah, people were upset with'd be oh, why have
you been so negative about the Dodgers. Everyone on the
station is always nice about the Dodgers. I don't care
what the other people do during the day. I focus
on tough love. I want to see the Dodgers do well,
but I'm not going to sit there and lick their
toes when they're playing like this.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
I'm not going to do it.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
So last week Danny I tried to eat at Cole's. Now,
for those that are not listening, most of people listen
aren't in southern California.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
So if you're not from Los Angeles or been to LA.
Even if you've been to LA, you may not know.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
Coles is a legendary French dip sandwich shop in downtown
Los Angeles, a place that is so entrenched in the
LA mythology, if you will coal La mythology, that it's
the offering that it's a French dip place, and it's
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semi sagree. Now, it's not at the in and out
burger level, because the in and out burgers all over
the place. But we're talking about an iconic century old
joint which claims, and there's this great battle between Coles
and Philips that both say they invented the French dip sandwich,
or maybe they co invented it, depending depending how you
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look at it. But when I used to live down
in Lincoln Heights in LA, I was a single guy,
and I was a regular, semi regular. I want to
say I was going there all the time because of
the neighborhood. But I worked quite a bit at Staples Center.
Was there a lot Dodger Stadium, and so I would
stop by on a semi regular basis when I was younger.
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And it's the kind of place. Have you been to
Cohls by the way, I don't know if you've been
down there before. You ever gone down to Coles have never.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
That's one of the places I still need to get to,
all right.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
So this is the kind of place that you know
it In La there's not a lot of things that
are old.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Anything old they get rid of and put some new.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
And so this is a place that has character, which
is another way of saying it's kind of a rundown neighborhood.
It's on the wrong part of town. It's on the
wrong side of the tracks. You might see a rat
you know, in the you know, on the street out
in front of it. You know it's in just But anyway, listen,
I said, we're going to go there. So we had
all mapped out, left the north Woods, headed into the
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Big City one final supper, Danny, because Cole's announced a
couple of weeks back that they are shutting down. I
think it's August, early August, So here we are it's
January or January, July nineteenth age January, my god, so
it's July nineteen, so they have another couple of weeks
to go.
Speaker 4 (06:55):
I did not know they were closing, so yeah, it's
a big to get there quick.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
So another great thing for Mayor Karen Bashier. In Los Angeles,
another iconic restaurant closing. So Cole's announced they were shutting down,
and like any great institution which is facing its last
supper on its deathbed, suddenly everyone needs to be there,
right because they're closing.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
So now everyone's like, I gotta go, I gotta go.
Speaker 4 (07:20):
Jeah.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
So all the people me included, who ignored the restaurant
for probably decades, now now it's just craziness. It's like
the line wrapped around the block, like it's some amazing
movie premiere.
Speaker 4 (07:38):
Probably some idiots like me who heard about it for
years but never got to go.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
Oh yeah yeah.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
So me and the wife hop as we said, it
happened in the malamobile. We drive into downtown, which, if
you have not been recently to downtown Los Angeles, it's
not exactly a brunch in Malibu. It's twenty twenty five
downtown it is. It's to describe it. It's skid Row.
The restaurant's literally right next to skid Row. It's a
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dystopian world, think Sodom and Gomora without the orgies, although
there might be some of those going on, but I
didn't see any, just the aftermath. And so opened up
the Apple Maps. Now it wanted me to get me
and the wife to get the fully immersive experience, Danny.
As it rooted us, I think it had a smile,
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the Apple Map thing. It rooted us straight through the
belly of the beast.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
On skid Row.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
We are talking Mad Max meets walking dead, crackheads dancing
in the street. To the right, we saw the fentanyl fold.
To the left, you know, Zombie five slumped over. You know,
these guys, they didn't really were alive or not. There
was a person that who I think and in my
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way of describing this for you listening, I think this
is the person that dotted the eye like the Ohio
State Marching band. So was this black dude who who
clearly was having a bad day, torn up from the
floor up, Danny. He had he had pants on, but
only his left leg had the leg that all you
know like the normal pants.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
The other leg had.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
Been ripped and torn, so it looked like he was
wearing half shorts, half pants showing his boxer shorts. So
at least he had underwear on. This guy was completely bedraggled,
covered in dirt.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
Right, the shoes like.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
Were barely there. They looked like clown shoes. They were
all torn up. I mean this I was really in
tough shape. And my favorite part though, so just imagine
this guy's covered in dirt, He's got pants on, but
only one leg has the pant leg. The other leg
it looks like shorts, no shirt, just completely messed up, frazzled.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
But he had the bling bling on.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
When I say bling bling, Danny, that would be a
court ordered ankle monitor, which is high fashion on kid row.
So this guy had it all going on. He was
on the catwalk, man, he had the ankle monitor, which
you could clearly see. So at least he was being
mined way.
Speaker 4 (10:11):
So how does that work he's not allowed to leave
his street.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
I don't Yeah, that's a great question, Danny. I have
no idea.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
I'd never seen that before, so this was new to me.
I didn't know that that you could just roam around
with that on. But the guy had he clearly had.
I have seen that before, We've all seen it. He
had an ankle, one of those big black ankle monitor
things on.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
His as it was.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
The other thing is the right, right or left? I
think he might have left left leg. He was stopped
right in front of Coles.
Speaker 4 (10:40):
It's house arrest. What happens if you have no house?
You can just go anywhere. I guess, yeah, so he
was halfway between. It's like one of those cautionary tales.
Or was it performance art or something like that.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
There was also a woman I spotted screaming at a
lamp post. I guess the lamp post had been mean
to her. So, I mean, there was so much going on.
It was like an art.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
Installation down on skid Row. And I don't know.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
It was just wild and so everyone's like half the
people are like they don't know whether they're awake or asleep.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
They looked at there's zombies.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
There's people talking to themselves and then yelling to the
ones having a conversation.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
That one's yelling.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
Anyway, listen. There were tents everywhere. It was a tense city.
It's remember Blade Runner without the budget.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
So finally, right in the middle.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
Of this is the restaurant Coals, which is a after
describing the neighborhood, it's a charming first floor even like underground,
there's like a speakeasy in Coals brick building, this old
building from La old from probably the eighteen hundreds. There's
like a neon sign kind of flickering. It's kind of
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like a boxer, the old boxer that doesn't want to
quit and just wants to keep fighting and all that stuff.
But as we turned the corner again we're driving through
skid row, we see the sign, we see the building,
and there's a line. And I said, there was a
line around the block. This was like the Energizer Bunny.
It kept going and going. It was so funny. What
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a juxtaposition, Danny, because you got all this sodom and Gomara,
worst of the worst of society, people really just lost
in life, and then you've got all these people that
are wearing like their Dodger stuff and they're dressed up
and they're you know, just normal, you know, middle class
people in line for a French dip sandwich. It was
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just wild. So the line was absurd. Not I'm not
a line person. It wasn't just long. It was like
self important long, like the kind of line that somebody
needed to document. And it wrapped around the block in
the middle of skid Row, and it was like on
a Saturday, and you know, like anything in La Danny,
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there were people instagramming the weight like it was a
pilgrimage and they wanted to document it. And so everyone's
standing outside three It looked like a three hour wait.
It's not a huge restaurant eighty five degrees, like.
Speaker 4 (13:12):
People in line at eight in the morning waiting for
an Otani bobblehead.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
Yeah, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
It was.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
It was ridiculous.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
So it was hot, and you know, there was a
guy doing shadow boxing in flip flops.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
That was all part of the experience.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
So it's essentially people standing around the Titanic trying to
get one last selfie with the band on the Titanic
before it sinks off into the Atlantic.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
But everyone is here because it's ending.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
The restaurant is done, and it's as you said, it's
not because they needn't really care about the food. It's
just this apocalypse type nostalgia thing, like this place is
going away. It's been around since like the eighteen hundreds
or whatever, so or I guess theah, I think the
eighteen I think it might maybe early nineteen hundreds, probably
early nightte units. But either way, it's it's going and
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people probably were mumbling about the good old days and
all that. The funny thing is if these people have,
these people at eaton the French dip sandwich is regularly,
they would not be going to the big restaurant diner
in the sky. And I didn't end up getting a sandwich.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
I didn't park.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
We saw the line, we drove around the block, and
we just kept driving. We drove right past it, you know,
past the history and all that stuff, past the people
clinging on to that last bite of la nostalgia and
all that. Because, as you know, Danny, the most precious
resource that we all have, the most valuable thing that
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we have, is not French dip.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
It's time.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
So I would I did not want to spend two
and a half or three hours online because that's a
lot of precious time and I didn't want to do it.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
So we went somewhere else.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
But that was that was my day. Yeah, driving, you know,
driving through skid row and what a What a zoo,
What an absolute zoo that was. And fortunately I did
not get lost at the park or in skid Row
for that matter, Dandy, I was close, but I didn't
do it.
Speaker 4 (15:15):
Sounds like maybe they should have had customers get lost
trying to find their new location when they relocated years ago.
It sounds like they needed to find a different part
of LA for their restaurant.
Speaker 3 (15:26):
Yeah, well it's the same thing, I'm sure. My favorite
deli is this place called Layers, which is right across
from MacArthur Park, which is a drug den. MacArthur Park's
a if you need If you need fentanyl, you go
to MacArthur.
Speaker 4 (15:37):
Yeah, I've been there. A bunch of hookers and cocaine.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
Yeah yeah.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
You go to MacArthur Park for fent and all cocaine, crack, whatever, heroin.
They got it all there. It's like a CBS for
hard street drugs. But the mayor says it's just kids
playing soccer in the park. That place will be closing
within the next couple of years. But these places they
don't They don't change location, and you could relocate somewhere else.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
You don't have to be in skid Row.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
You don't have to cross the street from MacArthur Park,
but for whatever reason they won't do it, and so
they end up going out of business.
Speaker 4 (16:10):
You know.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
So that's that.
Speaker 4 (16:12):
Well, to start this past week, and as you know,
I was in Atlanta to broadcast live there at the
All Star Village for CNR and filled in for the
Dan Patrick Show. You've probably seen these things. I know
you went into the NFL experience with me when the
Super Bowl was in Los Angeles. Pretty cool, like all
those interactive things you can do. They have a lot
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of things for kids and big kids. Fast pitch and
there were people standing in line waiting to hit batting
practice and coach ball Game was there throwing pitches to kids.
They had a like a makeshift field set up inside
this convention center in Atlanta. Really cool event put on
by Baseball for a few days. So Ben, we broadcast
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from nine to noon Eastern Time shows over at noon.
Guys tell me, well, we're going to do our Patreo show.
Now I'm not part of their Patreon show. So it
gave me a chance to go walk around little taste.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
You know.
Speaker 4 (17:09):
I'm of course drawn to where there was They called
it ballpark Bites and they had something off the menu
from each major league team, and people were sitting on
this fake green grass with a DJ playing music, eating
hot dogs and nachos, and there were the garlic fries
from the Giants and it was pretty cool. Got a
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Chicago Cubs hot dog?
Speaker 1 (17:33):
Oh yeah?
Speaker 4 (17:34):
And then I'm on my way. There was an upstairs.
There was a third story where some stuff was going
on in this convention center. As I'm walking outside of
where the batting cages were, I realized that my phone
was feeling a lot lighter. I have one of those
magnet wallets. Have you ever seen those?
Speaker 1 (17:52):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I've seen those.
Speaker 4 (17:53):
Though those are cool, it's never given me a problem.
It's got a strong magnet on it. But I realized
that when I had my phone out of my pocket,
my lanyard that they gave us, it was getting stuck
to the magnet. And when I pulled it off earlier
in the day, I remember it jarred my wallet loose,
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and I remember thinking to myself, Man, I gotta be
careful because that sucker is gonna pull off. I look down.
No magnet wallet to be found nowhere on my phone,
not in my pocket. I start freaking out because now
I'm thinking about it, I'm standing in the middle probably
three thousand people walking around. Yeah, when is the last
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time you lost your wallet? One of the worst uffin
feelings ever.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
Yeah, So you're trying to I've done this a few times.
I used to lose my keys. I lost my wallet
in the parking lot at the grocery store one time.
So you're trying to What I would always do is
try to retrace your steps. Are you trying to probably
go back and try to remember where you walked and
where you might have lost it? Right, that whole thing exactly.
Speaker 4 (18:58):
So I go down to where I was eating because
that was the last time I had used my card. Yeah,
and there's nothing. I asked the people who served the
ballpark dog to me nothing was turned into them. They
pointed me to guest services. Nope, nobody's turned in anything. Yet.
I am screwed because a couple of days later, I
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need to fly back to Los Angeles. My idea is
in there, my credit cards, all of that. So I
run outside to where the batting cages were, and I
go to that guest services and there was a nice gentleman.
His name is Ken. I got his name, and I
sold him on our podcast before I left, and gave
him my business card and told him I would give
him a shout out. He got on his walkie talkie,
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talked to all five of the guest services tables, and
somebody got back to him at one of the desks
saying that it was turned in. Oh thank god, yeah,
for I would say good. Forty five minutes, I walked
around feeling like the biggest loser ever that I was
going to have to you go back to the Dan
(20:01):
Patrick stage tell everybody what happened and how I was
an idiot who couldn't get back home on the flight
to lax loser. I calmly walked back to the set
and I didn't say a word to anybody. It was
like it never happened. Well, perfect, there you go.
Speaker 3 (20:19):
And are you going to keep the magnet wallet though,
or are you going to get like an old school
pocket wallet?
Speaker 1 (20:24):
Are you going to you know.
Speaker 4 (20:26):
This thing has been nah, you know, this thing has
been pretty trusty. That's the only time that that's happened.
And like I said, it was because that stupid thing
was getting tangled up with it because it was magnetic.
So I guess I just got to be careful. It doesn't,
you know, attached to something? Gotcha?
Speaker 1 (20:43):
All right? What did the you?
Speaker 3 (20:45):
Yes, the Dodgers had the Dodger dog. Was that what
they had there at the All Star?
Speaker 4 (20:48):
Yeah? They had the Dodger dog.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (20:51):
I wanted to try something different. The Cubby Dog had
like this strange, really bright green relish on it. Okay,
and it was interesting. I didn't like it as much
as I like Dodger dogs when they're grilled, but it
was all right though. It was I would say a
five out of ten.
Speaker 3 (21:09):
Do you remember what the other teams had, like the
Red Sox, where did they have? Did they have the
Finway frank there their famous hot dog?
Speaker 1 (21:15):
Was that what they had?
Speaker 4 (21:15):
Yeah? They're famous hot dog, which I already had got
to try thanks to your overnight show.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
Oh yeah, we used to have a guy a listening.
I think what was his name? Phil?
Speaker 3 (21:24):
I think I forget this guy was really cool. You
send us hot dogs every year for years. A Finway
doesn't do it anymore, but we used to get these
hot dogs.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
It was awesome. Finway and the Monster dogs.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
Of course those are more expensive, but you can buy
them at the market around Boston. Moving on from that,
So there are some nights out when you stumble upon
things so ridiculous that you think you're hallucinating.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
We've all been there, and that's what happened to me.
Speaker 4 (21:56):
This.
Speaker 3 (21:56):
I'm gonna share this story. I've not told the story before.
I didn't talk about this on the air this week.
So the fact is, working the overnight, you have the
sleep schedule. It's similar to a raccoon. So on the
weekends I get out and try to live a little
bit and all that stuff. So I was recently dragged
by the wife to something called Bingo Loco in Hollywood.
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You ever heard of this, Danny Bingo Loco? You ever
heard of that?
Speaker 1 (22:20):
No? No?
Speaker 3 (22:22):
Okay, yeah, So I didn't know what the hell this was.
She told me it would be fun. I didn't look
it up. I didn't google it or AI it or
anything like that. So when your wife says it's going
to be fun, you know that's something every married man
knows is code for you're going to hate this, but
you're going to go anyway, right, don't you know that?
Like Danny, when your wife says, hey, this is going
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to be fun, usually that's you're gonna hate it, but
you have to go. And so all right, fine, so,
and I'm not making this up. The name of the
thing was Bingo Loco, So what the hell is it?
So Bingo Loco in the event you've never heard of it,
and I'd never of it.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
If you were to mix your.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
Sweet grandma's favorite pastime, right, bingo with a techno rave tadda,
there you go, it's bingo with glows sticks.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
But there's more to it. So imagine.
Speaker 3 (23:15):
I don't know if everyone's had this memory, but if
your childhood memories of watching your your grandmother play bingo,
we're run through some kind of neon filter thing and
then broadcast on Instagram like a bachelorette party in Sherman Oaks.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
Or something like that, that's Bingo Loco. So it's bingo Grandma.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
Meets E D M and Wheel of Fortune, you know,
meets some kind of internet social media reaction video. So
the premise, it's it's pretty great. It's like an article
from years ago. It's like, what if bingo? What if
you put bingo and Molly together?
Speaker 1 (23:55):
What would happen?
Speaker 3 (23:56):
So even to paint the picsion more for the blinds,
think about like going into this thing in Hollywood. It's
a big venue. It's like a dance hall. There's rave lights,
there's a DJ, there's a bar, there's a host. This
guy in a pink jersey that says bingo Loco of course,
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wearing number sixty nine, yelling numbers into a microphone like
he's announcing some kind of underground fight club out in
Rancho Cucamonger or something like that.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
And here I am. I find Danny.
Speaker 3 (24:30):
I find my fat ass standing in the middle of
this techno hoot nanny. You know. I'm like, it's like,
if you don't put a guy that doesn't belong somewhere,
like a like if you were to put a dad
out in Coachella, you know, some cargo short wearing dad
out in Coachella wouldn't belong. And so I'm like, what
am I doing here? I really don't belong here. And
(24:52):
my wife told me, says, don't work. The prizes are good.
You're in for the prize, she said. I said, what
are the prizes. I don't know what the prizes are.
I just heard they're good, you know. She's like, I
heard the prizes are good. So I said, all right,
the prize, and my wife's like, oh yeah, the prizes
were advertisers, epic. What does that mean epic?
Speaker 5 (25:09):
Anyway, so I'm like.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
Come on.
Speaker 3 (25:12):
So I walk in there and I'm thinking names they
were the best prizes.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
Yeah, yeah exactly.
Speaker 3 (25:17):
So I'm thinking, hey, I'll win, We'll win a nice
prize at Bingo. Maybe we win a new TV, a
European vacation. That would be a nice prize. Lifetime supply
of chicken fingers, that would be pretty cool.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
No.
Speaker 3 (25:31):
Uh, these people were playing Bingo under Neon and Rave lighting,
and they were giving away the weirdest random junk. We
are talking about the remnants of like do you ever
watched like Storage Wars where they bid on empty abandoned
storage sheds.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
Yeah, it was like it was like that.
Speaker 3 (25:51):
It was like it was the weirdest name and listen,
I this is my opinion.
Speaker 4 (25:55):
Whatever. It was like the last like the leftover crap
from a radio station prize exactly.
Speaker 3 (26:01):
They had a very cheap guitar that they were you
could win over stuffed pink bear stuffy like a stuffed
animal that probably reaked a regret.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
They had multiple air fryers, which you.
Speaker 3 (26:17):
Know is like that's the adult version of getting socks
for Christmas, when you get an air airfryer.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
They had.
Speaker 3 (26:23):
The highlight for many was the giant I'm not being
those up, Danny. The giant neon pink plastic sausage, if
you know what I mean, not the kind you serve
with pancakes, the naughty one, very phallic.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
I don't know, I need to spell it out.
Speaker 3 (26:40):
They gave away a sex toy shape like a brought
worst that actually happened. So what makes this event even
more fascinating is not that it's weird, because there's a
lot of things that are weird, right, Weird is not bad.
Weird by itself is not bad. What makes it notable
is that this place I am pretty sure exists entirely
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for social media. I don't think anyone was really there
to play Bengo. I say that there might have been
a couple of grandma's that got dragged by their daughters,
but anybody that went for bingo false advertising, Right, They're
not even really there for.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
The rave because the rave kind of sucked.
Speaker 3 (27:25):
They were there to document being at this bingo local thing.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
Like the party wasn't.
Speaker 3 (27:32):
What it was about. It was just evidence that it happened.
And it turns out that your beloved blowhard not in
the target demo, Danny, not in the target demo. That
is why the crowd was mostly what do you think
the crowd was, I'll tell you mostly middle aged women.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
You know, women in middle aged.
Speaker 4 (27:55):
Or used to do ecstasy and go to big rapes
when they were younger.
Speaker 1 (27:59):
Exactly, these are probably women. I don't I'm bad with ages.
Speaker 3 (28:03):
It looked like they were thirties, forties, fifties, and they
were screaming, they were going crazy. They were dancing around
holding up their air fryer like they won an oscar, and.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
You know, it was like listen.
Speaker 3 (28:16):
Ultimately, you know, that's the night itself was what was important.
It's part of the social media illusion, and that's it.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
I mean, it was.
Speaker 3 (28:28):
You know, Bingo local is not as good as church bingo.
Church Bingo has better snacks, they have better prizes. You
don't need ear plugs. And the only reason I was
there was because my wife wanted me to go and Danny.
You know, as a married man, marriage is mostly about
showing up and pretending like you're just you're happy to
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be there, and you're not confused and all that stuff, and.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
I had the thousand yard stare, like I realized that
this is this is pretty much my life now.
Speaker 3 (29:01):
But I did get some good husband points Danny, which,
as we know, you can redeem husband points anywhere you
go for absolutely nothing. Husband points get you nothing. So
if anyone ask you, and I'm sure something, bring this up.
When I ran into him at a mallard me greet,
(29:22):
I did not experiencially bingo local. I endured it and
it was a lot of people with glowed sticks chasing
I guess some kind of clout or something like that.
I don't know what they were chasing. But now, of course,
the thing is, every time I go any of these places,
my wife always says, hey, you need content for your
(29:44):
little podcasts. So the fifth hour has become I can
literally go anywhere. And my wife was like, well, you
just need stuff to talk about in your podcast. So
it's like this has become my therapy session. And I
guess you're my shrink, Danny, and the people listening you're
my shrink as well.
Speaker 4 (30:01):
So there you go. That was mad. It's like it's
like a market research lab.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
Oh, it's it was. It was craziness. I mean, I
was like, how did I end up at a Bingo rave?
Speaker 4 (30:13):
How did she even hear about something like that from
social media?
Speaker 1 (30:16):
No, she's not even on social media.
Speaker 3 (30:18):
She heard from people at work, like people she I
guess friends of hers or people at work. Somebody told
her about it, and so next thing you know, she's like, hey,
we need to go out and check this thing out.
And I should have known early on because the DJ
got up there says has anyone been to Bingo Loco before?
And nobody, Like there was nobody that said they had
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been there, because it's one of those things you go
one time, you don't go back.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
You know, it's like a one and done type situation,
because why would you go back. I mean you've experienced
so anyway.
Speaker 4 (30:51):
It's one and done like a Clippers game.
Speaker 3 (30:53):
Why No, like the Lakers in the playoffs, one and done.
But I'm bump hey, by the way, another the Lakers
want and went to the Clippers. How embarrassing for the Lakers?
My god, who want that? They wanted the great Bradley Beal.
Nobody wanted Bradley Beal. Everyone wanted twelve team.
Speaker 4 (31:10):
Oh God, keep telling yourself that.
Speaker 1 (31:12):
The Lakers wanted him. He said, O.
Speaker 4 (31:14):
Sons wanted to get rid of him so badly that
they're paying the money.
Speaker 3 (31:18):
Twelve teams wanted this guy, and he chose the Clippers.
Speaker 4 (31:23):
That guy's a loser.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
He's a great guy. I can't wait.
Speaker 4 (31:26):
He is a cancer redemption story. Baby.
Speaker 1 (31:30):
We'll get out on that. Anything you want to promote, Danny,
it's Saturday. What are you go going on? You want
to say anything? You just say goodbye.
Speaker 4 (31:37):
Just Orange County this weekend came down for speaking of
doing something to help the WiFi. Her ninety four year
old grandmother from Long Beach was recently put into a
retirement home here, so we are here this weekend to
check on her and make sure she's settled in nice.
Speaker 1 (31:55):
Right, we'll take care of her. Have a wonderful day today.
Speaker 3 (31:58):
We've got the mail bag and also, Danny, the official
pregame show for the twenty twenty five Mallard Palooza will
be on the Sunday. That's the pregame show for the
boys that are pregaming. There'll be a lot of tailgating
people listening to that. Walt tailgating outside the Malar Palooza.
Speaker 1 (32:16):
Danny it's gonna be big.
Speaker 4 (32:18):
Nice. Throw a Dodger dog on the grill for me,
all right. We'll talk to you then see you tomorrow
Later skater my flation
Cutbooms.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
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a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants
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treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the
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(00:23):
Hour with Ben Maller starts right now.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
In the air everywhere The Fifth Hour with Me, Ben
Maller and Danny g Radio. On this nineteenth day of July,
we were hanging out early in the morning here settling
into a Saturday Saturday Saturday and Danny.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Back with us here on this day.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
We have the lump of coal lost at the park
and the neon pink plastic sausage that we will discuss
in great detail today, which is very important to cover
on the Fifth Hour podcast. As we are are here
hanging out and there's no dopey holidays, I wass.
Speaker 4 (01:08):
Looking at dope.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
There's nothing today.
Speaker 4 (01:09):
That really Oh that's good. We could talk baseball for
a second, because our Dodgers picked up right where they
left off.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
Tremendous offensive baseball team. The Doyers the greatest team ever assembled.
I learned that before they had played a game. This year, Danny,
I learned the Dodgers the greatest team in baseball, greatest
team ever assembled in baseball, the reigning World champions. This
is another magical year of Dodger baseball. They have actually
(01:38):
a good record.
Speaker 4 (01:39):
That's why it's so good to have money in the
bank when you start sucking, and when life starts sucking,
you have some money to fall back on.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
Yeah, it'd be nice if some of the guys the
Dodgers gave the lottery too would actually show up and contribute.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Uh it does anyone who were Blake? What is Blake?
Do you know where Blake Snell is? Danny g or
we are we aware of you? Have you him? Have
you spotted him?
Speaker 4 (02:06):
I can't even remember what that dude looks like, to
be honest with you, except I know he's got a
punishable face.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Very punishable face. And what the other guy they wanted.
I know he's got a blister problem for the Yankees,
but he's been an All star. Max Freed, who grew
up a Dodger fan, and instead they signed David Vasse's
buddy Blake Snell, who's been malingering all two starts. The
guys made two starts all year for the for the
(02:33):
Doyers who got shut out last night and had how
many hits? Not one, not to just three hits against
the Brewers. And now I know this guy, Quinn Priester,
I guess is his name? The other guy that the
guy's got a good, good record, good numbers. Had you
ever heard any of you?
Speaker 4 (02:55):
You know, I mean, I'm fall Yeah, earlier in the season,
I remember seeing some highlights from a kame through on
Sports Center. But that's the sort of picture that when
you have a strong lineup, you still should be able
to hit that dude. Three hits is pathetic.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Yeah, well, they're still in vacation mode.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
You know, when you come back to work after you've
been on vacation, you're still on your in vacation mode.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Clearly that's the issue doing some.
Speaker 4 (03:19):
Bullsh isn't it. You said going into the break they
went break. Currently now they're on an extended break. That sucks.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
Oh, they're all gazillionaires. They don't have the laser like
focused Danny.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
They don't.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
I mean, it's obvious they're just this is the thing
they assume and it Last year they didn't look like
they were gonna win the World Series around this time.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
They're so arrogant over there. They're like, oh, when we.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
Get to late August, we'll flip the switch, and you know,
until proven otherwise, maybe they will.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
I wouldn't bet on it. They don't look like.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
A championship team to me from what I've seen this year.
The bullpen has been overused. They're gonna have to trade
for two or three relief pitchers. The starting rotation is
like they have. It's just there's a lot of things
fed up with that. But enough of that.
Speaker 4 (04:09):
I was gonna say, I like this though. It's like
a little taste of what we got on AM five
seventy LA Sports when you were on the air with
Jonas Knox.
Speaker 5 (04:16):
Oh yeah, people were upset with'd be oh, why have
you been so negative about the Dodgers. Everyone on the
station is always nice about the Dodgers. I don't care
what the other people do during the day. I focus
on tough love. I want to see the Dodgers do well,
but I'm not going to sit there and lick their
toes when they're playing like this.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
I'm not going to do it.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
So last week Danny I tried to eat at Cole's. Now,
for those that are not listening, most of people listen
aren't in southern California.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
So if you're not from Los Angeles or been to LA.
Even if you've been to LA, you may not know.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
Coles is a legendary French dip sandwich shop in downtown
Los Angeles, a place that is so entrenched in the
LA mythology, if you will coal La mythology, that it's
the offering that it's a French dip place, and it's
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semi sagree. Now, it's not at the in and out
burger level, because the in and out burgers all over
the place. But we're talking about an iconic century old
joint which claims, and there's this great battle between Coles
and Philips that both say they invented the French dip sandwich,
or maybe they co invented it, depending depending how you
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look at it. But when I used to live down
in Lincoln Heights in LA, I was a single guy,
and I was a regular, semi regular. I want to
say I was going there all the time because of
the neighborhood. But I worked quite a bit at Staples Center.
Was there a lot Dodger Stadium, and so I would
stop by on a semi regular basis when I was younger.
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And it's the kind of place. Have you been to
Cohls by the way, I don't know if you've been
down there before. You ever gone down to Coles have never.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
That's one of the places I still need to get to,
all right.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
So this is the kind of place that you know
it In La there's not a lot of things that
are old.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Anything old they get rid of and put some new.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
And so this is a place that has character, which
is another way of saying it's kind of a rundown neighborhood.
It's on the wrong part of town. It's on the
wrong side of the tracks. You might see a rat
you know, in the you know, on the street out
in front of it. You know it's in just But anyway, listen,
I said, we're going to go there. So we had
all mapped out, left the north Woods, headed into the
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Big City one final supper, Danny, because Cole's announced a
couple of weeks back that they are shutting down. I
think it's August, early August, So here we are it's
January or January, July nineteenth age January, my god, so
it's July nineteen, so they have another couple of weeks
to go.
Speaker 4 (06:55):
I did not know they were closing, so yeah, it's
a big to get there quick.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
So another great thing for Mayor Karen Bashier. In Los Angeles,
another iconic restaurant closing. So Cole's announced they were shutting down,
and like any great institution which is facing its last
supper on its deathbed, suddenly everyone needs to be there,
right because they're closing.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
So now everyone's like, I gotta go, I gotta go.
Speaker 4 (07:20):
Jeah.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
So all the people me included, who ignored the restaurant
for probably decades, now now it's just craziness. It's like
the line wrapped around the block, like it's some amazing
movie premiere.
Speaker 4 (07:38):
Probably some idiots like me who heard about it for
years but never got to go.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
Oh yeah yeah.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
So me and the wife hop as we said, it
happened in the malamobile. We drive into downtown, which, if
you have not been recently to downtown Los Angeles, it's
not exactly a brunch in Malibu. It's twenty twenty five
downtown it is. It's to describe it. It's skid Row.
The restaurant's literally right next to skid Row. It's a
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dystopian world, think Sodom and Gomora without the orgies, although
there might be some of those going on, but I
didn't see any, just the aftermath. And so opened up
the Apple Maps. Now it wanted me to get me
and the wife to get the fully immersive experience, Danny.
As it rooted us, I think it had a smile,
(08:26):
the Apple Map thing. It rooted us straight through the
belly of the beast.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
On skid Row.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
We are talking Mad Max meets walking dead, crackheads dancing
in the street. To the right, we saw the fentanyl fold.
To the left, you know, Zombie five slumped over. You know,
these guys, they didn't really were alive or not. There
was a person that who I think and in my
(08:51):
way of describing this for you listening, I think this
is the person that dotted the eye like the Ohio
State Marching band. So was this black dude who who
clearly was having a bad day, torn up from the
floor up, Danny. He had he had pants on, but
only his left leg had the leg that all you
know like the normal pants.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
The other leg had.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
Been ripped and torn, so it looked like he was
wearing half shorts, half pants showing his boxer shorts. So
at least he had underwear on. This guy was completely bedraggled,
covered in dirt.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
Right, the shoes like.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
Were barely there. They looked like clown shoes. They were
all torn up. I mean this I was really in
tough shape. And my favorite part though, so just imagine
this guy's covered in dirt, He's got pants on, but
only one leg has the pant leg. The other leg
it looks like shorts, no shirt, just completely messed up, frazzled.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
But he had the bling bling on.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
When I say bling bling, Danny, that would be a
court ordered ankle monitor, which is high fashion on kid row.
So this guy had it all going on. He was
on the catwalk, man, he had the ankle monitor, which
you could clearly see. So at least he was being
mined way.
Speaker 4 (10:11):
So how does that work he's not allowed to leave
his street.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
I don't Yeah, that's a great question, Danny. I have
no idea.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
I'd never seen that before, so this was new to me.
I didn't know that that you could just roam around
with that on. But the guy had he clearly had.
I have seen that before, We've all seen it. He
had an ankle, one of those big black ankle monitor
things on.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
His as it was.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
The other thing is the right, right or left? I
think he might have left left leg. He was stopped
right in front of Coles.
Speaker 4 (10:40):
It's house arrest. What happens if you have no house?
You can just go anywhere. I guess, yeah, so he
was halfway between. It's like one of those cautionary tales.
Or was it performance art or something like that.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
There was also a woman I spotted screaming at a
lamp post. I guess the lamp post had been mean
to her. So, I mean, there was so much going on.
It was like an art.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
Installation down on skid Row. And I don't know.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
It was just wild and so everyone's like half the
people are like they don't know whether they're awake or asleep.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
They looked at there's zombies.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
There's people talking to themselves and then yelling to the
ones having a conversation.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
That one's yelling.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
Anyway, listen. There were tents everywhere. It was a tense city.
It's remember Blade Runner without the budget.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
So finally, right in the middle.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
Of this is the restaurant Coals, which is a after
describing the neighborhood, it's a charming first floor even like underground,
there's like a speakeasy in Coals brick building, this old
building from La old from probably the eighteen hundreds. There's
like a neon sign kind of flickering. It's kind of
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like a boxer, the old boxer that doesn't want to
quit and just wants to keep fighting and all that stuff.
But as we turned the corner again we're driving through
skid row, we see the sign, we see the building,
and there's a line. And I said, there was a
line around the block. This was like the Energizer Bunny.
It kept going and going. It was so funny. What
(12:17):
a juxtaposition, Danny, because you got all this sodom and Gomara,
worst of the worst of society, people really just lost
in life, and then you've got all these people that
are wearing like their Dodger stuff and they're dressed up
and they're you know, just normal, you know, middle class
people in line for a French dip sandwich. It was
(12:39):
just wild. So the line was absurd. Not I'm not
a line person. It wasn't just long. It was like
self important long, like the kind of line that somebody
needed to document. And it wrapped around the block in
the middle of skid Row, and it was like on
a Saturday, and you know, like anything in La Danny,
(12:59):
there were people instagramming the weight like it was a
pilgrimage and they wanted to document it. And so everyone's
standing outside three It looked like a three hour wait.
It's not a huge restaurant eighty five degrees, like.
Speaker 4 (13:12):
People in line at eight in the morning waiting for
an Otani bobblehead.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
Yeah, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
It was.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
It was ridiculous.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
So it was hot, and you know, there was a
guy doing shadow boxing in flip flops.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
That was all part of the experience.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
So it's essentially people standing around the Titanic trying to
get one last selfie with the band on the Titanic
before it sinks off into the Atlantic.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
But everyone is here because it's ending.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
The restaurant is done, and it's as you said, it's
not because they needn't really care about the food. It's
just this apocalypse type nostalgia thing, like this place is
going away. It's been around since like the eighteen hundreds
or whatever, so or I guess theah, I think the
eighteen I think it might maybe early nineteen hundreds, probably
early nightte units. But either way, it's it's going and
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people probably were mumbling about the good old days and
all that. The funny thing is if these people have,
these people at eaton the French dip sandwich is regularly,
they would not be going to the big restaurant diner
in the sky. And I didn't end up getting a sandwich.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
I didn't park.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
We saw the line, we drove around the block, and
we just kept driving. We drove right past it, you know,
past the history and all that stuff, past the people
clinging on to that last bite of la nostalgia and
all that. Because, as you know, Danny, the most precious
resource that we all have, the most valuable thing that
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we have, is not French dip.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
It's time.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
So I would I did not want to spend two
and a half or three hours online because that's a
lot of precious time and I didn't want to do it.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
So we went somewhere else.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
But that was that was my day. Yeah, driving, you know,
driving through skid row and what a What a zoo,
What an absolute zoo that was. And fortunately I did
not get lost at the park or in skid Row
for that matter, Dandy, I was close, but I didn't
do it.
Speaker 4 (15:15):
Sounds like maybe they should have had customers get lost
trying to find their new location when they relocated years ago.
It sounds like they needed to find a different part
of LA for their restaurant.
Speaker 3 (15:26):
Yeah, well it's the same thing, I'm sure. My favorite
deli is this place called Layers, which is right across
from MacArthur Park, which is a drug den. MacArthur Park's
a if you need If you need fentanyl, you go
to MacArthur.
Speaker 4 (15:37):
Yeah, I've been there. A bunch of hookers and cocaine.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
Yeah yeah.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
You go to MacArthur Park for fent and all cocaine, crack, whatever, heroin.
They got it all there. It's like a CBS for
hard street drugs. But the mayor says it's just kids
playing soccer in the park. That place will be closing
within the next couple of years. But these places they
don't They don't change location, and you could relocate somewhere else.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
You don't have to be in skid Row.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
You don't have to cross the street from MacArthur Park,
but for whatever reason they won't do it, and so
they end up going out of business.
Speaker 4 (16:10):
You know.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
So that's that.
Speaker 4 (16:12):
Well, to start this past week, and as you know,
I was in Atlanta to broadcast live there at the
All Star Village for CNR and filled in for the
Dan Patrick Show. You've probably seen these things. I know
you went into the NFL experience with me when the
Super Bowl was in Los Angeles. Pretty cool, like all
those interactive things you can do. They have a lot
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of things for kids and big kids. Fast pitch and
there were people standing in line waiting to hit batting
practice and coach ball Game was there throwing pitches to kids.
They had a like a makeshift field set up inside
this convention center in Atlanta. Really cool event put on
by Baseball for a few days. So Ben, we broadcast
(16:53):
from nine to noon Eastern Time shows over at noon.
Guys tell me, well, we're going to do our Patreo show.
Now I'm not part of their Patreon show. So it
gave me a chance to go walk around little taste.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
You know.
Speaker 4 (17:09):
I'm of course drawn to where there was They called
it ballpark Bites and they had something off the menu
from each major league team, and people were sitting on
this fake green grass with a DJ playing music, eating
hot dogs and nachos, and there were the garlic fries
from the Giants and it was pretty cool. Got a
(17:31):
Chicago Cubs hot dog?
Speaker 1 (17:33):
Oh yeah?
Speaker 4 (17:34):
And then I'm on my way. There was an upstairs.
There was a third story where some stuff was going
on in this convention center. As I'm walking outside of
where the batting cages were, I realized that my phone
was feeling a lot lighter. I have one of those
magnet wallets. Have you ever seen those?
Speaker 1 (17:52):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I've seen those.
Speaker 4 (17:53):
Though those are cool, it's never given me a problem.
It's got a strong magnet on it. But I realized
that when I had my phone out of my pocket,
my lanyard that they gave us, it was getting stuck
to the magnet. And when I pulled it off earlier
in the day, I remember it jarred my wallet loose,
(18:13):
and I remember thinking to myself, Man, I gotta be
careful because that sucker is gonna pull off. I look down.
No magnet wallet to be found nowhere on my phone,
not in my pocket. I start freaking out because now
I'm thinking about it, I'm standing in the middle probably
three thousand people walking around. Yeah, when is the last
(18:35):
time you lost your wallet? One of the worst uffin
feelings ever.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
Yeah, So you're trying to I've done this a few times.
I used to lose my keys. I lost my wallet
in the parking lot at the grocery store one time.
So you're trying to What I would always do is
try to retrace your steps. Are you trying to probably
go back and try to remember where you walked and
where you might have lost it? Right, that whole thing exactly.
Speaker 4 (18:58):
So I go down to where I was eating because
that was the last time I had used my card. Yeah,
and there's nothing. I asked the people who served the
ballpark dog to me nothing was turned into them. They
pointed me to guest services. Nope, nobody's turned in anything. Yet.
I am screwed because a couple of days later, I
(19:18):
need to fly back to Los Angeles. My idea is
in there, my credit cards, all of that. So I
run outside to where the batting cages were, and I
go to that guest services and there was a nice gentleman.
His name is Ken. I got his name, and I
sold him on our podcast before I left, and gave
him my business card and told him I would give
him a shout out. He got on his walkie talkie,
(19:40):
talked to all five of the guest services tables, and
somebody got back to him at one of the desks
saying that it was turned in. Oh thank god, yeah,
for I would say good. Forty five minutes, I walked
around feeling like the biggest loser ever that I was
going to have to you go back to the Dan
(20:01):
Patrick stage tell everybody what happened and how I was
an idiot who couldn't get back home on the flight
to lax loser. I calmly walked back to the set
and I didn't say a word to anybody. It was
like it never happened. Well, perfect, there you go.
Speaker 3 (20:19):
And are you going to keep the magnet wallet though,
or are you going to get like an old school
pocket wallet?
Speaker 1 (20:24):
Are you going to you know.
Speaker 4 (20:26):
This thing has been nah, you know, this thing has
been pretty trusty. That's the only time that that's happened.
And like I said, it was because that stupid thing
was getting tangled up with it because it was magnetic.
So I guess I just got to be careful. It doesn't,
you know, attached to something? Gotcha?
Speaker 1 (20:43):
All right? What did the you?
Speaker 3 (20:45):
Yes, the Dodgers had the Dodger dog. Was that what
they had there at the All Star?
Speaker 4 (20:48):
Yeah? They had the Dodger dog.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (20:51):
I wanted to try something different. The Cubby Dog had
like this strange, really bright green relish on it. Okay,
and it was interesting. I didn't like it as much
as I like Dodger dogs when they're grilled, but it
was all right though. It was I would say a
five out of ten.
Speaker 3 (21:09):
Do you remember what the other teams had, like the
Red Sox, where did they have? Did they have the
Finway frank there their famous hot dog?
Speaker 1 (21:15):
Was that what they had?
Speaker 4 (21:15):
Yeah? They're famous hot dog, which I already had got
to try thanks to your overnight show.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
Oh yeah, we used to have a guy a listening.
I think what was his name? Phil?
Speaker 3 (21:24):
I think I forget this guy was really cool. You
send us hot dogs every year for years. A Finway
doesn't do it anymore, but we used to get these
hot dogs.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
It was awesome. Finway and the Monster dogs.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
Of course those are more expensive, but you can buy
them at the market around Boston. Moving on from that,
So there are some nights out when you stumble upon
things so ridiculous that you think you're hallucinating.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
We've all been there, and that's what happened to me.
Speaker 4 (21:56):
This.
Speaker 3 (21:56):
I'm gonna share this story. I've not told the story before.
I didn't talk about this on the air this week.
So the fact is, working the overnight, you have the
sleep schedule. It's similar to a raccoon. So on the
weekends I get out and try to live a little
bit and all that stuff. So I was recently dragged
by the wife to something called Bingo Loco in Hollywood.
(22:16):
You ever heard of this, Danny Bingo Loco? You ever
heard of that?
Speaker 1 (22:20):
No? No?
Speaker 3 (22:22):
Okay, yeah, So I didn't know what the hell this was.
She told me it would be fun. I didn't look
it up. I didn't google it or AI it or
anything like that. So when your wife says it's going
to be fun, you know that's something every married man
knows is code for you're going to hate this, but
you're going to go anyway, right, don't you know that?
Like Danny, when your wife says, hey, this is going
(22:43):
to be fun, usually that's you're gonna hate it, but
you have to go. And so all right, fine, so,
and I'm not making this up. The name of the
thing was Bingo Loco, So what the hell is it?
So Bingo Loco in the event you've never heard of it,
and I'd never of it.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
If you were to mix your.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
Sweet grandma's favorite pastime, right, bingo with a techno rave tadda,
there you go, it's bingo with glows sticks.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
But there's more to it. So imagine.
Speaker 3 (23:15):
I don't know if everyone's had this memory, but if
your childhood memories of watching your your grandmother play bingo,
we're run through some kind of neon filter thing and
then broadcast on Instagram like a bachelorette party in Sherman Oaks.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
Or something like that, that's Bingo Loco. So it's bingo Grandma.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
Meets E D M and Wheel of Fortune, you know,
meets some kind of internet social media reaction video. So
the premise, it's it's pretty great. It's like an article
from years ago. It's like, what if bingo? What if
you put bingo and Molly together?
Speaker 1 (23:55):
What would happen?
Speaker 3 (23:56):
So even to paint the picsion more for the blinds,
think about like going into this thing in Hollywood. It's
a big venue. It's like a dance hall. There's rave lights,
there's a DJ, there's a bar, there's a host. This
guy in a pink jersey that says bingo Loco of course,
(24:18):
wearing number sixty nine, yelling numbers into a microphone like
he's announcing some kind of underground fight club out in
Rancho Cucamonger or something like that.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
And here I am. I find Danny.
Speaker 3 (24:30):
I find my fat ass standing in the middle of
this techno hoot nanny. You know. I'm like, it's like,
if you don't put a guy that doesn't belong somewhere,
like a like if you were to put a dad
out in Coachella, you know, some cargo short wearing dad
out in Coachella wouldn't belong. And so I'm like, what
am I doing here? I really don't belong here. And
(24:52):
my wife told me, says, don't work. The prizes are good.
You're in for the prize, she said. I said, what
are the prizes. I don't know what the prizes are.
I just heard they're good, you know. She's like, I
heard the prizes are good. So I said, all right,
the prize, and my wife's like, oh yeah, the prizes
were advertisers, epic. What does that mean epic?
Speaker 5 (25:09):
Anyway, so I'm like.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
Come on.
Speaker 3 (25:12):
So I walk in there and I'm thinking names they
were the best prizes.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
Yeah, yeah exactly.
Speaker 3 (25:17):
So I'm thinking, hey, I'll win, We'll win a nice
prize at Bingo. Maybe we win a new TV, a
European vacation. That would be a nice prize. Lifetime supply
of chicken fingers, that would be pretty cool.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
No.
Speaker 3 (25:31):
Uh, these people were playing Bingo under Neon and Rave lighting,
and they were giving away the weirdest random junk. We
are talking about the remnants of like do you ever
watched like Storage Wars where they bid on empty abandoned
storage sheds.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
Yeah, it was like it was like that.
Speaker 3 (25:51):
It was like it was the weirdest name and listen,
I this is my opinion.
Speaker 4 (25:55):
Whatever. It was like the last like the leftover crap
from a radio station prize exactly.
Speaker 3 (26:01):
They had a very cheap guitar that they were you
could win over stuffed pink bear stuffy like a stuffed
animal that probably reaked a regret.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
They had multiple air fryers, which you.
Speaker 3 (26:17):
Know is like that's the adult version of getting socks
for Christmas, when you get an air airfryer.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
They had.
Speaker 3 (26:23):
The highlight for many was the giant I'm not being
those up, Danny. The giant neon pink plastic sausage, if
you know what I mean, not the kind you serve
with pancakes, the naughty one, very phallic.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
I don't know, I need to spell it out.
Speaker 3 (26:40):
They gave away a sex toy shape like a brought
worst that actually happened. So what makes this event even
more fascinating is not that it's weird, because there's a
lot of things that are weird, right, Weird is not bad.
Weird by itself is not bad. What makes it notable
is that this place I am pretty sure exists entirely
(27:06):
for social media. I don't think anyone was really there
to play Bengo. I say that there might have been
a couple of grandma's that got dragged by their daughters,
but anybody that went for bingo false advertising, Right, They're
not even really there for.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
The rave because the rave kind of sucked.
Speaker 3 (27:25):
They were there to document being at this bingo local thing.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
Like the party wasn't.
Speaker 3 (27:32):
What it was about. It was just evidence that it happened.
And it turns out that your beloved blowhard not in
the target demo, Danny, not in the target demo. That
is why the crowd was mostly what do you think
the crowd was, I'll tell you mostly middle aged women.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
You know, women in middle aged.
Speaker 4 (27:55):
Or used to do ecstasy and go to big rapes
when they were younger.
Speaker 1 (27:59):
Exactly, these are probably women. I don't I'm bad with ages.
Speaker 3 (28:03):
It looked like they were thirties, forties, fifties, and they
were screaming, they were going crazy. They were dancing around
holding up their air fryer like they won an oscar, and.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
You know, it was like listen.
Speaker 3 (28:16):
Ultimately, you know, that's the night itself was what was important.
It's part of the social media illusion, and that's it.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
I mean, it was.
Speaker 3 (28:28):
You know, Bingo local is not as good as church bingo.
Church Bingo has better snacks, they have better prizes. You
don't need ear plugs. And the only reason I was
there was because my wife wanted me to go and Danny.
You know, as a married man, marriage is mostly about
showing up and pretending like you're just you're happy to
(28:49):
be there, and you're not confused and all that stuff, and.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
I had the thousand yard stare, like I realized that
this is this is pretty much my life now.
Speaker 3 (29:01):
But I did get some good husband points Danny, which,
as we know, you can redeem husband points anywhere you
go for absolutely nothing. Husband points get you nothing. So
if anyone ask you, and I'm sure something, bring this up.
When I ran into him at a mallard me greet,
(29:22):
I did not experiencially bingo local. I endured it and
it was a lot of people with glowed sticks chasing
I guess some kind of clout or something like that.
I don't know what they were chasing. But now, of course,
the thing is, every time I go any of these places,
my wife always says, hey, you need content for your
(29:44):
little podcasts. So the fifth hour has become I can
literally go anywhere. And my wife was like, well, you
just need stuff to talk about in your podcast. So
it's like this has become my therapy session. And I
guess you're my shrink, Danny, and the people listening you're
my shrink as well.
Speaker 4 (30:01):
So there you go. That was mad. It's like it's
like a market research lab.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
Oh, it's it was. It was craziness. I mean, I
was like, how did I end up at a Bingo rave?
Speaker 4 (30:13):
How did she even hear about something like that from
social media?
Speaker 1 (30:16):
No, she's not even on social media.
Speaker 3 (30:18):
She heard from people at work, like people she I
guess friends of hers or people at work. Somebody told
her about it, and so next thing you know, she's like, hey,
we need to go out and check this thing out.
And I should have known early on because the DJ
got up there says has anyone been to Bingo Loco before?
And nobody, Like there was nobody that said they had
(30:39):
been there, because it's one of those things you go
one time, you don't go back.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
You know, it's like a one and done type situation,
because why would you go back. I mean you've experienced
so anyway.
Speaker 4 (30:51):
It's one and done like a Clippers game.
Speaker 3 (30:53):
Why No, like the Lakers in the playoffs, one and done.
But I'm bump hey, by the way, another the Lakers
want and went to the Clippers. How embarrassing for the Lakers?
My god, who want that? They wanted the great Bradley Beal.
Nobody wanted Bradley Beal. Everyone wanted twelve team.
Speaker 4 (31:10):
Oh God, keep telling yourself that.
Speaker 1 (31:12):
The Lakers wanted him. He said, O.
Speaker 4 (31:14):
Sons wanted to get rid of him so badly that
they're paying the money.
Speaker 3 (31:18):
Twelve teams wanted this guy, and he chose the Clippers.
Speaker 4 (31:23):
That guy's a loser.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
He's a great guy. I can't wait.
Speaker 4 (31:26):
He is a cancer redemption story. Baby.
Speaker 1 (31:30):
We'll get out on that. Anything you want to promote, Danny,
it's Saturday. What are you go going on? You want
to say anything? You just say goodbye.
Speaker 4 (31:37):
Just Orange County this weekend came down for speaking of
doing something to help the WiFi. Her ninety four year
old grandmother from Long Beach was recently put into a
retirement home here, so we are here this weekend to
check on her and make sure she's settled in nice.
Speaker 1 (31:55):
Right, we'll take care of her. Have a wonderful day today.
Speaker 3 (31:58):
We've got the mail bag and also, Danny, the official
pregame show for the twenty twenty five Mallard Palooza will
be on the Sunday. That's the pregame show for the
boys that are pregaming. There'll be a lot of tailgating
people listening to that. Walt tailgating outside the Malar Palooza.
Speaker 1 (32:16):
Danny it's gonna be big.
Speaker 4 (32:18):
Nice. Throw a Dodger dog on the grill for me,
all right. We'll talk to you then see you tomorrow
Later skater my flation
Host
Ben Maller
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