September 5, 2025 • 32 mins
Ben Maller (produced by Danny G.) has a great Friday for you! Dave Smith aka, the Sports God, joins Ben to talk about those wild radio days in the 1990s hosting the Ben & Dave Show. Dave hosts The Dave Smith Unleashed Podcast on YouTube and has been a sports radio host for 30+ years.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Kubbooms.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
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Speaker 3 (00:16):
In the penthouse.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Wow to clearing House of hot takes, break free for
something special. The Fifth Hour with Ben Mahler starts right now.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
In the air everywhere, The Fifth Hour with Me, Ben
Mahler and Danny g Radio. A Happy Friday to you,
as we had NFL football if you want to call
it that last night the Cowboys. How about the Cowboys
and the Philadelphia Eagles. And it's on all weekend and
(00:50):
we have a lot to get to over the course
of the weekend. New podcast on Saturday and Sunday. But
today is the Friday Podcast, And rather than rehash happened
last night, instead, we are going to go back down
memory lane and way before my run at Fox Sports
Radio and my time doing the overnight show. At one
(01:12):
point I was working the dreaded day shift. I had
a mid day talk show at a very young age,
The Ben and Dave, The Ben and Dave show if
you listen to me in southern California way back in
the day in the nineteen nineties, I started I was
a young lad starting my broadcasting career with the Ben
and Dave Show at the studios of AM eleven fifty
(01:36):
in Burbank, as Menuel from Guardina likes to say, and
it was the Ben and Dave Show. And the guy
that I did the show with the first ever tag
team talk show that I did Dave Smith, who you
hear as he works at actually one of our competitors
does some filling stuff over there and whatnot. So Dave
(01:57):
popping up here with me actually did his podcast and
we went back and forth there on the Dave Smith Podcast,
which is on YouTube some of the great stories. So
this is kind of an add on. You want to
listen to this podcast and then go back and hear
those three podcasts. I did three podcasts about stories we did.
(02:17):
The Ben and Dave Show aired in middays, it was
on at night as well. It broadcasts in the late
nineteen nineties up until the year two thousand and then
that was it. Ick Snay on the show A but
fond Memories, A golden era of sports radio an era
before social media and a much different world, much different
(02:40):
world back in the late nineteen ninety. So we welcome
in a guy that is known as the sports god,
Dave Smith. So, Dave, let's start with this little broadcasting
one to oh one. Back in the day, we were
doing a show from Staples Center. That was what it
was called back then, Staple Center downtown Los Angeles. In
the show and we had an intern. It was a
(03:03):
man on the street segment gone bad? Dave, do you
remember that storre? Do you remember that time was?
Speaker 3 (03:10):
And by the way, thanks for having me on.
Speaker 4 (03:12):
I'm a proud member of the Malla Militia Malon Militia
out man.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
So this is great stuff.
Speaker 4 (03:16):
Was that the night they had a ryot outside after
the Lakers won the championship and they were overturning cars
and lighting fires outside our studio.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Well, no, this was actually we'll get to that, but
this was before that. We had an intern. We were
doing a daytime it was midday show. The day out.
The Clippers had played the Lakers, right, and the Clippers
had scored I think they had scored like three points
in a quarter or something like that, and you came
(03:43):
up with the brilliant idea. Dave, knowing that I like
the Clippers, You're like, hey, why don't we We had
an intern, so why don't we send the intern out
and get signatures to move the Clippers back to San Diego?
Speaker 3 (03:56):
I remember now, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
So this is one of the classic Ben and Dave stories.
So this this dopey intern goes out. There's all these
people in downtown Los Angeles that are going to lunch
or whatever. And I'll never forget Dave. The uh, the
interns getting signatures. Right, I got a few signatures, and
this guy comes walking into where we were broadcasting from.
(04:21):
Do you remember this? He had he had a tie on,
he had kind of a suit.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
Yeah, he was.
Speaker 4 (04:26):
He was scheduled to come on. He was a Clippers executive.
I remember it was.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
It was Andy Roser, Donald Sterling's right hand man who
the intern asked to sign a petition move the Clippers
back to San Diego.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
Oh, classic stuff on the interns.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
Huh, Andy, Dave did not seem too pleased that we
were doing. He did not seem happy.
Speaker 4 (04:57):
You think the intern would know since he walked to
the studio and he was scheduled for an interview, and
he was wearing a suit and tie. It might not
be the best guy to ask to move back to
San Diego.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
Well, hey, that whole thing blew up with sterling Man
a couple of years after many years after that, right
with that whole the whole scandal, that was a that
was a hot mess. But you mentioned so you brought
it up, so we have to talk about this. We
were broadcasting the Lakers had had a pretty long drought,
right they won in the eighties, They hadn't won in
(05:30):
a while. I guess relatively speaking, this is the twelve
years you have been twelve years. Oh my god, twelve
years so long. Anyway, it was the first championship with
Kobe and Shack and we were broadcasting from that same
corner which is now I don't even know it's there,
And it was like a restaurant or something. I don't
know it's there, maybe not maybe his store. I think
it might be a Nike store. But we before when
(05:53):
the arena open, were just broadcasting there, and so we
were we were broadcasting after the Laker game after they won,
and things got completely Oh my god, do you do
you remember? There was like a bonfire in the street.
Speaker 4 (06:08):
They lit police cars on fire. And then the remember
the window was right next to the street, and everybody
was rioting and lighting stuff on fire, and they were
they were grabbing women and dragging them away down the street.
And then and we were and they were, remember Ben,
they were beating on the window with their fists, screaming
at us.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
And I said, there's not enough comps.
Speaker 4 (06:26):
They're gonna they're gonna break into the studio here, and
Kigos both, this is our last show.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
We better sign it off now.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
You remember one of our bosses, we were both we
were like freaked out. We were like, holy crap, we're
gonna get We're gonna get destroyed here by these lunatics.
And one of our bosses got very upset with us.
This is this is not a riot. Nineteen eighty four,
Sure this was a riot. This is not a riot.
Speaker 4 (06:51):
I remember we We said to him, they're lighting police
cars on fire, they're beating women, they're lighting bonfires, they're
beating on the window threatening.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
Guess we got to get out of here. And he said,
don't you dare leave, don't you dare.
Speaker 4 (07:04):
They're gonna kill us. They're gonna kill us. Do your
job broadcast.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Yeah, and he wanted this like downplay. He wanted to
do what was going on. But we were remember that
there was that that woman who was on roller skates.
I still remember her.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
I don't know who it was.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
He had headphones on, she was listening to the show.
She had roller skates on. And that poor woman by
herself and these lunatics they were doing like a tribal dance.
Did you remember? They were doing like a tribal dance
around the fire, like singing, and it was, uh, it
was unbelievable. I've never seen anything like it. And it
just it happened while we were on the air, like
we were. One minute, we're talking about the I think
(07:40):
they played the pacers beating the pacers, and the next thing,
the next thing, there's uh, it was.
Speaker 4 (07:46):
It was that that poor girl on the skates. They
were trying to rip her clothes off right in front
of the window. And then we told the boss, this
is chaos. They're gonna kill us, and he said, can't
you two ever be positive?
Speaker 3 (07:57):
What's wrong with you two guys?
Speaker 4 (07:59):
Yeah, we're positive they're gonna try and kill us.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
That's what we're positive about.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Yeah, Well that we did get the l A. P. D.
Riot Polace. Remember they came in because they had a bathroom,
so they would come and go to the bathroom and
then go back out and fight the fight the lunatics.
Now the other part about that night, Dave, do you remember,
I think, I don't know if this was your idea,
my idea, but we decided we needed a roving reporter
(08:26):
because the like downtown was on fire, because the Lakers
wanted to so we sent They sent Vic the Brick, Jacobs,
the Great the Brick. We sent him out there as
a man on the street reporter. And you remember the
crowd was chanting his name, Dave. They loved him, that
they loved him. Yeah, he was like a hero, and
(08:46):
he was he was called and even Vic was trying
to downplay it's not that bad as there's fire burning
in the background.
Speaker 5 (08:53):
He was our bad dad mom that night, nothing telling
them YouTube guys, there's no problem with a police car
burning behind them, when people beating the hell out of
each other, and there's no problem here them.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
The infidels, you infidels.
Speaker 4 (09:12):
It was so good. And then the other remember how
late the cops were to diffuse the situation there.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
They took forever to get there.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. We were watching it all unfold
and uh, it was it was full on like they were.
That street was the worst, right in front of the arena,
but they were like seven eleven's and other stuff down there. Uh.
And then I remember walking to the car after we
got done with the broadcast, things had calmed down. There
were still a bunch of police out and I walked
(09:40):
by there was a Channel two newsman that got completely
burned up. You mentioned the police car.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
I think there's one or two police cars that got
burned by the by the mob. And do you remember,
Dave also that Channel two in Los Angeles blamed our
radio station for inciting the right. It blamed us because
the station, remember that they said they had passed out
flyers for some movie that had fire on them. I
(10:09):
don't know whatever the movie was in nineteen ninety nine
or whatever it was, but they are two thousand, but
they had these flyers that that are our station logo.
But it was a movie and it was a partnership
deal with the movie studio and they passed these out
and I think it was I forget the I used
to know the rec stone or something like that. There
was a reporter for Channel two. She did a whole
thing on the news back when people used to watch
(10:29):
the news, and she blamed us. They blamed us for first.
I mean, what did we do? We didn't do anything?
Speaker 3 (10:36):
Well, see what was right, Ben? It was our fault.
Speaker 4 (10:38):
The gang banger showed up and beat the hell out
of people and burned down seven eleven's and looted and rioted.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
It was all our fause. It was correct, clearly, it.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
Was the Ben and Dave Show. That was our That
was our doing. Another memory I had And by the way, Dave,
your podcast, we did three episodes right me and we
were three episodes on your.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
Plot freeze up right now? Ben, it's posted now.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
All right? And how can people find the podcast? How
can they find your podcast?
Speaker 4 (11:04):
It's like you go to YouTube and do it at
the Dave Smith Unleashed Podcast YouTube at the Day Smith
Unleased podcast and right now Part three of David Smith
with Ben Maller of the old Ben and Dave Show
and Part one and part two are also posted as well,
so they can get all the Ben Mallord they ever
want with those three shows.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
The other thing here now these are all and those
amazing stories. The Jiffy Loops story is still one of
my favorites. We talked about that amazing story on your podcast.
Now something we did not bring up, and I was
going through some of my old stuff. I keep a
lot of old notes from different things in the past.
But there was a guy who was one of the
biggest trolls in the history of trolls before social media.
(11:48):
Like social media is all about trolling, right, Dave, and
people get on their ahole, of course schmucks. You know.
I don't know what's real and what's not. But on
the Ben and Dave show we had it was really you.
I was brought into this. I was like the stepchild
into this. There was a gentleman named Bimbo Bruce.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
Oh, he was the best.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
And we didn't have sociald We had a fax machine
and did you I didn't know who Do you ever
find out who he was? I had no idea he
was a man of mess.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
We got his.
Speaker 4 (12:19):
Last name and he lived in the Huntington Beach. We
knew that about him, and we had his home phone
number two.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
Okay, okay, this guy would send how many factses during
the show. It was endless. It was nice, one.
Speaker 4 (12:31):
After another after another, just ripping us about how horrible
the show was. Remember, and the studio set up a
call in special call in.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
Number to give your thoughts on the shows all the time.
Speaker 4 (12:42):
So he called that thing every night and it was
nothing but cursing and swearing and talking about what idiots
we both were. And then we played that on the
air every night and they had to hit the bleep button.
We had to send it to the to the engineer
to get the bleep button in time. It was full
of f bombs.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
He would write drawings, often very very blue Dave about
you specifically. He didn't like me either, but he I
think he really had it out for you.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
But he would trouble he did.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
The guy listened to everything we ever did on the
Ben and Dave Show like he knew everything that we did,
sometimes before we did it. And he would like, this
guy you talk about losers, Dave, this guy must have
had no life. He listened to every single show we
ever did and immediately would would send off a fax NonStop.
It was it was insane.
Speaker 4 (13:28):
We did We did a I don't know if it
was you or not. Man, it might have been with Zoe.
But we did a remote one time at the National
Sports Squirrel in Anaheim, right across the street from Angels Stadium,
and somebody said to the producer there's a package for you,
and he ran out and brought it. Internet was a
bouquet of flowers and it said from bib Bo Bruce
f you.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
I think.
Speaker 4 (13:48):
I think then our producer charged out there and tried
to catch him, but he was already gone.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
Yeah, I think I was actually at that. I remember
that it was you. I think I was. I remember
doing some National Sports Those are all gone, right, I
think those things I think so, Yeah, those places where
they were bumping back up, I mean that was that
was the way to do. Now. I will not say
the name of the person, Dave, but do you remember
because we don't wanna, we don't want to, you know,
(14:14):
out the the guilty here, but one of the people
that worked at the station, Uh, they were faxing their contract.
Do you remember this? They were facting their contracted like
their agent or something like that.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
Yeah, they left it in the and they left it
in the copy machine.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
Yes, and we all found out how much this person making,
which was probably what ten times what we were all
making day, right.
Speaker 4 (14:36):
I remember we were doing a remote on top of
a I think it was on top of the Capitol
Records Building at Holly. Yes, Big Joe McDonald came to
visit us and we showed it to him. I thought
we were going to lose him that night. He was
on the phone screaming at our boss, screaming at his agent,
screaming at everybody.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
How can this guy be making this much money? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (14:57):
Well, that that Hollywood Capitol Records Building remote was hilarious
because it was for UCLA football. You remember they were
trying to get in the Sugar Bowl, so it was
like share the sugar and we were gonna stop the
Hollywood Records Building. Well, one thing they did not factor in.
We were up there at night. We were doing the
show at night broadcasting, and I remember there was El Nino,
(15:17):
and the boss did not realize the roof on the
Capitol Records Building in Hollywood floods.
Speaker 4 (15:27):
And that was another one we said, we got to
get out of here. Is El Nino. The roof's gonna collapse.
Why you guys are always so negative?
Speaker 3 (15:33):
Do your jobs? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (15:34):
No, we had all this electrical equipment the roof. There
was like two feet of water on the roof the
Capitol Records building. And the boss is like, just shut
up and do the show. And I'm we're supposed to.
We're gonna die. We're gonna get electric two that the
Bennet Damme Show's gonna die on the radio, and uh yeah.
And I also remember I got really I was big
at that time, Dave. And remember we had a deal
(15:56):
with Chili's Free Chili's remember that. Yeah, Oh, I ate
so much Chili's. Holy crap. I gained so much weight.
They wet as much chilies as we wanted. We had
to do commercials for Chilis, and so we kept getting
boxes and boxes of their different like burgers and whatever
from Chili's. And and you didn't eat that much day
because you were, you know, worried about your figure.
Speaker 4 (16:16):
Of course, so you didn't of course, my girlish figure, yes, exactly.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
Back back in the day. Another another storyline I remember
from the Ben and Dave show doing the mid day show.
Do you remember we had some adult entertainers that were
fans of the show that that reached out to us.
You remember that back in the.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
Famous Randy West, remember famous porn star show.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
He was a huge fan, right, massive fan. And uh
he showed up to one of our our remonts. He
remember we did a.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
Remember remember the gift he sent us one night?
Speaker 1 (16:49):
Oh how can I forget?
Speaker 4 (16:51):
He sent us an entire box full of all the
porn movies he'd never made on VHS.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
Was a special gift to us.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
Yeah. Yeah, it was never the women that listened though,
The women porn stars never listened to Dave. It was,
of course the men. We had a Holly and You
were doing a show from I think it was in
Burbank at a at a shoe store in Burbank. He
had an actor showed up. Do you remember it was
(17:20):
was it Nicholas to Turo? Is he the guy that
show Turo?
Speaker 3 (17:23):
Yeah? From NYPD Blue. He showed up out of the blue.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
Yeah, that was like, yeah, he was a huge fan
and he and that was when that show was really popping,
Like he was a big deal in LA and television.
That was a very popular show. And he showed up
to a shoe store in Burbank to say hello to us.
Speaker 4 (17:42):
I remember one time we were doing a show on
Ventura Boulevard. I think in Tarazanna Moorencino, and he pulled
up right in front. That was the second time you
showed it. He pulled in front, said I was listening.
I live right down the street from here. And then
he came up and he said, I'm telling you what,
I got a brand new television show coming out of Seriously, sitcom.
You two are in. I guarantee you're in. You're gonna
be on the show. We're gonna get you. So we're
going to get you your acting card. Now we're still
(18:04):
waiting for that man. It never happened.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
Well, hey, we're still around, so he's still so why not?
What the heck? Now, Speaking of remotes, here's another classic one.
It was the was it the twentieth anniversary of Animal House?
Do you remember this in Westwood?
Speaker 3 (18:19):
Well? Is that when we've dusched up in Togas.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
Yes, yes, they had a big party all the living actors.
A lot of those guys had already died, but a
lot of the actors and the producers, the people that
made Animal House at this place in Westwood near Ucla,
And so the boss is like, hey, let's put you
guys in Togas. Do you remember I remember going into
the men's room at that bar, Dave. I mean we
both had this look like this is about as low
(18:43):
as we can possibly get. We are both, you know,
we're talk show hosts. Were dressed in togas. We had
to take our We had a change into togas in
a bathroom at this cheesy bar in uh Westwood, and
then went out and we were doing some of it.
I remember standing on Westwood Vulte, which is very busy,
in my toga too. I don't look good, Daven, clothesed,
(19:05):
I didn't toga. That was a bad Everyone's looking staring
like like we were zoo animals, you know what.
Speaker 4 (19:13):
A guy that I don't know if you were standing
next to me, I was doing on a bracket, was
outside in front of the place in my.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
Toga with all the cars going by. I don't know
if you're there.
Speaker 4 (19:20):
Some guys stopped the car and he rolled down the
window and looked at me and he said.
Speaker 3 (19:24):
I didn't know there are any gay bars around here,
and then he drove off.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
Well, you gonna go over to West Hollywood, which is
down the road there. You got the uh, you get
all that, uh, but.
Speaker 4 (19:35):
You can understand a guy standing in a toga in
the middle of Westwood Boulevard.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
Right, oh yeah, I mean, of course, come on now,
please do that every day. Now. We spent a lot
of time. I think I spent more time here than
you did. But adults in burbank right oh, yes, across
the street. And I tell people's stories about dults, Dave,
and people don't understand. This was the epicenter of entertainment
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in la. It's not Hollywood. It was Dults. It was
right right next to Warner Brothers. You had all the
all the radio stations were there. You had our building
which had all the iHeart which was back then called
something Else, and you had the building with all the
other stations. The other cluster was in that, and then
in the building Dolts was in. We would go in
there and remember at night there would be like actors
(20:22):
from Seinfeld and all the popular show nineties would be
in there, Drew Carey show. They'd be in there, eating, drinking,
having a good time. And we spent so many nights
in that little bar area. And those chicken fingers were amazing,
Oh my.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
God, oh they were the best. Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
Yes, I have so many great memories of adults. One
of my favorite memories though, Dave, see if you remember this,
Do you remember the night which this was like ninety
ninety eight, it must have been ninety the Olympics were
going on and we got pre empted by Women's Olympic hockey.
Do you remember this?
Speaker 3 (20:59):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (21:00):
So our boss is like, listen, it's a trial sport.
We're going to put it on the radio. Soa, who
the hell wants to listen to that? Because it was
on tape delay? Do you remember? It was on tape
delay from somewhere in Asia or something. I think it
was an Asian but it doesn't matter. So it was
on table. So he's like, listen, just stay in the area.
You're not going to go on. I just want you
in the air just in case the game goes short.
(21:21):
So me, you and who else was with us? There
was somebody else I forget who.
Speaker 3 (21:24):
Was with it. We mean David or our producer.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
Yeah, it might have been our producer, Gear Moor or whatever.
Speaker 3 (21:30):
Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
He went over to dults and started drinking. I'm not
a big drinker, but we were drinking and we were
like mfing the station, like how could they do this
to us?
Speaker 3 (21:39):
Right?
Speaker 1 (21:40):
You know, I mean, come on, I mean we're to
hear us than that. And we got a call from
the boss, or maybe it wasn't maybe it was Mark
Smith who said, you guys, you got to get back
over here. And it was the only time ever in
my career I broadcast drunk. Dave. Remember, I was hammered.
I was hammered. I waddled across the street. We got
(22:00):
back in the stodo. I cursed multiple time. I remember
Mark Smith, our boardop, came over and punched me because
I kept cursing because I had no filter, Dave, I was,
I was drinking beer. We were having a good time.
We were you know, we didn't think we were going
to be on, and they put us on and it
was it was nuts.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
I remember.
Speaker 4 (22:17):
I remember one time I was doing a show by
myself up there on the eighth floor for some reason,
might have been after a fight or something.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
So and then I'm doing the show.
Speaker 4 (22:24):
And I had a couple of recorded interviews for the
last half hour. They were already done, so I remember
Bobby our boardop. But Bobby says, hey, man, you can
go home now. The last half hours all recorded. You
don't need to stick around here. I said, are you sure,
and he said, yeah, yeah, I go on home, so
get my car.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
I'm on the freeway about twenty minutes away. And you
know what I heard?
Speaker 4 (22:41):
Men?
Speaker 3 (22:41):
I heard.
Speaker 4 (22:47):
And then I get a call I get your ass
back over.
Speaker 3 (22:49):
That was the one only time I ever left early.
I learned my lives of that night.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
Oh yeah, I've had I used to do updates, and
we had in the early days of Fox Sports Radio.
We had updates where there was a first half which
was one minute, the second half was two minutes. So
I would record them and I got a long shift.
I would record them. Sometimes in the boardop would would
play them. And I remember driving home. I was in
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Hollywood and I turned on the station and the boardop
played the first half of the second half, which is
two minutes in the first part of the update, and
then played played in the second half the one minute.
He totally butchered the whole thing. And there's nothing you
driving around, there's nothing you can do. You're completely helpless
in that situation. That's it. I actually have a mystery
(23:38):
box somewhere in my garage here day of the Ben
and Dave Krt the song Ben and Dave and all
these drops from the Ben and Dave show. When they
and they got rid of the show, I kept him. Unfortunately,
there's really no way to play any of that stuff.
Speaker 4 (23:54):
Remember I was having dinner on the Queen Mary one
night in lum Beach, so I was on a date
and there was a live band there, and then they
came over. One of the guys was a big fan
of the Ben and Dame show, and I said, hey,
put together. That's how the song got put together. He
made a recording for us with his band.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
That was great. No, that was I love the song.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
It was.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
Yeah, I wish we could play it if I had.
If I had it on something other than a cart machine,
I would I would like all old technology. Another bit
that we did in those days. Remember when we got
picked up by a limo in Sherman Oaks Dave and
driven out to like San Bernardino or something. We were
Professional wrestling was a wrestling match, Yeah, professional wrestling. I
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did not know this, but the ww I think it
was called the WWF. Still, then they have a main
card and then they have the undercard. The undercards that
got a minor league ballpark or something like that. The
main we were doing the minor card the B card,
and we were both celebrity managers at this event. And
(24:53):
there's a couple of things I fondly remember about that night.
Dave the very long limo drive to get out there,
because it seemed like it took forever.
Speaker 3 (25:02):
It was in Where was that that was a long
way out? It was a minor league ballpark.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
Might have been Rancho Kuckamonger or someone like Elson Elson. Yes,
Lake event basically northern San Diego. So we do all
out there and I was the manager of the headshrinkers.
Who are you the manager of? Do you remember what
you were?
Speaker 4 (25:20):
It was that guy I can't remember his name. He
was a British guy that was in the WW for
a long time. Lord something, I can't remember his name. Okay, Yeah,
I was tag team partner and we're in the ring
and the bells about to ring, and he walked over
to me and said, you better get your ass out
of here now.
Speaker 3 (25:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
Yeah, Well we were the last match, or so I
think we were the last match. We were in the
locker room.
Speaker 3 (25:44):
Remember we were in.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
The locker room and the thing got delayed because there
was this guy. He actually passed away a number of
years ago Viscera I think was called He was this
giant African American guy. I remember Dave, this big black guy.
He had uh he wore like contact lenses. The guy
was like six hundred pound or something like that. He
broke the ring.
Speaker 3 (26:02):
Do you read that Kamala?
Speaker 1 (26:03):
No, I don't think it was Kamala. It was like
his name. But the guy broke the ring. And it
was the funniest thing because we're in the locker room.
We're like, all right, this got this thing over with,
We want to get back to La whatever. So I
remember the guy came walking in. He had his head down,
very bad, sad body language, and he was apologizing to
the other wrestlers that he because they had to fix
the ring before the thing could continue. And it was
(26:26):
so funny because he had all this makeup. He had
this very you know, tough looking guy with these eye
he had these contacts to give his eyes this weird color.
And he's like, oh, yeah, yeah, I'm sorry, guys, oh
you know. And and the biggest name that was at
that event was one of the iconic figures in wrestling,
George the Animal Steele.
Speaker 3 (26:45):
George I was going to bring that up.
Speaker 4 (26:47):
Remember we talked to them in the locker room. He
was normally dressed. You know, he was a college professor
in real life. Smart guy was George the Animal Steel.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
Very cool. It was so great. I grew up loving
professional wrestling and uh and I like to be in
the same locker room with George the Animal Steel was
next level like.
Speaker 3 (27:06):
That wasn't it wasn't the lovely Elizabeth his daughter?
Speaker 2 (27:09):
Is that?
Speaker 1 (27:09):
I don't Is that true?
Speaker 4 (27:11):
Matso Man Savage's manager. I think she was his daughter,
if I'm not mistaken that right.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
I did not. I did not know that. I know
a Hulk Hogan just recently passed away.
Speaker 3 (27:18):
That was I remember the highlight of the night. Man.
Speaker 4 (27:21):
The tag team match was going on and your guys
were losing. Yeah, and one guy got thrown down near
to outside of the ring. He was rolling around and
you grabbed the metal chair.
Speaker 3 (27:29):
And handed it to him. Yes, and then he hit
the guy over the head and they won the match.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
Yeah, you lost, Dave. I'm undefeated, baby, I'm undefeated as
a professional wrestling celebrity manager. Remember the crowd. There wasn't
a big crowd that night, but there were a lot
of trunks and they were heckling the hell out of us.
You remember, like you losers, who were you exactly they were?
They were busting our balls right and left, and I
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guess I want to get out on this. This is
one of my favorite stories. Also from the Ben and
Dave showed Dave is we would do. We had an
appearance at the House of Blues on Sunset below, big event.
I think it was for UCLA. I want to say
it was. I don't remember. Whatever it was for, it
don't matter. So this was like a celebrity party. There
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were a lot of clients there. We were there schmoozing
and we had We had a good time, but we
had a show to do. We had we were doing
the show at night. Remember we had to come back
to the radio station. Do you remember what happened? When
we got back to the radio station. It was late
at night. We had both had a couple of drinks,
we had had some food. We had to do a
short show. Do you remember what happened? We got up
to the eighth floor on Riverside. Happened There was this
(28:37):
thick smell of smoke in the building. Because well we
didn't know what had happened. Remember you went up to
Mark Smith. We both went up to Mark. Our board
ops and Mark, what happened? It's so thick our eyes
were watering, it was getting in our lungs, like, what
the happen? What the hell happened? And Mark would not say,
(29:01):
I ain't telling you m blah blah blah blah blah
blah blah. We went down uh to Kiss FM, the
great Valentine who's still on LA Radio day Yeah, yeah,
great dude, love the guy was wonderful, his big morning
guy in LA for twenty years. But Valentine was doing
the night show. We asked him what had happened, and
and then we went back and forth. Eventually we found
(29:22):
out that one of the update guys, who was upset
he didn't go to the House of Blues, was smoking
a cigarette and dropped it in a trash can and
lit the trash can on fire and Dave. The story
is this came within a couple of minutes of turning
all of the sprinkler system on on the floor, which
(29:44):
would have ruined Dave. All of that radio equipment would
have I mean, would have destroyed the entire floor would
have been plunded with water because this guy was smoking
a cigarette on the eighth floor and threw it in
a trash can and a fire.
Speaker 4 (30:00):
So that is fun. You remember the time of some
of the best advice I've ever gotten radio. When I
first started, the boss said, always assume the mic is on,
even if you're in a commercial. If you're in front
of a mic, always assume it's on. So I was
driving to work one night, Big Joe McDonald, the Big
Nasty was.
Speaker 3 (30:17):
On before us man. Remember that.
Speaker 4 (30:18):
Oh yeah, during a commercial break, somebody left the mic
on and he started cursing and f bom m F.
First he was screaming at somebody. It's the most foul
language I've ever heard. For around five minutes straight, all
of it came out over the radio.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
That's great that I also recall. Remember the Soup Nazi
guy from Seinfeld. Yes, he had a cigar He had
a cigar show. He taped it on. It was on
the weekends and we went in there. We did the
morning show on Saturday, so sometimes we'd go into the studio.
We usually did remotes. So you remember that there was
(30:54):
so much cigar. You're not supposed to smoke on that floor.
Those guys were sitting around smoking cigars, having a great
time living the dream man that they on on Saturday.
And they also they had all the they were cleaning
the office. I remember the whole building was wide open.
Remember at night when they would be cleaning the offices.
You go around and check it out. I mean, there's
(31:15):
so many great stories to tell, and this is just
scratching the surface. The majority again, the majority of the
stories are on your podcast, Dave. Again, how can people
find the podcast? It's on YouTube, right, you're big, We're
all YouTubers now. I got my Benny versus the Pennies
on YouTube. Now we're all doing the How can people
find it? Want to hear? Because three episodes, that's like,
(31:35):
you know, three hours almost of content. Unbelievable.
Speaker 3 (31:38):
Oh my god.
Speaker 4 (31:39):
Thanks to my thanks to make great sponsor MTS Transportations
for making this all happen, and Ben for coming on
for three parts. And everybody go to YouTube dot com
and go to at the Dave Smith Unleashed podcast and
don't confuse.
Speaker 3 (31:51):
Me with the comedian.
Speaker 4 (31:52):
But just my luck, we get a comedian that's hit
it big with my name, Ben Mallard. So hopefully everybody
confuses me with him and comes to my podcast.
Speaker 3 (31:58):
There you go.
Speaker 1 (31:59):
You'll get a bunch of doub moves and all that.
All right, well, thank you, Dave. I appreciate it. Man,
you're the man. Thanks Dave.
Speaker 3 (32:03):
All right, anytime, Ben, Thanks, gotta murder.
Speaker 1 (32:06):
I gotta go.
Kubbooms.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes
a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants
of the old Republic, a sol fashion of fairness. He
treats crackheads in the ghetto cutter the same as the
rich pill poppers.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
In the penthouse.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Wow to clearing House of hot takes, break free for
something special. The Fifth Hour with Ben Mahler starts right now.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
In the air everywhere, The Fifth Hour with Me, Ben
Mahler and Danny g Radio. A Happy Friday to you,
as we had NFL football if you want to call
it that last night the Cowboys. How about the Cowboys
and the Philadelphia Eagles. And it's on all weekend and
(00:50):
we have a lot to get to over the course
of the weekend. New podcast on Saturday and Sunday. But
today is the Friday Podcast, And rather than rehash happened
last night, instead, we are going to go back down
memory lane and way before my run at Fox Sports
Radio and my time doing the overnight show. At one
(01:12):
point I was working the dreaded day shift. I had
a mid day talk show at a very young age,
The Ben and Dave, The Ben and Dave show if
you listen to me in southern California way back in
the day in the nineteen nineties, I started I was
a young lad starting my broadcasting career with the Ben
and Dave Show at the studios of AM eleven fifty
(01:36):
in Burbank, as Menuel from Guardina likes to say, and
it was the Ben and Dave Show. And the guy
that I did the show with the first ever tag
team talk show that I did Dave Smith, who you
hear as he works at actually one of our competitors
does some filling stuff over there and whatnot. So Dave
(01:57):
popping up here with me actually did his podcast and
we went back and forth there on the Dave Smith Podcast,
which is on YouTube some of the great stories. So
this is kind of an add on. You want to
listen to this podcast and then go back and hear
those three podcasts. I did three podcasts about stories we did.
(02:17):
The Ben and Dave Show aired in middays, it was
on at night as well. It broadcasts in the late
nineteen nineties up until the year two thousand and then
that was it. Ick Snay on the show A but
fond Memories, A golden era of sports radio an era
before social media and a much different world, much different
(02:40):
world back in the late nineteen ninety. So we welcome
in a guy that is known as the sports god,
Dave Smith. So, Dave, let's start with this little broadcasting
one to oh one. Back in the day, we were
doing a show from Staples Center. That was what it
was called back then, Staple Center downtown Los Angeles. In
the show and we had an intern. It was a
(03:03):
man on the street segment gone bad? Dave, do you
remember that storre? Do you remember that time was?
Speaker 3 (03:10):
And by the way, thanks for having me on.
Speaker 4 (03:12):
I'm a proud member of the Malla Militia Malon Militia
out man.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
So this is great stuff.
Speaker 4 (03:16):
Was that the night they had a ryot outside after
the Lakers won the championship and they were overturning cars
and lighting fires outside our studio.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Well, no, this was actually we'll get to that, but
this was before that. We had an intern. We were
doing a daytime it was midday show. The day out.
The Clippers had played the Lakers, right, and the Clippers
had scored I think they had scored like three points
in a quarter or something like that, and you came
(03:43):
up with the brilliant idea. Dave, knowing that I like
the Clippers, You're like, hey, why don't we We had
an intern, so why don't we send the intern out
and get signatures to move the Clippers back to San Diego?
Speaker 3 (03:56):
I remember now, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
So this is one of the classic Ben and Dave stories.
So this this dopey intern goes out. There's all these
people in downtown Los Angeles that are going to lunch
or whatever. And I'll never forget Dave. The uh, the
interns getting signatures. Right, I got a few signatures, and
this guy comes walking into where we were broadcasting from.
(04:21):
Do you remember this? He had he had a tie on,
he had kind of a suit.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
Yeah, he was.
Speaker 4 (04:26):
He was scheduled to come on. He was a Clippers executive.
I remember it was.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
It was Andy Roser, Donald Sterling's right hand man who
the intern asked to sign a petition move the Clippers
back to San Diego.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
Oh, classic stuff on the interns.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
Huh, Andy, Dave did not seem too pleased that we
were doing. He did not seem happy.
Speaker 4 (04:57):
You think the intern would know since he walked to
the studio and he was scheduled for an interview, and
he was wearing a suit and tie. It might not
be the best guy to ask to move back to
San Diego.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
Well, hey, that whole thing blew up with sterling Man
a couple of years after many years after that, right
with that whole the whole scandal, that was a that
was a hot mess. But you mentioned so you brought
it up, so we have to talk about this. We
were broadcasting the Lakers had had a pretty long drought,
right they won in the eighties, They hadn't won in
(05:30):
a while. I guess relatively speaking, this is the twelve
years you have been twelve years. Oh my god, twelve
years so long. Anyway, it was the first championship with
Kobe and Shack and we were broadcasting from that same
corner which is now I don't even know it's there,
And it was like a restaurant or something. I don't
know it's there, maybe not maybe his store. I think
it might be a Nike store. But we before when
(05:53):
the arena open, were just broadcasting there, and so we
were we were broadcasting after the Laker game after they won,
and things got completely Oh my god, do you do
you remember? There was like a bonfire in the street.
Speaker 4 (06:08):
They lit police cars on fire. And then the remember
the window was right next to the street, and everybody
was rioting and lighting stuff on fire, and they were
they were grabbing women and dragging them away down the street.
And then and we were and they were, remember Ben,
they were beating on the window with their fists, screaming
at us.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
And I said, there's not enough comps.
Speaker 4 (06:26):
They're gonna they're gonna break into the studio here, and
Kigos both, this is our last show.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
We better sign it off now.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
You remember one of our bosses, we were both we
were like freaked out. We were like, holy crap, we're
gonna get We're gonna get destroyed here by these lunatics.
And one of our bosses got very upset with us.
This is this is not a riot. Nineteen eighty four,
Sure this was a riot. This is not a riot.
Speaker 4 (06:51):
I remember we We said to him, they're lighting police
cars on fire, they're beating women, they're lighting bonfires, they're
beating on the window threatening.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
Guess we got to get out of here. And he said,
don't you dare leave, don't you dare.
Speaker 4 (07:04):
They're gonna kill us. They're gonna kill us. Do your
job broadcast.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Yeah, and he wanted this like downplay. He wanted to
do what was going on. But we were remember that
there was that that woman who was on roller skates.
I still remember her.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
I don't know who it was.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
He had headphones on, she was listening to the show.
She had roller skates on. And that poor woman by
herself and these lunatics they were doing like a tribal dance.
Did you remember? They were doing like a tribal dance
around the fire, like singing, and it was, uh, it
was unbelievable. I've never seen anything like it. And it
just it happened while we were on the air, like
we were. One minute, we're talking about the I think
(07:40):
they played the pacers beating the pacers, and the next thing,
the next thing, there's uh, it was.
Speaker 4 (07:46):
It was that that poor girl on the skates. They
were trying to rip her clothes off right in front
of the window. And then we told the boss, this
is chaos. They're gonna kill us, and he said, can't
you two ever be positive?
Speaker 3 (07:57):
What's wrong with you two guys?
Speaker 4 (07:59):
Yeah, we're positive they're gonna try and kill us.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
That's what we're positive about.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Yeah, Well that we did get the l A. P. D.
Riot Polace. Remember they came in because they had a bathroom,
so they would come and go to the bathroom and
then go back out and fight the fight the lunatics.
Now the other part about that night, Dave, do you remember,
I think, I don't know if this was your idea,
my idea, but we decided we needed a roving reporter
(08:26):
because the like downtown was on fire, because the Lakers
wanted to so we sent They sent Vic the Brick, Jacobs,
the Great the Brick. We sent him out there as
a man on the street reporter. And you remember the
crowd was chanting his name, Dave. They loved him, that
they loved him. Yeah, he was like a hero, and
(08:46):
he was he was called and even Vic was trying
to downplay it's not that bad as there's fire burning
in the background.
Speaker 5 (08:53):
He was our bad dad mom that night, nothing telling
them YouTube guys, there's no problem with a police car
burning behind them, when people beating the hell out of
each other, and there's no problem here them.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
The infidels, you infidels.
Speaker 4 (09:12):
It was so good. And then the other remember how
late the cops were to diffuse the situation there.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
They took forever to get there.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. We were watching it all unfold
and uh, it was it was full on like they were.
That street was the worst, right in front of the arena,
but they were like seven eleven's and other stuff down there. Uh.
And then I remember walking to the car after we
got done with the broadcast, things had calmed down. There
were still a bunch of police out and I walked
(09:40):
by there was a Channel two newsman that got completely
burned up. You mentioned the police car.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
I think there's one or two police cars that got
burned by the by the mob. And do you remember,
Dave also that Channel two in Los Angeles blamed our
radio station for inciting the right. It blamed us because
the station, remember that they said they had passed out
flyers for some movie that had fire on them. I
(10:09):
don't know whatever the movie was in nineteen ninety nine
or whatever it was, but they are two thousand, but
they had these flyers that that are our station logo.
But it was a movie and it was a partnership
deal with the movie studio and they passed these out
and I think it was I forget the I used
to know the rec stone or something like that. There
was a reporter for Channel two. She did a whole
thing on the news back when people used to watch
(10:29):
the news, and she blamed us. They blamed us for first.
I mean, what did we do? We didn't do anything?
Speaker 3 (10:36):
Well, see what was right, Ben? It was our fault.
Speaker 4 (10:38):
The gang banger showed up and beat the hell out
of people and burned down seven eleven's and looted and rioted.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
It was all our fause. It was correct, clearly, it.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
Was the Ben and Dave Show. That was our That
was our doing. Another memory I had And by the way, Dave,
your podcast, we did three episodes right me and we
were three episodes on your.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
Plot freeze up right now? Ben, it's posted now.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
All right? And how can people find the podcast? How
can they find your podcast?
Speaker 4 (11:04):
It's like you go to YouTube and do it at
the Dave Smith Unleashed Podcast YouTube at the Day Smith
Unleased podcast and right now Part three of David Smith
with Ben Maller of the old Ben and Dave Show
and Part one and part two are also posted as well,
so they can get all the Ben Mallord they ever
want with those three shows.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
The other thing here now these are all and those
amazing stories. The Jiffy Loops story is still one of
my favorites. We talked about that amazing story on your podcast.
Now something we did not bring up, and I was
going through some of my old stuff. I keep a
lot of old notes from different things in the past.
But there was a guy who was one of the
biggest trolls in the history of trolls before social media.
(11:48):
Like social media is all about trolling, right, Dave, and
people get on their ahole, of course schmucks. You know.
I don't know what's real and what's not. But on
the Ben and Dave show we had it was really you.
I was brought into this. I was like the stepchild
into this. There was a gentleman named Bimbo Bruce.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
Oh, he was the best.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
And we didn't have sociald We had a fax machine
and did you I didn't know who Do you ever
find out who he was? I had no idea he
was a man of mess.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
We got his.
Speaker 4 (12:19):
Last name and he lived in the Huntington Beach. We
knew that about him, and we had his home phone
number two.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
Okay, okay, this guy would send how many factses during
the show. It was endless. It was nice, one.
Speaker 4 (12:31):
After another after another, just ripping us about how horrible
the show was. Remember, and the studio set up a
call in special call in.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
Number to give your thoughts on the shows all the time.
Speaker 4 (12:42):
So he called that thing every night and it was
nothing but cursing and swearing and talking about what idiots
we both were. And then we played that on the
air every night and they had to hit the bleep button.
We had to send it to the to the engineer
to get the bleep button in time. It was full
of f bombs.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
He would write drawings, often very very blue Dave about
you specifically. He didn't like me either, but he I
think he really had it out for you.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
But he would trouble he did.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
The guy listened to everything we ever did on the
Ben and Dave Show like he knew everything that we did,
sometimes before we did it. And he would like, this
guy you talk about losers, Dave, this guy must have
had no life. He listened to every single show we
ever did and immediately would would send off a fax NonStop.
It was it was insane.
Speaker 4 (13:28):
We did We did a I don't know if it
was you or not. Man, it might have been with Zoe.
But we did a remote one time at the National
Sports Squirrel in Anaheim, right across the street from Angels Stadium,
and somebody said to the producer there's a package for you,
and he ran out and brought it. Internet was a
bouquet of flowers and it said from bib Bo Bruce
f you.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
I think.
Speaker 4 (13:48):
I think then our producer charged out there and tried
to catch him, but he was already gone.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
Yeah, I think I was actually at that. I remember
that it was you. I think I was. I remember
doing some National Sports Those are all gone, right, I
think those things I think so, Yeah, those places where
they were bumping back up, I mean that was that
was the way to do. Now. I will not say
the name of the person, Dave, but do you remember
because we don't wanna, we don't want to, you know,
(14:14):
out the the guilty here, but one of the people
that worked at the station, Uh, they were faxing their contract.
Do you remember this? They were facting their contracted like
their agent or something like that.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
Yeah, they left it in the and they left it
in the copy machine.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
Yes, and we all found out how much this person making,
which was probably what ten times what we were all
making day, right.
Speaker 4 (14:36):
I remember we were doing a remote on top of
a I think it was on top of the Capitol
Records Building at Holly. Yes, Big Joe McDonald came to
visit us and we showed it to him. I thought
we were going to lose him that night. He was
on the phone screaming at our boss, screaming at his agent,
screaming at everybody.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
How can this guy be making this much money? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (14:57):
Well, that that Hollywood Capitol Records Building remote was hilarious
because it was for UCLA football. You remember they were
trying to get in the Sugar Bowl, so it was
like share the sugar and we were gonna stop the
Hollywood Records Building. Well, one thing they did not factor in.
We were up there at night. We were doing the
show at night broadcasting, and I remember there was El Nino,
(15:17):
and the boss did not realize the roof on the
Capitol Records Building in Hollywood floods.
Speaker 4 (15:27):
And that was another one we said, we got to
get out of here. Is El Nino. The roof's gonna collapse.
Why you guys are always so negative?
Speaker 3 (15:33):
Do your jobs? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (15:34):
No, we had all this electrical equipment the roof. There
was like two feet of water on the roof the
Capitol Records building. And the boss is like, just shut
up and do the show. And I'm we're supposed to.
We're gonna die. We're gonna get electric two that the
Bennet Damme Show's gonna die on the radio, and uh yeah.
And I also remember I got really I was big
at that time, Dave. And remember we had a deal
(15:56):
with Chili's Free Chili's remember that. Yeah, Oh, I ate
so much Chili's. Holy crap. I gained so much weight.
They wet as much chilies as we wanted. We had
to do commercials for Chilis, and so we kept getting
boxes and boxes of their different like burgers and whatever
from Chili's. And and you didn't eat that much day
because you were, you know, worried about your figure.
Speaker 4 (16:16):
Of course, so you didn't of course, my girlish figure, yes, exactly.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
Back back in the day. Another another storyline I remember
from the Ben and Dave show doing the mid day show.
Do you remember we had some adult entertainers that were
fans of the show that that reached out to us.
You remember that back in the.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
Famous Randy West, remember famous porn star show.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
He was a huge fan, right, massive fan. And uh
he showed up to one of our our remonts. He
remember we did a.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
Remember remember the gift he sent us one night?
Speaker 1 (16:49):
Oh how can I forget?
Speaker 4 (16:51):
He sent us an entire box full of all the
porn movies he'd never made on VHS.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
Was a special gift to us.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
Yeah. Yeah, it was never the women that listened though,
The women porn stars never listened to Dave. It was,
of course the men. We had a Holly and You
were doing a show from I think it was in
Burbank at a at a shoe store in Burbank. He
had an actor showed up. Do you remember it was
(17:20):
was it Nicholas to Turo? Is he the guy that
show Turo?
Speaker 3 (17:23):
Yeah? From NYPD Blue. He showed up out of the blue.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
Yeah, that was like, yeah, he was a huge fan
and he and that was when that show was really popping,
Like he was a big deal in LA and television.
That was a very popular show. And he showed up
to a shoe store in Burbank to say hello to us.
Speaker 4 (17:42):
I remember one time we were doing a show on
Ventura Boulevard. I think in Tarazanna Moorencino, and he pulled
up right in front. That was the second time you
showed it. He pulled in front, said I was listening.
I live right down the street from here. And then
he came up and he said, I'm telling you what,
I got a brand new television show coming out of Seriously, sitcom.
You two are in. I guarantee you're in. You're gonna
be on the show. We're gonna get you. So we're
going to get you your acting card. Now we're still
(18:04):
waiting for that man. It never happened.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
Well, hey, we're still around, so he's still so why not?
What the heck? Now, Speaking of remotes, here's another classic one.
It was the was it the twentieth anniversary of Animal House?
Do you remember this in Westwood?
Speaker 3 (18:19):
Well? Is that when we've dusched up in Togas.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
Yes, yes, they had a big party all the living actors.
A lot of those guys had already died, but a
lot of the actors and the producers, the people that
made Animal House at this place in Westwood near Ucla,
And so the boss is like, hey, let's put you
guys in Togas. Do you remember I remember going into
the men's room at that bar, Dave. I mean we
both had this look like this is about as low
(18:43):
as we can possibly get. We are both, you know,
we're talk show hosts. Were dressed in togas. We had
to take our We had a change into togas in
a bathroom at this cheesy bar in uh Westwood, and
then went out and we were doing some of it.
I remember standing on Westwood Vulte, which is very busy,
in my toga too. I don't look good, Daven, clothesed,
(19:05):
I didn't toga. That was a bad Everyone's looking staring
like like we were zoo animals, you know what.
Speaker 4 (19:13):
A guy that I don't know if you were standing
next to me, I was doing on a bracket, was
outside in front of the place in my.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
Toga with all the cars going by. I don't know
if you're there.
Speaker 4 (19:20):
Some guys stopped the car and he rolled down the
window and looked at me and he said.
Speaker 3 (19:24):
I didn't know there are any gay bars around here,
and then he drove off.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
Well, you gonna go over to West Hollywood, which is
down the road there. You got the uh, you get
all that, uh, but.
Speaker 4 (19:35):
You can understand a guy standing in a toga in
the middle of Westwood Boulevard.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
Right, oh yeah, I mean, of course, come on now,
please do that every day. Now. We spent a lot
of time. I think I spent more time here than
you did. But adults in burbank right oh, yes, across
the street. And I tell people's stories about dults, Dave,
and people don't understand. This was the epicenter of entertainment
(20:00):
in la. It's not Hollywood. It was Dults. It was
right right next to Warner Brothers. You had all the
all the radio stations were there. You had our building
which had all the iHeart which was back then called
something Else, and you had the building with all the
other stations. The other cluster was in that, and then
in the building Dolts was in. We would go in
there and remember at night there would be like actors
(20:22):
from Seinfeld and all the popular show nineties would be
in there, Drew Carey show. They'd be in there, eating, drinking,
having a good time. And we spent so many nights
in that little bar area. And those chicken fingers were amazing,
Oh my.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
God, oh they were the best. Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
Yes, I have so many great memories of adults. One
of my favorite memories though, Dave, see if you remember this,
Do you remember the night which this was like ninety
ninety eight, it must have been ninety the Olympics were
going on and we got pre empted by Women's Olympic hockey.
Do you remember this?
Speaker 3 (20:59):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (21:00):
So our boss is like, listen, it's a trial sport.
We're going to put it on the radio. Soa, who
the hell wants to listen to that? Because it was
on tape delay? Do you remember? It was on tape
delay from somewhere in Asia or something. I think it
was an Asian but it doesn't matter. So it was
on table. So he's like, listen, just stay in the area.
You're not going to go on. I just want you
in the air just in case the game goes short.
(21:21):
So me, you and who else was with us? There
was somebody else I forget who.
Speaker 3 (21:24):
Was with it. We mean David or our producer.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
Yeah, it might have been our producer, Gear Moor or whatever.
Speaker 3 (21:30):
Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
He went over to dults and started drinking. I'm not
a big drinker, but we were drinking and we were
like mfing the station, like how could they do this
to us?
Speaker 3 (21:39):
Right?
Speaker 1 (21:40):
You know, I mean, come on, I mean we're to
hear us than that. And we got a call from
the boss, or maybe it wasn't maybe it was Mark
Smith who said, you guys, you got to get back
over here. And it was the only time ever in
my career I broadcast drunk. Dave. Remember, I was hammered.
I was hammered. I waddled across the street. We got
(22:00):
back in the stodo. I cursed multiple time. I remember
Mark Smith, our boardop, came over and punched me because
I kept cursing because I had no filter, Dave, I was,
I was drinking beer. We were having a good time.
We were you know, we didn't think we were going
to be on, and they put us on and it
was it was nuts.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
I remember.
Speaker 4 (22:17):
I remember one time I was doing a show by
myself up there on the eighth floor for some reason,
might have been after a fight or something.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
So and then I'm doing the show.
Speaker 4 (22:24):
And I had a couple of recorded interviews for the
last half hour. They were already done, so I remember
Bobby our boardop. But Bobby says, hey, man, you can
go home now. The last half hours all recorded. You
don't need to stick around here. I said, are you sure,
and he said, yeah, yeah, I go on home, so
get my car.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
I'm on the freeway about twenty minutes away. And you
know what I heard?
Speaker 4 (22:41):
Men?
Speaker 3 (22:41):
I heard.
Speaker 4 (22:47):
And then I get a call I get your ass
back over.
Speaker 3 (22:49):
That was the one only time I ever left early.
I learned my lives of that night.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
Oh yeah, I've had I used to do updates, and
we had in the early days of Fox Sports Radio.
We had updates where there was a first half which
was one minute, the second half was two minutes. So
I would record them and I got a long shift.
I would record them. Sometimes in the boardop would would
play them. And I remember driving home. I was in
(23:15):
Hollywood and I turned on the station and the boardop
played the first half of the second half, which is
two minutes in the first part of the update, and
then played played in the second half the one minute.
He totally butchered the whole thing. And there's nothing you
driving around, there's nothing you can do. You're completely helpless
in that situation. That's it. I actually have a mystery
(23:38):
box somewhere in my garage here day of the Ben
and Dave Krt the song Ben and Dave and all
these drops from the Ben and Dave show. When they
and they got rid of the show, I kept him. Unfortunately,
there's really no way to play any of that stuff.
Speaker 4 (23:54):
Remember I was having dinner on the Queen Mary one
night in lum Beach, so I was on a date
and there was a live band there, and then they
came over. One of the guys was a big fan
of the Ben and Dame show, and I said, hey,
put together. That's how the song got put together. He
made a recording for us with his band.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
That was great. No, that was I love the song.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
It was.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
Yeah, I wish we could play it if I had.
If I had it on something other than a cart machine,
I would I would like all old technology. Another bit
that we did in those days. Remember when we got
picked up by a limo in Sherman Oaks Dave and
driven out to like San Bernardino or something. We were
Professional wrestling was a wrestling match, Yeah, professional wrestling. I
(24:33):
did not know this, but the ww I think it
was called the WWF. Still, then they have a main
card and then they have the undercard. The undercards that
got a minor league ballpark or something like that. The
main we were doing the minor card the B card,
and we were both celebrity managers at this event. And
(24:53):
there's a couple of things I fondly remember about that night.
Dave the very long limo drive to get out there,
because it seemed like it took forever.
Speaker 3 (25:02):
It was in Where was that that was a long
way out? It was a minor league ballpark.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
Might have been Rancho Kuckamonger or someone like Elson Elson. Yes,
Lake event basically northern San Diego. So we do all
out there and I was the manager of the headshrinkers.
Who are you the manager of? Do you remember what
you were?
Speaker 4 (25:20):
It was that guy I can't remember his name. He
was a British guy that was in the WW for
a long time. Lord something, I can't remember his name. Okay, Yeah,
I was tag team partner and we're in the ring
and the bells about to ring, and he walked over
to me and said, you better get your ass out
of here now.
Speaker 3 (25:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
Yeah, Well we were the last match, or so I
think we were the last match. We were in the
locker room.
Speaker 3 (25:44):
Remember we were in.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
The locker room and the thing got delayed because there
was this guy. He actually passed away a number of
years ago Viscera I think was called He was this
giant African American guy. I remember Dave, this big black guy.
He had uh he wore like contact lenses. The guy
was like six hundred pound or something like that. He
broke the ring.
Speaker 3 (26:02):
Do you read that Kamala?
Speaker 1 (26:03):
No, I don't think it was Kamala. It was like
his name. But the guy broke the ring. And it
was the funniest thing because we're in the locker room.
We're like, all right, this got this thing over with,
We want to get back to La whatever. So I
remember the guy came walking in. He had his head down,
very bad, sad body language, and he was apologizing to
the other wrestlers that he because they had to fix
the ring before the thing could continue. And it was
(26:26):
so funny because he had all this makeup. He had
this very you know, tough looking guy with these eye
he had these contacts to give his eyes this weird color.
And he's like, oh, yeah, yeah, I'm sorry, guys, oh
you know. And and the biggest name that was at
that event was one of the iconic figures in wrestling,
George the Animal Steele.
Speaker 3 (26:45):
George I was going to bring that up.
Speaker 4 (26:47):
Remember we talked to them in the locker room. He
was normally dressed. You know, he was a college professor
in real life. Smart guy was George the Animal Steel.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
Very cool. It was so great. I grew up loving
professional wrestling and uh and I like to be in
the same locker room with George the Animal Steel was
next level like.
Speaker 3 (27:06):
That wasn't it wasn't the lovely Elizabeth his daughter?
Speaker 2 (27:09):
Is that?
Speaker 1 (27:09):
I don't Is that true?
Speaker 4 (27:11):
Matso Man Savage's manager. I think she was his daughter,
if I'm not mistaken that right.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
I did not. I did not know that. I know
a Hulk Hogan just recently passed away.
Speaker 3 (27:18):
That was I remember the highlight of the night. Man.
Speaker 4 (27:21):
The tag team match was going on and your guys
were losing. Yeah, and one guy got thrown down near
to outside of the ring. He was rolling around and
you grabbed the metal chair.
Speaker 3 (27:29):
And handed it to him. Yes, and then he hit
the guy over the head and they won the match.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
Yeah, you lost, Dave. I'm undefeated, baby, I'm undefeated as
a professional wrestling celebrity manager. Remember the crowd. There wasn't
a big crowd that night, but there were a lot
of trunks and they were heckling the hell out of us.
You remember, like you losers, who were you exactly they were?
They were busting our balls right and left, and I
(27:53):
guess I want to get out on this. This is
one of my favorite stories. Also from the Ben and
Dave showed Dave is we would do. We had an
appearance at the House of Blues on Sunset below, big event.
I think it was for UCLA. I want to say
it was. I don't remember. Whatever it was for, it
don't matter. So this was like a celebrity party. There
(28:14):
were a lot of clients there. We were there schmoozing
and we had We had a good time, but we
had a show to do. We had we were doing
the show at night. Remember we had to come back
to the radio station. Do you remember what happened? When
we got back to the radio station. It was late
at night. We had both had a couple of drinks,
we had had some food. We had to do a
short show. Do you remember what happened? We got up
to the eighth floor on Riverside. Happened There was this
(28:37):
thick smell of smoke in the building. Because well we
didn't know what had happened. Remember you went up to
Mark Smith. We both went up to Mark. Our board
ops and Mark, what happened? It's so thick our eyes
were watering, it was getting in our lungs, like, what
the happen? What the hell happened? And Mark would not say,
(29:01):
I ain't telling you m blah blah blah blah blah
blah blah. We went down uh to Kiss FM, the
great Valentine who's still on LA Radio day Yeah, yeah,
great dude, love the guy was wonderful, his big morning
guy in LA for twenty years. But Valentine was doing
the night show. We asked him what had happened, and
and then we went back and forth. Eventually we found
(29:22):
out that one of the update guys, who was upset
he didn't go to the House of Blues, was smoking
a cigarette and dropped it in a trash can and
lit the trash can on fire and Dave. The story
is this came within a couple of minutes of turning
all of the sprinkler system on on the floor, which
(29:44):
would have ruined Dave. All of that radio equipment would
have I mean, would have destroyed the entire floor would
have been plunded with water because this guy was smoking
a cigarette on the eighth floor and threw it in
a trash can and a fire.
Speaker 4 (30:00):
So that is fun. You remember the time of some
of the best advice I've ever gotten radio. When I
first started, the boss said, always assume the mic is on,
even if you're in a commercial. If you're in front
of a mic, always assume it's on. So I was
driving to work one night, Big Joe McDonald, the Big
Nasty was.
Speaker 3 (30:17):
On before us man. Remember that.
Speaker 4 (30:18):
Oh yeah, during a commercial break, somebody left the mic
on and he started cursing and f bom m F.
First he was screaming at somebody. It's the most foul
language I've ever heard. For around five minutes straight, all
of it came out over the radio.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
That's great that I also recall. Remember the Soup Nazi
guy from Seinfeld. Yes, he had a cigar He had
a cigar show. He taped it on. It was on
the weekends and we went in there. We did the
morning show on Saturday, so sometimes we'd go into the studio.
We usually did remotes. So you remember that there was
(30:54):
so much cigar. You're not supposed to smoke on that floor.
Those guys were sitting around smoking cigars, having a great
time living the dream man that they on on Saturday.
And they also they had all the they were cleaning
the office. I remember the whole building was wide open.
Remember at night when they would be cleaning the offices.
You go around and check it out. I mean, there's
(31:15):
so many great stories to tell, and this is just
scratching the surface. The majority again, the majority of the
stories are on your podcast, Dave. Again, how can people
find the podcast? It's on YouTube, right, you're big, We're
all YouTubers now. I got my Benny versus the Pennies
on YouTube. Now we're all doing the How can people
find it? Want to hear? Because three episodes, that's like,
(31:35):
you know, three hours almost of content. Unbelievable.
Speaker 3 (31:38):
Oh my god.
Speaker 4 (31:39):
Thanks to my thanks to make great sponsor MTS Transportations
for making this all happen, and Ben for coming on
for three parts. And everybody go to YouTube dot com
and go to at the Dave Smith Unleashed podcast and
don't confuse.
Speaker 3 (31:51):
Me with the comedian.
Speaker 4 (31:52):
But just my luck, we get a comedian that's hit
it big with my name, Ben Mallard. So hopefully everybody
confuses me with him and comes to my podcast.
Speaker 3 (31:58):
There you go.
Speaker 1 (31:59):
You'll get a bunch of doub moves and all that.
All right, well, thank you, Dave. I appreciate it. Man,
you're the man. Thanks Dave.
Speaker 3 (32:03):
All right, anytime, Ben, Thanks, gotta murder.
Speaker 1 (32:06):
I gotta go.
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