The Fifth Hour: T.J. Simers, Writer Keepin' it Real
The Ben Maller Show
Fox Sports Radio and iHeartPodcasts
4.8 • 864 Ratings
🗓️ 11 August 2023
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
T.J. Simers is an award-winning journalist, he wrote the popular Page Two column for years at the Los Angeles Times. He spends a few good minutes with us on the Fifth Hour podcast. T.J. became good friends with Los Angeles icons John Wooden and Vin Scully among others. He’s both respected and loathed for his firebrand style. Simers spent time hosting a sports radio show with his daughter in LA and was a panelist on ESPN’s Around the Horn. T.J. also successfully won a big money lawsuit against the LA Times. T.J. Simers writes multiple columns a week on an assortment of topics available: tjpage2.blog/. You can follow him on Twitter/X @tjsimerspage2. Follow Danny G Radio on Twitter/X @DannyGradio, Follow Big Ben on Twitter/X @BenMaller, and listen to the original "Ben Maller Show," Monday-Friday on 450+ terrestrial Fox Sports Radio affiliates, iHeart stream, and SiriusXM Radio channel 83, 2a-6a ET, 11p-3a PT!
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| 0:00.0 | If you thought four hours a day, 1,200 minutes a week was enough, think again. |
| 0:07.7 | He's the last remnants of the old republic. |
| 0:10.4 | A sole bastion of fairness. |
| 0:12.4 | He treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the rich pill poppers in the penthouse. |
| 0:17.9 | Wow. |
| 0:18.5 | The clearinghouse of hot takes break free for something special. |
| 0:22.6 | The fifth hour with Ben Mallor starts right now. |
| 0:28.4 | In the air everywhere. |
| 0:33.8 | You have stumbled on to the fifth hour with Ben Mallor and Danny G. Radio because four hours a night are not enough. |
| 0:42.3 | Eight days a week. |
| 0:43.7 | Well, not this week, eight days a week. |
| 0:45.6 | I'll explain why coming up momentarily. |
| 0:49.1 | But Danny G. |
| 0:49.9 | Radio, not with me this weekend. |
| 0:51.7 | My man, Danny G., doing some of the production work on this podcast, but he is away from the microphones right |
| 0:57.7 | now as he is Daddy G. |
| 1:00.5 | Radio. |
| 1:01.6 | Daddy. |
| 1:02.6 | Congratulations to Danny and his wife on the birth of their son. |
| 1:08.0 | Last weekend, the child was born on Saturday. |
| 1:11.6 | And rather than me tell you secondhand information, we're going to wait till Danny gets back. |
| 1:17.3 | And he'll give us all the blow-by-blow details on the birth of his son. |
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