WEBVTT - The Fifth Hour: Eat a Shuttlecock! 0:00:00.680 --> 0:00:04.960 Kabooms. If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred 0:00:05.000 --> 0:00:08.559 minutes a week was enough, think again. He's the last 0:00:08.640 --> 0:00:12.240 remnants of the old republic, a sole fashion of fairness. 0:00:12.360 --> 0:00:15.360 He treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as 0:00:15.360 --> 0:00:19.400 the rich pill poppers in the penthouse. Wow. The Clearinghouse 0:00:19.480 --> 0:00:23.160 of Hot takes break free for something special. The Fifth 0:00:23.200 --> 0:00:29.840 Hour with Ben Maller starts right now in the air 0:00:31.080 --> 0:00:37.400 everywhere the audio dojo is open for business again. You 0:00:37.520 --> 0:00:40.919 have found the Fifth Hour with Ben Maller and Danny Gi. 0:00:41.040 --> 0:00:44.720 But you already knew that I was a little ahead 0:00:44.720 --> 0:00:50.000 of my time. Today is April fools Day, which is 0:00:50.000 --> 0:00:55.920 ironic because I became the fool by promoting April fools 0:00:56.000 --> 0:00:59.880 Day when it wasn't even April fools Day. But now 0:01:00.240 --> 0:01:04.520 I checked the calendar app on my phone. Today is 0:01:04.640 --> 0:01:07.840 the day. Today is the day, so I am correct. 0:01:08.000 --> 0:01:11.240 Today's the day, Dame man. It has been an awesome 0:01:11.280 --> 0:01:16.400 week into the weekend. Here Lakers are winning, Dodgers are winning, Clippers, 0:01:18.640 --> 0:01:22.120 the Raiders are going to dominate the NFL Draft. And 0:01:24.280 --> 0:01:25.840 are you going to go to the NFL Draft in 0:01:26.200 --> 0:01:31.080 late Aprils this month? In Kansas City, isn't it? Yes, Yes, 0:01:31.200 --> 0:01:33.319 the Heartland right there. How do you say? I like, 0:01:33.360 --> 0:01:36.360 how you say Kansas City? I quote the play by 0:01:36.400 --> 0:01:42.360 play guy for the Chiefs. It's Cansa City, your old producer, 0:01:42.400 --> 0:01:47.880 wrong button, Bob. But he told me, he said, Hey, 0:01:48.160 --> 0:01:50.600 if they want to send me there, I'm gonna tell 0:01:50.640 --> 0:01:54.520 him that I can't go due to family obligations. He's like, 0:01:54.720 --> 0:01:58.880 send you instead. Yeah, I'm sure. I'm sure that that'll 0:01:59.080 --> 0:02:02.000 that'll happen, of course. And then but anybody that goes 0:02:02.000 --> 0:02:03.760 to kans City, there's a rule. And I don't know 0:02:03.760 --> 0:02:06.520 if don Or Scott told you about this, but they 0:02:06.600 --> 0:02:09.000 told me that there's a rule. Anyone from the company, 0:02:09.639 --> 0:02:12.560 any from iHeart Fox Sports Radio that goes to Kansas City, 0:02:12.880 --> 0:02:17.360 they have to eat at the Landing the chicken fingers. 0:02:17.360 --> 0:02:19.680 They It's required, or else you've got to pay for 0:02:19.720 --> 0:02:24.720 your whole trip. So now, if you go to Kansas City, 0:02:24.720 --> 0:02:27.480 you gotta have the Ben Mallar chicken fingers at the Landing, 0:02:27.480 --> 0:02:29.919 which is in Liberty, Missouri, right next to it's actually 0:02:30.280 --> 0:02:33.680 near Arrowhead and where the Chiefs play and the Royals 0:02:33.720 --> 0:02:38.000 at their stadium. So there's that. But the the number 0:02:38.000 --> 0:02:41.799 one barbecue plays and I at all the big ones 0:02:41.800 --> 0:02:43.200 when I was in Kansas City years ago, and I 0:02:43.200 --> 0:02:44.920 gotta get back to Kansas City too. It's on my 0:02:44.960 --> 0:02:46.679 list of places I gotta go back and hang out. 0:02:46.720 --> 0:02:49.800 But it's a it's a cool place to visit. Good food, 0:02:49.880 --> 0:02:54.520 good people. But Kansas City they have this. It used 0:02:54.520 --> 0:02:57.040 to be called Oklahoma Joe's. It's now Kansas City Joes. 0:02:57.840 --> 0:03:01.120 It's at a gas station, so it's actually at a 0:03:01.200 --> 0:03:05.720 working gas station, and there is always a line out 0:03:05.760 --> 0:03:08.000 the door. It's like there we have Teitos tacos, where 0:03:08.000 --> 0:03:10.120 there's a line here in La Well, then that's their 0:03:10.160 --> 0:03:15.400 Teitos tacos. It's nuts and the z Man sandwich the 0:03:15.560 --> 0:03:20.639 single greatest thing I have ever had. I should put 0:03:20.639 --> 0:03:24.760 a word in here, food wise, in my mouth, in 0:03:24.880 --> 0:03:27.440 my belly, next thing I know. I just saw this 0:03:27.560 --> 0:03:30.760 white thing flying at my face and the ze Mans 0:03:31.120 --> 0:03:37.080 much amazing, amazing, so good taste like a touchdown in 0:03:37.080 --> 0:03:40.840 your mouth. Oh it was not. It was a game 0:03:40.880 --> 0:03:45.040 winning touchdown. It was a Grand Slam. It was. It 0:03:45.080 --> 0:03:48.880 was insane. So um. But anyway, so we got a 0:03:48.880 --> 0:03:52.080 lot of things to get to on the Saturday podcast, 0:03:52.120 --> 0:03:56.520 and we'll we'll get the partee started here with We've 0:03:56.560 --> 0:04:01.600 got a hunger strike, ending hunger strike ending, flashing lights 0:04:02.520 --> 0:04:06.880 backscratcher pop goes the culture and scientifically, and we will 0:04:06.960 --> 0:04:13.920 start with this. Every once in a while, a protest works, Danny. 0:04:14.480 --> 0:04:19.839 Every once in a while a protest, it's it's successful. 0:04:19.839 --> 0:04:22.280 It doesn't happen all the time. Right away, Are they 0:04:22.320 --> 0:04:27.320 going to lower the prices for our vending machine? No? No, no, no, 0:04:27.320 --> 0:04:32.719 no no. But for the last year on the Overnight Show, 0:04:33.320 --> 0:04:36.360 I made several references on the on the show that's 0:04:36.360 --> 0:04:39.960 got my name on it, and it was get up, 0:04:40.040 --> 0:04:43.680 get down. There's a Mallard movement in this town. You know. 0:04:43.680 --> 0:04:45.560 It was that kind of thing, you know, no justice, 0:04:45.600 --> 0:04:48.880 no peace. It was hey, hey, ho ho, the Angel 0:04:48.960 --> 0:04:51.560 pr staff has to go, you know that whole thing. 0:04:52.440 --> 0:04:56.440 I was denied access media access to cover the Angels 0:04:56.600 --> 0:05:00.760 last season. Oh I remember you ranting about it. Yeah, 0:05:00.800 --> 0:05:04.640 So I went on a few rants and you know, 0:05:04.680 --> 0:05:08.360 what do we want credentials? When do we want them? Now? 0:05:08.560 --> 0:05:10.039 You know that kind of thing. I all, I have 0:05:10.080 --> 0:05:13.000 all the protest chance down, I know them more. Um So, anyway, 0:05:13.560 --> 0:05:16.679 this season I was asked by the great Leader Lap 0:05:16.680 --> 0:05:19.920 who takes care of a lot of that stuff. Lee's like, hey, 0:05:20.279 --> 0:05:21.800 do you need me to take care of anything? And 0:05:22.080 --> 0:05:24.800 I said, yeah, you know, let's let's see what's up 0:05:24.839 --> 0:05:26.839 in Anaheim. You know, let's see if they turned me 0:05:26.920 --> 0:05:30.400 down two years in a row, those Hey loosum And 0:05:30.480 --> 0:05:34.680 so he sent a request in and turn out the 0:05:35.200 --> 0:05:39.039 Angel said, Okay, you're good. I think shoe Hey did it. 0:05:39.520 --> 0:05:41.840 He's definitely a man of the people. That's a thing 0:05:41.839 --> 0:05:44.320 I don't understand because last night check maybe maybe he's 0:05:44.320 --> 0:05:47.200 been traded, and it's like, maybe that's the big story today. 0:05:47.240 --> 0:05:49.920 You know that he got traded on April Fool's Day. 0:05:50.080 --> 0:05:53.159 But Otani's selling team, the argument I was told was 0:05:53.480 --> 0:05:55.880 there's no room for you because of all the Japanese media, 0:05:55.920 --> 0:05:59.320 because of Shohei Otani, and there's hardly any room in 0:05:59.360 --> 0:06:02.320 the media area for the Angels because they got rid 0:06:02.320 --> 0:06:05.159 of all that years ago. And so I was like, okay, whatever. 0:06:05.200 --> 0:06:07.279 But the main reason I wanted to go out there 0:06:07.560 --> 0:06:10.520 last year in twenty twenty two is I had known 0:06:10.680 --> 0:06:12.760 Joe Madden when he was a coach with the Angels 0:06:12.760 --> 0:06:14.679 and he was back and I wanted to. I wanted 0:06:14.680 --> 0:06:16.599 to talk to Madden and catch up with him. He's 0:06:16.720 --> 0:06:20.039 long gone, but anyway, I'm back in the good graces 0:06:20.040 --> 0:06:25.680 of the Angels. So the protest worked. It was a 0:06:25.000 --> 0:06:28.960 bloodless activity, Danny. There was no blood that was drawn. 0:06:29.760 --> 0:06:31.800 It was It was not a full insurrection or a 0:06:31.839 --> 0:06:35.239 mutiny or anything like that. And I liked it better 0:06:35.279 --> 0:06:39.039 when you talked full on shit about the Angels. Oh, 0:06:39.080 --> 0:06:41.159 I'll still talk shit about the Angels, but I will 0:06:41.200 --> 0:06:45.520 not talk shit about their pr staff at all. Wonderful people. 0:06:45.839 --> 0:06:49.360 And uh now there is one complaint I have, not 0:06:49.440 --> 0:06:52.360 only for the Angels but the Dodgers. And this will 0:06:52.440 --> 0:06:56.760 likely be seen as petty and you listing will say, oh, Mallard, 0:06:56.800 --> 0:06:58.960 you're just being a tight wide, You're being a cheapass. 0:06:59.640 --> 0:07:04.760 So the other day I had a double header. I 0:07:05.720 --> 0:07:07.559 wanted to take care of a lot of this stuff. 0:07:07.560 --> 0:07:09.160 When you're in the in the media and you're lucky 0:07:09.200 --> 0:07:12.200 enough to go to these games, you have to pick 0:07:12.280 --> 0:07:14.640 up your credentials Otherwise if you don't pick them up 0:07:14.640 --> 0:07:17.280 in advance, it becomes a big, big shit show. So 0:07:17.360 --> 0:07:18.920 I was like, all right, I'll pick these up early, 0:07:19.000 --> 0:07:21.320 and I got up I only got a few hours 0:07:21.320 --> 0:07:23.200 to sleep. I think this was on Wednesday, you know, 0:07:23.560 --> 0:07:25.600 I think it was on Tuesday. I don't even know 0:07:25.640 --> 0:07:28.280 what day it was. It's back on Tuesday. So I 0:07:28.320 --> 0:07:33.520 got up early. I drove to Dodger Stadium and the 0:07:33.600 --> 0:07:36.600 Dodgers were not playing that day, and I picked up 0:07:36.920 --> 0:07:42.520 my my past and I asked the young lady in 0:07:42.560 --> 0:07:46.120 the pr booth, I said, can you can you give me? 0:07:46.560 --> 0:07:50.000 Is there a lanyard? And she kind of rudely said no, 0:07:50.080 --> 0:07:53.360 we don't provide lane And I said, okay, Well that's 0:07:53.480 --> 0:07:56.360 that's that's odd. I've been been here for twenty five 0:07:56.480 --> 0:07:58.280 years or whatever it is. I've never had a problem 0:07:58.320 --> 0:08:01.160 getting one from the Dodge. But I guess now you 0:08:01.280 --> 0:08:03.360 times are tough in these you know, economic times we 0:08:03.400 --> 0:08:07.200 live in, and so okay. So I then get back 0:08:07.200 --> 0:08:09.760 and I'm literally at Dodger Stadium for five minutes. I 0:08:09.840 --> 0:08:13.240 pull into the parking lot in the in the lot, 0:08:13.360 --> 0:08:15.200 it's uh, I figured what a lot. It was like 0:08:15.200 --> 0:08:17.760 a lot seven or something. I pull in, I'm out done, 0:08:18.320 --> 0:08:20.200 go down to Anai. Takes me an hour and a 0:08:20.280 --> 0:08:22.880 half to get the Anaheim from Dodger Stadium rush hour 0:08:23.520 --> 0:08:25.920 I'm surprised I got there that fast. So I go, 0:08:26.040 --> 0:08:30.320 Angels are actually playing the Dodgers in an exhibition, so whatever, 0:08:30.600 --> 0:08:32.760 I go up, say, hey, I'm so and so you 0:08:32.760 --> 0:08:35.880 know I'm here to pick up my pass. Who exactly? 0:08:35.920 --> 0:08:38.320 So you're the guy that ripped the shit out of us? Yeah? No, 0:08:38.520 --> 0:08:40.600 so I think I was the guy was totally cool whatever. 0:08:40.640 --> 0:08:42.640 It gave me the pass. So I said, okay, cool, 0:08:42.640 --> 0:08:45.080 Can I get a lanyard? No, we don't provide lanyards, 0:08:45.400 --> 0:08:49.120 So neither the Dodgers or the Angels will provide a lanyard. 0:08:49.360 --> 0:08:51.920 Keep in mind, these passes you have to wear it 0:08:52.000 --> 0:08:55.520 all time because of Major League Baseball security, you need 0:08:55.559 --> 0:08:58.720 a lanyard for the passes. So like, what the fuck 0:08:58.800 --> 0:09:01.760 is that? So then I tech my friend Bob Bob 0:09:01.800 --> 0:09:04.600 Fesco in Kansas City. I said, hey, Bob, there's apparently 0:09:04.760 --> 0:09:11.400 a Major League Baseball policy to not provide lanyards. And 0:09:11.640 --> 0:09:13.720 I was like, it was just it's it's a nuisance, Dan, 0:09:13.800 --> 0:09:16.160 It's an annoyance, right, It's one of those things in life. 0:09:16.840 --> 0:09:19.319 How hard is it to get a box of lanyards? 0:09:20.280 --> 0:09:25.240 So this is an inconvenience, and you know it's I 0:09:25.360 --> 0:09:30.280 realize it's insignificant. I get that. I'm not naive too. 0:09:30.360 --> 0:09:33.079 It's it's just a minor inconvenience, one of those small 0:09:33.120 --> 0:09:36.520 annoyances of life. So I understand that part of it. 0:09:36.800 --> 0:09:39.360 So I had text my friend Bob. I go on 0:09:39.400 --> 0:09:43.440 to show every every Thursday, we yap. And so about 0:09:43.520 --> 0:09:46.319 a half hour later, my friend Bob text me back. 0:09:46.800 --> 0:09:50.240 He says, I just picked up my Royals pass. I 0:09:50.400 --> 0:09:53.840 have a lanyard. The Royals provide a lanyard. So we 0:09:53.960 --> 0:09:57.720 have determined the Royals are more of a big League 0:09:57.760 --> 0:10:00.480 team than the Dodgers of the Angels. They're more the 0:10:00.720 --> 0:10:04.600 media friendly. And that is a full endorsement of the 0:10:04.679 --> 0:10:08.640 Royals because my friend Bob did not have that annoyance. 0:10:08.640 --> 0:10:12.760 He did not have that irritation. It's like a mosquito bite. 0:10:12.760 --> 0:10:16.800 He did not have that because the Royals, who fucking suck, 0:10:17.280 --> 0:10:21.560 took care of their report. So the Royals are on 0:10:21.600 --> 0:10:25.040 the road. No, no, the Royals are having their problems 0:10:25.120 --> 0:10:28.800 on the road. Royals having their problems on the road. 0:10:28.920 --> 0:10:36.439 I'm Ben Malick, Great, what did you do? Did you 0:10:36.559 --> 0:10:40.160 go back to your old stash of passes and find 0:10:40.240 --> 0:10:43.520 some lanyards that fit. I think that's probably what you did, 0:10:43.600 --> 0:10:47.040 because cheap to order new ones off of Amazon. No. 0:10:47.320 --> 0:10:49.640 But but Bob did tell me that Amazon has a 0:10:49.640 --> 0:10:52.240 good deal on Neil lanyards that if I wanted one, 0:10:52.280 --> 0:10:54.800 But yeah, I had, I had to go back. I 0:10:54.840 --> 0:10:56.640 have a box where I'd throw a lot of these 0:10:56.679 --> 0:10:58.920 things from years past, and so I think I took 0:10:59.000 --> 0:11:02.640 a acre pass when Kobe was on Shack. We're on 0:11:02.679 --> 0:11:04.599 the team, and I took the lanyard off that and 0:11:05.240 --> 0:11:08.720 repurpose it. Anybody on the Clippers is a half of 0:11:08.720 --> 0:11:12.199 what Kobe Bryant is, which is Okay, I'm just saying, 0:11:12.640 --> 0:11:15.439 is it really that hard? You're a multi billion dollar 0:11:15.520 --> 0:11:18.760 baseball team. You're giving an item out that needs a lanyard? 0:11:18.800 --> 0:11:21.920 Am I a dick? Yeah? Let me know and email 0:11:22.000 --> 0:11:24.079 me or post something on let me know if I'm 0:11:24.640 --> 0:11:29.040 a dick in dating. Okay, So I did all that. 0:11:29.160 --> 0:11:31.600 There were no flashing lights, but there are plenty of 0:11:31.640 --> 0:11:33.640 flashing lights out there in the world. Any plenty of 0:11:33.679 --> 0:11:40.040 flashing lights. I drove up to Oxnard, California last Saturday 0:11:40.080 --> 0:11:44.280 because I wanted to surprise my wife. He's oldest kid 0:11:44.760 --> 0:11:48.080 with a new stereo in his car. I am single 0:11:48.120 --> 0:11:53.120 handedly keeping FM and AM radio alive. Ben Good, we 0:11:53.160 --> 0:11:56.440 need that. Yeah. His first car is a two thousand 0:11:56.480 --> 0:12:00.960 and nine Corolla. He just started college. The radio inside 0:12:00.960 --> 0:12:03.320 his car, though, was a piece of crap. But he 0:12:03.480 --> 0:12:06.200 was nice enough to let me borrow his car. When 0:12:06.240 --> 0:12:09.839 I was in between car dealerships just a few months back. 0:12:10.240 --> 0:12:12.680 I thought to myself, you know, a nice gesture would 0:12:12.679 --> 0:12:15.280 be to put a little sound system in his car. 0:12:16.080 --> 0:12:18.080 So I took his car. So he thinks we're just 0:12:18.200 --> 0:12:22.920 taking it to the dealership to get the tires adjusted. Instead, 0:12:23.360 --> 0:12:26.680 I made an appointment with Best Spy and I drove 0:12:26.679 --> 0:12:29.480 it up there. I got a nice Sony stereo flat 0:12:29.480 --> 0:12:33.960 screen with some nice JBL speakers in the doors. Bloom. 0:12:34.000 --> 0:12:36.400 All of a sudden, his sounds in the car are 0:12:36.400 --> 0:12:41.040 going to be legit boomy. How many miles are on me? 0:12:41.960 --> 0:12:45.480 I'm curious how many miles, oh Man on his Corolla? 0:12:45.640 --> 0:12:50.360 Two hundred and fourteen thousand miles. How many miles can 0:12:50.400 --> 0:12:56.880 those things go before they completely die? Three hundred thousand miles. Yeah, 0:12:57.040 --> 0:13:00.480 if you take care of it and you get it maintenanced. Yeah, 0:13:00.840 --> 0:13:02.959 he still has a little bit of life. Left in it. 0:13:03.559 --> 0:13:06.840 But I'm figured, even though this car probably doesn't have 0:13:07.000 --> 0:13:11.920 very many years left, why not have some nicer speakers 0:13:11.960 --> 0:13:16.439 in there and Apple car Play, which is a must nowadays. 0:13:16.440 --> 0:13:19.240 If you don't have Apple car Play, I don't even 0:13:19.240 --> 0:13:21.360 know how you're alive right now. I don't have I 0:13:21.400 --> 0:13:23.719 don't have a Well, why is it so good? Do 0:13:23.800 --> 0:13:27.360 you connect it to your iPhone and everything is out 0:13:27.360 --> 0:13:29.640 of touch of the screen right in front of you, 0:13:30.160 --> 0:13:33.920 and everything is voice controlled, And it's just it's just 0:13:34.000 --> 0:13:38.880 super convenient for your music and everything else media, especially 0:13:38.880 --> 0:13:41.280 when you listen to podcasts while you drive and things 0:13:41.320 --> 0:13:44.440 like that. So now he has that capability, which is 0:13:44.480 --> 0:13:47.079 really nice. But I had to kill some time because 0:13:47.120 --> 0:13:50.720 I dropped the car off at the Best Buy installation bay. 0:13:51.360 --> 0:13:55.200 It's an eleven fifteen am appointment and the guy tells 0:13:55.280 --> 0:13:57.640 me gonna need to come back in about two and 0:13:57.640 --> 0:14:01.320 a half three hours. So I grab my backpack and 0:14:01.400 --> 0:14:04.400 I am on foot in Oxnard. Man, I'm walking down 0:14:04.600 --> 0:14:07.360 Rose Avenue. I used to live there back in the 0:14:07.440 --> 0:14:10.079 days to program radio in that area back in the day, 0:14:10.120 --> 0:14:13.480 so I know my way around that city. Um So 0:14:13.520 --> 0:14:15.920 the first thing I do is go score some drugs. 0:14:17.120 --> 0:14:20.240 I'm kidding. So you went and worked out where the 0:14:20.320 --> 0:14:24.520 Dallas Cowboys work out. That's the training camp, home of 0:14:24.600 --> 0:14:27.880 the Dallas Cowboy. That's Jerry's world on the West coast. 0:14:28.000 --> 0:14:30.840 Come on, oh, you're not kiddy man. I there were 0:14:30.880 --> 0:14:33.360 some nights where I was inside the Spearmint Rhino with 0:14:33.520 --> 0:14:38.120 Emmett Smith, bunch of hookers and cocaine. So years later 0:14:38.240 --> 0:14:41.840 when I saw Emmett, we were like, hey, Spearmint Rhino 0:14:42.520 --> 0:14:46.360 at broadcast. Do you remember that? I do? Yeah, yeah, 0:14:46.400 --> 0:14:48.320 and that's why he was looking at me funny. When 0:14:48.320 --> 0:14:50.320 we saw him on Radio Row, He's like, I know 0:14:50.440 --> 0:14:55.160 you now, Danny Way, Just for the for the record, 0:14:55.280 --> 0:14:59.800 you were the job morant of your day. You party 0:14:59.840 --> 0:15:02.800 of like John Moran of the Memphis Christon. Yes, except 0:15:02.840 --> 0:15:05.560 it was a pellet gun I had in my waistband. Yes, 0:15:05.640 --> 0:15:08.400 and it was not fifty thousand large. It was monopoly money, 0:15:08.440 --> 0:15:10.800 but it was close and it was you had some 0:15:10.840 --> 0:15:14.760 Mickey Mouse dollars mixed in there, right. Yeah. Yeah. Now 0:15:14.760 --> 0:15:17.480 I had to figure out how to kill some time. 0:15:18.240 --> 0:15:20.840 I did have some work to do. Well, let me 0:15:20.880 --> 0:15:24.840 find a Starbucks. I can get onto their WiFi and 0:15:25.440 --> 0:15:28.320 you know, handle this business. I have left for editing. 0:15:29.080 --> 0:15:32.760 As I find the Starbucks band which is about two 0:15:33.000 --> 0:15:36.440 full blocks away from the best Buy, I noticed that 0:15:36.520 --> 0:15:40.520 there's a shiny Walmart in the corner, not just a Walmart, 0:15:40.600 --> 0:15:45.600 a shiny Walmart, and the parking lot is jam packed, 0:15:46.120 --> 0:15:48.480 and I was like, well, this must be a good Walmart. 0:15:48.560 --> 0:15:52.240 Now I don't know about you. Well I do know 0:15:52.280 --> 0:15:55.280 about you. You don't mind the lights inside Walmart, which 0:15:55.320 --> 0:15:58.000 bothered me and a lot of other people. You're like, 0:15:58.240 --> 0:16:01.160 my wife's the same way. I like a deal. I 0:16:01.440 --> 0:16:03.760 enjoy a deal, and you get the most bang for 0:16:03.800 --> 0:16:07.600 your bucket Walmart. And I also enjoy people watching, even 0:16:07.640 --> 0:16:09.880 though I'm an introvert and I don't really like talking 0:16:09.920 --> 0:16:14.440 to strangers. I like walking around and looking at the freaks. 0:16:14.520 --> 0:16:19.200 It's like I'm on Fremont Street in Vague or Atlantic City, 0:16:19.280 --> 0:16:23.680 or New Orleans or South Beach at a Walmart. It's amazing, 0:16:24.000 --> 0:16:27.440 and these people live amongst us, Danny, It's fascinating, and 0:16:27.480 --> 0:16:30.280 they likely look at me and say, look at that fatass. 0:16:30.360 --> 0:16:33.040 He lives amongst us. Also, we all have the same thought. 0:16:33.080 --> 0:16:35.400 We're like, Okay, these are these amazing Piet pull. How 0:16:35.440 --> 0:16:39.080 weird they look. It was great to see Pooh. You 0:16:39.120 --> 0:16:43.800 know there's been some weather phenomenon happening in our state 0:16:43.920 --> 0:16:47.480 over the past couple of months. This won't surprise you. 0:16:48.160 --> 0:16:54.840 The power went off. Oh yes, now waiting, it's kind 0:16:54.840 --> 0:16:58.560 of flickering, so it's the lights are flashing. I'm wondering 0:16:58.600 --> 0:17:02.120 if like a backup generation is gonna go on. Probably 0:17:02.280 --> 0:17:05.040 not the best place to be inside a ghetto fied 0:17:05.640 --> 0:17:11.640 Walmart with no lights on. That would not go so well, shit, 0:17:11.760 --> 0:17:14.480 are people gonna start looting this place? Yeah, that's what 0:17:14.600 --> 0:17:16.640 I was gonna ask you. Did people start grabbing shit? 0:17:16.880 --> 0:17:18.520 Because they do it when the lights are on. I 0:17:18.520 --> 0:17:21.160 can only imagine with the lights flickering and lights off 0:17:21.200 --> 0:17:24.479 and emergency lights, they would they would have a field day. 0:17:24.800 --> 0:17:28.600 The two minutes felt like ten minutes. Finally the lights 0:17:28.680 --> 0:17:31.159 come back on, but it's it's kind of like a 0:17:31.240 --> 0:17:34.399 dim light, so I'm guessing it was a backup generator. 0:17:35.080 --> 0:17:38.960 This is the first time I can actually spend a 0:17:39.040 --> 0:17:42.360 half hour inside a Walmart and not feel sick when 0:17:42.400 --> 0:17:45.320 I leave. Oh, come on, Danny, don't be a lightweight 0:17:45.400 --> 0:17:48.000 day and he's just lights? Who the hell cares come on. 0:17:48.960 --> 0:17:52.720 So I went to the baby section. I found an 0:17:52.760 --> 0:17:57.720 infant sized Dodger baby shirt, and that was my big 0:17:57.760 --> 0:18:01.720 purchase inside that Walmart. When I got to the front, 0:18:02.240 --> 0:18:05.280 the girl at the cash register, she said, I hope 0:18:05.320 --> 0:18:07.560 the lights come back on all the way because I 0:18:07.600 --> 0:18:09.879 think a couple of people already ran out at the 0:18:09.920 --> 0:18:15.160 front with some merchandise. Now, let the record show I'd 0:18:15.200 --> 0:18:18.840 paid for the baby Dodgers shirt that I got. But yeah, 0:18:18.880 --> 0:18:23.040 it was my probably my most favorite experience inside of 0:18:23.080 --> 0:18:26.000 Walmart so far in my life. Now, how much baby 0:18:26.080 --> 0:18:29.000 stuff have you purchased, Danny, Because you've got for those. 0:18:29.800 --> 0:18:31.760 I get email from people, give me an update. We're 0:18:31.760 --> 0:18:34.760 not get an update on the little Danny j We're 0:18:34.800 --> 0:18:38.080 not getting update on that. She is now twenty two 0:18:38.119 --> 0:18:42.560 weeks pregnant, so we're over the halfway mark. Okay, the 0:18:42.640 --> 0:18:46.920 baby is due at the very end of July, coming up. 0:18:47.040 --> 0:18:49.720 That's acts. It seems like far away, but it'll be 0:18:49.760 --> 0:18:52.680 here before you know it. Yeah, they always say think 0:18:52.720 --> 0:18:56.239 ahead when you buy the clothes because everybody gives you 0:18:56.280 --> 0:18:58.680 like the newborn clothes, the newborn clothes, but the baby 0:18:58.720 --> 0:19:02.040 grows out of those imediately, so you only need a 0:19:02.040 --> 0:19:05.040 few of those outfits. So everything I've been buying right 0:19:05.080 --> 0:19:09.280 now are outfits that are like eighteen months and older. Okay, 0:19:10.320 --> 0:19:13.520 how long do they stay in those? Untill about kindergarten? 0:19:15.600 --> 0:19:20.919 Baby Huey pret modern pregnancy, like there were times like 0:19:20.960 --> 0:19:23.920 women were pregnant sometimes and we still see these stories 0:19:23.920 --> 0:19:26.320 like they don't even know they're pregnant then like the 0:19:26.400 --> 0:19:28.480 kid will end up all right. I don't see how 0:19:28.520 --> 0:19:33.640 that is even possible not know that there's something swimming 0:19:33.680 --> 0:19:38.159 around inside your stomach, like the baby kicks and moves 0:19:38.200 --> 0:19:43.520 all the time. You'd have to be a retard. That 0:19:44.640 --> 0:19:47.880 was Danny g Radio. That was not me. I was daying. Okay, 0:19:47.960 --> 0:19:49.800 you'd have to, let me rephrase, You'd have to be 0:19:49.920 --> 0:19:53.480 very special to not know that there's something inside of 0:19:53.520 --> 0:19:57.000 you growing. Yeah, I would tend to agree with you. 0:19:57.200 --> 0:20:00.000 And maybe I'm wrong on this, But as I understand 0:20:00.040 --> 0:20:03.719 and my recollection Danny, is that many of the people, 0:20:03.880 --> 0:20:07.119 the ladies that have had this happen to them, let's 0:20:07.119 --> 0:20:10.359 just say they're a little disheveled. They don't necessarily take 0:20:10.400 --> 0:20:13.680 care of themselves, and they they've enjoyed a few hearty 0:20:13.760 --> 0:20:16.800 meals over the years. Okay, what do they think that 0:20:16.800 --> 0:20:21.280 that's gas inside their stomachs moving around and kicking them? Oh, 0:20:21.320 --> 0:20:25.400 I need some pepto. I just got kicked. They must 0:20:25.520 --> 0:20:29.960 have horrendous gas before they got pregnant. That's the only 0:20:30.520 --> 0:20:34.720 logical conclusion one could make that that's that's what happened. 0:20:35.600 --> 0:20:39.000 So yeah, because now we're at the stage where we 0:20:39.080 --> 0:20:43.080 can finally feel the baby's kick from the outside. So 0:20:43.119 --> 0:20:47.800 if I touch your stomach, I can feel the baby kick. Tibo, 0:20:48.240 --> 0:20:50.760 slap me around a little bit. You don't know you're 0:20:50.760 --> 0:20:53.880 getting kicked by a little baby inside of you. Yeah, 0:20:53.920 --> 0:20:57.080 that's pretty wild. I agree with you, all right. At 0:20:57.119 --> 0:20:59.320 turning the page show we got a little time less, 0:20:59.320 --> 0:21:00.440 so we got a lot to get to it a 0:21:00.480 --> 0:21:03.040 little time, which is amazing. I always think, oh, man, 0:21:03.080 --> 0:21:05.120 we're not gonna have enough stuff for the podcast, Danny, 0:21:05.160 --> 0:21:06.840 and then we always end up having too much stuff. 0:21:06.920 --> 0:21:08.840 Why is that, Danny? Why can't we not just have 0:21:09.000 --> 0:21:11.920 just enough stuff? Because one of the most interesting men 0:21:12.000 --> 0:21:17.080 in the world. Yeah, sure, all right, So the backscratcher, 0:21:17.920 --> 0:21:20.840 the backscratcher. You scratch our back, we scratch your back. 0:21:21.160 --> 0:21:24.520 We are happy to report Danny this week I hope 0:21:24.560 --> 0:21:27.159 you're ready. Get your nee pads ready, Danny, Are you ready? 0:21:27.680 --> 0:21:32.840 I'm ready. We are going to be scratching. No one's back, 0:21:33.480 --> 0:21:38.159 no one. We pitched a shutout, a perfect game, none, 0:21:38.600 --> 0:21:42.040 just in time for baseball season. Yeah. We are still 0:21:42.080 --> 0:21:47.480 eleven ratings away, eleven from a new round number that 0:21:47.680 --> 0:21:50.520 we've gotten a lot over the years, not as many 0:21:50.520 --> 0:21:52.119 as a lot of other podcasts, but we're only a 0:21:52.160 --> 0:21:58.480 weekend podcast, eleven away from four hundred. We can do it. 0:21:58.720 --> 0:22:01.920 We can do it. Pick it up. We need to 0:22:02.119 --> 0:22:05.200 help on this. The Apple podcast pages in the description, 0:22:05.320 --> 0:22:10.040 Danny and also Scott Shapiro, Don Martin give us a 0:22:10.080 --> 0:22:15.680 gold watch for four hundred. Nice, Yeah makes gold watches. 0:22:17.920 --> 0:22:20.320 Rob Parker told me that a gold watch unless he 0:22:20.359 --> 0:22:24.040 did Unless I made that up. Pop goes the culture, 0:22:24.680 --> 0:22:43.280 and that means ohio owoo, all right, thank you, ohio 0:22:43.280 --> 0:22:49.679 ow And here some crazy pop culture related stories. Remember 0:22:49.680 --> 0:22:53.679 that con artist that went viral because of a couple 0:22:53.720 --> 0:22:58.080 of documentaries, The Fire Festival, Billie McFarlane, Oh yeah, I 0:22:58.200 --> 0:23:01.800 saw that. Yeah, The Fire Festival was a great documentary. 0:23:01.840 --> 0:23:06.760 So Billy McFarland went to jail and now he is 0:23:06.880 --> 0:23:12.800 back for nearly nineteen thousand dollars. Billy McFarlane is going 0:23:13.040 --> 0:23:19.119 to spill the tea in Germany. McFarland known as a 0:23:19.240 --> 0:23:24.720 con man who was able to swindle more than twenty 0:23:24.760 --> 0:23:28.439 six million dollars before he was even thirty years old, 0:23:29.440 --> 0:23:32.240 and he's going to be hanging out here. In the 0:23:32.280 --> 0:23:34.800 month of April, he'll be making an appearance at something 0:23:34.840 --> 0:23:40.879 called the Entrepreneur University Founder's Summit in Germany, and he 0:23:40.960 --> 0:23:47.159 intends to share his side of the fiasco and what 0:23:47.359 --> 0:23:53.520 happened there. He owes twenty six million dollars. You imagined 0:23:53.560 --> 0:23:57.320 owing twenty six million dollars. Man, I'm stressed out and 0:23:57.400 --> 0:24:00.159 I only owe a couple of thousand dollars to credit cards. 0:24:00.760 --> 0:24:06.520 It's ridiculous. And the way this works, he's spilling his 0:24:06.600 --> 0:24:12.560 guts and all that. And he said the hotel, airfare 0:24:12.560 --> 0:24:17.880 and taxes will be paid. All that will be will 0:24:17.960 --> 0:24:22.000 be taken care of. For McFarlane, he'll end up out 0:24:22.000 --> 0:24:24.520 of the nineteen thousand, he'll end up keeping two thousand, 0:24:24.680 --> 0:24:30.200