WEBVTT - The Fifth Hour Special: Maller Meet & Greet Postgame 0:00:00.680 --> 0:00:05.480 Kaboom. If you thought four hours a day, minutes a 0:00:05.480 --> 0:00:09.240 week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants of 0:00:09.280 --> 0:00:12.920 the old republic, a sole fashion of fairness. He treats 0:00:12.920 --> 0:00:15.800 crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the rich 0:00:15.840 --> 0:00:20.200 pill poppers in the penthouse. The Clearinghouse of hot takes 0:00:20.280 --> 0:00:24.080 break free for something special. The Fifth Hour with Ben 0:00:24.120 --> 0:00:33.199 Maller starts right now in the air everywhere, and you 0:00:33.320 --> 0:00:37.680 have locked in on a special edition of The Fifth 0:00:37.720 --> 0:00:42.880 Hour with Ben Maller and Danny G. Radio. And unlike 0:00:43.320 --> 0:00:46.720 the other Friday pot becaun't. We do this thing every week, 0:00:46.760 --> 0:00:49.760 and normally we have somebody on here, a pre eminent 0:00:49.880 --> 0:00:51.600 name in the world of sports, or somebody that I 0:00:51.680 --> 0:00:54.880 just know from the radio world, and we commits and 0:00:54.920 --> 0:00:59.400 we we schmooze and that whole thing. But we thought 0:00:59.640 --> 0:01:05.760 this being a special Friday, we must look back at 0:01:05.760 --> 0:01:09.360 an out of sight night, one of the great nights 0:01:09.520 --> 0:01:12.400 of the year, the Mallard Meet and greets. So Danny G. 0:01:13.200 --> 0:01:18.360 I consider this the post game show for those that 0:01:18.480 --> 0:01:22.280 were there and those that were unable to intend because 0:01:22.280 --> 0:01:24.840 of their schedules and whatnot, or they lived too far away. 0:01:25.400 --> 0:01:30.039 The opportunity to look back at what was a great night, 0:01:30.400 --> 0:01:33.440 and there's so many things that we have not been 0:01:33.440 --> 0:01:36.119 able to get into. I talked about it with Eddie 0:01:36.120 --> 0:01:39.480 a little bit on the radio on Sunday night in 0:01:39.480 --> 0:01:42.120 the Monday morning, but we left a lot of stuff 0:01:42.160 --> 0:01:43.840 out because we had to get to the show. And 0:01:44.319 --> 0:01:47.120 it was just a phenomenal night and a night that 0:01:47.200 --> 0:01:49.560 I will remember for a long time. And I know 0:01:49.640 --> 0:01:52.440 Danny you had, you had an interesting day yourself getting 0:01:52.440 --> 0:01:55.160 there and all that, and just everything that happened. So 0:01:55.680 --> 0:02:00.680 this is a chance to look back, and it's gonna 0:02:00.680 --> 0:02:03.000 get into everything that happened as much as we can. 0:02:03.840 --> 0:02:06.680 And there's a few highlights of things that will focus 0:02:06.720 --> 0:02:12.000 on Stranger Danger, uh, the the the dreaded cartoon bubble, 0:02:12.160 --> 0:02:14.640 the family affair and all that. But I thought we 0:02:14.680 --> 0:02:17.000 would begin first of all, Danny was so just some 0:02:17.160 --> 0:02:22.400 general thoughts at this hooting Nanny that took place. I 0:02:22.440 --> 0:02:25.000 was very happy with the turnout. Not everyone who said 0:02:25.000 --> 0:02:28.600 they were gonna be there showed up, but there were 0:02:28.600 --> 0:02:30.720 people that said they weren't gonna or people that we 0:02:30.760 --> 0:02:32.440 didn't even know we're gonna be there that showed up. 0:02:32.480 --> 0:02:35.480 So I thought it was great, and people came from 0:02:35.520 --> 0:02:38.240 near and far, and it was just it was a 0:02:38.240 --> 0:02:41.639 good night. It was a fun night, and I walked in. 0:02:42.000 --> 0:02:45.040 Some crazy stuff happened right away when I got there, 0:02:45.120 --> 0:02:49.160 right at six o'clock. But uh, Danny, you had quite 0:02:49.280 --> 0:02:55.600 the journey. You could have flown, I believe, the Kansas 0:02:55.680 --> 0:02:58.720 City and you would have been able to make it 0:02:58.800 --> 0:03:02.080 wheels up wheels own time in the year by the 0:03:02.120 --> 0:03:05.280 time you got to the event. Is that accurate. That's 0:03:05.280 --> 0:03:09.320 one crazy part about living in southern California. You know, 0:03:09.360 --> 0:03:11.480 if we lived in another state and we were on 0:03:11.520 --> 0:03:14.160 the road for that many hours, we would have crossed 0:03:14.160 --> 0:03:17.839 through like three different states. But here you just get 0:03:17.919 --> 0:03:21.280 to the next county in three hours. I started my 0:03:21.360 --> 0:03:24.560 journey on the border of Ventura County in l A County, 0:03:24.800 --> 0:03:27.280 drove through l A County, which was a mission and 0:03:27.320 --> 0:03:31.280 a half. I left my house right before five pm, 0:03:31.639 --> 0:03:34.880 because obviously I was at the school all day, got home, 0:03:34.960 --> 0:03:38.760 showered really quick, jumped in the car, got on the freeway. 0:03:38.800 --> 0:03:41.720 I knew I was entering Karma Gedton, but it was 0:03:41.760 --> 0:03:45.080 well worth the drive. Ben. It took me two hours 0:03:45.280 --> 0:03:50.040 and fifty four minutes to get there. Oh no, oh 0:03:50.080 --> 0:03:51.680 wait too, I did. I thought it was like two 0:03:51.720 --> 0:03:54.160 and a half So two hours and fifty four minutes 0:03:54.760 --> 0:03:57.840 you got in the car. I assume you use one 0:03:57.840 --> 0:04:01.960 of the mapping apps, whether it's Maps or or Ways. 0:04:02.120 --> 0:04:04.000 Did you use one of those or did you you did? 0:04:04.120 --> 0:04:06.800 I used the Ways app? And when you got in 0:04:06.880 --> 0:04:09.119 the car. How long did it say it would take? Initially? 0:04:09.160 --> 0:04:13.600 What was it? Was it small? Was it insignificant? Initially 0:04:13.640 --> 0:04:17.599 had said I would arrive there at seven thirty four pm, 0:04:17.640 --> 0:04:21.160 and I was like, that'll be right before halftime. But 0:04:21.360 --> 0:04:24.760 then when I was in that slow crawl right around 0:04:24.760 --> 0:04:28.120 the Burbank area which is soon going to be our 0:04:28.160 --> 0:04:32.400 home allegedly, Yeah, then the ways app started ticking up. 0:04:32.480 --> 0:04:36.640 It went from seven thirty four to seven forty four. 0:04:37.240 --> 0:04:40.320 Then it said seven forty eight or something like that. 0:04:40.400 --> 0:04:42.800 And that's when you called me. You called me when 0:04:42.800 --> 0:04:45.359 I was like eight miles away. I was just in 0:04:45.440 --> 0:04:48.479 bumper to bumper, even though it said eight miles away. 0:04:48.520 --> 0:04:50.440 I was like, come on, man, just get me off 0:04:50.480 --> 0:04:53.960 this freeway. Already we were worried about you because some 0:04:54.040 --> 0:04:56.080 of the some of the fans were like, where's Danny 0:04:56.120 --> 0:04:57.960 g you know, Danny g said he was gonna be here, 0:04:57.960 --> 0:04:59.120 and I was like, well, yeah, he did. I don't 0:04:59.120 --> 0:05:01.880 know what happened. I gave you a call to see 0:05:01.960 --> 0:05:03.760 what was going on, and then you you gave me 0:05:03.800 --> 0:05:06.479 the whole, the whole lap there what was happening. And 0:05:06.480 --> 0:05:08.760 I was like, wow, that's wild man. I mean it 0:05:09.360 --> 0:05:11.800 took me a little bit. I mean I don't. I 0:05:11.839 --> 0:05:14.920 don't live right near that location. Eddie made it seem 0:05:14.960 --> 0:05:17.480 like I lived right near there. I don't. But I 0:05:17.520 --> 0:05:19.920 did not have to travel as far as you had 0:05:19.960 --> 0:05:22.640 to travel, because you spent three hours in the car 0:05:22.800 --> 0:05:25.599 to go to the events, So you could have a 0:05:25.720 --> 0:05:29.680 three hour of flight would have put you in Dallas. 0:05:30.520 --> 0:05:34.640 You could have gotten to Dallas if you loan Kansas City. 0:05:35.040 --> 0:05:39.000 That's crazy, that's an insane And so then I when 0:05:39.360 --> 0:05:42.599 somebody had said you were there, Danny, and I didn't 0:05:42.680 --> 0:05:45.799 see you, and then I saw you at the bar, 0:05:47.480 --> 0:05:49.240 so I was like, I went up to you at 0:05:49.279 --> 0:05:51.560 the bar and I was hey, Danny, Jay, I was like, 0:05:51.640 --> 0:05:53.320 what are you doing over me? I didn't. I didn't 0:05:53.360 --> 0:05:56.000 know what had gone on. I and so you would 0:05:56.520 --> 0:05:58.320 at that point because you had shown up and then 0:05:58.320 --> 0:06:01.039 you were at the bar having a drink, and yeah, 0:06:01.080 --> 0:06:03.760 you know, I definitely needed a drink after all that traffic. 0:06:04.240 --> 0:06:07.720 But I entered the party from the side. I was 0:06:07.800 --> 0:06:11.200 being an undercover agent checking everything out. A couple of 0:06:11.200 --> 0:06:14.280 listeners came up to me right away, and we're talking 0:06:14.320 --> 0:06:17.200 to me about this very podcast, and so we got 0:06:17.200 --> 0:06:20.680 into this big conversation about the fifth hour, and the 0:06:20.800 --> 0:06:23.480 two really nice listeners were talking to me about how 0:06:23.920 --> 0:06:28.359 this podcast is a big deal for their listening pleasure 0:06:28.440 --> 0:06:31.440 every week, and they were talking about drops and different 0:06:31.520 --> 0:06:34.920 stories that we've told, and it was a really cool conversation. 0:06:35.400 --> 0:06:37.120 But then I asked him. I said, where's the bar 0:06:37.200 --> 0:06:39.719 at and they said, oh, over by the Chargers fans. 0:06:40.200 --> 0:06:42.080 They pointed me in that direction. I said, here's what 0:06:42.080 --> 0:06:43.919 I'm gonna do. I'm gonna get a quick drink and 0:06:43.920 --> 0:06:46.240 then I'm gonna come back here. And as I was 0:06:46.360 --> 0:06:50.440 ordering the drink, there were listeners at the Bard America, 0:06:51.320 --> 0:06:53.360 and so I was talking to listeners at the bar, 0:06:53.440 --> 0:06:55.640 and then that's when you came over. And the best 0:06:55.680 --> 0:06:58.520 part Ben when you grabbed me and took me over 0:06:58.600 --> 0:07:01.880 back over to the kids together there. I took the bill. 0:07:01.960 --> 0:07:04.640 I was supposed to be signing for the bartender, and 0:07:04.680 --> 0:07:09.920 I stuck it in my pocket. Oh oh. The bartender 0:07:10.000 --> 0:07:12.360 came over and he was like, hey, uh, I know 0:07:12.440 --> 0:07:14.880 you left abruptly. It wasn't your fault. He's like, but 0:07:14.920 --> 0:07:18.240 I think you took the copy of the bill. Yeah, 0:07:18.280 --> 0:07:20.560 and I was like, oh my lad you drank and 0:07:20.640 --> 0:07:23.480 ditch do you know? No, no, no, I told him 0:07:23.520 --> 0:07:26.440 what I was doing there and made quick small talk 0:07:26.480 --> 0:07:28.880 with him when I ordered the drink. So it's not 0:07:28.920 --> 0:07:31.440 like I was trying to ditch the guy. I just 0:07:31.800 --> 0:07:34.280 forgot all about it because you're like, hey, get over here, 0:07:34.600 --> 0:07:36.840 and so I shoved it in my pocket before I 0:07:36.880 --> 0:07:40.320 signed the bill for the guy. I resigned the check 0:07:40.840 --> 0:07:43.760 and he walked away. But way one of the listeners like, oh, 0:07:43.800 --> 0:07:49.960 you were trying to ditch the bartender Like no, no, no, no, no, 0:07:50.120 --> 0:07:53.560 bet got from the bar and so yeah. Best part 0:07:53.600 --> 0:07:56.440 about that drive though, when Eddie found out why it 0:07:56.480 --> 0:07:58.920 took so long. He was like, Hey, do me a favor. 0:07:59.280 --> 0:08:02.040 Don't tell or Roberto how long it took you to 0:08:02.080 --> 0:08:04.280 get here, because I don't want them to be able 0:08:04.280 --> 0:08:08.520 to use that as ammunition. Oh yeah, well, listen that 0:08:08.680 --> 0:08:11.440 those guys. They had the opportunity. We invited Coop and 0:08:11.560 --> 0:08:13.840 Roberto to be there, and it was a lot of 0:08:13.880 --> 0:08:16.920 a lot of guys were like, where's Roberto, where's getting Coop? 0:08:16.960 --> 0:08:22.400 And I'm like, well, hey, yeah, And for whatever reason, 0:08:22.440 --> 0:08:24.880 it wasn't important for them to be there, and they didn't. 0:08:25.000 --> 0:08:27.360 They didn't put a lot of emphasis on it. I mean, 0:08:27.400 --> 0:08:30.040 that's their decision, and I wish they would have done, 0:08:30.040 --> 0:08:31.680 but you know, it would have gone, but we don't 0:08:31.720 --> 0:08:35.080 get paid, and with the price of gas, ended up 0:08:35.080 --> 0:08:37.520 costing all of us a little bit of money. But 0:08:37.559 --> 0:08:39.640 it was worth it for me and I was when 0:08:39.679 --> 0:08:42.040 I was a little kid, Mary I watched Mary Poppas 0:08:42.240 --> 0:08:45.400 and she would say, super califragilistic, XBLI does it was 0:08:45.440 --> 0:08:47.960 that kind of good. It was. It was just great 0:08:48.360 --> 0:08:50.200 and but no, it was not all great day. So 0:08:50.400 --> 0:08:53.679 I told I told this story a little bit. I 0:08:53.720 --> 0:08:58.080 believe it was the English playwright and poet William Congreve 0:08:58.760 --> 0:09:01.720 who is credited with the line hell hath no fury 0:09:01.800 --> 0:09:05.720 like a woman scorned. And so that was my first 0:09:05.840 --> 0:09:11.800 experience at this sublime Mallard meet and greet. It was 0:09:12.480 --> 0:09:16.600 wonderful life energy. People were enthusiastic big fans of the show. 0:09:16.640 --> 0:09:19.920 Was a great mix people from all different backgrounds. It 0:09:19.960 --> 0:09:22.360 was a melting pot, right, I was wonderful. So I 0:09:22.480 --> 0:09:26.600 walk in right at six o'clock. I'm on time, Mallard 0:09:26.640 --> 0:09:29.800 by the clock for the clock, plosibly all about the clock, 0:09:31.960 --> 0:09:37.160 and within thirty seconds, hand to God. Within thirty seconds 0:09:37.160 --> 0:09:41.600 of my arrival, I am in the middle of stranger danger. 0:09:41.679 --> 0:09:46.400 I have an I rate angry woman who's little past 0:09:46.480 --> 0:09:51.520 middle age, who starts reading me the riot act. I. 0:09:52.040 --> 0:09:57.000 Her name is Dotty, which is the perfect name, right, Dotty, 0:09:57.200 --> 0:10:02.680 And she's like a fire breathing dragon. Okay, I believe 0:10:02.760 --> 0:10:06.000 the term is hen pecked, uh, Danny, I think that's 0:10:06.080 --> 0:10:08.480 the term. Just google it if you've never heard the term. 0:10:08.640 --> 0:10:10.760 But so she comes up to me and she tells 0:10:10.840 --> 0:10:14.679 me that she does not like who. He doesn't like me, 0:10:14.920 --> 0:10:18.440 doesn't like the show because of me. She's calling me 0:10:18.520 --> 0:10:23.840 like a bully, right, She's really upset, and she she's 0:10:23.880 --> 0:10:30.360 making me out to be some kind of abrasive ruler, tyrant, 0:10:30.960 --> 0:10:35.920 despotic uh, like I've got the hammer and sickle from 0:10:35.960 --> 0:10:41.360 the old Communist party there in Russia. Like she's really angry, like, 0:10:41.800 --> 0:10:43.840 and I thought it was an act At first. I 0:10:43.880 --> 0:10:46.880 was like, Okay, what does she think, I'm Attila the 0:10:46.960 --> 0:10:49.360 Hunt or something like that show. I thought she was kidding, 0:10:49.400 --> 0:10:53.240 but no, she wasn't kidding, Like she really didn't like. 0:10:53.240 --> 0:10:57.440 I don't recall ever having that happened. I've done a 0:10:57.440 --> 0:10:59.400 lot of these over the years all over the country, 0:11:00.240 --> 0:11:02.160 and you'd think something like that would happen in a 0:11:02.160 --> 0:11:04.360 place like Boston, where people are known to be kind 0:11:04.360 --> 0:11:09.720 of surly, and no, it was in southern California where 0:11:09.760 --> 0:11:15.840 this woman comes up very upset, ruthless and angry and 0:11:15.880 --> 0:11:18.760 you're mean to Eddie and Brian Finlay and she's going 0:11:18.800 --> 0:11:23.560 on and that would be like being invited to a 0:11:23.679 --> 0:11:27.880 Lakers meet and greet and attacking Lebron James right when 0:11:27.880 --> 0:11:33.360 he enters the building, the leader of the crew. There's 0:11:33.360 --> 0:11:35.920 a little lot, so she's calling me all these names. 0:11:35.920 --> 0:11:38.080 Say why she hated you so much? Well, yeah, she 0:11:38.160 --> 0:11:41.400 explained it was because I do not say nice things 0:11:41.440 --> 0:11:44.640 to about Brian Finley and Eddie that I goof on Finley. 0:11:44.679 --> 0:11:47.760 I call him numb nuts, and I occasionally will pick 0:11:47.880 --> 0:11:52.080 on Eddie as I believe the term is stickola. My 0:11:52.160 --> 0:11:54.839 grandfather would say stickla on the show we bust each 0:11:54.880 --> 0:11:59.680 other's balls. Lady, she was a finly fanatic. Yeah, apparently 0:11:59.679 --> 0:12:02.400 we found the one Brian Finley fan. Might be related 0:12:02.440 --> 0:12:04.320 to Brian. I don't know. Maybe it was an aunt, 0:12:04.400 --> 0:12:07.600 maybe it was his mom. I have no idea. Daddy, 0:12:07.720 --> 0:12:10.600 did you call Brian to let him know you located her? Well, 0:12:10.640 --> 0:12:13.400 I'm glad you brought that up, because this woman is 0:12:13.440 --> 0:12:16.840 hopping match. She's spitting fire right, very angry. I'm trying 0:12:16.840 --> 0:12:18.960 to calm her down, you know, I'm I'm using my 0:12:19.040 --> 0:12:21.840 late night DJ voice trying to calm her down. Everything's okay, 0:12:21.880 --> 0:12:23.680 it's just a radio show, life short. What are you 0:12:23.720 --> 0:12:26.640 doing having I'm using all that right, I'm like, why 0:12:26.640 --> 0:12:28.560 did you show up? You hate the show? I don't understand. 0:12:28.640 --> 0:12:30.600 And so then she explains to me that her brother, 0:12:31.480 --> 0:12:32.959 I don't know if it's younger or old, he was 0:12:33.040 --> 0:12:35.640 there and he's a fan of the ship. So I 0:12:35.679 --> 0:12:38.760 guess they listened together and she hates the show, he 0:12:38.880 --> 0:12:42.480 likes the show. And then she hands me this card 0:12:42.640 --> 0:12:44.240 and she tells me not to read it till I 0:12:44.360 --> 0:12:47.280 leave the event. So I put this card in my 0:12:47.360 --> 0:12:50.439 back pocket. So I got that. I'm walking around. It's 0:12:50.480 --> 0:12:54.920 it's crazy, it's and of the people that show up 0:12:54.960 --> 0:12:59.800 to these things are are great and super fans and 0:12:59.840 --> 0:13:02.440 all that general's in the mallard militian. There's always that 0:13:02.480 --> 0:13:05.920 one percent who complete asshole, and uh, it just happened. 0:13:06.320 --> 0:13:08.800 It was within the margin of error. So so anyway, 0:13:08.840 --> 0:13:12.400 I pulled out the old cell phone and I dialed 0:13:12.520 --> 0:13:20.800 up Brian Finley and ring ring, ring ring. Uh nothing. 0:13:20.920 --> 0:13:25.560 He didn't answer, which is fine. So then it goes 0:13:25.600 --> 0:13:30.520 to voicemail. I never leave, yeah, I never leave a voicemail. 0:13:31.520 --> 0:13:33.480 But I was like, all right, whatever, this woman's pain 0:13:33.520 --> 0:13:36.400 in the ass. So I handed my phone to Dottie 0:13:37.040 --> 0:13:40.360 and I said, here's Brian's voicemail. You can send send 0:13:40.440 --> 0:13:42.520 him a message. So she left some I don't know 0:13:42.520 --> 0:13:45.400 where she left, but she left some message on the phone. 0:13:46.160 --> 0:13:50.680 Daddy not daddy, dotty. Yeah, yeah, yeah, Dottie, and she 0:13:50.800 --> 0:13:52.839 handed the phone back to me, which is good. I 0:13:52.880 --> 0:13:56.360 thought she might steal my phone and run away. But 0:13:56.480 --> 0:13:58.360 the good news is Danny by the end of the night, 0:13:58.400 --> 0:14:00.640 before she left, she left before the event was over. 0:14:01.720 --> 0:14:06.120 She said that at least I'm nicer in person then 0:14:06.160 --> 0:14:08.920 I am on the radio. That's a backhanded compliment if 0:14:08.960 --> 0:14:11.840 I've ever heard one. It's an old, left handed compliment 0:14:11.880 --> 0:14:18.360 from Dottie. So that was my run in with Dottie. 0:14:19.480 --> 0:14:21.800 What was the card? Was it a Starbucks gift card 0:14:21.840 --> 0:14:24.160 in there for you? Well, that's the funny thing, Danny. 0:14:24.200 --> 0:14:27.560 So I got home, I completely forgot about the card, 0:14:28.120 --> 0:14:30.600 you know, out of sight, out of mind. I got 0:14:30.600 --> 0:14:32.600 in the car, said by to everybody, got in the car, 0:14:32.640 --> 0:14:36.840 set by Eddie, and then I'm driving back and I 0:14:36.880 --> 0:14:41.040 did not get to eat at this event because I 0:14:41.040 --> 0:14:44.520 I felt guilty that people had come from so far away. 0:14:45.000 --> 0:14:46.800 That's actually the other part of story. So in my 0:14:46.920 --> 0:14:50.280 in my head that you kind of play things out. 0:14:50.320 --> 0:14:53.760 You know, we all have this soundtrack that is like 0:14:53.840 --> 0:14:56.520 the voice that tells you that that kind of narrates 0:14:56.520 --> 0:14:58.480 our lives. I assume you have that too, Danny. I 0:14:58.520 --> 0:15:00.880 think everyone kind of has that. Like you're you're like, Okay, 0:15:00.880 --> 0:15:02.440 here's what I'm gonna do, Here's what's going on. You're 0:15:02.440 --> 0:15:05.600 thinking in your head. Yeah, mine's voiced by Merlin Olsen. 0:15:06.600 --> 0:15:08.920 Mine's voiced by the guy from the Wonder Years. Remember 0:15:08.960 --> 0:15:11.680 that show back, and so I was, I was, it 0:15:11.760 --> 0:15:14.640 was all mapped out. I was gonna futs around with 0:15:14.680 --> 0:15:18.360 the listeners, but at some point would be halftime, and 0:15:18.400 --> 0:15:21.720 I was gonna take a break. In fact, uh supermarket, 0:15:21.800 --> 0:15:24.640 Steve and his lovely wife had they had made She 0:15:24.680 --> 0:15:28.000 had made some tar tiram sioux, and I said, she 0:15:28.160 --> 0:15:29.800 gave me one to eat, and I was like, oh, 0:15:29.960 --> 0:15:32.560 it's not quite the time to eat. It's not my time. 0:15:32.600 --> 0:15:35.640 I've got I'm fasting, which I was. So I was, okay, 0:15:35.680 --> 0:15:38.480 I'll eat and I was gonna take a break, and 0:15:38.560 --> 0:15:43.200 I was gonna have cheeseburger in Paradise with tater tots. 0:15:43.440 --> 0:15:45.560 I was looking at the menu, the tater tots, pretzels, 0:15:46.120 --> 0:15:49.240 the whole thing, and in the cartoon bubble in my head, 0:15:50.120 --> 0:15:54.320 I had a feast fit for a king. But what 0:15:54.560 --> 0:15:56.760 ended up happening. I was so worried about being a 0:15:56.880 --> 0:16:00.960 schmuck and not saying load of people and I know 0:16:01.080 --> 0:16:03.000 people couldn't stay for the whole thing. They were only 0:16:03.040 --> 0:16:04.720 there for a little bit. And this was, you know, 0:16:05.360 --> 0:16:07.200 this whole mock up I had going to my head, 0:16:07.240 --> 0:16:10.880 and so I didn't want to leave anyone without getting 0:16:10.960 --> 0:16:12.880 the proper amount of time if they really wanted to 0:16:12.920 --> 0:16:14.800 spend time with me. I was honored that they would 0:16:14.880 --> 0:16:17.560 come out of their way and and pause their lives 0:16:17.640 --> 0:16:18.960 to hang out with us, and so I wanted to 0:16:19.000 --> 0:16:21.400 spend time with them, and so I ended up bouncing around. 0:16:22.120 --> 0:16:25.160 So I'm bouncing all over the place, and I'm shaking 0:16:25.200 --> 0:16:26.840 a lot of hands, I'm kissing a lot of babies, 0:16:26.880 --> 0:16:29.120 taking a lot of photos. I even signed a few autographs, 0:16:29.160 --> 0:16:32.080 which was cool, and I had a blast a couple 0:16:32.120 --> 0:16:34.920 of our buddies from Reno. One of the guys, I 0:16:34.920 --> 0:16:37.240 think they both work at the prison, which is far 0:16:37.320 --> 0:16:39.800 outside Reno, but they're big fans of the show, and 0:16:40.320 --> 0:16:42.680 they had got clipper hats. So I saw an autograph 0:16:42.720 --> 0:16:44.840 these really nice clipper hats, which was neat, and a 0:16:44.920 --> 0:16:48.240 few other things. So anyway, I think when you thought 0:16:48.280 --> 0:16:50.480 the value of a Clippers had couldn't go any lower, 0:16:50.680 --> 0:16:54.920 exactly right. It's what is still wrong with the Clippers. 0:16:55.640 --> 0:16:58.480 A personalized autograph. I wasn't even personalized. I just saw 0:16:58.560 --> 0:17:01.480 my name there because I didn't want to f up 0:17:01.520 --> 0:17:04.720 the hat anymore by personalizing it. But it was it 0:17:04.840 --> 0:17:06.760 was nice that they wanted me to do that whatever. 0:17:06.880 --> 0:17:10.280 So so then I got out of there, uh and 0:17:10.520 --> 0:17:14.639 ended up leaving the card that Dotty the angry woman 0:17:15.480 --> 0:17:20.439 had given me. I was. I went home. I then 0:17:20.520 --> 0:17:23.159 had to get food because I hadn't eaten, and so 0:17:23.280 --> 0:17:25.600 I went out with with the wife with the family. 0:17:25.680 --> 0:17:27.920 We went out by the food of food. And then 0:17:29.160 --> 0:17:31.760 the next morning I forgot about the card again, and 0:17:31.840 --> 0:17:34.040 then on my way to work on Sunday night, I 0:17:34.119 --> 0:17:37.960 was like, wait a minute, what happened to the card? 0:17:39.240 --> 0:17:41.320 And I don't know what happened to it. I think 0:17:41.359 --> 0:17:43.280 I left it in the back pocket of my pants 0:17:44.400 --> 0:17:47.119 and either it got thrown out because it went in 0:17:47.200 --> 0:17:50.120 the washing machine. I don't know. So we will never 0:17:50.280 --> 0:17:54.480 know what kind of angry words were on Dotty's card 0:17:54.600 --> 0:17:57.280 that she put there. It could have been a peace offering, 0:17:57.400 --> 0:18:02.120 though ben could have been some amazing gift certificate in there. Yeah, 0:18:02.200 --> 0:18:03.960 that's what I was concerned about. I was concerned that 0:18:04.080 --> 0:18:07.240 Dotty possibly put like a thousand dollars in there something 0:18:07.359 --> 0:18:10.160 like that. I just I just got rid of of money. 0:18:10.320 --> 0:18:14.040 But yeah, well that was the other possibility, right that. 0:18:14.440 --> 0:18:16.480 I was like, well, she put some kind of white 0:18:16.520 --> 0:18:18.840 powder and she wanted me to open it up after 0:18:18.920 --> 0:18:22.879 we leave, because it's possible that everyone would die, uh, 0:18:23.680 --> 0:18:26.240 depending on what the thing was. And so I guess 0:18:26.280 --> 0:18:29.840 I'll never know unless it turns up somewhere, I will 0:18:29.920 --> 0:18:33.280 not know what our home girl Dotty put in the card. 0:18:33.680 --> 0:18:37.720 Very angry Dotty. But anyway, so that was that was 0:18:37.800 --> 0:18:39.719 the experience. But I give you credit, Danny. I can 0:18:39.760 --> 0:18:42.720 tell you've done more of those things because you, unlike me, 0:18:42.920 --> 0:18:46.159 I was bouncing around you like you You're like, I'm 0:18:46.160 --> 0:18:49.760 gonna sit down. You had a huddle of people around you. 0:18:50.640 --> 0:18:53.040 There was like a half circle around you, and you 0:18:53.119 --> 0:18:56.320 were just sitting there telling stories. And that's that's a 0:18:56.400 --> 0:18:58.959 great strategy. I love it, Like rather than me, I'm 0:18:59.000 --> 0:19:01.359 the idiot, I'm running all over the place. And you 0:19:01.480 --> 0:19:05.240 had a game plan and you said, Okay, I don't 0:19:05.240 --> 0:19:08.520 know if this was planned out or just happened organically. Uh, 0:19:08.800 --> 0:19:10.720 but whether it was by design or not, but you 0:19:10.800 --> 0:19:12.959 had people that were wrapped around you like you were 0:19:13.000 --> 0:19:16.080 the quarterback calling the play in the huddle. Was great. Yeah, 0:19:16.119 --> 0:19:18.640 it kind of happened organically. Although when I think back 0:19:18.680 --> 0:19:20.120 to some of the meet and greets that we did 0:19:20.160 --> 0:19:23.840 for Q one on four seven and the heat back 0:19:23.880 --> 0:19:26.040 in the day. That's how the night would kind of 0:19:26.119 --> 0:19:29.960 play out. We'd usually be broadcasting from a place and 0:19:30.160 --> 0:19:33.639 we would be sitting down with the microphones and the headphones, 0:19:34.040 --> 0:19:36.080 and then the listeners would kind of come over and 0:19:36.520 --> 0:19:38.760 and that's exactly how it played out there. The only 0:19:38.840 --> 0:19:41.280 thing missing from that booth that Eddie and I were 0:19:41.320 --> 0:19:44.240 sitting at for a while was headphones and a microphone 0:19:44.720 --> 0:19:49.080 on the live. Yeah, I know, it was It was 0:19:49.160 --> 0:19:52.479 cool and I got a lot of steps in walking 0:19:52.600 --> 0:19:56.680 walking around and did you were bouncing around, which that 0:19:56.880 --> 0:19:59.520 was cool. Though you were working the room. There were 0:19:59.600 --> 0:20:02.080 a lot of listeners that obviously wanted to take photos 0:20:02.200 --> 0:20:04.840 with you, and um, there were some that you could 0:20:04.880 --> 0:20:06.800 tell that we're a little bit on the outskirts, so 0:20:06.880 --> 0:20:09.359 they get together that we're on the shy side. Yeah, 0:20:09.640 --> 0:20:11.560 and you can relate to that, so you kind of 0:20:11.640 --> 0:20:14.880 went and pulled them in. Yeah, I am, and people 0:20:15.119 --> 0:20:17.400 some some people were sending me emails, Oh you say 0:20:17.440 --> 0:20:19.960 you're an extra, you're an introvert, but I don't believe it. 0:20:20.119 --> 0:20:22.920 You were out there doing your thing and I'm like, well, yeah, 0:20:23.080 --> 0:20:25.680 because that was the event. But it took a lot 0:20:25.760 --> 0:20:27.639 of energy and a lot of effort for me to 0:20:27.720 --> 0:20:31.560 schmooze and go around and and I'm not trust me. 0:20:32.040 --> 0:20:33.480 You've known me a long time, Danny, Am I a 0:20:33.560 --> 0:20:36.760 social butterfly? I'm not right. You've been to parties. I 0:20:36.800 --> 0:20:39.200 hope you'll come again this year when we have the 0:20:39.320 --> 0:20:41.240 parties again. After the last couple years we haven't be 0:20:41.240 --> 0:20:43.760 able to do it because of COVID. But um, my 0:20:44.000 --> 0:20:46.399 wife is much more outgoing, she's much more of a 0:20:46.480 --> 0:20:50.480 socializer and all that. And you know, I'll do it occasionally, 0:20:51.240 --> 0:20:53.480 but I pretty much keep to myself. That's why I 0:20:53.520 --> 0:20:56.399 went to radio. If I was an extrovert, if I 0:20:56.520 --> 0:21:00.280 was the life of the party, I'd be doing something else. Yeah, 0:21:00.280 --> 0:21:02.920 at at a perfect party, I would be behind the 0:21:03.000 --> 0:21:06.320 turntables and you'd be behind the griddle. Yeah exactly. I'd 0:21:06.320 --> 0:21:09.359 be cooking up doing something or serving you know, drinks 0:21:09.440 --> 0:21:12.600 or whatever it might be. Uh and you know, put 0:21:12.720 --> 0:21:14.640 fire on on you know, put wood on the fire 0:21:14.720 --> 0:21:18.440 or whatever it is. But uh yeah, so but and 0:21:18.560 --> 0:21:21.080 it was it was neat. I didn't meet. We had 0:21:21.119 --> 0:21:23.080 a good mix. We had some extroverse. There were some 0:21:23.119 --> 0:21:26.359 people very enthusiastic, energetic that were gung ho to to 0:21:26.440 --> 0:21:28.439 be part of this. And then there were the other 0:21:28.520 --> 0:21:31.520 people who I related to a little bit more who 0:21:31.600 --> 0:21:33.480 were kind of, as you said, in the back and 0:21:33.880 --> 0:21:36.399 introverted and then didn't want to be the one to 0:21:36.480 --> 0:21:39.680 go up to me. And and I totally get that. 0:21:40.000 --> 0:21:44.840