WEBVTT - The Fifth Hour: Ben's Travel Log 1 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 0:00:12.960 --> 0:00:15.800 crackheads in the ghetto cutter the same as the rich 0:00:15.840 --> 0:00:20.240 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 --> 0:00:33.680 Maller starts right now in the air everywhere, and a 0:00:33.800 --> 0:00:38.880 happy Friday to you. Another fresh edition piping Hot out 0:00:38.880 --> 0:00:43.880 of the Oven, definitely being recorded for Posterity's sake. The 0:00:43.920 --> 0:00:49.879 Fifth Hour with Ben Mallard and Dandy G Radio. It's 0:00:49.920 --> 0:00:53.000 been a long week here, Danny, a long week, and 0:00:53.200 --> 0:01:00.520 uh just had a major podcast blooper that unfortunately nobody heard. Danny. 0:01:00.760 --> 0:01:02.880 I think that's the first time that's ever happened to 0:01:02.960 --> 0:01:06.679 us doing this podcast. Yeah, I'm a I'm a little 0:01:06.800 --> 0:01:09.320 sluggish at this point in the in the week. I 0:01:09.640 --> 0:01:12.679 don't know up from down. It's bizarro. It is Benny's 0:01:12.680 --> 0:01:16.319 bizarro world. And I am such a radio loser. But 0:01:16.400 --> 0:01:20.559 that's no excuse, Danny, that's no excuse. The number one rule, 0:01:20.560 --> 0:01:23.240 and you know you taught me this, Danny. Make sure 0:01:23.280 --> 0:01:25.920 the mic is on make sure people can hear what 0:01:25.959 --> 0:01:30.240 you're saying. I'm actually on the live are We started 0:01:30.280 --> 0:01:34.759 this Friday morning podcast twenty minutes ago, and twenty minutes 0:01:34.760 --> 0:01:37.120 in I told Ben, Hey, Ben, I don't see the 0:01:37.160 --> 0:01:39.759 recording thing up in the corner of the top screen. 0:01:40.200 --> 0:01:44.959 Oh no, yeah, we shock again. So what are you 0:01:45.000 --> 0:01:49.760 talking about? Danny? Come on knocking, what's wrong with you? 0:01:50.120 --> 0:01:52.560 Let me just tell you you missed the best twenty 0:01:52.640 --> 0:01:56.560 minutes that Ben Maller has ever recorded in podcast history, 0:01:56.960 --> 0:02:00.360 and now Ben's gonna have to recreate the first twenty minute? Yeah, 0:02:00.400 --> 0:02:02.080 how can we possibly that? So anyway, let me just 0:02:02.120 --> 0:02:04.800 explain real quick. I'll give you the I'm not gonna 0:02:04.800 --> 0:02:07.280 give you the extended dance remix because I already did 0:02:07.320 --> 0:02:09.680 that and nobody heard it other than Danny g But 0:02:09.720 --> 0:02:11.360 I think Danny, you give me an a for that 0:02:11.520 --> 0:02:14.919 right the first If this was live on the air, 0:02:15.280 --> 0:02:17.400 you would have had tweets give you an a for 0:02:17.440 --> 0:02:22.200 the monologue. It was wonderful anyway. Instead, Uh, it was 0:02:23.600 --> 0:02:26.800 that's what we got there, and then we in in 0:02:26.840 --> 0:02:29.800 the back of the room over there, it's yeah, I 0:02:29.840 --> 0:02:32.639 got you all right. So the way this will work 0:02:32.680 --> 0:02:35.919 on this. The Friday podcast, which is actually now being recorded, 0:02:36.680 --> 0:02:39.919 we will have the first part of a two part 0:02:40.120 --> 0:02:47.000 Mallard mini series. It's the Mallard road Trip travelog. I'm 0:02:47.040 --> 0:02:52.680 in command with enhanced interrogation by Danny g radio the 0:02:52.760 --> 0:02:56.919 microphone throttler. Now, the reason I am doing this, Danny, 0:02:57.520 --> 0:03:01.359 is because I have been pestered in a kind way. 0:03:01.360 --> 0:03:03.440 People were not mean or anything like that, but I 0:03:03.480 --> 0:03:06.040 got a number of messages on the different social media 0:03:06.080 --> 0:03:09.200 platforms and email saying, hey, I really want to hear 0:03:09.240 --> 0:03:12.080 how this went. People very proud of where they're from, Danny. 0:03:12.120 --> 0:03:15.279 People from Wisconsin wanted to hear out when of Chicago, 0:03:16.080 --> 0:03:19.919 all the places I visit, and so I figured, rather 0:03:19.960 --> 0:03:22.000 than do this on the radio show, we don't have 0:03:22.120 --> 0:03:23.720 as much time. There's a lot of stuff going on. 0:03:23.760 --> 0:03:26.160 We pretty much kind of react to the sports news 0:03:26.240 --> 0:03:29.200 the day on the radio show. The podcast. Boy, that 0:03:29.360 --> 0:03:31.960 is right in the wheelhouse of the podcast. Some would 0:03:31.960 --> 0:03:36.080 say it's all right, but I disagreed, Dany. I disagree 0:03:36.120 --> 0:03:38.680 with that take. No, I want to know what happened 0:03:38.720 --> 0:03:41.760 on your trip because I saw pictures here and there. 0:03:41.800 --> 0:03:44.400 You left a little messages about where you were and 0:03:44.600 --> 0:03:46.560 who you were gonna see. But we didn't get any 0:03:46.600 --> 0:03:50.600 full details or stories about what went on. Yeah, so 0:03:50.720 --> 0:03:54.360 we'll start out like all things. It started out innocent enough. 0:03:55.040 --> 0:03:57.880 Had this trip planned for a while. It was all 0:03:57.920 --> 0:04:01.760 because of a heading. My sister in law was getting 0:04:01.760 --> 0:04:07.560 married in in North Carolina, and we really don't know 0:04:07.640 --> 0:04:10.760 anyone in North Carolina. It's a long way to go, 0:04:11.760 --> 0:04:15.080 and me and the wife, the family, we determined that 0:04:15.200 --> 0:04:20.560 we needed to enhance the trip, and we figured why not. 0:04:21.520 --> 0:04:23.320 It's a long way to go, why not to stop 0:04:23.400 --> 0:04:27.000 somewhere in the middle. My brother had moved to Appleton, 0:04:27.080 --> 0:04:29.120 Wisconsin years ago. I had not seen him. We had 0:04:29.120 --> 0:04:32.359 a pandemic and all that. So we made a determination 0:04:32.360 --> 0:04:33.920 to make it a little bit of longer trip and 0:04:33.960 --> 0:04:37.200 go to visit some relatives I have in Chicago and 0:04:37.320 --> 0:04:43.320 in in Apple and so boom, we we pulled it off. Now, 0:04:43.360 --> 0:04:46.760 I did not book the trip, but we started out 0:04:46.839 --> 0:04:50.080 flying to Chicago on Saturday. As I said, mostly to 0:04:50.160 --> 0:04:53.800 say a couple of dollars. It's not easy to get 0:04:53.880 --> 0:04:58.320 to Green Bay. It's wild going. I've never been to 0:04:58.360 --> 0:04:59.960 Green Bay before. We'll get to that in a minute, 0:05:00.000 --> 0:05:01.720 but it's wild going to Green Bay and thinking in 0:05:01.720 --> 0:05:04.520 an NFL team plays in green Bay compared to some 0:05:04.600 --> 0:05:07.119 of the other cities I've been to the have NFL teams. 0:05:07.160 --> 0:05:10.960 It's a it's a crazy, crazy experience. I had menter 0:05:11.040 --> 0:05:13.360 chicagoan all the time, all that blah blah blah blah blah. 0:05:13.400 --> 0:05:17.120 So we took the first flight out on on Saturday, 0:05:17.440 --> 0:05:19.600 and as I might or might not have said in 0:05:19.600 --> 0:05:23.000 a previous conversation to you, it's very important to take 0:05:23.040 --> 0:05:24.960 the first flight out when you're on the West Coast 0:05:24.960 --> 0:05:27.400 because of the time difference, Whereas if you're on the 0:05:27.400 --> 0:05:29.400 East coast it doesn't matter as much. You can take 0:05:29.400 --> 0:05:32.039 a late afternoon flight because you make up the time 0:05:32.080 --> 0:05:34.920 on the on the trip back, all right. So that's 0:05:34.920 --> 0:05:38.719 what we uh. And the first flight out of so Cow, 0:05:38.880 --> 0:05:41.599 which was a good idea. It's one of those things 0:05:41.640 --> 0:05:43.360 in theory that seemed like a good idea, but in 0:05:43.440 --> 0:05:45.960 execution it was not. I could not go to sleep. 0:05:46.960 --> 0:05:49.760 My body clock still on the overnight schedule from doing 0:05:49.760 --> 0:05:53.520 the show all week, so I ended up going to 0:05:53.680 --> 0:05:57.280 bed on Friday night and Saturday about two thirty in 0:05:57.320 --> 0:06:00.839 the morning, woke up at four am and had a 0:06:00.960 --> 0:06:04.520 rush to get to the car service to get to 0:06:04.560 --> 0:06:07.720 the airport. But I I did not have to wear 0:06:07.760 --> 0:06:11.400 a mask on the plane. Now, the car service they 0:06:11.520 --> 0:06:13.520 packed us all in like studies. They did not have 0:06:13.680 --> 0:06:18.000 room for the luggage, so that became a nightmare. It 0:06:18.040 --> 0:06:20.800 was a sedan, but it did not have enough space 0:06:20.800 --> 0:06:23.240 in it. Anyway. I got to to the winning City 0:06:23.320 --> 0:06:26.680 on on Saturday and I started snapping some photos. I said, 0:06:26.680 --> 0:06:28.719 wall no, let me do a little photographing thing. And 0:06:28.720 --> 0:06:30.600 I got this perfect photo when I got out of 0:06:30.600 --> 0:06:34.039 the planet, Old Hair, that weird looking mayor of Chicago, 0:06:34.120 --> 0:06:36.760 that creepy mayor of Chicago. She was like right behind 0:06:36.800 --> 0:06:39.240 me in the photo. I thought, that's perfect, that's a 0:06:39.320 --> 0:06:42.359 good omen. So I I took that photo and I 0:06:42.400 --> 0:06:44.440 posted this and I'm here and all that stuff. I 0:06:44.440 --> 0:06:48.800 couldn't sleep on the plane, which I never can and uh, 0:06:49.040 --> 0:06:52.159 and got to Old Hair and it's a massive airport. 0:06:52.560 --> 0:06:56.400 Touchdown in your mouth considering how big it is, it's 0:06:56.520 --> 0:06:59.120 just so much smoother than L A X. But pretty 0:06:59.200 --> 0:07:02.239 much any airt I've ever been to has been better 0:07:02.279 --> 0:07:05.640 than L A X. And so they I took this 0:07:05.760 --> 0:07:09.080 tram thing that wraps around to the rental car facility 0:07:09.160 --> 0:07:14.200 and we got there and it was empty the pockets. 0:07:14.320 --> 0:07:17.760 It was a ch change cha ching cha, ching to 0:07:17.920 --> 0:07:21.640 ching stick it up. It was the first of many 0:07:21.680 --> 0:07:25.880 hold ups while you were in Yes, Yes, I was 0:07:25.960 --> 0:07:28.920 burglarized when I first got to the rental car desk. 0:07:29.080 --> 0:07:31.360 And I will not name the rental car company, as 0:07:31.360 --> 0:07:33.880 you know, Danny, we do not name names here, but 0:07:33.960 --> 0:07:37.760 I will tell you that it definitely hurts a lot. 0:07:37.800 --> 0:07:43.360 It hurts my wallet a lot what happened there at 0:07:43.360 --> 0:07:45.400 the rental car facility. And they were all kinds of 0:07:45.480 --> 0:07:49.560 charges that I was like, what is that? Like what 0:07:49.760 --> 0:07:53.040 why are we paying that? And I ended up breaking 0:07:53.040 --> 0:07:57.680 a cardinal rule. And I've actually told this story before. 0:07:57.720 --> 0:07:59.800 You were probably on the podcast with with Guests Come, 0:07:59.840 --> 0:08:01.560 but I talked about it for years. I learned from 0:08:01.560 --> 0:08:06.200 a sports writer, old baseball writer. The key to travel 0:08:06.240 --> 0:08:08.040 when travel on your own. A lot of baseball writers 0:08:08.080 --> 0:08:09.280 do that I don't know own and they don't travel 0:08:09.320 --> 0:08:14.640 with the team. Is you end up having to leave 0:08:14.680 --> 0:08:17.120 the airport and rent the car outside of the airport 0:08:17.120 --> 0:08:19.840 grounds because that's where they stick it to you. With 0:08:19.880 --> 0:08:22.480 all the extra fees and the taxes to pay for 0:08:22.520 --> 0:08:26.360 the stadiums and all the hidden costs they get. They 0:08:26.440 --> 0:08:30.120 love politicians to get the out of towners to spend 0:08:30.120 --> 0:08:33.720 a bunch of money and end up paying for the 0:08:33.800 --> 0:08:36.679 stadiums and all that. So I by violated that role. 0:08:36.720 --> 0:08:39.560 It was insane and all that. How much money. But 0:08:39.640 --> 0:08:41.760 we we then tried to grab some food on the 0:08:41.760 --> 0:08:44.040 way to Wisconsin. We're gonna drive and visit my brother 0:08:44.080 --> 0:08:46.880 for a couple of days. And I was the driver 0:08:46.960 --> 0:08:49.920 and my wife was the navigator. Uh. And they actually 0:08:50.000 --> 0:08:53.920 charged in Illinois, they charged money to have my wife 0:08:54.520 --> 0:08:56.240 also be able to drive, even though I was gonna 0:08:56.280 --> 0:08:59.240 drive most of the time. However, in Virginia they said, oh, no, 0:08:59.280 --> 0:09:01.320 if you're married, it's no big deal. I was like, 0:09:01.360 --> 0:09:04.640 what the hell is that? I still can't figure that out. Uh, 0:09:05.120 --> 0:09:07.680 somebody along the way screwed me over. Anyway, So we 0:09:07.720 --> 0:09:10.240 went to this pizza place in this famous Chicago pizza place, 0:09:10.280 --> 0:09:13.080 lou mal Noddies, And we found a location, my wife 0:09:13.120 --> 0:09:17.120 did near the airport. But we got there and it 0:09:17.280 --> 0:09:22.079 was only a takeout spot. That's fertilizing. Yeah, and we 0:09:22.080 --> 0:09:24.440 weren't really familiar with the neighborhood. It didn't look like 0:09:24.520 --> 0:09:27.960 the greatest neighborhood, considering there was a dollar store right 0:09:27.960 --> 0:09:30.080 across the street, which usually is a sign that's not 0:09:30.120 --> 0:09:35.760 a great neighborhood. Uh yeah, I know I'm stereotyping, but 0:09:35.840 --> 0:09:40.200 I I believe that. So anyway, right down the street 0:09:40.200 --> 0:09:42.240 from where I live, Like I said, you know, I 0:09:42.280 --> 0:09:45.679 love the dollar store, but generally I've never seen one 0:09:45.720 --> 0:09:47.680 in Beverly Hills. Have you ever seen a dollar store 0:09:47.679 --> 0:09:50.680 in Beverly Hills. Hey, man, you might not notice, but 0:09:50.760 --> 0:09:55.960 I'm black. I've never seen that. Anyways. Uh So we 0:09:56.040 --> 0:09:58.240 decided not to wait for the pizza because these deep 0:09:58.280 --> 0:10:00.680 dish pizzas take like thirty five already minute. So that 0:10:00.720 --> 0:10:03.120 was a that was a bummer. I feel like I 0:10:03.160 --> 0:10:05.680 might have mentioned this earlier Danny in a podcast that 0:10:05.720 --> 0:10:09.000 was not broadcast. But on my way to Chicago, I 0:10:09.040 --> 0:10:12.920 was reading my favorite tabloid, the Daily Mail out of London, 0:10:13.640 --> 0:10:15.480 and they had a big right up about all the 0:10:15.679 --> 0:10:18.959 crime in Chicago and how I's safe it was, and 0:10:19.080 --> 0:10:22.760 there was murders here, there and everywhere, and that it 0:10:22.840 --> 0:10:26.520 was spilling over from Traditionally, the South Side of Chicago 0:10:27.080 --> 0:10:29.160 has been where most of the crime is, but in 0:10:29.480 --> 0:10:35.120 the last year, it's moved to other parts of the city. 0:10:35.520 --> 0:10:37.360 And so usually when I've gone to Chicago in the 0:10:37.360 --> 0:10:39.440 pastor was I just avoid the south side, You're fine, 0:10:39.640 --> 0:10:42.559 But now like they were scaring everybody saying, oh, it's 0:10:42.559 --> 0:10:45.719 a it's a nightmare, blah blah. But people getting carjacked 0:10:45.720 --> 0:10:48.840 on the north suburbs of Chicago where the rich people living. 0:10:48.880 --> 0:10:53.240 All this stuff so a little uh giter ish, But 0:10:53.360 --> 0:10:56.160 I felt I got when I was I was in 0:10:56.240 --> 0:10:58.560 Chicago along that first day, but I I just felt 0:10:58.600 --> 0:11:01.040 I was kind of like l A, like downtown l A. 0:11:01.480 --> 0:11:03.840 You gotta be on guard, you gotta be yeah, you 0:11:03.920 --> 0:11:06.599 gotta be kind of looking around at all times. You 0:11:06.679 --> 0:11:11.160 gotta yeah, head on a swip. So that was mine. 0:11:11.200 --> 0:11:12.959 We didn't end up eating in Chicago. We just got 0:11:12.960 --> 0:11:15.720 on the road to try to visit my my brother 0:11:16.320 --> 0:11:20.960 in Appleton. We drove on Highway forty one, which is 0:11:21.200 --> 0:11:24.319 part of it is a toll road. Screw the politicians 0:11:24.360 --> 0:11:26.880 in Illinois, so right away they stick you on a 0:11:26.920 --> 0:11:32.439 toll road. So I'm driving to Wisconsin. First stop is Kenosha. No. 0:11:32.559 --> 0:11:35.319 I didn't even realize until later that that was where 0:11:35.360 --> 0:11:40.480 a lot of the chaos happened uh in the year right, 0:11:40.520 --> 0:11:43.000 the protest and the shooting that took place in Kenosha, 0:11:43.120 --> 0:11:45.400 And to me, I just wanted to bite the eat. 0:11:45.559 --> 0:11:48.040 And I was told by my my radio friend Bob 0:11:48.040 --> 0:11:52.080 Fesco to go to the Cheese Castle in Kenosha. He said, 0:11:52.080 --> 0:11:54.360 you gotta go to the Cheese Castle. I said, what's that? 0:11:54.400 --> 0:11:57.240 He said about it, just as as it is in 0:11:57.280 --> 0:12:01.679 the name, it's the cheesecap So so we we headed 0:12:01.720 --> 0:12:07.520 there and it was dip everything into cheese. No, no, no, no, 0:12:07.559 --> 0:12:10.360 it's got They just it's like a little market. It's 0:12:10.400 --> 0:12:14.040 shaped like a castle, and it did not disappoint. It 0:12:14.120 --> 0:12:19.040 is a cheese lover's Disneyland, Danny. Yeah. I mean there's 0:12:19.080 --> 0:12:21.040 a ton of I mean all kinds of different cheese. 0:12:21.120 --> 0:12:23.040 And this place was filled, even though it was just 0:12:23.080 --> 0:12:26.439 across the border and Kenosha. It was filled with cub 0:12:26.480 --> 0:12:30.160 things because the Cubs were playing the Brewers that night, 0:12:30.840 --> 0:12:33.800 and so a bunch of the Chicago wands were making 0:12:33.800 --> 0:12:36.559 the trip up to go see the brew Crew and 0:12:36.600 --> 0:12:39.160 the Cubbies. So all these guys are wanting around in 0:12:39.240 --> 0:12:42.320 Cub jerseys. And I had my first cheese curd in 0:12:42.400 --> 0:12:47.000 Wisconsin and some pretzel bites and it was amazing. Oh 0:12:47.040 --> 0:12:50.800 my god, man, it sounds like a heart attack waiting 0:12:50.840 --> 0:12:55.440 to happen. Yeah, but you're gonna die anyway. It was 0:12:55.480 --> 0:12:59.880 wonderful and Wisconsin's my kind of food. A lot of cheeses, 0:13:00.080 --> 0:13:05.480 lot of unhealthy pretzels and the meats and whatnot. We 0:13:05.600 --> 0:13:09.240 we did the whole tour of the castle, the Cheese Castle, 0:13:09.440 --> 0:13:10.880 and I was gonna get back on the highway and said, 0:13:10.920 --> 0:13:13.640 wait a minute, there's another thing I have to cross 0:13:13.679 --> 0:13:17.079 off my bucket list. Culver's. Have you ever eaten at 0:13:17.080 --> 0:13:20.200 the Culver's? No? Okay, So this is like a local. 0:13:20.600 --> 0:13:23.760 It's the Wisconsin version of In and Out, you know, 0:13:23.880 --> 0:13:26.480 the East Coast. They've got five guys West Coast in 0:13:26.520 --> 0:13:30.280 and Out in the burger Wars. It's Culver's in Wisconsin. 0:13:30.679 --> 0:13:33.760 I've tweet about that place before, yeah, and I've heard 0:13:33.800 --> 0:13:35.240 about it, and I really wanted to eat there. And 0:13:35.280 --> 0:13:37.439 I figured, well, I don't know for sure that I'll 0:13:37.440 --> 0:13:39.079 be able to eat at one down the line. I 0:13:39.120 --> 0:13:43.320 didn't realize how many of these locations there were, And 0:13:43.440 --> 0:13:46.080 so we saw Culver's and immediately stopped. It was on 0:13:46.120 --> 0:13:51.040 my bucket list mission accomplished. The Kenosha location. Butter Burger, cheese, 0:13:51.120 --> 0:13:55.880 courage fries, hashtag Nirvana. Man was at a good burger. 0:13:56.360 --> 0:13:58.640 Man was that great? And so so then we we 0:13:58.679 --> 0:14:00.400 got back on the right. I keep. I had no sleep. 0:14:00.520 --> 0:14:02.640 We had none of us said sleep that were traveling. 0:14:02.679 --> 0:14:05.120 So we had a long drive up to Appleton Highway 0:14:05.120 --> 0:14:08.280 forty one. A few observations date, A few observations about 0:14:08.280 --> 0:14:11.280 the current state of the state of Wisconsin and my 0:14:11.360 --> 0:14:15.600 friends in the Cheese state. Uh. A very eclectic mix 0:14:15.720 --> 0:14:20.640 of signs. A lot of firework stores in Wisconsin selling 0:14:20.720 --> 0:14:24.200 fireworks up and down Highway forty one. There was a 0:14:24.240 --> 0:14:29.560 mix of sex shops and then right after there'd be 0:14:29.600 --> 0:14:34.200 a billboard for a sex shop the God Squad telling 0:14:34.240 --> 0:14:36.920 you if you go to the sex shop, you're going 0:14:37.000 --> 0:14:40.720 to burn in hell. So it was quite the mix there. 0:14:40.720 --> 0:14:44.320 And there was a few gambling places mixed in casinos 0:14:44.360 --> 0:14:50.280 and whatnot. So good America, every vice imaginable, a lot 0:14:50.320 --> 0:14:52.680 of random road I didn't notice a lot of road 0:14:52.800 --> 0:14:56.120 kill in the great state of Wisconsin. All kinds of 0:14:56.160 --> 0:14:59.200 critters and and things on the road. I drove by 0:14:59.240 --> 0:15:02.040 the Harley David headquarters. As you know, Danny the Harley 0:15:02.120 --> 0:15:06.440 Davidson motorcycle from Wisconsin from Milwaukee. Their headquarters are there, 0:15:07.040 --> 0:15:13.040 and a lot of barnes, a lot of farms, the 0:15:16.120 --> 0:15:18.800 food companies. You know that. I think it's called hair 0:15:18.880 --> 0:15:24.640 brow hairbrow? Is that it? Hairbow? Harbow? Yeah? Yeah, yeah. 0:15:24.720 --> 0:15:29.080 We drove by their big facility and uh and then 0:15:29.160 --> 0:15:31.720 boom on a ninety minute to sleep. We made the 0:15:31.800 --> 0:15:36.479 one eighty three mile drive from O'Hare to Appleton, Wisconsin. 0:15:37.640 --> 0:15:41.200 And it was the Mallard brother reunion because my older 0:15:41.280 --> 0:15:43.680 brother had driven from New York City to meet my 0:15:43.800 --> 0:15:47.000 younger brother and me in Wisconsin. He got there before us, 0:15:47.720 --> 0:15:50.280 and we had not been together in almost five years. 0:15:50.320 --> 0:15:53.080 I can't believe it's been that long. But we had 0:15:53.080 --> 0:15:55.680 the COVID excuse that no, when my brother wouldn't get together, 0:15:55.800 --> 0:15:58.120 my younger brother wouldn't get together with anybody. I think 0:15:58.160 --> 0:16:01.760 a lot of families have gone through what you're talking about, yea. 0:16:02.480 --> 0:16:04.320 So it was it was great to see everybody and 0:16:04.400 --> 0:16:08.120 catch up, and it was great to see pooh and 0:16:08.240 --> 0:16:11.960 hug and all that stuff. And we all grew up 0:16:12.080 --> 0:16:15.400 very close and now we live in every time zone 0:16:15.400 --> 0:16:18.880 outside the Mountain time zone, so it's all all over 0:16:18.960 --> 0:16:22.720 the country, and uh, yeah, that's a little odd. But 0:16:22.840 --> 0:16:26.760 my older brother and his wife a pretty good thing 0:16:26.800 --> 0:16:28.560 going to New York. They were like a marketing thing, 0:16:28.600 --> 0:16:31.720 and my my younger brother is kind of hangs out. 0:16:32.520 --> 0:16:34.880 He's got that going on. But I'm like the black 0:16:34.920 --> 0:16:37.160 sheep of the family because doing the overnight radio thing. 0:16:37.880 --> 0:16:40.240 So it was it was good. And I don't really 0:16:40.280 --> 0:16:43.240 have a lot in common like with my brothers other 0:16:43.280 --> 0:16:45.920 than the family bond, meaning that they're not really sports 0:16:45.920 --> 0:16:49.120 people and I'm not really into the stuff there, and 0:16:49.360 --> 0:16:51.760 but we we don't. We make it work. What's their 0:16:51.800 --> 0:16:57.120 biggest topic of conversation. Um, it's well, that's a good question. 0:16:57.360 --> 0:16:59.480 What were they talking about that I wasn't interested in. 0:17:00.880 --> 0:17:04.280 There was a lot of conversation about like random pop 0:17:04.320 --> 0:17:06.520 culture things, but stuff that I'm not. I'm into some 0:17:06.600 --> 0:17:10.639 pop culture, but they were like weird, weird things. A 0:17:10.680 --> 0:17:12.920 lot of computer stuff. They're both in the computers a 0:17:13.000 --> 0:17:16.920 lot video game stuff. I'm not really much into that, 0:17:17.359 --> 0:17:19.840 like not not the games I play, So that kind 0:17:19.840 --> 0:17:22.480 of Uh, there was a question I got asked a lot. 0:17:22.720 --> 0:17:25.560 What is there to do in Appleton? Wisconsin. And the 0:17:25.640 --> 0:17:32.560 answer is to word dandy, not much. Okay, that's the answer. Okay. 0:17:32.280 --> 0:17:36.639 The town rolls up at seven o'clock and I normally 0:17:36.640 --> 0:17:39.480 don't even get going until nine or ten o'clock at night. 0:17:39.560 --> 0:17:43.520 By then everything is closed up. I gotta tell Appleton's beautiful. 0:17:43.560 --> 0:17:46.359 It's a beautiful city. I totally understand why my brother 0:17:46.400 --> 0:17:49.040 lives there, other than the weather, which is terrible eleven 0:17:49.040 --> 0:17:51.320 months of the eleven months of the year. A lot 0:17:51.359 --> 0:17:53.920 of trees, a lot of really cool one plus year 0:17:53.960 --> 0:17:58.560 old buildings. The Fox River which lets out in Green Bay, 0:17:59.440 --> 0:18:04.680 runs through Appleton. And walked around this really old bridge 0:18:04.720 --> 0:18:07.200 that was built years ago that they had a nesting 0:18:07.240 --> 0:18:11.560 area for bald eagles. The bald eagles hang out in Appleton. 0:18:11.640 --> 0:18:15.080 They chill out there in at least in part of May, 0:18:15.160 --> 0:18:16.919 because they were hanging out and there were a lot 0:18:16.960 --> 0:18:19.040 of pelicans like stuff you don't expect to see. I 0:18:19.119 --> 0:18:24.159 didn't expect to see some weird seabirds in Appleton, Wisconsin. 0:18:24.760 --> 0:18:28.800 And a lot of references to Harry Houdini, Danny, a 0:18:28.800 --> 0:18:31.600 lot of references to the late Harry Douney has been 0:18:32.400 --> 0:18:34.719 who's been dead for almost a hundred years, but they 0:18:34.760 --> 0:18:37.400 still have a bunch of stuff. He died. I looked 0:18:37.400 --> 0:18:40.880 it up. He died in nineteen six. But he's still 0:18:40.920 --> 0:18:43.199 a big deal. So four more years away from the 0:18:43.280 --> 0:18:47.240 hundredth anniversary of the passage of Harry, but Harry Uddini. 0:18:47.359 --> 0:18:51.959 But it is impressive that his name is synonymous with magic, 0:18:52.960 --> 0:18:55.879 the Houdini act. Right you say that, people know what 0:18:55.920 --> 0:18:58.880 you mean. I didn't know he was from that area. Well, 0:18:58.920 --> 0:19:01.920 he wasn't born there. He spent four years and as 0:19:02.000 --> 0:19:06.240 his child there and as a performer, he always claimed 0:19:06.240 --> 0:19:09.880 he was from Appleton, Wisconsin or whatever reason. I don't 0:19:09.880 --> 0:19:12.240 know why. There must have been some ulterior motive there. 0:19:13.080 --> 0:19:15.320 But there's a museum for him. There was a plaza 0:19:15.480 --> 0:19:19.399 downtown Appleton name for him. It was cool. I like 0:19:19.520 --> 0:19:23.320 magic and all that, But for me, the highlight was 0:19:23.440 --> 0:19:26.680 the trip up the road thirty miles actually it's twenty 0:19:26.720 --> 0:19:34.199 eight miles from my brother's house. Lambo Field, frozen tundra. Now, 0:19:34.240 --> 0:19:36.239 I'm sure there was way more things to do in 0:19:36.280 --> 0:19:41.720 Green Bay. Oh sure, yes. You get off at Lombardi Avenue. 0:19:42.240 --> 0:19:48.920 Lombardi Avenue and there's a strip of stores and they 0:19:48.920 --> 0:19:51.679 were just like regular kind of stories you'd see in 0:19:51.680 --> 0:19:54.359 the suburbs of any city. And then right right past 0:19:54.440 --> 0:19:58.040 that is this massive stadium, and right across the street 0:19:58.080 --> 0:20:02.080 there's houses. It felt like the old Wrigley Field or 0:20:02.080 --> 0:20:06.080 Finway Park, where there's houses right across the street. And 0:20:06.160 --> 0:20:08.800 we drove right in the parking lot at Lambeau drove 0:20:08.880 --> 0:20:12.119 around the There was a gift shop area part of 0:20:12.119 --> 0:20:15.440 the stadium you could walk through. It was pretty cool. 0:20:16.600 --> 0:20:18.840 I did not buy a Packer hat though, Danny, because 0:20:18.840 --> 0:20:21.720 I'm not a Packer fan. I'm a Ram fan. However, 0:20:21.800 --> 0:20:25.840 I did buy a lambeau Field hat. I figured that 0:20:25.920 --> 0:20:28.920 was a compromise because I'm celebrating the stadium, not the team. 0:20:29.200 --> 0:20:33.040 What does the lambeau Field hat look like. It's just 0:20:33.119 --> 0:20:37.040 like a screen hat has got the Lambeau name on 0:20:37.080 --> 0:20:40.000 it and a little drawing and all that. But it 0:20:40.080 --> 0:20:42.840 was cool. I figured why not. People still would think 0:20:42.880 --> 0:20:44.840 you're a Packers fan if you had that, they can 0:20:44.920 --> 0:20:47.640 think whatever they want. They'll be wrong. I did see 0:20:47.680 --> 0:20:51.120 the memorial for Davante. Adams very upset that he left 0:20:51.119 --> 0:20:53.400 to go to Your Raiders, so they were very sad 0:20:53.440 --> 0:20:56.240 there that Davante has moved on. You can't telling me 0:20:56.359 --> 0:20:59.160 his life would be a lot different coming from Green 0:20:59.200 --> 0:21:02.080 Bay and going to Las Vegas. Oh, I know. Can 0:21:02.080 --> 0:21:07.720 you imagine going from from Lambeau to oh my goodness, 0:21:08.119 --> 0:21:11.840 going from a strip mall to a strip club? Yeah? 0:21:12.000 --> 0:21:18.040 Oh man, that the city. It was cool, It was neat. 0:21:18.080 --> 0:21:20.160 I watched a bunch of games the Packers have been 0:21:20.160 --> 0:21:23.840 in over the year's last twenty years with Farvan Rogers. 0:21:23.920 --> 0:21:26.560 They've been on national TVs so much in all those 0:21:26.600 --> 0:21:31.120 snow games. And it was called Venerable Pig Skin Shrine 0:21:31.840 --> 0:21:36.280 Sacred Land. And right across the street is a house 0:21:36.400 --> 0:21:39.040 with a playground in the front of the house. It 0:21:39.200 --> 0:21:45.040 was freaking, freaking crazy, but anyway, so the expedite the process. 0:21:45.040 --> 0:21:50.560 So I spent uh Saturday through Monday night with my brothers. Now, 0:21:50.640 --> 0:21:54.520 Monday afternoon, my older brothers started to ride back to 0:21:54.560 --> 0:21:57.600 New York City now that afternoon. This actually happened a 0:21:57.600 --> 0:22:00.600 couple of days before my schedule opened up. I decided 0:22:00.640 --> 0:22:04.120 to hold a last minute mallard meet and greet day 0:22:04.440 --> 0:22:06.800 more of a spur of the moment kind of improv thing. 0:22:07.359 --> 0:22:11.920 I was supposed to travel to Traverse City, Michigan on Monday, 0:22:12.000 --> 0:22:13.960 because I have a cousin that lives over in Michigan. 0:22:14.440 --> 0:22:16.800 She's getting older and I wanted to see her. I 0:22:16.840 --> 0:22:19.240 want to hang out with her and whatnot. But logistically 0:22:19.320 --> 0:22:21.400 she told me, she said, no, that's only a couple 0:22:21.359 --> 0:22:24.520 of hours from Apple. So I went on the computer 0:22:24.600 --> 0:22:27.000 and I looked up to travel itinerary. To go from 0:22:27.000 --> 0:22:30.560 where I was in Appleton to Traverse City. It would 0:22:30.600 --> 0:22:39.800 have taken fourteen hours. Wow, fourteen hours to travel there, goofed. Yeah, 0:22:39.880 --> 0:22:42.840 seven hours each way, so seven hours there, seven hours back. 0:22:43.119 --> 0:22:46.679 So I did the cost benefit analysis and I said, well, 0:22:46.680 --> 0:22:49.760 there's twenty four hours in a day. You figure I 0:22:49.760 --> 0:22:52.280 don't sleep much, but I sleep about five of those hours. 0:22:52.720 --> 0:22:55.040 So if I sleep five hours and then I spend 0:22:55.160 --> 0:23:00.159 fourteen hours traveling, that only leaves five hours in the 0:23:00.240 --> 0:23:04.679