Speaker 1: Ka boom. If you thought four hours a day, minutes
Speaker 1: a week was enough, I think again. He's the last
Speaker 1: remnants of the old republic, a sole fashion of fairness.
Speaker 1: He treats crackheads in the ghetto cutter the same as
Speaker 1: the rich pill poppers in the penthouse, to clearinghouse of
Speaker 1: hot takes, break free for something special. The Fifth Hour
Speaker 1: with Ben Maller starts right now in the air everywhere,
Speaker 1: and a very good Saturday to you. A brand new
Speaker 1: pipe and hot ediution of the Fifth Hour with Ben
Speaker 1: Mallor and Danny g Radio and congratulated. I want to
Speaker 1: congratulate you, Danny, on the fact that you survive not one,
Speaker 1: but two appearances on the overnight shows. So I know
Speaker 1: you're a little choked up right now, Danny, a little emotional,
Speaker 1: you little. I understand that. But you did survive two
Speaker 1: nights in the Madhouse, so it was most I don't
Speaker 1: know when I'm sleeping, when I'm awake, when I'm eating dinner,
Speaker 1: And it's funny at the geat Household, I was eating
Speaker 1: dinner at eight thirty pm every night before I went
Speaker 1: into your show. At first, it was gonna be like
Speaker 1: my tinder RONI said, well, I'll make your dinner at
Speaker 1: eight thirty. The rest of us are going to eat
Speaker 1: at six thirty. Oh my guy, that's cool. But I
Speaker 1: get down there the first night at eight thirty and
Speaker 1: everybody's eating. It was like that the next night to
Speaker 1: at nine pm. People were still roaming around the kitchen eating. Wow.
Speaker 1: Kind of a grazing situation here, you know, now you
Speaker 1: know later I like it. I like it, got a
Speaker 1: bonus dinner at my pad. Solid Ben. You don't get
Speaker 1: enough credit for the hours that you live. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: just it's all a blurred in it. It's all a blur.
Speaker 1: But I still maintain. And you did mornings for a while,
Speaker 1: like to me, the worst schedule I've done the full
Speaker 1: cycle and radio. I think you have to where you
Speaker 1: do the whole every day part twenty four hours in
Speaker 1: the in the day. But for me having to get up,
Speaker 1: like to go to bed early and get up to
Speaker 1: do a morning show. I did that for a year.
Speaker 1: It was dreadful. It was so bad. I tried to
Speaker 1: make it an overnight show and I tried to stay up.
Speaker 1: I've told the story before, but I tried to stay
Speaker 1: up to like thirty eleven in the morning and it
Speaker 1: just and then I go to bed. I figured, I
Speaker 1: go to bed like like eleven o'clock and sleep until
Speaker 1: six and then do it all over again, and it
Speaker 1: just it just ate at me. It was just brutal.
Speaker 1: It's funny you say that because when your show was
Speaker 1: ending on Tuesday and Wednesday, the morning crew obviously comes
Speaker 1: in after us, after the Ben Mallor show and Day
Speaker 1: or Dragon Ass the second day especially, and I heard
Speaker 1: someone in the hallway say, oh my god, it was
Speaker 1: so hard to get out of bed today, And so
Speaker 1: you're right. You hear that a lot from morning crews. Obviously,
Speaker 1: once they're into their first hour or maybe the second hour,
Speaker 1: they've had a little bit of coffee and they're getting awake.
Speaker 1: But yeah, that is a very tough schedule to do
Speaker 1: every day, every day of the week. Yeah, the very
Speaker 1: bleary eyed the morning guys when they come in there.
Speaker 1: I saw, I felt bad for LaVar erything. And this
Speaker 1: guy's at a stud in the NFL back in the day.
Speaker 1: Now he's doing mornings. He's coming in there and he's like,
Speaker 1: oh what am I dough? And I goes like a zombie.
Speaker 1: He speaking of LaVar after doing post production for your show.
Speaker 1: I left about five am West Coast time, and as
Speaker 1: I'm leaving, I waved to those guys goodbye. And I
Speaker 1: just see this huge boat up on the counter, crusty boat.
Speaker 1: It was LaVar's bare foot Oh is that right? He's
Speaker 1: just kind of reason of a Klein situation. Looked like
Speaker 1: we had an eagle in the studio. Yeah, you gotta
Speaker 1: be careful because there was and I don't know I
Speaker 1: should reveal the name here, I probably not. But years ago,
Speaker 1: and I think before you were at Fox Sports Radio,
Speaker 1: there was a NFL coach who was working there who
Speaker 1: leaned back, put his feet up on the table and
Speaker 1: then fell over, like passed out in the chair in
Speaker 1: the in the Studio's crazy, yeah, wild story, But I
Speaker 1: mean it's all of a sudden, It's like, wait a minute,
Speaker 1: what's going on. No, he's all right, he's fine. I
Speaker 1: mean he was. He was down for the count for
Speaker 1: that day. I don't think he continued his show, Danny.
Speaker 1: I think that was the end of the show and
Speaker 1: he said, that's it, I'm done, get me out of here.
Speaker 1: Got a murder gotta go. So on this Saturday podcast,
Speaker 1: The Life and Times of Mallard and Danny g We've
Speaker 1: got ringing up, Charlie Horse Winner, part tactical error and backscratcher.
Speaker 1: That's a lot of content, never that on this show.
Speaker 1: And mc hammer used to say, let's get it started, hammertime,
Speaker 1: all right. Now, I spent last weekend kind of gets
Speaker 1: caught up on stuff that I do when I'm not
Speaker 1: barking into a microphone about Deshaun Watson junk. But I
Speaker 1: spent my weekend going to part of my weekend going
Speaker 1: to various jewelry stores around southern California. As we continue
Speaker 1: now the Wild Goose Chase. All of this in an
Speaker 1: effort Danny to find the replacement band. In a previous episode,
Speaker 1: I had told the story, if you remember, if you
Speaker 1: heard that podcast, the tale of making the taij Ma
Speaker 1: Hall of Sand Castles at a beautiful beach in southern California. However,
Speaker 1: in my haste to build the towers with my young cousin,
Speaker 1: I my ring was buried at sea. And it's been
Speaker 1: a while and still no no wing ring. I have
Speaker 1: a backup, I'm not wearing it because that also falls off.
Speaker 1: So I went to a couple of jewelry stores and
Speaker 1: I got my ring finger. I got fitted to find
Speaker 1: out what size I have as a ring, which I
Speaker 1: didn't know. I guess my ring that I had before
Speaker 1: is a little too big, which probably explains why it
Speaker 1: came flying off playing insane. But a few observations here
Speaker 1: that I learned things I picked up from my weekend
Speaker 1: shopping with the wife. So, uh. These were a couple
Speaker 1: of big jewelry stores, one of them very well known,
Speaker 1: another one more of a local place, but they're popular
Speaker 1: on the internet and they sell rings all over the country.
Speaker 1: So I go in here and you walk into it,
Speaker 1: and I don't spend a lot of time at jewelry stores.
Speaker 1: It's not how I rolled. But I I go in
Speaker 1: there and I'm like, oh my god, this place is
Speaker 1: gonna be the greatest, right. It's like the Costco of jewelry.
Speaker 1: It's like everywhere you look, uh, there's cases displaying all
Speaker 1: these different jewelry. So that this person greets you the
Speaker 1: door and I'm like, what do you need and maybe
Speaker 1: a little small talk. Well I lost my my wedding
Speaker 1: ring and said okay, uh, and then he points to
Speaker 1: the very far corner of this massive warehouse like it's
Speaker 1: like the size of a seemed like a football field,
Speaker 1: and he points over to the corner in the very back.
Speaker 1: He says, that's where you need to go. So I
Speaker 1: said okay, and I walked over there and this massive store.
Speaker 1: There was one and a half cases of men's wedding bands.
Speaker 1: Everything else was for women or I don't know, but
Speaker 1: it was only like a case and a half, so
Speaker 1: there were not many options. And and we looked and
Speaker 1: there was some stuff that kind of it all kind
Speaker 1: of looked the same. And so my my wife had
Speaker 1: actually found something that looked pretty pretty good online, but
Speaker 1: you never know online, You never really know online. But
Speaker 1: they claimed they had this great return policy, so we
Speaker 1: ended up getting that and since nothing clicked on the store,
Speaker 1: we we decided to ring it up. And we did
Speaker 1: ring it up. And I also did take advice of
Speaker 1: our buddy Adrian, who's a super fan of the show.
Speaker 1: Adrian's the guy that went to Disneyland with his family
Speaker 1: and had shirts with our like the Mallard name on it,
Speaker 1: which crazy, but Adrian in Denver, he did advise buying
Speaker 1: some of those like silicone rings of people the gym.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah. So so my plan is that I'll
Speaker 1: probably end up wearing those a lot. Most of the
Speaker 1: time I'm not doing something that I might use my
Speaker 1: hands with. But then for like a nice night out
Speaker 1: or you know, when I'm not doing anything physical, I'll
Speaker 1: probably wear the actual actual ring. But that's if it's good.
Speaker 1: I might end up returning it. I don't know, might
Speaker 1: it might blow. You have no idea. I have no
Speaker 1: idea because you see, you see photos of stuff online.
Speaker 1: You don't know until you got to me. You gotta
Speaker 1: hold it, you gotta look at it. You don't know
Speaker 1: now in your opinion, why is the selection for men
Speaker 1: so crappy? Is it just because the whole engagement thing
Speaker 1: is for women? Really? Yeah, well, my theory on that is, yeah,
Speaker 1: guys don't give a rat's ass, right, They just want
Speaker 1: to get in and out. They're like, okay, I'm signing
Speaker 1: the contract. That's it's not who cares. And most most
Speaker 1: men's rings are either gold, silver, or black. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: don't know if there's any variation. I didn't see any
Speaker 1: variation other than that for wedding bands. With my copious
Speaker 1: you know, minutes long walking through the one case and
Speaker 1: a half case of wedding rings, but yeah, so it's yeah,
Speaker 1: women and there's they were like chains, and I mean
Speaker 1: they all kinds out of the jewelry. It wasn't just rings,
Speaker 1: but it was mostly rings. What's interesting is that as guys,
Speaker 1: I mean, we grew up with run DMC and big
Speaker 1: gold rope chains, and you know, for a moment there
Speaker 1: a lot of dudes had Mr T Starter sets and
Speaker 1: you know, some guys still try to go with that look.
Speaker 1: I guess, come on, pimping, get your tim's off. But well,
Speaker 1: at the gym in in Glendale, they got I used
Speaker 1: to work out there in southern California. Here a lot
Speaker 1: of dudes with the like the one gold chain, what
Speaker 1: up bro? A lot of of action. You would think
Speaker 1: there would be even maybe a small market for men's
Speaker 1: rings that had a lot of bling to them. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so I I got something. It has a little pop
Speaker 1: to it. I thought, why not? You know the other
Speaker 1: one didn't have much pop to it. This is that
Speaker 1: little pop to it. So we'll see if I actually
Speaker 1: end up liking it. So that is the tale of
Speaker 1: ringing up as far as the Charlie Horse. So, yeah,
Speaker 1: this is not really big news, but since it's the
Speaker 1: podcast and for some reason, people seem to be interested
Speaker 1: in this off this past week at the Mallard Mansion,
Speaker 1: and we've had we've had some a C issues. It's
Speaker 1: getting that time of the year, although usually in l
Speaker 1: A it's the June gloom and then it gets hot
Speaker 1: in July and August and really September, like August, September
Speaker 1: is the hottest time of the year, but it's supposed
Speaker 1: to get June hot around here. So I was holding
Speaker 1: down fort the fort over there at the Mallard Mansion.
Speaker 1: My wife had scheduled a friend of the family to
Speaker 1: come check out the air condition and this happened while
Speaker 1: I was prepping for the show. And as you know, Danny,
Speaker 1: there's a there's a method to the madness, and I
Speaker 1: have a routine. We all have routines, very methodical. I
Speaker 1: often start out paranoid that I won't have anything interesting
Speaker 1: that I want to talk about, and then then I'll
Speaker 1: end up finding too much stuff and I won't have
Speaker 1: enough time for But anyway, I desperately try to turn
Speaker 1: over every rock, leave no stone unturned, right, that's my goal.
Speaker 1: If someone's gonna give their time up to listen to
Speaker 1: this dopey radio show. I want to make sure I
Speaker 1: put my time to give them something that they will appreciate.
Speaker 1: So I spent a lot of time on it, scouring
Speaker 1: the globe for content. Uh. There's a term that that
Speaker 1: I remember when I was a kid growing up in
Speaker 1: a a Jewish household that you're you're trying to find
Speaker 1: the offie coon, like the hidden maza, uh hidden jewel.
Speaker 1: So all of this is happening, and the air conditioning
Speaker 1: guy comes over and I've met this guy in the
Speaker 1: past at a social event a friend of my my
Speaker 1: wife said, Uh, so I met the guy and you know,
Speaker 1: nice guy and all that, but I really know him.
Speaker 1: And um my wife said, he's a fan of the show.
Speaker 1: And but she said she told him, don't really talk
Speaker 1: to Ben because it'll be busy, which I appreciate. You know,
Speaker 1: I'm willing to talk, but I you know, I'm not
Speaker 1: a big small talk guy. But so anyway, so he
Speaker 1: comes in and he's doing the whole he's checking out
Speaker 1: the air conditioning, pulling wires. There's some electrical issues that
Speaker 1: some some wires had burned together probably years ago, and
Speaker 1: I we moved in here and we had to get
Speaker 1: it fixed. So he's coming over about every half hour,
Speaker 1: and he's in very places giving me updates. But at
Speaker 1: some point along the way these detailed updates morphed into uh,
Speaker 1: what I would call it Charlie Horse because name is
Speaker 1: Charlie R A c guy. Charlie. He was giving me
Speaker 1: the inside skinny Danny. Now. I love the fact that
Speaker 1: he enjoys the show. And he had mentioned he was
Speaker 1: relaying some of the things that had happened on the
Speaker 1: show that he had heard because he don't listen every night,
Speaker 1: because most people can't listen to every night because he's
Speaker 1: not over. So Charlie is he's going through? Yeah, I
Speaker 1: heard you. He took a call from this guy and
Speaker 1: then I really liked that, and he he likes the callers.
Speaker 1: He thinks that's a good part of the show. Not
Speaker 1: really a podcast guest. So I think we're okay. I
Speaker 1: don't think he listened to the pocket and if we
Speaker 1: are were in trouble. If he does, were in trouble,
Speaker 1: you're not in trouble. I'm in trouble. Um. He also
Speaker 1: loves Phil Henry, so then he like every time he
Speaker 1: thinks would get cranked up a little bit, like the
Speaker 1: first time. I was like, hey, I like the show.
Speaker 1: You know, here's what's going on with d C. And
Speaker 1: then half an hour later he'd come back. Here's an update.
Speaker 1: By the way, I loved Phil Hendon. I used to
Speaker 1: listen to him all the time on cafe in l A.
Speaker 1: And then he said I I he tell me like
Speaker 1: a bit that Phil Henry And he's like, did you
Speaker 1: ever meet Phil? I said, yes, I did. He used
Speaker 1: to work at the Premier Networks back and I did
Speaker 1: meet Phil. Oh really, what was he like? I really
Speaker 1: didn't know him that well. You know, I met him,
Speaker 1: but it's a casual meeting and we didn't really talk.
Speaker 1: And he said, okay, okay, and uh as I think
Speaker 1: Phil is doing a podcast now. So I said, well,
Speaker 1: why don't you listen to his podcast all he's doing
Speaker 1: a podcast. I said, yeah, I think he's doing a podcast.
Speaker 1: And then and I was like, oh, wait a minute,
Speaker 1: because I am friends with Phil henry On on Facebook.
Speaker 1: So I was like, oh, I'll just I'll look it
Speaker 1: up or whatever and I'll get back to you. So
Speaker 1: so he leaves, he comes back again half he was
Speaker 1: here for hours day, come back in half an hour later,
Speaker 1: we're talking about you know, solar and this, that and
Speaker 1: the other thing. And he's saying he he has like
Speaker 1: sleep at me, and he said, you can get an
Speaker 1: exemption for your power if you have sleep at me. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so that's kind of cool. Yeah, apparently, you know, in
Speaker 1: California they tax you if you go over a certain
Speaker 1: threshold with your But he said, if you have like
Speaker 1: a sleep condition, our health condition, you can have your
Speaker 1: doctor write a note and that you will always stay
Speaker 1: in tier one. Wo. Yeah, so if anyone. I don't
Speaker 1: know if that works in other states other than California,
Speaker 1: but that was like an interesting life fact. So then
Speaker 1: we move on from that, and now he's telling me
Speaker 1: he's got these black Russian Terrier service dogs. Now I
Speaker 1: didn't know what a black Russian Terrier dog looks like.
Speaker 1: These dogs are the size of a human being. Danny,
Speaker 1: I hate the curse, but this thing weighs about a
Speaker 1: hundred thirty pounds. It's massive. Ear unbelieved was one of
Speaker 1: the biggest, he says to me, shows me a photo.
Speaker 1: He's like, yeah, my wife doesn't like the dog on
Speaker 1: the bed, but one night, you know, I let the
Speaker 1: dog on the bed. The dogs like a human being
Speaker 1: in the bed. That dogs licked that whole thing. He's
Speaker 1: your best friends. Yeah, we're pals. Now we're boys, man,
Speaker 1: me and Charlie and and so I I was, I
Speaker 1: was looking at this, this Russian terry, the black Russian terry,
Speaker 1: and I was thinking, boy blind Scott and his dog
Speaker 1: Dylan would be so freaked out if they saw obviously
Speaker 1: good to see it, but if they if they were
Speaker 1: aware of how big huge. And I looked it up.
Speaker 1: The dog was created in the USSR in the Red
Speaker 1: Star kennel for military use. It's a military trained dog anyway,
Speaker 1: So this this one on and I did the math
Speaker 1: on it. When when Charlie finally left, very nice man, Charlie,
Speaker 1: very good, and he's apparently he's great at the air
Speaker 1: condition he's really good at air conditioning stuff, and that
Speaker 1: the electricity and and wiring and all that crap, which
Speaker 1: is important. Uh, but I estimate we spent ninety minutes talk.
Speaker 1: I'm not exaggerating, but I think it was not because
Speaker 1: every time he came over it got a little longer
Speaker 1: and a little longer, and then when he left, there
Speaker 1: was like an added twenty minutes on top of that.
Speaker 1: And did you do the cut off movie or the
Speaker 1: the end of the conversation. Was it an open end
Speaker 1: where you kept trying to end it but then it
Speaker 1: kept continuing. Yeah, So I had my laptop open, so
Speaker 1: I'm watching a ball game watching I was watching the
Speaker 1: Blue Jays were playing the Royal So I'm watching this
Speaker 1: right and okay, all right, thanks, But he's not making
Speaker 1: eye context. So I'm trying to do the whole eye
Speaker 1: contact things like I'm looking at it, and he didn't.
Speaker 1: He didn't make eye contact, so I couldn't. It was
Speaker 1: nice of you to do ninety minutes because you're very
Speaker 1: antisocial normal I am. I am. My wife said, you
Speaker 1: just gotta cut him off, Like that's what my My
Speaker 1: father in law just cut him off. That's so you
Speaker 1: have to cut him. No, I don't. I don't want
Speaker 1: to be rude. The guy's a Fanish show. I don't
Speaker 1: want to be a dick. You don't wanna be Ada
Speaker 1: and the guys a fan of the show, and I
Speaker 1: don't want to be an a hole. So what am
Speaker 1: I supposed to do? You know, hosts will have very
Speaker 1: outgoing personalities, it's real. But because you're outgoing on the
Speaker 1: air for all those hours off the radio, you don't
Speaker 1: really want to talk that much. Yeah, you save it
Speaker 1: for the show. The reason we don't talk a lot
Speaker 1: of before the show or anything like that. Yeah, you
Speaker 1: gotta say you don't want to waste anything because we
Speaker 1: we've talked about this to Danny both being in the
Speaker 1: radio business a long time. When you do something in
Speaker 1: a meeting and it's pretty good, you're like, oh, that's
Speaker 1: that should be on the air, and then you try
Speaker 1: it on there, it's never the same. Yeah, there's no
Speaker 1: good take two's you lose your edge on that. You
Speaker 1: lose your edge and then you need to go out
Speaker 1: and buy a Winter Parker. And he said, why would
Speaker 1: you need a winter Parker because it's June, But Danny
Speaker 1: will explain. Yeah, And this kind of ties into your
Speaker 1: air conditioning story. You know, I'm a couple hours away
Speaker 1: from you. My part of southern California has heated up already.
Speaker 1: It is that Chatsworth heat. You know what that is? Yeah? Yeah,
Speaker 1: oh boy, that's blazing sun hitting the rocks and Chatsworth.
Speaker 1: It's that kind of heat where it feels like death valley. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's bad. Now what I lived, I never have lived
Speaker 1: in the San Fernando Valley where you are. I lived
Speaker 1: in the San Gabriel Valley, which was also horrific. It
Speaker 1: was like living in a blow torch near the mountains there,
Speaker 1: the foothills. I loved it. They're it was beautiful, but
Speaker 1: it was so hot in the summer. But yeah, and
Speaker 1: I only know like the San Fernando vo I worked
Speaker 1: in Burbank, which is hot, and obviously Sherman Oaks where
Speaker 1: the studios are, and it's brutal. It's just I can
Speaker 1: only and further the further you get out where you
Speaker 1: are in that part of the valley. For those not
Speaker 1: familiar to chats Worth, which at one point was the
Speaker 1: porn capital, Yeah, the adult industries headquarters. I don't think
Speaker 1: it is anymore, but for a while I think there's
Speaker 1: a fair amount of people still there that do that.
Speaker 1: But it's not like it was. Yeah, it's a border
Speaker 1: town of San Fernando Valley in Ventura County and one
Speaker 1: of the hottest places in southern California. Ninety four feels
Speaker 1: like a hundred and four And they'll usually call the
Speaker 1: kids inside the classroom because it's just too hot to
Speaker 1: be outside for the kids. So We encountered this at
Speaker 1: summer school on Friday. First recess was early enough to
Speaker 1: where yeah I was in the eighties. It was hot,
Speaker 1: but you know, we're doing okay. But then we get
Speaker 1: to the afternoon and I hear two announcements on the radio.
Speaker 1: The first one says, and I had seen this kid
Speaker 1: Ben and I talked to him, but he wouldn't listen
Speaker 1: to me. The announcement over the radios, though, said, will
Speaker 1: somebody please escort the kid wearing the winter parka to
Speaker 1: the office. What? Yeah, this kid, his name is san Gee.
Speaker 1: He refuses to take his win her parka off. Then
Speaker 1: I had kids on the basketball court that we're getting
Speaker 1: the yard duties, whistles blown because the boys were taking
Speaker 1: their shirts off. You know, this is elementary school, so
Speaker 1: some of the fifth grade boys were like wearing tank
Speaker 1: tops and trying to do that trick where they flipped
Speaker 1: their shirt up because it's so hot. They wanted to
Speaker 1: play basketball, but they're also trying to be at the
Speaker 1: y m c A and take their shirt off. Meanwhile,
Speaker 1: san Gee is walking around the campus wearing jeans, a
Speaker 1: long sleeve T shirt and a winter parka. Wow, so
Speaker 1: this is it's like a lioness had the blanket and
Speaker 1: the peanuts, and this is this kid's thing is the park?
Speaker 1: What's the hiding? Is there something he's trying to hide
Speaker 1: or Man? Now, I saw him about an hour before
Speaker 1: this radio call. When I saw him, I said, dude,
Speaker 1: what are you doing? Take your jacket off. You're gonna
Speaker 1: die of a heat stroke. I'm not hot, he said,
Speaker 1: I'm always cold. He's like, I'm cold right now? What
Speaker 1: he laughed like he had some sort of superpower that
Speaker 1: I was unaware of. Okay, maybe maybe he does, because
Speaker 1: he continued to wear the winter park up until somebody
Speaker 1: must have informed the office. Hey, we got a kid
Speaker 1: out here that's gonna die if somebody doesn't peel this
Speaker 1: big jacket off of him. So what do we look?
Speaker 1: How old is this kid? What? What? What grade was he?
Speaker 1: Let's see he is a third grader? Oh, a third grade?
Speaker 1: There you go. Yeah, boy, built that little kids stage
Speaker 1: at third grade. You're not quite out of it yet.
Speaker 1: You can't get the man. I didn't get to be
Speaker 1: there in the office when the Park of boy showed up.
Speaker 1: I wonder how that encounter went and what they said
Speaker 1: to him, and how they were able to get that
Speaker 1: packet off because my conversation didn't work. I'm sure he
Speaker 1: told the office people the same thing. So did they
Speaker 1: physically like pull the jacket off of them? Was this
Speaker 1: a hostage negotiation where the parents contacted? Was there a
Speaker 1: ransom note? I will I will take the jacket off
Speaker 1: if I get extra candy, and that's it if I
Speaker 1: don't get extra candy. But when we were in school,
Speaker 1: we've all had our parents called about something or other.
Speaker 1: I man imagine that phone call. It's a hundred and
Speaker 1: two degrees outside right now, and your son is a
Speaker 1: sweating like a hyena. Moments later, there was a second
Speaker 1: radio call and it was a heat advisory, no more
Speaker 1: outdoor activities that day, shutting her down, shutting down the
Speaker 1: outdoor activities. First call was hey, get park a boy
Speaker 1: in the office, and the second call was none of
Speaker 1: you jackos can be out here. Wo. So what was
Speaker 1: the air? Interesting? Work at that place? Is good? Say?
Speaker 1: Or so? I've for stories about some of the schools
Speaker 1: where the A C doesn't work, Right, Charlie Lee, I
Speaker 1: I know a guy. I was so excited I wanted
Speaker 1: to pick more guys. I love it, absolutely, no question
Speaker 1: about it. So I made a tactical error here, Danny.
Speaker 1: This past week, the management had reached out to me.
Speaker 1: I was told very stern, like a stern message like
Speaker 1: this is very important for the company. The power at
Speaker 1: the main building, the Fox Sports radio Hub, was going
Speaker 1: to be out all day on Sunday, and one of
Speaker 1: the big bosses was very concerned that my remote studio
Speaker 1: would not be able to connect because everything was messed up,
Speaker 1: and so he said, we need you to go to
Speaker 1: the mother ship. It's one of the days we need
Speaker 1: to go. I said, okay, no problems. So but I
Speaker 1: made a tactical error since I did not want to
Speaker 1: miss it. This was Sunday night. I did not want
Speaker 1: to miss any minutes of Game two of the NBA Finals,
Speaker 1: which was back on Sunday. So I decided, you know
Speaker 1: what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna waste my entire day.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna drive out early from the north Woods. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna go out. My wife was busy, she was working,
Speaker 1: so I said, I'm gonna make a day. And I
Speaker 1: love Tito's tacosm so I said, I haven't been there
Speaker 1: a long time, so I'm gonna go to Tito's Tacos.
Speaker 1: I go there. This is the mecca. As my Mexican
Speaker 1: buddy who passed away years ago Alex said, the home
Speaker 1: of the green got taco, And so I went there.
Speaker 1: I got my green Goat tacos. Very delicious, wonderful, crunchy. Man,
Speaker 1: is that place good? And I've been going there? I can't.
Speaker 1: I can't believe I'll date myself if I say how
Speaker 1: long I've been going there? Danny, But the inflation is
Speaker 1: even more. I opened up. Now, I went back to
Speaker 1: when I first went to Tito's Tacos. The tacos were
Speaker 1: less than two dollars right at that time, and at
Speaker 1: that time it seems like a lot. It was still
Speaker 1: less than two dollars. So I looked up at the
Speaker 1: menu board. Mhm, have you been to the Tito's. I
Speaker 1: don't know if you have you ever been there? I've
Speaker 1: been there, not recently, though. You want to take you
Speaker 1: guess how much a single taco with cheese cost? Now?
Speaker 1: Double that? Now it's got to be four dollars. Uh,
Speaker 1: keep going, how about five dollars and ten cents one taco? Now,
Speaker 1: this taco is a fair sized taco. It is not
Speaker 1: the biggest taco you can have possibly get. It's like
Speaker 1: it's just like a regular kind of talk how it's
Speaker 1: possible to charge a charge five dollars for taco and
Speaker 1: be gets get idiots like me to pay five dollars
Speaker 1: for taco is it blows me away. But for me
Speaker 1: it was rare and appropriate. I enjoy it as I
Speaker 1: am not gonna eat it maybe once a year, twice
Speaker 1: a year at the most, So like what what that?
Speaker 1: So then I pick up the food and then that's
Speaker 1: in Culver City, So I make to drive up the
Speaker 1: dreaded four oh five, and my plan I've all mapped
Speaker 1: out in my head. I'm like, listen, it's way before
Speaker 1: the show. It's the afternoon. So I got my food.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna watch the finals game in privacy. So I'm
Speaker 1: gonna go up to the office tower where the other
Speaker 1: studios are for the Premier Networks, where like George Nor
Speaker 1: does his show and the other host. I parked my car.
Speaker 1: I can't even get in the garage to park my
Speaker 1: car because there's all these electrical trucks that are blocking
Speaker 1: the main entrance. So then I have to go all
Speaker 1: the way down Ventura down a side street and then
Speaker 1: kind of make a you turn to towards the exit.
Speaker 1: So I gotta do all that, and then I have
Speaker 1: to enter through the exit. So I get in there
Speaker 1: and I find a parking through the exit, head to
Speaker 1: the main tower. I use my thing to get in
Speaker 1: the building, and as I am going to the elevator,
Speaker 1: the security guard comes running in in a panic, arms
Speaker 1: waving and informs me that all the elevators are not
Speaker 1: And I'm thinking, well, there's a generator. Why would the
Speaker 1: elevators not work on the generator. But for some reason,
Speaker 1: I mean, I assumed if the generator is powering the building,
Speaker 1: that the at least one because this has happening four
Speaker 1: and I remember there was one service elevator that was
Speaker 1: worth But the guy's like no, he said, I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: there's no elevators. He declined, but then he said, you know,
Speaker 1: if you want, you know, there's a there's an emergency exit.
Speaker 1: You can walk up that five flights, five stories you
Speaker 1: can walk up. So I'm thinking, I'm like, well, wait
Speaker 1: a minute, I got I got my laptop, I've got
Speaker 1: my my other bag, I've got tacos, I've got a thermis.
Speaker 1: Do I want to walk up five stories uh, you know,
Speaker 1: and there's no air conditioning because of that, and I'm like,
Speaker 1: I politely decline. So then I'm like, okay, So I'm
Speaker 1: stuck in the main Fox Sports radio studio. So I
Speaker 1: go in there with my tail. I'm a defeated maid
Speaker 1: day my tail between my legs. I go in there
Speaker 1: and I try to go in the act to eat
Speaker 1: kind of away from the riff raft. There's just like
Speaker 1: weird setup. When you come to the building, there's a kitchen,
Speaker 1: and then the other side of the kitchen there's really
Speaker 1: just like kind of dead space. There's not a lot
Speaker 1: going on. And I'm like, I I spouted, I'm like, well,
Speaker 1: no one will bug me, you know, And so I said,
Speaker 1: that's perfect. I put my stuff down, put my computer down,
Speaker 1: put the tacos down, put the I filled up my
Speaker 1: thermis with some water. It's a little studio next to
Speaker 1: the production studio. Yeah, and I don't even know what's
Speaker 1: in that. That's stude. I don't even know. But so anyway,
Speaker 1: but after that, it was like a conda line of
Speaker 1: people saying hello, Hello. I don't even know how they
Speaker 1: knew I was there. Wreck it Ralph came by, Dan
Speaker 1: Fire came by some editors people I don't even know
Speaker 1: who they are. I don't even know what they do.
Speaker 1: They were coming by saying hello, which is very nice. Um,
Speaker 1: but I'm trying to eat and I don't like people
Speaker 1: watching me when I eat, So then every time somebody
Speaker 1: came over, I had to stopped eating. And then by
Speaker 1: the time I ate the tacos, they were cold. But
Speaker 1: then I was like, I paid five dollars for cold tacos,
Speaker 1: but I couldn't heat him up because the microwave wasn't working.
Speaker 1: So I made a lot of mistakes. Here's what I'm
Speaker 1: trying to say. And then I finally got down to
Speaker 1: do my prem but I was able to watch the game,
Speaker 1: which was fine because they had the generator power in
Speaker 1: the studio. But then another thing happened on the way
Speaker 1: out of work after the show that night. So Sunday night,
Speaker 1: you were not producing that night. You had already produced earlier.
Speaker 1: So I'm leaving the studio. I get out of the
Speaker 1: parking lot. I'm right at the corner of the Pulviano Matura.
Speaker 1: I'm heading to the one oh one freeway in the valley.
Speaker 1: Out there. I'm at a red light, and as I
Speaker 1: am it turns green, so I'm now clear to go
Speaker 1: through the intersection. I I start picking up some speed
Speaker 1: and then immediately I have to pump the brakes because
Speaker 1: a Los Angeles Public Transit bus decided to run their
Speaker 1: red light local rapid express and apparently reckless ramal night
Speaker 1: ran and I almost got t boned by a Los
Speaker 1: Angeles public transit bus in the middle of the night,
Speaker 1: a block away, not even a block, a corner where
Speaker 1: the studio is. And that's a reminder, Danny, and you know,
Speaker 1: driving late, I have seen over the years doing the
Speaker 1: Overnight show. I've seen many accidents. I've seen fatalities. I've
Speaker 1: seen three times, I've seen wrong way drivers. I have
Speaker 1: a theory and a lot of like at night, especially
Speaker 1: around there, there's a lot of really rich people that
Speaker 1: live in the hills. Bel Air is right up above
Speaker 1: the famous neighborhood bell Air, where like Lebron, doesn't Lebron
Speaker 1: live up there? I think I don't a lot of
Speaker 1: famous people, so uh, yes, that's right. So my theory is'
Speaker 1: all I blame Vin Diesel and the Fast and the
Speaker 1: Furious move be franchise because I think everyone he's got
Speaker 1: these high end sports cars. And now this was a
Speaker 1: bust that I at this time, but I see people
Speaker 1: at night on the street. It's like the Autobahn driving around.
Speaker 1: It's wild, all right. And when we get out of
Speaker 1: here on this we've got the backscratcher. You scratch our back,
Speaker 1: we scratch your back, and we have some gamesmanship this
Speaker 1: week in backscratching. This is where we begged you to
Speaker 1: go and support the podcast on the Apple podcast page
Speaker 1: fifth Hour Apple Podcast and really spread the word. We
Speaker 1: need we need more downloads, spread the word, share the sugar.
Speaker 1: I think there's this listener, twizzle Te Danny. We had
Speaker 1: two reviews this but this guy, twizzle Te found a loophole.
Speaker 1: This is the second consecutive week that he's written review.
Speaker 1: So I was like, that name looks familiar. So I
Speaker 1: was like, I swear he wrote a review last week.
Speaker 1: So then I went back and looked and that was gone.
Speaker 1: And now there's this review from twizzle t. So he
Speaker 1: updated it, I guess, but the other one was gone.
Speaker 1: So yeah, are you only allowed to do one? Is
Speaker 1: that one per customer? That's a good question. So he says,
Speaker 1: CNN schooling summer school sounds as awesome as this show,
Speaker 1: news coverage and water balloons covering all the bases. I
Speaker 1: had no idea about the flood. So thanks kid. So
Speaker 1: that's from Twizzle Teeth like he was quoting some of
Speaker 1: the great moments of the of last weekend's podcast. Yes,
Speaker 1: so he gave us five stars, so thank you. And
Speaker 1: then the other one was from the one and only
Speaker 1: Turret Burglar. How lucky are we Danny that the Turret
Speaker 1: Burglars a fan of our show We Gotta go man uh?
Speaker 1: And that was a five star review and it said,
Speaker 1: whoa big Ben and Danny are going to top the charts,
Speaker 1: watch out Joe Rogan wrong. So sure the people over
Speaker 1: at Spotify are going to steal us away Danny at
Speaker 1: any moment and throw lots of money or or what's
Speaker 1: the DraftKings with Pat mcafeel come knocking on our door
Speaker 1: and say, here's a bunch of money. Is there a
Speaker 1: better chance of that? Or the Saudi Arabian Group offerings.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go knock the Saudi Arabian Group. I think
Speaker 1: I have a distinct disadvantage to have them offer me
Speaker 1: any money. Nor would I really want to work with them.
Speaker 1: How much would it take for the Saudias to steal
Speaker 1: you away? Big? Listen? We all have a price, Danny,
Speaker 1: as you know, we all have a price. But I
Speaker 1: would have to not talk to many, many people who
Speaker 1: are part of my life to take that money. That
Speaker 1: would be the problem. There's a lot of people who
Speaker 1: have been very important in my life. If I did that,
Speaker 1: they would never talk to me again, and nor would
Speaker 1: I blame them, Nor would I blame them. All Right,
Speaker 1: we gotta get out of here. Anything to promote Danny anything?
Speaker 1: I'm not Cammy. Oh what are you got going up?
Speaker 1: I have a very rare day off today. All Right,
Speaker 1: my tender Roady and I are going to head to
Speaker 1: the beach. We've been talking to how the weather's heating
Speaker 1: up here in southern California. And what's your beach? Do
Speaker 1: you go to a toursty beach like Venice? Do you
Speaker 1: go to the celebrity beaches in Malibu? Like? What's your
Speaker 1: move here? Starting the weekend in San Diego and ending
Speaker 1: the weekend in Newport Beach? Oh little South oh Sea action? Well,
Speaker 1: let me know, maybe we'll we'll cross paths. You never
Speaker 1: know could happen. So anyway, have a great rest of
Speaker 1: your Saturday. The mail bag can't wait on Sunday. We'll
Speaker 1: talk to you then, Asta pasta, go after yourself, San Diego,
Speaker 1: what's with it