WEBVTT - Man vs Nature 0:00:02.360 --> 0:00:05.840 If you thought more hours a day, minutes a week 0:00:05.960 --> 0:00:09.479 was enough, think again. He's the last remnants of the 0:00:09.480 --> 0:00:13.640 old republic, a sole fashion of fairness. He treats crackheads 0:00:13.640 --> 0:00:16.200 in the ghetto cutter the same as the rich pill 0:00:16.239 --> 0:00:20.320 poppers in the penthouse, to clearing house of hot takes, 0:00:20.400 --> 0:00:24.160 break free for something special. The Fifth Hour with Ben 0:00:24.239 --> 0:00:29.400 Maller starts right now. Happy days are here again. We 0:00:29.440 --> 0:00:34.440 are back at it in the magic podcast Machine, the 0:00:34.600 --> 0:00:39.720 salt mines of podcasting. Saturday, Saturday, Saturday. We thank you 0:00:39.840 --> 0:00:43.519 for finding the Fifth Hour podcast. Obviously you have figured 0:00:43.560 --> 0:00:46.400 out how to download it. We know you have shared 0:00:46.440 --> 0:00:49.840 the podcast with others. You have gone on and reviewed 0:00:49.880 --> 0:00:54.080 the podcast and said really nice things, which is icing 0:00:54.160 --> 0:00:56.800 on the cake. And you have not thrown your hands 0:00:56.880 --> 0:01:00.240 up in horror about anything that you have heard in 0:01:00.320 --> 0:01:02.680 any of these podcasts over the weekend. But we do 0:01:02.800 --> 0:01:05.240 this because hey, four hours a night on the overnight 0:01:05.280 --> 0:01:09.600 not enough. A spinoff of the mildly popular Ben Maller 0:01:09.720 --> 0:01:13.800 Overnight radio show here, only available in the podcast format, 0:01:13.840 --> 0:01:15.480 so we can say all the bad words. We are 0:01:15.480 --> 0:01:19.080 not governed by the Federal Communications Commission in the United States. Now, 0:01:19.160 --> 0:01:22.319 even when I'm on overnight. I'm in the safe harbor, 0:01:22.440 --> 0:01:26.200 so we're we're allowed to use more spicy language, but 0:01:26.240 --> 0:01:29.200 we have to worry about the Wocarati, and the Wocarati 0:01:29.280 --> 0:01:32.319 does not like spicy language, so we are governed by 0:01:32.480 --> 0:01:35.840 both the f CC and the Wocarati. But joined again 0:01:35.959 --> 0:01:39.840 from west of the four oh five making his way 0:01:39.840 --> 0:01:42.720 and I know it's a big inconvenience, but ready to 0:01:42.800 --> 0:01:57.080 rock and roll, David Gascon, I feel like that applauses 0:01:57.080 --> 0:01:59.800 a little longer than normal. But do you appreciate that 0:02:00.080 --> 0:02:02.680 from the from the crowd, from the spectacle, that is? 0:02:02.920 --> 0:02:05.800 What is your what is your favorite word to use 0:02:05.840 --> 0:02:08.360 in profanity? And what's your most vulgar word that you 0:02:08.480 --> 0:02:10.960 like straight from the hip that you can shoot at 0:02:11.000 --> 0:02:17.160 anyone at any time. Uh, profanity is It really depends 0:02:17.240 --> 0:02:20.760 on the situation, right, I mean there's on the audience. 0:02:20.800 --> 0:02:23.760 I mean there's there's that magic word. Uh you know, 0:02:23.840 --> 0:02:28.440 see you next Tuesday when you use that and the 0:02:28.480 --> 0:02:31.280 proper you know, with the proper crowd there, boy, that 0:02:31.320 --> 0:02:34.959 really gets that really gets people people's feathers up and 0:02:35.040 --> 0:02:38.120 gets them going there. But you know, I'm a traditionalist 0:02:38.120 --> 0:02:40.680 with profanity you know, good m f h. You know, 0:02:40.760 --> 0:02:46.000 properly positioned there. I think is is very effective, very effective. 0:02:46.240 --> 0:02:48.959 And when I was in junior high school, and I 0:02:48.960 --> 0:02:50.560 actually got in trouble for this. When I was in 0:02:50.600 --> 0:02:52.560 junior high school, somebody, I don't know if I've told 0:02:52.600 --> 0:02:55.160 this story before, maybe I have. So when I was 0:02:55.200 --> 0:02:58.280 in junior high school, kid brought this. Is in the 0:02:58.280 --> 0:03:01.600 stone Age before the Internet, right, we just that computers, 0:03:01.639 --> 0:03:03.320 but it wasn't like it is. There was no Internet, 0:03:03.800 --> 0:03:06.600 worldwide Web. So when I was in school, somebody brought 0:03:06.639 --> 0:03:10.960 a piece of paper and it was like, it's a 0:03:11.080 --> 0:03:14.000 hundred in something ways to say the word fuck, right, 0:03:14.720 --> 0:03:17.240 And I thought this was the coolest thing ever. And 0:03:17.360 --> 0:03:21.639 I came from a family that with only curse when 0:03:21.680 --> 0:03:24.080 things got crazy and tried not to curse around me 0:03:24.080 --> 0:03:26.440 and all that stuff. So but at school, of course, 0:03:26.480 --> 0:03:28.680 everyone just has a potty a mount. Everyone's a sailor 0:03:28.880 --> 0:03:31.239 in elementary and junior high school and high school and 0:03:31.280 --> 0:03:34.320 all that. So you think you're an adult because you're cursing. 0:03:34.680 --> 0:03:37.040 So somebody brought this. One of my buddies brought this 0:03:37.080 --> 0:03:40.440 piece of paper, and my parents, God loved them. May 0:03:40.440 --> 0:03:43.440 the rested piece. They had a mailing service, and because 0:03:43.440 --> 0:03:45.640 they had a mailing service, they had I had access 0:03:45.680 --> 0:03:48.320 to a copy machine. So I thought, you know, a 0:03:48.320 --> 0:03:51.000 way to get some credibility on the playground. I'm gonna 0:03:51.000 --> 0:03:54.600 take that piece of paper goodheartedly. I'm gonna go home, 0:03:55.280 --> 0:03:58.600 my parents aren't looking. I'm going to print up fifty 0:03:58.680 --> 0:04:01.560 copies and pass them out to all the guys that 0:04:01.640 --> 0:04:04.360 I know in junior high school. And again it's like 0:04:04.400 --> 0:04:06.960 a hundred something ways to use the word fuck. So 0:04:07.080 --> 0:04:09.280 I go home and I'm very excited and I print 0:04:09.320 --> 0:04:11.880 all those things up. I go to school the next 0:04:11.960 --> 0:04:13.960 day and then pass them out. Right, I've done it, 0:04:14.000 --> 0:04:19.400 mission accomplished. I then get home from school and my 0:04:19.480 --> 0:04:21.440 mom's like, hey, Ben, I need to talk to you 0:04:21.480 --> 0:04:24.680 about something else I want did did the school? Did 0:04:24.680 --> 0:04:27.520 the school contact my parents and say your kids passing 0:04:27.520 --> 0:04:31.039 out a hundred ways to use the word fuck? Um? No, no, 0:04:31.120 --> 0:04:33.120 it was not that. And I thought, well, maybe I 0:04:33.120 --> 0:04:34.919 didn't clean the bathroom where I didn't do, you know, 0:04:35.000 --> 0:04:37.359 do one of my chores at the house and not 0:04:37.480 --> 0:04:42.320 on that. Um, I'm such a such a idiot that 0:04:42.480 --> 0:04:45.400 I went in my haste to get away with the 0:04:45.440 --> 0:04:49.440 perfect crime printing up the one fifty copies of one 0:04:49.520 --> 0:04:52.600 hundred ways to use the word fuck, I had mistakenly 0:04:52.680 --> 0:04:56.920 left the original copy in the printer. So when when 0:04:56.920 --> 0:04:59.440 my parents went to use the printer for work and 0:04:59.480 --> 0:05:01.839 they're like, is this and you know, did you do that? No? 0:05:01.960 --> 0:05:04.640 I didn't do this. Did you wait a minute? Ben 0:05:05.000 --> 0:05:06.839 you know? And of course at that point it's not 0:05:06.880 --> 0:05:09.120 ben it's Benjamin, you know, because when I'm in trouble 0:05:09.120 --> 0:05:12.960 with Benjamin. So but yeah, as as I said, a 0:05:13.000 --> 0:05:15.839 traditionalist with profanity, I think the the F word is 0:05:15.839 --> 0:05:18.520 the way to go. Now, what about you, guess gon? 0:05:18.720 --> 0:05:22.640 Growing up privileged west of the four oh five, where 0:05:22.800 --> 0:05:25.080 was there a go to term that you used back 0:05:25.120 --> 0:05:28.159 in the day marking at the moon? No? Well, first 0:05:28.200 --> 0:05:32.480 of all, my my father never swore, never, never, never. 0:05:32.960 --> 0:05:34.599 What about now and that he's now that you already 0:05:34.600 --> 0:05:38.039 growing up? Does he curse? No? Not really, maybe rare 0:05:38.360 --> 0:05:41.599 if he does, but he only does it when he's 0:05:41.640 --> 0:05:44.960 in a in a heated conversation, but he doesn't do 0:05:45.000 --> 0:05:49.560 it around us. And whenever we his kids use foul language, 0:05:49.560 --> 0:05:53.280 he always says like, yeah, David, don't use that kind 0:05:53.320 --> 0:05:57.719 of language or nice I like your pops. That's great. 0:05:57.920 --> 0:05:59.920 My grandfather when I was growing up used to cur 0:06:00.040 --> 0:06:01.960 us in Yiddish. He that's why I learned some of 0:06:02.000 --> 0:06:04.520 the bad words in Yiddish because he would not curse 0:06:04.600 --> 0:06:07.760 in front in English. Yeah. Yeah, you got the goods, 0:06:07.760 --> 0:06:09.599 so you can. You can hide a lot of your 0:06:09.640 --> 0:06:14.080 your vulgar language. It's pretty yeah. Yeah. Well, the problem 0:06:14.120 --> 0:06:17.160 is that a lot of the Yiddish has become like 0:06:17.320 --> 0:06:20.240 main stream stream. Like you know, there's certain words that 0:06:20.279 --> 0:06:24.480 are Yiddish where kutz it's most people know what that is. Uh, 0:06:24.520 --> 0:06:27.839 you know, there's a few others, but the really good 0:06:27.880 --> 0:06:31.320 stuff a lot of people still don't know that. So 0:06:31.440 --> 0:06:36.720 I've got so that didn't curse. No, so you had 0:06:37.000 --> 0:06:39.800 I like your mom, Well, we drove. I drove my 0:06:39.880 --> 0:06:42.960 mother up the wall. So you can imagine having four 0:06:43.080 --> 0:06:46.200 kids that you're at your disposal trying to get to 0:06:46.240 --> 0:06:49.880 school while she's working and dad's you know, working well 0:06:49.920 --> 0:06:52.360 past the nine to five. Yeah. We we kept her. 0:06:52.560 --> 0:06:57.599 We kept her awake many of nights. So yeah, but yeah, 0:06:57.600 --> 0:07:00.120 I think my favorite words got to be cut. It 0:07:00.240 --> 0:07:05.000 just it triggers everybody. You could call a guy a punt, 0:07:05.680 --> 0:07:08.839 and it's much worse than calling him a bit, like, 0:07:08.880 --> 0:07:10.840 don't act like a bit, but if you say then 0:07:10.840 --> 0:07:14.960 you're acting like a cunt. It just it just rubs 0:07:15.040 --> 0:07:19.040 people the wrong way. But you know, the word fuck you, 0:07:19.160 --> 0:07:22.840 iverybody you say fuck you or fuck It's almost like baseball. 0:07:22.880 --> 0:07:25.040 You know, there's nine ways to get to first base, 0:07:26.320 --> 0:07:29.640 and they give a baseball, including a recording a hit. 0:07:30.120 --> 0:07:33.040 And so funk is just so multidimensional that you can 0:07:33.120 --> 0:07:36.760 use it anytime, any place, with anybody. It's really the 0:07:36.840 --> 0:07:41.440 everything curse word. It goes with any outfit, any group 0:07:41.520 --> 0:07:46.120 of people that you're with. Scholars, probably not preachers, but 0:07:46.240 --> 0:07:49.600 even they occasionally, you know, they're human, so they'll they'll 0:07:49.600 --> 0:07:52.160 curse in all that. But but yeah, now you gotta 0:07:52.160 --> 0:07:56.240 be careful because we have a guy in in Arkansas 0:07:56.760 --> 0:07:59.200 who's a big fan in the Mallem mission gets very 0:07:59.280 --> 0:08:05.600 upset use profanity here. Oh so yeah, you're very careful there. 0:08:05.640 --> 0:08:07.360 He drives a big truck there and he gets very 0:08:07.440 --> 0:08:10.880 upset and he he'll send me messages. Is that how 0:08:10.960 --> 0:08:13.320 come you have to use those dirty words in there? 0:08:13.400 --> 0:08:15.480 What are you doing? What's wrong with you? Did something 0:08:15.560 --> 0:08:17.600 happened to you? Are you trying to be a shock jock. 0:08:17.680 --> 0:08:21.720 Are you trying to get attention? And I'm I'm like, well, 0:08:21.760 --> 0:08:24.720 no not. I mean, we're allowed to curse on the podcast. 0:08:24.760 --> 0:08:26.679 I'd curse on the radio show if we were allowed 0:08:26.680 --> 0:08:28.920 to curse on the radio show occasionally. But I do 0:08:29.000 --> 0:08:33.400 think there's a key to everbyone when Howard Stern crossed 0:08:33.440 --> 0:08:38.840 over from terrestrial radio to satellite radio and he he 0:08:39.000 --> 0:08:41.560 realized that, yeah, you can curse, but it's not it 0:08:41.679 --> 0:08:45.000 loses its muster if you do it all the time. 0:08:47.120 --> 0:08:49.480 You know, Sir scratch Off in Arkansas is the guy 0:08:49.520 --> 0:08:52.680 I'm referencing, by the way. God, he's gets very offended 0:08:53.640 --> 0:08:57.720 by the handry language that we you. I apologize we're 0:08:57.800 --> 0:08:59.280 using it for good. I mean you you brought it 0:08:59.400 --> 0:09:03.000 up as you introduced the show, so I had to ask. 0:09:03.040 --> 0:09:04.520 I think, I don't think i've ever asked you what 0:09:04.600 --> 0:09:07.960 your favorite vulgar word is. Like I said, I'm I'm 0:09:07.960 --> 0:09:11.800 a purist. The F word fuck, that's the top curse 0:09:11.840 --> 0:09:14.240 word there, with a winking or nod to ship, which 0:09:14.280 --> 0:09:17.560 I don't think should be a curse word to me. 0:09:17.920 --> 0:09:20.280 Ship should be allowed to be said. I don't understand 0:09:20.320 --> 0:09:23.040 why it's not. I can't figure that. Maybe somebody smarter 0:09:23.040 --> 0:09:24.520 than me can explain it to me. Like I'm five 0:09:24.600 --> 0:09:27.680 years old, I don't get it. When you were ship, 0:09:27.880 --> 0:09:30.200 every human being to be alive, you have to ship. 0:09:30.440 --> 0:09:33.000 What's the problem with ship? Well, to be without ship, 0:09:33.040 --> 0:09:36.440 you're not alive. Ship's a sign of life. Well, to 0:09:36.559 --> 0:09:39.439 be fair, though, without fucking, you know, we wouldn't be 0:09:39.480 --> 0:09:42.600 alive either. Well, we wouldn't be alive with that fucking, 0:09:42.880 --> 0:09:45.320 but we can live. There are people that are like 0:09:45.400 --> 0:09:48.320 a sexual who don't fuck or for whatever reason, they 0:09:48.320 --> 0:09:51.280 don't do that, and so they they're fine, right, they don't. 0:09:51.679 --> 0:09:54.800 The Yiddish term, by the way, which you want to use, stooping, 0:09:55.160 --> 0:09:57.400 that's my. So if I'm on the end, I say stooping, 0:09:57.640 --> 0:10:01.160 that's my. That's Yiddish for fucking or stoop, which is 0:10:01.200 --> 0:10:04.959 just fuck stoop you you know that's that's now? Do 0:10:05.000 --> 0:10:11.240 you tight ritt walk on the radio with your language? Uh? Well, 0:10:11.320 --> 0:10:13.720 I don't think so. I have only been called out 0:10:13.840 --> 0:10:18.960 once for something that I said. Uh, and that's actually 0:10:19.000 --> 0:10:24.160 the term prick, which is a a Yiddish term. You 0:10:24.160 --> 0:10:27.680 know what that means? And yeah, and somebody got up 0:10:27.679 --> 0:10:30.240 set with me on that. But like the stooping, I've 0:10:30.360 --> 0:10:35.440 used stooping. I used that every so often, tookis, which 0:10:35.480 --> 0:10:38.720 means buttocks, and uh, I'd like to use that one. 0:10:39.679 --> 0:10:42.240 But a lot of it, you know, people don't know 0:10:42.280 --> 0:10:43.439 what it is, and it just kind of goes in. 0:10:44.240 --> 0:10:46.240 Do you think about radio? Is most people listening only 0:10:46.280 --> 0:10:49.280 here about at the most twenty percent of what we're saying, 0:10:50.080 --> 0:10:52.560 So a lot of it just is just going out 0:10:52.600 --> 0:10:54.520 into the ethos and nothing. Nobody knows what the hell 0:10:54.600 --> 0:10:57.200 is going on. Anyway. We have on this edition, the 0:10:57.280 --> 0:11:01.320 Saturday edition of The Fifth Hour, Within and David Gascon 0:11:01.559 --> 0:11:06.200 the travel Log. I touched on this briefly on the 0:11:06.320 --> 0:11:07.800 radio show, but I didn't really go into a lot 0:11:07.800 --> 0:11:09.840 of detail. I wanted to save that for the podcast, 0:11:09.880 --> 0:11:11.760 and I thought Saturday is the perfect day to do that. 0:11:11.800 --> 0:11:15.119 So I have the Mallard travel Log, the Squirrel Whisper, 0:11:16.080 --> 0:11:21.280 we have that, We have tales from Germany, pop quiz, 0:11:21.600 --> 0:11:25.520 and maybe if we have time, we'll get scientifical. So 0:11:25.559 --> 0:11:27.520 we have all that. Tell me you're not excited, I 0:11:27.559 --> 0:11:31.319 am excited for you, all right, So last weekend we're 0:11:31.320 --> 0:11:33.200 gonna go all the way back to last weekend of 0:11:33.200 --> 0:11:35.880 the way Back Machine. So I took a rare and 0:11:35.920 --> 0:11:40.360 appropriate day away from my catbird seat, my watchbirds seat 0:11:40.400 --> 0:11:44.680 there as the guardian of overnight sports radio. The reason 0:11:44.760 --> 0:11:49.120 I did that is my wife's schedule changing this week. 0:11:49.200 --> 0:11:54.040 She went back to a non convenient work. Her schedule 0:11:54.160 --> 0:11:57.880 changes every like four months, every six months on like that. Uh, 0:11:57.920 --> 0:12:00.520 And so her schedule changed and we were on we 0:12:00.520 --> 0:12:02.280 were aligned on the same schedule, so we were able 0:12:02.280 --> 0:12:06.360 to hang out, get quality time on the weekend. Um. 0:12:06.400 --> 0:12:08.280 But that no longer the case. My wife will be 0:12:08.280 --> 0:12:10.480 working on the weekends. I will have my time off 0:12:10.559 --> 0:12:13.240 on the weekends, and so the planets are not going 0:12:13.280 --> 0:12:14.760 to be lined up. And so we thought, well, this 0:12:14.800 --> 0:12:17.439 is the last weekend before you know, four or five, 0:12:17.559 --> 0:12:20.240 six months from now, and everything's upside down. As I 0:12:20.280 --> 0:12:22.360 said in the Saturday podcast last week that I was, 0:12:22.480 --> 0:12:25.000 I'm moving. I'm living in a halfway house right now, 0:12:25.040 --> 0:12:27.400 so things things are a little upside down for me 0:12:27.440 --> 0:12:30.520 in my life. I'm a creature of habit um. Unfortunately, 0:12:30.520 --> 0:12:32.320 I got the studio set up. I think it sounds 0:12:32.840 --> 0:12:35.600 sounds pretty good, but anyway, so so we went out 0:12:35.760 --> 0:12:38.800 and spent the weekend away from La traveled up the 0:12:38.840 --> 0:12:42.240 California coast. Now, the great thing about geography is if 0:12:42.360 --> 0:12:44.800 I was making the same road trips, say I started 0:12:44.800 --> 0:12:48.560 out in Georgia, right, and which is on the southern part. 0:12:48.760 --> 0:12:51.520 I know Florida's below that, But let's say Georgia and 0:12:51.559 --> 0:12:55.320 you're driving up the east coast, I would have ended 0:12:55.440 --> 0:12:58.720 up probably in Virginia. If I was driving up the 0:12:58.720 --> 0:13:01.800 east coast in California, I was still in California. We 0:13:01.840 --> 0:13:06.480 went to central California, unsullied by the slop of Los 0:13:06.480 --> 0:13:09.720 Angeles or the people shipping on the streets of San Francisco. 0:13:10.040 --> 0:13:12.880 They're doing that in l A also, uh and a 0:13:13.080 --> 0:13:18.280 nice little oasis, Castle Blanca, if you will. I spent 0:13:18.360 --> 0:13:23.880 a night in San Louis Obispo. Yeah. I like it there. 0:13:23.880 --> 0:13:27.800 It's cool. It's nice town. My wife loves the Madonna In. 0:13:27.920 --> 0:13:33.520 You ever been to the Madonna You have not good 0:13:33.559 --> 0:13:38.240 weekend getaway right off the highway one there and Madonna 0:13:38.320 --> 0:13:44.000 In is a gotty, over the top hotel designed for 0:13:44.080 --> 0:13:47.000 women and gay men. I would say the hotel is 0:13:47.360 --> 0:13:51.440 and my wife loves it. My it's her favorite place 0:13:51.440 --> 0:13:53.800 to say. It's like something you would expect to see 0:13:54.760 --> 0:13:58.160 at the Vegas trip. In fact, I've described the Madonna 0:13:58.240 --> 0:14:04.240 In as sir Orkus circus for women adult women, uh 0:14:04.320 --> 0:14:06.960 you know, and or girls as well. I mean, who cares. 0:14:07.040 --> 0:14:09.880 But for the female gender, I believe there are male 0:14:09.920 --> 0:14:13.560 and females. So Madonna In is the it's gonna slip 0:14:13.600 --> 0:14:15.840 that in get did you hear that guy? I'm a 0:14:15.880 --> 0:14:20.640 rebel and I'm old school. Yeah. Anyway, so, uh, she 0:14:20.720 --> 0:14:24.320 loves the Madonna In and it's her favorite hotel in California. 0:14:24.320 --> 0:14:26.000 So we drove us an all day drive from where 0:14:26.080 --> 0:14:30.080 we live, and we went out and we're supposed to 0:14:30.080 --> 0:14:32.040 get there at two o'clock. We got there at seven o'clock. 0:14:32.480 --> 0:14:36.400 So we left a little late classic road trip. Eight 0:14:36.440 --> 0:14:39.120 on the road, stopped, stopped off, I stopped off in 0:14:39.120 --> 0:14:43.320 Woodland Hills, got a bite teat kept going driving through California, 0:14:44.280 --> 0:14:46.240 and we drove all day there, had a nice dinner, 0:14:46.800 --> 0:14:49.280 a little late night swim in the heated pool. Giving 0:14:49.320 --> 0:14:52.920 the Mallard travel log, I went to bed, got up, 0:14:53.320 --> 0:14:56.680 went back to the pool, and then traveled up in 0:14:57.080 --> 0:14:59.720 Highway one. They're not all the way to Monterey, but 0:14:59.800 --> 0:15:05.520 up Highway one. We visited Morrow Bay, wonderful town, all 0:15:05.520 --> 0:15:08.880 those little beach towns, all those little beach towns. Uh 0:15:09.040 --> 0:15:12.320 pretty pretty cool. Uh. So yeah, we we went down 0:15:12.560 --> 0:15:14.640 to Morrow Bay, hung out there, spend a night in 0:15:14.760 --> 0:15:18.960 Morrow Bay. And I've been to these places before. I 0:15:18.960 --> 0:15:22.240 I ate fishing chips, so I met my quota for 0:15:22.480 --> 0:15:25.480 I'm a pilot. I ate seafood for the first time 0:15:25.480 --> 0:15:27.880 in one and I don't think I ate it last year, 0:15:27.960 --> 0:15:30.920 so first time since nineteen I usually eat it once 0:15:31.000 --> 0:15:33.560 or twice a year. I've met my quota. Then we 0:15:33.600 --> 0:15:36.680 went off to San Simeon State Beach. You ever been 0:15:36.720 --> 0:15:41.200 to San Simeon Never? You've never been to the Hearst Castle. Never, Oh, 0:15:41.320 --> 0:15:44.120 you gotta go check it out. Man, Hearst Class Castle 0:15:44.120 --> 0:15:45.800 was actually closed. I've been there before, so I didn't 0:15:45.800 --> 0:15:48.360 need to go. But there's this little I shouldn't say 0:15:48.360 --> 0:15:50.280 it because then people will show up like You're like, 0:15:50.320 --> 0:15:52.960 I have that kind of power. Please anyway, there you 0:15:52.960 --> 0:15:55.200 want a little cool thing to do in California, if 0:15:55.240 --> 0:15:56.880 you're on the on the West coast, you drive up 0:15:56.960 --> 0:16:01.480 Highway one. It's about an hour outside San Louis obis 0:16:01.600 --> 0:16:05.480 Ball on Highway one, beautiful road. And right across the 0:16:05.480 --> 0:16:08.920 street from hurst Castle is the beach that that Hurst 0:16:09.080 --> 0:16:12.480 used to bring in all the building materials, and there's 0:16:12.520 --> 0:16:17.200 a pier. It's always foggy, always foggy, Morrow Bay and 0:16:17.240 --> 0:16:21.640 also in San Simeon, and it's great. There's almost nobody there. 0:16:21.720 --> 0:16:27.840 It's picturesque, the water is green. It's just beautiful. And Hurst, 0:16:28.480 --> 0:16:31.360 if you know about his his over the top home 0:16:31.440 --> 0:16:33.520 which is now a museum, he when he died his 0:16:33.680 --> 0:16:36.960 estate left all that land. The reason cal Central California 0:16:36.960 --> 0:16:39.400 has nobody living in it comparison to l A in 0:16:39.440 --> 0:16:42.880 San Francisco is because of the fact that Hurst bought 0:16:42.920 --> 0:16:44.480 all the land and just gave it to the state 0:16:44.480 --> 0:16:48.200 of California's a nature preserve essentially, but he has got 0:16:48.240 --> 0:16:51.520 there's zebras roaming around and all these exotic animals and 0:16:51.560 --> 0:16:54.160 they've called a lot of cows, a lot of cows. 0:16:54.200 --> 0:16:57.960 And uh, we leisurely stopped off at some vistas and 0:16:58.040 --> 0:17:01.600 deserted beaches, and it didn't remind me that part of 0:17:01.640 --> 0:17:04.560 California reminds me a little bit of Hawaii, where you 0:17:04.560 --> 0:17:06.320 can just pull off to the side of the road 0:17:06.400 --> 0:17:10.120 and and go out to the beach and nobody really 0:17:10.160 --> 0:17:12.560 bugs you. You're just gonna watch out for the occasional 0:17:13.640 --> 0:17:17.760 highway patrol officer who's a little over aggressive with the tickets. 0:17:18.119 --> 0:17:20.040 But other than that, you're good. Uh and and that. 0:17:20.160 --> 0:17:22.119 So that was the travel log, but that leads us 0:17:22.119 --> 0:17:26.080 into the squirrel whisper. Well before we get into that. 0:17:27.560 --> 0:17:32.520 Knowing you and knowing your wife, this madonna in is 0:17:32.800 --> 0:17:36.479 right up her strike zone. Like I'm looking at this 0:17:36.560 --> 0:17:38.359 is not no, no, no no, This is like right 0:17:38.400 --> 0:17:43.520 in her wheelhouse. Yeah. When I travel, I tend to 0:17:43.560 --> 0:17:45.840 stay at the cheapest possible place. I can say, I don't. 0:17:45.880 --> 0:17:48.120 I don't care. To me, it's not about the hotel. 0:17:48.200 --> 0:17:51.080 It's about doing stuff. If I travel, I don't believe 0:17:51.080 --> 0:17:57.440 in off and go exactly. She disagrees. Her Her outlook 0:17:57.680 --> 0:18:00.720 is it's about comfort. It's about a nice hotel. She 0:18:00.840 --> 0:18:03.639 doesn't mind dropping the good amount of money on hotel rooms. 0:18:04.119 --> 0:18:06.600 So we've come to a compromise, much like most things 0:18:06.640 --> 0:18:08.520 in my life, as long as I don't know how 0:18:08.600 --> 0:18:13.000 much it costs, I'm okay. So you know, you can, 0:18:13.160 --> 0:18:15.760 you know, drop drop a C note on a hotel 0:18:15.880 --> 0:18:17.840 or whatever. I don't know. I don't care. I'm not 0:18:18.480 --> 0:18:20.920 I'm not going to worry about it if I don't 0:18:20.920 --> 0:18:22.920 know about it's kind of I mean, it's it's cool 0:18:23.200 --> 0:18:25.200 in some ways. I don't know if this is kind 0:18:25.200 --> 0:18:27.639 of nostalgic for you, because looking at a few of 0:18:27.640 --> 0:18:30.800 the rooms and even the bathrooms, it makes me feel 0:18:30.800 --> 0:18:34.600 like I'm at my grandparents house looking at the Madonna 0:18:34.720 --> 0:18:37.600 and yeah, yeah, Like some of the bathrooms are tiled. 0:18:37.960 --> 0:18:41.000 They're checkered tiled, so like blue and gold a little bit. 0:18:41.400 --> 0:18:45.720 Every room has a theme and it's over the top. 0:18:46.000 --> 0:18:50.040 It's like if here's an outdated reference, guess scoun But 0:18:50.119 --> 0:18:52.760 the older listeners will will get it. You listening who 0:18:52.760 --> 0:18:56.480 are over a certain age, a Liberati like you know Liberally. 0:18:56.480 --> 0:19:00.680 You know, Liberaci is the entertain her in Vegas that 0:19:00.720 --> 0:19:03.480 played the piano, the gay guy with the over the 0:19:03.520 --> 0:19:06.159 top outfits and all that. He by the way, he 0:19:06.200 --> 0:19:08.480 lived in Sherman Oaks. Did you know that he lived 0:19:08.960 --> 0:19:11.280 right up the hill from the mother ship the Fox 0:19:11.320 --> 0:19:13.399 Sports radio studios. But anyway, it's like something he would 0:19:13.400 --> 0:19:17.719 put together. Um over the top, and yeah, I mean 0:19:17.800 --> 0:19:19.920 she loves it, and it's like a whole big process 0:19:19.920 --> 0:19:21.679 to pick me out which room are we gonna stay in? 0:19:21.720 --> 0:19:24.280 You know this time? You know that whole thing. That's cool. 0:19:24.880 --> 0:19:26.400 You gotta do at least once. What kind of room 0:19:26.440 --> 0:19:29.840 did you guys actually stay in. I don't remember the 0:19:29.920 --> 0:19:32.040 name of it was. It was one of the It 0:19:32.160 --> 0:19:36.480 was like bright red. There was rock on the walls. Uh. 0:19:36.520 --> 0:19:38.600 It didn't have a sofa. That reminded me of my 0:19:38.640 --> 0:19:43.080 grandmother's MISSI resident. Yeah, I did have that bright red carpet, 0:19:44.800 --> 0:19:47.720 chandeliers everywhere, you know that kind of thing. Oh, man, 0:19:47.800 --> 0:19:52.240 that's great. There's the old world Sweet, the Madonna, Sweet, 0:19:53.160 --> 0:19:57.480 the Karen, the Caveman, the Karen. Yeah, boy, I still 0:19:57.560 --> 0:20:00.800 changing the name of that. It's a are I n though? 0:20:01.680 --> 0:20:05.080 All the love nest? Who the love Nest? Yeah? There 0:20:05.080 --> 0:20:07.560 were people there on their hunting moon. We saw cars 0:20:07.560 --> 0:20:09.800 in the parking lot. They were all painted up, you know, 0:20:10.119 --> 0:20:13.080 a happy marriage, you know, happy wedding whatever. So, yeah, 0:20:13.760 --> 0:20:16.479 this is kind of cool. Man. You're gonna go there. 0:20:16.520 --> 0:20:18.440 You gotta go, man, come on, guess go and get 0:20:18.440 --> 0:20:20.960 you act again. Well, I found I found a room 0:20:20.960 --> 0:20:23.280 for me there too. What is it the Jackass room? 0:20:23.480 --> 0:20:27.280 Rock Bottom, the rock Bottom. It's really a homage to 0:20:27.320 --> 0:20:32.200 your career, so, uh, why why not? Oh my gosh, 0:20:32.200 --> 0:20:35.520 that's good man. Be sure to catch live editions of 0:20:35.560 --> 0:20:38.080 The Ben Maller Show week days at two am eastern 0:20:38.160 --> 0:20:41.119 eleven pm Pacific. Be sure to catch live editions of 0:20:41.200 --> 0:20:44.160 The Ben Maller Show weekdays at two am eastern eleven 0:20:44.160 --> 0:20:47.720 pm Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the I Heart 0:20:47.800 --> 0:20:50.760 Radio app. So that was my travel and then we 0:20:51.520 --> 0:20:56.440 I love the slow, methodical drive back. We came back 0:20:56.480 --> 0:20:58.320 on Saturday. I had to get back for the Clipper game, 0:20:58.400 --> 0:21:02.560 so we slowly drove down the California coast. We were 0:21:02.600 --> 0:21:05.879 all the way up at San Simeon, and you know, 0:21:05.920 --> 0:21:11.160 we drove through the different towns along Highway One, got 0:21:11.200 --> 0:21:14.280 back on you know, the main drag in San Louis 0:21:14.280 --> 0:21:19.000 abyss Ball, and we stopped off in Santa Barbara and Ventura. 0:21:19.200 --> 0:21:20.520 You know a couple of different places that are I 0:21:20.520 --> 0:21:22.240 don't usually go to because I live far away from 0:21:22.240 --> 0:21:26.240 those places. So I love Santa Barbara. And in Builton, 0:21:26.480 --> 0:21:28.919 which is right next door, actually know the Bulton's up 0:21:28.920 --> 0:21:31.960 a little bit. That's where we went to, uh to 0:21:32.080 --> 0:21:36.960 have the fried donuts in what's that town called right 0:21:36.960 --> 0:21:40.479 next to Buleton you had fried donuts. Yeah, yeah, I'd 0:21:40.520 --> 0:21:45.000 say in nor it's like a Norwegian Swedish what's the 0:21:45.080 --> 0:21:49.000 name of that town? Having a mental block there now 0:21:49.240 --> 0:21:51.320 I've talked about it before. They have the like the 0:21:51.400 --> 0:21:55.320 little Danish town in California north of Santa Barbara's like 0:21:55.320 --> 0:21:57.920 an hour north of Santa Barbara. Half an hour north 0:21:57.960 --> 0:22:04.520 of Santa Barbara. Come on, askon, come on, gascon Solvang, 0:22:04.640 --> 0:22:09.760 boom solving. It's definitely note my, why not man, because 0:22:09.840 --> 0:22:13.720 that's a great day trip in l A, a little 0:22:13.760 --> 0:22:20.120 slice of Denmark in in California. Solvang really Danish, that's 0:22:20.119 --> 0:22:24.919 what says on Google. They've got delicious Danish bakeries. You 0:22:24.960 --> 0:22:28.760 get these little eber skeezels something I think of butchering 0:22:28.800 --> 0:22:30.600