WEBVTT - The Fifth Hour: Nooks, Crannies, Karate Chops 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 --> 0:00:20.200 pill poppers in the penthouse. The Clearinghouse of Hot takes 0:00:20.280 --> 0:00:24.080 break free for something special. The Fifth Hour with Ben 0:00:24.120 --> 0:00:34.960 Maller starts right now in the air every way back 0:00:35.000 --> 0:00:37.320 at it again, another edition of The Fifth Hour with 0:00:37.520 --> 0:00:43.479 Ben Maller and Danny G Radio. Because five nights a 0:00:43.479 --> 0:00:46.600 week on the overnight are not an offense. So we 0:00:46.680 --> 0:00:50.720 can schmooze, Danny G, you and I can schmooze and 0:00:51.080 --> 0:00:53.560 take care of all the things that we don't get 0:00:53.560 --> 0:00:56.880 to take care of during the week on our day jobs. Yeah, 0:00:57.000 --> 0:00:59.400 Saturday is one of those days where we can just 0:00:59.520 --> 0:01:02.880 kick back, can have fun. Well, for me until it's 0:01:02.880 --> 0:01:05.160 studio time, I'm still gonna go in and have fun 0:01:05.600 --> 0:01:08.679 with the Jonas Knock Show. But what better back to 0:01:08.760 --> 0:01:13.520 back personalities then Ben Mallard and then Jonas Knocks. What 0:01:13.560 --> 0:01:17.880 a day. Oh, it's very sweet of you to to 0:01:17.920 --> 0:01:19.560 say that. I don't know that you actually believe it, 0:01:19.560 --> 0:01:21.759 but I but it's very kind of you to well, 0:01:21.800 --> 0:01:23.680 I mean, you're both kind of painting the acids. But 0:01:23.760 --> 0:01:25.920 you're fun on the air. Oh no, no, no, no no. 0:01:25.959 --> 0:01:28.840 We we like to spar a little bit. Yeah, that's 0:01:28.880 --> 0:01:33.200 it more interesting. So on this the Saturday pod, we've 0:01:33.280 --> 0:01:36.000 got what do we have in the bodega? We've got 0:01:36.040 --> 0:01:41.280 Aqua Mallar looking down on you, back scratcher, and if 0:01:41.319 --> 0:01:45.280 we have time, we'll do a little scientifical We haven't 0:01:45.360 --> 0:01:48.960 done that in a while, and I only we've done 0:01:48.960 --> 0:01:51.200 it since the summertime, So maybe we'll bring that back, 0:01:51.600 --> 0:01:55.320 depending on time. But let's get right into it and 0:01:55.360 --> 0:02:00.080 we begin this being the second podcast the week in 0:02:00.200 --> 0:02:03.680 the life of Mallard and Danny g and we take 0:02:03.720 --> 0:02:09.840 you behind the afterglow of being big time network radio stars. 0:02:10.480 --> 0:02:15.840 What doesn't that sound impressive to any network radio star? Man? 0:02:16.360 --> 0:02:19.720 That's like a that's like a big deal, right, and 0:02:19.760 --> 0:02:24.520 then you see our paychecks and it's like a comedy 0:02:24.520 --> 0:02:29.359 all right? What? Uh? So this past weekend a rather tranquil, 0:02:30.720 --> 0:02:34.680 mundane a weekend. I mentioned last week I had taped 0:02:34.680 --> 0:02:38.280 the documentary and so my whole schedule was all messed 0:02:38.360 --> 0:02:40.880 up and I was running all over the place. And 0:02:41.040 --> 0:02:48.840 this past weekend the life of of me pretty black, shopping, 0:02:49.040 --> 0:02:52.600 running errands, taking care of some grown up stuff that 0:02:52.639 --> 0:02:57.880 I had to do. And we're having a hidden door 0:02:58.639 --> 0:03:02.000 put in the Mallard mansion like us, that's newsworthy, hid 0:03:02.000 --> 0:03:05.919 in door like for a speak easy, well not quite. 0:03:05.960 --> 0:03:08.080 What have you come over to the Halloween party, Danny 0:03:08.120 --> 0:03:10.240 that we're gonna have you'll I'll show you the hidden 0:03:10.240 --> 0:03:14.280 door coming out, Jeffrey Dahmer. It's gonna add a new 0:03:14.400 --> 0:03:19.840 layer of spooky. And so we had our our handy guy, 0:03:20.000 --> 0:03:23.240 a handyman who does a lot of the work because 0:03:23.280 --> 0:03:26.600 I'm incapable of doing anything. Uh, and so he does 0:03:26.639 --> 0:03:28.240 a lot of work. And the guys like a magician 0:03:28.480 --> 0:03:31.960 and came over, spent a few hours working on it, 0:03:32.000 --> 0:03:34.200 came over another day worked on it. It's pretty much done. 0:03:34.240 --> 0:03:36.080 There's a few more things he has to do, but 0:03:36.160 --> 0:03:39.720 he did it pretty quick, which is nice considering he 0:03:39.760 --> 0:03:41.680 told us he had never built a door like this. 0:03:41.760 --> 0:03:44.760 It was like a secret door on wheels and you 0:03:44.880 --> 0:03:48.080 gotta pull this thing that dragged the door open. It's 0:03:48.200 --> 0:03:52.200 it's kunny. But I did have a few hours of 0:03:52.520 --> 0:03:57.360 pool time my father in law out of town visiting 0:03:58.080 --> 0:04:03.000 North Carolina and doing his thing before the storm, and 0:04:03.040 --> 0:04:05.600 so he was kind enough to let me and the family, 0:04:05.680 --> 0:04:08.600 the wife and whatnot to use the pool. And so 0:04:08.720 --> 0:04:11.200 we met up with my sister in law and her 0:04:11.240 --> 0:04:15.720 family and call me Aqua Mallard, Danny g Aqua Maller. 0:04:16.000 --> 0:04:19.040 Now I do go swimming quite a bit at this house. Yeah, right, 0:04:19.080 --> 0:04:21.000 you have. You're coming off a bad leg. I don't 0:04:21.040 --> 0:04:23.320 see you as an aqua man. No, let me explain. 0:04:23.360 --> 0:04:26.960 So it was a split splash kind of a good time, Danny. 0:04:27.040 --> 0:04:28.800 I do like to go in the pool, and it 0:04:28.920 --> 0:04:33.320 did help my knee because the pressure. I felt like 0:04:33.360 --> 0:04:37.240 I was normal again with my bum right knee inside 0:04:37.240 --> 0:04:39.200 the pool. Because when you move around in the pool, 0:04:39.240 --> 0:04:41.280 they tell you if you've got bad knees or bad 0:04:41.440 --> 0:04:45.080 whatever joint, you go in the pool. My mom she 0:04:45.160 --> 0:04:48.560 had arthritis. She had terrible rumor toward arthritis, and at 0:04:48.600 --> 0:04:51.320 one point before things got really bad for her, she 0:04:51.480 --> 0:04:54.440 we had like a hot tub, and but she eventually 0:04:54.440 --> 0:04:56.760 couldn't get in the hot tub anymore. She was that bad, 0:04:56.800 --> 0:04:58.479 and so we got rid of it. But for a 0:04:58.480 --> 0:05:00.760 while I was like, yeah, it was great, but anyway, 0:05:00.760 --> 0:05:02.760 so it helped. It was the therapeutic and all that, 0:05:02.839 --> 0:05:06.440 although the chlorine was not great, and I also enjoy 0:05:06.480 --> 0:05:08.440 I have a side hustle which I talked about every 0:05:08.440 --> 0:05:12.560 once in a while. I am Uncle Benny, not Uncle 0:05:12.600 --> 0:05:15.360 Ben because that got canceled. That's the rice. But I'm 0:05:15.440 --> 0:05:19.040 Uncle Benny and my niece and nephew were at the 0:05:19.080 --> 0:05:22.560 pool at the house. You know, I'm doing our thing whatever, 0:05:23.240 --> 0:05:27.520 and I got my five year old niece and my 0:05:27.600 --> 0:05:30.760 three year old nephew. Now, my job is a very 0:05:30.800 --> 0:05:34.560 important job as Uncle Benny. My job is as the 0:05:34.600 --> 0:05:38.200 sea monster. Have you ever played the sea monster? Dan? 0:05:38.279 --> 0:05:41.479 It's a very important role. As a relative of small children, 0:05:41.839 --> 0:05:47.440 I address myself. This is where the kiddos playfully punched me, 0:05:48.800 --> 0:05:51.360 and then I at that point turned into a thespian. 0:05:51.680 --> 0:05:55.800 Now this sounds like a fun game. Yeah, yeah. So 0:05:55.839 --> 0:05:59.800 the kids pretend or they're they're actually not pretending because 0:05:59.800 --> 0:06:04.880 they're little kids. So I pretend like I've been waylaid 0:06:05.560 --> 0:06:09.039 molly wopped. When the little kids pretend, you know, they're 0:06:09.040 --> 0:06:11.520 they're actually not pretending. Like I said, they're punching. But 0:06:11.560 --> 0:06:16.240 I'll fly backwards like a vaudevillion median and I'll fly 0:06:16.360 --> 0:06:21.239 backwards are possibly forwards depending on how it goes which 0:06:21.240 --> 0:06:25.760 side I get punched. So I've done this kind of 0:06:25.760 --> 0:06:27.640 thing for years with different relatives. I love it. I 0:06:27.680 --> 0:06:30.120 love being the sea Monster and Uncle Benny and all that. 0:06:30.240 --> 0:06:32.080 So it's it's a lot of fun, love hanging out 0:06:32.120 --> 0:06:36.440 with the kiddos. And the kids believe they have like 0:06:36.520 --> 0:06:40.880 superhuman strength then because they are punching the sea Monster 0:06:41.040 --> 0:06:43.840 and the Sea Monster is going flying, so they think 0:06:43.880 --> 0:06:46.920 they're like the incredible Hulk here. So all of it 0:06:46.960 --> 0:06:48.440 was I was all I was having fun. It was 0:06:48.480 --> 0:06:52.279 all good and all that stuff, funning games, until my 0:06:52.640 --> 0:06:56.360 three year old nephew decided he wanted to crank things 0:06:56.400 --> 0:07:02.400 up a couple of notches. He went full karate kid 0:07:02.680 --> 0:07:05.920 on my ass. He karate chopped me right in the neck, 0:07:08.160 --> 0:07:11.760 right in the neck. Now, you're probably saying, right now, 0:07:11.920 --> 0:07:14.440 there's no way a three year old. I'm a grown 0:07:14.440 --> 0:07:17.000 ass man, I'm a very large human being, even though 0:07:17.000 --> 0:07:19.880 I've lost weight. How could a three year old child 0:07:20.040 --> 0:07:24.440 possibly do any damn Well, you'd be surprised. You would 0:07:24.480 --> 0:07:30.200 be surprised. I was startled. It was days in the 0:07:30.240 --> 0:07:33.800 Adams Apple, right yeah, right right here. I mean it 0:07:34.320 --> 0:07:39.320 was brutal. I was like, no way, I lost my bearings. 0:07:39.320 --> 0:07:42.080 I was like, oh yeah, you get popped there and 0:07:42.080 --> 0:07:44.000 you're like your breathing is a little off for a 0:07:44.040 --> 0:07:47.160 couple of seconds. And from a little kid, a three 0:07:47.200 --> 0:07:50.600 year old child, The kid, of course, thought this was 0:07:50.720 --> 0:07:53.480 all part of the show. The kid thought I was 0:07:53.560 --> 0:07:56.320 acting and thought it was funny, and then I'm of 0:07:56.360 --> 0:07:58.720 course not acting. So the kid had to be reprimanded 0:07:58.720 --> 0:08:01.920 by his mom and and also my my wife. But 0:08:01.960 --> 0:08:04.880 this kid was living like Ricky Martin back in the nineties. There, 0:08:05.080 --> 0:08:07.640 LaVita loca. I mean, this kid was living the life, 0:08:08.000 --> 0:08:14.480 loving life. Anyway. That was my my trip as Aqua 0:08:14.600 --> 0:08:18.280 Mallard Danny g As. I got a karate shop right 0:08:18.320 --> 0:08:21.560 to the Adams Apple. Damn. That was Cobra Kai come 0:08:21.640 --> 0:08:24.520 to life for you right there. Little ninja. I call 0:08:24.600 --> 0:08:26.640 that kid. The ninja is what I want to call 0:08:26.720 --> 0:08:31.000 that kid. So moving on, we've got looking down on you, 0:08:31.520 --> 0:08:34.080 well not you, but looking down on on you the 0:08:34.120 --> 0:08:38.240 other Yeah. So I feel like I've been kind of 0:08:38.280 --> 0:08:42.000 living a Mallard's schedule recently. Not only have I still 0:08:42.040 --> 0:08:44.960 been doing hours at the school every morning. But now 0:08:45.000 --> 0:08:48.520 I've been driving right in to the network studios right 0:08:48.600 --> 0:08:51.680 after that. So at eleven am, I've been leaving the 0:08:51.720 --> 0:08:55.040 school and going to the studios to prepare the Covino 0:08:55.120 --> 0:08:58.600 and Rich show. As you know, ben hours and hours 0:08:58.600 --> 0:09:03.079 of prep before a show, sitting there sorting through commercial 0:09:03.160 --> 0:09:07.360 reads and topics and different things like that, and printing 0:09:07.400 --> 0:09:09.480 out all the paperwork for them when they come in 0:09:09.880 --> 0:09:12.400 so that everything is coordinated and in front of them 0:09:12.440 --> 0:09:17.160 when they arrive. Their extensive selection include Summi to Sumi Tomo, 0:09:17.720 --> 0:09:22.880 sum Me Tomo, sum Me Tomo, their extensive collect father 0:09:23.880 --> 0:09:28.599 We'll do It Live. It was a long week of producing, 0:09:28.640 --> 0:09:31.120 but a very fun and and a very good week. 0:09:31.520 --> 0:09:34.439 But my first day I'm driving in. On Monday, I 0:09:34.520 --> 0:09:37.120 leave the school at eleven and I was in a 0:09:37.200 --> 0:09:40.520 hurry because of the schedule. I hadn't had any breakfast, 0:09:40.600 --> 0:09:43.800 so I made a little pit stop at home after 0:09:43.840 --> 0:09:46.440 the school just to run into the kitchen and I 0:09:46.520 --> 0:09:50.240 made myself one of the best creations that came Did 0:09:50.240 --> 0:09:54.640 this really come from England? The English muffin? Oh, the 0:09:54.679 --> 0:09:57.600 English muffins is solid. You know, I'm not a breakfast eater. 0:09:57.679 --> 0:10:00.760 But when I do eat breakfast, I enjoyed the English muffin. Dude, 0:10:01.000 --> 0:10:06.240 solid books and cranny whoever invented those little taste And 0:10:06.280 --> 0:10:09.160 of course you know right you're supposed to separate the 0:10:09.280 --> 0:10:12.559 two only with a fork or with your hands. You 0:10:12.640 --> 0:10:15.000 do not use a knife. Okay, is that the rule? 0:10:15.040 --> 0:10:16.520 I didn't know that that is the rule because it 0:10:16.559 --> 0:10:20.080 messes up those nooks and crannies. So I got this, 0:10:20.280 --> 0:10:23.360 uh well done. I made sure to toast it nice 0:10:23.360 --> 0:10:27.880 and crispy, peanut butter on one side, some peach jam 0:10:27.920 --> 0:10:32.760 on the other side, rapid and tinfoil, and run to 0:10:32.840 --> 0:10:36.400 the car with my computer bag and headphones and everything else, 0:10:37.080 --> 0:10:39.760 off onto the road to get onto the freeway. Now, 0:10:39.800 --> 0:10:41.960 let's pause right here, Danny, because I have I'm breaking 0:10:41.960 --> 0:10:46.400 news here before you continue story number one? Do you 0:10:46.440 --> 0:10:50.400 know who Samuel Bath Thomas is? I used to play 0:10:50.559 --> 0:10:53.080 quarterback for the Raiders in the nineties. He did. He 0:10:53.200 --> 0:10:58.240 also is an Englishman who is credited with creating the 0:10:58.320 --> 0:11:04.640 English muffin. All He migrated to the United States and, 0:11:04.960 --> 0:11:09.040 according to my Internet research, sold the first Thomas English 0:11:09.120 --> 0:11:13.880 muffin in eighteen eighties. So you're the English muffin is 0:11:13.920 --> 0:11:17.080 over a hundred and forty years old, and he is 0:11:17.320 --> 0:11:22.760 credited as the inventor. As you said, the nook and cranny, Uh, 0:11:22.840 --> 0:11:26.400 an American newspaper was the one that came up with 0:11:26.440 --> 0:11:31.080 the term English muffin, and because I guess it sounds 0:11:31.080 --> 0:11:34.319 better than grittle cake, so that was the other option. 0:11:35.200 --> 0:11:39.640 So we'd like to thank the very much dead Samuel 0:11:39.640 --> 0:11:42.800 Bath Thomas and his descendants for giving the world the 0:11:42.840 --> 0:11:45.319 gift of the English muffin. And we'd also like to 0:11:45.360 --> 0:11:48.680 thank a newspaper for coming up with it. That is, 0:11:49.240 --> 0:11:51.560 that is wonderful. And he just was experimenting in the 0:11:51.679 --> 0:11:57.199 in the kitchen and realized that the the the crumpets 0:11:57.360 --> 0:12:01.560 grittle cakes made with Richard dough and cooked only on 0:12:01.559 --> 0:12:06.040 one side, and that expanded the bubbles to form a honeycomb. 0:12:06.800 --> 0:12:11.439 So there you go, crazy, I'm sorry, but yeah, no, no, 0:12:11.559 --> 0:12:14.120 I'm glad I learned that. What an invention. They've been 0:12:14.160 --> 0:12:16.040 a staple in the g household since I was a 0:12:16.080 --> 0:12:19.080 little kid. The Garrett del he's really fond of that 0:12:19.160 --> 0:12:21.240 guy's work. Yeah, I had those two when I was 0:12:21.280 --> 0:12:23.959 a kid, and I didn't any a lot of breakfast. 0:12:24.040 --> 0:12:26.520 My mom would like try to get Mid East stuff, 0:12:26.520 --> 0:12:28.480 but that was one. I would go for buttered English 0:12:28.559 --> 0:12:31.920 muffin solid and jelly. You can go with jelly as 0:12:31.960 --> 0:12:35.480 well either way. Yeah, my mom would put that on 0:12:35.520 --> 0:12:38.280 the kitchen table with some cantaloupe and she'd be like, 0:12:38.320 --> 0:12:42.240 shut up, there's your breakfast. So so I, you know, 0:12:42.640 --> 0:12:45.440 flashing back to a quick breakfast, my mom would serve, 0:12:45.520 --> 0:12:49.880 I have the English muffin, peanut butter jam, wrap it 0:12:49.960 --> 0:12:53.440 up in tinfoil, really quick. Run to the car, and 0:12:54.120 --> 0:12:56.640 I'm at a stoplight before I get to the freeway 0:12:56.679 --> 0:12:59.480 on ramp. You know, I don't like eating in the 0:12:59.520 --> 0:13:03.720 car that much. You're you probably are similar. My wife 0:13:03.800 --> 0:13:05.760 loves eating in the car, and it tries me nuts 0:13:05.760 --> 0:13:08.520 because there's always like little food pieces. I hate that. 0:13:08.720 --> 0:13:11.400 I hate that. I don't like it either. I don't 0:13:11.400 --> 0:13:14.559 like the feeling of crumbs on my shirt or shorts. 0:13:15.760 --> 0:13:18.079 I don't like I don't like to have sticky hands 0:13:18.120 --> 0:13:21.160 on the wheel. It all bothers me. But I was 0:13:21.240 --> 0:13:24.480 so hungry that I had to make an exception, so 0:13:24.840 --> 0:13:27.680 I pulled out the little thing of hand sanitizer. I 0:13:27.760 --> 0:13:30.200 pulled out a napkin, and I was like, Okay, I'm 0:13:30.200 --> 0:13:32.559 gonna just try to eat this while I'm on my way, 0:13:32.559 --> 0:13:34.720 because I had a forty minute drive to the studio. 0:13:35.360 --> 0:13:38.880 Unwrapped the tinfoil, I'm all ready to go take a 0:13:38.920 --> 0:13:42.040 bite of the English muffin. And I get some peanut 0:13:42.120 --> 0:13:47.560 butter on my face, get in your face, and I'm like, 0:13:47.679 --> 0:13:50.200 oh man, so I'm like trying to get it off 0:13:50.280 --> 0:13:53.960 my face. I get the paper towel. I you know, 0:13:54.000 --> 0:13:56.600 I have it on my thumb. I'm like, my hands 0:13:56.600 --> 0:14:00.199 are clean now from the hand sanitizers. Think about going 0:14:00.240 --> 0:14:02.120 back home and getting your dog to clean off the 0:14:04.360 --> 0:14:07.760 clean it off my hand, and and I'm kind of 0:14:07.800 --> 0:14:10.200 a mess because now it's like, you know, my hands 0:14:10.200 --> 0:14:13.920 are sticky. I have crumbs on my shirt. I realized 0:14:14.040 --> 0:14:16.640 I've been at this red stoplight for a little while. 0:14:17.120 --> 0:14:20.840 I happened to look over to my right and sitting 0:14:20.960 --> 0:14:24.160 right next to me. You've seen these trucks in Orange County. 0:14:24.200 --> 0:14:30.600 I'm sure the ones that are sitting up high, yes, yeah, yeah. 0:14:31.040 --> 0:14:33.800 So to the right of me is this gentleman in 0:14:33.840 --> 0:14:37.440 a truck staring at me, and he gives me a 0:14:37.600 --> 0:14:41.760 thumbs up and this look of wow, you're really going 0:14:41.840 --> 0:14:48.520 at that English muffin, buddy, he's relating you. Danny's like, 0:14:48.560 --> 0:14:51.040 I've been there, man, I know sometimes you just gotta 0:14:51.080 --> 0:14:55.080 go for it in life. You gotta go the veil going. No, 0:14:55.360 --> 0:14:57.960 that's not the look he gave me. Look he gave 0:14:58.000 --> 0:15:01.440 me was dude, have you ever missed the meal you 0:15:02.200 --> 0:15:04.440 so he gave you? I've gotten that look before. You're 0:15:04.480 --> 0:15:08.440 a fatass? What are you a pig? Oink oink oink 0:15:08.560 --> 0:15:11.000 that kind of thing. I pity the fool that doesn't 0:15:11.040 --> 0:15:14.920 give me my burto thumbs up, you fat pig eating 0:15:14.960 --> 0:15:20.000 that peanut butter English muffin at the stoplight. Well, that's 0:15:20.000 --> 0:15:23.680 no good. That's that's no good. The week did not 0:15:23.760 --> 0:15:25.440 get off to a good start, at least for the 0:15:25.480 --> 0:15:29.480 travel there to the studio, so I felt ashamed. I 0:15:29.640 --> 0:15:32.440 put the rest of the English muffin away and its tinfoil, 0:15:32.960 --> 0:15:36.720 cleaned my hands and tried to act like this never happened. 0:15:37.360 --> 0:15:40.360 My lips have been on it, I'm sure. Man. All right, 0:15:40.360 --> 0:15:41.960 So are you gonna eat again in the car? Now? 0:15:42.040 --> 0:15:46.240 Is that the you know? Unless I'm completely alone in 0:15:46.280 --> 0:15:48.840 the middle of South Dakota on the roads there by 0:15:48.880 --> 0:15:53.880 myself now, one week into the Caveno and Rich experience, 0:15:53.880 --> 0:15:56.760 have you figured out your schedule? Is it still up 0:15:56.760 --> 0:16:01.960 in the air. You still navigating that part because in 0:16:02.080 --> 0:16:05.440 radio things change rapidly, but you have another gig and 0:16:05.480 --> 0:16:09.360 so it becomes a big problem. It was two hours 0:16:09.440 --> 0:16:11.880 before the show, so I was in there at noon, 0:16:12.480 --> 0:16:14.800 and then two hours after the show I was leaving 0:16:14.800 --> 0:16:20.240 at six pm. So it seems like six solid hours alright, 0:16:20.280 --> 0:16:22.360 So let me I'm doing the math on this. And 0:16:22.680 --> 0:16:26.800 so you start out at the school, you then leave 0:16:26.920 --> 0:16:30.560 to go to the radio, You then go back to 0:16:30.640 --> 0:16:34.000 the school. No, no, no, if the school schedule, I 0:16:34.040 --> 0:16:36.480 am still trying to sort through, but at least for 0:16:36.560 --> 0:16:39.920 now I'm going to help them out in the morning. Okay, Yeah, 0:16:40.560 --> 0:16:43.280 it was a long day, um because I started at 0:16:43.320 --> 0:16:47.840 six thirty am and I ended at six pm. Got 0:16:47.960 --> 0:16:52.240 you first world problems because I've been unemployed before, like 0:16:52.280 --> 0:16:55.800 a lot of radio people. I've been fired from radio jobs, 0:16:55.880 --> 0:16:59.000 like a lot of good radio people. And this is 0:16:59.040 --> 0:17:02.200 a way or issue to have than when you're on 0:17:02.240 --> 0:17:05.439 the beach looking for a paycheck. No, it is. And 0:17:05.480 --> 0:17:07.880 I've had a couple of friends that have lost radio 0:17:07.920 --> 0:17:09.960 gigs over the last couple of months, one of my buddies, 0:17:10.560 --> 0:17:13.720 he reached out to me. I will not say who who, 0:17:13.920 --> 0:17:16.040 because I don't know that he wants this information out there, 0:17:16.040 --> 0:17:18.879 but he told me he agreed. He just signed a contract. 0:17:18.880 --> 0:17:21.679 It is not official officially, he's going through lawyers. But 0:17:21.880 --> 0:17:25.000 he was bragging to me, Danny that this guy he 0:17:25.000 --> 0:17:29.040 did a five day a week radio show at a 0:17:29.080 --> 0:17:33.399 pretty popular radio station, and he's he's partnered up with 0:17:33.440 --> 0:17:37.000 someone on a podcast, and there's somebody with a lot 0:17:37.040 --> 0:17:40.520 of venture capital who bought the podcast. He's gonna make 0:17:40.560 --> 0:17:44.719 more from a one hour podcast a week than he 0:17:44.800 --> 0:17:48.760 was making doing five days of radio. And he was 0:17:48.800 --> 0:17:51.800 bragging to me. I said, come on, schmuck, Okay, I 0:17:51.800 --> 0:17:54.040 don't need to hear about that, Okay, you I had 0:17:54.080 --> 0:17:56.320 to hear some stories like that, though, because you always 0:17:56.400 --> 0:17:59.840 hear that works smarter, not harder. Works smarter or not harder, 0:17:59.880 --> 0:18:03.399 but it in some industries it's not really possible. You 0:18:03.480 --> 0:18:05.520 have to kind of ride the wave and go with 0:18:05.560 --> 0:18:09.480 the flow. You can't demand new hours. Yeah, and the 0:18:09.640 --> 0:18:13.399 podcast thing is going to level out. It's it's early 0:18:13.480 --> 0:18:16.800 on and a lot of companies look at that as cool. Radio, 0:18:16.920 --> 0:18:20.760 it's kind of old and podcasting school and all. That's 0:18:20.760 --> 0:18:23.919 not even radio anymore, right, it's audio now. Yeah, they 0:18:23.960 --> 0:18:26.760 got rid of the word radio. That's taboo, that's ore boating. 0:18:26.880 --> 0:18:30.320 You can't say the radio canceled. You're you're not audio 0:18:30.359 --> 0:18:34.440 your radio, you're canceled exactly. But it's one of those things. 0:18:34.520 --> 0:18:38.000 My theory on this is that it'll go back. It's 0:18:38.080 --> 0:18:40.720 kind of kind of like they're people that still collect 0:18:40.800 --> 0:18:43.280 typewriters and they're they're into that, or or maybe the 0:18:43.320 --> 0:18:48.119 better example would be with music. Oh, turn tables, yeah, turntables. Right, 0:18:48.160 --> 0:18:50.359 there's a lot of young people that in their entire 0:18:50.440 --> 0:18:53.800 life they never experienced turntables as a kid or anything 0:18:53.840 --> 0:18:55.960 like that, and they're still kids, are teenagers, are in 0:18:56.000 --> 0:18:58.359 college and they want to get turntables. They want to 0:18:58.359 --> 0:19:01.840 get vinyl. Yeah. Or his birthday, our middle kid, I 0:19:01.960 --> 0:19:05.640 bought him one of those portable turntables that also connects 0:19:05.640 --> 0:19:09.200 to bluetooth. Yeah. I got him the slip matt for it, 0:19:09.760 --> 0:19:12.439 and I bought him his very first piece of vinyl, 0:19:13.040 --> 0:19:17.239 which was a Travis Scott LP so new music on 0:19:17.600 --> 0:19:21.400 old school record on vinyl, which can't beat that. Man, 0:19:21.560 --> 0:19:25.199 Vintage comes to life. Yeah, that's pretty cool. And the 0:19:25.200 --> 0:19:27.239 thing about radio, I'm biased. We're both by we work 0:19:27.280 --> 0:19:29.880 on radio, and this is a podcast. We're trashing podcast 0:19:29.920 --> 0:19:32.240 while doing a podcast. I'm not trashing a podcast. I 0:19:32.240 --> 0:19:35.080 think a podcast is great. But the thing the podcast 0:19:35.160 --> 0:19:40.480 cannot do is the immediacy be doing it live. And 0:19:40.720 --> 0:19:43.080 some people try to do podcast live and whatever, but 0:19:43.160 --> 0:19:46.760 most people listen to a podcast listen at their convenience, right, 0:19:46.880 --> 0:19:49.399 and we put the podcast up in the morning, and 0:19:49.440 --> 0:19:51.680 there are people that might listen this is we're doing 0:19:51.680 --> 0:19:54.680 this on a Saturday podcast, but there's people might listen 0:19:54.720 --> 0:19:58.480 on Monday or Tuesday. There's a very communal aspect when 0:19:58.480 --> 0:20:01.119 you listen to live radio. It's not doing what we 0:20:01.160 --> 0:20:04.040 do talk radio overnight. I'm on during the day of 0:20:04.080 --> 0:20:07.120 the show you're working on. But to me, there's something 0:20:07.119 --> 0:20:09.560 special about that. Maybe it's I'm old, but there's something 0:20:09.640 --> 0:20:12.680 cool that whatever you're doing, whatever pathetic thing you've got 0:20:12.680 --> 0:20:15.320 going on in your life, you're listening to somebody and 0:20:15.359 --> 0:20:20.000 they're also alive and they're breathing and they're keeping your company. 0:20:20.080 --> 0:20:22.800 And I still think there's something special about that. And 0:20:23.080 --> 0:20:25.639 I'm probably dating myself and I'll get canceled for this, 0:20:25.760 --> 0:20:27.400 but that's the way I feel. That, that's the way 0:20:27.440 --> 0:20:29.320 I feel. No, I think a lot of people would 0:20:29.320 --> 0:20:31.600 agree with you. And that's why we have the best 0:20:31.600 --> 0:20:34.520 of both worlds. I love the fact that we can 0:20:34.600 --> 0:20:38.119 record and then also have the opportunity to be live. 0:20:38.480 --> 0:20:41.600 If somebody asked you what would be your perfect scenario 0:20:41.680 --> 0:20:46.160 and broadcasting, I think right now in two going into 0:20:47.240 --> 0:20:50.600 that would be it podcasting and live radio. Yeah, you 0:20:50.600 --> 0:20:53.240 don't want to pigeonhole yourself in one or the other. 0:20:53.280 --> 0:20:55.560 You'd like to do a little bit of both. And 0:20:55.640 --> 0:20:57.600 so we're pretty lucky on that. And don't get me wrong, 0:20:57.640 --> 0:20:59.440 I love the people that listen to the radio show 0:20:59.480 --> 0:21:01.879 on the podcas Yes, and there are some days we 0:21:01.920 --> 0:21:04.480 actually have to find more people download the podcast and 0:21:04.560 --> 0:21:06.639 listen to the live show because of the timing and 0:21:06.640 --> 0:21:10.040 all that that we're on late at night. But anyway, 0:21:10.080 --> 0:21:13.720 that's my ranting and Raven we have the back scratcher. 0:21:13.880 --> 0:21:18.240 The back scratcher, you scratch our back, We scratch your back. 0:21:18.640 --> 0:21:22.560 Our weekly tip of the headphones and the microphones to 0:21:22.640 --> 0:21:26.200 the loyal minions who have been speaking of podcast listeners 0:21:26.640 --> 0:21:30.879 going to the podcast page, the Apple podcast page for 0:21:30.920 --> 0:21:34.199 the fifth hour, and we don't really understand why, but 0:21:34.280 --> 0:21:37.600 management does check this, and the people that run the 0:21:37.640 --> 0:21:42.679 podcast department at I Heart do check these reviews. So 0:21:42.720 --> 0:21:44.760 we go to the podcast page. And you want the 0:21:44.760 --> 0:21:47.000 good news of the bad news, Danny, what do you want? 0:21:47.400 --> 0:21:50.720 Always start with the bad first. Alright, The bad news 0:21:50.840 --> 0:21:54.600 is we have pitched a shutout this week. Not a 0:21:54.720 --> 0:21:58.359 single review this week, not a single review. Damn it. 0:21:58.400 --> 0:22:00.640 How could there be any good news? Well, the good 0:22:00.680 --> 0:22:02.840 news is we still have a very high rating on 0:22:02.880 --> 0:22:05.919 the Apple podcast because no one's trashed us, so we 0:22:05.920 --> 0:22:08.280 we still are doing pretty well there. And I think 0:22:08.280 --> 0:22:12.439 we're four point eight if I'm reading this accurately. I 0:22:12.480 --> 0:22:15.320 want to throw a flag on that though, because it 0:22:15.400 --> 0:22:19.080 was four point nine for months and months and months 0:22:19.119 --> 0:22:23.000 and months and all we've been receiving, thankfully, our five 0:22:23.080 --> 0:22:25.760 star ratings. So how did it go down to a 0:22:25.840 --> 0:22:29.040 four point eight? Yeah? I have no idea because pretty 0:22:29.119 --> 0:22:32.000 much all of the bad ratings we got where when 0:22:32.000 --> 0:22:33.840 I was doing the stuff with Gascon and we were 0:22:33.880 --> 0:22:36.320 doing like political stuff and people are losing their mind. 0:22:36.800 --> 0:22:39.159 Didn't agree with us politically, and they would get all upset. 0:22:39.600 --> 0:22:41.840 But we haven't done that. We've really stayed away from 0:22:41.880 --> 0:22:44.160 that for the most part. We moved on from that. 0:22:44.600 --> 0:22:46.840 We did a lot of that during COVID. On the podcast, 0:22:46.840 --> 0:22:49.040 we do political stuff and we haven't done that. And 0:22:49.960 --> 0:22:52.719 so yeah, I don't I don't get it. It makes 0:22:52.800 --> 0:22:56.120 no sense. That's just one point. But you could help 0:22:56.160 --> 0:22:58.719 the overall score by going in there and writing review. 0:22:59.000 --> 0:23:02.239 Just click on the scription of this very podcast and 0:23:02.280 --> 0:23:05.560 you'll see the link in the description, it says Tom 0:23:06.080 --> 0:23:10.199 rate review, subscribe. Click on that link. Page down a 0:23:10.200 --> 0:23:13.080