1 00:00:00,760 --> 00:00:01,520 Speaker 1: Cut booms. 2 00:00:02,360 --> 00:00:05,440 Speaker 2: If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes 3 00:00:05,480 --> 00:00:09,240 Speaker 2: a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants 4 00:00:09,240 --> 00:00:12,560 Speaker 2: of the old Republic, a soul fashion of fairness. He 5 00:00:12,640 --> 00:00:15,560 Speaker 2: treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the 6 00:00:15,680 --> 00:00:17,520 Speaker 2: rich pill poppers in the penthouse. 7 00:00:18,120 --> 00:00:18,400 Speaker 1: Wow. 8 00:00:18,640 --> 00:00:22,360 Speaker 2: The Clearinghouse of Hot takes break free for something special. 9 00:00:22,720 --> 00:00:29,400 Speaker 2: The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now. 10 00:00:29,040 --> 00:00:34,680 Speaker 1: In the air everywhere. The Fifth Hour with Me, Big 11 00:00:34,720 --> 00:00:39,840 Speaker 1: Ben and Danny g Radio Happy Saturday. We are here 12 00:00:40,040 --> 00:00:44,320 Speaker 1: every single freaking day on this twenty ninth day, the 13 00:00:44,400 --> 00:00:49,560 Speaker 1: last Saturday's Joyous No No, No, I'm not again, Danny. 14 00:00:49,600 --> 00:00:52,599 Speaker 1: As I said on yesterday's podcast, I like doing this 15 00:00:52,760 --> 00:00:56,120 Speaker 1: because I when I go out and meet people at events, 16 00:00:56,200 --> 00:00:59,640 Speaker 1: I can say listen, I'm a podcaster, I'm a content creator, 17 00:00:59,840 --> 00:01:02,800 Speaker 1: and I have credibility. People love that. They're like, oh wow, 18 00:01:03,200 --> 00:01:03,920 Speaker 1: that's impressive. 19 00:01:04,720 --> 00:01:05,120 Speaker 3: Oky. 20 00:01:06,360 --> 00:01:09,000 Speaker 1: Even on the radio show, Danny, I tell people I 21 00:01:09,080 --> 00:01:13,200 Speaker 1: record my podcast live on the radio and then repackage 22 00:01:13,200 --> 00:01:18,280 Speaker 1: it in the podcast format. But why not? And this 23 00:01:18,520 --> 00:01:25,600 Speaker 1: today is It's Midsummer day today on this set. What 24 00:01:25,680 --> 00:01:29,640 Speaker 1: is that? You ask? What is Midsummer Day. Well, this 25 00:01:30,520 --> 00:01:34,639 Speaker 1: is the big dance in Midsummer Day in Finland because 26 00:01:34,760 --> 00:01:39,600 Speaker 1: the last weekend of June today this year, June twenty ninth, 27 00:01:40,160 --> 00:01:45,280 Speaker 1: is the official start of the warm summer weather. Now, 28 00:01:45,760 --> 00:01:48,680 Speaker 1: as I said on a previous episode of this podcast, 29 00:01:48,800 --> 00:01:51,440 Speaker 1: last weekend, I was in Palm Springs in California. It 30 00:01:51,440 --> 00:01:55,400 Speaker 1: was one hundred and sixteen degrees. So I can only 31 00:01:55,440 --> 00:01:58,080 Speaker 1: imagine what we're in for over the next couple of months. 32 00:01:58,120 --> 00:02:03,000 Speaker 1: But this just in Danny. It gets hot in the summer. Oh, okay, 33 00:02:04,240 --> 00:02:08,640 Speaker 1: be prepared for those stories about global warming and uh, 34 00:02:09,280 --> 00:02:11,240 Speaker 1: it's all you know, it's all. It's hotter than it's 35 00:02:11,240 --> 00:02:13,880 Speaker 1: ever been. Of course, I snicker. 36 00:02:14,560 --> 00:02:18,000 Speaker 3: Midsummer how about your local newscast where they give you 37 00:02:18,040 --> 00:02:22,040 Speaker 3: the tips on how to stay cool, drink lots of water, 38 00:02:22,240 --> 00:02:26,440 Speaker 3: stay in the shade, stay hydrated. Okay, thank you for that. 39 00:02:27,000 --> 00:02:31,080 Speaker 1: Yeah, common common sense. I appreciate that we have on 40 00:02:31,120 --> 00:02:36,720 Speaker 1: this pod. We have the magical view skin cancer. That's 41 00:02:36,720 --> 00:02:40,639 Speaker 1: a DeBie Downer traveling zoo, the idiom of the week, 42 00:02:41,200 --> 00:02:43,160 Speaker 1: And if we have time, we'll get to some pop culture, 43 00:02:43,200 --> 00:02:47,160 Speaker 1: but we'll begin with this and as the iconic radio 44 00:02:47,280 --> 00:02:50,040 Speaker 1: man from before my time would say, you know what 45 00:02:50,080 --> 00:02:52,760 Speaker 1: the news is, and in the next couple of minutes 46 00:02:52,800 --> 00:02:56,920 Speaker 1: you're going to hear the rest of the story. So 47 00:02:57,000 --> 00:03:00,440 Speaker 1: we'll flashback now. We told you on the previous podcast 48 00:03:00,520 --> 00:03:05,760 Speaker 1: that on Friday Friday, Friday Friday, I ended up going 49 00:03:05,800 --> 00:03:08,119 Speaker 1: to a funeral and then went out to a weekend 50 00:03:08,240 --> 00:03:14,640 Speaker 1: getaway for my wife's birthday carnival the weekend of fun 51 00:03:15,000 --> 00:03:18,440 Speaker 1: birthday month. But I did not stay in Palm Springs 52 00:03:18,440 --> 00:03:21,240 Speaker 1: for very long. I made the long drive back to 53 00:03:21,320 --> 00:03:26,079 Speaker 1: the LA area early on Saturday morning, and when I 54 00:03:26,160 --> 00:03:30,000 Speaker 1: had to take care of Moxie and Luigi, my dogs, 55 00:03:30,040 --> 00:03:34,360 Speaker 1: I got the the frog and the bulldog. Moxie's the 56 00:03:34,400 --> 00:03:39,240 Speaker 1: bull the English bulldog in Luigi's the frog, which they're 57 00:03:39,280 --> 00:03:43,280 Speaker 1: an interesting group, interesting group of characters. So did that, 58 00:03:43,400 --> 00:03:46,040 Speaker 1: took care of my dogs, put my back my my 59 00:03:46,120 --> 00:03:49,880 Speaker 1: church clothes, went back on, and headed to another cemetery 60 00:03:50,200 --> 00:03:52,000 Speaker 1: about well, actually I was at a church on Friday, 61 00:03:52,040 --> 00:03:54,800 Speaker 1: now a cemetery on Saturday, and it was a chance 62 00:03:54,840 --> 00:03:57,120 Speaker 1: to say goodbye to a friend. We talked about this 63 00:03:57,200 --> 00:04:01,240 Speaker 1: gentleman on a previous episode of this podcast. TJ. Simers, 64 00:04:02,040 --> 00:04:05,400 Speaker 1: a longtime columnist at the LA Times, who I knew 65 00:04:05,600 --> 00:04:09,360 Speaker 1: professionally for a while from going to games and interacting 66 00:04:09,360 --> 00:04:11,880 Speaker 1: with TJ and press boxes, and I really got to 67 00:04:11,920 --> 00:04:14,040 Speaker 1: know him a lot better over the last couple of months. 68 00:04:14,560 --> 00:04:18,000 Speaker 1: He had terminal brain cancer, and so this was his 69 00:04:18,320 --> 00:04:24,719 Speaker 1: goodbye and had a big celebration, celebrational life ceremony for 70 00:04:24,839 --> 00:04:29,120 Speaker 1: the Curmudgeon. And I told TJ this, I love the 71 00:04:29,160 --> 00:04:33,680 Speaker 1: way that he approached sports writing. And I've lived in 72 00:04:33,800 --> 00:04:35,920 Speaker 1: La my whole life. People have I often accused me, 73 00:04:36,000 --> 00:04:38,600 Speaker 1: you've heard this Danny like I act like I'm from 74 00:04:38,640 --> 00:04:41,320 Speaker 1: Boston or something like that. I'm not from Boston. I 75 00:04:41,360 --> 00:04:43,360 Speaker 1: just like the way they approach their sports in Boston. 76 00:04:43,360 --> 00:04:46,080 Speaker 1: And TJ kind of had that attitude where he was 77 00:04:46,120 --> 00:04:48,760 Speaker 1: an attack dog and all that he helped people accountable. 78 00:04:49,040 --> 00:04:50,159 Speaker 1: So I was a big fan of his work. And 79 00:04:50,200 --> 00:04:52,360 Speaker 1: he passed away and it was very sad. I had 80 00:04:52,360 --> 00:04:54,239 Speaker 1: a chance to see him just a few days before 81 00:04:55,320 --> 00:04:57,919 Speaker 1: he left this mortal coil, and so I went to 82 00:04:57,960 --> 00:05:02,120 Speaker 1: the cemetery there to say goodbye. In Newport Beach and 83 00:05:03,440 --> 00:05:06,360 Speaker 1: I went to simmer Times, I felt like it. Actually 84 00:05:06,360 --> 00:05:08,520 Speaker 1: I'd been by there a lot. I liked going to 85 00:05:08,560 --> 00:05:10,560 Speaker 1: the beach in Newport, So I didn't even realize it 86 00:05:10,600 --> 00:05:14,160 Speaker 1: was there because it's hidden. It's off the side road 87 00:05:14,240 --> 00:05:16,680 Speaker 1: you to go up a little hill, and I didn't 88 00:05:16,680 --> 00:05:20,280 Speaker 1: even know it was there. So I went there and 89 00:05:20,680 --> 00:05:26,200 Speaker 1: did my thing whatever, and we'll explain why why that's 90 00:05:26,240 --> 00:05:29,120 Speaker 1: that's important, but or to the story, it's important. But 91 00:05:29,200 --> 00:05:32,400 Speaker 1: it was great. I got to see TJ's family, as 92 00:05:32,600 --> 00:05:35,520 Speaker 1: his wife, Say, who had gotten to know a little 93 00:05:35,520 --> 00:05:37,440 Speaker 1: bit too. She had been been there when he was 94 00:05:37,440 --> 00:05:39,920 Speaker 1: in hospice the last couple of months. And his grandkids 95 00:05:39,920 --> 00:05:42,599 Speaker 1: were there, who he talked a ton about. Loved telling 96 00:05:42,680 --> 00:05:47,840 Speaker 1: stories about coaching basketball for his daughter and his grandkids 97 00:05:47,920 --> 00:05:51,799 Speaker 1: and and all that, and the famous grocery bagger. TJ 98 00:05:52,160 --> 00:05:54,560 Speaker 1: would often write about him in the in the column 99 00:05:54,560 --> 00:05:57,440 Speaker 1: in the La Times. And it was kind of cool, Danny, 100 00:05:57,480 --> 00:05:59,320 Speaker 1: because I I didn't know who he was, and he 101 00:05:59,360 --> 00:06:01,560 Speaker 1: came up to me and he introduced himself. And he 102 00:06:01,600 --> 00:06:03,640 Speaker 1: actually was a listener to our show when you were 103 00:06:03,680 --> 00:06:05,440 Speaker 1: on the show back in the day. He was a 104 00:06:05,440 --> 00:06:09,719 Speaker 1: big listener to the microphone throttler to the overnight show. 105 00:06:09,760 --> 00:06:12,840 Speaker 1: Used to work at night, and it was funny. He 106 00:06:12,880 --> 00:06:15,080 Speaker 1: told me, like the whole stories, like he said he 107 00:06:15,120 --> 00:06:17,280 Speaker 1: was a grocery bagger and TJ. He was like a 108 00:06:17,360 --> 00:06:20,200 Speaker 1: character in TJ's column. It was a guy who was 109 00:06:20,279 --> 00:06:23,840 Speaker 1: married to one of his daughters, and he would call 110 00:06:23,920 --> 00:06:26,320 Speaker 1: him the grocery bager. But he hadn't been a grocery 111 00:06:26,360 --> 00:06:29,400 Speaker 1: bager for years. He actually had like he was working 112 00:06:29,400 --> 00:06:31,360 Speaker 1: in law enforcement. But TJ just loved call him the 113 00:06:31,360 --> 00:06:34,159 Speaker 1: grocery bager, and it was kind of funny, and he 114 00:06:34,200 --> 00:06:36,080 Speaker 1: was a fan of the show. But he was like 115 00:06:36,200 --> 00:06:40,320 Speaker 1: going into a time portal. I got to see a 116 00:06:40,320 --> 00:06:43,279 Speaker 1: lot of people I hadn't seen a long time, people 117 00:06:43,360 --> 00:06:46,679 Speaker 1: from my twenties and thirties, when I was working every 118 00:06:46,800 --> 00:06:52,279 Speaker 1: night and no girlfriend, no women in my life, no friends. 119 00:06:52,920 --> 00:06:55,440 Speaker 1: My friends were press boxes and I was there every 120 00:06:55,520 --> 00:07:00,320 Speaker 1: night just doing the grind. And among the people I 121 00:07:00,600 --> 00:07:03,160 Speaker 1: got to meet or again and see again. One of 122 00:07:03,200 --> 00:07:05,599 Speaker 1: the gentlemen that runs what I used to call Staples Center, 123 00:07:06,200 --> 00:07:09,040 Speaker 1: I guess it's called something else now. And he's a 124 00:07:09,080 --> 00:07:12,600 Speaker 1: guy that I had a big brewhaha with. He got 125 00:07:12,720 --> 00:07:15,000 Speaker 1: very upset with me because of things I said on 126 00:07:15,080 --> 00:07:19,160 Speaker 1: the radio at about that arena when a guy got 127 00:07:19,200 --> 00:07:22,240 Speaker 1: in there with a knife, ran through the red coats 128 00:07:22,280 --> 00:07:24,000 Speaker 1: I had a big problem with the security over there 129 00:07:24,000 --> 00:07:25,760 Speaker 1: for years, but but he was, you know, we got along. 130 00:07:25,880 --> 00:07:26,200 Speaker 3: Was fine. 131 00:07:26,200 --> 00:07:28,600 Speaker 1: It was we'd made up and all that. It was 132 00:07:28,680 --> 00:07:31,840 Speaker 1: wonderful to see my guy, Tim Mead. Tim Mead was 133 00:07:32,120 --> 00:07:36,400 Speaker 1: forever the pr guy for the Angels, the old California Angels, 134 00:07:36,440 --> 00:07:41,120 Speaker 1: the Anaheim Angels, the La Angels for like thirty five 135 00:07:41,320 --> 00:07:44,720 Speaker 1: forty years. He was with the Angels. And we were 136 00:07:44,760 --> 00:07:48,160 Speaker 1: telling stories about the nineties Angels when I was a 137 00:07:48,360 --> 00:07:52,600 Speaker 1: radio reporter and the Angels had some historical collapses, and 138 00:07:52,720 --> 00:07:56,800 Speaker 1: we were trading stories about Tony Phillips and how Tony 139 00:07:56,920 --> 00:07:59,600 Speaker 1: famously wanted to fight me in the Angels clubhouse when 140 00:07:59,640 --> 00:08:03,280 Speaker 1: they were apart in the mid nineties and allowed the 141 00:08:03,360 --> 00:08:07,320 Speaker 1: Seattle Mariners to pass them by. Actually they technically tied, 142 00:08:07,360 --> 00:08:10,480 Speaker 1: they had a one game playoff at the Kingdome, but 143 00:08:10,560 --> 00:08:13,640 Speaker 1: we were telling the stories about about him. Mike Bredlahan, 144 00:08:13,880 --> 00:08:16,800 Speaker 1: the old Laker beat guy who's a Laker broadcaster. I 145 00:08:16,880 --> 00:08:19,720 Speaker 1: saw him. I hadn't seen him in years. Dylan Hernandez 146 00:08:19,760 --> 00:08:22,080 Speaker 1: was their columnist of the La Times, a bunch of 147 00:08:22,120 --> 00:08:25,840 Speaker 1: newspaper people. Bill Dwyer, the old editor of the La Times. 148 00:08:25,920 --> 00:08:28,120 Speaker 1: I hadn't seen him in years. Ken Gurnick, a longtime 149 00:08:28,160 --> 00:08:32,559 Speaker 1: baseball writer retired baseball scribe, caught up with him. He 150 00:08:32,720 --> 00:08:35,200 Speaker 1: used to pop up with Roy Firestone. Remember that up 151 00:08:35,320 --> 00:08:37,920 Speaker 1: close show with Roy fires Of course, if you're old, 152 00:08:38,000 --> 00:08:38,680 Speaker 1: you know that show. 153 00:08:39,040 --> 00:08:39,599 Speaker 3: How dare you? 154 00:08:40,440 --> 00:08:42,920 Speaker 1: He was on there. But the one that I was 155 00:08:43,360 --> 00:08:47,199 Speaker 1: I thought was the coolest. I saw a writer from 156 00:08:47,240 --> 00:08:51,360 Speaker 1: the San Diego Union Tribune who I knew when I 157 00:08:51,559 --> 00:08:55,319 Speaker 1: was nineteen and twenty years old and I'd go to 158 00:08:55,440 --> 00:08:58,640 Speaker 1: Podre games when I was in San Diego working at 159 00:08:58,679 --> 00:09:03,480 Speaker 1: the mighty sixth ninety Go after yourself, San Diego, and 160 00:09:03,720 --> 00:09:07,520 Speaker 1: this guy is still working for the Union Tribune. And 161 00:09:07,880 --> 00:09:10,640 Speaker 1: we were, you know, we were just shooting the shooting 162 00:09:10,679 --> 00:09:12,760 Speaker 1: the you know what, and it was it was good 163 00:09:12,800 --> 00:09:16,000 Speaker 1: to see him, and he seemed happy that I remembered him. 164 00:09:16,040 --> 00:09:19,240 Speaker 1: I don't think he remembered me, but that's fine, and. 165 00:09:19,320 --> 00:09:20,040 Speaker 3: It was great. 166 00:09:20,120 --> 00:09:23,080 Speaker 1: And you know, TJ is just the overall thing. TJ 167 00:09:23,679 --> 00:09:29,120 Speaker 1: was a curmudgeon. He was the some of villain and 168 00:09:29,240 --> 00:09:33,120 Speaker 1: all that. Now, speaking of villains, though, uh, the guy, 169 00:09:33,840 --> 00:09:37,360 Speaker 1: the guy who is responsible most for my vitriol towards 170 00:09:37,400 --> 00:09:42,520 Speaker 1: the Lakers was there. The person that and someday I 171 00:09:42,600 --> 00:09:44,440 Speaker 1: might write a book, And if I write a book, 172 00:09:44,480 --> 00:09:46,839 Speaker 1: I'll make sure to mention this in the book. I'm 173 00:09:46,880 --> 00:09:48,360 Speaker 1: not going to say this person's name right now, but 174 00:09:48,440 --> 00:09:51,280 Speaker 1: he was at the service. I did not approach him, 175 00:09:51,320 --> 00:09:54,199 Speaker 1: he did not approach me. But this is this is 176 00:09:54,240 --> 00:09:56,760 Speaker 1: a guy that made my life a living hell when 177 00:09:56,800 --> 00:09:58,760 Speaker 1: I was in my twenties and I was covering the 178 00:09:58,840 --> 00:10:01,679 Speaker 1: Lakers at the Forum and he was a complete asshole, 179 00:10:02,640 --> 00:10:06,720 Speaker 1: treated me like shit, and that really planted the seed. 180 00:10:06,760 --> 00:10:08,559 Speaker 1: I never liked the Lakers, but I didn't hate the 181 00:10:08,640 --> 00:10:16,000 Speaker 1: Lakers like I do today. That guy is responsible, and 182 00:10:16,120 --> 00:10:18,079 Speaker 1: he was there and he didn't work for the Lakers anymore. 183 00:10:18,160 --> 00:10:21,880 Speaker 1: He got Lebron got him fired, as I understand it, 184 00:10:22,720 --> 00:10:26,079 Speaker 1: not because not because Lebron. It might even mean Kobe 185 00:10:26,160 --> 00:10:28,120 Speaker 1: that got Maybe I'm wrong, Maybe it was it was 186 00:10:28,200 --> 00:10:31,160 Speaker 1: Kobe that got rid of him. That that was a record. 187 00:10:31,360 --> 00:10:35,440 Speaker 1: I've not done two funerals in one weekend, A macabre weekend. 188 00:10:36,440 --> 00:10:39,160 Speaker 1: I wanted to finish up with this. I mentioned the cemetery. 189 00:10:39,200 --> 00:10:42,319 Speaker 1: I had been by there several times. I had I 190 00:10:42,880 --> 00:10:46,640 Speaker 1: felt like it was important. There's important people that were there. 191 00:10:47,120 --> 00:10:51,520 Speaker 1: And as I was leaving the service, and I had 192 00:10:51,559 --> 00:10:54,719 Speaker 1: to get back out to Palm Springs. More on that 193 00:10:55,080 --> 00:11:00,000 Speaker 1: later in the podcast. But as I was leaving, I realized, 194 00:11:00,160 --> 00:11:05,760 Speaker 1: wait a minute, this is the forever home of Kobe Bryant. 195 00:11:05,960 --> 00:11:10,439 Speaker 1: This is the cemetery where Kobe Bryan is buried. So 196 00:11:10,520 --> 00:11:11,800 Speaker 1: I was like, well, I don't know that I'll be 197 00:11:11,920 --> 00:11:14,600 Speaker 1: here ever again. So what do you think I did, Danny? 198 00:11:15,760 --> 00:11:19,120 Speaker 3: You threw your twenty four jersey from your trunk of 199 00:11:19,200 --> 00:11:22,000 Speaker 3: your car on and walked over to his grave. 200 00:11:22,720 --> 00:11:27,520 Speaker 1: Kobe close. I drove up to the very top because 201 00:11:27,520 --> 00:11:32,160 Speaker 1: I figured I'd heard Kobe had a private plot of 202 00:11:32,320 --> 00:11:36,040 Speaker 1: land at the very top of the cemetery. So I 203 00:11:36,240 --> 00:11:38,400 Speaker 1: drove to the very top. 204 00:11:39,000 --> 00:11:41,240 Speaker 3: An it's bad taste because of where they crashed, though 205 00:11:41,280 --> 00:11:42,600 Speaker 3: it should have been down at the bottom. 206 00:11:47,040 --> 00:11:50,760 Speaker 1: Too soon, Danny, too soon, Hey, yikes. But anyway, I 207 00:11:50,840 --> 00:11:53,840 Speaker 1: drove to the top. And as you go up, one 208 00:11:53,880 --> 00:11:57,360 Speaker 1: thing I've noticed about cemetery is the peasants are buried 209 00:11:57,400 --> 00:11:59,319 Speaker 1: at the lower part of the cemetery, and as you 210 00:11:59,480 --> 00:12:03,520 Speaker 1: go up, the graves get progressively bigger and the stones 211 00:12:03,559 --> 00:12:05,760 Speaker 1: are better, and you know that kind of So I 212 00:12:05,840 --> 00:12:09,160 Speaker 1: get up there and I can kind of make out 213 00:12:09,280 --> 00:12:12,120 Speaker 1: where Kobe's plot of land is. There's like a fence 214 00:12:12,200 --> 00:12:15,280 Speaker 1: around it and all that, but they don't really want 215 00:12:15,360 --> 00:12:17,240 Speaker 1: you up there. And I was the only one in 216 00:12:17,320 --> 00:12:19,800 Speaker 1: that part of the cemetery. But I looked at it 217 00:12:19,920 --> 00:12:21,360 Speaker 1: and I was like, well, there's really not much more 218 00:12:21,400 --> 00:12:23,599 Speaker 1: I can do. You know, I'm not when am I 219 00:12:23,640 --> 00:12:25,280 Speaker 1: going to go over there. I'm not going to do that. 220 00:12:25,440 --> 00:12:30,000 Speaker 1: But I did see it, So that's that's a big 221 00:12:30,160 --> 00:12:32,480 Speaker 1: couple of months, Danny. I was at Michael Jordan's High 222 00:12:32,480 --> 00:12:35,599 Speaker 1: School in Wilmington, North Carolina and Kobe Brand's grave in 223 00:12:36,280 --> 00:12:41,520 Speaker 1: Newport Beach, California. But that was part of my weekend 224 00:12:41,559 --> 00:12:42,800 Speaker 1: and I was out in the sun a little bit. 225 00:12:42,800 --> 00:12:45,079 Speaker 1: I don't think I got skin canceled, though, Danny hopefully not. 226 00:12:45,240 --> 00:12:46,920 Speaker 1: I don't think I was out in the sun long enough. 227 00:12:47,000 --> 00:12:48,319 Speaker 1: It was a sunny day, but it was like a 228 00:12:48,400 --> 00:12:50,760 Speaker 1: cool it was a cool sea breeze. That view by 229 00:12:50,760 --> 00:12:53,400 Speaker 1: the way where Kobe's buried. I looked. I turned and 230 00:12:53,440 --> 00:12:56,560 Speaker 1: I looked out unbelievable. I mean it is you can 231 00:12:56,600 --> 00:12:58,679 Speaker 1: see all of the Newport Beach coastline there. 232 00:12:59,240 --> 00:13:01,800 Speaker 3: Amazing And by the way, I'm allowed to joke. I 233 00:13:01,840 --> 00:13:04,520 Speaker 3: actually have a Kobe Bryant tattoo on my Yes you do, 234 00:13:05,040 --> 00:13:07,920 Speaker 3: I've seen it. Yeah, you do, number eight slash twenty four. 235 00:13:08,000 --> 00:13:11,640 Speaker 3: What would he think about Brony being taken fifty fifth overall? 236 00:13:11,920 --> 00:13:14,960 Speaker 1: Oh, if you could get Kobe some in a room 237 00:13:15,120 --> 00:13:17,800 Speaker 1: without he probably wuldn't even care about microphones. But if 238 00:13:17,800 --> 00:13:21,680 Speaker 1: you got him privately, oh, god, dude would just destroy 239 00:13:21,800 --> 00:13:22,319 Speaker 1: the Lakers. 240 00:13:22,480 --> 00:13:25,800 Speaker 3: You know though, your boy Justin and Cincinnati. He sent 241 00:13:25,880 --> 00:13:28,600 Speaker 3: me a DM trying to bust my balls. He said, 242 00:13:28,880 --> 00:13:32,360 Speaker 3: Lebron owns the Lakers franchise. Now with a question mark, 243 00:13:32,440 --> 00:13:34,320 Speaker 3: I wonder if Kobe, if he was still with us, 244 00:13:34,800 --> 00:13:38,200 Speaker 3: if this is how it would go, And I wrote back, Lol, 245 00:13:38,320 --> 00:13:40,680 Speaker 3: they'd be drafting Kobe's daughter question mark. 246 00:13:42,040 --> 00:13:42,920 Speaker 1: Well, they probably would. 247 00:13:43,600 --> 00:13:45,319 Speaker 3: Yeah. Maybe Kobe would be like, hey, I want my 248 00:13:45,480 --> 00:13:48,640 Speaker 3: daughter to be the first female NBA player. 249 00:13:49,160 --> 00:13:52,160 Speaker 1: Yeah, and Genie bus would be okay, all right? 250 00:13:53,600 --> 00:13:53,920 Speaker 3: What else? 251 00:13:54,040 --> 00:13:56,800 Speaker 1: What else does Lebron like? I want to see Lebron's 252 00:13:56,800 --> 00:13:59,880 Speaker 1: wishless He's already got his podcast Buddies the as the coach, 253 00:14:00,360 --> 00:14:03,600 Speaker 1: He's got his son on the team. Does he want 254 00:14:03,720 --> 00:14:07,000 Speaker 1: Rich Paul to replace Skinny Jeans? Rob Polinkaz the GM. 255 00:14:07,440 --> 00:14:10,120 Speaker 3: And they're still gonna win more games than your Zippers. 256 00:14:10,840 --> 00:14:14,200 Speaker 3: That didn't happen last year going to happen this season, Okay, 257 00:14:14,679 --> 00:14:17,040 Speaker 3: saying that maybe it'll happen. Watch Connect's gonna shoot the 258 00:14:17,120 --> 00:14:20,000 Speaker 3: lights out. Reddick's going to be a decent coach. He'll 259 00:14:20,040 --> 00:14:22,040 Speaker 3: have a little bit of a learning curve, but he'll 260 00:14:22,080 --> 00:14:24,440 Speaker 3: be all right, and he'll drop some more f bombs 261 00:14:24,480 --> 00:14:25,120 Speaker 3: to entertain us. 262 00:14:25,200 --> 00:14:28,000 Speaker 1: Well, we live in the multiverse. That's your version of reality. 263 00:14:28,080 --> 00:14:31,240 Speaker 1: My version of reality is that Lebron James will get hurt. 264 00:14:31,640 --> 00:14:34,400 Speaker 1: Bronnie James will suck and won't play. They'll have to 265 00:14:34,400 --> 00:14:36,240 Speaker 1: play them a little bit because TV is going to 266 00:14:36,320 --> 00:14:39,040 Speaker 1: demand Bronnie and Lebron play. You've been calling for Lebron 267 00:14:39,120 --> 00:14:42,640 Speaker 1: to be hurt for seasons and seasons, and Anthony Anthony 268 00:14:42,760 --> 00:14:45,320 Speaker 1: Davis is going to bake cookies. He'll burn his thumb 269 00:14:45,800 --> 00:14:47,520 Speaker 1: taking the cookies out of the oven, and then he 270 00:14:47,560 --> 00:14:48,840 Speaker 1: will miss about forty games. 271 00:14:48,920 --> 00:14:53,600 Speaker 3: You are the biggest Lakers fan that I know. So 272 00:14:54,200 --> 00:14:56,800 Speaker 3: last Sunday I mentioned on our way out that we 273 00:14:56,920 --> 00:14:58,840 Speaker 3: were thinking about going to the movies. My girl had 274 00:14:58,880 --> 00:15:01,600 Speaker 3: been bugging me to go to Inside Out too, and 275 00:15:01,760 --> 00:15:05,800 Speaker 3: I gave it the double Siskel and Ebert two thumbs down. 276 00:15:05,840 --> 00:15:08,920 Speaker 3: I don't want to see that. Instead, we got up early. 277 00:15:09,560 --> 00:15:12,280 Speaker 3: I did the podcast with you, and we thought, let's 278 00:15:12,320 --> 00:15:14,720 Speaker 3: go to Zuma, like a million other people in southern 279 00:15:14,760 --> 00:15:18,280 Speaker 3: California thought, but let's try to go early before the 280 00:15:18,800 --> 00:15:20,280 Speaker 3: canyon roads get all busy. 281 00:15:20,840 --> 00:15:25,119 Speaker 1: You should explain for those not in southern California where 282 00:15:25,200 --> 00:15:28,920 Speaker 1: exactly that is, because people like in Ohio and Michigan 283 00:15:28,960 --> 00:15:29,520 Speaker 1: probably don't know. 284 00:15:29,720 --> 00:15:32,520 Speaker 3: Yeah, Zuma beaches in Malaboo. 285 00:15:32,440 --> 00:15:35,080 Speaker 1: Malabu boo, as we like to say, mal boo boo. 286 00:15:35,280 --> 00:15:37,720 Speaker 3: So for us who live off the one O one Freeway, 287 00:15:38,080 --> 00:15:41,880 Speaker 3: there's a few canyon roads that lead to the coastline. 288 00:15:42,240 --> 00:15:45,880 Speaker 1: And these are very dangerous roads and very congested roads. 289 00:15:45,680 --> 00:15:48,720 Speaker 3: On the lease. Yeah, some of them are keep one lane. 290 00:15:49,400 --> 00:15:52,000 Speaker 1: People have met their demise on those roads. Many times 291 00:15:52,040 --> 00:15:54,040 Speaker 1: they fall off the cliff. It did game over. 292 00:15:54,680 --> 00:15:59,040 Speaker 3: Yeah, so it gets super congested, especially on weekends during 293 00:15:59,080 --> 00:16:01,880 Speaker 3: the summer. Thought, okay, we'll get to the grocery store 294 00:16:01,960 --> 00:16:04,720 Speaker 3: get the items for our igloo, which my chick stole 295 00:16:04,760 --> 00:16:06,800 Speaker 3: from our aunt during that yard sale. By the way, 296 00:16:07,120 --> 00:16:10,240 Speaker 3: so we have this igloo that started leaking once we 297 00:16:10,360 --> 00:16:13,480 Speaker 3: put the ice in it. Cool nice stolen igloo. We 298 00:16:13,560 --> 00:16:16,560 Speaker 3: had a thirty dollars pop up tent from Costco had 299 00:16:16,600 --> 00:16:18,480 Speaker 3: been sitting in the garage because we found it on 300 00:16:18,640 --> 00:16:22,440 Speaker 3: sale months ago, waiting for the summer. Solid right, So 301 00:16:22,520 --> 00:16:24,240 Speaker 3: we got to bust that out for the first time. 302 00:16:24,680 --> 00:16:27,720 Speaker 3: Go inside the grocery store for bread and jelly to 303 00:16:27,760 --> 00:16:30,840 Speaker 3: make sandwiches. Had the peanut butter at home already, chips, 304 00:16:30,960 --> 00:16:34,760 Speaker 3: fig Newtons, Mini diet Pepsi cans and ice eighty nine 305 00:16:34,840 --> 00:16:39,400 Speaker 3: dollars later. After the grocery store. Nice, true story, What 306 00:16:39,520 --> 00:16:44,120 Speaker 3: a deal. We get on the Canyon Road and finally 307 00:16:44,160 --> 00:16:46,680 Speaker 3: get to it's like a fifteen minute ride for us. 308 00:16:46,760 --> 00:16:49,520 Speaker 3: With the traffic, it was about a half hour. Not 309 00:16:49,680 --> 00:16:53,160 Speaker 3: the end of the world. Get onto the sand eighty 310 00:16:53,280 --> 00:16:57,520 Speaker 3: six degrees in Malibu last Sunday. You know what that's like, Ben, 311 00:16:57,680 --> 00:16:59,560 Speaker 3: that's like one hundred degrees on the sand. 312 00:17:02,880 --> 00:17:09,160 Speaker 1: Ah. Oh, it's terrible, Yes, super hot, pained. 313 00:17:09,560 --> 00:17:13,480 Speaker 3: Tar on the feet. That's why I kept my flip 314 00:17:13,520 --> 00:17:15,879 Speaker 3: flops on because I saw my girl get like a 315 00:17:16,040 --> 00:17:18,240 Speaker 3: tar on her foot. But yeah, I'm not going down 316 00:17:18,280 --> 00:17:20,320 Speaker 3: that road. Ben talked about that on the fifth hour. 317 00:17:20,640 --> 00:17:22,160 Speaker 1: That's right, I've had that problem. Yeah. 318 00:17:23,760 --> 00:17:26,360 Speaker 3: We get everything set up, and we get the pop 319 00:17:26,480 --> 00:17:30,240 Speaker 3: up tent in place, get the folding chairs out, and 320 00:17:30,400 --> 00:17:33,080 Speaker 3: we slap together the peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and 321 00:17:33,600 --> 00:17:35,439 Speaker 3: shove them to the kids. Shut the hell up, as 322 00:17:35,480 --> 00:17:38,560 Speaker 3: my grandpa would say, quit your damned winding, Eat a sandwich, 323 00:17:41,240 --> 00:17:45,399 Speaker 3: Feed the kids, our middle kids. She's thirteen. She does 324 00:17:45,520 --> 00:17:49,960 Speaker 3: not listen to adults. She thinks she knows everything. She's 325 00:17:50,000 --> 00:17:52,960 Speaker 3: at that age right now. She tries to explain things 326 00:17:53,040 --> 00:17:56,680 Speaker 3: to us in all of her wise wisdom, wonderful. Yeah, 327 00:17:56,880 --> 00:18:00,280 Speaker 3: you're you know you are, daddy, You're a boomer. No, no, no, 328 00:18:00,400 --> 00:18:01,000 Speaker 3: you old head. 329 00:18:01,160 --> 00:18:01,200 Speaker 2: No. 330 00:18:01,800 --> 00:18:04,600 Speaker 3: I was born in a year where we're considered Generation X. 331 00:18:05,240 --> 00:18:07,399 Speaker 3: All right, we do not get along with Generation Z. 332 00:18:07,840 --> 00:18:09,879 Speaker 1: Now that's why we like being on X because it's 333 00:18:09,920 --> 00:18:12,560 Speaker 1: our generation. Yeah, Ration X, get on the Twitter. 334 00:18:13,680 --> 00:18:16,080 Speaker 3: She's a know it all right now. Other than that, 335 00:18:16,160 --> 00:18:17,719 Speaker 3: she's a good kid, but she's a no it all. 336 00:18:18,359 --> 00:18:20,840 Speaker 3: Me and her mom both told her you have to 337 00:18:20,960 --> 00:18:24,400 Speaker 3: put a lot of sunscreen on. She's at the age 338 00:18:24,440 --> 00:18:27,000 Speaker 3: where she's just starting to talk with boys and all 339 00:18:27,040 --> 00:18:30,520 Speaker 3: that comes with teenage years and if you're a girl, dad, 340 00:18:30,560 --> 00:18:33,199 Speaker 3: you know what I'm talking about. So she's like her 341 00:18:33,240 --> 00:18:35,800 Speaker 3: little thing during the summer. Right now, she wants her 342 00:18:35,880 --> 00:18:38,119 Speaker 3: friend over so they could go to the pool and 343 00:18:38,280 --> 00:18:42,800 Speaker 3: lay out because they want to get tans. Oh my god, Becky, 344 00:18:43,760 --> 00:18:46,720 Speaker 3: I keep telling her, you have good skin right now, 345 00:18:47,080 --> 00:18:49,520 Speaker 3: and you're about to ruin that. You see those old 346 00:18:49,640 --> 00:18:52,959 Speaker 3: ladies that come around our neighborhoods where they look like leatherface. 347 00:18:53,560 --> 00:18:55,760 Speaker 3: That's gonna be you if you keep playing in the sun. 348 00:18:56,800 --> 00:18:59,720 Speaker 3: And she finally asked a question, because normally she's not 349 00:18:59,720 --> 00:19:03,040 Speaker 3: asked questions. She's telling us things like she really knows, 350 00:19:03,080 --> 00:19:05,560 Speaker 3: like she has life experience. What do you mean how 351 00:19:05,640 --> 00:19:08,320 Speaker 3: come the sun does that to you? And I said, well, 352 00:19:08,359 --> 00:19:11,440 Speaker 3: think about it. The sun is basically burning a layer 353 00:19:11,520 --> 00:19:14,119 Speaker 3: of your skin off of your body. And this was 354 00:19:14,200 --> 00:19:16,719 Speaker 3: the night before we were having this conversation. So now 355 00:19:16,760 --> 00:19:18,520 Speaker 3: we're on the beach and I look at her and 356 00:19:18,680 --> 00:19:22,200 Speaker 3: I said, hey, remember the sunscreen that same friend I mentioned. 357 00:19:22,240 --> 00:19:25,440 Speaker 3: She brought that girl along. They're both spraying the sunscreen on, 358 00:19:25,960 --> 00:19:28,160 Speaker 3: they take the boogie boards, they run into the water. 359 00:19:28,760 --> 00:19:31,960 Speaker 3: They were in the water bend all afternoon a couple 360 00:19:32,000 --> 00:19:34,280 Speaker 3: of times she came back for food and SODA's. I 361 00:19:34,400 --> 00:19:38,600 Speaker 3: told her, reapply that sunscreen. Do you think she did? No, 362 00:19:39,480 --> 00:19:41,480 Speaker 3: she didn't listen to me. She didn't listen to her mom. 363 00:19:42,000 --> 00:19:44,560 Speaker 1: Turn into a lobster. Your sounds are going. 364 00:19:45,520 --> 00:19:49,359 Speaker 3: Let me tell you? How can I well? What's on podcasts? 365 00:19:49,800 --> 00:19:54,320 Speaker 3: She looked like Anchemima. The next day, all I could 366 00:19:54,400 --> 00:19:57,520 Speaker 3: see were the whites of her eyes and her teeth. 367 00:19:58,960 --> 00:19:59,400 Speaker 1: Racist. 368 00:20:00,480 --> 00:20:03,480 Speaker 2: I'm okay with my color and boy. 369 00:20:03,760 --> 00:20:07,199 Speaker 3: And now it's been almost a week, her skin started 370 00:20:07,280 --> 00:20:10,359 Speaker 3: peeling really bad, and she came into the living room crying, 371 00:20:10,400 --> 00:20:14,679 Speaker 3: and she's like, mom, I look like a cow because 372 00:20:14,760 --> 00:20:18,080 Speaker 3: the spots that have peeled off. She's been trying to 373 00:20:18,160 --> 00:20:23,280 Speaker 3: put vitamins, vitamin E on her skin and these different lotions, 374 00:20:23,400 --> 00:20:26,080 Speaker 3: and she's been crying about it. And her mom's like, well, 375 00:20:26,280 --> 00:20:29,480 Speaker 3: I try to tell you. Your stepdad tried to tell you. 376 00:20:29,680 --> 00:20:32,960 Speaker 3: You didn't listen. Guess what. Her dad comes to pick 377 00:20:33,000 --> 00:20:35,359 Speaker 3: her up and to take her one of the summer 378 00:20:35,480 --> 00:20:38,840 Speaker 3: days this past week. He sees her and he freaks out. 379 00:20:39,680 --> 00:20:42,600 Speaker 3: He texted my wife, He said, why did you let 380 00:20:42,640 --> 00:20:46,120 Speaker 3: her get burned like that? She is gonna get skin cancer. 381 00:20:47,200 --> 00:20:49,560 Speaker 3: My better half said, you better talk to your noa 382 00:20:49,680 --> 00:20:53,520 Speaker 3: all thirteen year old daughter because we had several conversations 383 00:20:53,600 --> 00:20:56,600 Speaker 3: with her and she did not listen. So now this 384 00:20:56,760 --> 00:21:00,119 Speaker 3: is a true test because once her skin heals, do 385 00:21:00,160 --> 00:21:01,600 Speaker 3: you think she's gonna do this again? 386 00:21:02,600 --> 00:21:07,480 Speaker 1: This is the personification Danny of the fuck around and 387 00:21:07,600 --> 00:21:11,119 Speaker 1: find out? Mean right, I mean, that's it, right around 388 00:21:11,359 --> 00:21:15,879 Speaker 1: you find out. And I'm gonna give her the benefit 389 00:21:15,880 --> 00:21:18,360 Speaker 1: of the doubt, your daughter that she's going to remember 390 00:21:18,480 --> 00:21:23,160 Speaker 1: this the agony, and I'm I'm a stubborn guy myself. 391 00:21:23,160 --> 00:21:25,399 Speaker 1: I remember my mom would would have these conversations with 392 00:21:25,520 --> 00:21:27,879 Speaker 1: me when I was a kid about putting suntan lotion on. 393 00:21:28,520 --> 00:21:30,960 Speaker 1: And what I would do is I would halfway do 394 00:21:31,080 --> 00:21:33,680 Speaker 1: it because I would just put it on my elbows 395 00:21:33,680 --> 00:21:36,600 Speaker 1: and knees because when you get some burned your joints, 396 00:21:36,760 --> 00:21:39,600 Speaker 1: it really that's where it really kills you. So as 397 00:21:39,640 --> 00:21:43,960 Speaker 1: long as I was, like, you're your neck, yeah, the 398 00:21:44,080 --> 00:21:47,040 Speaker 1: neck also, so I would just hit those areas because 399 00:21:47,080 --> 00:21:49,040 Speaker 1: I figured, well, if I get burned, it's not that bad. 400 00:21:49,080 --> 00:21:51,320 Speaker 1: As long as I don't, I don't have any of 401 00:21:51,440 --> 00:21:55,000 Speaker 1: those areas burned, and so I would I would do that. 402 00:21:55,160 --> 00:21:56,680 Speaker 1: But at this point in my life, I you know, 403 00:21:56,720 --> 00:21:58,680 Speaker 1: I'm an older I guess I'm middle aged. I don't know, 404 00:21:58,720 --> 00:22:00,520 Speaker 1: maybe older than middle aged. But I don't go out. 405 00:22:00,920 --> 00:22:03,399 Speaker 1: I try to avoid the sun unless my wife drags 406 00:22:03,440 --> 00:22:05,959 Speaker 1: me to palm springs and all that. But did your 407 00:22:06,000 --> 00:22:08,360 Speaker 1: daughter just have tons of alivera? Did you just take 408 00:22:08,400 --> 00:22:09,320 Speaker 1: a bath in alivera? 409 00:22:09,600 --> 00:22:13,240 Speaker 3: She has been gathering alivera on her every night. She 410 00:22:13,440 --> 00:22:15,520 Speaker 3: came out of the shower the other night crying, telling 411 00:22:15,560 --> 00:22:19,480 Speaker 3: her mom, it hurt to shower. I was crying. We're 412 00:22:19,720 --> 00:22:22,240 Speaker 3: dealing with CoA at the beach because he's trying to 413 00:22:22,320 --> 00:22:24,240 Speaker 3: dig in the sand. He's trying to crawl all over 414 00:22:24,280 --> 00:22:27,840 Speaker 3: the place. So we were preoccupied with a ten month old, 415 00:22:27,880 --> 00:22:30,080 Speaker 3: so we didn't get to hover over her to make 416 00:22:30,160 --> 00:22:33,320 Speaker 3: sure she was doing the right thing with sunscreen. What 417 00:22:33,480 --> 00:22:35,800 Speaker 3: we think is she didn't even put any on her face. 418 00:22:36,440 --> 00:22:39,200 Speaker 1: Sun can lead to some pain, especially if you didn't 419 00:22:39,240 --> 00:22:43,119 Speaker 1: wear any sunscreen. Well, as they say, Danny, a watched 420 00:22:43,200 --> 00:22:46,600 Speaker 1: pot never boils. A watch teenager does not does not 421 00:22:46,680 --> 00:22:50,159 Speaker 1: burn their face, but an unwatched teenager will absolutely boil 422 00:22:50,440 --> 00:22:54,400 Speaker 1: their face away. Now, did you show CoA the old 423 00:22:54,520 --> 00:22:56,680 Speaker 1: sandcrab thing. He's probably too young for that. But in 424 00:22:56,720 --> 00:22:59,840 Speaker 1: a couple of years, right, you've showing those sand crabs. 425 00:23:00,200 --> 00:23:03,520 Speaker 3: That's my yeah, kid, right, I'll wait for that. But 426 00:23:03,640 --> 00:23:05,960 Speaker 3: what he got to do for the first time was 427 00:23:06,080 --> 00:23:09,080 Speaker 3: take shovels and the bucket and dig in the sand. 428 00:23:09,160 --> 00:23:11,119 Speaker 3: He's never done that before. And I was pouring the 429 00:23:11,200 --> 00:23:14,359 Speaker 3: water into the sand to make the mud pies with 430 00:23:14,520 --> 00:23:17,040 Speaker 3: him in the different shapes that come in the bucket. 431 00:23:17,720 --> 00:23:19,560 Speaker 3: He was so into it, and he was such a 432 00:23:19,600 --> 00:23:23,439 Speaker 3: good boy. But about ten minutes in he took a huge, 433 00:23:24,040 --> 00:23:26,080 Speaker 3: huge handful of the mud and put it right in 434 00:23:26,160 --> 00:23:31,359 Speaker 3: his mouth. Well so one kid burning their face off, 435 00:23:31,440 --> 00:23:32,720 Speaker 3: the other kid eating dirt. 436 00:23:33,160 --> 00:23:35,320 Speaker 1: But it's the same concept, right, He'll learn maybe that's 437 00:23:35,359 --> 00:23:36,760 Speaker 1: not the best thing to put in my mouth, as 438 00:23:36,800 --> 00:23:40,080 Speaker 1: she avoid that in the future, you know, you know 439 00:23:40,160 --> 00:23:41,800 Speaker 1: somewhere in the back of his head that seed will 440 00:23:41,840 --> 00:23:42,400 Speaker 1: be planted. 441 00:23:43,280 --> 00:23:46,240 Speaker 3: You may have seen children eating mud. 442 00:23:50,680 --> 00:23:53,160 Speaker 1: So to turning the pitch, I wanted to just finish 443 00:23:53,280 --> 00:23:59,560 Speaker 1: up on my funeral weekend, so I went from LA 444 00:24:00,280 --> 00:24:03,160 Speaker 1: from a funeral out to Palm Springs and then drove 445 00:24:03,280 --> 00:24:05,680 Speaker 1: back to the LA area to go to a different 446 00:24:05,680 --> 00:24:07,480 Speaker 1: funeral in Orange County, and then I had to go 447 00:24:07,640 --> 00:24:10,560 Speaker 1: back to Palm Springs because my wife was still out there. 448 00:24:10,600 --> 00:24:12,480 Speaker 1: She had big events with their friends and stuff, so 449 00:24:12,600 --> 00:24:16,520 Speaker 1: I was I was given a special treat. On my 450 00:24:16,720 --> 00:24:20,080 Speaker 1: way back, the long drive out to Palm Springs, I'm 451 00:24:20,160 --> 00:24:21,720 Speaker 1: driving out there on the highway. I think I'm on 452 00:24:21,800 --> 00:24:26,359 Speaker 1: the sixty and there's a trailer in front of me. 453 00:24:26,440 --> 00:24:28,200 Speaker 1: It's like a two lane road and I see this 454 00:24:28,359 --> 00:24:30,480 Speaker 1: trailer and it's like, okay, I'm behind it. There's a 455 00:24:30,520 --> 00:24:33,359 Speaker 1: truck carrying this trailer, and I really think much of it. 456 00:24:33,400 --> 00:24:35,560 Speaker 1: At first. I thought, well, maybe maybe there's a horse 457 00:24:35,560 --> 00:24:37,399 Speaker 1: in there or something like that, and I was just 458 00:24:37,520 --> 00:24:39,480 Speaker 1: kind of, you know, you zombie out a little bit 459 00:24:39,480 --> 00:24:41,480 Speaker 1: when you're driving. You're getting this kind of coma state 460 00:24:42,200 --> 00:24:44,320 Speaker 1: where you're just driving down the road or whatever. So 461 00:24:45,200 --> 00:24:48,119 Speaker 1: I'm driving. As I get closer to this truck with 462 00:24:48,280 --> 00:24:51,800 Speaker 1: the thing in the back, I see this this head 463 00:24:51,920 --> 00:24:56,840 Speaker 1: pop up and I noticed this. I'm like, what is that? 464 00:24:56,920 --> 00:24:59,879 Speaker 1: I see these eyes looking back at me, and I'm 465 00:25:00,119 --> 00:25:03,240 Speaker 1: I had this this epiphany, this this like abercadabra moment 466 00:25:04,280 --> 00:25:06,520 Speaker 1: right in front of me. I'm in the middle of 467 00:25:06,680 --> 00:25:11,280 Speaker 1: like a traveling a traveling zoo or circus or whatever. 468 00:25:11,400 --> 00:25:14,320 Speaker 1: I felt like I was transported to the Sahara Desert 469 00:25:14,840 --> 00:25:20,040 Speaker 1: like a petting zoo, because, standing tall, loud and proud, 470 00:25:20,080 --> 00:25:22,600 Speaker 1: with all the panache you could possibly want of a model, 471 00:25:23,560 --> 00:25:29,440 Speaker 1: was none other than a camel. I yes, I was 472 00:25:29,720 --> 00:25:30,760 Speaker 1: driving behind. 473 00:25:31,080 --> 00:25:34,000 Speaker 3: That is one of your most classic drops of all time. 474 00:25:34,720 --> 00:25:36,600 Speaker 3: I want a camel. 475 00:25:37,400 --> 00:25:40,600 Speaker 1: Yep, yep and uh And all those years in the 476 00:25:40,800 --> 00:25:42,960 Speaker 1: on the radio saying I want a camel where that 477 00:25:43,040 --> 00:25:44,879 Speaker 1: was after Adrian Peterson, who. 478 00:25:44,800 --> 00:25:48,520 Speaker 3: We had on this podcast camel cake sent to us. 479 00:25:48,720 --> 00:25:50,320 Speaker 1: That was one of the coolest cakes we ever got. 480 00:25:50,920 --> 00:25:54,080 Speaker 1: It was awesome. Uh, that in the Chuck the Condor cake. 481 00:25:54,119 --> 00:25:56,520 Speaker 1: But anyway, so I'm driving, I'm like, wait a minute, 482 00:25:56,560 --> 00:26:01,639 Speaker 1: there's a freaking camel and uh and it was just awesome. 483 00:26:01,680 --> 00:26:05,920 Speaker 1: Here I am on this desolate road with tumble weeds 484 00:26:06,040 --> 00:26:09,960 Speaker 1: and sand all around, and I am staring in the 485 00:26:10,119 --> 00:26:14,080 Speaker 1: eyes of this majestic camel who is chewing away at 486 00:26:14,119 --> 00:26:17,000 Speaker 1: whatever it's chewing at and could not care any less. 487 00:26:17,440 --> 00:26:20,679 Speaker 1: They know who the hell are you? So I had 488 00:26:20,680 --> 00:26:23,760 Speaker 1: an option. I could have sped up and gone around 489 00:26:24,040 --> 00:26:28,080 Speaker 1: the truck and the camel. But now I was like, 490 00:26:28,200 --> 00:26:30,600 Speaker 1: I want to enjoy this. You know, I'll get to 491 00:26:30,680 --> 00:26:33,520 Speaker 1: my destination. It's not driving that slow. So I just 492 00:26:33,600 --> 00:26:37,040 Speaker 1: stayed there and I took a few photos of the camel, 493 00:26:37,119 --> 00:26:39,440 Speaker 1: and the camel just look in the back of me 494 00:26:39,560 --> 00:26:42,560 Speaker 1: and all that stuff and really care who I was. 495 00:26:42,760 --> 00:26:45,720 Speaker 1: And it was kind of cool. It was one of 496 00:26:45,720 --> 00:26:47,520 Speaker 1: those weird things out in the middle of nowhere, you know, 497 00:26:47,600 --> 00:26:50,680 Speaker 1: I Camel's living his life, doing whatever's doing. I thought 498 00:26:50,680 --> 00:26:51,160 Speaker 1: it was funny. 499 00:26:51,160 --> 00:26:53,240 Speaker 3: You are never going to see something like that again 500 00:26:53,359 --> 00:26:55,520 Speaker 3: for the rest of your life, probably not. 501 00:26:55,960 --> 00:26:57,879 Speaker 1: Probably not. It was funny though. On the back of it, 502 00:26:58,560 --> 00:27:01,760 Speaker 1: I took a photo me see yeah, I mean it 503 00:27:01,920 --> 00:27:04,240 Speaker 1: was just there. It's hard to tell, but I could 504 00:27:04,240 --> 00:27:06,120 Speaker 1: see it a lot better in person, and I love 505 00:27:06,160 --> 00:27:07,680 Speaker 1: the back of it. You see what I sent you 506 00:27:07,720 --> 00:27:10,480 Speaker 1: the photos. Damn, I hopefully get him. You see this 507 00:27:10,680 --> 00:27:12,880 Speaker 1: is like something This like a joke that Doc Mike 508 00:27:13,000 --> 00:27:14,600 Speaker 1: used to say out the air. Do you see what 509 00:27:14,680 --> 00:27:15,960 Speaker 1: it says on the back of the truck. 510 00:27:15,760 --> 00:27:18,400 Speaker 3: There Camel won one thousand and two, one thousand in toe. 511 00:27:18,840 --> 00:27:22,680 Speaker 1: Yeah, it says Camel in tow is what it says 512 00:27:22,760 --> 00:27:26,640 Speaker 1: on the back And Doc Mike. Once, like ten years ago, 513 00:27:26,800 --> 00:27:30,280 Speaker 1: Doc Mike, he somehow learned that phrase. I guess he 514 00:27:30,359 --> 00:27:34,159 Speaker 1: had never learned cammebltoe, and so he kept calling up 515 00:27:34,200 --> 00:27:35,920 Speaker 1: and saying it. Remember like he thought it was like 516 00:27:36,200 --> 00:27:38,359 Speaker 1: he was like eight years old, Doc Mike saying the 517 00:27:38,440 --> 00:27:40,240 Speaker 1: phrase on the radio over and over again. 518 00:27:40,320 --> 00:27:41,119 Speaker 3: So I remember that. 519 00:27:41,760 --> 00:27:45,679 Speaker 1: That was my run in with the camel, Mike Cammell, 520 00:27:45,800 --> 00:27:49,520 Speaker 1: my camel experience. All right, let's get to the idiom 521 00:27:49,760 --> 00:27:52,280 Speaker 1: of the week. We'll get out on this the idiom 522 00:27:52,359 --> 00:27:54,520 Speaker 1: of the week, and this week's idium of the week 523 00:27:54,680 --> 00:27:58,760 Speaker 1: is dog days. I thought this was appropriate, this being 524 00:27:58,880 --> 00:28:01,800 Speaker 1: the last weekend in June, we're sliding into July this 525 00:28:01,960 --> 00:28:06,080 Speaker 1: week and the dog days of summer. Now, do you 526 00:28:06,240 --> 00:28:10,200 Speaker 1: know when the dog days of summer are, Danny, I 527 00:28:10,320 --> 00:28:13,240 Speaker 1: hear that a lot during the baseball season. Yeah, yep, 528 00:28:13,560 --> 00:28:17,359 Speaker 1: that's true. It does correspond with the baseball season. Well, 529 00:28:17,400 --> 00:28:21,960 Speaker 1: the actual definition of dog days, the dog days of 530 00:28:21,960 --> 00:28:26,960 Speaker 1: summer are between July third, which is what Wednesday of 531 00:28:27,080 --> 00:28:31,600 Speaker 1: this week, So it's coming with July third to August eleventh, 532 00:28:32,160 --> 00:28:35,639 Speaker 1: those are the dog days of summer. Now here's the 533 00:28:35,800 --> 00:28:41,920 Speaker 1: interesting thing about this. Is it true that dog days 534 00:28:42,200 --> 00:28:49,720 Speaker 1: of summer have nothing to do nothing to do with dogs. 535 00:28:50,640 --> 00:28:53,880 Speaker 1: The common belief is that it's called the dog days 536 00:28:53,920 --> 00:28:57,560 Speaker 1: of summer because it's associated with the the dogs having 537 00:28:57,680 --> 00:28:59,640 Speaker 1: issues with the heat, and that's why they call it 538 00:28:59,680 --> 00:29:01,840 Speaker 1: the dog days because they start huffing and puffing and 539 00:29:01,880 --> 00:29:04,120 Speaker 1: they need extra water and all that. But the term 540 00:29:04,320 --> 00:29:11,320 Speaker 1: dog days does not have any relation to our canine friends. Instead, 541 00:29:11,520 --> 00:29:15,000 Speaker 1: it is inspired by the heavens and it refers to 542 00:29:15,240 --> 00:29:20,440 Speaker 1: the almost forty days when Serious, not the satellite radio, 543 00:29:20,800 --> 00:29:25,720 Speaker 1: when Sirius, known as the dog star, rises and sets 544 00:29:25,920 --> 00:29:29,800 Speaker 1: with the sun, and Serious is the brightest star in 545 00:29:29,880 --> 00:29:35,360 Speaker 1: the constellation. And in Latin the term is it means 546 00:29:35,440 --> 00:29:40,480 Speaker 1: a greater dog, and that's in relation, not relation to 547 00:29:41,960 --> 00:29:45,840 Speaker 1: actual dogs, just in relation to Serious, the dog a star. 548 00:29:46,520 --> 00:29:51,320 Speaker 1: This goes back to ancient Greeks and then Romans who 549 00:29:51,480 --> 00:29:55,800 Speaker 1: realized the hottest days of summer occurred. They coincided when 550 00:29:56,400 --> 00:30:00,840 Speaker 1: Sirious rose near the sun, and so the that particular 551 00:30:00,920 --> 00:30:05,480 Speaker 1: star's name derives from the Greek word of scorching. So 552 00:30:05,960 --> 00:30:08,800 Speaker 1: everything's related together and all that stuff, and so Romans 553 00:30:08,840 --> 00:30:13,280 Speaker 1: thought that Sirius gave off heat. So how they thought 554 00:30:13,320 --> 00:30:16,240 Speaker 1: back in the day, the Romans that Sirius gave off 555 00:30:16,320 --> 00:30:19,960 Speaker 1: heat when it was next to the sun in conjunction 556 00:30:20,040 --> 00:30:23,200 Speaker 1: with the sun. The Egyptians, but wait, we got the Greeks, 557 00:30:23,240 --> 00:30:25,680 Speaker 1: the Romans, and the Egyptians. These are all legends. So 558 00:30:25,760 --> 00:30:29,320 Speaker 1: the Egyptians noticed the dog stars position of the sky 559 00:30:30,360 --> 00:30:34,920 Speaker 1: and often heralded the Nile rivers annual floods. They thought 560 00:30:34,960 --> 00:30:41,280 Speaker 1: that was related. But over the years, the actual timing 561 00:30:41,320 --> 00:30:45,400 Speaker 1: of the Dog Days of Summer has shifted since then 562 00:30:45,520 --> 00:30:49,200 Speaker 1: due to how the Earth's rotation makes the stars placements 563 00:30:49,240 --> 00:30:52,280 Speaker 1: in the sky change over time, and we'll all be 564 00:30:52,440 --> 00:30:56,400 Speaker 1: long dead. But in about ten thousand years the Dog 565 00:30:56,680 --> 00:31:04,880 Speaker 1: Days of Summer actually happen in winter. So and then 566 00:31:04,920 --> 00:31:07,120 Speaker 1: people say it's climate change, but no, it's just the 567 00:31:07,200 --> 00:31:11,200 Speaker 1: way the way the Earth rotates, and everything's related together 568 00:31:11,280 --> 00:31:14,320 Speaker 1: and all that, and that is our idiom of the 569 00:31:14,440 --> 00:31:17,040 Speaker 1: week dog days of Summer. 570 00:31:17,200 --> 00:31:18,200 Speaker 3: It was actually interesting. 571 00:31:19,640 --> 00:31:22,160 Speaker 1: Well, thank you for giving me a left handed compliment. 572 00:31:22,200 --> 00:31:24,160 Speaker 1: I appreciate that. All right, Danny, we'll get out on that. 573 00:31:24,200 --> 00:31:26,960 Speaker 1: Anything you want to promote here, It's Saturday, a day 574 00:31:27,000 --> 00:31:29,960 Speaker 1: of rest other than this podcast for us, anything at 575 00:31:30,000 --> 00:31:30,560 Speaker 1: all though, just. 576 00:31:30,680 --> 00:31:34,040 Speaker 3: This fine podcast right here. Make sure you send it 577 00:31:34,200 --> 00:31:37,800 Speaker 3: to not one, but two, either friends or family members 578 00:31:37,880 --> 00:31:39,520 Speaker 3: this weekend or enemies. 579 00:31:39,600 --> 00:31:41,400 Speaker 1: I don't care. As long as they listen for a 580 00:31:41,480 --> 00:31:43,280 Speaker 1: couple of minutes. That's all we need. Just a couple 581 00:31:43,360 --> 00:31:45,560 Speaker 1: of good minutes and we're in good shape. You don't 582 00:31:45,600 --> 00:31:48,600 Speaker 1: want to make an enemy out of me, It doesn't 583 00:31:48,640 --> 00:31:50,040 Speaker 1: matter who it is. Just give us a couple of 584 00:31:50,080 --> 00:31:52,760 Speaker 1: minutes and we'll be your best friend. So that's it, 585 00:31:53,000 --> 00:31:55,440 Speaker 1: all right, Have a wonderful rest your Saturday. We will 586 00:31:55,600 --> 00:31:57,840 Speaker 1: catch you tomorrow. 587 00:31:58,880 --> 00:32:01,520 Speaker 3: Asta pasta basulacious