Speaker 1: Cut booms.
Speaker 2: If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes
Speaker 2: a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants
Speaker 2: of the old Republic, a soul fashion of fairness. He
Speaker 2: treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the
Speaker 2: rich pill poppers in the penthouse.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 2: The Clearinghouse of Hot takes break free for something special.
Speaker 2: The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now.
Speaker 1: In the air everywhere. The Fifth Hour with Me, Big
Speaker 1: Ben and Danny g Radio Happy Saturday. We are here
Speaker 1: every single freaking day on this twenty ninth day, the
Speaker 1: last Saturday's Joyous No No, No, I'm not again, Danny.
Speaker 1: As I said on yesterday's podcast, I like doing this
Speaker 1: because I when I go out and meet people at events,
Speaker 1: I can say listen, I'm a podcaster, I'm a content creator,
Speaker 1: and I have credibility. People love that. They're like, oh wow,
Speaker 1: that's impressive.
Speaker 3: Oky.
Speaker 1: Even on the radio show, Danny, I tell people I
Speaker 1: record my podcast live on the radio and then repackage
Speaker 1: it in the podcast format. But why not? And this
Speaker 1: today is It's Midsummer day today on this set. What
Speaker 1: is that? You ask? What is Midsummer Day. Well, this
Speaker 1: is the big dance in Midsummer Day in Finland because
Speaker 1: the last weekend of June today this year, June twenty ninth,
Speaker 1: is the official start of the warm summer weather. Now,
Speaker 1: as I said on a previous episode of this podcast,
Speaker 1: last weekend, I was in Palm Springs in California. It
Speaker 1: was one hundred and sixteen degrees. So I can only
Speaker 1: imagine what we're in for over the next couple of months.
Speaker 1: But this just in Danny. It gets hot in the summer. Oh, okay,
Speaker 1: be prepared for those stories about global warming and uh,
Speaker 1: it's all you know, it's all. It's hotter than it's
Speaker 1: ever been. Of course, I snicker.
Speaker 3: Midsummer how about your local newscast where they give you
Speaker 3: the tips on how to stay cool, drink lots of water,
Speaker 3: stay in the shade, stay hydrated. Okay, thank you for that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, common common sense. I appreciate that we have on
Speaker 1: this pod. We have the magical view skin cancer. That's
Speaker 1: a DeBie Downer traveling zoo, the idiom of the week,
Speaker 1: And if we have time, we'll get to some pop culture,
Speaker 1: but we'll begin with this and as the iconic radio
Speaker 1: man from before my time would say, you know what
Speaker 1: the news is, and in the next couple of minutes
Speaker 1: you're going to hear the rest of the story. So
Speaker 1: we'll flashback now. We told you on the previous podcast
Speaker 1: that on Friday Friday, Friday Friday, I ended up going
Speaker 1: to a funeral and then went out to a weekend
Speaker 1: getaway for my wife's birthday carnival the weekend of fun
Speaker 1: birthday month. But I did not stay in Palm Springs
Speaker 1: for very long. I made the long drive back to
Speaker 1: the LA area early on Saturday morning, and when I
Speaker 1: had to take care of Moxie and Luigi, my dogs,
Speaker 1: I got the the frog and the bulldog. Moxie's the
Speaker 1: bull the English bulldog in Luigi's the frog, which they're
Speaker 1: an interesting group, interesting group of characters. So did that,
Speaker 1: took care of my dogs, put my back my my
Speaker 1: church clothes, went back on, and headed to another cemetery
Speaker 1: about well, actually I was at a church on Friday,
Speaker 1: now a cemetery on Saturday, and it was a chance
Speaker 1: to say goodbye to a friend. We talked about this
Speaker 1: gentleman on a previous episode of this podcast. TJ. Simers,
Speaker 1: a longtime columnist at the LA Times, who I knew
Speaker 1: professionally for a while from going to games and interacting
Speaker 1: with TJ and press boxes, and I really got to
Speaker 1: know him a lot better over the last couple of months.
Speaker 1: He had terminal brain cancer, and so this was his
Speaker 1: goodbye and had a big celebration, celebrational life ceremony for
Speaker 1: the Curmudgeon. And I told TJ this, I love the
Speaker 1: way that he approached sports writing. And I've lived in
Speaker 1: La my whole life. People have I often accused me,
Speaker 1: you've heard this Danny like I act like I'm from
Speaker 1: Boston or something like that. I'm not from Boston. I
Speaker 1: just like the way they approach their sports in Boston.
Speaker 1: And TJ kind of had that attitude where he was
Speaker 1: an attack dog and all that he helped people accountable.
Speaker 1: So I was a big fan of his work. And
Speaker 1: he passed away and it was very sad. I had
Speaker 1: a chance to see him just a few days before
Speaker 1: he left this mortal coil, and so I went to
Speaker 1: the cemetery there to say goodbye. In Newport Beach and
Speaker 1: I went to simmer Times, I felt like it. Actually
Speaker 1: I'd been by there a lot. I liked going to
Speaker 1: the beach in Newport, So I didn't even realize it
Speaker 1: was there because it's hidden. It's off the side road
Speaker 1: you to go up a little hill, and I didn't
Speaker 1: even know it was there. So I went there and
Speaker 1: did my thing whatever, and we'll explain why why that's
Speaker 1: that's important, but or to the story, it's important. But
Speaker 1: it was great. I got to see TJ's family, as
Speaker 1: his wife, Say, who had gotten to know a little
Speaker 1: bit too. She had been been there when he was
Speaker 1: in hospice the last couple of months. And his grandkids
Speaker 1: were there, who he talked a ton about. Loved telling
Speaker 1: stories about coaching basketball for his daughter and his grandkids
Speaker 1: and and all that, and the famous grocery bagger. TJ
Speaker 1: would often write about him in the in the column
Speaker 1: in the La Times. And it was kind of cool, Danny,
Speaker 1: because I I didn't know who he was, and he
Speaker 1: came up to me and he introduced himself. And he
Speaker 1: actually was a listener to our show when you were
Speaker 1: on the show back in the day. He was a
Speaker 1: big listener to the microphone throttler to the overnight show.
Speaker 1: Used to work at night, and it was funny. He
Speaker 1: told me, like the whole stories, like he said he
Speaker 1: was a grocery bagger and TJ. He was like a
Speaker 1: character in TJ's column. It was a guy who was
Speaker 1: married to one of his daughters, and he would call
Speaker 1: him the grocery bager. But he hadn't been a grocery
Speaker 1: bager for years. He actually had like he was working
Speaker 1: in law enforcement. But TJ just loved call him the
Speaker 1: grocery bager, and it was kind of funny, and he
Speaker 1: was a fan of the show. But he was like
Speaker 1: going into a time portal. I got to see a
Speaker 1: lot of people I hadn't seen a long time, people
Speaker 1: from my twenties and thirties, when I was working every
Speaker 1: night and no girlfriend, no women in my life, no friends.
Speaker 1: My friends were press boxes and I was there every
Speaker 1: night just doing the grind. And among the people I
Speaker 1: got to meet or again and see again. One of
Speaker 1: the gentlemen that runs what I used to call Staples Center,
Speaker 1: I guess it's called something else now. And he's a
Speaker 1: guy that I had a big brewhaha with. He got
Speaker 1: very upset with me because of things I said on
Speaker 1: the radio at about that arena when a guy got
Speaker 1: in there with a knife, ran through the red coats
Speaker 1: I had a big problem with the security over there
Speaker 1: for years, but but he was, you know, we got along.
Speaker 3: Was fine.
Speaker 1: It was we'd made up and all that. It was
Speaker 1: wonderful to see my guy, Tim Mead. Tim Mead was
Speaker 1: forever the pr guy for the Angels, the old California Angels,
Speaker 1: the Anaheim Angels, the La Angels for like thirty five
Speaker 1: forty years. He was with the Angels. And we were
Speaker 1: telling stories about the nineties Angels when I was a
Speaker 1: radio reporter and the Angels had some historical collapses, and
Speaker 1: we were trading stories about Tony Phillips and how Tony
Speaker 1: famously wanted to fight me in the Angels clubhouse when
Speaker 1: they were apart in the mid nineties and allowed the
Speaker 1: Seattle Mariners to pass them by. Actually they technically tied,
Speaker 1: they had a one game playoff at the Kingdome, but
Speaker 1: we were telling the stories about about him. Mike Bredlahan,
Speaker 1: the old Laker beat guy who's a Laker broadcaster. I
Speaker 1: saw him. I hadn't seen him in years. Dylan Hernandez
Speaker 1: was their columnist of the La Times, a bunch of
Speaker 1: newspaper people. Bill Dwyer, the old editor of the La Times.
Speaker 1: I hadn't seen him in years. Ken Gurnick, a longtime
Speaker 1: baseball writer retired baseball scribe, caught up with him. He
Speaker 1: used to pop up with Roy Firestone. Remember that up
Speaker 1: close show with Roy fires Of course, if you're old,
Speaker 1: you know that show.
Speaker 3: How dare you?
Speaker 1: He was on there. But the one that I was
Speaker 1: I thought was the coolest. I saw a writer from
Speaker 1: the San Diego Union Tribune who I knew when I
Speaker 1: was nineteen and twenty years old and I'd go to
Speaker 1: Podre games when I was in San Diego working at
Speaker 1: the mighty sixth ninety Go after yourself, San Diego, and
Speaker 1: this guy is still working for the Union Tribune. And
Speaker 1: we were, you know, we were just shooting the shooting
Speaker 1: the you know what, and it was it was good
Speaker 1: to see him, and he seemed happy that I remembered him.
Speaker 1: I don't think he remembered me, but that's fine, and.
Speaker 3: It was great.
Speaker 1: And you know, TJ is just the overall thing. TJ
Speaker 1: was a curmudgeon. He was the some of villain and
Speaker 1: all that. Now, speaking of villains, though, uh, the guy,
Speaker 1: the guy who is responsible most for my vitriol towards
Speaker 1: the Lakers was there. The person that and someday I
Speaker 1: might write a book, And if I write a book,
Speaker 1: I'll make sure to mention this in the book. I'm
Speaker 1: not going to say this person's name right now, but
Speaker 1: he was at the service. I did not approach him,
Speaker 1: he did not approach me. But this is this is
Speaker 1: a guy that made my life a living hell when
Speaker 1: I was in my twenties and I was covering the
Speaker 1: Lakers at the Forum and he was a complete asshole,
Speaker 1: treated me like shit, and that really planted the seed.
Speaker 1: I never liked the Lakers, but I didn't hate the
Speaker 1: Lakers like I do today. That guy is responsible, and
Speaker 1: he was there and he didn't work for the Lakers anymore.
Speaker 1: He got Lebron got him fired, as I understand it,
Speaker 1: not because not because Lebron. It might even mean Kobe
Speaker 1: that got Maybe I'm wrong, Maybe it was it was
Speaker 1: Kobe that got rid of him. That that was a record.
Speaker 1: I've not done two funerals in one weekend, A macabre weekend.
Speaker 1: I wanted to finish up with this. I mentioned the cemetery.
Speaker 1: I had been by there several times. I had I
Speaker 1: felt like it was important. There's important people that were there.
Speaker 1: And as I was leaving the service, and I had
Speaker 1: to get back out to Palm Springs. More on that
Speaker 1: later in the podcast. But as I was leaving, I realized,
Speaker 1: wait a minute, this is the forever home of Kobe Bryant.
Speaker 1: This is the cemetery where Kobe Bryan is buried. So
Speaker 1: I was like, well, I don't know that I'll be
Speaker 1: here ever again. So what do you think I did, Danny?
Speaker 3: You threw your twenty four jersey from your trunk of
Speaker 3: your car on and walked over to his grave.
Speaker 1: Kobe close. I drove up to the very top because
Speaker 1: I figured I'd heard Kobe had a private plot of
Speaker 1: land at the very top of the cemetery. So I
Speaker 1: drove to the very top.
Speaker 3: An it's bad taste because of where they crashed, though
Speaker 3: it should have been down at the bottom.
Speaker 1: Too soon, Danny, too soon, Hey, yikes. But anyway, I
Speaker 1: drove to the top. And as you go up, one
Speaker 1: thing I've noticed about cemetery is the peasants are buried
Speaker 1: at the lower part of the cemetery, and as you
Speaker 1: go up, the graves get progressively bigger and the stones
Speaker 1: are better, and you know that kind of So I
Speaker 1: get up there and I can kind of make out
Speaker 1: where Kobe's plot of land is. There's like a fence
Speaker 1: around it and all that, but they don't really want
Speaker 1: you up there. And I was the only one in
Speaker 1: that part of the cemetery. But I looked at it
Speaker 1: and I was like, well, there's really not much more
Speaker 1: I can do. You know, I'm not when am I
Speaker 1: going to go over there. I'm not going to do that.
Speaker 1: But I did see it, So that's that's a big
Speaker 1: couple of months, Danny. I was at Michael Jordan's High
Speaker 1: School in Wilmington, North Carolina and Kobe Brand's grave in
Speaker 1: Newport Beach, California. But that was part of my weekend
Speaker 1: and I was out in the sun a little bit.
Speaker 1: I don't think I got skin canceled, though, Danny hopefully not.
Speaker 1: I don't think I was out in the sun long enough.
Speaker 1: It was a sunny day, but it was like a
Speaker 1: cool it was a cool sea breeze. That view by
Speaker 1: the way where Kobe's buried. I looked. I turned and
Speaker 1: I looked out unbelievable. I mean it is you can
Speaker 1: see all of the Newport Beach coastline there.
Speaker 3: Amazing And by the way, I'm allowed to joke. I
Speaker 3: actually have a Kobe Bryant tattoo on my Yes you do,
Speaker 3: I've seen it. Yeah, you do, number eight slash twenty four.
Speaker 3: What would he think about Brony being taken fifty fifth overall?
Speaker 1: Oh, if you could get Kobe some in a room
Speaker 1: without he probably wuldn't even care about microphones. But if
Speaker 1: you got him privately, oh, god, dude would just destroy
Speaker 1: the Lakers.
Speaker 3: You know though, your boy Justin and Cincinnati. He sent
Speaker 3: me a DM trying to bust my balls. He said,
Speaker 3: Lebron owns the Lakers franchise. Now with a question mark,
Speaker 3: I wonder if Kobe, if he was still with us,
Speaker 3: if this is how it would go, And I wrote back, Lol,
Speaker 3: they'd be drafting Kobe's daughter question mark.
Speaker 1: Well, they probably would.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Maybe Kobe would be like, hey, I want my
Speaker 3: daughter to be the first female NBA player.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and Genie bus would be okay, all right?
Speaker 3: What else?
Speaker 1: What else does Lebron like? I want to see Lebron's
Speaker 1: wishless He's already got his podcast Buddies the as the coach,
Speaker 1: He's got his son on the team. Does he want
Speaker 1: Rich Paul to replace Skinny Jeans? Rob Polinkaz the GM.
Speaker 3: And they're still gonna win more games than your Zippers.
Speaker 3: That didn't happen last year going to happen this season, Okay,
Speaker 3: saying that maybe it'll happen. Watch Connect's gonna shoot the
Speaker 3: lights out. Reddick's going to be a decent coach. He'll
Speaker 3: have a little bit of a learning curve, but he'll
Speaker 3: be all right, and he'll drop some more f bombs
Speaker 3: to entertain us.
Speaker 1: Well, we live in the multiverse. That's your version of reality.
Speaker 1: My version of reality is that Lebron James will get hurt.
Speaker 1: Bronnie James will suck and won't play. They'll have to
Speaker 1: play them a little bit because TV is going to
Speaker 1: demand Bronnie and Lebron play. You've been calling for Lebron
Speaker 1: to be hurt for seasons and seasons, and Anthony Anthony
Speaker 1: Davis is going to bake cookies. He'll burn his thumb
Speaker 1: taking the cookies out of the oven, and then he
Speaker 1: will miss about forty games.
Speaker 3: You are the biggest Lakers fan that I know. So
Speaker 3: last Sunday I mentioned on our way out that we
Speaker 3: were thinking about going to the movies. My girl had
Speaker 3: been bugging me to go to Inside Out too, and
Speaker 3: I gave it the double Siskel and Ebert two thumbs down.
Speaker 3: I don't want to see that. Instead, we got up early.
Speaker 3: I did the podcast with you, and we thought, let's
Speaker 3: go to Zuma, like a million other people in southern
Speaker 3: California thought, but let's try to go early before the
Speaker 3: canyon roads get all busy.
Speaker 1: You should explain for those not in southern California where
Speaker 1: exactly that is, because people like in Ohio and Michigan
Speaker 1: probably don't know.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Zuma beaches in Malaboo.
Speaker 1: Malabu boo, as we like to say, mal boo boo.
Speaker 3: So for us who live off the one O one Freeway,
Speaker 3: there's a few canyon roads that lead to the coastline.
Speaker 1: And these are very dangerous roads and very congested roads.
Speaker 3: On the lease. Yeah, some of them are keep one lane.
Speaker 1: People have met their demise on those roads. Many times
Speaker 1: they fall off the cliff. It did game over.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so it gets super congested, especially on weekends during
Speaker 3: the summer. Thought, okay, we'll get to the grocery store
Speaker 3: get the items for our igloo, which my chick stole
Speaker 3: from our aunt during that yard sale. By the way,
Speaker 3: so we have this igloo that started leaking once we
Speaker 3: put the ice in it. Cool nice stolen igloo. We
Speaker 3: had a thirty dollars pop up tent from Costco had
Speaker 3: been sitting in the garage because we found it on
Speaker 3: sale months ago, waiting for the summer. Solid right, So
Speaker 3: we got to bust that out for the first time.
Speaker 3: Go inside the grocery store for bread and jelly to
Speaker 3: make sandwiches. Had the peanut butter at home already, chips,
Speaker 3: fig Newtons, Mini diet Pepsi cans and ice eighty nine
Speaker 3: dollars later. After the grocery store. Nice, true story, What
Speaker 3: a deal. We get on the Canyon Road and finally
Speaker 3: get to it's like a fifteen minute ride for us.
Speaker 3: With the traffic, it was about a half hour. Not
Speaker 3: the end of the world. Get onto the sand eighty
Speaker 3: six degrees in Malibu last Sunday. You know what that's like, Ben,
Speaker 3: that's like one hundred degrees on the sand.
Speaker 1: Ah. Oh, it's terrible, Yes, super hot, pained.
Speaker 3: Tar on the feet. That's why I kept my flip
Speaker 3: flops on because I saw my girl get like a
Speaker 3: tar on her foot. But yeah, I'm not going down
Speaker 3: that road. Ben talked about that on the fifth hour.
Speaker 1: That's right, I've had that problem. Yeah.
Speaker 3: We get everything set up, and we get the pop
Speaker 3: up tent in place, get the folding chairs out, and
Speaker 3: we slap together the peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and
Speaker 3: shove them to the kids. Shut the hell up, as
Speaker 3: my grandpa would say, quit your damned winding, Eat a sandwich,
Speaker 3: Feed the kids, our middle kids. She's thirteen. She does
Speaker 3: not listen to adults. She thinks she knows everything. She's
Speaker 3: at that age right now. She tries to explain things
Speaker 3: to us in all of her wise wisdom, wonderful. Yeah,
Speaker 3: you're you know you are, daddy, You're a boomer. No, no, no,
Speaker 3: you old head.
Speaker 2: No.
Speaker 3: I was born in a year where we're considered Generation X.
Speaker 3: All right, we do not get along with Generation Z.
Speaker 1: Now that's why we like being on X because it's
Speaker 1: our generation. Yeah, Ration X, get on the Twitter.
Speaker 3: She's a know it all right now. Other than that,
Speaker 3: she's a good kid, but she's a no it all.
Speaker 3: Me and her mom both told her you have to
Speaker 3: put a lot of sunscreen on. She's at the age
Speaker 3: where she's just starting to talk with boys and all
Speaker 3: that comes with teenage years and if you're a girl, dad,
Speaker 3: you know what I'm talking about. So she's like her
Speaker 3: little thing during the summer. Right now, she wants her
Speaker 3: friend over so they could go to the pool and
Speaker 3: lay out because they want to get tans. Oh my god, Becky,
Speaker 3: I keep telling her, you have good skin right now,
Speaker 3: and you're about to ruin that. You see those old
Speaker 3: ladies that come around our neighborhoods where they look like leatherface.
Speaker 3: That's gonna be you if you keep playing in the sun.
Speaker 3: And she finally asked a question, because normally she's not
Speaker 3: asked questions. She's telling us things like she really knows,
Speaker 3: like she has life experience. What do you mean how
Speaker 3: come the sun does that to you? And I said, well,
Speaker 3: think about it. The sun is basically burning a layer
Speaker 3: of your skin off of your body. And this was
Speaker 3: the night before we were having this conversation. So now
Speaker 3: we're on the beach and I look at her and
Speaker 3: I said, hey, remember the sunscreen that same friend I mentioned.
Speaker 3: She brought that girl along. They're both spraying the sunscreen on,
Speaker 3: they take the boogie boards, they run into the water.
Speaker 3: They were in the water bend all afternoon a couple
Speaker 3: of times she came back for food and SODA's. I
Speaker 3: told her, reapply that sunscreen. Do you think she did? No,
Speaker 3: she didn't listen to me. She didn't listen to her mom.
Speaker 1: Turn into a lobster. Your sounds are going.
Speaker 3: Let me tell you? How can I well? What's on podcasts?
Speaker 3: She looked like Anchemima. The next day, all I could
Speaker 3: see were the whites of her eyes and her teeth.
Speaker 1: Racist.
Speaker 2: I'm okay with my color and boy.
Speaker 3: And now it's been almost a week, her skin started
Speaker 3: peeling really bad, and she came into the living room crying,
Speaker 3: and she's like, mom, I look like a cow because
Speaker 3: the spots that have peeled off. She's been trying to
Speaker 3: put vitamins, vitamin E on her skin and these different lotions,
Speaker 3: and she's been crying about it. And her mom's like, well,
Speaker 3: I try to tell you. Your stepdad tried to tell you.
Speaker 3: You didn't listen. Guess what. Her dad comes to pick
Speaker 3: her up and to take her one of the summer
Speaker 3: days this past week. He sees her and he freaks out.
Speaker 3: He texted my wife, He said, why did you let
Speaker 3: her get burned like that? She is gonna get skin cancer.
Speaker 3: My better half said, you better talk to your noa
Speaker 3: all thirteen year old daughter because we had several conversations
Speaker 3: with her and she did not listen. So now this
Speaker 3: is a true test because once her skin heals, do
Speaker 3: you think she's gonna do this again?
Speaker 1: This is the personification Danny of the fuck around and
Speaker 1: find out? Mean right, I mean, that's it, right around
Speaker 1: you find out. And I'm gonna give her the benefit
Speaker 1: of the doubt, your daughter that she's going to remember
Speaker 1: this the agony, and I'm I'm a stubborn guy myself.
Speaker 1: I remember my mom would would have these conversations with
Speaker 1: me when I was a kid about putting suntan lotion on.
Speaker 1: And what I would do is I would halfway do
Speaker 1: it because I would just put it on my elbows
Speaker 1: and knees because when you get some burned your joints,
Speaker 1: it really that's where it really kills you. So as
Speaker 1: long as I was, like, you're your neck, yeah, the
Speaker 1: neck also, so I would just hit those areas because
Speaker 1: I figured, well, if I get burned, it's not that bad.
Speaker 1: As long as I don't, I don't have any of
Speaker 1: those areas burned, and so I would I would do that.
Speaker 1: But at this point in my life, I you know,
Speaker 1: I'm an older I guess I'm middle aged. I don't know,
Speaker 1: maybe older than middle aged. But I don't go out.
Speaker 1: I try to avoid the sun unless my wife drags
Speaker 1: me to palm springs and all that. But did your
Speaker 1: daughter just have tons of alivera? Did you just take
Speaker 1: a bath in alivera?
Speaker 3: She has been gathering alivera on her every night. She
Speaker 3: came out of the shower the other night crying, telling
Speaker 3: her mom, it hurt to shower. I was crying. We're
Speaker 3: dealing with CoA at the beach because he's trying to
Speaker 3: dig in the sand. He's trying to crawl all over
Speaker 3: the place. So we were preoccupied with a ten month old,
Speaker 3: so we didn't get to hover over her to make
Speaker 3: sure she was doing the right thing with sunscreen. What
Speaker 3: we think is she didn't even put any on her face.
Speaker 1: Sun can lead to some pain, especially if you didn't
Speaker 1: wear any sunscreen. Well, as they say, Danny, a watched
Speaker 1: pot never boils. A watch teenager does not does not
Speaker 1: burn their face, but an unwatched teenager will absolutely boil
Speaker 1: their face away. Now, did you show CoA the old
Speaker 1: sandcrab thing. He's probably too young for that. But in
Speaker 1: a couple of years, right, you've showing those sand crabs.
Speaker 3: That's my yeah, kid, right, I'll wait for that. But
Speaker 3: what he got to do for the first time was
Speaker 3: take shovels and the bucket and dig in the sand.
Speaker 3: He's never done that before. And I was pouring the
Speaker 3: water into the sand to make the mud pies with
Speaker 3: him in the different shapes that come in the bucket.
Speaker 3: He was so into it, and he was such a
Speaker 3: good boy. But about ten minutes in he took a huge,
Speaker 3: huge handful of the mud and put it right in
Speaker 3: his mouth. Well so one kid burning their face off,
Speaker 3: the other kid eating dirt.
Speaker 1: But it's the same concept, right, He'll learn maybe that's
Speaker 1: not the best thing to put in my mouth, as
Speaker 1: she avoid that in the future, you know, you know
Speaker 1: somewhere in the back of his head that seed will
Speaker 1: be planted.
Speaker 3: You may have seen children eating mud.
Speaker 1: So to turning the pitch, I wanted to just finish
Speaker 1: up on my funeral weekend, so I went from LA
Speaker 1: from a funeral out to Palm Springs and then drove
Speaker 1: back to the LA area to go to a different
Speaker 1: funeral in Orange County, and then I had to go
Speaker 1: back to Palm Springs because my wife was still out there.
Speaker 1: She had big events with their friends and stuff, so
Speaker 1: I was I was given a special treat. On my
Speaker 1: way back, the long drive out to Palm Springs, I'm
Speaker 1: driving out there on the highway. I think I'm on
Speaker 1: the sixty and there's a trailer in front of me.
Speaker 1: It's like a two lane road and I see this
Speaker 1: trailer and it's like, okay, I'm behind it. There's a
Speaker 1: truck carrying this trailer, and I really think much of it.
Speaker 1: At first. I thought, well, maybe maybe there's a horse
Speaker 1: in there or something like that, and I was just
Speaker 1: kind of, you know, you zombie out a little bit
Speaker 1: when you're driving. You're getting this kind of coma state
Speaker 1: where you're just driving down the road or whatever. So
Speaker 1: I'm driving. As I get closer to this truck with
Speaker 1: the thing in the back, I see this this head
Speaker 1: pop up and I noticed this. I'm like, what is that?
Speaker 1: I see these eyes looking back at me, and I'm
Speaker 1: I had this this epiphany, this this like abercadabra moment
Speaker 1: right in front of me. I'm in the middle of
Speaker 1: like a traveling a traveling zoo or circus or whatever.
Speaker 1: I felt like I was transported to the Sahara Desert
Speaker 1: like a petting zoo, because, standing tall, loud and proud,
Speaker 1: with all the panache you could possibly want of a model,
Speaker 1: was none other than a camel. I yes, I was
Speaker 1: driving behind.
Speaker 3: That is one of your most classic drops of all time.
Speaker 3: I want a camel.
Speaker 1: Yep, yep and uh And all those years in the
Speaker 1: on the radio saying I want a camel where that
Speaker 1: was after Adrian Peterson, who.
Speaker 3: We had on this podcast camel cake sent to us.
Speaker 1: That was one of the coolest cakes we ever got.
Speaker 1: It was awesome. Uh, that in the Chuck the Condor cake.
Speaker 1: But anyway, so I'm driving, I'm like, wait a minute,
Speaker 1: there's a freaking camel and uh and it was just awesome.
Speaker 1: Here I am on this desolate road with tumble weeds
Speaker 1: and sand all around, and I am staring in the
Speaker 1: eyes of this majestic camel who is chewing away at
Speaker 1: whatever it's chewing at and could not care any less.
Speaker 1: They know who the hell are you? So I had
Speaker 1: an option. I could have sped up and gone around
Speaker 1: the truck and the camel. But now I was like,
Speaker 1: I want to enjoy this. You know, I'll get to
Speaker 1: my destination. It's not driving that slow. So I just
Speaker 1: stayed there and I took a few photos of the camel,
Speaker 1: and the camel just look in the back of me
Speaker 1: and all that stuff and really care who I was.
Speaker 1: And it was kind of cool. It was one of
Speaker 1: those weird things out in the middle of nowhere, you know,
Speaker 1: I Camel's living his life, doing whatever's doing. I thought
Speaker 1: it was funny.
Speaker 3: You are never going to see something like that again
Speaker 3: for the rest of your life, probably not.
Speaker 1: Probably not. It was funny though. On the back of it,
Speaker 1: I took a photo me see yeah, I mean it
Speaker 1: was just there. It's hard to tell, but I could
Speaker 1: see it a lot better in person, and I love
Speaker 1: the back of it. You see what I sent you
Speaker 1: the photos. Damn, I hopefully get him. You see this
Speaker 1: is like something This like a joke that Doc Mike
Speaker 1: used to say out the air. Do you see what
Speaker 1: it says on the back of the truck.
Speaker 3: There Camel won one thousand and two, one thousand in toe.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it says Camel in tow is what it says
Speaker 1: on the back And Doc Mike. Once, like ten years ago,
Speaker 1: Doc Mike, he somehow learned that phrase. I guess he
Speaker 1: had never learned cammebltoe, and so he kept calling up
Speaker 1: and saying it. Remember like he thought it was like
Speaker 1: he was like eight years old, Doc Mike saying the
Speaker 1: phrase on the radio over and over again.
Speaker 3: So I remember that.
Speaker 1: That was my run in with the camel, Mike Cammell,
Speaker 1: my camel experience. All right, let's get to the idiom
Speaker 1: of the week. We'll get out on this the idiom
Speaker 1: of the week, and this week's idium of the week
Speaker 1: is dog days. I thought this was appropriate, this being
Speaker 1: the last weekend in June, we're sliding into July this
Speaker 1: week and the dog days of summer. Now, do you
Speaker 1: know when the dog days of summer are, Danny, I
Speaker 1: hear that a lot during the baseball season. Yeah, yep,
Speaker 1: that's true. It does correspond with the baseball season. Well,
Speaker 1: the actual definition of dog days, the dog days of
Speaker 1: summer are between July third, which is what Wednesday of
Speaker 1: this week, So it's coming with July third to August eleventh,
Speaker 1: those are the dog days of summer. Now here's the
Speaker 1: interesting thing about this. Is it true that dog days
Speaker 1: of summer have nothing to do nothing to do with dogs.
Speaker 1: The common belief is that it's called the dog days
Speaker 1: of summer because it's associated with the the dogs having
Speaker 1: issues with the heat, and that's why they call it
Speaker 1: the dog days because they start huffing and puffing and
Speaker 1: they need extra water and all that. But the term
Speaker 1: dog days does not have any relation to our canine friends. Instead,
Speaker 1: it is inspired by the heavens and it refers to
Speaker 1: the almost forty days when Serious, not the satellite radio,
Speaker 1: when Sirius, known as the dog star, rises and sets
Speaker 1: with the sun, and Serious is the brightest star in
Speaker 1: the constellation. And in Latin the term is it means
Speaker 1: a greater dog, and that's in relation, not relation to
Speaker 1: actual dogs, just in relation to Serious, the dog a star.
Speaker 1: This goes back to ancient Greeks and then Romans who
Speaker 1: realized the hottest days of summer occurred. They coincided when
Speaker 1: Sirious rose near the sun, and so the that particular
Speaker 1: star's name derives from the Greek word of scorching. So
Speaker 1: everything's related together and all that stuff, and so Romans
Speaker 1: thought that Sirius gave off heat. So how they thought
Speaker 1: back in the day, the Romans that Sirius gave off
Speaker 1: heat when it was next to the sun in conjunction
Speaker 1: with the sun. The Egyptians, but wait, we got the Greeks,
Speaker 1: the Romans, and the Egyptians. These are all legends. So
Speaker 1: the Egyptians noticed the dog stars position of the sky
Speaker 1: and often heralded the Nile rivers annual floods. They thought
Speaker 1: that was related. But over the years, the actual timing
Speaker 1: of the Dog Days of Summer has shifted since then
Speaker 1: due to how the Earth's rotation makes the stars placements
Speaker 1: in the sky change over time, and we'll all be
Speaker 1: long dead. But in about ten thousand years the Dog
Speaker 1: Days of Summer actually happen in winter. So and then
Speaker 1: people say it's climate change, but no, it's just the
Speaker 1: way the way the Earth rotates, and everything's related together
Speaker 1: and all that, and that is our idiom of the
Speaker 1: week dog days of Summer.
Speaker 3: It was actually interesting.
Speaker 1: Well, thank you for giving me a left handed compliment.
Speaker 1: I appreciate that. All right, Danny, we'll get out on that.
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Speaker 3: Asta pasta basulacious