WEBVTT - The Fifth Hour: Melty Face Camel Summer 0:00:00.760 --> 0:00:01.520 Cut booms. 0:00:02.360 --> 0:00:05.440 If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes 0:00:05.480 --> 0:00:09.240 a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants 0:00:09.240 --> 0:00:12.560 of the old Republic, a soul fashion of fairness. He 0:00:12.640 --> 0:00:15.560 treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the 0:00:15.680 --> 0:00:17.520 rich pill poppers in the penthouse. 0:00:18.120 --> 0:00:18.400 Wow. 0:00:18.640 --> 0:00:22.360 The Clearinghouse of Hot takes break free for something special. 0:00:22.720 --> 0:00:29.400 The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now. 0:00:29.040 --> 0:00:34.680 In the air everywhere. The Fifth Hour with Me, Big 0:00:34.720 --> 0:00:39.840 Ben and Danny g Radio Happy Saturday. We are here 0:00:40.040 --> 0:00:44.320 every single freaking day on this twenty ninth day, the 0:00:44.400 --> 0:00:49.560 last Saturday's Joyous No No, No, I'm not again, Danny. 0:00:49.600 --> 0:00:52.599 As I said on yesterday's podcast, I like doing this 0:00:52.760 --> 0:00:56.120 because I when I go out and meet people at events, 0:00:56.200 --> 0:00:59.640 I can say listen, I'm a podcaster, I'm a content creator, 0:00:59.840 --> 0:01:02.800 and I have credibility. People love that. They're like, oh wow, 0:01:03.200 --> 0:01:03.920 that's impressive. 0:01:04.720 --> 0:01:05.120 Oky. 0:01:06.360 --> 0:01:09.000 Even on the radio show, Danny, I tell people I 0:01:09.080 --> 0:01:13.200 record my podcast live on the radio and then repackage 0:01:13.200 --> 0:01:18.280 it in the podcast format. But why not? And this 0:01:18.520 --> 0:01:25.600 today is It's Midsummer day today on this set. What 0:01:25.680 --> 0:01:29.640 is that? You ask? What is Midsummer Day. Well, this 0:01:30.520 --> 0:01:34.639 is the big dance in Midsummer Day in Finland because 0:01:34.760 --> 0:01:39.600 the last weekend of June today this year, June twenty ninth, 0:01:40.160 --> 0:01:45.280 is the official start of the warm summer weather. Now, 0:01:45.760 --> 0:01:48.680 as I said on a previous episode of this podcast, 0:01:48.800 --> 0:01:51.440 last weekend, I was in Palm Springs in California. It 0:01:51.440 --> 0:01:55.400 was one hundred and sixteen degrees. So I can only 0:01:55.440 --> 0:01:58.080 imagine what we're in for over the next couple of months. 0:01:58.120 --> 0:02:03.000 But this just in Danny. It gets hot in the summer. Oh, okay, 0:02:04.240 --> 0:02:08.640 be prepared for those stories about global warming and uh, 0:02:09.280 --> 0:02:11.240 it's all you know, it's all. It's hotter than it's 0:02:11.240 --> 0:02:13.880 ever been. Of course, I snicker. 0:02:14.560 --> 0:02:18.000 Midsummer how about your local newscast where they give you 0:02:18.040 --> 0:02:22.040 the tips on how to stay cool, drink lots of water, 0:02:22.240 --> 0:02:26.440 stay in the shade, stay hydrated. Okay, thank you for that. 0:02:27.000 --> 0:02:31.080 Yeah, common common sense. I appreciate that we have on 0:02:31.120 --> 0:02:36.720 this pod. We have the magical view skin cancer. That's 0:02:36.720 --> 0:02:40.639 a DeBie Downer traveling zoo, the idiom of the week, 0:02:41.200 --> 0:02:43.160 And if we have time, we'll get to some pop culture, 0:02:43.200 --> 0:02:47.160 but we'll begin with this and as the iconic radio 0:02:47.280 --> 0:02:50.040 man from before my time would say, you know what 0:02:50.080 --> 0:02:52.760 the news is, and in the next couple of minutes 0:02:52.800 --> 0:02:56.920 you're going to hear the rest of the story. So 0:02:57.000 --> 0:03:00.440 we'll flashback now. We told you on the previous podcast 0:03:00.520 --> 0:03:05.760 that on Friday Friday, Friday Friday, I ended up going 0:03:05.800 --> 0:03:08.119 to a funeral and then went out to a weekend 0:03:08.240 --> 0:03:14.640 getaway for my wife's birthday carnival the weekend of fun 0:03:15.000 --> 0:03:18.440 birthday month. But I did not stay in Palm Springs 0:03:18.440 --> 0:03:21.240 for very long. I made the long drive back to 0:03:21.320 --> 0:03:26.079 the LA area early on Saturday morning, and when I 0:03:26.160 --> 0:03:30.000 had to take care of Moxie and Luigi, my dogs, 0:03:30.040 --> 0:03:34.360 I got the the frog and the bulldog. Moxie's the 0:03:34.400 --> 0:03:39.240 bull the English bulldog in Luigi's the frog, which they're 0:03:39.280 --> 0:03:43.280 an interesting group, interesting group of characters. So did that, 0:03:43.400 --> 0:03:46.040 took care of my dogs, put my back my my 0:03:46.120 --> 0:03:49.880 church clothes, went back on, and headed to another cemetery 0:03:50.200 --> 0:03:52.000 about well, actually I was at a church on Friday, 0:03:52.040 --> 0:03:54.800 now a cemetery on Saturday, and it was a chance 0:03:54.840 --> 0:03:57.120 to say goodbye to a friend. We talked about this 0:03:57.200 --> 0:04:01.240 gentleman on a previous episode of this podcast. TJ. Simers, 0:04:02.040 --> 0:04:05.400 a longtime columnist at the LA Times, who I knew 0:04:05.600 --> 0:04:09.360 professionally for a while from going to games and interacting 0:04:09.360 --> 0:04:11.880 with TJ and press boxes, and I really got to 0:04:11.920 --> 0:04:14.040 know him a lot better over the last couple of months. 0:04:14.560 --> 0:04:18.000 He had terminal brain cancer, and so this was his 0:04:18.320 --> 0:04:24.719 goodbye and had a big celebration, celebrational life ceremony for 0:04:24.839 --> 0:04:29.120 the Curmudgeon. And I told TJ this, I love the 0:04:29.160 --> 0:04:33.680 way that he approached sports writing. And I've lived in 0:04:33.800 --> 0:04:35.920 La my whole life. People have I often accused me, 0:04:36.000 --> 0:04:38.600 you've heard this Danny like I act like I'm from 0:04:38.640 --> 0:04:41.320 Boston or something like that. I'm not from Boston. I 0:04:41.360 --> 0:04:43.360 just like the way they approach their sports in Boston. 0:04:43.360 --> 0:04:46.080 And TJ kind of had that attitude where he was 0:04:46.120 --> 0:04:48.760 an attack dog and all that he helped people accountable. 0:04:49.040 --> 0:04:50.159 So I was a big fan of his work. And 0:04:50.200 --> 0:04:52.360 he passed away and it was very sad. I had 0:04:52.360 --> 0:04:54.239 a chance to see him just a few days before 0:04:55.320 --> 0:04:57.919 he left this mortal coil, and so I went to 0:04:57.960 --> 0:05:02.120 the cemetery there to say goodbye. In Newport Beach and 0:05:03.440 --> 0:05:06.360 I went to simmer Times, I felt like it. Actually 0:05:06.360 --> 0:05:08.520 I'd been by there a lot. I liked going to 0:05:08.560 --> 0:05:10.560 the beach in Newport, So I didn't even realize it 0:05:10.600 --> 0:05:14.160 was there because it's hidden. It's off the side road 0:05:14.240 --> 0:05:16.680 you to go up a little hill, and I didn't 0:05:16.680 --> 0:05:20.280 even know it was there. So I went there and 0:05:20.680 --> 0:05:26.200 did my thing whatever, and we'll explain why why that's 0:05:26.240 --> 0:05:29.120 that's important, but or to the story, it's important. But 0:05:29.200 --> 0:05:32.400 it was great. I got to see TJ's family, as 0:05:32.600 --> 0:05:35.520 his wife, Say, who had gotten to know a little 0:05:35.520 --> 0:05:37.440 bit too. She had been been there when he was 0:05:37.440 --> 0:05:39.920 in hospice the last couple of months. And his grandkids 0:05:39.920 --> 0:05:42.599 were there, who he talked a ton about. Loved telling 0:05:42.680 --> 0:05:47.840 stories about coaching basketball for his daughter and his grandkids 0:05:47.920 --> 0:05:51.799 and and all that, and the famous grocery bagger. TJ 0:05:52.160 --> 0:05:54.560 would often write about him in the in the column 0:05:54.560 --> 0:05:57.440 in the La Times. And it was kind of cool, Danny, 0:05:57.480 --> 0:05:59.320 because I I didn't know who he was, and he 0:05:59.360 --> 0:06:01.560 came up to me and he introduced himself. And he 0:06:01.600 --> 0:06:03.640 actually was a listener to our show when you were 0:06:03.680 --> 0:06:05.440 on the show back in the day. He was a 0:06:05.440 --> 0:06:09.719 big listener to the microphone throttler to the overnight show. 0:06:09.760 --> 0:06:12.840 Used to work at night, and it was funny. He 0:06:12.880 --> 0:06:15.080 told me, like the whole stories, like he said he 0:06:15.120 --> 0:06:17.280 was a grocery bagger and TJ. He was like a 0:06:17.360 --> 0:06:20.200 character in TJ's column. It was a guy who was 0:06:20.279 --> 0:06:23.840 married to one of his daughters, and he would call 0:06:23.920 --> 0:06:26.320 him the grocery bager. But he hadn't been a grocery 0:06:26.360 --> 0:06:29.400 bager for years. He actually had like he was working 0:06:29.400 --> 0:06:31.360 in law enforcement. But TJ just loved call him the 0:06:31.360 --> 0:06:34.159 grocery bager, and it was kind of funny, and he 0:06:34.200 --> 0:06:36.080 was a fan of the show. But he was like 0:06:36.200 --> 0:06:40.320 going into a time portal. I got to see a 0:06:40.320 --> 0:06:43.279 lot of people I hadn't seen a long time, people 0:06:43.360 --> 0:06:46.679 from my twenties and thirties, when I was working every 0:06:46.800 --> 0:06:52.279 night and no girlfriend, no women in my life, no friends. 0:06:52.920 --> 0:06:55.440 My friends were press boxes and I was there every 0:06:55.520 --> 0:07:00.320 night just doing the grind. And among the people I 0:07:00.600 --> 0:07:03.160 got to meet or again and see again. One of 0:07:03.200 --> 0:07:05.599 the gentlemen that runs what I used to call Staples Center, 0:07:06.200 --> 0:07:09.040 I guess it's called something else now. And he's a 0:07:09.080 --> 0:07:12.600 guy that I had a big brewhaha with. He got 0:07:12.720 --> 0:07:15.000 very upset with me because of things I said on 0:07:15.080 --> 0:07:19.160 the radio at about that arena when a guy got 0:07:19.200 --> 0:07:22.240 in there with a knife, ran through the red coats 0:07:22.280 --> 0:07:24.000 I had a big problem with the security over there 0:07:24.000 --> 0:07:25.760 for years, but but he was, you know, we got along. 0:07:25.880 --> 0:07:26.200 Was fine. 0:07:26.200 --> 0:07:28.600 It was we'd made up and all that. It was 0:07:28.680 --> 0:07:31.840 wonderful to see my guy, Tim Mead. Tim Mead was 0:07:32.120 --> 0:07:36.400 forever the pr guy for the Angels, the old California Angels, 0:07:36.440 --> 0:07:41.120 the Anaheim Angels, the La Angels for like thirty five 0:07:41.320 --> 0:07:44.720 forty years. He was with the Angels. And we were 0:07:44.760 --> 0:07:48.160 telling stories about the nineties Angels when I was a 0:07:48.360 --> 0:07:52.600 radio reporter and the Angels had some historical collapses, and 0:07:52.720 --> 0:07:56.800 we were trading stories about Tony Phillips and how Tony 0:07:56.920 --> 0:07:59.600 famously wanted to fight me in the Angels clubhouse when 0:07:59.640 --> 0:08:03.280 they were apart in the mid nineties and allowed the 0:08:03.360 --> 0:08:07.320 Seattle Mariners to pass them by. Actually they technically tied, 0:08:07.360 --> 0:08:10.480 they had a one game playoff at the Kingdome, but 0:08:10.560 --> 0:08:13.640 we were telling the stories about about him. Mike Bredlahan, 0:08:13.880 --> 0:08:16.800 the old Laker beat guy who's a Laker broadcaster. I 0:08:16.880 --> 0:08:19.720 saw him. I hadn't seen him in years. Dylan Hernandez 0:08:19.760 --> 0:08:22.080 was their columnist of the La Times, a bunch of 0:08:22.120 --> 0:08:25.840 newspaper people. Bill Dwyer, the old editor of the La Times. 0:08:25.920 --> 0:08:28.120 I hadn't seen him in years. Ken Gurnick, a longtime 0:08:28.160 --> 0:08:32.559 baseball writer retired baseball scribe, caught up with him. He 0:08:32.720 --> 0:08:35.200 used to pop up with Roy Firestone. Remember that up 0:08:35.320 --> 0:08:37.920 close show with Roy fires Of course, if you're old, 0:08:38.000 --> 0:08:38.680 you know that show. 0:08:39.040 --> 0:08:39.599 How dare you? 0:08:40.440 --> 0:08:42.920 He was on there. But the one that I was 0:08:43.360 --> 0:08:47.199 I thought was the coolest. I saw a writer from 0:08:47.240 --> 0:08:51.360 the San Diego Union Tribune who I knew when I 0:08:51.559 --> 0:08:55.319 was nineteen and twenty years old and I'd go to 0:08:55.440 --> 0:08:58.640 Podre games when I was in San Diego working at 0:08:58.679 --> 0:09:03.480 the mighty sixth ninety Go after yourself, San Diego, and 0:09:03.720 --> 0:09:07.520 this guy is still working for the Union Tribune. And 0:09:07.880 --> 0:09:10.640 we were, you know, we were just shooting the shooting 0:09:10.679 --> 0:09:12.760 the you know what, and it was it was good 0:09:12.800 --> 0:09:16.000 to see him, and he seemed happy that I remembered him. 0:09:16.040 --> 0:09:19.240 I don't think he remembered me, but that's fine, and. 0:09:19.320 --> 0:09:20.040 It was great. 0:09:20.120 --> 0:09:23.080 And you know, TJ is just the overall thing. TJ 0:09:23.679 --> 0:09:29.120 was a curmudgeon. He was the some of villain and 0:09:29.240 --> 0:09:33.120 all that. Now, speaking of villains, though, uh, the guy, 0:09:33.840 --> 0:09:37.360 the guy who is responsible most for my vitriol towards 0:09:37.400 --> 0:09:42.520 the Lakers was there. The person that and someday I 0:09:42.600 --> 0:09:44.440 might write a book, And if I write a book, 0:09:44.480 --> 0:09:46.839 I'll make sure to mention this in the book. I'm 0:09:46.880 --> 0:09:48.360 not going to say this person's name right now, but 0:09:48.440 --> 0:09:51.280 he was at the service. I did not approach him, 0:09:51.320 --> 0:09:54.199 he did not approach me. But this is this is 0:09:54.240 --> 0:09:56.760 a guy that made my life a living hell when 0:09:56.800 --> 0:09:58.760 I was in my twenties and I was covering the 0:09:58.840 --> 0:10:01.679 Lakers at the Forum and he was a complete asshole, 0:10:02.640 --> 0:10:06.720 treated me like shit, and that really planted the seed. 0:10:06.760 --> 0:10:08.559 I never liked the Lakers, but I didn't hate the 0:10:08.640 --> 0:10:16.000 Lakers like I do today. That guy is responsible, and 0:10:16.120 --> 0:10:18.079 he was there and he didn't work for the Lakers anymore. 0:10:18.160 --> 0:10:21.880 He got Lebron got him fired, as I understand it, 0:10:22.720 --> 0:10:26.079 not because not because Lebron. It might even mean Kobe 0:10:26.160 --> 0:10:28.120 that got Maybe I'm wrong, Maybe it was it was 0:10:28.200 --> 0:10:31.160 Kobe that got rid of him. That that was a record. 0:10:31.360 --> 0:10:35.440 I've not done two funerals in one weekend, A macabre weekend. 0:10:36.440 --> 0:10:39.160 I wanted to finish up with this. I mentioned the cemetery. 0:10:39.200 --> 0:10:42.319 I had been by there several times. I had I 0:10:42.880 --> 0:10:46.640 felt like it was important. There's important people that were there. 0:10:47.120 --> 0:10:51.520 And as I was leaving the service, and I had 0:10:51.559 --> 0:10:54.719 to get back out to Palm Springs. More on that 0:10:55.080 --> 0:11:00.000 later in the podcast. But as I was leaving, I realized, 0:11:00.160 --> 0:11:05.760 wait a minute, this is the forever home of Kobe Bryant. 0:11:05.960 --> 0:11:10.439 This is the cemetery where Kobe Bryan is buried. So 0:11:10.520 --> 0:11:11.800 I was like, well, I don't know that I'll be 0:11:11.920 --> 0:11:14.600 here ever again. So what do you think I did, Danny? 0:11:15.760 --> 0:11:19.120 You threw your twenty four jersey from your trunk of 0:11:19.200 --> 0:11:22.000 your car on and walked over to his grave. 0:11:22.720 --> 0:11:27.520 Kobe close. I drove up to the very top because 0:11:27.520 --> 0:11:32.160 I figured I'd heard Kobe had a private plot of 0:11:32.320 --> 0:11:36.040 land at the very top of the cemetery. So I 0:11:36.240 --> 0:11:38.400 drove to the very top. 0:11:39.000 --> 0:11:41.240 An it's bad taste because of where they crashed, though 0:11:41.280 --> 0:11:42.600 it should have been down at the bottom. 0:11:47.040 --> 0:11:50.760 Too soon, Danny, too soon, Hey, yikes. But anyway, I 0:11:50.840 --> 0:11:53.840 drove to the top. And as you go up, one 0:11:53.880 --> 0:11:57.360 thing I've noticed about cemetery is the peasants are buried 0:11:57.400 --> 0:11:59.319 at the lower part of the cemetery, and as you 0:11:59.480 --> 0:12:03.520 go up, the graves get progressively bigger and the stones 0:12:03.559 --> 0:12:05.760 are better, and you know that kind of So I 0:12:05.840 --> 0:12:09.160 get up there and I can kind of make out 0:12:09.280 --> 0:12:12.120 where Kobe's plot of land is. There's like a fence 0:12:12.200 --> 0:12:15.280 around it and all that, but they don't really want 0:12:15.360 --> 0:12:17.240 you up there. And I was the only one in 0:12:17.320 --> 0:12:19.800 that part of the cemetery. But I looked at it 0:12:19.920 --> 0:12:21.360 and I was like, well, there's really not much more 0:12:21.400 --> 0:12:23.599 I can do. You know, I'm not when am I 0:12:23.640 --> 0:12:25.280 going to go over there. I'm not going to do that. 0:12:25.440 --> 0:12:30.000 But I did see it, So that's that's a big 0:12:30.160 --> 0:12:32.480 couple of months, Danny. I was at Michael Jordan's High 0:12:32.480 --> 0:12:35.599 School in Wilmington, North Carolina and Kobe Brand's grave in 0:12:36.280 --> 0:12:41.520 Newport Beach, California. But that was part of my weekend 0:12:41.559 --> 0:12:42.800 and I was out in the sun a little bit. 0:12:42.800 --> 0:12:45.079 I don't think I got skin canceled, though, Danny hopefully not. 0:12:45.240 --> 0:12:46.920 I don't think I was out in the sun long enough. 0:12:47.000 --> 0:12:48.319 It was a sunny day, but it was like a 0:12:48.400 --> 0:12:50.760 cool it was a cool sea breeze. That view by 0:12:50.760 --> 0:12:53.400 the way where Kobe's buried. I looked. I turned and 0:12:53.440 --> 0:12:56.560 I looked out unbelievable. I mean it is you can 0:12:56.600 --> 0:12:58.679 see all of the Newport Beach coastline there. 0:12:59.240 --> 0:13:01.800 Amazing And by the way, I'm allowed to joke. I 0:13:01.840 --> 0:13:04.520 actually have a Kobe Bryant tattoo on my Yes you do, 0:13:05.040 --> 0:13:07.920 I've seen it. Yeah, you do, number eight slash twenty four. 0:13:08.000 --> 0:13:11.640 What would he think about Brony being taken fifty fifth overall? 0:13:11.920 --> 0:13:14.960 Oh, if you could get Kobe some in a room 0:13:15.120 --> 0:13:17.800 without he probably wuldn't even care about microphones. But if 0:13:17.800 --> 0:13:21.680 you got him privately, oh, god, dude would just destroy 0:13:21.800 --> 0:13:22.319 the Lakers. 0:13:22.480 --> 0:13:25.800 You know though, your boy Justin and Cincinnati. He sent 0:13:25.880 --> 0:13:28.600 me a DM trying to bust my balls. He said, 0:13:28.880 --> 0:13:32.360 Lebron owns the Lakers franchise. Now with a question mark, 0:13:32.440 --> 0:13:34.320 I wonder if Kobe, if he was still with us, 0:13:34.800 --> 0:13:38.200 if this is how it would go, And I wrote back, Lol, 0:13:38.320 --> 0:13:40.680 they'd be drafting Kobe's daughter question mark. 0:13:42.040 --> 0:13:42.920 Well, they probably would. 0:13:43.600 --> 0:13:45.319 Yeah. Maybe Kobe would be like, hey, I want my 0:13:45.480 --> 0:13:48.640 daughter to be the first female NBA player. 0:13:49.160 --> 0:13:52.160 Yeah, and Genie bus would be okay, all right? 0:13:53.600 --> 0:13:53.920 What else? 0:13:54.040 --> 0:13:56.800 What else does Lebron like? I want to see Lebron's 0:13:56.800 --> 0:13:59.880 wishless He's already got his podcast Buddies the as the coach, 0:14:00.360 --> 0:14:03.600 He's got his son on the team. Does he want 0:14:03.720 --> 0:14:07.000 Rich Paul to replace Skinny Jeans? Rob Polinkaz the GM. 0:14:07.440 --> 0:14:10.120 And they're still gonna win more games than your Zippers. 0:14:10.840 --> 0:14:14.200 That didn't happen last year going to happen this season, Okay, 0:14:14.679 --> 0:14:17.040 saying that maybe it'll happen. Watch Connect's gonna shoot the 0:14:17.120 --> 0:14:20.000 lights out. Reddick's going to be a decent coach. He'll 0:14:20.040 --> 0:14:22.040 have a little bit of a learning curve, but he'll 0:14:22.080 --> 0:14:24.440 be all right, and he'll drop some more f bombs 0:14:24.480 --> 0:14:25.120 to entertain us. 0:14:25.200 --> 0:14:28.000 Well, we live in the multiverse. That's your version of reality. 0:14:28.080 --> 0:14:31.240 My version of reality is that Lebron James will get hurt. 0:14:31.640 --> 0:14:34.400 Bronnie James will suck and won't play. They'll have to 0:14:34.400 --> 0:14:36.240 play them a little bit because TV is going to 0:14:36.320 --> 0:14:39.040 demand Bronnie and Lebron play. You've been calling for Lebron 0:14:39.120 --> 0:14:42.640 to be hurt for seasons and seasons, and Anthony Anthony 0:14:42.760 --> 0:14:45.320 Davis is going to bake cookies. He'll burn his thumb 0:14:45.800 --> 0:14:47.520 taking the cookies out of the oven, and then he 0:14:47.560 --> 0:14:48.840 will miss about forty games. 0:14:48.920 --> 0:14:53.600 You are the biggest Lakers fan that I know. So 0:14:54.200 --> 0:14:56.800 last Sunday I mentioned on our way out that we 0:14:56.920 --> 0:14:58.840 were thinking about going to the movies. My girl had 0:14:58.880 --> 0:15:01.600 been bugging me to go to Inside Out too, and 0:15:01.760 --> 0:15:05.800 I gave it the double Siskel and Ebert two thumbs down. 0:15:05.840 --> 0:15:08.920 I don't want to see that. Instead, we got up early. 0:15:09.560 --> 0:15:12.280 I did the podcast with you, and we thought, let's 0:15:12.320 --> 0:15:14.720 go to Zuma, like a million other people in southern 0:15:14.760 --> 0:15:18.280 California thought, but let's try to go early before the 0:15:18.800 --> 0:15:20.280 canyon roads get all busy. 0:15:20.840 --> 0:15:25.119 You should explain for those not in southern California where 0:15:25.200 --> 0:15:28.920 exactly that is, because people like in Ohio and Michigan 0:15:28.960 --> 0:15:29.520 probably don't know. 0:15:29.720 --> 0:15:32.520 Yeah, Zuma beaches in Malaboo. 0:15:32.440 --> 0:15:35.080 Malabu boo, as we like to say, mal boo boo. 0:15:35.280 --> 0:15:37.720 So for us who live off the one O one Freeway, 0:15:38.080 --> 0:15:41.880 there's a few canyon roads that lead to the coastline. 0:15:42.240 --> 0:15:45.880 And these are very dangerous roads and very congested roads. 0:15:45.680 --> 0:15:48.720 On the lease. Yeah, some of them are keep one lane. 0:15:49.400 --> 0:15:52.000 People have met their demise on those roads. Many times 0:15:52.040 --> 0:15:54.040 they fall off the cliff. It did game over. 0:15:54.680 --> 0:15:59.040 Yeah, so it gets super congested, especially on weekends during 0:15:59.080 --> 0:16:01.880 the summer. Thought, okay, we'll get to the grocery store 0:16:01.960 --> 0:16:04.720 get the items for our igloo, which my chick stole 0:16:04.760 --> 0:16:06.800 from our aunt during that yard sale. By the way, 0:16:07.120 --> 0:16:10.240 so we have this igloo that started leaking once we 0:16:10.360 --> 0:16:13.480 put the ice in it. Cool nice stolen igloo. We 0:16:13.560 --> 0:16:16.560 had a thirty dollars pop up tent from Costco had 0:16:16.600 --> 0:16:18.480 been sitting in the garage because we found it on 0:16:18.640 --> 0:16:22.440 sale months ago, waiting for the summer. Solid right, So 0:16:22.520 --> 0:16:24.240 we got to bust that out for the first time. 0:16:24.680 --> 0:16:27.720 Go inside the grocery store for bread and jelly to 0:16:27.760 --> 0:16:30.840 make sandwiches. Had the peanut butter at home already, chips, 0:16:30.960 --> 0:16:34.760 fig Newtons, Mini diet Pepsi cans and ice eighty nine 0:16:34.840 --> 0:16:39.400 dollars later. After the grocery store. Nice, true story, What 0:16:39.520 --> 0:16:44.120 a deal. We get on the Canyon Road and finally 0:16:44.160 --> 0:16:46.680 get to it's like a fifteen minute ride for us. 0:16:46.760 --> 0:16:49.520 With the traffic, it was about a half hour. Not 0:16:49.680 --> 0:16:53.160 the end of the world. Get onto the sand eighty 0:16:53.280 --> 0:16:57.520 six degrees in Malibu last Sunday. You know what that's like, Ben, 0:16:57.680 --> 0:16:59.560 that's like one hundred degrees on the sand. 0:17:02.880 --> 0:17:09.160 Ah. Oh, it's terrible, Yes, super hot, pained. 0:17:09.560 --> 0:17:13.480 Tar on the feet. That's why I kept my flip 0:17:13.520 --> 0:17:15.879 flops on because I saw my girl get like a 0:17:16.040 --> 0:17:18.240 tar on her foot. But yeah, I'm not going down 0:17:18.280 --> 0:17:20.320 that road. Ben talked about that on the fifth hour. 0:17:20.640 --> 0:17:22.160 That's right, I've had that problem. Yeah. 0:17:23.760 --> 0:17:26.360 We get everything set up, and we get the pop 0:17:26.480 --> 0:17:30.240 up tent in place, get the folding chairs out, and 0:17:30.400 --> 0:17:33.080 we slap together the peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and 0:17:33.600 --> 0:17:35.439 shove them to the kids. Shut the hell up, as 0:17:35.480 --> 0:17:38.560 my grandpa would say, quit your damned winding, Eat a sandwich, 0:17:41.240 --> 0:17:45.399 Feed the kids, our middle kids. She's thirteen. She does 0:17:45.520 --> 0:17:49.960 not listen to adults. She thinks she knows everything. She's 0:17:50.000 --> 0:17:52.960 at that age right now. She tries to explain things 0:17:53.040 --> 0:17:56.680 to us in all of her wise wisdom, wonderful. Yeah, 0:17:56.880 --> 0:18:00.280 you're you know you are, daddy, You're a boomer. No, no, no, 0:18:00.400 --> 0:18:01.000 you old head. 0:18:01.160 --> 0:18:01.200 No. 0:18:01.800 --> 0:18:04.600 I was born in a year where we're considered Generation X. 0:18:05.240 --> 0:18:07.399 All right, we do not get along with Generation Z. 0:18:07.840 --> 0:18:09.879 Now that's why we like being on X because it's 0:18:09.920 --> 0:18:12.560 our generation. Yeah, Ration X, get on the Twitter. 0:18:13.680 --> 0:18:16.080 She's a know it all right now. Other than that, 0:18:16.160 --> 0:18:17.719 she's a good kid, but she's a no it all. 0:18:18.359 --> 0:18:20.840 Me and her mom both told her you have to 0:18:20.960 --> 0:18:24.400 put a lot of sunscreen on. She's at the age 0:18:24.440 --> 0:18:27.000 where she's just starting to talk with boys and all 0:18:27.040 --> 0:18:30.520 that comes with teenage years and if you're a girl, dad, 0:18:30.560 --> 0:18:33.199 you know what I'm talking about. So she's like her 0:18:33.240 --> 0:18:35.800 little thing during the summer. Right now, she wants her 0:18:35.880 --> 0:18:38.119 friend over so they could go to the pool and 0:18:38.280 --> 0:18:42.800 lay out because they want to get tans. Oh my god, Becky, 0:18:43.760 --> 0:18:46.720 I keep telling her, you have good skin right now, 0:18:47.080 --> 0:18:49.520 and you're about to ruin that. You see those old 0:18:49.640 --> 0:18:52.959 ladies that come around our neighborhoods where they look like leatherface. 0:18:53.560 --> 0:18:55.760 That's gonna be you if you keep playing in the sun. 0:18:56.800 --> 0:18:59.720 And she finally asked a question, because normally she's not 0:18:59.720 --> 0:19:03.040 asked questions. She's telling us things like she really knows, 0:19:03.080 --> 0:19:05.560 like she has life experience. What do you mean how 0:19:05.640 --> 0:19:08.320 come the sun does that to you? And I said, well, 0:19:08.359 --> 0:19:11.440 think about it. The sun is basically burning a layer 0:19:11.520 --> 0:19:14.119 of your skin off of your body. And this was 0:19:14.200 --> 0:19:16.719 the night before we were having this conversation. So now 0:19:16.760 --> 0:19:18.520 we're on the beach and I look at her and 0:19:18.680 --> 0:19:22.200 I said, hey, remember the sunscreen that same friend I mentioned. 0:19:22.240 --> 0:19:25.440 She brought that girl along. They're both spraying the sunscreen on, 0:19:25.960 --> 0:19:28.160 they take the boogie boards, they run into the water. 0:19:28.760 --> 0:19:31.960 They were in the water bend all afternoon a couple 0:19:32.000 --> 0:19:34.280 of times she came back for food and SODA's. I 0:19:34.400 --> 0:19:38.600 told her, reapply that sunscreen. Do you think she did? No, 0:19:39.480 --> 0:19:41.480 she didn't listen to me. She didn't listen to her mom. 0:19:42.000 --> 0:19:44.560 Turn into a lobster. Your sounds are going. 0:19:45.520 --> 0:19:49.359 Let me tell you? How can I well? What's on podcasts? 0:19:49.800 --> 0:19:54.320 She looked like Anchemima. The next day, all I could 0:19:54.400 --> 0:19:57.520 see were the whites of her eyes and her teeth. 0:19:58.960 --> 0:19:59.400 Racist. 0:20:00.480 --> 0:20:03.480 I'm okay with my color and boy. 0:20:03.760 --> 0:20:07.199 And now it's been almost a week, her skin started 0:20:07.280 --> 0:20:10.359 peeling really bad, and she came into the living room crying, 0:20:10.400 --> 0:20:14.679 and she's like, mom, I look like a cow because 0:20:14.760 --> 0:20:18.080 the spots that have peeled off. She's been trying to 0:20:18.160 --> 0:20:23.280 put vitamins, vitamin E on her skin and these different lotions, 0:20:23.400 --> 0:20:26.080 and she's been crying about it. And her mom's like, well, 0:20:26.280 --> 0:20:29.480 I try to tell you. Your stepdad tried to tell you. 0:20:29.680 --> 0:20:32.960 You didn't listen. Guess what. Her dad comes to pick 0:20:33.000 --> 0:20:35.359 her up and to take her one of the summer 0:20:35.480 --> 0:20:38.840 days this past week. He sees her and he freaks out. 0:20:39.680 --> 0:20:42.600 He texted my wife, He said, why did you let 0:20:42.640 --> 0:20:46.120 her get burned like that? She is gonna get skin cancer. 0:20:47.200 --> 0:20:49.560 My better half said, you better talk to your noa 0:20:49.680 --> 0:20:53.520 all thirteen year old daughter because we had several conversations 0:20:53.600 --> 0:20:56.600 with her and she did not listen. So now this 0:20:56.760 --> 0:21:00.119 is a true test because once her skin heals, do 0:21:00.160 --> 0:21:01.600 you think she's gonna do this again? 0:21:02.600 --> 0:21:07.480 This is the personification Danny of the fuck around and 0:21:07.600 --> 0:21:11.119 find out? Mean right, I mean, that's it, right around 0:21:11.359 --> 0:21:15.879 you find out. And I'm gonna give her the benefit 0:21:15.880 --> 0:21:18.360 of the doubt, your daughter that she's going to remember 0:21:18.480 --> 0:21:23.160 this the agony, and I'm I'm a stubborn guy myself. 0:21:23.160 --> 0:21:25.399 I remember my mom would would have these conversations with 0:21:25.520 --> 0:21:27.879 me when I was a kid about putting suntan lotion on. 0:21:28.520 --> 0:21:30.960 And what I would do is I would halfway do 0:21:31.080 --> 0:21:33.680 it because I would just put it on my elbows 0:21:33.680 --> 0:21:36.600 and knees because when you get some burned your joints, 0:21:36.760 --> 0:21:39.600 it really that's where it really kills you. So as 0:21:39.640 --> 0:21:43.960 long as I was, like, you're your neck, yeah, the 0:21:44.080 --> 0:21:47.040 neck also, so I would just hit those areas because 0:21:47.080 --> 0:21:49.040 I figured, well, if I get burned, it's not that bad. 0:21:49.080 --> 0:21:51.320 As long as I don't, I don't have any of 0:21:51.440 --> 0:21:55.000