WEBVTT - The Fifth Hour: Midwestern Muscle 0:00:00.720 --> 0:00:01.480 Kutbooms. 0:00:02.320 --> 0:00:05.400 If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes 0:00:05.400 --> 0:00:09.200 a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants 0:00:09.200 --> 0:00:12.480 of the Old Republic, a soul fashion of fairness. He 0:00:12.600 --> 0:00:15.520 treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the 0:00:15.600 --> 0:00:17.480 rich pill poppers in the penthouse. 0:00:18.079 --> 0:00:18.400 Wow. 0:00:18.440 --> 0:00:22.320 It's a clearinghouse of hot takes. Break free for something special. 0:00:22.680 --> 0:00:32.240 The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now. 0:00:28.960 --> 0:00:35.360 In the air everywhere, and a happy Saturday to you. 0:00:35.560 --> 0:00:40.240 It is on like Donkey Kong, just hours from now. 0:00:40.320 --> 0:00:43.159 It is the Fifth Hour with me, Ben Mallor and 0:00:43.320 --> 0:00:49.040 Danny g on location, on location, from a very secret 0:00:49.280 --> 0:00:54.560 location in the bowels of a hotel in downtown Kansas City. 0:00:55.120 --> 0:00:57.800 It is the Fifth Hour, and Danny, you are not 0:00:58.400 --> 0:01:02.120 not here, but in spirit you are here. As today 0:01:02.320 --> 0:01:04.680 it is green Light Go. We talked about a lot 0:01:04.760 --> 0:01:07.200 yesterday on the podcast, and I've been trying to promote 0:01:07.200 --> 0:01:10.240 the heck out of this. The Maelor Meet and Greet 0:01:10.600 --> 0:01:13.080 at the Landing. I guess you could say I have 0:01:13.200 --> 0:01:15.399 landed at the landing. Well not yet. I'll be there 0:01:15.440 --> 0:01:19.280 later today at two o'clock local time here in Kansas City. Obviously, 0:01:19.360 --> 0:01:21.080 what doesn't matter if it's three o'clock in the east. 0:01:21.120 --> 0:01:24.880 But we're in Kansas City. So fired up, Danny, big Malar, 0:01:24.959 --> 0:01:28.200 meet and greet today. A lot of schmooze time, good 0:01:28.319 --> 0:01:32.480 schmoozing on the horizon today, So I'm excited about that 0:01:32.880 --> 0:01:36.320 and really fired. I'm gonna have the Ben Maller chicken fingers. 0:01:37.200 --> 0:01:39.880 Had a little barbecue last night. We'll have the chicken 0:01:39.920 --> 0:01:44.600 fingers today and then probably just fall asleep right after 0:01:44.720 --> 0:01:48.600 because I can get up ridiculously early for the Chiefs 0:01:48.640 --> 0:01:52.400 game tomorrow against the Broncos. But I'm looking forward. It's 0:01:52.400 --> 0:01:55.600 gonna be just a whirlwind weekend here, Danny Whirlwind. 0:01:56.120 --> 0:01:58.520 It's a good thing for you that Mahomes has very 0:01:58.560 --> 0:02:02.240 flexible ankles and hips, because otherwise you would have been 0:02:02.280 --> 0:02:03.680 walking right into a funeral. 0:02:04.160 --> 0:02:06.880 Yeah. No, I realized that. And if you could have 0:02:06.960 --> 0:02:10.280 heard the amount of profanity on Monday night that I 0:02:10.520 --> 0:02:13.600 was saying when Mahomes was getting helped off the field 0:02:13.880 --> 0:02:16.200 against Tampa Bay, I'm like, oh, come on, you got 0:02:16.200 --> 0:02:19.799 to be joking, right, I mean, here I am. You 0:02:19.840 --> 0:02:22.080 know it's my one trip to Arrowhead. You know, I 0:02:22.080 --> 0:02:24.040 know you're a Raiders fan Danny and this is enemy 0:02:24.120 --> 0:02:26.600 territory and I get that and I respect that, But 0:02:26.760 --> 0:02:29.440 for me, it's like, hey, I'm excited to go to 0:02:29.520 --> 0:02:32.160 Kansas City experience. I've heard the tailgating is amazing at 0:02:32.240 --> 0:02:36.000 Arrowhead and all that has to offer. And I wanted 0:02:36.000 --> 0:02:38.520 to see Mahomes. This is the new dynasty in the NFL. Right, 0:02:38.560 --> 0:02:41.320 you had Brady and the Patriots. Now you got Mahomes 0:02:41.320 --> 0:02:43.040 and the Chiefs. I'm like, ah, here's my chance, here's 0:02:43.080 --> 0:02:46.079 my shot. And I see him hobbling off the field 0:02:46.080 --> 0:02:48.639 on Monday night, I'm like, if this f that, blah 0:02:48.720 --> 0:02:51.160 blah blah blah. I mean, I'm going nuts. And then 0:02:51.200 --> 0:02:53.400 it turns out he was fine. 0:02:53.960 --> 0:02:56.920 Yeah, And we've seen people in the past with pictures 0:02:56.960 --> 0:03:00.079 of Patrick with his shirt off and stuff like that, 0:03:00.240 --> 0:03:03.200 and people have put that picture out there on social 0:03:03.240 --> 0:03:06.480 media making fun of his quote unquote dad Bod. But 0:03:06.680 --> 0:03:09.920 that was very much dad Bod power, because you ain't 0:03:09.960 --> 0:03:12.600 flexible if you're DK Metcalf and you're all cut up, 0:03:12.720 --> 0:03:15.560 like you had an allergic reaction to something. 0:03:16.280 --> 0:03:18.720 Yeah, I know, I mean it was it was nuts 0:03:18.760 --> 0:03:21.240 because I watching him was like, Wow, he's I'm gonna 0:03:21.240 --> 0:03:23.920 watch Carson Wentz. I'm flying to Kansas City to watch 0:03:23.919 --> 0:03:27.080 Carson Chiefs And I was like, I don't who wants that. 0:03:27.160 --> 0:03:29.040 Nobody wants that. I saw him with the Rams last year. 0:03:29.520 --> 0:03:31.160 You know, he's a backup, That's what he is. He's 0:03:31.200 --> 0:03:34.920 a backup at this point. So anyway, he will be playing, 0:03:34.960 --> 0:03:37.480 and as far as I know, everyone will be there. 0:03:37.520 --> 0:03:40.440 I don't know. If you know my friend Tabo Swift, 0:03:40.440 --> 0:03:43.520 you know we're friends unless we're not. Ah, you are 0:03:43.560 --> 0:03:49.120 a sexy lady. I don't know if she'll be Who knows, 0:03:49.160 --> 0:03:51.680 who cares. I'm gonna have a good time and I'm 0:03:51.680 --> 0:03:55.160 looking forward to meeting everyone today again two o'clock till 0:03:55.160 --> 0:03:58.640 four o'clock over at the Landing in Liberty. I'll be 0:03:58.720 --> 0:04:01.560 heading over there. My friend Bob Fesco from ninety six 0:04:01.600 --> 0:04:05.880 point five to the Fan will be there and exciting news. 0:04:06.000 --> 0:04:06.120 Dan. 0:04:06.880 --> 0:04:10.960 Unlike every other Malard meet and greet. To my knowledge, 0:04:10.960 --> 0:04:13.160 I don't remember ever giving anything away, but I am 0:04:13.200 --> 0:04:19.680 told from sources close to the situation that the promotions 0:04:19.680 --> 0:04:22.040 department at ninety six point five the Fan here in 0:04:22.120 --> 0:04:28.840 Kansas City has provided a handful of merch some t 0:04:29.000 --> 0:04:33.120 shirts and way, wow, let's go. We will have some 0:04:33.200 --> 0:04:36.840 merch from the station here in Kansas City. So I'm 0:04:36.880 --> 0:04:40.320 excited about that and hopefully j T will make it. 0:04:40.400 --> 0:04:44.160 JT the Wingman's said he'll be here. I've had RSVPs. 0:04:44.200 --> 0:04:48.080 I said this yesterday, and I always repeat this caveat 0:04:48.560 --> 0:04:51.680 people say hey, I'm going to be there, and then 0:04:52.080 --> 0:04:54.320 like life gets in the way, right, life gets in 0:04:54.320 --> 0:04:56.520 the way, they don't end up doing it. But I've 0:04:56.520 --> 0:05:00.719 had people from Iowa, from Texas, all over parts of 0:05:01.000 --> 0:05:04.000 Missouri and Kansas, which is right across the way here, 0:05:04.400 --> 0:05:06.120 who have said their planning and coming out. So we'll 0:05:06.120 --> 0:05:08.800 see who shows up. But either way, as always is 0:05:08.800 --> 0:05:10.680 to be great. The people at the landing have been 0:05:10.720 --> 0:05:14.680 so wonderful over the years. And this is two different 0:05:14.720 --> 0:05:18.240 restaurants this family has owned in Kansas City, and they've 0:05:18.279 --> 0:05:23.320 had the Mallard chicken fingers on the menu at both establishments, 0:05:23.400 --> 0:05:26.760 and so it's it's pretty cool. So that's what's going 0:05:26.760 --> 0:05:30.640 on today, and then you know, at some point, I 0:05:30.680 --> 0:05:33.560 do think I have to sleep, Danny. I didn't sleep 0:05:33.560 --> 0:05:37.359 on Thursday. I didn't sleep on Friday because I did 0:05:37.440 --> 0:05:39.800 the overnight show. I did the podcast and then I 0:05:39.839 --> 0:05:43.440 had to run to the airport to fly here. Not 0:05:43.520 --> 0:05:46.560 that I'm complaining. It just sounds like I'm complaining. It 0:05:46.720 --> 0:05:50.200 just sounds like, but I'm not really complaining. These are 0:05:50.200 --> 0:05:52.200 good problems to have, right, There were much worse problems, 0:05:52.560 --> 0:05:55.120 and we had a rough week, Danny, Right with some 0:05:55.160 --> 0:05:58.600 friends of ours, you know, unfortunately lost their job or 0:05:58.680 --> 0:06:00.760 whatnot this week, and so that that was always tough. 0:06:00.839 --> 0:06:02.920 So it's a good problem to have. I'm not complaining. 0:06:03.080 --> 0:06:03.920 It sounds like I'm going. 0:06:04.000 --> 0:06:08.479 Yeah, there were a lot of November layoffs, unfortunately in 0:06:08.560 --> 0:06:12.160 our business, and it posed the question I saw on Facebook. 0:06:12.640 --> 0:06:15.360 Somebody asked because they work for one of the major 0:06:15.480 --> 0:06:18.440 broadcast companies, and they said, would you rather be laid 0:06:18.440 --> 0:06:21.400 off before Christmas or after Christmas. 0:06:21.839 --> 0:06:23.920 I've actually thought about this because I got laid off 0:06:24.040 --> 0:06:28.520 after Christmas. I got laid off on January twentieth of nine, 0:06:29.040 --> 0:06:31.920 was when I met my maker in radio the last time. 0:06:32.320 --> 0:06:35.160 The last time I met my maker, which is has 0:06:35.200 --> 0:06:39.400 been fifteen years almost. But I've determined after a minutes 0:06:39.480 --> 0:06:42.359 long mallor investigation, Danny, there is no good time to 0:06:42.360 --> 0:06:46.440 get let go. No, no, there's no I mean, whether 0:06:46.480 --> 0:06:49.000 it's before Christmas or after Christmas. If you love your 0:06:49.080 --> 0:06:50.760 job and you think you're doing a good job and 0:06:50.800 --> 0:06:52.840 you're helping the company out and you're earning your money, 0:06:53.080 --> 0:06:56.839 there is no good time to be like, oh, and 0:06:56.880 --> 0:06:58.600 I you know, it was a weird week because, as 0:06:58.600 --> 0:07:00.400 you said, a lot of people in our industry lost 0:07:00.400 --> 0:07:04.400 their job this week. And I sleep during the day 0:07:04.440 --> 0:07:06.320 as you know, you know, you work the shift, and 0:07:06.360 --> 0:07:09.080 so I wake up too, and I thought, you know, 0:07:09.160 --> 0:07:11.840 did somebody in my family die or something like that. 0:07:11.920 --> 0:07:14.760 It was my phone was just filled with with text 0:07:14.760 --> 0:07:17.560 messages from from my friends in radio, like hey, did 0:07:17.600 --> 0:07:19.280 you hear this guy lost their job? Or that you 0:07:19.320 --> 0:07:22.720 know that woman over there he's gone, And so it was, uh, 0:07:23.400 --> 0:07:25.040 is not what you want to wake up to. But 0:07:25.040 --> 0:07:28.560 it's nobody died. As far as I know, nobody died. 0:07:28.600 --> 0:07:30.640 They let's you know, work somewhere else, or we get 0:07:30.680 --> 0:07:32.880 podcast jobs, which is normally what happens right when you 0:07:32.960 --> 0:07:36.760 leave radio, you just move into the podcast space, and 0:07:36.800 --> 0:07:38.600 that's kind of what you do. But we're doing both, right. 0:07:38.600 --> 0:07:40.560 We got the podcast and the radio, so we've got 0:07:40.560 --> 0:07:43.600 the best of both worlds right here. Yeah, So when 0:07:43.600 --> 0:07:45.600 we get whacked. They'll say, but you're still going to 0:07:45.600 --> 0:07:49.800 be on your podcast. Yeah, I say, all right, Well, 0:07:49.800 --> 0:07:52.600 as long as you're paying the full amount, I will 0:07:52.640 --> 0:07:57.400 be more than happy to the podcast. No, no questions asked, 0:07:57.600 --> 0:08:02.240 no questions asked. So this past week, you know, we're 0:08:02.280 --> 0:08:03.880 hanging out. We're excited about to meet and read. But 0:08:03.920 --> 0:08:07.120 this past week hanging out. On Saturday, I had a 0:08:07.280 --> 0:08:09.960 very full day, a very full day, a lot lot 0:08:10.000 --> 0:08:11.440 going on. I had to do some things with the 0:08:11.440 --> 0:08:14.600 wife in the morning. We're driving all over the place, 0:08:15.240 --> 0:08:18.160 and then we were going to go play miniature golf. 0:08:19.320 --> 0:08:22.920 On Saturday. I had not seen my cousin. She's been 0:08:22.960 --> 0:08:25.280 sick for a while. She had some medical stuff, but 0:08:25.320 --> 0:08:27.080 she's feeling better now. She was like, hey, you know, 0:08:27.120 --> 0:08:28.920 she lives in one of the few cousins I have 0:08:28.960 --> 0:08:31.880 in the area. Pretty Much everyone in my family, my 0:08:32.000 --> 0:08:35.360 side of the family, has just relocated, either they've died 0:08:35.480 --> 0:08:41.080 or they've relocated far away from California. So my cousin, 0:08:41.200 --> 0:08:42.920 she said, she was feeling better. She's got two little 0:08:43.000 --> 0:08:45.760 kids who even though we're cousins, the little kids call 0:08:45.840 --> 0:08:49.439 me Uncle Benny, which is I get a kick out 0:08:49.640 --> 0:08:53.000 I'm uncle Benny, even though I'm not not their uncle, 0:08:53.240 --> 0:08:55.600 but when you're a little kid, everyone is older is 0:08:55.640 --> 0:08:57.640 like an uncle. So we were going to go play 0:08:57.640 --> 0:09:00.840 miniature golf and we had a very very rare and 0:09:00.960 --> 0:09:05.040 inappropriate spat of rain. It wasn't really rain, it was 0:09:05.080 --> 0:09:09.240 more like it was like a drizzle type situation. You know. 0:09:09.520 --> 0:09:11.839 It wasn't much, but it was enough where of course 0:09:11.920 --> 0:09:14.120 the people didn't want to go miniature golfing because that's 0:09:14.160 --> 0:09:17.720 outside and God forbid you standing in a little moisture. 0:09:17.800 --> 0:09:21.920 And so we decided to change it up and we 0:09:21.960 --> 0:09:25.559 went to the place right next door to the fund Zone, 0:09:26.120 --> 0:09:29.760 which was a bowling alley. I have not been bowling 0:09:29.800 --> 0:09:34.679 in at least ten years, and it was on. It 0:09:34.880 --> 0:09:38.200 was on Benny the bowler returned and I used to 0:09:38.200 --> 0:09:41.080 love bowling back in the desk. Number one participation sport 0:09:41.400 --> 0:09:43.959 in America, and I had not been in a bowling alley, 0:09:44.040 --> 0:09:47.200 Danny you forever. And I walked into place was packed 0:09:48.000 --> 0:09:50.720 people having a great time drinking beer and you know, 0:09:50.720 --> 0:09:56.080 eating nachos and just wonderful, great energy in the bowling alley, 0:09:56.679 --> 0:09:59.000 and it's like, this is the perfect sport. You sit 0:09:59.040 --> 0:10:01.280 around most of the time. You eat, you drink, and 0:10:01.320 --> 0:10:02.720 then every once in a while you go and your 0:10:02.760 --> 0:10:04.760 fut's around with the ball and you and you roll 0:10:04.800 --> 0:10:07.679 the ball down. But it was so embarrassing. So I 0:10:07.720 --> 0:10:10.920 had my my my sister in law was there, my cousin, 0:10:11.480 --> 0:10:14.320 and all the little kids that are in my circle, right, 0:10:14.360 --> 0:10:18.520 all the little kids and talking like from age like 0:10:19.000 --> 0:10:23.760 four or five to like nine tennish in that area. 0:10:23.840 --> 0:10:26.200 There's a bunch of kids. Actually there's one a couple 0:10:26.200 --> 0:10:28.640 of years older, like twelve or thirteen. 0:10:28.720 --> 0:10:29.040 Orders. 0:10:29.240 --> 0:10:32.520 So we're all there and I come out, you know, 0:10:32.559 --> 0:10:35.200 I'm mister sports guy. You know, I'm you know, a 0:10:35.200 --> 0:10:38.880 sports radio guy, and I grab that bowling ball and 0:10:39.120 --> 0:10:43.560 I go down there and right in the gutter. Uh 0:10:43.600 --> 0:10:45.160 and uh So then I get, you know, the ball 0:10:45.160 --> 0:10:47.160 comes back and I'm I go and right in the 0:10:47.160 --> 0:10:50.480 gutter again, and the kids are mocking me. The kids 0:10:50.480 --> 0:10:53.480 are like, oh yeah, what happened? You know, everyone's mocking me. 0:10:53.960 --> 0:10:57.439 Uh and so. But eventually it was about halfway through 0:10:57.480 --> 0:11:02.480 the round that I figured out I remembered just muscle memory, Danny, 0:11:02.600 --> 0:11:04.840 it's muscle memory with this, like you I didn't bold 0:11:04.880 --> 0:11:07.400 and so long it was a disaster at first. It 0:11:07.440 --> 0:11:08.239 was so embarrassing. 0:11:08.840 --> 0:11:10.480 I thought I was going to ask you at first, 0:11:10.520 --> 0:11:12.920 because that's a really bad game to be cold with, 0:11:13.200 --> 0:11:15.560 to have not practiced in a long time. 0:11:16.240 --> 0:11:19.600 Yeah, it was embarrassing. And it was even more embarrassing when, 0:11:19.679 --> 0:11:22.640 like the little kids now, they did cheat. They use 0:11:23.240 --> 0:11:25.160 they had the bumpers, which I'm not gonna do. I'm 0:11:25.160 --> 0:11:26.600 not gonna lie to you. At one point it was 0:11:26.640 --> 0:11:28.760 so bad, they the people I was with, mocked me 0:11:28.880 --> 0:11:31.160 and turned on the bumper. They turned on the little 0:11:31.160 --> 0:11:33.840 bumpers so the ball wouldn't go in the gutter. I 0:11:33.880 --> 0:11:37.640 am such a radio loser. Yeah. The kids were actually 0:11:37.640 --> 0:11:39.240 doing better than I was, and they were like kind 0:11:39.240 --> 0:11:41.520 of giving me the side eye. What's wrong with you? 0:11:41.520 --> 0:11:44.679 You know, you're old, You're an old, old loser, and 0:11:44.920 --> 0:11:47.400 uh you know, look at us, you know we're little kids, 0:11:47.880 --> 0:11:51.600 and uh so it was so funny. I love I 0:11:51.640 --> 0:11:56.520 love the little ones, little munchkins, because you know, I'm 0:11:56.559 --> 0:11:59.560 sitting with the adults and you know they're boring, So 0:11:59.600 --> 0:12:04.120 I go hang out with the kiddos. Right, and my 0:12:04.120 --> 0:12:08.440 my niece, she says, you're not allowed to be over here. Uncle, Benny, 0:12:08.480 --> 0:12:12.079 you're old, you know you gotta go hang up. So 0:12:12.120 --> 0:12:15.200 she kicked me out, and I'm like, crap. So I 0:12:15.200 --> 0:12:18.200 had to do the walk across to the other side. 0:12:18.400 --> 0:12:20.040 And but it was it was a lot of fun. 0:12:20.040 --> 0:12:23.280 I had a great time. And I plan on. I 0:12:23.280 --> 0:12:25.480 guess I'm I'm really getting old now, Danny. I plan 0:12:25.559 --> 0:12:28.680 on bowling semi regularly. That's that's the goal. It's not 0:12:28.800 --> 0:12:33.400 that expensive. It's fun. And it's not that you get 0:12:33.440 --> 0:12:36.520 any exercise, because you don't. There's no exercise. You just 0:12:36.559 --> 0:12:39.319 take a couple of steps and fling the ball. But 0:12:39.360 --> 0:12:42.200 it's it's great. And maybe I'll just like buy a 0:12:42.200 --> 0:12:44.240 bowling shirt. That's like the next thing after you get 0:12:44.240 --> 0:12:45.840 into bowling. You have to have like a bowling shirt 0:12:45.880 --> 0:12:47.760 and buy your own bowling shoes and all that and 0:12:47.800 --> 0:12:48.480 that how that works. 0:12:48.480 --> 0:12:51.800 I think, Wow, I just pictured you as Uncle Buck 0:12:52.160 --> 0:12:52.800 pretty much. 0:12:52.960 --> 0:12:55.760 I'm head in that direction at this point in my life. 0:12:56.440 --> 0:12:58.720 I am absolutely hitting that direction. So I I had 0:12:58.720 --> 0:13:02.200 a great time. It's now my concern. I was saying 0:13:02.200 --> 0:13:04.280 about this as I was I was coming into the 0:13:04.280 --> 0:13:07.280 studio the other night. When I when I went in, 0:13:07.360 --> 0:13:09.320 I was thinking about my weekend you know. And I 0:13:09.320 --> 0:13:11.120 was trying to process what I wanted to share with 0:13:11.200 --> 0:13:14.640 you the listener here on the podcast, and and I'm thinking, like, 0:13:15.400 --> 0:13:17.720 is that just because I hadn't been bowling a long 0:13:17.760 --> 0:13:20.839 time that I liked the bowling, you know what I mean? 0:13:21.200 --> 0:13:24.080 Or is it do I did I genuinely like the bowling? 0:13:25.040 --> 0:13:27.800 Or was it just a product of the fact that 0:13:27.800 --> 0:13:29.600 I hadn't done it? So it was kind of different, 0:13:30.200 --> 0:13:30.760 you know what I mean? 0:13:31.160 --> 0:13:34.000 One of those things, Now, are you better at ax 0:13:34.080 --> 0:13:35.480 throwing or bowling? 0:13:37.200 --> 0:13:40.240 How dare you listen? That was? That was bull crap 0:13:40.320 --> 0:13:43.640 video that you saw of the act throwing and the 0:13:43.679 --> 0:13:46.840 real ones that were there that they did not try 0:13:46.840 --> 0:13:49.600 to sabotage me. No, that by the end of that 0:13:49.720 --> 0:13:52.880 night at the Mermaid, I was pretty good. I was 0:13:52.920 --> 0:13:55.000 pretty good at throwing axes. And I'm like a Paul 0:13:55.120 --> 0:13:58.880 Bunyan type axe thrower at this particular point, I am. 0:13:59.200 --> 0:14:00.640 And if that ever, you know, I don't know what's 0:14:00.640 --> 0:14:02.719 gonna happen today, Dan, we're here in Kansas City for 0:14:02.800 --> 0:14:04.920 the Mala meat greed. I don't think they have axe 0:14:04.920 --> 0:14:08.440 throwing at the landing, and I don't know, maybe they do, 0:14:08.600 --> 0:14:11.680 probably not but if there's any kind of nonsense here, 0:14:12.200 --> 0:14:14.920 there will be anarchy, Danny, but not that kind of anarchy, 0:14:15.120 --> 0:14:17.439 if you know what I mean. You know what I'm saying. Okay, 0:14:17.440 --> 0:14:18.320 I'm just pointing that out. 0:14:18.400 --> 0:14:21.240 Yeah, you better take everybody's cell phones away, like Derek Cheeter. 0:14:21.720 --> 0:14:24.240 Yeah. Yeah, I'll have a little with your basket when 0:14:24.280 --> 0:14:26.240 you come into the landing today, Like put your phone 0:14:26.280 --> 0:14:28.560 right there and zip it. It'll be like a like 0:14:28.600 --> 0:14:30.720 a Diddy party, right, No party, like a Diddy parties. 0:14:30.800 --> 0:14:32.040 Lebron said, there. 0:14:31.760 --> 0:14:35.520 No campus, no campus, Yeah, Ben, this is obviously a 0:14:35.520 --> 0:14:41.280 political podcast. Wrong, third Rail, my man. So you were 0:14:41.320 --> 0:14:44.600 on the air when Trump gave his speech, right. 0:14:44.960 --> 0:14:47.680 Yes, yes, we were on the air. Now. I didn't 0:14:47.680 --> 0:14:52.120 really bring it up, but we were on when he 0:14:52.280 --> 0:14:55.280 announced that he was going to return to the White House. 0:14:55.280 --> 0:14:56.040 He's coming back. 0:14:56.480 --> 0:14:58.680 I was live on the radio with you the first 0:14:58.680 --> 0:15:00.960 time Trump was elected. Do you remember that, and we 0:15:01.040 --> 0:15:02.920 simulcasted his speech. 0:15:03.680 --> 0:15:07.280 I vaguely remember that. I just remember from that time 0:15:08.040 --> 0:15:13.800 the craziness of people freaking out that they never thought 0:15:13.800 --> 0:15:16.560 he would win the first time, and it was kind 0:15:16.560 --> 0:15:21.280 of similar. I felt like this time then, politics, my man, 0:15:21.360 --> 0:15:22.240 Third Rail, my man. 0:15:22.280 --> 0:15:26.960 But yeah, well, you know, some people were scared that 0:15:27.000 --> 0:15:30.440 there would be problems out there on these streets, and 0:15:30.640 --> 0:15:32.280 I think all of us were like, hey, we can 0:15:32.320 --> 0:15:36.240 be adults here. If your candidate didn't win, hopefully you 0:15:36.280 --> 0:15:38.560 could act like an adult, not go out and burn 0:15:38.600 --> 0:15:40.720 a bus and push a car over with some help 0:15:40.760 --> 0:15:46.640 from friends, riot, loot and pollute. I'm not panicked, but 0:15:47.080 --> 0:15:50.400 I was confused because the morning after, I'm scrolling through 0:15:50.440 --> 0:15:53.640 the news on my phone and I'm reading different articles 0:15:53.640 --> 0:15:57.400 about the numbers and how everything happened late. 0:15:57.240 --> 0:16:02.560 At night, and I smelled smoke outside. Jerk yourself away, what. 0:16:02.680 --> 0:16:05.680 Is going on? So I open up my patio door. 0:16:06.240 --> 0:16:10.240 It smelled like the mountain next to us was on fire. Well, 0:16:10.320 --> 0:16:13.000 now you just can't leave crap. I go to the 0:16:13.080 --> 0:16:16.920 Ventura County Star online, and sure enough, there is a 0:16:17.040 --> 0:16:19.480 huge mountain fire. That's even what they're calling it, the 0:16:19.520 --> 0:16:23.560 mountain fire. But turns out, I don't think this has 0:16:23.600 --> 0:16:27.640 anything to do with what happened in politics. Huge fire though, 0:16:27.720 --> 0:16:31.720 ben And in fact, early on this Saturday morning, I'm 0:16:31.760 --> 0:16:35.160 inside a taco bell in my area that's open early 0:16:35.200 --> 0:16:41.240 for breakfast. Last weekend, I'm at some nice hotel in 0:16:41.320 --> 0:16:44.920 Seattle doing this podcast with you, right, yeah, yeah, not 0:16:45.000 --> 0:16:46.800 so much this week. It's kind of our life in 0:16:46.880 --> 0:16:49.400 radio one week or five Star in the next week. 0:16:49.440 --> 0:16:50.080 We're PBJ. 0:16:50.760 --> 0:16:53.600 Yeah. You know, this reminds me when I was doing 0:16:53.640 --> 0:16:56.200 local radio. They sent us to the World Series. We're 0:16:56.240 --> 0:16:58.800 in Cleveland, me and the great Jeff Biggs. So I've 0:16:58.800 --> 0:17:01.440 had on a podcast and we didn't make it to 0:17:01.480 --> 0:17:04.160 the broadcast location. So this is so long ago, Dan, 0:17:04.160 --> 0:17:09.800 you'll appreciate this. We broadcast from this like skid Row Hotel. 0:17:10.880 --> 0:17:13.960 There were two payphones next to each other, and we 0:17:14.080 --> 0:17:16.640 called up on we were each on a different payphone. 0:17:16.680 --> 0:17:21.520 We called up and did our show from payphones in Cleveland. 0:17:21.840 --> 0:17:25.080 And it was October, it was cold, it was fall, 0:17:25.200 --> 0:17:28.120 you know that that old thing. And uh yeah, I mean, well, 0:17:28.119 --> 0:17:30.320 that's the great thing about audio content, right, you have 0:17:30.359 --> 0:17:32.239 to the show must go on. You have to do 0:17:32.320 --> 0:17:34.320 the show. We have to do the show, and so 0:17:34.520 --> 0:17:37.399 you have gone above and beyond the call of duty. 0:17:38.080 --> 0:17:42.240 These winds have been whipping around so crazy. Our power 0:17:42.280 --> 0:17:45.720 has been off here and there, and internet definitely is 0:17:45.720 --> 0:17:49.160 a problem. In fact, the Starbucks they've been closed two 0:17:49.240 --> 0:17:52.280 days in a row with a handwritten sign that says 0:17:52.680 --> 0:17:54.640 closed because of fires. 0:17:54.960 --> 0:17:56.160 Wonderful. Wonderful. 0:17:56.280 --> 0:18:00.119 Yeah, real professional sign on their front door. So y, 0:18:00.240 --> 0:18:03.680 so I'm broadcasting bright and early from this taco bell 0:18:04.160 --> 0:18:06.920 about to get me a scrambled egg burrito here. Ben, 0:18:07.359 --> 0:18:09.960 you know, the podcast goes on no matter what happens. 0:18:10.520 --> 0:18:14.600 Yeah, the show must go on. The show must go on. 0:18:15.080 --> 0:18:18.720 And with that, Danny, I present to you one of 0:18:18.760 --> 0:18:22.840 the great quotes of our time. Marie Antoinette must be proud, 0:18:22.880 --> 0:18:26.520 the famous quote she supposedly said when she heard that 0:18:26.600 --> 0:18:30.760 the commoners had no bread, she said, famously, let them 0:18:30.800 --> 0:18:34.160 eat cake. And I feel like that's what the listeners 0:18:34.800 --> 0:18:38.120 of the Overnight Show have said to me. Let them 0:18:38.240 --> 0:18:40.760 eat cake on the Ben Malor Show. So we ate 0:18:40.960 --> 0:18:41.320 very well. 0:18:41.400 --> 0:18:41.520 Now. 0:18:41.560 --> 0:18:44.040 We have had a problem getting our mail. It has 0:18:44.080 --> 0:18:46.400 been well documented. I don't know where the mail goes 0:18:46.400 --> 0:18:48.719 when you send it to Fox Sports Radio. We have 0:18:48.760 --> 0:18:51.760 a mail room, but oftentimes we never actually get the 0:18:51.800 --> 0:18:53.440 mail in the mail room. I don't know. It must 0:18:53.480 --> 0:18:56.639 be like a second hidden mail room. So people have 0:18:56.680 --> 0:18:58.920 been saying, hey, we sent you some stuff and then 0:18:59.040 --> 0:19:01.120 we never got it, and we were kind of annoyed 0:19:01.119 --> 0:19:03.000 by that, and we're like, oh, what is that all about? 0:19:03.640 --> 0:19:07.560 And all of a sudden, I think it was Monday 0:19:07.640 --> 0:19:12.119 or Tuesday. This week we got the mother load of 0:19:12.760 --> 0:19:16.680 mail and we did eat a lot of cake, and 0:19:16.720 --> 0:19:19.280 not just cake, all kinds of desserts. Some of it 0:19:19.359 --> 0:19:22.800 was hand delivered. My right hand was getting a workout. 0:19:23.600 --> 0:19:25.879 I want to thank Darren. We call him Donut Darren 0:19:25.880 --> 0:19:29.000 on the show, a big fan, lives in the OC 0:19:29.960 --> 0:19:34.280 and he works out at the Port of la And 0:19:34.560 --> 0:19:36.320 even though he's a Giants fan, I like the guy. 0:19:36.359 --> 0:19:40.159 Seems like a nice guy, and he stopped by. He 0:19:40.320 --> 0:19:43.040 knows from listening to this podcast on the radio show 0:19:43.040 --> 0:19:45.719 that I've been dying to get my hands on an 0:19:45.760 --> 0:19:50.160 apple fritter donut. I've tried for about a month. Every 0:19:50.200 --> 0:19:52.720 time I've gone to the donut shop, they're out of 0:19:52.720 --> 0:19:56.080 apple fritters. It's been very upsetting to me. And so 0:19:56.400 --> 0:19:58.880 Donut Darren's like, Hey, I know a place it's open 0:19:58.920 --> 0:20:03.080 twenty four hours. I'll go buy a dozen donuts and 0:20:03.160 --> 0:20:06.840 I'll drive him and deliver them. And that's exactly what 0:20:06.920 --> 0:20:09.520 Darren did. He'd stop by and it was great to 0:20:09.600 --> 0:20:11.719 you know. He told some stories about his life and 0:20:12.200 --> 0:20:15.080 he's growing up. He's probably around our age, Danny, give 0:20:15.119 --> 0:20:17.840 her take. And he would go to games at Candlestick 0:20:17.920 --> 0:20:23.240 Park than in the frozen Tundra where the Giants played 0:20:23.240 --> 0:20:24.960 for so many years and the forty nine ers s. 0:20:24.960 --> 0:20:27.199 We're telling stories about that. And he hung out with us, 0:20:27.240 --> 0:20:29.919 and so I got my apple fritter. I had a 0:20:29.920 --> 0:20:34.040 bare claw. Just just wonderful, just great. Love the donuts, 0:20:34.440 --> 0:20:37.679 in fact, that donut shop, which I thought he worked for, 0:20:37.760 --> 0:20:39.080 but he does, and he works. He works at the 0:20:39.119 --> 0:20:42.240 Port of La is so good. I'm probably gonna go 0:20:42.320 --> 0:20:45.119 back there. It's in Huntington Beach and I'll probably go 0:20:45.200 --> 0:20:48.280