WEBVTT - Hot Stone Express 0:00:00.960 --> 0:00:05.480 Boom. If you thought four hours a day, minutes a 0:00:05.480 --> 0:00:09.200 week was enough, I think again. He's the last remnants 0:00:09.200 --> 0:00:12.480 of the old Republic, a sole fashion of fairness. He 0:00:12.560 --> 0:00:15.480 treats crackheads in the ghetto cutter the same as the 0:00:15.600 --> 0:00:19.600 rich pill poppers in the penthouse, the clearing House of 0:00:19.640 --> 0:00:23.439 hot takes, break free for something special. The Fifth Hour 0:00:23.560 --> 0:00:31.600 with Ben Maller starts right now in the air everywhere. 0:00:31.640 --> 0:00:34.960 We are back at it, a new Saturday edition of 0:00:35.040 --> 0:00:40.520 the Fifth Hour with Ben Maller and Danny g Here 0:00:40.600 --> 0:00:45.520 for all of your audio needs eight days a week. 0:00:45.560 --> 0:00:49.600 People people email me Danny, they say please the fuck up, 0:00:49.640 --> 0:00:53.800 and I say no, now, now, now, now now, because 0:00:53.800 --> 0:00:57.440 we have plenty to talk about. And I'm excited about 0:00:57.440 --> 0:01:02.000 the Saturday podcast, the life and times of of me 0:01:02.120 --> 0:01:06.240 and you, Danny going in depth, and we we have 0:01:06.240 --> 0:01:09.119 a lot to get on this Saturday podcast. Now on 0:01:09.160 --> 0:01:15.240 the menu, Danny, We've got Woody Motorcade, the Gift that 0:01:15.400 --> 0:01:20.000 keeps on giving and limited backscratching nice and we're gonna 0:01:20.000 --> 0:01:22.840 mix it all together like gumbo. Yes, we're gonna mix 0:01:22.880 --> 0:01:25.479 it all together, and it's gonna it's tastes like turkey 0:01:25.560 --> 0:01:28.560 it's gonna be really delicious unless unless it's not, and 0:01:28.560 --> 0:01:31.120 then after you eat it, that's that's what happened. So 0:01:31.880 --> 0:01:34.080 I really love having the sound effects between. Danny had 0:01:34.120 --> 0:01:37.920 to tell you, Yeah, I can tell it's it's a 0:01:37.920 --> 0:01:41.520 lot of fun. Anyway. Uh, everything good? Were you? Danny? Everything? 0:01:41.680 --> 0:01:44.200 We had a successful Friday podcast, so that went pretty 0:01:44.240 --> 0:01:46.200 well and and now we're back at it again. We 0:01:46.200 --> 0:01:47.760 have the mail bag on Sunday, so there's a lot 0:01:47.800 --> 0:01:50.360 going on. We're juggling a lot of things here. Yeah, 0:01:50.520 --> 0:01:53.160 it's been a really good week so far, so time 0:01:53.200 --> 0:01:55.640 for us to screw that up. Yes, we will end 0:01:55.800 --> 0:01:59.640 up the podcast here. And now we've been what we've 0:01:59.640 --> 0:02:03.400 been doing years. The listeners have been saying it's not 0:02:03.480 --> 0:02:05.920 as much fun when we actually say the bad words. 0:02:06.240 --> 0:02:10.120 So we've been editing the bad words. That correcting is 0:02:10.160 --> 0:02:12.440 that the plan. Yes, I would like to thank you 0:02:12.520 --> 0:02:15.040 and everybody else in the Mallard Militia for adding an 0:02:15.120 --> 0:02:18.120 extra hour to my work week. So when I say 0:02:18.240 --> 0:02:22.520 function motherfucker all that you know you hear that? That 0:02:23.040 --> 0:02:28.320 that that like I didn't have enough to do. Yeah, 0:02:28.360 --> 0:02:32.680 you cook sucker. As Lee Elia said back in the day, 0:02:32.720 --> 0:02:34.920 all right, So we'll start with this now. Over the 0:02:34.960 --> 0:02:38.680 past year or so, Danny, things have been pretty topsy turvy. 0:02:38.720 --> 0:02:42.440 I've lived in three different places. Three had the Mallard 0:02:42.440 --> 0:02:46.639 mansion that I've been living in, which you visited multiple times. Uh. 0:02:46.680 --> 0:02:51.000 And then I moved to a temporary uh halfway house 0:02:51.480 --> 0:02:54.280 halfway house, and then uh and then I moved on 0:02:54.480 --> 0:02:56.440 to where I live now, which I think will be 0:02:56.480 --> 0:02:59.720 the final destination. But every time I move, I always 0:02:59.760 --> 0:03:02.959 think that's the last time I'm gonna move. I don't 0:03:02.960 --> 0:03:04.560 know if you're like that, Danny, but every time I move, 0:03:04.639 --> 0:03:06.440 I think, well, that's it, I'm not gonna move again. 0:03:06.600 --> 0:03:11.960 I've I finally found my final spot, and then surprise, surprise, 0:03:12.919 --> 0:03:16.640 turns out that's not the case. Um. So, So I 0:03:16.680 --> 0:03:20.040 moved a lot recently, and everything I owned, I own 0:03:20.040 --> 0:03:21.440 a lot of crap. I picked up a lot of 0:03:21.440 --> 0:03:24.400 stuff over the years. Everything I owned, other than a 0:03:24.560 --> 0:03:27.639 very small amount of stuff that you need every day, 0:03:28.560 --> 0:03:33.200 has been in storage ships And even now, after being 0:03:33.320 --> 0:03:37.000 in the final landing spot for a good amount of time, 0:03:37.000 --> 0:03:39.960 there's still a lot of stuff that is packed up 0:03:40.000 --> 0:03:44.680 in boxes and uh. And I also during that time, Danny, 0:03:44.720 --> 0:03:49.760 I got a lot of mail, listener mail. And while 0:03:49.920 --> 0:03:52.800 I was able to open some of the listener mail 0:03:52.840 --> 0:03:56.240 and it was great, I could not open all of 0:03:56.320 --> 0:04:00.760 the listener mail, and some of it in the the 0:04:00.800 --> 0:04:03.800 Healter Skelter way that things were going, some of it 0:04:03.840 --> 0:04:08.080 got placed into one of the storage ships and so 0:04:08.080 --> 0:04:09.960 so the mail has been sitting there. Some of it's 0:04:10.000 --> 0:04:13.360 been sitting there for like over a year, some of 0:04:13.360 --> 0:04:16.080 it a little less than that. And so I was 0:04:16.080 --> 0:04:18.240 getting emails. Some people are very upset any they're they 0:04:18.279 --> 0:04:19.800 were like, well, what what's up with that? I mean, 0:04:19.800 --> 0:04:22.880 I took some time out and h I said you something, 0:04:23.200 --> 0:04:25.400 and you didn't. You didn't respond, you didn't get it. 0:04:25.440 --> 0:04:26.760 And I was like and I was like, well, yeah, 0:04:26.800 --> 0:04:31.279 I'm a I'm a douche. I apologized and uh, and 0:04:31.440 --> 0:04:33.760 you left it up in all that stuff. Yeah, this 0:04:33.800 --> 0:04:36.760 is like how long it takes Arnie Spaniard to receive 0:04:36.920 --> 0:04:40.800 his mail in Vermont? Yeah, got it on time, you 0:04:40.960 --> 0:04:44.480 just delayed it yourself. Well yeah, logistically it's a little 0:04:44.520 --> 0:04:47.719 more complicated. Now I'm doing the show remotely, but that's 0:04:47.720 --> 0:04:50.520 a different situation. We've been doing that for a couple 0:04:50.560 --> 0:04:52.920 of years now. I can't believe it's been a couple 0:04:52.920 --> 0:04:57.480 of years doing this. But while the the anniversary is 0:04:57.960 --> 0:05:03.680 I believe tomorrow, is that the anniversary of to me, well, 0:05:04.040 --> 0:05:06.000 it was got a different day. When did When did 0:05:06.040 --> 0:05:08.560 COVID really a COVID or what we used to call 0:05:08.600 --> 0:05:11.760 it the coronavirus some old school back in the day. 0:05:11.800 --> 0:05:14.560 But the the night that I remember, it's one of 0:05:14.839 --> 0:05:18.480 the nights that you'll remember where you were. Uh, that 0:05:18.800 --> 0:05:23.159 was I believe the date on that was March March eleven, 0:05:23.200 --> 0:05:26.560 So it was actually yesterday, was it was on Friday? Um, 0:05:26.600 --> 0:05:30.800 it was a Wednesday, March eleven, And that was when 0:05:30.800 --> 0:05:33.599 the last NBA and NHL games were played. That was 0:05:33.600 --> 0:05:38.440 when Rudy Gobert rubbed the microphone and pretended to cough 0:05:38.520 --> 0:05:41.599 on it. Yeah. Yeah, And there was that surreal night 0:05:41.640 --> 0:05:44.640 where they were canceling NBA games. They were telling fans 0:05:44.680 --> 0:05:48.000 to leave the Oklahoma City Utah Jazz game. I think 0:05:48.040 --> 0:05:50.240 that was the one. And then and then that like 0:05:50.279 --> 0:05:53.200 the news came out like Tom Hanks had coronavirus and 0:05:53.200 --> 0:05:55.279 people like what is that? What is is he gonna die? 0:05:55.520 --> 0:05:59.760 And so yeah, the anniverse actually was yesterday, March March eleventh. 0:06:00.839 --> 0:06:03.520 We are exactly what two years in? Right? With two years? 0:06:03.520 --> 0:06:05.520 Is that? Am I right on this? Yeah, you're right 0:06:05.560 --> 0:06:08.159 about that. And I think all of us who were 0:06:08.240 --> 0:06:12.680 on National Sports Radio and went through that whole year 0:06:13.240 --> 0:06:16.400 deserve some kind of award because not only did we 0:06:16.480 --> 0:06:20.400 get presented FEMA cards. Remember yes, yes, having in the 0:06:20.440 --> 0:06:24.240 middle of the night getting pulled over by HP because 0:06:24.240 --> 0:06:26.839 they're asking what we were doing on the road talk 0:06:26.880 --> 0:06:31.080 about a freaking ghost town. We heard from lots of people, 0:06:31.480 --> 0:06:33.240 what are you guys gonna do? What? What in the 0:06:33.279 --> 0:06:36.839 world are you gonna talk about? You're gonna go down 0:06:36.880 --> 0:06:40.520 the toilet now because you have no sports to talk about? Yes, yes, 0:06:40.600 --> 0:06:42.680 we were. People were convinced we're gonna go out of business. 0:06:42.720 --> 0:06:45.719 They were gonna turn out the lots the parties over 0:06:46.200 --> 0:06:48.839 and that turned out the beach all fake news, it's 0:06:48.839 --> 0:06:52.719 phony stuff. It didn't happen. None of it happened. And 0:06:53.080 --> 0:06:55.920 we actually had and I've been with the company since 0:06:55.920 --> 0:06:58.920 it started Fox Sports Radio well pretty much. I started 0:06:58.960 --> 0:07:01.960 like two weeks after the net were launched, and it 0:07:02.160 --> 0:07:05.600 is insane that we had more listeners in a year 0:07:05.720 --> 0:07:09.960 with no sports the year of when that began COVID 0:07:10.200 --> 0:07:13.960 a hundred and thirty four days with no professional sports, 0:07:14.200 --> 0:07:18.040 and yet the listenership was through the roof. It was 0:07:18.360 --> 0:07:21.880 crazy how many people were listening. And it was like 0:07:21.920 --> 0:07:23.920 people that used to listen to any that came back 0:07:24.080 --> 0:07:26.800 that wanted a familiar voice. And then there were people 0:07:26.840 --> 0:07:28.920 that just stumbled onto the show because they were bored 0:07:28.920 --> 0:07:30.840 out of their mind and they just wanted to hear 0:07:30.880 --> 0:07:34.440 somebody talking. Yeah, it turned out to be the opposite 0:07:34.800 --> 0:07:38.720 of what people thought at first, because all the listeners 0:07:38.760 --> 0:07:42.520 wanted a comforting voice or a safe space, something that 0:07:42.680 --> 0:07:46.080 was nice to hear. And a lot of our talk 0:07:46.760 --> 0:07:49.960 was us trying to not exactly talk about COVID all 0:07:49.960 --> 0:07:53.600 the time. We had to find lots of interesting topics 0:07:53.880 --> 0:07:58.080 to talk about. And I remember they had producer meetings 0:07:58.120 --> 0:08:02.280 like once a week or every other week because Don 0:08:02.360 --> 0:08:05.880 and Scott were hell bent on you guys, this is 0:08:05.880 --> 0:08:08.880 where the producers are really gonna step up. We need 0:08:08.880 --> 0:08:11.240 to not only keep this thing going, but you need 0:08:11.280 --> 0:08:14.800 to realize that there could possibly be even more ears 0:08:14.840 --> 0:08:17.360 on the network right now because a lot of people 0:08:17.440 --> 0:08:20.080 have more free time on their hands right now, and 0:08:20.120 --> 0:08:23.960 that's exactly what wound up happening. Everybody's podcast numbers went 0:08:24.040 --> 0:08:28.440 through the roof, and the live listenership almost doubled at 0:08:28.440 --> 0:08:30.400 a time when people thought it was gonna go out 0:08:30.400 --> 0:08:33.600 of business. Yeah, it was crazy what was going on there. 0:08:33.760 --> 0:08:36.559 And one of my favorite monologues that I will remember 0:08:36.600 --> 0:08:38.800 when I get out of radio when I'm dead. I 0:08:38.800 --> 0:08:41.240 probably don't remember when I'm dead, But I did a 0:08:41.280 --> 0:08:46.240 monologue on marble racing. I did. I did an entire 0:08:46.320 --> 0:08:50.040 monologue of fifteen minute monologue on marble racing. And I 0:08:50.080 --> 0:08:53.800 was really I was watching this on YouTube. What about 0:08:53.800 --> 0:08:57.120 a nine year old girl? That was my sports I 0:08:57.200 --> 0:08:58.880 was like betting on I would pick a marble. I 0:08:58.880 --> 0:09:01.560 always picked the blue marble, and then I would why 0:09:01.600 --> 0:09:03.520 and I would watching try in my head, I was, 0:09:03.640 --> 0:09:06.319 I was wagering and whatnot, and and it was new 0:09:06.360 --> 0:09:08.360 to me because I had never really gotten into the 0:09:08.360 --> 0:09:11.600 sport of marble racing. And you know, it was a tremendous, 0:09:11.920 --> 0:09:18.800 tremendous thing. A side felt man. I was watching NASCAR 0:09:18.960 --> 0:09:23.199 drivers pretend like they were driving Nascars. They were on 0:09:23.240 --> 0:09:25.840 their simulators. I don't know if you remember that, you know, 0:09:26.000 --> 0:09:29.319 yes I do? They Yes, yes, they were remember they 0:09:29.360 --> 0:09:32.400 had that weird what I think it might be in ESPN. 0:09:32.440 --> 0:09:35.120 They did that thing that shooting like a game of 0:09:35.200 --> 0:09:37.199 horse or something like. They did like a contest, but 0:09:37.320 --> 0:09:40.560 everyone was in a different city and they were like 0:09:40.600 --> 0:09:44.880 in their backyard, and it was like it was really weird, 0:09:45.880 --> 0:09:50.199 really weird. This is a time that people are definitely 0:09:50.280 --> 0:09:54.439 gonna try to explain to their kids later down the road. 0:09:55.040 --> 0:09:58.439 I think about the kindergarteners that I work with and 0:09:58.480 --> 0:10:01.920 what they're gonna remember a out this with the masks 0:10:02.000 --> 0:10:05.680 and all the restrictions and all the extra rules, and 0:10:06.200 --> 0:10:10.640 they're gonna celebrate and go nuts next Monday, Ben, because Monday, 0:10:10.720 --> 0:10:15.280 those little kids finally get to rip those masks off. Freedom. 0:10:15.440 --> 0:10:19.200 Freedom for the kids, freedom for the fact the fact 0:10:19.200 --> 0:10:21.199 that they have to wait there to wait longer though 0:10:21.760 --> 0:10:25.400 so stupid. The bureaucracy that is involved in all this 0:10:25.559 --> 0:10:28.719 is so ridiculous to me. But it's gonna be great. 0:10:28.720 --> 0:10:31.880 There'll be tons of videos online of kids screaming and 0:10:31.920 --> 0:10:35.120 shouting and celebrating, jumping up and down like they won 0:10:35.160 --> 0:10:38.120 the Super Bowl. Yeah, just like that video we saw 0:10:38.160 --> 0:10:42.840 a few weeks ago from Las Vegas. So so anyway, 0:10:42.880 --> 0:10:44.959 I didn't even realize, like a look at that, I didn't. 0:10:45.360 --> 0:10:48.480 It passed me by the story I was going to tell. 0:10:48.480 --> 0:10:51.120 So the mail has been all over the place, and 0:10:51.160 --> 0:10:54.280 I feel like a total schmuck and I'm finally getting 0:10:54.280 --> 0:10:56.560 taught up, and I've been going through the mail. I 0:10:56.600 --> 0:10:58.920 think I've gone through pretty much all of it at 0:10:58.960 --> 0:11:00.520 this point. There might be one or two things that 0:11:00.559 --> 0:11:03.040 haven't gone through. But it turns out several listeners sent 0:11:03.120 --> 0:11:06.959 me some really cool gifts and uh and very unique, 0:11:07.280 --> 0:11:09.960 very special. One of those listeners I wanted to highlight 0:11:09.960 --> 0:11:15.520 here Danny Robbie from Dublin, California in then no calp 0:11:15.520 --> 0:11:19.680 Bay Area guy Bubblin and Dublin. Yeah, Bubblin in Dublin 0:11:19.720 --> 0:11:22.640 with Robbie and he's he's in the Bay Are. He's 0:11:22.679 --> 0:11:24.480 a super fan of the show. He wrote me a 0:11:24.559 --> 0:11:27.440 nice letter. I know we're on the podcast, but you 0:11:27.480 --> 0:11:30.640 can see Danny, I hold that up there very long. 0:11:30.760 --> 0:11:34.280 See that very nice. That's a handwritten, that's not typed out. 0:11:34.840 --> 0:11:42.480 This is a yeah, this is amazing writing. Racist. I'm 0:11:42.520 --> 0:11:46.800 I'm embarrassed by the writing because my writing is like 0:11:46.920 --> 0:11:50.839 horrific chicken scratch compared to compared to this anyway. So 0:11:50.960 --> 0:11:52.680 Robbie is a big fan of show. He's been listening. 0:11:53.240 --> 0:11:57.880 He's listening to me since even before Fox Sports. Rade. Uh. 0:11:58.000 --> 0:12:01.960 He he stumbled on some of my bull crap and 0:12:02.040 --> 0:12:03.720 he says he grew up in India. Now I don't 0:12:03.720 --> 0:12:04.839 know how much of this he wants me to read 0:12:04.840 --> 0:12:06.160 on the ear or not, and so I don't know 0:12:06.480 --> 0:12:08.360 that I should read more. But he he sent me 0:12:08.400 --> 0:12:11.960 a really nice message. He gave me his email address 0:12:12.000 --> 0:12:14.880 up but the handwritten note as I showed you amazing 0:12:15.840 --> 0:12:18.240 And so without getting into too much personal stuff, I 0:12:18.280 --> 0:12:19.920 didn't want to thank Robbie. I know he listens to 0:12:19.960 --> 0:12:24.040 this podcast. He has sent emails in the past ripping me, 0:12:24.559 --> 0:12:27.200 uh and and rightfully, so he's not wrong on that 0:12:27.280 --> 0:12:31.360 at all. And he was absolutely correct on that, and yeah, 0:12:31.400 --> 0:12:33.280 open it up. But I finally got around to it. 0:12:33.400 --> 0:12:37.640 So thank you, Robbie. The gift spectacular he gave me, Eddie. 0:12:37.760 --> 0:12:40.160 He gave me the Woody I got, the I got. 0:12:40.200 --> 0:12:42.240 I could I call you Eddie? By the way, I 0:12:42.320 --> 0:12:45.480 think I just did uh bad job by me. That's okay, 0:12:45.559 --> 0:12:49.720 Ken Mallard. But did he gave me Danny? He gave 0:12:49.880 --> 0:12:57.400 me the woody just ram it. There's a handmade charcoutter reboard. 0:12:57.559 --> 0:13:01.440 Is that is that? Yeah, charkuckoo cucudery. Yeah, it's a 0:13:01.480 --> 0:13:03.679 fun word to say. RACUDERI I think he's actual say 0:13:03.760 --> 0:13:05.800 so it includes Now there's a I'm looking at here. 0:13:05.800 --> 0:13:09.040 It's got a knife made out of wood. There is 0:13:09.080 --> 0:13:12.280 a name plate with obviously my name on it, damn. 0:13:12.800 --> 0:13:16.040 And he says that the walnut here came Robbie says, 0:13:16.120 --> 0:13:19.000 came from a tree that was cut down in nineteen 0:13:19.080 --> 0:13:23.679 fifty two in Ohio. The maple came from a Christmas 0:13:23.679 --> 0:13:28.199 fair in San Francisco in nine nine. And so this 0:13:28.280 --> 0:13:31.840 is really this is really nice. It's very special, very unique. 0:13:31.920 --> 0:13:33.760 I've gotten a few unique things over the years, but 0:13:33.760 --> 0:13:35.280 this is right up there with any of them. And 0:13:35.880 --> 0:13:39.160 so thank you Robbie. And even though you're a Hegantes fan, 0:13:40.320 --> 0:13:42.040 you're on You're on the nice list. You're not on 0:13:42.040 --> 0:13:44.200 the Nauti list. You're on the nice list. So so 0:13:44.280 --> 0:13:47.120 thank you for that. Really really cool. I thought that 0:13:47.160 --> 0:13:49.600 was that was pretty neat to send that, and uh, 0:13:49.800 --> 0:13:53.760 he and his buddy made that very very cool. So 0:13:54.120 --> 0:13:56.600 thank you, and that will that will be used. Not 0:13:56.720 --> 0:13:58.480 by me though, Danny. I don't know what you put 0:13:58.559 --> 0:14:00.439 cheese on a charcuterie boarder that what you do what 0:14:00.520 --> 0:14:03.120 my wife knows what to do with that. Yeah, different meats, 0:14:03.200 --> 0:14:07.199 different cheese, different fruits. So it can be like when 0:14:07.240 --> 0:14:09.600 you went to Arby's. What's the slogan of Arby's We've 0:14:09.640 --> 0:14:12.480 got the meats or something like that, we have the meat, 0:14:12.520 --> 0:14:15.120 we have the meats. So I could put that out 0:14:15.280 --> 0:14:17.680 that we have the meats. It's just like that, and 0:14:17.679 --> 0:14:20.200 I'll scream that. People look at me like a monk 0:14:20.920 --> 0:14:24.640 lunatic anyway, So thank you Rabbi again and anyone else. 0:14:24.640 --> 0:14:27.440 If I didn't open, I didn't get your your gift, 0:14:27.760 --> 0:14:30.320 I apologize for if I didn't respond or whatever. But 0:14:30.400 --> 0:14:33.120 I I think I've gone through everything. That's a very 0:14:33.360 --> 0:14:37.840 very cool things, some hats and some other things. Nice cards. Uh, 0:14:38.000 --> 0:14:39.800 Rachel Almonta Bello sent me a nice card a couple 0:14:39.880 --> 0:14:42.240 other people, so that was pretty cool. So I appreciate it. 0:14:42.320 --> 0:14:45.880 So thank you for that. Now. Pivoting away from that thing, 0:14:46.880 --> 0:14:53.240 Mallard Motorcade last weekend for the second consecutive weekend, decided 0:14:53.440 --> 0:14:55.480 let me live my life now. The weekend before I 0:14:55.480 --> 0:14:59.000 went to Vegas and had a fine time. Uh And 0:14:59.080 --> 0:15:01.480 this was more of a la last minute thing, little 0:15:01.560 --> 0:15:06.200 last minute Roady and I packed up the mallarmobile and 0:15:06.560 --> 0:15:08.960 me and the wife we headed We headed out. Now, 0:15:09.400 --> 0:15:10.960 you know, there's only so many ways you can go 0:15:11.000 --> 0:15:15.200 here the Mallard GPS. You can only you can't go 0:15:15.640 --> 0:15:19.240 west because you need a boat, so you can't do that. 0:15:19.320 --> 0:15:22.720 You you can go south, but if you go too 0:15:22.760 --> 0:15:25.880 far you're in Mexico. And you can go north, and 0:15:25.960 --> 0:15:29.320 you can go obviously east. So we set the GPS 0:15:29.440 --> 0:15:34.040 to go uh north mallormobile and I figured might as 0:15:34.040 --> 0:15:37.680 well get one last road trip in before it becomes 0:15:38.440 --> 0:15:41.760 cost prohibited. You would go on the road. The financial 0:15:41.800 --> 0:15:45.800 burden we we we knew the price of gas with 0:15:46.080 --> 0:15:49.040 Sleepy Joe and all those people that that that the 0:15:49.080 --> 0:15:51.720 price of gas be like nine dollars a gallon ten 0:15:51.720 --> 0:15:54.240 dollars a gallon in a couple of weeks. And uh 0:15:54.320 --> 0:15:56.200 so we we decided to go on a little road trip. 0:15:56.400 --> 0:15:58.680 And we did not have our part pontoon boat, or 0:15:58.720 --> 0:16:02.000 we would have gone out in the Pacific, the Mighty Pacific. 0:16:02.400 --> 0:16:04.960 But we didn't do that, and so we we sent 0:16:05.040 --> 0:16:07.920 the GPS up and we had it was really the 0:16:08.400 --> 0:16:10.760 Mallard Motor Kid though, because we had a convoy Dad. 0:16:11.880 --> 0:16:15.560 It's exciting here. And my cousin she she moved out 0:16:16.200 --> 0:16:19.200 like last year from she'd been living in Houston and 0:16:19.320 --> 0:16:22.040 she moved to the area. And it's like her and 0:16:22.120 --> 0:16:25.120 like one other person I know that are related to me. 0:16:25.560 --> 0:16:28.400 Everyone else I know, the entire family, they're either dead 0:16:28.480 --> 0:16:31.760 or they moved east. So I don't have any really family, 0:16:32.040 --> 0:16:34.360 you know, my on my side of the family, so 0:16:34.440 --> 0:16:37.960 I don't really have anybody. So she's like my my cousin, 0:16:38.040 --> 0:16:40.120 you know where we grew up in the same neighborhood, 0:16:40.360 --> 0:16:43.360 close and so she's you know, she's married, she got 0:16:43.440 --> 0:16:46.960 kids and not. So she packed up her car and 0:16:47.000 --> 0:16:50.000 her with her husband and the kids and they joined 0:16:50.000 --> 0:16:53.960 the Mallard Motor Kid. Uh. Yeah. We we went up 0:16:54.040 --> 0:16:59.760 the California coast there through Ventura into Santa Barbara, passed 0:16:59.760 --> 0:17:04.879 through Buleton, stopped in Solving, and uh I got Solving 0:17:04.960 --> 0:17:06.640 usually once a year. I like, it's a little town. 0:17:07.280 --> 0:17:09.880 How do you describe Solving. It's like a Danish town, 0:17:09.880 --> 0:17:12.119 Like a little Danish town. Yeah, a lot of people 0:17:12.160 --> 0:17:15.720 know it as the Danish village. Yeah, of course, the 0:17:15.760 --> 0:17:19.879 windmill is famous from the movie Sideways. Yeah, it's a 0:17:19.920 --> 0:17:22.440 cool little town. And the mission on this was just 0:17:22.480 --> 0:17:26.479 gluttony because I've been fasting, so I ended my fasting style. 0:17:26.840 --> 0:17:29.720 There's this little place that serves like Ruben sandwiches there. 0:17:29.720 --> 0:17:31.479 I forget the name of it. I plug, but they 0:17:31.480 --> 0:17:36.600 have poutine, not putin poutine, and so I had some poutine. 0:17:36.600 --> 0:17:39.879 I love poutine. That's pretty good. Ruben sandwich is solid. 0:17:40.560 --> 0:17:42.760 And then we headed out there and we had we 0:17:42.800 --> 0:17:46.320 had the the most popular Danish dessert. You know what 0:17:46.800 --> 0:17:49.040 you've been to Solving, I'm sure over the years, right, 0:17:49.040 --> 0:17:52.520 you know what the most popular Solving dessert is. I'm 0:17:52.560 --> 0:17:57.000 sure I've had it before. It's called able skeever little 0:17:57.119 --> 0:18:01.080 like it just like doughnut balls adults, and they're covered 0:18:01.119 --> 0:18:04.760 in the ones. I had had strawberry sauce on and 0:18:04.800 --> 0:18:07.240 like they're supposed to be like a big Danish dessert. 0:18:07.240 --> 0:18:09.240 I don't know, maybe they made that up. Oh. I've 0:18:09.240 --> 0:18:12.280 been to the bakeries there in Solvang, and let's just 0:18:12.320 --> 0:18:14.600 say when you leave there, you come out feeling about 0:18:14.600 --> 0:18:17.000 ten pounds heavy. Year. Yeah, it's one of those places 0:18:17.000 --> 0:18:19.080 where you have like your belt buckle and you have 0:18:19.200 --> 0:18:21.159 to kind of stretch it out a little bit and 0:18:21.320 --> 0:18:24.199 you have to kind of it's like a holiday for 0:18:24.240 --> 0:18:26.960 fat people there in Solvang. Yeah, there's really nothing else 0:18:27.000 --> 0:18:30.080 to do other than eat or buy trinkets. Like they 0:18:30.080 --> 0:18:32.720 have a bunch of if you want anything made out 0:18:32.800 --> 0:18:38.239 of glass or uh, ceramic, and they have that like 0:18:38.400 --> 0:18:41.120 little windmills would say Solvang on it. Do you want 0:18:41.119 --> 0:18:45.600 to sweatshirt? You can get that. Also clock clock like 0:18:45.640 --> 0:18:49.280 that's right, not clocks that are very pricey. It's for 0:18:49.400 --> 0:18:52.919 old people, but chicks like it. So you take if 0:18:52.960 --> 0:18:55.520 you take a woman to the Danish village, she will 0:18:55.560 --> 0:18:57.880 look at you with some big eyes and you will 0:18:57.920 --> 0:19:01.919 get lucky. Yeah, you get some some cloud when you 0:19:02.000 --> 0:19:10.560 can afterwards. Yes, absolutely so. Its bone appetite was delicious. 0:19:10.720 --> 0:19:12.720 But then we were like, wait a minute, we gotta 0:19:12.800 --> 0:19:16.080 keep going. We're not going to stop at Salvan, come 0:19:16.119 --> 0:19:20.200 on out the California coast, head north due north. So 0:19:20.520 --> 0:19:23.920 we kept going, got back on the Mallard motorcade and 0:19:24.160 --> 0:19:27.560 I stopped off at the Costco in Santa Maria to 0:19:27.640 --> 0:19:29.600 refill the gas just making sure they didn't raise the 0:19:29.640 --> 0:19:31.520 price from the last time I got gas. So I 0:19:31.600 --> 0:19:34.359 filled up in Santa Maria. There at the Costco, beautiful Costco. 0:19:34.880 --> 0:19:37.359 There's never a line. I always whenever I go up 0:19:37.359 --> 0:19:39.600 to California Coas, I always stopped there. Never a line. 0:19:39.960 --> 0:19:41.880 It's the only Costco I've been to with no line. 0:19:41.920 --> 0:19:44.680 Every other Costco is a million million cars, no line. 0:19:44.720 --> 0:19:47.680 It's wonderful. And they got every kind of like chain 0:19:47.800 --> 0:19:51.160 restaurant you could possibly want in Santa Maria. Anything you need, 0:19:51.200 --> 0:19:54.359 any chain, they're all there. So I filled up, headed 0:19:54.480 --> 0:20:01.200 up to Saint Louis ABYSSPO destination Madonna In. Uh yeah, 0:20:01.359 --> 0:20:09.000 Madonna In, which is halfway between San Francisco and Los Angeles, 0:20:09.560 --> 0:20:12.159 right off Highway one on one, the famous Highway one 0:20:12.200 --> 0:20:15.120 on one. Now was I staying there, Danny? Did I did? 0:20:15.160 --> 0:20:17.600 I said to spend the night there? No? No. Did 0:20:17.600 --> 0:20:21.760 you go into the diner? Yes? Yes, And I've been 0:20:21.760 --> 0:20:23.679 there before. We've talked about Madonna and before you run 0:20:23.680 --> 0:20:26.200 on the podcast. Now I go there usually once a year. 0:20:26.240 --> 0:20:28.600 Also because you know, the wife is a big fan 0:20:28.640 --> 0:20:31.680 of the Madonna In and so this place. The way 0:20:31.760 --> 0:20:33.640 I described the Madonna into people that have never seen 0:20:33.680 --> 0:20:36.240 at this hotel. It's like if and this is an 0:20:36.240 --> 0:20:41.360 outdated reference. Liberaci, the late pianist Liberati, I think died 0:20:41.359 --> 0:20:44.840 in the eighties, so that's a really outdated reference. But Liberati, 0:20:44.920 --> 0:20:49.720 this over the topic centric pianist. If he had designed that. 0:20:50.520 --> 0:20:54.120 And and then you mix in like I imagine the 0:20:54.160 --> 0:21:00.840 sopranos or like Frank Sinatra, you know, getting together there 0:21:00.880 --> 0:21:02.960 and it dates to the nineteen fifties. It's so over 0:21:02.960 --> 0:21:07.360 the top, eccentric and all that. And but my wife 0:21:07.440 --> 0:21:08.920 loves that. She has to go there and she likes 0:21:08.960 --> 0:21:12.880 to collect. They have these glass uh, these special glass 0:21:13.040 --> 0:21:15.480 that they're not really their cups, but they're more than 0:21:15.520 --> 0:21:18.560 just cups there. Oh yeah, I bought my Tenderoni a 0:21:18.600 --> 0:21:21.720 couple of those when we visited. They have the blue one, 0:21:21.880 --> 0:21:25.040 the pink one. Yes, you have a gift shop, and 0:21:25.160 --> 0:21:27.560 right next to the gift shop, ben the men's bathroom 0:21:27.920 --> 0:21:32.320 you picked into a waterfall. Yes, And let me tell you, 0:21:32.840 --> 0:21:36.159 I spent some time in that in that bathroom with 0:21:36.240 --> 0:21:39.280 the Pitts waterfall, and there were a lot of dudes 0:21:39.320 --> 0:21:41.080 coming in. They didn't know what to do. They were 0:21:41.119 --> 0:21:43.600 like they were like should we. I mean, this seems 0:21:43.640 --> 0:21:46.760 like this is not really because it doesn't. It seems 0:21:46.800 --> 0:21:49.520 like you shouldn't do that, like you're not supposed but 0:21:49.520 --> 0:21:52.440 then you're there's nowhere else to do it, you gotta 0:21:52.520 --> 0:21:55.040 do it. Yeah, And I don't know what's in the 0:21:55.080 --> 0:21:57.439 women's bathroom. I'n't been in there, but yeah, that's a 0:21:57.480 --> 0:22:00.440 wild bathroom. They have just like high end restaurant. And 0:22:00.440 --> 0:22:02.920 then they have like a diner. And so we went 0:22:02.960 --> 0:22:06.359 to the diner and me and that my my, you know, 0:22:06.760 --> 0:22:09.280 the family, the cousins and the kids and all that stuff, 0:22:09.800 --> 0:22:12.280 and we went and said we needed more gorgeous. We 0:22:12.320 --> 0:22:15.439 needed to pick out more, and so we headed over 0:22:15.440 --> 0:22:18.360 to the restaurant. They have this pink champagne cake. I'm 0:22:18.359 --> 0:22:21.680 a I'm a sucker for frosting on cake. I love 0:22:21.760 --> 0:22:23.480