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Speaker 2: If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes

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Speaker 2: of hot takes, break free for something special. The Fifth

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Speaker 2: Hour with Ben Maller starts right now.

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Speaker 3: In the air everywhere The Fifth Hour with Me, Ben

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Speaker 3: Maller and Danny g Radio. On this nineteenth day of July,

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Speaker 3: we were hanging out early in the morning here settling

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Speaker 3: into a Saturday Saturday Saturday and Danny.

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Speaker 1: Back with us here on this day.

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Speaker 3: We have the lump of coal lost at the park

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Speaker 3: in great detail today, which is very important to cover

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Speaker 3: on the Fifth Hour podcast. As we are are here

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Speaker 3: hanging out and there's no dopey holidays, I wass.

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Speaker 4: Looking at dope.

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Speaker 1: There's nothing today.

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Speaker 4: That really Oh that's good. We could talk baseball for

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Speaker 4: a second, because our Dodgers picked up right where they

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Speaker 3: Tremendous offensive baseball team. The Doyers the greatest team ever assembled.

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Speaker 3: I learned that before they had played a game. This year, Danny,

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Speaker 3: I learned the Dodgers the greatest team in baseball, greatest

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Speaker 3: team ever assembled in baseball, the reigning World champions. This

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Speaker 3: is another magical year of Dodger baseball. They have actually

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Speaker 4: That's why it's so good to have money in the

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Speaker 4: bank when you start sucking, and when life starts sucking,

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it'd be nice if some of the guys the

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Speaker 1: Uh it does anyone who were Blake? What is Blake?

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Speaker 1: Do you know where Blake Snell is? Danny g or

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Speaker 1: we are we aware of you? Have you him? Have

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Speaker 4: I can't even remember what that dude looks like, to

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Speaker 3: Very punishable face. And what the other guy they wanted.

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Speaker 3: I know he's got a blister problem for the Yankees,

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Speaker 3: many hits? Not one, not to just three hits against

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Speaker 3: the Brewers. And now I know this guy, Quinn Priester,

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Speaker 4: You know, I mean, I'm fall Yeah, earlier in the season,

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well, they're still in vacation mode.

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Speaker 3: You know, when you come back to work after you've

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Speaker 4: Bullsh isn't it. You said going into the break they

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Speaker 3: Oh, they're all gazillionaires. They don't have the laser like

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Speaker 5: Oh yeah, people were upset with'd be oh, why have

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Speaker 1: I'm not going to do it.

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Speaker 3: So last week Danny I tried to eat at Cole's. Now,

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Speaker 3: Coles is a legendary French dip sandwich shop in downtown

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Speaker 3: And it's the kind of place. Have you been to

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Speaker 3: Cohls by the way, I don't know if you've been

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Speaker 3: And so this is a place that has character, which

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Speaker 4: I did not know they were closing, so yeah, it's

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Speaker 3: So another great thing for Mayor Karen Bashier. In Los Angeles,

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Speaker 3: and like any great institution which is facing its last

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Speaker 1: So now everyone's like, I gotta go, I gotta go.

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Speaker 3: So all the people me included, who ignored the restaurant

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Speaker 4: Probably some idiots like me who heard about it for

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Speaker 3: So me and the wife hop as we said, it

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Speaker 3: and the wife to get the fully immersive experience, Danny.

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Speaker 1: On skid Row.

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Speaker 3: We are talking Mad Max meets walking dead, crackheads dancing

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Speaker 3: Been ripped and torn, so it looked like he was

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Speaker 3: Were barely there. They looked like clown shoes. They were

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Speaker 3: this guy's covered in dirt, He's got pants on, but

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Speaker 1: But he had the bling bling on.

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Speaker 3: When I say bling bling, Danny, that would be a

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Speaker 3: court ordered ankle monitor, which is high fashion on kid row.

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Speaker 3: So this guy had it all going on. He was

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Speaker 4: So how does that work he's not allowed to leave

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Speaker 1: I don't Yeah, that's a great question, Danny. I have

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Speaker 3: I'd never seen that before, so this was new to me.

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Speaker 3: I didn't know that that you could just roam around

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Speaker 3: I have seen that before, We've all seen it. He

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Speaker 1: His as it was.

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Speaker 3: The other thing is the right, right or left? I

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Speaker 4: It's house arrest. What happens if you have no house?

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Speaker 4: You can just go anywhere. I guess, yeah, so he

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Speaker 4: Or was it performance art or something like that.

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Speaker 3: There was also a woman I spotted screaming at a

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Speaker 3: things so ridiculous that you think you're hallucinating.

442
00:21:51,119 --> 00:21:54,160
Speaker 1: We've all been there, and that's what happened to me.

443
00:21:56,040 --> 00:21:56,240
Speaker 4: This.

444
00:21:56,640 --> 00:21:58,320
Speaker 3: I'm gonna share this story. I've not told the story before.

445
00:21:58,359 --> 00:22:00,520
Speaker 3: I didn't talk about this on the air this week.

446
00:22:01,720 --> 00:22:04,119
Speaker 3: So the fact is, working the overnight, you have the

447
00:22:04,160 --> 00:22:07,520
Speaker 3: sleep schedule. It's similar to a raccoon. So on the

448
00:22:07,560 --> 00:22:09,200
Speaker 3: weekends I get out and try to live a little

449
00:22:09,200 --> 00:22:10,879
Speaker 3: bit and all that stuff. So I was recently dragged

450
00:22:10,920 --> 00:22:16,760
Speaker 3: by the wife to something called Bingo Loco in Hollywood.

451
00:22:16,760 --> 00:22:18,760
Speaker 3: You ever heard of this, Danny Bingo Loco? You ever

452
00:22:18,760 --> 00:22:19,159
Speaker 3: heard of that?

453
00:22:20,680 --> 00:22:21,520
Speaker 1: No? No?

454
00:22:22,160 --> 00:22:24,320
Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, So I didn't know what the hell this was.

455
00:22:24,400 --> 00:22:26,640
Speaker 3: She told me it would be fun. I didn't look

456
00:22:26,680 --> 00:22:29,040
Speaker 3: it up. I didn't google it or AI it or

457
00:22:29,080 --> 00:22:33,080
Speaker 3: anything like that. So when your wife says it's going

458
00:22:33,119 --> 00:22:35,640
Speaker 3: to be fun, you know that's something every married man

459
00:22:35,720 --> 00:22:38,800
Speaker 3: knows is code for you're going to hate this, but

460
00:22:38,960 --> 00:22:41,320
Speaker 3: you're going to go anyway, right, don't you know that?

461
00:22:41,359 --> 00:22:43,119
Speaker 3: Like Danny, when your wife says, hey, this is going

462
00:22:43,200 --> 00:22:46,479
Speaker 3: to be fun, usually that's you're gonna hate it, but

463
00:22:46,600 --> 00:22:49,879
Speaker 3: you have to go. And so all right, fine, so,

464
00:22:50,160 --> 00:22:52,000
Speaker 3: and I'm not making this up. The name of the

465
00:22:52,040 --> 00:22:55,919
Speaker 3: thing was Bingo Loco, So what the hell is it?

466
00:22:55,920 --> 00:22:59,360
Speaker 3: So Bingo Loco in the event you've never heard of it,

467
00:22:59,400 --> 00:23:00,399
Speaker 3: and I'd never of it.

468
00:23:01,440 --> 00:23:02,639
Speaker 1: If you were to mix your.

469
00:23:02,560 --> 00:23:08,919
Speaker 3: Sweet grandma's favorite pastime, right, bingo with a techno rave tadda,

470
00:23:09,280 --> 00:23:11,560
Speaker 3: there you go, it's bingo with glows sticks.

471
00:23:12,200 --> 00:23:15,719
Speaker 1: But there's more to it. So imagine.

472
00:23:15,880 --> 00:23:17,800
Speaker 3: I don't know if everyone's had this memory, but if

473
00:23:17,800 --> 00:23:22,760
Speaker 3: your childhood memories of watching your your grandmother play bingo,

474
00:23:23,040 --> 00:23:28,639
Speaker 3: we're run through some kind of neon filter thing and

475
00:23:28,680 --> 00:23:34,320
Speaker 3: then broadcast on Instagram like a bachelorette party in Sherman Oaks.

476
00:23:34,080 --> 00:23:39,400
Speaker 1: Or something like that, that's Bingo Loco. So it's bingo Grandma.

477
00:23:39,160 --> 00:23:43,720
Speaker 3: Meets E D M and Wheel of Fortune, you know,

478
00:23:43,840 --> 00:23:47,840
Speaker 3: meets some kind of internet social media reaction video. So

479
00:23:47,880 --> 00:23:51,160
Speaker 3: the premise, it's it's pretty great. It's like an article

480
00:23:51,200 --> 00:23:54,080
Speaker 3: from years ago. It's like, what if bingo? What if

481
00:23:54,080 --> 00:23:55,639
Speaker 3: you put bingo and Molly together?

482
00:23:55,640 --> 00:23:56,200
Speaker 1: What would happen?

483
00:23:56,440 --> 00:24:00,400
Speaker 3: So even to paint the picsion more for the blinds,

484
00:24:00,920 --> 00:24:03,520
Speaker 3: think about like going into this thing in Hollywood. It's

485
00:24:03,520 --> 00:24:07,400
Speaker 3: a big venue. It's like a dance hall. There's rave lights,

486
00:24:07,760 --> 00:24:13,240
Speaker 3: there's a DJ, there's a bar, there's a host. This

487
00:24:13,600 --> 00:24:18,920
Speaker 3: guy in a pink jersey that says bingo Loco of course,

488
00:24:18,960 --> 00:24:23,000
Speaker 3: wearing number sixty nine, yelling numbers into a microphone like

489
00:24:23,040 --> 00:24:26,320
Speaker 3: he's announcing some kind of underground fight club out in

490
00:24:26,400 --> 00:24:28,120
Speaker 3: Rancho Cucamonger or something like that.

491
00:24:28,560 --> 00:24:30,720
Speaker 1: And here I am. I find Danny.

492
00:24:30,720 --> 00:24:33,760
Speaker 3: I find my fat ass standing in the middle of

493
00:24:33,800 --> 00:24:38,240
Speaker 3: this techno hoot nanny. You know. I'm like, it's like,

494
00:24:38,280 --> 00:24:40,480
Speaker 3: if you don't put a guy that doesn't belong somewhere,

495
00:24:40,480 --> 00:24:42,200
Speaker 3: like a like if you were to put a dad

496
00:24:42,240 --> 00:24:45,640
Speaker 3: out in Coachella, you know, some cargo short wearing dad

497
00:24:45,640 --> 00:24:49,760
Speaker 3: out in Coachella wouldn't belong. And so I'm like, what

498
00:24:49,800 --> 00:24:51,960
Speaker 3: am I doing here? I really don't belong here. And

499
00:24:52,080 --> 00:24:54,800
Speaker 3: my wife told me, says, don't work. The prizes are good.

500
00:24:55,000 --> 00:24:57,320
Speaker 3: You're in for the prize, she said. I said, what

501
00:24:57,359 --> 00:24:58,880
Speaker 3: are the prizes. I don't know what the prizes are.

502
00:24:58,920 --> 00:25:01,320
Speaker 3: I just heard they're good, you know. She's like, I

503
00:25:01,400 --> 00:25:03,080
Speaker 3: heard the prizes are good. So I said, all right,

504
00:25:03,119 --> 00:25:05,600
Speaker 3: the prize, and my wife's like, oh yeah, the prizes

505
00:25:05,640 --> 00:25:08,600
Speaker 3: were advertisers, epic. What does that mean epic?

506
00:25:09,280 --> 00:25:11,840
Speaker 5: Anyway, so I'm like.

507
00:25:11,840 --> 00:25:12,119
Speaker 1: Come on.

508
00:25:12,680 --> 00:25:14,560
Speaker 3: So I walk in there and I'm thinking names they

509
00:25:14,560 --> 00:25:15,640
Speaker 3: were the best prizes.

510
00:25:15,920 --> 00:25:16,840
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah exactly.

511
00:25:17,119 --> 00:25:20,200
Speaker 3: So I'm thinking, hey, I'll win, We'll win a nice

512
00:25:20,240 --> 00:25:23,199
Speaker 3: prize at Bingo. Maybe we win a new TV, a

513
00:25:23,280 --> 00:25:26,560
Speaker 3: European vacation. That would be a nice prize. Lifetime supply

514
00:25:26,600 --> 00:25:28,359
Speaker 3: of chicken fingers, that would be pretty cool.

515
00:25:30,200 --> 00:25:30,400
Speaker 1: No.

516
00:25:31,280 --> 00:25:37,159
Speaker 3: Uh, these people were playing Bingo under Neon and Rave lighting,

517
00:25:38,160 --> 00:25:41,679
Speaker 3: and they were giving away the weirdest random junk. We

518
00:25:41,760 --> 00:25:43,920
Speaker 3: are talking about the remnants of like do you ever

519
00:25:43,960 --> 00:25:48,119
Speaker 3: watched like Storage Wars where they bid on empty abandoned

520
00:25:48,160 --> 00:25:48,919
Speaker 3: storage sheds.

521
00:25:49,000 --> 00:25:51,720
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was like it was like that.

522
00:25:51,840 --> 00:25:54,040
Speaker 3: It was like it was the weirdest name and listen,

523
00:25:54,160 --> 00:25:55,680
Speaker 3: I this is my opinion.

524
00:25:55,760 --> 00:25:58,359
Speaker 4: Whatever. It was like the last like the leftover crap

525
00:25:58,440 --> 00:26:01,440
Speaker 4: from a radio station prize exactly.

526
00:26:01,760 --> 00:26:05,600
Speaker 3: They had a very cheap guitar that they were you

527
00:26:05,640 --> 00:26:10,959
Speaker 3: could win over stuffed pink bear stuffy like a stuffed

528
00:26:11,000 --> 00:26:13,640
Speaker 3: animal that probably reaked a regret.

529
00:26:14,160 --> 00:26:17,560
Speaker 1: They had multiple air fryers, which you.

530
00:26:17,520 --> 00:26:19,879
Speaker 3: Know is like that's the adult version of getting socks

531
00:26:19,920 --> 00:26:21,920
Speaker 3: for Christmas, when you get an air airfryer.

532
00:26:22,640 --> 00:26:23,119
Speaker 1: They had.

533
00:26:23,800 --> 00:26:26,600
Speaker 3: The highlight for many was the giant I'm not being

534
00:26:26,600 --> 00:26:31,120
Speaker 3: those up, Danny. The giant neon pink plastic sausage, if

535
00:26:31,160 --> 00:26:33,680
Speaker 3: you know what I mean, not the kind you serve

536
00:26:33,960 --> 00:26:36,520
Speaker 3: with pancakes, the naughty one, very phallic.

537
00:26:38,280 --> 00:26:40,280
Speaker 1: I don't know, I need to spell it out.

538
00:26:40,920 --> 00:26:45,000
Speaker 3: They gave away a sex toy shape like a brought

539
00:26:45,040 --> 00:26:49,000
Speaker 3: worst that actually happened. So what makes this event even

540
00:26:49,040 --> 00:26:52,320
Speaker 3: more fascinating is not that it's weird, because there's a

541
00:26:52,320 --> 00:26:55,119
Speaker 3: lot of things that are weird, right, Weird is not bad.

542
00:26:55,920 --> 00:26:59,200
Speaker 3: Weird by itself is not bad. What makes it notable

543
00:27:00,359 --> 00:27:05,119
Speaker 3: is that this place I am pretty sure exists entirely

544
00:27:06,240 --> 00:27:10,520
Speaker 3: for social media. I don't think anyone was really there

545
00:27:10,520 --> 00:27:12,600
Speaker 3: to play Bengo. I say that there might have been

546
00:27:12,640 --> 00:27:14,920
Speaker 3: a couple of grandma's that got dragged by their daughters,

547
00:27:15,840 --> 00:27:19,680
Speaker 3: but anybody that went for bingo false advertising, Right, They're

548
00:27:19,680 --> 00:27:20,680
Speaker 3: not even really there for.

549
00:27:20,640 --> 00:27:23,199
Speaker 1: The rave because the rave kind of sucked.

550
00:27:25,480 --> 00:27:30,600
Speaker 3: They were there to document being at this bingo local thing.

551
00:27:31,359 --> 00:27:33,000
Speaker 1: Like the party wasn't.

552
00:27:32,800 --> 00:27:36,360
Speaker 3: What it was about. It was just evidence that it happened.

553
00:27:37,240 --> 00:27:43,399
Speaker 3: And it turns out that your beloved blowhard not in

554
00:27:43,480 --> 00:27:46,560
Speaker 3: the target demo, Danny, not in the target demo. That

555
00:27:46,640 --> 00:27:48,280
Speaker 3: is why the crowd was mostly what do you think

556
00:27:48,359 --> 00:27:52,240
Speaker 3: the crowd was, I'll tell you mostly middle aged women.

557
00:27:53,840 --> 00:27:56,040
Speaker 1: You know, women in middle aged.

558
00:27:55,920 --> 00:27:58,320
Speaker 4: Or used to do ecstasy and go to big rapes

559
00:27:58,359 --> 00:27:59,159
Speaker 4: when they were younger.

560
00:27:59,359 --> 00:28:03,679
Speaker 1: Exactly, these are probably women. I don't I'm bad with ages.

561
00:28:03,720 --> 00:28:06,880
Speaker 3: It looked like they were thirties, forties, fifties, and they

562
00:28:06,880 --> 00:28:10,000
Speaker 3: were screaming, they were going crazy. They were dancing around

563
00:28:10,119 --> 00:28:14,520
Speaker 3: holding up their air fryer like they won an oscar, and.

564
00:28:14,800 --> 00:28:15,919
Speaker 1: You know, it was like listen.

565
00:28:16,760 --> 00:28:20,960
Speaker 3: Ultimately, you know, that's the night itself was what was important.

566
00:28:21,240 --> 00:28:27,119
Speaker 3: It's part of the social media illusion, and that's it.

567
00:28:27,200 --> 00:28:28,280
Speaker 1: I mean, it was.

568
00:28:28,359 --> 00:28:30,919
Speaker 3: You know, Bingo local is not as good as church bingo.

569
00:28:31,440 --> 00:28:34,760
Speaker 3: Church Bingo has better snacks, they have better prizes. You

570
00:28:34,800 --> 00:28:38,680
Speaker 3: don't need ear plugs. And the only reason I was

571
00:28:38,720 --> 00:28:43,160
Speaker 3: there was because my wife wanted me to go and Danny.

572
00:28:43,200 --> 00:28:45,600
Speaker 3: You know, as a married man, marriage is mostly about

573
00:28:45,640 --> 00:28:49,000
Speaker 3: showing up and pretending like you're just you're happy to

574
00:28:49,040 --> 00:28:51,680
Speaker 3: be there, and you're not confused and all that stuff, and.

575
00:28:53,320 --> 00:28:58,000
Speaker 1: I had the thousand yard stare, like I realized that

576
00:28:58,040 --> 00:28:59,840
Speaker 1: this is this is pretty much my life now.

577
00:29:01,120 --> 00:29:04,360
Speaker 3: But I did get some good husband points Danny, which,

578
00:29:04,600 --> 00:29:09,400
Speaker 3: as we know, you can redeem husband points anywhere you

579
00:29:09,520 --> 00:29:14,959
Speaker 3: go for absolutely nothing. Husband points get you nothing. So

580
00:29:16,040 --> 00:29:20,440
Speaker 3: if anyone ask you, and I'm sure something, bring this up.

581
00:29:20,440 --> 00:29:21,880
Speaker 3: When I ran into him at a mallard me greet,

582
00:29:22,160 --> 00:29:26,200
Speaker 3: I did not experiencially bingo local. I endured it and

583
00:29:26,480 --> 00:29:30,600
Speaker 3: it was a lot of people with glowed sticks chasing

584
00:29:31,480 --> 00:29:34,400
Speaker 3: I guess some kind of clout or something like that.

585
00:29:34,400 --> 00:29:38,760
Speaker 3: I don't know what they were chasing. But now, of course,

586
00:29:38,760 --> 00:29:41,040
Speaker 3: the thing is, every time I go any of these places,

587
00:29:41,720 --> 00:29:44,960
Speaker 3: my wife always says, hey, you need content for your

588
00:29:44,960 --> 00:29:50,760
Speaker 3: little podcasts. So the fifth hour has become I can

589
00:29:50,800 --> 00:29:52,840
Speaker 3: literally go anywhere. And my wife was like, well, you

590
00:29:52,880 --> 00:29:55,200
Speaker 3: just need stuff to talk about in your podcast. So

591
00:29:55,240 --> 00:29:58,800
Speaker 3: it's like this has become my therapy session. And I

592
00:29:58,840 --> 00:30:01,040
Speaker 3: guess you're my shrink, Danny, and the people listening you're

593
00:30:01,080 --> 00:30:01,840
Speaker 3: my shrink as well.

594
00:30:01,960 --> 00:30:05,160
Speaker 4: So there you go. That was mad. It's like it's

595
00:30:05,200 --> 00:30:06,920
Speaker 4: like a market research lab.

596
00:30:07,400 --> 00:30:09,880
Speaker 1: Oh, it's it was. It was craziness. I mean, I

597
00:30:09,920 --> 00:30:12,560
Speaker 1: was like, how did I end up at a Bingo rave?

598
00:30:13,200 --> 00:30:15,560
Speaker 4: How did she even hear about something like that from

599
00:30:15,600 --> 00:30:16,320
Speaker 4: social media?

600
00:30:16,960 --> 00:30:18,640
Speaker 1: No, she's not even on social media.

601
00:30:18,720 --> 00:30:21,360
Speaker 3: She heard from people at work, like people she I

602
00:30:21,360 --> 00:30:23,960
Speaker 3: guess friends of hers or people at work. Somebody told

603
00:30:23,960 --> 00:30:27,640
Speaker 3: her about it, and so next thing you know, she's like, hey,

604
00:30:27,640 --> 00:30:29,160
Speaker 3: we need to go out and check this thing out.

605
00:30:29,280 --> 00:30:32,960
Speaker 3: And I should have known early on because the DJ

606
00:30:33,080 --> 00:30:36,720
Speaker 3: got up there says has anyone been to Bingo Loco before?

607
00:30:37,200 --> 00:30:39,760
Speaker 3: And nobody, Like there was nobody that said they had

608
00:30:39,800 --> 00:30:41,440
Speaker 3: been there, because it's one of those things you go

609
00:30:41,520 --> 00:30:42,600
Speaker 3: one time, you don't go back.

610
00:30:43,120 --> 00:30:46,040
Speaker 1: You know, it's like a one and done type situation,

611
00:30:46,800 --> 00:30:49,640
Speaker 1: because why would you go back. I mean you've experienced

612
00:30:50,280 --> 00:30:51,640
Speaker 1: so anyway.

613
00:30:51,440 --> 00:30:53,440
Speaker 4: It's one and done like a Clippers game.

614
00:30:53,840 --> 00:30:56,600
Speaker 3: Why No, like the Lakers in the playoffs, one and done.

615
00:30:56,680 --> 00:31:00,840
Speaker 3: But I'm bump hey, by the way, another the Lakers

616
00:31:00,840 --> 00:31:03,200
Speaker 3: want and went to the Clippers. How embarrassing for the Lakers?

617
00:31:03,240 --> 00:31:07,000
Speaker 3: My god, who want that? They wanted the great Bradley Beal.

618
00:31:07,560 --> 00:31:10,640
Speaker 3: Nobody wanted Bradley Beal. Everyone wanted twelve team.

619
00:31:10,720 --> 00:31:12,840
Speaker 4: Oh God, keep telling yourself that.

620
00:31:12,720 --> 00:31:14,520
Speaker 1: The Lakers wanted him. He said, O.

621
00:31:14,600 --> 00:31:16,800
Speaker 4: Sons wanted to get rid of him so badly that

622
00:31:16,840 --> 00:31:17,960
Speaker 4: they're paying the money.

623
00:31:18,440 --> 00:31:22,680
Speaker 3: Twelve teams wanted this guy, and he chose the Clippers.

624
00:31:23,360 --> 00:31:24,600
Speaker 4: That guy's a loser.

625
00:31:24,640 --> 00:31:26,400
Speaker 1: He's a great guy. I can't wait.

626
00:31:26,560 --> 00:31:30,640
Speaker 4: He is a cancer redemption story. Baby.

627
00:31:30,800 --> 00:31:32,640
Speaker 1: We'll get out on that. Anything you want to promote, Danny,

628
00:31:32,640 --> 00:31:34,440
Speaker 1: it's Saturday. What are you go going on? You want

629
00:31:34,480 --> 00:31:36,160
Speaker 1: to say anything? You just say goodbye.

630
00:31:37,120 --> 00:31:40,680
Speaker 4: Just Orange County this weekend came down for speaking of

631
00:31:40,800 --> 00:31:44,160
Speaker 4: doing something to help the WiFi. Her ninety four year

632
00:31:44,160 --> 00:31:48,480
Speaker 4: old grandmother from Long Beach was recently put into a

633
00:31:48,520 --> 00:31:51,560
Speaker 4: retirement home here, so we are here this weekend to

634
00:31:51,640 --> 00:31:54,680
Speaker 4: check on her and make sure she's settled in nice.

635
00:31:55,120 --> 00:31:58,520
Speaker 1: Right, we'll take care of her. Have a wonderful day today.

636
00:31:58,600 --> 00:32:03,400
Speaker 3: We've got the mail bag and also, Danny, the official

637
00:32:03,480 --> 00:32:07,640
Speaker 3: pregame show for the twenty twenty five Mallard Palooza will

638
00:32:07,640 --> 00:32:10,160
Speaker 3: be on the Sunday. That's the pregame show for the

639
00:32:10,200 --> 00:32:12,680
Speaker 3: boys that are pregaming. There'll be a lot of tailgating

640
00:32:12,720 --> 00:32:16,440
Speaker 3: people listening to that. Walt tailgating outside the Malar Palooza.

641
00:32:16,480 --> 00:32:17,600
Speaker 1: Danny it's gonna be big.

642
00:32:18,320 --> 00:32:20,640
Speaker 4: Nice. Throw a Dodger dog on the grill for me,

643
00:32:21,200 --> 00:32:23,480
Speaker 4: all right. We'll talk to you then see you tomorrow

644
00:32:24,280 --> 00:32:26,560
Speaker 4: Later skater my flation