WEBVTT - The Fifth Hour: Waiting on Skid Row 0:00:00.680 --> 0:00:01.440 Cutbooms. 0:00:02.279 --> 0:00:05.360 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 0:00:12.560 --> 0:00:15.480 treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the 0:00:15.600 --> 0:00:19.440 rich pill poppers in the penthouse. Wow to the clearinghouse 0:00:19.480 --> 0:00:23.200 of hot takes, break free for something special. The Fifth 0:00:23.200 --> 0:00:30.680 Hour with Ben Maller starts right now. 0:00:28.960 --> 0:00:33.240 In the air everywhere The Fifth Hour with Me, Ben 0:00:33.280 --> 0:00:37.400 Maller and Danny g Radio. On this nineteenth day of July, 0:00:37.520 --> 0:00:40.839 we were hanging out early in the morning here settling 0:00:40.880 --> 0:00:45.640 into a Saturday Saturday Saturday and Danny. 0:00:46.159 --> 0:00:48.800 Back with us here on this day. 0:00:48.920 --> 0:00:52.600 We have the lump of coal lost at the park 0:00:53.159 --> 0:00:58.280 and the neon pink plastic sausage that we will discuss 0:00:58.360 --> 0:01:02.040 in great detail today, which is very important to cover 0:01:02.160 --> 0:01:05.960 on the Fifth Hour podcast. As we are are here 0:01:06.040 --> 0:01:08.399 hanging out and there's no dopey holidays, I wass. 0:01:08.319 --> 0:01:08.959 Looking at dope. 0:01:09.080 --> 0:01:10.160 There's nothing today. 0:01:09.880 --> 0:01:12.920 That really Oh that's good. We could talk baseball for 0:01:12.959 --> 0:01:15.800 a second, because our Dodgers picked up right where they 0:01:15.880 --> 0:01:16.560 left off. 0:01:17.080 --> 0:01:22.440 Tremendous offensive baseball team. The Doyers the greatest team ever assembled. 0:01:22.480 --> 0:01:25.399 I learned that before they had played a game. This year, Danny, 0:01:25.480 --> 0:01:29.320 I learned the Dodgers the greatest team in baseball, greatest 0:01:29.319 --> 0:01:33.760 team ever assembled in baseball, the reigning World champions. This 0:01:33.880 --> 0:01:37.959 is another magical year of Dodger baseball. They have actually 0:01:38.000 --> 0:01:38.600 a good record. 0:01:39.280 --> 0:01:41.600 That's why it's so good to have money in the 0:01:41.640 --> 0:01:44.800 bank when you start sucking, and when life starts sucking, 0:01:46.880 --> 0:01:48.480 you have some money to fall back on. 0:01:49.320 --> 0:01:51.280 Yeah, it'd be nice if some of the guys the 0:01:51.320 --> 0:01:57.720 Dodgers gave the lottery too would actually show up and contribute. 0:01:58.080 --> 0:02:00.840 Uh it does anyone who were Blake? What is Blake? 0:02:01.080 --> 0:02:03.400 Do you know where Blake Snell is? Danny g or 0:02:03.440 --> 0:02:05.480 we are we aware of you? Have you him? Have 0:02:05.520 --> 0:02:06.240 you spotted him? 0:02:06.720 --> 0:02:09.000 I can't even remember what that dude looks like, to 0:02:09.040 --> 0:02:11.200 be honest with you, except I know he's got a 0:02:11.200 --> 0:02:12.320 punishable face. 0:02:12.440 --> 0:02:16.560 Very punishable face. And what the other guy they wanted. 0:02:16.680 --> 0:02:18.600 I know he's got a blister problem for the Yankees, 0:02:18.639 --> 0:02:21.639 but he's been an All star. Max Freed, who grew 0:02:21.720 --> 0:02:25.320 up a Dodger fan, and instead they signed David Vasse's 0:02:25.360 --> 0:02:30.480 buddy Blake Snell, who's been malingering all two starts. The 0:02:30.520 --> 0:02:33.720 guys made two starts all year for the for the 0:02:33.800 --> 0:02:38.280 Doyers who got shut out last night and had how 0:02:38.280 --> 0:02:42.280 many hits? Not one, not to just three hits against 0:02:42.360 --> 0:02:47.800 the Brewers. And now I know this guy, Quinn Priester, 0:02:47.960 --> 0:02:49.959 I guess is his name? The other guy that the 0:02:50.040 --> 0:02:53.440 guy's got a good, good record, good numbers. Had you 0:02:53.480 --> 0:02:55.440 ever heard any of you? 0:02:55.520 --> 0:02:59.160 You know, I mean, I'm fall Yeah, earlier in the season, 0:02:59.240 --> 0:03:02.600 I remember seeing some highlights from a kame through on 0:03:02.680 --> 0:03:06.359 Sports Center. But that's the sort of picture that when 0:03:06.360 --> 0:03:08.359 you have a strong lineup, you still should be able 0:03:08.440 --> 0:03:11.320 to hit that dude. Three hits is pathetic. 0:03:11.600 --> 0:03:13.200 Yeah, well, they're still in vacation mode. 0:03:13.200 --> 0:03:14.520 You know, when you come back to work after you've 0:03:14.520 --> 0:03:16.960 been on vacation, you're still on your in vacation mode. 0:03:17.280 --> 0:03:19.280 Clearly that's the issue doing some. 0:03:19.400 --> 0:03:23.400 Bullsh isn't it. You said going into the break they 0:03:23.480 --> 0:03:27.800 went break. Currently now they're on an extended break. That sucks. 0:03:27.880 --> 0:03:32.840 Oh, they're all gazillionaires. They don't have the laser like 0:03:32.919 --> 0:03:33.760 focused Danny. 0:03:34.360 --> 0:03:34.880 They don't. 0:03:35.080 --> 0:03:38.160 I mean, it's obvious they're just this is the thing 0:03:38.160 --> 0:03:41.080 they assume and it Last year they didn't look like 0:03:41.120 --> 0:03:43.240 they were gonna win the World Series around this time. 0:03:43.960 --> 0:03:46.520 They're so arrogant over there. They're like, oh, when we. 0:03:46.480 --> 0:03:49.760 Get to late August, we'll flip the switch, and you know, 0:03:49.840 --> 0:03:52.280 until proven otherwise, maybe they will. 0:03:52.520 --> 0:03:54.640 I wouldn't bet on it. They don't look like. 0:03:54.640 --> 0:03:57.720 A championship team to me from what I've seen this year. 0:03:58.200 --> 0:04:01.440 The bullpen has been overused. They're gonna have to trade 0:04:01.520 --> 0:04:05.160 for two or three relief pitchers. The starting rotation is 0:04:05.200 --> 0:04:07.840 like they have. It's just there's a lot of things 0:04:07.880 --> 0:04:09.160 fed up with that. But enough of that. 0:04:09.600 --> 0:04:11.360 I was gonna say, I like this though. It's like 0:04:11.360 --> 0:04:13.560 a little taste of what we got on AM five 0:04:13.760 --> 0:04:15.680 seventy LA Sports when you were on the air with 0:04:15.760 --> 0:04:16.520 Jonas Knox. 0:04:16.560 --> 0:04:18.200 Oh yeah, people were upset with'd be oh, why have 0:04:18.240 --> 0:04:20.560 you been so negative about the Dodgers. Everyone on the 0:04:20.640 --> 0:04:23.400 station is always nice about the Dodgers. I don't care 0:04:23.440 --> 0:04:27.080 what the other people do during the day. I focus 0:04:27.200 --> 0:04:29.880 on tough love. I want to see the Dodgers do well, 0:04:29.920 --> 0:04:31.480 but I'm not going to sit there and lick their 0:04:31.560 --> 0:04:33.360 toes when they're playing like this. 0:04:33.480 --> 0:04:34.280 I'm not going to do it. 0:04:34.520 --> 0:04:37.880 So last week Danny I tried to eat at Cole's. Now, 0:04:37.920 --> 0:04:39.920 for those that are not listening, most of people listen 0:04:39.960 --> 0:04:41.560 aren't in southern California. 0:04:41.640 --> 0:04:44.279 So if you're not from Los Angeles or been to LA. 0:04:44.400 --> 0:04:45.840 Even if you've been to LA, you may not know. 0:04:46.240 --> 0:04:51.640 Coles is a legendary French dip sandwich shop in downtown 0:04:52.560 --> 0:04:57.560 Los Angeles, a place that is so entrenched in the 0:04:57.920 --> 0:05:01.520 LA mythology, if you will coal La mythology, that it's 0:05:02.360 --> 0:05:07.359 the offering that it's a French dip place, and it's 0:05:08.000 --> 0:05:10.279 semi sagree. Now, it's not at the in and out 0:05:10.320 --> 0:05:12.280 burger level, because the in and out burgers all over 0:05:12.360 --> 0:05:16.440 the place. But we're talking about an iconic century old 0:05:17.279 --> 0:05:22.279 joint which claims, and there's this great battle between Coles 0:05:22.360 --> 0:05:27.040 and Philips that both say they invented the French dip sandwich, 0:05:27.839 --> 0:05:31.120 or maybe they co invented it, depending depending how you 0:05:31.160 --> 0:05:32.920 look at it. But when I used to live down 0:05:33.040 --> 0:05:36.559 in Lincoln Heights in LA, I was a single guy, 0:05:36.720 --> 0:05:40.160 and I was a regular, semi regular. I want to 0:05:40.160 --> 0:05:41.919 say I was going there all the time because of 0:05:41.920 --> 0:05:46.279 the neighborhood. But I worked quite a bit at Staples Center. 0:05:46.400 --> 0:05:49.640 Was there a lot Dodger Stadium, and so I would 0:05:49.720 --> 0:05:52.679 stop by on a semi regular basis when I was younger. 0:05:53.279 --> 0:05:56.159 And it's the kind of place. Have you been to 0:05:56.200 --> 0:05:57.400 Cohls by the way, I don't know if you've been 0:05:57.400 --> 0:06:00.599 down there before. You ever gone down to Coles have never. 0:06:00.680 --> 0:06:03.000 That's one of the places I still need to get to, 0:06:03.520 --> 0:06:03.840 all right. 0:06:03.880 --> 0:06:05.960 So this is the kind of place that you know 0:06:06.480 --> 0:06:09.240 it In La there's not a lot of things that 0:06:09.279 --> 0:06:09.800 are old. 0:06:10.960 --> 0:06:13.000 Anything old they get rid of and put some new. 0:06:13.040 --> 0:06:15.839 And so this is a place that has character, which 0:06:15.880 --> 0:06:18.640 is another way of saying it's kind of a rundown neighborhood. 0:06:19.040 --> 0:06:20.880 It's on the wrong part of town. It's on the 0:06:20.920 --> 0:06:24.080 wrong side of the tracks. You might see a rat 0:06:24.760 --> 0:06:26.640 you know, in the you know, on the street out 0:06:26.680 --> 0:06:30.560 in front of it. You know it's in just But anyway, listen, 0:06:30.560 --> 0:06:32.560 I said, we're going to go there. So we had 0:06:32.640 --> 0:06:35.919 all mapped out, left the north Woods, headed into the 0:06:35.920 --> 0:06:41.400 Big City one final supper, Danny, because Cole's announced a 0:06:41.400 --> 0:06:43.400 couple of weeks back that they are shutting down. I 0:06:43.400 --> 0:06:46.839 think it's August, early August, So here we are it's 0:06:47.200 --> 0:06:52.560 January or January, July nineteenth age January, my god, so 0:06:52.600 --> 0:06:54.880 it's July nineteen, so they have another couple of weeks 0:06:54.880 --> 0:06:55.039 to go. 0:06:55.560 --> 0:06:57.880 I did not know they were closing, so yeah, it's 0:06:57.880 --> 0:06:59.000 a big to get there quick. 0:06:59.279 --> 0:07:02.040 So another great thing for Mayor Karen Bashier. In Los Angeles, 0:07:02.120 --> 0:07:06.760 another iconic restaurant closing. So Cole's announced they were shutting down, 0:07:07.440 --> 0:07:12.680 and like any great institution which is facing its last 0:07:12.680 --> 0:07:17.160 supper on its deathbed, suddenly everyone needs to be there, 0:07:17.240 --> 0:07:18.400 right because they're closing. 0:07:18.480 --> 0:07:20.360 So now everyone's like, I gotta go, I gotta go. 0:07:20.440 --> 0:07:20.600 Jeah. 0:07:20.960 --> 0:07:26.440 So all the people me included, who ignored the restaurant 0:07:26.560 --> 0:07:32.920 for probably decades, now now it's just craziness. It's like 0:07:33.120 --> 0:07:37.080 the line wrapped around the block, like it's some amazing 0:07:37.480 --> 0:07:38.280 movie premiere. 0:07:38.560 --> 0:07:40.680 Probably some idiots like me who heard about it for 0:07:40.800 --> 0:07:41.960 years but never got to go. 0:07:42.160 --> 0:07:42.840 Oh yeah yeah. 0:07:42.880 --> 0:07:44.640 So me and the wife hop as we said, it 0:07:44.640 --> 0:07:47.960 happened in the malamobile. We drive into downtown, which, if 0:07:47.960 --> 0:07:51.520 you have not been recently to downtown Los Angeles, it's 0:07:51.600 --> 0:07:56.480 not exactly a brunch in Malibu. It's twenty twenty five 0:07:56.640 --> 0:08:02.160 downtown it is. It's to describe it. It's skid Row. 0:08:02.640 --> 0:08:05.800 The restaurant's literally right next to skid Row. It's a 0:08:05.880 --> 0:08:11.360 dystopian world, think Sodom and Gomora without the orgies, although 0:08:11.400 --> 0:08:12.920 there might be some of those going on, but I 0:08:12.920 --> 0:08:16.240 didn't see any, just the aftermath. And so opened up 0:08:16.240 --> 0:08:19.600 the Apple Maps. Now it wanted me to get me 0:08:19.640 --> 0:08:22.480 and the wife to get the fully immersive experience, Danny. 0:08:22.600 --> 0:08:25.680 As it rooted us, I think it had a smile, 0:08:26.120 --> 0:08:29.760 the Apple Map thing. It rooted us straight through the 0:08:29.760 --> 0:08:30.720 belly of the beast. 0:08:30.920 --> 0:08:31.680 On skid Row. 0:08:31.720 --> 0:08:36.280 We are talking Mad Max meets walking dead, crackheads dancing 0:08:36.679 --> 0:08:39.800 in the street. To the right, we saw the fentanyl fold. 0:08:39.880 --> 0:08:44.080 To the left, you know, Zombie five slumped over. You know, 0:08:44.120 --> 0:08:46.920 these guys, they didn't really were alive or not. There 0:08:47.000 --> 0:08:51.440 was a person that who I think and in my 0:08:51.760 --> 0:08:54.760 way of describing this for you listening, I think this 0:08:54.840 --> 0:08:56.760 is the person that dotted the eye like the Ohio 0:08:56.760 --> 0:09:00.240 State Marching band. So was this black dude who who 0:09:00.640 --> 0:09:04.720 clearly was having a bad day, torn up from the 0:09:04.760 --> 0:09:08.400 floor up, Danny. He had he had pants on, but 0:09:08.520 --> 0:09:11.360 only his left leg had the leg that all you 0:09:11.400 --> 0:09:12.520 know like the normal pants. 0:09:12.800 --> 0:09:13.720 The other leg had. 0:09:13.640 --> 0:09:16.120 Been ripped and torn, so it looked like he was 0:09:16.160 --> 0:09:20.559 wearing half shorts, half pants showing his boxer shorts. So 0:09:20.559 --> 0:09:24.280 at least he had underwear on. This guy was completely bedraggled, 0:09:24.600 --> 0:09:25.760 covered in dirt. 0:09:26.160 --> 0:09:28.640 Right, the shoes like. 0:09:28.679 --> 0:09:31.839 Were barely there. They looked like clown shoes. They were 0:09:31.840 --> 0:09:34.560 all torn up. I mean this I was really in 0:09:34.640 --> 0:09:38.600 tough shape. And my favorite part though, so just imagine 0:09:38.640 --> 0:09:41.120 this guy's covered in dirt, He's got pants on, but 0:09:41.160 --> 0:09:43.320 only one leg has the pant leg. The other leg 0:09:43.440 --> 0:09:50.359 it looks like shorts, no shirt, just completely messed up, frazzled. 0:09:50.800 --> 0:09:51.839 But he had the bling bling on. 0:09:51.880 --> 0:09:55.120 When I say bling bling, Danny, that would be a 0:09:55.720 --> 0:10:00.559 court ordered ankle monitor, which is high fashion on kid row. 0:10:01.200 --> 0:10:04.400 So this guy had it all going on. He was 0:10:04.440 --> 0:10:07.600 on the catwalk, man, he had the ankle monitor, which 0:10:07.640 --> 0:10:10.480 you could clearly see. So at least he was being 0:10:10.559 --> 0:10:11.040 mined way. 0:10:11.160 --> 0:10:13.080 So how does that work he's not allowed to leave 0:10:13.120 --> 0:10:13.640 his street. 0:10:14.400 --> 0:10:18.040 I don't Yeah, that's a great question, Danny. I have 0:10:18.080 --> 0:10:18.480 no idea. 0:10:18.520 --> 0:10:20.600 I'd never seen that before, so this was new to me. 0:10:21.440 --> 0:10:24.240 I didn't know that that you could just roam around 0:10:24.320 --> 0:10:26.720 with that on. But the guy had he clearly had. 0:10:26.720 --> 0:10:29.360 I have seen that before, We've all seen it. He 0:10:29.440 --> 0:10:32.400 had an ankle, one of those big black ankle monitor 0:10:32.480 --> 0:10:33.160 things on. 0:10:33.080 --> 0:10:34.199 His as it was. 0:10:34.200 --> 0:10:35.679 The other thing is the right, right or left? I 0:10:35.679 --> 0:10:38.680 think he might have left left leg. He was stopped 0:10:38.840 --> 0:10:40.040 right in front of Coles. 0:10:40.440 --> 0:10:43.800 It's house arrest. What happens if you have no house? 0:10:44.320 --> 0:10:46.960 You can just go anywhere. I guess, yeah, so he 0:10:47.120 --> 0:10:51.439 was halfway between. It's like one of those cautionary tales. 0:10:51.520 --> 0:10:53.679 Or was it performance art or something like that. 0:10:54.000 --> 0:10:56.640 There was also a woman I spotted screaming at a 0:10:56.720 --> 0:10:58.559 lamp post. I guess the lamp post had been mean 0:10:58.600 --> 0:11:01.280 to her. So, I mean, there was so much going on. 0:11:02.040 --> 0:11:03.640 It was like an art. 0:11:03.559 --> 0:11:07.320 Installation down on skid Row. And I don't know. 0:11:07.720 --> 0:11:12.360 It was just wild and so everyone's like half the 0:11:12.400 --> 0:11:14.959 people are like they don't know whether they're awake or asleep. 0:11:15.000 --> 0:11:16.439 They looked at there's zombies. 0:11:16.920 --> 0:11:20.280 There's people talking to themselves and then yelling to the 0:11:20.720 --> 0:11:21.920 ones having a conversation. 0:11:22.000 --> 0:11:23.000 That one's yelling. 0:11:24.360 --> 0:11:27.520 Anyway, listen. There were tents everywhere. It was a tense city. 0:11:27.640 --> 0:11:31.280 It's remember Blade Runner without the budget. 0:11:31.360 --> 0:11:34.239 So finally, right in the middle. 0:11:34.000 --> 0:11:38.280 Of this is the restaurant Coals, which is a after 0:11:38.360 --> 0:11:43.760 describing the neighborhood, it's a charming first floor even like underground, 0:11:44.240 --> 0:11:48.120 there's like a speakeasy in Coals brick building, this old 0:11:48.280 --> 0:11:52.320 building from La old from probably the eighteen hundreds. There's 0:11:52.360 --> 0:11:56.840 like a neon sign kind of flickering. It's kind of 0:11:56.840 --> 0:11:59.840 like a boxer, the old boxer that doesn't want to 0:12:00.360 --> 0:12:02.720 quit and just wants to keep fighting and all that stuff. 0:12:03.080 --> 0:12:06.480 But as we turned the corner again we're driving through 0:12:06.480 --> 0:12:08.360 skid row, we see the sign, we see the building, 0:12:09.160 --> 0:12:11.719 and there's a line. And I said, there was a 0:12:11.760 --> 0:12:14.360 line around the block. This was like the Energizer Bunny. 0:12:14.640 --> 0:12:17.240 It kept going and going. It was so funny. What 0:12:17.280 --> 0:12:21.160 a juxtaposition, Danny, because you got all this sodom and Gomara, 0:12:22.240 --> 0:12:25.160 worst of the worst of society, people really just lost 0:12:25.200 --> 0:12:28.400 in life, and then you've got all these people that 0:12:28.440 --> 0:12:31.679 are wearing like their Dodger stuff and they're dressed up 0:12:31.760 --> 0:12:34.520 and they're you know, just normal, you know, middle class 0:12:34.559 --> 0:12:39.080 people in line for a French dip sandwich. It was 0:12:39.160 --> 0:12:41.920 just wild. So the line was absurd. Not I'm not 0:12:42.000 --> 0:12:45.120 a line person. It wasn't just long. It was like 0:12:45.240 --> 0:12:49.000 self important long, like the kind of line that somebody 0:12:49.040 --> 0:12:53.440 needed to document. And it wrapped around the block in 0:12:53.480 --> 0:12:55.480 the middle of skid Row, and it was like on 0:12:55.520 --> 0:12:59.400 a Saturday, and you know, like anything in La Danny, 0:12:59.440 --> 0:13:02.240 there were people instagramming the weight like it was a 0:13:02.280 --> 0:13:05.600 pilgrimage and they wanted to document it. And so everyone's 0:13:05.640 --> 0:13:08.520 standing outside three It looked like a three hour wait. 0:13:08.920 --> 0:13:12.600 It's not a huge restaurant eighty five degrees, like. 0:13:12.600 --> 0:13:15.120 People in line at eight in the morning waiting for 0:13:15.120 --> 0:13:16.400 an Otani bobblehead. 0:13:16.559 --> 0:13:17.480 Yeah, yeah, exactly. 0:13:17.520 --> 0:13:17.720 It was. 0:13:17.720 --> 0:13:18.440 It was ridiculous. 0:13:18.480 --> 0:13:21.960 So it was hot, and you know, there was a 0:13:22.000 --> 0:13:25.239 guy doing shadow boxing in flip flops. 0:13:25.679 --> 0:13:27.120 That was all part of the experience. 0:13:27.679 --> 0:13:32.400 So it's essentially people standing around the Titanic trying to 0:13:32.400 --> 0:13:36.199 get one last selfie with the band on the Titanic 0:13:36.240 --> 0:13:38.000 before it sinks off into the Atlantic. 0:13:38.360 --> 0:13:40.480 But everyone is here because it's ending. 0:13:40.559 --> 0:13:44.000 The restaurant is done, and it's as you said, it's 0:13:44.040 --> 0:13:46.680 not because they needn't really care about the food. It's 0:13:46.920 --> 0:13:51.520 just this apocalypse type nostalgia thing, like this place is 0:13:51.559 --> 0:13:53.960 going away. It's been around since like the eighteen hundreds 0:13:54.040 --> 0:13:56.960 or whatever, so or I guess theah, I think the 0:13:56.960 --> 0:13:59.559 eighteen I think it might maybe early nineteen hundreds, probably 0:13:59.559 --> 0:14:05.240 early nightte units. But either way, it's it's going and 0:14:05.320 --> 0:14:07.920 people probably were mumbling about the good old days and 0:14:07.960 --> 0:14:10.880 all that. The funny thing is if these people have, 0:14:11.080 --> 0:14:14.320 these people at eaton the French dip sandwich is regularly, 0:14:14.559 --> 0:14:18.040 they would not be going to the big restaurant diner 0:14:18.080 --> 0:14:20.800 in the sky. And I didn't end up getting a sandwich. 0:14:20.800 --> 0:14:21.400 I didn't park. 0:14:22.040 --> 0:14:24.880 We saw the line, we drove around the block, and 0:14:24.600 --> 0:14:28.280 we just kept driving. We drove right past it, you know, 0:14:28.400 --> 0:14:32.480 past the history and all that stuff, past the people 0:14:32.520 --> 0:14:36.840 clinging on to that last bite of la nostalgia and 0:14:36.920 --> 0:14:41.000 all that. Because, as you know, Danny, the most precious 0:14:41.040 --> 0:14:44.120 resource that we all have, the most valuable thing that 0:14:44.160 --> 0:14:45.360 we have, is not French dip. 0:14:45.880 --> 0:14:46.440 It's time. 0:14:46.840 --> 0:14:48.720 So I would I did not want to spend two 0:14:48.760 --> 0:14:52.680 and a half or three hours online because that's a 0:14:52.720 --> 0:14:56.440 lot of precious time and I didn't want to do it. 0:14:56.480 --> 0:14:57.720 So we went somewhere else. 0:14:57.760 --> 0:15:00.880 But that was that was my day. Yeah, driving, you know, 0:15:00.960 --> 0:15:04.000 driving through skid row and what a What a zoo, 0:15:04.200 --> 0:15:09.280 What an absolute zoo that was. And fortunately I did 0:15:09.280 --> 0:15:12.160 not get lost at the park or in skid Row 0:15:12.200 --> 0:15:14.360 for that matter, Dandy, I was close, but I didn't 0:15:14.400 --> 0:15:15.479 do it. 0:15:15.520 --> 0:15:18.920 Sounds like maybe they should have had customers get lost 0:15:18.960 --> 0:15:22.640 trying to find their new location when they relocated years ago. 0:15:22.680 --> 0:15:24.520 It sounds like they needed to find a different part 0:15:24.560 --> 0:15:25.760 of LA for their restaurant. 0:15:26.040 --> 0:15:28.560 Yeah, well it's the same thing, I'm sure. My favorite 0:15:28.640 --> 0:15:32.520 deli is this place called Layers, which is right across 0:15:32.520 --> 0:15:35.360 from MacArthur Park, which is a drug den. MacArthur Park's 0:15:35.360 --> 0:15:37.040 a if you need If you need fentanyl, you go 0:15:37.040 --> 0:15:37.480 to MacArthur. 0:15:37.600 --> 0:15:40.160 Yeah, I've been there. A bunch of hookers and cocaine. 0:15:40.600 --> 0:15:41.240 Yeah yeah. 0:15:41.360 --> 0:15:46.240 You go to MacArthur Park for fent and all cocaine, crack, whatever, heroin. 0:15:46.280 --> 0:15:48.360 They got it all there. It's like a CBS for 0:15:48.440 --> 0:15:50.960 hard street drugs. But the mayor says it's just kids 0:15:51.000 --> 0:15:54.040 playing soccer in the park. That place will be closing 0:15:54.080 --> 0:15:56.520 within the next couple of years. But these places they 0:15:56.520 --> 0:16:01.160 don't They don't change location, and you could relocate somewhere else. 0:16:01.200 --> 0:16:02.680 You don't have to be in skid Row. 0:16:03.320 --> 0:16:05.600 You don't have to cross the street from MacArthur Park, 0:16:06.280 --> 0:16:09.040 but for whatever reason they won't do it, and so 0:16:09.080 --> 0:16:10.360 they end up going out of business. 0:16:10.640 --> 0:16:10.800 You know. 0:16:11.000 --> 0:16:11.560 So that's that. 0:16:12.520 --> 0:16:14.840 Well, to start this past week, and as you know, 0:16:14.920 --> 0:16:18.720 I was in Atlanta to broadcast live there at the 0:16:18.840 --> 0:16:21.880 All Star Village for CNR and filled in for the 0:16:21.960 --> 0:16:24.840 Dan Patrick Show. You've probably seen these things. I know 0:16:24.880 --> 0:16:27.840 you went into the NFL experience with me when the 0:16:27.840 --> 0:16:30.680 Super Bowl was in Los Angeles. Pretty cool, like all 0:16:30.720 --> 0:16:33.080 those interactive things you can do. They have a lot 0:16:33.120 --> 0:16:36.520 of things for kids and big kids. Fast pitch and 0:16:36.520 --> 0:16:39.760 there were people standing in line waiting to hit batting 0:16:39.840 --> 0:16:43.560 practice and coach ball Game was there throwing pitches to kids. 0:16:43.600 --> 0:16:46.600 They had a like a makeshift field set up inside 0:16:46.600 --> 0:16:50.200 this convention center in Atlanta. Really cool event put on 0:16:50.280 --> 0:16:53.560 by Baseball for a few days. So Ben, we broadcast 0:16:53.640 --> 0:16:57.080 from nine to noon Eastern Time shows over at noon. 0:16:57.880 --> 0:17:00.440 Guys tell me, well, we're going to do our Patreo show. 0:17:00.480 --> 0:17:04.600 Now I'm not part of their Patreon show. So it 0:17:04.640 --> 0:17:08.000 gave me a chance to go walk around little taste. 0:17:09.040 --> 0:17:09.240 You know. 0:17:09.320 --> 0:17:12.240 I'm of course drawn to where there was They called 0:17:12.240 --> 0:17:16.359 it ballpark Bites and they had something off the menu 0:17:16.480 --> 0:17:20.479 from each major league team, and people were sitting on 0:17:20.560 --> 0:17:24.520 this fake green grass with a DJ playing music, eating 0:17:24.560 --> 0:17:27.840 hot dogs and nachos, and there were the garlic fries 0:17:27.880 --> 0:17:31.240 from the Giants and it was pretty cool. Got a 0:17:31.320 --> 0:17:33.080 Chicago Cubs hot dog? 0:17:33.520 --> 0:17:34.760 Oh yeah? 0:17:34.800 --> 0:17:37.480 And then I'm on my way. There was an upstairs. 0:17:38.359 --> 0:17:40.720 There was a third story where some stuff was going 0:17:40.760 --> 0:17:44.280 on in this convention center. As I'm walking outside of 0:17:44.320 --> 0:17:47.520 where the batting cages were, I realized that my phone 0:17:47.600 --> 0:17:50.560 was feeling a lot lighter. I have one of those 0:17:50.600 --> 0:17:52.440 magnet wallets. Have you ever seen those? 0:17:52.640 --> 0:17:53.800 Yeah, yeah, yeah, I've seen those. 0:17:53.840 --> 0:17:56.200 Though those are cool, it's never given me a problem. 0:17:56.280 --> 0:17:59.120 It's got a strong magnet on it. But I realized 0:17:59.160 --> 0:18:01.800 that when I had my phone out of my pocket, 0:18:02.320 --> 0:18:06.120 my lanyard that they gave us, it was getting stuck 0:18:06.440 --> 0:18:09.800 to the magnet. And when I pulled it off earlier 0:18:09.800 --> 0:18:13.199 in the day, I remember it jarred my wallet loose, 0:18:13.920 --> 0:18:16.359 and I remember thinking to myself, Man, I gotta be 0:18:16.359 --> 0:18:19.520 careful because that sucker is gonna pull off. I look down. 0:18:20.200 --> 0:18:23.320 No magnet wallet to be found nowhere on my phone, 0:18:23.600 --> 0:18:27.400 not in my pocket. I start freaking out because now 0:18:27.480 --> 0:18:30.520 I'm thinking about it, I'm standing in the middle probably 0:18:30.840 --> 0:18:35.040 three thousand people walking around. Yeah, when is the last 0:18:35.040 --> 0:18:38.439 time you lost your wallet? One of the worst uffin 0:18:38.560 --> 0:18:39.320 feelings ever. 0:18:39.880 --> 0:18:42.520 Yeah, So you're trying to I've done this a few times. 0:18:42.560 --> 0:18:45.680 I used to lose my keys. I lost my wallet 0:18:45.760 --> 0:18:48.040 in the parking lot at the grocery store one time. 0:18:48.080 --> 0:18:50.159 So you're trying to What I would always do is 0:18:50.200 --> 0:18:52.600 try to retrace your steps. Are you trying to probably 0:18:52.640 --> 0:18:54.960 go back and try to remember where you walked and 0:18:54.960 --> 0:18:58.200 where you might have lost it? Right, that whole thing exactly. 0:18:58.359 --> 0:19:00.520 So I go down to where I was eating because 0:19:00.520 --> 0:19:03.200 that was the last time I had used my card. Yeah, 0:19:03.240 --> 0:19:06.720 and there's nothing. I asked the people who served the 0:19:07.040 --> 0:19:10.359 ballpark dog to me nothing was turned into them. They 0:19:10.400 --> 0:19:15.040 pointed me to guest services. Nope, nobody's turned in anything. Yet. 0:19:15.560 --> 0:19:18.439 I am screwed because a couple of days later, I 0:19:18.520 --> 0:19:21.000 need to fly back to Los Angeles. My idea is 0:19:21.000 --> 0:19:24.280 in there, my credit cards, all of that. So I 0:19:24.440 --> 0:19:27.639 run outside to where the batting cages were, and I 0:19:27.680 --> 0:19:30.640 go to that guest services and there was a nice gentleman. 0:19:31.119 --> 0:19:33.119 His name is Ken. I got his name, and I 0:19:33.200 --> 0:19:35.480 sold him on our podcast before I left, and gave 0:19:35.520 --> 0:19:37.399 him my business card and told him I would give 0:19:37.480 --> 0:19:40.160 him a shout out. He got on his walkie talkie, 0:19:40.640 --> 0:19:44.400 talked to all five of the guest services tables, and 0:19:44.480 --> 0:19:46.600 somebody got back to him at one of the desks 0:19:46.680 --> 0:19:51.280 saying that it was turned in. Oh thank god, yeah, 0:19:51.600 --> 0:19:55.320 for I would say good. Forty five minutes, I walked 0:19:55.359 --> 0:19:59.439 around feeling like the biggest loser ever that I was 0:19:59.480 --> 0:20:01.640 going to have to you go back to the Dan 0:20:01.760 --> 0:20:05.280 Patrick stage tell everybody what happened and how I was 0:20:05.320 --> 0:20:08.080 an idiot who couldn't get back home on the flight 0:20:08.119 --> 0:20:13.159