WEBVTT - The Fifth Hour: "Don't Call Me a Wuss" Mail Bag 0:00:00.680 --> 0:00:05.480 Kaboom. If you thought four hours a day, minutes a 0:00:05.480 --> 0:00:09.240 week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants of 0:00:09.280 --> 0:00:12.920 the old Republic, a sole fashion of fairness. He treats 0:00:12.960 --> 0:00:15.800 crackheads in the ghetto cutter the same as the rich 0:00:15.840 --> 0:00:20.200 pill poppers in the penthouse. The Clearinghouse of Hot takes 0:00:20.280 --> 0:00:24.080 break free for something special. The Fifth Hour with Ben 0:00:24.120 --> 0:00:33.720 Maller starts right now in the air everywhere and welcome 0:00:33.800 --> 0:00:38.360 into the podcast Jojo for another additional The Fifth Hour 0:00:38.520 --> 0:00:46.800 with Ben Maller and Danny g Radio Ready to attack monster. 0:00:48.800 --> 0:00:53.920 That's what we're gonna do here, Danny Gee. And it's Sunday. 0:00:54.160 --> 0:00:56.440 We have made it to another Sunday. And you know 0:00:56.440 --> 0:01:00.000 what that means. Yeah, you get to play with sound effects. 0:00:59.840 --> 0:01:03.120 That's right, because every time we do this Sunday thing, 0:01:03.200 --> 0:01:07.319 it's let me tell you something, all right, it's it's 0:01:07.360 --> 0:01:10.120 like an old Benny Hill thing. It's well running all 0:01:10.160 --> 0:01:18.959 over the place. There as things that no, no, well, 0:01:19.040 --> 0:01:22.440 I will guarantee we will not be all right. And 0:01:22.520 --> 0:01:27.119 if we are, heads are going to roll. Heads will 0:01:27.200 --> 0:01:31.720 absolutely roll, damn right. So let's get into the ring. 0:01:33.040 --> 0:01:36.000 I think I've played enough sound bites now and Ohio. Aw, 0:01:36.160 --> 0:01:54.160 please get us started. Ohio. Aw. It's alright, wonderful. I 0:01:54.240 --> 0:01:57.919 loved Ohio al song and the talent show this week 0:01:58.080 --> 0:02:01.640 that we had the Mallard pelluza I mentioned Ohio. We 0:02:01.640 --> 0:02:05.640 play that song every week here on the Fifth Hour podcast. 0:02:05.800 --> 0:02:10.239 First letter, let's see here you've got mail? All right, Yes, 0:02:10.280 --> 0:02:14.079 we do have mail. The first message in on this 0:02:14.280 --> 0:02:16.880 edition to the Fifth Hour comes to us from Kevin 0:02:16.919 --> 0:02:20.200 in Rockford, Illinois. He says, it has finally been done. 0:02:20.200 --> 0:02:25.080 I hiked up Quandary Peak and planted a new flag 0:02:25.160 --> 0:02:31.760 made from a Buffalo Chicken pizza box Mount Mallard, and 0:02:31.800 --> 0:02:34.560 he sent a photo here. He posted it on the 0:02:34.600 --> 0:02:37.840 Facebook page Danny it's really cool. Let it be known 0:02:37.960 --> 0:02:45.280 that since July, Quandary Peak, that's q U A N 0:02:45.520 --> 0:02:51.000 d a r Y Peak right outside Breckon Ridge, Colorado, 0:02:51.560 --> 0:02:55.799 is now Mount Mallard. And he then he goes over 0:02:55.840 --> 0:02:58.040 the top. Here you're talking about giving me a big ego, 0:02:58.160 --> 0:03:01.239 he says, named after the greatest sports talk coast, the 0:03:01.320 --> 0:03:05.000 great Ben Well. Thank you, Kevin. Very nice of you 0:03:05.200 --> 0:03:07.560 to do that, that you would go out of your 0:03:07.600 --> 0:03:11.480 way there to litter on top of the mountain. In 0:03:11.560 --> 0:03:15.520 my name, so somebody else will climb up there and 0:03:15.560 --> 0:03:21.160 say who the F is that? But but thank you, Kevin. Congratulations. 0:03:21.160 --> 0:03:26.320 That's a great accomplishment. And I am jealous. I've never 0:03:26.480 --> 0:03:31.600 climbed up the top of a a mountain. I have 0:03:31.720 --> 0:03:34.960 not done that. I'm gonna send you this photo, Danny. 0:03:35.000 --> 0:03:37.680 I want you to want to you have arrived, by 0:03:37.720 --> 0:03:42.800 the way, in your next contract negotiations or negotiations as 0:03:42.840 --> 0:03:45.960 you would say with FSR, you need to show them 0:03:46.000 --> 0:03:53.160 that picture. Yeah, and look how professionally done the the 0:03:53.160 --> 0:03:56.200 the sign was. I mean that, that's like a sign 0:03:56.280 --> 0:03:59.200 company made that, Dan. I just sent the picture over 0:03:59.240 --> 0:04:02.960 to you. It's got the date there and it says 0:04:02.960 --> 0:04:09.000 says Mount Mallard m A L L E er. Uh. 0:04:08.560 --> 0:04:12.640 What's at the top there? I can't think that blue 0:04:12.800 --> 0:04:16.960 hiking shoes. Yeah, those that's a good color. Blue. Got 0:04:17.080 --> 0:04:19.360 some kind of yellow jacket. It looks like I can 0:04:19.400 --> 0:04:23.960 see the guy's hand, Kevin's hand right there did cross 0:04:24.000 --> 0:04:26.640 out something on the other half. But I'm not looking 0:04:26.680 --> 0:04:29.279 at that, Danny. I'm looking at Mount Mallard right there. 0:04:29.520 --> 0:04:34.400 Oh he crossed out Quandary peak. Oh see now it 0:04:34.520 --> 0:04:36.560 makes sense. See you look at that. I'm glad I 0:04:36.600 --> 0:04:37.920 sent that to you. I was like, I was looking. 0:04:37.960 --> 0:04:40.440 I was like, what the helf is that? And it 0:04:40.600 --> 0:04:44.479 says it's fourteen thousand, two hundred seventy two ft. Right 0:04:44.560 --> 0:04:46.760 is that? I believe that's what he looked down there? 0:04:46.839 --> 0:04:54.039 So beautiful photo. Holy cow, thousand, two hundred and seventy two. 0:04:55.160 --> 0:04:57.640 How long are you allowed to stay there? If I 0:04:57.800 --> 0:05:00.520 climbed a mountain, I would want to stay there for 0:05:00.640 --> 0:05:03.240 like a week. I wouldn't want to get down. I'll 0:05:03.279 --> 0:05:05.520 be like, I spent all my time comb up here 0:05:05.600 --> 0:05:08.200 fourteen thousand, two undred seventy two ft. I'm gonna stay 0:05:08.200 --> 0:05:11.039 here for a while. I'm not going anywhere. I went 0:05:11.120 --> 0:05:13.920 up I think ten eleven thousand feet when I was 0:05:14.000 --> 0:05:17.080 in Wyoming in Montana, and I thought that was high 0:05:17.200 --> 0:05:22.159 up above sea level. Holy ship, Yeah, holy shit balls 0:05:22.200 --> 0:05:24.640 for sure. Well, thank you, Kevin. I look forward to 0:05:24.720 --> 0:05:29.919 your next hiking adventure. And where will he go next? Kevin? 0:05:29.960 --> 0:05:32.400 As he goes to all the big peaks, will he 0:05:32.480 --> 0:05:35.720 hit Mount Kilimanjaro? Will that be on the list? Who knows. 0:05:36.200 --> 0:05:39.240 We'll live our lives to Kevin. A big fan of 0:05:39.240 --> 0:05:44.760 the show from Rockford, Illinois. Next up on the mail bag. 0:05:45.040 --> 0:05:49.400 Let's see here, who do we have? I got mail? Yeah, 0:05:49.960 --> 0:05:55.280 I got mail. Yeah. Until ow from Longwood, Florida via Newark, 0:05:55.400 --> 0:05:59.279 New Jersey rights in. He's got a sport. Oh question, 0:05:59.480 --> 0:06:02.839 he says. I look at how low the Yankee batting 0:06:02.880 --> 0:06:06.000 average is, and I wonder if they will quit hitting 0:06:06.040 --> 0:06:09.120 in the playoffs they will face better pitching. Do you 0:06:09.160 --> 0:06:13.720 think they will flounder again? So until I do have 0:06:13.800 --> 0:06:16.520 my doubts about the Yankees. I think their their record 0:06:16.680 --> 0:06:21.000 is inflated. But there's also the injury bug, which every 0:06:21.000 --> 0:06:24.159 team has to worry about. But Aaron Judge made out 0:06:24.160 --> 0:06:28.320 of glass, John Carlos Stanton also a guy that's injury prone. 0:06:28.400 --> 0:06:32.279 They have that in their d n A. But I 0:06:32.320 --> 0:06:34.839 will tell you on a positive note, I'll be Benny 0:06:34.920 --> 0:06:37.400 bright Side. If you look at the batting average of 0:06:37.480 --> 0:06:40.680 just about every team in baseball, it is embarrassing. They 0:06:40.720 --> 0:06:43.440 don't even try to hit. They don't even play the contact. 0:06:44.040 --> 0:06:46.320 And that's why if you have a couple of guys 0:06:47.120 --> 0:06:50.160 that played a contact, I believe you have an advantage. 0:06:50.200 --> 0:06:51.720 That's one of the reasons I like the Dodgers this 0:06:51.839 --> 0:06:54.839 year is because trade Turner and Mookie Bets are guys 0:06:54.880 --> 0:06:57.640 that can hit for power, but they'll also put the 0:06:57.680 --> 0:07:02.160 ball in play, at least in Theory Braves last year, Danny, 0:07:02.200 --> 0:07:03.680 the Braves had a bunch of They had a lot 0:07:03.720 --> 0:07:07.679 of contact guys. He's hurt right now, but Chris Taylor 0:07:07.760 --> 0:07:10.560 is like that for the Dodgers as well. Yeah, and 0:07:10.640 --> 0:07:14.120 Justin Turner has been playing much better the last month 0:07:14.200 --> 0:07:16.720 and a half. He's actually been a good player. He 0:07:16.800 --> 0:07:19.080 was not a good player the first month of the season. 0:07:19.160 --> 0:07:21.440 But yeah, I know, I tell us probably saying, hey, dummy, 0:07:21.720 --> 0:07:24.840 I didn't ask about the Dodgers. I asked about the Yankees. 0:07:25.320 --> 0:07:29.600 Uh about Nasty Nestor's crew. Yeah, you like that glove 0:07:29.680 --> 0:07:34.360 that he had on there, solid solid. What do you 0:07:34.360 --> 0:07:42.600 think the average batting averages in baseball this season? Danny? 0:07:42.600 --> 0:07:45.080 I mean, let I got the numbers here. I'm gonna 0:07:45.080 --> 0:07:48.680 stake here a right to forty nine. It's can't be 0:07:48.920 --> 0:07:51.800 much higher than that, though, I'm trying to get it 0:07:51.920 --> 0:07:58.560 up right here and having problems. Yes, Uh, the phrasing 0:07:58.600 --> 0:08:05.400 on that was unfort Yes, all right, let's see here. 0:08:05.440 --> 0:08:10.920 The average batting batting average in the professional baseball the 0:08:11.000 --> 0:08:15.800 year two. I now have the right page up. Let's 0:08:15.800 --> 0:08:22.040 see here. The average team batting average is two forty two. Okay, 0:08:22.240 --> 0:08:25.440 all right. The Yankees are slightly above average. They're hitting 0:08:25.480 --> 0:08:29.440 two six. The Dodgers are two fifty five. The top 0:08:29.560 --> 0:08:32.760 hitting team the Rockies and the Blue Jays. That's this 0:08:32.880 --> 0:08:35.079 is all these numbers at the All Star break, and 0:08:35.200 --> 0:08:38.600 there their team batting average to sixty two and they're 0:08:38.679 --> 0:08:42.360 leading baseball. The worst hitting team the Oakland Athletics, a 0:08:42.640 --> 0:08:48.959 robust two eleven batting average for the Oakland f's not 0:08:49.240 --> 0:08:54.240 a's fs. So good luck to the Yankees, a tillo, 0:08:54.360 --> 0:08:57.120 thank you for this thing. Next up on the mail bag, 0:08:57.280 --> 0:09:00.679 we say hello to Chris and Mary Cooke to Iowa. 0:09:01.559 --> 0:09:05.199 He says, what amount is an appropriate gift for weddings? 0:09:05.840 --> 0:09:08.559 Give a range from second cousin up to siblings, and 0:09:08.640 --> 0:09:13.440 include friends. Also the for funerals, same question, how much 0:09:13.520 --> 0:09:19.600 money is appropriate? So as far as weddings are concerned, 0:09:19.720 --> 0:09:22.240 it depends on how far you have to travel to 0:09:22.400 --> 0:09:25.600 the wedding. That's always the most important thing. If you're 0:09:25.640 --> 0:09:28.280 going from a long way away, the gift gets smaller 0:09:28.440 --> 0:09:32.240 and smaller and smaller and smaller because the gift is 0:09:32.400 --> 0:09:37.400 you attended exactly, you're the gift. Unfortunately, also, if you 0:09:37.840 --> 0:09:40.839 only talk to the person once a year or less, 0:09:41.679 --> 0:09:46.560 the gift is relatively small because they won't remember you anyway, 0:09:47.360 --> 0:09:52.079 you get something from your game room. Yeah, Usually what 0:09:52.160 --> 0:09:54.959 you do is you go on the gift registry. If 0:09:54.960 --> 0:09:58.640 they're like a second cousin, and you'll go on. If 0:09:58.679 --> 0:10:00.840 you're not close to him, you go like on targets, 0:10:00.880 --> 0:10:04.640 say all right, what's fifty bucks? Boom done? Maybe a hundred, 0:10:05.120 --> 0:10:07.600 but I wouldn't go too crazy on that. What about you, Danny, 0:10:07.640 --> 0:10:14.439 do you have a pay scale on weddings and funerals? Funerals, um, 0:10:15.280 --> 0:10:18.280 you know, for weddings. I think you're right. I mean, 0:10:18.400 --> 0:10:20.559 if it's somebody close to you and you didn't travel 0:10:20.640 --> 0:10:23.600 a long ways, then I would spend a couple hundred bucks. 0:10:23.720 --> 0:10:28.240 But somebody that you barely talked to, like for instance, 0:10:28.280 --> 0:10:29.960 I'm thinking of a wedding I went to a couple 0:10:30.000 --> 0:10:33.000 of years ago, and on their registry, I noticed that 0:10:33.120 --> 0:10:36.040 they were loading up on games and stuff like that 0:10:36.240 --> 0:10:39.240 for their game room. So I went to Barnes and 0:10:39.320 --> 0:10:43.280 Nobles and found like this really cool Stranger Things board 0:10:43.360 --> 0:10:45.840 game and I knew both of them loved that show, 0:10:46.400 --> 0:10:48.640 so I got that it was kind of unique to them. 0:10:49.200 --> 0:10:52.839 And so I think just put some thought into your gift. Okay, yeah, 0:10:52.880 --> 0:10:55.880 for sure, for sure absolutely, Uh, thank you for that though, 0:10:56.040 --> 0:10:59.839 Chris and the funeral thing. Yeah, I've been to a 0:11:00.000 --> 0:11:02.400 bunch of funerals. I don't recall having to write a 0:11:02.520 --> 0:11:05.079 check at the funeral though? Did I miss that? And I? 0:11:05.240 --> 0:11:08.320 What am I a bad person? Was? I don't do gifts. 0:11:08.360 --> 0:11:12.080 I guess some people do flowers and will bring dishes 0:11:12.240 --> 0:11:15.959 for like a pot luck maybe afterwards. Yeah, it's usually 0:11:16.040 --> 0:11:19.719 been in lieu of flowers. You can donate money. Uh. 0:11:20.520 --> 0:11:25.719 In fact, one of the last funerals I attended, they 0:11:26.080 --> 0:11:30.040 they asked for to like buy books for kids that 0:11:30.120 --> 0:11:34.360 didn't have books. So we did some of that and 0:11:34.480 --> 0:11:38.320 bought some books and and whatnot. But I don't recall said, hey, 0:11:38.360 --> 0:11:39.839 can you cut a check? And all I don't I 0:11:39.840 --> 0:11:45.800 don't remember that. Next up, very morbid from Chris in Marraccata, Iowa. 0:11:45.920 --> 0:11:50.000 Thank you for the morbid. Take appreciate that. The next 0:11:50.160 --> 0:11:54.720 up on the mail bag come back it's sign for now, 0:11:54.720 --> 0:11:59.199 I'll call Jennifer and Richmond Virginia. Jennifer a very nice 0:12:00.040 --> 0:12:02.959 performance in the Talent Show. She was one of the 0:12:03.040 --> 0:12:06.640 early participants. She says, Hey, Ben in Danny G. In 0:12:06.800 --> 0:12:11.880 your driving experience, are you a believer in turning off 0:12:12.120 --> 0:12:16.000 the air conditioning in order to get better acceleration? I 0:12:16.080 --> 0:12:18.440 swear this makes a difference for me, or at least 0:12:19.080 --> 0:12:23.520 for my sturdy old nineties seven camera. That's impressive. You've 0:12:23.520 --> 0:12:25.959 got a twenty five year old car, You're still driving 0:12:26.000 --> 0:12:28.240 around and still getting it done. It's a good job 0:12:28.280 --> 0:12:31.719 by you. Uh. Jennifer also says, Danny G. Do you 0:12:31.840 --> 0:12:38.040 have any eligible bachelor friends that don't cook in the kitchen? 0:12:38.360 --> 0:12:43.040 But you know that thing you said last week? I 0:12:43.120 --> 0:12:45.599 got Jennifer's attention there, Danny, you pointed out that you 0:12:45.760 --> 0:12:48.439 do not have the cooking gene, but you do have 0:12:48.559 --> 0:12:53.760 a cooking gene in another room. Yeah. So she she 0:12:53.840 --> 0:12:56.559 apparently would like to go out with one of your friends, Danny. 0:12:56.640 --> 0:13:00.960 So if you have anybody available, Jennifer is willing to travel, 0:13:01.080 --> 0:13:04.920 I believe so who me? And as far as the 0:13:05.080 --> 0:13:08.960 air conditioning thing, I don't know. I guess it depends 0:13:09.000 --> 0:13:12.040 how old your car is. I think that's more of 0:13:12.120 --> 0:13:14.000 a myth. I don't know. I don't. I don't really 0:13:14.040 --> 0:13:16.000 pay much of David's hot I got the A C on. 0:13:16.559 --> 0:13:20.000 Supposedly it helps your gas mileage. I do, yeah that 0:13:20.240 --> 0:13:23.719 I've heard. She says, acceleration though the car. Yeah, I'm not. 0:13:23.840 --> 0:13:26.199 I don't know about that. I have not heard that, 0:13:26.600 --> 0:13:29.320 but I guess an older camera maybe it would make 0:13:29.360 --> 0:13:32.360 a difference. And I have heard that even the gas 0:13:32.520 --> 0:13:36.040 thing is not that. That's not even the case any nowadays, 0:13:36.200 --> 0:13:38.480 the way they make cars, it doesn't help you much 0:13:38.520 --> 0:13:43.160 with gas mileage. Yeah, you're you're screwed either way, and 0:13:43.280 --> 0:13:46.439 might as well get the cold air blown on you, exactly, 0:13:46.679 --> 0:13:49.000 all right. Next up is our body, Adrian in the 0:13:49.440 --> 0:13:56.280 Mile High City. You've got mail, Yes, Adrian, great family man. 0:13:56.320 --> 0:13:59.200 He's the guy that wanted the cruise. Remember last week 0:14:00.080 --> 0:14:02.120 he has the travel log part two. In the mail back, 0:14:02.160 --> 0:14:05.520 he says banded Danny G. Yes, Danny G is correct. 0:14:05.559 --> 0:14:08.599 We paid a hefty rate to book the cruise, including, 0:14:09.480 --> 0:14:12.599 or included, rather in the booking is all of the 0:14:12.760 --> 0:14:17.079 food options on the ship. Water, lemonade, iced tea, and 0:14:17.280 --> 0:14:22.120 coffee are included. There are separate drink packages for soda 0:14:22.280 --> 0:14:27.720 and alcoholic beverages. All right, fair enough, I'll be okay 0:14:27.760 --> 0:14:33.720 with lemonade and water tearing the camel's ass up. Yeah, anyway, 0:14:33.880 --> 0:14:37.240 Adrian says we had four ports of call during the 0:14:37.320 --> 0:14:43.000 eight day Caribbean cruise. Key West, Florida was the first 0:14:43.080 --> 0:14:46.520 part we arrived at, and Adrian giving the travelog updates 0:14:46.560 --> 0:14:49.000 to his family and I. His family and I ate 0:14:49.160 --> 0:14:54.080 at a local restaurant. They're called Pincher's Crab Shack, the 0:14:54.360 --> 0:14:59.920 Fresh Key Lime Pie, and my Peach Cobbler lives. He's 0:15:00.000 --> 0:15:02.440 sent me a picture here. It looks pretty good. I 0:15:02.640 --> 0:15:04.560 gotta have a piece or two. If you ever visit 0:15:04.640 --> 0:15:06.240 Key West. I would like to go to Key West. 0:15:06.240 --> 0:15:09.280 I've heard wonderful things about Key West, that it's just 0:15:09.400 --> 0:15:11.840 a cool place to hang out. People go there to 0:15:11.880 --> 0:15:15.640 get away from just kind of society, if you will. 0:15:15.760 --> 0:15:18.480 But it was it was that where Earnest Hemingway. Is 0:15:18.520 --> 0:15:21.840 that where he hung out in Key West? Oh? Yes, 0:15:24.280 --> 0:15:26.680 I think Jimmy Johnson lives there. Isn't that where Jimmy 0:15:26.840 --> 0:15:28.920 they I'm talking about the football version of Jimmy Johnson, 0:15:28.960 --> 0:15:31.240 old cowboy coach. I think he lives there. And Mike 0:15:31.400 --> 0:15:36.280 Leach when he was between coaching jobs, the Pirate Mike Leach. 0:15:36.520 --> 0:15:39.280 I believe he lived there as well. So there's been 0:15:39.360 --> 0:15:42.200 some interesting cats that I've and not that I know them, 0:15:42.320 --> 0:15:44.240 but I've dealt with them off and on over the 0:15:44.320 --> 0:15:47.960 years that have have gone there. Here, and Adrian says, uh, 0:15:48.280 --> 0:15:50.560 did I mentioned they walked? They walked to the southern 0:15:51.320 --> 0:15:55.840 most point in the continental US marker. The other three 0:15:55.920 --> 0:15:59.320 ports of call where the Bahamas in the Bahamas, Freeport, 0:15:59.600 --> 0:16:07.160 half Moon Bay, and the capital city of Nassau. Now 0:16:07.240 --> 0:16:09.920 he said half half Moon K. But I think he 0:16:10.000 --> 0:16:12.560 meant half Moon Bay. I've never have you ever heard 0:16:12.560 --> 0:16:16.680 of half Moon K. Yeah, I've never heard of uh, 0:16:16.800 --> 0:16:19.840 says freeport and half moon Uh. He said half moon 0:16:19.920 --> 0:16:22.760 K again, so maybe that's maybe that's it. It's gotta 0:16:22.840 --> 0:16:25.360 be because half Moon Bay is California's Oh there you go. 0:16:25.480 --> 0:16:27.840 That's right. So I just think half moon half moon 0:16:28.040 --> 0:16:30.880 K C A Y. I think that's how you say it. 0:16:31.520 --> 0:16:34.520 Says they were beautiful and we enjoyed the white sand 0:16:34.720 --> 0:16:38.160 and clear blue water at the beaches. Absolutely. Why I've 0:16:38.200 --> 0:16:40.560 never been to Have you ever been to the Bahamas, 0:16:40.640 --> 0:16:43.600 I've never been there. I've been to the Bahamas one time? 0:16:44.320 --> 0:16:46.400 Is it worth the trip? Is it that much better 0:16:46.440 --> 0:16:49.400 than Hawaii? Or I just didn't care for the food 0:16:49.480 --> 0:16:52.160 there in the Bahamas? What's wrong with the food? That's 0:16:52.200 --> 0:16:55.920 wrong like a bunch of jerk chicken, and there wasn't 0:16:55.920 --> 0:16:58.840 a lot of flavor. It was bland to me. Got you, 0:16:59.440 --> 0:17:02.400 Adrian continues to giving the review years is that those 0:17:02.400 --> 0:17:05.879 places were beautiful. We enjoyed the white sand and clear water, 0:17:06.280 --> 0:17:10.680 a blue water. The water was beautiful. Nasa, though, was 0:17:10.880 --> 0:17:14.159 dirtier than I expect. And when my family and I 0:17:14.440 --> 0:17:18.359 were browsing around the shops, Adrian points out, I was 0:17:18.440 --> 0:17:22.320 offered the booker sugar three different times by some of 0:17:22.359 --> 0:17:26.040 the locals outside the shops, bunch of hookers and cocaine. 0:17:26.880 --> 0:17:31.240 I respectfully declined and continued shopping with the family. As 0:17:31.359 --> 0:17:34.200 soon as that plane landed and we got out to 0:17:34.280 --> 0:17:38.080 the driver, the driver offered us every drug you could imagine. 0:17:40.440 --> 0:17:44.200 It was like it was like a buffet for drugs. 0:17:44.960 --> 0:17:47.640 Um and then and then as they drive you through 0:17:47.720 --> 0:17:51.400 their ship towns, you're starting to get a guilt trip. 0:17:51.480 --> 0:17:55.080 You're feeling really bad, like, man, I am coming here 0:17:55.119 --> 0:17:59.880 as a spoiled as American to vacation in their water. Meanwhile, 0:18:00.000 --> 0:18:03.280 are driving buying realizing they don't have trash pickup in 0:18:03.359 --> 0:18:06.280 their towns. They's just trash all over the sides of 0:18:06.359 --> 0:18:12.200 the roads. Beautiful resort on the water and it's hidden 0:18:12.240 --> 0:18:15.520 away from the craft that's in town. Yeah, my brother 0:18:15.680 --> 0:18:18.639 went to Costa Rica and he had a similar experience 0:18:18.680 --> 0:18:20.520 to what you were talking about. Where they land You 0:18:20.640 --> 0:18:23.879 land at the airport. Airport's okay, they put you on 0:18:23.960 --> 0:18:27.680 a bus and you drive through poverty. Were the people 0:18:27.720 --> 0:18:31.320 that are serving you the all inclusive food and then 0:18:31.640 --> 0:18:33.920 and they they can't even afford to eat themselves, and 0:18:34.000 --> 0:18:36.440 then they drop you off at the resort and all 0:18:36.480 --> 0:18:38.879 that stuff. So yeah, yeah, and they have the resort. 0:18:38.960 --> 0:18:41.560 I got this weird vibe from the people working there, 0:18:41.640 --> 0:18:44.400 like where they did it with a smile in good 0:18:44.480 --> 0:18:47.800 customer service, but it was like fuck you spoiled American. 0:18:48.160 --> 0:18:53.119 That kind of vibe interesting, all right, Adrian says. Carnival 0:18:53.160 --> 0:18:55.600 Cruise Lines was celebrating his fiftieth birthday, so they had 0:18:55.600 --> 0:18:57.960 all kinds of deals and giveaways on board the Carnival 0:18:58.840 --> 0:19:02.520 The Dream. Our family had a great time at the 0:19:02.560 --> 0:19:05.800 water park on Boarday says, the three kids love the 0:19:05.920 --> 0:19:09.640 water slides. Absolutely gotta love the water slide on that now. Lastly, 0:19:10.000 --> 0:19:14.359 Adrian says, some sort of medical emergency happened to someone 0:19:14.520 --> 0:19:17.040 on board the ship while we were somewhere off the 0:19:17.160 --> 0:19:22.040 Florida coast. A US Coastguard helicopter was sent out to 0:19:22.160 --> 0:19:24.840 meet our ship and transport the sick person to a 0:19:24.880 --> 0:19:28.000 Florida hospital. It's pretty wild to have a chopper hovering 0:19:28.119 --> 0:19:30.600 directly over the ship. He took a photo of it. 0:19:30.720 --> 0:19:32.760 Here Danny Geese, I'm looking at the photo of it, 0:19:33.119 --> 0:19:36.680 he says, I'm thinking of throwing down some money. Also 0:19:36.840 --> 0:19:40.000 on the Dodgers, Ben and Danny Geese Dodgers here to 0:19:40.040 --> 0:19:45.120 win the Fall Classic. They looked tough through the first half. 0:19:45.200 --> 0:19:47.920 It does make me a little nervous that I liked 0:19:47.960 --> 0:19:50.360 him in that spot. Put a guarantee on it though, 0:19:51.359 --> 0:19:53.879 And he says training camp is almost here and are 0:19:53.920 --> 0:19:56.640 we here in the Rocky Mountains? Cannot wait to see 0:19:56.760 --> 0:20:04.520 Mr Unlimited and company cool. Thank you Adrian for the 0:20:04.840 --> 0:20:07.080 detailed travel log, and I love the fact that you 0:20:07.119 --> 0:20:09.960 wore the Ben Maller shirt uh in the in the 0:20:10.160 --> 0:20:13.560 some a couple of photos there, and you're your son, 0:20:13.720 --> 0:20:16.159 one of your kids there has the old Bronco logo, 0:20:16.720 --> 0:20:20.239 which I like. I like the old logo more than 0:20:20.280 --> 0:20:22.879 the new logo. So I enjoyed that hat that he 0:20:23.000 --> 0:20:27.800 had on. Next up, Yes, Next up we go to 0:20:28.240 --> 0:20:30.879 Kevin in Kansas. On the mailbag. He says, Dear Ben 0:20:30.960 --> 0:20:35.400 and Danny g Here in western Kansas, it's county fair time. 0:20:35.480 --> 0:20:37.920 It's a big deal in these parts. Is there anything 0:20:38.720 --> 0:20:41.639 like this and so cal if So? Did you ever participate? 0:20:41.720 --> 0:20:45.280 Maybe a favorite fair food? Well, yeah, Kevin, I talked 0:20:45.280 --> 0:20:47.560 about this a little bit in the Saturday podcast. But 0:20:47.640 --> 0:20:52.240 we have the San Diego Fair, San Diego County Fair, 0:20:52.280 --> 0:20:56.280 the Orange County Fair, the Los Angeles County Fair, which 0:20:56.320 --> 0:20:59.119 are pretty much all the same. Really, right, isn't the 0:20:59.200 --> 0:21:02.080 same group that just moved from city to city. You're 0:21:02.160 --> 0:21:06.040 right about that. San Diego just looks prettier. Yeah, yeah, 0:21:07.200 --> 0:21:09.720 it's beautiful there in San Diego. But yeah, we have 0:21:09.880 --> 0:21:13.879 this similar setup and the Carneys come to town. I 0:21:14.000 --> 0:21:16.920 was amazed. I was at the Orange County Fair last weekend. 0:21:17.280 --> 0:21:19.880 How how many people they have working they're considering it's 0:21:19.880 --> 0:21:22.480 so hard to get people to work like they must 0:21:22.480 --> 0:21:24.679 be paying them decent amounts of money because every one 0:21:24.720 --> 0:21:27.960 of those stands, and there were hundreds of them, serving food, 0:21:28.600 --> 0:21:31.040 every kind of food you could possibly want, and they 0:21:31.119 --> 0:21:34.639 had people working there doing their thing. People basically go 0:21:34.920 --> 0:21:38.480 to get fat. Yeah, and it's what kind of weird 0:21:38.640 --> 0:21:42.480 concoction there was this year? I saw a kool Aid 0:21:42.600 --> 0:21:47.439 chicken sandwich were they mixed kool aid like the powder 0:21:47.720 --> 0:21:50.840 on the on the you know, cool they can be. Yeah, 0:21:53.080 --> 0:21:55.280 who's saying they want that? By the way, Who's like, 0:21:55.359 --> 0:21:58.240 I need some cool aid with my fried chicken that'll 0:21:58.320 --> 0:22:01.240 complete me? I don't, but somebody came up with it. 0:22:01.600 --> 0:22:04.520 And yes, ken enjoy give us a report on the food. 0:22:04.560 --> 0:22:07.080 I want to know what it's like in your neck 0:22:07.160 --> 0:22:09.159 of the w I've heard amazing things about some of 0:22:09.200 --> 0:22:15.520 those Midwestern county fairs, like in Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin. Supposedly 0:22:15.520 --> 0:22:17.800 they're just amazing. I'm gonna go out on a limb 0:22:17.880 --> 0:22:19.920 here that you've never actually gone on any of the 0:22:20.080 --> 0:22:22.680 rides at the fair and what what what do you 0:22:22.960 --> 0:22:26.520 what are you referencing, Danny, I'm saying, I kind of 0:22:26.600 --> 0:22:28.919 feel like you went there at a graze on food 0:22:29.320 --> 0:22:31.800 and you just like thumbed your nose at the rides, 0:22:31.880 --> 0:22:35.680 like I'm not getting on these freaking makeshift rides. No, 0:22:35.840 --> 0:22:39.359 I do not get on rides at the fair. I occasionally, 0:22:39.520 --> 0:22:42.320 if I feel like being a sucker, I will play 0:22:42.440 --> 0:22:44.919 some of the Carney games that I know we're all rigged, 0:22:46.040 --> 0:22:49.200 you have no chance of winning, and so I will 0:22:49.240 --> 0:22:55.160 do that occasionally. But do you guys look at the exhibitions. Yeah, 0:22:55.240 --> 0:22:57.880 that's something I never did until recently, now that I'm 0:22:57.920 --> 0:22:59.879 getting older and now I'm like, oh, I'm interested in 0:23:00.640 --> 0:23:03.480 the card editing expo. Yeah, the guard. I can get 0:23:03.520 --> 0:23:06.520 a hot top. Wait a minute, everyone needs a hot top. 0:23:06.560 --> 0:23:10.840 Who doesn't need a hot top? Come on? Please? Yeah? 0:23:11.560 --> 0:23:18.400 Next up? John in Northern Colorado, that's right, he says. 0:23:18.440 --> 0:23:23.000 Would you consider writing an e bike? Yes? Absolutely, John, 0:23:23.080 --> 0:23:26.399 I've looked into getting any bike, but the premise I'm 0:23:26.440 --> 0:23:28.600 a big guy. The ones they sell that are pretty 0:23:28.680 --> 0:23:32.480 cheap at costco I would not fit on. And the 0:23:32.640 --> 0:23:36.760 ones that I would fit on that go pretty far 0:23:36.960 --> 0:23:39.920 and I would use a lot are too expensive, so 0:23:40.080 --> 0:23:42.240 I need the price to come down. But I would 0:23:42.280 --> 0:23:44.240 absolutely do that. Would you be an e bike guy, 0:23:44.480 --> 0:23:47.720 Danny G I actually have one, are you do? Look 0:23:47.720 --> 0:23:52.359 at you are any bike guy who knew? Yeah, I mean, unfortunately, 0:23:52.440 --> 0:23:55.840 where I moved to on the border of San Fernando 0:23:55.960 --> 0:23:59.880 Valley in Ventura County, there's a ton of hills. It's 0:24:00.000 --> 0:24:02.920 pedal assist, so it's not like it's just gonna take 0:24:02.960 --> 0:24:05.800 you up the hill by itself. So that's the problem 0:24:05.920 --> 0:24:08.879 right now is I need a flatter surface. So what 0:24:09.160 --> 0:24:11.280 the Tinderoni and I have been looking into is a 0:24:11.359 --> 0:24:14.840 bike rack for one of the vehicles we have. That 0:24:14.920 --> 0:24:17.800 would be good. Yeah, we need one. They're expensive, but 0:24:17.960 --> 0:24:20.800 it's worth it. Yeah, So the the e bike thing, 0:24:20.840 --> 0:24:23.400 I'd be all about it, and I would likely use 0:24:23.480 --> 0:24:27.480 it a lot. It's cheating, but it's fun. Why not 0:24:28.080 --> 0:24:31.800 the one I got. It's cheating, but it's not total cheating. 0:24:32.280 --> 0:24:35.240 You still gotta you still got a pedal well to 0:24:35.359 --> 0:24:39.400 get it going. There's somewhere they're almost like motorized mopeds 0:24:39.480 --> 0:24:43.159 or something like almost like fast mopeds. Yeah, yeah, like 0:24:43.240 --> 0:24:46.040 I'd be into that. I just like pretend people would like, oh, 0:24:46.080 --> 0:24:48.400 he's on a bike, but then they wouldn't really realize 0:24:48.440 --> 0:24:52.399 that he's not really on a bike, he's just driving. 0:24:52.480 --> 0:24:55.000 Like you might as well be on a moped or 0:24:55.040 --> 0:25:00.440 a motorcycle or whatever. Next up is a John John, 0:25:00.480 --> 0:25:04.119