WEBVTT - Weekend Wizard 0:00:00.960 --> 0:00:05.480 Boom. If you thought four hours a day, minutes a 0:00:05.480 --> 0:00:09.280 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 0:00:15.880 --> 0:00:19.880 pill poppers in the penthouse. The clearing House of Hot 0:00:19.920 --> 0:00:23.599 takes break free for something special. The Fifth Hour with 0:00:23.800 --> 0:00:32.320 Ben Maller starts right now in the air everywhere is 0:00:32.440 --> 0:00:38.040 a Saturday, Saturday Saturday. The content does not end. The 0:00:38.120 --> 0:00:43.800 Fifth Hour with Ben Maller and Danny G Radio to 0:00:44.040 --> 0:00:47.040 get you through the hell that the weekend could be now. 0:00:47.080 --> 0:00:49.239 Normally people look forward to the weekend, but sometimes you 0:00:49.280 --> 0:00:52.320 have nothing to do. But we are here to liven 0:00:52.400 --> 0:00:55.360 things up, Danny G. Even on a Saturday. How's your 0:00:55.360 --> 0:00:57.880 bracket looking? Is it already in the trash can? Well, 0:00:57.920 --> 0:01:00.240 they call me Benny Bracketts for a reason, day d G. 0:01:00.600 --> 0:01:03.000 As you can see on the company website, I was 0:01:03.000 --> 0:01:06.600 requested by management to fill out a bracket and I 0:01:06.640 --> 0:01:08.600 told them, I said, I'm gonna win that TV is 0:01:08.640 --> 0:01:14.480 what I'm gonna win. Now you're gonna give me that TV? Andinghuse, no, no, no, Yeah. 0:01:14.680 --> 0:01:18.759 Westinghouse is a big sponsor, which I think I read 0:01:18.800 --> 0:01:22.800 seventeen thousand times and all that stuff. But the the 0:01:22.920 --> 0:01:26.720 n C A a a tournament, a big, a big festivals 0:01:26.800 --> 0:01:30.560 year on this on this weekend, and that's what it's 0:01:30.560 --> 0:01:36.000 all about. I'm sure you know from Black Friday. Westinghouse 0:01:36.280 --> 0:01:40.680 is the TV that people line up for for blocks. Yeah, no, no, no, 0:01:40.760 --> 0:01:44.240 I you know there's there's a million different TV companies. 0:01:44.319 --> 0:01:47.039 Danny g and the Westinghouse an all time or a classic. 0:01:47.760 --> 0:01:51.480 It never goes out of style. I've got on this podcast. 0:01:51.560 --> 0:01:55.640 I've got my I've got Wizard, We've got that, We've 0:01:55.680 --> 0:02:01.040 got backscratcher, flipping the bird with a mask, a swing 0:02:01.200 --> 0:02:04.400 and a miss and ghosted. That's a lot of content. 0:02:05.160 --> 0:02:07.200 That's a that's a lot of content and a limited 0:02:07.240 --> 0:02:08.760 amount of time. So let's get right into what do 0:02:08.840 --> 0:02:12.560 you say here? You ready to go? Yeah? All right, 0:02:12.680 --> 0:02:16.359 this is siting. I'm very excited. So, as you referenced, 0:02:16.360 --> 0:02:19.560 and it is that time of the year again, as 0:02:19.639 --> 0:02:23.959 everyone in sports radio, we all undergo a metamorphosis and 0:02:24.120 --> 0:02:28.000 it's like transforming, like it's like a caterpillar becoming a butterfly. 0:02:28.919 --> 0:02:31.760 And we're all college basketball experts, all of a sudden 0:02:34.919 --> 0:02:37.760 Abrica dabra hocus pocus. College basketball does not get a 0:02:37.760 --> 0:02:40.840 lot of play on radio. It just doesn't. I was 0:02:40.880 --> 0:02:44.040 talking to a radio friend of mine back East, and 0:02:44.120 --> 0:02:48.160 he thinks that the the COVID shutdown of the n 0:02:48.160 --> 0:02:54.760 c A tournament in was the final blow the college basketball, 0:02:54.840 --> 0:03:00.240 completely knocking it out of the zeitgeist of people. Now 0:03:00.280 --> 0:03:02.280 I'm not there yet. I'm not quite there yet, and 0:03:02.280 --> 0:03:04.360 I get into the tournament. I have some reasons for that. 0:03:04.400 --> 0:03:06.240 They do call me, as I said, Benny Bracketts and 0:03:06.280 --> 0:03:10.680 all that, but we're all experts on college basketball. So 0:03:10.720 --> 0:03:12.920 I have been Danny over the last couple weeks, leaning 0:03:12.960 --> 0:03:17.160 into this weekend as we chopped the field down from 0:03:17.760 --> 0:03:22.120 sixty four and widow it away or actually sixty eight 0:03:22.160 --> 0:03:24.280 with the playing games back early in the week. But 0:03:25.240 --> 0:03:27.240 so I've been immersing myself in n c A hoops 0:03:27.280 --> 0:03:30.000 over the last couple of weeks. Actually, it is the 0:03:30.040 --> 0:03:33.919 most wondrous time of the year for office pools, for 0:03:33.919 --> 0:03:36.720 for gambling and all this stuff. With March madness. Now 0:03:37.720 --> 0:03:40.760 we have it on, you know at the Mallard Mansion, 0:03:41.640 --> 0:03:47.000 a NonStop. But for me, it's all about the Wizard Danny, 0:03:47.240 --> 0:03:53.240 it's all about the wizard, about the wizard, as in 0:03:53.320 --> 0:03:59.680 the Wizard of Westwood John R. Wooden legend. Well, the 0:04:00.320 --> 0:04:02.280 as you as you know, I'm an ambassador for the 0:04:02.360 --> 0:04:05.360 memory the legacy of John Wooden. You're saying, what is that, 0:04:05.400 --> 0:04:08.560 you gas bag? You blow hard? Let me explain. So 0:04:08.640 --> 0:04:12.880 this will be my twentieth year voting for the John R. 0:04:13.000 --> 0:04:16.680 Wooden Award, And uh, I've talked about it from times right, 0:04:16.720 --> 0:04:18.440 it is really cool. I like, I mean, we kid 0:04:18.480 --> 0:04:22.440 around about it. But I don't need the heisman. I 0:04:22.480 --> 0:04:25.559 don't need the the m v P, the cy Young, 0:04:26.600 --> 0:04:30.760 any of that stuff. I don't need because I have 0:04:30.880 --> 0:04:32.760 a vote. I have a there's a limited number of 0:04:32.839 --> 0:04:36.480 votes available, media votes, and I get to vote for 0:04:36.560 --> 0:04:39.600 the the awards a pound for pound, Danny, for my money, 0:04:40.240 --> 0:04:43.520 the Wooden Award is at the very top. It is 0:04:43.560 --> 0:04:46.599 for lem wrong. Now, how did you get this back 0:04:46.640 --> 0:04:51.080 in the day? Did you apply for it? Were they desperate? No? 0:04:51.279 --> 0:04:54.159 I got a great story. So there was a well 0:04:54.240 --> 0:04:58.040 known sportscaster in Los Angeles named Ed Arnold. Ed worked 0:04:58.040 --> 0:05:00.520 at Channel five in l A kt l A and 0:05:00.600 --> 0:05:02.920 I was friends with that Ed. It was very nice 0:05:02.920 --> 0:05:05.360 to me early on in my career when no one 0:05:05.400 --> 0:05:07.880 should have been nice to me, no one should have 0:05:07.880 --> 0:05:10.040 done anything cool to me, and but he was very 0:05:10.120 --> 0:05:11.760 kind to me, and he kind of you know, led me, 0:05:12.160 --> 0:05:14.440 you know, down the path to to have a career 0:05:14.520 --> 0:05:17.240 in radio. One of the people that was very positive 0:05:17.279 --> 0:05:19.440 to me. And I'm very grateful to Ed Arnold. And 0:05:19.640 --> 0:05:22.640 Ed was a long time TV sportscaster in l A. 0:05:23.600 --> 0:05:27.039 And he said, you know what, Ben came up to me. 0:05:27.080 --> 0:05:30.440 It was actually Dodger Stadium and and said, you know 0:05:30.440 --> 0:05:33.159 you've been you know, I forget exactly what he said. 0:05:33.160 --> 0:05:35.080 He was very kind, something along the line you know, 0:05:35.120 --> 0:05:37.560 I think you're gonna go places whether so he he 0:05:37.640 --> 0:05:40.440 wanted me to vote for the Wooden War and uh, 0:05:40.960 --> 0:05:43.480 this is you know, long, long, long ago, and I've 0:05:43.480 --> 0:05:44.960 been in the business for a while, so I wasn't 0:05:45.000 --> 0:05:48.160 like a young total young pup. But gave me the 0:05:48.360 --> 0:05:52.480 Wooden Award vote. And my first year voting was twenty 0:05:52.839 --> 0:05:57.919 two and Jay Williams, who's now on ESPN, but he 0:05:58.040 --> 0:06:02.039 was at Duke. He is the Wooden Award winner that year. 0:06:02.160 --> 0:06:04.480 And over the years, we've had legends like Kevin Durant 0:06:04.520 --> 0:06:07.680 won the Wooden Award. Andrew Boget was a number one 0:06:07.720 --> 0:06:10.479 pick for I think it was the Bucks, but he 0:06:10.520 --> 0:06:13.560 won the Wooden Ward JJ reddick uh. And then they're 0:06:13.600 --> 0:06:17.000 like college legends like Jimmer for Debt who I loved 0:06:16.800 --> 0:06:19.559 a b y u Jimber for Debt, but he didn't 0:06:19.560 --> 0:06:22.120 make it in the NBA. Zaion Williamson won it. He's 0:06:22.160 --> 0:06:24.280 a stiff in the NBA right now. But it's been 0:06:24.320 --> 0:06:26.000 a lot of fun. So it's been a lot of fun. 0:06:26.320 --> 0:06:29.400 And one player come to mind that you went against 0:06:29.440 --> 0:06:34.159 the grain, you voted for somebody that wasn't the popular choice. Well, 0:06:34.200 --> 0:06:36.400 I did vote, and he ended up winning the award. 0:06:36.440 --> 0:06:39.200 But at the time, Jamir Nelson, remember Jamir Nelson look 0:06:39.240 --> 0:06:41.880 guard out of I think Joe's I believe it was 0:06:41.920 --> 0:06:45.599 in Philly and he had a decent NBA career, but 0:06:45.680 --> 0:06:50.200 I've remember voting for him, and yeah, the Orlando Magic 0:06:50.240 --> 0:06:53.520 among other teams, a pretty good career. I'm guessing he's 0:06:53.560 --> 0:06:56.800 fully vested in the NBA pension. Yeah, they send out 0:06:56.880 --> 0:06:59.200 a watch list for the Wooden Award, and so once 0:06:59.240 --> 0:07:01.600 I get to watch list, that's that's who I look at. 0:07:01.680 --> 0:07:03.640 That's my guys. I try to watch as many of 0:07:03.720 --> 0:07:06.280 those games as I can. And uh and and I'm 0:07:06.320 --> 0:07:10.040 waiting actually might might have the ballot. It's an online vote, 0:07:10.400 --> 0:07:14.360 it's a secure online vote, like everything these days. And 0:07:14.480 --> 0:07:19.120 so I'm waiting until the eleventh hour to fill out 0:07:19.240 --> 0:07:22.440 the ballot. It's I'm waiting till this weekend's done, just 0:07:22.520 --> 0:07:24.560 so I get one last look at the top guys 0:07:24.920 --> 0:07:28.360 in the tournament. And uh, and then I'll finish up. 0:07:28.440 --> 0:07:31.200 And then right after the show Sunday and the Monday, 0:07:31.320 --> 0:07:34.520 so tomorrow night, after the show, so early Monday morning, 0:07:34.920 --> 0:07:38.720 just before the deadline when they locked the vote, I 0:07:38.720 --> 0:07:41.960 have set an alarm on my iPhone to make sure 0:07:42.000 --> 0:07:44.000 I don't screw this up, because I I got concerned 0:07:44.040 --> 0:07:47.200 the last year, Danny, I I I changed my email ID, 0:07:47.200 --> 0:07:48.920 just my email I just changed, and I was worried 0:07:48.960 --> 0:07:50.600 I was gonna get vote. Eddie reminded me, and so 0:07:50.680 --> 0:07:52.960 I was in a panic. I was in a tizzy. 0:07:53.200 --> 0:07:57.559 I'll play with Eddie. So yeah, yeah, you can't screw 0:07:57.640 --> 0:08:00.280 this stuff after twenty years. No, I gotta keep I 0:08:00.560 --> 0:08:04.160 gotta keep voting. And John wouldn't. He's famous, I would 0:08:04.200 --> 0:08:06.440 say the most famous quote wouldn't, of course, known as 0:08:06.560 --> 0:08:08.960 college basketball circles is the goat of all time and 0:08:08.960 --> 0:08:11.760 all that stuff. But the the one quote from what 0:08:11.920 --> 0:08:15.600 he had, the seven point Creed, which I'm sure you've 0:08:15.600 --> 0:08:17.320 heard Danny over. There's a seven point creed. But there's 0:08:17.360 --> 0:08:22.440 one line in that that has been repeated at nauseum. 0:08:22.480 --> 0:08:25.920 It's point number three in the seven point Creed. Now, 0:08:25.960 --> 0:08:28.320 point number one is be true to yourself. Point number 0:08:28.360 --> 0:08:32.120 two is help others. The third one is the money quote, 0:08:32.760 --> 0:08:37.080 and it's make each day your masterpiece. What do you 0:08:37.080 --> 0:08:40.960 want from me? It's a great quote that it's a 0:08:40.960 --> 0:08:43.200 wonderful line. Make every just if you just make every 0:08:43.280 --> 0:08:47.360 day your masterpiece, it's a life will live too bad. 0:08:47.360 --> 0:08:50.240 A lot of our days are like finger painting hundred 0:08:50.920 --> 0:08:54.960 hundred and and he had wouldn't spent a lot of 0:08:55.000 --> 0:08:59.400 time coming up with like sayings and things to put 0:08:59.440 --> 0:09:03.920 on lines. He had the Pyramid of Success, which is 0:09:03.960 --> 0:09:08.280 another thing he came up with, which is the behaviors 0:09:08.320 --> 0:09:10.600 to be a successful person in life and all that stuff, 0:09:10.640 --> 0:09:13.360 which I don't know how many of these do you 0:09:13.360 --> 0:09:15.840 think you actually connect on? Anyway, I'll give you the 0:09:15.840 --> 0:09:20.320 twenty five real quick, you got you got faith patients 0:09:20.960 --> 0:09:24.880 now went up to three billions. Fight slap me around 0:09:24.920 --> 0:09:34.240 a little bit. Competitive greatness, integrity, resourcefulness, poise, confidence, reliability, adaptability, 0:09:34.760 --> 0:09:39.520 condition skills. I'm gonna start the whack off right now. 0:09:40.280 --> 0:09:51.359 Team spirit, honesty, ambition, self control, alertness. I'm a huge initiative. 0:09:52.840 --> 0:09:58.479 What else you have? Sincerity, friendship, industrial nous, loyalty, cooperation, 0:09:58.559 --> 0:10:03.600 enthusiasm in tentness also on me on the list? Wow, 0:10:04.440 --> 0:10:06.679 just like the great Jerry West throwing his m v 0:10:06.760 --> 0:10:10.640 P trophy through the window on the new HBO Lakers drama. 0:10:11.120 --> 0:10:13.040 I haven't seen that. I've heard they made Jerry look 0:10:13.080 --> 0:10:17.480 like a douchebag. I have not seen that. He doesn't 0:10:17.840 --> 0:10:21.880 come off as the nicest guy, but definitely comes off 0:10:21.920 --> 0:10:26.200 as a basketball savant. Yeah, yeah, I have not. I 0:10:26.200 --> 0:10:29.280 have not checked that out. I I don't know is 0:10:29.320 --> 0:10:31.760 it worth I'm not a Laker guy, so I don't know. 0:10:32.000 --> 0:10:34.160 But I think I think you would like it, regardless 0:10:34.200 --> 0:10:37.840 of if you're a Laker guy or not. You know. Also, 0:10:37.840 --> 0:10:39.800 I wanted to mention before I forget that we had 0:10:39.800 --> 0:10:41.880 a passing this week of someone that I knew and 0:10:41.960 --> 0:10:43.400 I didn't get to it. On the radio. She also 0:10:43.480 --> 0:10:46.040 pat chop by me. Uh, you probably know who this 0:10:46.080 --> 0:10:51.200 guy is, Danny g from your Laker fandom. Alan Massingille, 0:10:51.600 --> 0:10:54.800 the Great Alan Massonille passed away. He had been very sick. 0:10:55.360 --> 0:10:59.080 He had colon cancer for years. And Alan, uh, someone 0:10:59.120 --> 0:11:01.959 that you again we crossed pass back when he was 0:11:02.000 --> 0:11:04.120 doing he was doing the Lakers stuff on k CAL 0:11:05.280 --> 0:11:08.240 l A him and I think it was James Worthy 0:11:08.320 --> 0:11:11.200 would be on after after Laker games. But Alan very 0:11:11.240 --> 0:11:13.360 good guy. He was one of the originals at ESPN 0:11:14.960 --> 0:11:18.000 And the thing I loved about Alan Massingale was he 0:11:18.040 --> 0:11:20.360 was always kind of down to earth and he could 0:11:20.400 --> 0:11:22.160 have been a total dick because a lot of people 0:11:22.200 --> 0:11:24.720 I've known that worked at ESPN back in the heyday, 0:11:25.200 --> 0:11:26.760 and he worked kind of work. He worked there before 0:11:26.800 --> 0:11:29.760 that it really became the monster that it eventually became 0:11:29.760 --> 0:11:32.120 announced quite as not as big a monster as it was, 0:11:32.160 --> 0:11:33.840 but but he worked there and he was always in 0:11:33.840 --> 0:11:37.880 the early days and very very cool guy from Florida, 0:11:37.920 --> 0:11:41.560 from the South, I believe from Florida. Uh. And he 0:11:41.600 --> 0:11:43.600 had been sick. I guess he fell and then he 0:11:43.679 --> 0:11:46.319 ended up passing away as a result of the fall 0:11:46.360 --> 0:11:48.400 because he had made in poor health for a long time, 0:11:48.440 --> 0:11:51.719 but rest in peace. Alan Massingale uh a long time 0:11:51.880 --> 0:11:54.960 l a sportscaster, but a guy that that worked at 0:11:55.120 --> 0:11:58.520 ESPN in the early days and did some Laker broadcasting 0:11:58.559 --> 0:12:03.960 stuff post games. So rest rest of me. Way too young, 0:12:04.360 --> 0:12:06.360 I mean, you know, it's never a right time to die, 0:12:06.400 --> 0:12:08.160 but he was. I think he was sixty three years always, 0:12:08.160 --> 0:12:10.200 even younger than my mom. My mom died she was 0:12:10.240 --> 0:12:15.760 sixty six. So yeah, I was sad to see that report. Yeah, 0:12:15.800 --> 0:12:17.800 all right, we have the we went from the wizard 0:12:17.840 --> 0:12:20.320 to the backscratcher. We gotta do it again. That last 0:12:20.320 --> 0:12:22.800 week we lamented the fact, Danny, that that no one, 0:12:23.720 --> 0:12:26.360 no one really gave us any love on the reviews. Remember, 0:12:26.360 --> 0:12:28.280 we were like, wait a minute, what happened? You know, 0:12:28.320 --> 0:12:33.680 we got crickets, that's all we got. And I was 0:12:33.679 --> 0:12:40.160 depressing and all that stuff, you know, very sad. The 0:12:40.200 --> 0:12:43.360 good news is we got a bunch a six pack 0:12:44.800 --> 0:12:47.439 this week. These are actuals. And the deal is, Danny, 0:12:47.440 --> 0:12:50.040 if people send a review in on the Apple podcast page, 0:12:50.400 --> 0:12:53.480 we will read the review. That's what we agreed to, right, 0:12:54.080 --> 0:12:58.360 let's fucking go. All right, that's Finn so Mario is 0:12:58.480 --> 0:13:02.480 God sent in Mallard, the Mench and Danny G Radio 0:13:03.120 --> 0:13:08.760 updated and repackaged. Golden Ticket awarded. Review would have given 0:13:08.800 --> 0:13:12.080 more than five stars if possible. If you're a fan 0:13:12.200 --> 0:13:14.640 of the Ben Maller Show on Fox Sports Radio Weekdays 0:13:14.640 --> 0:13:17.040 two and the six, or even if you're not, you 0:13:17.080 --> 0:13:21.720 will find these podcasts thoroughly energy. 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Subscribe and download this podcast as well 0:14:03.520 --> 0:14:07.720 as past episodes. That is from Mario is God. Thank 0:14:07.760 --> 0:14:14.040 you for that. Five stars from Mario who very kind 0:14:14.480 --> 0:14:18.280 here's one from Logan in Memphis, Tennessee. He says, Uh, 0:14:18.320 --> 0:14:21.600 Dear Ken Miller, I like that, love the show. I 0:14:21.640 --> 0:14:25.080 am so glad, Logan writes. Danny g is back and 0:14:25.200 --> 0:14:27.800 better than ever. I listened to the radio show in 0:14:27.920 --> 0:14:30.760 podcast form every day I worked during the day. Also 0:14:30.840 --> 0:14:34.160 download the podcast on two different devices to help boost 0:14:34.160 --> 0:14:36.880 the numbers. Thank you, God, bless you. Marzeltope your mention. 0:14:37.560 --> 0:14:41.640 Keep up the great work. That's from Logan in Memphis. 0:14:41.760 --> 0:14:45.160 So that was very kind of wow. Really in a 0:14:45.240 --> 0:14:48.480 row there. Yeah, two goodes God. Craigxter Uh he wrote 0:14:48.520 --> 0:14:51.680 in you says, great work. You and Danny put on 0:14:51.720 --> 0:15:00.160 a great show. Massage story was hilarious, Dan, hilarious. I 0:15:00.200 --> 0:15:04.680 gotta just go to shady massage parlors every single week. 0:15:04.880 --> 0:15:08.280 So what all about? Just have a random women sitting 0:15:08.400 --> 0:15:14.440 on your Tenderoni's backside, show researches doing the dr evil 0:15:14.600 --> 0:15:19.560 fingers right now, show research on the tushy. I want 0:15:19.600 --> 0:15:23.800 a camel. Yes, James the pool Guy writes, and jameson 0:15:23.880 --> 0:15:26.080 with the show for a long time. We go way back. 0:15:26.320 --> 0:15:29.000 He says, I must listen podcast just when I think 0:15:29.040 --> 0:15:32.280 Ben Mallar and Danny G can't do any better. They 0:15:32.320 --> 0:15:35.840 open up a fresh can fresh cans of honest, hard 0:15:35.880 --> 0:15:39.680 hitting takes on sports and everyday line. The shows get 0:15:39.760 --> 0:15:41.960 better every week. Been listening to bench radio show for 0:15:42.000 --> 0:15:46.360 almost ten years. That's a round number two radio legends. 0:15:46.440 --> 0:15:49.080 That's from James the Pool Guy. Two guys is enough 0:15:49.120 --> 0:15:54.680 for me. Very nice. Couple more here. This is from Well, 0:15:54.680 --> 0:15:57.480 there's not really a name on this. One says Lou 0:15:58.040 --> 0:16:00.880 o X and then a bunch of other random letters. 0:16:01.040 --> 0:16:02.880 So we'll just call this person lou but I don't 0:16:02.880 --> 0:16:04.440 even know if that's their name. They didn't sign their name, 0:16:04.480 --> 0:16:07.400 which is fine. Thanks a lot for the lack of sleep. 0:16:08.040 --> 0:16:11.360 The review five stars. I received the link you sent me. 0:16:11.840 --> 0:16:13.640 I have been listing for a couple of years. Oh 0:16:13.640 --> 0:16:15.720 this must be the Donut Gat I've been listening for 0:16:15.760 --> 0:16:18.480 a couple of years now. The monologues are normally spot on. 0:16:18.680 --> 0:16:21.520 Your cynical mind is one of a current I listen 0:16:21.600 --> 0:16:25.200 every night or listen to download shows until you are live. 0:16:25.440 --> 0:16:28.160 Keep it up. The fifth Hour has been better with 0:16:28.360 --> 0:16:30.920 Danny G. The staff is awesome. The Milicia is something else. 0:16:31.480 --> 0:16:35.120 Thanks for keeping me tired all day. That's from I 0:16:35.160 --> 0:16:37.240 believe that's from That means not no, that's from Lou. 0:16:37.320 --> 0:16:40.000 The other ones from Benmin. But thank you Lou or 0:16:40.080 --> 0:16:44.240 whatever your actual real name is. We appreciate that. What 0:16:44.400 --> 0:16:51.400 a guy. Thank you. Last one from let's see here 0:16:51.600 --> 0:16:55.560 from Rami. I believe it's from Rami. My eyes are 0:16:55.560 --> 0:16:58.520 deceiving me here. It's just just the beginning, he says. Man, 0:16:58.640 --> 0:17:02.080 twelve hour shifts would be immensely tough tackle without you 0:17:02.200 --> 0:17:06.479 been truly I noticed myself blast through the Ben Mallard 0:17:06.480 --> 0:17:09.920 podcast by noon, I can already be done with all 0:17:10.000 --> 0:17:13.280 four hours. Most days, at least Fridays and Mondays are 0:17:13.280 --> 0:17:17.480 now filled with a little extra juice, no juice to 0:17:17.560 --> 0:17:20.119 help make it through the day. The banter is so 0:17:20.400 --> 0:17:24.800 enjoyable no matter who's on set with Ben, all because, 0:17:25.640 --> 0:17:28.720 like he says, he's not some regular sports gas beggar 0:17:28.760 --> 0:17:31.320 blow hard. Ben's genuine blah blah blah blah blah. Very 0:17:31.400 --> 0:17:36.120 nice there, even if that means he admits liking the Clippers. Wow, yeah, 0:17:36.160 --> 0:17:39.600 he says. Hashtag what's still wrong with the Clippers? What 0:17:39.840 --> 0:17:43.840 is still wrong? What the Clippers not? Dare you the 0:17:44.080 --> 0:17:48.040 best drops ever? That was from David in Boston. Was 0:17:48.080 --> 0:17:52.359 that a total of six? Thank you? Uh yeah, I 0:17:52.359 --> 0:17:54.399 think we're I think that's all six. I men, Mario, 0:17:54.520 --> 0:17:57.760 we had Craig James, the pool guy, this guy Lou 0:17:57.840 --> 0:18:04.359 and then vinman or rom Rommy. I think that's all. Yeah, 0:18:04.480 --> 0:18:07.960 I mean the dear Ken Miller. One logan that was logan. 0:18:08.040 --> 0:18:12.080 So that was logan our gout logan in Memphis, Tennessee, 0:18:12.080 --> 0:18:15.639 one of the great barbecue cities in in America. So 0:18:15.720 --> 0:18:19.040 I'm told, so flipping the bird with a mask? What 0:18:19.200 --> 0:18:20.840 is this about, Danny g What are we what are 0:18:20.880 --> 0:18:24.160 we dealing with this one? Well, and yesterday's podcast, I 0:18:24.200 --> 0:18:26.520 was talking a little bit about how Monday was the 0:18:26.520 --> 0:18:31.640 first day that California schools we're no longer requiring you 0:18:32.359 --> 0:18:35.320 who worked there at the school or students to have 0:18:35.440 --> 0:18:38.439 to wear a mask. It was optional. In fact, we 0:18:38.480 --> 0:18:42.240 went around the campus and hung up these flyers that 0:18:42.320 --> 0:18:44.440 showed a picture of a girl with her thumb up 0:18:44.960 --> 0:18:48.280 a box that was checked, saying I am comfortable without 0:18:48.320 --> 0:18:52.120 a mask. And then and then another picture I've heard 0:18:52.119 --> 0:18:55.119 with the other thumb up saying I am comfortable with 0:18:55.200 --> 0:18:59.480 my mask. All the cheesiness that you would expect from 0:18:59.520 --> 0:19:02.679 the school districts here in California. Of course this is 0:19:02.680 --> 0:19:06.080 a big deal. We're they're still trying to encourage the kids, 0:19:06.080 --> 0:19:08.480 like overwhelming the you should keep wearing the mask and 0:19:08.520 --> 0:19:11.199 all that. Don't don't stop. They still you don't know, 0:19:12.320 --> 0:19:15.040 at least the school that I work for. I gotta 0:19:15.080 --> 0:19:18.560 give them props because they didn't say anything to the 0:19:18.560 --> 0:19:21.679 staff like that. They didn't say anything to the students. 0:19:22.080 --> 0:19:25.080 They only hung those those flyers up. So I was like, 0:19:25.119 --> 0:19:27.600 all right, cool, I mean, it's up to us what 0:19:27.680 --> 0:19:30.439 we want to do. In my mind, I'm thinking the 0:19:30.520 --> 0:19:34.560 parents are gonna show up on Monday morning drop off 0:19:34.560 --> 0:19:38.440 the kids. They are gonna run in, screaming with their 0:19:38.480 --> 0:19:42.960 friends with no masks on Sure, my morning shift, I'm 0:19:42.960 --> 0:19:45.600 out there in front of the school. Some of my 0:19:45.680 --> 0:19:51.320 responsibilities are with the gate. You're like, you're shepherding them in. Yes, yes, 0:19:51.480 --> 0:19:55.200 I I'm the muscle right outside the main gates. You're 0:19:55.240 --> 0:19:59.359 the ranch hero leading down. Yes. So I got my 0:19:59.440 --> 0:20:03.800 walkie to hockey that looked very official. Parents are pulling up, 0:20:04.200 --> 0:20:08.439 but I noticed something ben that caught me off guard. Okay, 0:20:08.840 --> 0:20:15.320 there were parents inside their cars wearing masks. I'm talking 0:20:15.480 --> 0:20:18.439 both parents with a mask on, two kids in the 0:20:18.480 --> 0:20:22.480 back seat, both wearing masks, and then the parents pushed 0:20:22.480 --> 0:20:25.040 the kids out of the car. And what I heard 0:20:25.080 --> 0:20:27.760 the parents say was, and do not take it off 0:20:27.800 --> 0:20:34.040 the entire day. No, really, boom, you can light me 0:20:34.119 --> 0:20:37.400 on fire. And they're looking right at me too, like 0:20:37.960 --> 0:20:42.640 you scumbag without a mask. I see you. So it 0:20:42.680 --> 0:20:47.080 felt like not so subtle way of flipping me off 0:20:47.200 --> 0:20:50.920 with their masks on while all of you are getting sick. 0:20:51.040 --> 0:20:54.760 Now because some of the masks are off, we're gonna 0:20:54.800 --> 0:20:59.040 double up our masks and wear them inside. Bull crap 0:21:00.080 --> 0:21:02.520 corrept Oh man. I saw at least six or seven 0:21:02.560 --> 0:21:06.440 cars Monday morning where that was their vibe. That's what 0:21:06.520 --> 0:21:09.120 was going on. And these are the same cars I've 0:21:09.119 --> 0:21:12.920 seen before where they don't have masks on normally inside 0:21:12.920 --> 0:21:15.960 the car. Yeah, you have to have a very low 0:21:16.000 --> 0:21:18.640 i Q to be driving with your family or by 0:21:18.680 --> 0:21:21.280 yourself and wearing a mask in your car. No, I 0:21:21.320 --> 0:21:24.200 agree with you. But the problem is, first of all, 0:21:24.320 --> 0:21:27.399 I'm not surprised by this. Secondly, it's you know bad 0:21:27.520 --> 0:21:30.320 you know, bad habits die hard, or I'd say that 0:21:30.880 --> 0:21:33.040 that's the issue here. See the problem is people have 0:21:33.240 --> 0:21:36.000 we're all creatures a habit and I see the same thing. 0:21:36.200 --> 0:21:38.320 I'm driving around. You're not driving around where I'm where 0:21:38.320 --> 0:21:42.280 I'm living out and I'll see people walking by themselves 0:21:42.440 --> 0:21:46.199 on a beautiful day in California and they've got the 0:21:46.320 --> 0:21:48.320 mask all, you know, covering their face. I'm like, what 0:21:48.320 --> 0:21:52.560 are you doing? You know? But they estimate I remember 0:21:52.560 --> 0:21:54.240 this years ago because I was trying to lose weight. 0:21:54.280 --> 0:21:56.080 I could never lose weight. I was like, what the hell? 0:21:56.119 --> 0:21:59.159 And because you gotta change your habits. But the problem is, 0:21:59.200 --> 0:22:02.040 once people change happens, it takes like over two months. 0:22:02.080 --> 0:22:04.959 They asked him, a scientists it is study years ago. 0:22:05.080 --> 0:22:10.119 Maybe it's changed, but human behavior, something becomes automatic in 0:22:10.280 --> 0:22:14.280 sixties six days. They say, that's exactly. That's a sweet 0:22:14.320 --> 0:22:17.040 spot for on average sixty six days. If you want 0:22:17.080 --> 0:22:18.639 to change something, you have to do it for sixty 0:22:18.680 --> 0:22:21.520 six days, and then at that point it just becomes 0:22:21.560 --> 0:22:24.680 part of you. And we are two years into this, 0:22:24.760 --> 0:22:27.560 Danny almost I think we're over the two year mark 0:22:27.640 --> 0:22:29.720 for the mask thing. Maybe not, but we're close to it. 0:22:30.280 --> 0:22:33.960 Two years into the mass thing, people have been now hardwired. 0:22:34.160 --> 0:22:38.160 It's like Pavlov's dogs to wear the mask, so now 0:22:38.200 --> 0:22:40.600 they have to be hardwired the other way. And I 0:22:40.640 --> 0:22:42.160 was telling I was telling a buddy of mine when 0:22:42.160 --> 0:22:43.679 I when I was growing up. But I think I've 0:22:43.720 --> 0:22:46.920 told this story before on the podcast. But when I 0:22:47.000 --> 0:22:50.120 when I was getting my mom, God rest her soul, 0:22:50.480 --> 0:22:55.320 she she hoarded like everything because she grew up in 0:22:55.359 --> 0:22:59.479 a household that her parents went through the depression, and 0:22:59.520 --> 0:23:01.560 so for you know, I had to have you know, 0:23:02.280 --> 0:23:04.280 when you had the opportunity to buy a million rolls 0:23:04.280 --> 0:23:07.639 at tolet paper or saran wrap or illuminum for she 0:23:07.680 --> 0:23:10.800 would load up for like the nuclear winter, and that 0:23:10.920 --> 0:23:13.040 was the rest of her entire life. She did that 0:23:13.400 --> 0:23:15.520 because of the trauma as a kid. And so I 0:23:15.560 --> 0:23:17.640 think we're gonna have the same bull crap these poor 0:23:18.160 --> 0:23:21.080 kids of today. You know, we'll be gone, Danny, but 0:23:21.119 --> 0:23:22.959 these kids are still gonna be wearing masks when they 0:23:23.000 --> 0:23:25.960