Speaker 1: Kabooms.
Speaker 2: If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes
Speaker 2: a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants
Speaker 2: of the old Republic, a soul fashion of fairness. He
Speaker 2: treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the
Speaker 2: rich pill poppers in the penthouse.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 2: The Clearinghouse of Hot takes break free for something special.
Speaker 2: The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now.
Speaker 4: In the a Every week, The Fifth Hour with Ben
Speaker 4: Malor and Danny g Radio back in the Audio Dojo,
Speaker 4: and we thank you for hanging out.
Speaker 1: Hopefully you heard the Friday podcast.
Speaker 3: Danny a rare and appropriate listener hanging out with us
Speaker 3: on the Fifth Hour. But I thought it was appropriate
Speaker 3: because many people have been emailing me Danny about the
Speaker 3: Mallard meet and greet, which is coming up in a
Speaker 3: couple of week weeks from today, actually two weeks from today.
Speaker 3: I can't believe it's gonna be that quick will be
Speaker 3: in Minnesota, and so I want to let everyone know
Speaker 3: because people are like flying in. And so I thought Regina,
Speaker 3: she's been putting all this together, so I thought it would.
Speaker 1: Be perfect to have her on.
Speaker 3: And some surprising things as well in there that I
Speaker 3: did not know about that Regina revealed so all that
Speaker 3: on the Friday podcast.
Speaker 1: But we are on Upwarded now.
Speaker 5: About the drugs that she brought to the last one.
Speaker 3: I don't know what you're talking about, Danny Jena podcast.
Speaker 3: I didn't mention though on that podcast. I did mention
Speaker 3: that there are wild after parties that are that that
Speaker 3: take place at the mal or meet and greet. Now
Speaker 3: I am not part of the meet and greet parties.
Speaker 3: I'm part of the main event, but I'm not part
Speaker 3: of the postgame show. So and I'm also not responsible
Speaker 3: anything that these knuckles do.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 5: R Kelly famously said after the party, there's the after party.
Speaker 5: After the after party, there's the hotel lobby. You're not
Speaker 5: a part of any of that, right, No.
Speaker 3: No, I make my appearance, I shake hands, kiss babies,
Speaker 3: take a few photos, and then.
Speaker 1: I am out.
Speaker 3: I am gone, gone, gone, gone, gone, gone, see you later,
Speaker 3: and that that is all.
Speaker 6: But I am.
Speaker 3: I'm tremendously excited, So I'm looking forward to It's gonna
Speaker 3: be a lot of fun.
Speaker 6: And there have been.
Speaker 3: People that have rsvped from near and far, and it's great.
Speaker 3: We don't get to do these very often, and for
Speaker 3: a couple of years during COVID couldn't do any of
Speaker 3: these things. So it's always nice. And people have been
Speaker 3: asking about other Malord meet and greets. There is nothing
Speaker 3: scheduled at this point. We've talked about doing a few
Speaker 3: things in different locations, but nothing is on the calendar
Speaker 3: at this point. But on this podcast, there is stuff
Speaker 3: on the agenda, if you will. We've got the Tree Hugger, Playtime,
Speaker 3: Tough Breaks, pop Owes, the Culture Backscratcher, and whatever else
Speaker 3: pops up on the agenda.
Speaker 1: But we'll start with this. So my birthday was last.
Speaker 3: Weekend and we had the podcast per normal. If you
Speaker 3: follow me on Instagram or on Facebook, you saw a video,
Speaker 3: you saw some photographs.
Speaker 1: So I made.
Speaker 3: A little bit of a day trip slash kind of
Speaker 3: like weekend getaway. One night, two days, mostly one day,
Speaker 3: and I spent my birthday one of my favorite places
Speaker 3: to hang out. I became Benny the tree Hugger at
Speaker 3: Sequoia National Park and Kings Canyon, which people not as
Speaker 3: famous Kings Canyon, but it's I don't know why they
Speaker 3: did that.
Speaker 1: It's connected.
Speaker 3: Sequoia is on one side and King's Canyon is on.
Speaker 1: The other side.
Speaker 3: But it's America's second oldest national park. Spent a night
Speaker 3: in beautiful Visalia. Yeah, I spent a night in Visalia
Speaker 3: and my wife booked a room there at a hotel
Speaker 3: which is looks really old but it's actually new called
Speaker 3: the Darling. It's this old building in Vicealia.
Speaker 1: I don't even know. It might have been a bank.
Speaker 3: Or something like that, but they turned it into a hotel.
Speaker 3: It's really good. It's actually an if you end up
Speaker 3: visiting Sequoia National Park, I do recommend it because they
Speaker 3: have high ceilings, pretty.
Speaker 1: Good shower, good shower pressure. You get a hotel.
Speaker 3: Usually the hotels like yeah, it's like it's spitting at
Speaker 3: you and when you're in the shower it's a terrible.
Speaker 5: That high water pressure is one of the perks of
Speaker 5: staying at a hotel, right, you take an extra long
Speaker 5: shower because it's their water bill, and that pressure is
Speaker 5: always better than it is at home.
Speaker 3: Well, I'm saying some of the hotels I stayed at
Speaker 3: that has not been the.
Speaker 6: Case, like you stay at cheap hotels.
Speaker 3: Well, No, that's what I said, because I want with
Speaker 3: the wife booked it, so it's like an extra hotel
Speaker 3: and all that stuff. But so I was getting some
Speaker 3: email from people that I posted a bunch of photos
Speaker 3: and people were.
Speaker 7: Like, oh, you know that's where you went on your birthday.
Speaker 7: You could have gone anywhere you went. I was like, no,
Speaker 7: that's where I want to go. I like, that's my
Speaker 7: my jam and I don't go there, like I said,
Speaker 7: very often. But being around the two thousand year old
Speaker 7: giant Sequoia.
Speaker 3: Trees is just it's awesome. I mean, I was reading
Speaker 3: some stuff about these trees. They said these trees can
Speaker 3: live up to like over three thousand years and it's
Speaker 3: one of the ten oldest species on the entire planet.
Speaker 1: And it's just wild.
Speaker 3: Standing and I feel it's just so small standing around
Speaker 3: these giant redwoods in the middle.
Speaker 1: Of the forest.
Speaker 3: And as an added bonus, and I did not anticipate this.
Speaker 3: In California in late April, playing in the snow, we
Speaker 3: had a snowball fight, me and the wife at Sequoia
Speaker 3: National Forest. And the crazy thing about this, Danny is
Speaker 3: that it's snow everywhere all over the forest because it's
Speaker 3: in high altitudes.
Speaker 1: But the temperature when we entered.
Speaker 3: Sequoia National Park was like seventy degrees, so there's snow everywhere.
Speaker 1: It's seventy degrees.
Speaker 3: And then as we were going up elevation and going
Speaker 3: up and down the roads in Sequoia and Kings Canyon,
Speaker 3: it got all the way down to forty five degrees.
Speaker 3: So it went from seventy to forty five. Now in Visalia,
Speaker 3: which is down the mountain from the National Park, it
Speaker 3: was ninety degrees in Vicelia, so we had the full
Speaker 3: range of temperatures and it's you know, it was a
Speaker 3: fun time. We spent a good amount of time out
Speaker 3: in the forest, driving around. We had a little lunch,
Speaker 3: picked up some sandwiches and sat out by Hume Lake,
Speaker 3: which I'm sure you've been at and been in that area,
Speaker 3: and also this beautiful lake in Sequoia, and it was cool.
Speaker 1: It was a good time. We had fun.
Speaker 3: I loved some of the science. They had one sign
Speaker 3: it said, like in the eighteen hundreds when people first
Speaker 3: kind of discovered modern Americans discovered the park, the trees
Speaker 3: and all that stuff. So they what they did is
Speaker 3: they cut a couple of Sequoias down because they wanted
Speaker 3: to show people on the East coast. There was no internet. Obviously,
Speaker 3: there was no way to show them, no television. So
Speaker 3: they cut some of these sequoia trees down, and they
Speaker 3: had to cut them into pieces and put them on
Speaker 3: trains and take them across. I think there was some
Speaker 3: fair I read in Philadelphia in the eighteen hundreds. So
Speaker 3: they took these giant sequoia tries. They had to then
Speaker 3: reassemble them in Philadelphia.
Speaker 6: I believe it was.
Speaker 3: So then, what do you think the reaction was of
Speaker 3: the hardy East Coasters? What do you think the reaction
Speaker 3: was of the people in Philadelphia.
Speaker 6: Probably what you would expect from Philly folks.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the people in Philly said, this is bullshit. Your
Speaker 3: people in California are a con artist. You're making this up.
Speaker 3: These are not real. You're losers, And that was the attitude.
Speaker 1: They didn't think they were legit.
Speaker 3: They didn't think a tree could grow that big, and
Speaker 3: so their immediate reaction was, fuck you, you don't know
Speaker 3: what you're talking about.
Speaker 1: Do I have to apologize?
Speaker 3: By the way, anytime I curse, I might have to
Speaker 3: apologize to our friend in Arkansas gets all upset. But anyway,
Speaker 3: that was the general reaction. I didn't see any deer
Speaker 3: this time. Usually I see a lot of deer. I
Speaker 3: didn't see any bears, a bunch of weird birds. There's
Speaker 3: all kinds of different species in Sequoia National Park, including
Speaker 3: some that will kill you, like the aforementioned bear and
Speaker 3: mountain lions and whatnot. But I had a fine, fine time,
Speaker 3: and there was tons of snow, and as of a
Speaker 3: couple of days ago, there was still a chance of
Speaker 3: some more snow. So here we are into May today,
Speaker 3: May six today, so we're gonna get more snow. I
Speaker 3: mean the snowill still be up there into mid May.
Speaker 3: That's wild.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 5: May sixth today, and it rained just two days ago
Speaker 5: in southern California.
Speaker 1: Yeah, what's up with that? I thought we were done
Speaker 1: with the rain.
Speaker 3: I thought we'd moved on now from El Nino El Nio,
Speaker 3: But no, apparently not. Apparently we still have that. So
Speaker 3: thanks to everyone sent the birthday messages and all that.
Speaker 3: I appreciate it. And so I've checked the Sequoia National
Speaker 3: Park box off for another year, and just a wonderful,
Speaker 3: wonderful place, highly recommended if you've never been to the
Speaker 3: Giant forest. We actually didn't even get to the Giant
Speaker 3: Forest because the road had been knocked out, so we
Speaker 3: had to go through the King's Canyon entrance and there
Speaker 3: are a bunch of giants equoitris. But the act there's
Speaker 3: actually a forest which is called the Giant Forest. We
Speaker 3: didn't get to that this time because it was inaccessible
Speaker 3: to human beings in cars, and so we went to
Speaker 3: some of the other giant giant trees around there.
Speaker 1: So that was our fun.
Speaker 3: That was my playtime, but it was not everyone's playtime,
Speaker 3: Danny g It was not everyone's playtime.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Ben, this will be quick, but it's interactive, so
Speaker 5: it should be fun to see what you think. And
Speaker 5: the fifth hour podcast listeners recommend because it is the
Speaker 5: last three weeks of school for the school district that
Speaker 5: I help out in the morning time. All right, now,
Speaker 5: this is the time of the year obviously, where the
Speaker 5: teachers give their last exams, their last bit of homework.
Speaker 5: The kids are starting to run wild, few of them
Speaker 5: in my classroom in the morning do that every day.
Speaker 6: But as a whole, the kids are excited for pizza parties.
Speaker 5: And you remember that, Ben, that was one of the
Speaker 5: best times of the school year obviously, because.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, my favorite memories of elementary school because I
Speaker 3: was the fat kid that got picked up.
Speaker 1: But what I loved was the end of the year.
Speaker 3: The pizza thing. The movies in pizza has loved the teachers.
Speaker 3: Student Like, we played kickball when I was.
Speaker 1: In elementary school. I loved, Oh that was so much fun.
Speaker 6: Yeah, students versus the teacher.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, you hit the nail on the head right
Speaker 5: there when you said pizza and movies. I get to
Speaker 5: make an executive decision right now on what movies to
Speaker 5: play for the kids the final week of the school year.
Speaker 5: So I have two weeks right now to turn in
Speaker 5: my movie choices because it is twenty twenty three. So
Speaker 5: the program in the morning from the school district has
Speaker 5: to get the parents' approval on these PG rated movies.
Speaker 1: Oh so it's only PG.
Speaker 6: Only PG, so keep that in mind.
Speaker 5: Okay, this is where I get to like share some
Speaker 5: of the best movies ever made with these little monsters
Speaker 5: that might not ever get to experience, you know, back
Speaker 5: to the future.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, I assume I think most kids have seen Ghostbusters.
Speaker 1: I think that was a PG movie, right, that's a classic.
Speaker 6: But which Ghostbusters did they see? Though? I can't play
Speaker 6: the original? Why not?
Speaker 1: That's the that's a PG. I think that's a PG movie.
Speaker 6: You know what it might have been.
Speaker 5: But I remember my mom and aunt being really embarrassed
Speaker 5: during certain parts of that movie.
Speaker 1: What what what were they doing?
Speaker 6: It was like the sex scenes with It's a Gourney Weaver.
Speaker 3: Remember, Yeah, she had like an orgasm type of thing
Speaker 3: like that.
Speaker 5: But when she got taken over by the spirits?
Speaker 1: Yeah, what about et?
Speaker 6: Is that et? It might be a good one. That
Speaker 6: might be a good one.
Speaker 5: And you got to remember the difference between us and
Speaker 5: kids nowadays.
Speaker 1: They'd be like stupid, who cares?
Speaker 5: Yeah, and they have zero patients and so the movie
Speaker 5: really has to deliver.
Speaker 1: It seems like a lot of stuff was PG. And
Speaker 1: didn't they make the PG.
Speaker 3: They were kind of loose with the rating on that
Speaker 3: because they wanted kids to like, they wanted kids to
Speaker 3: be able to see the movies, right, So there was
Speaker 3: it was Yeah, I.
Speaker 5: Was thinking, I was thinking Goonies might be a good
Speaker 5: one to play.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that would be a solid one.
Speaker 6: But there's a.
Speaker 5: Long list obviously of classic eighties nineties movies.
Speaker 6: You could the original Teen Wolf might be kind of funny.
Speaker 1: I guarantee you.
Speaker 3: Here's one that will not get past the censors in
Speaker 3: this new delicate time we live in.
Speaker 1: Do you remember the Three Amigos you know? Oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: that was that was a good movie.
Speaker 6: That was a funny, bad movie. Yeah, I don't think
Speaker 6: that would fly nowadays.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, Steve, Martin Chevy Chase and Martin Short right, And.
Speaker 6: I remember then they hip thrust. The kid Sam would
Speaker 6: love that.
Speaker 5: He'd be cracking up the entire movie, copying everything on
Speaker 5: the screen.
Speaker 1: Oh, you don't know the one?
Speaker 3: Oh, I think this is a PG movie. And it
Speaker 3: was a spoof of Star Wars. Remember Spaceballs?
Speaker 6: Oh Spaceballs?
Speaker 1: Yeah, Spaceballs? Was that was good? I don't know, I
Speaker 1: don't remember.
Speaker 4: Though.
Speaker 1: There's probably some stuff in there.
Speaker 3: That that you can't get have, Like, there's like so
Speaker 3: many options here, Like.
Speaker 6: I know there's some good choices.
Speaker 5: So go ahead and email Real fifth Hour at gmail
Speaker 5: dot com if you have some movie suggestions, what movies
Speaker 5: that we appreciate that I should force upon these students.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 3: The other you bring up a fair point because you've
Speaker 3: got a lot of bureaucracy, because you've got the parents,
Speaker 3: which is one layer, and I most parents won't care.
Speaker 3: But there's always that one group of parents that is hyper,
Speaker 3: like they think they're over protected with their kid.
Speaker 1: They don't let their kid live. That's a problem.
Speaker 3: But then the other thing is like a lot of
Speaker 3: these movies are so dated without the technology that we
Speaker 3: have today, Like the kid's gonna be watching like, oh, I.
Speaker 5: Don't understand, like the yeah, money, yeah, the money, yeah,
Speaker 5: yeah exactly. Think of it like this, if you were
Speaker 5: a kid nowadays with zero attention span and what you're
Speaker 5: used to seeing at the theater and how good affects
Speaker 5: and everything is now in video games and all that,
Speaker 5: would you look at it and be like this is stupid.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Like I thought the movie The Money Pit, which
Speaker 3: is an eighties movie with Tom Hanks, one of his
Speaker 3: early movies in Shelly.
Speaker 1: Long, I thought it was a great movie.
Speaker 3: But if you watched it through the eyes of a child,
Speaker 3: like you said, why the fuck don't they just go
Speaker 3: on YouTube and it's a deal, you know yourself project
Speaker 3: here and they can fix it. What I don't understand.
Speaker 3: It makes no sense. Why are they wasting all their money?
Speaker 3: It's go on YouTube and d yi boom you done.
Speaker 6: Yeah, some movies don't translate to the kids nowadays.
Speaker 5: But yeah, so on the sheet, I just gotta write
Speaker 5: the movie's name down the rating of the film, and
Speaker 5: then it'll get approved. So I feel like as long
Speaker 5: as I write PG next to it, most parents will
Speaker 5: just glance at the sheet and sign it and say
Speaker 5: it's okay.
Speaker 3: Another Tom Hanks movie that kids will look at and say,
Speaker 3: I don't care.
Speaker 1: What's the big deal about that?
Speaker 6: In the movie?
Speaker 1: Big? Right?
Speaker 3: And that was a cool story, right, because you wake
Speaker 3: up and you're you know, you won't you.
Speaker 1: Have a wish?
Speaker 6: Remember?
Speaker 3: And he yeah, and he became an adult. But the
Speaker 3: technology thing, man.
Speaker 1: That's the thing.
Speaker 3: It's like, I don't know, but I don't.
Speaker 1: Know about that anyway.
Speaker 3: All right, Well, yeah, email and we'll read a bunch
Speaker 3: of them next week, how about that, And then we'll
Speaker 3: help you decide if you have any movies you want
Speaker 3: to reckon and that would be outstanding. We have Backscratcher
Speaker 3: is next on the agenda. We'll get the pop culture.
Speaker 3: But I wanted to get a backscratcher. And this is
Speaker 3: where people post things on the Apple podcast page about
Speaker 3: the fifth hour, little reviews and whatnot, and then we
Speaker 3: thank you you scratch our back, we scratch your back metaphorically.
Speaker 3: Of course, we're not actually going to scratch your back
Speaker 3: this week, Danny on the Apple podcast page, did we
Speaker 3: get one review, two reviews, or no reviews?
Speaker 6: I am going to say one.
Speaker 1: Who know, well, you are incorrect, Danny, You're incorrect.
Speaker 3: It turns out we actually got two two reviews this week.
Speaker 6: How about that? Happy to be wrong?
Speaker 3: This week in baseball, first one comes from Tights for twenty,
Speaker 3: Titans for twenty, he writes in five stars, really really
Speaker 3: decent show. Yes, he says, this show is very decent.
Speaker 3: So congratulations, Danny, You're part of a decent show, he said,
Speaker 3: one of the most decent shows of all time.
Speaker 1: He says.
Speaker 3: I listen all the time unless I'm doing something else.
Speaker 3: I started listening in jail. How about that, Danny in jail?
Speaker 3: I could not have asked for a better show to
Speaker 3: help pass the time.
Speaker 1: Just needs more UFC news.
Speaker 3: In my opinion, I heard at the Subway restaurant the
Speaker 3: show was going to get nominated for an award, And
Speaker 3: I gotta say I like the underdog story.
Speaker 5: Wow, I bet you a whole bunch of indecent things
Speaker 5: happened there in prison.
Speaker 3: You think you think that that took place. You think, well,
Speaker 3: maybe he was at a low security prison, because if
Speaker 3: you're at a low security prison, that you can have
Speaker 3: access to radio, and you can have different electrical equipment
Speaker 3: and things like that.
Speaker 6: Very true. Maybe he just evaded taxes.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's the white collar criminal and the blue collar criminal.
Speaker 3: Much different treatment, much different in the legal penal system
Speaker 3: of America. So next up on the Ray from the Bay,
Speaker 3: Right Sin, Ray from the Bay. He said, there's Big Ben,
Speaker 3: Danny g and everyone else. You and Danny G are
Speaker 3: so chill. I like this podcast because you just get
Speaker 3: a good old conversation going. I want to call the show,
Speaker 3: but we'll follow up on that eventually. That's Ray from
Speaker 3: the Bay. Five stars. Thank you Ray from the Bay.
Speaker 3: That has a nice ring to it, doesn't I like
Speaker 3: that rhymes.
Speaker 5: Like thank you Ray, and I hope you're boy Pool
Speaker 5: keep chucking up blong three pointers.
Speaker 3: No no, no, no, am I am with my friends
Speaker 3: in the Bay Area.
Speaker 6: I am you are you Laker hater?
Speaker 3: I am a fan of the Clippers and whoever plays
Speaker 3: the Lakers, that is who I like. And I am
Speaker 3: a Golden State Warrior fan. Go Splash Brothers splitsh splash, Yes,
Speaker 3: and you, Danny, I think you should continue to send
Speaker 3: those checks to the NBA officials And yeah, yeah, okay,
Speaker 3: the sixth.
Speaker 5: Week you get a pool where they they were they
Speaker 5: were paid off there. Then when they gave them that
Speaker 5: phantom four point play.
Speaker 3: Sixth, seventh and eighth man for the Lakers, it's eight
Speaker 3: on five when you play the Lakers.
Speaker 1: But that's a different conversation.
Speaker 5: That's what happens when you guess wrong about the Lakers
Speaker 5: going into the playoffs.
Speaker 1: About I guess work. John moranc got hurt in round one.
Speaker 3: The officials helped you out early in the series against
Speaker 3: Golden State, so things are certainly breaking your way. I
Speaker 3: wouldn't brag about that, though, but we do it a little.
Speaker 5: Tiny Clippers violin for you.
Speaker 3: No, it's not about the Clippers. It's not about the Clippy.
Speaker 5: You said the Clippers, and whoever is playing against Fakers.
Speaker 3: Clippers aren't playing, So this is about this is about
Speaker 3: the gold my Golden State Wars. I'm a Warriors fan. Wrong,
Speaker 3: I go back to the Chris Mullen, uh, Tim Hardaway
Speaker 3: run TMC.
Speaker 1: I go back to that Joe Berry Carroll even before that.
Speaker 3: I mean, I'm I'm a I'm a freaking Golden State
Speaker 3: Warrior historian. Is what I am.
Speaker 6: Explains why you shoot your free throws underhand?
Speaker 3: When I was a kid, I actually shot a set
Speaker 3: shot because of Purver Short, former Golden State Warrior. And
Speaker 3: I had a baseline jumper because of Terry Tiegle and
Speaker 3: and uh oh.
Speaker 6: And he choked out a coach because of Latrelle's freewill.
Speaker 3: Well, no, I wasn't a Warriors fan by that, but
Speaker 3: I was, like, uh, I was a big fan of
Speaker 3: Sleeping so Sleepy Floyd was a big part of my
Speaker 3: my life when I was younger. And so yeah, I
Speaker 3: go way back. Rod Higgins remember Rod Higgins for the
Speaker 3: Golden State Warriors.
Speaker 6: Sure, yea off players names, Now, I'm.
Speaker 1: Not these are people.
Speaker 3: I'm not, no Google, I know my Golden State Wars.
Speaker 1: And the first NBA game.
Speaker 3: Fun fact, first NBA game I ever attended ever, Aton
Speaker 3: was at the Unfortunately it was at the Great Western
Speaker 3: Form then just called the Form. I was with my
Speaker 3: youth basketball team. We got to play on the court
Speaker 3: after the game. But the Lakers were playing This is
Speaker 3: like the Showtime Lakers. They were playing the Golden State Warriors,
Speaker 3: and George Carl was coaching the Golden State Warriors, and
Speaker 3: Joe Barry Carroll was playing for the Golden State Warriors
Speaker 3: in that particular game. That's a fun fact.
Speaker 6: Did George Carl have a full head of hair?
Speaker 3: No, he did look disheveled. He was young at the time.
Speaker 3: I thought he was old, but he was disheveled and
Speaker 3: he had.
Speaker 5: Right, he's one of those guys where he's look old
Speaker 5: our entire life.
Speaker 1: That's a good thing, that's a wonderful thing.
Speaker 3: Like we told the story before on the podcast about
Speaker 3: Sparky Anderson who was this for the Tigers. But Sparky
Speaker 3: looked like he was about seventy when he was forty, right,
Speaker 3: he just looked old.
Speaker 1: He looked old, old, old, old old man.
Speaker 5: John John.
Speaker 1: All right, let's get to pop goes to the culture.
Speaker 3: So these are some random pop culture stories that caught
Speaker 3: my attention this week. Nicholas Cage making headlines. I don't
Speaker 3: know if you guys talked about this on Cavino and
Speaker 3: Rich Danny, but Nicholas Cage said that he has memories
Speaker 3: of life from before being born.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it sounds about right.
Speaker 3: Come on, I mean, I'm not I like Nicholas cage
Speaker 3: I saw the thing. Somebody sent me a link. He
Speaker 3: was on sixty Minutes, which I used to watch. My
Speaker 3: mom and dad used to watch that every week when
Speaker 3: I was a kid. I really haven't watched it much recently,
Speaker 3: but on YouTube they have a channel and they put
Speaker 3: this thing up. And Nicholas Cage like moved to Vegas
Speaker 3: to save money on taxes, which I respect, and you know,
Speaker 3: he lost a lot of money and investments and stuff.
Speaker 3: But he's an interesting cat. But do I think he
Speaker 3: actually has memories of life from before being born?
Speaker 1: No, of course, bullshit. It's absolute bullshit, is what it is.
Speaker 1: The fact that anyone would report that it's ridiculous. Anyway,
Speaker 1: what else did I say?
Speaker 3: Glowing UFOs spotted over Los Vegas recently and the military
Speaker 3: and the airport McCarran Airport denying any knowledge of these
Speaker 3: unidentified flying objects glowing UFOs. It's caught on of course
Speaker 3: Camera eight News Las Vegas. Channel eight in Vegas investigated
Speaker 3: and the station reached out to the air Force base
Speaker 3: Nellis Air Force Base, and there's Harry Reid International Airport.
Speaker 1: I guess I used to be called McCarron. I guess
Speaker 1: it's called Harry Reid.
Speaker 3: Who knew.
Speaker 1: I don't fly to Vegas.
Speaker 3: I drive, so I don't know. Anyway, they said all
Speaker 3: they were unaware of any activity. Witnesses shot the video glowing.
Speaker 3: UFO's the guys in his backyard. The lights were located
Speaker 3: over the Strip and the old downtown area, and so
Speaker 3: they're trying to figure out.
Speaker 6: What they wanted to go to your jam. Fremont Street
Speaker 6: that's where I hat man.
Speaker 3: That's the Mallard part of Vegas. The Strip is for
Speaker 3: the amateurs. The professionals go down to the Fremont Street.
Speaker 1: A bunch of hookers and cocaine, the Fremont Street experience.
Speaker 1: That's where the real freaks in Vegas are. Yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: looking at the video here.
Speaker 3: I gotta tell you, you know, it looks it's a
Speaker 3: series of lights. It could be drones. It looks like
Speaker 3: it's big enough to be a plane or a blimp
Speaker 3: or something like that.
Speaker 1: On this.
Speaker 3: And hopefully if I click the right button, you'll be
Speaker 3: able to click on it and you'll.
Speaker 1: See the lights over Vegas. Check all that all that out.
Speaker 3: It's like a twenty six second clip it's not that
Speaker 3: it's not that long, but you can see. It reminds
Speaker 3: me a little bit of what they had in Arizona
Speaker 3: when they remember that the spacecraft like flew over Phoenix.
Speaker 6: That's right, remember that years ago.
Speaker 1: I mean I was in the nineties.
Speaker 3: All right, So did you see have you seen the video, Danny?
Speaker 3: Have you checked out the video here? Have you seen
Speaker 3: this video?
Speaker 5: Yeah, but it's not as freaky as it used to
Speaker 5: be to see things like this because the government just
Speaker 5: admitted during COVID that there are UFOs. None of this
Speaker 5: surprises us now, right.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Now, do the UFOs practice social distancing? I think
Speaker 3: they do, because they're not like meeting with us. Do
Speaker 3: they wear masks? Do they have masks on?
Speaker 1: Do we do?
Speaker 6: We know? No, we don't.
Speaker 3: We don't know if they're wearing masks or anything like that.
Speaker 3: I I don't know.
Speaker 5: That was the funniest thing that came out of the
Speaker 5: whole COVID situation. Though everybody were so caught up in
Speaker 5: hoarding toilet paper and robbing stores of you know what, what?
Speaker 6: What was the other thing that was in high demand?
Speaker 3: Bottled water and toilet paper were like the big thing,
Speaker 3: and hand sanitizer masks ward.
Speaker 5: There was a limit on how many sanitizers you could buy.
Speaker 3: Yeah, now you can buy as many as you want.
Speaker 3: They will give you extra hand sanitizer right now.
Speaker 5: But they announced that they had real video of real
Speaker 5: UFOs and that aliens existed, and everybody was so busy
Speaker 5: with all the COVID nonsense that it just kind of
Speaker 5: got pushed off to the side.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Well, speaking of space, space tourism is going to be
Speaker 3: a thing. We've talked about this in the past, but
Speaker 3: there's now a price point space tourism form a firm
Speaker 3: rather has been formed.
Speaker 1: They reveal their plans for zero gravity later this year.
Speaker 1: You will be able to travel to zero gravity this year.
Speaker 3: How much is it going to cost in you know,
Speaker 3: it's not two outrageous, but it's outrageous for the commoners.
Speaker 3: So you want to take a ris they say, they,
Speaker 3: you know, the space tourism. The plan is for zero
Speaker 3: gravity music concerts starting later this year, and they're gonna
Speaker 3: have a DJ pop performances wrap the whole thing.
Speaker 6: I'm gonna say one hundreds.
Speaker 3: No. Well, but compared to that, this is great that
Speaker 3: the companies in Florida, it's zero g they are offering
Speaker 3: micro gravity flights aboard a Boeing seven to twenty seven,
Speaker 3: especially my and they price point is nine thousand dollars.
Speaker 3: You don't You would not trust a nine thousand trip
Speaker 3: to zero gravity, you know, but because in.
Speaker 6: My mind it was kind of for the one percenters. Yeah, well,
Speaker 6: or at.
Speaker 5: Least people who are wealthy, and so you'd have to
Speaker 5: take a big chunk of change out to do something
Speaker 5: like that. Nine thousand dollars. That sounds like some carnies
Speaker 5: put this together.
Speaker 3: Well, I'm looking at the brochure thing here and it
Speaker 3: looks like what this is is the vomit comment, which
Speaker 3: I often I give an homage when somebody has a
Speaker 3: really bad game, I'll point out that they were they
Speaker 3: were riding the vomit comment on the show. And that
Speaker 3: is my tribute to the zero gravity plane, which is
Speaker 3: what they train astronauts in.
Speaker 1: They take you up. So I think that's what this is.
Speaker 3: Like, it's it's you're not really going to see you're
Speaker 3: not really space traveling. Then oh, you're just going zero gravity.
Speaker 3: So that's that's the vomited coming. So this is false advertising,
Speaker 3: it really is.
Speaker 1: I don't like that. I do not like that you
Speaker 1: know this story.
Speaker 3: I did want to mention you know, I'm not a
Speaker 3: music guy, but I was following that Ed Sheeran lawsuit,
Speaker 3: and he brought up a great point, a great point.
Speaker 1: He's being sued for copyright infringement.
Speaker 3: It was in a Marvin Gaye song that they claim
Speaker 3: he ripped off or something like that. I read the
Speaker 3: story briefly, but I'm like, I'm not a big music
Speaker 3: I like music, but I'm not inside the music world.
Speaker 3: But he brought up a great point. So he's been
Speaker 3: sued a couple times. He said that there are only
Speaker 3: so many notes. There are twelve notes that are available
Speaker 3: in music, he said. There are twenty two million songs
Speaker 3: that come out a year, he said, and so it
Speaker 3: is inevitable that things are going to sound similar now,
Speaker 3: being that I am not big on the music, Gene Dan,
Speaker 3: let me ask you the question here. Do you think
Speaker 3: Ed Sheeron is a sympathetic figure or do you think
Speaker 3: he's full of shit and that he ripped off another song?
Speaker 3: What is the more likely scenario?
Speaker 5: I guess I would have to hear the two pieces
Speaker 5: of audio side by side. His hit song was called
Speaker 5: Thinking Out loud, and he's being accused of plagiarizing. Let's
Speaker 5: get it on the classic from Marvin Gay as you mentioned,
Speaker 5: so I would need to hear the two side by side,
Speaker 5: but I understand what he's trying to get at. But
Speaker 5: then there's just some times where the artists or whoever
Speaker 5: the writers were or producers simply riped somebody else off.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and they think that they're so powerful that they
Speaker 3: can win any lawsuit. But in many ways, I'm Here's
Speaker 3: how I relate to Ed Sheeron because doing sports radio, Danny,
Speaker 3: there's only so many takes you can have, and at
Speaker 3: the end of the end of a show, you try,
Speaker 3: you know, I try to be as original. I don't
Speaker 3: listen to a lot of sports radio mainly because I
Speaker 3: want to come up with my own stuff. And sometimes
Speaker 3: I'll come up with something that you know, Covino and
Speaker 3: Rich will have the same take I have, or they'll
Speaker 3: have the same take that I had, and people think, oh,
Speaker 3: you're stealing it from them, But in my case, I don't.
Speaker 3: I don't purposely don't listen because I want to do
Speaker 3: my own thing. I have my own opinions when I
Speaker 3: see the stories and stuff. But there are limits, right,
Speaker 3: There's only so many different ways you can cut up
Speaker 3: a story. As we learned years ago when we were
Speaker 3: coming up in radio the topic tree, Right, there's different
Speaker 3: branches to the tree, but there's only so many branches
Speaker 3: on the tree.
Speaker 1: And there's the who, what, where, when, why, how?
Speaker 3: All that.
Speaker 1: But then after that, you know, it's like, okay.
Speaker 5: Also there's some a little bit of copying here and there,
Speaker 5: where it's a compliment, not somebody trying to steal. I
Speaker 5: was influenced by this artist or that artist, and so
Speaker 5: that's in my subconscious because I listened to it so
Speaker 5: many hundreds of times, and so of course I'm going
Speaker 5: to be influenced by that, maybe even use a little
Speaker 5: bit of that style or flavor. And if it comes
Speaker 5: off like I'm stealing from somebody, did I do that
Speaker 5: because I'm like, huh, I'm gonna steal from this artist?
Speaker 5: Or is that me complimenting them because I was a
Speaker 5: fan of theirs growing up?
Speaker 3: Yeah? No, for sure, And like I'll I'll give a
Speaker 3: line like some broadcasters said back when I was a kid,
Speaker 3: you know, but it's really to me, it's a tribute.
Speaker 3: It's an homage. Probably usually give him credit. Like I'll
Speaker 3: say sometimes I'll quote Walt Frazier. I'll say, no, no,
Speaker 3: hocus pocus, just focus. So he used to say that
Speaker 3: on the next broadcast, We've we've all quoted the late
Speaker 3: Dave Niehaus, the Mariners broadcaster. You know, get out the rye,
Speaker 3: bread and bustard, Grandma, it's grand Salami time.
Speaker 6: You know, all that just regular conversation.
Speaker 1: You'll say, playoffs, Oh, exact, of course. Yeah.
Speaker 5: We imagine at the end of the podcast, if I
Speaker 5: had to say Ben's impersonation of playoffs was due to
Speaker 5: the coach at the podium blah blah blah and the
Speaker 5: year of blah blah blah, that's, in essence, what you
Speaker 5: got to do as a musician.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a it's a threading a needle, is essentially.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I mean, if you go back to like Mozart in
Speaker 3: the beginning, I'm sure everything's been been done, and back
Speaker 3: in those days stuff wasn't even even written.
Speaker 1: Well, here's a bunch of stories.
Speaker 3: Have you noticed there's a theme in the in the
Speaker 3: regular news media, there's a theme that we're all going
Speaker 3: to die because of AI, that AI is going to
Speaker 3: kill us. And one of the stories I saw this week. Now,
Speaker 3: the religious, very religious people are very concerned because they're
Speaker 3: saying that the new AI chat GBT, GPT their word is.
Speaker 3: They're going to worry that it's creating. It's going to
Speaker 3: create a new religion. It's going to write its own
Speaker 3: sacred text, and this is going to create a whole
Speaker 3: new religion. Are you concerned, Danny? Is this something that
Speaker 3: keeps you up at night? Are you worried about this?
Speaker 5: Wow?
Speaker 1: Oh my oh, you're devastated.
Speaker 3: That's stupid. Now here's another story there. I love the
Speaker 3: hypocrisy of big corporations. So Docusigne, we've all used DocuSign,
Speaker 3: especially over the last couple of years since the pandemic
Speaker 3: become very popular. It's become very profitable. So the people
Speaker 3: at DocuSign recently announced they are forcing, against their will,
Speaker 3: their employees to come back to the office. And people
Speaker 3: are working remotely and they say yeah, to come back.
Speaker 1: So the people at docus Sign did that.
Speaker 3: At the same time, they sent out a report celebrating
Speaker 3: the fact of all the benefits of working remotely.
Speaker 1: So they're forcing their employees to come back.
Speaker 3: Well at the same time announcing, you know, it's really
Speaker 3: there's a lot of good stuff. There's a lot of
Speaker 3: good benefits and perks if you don't work at the office,
Speaker 3: which is I just I love.
Speaker 5: We were talking about COVID earlier on this podcast. Yeah,
Speaker 5: that was one thing I remember a conversation. Hot topic
Speaker 5: was this is a thing of the future. Now it's
Speaker 5: working out for all these companies. So even after there's
Speaker 5: a cure and there's no more COVID, people will be
Speaker 5: able to work remotely and their bosses will trust them.
Speaker 1: Well, the funny thing about that, there's a lot of
Speaker 1: funny things about that.
Speaker 6: But I.
Speaker 3: The commercial real estate, the fact that these companies are
Speaker 3: renting out.
Speaker 1: I think that's the biggest issue.
Speaker 3: If these companies did not have leases, like they have
Speaker 3: to justify to the investors. And we see that in
Speaker 3: our but in the radio business and radio stations, a
Speaker 3: lot of people do the shows from their houses these days.
Speaker 3: The funny thing is years ago Rush Limbaugh often did
Speaker 3: the show from his Steve Harvey, I've heard Howard Stern
Speaker 3: in recent years have started to do the show from his.
Speaker 3: But the point of the matter is that that you
Speaker 3: know people have done this, but they they've got these
Speaker 3: long leases and they've got to justify to their shareholders. Well,
Speaker 3: we've got to we're paying X dollars a month a
Speaker 3: month for the studio, so we or the office, and
Speaker 3: so we have to have people in in the building.
Speaker 3: And so that's that's the main sticking point. We'll do
Speaker 3: a couple more here. Let's see did you did you
Speaker 3: guys on Covino Rich talk about the the penis shaped
Speaker 3: ice in Canada?
Speaker 1: That No, that did not come up.
Speaker 3: Well, this is this seems like a fake story, but
Speaker 3: as far as I know, it's not so. An iceberg
Speaker 3: measuring thirty feet peers to look just like a it's
Speaker 3: got a very fallous look to it, Danny, and it's
Speaker 3: off the Canadian coast. It's gone viral, a floating dog
Speaker 3: out there in the ocean. And my favorite part of
Speaker 3: the story, and the reason this is such a perfect story,
Speaker 3: is it is off Newfoundland.
Speaker 1: Dildo Newfoundland.
Speaker 6: You're making that up?
Speaker 1: No, I am not, I am not.
Speaker 6: How you really pronounce it?
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's Dildo Newfoundland. That's the name of the town
Speaker 3: and they love the name.
Speaker 1: I'll sing you the link on this. You can see
Speaker 1: the photo. It does.
Speaker 3: I gotta tell you it does appear to have the
Speaker 3: shape of the twigg and berries out there floating out
Speaker 3: in the Atlantic.
Speaker 6: So it's just a hard coincidence.
Speaker 3: It's standing at attention, Danny. It's a very you know,
Speaker 3: it's a fallical situation.
Speaker 6: Is what it is. It's very much a Dick and
Speaker 6: Dayton but in dildo.
Speaker 1: Yes.
Speaker 3: Yes, the image has gone viral and it's not the
Speaker 3: only one. If you if you click on the story,
Speaker 3: you there's also another image from Australia, a venus starfish,
Speaker 3: so big, big time of the year for for.
Speaker 1: The different weird items in the ocean.
Speaker 6: So you said the word penal earlier. I think I'm
Speaker 6: sensing a theme here.
Speaker 1: Cock a doodle doo.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So click on that and then you can see
Speaker 3: if you scroll down there's a photo of the the
Speaker 3: fallicle shaped iceberg. And then if you stroll down a
Speaker 3: little bit more, there's another photo from Australia. If you
Speaker 3: scroll a little bit more, there's a photo from Australia
Speaker 3: of a something on the bottom of the ocean that
Speaker 3: is turned upwards and does appear see that starfish.
Speaker 5: A little yeah, at the corner of each starfish, it looks.
Speaker 3: Like, yeah, it looks like a ghos. That's wild. And
Speaker 3: I like the names they say. They said Horne Star,
Speaker 3: they named it starfish.
Speaker 1: You know what, Danny, here, we're going to make a fortune.
Speaker 1: You know, we gotta do.
Speaker 3: We've got to go to Australia, get a couple of those.
Speaker 3: We got to breed those starfishes. You know how many
Speaker 3: of those things we would sell as a gag gift?
Speaker 3: How many people would want that in their fish tank,
Speaker 3: the porn star.
Speaker 1: Starfish. Oh my god, that we make a ton of money.
Speaker 6: It's also nicknamed the coctopus. Oh my gosh.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's so good. Oh so good. Oh my, that
Speaker 3: is outstanding. Anyway, we'll get out on that. Anything you
Speaker 3: want to promote, get out on the contapus. I say
Speaker 3: we'd get off on it. I said we'd get out
Speaker 3: of it. But what do we What do we got going? On?
Speaker 2: Saturday?
Speaker 3: Day of rest for me, I'll be doing stuff around
Speaker 3: the mallor mansion and whatnot that needs to be done.
Speaker 3: Anything on your agenda today, Danny.
Speaker 5: My chickadee, she had a baby shower last Saturday while
Speaker 5: I was off fishing, okay, and there was so much
Speaker 5: baby gear in the garage. I had organized the garage.
Speaker 5: It looked so clean, so fresh, and so clean, and
Speaker 5: now it looks like two palettes of baby has been
Speaker 5: delivered to the garage from all these Amazon gifts from
Speaker 5: family and friends, and so very grateful to have some
Speaker 5: diapers and whatever baby crap you're imagining. It's here in
Speaker 5: the garage and so we got to go through it
Speaker 5: and organize it.
Speaker 6: And now I want that out of my man cave.
Speaker 3: Well, it's nice that your love number one. Number two
Speaker 3: we have. We noticed as a society we only care
Speaker 3: about kids when they're little babies. When they get a
Speaker 3: little older, you're on your own. And those you pointed
Speaker 3: this out, Danny, and I'm aware of this as well,
Speaker 3: Like those kids grow so fast, like you're not. They're
Speaker 3: gonna go through all those clothes in a year, you know,
Speaker 3: a couple of years, and he'll be on to some
Speaker 3: other stuff.
Speaker 5: And that's why my wife, he was telling family and friends, hey,
Speaker 5: try to get some things for when the baby's a
Speaker 5: little older, because we have lots of hand me downs
Speaker 5: already for when the baby's an infant. You know, at
Speaker 5: least we were planning and thinking ahead. And she was
Speaker 5: able to recycle a lot of her son's clothes that
Speaker 5: she still had in storage.
Speaker 6: Oh that's good. Yeah, all right.
Speaker 1: Very good. We'll have a great day today, whatever you
Speaker 1: up to.
Speaker 3: We got another mailbag podcast, and again, if you missed it,
Speaker 3: I assume you've already made it through this whole podcast
Speaker 3: you heard me earlier, but if not for some reason,
Speaker 3: be fast forward the Friday podcast. Everything you need to know,
Speaker 3: all the details, all the information for the Malor meet
Speaker 3: and greet, which is two weeks from today. So if
Speaker 3: you're listening to us in Minnesota or Wisconsin or Iowa
Speaker 3: any reasonable diet driving distance, we would love to meet you.
Speaker 1: I'll be there hanging out on May twentieth, May twenty.
Speaker 3: If I'll be there and can not wait for that,
Speaker 3: have a great day.
Speaker 1: We'll talk to you next time.
Speaker 6: Yeah, see you tomorrow for the mailbag Later. Skater by
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