WEBVTT - The Fifth Hour: Suck It, Teleprompter 0:00:00.720 --> 0:00:01.480 Kutbooms. 0:00:02.279 --> 0:00:05.400 If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes 0:00:05.440 --> 0:00:09.200 a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants 0:00:09.200 --> 0:00:12.480 of the old Republic, a sol fastion of fairness. He 0:00:12.600 --> 0:00:15.520 treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the 0:00:15.640 --> 0:00:17.480 rich pill poppers in the penthouse. 0:00:18.079 --> 0:00:18.439 Wow. 0:00:18.600 --> 0:00:22.320 The Clearinghouse of Hot takes break free for something special. 0:00:22.680 --> 0:00:29.360 The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now in. 0:00:29.240 --> 0:00:36.839 The air everywhere and Happy Friday, the last Friday of 0:00:36.920 --> 0:00:38.080 the month of January. 0:00:38.280 --> 0:00:40.560 The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller. 0:00:40.320 --> 0:00:46.200 And Danny g Radio on the twenty sixth day of January. 0:00:46.240 --> 0:00:49.279 I am told Danny it is National Fun at Workday. 0:00:49.320 --> 0:00:52.640 So are we gonna have fun while doing the podcast? 0:00:52.920 --> 0:00:54.840 I think we'll be okay, right, we usually have pretty 0:00:54.840 --> 0:00:56.720 good time, I think, boo. 0:00:58.040 --> 0:01:01.600 Yeah, we always have fun on this pot cast. January, 0:01:01.600 --> 0:01:03.160 though it feels like March already. 0:01:05.080 --> 0:01:05.679 Yeah. 0:01:05.760 --> 0:01:08.399 Well, you know, time time fly. We're gonna have a 0:01:08.400 --> 0:01:10.880 Super Bowl in a couple of weeks. We got then 0:01:10.920 --> 0:01:14.039 we get in the silly season in the NFL, which 0:01:14.120 --> 0:01:17.120 is nothing but made up rumors, which we have pretty 0:01:17.200 --> 0:01:19.280 much every day. Anyway, we don't really need the seat that. 0:01:19.720 --> 0:01:22.080 We pretty much have that NonStop as it is. 0:01:22.840 --> 0:01:25.440 Speaking of the Super Bowl, there's gonna be a lot 0:01:25.440 --> 0:01:28.160 of excitement in Vegas with the NFL. They put out 0:01:28.160 --> 0:01:32.319 a memo to every team and to everyone involved with 0:01:32.400 --> 0:01:36.280 the Super Bowl about gambling, and it was just one 0:01:36.319 --> 0:01:37.399 word in all capitals. 0:01:37.480 --> 0:01:40.760 It said, don't don't Yes, don't you go. 0:01:40.920 --> 0:01:44.119 You're going to a city that is designed on gambling, 0:01:44.600 --> 0:01:48.560 but do not gamble. Yeah, well that was done as 0:01:48.600 --> 0:01:52.919 a preemptive strike, Danny, to make sure to make sure 0:01:53.560 --> 0:01:58.480 that no one who does gamble costs the NFL money 0:01:58.520 --> 0:02:00.960 in a lawsuit. Right if somebody who were to try 0:02:00.960 --> 0:02:03.640 to fix the Super Bowl or something like that, which 0:02:03.680 --> 0:02:06.120 would take more than one person, but if the NFL 0:02:06.160 --> 0:02:08.120 got sued, they would be like, all right, well we tried. 0:02:08.160 --> 0:02:09.919 We told them not to do it. I didn't listen 0:02:09.960 --> 0:02:10.919 to us, but they told us. 0:02:10.919 --> 0:02:13.480 Yeah, this is the first Super Bowl ever where they 0:02:13.600 --> 0:02:16.120 encourage you to have a bunch of hookers in cocaine, 0:02:16.720 --> 0:02:18.720 but just stay away from dambling. 0:02:19.760 --> 0:02:21.320 A bunch of hookers and cocaine. 0:02:22.120 --> 0:02:24.880 It's funny because I was talking to a buddy of 0:02:24.919 --> 0:02:28.359 mine who does the stuff with the Chiefs, and if 0:02:28.400 --> 0:02:31.560 they win on Sunday, I was like, well, where are 0:02:31.600 --> 0:02:33.280 you going to be in Vegas? 0:02:33.320 --> 0:02:34.679 Like, what's the itinerary? 0:02:34.720 --> 0:02:36.720 And they have it all planned out of course, should 0:02:36.760 --> 0:02:39.399 they win, every team, the four teams that are left, 0:02:39.440 --> 0:02:41.680 all have the plan should they win, going to Vegas, 0:02:42.120 --> 0:02:45.240 And from what I understand, they're going to be staying 0:02:45.440 --> 0:02:48.960 pretty far away from the strip. There would be out 0:02:49.040 --> 0:02:52.640 like Henderson or some of the teams are going to 0:02:52.639 --> 0:02:56.120 stay there. There's also Red Rock, which is, you know, 0:02:56.280 --> 0:02:59.600 far away. That's where a ritzy part of Vegas is, 0:02:59.639 --> 0:03:03.680 the outskirts of Vegas. So the teams will not be staying. 0:03:03.840 --> 0:03:06.280 They're not gonna be staying at New York New York 0:03:06.520 --> 0:03:08.960 or the MGM or Caesar's Palace. 0:03:09.040 --> 0:03:11.120 I do not believe. I do not believe. 0:03:11.360 --> 0:03:14.200 By the way, it's National Peanut Brittle Day today, so 0:03:14.240 --> 0:03:16.280 I gotta make more peanut Maybe i'll make that later today. 0:03:16.320 --> 0:03:19.280 Peanut brittle. Yeah, that's so good. I love it. Dis 0:03:19.280 --> 0:03:21.919 bad for you, I think too, but it's good. He's amazing. 0:03:22.840 --> 0:03:25.520 So I wanted to start this being the Friday Show. 0:03:25.560 --> 0:03:29.919 It is championship weekend in the NFL, which is somewhat exciting. 0:03:30.360 --> 0:03:36.320 Oh yes, as we wind down and then wind up 0:03:36.320 --> 0:03:40.880 for the Super Bowl, and time is on our side. 0:03:40.880 --> 0:03:43.119 I'm gona call this time on our side because it 0:03:43.200 --> 0:03:49.400 was episode twenty. I've not done twenty TV shows on 0:03:49.680 --> 0:03:52.760 the NBC regional cable networks. At Benny Versus the Penny, 0:03:53.880 --> 0:03:56.680 the thirty Minute Show, which airs on Friday, Saturday, and 0:03:56.720 --> 0:04:02.280 Sunday morning and is syndicated. We taped our latest episode yesterday. 0:04:02.280 --> 0:04:05.040 Now I will tell you the degree of difficulty did 0:04:05.080 --> 0:04:08.040 go up. We normally break down as many games as 0:04:08.080 --> 0:04:12.480 time allows. We slice and dice the standard. Now during 0:04:12.520 --> 0:04:15.160 the NFL season, if nobody has a bye week, there's 0:04:15.200 --> 0:04:17.359 thirty two teams, so you slice that and have so 0:04:17.400 --> 0:04:18.520 that's sixteen games. 0:04:18.720 --> 0:04:20.840 But we don't do the Thursday game. Usually. 0:04:21.040 --> 0:04:23.039 I picked the Thursday game. That doesn't make the show 0:04:23.040 --> 0:04:26.040 because it's on Thursday. If they're Saturday games, that doesn't 0:04:26.040 --> 0:04:30.040 make it. So we focus in on Sunday and Monday. 0:04:30.080 --> 0:04:33.080 Those are the sweet spots because the show airs in 0:04:33.160 --> 0:04:36.000 New York on Sunday morning and we want to have 0:04:36.040 --> 0:04:38.720 as a fresh as show as possible. So now we're 0:04:38.760 --> 0:04:42.159 down to two games. You got one side of the bracket. 0:04:42.200 --> 0:04:46.320 The AFC which is the early game on Sunday with 0:04:46.480 --> 0:04:49.240 the Chiefs and the Lions, which has been mildly talked about, 0:04:49.279 --> 0:04:51.760 and then you have the forty nine Ers and the Lions. 0:04:51.760 --> 0:04:55.400 You have Chiefs, Ravens, Lions and forty nine Ers. 0:04:55.400 --> 0:04:56.599 I think I said that right, maybe not. 0:04:56.880 --> 0:05:00.000 It's early, but this is a double edged sword. Danny 0:05:00.120 --> 0:05:02.120 doing the TV show with only a couple of games. 0:05:02.720 --> 0:05:06.479 It is a blessing. It is a curse at the 0:05:06.480 --> 0:05:10.120 same time, because there's no need to rush. Time is 0:05:10.160 --> 0:05:12.160 on our side, right, time is on our side. 0:05:12.680 --> 0:05:15.480 Good thing for you guys. Both games are on Sunday 0:05:15.520 --> 0:05:16.160 this weekend. 0:05:16.360 --> 0:05:18.159 Yeah, we don't have to worry about that the rest 0:05:18.200 --> 0:05:19.760 of the there's only a couple of weeks ago in 0:05:19.800 --> 0:05:22.680 the show to worry about that. The other thing, which 0:05:22.720 --> 0:05:26.760 is great with a radio background, dealing with the people 0:05:26.760 --> 0:05:29.799 at NBC, and you'll appreciate this, Dan, he's a fellow 0:05:29.920 --> 0:05:32.839 radio guy. They're like, well, you know, I can you 0:05:32.839 --> 0:05:35.000 fill the time? They're like they want to know, like 0:05:35.200 --> 0:05:36.719 you know what's going to go into it. 0:05:36.760 --> 0:05:36.919 You know. 0:05:36.960 --> 0:05:40.120 It's like, I guess TV people are not as your 0:05:40.160 --> 0:05:43.279 standard TV people are not used to having to fill 0:05:43.440 --> 0:05:44.360 time randomly. 0:05:44.880 --> 0:05:48.800 Spell of prompter readers. Yeah, well Looney is a prompter guy. Yeah. 0:05:48.960 --> 0:05:52.840 I have made it twenty weeks without using the prompter. Wow, 0:05:53.480 --> 0:05:56.760 I'm proud of that too. No prompter, no proplet Now 0:05:56.800 --> 0:06:00.920 Looney prompter guy. He's we call him. We call them 0:06:01.040 --> 0:06:04.640 presidential or we call them Obama or Biden or whatever. 0:06:04.720 --> 0:06:05.880 They all the guys that read. 0:06:05.720 --> 0:06:11.320 The prompter the president. So we did change it up 0:06:11.360 --> 0:06:16.360 a little bit. The episode will start airing later today. 0:06:16.800 --> 0:06:18.400 I'd love for you to watch it. That would be 0:06:18.440 --> 0:06:22.000 pretty cool if you were to you listening, were to 0:06:22.480 --> 0:06:26.320 check it out. And the first showing, let me check 0:06:26.320 --> 0:06:30.960 here the first showing today. I believe our first showing 0:06:31.080 --> 0:06:35.440 is actually in the BET's a tie because of the 0:06:35.480 --> 0:06:40.080 time difference. It's the Bay Area. Actually, I think Philadelphia wins. 0:06:40.160 --> 0:06:43.440 Philadelphia wins this week. Our first showing on NBC Sports 0:06:43.440 --> 0:06:48.480 Philly is at six point thirty this evening, so if 0:06:48.520 --> 0:06:50.200 you have a satellite, you watch it on the West 0:06:50.200 --> 0:06:54.960 Coast at three thirds on DirecTV. And then the Bay 0:06:55.040 --> 0:06:57.680 Area got a bunch of I have four showings in 0:06:57.760 --> 0:07:01.400 San Francisco of the TV show today just today. 0:07:01.080 --> 0:07:03.239 Alone, and we're on in Philly. 0:07:03.279 --> 0:07:06.360 We're on late night in Boston tonight on our flagship 0:07:06.480 --> 0:07:10.120 NBC Sports Boston. Benny Versus the Penneby on there at 0:07:10.240 --> 0:07:16.200 eleven pm and eleven thirty pm tonight, and so it's 0:07:16.280 --> 0:07:20.080 me on Chicago this evening, a couple of showings in Philadelphia, 0:07:20.880 --> 0:07:24.240 and we'll be on in Southern California two showings on 0:07:24.280 --> 0:07:29.440 Saturday Tomorrow, six am, right and early record that one, 0:07:29.600 --> 0:07:31.280 or if you're awake at three pm and you happen 0:07:31.280 --> 0:07:34.760 to be home on Spectrum Sportsnet so Cal in the 0:07:35.040 --> 0:07:36.720 LA market. And then we're on in New York our 0:07:36.800 --> 0:07:39.560 normal time on Sunday, and the show is like I'm 0:07:39.600 --> 0:07:41.080 just giving you some of them. This shows on all 0:07:41.080 --> 0:07:43.360 over the place, So there's other stations you can find 0:07:43.360 --> 0:07:45.960 the show on. Just type in Benny Versus the Penny, 0:07:46.440 --> 0:07:48.680 check your local listings and if you don't get it, 0:07:49.600 --> 0:07:52.440 then I can't help you. Tell complain to somebody. Don't 0:07:52.440 --> 0:07:55.000 complain to me. Don't complain to me, but you can 0:07:55.040 --> 0:07:58.400 complain to somebody else. Just don't complain to me. Time 0:07:58.520 --> 0:08:01.440 out for the work of the week, Danny. Are you 0:08:01.480 --> 0:08:03.560 ready for the word of the week? 0:08:04.000 --> 0:08:06.680 The word of the week. 0:08:07.160 --> 0:08:09.800 And I think this is an appropriate word. We've got 0:08:09.840 --> 0:08:13.920 a full moon going on right now, and we do 0:08:14.040 --> 0:08:18.200 this podcast on Friday. You get up pretty early. I'm 0:08:18.280 --> 0:08:19.600 up all night. 0:08:20.080 --> 0:08:20.840 I don't go to. 0:08:20.720 --> 0:08:24.080 Bed, do the overnight show, hangout for a few hours, 0:08:24.160 --> 0:08:26.760 come back at some point we do the podcast. We 0:08:27.240 --> 0:08:29.360 don't say specifically when we do the podcast, but we 0:08:29.400 --> 0:08:30.360 do the podcast early. 0:08:30.680 --> 0:08:32.480 We do the podcast early. So the word of the 0:08:32.480 --> 0:08:36.480 week is groggy. Like that word. Yeah, it's good work. 0:08:36.880 --> 0:08:39.840 It's good word. So everyone feels groggy. 0:08:39.559 --> 0:08:45.600 At one point or another, right at lethargic feeling my life. 0:08:46.080 --> 0:08:49.000 When I was in school, I always felt groggy. I'm 0:08:49.040 --> 0:08:52.520 not a morning person. I did one tour of duty 0:08:52.559 --> 0:08:56.560 on morning drive radio, which was the worst year and 0:08:56.559 --> 0:08:58.600 a half of my life. 0:08:59.120 --> 0:08:59.760 I hated it. 0:08:59.840 --> 0:09:03.680 I could not adjust my schedule. It was a freaking nightmare, 0:09:05.120 --> 0:09:07.280 and so that was terrible. I hated it getting him 0:09:07.280 --> 0:09:08.880 really early, and I was always kind of out of 0:09:08.920 --> 0:09:13.680 it and all that. But the term, the origin story 0:09:13.679 --> 0:09:14.720 this is an interesting one. 0:09:14.800 --> 0:09:17.320 That's why we picked it as the word of the week. 0:09:17.360 --> 0:09:24.640 The word groggy. It was Steve Grogan's nickname. That's right. Wow. Yeah. 0:09:24.679 --> 0:09:28.320 It originated in the eighteenth century when a former Fox 0:09:28.320 --> 0:09:30.200 Sports Radio Morning guy Mike North. 0:09:30.559 --> 0:09:33.360 Oh, there's no question teamed up with Andy Furman for 0:09:33.400 --> 0:09:33.839 the first time. 0:09:33.920 --> 0:09:33.959 No. 0:09:34.520 --> 0:09:39.040 Eighteenth century, there was this British dude named Admiral Vernon, 0:09:39.440 --> 0:09:45.080 who Admiral Vernon. Don't mess with Admiral Vernon. And the 0:09:45.160 --> 0:09:47.680 legend goes, and they believe this to be true. The 0:09:47.720 --> 0:09:53.200 legend goes that sailors gave this guy, General Admiral Vernon, 0:09:53.440 --> 0:09:54.520 the nickname. 0:09:54.200 --> 0:09:55.240 The Old Grog. 0:09:56.480 --> 0:10:00.200 And why is that, Well, he had a clue. Ok, 0:10:00.360 --> 0:10:02.240 all right, so they said because he had Old Grog, 0:10:02.360 --> 0:10:06.400 called it at the cloak, and that was made from 0:10:06.520 --> 0:10:12.560 material called grogrum that is a weather proof proof mixture 0:10:12.840 --> 0:10:14.120 of silk and wool. 0:10:14.280 --> 0:10:15.040 So this is. 0:10:15.200 --> 0:10:20.800 Eighteenth century, so weather proof, they called it grogrum. And 0:10:20.840 --> 0:10:27.440 then in seventeen forty, Admiral Vernon, nicknamed Old Grog, he 0:10:27.640 --> 0:10:32.520 decreed that his sailors should be served their rum diluted 0:10:32.800 --> 0:10:38.480 watered down with water, rather than than you know, the 0:10:38.559 --> 0:10:40.640 normal normal way they'd been doing it, and this was 0:10:40.679 --> 0:10:42.240 called Grog. 0:10:42.360 --> 0:10:44.040 Think he was the very first bar owner. 0:10:44.280 --> 0:10:50.760 Yeah, exactly, greedy guy, this Admiral Vernon. So this this beverage, 0:10:50.800 --> 0:10:54.120 he was named Old grog, and the combo that he 0:10:54.200 --> 0:10:56.040 came up with where he mixed together the rum with 0:10:56.080 --> 0:10:59.240 the water, diluted it with water that was called grog. 0:10:59.840 --> 0:11:03.720 And the feeling experienced by the sailors in the eighteenth 0:11:03.760 --> 0:11:09.080 century when they drank too much, they were groggy from 0:11:09.240 --> 0:11:14.319 the grog, and that spread. And here we are, all 0:11:14.320 --> 0:11:18.200 these years later, way past the eighteenth century, and to 0:11:18.320 --> 0:11:26.000 this day, the word groggy is in the lexicon of many, 0:11:26.520 --> 0:11:27.480 including us. 0:11:27.520 --> 0:11:29.520 We use the word groggy all the time, most people do. 0:11:29.840 --> 0:11:32.360 It's just the way it is. So that was interesting, right, 0:11:33.040 --> 0:11:33.600 you believe that. 0:11:33.679 --> 0:11:35.360 I don't know how has that because there was no 0:11:35.440 --> 0:11:37.320 internet in the eighteenth century. 0:11:38.080 --> 0:11:38.800 So cool. 0:11:39.120 --> 0:11:41.760 I was joking about it being somebody's nickname. It really 0:11:41.840 --> 0:11:42.959 was somebody's nickname. 0:11:43.360 --> 0:11:44.880 Yeah, I don't know. 0:11:45.040 --> 0:11:48.120 How does that spread them? Like I understand there's some sales. 0:11:48.160 --> 0:11:52.360 How many sailors were there that heard that and drank 0:11:52.440 --> 0:11:57.359 the grog and got drunk and called themselves groggy? 0:11:57.480 --> 0:11:57.840 I don't know. 0:11:57.880 --> 0:12:00.760 I mean that's what that's the origin the story. But 0:12:01.120 --> 0:12:03.480 there you go, the word of the week, believe it 0:12:03.559 --> 0:12:05.400 or not. I wasn't around in the eighteenth century, and 0:12:05.440 --> 0:12:06.600 neither were you. 0:12:06.640 --> 0:12:09.959 Neither were you. But the word of the week is groggy. 0:12:11.120 --> 0:12:16.120 Wow, oh my, oh my god. 0:12:18.000 --> 0:12:22.240 And we moved to the kitchen or the restaurant more 0:12:22.280 --> 0:12:27.480 like the restaurant with the foody fun, foody fun. 0:12:28.600 --> 0:12:31.400 I saw a lot of restaurant stories this past week. 0:12:31.800 --> 0:12:35.360 Yeah, there's some good ones. Now this one is not fun. 0:12:36.400 --> 0:12:40.240 It is rather shocking. I had to do a double thing. 0:12:40.320 --> 0:12:42.400 I thought maybe this was a satire story. 0:12:43.160 --> 0:12:45.920 Uh huh. I think I know where you're going. I 0:12:45.920 --> 0:12:48.360 don't know. Maybe not, maybe, I don't know. It involves 0:12:48.400 --> 0:12:51.560 in and Out? Is that Okayah? The first time in 0:12:51.679 --> 0:12:53.400 seventy five years, right. 0:12:53.440 --> 0:12:56.440 Yeah, they're closing their first ever restaurant. 0:12:56.600 --> 0:12:57.080 In and Out. 0:12:57.120 --> 0:13:00.440 Burger announced this week that they're closing their first location. 0:13:00.920 --> 0:13:03.679 And I don't know that we talked about it. Did 0:13:03.679 --> 0:13:05.440 we talk about it on the podcast What's been going 0:13:05.480 --> 0:13:05.840 On There? 0:13:06.280 --> 0:13:07.160 No, we didn't. 0:13:07.240 --> 0:13:10.400 I want to point out that this location is near 0:13:10.440 --> 0:13:13.840 the Oakland Airport. I've eaten at this In and Out 0:13:14.000 --> 0:13:16.560 several times going up to Raider games. 0:13:16.920 --> 0:13:17.160 Yeah. 0:13:17.200 --> 0:13:20.280 So I got a couple of people who listen to 0:13:20.320 --> 0:13:24.400 this the radio show in the Bay area, and there's 0:13:24.440 --> 0:13:25.560 some video clips. 0:13:25.640 --> 0:13:27.080 Have you seen the video. 0:13:27.920 --> 0:13:31.160 Yeah, it's super sad. What is happening to that city 0:13:31.240 --> 0:13:31.760 right now? 0:13:32.400 --> 0:13:35.040 Yeah, you'd think somebody in a position of power might 0:13:35.120 --> 0:13:37.280 like say, I know, you know, maybe we should do 0:13:37.320 --> 0:13:38.000 something about this. 0:13:38.280 --> 0:13:42.160 You lose the Warriors, the Raiders, then you lose the A's, 0:13:42.559 --> 0:13:44.080 and then you lose your In and Out? 0:13:44.160 --> 0:13:47.040 Are you fucking that's a little too far In and 0:13:47.080 --> 0:13:48.559 Out Burger? I mean, the one thing he lose a 0:13:48.600 --> 0:13:51.280 football team and a basketball team and a baseball team. 0:13:51.320 --> 0:13:54.679 But in and Out Burger. Come on, there are people 0:13:54.679 --> 0:13:57.079 that don't like sports that live in the Bay Area. Fine, 0:13:57.280 --> 0:13:59.960 but everyone loves a burger, even vegans loved. 0:14:00.520 --> 0:14:01.520 You go to In and Out. 0:14:01.520 --> 0:14:04.320 You can get a grilled cheese if you want. But 0:14:04.679 --> 0:14:06.440 this is insane. So if you don't know the story, 0:14:07.000 --> 0:14:09.920 as Danny says, right near the Oakland International Airport, and 0:14:10.080 --> 0:14:12.680 there are multiple videos that have been sent to me, 0:14:12.920 --> 0:14:15.320 I have seen these over the last couple of weeks. 0:14:15.600 --> 0:14:17.600 That guy think it was last week, last week or so, 0:14:18.440 --> 0:14:23.760 and it shows it is such a shithole Oakland that 0:14:24.120 --> 0:14:28.000 the criminals in the Bay Area they realize that most 0:14:28.040 --> 0:14:31.720 people they'll they'll fly into Oakland, they'll rent a car 0:14:32.680 --> 0:14:35.760 and before they even leave the airport area, where do 0:14:35.800 --> 0:14:36.040 they go? 0:14:36.080 --> 0:14:38.040 They stop in and out. I'm in Oakland. I'm gonna 0:14:38.040 --> 0:14:39.240 get a burger, you. 0:14:39.160 --> 0:14:42.200 Know, because these people are most probably aren't from California, 0:14:42.320 --> 0:14:43.760 where they're from a place that don't have in and 0:14:43.800 --> 0:14:45.840 out burger, so they're like, I'm gonna get an out burger. 0:14:45.840 --> 0:14:46.760 It's a West Coast thing. 0:14:47.520 --> 0:14:51.240 So they'll park their rental car in there in the 0:14:51.280 --> 0:14:53.960 parking lot and they'll go in and these guys are 0:14:53.960 --> 0:14:59.000 coming in, smashing the window, grabbing suitcases out of the trunk. 0:14:59.080 --> 0:14:59.880 They're like breaking. 0:15:00.040 --> 0:15:00.200 Yeah. 0:15:00.200 --> 0:15:02.360 Well, the one video I saw, I saw two with 0:15:02.400 --> 0:15:05.440 the one that was crazy. These guys would drive in, 0:15:06.560 --> 0:15:10.880 guys in hoodies. One would break the driver's window and 0:15:10.920 --> 0:15:15.320 then he'd reached down, raise up the thing to open 0:15:15.360 --> 0:15:18.440 the trunk and then grab the suitcases back in the 0:15:18.480 --> 0:15:22.440 car and gone in like twenty seconds. It's absolutely nuts. 0:15:22.480 --> 0:15:25.360 But yeah, the people that run in and out, they 0:15:25.760 --> 0:15:29.200 released a statement they said, we feel the frequency and 0:15:29.320 --> 0:15:33.720 severity of the crimes being encountered by our customers and associates, 0:15:33.880 --> 0:15:35.520 leave us no alternative. 0:15:36.400 --> 0:15:36.520 No. 0:15:37.880 --> 0:15:38.720 Yeah. 0:15:38.320 --> 0:15:43.680 Yeah, and it's so said. The location was already boarded up. Yeah, 0:15:44.080 --> 0:15:45.600 we waved the white flag. 0:15:45.720 --> 0:15:47.360 It's done. Yeah. 0:15:47.360 --> 0:15:51.560 According to the San francisc Were Chronicle, there were thirteen 0:15:51.640 --> 0:15:55.880 hundred and thirty five incidents near the location since twenty nineteen. 0:15:56.520 --> 0:16:00.000 What There have been eleven hundred and seventy four car 0:16:00.080 --> 0:16:05.680 are breakings, nine robberies, two commercial burglaries, four domestic violence incidents. 0:16:05.680 --> 0:16:08.840 One employee described her own car being vandalized. They broke 0:16:08.880 --> 0:16:13.600 the window on both passenger sides, she said. Another person 0:16:13.680 --> 0:16:16.880 who worked near the restaurant call seeing two people stop 0:16:16.920 --> 0:16:20.479 in the drive through lane and rob each vehicle at gunpoint. 0:16:20.680 --> 0:16:25.240 It's like the fucking Old West. My god, excuse my language. 0:16:25.280 --> 0:16:30.400 Yoah, oh no, where's Wyatt Arp? Like? So honestly, like some. 0:16:30.320 --> 0:16:33.640 Renegades need to go in there for the good guys 0:16:34.240 --> 0:16:35.840 and clean that city up. 0:16:35.960 --> 0:16:36.200 Man. 0:16:36.440 --> 0:16:40.000 I mean for everybody like me who loves the Bay Area, 0:16:40.680 --> 0:16:42.040 this is a sad day. 0:16:43.280 --> 0:16:44.400 Oh it's embarrassing. 0:16:44.600 --> 0:16:47.560 And you'd think the people again that were in charge 0:16:47.560 --> 0:16:50.320 that could actually do something about it, that are elected 0:16:50.520 --> 0:16:53.240 or people that are working for the city could do 0:16:53.280 --> 0:16:53.720 something about it. 0:16:53.760 --> 0:16:57.560 But everyone's like, you know, that's fine. What are they doing? Seriously, 0:16:57.600 --> 0:16:58.200 what are they doing? 0:16:58.600 --> 0:17:02.000 If somebody in power, got up at a podium and 0:17:02.200 --> 0:17:05.639 broadcasted on all the TV stations and radio stations up 0:17:05.640 --> 0:17:08.280 there and said, if you do this, you will be 0:17:08.440 --> 0:17:12.360 shot on site. Do you think that those criminals might 0:17:12.480 --> 0:17:13.800 crawl back in their holes? 0:17:14.880 --> 0:17:17.080 Well, then they know they're not going to do it now, 0:17:17.119 --> 0:17:19.440 because yeah, it would be better because they know now 0:17:19.560 --> 0:17:22.520 nothing's going to happen. Even they get caught, what happens, 0:17:23.359 --> 0:17:25.560 you know, you get some judges like, ohright, well, you know, 0:17:26.800 --> 0:17:27.879 don't do it again, you know. 0:17:27.960 --> 0:17:28.160 Yeah. 0:17:28.200 --> 0:17:31.880 And recently there was a famous TikTok chef who scheduled 0:17:31.920 --> 0:17:36.320 this big trip to San Francisco to review some Bay 0:17:36.359 --> 0:17:40.000 Area restaurants. He was so excited and he gets there. 0:17:40.600 --> 0:17:45.199 What did he encounter? Tons of crime and problems. He 0:17:45.320 --> 0:17:49.440 had to cut his trip short and that made the 0:17:49.520 --> 0:17:52.440 rounds and a lot of Bay Area natives were sad 0:17:52.720 --> 0:17:54.479 seeing that story go viral. 0:17:55.320 --> 0:17:56.879 Well, we've told this story. 0:17:57.400 --> 0:17:59.520 I remember doing it on the podcast that there was 0:17:59.560 --> 0:18:02.760 a TV crew in San Francisco that was out doing 0:18:02.760 --> 0:18:05.440 a story on crime in San Francisco and they got 0:18:05.560 --> 0:18:09.160 robbed at gunpoint while doing a story about crime in 0:18:09.200 --> 0:18:14.000 San Francisco. They were you know, there's stuff taking so 0:18:15.040 --> 0:18:18.920 at gunpoint. So it's a wonderful place. It is actually 0:18:18.920 --> 0:18:20.520 a beautiful place. If they cleaned it up, it's a 0:18:20.560 --> 0:18:21.600 wonderful place to visit. 0:18:21.680 --> 0:18:24.440 But Mike, yeah, I mean this is going on in 0:18:24.480 --> 0:18:27.960 Berkeley too. And if you've ever been to the Berkeley 0:18:28.040 --> 0:18:29.680 Hills or the Oakland. 0:18:29.280 --> 0:18:30.720 Hills out of money, you don't know. 0:18:30.840 --> 0:18:33.560 There is millions and millions of dollars in those hills. 0:18:34.040 --> 0:18:37.159 But you go down to the flats and things are 0:18:37.200 --> 0:18:38.720 a nightmare with crime. 0:18:39.160 --> 0:18:40.200 Yeah, the thing that blows me away. 0:18:40.200 --> 0:18:41.800 And we see this, you know in La like in 0:18:41.880 --> 0:18:44.280 bel Air, Right, you have to come down from the 0:18:44.359 --> 0:18:49.520 hills to go shopping, right, there's no in those ritzy neighborhoods. 0:18:49.560 --> 0:18:53.239 There's no markets and things like that. Like, you have 0:18:53.320 --> 0:18:55.399 to go out and you have to go with the 0:18:55.440 --> 0:18:59.280 great unwashed. So if the great unwashed or robbing you 0:19:00.080 --> 0:19:01.560 at the store, what is that? 0:19:03.480 --> 0:19:04.159 I don't get it. 0:19:04.640 --> 0:19:07.119 I mean they've let it go for so many years 0:19:07.680 --> 0:19:10.240 that this is where we're at. 0:19:11.080 --> 0:19:14.520 Yeah, and this is not we're not doing politics here, 0:19:14.560 --> 0:19:16.359 but whatever they're doing is not working. 0:19:16.359 --> 0:19:17.800 How about that, Danny Well phrase it that way? 0:19:17.880 --> 0:19:21.919 Yes, we can we No, I mean I think I 0:19:21.960 --> 0:19:25.000 think that's more than fair. And as somebody who lived 0:19:25.000 --> 0:19:28.320 there for years, I can tell you that it's always 0:19:28.359 --> 0:19:32.159 been corrupt as far as politicians on both sides of 0:19:32.200 --> 0:19:36.359 the aisle and everything in between. Nothing has ever worked 0:19:36.400 --> 0:19:39.640 with anybody in their lip service. It's always been about 0:19:39.640 --> 0:19:43.200 the politicians and in that area lacing their own pockets 0:19:43.480 --> 0:19:46.000 and not giving a shit about the people who live there. 0:19:46.440 --> 0:19:49.640 But who's paying them to allow crime to happen? That's 0:19:49.680 --> 0:19:52.440 the part I've never understood. Like, if I understand they've 0:19:52.440 --> 0:19:55.840 got all these wonky moon bad ideas, that's fine, that's 0:19:55.840 --> 0:19:58.199 not my cup of tea. Whatever floats your boat. But 0:19:59.240 --> 0:20:02.159 like the crime thing, doesn't that hurt everyone? There are 0:20:02.200 --> 0:20:05.840 less businesses leave. That's less tax money for the politicians 0:20:05.920 --> 0:20:09.560 to spend frivolously, you know, pork bill spending and all that. 0:20:10.600 --> 0:20:12.679 I don't get it. Now, there is a positive in 0:20:12.720 --> 0:20:13.240 and out story. 0:20:13.280 --> 0:20:16.000 While they closed the one in Oakland near the airport, 0:20:16.760 --> 0:20:18.919 and I'll bet you they closed that because those videos 0:20:18.920 --> 0:20:21.120 went viral. Danny, you think that played a factor, because 0:20:21.119 --> 0:20:22.440 this has been going on since twenty. 0:20:22.320 --> 0:20:24.600