1 00:00:00,960 --> 00:00:05,480 Speaker 1: Boom. If you thought four hours a day, minutes a 2 00:00:05,480 --> 00:00:09,280 Speaker 1: week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants of 3 00:00:09,280 --> 00:00:12,920 Speaker 1: the old republic, a sole fashion of fairness. He treats 4 00:00:12,960 --> 00:00:15,800 Speaker 1: crackheads in the Ghetto Cutter the same as the rich 5 00:00:15,880 --> 00:00:19,880 Speaker 1: pill poppers in the penthouse. The clearing House of Hot 6 00:00:19,920 --> 00:00:23,639 Speaker 1: takes break free for something special. The Fifth Hour with 7 00:00:23,800 --> 00:00:33,400 Speaker 1: Ben Maller starts right now in the air everywhere. We're 8 00:00:33,520 --> 00:00:39,040 Speaker 1: back at it again on a Saturday, the final full weekend, 9 00:00:39,320 --> 00:00:43,240 Speaker 1: in fact, the final weekend of The Fifth Hour with 10 00:00:43,400 --> 00:00:49,159 Speaker 1: Ben Mallord and Dainty g Radio back on a Saturday. 11 00:00:49,159 --> 00:00:53,680 Speaker 1: I hope you enjoyed the holiday music from Friday. I 12 00:00:53,800 --> 00:00:55,240 Speaker 1: had fun out. That was a lot of work, though, 13 00:00:55,280 --> 00:00:57,640 Speaker 1: Danny right, A lot of work for you were all 14 00:00:57,680 --> 00:01:00,560 Speaker 1: over it, Roberto and Coope, and there were a lot 15 00:01:00,600 --> 00:01:03,800 Speaker 1: of moving parts. I was very skeptical whether or not 16 00:01:03,840 --> 00:01:05,440 Speaker 1: we were actually gonna be able to pull that off. 17 00:01:05,440 --> 00:01:07,679 Speaker 1: But a great job by everybody putting that together. And 18 00:01:07,680 --> 00:01:11,120 Speaker 1: you spent a lot of time helping to put everything 19 00:01:11,360 --> 00:01:13,760 Speaker 1: where it needed to be, so I do appreciate that 20 00:01:13,880 --> 00:01:16,520 Speaker 1: making that happen. I gotta say, man, that's one of 21 00:01:16,560 --> 00:01:19,960 Speaker 1: the best Christmas specials I've ever been a part of. Yeah, 22 00:01:20,000 --> 00:01:22,720 Speaker 1: definitely a team effort. So shouts out to everybody that 23 00:01:22,800 --> 00:01:26,040 Speaker 1: made that happen, and of course the Mallard Militia members 24 00:01:26,040 --> 00:01:29,760 Speaker 1: who sang those wonderful Christmas songs. Yeah, some very talented people. 25 00:01:29,800 --> 00:01:32,600 Speaker 1: And so thank you guys again. And I understand we 26 00:01:32,680 --> 00:01:34,800 Speaker 1: got a few more that actually came in over the weekend, 27 00:01:34,800 --> 00:01:38,440 Speaker 1: but unfortunately, uh, it's already made the special. We're not 28 00:01:38,440 --> 00:01:42,280 Speaker 1: adding more songs. We've already made the special. But but 29 00:01:42,400 --> 00:01:44,680 Speaker 1: we do thank you guys for continuing to send in 30 00:01:45,240 --> 00:01:48,200 Speaker 1: the holiday tunes. One of the guys who just sent 31 00:01:48,240 --> 00:01:50,560 Speaker 1: one in over the weekend that wasn't in the holiday 32 00:01:50,680 --> 00:01:53,920 Speaker 1: uh show on Friday, said that he was just recording 33 00:01:53,920 --> 00:01:57,200 Speaker 1: it in his bathroom on his iPhone. So the quality 34 00:01:57,240 --> 00:02:01,360 Speaker 1: of this, Danny g unbelievable believe. But just imagine remember 35 00:02:01,400 --> 00:02:03,560 Speaker 1: when we had a radio. We were young guys, and 36 00:02:03,600 --> 00:02:04,560 Speaker 1: you had to go with the It was like a 37 00:02:04,600 --> 00:02:07,680 Speaker 1: lot of equipment, professional equipment. You couldn't do this stuff 38 00:02:07,720 --> 00:02:11,760 Speaker 1: at home. But now you have a studio in your house. 39 00:02:11,800 --> 00:02:14,120 Speaker 1: It's unbelievable. You have a in your phone, you have 40 00:02:14,160 --> 00:02:17,160 Speaker 1: a studio. It's crazy. Then I remember when kids would 41 00:02:17,160 --> 00:02:21,200 Speaker 1: line up at Great America in Santa Clara, California to 42 00:02:21,560 --> 00:02:25,400 Speaker 1: record at one of those makeshift studios that they put 43 00:02:25,440 --> 00:02:29,359 Speaker 1: inside the amusement park where you could record to your 44 00:02:29,440 --> 00:02:34,600 Speaker 1: favorite instrumental. So there were girls singing tiffany, uh, you know, 45 00:02:34,720 --> 00:02:37,119 Speaker 1: thinking they had wonderful voices, and they would just put 46 00:02:37,160 --> 00:02:40,000 Speaker 1: tons of reverb on the girl's voice and be like 47 00:02:40,080 --> 00:02:42,680 Speaker 1: you could be a star too. I think they would 48 00:02:42,720 --> 00:02:46,040 Speaker 1: charge each kid like bucks for a record. Did you 49 00:02:46,080 --> 00:02:48,280 Speaker 1: ever have a Mr microphone when you were a kid. 50 00:02:48,280 --> 00:02:51,240 Speaker 1: Were you really get one of those uh that cheeseball 51 00:02:51,320 --> 00:02:53,360 Speaker 1: toy I had? I had one of those things. I 52 00:02:53,400 --> 00:02:55,919 Speaker 1: think my mom was too broken. She also pointed out 53 00:02:55,960 --> 00:02:59,239 Speaker 1: that she thought it would break. Definitely, it definitely would break, 54 00:03:00,120 --> 00:03:03,520 Speaker 1: but it was you could like broadcast on the radio, 55 00:03:03,680 --> 00:03:07,800 Speaker 1: like it came across on your radio. It's really I 56 00:03:07,800 --> 00:03:09,680 Speaker 1: think I'm thinkuring of the MR microphone I had. I 57 00:03:09,760 --> 00:03:11,720 Speaker 1: had some kind of device when I was a kid 58 00:03:11,760 --> 00:03:14,040 Speaker 1: that I had gotten that you could turn it on 59 00:03:14,120 --> 00:03:16,320 Speaker 1: like the FM dial and it would come through the 60 00:03:16,360 --> 00:03:19,040 Speaker 1: speakers like something like that. So I think that was 61 00:03:19,040 --> 00:03:21,480 Speaker 1: a MR microphone. Maybe not, I'm sure none of those 62 00:03:21,520 --> 00:03:25,160 Speaker 1: waves went through your brain either No, no, not at all. 63 00:03:26,240 --> 00:03:30,720 Speaker 1: Not Actually, before we started rolling on the podcast full disclosure. 64 00:03:31,120 --> 00:03:35,800 Speaker 1: So I fell down a rabbit hole. I popped up 65 00:03:35,840 --> 00:03:40,240 Speaker 1: on the YouTube and I was watching a nineteen eighties 66 00:03:40,280 --> 00:03:44,640 Speaker 1: six NBC game of the week, the Red Sox and 67 00:03:44,680 --> 00:03:46,800 Speaker 1: the Yankees. This just popped up, and so I started 68 00:03:46,800 --> 00:03:50,120 Speaker 1: watching it, right, and I'm watching this thing and the 69 00:03:50,240 --> 00:03:53,960 Speaker 1: interviewed George Steinbrenner, the you know, legendary owner of the 70 00:03:54,000 --> 00:03:56,160 Speaker 1: Yankees in that era, and it was the funniest thing, 71 00:03:56,240 --> 00:03:59,200 Speaker 1: Danny looking at where the world is now? And I 72 00:03:59,200 --> 00:04:01,520 Speaker 1: watched I probably second when I was a kid, but 73 00:04:02,120 --> 00:04:05,600 Speaker 1: watching it now and seeing like Steinbrenner say, you know, 74 00:04:05,680 --> 00:04:08,080 Speaker 1: my top guy in the Yankees is getting one point 75 00:04:08,120 --> 00:04:12,119 Speaker 1: six million, and for that kind of money, you expect win, 76 00:04:12,480 --> 00:04:15,360 Speaker 1: you know, and you expect criticism and and and then 77 00:04:15,400 --> 00:04:18,119 Speaker 1: he was talking to Joe Garashi Old and so passed 78 00:04:18,120 --> 00:04:20,440 Speaker 1: away a few years ago, but the legendary broadcaster who 79 00:04:20,480 --> 00:04:23,240 Speaker 1: was a player, and Steinbrenners complaining to him. He says, 80 00:04:23,240 --> 00:04:25,520 Speaker 1: these players today aren't like you. Guys played for the 81 00:04:25,560 --> 00:04:28,520 Speaker 1: love of the game, and these players today they show 82 00:04:28,600 --> 00:04:31,880 Speaker 1: up with their briefcase and their agent right behind him, 83 00:04:31,880 --> 00:04:34,040 Speaker 1: and it was it was just hilarious looking at where 84 00:04:34,040 --> 00:04:36,680 Speaker 1: the salaries are now and all these guys are long gone. 85 00:04:36,720 --> 00:04:40,640 Speaker 1: But the highest guy in the Yankees is Garrett Cole, 86 00:04:40,800 --> 00:04:43,280 Speaker 1: who's got to be around thirty five million, maybe a 87 00:04:43,279 --> 00:04:46,640 Speaker 1: little more than that. I don't know. I just famdomly 88 00:04:46,880 --> 00:04:48,680 Speaker 1: things that popping your head, Danny, when you know the 89 00:04:48,760 --> 00:04:52,359 Speaker 1: guys today wipe their butt with those old contracts. I remember, 90 00:04:52,400 --> 00:04:55,120 Speaker 1: being a small kid. I think it was Dave Winfield 91 00:04:55,160 --> 00:04:59,320 Speaker 1: who made the million dollar contract. I don't look at Winfield. 92 00:04:59,360 --> 00:05:02,120 Speaker 1: There was like, was it Nolan Ryan, Kirby Park, I 93 00:05:02,200 --> 00:05:04,799 Speaker 1: remember Kirby Pucket at one point was last bad Winfield 94 00:05:04,839 --> 00:05:07,800 Speaker 1: got a big contract. I remember when Winfield got a 95 00:05:07,839 --> 00:05:10,479 Speaker 1: big contract and it was on the news and my 96 00:05:10,600 --> 00:05:14,920 Speaker 1: grandmother was cursing out the TV. Yeah, because she thought 97 00:05:15,000 --> 00:05:19,080 Speaker 1: it was outrageous to play a kid's game. And she 98 00:05:19,160 --> 00:05:21,839 Speaker 1: also was the kind of lady who bitched constantly about 99 00:05:21,880 --> 00:05:25,360 Speaker 1: gas prices. Yeah, well i'm i'm, I'm I'm sharen. Didn't 100 00:05:25,640 --> 00:05:28,120 Speaker 1: like that woman. I complained about gas prices all the time. 101 00:05:28,200 --> 00:05:31,440 Speaker 1: I hated uh and I get gas a lot, but uh, 102 00:05:31,880 --> 00:05:33,960 Speaker 1: let me let me also but that's one of those things. 103 00:05:33,960 --> 00:05:36,960 Speaker 1: Like watching that Steinbrenner rant. It triggered like a light 104 00:05:37,000 --> 00:05:40,680 Speaker 1: bulb in my head because my entire life. I remember 105 00:05:40,680 --> 00:05:43,800 Speaker 1: when I started covering the NBA in the nineties and 106 00:05:43,839 --> 00:05:46,360 Speaker 1: this is like, yeah, you know mid nights, and then 107 00:05:46,400 --> 00:05:49,640 Speaker 1: Iverson came in after that and Chris Webber and guys 108 00:05:49,720 --> 00:05:52,200 Speaker 1: used to rip those guys and the older generation beyond 109 00:05:52,360 --> 00:05:55,960 Speaker 1: these players today are soft and now we fast forward. 110 00:05:56,080 --> 00:05:59,120 Speaker 1: And then it was after that generation. It was like 111 00:05:59,160 --> 00:06:02,039 Speaker 1: the Kobe Jet aeration that came in, and then it 112 00:06:02,120 --> 00:06:04,960 Speaker 1: was that generation ripping the old generation. And now we're 113 00:06:05,120 --> 00:06:07,520 Speaker 1: it's the same. It's the same thing. It just like 114 00:06:07,720 --> 00:06:11,120 Speaker 1: the circle of life, and in sports it just continues 115 00:06:11,200 --> 00:06:13,840 Speaker 1: like whoever's doing it now doesn't do it as good 116 00:06:13,880 --> 00:06:16,360 Speaker 1: as the old people, and then when they're the old people, 117 00:06:16,640 --> 00:06:19,120 Speaker 1: they then complain about who's doing it now. So it's 118 00:06:19,120 --> 00:06:23,280 Speaker 1: a wonderful thing. Anyway. On this edition of The Fifth Hour, 119 00:06:23,760 --> 00:06:26,320 Speaker 1: we have a couple of random things, so this is 120 00:06:26,360 --> 00:06:30,240 Speaker 1: the Life of Mallard edition. We've got the strapper, the 121 00:06:30,400 --> 00:06:35,960 Speaker 1: coke bottle, hairy situation, the Christmas party and chim Chimminy 122 00:06:36,839 --> 00:06:40,080 Speaker 1: and whatever else pops up. Alright, so we'll get right 123 00:06:40,080 --> 00:06:43,040 Speaker 1: into it. So I what a wonderful weekend. I put 124 00:06:43,080 --> 00:06:46,720 Speaker 1: some photographs up on Instagram and Facebook. I hope you 125 00:06:46,760 --> 00:06:48,440 Speaker 1: guys got to see it last weekend if you want 126 00:06:48,480 --> 00:06:51,000 Speaker 1: to check that out and snoop around on what I 127 00:06:51,040 --> 00:06:54,640 Speaker 1: was doing. But I got the play dress up. I 128 00:06:54,720 --> 00:06:58,160 Speaker 1: do this every year once a year, and I had 129 00:06:58,200 --> 00:07:01,560 Speaker 1: a wonderful time. It's a yearly tradition like the swallows 130 00:07:01,560 --> 00:07:05,600 Speaker 1: returning to Capistrano or Punksitani Phil coming out to see 131 00:07:05,760 --> 00:07:09,600 Speaker 1: his shadow, and uh so I played it was Mallard Clause. 132 00:07:10,080 --> 00:07:13,520 Speaker 1: Mallard Claus always see pictures of this every year. Yeah. 133 00:07:13,640 --> 00:07:15,760 Speaker 1: So it was a lot of fun. So me and 134 00:07:15,760 --> 00:07:18,480 Speaker 1: the wife headed out to this magical town. I cannot 135 00:07:18,480 --> 00:07:20,920 Speaker 1: say which town it is, but we went into a 136 00:07:20,960 --> 00:07:25,120 Speaker 1: trailer and I put on the st nick outfit. Become 137 00:07:25,120 --> 00:07:26,760 Speaker 1: pretty good at this. I've done it a long time now, 138 00:07:26,800 --> 00:07:28,720 Speaker 1: so I know how to put the boots on the 139 00:07:28,720 --> 00:07:31,840 Speaker 1: whole thing. I'll tell everybody it's for the kids in Compton. 140 00:07:32,240 --> 00:07:37,360 Speaker 1: Yes exactly. Yes. So I climbed up the fire truck 141 00:07:38,480 --> 00:07:42,760 Speaker 1: a a real real strapper. Uh yeah, because I got 142 00:07:42,800 --> 00:07:44,880 Speaker 1: strapped to the chair. They had to strap me in. 143 00:07:45,280 --> 00:07:47,960 Speaker 1: They didn't want me flying. How devastating would that have 144 00:07:48,000 --> 00:07:50,280 Speaker 1: been to the kids? If if Santa goes flying off 145 00:07:50,320 --> 00:07:53,600 Speaker 1: the fire truck and dies, Uh, that would have that 146 00:07:53,640 --> 00:07:56,520 Speaker 1: would have been a problem. But it went out, It 147 00:07:56,560 --> 00:07:58,800 Speaker 1: went off without a blast. I mean a great time. 148 00:07:59,080 --> 00:08:00,920 Speaker 1: It's it's combination. I said. Every year, it's like the 149 00:08:01,000 --> 00:08:04,840 Speaker 1: Rose Parade with the Disneyland electrical Parade. Do they even 150 00:08:04,880 --> 00:08:07,440 Speaker 1: have the electrical parade anymore? Is that old news? Is that? Like, 151 00:08:07,480 --> 00:08:11,000 Speaker 1: am I dating myself due to COVID? Or at least 152 00:08:11,080 --> 00:08:14,440 Speaker 1: they've blamed it on that Disneyland is not doing their 153 00:08:14,640 --> 00:08:18,640 Speaker 1: usual parades they do like little mini parades. Now, Oh really, 154 00:08:18,680 --> 00:08:20,920 Speaker 1: I didn't know. I was never a big parade. I 155 00:08:20,920 --> 00:08:22,280 Speaker 1: mean I remember when I was a kid and I went. 156 00:08:22,360 --> 00:08:24,400 Speaker 1: My mom wanted to see the electrical parade and see 157 00:08:24,400 --> 00:08:26,920 Speaker 1: all the stuff, and I actually I wanted to hang 158 00:08:26,920 --> 00:08:28,720 Speaker 1: out in the magic shop. I thought I was gonna 159 00:08:28,720 --> 00:08:31,760 Speaker 1: be a professional magician when I was Well, everybody knows 160 00:08:31,800 --> 00:08:35,880 Speaker 1: ben you get COVID from parades. Yes, yes, and uh, 161 00:08:36,040 --> 00:08:38,959 Speaker 1: it's good to know that the state of California this week. 162 00:08:39,000 --> 00:08:41,400 Speaker 1: But the mask mandate because the mask works so well 163 00:08:41,520 --> 00:08:43,840 Speaker 1: so why don't we bring it back and mandate everyone 164 00:08:44,480 --> 00:08:48,400 Speaker 1: It hadn't ended. I don't even understanding it had. It 165 00:08:48,480 --> 00:08:51,680 Speaker 1: hadn't not not where you are, where I am, it 166 00:08:51,720 --> 00:08:55,560 Speaker 1: had ended and it wasn't required. Oh, most people still 167 00:08:55,600 --> 00:08:57,360 Speaker 1: wore the mask. But where I was living, you know, 168 00:08:57,360 --> 00:08:59,520 Speaker 1: where I've been living, they don't, you know, that require 169 00:09:00,200 --> 00:09:02,199 Speaker 1: the mess. But I don't think they're really enforcing this. 170 00:09:02,440 --> 00:09:05,120 Speaker 1: So I try to avoid going out anyway because I 171 00:09:05,120 --> 00:09:07,120 Speaker 1: don't like to see people, so I don't really go 172 00:09:07,160 --> 00:09:09,320 Speaker 1: out much. But I don't think they're enforcing it very 173 00:09:09,360 --> 00:09:11,760 Speaker 1: much anyway. By so I I played, you know, Santa 174 00:09:11,760 --> 00:09:14,400 Speaker 1: Claus through the whole thing, hawking, the horns were hawking, 175 00:09:14,440 --> 00:09:17,160 Speaker 1: the science, the sirens were going. Did it seem like 176 00:09:17,200 --> 00:09:20,360 Speaker 1: a normal pre COVID parade route? You know it did. 177 00:09:20,440 --> 00:09:23,640 Speaker 1: It's it's very very similar to I went on the 178 00:09:23,679 --> 00:09:26,040 Speaker 1: same There's there's a it's a pretty big city, the 179 00:09:26,040 --> 00:09:29,280 Speaker 1: city that I do this in, and so there's there's 180 00:09:29,280 --> 00:09:32,000 Speaker 1: different routes or routes depending on where you grew up. 181 00:09:32,000 --> 00:09:35,640 Speaker 1: And so I on this route. We went in the 182 00:09:36,240 --> 00:09:40,360 Speaker 1: in the foothills, and so it was very cold and 183 00:09:40,400 --> 00:09:43,679 Speaker 1: it had just rained all day So the only complaint 184 00:09:43,760 --> 00:09:47,840 Speaker 1: that I have is in the Santa suit, I'm not 185 00:09:48,040 --> 00:09:49,839 Speaker 1: as fat as I used to be. I don't have 186 00:09:50,000 --> 00:09:54,160 Speaker 1: the insulation that I had at one point, and so 187 00:09:54,440 --> 00:09:59,440 Speaker 1: it got California cold, and California cold is not really cold, 188 00:09:59,440 --> 00:10:00,839 Speaker 1: it's just cal for you cold. But it was in 189 00:10:00,880 --> 00:10:04,479 Speaker 1: the high thirties up in the hills and you're outside 190 00:10:04,480 --> 00:10:08,760 Speaker 1: strapped to a fire truck for three hours and you're 191 00:10:08,840 --> 00:10:11,760 Speaker 1: you're by the end of the night. Uh. We were 192 00:10:11,800 --> 00:10:13,679 Speaker 1: going back to the place where I was going to 193 00:10:13,760 --> 00:10:15,920 Speaker 1: get off the fire truck. I could not feel my fingers. 194 00:10:15,960 --> 00:10:18,640 Speaker 1: I I literally felt like I was Frosty the Snowman 195 00:10:18,840 --> 00:10:22,800 Speaker 1: as I was coming coming off the fire truck. And uh. 196 00:10:22,840 --> 00:10:24,960 Speaker 1: And the other thing that I would point out is 197 00:10:25,000 --> 00:10:28,320 Speaker 1: it it was not all perfect because I did somewhere 198 00:10:28,360 --> 00:10:31,040 Speaker 1: along the parade route in my haste to be a 199 00:10:31,040 --> 00:10:34,040 Speaker 1: good Santa and wave at everyone that came running out 200 00:10:34,040 --> 00:10:37,000 Speaker 1: of their house to see Santa on the fire truck. Uh. 201 00:10:37,040 --> 00:10:40,680 Speaker 1: I somehow lost my Fitbit tracker that I have my 202 00:10:40,760 --> 00:10:44,160 Speaker 1: fitness tracker, but flying off the truck, I don't know 203 00:10:44,200 --> 00:10:48,400 Speaker 1: where I'm never seeing that again. So that that was 204 00:10:48,480 --> 00:10:51,319 Speaker 1: didn't know anybody had a fit bit anymore, and I 205 00:10:51,360 --> 00:10:54,560 Speaker 1: don't have one anymore either. It's gone. I liked it 206 00:10:54,559 --> 00:10:56,240 Speaker 1: though I had. It has stop Watch on it, but 207 00:10:56,280 --> 00:10:59,760 Speaker 1: I I've already replaced it, so to the Amazon. But 208 00:11:00,480 --> 00:11:04,000 Speaker 1: I was gonna say, Santa's gonna have to hook up Santa. No. 209 00:11:04,040 --> 00:11:08,480 Speaker 1: I I sacrificed so I could give the joy of 210 00:11:08,600 --> 00:11:10,880 Speaker 1: having someone on a fire truck wave at you. But 211 00:11:10,920 --> 00:11:13,640 Speaker 1: it was it was and some some blocks we would 212 00:11:13,679 --> 00:11:15,920 Speaker 1: go down and there'd be nobody, and then other blocks 213 00:11:15,920 --> 00:11:18,959 Speaker 1: like they be whole parties of like fifty people coming 214 00:11:18,960 --> 00:11:21,720 Speaker 1: out in their long to see Santa. And at one 215 00:11:21,760 --> 00:11:23,520 Speaker 1: point it was a lot of fun. There were these 216 00:11:23,559 --> 00:11:25,559 Speaker 1: kids thing because there's no real snow they were throwing 217 00:11:25,600 --> 00:11:29,480 Speaker 1: fake snowballs, these little, these little foam things. So I, 218 00:11:29,679 --> 00:11:32,240 Speaker 1: of course, being evil Santa, I was taking them and 219 00:11:32,320 --> 00:11:36,880 Speaker 1: throwing them back at the kids that were throwing the things. 220 00:11:37,000 --> 00:11:40,319 Speaker 1: I was a lot of fun. Move Yeah, it was 221 00:11:40,360 --> 00:11:44,000 Speaker 1: like the people doing that. It was like the famous 222 00:11:44,040 --> 00:11:47,400 Speaker 1: trope of Philadelphia. You know, are you they threw snowballs 223 00:11:47,400 --> 00:11:50,760 Speaker 1: at Santa Claus. Yeah. Well, my favorite Santa is Billy 224 00:11:50,840 --> 00:11:56,080 Speaker 1: Bob Thornton, so right in that arena. Oh sure, absolutely 225 00:11:56,080 --> 00:11:59,079 Speaker 1: on that. So so that was my Santa. And when 226 00:11:59,080 --> 00:12:01,800 Speaker 1: I mentioned Santa, I bring this story up from time 227 00:12:01,840 --> 00:12:06,760 Speaker 1: to time, but the whole Santa thing every year. It's 228 00:12:06,760 --> 00:12:08,200 Speaker 1: probably not a lot of kids listening to this, But 229 00:12:08,760 --> 00:12:10,440 Speaker 1: since I was playing Santa, I thought, you know what, 230 00:12:10,520 --> 00:12:14,720 Speaker 1: I need to remind that the magical fairy tale of 231 00:12:14,800 --> 00:12:18,640 Speaker 1: Santa Claus that has been molded into the zeitgeist of 232 00:12:18,679 --> 00:12:23,920 Speaker 1: society is in large part because of not pepsi a 233 00:12:24,000 --> 00:12:27,240 Speaker 1: coke bottle. And it's just it's still fascinates me to 234 00:12:27,280 --> 00:12:31,560 Speaker 1: think about how big Santa Claus is. And if you 235 00:12:31,679 --> 00:12:35,960 Speaker 1: go back to the nineteen twenties, it was a much different, 236 00:12:37,160 --> 00:12:40,280 Speaker 1: much different world, like the whole legend Coca Cola. Not 237 00:12:40,440 --> 00:12:43,400 Speaker 1: that they invented Santa Claus, because they didn't invent Santa Claus, 238 00:12:43,520 --> 00:12:47,400 Speaker 1: but they did shape what the modern image of Santa 239 00:12:47,400 --> 00:12:51,520 Speaker 1: Claus looks like. And it's before nineteen thirty one. There 240 00:12:51,559 --> 00:12:54,719 Speaker 1: were a bunch of different drawings of Santa Claus, wore 241 00:12:54,800 --> 00:12:57,880 Speaker 1: different color outfits, didn't didn't know some some Santa Claus 242 00:12:57,920 --> 00:13:00,920 Speaker 1: were red, but a lot of them did not, were 243 00:13:00,960 --> 00:13:06,040 Speaker 1: purple blue, different colors and all that. And they they 244 00:13:06,040 --> 00:13:10,559 Speaker 1: had a guy draw Santa Claus. They commissioned an illustrator 245 00:13:11,640 --> 00:13:14,520 Speaker 1: and this guy in nineteen thirty one, so it's been 246 00:13:15,280 --> 00:13:18,920 Speaker 1: ninety years. This guy drew Santa Claus for Coca Cola 247 00:13:18,960 --> 00:13:24,600 Speaker 1: advertisements and that established what is to this day what 248 00:13:24,679 --> 00:13:27,840 Speaker 1: people think of as what Santa Claus looks like. Wild 249 00:13:28,240 --> 00:13:30,560 Speaker 1: to think of the part that is an unbelievable thing 250 00:13:31,240 --> 00:13:33,880 Speaker 1: that you know, maybe somebody else would have done it eventually, 251 00:13:33,920 --> 00:13:37,480 Speaker 1: but that's crazy to me. Yeah, obviously Jewish growing up, 252 00:13:37,480 --> 00:13:41,320 Speaker 1: I didn't have Santa Claus other than holiday things at 253 00:13:41,360 --> 00:13:43,200 Speaker 1: school and stuff like that. But when I remember as 254 00:13:43,240 --> 00:13:46,800 Speaker 1: a kid, there was a Saturday Night Live this is 255 00:13:46,840 --> 00:13:49,120 Speaker 1: the Hairy Situation. Do you did you ever see the 256 00:13:49,160 --> 00:13:55,600 Speaker 1: skit hanaka Harry from the late eighties. Yeah, so this 257 00:13:55,720 --> 00:13:57,760 Speaker 1: was like a big deal as a Jewish kid and 258 00:13:58,040 --> 00:14:01,400 Speaker 1: uh and I still still finally remember and one of 259 00:14:01,440 --> 00:14:04,200 Speaker 1: these days, I'm gonna get this outfit. So John Lovett's 260 00:14:04,920 --> 00:14:07,920 Speaker 1: it was, I guess still around. Um he was on 261 00:14:07,960 --> 00:14:11,800 Speaker 1: Saturday Night, this is probably and they did a skit 262 00:14:11,960 --> 00:14:15,959 Speaker 1: the night Hanakah Harry Saved Christmas, And you know it 263 00:14:16,040 --> 00:14:17,640 Speaker 1: was just back I used to watch Saturday and I 264 00:14:17,800 --> 00:14:19,320 Speaker 1: have all the way all the time, back when I 265 00:14:19,360 --> 00:14:21,680 Speaker 1: was a kid, and it's a big deal on the weekends, 266 00:14:21,720 --> 00:14:23,040 Speaker 1: and we got to stay up late because it was 267 00:14:23,080 --> 00:14:25,840 Speaker 1: on Saturday obviously, and so uh yeah, it was really 268 00:14:25,840 --> 00:14:28,520 Speaker 1: funny because in the skit, John Lovett is playing Santa Claus. 269 00:14:28,720 --> 00:14:30,560 Speaker 1: You know, he's got the Santa outfit, but it's blue 270 00:14:31,960 --> 00:14:34,680 Speaker 1: with white and he's got he's got the old you know, 271 00:14:34,720 --> 00:14:38,160 Speaker 1: old man beard and all that, and he he lives 272 00:14:38,240 --> 00:14:42,840 Speaker 1: on Mount Sinai that's where he lives. He lives instead 273 00:14:42,840 --> 00:14:46,080 Speaker 1: of the North Pole. And he comes over there and 274 00:14:46,080 --> 00:14:48,320 Speaker 1: I think, if I remember correctly, he like helped out 275 00:14:48,440 --> 00:14:50,960 Speaker 1: Santa Claus because there's something wrong with Santa Claus. So 276 00:14:51,000 --> 00:14:54,840 Speaker 1: he he had a cart with three donkeys, and yeah, 277 00:14:54,880 --> 00:14:58,680 Speaker 1: he flew around in a flying cart and Shlomo was 278 00:14:58,720 --> 00:15:00,000 Speaker 1: the name of one of them. I don't remember the 279 00:15:00,040 --> 00:15:03,000 Speaker 1: other names, but it was. It was pretty funny. And 280 00:15:03,160 --> 00:15:06,640 Speaker 1: uh and now they have the well, I know my 281 00:15:06,720 --> 00:15:10,880 Speaker 1: wife's family they do. They did the Santa what is 282 00:15:10,920 --> 00:15:13,680 Speaker 1: the Santa on a the elf Elf on a shelf 283 00:15:13,800 --> 00:15:17,920 Speaker 1: right there. Yeah, and uh, I know in the Jewish 284 00:15:17,920 --> 00:15:20,560 Speaker 1: culture we have Mention on the bench, which is the 285 00:15:20,680 --> 00:15:24,120 Speaker 1: rip off version of Elf on the shelf, so they 286 00:15:24,120 --> 00:15:27,440 Speaker 1: have that, but but no no Hanaka thing, no Hanaka Harry, 287 00:15:27,520 --> 00:15:29,720 Speaker 1: but you can't get the costume online one of these areas. 288 00:15:29,720 --> 00:15:31,440 Speaker 1: I'm gonna do it, but I can't wear it to 289 00:15:31,520 --> 00:15:33,480 Speaker 1: the whole parade thing because if if I show up 290 00:15:33,480 --> 00:15:35,840 Speaker 1: with the blue sand outfit, man, I'll get in trouble. 291 00:15:36,120 --> 00:15:38,120 Speaker 1: They'll get very upset with me, right, and that will 292 00:15:38,160 --> 00:15:41,880 Speaker 1: not go over well. I'm gonna YouTube Hanaka Harry this 293 00:15:41,920 --> 00:15:44,240 Speaker 1: weekend so I can see what you're talking about. Yeah, 294 00:15:44,320 --> 00:15:46,600 Speaker 1: you should check it out. Honaker Harry was on twice. 295 00:15:46,680 --> 00:15:51,240 Speaker 1: I'm sure it's on YouTube once in late nineteen nine 296 00:15:51,400 --> 00:15:54,080 Speaker 1: and then probably the I would assume nineteen early and 297 00:15:54,120 --> 00:15:57,200 Speaker 1: nine popped up. I don't think they did anything with 298 00:15:57,200 --> 00:15:58,760 Speaker 1: with that. Again, I think that was it. That was 299 00:15:58,800 --> 00:16:00,320 Speaker 1: the character was only on a couple of times. But 300 00:16:00,360 --> 00:16:04,280 Speaker 1: it's still all these years later, I still flashback to 301 00:16:04,440 --> 00:16:08,720 Speaker 1: that and think fondly of of all that. So, uh, now, 302 00:16:08,760 --> 00:16:10,640 Speaker 1: what's going on? Holiday party? I did? We did not 303 00:16:10,720 --> 00:16:13,520 Speaker 1: have our Christmas party at the Mallard Mansion this year, unfortunately, 304 00:16:13,560 --> 00:16:16,240 Speaker 1: because not because of an abundance of caution and not 305 00:16:16,360 --> 00:16:18,640 Speaker 1: because of COVID Uh, no, no, no, we would have 306 00:16:18,680 --> 00:16:20,480 Speaker 1: absolutely had the party, but the house is a mess 307 00:16:20,840 --> 00:16:22,760 Speaker 1: and we were embarrassed and we didn't want anyone to 308 00:16:22,800 --> 00:16:24,240 Speaker 1: come over and say, what are you living like this? 309 00:16:24,360 --> 00:16:27,200 Speaker 1: What's wrong with you? And plus it's far away from everyone, 310 00:16:27,240 --> 00:16:29,080 Speaker 1: so we wanted to wait until the house is nice 311 00:16:29,080 --> 00:16:31,800 Speaker 1: and all that. But I understand that you are the 312 00:16:31,840 --> 00:16:33,920 Speaker 1: man of the people there. You are out and about 313 00:16:34,080 --> 00:16:38,520 Speaker 1: and doing holiday parties. Is that accurate? Am I hearing incorrectly? Yeah? 314 00:16:38,680 --> 00:16:40,840 Speaker 1: So I'm not proud to share this story, but I 315 00:16:40,840 --> 00:16:44,880 Speaker 1: will share it because it's entertaining. Let's go back two 316 00:16:44,920 --> 00:16:47,640 Speaker 1: weeks and uh, a friend of mine in the San 317 00:16:47,680 --> 00:16:50,840 Speaker 1: Fernando Valley and the hills there told me, Hey, I 318 00:16:51,000 --> 00:16:53,800 Speaker 1: have a party at my at my house, and uh, 319 00:16:54,040 --> 00:16:57,280 Speaker 1: you know, why don't you and your lovely tenderoni come 320 00:16:57,680 --> 00:17:00,720 Speaker 1: to the party. It's Saturday. So I'm like, okay, cool, 321 00:17:00,800 --> 00:17:03,000 Speaker 1: sounds good. And I told him I do work at 322 00:17:03,040 --> 00:17:05,520 Speaker 1: the network on Saturday, but I'm out of there at 323 00:17:05,560 --> 00:17:08,040 Speaker 1: like seven. She could meet me there in the valley 324 00:17:08,080 --> 00:17:09,840 Speaker 1: and you know, we'll be there around eight or so 325 00:17:09,960 --> 00:17:12,480 Speaker 1: eight thirty probably. He's like, yeah, that's cool. He's like, 326 00:17:12,560 --> 00:17:14,800 Speaker 1: tell you what in the next couple of days, I'll 327 00:17:14,840 --> 00:17:18,560 Speaker 1: forward you the digital invite. I'll text it to you 328 00:17:19,040 --> 00:17:20,720 Speaker 1: that way you have a few days or whatever. And 329 00:17:20,720 --> 00:17:23,119 Speaker 1: I'm like, okay, cool, perfect. Is this a house party 330 00:17:23,240 --> 00:17:25,760 Speaker 1: or is this like a private party. It's a house 331 00:17:25,760 --> 00:17:29,639 Speaker 1: party for like him and co workers and friends, just 332 00:17:30,200 --> 00:17:33,760 Speaker 1: get together, a private get together. Yeah. I told my 333 00:17:33,920 --> 00:17:36,480 Speaker 1: girl about it and she was like, sounds good. And 334 00:17:37,040 --> 00:17:40,399 Speaker 1: so we spent the week last week preparing for the party. 335 00:17:40,800 --> 00:17:42,720 Speaker 1: I think it was like Tuesday. I get the text 336 00:17:42,760 --> 00:17:45,880 Speaker 1: from him and there's the digital flyer and I forwarded 337 00:17:45,920 --> 00:17:49,240 Speaker 1: that onto my tinder RONI. We looked at both looked 338 00:17:49,240 --> 00:17:51,439 Speaker 1: at the address on there, and we're like okay, and 339 00:17:51,480 --> 00:17:53,639 Speaker 1: so we're we're ready now for this party. You know, 340 00:17:53,680 --> 00:17:57,439 Speaker 1: we have our outfits and we coordinated it. So I'm like, okay, 341 00:17:57,440 --> 00:17:59,840 Speaker 1: I'm at work. As soon as my shift is over, 342 00:18:00,359 --> 00:18:04,440 Speaker 1: I'll go there to the FSR bathroom and change really quick. 343 00:18:04,520 --> 00:18:07,320 Speaker 1: And she ironed a shirt for me and she brought 344 00:18:07,359 --> 00:18:10,800 Speaker 1: the shirt so she Now, and you know, Ben, women 345 00:18:10,960 --> 00:18:15,440 Speaker 1: spend how many hours getting ready for Christmas party? God? Yeah, yeah, yeah, guy, 346 00:18:15,800 --> 00:18:19,280 Speaker 1: that's one of the biggest adjustments. And you're you're engaged 347 00:18:19,280 --> 00:18:22,359 Speaker 1: and all that, Danny, so be prepared. The it's never 348 00:18:22,400 --> 00:18:24,560 Speaker 1: you know, as a single man, and I was single 349 00:18:24,600 --> 00:18:26,920 Speaker 1: for a long time before I met my wife. If 350 00:18:26,960 --> 00:18:29,840 Speaker 1: I wanted to go somewhere within five minutes, I could 351 00:18:29,840 --> 00:18:32,639 Speaker 1: get up and leave and be in the car. But 352 00:18:32,880 --> 00:18:35,560 Speaker 1: it's a hole to do. It's a whole process. There's 353 00:18:35,640 --> 00:18:39,000 Speaker 1: there's layers to it. It's no just wake up and go. 354 00:18:39,440 --> 00:18:41,520 Speaker 1: And even to this day, like my wife will have 355 00:18:41,560 --> 00:18:45,040 Speaker 1: to wake up forty minutes before I do because I'm 356 00:18:45,040 --> 00:18:47,560 Speaker 1: ready to go. I'm good to go. But yeah, it's 357 00:18:47,560 --> 00:18:49,200 Speaker 1: a whole And then and I get it. They want 358 00:18:49,200 --> 00:18:50,800 Speaker 1: to look good and they want to, you know, get 359 00:18:50,800 --> 00:18:52,639 Speaker 1: all dressed up and all dolled up and stuff for 360 00:18:52,680 --> 00:18:55,679 Speaker 1: the party. And that's always nice, but you do it quicker. 361 00:18:56,000 --> 00:18:58,520 Speaker 1: And in their defense, they're trying to look good for 362 00:18:58,560 --> 00:19:01,399 Speaker 1: you too, because they want to be her arm candy. 363 00:19:01,480 --> 00:19:05,480 Speaker 1: That's commendable, but it does take hours. And in my 364 00:19:05,760 --> 00:19:08,960 Speaker 1: girls defense, on a normal date night, she could get 365 00:19:08,960 --> 00:19:12,920 Speaker 1: ready pretty easily. It's not a big fiasco. In this 366 00:19:12,960 --> 00:19:16,119 Speaker 1: case though for a Christmas party, no I knew she 367 00:19:16,240 --> 00:19:20,320 Speaker 1: was taking the whole day. There's nails involved, there's hair, curling. 368 00:19:20,840 --> 00:19:26,240 Speaker 1: There's basically the eyebrow model type makeup. I mean, it's 369 00:19:26,240 --> 00:19:29,960 Speaker 1: a whole thing, glitter around the eyes, everything. So I 370 00:19:30,040 --> 00:19:32,480 Speaker 1: knew this was gonna be a half a day process. 371 00:19:32,960 --> 00:19:35,800 Speaker 1: But she's on time. She meets me there. There's a 372 00:19:35,800 --> 00:19:38,720 Speaker 1: little bit of stress involved because I had to park 373 00:19:38,840 --> 00:19:41,639 Speaker 1: a little bit aways away from the house because she 374 00:19:41,720 --> 00:19:43,960 Speaker 1: has my shirt and I have to finish changing at 375 00:19:44,000 --> 00:19:47,720 Speaker 1: the car. So she finally with her GPS, finds where 376 00:19:47,720 --> 00:19:50,320 Speaker 1: I'm at. I get into her car, I put the 377 00:19:50,400 --> 00:19:53,879 Speaker 1: dress shirt on and we both take a you know, 378 00:19:54,119 --> 00:19:57,040 Speaker 1: a breath of air, and okay, let's go. We get 379 00:19:57,119 --> 00:20:04,600 Speaker 1: to the house. Crickets ben nobody there. The wrong Well, 380 00:20:04,640 --> 00:20:08,199 Speaker 1: that's what we're thinking. We're like, is this the wrong address? Like, 381 00:20:08,280 --> 00:20:11,879 Speaker 1: I've not been to this friend's house before. You know, 382 00:20:11,920 --> 00:20:13,920 Speaker 1: he hasn't lived there long. That's why I haven't been 383 00:20:13,920 --> 00:20:17,280 Speaker 1: there before. So I'm like, this has got to be it. 384 00:20:17,359 --> 00:20:20,000 Speaker 1: I I put it in the in both our GPS is. 385 00:20:20,040 --> 00:20:23,879 Speaker 1: So we pull up the digital flyer. Well should we 386 00:20:23,920 --> 00:20:25,600 Speaker 1: go up to the door, and she's like, no, no, no, 387 00:20:25,680 --> 00:20:28,200 Speaker 1: let's check the flyer again. It's got to be the 388 00:20:28,240 --> 00:20:32,160 Speaker 1: wrong address. Right, both pull up the flyers on our phones. 389 00:20:33,320 --> 00:20:39,320 Speaker 1: The digital flyer says, December eighteen. It was the next Saturday. 390 00:20:39,320 --> 00:20:45,080 Speaker 1: Oh no, so you got all Oh no, so we 391 00:20:45,080 --> 00:20:50,240 Speaker 1: were there a week early, premature for the parte ready, 392 00:20:50,960 --> 00:20:54,800 Speaker 1: I swear for the party. And no, it's the first 393 00:20:54,840 --> 00:20:59,160 Speaker 1: time I've ever been prematured. He's a pill for that. 394 00:20:59,200 --> 00:21:01,600 Speaker 1: We have an ad that will take care of that 395 00:21:01,680 --> 00:21:06,360 Speaker 1: for you. That is oh my god. So so out 396 00:21:06,440 --> 00:21:08,280 Speaker 1: did you say? Well, we're dressed up, we might as 397 00:21:08,280 --> 00:21:12,199 Speaker 1: well go out. I tried that. It didn't work. She 398 00:21:12,280 --> 00:21:14,879 Speaker 1: was piste. Yeah. I can't understand why I would be 399 00:21:14,920 --> 00:21:18,680 Speaker 1: piste too. Yeah. Right, And I wasn't happy either. Um, 400 00:21:18,760 --> 00:21:20,640 Speaker 1: you know, I had just come from a long work 401 00:21:20,720 --> 00:21:25,960 Speaker 1: shift and I was tired. I blame my friend because 402 00:21:25,960 --> 00:21:30,439 Speaker 1: the way he set this up. All he said was Saturday. 403 00:21:30,640 --> 00:21:33,399 Speaker 1: He said Saturday, and I'll get the text to you 404 00:21:33,520 --> 00:21:35,639 Speaker 1: so that you have a few days to get ready. 405 00:21:35,720 --> 00:21:38,800 Speaker 1: That's how he worded it. Yeah, wouldn't you take it 406 00:21:38,880 --> 00:21:42,399 Speaker 1: like that too? Yeah? I mean did he have the 407 00:21:42,520 --> 00:21:45,639 Speaker 1: date like promintly written? No? And that's the thing. And 408 00:21:45,680 --> 00:21:47,399 Speaker 1: I want to put a p s A out on 409 00:21:47,440 --> 00:21:50,920 Speaker 1: our podcast. If you make a digital flyer, please make 410 00:21:50,960 --> 00:21:54,439 Speaker 1: the date larger than the rest of the small on 411 00:21:54,560 --> 00:21:57,840 Speaker 1: the dumb, stupid digital flyer. Well, really, that's the most 412 00:21:57,880 --> 00:22:01,720 Speaker 1: important part, invitation is can I make it? What's the date? 413 00:22:02,000 --> 00:22:04,639 Speaker 1: That's the most important part. Are you going to the 414 00:22:04,680 --> 00:22:07,000 Speaker 1: thing tonight on Saturday? Are you gonna go get dressed 415 00:22:07,040 --> 00:22:09,000 Speaker 1: up again? Are you so upset by what happened you're 416 00:22:09,040 --> 00:22:11,760 Speaker 1: gonna be like? I'm not going? Not sure, because this 417 00:22:11,840 --> 00:22:15,040 Speaker 1: is how that night ended. At first, we laugh. We 418 00:22:15,160 --> 00:22:19,280 Speaker 1: laugh because she says, can you imagine if we had 419 00:22:19,320 --> 00:22:22,359 Speaker 1: walked up to the door. Both start laughing, and it 420 00:22:22,400 --> 00:22:25,800 Speaker 1: was almost kind of a laughter of relief and frustration. 421 00:22:26,600 --> 00:22:31,280 Speaker 1: But then the car gets quiet, and I'm like, okay, 422 00:22:31,320 --> 00:22:35,439 Speaker 1: she's not laughing anymore. So I tell her, I'm like, oh, 423 00:22:35,680 --> 00:22:38,199 Speaker 1: that's like a dead giveaway, right when a woman's really quiet, 424 00:22:38,240 --> 00:22:41,960 Speaker 1: that's almost good thing. There's something bad going on? Oh 425 00:22:42,040 --> 00:22:44,879 Speaker 1: for sure. The wheels are turning and not in a 426 00:22:44,920 --> 00:22:48,359 Speaker 1: good way. And so now the car is quiet, and 427 00:22:48,400 --> 00:22:50,359 Speaker 1: I tell her, I say, well, we're all dressed up, 428 00:22:50,440 --> 00:22:53,920 Speaker 1: let's just go to a nice place around here. And 429 00:22:54,080 --> 00:22:56,840 Speaker 1: she's like, well, it's late now and we're not going 430 00:22:56,880 --> 00:22:59,320 Speaker 1: to get in anywhere, and it's just upset, and she's like, 431 00:22:59,359 --> 00:23:01,240 Speaker 1: and don't think I'm gonna do this all over again 432 00:23:01,280 --> 00:23:05,400 Speaker 1: next weekend. Oh whoa, Okay, well here we go. It's starting. 433 00:23:05,960 --> 00:23:09,800 Speaker 1: So now she's driving around and she's getting closer to 434 00:23:09,840 --> 00:23:13,720 Speaker 1: the freeway. She gets to the frontage road and I 435 00:23:13,960 --> 00:23:16,600 Speaker 1: tell her what restaurant are you going to? And she's like, 436 00:23:16,680 --> 00:23:19,000 Speaker 1: I'm just gonna drive us closer to home. Maybe we 437 00:23:19,000 --> 00:23:22,359 Speaker 1: could find somewhere to eat around there. Well, my car 438 00:23:22,560 --> 00:23:25,480 Speaker 1: is back there at the house. Oh my god, I 439 00:23:25,520 --> 00:23:29,560 Speaker 1: forgot about your stupid car. So she had to backtrack 440 00:23:30,160 --> 00:23:32,679 Speaker 1: dropped me off at my car. Now she's really pissed, 441 00:23:33,560 --> 00:23:35,400 Speaker 1: and I tell her, well, i'll meet you at home. 442 00:23:35,480 --> 00:23:38,800 Speaker 1: We'll find somewhere to eat. To make a long story short, 443 00:23:38,840 --> 00:23:42,160 Speaker 1: too late. We get home and I finally find a 444 00:23:42,200 --> 00:23:45,600 Speaker 1: sushi place near us that would take us if we 445 00:23:45,680 --> 00:23:49,280 Speaker 1: sat down by PM. The problem is, Ben, it was 446 00:23:49,280 --> 00:23:53,359 Speaker 1: one of those fancy sushi places. So I'm talking. You 447 00:23:53,440 --> 00:23:55,679 Speaker 1: know you're gonna pay over a hundred dollars once you 448 00:23:55,720 --> 00:23:59,960 Speaker 1: step foot in this place. So my friends, bad misscommunity 449 00:24:00,040 --> 00:24:04,400 Speaker 1: Asian cost me over a hundred dollars, and the very 450 00:24:04,480 --> 00:24:09,119 Speaker 1: irritated Tim DERRONI that's that's things. Well, she had a 451 00:24:09,119 --> 00:24:12,200 Speaker 1: week to come down maybe so maybe by tonight she'll 452 00:24:12,240 --> 00:24:14,800 Speaker 1: be You're like, okay, let's do it again. Why And 453 00:24:14,800 --> 00:24:16,760 Speaker 1: when we talked about it later, she was like, well, 454 00:24:16,760 --> 00:24:19,520 Speaker 1: I didn't want to go to dinner right there where 455 00:24:19,520 --> 00:24:21,960 Speaker 1: we were because I was thinking I didn't want to 456 00:24:22,040 --> 00:24:23,920 Speaker 1: ruin my outfit if I had to wear it over 457 00:24:23,960 --> 00:24:27,200 Speaker 1: again the following Saturday. And I said, well, I thought 458 00:24:27,200 --> 00:24:29,080 Speaker 1: you said you didn't want to do it over again. 459 00:24:29,400 --> 00:24:32,800 Speaker 1: Well last weekend. Actually I did not plan on talking 460 00:24:32,800 --> 00:24:35,000 Speaker 1: about this, but after the Santa thing, when once I 461 00:24:35,040 --> 00:24:36,800 Speaker 1: warmed my hands up, I actually went out. I had 462 00:24:36,800 --> 00:24:39,560 Speaker 1: not been out to a bar in a long time, 463 00:24:40,119 --> 00:24:42,240 Speaker 1: but my wife wanted one of her girlfriends. It was 464 00:24:42,280 --> 00:24:44,800 Speaker 1: her birthday and she wanted to go out, and of course, I, 465 00:24:44,880 --> 00:24:48,520 Speaker 1: being the designated driver, Danny the one beer Benny and 466 00:24:48,560 --> 00:24:50,760 Speaker 1: then drink water the rest of the night. And so 467 00:24:50,920 --> 00:24:55,640 Speaker 1: we went to see a Johnny Cash tribute band that 468 00:24:55,760 --> 00:24:58,119 Speaker 1: was planning like Johnny Cash and so it was. It 469 00:24:58,160 --> 00:25:01,200 Speaker 1: was fun, but you know, not really my my jam. 470 00:25:01,480 --> 00:25:03,320 Speaker 1: But I had a good time. They're hanging out and 471 00:25:03,359 --> 00:25:06,000 Speaker 1: all that stuff. But yeah, you do have to go 472 00:25:06,040 --> 00:25:09,439 Speaker 1: out occasionally, get dressed up. That's important. Yeah, hermit, you 473 00:25:09,440 --> 00:25:11,440 Speaker 1: can't stay home the whole thing, you know, all all 474 00:25:11,480 --> 00:25:14,480 Speaker 1: the time. And so what's a woman's number one complaint 475 00:25:14,520 --> 00:25:16,719 Speaker 1: usually when they leave a guy and go to a 476 00:25:16,720 --> 00:25:19,360 Speaker 1: more exciting guy. Oh yeah, you just want to sit 477 00:25:19,400 --> 00:25:21,720 Speaker 1: home all the time. You don't want to You're boring. 478 00:25:21,920 --> 00:25:24,320 Speaker 1: I never wanted to do anything. He was boring. I 479 00:25:24,400 --> 00:25:26,240 Speaker 1: never went out. All I want to do is dance 480 00:25:26,280 --> 00:25:30,359 Speaker 1: sometimes and have a good time. Yeah, exactly, fellows. Remember 481 00:25:30,400 --> 00:25:33,320 Speaker 1: Timderni tip, make sure you let your girl get dressed 482 00:25:33,400 --> 00:25:35,200 Speaker 1: up once in a while. Just make sure you look 483 00:25:35,200 --> 00:25:40,359 Speaker 1: at the date on the invite. Yes, yes, exactly, very important. 484 00:25:40,480 --> 00:25:44,520 Speaker 1: Footnote addendum that you need to add now the chim 485 00:25:44,640 --> 00:25:47,479 Speaker 1: chimminy part of the story here on this podcast. So 486 00:25:48,040 --> 00:25:51,960 Speaker 1: another tale life of Mallard story. So the other day 487 00:25:52,240 --> 00:25:54,639 Speaker 1: I was sleeping. Now, as as you guys know, I 488 00:25:54,680 --> 00:25:56,639 Speaker 1: sleep during the day doing the overnight show, and so 489 00:25:56,680 --> 00:25:59,560 Speaker 1: I have very odd sleep pattern. I don't sleep right 490 00:25:59,560 --> 00:26:02,199 Speaker 1: after the show. I'm usually up for several hours. And 491 00:26:02,240 --> 00:26:07,080 Speaker 1: so anyway, I finally fell asleep, and about thirty five 492 00:26:07,200 --> 00:26:13,160 Speaker 1: minutes after I fell asleep, all of a sudden, it's like, yeah, 493 00:26:13,320 --> 00:26:16,080 Speaker 1: like you know, not it was. It was construction work 494 00:26:16,240 --> 00:26:18,879 Speaker 1: and all. I mean, it was just a nightmare. So 495 00:26:18,920 --> 00:26:21,600 Speaker 1: I hear this noise coming on the roof, this thunderous 496 00:26:21,680 --> 00:26:23,480 Speaker 1: noise coming down from them. I said, oh, my god, 497 00:26:24,080 --> 00:26:26,960 Speaker 1: we're having an earthquake, right, what is going on here? 498 00:26:26,960 --> 00:26:29,119 Speaker 1: It must be a big earthquake. And I hear that 499 00:26:29,160 --> 00:26:31,639 Speaker 1: I've never heard that noise before. And then I was like, well, 500 00:26:31,760 --> 00:26:34,440 Speaker 1: it's not an earthquake because it's not. It's not really 501 00:26:34,480 --> 00:26:36,560 Speaker 1: shaking like I've been an earthquakes. It's not shaking like that. 502 00:26:36,640 --> 00:26:38,399 Speaker 1: So I was like, well, maybe something hit the house, 503 00:26:39,040 --> 00:26:40,840 Speaker 1: like something fell down and hit the house. No, no, 504 00:26:40,960 --> 00:26:43,760 Speaker 1: it's not that. But it was really loud, and it 505 00:26:43,840 --> 00:26:47,320 Speaker 1: continued and it was like right near the chim chimney, right, 506 00:26:47,320 --> 00:26:49,160 Speaker 1: So I thought maybe something was wrong with the chimney 507 00:26:49,240 --> 00:26:52,440 Speaker 1: or something like that. And we eventually figured it out 508 00:26:52,720 --> 00:26:58,800 Speaker 1: that it turns out some construction workers had shown up unannounced, unannounced, 509 00:26:59,480 --> 00:27:01,359 Speaker 1: and just I that they were gonna do some work 510 00:27:01,400 --> 00:27:03,840 Speaker 1: on the roof because we're getting some solar panels put 511 00:27:03,920 --> 00:27:06,240 Speaker 1: up there to save money on the electricity and all that, 512 00:27:06,960 --> 00:27:10,439 Speaker 1: and uh so they did not schedule anything. We had 513 00:27:10,520 --> 00:27:12,880 Speaker 1: talked to them and work something out to have them 514 00:27:12,920 --> 00:27:16,560 Speaker 1: do it. But isn't it common courtesy to at least 515 00:27:16,640 --> 00:27:18,760 Speaker 1: let you know that you're going to be doing work. 516 00:27:18,840 --> 00:27:21,280 Speaker 1: I guess they just assumed, since everyone's usually gone by 517 00:27:21,280 --> 00:27:24,960 Speaker 1: that time, who would be home other than a nocturnal 518 00:27:25,080 --> 00:27:28,919 Speaker 1: creature and all that. So, but my wife is so upset. 519 00:27:28,960 --> 00:27:31,280 Speaker 1: She's like the very nice and the nicest people I've 520 00:27:31,280 --> 00:27:33,919 Speaker 1: ever remember. I mean, she's very sweet to everybody. And 521 00:27:34,000 --> 00:27:36,680 Speaker 1: she was like, no, you've got to leave, and she 522 00:27:36,880 --> 00:27:38,800 Speaker 1: she made them all leave and so they have to 523 00:27:38,840 --> 00:27:41,879 Speaker 1: come back at another point. But that's that did remind 524 00:27:41,880 --> 00:27:44,040 Speaker 1: me of looking at the people on the roof. It 525 00:27:44,080 --> 00:27:47,359 Speaker 1: was like Chim chim, and remember the the Mary Poppins 526 00:27:47,440 --> 00:27:52,719 Speaker 1: with the super califragilistic xpialidoecious and that little thing. And 527 00:27:53,280 --> 00:27:55,280 Speaker 1: that guy just had a birthday. What's the guy? D 528 00:27:55,840 --> 00:27:59,320 Speaker 1: Van Dyke? He's still around? Yeah, very cool and what 529 00:27:59,440 --> 00:28:04,560 Speaker 1: is he gonna? I know he's an older well yeah, yeah, 530 00:28:04,680 --> 00:28:07,960 Speaker 1: Betty White and she's still doing Okay. We haven't seen 531 00:28:07,960 --> 00:28:09,320 Speaker 1: a lot of Betty White, but I don't watch a 532 00:28:09,320 --> 00:28:11,479 Speaker 1: lot of TV shows. Betty White would be on, but 533 00:28:12,359 --> 00:28:14,480 Speaker 1: you don't want to stop at you want that. When 534 00:28:15,200 --> 00:28:18,200 Speaker 1: Dyke he turned I was right, he turned ninety six 535 00:28:20,119 --> 00:28:24,359 Speaker 1: m December. It seems like a very happy guy. It 536 00:28:24,400 --> 00:28:27,040 Speaker 1: seems like, you know, I saw a documentary with him. 537 00:28:27,320 --> 00:28:31,600 Speaker 1: I saw that, yeah, about the older gentleman and all. Yeah, yeah, okay, 538 00:28:31,600 --> 00:28:34,159 Speaker 1: that was a good show, right, really cool. Yeah. I 539 00:28:34,200 --> 00:28:37,080 Speaker 1: mean to see how happy they are later in life. 540 00:28:37,080 --> 00:28:40,440 Speaker 1: It gives us some hope exactly that they found things 541 00:28:40,480 --> 00:28:43,240 Speaker 1: and like the keys to enjoying life when you get 542 00:28:43,280 --> 00:28:48,400 Speaker 1: past a certain age. It's very very important. Absolutely, I 543 00:28:48,440 --> 00:28:51,880 Speaker 1: love that that. That was great. We have time for 544 00:28:51,920 --> 00:28:54,280 Speaker 1: a little study this. This is a couple of things 545 00:28:54,280 --> 00:28:56,840 Speaker 1: here real quick. These are some studies. And then the 546 00:28:56,880 --> 00:28:59,000 Speaker 1: way this works, it's a tribute to the old show 547 00:28:59,800 --> 00:29:04,000 Speaker 1: on U was a showtime bullshit? Is it real or bullshit? 548 00:29:04,080 --> 00:29:06,640 Speaker 1: The Penn and Tellers show. So there's a study out 549 00:29:06,720 --> 00:29:10,760 Speaker 1: this week that says microbes in the ocean and the 550 00:29:10,880 --> 00:29:14,920 Speaker 1: soil have evolved. This is wild. This is gonna really 551 00:29:15,000 --> 00:29:21,600 Speaker 1: upset environmentalists. These microbes have evolved to eat plastic. As 552 00:29:21,640 --> 00:29:23,640 Speaker 1: you and you know, and you you go out and 553 00:29:23,680 --> 00:29:25,360 Speaker 1: I was in Hawaii a few years ago. I know, 554 00:29:25,400 --> 00:29:27,360 Speaker 1: you were just in Hawaii but I remember being in 555 00:29:27,440 --> 00:29:31,080 Speaker 1: Kawaii and there was a lot of plastic that had 556 00:29:31,120 --> 00:29:35,400 Speaker 1: come from Asia. It had like Asian writing on it, 557 00:29:35,440 --> 00:29:37,360 Speaker 1: that had made it all the way across the Pacific 558 00:29:37,400 --> 00:29:39,200 Speaker 1: and was on the beaches in Hawaii. I'm sure some 559 00:29:39,280 --> 00:29:42,800 Speaker 1: of it came from America too, floating out in the Atlantic. 560 00:29:43,440 --> 00:29:45,360 Speaker 1: And this has been a concern for a long time. 561 00:29:45,360 --> 00:29:47,960 Speaker 1: I've read story after story about what are we gonna do? 562 00:29:48,000 --> 00:29:51,360 Speaker 1: The oceans are filled with plastic. It's a nightmare. If 563 00:29:51,360 --> 00:29:54,920 Speaker 1: this is true, I hope it is, then there's your answer. 564 00:29:55,080 --> 00:29:58,840 Speaker 1: Just get these microbes. They've evolved to eat the plastics, 565 00:29:58,840 --> 00:30:02,120 Speaker 1: so you're actually you're providing them with food. Not that 566 00:30:02,160 --> 00:30:05,040 Speaker 1: you should throw the plastic out, but you're you're helping 567 00:30:05,200 --> 00:30:08,920 Speaker 1: You're helping out the microbes. That's crazy, isn't it. Yeah? 568 00:30:08,960 --> 00:30:12,400 Speaker 1: And this is good news for entitled little ship head 569 00:30:12,480 --> 00:30:15,760 Speaker 1: kids to throw their trash on the ground. Yeah. This 570 00:30:16,040 --> 00:30:19,160 Speaker 1: comes out of Sweden. Researchers and Sweden measured samples of 571 00:30:19,280 --> 00:30:23,360 Speaker 1: DNA at hundreds of locations around the world, taken from 572 00:30:23,360 --> 00:30:27,720 Speaker 1: both soil and water. They found thirty thousand ensigns in 573 00:30:27,840 --> 00:30:31,960 Speaker 1: these DNA samples and the potential to degrade ten different 574 00:30:31,960 --> 00:30:38,120 Speaker 1: types of commonly used plastic. Yeah, aren't they inventing things 575 00:30:38,160 --> 00:30:40,120 Speaker 1: to take out to the ocean to swoop up all 576 00:30:40,200 --> 00:30:42,280 Speaker 1: the plastic? I just put these microbes out there. That's 577 00:30:42,280 --> 00:30:46,080 Speaker 1: all there. You go. That's great. And once they figure 578 00:30:46,120 --> 00:30:48,800 Speaker 1: out how to turn and that they have the technology 579 00:30:48,800 --> 00:30:51,040 Speaker 1: but it's too expensive, how to turn salt water into 580 00:30:51,080 --> 00:30:55,040 Speaker 1: drinkable water, then we're good. Right, Then we're then then 581 00:30:55,080 --> 00:30:57,560 Speaker 1: we're made right, you know. And when they do that, 582 00:30:57,840 --> 00:31:00,320 Speaker 1: can you imagine that the houses we bought over at 583 00:31:00,320 --> 00:31:03,920 Speaker 1: the Salton Sea will actually be worth some money? Yes, 584 00:31:04,280 --> 00:31:07,360 Speaker 1: the big investments that we we made. What else popped 585 00:31:07,400 --> 00:31:11,480 Speaker 1: up that caught my attention to the scientifical department this week. 586 00:31:11,880 --> 00:31:13,760 Speaker 1: Oh here's a good once. It's a lot of people 587 00:31:13,960 --> 00:31:17,479 Speaker 1: taking some time off over the next week and a 588 00:31:17,480 --> 00:31:21,960 Speaker 1: half or so, and it says checking work email over 589 00:31:22,080 --> 00:31:27,800 Speaker 1: Christmas leads to burn out, mental distress, and poor physical health. 590 00:31:28,360 --> 00:31:30,960 Speaker 1: So make sure to tell our bosses we cannot check 591 00:31:31,040 --> 00:31:33,479 Speaker 1: our work email. I have not checked my work email 592 00:31:33,520 --> 00:31:35,720 Speaker 1: in years, so I don't need to worry about that. 593 00:31:36,560 --> 00:31:39,160 Speaker 1: I get stressed out if it's June. I don't need 594 00:31:39,440 --> 00:31:43,160 Speaker 1: the Christmas holiday season, So Yeah, your head would spin 595 00:31:43,240 --> 00:31:46,920 Speaker 1: if you saw my inbox. Now, I I have over 596 00:31:47,000 --> 00:31:50,920 Speaker 1: seventy thou emails on my personal email. Yeah, I don't 597 00:31:50,920 --> 00:31:53,000 Speaker 1: even know what's going on at the work email. I don't. 598 00:31:53,000 --> 00:31:56,200 Speaker 1: I don't check. But see, you get to have producers, 599 00:31:56,240 --> 00:32:00,760 Speaker 1: the producers emails in the in our in boxes. It's 600 00:32:00,800 --> 00:32:04,880 Speaker 1: crazy because it's like Las Vegas sponsorship, this sponsorship, this 601 00:32:05,000 --> 00:32:09,120 Speaker 1: salesperson's and there's lots of details, so it's not anything 602 00:32:09,200 --> 00:32:12,520 Speaker 1: you could ignore. There are a lot of attachments and 603 00:32:12,600 --> 00:32:16,640 Speaker 1: scripts and copy and things that are very time sensitive 604 00:32:17,080 --> 00:32:20,760 Speaker 1: and obviously things that are attached to making money. Cannot 605 00:32:20,800 --> 00:32:24,800 Speaker 1: ignore my email in bucks at all. Yeah, I can't 606 00:32:25,200 --> 00:32:30,200 Speaker 1: uh andrew you, and but I do get the occasional 607 00:32:30,640 --> 00:32:33,400 Speaker 1: screw you Bill Miller. Oh no, I get the occasional 608 00:32:33,480 --> 00:32:36,800 Speaker 1: reminder email. Hey Ben, you might want to check your 609 00:32:36,840 --> 00:32:39,520 Speaker 1: work email because of X, Y and Z, and so 610 00:32:39,560 --> 00:32:42,280 Speaker 1: then I have to run over there and say what 611 00:32:42,280 --> 00:32:44,200 Speaker 1: what the dome doing? Yeah? I have to say that, 612 00:32:44,280 --> 00:32:46,920 Speaker 1: and then you know, open it up. We're good to go. 613 00:32:47,000 --> 00:32:49,160 Speaker 1: All right, that's it. We have the mail bag on Sunday, 614 00:32:49,200 --> 00:32:52,480 Speaker 1: the final mail bag of twenty one. Looking forward to that. 615 00:32:52,560 --> 00:32:56,160 Speaker 1: Anything to promote Danny any comedy gigs, any performances, any 616 00:32:56,280 --> 00:33:02,800 Speaker 1: djaying gigs, anything to promote here. No, all right, I'm 617 00:33:02,840 --> 00:33:07,800 Speaker 1: on Fox Sports Radio later today from one to seven pm, 618 00:33:07,840 --> 00:33:12,240 Speaker 1: and then I'm on Sunday from five to eleven pm 619 00:33:12,320 --> 00:33:15,080 Speaker 1: Pacific time. So that's where I'll be this week. There 620 00:33:15,120 --> 00:33:18,360 Speaker 1: you go, catch up with Danny g radio and all that. 621 00:33:18,400 --> 00:33:20,840 Speaker 1: We have the mail bag on Sunday. Have a great 622 00:33:20,920 --> 00:33:25,120 Speaker 1: rest of your day. Don't forget last few days before 623 00:33:25,640 --> 00:33:29,480 Speaker 1: the Christmas holiday and Cameo. I can't think of a 624 00:33:29,520 --> 00:33:33,400 Speaker 1: better stocking stuffer than Cameo dot com. So uh doing 625 00:33:33,480 --> 00:33:36,920 Speaker 1: personalized video shoutouts? I am on there and uh, if 626 00:33:36,960 --> 00:33:38,200 Speaker 1: you want to check that out, I'm one of the 627 00:33:38,360 --> 00:33:42,000 Speaker 1: more affordable options, I would say, But that's patting myself 628 00:33:42,000 --> 00:33:43,280 Speaker 1: on the back. You'll have to be the judge of 629 00:33:43,320 --> 00:33:45,479 Speaker 1: that's not free, but it's not that expensive. So if 630 00:33:45,480 --> 00:33:47,520 Speaker 1: you're a big fan of show, you know someone that 631 00:33:47,680 --> 00:33:49,320 Speaker 1: loves the radio show and you want to have a 632 00:33:49,360 --> 00:33:53,480 Speaker 1: personalized mini Mallard monologue, happy to do that for the holiday. 633 00:33:53,520 --> 00:33:56,880 Speaker 1: That's why some people give cash for Christmas. Yeah, there 634 00:33:56,880 --> 00:34:00,600 Speaker 1: you go, Cameo dot com slash Ben. Actually it's not 635 00:34:00,640 --> 00:34:02,560 Speaker 1: ben MoU. Just type my name in the search there 636 00:34:02,600 --> 00:34:04,680 Speaker 1: on cameo and then you can check it out. I 637 00:34:04,680 --> 00:34:08,040 Speaker 1: have a great rescuer Saturday, and uh we'll catch you 638 00:34:08,120 --> 00:34:09,560 Speaker 1: next time. Later, skitterer