Speaker 1: Cutbooms.
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 sol fashion of fairness. He
Speaker 2: treats crackheads in the ghetto cutter the same as the
Speaker 2: rich pill poppers in the penthouse.
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Speaker 2: The clearing House of Hot takes break free for something special.
Speaker 2: The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now.
Speaker 1: In the air everywhere.
Speaker 3: The Fifth Hour with Me, Ben Mahler and Danny g Radio,
Speaker 3: who is away this weekend hanging out with his pals
Speaker 3: Covino and Rich. So you got me and this podcast
Speaker 3: a super duper special pod on this Friday. And I'm
Speaker 3: not blowing smoke. I'm not blowing smoke at all. No, no, no, oh,
Speaker 3: what a week it was. As you know by listening,
Speaker 3: the phones went haywire. There was a glitch here, a
Speaker 3: glitch there, a glitch everywhere. Oh yeah, we had some issues.
Speaker 3: We'll get to that at some point over the weekend.
Speaker 3: But this being the Fifth Hour podcast, we go behind
Speaker 3: the scenes, behind the microphone, behind the headphones and all that.
Speaker 3: And it is a show dedicated to the super fans
Speaker 3: of the Overnight if you have listened on a regular
Speaker 3: basis to the Fifth Hour podcast, you are in the
Speaker 3: one percent of the one percent. God bless you, all right,
Speaker 3: God bless you for that. We thank you, because without that.
Speaker 1: I mean we are wor screwed. We are.
Speaker 3: And I was away from my poach in the post
Speaker 3: in the watch Tower of the overnight a couple of
Speaker 3: nights this week. And those of you who were listening
Speaker 3: to this podcast last weekend, of course you knew that
Speaker 3: I was going to be away because I had said
Speaker 3: at the end of the mail bag on Sunday that
Speaker 3: I had some things to do.
Speaker 1: And I was gonna be away.
Speaker 3: And of course that did not stop a number of
Speaker 3: people who are not p ones, who are more P
Speaker 3: two s P three's, who sent me angry messages. Among
Speaker 3: my favorites were, why are you not here? I'm working,
Speaker 3: Why are you not here? Get your fat ass behind
Speaker 3: the microphone? You only work four hours a day, Why
Speaker 3: are you not here? Blah blah blah blah, went on
Speaker 3: and on and on and on. So I didn't write
Speaker 3: back to any of those people. I did not and
Speaker 3: I've decided on this pod today that we are going
Speaker 3: to go behind the scenes to a galaxy far far away.
Speaker 3: And as the great radio man Paul Harvey would say,
Speaker 3: you know what the news is, But in a minute,
Speaker 3: you're gonna know what the rest of the story is.
Speaker 3: In this case, you're going to know that I was
Speaker 3: not hosting the overnight show. I was away a couple
Speaker 3: nights Monday and Tuesday, Monday into Tuesday, and then Tuesday
Speaker 3: Wednesday and all that, And in a minute, you're going
Speaker 3: to find out the rest of the story. So it
Speaker 3: has been many years since I have talked about what
Speaker 3: I'm about to talk about into a microphone. In fact,
Speaker 3: this goes back probably ten, twelve, thirteen, fourteen years. It's
Speaker 3: been a long time, certainly over ten years, and I
Speaker 3: think much longer than that. So let's go back in
Speaker 3: the hot tub time machine.
Speaker 1: To a random year in.
Speaker 3: About the twenty twenty nine, twenty twenty ten, well probably
Speaker 3: twenty ten, twenty eleven, I guess would be the period
Speaker 3: somewhere in that period of time, probably twenty eleven. So
Speaker 3: it's been fourteen years twenty eleven. We've locked in on
Speaker 3: twenty eleven. So going back then, and I was hosting
Speaker 3: filling in locally on our affiliate AM five seventy in
Speaker 3: Los Angeles, the home of the Dodgers. Every once in
Speaker 3: a while they will call me out of the bullpen
Speaker 3: on a rogue mission, and I will go in and
Speaker 3: yap away. And so I was asked by the person
Speaker 3: who produced the show to step in.
Speaker 1: So I did, and then.
Speaker 3: The host of the show during that broadcast it was
Speaker 3: I want to say it was on a Thursday, but
Speaker 3: might have been on a Wednesday or a Friday. But
Speaker 3: I was hosting the show and the conversation came up
Speaker 3: about you know, being a parent and family and all
Speaker 3: that stuff, and I was asked if I had kids
Speaker 3: or not, and I explained on that show against a
Speaker 3: local show AM five seventy years ago, LA, I explained
Speaker 3: that I did have a son, son who I helped raise.
Speaker 3: I was helping raise at the time, and I helped
Speaker 3: raised him since he was four years old at that time.
Speaker 3: He was probably not much older than that. And it
Speaker 3: was a rather benign conversation. However, that would be something
Speaker 3: that sparked a bunch of diabolical fans of mine who
Speaker 3: could not read the room and were starting to kind
Speaker 3: of lurk around, and it freaked out my wife right
Speaker 3: Whichel freaked out and some of these Stoker types who
Speaker 3: are big fans, and I'm sure meant no harm at all,
Speaker 3: but they were trying to get more intel about my son.
Speaker 3: And this led to my wife getting some odd requests
Speaker 3: on social media, and she was flustered, bedraggled, and she
Speaker 3: was very upset.
Speaker 1: She who I did that I not talk.
Speaker 3: About him anymore on the radio to protect the family
Speaker 3: from the lunatics that are out there. So I did
Speaker 3: not talk about my steps on throughout his entire education.
Speaker 1: All of the.
Speaker 3: Days I would take him to school or pick him
Speaker 3: up from school, or the sporting events, all that stuff
Speaker 3: that was just off the table, so off the table.
Speaker 1: Did not talk about it on the radio.
Speaker 3: Lived it, loved it, enjoyed all of it, just wonderful memories,
Speaker 3: but not for the radio. Because my wife had requested
Speaker 3: not to talk about it. So I never brought it
Speaker 3: up until today, and I honored her request, and today
Speaker 3: I'm allowed to talk about it because on Monday and
Speaker 3: Tuesday of this past week, me and the wife took
Speaker 3: off in the middle of the night after the show
Speaker 3: a Sunday night and a Monday and headed to San Diego,
Speaker 3: a city near and dear to my heart, that was
Speaker 3: the place, as you may know if you followed the
Speaker 3: nonsense here that I began my journey into broadcasting at
Speaker 3: a commercial radio station, the mighty six ninety, which was a.
Speaker 1: Border blaster station.
Speaker 3: Ironically, it was only a couple miles away from the
Speaker 3: address of.
Speaker 1: The old studio. Got off on SeaWorld Drive Pacific Coast Highway.
Speaker 1: You make a right.
Speaker 3: Turn on the off ramp coming from from the north,
Speaker 3: make a right turn, then a quick left, and then
Speaker 3: right across from the California Highway Patrol station is.
Speaker 1: The studio, which is no longer.
Speaker 3: The studio stations moved and it's a a Spanish station
Speaker 3: border blaster station, but they're not there anymore. So anyway,
Speaker 3: that's where I was, and literally less than two miles away,
Speaker 3: I believe it was was MCRD. Now, if you live
Speaker 3: in San Diego or you've spent time in San Diego,
Speaker 3: chances are you know it's a great military town and
Speaker 3: right next to the airport in prime real estate, some
Speaker 3: of the most valuable real estate in all of San Diego,
Speaker 3: right on the ocean is the Marine Corps Recruitment Depot
Speaker 3: known as MCRD and that is where me and my
Speaker 3: wife attended because there was family Day on Monday, and
Speaker 3: then on Tuesday was graduation day. My son, my step son,
Speaker 3: Patrick graduated. He is now a United States Marine. He
Speaker 3: was in boot camp for the last three four months whatever.
Speaker 3: It was, no phone, no contact, just sending letters. That
Speaker 3: was the only contact, snail mail, as we like to say.
Speaker 3: And very proud of his hard work, his dedication, his commitment.
Speaker 3: This is something he's wanted for a long time. And
Speaker 3: I recall he would come home from school and pop
Speaker 3: on some military documentary and he'd study the military and
Speaker 3: the different branches of the military and wanted to decide,
Speaker 3: like what branch is he gonna go to? Is he
Speaker 3: gonna go to the Army? Is he gonna go to
Speaker 3: the Navy.
Speaker 1: The Air Force, the Marines?
Speaker 3: And after meticulous research, he determined that the Marines were
Speaker 3: for him. And I'm very excited for him.
Speaker 1: This is something he's wanted to do.
Speaker 3: He's a young guy, just graduated high school and he
Speaker 3: has already passed boot camp and a bunch of his
Speaker 3: friends and his contemporaries in school are just enjoying the
Speaker 3: summer and trying to figure out what they're gonna do
Speaker 3: next in their life. And he's got his life all
Speaker 3: kind of mapped out, at least the next few years
Speaker 3: of his life. So we spent several days in San Diego.
Speaker 3: There was a a ceremony. I had never been to this.
Speaker 3: It's an odd thing. I mentioned that the MCRD is
Speaker 3: right neck to the radio station I used to work at,
Speaker 3: and so it's close to that. And when I was
Speaker 3: a kid growing up, I grew up surrounded by orange groves,
Speaker 3: and then around the orange groves there was two military bases.
Speaker 3: There was a El Tooral Marine Base and a Tust
Speaker 3: and neither one's there by the way, Tust Orange and
Speaker 3: El Toro and so much of them. My classmates when
Speaker 3: I was in school were military brats that changed schools
Speaker 3: every couple of years, and every once in a while
Speaker 3: they would be friend one of these kids and they'd
Speaker 3: take me on. I remember the Eltoral Marine Base. They
Speaker 3: took us to the store there where we could buy
Speaker 3: candy and all kinds of crap that we could get
Speaker 3: without paying tax. So it was like, man, we're living
Speaker 3: the dream here. We can get everything a lot cheaper
Speaker 3: and all that stuff, And so I grew up around
Speaker 3: the military. I remember the air show, watching the Blue Angels,
Speaker 3: and when I was a kid, back before or a
Speaker 3: lot of things changed in the world.
Speaker 1: When I went to the tust And Marine.
Speaker 3: Base, they would allow us to like run through as
Speaker 3: I remember, as I remember the planes, and they'd have
Speaker 3: a plane open. You could like sit in the cockpit
Speaker 3: of a real frickin plane, and they had tanks you
Speaker 3: could go into the tank.
Speaker 1: I mean, these are things. I don't think they do
Speaker 1: that anymore.
Speaker 3: I doubt they do for liability reasons and for other reasons,
Speaker 3: but back then we got to do it. So that
Speaker 3: was my experience with that. And so even though I'd
Speaker 3: worked in San Diego and I have friends that have
Speaker 3: been in the Marines and the military and all that,
Speaker 3: it was a much different experience actually being there, having
Speaker 3: to go through security at the Marine Corps recruit depot
Speaker 3: and they search your entire car. There's like a drug
Speaker 3: sniffing dog out. So, as I understand it, the way
Speaker 3: it works, if you're west of the Mississippi, if you're
Speaker 3: west of the Mississippi River, you will go to San Diego.
Speaker 3: And if you're east of the Mississippi River, you'll go
Speaker 3: to Paris Island, which is in South Carolina, and this
Speaker 3: place in San Diego has been around for over.
Speaker 1: One hundred years. It's been around since nineteen. It opened
Speaker 1: in nineteen nineteen.
Speaker 3: We were learning all about it, and so you're there
Speaker 3: and just run around and follow orders and they teach
Speaker 3: you hygiene and cleanliness and all that stuff that you
Speaker 3: need to know in the military. And it wraps up,
Speaker 3: if you will, with this thing they called the Crucible,
Speaker 3: which is a test of endurance and you have to
Speaker 3: pass that if you want to end up becoming a marine.
Speaker 3: And so the kid was able to pull that off
Speaker 3: and lost a lot of weight, got in great shape
Speaker 3: and dominated.
Speaker 1: So we were in San.
Speaker 3: Diego hanging out and that the family day was on Monday,
Speaker 3: so we got to go around, got to go to
Speaker 3: the They have a big museum, military museum, which is
Speaker 3: next level, as you might imagine because it's from the
Speaker 3: United States military.
Speaker 1: And we went to that. We went to some of
Speaker 1: the stores and checked it all out all of it.
Speaker 3: Ended up buying a few things at the store there,
Speaker 3: and we did eat a meal the family there and
Speaker 3: had some of my son's friends there. They were hanging
Speaker 3: out from his high school buddies and so paid the
Speaker 3: food actually wasn't that cheap, which I was like a
Speaker 3: little bummed out by. I thought, well, it'd be cheaper
Speaker 3: and it's like seventeen seventy for three pieces of chicken
Speaker 3: and some fries some chicken figures, which was not not idea,
Speaker 3: but you paid it whatever. Rare and appropriate, right, rare
Speaker 3: and appropriate and whatnot. So got to experience family Day.
Speaker 3: They had a presentation in this old theater and kind
Speaker 3: of went over everything that takes place during boot camp
Speaker 3: and all of that fine stuff, and it was very interesting.
Speaker 3: I'm intrigued by it. And you know, fifty four hour
Speaker 3: crucible things we talked about there where you're testing.
Speaker 1: Your will and you run up.
Speaker 3: A hill and all this other random stuff. And so,
Speaker 3: as I understand, you go through the boot camp and
Speaker 3: then you pass that, and a lot of you guys
Speaker 3: have been in the military.
Speaker 1: So you know better than me, and.
Speaker 3: You then get assigned to a different unit and different
Speaker 3: branch of the Marines, and you're on your way. And
Speaker 3: I've had a chance to correspond with a number of
Speaker 3: my friends who I've worked with in radio who are
Speaker 3: former Marines and former military, and there's a great rivalry
Speaker 3: between the different branches of the military. One of my
Speaker 3: great friends, Artie Art Martinez, who I worked with, was
Speaker 3: a Fox Sports radio guy, and Art's a proud Marine.
Speaker 3: He was in Desert Storm and has many many military
Speaker 3: stories and he was very excited, very excited. He was
Speaker 3: telling me some of the things about his experience and whatnot,
Speaker 3: and that was great. And there's certain things about this
Speaker 3: that I didn't know about. For example, on MCRD San Diego,
Speaker 3: there is a piece of land which is like the
Speaker 3: Holy Land there the Marine Corps. They have the parade
Speaker 3: Deck they call it, which is just a big field
Speaker 3: of not cement, but it's like it's paved, but it's
Speaker 3: a memorial. It's honored as a memorial to the veterans
Speaker 3: of World War Two, Korea, Vietnam, and the Iraq War.
Speaker 3: And they will not allow you to walk on that.
Speaker 1: That is right in the middle.
Speaker 3: That's where they had the graduation ceremony on Tuesday, and
Speaker 3: there are people standing around it, these military drill sergeant
Speaker 3: people who will scream at you and chase you if
Speaker 3: you walk on this. It's like the flora is lava
Speaker 3: and you cannot cannot talk about that, you cannot do
Speaker 3: it or cannot walk on that rather. So so anyway,
Speaker 3: the graduation was on Tuesday, and went out, had a nice,
Speaker 3: nice meal in San Diego and just learned all about
Speaker 3: the military. So that was why I was away from
Speaker 3: my post behind the microphone for a couple of nights
Speaker 3: this week. The rare and appropriate personal duty called. And
Speaker 3: now you know the rest of the story. The rest
Speaker 3: of the story. So I'll give you occasional updates on
Speaker 3: what happens next. And I believe the next assignment will
Speaker 3: be Camp Pendleton. I think pretty much all these guys
Speaker 3: who graduated boot Camp. I'm not saying anything out of
Speaker 3: school here, you end up going to San Diego's up.
Speaker 3: You go from San Diego up to Ocean Side, which
Speaker 3: is like halfway a little north of Ocean Side, between
Speaker 3: South Orange County and San Diego is Camp Pendleton's massive base,
Speaker 3: which covers up some amazing real estate in southern California.
Speaker 3: So he'll he'll be going there, and then he'll be
Speaker 3: gone for another couple of months, and then eventually he'll
Speaker 3: get assigned wherever he's going to go, and who knows,
Speaker 3: could be anywhere in the United States or Japan, or
Speaker 3: who knows where. I have no idea. He doesn't know,
Speaker 3: nobody knows. It's the mystery of it all, the mystery
Speaker 3: of it all. So very excited for him. This is
Speaker 3: again what he wanted to do. It's his life is
Speaker 3: dream to be in this, and he's getting that dream.
Speaker 1: Started early on.
Speaker 3: So I wish him nothing but success and hopefully this
Speaker 3: leads to amazing experiences and all of that fun stuff.
Speaker 1: So turning the page from that is time now for
Speaker 1: the word of the week.
Speaker 3: That's right, the word of the week on this Friday,
Speaker 3: the twentieth.
Speaker 1: Day of June, and the word of the week is marine.
Speaker 1: I figure it will be appropriate. Yeah right.
Speaker 3: I mean, I just told a story about going to
Speaker 3: see the Marine boot camp facility in San Diego, which
Speaker 3: is as again, I'm amazed at the real estate right
Speaker 3: next to the airport, the views of the skyline of
Speaker 3: San Diego off in the distance.
Speaker 1: We're right on the water. It's just amazing. Anyway.
Speaker 3: The word marine, like much of our language, originates from
Speaker 3: the Latin word marinus, meaning of the sea, belonging to
Speaker 3: the sea. The term is derived from mayor, the Latin
Speaker 3: word for sa.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 3: The term entered the English lexicon through Old French marine
Speaker 3: in the fourteenth century, and originally the word was used
Speaker 3: to describe things related to the sea, such as marine
Speaker 3: life or navigation, like Hey.
Speaker 1: I'm going down to the marine.
Speaker 3: And over time it expanded, as you might imagine, to
Speaker 3: include military context like the Marine Forces or go the
Speaker 3: United States Marine Corps referring to soldiers who serve at
Speaker 3: sea or associated with naval operations. And there are related
Speaker 3: terms such as maritime and which also means of the
Speaker 3: sea and near the sea, and the shares similar origins
Speaker 3: and whatnot. But the word of the week, the word
Speaker 3: of the week is marine marine, and that takes us
Speaker 3: into some food e fun.
Speaker 1: Great for food e fun.
Speaker 3: So these are some actual food deals that have popped up.
Speaker 1: Now most of these are fast.
Speaker 3: Food, because most of us eat fast food. Even I
Speaker 3: rare and appropriate will make a pilgrimage to raising canes,
Speaker 3: although some of you tell me it's not that good,
Speaker 3: but anyway, Del Taco, which is not available everywhere, but
Speaker 3: Del Taco, debuted a new slow cooked pork carnita. Those
Speaker 3: are available now at Del Taco, which is mostly in
Speaker 3: the western part of the United States.
Speaker 1: So you've got that.
Speaker 3: Little Caesars has introduced a new Fantastic four and one
Speaker 3: pizza inspired by Yes, the Fantastic Four. It's a well
Speaker 3: cross promotion with the the movie, and that has been
Speaker 3: available since back on June sixteenth. Now Marvel Studio is
Speaker 3: Fantastic four first Steps will be hitting theaters coming up
Speaker 3: on July twenty fifth, but in advance of that, The
Speaker 3: Fantastic four and one pizza features eight slices made from
Speaker 3: the signature Crust brand.
Speaker 1: You know, the brand signats across.
Speaker 3: Each top, with classic cheese, Pepperoni, Italian sausage and bacon
Speaker 3: and pepper and holopano, all for the suggested price of
Speaker 3: seven ninety nine. This must be a pain in the
Speaker 3: tukis to make. It's gotta be right. So it's two
Speaker 3: of this, two of that, two of that, two of
Speaker 3: that and throw it all together and tada.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Now.
Speaker 3: Additionally, to celebrate the launch, they are partnering Little Caesars
Speaker 3: partnering with Fandango to offer fans who spend twenty dollars
Speaker 3: or more online or in store between this past week
Speaker 3: and then August tenth, they'll get a code for four
Speaker 3: dollars off a movie ticket.
Speaker 1: So you got that.
Speaker 3: If that's your jam, have a great time, knock yourself out.
Speaker 3: What else do we have on foody Fun Now? Wendy's
Speaker 3: has long launched a Talkies Fueg meal with new Fuego
Speaker 3: chicken sandwich and Fuego fries. Fuego at participating restaurants. You
Speaker 3: can have a little spice, a little bit of a
Speaker 3: spice in your life that actually starts today, by the way,
Speaker 3: that starts.
Speaker 1: Today on June twentieth.
Speaker 3: And the new Fuego fries the classic hot and crispy fries,
Speaker 3: tossed them in a tangy chili lime seasoning and serve
Speaker 3: them in a custom limit edition tear away bag for
Speaker 3: easier snacking. So that is available. And they also have
Speaker 3: additional arcade game where you can earn points and unlock
Speaker 3: prizes with a chance to win ten thousand dollars. That
Speaker 3: meal available at Windy's restaurants in Canada beginning June twentieth.
Speaker 3: Prices may vary, so not just in the States, but
Speaker 3: also in Canada.
Speaker 1: So you've got that. What else do we have on
Speaker 1: food he Fun? Ready for food he fun Well?
Speaker 3: Taco Bell has launched a new Crispy Chicken taco and
Speaker 3: burrito featuring all new Crispy Chicken strips, so you can
Speaker 3: get that, put that in in your belly and knock
Speaker 3: yourself out. Sonic has unveiled the new Grillos Pickles Big
Speaker 3: deal meal. That's a mouthful that starts ten days from today.
Speaker 3: It's available for a limited time starting on June thirtieth.
Speaker 3: And I'm good. I know that alf is addicted to pickles.
Speaker 3: He sent us a gift basket of pickle items which
Speaker 3: we're given to other people at the radio station because
Speaker 3: both myself and Eddie not fans of the pickle, but
Speaker 3: other people did did enjoy the pickle, So there was that.
Speaker 1: There was that for sure.
Speaker 3: What else, There's nothing really major. I don't think I'm
Speaker 3: missing anything. I mean, we had a lot of the
Speaker 3: food stuff last week. All right, we'll get out on that.
Speaker 3: I got a big weekend ahead. I will be here
Speaker 3: with tails from a random early morning surprise. I'll tease
Speaker 3: that for the next edition of the podcast. A random
Speaker 3: early in the morning surprise that should not should not
Speaker 3: have happened. The logistics on this should not have happened,
Speaker 3: but did happen. If you would like to send a
Speaker 3: message in for the mail bag, the fifth Hour mail
Speaker 3: Bag on the Sunday Pod, you can do that right now.
Speaker 3: Send it care of Real fifth Hour, Real fifth Hour
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Speaker 3: dot com, and put your name and city in there.
Speaker 1: Otherwise you're not going to get any credit. You're not.
Speaker 1: That's just the way it is.
Speaker 3: And today, by the way, if I did not mention that,
Speaker 3: only I did National Flip Flop Day. And I don't
Speaker 3: mean flip flopping and all that stuff, but the design
Speaker 3: I learned this, I fell down a rabbit hole, as
Speaker 3: I'm known to do. The modern day sandal, which I
Speaker 3: wear pretty much every night when I go to work
Speaker 3: because I have a job that allows you to wear
Speaker 3: sandals when you go to work. The modern day sandal,
Speaker 3: we can thank our friends in Japan was inspired by
Speaker 3: the Japanese zori z O r I zori and the
Speaker 3: Encyclopedia of History of Japanese Manners and custom states Japanese
Speaker 3: children use the flip flop type shoes when first learning
Speaker 3: to walk, and returning Americans brought the zori back from Japan.
Speaker 1: At the end of the Second World War.
Speaker 3: It was a novelty item for friends and family, and
Speaker 3: they brought this back as like a souvenir, and so
Speaker 3: we need to owe I guess we do. Oh the
Speaker 3: popularity of the current sandal to the Japanese During.
Speaker 1: World War Two.
Speaker 3: They took over much of Southeast Asia's natural resources and they.
Speaker 1: Lost in World War Two. They looked to their resources
Speaker 1: and they were trying to.
Speaker 3: Find a way to improve the economy, and as the
Speaker 3: legend goes, they ended up using the materials that they
Speaker 3: had and flip flops with bright colors and all the
Speaker 3: different variations.
Speaker 1: But it all started after World War Two. So there
Speaker 1: you go.
Speaker 3: All right, anyway, I have a wonderful again, rest of
Speaker 3: your Friday today. I got new podcast all weekend long
Speaker 3: and later skater Osta Pasta Gotta murder.
Speaker 1: I gotta go