WEBVTT - The Fifth Hour: Lasorda's Leprechaun Hat 0:00:00.760 --> 0:00:05.040 Kabooms. If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred 0:00:05.080 --> 0:00:08.639 minutes a week was enough, think again. He's the last 0:00:08.720 --> 0:00:12.320 remnants of the old republic, a sole fashion of fairness. 0:00:12.440 --> 0:00:15.440 He treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as 0:00:15.440 --> 0:00:18.720 the rich pill poppers in the penthouse. Wow. It's a 0:00:18.840 --> 0:00:22.880 clearinghouse of hot takes. Break free for something special. The 0:00:22.920 --> 0:00:29.319 Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now in the 0:00:29.480 --> 0:00:35.600 air everywhere. 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We need to get to four hundred before 0:01:18.560 --> 0:01:21.520 we all die, so that would be the goal. On 0:01:21.560 --> 0:01:24.399 this podcast, we've got party Hardy going to Hell in 0:01:24.440 --> 0:01:31.479 a handbasket, backscratcher, and pop goes the culture. We'll get 0:01:31.560 --> 0:01:34.360 right to it. So this is the Saturday podcast, The 0:01:34.480 --> 0:01:37.960 Life of mallor Life of Danny g And so you 0:01:38.000 --> 0:01:40.200 may be wondering what the hell's going on. Today's a 0:01:40.240 --> 0:01:42.640 big day. I did not mention this in the Friday podcast, 0:01:42.959 --> 0:01:46.200 but buckle up, buckaroo, because it is a big weekend. 0:01:46.200 --> 0:01:49.240 You know what holiday is this weekend. I'm smiling with 0:01:49.280 --> 0:01:54.680 my green teeth. Saint Patty's Day is a day to 0:01:54.840 --> 0:02:00.880 have a party. So before I tell you what I've 0:02:00.880 --> 0:02:04.600 got going about, my favorite memory of Saint Patrick's Day. 0:02:04.600 --> 0:02:06.920 And I don't have a lot of Saint Patrick's Day memories, 0:02:07.360 --> 0:02:10.360 but this goes way back in the hot tub time machine, 0:02:10.840 --> 0:02:13.160 and it's one of those days I can still close 0:02:13.200 --> 0:02:16.560 my eyes and visualize the room and the people in 0:02:16.600 --> 0:02:20.000 the room. It's that vivid of memory. But it's the 0:02:20.120 --> 0:02:24.680 nineteen nineties. I'm a young pup. I'm in viro Beach 0:02:24.840 --> 0:02:28.800 at Dodger spring training. And this was in the days 0:02:28.919 --> 0:02:32.120 when you didn't have seven thousand uniforms like they do 0:02:32.200 --> 0:02:35.079 these days. In baseball. You wore your home whites in 0:02:35.200 --> 0:02:38.280 your road grays, but you got a little frisky in 0:02:38.320 --> 0:02:41.200 spring training. On Saint Patrick's Day, the Dodgers will wearing 0:02:41.200 --> 0:02:43.800 green hats. And it was like, oh my god, the 0:02:43.840 --> 0:02:45.800 Dodgers are wearing green what the you know, what the 0:02:45.840 --> 0:02:48.679 hell is going on? So I happened to be in 0:02:49.080 --> 0:02:51.240 a viro beach when this was going on, and so 0:02:51.280 --> 0:02:53.560 they pulled out the green hats, which who cares whatever, 0:02:53.560 --> 0:02:56.440 They did that every year. But then after the game 0:02:56.520 --> 0:02:59.360 that night, they had a Saint Patrick's Day party in 0:02:59.400 --> 0:03:03.960 the dodger Town restaurant bar that they had the commissary 0:03:04.360 --> 0:03:06.120 and I got invited. So I was there. I was 0:03:06.160 --> 0:03:08.440 at this party and it was the Saint Patrick's state 0:03:08.480 --> 0:03:11.120 party at all the Irish food. But my memory, I 0:03:11.120 --> 0:03:15.680 can still close my eyes and see this is Tommy Lasorda. 0:03:15.760 --> 0:03:19.480 May he rest in peace. Let's just say Tommy might 0:03:19.480 --> 0:03:21.200 have had a couple of pops. He might have been 0:03:21.240 --> 0:03:26.000 enjoying it, and he was swimming in green beer. Tommy 0:03:26.120 --> 0:03:29.320 was feeling no pain and he was wearing a leprechn 0:03:29.440 --> 0:03:33.200 hat and he was It was so and so we 0:03:33.400 --> 0:03:36.480 did our show. I was doing a local show in 0:03:36.680 --> 0:03:39.480 La and so we were on really late on the 0:03:39.520 --> 0:03:42.240 East coast, and so we got to go to the party. 0:03:42.240 --> 0:03:44.880 And then after the party, one of the Dodger PR 0:03:44.920 --> 0:03:48.280 people say, Hey, we're gonna get Lasorda on the show. 0:03:48.480 --> 0:03:50.480 He's gonna come in. I was like, Oh, Tommy's gonna 0:03:50.480 --> 0:03:52.200 come in at night to do this thing. And back 0:03:52.200 --> 0:03:54.240 in those days, we didn't have access to record anything, 0:03:54.360 --> 0:03:57.840 you know, it was not the setup was archaic. Today 0:03:57.880 --> 0:04:02.280 you just recorded. But yeah, Tommy showed up late and 0:04:02.680 --> 0:04:05.600 he was still wearing the Leprechaun hat. And in that 0:04:05.800 --> 0:04:09.480 little small Dodgertown radio studio, which was really just a 0:04:09.520 --> 0:04:14.840 broom closet, it was. It was priceless. And somewhere I 0:04:14.960 --> 0:04:17.640 have a photo and I gotta find it. It's a 0:04:17.760 --> 0:04:20.560 it's it's a polaroid. Not even if I don't know 0:04:20.600 --> 0:04:23.479 as a polar it's it's a it's not a digital photo, 0:04:23.600 --> 0:04:26.400 because that's how old. This is from a grow away camera. 0:04:26.880 --> 0:04:30.279 Pretty much of Tommy. It was. It was so great, 0:04:30.320 --> 0:04:33.440 and he was he was in rare form that night. 0:04:33.480 --> 0:04:35.240 He knew how to put on a show, and he 0:04:35.360 --> 0:04:38.520 was he was feeling no pain, and he was a jokester, 0:04:38.880 --> 0:04:41.600 and he was going on and on it was. It 0:04:41.640 --> 0:04:43.280 was really a fun memory that so that was my 0:04:43.279 --> 0:04:46.760 big Saint Patrick's Day memory. Early on in our radio careers, 0:04:47.200 --> 0:04:51.359 how cool were the Saint Patrick's Day radio station live 0:04:51.440 --> 0:04:56.920 remotes and parties. I remember seeing the general manager slashed 0:04:57.520 --> 0:05:01.000 the salespeople were drunk out of their mo I had 0:05:01.120 --> 0:05:05.280 never seen a radio staff so drunk. And then fast 0:05:05.320 --> 0:05:08.479 forward to a few years ago, me and my morning 0:05:08.520 --> 0:05:14.800 show drank on Saint Patrick's Day. It was a great 0:05:14.800 --> 0:05:18.000 show man. The listeners loved it. But I signed off 0:05:18.040 --> 0:05:22.080 by saying, Happy Mother's Day. Make sure to call your mom. 0:05:24.680 --> 0:05:28.360 And I'm not exaggerating. The very next work day, there 0:05:28.440 --> 0:05:32.040 was a memo hanging up on the studio door saying 0:05:32.080 --> 0:05:36.920 that alcohol was not allowed on the premises. That's great. 0:05:37.640 --> 0:05:40.080 I remember the first guy. I don't know if I 0:05:40.080 --> 0:05:42.360 should say his name, but we've had him on the podcast. 0:05:42.440 --> 0:05:45.320 There was the first time I ever saw anybody drink 0:05:45.400 --> 0:05:49.640 on the air, and I was like, WHOA, I didn't 0:05:49.640 --> 0:05:52.080 know you could do that, you know, And I've only 0:05:52.080 --> 0:05:55.560 been drunk on the air one time, and I don't 0:05:55.600 --> 0:05:57.160 know that I'll tell the story right now, but as 0:05:57.160 --> 0:05:59.000 somebody wants the story down the line, I'll tell the story. 0:05:59.000 --> 0:06:01.400 But we had we had this guy in the podcast 0:06:02.120 --> 0:06:05.880 and I would say, Dandy, one of the crazier people 0:06:05.920 --> 0:06:09.919 that we've had on the podcast. And uh and he 0:06:09.560 --> 0:06:12.839 was telling stories about being in a hotel room filled 0:06:12.880 --> 0:06:15.960 with money and things like oh yeah yeah from the 0:06:16.040 --> 0:06:20.040 super Bowl in Los Angeles. Yeah yeah, yeah yeah. So 0:06:20.960 --> 0:06:23.640 and I'll just say this and the listeners that know, 0:06:24.040 --> 0:06:28.040 they'll know. But part of his on air stick was 0:06:28.080 --> 0:06:32.279 he would pour glasses of alcohol or listeners who asked 0:06:32.279 --> 0:06:34.680 for it. I'm a bit naive, Danny. I thought that 0:06:34.760 --> 0:06:36.840 was just an act. I thought, oh, he's not really 0:06:36.960 --> 0:06:39.320 new and maybe he didn't do it. Maybe it's just 0:06:39.320 --> 0:06:41.520 this one night he happened. We were at a remote 0:06:42.200 --> 0:06:47.239 at the National Sports Grill in Buena Park, which doesn't 0:06:47.240 --> 0:06:49.960 exist these are, you know, years ago, and uh yeah, 0:06:50.000 --> 0:06:53.320 we were all there. He was. He was going for it, 0:06:53.360 --> 0:06:56.760 you know, and listeners were buying him drinks and he 0:06:56.839 --> 0:06:59.240 was not rejecting any of them. He was, you know, 0:07:00.960 --> 0:07:03.839 why not. But as far as Saint Patty's Day, fast 0:07:03.880 --> 0:07:09.240 forwarding up from the olden days and it's party hardy time. 0:07:09.480 --> 0:07:13.640 Benny the Baker has been activated as my wife. We 0:07:13.680 --> 0:07:16.640 have some some in laws, my wife's family coming in 0:07:16.680 --> 0:07:21.760 from Nashville actually, and some other places. And so we're 0:07:21.760 --> 0:07:24.920 getting how much family do you guys have? I don't know. 0:07:25.000 --> 0:07:27.840 I don't have my family. Well, my family's spread out. 0:07:27.960 --> 0:07:30.200 A lot of them are dead. And then she's got 0:07:30.240 --> 0:07:35.200 a lot of family, and they're like, they're mostly here, 0:07:35.240 --> 0:07:39.520 but there's some in New Mexico, some in Nashville, her 0:07:39.560 --> 0:07:43.600 side of the family. So my family's mostly in like 0:07:43.760 --> 0:07:48.480 New York, some in Chicago. Phoenix, right, Phoenix is a 0:07:48.480 --> 0:07:53.440 big mallor hub, Florida. They're spread out Denver. I got family. 0:07:54.240 --> 0:07:56.920 It's all over the damn country anyway. So so this 0:07:57.080 --> 0:07:59.840 party where she's throwing it, and I'm the Benny the Baker. 0:08:00.240 --> 0:08:02.760 So here's what I've been up to over the last 0:08:02.800 --> 0:08:05.040 couple of days. I have made and this is sitting 0:08:05.080 --> 0:08:10.840 in my refrigerator. I have I've activated Benny Baker, and 0:08:10.880 --> 0:08:14.320 I'm taking care of all the sweets, so all the desserts, 0:08:15.040 --> 0:08:19.640 and I have made a bunch of bakery style gooey 0:08:19.720 --> 0:08:24.720 chocolate chip cookie dough, Mama's favorite oatmeal raisin cookie. I 0:08:24.720 --> 0:08:28.200 think you had yeah, those are good. Those are really good. 0:08:28.760 --> 0:08:32.880 And my newest crumble style cookies. So I've got three 0:08:33.000 --> 0:08:35.959 different style of cookies. But it's gonna take forever to 0:08:36.080 --> 0:08:38.280 bake these, so I gotta get them all done before 0:08:38.320 --> 0:08:40.760 the party starts. I'm gonna have over like seventy cookies, 0:08:40.760 --> 0:08:43.600 probably close to one hundred cookies, which means I'm gonna 0:08:43.600 --> 0:08:47.080 have to bring the leftovers into work so Roberto and 0:08:47.120 --> 0:08:50.760 Coop and the guys can can have somebody. Yeah. I 0:08:50.760 --> 0:08:53.559 probably made like way too many, but the leftovers I 0:08:53.600 --> 0:08:55.280 get to eat. I could eat as many as I want. 0:08:55.480 --> 0:08:58.160 And you know, my wife gets to have another social 0:08:58.200 --> 0:09:01.760 butterfly event and all that. And so that's the way 0:09:01.800 --> 0:09:03.240 that is day. And so that's that's what I'll be 0:09:03.320 --> 0:09:05.680 up to today that the parties actually today, And because 0:09:05.720 --> 0:09:07.880 I gotta work Sundays a school day, I gotta work 0:09:07.920 --> 0:09:10.720 Sunday night in the monday, and so I'll be watching 0:09:10.800 --> 0:09:15.719 college basketball, baking watching on my phone. So I do it. 0:09:15.840 --> 0:09:18.920 And that's the plan. So we got to turn this 0:09:19.000 --> 0:09:22.440 into an official side hustle for you, because I'm not 0:09:22.559 --> 0:09:24.960 kidding here. Those cookies are good enough to where you 0:09:24.960 --> 0:09:29.000 could package those and have some kind of Mallard logo 0:09:29.080 --> 0:09:31.480 and sell them. It's a great idea. I would love 0:09:31.520 --> 0:09:35.400 to do it. I do enjoy baking, which I wish 0:09:35.480 --> 0:09:37.040 my I didn't really get into this till my mom 0:09:37.040 --> 0:09:38.640 had passed away. I wish he was kind of still around, 0:09:38.679 --> 0:09:40.079 just like I said, hey, mom, look at me now, 0:09:40.120 --> 0:09:42.400 you know. But she loved the bake crab. When I 0:09:42.440 --> 0:09:44.600 was a kid, my mom was always it's probably it's 0:09:44.640 --> 0:09:47.840 so fat because my mom was cooking like brownies and cookies, 0:09:47.920 --> 0:09:50.800 and your mom could help you push it. We could 0:09:50.840 --> 0:09:53.920 have called it Mallard's Mama and Mallar's mama. There you go, 0:09:54.080 --> 0:09:57.640 There you go, daddy. So that was that. That's what 0:09:57.679 --> 0:10:02.959 we're up to today, party hardy. Yeah we are not. 0:10:03.280 --> 0:10:05.360 I don't think going to hell in a handbasket. I 0:10:05.360 --> 0:10:08.360 don't think we are. I had to look that phrase up. 0:10:08.880 --> 0:10:10.760 My grandma used to say that back in the day, 0:10:10.800 --> 0:10:13.880 this country is going to hell in a handbasket. I 0:10:13.960 --> 0:10:17.320 looked it up right now. In the nineteenth century, the 0:10:17.360 --> 0:10:20.960 phrase was associated with the American gold rush of the 0:10:21.000 --> 0:10:25.160 eighteen forties, where men were lowered by hand in baskets 0:10:25.240 --> 0:10:30.080 down mining shafts to set explosives which could have deadly consequences. 0:10:30.600 --> 0:10:33.720 Oh that's great. So it's a wherever you were going 0:10:33.800 --> 0:10:36.040 down and you might meet your demise. You're going to 0:10:36.120 --> 0:10:39.880 hell in a hand a handbasket. Awesome. I didn't know that. 0:10:40.280 --> 0:10:43.920 I didn't know that either. That's right, that's pretty cool. 0:10:44.040 --> 0:10:47.440 So I don't mean for this to be two weekends 0:10:47.440 --> 0:10:51.400 in a row of dumping on a city in California. 0:10:51.640 --> 0:10:57.040 But but Ben, we went to Santa Barbara just on 0:10:57.080 --> 0:11:01.240 a day trip last Sunday, made reservations to go to 0:11:01.280 --> 0:11:05.520 the little Zoo there. Yeah, as we're walking in, there 0:11:05.640 --> 0:11:09.200 is a homeless guy, like a sleep right in front 0:11:09.240 --> 0:11:17.600 of the turnstile. Wow, oh my, oh my gosh. I 0:11:17.640 --> 0:11:20.599 mean we had to step over this homeless guy to 0:11:20.800 --> 0:11:23.360 get to get into the zoo. And I told my girl, 0:11:23.400 --> 0:11:26.120 I was like, wow, I mean way high on State 0:11:26.200 --> 0:11:29.839 Street here, there was a little bit of homelessness going on. 0:11:29.960 --> 0:11:32.520 But holy crap, I've never seen it like this in 0:11:32.520 --> 0:11:36.520 this city. One kid that might turn out to be 0:11:36.559 --> 0:11:41.080 homeless someday was outside of where the Lions were. He's 0:11:41.240 --> 0:11:44.000 the he's in the minor league system to be homeless. Yes, 0:11:44.160 --> 0:11:48.760 because the Lion and the lions on this beautiful sunny 0:11:48.840 --> 0:11:52.280 sunday where the rain had taken a little break. They 0:11:52.280 --> 0:11:55.439 were both laying out in front of everybody on the rocks, 0:11:56.240 --> 0:11:59.560 and then the lion s jumps down and she's running 0:11:59.559 --> 0:12:02.320 around in the yard. And this kid, I'm not kidding you, 0:12:02.520 --> 0:12:07.199 third fourth grade probably yells to the rest of his family, Hey, 0:12:07.200 --> 0:12:10.760 come over here, there's some sort of animal running around 0:12:10.760 --> 0:12:14.880 in the yard here. Well, he's not wrong. It was 0:12:14.920 --> 0:12:17.280 an animal, you know, it's a sort of animal. And 0:12:17.360 --> 0:12:21.719 I'm I'm sort of animal. And my wife he was like, 0:12:21.960 --> 0:12:25.360 this third fourth grader doesn't know what the fuck a 0:12:25.400 --> 0:12:35.880 lion is. Isn't that one of the first animals you're talking? God? Yeah, like, 0:12:36.240 --> 0:12:38.559 at least you know lion or tiger. At least you 0:12:38.600 --> 0:12:41.760 should know. I mean, my god, that's that's so. Say 0:12:41.840 --> 0:12:45.080 I've not been to the Santa Barbara Zoo. Is it 0:12:45.120 --> 0:12:47.480 worth my time? I don't recall being at the Santa 0:12:47.480 --> 0:12:50.640 Barbara Zoo. Yeah. I think it is because it's the 0:12:50.679 --> 0:12:53.600 perfect zoo trip. You could be in and out of 0:12:53.640 --> 0:12:58.040 that zoo in ninety minutes. Okay, So it's a quick, small, 0:12:58.120 --> 0:13:01.720 little exactly, and they have this little train you can 0:13:01.760 --> 0:13:04.120 take the little train around the zoo, which is kind 0:13:04.120 --> 0:13:07.160 of cool. And there's not a lot of animals there, 0:13:07.160 --> 0:13:10.000 but the animals they do have are cool. And they 0:13:10.000 --> 0:13:14.520 have a new attraction, wallabies, and you can walk right 0:13:14.600 --> 0:13:16.760 up to them. You can't touch them, but you literally 0:13:16.800 --> 0:13:19.520 walk right up to them and look at them. So 0:13:20.120 --> 0:13:22.720 it's a cool little zoo. We get out of there, 0:13:23.000 --> 0:13:25.440 and now we go down to the beach, all right, 0:13:26.200 --> 0:13:29.480 and the beach in Santa bar is beautiful, beautiful, a 0:13:29.480 --> 0:13:32.840 little boardwalk down there where the restaurants and all. That's wonderful. 0:13:33.160 --> 0:13:36.240 But as my grandma would say, it has gone to 0:13:36.320 --> 0:13:41.120 hell in a handbasket. Oh really, because everywhere you walk, 0:13:41.400 --> 0:13:46.240 everywhere you step, there are homeless people. Now, as you know, 0:13:46.520 --> 0:13:50.200 this has become a huge problem in the state of California, 0:13:50.720 --> 0:13:54.040 especially with a lot of the beach cities. There are 0:13:54.120 --> 0:14:00.560 homeless people with homemade shelters, pushing not just push in carts. 0:14:00.920 --> 0:14:03.800 There were several guys who passed us where they had 0:14:03.840 --> 0:14:07.839 a train of carts connected to each other. They're recreating 0:14:07.880 --> 0:14:11.040 the zoo train, is what they're doing. The only thing 0:14:11.080 --> 0:14:16.960 missing were sled dogs. Okay, and we are just like wow, 0:14:17.040 --> 0:14:21.120 like we were amazed at how many carts. We're now 0:14:21.160 --> 0:14:25.160 on Lower State Street where it's the newer construction where 0:14:25.200 --> 0:14:28.280 we ate at a place called Phinnies, which is a 0:14:28.400 --> 0:14:33.200 nice bar slash restaurant. We're eating outside on the front porch, 0:14:34.120 --> 0:14:38.280 and you know, we're laughing. We're eating our Phinnis is 0:14:38.320 --> 0:14:41.040 known for like they're they're really good pretzel and the 0:14:41.080 --> 0:14:45.000 different dips. Okay, we had the pretzel as the appetizer. 0:14:45.560 --> 0:14:48.040 And then I see my girl with just a stunn 0:14:48.120 --> 0:14:50.800 to look on her face, and I turned and looked 0:14:50.800 --> 0:14:54.720 to my left. There's a homeless guy who has walked 0:14:54.880 --> 0:14:59.160 up to the restaurant front porch. He's reaching over the 0:14:59.240 --> 0:15:03.080 gate and the people who left the table next to us. 0:15:03.480 --> 0:15:09.880 He is helping himself the lemonade on the table, drinking 0:15:09.960 --> 0:15:13.560 the lemonade that was left on the table. I mean, 0:15:13.760 --> 0:15:17.440 we've never seen anything like that. Yeah, this guy's just 0:15:17.480 --> 0:15:21.760 like sampling what people left on their table. Do you 0:15:21.840 --> 0:15:24.000 never used to see that in the city of Santa Barbara. 0:15:24.000 --> 0:15:26.800 The hotel by the way, we wound up staying on 0:15:26.880 --> 0:15:31.280 Sunday night, and you know from experience, those hotels are 0:15:31.440 --> 0:15:35.040 hundreds and hundreds of dollars and now you're stepping over 0:15:35.120 --> 0:15:38.280 homeless people to get into your room. Yeah, well that's 0:15:38.440 --> 0:15:42.360 that's on the politicians and not and not making enough priority. 0:15:42.400 --> 0:15:45.640 But you let a few, you know people, I know 0:15:45.760 --> 0:15:48.120 people are down their luck and all that, but you gotta, 0:15:48.320 --> 0:15:50.760 you know, for the people to pay taxes in the city. 0:15:50.800 --> 0:15:53.400 You can't be doing that. That's no way to do it. Now. 0:15:53.400 --> 0:15:55.080 The other way to get rid of the homeless people 0:15:55.120 --> 0:15:57.080 is go to Wisconsin where it's cold and there's no 0:15:57.160 --> 0:15:59.600 there's very few homeless people there because they're not out 0:15:59.680 --> 0:16:03.440 and about because the weather's not not conducive to that. 0:16:03.520 --> 0:16:07.320 But man, I've been on State Street a bunch in 0:16:07.400 --> 0:16:10.960 Santa Barbara and I've always seen a few homeless people, 0:16:10.960 --> 0:16:13.640 but not from what you describe, not that many people 0:16:13.880 --> 0:16:16.000 more now more plan this place Phinnies, is that what 0:16:16.040 --> 0:16:19.720 you call never I'm looking at the menu here, Oh, 0:16:19.760 --> 0:16:23.160 you would love Phinnis really good food. My kind of place. 0:16:23.200 --> 0:16:26.960 They got prime ribbed cheese, steak, capastrami rubin. I mean, 0:16:26.960 --> 0:16:28.880 these are things I would be into. But you said 0:16:28.920 --> 0:16:31.520 the pretzels are the way to go there. The appetizer 0:16:31.640 --> 0:16:35.040 that we always get is the pretzel, their tacos, their 0:16:35.080 --> 0:16:38.560 fish tacos are really good. Even you know when a 0:16:38.640 --> 0:16:42.000 place is good when even their salads are delicious. Yeah, 0:16:42.080 --> 0:16:44.240 I mean, I'm looking it all looks like my kind 0:16:44.240 --> 0:16:46.640 of stuff. I'll have to remember because Santa Barbara's kind 0:16:46.640 --> 0:16:48.760 of hitting miss. The problem with Santa Barbara for me 0:16:48.840 --> 0:16:51.200 is it's not open late. I'm you know, a lot 0:16:51.240 --> 0:16:54.120 of stuff closes early. It's I feel like they're in Hawaii. 0:16:54.280 --> 0:16:57.360 Everything closes early there. They just opened up a Finney's 0:16:57.440 --> 0:17:02.160 location in Burbank, in Burbon, Burbank. I'm old enough to 0:17:02.160 --> 0:17:07.240 remember when we're going to move studios to Burbank. Man, 0:17:07.280 --> 0:17:09.399 I feel bad for the people that are down on 0:17:09.440 --> 0:17:13.800 their luck and are you know, setting up spots to 0:17:13.880 --> 0:17:17.359 sleep and all that, and not to lower our overall rating. 0:17:17.440 --> 0:17:21.600 But how does California fix that? Because now it went 0:17:21.680 --> 0:17:24.960 from something you'd see a little bit too, something that's 0:17:25.000 --> 0:17:29.480 taken over entire cities. Yeah. Well, the economy sucks for 0:17:29.520 --> 0:17:31.560 a lot of people, so that's part of the problem. 0:17:31.680 --> 0:17:35.080 But the people make bad decisions and they have bad 0:17:35.160 --> 0:17:38.280 luck or a combination of both things. But I know 0:17:38.320 --> 0:17:40.359 the way not to fix it is to hand them money. 0:17:40.800 --> 0:17:43.320 I know that's not the way to fix it. That's people. Oh, 0:17:43.359 --> 0:17:45.280 you're supposed to just give out money, but then that 0:17:45.359 --> 0:17:49.120 just creates more more of an issue. Yeah. This guy, 0:17:49.200 --> 0:17:52.160 by the way, after he tasted the lemonade, he set 0:17:52.200 --> 0:17:55.359 it back down and he walked away, and my girl 0:17:55.440 --> 0:17:57.679 told me she and I didn't I hadn't thought of it. 0:17:57.760 --> 0:18:00.359 She said, I think he was checking it to see 0:18:00.440 --> 0:18:03.919 if it was alcohol. It's probably bummed out. He's like, yeah, 0:18:04.440 --> 0:18:07.800 he took one drink, set it down, and then left. 0:18:08.240 --> 0:18:10.240 And I was like, well, he must have been thirsty, 0:18:10.240 --> 0:18:12.600 and she's like, no, I think he was checking to 0:18:12.640 --> 0:18:15.760 see if it was a mixed drink. And when he 0:18:15.880 --> 0:18:18.320 tasted it and there was no alcohol, he's like, oh 0:18:18.440 --> 0:18:22.679 fuck this place. And he moved on. And she's like, 0:18:22.840 --> 0:18:26.000 that's why I would rather give somebody like that food 0:18:26.560 --> 0:18:31.040 rather than money, because he would just go get alcohol. Yeah. Yeah, 0:18:31.400 --> 0:18:35.920 the last call for alcohol. Man. This this kind of 0:18:35.960 --> 0:18:37.960 reminds me about It's not the same, but remember that 0:18:38.000 --> 0:18:41.399 story in La that one of the homeless compounds in 0:18:41.480 --> 0:18:44.280 skid Row. I don't even know it was in skid Row. 0:18:44.320 --> 0:18:47.760 I think it was under one of the freeways and this. 0:18:47.760 --> 0:18:51.600 This guy had like the penthouse of homeless setups. He 0:18:51.720 --> 0:18:54.560 had a hot tub. Do you remember this? I do 0:18:54.720 --> 0:18:57.480 remember that the guy had a freaking hot tub and 0:18:57.960 --> 0:19:00.159 in his tent thing. And it was like he was 0:19:00.200 --> 0:19:02.719 like the king of the skid row, like the boss, 0:19:03.320 --> 0:19:06.879 because he went all out, man alive, All right, backscratcher, 0:19:06.960 --> 0:19:11.159 Let's move on, backscratcher, And let's see here. Did we 0:19:11.160 --> 0:19:13.280 get any reviews this week? Danny? Last week we were 0:19:13.320 --> 0:19:16.240 shut out? Oh yeah, then there's got to be at 0:19:16.320 --> 0:19:25.399 least five this week? Or who who? But it's a 0:19:25.400 --> 0:19:30.080 good one. Senior Suave rights and he says five stars. 0:19:30.080 --> 0:19:33.480 You guys are all over the place with your non 0:19:33.640 --> 0:19:37.760 sports topics, but the Dandy g Show featuring Penn Maller 0:19:38.119 --> 0:19:43.239 definitely rates five stars. The microphone throttler as long as 0:19:43.280 --> 0:19:46.280 the insufferable gas can isn't there to ruin the chemistry. Wow, 0:19:46.320 --> 0:19:51.959 shots fired from the senior Suave. Who are we supposed 0:19:52.000 --> 0:19:54.119 to do a herd O sports podcast, Danny? Are we 0:19:54.200 --> 0:19:56.520 making a mistake not doing a herd O sports podcat? 0:19:56.920 --> 0:19:59.520 That would be boring? I think we talk the perfect 0:19:59.520 --> 0:20:04.560 amount of sports on this podcast. None, No, very little, 0:20:04.640 --> 0:20:07.960 very little? Uh, so what is next here? By the way, 0:20:08.000 --> 0:20:12.200 that that is, we are fourteen reviews away now from 0:20:12.200 --> 0:20:15.520 the magic four hundred. We love round numbers, so we 0:20:15.560 --> 0:20:19.000 need fourteen more reviews and then we are bank Bank, 0:20:19.280 --> 0:20:24.119 Chicken and trim. We've got pop goes the culture and 0:20:24.240 --> 0:20:40.840 that means our man ohio, awoo, Okay, we'll do a 0:20:40.840 --> 0:20:42.720 few of these. We don't have tons of time, but 0:20:42.840 --> 0:20:45.040 this one I thought would resonate with you, Danny. I'm 0:20:45.080 --> 0:20:48.560 not sure if you saw this or not. It involves 0:20:48.600 --> 0:20:53.280 something that has not happened in thirty five years. It 0:20:53.320 --> 0:20:57.720 involves music, and I was I did a double take 0:20:57.760 --> 0:21:01.440 on this, but then it made sense when you take 0:21:01.480 --> 0:21:06.000 a couple of steps back. Vinyl records, Oh yeah, beat 0:21:06.040 --> 0:21:09.480 Out CDs have outsold scenes for the first time in 0:21:09.600 --> 0:21:15.080 thirty five years because of all the retro the retro 0:21:15.640 --> 0:21:18.720 players that are people aren't really buying. Who's buying CDs? 0:21:18.760 --> 0:21:21.199 These does all those still cars that have CD players. 0:21:21.240 --> 0:21:24.280 But I did see this and I paid attention to 0:21:24.320 --> 0:21:28.240 it for the exact reason you just mentioned. Vintage vinyl 0:21:28.800 --> 0:21:32.280 is super popular right now. In fact, our middle child 0:21:32.440 --> 0:21:37.480 I bought him bluetooth turntable and for one of the holidays. 0:21:37.560 --> 0:21:41.800 Last year I got him a record, a rap record, 0:21:42.000 --> 0:21:45.520 vinyl for a current artist he likes. You should have 0:21:45.520 --> 0:21:49.119 saw him holding this piece of vinyl, like wow, and 0:21:49.400 --> 0:21:54.000 kids they're amazed by vinyl records, which is very cool. 0:21:55.400 --> 0:21:59.000 Now you mentioned CDs. Some cars still have CD players, 0:21:59.040 --> 0:22:01.800 but the newer car, like the one I just got 0:22:01.920 --> 0:22:05.960 ripped off for, doesn't even have a CD player. Yeah, 0:22:06.160 --> 0:22:08.040 some of the new cars they've changed. Some of them 0:22:08.040 --> 0:22:10.480 don't even AM radio. They've gotten rid of the AM 0:22:10.560 --> 0:22:15.360 band and there's stupid. Yeah, there's a pushback that Tesla's 0:22:16.000 --> 0:22:19.320 some of the electric cars don't have the AM band anymore. 0:22:19.600 --> 0:22:21.399 But there are there are people in the governments like, 0:22:21.400 --> 0:22:23.639 you gotta have AM band in this case of an emergency, 0:22:23.680 --> 0:22:25.399 you need to have it, And so they're trying to 0:22:25.440 --> 0:22:28.199 make sure that that they're gonna put some kind of 0:22:28.480 --> 0:22:32.680 tape in their emergencies. And AM sports talk radio, it's 0:22:32.760 --> 0:22:34.840 very important. The AM sports talk radio is the most 0:22:34.840 --> 0:22:39.199 important thing on the radio. So as far as the 0:22:39.280 --> 0:22:42.040 vinyl though, this is my parents had a record player 0:22:42.080 --> 0:22:43.600 when I was a kid, and they had a bunch 0:22:43.600 --> 0:22:48.960 of vinyl records, and occasionally me and my brothers would 0:22:49.000 --> 0:22:52.800 use them as frisbees and throw them, throw them around 0:22:52.800 --> 0:22:55.480 the house, not realizing that some of those things were 0:22:55.480 --> 0:22:58.879 worth a decent amount of money, churning the page on 0:22:59.000 --> 0:23:01.800 pop goes the culture about this one, a tech tycoon 0:23:02.720 --> 0:23:05.880 has been called out on social media. He was flying. 0:23:05.960 --> 0:23:10.800 This guy's like a gazillionaire. He was flying on a plane, 0:23:11.000 --> 0:23:14.239 I think it was a Delta flight, and somebody on 0:23:14.280 --> 0:23:18.320 the flight had a mask on. So this guy decided 0:23:19.000 --> 0:23:22.240 he was going to play out the Magic Christian, that 0:23:22.320 --> 0:23:25.520 famous story that I've talked about in that book. And 0:23:26.280 --> 0:23:30.600 he offered this woman who was wearing her mask. He said, listen, 0:23:31.320 --> 0:23:35.080 if you take the mask off it was a delta flight, 0:23:35.800 --> 0:23:39.359 for the full flight, I'll give you a hundred thousand 0:23:39.400 --> 0:23:47.439 dollars one hundred thousand dollars of cash money. Wow. And 0:23:47.560 --> 0:23:52.920 you know what the woman did. She turned down the money. Yeah, 0:23:52.920 --> 0:23:57.520