WEBVTT - The Fifth Hour: "Bridesmaid Torture" Mail Bag 0:00:00.760 --> 0:00:01.520 Kabooms. 0:00:02.360 --> 0:00:05.440 If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes 0:00:05.480 --> 0:00:09.280 a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants 0:00:09.280 --> 0:00:12.560 of the old Republic, a soul fashion of fairness. He 0:00:12.640 --> 0:00:15.560 treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the 0:00:15.680 --> 0:00:19.680 rich pill poppers in the penthouse. Wow to Clearinghouse of 0:00:19.720 --> 0:00:23.560 hot takes, break free for something special. The Fifth Hour 0:00:23.680 --> 0:00:29.479 with Ben Maller starts right now. 0:00:29.080 --> 0:00:35.519 In the air evering where the Fifth Hour with Me, 0:00:35.960 --> 0:00:41.960 Big Ben and Danny g Radio Sunday. So it is 0:00:42.000 --> 0:00:44.239 also a holiday weekend. Should we point that out that 0:00:44.280 --> 0:00:49.199 we're doing fresh pods when we don't have to be 0:00:49.600 --> 0:00:52.879 doing fresh pods. It's a holiday weekend here it is 0:00:52.960 --> 0:00:58.760 also the first day of September, and here we are 0:00:58.800 --> 0:01:02.760 doing audio content. What is up with that? I can't 0:01:02.800 --> 0:01:03.480 believe it? 0:01:03.520 --> 0:01:06.680 And why is it still ninety degrees outside where we live. 0:01:07.200 --> 0:01:11.520 It's California. Global warming, Danny, global warming. It's all gonna die. 0:01:11.920 --> 0:01:16.000 Anything that happens is global warming. Clearly on this podcast 0:01:16.000 --> 0:01:18.200 we have the mailbag. But there was some stuff that 0:01:18.240 --> 0:01:23.640 I wanted to get to from the weekend Friday Saturday 0:01:23.720 --> 0:01:27.319 I didn't get to and I guess I'll start with 0:01:27.360 --> 0:01:32.600 this the wedding singers. So I mentioned yesterday that we 0:01:32.640 --> 0:01:35.920 had the nacho situation. I was doing some community service 0:01:35.959 --> 0:01:39.400 at the local high school snack bar for football and 0:01:39.600 --> 0:01:41.760 was the nacho guy, and then I tried to help 0:01:41.760 --> 0:01:47.280 weed man hippie out and was left very frustrated, very frustrated. 0:01:48.360 --> 0:01:52.800 So we had that. But then also I found out 0:01:52.920 --> 0:01:58.320 from the wife that we got VIP. We were offered 0:01:58.400 --> 0:02:06.440 a VIP all access passed to a wedding. Now I 0:02:06.480 --> 0:02:09.000 didn't want to go to the wedding because I you know, 0:02:09.080 --> 0:02:11.919 why would I do that. But my wife's like, she's like, listen, 0:02:12.000 --> 0:02:13.760 good news, you gotta get all dressed up. We're going 0:02:13.800 --> 0:02:17.399 to a wedding tonight. I'm like, oh boy. Now, keep 0:02:17.440 --> 0:02:20.799 in mind, I didn't know the person that was getting married. 0:02:21.040 --> 0:02:23.400 I didn't I maybe met that one time. It was 0:02:23.400 --> 0:02:27.480 one of the people my wife works with who it 0:02:27.520 --> 0:02:32.000 was her wedding, and fine, nice, nice woman whatever. But 0:02:32.040 --> 0:02:34.760 it's always like it's always weird to me, Like, you know, 0:02:35.040 --> 0:02:38.920 I feel like the whole wedding things like friends, close family, 0:02:40.320 --> 0:02:45.280 like close friends family. I'm not a friend. I'm not 0:02:45.919 --> 0:02:50.280 like close family. I don't it was. So I show 0:02:50.360 --> 0:02:54.959 up and it was a wedding in the lowest feelss 0:02:54.960 --> 0:02:58.040 neighborhood of Dodgers date. Now, if you heard the Friday podcast, 0:02:58.080 --> 0:03:02.680 you might remember potato again. Where I was leaving the 0:03:02.720 --> 0:03:07.440 TV show, the entire five freeway at Stadium Way near 0:03:07.480 --> 0:03:13.760 Dodger Stadium was closed for about twelve hours, maybe longer 0:03:13.800 --> 0:03:18.200 than that, because a truck had spilled over an entire 0:03:18.320 --> 0:03:23.520 load of fries and there were potatoes in the air everywhere, 0:03:24.200 --> 0:03:27.360 and it caused me to get By the time I 0:03:27.400 --> 0:03:30.680 got back home, you know where I lived, Nanny about 0:03:30.760 --> 0:03:32.720 two hours of sleep and then I had to get 0:03:32.760 --> 0:03:35.840 right back up and get ready for the radio. 0:03:35.720 --> 0:03:39.640 Show opening NFL night. You're going to have nachos and 0:03:39.800 --> 0:03:40.560 French fries. 0:03:40.720 --> 0:03:45.120 Oh my god. So as when I was younger, the 0:03:45.200 --> 0:03:49.520 idea of an entire truck spilling over and having fries everywhere, 0:03:49.520 --> 0:03:51.560 it would just be a dream. But this turned out 0:03:51.600 --> 0:03:53.320 to be a nightmare. But that was in lose Phelis, 0:03:53.480 --> 0:03:55.920 so this also kind of in that area. I put 0:03:55.960 --> 0:03:58.320 my church clothes, my temple clothes on, I went out 0:03:58.480 --> 0:04:01.120 and I went to the wedding and there were a 0:04:01.200 --> 0:04:04.360 couple of things that stood out to me. Now, the 0:04:04.440 --> 0:04:10.920 first thing that stood out was the presentation, I'm all 0:04:11.000 --> 0:04:13.640 about efficiency. I think you know that about me, Danny. 0:04:13.680 --> 0:04:16.400 I'm all about efficiency. Se I pity the fool that 0:04:16.440 --> 0:04:21.000 doesn't give me my burrito the quickest path that most 0:04:21.320 --> 0:04:26.680 humans are wired. I want the quickest path between two places. 0:04:27.600 --> 0:04:30.120 And at the wedding, you put up with the ceremony. 0:04:30.160 --> 0:04:32.960 It was a nice ceremony. They did a good job, 0:04:33.000 --> 0:04:36.280 but it's not my wedding. I didn't have anything to 0:04:36.279 --> 0:04:39.200 do with it. I was just there because of marriage 0:04:39.720 --> 0:04:44.120 my man. So after the wedding we have cocktails. It 0:04:44.240 --> 0:04:46.120 was like an open bar thing, which was nice. Open 0:04:46.160 --> 0:04:49.680 bar that's expensive, costs a lot of money. So then 0:04:50.279 --> 0:04:53.559 we have to go sit at the table or table nine. 0:04:53.839 --> 0:04:56.280 So we go to table nine, and I was a 0:04:56.279 --> 0:04:58.680 little hungry, wanted to have my meal. I know the 0:04:58.720 --> 0:05:01.839 food's not gonna be that good, but I want so 0:05:01.960 --> 0:05:04.000 at the wedding, they decide it's not only a wedding, 0:05:04.040 --> 0:05:07.200 it's a wedding and a show. So what they did 0:05:07.360 --> 0:05:09.800 was they had these people that were serving the food 0:05:09.839 --> 0:05:11.640 at this venue and I don't even know. I'd never 0:05:11.680 --> 0:05:14.359 been to the venue. I couldn't probably find the venue again. 0:05:14.480 --> 0:05:17.039 It looked like it was just this little nothing on 0:05:17.120 --> 0:05:20.680 the side of the road covered in ivy like it's 0:05:20.680 --> 0:05:24.000 Wrigley Field. And then walk through the ivy and it's 0:05:24.120 --> 0:05:28.280 like this palace, this mecca that they just hold weddings. 0:05:28.640 --> 0:05:31.480 I think that's all they hold in social events. So 0:05:31.640 --> 0:05:36.760 we're going there and table nine and they start serving 0:05:36.800 --> 0:05:38.960 the food. Well, somebody came out and spoke and said, hey, 0:05:39.000 --> 0:05:41.479 I'm here. You know, I'm the host and it's going 0:05:41.520 --> 0:05:44.400 to have a great time. And the wedding couple sits 0:05:44.400 --> 0:05:46.880 in the front. Everyone's staring at him and everyone's waiting. 0:05:47.800 --> 0:05:49.840 The person that spoke, Is that the one that paid 0:05:49.880 --> 0:05:51.599 for the wedding? Uh? 0:05:51.760 --> 0:05:55.560 No, they hired a DJ. Oh okay, a wedding DJ. 0:05:55.520 --> 0:05:58.920 Are you? Oh no, I've never done people's weddings, thank god, 0:05:59.000 --> 0:06:01.599 because that's more of like a strip club DJ where 0:06:01.600 --> 0:06:04.479 they talk in that fake voice like, hey, thanks for 0:06:04.640 --> 0:06:05.479 coming to the wedding. 0:06:05.839 --> 0:06:08.039 Oh yeah, there was a there was a woman DJ, 0:06:08.160 --> 0:06:12.279 and she sounded just like that. She's so excited to 0:06:12.279 --> 0:06:16.120 see everybody. It's great to be Yeah, good time tonight. 0:06:16.400 --> 0:06:18.240 Coming up to the stage, chastitay. 0:06:19.040 --> 0:06:22.000 Yeah, so again I was looking for the food. I 0:06:22.000 --> 0:06:23.600 always saw the men, and the men you didn't look 0:06:23.640 --> 0:06:24.000 all that great. 0:06:24.040 --> 0:06:24.159 You know. 0:06:24.200 --> 0:06:28.080 They come out with salad and then that's the first course. 0:06:28.640 --> 0:06:30.800 Don't want that, I mean, why would you want that? 0:06:30.920 --> 0:06:33.039 And then they have the meal, which is there was 0:06:33.040 --> 0:06:36.040 actually some bugogi and some rice. I was like, that 0:06:36.080 --> 0:06:39.360 can't be that bad. And then they had dessert. So anyway, 0:06:39.400 --> 0:06:42.760 get to the point. So the food people come out 0:06:43.120 --> 0:06:47.679 and it's table one and it's it's a show. What's 0:06:47.760 --> 0:06:50.400 the I'm trying to remember the name. Remember the restaurant 0:06:50.480 --> 0:06:53.799 where they put on a medieval Was it Medieval Times? 0:06:53.880 --> 0:06:54.720 Was that the name of it? 0:06:54.800 --> 0:06:56.200 Yeah, that is the name of it. 0:06:56.240 --> 0:06:58.920 Is it still around? I think it is, like you're 0:06:58.960 --> 0:07:01.000 not Sperry farmed. So they this, and I think it 0:07:01.040 --> 0:07:02.560 was in Orlando too. They might do in a few 0:07:02.560 --> 0:07:05.120 of them where they'd have a show. Right, they had 0:07:05.120 --> 0:07:07.599 a show and they present them. So these people came 0:07:07.640 --> 0:07:10.960 out from the kitchen area and they were like they 0:07:11.000 --> 0:07:14.080 were it was like a military like a North Korean 0:07:14.120 --> 0:07:18.720 military drill where they're all in lockstep and they're high 0:07:18.760 --> 0:07:22.360 stepping with the table. They come out, they have a 0:07:22.400 --> 0:07:26.720 wooden plank. They put that out. Then they walk back 0:07:27.200 --> 0:07:30.640 and they walk in order with the plates of salad. 0:07:31.280 --> 0:07:35.200 They then pick up the salad and walk and marching 0:07:35.240 --> 0:07:38.880 like they're in the military, and they wander over to 0:07:39.080 --> 0:07:43.040 present the salad. That's fine. I mean, it was nice 0:07:43.040 --> 0:07:46.320 to see the first time they did it. But this 0:07:46.400 --> 0:07:50.480 wedding had a couple hundred people at it. You can imagine, Danny, 0:07:50.920 --> 0:07:54.480 the amount of time that was wasted by them putting 0:07:54.520 --> 0:07:58.920 on the show at every fricking table. And I was 0:07:58.920 --> 0:08:00.840 getting annoyed because I knew I was gonna eat the salad, 0:08:01.560 --> 0:08:04.280 and I told I told my wife, and I probably 0:08:04.320 --> 0:08:06.880 embarrassed my wife and the people that were there. I said, listen, 0:08:07.880 --> 0:08:09.480 just do the show a couple of times. 0:08:10.000 --> 0:08:12.880 We get the show. We don't need the we need 0:08:12.880 --> 0:08:15.160 the food, we don't need the show. And they kept 0:08:15.200 --> 0:08:19.080 doing it the entire night, and then they brought out 0:08:19.080 --> 0:08:21.360 the main course. They did the same thing. 0:08:22.880 --> 0:08:26.120 This is like a nomar garciapara at bat with the 0:08:26.280 --> 0:08:29.120 batting glove. Come on, hit the damn ball. 0:08:29.240 --> 0:08:30.720 Or as I said, I felt like I was in 0:08:30.800 --> 0:08:33.760 Pyongyang and a North Korean military rally, and they were 0:08:33.800 --> 0:08:36.800 all high stepping and doing the I mean, it was unreal. 0:08:37.440 --> 0:08:40.040 So fine, we get but here's the other problem. So 0:08:40.080 --> 0:08:43.600 we get through the salad before the main course. They 0:08:43.720 --> 0:08:46.200 know what's gonna happen. You're at a wedding. You serve 0:08:46.240 --> 0:08:49.160 the main course. Half the crowd leaves, right, Danny, you're 0:08:49.160 --> 0:08:52.640 there for the food. Half the crowd leaves. So they 0:08:52.679 --> 0:08:55.600 do the salad. I didn't need it because I don't 0:08:55.600 --> 0:08:58.640 eat salad. It's against my religion. Other than the Canadian 0:08:58.720 --> 0:09:00.680 South all a lot of Canadians. This was not a 0:09:00.720 --> 0:09:06.120 Canadian sound. So fine, So the salad of syrup. Don't 0:09:06.160 --> 0:09:10.080 eat that. And then the DJ gets up there and 0:09:10.120 --> 0:09:14.520 they want to have the wedding party gives some speeches, 0:09:14.520 --> 0:09:19.400 some toast to the couple getting married. So the bride'smaids 0:09:19.400 --> 0:09:24.240 decide they want to start talking. Right, and we know 0:09:24.280 --> 0:09:28.280 a little bit about public speaking, doing broadcasting. What is 0:09:28.320 --> 0:09:32.200 the key to public speaking? Give me in your idea 0:09:32.200 --> 0:09:33.960 in your head. And we didn't go over this, but 0:09:34.040 --> 0:09:36.040 what do you think are a couple of important points 0:09:36.040 --> 0:09:37.080 of doing public speaking? 0:09:37.120 --> 0:09:38.960 What do you think they would be? I would say 0:09:39.080 --> 0:09:40.600 quick wit and brevity. 0:09:41.120 --> 0:09:46.800 Yes, the word I used is brevity. We like to 0:09:46.800 --> 0:09:50.600 say in our business, leave them wanting more. I leave 0:09:50.640 --> 0:09:55.080 them wanting more. Don't be long winded. We don't need 0:09:55.080 --> 0:09:56.280 the full dance remix. 0:09:56.640 --> 0:09:56.840 You know. 0:09:56.880 --> 0:09:59.400 Don't give us up people tsunami. 0:09:59.240 --> 0:10:01.880 If you tell us story. We don't need the exact 0:10:01.920 --> 0:10:05.520 details of exactly what time it was in what restaurant, 0:10:05.840 --> 0:10:09.760 where the restaurant's located, the name of all the people 0:10:09.800 --> 0:10:12.200 that were at the party. We don't need all those 0:10:12.240 --> 0:10:13.920 sort of details. 0:10:14.360 --> 0:10:20.480 Yeah, it's beginning, middle, and end, and get out of there. 0:10:22.080 --> 0:10:30.280 These women keeve every effing detail of these stories. 0:10:30.400 --> 0:10:30.920 Okay. 0:10:32.160 --> 0:10:38.120 I felt I felt like I was being persecuted. They 0:10:38.160 --> 0:10:44.520 had to enunciate everything, and it was a meandering and 0:10:44.960 --> 0:10:52.840 rambling and oh my god, I probably shouldn't have done this. 0:10:52.920 --> 0:10:55.560 But after the first one wouldn't shut up, and she 0:10:55.880 --> 0:10:59.240 kept preaching, and then another bridesmaid came up to deliver 0:10:59.360 --> 0:11:03.000 her sermon, and I then set the timer on my 0:11:03.080 --> 0:11:05.120 I have an Apple watch, and I set the timer 0:11:05.840 --> 0:11:08.720 and I was like, I told my wife, I said, listen, 0:11:08.760 --> 0:11:11.199 these things should be at the most ninety seconds. I 0:11:11.600 --> 0:11:14.760 think a minute, but I'll give you ninety seconds. Get 0:11:14.760 --> 0:11:17.520 in have thirty seconds to set up your story, the 0:11:17.559 --> 0:11:20.480 meat of the story for thirty thirty seconds to wrap up, 0:11:20.520 --> 0:11:26.160 get out, and this next lady that spoke, it was 0:11:26.240 --> 0:11:31.360 like seven minutes, seven minutes of being a squawk box. 0:11:32.080 --> 0:11:32.600 Wow. 0:11:33.400 --> 0:11:36.920 Yeah, and then it gets even better. So I thought, well, 0:11:36.920 --> 0:11:39.240 there'd be two speakers and that's it, and then we'd 0:11:39.280 --> 0:11:40.720 move on and we'd get the food. 0:11:40.800 --> 0:11:43.760 No. No, it was like they were each doing a podcast. 0:11:44.440 --> 0:11:48.000 Yes, it was like they were they were speaking. It 0:11:48.040 --> 0:11:50.240 was like the you know, the wedding was like a funeral, 0:11:50.240 --> 0:11:53.440 and they wanted to give their eulogy. And I was like, 0:11:53.480 --> 0:11:55.760 oh my god. So the third one gets up there, 0:11:56.200 --> 0:11:58.720 and this get's even better. Another part of public speed 0:11:59.280 --> 0:12:01.240 you have to be able to improvise a little bit. 0:12:01.240 --> 0:12:03.240 Now you have your speech planned out, you do beginning, 0:12:03.240 --> 0:12:05.560 middle end. But then the other part of it is 0:12:05.920 --> 0:12:09.760 if there's multiple speakers and someone gives a story, don't 0:12:09.800 --> 0:12:12.559 repeat part of the story because the story has already 0:12:12.559 --> 0:12:16.319 been told. And one of the people getting married is 0:12:16.320 --> 0:12:18.839 a huge was a huge Kobe Bryant fan, so they 0:12:18.840 --> 0:12:22.600 all had they The first person that spoke gave a 0:12:22.679 --> 0:12:27.920 Kobe Bryant quote from back in the day, and then 0:12:28.520 --> 0:12:33.280 the next person after that gave the same exact quote, 0:12:33.360 --> 0:12:36.400 and before they gave the quote, Danny said, I know 0:12:36.520 --> 0:12:38.720 this was already used, but I think I need to 0:12:38.720 --> 0:12:42.600 say it again, and then repeated it now. So at 0:12:42.600 --> 0:12:45.120 that point I had had enough. 0:12:45.520 --> 0:12:45.959 I can't. 0:12:46.040 --> 0:12:49.440 I mean, this is ridiculous. So then I said, I 0:12:49.440 --> 0:12:50.800 got to go to the bathroom. So I just I 0:12:51.240 --> 0:12:52.840 didn't even have to go to the bathroom. I just 0:12:52.920 --> 0:12:55.199 walked away. I left to be able to go to 0:12:55.280 --> 0:12:59.040 the bathroom. So then I come back and fortunately at 0:12:59.040 --> 0:13:01.240 that point the thing and end. I actually walked outside 0:13:01.240 --> 0:13:02.920 for a little bit to get some fresh air. So 0:13:02.960 --> 0:13:06.160 I came back and now they're back serving the food, 0:13:07.040 --> 0:13:10.760 but the same thing. Danny, I'm getting a show. I'm 0:13:10.880 --> 0:13:14.520 getting a show. I didn't want a show. I'm getting 0:13:14.559 --> 0:13:17.600 a show. And they bring out the food. They had 0:13:17.640 --> 0:13:20.520 the table, they put the plates down, they march around 0:13:20.600 --> 0:13:23.200 like they're in the North Korean military or whatever, and 0:13:23.240 --> 0:13:27.360 it was, oh my god. So I was waiting for 0:13:27.400 --> 0:13:30.360 the wedding singer to get out there, and we actually 0:13:30.440 --> 0:13:33.160 left after the dessert. The dessert was pretty good. They 0:13:33.200 --> 0:13:39.800 had this chocolate cook chocolate chip cookie with like cream 0:13:39.960 --> 0:13:40.680 in the It. 0:13:40.559 --> 0:13:41.120 Was really good. 0:13:41.160 --> 0:13:41.920 That was a good dessert. 0:13:42.520 --> 0:13:43.199 Who was all right? 0:13:43.440 --> 0:13:46.079 I mean, but the weight is too much. 0:13:46.120 --> 0:13:48.560 Yeah, the whole thing sounds like it was like five 0:13:48.679 --> 0:13:50.480 blocks just to go across the street. 0:13:51.480 --> 0:13:52.959 Yeah, it was a little much. All let's get to 0:13:53.040 --> 0:13:54.599 the I got some other stuff, but let's get to 0:13:54.640 --> 0:13:55.840 the mailbag. What do you say you want to get 0:13:55.840 --> 0:13:57.079 to the mail bag. Here we go, Let's get to 0:13:57.120 --> 0:14:14.200 the mail bag. It's all right, thank you, OHIOO. These 0:14:14.200 --> 0:14:17.320 are actual letters by actual listeners. The first one is 0:14:17.360 --> 0:14:20.320 from Kevin in Kansas. He says, dear band and Danny g. 0:14:21.240 --> 0:14:24.960 Though I'm retired, I still know when a new school 0:14:25.040 --> 0:14:30.840 year starts. In school, we always ask students about career choices. Now, 0:14:30.840 --> 0:14:34.200 I'm sure you're both more famous than most. Where are 0:14:34.240 --> 0:14:39.320 you today as related to your school day choices? So 0:14:39.720 --> 0:14:43.760 I'll go first here. When I was in school, I 0:14:43.800 --> 0:14:47.480 always wanted to be as I remember, I wanted to 0:14:47.480 --> 0:14:51.960 be in broadcasting. I think as a child, I thought 0:14:52.040 --> 0:14:54.680 I was going to replace Vince Scully as the voice 0:14:54.680 --> 0:14:58.200 of the Dodgers. That never quite worked out, but I 0:14:58.200 --> 0:15:00.640 thought I'd be a play by play guy and I 0:15:00.680 --> 0:15:03.920 could travel around and call games, and boy, that would 0:15:03.960 --> 0:15:06.640 be awesome. And that would be my life. So I 0:15:06.720 --> 0:15:10.520 remember telling teachers that that was my dream, and many 0:15:10.640 --> 0:15:13.960 of them spat Lougi's at me, saying, that's not realistic. 0:15:14.040 --> 0:15:17.320 You know you shouldn't you know? Whatever? What about you, Danny? 0:15:17.880 --> 0:15:21.480 My first grade class took a field trip to a 0:15:21.560 --> 0:15:25.000 local firehouse and I thought it was the coolest thing ever. 0:15:25.240 --> 0:15:27.400 And they let some of us slide down the pole 0:15:27.480 --> 0:15:30.520 and look at the fire engines, of course, and the 0:15:30.520 --> 0:15:32.840 firefighters came out and spoke to us. I thought that 0:15:32.880 --> 0:15:35.560 was the coolest job. So as a little kid, that's 0:15:35.600 --> 0:15:37.600 what I thought would be were on. 0:15:37.560 --> 0:15:40.280 The pole was a little kid? Huh? I was attracted 0:15:40.320 --> 0:15:42.800 to the giant metalcock. Oh damn you. 0:15:44.840 --> 0:15:47.360 I thought that would be cool. But as I got older, 0:15:48.000 --> 0:15:51.840 radio called my name, and I remember what was it 0:15:51.840 --> 0:15:56.000 called Careers and Goals was the class my freshman year 0:15:56.400 --> 0:15:58.800 where we had to write an essay about the career 0:15:59.400 --> 0:16:02.560 path that we wanted to take. And when I wrote 0:16:02.680 --> 0:16:08.000 my paper about broadcasting, the response back from our teacher 0:16:08.080 --> 0:16:11.240 in the Careers and Goals class was that one in 0:16:11.320 --> 0:16:15.280 five hundred people make it big and broadcasting you might 0:16:15.360 --> 0:16:18.720 want to have a backup plan. Yeah, screw you. 0:16:19.440 --> 0:16:23.400 Yeah. I remember when I was taking classes and they 0:16:23.400 --> 0:16:26.480 were talking about broadcasting careers and I'm like, well, you know, 0:16:26.600 --> 0:16:28.760 you might make it, but you're gonna have to work 0:16:28.800 --> 0:16:31.400 in seven thousand different cities and you're gonna have to 0:16:31.440 --> 0:16:34.760 move around, which means you won't have any relationships. You 0:16:34.760 --> 0:16:36.840 won't ever get married, you won't be able to have, 0:16:36.920 --> 0:16:39.080 you know, a family or anything like that. They give 0:16:39.120 --> 0:16:42.600 the whole rap. And but you mentioned when I was little, 0:16:42.600 --> 0:16:44.560 But yeah, when I was very little, I wanted to 0:16:44.600 --> 0:16:50.160 be Gi Joe. I grew up near a lot of 0:16:50.240 --> 0:16:52.480 orange grows. When I was growing up in southern California 0:16:52.520 --> 0:16:54.680 and Orange County, it was actually Orange is there, so 0:16:54.720 --> 0:16:56.440 I was surrounded by orange grows. But we had two 0:16:56.720 --> 0:16:59.040 I was literally in between two military bases. We had 0:16:59.040 --> 0:17:02.400 the and both gone now we had the El Toro 0:17:02.520 --> 0:17:06.119 Marine Base and the Tustin Marine Base as well, both there, 0:17:07.160 --> 0:17:10.600 and I remember on the open house. My parents would 0:17:10.600 --> 0:17:13.439 always take us to the open house and it was 0:17:13.480 --> 0:17:15.840 such a different time. I think I've talked about this 0:17:15.840 --> 0:17:18.840 before in the podcast, but we would as little kids. 0:17:18.880 --> 0:17:22.680 They'd allow us to like go through the tanks and 0:17:22.760 --> 0:17:25.760 the fighter jets and sit we were like able to 0:17:25.840 --> 0:17:28.800 sit in the fighter jet and the cockpit of the 0:17:28.800 --> 0:17:32.679 fighter jet, and I'm thinking, like, imagine that they did. 0:17:32.920 --> 0:17:35.400 There's no way they would allow that, now, right they didn't. 0:17:35.600 --> 0:17:37.960 That's right. You told me before that the Gi Joe 0:17:37.960 --> 0:17:41.640 that you met let you shoot off the Bazuka. It was. 0:17:41.920 --> 0:17:45.000 It was insane, like like, I wonder whether that was 0:17:45.240 --> 0:17:48.080 allowed or these soldiers were just bored and they're like, hey, 0:17:48.080 --> 0:17:49.879 I don't care the kids sit in the tank. You 0:17:49.920 --> 0:17:50.520 know who cares? 0:17:51.000 --> 0:17:52.160 Yeah, I'm guessing that. 0:17:52.440 --> 0:17:55.000 It was a long time was I wanted to be 0:17:55.080 --> 0:17:57.480 that and then I was like after that, I think 0:17:57.520 --> 0:18:00.439 I was planning on playing sports, but I did like 0:18:00.680 --> 0:18:04.080 firemen and police officers, and I thought I could do that. 0:18:05.240 --> 0:18:05.439 I did. 0:18:05.600 --> 0:18:07.320 Never became Vincecully, but at least I met him and 0:18:07.359 --> 0:18:09.120 knew him a little bit, so that was cool. Well, 0:18:09.119 --> 0:18:10.240 and you did Dodger talk? 0:18:10.440 --> 0:18:10.760 I did? 0:18:10.880 --> 0:18:13.280 Yeah, yeah, I did. And I'll never forget when I 0:18:13.320 --> 0:18:15.639 talked to Vin one time, I said, hey, Vin. In 0:18:15.640 --> 0:18:18.119 my head, I thought Vin Scully is listening to me 0:18:18.320 --> 0:18:22.720 driving home. Take calls about the time, and I said, 0:18:22.760 --> 0:18:25.199 you know, vinnam doing the post GiB show. What do 0:18:25.280 --> 0:18:27.680 you what do you listen to on your way out 0:18:27.720 --> 0:18:29.840 to the valley? He lives out, he used to live 0:18:29.880 --> 0:18:32.200 out when he's around obviously way out in the valley, 0:18:32.880 --> 0:18:35.800 he said, Well, Ben, I enjoy classical music when I 0:18:41.520 --> 0:18:46.080 am the definition of a loser. Oh well, Mike, and 0:18:46.160 --> 0:18:49.920 Fullerton says, Hello, Benny and the best penny of all 0:18:49.920 --> 0:18:55.840 time Danny g Radio. Let's go, he says, in response 0:18:55.840 --> 0:18:59.760 to Alf's question from last week. No, Fullerton does not 0:18:59.880 --> 0:19:03.000 have a sports book. We're not a town full of degenerates, 0:19:03.359 --> 0:19:07.320 so we don't need one. With that said, Mike points out, 0:19:07.359 --> 0:19:11.199 if gambling ever is legalized in California, sports gambling, you 0:19:11.320 --> 0:19:14.000 better believe the biggest, most beautiful sports book in the 0:19:14.000 --> 0:19:17.160 world will be built in the great city of Fullerton, 0:19:17.760 --> 0:19:21.360 he says. And now that you're helping listeners set up 0:19:21.440 --> 0:19:24.679 email accounts, are you worried you won't be able to 0:19:24.840 --> 0:19:28.359 keep up with the flood of questions sent into the 0:19:28.440 --> 0:19:32.160 fifth hour every week? Have you considered teaching people how 0:19:32.160 --> 0:19:36.840 to use radio as well? It could be a nice 0:19:36.840 --> 0:19:41.600 little side hustle from from Mike. Yeah, I think he's 0:19:41.640 --> 0:19:43.680 referring to a bit that we did on the actually 0:19:43.760 --> 0:19:48.359 got a couple emails about that Dave as well from 0:19:48.480 --> 0:19:52.560 Salt Lake. I wanted to know whether or not we 0:19:52.560 --> 0:19:56.240 were forced to do that or we did it on 0:19:56.320 --> 0:19:59.560 our Now I should announce what I'm talking about. So 0:19:59.600 --> 0:20:03.560 we I had a shtikola on the show the other night, 0:20:04.359 --> 0:20:07.439 Danny where and this was not playing. I want to 0:20:07.440 --> 0:20:09.639 be clear, this is not choreographed. Otherwise it would have 0:20:09.640 --> 0:20:13.040 been good. It was not choreographed. So we got this 0:20:14.160 --> 0:20:17.320 box and Eddie comes into the studio tosses me a box. 0:20:18.280 --> 0:20:21.359 He says, you got some mail. So I immediately ripped 0:20:21.400 --> 0:20:23.960 the box open. What's in the box? Well, it turns 0:20:23.960 --> 0:20:25.480 out one of our great listeners of the skuy A 0:20:25.520 --> 0:20:29.199 Reek in Minnesota had purchased some stuff for those of 0:20:29.280 --> 0:20:30.960 us on the show, but he had messed up the 0:20:31.040 --> 0:20:33.199 order and the wrong box came to the Fox, and 0:20:33.240 --> 0:20:36.120 so we had said, hey, if you get a box, 0:20:37.000 --> 0:20:40.080 make sure you send it back. And I apologize. Well, 0:20:40.160 --> 0:20:44.000 Eddie didn't know that, and I assumed that since Eddie 0:20:44.000 --> 0:20:46.320 gave me the mail that it was fine and had 0:20:46.320 --> 0:20:48.439 my name on it. So I opened it up and 0:20:48.480 --> 0:20:50.480 it was the wrong item. So it had to be 0:20:50.520 --> 0:20:53.879 taken back up to the mail room in the skyscraper. 0:20:54.560 --> 0:20:58.120 So I Coop didn't know how to find the mailroom, 0:20:58.160 --> 0:21:00.040 so I had to direct him, and I used the 0:21:00.160 --> 0:21:04.640 Rapid radio to direct him. And as our friend here 0:21:04.640 --> 0:21:07.800 in Utah in Salt Lake and Mike and some other people, 0:21:08.560 --> 0:21:11.480 I did not write your names down here we're trying 0:21:11.480 --> 0:21:14.480 to figure out. So I was directing him, was like, hey, Coop, 0:21:14.520 --> 0:21:16.520 you know you got to you go out of the elevator. 0:21:16.520 --> 0:21:18.280 You go in the elevator, Go out of the elevator, 0:21:18.320 --> 0:21:20.400 you know. I think it was like the fifth floor, 0:21:20.800 --> 0:21:23.600 go through the double doors, make a right, go to 0:21:23.720 --> 0:21:25.560 like the third door on the left. And I was 0:21:25.560 --> 0:21:28.320 doing the whole thing, and uh and so it was 0:21:28.359 --> 0:21:31.320 actually really good cause the Rapid Radio You'd thinking that 0:21:31.400 --> 0:21:33.920 giant skyscraper, the thing would stop working, but no, it 0:21:34.000 --> 0:21:34.399 was fine. 0:21:35.000 --> 0:21:37.840 It was one. Yeah, it's a national LTE coverage. 0:21:38.240 --> 0:21:39.520 Huh. Pretty cool. 0:21:40.119 --> 0:21:40.479 Yeah. 0:21:40.640 --> 0:21:42.200 I think we'll get to actually meet some of the 0:21:42.440 --> 0:21:45.240 big shots from Rapid Radio coming up here. I'm looking 0:21:45.280 --> 0:21:47.480 forward to that later later this month. 0:21:47.520 --> 0:21:47.760 Here. 0:21:48.480 --> 0:21:51.480 Uh, who else do we have? We have alf from 0:21:51.520 --> 0:21:55.240 the gates of the Big e in West Springfield, mass 0:21:55.240 --> 0:21:58.639