WEBVTT - The Fifth Hour: Exploding Tires & Low Keys 0:00:00.760 --> 0:00:01.520 Kutbooms. 0:00:02.360 --> 0:00:05.440 If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes 0:00:05.480 --> 0:00:09.240 a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants 0:00:09.240 --> 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 --> 0:00:19.520 rich pill poppers in the penthouse. Wow, the clearing House 0:00:19.560 --> 0:00:23.280 of hot takes break free for something special. The Fifth 0:00:23.280 --> 0:00:29.320 Hour with Ben Maller starts right now. 0:00:29.000 --> 0:00:34.960 In the air everywhere, The Fifth Hour with Me, Big 0:00:35.000 --> 0:00:40.200 Ben and Danny g Radio on this first day of June. 0:00:41.040 --> 0:00:43.640 With a bunch of goofy holidays and whatnot here, but 0:00:43.680 --> 0:00:46.839 we're hanging out with you on a Saturday, Saturday Saturday 0:00:46.880 --> 0:00:49.000 celebrating which is I would say the most important. There's 0:00:49.000 --> 0:00:50.600 a bunch of these dopey holidays every day, but the 0:00:50.600 --> 0:00:52.960 one that's most important to me and dearest to my 0:00:53.080 --> 0:00:56.640 heart is Flip a Coin Day. Today is Flip a 0:00:56.720 --> 0:00:57.160 Coin Day? 0:00:57.280 --> 0:00:58.320 Oh the passion? 0:00:58.440 --> 0:01:04.040 Right, that's right? Three June, first most important day in history? 0:01:04.560 --> 0:01:08.800 Is it heads or is it tails? Is it heads 0:01:09.720 --> 0:01:13.160 or is it tails? And today I know who decided 0:01:13.200 --> 0:01:15.800 we need a day for that? I don't know, but 0:01:16.040 --> 0:01:20.000 somebody did. And here we are a perfect way. If 0:01:20.000 --> 0:01:22.560 you have a fifty to fifty option, do you go 0:01:22.680 --> 0:01:25.120 right or do you go left? Flip a coin. That's 0:01:25.120 --> 0:01:27.720 all you gotta do. Flip it in the air, flip 0:01:27.720 --> 0:01:30.040 it everywhere there you go. Do you know that Portland, 0:01:30.040 --> 0:01:35.039 Oregon was named via a coin toss? That's true. I 0:01:35.040 --> 0:01:38.920 think it was either gonna be Portland or Hartford. 0:01:39.000 --> 0:01:41.800 I think I learned that on this very podcast. 0:01:41.880 --> 0:01:45.959 Yeah, I think we talked about them in the back 0:01:45.959 --> 0:01:51.280 in the day. But yeah, a coin toss also decided 0:01:52.080 --> 0:01:58.560 if the brand Hewlett Packard or Packard Hewlett, and they 0:01:58.600 --> 0:01:59.840 went with Hewlett Packard. 0:02:00.560 --> 0:02:02.920 You know what else had decided? What is that whether 0:02:03.000 --> 0:02:04.880 or not my older brother was going to give me 0:02:04.920 --> 0:02:07.920 a Charlie horse on my left shoulder or my right shoulder. 0:02:10.000 --> 0:02:12.480 How about this, though, I'll one up you. I'll one 0:02:12.560 --> 0:02:15.640 up you. Going back to Roman days, the legend is 0:02:15.680 --> 0:02:18.919 that the great Joyous Caesar, who later on would be 0:02:19.000 --> 0:02:22.280 known as the naming of Caesar's Palace. I don't think 0:02:22.320 --> 0:02:24.840 his family's getting any money his relatives, but Joyous Caesar 0:02:25.440 --> 0:02:30.480 forty nine BC, the Roman leader Juius Caesar used a 0:02:30.560 --> 0:02:34.880 coin to make very important life decisions. So many of 0:02:34.919 --> 0:02:38.640 the great Roman successes are because of the way the 0:02:38.720 --> 0:02:44.359 coin landed. So yeah, how about that the great Julius Caesar. 0:02:44.560 --> 0:02:47.480 You don't want to mess with Julius Caesar, man, you don't. 0:02:47.560 --> 0:02:50.400 It worked for him. So it is National flip a 0:02:51.120 --> 0:02:53.960 coin Day today. So really, my TV show, I hope 0:02:54.000 --> 0:02:55.799 it comes back. I don't know for sure yet. Either way, 0:02:56.760 --> 0:02:59.720 I'm I'm waiting to hear back from the network executives 0:02:59.760 --> 0:03:02.000 on what the show comes back. But if it does 0:03:02.040 --> 0:03:04.880 come back, I'll have to work in Julius Caesar's name. Yeah, 0:03:04.919 --> 0:03:05.440 I'll have to. 0:03:05.800 --> 0:03:08.480 I would be surprised if your TV show doesn't return 0:03:08.520 --> 0:03:10.160 because there were dozens of yours. 0:03:11.040 --> 0:03:14.239 How dare you? How dare you? I did tell the 0:03:14.280 --> 0:03:16.800 people at NBC. I said, listen. I mean most of 0:03:16.840 --> 0:03:19.160 my people can't afford cable television. Can we get on 0:03:19.200 --> 0:03:22.080 the streaming? Can we get on the peacock? So I 0:03:22.120 --> 0:03:24.320 don't know. We'll see if they actually listen to or not. 0:03:24.520 --> 0:03:27.519 Like what's up Amazon, You're shitting this money all over 0:03:27.520 --> 0:03:28.760 the place by this show. 0:03:29.320 --> 0:03:31.120 Well, I'm wor at NBC spent all their money on 0:03:31.480 --> 0:03:34.840 the basketball because they're getting the NBA rights years I'm like, 0:03:34.840 --> 0:03:36.720 there's no money for Benny versus the Benny. I'm like, 0:03:36.720 --> 0:03:39.240 wait a minute, I I need some fricking money here. 0:03:39.280 --> 0:03:42.360 For not even going to have money for inside the NBA. 0:03:43.480 --> 0:03:45.880 They better find a way. I think Barkley's gonna end 0:03:45.920 --> 0:03:47.840 u at NBC. I don't have any insider information. 0:03:47.960 --> 0:03:49.960 Yeah, did you see when he was on the Dan 0:03:50.040 --> 0:03:53.680 Patrick Show he said that he and his production company 0:03:53.960 --> 0:03:56.400 are going to try to hire all the guys and 0:03:56.480 --> 0:03:57.400 go independent. 0:03:58.000 --> 0:04:01.000 Yeah, I mean why not. I mean, Barkley got f 0:04:01.080 --> 0:04:03.200 you money. He can't take it with you when you die. 0:04:03.360 --> 0:04:05.640 You might as well enjoy your buddies and get paid 0:04:05.680 --> 0:04:08.920 to do it. And yeah, I mean sure absolutely. It's 0:04:08.920 --> 0:04:12.360 also here's another dope, Holly. Its National Billboard Day today, 0:04:13.040 --> 0:04:14.120 So that's that's been. 0:04:14.760 --> 0:04:17.680 I have really good radio memories with billboards. 0:04:18.600 --> 0:04:20.520 Yeah, I have someone I have some good memories too 0:04:20.520 --> 0:04:22.720 with billboards. Were you ever on a billboard like I was? 0:04:22.920 --> 0:04:26.560 I broadcast an entire morning show in the same pose 0:04:26.720 --> 0:04:28.480 that I was on the billboard. 0:04:29.279 --> 0:04:33.080 That's great. We we had we did a bit one 0:04:33.160 --> 0:04:37.000 year back in the I think it was in the nineties. 0:04:37.200 --> 0:04:39.960 My god, dating myself, but the Clippers had a shocking 0:04:40.000 --> 0:04:42.520 of Danny had had a terrible team. We're losing a 0:04:42.520 --> 0:04:45.920 bunch of games. We were the Clips, so we put 0:04:46.320 --> 0:04:50.599 our morning update woman. We put her on a billboard, 0:04:50.839 --> 0:04:54.200 camped out until the Clippers won a game, and it 0:04:54.240 --> 0:04:56.599 became like a big thing, like the local TV morning 0:04:56.640 --> 0:04:59.119 news shows showed up to you know, here's an update. 0:04:59.279 --> 0:05:02.239 She's still on the billboard. They put a tent up there, 0:05:02.960 --> 0:05:05.840 and it was the plan was she'd be up there 0:05:05.880 --> 0:05:08.000 for like a couple of days. But the Clippers kept losing. 0:05:09.200 --> 0:05:12.680 So, yeah, that's the wrong that's the wrong team. 0:05:14.640 --> 0:05:17.880 In the nineties, it sure was, but it was very problematic. 0:05:18.040 --> 0:05:19.839 Was a candy man on the team. 0:05:20.560 --> 0:05:22.840 It was around that time. It was around that time. 0:05:22.960 --> 0:05:25.360 Needless to say that the promotion went a little bit off. 0:05:25.360 --> 0:05:27.919 The tracks did not go so well. But so you 0:05:27.960 --> 0:05:29.920 were on a billboard. I never I was supposed to 0:05:29.920 --> 0:05:32.279 be on a billboard, but they did not include me 0:05:32.320 --> 0:05:33.800 on I've never been on a billboard, so. 0:05:33.720 --> 0:05:35.600 I got to be Basically I got to be on 0:05:35.640 --> 0:05:37.960 that billboard twice, right next to the one on one 0:05:38.000 --> 0:05:42.240 Freeway and beautiful Ventura, California. The other time, one of 0:05:42.279 --> 0:05:45.159 my morning show co hosts was planning a wedding, and 0:05:45.200 --> 0:05:47.720 he kept bitching about what a mess it was trying 0:05:47.760 --> 0:05:50.919 to coordinate everything and how his fiance was getting on 0:05:50.960 --> 0:05:53.719 his nerves with a wedding planning. And I looked at 0:05:53.800 --> 0:05:55.400 him and I'm like, why don't we just marry you 0:05:55.440 --> 0:05:58.919 guys on our station billboard? And we all kind of laughed. 0:05:59.320 --> 0:06:01.400 We looked at each there and we're like, daw, that's 0:06:01.440 --> 0:06:04.240 a good radio stunt. So we set it all up. 0:06:04.320 --> 0:06:06.960 Took a couple of weeks. We even got recording artist 0:06:07.120 --> 0:06:09.400 war and g to be the best man. It's the 0:06:09.480 --> 0:06:13.440 show stood up there as the best man, uh, and 0:06:13.520 --> 0:06:17.520 we broadcast the entire thing had tory. Yeah, like the 0:06:17.560 --> 0:06:20.200 whole thing. The wedding took place up on the thing 0:06:20.240 --> 0:06:22.960 that you stand on, yeah watch McCully. 0:06:23.080 --> 0:06:24.480 Yeah thing, the thing that. 0:06:24.400 --> 0:06:27.559 You could stand on right underneath the yeah big sign. 0:06:28.160 --> 0:06:31.240 And dude, if you're scared of heights, that is no 0:06:31.560 --> 0:06:34.480 fun to be up there clowning around like that. But 0:06:34.920 --> 0:06:37.239 I remember also we got a complaint from the Ventura 0:06:37.320 --> 0:06:40.279 PD because we stopped traffic on the one oh one 0:06:40.320 --> 0:06:41.480 from all the lookie loudes. 0:06:41.800 --> 0:06:45.160 He was like, hey, Blue, we're warning that is cool. 0:06:45.200 --> 0:06:47.040 That's a good memory. That's a solid memory. And if 0:06:47.080 --> 0:06:51.240 you don't like billboards, you need to go to Santa Barbara. Yeah, 0:06:51.279 --> 0:06:53.960 because they do not allow billboards. There are no billboards. 0:06:53.960 --> 0:06:56.800 There are no poll signs, there's no neon signs. They're 0:06:56.839 --> 0:07:01.200 not allowed in Santa Barbara. No poles in the sea. 0:07:01.680 --> 0:07:03.799 They keep everyone off the pole. In Santa Barbara. 0:07:04.160 --> 0:07:06.200 They do not experiment rhino there. 0:07:09.279 --> 0:07:13.520 Well, hello on this pot. We got mister Maler's Wild Ride, 0:07:13.880 --> 0:07:18.560 Piano Man, the Gang Tackle, and we get to the 0:07:18.600 --> 0:07:21.080 phrase of the week, pop culture. You got some other 0:07:21.120 --> 0:07:23.080 things to get to, but we'll start with this. So 0:07:24.280 --> 0:07:28.760 this past weekend, I had what was just going to 0:07:28.800 --> 0:07:32.720 be a standard, normal night, standard normal night. It always 0:07:32.760 --> 0:07:36.000 starts out like a normal night. Then it goes sideways. Say, 0:07:36.000 --> 0:07:38.440 this is the worst roller coaster ride ever. So I'm 0:07:38.480 --> 0:07:43.920 cruising and I'm driving on the Highway twenty two, which 0:07:43.960 --> 0:07:48.080 is the twenty two, which is not normally not normally 0:07:48.080 --> 0:07:49.840 a road I travel on. But we had to run 0:07:49.840 --> 0:07:53.400 an erran, me and the wife and the family. So 0:07:53.440 --> 0:07:55.920 we're out. We're running an errand and we're right near 0:07:55.920 --> 0:07:58.160 If you're familiar with southern California, which most people who 0:07:58.160 --> 0:08:01.280 listen to this podcast are not. An amusement park which 0:08:01.320 --> 0:08:03.160 is very cheap to go to, by the way now, 0:08:03.320 --> 0:08:06.200 and it's like four payments of thirteen dollars you can 0:08:06.200 --> 0:08:09.520 get a season passed a knots Berry Farm. Yes, so 0:08:09.600 --> 0:08:13.880 we're cruising in that area around knots Berry Farm and 0:08:14.320 --> 0:08:16.920 just normally my wife's driving because I was a little tired. 0:08:16.960 --> 0:08:19.920 So the wife's driving, I'm in the passenger seat, and 0:08:20.040 --> 0:08:25.400 all of a sudden, kaboom, whoa what happened? And I 0:08:25.480 --> 0:08:29.120 see this piece of something go flying in front of 0:08:29.120 --> 0:08:32.640 the car and roll off to the side of the road. 0:08:32.679 --> 0:08:33.760 And I realized, wait. 0:08:33.559 --> 0:08:36.160 A minute, it was a dead body. 0:08:35.720 --> 0:08:39.120 I would have made this even worse. That was the 0:08:39.240 --> 0:08:44.120 right front tire of the car that we were driving 0:08:44.600 --> 0:08:48.520 had come off the car and was blown to smithering. 0:08:48.679 --> 0:08:52.440 What don't tell me this is that same jinxed car 0:08:52.520 --> 0:08:54.720 that you guys. No, this is a different car. 0:08:55.120 --> 0:08:58.480 So here's the thing though, So my wife's driving, I'm like, 0:08:58.520 --> 0:09:01.800 all right, get pull it. We're in in the fast lane, 0:09:01.920 --> 0:09:04.480 but we're not in the car poolane. So we're in 0:09:04.480 --> 0:09:06.880 the fast lane, we're not in the car poolane, So 0:09:06.920 --> 0:09:08.960 I'm like, get pull over to the left because that 0:09:09.080 --> 0:09:10.600 was the close. I just get off the road. Pull 0:09:10.600 --> 0:09:11.880 over the left. We got to get off the road. 0:09:11.920 --> 0:09:14.600 So she very calmly pulls over. She did a great job. 0:09:15.800 --> 0:09:18.120 So this is a holiday weekend, right, people are zooming 0:09:18.160 --> 0:09:21.800 all over the place. So we're we call. She contacts 0:09:21.840 --> 0:09:24.400 the auto club because I didn't want to get out 0:09:24.600 --> 0:09:26.480 change the tire. I mean, it's my god, we're I 0:09:26.520 --> 0:09:30.360 mean it's cars zooming by. So we're sitting there waiting 0:09:30.400 --> 0:09:31.800 in the auto clubs like, oh, we'd be there in 0:09:31.800 --> 0:09:35.880 thirty minutes, you know, but we're sitting there. We can't 0:09:36.000 --> 0:09:39.320 go anywhere, but we're inches away. This is the most 0:09:39.360 --> 0:09:42.960 heart pounding experience I've had. You know how crazy people 0:09:43.040 --> 0:09:46.840 drive on a holiday weekend. Everyone's driving eighty five ninety 0:09:46.960 --> 0:09:49.520 ninety five miles an hour. It's the autobhn and you're 0:09:49.559 --> 0:09:52.160 a sitting duck and I'm I'm the one on the 0:09:52.160 --> 0:09:54.320 passenger's side, so I'm not that it matters that we 0:09:54.320 --> 0:09:57.840 get hit. We're both you know, it game over, game 0:09:57.880 --> 0:10:01.080 over for the Malor family. So we're like less than 0:10:01.080 --> 0:10:03.040 a foot away because the car wasn't all the way 0:10:03.040 --> 0:10:05.280 over to the to the left hand side. It was 0:10:05.320 --> 0:10:07.920 still a little bit of you know, room in between 0:10:08.800 --> 0:10:12.560 zoom zoom zoom, and my heart is I'm like, man, 0:10:12.720 --> 0:10:15.120 this is this is wild. So we again try to 0:10:15.120 --> 0:10:18.760 get an update from Triple A and you know, thirty 0:10:18.800 --> 0:10:23.120 minutes whatever. So finally my wife, she knows what to 0:10:23.160 --> 0:10:25.920 do in these situations, not panic like me, So she 0:10:26.600 --> 0:10:28.800 calls nine to one one. She's like, hey, we got 0:10:28.800 --> 0:10:33.199 you know, we got a situation here. And so fortunately 0:10:33.400 --> 0:10:37.960 the California Highway Patrol came very rapidly, and I am 0:10:38.000 --> 0:10:41.400 responsible for a traffic break. Well I wasn't the tire 0:10:41.480 --> 0:10:45.840 blew out on mister Mahler's Wild Ride or the Mallard 0:10:45.880 --> 0:10:49.520 Family wild Ride. So the CHP does a traffic break 0:10:49.520 --> 0:10:51.880 and I'm like, I'm still like, I know, you're not 0:10:51.920 --> 0:10:54.560 supposed to drive on just the rim, right, didn't we 0:10:54.640 --> 0:10:55.800 learn that, Danny when we were. 0:10:55.760 --> 0:10:58.400 Oh yeah, we learned that from riding our bikes as well. 0:10:58.440 --> 0:11:00.800 Yeah, exactly, you're not supposed to ride on. So my 0:11:00.880 --> 0:11:03.720 initial thought was I put my hand out the window, 0:11:03.760 --> 0:11:05.360 on my head out the window and say I'm yelling 0:11:05.440 --> 0:11:09.000 at the CHP. We can't drive anywhere because we don't 0:11:09.080 --> 0:11:12.160 have a tire. And the cops like, he gets on 0:11:12.200 --> 0:11:15.719 the speaker, just drive. He's like, just drive. You got 0:11:15.720 --> 0:11:18.280 through your rim, He's all. We did traffic and it's 0:11:18.320 --> 0:11:21.079 head spy. We did a traffic big dummy, get off 0:11:21.120 --> 0:11:23.480 the damn road. So we drove. 0:11:23.840 --> 0:11:26.040 So is that where they zigzag in front of all 0:11:26.080 --> 0:11:28.120 the cars and make everybody slow down. 0:11:28.280 --> 0:11:31.720 Yes, yes, they did a traffic break for us. And 0:11:31.800 --> 0:11:34.280 then they so they told everyone to stop. They stopped 0:11:34.280 --> 0:11:36.120 the traffic. Then they come up and they didn't come 0:11:36.160 --> 0:11:38.240 up right next to us. They used to bullhorn the megaphone. 0:11:38.280 --> 0:11:40.520 They're like, hey, pull all right, the traffic stop. Pull 0:11:40.559 --> 0:11:42.720 its safe, pull over, like the right side of the road, 0:11:43.080 --> 0:11:45.920 get off the highway right now. And so we did. 0:11:46.520 --> 0:11:48.880 And this is a good life lesson. I didn't know 0:11:48.920 --> 0:11:51.400 that that is what you should do in that situation. 0:11:52.040 --> 0:11:54.360 Yeah, I mean we really had no choice. I couldn't. 0:11:54.400 --> 0:11:55.760 Neither one of us could get out of the car. 0:11:55.800 --> 0:11:59.600 It wasn't safe. And I've seen too many videos on 0:11:59.720 --> 0:12:03.240 so the media of people getting hit by trying to 0:12:03.240 --> 0:12:06.160 get out of the car and change a tire, and 0:12:06.200 --> 0:12:09.360 then somebody whether they're drunk or not they come over, and. 0:12:09.360 --> 0:12:12.200 Just just a lot of people not paying attention while 0:12:12.200 --> 0:12:14.199 they're at the wheel exactly. 0:12:14.080 --> 0:12:16.720 Futsing around with their phone or whatever. And so it was. 0:12:17.640 --> 0:12:19.840 It was quite a hair raising experience. And I do 0:12:19.920 --> 0:12:21.839 want to point out that while I was waiting, once 0:12:21.880 --> 0:12:23.560 we got off the road and I was out of 0:12:23.600 --> 0:12:27.800 harm's way for the most part, got on the tire, 0:12:28.120 --> 0:12:29.679 I did go to the tire I've done so many 0:12:29.720 --> 0:12:32.400 tire rack commercials, Danny. I went to the tire rack 0:12:32.800 --> 0:12:35.560 dot com website and I went to try to in 0:12:35.600 --> 0:12:37.400 my head, I'm trying to figure out, all right, how 0:12:37.440 --> 0:12:39.520 much is this these tires? How much these tires going 0:12:39.559 --> 0:12:41.680 to cost me? Yeah, So I went on there. I 0:12:41.760 --> 0:12:44.760 was I was shopping on tire rack dot com because 0:12:44.760 --> 0:12:46.840 I put my the name of the car, the mate, 0:12:47.040 --> 0:12:49.079 make ear and all that stuff, and then they give 0:12:49.080 --> 0:12:51.280 you all these different options on what kind of tires 0:12:51.400 --> 0:12:53.880 you can get for your specific car, whether you want 0:12:54.200 --> 0:12:59.800 tires for speed cruising and whatever, weather tires, and so 0:13:00.440 --> 0:13:02.600 it was. It is a good resource to look at 0:13:02.640 --> 0:13:04.800 and kind of shop around and price what you what 0:13:04.840 --> 0:13:06.560 you want and what you need. 0:13:06.600 --> 0:13:08.920 And that's how I got my handcooked tires. You know, 0:13:09.000 --> 0:13:11.720 I'm going to isolate this part of the podcast and 0:13:11.840 --> 0:13:14.760 shoot it over to Scott, our boss, and I'm sure 0:13:14.760 --> 0:13:17.200 he will hobnob with the tire rack people. 0:13:17.600 --> 0:13:18.199 No, it's true. 0:13:18.200 --> 0:13:20.760 I mean I don't know. I know, that's why it's 0:13:20.800 --> 0:13:21.400 a cool story. 0:13:21.440 --> 0:13:23.280 I know my wife. My wife was like, what are 0:13:23.280 --> 0:13:24.920 you doing. I'm like, well, I just want to see 0:13:24.920 --> 0:13:26.440 what this is going to cost me. I mean, they 0:13:26.520 --> 0:13:28.440 got all the tires here on tire recks, So I 0:13:28.440 --> 0:13:29.400 mean I've done the commercial. 0:13:29.600 --> 0:13:32.080 I was going to say, you read their live commercials 0:13:32.080 --> 0:13:34.800 so much, you probably haven't memorized pretty much. 0:13:34.840 --> 0:13:38.199 I mean, at this point, I have the main name 0:13:38.320 --> 0:13:42.480 brands I have. I have memorized for sure. I mean 0:13:42.480 --> 0:13:46.080 I could literally play the piano, Danny, and I can 0:13:46.200 --> 0:13:49.080 recite like a piano man. I can recite all the 0:13:49.080 --> 0:13:49.920 different tire brands. 0:13:50.000 --> 0:13:54.760 Yeah, look at that professional segue. Last weekend, as you know, 0:13:54.920 --> 0:13:57.439 got to broadcast live from Tempe, Arizona. 0:13:57.960 --> 0:13:59.920 Now, I will tell you, Danny, I've been to Arizona 0:14:00.040 --> 0:14:02.560 many times. I would say the hottest people are in 0:14:02.800 --> 0:14:05.640 Tempe and Scottsdale in terms of as as. 0:14:05.559 --> 0:14:08.240 Far as their blonde girls and long legs. 0:14:10.240 --> 0:14:12.240 A lot of first round draft picks, as we used 0:14:12.280 --> 0:14:14.760 to say back in the day, some lottery picks. 0:14:15.160 --> 0:14:15.439 Women. 0:14:16.000 --> 0:14:17.680 Guys we've worked with the are like, there's a lot 0:14:17.679 --> 0:14:19.960 of talent. A lot of talent, yes, a lot of 0:14:20.040 --> 0:14:24.240 high end talent. We saw some of that right right 0:14:24.280 --> 0:14:27.440 when we landed at the Phoenix airport. There was a 0:14:27.480 --> 0:14:30.600 group of nine girls and they were there for a 0:14:30.640 --> 0:14:33.360 bachelorette party. And we know this because they were talking 0:14:33.520 --> 0:14:37.120 very loudly. They were waiting at the baggage claim. They 0:14:37.120 --> 0:14:39.960 were discussing how they were gonna split the bills on 0:14:40.000 --> 0:14:43.640 this trip, and one of them said, don't worry, I 0:14:43.720 --> 0:14:46.280 have an app on my phone and it's gonna split 0:14:46.360 --> 0:14:50.000 all the bills nine ways evenly. And you know, we 0:14:50.080 --> 0:14:51.960 have nothing to worry about. And Rich came over and 0:14:51.960 --> 0:14:54.040 he's like, get a load of these chicks. He's like, 0:14:54.040 --> 0:14:56.920 they're not used to paying for themselves. So when they're 0:14:56.920 --> 0:14:58.560 all together and they got to pay for their own 0:14:58.640 --> 0:15:01.160 drinks and stuff, they watch every single penny. 0:15:01.560 --> 0:15:02.800 How do you think that would go, Danny? If they 0:15:02.800 --> 0:15:04.360 were on dates, what do you think they would, oh, 0:15:04.400 --> 0:15:09.560 come on, yeah, yeah, they'd order everything and not a concern. 0:15:10.200 --> 0:15:12.960 Yeah, So we get to the hotel, we did the 0:15:13.000 --> 0:15:17.200 live broadcast, great audience participation. 0:15:17.040 --> 0:15:18.360 Looked like a really cool crowd. 0:15:18.520 --> 0:15:20.680 It was. It was a great crowd, yeah, really good, 0:15:20.880 --> 0:15:23.720 good turnout. Great sounded good on the air, and then 0:15:23.760 --> 0:15:26.080 we did a happy hour from four to six pm. 0:15:26.560 --> 0:15:29.120 Even more listeners showed up because obviously they were getting 0:15:29.120 --> 0:15:32.400 out of work and everything for the holiday weekend. So 0:15:32.560 --> 0:15:37.840 then there's always at these graduate hotels remotes, there's always 0:15:37.880 --> 0:15:41.080 like a little group of listeners that stays for the 0:15:41.120 --> 0:15:46.560 after after party for show. All right, yeah yeah. They 0:15:46.600 --> 0:15:50.200 told me they're like, okay, let's regroup downstairs in a 0:15:50.240 --> 0:15:52.480 half hour. So I go up, I change my clothes, 0:15:53.000 --> 0:15:57.760 I go downstairs, exit. Boom, that hot heat hits me, 0:15:58.320 --> 0:16:00.600 Like I had no idea. It was like eighty something 0:16:00.640 --> 0:16:03.440 degrees out here, and this is the evening time, and 0:16:03.520 --> 0:16:05.520 here in California, we're a bunch of woosies because we 0:16:05.560 --> 0:16:07.360 get the ocean breeze. Right yeah. 0:16:07.400 --> 0:16:07.680 Sure. 0:16:08.120 --> 0:16:12.040 So there's about fifteen listeners standing there and Rich says 0:16:12.120 --> 0:16:15.520 we're gonna walk the neighborhood. We're gonna walk to some bars. 0:16:15.720 --> 0:16:17.720 And I was like, all right, I like the bars part. 0:16:17.760 --> 0:16:20.440 I don't know about this walking part. So we walk 0:16:20.520 --> 0:16:24.360 about five city blocks until we get to some of 0:16:24.360 --> 0:16:27.520 the big hotels there, like Omni and Weston. We go 0:16:27.640 --> 0:16:30.600 up to the top like a skyview bar, and we 0:16:30.680 --> 0:16:33.800 watched the Western Conference finals game. It was cool. It 0:16:33.920 --> 0:16:36.280 was like a kind of a fufu. It was a 0:16:36.320 --> 0:16:39.840 little too fancy for our likings. So the ringleader, the 0:16:39.880 --> 0:16:42.720 guy that he does a morning show in Phoenix, that's 0:16:42.720 --> 0:16:45.880 a buddy of theirs, told them, hey, let's leave. He's like, 0:16:45.920 --> 0:16:48.200 we'll have one more drink at a piano bar down 0:16:48.240 --> 0:16:51.920 the street. Now, Rich Davis from Covino and Rich his 0:16:52.120 --> 0:16:56.320 eyes lit up. He was all about a piano bar, like, yeah, 0:16:56.400 --> 0:16:59.520 a piano bar. And I'm thinking to myself, oh man, 0:16:59.560 --> 0:17:02.640 this is like a Caucasian dude's dream right here, like 0:17:02.680 --> 0:17:05.160 a wet dream for a dude who loves to dance 0:17:05.200 --> 0:17:08.159 at weddings. Right sure, So we walked to this piano 0:17:08.280 --> 0:17:11.440 bar called low Key. You go down these steps, it's 0:17:11.440 --> 0:17:13.600 really cool. It's almost like you're walking into a secret 0:17:13.680 --> 0:17:16.440 jazz club, except when we get in there, there's nothing 0:17:16.480 --> 0:17:19.920 secret about it. The girls look like they're dressed for Hooters, 0:17:19.920 --> 0:17:23.280 but in darker colors that I saw her booms. Now 0:17:23.400 --> 0:17:27.200 I'm a believer. All right. That's the first thing we notice. 0:17:27.359 --> 0:17:30.720 There's a strange mix of clientele. A bunch of people 0:17:30.760 --> 0:17:34.320 turning twenty one with college aged parties, and then a 0:17:34.400 --> 0:17:36.480 bunch of old people who look like they're at their 0:17:36.560 --> 0:17:41.960 last hurrah, like last Supper, yes, last Vegas. Yeah, all right, 0:17:42.000 --> 0:17:43.960 so it was a very strange mix. And then there's 0:17:44.000 --> 0:17:46.720 like dueling pianos and one guy on a little drum 0:17:46.800 --> 0:17:50.600 set and they are playing like all the white people 0:17:50.680 --> 0:17:55.400 classics racist, whatever song you hear at a wedding where 0:17:55.400 --> 0:17:57.120 all the white people get out there and start doing 0:17:57.160 --> 0:18:02.840 the chicken dance, Dad is what they are playing. Hell, yeah, 0:18:03.160 --> 0:18:06.520 Covino was. He was standing there like cool, standing by 0:18:06.520 --> 0:18:09.959 the bar there, and I had the best laugh, man, 0:18:10.040 --> 0:18:21.919 because Billy Joel piano man comes on. Rich Davis jumps 0:18:22.000 --> 0:18:24.760 out of his seat and he is dancing in front 0:18:24.800 --> 0:18:26.600 of the stage band. I thought I was at a 0:18:26.640 --> 0:18:27.560 really bad wedding. 0:18:28.000 --> 0:18:30.480 Now what level of intoxication were we at this point 0:18:30.560 --> 0:18:32.200 or was this without intoxication. 0:18:32.359 --> 0:18:34.280 I feel like he would have danced like this to 0:18:34.400 --> 0:18:37.760 piano Man even if he was sober. But I want 0:18:37.760 --> 0:18:41.480 to say at this point he was probably five drinks in, gotcha. 0:18:41.720 --> 0:18:43.520 Yeah, so he was feeling pretty good. 0:18:43.600 --> 0:18:52.040 He was, he was, and so he's the whisper and 0:18:52.320 --> 0:18:55.840 he was, oh, he was dancing and snapping his fingers. 0:18:56.080 --> 0:18:58.760 It reminded me of Step Brothers, where that Billy Joel 0:18:59.119 --> 0:19:04.240 Singer was one at the motherfucking Catalina wine mixer. Oh yeah, yeah, 0:19:04.280 --> 0:19:06.879 Oh it was awesome, Ben, it was. It was such 0:19:07.000 --> 0:19:09.959 great entertainment. And if you get a chance to go 0:19:10.040 --> 0:19:13.160 out with Rich Davis at one of our events, do it. 0:19:13.520 --> 0:19:15.840 Not only is he a really good dude, but so 0:19:16.119 --> 0:19:18.280 fun to be out in the night life with. I 0:19:18.359 --> 0:19:21.280 love a party. And when the song ended, he looked 0:19:21.320 --> 0:19:24.880 like a sad puppy, like it's over see. He goes 0:19:25.000 --> 0:19:27.399 up on the stage and this was the move. If 0:19:27.440 --> 0:19:30.320 you want these guys at the pianos to play your song, 0:19:30.800 --> 0:19:32.840 write it down on a little piece of paper with 0:19:32.920 --> 0:19:36.879 a twenty dollars bill and put that in the tip jar. Okay, 0:19:36.920 --> 0:19:40.760 so Rich writes mister Jones on a piece of paper 0:19:41.080 --> 0:19:43.879 with a twenty and puts it in that jar. We 0:19:43.960 --> 0:19:46.120 all want to leave at this point. Now it's midnight, 0:19:46.440 --> 0:19:49.160 where like We've had a long day of travel and broadcasting. 0:19:49.359 --> 0:19:51.399 We're like, man, let's go, it's time to go. Now, 0:19:51.680 --> 0:19:53.919 time to call it a night. And Rich was like, 0:19:54.000 --> 0:19:57.280 I'm not leaving until he plays mister Jones. So we 0:19:57.400 --> 0:20:01.359 stood there for another thirty thirty five minutes. Finally mister 0:20:01.440 --> 0:20:04.080 Jones comes on. The guy that the one of the 0:20:04.119 --> 0:20:06.600 two guys that was singing it. His voice was cracking. 0:20:06.640 --> 0:20:10.000 He couldn't hit that range of that song. Yeah, and 0:20:10.440 --> 0:20:12.919 Rich was shaking his head. He said, I waited a 0:20:13.000 --> 0:20:14.360 fucking half hour for this. 0:20:15.920 --> 0:20:18.680 Well, he paid twenty bucks for it, though, I mean, yeah, 0:20:18.720 --> 0:20:21.040