Speaker 1: Cut Booms.
Speaker 2: If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes
Speaker 2: a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants
Speaker 2: of the old Republic, a soul fashion of fairness. He
Speaker 2: treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the
Speaker 2: rich pill poppers in the penthouse.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 2: It's the clearinghouse of hot takes. Break free for something special.
Speaker 2: The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now.
Speaker 1: In the air everywhere. The Fifth Hour with Me, Ben
Speaker 1: Maller and Danny G Radio a happy early Saturday.
Speaker 3: Here.
Speaker 1: You can listen whenever, so maybe it's late on Saturday,
Speaker 1: but it is the now seventeenth day of May. As
Speaker 1: we hang out together. The Fifth Hour podcast every single
Speaker 1: day on the weekend Friday, Saturday, Sunday. We got to
Speaker 1: cover new podcast every single day, and I was very excited.
Speaker 1: Danny G, who's with me on the Saturday pot, I
Speaker 1: was very excited. Last night I was like, game, We're
Speaker 1: gonna get a Game seven between the Celtics and the Knicks.
Speaker 1: And Monday night I had my whole menu planned out.
Speaker 1: I don't eat much, but on Monday night I was
Speaker 1: gonna have a big meal and enjoy a game seven
Speaker 1: in Boston on TV, sitting on my ass, and that
Speaker 1: dream ended right around tip off last night.
Speaker 3: Insert buzzer sound effect right here.
Speaker 1: Wow, what a great effort by the Boston Celtics. Their
Speaker 1: way to compete, boys, way to go out there and
Speaker 1: fight to the very end. Down by forty one points
Speaker 1: at one point, there was a right when the I
Speaker 1: was gonna say when the game started, but really it
Speaker 1: was like early second quarter that was it. It was
Speaker 1: turned out the lots the party's over. So does New
Speaker 1: York Now New York becomes the team?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 1: They have to the NBA. From a television ratings standpoint,
Speaker 1: you can't have Indiana and like Oklahoma or Indiana and Denver. Really,
Speaker 1: combination with Indiana and whoever's left in the West would
Speaker 1: not be particularly great for TV. So you kind of
Speaker 1: need the Knicks, right, You need the New York market.
Speaker 4: The other arenas you're not gonna get. Lenny Kravitz and
Speaker 4: Ben Stiller looking straight into the camera.
Speaker 1: I wanted to puke in my mouth. At the end
Speaker 1: of the game, Danny they I realized there was nothing
Speaker 1: to show on the broadcast. Had I had the audio
Speaker 1: down because Doris Burke was on the broadcast, So when
Speaker 1: she's on, that's a sign.
Speaker 3: I think that sexist drop sexist.
Speaker 1: No, No, I'm just I'm sure she's a lovely lady
Speaker 1: and she's really good, but for some reason I'd rather
Speaker 1: listen to nails on the chalkboard than her, So I
Speaker 1: mute it. So I didn't have the audio up. I
Speaker 1: know Mike Breen was doing the game and Doris and
Speaker 1: somebody else, so I didn't have the audio up, but
Speaker 1: I was watching it, and in the like the last
Speaker 1: seven to eight minutes of the game, there was more
Speaker 1: shots of Ben Stiller and Tracy Morgan and Spike Lee
Speaker 1: and all like that's what they were doing, like to me,
Speaker 1: And maybe I'm wrong. I don't know. It could be
Speaker 1: completely the whole card is getting pregnant, Like that's not
Speaker 1: the real Nick fan. That's like the fake Nick fan.
Speaker 1: Those aren't the real Nick fans. Anybody's sitting in the
Speaker 1: front row at Madison Square Garden.
Speaker 4: Well, Tracy Morgan and Ben Stiller at least have been
Speaker 4: seen at quite a few Knicks games. I don't recall
Speaker 4: Lenny Kravitz and some of those other celebrities in attendance,
Speaker 4: though obviously things get ramped up during playoffs.
Speaker 1: Well, and it's like, as Howard Stern mentioned on his
Speaker 1: his thing the other day, like he he's like, I'm
Speaker 1: not going to the Knicks games unless I get a
Speaker 1: front row seat because they assigned the tickets based on
Speaker 1: your celebrity status. So if you're not in the front row,
Speaker 1: that means you're deemed a B list celebrity. So you're
Speaker 1: either A list in the front row or B list
Speaker 1: in the back.
Speaker 4: But no, like, didn't the podcast could get a spot
Speaker 4: out with those fans by the corridors.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I think No, we'd be actually in Penn Station.
Speaker 1: We'd be underneath Mas the Square Garden. We would be
Speaker 1: down there cleaning the toilets in the battlem You know,
Speaker 1: it's like it's like, listen, the New York Nick fan,
Speaker 1: the die hard fan. That's not that I know whose
Speaker 1: celebrity people love celebrities don't. I'm over it. I can
Speaker 1: call me what you want. I'm over it. It's it's
Speaker 1: annoying to me. But congratulations to the Knicks. They kicked
Speaker 1: the Tale of the Celtics a total soup to nuts.
Speaker 4: They showed a few celebrities in attendance at your new
Speaker 4: Clippers arena. During the few the handful of playoff games,
Speaker 4: you guys were.
Speaker 1: Thinking about it, like the Clippers. I didn't mention the Clippers.
Speaker 1: You mentioned the Clippers. I didn't bring up the no.
Speaker 4: But I'm saying I know you hate it, but they
Speaker 4: did show you know, like, who is it the dead
Speaker 4: corpse of Was she la Verne or Shirley?
Speaker 1: Well, she died several years ago. I dare you, is
Speaker 1: there anyone? I guess there's maybe one or two people. Actually,
Speaker 1: Lavernon Shirley was a popular show, like in the seventies, right,
Speaker 1: the seventies and eighty seventies.
Speaker 4: Probably, Hey, I don't know, because we saw reruns. I
Speaker 4: think that's the show our parents saw when it was
Speaker 4: actually on.
Speaker 1: It is odd though that I in the course of
Speaker 1: my yap of the app career, I got to know
Speaker 1: Squiggy Dave Lander, who passed away all seasons.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, he was a good actor.
Speaker 1: He was a good he loved baseball. He actually worked
Speaker 1: as a scout for several teams, and I got to
Speaker 1: know him a little bit in the press box. He
Speaker 1: was cool. And then, as you mentioned Laverne from Lavernon Shirley,
Speaker 1: she was a huge basketball fan. And there was an
Speaker 1: incident Marshall, Yeah, Penny Marshall, But there was an incident
Speaker 1: at Staples Center where a couple of media guys got
Speaker 1: in a couple of camera guys got into a dust up.
Speaker 1: This is back in the Shaq Kobe Laker days, and
Speaker 1: a couple of camera guys got into a shouting match
Speaker 1: and we're pushing each other trying to get positioned around
Speaker 1: Shack's locker waiting for Shack. So there was a bit
Speaker 1: of a rhubarb in locker room. So we a couple
Speaker 1: of us came walking out. Oh man, that was quite
Speaker 1: the fun. And Penny Marshall comes running up to me.
Speaker 1: She was so excited. She was she thought like the
Speaker 1: Laker players were fighting with each other, and she was
Speaker 1: very disappointed to find out. No, it was just a
Speaker 1: guy from Channel five versus the guy from Channel two
Speaker 1: that were shoving each other in the locker room because
Speaker 1: they were trying to get positioned to get the proper
Speaker 1: camera angle and all that. It was a good Now.
Speaker 1: The game last night, the Celtics and Knicks, no contest,
Speaker 1: not much to talk about, not good talk radio, but
Speaker 1: there were some good sports stories, and it was one
Speaker 1: of those things like last night, Danny, I was like, man,
Speaker 1: I would have loved to do the show because there's
Speaker 1: a lot of meat on the ball and sometimes you
Speaker 1: come in there and you're just throwing stuff together and
Speaker 1: you're you're you're doing Ramen noodles, and there was a
Speaker 1: lot of meat. You had the brock Party contract. Great
Speaker 1: news for the Rams, great news for the car Awks.
Speaker 1: I mean, mister irrelevant will turn the forty nine ers
Speaker 1: into irrelevancy. So good job.
Speaker 4: Yeah, fifty three million a year. What he's a thirty
Speaker 4: million dollar quarterback. He's getting fifty three million dollars.
Speaker 1: The guy that does not elevate his teammates. So good luck.
Speaker 1: And I'm very happy for Terry and England and you know,
Speaker 1: so the forty nine er fans or nest though and
Speaker 1: you guys that love the forty nine ers that are
Speaker 1: listeners to the show because you enjoy that you got
Speaker 1: your quarterback. He won't make anyone better.
Speaker 4: And as the roster, what he does do well with
Speaker 4: what's around him there, he works well in that system.
Speaker 1: So oh yeah, he's a good system quarterback. It's good
Speaker 1: for him.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's a good system quarterback.
Speaker 1: And I gotta tell you, as you know, no animosity
Speaker 1: Danny for the forty nine er fan, as a RAM fan,
Speaker 1: I fully endorse this. I think it's great. I think
Speaker 1: you should have gotten more. I think you should. Why
Speaker 1: stop it? Was it one hundred and eighty one million
Speaker 1: or something like that? Why stop there.
Speaker 3: One to eighty one was guaranteed? Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's really the most the most important part. What
Speaker 1: else I read the last night there or yesterday was
Speaker 1: a story that I think it was Adam Schefter said
Speaker 1: that the NFL is going to ban the tush push
Speaker 1: this coming week during the owners meetings. I mean, then
Speaker 1: this is kind of obviously they because they pushed it back.
Speaker 1: Remember we talked, we all talked about this a couple
Speaker 1: of weeks back at the owners the owners meetings they
Speaker 1: had in.
Speaker 3: That's right, and they tabled it.
Speaker 1: They hit the pause by yeah, which is a way
Speaker 1: of all right, what teams need a favor from the league,
Speaker 1: We'll get them to vote against the Toush push to
Speaker 1: kick it out. And uh, I think it's I think
Speaker 1: it's as dumb to ban the Toush push as it
Speaker 1: was for Major League Baseball to say you can't do
Speaker 1: the shift. It's just to me, it's stupid. Find a way.
Speaker 3: It's stupid.
Speaker 4: But I don't think it ever should have been allowed
Speaker 4: in the first place. Now that it's there, just leave
Speaker 4: it alone. But it it doesn't make sense with the
Speaker 4: forward progress of that game. It doesn't make sense.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's just people that are pissed off because they
Speaker 1: can't do it, because really there's only been a couple
Speaker 1: of teams that have consistently been able to pull it off,
Speaker 1: and nobody can do it like the philadelph Eagles can
Speaker 1: do it.
Speaker 4: Well, you know when I knew it was over though,
Speaker 4: you're a boy from the Chiefs on defense hurt his
Speaker 4: neck trying to stop it in the Super Bowl, remember, Yeah, Well,
Speaker 4: as soon as I saw that injury and I was like, oh,
Speaker 4: that play is going away.
Speaker 1: The one that did it for me where I thought, well,
Speaker 1: this is really not going to be around is remember
Speaker 1: the Washington Philadelphia playoff game where the referees came on
Speaker 1: because the Commanders kept jumping off sides trying to they
Speaker 1: were trying.
Speaker 4: Oh that's right, yeah, yeah, the dude kept flying in
Speaker 4: the air on defense off sides every play.
Speaker 3: What do you go like three in a row.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and the referee got on the PA system. We
Speaker 1: can award a score.
Speaker 4: That's right. That was awesome. Imagine do you give a
Speaker 4: tea None of us knew that either. None of us
Speaker 4: knew that rule. We were like, that's a weird rule.
Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: So that was a good story. That would have been
Speaker 1: a monologue on the Overnight Show if I had one
Speaker 1: last night and then the other one. Your boy, your guy,
Speaker 1: Danny G's guy, Derek Carr. Who there's some Weasley stuff.
Speaker 3: Guy that ain't my guy.
Speaker 1: There's some Weasley stuff, mo Man Weasley stuff moment.
Speaker 3: How about the rumors that his team talked to two teams.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, yes, retirement. So if you have a debilitating
Speaker 1: injury that you must retire from the NFL, why are
Speaker 1: you shopping around trying to go work for some other the.
Speaker 3: I told you this whole thing.
Speaker 4: I told you back when he first announced his injury
Speaker 4: that it smelled really fishy. I don't think we've seen
Speaker 4: the last of him. I say he comes back for
Speaker 4: another team. I just don't see him leaving the NFL
Speaker 4: like you think he's done. What has he made something
Speaker 4: like two hundred million dollars.
Speaker 1: He's done very well. And I pointed out in a
Speaker 1: previous the radio show I did a monologue. I put
Speaker 1: it out, Derek Carr has a role. If you were
Speaker 1: to assign we love the blame, the blame pie, and
Speaker 1: if you were to assign blame on how the Raiders
Speaker 1: ended up leaving Oakland, some of that blame. Now, you'd
Speaker 1: always just blame politicians, right, and the Davis family whatever.
Speaker 1: But if you look at the history of stadiums and
Speaker 1: money and taxpayer money, Derek Carr was the last hope
Speaker 1: for the Oakland Raiders as a quarterback, and he just
Speaker 1: wasn't good enough with the Oakland Raiders. If he had
Speaker 1: been the real deal and the Raiders had actually had
Speaker 1: success and gone to the Super Bowl, I bet you
Speaker 1: they get the money and there's still the Oakland Raiders.
Speaker 1: But you know, he played a role in that anyway.
Speaker 1: And ultimately, what he thirty, he's gonna be thirty four.
Speaker 4: You know what, Ben I wanted to at least see
Speaker 4: how that twenty sixteen season would have wound up. He
Speaker 4: was a different guy and a different player back then
Speaker 4: that they were twelve and three when he went down
Speaker 4: with that injury, they were the best in the West
Speaker 4: and he was on a roll. He definitely would have
Speaker 4: won at least one playoff game because the Texans stunk
Speaker 4: in that wild card game and they still were able
Speaker 4: to beat the Raiders back up to the backup.
Speaker 1: Remember who was the Raiders quarterback in that playoff game,
Speaker 1: because at the Texans their backup too, right, it was
Speaker 1: backup versus backup?
Speaker 3: Was that it was the third string Raider quarterback.
Speaker 1: Remember again, was brock Oswiler playing though? Was he?
Speaker 4: Os Wiler is the one that won it for the Texans?
Speaker 4: Well won it in it loose and it was that
Speaker 4: Raider rookie. God, I can't even think of his name
Speaker 4: right now.
Speaker 1: You are how soon we forget that's guy started a
Speaker 1: playoff game.
Speaker 3: He had no business playing in that game. He looked.
Speaker 4: Remember he kept holding onto the ball too long and
Speaker 4: the Texans defense was all over them.
Speaker 1: Oh I remember, I remember they were like, what are
Speaker 1: we watching? Why is this a playoff?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 4: I think Derrek Carr's entire career changed, obviously from that injury,
Speaker 4: because he would have made at least a deep run
Speaker 4: into those playoffs if not gotten that team because they
Speaker 4: had a good defense, a really good defense that season
Speaker 4: as well. Every week they went out there, they looked
Speaker 4: like they were one of the top three teams in
Speaker 4: the NFL in twenty sixteen. I remember pinching myself. It
Speaker 4: felt like a weird dream that year. They had sucked
Speaker 4: so bad in the years, you know, leading up to
Speaker 4: that one. It's broke, it's broke. He never he never
Speaker 4: bounced back from that. He was always real fidgety in
Speaker 4: the pocket. Remember if a shadow got near him after
Speaker 4: that injury, he would drop down like a sack of potatoes.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: No, he was.
Speaker 1: Always like the easy year standard. He wasn't terrible, just
Speaker 1: you don't. You don't want him in any kind of
Speaker 1: pressure situation, and you look at the numbers and then
Speaker 1: you watch the game and it's not it doesn't add up.
Speaker 1: Like the numbers don't look terrible for Derek Carr most
Speaker 1: of the time, but when you watch the games, it's
Speaker 1: like they're not. He's not making plays to win games.
Speaker 1: He's just kind of.
Speaker 4: He had that makeable fourth down play against the Bengals
Speaker 4: the last time the Raiders were in the playoffs, and
Speaker 4: what did he do? He threw the ball away on
Speaker 4: fourth down.
Speaker 1: Oh, in the back of the end zone if I
Speaker 1: remember correctly.
Speaker 4: Yeah, the short came the pass came up really short,
Speaker 4: but he had a wide open receiver in the end zone.
Speaker 4: That was Derek Carr in a nutshell. He at times
Speaker 4: had the worst field vision, but he was a gamer.
Speaker 4: I remember other plays and other games where he would
Speaker 4: look incredible and you would come away from the game like, man,
Speaker 4: maybe he is a star quarterback. And then there'd be
Speaker 4: other games where he would throw Philip Rivers type interceptions
Speaker 4: and you would walk away scratching your head. So he
Speaker 4: was a really confusing quarterback to try to root for.
Speaker 1: Well, it's like when you were Daton, Danny and the
Speaker 1: girl that would flirt with the bar. You think, oh,
Speaker 1: I got a shot here, and then yeah, yeah, oh me,
Speaker 1: no shot. All right, we're doing wait, too much sporty stuff.
Speaker 1: So on this podcast we have the wedding crashers. We've
Speaker 1: got a very special moment. I want to starry this.
Speaker 1: So last weekend I attended my presence was requested via
Speaker 1: my wife to attend a wedding for the in laws,
Speaker 1: and so we traveled.
Speaker 3: Yeah, this is where you start doing the conga.
Speaker 1: Well, it was pretty interesting. So we went to beautiful Beaumont, California,
Speaker 1: which is kind.
Speaker 4: From PanAm Prana from Frano.
Speaker 1: Yeah, kind of near Palm Springs but not and kind
Speaker 1: of it's past riverside in southern California.
Speaker 3: It's San Bernardino County. It's out in Styx.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, man. So I I was very excited.
Speaker 1: I told the wife, I said, listen, we are staying
Speaker 1: at the top hotel in Beaumont, and actually the only
Speaker 1: hotel in Beaumont. We spent the night there and it's
Speaker 1: so beautiful. They actually have vending machines. You can get
Speaker 1: any variety of Matthe you want, Danny and they've got
Speaker 1: a f vanding machine right there. So it's really just wonderful.
Speaker 4: But not even eight out of five stars, because it's
Speaker 4: a super eight.
Speaker 1: So we went out there, got all dulled up, you know,
Speaker 1: get ready for the big wedding there, getting it all
Speaker 1: dressed up in the in laws hanging out there. It
Speaker 1: was a nice wedding at this big they had rented
Speaker 1: out this mansion. Now, I did not realize there were
Speaker 1: nice houses there up in the hills. I had no idea.
Speaker 1: When I think of Beaumont. I think of people all
Speaker 1: strung out on pharmaceuticals and you know, drugs or whatever.
Speaker 1: So they had these really nice mansions up in the hills,
Speaker 1: which I had no idea, and they had rented out
Speaker 1: this mansion. So we went to the wedding, got all
Speaker 1: dressed up, and it was it was fine.
Speaker 4: And yeah, this is like when you used to go
Speaker 4: to diddy parties back in the day.
Speaker 1: You know, you get the baby oil on one side,
Speaker 1: you know, you're ready to go. So we were. We
Speaker 1: were there doing our thing, and the gentleman that was
Speaker 1: getting married into the family, my wife's family. It was
Speaker 1: a he's a little bit of a mix up, you know,
Speaker 1: different different background, but he It was like a Greek
Speaker 1: Latin type wedding, if that makes any sense.
Speaker 3: To you, a Greek Latin fusion pretty much.
Speaker 1: Yeah, pretty much. And I was just in for whatever,
Speaker 1: you know. I was like, hey, open bar. I don't
Speaker 1: drink much, but I'm in Beaumont, so I'll probably have
Speaker 1: a couple. So I went out and so it was.
Speaker 1: It was the kind of a night where a couple
Speaker 1: of things happened that I will remember for many, many years,
Speaker 1: including schmoozing before that, they had the wedding. They had
Speaker 1: the open bar, and it was on this courtyard on
Speaker 1: the side of this mansion overlooking the hills, and it
Speaker 1: was really a beautiful setting. The sun was setting and
Speaker 1: we were all drinking and they had a shark couterie
Speaker 1: boards out which he and crackers and all that. So
Speaker 1: I'm wandering around and I'm an introvert, but I'm trying
Speaker 1: to be polite and talk to people, and people are
Speaker 1: coming up and asking me stuff whatever. So I'm going
Speaker 1: around and I knew a few people, some people didn't know.
Speaker 3: Whatever. Are you working sports? Who's gonna win the Super Bowl?
Speaker 1: Oh? God, yes, pretty much every conversation. Yeah. So the
Speaker 1: wife says, oh, yeah, my uncle fell down. He fell
Speaker 1: down there and he passed out. And I was like, oh, yeah, whatever.
Speaker 1: So I thought she was just like busting my chops.
Speaker 1: And then I go walk around the corner through this
Speaker 1: little courtyard thing. Sure enough, her uncle had fallen over
Speaker 1: and there were like seven or eight people surrounding the
Speaker 1: uncle trying to get trying to get him back on
Speaker 1: his feet. What's wrong? What happened? Is this a medical emergency?
Speaker 1: Everyone's freaking out, So they take him into the mansion.
Speaker 1: They put him down there, they've got ice. There's people
Speaker 1: trying to figure out. Now he wants no parties. He says,
Speaker 1: I'm fine, I'm fine, screaming. So, uh, you'll get a
Speaker 1: kick out of this daddy. So it turns out that
Speaker 1: the will call him the Uncle. He was enjoying the
Speaker 1: the open bar, and then he went down to the
Speaker 1: parking lot at the mansion and somebody else at the
Speaker 1: wedding said, hey, I got some really good weed. You
Speaker 1: should try something. Well, the Uncle doesn't normally do that.
Speaker 1: He this saying, I'm just saying, I'm just saying, so
Speaker 1: the so the uncle, the Uncle ends up again. You're
Speaker 1: a pretty button up guy. Uh. He had a couple
Speaker 1: of drinks. He goes does some really uh you know,
Speaker 1: powerful weed.
Speaker 3: Past strong medicinal. Yes.
Speaker 1: Now keep in mind the people around him, they think
Speaker 1: he's having a medical he's you know older, you know,
Speaker 1: he's older than us by a number of years.
Speaker 3: The word medical was involved, but not an emergency.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So they everyone they they don't think of him
Speaker 1: doing anything like that, right, So they think he's having
Speaker 1: some kind of medical problem. And and so there's there's
Speaker 1: like a couple of nurses that are there, and it
Speaker 1: was hilarious, and he knew the whole time what happened, right,
Speaker 1: he was aware of what happened. And then one of
Speaker 1: the guys that I I also I'm friendly with, he
Speaker 1: was the guy that gave him the powerful stuff or whatever.
Speaker 1: So he couldn't stop laughing. He thought it was the
Speaker 1: funniest thing in the world, right because everyone he knew,
Speaker 1: and he told me, and then other people told me.
Speaker 1: I was like it was, but the the the nurse
Speaker 1: and the couple of people, the I don't know, more
Speaker 1: buttoned up people had no idea.
Speaker 3: They had no idea.
Speaker 1: But that was just the warm up day. So this
Speaker 1: was kind of funny, right, that's like, okay, that's that's
Speaker 1: pretty that's out of an eighties comedy. And then it
Speaker 1: gets even better. So we're sitting down at the table
Speaker 1: and they introduted. Here come the you know, the bride
Speaker 1: and the groom. You know. The crowd goes wild and
Speaker 1: then what do you do. You have speeches. You have
Speaker 1: the the the wedding party, the best man and whatever.
Speaker 1: They go on there and speak. So the best man
Speaker 1: gets up there and he's given this heartfelt speech about
Speaker 1: the guy that's getting married. And you know, I'm just
Speaker 1: minding my own business. I just want to get the food.
Speaker 1: We got to wait for the speeches to get the food. Fine,
Speaker 1: So the best man gets up there and he starts
Speaker 1: out the speech. I want to tell you about my
Speaker 1: friend I've known since we were little kids, Saki, right,
Speaker 1: that's his nickname, Sake Danny hand to guy. After that
Speaker 1: first time he said Saki. The rest of the speech,
Speaker 1: he gave this heartfelt, emotional speech about his best friend
Speaker 1: SUCKI he kept calling him sucky and yes, yes, why
Speaker 1: I don't know why, I don't know, but like the
Speaker 1: first time, I thought, well, maybe maybe he made a mistake.
Speaker 1: And he kept saying sucky instead of socking, and I
Speaker 1: died Dandy. I could not control myself. He's telling these
Speaker 1: stories about me and little Sucky in the playing ground.
Speaker 1: It was the funniest thing. It is one of the
Speaker 1: great speeches I've ever heard. People talk about the Gettysburg
Speaker 1: address or I have a dream. This best man I've
Speaker 1: never heard of, I'll never see him again giving this
Speaker 1: heartfelt It seemed like it was a two hour speech.
Speaker 1: It was probably only about six minutes, but It was
Speaker 1: the funniest thing, and I am trying not to laugh.
Speaker 1: I'm getting my wife's elbowing me. People at the table
Speaker 1: are looking at me, and then I'm trying to keep
Speaker 1: my composure, so I'm looking across the table. Well, the
Speaker 1: guy I'm looking at across the table, he starts laughing, right,
Speaker 1: So now we're both cracking up and everyone's looking at
Speaker 1: U's like, what.
Speaker 3: Are you doing?
Speaker 4: Oh, this is like being at church and you're trying
Speaker 4: not to laugh with your sibling during the prayer.
Speaker 1: I was like, I was trying to think, you know,
Speaker 1: when you don't want to laugh, I'm trying to think
Speaker 1: of like things that are not funny.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, But every time he was just like when you
Speaker 4: think about baseball during you know what to try to
Speaker 4: hold one.
Speaker 1: Exactly, you know, hold off the big finish. And so
Speaker 1: I I could not I could not stop. It was
Speaker 1: the funniest thing I have heard in a long time.
Speaker 1: I could not believe what I was hearing it. And
Speaker 1: it's like it was one of those things. Am I
Speaker 1: the only person hearing this? Am I in the Twilight
Speaker 1: Zone episode? And I'm the only one hearing instead of
Speaker 1: Saki or Saki rather I'm hearing Sucky and it was
Speaker 1: just it was they were talking about playground stuff, you know,
Speaker 1: riding bikes around the neighbor, playing video games of Sucky,
Speaker 1: going you know, dating with SUCKI it.
Speaker 3: Was just unbelievable. It was so good.
Speaker 1: It was a you know what it was. It was
Speaker 1: a very special moment, Danny, very special moment.
Speaker 4: My god, you and your wife will always refer to
Speaker 4: it as the Sucky speech.
Speaker 1: It was so it was so great and I have
Speaker 1: not had a belly laugh like that in a long time.
Speaker 1: So I do want to I don't know who, I
Speaker 1: don't know who it was. I want to thank whoever
Speaker 1: that person was. But that was one of the great
Speaker 1: speeches of all time.
Speaker 4: Well, we had a family event too. In fact, I
Speaker 4: just sent two pictures your way so you could see
Speaker 4: the youngest of the klan and the oldest. So there's
Speaker 4: baby Koa and you can see that he looks like
Speaker 4: a kindergartener.
Speaker 1: Wow, he's got the gooby hair going on too. I
Speaker 1: like that he does.
Speaker 4: So he's in that weird between stage where it's still
Speaker 4: baby here, but he needs his first haircut. But he's
Speaker 4: a wild banshee. We know, it's not going to go
Speaker 4: well at the barber shop, so we're forced to bring him,
Speaker 4: I think next weekend for his first haircut.
Speaker 3: But you could see how Mammothy is.
Speaker 4: He's twenty one months old and he looks what what
Speaker 4: would you say if you saw that kid?
Speaker 1: Yeah, he looks old. That's the starting left tackle for
Speaker 1: the Raiders in twenty What are we looking at twenty forty?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Yeah, and then the oldest. He graduated from Cal Lutheran
Speaker 4: yesterday morning. The family was very proud of him. I'm
Speaker 4: very proud of him. He is the first to graduate
Speaker 4: in his family since his grandfather, who was a long
Speaker 4: time accountant and I believe graduated from UC Irvine, which
Speaker 4: you know well I do.
Speaker 1: Congratulations. That's great.
Speaker 4: Cal lou famous for the Dallas Cowboys training there during
Speaker 4: the off season for years. That's one of the reasons
Speaker 4: why the Cowboys have such a big footprint in southern California.
Speaker 1: Oh, there you go, that's awesome. What was his major
Speaker 1: sports medicine? Okay, Hey, the Lakers are looking for a trainer.
Speaker 1: If he wants there, you go.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And the Rams are hiring for positions like that,
Speaker 4: so maybe he'll join your squad.
Speaker 1: There you go, and the Rams have they're building that
Speaker 1: massive well. I think it's already built, right, most of
Speaker 1: it there's.
Speaker 3: In Woodland Hills.
Speaker 4: Now they they built just a couple of pieces of
Speaker 4: big plan. They are going to spend a billion dollars
Speaker 4: to make little city inside the city of Woodland Hills,
Speaker 4: and they're gonna call it the Rams Village.
Speaker 1: I know you're excited about that, Danny, You're gonna be
Speaker 1: over there. You you take the family out the Ram Village.
Speaker 3: You can ram the village all day, and you can
Speaker 3: ram the whole village.
Speaker 1: All night, ram it all nights. The nex.
Speaker 4: So, Ben, you think that speech went a long time?
Speaker 4: Oh my god, these graduation ceremonies, can't they limit it
Speaker 4: to two speakers? There were probably five or six different speakers.
Speaker 4: Then there were two speakers after they announced all the kids' names,
Speaker 4: which takes forever. Everybody is melting in the hot sun
Speaker 4: there in Thousand Oaks, California. It was the longest thing
Speaker 4: ever at one point though, And the special moment is
Speaker 4: not the actual special moment. The special moment is my
Speaker 4: beautiful wife proving that she's very special. Because above us
Speaker 4: were two hawks circling.
Speaker 1: What what?
Speaker 3: What? Just like that, she kept looking up.
Speaker 4: They were talking about, you know, you soaring into your
Speaker 4: future now that you're a graduate. She's weeping a little bit,
Speaker 4: and she's like, that's so beautiful. And she looked around
Speaker 4: and she looked at me and she said, where are
Speaker 4: the hawk trainers standing?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 4: These were just two hawks looking for a meal. She
Speaker 4: thought that there were trainers somewhere there on the campus.
Speaker 1: Grounds, the show hawks. Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, she thought the school released the hawks and that
Speaker 4: they were going to come back and land on the
Speaker 4: person's arm and everybody was going to applaud.
Speaker 1: Now at this point, did she have you jump on
Speaker 1: top of the child to protect you the kid from
Speaker 1: the hawks? Of course the kid. Your kid's so big.
Speaker 1: If you know, you don't have to worry about that.
Speaker 1: The hawk's not getting the kid.
Speaker 4: He came out the size of a bowling ball, so hot,
Speaker 4: couldn't have picked them up even when he was a newborn.
Speaker 3: I don't think she was worried.
Speaker 4: I just think she thought it was this beautiful moment
Speaker 4: that the school put together. And her daughter looked at
Speaker 4: her and was like, Mom, you are so special. Don't
Speaker 4: share that story with anybody.
Speaker 1: That's funny.
Speaker 3: That was a very special moment.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the Auburn football game. Don't they do that at
Speaker 1: Auburn they release the birds and war eagle and all that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, not at KL lou for a small ceremony though.
Speaker 4: I don't think there's hot trainers at the school.
Speaker 1: Oh they don't. They don't do that. They don't mess up,
Speaker 1: they don't play like that. All right. So I did
Speaker 1: want to mention before we got a couple of things
Speaker 1: to get to the I thought this was right in
Speaker 1: your wheelhouse, Danny. I saw this story and I thought
Speaker 1: of you. The summer concert season is underway, right, the
Speaker 1: biggest musical tours of twenty twenty five is. We're into
Speaker 1: mid May now and get June and July and all
Speaker 1: the summer months coming up with all the concerts and
Speaker 1: all that. So they've done a study to reveal the
Speaker 1: economics behind the biggest music tours of twenty twenty five
Speaker 1: in the United States, and the music tour that will
Speaker 1: cost you the most per song on a per song basis. Danny,
Speaker 1: you want to take a shot here. Yeah, I assume
Speaker 1: you didn't see this, but take a shot. What do
Speaker 1: you think the musical tour of this summer that will
Speaker 1: cost you the most per song?
Speaker 3: All right, Oh, what do you think here? I'm trying
Speaker 3: to think who's on tour this summer.
Speaker 1: Let's see, it's not Ditty, It is not Diddy.
Speaker 3: I know.
Speaker 4: I saw something in the news about Lady Gaga having
Speaker 4: a big tour.
Speaker 3: Beyonce gotta be on that list.
Speaker 1: Yeah, not Beyonce the weekend. No, let me give it
Speaker 1: to you here. It is, okay, Lana del Rey. Lana
Speaker 1: del Ray the priceiest performer on a person basis. She
Speaker 1: doesn't eighty three minute show features fifteen tracks on the show.
Speaker 1: That means that fans pay per song sixteen dollars and
Speaker 1: two cents for every song at her concert.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, okay, I see. So this is about the
Speaker 4: amount of songs that the artist does as well.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah. And they said by time, that's two
Speaker 1: dollars and ninety cents per minute of the performance, the
Speaker 1: fourth highest minute by minute rate among major artists. They
Speaker 1: say that Oasis generates the most revenue per song eight
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty eight thousand dollars per song, with nightly
Speaker 1: earnings of seventeen point six seventeen point one six million
Speaker 1: across the reunion. I imagine that.
Speaker 3: This is the artists then that are like, screw you.
Speaker 3: You're paying a lot of money to come in here,
Speaker 3: but I'm not going to do a lot of songs.
Speaker 1: Yeah, let's do the bare minimum. The bug, they say,
Speaker 1: the budget conscience fan. The best value is Ed Sheeran
Speaker 1: at less than a dollar per minute, ninety one cents
Speaker 1: per minute. Usher Usher does it for three dollars and
Speaker 1: seventy six cents per song. So there's some some value.
Speaker 1: So I don't know, I haven't been a concert in
Speaker 1: a while. You go to concerts, Danny's still doing that,
Speaker 1: or you kind of.
Speaker 3: We did before we had a little kid.
Speaker 1: Yeah, now you're your locker.
Speaker 3: We're kind of stuck at home now.
Speaker 4: But when he gets old enough that we can have
Speaker 4: a babysitter, we'll go back to some concerts.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I gotcha, all right.
Speaker 1: The word of the week, the word of my guy, Ohio,
Speaker 1: aw so the word This is in honor of Charlie.
Speaker 1: Charlie's a kid caller, Danny. He lives in Dallas, he's homeschool.
Speaker 1: He calls the Overnight show. Charlie.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I've heard Charlie on the air before Yeah.
Speaker 1: This week, Charlie started calling from the bathroom, and so
Speaker 1: we got what a what an appropriate way to honor
Speaker 1: Charlie in Dallas than the word of the week being
Speaker 1: come ode, come ode, I'm going to the come out mode.
Speaker 3: Oh.
Speaker 1: I think most of us know that that is a
Speaker 1: slang way of saying a toilet euphanism for toilet. However,
Speaker 1: is it true that, despite now meaning toilet, historically, at
Speaker 1: one point commode was a woman's wig, and at one
Speaker 1: point it was that of a madame or female pimp.
Speaker 1: About that. The original word going way way way, way, way, way,
Speaker 1: way way back. Comode first appeared in English in the
Speaker 1: late seventeenth century, and it meant a tall headdress or
Speaker 1: wig built upon a wire frame, and that was a commode.
Speaker 1: So we're going back a minute to the sixteen hundreds
Speaker 1: and there's some examples of that, and then if you
Speaker 1: move forward in time the eighteenth century, come ode also
Speaker 1: used to mean a female pimp or producer. That I's
Speaker 1: here it for the female pimp commode. Yeah, So anyway,
Speaker 1: over time, it's obviously it's obviously changed several times with
Speaker 1: the connection to toilets began in the eighteen hundreds commode
Speaker 1: as a toilet, but it actually was taken from a
Speaker 1: piece of furniture because before it was the toilet. I
Speaker 1: went out of order here. A commode, before it was
Speaker 1: known as a toilet, used to refer to a ornate
Speaker 1: waist high chest of drawers. It was a style of
Speaker 1: furniture that was in France, so that that was in
Speaker 1: the seventeen hundred, so sixteen hundreds it was. Originally it
Speaker 1: was known as a as a wig, then it became
Speaker 1: a female pimp, then it became then it became a
Speaker 1: piece of furniture.
Speaker 3: Old new meaning to shitting in your drawers.
Speaker 1: And then finally in the eighteen hundreds it became known
Speaker 1: as a toilet, and still to this day known as
Speaker 1: a toilet. So the word all the week, come ode, Come,
Speaker 1: we get out on that, and Danny, we will be
Speaker 1: back at it again tomorrow tomorrow. Is there any I
Speaker 1: don't think there's any NBA game today.
Speaker 4: No, no NBA today. Of course we got the Big
Speaker 4: Game seven tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Sunday's Tomorrow's the big day with the Nuggets and
Speaker 1: okaysees so nothing else to do? Well, I guess we
Speaker 1: can go out and live a life. And I'm sure
Speaker 1: there's some random crap. Oh there's the golf tournament and
Speaker 1: all that, if you're into that kind of thing. Anyway,
Speaker 1: have a wonderful day and we'll yap at you with
Speaker 1: a mail bag. The mail bag tomorrow later, skater my
Speaker 1: flatous