WEBVTT - The Fifth Hour: Surviving Like Salt 0:00:00.680 --> 0:00:01.440 Kabbooms. 0:00:02.279 --> 0:00:05.360 If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes 0:00:05.400 --> 0:00:09.160 a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants 0:00:09.200 --> 0:00:12.480 of the Old Republic, a soul fashion of fairness. He 0:00:12.560 --> 0:00:15.480 treats crackheads in the ghetto cutter the same as the 0:00:15.600 --> 0:00:17.439 rich pill poppers in the penthouse. 0:00:18.040 --> 0:00:18.360 Wow. 0:00:18.560 --> 0:00:22.280 The Clearinghouse of Hot takes break free for something special. 0:00:22.640 --> 0:00:30.680 The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now. 0:00:29.000 --> 0:00:35.680 In the a eywhere the Fifth Hour with me, Ben 0:00:35.760 --> 0:00:40.400 Malor and Danny g Radio Happy Saturday. Saturday. Saturday is 0:00:41.040 --> 0:00:46.040 the eleventh day of January, and we continue our in 0:00:46.400 --> 0:00:52.159 depth team coverage here on the Fifth Hour. Oh what 0:00:52.320 --> 0:00:55.720 a wacky week it's been with the wildfires here in 0:00:55.960 --> 0:01:01.120 southern California where we are emanating from. Danny was supposed 0:01:01.160 --> 0:01:02.640 to be with me today, but he is away. He 0:01:02.720 --> 0:01:06.280 is producing this podcast. But Danny's away, He'll be with 0:01:06.400 --> 0:01:11.959 us on the Sunday Mailbag podcast. It's a fluid situation 0:01:12.120 --> 0:01:15.039 with the way things have gone this week. In fact, 0:01:15.480 --> 0:01:21.480 last night on Friday night, the Palisades fire, which is 0:01:21.680 --> 0:01:25.840 the biggest of the fires. There's like a fire circles 0:01:25.920 --> 0:01:30.280 Dante's inferno here in Los Angeles and the Palisades fire 0:01:30.560 --> 0:01:35.240 made its way over the hill, heading towards the San 0:01:35.280 --> 0:01:40.880 Fernando Valley. Now we broadcast from the San Fernando Valley 0:01:40.880 --> 0:01:42.840 our studios in Sherman Oaks. If you're familiar with the 0:01:42.880 --> 0:01:49.080 geography of southern California. The fire was headed towards Encino, 0:01:50.040 --> 0:01:54.840 which is the next the next city over from Sherman Oaks. 0:01:54.840 --> 0:01:59.640 But last I saw its early here on Saturday. But 0:01:59.720 --> 0:02:02.840 last I saw they had a pretty good handle on 0:02:03.040 --> 0:02:06.320 keeping it out of that part of the valley, which 0:02:06.360 --> 0:02:12.840 is a tremendously well populated part of Los Angeles. We 0:02:13.560 --> 0:02:18.560 emanate from Ventura and some Pulvida, the corner of Venturnasalvida, 0:02:18.639 --> 0:02:24.160 and it is insane, insane how many people are in 0:02:24.240 --> 0:02:28.040 that area. There are a lot, a lot, a lot, 0:02:28.160 --> 0:02:31.000 a lot, a lot. As far as the whole sporty thing, 0:02:31.040 --> 0:02:33.720 it's concerned because I don't even know if this is 0:02:33.720 --> 0:02:36.120 a sports podcast at this point, I'm not sure exactly 0:02:36.200 --> 0:02:39.520 what it is. It's just about it's the podcast about nothing. 0:02:40.040 --> 0:02:43.040 It's the podcast about nothing. I was watching last night 0:02:43.200 --> 0:02:47.239 as the Ohio State University. You look for that dramatic 0:02:47.360 --> 0:02:53.960 plot twist and there it was Quin Ears, the quarterback 0:02:54.000 --> 0:02:58.960 for Texas, set up the Longhorns about to tie the 0:02:59.040 --> 0:03:06.720 game at Tory, and then all hell broke loose as 0:03:06.919 --> 0:03:12.040 Jack Sawyer with the play of the decade and many 0:03:12.080 --> 0:03:16.000 decades for Ohio State stripping the Texas quarterback is former 0:03:17.040 --> 0:03:20.840 roommate back in the day and returned that fumble eighty 0:03:21.160 --> 0:03:27.040 three yards touchdown. Buck Eys in Ohio State gets a 0:03:27.080 --> 0:03:30.680 twenty eight to fourteen win last night in Arlington over 0:03:30.720 --> 0:03:34.000 the Longhorns in the Cotton Bowl, and that sets up 0:03:34.840 --> 0:03:40.120 a made for TV extravaganza. Ohio State. The Buck guys 0:03:40.560 --> 0:03:44.720 who looked we had all fired their head coach Ryan 0:03:44.800 --> 0:03:47.120 Day after they lost to Michigan, and now they have 0:03:47.160 --> 0:03:50.880 a chance at their sixth national championship. The Buck guys 0:03:51.560 --> 0:03:55.640 and a kid from Ohio making the play there Ohio 0:03:55.640 --> 0:03:59.000 State thirteen to two. They have been the most dominant 0:03:59.000 --> 0:04:01.840 team in the college football Playoff and now they'll take 0:04:01.880 --> 0:04:07.360 on the fighting Irish in all Upper Midwest battle Royal 0:04:08.280 --> 0:04:12.440 Ohio State versus the pride of the State of Indiana 0:04:12.800 --> 0:04:20.320 South Bend, Indiana. Touchdown, Jesus, and that's it. The Southeastern 0:04:20.360 --> 0:04:24.680 Conferences out you have an independent in Notre Dame taking 0:04:24.760 --> 0:04:30.039 on the Big Ten traditional old school Big Ten Ohio 0:04:30.080 --> 0:04:34.440 State for the championship game a week from Monday. A 0:04:34.520 --> 0:04:38.560 week from Monday, it is on now. Later today we 0:04:38.720 --> 0:04:45.479 have NFL Wild Card Action. A reminder, Benny Versus the 0:04:45.560 --> 0:04:49.560 Penny is available. Benny Versus the Penny is available for 0:04:49.640 --> 0:04:54.560 you can check out the latest stylings on Benny Versus 0:04:54.600 --> 0:04:59.320 the Penny available on Peacock, airing all day long throughout 0:04:59.320 --> 0:05:03.400 the country on NBC Sports regional cable channels. Hopefully we'll 0:05:03.400 --> 0:05:06.360 have a chance to watch that. Very proud of the show. 0:05:07.440 --> 0:05:10.440 Otherwise I wouldn't do it, but it was crazy week. 0:05:10.480 --> 0:05:13.000 We talked about that a lot on the Friday podcast 0:05:13.120 --> 0:05:17.600 about having to work out the logistics our studios at 0:05:17.680 --> 0:05:21.919 Universal Studios. We have a little studio there that we 0:05:22.000 --> 0:05:23.960 use to do Benny Versus the Penny. We were unable 0:05:23.960 --> 0:05:26.840 to get in there because of the fires. The studios 0:05:26.880 --> 0:05:31.000 were closed. Hard to believe that doing a television show 0:05:31.200 --> 0:05:35.000 picking NFL games against the spread is not essential, but 0:05:35.040 --> 0:05:38.359 apparently it was deemed non essential. The games today, I 0:05:38.360 --> 0:05:40.960 assume you know the games today, they'll kick off the 0:05:41.080 --> 0:05:47.119 NFL playoffs Wild card Saturday, the Los Angeles Chargers. We'll 0:05:47.160 --> 0:05:51.560 take on the Texans in Houston, and the Chargers a 0:05:51.800 --> 0:05:55.919 three point favorite in that game on the road over CJ. 0:05:56.040 --> 0:06:00.640 Stroud and the Texans. It is interesting to know, then, 0:06:00.640 --> 0:06:05.280 in the eyes of television, that is the least attractive matchup, 0:06:05.520 --> 0:06:09.080 that is the matchup that has no juice, according to 0:06:09.120 --> 0:06:11.880 TV How do we know that it's the first matchup. 0:06:11.920 --> 0:06:14.479 It's kind of like in the baseball playoffs they often 0:06:14.520 --> 0:06:17.440 put if the Blue Jays make the playoffs, or the Royals, 0:06:17.520 --> 0:06:21.720 or that the first game that's played during the day 0:06:23.120 --> 0:06:26.880 is the team least attractive in the eyes of television. Now, 0:06:26.920 --> 0:06:29.839 I do work in television, but barely work in television, 0:06:30.480 --> 0:06:33.159 So I just want to point out that that's just 0:06:33.160 --> 0:06:35.320 what TV pop will say. They they judge us on 0:06:35.360 --> 0:06:38.799 who's got the most juice, who's got that Gennis Aquah, 0:06:38.960 --> 0:06:42.000 who can bring eyeballs to the schoolyard, who can bring 0:06:42.040 --> 0:06:44.800 all the eyeballs to the schoolyard. So the Texans are 0:06:44.839 --> 0:06:48.640 deemed the Chargers also, so that's the first game. Kind 0:06:48.640 --> 0:06:50.960 of like in basketball, they would they would put trying 0:06:50.960 --> 0:06:54.200 to think like the Memphis Grizzlies would play that first 0:06:54.200 --> 0:06:59.320 playoff game, Chargers and Texans again. First game Chargers favorite 0:06:59.360 --> 0:07:01.960 on the road, the Lake game, which I think is 0:07:02.000 --> 0:07:07.800 on Amazon on the Amazon the Pets, Bag Stealers, the 0:07:07.800 --> 0:07:13.840 Insers taking on the Ravens in Baltimore, third times the Charm. 0:07:13.960 --> 0:07:17.200 The Steelers won the first game. The Ravens won the 0:07:17.240 --> 0:07:20.200 second game thanks to some gifts by Russell Wilson. That 0:07:20.240 --> 0:07:24.160 game will kick off later today at eight o'clock Eastern Time, 0:07:24.280 --> 0:07:28.640 and the Ravens a nine and a half point favorite. 0:07:29.440 --> 0:07:33.800 Holy Smokes Batman a nine and a half point favorite 0:07:34.320 --> 0:07:38.880 for the Baltimore Ravens in that game. Are you kidding me? No? Now, 0:07:38.920 --> 0:07:44.360 turning the page from the NFL. On this edition of 0:07:44.440 --> 0:07:48.000 the Fifth Hour podcast, the Saturday Special, We've got the 0:07:48.000 --> 0:07:53.560 cookie drop, the Oldie but a goodie, the code head, 0:07:54.360 --> 0:07:58.680 and the phrase of the week. You phrase the week. 0:07:58.720 --> 0:08:02.680 We'll start with this so we hear doing the show 0:08:02.680 --> 0:08:05.960 from southern California been affected more so than most by 0:08:06.040 --> 0:08:08.920 the by the wildfires. Now I'm fortunate where the Malor 0:08:09.000 --> 0:08:13.840 Mansion is. I'm pretty far removed from the fire zone, 0:08:14.760 --> 0:08:17.600 as I do not live in any place where the 0:08:17.640 --> 0:08:21.560 fires are directly the smoke is is very real. Depends 0:08:21.560 --> 0:08:24.880 if your down range from the from where the fires are. 0:08:24.880 --> 0:08:28.160 The wind changing directions, so we've gotten a fair amount 0:08:28.160 --> 0:08:32.200 of smoke. The wind has calmed down, and it was 0:08:32.280 --> 0:08:36.920 like a haunted mansion. At the Malor Mansion the other night. 0:08:36.960 --> 0:08:41.600 My dog, Moxie, the mox Alatto, freaked me out. Right, 0:08:41.679 --> 0:08:44.240 Moxie freaked me out. Now, I didn't realize this was 0:08:44.280 --> 0:08:46.520 the thing. I'm sitting there getting ready for the show, 0:08:47.400 --> 0:08:50.840 and I'm preparing for the show. The wind is howling. 0:08:52.160 --> 0:08:53.880 It is. I feel like we're in like some kind 0:08:53.920 --> 0:08:58.000 of hurricane or somebody was. It was insane. There were 0:08:58.080 --> 0:09:04.280 hurricane strength winds, whole level hurricane blowing around and everything's 0:09:04.320 --> 0:09:07.200 flying all over the place. And I'm sitting there and 0:09:07.200 --> 0:09:08.600 I'm like, I'm trying to get ready for the show, 0:09:08.600 --> 0:09:11.080 and I'm I'm distracted because I got the I got 0:09:11.080 --> 0:09:13.679 the local news on. They're showing the fires and people 0:09:13.720 --> 0:09:16.320 are panicked and they're leaving and things are burning and 0:09:16.360 --> 0:09:19.720 it's a big to do. And Moxie starts shaking her head. 0:09:19.760 --> 0:09:22.280 She's freaking out with all the wind. My dog mocks you. 0:09:22.320 --> 0:09:25.640 The bulldog starts freaking out right, going crazy and all 0:09:25.640 --> 0:09:29.400 this stuff, and I thought she was having a seizure. 0:09:29.400 --> 0:09:31.000 I was like, I was like, oh, crap, I don't 0:09:31.040 --> 0:09:32.280 know what to do. You know, what do you do? 0:09:32.400 --> 0:09:35.640 You know? I had no idea, so I started googling, 0:09:36.679 --> 0:09:38.520 and it turns out, and I didn't know this because 0:09:38.520 --> 0:09:40.840 this is the first time I ever had a bulldog, 0:09:40.880 --> 0:09:49.839 but the English bulldog they have bulldog head shaking SYNDROMEFFERF 0:09:51.040 --> 0:09:58.439 say what yeah, also known as idiopathic head tremors ihcheese. 0:09:59.480 --> 0:10:06.040 It just carriterized by a sudden episodic head bob, come on, Pippin', 0:10:06.160 --> 0:10:10.720 get your tims up. Tremors or nodding of the head, 0:10:11.280 --> 0:10:14.920 which is what my dog Moxie was doing. The nodding 0:10:16.160 --> 0:10:22.719 of the head. The exact cause of the idiopathic head tremors, 0:10:23.480 --> 0:10:27.680 according to the Internet, is unknown. However, they believe it's 0:10:27.760 --> 0:10:33.160 because of great excitement or anxiety. In this case, it 0:10:33.200 --> 0:10:40.160 appears it was anxiety. So Moxy was freaking out. This big, strong, 0:10:40.400 --> 0:10:48.400 muscular bulldog absolutely freaked out by the wind. And so anyway, 0:10:48.400 --> 0:10:51.040 I was like trying to hold Moxie. Anything be all right. 0:10:51.120 --> 0:10:54.320 But eventually she chilled out and then she just slept 0:10:54.360 --> 0:10:58.960 for like seven or eight hours. My dog, so dog 0:10:59.080 --> 0:11:02.800 just sleeps nonstock just wonderful. If I could sleep as 0:11:02.880 --> 0:11:06.480 much as Moxie man, would life be good. Last week 0:11:06.520 --> 0:11:12.440 I bought a dog and I needed an emotion. Now, 0:11:12.440 --> 0:11:16.079 as far as the cookie drop is concerned, my sister 0:11:16.120 --> 0:11:18.839 in law was one of those that was affected by 0:11:18.880 --> 0:11:22.960 the fire. She lives in the foothills. The Eaton Canyon fire, 0:11:23.120 --> 0:11:26.080 which is not the Palisades fire with the Palisades fire 0:11:26.200 --> 0:11:28.240 was the one that's making its way tried to make 0:11:28.240 --> 0:11:30.439 its way over the hill last night into the San 0:11:30.480 --> 0:11:32.600 Fernando Valley. But the Eaton Canyon fire, which I love 0:11:32.600 --> 0:11:35.160 eating can you used to go hiking there quite a bit. 0:11:35.240 --> 0:11:37.640 I've been there with my dad back in the name 0:11:37.679 --> 0:11:41.040 my older brother. We all went up to the waterfall 0:11:41.080 --> 0:11:44.280 at Eaton Canyon. But that area burned in the Altadena 0:11:44.360 --> 0:11:47.160 area of Los Angeles, and my sister in law and 0:11:47.240 --> 0:11:50.040 my niece and nephew, who I see quite a bit, 0:11:51.240 --> 0:11:56.040 they all had to vacate, so they were at a 0:11:56.360 --> 0:11:59.400 park with some other I don't know, fire refugees I 0:11:59.400 --> 0:12:02.120 guess you'd call them, and a couple of my sister 0:12:02.120 --> 0:12:04.880 in law's good friends lost their homes already, they burned 0:12:04.920 --> 0:12:07.440 down from the fire. So they're trying to figure out 0:12:07.440 --> 0:12:10.679 like what to do, and so they've been staying with 0:12:10.800 --> 0:12:14.240 other relatives, the friends of my sister in law. So 0:12:14.280 --> 0:12:17.559 they had a like a playdate thing at the park. 0:12:17.640 --> 0:12:20.840 And so I as uncle Benny. When your uncle Benny, 0:12:21.200 --> 0:12:22.840 you got to go help the kids. You know, this 0:12:22.880 --> 0:12:24.680 goes to the grown ups can figure out how they're 0:12:24.720 --> 0:12:27.040 going to rebuild their lives. And so Uncle Benny went 0:12:27.040 --> 0:12:30.120 to the park and I was the monster that and 0:12:30.160 --> 0:12:34.240 I make a great monster that was attacking the kids. 0:12:34.280 --> 0:12:38.160 And there's nothing better in life. Because there were kids 0:12:38.160 --> 0:12:40.480 of all age, all the way from one probably to 0:12:40.640 --> 0:12:44.200 like nine or ten, you know, in that age range. 0:12:44.400 --> 0:12:48.719 And there's nothing I love more than a There was 0:12:48.760 --> 0:12:52.160 a one year old kid there, little red headed kid. 0:12:53.160 --> 0:12:57.200 And if you ever ever you know, like an uncle 0:12:57.400 --> 0:13:00.079 or a dad or whatever, if you're around kids, you 0:13:00.120 --> 0:13:03.160 know whatever, and the kid, like, you know how they 0:13:03.240 --> 0:13:06.000 like fake punch you. And then when you act like 0:13:06.040 --> 0:13:11.160 you have been taken by this atomic fist and it's 0:13:11.400 --> 0:13:14.000 you know, just a total body blow body blow and 0:13:14.040 --> 0:13:17.640 you fall back. And to see the pure joy. The 0:13:17.720 --> 0:13:23.120 pure excitement on that kid's face is just outstanding. Right, 0:13:23.200 --> 0:13:27.720 It's just the greatest thing in the world. And sure 0:13:27.840 --> 0:13:33.560 enough I was able to provide that service. And I 0:13:33.559 --> 0:13:35.560 feel like I'm one of the top fake punch guys. 0:13:35.720 --> 0:13:38.280 I could have been a stunt man. I could have 0:13:38.320 --> 0:13:41.960 been a Hollywood stunt man, you know, doing the thing. 0:13:42.960 --> 0:13:47.240 And but it was a lot of fun. And I 0:13:47.280 --> 0:13:52.400 actually I stopped by and made some cinnamon cinnamon raisin cookies, 0:13:53.000 --> 0:13:55.600 cinnamon raising oatmeal cinnamon raisin cookies. Now I was going 0:13:55.600 --> 0:13:59.000 to make chocolate chip. I text my sister in law. 0:13:59.000 --> 0:14:01.880 I said, Hey, what what cookies do the kids want? 0:14:03.080 --> 0:14:06.080 And she said, well, you know they're good with like 0:14:06.160 --> 0:14:09.680 chocolate chip, but your sister in law would love oatmeal raisin. 0:14:10.280 --> 0:14:14.360 So then I realized I had I had some cookies 0:14:14.360 --> 0:14:17.680 I had made for last weekend, and so those were 0:14:17.720 --> 0:14:20.040 kind of laying around. So I had the cookies for 0:14:20.120 --> 0:14:24.000 last weekend, the chocolate chip. They had some walnuts in them, 0:14:25.160 --> 0:14:28.120 and I I said, you know, the kids don't give 0:14:28.160 --> 0:14:30.400 a they don't give a crap whether the cookies are 0:14:30.480 --> 0:14:32.840 fresh or they are a few days old. But I said, 0:14:32.960 --> 0:14:35.200 I make some oatmeal raisin. I'll drop these off, the 0:14:35.200 --> 0:14:37.480 oatmeal raisin or these other cookies the kids will have. 0:14:37.840 --> 0:14:40.320 So that's what I did. So we stopped by. There 0:14:40.360 --> 0:14:42.320 was a like I said, they were a meeting at 0:14:42.320 --> 0:14:45.360 a playground at a park so the kids could play 0:14:45.400 --> 0:14:47.000 and the parents could figure out how they're going to 0:14:47.040 --> 0:14:49.000 deal with the insurance and all the grown up crap, 0:14:49.080 --> 0:14:53.360 and just just absolutely terrible as they got to get 0:14:53.400 --> 0:14:56.080 everything right. All their clothes are gone. Just I mean, 0:14:56.080 --> 0:14:57.440 if you've ever been through that, I know some of 0:14:57.480 --> 0:15:00.280 you have. I've heard email, I've gotten emails from people, 0:15:00.320 --> 0:15:02.520 have heard stories from people who have sent me emails 0:15:03.040 --> 0:15:07.520 about what that's like. So, and the fire is still 0:15:07.520 --> 0:15:13.680 going on from what i've from what I understand the forecast, 0:15:14.520 --> 0:15:17.080 the winds are supposed to pick up here in La 0:15:17.400 --> 0:15:23.120 again I think on Tuesdays. So they only have today 0:15:23.200 --> 0:15:27.320 and Tomorrow and Monday to get this thing under wraps 0:15:27.960 --> 0:15:31.920 before there's another round of fires. And I promise you 0:15:31.960 --> 0:15:34.880 there will be, because it appears that several of these 0:15:34.920 --> 0:15:39.560 fires have been started by arsonists, by people that should 0:15:39.600 --> 0:15:44.920 be sent to be executed by a firing squad. In fact, 0:15:45.600 --> 0:15:49.800 there's an apparently video of two people caught lighting a 0:15:49.880 --> 0:15:55.760 fire with gasoline moments before the Palisades Fire, which is 0:15:55.760 --> 0:15:59.640 the biggest fire in the history of I believe, United 0:15:59.680 --> 0:16:05.480 States in many, many different categories. So there's video of that, 0:16:05.520 --> 0:16:08.720 and there's multiple other fires that have been started by individuals. Now, 0:16:08.800 --> 0:16:12.200 are these people all related? Are these just people who 0:16:12.200 --> 0:16:15.960 are opportunistic who realize what was going on? I mean, 0:16:16.200 --> 0:16:18.320 and it's one of these catch twenty two situations. I 0:16:18.360 --> 0:16:21.360 was texting a friend of mine about this, not to 0:16:21.400 --> 0:16:26.840 get political, however, Yeah, no, we were talking about the 0:16:26.880 --> 0:16:30.320 local news. However you get is whether it's the Internet, 0:16:30.720 --> 0:16:35.760 old school media, television, radio, whatever, they make such a 0:16:35.800 --> 0:16:38.440 big point of emphasis and we're gonna have extreme wind conditions. 0:16:38.440 --> 0:16:42.680 You know, it's being very dangerous, you know, high fire warning. 0:16:44.600 --> 0:16:47.840 Isn't that like a dog whistle to people on the 0:16:47.880 --> 0:16:52.320 spectrum who are up to no good? They're like, oh, look, 0:16:52.320 --> 0:16:54.040 it's gonna be really bad if I were to start 0:16:54.080 --> 0:16:57.960 a fire right about here, and boy, that would be 0:16:58.040 --> 0:17:01.680 really bad, do it. You know, there's a whole bunch 0:17:01.720 --> 0:17:04.439 of Internet conspiracies. Who knows what's true and who's not. 0:17:04.720 --> 0:17:07.160 Who knows what's not. One thing I've learned though from 0:17:07.160 --> 0:17:10.119 the whole COVID thing when they say, oh, it's one 0:17:10.160 --> 0:17:12.840 hundred percent of conspiracy, there's no truth to it. Like 0:17:12.880 --> 0:17:14.720 a lot of stuff people they were saying about COVID 0:17:14.880 --> 0:17:19.200 being conspiracy theories have been proven correct. So just because 0:17:19.240 --> 0:17:21.920 somebody says something is a conspiracy theory does not mean 0:17:21.960 --> 0:17:24.359 it's just a conspiracy theory. That is a way to 0:17:24.480 --> 0:17:29.720 dismiss a claim. That is a way to belittle a claim. Right, 0:17:30.200 --> 0:17:34.160 And so I you gotta you gotta judge things for yourself. 0:17:34.760 --> 0:17:37.840 You gotta you gotta determine what's important, what you think 0:17:37.920 --> 0:17:42.240 is real in your world in the multiverse. Right, So 0:17:42.680 --> 0:17:46.000 that's that's the way that goes. That's the way that goes. 0:17:46.240 --> 0:17:48.639 So we'll see what happens. But apparently this video of 0:17:48.680 --> 0:17:52.879 at least the Palisades fire, which is the biggest, and 0:17:53.040 --> 0:17:55.960 a couple of the other fires, which makes sense, right. 0:17:56.040 --> 0:17:57.919 I know, I know it's going to be devastating to 0:17:57.960 --> 0:18:01.040 the climate change crowd. They're gonna be very upset by 0:18:01.040 --> 0:18:03.320 this because they were really hoping this is just climate change, 0:18:04.240 --> 0:18:09.120 but no, it's opportunistics people. It appears that you would 0:18:09.119 --> 0:18:13.119 not have this number of fires strategically placed all around 0:18:13.240 --> 0:18:18.960 Los Angeles unless some, if not all, of them were 0:18:19.000 --> 0:18:24.520 being started by individuals. And so the pieces to the puzzle. 0:18:25.160 --> 0:18:27.040 We don't have all the pieces, but the pieces we 0:18:27.160 --> 0:18:30.720 have are leaning that direction. We will see. But anyway, 0:18:30.720 --> 0:18:32.800 I brought some cookies over. That was the big cookie drop. 0:18:33.400 --> 0:18:38.000 Now the oldie, but a goodie, the oldie but of goodie. 0:18:38.080 --> 0:18:41.880 So this is in the next month. My wife has 0:18:41.960 --> 0:18:46.760 decided that we ate out a lot in November and 0:18:46.800 --> 0:18:49.639 December because of Thanksgiving and Christmas, and we had a 0:18:49.640 --> 0:18:52.880 lot of events. And so for the next month from 0:18:52.880 --> 0:18:56.199 this point in January until this point in February, right 0:18:56.200 --> 0:19:01.439 around the Super Bowl, no eating out, no restaurants. Every 0:19:01.600 --> 0:19:07.040 meal will be prepared and consumed inside the Mallard kitchen. 0:19:08.040 --> 0:19:11.439 That's how this is gonna go. That's how this is 0:19:11.480 --> 0:19:17.240 gonna go. And so we've been preparing. For example, this weekend, 0:19:17.359 --> 0:19:22.560 we back on Friday, made corn dogs. And the reason 0:19:22.600 --> 0:19:24.440 I made corn dogs because they came up on the 0:19:24.480 --> 0:19:26.880 Overnight Show this week and I was like, I haven't 0:19:26.880 --> 0:19:29.199 had corn dogs in a while. And then I was like, well, 0:19:29.240 --> 0:19:31.879 I can't get one because we're not allowed to go 0:19:31.920 --> 0:19:33.560 to restaurants and normally I get my corn dogs at 0:19:33.560 --> 0:19:36.600 the restaurants. So I told my told the wife and 0:19:36.640 --> 0:19:38.960 so home. So we got the corn meal, We got 0:19:38.960 --> 0:19:41.800 everything we need, the eggs, all that stuff, milk, whatever, 0:19:42.080 --> 0:19:46.159 put it all together, and obviously the hot dogs and 0:19:46.920 --> 0:19:49.159 made some corn dogs. We made some corn and they 0:19:49.200 --> 0:19:52.800 were very good. There were more like corn biscuits than 0:19:52.840 --> 0:19:55.720 corn dogs. There was hot dog in there, but these 0:19:55.760 --> 0:19:58.439 things had a lot of corn meal on them and 0:19:58.480 --> 0:20:04.240 they were really delicious, delicious. And so we're trying different 0:20:04.280 --> 0:20:06.840 recipes and whatnot. But the reason I bring up odie 0:20:06.880 --> 0:20:12.320 but a goodie date line, date line, the hot tub 0:20:12.520 --> 0:20:22.240 time machine. Is it true that a container in the 0:20:21.400 --> 0:20:29.640 Mallard kitchen belongs to the archive of years gone by? 0:20:31.119 --> 0:20:37.640 A container of Morton salt? Morton salt in the very 0:20:37.720 --> 0:20:41.920 back of a cabinet, the Malar Kinchen Malar kitchen. I 0:20:41.960 --> 0:20:45.240 would like you to take a guess. Guess the year? 0:20:46.440 --> 0:20:52.120 Can you guess the year of the salt? All right? 0:20:52.640 --> 0:20:56.080 Inquiring minds would like to know? All right? Reveal answers, 0:20:56.119 --> 0:21:02.560 Reveal answers, pens down, no more guesses. Survey says, how 0:21:02.600 --> 0:21:11.160 about twenty oh four? A container of Morton salt from 0:21:11.200 --> 0:21:15.840 the year twenty oh four in the back of the 0:21:15.880 --> 0:21:20.639 malar cabinet. Now, this was not mine originally, this was 0:21:21.280 --> 0:21:23.920 my dad's. I inherited this when my pops passed away 0:21:23.920 --> 0:21:30.439 a few years ago, and it survived a bunch of 0:21:30.920 --> 0:21:34.919 moves and all kinds of stuff, and there was and 0:21:34.960 --> 0:21:37.280 I was saying about it, like, salt doesn't really go bad, right, 0:21:37.960 --> 0:21:41.920 Why would salt expire? It's salt. It's the salt of 0:21:41.960 --> 0:21:47.399 the earth. So anyway, we were using it, we'd been 0:21:47.480 --> 0:21:51.320 using it. We're not dead, so apparently everything's okay and 0:21:51.800 --> 0:21:55.720 just wild. I was tving like where I was in 0:21:55.800 --> 0:21:58.840 twenty oh four, it's twenty twenty five now, and then 0:21:58.880 --> 0:22:02.080 I'm like, you know, a lot has changed around me. 0:22:02.640 --> 0:22:05.399 I've lost a lot of my friends and my loved ones. 0:22:05.440 --> 0:22:09.159 My parents are both gone. But I was still working 0:22:09.160 --> 0:22:13.600 at Fox Sports Radio in twenty oh four. Like, professionally, 0:22:13.880 --> 0:22:15.920 it's cool. I have a TV show now and that's 0:22:15.920 --> 0:22:19.000 pretty neat and I'm very proud of that. But like 0:22:19.080 --> 0:22:23.040 the radio stuff, I wasn't doing the overnight show. Well 0:22:23.040 --> 0:22:24.760 I was. I was doing the weekend overnight show in 0:22:24.800 --> 0:22:27.320 twenty oh four, and I was filling in. I was 0:22:27.359 --> 0:22:29.639 doing shows with like Chris Myers and people like that 0:22:29.800 --> 0:22:34.119 at Fox. And but that's a long well, I mean 0:22:34.720 --> 0:22:39.200 twenty one years. That salt has been on the shelf 0:22:40.520 --> 0:22:47.439 at a mallor home for twenty one bleeping years. That 0:22:47.520 --> 0:22:55.359 is insane, absolutely insane. Now you know it's also insane. 0:22:55.640 --> 0:22:58.480 Want to tell you a story. Story time on the 0:22:58.480 --> 0:23:03.840 fifth hour. So the other day, a few days back 0:23:03.960 --> 0:23:06.399 in a galaxy far far away, I pull up to 0:23:06.440 --> 0:23:12.960 the iHeart Premiere Network building in the Oaks, Sriman, Oak. 0:23:13.000 --> 0:23:15.560 So I make the long drive from the North Woods 0:23:15.600 --> 0:23:18.800 on many highways and byways, and I'm pulling into the 0:23:18.840 --> 0:23:22.439 parking lot place I've worked for many, many years. So 0:23:22.480 --> 0:23:27.160 I get in there and the very front space, which 0:23:27.200 --> 0:23:29.359 is where I usually park because at night there's not 0:23:29.440 --> 0:23:33.840 many people there. It's a barebone staff. It's a barebone staff. 0:23:34.240 --> 0:23:38.520 So at night I park in the front because I 0:23:38.560 --> 0:23:40.959 get there early, and this space is always open. So 0:23:41.280 --> 0:23:46.360 this space, there were a couple of cones, those orange cones, 0:23:47.240 --> 0:23:50.080 you know what I'm talking about. Yeah, So there's two 0:23:50.119 --> 0:23:54.479 orange cones in the space. And I had seen this 0:23:54.600 --> 0:23:56.280 last couple of days and I was like, well, somebody 0:23:56.320 --> 0:23:58.200 must be fing around, you know, somebody must be moving 0:23:58.200 --> 0:24:02.840 those cones out. So I said, you know, this is ridiculous. 0:24:03.520 --> 0:24:08.320 There's no one here. It's late at night. So I 0:24:08.359 --> 0:24:11.520 stopped my car, I got out, and I moved the 0:24:11.520 --> 0:24:15.440 cones out of the space, and then I backed into 0:24:15.440 --> 0:24:20.040 the space and I'm grabbing my possessions. I have a 0:24:20.080 --> 0:24:22.160 couple of bags I take with me to work, and 0:24:22.600 --> 0:24:27.560 I grab the bags and I'm like, okay, I'm gonna chop, chop. 0:24:27.600 --> 0:24:29.920 I'm gonna get to work and you know, do my thing. 0:24:32.160 --> 0:24:35.639 And all I turn out my peripheral vision to my left, 0:24:35.720 --> 0:24:40.199 I see this, this guy sprinting out and it was 0:24:40.280 --> 0:24:44.119 the security guard for the building, the Conehead security guard. 0:24:44.320 --> 0:24:46.439 I've never seen the security do anything. There have been 0:24:46.480 --> 0:24:49.399 people doing shooting drugs up in their veins in the 0:24:49.400 --> 0:24:51.840 building when I've left, and they haven't stopped them. There 0:24:51.880 --> 0:24:55.480 have been homeless people sleeping in the parking garage, haven't 0:24:55.520 --> 0:24:58.120 stopped him. I saw a guy drive on his bicycle 0:24:58.160 --> 0:25:00.679 in there to break into cars plot because he had 0:25:00.720 --> 0:25:03.000 the tools to break in. They didn't do a damn thing. 0:25:03.520 --> 0:25:06.359 This security guard sprinted out, said what are you doing? 0:25:06.840 --> 0:25:11.560 What are you doing. And I looked at him. I said, well, 0:25:11.640 --> 0:25:15.400 I'm I'm parking my car. He said, you can't park 0:25:15.440 --> 0:25:17.399 you are you allowed to park there? You can't park there? 0:25:17.440 --> 0:25:20.200 What are you doing parking? You can't park there? And 0:25:20.320 --> 0:25:23.080 guy was all flustered. I so, I've worked here for 0:25:23.560 --> 0:25:27.000 twenty five years. I've always parked in this spot. I 0:25:27.040 --> 0:25:29.119 don't know why the cones were there, so I just 0:25:29.200 --> 0:25:31.760 moved the cones and I said, that's there. He says, 0:25:31.800 --> 0:25:34.600 you can't. You're not allowed to park there. You cannot 0:25:34.680 --> 0:25:37.879 part there. So then the guy tells me, and I 0:25:37.880 --> 0:25:40.280 don't think he was supposed to tell me this. He 0:25:40.400 --> 0:25:44.840 says that some some broad right, some woman who works 0:25:44.960 --> 0:25:50.199 the building is paying an extra five hundred dollars a 0:25:50.280 --> 0:25:59.240 month to have that parking space secured in the building. Now, 0:25:59.320 --> 0:26:03.399 keep in mind, I cannot stress this enough. At the 0:26:03.480 --> 0:26:08.280 time I come in, the entire parking garage is wide open. 0:26:08.920 --> 0:26:13.159 Now I get saving a space during the day, the 0:26:13.160 --> 0:26:14.840 building gets very busy. There's a lot of people that 0:26:14.880 --> 0:26:18.359