WEBVTT - The Fifth Hour: LAPD, Line 1! 0:00:00.680 --> 0:00:02.240 Cutbooms. 0:00:02.279 --> 0:00:05.360 If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes 0:00:05.400 --> 0:00:09.200 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 gutter the same as the 0:00:15.600 --> 0:00:19.439 rich pill poppers in the penthouse. Wow to clearing House 0:00:19.480 --> 0:00:23.200 of hot takes, break free for something special. The Fifth 0:00:23.200 --> 0:00:29.600 Hour with Ben Maller starts right now in the. 0:00:29.600 --> 0:00:35.120 Air everywhere The Fifth Hour with Me, Ben Mahler and 0:00:35.320 --> 0:00:39.800 Danny g Radio Happy Friday. We have reached the weekend, 0:00:39.840 --> 0:00:41.320 which is not the end of the line, as you know, 0:00:41.479 --> 0:00:46.800 because everyday audio, every effing day audio here did the 0:00:46.920 --> 0:00:50.880 radio show last night, up all night, waited a couple hours, 0:00:50.880 --> 0:00:54.760 came back into the podcast studio, cut up here. We 0:00:54.800 --> 0:00:57.760 are hopefully no speed bumps. Had a few speed bumps 0:00:57.760 --> 0:01:00.320 this week. We'll get to that in the bar body 0:01:00.520 --> 0:01:05.039 of the podcast later on. In this pod, we've got 0:01:05.080 --> 0:01:09.399 strawberry shortcake. Unless it's not nine to one one, what's 0:01:09.440 --> 0:01:13.399 your emergency? Lights camera action will have the phrase of 0:01:13.520 --> 0:01:16.440 the week, and also, if we have time, some foodie fun. 0:01:16.520 --> 0:01:22.200 But we begin with this. It is National Sewing Machine Day. 0:01:22.240 --> 0:01:24.120 That's why we love these dopey holidays on the Fifth 0:01:24.160 --> 0:01:27.640 Hour podcast. So it's National Sewing Machine Day. Now. When 0:01:27.640 --> 0:01:30.480 I was a kid, my mom would futs around with 0:01:30.520 --> 0:01:33.320 the sewing machine, and I remember that was like a 0:01:33.360 --> 0:01:36.080 big thing. She would we would always f up. We 0:01:36.319 --> 0:01:38.880 had had two brothers, so she was the mom of 0:01:38.959 --> 0:01:42.120 three boys and we would f up our clothes tremendously. 0:01:42.200 --> 0:01:45.000 And my mom would always be sewing crap together. And 0:01:45.040 --> 0:01:47.080 she was really good, as I remember, she was good 0:01:47.120 --> 0:01:48.800 at it. Now I don't know, maybe she was bad 0:01:48.840 --> 0:01:50.760 at sewing, but as a kid, I thought, man, my 0:01:50.800 --> 0:01:53.320 mom is like the greatest sewer of all time. So 0:01:53.360 --> 0:01:56.040 it is National Sewing Machine Day and a major tip 0:01:56.040 --> 0:02:01.560 of the cap to Elias Howe and Isaac Singer. Do 0:02:01.600 --> 0:02:03.840 you know who that is? No, you've never heard of 0:02:03.840 --> 0:02:08.560 the name Elias Howe or Isaac Singer. Well, it's a 0:02:08.600 --> 0:02:10.239 bad job by you now. Back in the day, I 0:02:10.240 --> 0:02:12.840 don't know if they still have home eck. When I 0:02:12.880 --> 0:02:15.160 was I'm a dinosaur. When I was in school, they 0:02:15.160 --> 0:02:16.800 had a home ex where you had to like learn 0:02:17.600 --> 0:02:20.040 You didn't have to learn who Elias how and Isaac 0:02:20.120 --> 0:02:22.400 Singer were, but you had to learn like stuff like 0:02:22.560 --> 0:02:25.679 sewing and things like that. They tried to teach you, 0:02:25.680 --> 0:02:27.480 you know, things that you need as a human being, 0:02:28.240 --> 0:02:32.600 things like that. So it turns out that Elias Howe 0:02:32.600 --> 0:02:35.960 and Isaac Singer are two of the more important people 0:02:36.520 --> 0:02:38.480 in the history of the world. But nobody really cares 0:02:38.480 --> 0:02:41.440 about them because they did not invent They did not 0:02:41.600 --> 0:02:46.279 invent the wheel. They didn't come up with the telephone 0:02:46.480 --> 0:02:49.680 or the internet or any of that stuff. No, no, no, no, no, 0:02:50.160 --> 0:02:53.040 let's go all the way back in the hot tub 0:02:53.080 --> 0:02:55.000 time machine. We're gonna go back to the year seventeen 0:02:55.160 --> 0:02:59.120 ninety one, not seventeen ninety and not seventeen ninety two. 0:03:00.000 --> 0:03:04.000 Teen ninety one. Very important. So in seventeen ninety one, 0:03:04.040 --> 0:03:10.240 a guy named Thomas Saint. Thomas Saint patented the sewing machine. 0:03:10.639 --> 0:03:18.399 The first sewing machine was patented in seventeen ninety one. Okay, wow, 0:03:18.800 --> 0:03:21.919 it wasn't until eighteen thirty three, so we're looking at 0:03:22.080 --> 0:03:26.240 forty forty years later or so. A guy named Walter 0:03:26.480 --> 0:03:33.120 Hunt invented the lockstitch machine, but he didn't patent it. 0:03:33.880 --> 0:03:36.320 Bad job by him. I guess the internet wasn't around 0:03:36.320 --> 0:03:39.040 in eighteen thirty three. He said, well, you haven't said 0:03:39.040 --> 0:03:42.200 the names. You didn't say. You didn't say the name. Okay, 0:03:42.440 --> 0:03:47.080 calm down. So that's right. Thomas Saint and Walter Hunt 0:03:47.120 --> 0:03:51.520 are not Elias Howe and Isaac Singer. So we move 0:03:51.600 --> 0:03:56.320 ahead in this tale of sewing greatness. It was in 0:03:56.480 --> 0:04:00.680 eighteen fifty one, March of eighteen fifty one, and that 0:04:00.840 --> 0:04:08.520 is when Isaac Singer used other manufacturers' ideas. It was 0:04:08.560 --> 0:04:13.120 not his idea to put together a foot pedal, and 0:04:13.320 --> 0:04:18.799 was granted the first American patent, the very first one, 0:04:19.839 --> 0:04:24.240 in eighteen fifty one, and off to the races we go, 0:04:24.600 --> 0:04:28.160 and so so, so so so, and then in nineteen 0:04:28.240 --> 0:04:32.520 forty six, Toyota, Toyota. You think of Toyota, you think 0:04:32.560 --> 0:04:36.320 of cars, but they built their first sewing machine in 0:04:36.520 --> 0:04:44.200 nineteen forty six. So there you go a little fun 0:04:44.320 --> 0:04:48.320 fact on sewing the timeline, cause we're all about the history. 0:04:48.839 --> 0:04:52.440 We're all about the history of the sewing machine. You say, well, what, 0:04:53.480 --> 0:04:56.000 just he was involved in it. Okay, I was involved 0:04:56.040 --> 0:04:58.840 in it. Just deal with it. That's it. And if 0:04:58.920 --> 0:05:01.520 you want some other fun facts on that, go find 0:05:01.560 --> 0:05:04.320 them yourself. I'm done on that now. It is also 0:05:05.240 --> 0:05:08.240 a day that is important to me. It's National Kitchen 0:05:08.320 --> 0:05:11.320 Clutch Day, one of these made up holidays. As you 0:05:11.360 --> 0:05:13.800 may or may not know, in recent years, I have 0:05:13.880 --> 0:05:17.000 taken up the hobby of cooking. It started out as baking, 0:05:17.080 --> 0:05:19.640 and I still bake occasionally. But the problem with baking 0:05:19.800 --> 0:05:22.279 is you end up eating most of the product that 0:05:22.360 --> 0:05:25.480 you bake. And if you bake cookies and cakes and 0:05:25.520 --> 0:05:29.640 things like that, brownies, you end up fat. So I'm 0:05:29.640 --> 0:05:31.880 trying to avoid that, so I've cut back tremendously on 0:05:31.920 --> 0:05:34.919 the baking. It's rare and appropriate. Now make a bunch 0:05:34.960 --> 0:05:38.000 of cookies and do that whole thing, but rare inappropriate, 0:05:38.360 --> 0:05:42.680 rare inappropriate. But it's National Kitchen Cluts of America Day 0:05:43.640 --> 0:05:47.360 every June thirteenth. Why do we have this day? Well, 0:05:47.920 --> 0:05:51.880 why do we have Father's Day? Right, the least popular holiday, 0:05:51.920 --> 0:05:54.960 Father's Day, Mother's Day very important. Father's Day which is 0:05:55.040 --> 0:05:59.479 this weekend, not that big a deal. I'm guessing when 0:05:59.520 --> 0:06:05.000 they discovered fire, which this is the Stone Age, the 0:06:05.080 --> 0:06:08.280 beginning parts of the Stone Age, back in the day, 0:06:09.360 --> 0:06:12.760 there must have been some dude who had decided to 0:06:12.800 --> 0:06:15.160 cook something over the fire and like drop the whole 0:06:15.200 --> 0:06:19.320 thing into the fire, right, primitive Neanderthal type, you know, 0:06:19.360 --> 0:06:23.560 half Neanderthal, half Homo sapey and just kind of throwing 0:06:23.600 --> 0:06:26.960 the crap into the fire. It wasn't until seventeen twenty 0:06:27.000 --> 0:06:31.200 five the world's very first restaurant opened up. Now I'm 0:06:31.200 --> 0:06:34.040 guessing somewhere in like the sixteen tens or something there 0:06:34.080 --> 0:06:36.760 might have been something there was a restaurant, but just 0:06:36.800 --> 0:06:39.560 go with it, right, just go with it. So it 0:06:39.640 --> 0:06:44.040 was in seventeen twenty five the world's first restaurant opened, 0:06:44.560 --> 0:06:47.280 and it opened in Madrid. I think we've had that 0:06:47.320 --> 0:06:49.320 before in the podcast. I feel like we've talked about 0:06:49.320 --> 0:06:53.480 that on this podcast. And anyway, seventeen twenty five it opened, 0:06:53.839 --> 0:06:57.400 and you know, somewhere in that kitchen at that nice 0:06:57.440 --> 0:07:01.000 little restaurant in Madrid, they were they were affing around. 0:07:01.240 --> 0:07:05.760 Stuff was not going right, and they dropped stuff. And 0:07:06.040 --> 0:07:10.080 the history of klutz being a clutch, which I am 0:07:10.440 --> 0:07:13.080 proudly a klutz I think most of us are, and 0:07:13.080 --> 0:07:15.600 then the history of food go side by side and 0:07:15.920 --> 0:07:19.360 some of the things that we used today. It always 0:07:19.400 --> 0:07:21.680 blows me away, like the random things that are in 0:07:21.720 --> 0:07:25.800 the kitchen where you go back and you're like, well, 0:07:25.800 --> 0:07:27.760 how did that start. I'll give you an example. I 0:07:27.760 --> 0:07:30.000 was reading a story this week. I know this is 0:07:30.000 --> 0:07:31.480 a little bit off topic, but it doesn't kind of 0:07:31.480 --> 0:07:34.840 involve food. So I was reading stories. Somewhere I fell 0:07:34.880 --> 0:07:37.400 down this rabbit hole and I was getting ready for 0:07:37.440 --> 0:07:42.400 the show, the radio show, and I started looking up. 0:07:43.160 --> 0:07:44.800 I don't even remember what I was looking up. Somehow 0:07:44.840 --> 0:07:46.280 I ended up down this rabbit hole where it was 0:07:46.280 --> 0:07:50.880 like about foods that used to be medicine. And it's 0:07:50.920 --> 0:07:52.880 a lot of stuff, but the one that stood out 0:07:53.200 --> 0:07:58.000 was ketchup. Way back a couple hundred years ago, doctors 0:07:58.040 --> 0:08:04.800 would prescribe ketchup to treat diarrhea and indigestion. You got 0:08:04.800 --> 0:08:07.800 the mana Zuma's revenge, you go get some some ketchup, 0:08:07.920 --> 0:08:11.400 get some Heinz ketchup, and you're good to go. That's 0:08:11.440 --> 0:08:14.040 all you need, and that's it. Just put put little 0:08:14.080 --> 0:08:16.560 ketchup in there. You'll be good. Now. I would I 0:08:16.560 --> 0:08:18.760 would definitely go to the doctor Moore. If the doctor says, 0:08:18.760 --> 0:08:21.760 you know, Ben, yeah, you don't feel right, there's something 0:08:21.800 --> 0:08:24.320 wrong with you. Why don't you go eat a dozen 0:08:24.360 --> 0:08:27.960 donuts and let's that's helped that that stomach for years. 0:08:28.000 --> 0:08:30.000 You look like you need about a dozen donuts, a 0:08:30.000 --> 0:08:34.960 combination of apple fritters and Sinmon rolls, and that will 0:08:34.960 --> 0:08:39.160 take care of all of your props. That's it. That's 0:08:39.160 --> 0:08:43.600 all you need. Make it happen, Okay, Doc, whatever you say. 0:08:44.840 --> 0:08:46.959 All right, So, as far as the strawberry shortcake thing, 0:08:47.000 --> 0:08:49.160 if you were listening to the Overnight Show, I've been 0:08:49.160 --> 0:08:52.480 told by some of you idiots that this Friday podcast 0:08:52.520 --> 0:08:55.760 is a retrospective on the week that was. And sometimes 0:08:55.760 --> 0:08:59.000 that's true. Sometimes that's true, sometimes it's not. It just 0:08:59.040 --> 0:09:01.920 depends on my mood. Today. I'm looking back at the 0:09:01.920 --> 0:09:04.679 week that was. We had some zany things happen. I say, 0:09:04.720 --> 0:09:09.400 strawberry shortcake. It's really strawberry moon. Our friend Andrea, she's 0:09:09.480 --> 0:09:13.520 the astrology insider on the show, and she called up 0:09:13.559 --> 0:09:16.120 and she pointed out she had the Farmer's Almanac out. 0:09:16.160 --> 0:09:20.080 She said, hey, Ben, it's a strawberry moon. And so 0:09:20.160 --> 0:09:23.560 I made a joke about strawberry donuts. She said, strawberry moon. 0:09:24.160 --> 0:09:28.880 And we know from life experience doing overnight talk radio 0:09:28.920 --> 0:09:33.040 when there's a full moon, people act differently. Things pop up. 0:09:33.880 --> 0:09:36.719 I say, well, it's a quinky dink, Ben, It's not 0:09:36.760 --> 0:09:40.559 really true. It's just your perception. And I would argue 0:09:40.600 --> 0:09:43.280 that if that only happened a couple of times over 0:09:43.320 --> 0:09:50.800 the course of my long winding road doing audio talk radio, 0:09:51.360 --> 0:09:53.920 then I would say, Okay, you're right, it's just my interpretation. 0:09:55.240 --> 0:10:00.480 That's not the case, though I have overwhelming I'm talking 0:10:00.640 --> 0:10:04.720 twenty plus years of doing this, most of it overnight, 0:10:05.160 --> 0:10:07.600 but it doesn't matter whether it's overnight or not. It 0:10:07.640 --> 0:10:10.920 happens during the day too. People just and it doesn't 0:10:10.960 --> 0:10:12.960 stand out as much during the day, but at night 0:10:13.000 --> 0:10:15.960 it stands out more so. We had the Strawberry Moon 0:10:16.640 --> 0:10:21.319 and on Q on Queue everything hit the fan. We 0:10:22.080 --> 0:10:28.120 had the lunatics, the people out committing criminal acts against police, 0:10:28.200 --> 0:10:32.120 throwing bricks at police and whatnot, and taking rocks and 0:10:32.200 --> 0:10:35.280 chucking them at people and lighting cars on fire, you know, 0:10:35.360 --> 0:10:40.600 normal activity in LA. And so that happened. The phone 0:10:40.640 --> 0:10:45.200 lines clogged, which did coincide, as it was pointed out 0:10:45.200 --> 0:10:48.559 to me by someone. I'm I'm not sure who pointed 0:10:48.600 --> 0:10:50.079 this out. There might have been a couple of people 0:10:50.440 --> 0:10:53.880 that it coincided with the LA curfews. More than that, 0:10:54.640 --> 0:10:57.840 in a second. So it is a call in radio show, 0:10:57.920 --> 0:11:01.440 as you know, and with one line. We had one line. 0:11:01.440 --> 0:11:03.600 We have a bunch of phone lines coming into the mothership. 0:11:03.640 --> 0:11:07.520 There was one line that was working. Every other phone 0:11:07.559 --> 0:11:10.560 line was messed up and you had to call like 0:11:10.920 --> 0:11:14.840 fifty times to get in. We heard that that you 0:11:14.840 --> 0:11:17.680 had to keep calling, and it depending on what phone 0:11:17.720 --> 0:11:20.200 company you had. If you had certain carriers, you couldn't 0:11:20.200 --> 0:11:24.920 get through. So we tried resetting the phones. You know, 0:11:24.960 --> 0:11:27.320 hit the thing of a jig and then you twist 0:11:27.320 --> 0:11:30.280 the what you might call it, and then da da, 0:11:31.000 --> 0:11:33.920 Well that didn't work, all right, that didn't work. Now. Fortunately, 0:11:34.840 --> 0:11:39.559 because I am a loser, I have no life, type, 0:11:39.559 --> 0:11:42.080 a personality, whatever you want to say, I over prepare 0:11:42.160 --> 0:11:45.360 for every radio show. And I do that because early 0:11:45.400 --> 0:11:48.360 in my career, I've told this story from time to time. 0:11:48.400 --> 0:11:49.880 I'll share it with you right now. I'm not going 0:11:49.920 --> 0:11:52.240 to give you the full dance remix. But the first 0:11:52.280 --> 0:11:55.880 time I ever did talk radio by myself was a 0:11:55.960 --> 0:12:01.760 Saturday morning show, and I had worked in San Diego 0:12:01.920 --> 0:12:04.360 for a while at the mighty six ninety, which no 0:12:04.440 --> 0:12:06.520 longer is in business and hasn't been in business for 0:12:06.559 --> 0:12:10.040 probably twenty five years or twenty years, but anyway, So 0:12:10.120 --> 0:12:13.040 I worked in the mighty sixth ninety I got transferred 0:12:13.080 --> 0:12:15.280 to the station in Los Angeles, local station that was 0:12:15.280 --> 0:12:18.560 owned by Jacore Media, which became a clear channel, which 0:12:18.600 --> 0:12:22.959 became iHeart and I still work at iHeart. So anyway, 0:12:23.120 --> 0:12:26.559 I'm doing my first radio show. The program director Bob Bennett, 0:12:27.320 --> 0:12:30.439 you know, he he thought early on and the company 0:12:30.480 --> 0:12:33.400 thought that I had a chance to not suck. Not 0:12:33.480 --> 0:12:35.480 that I would be good, but they thought I did. 0:12:35.559 --> 0:12:37.719 They didn't think I would suck, so that that made 0:12:37.760 --> 0:12:40.480 me feel pretty good. That made me feel pretty good. 0:12:41.160 --> 0:12:42.920 And he said, hey, I want to give you a shot, 0:12:43.040 --> 0:12:46.040 and you got to pay your dues. You gotta pay 0:12:46.080 --> 0:12:48.120 your dues. I said, okay, I'll pay my dues. So 0:12:48.160 --> 0:12:51.319 we'll give you a slot on Saturday morning. And then 0:12:51.679 --> 0:12:54.480 originally I did the show with other people. I had 0:12:54.559 --> 0:12:56.520 other people. I did the show. It was I got 0:12:56.480 --> 0:12:59.480 an hour or I think it started as an hour show, 0:12:59.559 --> 0:13:02.480 and then as I remember, and then that was it. 0:13:02.520 --> 0:13:05.120 So they said, we want to see what you sound 0:13:05.160 --> 0:13:08.360 like by yourself. I said, okay, I'm in sign me up, coach, 0:13:08.520 --> 0:13:10.440 I'm ready to go. Put me in center field I 0:13:10.440 --> 0:13:14.440 can play. So they gave me the show on the Saturday. 0:13:14.600 --> 0:13:18.520 And this is in the days before the modern internet, 0:13:18.760 --> 0:13:22.880 you know, like AOL America online, and there was limited, 0:13:24.040 --> 0:13:27.920 limited content. People were still reading newspapers and so it 0:13:28.040 --> 0:13:30.800 wasn't the world that we're in today. It's a much 0:13:30.840 --> 0:13:34.839 more difficult proposition to properly prepare for a radio show. 0:13:35.280 --> 0:13:38.199 At least the way I prepare is whatever, because I'm 0:13:38.240 --> 0:13:41.480 anal about this. So the first show I ever did, 0:13:42.080 --> 0:13:44.679 I remember saying, I am just going to knock everyone's 0:13:44.720 --> 0:13:47.160 socks off. I am just going to kill it. I 0:13:47.200 --> 0:13:50.600 am going to kill it. And so I prepared, and 0:13:50.640 --> 0:13:53.840 I prepared, and I spent two days putting my first 0:13:53.880 --> 0:13:57.320 ever Mallard monologue together. And this was going to be 0:13:57.400 --> 0:14:00.760 my moment. I was going to prove everyone to everyone 0:14:00.800 --> 0:14:04.160 that gave me a shot, hey, you were right. And 0:14:04.200 --> 0:14:07.280 for those that wouldn't give me a shot, screw you, 0:14:07.280 --> 0:14:11.760 you suck you blew it. Okay, fine, So I put 0:14:11.800 --> 0:14:15.880 this monologue together and it was a piece of poetry. 0:14:16.360 --> 0:14:18.240 It was I had all my bullet points. I was 0:14:18.280 --> 0:14:21.000 ready to go. I had practiced it. You know, the 0:14:21.040 --> 0:14:24.400 whole thing got the timing rat a tat tat, ready 0:14:24.400 --> 0:14:28.560 to go. I got on that microphone and I opened 0:14:28.600 --> 0:14:34.960 the mic, and I nailed it. I absolutely nailed it, 0:14:35.280 --> 0:14:38.200 ten out of ten. In fact, it was twenty out 0:14:38.200 --> 0:14:44.600 of ten perfect. Gave out the number, did a tease boom, 0:14:45.640 --> 0:14:50.000 went right to the commercials. So then five minutes of 0:14:50.000 --> 0:14:56.600 commercials play back to the show, and I drowned. I 0:14:56.680 --> 0:15:01.600 had only prepared for that opening monologue, not realizing that 0:15:01.760 --> 0:15:05.600 was only ten or fifteen minutes. Shiver me timbers I 0:15:05.760 --> 0:15:07.880 had at that time. I think that show was three hours, 0:15:07.920 --> 0:15:10.760 so I had three hours I had. I had used 0:15:10.840 --> 0:15:14.440 up all of my bullets in the first segment, and 0:15:15.160 --> 0:15:22.160 I had this swat, this flop sweat. I was freaking out. 0:15:22.240 --> 0:15:24.920 I didn't know. I don't know how I survived that. 0:15:25.280 --> 0:15:27.480 I gave out the number. Nobody knew who I was, 0:15:27.600 --> 0:15:30.520 no one was calling. It was a nightmare. So ever 0:15:30.560 --> 0:15:32.840 since then, long story short, I said I was gonna 0:15:32.840 --> 0:15:34.320 be the short version. I gave you a longer version 0:15:34.360 --> 0:15:36.520 that was like the mid version, so long story short. 0:15:36.560 --> 0:15:41.400 Because of that experience, I always over prepare for a 0:15:41.480 --> 0:15:43.800 radio show. I never want to be in that situation 0:15:44.680 --> 0:15:47.840 where I am not ready to go. I have to 0:15:47.880 --> 0:15:53.040 prepare myself for all of the conceivable possibilities. And as 0:15:53.080 --> 0:15:55.480 you know, especially these days on the Overnight Show, it's 0:15:55.480 --> 0:15:57.800 a one man band. It's you know, just me, that's it. 0:15:58.160 --> 0:16:00.200 You know. I don't even have a sidekick anymore. They 0:16:00.200 --> 0:16:03.840 whacked Eddy, so I'm on my own. And so the 0:16:03.840 --> 0:16:06.480 things I learned as a boy scout back in the day, 0:16:06.520 --> 0:16:09.120 and we're confirmed when I did my first talk radio 0:16:09.160 --> 0:16:13.479 show I still use today. Your work is your signature. 0:16:14.360 --> 0:16:17.160 That is my product. You never sell. I believe in 0:16:17.240 --> 0:16:19.400 never selling an inferior product. I wouldn't want to buy 0:16:19.400 --> 0:16:21.560 an inferior product. Why would I want to sell an 0:16:21.600 --> 0:16:24.200 inferior product? And this is all I have is my words, 0:16:24.720 --> 0:16:26.640 So that's it. And I want to be like some 0:16:26.720 --> 0:16:29.440 horse being sent to the glue factory. But it's the 0:16:29.440 --> 0:16:31.600 code of the West. You take pride in your work, 0:16:32.000 --> 0:16:35.080 you ride for the brand, and you finish what you start, 0:16:35.320 --> 0:16:37.880 and those basic things. I feel like we could just 0:16:37.960 --> 0:16:41.360 teach those basic things to people and they could follow them. 0:16:41.720 --> 0:16:44.440 The world would be a better place. It just would, 0:16:44.600 --> 0:16:48.160 and you wouldn't have that sinking feeling. Now nine to 0:16:48.200 --> 0:16:51.160 one one, what's your emergency. This is not a story 0:16:51.160 --> 0:16:52.760 about my wife, who you may or may not know, 0:16:52.880 --> 0:16:55.240 is a nine to one one operator. No, no, no, 0:16:55.720 --> 0:16:59.560 This is a recreation of what we think happened, what 0:16:59.640 --> 0:17:04.600 we think happened earlier this week. This go back back, back, 0:17:04.640 --> 0:17:09.439 back back back, and uh any a day that was 0:17:09.560 --> 0:17:12.240 I don't know, was it was it Wednesday? Was it Thursday? 0:17:12.359 --> 0:17:15.280 I don't know, A couple of days back, and we're 0:17:15.280 --> 0:17:17.680 doing a recreation here. This is not the actual call. 0:17:17.760 --> 0:17:24.120 This is a recreation ring ring ring nine one one. 0:17:24.160 --> 0:17:27.960 What's your emergency? Yeah, my name is Scott. Hi, Scott, 0:17:28.000 --> 0:17:31.240 what's your problem? I live on the North end of Boston. Well, Scott, 0:17:31.280 --> 0:17:35.399 this is this is La PD Scott. Uh yeah, I'm 0:17:35.520 --> 0:17:39.240 I'm calling because my favorite radio show's having an issue 0:17:39.280 --> 0:17:41.639 with the phones. I feel like this is an emergency. 0:17:42.119 --> 0:17:44.960 Uh but you're you're in Boston, We're in Los Angeles. 0:17:45.000 --> 0:17:48.399 What are you doing? Uh? Yeah, it's it's called Scott, 0:17:48.400 --> 0:17:51.840 It's Scott. Here's it's the Ben Malor Show. Yeah. So 0:17:51.960 --> 0:17:54.679 if we are to believe Scott, now, Scott has is 0:17:54.800 --> 0:17:57.640 he's admitted he has like multiple personalities and he's got 0:17:57.680 --> 0:17:59.520 there's a lot going on I get a kick out 0:17:59.520 --> 0:18:02.520 of Scott. Ninety five percent of the time I am 0:18:02.560 --> 0:18:06.160 a fan of Blind Scott. The five percent I do 0:18:06.200 --> 0:18:08.800 not like blind Scott is when he threatens to docks 0:18:08.840 --> 0:18:12.400 me and he goes completely off the reservation. Not a fan, 0:18:12.840 --> 0:18:14.920 But for the rest of it, I get a kick 0:18:14.920 --> 0:18:16.760 out of him. The fact that he's on You don't 0:18:16.800 --> 0:18:20.200 realize he's on hold every night, almost the entire show, 0:18:21.000 --> 0:18:23.720 and I only usually use him one time on the show. 0:18:23.720 --> 0:18:25.480 Sometimes I'll use him two or three times, but usually 0:18:25.480 --> 0:18:27.800 it's only one time, and he says on oh, and 0:18:27.840 --> 0:18:30.000 most of the time he doesn't complain. And the thing 0:18:30.040 --> 0:18:33.240 about him, unlike most of the callers, like I'll take 0:18:33.280 --> 0:18:35.840 calls and these are like regular star callers on the show. 0:18:35.840 --> 0:18:38.800 These are legends, and they're gammering and they're not ready 0:18:38.800 --> 0:18:42.000 to go. And Blind Scott always has a sharp tongue. 0:18:42.480 --> 0:18:47.040 He's always ready to go, and he's he's listening somehow 0:18:47.119 --> 0:18:50.240 to all the bull crap. So I appreciate that he 0:18:50.240 --> 0:18:52.760 puts He's not getting paid, I don't think, but he's 0:18:52.760 --> 0:18:55.920 putting work in so anyway, if we are to believe Scott, 0:18:56.800 --> 0:19:01.479 the phones go down at FSR and he thinks this 0:19:01.560 --> 0:19:05.159 is a police matter, and he says he called LAPD. No, 0:19:05.320 --> 0:19:07.680 he didn't call nine one one. I added that I don't. 0:19:07.880 --> 0:19:09.520 If you call nine one one, you get your local 0:19:09.600 --> 0:19:13.719 nine one one. But he called the LAPD office like 0:19:13.800 --> 0:19:16.240 some he went on the internet and found some number. 0:19:16.680 --> 0:19:19.560 And keep in mind, he did this while the city 0:19:19.640 --> 0:19:22.760 was under curfew. Downtown Los Angeles, the meat of LA 0:19:22.960 --> 0:19:26.359 City Hall, that area one mile radius was under curfew, 0:19:26.680 --> 0:19:29.480 and he ended up in the middle of that saying, Hey, 0:19:29.760 --> 0:19:33.120 I'm gonna call the chat line here. I got a problem. 0:19:32.880 --> 0:19:39.560 My radio show can't take calls and I'm a caller now, 0:19:39.760 --> 0:19:45.639 piggybacking off that piggybacking off that you have lights, camera action. 0:19:47.200 --> 0:19:49.720 That is what it was like for me a couple 0:19:49.800 --> 0:19:55.440 nights this week, driving in to the radio studios from 0:19:55.520 --> 0:20:00.840 the north Woods, making the long drive in. So I'm 0:20:00.920 --> 0:20:03.479 driving into work. Now, the writing had been going on 0:20:03.560 --> 0:20:06.359 for a couple of days, so that that's one issue. 0:20:06.960 --> 0:20:09.280 Then you had the curfew, as we mentioned with the 0:20:09.320 --> 0:20:12.960 blind Scott story, so you had that. So I'm making 0:20:13.000 --> 0:20:15.400 the long drive in from the north Woods. Now keep 0:20:15.400 --> 0:20:18.960 in mind, before this happened, I had I was watching 0:20:19.000 --> 0:20:22.560 a game, and then I would flip over and they 0:20:22.640 --> 0:20:24.879 had the news on, and they had the helicopters, and 0:20:24.920 --> 0:20:29.240 there were people, uh, just a few few bad actors 0:20:29.280 --> 0:20:31.679 I'm sure looked like a lot, but they were out 0:20:31.720 --> 0:20:34.040 there causing havoc, you know, messing with the cops and 0:20:34.080 --> 0:20:37.800 all that stuff and usual activity that happens in La 0:20:37.920 --> 0:20:40.560 La Land. So I'm watching this and I'm like, well, 0:20:40.600 --> 0:20:42.119 I drive it in, and the way I go in, 0:20:42.280 --> 0:20:44.640 I take the one oh one. If you're not familiar 0:20:44.640 --> 0:20:46.920 with Los Angeles, the one on one freeway, which slices 0:20:47.119 --> 0:20:50.880 right in downtown, goes by Union Station is on the right, 0:20:51.440 --> 0:20:53.920 and then on the other side is like the Men's 0:20:53.920 --> 0:20:56.200 Central Jail. Actually, no, I think it's not the Men's 0:20:56.240 --> 0:20:58.480 Central Jail. It's just the jail, the Men's Central Jails 0:20:58.520 --> 0:21:00.840 on the other side. And then there there's a city hall. 0:21:00.880 --> 0:21:03.480 There's Olavera Street, which is on the other side near 0:21:03.680 --> 0:21:07.760 Union Station, and then there's this like this Walt Disney 0:21:08.200 --> 0:21:10.479 Music Hall. There's a weird high school that has some 0:21:10.760 --> 0:21:14.199 art thing, and then up ahead is the from the 0:21:14.200 --> 0:21:15.879 one oh one to the one ten, and to the 0:21:15.960 --> 0:21:17.960 right you can get to Dodger stadium. So this is 0:21:17.960 --> 0:21:20.439 how I go to get to work. So I'm driving 0:21:21.480 --> 0:21:26.160 and I'm getting near Union Station and I get thanks 0:21:26.200 --> 0:21:29.840 to the incompetent mayor of Los Angeles, I get a 0:21:30.000 --> 0:21:34.600 full on show. I end up driving right through the 0:21:34.640 --> 0:21:38.280 heart of the knuckleheads. The only thing I was worried 0:21:38.280 --> 0:21:40.840 about was that they would end up on the freeway, 0:21:40.880 --> 0:21:43.959 because I've seen this happen a lot. They closed the 0:21:43.680 --> 0:21:47.160 they walk down it's an old freeway, the one oh one, 0:21:47.280 --> 0:21:50.320 or they'll close the one ten. There's a standard. So 0:21:50.359 --> 0:21:52.719 we had on my way to work, I had lights 0:21:52.960 --> 0:21:56.679 from the police helicopters I had, and also from like 0:21:56.800 --> 0:21:58.720 it seemed like two hundred police carers. I have not 0:21:58.840 --> 0:22:02.120 seen that many police cars and that many cops in 0:22:02.119 --> 0:22:06.280 one place since the previous LA riots. I'm going way 0:22:06.280 --> 0:22:09.119 back when I was a kid. So we had the 0:22:09.200 --> 0:22:11.480 lights from the police helicopters, and then there were some 0:22:11.520 --> 0:22:14.080 news helicopters that didn't have lights of police cars, and 0:22:14.119 --> 0:22:16.840 they were actually what they had done is on the 0:22:16.960 --> 0:22:19.480 on ramps to the freeway that was like the staging 0:22:19.520 --> 0:22:21.160 area for the cops. So there was like a combination. 0:22:21.200 --> 0:22:23.720 It wasn't just LAPD there was highway patrol. But there 0:22:23.720 --> 0:22:26.040 were a ton of cops. I mean they were, well, 0:22:26.040 --> 0:22:28.320 it was a lot. And then we had the cameras 0:22:28.359 --> 0:22:32.520 provided by the media, the action from the lunatics that 0:22:32.560 --> 0:22:36.679 were throwing things and mocking the cops and all that stuff, 0:22:36.680 --> 0:22:39.040 many of them being arrested for violin and curfew. So 0:22:39.080 --> 0:22:42.920 it was not just your normal drive in. It was 0:22:43.040 --> 0:22:45.560 the drive with the lights, camera action and a bit 0:22:45.600 --> 0:22:47.800 of a show. We had a bit of a show 0:22:48.680 --> 0:22:51.800 on that one. All right. Time out for the phrase 0:22:52.200 --> 0:22:57.320 of the week. The phrase of the week. Now, the 0:22:57.320 --> 0:23:03.840 phrase of the week is really just two letters. It's 0:23:03.960 --> 0:23:09.080