1 00:00:00,680 --> 00:00:01,440 Speaker 1: Cutbooms. 2 00:00:02,279 --> 00:00:05,360 Speaker 2: If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes 3 00:00:05,400 --> 00:00:09,200 Speaker 2: a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants 4 00:00:09,200 --> 00:00:12,480 Speaker 2: of the old Republic, a soul fashion of fairness. He 5 00:00:12,560 --> 00:00:15,480 Speaker 2: treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the 6 00:00:15,600 --> 00:00:19,600 Speaker 2: rich pill poppers in the penthouse. Wow to Clearinghouse of 7 00:00:19,640 --> 00:00:23,480 Speaker 2: hot takes, break free for something special. The Fifth Hour 8 00:00:23,600 --> 00:00:32,200 Speaker 2: with Ben Mahller starts right now. 9 00:00:28,960 --> 00:00:34,640 Speaker 1: In the air everywhere. The Fifth Hour with Me, Ben 10 00:00:34,720 --> 00:00:39,960 Speaker 1: Mahler and Danny g Radio A very happy Friday to you. 11 00:00:40,520 --> 00:00:45,640 Speaker 1: March twentieth. Here early did the Overnight Show came back 12 00:00:45,680 --> 00:00:49,360 Speaker 1: in and this is a podcast that is a podcast, 13 00:00:49,400 --> 00:00:53,000 Speaker 1: not a radio show that becomes a podcast. As you know. 14 00:00:53,880 --> 00:00:57,480 Speaker 1: This is just a podcast for the super duper p ones, 15 00:00:58,000 --> 00:01:01,920 Speaker 1: the legends who listened to the Fifth Hour podcast. We 16 00:01:01,960 --> 00:01:07,679 Speaker 1: celebrate a crazy holiday for mister Rogers. Won't You Be 17 00:01:07,840 --> 00:01:12,040 Speaker 1: my Neighbor Day is today? Yeah, it's one of those 18 00:01:12,080 --> 00:01:15,199 Speaker 1: made up holidays. Won't you be my Neighbor Day? Celebrating 19 00:01:15,240 --> 00:01:19,039 Speaker 1: Fred Rogers who helped raise me all those days I 20 00:01:19,120 --> 00:01:22,160 Speaker 1: ditch school back in the day. If you were raised 21 00:01:22,360 --> 00:01:27,080 Speaker 1: in the seventies or the eighties, that's a big, big thing. 22 00:01:27,240 --> 00:01:31,720 Speaker 1: Mister Rogers Neighborhood children's show on PBS back in the 23 00:01:31,760 --> 00:01:34,080 Speaker 1: Stone Age when there wasn't a lot on TV. It 24 00:01:34,200 --> 00:01:37,760 Speaker 1: aired for the first time in nineteen sixty eight, the 25 00:01:37,800 --> 00:01:42,200 Speaker 1: first episode of Mister Rogers Neighborhood out of Pittsburgh, and 26 00:01:42,240 --> 00:01:45,440 Speaker 1: by nineteen eighty four the show had already been on 27 00:01:46,240 --> 00:01:49,840 Speaker 1: for over a decade, almost two decades, and mister Rogers 28 00:01:49,880 --> 00:01:57,920 Speaker 1: donated that iconic red sweater to the Smithsonian Museum in Washington. 29 00:01:58,480 --> 00:02:01,800 Speaker 1: The last episode of Mister Roger's Neighborhood aired twenty five 30 00:02:01,880 --> 00:02:05,440 Speaker 1: years ago, and I know some of them still get 31 00:02:05,440 --> 00:02:10,560 Speaker 1: broadcast around. Mister Rogers has been gone. He died of 32 00:02:10,919 --> 00:02:14,880 Speaker 1: stomach cancer in twenty oh three, so it's been twenty 33 00:02:15,880 --> 00:02:18,520 Speaker 1: twenty three years. In fact, over twenty three years. He 34 00:02:18,560 --> 00:02:23,040 Speaker 1: died in February of three. But it's won't you be 35 00:02:23,240 --> 00:02:28,720 Speaker 1: My Neighbor Day? So and celebrate that. Also National Ravioli 36 00:02:28,800 --> 00:02:32,160 Speaker 1: Day today. Yeah, how about that? Love my Ravioli. I 37 00:02:32,200 --> 00:02:35,079 Speaker 1: love fried Ravioli. That's more of a Saint Louis thing, 38 00:02:35,120 --> 00:02:39,560 Speaker 1: but Ravioli goes all the way back to the fourteenth 39 00:02:39,639 --> 00:02:45,840 Speaker 1: century and you can have ravioli ready to go, ready 40 00:02:45,840 --> 00:02:49,799 Speaker 1: made ravioli will be prepared about ten minutes. And it's 41 00:02:50,360 --> 00:02:52,120 Speaker 1: it's great. You can put all kinds of different stuff 42 00:02:52,160 --> 00:02:54,440 Speaker 1: in there, make it however you want it. You can 43 00:02:54,760 --> 00:02:58,200 Speaker 1: do triple cheese ravioli. You can do meat ravioli, you 44 00:02:58,200 --> 00:03:02,880 Speaker 1: can do the mushroom, the scott butternut squash, whatever you want. 45 00:03:03,360 --> 00:03:07,480 Speaker 1: On this podcast, though, we have the good, the bad, 46 00:03:07,639 --> 00:03:10,840 Speaker 1: and the ugly from the Bennies of twenty twenty six. 47 00:03:11,600 --> 00:03:15,000 Speaker 1: As we put that baby to bed, also like a 48 00:03:15,280 --> 00:03:21,200 Speaker 1: beached blue whale. And with that we begin. So there 49 00:03:21,280 --> 00:03:25,920 Speaker 1: are award shows and then there are rituals. I'm not 50 00:03:26,000 --> 00:03:28,919 Speaker 1: a big award show guy. You might think, well, you 51 00:03:29,000 --> 00:03:31,399 Speaker 1: host the Bennies every year, this must be a big thing. 52 00:03:31,560 --> 00:03:35,000 Speaker 1: I enjoy the Bennies very much. The difference though, between 53 00:03:35,000 --> 00:03:36,680 Speaker 1: the award shows and back in the day I would 54 00:03:36,720 --> 00:03:39,360 Speaker 1: watch my mom would love watching the award shows and 55 00:03:39,400 --> 00:03:43,160 Speaker 1: seeing what all the famous people were worrying. The difference though, 56 00:03:43,680 --> 00:03:47,160 Speaker 1: between award shows is not the trophies handed out, the 57 00:03:47,280 --> 00:03:50,480 Speaker 1: people though that gather around. To me, that's the difference. 58 00:03:50,560 --> 00:03:52,800 Speaker 1: Who wants to hang out with those Hollywood a holes? 59 00:03:53,760 --> 00:03:56,160 Speaker 1: They have all the answers to all the problems of 60 00:03:56,200 --> 00:03:59,400 Speaker 1: the world, whether they live in their mansions far far 61 00:03:59,440 --> 00:04:04,280 Speaker 1: away from reality. So the Academy Awards, you know, they've 62 00:04:04,280 --> 00:04:07,200 Speaker 1: got that whole red carpet thing, and they've got the paparazzo, 63 00:04:07,600 --> 00:04:12,360 Speaker 1: they've got the orchestra that is there to entertain the masses. 64 00:04:13,240 --> 00:04:16,800 Speaker 1: The Benny Awards, that's my wheelhouse. The Benny Awards, the 65 00:04:16,839 --> 00:04:21,920 Speaker 1: annual pageant, which is a Fox Sports Radio production overnight 66 00:04:22,040 --> 00:04:27,400 Speaker 1: in our little universe, has something more durable than all 67 00:04:27,480 --> 00:04:31,279 Speaker 1: that the Academy Awards has, in my opinion, Voices in 68 00:04:31,320 --> 00:04:35,440 Speaker 1: the dark, people who call not because they are globally famous, 69 00:04:36,080 --> 00:04:40,960 Speaker 1: recognized heroes of pop culture. No, no, no, because they 70 00:04:40,960 --> 00:04:45,600 Speaker 1: are legends with people that have sleep issues and things 71 00:04:45,640 --> 00:04:49,039 Speaker 1: that go bumpitty bump in the night. This edition of 72 00:04:49,080 --> 00:04:55,480 Speaker 1: the Fifth Hour podcast the exclusive post game coverage. Nobody 73 00:04:55,520 --> 00:04:57,840 Speaker 1: else has this. You're not gonna hear this coverage on 74 00:04:57,960 --> 00:05:01,920 Speaker 1: Joe Rogan or any other podcast. Only here do we 75 00:05:02,040 --> 00:05:06,200 Speaker 1: have the global exclusive postgame show. So a look back, 76 00:05:07,000 --> 00:05:12,440 Speaker 1: some never before told factoids on what happened behind the scenes. 77 00:05:12,720 --> 00:05:16,880 Speaker 1: So buckle up, buckaroo, and let me start here. Just 78 00:05:17,080 --> 00:05:20,159 Speaker 1: for the record, some of you think that my position 79 00:05:20,480 --> 00:05:24,799 Speaker 1: is a anti position on this show. No, I love 80 00:05:25,760 --> 00:05:30,440 Speaker 1: this stupid dingle Berry of a show that we do 81 00:05:30,520 --> 00:05:33,800 Speaker 1: here the Benny Awards, I do. I love it. You 82 00:05:33,839 --> 00:05:35,599 Speaker 1: know what I love about it? I love it the 83 00:05:35,640 --> 00:05:40,800 Speaker 1: same way every neighborhood's got that restaurant, that diner that 84 00:05:40,880 --> 00:05:45,840 Speaker 1: hasn't changed for thirty years. The food tastes the same 85 00:05:45,880 --> 00:05:47,680 Speaker 1: as it did when you walked in there in nineteen 86 00:05:47,760 --> 00:05:51,200 Speaker 1: ninety six. The regulars sit in the same exact booth 87 00:05:51,800 --> 00:05:58,080 Speaker 1: that they are, chairs whatever around around the restaurant, and everyone, 88 00:05:58,360 --> 00:06:01,920 Speaker 1: everyone turns and gives gives them a death there. Any 89 00:06:01,960 --> 00:06:05,000 Speaker 1: new guy that walks in gets the desk there, just 90 00:06:05,040 --> 00:06:08,880 Speaker 1: like they wandered into a secret society. What are you doing? 91 00:06:09,200 --> 00:06:10,719 Speaker 1: You're not supposed to be here now. I had that 92 00:06:10,880 --> 00:06:14,120 Speaker 1: happen not around where I live, obviously. I was in 93 00:06:14,160 --> 00:06:18,919 Speaker 1: the visiting my father in law in North Carolina and 94 00:06:18,960 --> 00:06:22,200 Speaker 1: we stopped at a waffle house, not even a neighborhood diner. 95 00:06:22,240 --> 00:06:24,599 Speaker 1: It was a waffle house, and it was late at night. 96 00:06:24,680 --> 00:06:26,839 Speaker 1: We had flown We were driving on you know, the 97 00:06:27,279 --> 00:06:30,800 Speaker 1: kind of a desolate country road in North Carolina, and 98 00:06:30,839 --> 00:06:33,400 Speaker 1: there was this really small town that had they had 99 00:06:33,480 --> 00:06:35,520 Speaker 1: the you know, the waffle house. So we were like, oh, 100 00:06:35,600 --> 00:06:38,719 Speaker 1: let's go in there. And everyone looked at us like, dude, 101 00:06:38,760 --> 00:06:41,279 Speaker 1: you're not from here. What are you doing? Dude? Like 102 00:06:41,320 --> 00:06:44,520 Speaker 1: we had entered the Secret Society. And that is in 103 00:06:44,560 --> 00:06:47,880 Speaker 1: a nutshell the twenty twenty six Benny Awards. Whether you're 104 00:06:47,920 --> 00:06:52,400 Speaker 1: a legend like moving Man mad or a newbie doesn't matter. 105 00:06:52,680 --> 00:06:54,800 Speaker 1: And yes, before you send me the emails, and I 106 00:06:54,800 --> 00:06:58,640 Speaker 1: know you're gonna send me emails and you will. The 107 00:06:58,640 --> 00:07:02,760 Speaker 1: criticism that we get is fair. There are not enough 108 00:07:03,000 --> 00:07:05,279 Speaker 1: new callers. That's one of the criticisms we get. We 109 00:07:05,360 --> 00:07:08,640 Speaker 1: need to do better at that. Now that said, the 110 00:07:09,320 --> 00:07:15,080 Speaker 1: one you did vote for early and often, SpongeBob SquarePants 111 00:07:15,160 --> 00:07:18,960 Speaker 1: or at least a cheap TEAMU ripoff version a Star 112 00:07:19,760 --> 00:07:23,440 Speaker 1: the runaway winner for Rookie Caller of the Year. And 113 00:07:23,480 --> 00:07:27,920 Speaker 1: it wasn't even close. It was over at halftime, extended 114 00:07:28,040 --> 00:07:32,640 Speaker 1: garbage time, as Marv Albert would say, And that is 115 00:07:32,680 --> 00:07:37,440 Speaker 1: what you want. You just want more of that. You 116 00:07:37,600 --> 00:07:41,960 Speaker 1: want more of that. You do Anthony and Louisiana Halla 117 00:07:42,040 --> 00:07:45,920 Speaker 1: Reina not bad, not bad. He just calls up to 118 00:07:45,960 --> 00:07:48,800 Speaker 1: flirt with Lorraine at this point. But you want more 119 00:07:49,960 --> 00:07:54,120 Speaker 1: new blood, the young blood and even young but just 120 00:07:54,200 --> 00:07:57,400 Speaker 1: want new voices, because what you really have here on 121 00:07:57,440 --> 00:08:04,240 Speaker 1: the Ben Malor Show is a of regulars. You do now. 122 00:08:04,320 --> 00:08:06,280 Speaker 1: The Game Show Contestant of the Year went to Coach 123 00:08:06,360 --> 00:08:09,520 Speaker 1: Russell from Orlando, our favorite high school football coach who 124 00:08:09,560 --> 00:08:13,960 Speaker 1: even called up this week Wall on spring break. He 125 00:08:14,120 --> 00:08:17,000 Speaker 1: barely held off Coach Russell Jed who fled for Game 126 00:08:17,040 --> 00:08:20,840 Speaker 1: Show Contestant of the Year from the Redneck Riviera by 127 00:08:20,960 --> 00:08:24,040 Speaker 1: six votes, which is the kind of a margin that 128 00:08:24,120 --> 00:08:29,080 Speaker 1: makes people accuse others of voter fraud. You had Hollering 129 00:08:29,160 --> 00:08:34,160 Speaker 1: James finished third, which tells me either his fans showed 130 00:08:34,240 --> 00:08:39,520 Speaker 1: up in force or nobody was paying attention, and possibly both, 131 00:08:39,960 --> 00:08:43,080 Speaker 1: possibly both. You had Surfer Todd, the comedian, win Lame 132 00:08:43,160 --> 00:08:46,360 Speaker 1: Joke Contributor of the Year in a landslide, which is perfect. 133 00:08:46,920 --> 00:08:50,680 Speaker 1: That category is the soul of much of what we 134 00:08:50,800 --> 00:08:57,559 Speaker 1: do here. Bad jokes delivered with tremendous confidence. Volume over efficiency, 135 00:08:57,679 --> 00:09:02,520 Speaker 1: quantity over quality. It's the buffet line of jokes. You 136 00:09:02,559 --> 00:09:06,199 Speaker 1: pile enough on the plate, something's bound to taste good. 137 00:09:06,360 --> 00:09:12,600 Speaker 1: Something's gonna make you laugh. The ask Ben category is 138 00:09:12,640 --> 00:09:15,880 Speaker 1: the one that makes you lean a little forward. And 139 00:09:15,920 --> 00:09:18,319 Speaker 1: this is the one that really got a lot of attention. 140 00:09:18,520 --> 00:09:22,240 Speaker 1: The tabloids were all over this. The paparazzo. You had 141 00:09:22,320 --> 00:09:27,120 Speaker 1: Ferg Doog win over Alf the Alien Opiner. By how 142 00:09:27,160 --> 00:09:33,959 Speaker 1: many votes? It was? It ten votes? No? Nine, No, eight, 143 00:09:34,360 --> 00:09:39,280 Speaker 1: I don't think so seven, Come on six please five, 144 00:09:39,480 --> 00:09:44,040 Speaker 1: I'd be fine, No not step five? Four, come on now? Three? 145 00:09:44,480 --> 00:09:48,680 Speaker 1: Two the numbers two. Ferg Dog won by two votes 146 00:09:48,720 --> 00:09:53,079 Speaker 1: over Alf the Alien Opiner. In that category, Donkey Sausage 147 00:09:53,120 --> 00:09:58,680 Speaker 1: was right there, he was third. Fifteen votes separated the 148 00:09:58,760 --> 00:10:03,040 Speaker 1: top three. Hundreds hundreds of people voting, and fifteen votes 149 00:10:03,080 --> 00:10:05,360 Speaker 1: separated the top three, and the top two were separated 150 00:10:05,400 --> 00:10:08,320 Speaker 1: by two votes. And that's not just close, that's maddening. 151 00:10:08,840 --> 00:10:11,559 Speaker 1: That's the kind of result where Alf stays up all 152 00:10:11,679 --> 00:10:14,920 Speaker 1: night and has turned to AI to try to gain 153 00:10:14,960 --> 00:10:18,400 Speaker 1: the title of the you know, the ass ban or 154 00:10:18,440 --> 00:10:21,320 Speaker 1: whatever else or whatever other category he feels like. And 155 00:10:21,360 --> 00:10:23,760 Speaker 1: so that's where you replay the tape if you're Alf 156 00:10:23,840 --> 00:10:25,880 Speaker 1: and you wonder like, where did he go wrong? Let's 157 00:10:25,920 --> 00:10:29,559 Speaker 1: go to campaign headquarters right now. Now, the best crew 158 00:10:29,640 --> 00:10:34,880 Speaker 1: fill in Brian No the No Show, which is no surprise, 159 00:10:35,320 --> 00:10:38,480 Speaker 1: reliable often fills in for me. He's the most regular 160 00:10:38,520 --> 00:10:43,760 Speaker 1: fill in. Study shows up, does his job, do your job, 161 00:10:43,880 --> 00:10:46,679 Speaker 1: doesn't light the place on fire. Fox Sports Radio has 162 00:10:46,679 --> 00:10:49,760 Speaker 1: not burned at all when Brian knows been there. Underrated 163 00:10:50,160 --> 00:10:53,440 Speaker 1: Mary Mack, how about this marry the boardop finish second. 164 00:10:53,559 --> 00:10:58,040 Speaker 1: That is a plot twist. That's your weight really moment. 165 00:10:58,440 --> 00:11:06,320 Speaker 1: Chris Plank in third feels exactly right, solid, always around, 166 00:11:07,360 --> 00:11:13,600 Speaker 1: good host, big college sports guy who Yeah, we had 167 00:11:13,600 --> 00:11:16,160 Speaker 1: the social media contributor to the year. The big upset 168 00:11:16,200 --> 00:11:19,760 Speaker 1: here was not who won it? Ferd Dog edged out 169 00:11:20,240 --> 00:11:24,640 Speaker 1: alf another heartbreaking loss for Alfie Allen Pinter. It's that 170 00:11:24,920 --> 00:11:30,520 Speaker 1: Robbie the Mariner fan somehow was able to weasel his 171 00:11:30,640 --> 00:11:33,760 Speaker 1: way into a top four. That's pretty impressive. That's a 172 00:11:33,800 --> 00:11:38,040 Speaker 1: big upset. Knocked out mister nice guy and several legends 173 00:11:38,240 --> 00:11:41,160 Speaker 1: Robbie the Mariner fan, who was like the kool aid 174 00:11:41,200 --> 00:11:45,800 Speaker 1: man coming into the room. Oh yeah, just like that. Yeah, 175 00:11:45,840 --> 00:11:47,800 Speaker 1: it was wild. What else did we have at the 176 00:11:47,840 --> 00:11:49,520 Speaker 1: Benny Award? Trying to thick here off the top of 177 00:11:49,600 --> 00:11:53,480 Speaker 1: my head, we had, well, all right, drop of the year. 178 00:11:53,640 --> 00:11:56,720 Speaker 1: This was a disaster. The good, the bad and the ugly. 179 00:11:56,800 --> 00:12:02,400 Speaker 1: This would be really ugly, not good. Yeah, I try 180 00:12:02,400 --> 00:12:07,320 Speaker 1: to be gentle here. Two nominees. Two. We do an 181 00:12:07,480 --> 00:12:10,960 Speaker 1: entire year of radio, five nights a week. Two nominees. 182 00:12:12,480 --> 00:12:16,800 Speaker 1: That's like living in a pizza place or living near 183 00:12:16,840 --> 00:12:20,240 Speaker 1: a pizza place that only serves you crust like, no, 184 00:12:20,320 --> 00:12:23,040 Speaker 1: I want I like the crust. That's my favorite part. 185 00:12:23,080 --> 00:12:25,480 Speaker 1: I'd like some bubbles in the crust. But I would rather, 186 00:12:26,240 --> 00:12:30,040 Speaker 1: I would rather I just kind of, you know, have 187 00:12:30,080 --> 00:12:35,960 Speaker 1: the whole thing. Marcel from Brooklyn was the winner with 188 00:12:36,120 --> 00:12:40,040 Speaker 1: welcome to the show, there, idiot, which is good, but 189 00:12:40,120 --> 00:12:44,120 Speaker 1: come on, there were better drops or things that should 190 00:12:44,120 --> 00:12:49,960 Speaker 1: have been drops. Well. Marcel edged out Hollering James in 191 00:12:50,040 --> 00:12:52,920 Speaker 1: a category that was not that close. Cowboy John bradwe 192 00:12:53,000 --> 00:12:56,720 Speaker 1: international caller of the Year. Very happy about that. Another 193 00:12:56,840 --> 00:13:00,840 Speaker 1: dependable voice on the show. He's essentially of the furniture 194 00:13:00,880 --> 00:13:06,200 Speaker 1: at Fox Sports Radio. He's been calling for twenty five years. 195 00:13:06,240 --> 00:13:08,480 Speaker 1: Over twenty five years Fox Sports Radio started. I was 196 00:13:08,520 --> 00:13:12,320 Speaker 1: one of the original weekend hosts on Fox Sports Radio, 197 00:13:13,000 --> 00:13:17,080 Speaker 1: and we started out as a kind of a soft launch, 198 00:13:17,440 --> 00:13:20,720 Speaker 1: soft launch. We were on in Pittsburgh, Binghamton, New York, 199 00:13:21,679 --> 00:13:25,199 Speaker 1: a couple of other smaller locations around the United States, 200 00:13:25,280 --> 00:13:28,680 Speaker 1: and somehow, some way, cowboy John Brad found the network 201 00:13:29,760 --> 00:13:33,440 Speaker 1: on some station that boomed into windsor I don't know where, 202 00:13:34,320 --> 00:13:38,440 Speaker 1: and started calling. And he's still calling and still calling 203 00:13:38,559 --> 00:13:42,920 Speaker 1: and calling. Legally blind Christopher who moved to London literally 204 00:13:43,000 --> 00:13:49,479 Speaker 1: across an ocean, and still calls the show. He got divorced, 205 00:13:49,520 --> 00:13:51,400 Speaker 1: that's one of the reasons he moved to London. It 206 00:13:51,559 --> 00:13:54,560 Speaker 1: so that's either loyalty or something we should all be 207 00:13:54,600 --> 00:13:59,160 Speaker 1: a little concerned about. You had my guy Salsa calling 208 00:13:59,200 --> 00:14:04,640 Speaker 1: in from random countries because of his airline job. That's 209 00:14:05,280 --> 00:14:07,560 Speaker 1: that's fun, right, gets travel all over the place, and 210 00:14:07,600 --> 00:14:10,800 Speaker 1: that's a little texture to the show. Jedhu Fled won 211 00:14:11,160 --> 00:14:15,000 Speaker 1: the very coveted Intoxicated Caller of the Year with forty 212 00:14:15,040 --> 00:14:19,440 Speaker 1: four percent of the vote, a landslide win. Mouthwash Mike 213 00:14:19,560 --> 00:14:22,560 Speaker 1: would have could have should have done better. Unfortunately he 214 00:14:22,560 --> 00:14:25,680 Speaker 1: doesn't call very often. When he does, it's very memorable 215 00:14:26,200 --> 00:14:29,440 Speaker 1: as our guy mouthwash Mike living on the streets of Vegas. 216 00:14:30,080 --> 00:14:33,840 Speaker 1: He finished in second, and there were the you know, 217 00:14:33,960 --> 00:14:39,400 Speaker 1: usual sneak ups that got in that category that were there, 218 00:14:39,480 --> 00:14:43,800 Speaker 1: But this this category. Intoxicated Call of the Year is 219 00:14:43,840 --> 00:14:49,280 Speaker 1: the category that is messy. It is complicated, sometimes heartbreaking, 220 00:14:50,040 --> 00:14:54,160 Speaker 1: sometimes heartbreaking, and you hear them and it's raw and 221 00:14:54,200 --> 00:14:59,120 Speaker 1: it's unfiltered, and and that's it. The Female caller of 222 00:14:59,120 --> 00:15:02,000 Speaker 1: the Year, this would be the best as well, the 223 00:15:02,240 --> 00:15:04,600 Speaker 1: not the ugly, the bad. The female call of the 224 00:15:04,680 --> 00:15:08,680 Speaker 1: year Andrea the Astrology Lady who won easily. Of course 225 00:15:08,680 --> 00:15:11,880 Speaker 1: she won easily. She's her own brand at this point. 226 00:15:12,000 --> 00:15:18,520 Speaker 1: She's consistent and she delivers the goods right. But they 227 00:15:18,520 --> 00:15:24,080 Speaker 1: are only two nominees. Two two. You either have to 228 00:15:24,120 --> 00:15:26,800 Speaker 1: get more nominees or just get rid of the category. 229 00:15:27,640 --> 00:15:29,320 Speaker 1: You gotta get rid of the category if there's only 230 00:15:29,360 --> 00:15:31,600 Speaker 1: two nominees. From now on we try to get rid 231 00:15:31,600 --> 00:15:35,160 Speaker 1: of these categories. We need more than two. The Worst 232 00:15:35,240 --> 00:15:38,840 Speaker 1: Caller of the Year went to Mike the Leprechaun, who's 233 00:15:38,880 --> 00:15:42,120 Speaker 1: putting together the Boston Malar Meet and Greet Mike the 234 00:15:42,200 --> 00:15:48,240 Speaker 1: Leprechaun with Blind Scott and Poppy right behind. And I 235 00:15:48,280 --> 00:15:53,320 Speaker 1: love this category because it's honest. Every show needs a villain, 236 00:15:53,640 --> 00:15:58,480 Speaker 1: Every show needs someone who makes you grown right and 237 00:15:58,880 --> 00:16:02,360 Speaker 1: makes the host react, makes the audience feel something. You 238 00:16:02,480 --> 00:16:06,000 Speaker 1: the listener even if that's something is please hang up 239 00:16:06,080 --> 00:16:10,960 Speaker 1: on this douche canoe? Even is that? And then the 240 00:16:11,160 --> 00:16:17,200 Speaker 1: big one, the Big ragou the Genie in Medford Memorial 241 00:16:17,320 --> 00:16:20,600 Speaker 1: Caller of the Year, the highest honor and overnight sports Radio. 242 00:16:21,600 --> 00:16:24,480 Speaker 1: Now we mentioned that weed Man Hippie was the winner, 243 00:16:24,520 --> 00:16:27,360 Speaker 1: But now you're about to hear the rest of the story. 244 00:16:27,400 --> 00:16:31,400 Speaker 1: As Paul Harvey said back in his day, weed Man Hippie, 245 00:16:31,640 --> 00:16:37,360 Speaker 1: is it true that he barely barely was the winner 246 00:16:38,040 --> 00:16:40,360 Speaker 1: of the Caller of the Year, the Genie in Medford 247 00:16:40,400 --> 00:16:44,920 Speaker 1: Memorial Caller of the Year. Is it also true that 248 00:16:45,120 --> 00:16:50,840 Speaker 1: weed Man Hippie finished just thirteen votes, thirteen votes ahead 249 00:16:50,880 --> 00:16:55,920 Speaker 1: of Marcel in Brooklyn. Is it also true that Blind Scott, 250 00:16:55,960 --> 00:17:00,440 Speaker 1: who's now retired the name Blind Scott until next week 251 00:17:00,440 --> 00:17:05,800 Speaker 1: when Blind Scott returns, finished third. That is perfection. That 252 00:17:05,920 --> 00:17:10,240 Speaker 1: is thoughtingly ie at Ohio State Football. That's the show. 253 00:17:10,600 --> 00:17:15,040 Speaker 1: People don't really leave, they don't. They just kind of 254 00:17:15,080 --> 00:17:19,320 Speaker 1: fade in and out, in and out, because that's what 255 00:17:19,440 --> 00:17:22,439 Speaker 1: a radio show is all about. They're like characters in 256 00:17:22,480 --> 00:17:25,800 Speaker 1: a long running series. And a great example of that. 257 00:17:26,760 --> 00:17:29,680 Speaker 1: And we'll probably talk more about this tomorrow on the 258 00:17:29,720 --> 00:17:32,920 Speaker 1: podcast but the return of our friend from Australia, which 259 00:17:33,000 --> 00:17:38,280 Speaker 1: was great to hear, love it Ozzie momentum. So what 260 00:17:38,320 --> 00:17:39,960 Speaker 1: do we make of all this? To put a bow 261 00:17:40,040 --> 00:17:43,600 Speaker 1: on the Bennies. It's a fun show. It's a weird show. 262 00:17:43,720 --> 00:17:48,840 Speaker 1: It's a show built on habit and being familiar with 263 00:17:49,720 --> 00:17:55,080 Speaker 1: whatever this thing of a jig is. And it doesn't 264 00:17:55,080 --> 00:17:57,440 Speaker 1: always make sense. In fact, it often doesn't make sense 265 00:17:57,440 --> 00:17:59,240 Speaker 1: to outside its people that don't listen to the show. 266 00:17:59,280 --> 00:18:01,840 Speaker 1: They don't get it. They don't know what we're doing here, 267 00:18:02,880 --> 00:18:05,119 Speaker 1: and they're like, well, I don't understand. This is like 268 00:18:05,240 --> 00:18:08,399 Speaker 1: some kind of foreign language. It's a variety show. I 269 00:18:08,440 --> 00:18:13,040 Speaker 1: don't get it. Yeah, and you're not supposed to get it. Yeah, 270 00:18:14,080 --> 00:18:17,359 Speaker 1: you're not. Now, we do need new blood. Every show 271 00:18:17,440 --> 00:18:20,639 Speaker 1: needs new blood. Not because the regulars are not good. 272 00:18:21,680 --> 00:18:26,480 Speaker 1: You guys are great. It's because every ecosystem needs new oxygen. 273 00:18:26,600 --> 00:18:29,800 Speaker 1: Otherwise you get very comfortable, and comfortable is the enemy 274 00:18:29,840 --> 00:18:33,280 Speaker 1: of interesting. And we don't want to be barring because 275 00:18:33,840 --> 00:18:37,000 Speaker 1: then they'll cancel the show. So we will do at 276 00:18:37,080 --> 00:18:41,679 Speaker 1: least one newby Night every month, so that means next 277 00:18:41,760 --> 00:18:45,440 Speaker 1: week we will have a newby Night. I don't believe 278 00:18:45,480 --> 00:18:47,000 Speaker 1: we've done one here in the month of March. I 279 00:18:47,000 --> 00:18:48,640 Speaker 1: know we did one in January and February. I don't 280 00:18:48,640 --> 00:18:50,760 Speaker 1: believe we've done the one in March. I might be 281 00:18:50,800 --> 00:18:54,240 Speaker 1: wrong on that, but we'll have a newby night. And 282 00:18:54,359 --> 00:18:57,240 Speaker 1: you know, it's kind of like dropping manure if you're 283 00:18:58,119 --> 00:19:01,000 Speaker 1: trying to help the soil, that's what we're doing. So 284 00:19:01,000 --> 00:19:04,040 Speaker 1: so I'll say it again, I love this stupid thing, 285 00:19:04,080 --> 00:19:06,880 Speaker 1: the Benny's because at three in the morning, whether you're 286 00:19:06,920 --> 00:19:11,879 Speaker 1: in Boston, Atlanta or Virginia Beach or Pittsburgh or Philadelphia, 287 00:19:12,240 --> 00:19:15,159 Speaker 1: you're at three in the morning and most of the 288 00:19:15,160 --> 00:19:21,479 Speaker 1: world sleeping, they're snoozing, and you, my people are calling 289 00:19:21,520 --> 00:19:27,320 Speaker 1: in arguing, joking, it's open mic night. You're competing for 290 00:19:27,440 --> 00:19:33,080 Speaker 1: imaginary awards, and somehow it just matters. It matters. And 291 00:19:33,400 --> 00:19:35,800 Speaker 1: I did get a couple of emails I will not 292 00:19:36,040 --> 00:19:39,240 Speaker 1: name the guilty, who were very upset that they were 293 00:19:39,240 --> 00:19:41,560 Speaker 1: not One person was upset they weren't nominated. The other 294 00:19:41,560 --> 00:19:44,200 Speaker 1: person was upset that they didn't win even though they 295 00:19:44,200 --> 00:19:48,439 Speaker 1: were nominated. And so that happens every year, and it 296 00:19:48,520 --> 00:19:51,160 Speaker 1: just happened yet again, where people get a little too 297 00:19:51,240 --> 00:19:55,080 Speaker 1: invested and they start getting a little upset. Now, meanwhile, 298 00:19:56,320 --> 00:19:59,120 Speaker 1: I wanted to turn the page on this because talk 299 00:19:59,119 --> 00:20:03,240 Speaker 1: about my The Life of Mallet, which is normally on Saturday. 300 00:20:04,160 --> 00:20:05,800 Speaker 1: I know this is Friday. I did want to share 301 00:20:05,800 --> 00:20:07,480 Speaker 1: this with you. So there's two kinds of people that 302 00:20:07,560 --> 00:20:10,040 Speaker 1: live in the Greater LA Area in terms of commuters. 303 00:20:10,440 --> 00:20:14,120 Speaker 1: There's the ones that are stuck in traffic, and those 304 00:20:14,119 --> 00:20:15,840 Speaker 1: are the people working the day shift. And then there's 305 00:20:15,880 --> 00:20:19,560 Speaker 1: ones who think they've beaten the traffic. And I belong 306 00:20:19,680 --> 00:20:22,960 Speaker 1: to that second group, which is how you know I 307 00:20:23,000 --> 00:20:29,479 Speaker 1: am totally delusional. As the nocturnal kernel. I operate in 308 00:20:29,720 --> 00:20:34,120 Speaker 1: the part of the clock normally reserved for the raccoon, 309 00:20:34,760 --> 00:20:39,520 Speaker 1: the baker, the people that make some interesting choices in 310 00:20:39,560 --> 00:20:43,520 Speaker 1: their life. And my commute from the Fox Sports radio 311 00:20:43,640 --> 00:20:46,320 Speaker 1: studios to and that's in Sherman Oaks, in the San 312 00:20:46,359 --> 00:20:49,639 Speaker 1: Fernando Valley and I to what I call the north Woods, 313 00:20:49,640 --> 00:20:53,199 Speaker 1: a place far far away that my GPS sometimes size 314 00:20:53,240 --> 00:20:56,440 Speaker 1: at before giving me the proper directions. It's a long 315 00:20:56,520 --> 00:21:00,840 Speaker 1: drive at that hour. Right at that hour, the freeway 316 00:21:00,960 --> 00:21:05,800 Speaker 1: is mostly empty, no brake lights stretching to the horizon. 317 00:21:06,880 --> 00:21:12,400 Speaker 1: There's no guy in a least neon blue BMW trying 318 00:21:12,440 --> 00:21:15,720 Speaker 1: to merge through your soul, while on the other side 319 00:21:15,720 --> 00:21:18,560 Speaker 1: there's a cherry red Ferrari that somehow is able to 320 00:21:18,640 --> 00:21:22,359 Speaker 1: zoom past you, even though there's traffic all over the place, 321 00:21:22,400 --> 00:21:24,679 Speaker 1: cutting in and out of traffic like it's cranked on. 322 00:21:24,760 --> 00:21:28,840 Speaker 1: It's afterburners. And so when I'm driving it's at night, 323 00:21:28,920 --> 00:21:31,840 Speaker 1: it's mostly open road. It's a few scattered headlights and 324 00:21:31,880 --> 00:21:35,920 Speaker 1: the occasional reminder that the world that we're in, the civilization, 325 00:21:36,240 --> 00:21:41,080 Speaker 1: is hanging on by a thread. The biggest OBSTACLEPT is 326 00:21:41,119 --> 00:21:44,600 Speaker 1: the cone zone, those orange traffic cones, because they're always 327 00:21:44,600 --> 00:21:47,960 Speaker 1: working on the roads at night, the caltrans which is 328 00:21:48,000 --> 00:21:53,560 Speaker 1: the California Transportation people. They're out there and doing their thing, 329 00:21:53,560 --> 00:21:56,359 Speaker 1: and of course they don't fix the road because the 330 00:21:56,440 --> 00:21:58,359 Speaker 1: roads are terrible. I don't know what they're doing. I 331 00:21:58,400 --> 00:22:00,639 Speaker 1: think they just set everything up so it looks like 332 00:22:00,640 --> 00:22:03,879 Speaker 1: they're working and they're playing Solitaire, like Stephen A at 333 00:22:03,920 --> 00:22:08,000 Speaker 1: an NBA Finals game, and so they only seem to 334 00:22:08,080 --> 00:22:11,840 Speaker 1: fix a lot. They just kind of rearranged things. And 335 00:22:11,880 --> 00:22:15,679 Speaker 1: even that is you know, the expectations are rearranged, is manageable. 336 00:22:16,880 --> 00:22:19,960 Speaker 1: So again, mostly it's smooth sale. Mostly it's smooth sailing 337 00:22:20,040 --> 00:22:24,040 Speaker 1: on my commute. I say, mostly, that's a weasel word. 338 00:22:24,560 --> 00:22:30,720 Speaker 1: And here's why. Because this week, the overnight shift, I 339 00:22:30,800 --> 00:22:34,760 Speaker 1: was reminded that it has its own wildlife. Now, I'm 340 00:22:34,800 --> 00:22:37,879 Speaker 1: not talking about deer, coyotes or anything like that. You 341 00:22:37,920 --> 00:22:39,760 Speaker 1: do see the coyote. I don't see any deer. I 342 00:22:39,840 --> 00:22:44,000 Speaker 1: do see the coyote. I'm talking about drunk drivers, wrong 343 00:22:44,080 --> 00:22:46,760 Speaker 1: way drivers. Sometimes a two for one special I've had. 344 00:22:46,840 --> 00:22:51,040 Speaker 1: There was one week back to back in that week 345 00:22:51,200 --> 00:22:54,720 Speaker 1: I saw wrong way drivers. Then I saw another one 346 00:22:54,840 --> 00:22:58,720 Speaker 1: in Pasadena somehow ended up on the two ten, going 347 00:22:58,760 --> 00:23:05,280 Speaker 1: the wrong way, high on something, high on something. Generally, 348 00:23:05,920 --> 00:23:10,000 Speaker 1: you know there's a lot going on, even though you 349 00:23:10,040 --> 00:23:12,800 Speaker 1: don't notice it because the traffic's not that big, and 350 00:23:12,880 --> 00:23:15,720 Speaker 1: there's certain people that believe that they're auditioning for the 351 00:23:15,760 --> 00:23:21,640 Speaker 1: Autobahn Olympics. So low traffic environment, high on the drama, 352 00:23:21,720 --> 00:23:26,360 Speaker 1: o rama and the existential intrigue. So the other night, 353 00:23:27,080 --> 00:23:31,360 Speaker 1: as all good stories begin, I'm driving home in a 354 00:23:31,400 --> 00:23:34,720 Speaker 1: state of mind that I would describe. I guess I 355 00:23:34,760 --> 00:23:38,960 Speaker 1: call it medium, crispy, not asleep, not fully alive, just 356 00:23:39,040 --> 00:23:42,480 Speaker 1: kind of marinating in the moment. And I see something 357 00:23:42,520 --> 00:23:45,199 Speaker 1: odd up ahead, and you know what is that? It 358 00:23:45,200 --> 00:23:48,280 Speaker 1: looks like a cloud. It's kind of a clear night. 359 00:23:48,680 --> 00:23:54,000 Speaker 1: Clouds are not illegal, they're not. I checked, and in 360 00:23:54,000 --> 00:23:57,600 Speaker 1: some countries they are, but not here. However, this one 361 00:23:57,720 --> 00:24:01,000 Speaker 1: was a little suspicious. It was hovering over the freeway 362 00:24:01,080 --> 00:24:04,639 Speaker 1: like it had missed its exit, and the sky was 363 00:24:04,680 --> 00:24:08,959 Speaker 1: otherwise again pretty clear, just a lonely patch of vapor. 364 00:24:09,880 --> 00:24:12,800 Speaker 1: So it appeared hanging out over the highway like it 365 00:24:12,840 --> 00:24:16,879 Speaker 1: was waiting for someone, and it's possible it was me. 366 00:24:16,960 --> 00:24:19,040 Speaker 1: So I got closer. I realized that this was not 367 00:24:20,080 --> 00:24:24,360 Speaker 1: your standard issue cloud. This was a man made cloud, 368 00:24:25,400 --> 00:24:28,800 Speaker 1: the kind that comes with a light show. There was 369 00:24:28,840 --> 00:24:33,159 Speaker 1: a glow underneath, and not a gentle glow. This was 370 00:24:33,200 --> 00:24:36,840 Speaker 1: a hey is that the moon? Kind of glow? This 371 00:24:37,119 --> 00:24:39,520 Speaker 1: was It was not that. It was not hey is 372 00:24:39,800 --> 00:24:42,520 Speaker 1: that the moon? This was a did the sun forget 373 00:24:42,560 --> 00:24:45,480 Speaker 1: to clock out? Kind of glow. So I rounded the 374 00:24:45,520 --> 00:24:50,000 Speaker 1: bend in the road and there it was an eighteen wheeler, 375 00:24:50,520 --> 00:24:56,040 Speaker 1: a monster of the midway, fully engulfed in flames, not 376 00:24:56,480 --> 00:25:00,119 Speaker 1: smoking a little bit, not sparkling, not might go up 377 00:25:00,119 --> 00:25:03,240 Speaker 1: in flames. Not hey, someone might want to check this out. 378 00:25:03,680 --> 00:25:09,879 Speaker 1: I am talking full blown end of the world armageddon, 379 00:25:10,119 --> 00:25:14,520 Speaker 1: campfire from hell type situation, the kind of fire that 380 00:25:14,680 --> 00:25:19,159 Speaker 1: makes you instinctively check your eyebrows to make sure that 381 00:25:19,200 --> 00:25:22,080 Speaker 1: they're still there. And you see these trucks, and I 382 00:25:22,200 --> 00:25:23,440 Speaker 1: know a lot of you guys are truck drivers. You 383 00:25:23,480 --> 00:25:26,280 Speaker 1: see these trucks, I do, and they look indestructible to me. 384 00:25:27,119 --> 00:25:29,880 Speaker 1: It blows my mind that something like this could happen, 385 00:25:30,320 --> 00:25:33,840 Speaker 1: Like these things were built in a lab, these trucks 386 00:25:34,520 --> 00:25:37,960 Speaker 1: by people who did not trust gravity. And you see 387 00:25:38,000 --> 00:25:41,560 Speaker 1: one of them up close and think, yeah, you know, 388 00:25:41,600 --> 00:25:45,400 Speaker 1: if there's ever a robot uprising, these things are getting 389 00:25:45,480 --> 00:25:48,520 Speaker 1: drafted by the bots. They're getting drafted by the bots. 390 00:25:48,680 --> 00:25:53,320 Speaker 1: And here was one reduced to a bonfire. This truck, 391 00:25:53,920 --> 00:25:56,840 Speaker 1: it looked to paint the picture. It looked like a 392 00:25:57,520 --> 00:26:02,800 Speaker 1: beached blue whale, if the blue whale that was beached 393 00:26:02,800 --> 00:26:05,639 Speaker 1: had been set on fire, so there'd be blubber in 394 00:26:05,760 --> 00:26:11,160 Speaker 1: the air everywhere by some kind of angry god. This 395 00:26:11,480 --> 00:26:19,320 Speaker 1: massive hulking machine, this giant truck, surrendering to the flame, 396 00:26:20,000 --> 00:26:24,000 Speaker 1: just going to the flame and surrendering and all that 397 00:26:24,040 --> 00:26:27,840 Speaker 1: the flames lit up the entire night sky. It was 398 00:26:28,640 --> 00:26:33,439 Speaker 1: like someone had dropped a second sun right there on 399 00:26:33,520 --> 00:26:36,679 Speaker 1: the shoulder. You didn't need headlights, you had needed sunscreen. 400 00:26:36,880 --> 00:26:40,600 Speaker 1: Firefighters and police were already on the scene. They had 401 00:26:40,640 --> 00:26:44,080 Speaker 1: shut down the highway on the side, which felt like 402 00:26:44,320 --> 00:26:47,639 Speaker 1: a wise choice, felt like the right thing to do. 403 00:26:47,720 --> 00:26:50,359 Speaker 1: Their strategy appeared to be let it burn, let it burn, 404 00:26:50,440 --> 00:26:53,200 Speaker 1: let it burn, but professionally, we'll make sure the fire 405 00:26:53,240 --> 00:26:56,280 Speaker 1: doesn't spread. But we're not putting this thing out because 406 00:26:56,320 --> 00:26:58,159 Speaker 1: I don't know if that enough water or whatever it was. 407 00:26:58,200 --> 00:27:01,879 Speaker 1: But they were not charging like they do in the 408 00:27:01,920 --> 00:27:04,960 Speaker 1: movies with the fire hoses. There was no dramatic slow 409 00:27:05,000 --> 00:27:11,480 Speaker 1: motion heroics, just to calm control, acknowledgment that sometimes fire 410 00:27:11,680 --> 00:27:15,480 Speaker 1: wins the first round, and when fire wins the first round, 411 00:27:15,520 --> 00:27:19,600 Speaker 1: there's no second round. So on my side of the highway, 412 00:27:19,600 --> 00:27:22,280 Speaker 1: my side of the freeway, traffic slowed as much as 413 00:27:22,280 --> 00:27:24,400 Speaker 1: it can at that time of the night, not because 414 00:27:25,280 --> 00:27:31,359 Speaker 1: we had to, because we're human. Rubbernecking is our national pastime. 415 00:27:32,080 --> 00:27:35,199 Speaker 1: You could put up a sign that says nothing to 416 00:27:35,240 --> 00:27:37,920 Speaker 1: see here, and we'd form a line just to verify 417 00:27:37,960 --> 00:27:41,480 Speaker 1: there's nothing to see here. It's called LOOKI loo is 418 00:27:41,960 --> 00:27:46,320 Speaker 1: the term, and every every driver turned into a part 419 00:27:46,359 --> 00:27:52,080 Speaker 1: time investigator. The head shifted, the speed dropped. Somewhere a 420 00:27:52,200 --> 00:27:55,800 Speaker 1: guy probably tried to take a selfie with the inferno 421 00:27:55,920 --> 00:27:58,640 Speaker 1: in the background. It was not me. I did try 422 00:27:58,640 --> 00:28:01,640 Speaker 1: to take a photo of it. I thought better of it. 423 00:28:01,760 --> 00:28:04,520 Speaker 1: There wasn't attempt made. It didn't come out very good, 424 00:28:04,760 --> 00:28:08,080 Speaker 1: and so I get it. The point is I get it. 425 00:28:08,080 --> 00:28:12,639 Speaker 1: It was mesmerizing because these trucks, again for those of 426 00:28:12,720 --> 00:28:15,600 Speaker 1: those they just look to me, they feel invincible. You 427 00:28:15,640 --> 00:28:17,160 Speaker 1: don't want to get an action of the truck. They're 428 00:28:17,160 --> 00:28:21,080 Speaker 1: the kind of a vehicle that can just mash you 429 00:28:21,200 --> 00:28:24,760 Speaker 1: into bits. They're the king of the road, the apex 430 00:28:24,880 --> 00:28:29,119 Speaker 1: predator of the asphalt. And then in one moment, one 431 00:28:29,320 --> 00:28:33,359 Speaker 1: bad break, one spark or whatever, and it was all over, 432 00:28:33,440 --> 00:28:35,200 Speaker 1: kaboom for the truck. I don't know what happened to 433 00:28:35,200 --> 00:28:37,800 Speaker 1: the driver. I think the driver was okay. It didn't 434 00:28:37,800 --> 00:28:41,440 Speaker 1: even look like a collision. And the reason I say 435 00:28:41,480 --> 00:28:43,320 Speaker 1: that the truck was pulled over to the side of 436 00:28:43,320 --> 00:28:47,800 Speaker 1: the road like it had politely excused itself from traffic 437 00:28:48,280 --> 00:28:53,080 Speaker 1: before spontaneously combusting right there on the highway, which if 438 00:28:53,240 --> 00:28:57,880 Speaker 1: you're going to have a catastrophe failure, it was very 439 00:28:57,920 --> 00:29:01,000 Speaker 1: considerate to pull over to the side of the road 440 00:29:01,120 --> 00:29:05,080 Speaker 1: and do it. Now as I drove past, and I'm 441 00:29:06,000 --> 00:29:09,480 Speaker 1: rubber necking right again. That's my I love the word rubbernecking. 442 00:29:10,200 --> 00:29:12,920 Speaker 1: I had one of those moments where the brain takes 443 00:29:12,920 --> 00:29:16,800 Speaker 1: a snapshot, a mental polaride, and a litt Kodak moment. 444 00:29:17,640 --> 00:29:20,200 Speaker 1: You don't decide to remember it. It just kind of 445 00:29:20,240 --> 00:29:23,880 Speaker 1: flies itself away. And I've got a few of those. 446 00:29:24,640 --> 00:29:27,720 Speaker 1: There was the time on the road from Vegas back 447 00:29:27,760 --> 00:29:32,160 Speaker 1: to La a windy, scorching desert night, when an eighteen 448 00:29:32,200 --> 00:29:35,520 Speaker 1: wheeler hauling tesla's flipped over. Now do I know that? 449 00:29:36,080 --> 00:29:41,400 Speaker 1: Because traffic was to a snarl, Ten brand new cars 450 00:29:41,600 --> 00:29:46,400 Speaker 1: scattered across the highway. It felt like someone had shaken 451 00:29:46,680 --> 00:29:51,560 Speaker 1: a snow globe filled with these these teslas, and some 452 00:29:51,640 --> 00:29:58,200 Speaker 1: were mangled beyond recognition. Others looked the other ones kind 453 00:29:58,240 --> 00:30:00,280 Speaker 1: of looked. Some of them they were varying degree on 454 00:30:00,320 --> 00:30:02,960 Speaker 1: this looked like they had just given up and laid down. 455 00:30:03,640 --> 00:30:08,240 Speaker 1: It felt like the final scene of an apocalypse movie 456 00:30:08,320 --> 00:30:12,080 Speaker 1: where the audience puts down the popcorn is wondering what 457 00:30:12,280 --> 00:30:17,000 Speaker 1: went wrong and whether anyone remembered to turn off the stove, 458 00:30:17,120 --> 00:30:20,480 Speaker 1: by the way, And now I can still see that 459 00:30:20,600 --> 00:30:25,320 Speaker 1: accident out in the Vegas desert if I close my eyes. 460 00:30:25,360 --> 00:30:31,000 Speaker 1: And now I've added another entry into my personal NFT collection. 461 00:30:32,000 --> 00:30:37,840 Speaker 1: The burning truck, a man made cloud, the freeway turned 462 00:30:37,840 --> 00:30:43,000 Speaker 1: into a fire lit stage jump. And these are some 463 00:30:43,040 --> 00:30:45,600 Speaker 1: of the souvenirs that you get when you do the 464 00:30:45,680 --> 00:30:49,560 Speaker 1: late night commute. There no t shirts, no key chains, 465 00:30:49,680 --> 00:30:53,320 Speaker 1: no sippy cup, just memories. Memories that stick whether you 466 00:30:53,360 --> 00:30:55,680 Speaker 1: want them or not. I can still recall the wrong 467 00:30:55,720 --> 00:30:58,440 Speaker 1: way drivers, the two times that happened. It's three times 468 00:30:58,440 --> 00:31:01,160 Speaker 1: it's happened in my life, but two in the same week, 469 00:31:01,640 --> 00:31:04,680 Speaker 1: A two for one in the same week. Now, the 470 00:31:04,720 --> 00:31:08,840 Speaker 1: funny thing is, I'll make that same drive next week, 471 00:31:09,240 --> 00:31:14,120 Speaker 1: the same exact route or route, same car, same quiet 472 00:31:14,200 --> 00:31:17,960 Speaker 1: hum of the road, and I'll think nothing ever happens 473 00:31:18,040 --> 00:31:22,960 Speaker 1: out here. It's just barren at this time. Because that's 474 00:31:23,040 --> 00:31:25,760 Speaker 1: what we do, that's what you do, and that's what 475 00:31:25,760 --> 00:31:29,720 Speaker 1: we do. We convince ourselves that the road is predictable, 476 00:31:29,760 --> 00:31:34,120 Speaker 1: life is predictable, that the machines we build are solid, 477 00:31:34,160 --> 00:31:39,680 Speaker 1: and everything is under control until it isn't. So yeah, 478 00:31:39,760 --> 00:31:44,200 Speaker 1: drive save kids. And if you see a cloud hovering 479 00:31:44,320 --> 00:31:48,480 Speaker 1: over the freeway at three am, maybe you don't assume 480 00:31:49,480 --> 00:31:53,360 Speaker 1: it's just the weather. You feel me on that. On 481 00:31:53,440 --> 00:31:56,600 Speaker 1: that note, we will put the baby to bed. Have 482 00:31:56,680 --> 00:31:59,960 Speaker 1: a wonderful Friday. We'll have new episodes of the fifth 483 00:32:00,160 --> 00:32:05,400 Speaker 1: Our podcast on Saturday and Sunday with more stories to tell. 484 00:32:05,440 --> 00:32:08,560 Speaker 1: I got a humdinger of a story I will try 485 00:32:08,560 --> 00:32:13,120 Speaker 1: to pass on to you from one of the more 486 00:32:13,320 --> 00:32:17,200 Speaker 1: unexpected things I've seen in my life, which actually happened 487 00:32:17,240 --> 00:32:20,000 Speaker 1: last weekend. But worry about that on the Saturday podcast. 488 00:32:20,200 --> 00:32:25,520 Speaker 1: Have a wonderful, glorious rest of your Friday, and we 489 00:32:25,640 --> 00:32:34,400 Speaker 1: will chat with you tomorrow. Tomorrow, tomorrow later. Skater gotta murder. 490 00:32:34,400 --> 00:32:34,880 Speaker 1: I gotta go