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 sol 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 --> 00:00:19,560 Speaker 2: rich pill poppers in the penthouse. Wow to Clearinghouse of 7 00:00:19,640 --> 00:00:23,479 Speaker 2: hot takes, break free for something special. The Fifth Hour 8 00:00:23,600 --> 00:00:30,840 Speaker 2: with Ben Mahler starts right now. 9 00:00:28,960 --> 00:00:31,920 Speaker 1: In the air everywhere. 10 00:00:32,200 --> 00:00:35,720 Speaker 3: The Fifth Hour with Me, Ben Mahler and Danny g Radio, 11 00:00:35,760 --> 00:00:37,640 Speaker 3: who will join us at some point over the weekend. 12 00:00:37,640 --> 00:00:40,120 Speaker 3: I hope you're doing well. We thank you for listening. 13 00:00:40,760 --> 00:00:44,520 Speaker 3: All of my shameless promotion on the radio show has 14 00:00:44,560 --> 00:00:48,400 Speaker 3: inspired you to come over here to the podcast world, 15 00:00:48,400 --> 00:00:51,040 Speaker 3: where I can say bad words. I've chosen not to 16 00:00:51,080 --> 00:00:53,360 Speaker 3: do that. If you go back, I know Lucky Tony 17 00:00:53,960 --> 00:00:56,360 Speaker 3: listens to a lot of the older stuff that's available. 18 00:00:56,400 --> 00:00:59,640 Speaker 3: I think the farthest back you can listen is twenty seventeen, 19 00:01:00,800 --> 00:01:05,800 Speaker 3: and you'll hear me cursing somewhat on those podcasts. Now, 20 00:01:05,840 --> 00:01:10,000 Speaker 3: I don't curse very much at all on the Fifth 21 00:01:10,000 --> 00:01:13,840 Speaker 3: Hour podcast anymore. It's a long story, but if you 22 00:01:13,840 --> 00:01:15,800 Speaker 3: want to know why, I'll let you know, but I'm 23 00:01:15,800 --> 00:01:16,920 Speaker 3: not going to get to that right now. 24 00:01:17,120 --> 00:01:18,640 Speaker 1: So it's a good sporting day to day. 25 00:01:19,600 --> 00:01:21,560 Speaker 3: We had a good show last night on the Overnight 26 00:01:21,800 --> 00:01:28,640 Speaker 3: talking about a lot of the action, Joe Flacco outperforming expectations, 27 00:01:28,640 --> 00:01:33,039 Speaker 3: and the Bengals getting it done against Aaron Rogers and 28 00:01:33,120 --> 00:01:36,920 Speaker 3: the Pittsburgh Steelers, which was shockingly entertaining for a consumer 29 00:01:37,000 --> 00:01:38,160 Speaker 3: of athletic competition. 30 00:01:38,760 --> 00:01:39,320 Speaker 1: So we had that. 31 00:01:39,680 --> 00:01:42,559 Speaker 3: In the baseball games, I'm a baseball guy. I loved 32 00:01:42,600 --> 00:01:46,480 Speaker 3: the playoffs. Not a great game between Toronto and Seattle, 33 00:01:46,560 --> 00:01:49,360 Speaker 3: the Dodgers competitive, but still. 34 00:01:49,120 --> 00:01:50,640 Speaker 1: You knew the Dodgers were going to win in the end. 35 00:01:50,640 --> 00:01:55,240 Speaker 3: And now, as bad as the Dodgers play, as terrible 36 00:01:55,280 --> 00:01:58,200 Speaker 3: as the Dodgers were for much of the regular season 37 00:01:58,240 --> 00:02:02,960 Speaker 3: in terms of underachieving not meeting expectations, they are one 38 00:02:03,000 --> 00:02:04,720 Speaker 3: win away and likely by the end of the day 39 00:02:04,760 --> 00:02:08,959 Speaker 3: today will end up in the World Series yet again. 40 00:02:09,360 --> 00:02:12,360 Speaker 3: So the lesson there is that you don't need to 41 00:02:12,400 --> 00:02:15,240 Speaker 3: work hard every day. The lesson is that you just 42 00:02:15,320 --> 00:02:18,480 Speaker 3: kind of show up and coast along and then it's 43 00:02:18,560 --> 00:02:21,480 Speaker 3: kind of like college where in college, you know it's 44 00:02:21,560 --> 00:02:22,440 Speaker 3: kind of haveav. 45 00:02:22,120 --> 00:02:24,320 Speaker 1: A good time and all that, and then make sure 46 00:02:24,360 --> 00:02:26,519 Speaker 1: you do well in the finals and you're fine, You're good. 47 00:02:27,000 --> 00:02:30,200 Speaker 3: So there you go on this podcast today you and 48 00:02:30,280 --> 00:02:33,400 Speaker 3: I will explore put me in coach, I think I 49 00:02:33,400 --> 00:02:36,800 Speaker 3: can play, and soggy croissants. 50 00:02:37,840 --> 00:02:38,799 Speaker 1: We'll begin with this though. 51 00:02:38,840 --> 00:02:41,960 Speaker 3: The day the coaches ran up the score and the 52 00:02:42,000 --> 00:02:45,400 Speaker 3: whistle blew on me the guy you're listening to, so 53 00:02:45,680 --> 00:02:46,919 Speaker 3: they say, I don't know who they are. 54 00:02:47,000 --> 00:02:48,919 Speaker 1: They say that scoreboards don't. 55 00:02:48,639 --> 00:02:50,840 Speaker 3: Matter in these kind of games, right, They just it's 56 00:02:50,880 --> 00:02:53,079 Speaker 3: a friendly, as they say in soccer, that is. 57 00:02:53,000 --> 00:02:55,600 Speaker 1: A lie lie lie, lie, lie lie. 58 00:02:55,680 --> 00:02:58,959 Speaker 3: They matter very much when one side leads twenty two 59 00:02:59,000 --> 00:03:01,800 Speaker 3: to nothing and the other is looking like a group 60 00:03:01,840 --> 00:03:05,519 Speaker 3: of bystanders trying to catch the five fifteen train out 61 00:03:05,520 --> 00:03:08,400 Speaker 3: of town. So I bring this up because earlier this week, 62 00:03:08,960 --> 00:03:13,160 Speaker 3: the coaching staff of the Boston Celtics, led by the 63 00:03:13,200 --> 00:03:16,360 Speaker 3: coach known as let him Play Joe Joe Missoula, a 64 00:03:16,480 --> 00:03:19,320 Speaker 3: man who looks like he could guard a baseline the 65 00:03:19,320 --> 00:03:26,120 Speaker 3: way Paul Blart mall cop guards a mall. So listen, 66 00:03:26,600 --> 00:03:30,800 Speaker 3: demolished this group, demolished the assembled media in what was 67 00:03:30,840 --> 00:03:34,000 Speaker 3: advertised as a friendly game of basketball at the r 68 00:03:34,080 --> 00:03:35,760 Speaker 3: Box Center, and I've been by there a few times 69 00:03:35,760 --> 00:03:38,800 Speaker 3: in my trips to Boston. That's the training facility of 70 00:03:38,840 --> 00:03:41,640 Speaker 3: the Celtics, and right across the way there was the 71 00:03:41,640 --> 00:03:42,920 Speaker 3: facility where the Bruins train. 72 00:03:43,000 --> 00:03:44,440 Speaker 1: I don't know if that's still the case or not. 73 00:03:44,760 --> 00:03:49,600 Speaker 3: But friendly is a way to describe it as friendly. 74 00:03:49,760 --> 00:03:54,360 Speaker 3: I guess, as you might say a bear will smile 75 00:03:54,480 --> 00:03:59,520 Speaker 3: at a salmon. You see those videos from Alaska and 76 00:03:59,560 --> 00:04:03,320 Speaker 3: the Bears eating a salmon, just standing there, just enjoying it. 77 00:04:03,680 --> 00:04:06,360 Speaker 3: Final score of that media basketball game was fifty seven 78 00:04:06,360 --> 00:04:09,240 Speaker 3: to four. Now you know a game has gone sideways 79 00:04:09,240 --> 00:04:13,120 Speaker 3: when the only thing anyone on the losing team can 80 00:04:13,160 --> 00:04:16,800 Speaker 3: agree on is who gets to keep the one made 81 00:04:16,920 --> 00:04:20,040 Speaker 3: basket as a highlight right now. The Celtic coaches were 82 00:04:20,040 --> 00:04:21,160 Speaker 3: not just coaches. 83 00:04:21,640 --> 00:04:22,799 Speaker 1: They were not They were ringers. 84 00:04:23,279 --> 00:04:27,200 Speaker 3: They had Emil Jefferson, who I'm told as a former 85 00:04:27,760 --> 00:04:28,960 Speaker 3: McDonald's All American. 86 00:04:29,000 --> 00:04:31,920 Speaker 1: He played at Duke. They don't let trumps play at Duke. 87 00:04:32,200 --> 00:04:35,240 Speaker 3: Phil Presley, who I remember when he was playing for 88 00:04:35,279 --> 00:04:39,280 Speaker 3: the Celtics and other teams. He was running the offense 89 00:04:39,320 --> 00:04:41,080 Speaker 3: with the Celtics. Now, they weren't great at that time. 90 00:04:41,600 --> 00:04:44,720 Speaker 3: God sham God, one of the great names, who was 91 00:04:45,080 --> 00:04:47,160 Speaker 3: a literal basketball royalty. It's in it. 92 00:04:47,160 --> 00:04:48,920 Speaker 1: It's his bloodline right there. 93 00:04:49,440 --> 00:04:51,960 Speaker 3: And then you had Joe Missoula, who once dragged West 94 00:04:52,040 --> 00:04:55,560 Speaker 3: Virginia deep in the NCAACH. I think they made the 95 00:04:55,560 --> 00:04:57,440 Speaker 3: final four. It's like the first time they had made 96 00:04:57,440 --> 00:05:00,600 Speaker 3: it since nineteen fifty nine. And then there was the media, 97 00:05:01,200 --> 00:05:05,320 Speaker 3: a hodgepodge of flotsam and jetsam, A couple of riders 98 00:05:05,360 --> 00:05:10,160 Speaker 3: over there, a fat radio guy, a hipster podcaster, some 99 00:05:10,240 --> 00:05:17,040 Speaker 3: camera people, collection of elbows and sneakers and beard bellies. 100 00:05:17,360 --> 00:05:21,039 Speaker 1: Now, why did I bring this up? Because it reminded me. 101 00:05:21,279 --> 00:05:24,479 Speaker 3: It triggered a memory that I wanted to share with 102 00:05:24,520 --> 00:05:27,320 Speaker 3: you on the podcast. So it reminded me of my 103 00:05:27,520 --> 00:05:31,400 Speaker 3: own humbling at the altar of basketball mediocrity. 104 00:05:32,360 --> 00:05:34,880 Speaker 1: We go way way, way, way, way way. 105 00:05:34,680 --> 00:05:37,160 Speaker 3: Way back in the hot tub time machine the day 106 00:05:37,320 --> 00:05:41,239 Speaker 3: Bill Fitch blew the whistle on me. You don't forget 107 00:05:41,240 --> 00:05:44,599 Speaker 3: the sound of that whistle. It was a special was 108 00:05:44,640 --> 00:05:47,080 Speaker 3: a cut through the gym, It cut through the noise. 109 00:05:47,120 --> 00:05:50,760 Speaker 3: It cut right through your heart, right through your self esteem, 110 00:05:51,120 --> 00:05:54,919 Speaker 3: like a butter knife through those discount sheet cakes that 111 00:05:54,960 --> 00:05:56,640 Speaker 3: you get right. I mean, this thing was big, and 112 00:05:56,680 --> 00:05:58,479 Speaker 3: I was like, put me in, coach, I think I 113 00:05:58,520 --> 00:06:03,640 Speaker 3: can play, and let yes, I can't. Long before, long 114 00:06:03,760 --> 00:06:08,960 Speaker 3: before yours truly became the self proclaimed General of Degenerates, 115 00:06:09,680 --> 00:06:14,520 Speaker 3: the Tycoon of teas, the master of disaster, Long before 116 00:06:14,680 --> 00:06:18,720 Speaker 3: Overnight Radio, long before the Malord Militia was even a thing, 117 00:06:20,080 --> 00:06:24,720 Speaker 3: there was a little bit of a a day that 118 00:06:25,040 --> 00:06:25,920 Speaker 3: changed a lot. 119 00:06:25,960 --> 00:06:26,880 Speaker 1: I don't know how to describe it. 120 00:06:27,160 --> 00:06:31,000 Speaker 3: I was just a young radio dork and I was 121 00:06:31,040 --> 00:06:35,839 Speaker 3: assigned to cover the LA Clippers at training camp. And 122 00:06:35,880 --> 00:06:40,039 Speaker 3: training camp was down at uc Irvine, a gymnasium called 123 00:06:40,080 --> 00:06:43,080 Speaker 3: at the time the Brent Events Center because the Brand 124 00:06:43,200 --> 00:06:46,000 Speaker 3: family donated a lot of money. It was the home 125 00:06:46,040 --> 00:06:48,440 Speaker 3: of the ant Eaters. Yes, if you're not familiar, the 126 00:06:48,480 --> 00:06:52,000 Speaker 3: ant Eaters, the only mascot in college sports that sounds 127 00:06:52,000 --> 00:06:55,920 Speaker 3: like it came from the rejected episode of Sesame Street 128 00:06:55,960 --> 00:07:00,560 Speaker 3: after Dark the ant Eaters, and that day it was 129 00:07:00,600 --> 00:07:03,200 Speaker 3: also that gymnasium. The Brenavan Center was also home to 130 00:07:03,279 --> 00:07:06,360 Speaker 3: probably the slowest fast break in recorded history. 131 00:07:07,360 --> 00:07:08,680 Speaker 1: But let's get to the point, please. 132 00:07:08,920 --> 00:07:13,000 Speaker 3: When the whistle blew, So we're playing the media basketball game, 133 00:07:13,040 --> 00:07:15,840 Speaker 3: which is code for a collection of people who write 134 00:07:15,880 --> 00:07:18,440 Speaker 3: and talk about sports trying to remember how knees work 135 00:07:19,080 --> 00:07:23,160 Speaker 3: and how to dribble a basketball and not carry it like. 136 00:07:23,080 --> 00:07:24,000 Speaker 1: It's a football. 137 00:07:24,400 --> 00:07:26,360 Speaker 3: So we didn't play against the coaches, I want to 138 00:07:26,400 --> 00:07:30,120 Speaker 3: be very clear, which was probably a good thing, because 139 00:07:30,120 --> 00:07:31,720 Speaker 3: this was the era of the Clippers. 140 00:07:31,960 --> 00:07:35,200 Speaker 1: Were the Clippers a national punch line. They didn't win anything. 141 00:07:35,240 --> 00:07:35,960 Speaker 1: They were a joke. 142 00:07:36,320 --> 00:07:38,200 Speaker 3: They were in the draft lottery every year. They were 143 00:07:38,240 --> 00:07:41,120 Speaker 3: going to rename the Draft Lottery presented by the Clippers. 144 00:07:41,800 --> 00:07:45,440 Speaker 3: But we were coached that day by Bill Fitch, Hall 145 00:07:45,520 --> 00:07:50,320 Speaker 3: of famer NBA lifer, the man who led the Boston 146 00:07:50,440 --> 00:07:53,560 Speaker 3: Celtics to a championship with Larry Bird and coach Taquima 147 00:07:53,600 --> 00:07:56,760 Speaker 3: lai Jahwan and got to the NBA Finals on this 148 00:07:57,080 --> 00:08:01,320 Speaker 3: fateful day. He also coached my fat ass. Now this 149 00:08:01,520 --> 00:08:04,080 Speaker 3: is the part of the story where I should tell 150 00:08:04,120 --> 00:08:07,840 Speaker 3: you that in my head I was an elite pre 151 00:08:07,920 --> 00:08:11,160 Speaker 3: point shooter, a young sniper, and I went into that 152 00:08:11,320 --> 00:08:14,000 Speaker 3: day thinking I'm going to impress these guys so much 153 00:08:14,080 --> 00:08:16,640 Speaker 3: They're going to offer me a ten day contract. It 154 00:08:16,680 --> 00:08:19,360 Speaker 3: turns out I wasn't. I was not at that point. 155 00:08:19,400 --> 00:08:23,040 Speaker 3: Moneyball Maller that would come later. I learned my ability 156 00:08:23,080 --> 00:08:26,000 Speaker 3: to shoot much later in life. I was not exactly 157 00:08:26,040 --> 00:08:28,560 Speaker 3: in game shape. I did not realize that this was 158 00:08:28,600 --> 00:08:32,559 Speaker 3: a thing. I look like the before photo when you 159 00:08:32,640 --> 00:08:34,800 Speaker 3: go to the gym. You know, they sign up for 160 00:08:34,840 --> 00:08:36,840 Speaker 3: memberships at the gym. They signed you up and they said, well, 161 00:08:36,880 --> 00:08:40,000 Speaker 3: here's like the wall, and here's the people before and after, 162 00:08:40,040 --> 00:08:42,720 Speaker 3: and they look really fat and disgusting, and the next 163 00:08:42,720 --> 00:08:45,880 Speaker 3: photo they're totally ripped. I was built at that time 164 00:08:45,880 --> 00:08:49,360 Speaker 3: in my life more like a breakfast burrito than a 165 00:08:49,400 --> 00:08:55,479 Speaker 3: shooting guard. Fleet of foot was not a phrase anyone 166 00:08:56,400 --> 00:09:00,560 Speaker 3: was using. So midway through this media game and quotes 167 00:09:01,000 --> 00:09:04,120 Speaker 3: Coach Fitch blew the whistle. Now keep in mind, I'm 168 00:09:04,160 --> 00:09:07,240 Speaker 3: just trying to stay alive at this point. It wasn't 169 00:09:07,320 --> 00:09:09,880 Speaker 3: a little too as I said, This was a full throated, 170 00:09:10,000 --> 00:09:14,360 Speaker 3: gym stopping sound of the whistle. And you know how 171 00:09:14,440 --> 00:09:17,800 Speaker 3: sound just bounces off a gymnasium, the sound of a 172 00:09:17,800 --> 00:09:20,199 Speaker 3: basketball dribbling or a whistle, it just echoes to the 173 00:09:20,200 --> 00:09:25,200 Speaker 3: whole thing. So everyone froze, and Coach is staring at me. 174 00:09:27,040 --> 00:09:30,120 Speaker 3: He then paused for a second, trying to collect his thoughts, 175 00:09:30,880 --> 00:09:32,640 Speaker 3: and he continued to look at me. He said, in 176 00:09:32,679 --> 00:09:38,320 Speaker 3: my entire coaching career, you are the worst player I 177 00:09:38,360 --> 00:09:41,840 Speaker 3: have ever coached. Now, this is a man who coached 178 00:09:41,920 --> 00:09:45,840 Speaker 3: teams that went fifteen and sixty seven. He coached the 179 00:09:45,880 --> 00:09:48,120 Speaker 3: Clippers and the New Jersey Nets when they were in 180 00:09:48,160 --> 00:09:54,000 Speaker 3: the sewer, and somehow, some way, I was rock bottom. 181 00:09:55,000 --> 00:09:57,720 Speaker 3: That is how he described me. Now, my friends in 182 00:09:57,800 --> 00:10:02,480 Speaker 3: the media, guys like Alex norm and Lee, you don't 183 00:10:02,520 --> 00:10:06,480 Speaker 3: know who they are. They're all either retired now or dead, 184 00:10:06,679 --> 00:10:09,079 Speaker 3: unfortunately because time has passed. They were older than me, 185 00:10:10,000 --> 00:10:13,960 Speaker 3: and they were my eyewitnesses who reminded me of that 186 00:10:14,080 --> 00:10:18,320 Speaker 3: particular moment to bust my balls for years. 187 00:10:19,080 --> 00:10:19,800 Speaker 1: Now, here's the thing. 188 00:10:19,880 --> 00:10:24,200 Speaker 3: Bill Fitch didn't just humiliate me and move on. He 189 00:10:24,240 --> 00:10:28,760 Speaker 3: actually befriended me. Now we weren't great friends, but around 190 00:10:28,800 --> 00:10:31,360 Speaker 3: media sessions, I saw him a couple times a week. 191 00:10:31,400 --> 00:10:35,520 Speaker 3: We taught coops and he'd also talk about life, and 192 00:10:35,559 --> 00:10:38,079 Speaker 3: he'd pull me aside and give me little nuggets about 193 00:10:38,080 --> 00:10:40,679 Speaker 3: how the NBA really worked and what really goes on 194 00:10:40,760 --> 00:10:43,520 Speaker 3: behind the scenes. And I had been there since the 195 00:10:43,640 --> 00:10:46,240 Speaker 3: early days. For me, it was like this guy's a dinosaur, 196 00:10:46,800 --> 00:10:50,160 Speaker 3: and he didn't call it the industrial complex of sports. 197 00:10:50,160 --> 00:10:51,439 Speaker 1: That's what we call it now. 198 00:10:51,840 --> 00:10:54,480 Speaker 3: It really wasn't like that because in that era, even 199 00:10:54,480 --> 00:10:56,720 Speaker 3: in the nineties, the NBA was still run mostly as 200 00:10:56,720 --> 00:10:58,680 Speaker 3: a mom and pop operation. It was really the two 201 00:10:58,720 --> 00:11:03,480 Speaker 3: thousands it became completely corporate. But among the things that 202 00:11:03,679 --> 00:11:06,440 Speaker 3: we chatted about, he told me about how perception always 203 00:11:06,480 --> 00:11:08,800 Speaker 3: beats reality, you know, the things that are kind of 204 00:11:08,880 --> 00:11:12,160 Speaker 3: normal for me now, but at that time I was like, oh, 205 00:11:12,200 --> 00:11:14,560 Speaker 3: this is interesting. He told me how the narrative matters 206 00:11:14,600 --> 00:11:17,439 Speaker 3: more than the box score, and how the machine choose 207 00:11:17,559 --> 00:11:20,760 Speaker 3: up players, how politics are involved, and who gets the 208 00:11:20,760 --> 00:11:23,360 Speaker 3: good coaching jobs, and you know, he said, even in 209 00:11:23,400 --> 00:11:26,240 Speaker 3: your business as a media guy, you know, it's it's 210 00:11:26,480 --> 00:11:28,160 Speaker 3: you know who you know, not what you know, and 211 00:11:28,200 --> 00:11:31,400 Speaker 3: all this stuff, and so it's just things that I 212 00:11:32,000 --> 00:11:33,520 Speaker 3: take for granted now, but at. 213 00:11:33,360 --> 00:11:34,400 Speaker 1: That time I didn't. 214 00:11:34,440 --> 00:11:37,920 Speaker 3: And he pointed out that the league doesn't run on basketball, 215 00:11:37,960 --> 00:11:39,600 Speaker 3: it runs on power and spin. 216 00:11:39,679 --> 00:11:40,720 Speaker 1: And he also mentioned how. 217 00:11:40,640 --> 00:11:44,240 Speaker 3: The talent gap from the top team and he coached 218 00:11:44,240 --> 00:11:46,240 Speaker 3: the Celtics and the Rockets, who are very good teams, 219 00:11:46,640 --> 00:11:47,440 Speaker 3: down to the worst team. 220 00:11:47,440 --> 00:11:49,600 Speaker 1: He said, and this is thirty years ago. 221 00:11:49,640 --> 00:11:52,240 Speaker 3: I guess almost now, but he said it's it wasn't 222 00:11:52,240 --> 00:11:54,720 Speaker 3: that big. And if you are disciplined, if you're focused, 223 00:11:54,720 --> 00:11:57,760 Speaker 3: you play fundamentally sound basketball, you will have a chance 224 00:11:57,760 --> 00:12:00,240 Speaker 3: in every game with about two minutes ago. The thing 225 00:12:00,280 --> 00:12:02,920 Speaker 3: that separates the teams often is the star players are 226 00:12:02,960 --> 00:12:05,839 Speaker 3: better on the good teams as opposed to the bad teams. 227 00:12:05,840 --> 00:12:10,120 Speaker 3: They make plays in crunch time. So I mean things 228 00:12:10,160 --> 00:12:13,880 Speaker 3: like that, And it really stuck with me when he 229 00:12:14,000 --> 00:12:16,800 Speaker 3: said that teams that get blown out on a regular 230 00:12:16,800 --> 00:12:22,200 Speaker 3: basis are lazy, they're not well coached, they're undisciplined. And 231 00:12:22,720 --> 00:12:26,079 Speaker 3: it's true in all sports. Yeah, defense and effort can 232 00:12:26,120 --> 00:12:30,960 Speaker 3: close the gap on talent deficiency, a sense of urgency, 233 00:12:31,000 --> 00:12:35,840 Speaker 3: the ripple effect. I've carried that with me for over 234 00:12:35,920 --> 00:12:40,040 Speaker 3: twenty five years since that conversation, and it was a 235 00:12:40,040 --> 00:12:43,199 Speaker 3: badge of honor. Bill Fitch passed away a couple of 236 00:12:43,240 --> 00:12:47,040 Speaker 3: years ago, a gruff, rough man to most, an acquired 237 00:12:47,080 --> 00:12:49,800 Speaker 3: taste to some of his players. He was a kind 238 00:12:49,880 --> 00:12:52,280 Speaker 3: man to me. And this is not a eulogy because 239 00:12:52,280 --> 00:12:53,640 Speaker 3: he's been gone for a while. 240 00:12:53,840 --> 00:12:57,000 Speaker 1: But the man made a career. 241 00:12:57,040 --> 00:13:00,480 Speaker 3: He was in a military, he was younger, the NBA. 242 00:13:00,559 --> 00:13:02,600 Speaker 3: The man had an NBA title, he was Coach of 243 00:13:02,600 --> 00:13:04,679 Speaker 3: the Year. I think he won it more than once. 244 00:13:04,720 --> 00:13:06,800 Speaker 3: He might have only won it once. And he had 245 00:13:06,800 --> 00:13:09,840 Speaker 3: more basketball stories than most of us have hair. Certainly 246 00:13:09,880 --> 00:13:12,199 Speaker 3: I don't have that much air now. And to me, though, 247 00:13:12,440 --> 00:13:14,840 Speaker 3: he's the guy who looked me dead in the eye 248 00:13:15,000 --> 00:13:17,280 Speaker 3: and declared in front of all of my colleagues in 249 00:13:17,320 --> 00:13:18,880 Speaker 3: the media that I. 250 00:13:18,840 --> 00:13:22,720 Speaker 1: Was the worst player he'd ever coached. Hell yeah, And 251 00:13:22,760 --> 00:13:23,240 Speaker 1: I thought of that. 252 00:13:23,559 --> 00:13:25,440 Speaker 3: Listen, this guy, coach Larry Bird, who was the greatest 253 00:13:25,440 --> 00:13:28,200 Speaker 3: player he ever coached, And I here I am, and 254 00:13:28,240 --> 00:13:30,520 Speaker 3: I'm the worst. And you always remember the best, you 255 00:13:30,559 --> 00:13:33,440 Speaker 3: always remember the worst. And somehow that became a big thing. 256 00:13:34,320 --> 00:13:37,280 Speaker 3: I'm badge of honor because that whistle was not just 257 00:13:37,720 --> 00:13:41,600 Speaker 3: about a bad screen or a my ass not getting 258 00:13:41,679 --> 00:13:45,559 Speaker 3: back in transition defense, or blowing a layup or whatever. 259 00:13:45,600 --> 00:13:48,240 Speaker 3: It was a moment I learned how all of the 260 00:13:48,320 --> 00:13:52,800 Speaker 3: sporting world really works. It began that gym, the machine, 261 00:13:52,880 --> 00:13:57,680 Speaker 3: the mythology, all of it. And so when I see 262 00:13:57,760 --> 00:14:00,880 Speaker 3: something like the Celtics media game this week fifty seven 263 00:14:00,960 --> 00:14:04,480 Speaker 3: to four, again, coaches dunking on writers like they're trying 264 00:14:04,480 --> 00:14:07,880 Speaker 3: to settle a grudge from nineteen eighty six or something 265 00:14:07,960 --> 00:14:10,040 Speaker 3: like that. I laugh because I've been there, right, I've 266 00:14:10,080 --> 00:14:12,040 Speaker 3: been there. I've been in that situation. I didn't just 267 00:14:12,120 --> 00:14:15,200 Speaker 3: cover a blowout. I was the blowout. But here's the thing. 268 00:14:15,960 --> 00:14:19,520 Speaker 3: When the dust settled, I walked out of that gym 269 00:14:20,160 --> 00:14:24,000 Speaker 3: with something better than a box score. I walked out 270 00:14:24,000 --> 00:14:26,400 Speaker 3: with again a casual friendship with a guy that was 271 00:14:26,400 --> 00:14:30,600 Speaker 3: a Hall of Fame coach, and that gave me those days. 272 00:14:30,640 --> 00:14:33,320 Speaker 3: I have so many members about covering sports. In those days, 273 00:14:33,560 --> 00:14:36,040 Speaker 3: it was much different than it is now. It was 274 00:14:36,080 --> 00:14:41,040 Speaker 3: a fraternity and my education from I learned from Tommy 275 00:14:41,080 --> 00:14:45,000 Speaker 3: Disorda with the Dodgers, learned from Bill Fitch. These are 276 00:14:45,000 --> 00:14:46,680 Speaker 3: two of the big coaches that kind of as a 277 00:14:46,720 --> 00:14:50,040 Speaker 3: young kid taught me the ways of the world in 278 00:14:50,120 --> 00:14:52,280 Speaker 3: covering sports. And there were some others along the way, 279 00:14:52,320 --> 00:14:54,480 Speaker 3: but those were two of the big ones. And so 280 00:14:55,440 --> 00:14:58,600 Speaker 3: it was pretty cool. I get this education and a 281 00:14:58,680 --> 00:14:59,840 Speaker 3: story that still. 282 00:14:59,600 --> 00:15:01,040 Speaker 1: Lands all these years later. 283 00:15:01,240 --> 00:15:03,560 Speaker 3: I just popped right back into my head. I was 284 00:15:03,600 --> 00:15:06,880 Speaker 3: like I was, that's probably twenty years old at the time. 285 00:15:07,120 --> 00:15:08,520 Speaker 3: It's just craziness. 286 00:15:08,560 --> 00:15:11,640 Speaker 1: Crazy. Now some guys get their basketball. 287 00:15:11,400 --> 00:15:16,320 Speaker 3: Epiphanies with Larry Bird or Michael Jordan or Magic. 288 00:15:16,040 --> 00:15:17,120 Speaker 1: Johnson or something like that. 289 00:15:17,160 --> 00:15:20,760 Speaker 3: I got mine with Bill Fitch's whistle, and honestly I 290 00:15:20,800 --> 00:15:24,280 Speaker 3: would not trade that for anything. I wouldn't It was 291 00:15:24,480 --> 00:15:27,840 Speaker 3: an amazing, amazing time. So I want to thank Joe 292 00:15:27,880 --> 00:15:30,760 Speaker 3: Mizoula and the Celtics for bringing that memory back, which 293 00:15:30,760 --> 00:15:32,320 Speaker 3: I know was in my head. It was buried in 294 00:15:32,320 --> 00:15:33,960 Speaker 3: the back of my head. So it's kind of cool 295 00:15:34,320 --> 00:15:37,800 Speaker 3: now turning the page on that. You've likely heard the 296 00:15:37,800 --> 00:15:41,600 Speaker 3: phrase it never rains in Los Angeles unless it does, 297 00:15:42,040 --> 00:15:46,120 Speaker 3: so when it does, it's not a sprinkle, it's not 298 00:15:46,200 --> 00:15:49,040 Speaker 3: a drizzle. It's not light rain. When it rains in 299 00:15:49,160 --> 00:15:54,040 Speaker 3: LA it's as if someone upstairs found the unleashed chaos 300 00:15:54,360 --> 00:15:59,600 Speaker 3: button and pressed it. Because no matter what level of 301 00:15:59,720 --> 00:16:02,080 Speaker 3: rain I say, it doesn't sprinkle or drizzle, they'll often 302 00:16:02,120 --> 00:16:02,640 Speaker 3: say light. 303 00:16:02,560 --> 00:16:03,800 Speaker 1: Rain bull crap. 304 00:16:04,160 --> 00:16:08,480 Speaker 3: It's bull crap because whatever rain comes down in LA 305 00:16:08,680 --> 00:16:10,920 Speaker 3: in the La basin, the city isn't ready. 306 00:16:11,000 --> 00:16:11,800 Speaker 1: It never is. 307 00:16:11,920 --> 00:16:17,040 Speaker 3: The storm rolls in like a substitute teacher walking into 308 00:16:17,040 --> 00:16:21,000 Speaker 3: a junior high school eighth grade class five minutes before 309 00:16:21,040 --> 00:16:24,520 Speaker 3: the bell, and immediately the kids are throwing spitballs at him. 310 00:16:24,680 --> 00:16:25,560 Speaker 1: Nobody knows what to do. 311 00:16:26,240 --> 00:16:28,800 Speaker 3: So the other night I went into the mother Ship. 312 00:16:29,240 --> 00:16:33,520 Speaker 3: From the remote studio, I shade my way into the 313 00:16:33,520 --> 00:16:36,280 Speaker 3: Fox Sports Radio studios and beautiful Sherman Oaks just down 314 00:16:36,320 --> 00:16:39,080 Speaker 3: the hill from bell Air, and so there I was 315 00:16:39,520 --> 00:16:40,120 Speaker 3: doing my show. 316 00:16:40,160 --> 00:16:40,560 Speaker 1: Whatever. 317 00:16:41,120 --> 00:16:43,000 Speaker 3: Now I had heard it was going to rain, but 318 00:16:43,160 --> 00:16:45,520 Speaker 3: when you live in La you don't normally look at 319 00:16:45,560 --> 00:16:47,920 Speaker 3: the weather. I don't really worry about it. I don't 320 00:16:47,920 --> 00:16:50,560 Speaker 3: watch the local news anymore. So I would usually get 321 00:16:50,560 --> 00:16:53,920 Speaker 3: the weather from the local news. And normally I find 322 00:16:53,960 --> 00:16:55,640 Speaker 3: out about the weather because someone will says, Hey, it's 323 00:16:55,640 --> 00:16:58,560 Speaker 3: gonna rain so and so, and somebody had said that. 324 00:16:58,600 --> 00:17:02,120 Speaker 3: So I did have some vague reference to rain, and 325 00:17:03,640 --> 00:17:05,840 Speaker 3: so I went in. I normally tried to avoid going 326 00:17:05,840 --> 00:17:07,119 Speaker 3: in on the rain. And I'll tell you why in 327 00:17:07,160 --> 00:17:11,040 Speaker 3: a minute, as I explained this story. So I showed up. 328 00:17:11,040 --> 00:17:13,000 Speaker 3: It was perfectly fine. On my drive in there was 329 00:17:13,040 --> 00:17:15,800 Speaker 3: no rain. And then at some point when I was 330 00:17:15,800 --> 00:17:21,000 Speaker 3: getting my steps in and ching around the Fox Sports 331 00:17:21,080 --> 00:17:24,560 Speaker 3: Radio studios the hallways there I saw I looked out 332 00:17:24,600 --> 00:17:26,680 Speaker 3: the window and I was like, oh, it's raining. Oh man, 333 00:17:26,680 --> 00:17:30,159 Speaker 3: it looks like it's raining DC amount and so I 334 00:17:30,240 --> 00:17:33,000 Speaker 3: meant to listen. Nobody knows what to do here, so 335 00:17:33,080 --> 00:17:34,920 Speaker 3: I'm doing the overnight show. I'm insuing with Oaks. It 336 00:17:35,320 --> 00:17:38,440 Speaker 3: starts pouring, and now not the polite you know, I 337 00:17:38,840 --> 00:17:40,840 Speaker 3: go to the East Coast, visit my brothers in New York, 338 00:17:40,920 --> 00:17:44,040 Speaker 3: and sometimes you visit him and the rain it's just 339 00:17:44,080 --> 00:17:47,960 Speaker 3: a casual, light rain and it's fine. You know, you 340 00:17:47,960 --> 00:17:50,560 Speaker 3: show up, you get a trench coat. Gently taps her umbrella. 341 00:17:50,920 --> 00:17:54,960 Speaker 3: Now this was la downpour, the kind that turns freeways 342 00:17:55,040 --> 00:17:58,560 Speaker 3: into an audition tape for The Deadliest Catch four h 343 00:17:58,680 --> 00:18:02,399 Speaker 3: five edition or one edition. So you know how people 344 00:18:02,400 --> 00:18:06,200 Speaker 3: always say, well, Californians can't drive on the rain. I 345 00:18:06,240 --> 00:18:09,080 Speaker 3: would say they're wrong. Now, I would also say everywhere 346 00:18:09,080 --> 00:18:12,920 Speaker 3: I've been, and I've been in Boston, New York, Minnesota, 347 00:18:13,160 --> 00:18:16,840 Speaker 3: I've been to Florida, nobody knows how to drive in 348 00:18:16,880 --> 00:18:19,399 Speaker 3: the rain. But people like the goof on California, so 349 00:18:19,400 --> 00:18:21,399 Speaker 3: they don't know how to drive in the rain. So 350 00:18:21,760 --> 00:18:23,639 Speaker 3: it's like, yeah, they don't know how to drive. Nobody 351 00:18:23,640 --> 00:18:26,040 Speaker 3: knows how to drive the way, but California don't drive 352 00:18:26,080 --> 00:18:29,960 Speaker 3: in the rain. That's my argument. They actually are doing 353 00:18:29,960 --> 00:18:31,960 Speaker 3: an audition because everyone's trying to be in the movies. 354 00:18:32,000 --> 00:18:36,800 Speaker 3: They're doing an audition for Evil caneval stunt School is 355 00:18:37,200 --> 00:18:42,439 Speaker 3: what they're doing. I'm telling you every lane, every lane 356 00:18:42,640 --> 00:18:47,800 Speaker 3: is a Roulette wheel. It just is the moment the 357 00:18:47,840 --> 00:18:50,440 Speaker 3: first rain drop hits that asphalt. The one on one 358 00:18:50,680 --> 00:18:54,560 Speaker 3: Freeway in southern California becomes a slipping slide, the four 359 00:18:54,680 --> 00:18:58,520 Speaker 3: oh five, depending on what part you're in, a demolition derby. 360 00:18:58,560 --> 00:19:03,840 Speaker 3: And every Prius driver a philosopher pondering why me, whymy 361 00:19:03,880 --> 00:19:05,600 Speaker 3: Now I don't drive a Prius, so I'm not in 362 00:19:05,640 --> 00:19:06,040 Speaker 3: that crowd. 363 00:19:06,160 --> 00:19:06,240 Speaker 2: Now. 364 00:19:06,359 --> 00:19:09,240 Speaker 3: Normally not to give you my exact root or route 365 00:19:09,280 --> 00:19:11,480 Speaker 3: on my way home, but I normally start out taking 366 00:19:11,480 --> 00:19:14,240 Speaker 3: the one oh one, which goes out near Sherman Oaks, 367 00:19:14,840 --> 00:19:19,440 Speaker 3: and I circle around the mountains and the Hollywood Freeway, 368 00:19:19,480 --> 00:19:22,600 Speaker 3: the ribbon of pavement that snakes its way past these 369 00:19:22,800 --> 00:19:27,960 Speaker 3: iconic landmarks, the Hollywood Bowl, Hollywood Boulevard, Sunset, Melrose. 370 00:19:28,000 --> 00:19:30,800 Speaker 1: These are iconic places in LA and. 371 00:19:30,680 --> 00:19:33,520 Speaker 3: I get a great view of the Capitol Records Building, 372 00:19:34,400 --> 00:19:38,199 Speaker 3: the building, the house that Nat King Cole built, the 373 00:19:38,280 --> 00:19:42,040 Speaker 3: spot where legends like Sinatra and Dean Martin, the Beatles, 374 00:19:42,440 --> 00:19:46,760 Speaker 3: the Beach Boys all etched themselves into the soundtrack. 375 00:19:46,280 --> 00:19:51,920 Speaker 1: Of America Immortal Musical Acts. They recorded songs in that building. 376 00:19:52,280 --> 00:19:53,119 Speaker 1: I know the building. 377 00:19:53,200 --> 00:19:56,680 Speaker 3: Years ago, my fat ass did a radio remote from 378 00:19:56,720 --> 00:19:59,600 Speaker 3: the roof of the Capitol Records building during a rainstorm. 379 00:20:00,080 --> 00:20:02,480 Speaker 1: Floated kind of in my head. 380 00:20:02,520 --> 00:20:04,959 Speaker 3: At footed it flooded, I felt like I was floating 381 00:20:04,960 --> 00:20:07,119 Speaker 3: because the roof was covered in water. 382 00:20:07,520 --> 00:20:09,960 Speaker 1: So it flooded. The roof of. 383 00:20:10,040 --> 00:20:15,080 Speaker 3: The most famous building in that part of Hollywood, and 384 00:20:15,119 --> 00:20:17,439 Speaker 3: one of the most famous buildings in the world, was 385 00:20:17,480 --> 00:20:22,640 Speaker 3: like a puddle foreshadowing, possibly because this time the Hollywood 386 00:20:22,640 --> 00:20:26,400 Speaker 3: Freeway was an actual river and I, without a paddle, 387 00:20:26,960 --> 00:20:30,399 Speaker 3: had to find another way home. The freeway was not closed, 388 00:20:30,960 --> 00:20:34,639 Speaker 3: however it should have been, so I determined not to 389 00:20:34,680 --> 00:20:36,520 Speaker 3: go that way because I've taken it in the past 390 00:20:36,560 --> 00:20:37,600 Speaker 3: and thought I was going to die. 391 00:20:37,600 --> 00:20:40,159 Speaker 1: I almost did die multiple times. I said, I know 392 00:20:40,200 --> 00:20:40,880 Speaker 1: I'm going to die. 393 00:20:40,920 --> 00:20:43,320 Speaker 3: I don't want to die today. Maybe tomorrow or the 394 00:20:43,359 --> 00:20:45,679 Speaker 3: next day, but not today. So I detoured past Dodger 395 00:20:45,760 --> 00:20:49,280 Speaker 3: Stadium because nothing says life choice is like doing a 396 00:20:49,400 --> 00:20:54,679 Speaker 3: late night drive, which is really like a you know, 397 00:20:54,760 --> 00:20:59,000 Speaker 3: some kind of Olympic event around stalled cars. You know, 398 00:20:59,000 --> 00:21:02,280 Speaker 3: you see sunset levart over their big rigs, creeping like 399 00:21:02,320 --> 00:21:07,720 Speaker 3: they're hauling nitroglycerine. Bunch of wannabe bunch of wannabe Vin 400 00:21:07,760 --> 00:21:11,280 Speaker 3: Diesel's treating wet pavement like it's a racetrack, and they're 401 00:21:11,320 --> 00:21:13,920 Speaker 3: trying to show people that they're ready for the next 402 00:21:14,400 --> 00:21:17,000 Speaker 3: big movie and the trilogy, which is more than a 403 00:21:17,040 --> 00:21:20,760 Speaker 3: trilogy now of Fast and Furious. I saw three accidents 404 00:21:20,800 --> 00:21:24,359 Speaker 3: in fifteen minutes. And the thing about is nobody panic, 405 00:21:25,040 --> 00:21:29,400 Speaker 3: Like nobody stopped in Los Angeles. We just nod at 406 00:21:29,400 --> 00:21:32,240 Speaker 3: the wreckage like it's part of the scenery. It's part 407 00:21:32,240 --> 00:21:35,040 Speaker 3: of the show. Do a little rubbernecking, you turn your head, 408 00:21:35,080 --> 00:21:37,919 Speaker 3: do a little nod. It's just like the palm trees, 409 00:21:37,960 --> 00:21:39,320 Speaker 3: the neon lights. 410 00:21:39,520 --> 00:21:40,280 Speaker 1: You'll just see a. 411 00:21:40,359 --> 00:21:43,880 Speaker 3: Hydro planning camra off to the left and there you go. 412 00:21:44,440 --> 00:21:47,639 Speaker 3: So by the time, by the time I pulled into 413 00:21:47,640 --> 00:21:50,679 Speaker 3: the north Woods, the long winding road in the north Woods, 414 00:21:51,000 --> 00:21:55,840 Speaker 3: soaked at this point in anxiety and windshield wiper fluid 415 00:21:55,840 --> 00:21:59,480 Speaker 3: that had gotten a lot of work. I needed a cigarette. 416 00:21:59,880 --> 00:22:02,920 Speaker 3: I don't smoke, but I needed to cigarette. I needed 417 00:22:02,960 --> 00:22:05,280 Speaker 3: one anyway, So this is the part of the story 418 00:22:05,320 --> 00:22:09,639 Speaker 3: where someone always says, well, why don't they fix the infrastructure, 419 00:22:09,640 --> 00:22:12,320 Speaker 3: ben they've got all that tax money. It's a lot 420 00:22:12,359 --> 00:22:16,919 Speaker 3: of taxation in California. And the reason they don't is 421 00:22:16,960 --> 00:22:23,120 Speaker 3: because this is La this is southern California, and they 422 00:22:23,119 --> 00:22:25,240 Speaker 3: get a lot of tax money. But those politicians need 423 00:22:25,280 --> 00:22:27,440 Speaker 3: a lot of money. And not to get political on 424 00:22:27,520 --> 00:22:31,240 Speaker 3: the podcast or anything like that, however, they spend their 425 00:22:31,280 --> 00:22:35,879 Speaker 3: money building movie sets. I guess I don't really think 426 00:22:35,920 --> 00:22:37,640 Speaker 3: they build many of those anymore. But they don't build 427 00:22:37,680 --> 00:22:41,720 Speaker 3: storm drains. And I have notice though, like the people 428 00:22:41,760 --> 00:22:44,359 Speaker 3: that work on the roads, and they're hardworking people, they're 429 00:22:44,359 --> 00:22:49,720 Speaker 3: hardworking people. No one ever seems to do advance work. 430 00:22:50,280 --> 00:22:53,399 Speaker 3: It's well known. It's this trend in southern California. Is 431 00:22:53,400 --> 00:22:55,720 Speaker 3: like one of the reasons the city burned down is 432 00:22:55,760 --> 00:22:58,879 Speaker 3: because of the incompetent politicians not saying why don't we 433 00:22:58,960 --> 00:23:00,919 Speaker 3: get out in front on this one, Why don't we 434 00:23:00,960 --> 00:23:02,280 Speaker 3: do some fire maintenance. 435 00:23:02,320 --> 00:23:03,560 Speaker 1: Why don't we have water. 436 00:23:03,440 --> 00:23:06,160 Speaker 3: Ready just in case because there's gonna be this day 437 00:23:06,200 --> 00:23:09,000 Speaker 3: where you know things are gonna burn and like it's 438 00:23:09,000 --> 00:23:12,520 Speaker 3: gonna rain, Why don't we I don't know. Why don't 439 00:23:12,560 --> 00:23:16,320 Speaker 3: we clear out the storm drains so the highways don't flood? 440 00:23:16,400 --> 00:23:17,040 Speaker 1: How about that? 441 00:23:17,359 --> 00:23:17,560 Speaker 2: No? 442 00:23:17,560 --> 00:23:19,040 Speaker 1: No, no, why don't we instead? 443 00:23:19,040 --> 00:23:22,399 Speaker 3: Why don't we wait until everything floods, everything floods, and 444 00:23:22,440 --> 00:23:27,080 Speaker 3: then then we'll send out emergency crews to be heroes 445 00:23:27,760 --> 00:23:31,040 Speaker 3: and save everyone when they could have done the work 446 00:23:31,160 --> 00:23:32,959 Speaker 3: in advance, and then no one would have kissed their 447 00:23:32,960 --> 00:23:34,160 Speaker 3: ass and said how great they are. 448 00:23:34,800 --> 00:23:37,359 Speaker 1: Uh So, instead it's like, Ahna, we don't need to 449 00:23:37,359 --> 00:23:37,560 Speaker 1: do that. 450 00:23:38,200 --> 00:23:41,280 Speaker 3: We we don't need to invest in asphalt that can 451 00:23:41,320 --> 00:23:42,360 Speaker 3: handle water better. 452 00:23:42,119 --> 00:23:43,680 Speaker 1: Because it listen, look at the math. 453 00:23:43,720 --> 00:23:47,000 Speaker 3: It doesn't rain very much one storm and the entire 454 00:23:47,080 --> 00:23:50,840 Speaker 3: freeway system looks like a half finished water park. 455 00:23:51,840 --> 00:23:52,680 Speaker 1: But I digress. 456 00:23:53,240 --> 00:23:54,960 Speaker 3: So they tell me this is the price to live 457 00:23:55,000 --> 00:23:57,480 Speaker 3: in Paradise, that you get sunshines? 458 00:23:57,840 --> 00:23:59,600 Speaker 1: Is it three hundred some days a year? 459 00:23:59,800 --> 00:24:03,440 Speaker 3: And on the day it rains, the whole city collapses 460 00:24:03,640 --> 00:24:09,240 Speaker 3: like a croissant, flaky layers in the air everywhere. Fine, fine, 461 00:24:09,880 --> 00:24:13,199 Speaker 3: but if this is the new normal, this is the 462 00:24:13,240 --> 00:24:18,480 Speaker 3: new normal. I am filing a formal request for a 463 00:24:18,560 --> 00:24:20,280 Speaker 3: Fox Sports Radio company boat. 464 00:24:21,080 --> 00:24:23,280 Speaker 1: Now. I'm sure that the company, with all the. 465 00:24:23,200 --> 00:24:26,239 Speaker 3: Resources that they have are going to go out of 466 00:24:26,280 --> 00:24:29,680 Speaker 3: their way to provide me with a boat. Of course, 467 00:24:29,680 --> 00:24:33,280 Speaker 3: it's more likely that they will provide me with a dinghy. 468 00:24:34,240 --> 00:24:36,360 Speaker 1: That's right, a dingy, not which. 469 00:24:36,200 --> 00:24:38,400 Speaker 3: Is kind of a boat. You take the dinghy when 470 00:24:38,600 --> 00:24:42,280 Speaker 3: you dock the boat, you gotta take the dingy. So 471 00:24:43,320 --> 00:24:46,520 Speaker 3: maybe I'll get the dingy. You know, dingy put the 472 00:24:46,560 --> 00:24:49,040 Speaker 3: mal or militia logo on it. Because you live in 473 00:24:49,040 --> 00:24:49,680 Speaker 3: southern California. 474 00:24:49,720 --> 00:24:51,760 Speaker 1: You live in the LA area. When it rains, you're 475 00:24:51,800 --> 00:24:53,200 Speaker 1: not driving anymore. 476 00:24:53,920 --> 00:24:57,760 Speaker 3: No, no, no, no, there's no driving here. You are navigating, 477 00:24:58,440 --> 00:25:01,520 Speaker 3: is what you're doing. Some navigation is what's going on. 478 00:25:03,359 --> 00:25:05,160 Speaker 3: On that note, I want to. 479 00:25:05,119 --> 00:25:07,520 Speaker 1: Thank you guys. Now the mail bag is open. 480 00:25:07,600 --> 00:25:11,480 Speaker 3: Don't forget about Benny Versus the Penny, And would really 481 00:25:11,520 --> 00:25:13,320 Speaker 3: love for you to watch that let other people know 482 00:25:13,359 --> 00:25:13,800 Speaker 3: about it. 483 00:25:14,280 --> 00:25:16,600 Speaker 1: And I say, well, it's on YouTube, it's free. 484 00:25:17,040 --> 00:25:19,919 Speaker 3: I assume you know how to navigate your way around 485 00:25:20,680 --> 00:25:24,399 Speaker 3: the YouTube. Get those numbers up and grow the show. 486 00:25:24,520 --> 00:25:27,960 Speaker 3: It's exciting. It's exciting. And if you watch Benny Versus 487 00:25:27,960 --> 00:25:31,480 Speaker 3: the Penny. I actually got an email from YouTube which 488 00:25:31,520 --> 00:25:36,119 Speaker 3: indicates they are noticing the success that the show is having. 489 00:25:36,160 --> 00:25:40,680 Speaker 3: Which is a good encouraging sign as we are now 490 00:25:40,720 --> 00:25:43,959 Speaker 3: heading into week seven of Benny Versus the Penny, So 491 00:25:44,000 --> 00:25:47,480 Speaker 3: I'm happy about that the way the show is growing, 492 00:25:47,520 --> 00:25:49,760 Speaker 3: and I look forward to bigger and better things with 493 00:25:49,760 --> 00:25:53,120 Speaker 3: the great Tom Looney on that particular show. If you'd 494 00:25:53,200 --> 00:25:56,439 Speaker 3: like to submit a question for the mail bag, and 495 00:25:56,520 --> 00:25:59,240 Speaker 3: I haven't checked yet because I do everything at the 496 00:25:59,320 --> 00:26:02,880 Speaker 3: last minute, the mailbag is on Sunday, That's not technically true. 497 00:26:02,880 --> 00:26:05,960 Speaker 3: I don't do everything at the last minute on this podcast. 498 00:26:06,000 --> 00:26:08,480 Speaker 3: I normally rolled into the podcast studio and just crank 499 00:26:08,560 --> 00:26:10,879 Speaker 3: the mic on and start yapping. That's kind of how 500 00:26:10,880 --> 00:26:12,879 Speaker 3: the podcast thing is supposed to work. So it hadn't 501 00:26:12,880 --> 00:26:14,400 Speaker 3: crossed my mind. You had to check the mail bag. 502 00:26:14,640 --> 00:26:17,359 Speaker 3: If you'd like to send a question in I would 503 00:26:17,359 --> 00:26:20,200 Speaker 3: recommend doing it by the end of the day today 504 00:26:20,280 --> 00:26:23,920 Speaker 3: on Friday, which is the seventeenth day of October, and 505 00:26:24,000 --> 00:26:30,320 Speaker 3: you can email me at fifth hour and the actual 506 00:26:30,400 --> 00:26:32,439 Speaker 3: email if I could I remember the email, I mean 507 00:26:32,560 --> 00:26:35,480 Speaker 3: check the email here one second, the email address for 508 00:26:35,520 --> 00:26:37,720 Speaker 3: the show, the email that we use for the show, 509 00:26:38,320 --> 00:26:40,800 Speaker 3: which is very simple. It's real fifth hour, not just 510 00:26:40,840 --> 00:26:43,440 Speaker 3: for that real fifth hour at gmail dot com. 511 00:26:43,520 --> 00:26:45,200 Speaker 1: Do not send it to the other one. 512 00:26:45,800 --> 00:26:50,719 Speaker 3: And ohio Al knows the email address fer dog Alf. 513 00:26:50,720 --> 00:26:52,800 Speaker 3: We'd love to get some other people involved in this, 514 00:26:53,160 --> 00:26:54,879 Speaker 3: so if you would like to support the show, you 515 00:26:54,880 --> 00:26:57,520 Speaker 3: can email Real Fifth Hour at gmail dot com. I 516 00:26:57,520 --> 00:27:00,639 Speaker 3: mentioned Danny G will likely be back at some point 517 00:27:00,760 --> 00:27:06,040 Speaker 3: over the weekend. Got some other tales to tell from 518 00:27:06,160 --> 00:27:09,000 Speaker 3: things that have happened and whatnot. On that note, though, 519 00:27:09,080 --> 00:27:11,879 Speaker 3: on that note, we thank you, We appreciate you, we 520 00:27:12,000 --> 00:27:14,639 Speaker 3: love you for listening. You are my favorite person in 521 00:27:14,680 --> 00:27:18,040 Speaker 3: the world for doing this and supporting the Overnight Show 522 00:27:18,040 --> 00:27:21,760 Speaker 3: and all the other nonsense that we have on this 523 00:27:22,200 --> 00:27:25,800 Speaker 3: podcast and everything else. Have a wonderful start to your weave. 524 00:27:26,119 --> 00:27:28,760 Speaker 3: My weekend starts now. As soon as I get done 525 00:27:28,760 --> 00:27:31,560 Speaker 3: with this podcast, my weekend begins, and my weekend will 526 00:27:31,560 --> 00:27:33,280 Speaker 3: be no different than my week I plan on sitting 527 00:27:33,320 --> 00:27:35,520 Speaker 3: around watching a lot of sports this weekend. 528 00:27:35,520 --> 00:27:37,280 Speaker 1: That is the plan. Anyway, have a great. 529 00:27:37,200 --> 00:27:43,159 Speaker 3: Day in asta pasta later skater, I think that's how 530 00:27:43,359 --> 00:27:43,960 Speaker 3: Is that how you do it? 531 00:27:44,040 --> 00:27:44,960 Speaker 1: Danny later skater? 532 00:27:45,440 --> 00:27:49,760 Speaker 3: No, No, all right, we'll clean this up and post. 533 00:27:50,160 --> 00:27:52,240 Speaker 3: We're gonna clean this thing up and post. Everything will 534 00:27:52,280 --> 00:27:56,280 Speaker 3: be good. Don't worry about We got this now, I'm 535 00:27:56,280 --> 00:28:00,199 Speaker 3: telling you we got that. Danny. Yes, now, all right, 536 00:28:00,240 --> 00:28:02,120 Speaker 3: Danny's not He's in the other room on the other side. 537 00:28:02,240 --> 00:28:05,600 Speaker 3: He's nodding his head. Yes, Danny's he's doing all the production. Yeah, 538 00:28:05,640 --> 00:28:07,600 Speaker 3: I know you're doing the production. I got I got you, 539 00:28:07,720 --> 00:28:12,480 Speaker 3: all right, Daddy, all right, thank you, got a murder. 540 00:28:12,480 --> 00:28:12,879 Speaker 1: I gotta go.