WEBVTT - The Fifth Hour: Benny Does Broadway! 0:00:00.880 --> 0:00:01.600 Kubbooms. 0:00:02.440 --> 0:00:05.520 If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes 0:00:05.559 --> 0:00:09.360 a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants 0:00:09.360 --> 0:00:12.640 of the old republic, a sol fashion of fairness. He 0:00:12.760 --> 0:00:15.640 treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the 0:00:15.760 --> 0:00:17.200 rich pill poppers. 0:00:16.800 --> 0:00:17.640 In the penthouse. 0:00:18.239 --> 0:00:18.560 Wow. 0:00:18.760 --> 0:00:22.480 The clearing House of Hot takes break free for something special. 0:00:22.840 --> 0:00:29.520 The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now. 0:00:29.120 --> 0:00:36.680 In the aend ewhere back in the podcast Dojo. The 0:00:36.920 --> 0:00:40.960 show goes on all week and long. The Fifth Hour 0:00:41.040 --> 0:00:44.000 with Ben Mahler and Danny G. 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I've been to New York off 0:01:24.640 --> 0:01:27.760 and on for the almost thirty years i've gone to 0:01:27.800 --> 0:01:30.520 that city, and I did something for the first time 0:01:30.600 --> 0:01:33.800 in a generation. I'd never done this before and I 0:01:33.880 --> 0:01:36.360 might never do it again. And it happened in the 0:01:36.360 --> 0:01:39.560 Big Apple this past week. We'll have that. We've got 0:01:39.600 --> 0:01:46.160 the Backscratcher, the Culture Vulture, Blend right in, the cameo 0:01:46.480 --> 0:01:49.880 in Brooklyn, the Big Apple Bites, and whatever else pops up. 0:01:50.080 --> 0:01:53.280 But we're gonna actually start with Backscratcher, Danny. And the 0:01:53.440 --> 0:01:56.480 reason we are going to start with Backscratchers because last 0:01:56.520 --> 0:01:59.360 week I teased it and we never actually got to it. 0:02:00.080 --> 0:02:03.760 Yeah, we're backed up like New York City sewage exactly. 0:02:04.040 --> 0:02:06.800 I need some preparation. H We're backed up so bad there. 0:02:06.840 --> 0:02:08.960 So let's get to it right now. We'll go to 0:02:09.520 --> 0:02:13.399 right to the actual reviews of this podcast. We'd love 0:02:13.480 --> 0:02:16.240 for you to help the show out, and it's absolutely 0:02:16.280 --> 0:02:18.800 free to do this. Go to the Apple podcast page. 0:02:18.800 --> 0:02:23.360 It's available for anyone in the description area. It takes 0:02:23.440 --> 0:02:25.600 a couple of minutes. You got to click some buttons 0:02:25.600 --> 0:02:27.400 and you gotta type your name in and type a 0:02:27.400 --> 0:02:30.640 little review. It's not that hard, but if you're not 0:02:30.919 --> 0:02:33.280 tech savvy, it can be a pain in the behind. 0:02:33.880 --> 0:02:36.840 But you lay it all out there, Danny, you explain everything, 0:02:36.880 --> 0:02:39.200 so it's real simple to find where you need to 0:02:39.240 --> 0:02:43.240 go and help us out. And as we point out, 0:02:43.400 --> 0:02:46.919 the people that have the big office on the upper 0:02:46.960 --> 0:02:49.480 floor there that take the elevator, that have the corner 0:02:49.520 --> 0:02:54.679 office and make big decisions in programming, they read the reviews. 0:02:54.919 --> 0:02:57.400 I don't know why they do, but they do. So 0:02:57.520 --> 0:02:58.320 it helps us out. 0:02:58.760 --> 0:03:02.080 Yeah, it helps with Apple ranking the top podcast in 0:03:02.120 --> 0:03:05.359 the country, So if you get five stars, that means 0:03:05.720 --> 0:03:08.560 you're just helping us move up to the top, rise 0:03:08.600 --> 0:03:10.200 to the top, like Dougie Fresh. 0:03:10.360 --> 0:03:11.120 Yeah. 0:03:11.200 --> 0:03:14.480 And to be honest, we could also just pay bots 0:03:14.520 --> 0:03:16.320 to give us reviews, but that costs a lot of 0:03:16.320 --> 0:03:17.519 money and we don't have the budget for it. 0:03:18.160 --> 0:03:19.960 Yeah. No, they're not going to do that for us. 0:03:20.320 --> 0:03:22.119 I'm proud to say that we have not spent one 0:03:22.160 --> 0:03:25.840 dollar on paid reviews. So any any review you see, good, 0:03:25.880 --> 0:03:28.120 bad or ugly, or from real people as far as 0:03:28.120 --> 0:03:31.400 we know, and now, if anybody wants to provide free 0:03:31.400 --> 0:03:34.600 bots to help us out, I certainly would be against that, 0:03:34.760 --> 0:03:37.640 but I don't have access to the bots. So until 0:03:37.640 --> 0:03:39.840 I get access to them, and if there's a very 0:03:39.840 --> 0:03:43.480 generous listener, I'm all years. But other than that, we'll 0:03:43.520 --> 0:03:46.240 just do it this way, the proper way, the way 0:03:46.280 --> 0:03:48.360 that it needs to be done. First review, Now, how 0:03:48.400 --> 0:03:50.960 many we actually have some? This week? You have one? Two? 0:03:51.840 --> 0:03:56.120 See here? One two, three or four reviews? 0:03:56.160 --> 0:03:58.920 What do you think I'm gonna say? Tree? 0:03:59.680 --> 0:04:05.280 How bout for forward score? It's a lot. 0:04:05.680 --> 0:04:07.440 Yeah, we need to get backed up more often. 0:04:07.760 --> 0:04:11.960 Yeah, the first one says, no deals here great podcasts, 0:04:12.080 --> 0:04:16.400 a great podcast, five stars. Yet another great episode. The 0:04:16.440 --> 0:04:20.599 Alien Talk was very interesting. I highly recommend listening to 0:04:20.680 --> 0:04:24.520 Ben and Danny G every episode, so thank you. Another 0:04:24.560 --> 0:04:29.840 five star review from irmal dude. What's up, irmal dude? 0:04:30.400 --> 0:04:34.000 Thisays not your typical sports takes, very entertaining podcast. The 0:04:34.160 --> 0:04:36.560 Life and Times of Ben and Danny G is a 0:04:36.560 --> 0:04:41.479 great listen. They have great chemistry and this podcast has 0:04:41.560 --> 0:04:46.520 a ton of momentum moving forward. How dare you? We 0:04:46.560 --> 0:04:48.960 have no momentum. We're only as good as our next 0:04:49.040 --> 0:04:52.440 day's podcast, Danny, our next day's podcast. That's it. 0:04:53.240 --> 0:04:56.800 Lots of momentum, topped with wonderful ranch dressing. 0:04:57.320 --> 0:04:59.680 Yeah, we have good clubhouse chemistry is what we have. 0:05:01.040 --> 0:05:03.680 That's the clean veteran leadership is what we have. 0:05:04.120 --> 0:05:07.120 I believe our front office guaranteed both of our jobs. 0:05:07.920 --> 0:05:10.920 Yes, a voter, we got the dreaded vote of confidence. 0:05:11.920 --> 0:05:15.039 There going very well. Next up on the review, we've 0:05:15.080 --> 0:05:20.279 got Reno Pinball Mike and it says Ben and Dany 0:05:20.279 --> 0:05:24.120 g start my weekends off with a smile. Ben and 0:05:24.200 --> 0:05:29.800 Dany G entertained with talk just about stuff. It doesn't 0:05:29.839 --> 0:05:35.120 have to be complicated or sports, just everyday chat about 0:05:35.160 --> 0:05:37.919 what is on their mind that night. Love it. Thank 0:05:37.960 --> 0:05:44.960 you guys, well, thank you Reno Pinball, Mike. We appreciate that. 0:05:45.160 --> 0:05:47.160 Thank you. Thank you for all these reviews. 0:05:47.600 --> 0:05:52.760 The show about Nothing which is something, something is nothing 0:05:53.279 --> 0:05:56.200 and the fourth and final review from the Rebel Viking 0:05:57.480 --> 0:06:02.880 said VPN required Games is his name and podcast reviews 0:06:02.920 --> 0:06:07.080 are his game. He's from Arkansas, but he's listening to 0:06:07.320 --> 0:06:13.360 us from Vilnius, Lithuania. This week. He said he had 0:06:13.360 --> 0:06:16.400 to sign up for a Virtual Personal Network to hear 0:06:16.440 --> 0:06:23.200 the podcast. Says it is worth the money, so thank you, James. 0:06:23.240 --> 0:06:25.840 And the great thing about a VPN not that I, 0:06:25.880 --> 0:06:28.120 of course would go down that road. But the great 0:06:28.120 --> 0:06:31.479 thing about a VPN is you can watch Netflix shows 0:06:31.520 --> 0:06:34.120 you're not supposed to watch. You can watch TV programming 0:06:34.160 --> 0:06:36.600 you're not supposed to watch because you can claim you're 0:06:36.600 --> 0:06:38.919 in any area you want to be in. If you 0:06:38.920 --> 0:06:42.279 want to watch certain games that are blacked out, you 0:06:42.320 --> 0:06:45.000 can watch those. And so yeah, it's cool. 0:06:45.680 --> 0:06:47.359 Yeah, I live in Texas. 0:06:48.000 --> 0:06:51.960 Yes, I actually live on a small island near Guam, 0:06:52.200 --> 0:06:55.520 not in Gwam, but all it's between Hawaii and Guam. 0:06:56.360 --> 0:06:56.960 That is true. 0:06:57.080 --> 0:06:58.880 All right, so say thank you all and again if 0:06:58.880 --> 0:07:01.839 you want to help us out back scratcher, it's very 0:07:01.880 --> 0:07:05.880 simple to do, and the Apple podcast page is the 0:07:05.880 --> 0:07:09.120 way to go. It's in the of this podcast. 0:07:09.400 --> 0:07:12.400 Yeah, click on the link inside the description right on 0:07:12.480 --> 0:07:15.520 this show, and then it'll take you to our Apple 0:07:15.560 --> 0:07:20.080 podcast page. Scroll down, you'll see the overall rating that 0:07:20.120 --> 0:07:22.920 we have for the shows, and then it'll say write 0:07:22.960 --> 0:07:23.840 a review next to that. 0:07:23.920 --> 0:07:26.600 Click on that. You make a username and then give 0:07:26.680 --> 0:07:27.920 five stars and write your. 0:07:27.840 --> 0:07:32.080 Review and you will be our favorite person of the day. 0:07:32.600 --> 0:07:36.000 Now here we go Culture Vulture. So I've been going 0:07:36.000 --> 0:07:38.680 to New York for a long time as Tales from 0:07:38.720 --> 0:07:41.680 the Naked City Part two. Been going to New York 0:07:41.720 --> 0:07:44.400 for many, many years. My brother has lived there for 0:07:44.440 --> 0:07:45.960 a long time. We grew up together and then he 0:07:46.000 --> 0:07:48.480 moved away, and I was still in high school when 0:07:48.480 --> 0:07:52.320 he moved away. And so every year or every other year, 0:07:53.080 --> 0:07:55.960 whether it's for work or something else, I have found 0:07:56.000 --> 0:07:58.920 my way to the Big app. It has been the 0:07:59.000 --> 0:08:01.320 place I have been to more than any other place 0:08:01.360 --> 0:08:04.840 in my life. And now during the pandemic, I'd not 0:08:04.960 --> 0:08:09.480 been there since the pandemic started, which was in twenty twenty, 0:08:09.560 --> 0:08:11.800 so i'd been there. I'd not been there for three years. 0:08:12.120 --> 0:08:16.120 But other than that, other than that, regularly, whether it 0:08:16.160 --> 0:08:18.320 was for work. When I did the TV show for 0:08:18.360 --> 0:08:21.360 a year at NBC, flew back to New York, then 0:08:21.440 --> 0:08:24.480 drove up to Connecticut to do that show every month. 0:08:25.040 --> 0:08:29.360 And I've been in with different jobs. I've had some 0:08:29.440 --> 0:08:32.920 of them, radio jobs, different things. On these various trips 0:08:32.920 --> 0:08:34.760 over the years, always find my way to the Big Apple. 0:08:34.840 --> 0:08:38.040 So but I did something I have never done in 0:08:38.200 --> 0:08:42.000 all my years going to that city. And this is 0:08:42.040 --> 0:08:47.920 a global exclusive. This is a Marconi Award winning possible podcast. 0:08:48.640 --> 0:08:50.880 Not that they give up Marconi Award for a podcast. 0:08:51.040 --> 0:08:54.280 What's the Podcast award. What's it called the award for 0:08:54.360 --> 0:08:55.240 podcast I don't know. 0:08:55.240 --> 0:09:01.520 This is a ah, the razziez. 0:09:00.360 --> 0:09:09.600 That is it? The uh, the potty. 0:09:10.480 --> 0:09:12.760 It's an outhouse. It's a little miniature outhouse. 0:09:12.960 --> 0:09:15.240 Yeah, I don't know. I'm sure there's an award. 0:09:15.760 --> 0:09:16.480 Uh. 0:09:16.520 --> 0:09:18.800 It's really smart if you're in if you're in the 0:09:18.880 --> 0:09:21.760 podcast business, you create an award and then give your 0:09:21.760 --> 0:09:25.720 podcasts an award and then you're good to go. Anyway, 0:09:25.760 --> 0:09:27.800 get to the point, please, So I did something that 0:09:27.840 --> 0:09:29.760 I had never done all my years going back there? 0:09:30.559 --> 0:09:33.440 What did I do? You want to take a guess 0:09:33.679 --> 0:09:36.360 what I did? It's something that a lot of people 0:09:36.440 --> 0:09:40.720 have on their bucket list. It was not on mind, Dan, 0:09:40.800 --> 0:09:42.680 it was not on my bucket. Go ahead, what do 0:09:42.720 --> 0:09:43.000 you think? 0:09:43.320 --> 0:09:47.600 Okay? Is this very French or is this very high 0:09:47.679 --> 0:09:48.240 in the sky. 0:09:51.160 --> 0:09:54.520 I would say it's not high in the sky. I 0:09:54.559 --> 0:09:56.719 don't know if it's French or not. I think it's 0:09:56.760 --> 0:09:57.959 more of an American thing. 0:09:58.679 --> 0:09:58.880 Yeah. 0:09:59.320 --> 0:10:03.440 Oh, because I was thinking that you finally took a 0:10:03.520 --> 0:10:05.880 tour of our lady the Statue of Liberty. 0:10:06.080 --> 0:10:08.480 Oh, I have done the Statue of Liberty. I did 0:10:08.520 --> 0:10:10.560 that when my years ago, I was a kid when 0:10:10.600 --> 0:10:12.560 I went to the Statue of Liberty Ellis Island and 0:10:12.559 --> 0:10:14.400 all that, I've not been backed by the way. 0:10:14.640 --> 0:10:15.360 I did it too. 0:10:15.440 --> 0:10:19.319 But when I was there, the top half was closed 0:10:19.360 --> 0:10:20.480 off for renovations. 0:10:20.559 --> 0:10:22.360 Oh yeah, well then you got to go back. 0:10:22.360 --> 0:10:24.480 I know, so we only got to go to halfway. 0:10:24.880 --> 0:10:27.840 You're going to go back. I predict in nine years, 0:10:28.320 --> 0:10:31.520 when your kids at that golden age nine to nine 0:10:31.520 --> 0:10:34.760 to twelve, when everything full and all that, you'll take 0:10:34.800 --> 0:10:35.480 your kid there. 0:10:35.640 --> 0:10:37.080 That's what I'm sure I would love that. 0:10:37.280 --> 0:10:41.520 Yeah, take them to Madison Square Garden to see Patrick. 0:10:41.080 --> 0:10:48.480 Ewing, Hot trick Ewing, that New York Mecker Bockers, Midtown Manhattan. No, 0:10:48.600 --> 0:10:51.080 so are you ready for the big revealed? Then? Are 0:10:51.120 --> 0:10:51.560 you ready? 0:10:51.600 --> 0:10:52.640 This is all right? What did you do? 0:10:52.920 --> 0:10:57.240 This is when I became a culture vulture. I Ben 0:10:57.320 --> 0:11:06.120 Mahlor attended my first Broadway show. Oh my gosh, oh wow, 0:11:08.360 --> 0:11:13.680 I say Broadway play. Oh, and I'm happy to report 0:11:13.679 --> 0:11:18.920 that I I needed an ambulance almost by the time 0:11:18.960 --> 0:11:22.520 I got done with my first trip to a Broadway play. 0:11:22.559 --> 0:11:23.880 Did I have a heart attack though? Did I have 0:11:23.920 --> 0:11:24.360 a stroke? 0:11:24.480 --> 0:11:24.520 No? 0:11:25.600 --> 0:11:31.120 It makes plain. So my wife came to New York. 0:11:31.160 --> 0:11:33.040 She's not a big fan of New York, like she's 0:11:33.040 --> 0:11:35.880 just the's dirty. You know, it's a lot of walking, 0:11:36.040 --> 0:11:39.120 it's hot usually when we go, so it's not her 0:11:39.200 --> 0:11:43.000 cup of coffee. It's it's not mine either, But I 0:11:43.160 --> 0:11:47.480 I enjoy it. I like going and then leaving and 0:11:47.480 --> 0:11:50.559 and and knowing that it's there. But I don't really 0:11:50.600 --> 0:11:54.000 need to be there rare and appropriate, but it's fun 0:11:54.000 --> 0:11:56.559 when I'm there. It's a totally different experience than I'm 0:11:56.600 --> 0:11:58.840 used to, and it's everyone that goes there says the 0:11:58.840 --> 0:12:02.079 same thing. So anyway, so I attended my first Broadway 0:12:02.080 --> 0:12:04.360 play and almost the inn name is Here's why. So 0:12:04.400 --> 0:12:07.120 my wife has kind of throw her a bone. Her 0:12:07.160 --> 0:12:10.440 birthday week was last week or this past this past week, 0:12:10.960 --> 0:12:14.760 and so she always wanted to see a Broadway shows us, 0:12:14.800 --> 0:12:16.520 all right. And the one we wanted to see we 0:12:16.520 --> 0:12:18.200 were going to see in la and we didn't see 0:12:18.200 --> 0:12:23.640 it The Book of Mormon. So it was playing and 0:12:23.720 --> 0:12:26.520 right there, Tony Award winning musical. I'm not a big 0:12:26.600 --> 0:12:29.240 musical guy. Whatever, she wanted to see it. Get all 0:12:29.320 --> 0:12:31.120 dressed up, get all dulled up, go to see a 0:12:31.160 --> 0:12:35.680 Broadway show, all right, fine. So the Book of Mormon 0:12:35.720 --> 0:12:38.080 has been on Broadway for over a decade. It started 0:12:38.080 --> 0:12:41.080 I think at twenty eleven and it was playing at 0:12:41.080 --> 0:12:43.960 the Eugene O'Neill Theater. You ever been to the Eugene 0:12:43.960 --> 0:12:47.040 O'Neill Theater on forty ninth Street there in Manhattan. 0:12:47.320 --> 0:12:48.040 Not that I know. 0:12:48.559 --> 0:12:53.920 Okay, So this had a fin Way poc type of 0:12:54.040 --> 0:12:57.680 vibe to it. Now, there was no Green Monster, but 0:12:58.360 --> 0:13:01.880 it was construction. It was constructed and open. It was 0:13:02.040 --> 0:13:05.280 actually a little after Finway, but it's almost one hundred 0:13:05.320 --> 0:13:07.760 years old. It was open in nineteen twenty five. The 0:13:07.840 --> 0:13:10.960 Eugene O'Neill Theater am right in the middle of the 0:13:10.960 --> 0:13:14.400 theater district there in Midtown Manhattan, not on Broadway, by 0:13:14.400 --> 0:13:16.920 the way. And the difference I learned this years ago 0:13:17.000 --> 0:13:18.959 before I ever wanted to attend a Broadway show. The 0:13:18.960 --> 0:13:22.880 difference between a Broadway and off Broadway show. You know 0:13:22.880 --> 0:13:28.520 what the difference is, Danny, one block. No, it's it's 0:13:28.559 --> 0:13:31.760 totally in the number of seats available in the theater. 0:13:32.160 --> 0:13:36.120 If you're below a certain number of seats, you're an 0:13:36.160 --> 0:13:39.200 off Broadway act. Even if you're in the same theater 0:13:40.000 --> 0:13:42.760 or just one theater over from where the Broadway theater 0:13:43.000 --> 0:13:45.679 is because it depends on how many seats you have, 0:13:45.840 --> 0:13:47.360 so they're very elitist. If you have a certain number 0:13:47.400 --> 0:13:50.360 of seats, you're Broadway. If you're below that, you're off Broadway. 0:13:50.640 --> 0:13:51.880 But it could be the same whatever. 0:13:52.080 --> 0:13:52.959 Oh that's crazy. 0:13:53.640 --> 0:13:55.679 Yeah, so this was this was a Broadway show. It 0:13:55.720 --> 0:13:57.079 was a big theaterka. 0:13:57.200 --> 0:14:00.440 Clearly, you and I are experts on Broadway show shows. 0:14:01.000 --> 0:14:05.240 Absolutely, come on this show right here is a musical 0:14:05.280 --> 0:14:08.280 in many ways, So it's at the theater district, this 0:14:08.320 --> 0:14:11.240 old theater. The reason I claim it was like the 0:14:11.280 --> 0:14:15.239 fin Way experience, and my man Alp the Alien Opiner, 0:14:15.440 --> 0:14:19.280 will back me up on this. The seats were designed 0:14:19.320 --> 0:14:22.800 for someone who was about four eleven to five to three. 0:14:24.400 --> 0:14:27.040 Now I'm like six ' five of I stand up 0:14:27.120 --> 0:14:30.240 maybe six ' six if I shrug over, maybe six ' 0:14:30.240 --> 0:14:33.320 four depending on my posture. You know, I can hear 0:14:33.360 --> 0:14:37.360 my mom's voice stand up tall, but so fine. I 0:14:37.680 --> 0:14:42.320 normally whatever I do my thing. And the theater was 0:14:42.720 --> 0:14:46.800 sold out and the only tickets we could get were 0:14:46.840 --> 0:14:50.080 in the middle of a row, not the end of 0:14:50.120 --> 0:14:55.400 a row, the middle of it. Oh no, yeah, you 0:14:55.440 --> 0:14:58.040 know I do overnight radio. I don't do daytime radio. 0:14:58.120 --> 0:15:00.400 I did daytime radio. I'd be sitting on the lower level. 0:15:00.440 --> 0:15:04.280 I was on the upper mezzanine of the Eugene O'Neal Theater, 0:15:04.880 --> 0:15:08.240 so we're in the middle row, upper balcony whatever. So 0:15:08.280 --> 0:15:12.920 I squeezed into the seat. There's a woman fully masked 0:15:13.000 --> 0:15:15.480 up next to me who must not have heard the 0:15:15.520 --> 0:15:19.600 pandemics now over a older woman. So she's on one side. 0:15:19.640 --> 0:15:23.080 I got my wife on the other, and I've got 0:15:23.080 --> 0:15:25.920 to sit in a seat designed for someone that's five 0:15:26.000 --> 0:15:29.000 foot two or five foot three, and I'm six four. 0:15:29.840 --> 0:15:32.480 So this presents a mathematical problem. So I used some 0:15:32.520 --> 0:15:35.800 malor math and I determined I had to bend my 0:15:35.960 --> 0:15:39.520 knees a certain direction. Now, originally I was bending them 0:15:39.960 --> 0:15:42.640 to the masked woman, but then I was like, I 0:15:42.680 --> 0:15:44.880 got so I stood up, and then I bent them 0:15:44.920 --> 0:15:47.520 the other way towards my wife, and of course the 0:15:47.560 --> 0:15:49.480 person in front. It's you know how you get on 0:15:49.520 --> 0:15:52.200 a plane and there's like that one open seat next 0:15:52.200 --> 0:15:55.600 to you, yeah, and you're like, oh, close the doors close, 0:15:55.640 --> 0:15:57.880 the doors, close the doors, and it's always like that 0:15:58.000 --> 0:16:00.440 last person that comes in there and sits right where 0:16:00.240 --> 0:16:02.640 you're like, Okay, I'm gonna lay, I'm gonna lead lay 0:16:02.640 --> 0:16:04.840 on this seat, you know. So that's what happened. The 0:16:04.880 --> 0:16:07.720 last person to come into the Eugene o'neio theater sat 0:16:07.800 --> 0:16:12.520 right in front of me, got screwed on that. And 0:16:12.880 --> 0:16:15.640 I'm trying to watch. I'm trying to be cultured and 0:16:15.680 --> 0:16:17.880 all that and watch the show, and I'm I feel 0:16:17.880 --> 0:16:19.960 like I'm old enough now where if you if I 0:16:19.960 --> 0:16:21.880 had gone to a probably show in my twenties or thirties, 0:16:21.880 --> 0:16:24.280 I would have wanted to kill myself. But now I'm like, 0:16:24.360 --> 0:16:26.520 all right, I can put up with it. Whatever. My 0:16:26.560 --> 0:16:28.680 wife really wanted to do it, so I was like, 0:16:29.120 --> 0:16:31.720 I'll go and I'll be into it, you know. And 0:16:32.080 --> 0:16:33.880 I figured I probably won't do it again, so whatever. 0:16:35.000 --> 0:16:37.720 But I was in such agony as I was trying 0:16:37.720 --> 0:16:41.000 to sit. My knees were pushed to the brink. And 0:16:41.280 --> 0:16:43.600 I have a bad as we've talked about on the podcast, 0:16:43.600 --> 0:16:47.760 my right knees screwed up. It's manageable, but not if 0:16:47.760 --> 0:16:50.880 you sit at a weird angle. For it's a two 0:16:50.920 --> 0:16:53.480 hour show with a fifteen minute break in the middle, 0:16:54.320 --> 0:16:55.120 so like. 0:16:55.320 --> 0:16:59.760 Double torture, torture wa and you're at a musical torture 0:16:59.760 --> 0:17:04.440 two that seating it's like you're being waterboarded while people 0:17:04.520 --> 0:17:05.520 are singing. 0:17:05.520 --> 0:17:10.639 Oh yeah, yeah yeah. And the Broadway crowd, yeah, they 0:17:10.800 --> 0:17:13.040 they are. They are just like totally going crazy. Man, 0:17:13.040 --> 0:17:15.760 They're they're loving this. And I'm like, I'm like, oh, okay, 0:17:16.080 --> 0:17:18.560 I'm looking at my watch. I'm like, oh god, well, 0:17:18.600 --> 0:17:21.119 you know, man, what am I gonna do. My wife 0:17:21.160 --> 0:17:23.040 was even like she's like, listen, you're too much pain. 0:17:23.160 --> 0:17:25.640 We'll leave at the intermission. You know, it's making the intermission. 0:17:25.960 --> 0:17:28.080 So at the intermission, I was like, these tickets were 0:17:28.119 --> 0:17:30.320 pretty expensive, Danny, And I'm like, you know, I'm cheap, 0:17:30.680 --> 0:17:32.520 Like I don't want to leave. So I went to 0:17:32.560 --> 0:17:35.560 this usher. I said, listen, I said, is anything you 0:17:35.600 --> 0:17:38.480 can do? I said I can't. I can physically not 0:17:38.680 --> 0:17:43.360 sit there. I'm gonna need an ambulance. You can do? 0:17:43.720 --> 0:17:46.679 And she was very cool, this woman. I'll give her credit. 0:17:46.720 --> 0:17:48.439 I don't know her name. I'd give her, you know, 0:17:48.720 --> 0:17:51.159 name recognition. I didn't get her name. She's a very 0:17:51.240 --> 0:17:54.560 nice woman, middle aged woman. And she said, yeah, you 0:17:54.560 --> 0:17:58.120 know these people right here in this this aisle seat. 0:17:58.440 --> 0:18:01.400 They left like very early in the show. And the 0:18:01.400 --> 0:18:04.800 theory was they got tickets to the Book of Mormon 0:18:04.880 --> 0:18:08.320 and they were like Mormon, and they were offended by 0:18:08.840 --> 0:18:12.000 the play, and so they left, like like ten minutes 0:18:12.040 --> 0:18:17.040 into the show. They took off. Yeah, Like, why wouldn't 0:18:17.080 --> 0:18:19.280 you read the review of the Book of Mormon. It's 0:18:19.320 --> 0:18:21.800 not it's not a recruiting thing for the Mormons. 0:18:21.800 --> 0:18:26.560 It's things that are called a synopsis. You got to 0:18:26.560 --> 0:18:26.919 read it. 0:18:27.200 --> 0:18:29.960 Yeah, you might want to check that out anyway. So fine, 0:18:30.000 --> 0:18:33.320 I was like, that's great. There were the seats were 0:18:33.359 --> 0:18:35.680 right there, and so me and the family we moved 0:18:35.680 --> 0:18:38.640 to those seats and it was still not very comfortable, 0:18:38.640 --> 0:18:41.680 but when I was able to move my legs onto 0:18:41.720 --> 0:18:46.320 the aisle, so that was perfect and it was great, 0:18:46.400 --> 0:18:49.520 and we saw the second half of the show and 0:18:49.600 --> 0:18:53.920 it was wonderful and now wonderful meaning I could actually 0:18:54.119 --> 0:18:58.080 stand up when the thing was over. I saw the 0:18:58.080 --> 0:18:59.720 Book of Mormon, didn't You didn't see the Book of. 0:19:00.000 --> 0:19:01.560 No, not me, you did. 0:19:01.680 --> 0:19:06.040 I thought, Hey, the only I've seen two Broadway shows. 0:19:06.200 --> 0:19:09.480 I saw The Lion King in New York, Okay, and 0:19:09.640 --> 0:19:12.840 I saw Early my very first trip to New York. 0:19:13.280 --> 0:19:15.680 I got dragged to Cats when it was on its 0:19:15.760 --> 0:19:16.760 last run. 0:19:16.880 --> 0:19:19.639 I remember, kid, Yeah, I saw that some of the 0:19:19.680 --> 0:19:21.920 shows on Broadway, like shit that's been since I was 0:19:21.920 --> 0:19:25.920 a little kid, Like that Chicago thing is still on Broadway. 0:19:26.080 --> 0:19:26.320 You know. 0:19:26.400 --> 0:19:29.360 Covino and Rich they tell this story about how there 0:19:29.440 --> 0:19:33.479 was this old TV commercial that ran for like forty 0:19:33.560 --> 0:19:37.879 years on New York television for Cats, same old commercial. 0:19:38.119 --> 0:19:42.160 Their entire childhoods, their entire lives, entire lives. They saw 0:19:42.160 --> 0:19:43.520 the old Cats commercial. 0:19:44.240 --> 0:19:48.520 Well, somebody had I ran into somebody at Fox who 0:19:48.600 --> 0:19:51.280 had seen the Book of Mormon. I guess it obviously 0:19:51.359 --> 0:19:56.720 wasn't you. But anyway, so I here's my malord review. Okay, 0:19:56.920 --> 0:20:00.920 I am not a musical person far as a musical 0:20:01.080 --> 0:20:05.520 like Broadway show. You know, this is my wife's I 0:20:05.720 --> 0:20:10.240 actually enjoyed it more than she did. She said she 0:20:10.359 --> 0:20:12.399 wanted to see the show for like ten years and 0:20:12.440 --> 0:20:15.560 she never got around to doing it. So and I 0:20:15.600 --> 0:20:17.320 told her, I explained to her what she you had 0:20:17.440 --> 0:20:22.440 high expectations. I had no expectations. I was like, I 0:20:22.480 --> 0:20:24.639 didn't know anything about it. I just knew that it 0:20:24.680 --> 0:20:27.720 was written by the South Park guys. That's all I knew, 0:20:28.520 --> 0:20:33.840 and you know, everything like any Broadway show, as I anticipated, 0:20:34.480 --> 0:20:37.200 every scene ends up in its song. You know, everything's 0:20:37.240 --> 0:20:41.000 a freaking you know, freaking song. Fine. But the thing 0:20:41.040 --> 0:20:45.400 that really impressed me is the from a creative aspect, 0:20:45.800 --> 0:20:50.040 it was. It was like watching a movie or a 0:20:50.040 --> 0:20:51.720 TV show and knowing how hard it is due to 0:20:51.800 --> 0:20:55.480 live performance, and we can both respect this, Danny being 0:20:55.560 --> 0:20:59.760 in the business that we're in that nobody tripped, nobody, 0:21:00.359 --> 0:21:03.760 nobody missed a note, nobody missed a line. Everyone nailed 0:21:03.840 --> 0:21:08.120 every single scene of the show. There wasn't one misstep 0:21:08.920 --> 0:21:11.239 as far as I know, There wasn't one line that 0:21:11.359 --> 0:21:15.160 was missed, and there was a lot of freaking dancing 0:21:15.280 --> 0:21:20.720 and singing, and everything was perfect. It was like watching 0:21:20.760 --> 0:21:22.959 a TV show, except they were live in front of 0:21:22.960 --> 0:21:26.200 you and everything was edited already and professionally done. And 0:21:26.640 --> 0:21:29.159 so that from that the choreography standpoint, I was like, 0:21:29.800 --> 0:21:31.359 I'm sounded like an old fart, but I was like 0:21:31.440 --> 0:21:34.240 really impressed. I was like, that's really difficult to do. 0:21:35.440 --> 0:21:38.880 My only experience with live performance was elementary school plays, 0:21:38.920 --> 0:21:42.240 which were complete shit shows. So to see this on 0:21:42.320 --> 0:21:44.680