WEBVTT - The Fifth Hour: I Am the Sprinkler 0:00:00.880 --> 0:00:01.640 Kabooms. 0:00:02.480 --> 0:00:05.560 If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes 0:00:05.600 --> 0:00:09.360 a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants 0:00:09.400 --> 0:00:12.680 of the old republic, a soul fashion of fairness. He 0:00:12.760 --> 0:00:15.680 treats crackheads in the ghetto cutter the same as the 0:00:15.800 --> 0:00:19.759 rich pill poppers in the penthouse. Wow to Clearinghouse of 0:00:19.840 --> 0:00:23.680 hot takes, break free for something special. The Fifth Hour 0:00:23.760 --> 0:00:28.640 with Ben Maller starts right now. 0:00:29.160 --> 0:00:32.880 In the A Everyway. 0:00:33.560 --> 0:00:37.280 The Fifth Hour with Ben Mahler and Danny g Radio 0:00:37.880 --> 0:00:42.120 keeping you company, your audio companion all weekend long, your 0:00:42.240 --> 0:00:48.559 last line of defense from mediocre weekend conversation audio. 0:00:49.040 --> 0:00:52.839 I think, I don't know, maybe we're also mediocre. 0:00:52.920 --> 0:00:55.320 Who the hell knows, Danny, but we are back at it, 0:00:55.480 --> 0:00:58.680 avoiding hairy situations on the podcast. 0:00:58.520 --> 0:01:02.720 Whoahoa whoa you're giving me Vietnam flashbacks of Annie and 0:01:02.800 --> 0:01:05.560 she used to choose to come down to the FSR 0:01:05.640 --> 0:01:08.920 studios from her perch up on the fifth floor, and 0:01:08.959 --> 0:01:12.840 she'd say, now, remember, guys, you're the last line of defense. 0:01:13.600 --> 0:01:16.880 Yes, the Z Dog is a Fox Sports Radio legend. 0:01:16.959 --> 0:01:20.520 She worked at FSR. I would say the first fifteen 0:01:20.720 --> 0:01:21.679 sixteen years. 0:01:21.760 --> 0:01:22.759 How many years has. 0:01:22.720 --> 0:01:25.400 I'm really bad at keeping track of time. I have 0:01:25.480 --> 0:01:27.880 no idea, but it seems like she's been away from 0:01:27.880 --> 0:01:31.280 Fox Sports Radio for at least five. 0:01:31.160 --> 0:01:33.480 Years, probably five years, Yeah. 0:01:33.800 --> 0:01:34.440 Five years. 0:01:34.480 --> 0:01:38.840 And yeah, there's so many stories about about the z 0:01:39.080 --> 0:01:43.440 Dog and Tom Looney had a great line because he 0:01:43.520 --> 0:01:46.240 would say, he said, Ben, everyone at the company loves you. 0:01:46.280 --> 0:01:47.880 There's only one woman that doesn't. 0:01:48.040 --> 0:01:50.720 And she was, of course the only only woman that 0:01:50.800 --> 0:01:53.920 worked at the company. 0:01:54.440 --> 0:01:57.080 But I got along with her management at the company. 0:01:57.120 --> 0:01:58.560 But but I got along with her and all that. 0:01:58.840 --> 0:02:01.480 We're actually I don't want to say we're good friends 0:02:01.480 --> 0:02:03.520 because I don't even know how long she's been gone. 0:02:03.880 --> 0:02:05.800 But it's one of those people, you know, how you 0:02:05.840 --> 0:02:07.000 work with somebody. 0:02:06.640 --> 0:02:08.480 For a while, and even though maybe you're not on 0:02:08.480 --> 0:02:11.680 the same page, there's this kinship that you have because 0:02:11.720 --> 0:02:14.200 you work together, and so like when you see them, 0:02:15.200 --> 0:02:17.360 you want to catch up even though maybe they weren't 0:02:17.360 --> 0:02:21.679 your favorite people, but you shared a common life experience. 0:02:22.320 --> 0:02:26.120 It reminds me of Dawn when somebody has a bigger 0:02:26.120 --> 0:02:30.280 than life persona and you even hear impersonations of them 0:02:30.320 --> 0:02:33.840 on the radio. My man, like, we hear that all 0:02:33.880 --> 0:02:35.960 the time, and so when I met him for the 0:02:36.040 --> 0:02:39.640 first time, it was just strange because he it was 0:02:39.639 --> 0:02:42.680 almost like a Saturday Night Live skit where he was 0:02:42.760 --> 0:02:47.120 acting out that character, but it was actually him and Annie, 0:02:47.160 --> 0:02:50.440 who used to be part of the executive team whatever. 0:02:50.480 --> 0:02:53.359 They're at the company. Same thing. Even when I had 0:02:53.400 --> 0:02:56.920 never worked yet at Fox Sports Radio, I would be 0:02:57.000 --> 0:03:00.680 at other networks and I would hear impersonation of her 0:03:01.160 --> 0:03:05.560 from people that were transplants from your network, Like, for instance, 0:03:05.639 --> 0:03:09.680 Burgee came over to work at NBC Sports Radio, so 0:03:09.720 --> 0:03:14.240 he and Karen Kay would be doing Annie impersonations to 0:03:14.320 --> 0:03:16.799 each other, and I had no idea who they were 0:03:16.800 --> 0:03:20.240 talking about, but it was pretty funny. So now fast 0:03:20.280 --> 0:03:23.840 forward to me being at my interview to get hired 0:03:23.880 --> 0:03:27.440 by Fox Sports Radio and Annie is in the interview 0:03:27.880 --> 0:03:31.440 and I can't help but smile and almost laugh because 0:03:31.480 --> 0:03:34.880 all those impersonations I heard over the years were now 0:03:35.240 --> 0:03:36.720 real life in front of me. 0:03:37.680 --> 0:03:41.440 I will say this for the company, we have had 0:03:41.600 --> 0:03:44.360 management people that are very easy to impersonate. 0:03:44.440 --> 0:03:48.400 We really have. It's like that Howard Stern movie The 0:03:49.080 --> 0:03:54.640 w Pig Vomit w a BC and all that. But 0:03:55.840 --> 0:03:58.880 the cool thing is Don is to me. He's been great. 0:03:59.000 --> 0:04:01.200 I mean, I have nothing bad to say about Don, 0:04:01.560 --> 0:04:04.640 but like pig Bomb and according to that movie, holy crap, 0:04:04.680 --> 0:04:05.800 that guy was a nightmare. 0:04:06.440 --> 0:04:07.400 W wait man. 0:04:07.960 --> 0:04:10.800 Yeah no, Thank god we have good bosses at this network, 0:04:10.800 --> 0:04:13.120 because I could not say the same thing at that 0:04:13.240 --> 0:04:14.280 last network I was. 0:04:14.240 --> 0:04:18.039 At, Yes and anyway, So but Don's been great. 0:04:18.040 --> 0:04:19.039 But it is very funny. 0:04:19.080 --> 0:04:21.160 I meet with him once every couple of years when 0:04:21.160 --> 0:04:23.960 I have to negotiate a contract, and which is really 0:04:24.040 --> 0:04:26.160 no negotiation. It's pretty much, here's what you get, Ben, 0:04:26.200 --> 0:04:27.679 and then I say, yes, sir, can I have another? 0:04:28.240 --> 0:04:31.360 And walk away. But it's in my head I'm negotiating. 0:04:31.720 --> 0:04:36.080 So so Don, Don's great. We spend a couple hours. 0:04:36.560 --> 0:04:38.760 I always plan for extra time. The meeting is supposed 0:04:38.760 --> 0:04:41.080 to be half an hour. I go into Don's office. 0:04:41.120 --> 0:04:43.960 He's got the Bronco helmet, he's got the Dodger paraphernalia 0:04:44.000 --> 0:04:46.480 in there, and we're shooting the shit. 0:04:46.279 --> 0:04:48.919 About radio and life and all this stuff. 0:04:48.960 --> 0:04:51.279 And then the very end we get to what we're 0:04:51.279 --> 0:04:53.600 there for, and then I walk out with my tail 0:04:53.640 --> 0:04:56.800 between my legs, and that's the way that goes. So 0:04:56.839 --> 0:05:03.040 we have hornic culture. Benny the last trip and michig 0:05:03.160 --> 0:05:08.880 Gos the new Michigos for Uncle Benny, backscratcher and scientifical. 0:05:08.960 --> 0:05:11.479 That sounds like a lot of stuff, and we'll jump 0:05:11.560 --> 0:05:13.240 right into it right now. I'll try to be short 0:05:13.360 --> 0:05:16.560 and sweet and get to the point. Please, get to 0:05:16.600 --> 0:05:19.920 the point, please before they send me to the rubber room. 0:05:20.600 --> 0:05:24.719 So the Malor Mansion getting a bit of an upgrade. 0:05:25.320 --> 0:05:29.840 Planting the seed here. It's a new DIY project at 0:05:29.839 --> 0:05:33.320 the Malor Mansion. This is the life of Matlar and 0:05:33.400 --> 0:05:36.479 Danny g And you can, if you want, call me 0:05:36.600 --> 0:05:41.560 horticulture Benny, with the help of someone that has a 0:05:41.600 --> 0:05:43.320 green thumb, a family friend. 0:05:43.560 --> 0:05:44.640 Say horticulture. 0:05:45.240 --> 0:05:47.240 Oh yeah, yeah, you didn't take horticulture back in. 0:05:47.240 --> 0:05:49.279 The day, emphasis on the oh. 0:05:49.320 --> 0:05:51.599 We all tried to take that back in the day. 0:05:51.640 --> 0:05:52.680 But I was not. 0:05:53.279 --> 0:05:56.000 Even the whores were not interested to me, but anyway, 0:05:57.240 --> 0:05:58.919 I was interested in them. They were not interested me. 0:05:59.120 --> 0:06:01.719 But so, with the help of a family friend that 0:06:01.800 --> 0:06:05.000 does have a green thumb, these seeds, you know, you 0:06:05.040 --> 0:06:06.880 have to get the rake out and do the whole thing. 0:06:06.960 --> 0:06:09.520 And so you know, I didn't do much of that, 0:06:09.560 --> 0:06:13.480 but the seeds have been planted. The spring harvest, we 0:06:13.640 --> 0:06:18.560 hope will be a nice field of green grass. Now 0:06:18.680 --> 0:06:22.560 my job in this little exercise horticulture, Benny, is to 0:06:22.680 --> 0:06:26.919 literally watch the grass grow. So I have been deputized. 0:06:27.080 --> 0:06:30.520 We don't have working sprinklers in that part of the 0:06:30.560 --> 0:06:31.359 Malor mansion. 0:06:31.640 --> 0:06:32.320 They used to be. 0:06:32.279 --> 0:06:34.960 Sprinklers, but they don't work anymore, and we're too cheap 0:06:35.000 --> 0:06:37.120 to get them fixed because we have a nice hose. 0:06:37.160 --> 0:06:39.960 So I went to Costco and I bought a massive 0:06:40.080 --> 0:06:41.880 one hundred foot yard hose. 0:06:42.000 --> 0:06:43.440 It's I think it's even bigger than that. 0:06:44.120 --> 0:06:47.680 And I got a nice sprayer. And so my job 0:06:47.800 --> 0:06:51.560 here is to water that lawn, all of it. It's 0:06:51.600 --> 0:06:55.800 big lawn from beginning to end. And I have to 0:06:55.839 --> 0:06:59.280 do it multiple times a day, so I do it 0:06:59.320 --> 0:07:01.159 before I go to bed, and then I usually do 0:07:01.200 --> 0:07:02.159 it when I wake up. 0:07:02.600 --> 0:07:04.039 In the in the evening time. 0:07:05.839 --> 0:07:08.240 Have a strategic back and forth method. 0:07:09.640 --> 0:07:13.680 Yes, so it's a great question, Danny. You're really good 0:07:13.720 --> 0:07:19.120 at this. So I I use the the the sprinkler technique, 0:07:19.120 --> 0:07:21.360 the human sprinkler technique is what I use. 0:07:22.640 --> 0:07:24.000 Like you're dancing at a wedding. 0:07:24.440 --> 0:07:29.960 Yes, I I imagine that if I was not a living, 0:07:30.080 --> 0:07:32.720 breathing human being. And I was a sprinkler, and so 0:07:33.080 --> 0:07:38.200 I go, I go like this, that's that's what I do. 0:07:38.280 --> 0:07:42.320 So I am the sprinkler. I channel the sprinkler. My 0:07:42.440 --> 0:07:46.680 right hand was getting a workout. Edited audio is what 0:07:46.720 --> 0:07:51.920 that is. And uh, yes, I've been doing this, and 0:07:51.960 --> 0:07:57.800 I I have been encouraged because there have been some 0:07:58.760 --> 0:08:02.160 little little green sprouts of grass, which tells me I'm 0:08:02.160 --> 0:08:04.560 not completely off what I'm doing. 0:08:05.360 --> 0:08:07.160 That tells me that keep doing. 0:08:06.960 --> 0:08:09.080 What you're doing, because there's there's a little sign of 0:08:09.120 --> 0:08:12.160 life there that the grass is growing. The grass is 0:08:12.240 --> 0:08:15.560 greener on the other side because it was totally mud. 0:08:15.600 --> 0:08:18.280 And now I would like some rain because then I 0:08:18.280 --> 0:08:20.800 wouldn't have to do this. If it rains, I'm good. 0:08:20.880 --> 0:08:22.720 I have a day off. I'm told if it rains, 0:08:22.760 --> 0:08:25.960 I don't need to water the lawn the dirt. 0:08:26.400 --> 0:08:28.280 Well, you don't want too much rain though, because then 0:08:28.320 --> 0:08:29.840 it'll wipe your seeds away. 0:08:30.360 --> 0:08:30.640 Yeah. 0:08:30.840 --> 0:08:33.720 Well, we live in California and right now it's not 0:08:33.880 --> 0:08:38.880 ill Nino until next January or whatever. Anyway, so that's 0:08:38.960 --> 0:08:43.240 my new Michigas and so far, so good. You saw 0:08:43.280 --> 0:08:45.840 that mud pile when you were over at the Malor mansion. 0:08:45.880 --> 0:08:48.679 Danny is not nothing there, but that'll all be nice, 0:08:48.760 --> 0:08:53.800 beautiful grass, assuming I don't screw this up, so we will, 0:08:53.880 --> 0:08:54.640 we will see. 0:08:54.400 --> 0:08:57.560 And if this does become a disaster, that'll be my 0:08:57.760 --> 0:09:00.240 last trip. But that's not your last trip. That's my 0:09:00.360 --> 0:09:00.800 last trip. 0:09:01.600 --> 0:09:04.880 Yeah, as you know, just a few weeks away from 0:09:04.880 --> 0:09:06.000 the baby. 0:09:06.040 --> 0:09:08.120 That's right. When is the day? What is the day? 0:09:08.559 --> 0:09:11.320 So now we're in June, you can officially say the 0:09:11.360 --> 0:09:12.760 baby's coming next month. 0:09:13.640 --> 0:09:14.199 Wow. 0:09:14.960 --> 0:09:17.120 And they had a big thank you to you and 0:09:17.160 --> 0:09:20.200 your lovely wife for the nice baby gift that you 0:09:20.280 --> 0:09:21.680 guys mailed to us. 0:09:21.880 --> 0:09:22.760 Well, you're welcome. 0:09:22.800 --> 0:09:26.400 You know, I am the unofficial godfather of the child 0:09:26.440 --> 0:09:30.679 to be named later daddy, So yes, I'm listening. 0:09:30.760 --> 0:09:31.640 I'm very happy for you. 0:09:31.640 --> 0:09:34.880 Got I can't wait to meet the little fella and 0:09:34.960 --> 0:09:36.679 asking me wonderful. And you're going to have him on 0:09:36.720 --> 0:09:38.880 the podcast when he's old enough to talk and all that. 0:09:38.840 --> 0:09:41.400 For sure, he's going to take over and like like 0:09:41.440 --> 0:09:44.520 you said on yesterday's podcast, he will be hosting The 0:09:44.559 --> 0:09:50.600 Animal Thunderdome when it debuts in podcast format in hispies. 0:09:50.679 --> 0:09:52.480 But that's all right, you know, it's fine. 0:09:52.960 --> 0:09:57.240 So my wife, she is a travel agent by trade. 0:09:57.679 --> 0:10:02.720 She's always booking trips. She loves resorts, she loves nice hotels. 0:10:03.360 --> 0:10:05.920 So just for a little bit of background, she loves 0:10:05.960 --> 0:10:10.040 to travel. Imagine being pregnant with a huge bowling ball 0:10:10.760 --> 0:10:15.720 or a huge watermelon attached to you and it obviously 0:10:16.080 --> 0:10:20.720 can you know, derail some of your traveling plans? Oh? No, 0:10:20.920 --> 0:10:24.920 though not my wifey. She still planned a Memorial Day 0:10:24.960 --> 0:10:29.680 weekend getaway. Bring the gas Pismo Beach, which is an 0:10:29.720 --> 0:10:32.360 old favorite of mine. And I know you like that 0:10:32.480 --> 0:10:34.960 area as well. As we go north from where we live. 0:10:35.360 --> 0:10:37.559 Dude, Central California, that coast. 0:10:37.280 --> 0:10:41.079 Is beautiful, so nice. I have to come back a 0:10:41.160 --> 0:10:44.120 day earlier than her and the kids though, because with 0:10:44.240 --> 0:10:48.160 Covino and Rich on Monday, Memorial Day, we filled in 0:10:48.200 --> 0:10:51.240 for the Dan Patrick Show. So I actually followed them 0:10:51.280 --> 0:10:54.480 in my car and we had one pit stop on 0:10:54.520 --> 0:10:58.160 the way up to Pismo and it was in Santa Maria, California, 0:10:58.840 --> 0:11:01.680 now a city that's all on the map, Ben because 0:11:01.679 --> 0:11:04.120 they opened a brand new raising canes. 0:11:04.520 --> 0:11:07.600 Oh is that right? Well, yeah, I have stopped in 0:11:07.679 --> 0:11:13.520 Santa Maria many times. Cof Go Gas, Yes, there's a costume. Yes, 0:11:13.760 --> 0:11:14.160 I will go. 0:11:14.520 --> 0:11:18.520 And there's never anyone at that because it's Santa Maria 0:11:18.840 --> 0:11:19.679 and no one. 0:11:19.600 --> 0:11:23.120 Lives there, so yeah, I love that. 0:11:23.360 --> 0:11:26.280 Yeah, well, there's somebody living there now. And I know 0:11:26.360 --> 0:11:28.960 that area because I did radio in that area for 0:11:29.000 --> 0:11:33.160 three years between two thousand and three and two thousand 0:11:33.200 --> 0:11:35.600 and six. I put a hip hop R and B 0:11:35.720 --> 0:11:38.600 station on the air for that area, ninety five point 0:11:38.679 --> 0:11:41.920 seven The Beat, which is still thriving to this day. 0:11:42.360 --> 0:11:44.200 So it's always cool to get up in that area 0:11:44.240 --> 0:11:47.120 and turn my station on and hear what they're up to. 0:11:48.320 --> 0:11:51.080 So we're listening to my station. We're pulling up to 0:11:51.200 --> 0:11:56.959 raising canes and get out and get the combo. Watch 0:11:57.000 --> 0:11:59.880 these kids with a fat tire bikes doing wheeli's and 0:12:00.160 --> 0:12:03.200 parking lot because there's nothing else to do in Santa Maria, 0:12:03.880 --> 0:12:07.400 and get back on the road. Get up to Pismo 0:12:07.559 --> 0:12:11.000 Avela Beach and there is a new campground in that 0:12:11.080 --> 0:12:14.480 area where you are overlooking the ocean and you're up 0:12:14.480 --> 0:12:18.079 on a hill. They have all these RV spots. If 0:12:18.080 --> 0:12:20.160 you had a nice RV, you could rent out the 0:12:20.200 --> 0:12:25.960 spots and they also have glamping. It's like a studio 0:12:26.040 --> 0:12:28.920 with thin walls and a place for you to park 0:12:29.440 --> 0:12:32.320 right outside of it. So even if you don't have 0:12:32.480 --> 0:12:35.920 camping gear, it kind of still feels like you're camping 0:12:36.240 --> 0:12:37.920 because you're on this campground. 0:12:38.720 --> 0:12:41.679 Me hold, say, glamping is that I've never heard of that. 0:12:41.720 --> 0:12:44.880 I mean, they never heard of glamping. It's like glamorous camping. 0:12:45.720 --> 0:12:46.600 Okay. 0:12:46.760 --> 0:12:49.040 My wife always wants to go camping, but I'm like, nah, 0:12:49.040 --> 0:12:50.120 I'd rather stay at a hotel. 0:12:50.520 --> 0:12:54.760 See see you would like this, then google flying flags 0:12:55.440 --> 0:12:58.880 Avla Beach. I want you to take a look at 0:12:58.920 --> 0:12:59.880 what it looks. 0:12:59.640 --> 0:13:02.480 Like eyeing flags. I want to make sure to get 0:13:02.480 --> 0:13:02.800 that right. 0:13:03.240 --> 0:13:07.040 What is it at the Avola Beach? 0:13:07.760 --> 0:13:13.480 It's popped up here. You see what we have? Okay, yeah, 0:13:13.760 --> 0:13:17.000 it's that's very nice. Okay, I see, I got you. 0:13:17.160 --> 0:13:20.679 Yeah, pretty cool. Now. The one thing I forgot I 0:13:20.760 --> 0:13:23.480 have speaking of Costco, I have one of the e 0:13:23.640 --> 0:13:27.360 scooters that they sell. As soon as we got there, 0:13:27.640 --> 0:13:29.480 my girl was like, oh, you should have brought the 0:13:29.520 --> 0:13:32.960 electric scooter, and I'm like, damn it, yeah, I forgot that. 0:13:33.679 --> 0:13:36.000 So I'm watching all these people with their e bikes 0:13:36.040 --> 0:13:39.760 and their east scooters, and there's these steep hills and 0:13:39.840 --> 0:13:43.360 people of all ages are going down these hills, and 0:13:43.440 --> 0:13:47.000 I'm like, damn it, that looks fun. Until day two 0:13:47.520 --> 0:13:50.800 they're at the campground. I watched this guy in his 0:13:50.920 --> 0:13:54.320 fifties with the group of his family up at the 0:13:54.320 --> 0:13:57.319 top of the hill and they were all taking turns 0:13:57.360 --> 0:14:01.640 bend with some of those old school scooters. Okay, when 0:14:01.640 --> 0:14:04.079 I say old school scooters, I mean probably just from 0:14:04.120 --> 0:14:06.360 a few years ago. But they don't have a motor 0:14:06.440 --> 0:14:09.160 attached to them. Yeah, you know, they still have the 0:14:09.240 --> 0:14:12.679 nice wheels. It's still a modern scooter, just doesn't have 0:14:12.760 --> 0:14:15.719 the electric isn't. 0:14:15.360 --> 0:14:18.280 This isn't like a radio flyer from the nineteen seventies 0:14:18.360 --> 0:14:18.720 or something. 0:14:19.160 --> 0:14:24.400 Right, you remember our grandparents had like metal skates, Yes, 0:14:25.520 --> 0:14:28.680 some skateboards with metal wheels. Like, what in the hell 0:14:29.120 --> 0:14:33.600 come a, Yes, we really have. So this guy going 0:14:33.680 --> 0:14:36.960 down this hill on this scooter and he is hauling 0:14:37.000 --> 0:14:39.600 ass and I don't know if he hit something on 0:14:39.640 --> 0:14:42.760 the road or his weight just made him fly forward, 0:14:43.240 --> 0:14:48.400 but this guy ate total shit. I mean he somersaulted 0:14:48.520 --> 0:14:50.960 down the rest of the hill and I thought the 0:14:51.000 --> 0:14:52.120 guy was dead. 0:14:52.480 --> 0:14:54.880 Hello, you've reached the police Department's voicemail. 0:14:55.840 --> 0:14:58.480 Just with the homicide, it wouldn't be homice. I mean, 0:14:58.640 --> 0:15:01.400 you'd missed the Yeah, okay, I got you, I got yeah. 0:15:01.240 --> 0:15:03.760 Yeah, I was. I was scared. I was like, man, 0:15:04.160 --> 0:15:06.480 I'm gonna have to go down there and tell them 0:15:06.480 --> 0:15:09.600 I saw everything, because there there's about to be a 0:15:09.600 --> 0:15:13.440 body spray painted right there on the road. And his 0:15:13.560 --> 0:15:16.160 family goes running down there, and I hear to you, 0:15:16.400 --> 0:15:20.560 t you, papa, papa. These people are surrounding him like 0:15:20.600 --> 0:15:24.320 it's a dead body. Remember the Nuggets mascot when he 0:15:24.520 --> 0:15:25.320 passed out. 0:15:25.440 --> 0:15:29.600 Yeah, Rocky the mascot. Yes, they thought he was dead. 0:15:29.600 --> 0:15:30.560 They were raising him. 0:15:30.600 --> 0:15:34.120 They were lowering him from the upper part of the 0:15:34.120 --> 0:15:35.240 arena in Denver. 0:15:35.320 --> 0:15:36.080 That was great. 0:15:36.320 --> 0:15:38.520 This was just like how there was a big circle 0:15:38.560 --> 0:15:42.640 around the dead Rocky mascot. Finally, Ben, they were able 0:15:42.680 --> 0:15:46.640 to get this guy up. A beautiful, beautiful view there 0:15:47.240 --> 0:15:50.120 and I almost got to see somebody die. So what 0:15:50.240 --> 0:15:52.440 a great Memorial Day weekend? Wow? 0:15:52.520 --> 0:15:55.000 That is that is such. Did you find out what 0:15:55.080 --> 0:15:55.840 actually happened to you? 0:15:56.440 --> 0:15:58.880 Just you don't know, No, I don't know. I mean 0:15:58.960 --> 0:16:01.520 they the way they took him off the pavement, they 0:16:01.600 --> 0:16:02.880 looked worried. 0:16:02.840 --> 0:16:06.960 Intermittent chest pain and I shortness to breath and pain 0:16:07.080 --> 0:16:08.000 in my lift arm. 0:16:08.680 --> 0:16:09.760 But he was alive. 0:16:10.560 --> 0:16:13.840 Okay, okay, So he had a pulse and he was breathing. 0:16:14.960 --> 0:16:18.400 Fun fact, by the way, that no one should ever 0:16:18.480 --> 0:16:21.560 besmirch Rocky the mascot. You see this, This pops up 0:16:21.600 --> 0:16:22.520 every time the Nuggets. 0:16:23.040 --> 0:16:25.720 His salary. 0:16:25.920 --> 0:16:30.400 How much ben Rocky the mascot earns over six hundred 0:16:30.680 --> 0:16:32.280 thousand dollars a year. 0:16:32.760 --> 0:16:33.760 That is insane. 0:16:34.760 --> 0:16:37.320 Over he's the highest paid mascot I think in all 0:16:37.320 --> 0:16:40.160 of sports. Rocky is Yeah. 0:16:39.800 --> 0:16:42.000 He is a shoot. I would pass out in that 0:16:42.160 --> 0:16:43.720 costume for that much money. 0:16:44.440 --> 0:16:47.760 That is ten times on the average maskot gets sixty 0:16:47.760 --> 0:16:51.720 grand a year, six hundred and twenty five thousand. How 0:16:51.760 --> 0:16:52.680 did that happen? 0:16:53.720 --> 0:16:56.760 Is the mascot friends with stan KROCKI the owner, like, 0:16:56.960 --> 0:17:01.440 how did that take place? How do you justified paying Rocky? 0:17:01.840 --> 0:17:05.280 I mean good for Rocky the mascot. And I've seen 0:17:05.320 --> 0:17:08.359 the I've seen Chuck the Condor, the greatest mascot in 0:17:08.400 --> 0:17:12.360 the NBA rong, Chuck the Condor, the Clipper mascot practice. 0:17:12.920 --> 0:17:15.320 The person who's in there is like a gymnast and 0:17:15.600 --> 0:17:19.080 very athletic, and you've got to be to be a mascot. 0:17:19.119 --> 0:17:24.320 But still that is that is amaze balls that they 0:17:24.320 --> 0:17:30.080 could pay six hundred thousand dollars to a mascot. All right, 0:17:30.400 --> 0:17:33.879 moving on from that, we've got your new Michigos for 0:17:34.040 --> 0:17:38.520 Uncle Benny. So this past weekend kind of a casual 0:17:39.080 --> 0:17:41.439 weekend after the big Malor meet and greet, all the 0:17:41.480 --> 0:17:45.040 exciting times we had Minnesota, getting pulled over, getting a 0:17:45.040 --> 0:17:47.119 speeding ticket on the way to the meet and greet, 0:17:47.280 --> 0:17:50.359 and having a fun time drawing driving through all of Minnesota, 0:17:50.400 --> 0:17:53.800 going up to the luth and then back down to Minneapolis, 0:17:53.840 --> 0:17:57.280 and my wife giving us directions to a bakery that 0:17:57.560 --> 0:18:00.560 was right near the George Floyd Memorial. 0:18:01.240 --> 0:18:03.280 So quite quite the trip to Minnesota. 0:18:03.320 --> 0:18:08.120 So last weekend I played Uncle Benny it again as 0:18:08.320 --> 0:18:12.840 my nephew had a birthday, a big birthday for my 0:18:12.960 --> 0:18:16.640 nephew as he turned four. 0:18:16.520 --> 0:18:19.800 Years old, four years old for my nephew. 0:18:19.840 --> 0:18:24.240 There doing his thing, and they had a big party 0:18:24.400 --> 0:18:30.040 at his grandparents' house no relation to me, but at 0:18:30.400 --> 0:18:33.000 this this house kind of in the Pasadena area. It's 0:18:33.040 --> 0:18:36.840 really nice, big house, and they invited all the kids 0:18:36.920 --> 0:18:40.240 from like the kids of preschool or kindergarten wherever he's in. 0:18:41.080 --> 0:18:42.639 And so there were a bunch of little kids there 0:18:42.880 --> 0:18:43.240 and they. 0:18:43.160 --> 0:18:45.399 Had a pinata and they were doing the thing the 0:18:46.000 --> 0:18:46.800 kid wanted. 0:18:47.400 --> 0:18:49.280 My nephew only wanted. 0:18:48.960 --> 0:18:52.960 Hot Wheels, And it was very upsetting to me because 0:18:53.000 --> 0:18:55.000 I went out shopping to buy the kid a gift 0:18:55.200 --> 0:18:59.040 and they had the Hot Wheels aisle and then right 0:18:59.080 --> 0:19:02.879 next to the hot wheel was the ripoff version of 0:19:02.880 --> 0:19:05.840 the Hot Wheels, which, by the way, at the store 0:19:05.880 --> 0:19:10.800 I was at much cooler than the actual legitimate Hot. 0:19:10.560 --> 0:19:13.560 Wheels on the selection they had was much cooler. 0:19:14.560 --> 0:19:18.879 Interesting, But my wife told me that I am only 0:19:18.960 --> 0:19:23.240 allowed to get the original Hot Wheels product, that the kid, 0:19:23.520 --> 0:19:30.000 my nephew is only interested in the. 0:19:29.840 --> 0:19:30.880 Hot Wheels product. 0:19:31.200 --> 0:19:32.000 What a snob. 0:19:32.359 --> 0:19:34.040 Yeah, right, he's into the brand. 0:19:34.200 --> 0:19:36.639 He must have seen the commercials or whatever on the 0:19:36.680 --> 0:19:38.960 internet when he's watching stuff on the YouTube or whatever. 0:19:39.640 --> 0:19:40.760 So whatever. 0:19:41.040 --> 0:19:43.399 I was like, all right, fine, I'll get that. So 0:19:43.440 --> 0:19:46.320 I bought a few things, hooked the kid up. And 0:19:46.359 --> 0:19:49.280 the cool thing is hot Wheels not that expensive. So 0:19:49.920 --> 0:19:52.240 if you're going to have an addiction as a kid, 0:19:53.760 --> 0:19:55.679 that's like legos are expensive. 0:19:55.760 --> 0:19:59.480 Right, yeah, yeah, man, I love those hot Wheels. And 0:19:59.520 --> 0:20:03.680 then remember there were the carrier cases where you could 0:20:03.680 --> 0:20:06.160 put all your hot wheels in there. I wanted one 0:20:06.160 --> 0:20:07.040 of those so bad. 0:20:08.119 --> 0:20:10.000 Yeah, yeah, I loved how it was. 0:20:10.040 --> 0:20:12.600 And you did the demolition derby thing, right, you did 0:20:12.640 --> 0:20:16.480 that where you would did you smash the cars into 0:20:16.520 --> 0:20:16.920 each other? 0:20:17.000 --> 0:20:19.200 Like, oh yeah, of course you got to do that. 0:20:19.560 --> 0:20:23.240 And then we had one one year for Hanuk and 0:20:23.320 --> 0:20:25.040 my my my parents got me. 0:20:25.080 --> 0:20:27.199 They had the hot Wheels. Remember the racetrack thing that 0:20:27.280 --> 0:20:27.640 you had. 0:20:27.840 --> 0:20:30.680 They had that you ever got it, always asked for it. 0:20:31.040 --> 0:20:32.480 Yeah, we had it. 0:20:32.640 --> 0:20:35.000 My mom claimed it was a huge waste of money. 0:20:35.160 --> 0:20:37.639 My mom was right, good job by your money. It 0:20:37.760 --> 0:20:41.399 was because it never worked like it did in the commercial. Yeah, 0:20:41.560 --> 0:20:43.120 the most frustrating thing. 0:20:44.480 --> 0:20:47.520 But what would like warp right away and you couldn't 0:20:47.520 --> 0:20:49.160 get it to sit flat? Right? 0:20:49.600 --> 0:20:49.879 Yeah? 0:20:50.160 --> 0:20:52.399