WEBVTT - The Fifth Hour: We Are the Network 0:00:00.680 --> 0:00:05.480 Kaboom. If you thought four hours a day, minutes a 0:00:05.480 --> 0:00:09.240 week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants of 0:00:09.280 --> 0:00:12.920 the old republic a sole fashion of fairness. He treats 0:00:12.960 --> 0:00:15.800 crackheads in the ghetto cutter the same as the rich 0:00:15.840 --> 0:00:20.200 pill poppers in the penthouse the Clearinghouse of hot takes 0:00:20.280 --> 0:00:24.080 break free for something special. The Fifth Hour with Ben 0:00:24.120 --> 0:00:33.760 Maller starts right now in the air everywhere and welcome 0:00:33.800 --> 0:00:38.400 in another random edition of the Fifth Hour with Ben 0:00:38.440 --> 0:00:44.080 Mallard and Danny G Radio back in the podcast do 0:00:44.479 --> 0:00:49.600 Joe for another day of podcast magic, even on a 0:00:49.640 --> 0:00:55.080 holiday weekend, Danny G the extended elongated holiday weekend. We 0:00:55.120 --> 0:00:58.320 are here because there is no such thing as holidays 0:00:58.320 --> 0:01:00.400 when you work in radio. Is that true, Danny? I 0:01:00.480 --> 0:01:03.880 think that's true. That's more than true. And Ben, some 0:01:03.960 --> 0:01:07.800 people eat dozens and dozens of hot dogs and buns. 0:01:08.959 --> 0:01:12.880 We do dozens and dozens of podcasts. That's right, One 0:01:12.920 --> 0:01:16.119 after another saying it is an assembly line. We are 0:01:16.319 --> 0:01:20.560 mass producing podcasts. It's what we're doing here, unless we're not. 0:01:21.560 --> 0:01:24.040 But you know, we have a good time. We do it, yeah, 0:01:24.480 --> 0:01:26.400 depending what some some weeks we do it earlier in 0:01:26.440 --> 0:01:27.920 the week. Some weeks we do it late in the week. 0:01:28.240 --> 0:01:31.560 You never know the magic of podcasting, you never know 0:01:31.600 --> 0:01:34.679 when it happens. The key is to avoid dead air, right, 0:01:34.800 --> 0:01:38.280 you don't want to you don't want that sound. You 0:01:38.280 --> 0:01:42.600 don't want to hear that your problem. So anyway, we'll 0:01:42.600 --> 0:01:50.360 get into it. We have the shell game, walmart or Target, contraband, backscratcher, 0:01:50.600 --> 0:01:56.040 and the scientifical if we have time. Who all right, 0:01:56.080 --> 0:01:59.160 so let's get right into it. The check engine light 0:02:00.640 --> 0:02:04.480 has popped up on the mallarmobile I have driven more recently. 0:02:04.520 --> 0:02:06.559 My wife drives a lot for work. I've been driving 0:02:06.600 --> 0:02:10.600 into the studio more. So. We took the car to 0:02:10.680 --> 0:02:14.040 the shop. They did a bunch of tests, which is 0:02:14.080 --> 0:02:16.960 never a good thing. It's never gonna all these cars 0:02:16.960 --> 0:02:19.359 today have computers all over the place, so did. They 0:02:19.360 --> 0:02:23.760 did a bunch of tests, and the mechanic determined that 0:02:23.919 --> 0:02:29.720 the catalytic converter, a component in the engine that keeps 0:02:29.800 --> 0:02:33.560 the fuel you know, the gas mileage pretty low, was 0:02:33.680 --> 0:02:36.679 slowly dying. And the guys like, well, you need to 0:02:36.720 --> 0:02:38.800 replace it. You probably should have replaced it yesterday, and 0:02:38.840 --> 0:02:41.560 I'm not hoping so the repair shop because this is 0:02:41.560 --> 0:02:44.040 The Life of Mallard podcast of the Repair Shop. I 0:02:44.080 --> 0:02:45.480 want to tell you what I've been dealing with your 0:02:46.360 --> 0:02:48.640 the family here, So me and the wife, we we 0:02:48.680 --> 0:02:50.680 went to the repair shop. They quoted us a price. 0:02:51.800 --> 0:02:58.399 It was an outrageously expensive price. It was so expensive 0:02:58.520 --> 0:03:01.320 for this part of the car. Then I put my 0:03:01.360 --> 0:03:03.920 foot down and said, no, we're not going to spend 0:03:04.000 --> 0:03:07.240 that money. Uh no, no, no, no, no, no, no, 0:03:07.240 --> 0:03:10.200 no no. It was really ridunculous how expensive it was. 0:03:11.160 --> 0:03:15.119 And so it's anyway, it was such a silly price. Yeah, 0:03:15.280 --> 0:03:18.280 I said, no, no, no no, I'm gonna find that part 0:03:19.760 --> 0:03:24.399 somewhere on the interweb. I don't know where, but it's 0:03:24.440 --> 0:03:27.520 the internet age. I guarantee I can find that part 0:03:27.560 --> 0:03:30.640 for cheap. You can check the local chop shop in 0:03:30.720 --> 0:03:36.000 Sherman Oaks, California. Verse our producer at Fox bur Singer 0:03:36.080 --> 0:03:39.800 and yeah, yeah, I he recently had one of those 0:03:39.800 --> 0:03:43.840 stolen off his car at the parking garage at fs 0:03:43.880 --> 0:03:50.200 are Yeah, wonderful, murder wonderful. It's great. Well that that 0:03:51.160 --> 0:03:57.560 is the number one area or car theft in Los 0:03:57.640 --> 0:04:01.560 Angeles where we do the show from the Fox Sports 0:04:01.680 --> 0:04:07.400 Radio studios are number one, number you can get on 0:04:07.480 --> 0:04:10.160 either the four oh five Freeway or the one on 0:04:10.160 --> 0:04:16.200 one within about thirty second, or Ventura Boulevard or Burbank Boulevard. Yeah, 0:04:16.360 --> 0:04:18.280 or you can go up in the hills and get 0:04:18.279 --> 0:04:20.560 lost in the hills. I mean, there's a million ways 0:04:20.640 --> 0:04:23.719 to get out of there. And so car thieves have 0:04:23.920 --> 0:04:27.160 figured out over the years that that's a great area. 0:04:27.160 --> 0:04:29.000 And there's also a lot of people on the hills 0:04:29.000 --> 0:04:30.840 that have a lot of dough a lot of cash, 0:04:31.480 --> 0:04:34.040 so that helps as well, and they drive nice cars 0:04:34.040 --> 0:04:37.279 and all that. Anyway, so yeah, Bursche, I had heard 0:04:37.320 --> 0:04:39.200 some of the Bursche in your head some mission. But anyway, 0:04:39.440 --> 0:04:43.000 this mine wasn't stolen. It just started dying. And so 0:04:43.880 --> 0:04:46.360 I told the ves a door, get the part number. 0:04:46.600 --> 0:04:48.320 I'll go on the internet. I'll find it. So I 0:04:48.360 --> 0:04:53.080 get the exact partner. So now the scavenger hunt is on. 0:04:54.040 --> 0:04:55.880 And the cool thing about the internet is it doesn't 0:04:55.920 --> 0:04:57.720 take that long once you know the right part and 0:04:57.760 --> 0:04:59.320 all that stuff. So I'm a man on a mission, 0:05:00.080 --> 0:05:03.400 and within a like a minute, Boom found the part. 0:05:04.200 --> 0:05:07.040 And I found the part for eight hundred dollars cheaper 0:05:07.960 --> 0:05:13.719 at a car shop in Texas. Eight hundred dollars cheaper 0:05:13.839 --> 0:05:17.240 than maybe they were. So I ordered the part and 0:05:17.279 --> 0:05:19.720 they we we were the part. They said, well, that's 0:05:19.760 --> 0:05:23.000 I'm back order. So I'm like, fine, I'll wait. I 0:05:23.000 --> 0:05:27.159 don't care, I'll play the waiting game. So then like 0:05:27.200 --> 0:05:31.560 a week went by and yeah, I really hadn't heard anything. 0:05:31.960 --> 0:05:34.280 And then all of a sudden they cancel the order 0:05:36.560 --> 0:05:40.000 and he said no, there's no reason really given. So 0:05:40.080 --> 0:05:42.560 now I'm like, okay, well there must have been a misunderstanding, 0:05:42.560 --> 0:05:44.359 but maybe they just couldn't get the party. So I 0:05:44.400 --> 0:05:47.839 went back on the scavenger hunt, and again bingo, I 0:05:48.040 --> 0:05:53.280 found the part again, this time for about seven hundred 0:05:53.279 --> 0:05:57.960 dollars cheaper. Then the dealer slash repair shop I went 0:05:58.040 --> 0:06:03.080 to was charging for the specific part. So again we 0:06:03.200 --> 0:06:07.159 order the part. No problem, do it online. Uh. And 0:06:07.200 --> 0:06:10.960 now a couple of weeks later, oops, it happened again. 0:06:11.000 --> 0:06:15.120 They canceled apart, and so anyway, it happened again. It's 0:06:15.120 --> 0:06:19.919 now happened three times, and so I had an epiphany 0:06:19.960 --> 0:06:23.719 that there's a shell game going on and I don't understand. 0:06:23.760 --> 0:06:27.839 I don't understand how they're making money on it. Person 0:06:27.839 --> 0:06:29.680 I guess they get we buy it and then they 0:06:29.720 --> 0:06:31.000 I don't know how they can play with the money 0:06:31.080 --> 0:06:34.240 or not. But there's a bunch of places that advertise 0:06:34.320 --> 0:06:36.360 all these different It's not just my car, but a 0:06:36.400 --> 0:06:41.600 bunch of random parts. And because of several issues possibly 0:06:41.640 --> 0:06:45.120 related to Sleepy Joe or Vladimir Putin, depending on who 0:06:45.160 --> 0:06:49.320 wanna blame, there are major supply chain issues, and so 0:06:49.400 --> 0:06:54.520 these car shops are advertising these parts really cheap, and 0:06:54.560 --> 0:06:59.640 then dopes like me end up ordering the part and then, uh, 0:06:59.680 --> 0:07:01.919 you know, had a certain finite amount of time, they 0:07:02.000 --> 0:07:04.880 end up canceling. So I don't know what the hustle 0:07:05.040 --> 0:07:08.520 is per se, but something doesn't smell right. All right, 0:07:08.600 --> 0:07:11.720 something doesn't smell right. And I still do not have 0:07:11.920 --> 0:07:15.240 the piece for the car that the car still driving. 0:07:15.280 --> 0:07:18.320 It's not like I can't drive the car, the Matamobile, 0:07:18.360 --> 0:07:20.800 but it's not getting a good gas mileage, and so 0:07:20.840 --> 0:07:24.880 the catalytic converter, which there's that's why people are stealing 0:07:24.920 --> 0:07:26.720 them right there. This is big money here. You're getting 0:07:26.760 --> 0:07:29.800 big money for these things. And so we did order 0:07:29.840 --> 0:07:35.320 from a different place. Again, so far they have not canceled, 0:07:35.320 --> 0:07:37.480 and hopefully one day I can come on this podcast 0:07:37.560 --> 0:07:43.480 Danny and say zipp any dude does zipp any day, 0:07:44.120 --> 0:07:47.480 and I'll have the part, and and and it's they're 0:07:47.520 --> 0:07:50.680 all cheaper, and like I don't understand, like why why 0:07:50.720 --> 0:07:54.080 there would be that big a disparity for the same part, 0:07:54.800 --> 0:07:58.360 Like is it you're telling me it's just eight more 0:07:58.400 --> 0:08:02.440 in California then it would in Texas or Louisiana or 0:08:02.480 --> 0:08:07.240 North Carolina. Doesn't make any sense, so some kind of 0:08:07.240 --> 0:08:09.520 shell game. Can you figure out how they're making money 0:08:09.600 --> 0:08:12.880 on that? Or why would why would they bother doing it? 0:08:12.920 --> 0:08:15.840 I don't understand. If you don't have the part, don't 0:08:15.880 --> 0:08:20.040 advertise the part, and you don't have to worry about it. 0:08:20.120 --> 0:08:23.640 But if you're advert if you advertise a product, if 0:08:23.680 --> 0:08:25.800 if I put an ad on the internet and say 0:08:25.920 --> 0:08:29.080 i'm I'll say I'm running a restaurant, and you'll come 0:08:29.120 --> 0:08:31.840 to my restaurant. I have the greatest Philly cheese steaks 0:08:31.840 --> 0:08:34.120 sandwiches of all the time at my restaurant. And then 0:08:34.120 --> 0:08:36.480 you show up to the restaurant to order the sandwich 0:08:36.520 --> 0:08:38.120 and they said, well, you know, we don't really have it, 0:08:38.160 --> 0:08:41.920 but I'm sorry, we don't have sandwiches anymore. Well, who 0:08:41.960 --> 0:08:45.720 does that? You gotta be prepared. So yeah, it's not 0:08:45.760 --> 0:08:48.760 like they're charging a service fee or something like that 0:08:48.840 --> 0:08:51.720 to pull the part from a shelf, so they're not 0:08:51.800 --> 0:08:55.120 gaining anything. If it's hackers, I guess they could try 0:08:55.120 --> 0:08:58.040 to get people's information. That would be the only thing 0:08:58.120 --> 0:09:01.360 I could think of. Yeah, these are legit in meant places, 0:09:01.400 --> 0:09:03.679 like I've as far as I can tell, unless I'm 0:09:03.679 --> 0:09:07.280 getting hornswoggled by the Internet, and who the heck knows 0:09:07.760 --> 0:09:10.440 whether or not you're getting hornswoggle by the Internet. But 0:09:10.440 --> 0:09:12.520 but no, I don't have had had not had any 0:09:12.559 --> 0:09:16.359 like weird activity anything like that. It's on my account. 0:09:16.559 --> 0:09:20.520 It's just it's like one time, okay, even two times. 0:09:20.520 --> 0:09:23.920 I'm like, all right, but it's happened three times, and 0:09:24.000 --> 0:09:27.160 I played baseball, Danny g I know three strikes are out. 0:09:28.160 --> 0:09:30.360 I know that that's the case. Tomorrow never comes when 0:09:30.360 --> 0:09:32.920 you order these parts. It's not right. We got to 0:09:32.960 --> 0:09:36.080 hear from some mechanic friends who are listening. Oh yeah, 0:09:36.120 --> 0:09:37.679 that's a good call. Yeah, we we have some in 0:09:37.760 --> 0:09:41.040 the Mallary militia. We have a few mechanics who are 0:09:41.080 --> 0:09:44.240 not bullshitters, who will give us the inside skinny on 0:09:44.280 --> 0:09:47.000 what's going on, and it's it could be just that 0:09:47.120 --> 0:09:49.760 there are these parts don't exist because they're not making 0:09:49.760 --> 0:09:51.959 them and they have to come from another country. And 0:09:52.920 --> 0:09:55.600 but again I go back to if you don't have them, 0:09:55.920 --> 0:09:58.400 spare me with the advertising on the internet. I don't 0:09:58.400 --> 0:10:01.000 need I don't need that, to be honest with me, 0:10:01.000 --> 0:10:03.240 So you don't have it. It's fine. Onwards and upwards 0:10:03.320 --> 0:10:08.560 we go. And an angel question is it Walmart or 0:10:08.640 --> 0:10:10.920 is it Target? It really is a question that goes 0:10:10.960 --> 0:10:14.480 back many many years, Danny back to the I think 0:10:14.520 --> 0:10:17.040 the Neanderthals where they were walking around wanted to know 0:10:17.120 --> 0:10:20.320 do you go to Walmart? Target? What's crazy? Is you? 0:10:20.360 --> 0:10:23.520 And I have a similar theme going on here because 0:10:23.559 --> 0:10:27.360 this didn't pass the smell test either. Okay, a couple 0:10:27.400 --> 0:10:31.720 of nights ago, I go into Target. My girl wanted 0:10:31.760 --> 0:10:36.240 some gatorade, some Gatorade zero. So I told her, all right, 0:10:36.520 --> 0:10:39.000 she's always at the grocery store, She's always getting what 0:10:39.040 --> 0:10:41.440 we need. So I said, I'm gonna go to Target. 0:10:41.880 --> 0:10:45.000 You rest, I'll get your gatorade for you. So like 0:10:45.080 --> 0:10:47.360 the hero I am, which I go to the store 0:10:47.400 --> 0:10:51.760 probably once a month compared to her five times a week. 0:10:51.960 --> 0:10:54.240 Did you did you ride in on a horse that 0:10:54.440 --> 0:10:56.720 like a like a night and shining armor to the 0:10:56.920 --> 0:10:59.520 to the target. It was more like night rider. And 0:10:59.559 --> 0:11:05.800 I was walking in like Hastlehoff. I spoke into my 0:11:05.880 --> 0:11:08.000 Apple watch and I'm like, kit, meet me out in 0:11:08.040 --> 0:11:10.640 front of the target right now. Um. So I go 0:11:10.720 --> 0:11:14.080 in there, and as I'm walking through the parking lot, 0:11:14.760 --> 0:11:18.400 there's this couple and they are pushing a huge cart 0:11:19.000 --> 0:11:25.120 filled with cases of Ensure Red bull which I thought 0:11:25.120 --> 0:11:28.800 was a weird combination, a bunch of sodas and cokes 0:11:28.880 --> 0:11:32.400 and mountain dew. That's how many drinks were in this cart. 0:11:32.960 --> 0:11:35.760 And they're pushing it towards the target, and the lady 0:11:35.800 --> 0:11:39.240 says to the guy, you better not be seen with 0:11:39.280 --> 0:11:41.720 me going in. That's the only way this is gonna work. 0:11:42.679 --> 0:11:46.920 What Yeah, And I'm like, what okay, I'm just gonna 0:11:46.920 --> 0:11:49.480 buy my own business. I didn't hear see that, and 0:11:49.520 --> 0:11:52.760 so they split up. She's now pushing the cart and 0:11:52.800 --> 0:11:56.200 he goes into the other side of the target, and 0:11:56.320 --> 0:11:58.880 as I'm walking in, I grabbed my own cart because 0:11:58.920 --> 0:12:01.160 I'm thinking, I'm a low up on this gatorade. Let 0:12:01.160 --> 0:12:03.720 me throw it in this cart. I've pushed the cart 0:12:03.840 --> 0:12:07.760 past where people are doing returns. As I'm passing the 0:12:07.840 --> 0:12:12.120 return counter, there's this kid calling for a manager. This 0:12:12.320 --> 0:12:14.640 lady is there with that huge cart. I saw them 0:12:14.640 --> 0:12:18.200 pushing in or her pushing in now, and she's calling 0:12:18.240 --> 0:12:21.400 for assistance because she's like, this lady wants to return 0:12:21.480 --> 0:12:26.480 all of this. Wow, So it's a little hustle they got. 0:12:27.600 --> 0:12:29.520 So I walked to the back of the target. I 0:12:29.600 --> 0:12:33.120 find the drinks, throw it in my cart, wheel it 0:12:33.280 --> 0:12:36.760 towards the front. This Targets have a nice part of town. 0:12:37.360 --> 0:12:41.160 It's very clean. It's usually a very nice, easy experience 0:12:41.200 --> 0:12:43.559 in and out of there, except the lines get kind 0:12:43.559 --> 0:12:46.560 of long because like a lot of stores around the country, 0:12:46.600 --> 0:12:51.000 they have three people working. And so, yeah, they have 0:12:51.080 --> 0:12:55.000 the self checkout options, yes, and that self checkout line 0:12:55.040 --> 0:12:58.280 is always pretty long there at this target. But I 0:12:58.360 --> 0:13:02.600 get into that line patiently waiting, and all of a sudden, 0:13:03.120 --> 0:13:06.840 I hear this voice just screaming, what do you mean, 0:13:06.960 --> 0:13:09.920 get away from you, get away from you? Did you 0:13:09.960 --> 0:13:13.240 hear that? Did you hear that? And I craned my 0:13:13.280 --> 0:13:16.400 head over to take a look, and it's that guy 0:13:16.480 --> 0:13:21.280 that was in the parking lot with the lady. He 0:13:21.400 --> 0:13:24.720 has two Target employees next to him at the self checkout, 0:13:25.160 --> 0:13:29.600 and he is raising hell. He's telling this lady, it's 0:13:29.600 --> 0:13:33.000 because I'm black. It's because I'm black, right, because I'm back. 0:13:34.920 --> 0:13:37.640 And I'm like, whoa, what is going on over here? 0:13:38.040 --> 0:13:40.080 And now the people who are in the line next 0:13:40.120 --> 0:13:43.320 to me for the regular checkout they're also are all 0:13:43.320 --> 0:13:50.839 looking over This is now an official commotion. And then yeah, yeah, 0:13:50.920 --> 0:13:53.400 I get to give a couple other words too. It 0:13:53.520 --> 0:14:00.760 was a ship show too. Yeah. He's screaming at specifically 0:14:00.800 --> 0:14:03.120 at one of the two standing there next to him, 0:14:03.480 --> 0:14:06.000 and he's like, I don't give a funk. If you 0:14:06.040 --> 0:14:09.120 are a manager, you're a racist. You just told me 0:14:09.200 --> 0:14:13.560 to get away from you. And she and she's like, sir, sir, 0:14:14.120 --> 0:14:16.520 and she pulled her mask down. This is what it 0:14:16.600 --> 0:14:19.200 started to get really good. Ben. She pulls her mask, 0:14:19.320 --> 0:14:23.000 She pulls her COVID mask down, which only employees have on. 0:14:23.600 --> 0:14:27.200 Okay inside this store. She pulls the mask down and 0:14:27.240 --> 0:14:34.760 she says, look at me, I'm Mexican, okay. And he's like, 0:14:35.200 --> 0:14:38.920 so I'm black, and now we're doing William, which is 0:14:38.960 --> 0:14:42.760 okay yeah, and she's like, no, sir, sir, I'm Mexican. 0:14:42.840 --> 0:14:46.720 My point is we're all from diverse backgrounds. It has 0:14:46.760 --> 0:14:51.360 nothing to do with race. And okay, it doesn't have 0:14:51.440 --> 0:14:53.440 to do with race. Then why did you just tell 0:14:53.480 --> 0:14:56.560 me to get away from you? And she's like, no, sir, 0:14:56.680 --> 0:14:59.000 what I said is to back up because I was 0:14:59.040 --> 0:15:02.520 busy trying to put my code in And he's like, post, 0:15:02.960 --> 0:15:05.560 you told me you weren't gonna put your employee code 0:15:05.560 --> 0:15:09.480 in because you said I didn't pay for all these items? 0:15:10.160 --> 0:15:12.400 Is he on drugs or something like that, or what's 0:15:12.440 --> 0:15:14.760 what's the hustle? What's he going? First thought in my 0:15:14.840 --> 0:15:19.520 mind was was this guy purposely causing a distraction so 0:15:19.600 --> 0:15:23.480 that that chip could steal some stuff? Yeah, that went 0:15:23.520 --> 0:15:27.640 through my mind. Also, he grabbed a receipt. It might 0:15:27.640 --> 0:15:30.800 have been another return from another time they were there, 0:15:30.960 --> 0:15:34.320 because he was like, see this return receipt because this 0:15:34.480 --> 0:15:37.520 lady was nowhere anywhere in sight, nowhere near him, the 0:15:37.600 --> 0:15:40.000 one he walked in with that did that big return, 0:15:40.080 --> 0:15:42.800 she was nowhere in the picture now. So I'm like, 0:15:43.080 --> 0:15:45.360 where is that lady that didn't want to be seen 0:15:45.440 --> 0:15:48.120 with him going in? But he's now holding up some 0:15:48.200 --> 0:15:52.000 other old receipt. See this receipt. I'm a longtime customer. 0:15:52.640 --> 0:15:55.480 And and in his cart ben he now has more 0:15:55.560 --> 0:16:00.400 Red Bull, more Insure, more cases of drinks. He went 0:16:00.440 --> 0:16:02.840 into the store, grabbed all that stuff and went to 0:16:02.880 --> 0:16:06.360 the self checkout. I'm now sitting there like a private detective, 0:16:06.440 --> 0:16:09.640 like what is going on here? He tells the lady, 0:16:10.400 --> 0:16:13.160 Fuck you, I don't care if you don't think I 0:16:13.160 --> 0:16:15.760 didn't pay for all this. I'm walking out with all 0:16:15.840 --> 0:16:19.680 my drinks. Oh, here we go. They just walked? Did 0:16:19.720 --> 0:16:22.600 he just walk out with all that? So he's flipping 0:16:22.640 --> 0:16:25.480 them the bird. He's pushing his card out with all 0:16:25.560 --> 0:16:28.600 the drinks, and she's like, sir, sir, you didn't pay 0:16:28.640 --> 0:16:35.000 for all of those? Uh? And that's what I was. 0:16:35.160 --> 0:16:38.280 That's what I wanted to ask you, because I'm like, okay, 0:16:38.320 --> 0:16:41.520 so do you think the hustle was he caused a 0:16:41.600 --> 0:16:45.800 big distraction, got out of there, and then they returned 0:16:45.800 --> 0:16:48.560 the stuff and got credit or money and he didn't 0:16:48.560 --> 0:16:51.800 pay for all the items? Is that the hustle? Yeah? 0:16:51.960 --> 0:16:54.840 Like here's the thing that you know in in l A, 0:16:55.680 --> 0:17:00.720 you're allowed to steal. The district attorney what's his name, 0:17:00.800 --> 0:17:04.560 gascon Or whatever his name is, George Gascon. They allow you. 0:17:04.720 --> 0:17:07.040 You're free under a certain amount, right, there's I forget 0:17:07.080 --> 0:17:10.280 what the cutoff is, but they you can walk out 0:17:10.320 --> 0:17:13.159 of the store and they won't do anything. So but 0:17:13.480 --> 0:17:16.840 the return part, it was like they steal stuff and 0:17:16.840 --> 0:17:19.280 then plan on returning it so they can get money 0:17:19.359 --> 0:17:20.920 for it. But why would you go to the same 0:17:20.960 --> 0:17:23.600 story you stole it from. That doesn't make a lot 0:17:23.600 --> 0:17:28.600 of sense. No, yeah, they doesn't unless they had gotten 0:17:28.640 --> 0:17:32.960 that first cart of stuff came from a different target. Yeah, yeah, 0:17:33.000 --> 0:17:34.520 that that could have been where it was from a 0:17:34.560 --> 0:17:37.840 different different Are they like gypsies going around stealing stuff 0:17:37.840 --> 0:17:39.560 and that's how they make their money or they just 0:17:40.320 --> 0:17:43.720 I don't know. That was entertainment for everybody inside that 0:17:43.800 --> 0:17:47.440 target though. It was like a real life what's that 0:17:47.640 --> 0:17:51.600 the movie with George Clooney Oceans eleven? Is that the one? Yeah? 0:17:51.720 --> 0:17:53.760 And that does That's like something you'd expect to see 0:17:53.760 --> 0:17:56.760 at Walmart. So, like there's two types of people. There's 0:17:56.800 --> 0:18:00.000 the Target people and the Walmart people. I'm on team Walmart. 0:18:00.119 --> 0:18:02.679 My wife loves Target. She hates Walmart. She will not 0:18:02.760 --> 0:18:05.840 go to Walmart. And I love going to Walmart. Because 0:18:05.840 --> 0:18:07.840 it's like you get the shop and see a show. 0:18:09.680 --> 0:18:12.399 It's it's like to me, it's just it's I I 0:18:12.520 --> 0:18:14.359 used to love when I lived in UH In certain 0:18:14.359 --> 0:18:16.280 parts of l A. I would go to Venice Beach, 0:18:16.320 --> 0:18:19.000 the Bennette Venice Beach Boardwalk, which is a big tourist place. 0:18:19.400 --> 0:18:21.959 But that's like the freak show in l A at 0:18:22.040 --> 0:18:24.080 Venice Beach. And when I'm in Vegas, I love to 0:18:24.119 --> 0:18:26.880 go to Fremont Street because that's where the freaks are. 0:18:27.560 --> 0:18:29.720 And you know, it's like Times Square used to be 0:18:29.800 --> 0:18:32.440 like that in New York, not so much anymore. Miami 0:18:32.600 --> 0:18:35.719 South Beach, like those are the place. Going to Walmart's 0:18:35.760 --> 0:18:38.959 like a little taste of that, and it's what you expect. 0:18:39.000 --> 0:18:42.440 There's there's people with all kinds of body art and 0:18:42.800 --> 0:18:46.199 uh weird piercings, and people that look like they've been 0:18:46.320 --> 0:18:49.400 up for a week or two and haven't slept, and 0:18:49.400 --> 0:18:51.600 and there's like all kinds of people that are you 0:18:51.640 --> 0:18:53.520 can tell are introverts and don't get out much. This 0:18:53.600 --> 0:18:56.760 is their only trip. There's it's just wild. They're at Walmart, 0:18:56.760 --> 0:18:58.920 but you don't always see that at Target. Target has 0:18:58.960 --> 0:19:04.040 the reputation of being more more upscale, obviously than the 0:19:04.160 --> 0:19:07.800 Walmart tar j as we like to call it, my 0:19:07.920 --> 0:19:12.520 tender rowning. She also refuses to walk into a Walmart. Yeah, 0:19:12.600 --> 0:19:14.000 my wife, I'm like just coming up with let's go 0:19:14.080 --> 0:19:16.640 to Walmart. You get the better deals. The people are crazy, 0:19:16.720 --> 0:19:18.840 She's not. I don't like the she don't like the lighting. 0:19:18.960 --> 0:19:21.760 She complains about the lighting is I've heard that to 0:19:21.960 --> 0:19:25.280 the lighting makes some people ill. What the hell? I've 0:19:25.320 --> 0:19:27.800 never had an issue with the lighting. Like whatever, I 0:19:27.920 --> 0:19:30.119 to walk in, I get my stuff, walk out whatever. 0:19:30.840 --> 0:19:33.480 The light it's like hospital lighting, and you also have 0:19:33.640 --> 0:19:40.000 some sick people inside, like the Camaio hospital. Yeah, yeah, 0:19:40.040 --> 0:19:42.000 it might be that. These are some of the people 0:19:42.000 --> 0:19:45.840 that call me. Would be the Walmart crowd, right, some 0:19:45.920 --> 0:19:48.240 of my regulars might be the Walmart crowds. I'm not 0:19:48.359 --> 0:19:57.160 naming names here. Holler and James would be checking you out, Yeah, 0:19:57.280 --> 0:20:01.440 hollering James and Jet well, well, Jet fueld George he 0:20:01.800 --> 0:20:05.080 called for a while, he stopped calling, uh, And then 0:20:05.800 --> 0:20:09.040 our our friend in Florida who likes to do the 0:20:09.680 --> 0:20:13.560 drug fled. Jeah. Yeah, Jet who fled would be pupils 0:20:13.560 --> 0:20:15.840 on his eyes, would be like really like wide open 0:20:16.960 --> 0:20:20.919 all that stuff. So there you go, alright, wonderful. I 0:20:20.920 --> 0:20:23.800 wonder how often people do go to Target and Walmart 0:20:23.840 --> 0:20:26.879 and try to return stuff they didn't actually buy and 0:20:27.359 --> 0:20:31.119 how that works. But I know what Walmart do you 0:20:31.160 --> 0:20:35.040 have to have the receipt, right, That's that's the deal, apparently, 0:20:35.080 --> 0:20:38.080 I Target, you can just scream at managers flip birds 0:20:38.080 --> 0:20:45.800 and put your card out. Yeah. I last year we 0:20:45.920 --> 0:20:48.639 had the first ever and this is a this is 0:20:48.680 --> 0:20:52.520 a a podcast exclusive, a fifth hour exclusion. So last 0:20:52.640 --> 0:20:57.440 year we had the first ever Mallard flea market for 0:20:57.920 --> 0:21:00.320 you know, just for laughs and giggles. We had eempted 0:21:00.359 --> 0:21:04.640 to unload some of our excess. As you know from 0:21:04.680 --> 0:21:07.160 listening to the podcast over the last couple of years, 0:21:07.160 --> 0:21:10.680 I've I've lost my father last year. So my dad 0:21:10.720 --> 0:21:14.160 had all my mom's stuff and his stuff obviously because 0:21:14.200 --> 0:21:17.600 he was still with us. And then when he passed on, I, 0:21:17.840 --> 0:21:20.760 along with my brothers and you know, got all my 0:21:20.840 --> 0:21:25.320 dad's stuff. But since my brothers live respectively in Wisconsin 0:21:25.400 --> 0:21:30.800 and New York, they're not in California, so I ended 0:21:30.880 --> 0:21:33.080 up having to take care of me and the wife. 0:21:33.080 --> 0:21:35.760 We had to take care of all that stuff. So 0:21:35.840 --> 0:21:39.360 we tried to have a flea market, didn't he did 0:21:39.400 --> 0:21:43.360 not go all that great. We had bought some sandwich 0:21:43.400 --> 0:21:49.720 board to advertise around the north Woods and it was 0:21:49.720 --> 0:21:51.760 not very effective. One of our neighbors not part of 0:21:51.800 --> 0:21:54.879 it was because COVID was still very active and it 0:21:54.960 --> 0:21:59.000 hadn't things hadn't opened back up. That was one issue. Uh. 0:21:59.240 --> 0:22:03.119 And so one of the neighbors who had kind of 0:22:03.119 --> 0:22:05.000 walked around and seeing what we were doing, and he 0:22:05.119 --> 0:22:07.920 just he was doing some shopping looking looking at the 0:22:07.920 --> 0:22:12.720 the crap we were selling at the garage sale. He 0:22:12.880 --> 0:22:14.800 mentioned this. This old guy said, yeah, I got a 0:22:14.800 --> 0:22:19.840 little life ACTU debonair. Gentleman said that he was one 0:22:19.880 --> 0:22:23.399 a hat. He said, you know we should do and 0:22:23.440 --> 0:22:25.160 he says he's done this. He says, you wait till 0:22:25.200 --> 0:22:30.240 the next election, and then the election signs are wonderful 0:22:30.320 --> 0:22:34.280 to repurpose for yards sits. And so the guy's giving 0:22:34.359 --> 0:22:38.160 this whole rap. He said, there's a city ordinance which 0:22:38.240 --> 0:22:42.000 he said says he says in a a fair game, he says, 0:22:42.480 --> 0:22:44.240 you can use it to your advantage. He sayd's after 0:22:44.280 --> 0:22:48.439 an election, the candidates, whether they win or lose, it 0:22:48.440 --> 0:22:51.040 doesn't matter you have. I think it was two days 0:22:51.160 --> 0:22:53.640 to pick up all of you know, those plastic signs 0:22:53.680 --> 0:22:56.080 that are all over the place before. So in this 0:22:56.280 --> 0:22:58.760 in this town, he said, you can pick those things 0:22:58.880 --> 0:23:01.879 up and if if they don't pick the signs up, 0:23:01.880 --> 0:23:05.640 they'll get fine. The politicians and the residents are free 0:23:05.680 --> 0:23:09.119 to take them. It's like a blight in the community. 0:23:09.400 --> 0:23:12.200 So we had an election not that long ago, like 0:23:12.520 --> 0:23:15.400 all over California, right it was like a mid term 0:23:15.440 --> 0:23:19.400 thing or something. Anyway, So there's an election and I'm 0:23:19.520 --> 0:23:22.399 driving around and I remember what that guy had said, 0:23:23.520 --> 0:23:25.520 and I'm driving back home and I noticed there was 0:23:25.560 --> 0:23:29.119 some really good looking signs, some really sexy signs, and 0:23:29.160 --> 0:23:32.040 I made a deal with myself. Danny Gait, did you 0:23:32.080 --> 0:23:34.800