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Speaker 1: in another random edition of the Fifth Hour with Ben
Speaker 1: Mallard and Danny G Radio back in the podcast do
Speaker 1: Joe for another day of podcast magic, even on a
Speaker 1: holiday weekend, Danny G the extended elongated holiday weekend. We
Speaker 1: are here because there is no such thing as holidays
Speaker 1: when you work in radio. Is that true, Danny? I
Speaker 1: think that's true. That's more than true. And Ben, some
Speaker 1: people eat dozens and dozens of hot dogs and buns.
Speaker 1: We do dozens and dozens of podcasts. That's right, One
Speaker 1: after another saying it is an assembly line. We are
Speaker 1: mass producing podcasts. It's what we're doing here, unless we're not.
Speaker 1: But you know, we have a good time. We do it, yeah,
Speaker 1: depending what some some weeks we do it earlier in
Speaker 1: the week. Some weeks we do it late in the week.
Speaker 1: You never know the magic of podcasting, you never know
Speaker 1: when it happens. The key is to avoid dead air, right,
Speaker 1: you don't want to you don't want that sound. You
Speaker 1: don't want to hear that your problem. So anyway, we'll
Speaker 1: get into it. We have the shell game, walmart or Target, contraband, backscratcher,
Speaker 1: and the scientifical if we have time. Who all right,
Speaker 1: so let's get right into it. The check engine light
Speaker 1: has popped up on the mallarmobile I have driven more recently.
Speaker 1: My wife drives a lot for work. I've been driving
Speaker 1: into the studio more. So. We took the car to
Speaker 1: the shop. They did a bunch of tests, which is
Speaker 1: never a good thing. It's never gonna all these cars
Speaker 1: today have computers all over the place, so did. They
Speaker 1: did a bunch of tests, and the mechanic determined that
Speaker 1: the catalytic converter, a component in the engine that keeps
Speaker 1: the fuel you know, the gas mileage pretty low, was
Speaker 1: slowly dying. And the guys like, well, you need to
Speaker 1: replace it. You probably should have replaced it yesterday, and
Speaker 1: I'm not hoping so the repair shop because this is
Speaker 1: The Life of Mallard podcast of the Repair Shop. I
Speaker 1: want to tell you what I've been dealing with your
Speaker 1: the family here, So me and the wife, we we
Speaker 1: went to the repair shop. They quoted us a price.
Speaker 1: It was an outrageously expensive price. It was so expensive
Speaker 1: for this part of the car. Then I put my
Speaker 1: foot down and said, no, we're not going to spend
Speaker 1: that money. Uh no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: no no. It was really ridunculous how expensive it was.
Speaker 1: And so it's anyway, it was such a silly price. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I said, no, no, no no, I'm gonna find that part
Speaker 1: somewhere on the interweb. I don't know where, but it's
Speaker 1: the internet age. I guarantee I can find that part
Speaker 1: for cheap. You can check the local chop shop in
Speaker 1: Sherman Oaks, California. Verse our producer at Fox bur Singer
Speaker 1: and yeah, yeah, I he recently had one of those
Speaker 1: stolen off his car at the parking garage at fs
Speaker 1: are Yeah, wonderful, murder wonderful. It's great. Well that that
Speaker 1: is the number one area or car theft in Los
Speaker 1: Angeles where we do the show from the Fox Sports
Speaker 1: Radio studios are number one, number you can get on
Speaker 1: either the four oh five Freeway or the one on
Speaker 1: one within about thirty second, or Ventura Boulevard or Burbank Boulevard. Yeah,
Speaker 1: or you can go up in the hills and get
Speaker 1: lost in the hills. I mean, there's a million ways
Speaker 1: to get out of there. And so car thieves have
Speaker 1: figured out over the years that that's a great area.
Speaker 1: And there's also a lot of people on the hills
Speaker 1: that have a lot of dough a lot of cash,
Speaker 1: so that helps as well, and they drive nice cars
Speaker 1: and all that. Anyway, so yeah, Bursche, I had heard
Speaker 1: some of the Bursche in your head some mission. But anyway,
Speaker 1: this mine wasn't stolen. It just started dying. And so
Speaker 1: I told the ves a door, get the part number.
Speaker 1: I'll go on the internet. I'll find it. So I
Speaker 1: get the exact partner. So now the scavenger hunt is on.
Speaker 1: And the cool thing about the internet is it doesn't
Speaker 1: take that long once you know the right part and
Speaker 1: all that stuff. So I'm a man on a mission,
Speaker 1: and within a like a minute, Boom found the part.
Speaker 1: And I found the part for eight hundred dollars cheaper
Speaker 1: at a car shop in Texas. Eight hundred dollars cheaper
Speaker 1: than maybe they were. So I ordered the part and
Speaker 1: they we we were the part. They said, well, that's
Speaker 1: I'm back order. So I'm like, fine, I'll wait. I
Speaker 1: don't care, I'll play the waiting game. So then like
Speaker 1: a week went by and yeah, I really hadn't heard anything.
Speaker 1: And then all of a sudden they cancel the order
Speaker 1: and he said no, there's no reason really given. So
Speaker 1: now I'm like, okay, well there must have been a misunderstanding,
Speaker 1: but maybe they just couldn't get the party. So I
Speaker 1: went back on the scavenger hunt, and again bingo, I
Speaker 1: found the part again, this time for about seven hundred
Speaker 1: dollars cheaper. Then the dealer slash repair shop I went
Speaker 1: to was charging for the specific part. So again we
Speaker 1: order the part. No problem, do it online. Uh. And
Speaker 1: now a couple of weeks later, oops, it happened again.
Speaker 1: They canceled apart, and so anyway, it happened again. It's
Speaker 1: now happened three times, and so I had an epiphany
Speaker 1: that there's a shell game going on and I don't understand.
Speaker 1: I don't understand how they're making money on it. Person
Speaker 1: I guess they get we buy it and then they
Speaker 1: I don't know how they can play with the money
Speaker 1: or not. But there's a bunch of places that advertise
Speaker 1: all these different It's not just my car, but a
Speaker 1: bunch of random parts. And because of several issues possibly
Speaker 1: related to Sleepy Joe or Vladimir Putin, depending on who
Speaker 1: wanna blame, there are major supply chain issues, and so
Speaker 1: these car shops are advertising these parts really cheap, and
Speaker 1: then dopes like me end up ordering the part and then, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, had a certain finite amount of time, they
Speaker 1: end up canceling. So I don't know what the hustle
Speaker 1: is per se, but something doesn't smell right. All right,
Speaker 1: something doesn't smell right. And I still do not have
Speaker 1: the piece for the car that the car still driving.
Speaker 1: It's not like I can't drive the car, the Matamobile,
Speaker 1: but it's not getting a good gas mileage, and so
Speaker 1: the catalytic converter, which there's that's why people are stealing
Speaker 1: them right there. This is big money here. You're getting
Speaker 1: big money for these things. And so we did order
Speaker 1: from a different place. Again, so far they have not canceled,
Speaker 1: and hopefully one day I can come on this podcast
Speaker 1: Danny and say zipp any dude does zipp any day,
Speaker 1: and I'll have the part, and and and it's they're
Speaker 1: all cheaper, and like I don't understand, like why why
Speaker 1: there would be that big a disparity for the same part,
Speaker 1: Like is it you're telling me it's just eight more
Speaker 1: in California then it would in Texas or Louisiana or
Speaker 1: North Carolina. Doesn't make any sense, so some kind of
Speaker 1: shell game. Can you figure out how they're making money
Speaker 1: on that? Or why would why would they bother doing it?
Speaker 1: I don't understand. If you don't have the part, don't
Speaker 1: advertise the part, and you don't have to worry about it.
Speaker 1: But if you're advert if you advertise a product, if
Speaker 1: if I put an ad on the internet and say
Speaker 1: i'm I'll say I'm running a restaurant, and you'll come
Speaker 1: to my restaurant. I have the greatest Philly cheese steaks
Speaker 1: sandwiches of all the time at my restaurant. And then
Speaker 1: you show up to the restaurant to order the sandwich
Speaker 1: and they said, well, you know, we don't really have it,
Speaker 1: but I'm sorry, we don't have sandwiches anymore. Well, who
Speaker 1: does that? You gotta be prepared. So yeah, it's not
Speaker 1: like they're charging a service fee or something like that
Speaker 1: to pull the part from a shelf, so they're not
Speaker 1: gaining anything. If it's hackers, I guess they could try
Speaker 1: to get people's information. That would be the only thing
Speaker 1: I could think of. Yeah, these are legit in meant places,
Speaker 1: like I've as far as I can tell, unless I'm
Speaker 1: getting hornswoggled by the Internet, and who the heck knows
Speaker 1: whether or not you're getting hornswoggle by the Internet. But
Speaker 1: but no, I don't have had had not had any
Speaker 1: like weird activity anything like that. It's on my account.
Speaker 1: It's just it's like one time, okay, even two times.
Speaker 1: I'm like, all right, but it's happened three times, and
Speaker 1: I played baseball, Danny g I know three strikes are out.
Speaker 1: I know that that's the case. Tomorrow never comes when
Speaker 1: you order these parts. It's not right. We got to
Speaker 1: hear from some mechanic friends who are listening. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: that's a good call. Yeah, we we have some in
Speaker 1: the Mallary militia. We have a few mechanics who are
Speaker 1: not bullshitters, who will give us the inside skinny on
Speaker 1: what's going on, and it's it could be just that
Speaker 1: there are these parts don't exist because they're not making
Speaker 1: them and they have to come from another country. And
Speaker 1: but again I go back to if you don't have them,
Speaker 1: spare me with the advertising on the internet. I don't
Speaker 1: need I don't need that, to be honest with me,
Speaker 1: So you don't have it. It's fine. Onwards and upwards
Speaker 1: we go. And an angel question is it Walmart or
Speaker 1: is it Target? It really is a question that goes
Speaker 1: back many many years, Danny back to the I think
Speaker 1: the Neanderthals where they were walking around wanted to know
Speaker 1: do you go to Walmart? Target? What's crazy? Is you?
Speaker 1: And I have a similar theme going on here because
Speaker 1: this didn't pass the smell test either. Okay, a couple
Speaker 1: of nights ago, I go into Target. My girl wanted
Speaker 1: some gatorade, some Gatorade zero. So I told her, all right,
Speaker 1: she's always at the grocery store, She's always getting what
Speaker 1: we need. So I said, I'm gonna go to Target.
Speaker 1: You rest, I'll get your gatorade for you. So like
Speaker 1: the hero I am, which I go to the store
Speaker 1: probably once a month compared to her five times a week.
Speaker 1: Did you did you ride in on a horse that
Speaker 1: like a like a night and shining armor to the
Speaker 1: to the target. It was more like night rider. And
Speaker 1: I was walking in like Hastlehoff. I spoke into my
Speaker 1: Apple watch and I'm like, kit, meet me out in
Speaker 1: front of the target right now. Um. So I go
Speaker 1: in there, and as I'm walking through the parking lot,
Speaker 1: there's this couple and they are pushing a huge cart
Speaker 1: filled with cases of Ensure Red bull which I thought
Speaker 1: was a weird combination, a bunch of sodas and cokes
Speaker 1: and mountain dew. That's how many drinks were in this cart.
Speaker 1: And they're pushing it towards the target, and the lady
Speaker 1: says to the guy, you better not be seen with
Speaker 1: me going in. That's the only way this is gonna work.
Speaker 1: What Yeah, And I'm like, what okay, I'm just gonna
Speaker 1: buy my own business. I didn't hear see that, and
Speaker 1: so they split up. She's now pushing the cart and
Speaker 1: he goes into the other side of the target, and
Speaker 1: as I'm walking in, I grabbed my own cart because
Speaker 1: I'm thinking, I'm a low up on this gatorade. Let
Speaker 1: me throw it in this cart. I've pushed the cart
Speaker 1: past where people are doing returns. As I'm passing the
Speaker 1: return counter, there's this kid calling for a manager. This
Speaker 1: lady is there with that huge cart. I saw them
Speaker 1: pushing in or her pushing in now, and she's calling
Speaker 1: for assistance because she's like, this lady wants to return
Speaker 1: all of this. Wow, So it's a little hustle they got.
Speaker 1: So I walked to the back of the target. I
Speaker 1: find the drinks, throw it in my cart, wheel it
Speaker 1: towards the front. This Targets have a nice part of town.
Speaker 1: It's very clean. It's usually a very nice, easy experience
Speaker 1: in and out of there, except the lines get kind
Speaker 1: of long because like a lot of stores around the country,
Speaker 1: they have three people working. And so, yeah, they have
Speaker 1: the self checkout options, yes, and that self checkout line
Speaker 1: is always pretty long there at this target. But I
Speaker 1: get into that line patiently waiting, and all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: I hear this voice just screaming, what do you mean,
Speaker 1: get away from you, get away from you? Did you
Speaker 1: hear that? Did you hear that? And I craned my
Speaker 1: head over to take a look, and it's that guy
Speaker 1: that was in the parking lot with the lady. He
Speaker 1: has two Target employees next to him at the self checkout,
Speaker 1: and he is raising hell. He's telling this lady, it's
Speaker 1: because I'm black. It's because I'm black, right, because I'm back.
Speaker 1: And I'm like, whoa, what is going on over here?
Speaker 1: And now the people who are in the line next
Speaker 1: to me for the regular checkout they're also are all
Speaker 1: looking over This is now an official commotion. And then yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I get to give a couple other words too. It
Speaker 1: was a ship show too. Yeah. He's screaming at specifically
Speaker 1: at one of the two standing there next to him,
Speaker 1: and he's like, I don't give a funk. If you
Speaker 1: are a manager, you're a racist. You just told me
Speaker 1: to get away from you. And she and she's like, sir, sir,
Speaker 1: and she pulled her mask down. This is what it
Speaker 1: started to get really good. Ben. She pulls her mask,
Speaker 1: She pulls her COVID mask down, which only employees have on.
Speaker 1: Okay inside this store. She pulls the mask down and
Speaker 1: she says, look at me, I'm Mexican, okay. And he's like,
Speaker 1: so I'm black, and now we're doing William, which is
Speaker 1: okay yeah, and she's like, no, sir, sir, I'm Mexican.
Speaker 1: My point is we're all from diverse backgrounds. It has
Speaker 1: nothing to do with race. And okay, it doesn't have
Speaker 1: to do with race. Then why did you just tell
Speaker 1: me to get away from you? And she's like, no, sir,
Speaker 1: what I said is to back up because I was
Speaker 1: busy trying to put my code in And he's like, post,
Speaker 1: you told me you weren't gonna put your employee code
Speaker 1: in because you said I didn't pay for all these items?
Speaker 1: Is he on drugs or something like that, or what's
Speaker 1: what's the hustle? What's he going? First thought in my
Speaker 1: mind was was this guy purposely causing a distraction so
Speaker 1: that that chip could steal some stuff? Yeah, that went
Speaker 1: through my mind. Also, he grabbed a receipt. It might
Speaker 1: have been another return from another time they were there,
Speaker 1: because he was like, see this return receipt because this
Speaker 1: lady was nowhere anywhere in sight, nowhere near him, the
Speaker 1: one he walked in with that did that big return,
Speaker 1: she was nowhere in the picture now. So I'm like,
Speaker 1: where is that lady that didn't want to be seen
Speaker 1: with him going in? But he's now holding up some
Speaker 1: other old receipt. See this receipt. I'm a longtime customer.
Speaker 1: And and in his cart ben he now has more
Speaker 1: Red Bull, more Insure, more cases of drinks. He went
Speaker 1: into the store, grabbed all that stuff and went to
Speaker 1: the self checkout. I'm now sitting there like a private detective,
Speaker 1: like what is going on here? He tells the lady,
Speaker 1: Fuck you, I don't care if you don't think I
Speaker 1: didn't pay for all this. I'm walking out with all
Speaker 1: my drinks. Oh, here we go. They just walked? Did
Speaker 1: he just walk out with all that? So he's flipping
Speaker 1: them the bird. He's pushing his card out with all
Speaker 1: the drinks, and she's like, sir, sir, you didn't pay
Speaker 1: for all of those? Uh? And that's what I was.
Speaker 1: That's what I wanted to ask you, because I'm like, okay,
Speaker 1: so do you think the hustle was he caused a
Speaker 1: big distraction, got out of there, and then they returned
Speaker 1: the stuff and got credit or money and he didn't
Speaker 1: pay for all the items? Is that the hustle? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Like here's the thing that you know in in l A,
Speaker 1: you're allowed to steal. The district attorney what's his name,
Speaker 1: gascon Or whatever his name is, George Gascon. They allow you.
Speaker 1: You're free under a certain amount, right, there's I forget
Speaker 1: what the cutoff is, but they you can walk out
Speaker 1: of the store and they won't do anything. So but
Speaker 1: the return part, it was like they steal stuff and
Speaker 1: then plan on returning it so they can get money
Speaker 1: for it. But why would you go to the same
Speaker 1: story you stole it from. That doesn't make a lot
Speaker 1: of sense. No, yeah, they doesn't unless they had gotten
Speaker 1: that first cart of stuff came from a different target. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: that that could have been where it was from a
Speaker 1: different different Are they like gypsies going around stealing stuff
Speaker 1: and that's how they make their money or they just
Speaker 1: I don't know. That was entertainment for everybody inside that
Speaker 1: target though. It was like a real life what's that
Speaker 1: the movie with George Clooney Oceans eleven? Is that the one? Yeah?
Speaker 1: And that does That's like something you'd expect to see
Speaker 1: at Walmart. So, like there's two types of people. There's
Speaker 1: the Target people and the Walmart people. I'm on team Walmart.
Speaker 1: My wife loves Target. She hates Walmart. She will not
Speaker 1: go to Walmart. And I love going to Walmart. Because
Speaker 1: it's like you get the shop and see a show.
Speaker 1: It's it's like to me, it's just it's I I
Speaker 1: used to love when I lived in UH In certain
Speaker 1: parts of l A. I would go to Venice Beach,
Speaker 1: the Bennette Venice Beach Boardwalk, which is a big tourist place.
Speaker 1: But that's like the freak show in l A at
Speaker 1: Venice Beach. And when I'm in Vegas, I love to
Speaker 1: go to Fremont Street because that's where the freaks are.
Speaker 1: And you know, it's like Times Square used to be
Speaker 1: like that in New York, not so much anymore. Miami
Speaker 1: South Beach, like those are the place. Going to Walmart's
Speaker 1: like a little taste of that, and it's what you expect.
Speaker 1: There's there's people with all kinds of body art and
Speaker 1: uh weird piercings, and people that look like they've been
Speaker 1: up for a week or two and haven't slept, and
Speaker 1: and there's like all kinds of people that are you
Speaker 1: can tell are introverts and don't get out much. This
Speaker 1: is their only trip. There's it's just wild. They're at Walmart,
Speaker 1: but you don't always see that at Target. Target has
Speaker 1: the reputation of being more more upscale, obviously than the
Speaker 1: Walmart tar j as we like to call it, my
Speaker 1: tender rowning. She also refuses to walk into a Walmart. Yeah,
Speaker 1: my wife, I'm like just coming up with let's go
Speaker 1: to Walmart. You get the better deals. The people are crazy,
Speaker 1: She's not. I don't like the she don't like the lighting.
Speaker 1: She complains about the lighting is I've heard that to
Speaker 1: the lighting makes some people ill. What the hell? I've
Speaker 1: never had an issue with the lighting. Like whatever, I
Speaker 1: to walk in, I get my stuff, walk out whatever.
Speaker 1: The light it's like hospital lighting, and you also have
Speaker 1: some sick people inside, like the Camaio hospital. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: it might be that. These are some of the people
Speaker 1: that call me. Would be the Walmart crowd, right, some
Speaker 1: of my regulars might be the Walmart crowds. I'm not
Speaker 1: naming names here. Holler and James would be checking you out, Yeah,
Speaker 1: hollering James and Jet well, well, Jet fueld George he
Speaker 1: called for a while, he stopped calling, uh, And then
Speaker 1: our our friend in Florida who likes to do the
Speaker 1: drug fled. Jeah. Yeah, Jet who fled would be pupils
Speaker 1: on his eyes, would be like really like wide open
Speaker 1: all that stuff. So there you go, alright, wonderful. I
Speaker 1: wonder how often people do go to Target and Walmart
Speaker 1: and try to return stuff they didn't actually buy and
Speaker 1: how that works. But I know what Walmart do you
Speaker 1: have to have the receipt, right, That's that's the deal, apparently,
Speaker 1: I Target, you can just scream at managers flip birds
Speaker 1: and put your card out. Yeah. I last year we
Speaker 1: had the first ever and this is a this is
Speaker 1: a a podcast exclusive, a fifth hour exclusion. So last
Speaker 1: year we had the first ever Mallard flea market for
Speaker 1: you know, just for laughs and giggles. We had eempted
Speaker 1: to unload some of our excess. As you know from
Speaker 1: listening to the podcast over the last couple of years,
Speaker 1: I've I've lost my father last year. So my dad
Speaker 1: had all my mom's stuff and his stuff obviously because
Speaker 1: he was still with us. And then when he passed on, I,
Speaker 1: along with my brothers and you know, got all my
Speaker 1: dad's stuff. But since my brothers live respectively in Wisconsin
Speaker 1: and New York, they're not in California, so I ended
Speaker 1: up having to take care of me and the wife.
Speaker 1: We had to take care of all that stuff. So
Speaker 1: we tried to have a flea market, didn't he did
Speaker 1: not go all that great. We had bought some sandwich
Speaker 1: board to advertise around the north Woods and it was
Speaker 1: not very effective. One of our neighbors not part of
Speaker 1: it was because COVID was still very active and it
Speaker 1: hadn't things hadn't opened back up. That was one issue. Uh.
Speaker 1: And so one of the neighbors who had kind of
Speaker 1: walked around and seeing what we were doing, and he
Speaker 1: just he was doing some shopping looking looking at the
Speaker 1: the crap we were selling at the garage sale. He
Speaker 1: mentioned this. This old guy said, yeah, I got a
Speaker 1: little life ACTU debonair. Gentleman said that he was one
Speaker 1: a hat. He said, you know we should do and
Speaker 1: he says he's done this. He says, you wait till
Speaker 1: the next election, and then the election signs are wonderful
Speaker 1: to repurpose for yards sits. And so the guy's giving
Speaker 1: this whole rap. He said, there's a city ordinance which
Speaker 1: he said says he says in a a fair game, he says,
Speaker 1: you can use it to your advantage. He sayd's after
Speaker 1: an election, the candidates, whether they win or lose, it
Speaker 1: doesn't matter you have. I think it was two days
Speaker 1: to pick up all of you know, those plastic signs
Speaker 1: that are all over the place before. So in this
Speaker 1: in this town, he said, you can pick those things
Speaker 1: up and if if they don't pick the signs up,
Speaker 1: they'll get fine. The politicians and the residents are free
Speaker 1: to take them. It's like a blight in the community.
Speaker 1: So we had an election not that long ago, like
Speaker 1: all over California, right it was like a mid term
Speaker 1: thing or something. Anyway, So there's an election and I'm
Speaker 1: driving around and I remember what that guy had said,
Speaker 1: and I'm driving back home and I noticed there was
Speaker 1: some really good looking signs, some really sexy signs, and
Speaker 1: I made a deal with myself. Danny Gait, did you
Speaker 1: say sexy signs. Yeah, they were good looking signs. They
Speaker 1: were like signs like you could say, oh, that's gonna
Speaker 1: get a lot of traffic of the yards. And so
Speaker 1: I made a deal with myself. If those signs, I said,
Speaker 1: in my head, you know you have that, you have
Speaker 1: yet that that that soundtrack in your head. So the
Speaker 1: voice in my head is like, Okay, here's the deal.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna take the signs right now. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: give these politicians all the time I can. I don't
Speaker 1: even know who they were. I didn't pay, but I
Speaker 1: I said, listen, if those things are still there in
Speaker 1: a couple of days, they're mine. And so a couple
Speaker 1: of days, each day I drove by, they were still there.
Speaker 1: Drove by, there were fewer and fewer signs, but they
Speaker 1: were still some there. And so after a couple of
Speaker 1: days had passed, I was driving back from the gym.
Speaker 1: Actually I was driving back from the gym, and they there,
Speaker 1: they were. I saw them like a beacon off in
Speaker 1: the distance as I was driving, and I saw the signs,
Speaker 1: and I drove by them, and then I made a
Speaker 1: U turn and it was on like Donkey Kong. I
Speaker 1: stopped the malamobile right on the side of the highway.
Speaker 1: There I got out with the comps. I was like
Speaker 1: a peacock with my feathers off, very confident, and I
Speaker 1: snatched these political signs and I took him like they
Speaker 1: belonged to me, and uh, and then I headed back home.
Speaker 1: I hid the contraband on the side eight of the
Speaker 1: Mallard mansion, so very smooth. And my my wife, she's
Speaker 1: probably gonna hear this podcast and find out about this,
Speaker 1: but she doesn't even know. I have not informed her
Speaker 1: that I did this. But he would have told me
Speaker 1: not to do it. But I did it and as
Speaker 1: smooth as Tennessee whiskey. Uh. And so so now we
Speaker 1: are locked and loaded. Whenever the next Mallard flea market happens,
Speaker 1: hopefully we'll do something by the end of the summer,
Speaker 1: late July, August, something like that. But I have a
Speaker 1: couple of political signs, so I will be able to
Speaker 1: put the way it works here, Danny, is you take
Speaker 1: the sandwich board, you put it over the sign to
Speaker 1: cover the obviously you don't want to promote the politician
Speaker 1: and uh. And these are very effective and I'm excited
Speaker 1: to see if it does work to increase traffic to
Speaker 1: sell products because I'm in I'm a businessman, Danny, I'm
Speaker 1: looking out for the business. You know, there's items to
Speaker 1: be sold. I know, I'm a supposedly a radio guy.
Speaker 1: Why would you think Colin Cowherd is doing this? You
Speaker 1: think God leaves doing this kind of stuff. No, probably
Speaker 1: not probably. I don't think Colin Coward's driving back to
Speaker 1: a seven million dollar mansion in Uh. Near the beach
Speaker 1: there in l A in Manhattan Beach and saying, what's
Speaker 1: going on with these signs here? Maybe I could pick
Speaker 1: one up for my garage. So I don't think he's
Speaker 1: doing it. But see I'm I'm more relatable that way, Danny.
Speaker 1: That's the way I look at You are John Q taxpayer,
Speaker 1: So you have every right to those signs, that's right. Listen.
Speaker 1: And the rules are if you don't pick the signs
Speaker 1: up after a couple of days, it's free game, free rein.
Speaker 1: And so that people did not pick the signs up.
Speaker 1: And that little birdie or that old Debonair guy who
Speaker 1: came by, he told me the whole thing, give me
Speaker 1: the inside skinny, and so there you go. I I
Speaker 1: I took the opportunity and I pounced, is what I did.
Speaker 1: So when are you going to have your next Mallard
Speaker 1: flea market? Yeah, we're we're looking probably the end of
Speaker 1: the ind of summer. As I said, so nothing, nothing said.
Speaker 1: The problem with the flea market is you have to
Speaker 1: like go through everything and price it and it's a
Speaker 1: big pain in the behind. So we'll see labeling, the
Speaker 1: waking up early, moving it all out, then setting it
Speaker 1: all out for a nice display, and then you have
Speaker 1: to be out there with everything. You have to be
Speaker 1: a show guy or a show girl with the items. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and then you're like disappointing because not enough people come
Speaker 1: by or they don't buy it. And then they try
Speaker 1: to they try to work in and get even less
Speaker 1: for they want to pay less for the item, right,
Speaker 1: they try to hustle. So that's the whole thing. A
Speaker 1: lot of haggling going on. Yeah, yeah, a lot of that.
Speaker 1: Or only I only have cash, or I only have
Speaker 1: this much cash. I don't have the full amount, but
Speaker 1: I only have just just what's in my pocket right now,
Speaker 1: and I can't I'll by the way, this weekend a
Speaker 1: big weekend, Danny g. It's the wife's birthday was back
Speaker 1: on Thursday, so this is her birthday week, which means
Speaker 1: we have a very busy schedule and she has requested
Speaker 1: that I surprise her. So we are going on a surprise.
Speaker 1: I'm not even allowed to reveal it here on the podcast,
Speaker 1: but I uh it invine. I can't even say what
Speaker 1: it runs, but listen then I will give complete details
Speaker 1: that if I pull this off, maybe it will not happen.
Speaker 1: But the plan is, as we are talking right now,
Speaker 1: me and you, a little birthday surprise that will be
Speaker 1: taking place hopefully. But you're gonna take the car that
Speaker 1: doesn't have the catalytic converter issue. God, no, we're taking
Speaker 1: the one of the catalytic converter issue. No, no, we're
Speaker 1: taking that way. But here's here's the thing. Like I
Speaker 1: I'm not a planner per se. My wife usually plans
Speaker 1: most of the stuff that we end up doing. I'm
Speaker 1: like just going along with the flow kind of. So
Speaker 1: now I'm in charge. Now I'm the one making the plans.
Speaker 1: Let's see if it works out or not. Now the Backscratcher.
Speaker 1: This is our weekly feature on the show Danny where
Speaker 1: we we help out and we asked people to give
Speaker 1: us reviews. Some of these podcasts like millions of reviews,
Speaker 1: so popular and we're just a little engine that could here.
Speaker 1: We only do the podcast a few days a week.
Speaker 1: We're not a daily podcast. We're not you know, we
Speaker 1: don't have a big advertising budget. So one of the
Speaker 1: things that helps us out to keep the good podcast
Speaker 1: going is a review, a simple review on the Apple
Speaker 1: podcast page. You can go wherever you get podcasts, but
Speaker 1: on the Apple podcast page. For some reason, management seems
Speaker 1: to be fascinated with that podcast page. It's a very
Speaker 1: big deal. Uh. And so anyway, we asked you to
Speaker 1: do it. What help us out? Nice review? Five stars
Speaker 1: on there. I know it's a pain in the the
Speaker 1: assis and all that, but why not because this show
Speaker 1: is a solid two five stars for each of us.
Speaker 1: I I captain five stars, Hi, I like to saint.
Speaker 1: So the way it works is if you take the
Speaker 1: time out of your busy life you have to do
Speaker 1: you have responsibilities. Why are you doing it? But if
Speaker 1: you take the time out of your life to do it,
Speaker 1: you scratch our back. We scratch your light. You're you're back.
Speaker 1: And it's it's our weekly tip of the on air
Speaker 1: light the microphone if you were the headphones to the
Speaker 1: p ones. And so this week we go to the
Speaker 1: podcast pagency who has giving us a review? Do we
Speaker 1: have any reviews? Danny? Do you think we have any reviews?
Speaker 1: This and give you two dollar drum roll here number one? Hey,
Speaker 1: but we'll take that loud and proud. We'll take number
Speaker 1: one right here. It is river Rat is the nice
Speaker 1: person to gift us a good review on the Apple
Speaker 1: podcast page. He gave us Danny five stars. He did
Speaker 1: not tell us to shut the hell up. It's a
Speaker 1: wonderful thing. And uh and here's what he wrote. He
Speaker 1: wrote smart, humorous, relatable. See that Danny were relatable. Listeners
Speaker 1: to this podcast also have taken political signs to repurpose.
Speaker 1: They've also sold crap in the front yard like we
Speaker 1: have absolutely anyway, River Rats says Benn and Danny G.
Speaker 1: Are a great pairing for the podcast format. It is
Speaker 1: clear they like each other and the repartee is funny, enjoyable,
Speaker 1: and relatable to everyday life Boom, he says. Ben stories
Speaker 1: on toothaches, garlic cures, the veteran moves for sampling food
Speaker 1: at Costco, and losing a wedding ring at the beach
Speaker 1: make you feel like you're sitting there with them. Danny
Speaker 1: G's teaching experience is fun to hear, along with inside
Speaker 1: school stories about the bureaucracy, kids attitudes, and preparing science
Speaker 1: lessons place well lesson plans. Well, this is somebody that's
Speaker 1: a p one right here. This guy, Danny, this guy
Speaker 1: gets he's he's taking copious amounts of notes on all
Speaker 1: the nonsets we talked about on a weekly basis. Here
Speaker 1: he says Danny's stories about personally talking to Donald Trump
Speaker 1: while trying to book him on the show was very entertaining.
Speaker 1: You guys are the best. Thank you for taking the
Speaker 1: time to share a little life with your listeners. Well,
Speaker 1: thank you, River Rat. That's one of the nicest reviews
Speaker 1: we've had. That was wonderful, So thank you. And it
Speaker 1: came from a rat. It came from vermint Man. Believable.
Speaker 1: That's a really nice review. And Ben, who would have
Speaker 1: thought that it would take more emails and more calls
Speaker 1: to book Joey Chestnut than it would Donald Trump. Well,
Speaker 1: in fairness, President Trump very he likes the media. Well,
Speaker 1: he liked friendly media. We we that was friendly a
Speaker 1: media right with media who agrees with him. Yeah, yes,
Speaker 1: I think every president likes the media that agrees with them,
Speaker 1: whether it's Trump or Biden whoever. So there's that with
Speaker 1: President Trump. And Trump was a media guy before he
Speaker 1: became the president. And Joey Chestnut though, we're talking about
Speaker 1: Babe Ruth in his prime. This is bigger than Lebron James.
Speaker 1: It is bigger than Tom Brady. It just is. There
Speaker 1: is debate whether or not Tom Brady is the greatest quarterback.
Speaker 1: Most people say he is, but there's a Joe Montana crowd.
Speaker 1: There's other people that say random quarterbacks Peyton Manning or
Speaker 1: Drew Brees or somebody else's better, more talented, that Brady
Speaker 1: just happened to be lucky with the Patriots. There's that argument.
Speaker 1: There's an argument I'm a Michael Jordan fit. Other people
Speaker 1: like uh Lebron and some people old school guys will
Speaker 1: give you a wilt or something like that. There is
Speaker 1: no debate. There is a consensus that the great Joey
Speaker 1: Chestnut is the single not a generational talent, He's an
Speaker 1: all time talent in his athletic endeavor of competitive eating.
Speaker 1: And how lucky Danny. I want to hug you. That
Speaker 1: was such an a minute, What an amazing get to
Speaker 1: have Joey Chestnut. I mean, I've been wanting to talk
Speaker 1: to him for years. We had last year we had
Speaker 1: on the podcast the guy that is the Carnival Barker
Speaker 1: for the for the the Nathan's Hot Dog Contest which
Speaker 1: is on Monday, the fourth of July, and we had
Speaker 1: him on. He was a very good guest and and
Speaker 1: and it was nice to talk to him, and he's
Speaker 1: the guy I wanted, behind the scenes guy major league eating.
Speaker 1: But this is talking too, and I don't want to
Speaker 1: embellish this. If you missed the Joey Chestnut conversation, this
Speaker 1: is akin to talking to Michelangelo. Uh is what is
Speaker 1: I mean? It's it's just crazy. And I watched this
Speaker 1: thing every year and I'm amazed the amount of hot
Speaker 1: dogs that are consumed. And Joey Chestnut's got so many
Speaker 1: world records, so many unbreakable records. He is secretariat now
Speaker 1: he is, He's Secretary of the man. It's it's a
Speaker 1: once in a lifetime thing, once in ever so wonderful too.
Speaker 1: He has been a big part of our childhood. It's
Speaker 1: great to talk to to the great Joey Chestnut. And
Speaker 1: we did. We don't have much time left. That's scientifical.
Speaker 1: I did see something that I wanted to mention the
Speaker 1: scientifical section. Travel could be changing, could being a weasel
Speaker 1: word in our lifetime. Now, you know about cruise ships
Speaker 1: and all that. Right, you're on a cruise ship. You're
Speaker 1: out at sea for however long the ship is looked for.
Speaker 1: How would you like to go on a flying cruise? Ship, Danny,
Speaker 1: Would that interest you at all? Yeah? They they're working
Speaker 1: with technology to have a nuclear powered flying cruise ship
Speaker 1: that sounds safe, that could stay airborne for years at
Speaker 1: a time, years at a time because it's nuclear. They
Speaker 1: estimate that if they do this right, they could carry
Speaker 1: five thousand guests on an airborne flying cruise ship. How
Speaker 1: wild is that? Sky cruises? How fat would you be
Speaker 1: coming off of that it? Yeah, you're not you're not
Speaker 1: kidding me, all those years of buffets. I don't know
Speaker 1: if I can, like, there's something about the boat. I've
Speaker 1: never been on a cruise I've been on boats, obviously,
Speaker 1: but you're on a cruise ship. You think, well, I
Speaker 1: got a shot. If this thing hits an iceberg, I
Speaker 1: can maybe swim and I can tread water for a while.
Speaker 1: I got a shot, yeah, and find a whistle to blow.
Speaker 1: But if you're on a sky cruise, yeah, if something
Speaker 1: goes wrong, if for some reason that does not work.
Speaker 1: You gotta see the photos of these things. Damn me,
Speaker 1: you see if I can send this to you, Sai here,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna send this over. I wanna get your reaction.
Speaker 1: This looks like something out of like Star trek or
Speaker 1: something like that. This thing is really fat. Is there
Speaker 1: even a need for this? Like? Why? I don't where
Speaker 1: is this coming from? Who wants to be on a
Speaker 1: cruise for that long? Is this if there's some sort
Speaker 1: of armageddon on the planet and you have to be
Speaker 1: up in the air on a cruise ship? No, No,
Speaker 1: this looks just like it's some people that have you know,
Speaker 1: it's it's not like it's in the works right now,
Speaker 1: but it's Yeah, I sent you a photo of that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it looks like a cross between Epcot Center, the Love
Speaker 1: Boat and the biggest air Force one that we have. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So this guy in Berlin, uh, he's the guy behind
Speaker 1: it here, and he claimed there's no destination. You simply
Speaker 1: hop on and you fly around and and no one
Speaker 1: ever sees you. Again, I guess it is it like
Speaker 1: a traditional sea based cruise ship. Guests can enjoy luxuries
Speaker 1: on this thing, including three degree panoramic platform, entertainment deck.
Speaker 1: Imagine you're playing basketball and that the ball goes overboard.
Speaker 1: That's it. Game over. What is that jet above the
Speaker 1: cruise lot? I don't know what that is. It looks
Speaker 1: like a toy, do it? Yeah? What in the world.
Speaker 1: What in the world, uh, says, I have an entertainment deck,
Speaker 1: shopping mall, jym swimming pools, restaurants and bars, theater and cinema.
Speaker 1: Do you think that will happen in our lifetimes? Maybe
Speaker 1: they say that it could become reality before. So if
Speaker 1: we can make it another twenty years day and we'll
Speaker 1: be old dudes. But if we can make it to
Speaker 1: then we could live to see this in our lifetime. Man.
Speaker 1: Pretty well, anyway, we gotta get out of here. Anything
Speaker 1: to promote Danni's fourth or July weekend? It's a Saturday.
Speaker 1: Anything going on here? Anything you want to promote. Man,
Speaker 1: it might be a holiday weekend, but I'm a man
Speaker 1: at work. Jeff Schwartz and Steve Hartman the Hartman and
Speaker 1: Schwartz Show, and then after that it is the No Show,
Speaker 1: the weekend version with from Salam. All Right, the radio
Speaker 1: station does not close. The doors are open twenty four
Speaker 1: hours a day, seven days a week, and especially in
Speaker 1: network radio, local radio is let's flip on the network.
Speaker 1: We'll get out of here for a couple of days.
Speaker 1: We are the network, so we gotta have me there.
Speaker 1: And anyway, listen, have a great rest of your day.
Speaker 1: We will have another podcast on July three. July three,
Speaker 1: the Mailbag Podcast. We look forward to that. We'll catch
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