WEBVTT - The Fifth Hour: Condor Poo, Doughy Pie & Creme Filling 0:00:00.920 --> 0:00:01.680 Kutbooms. 0:00:02.480 --> 0:00:05.560 If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes 0:00:05.600 --> 0:00:09.400 a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants 0:00:09.400 --> 0:00:12.680 of the old republic, a sole fashion of fairness. He 0:00:12.760 --> 0:00:15.720 treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the 0:00:15.800 --> 0:00:17.680 rich pill poppers in the penthouse. 0:00:18.280 --> 0:00:18.600 Wow. 0:00:18.800 --> 0:00:22.520 The clearing House of Hot takes break free for something special. 0:00:22.880 --> 0:00:30.840 The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now. 0:00:29.160 --> 0:00:34.320 In the air everywhere, The Fifth Hour with meet Ben 0:00:34.360 --> 0:00:37.400 Maller and Danny g Radio, and a happy Saturday to 0:00:37.440 --> 0:00:41.800 you as we are hanging out on this nineteenth day 0:00:42.040 --> 0:00:48.080 of April, the beginning of the n b A Playoffs. 0:00:48.360 --> 0:00:50.440 Enough of that nonsense that we had this week. With 0:00:50.520 --> 0:00:55.000 the play in, it begins the never ending journey. I 0:00:55.000 --> 0:00:57.040 think the NBA playoffs go on, Danny, by my math, 0:00:57.520 --> 0:00:58.400 five months of. 0:00:58.480 --> 0:00:59.840 NBA playoff basketball. 0:00:59.880 --> 0:01:02.920 But it all begins later today, and they've got they've 0:01:02.920 --> 0:01:05.760 packed all the games in today and tomorrow, and then 0:01:05.800 --> 0:01:10.120 after after Sunday, then after Easter Sunday. It's like to 0:01:10.120 --> 0:01:14.680 a night but very busy, very the fantastic four both 0:01:14.760 --> 0:01:17.200 days here. I think there's four games today, four games tomorrow, 0:01:17.240 --> 0:01:19.840 so they're packing them all in to begin the playoffs. 0:01:19.959 --> 0:01:23.000 You mean you weren't salivating on those Wednesday games? 0:01:24.640 --> 0:01:28.240 No, yeah, I mean most of the Yeah, it was 0:01:28.280 --> 0:01:29.400 not not a great week. 0:01:29.640 --> 0:01:32.039 But the Clippers begin the road to the championship. But 0:01:32.120 --> 0:01:35.360 today with the Denver Nuggets. So that's obviously the game 0:01:35.400 --> 0:01:37.640 that I've circled. You can watch the other game, Danny, 0:01:37.680 --> 0:01:39.080 let me know how the other games turn out. 0:01:40.640 --> 0:01:42.959 It is also wait, what did what did you call? 0:01:43.000 --> 0:01:45.319 The Clippers run again? Oh, we know. 0:01:45.319 --> 0:01:45.960 Where they're going. 0:01:46.040 --> 0:01:47.840 You know they're gonna chuck the condor is going to 0:01:47.920 --> 0:01:49.080 lead them to the Promised Land. 0:01:49.400 --> 0:01:53.880 It's going to happen. I'm a fun guy. He's a 0:01:53.960 --> 0:01:55.800 very fun guy, and the Clipper is the hottest team 0:01:55.800 --> 0:01:59.559 in basketball. And you told me that you fought back. 0:01:59.800 --> 0:02:03.280 You said, oh, you know there's a momentum exists. Well, okay, 0:02:03.480 --> 0:02:07.640 momentum exists, then here we gom exist. The Clippers are 0:02:07.680 --> 0:02:09.760 going to continue on. I was the guy said momentum 0:02:09.800 --> 0:02:12.360 didn't exist. But you all told me that momentum exists. 0:02:12.360 --> 0:02:14.639 So if there's momentum, the Clippers are going all the way. 0:02:14.760 --> 0:02:16.880 They're on their way that it can't be stopped. Now 0:02:16.960 --> 0:02:18.919 I must mention, Today's a very important day. I know 0:02:18.919 --> 0:02:20.840 it's the Easter weekend, there's a lot of stuff going on, 0:02:21.120 --> 0:02:24.800 but today is National Garlic Day. 0:02:25.320 --> 0:02:28.760 And for someone that worships garlic. 0:02:30.320 --> 0:02:34.440 Much like the Egyptians back in the day that you know, 0:02:34.480 --> 0:02:37.160 there's a phrase you're worth your weight in gold, right 0:02:37.160 --> 0:02:39.760 because gold was the currency, but really you're worth your 0:02:39.760 --> 0:02:42.640 weight in garlic. That's where it's at, right. I mean, 0:02:42.680 --> 0:02:45.200 we've we've done this, We've done the podcast long enough. 0:02:45.200 --> 0:02:48.360 We do this every year for National Garlic Today, so 0:02:48.400 --> 0:02:50.440 we know all the fun facts about garlic. We know 0:02:50.480 --> 0:02:53.480 the history of it, that it was is nature's antibiotic 0:02:53.600 --> 0:02:55.200 and the garlicy. 0:02:54.760 --> 0:02:56.320 Foods are the most delicious foods. 0:02:56.560 --> 0:02:59.560 And that Greek athletes back in the day gave strength 0:03:00.080 --> 0:03:05.080 or they got strength from garlic. Vampires hated Dracula and 0:03:05.080 --> 0:03:07.400 the whole I mean, it's just a wonderful thing. And 0:03:07.440 --> 0:03:09.399 it goes all the way back to like three thousand 0:03:09.480 --> 0:03:15.320 BC Babylon times, and just the craziness the history of 0:03:15.800 --> 0:03:18.880 history of garlic. And there were kings that were. 0:03:19.040 --> 0:03:22.559 Preserved with well preserved garlic clothes. 0:03:22.280 --> 0:03:25.520 Were presented to the tomb of kings as a gift 0:03:25.600 --> 0:03:29.560 and medicine. In the sixteen hundreds the Middle Ages, they 0:03:29.560 --> 0:03:32.720 were talking about the medical and the medical people at 0:03:32.760 --> 0:03:34.480 the time said it was a miracle cure. 0:03:35.000 --> 0:03:35.640 And then go on. 0:03:35.760 --> 0:03:37.240 I could sit here and just do the whole podcast 0:03:37.240 --> 0:03:38.840 about garlic. If you want, Danny, I could school, I 0:03:38.840 --> 0:03:42.280 can wax poetic. I could do thirty minutes on what 0:03:42.440 --> 0:03:44.839 I'd rather have raw garlic or roasted garlic. What about 0:03:44.840 --> 0:03:47.960 garlic fries? How about garlic butter? Have you head garlic ipasta? 0:03:48.040 --> 0:03:50.960 How about garlic chicken? Of course garlic bread. 0:03:51.480 --> 0:03:53.680 You can't go wrong. You cannot go wrong. 0:03:54.120 --> 0:03:55.960 Accept our ratings, those would go wrong. 0:03:56.320 --> 0:03:56.800 I dare you. 0:03:57.280 --> 0:04:00.440 I have garlic fun facts. The twenty four percent of 0:04:00.480 --> 0:04:04.280 Americans think garlic makes everything taste better. The only sad 0:04:04.280 --> 0:04:06.560 part about that it's not higher. It should be more 0:04:06.600 --> 0:04:11.680 than twenty four percent. Bad job by them and of Americans. 0:04:11.720 --> 0:04:14.760 Let me ask you this standy of Americans. What percentage 0:04:14.760 --> 0:04:17.719 of Americans say garlic bread doesn't bother them? 0:04:17.839 --> 0:04:19.840 What do you think, ooh, does not. 0:04:19.800 --> 0:04:23.560 Bother does not bother them? I'm gonna say thirty five percent. 0:04:24.440 --> 0:04:26.520 I wish it was that high. It's actually only twelve percent. 0:04:27.000 --> 0:04:29.800 Oh what a bunch of losers. Come on, yeah, come on, 0:04:30.120 --> 0:04:32.400 what to what you do is you have some garlic 0:04:32.480 --> 0:04:35.359 toast as well, and then when you're kissing, there's no 0:04:35.440 --> 0:04:37.359 big deal because you both taste like garlic. 0:04:37.920 --> 0:04:41.919 Yeah, listen, embrace the garlic. Embrace the garlic y goodness. 0:04:41.960 --> 0:04:44.080 That's what I say for sure. 0:04:44.200 --> 0:04:47.320 And there was some other, and there's a bunch of these. 0:04:47.320 --> 0:04:48.640 We love the dopey holidays. 0:04:48.640 --> 0:04:51.160 We do the dope. We're all about the dope holidays. 0:04:51.160 --> 0:04:53.520 It's husband Appreciation day to day. So I'm sure we'll 0:04:53.560 --> 0:04:55.560 be celebrated Danny unless we're not. 0:04:56.279 --> 0:04:59.440 That one somehow is gonna be swept under the rug. 0:04:59.600 --> 0:05:01.240 Yeah, I'm not gonna get a lot of attention. A 0:05:01.360 --> 0:05:03.040 National hanging Out day to day. 0:05:03.400 --> 0:05:05.279 Now you probably think this is just going out with 0:05:05.320 --> 0:05:09.039 your pals and hanging out and all that stuff. But no, today, 0:05:09.240 --> 0:05:13.440 a National Hanging Out Day is a day to celebrate 0:05:14.120 --> 0:05:16.239 hanging clothes on a clothes line. 0:05:17.120 --> 0:05:19.760 And that's that's the that's the day right there. This 0:05:19.839 --> 0:05:22.560 is what this is. Stupid holiday, dumb. 0:05:22.440 --> 0:05:25.400 They're all stupid. They are all stupid. 0:05:26.200 --> 0:05:27.200 Well, not the garlic one. 0:05:27.200 --> 0:05:29.080 The garlic one was all right, you know, the gardley 0:05:29.160 --> 0:05:31.360 that's fine, the garlic one's fine. So on this podcast 0:05:31.360 --> 0:05:36.760 we have is something missing spring break where the Easter 0:05:36.920 --> 0:05:41.279 egg hunt and a word all the week, but we 0:05:41.400 --> 0:05:42.000 begin with this. 0:05:42.680 --> 0:05:43.520 So during the. 0:05:44.200 --> 0:05:47.080 Work during the week doing the radio show and the podcast, 0:05:47.120 --> 0:05:49.599 I don't do a lot of outside stuff, but every 0:05:49.600 --> 0:05:51.760 once in a while I would do a rare and appropriate, 0:05:52.279 --> 0:05:56.039 rare and appropriate appearance. So I was contacted through the 0:05:56.120 --> 0:06:01.320 multiverse by a producer, a radio producer in New Zealand, 0:06:01.880 --> 0:06:05.040 and they said, hey, this NBA season came to an end, 0:06:05.560 --> 0:06:07.120 we would love to have you come on. 0:06:07.160 --> 0:06:07.240 I know. 0:06:07.320 --> 0:06:09.200 I used to do a weekly. 0:06:09.000 --> 0:06:13.960 Paid paid appearance by the way paid appearance and on 0:06:14.160 --> 0:06:14.800 a radio. 0:06:14.640 --> 0:06:16.400 New Zealand the network went out of business. 0:06:16.400 --> 0:06:18.800 That used to go on what kind of money did 0:06:18.800 --> 0:06:21.440 they pay you with? Because they have a different currency, right. 0:06:22.120 --> 0:06:23.279 Oh yeah. 0:06:23.360 --> 0:06:26.120 The thing was I got paid in their currency and 0:06:26.160 --> 0:06:28.400 then they would transfer it, so at some points I 0:06:28.440 --> 0:06:30.600 got paid more than others. It was never the same, 0:06:31.080 --> 0:06:34.960 depending on the split between New Zealand and the US currency. 0:06:35.000 --> 0:06:36.320 So it it was. 0:06:36.640 --> 0:06:39.120 I would bill a very nice woman in accounting. I 0:06:39.120 --> 0:06:42.520 would bill her every so often. They didn't really need 0:06:42.560 --> 0:06:44.559 me to build them every week. I could build them whenever. 0:06:44.760 --> 0:06:47.640 So what I tried to do, Danny, I think you 0:06:47.640 --> 0:06:50.839 know where I'm going with this. I kept an eye 0:06:51.040 --> 0:06:51.960 on the currency. 0:06:52.200 --> 0:06:55.080 I knew it. I knew it, and. 0:06:55.040 --> 0:06:57.279 I was I was trying to find I was in 0:06:57.360 --> 0:06:58.920 bold and I was like, all right, I'm gonna I'm 0:06:58.920 --> 0:07:02.360 gonna nail it. I'm gonna find the time where I'm 0:07:02.360 --> 0:07:07.800 getting the most for my money. Trot exactly exactly, because 0:07:08.000 --> 0:07:11.080 it was it was a fair amount of money that 0:07:11.440 --> 0:07:15.000 was different. If the currency split was obviously in favor 0:07:15.120 --> 0:07:18.960 of the US, then I was getting a lot less 0:07:19.000 --> 0:07:22.440 than my rate. And you know, it was never really 0:07:22.440 --> 0:07:24.800 in favor of New Zealand as I remember it, but 0:07:24.840 --> 0:07:27.240 it was close. There were some points where it was 0:07:27.280 --> 0:07:30.760 pretty close. So but anyway, they reached out to me. 0:07:30.800 --> 0:07:32.440 One of the producers reached out to me and said, hey, 0:07:32.760 --> 0:07:36.120 you know, the boys want to talk some NBA, and 0:07:36.520 --> 0:07:39.480 so I said, okay, And then they wanted me to 0:07:39.520 --> 0:07:44.080 do it at a time that I'm normally very frazzled. 0:07:44.240 --> 0:07:46.800 I'm still sleeping, but that was like the only time 0:07:46.840 --> 0:07:48.960 they could do it. So I was like, all right, 0:07:49.000 --> 0:07:52.280 I'll fore go sleep. From one day, why not? And 0:07:52.600 --> 0:07:55.320 these people want to talk to me, so whatever. So 0:07:55.360 --> 0:07:57.280 I was like, I know what i'd do. I'm gonna 0:07:57.600 --> 0:08:00.480 I'm going to drive to the gym and then I'll 0:08:00.480 --> 0:08:03.520 park the car in front and I'll just do the 0:08:03.560 --> 0:08:06.040 thing from the car and then I'll go I'll go 0:08:06.080 --> 0:08:09.160 to the gym. So I'm in the car driving, and 0:08:09.200 --> 0:08:12.360 they of course call me like three minutes earlier than 0:08:12.360 --> 0:08:14.400 they're supposed to call me, right, they call me early. 0:08:15.360 --> 0:08:18.000 So I'm like, ah, whatever, I answered, and so I'm 0:08:18.040 --> 0:08:19.400 doing it and they're like hey. 0:08:19.480 --> 0:08:20.920 I was like, hey, do you want me to when 0:08:21.160 --> 0:08:23.160 I stop somewhere and I'll turn the car off. No, 0:08:23.160 --> 0:08:25.000 I'll just do it. It doesn't matter. We just we need 0:08:25.040 --> 0:08:27.040 you right now. So I was like, all right, whatever. 0:08:27.080 --> 0:08:30.600 So I start throwing out my normal stick and throwing 0:08:30.640 --> 0:08:31.320 in some big. 0:08:31.160 --> 0:08:33.040 Words and all that stuff, and then you know, I'm 0:08:33.080 --> 0:08:33.560 doing my thing. 0:08:34.240 --> 0:08:36.440 Well, I'm driving still, So I ended up getting to 0:08:36.480 --> 0:08:38.680 the gym and I there was some traffic that. 0:08:38.720 --> 0:08:40.640 We're doing some construction on the road near the gym. 0:08:40.679 --> 0:08:42.680 So I got to the gym and I was like, 0:08:42.679 --> 0:08:45.400 well I should park. So then I of course as 0:08:45.400 --> 0:08:47.600 we as us met and do, Danny, I backed into 0:08:47.600 --> 0:08:51.440 the space. And as I am telling some tale about 0:08:51.520 --> 0:08:53.240 I don't know, Nikola Jokic or. 0:08:53.240 --> 0:08:56.600 Somebody, well, you think you're better than me because you're 0:08:56.600 --> 0:08:58.160 backed into the parking space. 0:08:58.760 --> 0:09:01.320 And that's what a professional iver does, they back in. 0:09:01.520 --> 0:09:04.160 So anyway, I back in, and of course I didn't 0:09:04.240 --> 0:09:07.000 realize because I was on the phone connected to the car. 0:09:07.320 --> 0:09:10.199 Everyone in New Zealand heard that beep beep, beep beep. 0:09:10.240 --> 0:09:11.920 You know the sound, you know, the thing your car 0:09:11.960 --> 0:09:15.120 makes whatever, So it was it became quite amusing. But 0:09:15.160 --> 0:09:17.720 then I realized it is something missing because I did 0:09:17.760 --> 0:09:19.880 about a fifteen minute segment. 0:09:19.920 --> 0:09:21.960 They get their bank a lot to talk about bang 0:09:22.000 --> 0:09:22.480 for your buck. 0:09:22.720 --> 0:09:27.440 It's like fifteen minutes of interrogation about the NBA and 0:09:27.480 --> 0:09:30.840 the playoffs and the regular season. We went through everything, 0:09:31.160 --> 0:09:33.000 and then I realized that I was getting near the 0:09:33.080 --> 0:09:35.040 end of it. And then when I finally hung up 0:09:35.080 --> 0:09:36.439 and I was like, all right, I did the kind 0:09:36.440 --> 0:09:40.240 of inventory of the segment, and I was like, is 0:09:40.280 --> 0:09:44.760 something is something missing? And yeah, these guys did fifteen 0:09:44.920 --> 0:09:52.520 minutes of NBA hot talk and nobody, nobody, neither one 0:09:52.520 --> 0:09:57.680 of the hosts mentioned Lebron James or Luca. 0:09:58.440 --> 0:10:01.320 They did not ask me a about either. 0:10:01.120 --> 0:10:01.640 One of them. 0:10:02.200 --> 0:10:05.600 Wow. I was like, that's unbelievable. And I was like, 0:10:05.679 --> 0:10:08.040 that's shocking. They talked about the Celtics. 0:10:08.080 --> 0:10:12.640 They're talking about like every other storyline you could possibly imagine, 0:10:12.640 --> 0:10:16.040 Golden State and I'm trying to think of it. There's 0:10:16.080 --> 0:10:19.600 a bunch of stuff, but it wasn't Lebron or Luca 0:10:19.720 --> 0:10:23.640 was like, oh me, It's like, I can go do 0:10:23.760 --> 0:10:27.200 New Zealand. I don't have to be infiltrated with lebron propaganda. 0:10:27.760 --> 0:10:29.520 And uh, did you buy you? By the way, dandy, 0:10:29.559 --> 0:10:31.160 did you get your Ken doll? Did you get your 0:10:31.280 --> 0:10:32.720 lebron Ken doll? Did you buy that? 0:10:32.840 --> 0:10:33.640 Huh? You get one? 0:10:34.559 --> 0:10:35.600 Uh? What do you think? 0:10:35.880 --> 0:10:40.240 No, what does that say about the you talk about 0:10:40.240 --> 0:10:40.880 guys and dolls? 0:10:40.920 --> 0:10:44.800 What does that say about the American zeitgeist? 0:10:45.000 --> 0:10:47.640 They sold out of those things. People were online. 0:10:47.640 --> 0:10:50.200 People were waiting online for hours to get a Lebron 0:10:50.320 --> 0:10:50.960 Barbie doll. 0:10:51.320 --> 0:10:53.880 Well, look a look at memory, look at especially sports 0:10:53.920 --> 0:10:57.280 memorabilia in our country. I mean people were waiting in 0:10:57.320 --> 0:10:59.360 line for what was it eight hours for the show 0:10:59.360 --> 0:11:02.679 Hey Bobbleheads, and then the Dodgers put out a tweet saying, 0:11:03.280 --> 0:11:07.480 just kidding, everybody who attends tonight gets one ooops. 0:11:07.840 --> 0:11:08.120 Yeah. 0:11:08.480 --> 0:11:12.080 I know. Well the Dodgers at this point everything. 0:11:12.160 --> 0:11:14.959 They had a Hello Kiddy night the other night. The 0:11:15.040 --> 0:11:17.640 Dodger stated, yeah, well it wasn't like a tiny but 0:11:17.679 --> 0:11:19.120 people were aligning those squishes. 0:11:19.200 --> 0:11:21.280 Yeah, those Hello Kitty squish balls. 0:11:21.760 --> 0:11:25.120 I don't get the squishball thing. Lorena loves the squishball thing. 0:11:25.200 --> 0:11:25.480 I don't. 0:11:25.679 --> 0:11:28.520 Yeah, I walked in for the Dan Patrick Show a 0:11:28.559 --> 0:11:32.400 few mornings ago. Lorena had like thirty of those squishball 0:11:32.440 --> 0:11:35.000 things all around her. I have a people in my 0:11:35.080 --> 0:11:36.040 box right now. Bro. 0:11:36.559 --> 0:11:40.040 Hello. Hey. By the way, she paid for none of those. 0:11:40.080 --> 0:11:41.640 I want the record to show she paid for none 0:11:41.679 --> 0:11:43.760 of those squishballs, Danny, not a. 0:11:43.720 --> 0:11:44.680 Single one of them. 0:11:45.000 --> 0:11:47.560 They just magically dropped out of thin air, out of 0:11:47.559 --> 0:11:48.200 the heavens. 0:11:48.679 --> 0:11:49.360 They dropped in. 0:11:51.360 --> 0:11:54.640 Just give me a pile of meat. Yeah, well, she 0:11:54.679 --> 0:11:57.360 had a pile of squishballs, exactly. 0:11:57.440 --> 0:12:00.120 What is your favorite NBA playoff cliche? Danny's just the 0:12:00.120 --> 0:12:02.640 playoffs are beginning today. Do you have a favorite clichet 0:12:03.400 --> 0:12:04.720 from the NBA playoff? 0:12:05.200 --> 0:12:10.040 It's all about matchups come playoff time, it's all about matchups. 0:12:10.400 --> 0:12:11.720 Oh, yeah, that's that's good. 0:12:11.840 --> 0:12:14.680 I also like the it'll be a gentleman's sweep. We 0:12:14.760 --> 0:12:16.360 get that a lot in the NBA. In the first 0:12:16.440 --> 0:12:18.480 round of the NBA plays a lot of gentlemen sweep, 0:12:18.920 --> 0:12:20.600 which is four out of five. 0:12:20.720 --> 0:12:23.839 That's a gentleman's sweep. That's always That's always a fun one. 0:12:24.760 --> 0:12:26.840 Oh here's one. You hear a lot in the playoffs. 0:12:27.280 --> 0:12:31.679 Draymond just kicked somebody in the balls, kicked somebody that he. 0:12:31.640 --> 0:12:34.160 Went the nutcracker. He went the nutcracker. 0:12:34.360 --> 0:12:37.800 Yeah, anyway, all right, So moving on from that no 0:12:37.960 --> 0:12:38.559 lebron talk. 0:12:38.760 --> 0:12:40.880 No, I did not get a lebron Kendall. 0:12:41.240 --> 0:12:44.840 And if everyone buys them, I'm sure is it Mattel 0:12:44.880 --> 0:12:46.000 that makes the Barbie stuff? 0:12:46.000 --> 0:12:46.440 I think it's. 0:12:46.360 --> 0:12:49.400 Mattel, Like, we have no idea how many they made. 0:12:49.440 --> 0:12:52.760 It's not really a collectible if they made ten million 0:12:52.800 --> 0:12:55.880 of them, right, It's only a collectible if there's a fine. 0:12:55.760 --> 0:12:57.080 Nine amount of them. 0:12:57.480 --> 0:12:59.559 It's kind of like when I was collecting baseball cards 0:12:59.679 --> 0:13:03.480 is a kid, and then everyone started collecting them and 0:13:03.520 --> 0:13:06.240 then we realized I think I read a story about this, right. 0:13:06.200 --> 0:13:08.880 I mean It was a documentary that I watched Upper Deck. 0:13:09.800 --> 0:13:14.000 They realized how valuable these these certain like Ken Griffy 0:13:14.120 --> 0:13:16.920 Junior number one car. So people were just printing endless 0:13:16.920 --> 0:13:19.360 amounts of them up because they were making money hands 0:13:19.360 --> 0:13:20.600 over you know, handover fist. 0:13:20.800 --> 0:13:23.160 Yeah, it was about the Ken Griffy Junior card. They 0:13:23.280 --> 0:13:27.000 mass produced it so suddenly it lost all of its value. 0:13:27.440 --> 0:13:28.240 Yeah, that's what I'm saying. 0:13:28.280 --> 0:13:30.240 So if they want to, if people are buying these 0:13:30.320 --> 0:13:33.760 Lebron barbies or Ken dolls or whatever, they just keep 0:13:33.800 --> 0:13:34.200 making them. 0:13:34.480 --> 0:13:36.520 People buy them and then make a fortune. And that's 0:13:36.559 --> 0:13:36.959 that man. 0:13:37.040 --> 0:13:39.439 We call it by its name, it's la Ken. 0:13:40.080 --> 0:13:43.000 Ken Yes lackn. Then they can all go on spring break. 0:13:43.000 --> 0:13:44.800 And where would they go on spring break? Where would 0:13:44.800 --> 0:13:46.800 you Where do you think the people that buy the 0:13:47.200 --> 0:13:49.400 mattel that sell the dolls, where do you think they'd go. 0:13:49.400 --> 0:13:50.720 On spring break? Where do you think they go? 0:13:50.840 --> 0:13:54.120 Well, after wasting their money on a dumb doll, they 0:13:54.200 --> 0:13:56.959 probably don't have a lot of budget left over for groceries. 0:13:57.000 --> 0:14:00.720 So my guess is they are shopping at Costco in bulk. 0:14:01.520 --> 0:14:06.199 In bulk wo kids go w with Costco, the Costco brand, the. 0:14:06.160 --> 0:14:06.640 Way to go. 0:14:07.559 --> 0:14:10.680 You know, I have not come around to the clothes 0:14:10.760 --> 0:14:13.760 like you have. But what I do like now is 0:14:13.840 --> 0:14:19.120 going around lunchtime. That way you can sample. And I'm 0:14:19.120 --> 0:14:21.280 gonna ask you about that in a minute, because I'm 0:14:21.320 --> 0:14:24.040 not a veteran of Costco the way you are. Usually 0:14:24.120 --> 0:14:27.640 the wife goes and makes the Costco runs and I'm 0:14:27.680 --> 0:14:30.280 back at home trying to hold down the wild Indian 0:14:30.760 --> 0:14:36.840 aka CoA racist. But because of the schedule change in 0:14:36.920 --> 0:14:40.760 how Covino and Rich and myself were on Monday Tuesday 0:14:40.800 --> 0:14:45.360 Wednesday for the Great Dan Patrick, I found myself with 0:14:45.440 --> 0:14:48.560 the middle of the day open as I was driving home. 0:14:48.680 --> 0:14:51.400 So my wife, as a lot of us who are married, 0:14:51.680 --> 0:14:53.800 you'll get a list right at the end of your workday. 0:14:53.840 --> 0:14:56.680 We need this this, and we're out of this, and 0:14:57.160 --> 0:15:00.200 either you have enough energy to go tackle that your 0:15:00.200 --> 0:15:02.400 way home or you do it the next day. So 0:15:02.480 --> 0:15:06.800 this is a Monday, about twelve noon at our Costco 0:15:07.360 --> 0:15:10.360 and I pull in there is there's no parking ever 0:15:10.440 --> 0:15:14.880 at this damn place. It looked like I mean, I 0:15:14.920 --> 0:15:17.080 don't know, I've been there on the weekend before and 0:15:17.280 --> 0:15:18.480 I thought it was Saturday. 0:15:18.920 --> 0:15:19.520 Well, my move. 0:15:19.760 --> 0:15:21.520 When I go I actually do end up going on 0:15:21.560 --> 0:15:23.920 the weekend a lot now because my schedule. But what 0:15:24.000 --> 0:15:25.960 I do is I just plan on getting some steps in. 0:15:26.040 --> 0:15:28.320 So I park about as far away like I'm in 0:15:28.360 --> 0:15:29.800 another county. 0:15:29.600 --> 0:15:31.040 Like I'm literally in another county. 0:15:31.080 --> 0:15:33.000 And I know, going if I go on a to 0:15:33.240 --> 0:15:35.600 a Costco on a Friday or not not not Friday 0:15:35.680 --> 0:15:38.280 is not too bad. But on on Saturday or Sunday, 0:15:38.600 --> 0:15:40.800 like you know, you're parking in the next city. And 0:15:40.880 --> 0:15:43.520 so I bring my walking shoes and I'm like, yeah, 0:15:43.520 --> 0:15:45.560 it's a it's a nightmare. It's a I don't I 0:15:45.600 --> 0:15:47.480 don't even bother why I even bother, because you end 0:15:47.560 --> 0:15:48.480 up driving in circles. 0:15:48.480 --> 0:15:50.200 There's a million people around. It's a big pain in 0:15:50.240 --> 0:15:51.760 the ass. But that's my move. 0:15:52.120 --> 0:15:54.400 But that's prime sample time, so you kind of have 0:15:54.440 --> 0:15:55.840 to go where the crowd is because that's when they 0:15:55.840 --> 0:15:56.560 have the sample. 0:15:56.320 --> 0:15:58.840 People out see And I thought, you know, in my mind, 0:15:58.880 --> 0:16:02.440 I'm like, it's a random Monday in April. It's not 0:16:02.520 --> 0:16:06.520 gonna be overcrowded. Dead wrong. So I get inside after 0:16:06.560 --> 0:16:10.280 finally finding a parking space way far out there, I 0:16:10.360 --> 0:16:14.000 make the walk. I get inside and it is packed 0:16:14.040 --> 0:16:17.240 in there. Not just packed with shoppers, but there were 0:16:17.360 --> 0:16:20.560 lots of snot nosed kids running around. And then it 0:16:20.600 --> 0:16:24.359 occurred to me, oh shit, for at least for southern California, 0:16:24.760 --> 0:16:27.400 it is spring break for the elementary schools right now. 0:16:30.560 --> 0:16:33.480 So I think the move was the moms were like, 0:16:33.720 --> 0:16:36.080 shut up and get your clothes on and get in 0:16:36.120 --> 0:16:38.600 the car. We're gonna go get our groceries at Costco 0:16:38.640 --> 0:16:41.160 and if you're good, then I'll get you a slice 0:16:41.160 --> 0:16:46.080 of pizza exactly. Yeah. So I'm in there, Ben, and 0:16:46.160 --> 0:16:48.360 you know, I'm grabbing the things off the list, and 0:16:48.880 --> 0:16:51.360 it's taken me a lot longer than it does my 0:16:51.440 --> 0:16:54.360 better half, because she's a Costco pro like you, she 0:16:54.440 --> 0:16:57.680 knows where everything is located. I have a general idea 0:16:57.840 --> 0:17:01.520 of where the items are in cast but I'm like, 0:17:01.720 --> 0:17:03.840 you know, damn it where I think I had to 0:17:03.880 --> 0:17:09.159 get like chicken breast nuggets, and like, I had an 0:17:09.200 --> 0:17:11.480 idea of where it was, but there was nowhere to 0:17:11.520 --> 0:17:14.359 push my cart in that damn lane. There were so 0:17:14.520 --> 0:17:18.320 many old people and people with kids in there, I 0:17:18.400 --> 0:17:21.560 wanted to leave. The only good part was because I 0:17:21.680 --> 0:17:25.000 was there at lunchtime, I saw the Costco employees getting 0:17:25.040 --> 0:17:26.840 ready with their sample stations. 0:17:27.440 --> 0:17:28.720 Oh you spot. 0:17:29.119 --> 0:17:31.359 That's like going to Disneyland and sitting in the mascots 0:17:31.400 --> 0:17:32.919 behind the state, you know, behind them. 0:17:33.000 --> 0:17:35.800 Oh yeah, yeah, it's like when you see them getting 0:17:35.840 --> 0:17:40.280 ready to start a parade at Disneyland. Yeah they go, yes, 0:17:40.480 --> 0:17:43.360 And you know how the people attending Disneyland that day, 0:17:43.680 --> 0:17:46.080 they start sitting on the curbs and swarming the area 0:17:46.160 --> 0:17:49.280 where the parade the parade route. Well, that's what this 0:17:49.440 --> 0:17:51.880 was like. Because I wasn't the only one who spotted 0:17:51.920 --> 0:17:55.399 one to oh there's a third sample station. There's a fourth, 0:17:55.920 --> 0:17:59.919 not two, not three, counted four in my general area. 0:18:00.440 --> 0:18:02.800 And they had like the little toaster oven things where 0:18:02.800 --> 0:18:05.600 they were getting the little samples heated up and ready 0:18:05.640 --> 0:18:10.240 to go in the little cups. There were people like vultures. 0:18:10.920 --> 0:18:14.360 They were hanging around trying to mooch and get their 0:18:14.440 --> 0:18:18.159 moocha on first and fast. I have never fought that 0:18:18.240 --> 0:18:21.040 many carts and that many people for a little cup 0:18:21.119 --> 0:18:24.040 of what turned out to be like two cheese chips. 0:18:24.359 --> 0:18:26.640 What a flip and ripoff? Now, if you're gonna give 0:18:26.640 --> 0:18:29.359 me a sample? And I waited around for it, and 0:18:29.440 --> 0:18:32.479 I fought through three carts and two rude people, and 0:18:32.800 --> 0:18:35.320 I was getting dirty looks by people who had parked 0:18:35.320 --> 0:18:38.440 their first waiting for the samples and nothing was being 0:18:38.480 --> 0:18:40.959 handed out. Yet I finally get one of the cups. 0:18:41.119 --> 0:18:43.040 I was like third or fourth in line, and it 0:18:43.200 --> 0:18:47.160 literally was two little cheese chips in a cup. Now, 0:18:48.040 --> 0:18:50.760 But I get to the fourth station and they were 0:18:50.800 --> 0:18:55.439