WEBVTT - "I'm AD, You're LeBron!" 0:00:00.960 --> 0:00:05.480 Boom. If you thought four hours a day, minutes a 0:00:05.480 --> 0:00:09.200 week was enough, I think again. He's the last remnants 0:00:09.200 --> 0:00:12.480 of the old republic, a sole fashion of fairness. He 0:00:12.560 --> 0:00:15.480 treats crackheads in the ghetto cutter the same as the 0:00:15.600 --> 0:00:19.600 rich pill poppers in the penthouse the clearing House of 0:00:19.640 --> 0:00:23.439 hot takes break free for something special. The Fifth Hour 0:00:23.560 --> 0:00:30.680 with Ben Maller starts right now. It is the Fifth 0:00:30.720 --> 0:00:35.080 Hour with Ben Maller. We do this four hours a 0:00:35.200 --> 0:00:38.800 night during the week, and that's not enough, clearly, because 0:00:39.080 --> 0:00:42.080 we do this on the weekend. Here eight days a week. 0:00:42.159 --> 0:00:46.680 This is the Saturday Podcast and the weight has ended. 0:00:46.760 --> 0:00:51.920 Now the new running mate side by side on the 0:00:51.960 --> 0:00:55.440 Fifth Hour with Ben Maller, a blast from the past. 0:00:55.840 --> 0:00:58.880 Give it up for Danny g Radio. There is the 0:00:59.040 --> 0:01:04.600 man the mid I'm Anthony Davis, and you are Lebron James. No, no, 0:01:04.600 --> 0:01:07.160 I'm not Lebron. No No, I don't call me Lebron James. 0:01:07.240 --> 0:01:10.480 How dare you? How dare you? I am Kauai Leonard. 0:01:10.800 --> 0:01:15.959 You are Paul George. That's how that goes. I like 0:01:16.080 --> 0:01:18.120 that you're wearing a Laker hat though. That's good. That's 0:01:18.120 --> 0:01:21.520 a solid You haven't changed your wardrobe. But I like 0:01:21.640 --> 0:01:24.399 that repping the Lakers even though they're not playing very 0:01:24.400 --> 0:01:26.400 well this year. And I like how you're wearing a 0:01:26.480 --> 0:01:30.560 Brooklyn nets hat. That is the great that is the 0:01:30.640 --> 0:01:34.200 b with the Ben Dodgers and not the Brooklyn Dodgers, 0:01:34.319 --> 0:01:39.480 the Ben Dodgers. Nice Nets hat. Yeah, so the question 0:01:39.520 --> 0:01:42.960 I have been asked more than anything. Danny uh Gascon 0:01:43.080 --> 0:01:45.759 was the podcast for a while and then he bailed out, 0:01:45.840 --> 0:01:48.320 and then we were trying to find somebody and you 0:01:48.360 --> 0:01:51.920 were the first name that popped up. Uh said, Danny. 0:01:52.000 --> 0:01:54.720 J that's the guy. That's the guy that I want. 0:01:55.040 --> 0:01:57.560 But we had to convince you to do it, Danny, 0:01:57.680 --> 0:01:59.680 and there's not a lot in it. So how were 0:01:59.720 --> 0:02:01.560 we of a twist your arm to get you to 0:02:01.680 --> 0:02:05.800 join the Fifth Hour podcast? Was it a momentous It's 0:02:05.840 --> 0:02:10.359 actually that I have insomnia. I have certain hours available 0:02:10.480 --> 0:02:12.760 that I was used to not only doing your show, 0:02:12.800 --> 0:02:15.520 but outkicked the coverage. I'm like, what do I do 0:02:15.600 --> 0:02:19.040 with these hours so I can stay productive? Yeah? No, no, 0:02:19.160 --> 0:02:23.679 and it's good because I have we record this podcast 0:02:23.680 --> 0:02:27.639 that really ungodly hours. If people when we recorded the 0:02:27.680 --> 0:02:30.840 Fifth Hour podcast, they would say, man, that's a crazy person. 0:02:31.320 --> 0:02:34.960 But it fits the schedule, and I'm glad it worked out, 0:02:35.080 --> 0:02:37.239 and I loved having on the show back in the day. 0:02:37.360 --> 0:02:38.760 Then you know, I was upset when you left. I 0:02:38.800 --> 0:02:40.440 don't want you to leave the show and you yeah, 0:02:40.480 --> 0:02:42.920 you got promoter, which I'm happy about. And I'm glad 0:02:42.960 --> 0:02:45.840 we can do this podcast and play Grab Bass on 0:02:45.880 --> 0:02:48.160 the weekend. And you've been a radio a ton. We 0:02:48.200 --> 0:02:49.840 had you on a few weeks ago, and I want 0:02:49.840 --> 0:02:51.560 to point out at the time we had you on, 0:02:52.120 --> 0:02:54.760 this was not even in play. We didn't know that 0:02:54.800 --> 0:02:57.240 this was a possibility, right, This is kind of popped up. 0:02:57.480 --> 0:02:59.560 They didn't even want you on a fourth hour, let 0:02:59.560 --> 0:03:04.040 alone a bit. Yeah, exactly, exactly exactly. So so anyway, 0:03:04.080 --> 0:03:07.000 this popped up right after that. It was I don't 0:03:07.000 --> 0:03:08.560 know what the word is you want to look for. 0:03:08.639 --> 0:03:12.680 It was synergy, it was serendipity, whatever it might be. 0:03:12.919 --> 0:03:15.200 But but you popped up here. But you've been been 0:03:15.400 --> 0:03:18.720 been on the show before for years. And as I 0:03:18.760 --> 0:03:21.600 always point out, I I obsessed during the day with 0:03:21.680 --> 0:03:24.880 these dopey monologues that I do about sports. I spent 0:03:24.919 --> 0:03:27.560 a lot of time, a lot of blood sweat and 0:03:27.600 --> 0:03:30.560 tears and often, and you know this from working in 0:03:30.560 --> 0:03:32.640 the radio all these years, the thing that people like 0:03:32.760 --> 0:03:35.160 the most is none of that. They don't want to 0:03:35.200 --> 0:03:37.160 hear any of that. They don't care what I think 0:03:37.200 --> 0:03:40.960 about any of the sports teams. But what I had 0:03:41.080 --> 0:03:45.160 for lunch on Wednesday is very important. Yeah, It's true 0:03:45.200 --> 0:03:48.680 when you pull back the curtain, it is more interesting 0:03:48.800 --> 0:03:50.920 your life in some of the lives of some of 0:03:50.920 --> 0:03:53.560 the hacks that we enjoy to listen to or watch 0:03:53.600 --> 0:03:57.120 on television, that is definitely more interesting than most of 0:03:57.120 --> 0:04:00.760 the burned out sports stories that we get fram down 0:04:00.760 --> 0:04:04.480 our air holes. When I tune on the radio or 0:04:04.560 --> 0:04:07.480 I turned on the sports shows on TV, I hear 0:04:07.520 --> 0:04:11.440 the same takes over and over again. Except I gotta 0:04:11.480 --> 0:04:14.080 give our FSR line up some credit. I do hear 0:04:14.560 --> 0:04:17.159 some different takes on our network, but on some of 0:04:17.200 --> 0:04:20.440 the other networks it's just the same regurgitated takes over 0:04:20.480 --> 0:04:22.680 and over. Well. Part of the problem also is a 0:04:22.680 --> 0:04:25.960 lot of as you know, programmers in radio, they just 0:04:26.120 --> 0:04:29.000 play the hits Mama and not our guy, but do 0:04:29.080 --> 0:04:31.880 the same thing over and over again. Because they in 0:04:32.080 --> 0:04:34.279 the way that radio worse. People turn over the audience 0:04:34.279 --> 0:04:37.159 turns over a lot. Although we're lucky on the overnight 0:04:37.240 --> 0:04:40.200 that people do because they work in factories and drive 0:04:40.240 --> 0:04:42.279 trucks or where they're up all night, they listen for 0:04:42.360 --> 0:04:44.840 more than ten minutes. If you get somebody during the 0:04:44.920 --> 0:04:47.920 day to listen for ten minutes, you've won the lottery. Uh. 0:04:48.000 --> 0:04:50.440 The people don't listen that long, and you're in the 0:04:50.560 --> 0:04:52.520 car you listen with half a year, So it's a 0:04:52.520 --> 0:04:55.760 whole it's a whole different to do. So we're gonna 0:04:55.839 --> 0:04:58.920 keep a similar format though, Danny on the fifth hour 0:04:59.000 --> 0:05:02.720 practice so on this podcast. Uh, and you can add 0:05:02.760 --> 0:05:05.320 anything you want here, any stories you have. I know 0:05:05.400 --> 0:05:08.240 you just got back a few days ago from from Hawaii. 0:05:09.760 --> 0:05:13.160 I'm sure to travel because i've heard my wife. My 0:05:13.160 --> 0:05:14.720 wife wanted to go to Hawaii, and I've heard it 0:05:14.760 --> 0:05:18.680 was not there's a lot of restrictions traveling to Hawaii. 0:05:18.720 --> 0:05:22.479 But I will have Tarayaki Madness. That is an original story. 0:05:22.480 --> 0:05:26.080 You will only here in the fifth hour, a little Shakespeare, 0:05:26.960 --> 0:05:30.680 a little unexpected Shakespeare, and whatever else pops up here 0:05:31.360 --> 0:05:34.200 on the fifth But I'm gonna start with the Tarayaki 0:05:34.279 --> 0:05:37.120 madness and then we'll get to Danny Gee's travel log, 0:05:37.640 --> 0:05:42.240 but the life of Mallard, which we discuss on this 0:05:42.279 --> 0:05:45.000 podcast every Saturday. So I don't really live in interesting life. 0:05:45.320 --> 0:05:49.200 For some reason, people seem to like me just telling 0:05:49.279 --> 0:05:52.239 random stories about dumb stuff that happens to me. Um. 0:05:52.279 --> 0:05:55.880 So I had a few things happened this week that 0:05:56.000 --> 0:05:59.080 I have not shared radio for whatever reason, didn't have 0:05:59.120 --> 0:06:01.560 time for it. And so the other day I was 0:06:01.560 --> 0:06:05.920 doing some grocery shopping and you know, I picked my meal. 0:06:05.960 --> 0:06:07.880 I don't eat that much. I fast. I'm on this 0:06:07.920 --> 0:06:10.520 inter minute fasting diet. But it was one of the 0:06:10.560 --> 0:06:13.440 days I ate, and so I decided I wanted to 0:06:13.480 --> 0:06:16.120 have I mean cooking at home. Now the kitchen's done 0:06:16.440 --> 0:06:18.159 at the house I'm living, so I had, I said, 0:06:18.200 --> 0:06:21.960 I want taryak chicken and rice. Now the Mallard palette. 0:06:22.520 --> 0:06:25.760 This is as close as I get the healthy Danny. 0:06:25.880 --> 0:06:30.160 So around seven am, I decide, I'm gonna go to 0:06:30.200 --> 0:06:32.480 the grocery store. I'm gonna buy all the ingredients to 0:06:32.520 --> 0:06:35.880 make karaoke chicken and like the slope. And so I 0:06:35.920 --> 0:06:37.880 go on a mission and the mission calls for me 0:06:37.920 --> 0:06:41.320 to buy chicken and to buy taryaki sauce. And rice. 0:06:41.400 --> 0:06:44.880 You know. That's basically it's very simple. And uh so 0:06:45.120 --> 0:06:48.200 I I don't have a preferred brand of karyaki sauce. 0:06:48.680 --> 0:06:52.400 So what I did was I spent about ten minutes 0:06:53.360 --> 0:06:57.680 taking bottles of tarayaki sauce off the off the shelf, 0:06:57.760 --> 0:07:00.600 trying to find the perfect aryaki sauce. And I did 0:07:00.600 --> 0:07:03.279 not want to f this up. Looking at the sugar 0:07:03.320 --> 0:07:05.920 content on the back. Oh god, no, I don't care 0:07:05.920 --> 0:07:08.719 about that. Figure I cook it, most of that burns out. 0:07:08.760 --> 0:07:11.400 I think, I don't know, but I'm reading, and then 0:07:11.440 --> 0:07:13.600 I'm in my head, I'm thinking, well, some of the 0:07:14.000 --> 0:07:16.600 some of the taryaki sauce is a little low, so 0:07:16.680 --> 0:07:19.120 that means it's popular, So maybe I should get some 0:07:19.160 --> 0:07:21.640 of that because that's popular. But then well maybe some 0:07:21.680 --> 0:07:24.080 of this other stuff people have been tried, and maybe 0:07:24.080 --> 0:07:26.480 that's good taryaki and people are missing out on it. 0:07:27.040 --> 0:07:31.200 So anyway, I'm looking. I'm really dumb, hey minutes looking 0:07:31.240 --> 0:07:36.000 for taryaki sauce at least. Uh and and so I 0:07:36.040 --> 0:07:40.080 finally find something that looks good, and I'm like, all right, 0:07:40.120 --> 0:07:43.240 this is great. I found found my magic sauce. Now 0:07:43.400 --> 0:07:46.040 I hate the fact in California. You can't get a 0:07:46.080 --> 0:07:48.360 grocery bag at the checkout. You have to pay for it, 0:07:48.920 --> 0:07:51.440 And so I don't pay for it, Danny, I do 0:07:51.600 --> 0:07:53.360 is I bringing the bag from home? And I'm like, 0:07:53.400 --> 0:07:56.200 going to pay the tax to get a plastic bag 0:07:56.240 --> 0:07:59.400 at the grocery store. It's ridiculous. So I refused to pay. 0:07:59.400 --> 0:08:02.200 So I brought my own cloth bag. So again, after 0:08:02.240 --> 0:08:04.480 about what seemed to me like thirty minutes but probably 0:08:04.560 --> 0:08:09.480 was only ten, I put the tarayaki sauce in the bag. 0:08:10.400 --> 0:08:13.480 It was my Eureka moment. And then I'm like, Okay, 0:08:13.640 --> 0:08:16.320 I found the sauce. This is great. I'm right in 0:08:16.400 --> 0:08:19.880 my goldilocks z And it was honey spicy tarayaki. Danny, 0:08:19.920 --> 0:08:23.280 that sounds good, doesn't It does sound good? Yeah. So 0:08:23.320 --> 0:08:25.160 then I put the bottom in the bag and I'm 0:08:25.200 --> 0:08:27.760 moving on to now get the rice. Now the rice 0:08:27.800 --> 0:08:29.520 and the chicken. The next thing up is the rice. 0:08:29.560 --> 0:08:33.320 So since I moved, I now go to a different store, 0:08:33.360 --> 0:08:36.000 so I don't know where it is. And at the 0:08:36.000 --> 0:08:37.800 old place where I used to live, I knew where 0:08:37.840 --> 0:08:41.520 everything was, and so I'm educating myself. So as I'm 0:08:41.559 --> 0:08:43.559 walking around the gross store, and if you ever gone 0:08:43.640 --> 0:08:45.640 to the store in the morning, they're still putting stuff 0:08:45.679 --> 0:08:47.400 on the shelves. You know, it's there's a lot of 0:08:47.440 --> 0:08:51.000 things going on, and so bam, just like that, I 0:08:51.120 --> 0:08:55.120 end up hitting, uh, the side of the aisle and 0:08:55.280 --> 0:09:00.440 somehow I dropped the bag. I dropped the bag they're 0:09:00.880 --> 0:09:04.040 at bumping into the corner of the aisle in my haste. 0:09:05.000 --> 0:09:06.679 And I told you it was a cloth bag. Well, 0:09:06.679 --> 0:09:08.920 it turns out the taryaki sauce I didn't realize this 0:09:08.960 --> 0:09:16.680 at the time, was in a glass container. Yeah, kaboom, 0:09:16.720 --> 0:09:21.319 you pulled a Jared Goff. Yeah exactly, I pulled a 0:09:21.360 --> 0:09:25.320 bumb bug on the rug um. So the club bag, 0:09:25.559 --> 0:09:28.240 I hear the I hear the glass break, and I'm like, 0:09:28.240 --> 0:09:32.560 oh boy, Now, fortunately it was contained to the bag. 0:09:32.679 --> 0:09:35.800 So they're they're all the broken glass and the delicious 0:09:36.520 --> 0:09:41.520 spicy honey tarayaki sauces right there in the bag. So 0:09:41.559 --> 0:09:43.080 then I'm at the point, well what do I do here. 0:09:43.080 --> 0:09:45.319 I can't just walk out of the store because I 0:09:45.360 --> 0:09:47.400 didn't pay for it. I don't really want to pay 0:09:47.440 --> 0:09:51.200 for it because it's broken taryaki sauce, And so I 0:09:51.280 --> 0:09:53.480 made the walk of shame. Danny over to one of 0:09:53.520 --> 0:09:56.839 the employees there at the grocery store, and this woman 0:09:56.960 --> 0:10:00.120 was very nice. I think she felt pity on me 0:10:00.160 --> 0:10:04.240 because I'm such a loser. And I told her what happened, 0:10:04.280 --> 0:10:06.720 and she said, okay, And I was a spill on 0:10:06.760 --> 0:10:08.640 Aisle three, but there was no spill. It was in 0:10:08.679 --> 0:10:11.720 the bag. And so I gave her the ba the 0:10:11.760 --> 0:10:13.960 bag and she took all the glass out, gave me 0:10:14.040 --> 0:10:17.160 back the bag, and I went on my way. And 0:10:17.200 --> 0:10:20.120 I had to I had to get a grocery cart 0:10:20.160 --> 0:10:22.240 because I didn't want to take I still didn't want 0:10:22.240 --> 0:10:23.880 to get a bag. So what I did I put 0:10:23.880 --> 0:10:27.240 everything in the grocery cart Danny and then and then 0:10:27.320 --> 0:10:30.439 moved moved out of the store, bought everything and that 0:10:30.520 --> 0:10:34.040 was it. So I had a tough time getting tarayaki sauce. 0:10:34.040 --> 0:10:37.320 Who screws up getting taryaki sauce? Seriously? Now, let me 0:10:37.400 --> 0:10:40.560 ask you would a younger Mallard you had your wheels 0:10:40.640 --> 0:10:43.200 back in the day, would you have ran out of 0:10:43.240 --> 0:10:46.120 the store. You know, I did debate running out of 0:10:46.160 --> 0:10:50.880 the store. I did consider just leaving, like one are 0:10:50.880 --> 0:10:53.160 the odds that anything's gonna happen? And I was like, 0:10:53.800 --> 0:10:56.840 you know, just in case I don't, and it was 0:10:56.880 --> 0:10:59.360 really I didn't. I was gonna get caught. But my thought, 0:10:59.440 --> 0:11:02.520 Danny was, wait a minute here, I don't want to 0:11:02.520 --> 0:11:04.640 think about this for the next, like the next two days. Well, 0:11:04.679 --> 0:11:07.760 maybe somebody's gonna come knocking on my door because I 0:11:07.800 --> 0:11:10.360 broke a bottle of taryaki sauce and walked out of 0:11:10.360 --> 0:11:14.280 the grocery. How embarrassing would that be? Can you imagine? Sorry, 0:11:14.520 --> 0:11:17.080 we've decided to press charge, although in California I don't 0:11:17.080 --> 0:11:19.880 think they press charges on anything these days, but but 0:11:19.880 --> 0:11:23.080 but still, so that was my my Terrioca story. So 0:11:23.120 --> 0:11:26.199 you got back, why Danny, Now, that's much better than 0:11:26.200 --> 0:11:29.960 me going to buy teryaki sauce? And how many days 0:11:29.960 --> 0:11:31.400 were you there? Give me that. I want all the 0:11:31.440 --> 0:11:35.240 details because I've heard horror stories of traveling during the 0:11:35.400 --> 0:11:39.520 Even though COVID's winding down, it's not winding down in 0:11:39.760 --> 0:11:43.000 many states, including Hawaii. So what was that like? Yeah, 0:11:43.120 --> 0:11:46.199 at first I gotta shout out my Tinder rowning because 0:11:46.240 --> 0:11:50.320 she did the leg work. She downloaded the applications that 0:11:50.400 --> 0:11:52.760 you have to fill out, and then they give you 0:11:52.840 --> 0:11:56.760 like a QR code That code is important because then 0:11:56.880 --> 0:12:00.320 they need your vaccination cards and you gotta take a 0:12:00.320 --> 0:12:02.080 picture of the front and the back of it and 0:12:02.200 --> 0:12:05.880 enter it into the website for Hawaii and and and 0:12:05.920 --> 0:12:08.840 then this code you have to present at the airport 0:12:08.880 --> 0:12:12.880 along with your reservation to go. And it's it's you know, 0:12:12.960 --> 0:12:16.120 it is jumping through hoops, but in the end it's 0:12:16.120 --> 0:12:20.280 worth it because they give you a clearance bracelet. It's 0:12:20.320 --> 0:12:23.040 almost like you're going to a club, like waiting to 0:12:23.080 --> 0:12:26.439 get into the club, which was actually a couple of 0:12:26.520 --> 0:12:29.880 kids kicking us in the back of our airplane seats. 0:12:30.920 --> 0:12:33.840 Um it was. It was a long flight there, and 0:12:33.880 --> 0:12:37.520 it was packed going to Maui, but it was it 0:12:37.600 --> 0:12:40.880 was well worth the trouble. Um once we got there 0:12:41.559 --> 0:12:45.280 and landed, obviously, you feel that nice, warm, humid weather. 0:12:45.520 --> 0:12:48.320 You're right in the face. As soon as you step 0:12:48.320 --> 0:12:51.800 out of the airport. You're like, wow, I'm somewhere tropical 0:12:51.840 --> 0:12:54.560 all of a sudden. And then it used to be 0:12:54.640 --> 0:12:56.960 that they would give you Mustangs there in Hawaii. You 0:12:57.000 --> 0:12:59.760 remember that every rental car was a Mustang or a Jeep. 0:13:00.960 --> 0:13:04.840 Now it's just a fleet of Camaros. For some reason, 0:13:05.040 --> 0:13:07.600 Camaros they've moved up to the camaro in that Now. 0:13:07.600 --> 0:13:10.960 I've never been to Maui, so what's what's it like? 0:13:11.080 --> 0:13:14.920 I've been to and I have been to Kauai. I 0:13:15.000 --> 0:13:17.920 usually go to Kauaii the Garden Islands. Not much. There's 0:13:17.960 --> 0:13:21.239 like forty miles of roads in Kauai. That's it. But Maui, 0:13:21.640 --> 0:13:23.839 I've heard people that have been there said it's kind 0:13:23.840 --> 0:13:28.280 of like much nicer Orange County, where it's like beaches 0:13:28.320 --> 0:13:30.960 everywhere and all that way. How would you describe Maui? 0:13:31.520 --> 0:13:36.960 West Maui is super beautiful and yeah, pictures San Clemente 0:13:37.280 --> 0:13:41.640 without all of the buildings all up and down the 0:13:42.000 --> 0:13:46.280 beaches stacked all the way to the inland. They've done 0:13:46.280 --> 0:13:48.800 a really good job there in Maui. Over the past 0:13:48.840 --> 0:13:52.200 fifty years. They've had an explosion there with the resorts 0:13:52.200 --> 0:13:55.719 and everything, but they've been very strategic with where they 0:13:55.760 --> 0:13:58.360 put the buildings so that you still get all the 0:13:58.360 --> 0:14:02.199 beautiful views. And the water is pristine, man. I mean 0:14:02.240 --> 0:14:05.080 when you step into that water, it is so warm 0:14:05.520 --> 0:14:08.400 and you could see your feet and obviously, you know, 0:14:08.480 --> 0:14:10.440 we were lucky here on the West coast to have 0:14:10.559 --> 0:14:13.120 the Pacific Ocean, but you're you're not looking at your 0:14:13.120 --> 0:14:16.760 feet there in that water. No. In fact, I following 0:14:16.840 --> 0:14:19.520 up on that, Danny, I refused to go in the ocean. 0:14:19.640 --> 0:14:22.240 I have an anti ocean unless I can see my 0:14:22.320 --> 0:14:25.040 feet because I was spoiled like you. I've been to 0:14:25.040 --> 0:14:27.200 Hawaii a few times and I will not go now. 0:14:27.240 --> 0:14:29.480 I've heard in Mexico there's places in me so you 0:14:29.480 --> 0:14:32.040 can see your feet, and so maybe by the water there, 0:14:32.280 --> 0:14:35.680 but in the West coast here in California, the water 0:14:35.800 --> 0:14:38.200 is thick and kind of murky and you can't you 0:14:38.200 --> 0:14:40.800 can't see me. But that is awesome. And did you 0:14:40.840 --> 0:14:43.080 go snorkeling at all? Did you see any seat turtles 0:14:43.120 --> 0:14:45.720 or any of that stuff. We did, so it's the 0:14:45.760 --> 0:14:49.320 first time I've ever been snorkeling, which was really cool. 0:14:49.520 --> 0:14:53.720 And we went out to what was a volcanic rock. 0:14:54.360 --> 0:14:56.560 It's not an active volcano, although that would have made 0:14:56.560 --> 0:15:00.840 it more exciting. Um and the boat pulls up and 0:15:00.880 --> 0:15:04.400 actually before we got to that rock, there was just 0:15:04.480 --> 0:15:07.840 the middle of the ocean where the dude was like, Okay, look, 0:15:08.320 --> 0:15:11.040 we know a spot where there's lots of sea turtles 0:15:11.400 --> 0:15:14.000 and we're gonna take you there first. So they give 0:15:14.040 --> 0:15:16.080 you the gear and you are literally just in the 0:15:16.120 --> 0:15:18.920 middle of the ocean. And I'm not gonna lie, you know, 0:15:18.920 --> 0:15:21.840 after doing all of the animal thunderdome stories I've done 0:15:21.840 --> 0:15:25.000 over the years, I'm like, well, wouldn't this be ironic 0:15:25.040 --> 0:15:27.680 if I get taken out in the middle of the 0:15:27.720 --> 0:15:31.760 ocean like some sort of sea creature. Um, So they 0:15:31.800 --> 0:15:34.680 give you like a floaty some of the diving gear. 0:15:35.240 --> 0:15:38.520 Looking down into the reef, there were tons of these 0:15:38.560 --> 0:15:42.160 turtles just swimming. And these turtles, I mean, obviously you're 0:15:42.160 --> 0:15:44.680 in their territory. They don't care that the humans are there. 0:15:44.880 --> 0:15:47.240 As long as you're not splashing hard and making lots 0:15:47.240 --> 0:15:50.440 of noise, they swim right up to you. So we 0:15:50.560 --> 0:15:53.080 literally were looking at these turtles like right in front 0:15:53.120 --> 0:15:56.160 of us, which was really crazy. And the water was 0:15:56.240 --> 0:16:01.160 so salty that you float super easy. So even if 0:16:01.200 --> 0:16:04.520 you're big guys like us, you're still just there's really 0:16:04.560 --> 0:16:08.560 no way to sink. Yeah. The nicest place I've ever 0:16:08.760 --> 0:16:14.720 been water wise was the Napolyi coast of Oahu. Was unbelievable. 0:16:14.760 --> 0:16:17.680 It's like the side there's nobody living there, It's just 0:16:17.840 --> 0:16:22.840 all rocks and ocean, and they filmed a bunch of 0:16:22.920 --> 0:16:25.400 TV shows and movies on that side, because it's just 0:16:25.840 --> 0:16:27.880 it's it's like you're out in the middle of nowhere 0:16:27.880 --> 0:16:32.520 and it's beautiful, bright blue water. It's really, really, really awesome. 0:16:32.640 --> 0:16:35.160 How is the food? My only complaint with Hawaii is 0:16:35.200 --> 0:16:38.880 the food's terrible. It's not big guy friendly food. I 0:16:38.920 --> 0:16:42.160 had the worst Asian meal I've ever had there, which 0:16:42.200 --> 0:16:45.600 is odd. I was confused by they everything was fried. 0:16:45.680 --> 0:16:47.880 Normally things fried are good, but I couldn't really make 0:16:47.920 --> 0:16:50.200 out what it was it was. It was terrible whatever. 0:16:50.520 --> 0:16:52.360 I went to this Chinese restaurant I don't remember the 0:16:52.440 --> 0:16:54.720 name of it's probably gone now. There was only one 0:16:54.800 --> 0:16:57.200 restaurant that I liked. It was an Italian restaurant. It 0:16:57.200 --> 0:16:59.880 was pretty good. But how how was the food in Hawaii? 0:17:00.480 --> 0:17:03.280 I would say that you probably should stay close to 0:17:03.320 --> 0:17:07.359 your resort. The restaurants at the resort, although they're overpriced, 0:17:07.960 --> 0:17:09.879 it's worth it. That's why you save up to go 0:17:09.920 --> 0:17:14.200 on vacation. Um. But we had man there's a place 0:17:14.240 --> 0:17:19.560 called the Monkey Pod restaurant five stars. It was expensive, 0:17:19.560 --> 0:17:21.879 but it wasn't one of the more expensive ones that 0:17:21.920 --> 0:17:27.280 we saw. The appetizers, the flavors, the drinks pretty amazing. 0:17:27.359 --> 0:17:29.480 And then we were at the West End because we 0:17:29.600 --> 0:17:33.240 cashed in all of our Marriott points. The restaurants they 0:17:33.240 --> 0:17:36.720 had right there at the resort were just unbelievable. So yeah, 0:17:36.760 --> 0:17:39.320 we really got lucky with the food on on the trip. 0:17:39.800 --> 0:17:41.679 So you weren't eating at Mickey D's. You were not 0:17:41.760 --> 0:17:45.240 eating there was you know, when they took us out. 0:17:45.280 --> 0:17:47.280 And by the way, we also saw some whales, which 0:17:47.320 --> 0:17:50.920 was pretty cool. Through the whale watching and there wasn't 0:17:51.080 --> 0:17:55.720 people looking at me through binoculars. We saw some humpbacks 0:17:55.800 --> 0:17:59.520 and then the boat docked and they gave us sandwiches 0:17:59.680 --> 0:18:02.840 and acts of doritos and we're like, okay, well, you 0:18:02.880 --> 0:18:05.080 know whatever, we're out here on the water. We were 0:18:05.119 --> 0:18:08.200 so hungry though from all the snorkeling. Even those generic 0:18:08.320 --> 0:18:13.280 sandwiches tasted amazing. So yeah, I mean we avoided, uh, 0:18:13.359 --> 0:18:16.399 you know, the tourist traps, except for right there at 0:18:16.440 --> 0:18:18.679 the resort where you're stuck at the trap. So what 0:18:18.720 --> 0:18:20.800 are you gonna do, right, as long as you can 0:18:20.840 --> 0:18:23.159 park your car, you know, you got a budget. The 0:18:23.200 --> 0:18:25.679 fact that they're gonna just rape you with that daily 0:18:25.880 --> 0:18:28.760 fee to park your car, and let's just eat here 0:18:28.800 --> 0:18:31.879 at the resort. Let's pretend like we're very, very wealthy 0:18:31.960 --> 0:18:34.480 for a few days, and then when we get back 0:18:34.520 --> 0:18:36.960 to the main land, then we'll go to the value menu. 0:18:37.320 --> 0:18:40.280 Well that's a smart, that's a smart normally. Well, they 0:18:40.320 --> 0:18:44.520 do say that the best spice is is hunger, right, 0:18:44.560 --> 0:18:47.040 that everything that takes everything says better when youre hungry. 0:18:47.040 --> 0:18:50.320 But yeah, that the parking fees of the hotels, Oh 0:18:50.359 --> 0:18:53.119 what a ridiculous I mean, just build it into the 0:18:53.200 --> 0:18:56.199 cost of who's going. How many people are going to 0:18:56.240 --> 0:18:59.560 Hawaii and not renting cars? I mean maybe that happens 0:18:59.560 --> 0:19:02.800 a lot. I don't I don't know the numbers on that, 0:19:03.400 --> 0:19:06.200 but most people I would think, you're going on vacation, 0:19:06.280 --> 0:19:08.440 you save up, as you said, for vacation, You're gonna 0:19:08.480 --> 0:19:11.440 rent a car so you can drive around. It's convenient. Now, 0:19:11.560 --> 0:19:14.760 is there a Costco in Maui? Because then there is 0:19:14.800 --> 0:19:18.000 all right, because uh in Waho there or not a 0:19:18.000 --> 0:19:22.360 wah who Kawaii there's one? And I did eat at 0:19:22.400 --> 0:19:24.760 Costco several times because the meals are so outrady. I 0:19:24.840 --> 0:19:26.200 was like, you know, I'm a I'm a tight water. 0:19:26.240 --> 0:19:29.280 I was like I'll like and the Costco had views 0:19:29.400 --> 0:19:34.120 of like beautiful green mountains. It was amazing, like, yeah, 0:19:34.200 --> 0:19:37.879 you eating free samples while you have a view. That 0:19:38.119 --> 0:19:41.600 is a vacation in itself. That's dream territory. Now. I 0:19:41.640 --> 0:19:44.280 had heard that when you go to Hawaii they you 0:19:44.359 --> 0:19:46.920 have to give your itinerary where you're going to be 0:19:47.000 --> 0:19:49.080 every day. Is that? Is that still a thing or 0:19:49.080 --> 0:19:51.560 did you not have to do that? No, we didn't 0:19:51.600 --> 0:19:53.240 have to do that, but we did have to keep 0:19:53.320 --> 0:19:57.800 filling out these questionnaires about if we were feeling well. 0:19:58.400 --> 0:20:01.040 They want to make sure you have no symptoms, and 0:20:01.080 --> 0:20:04.639 they were very strict about your mask being on. In fact, 0:20:04.920 --> 0:20:08.200 a couple of times we went into those ABC stores. Yeah, 0:20:08.440 --> 0:20:11.960 for chips and water and stuff like that. I got 0:20:12.040 --> 0:20:15.040 yelled at several times because of my mask wasn't up 0:20:15.080 --> 0:20:19.440 over my nose. Uh. It felt very Disneyland like pre 0:20:20.080 --> 0:20:24.000 lowering their restrictions down. We got yelled at and chase 0:20:24.119 --> 0:20:26.400 there at the park because the mask wasn't up over 0:20:26.440 --> 0:20:29.919 our nose completely and it's like a school teacher running 0:20:29.960 --> 0:20:34.360 after you scolding you. We caught that on several occasions there. 0:20:34.400 --> 0:20:38.199 So they're very very strict about the masks being fully 0:20:38.280 --> 0:20:42.240 over your dome. Yeah, I'll probably wait until they didn't 0:20:42.280 --> 0:20:44.960 knock off that nonsense. I've read too many studies. We 0:20:45.000 --> 0:20:47.280 had John Zigler on the podcast couple of weeks ago, 0:20:47.920 --> 0:20:52.000 and he pointed out the data indicates that the mask 0:20:52.200 --> 0:20:55.200 doesn't do much of anything, that it is more for. 0:20:55.640 --> 0:21:00.080 It's like mask theater, and he's given many examples on 0:21:00.200 --> 0:21:02.399 has and I've read other people that have studied it 0:21:02.400 --> 0:21:05.080 and looked at the actual science. You're supposed to follow 0:21:05.080 --> 0:21:07.840 the science, and I know it makes people feel good 0:21:07.840 --> 0:21:10.879 that you wear the mask, but uh, if you know, 0:21:10.880 --> 0:21:13.719 if you can smell the cigarette smoke of somebody smoking 0:21:13.720 --> 0:21:16.320 near you, chances are stuff is gonna get in there. 0:21:16.320 --> 0:21:18.359 And they've improven that there's really no different effect in 0:21:18.359 --> 0:21:22.960 southern California, as John pointed out, in Orange County where 0:21:23.000 --> 0:21:27.320 they don't have strict mask mandates, and Los Angeles, there 0:21:27.480 --> 0:21:30.560 is no real difference between those that are wearing masks 0:21:30.560 --> 0:21:33.480