WEBVTT - Revenge of the Nerds 0:00:00.720 --> 0:00:05.480 Kaboom. 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, to 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 --> 0:00:29.200 with Ben Maller starts right now in the air everywhere, 0:00:29.240 --> 0:00:34.440 back at it on a Saturday, Saturday Saturday, another piping 0:00:34.520 --> 0:00:39.159 hot edition of The Fifth Hour with Ben Mallard and 0:00:39.360 --> 0:00:44.320 gascon Free, not sullyed by anyone west of the four 0:00:44.400 --> 0:00:49.400 or five. It is a one man band. The podcast 0:00:49.720 --> 0:00:54.040 must go on no matter what, unless it actually doesn't 0:00:54.040 --> 0:00:55.760 have to go on. But we do this as a 0:00:55.920 --> 0:01:00.520 labor of love, eight days a week, because four hours 0:01:00.600 --> 0:01:03.880 a night, five nights a week clearly not enough. The 0:01:04.040 --> 0:01:09.240 podcast studio which is right next to the radio studio 0:01:09.560 --> 0:01:12.440 deep in the north Woods, and I do thank you 0:01:12.480 --> 0:01:15.800 for supporting the podcast. And now the podcast has done 0:01:15.840 --> 0:01:20.320 so well that management gets very upset if we do 0:01:20.440 --> 0:01:23.760 not have a piping hot edition of the Fifth Hour 0:01:23.840 --> 0:01:29.440 podcast on Friday, Saturday or Sunday. So uh we provide 0:01:29.480 --> 0:01:33.200 them and please keep that up. That that helps out 0:01:33.240 --> 0:01:36.160 the show in a large way, and you guys have 0:01:36.200 --> 0:01:38.720 been doing a great job at that. So on this 0:01:38.959 --> 0:01:43.760 edition of the podcast, we have the title of it 0:01:43.760 --> 0:01:47.240 should be Revenge of the Nerds. Revenge of the Nerds, 0:01:47.280 --> 0:01:50.680 we have that. We also have It's a downhill race, 0:01:51.880 --> 0:01:56.640 passing in the night and whatever else pops up along 0:01:56.680 --> 0:01:59.480 the way. On this edition of The Fifth Hour with 0:01:59.560 --> 0:02:02.320 Ben mat Now, before we get to Revenge of the Nerds, 0:02:03.320 --> 0:02:05.960 I would like to tell you about Cameo. This is 0:02:05.960 --> 0:02:08.799 not a commercial for Cameo. I am not being paid 0:02:08.960 --> 0:02:10.959 to tell you about Cameo. I just had a funny 0:02:11.000 --> 0:02:15.240 story I thought you'd appreciate. So this podcast, The Fifth 0:02:15.280 --> 0:02:20.240 Hour is dedicated to the extreme fan of the show. 0:02:21.080 --> 0:02:23.320 There's a lot of casual listeners of the show, and 0:02:23.320 --> 0:02:28.520 we have the hardcore, passionate listenership that is through and 0:02:28.560 --> 0:02:32.400 through a really buys into what we do. And boy, 0:02:32.440 --> 0:02:36.359 I thank you for that. And some of the biggest 0:02:36.440 --> 0:02:39.000 fans of the show, I want to take you to 0:02:39.040 --> 0:02:41.000 the next level and they want to get on Cameo 0:02:41.160 --> 0:02:44.639 and and I will do a personalized Mallard monologue. We 0:02:44.639 --> 0:02:46.720 don't do shout outs on the radio, but we do 0:02:46.720 --> 0:02:49.720 do them on cameo. And so I got a cameo 0:02:49.840 --> 0:02:52.600 request the other day. I'm gonna tell you the story 0:02:52.639 --> 0:02:55.160 briefly here I won't bore you, and if I bore you, 0:02:55.200 --> 0:02:57.600 just fast forward through the podcast. So I got a 0:02:57.600 --> 0:03:00.600 cameo request. I don't usually promote cameo that much, and 0:03:00.680 --> 0:03:04.440 so there's certain times of the year randomly I'll get 0:03:04.480 --> 0:03:07.040 a bunch of cameo requests and then other times I'll 0:03:07.080 --> 0:03:10.320 get none. And I'm fine with that. It's there. It's 0:03:10.440 --> 0:03:13.320 something that if you you want it, that's great. Um 0:03:13.400 --> 0:03:17.360 there's some people on that website cameo that are making 0:03:17.400 --> 0:03:20.320 their living off that, and good for them. Those are 0:03:20.320 --> 0:03:24.680 also TV people and movie people. The cast of the Office, 0:03:24.720 --> 0:03:28.320 for example, does very well. A lot of people who 0:03:28.600 --> 0:03:31.440 grew up watching The Office now are all they're all 0:03:31.480 --> 0:03:34.560 grown up and they have a lot of disposable income, 0:03:34.639 --> 0:03:37.600 liquid liquid money to toss around, so they love their 0:03:37.960 --> 0:03:40.440 their cameo. Now, we have a little bit of a 0:03:40.440 --> 0:03:42.560 smaller reach on cameo, but I did get a request 0:03:43.600 --> 0:03:46.360 from a super duper p one and I will not 0:03:46.480 --> 0:03:50.480 reveal the gentleman's name. Because it was a private cameo. 0:03:51.200 --> 0:03:54.040 But this is a gentleman served in the United States Marines, 0:03:54.440 --> 0:03:57.360 and he's a big fan. He's got a little insomnia, 0:03:57.640 --> 0:04:00.680 and so he made the request, and I I felt like, 0:04:00.800 --> 0:04:02.120 this is a special thing. You know, when you go 0:04:02.120 --> 0:04:04.440 out of your way to to pay a little bit 0:04:04.440 --> 0:04:06.680 of money on cameo, I want to give you your 0:04:06.680 --> 0:04:10.000 money's worth. So I did the cameo. He wanted a 0:04:10.000 --> 0:04:13.360 little pep talk, and I gave him a win one 0:04:13.400 --> 0:04:16.080 for the gipper type speech unless I didn't, but I 0:04:16.120 --> 0:04:18.200 gave what I thought was a decent pep talk. And 0:04:18.240 --> 0:04:20.880 it's really up to him whether he liked it or not. 0:04:21.040 --> 0:04:23.560 But anyway, the reason I'm telling the story, get to 0:04:23.640 --> 0:04:26.119 the point. Please all right, I will get to the point. 0:04:26.520 --> 0:04:29.640 So the reason I told the story or to you, 0:04:29.760 --> 0:04:32.920 am telling you right now, is because I did the 0:04:32.960 --> 0:04:35.160 cameo in the studio. I do these things usually in 0:04:35.200 --> 0:04:38.400 the studio, I have all the equipment of a camera. 0:04:38.720 --> 0:04:43.160 We record the monologues for YouTube for the company, and 0:04:43.240 --> 0:04:46.719 so I did the cameo kind of like I do 0:04:46.839 --> 0:04:49.240 this podcast or I do the radio show, and the 0:04:49.279 --> 0:04:53.320 same share the same podcast microphone that I use and 0:04:53.360 --> 0:04:55.800 I just let it rip. I just let rip and 0:04:55.800 --> 0:04:57.640 and so I sent the cameo and you have to 0:04:57.720 --> 0:05:00.440 uply upload the cameo on my end. My job is 0:05:00.480 --> 0:05:04.279 pretty simple. Do the cameo, upload the cameo, Boom done. 0:05:04.920 --> 0:05:07.440 Uh you know, the dumbest person on the block could 0:05:07.480 --> 0:05:10.279 do it. It's not that hard. So anyway, I clicked 0:05:10.279 --> 0:05:13.640 the button on the cameo app, and I send the 0:05:13.760 --> 0:05:17.279 video to the gentleman who's a big fan and I'm 0:05:17.279 --> 0:05:19.599 here to cheer him up. And it was a special request. 0:05:19.640 --> 0:05:21.480 It is a twenty four hour request. You gotta pay 0:05:21.480 --> 0:05:24.279 a little extra for that. Um. And so I did it. 0:05:24.400 --> 0:05:29.280 And anyway, long story even longer. Why not, it's a podcast. 0:05:29.839 --> 0:05:32.200 So I I forgot about it. I got a message 0:05:32.200 --> 0:05:34.800 on my phone like two hours later saying that I 0:05:34.839 --> 0:05:40.039 had not actually posted the cameo, and I said, what 0:05:40.040 --> 0:05:41.719 what the hell? You know? I know, I did it. 0:05:41.800 --> 0:05:43.720 I did the thing, and I clicked the button and 0:05:43.760 --> 0:05:48.560 it said it was uploading. And so I then tried 0:05:48.560 --> 0:05:51.080 to upload it again. I noticed that it had not uploaded. 0:05:51.320 --> 0:05:53.559 The message was correct. So I clicked the upload button 0:05:53.560 --> 0:05:55.559 on the cameo and I said, that's it. Okay, I'm good. 0:05:55.960 --> 0:05:58.640 And then about fifteen minutes later I checked and again 0:05:58.880 --> 0:06:01.960 it had not uploaded, and so I was like, what 0:06:02.000 --> 0:06:04.760 the hell. So then I had to contact my rep 0:06:04.920 --> 0:06:09.560 at Cameo and say, hey, I did the cameo. I 0:06:09.600 --> 0:06:13.400 followed the instructions, I clicked the send button on said cameo, 0:06:14.480 --> 0:06:16.640 and what the heck is going on here? So they're 0:06:16.720 --> 0:06:20.440 very polite, good customer service, much better customer service than 0:06:20.480 --> 0:06:22.480 I've had a lot of people a lot of places 0:06:22.480 --> 0:06:25.080 I've talked you over the years, and and so anyway, 0:06:25.120 --> 0:06:27.000 they got right back to me and they, you know, 0:06:27.040 --> 0:06:30.560 said that, you know whatever, it had been fixed. So 0:06:30.600 --> 0:06:36.800 it turns out I've been doing cameo wrong. I'm bad 0:06:36.839 --> 0:06:42.480 at cameo. They told me the average cameo that people request, 0:06:42.560 --> 0:06:44.760 and and I'm on the very low end of this. 0:06:44.839 --> 0:06:48.440 I'm nobody. I'm an overnight guy. Who am I? But 0:06:48.520 --> 0:06:50.719 some of these big TV stars and these movie stars 0:06:50.720 --> 0:06:53.520 that are on there that that people loving athletes the 0:06:53.600 --> 0:06:56.039 average cameo. You want to take a guess how long 0:06:56.080 --> 0:07:02.040 the average cameo is? You gotta guess, Yeah, how about 0:07:02.880 --> 0:07:08.960 one minute? One minute? For example, if you're listening to 0:07:09.000 --> 0:07:10.800 me right now, and you've listened to the very beginning 0:07:10.800 --> 0:07:13.800 of the podcast till now you've already you would have 0:07:13.840 --> 0:07:18.080 heard over six almost seven cameos by now right, you know, 0:07:18.160 --> 0:07:20.960 not even including the commercials. But the commercials is probably longer. 0:07:21.000 --> 0:07:24.560 But the actual time of me talking on the fifth 0:07:24.560 --> 0:07:28.280 hour podcast here is about now. It's up to seven, 0:07:28.400 --> 0:07:32.000 give or take seven cameos. So anyway, my cameo to 0:07:32.080 --> 0:07:34.680 this gentleman was, I think over seven minutes long, like 0:07:34.760 --> 0:07:36.600 usually there are five. I try to do four or 0:07:36.600 --> 0:07:39.280 five six minutes somewhere and there I went along on 0:07:39.320 --> 0:07:43.080 the pep Talk one. So I have been doing too 0:07:43.160 --> 0:07:46.920 much on the cameo. But screw cameo. I like, I 0:07:46.960 --> 0:07:48.880 like doing these things, you know, from time to time. 0:07:48.880 --> 0:07:50.720 I don't want to do too many of them, but 0:07:50.920 --> 0:07:52.720 I also don't want to do them too short. I 0:07:52.720 --> 0:07:55.280 think like one minute. It's like, you know, that's nothing, man. 0:07:55.960 --> 0:07:59.119 I do four hours a night and plus an extra 0:07:59.200 --> 0:08:02.040 three hours on the weekend. But twenty hours a week 0:08:02.080 --> 0:08:04.880 plus the three hours or more sometimes we go avery 0:08:05.000 --> 0:08:08.520 longer on the weekend. So that is the the brief 0:08:08.600 --> 0:08:12.280 cameos story, which turned into the Extended Dance remix. Now 0:08:12.320 --> 0:08:16.520 moving on the Revenge of the Nerds, The Revenge of 0:08:16.520 --> 0:08:19.960 the Nerds, this being the Saturday podcast, which means the 0:08:20.200 --> 0:08:24.800 life of Mallard. How boring is that? So during the 0:08:25.000 --> 0:08:29.200 standard Mallard monolg we do four monologues a night. The 0:08:29.200 --> 0:08:32.280 the a block of every hour is a monologue. I 0:08:32.360 --> 0:08:35.280 can't guarantee it's gonna be a good monologue. And I 0:08:35.360 --> 0:08:39.960 try to do a different monologue every hour during those monologues, 0:08:40.120 --> 0:08:43.000 mainly because I get bored. Mainly because I get bored. 0:08:43.120 --> 0:08:47.560 And good programming directors will tell you that you should 0:08:47.640 --> 0:08:50.400 only do one topic radio and just keep repeating the 0:08:50.400 --> 0:08:54.280 one topic, because the average radio listener does not listen 0:08:54.360 --> 0:08:58.760 for more than a few minutes. Therefore, I'm actually doing 0:08:58.840 --> 0:09:01.000 four times the work that I'm supposed to be doing. 0:09:01.280 --> 0:09:03.640 And and I've had programmed reactors tell me, why not 0:09:03.679 --> 0:09:06.440 just do one topic and just repeat it. And a 0:09:06.440 --> 0:09:10.440 lot of afternoon shows and morning drive shows they'll do 0:09:10.520 --> 0:09:13.400 like two different topics, one hour on one thing and 0:09:13.440 --> 0:09:16.280 an hour or another. And they do that because there's 0:09:16.320 --> 0:09:20.680 this sweet spot, the sweet spot on radio where it's 0:09:20.720 --> 0:09:23.680 like the prime rush hour. So the first two hours 0:09:23.760 --> 0:09:25.520 like the warm up act. It's like a lounge act. 0:09:25.960 --> 0:09:28.559 You're testing out material. I'll give you the inside radio. 0:09:28.840 --> 0:09:32.920 So you're testing out material and whatever really clicked, whatever 0:09:32.960 --> 0:09:36.120 really resonated at least among the staff of the show, 0:09:36.200 --> 0:09:39.240 the producer, of the board, op the host that then 0:09:39.320 --> 0:09:43.160 gets regurgitated in the prime hour. Because most radio shows 0:09:43.200 --> 0:09:46.000 are three hours. I do four, but most shows are 0:09:46.040 --> 0:09:48.880 three hours, and that's kind of the standards become the 0:09:48.920 --> 0:09:51.520 standard now. And so you do an hour warm up, 0:09:51.600 --> 0:09:54.400 try something, an hour, another hour on something else, and 0:09:54.400 --> 0:09:57.000 then which everyone works your third hour. You put it 0:09:57.040 --> 0:10:00.439 all together. So we do the Mallon. Will said, I've 0:10:00.440 --> 0:10:07.200 been known to take gratuitous cheap shots at Brainiac's. Yeah. 0:10:07.200 --> 0:10:09.120 I'm not that bright, you know, I'm pretty dumb. I'm 0:10:09.160 --> 0:10:12.400 doing radio, so I like to take my under the 0:10:12.440 --> 0:10:17.240 table backhanded shots. Baseball executives we call super nerds. The 0:10:17.320 --> 0:10:20.880 people that run the baseball franchises are the chief nerd. 0:10:21.320 --> 0:10:24.200 We've got the geeks, the point dexters, you name it, 0:10:24.280 --> 0:10:30.040 the Ivy League crowd, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera. So this week 0:10:31.160 --> 0:10:34.439 I got my come upp It's this is a global exclusive. 0:10:34.679 --> 0:10:38.040 No one else has this content, no one else has 0:10:38.080 --> 0:10:40.960 this content content. If I could talk, that would help. 0:10:41.080 --> 0:10:44.960 So I'm doing the radio show per normal. I'm shouting, 0:10:45.559 --> 0:10:50.440 I'm yelling, I'm enthusiastically screaming like a crazy person in 0:10:50.440 --> 0:10:54.319 a studio by myself, per normal. It is near the 0:10:54.559 --> 0:10:59.920 end of the Wednesday show, Eddie says that, hey, I'd 0:11:00.040 --> 0:11:02.800 like to get a nice photo. So we got the 0:11:02.840 --> 0:11:06.440 crew together in the main studio. And typically we are 0:11:06.480 --> 0:11:11.040 not together. I'm in the home studio and most of 0:11:11.040 --> 0:11:13.920 the time now as I am right now doing this podcast, 0:11:14.200 --> 0:11:17.160 so this was a rare and appropriate opportunity to get 0:11:17.160 --> 0:11:22.000 a photo. So, okay, let's do some photos. So in walks, 0:11:22.120 --> 0:11:25.880 Eddie in walks, Robert to in walks the Coop de 0:11:25.960 --> 0:11:28.719 loop and we're all there. The team is altogether, we 0:11:28.880 --> 0:11:32.840 formed Voltron ready for a little photo. So then lead 0:11:32.880 --> 0:11:35.320 a Lap comes over, the producer of the morning show. 0:11:35.360 --> 0:11:37.400 He's in the building. He comes over, he's the he's 0:11:37.400 --> 0:11:42.840 the camera guy. Now during the flash mob photos session, 0:11:44.520 --> 0:11:46.680 I do what I do most of the time. I 0:11:46.760 --> 0:11:49.640 do not like the way I look in glasses. I 0:11:49.760 --> 0:11:54.200 don't I need them because my parents gave me some 0:11:54.360 --> 0:11:57.680 very bad eyes, which you know I'm fine with. I 0:11:57.760 --> 0:11:59.600 love them to death, but they did not give me 0:11:59.640 --> 0:12:03.160 the good jeans on the eyes. So I I have bifocals, 0:12:03.200 --> 0:12:07.240 and I take my bifocals off, and I usually put 0:12:07.280 --> 0:12:10.559 them either on my my shirt or I'll put them 0:12:10.800 --> 0:12:13.840 in my pocket and uh. In this case, I put 0:12:13.920 --> 0:12:19.600 the eyeglasses in my pocket. It's my right pocket. In 0:12:19.720 --> 0:12:22.480 my right pocket, I had a set of car keys. 0:12:23.160 --> 0:12:25.600 So I took the picture. Of the picture came out okay, fine, 0:12:26.080 --> 0:12:28.960 and then I had to rush back to the chair 0:12:29.160 --> 0:12:31.920 because it was about time to talk. The on air 0:12:32.000 --> 0:12:34.839 light was coming on, so no time for grab bass. 0:12:34.960 --> 0:12:38.000 So I sat down real fast, and then I reached 0:12:38.040 --> 0:12:40.600 into my pocket to get the glasses out to put 0:12:40.600 --> 0:12:44.800 them back on so I could read some comments from 0:12:44.800 --> 0:12:47.960 you on Twitter and also the screen the call screener 0:12:48.000 --> 0:12:51.120 that we had. So I reached into my my right 0:12:51.160 --> 0:12:54.600 pocket with my right hand. I'm right handed, and much 0:12:54.640 --> 0:13:00.720 to my surprise, the glasses come out and there's there's 0:13:00.800 --> 0:13:05.000 a there's two different parts of the glasses. I now 0:13:05.040 --> 0:13:08.000 have a matching set, the right part and the left part. 0:13:08.080 --> 0:13:12.760 I have Jack and Jill his and hers classes, which 0:13:12.760 --> 0:13:16.640 would not have been a problem if that was the 0:13:16.640 --> 0:13:19.240 way they were supposed to be right. It wouldn't have 0:13:19.280 --> 0:13:21.800 been an issue if I did not have another couple 0:13:21.840 --> 0:13:25.680 of segments of radio to do and I had to 0:13:25.720 --> 0:13:28.120 finish the show, and as they say in show businesses, 0:13:28.160 --> 0:13:31.880 show must go on. My vision clearly is not that great. 0:13:31.960 --> 0:13:37.040 It's okay from a distance. My reading is not good. 0:13:37.080 --> 0:13:39.720 I had a website for years, Ben mallary dot com 0:13:40.800 --> 0:13:44.480 and it it did not go you know, it went well, actually, 0:13:44.480 --> 0:13:46.880 but I it didn't go well. My vision didn't go well. 0:13:47.200 --> 0:13:50.079 So I've I've had two jobs that have left up. 0:13:50.480 --> 0:13:52.400 You know, I don't have a real real job, like 0:13:52.480 --> 0:13:56.080 you know, if you work as a contractor or a 0:13:56.120 --> 0:14:01.520 garbage person or something construction, some thing with physical activity, 0:14:01.559 --> 0:14:04.160 that's like a real job. You're gonna factory, right, You're you're, 0:14:04.520 --> 0:14:06.840 you're more You've got more of a cheesemo than me. 0:14:07.880 --> 0:14:10.920 But I do have the side effects of radio and 0:14:11.120 --> 0:14:14.680 the internet job that I had is my hearing is 0:14:14.840 --> 0:14:19.760 terrible because of the radio the headphones, and the vision 0:14:20.640 --> 0:14:24.840 is pretty shitty. And that is a byproduct of my 0:14:24.960 --> 0:14:28.800 parents inheriting some bad vision. They both wore glasses, but 0:14:28.920 --> 0:14:31.800 also just being in front of computers, just being in 0:14:31.840 --> 0:14:35.320 front of computers and monitors and things many hours a 0:14:35.400 --> 0:14:37.440 day to get ready to do the show, to do 0:14:37.520 --> 0:14:39.760 the show and all that stuff. So anyway, getting back 0:14:39.800 --> 0:14:43.000 to the story, So I've now broken my glasses. I've 0:14:43.040 --> 0:14:47.240 got to finish the show. That was only the start 0:14:48.000 --> 0:14:50.680 of my problem, and I didn't realize at the time, 0:14:51.520 --> 0:14:54.000 but my vision, as I said, not that great. I 0:14:54.040 --> 0:14:57.440 really need the glasses to drive right, So I have 0:14:57.480 --> 0:15:00.120 to have the glasses. Well, I was in studio, have 0:15:00.160 --> 0:15:04.280 a long drive home. I moved very far away from 0:15:04.480 --> 0:15:09.120 the studios, the main studios in Sherman Oaks in southern California, 0:15:09.160 --> 0:15:13.640 on the corner of Sepulvida Inventura and the beautiful San 0:15:13.680 --> 0:15:16.600 Fernando Valley. So I moved very far away. And that's 0:15:16.600 --> 0:15:18.160 one of the reasons I don't come in that often 0:15:18.160 --> 0:15:21.160 because I'm not close to the studio and Los Angeles 0:15:21.160 --> 0:15:25.640 traffic even working my shift is terrible, at least half 0:15:25.720 --> 0:15:29.280 of it's terrible. So I'm like, what am I gonna do. 0:15:29.360 --> 0:15:32.040 I can't drive home without the glasses. I guess I could, 0:15:32.160 --> 0:15:35.600 but that's a little bit of risky. As Bruce Arian says, 0:15:35.640 --> 0:15:38.800 no risk it, no biscuit. So I'm talking to Roberto. 0:15:38.840 --> 0:15:41.080 I'm like, hey, Roberto, look what happened. And I pull 0:15:41.160 --> 0:15:43.840 out the glasses, the half the right and the left 0:15:43.840 --> 0:15:45.320 half of my glass. I throw him down on the 0:15:45.360 --> 0:15:48.120 table right in front of Roberto. Roberto looks at him 0:15:48.160 --> 0:15:51.080 and he smiles. He's always smiling, Roberto, and he says, 0:15:51.120 --> 0:15:53.800 you gotta go, curt Rambis. You gotta go, curt Rambis 0:15:53.840 --> 0:15:56.840 nineteen eighties, n b A. And I said, you know what, 0:15:57.000 --> 0:15:59.880 You're damn right, I gotta do that. And so that's 0:16:00.000 --> 0:16:02.800 exactly what I did. And then I went into the 0:16:03.360 --> 0:16:09.880 newsroom the update studio where Eddie works, and I'm chatting 0:16:09.880 --> 0:16:14.320 with Eddie, catching up on life and whatnot. And so 0:16:14.520 --> 0:16:20.920 Eddie then helped me and he held the glasses together. 0:16:22.080 --> 0:16:27.680 I then took Scotch tape and proceeded to scotch tape, 0:16:28.760 --> 0:16:34.120 said glasses together right in the middle, and I put 0:16:34.160 --> 0:16:37.520 them on and went out to my car. The it's 0:16:37.520 --> 0:16:41.600 really my Halloween costume. Like all all I was missing 0:16:41.720 --> 0:16:45.520 was the pocket protector and I had a full point 0:16:45.640 --> 0:16:52.240 dexter look instant nerd kit mill think Mill House from 0:16:52.240 --> 0:16:58.840 The Simpsons, Dwight in the office. The it's pat movies, Napoleon, 0:16:58.960 --> 0:17:05.879 Dynamite and of those nerd emoji. So anyway, I do 0:17:05.960 --> 0:17:08.480 have a backup play a pair of glasses. I was 0:17:08.520 --> 0:17:11.680 able to get those, but it is off to Costco. 0:17:11.840 --> 0:17:18.080 We go for a new pair of bifocals. Get out 0:17:18.160 --> 0:17:21.399 the credit card, Grandma. These things aren't cheap. These are 0:17:21.400 --> 0:17:27.959 prescription glasses. Holy Moses, that's gonna be a pricey one. Alright, 0:17:28.359 --> 0:17:33.720 moving on, it is a down hill race. What is 0:17:33.760 --> 0:17:37.280 this all about? Well again, back at the Mothership this week, 0:17:37.600 --> 0:17:40.359 couple of live shows. We'll have a couple of more shows. 0:17:41.119 --> 0:17:43.639 The upcoming week. I'll be at the National League Championship 0:17:43.720 --> 0:17:45.959 Series when it shifts back to Los Angeles. I'm very 0:17:45.960 --> 0:17:49.360 excited about that. I love playoff baseball. There's an energy 0:17:49.440 --> 0:17:51.720 in the air and it's a lot of fun. So 0:17:51.920 --> 0:17:54.160 this past week I was covering the Dodger Giant sears. 0:17:54.200 --> 0:17:56.840 Goodwin by the Dodgers, great call by the home plate umpire. 0:17:56.880 --> 0:17:58.720 By the way, again, I just want to say that 0:17:58.800 --> 0:18:03.080 on the podcast in case you missed the radio program, 0:18:03.359 --> 0:18:06.880 if you somehow we're not able to tune in. Tremendous 0:18:07.040 --> 0:18:11.120 job by the umpire in the ninth inning. What a call. 0:18:11.520 --> 0:18:15.480 What a call My favorite umpire, Gave Morales, and this 0:18:15.920 --> 0:18:18.639 led us to to remind you there is no official 0:18:18.640 --> 0:18:23.280 definition of a swing. Uh, there is no official definition 0:18:23.400 --> 0:18:25.919 of a swing. The words swing appears in the Official 0:18:25.920 --> 0:18:29.679 Baseball Rules twenty one times, fifteen times, it's in text, 0:18:29.760 --> 0:18:33.600 six times, it's in the index. None of those appearances 0:18:33.640 --> 0:18:37.600 in the Official Baseball rule Book include the definition of 0:18:37.600 --> 0:18:40.720 a swing. It is a judgment call. And in the 0:18:40.800 --> 0:18:44.680 judgment of Gave Morales, that was a good swing by 0:18:44.680 --> 0:18:47.600 Wilma Flores of the Giants against Max Scherzer to end 0:18:47.640 --> 0:18:52.720 the game. And I agree, I agree, good job by you, 0:18:53.000 --> 0:18:57.760 Mr Morales, solid umpire. Anyway, Yeah, I'm getting side checked here. 0:18:57.800 --> 0:18:59.760 Bad job by me. So let me tell you the backstory. 0:18:59.760 --> 0:19:01.639 So I go to the Dodger Giants games in l 0:19:01.680 --> 0:19:06.760 A and even in person, and it's you know, much 0:19:06.840 --> 0:19:11.000 closer to get to the Sherman Oaks studios than the 0:19:11.040 --> 0:19:14.639 Mallard Mansion home studio in the North Wood. So I 0:19:14.720 --> 0:19:16.680 hide tail it out of the ballpark. I have to 0:19:16.760 --> 0:19:19.439 leave right at the final out of the game. I 0:19:19.520 --> 0:19:21.959 leave as late as possible. Sometimes when the game goes long, 0:19:22.000 --> 0:19:25.359 I have to leave early. So I run down the hill. 0:19:25.720 --> 0:19:29.520 Dodger Stadium is built in a very hilly area there, 0:19:29.600 --> 0:19:34.199 right overlooking the skyline of downtown l A. So I 0:19:34.640 --> 0:19:37.320 run down the ball game ends, I run down to 0:19:37.720 --> 0:19:42.040 Lot fourteen. That's usually why park, not always, not always. 0:19:42.680 --> 0:19:45.880 We don't believe in momentum on the show, we don't 0:19:45.880 --> 0:19:50.360 believe there is momentum. But in the foot race downhill 0:19:50.400 --> 0:19:54.920 that does exist. And so I'm running out of Dodger Stadium, 0:19:55.040 --> 0:19:58.400 off the reserve level and sprinting as far as I 0:19:58.440 --> 0:20:00.760 can down the hill. And so if you're one of 0:20:00.760 --> 0:20:04.280 our listeners in Cali, in so Cal, you likely know 0:20:04.359 --> 0:20:08.680 the area. I park real close to the Los Angeles 0:20:08.760 --> 0:20:12.680 Fire Department Training Center. It's it's some more. It's named 0:20:12.680 --> 0:20:14.800 after somebod I forget who was named after. But that 0:20:14.880 --> 0:20:19.200 building used to be a Naval and Marine Reserve center. 0:20:20.040 --> 0:20:24.720 It's actually a California Historic Landmark. And they filmed, much 0:20:24.760 --> 0:20:26.560 like everything else in l A. They filmed a bunch 0:20:26.600 --> 0:20:29.439 of TV shows and movies over the years that have 0:20:29.560 --> 0:20:33.760 been filmed there. And what I like about that, You know, 0:20:33.960 --> 0:20:37.439 it's a good reminder because there's a piece of the 0:20:37.440 --> 0:20:43.080 World Trade Center South Tower that is at the Los 0:20:43.080 --> 0:20:46.520 Angeles Fire Department Training Center right near Dodger Stadium there, 0:20:47.359 --> 0:20:50.920 and it's a tribute to all of those firefighters. Was 0:20:51.200 --> 0:20:54.919 three firefighters then close to three fifty that died on 0:20:55.000 --> 0:21:00.640 September eleven, which it's crazy that it's been been twenty years. 0:21:00.680 --> 0:21:03.800 But so that that that part kind of knew that, 0:21:04.160 --> 0:21:07.080 and l A sent a bunch of firefighters to help 0:21:07.080 --> 0:21:09.800 out their brothers and sisters in New York. And so 0:21:09.920 --> 0:21:12.440 the people in New York as a gift, sent back 0:21:12.520 --> 0:21:14.800 a piece of the World Trade Center as a memorial. 0:21:14.840 --> 0:21:18.000 So it's kind of cool and it's hidden and all that. Anyway, 0:21:18.200 --> 0:21:20.760 again I'm getting sidetracked. I apologize. It's a podcast, that's 0:21:20.800 --> 0:21:23.000 what this is for. So anyway, that's why I park 0:21:23.080 --> 0:21:25.639 and fun time catching up with a bunch of old friends, 0:21:25.680 --> 0:21:27.359 people I hadn't seen a long time, hadn't been to 0:21:27.400 --> 0:21:29.960 a game, you know, in a while, prior to that 0:21:30.040 --> 0:21:33.399 Dodger Cardinal game that I had gone to. So I 0:21:33.480 --> 0:21:37.760 had been on the Dodger beat from the mid to 0:21:37.880 --> 0:21:41.960 early nineties to the mid two thousands and then I 0:21:42.040 --> 0:21:44.639 go sporadically. But I've been going to games for a 0:21:44.680 --> 0:21:47.040 gazillion years, and I know a lot of the people 0:21:47.119 --> 0:21:49.240 worked behind the people work behind the scenes, but there's 0:21:49.280 --> 0:21:52.480 so many new faces. There's only a handful of people 0:21:52.680 --> 0:21:56.199 that I know really well. There's other people that I 0:21:56.200 --> 0:21:58.000 know a little bit. And I'm not the most social guy. 0:21:58.000 --> 0:22:01.800 I'm an introvert, but just crazy how fast time goes by. 0:22:01.840 --> 0:22:04.320 I was standing right in front of the Dodger dugout 0:22:04.320 --> 0:22:06.800 with a buddy of mine who's worked for the team 0:22:06.880 --> 0:22:10.879 since the nineteen seventies, and he looked out at the 0:22:10.920 --> 0:22:13.359 outfield and I looked at at the outfield, and we 0:22:13.440 --> 0:22:19.560 had sensory overload from all of the advertisements. And I'm 0:22:19.560 --> 0:22:21.600 not against it. I'm not ripping him. I'm just saying, 0:22:21.640 --> 0:22:23.720 how different is that the people on the Dodgers, the 0:22:23.760 --> 0:22:28.320 Googenheim group, this hedge fund group, they have squeezed every 0:22:28.400 --> 0:22:33.080 dollar out of that ballpark. And when I started going 0:22:33.080 --> 0:22:36.560 out there, Peter O'Malley owned the team, the O'Malley family 0:22:37.080 --> 0:22:40.720 that had taken the team from Brooklyn, and the spot 0:22:40.800 --> 0:22:44.400 of Walter O'Malley. Peter O'Malley, who was very kind to me. 0:22:45.160 --> 0:22:49.119 Uh And anyway, they didn't have any other advertising and 0:22:49.200 --> 0:22:54.239 there was a seventies six sign for gasoline, and there 0:22:54.280 --> 0:22:57.119 were maybe one or two other ads. I think Farmer 0:22:57.200 --> 0:22:59.399 John hot Dogs, which is not now associated with the 0:22:59.440 --> 0:23:02.560 Dodgers was out there. Um and and then that was it, 0:23:02.640 --> 0:23:07.080 and now it is again sensory overload. The other thing 0:23:07.440 --> 0:23:09.920 that I know I noticed every time I go there, 0:23:10.680 --> 0:23:13.640 and I mentioned running down the hill at Dodger Stadium 0:23:13.680 --> 0:23:18.320 earlier here, but the parking lots. And that's the other thing. 0:23:18.520 --> 0:23:24.160 Fifty cent of all parking revenue goes to Frank McCord, 0:23:25.280 --> 0:23:27.679 the previous owner of the Dodgers. You're talking about one 0:23:27.680 --> 0:23:30.440 of the great deals. I put that right up there 0:23:30.480 --> 0:23:32.960 that the story. I think this deal ended. But the 0:23:33.000 --> 0:23:38.119