WEBVTT - The Fifth Hour: Gangsta's Retirement 0:00:00.720 --> 0:00:01.480 Kubbooms. 0:00:02.279 --> 0:00:05.400 If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes 0:00:05.440 --> 0:00:09.160 a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants 0:00:09.200 --> 0:00:12.480 of the Old Republic, a soul fashion of fairness. He 0:00:12.600 --> 0:00:15.520 treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the 0:00:15.640 --> 0:00:17.480 rich pill poppers in the penthouse. 0:00:18.079 --> 0:00:18.360 Wow. 0:00:18.600 --> 0:00:22.320 The Clearinghouse of Hot takes break free for something special. 0:00:22.680 --> 0:00:30.640 The Fifth Hour with Ben Mallard starts right now. 0:00:28.960 --> 0:00:32.440 In the air everywhere. 0:00:32.640 --> 0:00:36.040 The Fifth Hour with Me, Big Ben and Danny g 0:00:36.720 --> 0:00:41.120 a Happy Friday. Two years we slide on in to 0:00:41.320 --> 0:00:43.720 the last weekend here in the month of June. It's 0:00:43.760 --> 0:00:48.519 the twenty eighth day of the month. A bunch of 0:00:48.840 --> 0:00:51.560 random holidays, as always on every one of these days. 0:00:51.560 --> 0:00:55.400 But we're hanging out with you all weekend, no days off, 0:00:55.560 --> 0:00:56.319 no days off. 0:00:56.360 --> 0:00:59.080 You hear me on the Overnight. 0:00:58.520 --> 0:01:03.080 Show, the Original Recipe Pot cast Sunday through Thursday or 0:01:03.320 --> 0:01:05.920 Monday through Friday, depending on how. 0:01:06.080 --> 0:01:06.720 You look at it. 0:01:06.760 --> 0:01:10.080 But we're there every night, and Danny's on with Covino 0:01:10.120 --> 0:01:13.440 and Rich during the week and we form Voltron on 0:01:13.480 --> 0:01:16.240 the weekends here for the Fifth Hour podcast, and we're 0:01:16.280 --> 0:01:21.600 celebrating national to peak Tapioca Day to Peka the National 0:01:21.640 --> 0:01:25.360 Tapioca Day today. So I've never had anything other than 0:01:25.360 --> 0:01:28.920 tapioca pudding. What else do you eat with tapioca in it? 0:01:29.400 --> 0:01:32.679 Is there any other food related thing that tapioca is. 0:01:32.680 --> 0:01:34.720 Part of, not that I'm aware of. 0:01:35.600 --> 0:01:38.320 I've only known the pudding. I don't know anything else. 0:01:38.360 --> 0:01:41.560 I'm sure there's got to be something else. According to 0:01:42.000 --> 0:01:43.800 one story, I got a story in front of here, 0:01:43.800 --> 0:01:47.680 it says the boba, they used tapioca in boba. 0:01:48.120 --> 0:01:50.680 You a big boba guy, never had it? 0:01:51.000 --> 0:01:54.840 You've never had it? Where I live, kind of close 0:01:54.880 --> 0:01:56.720 to where I live, there's a boba. There's a couple 0:01:56.720 --> 0:02:01.360 of boba places, and there's always a line outside the 0:02:01.400 --> 0:02:02.360 boba places. 0:02:02.640 --> 0:02:06.280 Yeah, I've seen all the different mob pop boba shops 0:02:06.360 --> 0:02:09.720 open up over the years, but it never looked good 0:02:09.760 --> 0:02:11.880 to me. That just the texture of it. It looks 0:02:11.919 --> 0:02:13.840 like a I don't know, like a fish egg. 0:02:14.360 --> 0:02:18.160 Yeah, you know it does, but it I guess it 0:02:18.200 --> 0:02:21.480 depends where you're from or your background, because I never 0:02:21.560 --> 0:02:24.160 had I even know what boba was until a couple 0:02:24.160 --> 0:02:24.600 of years ago. 0:02:24.680 --> 0:02:27.720 But the tapioca, now, tapioca pudding not bad. 0:02:29.040 --> 0:02:30.800 That's a good pudding that's in the top five. 0:02:33.960 --> 0:02:34.680 You killed it. 0:02:35.840 --> 0:02:37.079 Do you have a big board of pudding? 0:02:37.560 --> 0:02:39.280 Well, it's a list. I don't. I don't think we 0:02:39.320 --> 0:02:39.880 can do list. 0:02:39.919 --> 0:02:42.440 I don't do a list. I do not believe in list. 0:02:42.520 --> 0:02:44.160 But I like a big board. I'm cool with a 0:02:44.160 --> 0:02:44.720 big board. 0:02:45.280 --> 0:02:45.440 You know. 0:02:45.440 --> 0:02:47.320 If you want to do that, that's we can certainly 0:02:47.360 --> 0:02:49.560 do that. It's a National Logistics Day today. 0:02:49.760 --> 0:02:51.639 Oh, backup on the pudding for a second though. 0:02:51.919 --> 0:02:53.440 Let's go back to tapioca pudding. 0:02:54.040 --> 0:02:58.080 Not tapioca pudding, but how about banana pudding with vanilla 0:02:58.120 --> 0:03:01.400 wafers around the outside of the bowl. My grandmother used 0:03:01.400 --> 0:03:01.720 to do that. 0:03:02.200 --> 0:03:05.000 Yeah. Yeah, that's the only time I would eat vanilla 0:03:05.040 --> 0:03:07.600 wafers was with like banana pudding. 0:03:07.760 --> 0:03:10.000 Yeah, a solid, a solid. 0:03:09.800 --> 0:03:11.120 Thing that's like old people food. 0:03:12.200 --> 0:03:14.200 Yeah, I bet it wasn't. At first it was like 0:03:14.240 --> 0:03:16.840 young people food and then became at some point it 0:03:16.880 --> 0:03:20.799 became old people food. As far as like the logistics, 0:03:20.960 --> 0:03:24.320 it's National Logistics Day and I was sold. The key 0:03:24.360 --> 0:03:28.040 to Amazon was the logistics. They they bought early on 0:03:28.200 --> 0:03:31.240 Amazon swallowed up. I forget the name of the company, 0:03:31.240 --> 0:03:34.960 but there was a company that had a logistical map 0:03:35.120 --> 0:03:38.560 they had of the United States. I remember reading about 0:03:38.560 --> 0:03:42.840 this years ago, and that was the thing that helped 0:03:42.920 --> 0:03:47.400 Amazon leapfrog into the zeitgeist of society, because it's all 0:03:47.440 --> 0:03:50.520 about the logistics. They they had to figure out how 0:03:50.520 --> 0:03:53.960 to get people's crap to them the same day or 0:03:53.960 --> 0:03:57.440 the next day, and that's what separated them from everyone else. 0:03:57.520 --> 0:03:59.360 And so it's it's not something you think about, and 0:03:59.400 --> 0:04:01.760 it's really not that exciting to talk about on a podcast, 0:04:02.000 --> 0:04:04.480 but it is National Logistics Day, so I wanted to 0:04:04.480 --> 0:04:05.120 throw that out. 0:04:05.440 --> 0:04:09.960 Did that involve them finding warehouses close enough to all 0:04:10.000 --> 0:04:11.800 the regions that they were serving? 0:04:12.280 --> 0:04:15.960 Well, it was and I remember vaguely reading the story, 0:04:16.000 --> 0:04:19.800 but they bought a company that already had a footprint 0:04:20.040 --> 0:04:23.360 on how to deliver stuff but wasn't that successful, okay, 0:04:23.480 --> 0:04:25.560 and they just kind of piggybacked off what they had 0:04:25.600 --> 0:04:30.520 already done. It's kind of like in food you see 0:04:30.560 --> 0:04:33.760 clusters of restaurants. There's a there's something in business where 0:04:33.960 --> 0:04:38.520 if you just follow, like McDonald's is very good at 0:04:38.760 --> 0:04:42.560 finding locations. They do the they do the market research, right, 0:04:42.560 --> 0:04:45.280 they figure out, you know, there's this number of houses, 0:04:45.520 --> 0:04:48.080 is this number of people that are living in a 0:04:48.120 --> 0:04:48.800 central area. 0:04:49.360 --> 0:04:51.680 Yeah, they even know how many of us are overweight. 0:04:52.320 --> 0:04:55.480 Well, everyone's overweight, but they're like they figure out, like like, okay, 0:04:55.520 --> 0:04:57.280 so this is how many people are going to eat 0:04:57.320 --> 0:04:59.599 out on average per week based on then you know 0:04:59.640 --> 0:05:02.880 the analytics, and so they put their restaurants there, and 0:05:02.920 --> 0:05:05.880 then other restaurants will copy them. 0:05:06.320 --> 0:05:09.200 So I love Raising Canes, ras Canes. 0:05:10.040 --> 0:05:12.799 I've been to Raising Canes in like four different states, 0:05:12.800 --> 0:05:15.960 and everywhere I go where there's a Raisin Canes, almost 0:05:16.040 --> 0:05:19.040 always it's right across the street or down the block 0:05:19.120 --> 0:05:22.120 from Chick fil A. Yeah, because they're piggybacking on Chick 0:05:22.120 --> 0:05:25.920 fil A, which is brilliant because you're guaranteed one day 0:05:26.000 --> 0:05:28.479 a week somebody's gonna go out for Chick fil A 0:05:28.600 --> 0:05:31.719 and they ain't gonna be open on Sunday. But Raising 0:05:31.800 --> 0:05:34.600 Canes is open. So those people that don't forget, they 0:05:34.600 --> 0:05:37.440 don't realize, they forget that that Chick fil A is 0:05:37.480 --> 0:05:39.520 not open on Sunday. They go out for Chick fil A, 0:05:39.560 --> 0:05:41.400 They're like, I want chicken, and then they end up 0:05:41.440 --> 0:05:43.360 going to Canes and maybe they like that better or 0:05:43.400 --> 0:05:44.640 they're willing to go there. 0:05:44.480 --> 0:05:45.640 And put in their rotation. 0:05:46.080 --> 0:05:47.240 It's not trigonometry. 0:05:48.400 --> 0:05:51.960 The logistics very exciting. So on this podcast we've got 0:05:52.320 --> 0:05:57.919 are those funeral potatoes kryptonite the phrase of the week, 0:05:58.360 --> 0:05:59.880 and if we have time, we'll get to some food 0:06:00.040 --> 0:06:03.600 fun but we'll begin with this. This past weekend, I 0:06:03.640 --> 0:06:06.680 set a new personal record and this will be someday 0:06:06.680 --> 0:06:09.440 in the trivial pursuit game that we have about the show. 0:06:09.920 --> 0:06:11.960 You can put this on a card and the p 0:06:12.160 --> 0:06:15.760 ones will get this right. Last weekend a record setter 0:06:16.560 --> 0:06:23.599 for farewells. It started out early on a fridayday morning. 0:06:24.800 --> 0:06:27.479 Let's go back in the hot tub time machine. I 0:06:27.760 --> 0:06:30.360 was invited. I don't know if that's the right word. 0:06:30.640 --> 0:06:35.880 My presence was requested. A friend of my wife's mother 0:06:36.120 --> 0:06:39.560 had died. She passed away and she was laid to 0:06:39.640 --> 0:06:43.240 rest last Friday. So I got up early and we 0:06:43.440 --> 0:06:46.120 I put on my church clothes because this was at 0:06:46.120 --> 0:06:48.719 a church, not my temple clothes, my church clothes. So 0:06:49.200 --> 0:06:52.640 I made the long haul to the tabernacle with the 0:06:52.680 --> 0:06:56.800 wife and it was a massive wedding. This person very 0:06:56.920 --> 0:07:00.159 loved this woman. She was big in the church and 0:07:00.200 --> 0:07:02.200 people helped a lot of families out and so it 0:07:02.240 --> 0:07:04.120 was a I didn't really know her. I had met 0:07:04.160 --> 0:07:05.560 her a couple times, I didn't really know her, but 0:07:05.680 --> 0:07:08.240 we were there. And I've been to a lot of 0:07:08.279 --> 0:07:12.040 funerals over the years. I'm not bragging about that. Just 0:07:12.240 --> 0:07:15.120 a lot of people I have been close to or 0:07:15.200 --> 0:07:16.679 loosely related to, have died. 0:07:17.200 --> 0:07:17.880 That's what happened. 0:07:17.880 --> 0:07:24.720 So this one though, Top five spread, Top five funerals spread. 0:07:24.760 --> 0:07:28.720 It was catered. They had barbecue on one side. They 0:07:28.760 --> 0:07:31.240 had Kirkland brand pizza on the other. They had a 0:07:31.280 --> 0:07:35.800 dessert table. It's like a high end wedding. They had desserts, cookies, 0:07:36.360 --> 0:07:41.520 strawberry cake because the woman who had passed away, she 0:07:41.640 --> 0:07:44.680 loved strawberry cake. So they had that and pretty much 0:07:44.680 --> 0:07:46.520 all their favorite foods, which I thought was really cool. 0:07:47.040 --> 0:07:49.080 You know, not that you want to plan your own funeral, 0:07:49.400 --> 0:07:51.840 but that's kind of cool, right, You have your foods 0:07:51.840 --> 0:07:54.240 that you liked in your life and you can share 0:07:54.280 --> 0:07:55.480 that with other people and all that. 0:07:55.600 --> 0:07:57.360 Yeah, you'd have chicken fingers and ranch. 0:07:57.600 --> 0:08:00.440 I'd have raising canes, chicken fingers, no rain inch. That's 0:08:00.480 --> 0:08:03.440 a lie. But I've been, as you know, Danny, a 0:08:03.480 --> 0:08:06.480 prolific freeloader, not as much anymore since COVID, I pretty 0:08:06.520 --> 0:08:09.840 much stopped going regularly to games because I just didn't 0:08:09.840 --> 0:08:13.600 want to deal with the bullshit. But over the years, 0:08:13.680 --> 0:08:15.400 I spent most of my adult life up until a 0:08:15.400 --> 0:08:18.040 few years ago freeloading at sporting events. And I gotta 0:08:18.080 --> 0:08:21.679 tell you, this was as good as any freeloading event 0:08:21.760 --> 0:08:23.400 I had been. Not as good as the Stanley Cup 0:08:23.440 --> 0:08:25.560 Final when the Kings were in it a couple times. 0:08:25.560 --> 0:08:28.680 That was the greatest spread that you can possibly have. 0:08:29.560 --> 0:08:33.560 But were there, and as a good mitzvah of the day, 0:08:33.600 --> 0:08:34.960 are those funeral potatoes? 0:08:35.000 --> 0:08:35.080 No? 0:08:36.240 --> 0:08:38.480 But I did put on my Benny the Baker cap 0:08:39.400 --> 0:08:44.720 as I am Benny Crocker, and I made chocolate chip 0:08:45.160 --> 0:08:51.520 walnut cookies because the friend of my wife likes chocolate 0:08:51.559 --> 0:08:55.080 chip walnut cookies. So I said, okay, So no, no 0:08:55.360 --> 0:08:59.199 funeral potatoes were harmed. But the word on the street, 0:08:59.559 --> 0:09:02.000 I was right happy about this. It made my head swell, 0:09:02.280 --> 0:09:04.640 was that the people and I was only at the 0:09:05.040 --> 0:09:07.880 spread for a little bit at the post game for 0:09:07.920 --> 0:09:10.400 the funeral, but the cookies were a hit and that 0:09:10.520 --> 0:09:12.800 made me happy. That made me feel pretty good, like 0:09:12.840 --> 0:09:15.440 that people love them. But I gotta say this one. 0:09:15.840 --> 0:09:19.080 It's always odd when you go to a funeral, like 0:09:19.480 --> 0:09:24.559 who's there, what they're wearing, the whole thing, and. 0:09:23.400 --> 0:09:25.200 Not that I go to these things the people watch. 0:09:25.280 --> 0:09:27.920 But I did love this one because the woman that 0:09:28.040 --> 0:09:34.240 had passed away the mother of my wife's friend. She 0:09:34.320 --> 0:09:37.200 had grown up in East LA back in the day, right, 0:09:37.760 --> 0:09:40.520 So she went to Hamilton High School, and she was 0:09:40.520 --> 0:09:44.040 from LA and it was kind of a rougher part 0:09:44.080 --> 0:09:46.560 of town back in the day, and so some of 0:09:46.559 --> 0:09:49.319 the people that she knew from her from her younger 0:09:49.400 --> 0:09:54.400 days were there and I wanted to take a picture, 0:09:54.400 --> 0:09:56.199 but it would have been inappropriate, Danny, so just take 0:09:56.240 --> 0:09:58.640 my word for this. I didn't take any photos, but 0:09:59.320 --> 0:10:01.719 I still in my head in that cartoon bubble had 0:10:01.840 --> 0:10:04.320 the image of these guys. Let me try to describe 0:10:04.320 --> 0:10:07.240 them to you, because I thought this was just wonderful. 0:10:07.840 --> 0:10:11.520 You had these guys who clearly were gangsters back in 0:10:11.559 --> 0:10:14.240 the day, right, They were keeping it real in their twenties, 0:10:14.760 --> 0:10:17.960 you know, teenagers. So there's they're now older gentlemen. They're 0:10:17.960 --> 0:10:20.200 in their sixties now, right, So they're old kind of 0:10:20.200 --> 0:10:23.400 gangster guys. They're now in their sixties and they were 0:10:23.520 --> 0:10:26.839 dressed like they were back in East LA. Maybe they 0:10:26.840 --> 0:10:29.800 still live there, I don't know. So they're wearing the 0:10:29.880 --> 0:10:36.480 outfit and they're driving around mobility scooters wearing those. It 0:10:36.640 --> 0:10:40.280 was just I mean, it was amazing, Danny. I God 0:10:40.320 --> 0:10:43.560 love them. I mean it was so great that they're 0:10:43.720 --> 0:10:46.079 dressed like they were back, you know, back in their 0:10:46.080 --> 0:10:49.439 homeboy days. And uh, and they're driving around a billion scooters. 0:10:49.440 --> 0:10:50.960 I thought it was just it was just amazing. 0:10:50.960 --> 0:10:51.120 You know. 0:10:51.160 --> 0:10:54.000 It's like, yeah, they're getting older, their bodies are falling apart, 0:10:54.040 --> 0:10:56.600 but you know, they're still keeping it real. They're still 0:10:56.679 --> 0:10:59.600 keeping it real, Danny. And that's kind of important, right, 0:10:59.640 --> 0:11:01.480 you know, Yeah, to keep it really, gotta keep to 0:11:01.559 --> 0:11:04.360 your roots. And it was just amazing. 0:11:04.440 --> 0:11:07.160 It's paradise, It's gangster's retirement. 0:11:07.760 --> 0:11:09.240 Wouldn't that be a great movie, Danny? 0:11:09.360 --> 0:11:11.480 You should write that, Like, you know, all those remember 0:11:11.480 --> 0:11:14.120 those old guy bank robber movies. They wanted to make 0:11:14.240 --> 0:11:15.600 shod pigeons out of them. 0:11:16.160 --> 0:11:17.960 How about like the old gangster movies. 0:11:17.960 --> 0:11:22.040 Were these guys driving around they're complaining about the Early 0:11:22.080 --> 0:11:26.880 Birds special or whatever they're they're grumbling about what's of 0:11:26.920 --> 0:11:28.920 course they don't really make any movies anymore that are 0:11:28.920 --> 0:11:30.959 new in Hollywood, but that would be that would be 0:11:31.000 --> 0:11:32.960 a pretty funny movie. I would pay money to see 0:11:32.960 --> 0:11:35.800 that movie. I'd have to have popcorn, but but it 0:11:35.880 --> 0:11:39.480 was pretty good. So following the funeral, more on my 0:11:39.600 --> 0:11:43.400 record setting weekend. Following the service, Uh, got back. I 0:11:43.600 --> 0:11:46.319 wasn't there long for the postgames. Probably should have stayed longer. 0:11:46.679 --> 0:11:49.840 Didn't do that, got some food, got back in the 0:11:49.840 --> 0:11:54.559 mallomobile with my wife and my sister in law, and 0:11:54.640 --> 0:11:57.200 we headed as close as we could get to the 0:11:57.320 --> 0:12:01.600 surface of the sun. And literally, by the way, I'm 0:12:01.640 --> 0:12:04.120 not making this up, we decided to spend the weekend 0:12:04.240 --> 0:12:06.600 in the hottest spot we could get to within reasonable 0:12:06.679 --> 0:12:10.520 driving distance, Palm Desert slash Palm Springs. 0:12:11.280 --> 0:12:14.680 And that's where we landed. The eagle had landed. 0:12:14.720 --> 0:12:19.160 It was my wife's birthday weekend, part one. And I 0:12:19.160 --> 0:12:21.160 think your wife does the same thing, Danny. Right, It's 0:12:21.160 --> 0:12:23.640 like a birthday month. It's a whole series of events. 0:12:23.679 --> 0:12:26.800 It's a festival, it's like a carnival. Yes, it's my 0:12:26.960 --> 0:12:32.199 birthday month exactly, like well my birthday, I'm like, okay, 0:12:32.280 --> 0:12:34.079 let's get it over with and we'll be on but. 0:12:34.520 --> 0:12:36.320 Like, I want mine to be a birthday hour. 0:12:36.880 --> 0:12:38.640 Yeah, let's just do one hour. Maybe I'll have a 0:12:38.640 --> 0:12:41.640 slice of cake and we're good. But it's a carnival 0:12:42.160 --> 0:12:46.720 birthday week, birthday month. So Part one was a friends weekend, 0:12:47.440 --> 0:12:52.520 Friends and family weekend at a resort in Palm Desert 0:12:52.880 --> 0:12:57.920 for the weekend under the sun and in the pool. Now, 0:12:58.559 --> 0:13:02.120 major kudo credit points to the wife. She booked a 0:13:02.520 --> 0:13:05.320 stay at a resort because pretty much every hotel I 0:13:05.320 --> 0:13:08.480 feel like in Palm Springs is a resort. But she 0:13:08.600 --> 0:13:12.080 picked this one because she knew what I like and 0:13:12.120 --> 0:13:16.440 I appreciate that. And of course the designated driver. But 0:13:17.360 --> 0:13:21.000 lazy river. The resort had a lazy river. I love 0:13:21.080 --> 0:13:23.800 lazy rivers. My favorite thing in the summer is the 0:13:23.880 --> 0:13:26.760 lazy river. And so I could she knew. I was like, hey, listen, 0:13:27.280 --> 0:13:29.680 I'm lazy. I can go. I can go sit on 0:13:29.720 --> 0:13:32.240 the inner tube, lay on the inner tube and float 0:13:32.280 --> 0:13:39.199 around and cook like I'm in a rotisserie oven, rotating 0:13:39.240 --> 0:13:45.240 around under the sun. And as the nocturnal kernel of 0:13:45.280 --> 0:13:49.760 the overnight sports talk radio WARS, I don't have a 0:13:49.760 --> 0:13:54.359 lot of flaws Row, but one of them My kryptonite, 0:13:54.400 --> 0:13:59.640 if you will, is when I end up during the 0:13:59.760 --> 0:14:04.880 day in the great outdoors in the summer, does not 0:14:04.920 --> 0:14:08.400 go well, does not go Did you see the video 0:14:08.800 --> 0:14:11.520 I think it was from Kuwait this week of the 0:14:11.559 --> 0:14:15.280 traffic cones that melted. It got to one hundred and 0:14:15.320 --> 0:14:19.360 twenty two degrees fahrenheit in I think it's like fifth 0:14:19.440 --> 0:14:21.480 over fifty degrees celsius. 0:14:21.560 --> 0:14:24.240 In Kuwait and the traffic cones literally melted. 0:14:25.040 --> 0:14:26.840 That's me. That's me. 0:14:27.840 --> 0:14:29.640 If I'm out in the sun, I'm I'm like a 0:14:29.760 --> 0:14:33.120 vampire around the sun. It doesn't go well. In fact, 0:14:33.280 --> 0:14:34.560 to prove how hot it was, it didn't get to 0:14:34.600 --> 0:14:36.520 one hundred and twenty two. But when I pulled up 0:14:36.560 --> 0:14:38.960 to the hotel after the long drive from La La 0:14:39.040 --> 0:14:43.320 Land and from the funeral, got to the hotel Palm Desert, 0:14:43.400 --> 0:14:49.200 dashboard on the malamobile ran one hundred and sixteen oh degrees. 0:14:49.240 --> 0:14:52.000 One hundred and sixteen degrees. 0:14:52.240 --> 0:14:55.640 Might be a little face melting wowsers. 0:14:55.640 --> 0:14:59.480 And as my grandfather would say, not for whims, not 0:15:00.440 --> 0:15:02.720 for whims at all. 0:15:03.000 --> 0:15:05.360 That's the kind of heat where you see mirages down 0:15:05.360 --> 0:15:05.760 the road. 0:15:06.800 --> 0:15:10.000 Yeah, it's the kind of heat where you question a 0:15:10.040 --> 0:15:13.240 little bit everything. Now it is a dry heat, and 0:15:13.280 --> 0:15:16.880 I will before our friends listening in the south below 0:15:16.920 --> 0:15:19.160 the Mason Dixon line and those in the Midwest that 0:15:19.240 --> 0:15:22.640 have to deal with the dreaded humidity. I do agree 0:15:23.040 --> 0:15:29.400 with the popular opinion Danny that humidity is worse. 0:15:30.760 --> 0:15:33.440 Than the dry heat. Although when you get to one 0:15:33.520 --> 0:15:34.760 hundred and sixteen. 0:15:34.400 --> 0:15:37.600 It's it's neck and neck. It's it's a horse race 0:15:37.680 --> 0:15:39.040 down the stretch, neck and neck. 0:15:39.200 --> 0:15:42.800 The thing about the dry heat, you feel claustrophobic because 0:15:42.800 --> 0:15:44.760 you get to a point where you can't breathe. 0:15:45.360 --> 0:15:46.880 Yeah, it's a mess. 0:15:47.640 --> 0:15:50.120 And the other the other thing two about the when 0:15:50.160 --> 0:15:52.760 you get to that humidity. A humidity is God's moisturizer. 0:15:52.840 --> 0:15:54.440 So if you like, you know, the moistury, and I 0:15:54.440 --> 0:15:56.200 feel like when I'm in the humidity, it's like I'm 0:15:56.200 --> 0:15:57.600 being in the steam room when I go to the gym, 0:15:57.600 --> 0:15:58.960 and I like going to the steam room and John, 0:15:59.040 --> 0:15:59.440 you know, hanging out. 0:15:59.480 --> 0:15:59.600 Yah. 0:15:59.680 --> 0:16:01.280 Yeah, that's that's what I mean. I think at least 0:16:01.280 --> 0:16:03.920 I can breathe a little bit in the humid idiot 0:16:04.040 --> 0:16:07.000 feels gross and sticky, but I can breathe a little better. 0:16:07.480 --> 0:16:12.000 Yeah, it's a little bit. So that was my my Friday. 0:16:12.000 --> 0:16:14.840 We'll circle back to this coming up a little bit late. 0:16:14.840 --> 0:16:17.120 Maybe we'll talk more about it on tomorrow's podcast. 0:16:17.200 --> 0:16:18.680 That's a professional radio teas. 0:16:19.960 --> 0:16:22.520 This is not radio, it's a podcast. We're much cooler. 0:16:23.000 --> 0:16:25.280 They don't make movies about radio people anymore, Danny. They 0:16:25.320 --> 0:16:28.200 make movies about podcasters. I feel the only reason I 0:16:28.240 --> 0:16:30.360 do this podcast is because people can say, oh, you're 0:16:30.360 --> 0:16:32.840 a podcaster, you're a content creator. 0:16:33.120 --> 0:16:33.760 Way to go. 0:16:34.440 --> 0:16:38.440 Or is your guy Danny your coach and congratulations big 0:16:38.480 --> 0:16:41.080 week for the Lakers. They're not sucking up to Lebron 0:16:41.120 --> 0:16:44.560 at all, drafting his kid and hiring his podcast or 0:16:44.880 --> 0:16:45.480 co host. 0:16:45.760 --> 0:16:48.440 Yeah what is that? It's almost like your Clippers having 0:16:48.560 --> 0:16:52.520 their son and their coach on the same Oh. 0:16:51.600 --> 0:16:55.880 Oh my god, I guess we're in the engagement farming industry. 0:16:56.120 --> 0:16:59.360 Yeah yeah, did it really bother you when he dropped 0:16:59.360 --> 0:17:00.480 a couple of F bombs? 0:17:01.880 --> 0:17:05.280 Here's my issue with JJ Reddick, former Clipper. By the way, 0:17:05.440 --> 0:17:07.440 I hated him with the Clippers. He missed every big shot. 0:17:07.560 --> 0:17:09.719 People talk about Doc Rivers being the reason the Clippers 0:17:09.760 --> 0:17:12.040 didn't win in the Lob City years. I would argue 0:17:12.119 --> 0:17:15.359 JJ Reddick in the fourth quarter of close games, wide 0:17:15.359 --> 0:17:19.200 open three point shots. Clank, get me clank. That's JJ 0:17:19.359 --> 0:17:22.000 Reddick in a big spot, just saying. 0:17:21.960 --> 0:17:25.000 Chris Paul, DeAndre, Jordan, Blake Griffin, they had nothing to 0:17:25.040 --> 0:17:25.800 do with those l's. 0:17:25.880 --> 0:17:28.920 Yeah, here's the issue with JJ Reddick and Danny. Even 0:17:28.960 --> 0:17:32.040 though you're a fan of the Devil's team there, I 0:17:32.119 --> 0:17:34.879 don't think you're someone You're kind of like me in 0:17:34.880 --> 0:17:41.520 this regard. I am predisposed to despising smugness conceited people. 0:17:41.880 --> 0:17:44.240 But the main issue with that, when your smug is 0:17:44.280 --> 0:17:47.879 talking down to people like they're below you, that is 0:17:48.080 --> 0:17:51.119 JJ Reddick. That is the epitome of JJ Reddick. And 0:17:51.200 --> 0:17:53.119 I just find that horrific. 0:17:53.240 --> 0:17:56.280 But I did like when he smacked down the other 0:17:56.359 --> 0:18:00.359 commentators that were on ESPN panels with him. That was 0:18:00.400 --> 0:18:03.600 fun to watch. Now him as the coach acting like that, 0:18:04.080 --> 0:18:05.160 he needs to lighten up. 0:18:06.160 --> 0:18:08.359 I just don't like the guy. I just don't like them. 0:18:08.560 --> 0:18:11.320 See, I would rather have a fun coach like Phil 0:18:11.440 --> 0:18:15.000 Jackson was a serious guy, but he also was what's 0:18:15.040 --> 0:18:16.720 the word jovial when he needed to be. 0:18:17.800 --> 0:18:21.720 Yeah, like Phil, and I was around him, God forbid, 0:18:21.760 --> 0:18:23.199 I was forced to be out there when he was 0:18:23.240 --> 0:18:25.000 coaching the Lakers and Kobe and Shack and that. And 0:18:25.000 --> 0:18:28.360 I love Phil because Phil he would you would ask 0:18:28.440 --> 0:18:30.640 him a question, he would actually like think about the answer, 0:18:30.920 --> 0:18:33.880 like he didn't just give you a boilerplate stock answer. 0:18:34.200 --> 0:18:38.200 He would actually think about what you asked him and 0:18:38.440 --> 0:18:42.359 like it felt legitimate. But you know, JJ Reddick his 0:18:42.560 --> 0:18:45.280 claim to fame and when he was doing engagement farming, 0:18:45.400 --> 0:18:49.400 JJ Reddick was he he spit Loogi's at every old 0:18:49.440 --> 0:18:54.360 school player. Remember the Bob Coozy, the great Bob Coozy, 0:18:55.040 --> 0:18:58.320 old fragile Bob Coosey, barely hanging on. He's like one 0:18:58.320 --> 0:19:01.639 of the last players from the nineteen sixties in that 0:19:01.760 --> 0:19:05.280 era of the NBA. And JJ Riddis said, oh yeah, 0:19:05.400 --> 0:19:08.040 we played plumbers and fireman or whatever it was. 0:19:08.240 --> 0:19:10.800 We'll look at it this way because we are content 0:19:11.000 --> 0:19:16.240 creators and we're farming engagement on this podcast. It's way 0:19:16.280 --> 0:19:18.480 better to have this dude, even if he's kind of 0:19:18.480 --> 0:19:21.480 a douche and he smug in there, then I don't 0:19:21.480 --> 0:19:24.440 know who would have been a boring hire, that dude 0:19:24.480 --> 0:19:28.840 that just got fired from the Pistons. N Y Williams 0:19:29.000 --> 0:19:33.320 Monty Williams exactly. That would have been so boring, boring. 0:19:34.200 --> 0:19:36.760 At least we have JJ Reddick to talk about. 0:19:36.800 --> 0:19:39.760 Now, all right, now, defend Bronnie James. Go ahead, I'll wait. 0:19:40.600 --> 0:19:43.679 No, there is there is no there is no defense. 0:19:43.720 --> 0:19:46.240 I think the best way I saw it, a listener 0:19:46.240 --> 0:19:49.679 tweeted saying that would be like if Ken Griffy Junior 0:19:50.400 --> 0:19:53.639 was added to squad where his dad Senior was on 0:19:53.720 --> 0:19:57.640 the team, but he was batting one twenty five and 0:19:57.880 --> 0:20:00.399 you know, was not a very good play at all. 0:20:00.440 --> 0:20:03.520 Wouldn't even make the double A team. The one thing 0:20:03.560 --> 0:20:06.160 I'll say about Brownie, that's a little bit of an unknown. 0:20:06.600 --> 0:20:09.600 He did almost die on the court. Some people kind 0:20:09.600 --> 0:20:11.959 of forget about that. I don't know if he has 0:20:12.000 --> 0:20:14.080 played at USC would have been any better had he 0:20:15.080 --> 0:20:20.400 played without that health condition. But they're throwing dad a bone, obviously, 0:20:21.000 --> 0:20:23.360 But at least they didn't screw that first pick up 0:20:23.440 --> 0:20:26.679 at seventeen. I like connect a lot. I watched a 0:20:26.680 --> 0:20:29.720 lot of Tennessee games. Why because of my friend JC, 0:20:30.320 --> 0:20:33.440 because of Clay Travis. Usually we get to laugh at Tennessee. 0:20:33.720 --> 0:20:36.919 Tennessee's actually had some good luck lately with baseball. And 0:20:36.960 --> 0:20:40.000 their basketball team wasn't half bad. So I watched a 0:20:40.040 --> 0:20:43.560 handful of Tennessee games, and that kid really stood out 0:20:43.600 --> 0:20:45.960