1 00:00:00,640 --> 00:00:05,280 Speaker 1: Ka boom. If you thought four hours a day, minutes 2 00:00:05,320 --> 00:00:09,080 Speaker 1: a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants 3 00:00:09,119 --> 00:00:12,400 Speaker 1: of the old republic, a sole fashion of fairness. He 4 00:00:12,480 --> 00:00:15,400 Speaker 1: treats crackheads in the ghetto cutter the same as the 5 00:00:15,520 --> 00:00:19,479 Speaker 1: rich pill poppers in the penthouse, to clearing house of 6 00:00:19,560 --> 00:00:23,360 Speaker 1: hot takes, break free for something special. The Fifth Hour 7 00:00:23,480 --> 00:00:30,960 Speaker 1: with Ben Maller starts right now, nine nine in the air, everywhere, 8 00:00:31,000 --> 00:00:34,120 Speaker 1: eight days a week, because a four hours a night 9 00:00:34,159 --> 00:00:38,680 Speaker 1: clearly not enough, and you have stumbled on blindly. The 10 00:00:38,880 --> 00:00:44,360 Speaker 1: Fifth Hour podcast a spinoff of the weekend weekday show. 11 00:00:44,440 --> 00:00:48,520 Speaker 1: Here on the weekends, even on a Saturday, college football Saturday. 12 00:00:48,760 --> 00:00:53,519 Speaker 1: In a rare and appropriate Saturday appearance by Mr West 13 00:00:53,560 --> 00:00:56,760 Speaker 1: of the four oh five, I can't say that a 14 00:00:56,880 --> 00:00:58,760 Speaker 1: month or two from now, but I can say it now. 15 00:00:59,560 --> 00:01:11,720 Speaker 1: David Guest in the house, he hey, why why this week? 16 00:01:11,720 --> 00:01:14,000 Speaker 1: You have not been with us on Saturday and sometime, 17 00:01:14,040 --> 00:01:18,440 Speaker 1: Guest Gun, you have a skewed the Saturday podcast. But 18 00:01:18,480 --> 00:01:20,960 Speaker 1: here you are here, you are pushing your way back 19 00:01:21,000 --> 00:01:23,480 Speaker 1: into the podcast studio. Here I am to save the 20 00:01:23,560 --> 00:01:29,320 Speaker 1: day right here that the busy time man. I got 21 00:01:29,360 --> 00:01:32,520 Speaker 1: like seven jobs and I just I think that a 22 00:01:32,600 --> 00:01:38,000 Speaker 1: round of applause is in order. I just finished my taxes, um, 23 00:01:38,120 --> 00:01:41,640 Speaker 1: so I think that you know you are paying your taxes, 24 00:01:41,720 --> 00:01:45,480 Speaker 1: and you make enough money to paying my taxes. But 25 00:01:45,480 --> 00:01:48,320 Speaker 1: I'm getting something back, which is always nice, getting some 26 00:01:48,360 --> 00:01:49,840 Speaker 1: money to return to me a little while to do 27 00:01:49,920 --> 00:01:53,120 Speaker 1: my taxes and then get some nines and W two 28 00:01:53,200 --> 00:01:56,600 Speaker 1: is back from respective employers. But do you do that? 29 00:01:57,040 --> 00:01:59,880 Speaker 1: You actually do the taxes yourself. You don't hire an outs. 30 00:02:00,040 --> 00:02:03,000 Speaker 1: I'd accountant to your taxes. You are the one who 31 00:02:03,200 --> 00:02:06,440 Speaker 1: is crunching the numbers. Is that accurate? Uh? What's a combination? 32 00:02:06,760 --> 00:02:09,240 Speaker 1: I I do a lot of the crunching of the numbers. 33 00:02:09,240 --> 00:02:12,079 Speaker 1: And the reason why is because of all the all 34 00:02:12,080 --> 00:02:16,760 Speaker 1: the income that comes from non W two providers. So 35 00:02:17,400 --> 00:02:19,280 Speaker 1: a lot of these outlets they attending and hang me, 36 00:02:19,800 --> 00:02:21,280 Speaker 1: you can write off a lot of things, or at 37 00:02:21,320 --> 00:02:23,880 Speaker 1: least some things. And so I gotta go through checklists 38 00:02:23,880 --> 00:02:29,440 Speaker 1: and I'm azations and you're used to in the old days, 39 00:02:29,720 --> 00:02:33,640 Speaker 1: Oh my god, it was wonderful when I traveled with 40 00:02:33,680 --> 00:02:35,720 Speaker 1: the Dodgers. I would go on the road, I go 41 00:02:35,760 --> 00:02:39,200 Speaker 1: into a cab and the cab driver would hand me 42 00:02:39,240 --> 00:02:42,160 Speaker 1: a stack of receipts. Now, I'm not saying that I 43 00:02:42,200 --> 00:02:44,239 Speaker 1: took advantage of this, but I do know some sports 44 00:02:44,280 --> 00:02:47,680 Speaker 1: writers that did take advantage of it on the road 45 00:02:47,919 --> 00:02:52,640 Speaker 1: and would just fill out endless taxi receipts and uh 46 00:02:52,680 --> 00:02:55,600 Speaker 1: it was, it was wonderful. Uh. Now you do, you travel, 47 00:02:55,680 --> 00:02:57,520 Speaker 1: You get paid to travel much. You do a lot 48 00:02:57,560 --> 00:02:59,960 Speaker 1: of stuff locally. Guess gun right, because I don't want 49 00:03:00,000 --> 00:03:01,720 Speaker 1: I don't want you to be like an NBA official 50 00:03:01,760 --> 00:03:05,600 Speaker 1: from back in the day or an umpire on the 51 00:03:06,120 --> 00:03:09,079 Speaker 1: plane tickets. You gotta be careful on that. No, no, 52 00:03:09,240 --> 00:03:11,600 Speaker 1: I uh yeah, I mean it's all local here. But 53 00:03:11,840 --> 00:03:13,880 Speaker 1: I do have an app. I do have a couple 54 00:03:13,880 --> 00:03:16,520 Speaker 1: of apps that I use for for logging my mileage. 55 00:03:17,120 --> 00:03:18,760 Speaker 1: I don't know if you use any of those at all, 56 00:03:18,800 --> 00:03:22,919 Speaker 1: but I use one called the mile i Q and 57 00:03:23,200 --> 00:03:27,920 Speaker 1: that's obviously for driving to and from a location. For 58 00:03:28,440 --> 00:03:30,399 Speaker 1: it itemizes it too, so you can say like, hey, 59 00:03:30,440 --> 00:03:32,600 Speaker 1: this is like for the gym, this is for personal 60 00:03:32,720 --> 00:03:35,000 Speaker 1: use like the grocery store, or it's for work. So 61 00:03:35,080 --> 00:03:37,360 Speaker 1: I I basically lay out all the places that I 62 00:03:37,400 --> 00:03:40,360 Speaker 1: work at and then um and then it logs in accordingly. 63 00:03:40,440 --> 00:03:42,920 Speaker 1: So it's pretty nice. Yeah, So what I do is 64 00:03:42,920 --> 00:03:44,480 Speaker 1: I used to do that, but now I use I 65 00:03:44,520 --> 00:03:47,400 Speaker 1: have a thing that counts my steps. So I go 66 00:03:47,480 --> 00:03:51,040 Speaker 1: out of my bedroom, I turned left. I then go 67 00:03:51,160 --> 00:03:54,480 Speaker 1: down a hallway without a without a rail, It's like Mr. 68 00:03:54,560 --> 00:03:56,760 Speaker 1: Toad's Wild Ride, and then make a right. I go 69 00:03:56,880 --> 00:03:58,720 Speaker 1: down the hall. Then I'm gont a fork in the road. 70 00:03:59,040 --> 00:04:00,960 Speaker 1: I get to the fork in the road, fork in 71 00:04:01,000 --> 00:04:03,320 Speaker 1: the hall, and then turned right and then I'm in 72 00:04:03,320 --> 00:04:06,360 Speaker 1: the broadcast studio. So I count the steps. It's roughly 73 00:04:06,920 --> 00:04:09,040 Speaker 1: on a on a bad day, if I take really 74 00:04:09,040 --> 00:04:12,280 Speaker 1: small steps, I could get up to like forty five steps. 75 00:04:12,680 --> 00:04:15,600 Speaker 1: So just going to my office there. So at the 76 00:04:15,720 --> 00:04:18,760 Speaker 1: end of the year, I do a cross benefit analysis 77 00:04:18,800 --> 00:04:22,320 Speaker 1: there on that, but I use an accountant. And the 78 00:04:22,360 --> 00:04:25,680 Speaker 1: reason that we do the Mallard family here is because 79 00:04:25,880 --> 00:04:30,680 Speaker 1: I am terrible at at math. And my parents when 80 00:04:30,680 --> 00:04:33,680 Speaker 1: I was in high school, they had the knock on 81 00:04:33,720 --> 00:04:37,320 Speaker 1: the door. You know what that means, gascon the knock 82 00:04:37,440 --> 00:04:40,279 Speaker 1: on the door. They got audited. Yeah, the I R 83 00:04:40,400 --> 00:04:43,320 Speaker 1: S knocked on the door and they the math. I'm 84 00:04:43,360 --> 00:04:48,200 Speaker 1: told on getting audited. It's even you know, it's worse 85 00:04:48,320 --> 00:04:51,760 Speaker 1: now than it was then. That they don't audit very 86 00:04:51,760 --> 00:04:54,760 Speaker 1: many people. But I I'm so paranoid about that. And 87 00:04:54,800 --> 00:04:56,920 Speaker 1: I remember my parents having to go through and they 88 00:04:57,000 --> 00:04:59,320 Speaker 1: kept files on everything. It was all over the house. 89 00:05:00,120 --> 00:05:02,359 Speaker 1: May they rest in peace, but they had to track 90 00:05:02,440 --> 00:05:04,719 Speaker 1: down all of those files and it was such a 91 00:05:04,720 --> 00:05:07,160 Speaker 1: pain in the ascid. It was such a stressful situation 92 00:05:07,560 --> 00:05:09,680 Speaker 1: for my parents. Like, at least with an account And 93 00:05:09,680 --> 00:05:11,760 Speaker 1: I'm not saying I can't get it audited with an accountant, 94 00:05:11,920 --> 00:05:14,640 Speaker 1: but when you have an account and say, okay, I'm 95 00:05:14,680 --> 00:05:17,920 Speaker 1: paying you figure it out right. You know, you know 96 00:05:18,200 --> 00:05:20,440 Speaker 1: I'm paying the money. You're the one that did the taxes. 97 00:05:20,600 --> 00:05:24,240 Speaker 1: It's it's on you, and so it's it gives me 98 00:05:24,279 --> 00:05:27,560 Speaker 1: a little peace of mind at night. It gives me. 99 00:05:28,040 --> 00:05:30,680 Speaker 1: And I also when they changed the tax code a 100 00:05:30,720 --> 00:05:35,360 Speaker 1: few years back and we ended up owing money because 101 00:05:35,360 --> 00:05:37,200 Speaker 1: we had the accountant, I guess it not we had 102 00:05:37,200 --> 00:05:40,440 Speaker 1: not done that properly, given the right paperwork to the accountant, 103 00:05:40,440 --> 00:05:44,599 Speaker 1: and so we had to write a check to the 104 00:05:44,640 --> 00:05:48,360 Speaker 1: to the government, and that was It was terrible. But 105 00:05:48,400 --> 00:05:52,640 Speaker 1: I have been told over the years that you're actually 106 00:05:52,760 --> 00:05:57,520 Speaker 1: better off having to either either have it even or 107 00:05:57,680 --> 00:05:59,880 Speaker 1: have to write a small check to the government that 108 00:06:00,120 --> 00:06:04,040 Speaker 1: you keep the money and money in hand is better. Uh. 109 00:06:04,040 --> 00:06:06,800 Speaker 1: Now that might have been bullshit, but I was told 110 00:06:06,800 --> 00:06:09,200 Speaker 1: by somebody that I believe knows this stuff, that you're 111 00:06:09,240 --> 00:06:12,600 Speaker 1: better off doing it that way. But I always feel better. 112 00:06:12,640 --> 00:06:15,880 Speaker 1: I feel like I've won something, even though the people 113 00:06:15,880 --> 00:06:17,560 Speaker 1: that do the math will tell you that you have 114 00:06:17,680 --> 00:06:20,279 Speaker 1: not won anything. When you actually get a check back 115 00:06:20,839 --> 00:06:24,080 Speaker 1: from from the government that that you think you've done well, 116 00:06:24,080 --> 00:06:28,599 Speaker 1: it's like a mind mind trick, like thinking you've done 117 00:06:28,640 --> 00:06:32,240 Speaker 1: well when when realistically it's the government that had your 118 00:06:32,279 --> 00:06:34,400 Speaker 1: money and is then paying the money back that you 119 00:06:34,560 --> 00:06:38,400 Speaker 1: overpaid for taxes. Yeah, with no uh no interest added 120 00:06:38,440 --> 00:06:40,799 Speaker 1: to it. I don't feel like it's a win anywhere, 121 00:06:41,040 --> 00:06:45,320 Speaker 1: especially nowadays with the money that is being taken and 122 00:06:45,520 --> 00:06:50,400 Speaker 1: used for taxes. It's it's awful, it is. But just think, yes, 123 00:06:50,760 --> 00:06:54,480 Speaker 1: your money is helping to give people free money that 124 00:06:54,640 --> 00:06:57,920 Speaker 1: don't have to do anything, so that's a good thing. 125 00:06:57,960 --> 00:07:00,760 Speaker 1: But you get your you are like Robin Hood. You're 126 00:07:00,800 --> 00:07:03,480 Speaker 1: stealing from yourself to give to other people. It's a 127 00:07:04,600 --> 00:07:06,720 Speaker 1: it's a wonderful thing. What a world we live in here. 128 00:07:07,400 --> 00:07:11,880 Speaker 1: Check and I again, I was raised I blame the 129 00:07:11,920 --> 00:07:16,520 Speaker 1: people that raised me that I was raised to work 130 00:07:16,560 --> 00:07:20,600 Speaker 1: hard and you get paid when you work hard, and 131 00:07:21,400 --> 00:07:24,280 Speaker 1: I did. If only my mom had taught me when 132 00:07:24,280 --> 00:07:27,600 Speaker 1: I was a little boy, Ben grow up and you know, 133 00:07:27,640 --> 00:07:29,600 Speaker 1: if you don't really work hard and you don't have 134 00:07:29,640 --> 00:07:31,400 Speaker 1: a job, and you don't try to get a job, 135 00:07:32,280 --> 00:07:34,040 Speaker 1: I'll just give you a thousand bucks a month. What 136 00:07:34,120 --> 00:07:39,200 Speaker 1: the hell? Why not? Maybe great, wonderful Los Angeles County. Yeah, 137 00:07:39,240 --> 00:07:45,040 Speaker 1: I mean it's uh, who's your sugar daddy? L A County? Baby? 138 00:07:45,120 --> 00:07:46,720 Speaker 1: Is it? L A County? Is a l A City? 139 00:07:46,760 --> 00:07:49,240 Speaker 1: Which one? Is it? I forget it's it's I don't 140 00:07:49,520 --> 00:07:51,400 Speaker 1: I don't know. It's probably l A City because l 141 00:07:51,440 --> 00:07:55,080 Speaker 1: A County is a much larger, much larger operation, I 142 00:07:55,080 --> 00:07:58,640 Speaker 1: would think. But that's the West coast man, that's California. Yeah, 143 00:07:58,840 --> 00:08:01,200 Speaker 1: so I love friends in the West, want California to 144 00:08:01,200 --> 00:08:03,920 Speaker 1: go out in the Pacific. But you know, I think 145 00:08:03,920 --> 00:08:06,600 Speaker 1: it's l A City, l A city giving giving a 146 00:08:06,680 --> 00:08:10,240 Speaker 1: thousand dollars a month to two thousand households for an 147 00:08:10,360 --> 00:08:15,560 Speaker 1: entire year, no questions asked. It's just as absolutely amazing. 148 00:08:15,720 --> 00:08:18,400 Speaker 1: But you know, question, I'm not allowed to ask any questions, 149 00:08:18,400 --> 00:08:20,640 Speaker 1: I work like a meal woman. I'll do is talk radio. 150 00:08:20,840 --> 00:08:22,880 Speaker 1: Can you mean a few of these people that that 151 00:08:23,000 --> 00:08:24,800 Speaker 1: have real jobs? I have a crap, you know, an 152 00:08:24,840 --> 00:08:28,160 Speaker 1: easy job. But imagine the people that ust their ass, 153 00:08:28,520 --> 00:08:30,040 Speaker 1: you know, and they're not making a ton of money. 154 00:08:30,440 --> 00:08:32,319 Speaker 1: Although you can make pretty good money if you're a 155 00:08:32,360 --> 00:08:35,360 Speaker 1: handyman or a you know, working depending on what you 156 00:08:35,440 --> 00:08:37,800 Speaker 1: do in a factory. There are jobs that pay pretty well. 157 00:08:38,080 --> 00:08:39,560 Speaker 1: But then you see the person over there is just 158 00:08:39,600 --> 00:08:42,880 Speaker 1: like eating ding dings all day in the cashing in 159 00:08:42,920 --> 00:08:45,720 Speaker 1: their checks. What's up with that? No motivation at all? 160 00:08:45,720 --> 00:08:50,000 Speaker 1: That's unbelievable. But I mean that that that is an 161 00:08:50,000 --> 00:08:54,000 Speaker 1: extension that's actually like a form of bribery in a sense, right, 162 00:08:54,200 --> 00:08:57,240 Speaker 1: like we'll pay you you just vote for us next 163 00:08:57,320 --> 00:09:00,800 Speaker 1: election term. Well, it's to me, it's not even it's 164 00:09:00,840 --> 00:09:06,880 Speaker 1: just it's you're encouraging bad behavior and you just what 165 00:09:06,880 --> 00:09:11,800 Speaker 1: are you doing? You know, a dollar there's an old 166 00:09:12,040 --> 00:09:15,439 Speaker 1: idiom and I'm gonna probably butcher it here, but it's 167 00:09:15,440 --> 00:09:18,319 Speaker 1: something about a dollar earned and the value of that, right, 168 00:09:18,360 --> 00:09:24,400 Speaker 1: the value of but that everything with inflation now is insane, 169 00:09:24,880 --> 00:09:29,040 Speaker 1: it's insane, and there's no there's no end in sight. 170 00:09:29,240 --> 00:09:32,439 Speaker 1: And in my experience, once the prices go up, they 171 00:09:32,480 --> 00:09:36,160 Speaker 1: never go back down. It's not the reasons the prices 172 00:09:36,200 --> 00:09:38,839 Speaker 1: and say, okay, we're gonna lower the prices. And if 173 00:09:38,840 --> 00:09:41,680 Speaker 1: they do lower the prices, I've noticed this. One of 174 00:09:41,679 --> 00:09:43,920 Speaker 1: my favorite restaurants I go to not far from the 175 00:09:43,960 --> 00:09:47,679 Speaker 1: north Woods here, uh is this chicken fingerplace. And what 176 00:09:47,720 --> 00:09:51,600 Speaker 1: they did is they lowered the prices, but they gave 177 00:09:51,640 --> 00:09:56,640 Speaker 1: you smaller portions, so they it's a again a mind 178 00:09:56,880 --> 00:10:02,000 Speaker 1: mind mind hack where you think you're getting a good deal, 179 00:10:02,800 --> 00:10:06,360 Speaker 1: but in reality, what they've done is they've given themselves 180 00:10:06,400 --> 00:10:08,720 Speaker 1: more of a profit because they're giving you a smaller 181 00:10:08,760 --> 00:10:13,800 Speaker 1: amount of fries or whatever or you know, some side dish, 182 00:10:14,160 --> 00:10:17,480 Speaker 1: and they're charging you a little less, but it's a 183 00:10:17,559 --> 00:10:20,600 Speaker 1: lot less than they were charging a lot more than 184 00:10:20,600 --> 00:10:25,000 Speaker 1: the product's worth. And um so you know it's it's insane, 185 00:10:25,080 --> 00:10:29,480 Speaker 1: but there you go. So that is where we're at 186 00:10:29,600 --> 00:10:33,960 Speaker 1: the United States is the um you know, leadership role. 187 00:10:34,080 --> 00:10:36,800 Speaker 1: And where we're at now we have taking center stage 188 00:10:36,840 --> 00:10:41,760 Speaker 1: by now issuing US passports with gender X on it. Now. 189 00:10:43,040 --> 00:10:46,160 Speaker 1: Um so now we can you know, break up to 190 00:10:46,320 --> 00:10:49,840 Speaker 1: the men your X. What is that gender X. What 191 00:10:49,960 --> 00:10:54,600 Speaker 1: is that it's like for non binary, non identifying individuals? 192 00:10:56,200 --> 00:11:00,400 Speaker 1: Got you? All? Right? So now there are I don't 193 00:11:00,400 --> 00:11:02,800 Speaker 1: really travel much, guest, and you've been all over the world. 194 00:11:02,840 --> 00:11:07,080 Speaker 1: I'm not. I've been Oceana, I've been to Hawaii. I've 195 00:11:08,240 --> 00:11:12,000 Speaker 1: I've been to Canada briefly. Uh, you know, I don't. 196 00:11:12,040 --> 00:11:15,120 Speaker 1: I don't actually never been to Mexico. I've been, I've been. 197 00:11:15,480 --> 00:11:17,320 Speaker 1: I've been to the border many times. I've not been 198 00:11:17,320 --> 00:11:21,600 Speaker 1: to Mexico. Um, explain, explain this to me, Like I'm 199 00:11:21,760 --> 00:11:25,120 Speaker 1: five years old here. So if if you have on 200 00:11:25,160 --> 00:11:29,840 Speaker 1: your US passport gender X and you go to a 201 00:11:29,840 --> 00:11:32,040 Speaker 1: country that believes in the birds and the bees and 202 00:11:32,080 --> 00:11:36,240 Speaker 1: the innies and the outies, Um, what happens? Like? How 203 00:11:36,280 --> 00:11:39,679 Speaker 1: does that work? What are they just blindly supposed to 204 00:11:39,720 --> 00:11:43,520 Speaker 1: honor that and no questions asked? Or I think you 205 00:11:43,520 --> 00:11:46,640 Speaker 1: would see what we got here? I think they would 206 00:11:46,679 --> 00:11:52,760 Speaker 1: just laugh. Okay, I'm curious. I'm sure that's I don't know. 207 00:11:54,720 --> 00:11:56,520 Speaker 1: I don't know the rest of the world. There are 208 00:11:56,559 --> 00:11:58,640 Speaker 1: some grown ups in the rest of the world that realize, hey, 209 00:11:58,640 --> 00:12:01,480 Speaker 1: there's men and women and you can, you know, do 210 00:12:01,520 --> 00:12:03,640 Speaker 1: what you want with that but come on, is the 211 00:12:03,840 --> 00:12:06,120 Speaker 1: is the Party of Science really the party of science? 212 00:12:06,200 --> 00:12:08,439 Speaker 1: Or is it just a party of selective science? Because 213 00:12:08,480 --> 00:12:12,439 Speaker 1: that's what it sounds like. Science is always selective. Well, 214 00:12:12,520 --> 00:12:17,320 Speaker 1: now science is whatever fits your agenda and it works 215 00:12:17,360 --> 00:12:20,400 Speaker 1: both ways. Right, that works both ways? That you now 216 00:12:20,440 --> 00:12:24,120 Speaker 1: in politics, you just find a scientist. It's kind of 217 00:12:24,120 --> 00:12:28,800 Speaker 1: like doctor shopping. Wait, hold on, you don't find the scientists. 218 00:12:28,920 --> 00:12:33,960 Speaker 1: You find the lobbyists. You know, but it's like, you know, 219 00:12:34,120 --> 00:12:36,880 Speaker 1: if you keep going to enough doctors till you get 220 00:12:36,880 --> 00:12:40,040 Speaker 1: the opinion you want or I guess technically doctor shopping 221 00:12:40,160 --> 00:12:44,840 Speaker 1: is just going to get pills, like right, But no, 222 00:12:44,920 --> 00:12:46,600 Speaker 1: I mean people do the same thing. You get diagnosed 223 00:12:46,600 --> 00:12:48,760 Speaker 1: with something, you're like, I don't think that's right, or 224 00:12:48,800 --> 00:12:51,520 Speaker 1: I don't want to have the treatment, and then you're 225 00:12:51,520 --> 00:12:54,280 Speaker 1: supposed to get a second opinion, and then you get 226 00:12:54,280 --> 00:12:56,440 Speaker 1: a third opinion. You go two out of three, and 227 00:12:56,440 --> 00:12:58,000 Speaker 1: then you're like, all right, well two out of three 228 00:12:58,040 --> 00:12:59,760 Speaker 1: is not good. That's that's try. Why don't we do 229 00:13:00,040 --> 00:13:02,360 Speaker 1: three out of five and then we'll do, you know, 230 00:13:02,400 --> 00:13:06,080 Speaker 1: four out of seven, then we'll go five out of nine. 231 00:13:06,400 --> 00:13:10,480 Speaker 1: If only in the early days when they designed the 232 00:13:10,520 --> 00:13:13,400 Speaker 1: infrastructure of American sport. I think was the New York Giants, 233 00:13:14,080 --> 00:13:16,640 Speaker 1: remember reading about this years ago. The guy that owned 234 00:13:16,640 --> 00:13:19,360 Speaker 1: the New York Giants came up with the seven game 235 00:13:19,440 --> 00:13:23,120 Speaker 1: best of seven format for the World Series and whatnot, 236 00:13:23,160 --> 00:13:26,280 Speaker 1: which is the gold standard now for championship rounds in 237 00:13:26,360 --> 00:13:29,880 Speaker 1: team sports other than obviously football. But if what if 238 00:13:29,920 --> 00:13:32,640 Speaker 1: they said let's do five out of nine. I think 239 00:13:32,679 --> 00:13:35,320 Speaker 1: some of the early playoffs series we're five out of nine. 240 00:13:35,480 --> 00:13:39,600 Speaker 1: It wasn't always four out of seven. H But but 241 00:13:39,800 --> 00:13:41,520 Speaker 1: I'm getting carried away here. But the point is you 242 00:13:41,559 --> 00:13:46,040 Speaker 1: can in science. It is. It used to be a 243 00:13:46,040 --> 00:13:48,840 Speaker 1: case of, well, here's the science. But science is always evolving. 244 00:13:48,880 --> 00:13:51,959 Speaker 1: And that's that's one of the weird things about the 245 00:13:52,679 --> 00:13:58,120 Speaker 1: people that weaponized science. We talked a lot about how random, 246 00:13:58,160 --> 00:14:00,760 Speaker 1: you know, it's they call it in exact act science 247 00:14:01,679 --> 00:14:03,959 Speaker 1: is what they call it for a reason. It's imprecise, 248 00:14:04,080 --> 00:14:08,680 Speaker 1: it's inaccurate, uh, and it's it's always evolving, even things 249 00:14:08,720 --> 00:14:13,040 Speaker 1: that have been confirmed seemingly there are exceptions to the rule. 250 00:14:14,760 --> 00:14:18,080 Speaker 1: That's a that's a whole different cannel worms, whole different 251 00:14:18,160 --> 00:14:20,840 Speaker 1: channel worms. But it's good though, I mean, well, I 252 00:14:20,920 --> 00:14:24,000 Speaker 1: have I have no problems with the challenge. I think 253 00:14:24,040 --> 00:14:29,840 Speaker 1: everything should be challenged and questioned. But everything Now if 254 00:14:29,880 --> 00:14:33,360 Speaker 1: you do do that, then you are labeled, and then 255 00:14:33,440 --> 00:14:36,240 Speaker 1: you are condemned, which is just amazing. But I mean 256 00:14:36,280 --> 00:14:39,440 Speaker 1: this is a definition by by definition, though, guests, science 257 00:14:39,480 --> 00:14:43,000 Speaker 1: consists of people who are in disagreement with each other. 258 00:14:43,120 --> 00:14:47,880 Speaker 1: That is, is that not the but but but good disagreement? Yes, 259 00:14:48,000 --> 00:14:50,320 Speaker 1: I mean now you have I mean not now, but 260 00:14:50,440 --> 00:14:53,640 Speaker 1: you've had this in years past and decades and generations passed, 261 00:14:53,760 --> 00:14:57,040 Speaker 1: like you know, the progressives of cal and u c 262 00:14:57,200 --> 00:15:00,680 Speaker 1: l a God forbids someone that's eve they're down the 263 00:15:00,760 --> 00:15:03,720 Speaker 1: middle of the road or right wing if they if 264 00:15:03,720 --> 00:15:06,880 Speaker 1: they if they want to talk on campus, they get condemned. 265 00:15:07,040 --> 00:15:10,240 Speaker 1: Student bodies will will be up in you know, arms 266 00:15:10,280 --> 00:15:13,160 Speaker 1: and whatnot. You see irvines now, the same with a 267 00:15:13,200 --> 00:15:18,880 Speaker 1: couple of doctors there. It's pretty wild how this is 268 00:15:18,920 --> 00:15:21,520 Speaker 1: more polarizing now than ever. But this is obviously here 269 00:15:21,560 --> 00:15:25,440 Speaker 1: from the the the genesis of social media to we're 270 00:15:25,480 --> 00:15:28,640 Speaker 1: at now. But I mean, this has happened in previous days, 271 00:15:28,680 --> 00:15:31,080 Speaker 1: but of course just more highlighted now because of where 272 00:15:31,120 --> 00:15:34,120 Speaker 1: we're at politically and and we're social media and television 273 00:15:34,440 --> 00:15:39,280 Speaker 1: platforms are out nowadays all about the ratings. Man. Yeah, yeah, 274 00:15:39,400 --> 00:15:43,480 Speaker 1: and they've determined the people that keep track of this 275 00:15:43,720 --> 00:15:47,800 Speaker 1: on human nature and what people respond to. And it's 276 00:15:47,840 --> 00:15:50,200 Speaker 1: like I remember when I was early on in my 277 00:15:50,320 --> 00:15:53,200 Speaker 1: career and people said, you're too negative, be more positive, 278 00:15:53,400 --> 00:15:55,760 Speaker 1: and they should give me the list of positive talk 279 00:15:55,880 --> 00:15:58,960 Speaker 1: radio show hosts that have done well. Uh, and the 280 00:15:59,040 --> 00:16:03,240 Speaker 1: list is year Oh, it does not exist. Uh. And 281 00:16:03,560 --> 00:16:07,240 Speaker 1: it's the whole follow the science thing which we've had 282 00:16:07,280 --> 00:16:11,480 Speaker 1: shoved down our throats here over the last year and 283 00:16:11,520 --> 00:16:14,360 Speaker 1: a half, two years, whatever it's been. Now, follow the science, 284 00:16:14,440 --> 00:16:16,200 Speaker 1: listen to the experts and all that. And then you 285 00:16:16,200 --> 00:16:18,360 Speaker 1: you take a couple of steps back and you're like, well, 286 00:16:18,400 --> 00:16:22,480 Speaker 1: who are the experts? It's subjective, right, you do what 287 00:16:22,560 --> 00:16:25,960 Speaker 1: they tell you, but it's subjective. And that old line 288 00:16:26,080 --> 00:16:29,000 Speaker 1: is accurate. I heard somewhere along the way ten out 289 00:16:29,000 --> 00:16:33,400 Speaker 1: of ten scientists degree with whoever funded them so and 290 00:16:34,080 --> 00:16:37,560 Speaker 1: I got turned off. As you know, I love studies, 291 00:16:37,640 --> 00:16:40,200 Speaker 1: academic studies, and I read a lot of these things 292 00:16:40,240 --> 00:16:44,040 Speaker 1: and research done by some school in Australia, and we 293 00:16:44,040 --> 00:16:46,560 Speaker 1: we do a bit we haven't done in a while. 294 00:16:46,680 --> 00:16:50,200 Speaker 1: On the Saturday podcast we get scientifical and we'll go 295 00:16:50,280 --> 00:16:53,800 Speaker 1: over some of the studies, and I don't do it 296 00:16:53,840 --> 00:16:56,080 Speaker 1: as much and I'm not into them as much because 297 00:16:56,480 --> 00:16:58,840 Speaker 1: you know, generally the it's it's one of those things 298 00:16:58,880 --> 00:17:01,000 Speaker 1: like a screenplay, right, or where there's a couple of 299 00:17:01,040 --> 00:17:03,440 Speaker 1: ways to write a story from a movie. You can 300 00:17:03,480 --> 00:17:06,200 Speaker 1: write a movie and then work your way through this 301 00:17:06,320 --> 00:17:08,160 Speaker 1: story and then get to the ending and then come 302 00:17:08,240 --> 00:17:10,600 Speaker 1: up with the ending, or you can write the ending 303 00:17:10,960 --> 00:17:14,040 Speaker 1: and then write the story. And a lot of the 304 00:17:14,080 --> 00:17:17,359 Speaker 1: science world now is you have the ending, and here's 305 00:17:17,359 --> 00:17:19,760 Speaker 1: how we're gonna get there. And you know, we're not 306 00:17:19,760 --> 00:17:22,280 Speaker 1: gonna get bogged down with whatever the science teach, you 307 00:17:22,320 --> 00:17:24,040 Speaker 1: know it leads us to we're gonna find a way 308 00:17:24,080 --> 00:17:27,600 Speaker 1: to twist it into what we know the people the 309 00:17:27,680 --> 00:17:31,760 Speaker 1: overlords want us to throw out, which is which is 310 00:17:31,760 --> 00:17:34,560 Speaker 1: annoying and all that. But but there you go, How 311 00:17:34,560 --> 00:17:36,239 Speaker 1: do we end up here? Guesco? How do we end 312 00:17:36,280 --> 00:17:39,720 Speaker 1: up in that situation? I don't wait, how do we 313 00:17:39,800 --> 00:17:42,600 Speaker 1: bring up this as a topic of conversation or how 314 00:17:42,600 --> 00:17:45,960 Speaker 1: do we as a society end up here? We started 315 00:17:46,080 --> 00:17:48,400 Speaker 1: talking about as sports and now we've ended up doing 316 00:17:48,400 --> 00:17:52,399 Speaker 1: a deep dive. I don't know. We haven't had many 317 00:17:52,440 --> 00:17:56,600 Speaker 1: people complain recently about staying on script, like stay in 318 00:17:56,640 --> 00:18:01,439 Speaker 1: your sports lanes. So I just feel like so I 319 00:18:01,440 --> 00:18:03,159 Speaker 1: feel like me being back here on a Saturday, I 320 00:18:03,240 --> 00:18:05,960 Speaker 1: must kind of ruffle the feathers a little bit and 321 00:18:09,359 --> 00:18:14,320 Speaker 1: mail to you, listen to you since I was ten 322 00:18:14,440 --> 00:18:17,200 Speaker 1: years old. But you said something I don't like. You know, 323 00:18:17,440 --> 00:18:24,160 Speaker 1: I can't lispinion. I no longer enjoy it's a it's 324 00:18:24,520 --> 00:18:27,200 Speaker 1: it's an opinion based show. I get paid to give opinions. 325 00:18:27,200 --> 00:18:29,960 Speaker 1: I didn't get your talking points memo on what I 326 00:18:29,960 --> 00:18:33,440 Speaker 1: could say and not and uh, it's always fast. Well, 327 00:18:33,520 --> 00:18:36,080 Speaker 1: it's like that article that was published a few days 328 00:18:36,080 --> 00:18:38,720 Speaker 1: ago at the middle of the week was Sports Illustrated 329 00:18:39,359 --> 00:18:45,399 Speaker 1: basically condemning journalists that we're asking Mike Tomlin about his 330 00:18:45,480 --> 00:18:54,240 Speaker 1: desire want to go it's all race, yes, yes, the 331 00:18:54,280 --> 00:18:58,080 Speaker 1: extreme liberal members of the media. Anything involving uh, you know, 332 00:18:58,160 --> 00:19:01,040 Speaker 1: Mike Tomlin. Yeah, God for bid. We point out that 333 00:19:01,080 --> 00:19:04,320 Speaker 1: Carson Palmer, who's on one of the committees at USC 334 00:19:04,480 --> 00:19:06,840 Speaker 1: to come up with a coach, is the one that 335 00:19:06,960 --> 00:19:10,120 Speaker 1: tossed Tomlin's name out. Seems like a pretty credible source 336 00:19:10,640 --> 00:19:13,000 Speaker 1: that he just randomly tossed Mike Toma's name out. But 337 00:19:13,040 --> 00:19:16,880 Speaker 1: God forbid. Tomlin's above even being asked the question. He 338 00:19:16,960 --> 00:19:21,920 Speaker 1: pisces out gold, you know, liquid gold and ships gold bricks. 339 00:19:22,359 --> 00:19:25,520 Speaker 1: Mike Tomlin like, yeah, come on, uh, it's it's insane, 340 00:19:25,680 --> 00:19:29,280 Speaker 1: it's a legitimate question to ask. And now I I 341 00:19:29,760 --> 00:19:34,240 Speaker 1: did a monologue prior to Tomlin coming out with his rant, 342 00:19:34,440 --> 00:19:37,119 Speaker 1: which was wonderful. It's a great ramp by Mike Tomlin, 343 00:19:37,160 --> 00:19:40,040 Speaker 1: and pointed out, how why would you leave the one 344 00:19:40,160 --> 00:19:42,439 Speaker 1: job where you know you're not gonna be fired? Pete 345 00:19:42,440 --> 00:19:45,800 Speaker 1: Carroll could be fired in Seattle and have to go 346 00:19:45,880 --> 00:19:48,560 Speaker 1: back to USC with his tail between his legs. I 347 00:19:48,680 --> 00:19:51,520 Speaker 1: throughout the name Cliff Kingsbury. Right now, that's not looking 348 00:19:51,600 --> 00:19:55,479 Speaker 1: very good because the Cardinals are playing above their means. 349 00:19:55,880 --> 00:19:57,680 Speaker 1: They're not that good. We'll come back to Earth, will 350 00:19:57,680 --> 00:20:00,000 Speaker 1: have a regression to the mean. But until that happen, 351 00:20:00,040 --> 00:20:03,320 Speaker 1: bins Cliff Kingsbury. He's not gonna leave Arizona. But that's 352 00:20:03,320 --> 00:20:06,119 Speaker 1: a guy that USC had in the pipe in the 353 00:20:06,160 --> 00:20:11,280 Speaker 1: pipe a pipeline rather to replace Clay Healton. A couple 354 00:20:11,280 --> 00:20:12,680 Speaker 1: of years ago, he was there for like a week 355 00:20:12,760 --> 00:20:15,760 Speaker 1: and then he went to the NFL. So is it 356 00:20:15,840 --> 00:20:18,800 Speaker 1: wrong to ask him as the coach? It's not like 357 00:20:19,040 --> 00:20:22,159 Speaker 1: the Steelers as as great as they've been in the 358 00:20:22,200 --> 00:20:25,199 Speaker 1: regular season and no losing records and they've finished you know, 359 00:20:25,280 --> 00:20:27,960 Speaker 1: I think five hundred once or something like that. That's 360 00:20:27,960 --> 00:20:30,840 Speaker 1: Tomlin's resume. It's not like it's been a great playoff team. 361 00:20:30,880 --> 00:20:33,120 Speaker 1: They've been a pretty easy out playoffs. They rolled over 362 00:20:33,119 --> 00:20:36,920 Speaker 1: and played dead against the Browns in the last Let's 363 00:20:37,280 --> 00:20:39,359 Speaker 1: let's calm down on that. What have you done for 364 00:20:39,359 --> 00:20:42,560 Speaker 1: me lately? And you are ultimately judged on the playoffs? Right? 365 00:20:43,000 --> 00:20:46,280 Speaker 1: I don't understand It's not you know what it is though, 366 00:20:46,640 --> 00:20:49,200 Speaker 1: is it's not like someone from the MAC no disrespect, 367 00:20:49,240 --> 00:20:51,359 Speaker 1: but it's not like someone from Bowling Green. It's not 368 00:20:51,400 --> 00:20:53,080 Speaker 1: like a reporter said, hey, would you be interested in 369 00:20:53,119 --> 00:20:55,879 Speaker 1: the Bowling Green position? Like hey, would you be interested 370 00:20:55,920 --> 00:20:59,320 Speaker 1: in becoming a Toledo Rocket like they said USC If 371 00:20:59,320 --> 00:21:01,800 Speaker 1: someone said, hey, would you be interested in the Alabama job? 372 00:21:01,840 --> 00:21:07,240 Speaker 1: If Nick Saban retired? Would that be an insult um? Well, 373 00:21:07,240 --> 00:21:11,000 Speaker 1: it depends on how well. I didn't think anything Tomins 374 00:21:11,000 --> 00:21:13,960 Speaker 1: said was racist. He happened to name two or you're 375 00:21:14,000 --> 00:21:15,880 Speaker 1: playing the race card. But he named two coaches who 376 00:21:15,880 --> 00:21:18,680 Speaker 1: are white. So that's like, that's like the bat signal 377 00:21:18,760 --> 00:21:21,040 Speaker 1: to the to the liberals in the media, like wit 378 00:21:21,080 --> 00:21:23,480 Speaker 1: about it. He two coaches who happened to be white guys. 379 00:21:23,840 --> 00:21:28,120 Speaker 1: So let me write my column. And it's it's so 380 00:21:28,160 --> 00:21:31,520 Speaker 1: funny to those type of columns. And we've all done 381 00:21:31,600 --> 00:21:35,639 Speaker 1: it being in uh the radio business, but it's the 382 00:21:35,720 --> 00:21:39,359 Speaker 1: way you get to that column. It's like so and 383 00:21:39,400 --> 00:21:44,000 Speaker 1: so didn't actually say this, but you know, you know 384 00:21:45,040 --> 00:21:49,520 Speaker 1: you didn't have to. It's like, come on, yeah, it's whack. 385 00:21:49,760 --> 00:21:52,040 Speaker 1: But I mean, there's plenty of coaches out there that 386 00:21:52,040 --> 00:21:54,960 Speaker 1: that get those offers, and and I think one would 387 00:21:54,960 --> 00:21:58,120 Speaker 1: be flattered. But I don't know. I asked Chris Broussard 388 00:21:58,200 --> 00:22:00,240 Speaker 1: and Rob Parker this during the middle of the week. 389 00:22:00,359 --> 00:22:03,320 Speaker 1: If you were in the position, or you can go 390 00:22:03,480 --> 00:22:08,399 Speaker 1: to a usc A, Clemson, Obama, you know, I don't know, Florida, 391 00:22:08,440 --> 00:22:12,639 Speaker 1: maybe Florida state where you run the entire show, like 392 00:22:12,680 --> 00:22:16,080 Speaker 1: you run the university and you never have to worry 393 00:22:16,080 --> 00:22:19,040 Speaker 1: about someone talking over you. Why wouldn't you do that? 394 00:22:19,080 --> 00:22:21,439 Speaker 1: Whereas if you're a head coach in the NFL. Not 395 00:22:21,560 --> 00:22:23,359 Speaker 1: to say Tomlin, but if you're a head coach in 396 00:22:23,359 --> 00:22:26,160 Speaker 1: the NFL, you're running the risk of a dude that's 397 00:22:26,200 --> 00:22:29,440 Speaker 1: making double the salary that you are as a player, 398 00:22:30,080 --> 00:22:31,800 Speaker 1: and he could just tell you to go shove it, 399 00:22:31,880 --> 00:22:34,239 Speaker 1: and you have nothing. You can't say anything about it 400 00:22:34,280 --> 00:22:37,800 Speaker 1: because ultimately you depend on him and he's the one 401 00:22:37,880 --> 00:22:40,000 Speaker 1: getting paid to do the work that you were trying 402 00:22:40,000 --> 00:22:45,240 Speaker 1: to execute. Yeah. Yeah, here's the problem, though, there's so 403 00:22:45,320 --> 00:22:47,840 Speaker 1: much bullshit you have to put up with at the 404 00:22:47,880 --> 00:22:49,679 Speaker 1: college level. You don't have to put up with the 405 00:22:49,760 --> 00:22:55,360 Speaker 1: n what of it. You have a segment annually every 406 00:22:55,400 --> 00:22:59,840 Speaker 1: summer that is catered towards bullshit. The NFL book hum 407 00:23:00,119 --> 00:23:03,800 Speaker 1: is the height of the height of play. But spoiler alert, 408 00:23:03,840 --> 00:23:05,880 Speaker 1: you still have that in college. In fact, there are 409 00:23:05,880 --> 00:23:08,520 Speaker 1: more college football players. We don't talk about it, but 410 00:23:08,560 --> 00:23:13,360 Speaker 1: they head. You're a meathead college guy and you're out 411 00:23:13,400 --> 00:23:15,960 Speaker 1: there and there's all these beautiful people around you, and 412 00:23:16,000 --> 00:23:19,560 Speaker 1: there's drugs and booze, and you're experimenting for the maybe 413 00:23:19,640 --> 00:23:21,840 Speaker 1: the first time in your life. You're in a different place, 414 00:23:21,880 --> 00:23:25,720 Speaker 1: and you get in all kinds of trouble and then 415 00:23:25,720 --> 00:23:27,879 Speaker 1: you gotta deal with the parents and say, well, I 416 00:23:28,400 --> 00:23:31,080 Speaker 1: allowed my my child to go play for you, and 417 00:23:31,119 --> 00:23:33,760 Speaker 1: now he's he's doing crack at a whorehouse. What do 418 00:23:33,800 --> 00:23:36,640 Speaker 1: you what's wrong with you? Right, dude? Not everyone goes 419 00:23:36,720 --> 00:23:41,920 Speaker 1: to Louisville. All right. I'm just saying, like, if you're 420 00:23:41,960 --> 00:23:43,800 Speaker 1: if you had a choice between an NFL job and 421 00:23:43,800 --> 00:23:45,720 Speaker 1: a college job, even a good college job, I would 422 00:23:45,800 --> 00:23:48,520 Speaker 1: rather have an NFL job. As a former coach told 423 00:23:48,560 --> 00:23:51,560 Speaker 1: me years ago, the difference between college and the NFL 424 00:23:51,720 --> 00:23:54,359 Speaker 1: is In college, you have to go out and chase 425 00:23:54,440 --> 00:23:58,080 Speaker 1: down the players. In the NFL, the players come to you. 426 00:23:58,119 --> 00:24:00,280 Speaker 1: Now you only get to get a few of them, 427 00:24:00,320 --> 00:24:04,200 Speaker 1: but they have the combine in in college football. Listen, 428 00:24:04,200 --> 00:24:05,720 Speaker 1: you do a lot of these high school games. How 429 00:24:05,760 --> 00:24:09,120 Speaker 1: often do you see scouts or assistant coaches or even 430 00:24:09,200 --> 00:24:12,399 Speaker 1: head coaches from major college programs. If you're doing some 431 00:24:12,480 --> 00:24:16,280 Speaker 1: hotshot quarterback who are sitting there and you know, just 432 00:24:16,280 --> 00:24:18,119 Speaker 1: just so they can be seen in the crowd and 433 00:24:18,160 --> 00:24:20,440 Speaker 1: so the family and everyone can know that they're there 434 00:24:20,480 --> 00:24:23,800 Speaker 1: to see player X, and it's you gotta do that. 435 00:24:23,800 --> 00:24:24,879 Speaker 1: That's the kind of stuff you have to do in 436 00:24:24,880 --> 00:24:27,520 Speaker 1: the NFL. Just show up to the combine and a 437 00:24:27,560 --> 00:24:30,439 Speaker 1: couple of pro days and you're pretty much there, just 438 00:24:30,520 --> 00:24:33,400 Speaker 1: as you know, a side show, because it's the scouting 439 00:24:33,400 --> 00:24:35,480 Speaker 1: department that does most of the heavy living on on 440 00:24:35,520 --> 00:24:39,919 Speaker 1: those things. No, that's true, I will I think with 441 00:24:40,000 --> 00:24:43,800 Speaker 1: today's environment with the NFL, I would agree. I think 442 00:24:44,200 --> 00:24:47,320 Speaker 1: I think working in Jacksonville is a good job. And 443 00:24:47,400 --> 00:24:53,120 Speaker 1: it comes down to ownership, right I That is mostly 444 00:24:53,200 --> 00:24:56,960 Speaker 1: bullcrap like because there are very few meddling owners that 445 00:24:57,080 --> 00:24:59,800 Speaker 1: actually mess up the day to day operations in the 446 00:25:00,080 --> 00:25:03,360 Speaker 1: fell like okay, say, are people who they think are 447 00:25:03,400 --> 00:25:05,479 Speaker 1: good who are bad. So really the problem is they 448 00:25:05,560 --> 00:25:09,440 Speaker 1: hire people who suck. But it's not like you can 449 00:25:09,600 --> 00:25:11,600 Speaker 1: you can win in any environment that I heard that 450 00:25:11,640 --> 00:25:15,200 Speaker 1: about the Knicks with James Dolan and all that for you, Well, 451 00:25:15,640 --> 00:25:17,840 Speaker 1: James Dolan still owns the Knicks, and now the Knicks 452 00:25:17,840 --> 00:25:21,520 Speaker 1: are they're a mid level contender in the Eastern Conference. 453 00:25:21,720 --> 00:25:23,840 Speaker 1: I heard the same thing about Donald Sterling for all 454 00:25:23,880 --> 00:25:26,440 Speaker 1: of you. Well, Donald was loyal to Elgin Baylor, and 455 00:25:26,560 --> 00:25:29,400 Speaker 1: Elgin as great a player as he was, he had 456 00:25:29,440 --> 00:25:32,680 Speaker 1: all these lottery picks and all that and was unable 457 00:25:32,760 --> 00:25:36,480 Speaker 1: to even the l a market. Yeah, is that love? 458 00:25:36,600 --> 00:25:39,560 Speaker 1: The NBA. It's Miami l A. And that's about it. 459 00:25:39,760 --> 00:25:42,480 Speaker 1: You know, maybe places in Texas guys want to play 460 00:25:42,560 --> 00:25:45,000 Speaker 1: right now, Yeah, but what about I mean, look at Dallas. 461 00:25:45,040 --> 00:25:48,720 Speaker 1: Though Dallas is a perfect example. They they basically punted 462 00:25:48,880 --> 00:25:53,240 Speaker 1: on Jimmy Johnson. I want a Super Bowl with Barry Schwitzer. 463 00:25:53,920 --> 00:25:56,840 Speaker 1: But I mean that was a well oiled machine. And 464 00:25:57,119 --> 00:25:59,720 Speaker 1: that's a difference. That that's different because Jerry Jones is 465 00:25:59,720 --> 00:26:04,040 Speaker 1: that m there. That's but it's not like Donald Sterling 466 00:26:04,119 --> 00:26:07,639 Speaker 1: was the GM. Now. The problem he had was he 467 00:26:07,720 --> 00:26:11,440 Speaker 1: would he would decide who the coach was often and 468 00:26:11,560 --> 00:26:14,879 Speaker 1: he would meet with Elgin, would recommend to people and 469 00:26:14,920 --> 00:26:18,679 Speaker 1: then uh Sterling would seemingly pick the worst candidate every 470 00:26:18,680 --> 00:26:22,119 Speaker 1: time in those in those years. But I didn't I 471 00:26:22,119 --> 00:26:23,960 Speaker 1: didn't want to move on here for se escum because 472 00:26:24,800 --> 00:26:27,760 Speaker 1: there's a story I got and I sent this to 473 00:26:27,800 --> 00:26:29,720 Speaker 1: you the other day, and I relate to this story. 474 00:26:29,720 --> 00:26:32,720 Speaker 1: Blind Scott actually directed me to the story of all people. 475 00:26:32,720 --> 00:26:35,440 Speaker 1: This is a blind leading the blind. He didn't he 476 00:26:35,800 --> 00:26:40,280 Speaker 1: didn't block your anything. No, no, no. He sent me 477 00:26:40,400 --> 00:26:43,600 Speaker 1: like some like grant that was ted messages long and 478 00:26:43,640 --> 00:26:47,960 Speaker 1: then blocked me. Oh yeah, now he sends he hates 479 00:26:48,000 --> 00:26:51,080 Speaker 1: your politics, and so he sends a lot of email 480 00:26:51,600 --> 00:26:55,919 Speaker 1: to the Fifth Hour podcast email Real fifth Hour at 481 00:26:56,000 --> 00:26:59,399 Speaker 1: gmail dot com. And I believe the sole purpose of 482 00:26:59,440 --> 00:27:04,040 Speaker 1: those email is to annoy you, compliment that those emails are. 483 00:27:04,119 --> 00:27:06,080 Speaker 1: And you don't even see these emails, so I'm the 484 00:27:06,080 --> 00:27:07,760 Speaker 1: one that sees them. But one of them caught my 485 00:27:07,800 --> 00:27:10,399 Speaker 1: attention here and it's one of my favorite stories of 486 00:27:10,400 --> 00:27:13,480 Speaker 1: the week. The headline on this is meet the guy 487 00:27:13,560 --> 00:27:16,159 Speaker 1: who spends just a hundred fifty dollars a year to 488 00:27:16,200 --> 00:27:21,800 Speaker 1: eat all of his meals at six Flags. Yeah, and 489 00:27:22,640 --> 00:27:25,040 Speaker 1: this is one of us. So this is thirty three 490 00:27:25,119 --> 00:27:28,280 Speaker 1: year old dude. We'll call him by his name Dylan, 491 00:27:28,840 --> 00:27:33,600 Speaker 1: which is ironically the same name as Blind Scott's dog, 492 00:27:33,640 --> 00:27:35,200 Speaker 1: which makes me think this might be a fake story. 493 00:27:35,200 --> 00:27:38,320 Speaker 1: But anyway, the story it was in a magazine and 494 00:27:38,600 --> 00:27:41,400 Speaker 1: they claim that this, uh, this thirty three year old 495 00:27:41,400 --> 00:27:47,080 Speaker 1: guys electrical engineer in Santa Clarita, which is where if 496 00:27:47,119 --> 00:27:49,679 Speaker 1: you're not familiar with geography in California, if you go 497 00:27:49,800 --> 00:27:53,880 Speaker 1: to six Flags, that's where you are. And uh so 498 00:27:54,040 --> 00:27:58,280 Speaker 1: he pays around a hundred and fifty dollars. The story 499 00:27:58,320 --> 00:28:02,560 Speaker 1: goes uh for year round access to six Flags that 500 00:28:02,600 --> 00:28:07,160 Speaker 1: includes parking and two meals a day. And so this 501 00:28:07,200 --> 00:28:13,280 Speaker 1: guy claims, the story goes that he for years has 502 00:28:13,320 --> 00:28:16,800 Speaker 1: paid the one fifty dollar fee. This all started in 503 00:28:17,720 --> 00:28:21,760 Speaker 1: he was an intern at six Flags Magic Mountain in 504 00:28:21,760 --> 00:28:25,440 Speaker 1: southern California, and he noticed the deal and then put 505 00:28:25,440 --> 00:28:28,359 Speaker 1: two and two together. He's a young guy, uh and 506 00:28:28,400 --> 00:28:30,880 Speaker 1: trying to make his way. They're fresh out of college, 507 00:28:31,760 --> 00:28:34,919 Speaker 1: and so he laid down the money and he found 508 00:28:34,920 --> 00:28:39,720 Speaker 1: the deal and he has been since that day eating 509 00:28:41,040 --> 00:28:44,400 Speaker 1: his meals, almost all of his meals at six Flags 510 00:28:44,480 --> 00:28:50,200 Speaker 1: Magic mount carnival food. This guy's meaning, now, guess do 511 00:28:50,240 --> 00:28:52,720 Speaker 1: they have that deal? Can we confirm that they have 512 00:28:52,960 --> 00:28:58,560 Speaker 1: six Flags has the one meal? I gotta I gotta 513 00:28:58,600 --> 00:29:01,000 Speaker 1: look into that. How is this any How is this 514 00:29:01,120 --> 00:29:03,920 Speaker 1: any different? Though from your twenties when you were crashing 515 00:29:03,960 --> 00:29:08,120 Speaker 1: Dodgers Stadium in the Great Western This is how I 516 00:29:08,200 --> 00:29:11,600 Speaker 1: relate to the story, because I didn't even have to 517 00:29:11,680 --> 00:29:15,200 Speaker 1: pay a hundred and fifty dollars a year. I just 518 00:29:15,240 --> 00:29:18,760 Speaker 1: had to pay for gas. But when I was early 519 00:29:18,840 --> 00:29:21,880 Speaker 1: on in the media, back in the glory days of 520 00:29:21,920 --> 00:29:25,520 Speaker 1: being in the media, when I first started, everything was 521 00:29:25,560 --> 00:29:28,880 Speaker 1: free all the food and I covered games. My job, 522 00:29:28,960 --> 00:29:31,880 Speaker 1: my first real radio job. My first real radio job. 523 00:29:31,920 --> 00:29:36,040 Speaker 1: I was an engineer for San Diego State basketball, which 524 00:29:36,080 --> 00:29:40,720 Speaker 1: was a disaster and those games were on Cogo AM 525 00:29:41,240 --> 00:29:44,360 Speaker 1: in San Diego. But I didn't That didn't last long 526 00:29:44,400 --> 00:29:46,240 Speaker 1: and then I got job as a reporter for my 527 00:29:46,520 --> 00:29:49,280 Speaker 1: Nighty Nighty in San Diego, but covering the l A market. 528 00:29:49,640 --> 00:29:52,240 Speaker 1: And so they assigned me that give me my schedule 529 00:29:52,280 --> 00:29:54,800 Speaker 1: and be at a King's game, or a Lakers game, 530 00:29:55,080 --> 00:29:59,240 Speaker 1: or a Clippers game, or college game or during the summer, 531 00:29:59,480 --> 00:30:02,360 Speaker 1: Dodgers and Angels and mixing. You know, there was actually 532 00:30:02,400 --> 00:30:05,240 Speaker 1: no football because in those days the only football team 533 00:30:05,280 --> 00:30:07,120 Speaker 1: was the Chargers, and so I go to those games sometimes, 534 00:30:07,120 --> 00:30:10,440 Speaker 1: but no NFL football in l a H. So anyway, 535 00:30:10,800 --> 00:30:13,360 Speaker 1: I go to these games and I was like I 536 00:30:13,480 --> 00:30:15,640 Speaker 1: was in my twenties. I was a fat guy. Everything 537 00:30:15,680 --> 00:30:19,120 Speaker 1: was free a dot. The O'Malley's owned the Dodgers. They 538 00:30:19,200 --> 00:30:23,760 Speaker 1: had steak prime rib quite a bit. They had fish 539 00:30:23,840 --> 00:30:26,800 Speaker 1: Fridays because O'Malley very religious to get eat fish on Friday, 540 00:30:27,120 --> 00:30:32,120 Speaker 1: good Catholic, So he had that going on. And USC football. 541 00:30:33,200 --> 00:30:35,880 Speaker 1: This is when they were terrible and they had been good, 542 00:30:35,880 --> 00:30:38,520 Speaker 1: but they were still hanging on. This is before Pete Carroll. 543 00:30:38,560 --> 00:30:42,520 Speaker 1: They had this run of coaches and they had the 544 00:30:42,520 --> 00:30:45,200 Speaker 1: the carving stations. I remember this in the in the 545 00:30:45,200 --> 00:30:49,280 Speaker 1: press box at the Colosseum, the old Colosseum, and there 546 00:30:49,360 --> 00:30:52,520 Speaker 1: was a chef with a big you know those big 547 00:30:52,600 --> 00:30:55,560 Speaker 1: chef hats, you know, the big white they're like professional 548 00:30:55,640 --> 00:30:59,720 Speaker 1: chef and big knives, and just they'd be they'd be 549 00:30:59,800 --> 00:31:04,040 Speaker 1: nice roast turkey, there'd be prime rib. It was just outstanding, 550 00:31:05,000 --> 00:31:09,760 Speaker 1: just amazing. And uh so yeah, I did live that life. 551 00:31:10,040 --> 00:31:12,720 Speaker 1: Uh and I ate better food than this guy. But 552 00:31:12,840 --> 00:31:16,640 Speaker 1: that's that's a sneaky good hack. That is a sneaky 553 00:31:16,760 --> 00:31:20,400 Speaker 1: good hack for this this particular person. So I'm I'm 554 00:31:20,400 --> 00:31:27,000 Speaker 1: now looking here at season passes or I'm curious if 555 00:31:27,160 --> 00:31:29,520 Speaker 1: I want to see what's going on here. You know 556 00:31:29,560 --> 00:31:32,760 Speaker 1: who's really good at at providing food for the media. 557 00:31:33,480 --> 00:31:37,800 Speaker 1: Low key is the Anaheim Ducks. I've not been to 558 00:31:37,800 --> 00:31:41,840 Speaker 1: a Duck game since they had Paul Korea. Oh man, 559 00:31:42,280 --> 00:31:44,600 Speaker 1: we'll see the Ducks do it right though. The Ducks 560 00:31:44,640 --> 00:31:49,720 Speaker 1: will have typically some some snacks throughout the game. Kind 561 00:31:49,720 --> 00:31:52,720 Speaker 1: of give me the break that's it, like the pretzels, 562 00:31:52,880 --> 00:31:58,640 Speaker 1: the popcorn popcorn pretzel, popcorn pretzel solid waters. Of course 563 00:31:59,000 --> 00:32:02,080 Speaker 1: that had the bulls. Then they'd also have either if 564 00:32:02,120 --> 00:32:05,400 Speaker 1: it's night game, dinner, you know, lunch obviously, if it's 565 00:32:05,440 --> 00:32:09,520 Speaker 1: an afternoon game, they would have that. But once you 566 00:32:09,600 --> 00:32:12,320 Speaker 1: got into the third period, getting to the cookies bad. 567 00:32:13,000 --> 00:32:16,920 Speaker 1: They still have the cookies. Yeah, and then that was, 568 00:32:17,200 --> 00:32:22,040 Speaker 1: oh my god, those the not the cinnamon. What was 569 00:32:22,080 --> 00:32:29,040 Speaker 1: the the sugar cookies peanut butter, peanut butter. Oh man, 570 00:32:30,320 --> 00:32:34,200 Speaker 1: you I might have to go to an Anaheim Ducks game. 571 00:32:34,240 --> 00:32:36,400 Speaker 1: I don't even know who's over there. I couldn't name 572 00:32:36,400 --> 00:32:37,840 Speaker 1: one player of the team. I might have to go 573 00:32:37,880 --> 00:32:40,360 Speaker 1: out there and make an appearance, a rare and appropriate appearance, 574 00:32:40,680 --> 00:32:42,720 Speaker 1: first time in over twenty years, to go see it 575 00:32:42,840 --> 00:32:54,760 Speaker 1: du just cookies and have a snack on the on 576 00:32:54,840 --> 00:32:59,520 Speaker 1: the uh. This is the actual website for six Flags uh, 577 00:32:59,680 --> 00:33:03,520 Speaker 1: six Flags Great America. It says here, uh, we introduce 578 00:33:03,840 --> 00:33:07,360 Speaker 1: season dining passes. Because food at six Flags Great America 579 00:33:07,440 --> 00:33:10,680 Speaker 1: is not always inexpensive. You could easily spend twenty dollars 580 00:33:10,720 --> 00:33:12,920 Speaker 1: per person every time he was at the park. A 581 00:33:13,080 --> 00:33:16,280 Speaker 1: season dining pass makes eating at the park almost more 582 00:33:16,400 --> 00:33:20,920 Speaker 1: affordable than eating at home. And so here here it 583 00:33:21,000 --> 00:33:25,280 Speaker 1: is by Originally this was two hundred nine dollars, but 584 00:33:25,440 --> 00:33:27,880 Speaker 1: now they've lowered it because the year is almost over. 585 00:33:27,880 --> 00:33:31,680 Speaker 1: So it's eighty nine dollars. You buy Deluxe Dining Pass 586 00:33:32,600 --> 00:33:35,960 Speaker 1: and you get free upgrade to exclusive Premium benefits. The 587 00:33:35,960 --> 00:33:40,000 Speaker 1: better it's lunch, dinner, and a snack each visit. Free 588 00:33:40,320 --> 00:33:45,240 Speaker 1: Premium upgrade lets you eat at every six Flags theme park. 589 00:33:46,000 --> 00:33:49,840 Speaker 1: Free Premium upgrade includes a free season drink bottle. So yeah, 590 00:33:49,840 --> 00:33:52,960 Speaker 1: so you get to drink and you get the two 591 00:33:52,960 --> 00:33:57,600 Speaker 1: meals and a snack on this one for ninety dollars. 592 00:33:57,600 --> 00:33:59,960 Speaker 1: Now it was two hundred nine dollars. The other one 593 00:34:00,040 --> 00:34:03,720 Speaker 1: is up to like a hundred ninety dollars, but you 594 00:34:03,760 --> 00:34:06,160 Speaker 1: get lunch and a snack. So the guy must be 595 00:34:06,160 --> 00:34:11,920 Speaker 1: doing de luxe thing. But still two years what kind 596 00:34:11,920 --> 00:34:13,680 Speaker 1: I've not been to six Flags? What kind of food 597 00:34:13,719 --> 00:34:18,360 Speaker 1: do they just? I imagine it's the same standard standard 598 00:34:18,680 --> 00:34:22,880 Speaker 1: carnival food that you would get, which you're talking about 599 00:34:22,960 --> 00:34:27,680 Speaker 1: your what we just mentioned that, the pretzels, the nachos, 600 00:34:27,880 --> 00:34:30,000 Speaker 1: that kind of thing. Yeah, I don't know that's a 601 00:34:30,000 --> 00:34:34,120 Speaker 1: good question. I haven't been. I haven't been to I 602 00:34:34,120 --> 00:34:39,400 Speaker 1: haven't been to an amusement park or carnival probably in 603 00:34:39,440 --> 00:34:43,440 Speaker 1: a good fifteen twenty years. They have a wide I'm 604 00:34:43,480 --> 00:34:46,839 Speaker 1: looking here at the meal plan. If I'm looking at 605 00:34:46,840 --> 00:34:49,719 Speaker 1: the right one, this has a good selection. There's big 606 00:34:49,800 --> 00:34:54,280 Speaker 1: lose Italian beef. Uh. This must be a different six 607 00:34:54,280 --> 00:34:56,480 Speaker 1: Flags because but this is this, This is on the 608 00:34:56,520 --> 00:35:01,040 Speaker 1: six Flags website. It says here they have claim Jumper, 609 00:35:01,520 --> 00:35:05,320 Speaker 1: which is a chain hasn't done well recently. There's a 610 00:35:05,440 --> 00:35:10,440 Speaker 1: Moose Burger Lodge barbecue brisket sliders. I feel like we're 611 00:35:10,480 --> 00:35:12,520 Speaker 1: doing this thing we did a couple of weeks ago 612 00:35:12,600 --> 00:35:16,840 Speaker 1: with our friend Alfa Alieno Piner. They have big barbecue 613 00:35:16,840 --> 00:35:20,799 Speaker 1: brisket sliders, cole slaw and waffle fries. What else do 614 00:35:20,840 --> 00:35:25,840 Speaker 1: we have? Let's see macho nacho, Nice nacho nachos with steak, 615 00:35:26,360 --> 00:35:31,600 Speaker 1: two dollar upgrade chicken strip meal. Johnny Rockets is their 616 00:35:32,200 --> 00:35:35,160 Speaker 1: great American dog house, Mac and cheese, hot dog and fries. 617 00:35:36,080 --> 00:35:40,160 Speaker 1: Primo's Pizzeria. That's there. You can get cheese, pizza, slice 618 00:35:40,400 --> 00:35:45,960 Speaker 1: and fries, garlic knots or salad. I'm fasting right now, 619 00:35:46,000 --> 00:35:48,480 Speaker 1: so all this sounds really good. This is right in 620 00:35:48,520 --> 00:35:51,680 Speaker 1: my wheelhouse. If you like that giant Carnival turkey leg, 621 00:35:51,719 --> 00:35:54,919 Speaker 1: they have that blue ribbon, you can get that as well. Guest, 622 00:35:55,280 --> 00:35:59,280 Speaker 1: that's on the on the rundown. Uh, there's some decent 623 00:35:59,320 --> 00:36:03,440 Speaker 1: stuff here. I could do that. That's not that the 624 00:36:03,480 --> 00:36:09,600 Speaker 1: guy's complaining foods unhealthy. Yeah, you know it's one man's 625 00:36:09,680 --> 00:36:13,720 Speaker 1: unhealthy is another man's healthy. Yeah. Just adding more steps 626 00:36:13,719 --> 00:36:16,560 Speaker 1: into your day and um, you know, work out a 627 00:36:16,600 --> 00:36:20,279 Speaker 1: little bit harder. Well. The good thing about that is 628 00:36:20,440 --> 00:36:23,080 Speaker 1: that an amusement parks you get a lot of steps. 629 00:36:23,080 --> 00:36:26,040 Speaker 1: I don't. I go to Disneyland usually once a year 630 00:36:26,040 --> 00:36:29,520 Speaker 1: because my wife loves Disneyland and I can figure out 631 00:36:29,520 --> 00:36:31,160 Speaker 1: a way to get there for not that much once 632 00:36:31,160 --> 00:36:34,759 Speaker 1: a year. So I go once a year. And it's awesome. Man. 633 00:36:34,840 --> 00:36:37,440 Speaker 1: We we started like eight in the morning, and they're 634 00:36:37,480 --> 00:36:40,239 Speaker 1: there until our legs fall off, and you get so 635 00:36:40,280 --> 00:36:42,680 Speaker 1: many steps. And the great thing about going to an 636 00:36:42,680 --> 00:36:44,680 Speaker 1: amusement park early, No one wants to get there early. 637 00:36:45,200 --> 00:36:47,160 Speaker 1: You get on any ride you want if you get 638 00:36:47,160 --> 00:36:49,880 Speaker 1: there at the crack of non and and then you 639 00:36:49,920 --> 00:36:54,480 Speaker 1: beat the rush hour. The way to do it, all right, 640 00:36:54,480 --> 00:36:56,759 Speaker 1: I think that's enough, guest gon, Yes, and we reached 641 00:36:56,800 --> 00:36:59,520 Speaker 1: the end of the road on the Saturday podcast. All right, 642 00:37:00,239 --> 00:37:03,320 Speaker 1: very good. We'll have the mailbag on Sunday. How exciting 643 00:37:03,400 --> 00:37:05,880 Speaker 1: is that you're gonna be on the mailbag on Sunday Gascon? 644 00:37:06,000 --> 00:37:10,920 Speaker 1: You might, I might. Uh yeah, Well we'll talk about 645 00:37:10,960 --> 00:37:13,879 Speaker 1: this because, uh well there's lots of things to talk 646 00:37:13,920 --> 00:37:17,040 Speaker 1: about with Benny versus the Penny too. Yes, that's right, 647 00:37:17,080 --> 00:37:19,120 Speaker 1: Benny versus the Penny, which was on Friday, this of 648 00:37:19,160 --> 00:37:22,920 Speaker 1: course being on Saturday. Anyway, have a wonderful rest of 649 00:37:23,000 --> 00:37:25,800 Speaker 1: your Saturday. Tell a friend about the podcast. Don't forget 650 00:37:25,880 --> 00:37:29,120 Speaker 1: cameo dot com. If you want to have a personalized 651 00:37:29,200 --> 00:37:32,200 Speaker 1: Mallard monologue just for you, or just anything at all, 652 00:37:32,560 --> 00:37:34,960 Speaker 1: we're there for you. We're there to help for a 653 00:37:35,040 --> 00:37:38,560 Speaker 1: nominal fee, of course, phenomenal fee. Have a great Saturday, 654 00:37:38,640 --> 00:37:41,000 Speaker 1: what's left of it. We'll catch you next time.