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Speaker 1: Fifth Hour podcast a spinoff of the weekend weekday show.
Speaker 1: Here on the weekends, even on a Saturday, college football Saturday.
Speaker 1: In a rare and appropriate Saturday appearance by Mr West
Speaker 1: of the four oh five, I can't say that a
Speaker 1: month or two from now, but I can say it now.
Speaker 1: David Guest in the house, he hey, why why this week?
Speaker 1: You have not been with us on Saturday and sometime,
Speaker 1: Guest Gun, you have a skewed the Saturday podcast. But
Speaker 1: here you are here, you are pushing your way back
Speaker 1: into the podcast studio. Here I am to save the
Speaker 1: day right here that the busy time man. I got
Speaker 1: like seven jobs and I just I think that a
Speaker 1: round of applause is in order. I just finished my taxes, um,
Speaker 1: so I think that you know you are paying your taxes,
Speaker 1: and you make enough money to paying my taxes. But
Speaker 1: I'm getting something back, which is always nice, getting some
Speaker 1: money to return to me a little while to do
Speaker 1: my taxes and then get some nines and W two
Speaker 1: is back from respective employers. But do you do that?
Speaker 1: You actually do the taxes yourself. You don't hire an outs.
Speaker 1: I'd accountant to your taxes. You are the one who
Speaker 1: is crunching the numbers. Is that accurate? Uh? What's a combination?
Speaker 1: I I do a lot of the crunching of the numbers.
Speaker 1: And the reason why is because of all the all
Speaker 1: the income that comes from non W two providers. So
Speaker 1: a lot of these outlets they attending and hang me,
Speaker 1: you can write off a lot of things, or at
Speaker 1: least some things. And so I gotta go through checklists
Speaker 1: and I'm azations and you're used to in the old days,
Speaker 1: Oh my god, it was wonderful when I traveled with
Speaker 1: the Dodgers. I would go on the road, I go
Speaker 1: into a cab and the cab driver would hand me
Speaker 1: a stack of receipts. Now, I'm not saying that I
Speaker 1: took advantage of this, but I do know some sports
Speaker 1: writers that did take advantage of it on the road
Speaker 1: and would just fill out endless taxi receipts and uh
Speaker 1: it was, it was wonderful. Uh. Now you do, you travel,
Speaker 1: You get paid to travel much. You do a lot
Speaker 1: of stuff locally. Guess gun right, because I don't want
Speaker 1: I don't want you to be like an NBA official
Speaker 1: from back in the day or an umpire on the
Speaker 1: plane tickets. You gotta be careful on that. No, no,
Speaker 1: I uh yeah, I mean it's all local here. But
Speaker 1: I do have an app. I do have a couple
Speaker 1: of apps that I use for for logging my mileage.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you use any of those at all,
Speaker 1: but I use one called the mile i Q and
Speaker 1: that's obviously for driving to and from a location. For
Speaker 1: it itemizes it too, so you can say like, hey,
Speaker 1: this is like for the gym, this is for personal
Speaker 1: use like the grocery store, or it's for work. So
Speaker 1: I I basically lay out all the places that I
Speaker 1: work at and then um and then it logs in accordingly.
Speaker 1: So it's pretty nice. Yeah, So what I do is
Speaker 1: I used to do that, but now I use I
Speaker 1: have a thing that counts my steps. So I go
Speaker 1: out of my bedroom, I turned left. I then go
Speaker 1: down a hallway without a without a rail, It's like Mr.
Speaker 1: Toad's Wild Ride, and then make a right. I go
Speaker 1: down the hall. Then I'm gont a fork in the road.
Speaker 1: I get to the fork in the road, fork in
Speaker 1: the hall, and then turned right and then I'm in
Speaker 1: the broadcast studio. So I count the steps. It's roughly
Speaker 1: on a on a bad day, if I take really
Speaker 1: small steps, I could get up to like forty five steps.
Speaker 1: So just going to my office there. So at the
Speaker 1: end of the year, I do a cross benefit analysis
Speaker 1: there on that, but I use an accountant. And the
Speaker 1: reason that we do the Mallard family here is because
Speaker 1: I am terrible at at math. And my parents when
Speaker 1: I was in high school, they had the knock on
Speaker 1: the door. You know what that means, gascon the knock
Speaker 1: on the door. They got audited. Yeah, the I R
Speaker 1: S knocked on the door and they the math. I'm
Speaker 1: told on getting audited. It's even you know, it's worse
Speaker 1: now than it was then. That they don't audit very
Speaker 1: many people. But I I'm so paranoid about that. And
Speaker 1: I remember my parents having to go through and they
Speaker 1: kept files on everything. It was all over the house.
Speaker 1: May they rest in peace, but they had to track
Speaker 1: down all of those files and it was such a
Speaker 1: pain in the ascid. It was such a stressful situation
Speaker 1: for my parents. Like, at least with an account And
Speaker 1: I'm not saying I can't get it audited with an accountant,
Speaker 1: but when you have an account and say, okay, I'm
Speaker 1: paying you figure it out right. You know, you know
Speaker 1: I'm paying the money. You're the one that did the taxes.
Speaker 1: It's it's on you, and so it's it gives me
Speaker 1: a little peace of mind at night. It gives me.
Speaker 1: And I also when they changed the tax code a
Speaker 1: few years back and we ended up owing money because
Speaker 1: we had the accountant, I guess it not we had
Speaker 1: not done that properly, given the right paperwork to the accountant,
Speaker 1: and so we had to write a check to the
Speaker 1: to the government, and that was It was terrible. But
Speaker 1: I have been told over the years that you're actually
Speaker 1: better off having to either either have it even or
Speaker 1: have to write a small check to the government that
Speaker 1: you keep the money and money in hand is better. Uh.
Speaker 1: Now that might have been bullshit, but I was told
Speaker 1: by somebody that I believe knows this stuff, that you're
Speaker 1: better off doing it that way. But I always feel better.
Speaker 1: I feel like I've won something, even though the people
Speaker 1: that do the math will tell you that you have
Speaker 1: not won anything. When you actually get a check back
Speaker 1: from from the government that that you think you've done well,
Speaker 1: it's like a mind mind trick, like thinking you've done
Speaker 1: well when when realistically it's the government that had your
Speaker 1: money and is then paying the money back that you
Speaker 1: overpaid for taxes. Yeah, with no uh no interest added
Speaker 1: to it. I don't feel like it's a win anywhere,
Speaker 1: especially nowadays with the money that is being taken and
Speaker 1: used for taxes. It's it's awful, it is. But just think, yes,
Speaker 1: your money is helping to give people free money that
Speaker 1: don't have to do anything, so that's a good thing.
Speaker 1: But you get your you are like Robin Hood. You're
Speaker 1: stealing from yourself to give to other people. It's a
Speaker 1: it's a wonderful thing. What a world we live in here.
Speaker 1: Check and I again, I was raised I blame the
Speaker 1: people that raised me that I was raised to work
Speaker 1: hard and you get paid when you work hard, and
Speaker 1: I did. If only my mom had taught me when
Speaker 1: I was a little boy, Ben grow up and you know,
Speaker 1: if you don't really work hard and you don't have
Speaker 1: a job, and you don't try to get a job,
Speaker 1: I'll just give you a thousand bucks a month. What
Speaker 1: the hell? Why not? Maybe great, wonderful Los Angeles County. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean it's uh, who's your sugar daddy? L A County? Baby?
Speaker 1: Is it? L A County? Is a l A City?
Speaker 1: Which one? Is it? I forget it's it's I don't
Speaker 1: I don't know. It's probably l A City because l
Speaker 1: A County is a much larger, much larger operation, I
Speaker 1: would think. But that's the West coast man, that's California. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so I love friends in the West, want California to
Speaker 1: go out in the Pacific. But you know, I think
Speaker 1: it's l A City, l A city giving giving a
Speaker 1: thousand dollars a month to two thousand households for an
Speaker 1: entire year, no questions asked. It's just as absolutely amazing.
Speaker 1: But you know, question, I'm not allowed to ask any questions,
Speaker 1: I work like a meal woman. I'll do is talk radio.
Speaker 1: Can you mean a few of these people that that
Speaker 1: have real jobs? I have a crap, you know, an
Speaker 1: easy job. But imagine the people that ust their ass,
Speaker 1: you know, and they're not making a ton of money.
Speaker 1: Although you can make pretty good money if you're a
Speaker 1: handyman or a you know, working depending on what you
Speaker 1: do in a factory. There are jobs that pay pretty well.
Speaker 1: But then you see the person over there is just
Speaker 1: like eating ding dings all day in the cashing in
Speaker 1: their checks. What's up with that? No motivation at all?
Speaker 1: That's unbelievable. But I mean that that that is an
Speaker 1: extension that's actually like a form of bribery in a sense, right,
Speaker 1: like we'll pay you you just vote for us next
Speaker 1: election term. Well, it's to me, it's not even it's
Speaker 1: just it's you're encouraging bad behavior and you just what
Speaker 1: are you doing? You know, a dollar there's an old
Speaker 1: idiom and I'm gonna probably butcher it here, but it's
Speaker 1: something about a dollar earned and the value of that, right,
Speaker 1: the value of but that everything with inflation now is insane,
Speaker 1: it's insane, and there's no there's no end in sight.
Speaker 1: And in my experience, once the prices go up, they
Speaker 1: never go back down. It's not the reasons the prices
Speaker 1: and say, okay, we're gonna lower the prices. And if
Speaker 1: they do lower the prices, I've noticed this. One of
Speaker 1: my favorite restaurants I go to not far from the
Speaker 1: north Woods here, uh is this chicken fingerplace. And what
Speaker 1: they did is they lowered the prices, but they gave
Speaker 1: you smaller portions, so they it's a again a mind
Speaker 1: mind mind hack where you think you're getting a good deal,
Speaker 1: but in reality, what they've done is they've given themselves
Speaker 1: more of a profit because they're giving you a smaller
Speaker 1: amount of fries or whatever or you know, some side dish,
Speaker 1: and they're charging you a little less, but it's a
Speaker 1: lot less than they were charging a lot more than
Speaker 1: the product's worth. And um so you know it's it's insane,
Speaker 1: but there you go. So that is where we're at
Speaker 1: the United States is the um you know, leadership role.
Speaker 1: And where we're at now we have taking center stage
Speaker 1: by now issuing US passports with gender X on it. Now.
Speaker 1: Um so now we can you know, break up to
Speaker 1: the men your X. What is that gender X. What
Speaker 1: is that it's like for non binary, non identifying individuals?
Speaker 1: Got you? All? Right? So now there are I don't
Speaker 1: really travel much, guest, and you've been all over the world.
Speaker 1: I'm not. I've been Oceana, I've been to Hawaii. I've
Speaker 1: I've been to Canada briefly. Uh, you know, I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't actually never been to Mexico. I've been, I've been.
Speaker 1: I've been to the border many times. I've not been
Speaker 1: to Mexico. Um, explain, explain this to me, Like I'm
Speaker 1: five years old here. So if if you have on
Speaker 1: your US passport gender X and you go to a
Speaker 1: country that believes in the birds and the bees and
Speaker 1: the innies and the outies, Um, what happens? Like? How
Speaker 1: does that work? What are they just blindly supposed to
Speaker 1: honor that and no questions asked? Or I think you
Speaker 1: would see what we got here? I think they would
Speaker 1: just laugh. Okay, I'm curious. I'm sure that's I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't know the rest of the world. There are
Speaker 1: some grown ups in the rest of the world that realize, hey,
Speaker 1: there's men and women and you can, you know, do
Speaker 1: what you want with that but come on, is the
Speaker 1: is the Party of Science really the party of science?
Speaker 1: Or is it just a party of selective science? Because
Speaker 1: that's what it sounds like. Science is always selective. Well,
Speaker 1: now science is whatever fits your agenda and it works
Speaker 1: both ways. Right, that works both ways? That you now
Speaker 1: in politics, you just find a scientist. It's kind of
Speaker 1: like doctor shopping. Wait, hold on, you don't find the scientists.
Speaker 1: You find the lobbyists. You know, but it's like, you know,
Speaker 1: if you keep going to enough doctors till you get
Speaker 1: the opinion you want or I guess technically doctor shopping
Speaker 1: is just going to get pills, like right, But no,
Speaker 1: I mean people do the same thing. You get diagnosed
Speaker 1: with something, you're like, I don't think that's right, or
Speaker 1: I don't want to have the treatment, and then you're
Speaker 1: supposed to get a second opinion, and then you get
Speaker 1: a third opinion. You go two out of three, and
Speaker 1: then you're like, all right, well two out of three
Speaker 1: is not good. That's that's try. Why don't we do
Speaker 1: three out of five and then we'll do, you know,
Speaker 1: four out of seven, then we'll go five out of nine.
Speaker 1: If only in the early days when they designed the
Speaker 1: infrastructure of American sport. I think was the New York Giants,
Speaker 1: remember reading about this years ago. The guy that owned
Speaker 1: the New York Giants came up with the seven game
Speaker 1: best of seven format for the World Series and whatnot,
Speaker 1: which is the gold standard now for championship rounds in
Speaker 1: team sports other than obviously football. But if what if
Speaker 1: they said let's do five out of nine. I think
Speaker 1: some of the early playoffs series we're five out of nine.
Speaker 1: It wasn't always four out of seven. H But but
Speaker 1: I'm getting carried away here. But the point is you
Speaker 1: can in science. It is. It used to be a
Speaker 1: case of, well, here's the science. But science is always evolving.
Speaker 1: And that's that's one of the weird things about the
Speaker 1: people that weaponized science. We talked a lot about how random,
Speaker 1: you know, it's they call it in exact act science
Speaker 1: is what they call it for a reason. It's imprecise,
Speaker 1: it's inaccurate, uh, and it's it's always evolving, even things
Speaker 1: that have been confirmed seemingly there are exceptions to the rule.
Speaker 1: That's a that's a whole different cannel worms, whole different
Speaker 1: channel worms. But it's good though, I mean, well, I
Speaker 1: have I have no problems with the challenge. I think
Speaker 1: everything should be challenged and questioned. But everything Now if
Speaker 1: you do do that, then you are labeled, and then
Speaker 1: you are condemned, which is just amazing. But I mean
Speaker 1: this is a definition by by definition, though, guests, science
Speaker 1: consists of people who are in disagreement with each other.
Speaker 1: That is, is that not the but but but good disagreement? Yes,
Speaker 1: I mean now you have I mean not now, but
Speaker 1: you've had this in years past and decades and generations passed,
Speaker 1: like you know, the progressives of cal and u c
Speaker 1: l a God forbids someone that's eve they're down the
Speaker 1: middle of the road or right wing if they if
Speaker 1: they if they want to talk on campus, they get condemned.
Speaker 1: Student bodies will will be up in you know, arms
Speaker 1: and whatnot. You see irvines now, the same with a
Speaker 1: couple of doctors there. It's pretty wild how this is
Speaker 1: more polarizing now than ever. But this is obviously here
Speaker 1: from the the the genesis of social media to we're
Speaker 1: at now. But I mean, this has happened in previous days,
Speaker 1: but of course just more highlighted now because of where
Speaker 1: we're at politically and and we're social media and television
Speaker 1: platforms are out nowadays all about the ratings. Man. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: and they've determined the people that keep track of this
Speaker 1: on human nature and what people respond to. And it's
Speaker 1: like I remember when I was early on in my
Speaker 1: career and people said, you're too negative, be more positive,
Speaker 1: and they should give me the list of positive talk
Speaker 1: radio show hosts that have done well. Uh, and the
Speaker 1: list is year Oh, it does not exist. Uh. And
Speaker 1: it's the whole follow the science thing which we've had
Speaker 1: shoved down our throats here over the last year and
Speaker 1: a half, two years, whatever it's been. Now, follow the science,
Speaker 1: listen to the experts and all that. And then you
Speaker 1: you take a couple of steps back and you're like, well,
Speaker 1: who are the experts? It's subjective, right, you do what
Speaker 1: they tell you, but it's subjective. And that old line
Speaker 1: is accurate. I heard somewhere along the way ten out
Speaker 1: of ten scientists degree with whoever funded them so and
Speaker 1: I got turned off. As you know, I love studies,
Speaker 1: academic studies, and I read a lot of these things
Speaker 1: and research done by some school in Australia, and we
Speaker 1: we do a bit we haven't done in a while.
Speaker 1: On the Saturday podcast we get scientifical and we'll go
Speaker 1: over some of the studies, and I don't do it
Speaker 1: as much and I'm not into them as much because
Speaker 1: you know, generally the it's it's one of those things
Speaker 1: like a screenplay, right, or where there's a couple of
Speaker 1: ways to write a story from a movie. You can
Speaker 1: write a movie and then work your way through this
Speaker 1: story and then get to the ending and then come
Speaker 1: up with the ending, or you can write the ending
Speaker 1: and then write the story. And a lot of the
Speaker 1: science world now is you have the ending, and here's
Speaker 1: how we're gonna get there. And you know, we're not
Speaker 1: gonna get bogged down with whatever the science teach, you
Speaker 1: know it leads us to we're gonna find a way
Speaker 1: to twist it into what we know the people the
Speaker 1: overlords want us to throw out, which is which is
Speaker 1: annoying and all that. But but there you go, How
Speaker 1: do we end up here? Guesco? How do we end
Speaker 1: up in that situation? I don't wait, how do we
Speaker 1: bring up this as a topic of conversation or how
Speaker 1: do we as a society end up here? We started
Speaker 1: talking about as sports and now we've ended up doing
Speaker 1: a deep dive. I don't know. We haven't had many
Speaker 1: people complain recently about staying on script, like stay in
Speaker 1: your sports lanes. So I just feel like so I
Speaker 1: feel like me being back here on a Saturday, I
Speaker 1: must kind of ruffle the feathers a little bit and
Speaker 1: mail to you, listen to you since I was ten
Speaker 1: years old. But you said something I don't like. You know,
Speaker 1: I can't lispinion. I no longer enjoy it's a it's
Speaker 1: it's an opinion based show. I get paid to give opinions.
Speaker 1: I didn't get your talking points memo on what I
Speaker 1: could say and not and uh, it's always fast. Well,
Speaker 1: it's like that article that was published a few days
Speaker 1: ago at the middle of the week was Sports Illustrated
Speaker 1: basically condemning journalists that we're asking Mike Tomlin about his
Speaker 1: desire want to go it's all race, yes, yes, the
Speaker 1: extreme liberal members of the media. Anything involving uh, you know,
Speaker 1: Mike Tomlin. Yeah, God for bid. We point out that
Speaker 1: Carson Palmer, who's on one of the committees at USC
Speaker 1: to come up with a coach, is the one that
Speaker 1: tossed Tomlin's name out. Seems like a pretty credible source
Speaker 1: that he just randomly tossed Mike Toma's name out. But
Speaker 1: God forbid. Tomlin's above even being asked the question. He
Speaker 1: pisces out gold, you know, liquid gold and ships gold bricks.
Speaker 1: Mike Tomlin like, yeah, come on, uh, it's it's insane,
Speaker 1: it's a legitimate question to ask. And now I I
Speaker 1: did a monologue prior to Tomlin coming out with his rant,
Speaker 1: which was wonderful. It's a great ramp by Mike Tomlin,
Speaker 1: and pointed out, how why would you leave the one
Speaker 1: job where you know you're not gonna be fired? Pete
Speaker 1: Carroll could be fired in Seattle and have to go
Speaker 1: back to USC with his tail between his legs. I
Speaker 1: throughout the name Cliff Kingsbury. Right now, that's not looking
Speaker 1: very good because the Cardinals are playing above their means.
Speaker 1: They're not that good. We'll come back to Earth, will
Speaker 1: have a regression to the mean. But until that happen,
Speaker 1: bins Cliff Kingsbury. He's not gonna leave Arizona. But that's
Speaker 1: a guy that USC had in the pipe in the
Speaker 1: pipe a pipeline rather to replace Clay Healton. A couple
Speaker 1: of years ago, he was there for like a week
Speaker 1: and then he went to the NFL. So is it
Speaker 1: wrong to ask him as the coach? It's not like
Speaker 1: the Steelers as as great as they've been in the
Speaker 1: regular season and no losing records and they've finished you know,
Speaker 1: I think five hundred once or something like that. That's
Speaker 1: Tomlin's resume. It's not like it's been a great playoff team.
Speaker 1: They've been a pretty easy out playoffs. They rolled over
Speaker 1: and played dead against the Browns in the last Let's
Speaker 1: let's calm down on that. What have you done for
Speaker 1: me lately? And you are ultimately judged on the playoffs? Right?
Speaker 1: I don't understand It's not you know what it is though,
Speaker 1: is it's not like someone from the MAC no disrespect,
Speaker 1: but it's not like someone from Bowling Green. It's not
Speaker 1: like a reporter said, hey, would you be interested in
Speaker 1: the Bowling Green position? Like hey, would you be interested
Speaker 1: in becoming a Toledo Rocket like they said USC If
Speaker 1: someone said, hey, would you be interested in the Alabama job?
Speaker 1: If Nick Saban retired? Would that be an insult um? Well,
Speaker 1: it depends on how well. I didn't think anything Tomins
Speaker 1: said was racist. He happened to name two or you're
Speaker 1: playing the race card. But he named two coaches who
Speaker 1: are white. So that's like, that's like the bat signal
Speaker 1: to the to the liberals in the media, like wit
Speaker 1: about it. He two coaches who happened to be white guys.
Speaker 1: So let me write my column. And it's it's so
Speaker 1: funny to those type of columns. And we've all done
Speaker 1: it being in uh the radio business, but it's the
Speaker 1: way you get to that column. It's like so and
Speaker 1: so didn't actually say this, but you know, you know
Speaker 1: you didn't have to. It's like, come on, yeah, it's whack.
Speaker 1: But I mean, there's plenty of coaches out there that
Speaker 1: that get those offers, and and I think one would
Speaker 1: be flattered. But I don't know. I asked Chris Broussard
Speaker 1: and Rob Parker this during the middle of the week.
Speaker 1: If you were in the position, or you can go
Speaker 1: to a usc A, Clemson, Obama, you know, I don't know, Florida,
Speaker 1: maybe Florida state where you run the entire show, like
Speaker 1: you run the university and you never have to worry
Speaker 1: about someone talking over you. Why wouldn't you do that?
Speaker 1: Whereas if you're a head coach in the NFL. Not
Speaker 1: to say Tomlin, but if you're a head coach in
Speaker 1: the NFL, you're running the risk of a dude that's
Speaker 1: making double the salary that you are as a player,
Speaker 1: and he could just tell you to go shove it,
Speaker 1: and you have nothing. You can't say anything about it
Speaker 1: because ultimately you depend on him and he's the one
Speaker 1: getting paid to do the work that you were trying
Speaker 1: to execute. Yeah. Yeah, here's the problem, though, there's so
Speaker 1: much bullshit you have to put up with at the
Speaker 1: college level. You don't have to put up with the
Speaker 1: n what of it. You have a segment annually every
Speaker 1: summer that is catered towards bullshit. The NFL book hum
Speaker 1: is the height of the height of play. But spoiler alert,
Speaker 1: you still have that in college. In fact, there are
Speaker 1: more college football players. We don't talk about it, but
Speaker 1: they head. You're a meathead college guy and you're out
Speaker 1: there and there's all these beautiful people around you, and
Speaker 1: there's drugs and booze, and you're experimenting for the maybe
Speaker 1: the first time in your life. You're in a different place,
Speaker 1: and you get in all kinds of trouble and then
Speaker 1: you gotta deal with the parents and say, well, I
Speaker 1: allowed my my child to go play for you, and
Speaker 1: now he's he's doing crack at a whorehouse. What do
Speaker 1: you what's wrong with you? Right, dude? Not everyone goes
Speaker 1: to Louisville. All right. I'm just saying, like, if you're
Speaker 1: if you had a choice between an NFL job and
Speaker 1: a college job, even a good college job, I would
Speaker 1: rather have an NFL job. As a former coach told
Speaker 1: me years ago, the difference between college and the NFL
Speaker 1: is In college, you have to go out and chase
Speaker 1: down the players. In the NFL, the players come to you.
Speaker 1: Now you only get to get a few of them,
Speaker 1: but they have the combine in in college football. Listen,
Speaker 1: you do a lot of these high school games. How
Speaker 1: often do you see scouts or assistant coaches or even
Speaker 1: head coaches from major college programs. If you're doing some
Speaker 1: hotshot quarterback who are sitting there and you know, just
Speaker 1: just so they can be seen in the crowd and
Speaker 1: so the family and everyone can know that they're there
Speaker 1: to see player X, and it's you gotta do that.
Speaker 1: That's the kind of stuff you have to do in
Speaker 1: the NFL. Just show up to the combine and a
Speaker 1: couple of pro days and you're pretty much there, just
Speaker 1: as you know, a side show, because it's the scouting
Speaker 1: department that does most of the heavy living on on
Speaker 1: those things. No, that's true, I will I think with
Speaker 1: today's environment with the NFL, I would agree. I think
Speaker 1: I think working in Jacksonville is a good job. And
Speaker 1: it comes down to ownership, right I That is mostly
Speaker 1: bullcrap like because there are very few meddling owners that
Speaker 1: actually mess up the day to day operations in the
Speaker 1: fell like okay, say, are people who they think are
Speaker 1: good who are bad. So really the problem is they
Speaker 1: hire people who suck. But it's not like you can
Speaker 1: you can win in any environment that I heard that
Speaker 1: about the Knicks with James Dolan and all that for you, Well,
Speaker 1: James Dolan still owns the Knicks, and now the Knicks
Speaker 1: are they're a mid level contender in the Eastern Conference.
Speaker 1: I heard the same thing about Donald Sterling for all
Speaker 1: of you. Well, Donald was loyal to Elgin Baylor, and
Speaker 1: Elgin as great a player as he was, he had
Speaker 1: all these lottery picks and all that and was unable
Speaker 1: to even the l a market. Yeah, is that love?
Speaker 1: The NBA. It's Miami l A. And that's about it.
Speaker 1: You know, maybe places in Texas guys want to play
Speaker 1: right now, Yeah, but what about I mean, look at Dallas.
Speaker 1: Though Dallas is a perfect example. They they basically punted
Speaker 1: on Jimmy Johnson. I want a Super Bowl with Barry Schwitzer.
Speaker 1: But I mean that was a well oiled machine. And
Speaker 1: that's a difference. That that's different because Jerry Jones is
Speaker 1: that m there. That's but it's not like Donald Sterling
Speaker 1: was the GM. Now. The problem he had was he
Speaker 1: would he would decide who the coach was often and
Speaker 1: he would meet with Elgin, would recommend to people and
Speaker 1: then uh Sterling would seemingly pick the worst candidate every
Speaker 1: time in those in those years. But I didn't I
Speaker 1: didn't want to move on here for se escum because
Speaker 1: there's a story I got and I sent this to
Speaker 1: you the other day, and I relate to this story.
Speaker 1: Blind Scott actually directed me to the story of all people.
Speaker 1: This is a blind leading the blind. He didn't he
Speaker 1: didn't block your anything. No, no, no. He sent me
Speaker 1: like some like grant that was ted messages long and
Speaker 1: then blocked me. Oh yeah, now he sends he hates
Speaker 1: your politics, and so he sends a lot of email
Speaker 1: to the Fifth Hour podcast email Real fifth Hour at
Speaker 1: gmail dot com. And I believe the sole purpose of
Speaker 1: those email is to annoy you, compliment that those emails are.
Speaker 1: And you don't even see these emails, so I'm the
Speaker 1: one that sees them. But one of them caught my
Speaker 1: attention here and it's one of my favorite stories of
Speaker 1: the week. The headline on this is meet the guy
Speaker 1: who spends just a hundred fifty dollars a year to
Speaker 1: eat all of his meals at six Flags. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: this is one of us. So this is thirty three
Speaker 1: year old dude. We'll call him by his name Dylan,
Speaker 1: which is ironically the same name as Blind Scott's dog,
Speaker 1: which makes me think this might be a fake story.
Speaker 1: But anyway, the story it was in a magazine and
Speaker 1: they claim that this, uh, this thirty three year old
Speaker 1: guys electrical engineer in Santa Clarita, which is where if
Speaker 1: you're not familiar with geography in California, if you go
Speaker 1: to six Flags, that's where you are. And uh so
Speaker 1: he pays around a hundred and fifty dollars. The story
Speaker 1: goes uh for year round access to six Flags that
Speaker 1: includes parking and two meals a day. And so this
Speaker 1: guy claims, the story goes that he for years has
Speaker 1: paid the one fifty dollar fee. This all started in
Speaker 1: he was an intern at six Flags Magic Mountain in
Speaker 1: southern California, and he noticed the deal and then put
Speaker 1: two and two together. He's a young guy, uh and
Speaker 1: trying to make his way. They're fresh out of college,
Speaker 1: and so he laid down the money and he found
Speaker 1: the deal and he has been since that day eating
Speaker 1: his meals, almost all of his meals at six Flags
Speaker 1: Magic mount carnival food. This guy's meaning, now, guess do
Speaker 1: they have that deal? Can we confirm that they have
Speaker 1: six Flags has the one meal? I gotta I gotta
Speaker 1: look into that. How is this any How is this
Speaker 1: any different? Though from your twenties when you were crashing
Speaker 1: Dodgers Stadium in the Great Western This is how I
Speaker 1: relate to the story, because I didn't even have to
Speaker 1: pay a hundred and fifty dollars a year. I just
Speaker 1: had to pay for gas. But when I was early
Speaker 1: on in the media, back in the glory days of
Speaker 1: being in the media, when I first started, everything was
Speaker 1: free all the food and I covered games. My job,
Speaker 1: my first real radio job. My first real radio job.
Speaker 1: I was an engineer for San Diego State basketball, which
Speaker 1: was a disaster and those games were on Cogo AM
Speaker 1: in San Diego. But I didn't That didn't last long
Speaker 1: and then I got job as a reporter for my
Speaker 1: Nighty Nighty in San Diego, but covering the l A market.
Speaker 1: And so they assigned me that give me my schedule
Speaker 1: and be at a King's game, or a Lakers game,
Speaker 1: or a Clippers game, or college game or during the summer,
Speaker 1: Dodgers and Angels and mixing. You know, there was actually
Speaker 1: no football because in those days the only football team
Speaker 1: was the Chargers, and so I go to those games sometimes,
Speaker 1: but no NFL football in l a H. So anyway,
Speaker 1: I go to these games and I was like I
Speaker 1: was in my twenties. I was a fat guy. Everything
Speaker 1: was free a dot. The O'Malley's owned the Dodgers. They
Speaker 1: had steak prime rib quite a bit. They had fish
Speaker 1: Fridays because O'Malley very religious to get eat fish on Friday,
Speaker 1: good Catholic, So he had that going on. And USC football.
Speaker 1: This is when they were terrible and they had been good,
Speaker 1: but they were still hanging on. This is before Pete Carroll.
Speaker 1: They had this run of coaches and they had the
Speaker 1: the carving stations. I remember this in the in the
Speaker 1: press box at the Colosseum, the old Colosseum, and there
Speaker 1: was a chef with a big you know those big
Speaker 1: chef hats, you know, the big white they're like professional
Speaker 1: chef and big knives, and just they'd be they'd be
Speaker 1: nice roast turkey, there'd be prime rib. It was just outstanding,
Speaker 1: just amazing. And uh so yeah, I did live that life.
Speaker 1: Uh and I ate better food than this guy. But
Speaker 1: that's that's a sneaky good hack. That is a sneaky
Speaker 1: good hack for this this particular person. So I'm I'm
Speaker 1: now looking here at season passes or I'm curious if
Speaker 1: I want to see what's going on here. You know
Speaker 1: who's really good at at providing food for the media.
Speaker 1: Low key is the Anaheim Ducks. I've not been to
Speaker 1: a Duck game since they had Paul Korea. Oh man,
Speaker 1: we'll see the Ducks do it right though. The Ducks
Speaker 1: will have typically some some snacks throughout the game. Kind
Speaker 1: of give me the break that's it, like the pretzels,
Speaker 1: the popcorn popcorn pretzel, popcorn pretzel solid waters. Of course
Speaker 1: that had the bulls. Then they'd also have either if
Speaker 1: it's night game, dinner, you know, lunch obviously, if it's
Speaker 1: an afternoon game, they would have that. But once you
Speaker 1: got into the third period, getting to the cookies bad.
Speaker 1: They still have the cookies. Yeah, and then that was,
Speaker 1: oh my god, those the not the cinnamon. What was
Speaker 1: the the sugar cookies peanut butter, peanut butter. Oh man,
Speaker 1: you I might have to go to an Anaheim Ducks game.
Speaker 1: I don't even know who's over there. I couldn't name
Speaker 1: one player of the team. I might have to go
Speaker 1: out there and make an appearance, a rare and appropriate appearance,
Speaker 1: first time in over twenty years, to go see it
Speaker 1: du just cookies and have a snack on the on
Speaker 1: the uh. This is the actual website for six Flags uh,
Speaker 1: six Flags Great America. It says here, uh, we introduce
Speaker 1: season dining passes. Because food at six Flags Great America
Speaker 1: is not always inexpensive. You could easily spend twenty dollars
Speaker 1: per person every time he was at the park. A
Speaker 1: season dining pass makes eating at the park almost more
Speaker 1: affordable than eating at home. And so here here it
Speaker 1: is by Originally this was two hundred nine dollars, but
Speaker 1: now they've lowered it because the year is almost over.
Speaker 1: So it's eighty nine dollars. You buy Deluxe Dining Pass
Speaker 1: and you get free upgrade to exclusive Premium benefits. The
Speaker 1: better it's lunch, dinner, and a snack each visit. Free
Speaker 1: Premium upgrade lets you eat at every six Flags theme park.
Speaker 1: Free Premium upgrade includes a free season drink bottle. So yeah,
Speaker 1: so you get to drink and you get the two
Speaker 1: meals and a snack on this one for ninety dollars.
Speaker 1: Now it was two hundred nine dollars. The other one
Speaker 1: is up to like a hundred ninety dollars, but you
Speaker 1: get lunch and a snack. So the guy must be
Speaker 1: doing de luxe thing. But still two years what kind
Speaker 1: I've not been to six Flags? What kind of food
Speaker 1: do they just? I imagine it's the same standard standard
Speaker 1: carnival food that you would get, which you're talking about
Speaker 1: your what we just mentioned that, the pretzels, the nachos,
Speaker 1: that kind of thing. Yeah, I don't know that's a
Speaker 1: good question. I haven't been. I haven't been to I
Speaker 1: haven't been to an amusement park or carnival probably in
Speaker 1: a good fifteen twenty years. They have a wide I'm
Speaker 1: looking here at the meal plan. If I'm looking at
Speaker 1: the right one, this has a good selection. There's big
Speaker 1: lose Italian beef. Uh. This must be a different six
Speaker 1: Flags because but this is this, This is on the
Speaker 1: six Flags website. It says here they have claim Jumper,
Speaker 1: which is a chain hasn't done well recently. There's a
Speaker 1: Moose Burger Lodge barbecue brisket sliders. I feel like we're
Speaker 1: doing this thing we did a couple of weeks ago
Speaker 1: with our friend Alfa Alieno Piner. They have big barbecue
Speaker 1: brisket sliders, cole slaw and waffle fries. What else do
Speaker 1: we have? Let's see macho nacho, Nice nacho nachos with steak,
Speaker 1: two dollar upgrade chicken strip meal. Johnny Rockets is their
Speaker 1: great American dog house, Mac and cheese, hot dog and fries.
Speaker 1: Primo's Pizzeria. That's there. You can get cheese, pizza, slice
Speaker 1: and fries, garlic knots or salad. I'm fasting right now,
Speaker 1: so all this sounds really good. This is right in
Speaker 1: my wheelhouse. If you like that giant Carnival turkey leg,
Speaker 1: they have that blue ribbon, you can get that as well. Guest,
Speaker 1: that's on the on the rundown. Uh, there's some decent
Speaker 1: stuff here. I could do that. That's not that the
Speaker 1: guy's complaining foods unhealthy. Yeah, you know it's one man's
Speaker 1: unhealthy is another man's healthy. Yeah. Just adding more steps
Speaker 1: into your day and um, you know, work out a
Speaker 1: little bit harder. Well. The good thing about that is
Speaker 1: that an amusement parks you get a lot of steps.
Speaker 1: I don't. I go to Disneyland usually once a year
Speaker 1: because my wife loves Disneyland and I can figure out
Speaker 1: a way to get there for not that much once
Speaker 1: a year. So I go once a year. And it's awesome. Man.
Speaker 1: We we started like eight in the morning, and they're
Speaker 1: there until our legs fall off, and you get so
Speaker 1: many steps. And the great thing about going to an
Speaker 1: amusement park early, No one wants to get there early.
Speaker 1: You get on any ride you want if you get
Speaker 1: there at the crack of non and and then you
Speaker 1: beat the rush hour. The way to do it, all right,
Speaker 1: I think that's enough, guest gon, Yes, and we reached
Speaker 1: the end of the road on the Saturday podcast. All right,
Speaker 1: very good. We'll have the mailbag on Sunday. How exciting
Speaker 1: is that you're gonna be on the mailbag on Sunday Gascon?
Speaker 1: You might, I might. Uh yeah, Well we'll talk about
Speaker 1: this because, uh well there's lots of things to talk
Speaker 1: about with Benny versus the Penny too. Yes, that's right,
Speaker 1: Benny versus the Penny, which was on Friday, this of
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