WEBVTT - The Fifth Hour: A Winning Aura 0:00:00.680 --> 0:00:01.440 Kutbooms. 0:00:02.279 --> 0:00:05.360 If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes 0:00:05.400 --> 0:00:09.200 a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants 0:00:09.200 --> 0:00:12.480 of the Old Republic, a soul fashion of fairness. He 0:00:12.560 --> 0:00:15.480 treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the 0:00:15.600 --> 0:00:19.440 rich pill poppers in the penthouse. Wow to the Clearinghouse 0:00:19.480 --> 0:00:23.200 of hot takes, break free for something special. The Fifth 0:00:23.200 --> 0:00:29.360 Hour with Ben Maller starts right now in. 0:00:29.200 --> 0:00:32.040 The air everywhere. 0:00:32.320 --> 0:00:35.800 The Fifth Hour with Me, Ben Mahler and Danny G Radio. 0:00:35.880 --> 0:00:39.960 Happy Saturday to you as we slide into the fourteenth 0:00:40.080 --> 0:00:44.199 day of June, a day to celebrate the flag. It 0:00:44.240 --> 0:00:46.960 is Flag Day today, also a big day if you're 0:00:47.000 --> 0:00:50.960 into protesting apparently today. But that's not what this is about, 0:00:51.040 --> 0:00:55.200 Danny G. We are about the drive, We're about the passion. 0:00:55.920 --> 0:00:56.600 I don't even know what. 0:00:56.560 --> 0:00:59.080 This is really about. It's not only a sports podcast. 0:00:59.120 --> 0:01:03.920 Although I did watch the Thunder and the Pacers, and 0:01:04.160 --> 0:01:06.440 I did watch Indiana right the vomit comment, I think 0:01:06.440 --> 0:01:08.800 I'm one of like five people outside of Indiana and 0:01:08.840 --> 0:01:12.240 Oklahoma City watching the NBA Finals. I was happy I 0:01:12.240 --> 0:01:15.000 did not have to do a monologue about that game, 0:01:15.040 --> 0:01:17.080 though it would have it wouldn't have been a bad monologue. 0:01:17.120 --> 0:01:19.160 But I'm just you know, it was a night I 0:01:19.160 --> 0:01:20.640 didn't have to do the show last night. 0:01:21.200 --> 0:01:25.360 I feel like Indiana blew a golden opportunity. They just 0:01:25.560 --> 0:01:27.480 choked away those last couple of minutes. 0:01:28.000 --> 0:01:30.480 Well, they had a seven point lead going to the 0:01:30.480 --> 0:01:34.240 fourth quarter and then in the fourth quarter could not 0:01:34.480 --> 0:01:37.280 hit the It was the line the broadside of a barn. 0:01:37.319 --> 0:01:39.240 I mean, they were terrible. 0:01:39.360 --> 0:01:45.280 Offensively, and our guy Pascal siakam pitching a shutout, or 0:01:45.319 --> 0:01:48.520 as Marcella says, see it come, he did not see 0:01:48.560 --> 0:01:48.880 it come. 0:01:49.240 --> 0:01:52.240 Yeah, I did not score in the in the fourth quarter. 0:01:52.520 --> 0:01:57.560 So essentially the Pacers sucked at a time you cannot suck. 0:01:57.720 --> 0:02:01.280 And as a result there they're in some tough shape. 0:02:01.400 --> 0:02:02.880 I mean, they've lost at homes and I gotta win 0:02:02.920 --> 0:02:07.880 another game in Oklahoma City, and so that's that's where 0:02:07.880 --> 0:02:08.200 we are. 0:02:08.440 --> 0:02:11.200 That's that's I heard Haliburton as he was walking off 0:02:11.200 --> 0:02:13.400 the court. I heard him. He said to one of 0:02:13.400 --> 0:02:16.280 his teammates, it's just got to take one on the road. 0:02:16.840 --> 0:02:17.440 There you go. 0:02:19.040 --> 0:02:21.880 Well, it's not a good sign for the NBA. I 0:02:22.160 --> 0:02:26.160 don't know about you. Danny, but my phone. The people 0:02:26.200 --> 0:02:29.679 in my circle that text me random crap. The thing 0:02:29.760 --> 0:02:32.639 they were texting me about was not the game they 0:02:32.639 --> 0:02:34.280 were texting me about. And this kind of kind of 0:02:34.360 --> 0:02:37.639 lead us into this this podcast. Uh, the I call 0:02:37.639 --> 0:02:41.560 it the Alumni Gamer here. I kept getting messages did 0:02:41.560 --> 0:02:42.440 you see what he did? 0:02:43.000 --> 0:02:47.120 As I I'm not on I wasn't on like Twitter 0:02:47.200 --> 0:02:48.760 or ex or whatever last night, so I was I didn't. 0:02:49.400 --> 0:02:50.480 I didn't see it. Uh. 0:02:50.520 --> 0:02:53.760 And then people were sending me and our former morning guy, 0:02:54.440 --> 0:02:55.000 Stephen A. 0:02:55.120 --> 0:02:57.640 Smith, did you see? He went viral? 0:02:57.840 --> 0:03:00.360 And more people sent me this story than I wanted 0:03:00.400 --> 0:03:04.399 to say anything about the Pacers choking, choking the game 0:03:04.480 --> 0:03:06.320 have been a seven point league, going to the fourth 0:03:06.360 --> 0:03:08.000 quarter and blowing it. 0:03:08.520 --> 0:03:10.520 Everyone in my circle said. 0:03:10.360 --> 0:03:13.040 Can you believe he got caught doing that? That was 0:03:13.080 --> 0:03:16.480 the photo of Steven A. Smith, former Fox Sports radio 0:03:16.520 --> 0:03:21.079 morning man, who was spotted during the NBA Finals game 0:03:21.919 --> 0:03:27.120 playing Solitaire on his phone while the game the game 0:03:27.280 --> 0:03:29.080 was going on, Who goofed? 0:03:29.120 --> 0:03:32.560 I've got to know that sounds like something you would do, 0:03:32.680 --> 0:03:35.480 except you'd be playing Wordle or one of those stupid games. 0:03:35.760 --> 0:03:37.880 Well, I'd be playing, as you know, scrabble. 0:03:39.200 --> 0:03:40.000 That's even worse. 0:03:40.240 --> 0:03:43.320 I also get paid twenty million dollars a year. There's that. 0:03:45.160 --> 0:03:48.160 I will defend steven A Stephen as. What stephen A 0:03:48.320 --> 0:03:52.680 does is performance art. He's got a ton of people 0:03:53.000 --> 0:03:57.720 that make him look good. Stephen got segment producers. They 0:03:57.760 --> 0:04:02.880 send him talking points for each segment. So really all 0:04:02.960 --> 0:04:06.400 he is, he's like an actor. He's just repeating the 0:04:06.520 --> 0:04:08.680 bullet points for each particular segment. 0:04:08.760 --> 0:04:10.760 So yeah, they got people doing the work. 0:04:10.840 --> 0:04:13.200 That's why steven A can't get into the weeds in 0:04:13.280 --> 0:04:17.640 certain conversations. Remember when he will like talk about players 0:04:17.680 --> 0:04:19.560 who aren't even in the league anymore. 0:04:20.040 --> 0:04:21.279 Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. 0:04:21.560 --> 0:04:25.080 And it's because, like you said, he knows the surface stuff, 0:04:25.200 --> 0:04:28.359 like the topic and the main points. But once he 0:04:28.440 --> 0:04:30.560 gets too far into the weeds, it's trouble. 0:04:30.960 --> 0:04:34.200 Yeah, listen, and I'm not I'm not knocking steven A. 0:04:34.320 --> 0:04:35.400 He's much more successful. 0:04:35.440 --> 0:04:36.040 Sound like you are. 0:04:36.400 --> 0:04:39.039 Well, no, he's much more successful than I'll ever be. 0:04:39.080 --> 0:04:41.440 But I know what he's doing. It's it's acting. He's 0:04:41.560 --> 0:04:42.680 he's a characters. 0:04:42.960 --> 0:04:45.240 You do not want to make an enemy out of him. 0:04:45.640 --> 0:04:46.000 Listen. 0:04:46.720 --> 0:04:49.479 I heard stephen A early on when he was just 0:04:49.520 --> 0:04:51.680 becoming a talk show host at Fox Sports Radio. Yeah, 0:04:51.760 --> 0:04:54.240 he Holst did a Saturday show. I've told the story 0:04:54.279 --> 0:04:58.560 before I was there. I did updates is Steven A 0:04:58.720 --> 0:05:00.520 did a show with John Eyer and who at the 0:05:00.560 --> 0:05:03.480 time was the Lakers sideline reporter. They did a show 0:05:03.520 --> 0:05:07.320 together on the weekends at Fox Sports Radio and Ireland 0:05:07.400 --> 0:05:11.680 got stuck. The Laker plane got mechanical problems. They couldn't 0:05:11.680 --> 0:05:14.240 make it back to La so Steve and A had 0:05:14.240 --> 0:05:15.240 to do the show by himself. 0:05:15.240 --> 0:05:17.160 He wasn't prepared. He drowned on the air. 0:05:17.760 --> 0:05:20.200 I'm amazed he's still able to work because he literally 0:05:20.240 --> 0:05:23.560 drowned on the radio. I heard him drown and so 0:05:23.600 --> 0:05:25.560 I mean, I listen and we all have had those moments. 0:05:25.600 --> 0:05:26.320 I've had many of them. 0:05:26.360 --> 0:05:28.440 I have won a week probably where that happens. But 0:05:28.920 --> 0:05:31.000 it's like people are shocked, like, oh my god, I 0:05:31.000 --> 0:05:33.560 can't believe he was playing solitaire during an NBA Finals game. 0:05:34.960 --> 0:05:38.400 I'm not I'm not listening these guys. You know, they 0:05:38.440 --> 0:05:40.200 got the other things going on. 0:05:41.000 --> 0:05:43.280 It's like you do something for a long time and 0:05:43.480 --> 0:05:45.280 not that you know Steve and he likes basketball. I'm 0:05:45.279 --> 0:05:47.640 not saying it doesn't much basketball. This is not the 0:05:47.640 --> 0:05:51.440 most compelling matchup in the world, and he knows whatever 0:05:51.560 --> 0:05:54.600 happens on the court, and you know, he's somebody will 0:05:54.600 --> 0:05:56.480 tell him what to say, and then he'll just repeat 0:05:56.480 --> 0:05:58.960 the talk. It's like what you mentioned when he got 0:05:58.960 --> 0:06:02.679 the players wrong, It's like some producer probably got fired 0:06:02.920 --> 0:06:06.000 because they put the wrong names in there, and you know, 0:06:06.160 --> 0:06:08.720 he just kind of repeated what was in front of him, 0:06:08.760 --> 0:06:10.840 and then you know, all hell broke this. But I 0:06:10.880 --> 0:06:14.160 just love the fact that steven A playing solitaire. More 0:06:14.200 --> 0:06:17.720 people were messaging me about that on my phone than 0:06:17.800 --> 0:06:20.200 the actual game where the Pacers blew a seven point 0:06:20.279 --> 0:06:24.120 lead at home in a chance to you know, a big, 0:06:24.279 --> 0:06:27.720 big pivot game in the NBA Finals, And that's what 0:06:27.760 --> 0:06:28.560 everyone was talking. 0:06:28.440 --> 0:06:29.880 About, was steven A playing soccer. 0:06:29.920 --> 0:06:32.840 This is proof that the NBA really needs a lot 0:06:32.839 --> 0:06:37.440 of star power to really drive their viewership. And this 0:06:37.640 --> 0:06:41.120 just ain't it. Neither team has stars. I'm not interested in. 0:06:41.880 --> 0:06:44.720 Well, they've created this formula. I ranted. 0:06:44.760 --> 0:06:46.440 I did a monologue this week about it. I think 0:06:46.440 --> 0:06:49.400 we all kind of know the same thing. They've the recipe. 0:06:50.000 --> 0:06:54.600 It's like remember when Coca Cola changed the recipe for coke. 0:06:54.640 --> 0:06:57.040 They knew coke and oh it. 0:06:57.000 --> 0:06:59.400 Was the biggest mistake their company ever made. 0:06:59.680 --> 0:07:04.839 Yeah, and the NBA has created this formula, big markets, 0:07:04.920 --> 0:07:08.240 star power and all that. Like the other night in 0:07:08.279 --> 0:07:12.520 the NHL game, the Stanley Cup Final game, Taylor Swift 0:07:12.600 --> 0:07:16.440 and Travis Kelcey were there, and that's bigger than any. 0:07:16.280 --> 0:07:18.240 Stars that have attended the NBA Finals. 0:07:18.720 --> 0:07:21.480 They just happen to be living in that area where 0:07:21.480 --> 0:07:24.960 the Florida Panthers plays. So anyway, So steven A, I 0:07:25.000 --> 0:07:26.840 hope he won the solitaire game. 0:07:27.320 --> 0:07:29.840 I hope he did well on that. I don't know. 0:07:30.280 --> 0:07:32.480 I play solitaire too. I don't play that often. I 0:07:32.520 --> 0:07:36.280 mostly play scrabble. Although I would point out Danny that 0:07:36.480 --> 0:07:39.840 many of the people that listen to this podcast, many 0:07:39.880 --> 0:07:42.040 of the p ones that I was playing against, I 0:07:42.080 --> 0:07:45.120 have beaten them into submission where they have given up, 0:07:45.560 --> 0:07:48.720 they have said no moss, they have thrown in the sponge. 0:07:48.760 --> 0:07:52.280 I'm that dominant that fans of the show, p ones 0:07:52.960 --> 0:07:56.120 of the Overnight radio show and this podcast where I 0:07:56.200 --> 0:08:00.640 was competing against in Scrabble Go, that's the app I used. 0:08:00.640 --> 0:08:01.200 Scrabble Go. 0:08:02.440 --> 0:08:06.400 Is this like password though? Where you were cheating with 0:08:06.480 --> 0:08:08.720 the computer opened. You have like a laptop or a 0:08:09.040 --> 0:08:12.200 pat open so chie. 0:08:12.280 --> 0:08:15.480 The only ones I'm still playing are Patrick DJ Spin 0:08:15.600 --> 0:08:20.560 in San Diego, Bobby and Florida. But uh the you know, 0:08:20.720 --> 0:08:24.160 our buddy in Austin, he bailed alf the alien opineer, 0:08:24.240 --> 0:08:27.320 tossed in the he tossed in the towel. Another one 0:08:27.320 --> 0:08:29.000 of my guys from Texas who I was playing against. 0:08:29.040 --> 0:08:31.400 Guy from Ohio. I was playing against a bunch of 0:08:31.400 --> 0:08:34.959 listeners and these guys all just they say, couldn't handle it. 0:08:35.480 --> 0:08:39.640 They can't handle my my word ability, Danny, g my 0:08:40.000 --> 0:08:44.360 lexicon was too much. And these guys gave up. And 0:08:44.400 --> 0:08:48.720 that's a win. They retired from scrabble. Go, so put 0:08:48.720 --> 0:08:49.920 that in your pipe and smoke it. 0:08:50.200 --> 0:08:52.080 And here we thought you peaked in the fifth grade 0:08:52.120 --> 0:08:53.400 when you won that spelling beat. 0:08:53.559 --> 0:08:54.199 Now, dare you? 0:08:55.120 --> 0:08:58.360 We'll have later on, we'll have the freak show, what 0:08:58.520 --> 0:08:59.560 are you pee wee? 0:09:00.080 --> 0:09:01.800 And the phrase of the week. But right now, Danny, 0:09:02.040 --> 0:09:04.040 we have breaking news. Now. 0:09:03.920 --> 0:09:06.640 How can you have breaking news on a podcast because 0:09:06.640 --> 0:09:09.000 this is recorded, But we have breaking news right. 0:09:08.880 --> 0:09:12.040 Now, breaking news live to tape, as you always say, 0:09:12.040 --> 0:09:13.880 because I think Tom Maloney taught you that. 0:09:14.320 --> 0:09:17.959 Oh yeah, Looney would lose his fricking mind. He would 0:09:18.000 --> 0:09:20.880 get so upset, he would be lathering. 0:09:21.240 --> 0:09:23.240 Did you kind have lived the tape? Why would you 0:09:23.280 --> 0:09:23.600 say that? 0:09:23.679 --> 0:09:28.280 Oh my god, I feel like I hear Looney's voice 0:09:28.520 --> 0:09:31.439 saying you can't do breaking news on a podcast. 0:09:31.600 --> 0:09:32.840 Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly. 0:09:33.559 --> 0:09:38.720 And because yesterday I got an email, Big Ben from 0:09:38.800 --> 0:09:44.400 one Julie Talbot. Oh, now, explain to our hundreds and 0:09:44.480 --> 0:09:48.319 hundreds and billions of listeners who Julie Talbot is. 0:09:48.880 --> 0:09:52.320 All right, So, if you're in America, most of our 0:09:52.360 --> 0:09:55.280 audiences in America, the President of the United States is 0:09:55.320 --> 0:09:59.760 Donald Trump. If you work in radio at iHeart at P, 0:10:00.840 --> 0:10:05.240 the president, the boss, the big cheese is Julie Talbot. 0:10:05.320 --> 0:10:10.080 She's the She's the power broker of power brokers. She's 0:10:10.280 --> 0:10:12.200 got her finger on the button. 0:10:12.960 --> 0:10:15.920 Indeed, she is the president of our company. And the 0:10:15.960 --> 0:10:18.719 President of the United States. Also has to do with 0:10:18.760 --> 0:10:24.080 this China. Clay Travis was at the White House. You 0:10:24.240 --> 0:10:26.040 might have seen the pictures the other day. 0:10:26.280 --> 0:10:28.920 I did. You posted the photo? That's where I saw it. 0:10:28.960 --> 0:10:32.560 You posted that was crazy to see see Clay in 0:10:32.600 --> 0:10:33.880 the in the White House. 0:10:33.960 --> 0:10:37.160 Wild so when Clay left the White House, it was 0:10:37.240 --> 0:10:40.680 texting with me Trump. One of the things he loved 0:10:40.720 --> 0:10:44.240 about OutKick when it was on FSR. He was a 0:10:44.280 --> 0:10:47.880 fan of Animal Thunderdome. It's one of the things they 0:10:48.000 --> 0:10:51.040 talked about while Clay was there speaking with him. 0:10:51.360 --> 0:10:51.960 That's great. 0:10:52.600 --> 0:10:55.800 In the White House, they're talking about the who's that 0:10:55.880 --> 0:10:57.960 guy that you got on the interview that you. 0:10:58.080 --> 0:11:00.760 Remember the famous tiger for me? 0:11:01.000 --> 0:11:02.320 Yeah, yeah, the tiger hunter. 0:11:02.440 --> 0:11:11.440 Yeah, we have now Nawab Shaffat Ali Khan, one of 0:11:11.520 --> 0:11:14.600 India's most famous tiger hunters. I believe he is on 0:11:14.720 --> 0:11:18.000 the line with us from the tiger hunting camp in India. 0:11:18.480 --> 0:11:20.079 Mister Khan, how are you. 0:11:21.920 --> 0:11:24.320 Yes, hallo, this is Navad here. 0:11:25.800 --> 0:11:28.040 You are right now? Yes, I appreciate you joining us. 0:11:28.040 --> 0:11:32.160 Thank you so much. You are in a camp hunting 0:11:32.360 --> 0:11:34.480 a man eating tiger right now? 0:11:34.520 --> 0:11:34.920 Correct? 0:11:35.880 --> 0:11:36.880 Absolutely true? 0:11:37.000 --> 0:11:42.239 Yes, what is the latest on the tiger hunt? 0:11:42.800 --> 0:11:45.560 You see, this is one of the most challenging and 0:11:45.720 --> 0:11:51.439 difficult operations of the century where it involves four tigers. 0:11:52.160 --> 0:11:55.800 The main many term is a tiger is called T 0:11:56.080 --> 0:12:00.160 one and she has two cubs which are about ten 0:12:00.320 --> 0:12:05.240 months old and they have also tasted human flesh. So 0:12:05.920 --> 0:12:10.160 we have orders now to tranquilize the mother and the cubs, 0:12:10.440 --> 0:12:13.960 and that is not possible to eliminate her by shooting. 0:12:15.080 --> 0:12:20.880 What is when a tiger tastes human flesh? What happens? 0:12:20.880 --> 0:12:23.280 Do they continue to eat it? Do they like it? 0:12:23.559 --> 0:12:24.600 What happens there? 0:12:25.880 --> 0:12:29.320 It's much easier to hunt a human being compared to 0:12:29.440 --> 0:12:33.480 any other animal in the wild because the natural prey 0:12:33.559 --> 0:12:37.920 of tigers, that's wild war and other herbivores. They can 0:12:37.960 --> 0:12:42.559 smell a tiger and get away, whereas a human being 0:12:42.800 --> 0:12:46.720 is completely breast of the power of smell, and he 0:12:46.880 --> 0:12:51.040 becomes an easy prey. And especially when there are cubs 0:12:51.080 --> 0:12:55.240 at here, it's easy for the tigers to catch human 0:12:55.320 --> 0:12:59.800 beings and feed them. And once they start feeding on 0:13:00.080 --> 0:13:05.160 human beings, they realize that the meat is softer and 0:13:05.320 --> 0:13:09.800 easier for the cubs to chew, and it's much easier 0:13:09.840 --> 0:13:14.040 to hunt. So that's why, once they've become managters, they 0:13:14.120 --> 0:13:17.560 continue to kill human beings and that becomes a very 0:13:17.679 --> 0:13:22.640 serious matter. So far, fourteen innocent people have lost their 0:13:22.679 --> 0:13:24.600 lives to this tigris. 0:13:24.920 --> 0:13:25.120 Hell. 0:13:25.280 --> 0:13:29.440 Yeah, Trump is joking around with Clay about oh, I 0:13:29.520 --> 0:13:32.000 used to love that animal Thunderdome thing you did on 0:13:32.040 --> 0:13:35.680 your show, and they were reminiscing about when Clay had 0:13:35.720 --> 0:13:39.360 his Fox Sports Radio outkickshow, which is when the two 0:13:39.400 --> 0:13:43.760 of them met, obviously, So Clay is telling me about 0:13:43.760 --> 0:13:45.520 what it was like at the White House and the 0:13:45.559 --> 0:13:50.679 pictures and all that, and then his last text was, oh, 0:13:50.760 --> 0:13:53.800 and by the way, I'm back home after fourth of 0:13:53.920 --> 0:13:57.960 July and we are gonna launch the Thunderdome podcast. 0:14:00.840 --> 0:14:03.600 You've had these before, whereas he've been closed. 0:14:03.640 --> 0:14:07.480 He's never given a date though. Okay, ever, he's never 0:14:07.520 --> 0:14:11.040 given a date, and I shared that with Julie Talbot 0:14:11.160 --> 0:14:14.520 on Friday. She sent me an email later in the 0:14:14.600 --> 0:14:18.000 day saying, I am getting the paperwork in order right now. 0:14:18.440 --> 0:14:21.520 We are going to get this thing launched. Me if 0:14:21.560 --> 0:14:24.000 the president of the network is saying it's going to happen, 0:14:24.520 --> 0:14:27.840 Clay is actually giving a date for it, now, I 0:14:27.960 --> 0:14:30.760 feel like I can announce that this is gonna actually 0:14:30.800 --> 0:14:31.640 happen this summer. 0:14:32.000 --> 0:14:34.080 Outstanding, all right, what are we think of like a 0:14:34.120 --> 0:14:36.480 weekly podcast or what do we look at it? 0:14:36.680 --> 0:14:38.560 It's just going to be once a week a week 0:14:39.120 --> 0:14:41.640 and you know it'd be the same exact thing the 0:14:41.680 --> 0:14:44.800 way I hosted it on OutKick with him, I found 0:14:45.360 --> 0:14:49.120 the really good animal versus men's stories, and then I 0:14:49.200 --> 0:14:53.280 teed up Clay to react to the crazy stories. And 0:14:53.320 --> 0:14:56.680 then usually the next week he would tell me, oh, 0:14:56.760 --> 0:14:58.760 you know last week, how there was that guy who 0:14:59.080 --> 0:15:01.720 wrangled the al gator. He had the cigar in his 0:15:01.800 --> 0:15:04.720 mouth and it went viral. Yeah, he's like, track that 0:15:04.800 --> 0:15:06.960 guy down, I want to interview him. So then I 0:15:07.000 --> 0:15:09.640 would track the person down and then Clay would interview 0:15:09.680 --> 0:15:12.200 the person the next week on the Animal Thunderdome. So 0:15:12.280 --> 0:15:13.440 that's kind of the formula. 0:15:14.120 --> 0:15:14.560 Awesome. 0:15:14.840 --> 0:15:17.120 Well that's great, And I know from my friends that 0:15:17.280 --> 0:15:21.720 work in local television the stories that they get the 0:15:21.760 --> 0:15:24.640 most feedback on, I guess is the word I'm going were. 0:15:24.680 --> 0:15:29.000 But the animal stories around here in southern California in 0:15:29.000 --> 0:15:32.960 the foothills, there's bears everywhere, and if they get video 0:15:33.000 --> 0:15:37.040 of a bear taking a swim in a family pool, gold, right, 0:15:37.200 --> 0:15:39.040 just gold, you know that kind of stuff. 0:15:39.040 --> 0:15:41.840 But in the Animal Thunderdome's next level. So and there's 0:15:41.880 --> 0:15:43.480 there's always that usually. 0:15:43.200 --> 0:15:45.760 Involves death too, like he loves the death stories. 0:15:46.160 --> 0:15:49.000 Yeah, all right, well that's great. So that's exciting. 0:15:49.120 --> 0:15:51.160 I mean, we're already here in mid June, so that's 0:15:51.200 --> 0:15:54.720 only like a month of less than a month away roughly, right. 0:15:54.840 --> 0:15:56.760 Yeah, I don't know if they're going to be able 0:15:56.800 --> 0:15:58.960 to have everything ready for it to go on the 0:15:59.040 --> 0:16:01.960 date he's talking up. It'll probably be a few weeks 0:16:02.000 --> 0:16:04.200 after that, because it's not just as easy as snapping 0:16:04.240 --> 0:16:07.880 your fingers and putting a podcast on the air. If 0:16:07.880 --> 0:16:10.400 this doesn't happen now, then I'm never going to talk 0:16:10.400 --> 0:16:12.240 about the Animal Thunderdome ever again. 0:16:14.480 --> 0:16:17.240 So was he was Clay at the Was he at 0:16:17.240 --> 0:16:18.960 the White House on Wednesday? Or Thursday? 0:16:19.000 --> 0:16:19.120 Like? 0:16:19.120 --> 0:16:19.720 What day was? 0:16:21.080 --> 0:16:23.840 You're asking the wrong person. My week felt like two 0:16:23.880 --> 0:16:25.720 weeks and I don't even know what day or what 0:16:25.840 --> 0:16:26.920 time it is right now. 0:16:27.400 --> 0:16:31.640 Yeah, I know, I man, I I'm the same I'm 0:16:31.640 --> 0:16:33.840 the same way. I just get up and I was like, 0:16:33.880 --> 0:16:36.280 all right, I have a show to do today, so 0:16:36.320 --> 0:16:38.280 I better get ready for the show. And then a 0:16:38.360 --> 0:16:39.760 day I don't have a show to do. I got 0:16:39.760 --> 0:16:41.600 a podcast to do, so I was like, I get 0:16:41.600 --> 0:16:43.760 the podcast. I got to get that ready. 0:16:44.240 --> 0:16:47.240 So all I know was a few days ago, okay, 0:16:47.320 --> 0:16:50.360 And you know when I saw those pictures. I was like, 0:16:50.880 --> 0:16:54.000 he's there again. It's crazy because now I think that's 0:16:54.040 --> 0:16:57.320 his third time to the White House if I'm not mistaken. 0:16:57.720 --> 0:17:01.120 But this time he actually was with the Vice President 0:17:01.160 --> 0:17:03.280 for a while and then he was cutting it up 0:17:03.680 --> 0:17:06.160 with the big cheese like talk to him for over 0:17:06.200 --> 0:17:06.879 a half hour. 0:17:07.720 --> 0:17:10.200 Yeah, that's awesome. No, that was a great, great photo 0:17:10.240 --> 0:17:13.679 that you shared of Clay. That's that's wild. 0:17:14.440 --> 0:17:17.160 Now I just got to get president did the forward 0:17:17.240 --> 0:17:20.120 for Clay's upcoming book. I got to get the President 0:17:20.160 --> 0:17:22.119 to do the promo for Animal Thunderdome. 0:17:22.720 --> 0:17:25.439 Oh that'd be great. This is President Donald Trump, and 0:17:25.480 --> 0:17:26.520 you better listen. 0:17:27.119 --> 0:17:30.440 You know, I put you in some billions and billions 0:17:30.440 --> 0:17:32.240 and billions of animal. 0:17:31.960 --> 0:17:33.920 Stories exactly, exactly. 0:17:34.320 --> 0:17:36.639 Well, Animal Thunderome was great, But I was at a 0:17:36.720 --> 0:17:39.679 human zoo. I was at a human zoo last weekend. 0:17:39.800 --> 0:17:43.080 Danny g I made a quick, rare and appropriate trip 0:17:43.119 --> 0:17:47.480 to Vegas last weekend. It was kind of a late 0:17:47.640 --> 0:17:49.800 birthday fame my birthday in late April. 0:17:49.840 --> 0:17:53.160 Haven't had a chance to really go anywhere. 0:17:52.880 --> 0:17:56.280 Do anythings right. You brought me back some Vegas raider gear. 0:17:56.600 --> 0:17:57.760 I'm so thankful for. 0:17:58.160 --> 0:17:58.400 Yeah. 0:17:58.480 --> 0:18:02.240 Yeah, I got some some raider stuff for you know, 0:18:02.359 --> 0:18:03.520 a person or two over there. 0:18:03.520 --> 0:18:05.520 But the so it's kind of a late birthday thing. 0:18:05.520 --> 0:18:09.520 Now. I stayed in downtown in Vegas. I don't like 0:18:09.600 --> 0:18:12.159 the Strip. I like downtown. I've always tried to avoid 0:18:12.240 --> 0:18:16.080 the Strip and stay downtown right across the street. I 0:18:16.080 --> 0:18:19.440 didn't stay at Circa. I stayed across the street from Circa, 0:18:19.480 --> 0:18:21.480 which is a twenty one plus hotel. 0:18:21.520 --> 0:18:22.760 It's beautiful. 0:18:23.080 --> 0:18:25.960 They actually you have to give your identification to get 0:18:26.000 --> 0:18:28.280 into the hotel. They will not let you in unless 0:18:28.320 --> 0:18:31.280 you have an identification. And it's got the greatest sports 0:18:31.280 --> 0:18:34.360 book I've ever been to. The Circa sports Book is amazing. 0:18:34.400 --> 0:18:36.280 They don't pay me to say that, or I'm not 0:18:36.280 --> 0:18:37.840 getting any money out of it. 0:18:37.840 --> 0:18:38.480 It's awesome. 0:18:39.520 --> 0:18:42.639 So the way I do it, I went with a 0:18:42.680 --> 0:18:46.320 buddy of mine and we bet kind of pull our. 0:18:46.240 --> 0:18:49.160 Money together and make some big bets. 0:18:49.359 --> 0:18:51.480 And the first bet that we made now, I picked 0:18:51.640 --> 0:18:55.159 Edmonton to win the series over Florida. But it was 0:18:55.240 --> 0:18:58.600 game two. It was Friday night, last Friday night, so 0:18:58.840 --> 0:19:00.880 well not yesterday, but the Friday. 0:19:01.560 --> 0:19:03.560 And I picked in that game. 0:19:03.640 --> 0:19:06.639 I'd loaded up on Florida because outought Florida should have 0:19:06.680 --> 0:19:09.240 won Game one, and they screwed around, they fetched around, 0:19:09.240 --> 0:19:11.720 they lost that. So, not to get into the minutia 0:19:11.760 --> 0:19:14.120 of hockey on this podcast, but I bet on Florida, 0:19:14.800 --> 0:19:18.920 and if you forget because it's game two, we're way 0:19:18.960 --> 0:19:21.879 past that now. But this was the biggest wager I 0:19:21.960 --> 0:19:25.520 made in a long time, loaded up on Florida. 0:19:25.560 --> 0:19:27.560 So how could you do that? You're not a hockey guy. 0:19:27.640 --> 0:19:30.080 Well I just went with it now, needless to say, 0:19:30.200 --> 0:19:32.840 it was a nail bider. It was very stressful and 0:19:32.960 --> 0:19:34.800 it was a very long night. The game went to 0:19:34.920 --> 0:19:39.359 double overtime, double overtime, as my old friend Alex would say, 0:19:39.960 --> 0:19:45.879 and the Edmonton Oilers had at least three chances in 0:19:45.920 --> 0:19:47.920 the third period and overtime to win the game. 0:19:48.200 --> 0:19:49.159 Should have, could have, would it? 0:19:49.200 --> 0:19:53.280 But in the end, the former Boston Bruin Brad Marshan 0:19:54.119 --> 0:19:59.000 lit the lamp game winner. How sweet it is? And 0:19:59.680 --> 0:20:02.000 I want on the big bet. Then I lost on 0:20:02.080 --> 0:20:03.760 Saturday during the day. 0:20:04.600 --> 0:20:04.800 Damn. 0:20:05.080 --> 0:20:06.280 So they got your money back. 0:20:06.640 --> 0:20:09.000 No, no, no, I was a smaller wager and then 0:20:09.040 --> 0:20:13.320 I won on Saturday Saturday night. I had the Red 0:20:13.400 --> 0:20:16.800 Sox first five against. 0:20:16.280 --> 0:20:18.040 The against the Yankees. 0:20:18.040 --> 0:20:20.600