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Speaker 2: Hour with Ben Maller starts right now in.
Speaker 1: The air everywhere.
Speaker 3: The Fifth Hour with Me, Ben Mahler and Danny G Radio.
Speaker 3: Happy Saturday to you as we slide into the fourteenth
Speaker 3: day of June, a day to celebrate the flag. It
Speaker 3: is Flag Day today, also a big day if you're
Speaker 3: into protesting apparently today. But that's not what this is about,
Speaker 3: Danny G. We are about the drive, We're about the passion.
Speaker 1: I don't even know what.
Speaker 3: This is really about. It's not only a sports podcast.
Speaker 3: Although I did watch the Thunder and the Pacers, and
Speaker 3: I did watch Indiana right the vomit comment, I think
Speaker 3: I'm one of like five people outside of Indiana and
Speaker 3: Oklahoma City watching the NBA Finals. I was happy I
Speaker 3: did not have to do a monologue about that game,
Speaker 3: though it would have it wouldn't have been a bad monologue.
Speaker 3: But I'm just you know, it was a night I
Speaker 3: didn't have to do the show last night.
Speaker 4: I feel like Indiana blew a golden opportunity. They just
Speaker 4: choked away those last couple of minutes.
Speaker 3: Well, they had a seven point lead going to the
Speaker 3: fourth quarter and then in the fourth quarter could not
Speaker 3: hit the It was the line the broadside of a barn.
Speaker 1: I mean, they were terrible.
Speaker 3: Offensively, and our guy Pascal siakam pitching a shutout, or
Speaker 3: as Marcella says, see it come, he did not see
Speaker 3: it come.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I did not score in the in the fourth quarter.
Speaker 3: So essentially the Pacers sucked at a time you cannot suck.
Speaker 1: And as a result there they're in some tough shape.
Speaker 3: I mean, they've lost at homes and I gotta win
Speaker 3: another game in Oklahoma City, and so that's that's where
Speaker 3: we are.
Speaker 4: That's that's I heard Haliburton as he was walking off
Speaker 4: the court. I heard him. He said to one of
Speaker 4: his teammates, it's just got to take one on the road.
Speaker 1: There you go.
Speaker 3: Well, it's not a good sign for the NBA. I
Speaker 3: don't know about you. Danny, but my phone. The people
Speaker 3: in my circle that text me random crap. The thing
Speaker 3: they were texting me about was not the game they
Speaker 3: were texting me about. And this kind of kind of
Speaker 3: lead us into this this podcast. Uh, the I call
Speaker 3: it the Alumni Gamer here. I kept getting messages did
Speaker 3: you see what he did?
Speaker 1: As I I'm not on I wasn't on like Twitter
Speaker 1: or ex or whatever last night, so I was I didn't.
Speaker 1: I didn't see it. Uh.
Speaker 3: And then people were sending me and our former morning guy,
Speaker 3: Stephen A.
Speaker 1: Smith, did you see? He went viral?
Speaker 3: And more people sent me this story than I wanted
Speaker 3: to say anything about the Pacers choking, choking the game
Speaker 3: have been a seven point league, going to the fourth
Speaker 3: quarter and blowing it.
Speaker 1: Everyone in my circle said.
Speaker 3: Can you believe he got caught doing that? That was
Speaker 3: the photo of Steven A. Smith, former Fox Sports radio
Speaker 3: morning man, who was spotted during the NBA Finals game
Speaker 3: playing Solitaire on his phone while the game the game
Speaker 3: was going on, Who goofed?
Speaker 4: I've got to know that sounds like something you would do,
Speaker 4: except you'd be playing Wordle or one of those stupid games.
Speaker 1: Well, I'd be playing, as you know, scrabble.
Speaker 4: That's even worse.
Speaker 1: I also get paid twenty million dollars a year. There's that.
Speaker 3: I will defend steven A Stephen as. What stephen A
Speaker 3: does is performance art. He's got a ton of people
Speaker 3: that make him look good. Stephen got segment producers. They
Speaker 3: send him talking points for each segment. So really all
Speaker 3: he is, he's like an actor. He's just repeating the
Speaker 3: bullet points for each particular segment.
Speaker 1: So yeah, they got people doing the work.
Speaker 4: That's why steven A can't get into the weeds in
Speaker 4: certain conversations. Remember when he will like talk about players
Speaker 4: who aren't even in the league anymore.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4: And it's because, like you said, he knows the surface stuff,
Speaker 4: like the topic and the main points. But once he
Speaker 4: gets too far into the weeds, it's trouble.
Speaker 3: Yeah, listen, and I'm not I'm not knocking steven A.
Speaker 3: He's much more successful.
Speaker 4: Sound like you are.
Speaker 3: Well, no, he's much more successful than I'll ever be.
Speaker 3: But I know what he's doing. It's it's acting. He's
Speaker 3: he's a characters.
Speaker 4: You do not want to make an enemy out of him.
Speaker 1: Listen.
Speaker 3: I heard stephen A early on when he was just
Speaker 3: becoming a talk show host at Fox Sports Radio. Yeah,
Speaker 3: he Holst did a Saturday show. I've told the story
Speaker 3: before I was there. I did updates is Steven A
Speaker 3: did a show with John Eyer and who at the
Speaker 3: time was the Lakers sideline reporter. They did a show
Speaker 3: together on the weekends at Fox Sports Radio and Ireland
Speaker 3: got stuck. The Laker plane got mechanical problems. They couldn't
Speaker 3: make it back to La so Steve and A had
Speaker 3: to do the show by himself.
Speaker 1: He wasn't prepared. He drowned on the air.
Speaker 3: I'm amazed he's still able to work because he literally
Speaker 3: drowned on the radio. I heard him drown and so
Speaker 3: I mean, I listen and we all have had those moments.
Speaker 1: I've had many of them.
Speaker 3: I have won a week probably where that happens. But
Speaker 3: it's like people are shocked, like, oh my god, I
Speaker 3: can't believe he was playing solitaire during an NBA Finals game.
Speaker 1: I'm not I'm not listening these guys. You know, they
Speaker 1: got the other things going on.
Speaker 3: It's like you do something for a long time and
Speaker 3: not that you know Steve and he likes basketball. I'm
Speaker 3: not saying it doesn't much basketball. This is not the
Speaker 3: most compelling matchup in the world, and he knows whatever
Speaker 3: happens on the court, and you know, he's somebody will
Speaker 3: tell him what to say, and then he'll just repeat
Speaker 3: the talk. It's like what you mentioned when he got
Speaker 3: the players wrong, It's like some producer probably got fired
Speaker 3: because they put the wrong names in there, and you know,
Speaker 3: he just kind of repeated what was in front of him,
Speaker 3: and then you know, all hell broke this. But I
Speaker 3: just love the fact that steven A playing solitaire. More
Speaker 3: people were messaging me about that on my phone than
Speaker 3: the actual game where the Pacers blew a seven point
Speaker 3: lead at home in a chance to you know, a big,
Speaker 3: big pivot game in the NBA Finals, And that's what
Speaker 3: everyone was talking.
Speaker 1: About, was steven A playing soccer.
Speaker 4: This is proof that the NBA really needs a lot
Speaker 4: of star power to really drive their viewership. And this
Speaker 4: just ain't it. Neither team has stars. I'm not interested in.
Speaker 1: Well, they've created this formula. I ranted.
Speaker 3: I did a monologue this week about it. I think
Speaker 3: we all kind of know the same thing. They've the recipe.
Speaker 3: It's like remember when Coca Cola changed the recipe for coke.
Speaker 1: They knew coke and oh it.
Speaker 4: Was the biggest mistake their company ever made.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and the NBA has created this formula, big markets,
Speaker 3: star power and all that. Like the other night in
Speaker 3: the NHL game, the Stanley Cup Final game, Taylor Swift
Speaker 3: and Travis Kelcey were there, and that's bigger than any.
Speaker 1: Stars that have attended the NBA Finals.
Speaker 3: They just happen to be living in that area where
Speaker 3: the Florida Panthers plays. So anyway, So steven A, I
Speaker 3: hope he won the solitaire game.
Speaker 1: I hope he did well on that. I don't know.
Speaker 3: I play solitaire too. I don't play that often. I
Speaker 3: mostly play scrabble. Although I would point out Danny that
Speaker 3: many of the people that listen to this podcast, many
Speaker 3: of the p ones that I was playing against, I
Speaker 3: have beaten them into submission where they have given up,
Speaker 3: they have said no moss, they have thrown in the sponge.
Speaker 3: I'm that dominant that fans of the show, p ones
Speaker 3: of the Overnight radio show and this podcast where I
Speaker 3: was competing against in Scrabble Go, that's the app I used.
Speaker 1: Scrabble Go.
Speaker 4: Is this like password though? Where you were cheating with
Speaker 4: the computer opened. You have like a laptop or a
Speaker 4: pat open so chie.
Speaker 3: The only ones I'm still playing are Patrick DJ Spin
Speaker 3: in San Diego, Bobby and Florida. But uh the you know,
Speaker 3: our buddy in Austin, he bailed alf the alien opineer,
Speaker 3: tossed in the he tossed in the towel. Another one
Speaker 3: of my guys from Texas who I was playing against.
Speaker 3: Guy from Ohio. I was playing against a bunch of
Speaker 3: listeners and these guys all just they say, couldn't handle it.
Speaker 3: They can't handle my my word ability, Danny, g my
Speaker 3: lexicon was too much. And these guys gave up. And
Speaker 3: that's a win. They retired from scrabble. Go, so put
Speaker 3: that in your pipe and smoke it.
Speaker 4: And here we thought you peaked in the fifth grade
Speaker 4: when you won that spelling beat.
Speaker 1: Now, dare you?
Speaker 3: We'll have later on, we'll have the freak show, what
Speaker 3: are you pee wee?
Speaker 1: And the phrase of the week. But right now, Danny,
Speaker 1: we have breaking news. Now.
Speaker 3: How can you have breaking news on a podcast because
Speaker 3: this is recorded, But we have breaking news right.
Speaker 4: Now, breaking news live to tape, as you always say,
Speaker 4: because I think Tom Maloney taught you that.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, Looney would lose his fricking mind. He would
Speaker 3: get so upset, he would be lathering.
Speaker 1: Did you kind have lived the tape? Why would you
Speaker 1: say that?
Speaker 4: Oh my god, I feel like I hear Looney's voice
Speaker 4: saying you can't do breaking news on a podcast.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 4: And because yesterday I got an email, Big Ben from
Speaker 4: one Julie Talbot. Oh, now, explain to our hundreds and
Speaker 4: hundreds and billions of listeners who Julie Talbot is.
Speaker 3: All right, So, if you're in America, most of our
Speaker 3: audiences in America, the President of the United States is
Speaker 3: Donald Trump. If you work in radio at iHeart at P,
Speaker 3: the president, the boss, the big cheese is Julie Talbot.
Speaker 3: She's the She's the power broker of power brokers. She's
Speaker 3: got her finger on the button.
Speaker 4: Indeed, she is the president of our company. And the
Speaker 4: President of the United States. Also has to do with
Speaker 4: this China. Clay Travis was at the White House. You
Speaker 4: might have seen the pictures the other day.
Speaker 1: I did. You posted the photo? That's where I saw it.
Speaker 3: You posted that was crazy to see see Clay in
Speaker 3: the in the White House.
Speaker 4: Wild so when Clay left the White House, it was
Speaker 4: texting with me Trump. One of the things he loved
Speaker 4: about OutKick when it was on FSR. He was a
Speaker 4: fan of Animal Thunderdome. It's one of the things they
Speaker 4: talked about while Clay was there speaking with him.
Speaker 1: That's great.
Speaker 3: In the White House, they're talking about the who's that
Speaker 3: guy that you got on the interview that you.
Speaker 4: Remember the famous tiger for me?
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, the tiger hunter.
Speaker 5: Yeah, we have now Nawab Shaffat Ali Khan, one of
Speaker 5: India's most famous tiger hunters. I believe he is on
Speaker 5: the line with us from the tiger hunting camp in India.
Speaker 5: Mister Khan, how are you.
Speaker 6: Yes, hallo, this is Navad here.
Speaker 5: You are right now? Yes, I appreciate you joining us.
Speaker 5: Thank you so much. You are in a camp hunting
Speaker 5: a man eating tiger right now?
Speaker 1: Correct?
Speaker 6: Absolutely true?
Speaker 5: Yes, what is the latest on the tiger hunt?
Speaker 6: You see, this is one of the most challenging and
Speaker 6: difficult operations of the century where it involves four tigers.
Speaker 6: The main many term is a tiger is called T
Speaker 6: one and she has two cubs which are about ten
Speaker 6: months old and they have also tasted human flesh. So
Speaker 6: we have orders now to tranquilize the mother and the cubs,
Speaker 6: and that is not possible to eliminate her by shooting.
Speaker 5: What is when a tiger tastes human flesh? What happens?
Speaker 5: Do they continue to eat it? Do they like it?
Speaker 5: What happens there?
Speaker 6: It's much easier to hunt a human being compared to
Speaker 6: any other animal in the wild because the natural prey
Speaker 6: of tigers, that's wild war and other herbivores. They can
Speaker 6: smell a tiger and get away, whereas a human being
Speaker 6: is completely breast of the power of smell, and he
Speaker 6: becomes an easy prey. And especially when there are cubs
Speaker 6: at here, it's easy for the tigers to catch human
Speaker 6: beings and feed them. And once they start feeding on
Speaker 6: human beings, they realize that the meat is softer and
Speaker 6: easier for the cubs to chew, and it's much easier
Speaker 6: to hunt. So that's why, once they've become managters, they
Speaker 6: continue to kill human beings and that becomes a very
Speaker 6: serious matter. So far, fourteen innocent people have lost their
Speaker 6: lives to this tigris.
Speaker 3: Hell.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Trump is joking around with Clay about oh, I
Speaker 4: used to love that animal Thunderdome thing you did on
Speaker 4: your show, and they were reminiscing about when Clay had
Speaker 4: his Fox Sports Radio outkickshow, which is when the two
Speaker 4: of them met, obviously, So Clay is telling me about
Speaker 4: what it was like at the White House and the
Speaker 4: pictures and all that, and then his last text was, oh,
Speaker 4: and by the way, I'm back home after fourth of
Speaker 4: July and we are gonna launch the Thunderdome podcast.
Speaker 1: You've had these before, whereas he've been closed.
Speaker 4: He's never given a date though. Okay, ever, he's never
Speaker 4: given a date, and I shared that with Julie Talbot
Speaker 4: on Friday. She sent me an email later in the
Speaker 4: day saying, I am getting the paperwork in order right now.
Speaker 4: We are going to get this thing launched. Me if
Speaker 4: the president of the network is saying it's going to happen,
Speaker 4: Clay is actually giving a date for it, now, I
Speaker 4: feel like I can announce that this is gonna actually
Speaker 4: happen this summer.
Speaker 3: Outstanding, all right, what are we think of like a
Speaker 3: weekly podcast or what do we look at it?
Speaker 4: It's just going to be once a week a week
Speaker 4: and you know it'd be the same exact thing the
Speaker 4: way I hosted it on OutKick with him, I found
Speaker 4: the really good animal versus men's stories, and then I
Speaker 4: teed up Clay to react to the crazy stories. And
Speaker 4: then usually the next week he would tell me, oh,
Speaker 4: you know last week, how there was that guy who
Speaker 4: wrangled the al gator. He had the cigar in his
Speaker 4: mouth and it went viral. Yeah, he's like, track that
Speaker 4: guy down, I want to interview him. So then I
Speaker 4: would track the person down and then Clay would interview
Speaker 4: the person the next week on the Animal Thunderdome. So
Speaker 4: that's kind of the formula.
Speaker 1: Awesome.
Speaker 3: Well that's great, And I know from my friends that
Speaker 3: work in local television the stories that they get the
Speaker 3: most feedback on, I guess is the word I'm going were.
Speaker 3: But the animal stories around here in southern California in
Speaker 3: the foothills, there's bears everywhere, and if they get video
Speaker 3: of a bear taking a swim in a family pool, gold, right,
Speaker 3: just gold, you know that kind of stuff.
Speaker 1: But in the Animal Thunderdome's next level. So and there's
Speaker 1: there's always that usually.
Speaker 4: Involves death too, like he loves the death stories.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, well that's great. So that's exciting.
Speaker 3: I mean, we're already here in mid June, so that's
Speaker 3: only like a month of less than a month away roughly, right.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't know if they're going to be able
Speaker 4: to have everything ready for it to go on the
Speaker 4: date he's talking up. It'll probably be a few weeks
Speaker 4: after that, because it's not just as easy as snapping
Speaker 4: your fingers and putting a podcast on the air. If
Speaker 4: this doesn't happen now, then I'm never going to talk
Speaker 4: about the Animal Thunderdome ever again.
Speaker 1: So was he was Clay at the Was he at
Speaker 1: the White House on Wednesday? Or Thursday?
Speaker 4: Like?
Speaker 1: What day was?
Speaker 4: You're asking the wrong person. My week felt like two
Speaker 4: weeks and I don't even know what day or what
Speaker 4: time it is right now.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I know, I man, I I'm the same I'm
Speaker 3: the same way. I just get up and I was like,
Speaker 3: all right, I have a show to do today, so
Speaker 3: I better get ready for the show. And then a
Speaker 3: day I don't have a show to do. I got
Speaker 3: a podcast to do, so I was like, I get
Speaker 3: the podcast. I got to get that ready.
Speaker 4: So all I know was a few days ago, okay,
Speaker 4: And you know when I saw those pictures. I was like,
Speaker 4: he's there again. It's crazy because now I think that's
Speaker 4: his third time to the White House if I'm not mistaken.
Speaker 4: But this time he actually was with the Vice President
Speaker 4: for a while and then he was cutting it up
Speaker 4: with the big cheese like talk to him for over
Speaker 4: a half hour.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's awesome. No, that was a great, great photo
Speaker 1: that you shared of Clay. That's that's wild.
Speaker 4: Now I just got to get president did the forward
Speaker 4: for Clay's upcoming book. I got to get the President
Speaker 4: to do the promo for Animal Thunderdome.
Speaker 1: Oh that'd be great. This is President Donald Trump, and
Speaker 1: you better listen.
Speaker 3: You know, I put you in some billions and billions
Speaker 3: and billions of animal.
Speaker 1: Stories exactly, exactly.
Speaker 3: Well, Animal Thunderome was great, But I was at a
Speaker 3: human zoo. I was at a human zoo last weekend.
Speaker 3: Danny g I made a quick, rare and appropriate trip
Speaker 3: to Vegas last weekend. It was kind of a late
Speaker 3: birthday fame my birthday in late April.
Speaker 1: Haven't had a chance to really go anywhere.
Speaker 4: Do anythings right. You brought me back some Vegas raider gear.
Speaker 4: I'm so thankful for.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I got some some raider stuff for you know,
Speaker 3: a person or two over there.
Speaker 1: But the so it's kind of a late birthday thing.
Speaker 3: Now. I stayed in downtown in Vegas. I don't like
Speaker 3: the Strip. I like downtown. I've always tried to avoid
Speaker 3: the Strip and stay downtown right across the street. I
Speaker 3: didn't stay at Circa. I stayed across the street from Circa,
Speaker 3: which is a twenty one plus hotel.
Speaker 1: It's beautiful.
Speaker 3: They actually you have to give your identification to get
Speaker 3: into the hotel. They will not let you in unless
Speaker 3: you have an identification. And it's got the greatest sports
Speaker 3: book I've ever been to. The Circa sports Book is amazing.
Speaker 3: They don't pay me to say that, or I'm not
Speaker 3: getting any money out of it.
Speaker 1: It's awesome.
Speaker 3: So the way I do it, I went with a
Speaker 3: buddy of mine and we bet kind of pull our.
Speaker 1: Money together and make some big bets.
Speaker 3: And the first bet that we made now, I picked
Speaker 3: Edmonton to win the series over Florida. But it was
Speaker 3: game two. It was Friday night, last Friday night, so
Speaker 3: well not yesterday, but the Friday.
Speaker 1: And I picked in that game.
Speaker 3: I'd loaded up on Florida because outought Florida should have
Speaker 3: won Game one, and they screwed around, they fetched around,
Speaker 3: they lost that. So, not to get into the minutia
Speaker 3: of hockey on this podcast, but I bet on Florida,
Speaker 3: and if you forget because it's game two, we're way
Speaker 3: past that now. But this was the biggest wager I
Speaker 3: made in a long time, loaded up on Florida.
Speaker 1: So how could you do that? You're not a hockey guy.
Speaker 3: Well I just went with it now, needless to say,
Speaker 3: it was a nail bider. It was very stressful and
Speaker 3: it was a very long night. The game went to
Speaker 3: double overtime, double overtime, as my old friend Alex would say,
Speaker 3: and the Edmonton Oilers had at least three chances in
Speaker 3: the third period and overtime to win the game.
Speaker 1: Should have, could have, would it?
Speaker 3: But in the end, the former Boston Bruin Brad Marshan
Speaker 3: lit the lamp game winner. How sweet it is? And
Speaker 3: I want on the big bet. Then I lost on
Speaker 3: Saturday during the day.
Speaker 6: Damn.
Speaker 4: So they got your money back.
Speaker 3: No, no, no, I was a smaller wager and then
Speaker 3: I won on Saturday Saturday night. I had the Red
Speaker 3: Sox first five against.
Speaker 1: The against the Yankees.
Speaker 4: I made a little bit of a baseball you actually
Speaker 4: left the desert a winter.
Speaker 1: I did. I did, and my buddy was like, why
Speaker 1: don't we make another bet?
Speaker 3: I said, dude, we've won two of three. We've made money,
Speaker 3: a good amount of money, and enough where we don't
Speaker 3: have to pay taxes on it. You know, if you
Speaker 3: go over a certain amount, you have to pay pay
Speaker 3: the boxman. So I was like, dude, I'm done, I'm out.
Speaker 3: I stopped now. One thing that was different this time,
Speaker 3: and I don't know if it's because I'm getting older
Speaker 3: or it was just more depressing, but I did not
Speaker 3: enjoy the downtown experience as much as I had in
Speaker 3: the past. The Fremont Street experience, I usually really love it.
Speaker 3: It is the closest thing we have to a human
Speaker 3: zoo downtown Vegas. Walking around there you have all the
Speaker 3: outcasts of society, the social pariahs, the nonconformists that are
Speaker 3: walking around. But it just seemed extra extra depressing or
Speaker 3: off or I don't know what. It was like a
Speaker 3: zombie wasteland, needle infested drug overrun, you know, dystopian, uh
Speaker 3: you know.
Speaker 1: Thing I mean.
Speaker 3: But yet we had all the normal freaks. Unfortunately, were
Speaker 3: a lot of fentanyl freaks. It was like the Epicenter,
Speaker 3: but there just there was a guy saw walking around
Speaker 3: with the hunchback, the hunchback of Henderson. There was a
Speaker 3: woman I'm pretty sure had a beard, like a bearded lady.
Speaker 3: There was somebody I felt really bad for this This
Speaker 3: old woman was walking around and if you've ever seen
Speaker 3: the show Doctor Pimple Popper, you know that show where
Speaker 3: they have the giant cysts on their face.
Speaker 4: It's hard to even watch the commercials for that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, dude, Danny, I'm walking down Fremont Street and
Speaker 3: this woman, you know, she and all the woman and
Speaker 3: she had this giant it was like the size of
Speaker 3: my I have big hands, and it was the size
Speaker 3: of I made a fist right on the side of
Speaker 3: her face filled with plus and I'm like, oh my god.
Speaker 1: I felt horrible for her.
Speaker 3: And then there was somebody else that looked like they
Speaker 3: I mean, I can make a comment I probably shouldn't make.
Speaker 3: I will not make that comment, but that's just say, Danny,
Speaker 3: they look like a skeleton.
Speaker 4: Bad timing because Covino and Rich they have their big
Speaker 4: twenty year celebration next weekend in Vegas. I'm going to
Speaker 4: be there broadcasting Live with the guys, and it is
Speaker 4: at Circa. That's where the event is all weekend. Well,
Speaker 4: Circa's great. I have nothing. I wouldn't leave the hotel.
Speaker 4: But well, that's what I was going to say. Though,
Speaker 4: they have like a karaoke night at dinner at some
Speaker 4: restaurant that's away from Circa, So there's a little bit
Speaker 4: of traveling around to get to the strip.
Speaker 1: And uh, well, maybe maybe it was just this weekend.
Speaker 3: I'm just telling you my experience, Like because I normally
Speaker 3: in the past I've seen the hunchback and the bearded
Speaker 3: lady and all that, the you know, the pinhead, and
Speaker 3: I'm like, Okay, for some reason, it just hit me
Speaker 3: a little different this. Maybe I'm getting soft Danny. Maybe
Speaker 3: that's it.
Speaker 1: It could be. I have no idea. That was my
Speaker 1: Vegas experience.
Speaker 3: I made some money and the gambling part was great,
Speaker 3: the hotel was great.
Speaker 1: The sports book.
Speaker 4: Maybe it's because you had this new aura around you,
Speaker 4: be because you were a winner, could be and you weren't.
Speaker 4: You weren't one of the losers walking around.
Speaker 1: That certainly could be? Could be?
Speaker 3: It for sure now what are you pee wee? So
Speaker 3: I wanted to mention this on my way. Actually before
Speaker 3: I get to that, I just wanted to follow up.
Speaker 3: So there's a there's a but your business Garadelli. There's
Speaker 3: a Gara Deli like ice cream shop in Vegas. Yes, yeah,
Speaker 3: so it's right near the Link. So they have my
Speaker 3: favorite favorite dessert there this ice this cookie Sunday at Garadelli.
Speaker 3: Always when I when I'm near a Giadelli, if rare
Speaker 3: and appropriate. I got to get that. So my wife
Speaker 3: knew I liked that place. She says, why don't we
Speaker 3: go over to Ghiadella. I said, okay, let's do it,
Speaker 3: And so we drove over there one night and we
Speaker 3: didn't end up going because we went to park at
Speaker 3: the Link and they were charging for one night of
Speaker 3: parking a few hours.
Speaker 1: Yeah, thirty six dollars the park.
Speaker 3: And I said, I'm good, Yeah, thirty six dollars to park.
Speaker 3: I said, I can you know how much ice cream
Speaker 3: I can buy for thirty six dollars?
Speaker 1: I'm not.
Speaker 3: So I went into the parking lot and I quickly
Speaker 3: made a U turn and got out of there. And
Speaker 3: I was only there for like two minutes and then
Speaker 3: I got my money or my ticket and I'd have
Speaker 3: to pay.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I thirty six dollars. So let Vegas know.
Speaker 3: I know, I don't care about me and all that,
Speaker 3: but you could have gotten more of my money. But
Speaker 3: you're not going to get thirty six dollars to park
Speaker 3: at the Link in Vegas. Screw you, you suck. You're
Speaker 3: all losers. You're money hungry a holes. Okay, now, as
Speaker 3: what are you pee wee? So I'm driving home. I
Speaker 3: told the story on the Friday Pod Danny. I told
Speaker 3: the story about how I drove through the curfew the
Speaker 3: other night downtown LA and I saw the whole thing
Speaker 3: was lit up from the police helicopters and the news helicopters.
Speaker 3: And I saw the cops who were on the highway
Speaker 3: getting ready the LAPD and the highway patrol to kind
Speaker 3: of go against the hoodlums that were out there. And
Speaker 3: so I saw that. But I was driving home a
Speaker 3: different night in the middle of the night. I'm driving
Speaker 3: on the one oh one Freeway near Melrose in LA
Speaker 3: and I had just gone through Hollywood.
Speaker 1: Normal drive. I do it.
Speaker 3: You know many nights during the week. It's not many
Speaker 3: people on the road. It's just me, middle of the night,
Speaker 3: cruising along and in my peripheral vision to my right,
Speaker 3: I'm driving south on the one on one. In my
Speaker 3: peripheral vision to to my right, I see this and
Speaker 3: I'm like, I thought maybe I was having an hallucination.
Speaker 3: I thought there's no way and hand to God, Danny
Speaker 3: this this.
Speaker 1: Dude, he must have thought he was pee Wee Herman.
Speaker 3: You know, pee Wee loved that red bicycle more than
Speaker 3: anything he checked all across the country. Some guy was
Speaker 3: driving a bicycle, not an electric bicycle, mind you, a
Speaker 3: regular bicycle in the slope on the one oh one
Speaker 3: freeway at about three point thirty or four.
Speaker 1: In the morning whenever.
Speaker 3: It was what hell, yes, and it gets so then
Speaker 3: I'm I start honking my horn.
Speaker 1: I'm like, holy fuck, does this guy want to die?
Speaker 3: You know? And then the guy had the hoods, but
Speaker 3: Danny he turning. He gave me the evil eye. He
Speaker 3: looked at me like, what are you? What's your problem?
Speaker 3: And I'm like, dude, you're driving a regular bike.
Speaker 4: Are you sure you weren't on the one on one?
Speaker 4: Maybe your car was on a bike trail.
Speaker 1: Well maybe I was.
Speaker 3: I don't know, but I mean, i'd seemed that I
Speaker 3: was on the one O one. I mean, my guy
Speaker 3: is unbelievable. I mean, maybe that was I couldn't really tell.
Speaker 3: It was dark. It was a regular bike. He was
Speaker 3: not electric bike. I don't think it was that red
Speaker 3: treasured bike from Peewee's Big Adventure. But that was that
Speaker 3: was next level, Danny. I have I've seen a lot
Speaker 3: of crazy things on the highway and whatnot, but I've
Speaker 3: seen people walking.
Speaker 1: I see a lot of people walking on the highway
Speaker 1: but not only driving.
Speaker 3: And you think, well, if you're dumb enough to drive
Speaker 3: a bike on the highway, maybe you'll do it on
Speaker 3: the emergency lane something like that.
Speaker 4: No.
Speaker 3: No, this guy was in the slow lane and he
Speaker 3: was definitely going slow. He was definitely going slow, and
Speaker 3: uh and then gets annoyed, gets annoyed me. So it
Speaker 3: was like it was it was wonderful. All right, real quick,
Speaker 3: we got the phrase of the week.
Speaker 1: Phrase of the week. All right, real quick.
Speaker 3: This is Nick and Wisconsin sent this one in. He says, Hey, Ben,
Speaker 3: I love this. Can you can you get the origin
Speaker 3: story on put that in your pipe and smoke it? Yes, Nick, Yes,
Speaker 3: I use this phrase put this, you know, put that
Speaker 3: in your pipe and smoke it.
Speaker 1: And I fell down a rabbitole.
Speaker 3: So this goes back to the early nineteenth century and
Speaker 3: the origins were in Britain and it was used to
Speaker 3: tell someone to accept something that is obviously unpleasant, undesirable
Speaker 3: and all that, whether you like it or not. And
Speaker 3: it started in the era of tobacco pipes, which were
Speaker 3: very common in the seventeen hundreds, in the eighteen hundreds,
Speaker 3: and so the concept is, you know, this is a
Speaker 3: hard truth. You gotta deal with it. You gotta digest it,
Speaker 3: just like you'd stuff your pipe and smoke it. So
Speaker 3: that was that was the one of the earliest recorded
Speaker 3: uses was in eighteen twenty four newspaper in England, and
Speaker 3: it became pretty widely popular in American lexicon in the
Speaker 3: mid eighteen hundred.
Speaker 1: So it's been around. It's been around for a while.
Speaker 1: It's been around for a while.
Speaker 3: So the phrase of the week put that in your
Speaker 3: pipe and smoke it. All right, we'll get out on that, Danny,
Speaker 3: and we'll have the mail bag on Sunday.
Speaker 1: And what do we got hockey tonight? Little hockey action, sure, little.
Speaker 4: Hote, Yeah, tied to too going into this game five.
Speaker 3: We'll check that out and have a wonderful, wonderful rest
Speaker 3: of your Saturday.
Speaker 4: Later, Skater.
Speaker 6: And I use it, Heybe and I use a four
Speaker 6: fifty eight Winchester Magnum, which is incidentally an American weapon,
Speaker 6: and uh uh and we shoot them with that.
Speaker 4: Got a murder, Gotta go.