WEBVTT - The Fifth Hour: Benny Does Vegas 0:00:00.720 --> 0:00:01.480 Kabooms. 0:00:02.279 --> 0:00:05.400 If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes 0:00:05.440 --> 0:00:09.200 a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants 0:00:09.200 --> 0:00:12.480 of the old Republic, a sol fastion of fairness. He 0:00:12.600 --> 0:00:15.520 treats crackheads in the ghetto cutter the same as the 0:00:15.640 --> 0:00:17.480 rich pill poppers in the penthouse. 0:00:18.079 --> 0:00:18.400 Wow. 0:00:18.600 --> 0:00:22.320 The Clearinghouse of Hot takes break free for something special. 0:00:22.680 --> 0:00:29.640 The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now in the. 0:00:29.720 --> 0:00:36.080 Air everywhere, and a very good Friday, as Rick and 0:00:36.159 --> 0:00:39.839 Maryland would say, morning time on the Fifth Hour with me, 0:00:40.520 --> 0:00:45.520 Big Ben and Danny g Radio, who is away on assignment. 0:00:46.040 --> 0:00:51.080 As we have slid into the ninth day of August. Congratulations. 0:00:51.120 --> 0:00:53.800 If you're a fan of books, today's a big day. 0:00:53.800 --> 0:00:57.800 It's National book Lover's Day. There are some people that 0:00:57.880 --> 0:01:01.920 would much rather hold than old dust s muskie book 0:01:02.760 --> 0:01:06.000 then get online and read on their tablet. And my 0:01:06.120 --> 0:01:08.959 mom was like that. She loved books. Now she did 0:01:08.959 --> 0:01:12.520 eventually start reading on the tablet, but the book was 0:01:12.560 --> 0:01:15.959 the way to go for Mamu back in the day. 0:01:16.000 --> 0:01:18.440 But we were hanging out with you say brand new weekend. 0:01:18.480 --> 0:01:21.959 You know that when the extra crutchy, extra spicy Fifth 0:01:22.000 --> 0:01:23.720 Hour comes up. 0:01:23.640 --> 0:01:25.959 And we're doing this very early. That's one of the reasons. 0:01:25.640 --> 0:01:29.880 Danny is not here and I'm doing this from the 0:01:29.920 --> 0:01:32.360 East Coast this morning. 0:01:32.400 --> 0:01:36.520 It is early, early in the morning, way too early 0:01:36.959 --> 0:01:39.680 to be awake as someone who is used to the 0:01:39.760 --> 0:01:41.880 West Coast time zone and all that. But I don't know. 0:01:42.000 --> 0:01:44.360 It's just a giant ball here, just a giant ball. 0:01:44.959 --> 0:01:47.800 I'll explain why I'm doing the podcast I'm here and 0:01:48.480 --> 0:01:50.920 how that might relate to you coming up in a 0:01:50.920 --> 0:01:53.720 little bit, but we must before we get into all 0:01:53.760 --> 0:02:00.520 of that, we must start back. Last Saturday, the third 0:02:01.240 --> 0:02:05.480 day of August, Tom Brady's birthday. We celebrated Tom Brady's 0:02:05.520 --> 0:02:11.000 birthday by all uniting is Won hanging out in Lost Wages, Nevada. 0:02:11.360 --> 0:02:17.360 The first ever official official Malor meet and greet in 0:02:17.520 --> 0:02:22.440 Sin City as we all united to form Voltron. It 0:02:22.600 --> 0:02:25.320 happened at the Steakeout Bar and Grill. We talked a 0:02:25.320 --> 0:02:27.519 lot about it in the lead up to this podcast. 0:02:27.560 --> 0:02:30.359 I want to thank you for putting up with all 0:02:30.400 --> 0:02:33.080 of that, and we were there. It was It was 0:02:33.080 --> 0:02:37.400 a wonderful weekend. This is the official post game show 0:02:38.000 --> 0:02:41.080 on the twenty twenty four Malor meet and greet. As 0:02:41.120 --> 0:02:43.200 we had quite the crowd. We didn't know who was 0:02:43.200 --> 0:02:44.440 going to show up. A lot of people had said 0:02:44.440 --> 0:02:45.799 they were going to be there. People had sent me 0:02:45.800 --> 0:02:48.079 the emails said Hey, I'm going to fly in from 0:02:48.120 --> 0:02:51.560 so and so and Tim Buck too and Walla Walla, 0:02:51.720 --> 0:02:54.880 Washington and all these other places. But ultimately most of 0:02:54.919 --> 0:02:57.800 the people that said they were going to show up, 0:02:57.840 --> 0:02:59.919 you know who you are who reached out to me, 0:03:00.600 --> 0:03:03.840 you did, and so thank you. A tip of the 0:03:03.880 --> 0:03:08.280 headphones to you. I appreciate it, appreciated, appreciate. We put 0:03:08.320 --> 0:03:10.840 a bunch of photos up. Hopefully you saw those. I 0:03:11.000 --> 0:03:14.799 posted a few on Sunday. I did not have as 0:03:14.840 --> 0:03:16.600 many photos as I should have had. I was taking 0:03:16.639 --> 0:03:18.880 a lot of pictures or whatever and hang out with 0:03:18.919 --> 0:03:21.240 people fans of the show, but I wasn't like taking 0:03:21.240 --> 0:03:25.560 photos with everyone. Bad job by me. But we had 0:03:25.880 --> 0:03:29.359 a great time. Vegas was it was very cool. I 0:03:29.360 --> 0:03:32.560 think it was one hundred and ninety degrees the days 0:03:32.560 --> 0:03:35.440 we were there. I got in on Friday driving from 0:03:35.600 --> 0:03:41.720 LA and we had a carpool situation through the desert. 0:03:42.000 --> 0:03:44.400 The hottest point actually on the way to Vegas was 0:03:44.440 --> 0:03:48.680 in Baker California, which is the appropriately named town where 0:03:48.720 --> 0:03:51.920 it literally bakes. But got up early, did not get 0:03:51.960 --> 0:03:53.640 a lot of sleep, just got in the car and 0:03:53.760 --> 0:03:56.720 took off. Because the way this works, if you're not familiar, 0:03:56.720 --> 0:03:58.920 if you're not in the area, to drive from La 0:03:58.960 --> 0:04:01.120 to Vegas, it's like a suber right. 0:04:01.120 --> 0:04:01.960 People do it all the time. 0:04:01.960 --> 0:04:04.480 There's a bunch of little desert towns out in California 0:04:04.920 --> 0:04:08.320 and in Nevada before you get to Vegas. The problem 0:04:08.440 --> 0:04:11.680 is most people drive to Vegas. They don't fly there. 0:04:11.720 --> 0:04:13.880 It's easier to drive. You have your car, although it's 0:04:13.920 --> 0:04:16.360 more expensive now because you've got paper parking all over Vegas. 0:04:16.400 --> 0:04:19.560 Because the mob that used to run Vegas would give 0:04:19.560 --> 0:04:21.200 free parking and free meals. 0:04:21.240 --> 0:04:23.640 They're not as generous anymore. So. 0:04:24.160 --> 0:04:26.440 Nonetheless, you'd rather have your car and be able to 0:04:26.480 --> 0:04:27.680 go where you want and all that stuff. 0:04:27.720 --> 0:04:29.240 Most people choose to do that. 0:04:29.320 --> 0:04:31.440 But if you don't get out before a certain hour, 0:04:31.440 --> 0:04:33.640 if you don't get out of the La metropolitan area 0:04:34.120 --> 0:04:36.400 before a certain hour, it is a nightmare. 0:04:36.480 --> 0:04:36.600 Now. 0:04:36.720 --> 0:04:40.200 Fortunately there were no trucks that tipped over with lithium 0:04:40.200 --> 0:04:45.520 batteries in Barstow, which is about the midway point to Vegas, 0:04:45.680 --> 0:04:48.240 as we did have that happen the week prior. We 0:04:48.320 --> 0:04:52.160 talked about that a little bit on this podcast, that 0:04:52.480 --> 0:04:55.720 there was an accident. I think we mentioned our old 0:04:56.360 --> 0:04:59.960 radio friend Fox Sports Radio alumni member JT. The Brick 0:05:00.640 --> 0:05:03.880 had some issues out there because the highway was completely 0:05:03.920 --> 0:05:05.520 closed and so a bunch of people were staying at 0:05:05.520 --> 0:05:09.920 hotels in the middle of the desert. So we didn't 0:05:09.920 --> 0:05:11.560 have any of that, and it was rather smooth. There 0:05:11.600 --> 0:05:15.840 was one patch of traffic which was in the Victorville 0:05:15.920 --> 0:05:18.960 area in the California desert out there, but we dodged 0:05:19.000 --> 0:05:24.080 that wasn't too bad, got in at a reasonable hour 0:05:25.000 --> 0:05:28.200 into Vegas, and I did not stay at a hotel 0:05:29.279 --> 0:05:33.840 this trip, did not no hotels, no resort fees of 0:05:33.880 --> 0:05:37.840 a friend that lives in Henderson, which is a suburb 0:05:37.920 --> 0:05:42.719 of Vegas, and we were able to stay at his 0:05:43.120 --> 0:05:46.840 sister's place. She was out of town for work, so 0:05:46.880 --> 0:05:49.760 we stayed there and had a great time. It was 0:05:50.000 --> 0:05:53.360 a little warm, everywhere, a little hot, but we had 0:05:53.360 --> 0:05:56.240 a great time. We made it work and went out 0:05:56.520 --> 0:05:59.120 to my wife was with me and went to the 0:05:59.480 --> 0:06:04.560 favorite in place we have in Vegas. Had some fetichini, alfredo, 0:06:04.560 --> 0:06:08.679 a little chicken palm, and we're just living, living the life. 0:06:09.160 --> 0:06:13.000 We actually went to a tiki bar again. The wife 0:06:13.040 --> 0:06:14.240 wanted to go to a tiki bar, so we went 0:06:14.279 --> 0:06:18.360 to a tiki bar and got the drink on. And 0:06:18.360 --> 0:06:21.640 when you go to a tiki bar in Vegas, it's 0:06:21.960 --> 0:06:26.400 quite the experience there because you get out of the sun. 0:06:26.720 --> 0:06:30.120 It is boiling hot. It's like one hundred and eleven. 0:06:30.320 --> 0:06:32.720 And then you go inside to complete in total darkness, 0:06:32.800 --> 0:06:35.920 and it takes about ten minutes. It takes about ten 0:06:35.960 --> 0:06:39.960 minutes for your eyes to adjust. It is it is agony, 0:06:40.360 --> 0:06:41.720 is what it is until your eyes ad just you. 0:06:41.839 --> 0:06:44.000 You're walking around, futzing around on my phone out with 0:06:44.040 --> 0:06:46.920 my light on my phone, trying to see where there's 0:06:46.960 --> 0:06:50.640 a step and all that and hanging out. And then 0:06:51.279 --> 0:06:55.000 I got I was getting messages from random people, Hey 0:06:55.000 --> 0:06:58.360 there's a there's a no not going on with I 0:06:58.400 --> 0:07:03.039 ain't playing unless I get mine brawl that whole dope. 0:07:03.320 --> 0:07:07.080 So then I flipped that on my phone and I'm 0:07:07.200 --> 0:07:13.400 sitting in a tiki bar in Vegas drinking cocktails and 0:07:13.440 --> 0:07:18.200 then we're watching the Giants Reds game on the TV. 0:07:18.400 --> 0:07:20.880 Now of course, I was hoping that the Reds would 0:07:20.880 --> 0:07:23.760 get a hit, but that did not happen, and so 0:07:24.000 --> 0:07:28.400 the evil Higant's Blake Snell got a no hitter on 0:07:28.440 --> 0:07:31.680 that Friday. But whatever, I didn't care. I didn't have 0:07:31.680 --> 0:07:33.240 to do a monolog. We did talk about it a 0:07:33.240 --> 0:07:34.040 little bit, if you remember. 0:07:34.080 --> 0:07:35.280 The Sunday into Monday. 0:07:35.960 --> 0:07:38.880 I brought the story back because it still had some 0:07:38.960 --> 0:07:42.040 legs for our show. And this has been such a 0:07:42.080 --> 0:07:44.960 storyline that we followed along, and so I bring it up. 0:07:45.600 --> 0:07:48.040 So I did that, and then on Saturday it was 0:07:48.320 --> 0:07:48.840 go time. 0:07:49.400 --> 0:07:51.680 It was go time. On Saturday. It was the day 0:07:51.680 --> 0:07:54.360 of the Malla Meet and greet, so got up. 0:07:54.400 --> 0:07:56.480 Actually had to get an oil change for the Malamobile 0:07:56.760 --> 0:07:58.520 going through the desert, up the hills and down the 0:07:58.600 --> 0:08:02.680 hills and all that going into Nevada, and so the 0:08:02.720 --> 0:08:04.600 oil light came on. We went out and got the 0:08:04.600 --> 0:08:07.440 oil change. Very exciting to sit in your car and 0:08:07.480 --> 0:08:08.360 get the oil change. 0:08:08.400 --> 0:08:12.120 There. We did not have the proper tools to change 0:08:12.120 --> 0:08:12.440 the oil. 0:08:12.480 --> 0:08:15.680 So we got changed and sit outside on a nice 0:08:15.680 --> 0:08:19.040 one hundred and two degree day, actually was hotter than that, 0:08:19.120 --> 0:08:19.480 but that. 0:08:19.360 --> 0:08:21.000 Time of the morning we went out in the morning, 0:08:21.400 --> 0:08:21.960 it's pretty hot. 0:08:22.000 --> 0:08:26.320 Went to a great barbecue place, the Mallard Travel Lodge, 0:08:26.760 --> 0:08:32.280 in effect, went to enjoy some fabulous, fabulous barbecue, having 0:08:32.559 --> 0:08:36.480 an amazing time enjoying the heck out of ourselves at 0:08:37.160 --> 0:08:40.839 this is over at Henderson Big Be's Texas Barbecue. 0:08:41.440 --> 0:08:43.680 And this is now back to back weeks. 0:08:43.720 --> 0:08:47.160 I mentioned last week on the podcast Atdie Casino in 0:08:47.240 --> 0:08:52.400 southern California, Yamava had amazing barbecue. Well this was next level. 0:08:52.480 --> 0:08:58.200 Also brisket chef's kiss amazing. Now it could be that 0:08:58.280 --> 0:09:01.960 I've just been fasting a lot lately and that's part 0:09:01.960 --> 0:09:03.439 of the issue, right, could be I just I was 0:09:03.559 --> 0:09:07.880 fasting tons and tons and that led into what happened. 0:09:07.880 --> 0:09:12.680 But either way, amazing culinary delight there. I will be 0:09:12.760 --> 0:09:16.480 back at that particular establishment. And then I went back, 0:09:16.520 --> 0:09:20.320 got ready for the Malor meet and greet, and there. 0:09:20.240 --> 0:09:20.960 Was a little travel. 0:09:21.000 --> 0:09:23.000 I showed up a few minutes after, but Eddie had 0:09:23.000 --> 0:09:24.719 texted me said hey, we're all upstairs. So I went 0:09:24.720 --> 0:09:28.720 to the Stakeout Bar and Grill as advertised on Maryland Parkway, 0:09:28.800 --> 0:09:33.920 just across from UNLV. There's actually a raising Caynes off 0:09:33.960 --> 0:09:35.679 to the side. There I did not know that when 0:09:35.720 --> 0:09:37.640 we booked the event. I did not book it. I 0:09:37.640 --> 0:09:41.240 did want to thank Slug. What a great guy. Slugs 0:09:41.280 --> 0:09:45.360 amazing host. He's the guy that did the legwork on this. 0:09:45.440 --> 0:09:47.920 He put the venue together with the help of his 0:09:47.920 --> 0:09:50.320 friend who happened to be a fan of the show, 0:09:50.840 --> 0:09:53.880 and we had karaoke at this thing. We had a 0:09:53.920 --> 0:09:58.160 special menu. Hopefully you saw that on the social media 0:09:58.760 --> 0:10:01.840 for the Malor Meet and Greed and I was like, WHOA, 0:10:01.880 --> 0:10:06.079 I didn't know about that. Yeah, we had mallard chicken fingers. 0:10:06.559 --> 0:10:08.200 You didn't see the menu. For those of you who 0:10:08.200 --> 0:10:10.240 are ap blind, we had the mallard. 0:10:09.960 --> 0:10:14.120 Chicken fingers, very affordable, cheaper than you could get at 0:10:14.200 --> 0:10:19.800 any other restaurant. The Big Ben, a thirty two ounce beer, 0:10:20.559 --> 0:10:24.760 of course, gotta be the Big Ben. You had import 0:10:25.080 --> 0:10:31.120 domestic on that. Also the Koopa Loopa Tina. I don't 0:10:31.120 --> 0:10:33.360 even know what that was, but that was eight dollars. 0:10:34.040 --> 0:10:38.000 The Eddie Garcia Rita. See there's some rhyming going on here. 0:10:38.000 --> 0:10:41.720 That was also eight dollars. The Loraina she got her 0:10:41.720 --> 0:10:46.400 own drink that was also eight and then Slug because 0:10:46.400 --> 0:10:50.360 he slugged, he had Slug juice, and we're not sure 0:10:50.360 --> 0:10:52.400 what that was, but it I think it was Jamison. 0:10:52.440 --> 0:10:53.920 I think as there's some chambers in that. But that 0:10:53.960 --> 0:10:57.600 was nine dollars. So those were the different items. They had, 0:10:57.800 --> 0:11:02.080 small menu, but awesome. They had the show logo on 0:11:02.160 --> 0:11:05.880 it and made me smile when I walked in there. 0:11:06.559 --> 0:11:08.120 All right, I want my chicken. 0:11:09.000 --> 0:11:11.040 It was great now to kind of paint the picture here. 0:11:11.240 --> 0:11:13.760 When I showed up, Yeah, there were a few people there, 0:11:14.360 --> 0:11:16.640 you know. I was just kind of getting started. And 0:11:17.760 --> 0:11:21.040 as the night progressed and we were there for a 0:11:21.120 --> 0:11:24.400 few hours, the place filled up. We had a lot 0:11:24.440 --> 0:11:29.079 of people with listeners that came in from Knoxville, Tennessee, 0:11:29.520 --> 0:11:34.319 since Cinnati the greater Cincinnati area. We had a contingent 0:11:34.360 --> 0:11:38.319 of callers from northern California. Had a gentleman fly in 0:11:38.400 --> 0:11:43.720 from Denver, Dallas more on that coming up. We had 0:11:44.679 --> 0:11:47.200 a gentleman joke down with his wife from Reno, a 0:11:47.240 --> 0:11:50.000 bunch of people from La a lot of locals in 0:11:50.080 --> 0:11:54.400 Vegas that live in the suburbs or whatever, and they 0:11:54.400 --> 0:11:55.760 were coming out and hang out with us. But it 0:11:55.840 --> 0:11:58.160 was great to see everybody at a wonderful time. Surfer 0:11:58.200 --> 0:12:00.920 Todd the comedian was there with his wife, Surf for 0:12:01.080 --> 0:12:07.680 Todd had a giant trophy the size of the theater. 0:12:07.320 --> 0:12:10.400 There that rounded theater there in Vegas. 0:12:10.440 --> 0:12:14.000 It was a massive and that was for the Malord 0:12:14.000 --> 0:12:17.160 Paluza win as the joke writer of the Year and 0:12:17.880 --> 0:12:20.600 they had these wild outfits on and as you would expect, 0:12:21.440 --> 0:12:24.600 Surfer Todd the comedian putting on a show. So that 0:12:24.720 --> 0:12:28.560 was awesome. My man JT, the wingman, he flew in 0:12:28.760 --> 0:12:30.880 for the day, I guess the day before he flew in. 0:12:30.960 --> 0:12:35.240 We flew from Knoxville, Tennessee, and JT has the current 0:12:35.360 --> 0:12:39.920 record for most consecutive Mallor meet and greets, as he 0:12:40.000 --> 0:12:42.480 was at the one we did in Minnesota at the Mermaid. 0:12:43.040 --> 0:12:45.560 He's from that area. He moved to Knoxville. 0:12:45.600 --> 0:12:50.120 And then a few months back we had a hybrid 0:12:50.160 --> 0:12:56.000 Mallard meet and greet in Charleston and JT was there. 0:12:56.080 --> 0:12:58.160 He lives in Knoxville, so he just drove over for 0:12:58.200 --> 0:12:59.760 the day and hung out with us in all the 0:12:59.800 --> 0:13:04.160 great listeners below the Mason Dixon line in Charleston. So 0:13:04.480 --> 0:13:06.640 it was great to ce JT again. He's become a 0:13:06.679 --> 0:13:09.319 regular now and I guess wherever we go. 0:13:09.280 --> 0:13:10.560 He's gonna be there. Right if we could have one 0:13:10.559 --> 0:13:13.240 of these in Abu Dabi and they'd be like, all right, 0:13:13.280 --> 0:13:16.840 I'll be there. And it was. It was great. 0:13:16.880 --> 0:13:21.319 And then we had a guy flew in from from well, 0:13:21.360 --> 0:13:27.120 he flew in from Ohio, outside Cincinnati, and he was 0:13:27.240 --> 0:13:31.319 grumbling that the airport in Cincinnati is in Kentucky, the 0:13:31.760 --> 0:13:34.840 regional big airport there, which is of course. 0:13:34.640 --> 0:13:37.920 We all know that. If anybody's flown into Cincinnati knows that. 0:13:38.360 --> 0:13:41.960 And this is where the conversation would go back in 0:13:41.960 --> 0:13:44.440 the day when I flew into Cincinnati for you know, 0:13:44.679 --> 0:13:48.080 changing planes or whatever at the Cincinnati International Airport, which 0:13:48.080 --> 0:13:50.800 is technically in Kentucky, and we would go back and 0:13:50.840 --> 0:13:53.320 forth because that is to me, the point of where 0:13:53.320 --> 0:13:55.800 the South begins. So I would say, well, Cincinnati is 0:13:55.800 --> 0:13:58.920 a southern city. And then people from Cincinnati would spit 0:13:59.000 --> 0:14:00.599 Loogi's in my face and said, you don't know what 0:14:00.640 --> 0:14:02.440 you're talking about, You're a dope. 0:14:02.240 --> 0:14:04.120 You're a loser, and all that. 0:14:05.520 --> 0:14:07.880 But it was it was KGB was there from the 0:14:07.920 --> 0:14:12.080 Bay Area, who's who's a podcast listener now, and and 0:14:12.160 --> 0:14:14.000 he was hanging out and it was. 0:14:14.000 --> 0:14:14.760 Good to see him. 0:14:14.880 --> 0:14:17.839 We had I didn't write down everyone's name, and I'm 0:14:17.840 --> 0:14:20.520 really bad with names, so if I forget your name, 0:14:21.280 --> 0:14:26.040 I apologize. We had several theme shirts from fans of 0:14:26.080 --> 0:14:30.280 the show that had shirts made, which was great and 0:14:31.120 --> 0:14:34.520 just just loved it. It was flattered with a Malard 0:14:34.600 --> 0:14:38.640 Militia shirt. Now recket. Ralph was in the building, the 0:14:38.680 --> 0:14:43.480 great record Ralph. Remember Ralph Irvant retired? Now yeah, uh, 0:14:43.600 --> 0:14:47.400 And and Ralph with a guy that he went to 0:14:47.480 --> 0:14:50.440 school with, one of his buddies and his wife, big 0:14:50.480 --> 0:14:53.120 fan of the show. They came down from Reno to 0:14:53.200 --> 0:14:56.120 hang out with us and have a day in Vegas, 0:14:56.200 --> 0:14:58.920 and and so that was. It was great. His buddy 0:14:58.960 --> 0:15:01.600 wore a Maland Militaire, which must have really annoyed Ralph. 0:15:01.960 --> 0:15:04.360 It must have really annoyed Ralph, like what is up 0:15:04.400 --> 0:15:06.400 with that? You know this is a moral enemy. 0:15:06.440 --> 0:15:07.440 But Ralph was cool. It was great. 0:15:07.480 --> 0:15:10.600 He loves Vegas. He showed me his pool. He's got 0:15:10.600 --> 0:15:13.360 a massive pool. He's doing well in life. The great 0:15:13.480 --> 0:15:16.400 Ralph Irvin who famously, if you remember, a couple of 0:15:16.440 --> 0:15:22.120 years back, Ralph got into it with Justin in Cincinnati. 0:15:22.280 --> 0:15:25.680 Justin was calling up talking all kinds of nonsense, which 0:15:25.720 --> 0:15:29.040 he never does. He usually hides behind X or Twitter 0:15:29.120 --> 0:15:32.119 or whatever. But he called up and was really annoying 0:15:32.880 --> 0:15:35.120 wreck at Ralph to the point where I think, I 0:15:35.160 --> 0:15:37.800 think a holiday weekend if I remember, because Eddie wasn't 0:15:37.800 --> 0:15:40.960 there and Ralph was doing the news updates and Ralph 0:15:41.000 --> 0:15:44.720 stormed in from the other room in the old studio. 0:15:44.920 --> 0:15:48.600 He walked out of his studio, he walked through this 0:15:48.760 --> 0:15:50.280 giant bank vault door. 0:15:50.720 --> 0:15:51.880 He made a right turn. 0:15:52.400 --> 0:15:55.200 He then took a few steps, made a left turn 0:15:55.640 --> 0:15:59.880 through another bank vault door, and then on a rampage. 0:16:00.280 --> 0:16:04.040 He walks over to the producer's table where the phone 0:16:04.320 --> 0:16:08.040 screener system is and is trying to hang up on 0:16:08.240 --> 0:16:12.640 Justin and Cincinnati. However, for some reason, he just he 0:16:12.680 --> 0:16:14.520 couldn't quite figure it out. He thought he had hung 0:16:14.560 --> 0:16:16.280 up on him. So then he just starts trying to 0:16:16.280 --> 0:16:20.080 hang up on everybody. He's going scorched earthier. He wants 0:16:20.240 --> 0:16:24.520 no one online. He's like excay use me, you know, 0:16:24.600 --> 0:16:28.120 and he's like wow. When Ralph gets going, the ground trembles. 0:16:28.520 --> 0:16:30.120 So anyway, it was great to see Ralph. He was 0:16:30.160 --> 0:16:34.520 there hanging out and his friends were very nice people, 0:16:34.560 --> 0:16:36.000 good people, big fans of the show. 0:16:36.600 --> 0:16:37.160 Was awesome. 0:16:37.520 --> 0:16:41.640 Hopefully they enjoyed their weekend in Vegas and had a 0:16:41.640 --> 0:16:46.520 good time with all that. And then we had Supermarket 0:16:47.080 --> 0:16:50.760 Steve and his lovely wife there hanging out. They both 0:16:50.880 --> 0:16:57.280 had matching shirts show them shirts that they were wearing 0:16:57.840 --> 0:17:00.560 that had my mug on it and I used to 0:17:00.640 --> 0:17:03.000 be four hundred and eighty pounds and now look at 0:17:03.040 --> 0:17:03.560 me now and I. 0:17:03.480 --> 0:17:04.520 Don't eat and all that stuff. 0:17:04.640 --> 0:17:04.840 It was. 0:17:04.880 --> 0:17:06.280 It was hilarious. Eddie. 0:17:06.720 --> 0:17:08.560 I think Eddie took some photos of that. I don't 0:17:08.560 --> 0:17:10.720 even know that I got any photos of them. I 0:17:10.720 --> 0:17:14.160 don't think I did. I don't think I got photos 0:17:14.160 --> 0:17:16.240 of them. I'd have to go back and check. It's 0:17:16.280 --> 0:17:19.600 been a few days since since the whole event and 0:17:19.920 --> 0:17:23.400 all that went down and posting fig pictures and whatnot. 0:17:23.520 --> 0:17:27.520 But Supermarket Steve, who seemed a little upset that he 0:17:27.600 --> 0:17:31.520 has been a show contributor for many, many years. Supermarket 0:17:31.560 --> 0:17:35.880 Steve has reached out to us on many a night 0:17:36.359 --> 0:17:39.720 via social media or whatever, and he's given us content. 0:17:40.080 --> 0:17:42.919 The thing that he's known for though, And I told him, 0:17:42.960 --> 0:17:44.920 I said, listen, I traveled around, I've done these things 0:17:44.960 --> 0:17:49.520 around the country. The thing people bring up is your advice, 0:17:49.600 --> 0:17:54.560 your wisdom on how to properly handle the shopping cart 0:17:54.640 --> 0:17:59.040 shopping cart etiquette, which I have followed. And Supermarket Steve, 0:17:59.640 --> 0:18:02.360 he's the guy that came up with the planes, said 0:18:02.359 --> 0:18:03.399 Listen Mallet. 0:18:04.240 --> 0:18:06.160 He says, let me tell you something. 0:18:06.200 --> 0:18:08.960 Okay, when you're at the grocery store, you don't put 0:18:08.960 --> 0:18:13.399 the shopping cart back, because that's taking someone's job. And 0:18:13.440 --> 0:18:16.760 so that launched what has been a multi year, multi 0:18:16.840 --> 0:18:21.440 pronged campaign by the show to point out that when 0:18:21.520 --> 0:18:24.000 you are putting shopping carts away when you go to 0:18:24.040 --> 0:18:30.280 the grocery store, you're actually hurting the business of shopping 0:18:30.400 --> 0:18:32.240 or you're you're taking someone's job away, as what I'm 0:18:32.240 --> 0:18:35.640 trying to say, right, And so we did this. Of course, 0:18:35.680 --> 0:18:38.200 people are very passionate about that. They're more passionate about 0:18:38.200 --> 0:18:41.720 that my takes about the NBA or any along those lines. 0:18:42.040 --> 0:18:46.880 And so, needless to say, it was quite the ordeal there. 0:18:46.880 --> 0:18:48.960 But Supermarket seems like, Listen, there's all this stuff that 0:18:48.960 --> 0:18:51.399 I've done here. You know, he's pointing out some of 0:18:51.440 --> 0:18:53.359 the other things he's done in his body of work 0:18:53.800 --> 0:18:56.960 on the show. But very nice to see him and 0:18:57.000 --> 0:18:59.560 his wife. They did I think patch things up with 0:18:59.600 --> 0:19:02.960 the rain, Yeah, but I'm not sure. I have no idea. 0:19:02.960 --> 0:19:05.280 And the Lorena was there. She was hanging out with Eddie. 0:19:05.440 --> 0:19:07.119 We were all there. If you missed at Eddie Coop. 0:19:07.600 --> 0:19:10.320 Everyone was in the building and we were all bouncing 0:19:10.359 --> 0:19:13.639 around and all that. What else, Well, there were a 0:19:13.680 --> 0:19:17.000 couple of other things I wanted to mention. We had Salsa, 0:19:18.280 --> 0:19:20.800 the famous Salsa who's been a long time caller to 0:19:20.840 --> 0:19:21.080 the show. 0:19:21.119 --> 0:19:22.159 He works for the airlines. 0:19:22.680 --> 0:19:24.960 He gives travel tips and whatnot from time to time, 0:19:24.960 --> 0:19:28.959 and he asked Loraina for advice on relationships. So I 0:19:29.000 --> 0:19:31.840 had met Salsa many many years ago at one of 0:19:31.840 --> 0:19:35.119 these Mallard meet and greet things we did, and I 0:19:35.160 --> 0:19:37.560 had not seen him. You know, he calls up, that's it, 0:19:37.880 --> 0:19:40.760 And he'd mentioned the other day if you remember when 0:19:40.760 --> 0:19:44.560 he called the Overnight show, I guess spend almost two weeks. 0:19:44.920 --> 0:19:46.720 But he said, hey, I'm want to be there. I'm 0:19:46.760 --> 0:19:48.919 trying to be there. I'm going to be there. You know, 0:19:48.920 --> 0:19:50.760 We're going back and forth. And he said, yeah, I 0:19:51.119 --> 0:19:53.800 have a much different look. But I didn't think anything 0:19:53.840 --> 0:19:56.000 of it. He's like all right, whatever, it changed a 0:19:56.000 --> 0:19:57.920 little bit. Maybe he's got a beer belly now or 0:19:57.960 --> 0:20:00.320 something like that. I was like, that's and people get older. 0:20:00.359 --> 0:20:01.200 It happens. 0:20:01.680 --> 0:20:03.600 And he's around my age, he's a little older than 0:20:03.640 --> 0:20:05.680 I am. So I'm there and. 0:20:05.920 --> 0:20:08.680 I'm chatting with one of the listeners, one of the 0:20:09.200 --> 0:20:12.399 fellas who came in from the barry, who was at 0:20:12.400 --> 0:20:16.800 the mallor meet and greet we did in Socow, the 0:20:16.880 --> 0:20:19.080 last not the one in Andy the comic book's place, 0:20:19.560 --> 0:20:22.960 but the one prior to that that we did where 0:20:23.080 --> 0:20:27.280 Eddie found a venue kind of like midway through between 0:20:27.400 --> 0:20:28.560 la and Orange County. 0:20:28.800 --> 0:20:29.480 So that one. 0:20:29.840 --> 0:20:33.160 So I was catching up with him, and then at 0:20:33.160 --> 0:20:36.720 the end of it, I introduced myself to this person 0:20:36.760 --> 0:20:38.880 who was sitting at the table who wasn't saying anything, 0:20:39.359 --> 0:20:41.760 she kind of observing. I was like, I had one 0:20:41.760 --> 0:20:45.560 of those OMG molments, because right there in front of 0:20:45.640 --> 0:20:47.880 me a man that had a full head of hair, 0:20:48.400 --> 0:20:53.560 he had glasses and a beard and nothing like I 0:20:53.600 --> 0:20:57.040 remember was the famous sauce in unbelievable shape, built like 0:20:57.080 --> 0:21:03.120 a Donnis, tremendous shape. Look like he's twenty years younger, 0:21:03.640 --> 0:21:06.600 at least twenty years younger than his actual age. I 0:21:06.640 --> 0:21:09.359 was blown away. You ever had that happen where you know? 0:21:09.800 --> 0:21:11.960 I mean, I don't know Salsa that well. I've just 0:21:12.000 --> 0:21:14.080 met him at fan events, you know, people that are 0:21:14.119 --> 0:21:16.359 part of the show, and we all get together and 0:21:16.560 --> 0:21:18.719 break bread and hang out and all that stuff. And 0:21:19.200 --> 0:21:22.720 so Salsa, I mean, I knew what he looked like. 0:21:22.760 --> 0:21:26.160 I remembered him, and he's a fun guy. I'm really 0:21:26.200 --> 0:21:28.000 happy that he likes what we do here and we're 0:21:28.000 --> 0:21:31.840 friends on the show and whatnot. And but I could 0:21:31.840 --> 0:21:34.240