WEBVTT - The Fifth Hour: Gaggle, Gaslight, Casa Glow 0:00:00.760 --> 0:00:01.520 Kubbooms. 0:00:02.360 --> 0:00:05.440 If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes 0:00:05.480 --> 0:00:09.240 a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants 0:00:09.240 --> 0:00:12.560 of the Old Republic, a soul fashion of fairness. He 0:00:12.640 --> 0:00:15.560 treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the 0:00:15.680 --> 0:00:17.520 rich pill poppers in the penthouse. 0:00:18.120 --> 0:00:18.440 Wow. 0:00:18.640 --> 0:00:22.360 The Clearinghouse of Hot takes break free for something special. 0:00:22.720 --> 0:00:29.400 The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now. 0:00:29.680 --> 0:00:36.800 In the air everywhere as we launched, we catapult into 0:00:36.840 --> 0:00:41.680 the Fifth Hour with Ben Mahler and Danny g Radio. 0:00:42.040 --> 0:00:48.520 And a happy Saturday to you as we are hanging 0:00:48.600 --> 0:00:52.080 out here on this twenty third day of the month. 0:00:52.200 --> 0:00:54.520 There's a bunch of dope holidays and all that, but 0:00:54.520 --> 0:00:58.880 it's college basketball weekend. By the end of tomorrow we 0:00:58.920 --> 0:01:02.480 will be down to this. Yeah, sixteen in college basket. 0:01:02.560 --> 0:01:04.080 You want to update on my bracket? 0:01:04.600 --> 0:01:06.240 Hell, you want to? You want a cigarette letter to 0:01:06.240 --> 0:01:10.479 burn it? Would you like that? I don't even want 0:01:10.480 --> 0:01:12.880 to look. I'm not I'm not gonna look. I don't 0:01:12.920 --> 0:01:14.759 even need to look at my bracket. And here's why, 0:01:15.319 --> 0:01:19.720 because I know that I will be told how I'm 0:01:19.760 --> 0:01:22.600 doing if I suck, if I'm good. No one will 0:01:22.600 --> 0:01:25.240 bring it up. If I my bracket is terrible, I 0:01:25.240 --> 0:01:27.280 will have fifteen thousand trolls. 0:01:27.760 --> 0:01:28.280 You suck. 0:01:28.520 --> 0:01:29.800 You claim to be an expert. 0:01:29.880 --> 0:01:31.960 What do you have a John R. Wooden Award vote. 0:01:32.040 --> 0:01:35.399 You don't even know college basketball. You're a loser. You suck. 0:01:35.600 --> 0:01:37.000 That's what you're doing overnights. 0:01:37.080 --> 0:01:39.400 You have to pay attention to your picks though, because 0:01:39.440 --> 0:01:45.000 you have a chance to win a fifteen inch Westinghouse TV. No. 0:01:45.000 --> 0:01:47.840 No, no, you get the hotel, you get the old 0:01:48.040 --> 0:01:49.600 I don't know the listener gets that. 0:01:49.760 --> 0:01:49.960 No? 0:01:49.960 --> 0:01:52.400 No, oh, yeah, no I did. I emailed Scott. I said, 0:01:52.400 --> 0:01:54.080 I'm gonna win this, So where can I go? 0:01:54.160 --> 0:01:54.200 On? 0:01:54.280 --> 0:01:56.280 But I want to stay at that graduate hotels? Thin? 0:01:56.360 --> 0:01:58.480 Can I? Can I pick my hotel? He said, well, 0:01:58.520 --> 0:02:00.320 you're not really eligible. I say, well, why why not? 0:02:00.560 --> 0:02:01.200 I'm gonna win it. 0:02:01.320 --> 0:02:04.200 Yeah, I'm sorry. You work for the company, so you 0:02:04.240 --> 0:02:06.400 can't do it. So on this podcast, we've got the 0:02:06.440 --> 0:02:11.640 Gag Order, the Music City, Serendipity on Fire, the Holding Pattern, 0:02:11.760 --> 0:02:14.080 we got a lot of stuff. We got a lot 0:02:14.080 --> 0:02:16.720 of stuff on this podcast, but I wanted to start 0:02:16.720 --> 0:02:18.920 with this. Dan. We'll get right into it. Okay, No, Dillydelling. 0:02:19.480 --> 0:02:25.400 So this is behind the scenes, behind the microphones, if 0:02:25.440 --> 0:02:27.600 you will, behind the microphones of Fox Sports. 0:02:27.360 --> 0:02:28.680 Radio, and. 0:02:30.000 --> 0:02:33.440 I wanted to so this week I had On Monday, 0:02:34.960 --> 0:02:39.880 I was given a gag order. I woke up in 0:02:39.960 --> 0:02:42.760 the middle of my night. Now for most people this 0:02:42.800 --> 0:02:46.320 would be a normal hour, but because of my hours 0:02:46.320 --> 0:02:49.560 with the radio show, I sleep during the day. Now 0:02:49.560 --> 0:02:52.000 I have changed my schedule a little bit. I don't 0:02:52.000 --> 0:02:55.120 stay up quite as late as I did during football season. 0:02:55.160 --> 0:02:58.440 I've been trying to go to bed earlier and get 0:02:58.480 --> 0:03:05.280 more quality, more quality rest. But I was contacted by 0:03:05.520 --> 0:03:10.119 someone of pretty high power in the media business who 0:03:11.200 --> 0:03:16.000 who wanted to have a phone meeting with multiple people, 0:03:16.560 --> 0:03:19.320 and it had to be These are people that are 0:03:19.360 --> 0:03:21.440 on the East Coast and so they it has to 0:03:21.440 --> 0:03:25.240 be at this time. So I went on there and 0:03:25.280 --> 0:03:28.560 we had about an hour meeting on the phone. But 0:03:28.760 --> 0:03:32.200 I have been told I am not allowed to discuss 0:03:32.560 --> 0:03:37.480 said meeting. The gag order is in place, So fingers 0:03:37.520 --> 0:03:39.520 crossed that I will be able to talk about that 0:03:39.600 --> 0:03:43.160 at some point. But as you know, Danny, over the years, 0:03:43.200 --> 0:03:46.280 we have had many I've had many meetings with powerful 0:03:46.320 --> 0:03:50.200 people in media and almost never does it work. It 0:03:50.200 --> 0:03:52.040 did work last year, there was we got a TV 0:03:52.080 --> 0:03:54.880 show last year, so hopefully it'll be something bruined. I 0:03:54.920 --> 0:03:57.320 can't say what it is about, but. 0:03:57.680 --> 0:04:00.920 I'm guessing it's going to be the mail back on TV. 0:04:01.720 --> 0:04:03.120 But Looney's gonna replace me. 0:04:04.200 --> 0:04:06.520 Well, we've already done that. I think Coop will be 0:04:06.560 --> 0:04:08.840 in for you, but I don't know, but he's I 0:04:08.880 --> 0:04:11.880 think he might just move to Japan after this. So 0:04:11.920 --> 0:04:13.760 I have the gag order. I wanted to I wanted 0:04:13.800 --> 0:04:16.560 to share that the gag order is not about anything 0:04:16.600 --> 0:04:18.719 to do with the Music City though, Danny. It does 0:04:18.760 --> 0:04:20.960 not evolve anything in the Music City, so we don't 0:04:21.000 --> 0:04:21.720 have to worry about that. 0:04:22.200 --> 0:04:24.320 Yeah, you know, I'm going to text you right now. 0:04:24.360 --> 0:04:28.039 I just called up my pictures. This is the this 0:04:28.120 --> 0:04:31.480 is the hotel room I walked into at the Graduate. 0:04:31.920 --> 0:04:35.040 All right, let me let me do this. Benny, Benny 0:04:35.160 --> 0:04:37.919 does radio is how you're listed in my phone. 0:04:38.080 --> 0:04:42.520 Oh, I'm honored. It's very impressive that you're Danny g 0:04:42.760 --> 0:04:43.599 Radio on my phone. 0:04:44.240 --> 0:04:48.280 The microphone throttler. We walk into our hotel rooms at 0:04:48.320 --> 0:04:51.560 the Graduate, and the way the commercials read on the air, 0:04:51.680 --> 0:04:54.120 it is truly like that in real life. I mean, 0:04:54.640 --> 0:04:58.400 these hotels are decked out with sports memorabilia and then 0:04:58.480 --> 0:05:03.240 memorabilia that represents their city. So obviously, with it being Nashville, 0:05:03.279 --> 0:05:07.280 you could imagine all the Neon signs and Dolly Parton 0:05:07.480 --> 0:05:12.040 portraits everywhere and above each bed that I saw her boobs. 0:05:12.200 --> 0:05:16.880 Now I'm a believer. Oh wow, yeah, right now a 0:05:16.960 --> 0:05:20.200 painting of Dolly and big bosoms right above your head. 0:05:20.880 --> 0:05:22.839 That's solid. I like that curtain too. 0:05:22.920 --> 0:05:23.000 That. 0:05:23.160 --> 0:05:26.159 Yeah, there's what it's a big canopy above you. 0:05:26.720 --> 0:05:29.040 Yeah, my wife would love that. That's her style. 0:05:29.800 --> 0:05:33.120 Last weekend, as you know, we were broadcasting live there 0:05:33.240 --> 0:05:36.280 for the SEC tournament, so there were a lot of 0:05:36.320 --> 0:05:40.920 sports fans in Nashville, but mostly we just saw bridal parties. 0:05:40.960 --> 0:05:45.400 We saw bachelorette parties up the ass. I mean these girls, 0:05:45.440 --> 0:05:52.200 they travel in what you would call a gaggle of 0:05:52.880 --> 0:05:56.160 women who smell like they put way too much perfume on, 0:05:56.720 --> 0:05:59.680 have their boobs sticking out, their butts and legs showing. 0:06:00.040 --> 0:06:03.840 They're all wearing those denim tubes. It's lots of denim, 0:06:04.000 --> 0:06:07.719 lots of girl like pink cowgirl hats with lots of 0:06:07.760 --> 0:06:11.000 glitter and jewels, and it looks like they'red be dazzled 0:06:11.760 --> 0:06:14.840 and they are just roaming these streets. 0:06:15.360 --> 0:06:20.120 Yeah, do you think they that see that they're like biology, 0:06:20.960 --> 0:06:23.760 it's like primitive. They act like wolves, like pack of wolves. 0:06:23.800 --> 0:06:25.800 You know women on the when they're out like with 0:06:25.839 --> 0:06:26.600 their girlfriends. 0:06:27.040 --> 0:06:29.080 You know Rich a little bit. He's kind of a 0:06:29.120 --> 0:06:32.479 horn dog. He's all chocked up on the show. We 0:06:32.560 --> 0:06:34.640 have to hold him back sometimes from what he really 0:06:35.000 --> 0:06:38.400 wants to say about, you know, male female relations. That's 0:06:38.600 --> 0:06:42.159 that's why podcasts are good for him. He brought it 0:06:42.240 --> 0:06:44.640 up on our show on the network that there were 0:06:44.680 --> 0:06:47.240 a lot of bachelorette parties and hey, if you're a 0:06:47.279 --> 0:06:50.080 single guy, this is probably a good place for you 0:06:50.120 --> 0:06:53.000 to come visit. Now, I butted in. I didn't butt in, 0:06:53.040 --> 0:06:55.440 but I raised my hand and I said, Rich, you're 0:06:55.440 --> 0:06:58.560 forgetting one thing. When we were in the lobby broadcasting 0:06:58.600 --> 0:07:00.839 live and I got a thank you to all the 0:07:00.880 --> 0:07:03.640 listeners who showed up. There were also a couple of 0:07:03.640 --> 0:07:07.200 bachelorette parties on the other side of the lobby. We 0:07:07.279 --> 0:07:10.080 saw with our own eyes a couple of guys approach 0:07:10.600 --> 0:07:13.520 these bachelorette parties and try to talk to girls in 0:07:13.600 --> 0:07:15.640 the group, and what do you think happened? 0:07:16.080 --> 0:07:17.080 Oh, they were kicked away. 0:07:17.400 --> 0:07:18.080 Yeah it was. 0:07:19.120 --> 0:07:22.280 Yes, it was like an invisible force field around these 0:07:22.320 --> 0:07:23.480 bachelorette parties. 0:07:23.960 --> 0:07:25.760 Well that's because the guys weren't good looking at them. 0:07:25.920 --> 0:07:27.920 Because they were good looking enough. You know, you're you're 0:07:27.960 --> 0:07:30.640 allowed in. Yeah, now it works, They'll give you a pass. 0:07:30.920 --> 0:07:32.920 The women aren't interested in yet. But if you you know, 0:07:32.960 --> 0:07:35.320 if you look like who, I don't. I always use 0:07:35.400 --> 0:07:37.760 Brad Pitt, But that's an outdated it really is. 0:07:37.800 --> 0:07:39.200 That dude's like sixty two, I know. 0:07:39.320 --> 0:07:41.280 So who's the new Brad Pitt? I don't even know 0:07:41.560 --> 0:07:43.280 who's Yeah, a sex symbol. 0:07:43.280 --> 0:07:45.840 They think we've asked this question on the podcast, Well 0:07:45.840 --> 0:07:49.000 we asked the question. We don't. Yeah, I don't know either. 0:07:49.040 --> 0:07:51.640 If a listener knows the answer to that, like a 0:07:51.680 --> 0:07:54.560 good reference to a younger like. 0:07:55.120 --> 0:07:58.680 Male, you know, beefcake two guys is enough for me, 0:08:00.400 --> 0:08:01.640 mayle Hollywood beef case. 0:08:02.120 --> 0:08:04.280 That's it. I don't know. 0:08:04.400 --> 0:08:06.800 I don't know what it would be. I have no 0:08:08.320 --> 0:08:11.600 I have no idea. After it was Brad Pitt the last, 0:08:11.680 --> 0:08:15.080 he can't be the last of other people I'm trying. 0:08:15.120 --> 0:08:19.160 You should build like a Donnis Google Sexiest Man Alive. 0:08:19.280 --> 0:08:21.840 I wonder what pops up. You know, they fight over 0:08:21.880 --> 0:08:25.080 that magazine cover. But I know, I know the last 0:08:25.080 --> 0:08:26.920 time I googled that. When we talked about this, an 0:08:26.960 --> 0:08:28.320 older actor came up. 0:08:29.040 --> 0:08:32.600 Yeah, Patrick Dempsey, yeah, twenty twenty three. Twenty twenty three 0:08:32.720 --> 0:08:33.600 was Chris Evans. 0:08:33.800 --> 0:08:39.400 Okay, he's younger than Dempsey. Paul Rudd, Yeah, old, he's 0:08:39.440 --> 0:08:40.080 fifty four. 0:08:40.679 --> 0:08:41.360 Michael B. 0:08:41.760 --> 0:08:45.120 Jordan all right, he's a little younger in twenty twenty, 0:08:45.320 --> 0:08:46.880 but he's in his thirties now. 0:08:48.000 --> 0:08:50.679 Yeah, but he doesn't, like, you know, you know, look 0:08:50.679 --> 0:08:51.439 like Brad Pitt. 0:08:51.600 --> 0:08:55.800 You say, there's no modern reference that matches how we 0:08:56.040 --> 0:08:57.840 used Brad Pitt for a couple of decades. 0:08:57.960 --> 0:09:01.880 Even Chris Evans, like, you can't really like, you know, 0:09:02.400 --> 0:09:05.240 it's such a generic I know it's Captain America, but 0:09:05.480 --> 0:09:06.520 it's a generic name. 0:09:06.679 --> 0:09:09.720 Let's say you were Michael B. Jordan, maybe the girls 0:09:09.760 --> 0:09:13.120 would entertain you and let you into that little bridal group. 0:09:13.720 --> 0:09:16.840 But you know, the girl who's getting married, who has 0:09:16.920 --> 0:09:19.600 the sachet and the little princess thing on her head 0:09:19.640 --> 0:09:22.560 and all that, she's not gonna cheat on her two 0:09:22.640 --> 0:09:25.760 be husband unless the guy is a hundred times better 0:09:25.760 --> 0:09:28.240 looking than her husband. So you're right about that. There 0:09:28.320 --> 0:09:30.520 was a force field around those group of girls. That 0:09:30.679 --> 0:09:33.199 was the first takeaway I had. Then, when we get 0:09:33.240 --> 0:09:36.520 out to the streets, not only was the SEC tournament 0:09:36.600 --> 0:09:39.520 causing a lot of traffic, but there were obviously people 0:09:39.600 --> 0:09:42.520 partying and drinking. And it's just you know, they call 0:09:42.520 --> 0:09:45.720 it Vegas of the South. It's a huge party there. 0:09:46.080 --> 0:09:49.240 The food is delicious, the people are nice, it is overcrowded. 0:09:49.520 --> 0:09:51.640 It does get kind of dirty, just like the streets 0:09:51.640 --> 0:09:55.119 of Vegas. We eat early dinner after the live broadcast, 0:09:55.480 --> 0:09:59.040 and I'm just tired. I had produced our podcast, then 0:09:59.040 --> 0:10:01.600 I produced their live show. We had been on the 0:10:01.640 --> 0:10:04.040 plane for four hours, we had been at the airport 0:10:04.120 --> 0:10:07.560 for three hours. It was a long day as they 0:10:07.559 --> 0:10:10.880 were with some hardcore Covino and rich listeners, planning to 0:10:10.960 --> 0:10:13.600 go to the Jason Al Dean Bar and all these 0:10:13.640 --> 0:10:17.560 different tourist spots. I checked out. I raised my hand, 0:10:17.600 --> 0:10:20.440 I asked for my check, gave the guy a nice tip, 0:10:20.720 --> 0:10:23.079 told the waiter, yeah, I'm sorry, I just can't make 0:10:23.120 --> 0:10:25.240 it as long as the rest of our group here 0:10:25.720 --> 0:10:28.360 before I get back to the graduate though, Ben, I'm 0:10:28.400 --> 0:10:32.559 now walking on these famous streets next to Broadway. Then 0:10:32.600 --> 0:10:35.480 I get on Broadway to get my lift, and I 0:10:35.600 --> 0:10:39.640 noticed something on Broadway which I feel like, this is 0:10:39.720 --> 0:10:42.800 only a Nashville thing, because here on the West coast, 0:10:43.160 --> 0:10:46.520 what is it about even a strip of nightclubs. It's 0:10:46.559 --> 0:10:51.400 like VIP. There's security guys in front. The doors are closed, right, 0:10:51.400 --> 0:10:53.720 it's kind of like you're important. If you can get inside. 0:10:54.320 --> 0:10:57.440 You might hear the music thumping, like some bass or whatever, 0:10:57.679 --> 0:11:01.200 but you don't exactly hear everything that's going on inside 0:11:01.240 --> 0:11:04.800 the club. Yeah, for sure, not in Nashville. 0:11:05.760 --> 0:11:06.360 Wide open. 0:11:06.640 --> 0:11:09.960 All the doors are open, the windows are open. 0:11:10.040 --> 0:11:12.920 You've got a vantage point. You see everything you can see. 0:11:13.240 --> 0:11:17.319 But here's the bad part. You can hear everything out 0:11:17.360 --> 0:11:21.080 of every single place. So it sounds like you have 0:11:21.280 --> 0:11:26.560 taken some mushrooms with Aaron Rodgers. Relax because it is 0:11:26.600 --> 0:11:30.400 this mishmash of all these beats and people singing and 0:11:30.520 --> 0:11:36.120 karaoke and DJ's mixing and live bands. It it is 0:11:36.400 --> 0:11:40.440 just a wreck. I mean, I felt drunk and I 0:11:40.520 --> 0:11:47.160 hadn't had one drink, so up in booze and a lettice. 0:11:51.280 --> 0:11:55.360 It's just soaking it all in, right, I mean, yeah, 0:11:55.440 --> 0:11:56.679 it made me dizzy. 0:11:57.200 --> 0:12:00.000 Yeah. So I've not spent any real time in Nashville, 0:12:00.080 --> 0:12:05.120 so I have not experienced that. I have friends, radio 0:12:05.160 --> 0:12:09.360 friends that live in in Nashville, and I know our 0:12:09.360 --> 0:12:11.679 guy Clay Is, he's you know, that's his town, right, 0:12:11.720 --> 0:12:14.160 he runs, he runs Nashville, right, that's. 0:12:14.640 --> 0:12:17.360 Yeah, it's going to be a governor someday. 0:12:17.720 --> 0:12:20.240 Yeah. I wouldn't doubt it. I wouldn't doubt it. And 0:12:20.360 --> 0:12:22.360 I hope that happens because I've always wanted to have, 0:12:22.480 --> 0:12:24.440 like to be able to say, I know somebody that 0:12:24.559 --> 0:12:28.719 became like a big muckety muck in politics. Like That's 0:12:28.720 --> 0:12:30.560 why I'm kind of pulling for Steve Garvey because I 0:12:30.600 --> 0:12:33.280 knew Garvy. I used to interview him all the time, 0:12:33.679 --> 0:12:35.880 and that he's he's going to have a chance to 0:12:35.880 --> 0:12:38.480 get to d C out of California. It's kind of cool. 0:12:38.880 --> 0:12:42.280 And wanted to meet any president. Never met a president, 0:12:42.800 --> 0:12:44.880 all that kind of stuff. But yeah, I can see 0:12:44.920 --> 0:12:48.280 Clay Clay doing it. So best Food you ate or 0:12:48.360 --> 0:12:50.040 top food best means as good as all the rest 0:12:50.160 --> 0:12:51.880 was the top thing. Eight in music city. 0:12:52.040 --> 0:12:53.840 So I went to a let me. 0:12:53.840 --> 0:12:55.280 Guess Nashville Hot Chicken. 0:12:55.720 --> 0:13:00.840 No. I went to a spot called Spenders and it 0:13:00.920 --> 0:13:04.480 was a cool sports bar and grill. And right before 0:13:04.559 --> 0:13:08.680 our live broadcast, I got a really good on their menu. 0:13:08.840 --> 0:13:13.320 It said really good beef when it was describing they're cheeseburger, 0:13:13.720 --> 0:13:15.839 and I'm like, well, if they say really good beef, 0:13:15.880 --> 0:13:18.600 it must be really good beef. I got a salad 0:13:18.640 --> 0:13:21.600 with ranch. You're excited about that. 0:13:21.679 --> 0:13:23.760 Well, you got the Devil's blood right there below the 0:13:23.760 --> 0:13:25.000 Mason Dixon line. Yeah, I gotcha. 0:13:25.360 --> 0:13:26.920 I love that. If I'm going to do a cheeseburger, 0:13:26.960 --> 0:13:29.440 I'd never have fries because then I really feel fat. 0:13:29.720 --> 0:13:31.280 But if I don't do the fries and I have 0:13:31.360 --> 0:13:34.200 a salad, I'm eating half healthy or so I trick 0:13:34.320 --> 0:13:36.160 my brain into thinking. 0:13:36.080 --> 0:13:39.120 It's like getting a salad and putting ten gallons of 0:13:39.160 --> 0:13:40.360 salad dressing on it. 0:13:40.360 --> 0:13:43.079 It's what I do, all right. So I had the salad, 0:13:43.480 --> 0:13:47.000 the ranch dressing was phenomenal, and then I bite into 0:13:47.040 --> 0:13:50.720 this burger heaven Ben. They take a lot of time 0:13:50.800 --> 0:13:53.560 and care with their food there in Nashville. No matter 0:13:53.600 --> 0:13:56.760 what you order, there's a lot of great flavors coming 0:13:56.760 --> 0:13:59.040 out of the restaurants and we were like in this 0:13:59.120 --> 0:14:01.800 fancy food court. For the dinner, I had a penny 0:14:02.240 --> 0:14:07.320 pesto pasta. It was a nine out of ten Chef's kiss. Yes, 0:14:07.400 --> 0:14:10.079 it was really good. The food is definitely worth the 0:14:10.200 --> 0:14:11.880 travel time to get to Nashville. 0:14:12.360 --> 0:14:14.040 Yeah, I'd like to like to get there. I haven't 0:14:14.080 --> 0:14:15.440 spent too much time in the South. I was in 0:14:15.480 --> 0:14:18.480 North Carolina, Virginia a couple of years ago. I'm actually 0:14:18.520 --> 0:14:21.400 going to South Carolina later this year's schedule to go 0:14:21.400 --> 0:14:24.600 to South Carolina. And actually, a listener to this podcast 0:14:25.360 --> 0:14:29.400 is the plan, if it works out, is to have 0:14:29.440 --> 0:14:32.960 a Mallor meet and greet. And the guys from yeah, 0:14:33.040 --> 0:14:35.520 from California actually, but he's he's been living there and 0:14:35.560 --> 0:14:37.960 he loves it is and how great it is there, 0:14:37.960 --> 0:14:41.120 and so he he's got to a restaurant lined up. 0:14:41.200 --> 0:14:44.760 So I just have to confirm my travel arrangements and 0:14:44.800 --> 0:14:47.240 we'll hopefully have a Malor meet and greet, which will 0:14:47.240 --> 0:14:47.840 be pretty cool. 0:14:48.160 --> 0:14:52.000 Edward Nouth Carolina really quick off the news of South Carolina. 0:14:52.040 --> 0:14:54.960 There a little bit of dirt. Coveno and Rich did 0:14:55.000 --> 0:14:58.320 stay out all night with the listeners, and not only 0:14:58.360 --> 0:15:00.400 did they go to the Jason al Dean bar, wound 0:15:00.480 --> 0:15:02.960 up on the rooftop of our hotel at the Graduate, 0:15:03.240 --> 0:15:07.000 where they have a karaoke bar, an outdoor karaoke bar, 0:15:07.360 --> 0:15:10.760 where Rich Davis was singing songs until two in the morning. 0:15:11.640 --> 0:15:13.520 Living your great You're living your great life. You living 0:15:13.520 --> 0:15:14.040 your best life. 0:15:14.160 --> 0:15:16.240 I'm sure there were no dogs howling at all. 0:15:22.560 --> 0:15:25.120 Well, you have enough alcohol. Everyone sounds like Elvis, you know, 0:15:25.160 --> 0:15:28.840 if you have enough alcohol. So there was a case 0:15:28.880 --> 0:15:31.760 this week, Dandy. I'm gonna call this serendipity on fire. 0:15:32.320 --> 0:15:34.600 So I had a buddy of mine, old newspaper guy 0:15:34.840 --> 0:15:38.520 who I haven't seen this guy in person since before COVID. 0:15:38.520 --> 0:15:41.240 But we're text buddies. Now, that's pretty much it. We're 0:15:41.240 --> 0:15:43.160 text buddies. We don't even talk on the phone. We 0:15:43.240 --> 0:15:45.800 just text. He'll send me news stories, he'll send me 0:15:45.840 --> 0:15:48.920 dirt about the newspaper business. He'll ask me questions about 0:15:48.920 --> 0:15:50.880 the radio business, and I'll tell him what I know, 0:15:50.960 --> 0:15:53.640 and we'll go back and forth whatever the hot button 0:15:53.720 --> 0:15:57.360 topic of the day is. So he also keeps close track. 0:15:57.400 --> 0:15:59.840 He loves car chases. I never need to watch a 0:15:59.840 --> 0:16:02.880 car chase, or watch the news in LA to see 0:16:02.880 --> 0:16:05.720 a car chase, because anytime there's a car chase, my 0:16:05.800 --> 0:16:08.480 buddy will send me a link. There's a high speed 0:16:08.600 --> 0:16:12.840 chase in Riverside and here's a link. It's on channel 0:16:12.880 --> 0:16:16.560 two or whatever, channel nine, and so he's really good 0:16:16.600 --> 0:16:19.280 about that. But he sent me this story. His favorite 0:16:19.320 --> 0:16:23.280 restaurant is this place, which is in Sherman Oaks, which 0:16:23.320 --> 0:16:25.320 is a celebrity hangout. We do the show from the 0:16:25.320 --> 0:16:29.280 Sherman Oaks neighborhood of LA and in the San Fernando Valley, 0:16:29.320 --> 0:16:33.560 and he sent me the story about this restaurant, Casa Vega. 0:16:33.600 --> 0:16:36.800 I don't know if you've been to Casa Vega. It's 0:16:36.840 --> 0:16:40.240 a famous Mexican restaurant. The Kardashians, a lot of. 0:16:40.520 --> 0:16:42.360 People that haven't been there before. 0:16:42.680 --> 0:16:45.200 Yeah, I've been there many times as well. I stopped 0:16:45.240 --> 0:16:47.240 going once they raised the price of the crunchy taco 0:16:47.280 --> 0:16:49.640 to eight dollars. I thought that was a little much, 0:16:50.080 --> 0:16:51.640 but you know, it's a cool place. It's one of 0:16:51.680 --> 0:16:54.640 those places you go to kind of be seen and 0:16:54.680 --> 0:16:59.880 all that, and it's any So somebody lit the dumpster 0:17:00.160 --> 0:17:02.760 behind this Mexican restaurant on fire, and it became a 0:17:02.800 --> 0:17:08.040 news story because it was on video and they were like, 0:17:08.280 --> 0:17:10.840 my buddy was sending me the story. He's like, yeah, yeah, 0:17:10.880 --> 0:17:16.560 this is a rash of fires in Sherman Oaks, that 0:17:16.600 --> 0:17:20.359 there's some vagrants going around lighting stuff on fire. So 0:17:20.960 --> 0:17:23.159 all right whatever. I was like, Oh, that sucks, you know. 0:17:23.720 --> 0:17:26.239 So then I get in the car. I'm driving to 0:17:26.280 --> 0:17:29.680 the radio station. I get off the one oh one 0:17:29.760 --> 0:17:35.480 freeway there at Ventura and I turn turned the corner 0:17:35.520 --> 0:17:38.919 there and go down and uh, and I see this 0:17:39.119 --> 0:17:43.760 sea of fire trucks like not one not to not 0:17:44.040 --> 0:17:47.359 There's like eight fire trucks right in front of the 0:17:47.400 --> 0:17:52.200 Fox Sports radio building. Oh what's this? So I get 0:17:52.200 --> 0:17:54.720 closer and then I realized that they were actually mostly 0:17:54.800 --> 0:17:58.640 for across the street. Somebody had lit a fire right 0:17:58.680 --> 0:18:00.919 across the street. So it was like they're indipity on 0:18:01.040 --> 0:18:03.639 fire right across the street. Somebody had lit like I 0:18:03.640 --> 0:18:05.239 don't know if it was a dumpster or like a 0:18:05.280 --> 0:18:08.640 small building behind the building. There's a restaurant a bar 0:18:08.800 --> 0:18:10.720 right across the street from where we do the show 0:18:10.760 --> 0:18:13.879 from and behind that there was this thing on fire, 0:18:13.960 --> 0:18:17.159 and I could see, like they don't mess around the 0:18:17.160 --> 0:18:20.960 fire department. They had like every fire truck within a couple, 0:18:21.160 --> 0:18:24.119 you know, a couple of cities. It seemed like was 0:18:24.200 --> 0:18:26.200 right there to put that fire out. It was wild. 0:18:26.280 --> 0:18:26.440 Man. 0:18:26.520 --> 0:18:31.479 I was like, wow, that is that is crazy that 0:18:31.760 --> 0:18:33.359 the guy would send me the story and within a 0:18:33.359 --> 0:18:36.240 couple hours, I'm going to work and I see something 0:18:36.520 --> 0:18:40.520 immediately on fire, like right across, right across the way. 0:18:41.200 --> 0:18:43.359 So that was my That reminds me of the time 0:18:43.480 --> 0:18:46.480 the fire alarm system came on while we were live 0:18:46.600 --> 0:18:47.240 on your show. 0:18:48.080 --> 0:18:51.679 Oh yeah, yeah, that's that's happened. My favorite is the 0:18:51.720 --> 0:18:54.760 skunk though. I liked that where the skunk. The skunk 0:18:54.800 --> 0:18:57.199 gets in the air conditioning and then the whole building 0:18:57.240 --> 0:19:00.440 smells like skunk and it's just you can't breath because 0:19:00.440 --> 0:19:01.320 there's no windows. 0:19:01.400 --> 0:19:03.639 And I was used to that smell sitting next to 0:19:03.720 --> 0:19:06.560 Koop every night. Well, I understand, smoke is kind of 0:19:06.560 --> 0:19:07.200 your whole thing. 0:19:08.720 --> 0:19:11.520 The the fire alarm where we had to do the 0:19:11.560 --> 0:19:12.199 show and there was. 0:19:16.200 --> 0:19:21.120 That was going on to drop. 0:19:23.880 --> 0:19:30.720 That's what it sounded like. Yeah, you can't leave your 0:19:30.720 --> 0:19:32.880 battle station, you know you can't. You got to man 0:19:32.920 --> 0:19:35.600 your battle station, Danny. We learned that you can't crawl out. 0:19:36.160 --> 0:19:37.040 You gotta stay there. 0:19:37.320 --> 0:19:39.960 It was very Battlestar Galactica, like. 0:19:40.680 --> 0:19:43.560 Yeah, it was. It was bizarre. Now, I would like 0:19:43.600 --> 0:19:46.879 to see if anyone listening, that would be you listening 0:19:46.880 --> 0:19:48.639 to this podcast, if you can help us out. So 0:19:49.359 --> 0:19:55.320 during the week, the Dodgers released a statement about old Tani. 0:19:55.359 --> 0:19:58.760 We talked about Otani yesterday on the podcast a bit, 0:19:58.960 --> 0:20:02.880 and the the statement was your standard boiler plate statement. 0:20:03.760 --> 0:20:07.240 And I was trying to find out who originally came 0:20:07.320 --> 0:20:10.080 up with a statement, and it's one of these things 0:20:10.119 --> 0:20:13.800 I used to know. It's a holding we'll call it 0:20:13.800 --> 0:20:17.199 the holding pattern. But it's a holding statement. And the 0:20:17.240 --> 0:20:19.199 whole point of a holding statement is to keep the 0:20:19.240 --> 0:20:21.960 media at bay, to keep them on hold if there's 0:20:22.000 --> 0:20:27.320 a scandal. Every major corporation uses a version of the 0:20:27.359 --> 0:20:31.639 same holding statement when there's a scandal and it goes 0:20:31.800 --> 0:20:35.679 something like this, it's typical pr spin. It is we 0:20:35.880 --> 0:20:40.480 are aware of the situation, we are in the process 0:20:40.520 --> 0:20:45.000 of gaining information, it would be inappropriate to comment further 0:20:45.119 --> 0:20:49.840 at this time, or it is an ongoing police investigation, 0:20:49.960 --> 0:20:54.320 so we cannot comment further at this time. But some 0:20:54.600 --> 0:20:57.600 version of that and so I had known. In fact, 0:20:57.640 --> 0:21:00.720 I think we talked about it on this podcast years ago, 0:21:01.680 --> 0:21:03.800