WEBVTT - The Fifth Hour: “Just Met My Dad” Mail Bag 0:00:00.680 --> 0:00:01.440 Kubbooms. 0:00:02.279 --> 0:00:05.360 If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes 0:00:05.400 --> 0:00:09.160 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 fashion of fairness. He 0:00:12.560 --> 0:00:15.480 treats crackheads in the ghetto cutter the same as the 0:00:15.600 --> 0:00:17.439 rich pill poppers in the penthouse. 0:00:18.040 --> 0:00:18.360 Wow. 0:00:18.560 --> 0:00:22.280 The Clearinghouse of Hot takes break free for something special. 0:00:22.640 --> 0:00:29.400 The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now. 0:00:28.960 --> 0:00:35.160 In the air everywhere. The Fifth Hour we meet Ben 0:00:35.240 --> 0:00:41.080 Mahler and Danny g Radio on a wild Card Sunday 0:00:41.200 --> 0:00:44.680 as it goes all weekend long. A couple of games yesterday, 0:00:44.880 --> 0:00:47.040 two more was it? Two more games today. I don't 0:00:47.040 --> 0:00:48.760 even have the schedule for me. There's a bunch of 0:00:48.840 --> 0:00:52.400 games today and then there's one last game, one last 0:00:52.479 --> 0:00:58.680 game tomorrow, Danny NFL Wild Card Weekend continues. On today's 0:00:59.200 --> 0:01:02.480 today's card. You have the early game, the Broncos and 0:01:02.480 --> 0:01:06.679 the Bills. There's three games it Packers Eagles. That's the 0:01:06.680 --> 0:01:09.280 middle game, and then the Commanders and the Bucks tonight, 0:01:10.040 --> 0:01:15.080 and then tomorrow the Vikings and the Rams in Arizone. 0:01:15.120 --> 0:01:18.480 Because all these fires, Nanny and you, I know, we 0:01:18.480 --> 0:01:21.360 were texting each other during the week. You've been busy 0:01:21.400 --> 0:01:24.520 here on assignment the last couple of a couple of days. 0:01:24.680 --> 0:01:27.360 You couldn't join us. You produce the podcast, but you 0:01:27.360 --> 0:01:29.680 couldn't join us because you've been running all over the place. 0:01:29.720 --> 0:01:34.080 Here you were in a zone where the fires did 0:01:34.560 --> 0:01:36.760 cause you some problems. 0:01:37.440 --> 0:01:40.479 Double doozy here where I live. Not only are we 0:01:40.760 --> 0:01:44.080 on the north end of the Palisades fire, we were 0:01:44.440 --> 0:01:47.800 straight in line for the Kenneth fire as well, And 0:01:47.840 --> 0:01:50.760 that one is the one that really scared my town. 0:01:51.440 --> 0:01:53.280 In fact, if they hadn't been able to do the 0:01:53.280 --> 0:01:56.560 water drops and get that fire controlled as well as 0:01:56.600 --> 0:01:59.600 they did, the town I stay in would have been 0:01:59.720 --> 0:02:00.840 to Yeah. 0:02:00.880 --> 0:02:03.440 Well, we talked a little bit yesterday on the On 0:02:03.560 --> 0:02:07.560 Saturday podcast about the fact they think now that the 0:02:07.760 --> 0:02:13.400 Palisades fire was started by arsonists, that they were there 0:02:13.440 --> 0:02:15.920 were a couple of men caught on camera lighting using 0:02:16.000 --> 0:02:20.480 gasoline to light the fire moments before in Palisades, and 0:02:20.520 --> 0:02:22.760 it you know, I talked about a little bit yesterday 0:02:22.800 --> 0:02:27.400 the podcast, But it does seem that if not all 0:02:27.440 --> 0:02:30.720 of these fires, many of them, that the big ones 0:02:31.160 --> 0:02:33.960 were started by individuals. 0:02:34.280 --> 0:02:38.280 Did you see citizens on patrol who in Woodland Hills 0:02:38.320 --> 0:02:42.880 held down that guy, oh they believe started the Kenneth fire. 0:02:43.639 --> 0:02:46.799 Yeah, it's it's crazy. As I mentioned this yesterday, I 0:02:46.800 --> 0:02:47.919 don't know your thoughts on it, but it's one of 0:02:47.960 --> 0:02:51.320 those weird catch twenty two situations because the people that 0:02:51.480 --> 0:02:56.440 provide news, whether it's online or old school media, anytime 0:02:56.440 --> 0:02:59.200 there's a big wind event around here, they make sure 0:02:59.240 --> 0:03:01.800 to let everyone a home high wind red flag warning 0:03:01.840 --> 0:03:06.440 all this stuff fire danger, And it's I think I 0:03:06.440 --> 0:03:09.080 said yesterday, it's like a dog whistled Danny to people 0:03:09.120 --> 0:03:12.400 that love, you know, they have that love of fire 0:03:12.480 --> 0:03:15.040 and anarchy and all that, Like, well, well, it's like 0:03:15.080 --> 0:03:18.359 they're telling them to go out and start trouble. It's 0:03:18.480 --> 0:03:19.280 uh yeah. 0:03:19.400 --> 0:03:22.960 Or I wonder too, Ben where it was started in 0:03:23.040 --> 0:03:26.280 Pacific Palisades. As you know, there is a good amount 0:03:26.320 --> 0:03:29.600 of money. There are some of these arsonists, at least 0:03:29.639 --> 0:03:32.600 for that fire, the ones that were waiting in. 0:03:32.520 --> 0:03:33.720 The wings to loot. 0:03:34.240 --> 0:03:34.920 This is shame. 0:03:35.840 --> 0:03:38.120 Your wife does this for a living. They were getting 0:03:38.160 --> 0:03:41.320 nine to one one calls from homeowners saying that they 0:03:41.360 --> 0:03:44.320 saw people going into the neighborhoods to loot. 0:03:44.960 --> 0:03:48.000 Yeah, hey, I mean I know those conspiracies out there. 0:03:48.240 --> 0:03:50.840 As I have said, you know, who knows what's actual 0:03:50.920 --> 0:03:54.480 truth and not. And during COVID. During COVID, there were 0:03:54.480 --> 0:03:56.320 people telling us, Oh, that's a conspiracy, and then now 0:03:56.440 --> 0:03:58.920 years later we found out no, actually did happen that way. 0:03:59.000 --> 0:04:02.600 So but yeah, I saw some of the stuff online 0:04:02.640 --> 0:04:04.440 about that that they're you know, some of the South 0:04:04.480 --> 0:04:08.520 American gangs had started the fire, but I don't know 0:04:08.680 --> 0:04:11.360 that seems like even for them, like what would they 0:04:11.400 --> 0:04:12.720 rent U haul trucks? 0:04:13.200 --> 0:04:15.800 Yeah, it's also hard to think you would want those 0:04:15.800 --> 0:04:19.920 sort of working conditions, even if you were a criminal, 0:04:20.560 --> 0:04:23.240 like to that degree, would you want to be in 0:04:23.279 --> 0:04:27.000 the middle of a burning, out of control blaze like that? 0:04:27.680 --> 0:04:31.160 Yeah, And I don't know the whole thing. I think 0:04:31.160 --> 0:04:34.200 the scene where the people left their cars, they just 0:04:34.279 --> 0:04:36.800 left their cars and the palisades and then walked down 0:04:36.839 --> 0:04:39.480 because they couldn't get out, and then the cars they 0:04:39.600 --> 0:04:43.080 used the bulldozer and then the fire burned the cars anyway, 0:04:43.160 --> 0:04:44.039 so it didn't really matter. 0:04:44.320 --> 0:04:44.440 Man. 0:04:45.000 --> 0:04:49.719 That was the scariest part of the apocalyptical scene is 0:04:49.760 --> 0:04:50.080 that the. 0:04:50.000 --> 0:04:51.800 Word just go with it if you say it, like 0:04:51.839 --> 0:04:52.440 people did. 0:04:53.880 --> 0:04:55.800 I make that word up? You O be five dollars. 0:04:56.279 --> 0:04:58.279 That's a great word. It sounds like I was like, 0:04:58.320 --> 0:04:59.080 you know what you're talking about? 0:04:59.080 --> 0:05:03.040 You put up yeah, yeah, the apocalyptical scene getting onto 0:05:03.080 --> 0:05:06.280 the one oh one freeway, which from where we live 0:05:06.360 --> 0:05:09.599 back in this canyon. It's usually I don't know about 0:05:09.640 --> 0:05:11.920 a five to ten minute drive to get to the freeway. 0:05:12.680 --> 0:05:15.200 It took Brenda and she calls me while I was 0:05:15.240 --> 0:05:18.520 on Covino and Rich and says, you got to get here. 0:05:18.640 --> 0:05:18.960 Now. 0:05:19.320 --> 0:05:22.640 They are evacuating our street. And when you hear those 0:05:22.680 --> 0:05:24.000 words on the phone, you. 0:05:23.960 --> 0:05:26.680 Know, oh my gosh. 0:05:26.839 --> 0:05:29.839 Rich Davis same thing. He had to drop his headphones 0:05:29.880 --> 0:05:32.440 and run to his car. We're both running to the 0:05:32.480 --> 0:05:36.120 parking garage. Brenda's on the phone asking me, well, what 0:05:36.160 --> 0:05:37.760 do you want of yours thrown in the back of 0:05:37.800 --> 0:05:42.920 the car. Honestly, I didn't know what to tell her. Well, 0:05:43.040 --> 0:05:45.520 I take that back, I said, grab my Marcus Allen 0:05:45.600 --> 0:05:48.719 Rookie card, the graded one, the ten out. 0:05:48.520 --> 0:05:52.280 Of ten that's going to get the kid to college 0:05:52.320 --> 0:05:54.680 right there, That's the one. 0:05:54.000 --> 0:05:54.480 I told her. 0:05:54.480 --> 0:05:57.800 I don't know my birth certificate, my Social Security card. 0:05:57.880 --> 0:05:59.760 I honestly wasn't sure. 0:06:00.040 --> 0:06:02.480 And then I now am having trouble on the one 0:06:02.520 --> 0:06:06.279 on one freeway getting here to get even towards my town. 0:06:07.040 --> 0:06:09.640 As you know, later we found out that the Kenneth 0:06:09.680 --> 0:06:13.800 fire triggered an alarm in a lot of LA residents 0:06:13.839 --> 0:06:16.120 who weren't supposed to get the alarm that. 0:06:16.080 --> 0:06:17.359 Weren't in this area. 0:06:17.920 --> 0:06:20.000 The one on one all of a sudden was flooded 0:06:20.040 --> 0:06:23.359 with people doing the same thing I was doing, except 0:06:23.400 --> 0:06:26.360 I was actually going to a neighborhood that was evacuated. 0:06:26.720 --> 0:06:28.560 There were people trapped on the one on one who 0:06:28.640 --> 0:06:31.719 got a false alarm and were stuck on the freeway 0:06:31.800 --> 0:06:35.640 trying to turn around. So it was the biggest mess 0:06:35.680 --> 0:06:38.280 you could imagine. I had a hell of a time 0:06:38.360 --> 0:06:42.560 getting here, meeting her somewhere north, and then it took 0:06:42.640 --> 0:06:45.680 us two hours just to get to a town two 0:06:45.760 --> 0:06:49.520 cities above us. And then every exit we were trying 0:06:49.560 --> 0:06:53.239 to get to to eat and have a screaming baby 0:06:53.279 --> 0:06:55.719 and a dog and a cat have a breakout of 0:06:55.760 --> 0:06:58.839 the car. It was a nightmare because everything was pitch black. 0:06:59.000 --> 0:07:01.640 All the power and turned off all the power in 0:07:01.680 --> 0:07:06.400 these towns. Finally found a shopping center that was alive 0:07:07.040 --> 0:07:09.400 with power on, and as you can imagine. It was 0:07:09.480 --> 0:07:13.160 flooded with people. Even some people just camped out, staying 0:07:13.280 --> 0:07:15.760 in the parking lot. There were a couple of fire 0:07:15.880 --> 0:07:19.080 crews inside the restaurant we were at. They were stopping 0:07:19.120 --> 0:07:21.280 to grab a bite on their way to fight fires 0:07:21.320 --> 0:07:23.280 in Calabasas. 0:07:23.320 --> 0:07:23.880 Surreal. 0:07:24.200 --> 0:07:27.520 It was one of the strangest moments for me ever 0:07:27.600 --> 0:07:30.559 in southern California. And as you know, we've been through 0:07:30.720 --> 0:07:34.120 earthquakes and a lot of crazy shit where we live, 0:07:34.640 --> 0:07:36.120 but nothing ever like this. 0:07:37.080 --> 0:07:40.000 It's been a wild week. Man, It's just crazy. So 0:07:40.120 --> 0:07:41.840 I said, there is a silver lining. I will be 0:07:41.840 --> 0:07:45.200 Benny Brightside without a shadow of doubt. Danny. We have 0:07:45.320 --> 0:07:48.720 learned the mayor of Los Angeles is completely incompetent, and 0:07:48.760 --> 0:07:51.920 we have also learned that the governor of the state 0:07:51.960 --> 0:07:56.320 of California just can't stop lying. I love the fact 0:07:56.360 --> 0:08:01.400 that a random mom took down I don't I don't 0:08:01.400 --> 0:08:04.400 know who that woman is. That the viral video. Oh yes, 0:08:05.200 --> 0:08:07.960 Oh it was so good. He's such a little snake. 0:08:08.200 --> 0:08:12.680 Gavin Newsom, the governor of California, of California, and for 0:08:12.800 --> 0:08:15.960 him to be pantsed that was that was actually worse 0:08:16.040 --> 0:08:18.120 than the during COVID when he was eating at the 0:08:18.120 --> 0:08:22.680 French laundry. Uh, he's such. I'm on the foe with 0:08:22.720 --> 0:08:25.120 the president right now. Can I hear the conversation? Well, 0:08:25.160 --> 0:08:29.480 I don't actually have cell reception. H such a good Yeah, 0:08:29.480 --> 0:08:30.200 oh my god. 0:08:30.360 --> 0:08:33.200 Not not to get into politics. But not only did 0:08:33.280 --> 0:08:37.240 more people in our state vote the other direction, more 0:08:37.280 --> 0:08:40.520 people now are pushing for new leadership and to get 0:08:40.559 --> 0:08:43.080 some of the slimy weasels out of our state here. 0:08:43.720 --> 0:08:48.120 And really, politics shouldn't matter when a catastrophe happens in 0:08:48.160 --> 0:08:52.120 our country. Any good Americans should get behind the other 0:08:52.200 --> 0:08:55.560 Americans that are going through It should not matter about 0:08:55.559 --> 0:08:57.480 anything else, including politics. 0:08:57.920 --> 0:08:58.400 I get it. 0:08:58.440 --> 0:09:01.440 I understand a lot of people have some hate towards 0:09:01.520 --> 0:09:05.640 our state of California, but not all of us are haterable. 0:09:06.080 --> 0:09:07.760 Not all of us are the problem. 0:09:08.160 --> 0:09:10.480 And I think, Ben, we are going to have a 0:09:11.040 --> 0:09:12.160 cleaning of the house. 0:09:12.400 --> 0:09:12.600 Yeah. 0:09:12.600 --> 0:09:14.320 Well, the first thing we need to do is hire 0:09:14.400 --> 0:09:17.600 competent people and stop with you know, filling quotas and 0:09:17.640 --> 0:09:20.000 all that stuff. Get people that can actually do the job. 0:09:20.240 --> 0:09:23.880 The fact that you ran out of water, I mean 0:09:23.880 --> 0:09:25.200 they ran out of water. 0:09:25.840 --> 0:09:26.680 It's amazing. 0:09:26.760 --> 0:09:28.559 How do you run out of water. If you're a 0:09:29.080 --> 0:09:33.240 well run city, it's insanity and that right there. You know, 0:09:33.360 --> 0:09:35.120 I don't you know all the backshop, I've read a 0:09:35.120 --> 0:09:37.200 lot of stuff. Again, you don't know what's real what's not. 0:09:37.800 --> 0:09:39.800 Some of the people that are in charge were hired 0:09:40.080 --> 0:09:43.880 because of the the DEI stuff or whatever. It's just 0:09:44.080 --> 0:09:48.280 it's insane. But the mayor Karen bass in la that 0:09:48.280 --> 0:09:51.040 that will be the video that gets her removed as mayor. 0:09:51.080 --> 0:09:53.400 The video for at the airport confronted by I guess 0:09:53.400 --> 0:09:57.200 it was a British reporter who kept asking her questions 0:09:57.360 --> 0:10:05.640 and she didn't say anything. She reminds me of Mitch McConnell. Yes, yeah, 0:10:06.679 --> 0:10:09.520 she's she's not that old. I guess she's old. 0:10:09.520 --> 0:10:09.880 I don't know. 0:10:09.880 --> 0:10:12.600 I don't know how old she is. She's how old 0:10:12.640 --> 0:10:14.719 she is, she's she's You know, you're the mayor of 0:10:14.800 --> 0:10:17.640 Los Angeles. You should be able to roll with the 0:10:17.679 --> 0:10:18.640 punches right. 0:10:18.960 --> 0:10:19.680 And really quick. 0:10:19.720 --> 0:10:23.199 Then to the firefighters and the pilots doing the water drops, 0:10:23.640 --> 0:10:24.800 we salute. 0:10:24.400 --> 0:10:29.079 You God bless truly. Yeah. Now, the fire firefighters are great, 0:10:29.160 --> 0:10:32.000 all the first responders, the people that work for the 0:10:32.160 --> 0:10:35.200 different cities, I mean just just great. There was a 0:10:35.280 --> 0:10:37.760 video that went viral from the one I don't know. 0:10:37.800 --> 0:10:39.920 I can't keep track of all the names of the fires. 0:10:39.960 --> 0:10:42.599 The one in the Hollywood Hills, I don't even I 0:10:42.600 --> 0:10:46.240 don't know which one that was. Think about where we are, Danny. 0:10:46.520 --> 0:10:49.000 There have been so many fires this week we don't 0:10:49.040 --> 0:10:49.720 even know, Like. 0:10:49.960 --> 0:10:52.160 Yeah, what was that the sunset fire? 0:10:52.480 --> 0:10:55.560 Okay, the sunset fire. So there's that video of the fire, 0:10:56.000 --> 0:10:58.200 the drop the plane drop water. 0:10:58.480 --> 0:11:02.120 Oh yeah, yeah, like Curry hitting a turnaround three. 0:11:02.320 --> 0:11:06.719 Oh, it just nailed it right, just perfect release and 0:11:06.920 --> 0:11:10.200 put out the fire. Shot, shot is shot and it 0:11:10.360 --> 0:11:12.560 was just awesome, all right. 0:11:12.640 --> 0:11:15.920 It was just Rich Davis said that pilot was probably 0:11:16.040 --> 0:11:20.160 chewing on a mouthpiece like Steph Curry. 0:11:20.640 --> 0:11:23.040 That was It was great, man, that was That was awesome. 0:11:23.080 --> 0:11:25.360 I mean, that's that's the kind of stuff that fires 0:11:25.400 --> 0:11:27.920 you up. Have you heard from I've heard from people 0:11:27.960 --> 0:11:29.640 I haven't heard from in a long time. 0:11:29.679 --> 0:11:32.079 In the last couple of days. I met my dad 0:11:32.120 --> 0:11:39.360 for the first time two days ago. I'm glad to 0:11:39.400 --> 0:11:42.800 get to the mail bag here for some normalcy. And 0:11:43.080 --> 0:11:45.080 the games have helped a little bit a little bit 0:11:45.080 --> 0:11:45.839 of a distraction. 0:11:46.080 --> 0:11:48.959 So nice to have the wild Card games going to. 0:11:49.720 --> 0:11:54.720 Absolutely let's get to the Sunday mail bag in Ohio. 0:11:56.040 --> 0:12:12.839 It's all right, thank you, OHI. These are actual letters 0:12:12.840 --> 0:12:14.640 by actual listeners. If you're a fan of the Fifth 0:12:14.640 --> 0:12:17.319 Hour podcast, if you want to support the podcast, how 0:12:17.320 --> 0:12:19.560 do you support the podcast? You let people know about 0:12:19.600 --> 0:12:22.280 the podcast. 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Put your name in there 0:13:00.240 --> 0:13:02.000 and the city you're from if you want us to 0:13:02.000 --> 0:13:04.720 give your love. Otherwise we'll just say you're anonymous. We'll 0:13:04.720 --> 0:13:07.840 just say you're anonymous. And you can also make sure 0:13:07.880 --> 0:13:09.480 to put mail in the headline so I know it's 0:13:09.720 --> 0:13:12.320 for the mail bag and that's the way that goes. 0:13:12.360 --> 0:13:16.319 But the first one is from Ryan C. From Shrewsbury 0:13:17.120 --> 0:13:19.480 and he writes and he says, Ben and Danny as 0:13:19.520 --> 0:13:23.120 an Avid dedicated listener for over two years. How about 0:13:23.120 --> 0:13:25.280 that two years this guy's been with us? He says, 0:13:25.320 --> 0:13:29.640 I must know something. My right hand was getting a workout. Drop, 0:13:29.960 --> 0:13:32.880 Where did that come from? And what's the backstory to 0:13:32.920 --> 0:13:36.800 that my right hand was getting a workout. 0:13:37.400 --> 0:13:40.720 I remember you explaining this years ago. 0:13:40.800 --> 0:13:42.920 It has to do with a TV remote, right. 0:13:42.960 --> 0:13:45.560 Yes, yes, I was watching there were a couple of 0:13:45.720 --> 0:13:47.680 NFL I think it was the NFL. I had to 0:13:47.679 --> 0:13:50.080 be the NFL. There were a couple of NFL games 0:13:50.080 --> 0:13:52.480 that were going on, and I was trying to watch 0:13:52.559 --> 0:13:55.640 both games at the same time on one television. So 0:13:56.360 --> 0:14:00.360 I kept flipping back and forth, and I said, uh, 0:14:00.559 --> 0:14:03.000 you know, I not realize everything is being saved for 0:14:03.040 --> 0:14:05.240 posterious but I said, hey, my right hand is getting 0:14:05.280 --> 0:14:08.199 My right hand was getting a workout. Was because I 0:14:08.280 --> 0:14:11.360 kept going back and forth between these two stupid freaking 0:14:11.520 --> 0:14:16.120 NFL games. I said that probably, you know, fifteen years ago, 0:14:17.040 --> 0:14:19.440 it's still to this day. One of the more popular 0:14:19.520 --> 0:14:20.480 drops on. 0:14:21.880 --> 0:14:24.920 Now your famous metal cock drop that actually came from 0:14:24.920 --> 0:14:28.040 a workout at the gym, right. 0:14:28.800 --> 0:14:33.720 I was attracted to the giant metal cock. Well it 0:14:33.800 --> 0:14:37.840 was actually I was at a nightclub. No, yeah, geez, 0:14:38.520 --> 0:14:39.880 some of the you know. 0:14:39.800 --> 0:14:43.040 Do the drops? What makes those drops so great? Though? 0:14:43.400 --> 0:14:46.160 Did you say it with authority with your chest out? 0:14:47.760 --> 0:14:50.840 Well, you know, you you know, it's got a little 0:14:50.880 --> 0:14:53.480 bit of like for a while, Lorrainer wasn't putting any drops, 0:14:53.480 --> 0:14:55.840 and she's putting drops in now. But I often forget, 0:14:56.000 --> 0:14:57.680 as you know, Danny, we've done this a long time. 0:14:57.680 --> 0:15:00.640 We both started we were kids in radio, and so 0:15:01.240 --> 0:15:04.560 you get so used, so comfortable with a microphone, and 0:15:04.600 --> 0:15:06.480 sometimes you're not sure, like am I on the air? 0:15:06.480 --> 0:15:07.800 Am I not on the air? You know? You know? 0:15:08.000 --> 0:15:12.840 And sometimes because you're so comfortable, you just start yapping 0:15:13.280 --> 0:15:16.200 and I do it. Sometimes I'll put a little extra 0:15:16.240 --> 0:15:17.360 sauce on it, you know what I mean, They and 0:15:17.400 --> 0:15:19.920 a little extra sauce. Yeah, you're on the radio. And 0:15:20.000 --> 0:15:23.920 then it comes back to haunt me and for the 0:15:23.960 --> 0:15:26.080 rest of my life, I have to hear these stupid 0:15:26.120 --> 0:15:27.360 soundbites that get played. 0:15:28.080 --> 0:15:30.920 You also know that it's an oldie, but goodie drop 0:15:31.160 --> 0:15:34.480 when your voice is in the high register, because you 0:15:34.520 --> 0:15:36.040 are like sixteen years old. 0:15:36.520 --> 0:15:38.400 I know when it was recorded. 0:15:39.040 --> 0:15:42.440 For instance, a few days ago on Covino and Richie, 0:15:42.440 --> 0:15:46.720 we were talking about dippings. They were saying, what dips 0:15:47.080 --> 0:15:50.840 are the best? Somebody was ranting about Chick fil A 0:15:50.960 --> 0:15:54.400 sauces and they were talking about different sauces, and suddenly 0:15:54.800 --> 0:15:57.920 I hear Iowa, Sam, play a drop. That's your voice, 0:15:58.360 --> 0:16:04.000 and it's you saying something about a snack snacks, and 0:16:04.120 --> 0:16:07.280 your voice it sounded like you weren't even twenty years 0:16:07.280 --> 0:16:10.560 old yet. That's when I know it's vintage. Ben Maller. 0:16:10.760 --> 0:16:12.800 Oh yeah, there's some some drops in there. I was 0:16:12.800 --> 0:16:14.600 telling the story the other day. It came up on 0:16:14.640 --> 0:16:17.000 the show. Somebody brought it up. I forget how about 0:16:19.720 --> 0:16:21.400 I think this was a Roberto. I don't think it 0:16:21.440 --> 0:16:23.240 was you that put this in, but it was when 0:16:23.280 --> 0:16:25.480 I told the story of I was at Lax. 0:16:27.920 --> 0:16:29.480 Roberto did the original work. 0:16:30.040 --> 0:16:32.920 I cleaned the drop up to make it sound smoother, 0:16:33.560 --> 0:16:36.400 and I used that drop often here on the fifth hour. 0:16:37.080 --> 0:16:42.560 He blew me off at a hotel near Lax. Yeah. Yeah, 0:16:42.560 --> 0:16:46.840 so I was a reporter for six ninety. They sent 0:16:46.920 --> 0:16:50.600 me to an airport hotel at Lax. Wayne Gretzky had 0:16:50.600 --> 0:16:52.880 been traded from the Kings to the Saint Luke Cruise. 0:16:53.320 --> 0:16:55.800 So they state the radio station in San Diego's like, hey, 0:16:55.800 --> 0:16:58.840 get out there, we're the flagship of the Kings. Gretzkild 0:16:59.000 --> 0:17:01.040 You just listened to him tall and then on his 0:17:01.120 --> 0:17:04.000 way out, just grab him, get him to call in 0:17:04.240 --> 0:17:06.960 and say goodbye to the Kings fans. I said, no problem, 0:17:07.000 --> 0:17:09.679 I'll do it. So I went out there, and this 0:17:09.840 --> 0:17:12.639 was hastily arranged. I remember the night it was hastily arranged. 0:17:13.480 --> 0:17:15.240 I was, you know, single dude. I had no life, 0:17:15.240 --> 0:17:16.560 So I was like what they all go out there? 0:17:17.160 --> 0:17:20.199 So I park at the hotel near Lax. I go 0:17:20.320 --> 0:17:24.840 into the the conference hall. They had thrown some chairs 0:17:24.880 --> 0:17:27.840 in there and a table and a backdrop for this 0:17:27.880 --> 0:17:29.720 news commerce. So I go in there and Gretzky's talking 0:17:29.720 --> 0:17:32.119 and the you know, some executives from the Kings were 0:17:32.119 --> 0:17:34.440 talking and all that, and they were saying how emotional 0:17:34.480 --> 0:17:37.520 it was and all this bull bullpucky, and so then 0:17:37.560 --> 0:17:40.080 the interviews over the news commers is over. So I 0:17:40.160 --> 0:17:44.680 go over to Wayne Gretzky and his you know, his brutes, 0:17:44.760 --> 0:17:49.080 his bullies, whatever goons. And and I'm of course expecting 0:17:49.119 --> 0:17:50.800 this to go very smooth because I drove all the 0:17:50.840 --> 0:17:53.359 way out here to hear, you know, the nonsense, and 0:17:53.400 --> 0:17:55.359 to get Gretzky on. I had my phone dialed up 0:17:55.359 --> 0:17:58.600 on the hotline, the warm line to six ninety in 0:17:58.640 --> 0:18:03.400 San Diego, and I explained who I am. I very 0:18:03.440 --> 0:18:07.119 confidently say Wayne, you want to say goodbye to the 0:18:07.160 --> 0:18:13.359 Kings fans and was completely blown off, completely blown off by. 0:18:13.280 --> 0:18:20.040 I believe he said he blew me off, But it was, 0:18:20.080 --> 0:18:20.359 it was. 0:18:21.000 --> 0:18:24.679 It was because I still remember that he had to 0:18:24.720 --> 0:18:27.639 catch like a flight to Saint Louis or wherever the 0:18:27.640 --> 0:18:30.199 Blues were playing, I don't know, and he uh, and 0:18:30.240 --> 0:18:34.040 they had a whole entourage of people that were with 0:18:34.119 --> 0:18:35.560 him to Saint Louis or wherever. 0:18:35.680 --> 0:18:39.280 And yeah, it was really was that the most memorable 0:18:39.440 --> 0:18:41.000 place you've ever been blown off? 0:18:43.680 --> 0:18:48.520 It was not the most enjoyable, enjoyable. 0:18:49.080 --> 0:18:50.200 I love your stories. 0:18:50.240 --> 0:18:54.119 Behind the drops, it's like behind the music, it's the 0:18:54.240 --> 0:18:56.200 radio version behind the drop. 0:18:56.520 --> 0:18:59.480 Oh no, well, there's a bunch. I mean, anybody wants 0:18:59.520 --> 0:19:01.840 to hear any stories about any drops just email the 0:19:01.960 --> 0:19:05.879 Fifth Hour mail bag Real fifth Hour at gmail dot com. 0:19:06.960 --> 0:19:10.199 Alf in Fullerton writes, and this must you think this 0:19:10.280 --> 0:19:12.439 is the real alf I don't know, he says. I 0:19:12.640 --> 0:19:15.360 know I took he says, rather, I know. I look 0:19:15.440 --> 0:19:17.600 like a huge hypocrite for asking if you guys plan 0:19:17.720 --> 0:19:20.040 to move out of California in the future and then 0:19:20.160 --> 0:19:23.040 move in. But in my defense, I am sick and 0:19:23.080 --> 0:19:26.919 tired of paying for parking. I'd rather risk my house 0:19:27.040 --> 0:19:32.440 burning down than ever pay for parking again. And Fullerton 0:19:33.080 --> 0:19:37.040 really is a beautiful, magical as Mayor Mike said it is. 0:19:37.400 --> 0:19:41.520 I'm loving the downtown overrun by trees. None of the 0:19:41.560 --> 0:19:44.880 trees catching on fire so far is a nice bonus. 0:19:45.040 --> 0:19:49.400 There's one other big reason why I moved to sow 0:19:49.480 --> 0:19:52.760 cal from Springfield, Mass. I can now proudly say I 0:19:52.800 --> 0:19:57.160 live three thousand miles away from the totally disgraced name 0:19:57.200 --> 0:20:00.960 iss Nate Smith, basketball Hall of Fame who enshrined that 0:20:01.080 --> 0:20:04.920 fraud Muffett McGraw. I've been sleeping better ever since. Wow, 0:20:05.000 --> 0:20:08.040 there's a lot there. There's a lot there. But I 0:20:08.040 --> 0:20:09.720 don't think there was a question there though, right I 0:20:09.760 --> 0:20:10.680 don't think there was a question. 0:20:10.720 --> 0:20:11.080 It was just a. 0:20:12.800 --> 0:20:18.800 Yeah, Manny writes in from Parts Unknown to not Manny, 0:20:18.880 --> 0:20:20.879 you got to put your city there, pal if you 0:20:20.880 --> 0:20:25.119 want us to give you credit, but just say, Manny says, Hey, bandon, Danny, 0:20:25.680 --> 0:20:27.080 I want to know what you guys thought about this. 0:20:27.119 --> 0:20:29.680 I think this ties into something you talked about on 0:20:29.720 --> 0:20:33.520 the Fifth Hour. A couple months back. He sent a 0:20:33.560 --> 0:20:38.359 news story here of scientists baffled. Do you see this 0:20:39.200 --> 0:20:44.480 sunken worlds under the sea. Massive structures have been found 0:20:44.520 --> 0:20:49.359 deep beneath the Pacific Ocean that scientists say should not exist. 0:20:49.960 --> 0:20:50.960 I totally believe this. 0:20:51.720 --> 0:20:53.520 Yeah. There's like an. 0:20:53.400 --> 0:20:56.879 Apol person beside it and another one inside, and it 0:20:56.880 --> 0:20:59.480 has big guys that're looking at us. Yeah. 0:20:59.520 --> 0:21:01.040