WEBVTT - The Fifth Hour: "Letting It Rip" Mail Bag 0:00:00.680 --> 0:00:04.960 Kaboom. If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred 0:00:05.000 --> 0:00:08.560 minutes a week was enough, think again. He's the last 0:00:08.680 --> 0:00:12.200 remnants of the old republic, a sole fashion of fairness. 0:00:12.360 --> 0:00:15.360 He treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as 0:00:15.360 --> 0:00:18.640 the rich pill poppers in the penthouse. Wow. It's a 0:00:18.760 --> 0:00:22.800 clearinghouse of hot takes. Break free for something special. The 0:00:22.840 --> 0:00:29.280 Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now in the 0:00:29.480 --> 0:00:35.680 air everywhere. The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller and Danny 0:00:35.960 --> 0:00:42.240 ge Radio available on demand everywhere on the iHeartRadio app 0:00:42.240 --> 0:00:46.239 and where you get your podcast, and we thank you well. 0:00:46.520 --> 0:00:48.519 That's really the only way the podcast can be heard 0:00:48.600 --> 0:00:51.000 is on demand. There's no other way to hear the parties. 0:00:51.080 --> 0:00:55.040 We don't stream it live. People have asked me, Danny, 0:00:55.520 --> 0:00:58.240 whether or not we would consider doing the podcast live 0:00:58.400 --> 0:01:02.520 on Twitch. A lot of radio shows are also on Twitch, 0:01:04.000 --> 0:01:08.840 and I've told them I don't know that's a good 0:01:08.840 --> 0:01:10.680 idea because I don't think we get paid extra for it. 0:01:11.720 --> 0:01:15.680 B we have a lot of corporate people. We'd have 0:01:15.760 --> 0:01:19.800 to get get that through right. We couldn't just do that. 0:01:19.880 --> 0:01:22.759 We'd have to get that green lighted by somewhat at corporate, 0:01:22.800 --> 0:01:24.959 which is a pain in the paint in the behind. 0:01:25.800 --> 0:01:30.240 So yeah, plus all the famous Mallards show drops come 0:01:30.280 --> 0:01:33.360 in post production. You pay me five hundred thousand dollars, 0:01:33.400 --> 0:01:36.320 I'll endorse a game magazine or it's kind of like 0:01:36.360 --> 0:01:39.280 George Norri said. And then we had George on the podcast, 0:01:39.319 --> 0:01:41.600 and George is, like I do radio. He doesn't want 0:01:41.600 --> 0:01:44.160 a camera in the Coast to coast studio. He wants 0:01:44.160 --> 0:01:47.120 to set the mood. I set the mood in the studio. Now. 0:01:47.160 --> 0:01:49.360 I do put a camera in for the monologues, but 0:01:49.440 --> 0:01:52.520 once the monologues are over, I turned the lights off 0:01:52.560 --> 0:01:54.400 and I turned the camera off, and it's just me 0:01:54.480 --> 0:01:58.200 and the microphone. Because that's me and you, Danny, were 0:01:58.200 --> 0:02:00.240 old radio guys. That's how you do radio. Don't have 0:02:00.280 --> 0:02:03.680 a camera there. TV's a whole different world. I understand 0:02:03.680 --> 0:02:06.200 if we live in the era of internet streaming and 0:02:06.240 --> 0:02:09.280 all that stuff, But to me, doing radio the right way, 0:02:09.760 --> 0:02:12.959 you're not talking to a camera, You're talking to a microphone. 0:02:12.960 --> 0:02:17.200 It's a much different, organic experience. Yeah. The very first 0:02:17.240 --> 0:02:22.320 time they put the webcams in the broadcasting studios, I 0:02:22.440 --> 0:02:26.959 remember it was so awkward. Because all these listeners were 0:02:27.000 --> 0:02:30.200 clamoring to see how exciting it was in the studio, 0:02:30.880 --> 0:02:32.880 and really it was just a couple of guys sitting 0:02:32.919 --> 0:02:37.160 around in there. We came up with clever ways to 0:02:37.280 --> 0:02:40.280 entertain the audience, but you're right, we're supposed to be 0:02:40.280 --> 0:02:43.840 doing that through content and our voices through audio, not 0:02:44.080 --> 0:02:49.320 dancing like chickens on an open flame. Generally not a 0:02:49.320 --> 0:02:51.720 good idea. So we are going to get to the mailbag. 0:02:51.800 --> 0:02:54.320 That is the main event. The mailbag is the main event. 0:02:54.360 --> 0:02:55.959 But before we get to the mailbag, we did not 0:02:56.080 --> 0:02:59.919 have time for let's get scientifical. So let's get science. 0:03:00.200 --> 0:03:02.200 Go Danny a few science stories. There are some great 0:03:02.240 --> 0:03:05.800 science stories this week, and I was debating whether or 0:03:05.840 --> 0:03:09.519 not to do Let's get scientifical, and I was like, no, 0:03:09.720 --> 0:03:11.359 this is such a great week. Some weeks are a 0:03:11.360 --> 0:03:14.800 little slower than others. We've got to do this because 0:03:14.800 --> 0:03:17.440 these are hilarious stories and you might have missed some 0:03:17.440 --> 0:03:19.640 of these from the world of science this last week. 0:03:20.320 --> 0:03:24.480 Did you see that scientists were able to grow mammoth 0:03:24.560 --> 0:03:28.360 flesh in a lab and they were able to make 0:03:28.400 --> 0:03:32.760 a prehistoric meat ball? Do you see it? Yeah? I 0:03:32.760 --> 0:03:36.040 think it's gonna be my new favorite tri tip. Think 0:03:36.080 --> 0:03:38.800 of the market for prehistoric meatballs when you go to 0:03:38.840 --> 0:03:42.520 the zoo and you can buy a prehistoric meat ball meatball. 0:03:42.800 --> 0:03:45.240 My favorite part of the story is so these scientists 0:03:45.880 --> 0:03:50.680 they grew this thing, and they're too scared to actually 0:03:50.760 --> 0:03:55.960 eat it. They're too scared in case the protein proves 0:03:56.000 --> 0:03:59.120 to be deadly. So they're like, you know, I think 0:03:59.160 --> 0:04:04.640 we're good. I think they mixed and matched cells from 0:04:05.120 --> 0:04:10.000 these unconventional species to make the new meat from the 0:04:10.080 --> 0:04:14.480 mammoth and ten has been extinct for ten thousand years, 0:04:14.560 --> 0:04:19.080 this wild beast, the wooly mammoth. And they're like, no, 0:04:20.160 --> 0:04:23.640 we're good. You know what they should do. I bet 0:04:23.760 --> 0:04:27.159 you there's somebody out there that if they paid enough money, 0:04:27.160 --> 0:04:28.719 they would eat it, and you could make it like 0:04:28.760 --> 0:04:32.560 a reality TV show. Oh, Cooper Loop would do it. Yeah, 0:04:32.720 --> 0:04:36.200 we's proven that he's eating stuff worse, worse, I should say, 0:04:36.279 --> 0:04:40.240 worse for you than a ten thousand year old mammoth 0:04:40.279 --> 0:04:43.960 flesh meat poll but I want to mount it. Well, 0:04:44.000 --> 0:04:45.920 here's good news if you're planning on living a long time. 0:04:45.960 --> 0:04:47.600 This actually relates to something we talked about in a 0:04:47.680 --> 0:04:53.080 previous episode of the podcast. The science community says now 0:04:53.320 --> 0:04:57.240 that we are not even close to reaching the maximum lifespan. 0:04:57.360 --> 0:05:04.400 Human lifespans are capable of zooming, zooming past the record, 0:05:04.400 --> 0:05:06.120 the current record. You know how long the record is 0:05:06.200 --> 0:05:09.239 for living today in the in the world they recorded 0:05:09.360 --> 0:05:15.159 history of humanity. I'm gonna say, hundred and twenty seven. 0:05:16.920 --> 0:05:19.080 You're close, but you went over, so you do not 0:05:19.120 --> 0:05:23.159 win the showcase showdown. One hundred and twenty two years 0:05:23.240 --> 0:05:28.520 is the current record. Okay. They say that people reaching 0:05:28.560 --> 0:05:31.800 the age of one hundred and fifty will be very likely. 0:05:31.839 --> 0:05:36.359 This according to researchers at the University of Georgia. He 0:05:36.400 --> 0:05:41.800 says we're not even close to reaching the maximum potential lifespan. Said. 0:05:41.800 --> 0:05:45.800 The findings are based on the analysis of mortality rates 0:05:46.600 --> 0:05:51.920 going back more than three centuries across nineteen countries, and 0:05:51.960 --> 0:05:56.039 they say for most of recorded to human history, the 0:05:56.120 --> 0:05:59.680 average life expectancy has been between twenty to forty years. 0:06:00.320 --> 0:06:04.240 Today humans live around eighty years. And they say with 0:06:04.360 --> 0:06:08.320 improved nutrition, clean water, better sanitation, blah blah blah blah blah, 0:06:08.440 --> 0:06:17.600 medical science improvements experts suspect genetic manipulation calorie restriction could 0:06:17.640 --> 0:06:23.359 extend life to like one hundred and fifty they say, 0:06:23.160 --> 0:06:29.560 or so years and even past that. So here's the thing, though, Danny, 0:06:31.240 --> 0:06:36.839 would you allow them to mess with crap in your 0:06:36.880 --> 0:06:41.080 brain if you were told you would live longer? But 0:06:41.120 --> 0:06:44.600 it's like those don't guarantee, But they could take certain 0:06:44.640 --> 0:06:46.880 things that are dying out of your brain and put 0:06:46.920 --> 0:06:49.839 things that will that are younger, that will live longer 0:06:49.960 --> 0:06:53.640 inside you, the genetic manipulation. Would you be down with that? 0:06:54.240 --> 0:06:57.080 I don't think so. Now it's just like the HBO 0:06:57.200 --> 0:07:02.040 show The Last of Us. Anytime there's brain surgery going on, 0:07:02.640 --> 0:07:05.840 you need to like check out of that hospital immediately 0:07:05.880 --> 0:07:09.360 before they take the saw to your skull. Yeah, that's 0:07:09.400 --> 0:07:12.840 that's Frankenstein stuff. The oldest woman in all time in 0:07:12.880 --> 0:07:17.480 recorded history is Jane Clement of France. She lived to 0:07:17.520 --> 0:07:19.440 be one hundred and twenty two years and one hundred 0:07:19.440 --> 0:07:21.680 and sixty four days old when she finally died. The 0:07:21.720 --> 0:07:26.240 oldest known living person right now is a woman in 0:07:26.480 --> 0:07:29.760 Spain who is one hundred and sixteen. The oldest known 0:07:29.800 --> 0:07:33.960 living man is a guy named Juan Vincent Perez of 0:07:34.080 --> 0:07:40.360 Venezuela who's one hundred and thirteen. Women live longer than us. That, yeah, 0:07:40.560 --> 0:07:43.480 get away from me. Remember that woman she lived to 0:07:43.480 --> 0:07:46.000 be one hundred and five and they asked her what 0:07:46.040 --> 0:07:49.080 her secret was. She said she had one doctor pepper 0:07:49.120 --> 0:07:53.760 every day. Yeah, makes sense to me. Yea, what's wrong 0:07:53.800 --> 0:07:58.760 with that? Oh, doctor's in the name of the product. Yeah, exactly. Hello, 0:07:58.640 --> 0:08:01.080 what do you what do you think they just put 0:08:01.120 --> 0:08:04.360 that in there for no reason? No, it's wrong with you. 0:08:05.720 --> 0:08:07.840 Let's see what else do we about. New research suggests 0:08:07.880 --> 0:08:11.480 that physical exercise has little mental benefit. So much for 0:08:11.520 --> 0:08:14.240 the idea that that helps your mental health. New research 0:08:14.320 --> 0:08:17.480 says that is bullshit, that it does not help your 0:08:17.520 --> 0:08:21.120 mental health. That according to a story out in the 0:08:21.360 --> 0:08:25.360 science world. As we are getting scientifical on the podcast, 0:08:25.440 --> 0:08:28.160 and so that is the claim. I used to say 0:08:28.160 --> 0:08:31.360 that back in the day when I always at pe class. 0:08:31.600 --> 0:08:33.320 This is not going to help me. There's a no. No, 0:08:33.400 --> 0:08:35.839 you feel better if you know you run around? No, No, 0:08:36.040 --> 0:08:42.160 I'm good. Yeah, hasn't helped Andre Drummond. Hello, I saw that. Yeah, 0:08:42.720 --> 0:08:46.840 he got changed his number and got rid of social media. Like, 0:08:47.000 --> 0:08:49.800 couldn't you do that without announcing to the world that 0:08:49.840 --> 0:08:52.280 you're doing it? You know what I mean? I guess 0:08:52.280 --> 0:08:54.720 it's easier a little bit easier to take time away 0:08:54.800 --> 0:08:58.120 from your team if people know what's going on for you. 0:08:58.160 --> 0:09:03.720 And nowadays bull are understanding about quote unquote mental health. 0:09:04.080 --> 0:09:07.040 When we were his age, people would have told us 0:09:07.080 --> 0:09:11.400 we were being a pussy. Yeah, and that is the 0:09:11.679 --> 0:09:16.760 bullet proof excuse, That is the silver bullet to get 0:09:16.760 --> 0:09:20.600 out of any problem. Like Ben Simmons is a freaking 0:09:20.760 --> 0:09:24.400 disgrace for the Brooklyn Nets in the NBA. The guys 0:09:24.640 --> 0:09:28.120 in bezzling money out of the NBA. But he claims 0:09:28.160 --> 0:09:30.719 mental health issues, and so it's like, you know, we'll 0:09:30.760 --> 0:09:35.000 leave malone. You know, John Morant has a gun on camera. 0:09:35.880 --> 0:09:37.920 I need to take time away from my mental health. 0:09:38.679 --> 0:09:41.840 Well that's an all time top ten, I would say, 0:09:41.880 --> 0:09:47.800 top five bullshit story. The therapy job Morant got is 0:09:47.920 --> 0:09:53.680 listed on a medical quackery website, but nobody bothered to 0:09:53.920 --> 0:10:00.000 read that part of the story. It's hilarious, It's absolutely hilarious. 0:09:59.679 --> 0:10:03.200 And the NBA media there's such such toadies for the NBA. 0:10:03.200 --> 0:10:06.040 They're sewing the bag. They didn't even bother to read 0:10:06.080 --> 0:10:11.080 the fine print. Hey told Stool I spent a couple 0:10:11.080 --> 0:10:14.600 of minutes digging around on this west. It's not it's 0:10:14.640 --> 0:10:19.400 this supposed ancient therapy, but it's from from Asia and 0:10:19.480 --> 0:10:24.320 it's it's said to be complete bullshit. But anyway, I 0:10:24.400 --> 0:10:26.200 think that's enough signs. I want to get to the 0:10:26.240 --> 0:10:28.040 mail bag. And I know we always run out of 0:10:28.040 --> 0:10:29.840 time and all that stuff. So are you are you 0:10:29.880 --> 0:10:33.840 ready for the mail bag? Let's get it on Ohio Aw. 0:10:34.440 --> 0:10:52.679 It's I told Ohio Owl. He's pretty much producing everything 0:10:52.720 --> 0:10:55.360 about this party. Every every day there's something with Ohio Ow. 0:10:55.880 --> 0:10:59.920 There's a feature with Ohio Owl's music stylings in here. 0:11:00.200 --> 0:11:03.040 These are actual letters sent in by actual listeners to 0:11:03.080 --> 0:11:05.800 the mailbag. You can send a message in right now. 0:11:05.800 --> 0:11:07.439 You don't have to wait for me to post something 0:11:07.440 --> 0:11:10.000 on the Facebook page, which is Ben Maller's show. You 0:11:10.040 --> 0:11:14.880 can send a question in courtesy of Real fifth Hour 0:11:15.040 --> 0:11:17.520 at gmail dot com. That's spelled that out, no numbers, 0:11:17.559 --> 0:11:21.400 all letters, Real fifth Hour at gmail dot com, and 0:11:21.760 --> 0:11:25.360 we will use it name in city, name and city. 0:11:25.400 --> 0:11:29.480 First first message comes from Alf the Alien Opiner and 0:11:29.640 --> 0:11:33.439 parts unknown. He says, way back when when Benny versus 0:11:33.480 --> 0:11:38.120 the Penny was a breakout star on YouTube, there was 0:11:38.160 --> 0:11:42.040 a faithful day when a young Missus Maller was feeling 0:11:42.080 --> 0:11:45.760 frisky and joined the unwashed in the chat. Now, during 0:11:45.800 --> 0:11:49.319 this time, I was able to ascertain that she is 0:11:49.400 --> 0:11:53.160 a fan of the devil's blood and has gone so 0:11:53.200 --> 0:11:56.000 far as to bring it into the confines of the 0:11:56.080 --> 0:12:01.320 Mallard mansion. Let's pause right there. Yes, many people think 0:12:01.400 --> 0:12:03.800 that my wife is wonderful, and I love my wife. 0:12:03.800 --> 0:12:06.920 I was at merit her. I think she's she's almost perfect. 0:12:07.000 --> 0:12:10.480 But one of her weak spots, Danny, one of her 0:12:10.520 --> 0:12:14.360 blind spots is the devil's blood. She loves the devil's blood, 0:12:14.720 --> 0:12:17.600 and when we go to restaurants, she will thumb her 0:12:17.640 --> 0:12:22.360 nose at me and order a side of ranch dressing 0:12:22.360 --> 0:12:25.239 the devil's blood. And I believe she does it intentionally, 0:12:25.520 --> 0:12:28.800 as like a power move, like a flex just to 0:12:28.920 --> 0:12:32.040 stick it to me. Anyway, Alf continues, he says, I 0:12:32.080 --> 0:12:35.920 also have I also asked missus Garcia about pickles, and 0:12:36.080 --> 0:12:39.079 much to my surprise, she is a fan. Yeah, Eddie 0:12:39.080 --> 0:12:41.120 hates pickles. I'm not a big pickle fan. I like 0:12:41.160 --> 0:12:42.920 the smell of pickles, I don't like the texture. I 0:12:42.960 --> 0:12:47.680 don't like the taste. They're too slimy. So anyway, alf says, 0:12:48.559 --> 0:12:53.800 my question to daddy, Gaddy, is there a food item 0:12:53.840 --> 0:12:59.560 that you absolutely detest that you're tinder ROWNI not only likes, 0:12:59.679 --> 0:13:06.120 but also has on hand in your home. I mean, 0:13:06.160 --> 0:13:10.240 I guess tomatoes would be the one thing where she 0:13:10.320 --> 0:13:13.079 has eating them before, right in front of me, her 0:13:13.200 --> 0:13:15.800 and her daughter, and they're like, look and they're taking 0:13:15.840 --> 0:13:21.400 a bite out of a fresh tomato. Yeah, and that 0:13:21.520 --> 0:13:25.800 really makes my skin crawl. Hey, I'm allergic to fresh 0:13:25.840 --> 0:13:29.040 tomatoes because of fulic acid. That's what I'm allergic to. 0:13:29.559 --> 0:13:33.680 That stuff gets cooked out of tomatoes, spaghetti sauce, all 0:13:33.720 --> 0:13:39.360 that Marianara, a nice Marianera. Yeah, ketchup. I like all 0:13:39.400 --> 0:13:42.120 that stuff. The folic acid is out of it, so 0:13:42.160 --> 0:13:45.280 I can have it, thank God. But a fresh tomato, 0:13:45.400 --> 0:13:47.760 like my cousins when I was a little kid, they 0:13:47.840 --> 0:13:50.640 used to take the salt shaker and they would pour 0:13:50.760 --> 0:13:53.880 salt onto a fresh tomato and take a bite out 0:13:53.880 --> 0:13:57.040 of it like it was an apple. You want to 0:13:57.080 --> 0:14:01.960 talk about horrible texture and a nasty taste. Yeah, Can 0:14:02.120 --> 0:14:06.559 anybody eat a tomato like that? That is disgusting? It 0:14:06.600 --> 0:14:09.440 really is as far as a pickle and a are 0:14:09.440 --> 0:14:12.240 you kidding me. I will dip a pickle into ranch 0:14:12.960 --> 0:14:15.080 any day of the week before I would touch or 0:14:15.160 --> 0:14:18.760 go nearer a fresh tomato. Now, are you concerned that 0:14:18.880 --> 0:14:22.560 your your spawn to be born to be named a 0:14:22.680 --> 0:14:26.160 later date here and all that will inherit that from 0:14:26.480 --> 0:14:31.800 your wife, that that will mock you by eating fresh tomatoes? 0:14:32.040 --> 0:14:35.760 Tomato right in front of my fad like dad, look, yeah, yeah, exactly, 0:14:35.880 --> 0:14:38.960 take a bite out of one. Oh man, I'll slap 0:14:39.040 --> 0:14:42.040 the taste out of his mouth if he does that. Son, 0:14:42.080 --> 0:14:43.760 I'm gonna teach you what we did back when I 0:14:43.840 --> 0:14:46.840 was a kid. I would live in a softer time 0:14:46.920 --> 0:14:49.920 these days, but I'm gonna go old school, is what 0:14:49.960 --> 0:14:52.560 I'm gonna do. But I hear you can't slap kids 0:14:52.640 --> 0:14:54.600 these days, so I'm not sure how I'm even going 0:14:54.680 --> 0:14:59.400 to a parent. You got a flashback? He's like, yeah, 0:14:59.520 --> 0:15:03.920 you know anyway, all right. Next up, we have Neil 0:15:04.080 --> 0:15:07.880 from the Real Miami says back in the fifth hour 0:15:08.200 --> 0:15:11.640 Digital Dojo, and Neil says, we wondered what happened Neil. 0:15:11.680 --> 0:15:15.000 He says his pops died suddenly at the beginning of 0:15:15.040 --> 0:15:18.040 the year. He says, both my grandparents died in January. Also, 0:15:18.600 --> 0:15:23.160 he says, what the f He says, you're pops too. Yeah, Yeah, 0:15:23.200 --> 0:15:26.360 I lost my father a couple of years ago, and 0:15:27.160 --> 0:15:31.080 it happened in the middle of the whole COVID stuff. 0:15:31.080 --> 0:15:33.520 And I don't need to get into it here, but 0:15:33.640 --> 0:15:37.080 he likely would have been okay if it hadn't been 0:15:37.120 --> 0:15:38.960 He didn't die of COVID, but we couldn't take him 0:15:38.960 --> 0:15:41.400 to the doctor, and he died because we didn't get 0:15:41.480 --> 0:15:43.560 him to the doctor fast enough. By the time we 0:15:43.600 --> 0:15:46.600 got him there, the infection had spread. And there you 0:15:46.640 --> 0:15:51.520 go anyway, says in his father, and Neil says he 0:15:51.640 --> 0:15:54.320 died in his van in the parking lot of a 0:15:54.400 --> 0:15:59.200 Russian store with a fried pastry in his hand, which 0:15:59.200 --> 0:16:01.920 he didn't even get. Oh, that's terrible. It would have 0:16:01.960 --> 0:16:04.400 been better if he had had like a final nice pastry. 0:16:05.120 --> 0:16:08.680 Du Yeah, but you never know when it's gonna end. 0:16:09.320 --> 0:16:13.080 So Neil says he sat shiva for a month, which 0:16:13.160 --> 0:16:15.920 was essentially being like weed man hippie. That's a great 0:16:15.960 --> 0:16:20.880 description of sitting ship. And he got that final aroma 0:16:21.440 --> 0:16:24.480 of a bakery. Though. Is there anything better than walking 0:16:24.520 --> 0:16:28.080 into like a donut shop? Yeah, that's pretty good. The 0:16:28.160 --> 0:16:33.560 smells from that. He says he is back by the way, 0:16:33.600 --> 0:16:38.360 sitting shiva. He points out no personal hygiene, entertainment anything, 0:16:38.960 --> 0:16:44.000 and as a result, he fell off the podcast bandwagon 0:16:44.200 --> 0:16:46.120 and all that. But he says he is back now. 0:16:46.560 --> 0:16:48.960 He's been catching up on old episodes. God bless you, 0:16:49.600 --> 0:16:51.840 and he says, I have a question for you two 0:16:51.920 --> 0:16:55.680 utes on the topic of food. How come you never 0:16:55.800 --> 0:16:59.760 mention any food trucks in the age of food truck rallies. 0:17:00.240 --> 0:17:04.600 You always talk about your favorite spots like Tito's Tacos 0:17:04.680 --> 0:17:08.400 or the Italian style restaurants with badass pasta for Danny Gee, 0:17:08.920 --> 0:17:14.040 But what is your go to food truck or not. 0:17:15.800 --> 0:17:19.240 First of all, Neil, my condolences to your father. I 0:17:19.280 --> 0:17:22.400 know what that's like. I went through that and it's 0:17:22.440 --> 0:17:25.679 a terrible thing. We all know that. My condolences. Hopefully 0:17:26.800 --> 0:17:30.239 you've you've continued to honor your father, your life's going on. 0:17:30.320 --> 0:17:32.840 I understand it's one of the terrible things. But you 0:17:32.920 --> 0:17:36.320 gotta continue to live your life in honor of your parents. 0:17:36.320 --> 0:17:38.919 That's what I always say of us, both my parents. 0:17:38.920 --> 0:17:42.600 So with that set with that said, my problem with 0:17:42.640 --> 0:17:45.200 food trucks, I have eaten at food trucks. There's tons 0:17:45.200 --> 0:17:47.680 of those food trucks that are all trendy in Los 0:17:47.760 --> 0:17:51.600 Angeles like every other big city. Problem is, Danny, I 0:17:51.640 --> 0:17:54.040 grew up in the age where we called food trucks. 0:17:54.080 --> 0:17:55.679 You don't remember what we called food trucks when we 0:17:55.680 --> 0:18:00.760 were kids. Danny roach coaches exactly exactly. So I still 0:18:00.800 --> 0:18:04.439 have the heebie geebs at these food trucks that have 0:18:04.520 --> 0:18:07.119 all these amazing foods. And I've been on the freeway 0:18:07.720 --> 0:18:09.320 the highways out here, and I've been driving around. I 0:18:09.400 --> 0:18:11.600 see this food trucks. Oh man, that looks like maybe 0:18:11.720 --> 0:18:13.600 like a cheese steak truck. I'm like, that's the greatest 0:18:13.640 --> 0:18:17.800 cheese steak truck of all time. And then I won't 0:18:17.800 --> 0:18:20.000 actually end up going there. I have eaten at a 0:18:20.000 --> 0:18:23.520 few of them. There was a big food truck festival 0:18:23.560 --> 0:18:26.840 when I lived kind of near Santa Anita Race Track. 0:18:27.280 --> 0:18:29.920 I used to live right near there, and they had 0:18:30.119 --> 0:18:33.000 on the weekends during the summer, they would have this 0:18:33.080 --> 0:18:36.480 outdoor carnival thing and it was all food trucks and 0:18:36.520 --> 0:18:40.919 it was awesome. But I don't have a go to 0:18:41.040 --> 0:18:45.840 food truck. What about you, Daddy g Yeah, we pretty 0:18:45.880 --> 0:18:50.000 much stay away from the roach coach, as you say, 0:18:50.119 --> 0:18:52.080 because of the way we Yeah, I grew up. It 0:18:52.200 --> 0:18:54.560 was like I wasn't a first choice. It was a 0:18:54.680 --> 0:18:57.600 last resort. It's kind of like coming out of the 0:18:57.720 --> 0:19:01.560 La Memorial Coliseum as a kid. Those hot dogs wrapped 0:19:01.600 --> 0:19:05.440 in the bacon. They smelled so good. But my mom 0:19:05.480 --> 0:19:08.520 would like slap my hand when I would walk over 0:19:08.720 --> 0:19:11.120 wanting to buy one. She'd be like, get away from 0:19:11.119 --> 0:19:13.000 that cart. Do you know how many germs are in 0:19:13.040 --> 0:19:16.440 that cart? And so it's kind of how we were 0:19:16.480 --> 0:19:18.720 just you know, we all kind of were raised like 0:19:18.840 --> 0:19:21.840 that here in this area. But the one thing my 0:19:21.880 --> 0:19:24.800 wife he does like and she'll stop for it is 0:19:24.880 --> 0:19:29.760 the fruit carts where they make the fruit cups yeah, 0:19:29.359 --> 0:19:32.680 okay popular, And you could kind of there's just one 0:19:32.760 --> 0:19:35.960 guy manning the fruit and he puts the gloves on 0:19:36.040 --> 0:19:38.679 and you can tell that the hygiene is being met. 0:19:38.960 --> 0:19:43.360 And also the elote man, the guy that does the corn. Yes, 0:19:44.320 --> 0:19:48.040 that's another stand where it's just one guy and you 0:19:48.080 --> 0:19:50.920 could check it out with your own eyes to make 0:19:50.920 --> 0:19:54.200 sure that he's clean. If they're clean, go for it. 0:19:54.440 --> 0:19:56.400 But the truck, you don't know, Ben, because you can't 0:19:56.400 --> 0:20:00.800 go inside the coach and inspect it. Every once in 0:20:00.800 --> 0:20:02.639 a while in life, you have to be a daredevil, 0:20:02.720 --> 0:20:04.959 like the people that eat the bacon wrapped hot dogs 0:20:04.960 --> 0:20:07.399 outside the stadiums and all that. I love the smell 0:20:07.440 --> 0:20:11.760 of those things, but the assumption can only imagine where 0:20:11.800 --> 0:20:14.600 those carts go when the people are not using them 0:20:14.600 --> 0:20:18.000 to bake the hot dogs. You don't imagine, like we 0:20:18.040 --> 0:20:21.240 had Opening Day the other night, Opening Night at Dodger 0:20:21.320 --> 0:20:25.680 Stadium and outside Dodger Stadium, as every Opening Day, there 0:20:25.720 --> 0:20:31.320 were lines of those carts with people selling the hot 0:20:31.359 --> 0:20:33.639 dogs outside the stadium, and people were buying them as 0:20:33.680 --> 0:20:37.280 they were walking away from the stadium. But no, you 0:20:37.320 --> 0:20:44.000 should have the nervous harms. Yikes. Next on the mailbag 0:20:44.119 --> 0:20:48.280 Marcus Insane Antony all Rights, and he's excited about the 0:20:48.280 --> 0:20:51.560 start of the baseball season. He says, always look forward 0:20:51.560 --> 0:20:54.240 to listening to the stories from back in the day 0:20:54.320 --> 0:20:56.600 when you worked around baseball in the big leagues or 0:20:56.600 --> 0:21:00.760 even the miners. Ben and the boys were reminiscent on 0:21:00.920 --> 0:21:03.240 some of their favorite timing, the sort of moments ballpark 0:21:03.320 --> 0:21:06.800 food and talk of the old ice cream in the 0:21:06.880 --> 0:21:11.040 mini helmet. Immediately brought me back to my childhood. Marcus 0:21:11.080 --> 0:21:13.640 points out that one of my favorite memories growing up 0:21:13.680 --> 0:21:17.200 when my father would bring us to Colorado Sky Socks 0:21:17.320 --> 0:21:20.240 minor league games. He says, his brother and I would 0:21:20.320 --> 0:21:22.840 visit my father during the summer, and watching baseball on 0:21:22.840 --> 0:21:24.960 a warm summer evening was always at the top of 0:21:24.960 --> 0:21:27.480 the list. My favorite moment was the first time I 0:21:27.480 --> 0:21:31.480 got an autograph on a baseball that I still have 0:21:32.560 --> 0:21:36.480 in a case to this day. Max Hatkin, the clown 0:21:36.600 --> 0:21:38.560 Prince of baseball. I know who that is. Have you 0:21:38.640 --> 0:21:42.840 seen the photos and there's video. This guy was one 0:21:42.880 --> 0:21:47.000 of the early mascots in baseball, the clown Prince of baseball. No, 0:21:47.200 --> 0:21:50.840 I'll have to look that up. Yeah, yeah, And he says. 0:21:50.840 --> 0:21:54.520 My question for you guys, Benn and Danny Gee is 0:21:54.560 --> 0:21:57.520 who was the first autograph you ever received and do 0:21:57.600 --> 0:22:00.720 you still have it to this day? Thank you for 0:22:00.880 --> 0:22:04.600 the time. Let's play ball, Marcus in San Antonio, Marcus, 0:22:04.640 --> 0:22:08.240 thank you for downloading the podcast. Appreciate that. Tell a friend. 0:22:09.240 --> 0:22:14.440 So I don't remember the first autograph I got. You 0:22:14.560 --> 0:22:16.959 gotta understand, though, Marcus. When I was in high school, 0:22:17.880 --> 0:22:20.239 I grew up in Orange County, not far from the 0:22:20.240 --> 0:22:25.000 Big A where the Angels play, and to make extra 0:22:25.119 --> 0:22:29.879 money and mainly to get into the games for free 0:22:30.040 --> 0:22:33.199 because people would pay for my ticket. I would go 0:22:33.280 --> 0:22:35.879 out after school and during the summer, when I didn't 0:22:35.880 --> 0:22:37.439 have to worry about going to school, I'd go out 0:22:37.480 --> 0:22:40.840 to the ballpark and I was an autograph found I'd 0:22:40.840 --> 0:22:44.199 collect autographs and then I'd just give them to my boss, 0:22:44.240 --> 0:22:46.879 who would then give me money or food or whatever. 0:22:47.320 --> 0:22:49.240 And I got to hang out and see all these 0:22:49.359 --> 0:22:53.160 legendary baseball players when I was a kid, a high 0:22:53.160 --> 0:22:57.680 school kid. However, the autograph story that popped in my head. 0:22:57.720 --> 0:23:00.600 Marcus one of my heroes when I was kid, because 0:23:00.600 --> 0:23:03.439 I loved in home runs and the guy was a 0:23:03.480 --> 0:23:07.120 big personality even though he killed the Dodgers. Reggie Jackson 0:23:07.320 --> 0:23:09.880 the eyes of a child, Reggie Jackson was like amazing, 0:23:09.920 --> 0:23:14.359 mister October, the whole thing. And so I had a 0:23:14.480 --> 0:23:17.800 chance to get Reggie Jackson's autograph as a kid. He 0:23:17.880 --> 0:23:21.680 was signing some autographs at a game, but I did 0:23:21.760 --> 0:23:24.280 not have a photo of Reggie Jackson. I did not 0:23:24.320 --> 0:23:26.960 have a Reggie Jackson baseball card with me, which is 0:23:26.960 --> 0:23:30.640 what people were getting signed. So I had Reggie Jackson 0:23:31.320 --> 0:23:34.719 autograph a one dollar bill that I happened to have 0:23:34.800 --> 0:23:39.879 in my wallet and Danny Gee, Reggie Jackson child to 0:23:40.000 --> 0:23:43.200 a hero of mine. I gave him the dollar bill. 0:23:43.240 --> 0:23:45.280 I told him the autograph it. He gave me a 0:23:45.359 --> 0:23:49.359 look like, what the fuck are you doing? Like? He 0:23:49.440 --> 0:23:51.600 gave me this look like what are you serious? Like 0:23:51.680 --> 0:23:54.199 why would you want me to know it was? But 0:23:54.280 --> 0:23:58.440 I still had that. It was in my house when 0:23:58.440 --> 0:24:02.080 my dad passed away. I found I found that. What 0:24:02.119 --> 0:24:04.800 about you any autograph stories, anything you remember getting autographed 0:24:04.880 --> 0:24:07.639 Danny back in the day? Well, really quick. Your dollar 0:24:07.760 --> 0:24:10.919 bill story sparked a memory for me. I had the 0:24:11.000 --> 0:24:15.840 great Eddie Money sign a dollar bill back in the day. Yeah, 0:24:15.840 --> 0:24:19.200 I have that somewhere in my collection now. He didn't 0:24:19.200 --> 0:24:22.280 give me the side eye because his last name being Money, 0:24:22.680 --> 0:24:25.640 he was used to signing dollar bills. Oh sure, that's 0:24:25.640 --> 0:24:29.879 a Nasturville for baseball cards. I went to a Modesto 0:24:30.080 --> 0:24:34.320