WEBVTT - The Fifth Hour: Whopper on a Prayer 0:00:00.720 --> 0:00:01.480 Kabooms. 0:00:02.320 --> 0:00:05.400 If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes 0:00:05.440 --> 0:00:09.200 a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants 0:00:09.240 --> 0:00:12.520 of the old Republic, a soul fashion of fairness. He 0:00:12.600 --> 0:00:15.520 treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the 0:00:15.640 --> 0:00:19.640 rich pill poppers in the penthouse. Wow to clearinghouse of 0:00:19.680 --> 0:00:23.520 hot takes, break free for something special. The Fifth Hour 0:00:23.600 --> 0:00:30.560 with Ben Maller starts right now in the air. 0:00:31.240 --> 0:00:38.160 Eywey, Welcome to another sparkling edition of The Fifth Hour 0:00:38.240 --> 0:00:44.440 with Ben Mahler and Danny G. The thirteenth day of 0:00:44.520 --> 0:00:48.640 the month of January. But more importantly, Danny, for our purposes, 0:00:48.840 --> 0:00:55.160 we have football action on wild Card weekend. It begins 0:00:55.760 --> 0:01:01.240 later today, double barrel action. Are you do you have 0:01:01.320 --> 0:01:03.960 a proper cushion to sit on, Danny G to watch 0:01:04.240 --> 0:01:06.039 the two games later today? 0:01:06.560 --> 0:01:09.199 Well, first, I think we should start with the major news, 0:01:11.040 --> 0:01:14.200 fourth big announcement of the week. Okay, first we had 0:01:14.240 --> 0:01:17.200 Pat Carroll, then Nick Saban, then of course Bill Belichick, 0:01:17.440 --> 0:01:19.800 and I hear that Ben Mallor is going to be 0:01:19.840 --> 0:01:21.240 retiring from radio. 0:01:21.680 --> 0:01:25.319 Yes, yes, I'm retiring doing TV now, Danny, I have 0:01:25.640 --> 0:01:28.120 much too important to do radio so I that is 0:01:28.160 --> 0:01:31.039 a fair point. I have decided that this is my 0:01:31.200 --> 0:01:33.920 last podcast. We won't even do the Sunday podcast. This 0:01:34.080 --> 0:01:38.040 is it, this is all I'm doing. I'm retiring. I 0:01:38.160 --> 0:01:40.120 just need to spend more time with my family. That's 0:01:40.160 --> 0:01:42.399 all I need to do. Danny, that's what a week. 0:01:42.480 --> 0:01:44.240 Huh Yeah, crazy week. 0:01:44.400 --> 0:01:46.600 And I feel like when you and I get to 0:01:46.640 --> 0:01:48.880 that age, though, our only option is going to be 0:01:49.080 --> 0:01:50.240 like a Walmart greeter. 0:01:51.240 --> 0:01:55.560 Yeah, yeah, we're not at the financial status of Nick Saban. 0:01:55.640 --> 0:01:57.960 Although I am a conspiracy theory guy, Danny, I am 0:01:58.000 --> 0:02:01.680 one that believes that, hey, wait a minute here, there's 0:02:01.800 --> 0:02:04.160 more to the story. We're not getting the whole story. 0:02:04.400 --> 0:02:06.360 Like I'm kind of that guy. I think we're getting 0:02:06.360 --> 0:02:09.080 a version of what happened. But there's a lot of 0:02:09.120 --> 0:02:13.320 stuff that's being left on the cutting room floor that's 0:02:13.360 --> 0:02:15.720 on the same thing. And really the Belichick thing too, 0:02:15.760 --> 0:02:18.639 because and I mentioned this in a monologue this week 0:02:18.680 --> 0:02:20.520 where I was talking about Belichick and it was like 0:02:20.600 --> 0:02:22.959 I was like in a show me state of mind. 0:02:23.000 --> 0:02:25.360 I was like, all right, let's see this actually play out. 0:02:25.840 --> 0:02:31.359 And the fact that they waited until Thursday, you know, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday. 0:02:31.800 --> 0:02:36.359 It tells you that there was some consternation with the 0:02:36.360 --> 0:02:41.640 Patriots and that this line that they were using that 0:02:41.800 --> 0:02:46.920 it was a mutual decision. It's it's never people break up. 0:02:47.120 --> 0:02:48.680 I look at this like breakups. 0:02:48.680 --> 0:02:48.840 You know. 0:02:49.040 --> 0:02:53.040 It's someone has to be the first person to say, 0:02:53.040 --> 0:02:55.480 all right, it's over, we're done. You know what I mean, Dan, 0:02:55.560 --> 0:02:57.880 It's it's not like you don't exactly the same time. 0:02:58.280 --> 0:03:01.200 Maybe it happened a handful of times, but at the 0:03:01.280 --> 0:03:03.320 exact same time. Come on, that's bullshit. 0:03:03.960 --> 0:03:06.440 One person is drinking to ease the pain. The other 0:03:06.480 --> 0:03:08.160 person is drinking to have fun. 0:03:08.760 --> 0:03:11.920 Yeah, exactly, exactly. So you know, the mutual. When I 0:03:11.960 --> 0:03:15.440 hear a mutual decision, I say bullshit, that's what That's 0:03:15.480 --> 0:03:18.239 what I say in my head. And uh, and that's 0:03:18.320 --> 0:03:21.200 just the reality of the situation the way I see it. 0:03:21.639 --> 0:03:25.160 So you know, take that for what it's worth now. Uh. 0:03:25.160 --> 0:03:28.360 With that being said, great week for talk radio. I 0:03:28.400 --> 0:03:30.200 was texting some of my radio friends that I have 0:03:30.240 --> 0:03:32.520 a little network, and we were talking about how we 0:03:32.560 --> 0:03:36.280 need to really relish this, really enjoy this. When we 0:03:36.320 --> 0:03:40.280 are breaking down mock drafts and who's going to be 0:03:40.320 --> 0:03:44.880 selected in the sixth round by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. 0:03:45.000 --> 0:03:46.880 You know, it's like that. That's that's where we have 0:03:46.920 --> 0:03:49.360 to we have to enjoy days like that. We had 0:03:49.400 --> 0:03:51.600 this week and it was great, and I want to 0:03:51.600 --> 0:03:55.480 thank the NFL because what they've done is it's no 0:03:55.560 --> 0:04:01.440 longer black Monday Racist. It's an entire week of festivities 0:04:01.880 --> 0:04:05.240 because you had on Monday, well, Sunday night it started 0:04:05.320 --> 0:04:09.960 Arthur Blank was fired Arthur Smith. Rather Arthur Blank fired 0:04:10.040 --> 0:04:14.200 Arthur Smith. Who Sunday night. Then Monday you had Ron Rivera. 0:04:14.240 --> 0:04:18.760 Tuesday was Mike Rabel, Wednesday was Pete Carroll, Thursday was 0:04:18.800 --> 0:04:22.680 Bill Belichick and also Wednesday you had Nick Savor. That's 0:04:22.680 --> 0:04:26.840 great and I have proposed that the NFL what they 0:04:26.880 --> 0:04:29.839 should do. I mentioned this on the Overnight Show, but maybe. 0:04:29.680 --> 0:04:30.120 You hear it. 0:04:30.240 --> 0:04:34.279 What the NFL should do is when coaches start getting hired, 0:04:35.279 --> 0:04:38.520 they should have each day dedicated to a different team, 0:04:38.560 --> 0:04:42.159 like the Raiders get Tuesday, and after that, you know, 0:04:42.200 --> 0:04:45.960 the Falcons can hire their coach on a Wednesday, and 0:04:46.000 --> 0:04:48.320 the Patriots they can go on a Thursday. And just 0:04:48.360 --> 0:04:50.679 like boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom 0:04:50.680 --> 0:04:53.400 boom boom boom boom boom, just like that, because for 0:04:53.520 --> 0:04:55.800 guys like us, Dandy, that would be great, right, that 0:04:55.800 --> 0:04:58.880 we'd be able to bite into everything we wonder. 0:04:59.400 --> 0:05:02.719 Yeah, whenever you have a fresh headline every day for 0:05:02.880 --> 0:05:04.279 every show, it's awesome. 0:05:04.880 --> 0:05:08.480 No, it's a wonderful thing. And today, you know who 0:05:08.560 --> 0:05:11.520 knows this, we got football, so actual games, so I 0:05:11.520 --> 0:05:13.680 guess we don't have to worry. But as far as 0:05:13.760 --> 0:05:18.200 this podcast, we've got to bucko Bruce, Religious Revival, back 0:05:18.279 --> 0:05:21.440 to school, the term of the week, not to be 0:05:21.480 --> 0:05:23.320 confused with the word of the week or the stuff 0:05:23.320 --> 0:05:26.000 that we did on yesterday's podcast. And we'll see what 0:05:26.040 --> 0:05:27.640 else we have time for. But I want to start 0:05:27.640 --> 0:05:30.240 with this. So the other day I got a text 0:05:30.279 --> 0:05:35.080 message from a member of the Fox Sports Radio Alumni Association. 0:05:35.800 --> 0:05:39.800 And if you've heard the podcast and the radio show 0:05:39.800 --> 0:05:42.440 over the years, you know that when you're part of 0:05:43.000 --> 0:05:49.599 the FSR Alumni Association, you're awesome, right, You're fantastic, You're wonderful. 0:05:49.720 --> 0:05:53.120 All that a very special group of people who worked 0:05:53.160 --> 0:05:54.800 at Fox Sports Radio. And there's a lot of people 0:05:54.800 --> 0:05:56.520 who have worked at Fox Sports RADO over the years. 0:05:56.600 --> 0:05:59.520 So this guy reaches out to me and he's like, hey, 0:05:59.640 --> 0:06:02.000 I want to have you come on my podcast. And 0:06:02.440 --> 0:06:04.560 you know, I don't know. I try to help out 0:06:04.600 --> 0:06:05.280 people when I can. 0:06:05.720 --> 0:06:08.560 Gaston has his own podcast. Now who I. 0:06:08.480 --> 0:06:10.680 Don't I don't know who that who's at? Well say 0:06:10.680 --> 0:06:14.360 what yeah, I think he's running LA into the ground. 0:06:14.360 --> 0:06:19.200 Gascott isn't he the district attorney anyway? So so I said, okay, 0:06:19.240 --> 0:06:23.040 I'll do it. So the guy is TJ Reeves. If 0:06:23.080 --> 0:06:25.120 you've listened to Fox Sports Radio a lot over the years, 0:06:25.160 --> 0:06:25.599 you know who. 0:06:25.480 --> 0:06:28.280 TV buccaneers sideline reporter. 0:06:28.160 --> 0:06:32.320 The Buck's Sideline guy exactly, Buck Obruce And so he 0:06:32.360 --> 0:06:37.080 does a couple of different podcasts and TJ wanted me 0:06:37.120 --> 0:06:40.000 to come out, so we chatted. It was supposed to 0:06:40.040 --> 0:06:42.719 be about thirty minutes. I think we did almost an hour. 0:06:42.880 --> 0:06:44.960 I think it seemed like it was an hour, and 0:06:45.000 --> 0:06:47.520 we were just catching up, telling stories about the Z 0:06:47.720 --> 0:06:50.920 dog an e Z, one of the bosses at Fox 0:06:50.960 --> 0:06:54.760 in the early days, and breaking everything down and tossing 0:06:54.839 --> 0:06:57.320 it up, putting some Cayenne pepper on it. And it 0:06:57.360 --> 0:06:59.400 was a really fun conversation because it was kind of 0:06:59.400 --> 0:07:04.280 about radio and the evolution of the business and how 0:07:05.160 --> 0:07:08.440 it's changed because me and TJ we're around the same age. Danny, 0:07:08.440 --> 0:07:10.280 You're kind of in the same group as us, and 0:07:10.360 --> 0:07:13.600 so just talking about the way it was in radio 0:07:13.640 --> 0:07:16.360 when we got into it and how it has evolved 0:07:17.040 --> 0:07:21.040 over the years and it's a much different animal now 0:07:21.440 --> 0:07:22.920 than it was. And I actually sent out a link 0:07:22.960 --> 0:07:24.520 to that if you want to hear that podcast. But 0:07:24.560 --> 0:07:27.000 you should listen to all these podcasts before you listen 0:07:27.000 --> 0:07:28.560 to that, Like that should be like the last thing 0:07:28.560 --> 0:07:30.800 that you listen to. Like that's like if you're on 0:07:30.880 --> 0:07:33.840 a long road trip you're moving man, Matt and you're 0:07:33.840 --> 0:07:36.040 going around the country, that's what you listen to after 0:07:36.080 --> 0:07:39.000 you've listened to all the archive of this podcast. 0:07:39.200 --> 0:07:39.680 But it was fun. 0:07:39.720 --> 0:07:42.080 It was fun to catch up with TJ. And it 0:07:42.200 --> 0:07:44.920 made me feel old because when TJ worked at Fox 0:07:44.920 --> 0:07:49.200 Sports Radio, he was a doting father bragging about his 0:07:49.280 --> 0:07:54.600 little girls and all that. And then then of course 0:07:55.120 --> 0:07:57.680 now he gave me an update and they're almost out 0:07:57.680 --> 0:08:01.280 of high school. So it's a boom just happened really fast, 0:08:01.400 --> 0:08:02.640 like really fast. 0:08:02.960 --> 0:08:06.200 Yeah, yeah, it goes so fast. Cole is already riding 0:08:06.240 --> 0:08:07.200 a big wheel. 0:08:07.120 --> 0:08:09.000 Yeah, Cole actually went out to the bar and had 0:08:09.000 --> 0:08:11.080 a beer with you the other day, right, beer nuts 0:08:11.080 --> 0:08:14.600 at the bar talking about girls. So that was fun 0:08:14.960 --> 0:08:17.200 with Brocco Bruce. So this was a wild day. So 0:08:17.280 --> 0:08:20.080 this is the same day. I had a lot going on. 0:08:20.480 --> 0:08:21.880 I had a lot going on this day. So I 0:08:21.920 --> 0:08:25.840 did the conversation with TJ Reeves on his podcast. So 0:08:25.880 --> 0:08:28.440 then I had a conference call with NBC about the 0:08:28.480 --> 0:08:32.360 TV show because we're still doing it and it's on 0:08:32.440 --> 0:08:34.480 this week, is on, it was on yesterday, and he's 0:08:34.480 --> 0:08:37.160 even on today. It's gonna be awkward because it'll be 0:08:37.200 --> 0:08:40.920 broadcast even after the first couple of playoff games. Normally, 0:08:40.920 --> 0:08:44.720 in the past there's a kill switch on Benny Versus 0:08:44.720 --> 0:08:48.640 the Penny. Once the games kick off on Sunday, that's it. 0:08:48.679 --> 0:08:52.160 They don't air the show anymore because it's not evergreen, 0:08:52.200 --> 0:08:56.920 it's dated. But because of the playoffs, they made a 0:08:56.960 --> 0:08:59.880 decision to continue to broadcast it, and they actually released 0:08:59.880 --> 0:09:04.840 the show on Thursday this week, and it was It 0:09:04.840 --> 0:09:06.800 was kind of cool because normally just airs on Friday, 0:09:07.280 --> 0:09:09.640 Saturday and Sunday morning, but now it was on Thursday 0:09:09.679 --> 0:09:12.520 in some markets, and so that's that was gonna go anyway. 0:09:12.800 --> 0:09:15.720 The whole point of this is that I did the TJ. 0:09:15.880 --> 0:09:19.280 Reeves podcast. I then had a conference call, but I 0:09:19.400 --> 0:09:23.319 had about thirty minutes in between. I had about thirty 0:09:23.320 --> 0:09:26.120 minutes in between, and I had a decision do I 0:09:26.200 --> 0:09:28.600 just sit there and kind of twiddle my thumbs, which 0:09:28.720 --> 0:09:31.480 is nothing wrong with that. I could have played Solitaire 0:09:31.480 --> 0:09:33.000 on my phone and would have loved that. I love 0:09:33.040 --> 0:09:36.320 playing solitaire. Could have done that, and then I could 0:09:36.360 --> 0:09:39.200 have just like stared at a wall. Or I decided, 0:09:39.240 --> 0:09:42.960 you know what, why did I go on Marcel in 0:09:43.080 --> 0:09:46.160 Brooklyn's YouTube show? This is shame? 0:09:49.320 --> 0:09:50.720 What mean? 0:09:51.480 --> 0:09:55.200 Yeah? So so Marcel from the Projects there in Brooklyn 0:09:55.360 --> 0:09:58.920 has a YouTube show, like a Facebook YouTube show, and 0:09:59.000 --> 0:10:01.200 he had sent me a a stream yard. Is that 0:10:01.240 --> 0:10:03.000 what it is? Streamyard? I think it's what it's called. 0:10:03.640 --> 0:10:05.360 He sent me a link and he's like, hey, you 0:10:05.400 --> 0:10:07.440 know when I have you on? And I was like, okay, 0:10:07.480 --> 0:10:10.520 whatever you know, and I was like, ah, thirty five 0:10:10.559 --> 0:10:12.719 thousand bucks, I'll come on. That's my appearance fee, that's 0:10:12.720 --> 0:10:14.839 what it cost to get me. But for some reason, 0:10:14.880 --> 0:10:16.679 I was like, you know what, why don't I just 0:10:16.760 --> 0:10:18.200 I'll do it for like a few minutes, I'll go 0:10:18.240 --> 0:10:20.360 on there for a few minutes and I'll I'll just 0:10:20.400 --> 0:10:22.400 say hello to him and see what's going on. I 0:10:22.400 --> 0:10:26.719 think it'd be funny. And so I log in to 0:10:26.840 --> 0:10:29.400 this this link, and all of a sudden boom, I'm 0:10:29.400 --> 0:10:32.680 on his show, which I think friends and family watch 0:10:32.760 --> 0:10:35.320 and one of those deals. And I gotta tell you, 0:10:35.520 --> 0:10:40.080 I'm so happy I did it. The smile, the joy 0:10:40.160 --> 0:10:47.360 that Marcel had on his face was unbelievable for him. 0:10:47.880 --> 0:10:52.280 This was like an amazing thing. And I mean just 0:10:52.320 --> 0:10:54.920 getting that reaction, I mean, who the hell am I doing? 0:10:55.040 --> 0:10:57.840 Overnight show? You know who the f am I and. 0:10:58.960 --> 0:11:00.680 You are his old Trump? 0:11:03.280 --> 0:11:05.640 Well, yeah, I mean it felt like that. I was like, 0:11:05.760 --> 0:11:07.600 I was like the Beatles, I was. I was like, 0:11:07.720 --> 0:11:11.040 you know, Taylor Swift going out on stage, the way 0:11:11.080 --> 0:11:15.200 that he reacted with pure joy in his heart and 0:11:15.240 --> 0:11:19.240 a cheshire cat smile, and he was giddy, and it 0:11:19.360 --> 0:11:21.719 was just wonderful. I just enjoyed the hell out of it, 0:11:21.960 --> 0:11:24.480 and it was great. It made me feel good. Then 0:11:24.760 --> 0:11:27.680 congratulations made me feel like I did a good thing. 0:11:27.840 --> 0:11:30.280 And then immediately after that, Danny, this is this is 0:11:30.360 --> 0:11:32.680 you know, no good deed goes on punished. So immediately 0:11:32.679 --> 0:11:37.079 after that, me and Marcella talking and he says, let's 0:11:37.080 --> 0:11:42.319 do a prayer. He then it turns into a religious revival. 0:11:43.520 --> 0:11:45.560 He now not knowing does he not do the prayer. 0:11:45.600 --> 0:11:49.240 He plays a some minister that he found on the 0:11:49.280 --> 0:11:53.160 internet doing the daily prayer. No, I'm not against the way, 0:11:53.320 --> 0:12:01.000 was it, Kurt Warner? Yeah, thank you Jesus, Jesus. So 0:12:01.080 --> 0:12:04.120 I'm not against any of that. I give sermons every 0:12:04.200 --> 0:12:06.199 night on the radio. I do four sermons a night. 0:12:06.280 --> 0:12:09.880 The mall monologues a sermon. But I was not expected. 0:12:09.880 --> 0:12:13.200 I was blindsided. Danny like, I'm thinking, I'll just go 0:12:13.240 --> 0:12:15.480 on there for five minutes. I'll bust marselves balls a 0:12:15.520 --> 0:12:18.480 little bit, we'll talk some sports, I'll get out. Next 0:12:18.520 --> 0:12:23.920 thing I know, I'm sitting in the tabernacle. It's just like, 0:12:23.960 --> 0:12:28.200 what are we doing? Was unreal? So then after that, 0:12:28.440 --> 0:12:30.080 I was like, I didn't know what to do, because 0:12:30.240 --> 0:12:31.800 you can't. I was going to hang up, but I 0:12:31.800 --> 0:12:33.120 was like, you can't hang up in a prayer. The 0:12:33.160 --> 0:12:34.800 guy's doing a prayer. Can't hang up here. 0:12:35.280 --> 0:12:35.839 Transition. 0:12:36.480 --> 0:12:38.560 I had to wait till the prayer was over. I 0:12:38.600 --> 0:12:40.880 just kind of sat there bemused. I was like, what 0:12:41.040 --> 0:12:43.040 is going on? And then once the prayer ended, Danny 0:12:43.040 --> 0:12:46.280 I was like, okay, now I'm out. Now I'm going 0:12:46.360 --> 0:12:48.559 to make the quick I'm going to make the Irish goodbye. 0:12:48.720 --> 0:12:50.640 And I did actually have to go. I could have 0:12:50.679 --> 0:12:52.959 gone like fifteen minutes later, but I was like, no, 0:12:53.080 --> 0:12:54.360 after that, I'm good. 0:12:54.760 --> 0:12:57.000 I like when we were little kids you could finally 0:12:57.040 --> 0:13:00.920 loosen your tie or take off the clip on bow tie, 0:13:01.400 --> 0:13:03.600 and then your mom took you for the Sunday special 0:13:03.600 --> 0:13:04.360 at Burger King. 0:13:04.559 --> 0:13:06.880 Oh yeah, yeah. The best part of you know, for 0:13:06.960 --> 0:13:09.480 me temple, for you church, the best part was when 0:13:09.480 --> 0:13:12.640 it was over right and you're like, all right, I'm good, 0:13:13.040 --> 0:13:14.360 I survived another week. 0:13:14.679 --> 0:13:14.839 Oh. 0:13:14.960 --> 0:13:17.440 During the song in the prayer, me and my older 0:13:17.520 --> 0:13:20.240 brother would try to not make each other laugh because 0:13:20.280 --> 0:13:23.000 my mom would give us the evil side eye and say. 0:13:22.960 --> 0:13:25.080 You're not getting burger King after this. 0:13:25.200 --> 0:13:31.160 If you keep laughing, the more you try not to laugh, 0:13:31.240 --> 0:13:32.040 the more you laugh. 0:13:32.679 --> 0:13:35.360 Oh yeah, for sure. And now these days, as an adult, Danny, 0:13:35.360 --> 0:13:37.600 if somebody said, hey, you're not gonna get your burger King, 0:13:37.640 --> 0:13:39.319 you'd probably be Okay, I'm good. I don't need the 0:13:39.320 --> 0:13:41.680 burger king. I'm all right, I've moved on. I don't 0:13:41.679 --> 0:13:45.199 need the whopper, I'm fine and all that. But yeah, 0:13:45.240 --> 0:13:47.800 I remember we were kids and we would be dragged. 0:13:48.280 --> 0:13:51.559 Usually Friday night there was a service and we'd go 0:13:51.640 --> 0:13:55.800 there and we knew we realized at some point like 0:13:55.840 --> 0:13:58.280 if we kind of futched around at the beginning, our 0:13:58.280 --> 0:14:00.880 mom would let us go outside and just play. And 0:14:00.960 --> 0:14:03.400 so we kind of went that direction as often as 0:14:03.400 --> 0:14:07.280 we could. But it's a it's a back to school 0:14:07.360 --> 0:14:09.319 kind of experience Danny's word. It's kind of a back 0:14:09.360 --> 0:14:10.240 to school thing, you know. 0:14:10.840 --> 0:14:14.920 Yeah, this past Tuesday, school started back up for my 0:14:15.040 --> 0:14:18.079 school district, so I had to set my alarm clock 0:14:18.160 --> 0:14:21.280 for five point fifty am. You know, getting up for 0:14:21.400 --> 0:14:25.360 me is not that difficult because in radio we work 0:14:25.400 --> 0:14:28.600 a lot of weird hours. The time isn't what gets me. 0:14:29.080 --> 0:14:32.440 It's the weather right now. What thirty eight degrees for 0:14:32.560 --> 0:14:36.440 us is icy. It's hard in the thirty eight degree 0:14:36.480 --> 0:14:40.000 weather for a southern California kid. Damn, I put two 0:14:40.040 --> 0:14:42.320 layers of clothes on. I never do that because. 0:14:42.120 --> 0:14:45.359 I run hot greaty to bring the gas still. 0:14:45.200 --> 0:14:48.800 Dark outside, I pull up to the school, I open 0:14:48.880 --> 0:14:52.200 up the campus. I get into my classroom and usually 0:14:52.280 --> 0:14:54.560 I'm in there for about ten minutes setting things up 0:14:54.600 --> 0:14:59.360 before the first students start arriving. But the weirdest thing 0:14:59.400 --> 0:15:02.320 ben is the first day back to school. I'm wondering 0:15:02.360 --> 0:15:04.080 what mood the kids are going to be in. They 0:15:04.080 --> 0:15:05.880 had a long winter break. Are they going to be 0:15:06.280 --> 0:15:08.400 in a good mood? Are they going to be tired 0:15:08.440 --> 0:15:11.800 and grouchy because they've been, you know, staying up until 0:15:11.920 --> 0:15:15.960 two am every day and sleeping in until noon like 0:15:16.000 --> 0:15:18.800 a lot of middle school kids do during their breaks. 0:15:19.560 --> 0:15:23.200 I'm waiting, I'm waiting. I look up at the clock. 0:15:23.600 --> 0:15:28.200 It's now seven twenty. No kids, it's now seven point thirty. 0:15:28.560 --> 0:15:29.680 Not one student? 0:15:30.120 --> 0:15:30.400 OK. 0:15:31.160 --> 0:15:31.600 I looked. 0:15:31.640 --> 0:15:34.560 I double checked the school calendar. I'm like, am I 0:15:34.680 --> 0:15:37.720 here a day before school opens back up? 0:15:38.120 --> 0:15:40.360 That would have been embarrassing. That would have been bad. Yeah, 0:15:40.400 --> 0:15:40.520 you know. 0:15:40.840 --> 0:15:41.480 Yeah. 0:15:41.800 --> 0:15:45.800 The first student did not arrive to my classroom until 0:15:45.920 --> 0:15:49.960 seven forty five am. That's only fifteen minutes before kids 0:15:49.960 --> 0:15:54.440 start running around finding their home room. It was amazing, 0:15:54.520 --> 0:15:57.760 and I think besides it being the first day back, 0:15:58.240 --> 0:16:01.960 the cold weather must have made everybody run late and 0:16:02.040 --> 0:16:05.680 stay inside their warm house and their warm bed for 0:16:05.720 --> 0:16:08.960 longer than they should have. There's no other explanation. I've 0:16:09.000 --> 0:16:13.360 never had. The first student arrived that late. I wound 0:16:13.400 --> 0:16:17.920 up signing out three kids at eight fifteen am, three 0:16:17.960 --> 0:16:19.800 students the whole morning. 0:16:20.440 --> 0:16:25.120 Yeah, as far as the cold weather stuff, it did 0:16:25.320 --> 0:16:28.200 feel like this week, you know, California cold, which is 0:16:28.200 --> 0:16:30.960 a different kind of cold. But I am proud to 0:16:30.960 --> 0:16:32.680 say that the listener I talked about this, I think 0:16:32.800 --> 0:16:34.800 last week on the podcast. Our friend Chris from North 0:16:34.800 --> 0:16:38.680 Carolina was out here and he's from Wisconsin, and he 0:16:38.920 --> 0:16:43.040 was complaining about how cold it was outside the FSR studios. 0:16:43.200 --> 0:16:45.680 Of course we let him sit outside for about forty minutes, 0:16:45.960 --> 0:16:48.920 but he was complaining about that. But yeah, it's our 0:16:49.040 --> 0:16:52.400 version of Siberia. And unlike you, Danny, because you're actually 0:16:52.440 --> 0:16:54.640 kind of an an adult. You're a father now, so 0:16:54.680 --> 0:16:56.880 you're an adult. You're a grown up, and you know 0:16:56.920 --> 0:16:59.840 that you should wear an extra coat. But I'm like, no, 0:17:00.040 --> 0:17:02.280 I'm not. You know, I still think of myself as 0:17:02.440 --> 0:17:04.199 a job of the hut, where I never needed to 0:17:04.240 --> 0:17:07.720 wear extra clothing at all, And so when I go out, 0:17:07.800 --> 0:17:09.359 even on the cold weather, when it gets you know, 0:17:09.440 --> 0:17:11.359 the night we work it over and I work over night, 0:17:11.400 --> 0:17:14.200 and so we're there. I'm getting out driving around, going 0:17:14.240 --> 0:17:16.720 to my car, and it's in the thirties. It's in 0:17:16.760 --> 0:17:19.200 the thirties, which is cold. That's cold anywhere. Thirties is 0:17:19.240 --> 0:17:23.879 in the cold range. And it's funny at the TV show. 0:17:24.280 --> 0:17:27.399 We get there and there's still a polar vortex going on. 0:17:27.440 --> 0:17:30.639 It's cold and chili and all that stuff, and I'm like, 0:17:30.760 --> 0:17:32.560 I'm not gonna wear an extra jacket, so I just 0:17:32.600 --> 0:17:36.640 like walk in my clothes short sleeves, you know, sometimes shorts. 0:17:37.160 --> 0:17:39.719 And by the time I get from the parking lot, 0:17:40.240 --> 0:17:42.919 the Abbott and Costello parking garage, to to the to 0:17:43.000 --> 0:17:46.280 the NBC whatever news bureau there and I walk in, 0:17:47.240 --> 0:17:50.560 I'm as cold as a frosted frog. I am. I mean, 0:17:51.040 --> 0:17:54.240 it's like it's I've got like, you know that mucus 0:17:54.240 --> 0:17:56.760 that kind of freezes on your nose because your nose 0:17:56.840 --> 0:18:01.760 runs because it's so cold. Like, dude, It's like, what 0:18:01.920 --> 0:18:02.240 is this? 0:18:03.000 --> 0:18:06.600 The people who brag about being in the coldest places 0:18:06.960 --> 0:18:11.359 on our planet are interesting because, in fact, this came 0:18:11.440 --> 0:18:13.479 up on the Covino and Rich Show last week. One 0:18:13.520 --> 0:18:18.080 of the topics was weird flexes. Things people brag about, 0:18:18.119 --> 0:18:21.200 but it's kind of a strange brag. Sometimes people are 0:18:21.240 --> 0:18:24.320 like minus ten right now, and somebody tries to one 0:18:24.400 --> 0:18:27.200 up them, like, no, no, I'm up here in Canada 0:18:27.600 --> 0:18:30.800 and it's minus twenty degrees. I know this has happened 0:18:30.840 --> 0:18:33.520 on your show before, where you mentioned the weather or 0:18:33.520 --> 0:18:35.920 something like that, and then you get a hundred messages 0:18:36.200 --> 0:18:38.080 of people telling you what their weather is. 0:18:38.240 --> 0:18:41.520 Oh yeah, for sure. Well there's two things that happen, 0:18:42.359 --> 0:18:44.840 and this is universal as long as I've been in radio. 0:18:45.640 --> 0:18:50.719 If you say the weather, you get hundreds of people 0:18:51.359 --> 0:18:55.080 that will say it's either hotter where they are or 0:18:55.200 --> 0:18:59.360 colder where they are. And you say the price of gas. 0:19:00.080 --> 0:19:01.280 Oh that's another good one. 0:19:01.359 --> 0:19:04.520 Yeah, the price. I'll say I can't believe how expensive 0:19:04.560 --> 0:19:07.480 gas is in California. I will then get a parade 0:19:07.480 --> 0:19:10.439 of people saying, well, I live in Texas and I 0:19:10.560 --> 0:19:13.159 paid three dollars less a gallon than you pay it. 0:19:13.160 --> 0:19:15.280 It's like it's that kind of thing. It's usually not 0:19:15.320 --> 0:19:17.600 people saying it's more expensive, because it's hard to get 0:19:17.640 --> 0:19:21.320 more expensive than the crappy California gas prices. It's usually 0:19:21.320 --> 0:19:25.080 people saying, hey, yeah, so much cheaper. 0:19:24.560 --> 0:19:27.840 And yeah they're bragging about how much cheaper their gas is. 0:19:28.200 --> 0:19:30.480 Yeah, exactly, exactly. 0:19:30.240 --> 0:19:33.920 Like you loser, my gas is three point fifty nine. Meanwhile, 0:19:33.920 --> 0:19:36.760 you and I are pumping six dollars and fifty cent gas. 0:19:36.880 --> 0:19:38.720 Yeah, and we think we get a deal because it 0:19:38.800 --> 0:19:41.680 was six dollars and sixty five cents the day before 0:19:41.760 --> 0:19:44.560 at Costco. So we were like, we're saving fifteen cents 0:19:45.000 --> 0:19:48.200 a gallon, and like we're in really good shape. We're 0:19:48.240 --> 0:19:53.080 in really good shape with that term of the week. 0:19:53.119 --> 0:19:55.600 Are you ready for the term of the week, the 0:19:55.840 --> 0:19:59.720 term of the week, Yeah, big bit, big bit. On 0:19:59.720 --> 0:20:02.879 the show all I love words and I like to 0:20:03.160 --> 0:20:05.240 change up my lexicon. I was having a conversation with 0:20:05.280 --> 0:20:09.280 Looney Tunes this week about how the sports media, just 0:20:09.359 --> 0:20:12.359 media in general could be so much better if everyone 0:20:12.440 --> 0:20:16.439 just worked on improving their their lexicon, just improving the 0:20:16.480 --> 0:20:19.399 different versions of words we say. And I'm not perfect. 0:20:19.680 --> 0:20:21.919 I screw up a lot of words. In fact, I 0:20:21.960 --> 0:20:25.560 get more emails from listeners, hey you mispronounced that word. 0:20:25.720 --> 0:20:28.000 You know you screwed that word up. And of course 0:20:28.000 --> 0:20:30.320 in my head, I never make any mistakes. There's no 0:20:30.359 --> 0:20:33.119 weak spots at all, And everything I say is the 0:20:33.200 --> 0:20:37.719 King's English. And people will point out, no, you screwed up, 0:20:37.800 --> 0:20:39.520 that was a mistake, blah blah blah. You know. 0:20:40.119 --> 0:20:42.720 Oh, and the great Rick D's taught you years ago 0:20:43.160 --> 0:20:46.359