WEBVTT - The Fifth Hour: Superior Root Beer & Car Chase 0:00:00.760 --> 0:00:01.520 Kabooms. 0:00:02.360 --> 0:00:05.440 If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes 0:00:05.480 --> 0:00:09.240 a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants 0:00:09.280 --> 0:00:12.560 of the Old Republic, a soul fashion of fairness. He 0:00:12.640 --> 0:00:15.560 treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the 0:00:15.680 --> 0:00:17.560 rich pill poppers in the penthouse. 0:00:18.120 --> 0:00:18.480 Wow. 0:00:18.640 --> 0:00:22.400 The Clearinghouse of Hot takes break Free for something special. 0:00:22.720 --> 0:00:30.760 The Fifth Hour with Ben Mahler starts right now. 0:00:29.040 --> 0:00:29.760 In the a. 0:00:31.360 --> 0:00:37.360 Everywhere back in the podcast dojo. 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We had 0:01:16.680 --> 0:01:19.920 the global review of the Malard Meet and Greet on 0:01:19.959 --> 0:01:23.760 the Friday podcast, but there are still more tales to 0:01:23.800 --> 0:01:28.440 be told from the Naked City, and we have those tales. 0:01:28.480 --> 0:01:31.480 The streets are talking, and we'll have some more of 0:01:31.520 --> 0:01:37.160 those tales here on this the Saturday podcast, including a 0:01:37.880 --> 0:01:44.680 root beer Delight which Key the Baker surprise, and a 0:01:44.959 --> 0:01:49.520 meaty showdown. So we have a lot of content and 0:01:49.600 --> 0:01:51.800 we'll jump right into it. We're gonna do a belly whopper. 0:01:51.960 --> 0:01:54.680 So I mentioned the Mallard meet and greet on Saturday. 0:01:55.680 --> 0:01:58.720 Last Saturday, a week from today, we had the Mallor 0:01:58.800 --> 0:01:59.240 Meet and greet. 0:01:59.280 --> 0:02:00.000 We went over to the detail. 0:02:00.280 --> 0:02:03.640 So I was there in Minnesota on Sunday and Monday. 0:02:04.720 --> 0:02:07.240 And on Sunday I did something that is very out 0:02:07.240 --> 0:02:11.440 of character for me and the wife. We decided we 0:02:11.840 --> 0:02:17.120 enjoyed going to Lake Minnetonka so much, and I went online. 0:02:17.160 --> 0:02:20.880 I was like, what's the biggest lake in Minnesota? I 0:02:21.040 --> 0:02:23.760 want to go to the biggest. I don't want to 0:02:23.800 --> 0:02:26.200 go to the second, or the third or the fourth biggest. 0:02:26.320 --> 0:02:29.360 I want to go to the biggest, Go bigger, go home. 0:02:30.520 --> 0:02:33.920 So I did a quick Google search, just Google in 0:02:33.960 --> 0:02:36.480 my case bing because I like to get the points. 0:02:36.480 --> 0:02:39.160 So I get those Amazon gift cards. So I binged 0:02:39.200 --> 0:02:43.560 it and it said this is not only the largest 0:02:43.639 --> 0:02:48.000 lake in Minnesota, this is the largest freshwater lake in 0:02:48.040 --> 0:02:52.040 the world. It happens to be in Minnesota. And so 0:02:52.200 --> 0:02:56.240 this is a real Laker trip, Not the La Lakers, 0:02:56.240 --> 0:03:00.280 the real Lakers, the Minnesota Lakers. So I got up 0:03:00.360 --> 0:03:02.480 Danny at the crack of. 0:03:02.480 --> 0:03:03.320 Dawn with my wife. 0:03:03.360 --> 0:03:07.480 We got up at six am on Sunday, six am 0:03:07.560 --> 0:03:12.120 on Sunday to make the trip all the way up 0:03:12.200 --> 0:03:15.400 the state of Minnesota to the North Country to the 0:03:15.440 --> 0:03:22.040 north star of destination, Duluth. And that is the home 0:03:23.360 --> 0:03:28.560 of one of the ports of Lake Superior. Oh yeah, 0:03:28.600 --> 0:03:30.880 so another one of the great Lakes. Now I've been to. 0:03:31.200 --> 0:03:33.639 Now that I've been to Lake Superior, I've been to 0:03:33.720 --> 0:03:36.720 Lake Michigan many times, Lake Erie. 0:03:37.400 --> 0:03:38.040 How many? 0:03:38.440 --> 0:03:40.080 How many of the What are the other great I'm 0:03:40.080 --> 0:03:42.800 trying to think I've been to the other I think 0:03:43.000 --> 0:03:44.200 I know I've been to Lake Erie, have been to 0:03:44.400 --> 0:03:49.400 Lake Michigan, I've been to Lake Superior. I'm trying to 0:03:49.440 --> 0:03:51.880 think if I've been to any of the other great Lakes. 0:03:52.880 --> 0:03:55.040 I think those are the only three I've been to. 0:03:55.880 --> 0:03:58.080 I think there's there's a couple other ones right. 0:03:57.960 --> 0:03:58.800 That I forget. 0:03:58.920 --> 0:04:00.720 There's Ontario and Heron. 0:04:01.400 --> 0:04:04.520 Yeah, I've not been to those. Where is Lake Huron? 0:04:04.720 --> 0:04:06.480 Is that Michigan that's it? 0:04:07.360 --> 0:04:09.040 Yeah, I want to say that's Michigan. 0:04:10.040 --> 0:04:11.560 Yeah, Lake Ontario I've not been to. 0:04:11.600 --> 0:04:15.320 So anyway, I was very cool to be at Lake Superior. 0:04:16.000 --> 0:04:18.599 It is literally the largest lake in the United States 0:04:18.680 --> 0:04:21.560 and the largest freshwater lake in the world. As my 0:04:21.600 --> 0:04:25.120 wife and I had the same look on our faces. 0:04:25.120 --> 0:04:28.039 We go to the lake, you pull up through, you 0:04:28.120 --> 0:04:32.480 come down a hill into the Luth because the city 0:04:32.520 --> 0:04:35.279 of Duluth most of it is on the hillside overlooking 0:04:35.400 --> 0:04:38.400 Lake Superior. The way they built it, and this you 0:04:38.480 --> 0:04:40.960 might as well be at the Pacific or the Atlantic Ocean. 0:04:41.000 --> 0:04:44.440 As far as you can see is nothing but water. 0:04:44.920 --> 0:04:48.760 But yet this is not an ocean. It's a lake 0:04:48.839 --> 0:04:51.760 and it's mind blowing the size. But it's a two 0:04:51.760 --> 0:04:53.359 and a half hour drive. The reason we had to 0:04:53.360 --> 0:04:56.880 get up so early is we we had a two 0:04:56.920 --> 0:04:58.599 and a half hour drive up to the through the 0:04:58.600 --> 0:05:01.200 heart of Minnesota where the there is literally nothing by 0:05:01.200 --> 0:05:05.400 the way, Danny, nothing but trees and random empty lakes, 0:05:05.880 --> 0:05:09.440 and that's about it. There are there's nothing else in Minnesota. 0:05:10.000 --> 0:05:14.040 Almost hard to find a gas station in Minnesota out 0:05:14.040 --> 0:05:17.240 on the on the back roads of the state. But 0:05:17.279 --> 0:05:20.720 we had a trip to Duluth planned and we were 0:05:20.720 --> 0:05:21.480 gonna go on a. 0:05:21.480 --> 0:05:24.640 Boat tour of Lake Superior. So the thing. 0:05:24.520 --> 0:05:26.480 Left at nine to thirty. We had to get there 0:05:26.520 --> 0:05:28.680 at nine, so we got up at six. We got 0:05:28.720 --> 0:05:31.960 on the road at six thirty to drive up there. 0:05:32.720 --> 0:05:34.880 And here's a fun fact. You want a fun fact? 0:05:35.160 --> 0:05:36.719 You can't handle a fun fact? 0:05:37.640 --> 0:05:38.320 Are you ready? 0:05:38.960 --> 0:05:40.679 Yeah, on the edge of our seats. 0:05:40.839 --> 0:05:42.840 I know this is gonna blow your mind. Alf the Alien, 0:05:42.839 --> 0:05:45.840 O Pinter and Fergdog are gonna love this one. So 0:05:46.120 --> 0:05:49.440 Lake Superior is so large. 0:05:50.400 --> 0:05:51.720 How large is it? 0:05:51.720 --> 0:05:54.440 It is so large that it could hold the water 0:05:54.600 --> 0:05:59.640 from all of the other Great Lakes combined along with 0:05:59.760 --> 0:06:01.680 three more lake eries. 0:06:02.200 --> 0:06:06.920 That is how big this thing is. It's crazy. It 0:06:07.440 --> 0:06:09.240 spans from. 0:06:09.240 --> 0:06:14.960 Minnesota through Wisconsin, that peninsula Wisconsin, and then also above 0:06:14.960 --> 0:06:15.960 it there's Canada. 0:06:16.880 --> 0:06:18.880 So it's ridiculous. 0:06:20.000 --> 0:06:21.839 Maybe that's why they named it Superior. 0:06:24.560 --> 0:06:26.839 Well, you know, it's a size things. It's clearly a 0:06:26.839 --> 0:06:30.159 size thing. I like the extended winner, damn you. 0:06:31.640 --> 0:06:36.280 So then the other big surprise was, man, look at 0:06:36.320 --> 0:06:41.479 the pollution and Lake Superior. The water is like the 0:06:41.640 --> 0:06:43.560 color of shit. What happened? 0:06:43.640 --> 0:06:48.640 Right? Oh man? My wife's like, the water looks disgusting. 0:06:48.680 --> 0:06:50.320 It's like the color of coffee. 0:06:51.360 --> 0:06:54.560 And the locals, though, say it is a root beard 0:06:54.600 --> 0:06:57.920 delight the water in Lake Superior. 0:06:58.480 --> 0:07:00.440 And I had no idea. I never in there, how 0:07:00.440 --> 0:07:04.520 would I know this? But into Luth, Minnesota, the water 0:07:05.920 --> 0:07:09.920 is brown. Now it's a light brown. It's a root 0:07:09.960 --> 0:07:14.280 beer color on the north shore. And the reason that 0:07:14.400 --> 0:07:15.160 is I looked it up. 0:07:15.200 --> 0:07:17.120 I was like, what the hell is going on with this? 0:07:17.200 --> 0:07:21.680 I don't understand, Like, this is disgusting. And they claim 0:07:21.720 --> 0:07:26.440 that it's from the streams that lead into Lake Superior. 0:07:27.440 --> 0:07:31.520 The water it comes from the plants. It's not so 0:07:31.640 --> 0:07:35.040 much the iron. And they say it's very common after 0:07:35.040 --> 0:07:39.120 they get rain that the lake will go a darker 0:07:39.240 --> 0:07:41.800 shade of brown because of the various rivers. 0:07:42.440 --> 0:07:44.480 Oh, okay lead into Lake Superior. 0:07:44.560 --> 0:07:46.680 But if you just look at it and you have 0:07:46.760 --> 0:07:51.200 no concept of that, it looks like poopy water or 0:07:51.320 --> 0:07:57.400 coffee water. And it was interesting, and so I enjoyed 0:07:57.440 --> 0:07:59.760 my time into Luth. I did not know what to 0:08:00.240 --> 0:08:03.040 We've had callers. We had a guy working at a hotel, 0:08:03.360 --> 0:08:06.160 Hotel Ryan from Duluth years ago. It was a big 0:08:06.200 --> 0:08:09.239 star caller on the show. He got married, he had kids, 0:08:09.280 --> 0:08:13.520 he stopped stopped calling the show. But it was freaking 0:08:14.000 --> 0:08:17.800 freezing here by our California standards, it was. We got 0:08:17.840 --> 0:08:20.760 to Duluth and we got ready to go on the boat. 0:08:20.800 --> 0:08:27.240 It was fifty one degrees. The wind was howling, and 0:08:27.320 --> 0:08:29.880 the estimated wind show factor it was in the low 0:08:30.000 --> 0:08:33.360 forties of the high thirties. And we sat on the 0:08:33.440 --> 0:08:36.800 very top outside Danny on the boat. We were outside 0:08:36.880 --> 0:08:42.920 on the boat and got taken around the harbor there 0:08:43.000 --> 0:08:46.800 of Lake Superior. And then when we got done with that, 0:08:47.559 --> 0:08:49.560 we tried to warm up a little bit. Went to 0:08:49.600 --> 0:08:51.839 Costco to get gas because we had a long drive back. 0:08:51.880 --> 0:08:53.240 So there is a Costco in Duluth. 0:08:53.679 --> 0:08:54.360 We went there. 0:08:54.679 --> 0:08:59.760 I was disappointed though, because the price of gas was 0:09:00.679 --> 0:09:02.920 pretty much the same as the other stations I think. 0:09:02.960 --> 0:09:04.320 I think Minnesota is one of those. 0:09:04.160 --> 0:09:07.120 States they do not allow Costco to lower the price 0:09:07.160 --> 0:09:12.120 too much for competitive reasons, which I think is ridiculous. 0:09:12.120 --> 0:09:16.520 But whatever, So we got gas there and then we went. 0:09:16.440 --> 0:09:21.320 To this this shopping area. They have this big mall, 0:09:21.400 --> 0:09:23.439 of course indoor mall, because you don't want to be 0:09:23.480 --> 0:09:25.240 outdoors in Duluth most of the year. 0:09:26.000 --> 0:09:27.000 And we went to this. 0:09:27.000 --> 0:09:30.880 Local burger place there's like a brewery burger place, and 0:09:31.000 --> 0:09:34.480 had my first ever poutine burger. I never had a 0:09:34.480 --> 0:09:37.640 poutine burger. Not bad, by the way, not bad, like 0:09:37.640 --> 0:09:41.880 a barbecue poutine burger. And it was so wild because 0:09:41.920 --> 0:09:45.840 this shopping center Danny was right up against Lake Superior. 0:09:46.679 --> 0:09:48.720 So we were walking through the different stories. I'm gonna 0:09:48.720 --> 0:09:49.400 send you a photo here. 0:09:49.400 --> 0:09:51.600 I want you to check this out, just to prove 0:09:51.600 --> 0:09:56.960 I'm not I'm not lying. So we walked through this 0:09:57.120 --> 0:10:01.200 big shopping center and you know, you got a bite 0:10:01.240 --> 0:10:04.400 to eat. We're walking around the different stores and these 0:10:04.440 --> 0:10:08.920 stores are right up against Lake Superior. So like there 0:10:09.000 --> 0:10:11.880 was a kitchen store sea if I can find this, 0:10:11.920 --> 0:10:14.120 I got a lot of random posts. So there's a 0:10:14.200 --> 0:10:17.960 kitchen store. And then right behind the kitchen store is 0:10:18.000 --> 0:10:24.480 this most amazing view of the lake. Like it's like 0:10:24.720 --> 0:10:28.240 right there, it's it's in all its magic, in all 0:10:28.320 --> 0:10:35.400 it's it's glory, this massive Lake Superior, and it was 0:10:35.520 --> 0:10:39.320 it was nuts. It was absolutely crazy. As I try 0:10:39.360 --> 0:10:41.720 to find said photo. 0:10:42.520 --> 0:10:44.520 Miles and miles of poop water. 0:10:45.520 --> 0:10:47.440 Well that was behind it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, let me see. 0:10:47.480 --> 0:10:49.959 I can show you the all right, I found it here. 0:10:50.320 --> 0:10:51.800 So there's a picture. 0:10:51.800 --> 0:10:53.280 I won't tell you what's in the picture, but you 0:10:53.320 --> 0:10:55.320 gotta you gotta zoom in a little bit here, Danny, 0:10:56.080 --> 0:10:59.480 and you'll see what I'm talking about, because it is 0:10:59.480 --> 0:11:03.079 just like a reg the store or whatever, and it's 0:11:03.120 --> 0:11:07.360 back is to the lake and so you can get 0:11:07.400 --> 0:11:10.520 a you see the photo there should have come through. 0:11:10.559 --> 0:11:13.360 Now you get any kind of kitchen supplies you need 0:11:13.400 --> 0:11:14.360 at the kitchen company. 0:11:15.040 --> 0:11:17.160 Yeah, I see the kitchen supplies. 0:11:17.400 --> 0:11:19.000 And look I was zoom in a little bit. You 0:11:19.040 --> 0:11:19.920 see behind that that. 0:11:19.960 --> 0:11:22.520 Is oh yeah, so it looks like you're on the 0:11:22.600 --> 0:11:24.360 lake still exactly. 0:11:24.400 --> 0:11:25.920 It looks like you're in the lake. 0:11:26.080 --> 0:11:29.680 And yeah, it was right behind it. This place called 0:11:29.840 --> 0:11:33.880 Fitgers was the shopping cent I guess it's an old 0:11:33.920 --> 0:11:38.719 brewery in in Duluth. And it was very it was 0:11:38.800 --> 0:11:39.240 very cool. 0:11:39.559 --> 0:11:40.120 I had a good time. 0:11:40.160 --> 0:11:43.960 I had a fun time there, and I don't know 0:11:43.960 --> 0:11:45.760 that I'll ever would be back, and I'd be a 0:11:45.800 --> 0:11:49.760 one and done, but it was worth it had a 0:11:49.800 --> 0:11:53.480 good trip and nice meal, and then headed back because 0:11:53.480 --> 0:11:56.400 I had to go see my brother back in Minneapolis, 0:11:56.480 --> 0:11:59.240 and I had some more things to do. Had to 0:11:59.240 --> 0:12:02.040 go check out the different stadiums around Minnesota, so we 0:12:02.040 --> 0:12:04.679 did that. We'll get to that later in the podcast. 0:12:06.520 --> 0:12:08.840 It's all about the key. But which key is it about? 0:12:08.920 --> 0:12:11.160 Danny? That's the question, Which key is it about? 0:12:11.960 --> 0:12:15.679 You know, like you Ben, I had a traffic incident. Oh, 0:12:16.400 --> 0:12:20.760 you have that in common. The difference is mine was 0:12:20.840 --> 0:12:22.040 almost on TV. 0:12:22.880 --> 0:12:23.040 Oh. 0:12:23.160 --> 0:12:26.200 So now I'm trying to get home to watch the game. 0:12:27.040 --> 0:12:29.959 I was doing post production for a Covino and Rich 0:12:30.040 --> 0:12:33.160 after the show. So I get the podcast stuff up 0:12:33.400 --> 0:12:36.440 and I run to the parking garage. I get on 0:12:36.559 --> 0:12:41.200 the freeway and of course Sherman Oaks is slammed. Four 0:12:41.280 --> 0:12:45.240 h five not moving, one oh one, not moving. It's 0:12:45.320 --> 0:12:48.160 traffic hell. So I'm sitting there and I'm like, I'm 0:12:48.200 --> 0:12:50.880 listening to the game on the radio. It's fine, but 0:12:51.000 --> 0:12:52.960 I you know, I'm like, want to get home, have 0:12:53.040 --> 0:12:55.640 some dinner, watch the game the rest of the second 0:12:55.720 --> 0:12:59.880 half at home. Daddy finally to Woodland Hills and traffic 0:13:00.160 --> 0:13:02.480 clearing up now to where I can at least move 0:13:03.520 --> 0:13:07.160 gaslight comes on. If I don't stop and do it now, 0:13:07.440 --> 0:13:09.160 there's no way I'm going to do it the next 0:13:09.240 --> 0:13:12.640 day in the morning. It just sucks. So I'm like, 0:13:12.679 --> 0:13:15.199 I gotta deal with this right now before I get home. 0:13:15.679 --> 0:13:18.080 So I exit Shoot and you might know where that 0:13:18.200 --> 0:13:21.760 is in the valley. You know, it's an easy off ramp. 0:13:21.960 --> 0:13:24.240 There's a couple of gas stations right as you turn 0:13:24.320 --> 0:13:27.839 off of the off ramp. So I get off, put 0:13:27.880 --> 0:13:32.760 gas in, and then I tell it. Instead of going 0:13:32.800 --> 0:13:36.360 on the boulevard, I go up onto the surface street. 0:13:37.040 --> 0:13:40.040 This frontage road takes you all the way to Valley Circle, 0:13:40.559 --> 0:13:44.480 probably behind like five cars waiting to go left back 0:13:44.559 --> 0:13:50.560 onto the freeway. The light changes, nobody moves, the light 0:13:50.640 --> 0:13:53.960 goes to red. Nobody has moved. What in the world 0:13:54.040 --> 0:13:57.160 is going on? And I'm thinking, God, there's got to 0:13:57.160 --> 0:14:00.000 be an accident or something up there. So I'm crazy 0:14:00.280 --> 0:14:02.800 my head. I'm pushing my head out the window trying 0:14:02.800 --> 0:14:06.520 to look far ahead, and I do see some sirens. 0:14:07.280 --> 0:14:09.600 It must be a fender bender or something up there. 0:14:09.880 --> 0:14:13.600 And they have this freeway on ramp blocks. What do 0:14:13.640 --> 0:14:13.959 I do. 0:14:14.040 --> 0:14:17.280 I'm listening to John Ireland and I'm like, God, I 0:14:17.280 --> 0:14:18.839 got to get home and see the rest of this 0:14:19.000 --> 0:14:22.640 on TV. No offense to John Ireland, but as you know, Ben, 0:14:23.120 --> 0:14:26.840 listening to a game and watching it just two different animals. 0:14:27.120 --> 0:14:29.080 Yeah, and John Ireland of course a member of the 0:14:29.120 --> 0:14:32.760 Fox Sports Radio Alumni Association. Yes, he did a show 0:14:32.880 --> 0:14:35.400 with Stephen A. Smith of all people. But you'd rather 0:14:35.440 --> 0:14:38.840 watch the game. You want to sit down on your sofa. 0:14:38.040 --> 0:14:40.040 And yeah, and I know my wife he had dinner 0:14:40.080 --> 0:14:43.280 waiting and they're all watching the game, and I'm like, 0:14:43.320 --> 0:14:45.800 I want to get home. So now I had an 0:14:45.840 --> 0:14:50.080 executive decision to make. There's a double line, you know, 0:14:50.200 --> 0:14:54.200 to the left of me, so I'm thinking, should I 0:14:54.240 --> 0:14:56.920 take a chance and do an I legal U turn 0:14:57.640 --> 0:15:00.720 and go catch the frontage road to go up to 0:15:00.760 --> 0:15:04.680 the next freeway on ramp. I'm so happy, Ben that 0:15:04.760 --> 0:15:08.000 I took a couple of beats here and this this 0:15:08.160 --> 0:15:11.360 just goes to prove think about it before you make 0:15:11.400 --> 0:15:14.840 a move. As I finally decided to turn my wheel 0:15:14.920 --> 0:15:18.040 left and break the double lines. As I'm starting my 0:15:18.080 --> 0:15:21.880 illegal U turn, I stopped just for a moment because 0:15:21.960 --> 0:15:23.600 I'm like, this is eerie. 0:15:23.840 --> 0:15:26.680 No cars have been coming this direction. 0:15:27.600 --> 0:15:31.120 It was almost like they blocked off, you know, both 0:15:31.200 --> 0:15:35.400 lanes mine and the oncoming lane. And I was like, man, 0:15:35.520 --> 0:15:37.760 is a cop gonna see what I'm doing and then 0:15:37.840 --> 0:15:38.560 come after me? 0:15:39.240 --> 0:15:42.360 Oh me? Thank god, Ben, because. 0:15:42.120 --> 0:15:44.680 Right as I finally decide to start turning my wheel 0:15:44.680 --> 0:15:50.040 to the left, a Harley comes blasting. He has to 0:15:50.160 --> 0:15:53.840 move his bike to avoid the nose of my car, 0:15:54.080 --> 0:15:57.840 which is now starting to stick out into the oncoming traffic. 0:15:58.680 --> 0:16:05.440 Coming behind him is a string of CHP officers after another, 0:16:05.560 --> 0:16:07.040 after another, after another. 0:16:11.040 --> 0:16:12.120 I'm not shitting you. 0:16:12.800 --> 0:16:17.160 Fifteen to seventeen cruisers are chasing this guy. 0:16:17.760 --> 0:16:18.280 Wow. 0:16:18.840 --> 0:16:22.840 Man, I was in the middle of a Los Angeles 0:16:22.920 --> 0:16:23.640 car chase. 0:16:24.040 --> 0:16:26.400 That's authentic LA. And when you think of LA, you 0:16:26.400 --> 0:16:28.160 think of the bacon wrap hot dog, and you think 0:16:28.200 --> 0:16:33.520 of the car chase, and you experienced that. And what 0:16:33.600 --> 0:16:35.640 was it like, Danny when you look around and you 0:16:35.680 --> 0:16:37.400 saw the helicopters over your head. 0:16:37.440 --> 0:16:39.600 I assumed they were there right for the local TV 0:16:39.880 --> 0:16:40.680 and whatnot. 0:16:40.880 --> 0:16:44.720 So I'm hurriedly trying to get my wheel back to 0:16:44.760 --> 0:16:47.840 the right, to get myself back into my lane. Now 0:16:47.840 --> 0:16:50.560 that I know what's going on, my nose on my 0:16:50.640 --> 0:16:53.000 car is still sticking out a little bit, and my 0:16:53.120 --> 0:16:56.400 heart is going super fast because I'm like, holy. 0:16:56.160 --> 0:16:58.440 Shit, that's definitely a car chase. 0:16:58.800 --> 0:17:01.360 So I quickly open up my spectrum map on my 0:17:01.480 --> 0:17:05.560 phone and I'm now watching this on Fox eleven and 0:17:05.680 --> 0:17:08.919 this guy, this Harley guy's being chased, and on my 0:17:09.119 --> 0:17:17.680 phone screen graphics say man with gun on motorcycle. Oh boy, yeah, 0:17:17.720 --> 0:17:22.160 and I'm like, holy I almost took out the guy 0:17:22.240 --> 0:17:23.320 that they were chasing. 0:17:24.119 --> 0:17:25.920 I'm just I'm freaking out. 0:17:26.040 --> 0:17:28.080 I call my Wifey and I'm was like, hey, turn 0:17:28.160 --> 0:17:31.119 on Channel eleven and she's watching it and she's like, 0:17:31.480 --> 0:17:33.600 what's going on. We're trying to watch the Lakers game. 0:17:33.640 --> 0:17:36.080 And I'm like, no, no, no, you don't understand. I 0:17:36.240 --> 0:17:39.960 almost hit the guy that they're chasing. And she's like, 0:17:40.000 --> 0:17:42.520 what are you talking about. So I'm explaining it to her. 0:17:43.080 --> 0:17:46.159 I get home. We were watching the Lakers game, and 0:17:46.200 --> 0:17:48.960 I told her, I said, you know, la, as soon 0:17:49.000 --> 0:17:52.440 as they catch this guy, they will then post the 0:17:52.640 --> 0:17:56.879 entire chase with the aerial view and the you know, 0:17:56.960 --> 0:18:00.000 the anchors all covering it. And of course this is 0:18:00.080 --> 0:18:03.840 on Facebook and other apps where you see people after 0:18:03.880 --> 0:18:07.439 the fact watching the whole thing and then commenting. So 0:18:07.960 --> 0:18:11.400 I quickly went through the video, found the part where 0:18:11.400 --> 0:18:14.480 he got to Valley Circle and I took a still 0:18:14.520 --> 0:18:19.160 shot of my car almost hitting him. By the way, Ben, 0:18:19.280 --> 0:18:23.840 the Lady news anchor, was on with a retired police officer, 0:18:24.280 --> 0:18:26.679 and as he almost hit the nose of my car, 0:18:27.040 --> 0:18:29.680 they both said, ooh, oh, that was close. 0:18:31.560 --> 0:18:33.080 That's good. Now here's the question. 0:18:33.160 --> 0:18:36.000 Anny, if you had actually made contact with the Harley, 0:18:36.520 --> 0:18:39.560 would you a have been seen as a good Samaritan 0:18:39.640 --> 0:18:43.200 that was helping the police out or be a guy 0:18:43.240 --> 0:18:45.359 that was a douchebag trying to cut in line? 0:18:46.160 --> 0:18:47.159 Which one would it have been? 0:18:47.240 --> 0:18:50.560 Danny, you have very good radio instincts, Ben, because that's 0:18:50.560 --> 0:18:53.159 why I named this. Which key would it be the 0:18:53.240 --> 0:18:55.920 key to the city or the key to the slammer? 0:18:57.320 --> 0:18:58.600 Because I would have. 0:18:58.560 --> 0:19:01.280 Took out the guy they were chased seeing, but I 0:19:01.400 --> 0:19:03.600 also would have done an illegal U turn. 0:19:04.359 --> 0:19:06.879 So would they have given me a pass on the 0:19:06.960 --> 0:19:07.960 traffic violation. 0:19:08.800 --> 0:19:09.800 Well, here's what they would have done. 0:19:09.800 --> 0:19:11.639 The police would have said, well, we do not want 0:19:11.840 --> 0:19:14.879 good Samaritans to injure themselves, but we are happy that 0:19:14.960 --> 0:19:17.840 it worked out this way. This person helped us out, 0:19:18.040 --> 0:19:19.840 So I think you have been okay, Danny. 0:19:19.880 --> 0:19:21.480 I think you would have been in good shape. 0:19:21.840 --> 0:19:25.879 But that's that's why I've been I've never been that close. 0:19:25.920 --> 0:19:28.399 I've been on the freeway when those things happen, on 0:19:28.440 --> 0:19:30.919 the highway when the chases have gone by on the 0:19:30.960 --> 0:19:33.399 other side, but never been in the middle of one. 0:19:33.880 --> 0:19:34.080 Never. 0:19:34.240 --> 0:19:36.880 Next the next day on Coveno and Rich I got 0:19:36.960 --> 0:19:41.240 to tell the story, and Dan Bayer said that the 0:19:41.320 --> 0:19:44.360 problem I would have had was with my insurance company, 0:19:45.359 --> 0:19:48.160 because he says they would not have covered the damages 0:19:48.200 --> 0:19:50.120 to my car because you. 0:19:50.080 --> 0:19:52.480 Were you made the illegal turn, you were vised. 0:19:53.320 --> 0:19:55.080 So I could have got a high five from the 0:19:55.119 --> 0:19:57.840 mayor and I could have been a big hero, But 0:19:57.920 --> 0:20:00.160 then I would have been left with a destroyed car. 0:20:00.760 --> 0:20:03.919 I did see the photo you sent me the car chase, 0:20:04.280 --> 0:20:07.679 and I see the Danny Gmobile, which is like a 0:20:07.720 --> 0:20:11.200 Superman car there and you're clearly crossed over the double line. 0:20:12.080 --> 0:20:15.440 And then there is a Harley, a white Harley, which 0:20:15.520 --> 0:20:21.320 you say is evading police LAPD pursuit in San Fernando 0:20:21.480 --> 0:20:24.560 Valley right there, and it does look like you are 0:20:24.600 --> 0:20:27.080 the only car crossed over the double yellow. 0:20:27.840 --> 0:20:29.280 I would have clabbered that guy. 0:20:29.960 --> 0:20:33.359 Yeah, or he would have clobbered. He would have driven 0:20:33.400 --> 0:20:34.520 in the side of your car. 0:20:35.480 --> 0:20:37.480 Right, my car is built like a tank. 0:20:37.520 --> 0:20:39.920 I think I would have been okay, but he might 0:20:39.960 --> 0:20:41.600 have flown over his handlebars. 0:20:42.080 --> 0:20:46.240 Dude, you could have killed the guy. Oh my gosh. Wow. 0:20:47.359 --> 0:20:52.639 It ended up a happy, happy story for Danny, although 0:20:52.720 --> 0:20:56.879 not happy for your Lakers. Unfortunately, Danny quite go so 0:20:56.960 --> 0:20:58.159 well for the Lakers. 0:20:58.920 --> 0:21:01.880 But you know what, Ben, they played seventeen extra games 0:21:01.920 --> 0:21:06.119 that I didn't expect. As I learned from you, making 0:21:06.119 --> 0:21:08.000 the Final four is a pretty big deal. 0:21:10.359 --> 0:21:12.280 No, no, no, When you're the Clippers, that's a big deal. 0:21:12.320 --> 0:21:14.920 But I was told the standards are different for the Lakers. 0:21:14.920 --> 0:21:15.879 That's what I was talking to me. 0:21:15.920 --> 0:21:17.959 Fair, No, it's a big deal for any team. 0:21:18.160 --> 0:21:20.320 No, no, no, I was told you guys all told 0:21:20.359 --> 0:21:21.840 me it's not that big a deal. 0:21:22.080 --> 0:21:24.320 Don't get all excited about it. We're the Lakers. 0:21:24.680 --> 0:21:28.480