WEBVTT - The Fifth Hour: Old Hollywood & Tug Pamphlets 0:00:00.720 --> 0:00:01.480 Kabbooms. 0:00:02.279 --> 0:00:05.400 If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes 0:00:05.440 --> 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 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 --> 0:00:17.480 rich pill poppers in the penthouse. 0:00:18.079 --> 0:00:18.400 Wow. 0:00:18.600 --> 0:00:22.320 The Clearinghouse of Hot takes break free for something special. 0:00:22.680 --> 0:00:30.640 The Fifth Hour with Ben Mallard starts right now. 0:00:29.000 --> 0:00:37.479 In the air Everywhere, The Extra Crunchy, extra Spicy Fifth 0:00:37.560 --> 0:00:42.000 Hour with Me, Ben Mahler and Danny g Radio. As 0:00:42.000 --> 0:00:46.160 we are in the air everywhere. 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It's not 0:01:26.800 --> 0:01:29.720 that far away from those places, and if you want 0:01:29.760 --> 0:01:31.840 to drive a little further, I'm not sure what's south 0:01:33.000 --> 0:01:36.520 of Charleston, but check it out. So we'll be there. 0:01:36.640 --> 0:01:40.280 Details on yesterday's pod, but Danny g is hanging out 0:01:40.319 --> 0:01:44.480 with me as we get the Partey started. There was 0:01:44.520 --> 0:01:49.080 a pretty big story in our business that didn't get 0:01:49.120 --> 0:01:52.040 too much attention. I don't We didn't talk about it 0:01:52.880 --> 0:01:58.400 on the Overnight show because it's more of an industry story. 0:01:58.440 --> 0:02:01.920 But I thought this was a massive deal because it's 0:02:01.960 --> 0:02:04.440 something that I've had to deal with my entire time 0:02:04.480 --> 0:02:08.600 in radio, and it appears I will not have to 0:02:08.680 --> 0:02:12.160 deal with it anymore. Did you see, Danny, that the 0:02:12.200 --> 0:02:16.639 Federal Trade Commission voted to approve a new rule that 0:02:16.680 --> 0:02:21.760 will ban non compete clauses in contracts. 0:02:22.480 --> 0:02:26.360 This is something that radio dudes and TV guys have 0:02:26.480 --> 0:02:28.160 had to deal with for years. 0:02:28.960 --> 0:02:33.360 Yes, it is a nightmare. Every contract I've ever had, 0:02:33.440 --> 0:02:36.480 everywhere I've ever worked, they say, if we ever get 0:02:36.639 --> 0:02:38.920 rid of you, you are not allowed to work at 0:02:38.960 --> 0:02:44.080 another radio station in competing station for a year or 0:02:44.160 --> 0:02:46.320 you know, sometimes it's six months, but usually the ones 0:02:46.360 --> 0:02:49.960 I've had is a year. And if you're off the 0:02:50.000 --> 0:02:53.000 air for a year, out of sight, out of mind, 0:02:53.040 --> 0:02:56.639 good luck finding a job after that. It's very difficult, 0:02:56.919 --> 0:03:00.520 and it's really stupid because if a station, a radio 0:03:00.560 --> 0:03:03.200 station gets rid of you, they don't think you're a 0:03:03.240 --> 0:03:05.680 good enough talent. They don't think you're making them money. 0:03:05.960 --> 0:03:08.160 So why would you care if that person went to 0:03:08.200 --> 0:03:12.120 another a station down the hall from you, down the 0:03:12.120 --> 0:03:14.440 street from you, Like, who cares? 0:03:14.840 --> 0:03:17.160 This would be like if an NFL team cuts you 0:03:17.560 --> 0:03:19.800 and then you couldn't play in the league for a year. 0:03:20.360 --> 0:03:22.000 Yeah, you had to sit out of here. Yeah, he's 0:03:22.040 --> 0:03:24.640 like Patrick Mahomes got released by the Chiefs and he 0:03:24.680 --> 0:03:27.919 couldn't go sign with the Raiders. He had to sit 0:03:28.000 --> 0:03:30.360 out a year and then then he could come back. 0:03:30.840 --> 0:03:33.520 They estimate it's not official yet. By the way, it's 0:03:33.520 --> 0:03:35.320 going to take one hundred and twenty days or so 0:03:36.120 --> 0:03:38.800 for the reversal to take effect. But when it does, 0:03:39.000 --> 0:03:43.400 they claim that this will increase workers' salaries by three 0:03:43.720 --> 0:03:47.480 hundred billion dollars annually. That sounds like bullshit to me, 0:03:47.840 --> 0:03:51.600 but that's what they're saying. I read about this this week, 0:03:51.840 --> 0:03:54.960 and it really is more important for what we do 0:03:55.880 --> 0:04:00.440 for a living. But that's a big deal, is a 0:04:00.880 --> 0:04:04.480 massive deal. It's one of it's one of those things. 0:04:04.520 --> 0:04:04.680 Dan. 0:04:04.720 --> 0:04:08.280 It's kind of like the blackout rules on television for 0:04:08.520 --> 0:04:12.000 baseball and basketball and whatnot, where I'm sorry, you're not 0:04:12.040 --> 0:04:16.120 allowed to watch that broadcast. You're restricted. It's just stupid. 0:04:16.839 --> 0:04:20.479 It blocked me from a good program director job years back. 0:04:21.560 --> 0:04:24.000 Well, Honey, I've extended our line of credit. 0:04:24.680 --> 0:04:26.440 There was nothing we could do about it back in 0:04:26.440 --> 0:04:29.080 the day. So it's good that it's hopefully going to 0:04:29.160 --> 0:04:29.920 be changing. 0:04:30.680 --> 0:04:35.440 Yeah. No, it's it's wonderful and it'll be grave and 0:04:35.480 --> 0:04:38.080 I'm not looking to go anywhere. I don't think you 0:04:38.120 --> 0:04:41.839 are either. But if something were to happen, we wouldn't 0:04:41.880 --> 0:04:45.120 have to sit out for a year, and we'd be 0:04:45.120 --> 0:04:48.600 able to be right back, right back in the game. 0:04:48.920 --> 0:04:52.120 At the top. Man, there is no competition for Fox 0:04:52.120 --> 0:04:55.400 Sports Radio. Really. I'm bringing that off a que card. 0:04:55.400 --> 0:04:57.520 By the way, did Don Did Don give you that? 0:04:57.640 --> 0:04:58.960 Or Scott? Which one gave you that? 0:04:59.000 --> 0:05:00.920 I'm not sure any he gave me the card. 0:05:01.160 --> 0:05:04.960 Oh, Danny, you got to read this on Ben's podcast verbatim. 0:05:05.040 --> 0:05:09.680 Read it verbatim don't mess a word. Well, Marconi would 0:05:09.680 --> 0:05:12.239 be pressed. And today being the twenty seventh of April, 0:05:12.320 --> 0:05:15.680 the Saturday, it is International Marconi Day. How are you 0:05:15.760 --> 0:05:18.839 celebrating International Marconi Day to day? Danny, do you have any. 0:05:18.839 --> 0:05:21.159 I'm doing a Marconi Worthy podcast. 0:05:23.800 --> 0:05:26.159 Well, this is kind of funny because Marconi's birthday is 0:05:26.160 --> 0:05:29.840 actually on April twenty fifth, So why are we having 0:05:30.200 --> 0:05:36.680 Marconi Day today? It's International Marconi Day. It's the way 0:05:36.839 --> 0:05:40.000 it works. Is observed annually on the Saturday closest to 0:05:40.040 --> 0:05:44.440 April twenty fifth, which is his birthdate. So here we go. 0:05:44.520 --> 0:05:47.760 He he is credited with the invention of the radio 0:05:47.800 --> 0:05:53.880 telegraph system, Marconi's Law, and sending the first wireless transmission 0:05:54.600 --> 0:05:58.920 over the open sea back in the back in the day, 0:05:59.360 --> 0:06:02.200 so you can think, I think Marconian. He had no 0:06:02.320 --> 0:06:05.200 idea about what any of the Internet or it exists. 0:06:05.240 --> 0:06:08.719 But he was born in eighteen seventy four. He got 0:06:08.720 --> 0:06:12.640 the radio wave patent in eighteen ninety six, so he's 0:06:12.720 --> 0:06:17.039 twenty two years old, and then in nineteen oh one 0:06:18.040 --> 0:06:22.719 he's twenty seven. Cross the ace. He created the mechanism 0:06:22.720 --> 0:06:27.000 that transmitted radio waves over the Atlantic Ocean first time, 0:06:27.520 --> 0:06:34.760 ever between England and Newfoundland which is now part of Canada. 0:06:35.560 --> 0:06:39.040 And yeah, so I mean there's some random, random pun 0:06:39.120 --> 0:06:44.960 facts on today's pod. We've got the Magic Man, Old Hollywood, 0:06:46.160 --> 0:06:48.520 some other things as well. I want to start with this. 0:06:48.760 --> 0:06:52.960 I posted some photos on the Graham and on Facebook. 0:06:53.040 --> 0:06:54.599 I don't know if you saw them this past week. 0:06:54.640 --> 0:06:57.680 I think on Monday. I forget what day. Monday was, 0:06:57.720 --> 0:06:59.360 the day I went to the DMV, So I think 0:06:59.560 --> 0:07:02.719 while I was online at the DMV, I was playing 0:07:02.760 --> 0:07:04.200 around with my phone and I think I sent a 0:07:04.240 --> 0:07:09.279 bunch of photos and that is I'll give you the 0:07:09.279 --> 0:07:11.480 inside skinny on that. So I was upside down in 0:07:11.520 --> 0:07:14.080 these photos. Some people thought I was photoshopped into these. 0:07:14.120 --> 0:07:19.040 I was not photoshopped into those photos. That comes Danny 0:07:19.080 --> 0:07:21.440 from one of the coolest places I have been to 0:07:22.600 --> 0:07:25.400 in a while. It's a lot of fun and I 0:07:25.440 --> 0:07:27.520 recommend it. It's kind of pricey, but it's fun. It's 0:07:27.560 --> 0:07:30.680 good time, good date place. I think there's a few 0:07:30.680 --> 0:07:33.280 of these around the country. Have you ever been to 0:07:33.400 --> 0:07:40.520 the Museum of Illusions. No, Yeah, it's in Hollywood, in 0:07:40.640 --> 0:07:47.760 the hood in Hollywood. I stepped over human shit, human piss, 0:07:47.960 --> 0:07:51.960 and then we're around some homeless people and there is 0:07:52.040 --> 0:07:59.640 the World of Illusions. It's a new improved World Illusions. 0:07:59.440 --> 0:08:04.280 It's a fully immersive experience Dady like no other you'll 0:08:04.320 --> 0:08:07.920 go to. And it's got four different parts of the museum. 0:08:08.040 --> 0:08:13.480 Of course, they charge for all four, and it's pretty cool. 0:08:13.960 --> 0:08:18.240 You can put yourself in the Giant House where they 0:08:18.240 --> 0:08:24.480 have these massive oversized coffee cups and shoes. And I 0:08:24.480 --> 0:08:28.240 think I'll post some more photos today to accompany this 0:08:28.360 --> 0:08:32.360 podcast from the Giant House, but I sent some photos 0:08:32.360 --> 0:08:34.800 from the Upside Down House, which is really cool. You 0:08:34.840 --> 0:08:39.600 walk around this museum and you are in rooms that 0:08:39.640 --> 0:08:43.480 are literally upside down, like the refrigerator is on the ceiling, 0:08:43.640 --> 0:08:47.400 the toilet is on the ceiling, and you're on the 0:08:47.440 --> 0:08:50.840 floor which is now the ceiling when you take the photo, 0:08:51.880 --> 0:08:55.920 and it's pretty pretty well. So the Upside Down House, 0:08:55.920 --> 0:08:58.000 which I love, That was my favorite, the Giant House, 0:08:58.040 --> 0:09:00.400 which was pretty cool, and then they had this one 0:09:00.400 --> 0:09:02.800 which is like you stand in front of these photos 0:09:02.840 --> 0:09:05.120 and it's kind of it makes you seem like you're 0:09:05.160 --> 0:09:07.240 in the the artwork. 0:09:10.320 --> 0:09:12.520 Did you wash your hand after you touch the toilet? 0:09:13.360 --> 0:09:15.319 No, I licked the toilet what are you talking about? 0:09:16.400 --> 0:09:19.120 But it's looking right in the middle of Hollywood, right 0:09:19.160 --> 0:09:23.000 across from the Ripley's Believe It or Not museum. Guy was. 0:09:23.080 --> 0:09:25.520 I got down the street a little bit there in Hollywood, 0:09:25.640 --> 0:09:30.800 so I went with the wife and this is a 0:09:30.880 --> 0:09:34.760 museum that would not exist without Instagram, would not exist 0:09:34.800 --> 0:09:39.040 without social media. And it's it's pretty cool. I think 0:09:39.080 --> 0:09:39.640 it's twelve. 0:09:40.160 --> 0:09:43.240 I've seen some pop ups that are similar where the 0:09:43.280 --> 0:09:46.360 whole point is to take pictures for social media. 0:09:47.600 --> 0:09:51.560 Yeah, it's it's different. I was looking for something to 0:09:51.600 --> 0:09:54.880 do and I thought that would be something I hadn't done, 0:09:54.880 --> 0:09:58.360 to be kind of unique, so why not. And I 0:09:58.440 --> 0:10:01.800 told our friend Lorraine Yeah, that she should take her 0:10:01.880 --> 0:10:06.080 daughter there and kind of hang out. She's big on 0:10:06.120 --> 0:10:07.120 the socials. 0:10:06.880 --> 0:10:09.440 So too short to touch the toilet though. 0:10:13.040 --> 0:10:15.160 The other thing about that now I mentioned, you know, 0:10:15.200 --> 0:10:17.680 the magic and all that, and I'll post some more photos. 0:10:17.720 --> 0:10:20.920 I'll try to remember do that today. After that, since 0:10:20.920 --> 0:10:25.640 we were in Hollywood, my wife had made reservations at 0:10:25.720 --> 0:10:31.120 the oldest restaurant in Hollywood. Do you know what the 0:10:31.160 --> 0:10:35.320 oldest restaurant in Hollywood is? Daddy Hommy's Tommy's. It probably 0:10:35.360 --> 0:10:38.360 is no. We went to Musso and Franks. You ever 0:10:38.400 --> 0:10:40.840 been to Musso and Frank's Grill in Hollywood? 0:10:41.320 --> 0:10:41.760 Never been? 0:10:42.440 --> 0:10:44.199 I'd never been either. I thought I had been there, 0:10:44.240 --> 0:10:47.280 but i'd been to Miss Ellie's, which is across the street. 0:10:47.360 --> 0:10:49.959 I thought that was Musso and Franks. I had never 0:10:50.000 --> 0:10:53.520 been there. This restaurant dates back to nineteen ninety. Now, 0:10:53.520 --> 0:10:56.960 if you're in Boston or New York or Philadelphia or 0:10:56.960 --> 0:10:59.319 someplace that's been around for a while, he's like, ah, 0:10:59.360 --> 0:11:03.479 there's stuff here from the seventeen hundreds. But in California, 0:11:03.520 --> 0:11:07.400 there's not too much that's around that's older than that. 0:11:07.480 --> 0:11:10.960 So this thing opened in nineteen nineteen. It's the oldest 0:11:11.000 --> 0:11:13.560 restaurant in Hollywood. Said to be the genesis of Hollywood. 0:11:13.559 --> 0:11:18.320 That's their big marketing slogan. And it isn't much different 0:11:18.360 --> 0:11:21.720 than it was when it opened. And they have a 0:11:21.880 --> 0:11:27.439 back room for the Hollywood crowd that comes in there, 0:11:27.600 --> 0:11:29.880 but a lot of the big stars I'm talking this 0:11:29.960 --> 0:11:35.640 is a place where Charlie Chaplin ate at Humphrey Bogart, Sinatra, 0:11:35.840 --> 0:11:39.440 Marlon Brando, big stars back in those days, Marilyn Monroe. 0:11:40.160 --> 0:11:42.240 So is their food in Black and White. 0:11:42.240 --> 0:11:47.600 Yes, exactly. Orson Wells was somebody that ate there, and 0:11:47.640 --> 0:11:51.680 they claim that even now there's still like Johnny Depp, 0:11:51.760 --> 0:11:56.240 George Clooney, people like that. Well, we'll still still eat there. 0:11:56.280 --> 0:11:59.360 I don't know, It's fine. It was nice. I actually 0:11:59.440 --> 0:12:01.199 enjoyed the food. I didn't think I was going to 0:12:01.320 --> 0:12:04.559 enjoy it because this is a tourist trap. And then 0:12:04.840 --> 0:12:07.800 the thing that I like most forget about. Marlon Brando, 0:12:08.280 --> 0:12:13.760 Charlie Chaplin, Marilyn Monroe, hughle Hauser did an episode of 0:12:13.880 --> 0:12:16.880 visiting with hughl Houser with was this guy on PBS 0:12:16.920 --> 0:12:21.520 when I was a kid and we mocked him on 0:12:21.720 --> 0:12:22.920 California's Goal. 0:12:24.559 --> 0:12:25.480 That was a cool show. 0:12:25.800 --> 0:12:26.480 It was cool. 0:12:26.760 --> 0:12:30.080 It was around the edges, but it was endearing because 0:12:30.080 --> 0:12:30.400 of that. 0:12:31.040 --> 0:12:34.760 Yeah, so he went there. He did an episode and 0:12:35.200 --> 0:12:37.880 I read online. I did not realize this before I 0:12:37.920 --> 0:12:40.920 went to Musso and Frank, but I read online that 0:12:41.040 --> 0:12:43.800 it is listed as one of the thousand places to 0:12:43.840 --> 0:12:47.160 see before you die. Those lists are always dangerous, Danny, 0:12:47.160 --> 0:12:49.720 because when you get a list, what if you get 0:12:49.800 --> 0:12:53.680 everything on the list, then you're ready to die kill ourselves. 0:12:56.080 --> 0:12:57.959 The only complaint I would have at Musso and Frank 0:12:58.040 --> 0:12:59.960 is that everything is like kind of o la carte. 0:13:00.440 --> 0:13:03.559 You get a meal if you want the fetichini alfredo, 0:13:03.760 --> 0:13:07.520 and you want a side of something else, like potatoes. 0:13:08.040 --> 0:13:14.360 Everything is ola carte. And I was thinking about pulling 0:13:14.360 --> 0:13:17.720 a Mallor there, Danny, where I would just like storm out, 0:13:17.720 --> 0:13:19.480 but I actually my wife wanted to eat there, so 0:13:19.520 --> 0:13:21.720 we stayed. But I almost pulled a Mallor and just 0:13:21.760 --> 0:13:24.160 like walked out. I'll walk out if they don't have 0:13:24.240 --> 0:13:27.120 chips at a Mexican restaurant, or they don't provide free 0:13:27.160 --> 0:13:30.200 bread at an Italian restaurant. They did provide this an 0:13:30.200 --> 0:13:33.200 Italian restaurant, Musso. In fact, they didn't provide the bread, 0:13:33.280 --> 0:13:33.960 so I stayed. 0:13:34.480 --> 0:13:36.120 I did, in fact pull a Mallard. 0:13:36.440 --> 0:13:42.480 Now on yesterday's podcast, we talked about your DMV adventures. Yeah, well, 0:13:42.640 --> 0:13:45.920 I also went to a website thinking I'm not going 0:13:46.000 --> 0:13:48.960 to drive over there in person to get an official 0:13:49.080 --> 0:13:52.079 document from the State of California. I'm just going to 0:13:52.160 --> 0:13:57.199 do it online. Coming up is the annual Bass Lake 0:13:57.440 --> 0:14:00.839 Fishing Derby talked about this on the PO podcast before 0:14:00.920 --> 0:14:04.400 Where go there and meet up with my pops and 0:14:04.400 --> 0:14:09.640 my older brother and don't catch anything, but pay lots 0:14:09.640 --> 0:14:13.280 of money to participate. So we have it down to 0:14:13.280 --> 0:14:17.080 a science now, Ben everybody needs their one day fishing license, 0:14:17.640 --> 0:14:19.440 but not all of us are going to pay that 0:14:19.480 --> 0:14:22.960 stupid registration fee because we figure if one of us 0:14:23.040 --> 0:14:26.320 is lucky enough to catch a ten thousand dollars baths, 0:14:26.760 --> 0:14:29.480 we'll just hand it over to the person who has 0:14:29.560 --> 0:14:30.920 the registration paid. 0:14:31.280 --> 0:14:33.400 Sure makes sense, yeah. 0:14:33.280 --> 0:14:35.680 And just give them a little cut of the winnings. 0:14:36.200 --> 0:14:39.800 But you do need that phishing license. So normally I 0:14:39.840 --> 0:14:42.120 go to Big five Sporting Goods, which out here on 0:14:42.160 --> 0:14:45.200 the West Coast is like one of our shops where 0:14:45.240 --> 0:14:48.920 you can get a one day sport fishing license. 0:14:49.200 --> 0:14:51.560 I did not know that. You're telling me something I. 0:14:51.520 --> 0:14:51.920 Did not know. 0:14:51.960 --> 0:14:54.680 I didn't walk in there and get a little fishing license. 0:14:54.680 --> 0:14:55.080 It's great. 0:14:55.240 --> 0:14:58.120 Yeah, it's like one of the few places here to 0:14:58.200 --> 0:15:00.840 do that. I was getting ready for for the weekend 0:15:00.960 --> 0:15:03.600 because my wife, he had mentioned to me when we 0:15:03.600 --> 0:15:06.880 were at Disneyland last weekend. She said, you know, it's 0:15:06.880 --> 0:15:09.480 good that we booked Disneyland this weekend because you're going 0:15:09.560 --> 0:15:11.360 to be gone fishing next weekend. 0:15:11.800 --> 0:15:12.880 She said that A couple. 0:15:12.680 --> 0:15:14.600 Different times, and I was like, all right, and my 0:15:14.640 --> 0:15:18.000 older brother had been bombarding me with text messages about 0:15:18.000 --> 0:15:20.840 the fishing trip. In my mind, it's like coming up, 0:15:20.880 --> 0:15:23.400 it's Saturday, It's Saturday. I got to get ready for this. 0:15:23.960 --> 0:15:27.960 I get online California's website for the Department of Fish 0:15:28.000 --> 0:15:30.920 and Wildlife. Well, I've never done this online. Let me 0:15:30.920 --> 0:15:33.600 figure it out, and I see it in all read 0:15:33.680 --> 0:15:37.800 it says all sales are final. Put in all my information. 0:15:38.480 --> 0:15:43.040 I order the one day phishing license for Saturday, which 0:15:43.040 --> 0:15:46.320 would be today, and it's twenty one bucks. I'm like, okay, whatever, 0:15:46.680 --> 0:15:50.680 I order it. I put in my credit card information. Boom, 0:15:51.040 --> 0:15:54.040 and I'm like, man, I'm ready to go. Then about 0:15:54.080 --> 0:15:56.240 an hour later, I see a text message from my 0:15:56.280 --> 0:15:59.760 older brother, May fourth right coming up in a couple 0:15:59.800 --> 0:16:00.800 of weekends. 0:16:01.160 --> 0:16:02.920 Oh no, oh, you. 0:16:03.200 --> 0:16:07.040 Got to be shitting me. Immediately, I blame my wife 0:16:07.080 --> 0:16:10.200 and I text her, why did you tell me next 0:16:10.240 --> 0:16:13.760 weekend I was gonna be gone. Yeah, yeah, the first 0:16:13.760 --> 0:16:16.400 weekend of May. And I'm like, yeah, that's not this 0:16:16.560 --> 0:16:21.520 weekend coming up. So I realized, shit, I paid this 0:16:21.640 --> 0:16:25.000 twenty one dollars to get the stupid fishing pass. 0:16:25.240 --> 0:16:25.520 Yeah. 0:16:25.640 --> 0:16:28.200 It's the wrong Saturday, idiot. 0:16:29.240 --> 0:16:32.560 Then I think back to that all red in capitals, 0:16:32.600 --> 0:16:36.000 like somebody was yelling at me on social media, Zach, 0:16:36.040 --> 0:16:38.720 I wonder if that's real, Like, can I not adjust 0:16:39.120 --> 0:16:41.760 this stupid day pass that I'm not gonna use or 0:16:41.800 --> 0:16:42.680 I haven't used. 0:16:43.400 --> 0:16:44.320 I do what most. 0:16:44.080 --> 0:16:46.440 People probably try to do if I call the phone 0:16:46.520 --> 0:16:52.200 number listed for their contact. Nice lady answers and she says, oh, yeah, 0:16:52.360 --> 0:16:56.080 we get this complaint. A lot called me sweetie. She 0:16:56.160 --> 0:16:57.680 was an older lady, and I'm like, this is not 0:16:57.720 --> 0:16:59.960 a good sign. She sounds like she's ninety. 0:17:00.040 --> 0:17:00.600 Slarting with you. 0:17:00.680 --> 0:17:05.600 Yeah, she says, sweetie, even though we're the California Department 0:17:05.600 --> 0:17:07.879 of Fishing Wildlife, can't help you. 0:17:08.520 --> 0:17:11.520 Website we use is ran by a third party. 0:17:12.320 --> 0:17:14.040 Oh no, she said. 0:17:14.080 --> 0:17:16.800 We can't even get in there and adjust anything inside 0:17:16.840 --> 0:17:17.480 that site. 0:17:17.960 --> 0:17:19.080 Ah, that sucks. 0:17:19.440 --> 0:17:22.000 So what I'm like, Oh, so I told her, Well, 0:17:22.080 --> 0:17:25.239 if you know, a game warden comes up on our 0:17:25.280 --> 0:17:28.040 boat and wants to see my pass and I show 0:17:28.040 --> 0:17:31.119 it to him, I'm guessing he wouldn't take my explanation. 0:17:31.200 --> 0:17:33.680 He would just give me a ticket. And she's like, 0:17:33.800 --> 0:17:39.080 you guessed right, So She's like, I do have one suggestion, though, 0:17:39.680 --> 0:17:43.560 and she rambled off a PO box in Sacramento. She said, 0:17:43.760 --> 0:17:47.120 print out your current license that's the wrong date. Put 0:17:47.119 --> 0:17:50.080 it in an envelope, sweetie, send it over to this 0:17:50.240 --> 0:17:54.120 Sacramento PO box, and if they're feeling nice, they might 0:17:54.240 --> 0:17:57.440 send you a refund. But you do need to repurchase 0:17:57.480 --> 0:18:02.040 another one. Do I just purchase another twenty one dollars 0:18:02.160 --> 0:18:06.199 pass and mail this thing off to Sacramento? Do I 0:18:06.320 --> 0:18:09.840 just take a chance and go live on the edge 0:18:09.960 --> 0:18:12.320 with my fishing pass that's for the wrong day. 0:18:13.160 --> 0:18:17.119 Yeah, I would not if you have a chance of 0:18:17.160 --> 0:18:19.760 actually winning the money. Yeah, you gotta. 0:18:20.320 --> 0:18:23.240 If I did pull that fish up that has money 0:18:23.240 --> 0:18:27.000 attached to it, somebody else would have to claim it regardless. 0:18:27.440 --> 0:18:29.119 All right, So it's twenty one bucks. How much is 0:18:29.160 --> 0:18:31.600 a ticket? If you got ticketed? How much is a ticket? 0:18:31.920 --> 0:18:33.000 And I don't know. 0:18:33.440 --> 0:18:35.239 You got to look that up. If you don't have 0:18:35.280 --> 0:18:40.080 a fishing license, what's the penalty? Twenty one bucks? Is like, 0:18:40.200 --> 0:18:42.400 it's not that much, but that's a meal, right. 0:18:42.520 --> 0:18:43.919 Exactly what I was thinking. 0:18:44.800 --> 0:18:47.639 I bought something on offer up the following day for 0:18:47.800 --> 0:18:50.680 thirty bucks. That kind of thing sticks in your craw 0:18:50.760 --> 0:18:53.879 because you're like, damn it, man, what I wasted the 0:18:54.000 --> 0:18:54.600 day before? 0:18:55.240 --> 0:18:58.280 Yeah? No, for sure, now you could do. I work 0:18:58.359 --> 0:19:01.040 with a guy years ago Fox Sworts Radio. I don't 0:19:01.040 --> 0:19:03.160 know what happened to him, but he would always drive 0:19:03.160 --> 0:19:06.520 in the carpool lane, and every once in a while 0:19:06.560 --> 0:19:08.720 he would get a ticket for driving in the carpooling. 0:19:09.359 --> 0:19:13.960 But he did the cost benefit analysis and he's like, well, 0:19:14.000 --> 0:19:16.520 I've only gotten two tickets, and I drive in the 0:19:16.560 --> 0:19:19.160 carpool lane every day. And I've driven in the carpoolane 0:19:19.160 --> 0:19:22.400 every day for ten years, and I've gotten two tickets. 0:19:22.480 --> 0:19:24.119 So if you look at how much I've paid in 0:19:24.240 --> 0:19:28.879 tickets and then how often I've saved time in driving 0:19:28.880 --> 0:19:32.000 in the carpoolane, it's worth it. 0:19:32.440 --> 0:19:33.760 I just googled the penalty. 0:19:34.359 --> 0:19:35.520 How much is the penalty is? 0:19:35.560 --> 0:19:38.040 If you are found guilty of fishing without a license 0:19:38.040 --> 0:19:41.240 in the state of California, the punishment is a fine 0:19:41.280 --> 0:19:45.240 of between one hundred dollars to one thousand dollars. 0:19:45.680 --> 0:19:49.600 Wow, you're gonna pay the money. You're gonna be a 0:19:49.680 --> 0:19:50.600 riverboat gambler. 0:19:50.920 --> 0:19:52.160 Literally, not sure? 0:19:52.320 --> 0:19:56.639 Man, tweet me at Danny G Radio. Let me know 0:19:56.680 --> 0:19:59.720 what you would do. I'm not sure how to deal 0:19:59.720 --> 0:20:02.439 with this. Do I just spend the twenty one and 0:20:02.520 --> 0:20:05.000 it's a forty two dollars fishing license? 0:20:05.320 --> 0:20:07.000 What a waste of money? Yeah? 0:20:07.000 --> 0:20:10.880 And the tip is also the life act is when 0:20:10.920 --> 0:20:13.240 you get a fishing license. Even though it's very convenient 0:20:13.320 --> 0:20:17.040 to go to the sporting good store, it's a third party. 0:20:17.080 --> 0:20:19.600 So the woman made it seem to me that she 0:20:19.640 --> 0:20:22.920 implied that if you went through them, she'd be able 0:20:22.920 --> 0:20:24.359 to change. 0:20:23.760 --> 0:20:26.639 She said, had I gone to Big Five like I 0:20:26.720 --> 0:20:30.320 normally too, they could have canceled the sale and made 0:20:30.359 --> 0:20:33.479 it for the right date. So I totally screwed up 0:20:33.520 --> 0:20:37.359 by trying to have convenience and trying to do it online. 0:20:37.800 --> 0:20:42.680 Gotcha, he's in complete denial. We have the idiom of 0:20:42.720 --> 0:20:45.080 the week. Are you ready for the idiom of the week? 0:20:45.520 --> 0:20:47.440 Idiom of the. 0:20:47.440 --> 0:20:49.760 Week not to be confused with idiot of the week, 0:20:49.800 --> 0:20:51.560 the idiom of the week. This was actually sent in 0:20:51.600 --> 0:20:56.160 by Scott in Northern Kentucky. He said, Hey, Ben, can 0:20:56.200 --> 0:20:58.920 you do a deep dive on brass tacks? 0:21:00.200 --> 0:21:00.800 The idiom? 0:21:01.920 --> 0:21:05.119 Get down to brass? Tax it actually? People say tax 0:21:05.160 --> 0:21:11.159 it's taxed or tax is actually the way it is, 0:21:11.200 --> 0:21:14.440 and this goes back many many years, as all these 0:21:14.440 --> 0:21:17.440 things do. There's an interesting quirk to this one, though, 0:21:18.160 --> 0:21:23.520 because tax and nails were made of metals, but tax 0:21:24.119 --> 0:21:30.680 tacks have flatheads. And there's some different versions of how 0:21:30.720 --> 0:21:35.159 this came about. Brass tax, get down to brass tax. 0:21:35.880 --> 0:21:39.399 One of my favorites that I saw was the early 0:21:39.560 --> 0:21:45.480 days of America. And there's a theory that in America, 0:21:45.520 --> 0:21:52.960 originally they used coffin tax and when President Lincoln's coffin 0:21:53.119 --> 0:21:55.880 was designed after he was assassinated at the Ford Theater, 0:21:56.520 --> 0:22:02.600 it was designed with massive silver tax thacks and it 0:22:02.680 --> 0:22:05.080 was very unique and it was decorated with the brass 0:22:05.119 --> 0:22:09.800 tax as well. And the theory is that that is 0:22:09.840 --> 0:22:16.840 where the phrase get down to brass tax came from. 0:22:17.320 --> 0:22:22.960 It's now common expression, but that version dates back to 0:22:23.000 --> 0:22:27.240 the eighteen sixties. And when you come down to brass tax, 0:22:27.320 --> 0:22:31.480 if we may be allowed, the expression, everybody is governed 0:22:31.520 --> 0:22:36.800 by selfishness, which is rather rather than confusing. A few 0:22:36.840 --> 0:22:40.720 years after that there was an article published that said 0:22:40.760 --> 0:22:42.960 coming down to brass tacks. According to the writer, it 0:22:43.080 --> 0:22:47.399 meant coming down to the serious business of death. Like 0:22:47.520 --> 0:22:52.199 President Lincoln so I like that theory. Kind of unique 0:22:52.280 --> 0:22:56.200 and why not. So we're going with that. There's other 0:22:56.280 --> 0:22:59.800