WEBVTT - The Fifth Hour: Why Am I Doing Jeopardy? 0:00:00.680 --> 0:00:05.480 Kaboom. If you thought four hours a day, minutes a 0:00:05.480 --> 0:00:09.160 week was enough, I think again. He's the last remnants 0:00:09.160 --> 0:00:12.440 of the old Republic, a sole fashion of fairness. He 0:00:12.560 --> 0:00:15.480 treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the 0:00:15.600 --> 0:00:19.840 rich pill poppers in the penthouse. The Clearinghouse of Hot 0:00:19.920 --> 0:00:23.599 takes break free for something special. The Fifth Hour with 0:00:23.800 --> 0:00:33.400 Ben Maller starts right now in the air Everywhere Another 0:00:34.360 --> 0:00:39.920 Fifth Hour with Ben Mallard and Danny g Radio is 0:00:40.040 --> 0:00:47.760 upon us in the podcast Do Joe Good, Danny, Welcome Quo. 0:00:47.840 --> 0:00:50.559 I'm gonna thank Ken Levine who joined us on the 0:00:50.600 --> 0:00:54.760 Friday podcast. And I've known Ken for a long time. 0:00:54.760 --> 0:00:58.160 I had not talked to Ken in some time, Danny, 0:00:58.320 --> 0:01:01.920 and it was good to catch up. Great storyteller, as 0:01:01.920 --> 0:01:06.160 you would expect from a successful Hollywood writer that he 0:01:06.160 --> 0:01:08.959 would be able to tell a story. And Ken did 0:01:09.000 --> 0:01:12.280 not disappoint, So he was great. Yeah, it was nice 0:01:12.319 --> 0:01:15.840 to hear you laughing that much in an interview. No, 0:01:16.000 --> 0:01:18.640 because I had heard some of the stories and you know, 0:01:18.720 --> 0:01:20.399 over the year I worked with him for a while 0:01:21.160 --> 0:01:23.000 back in the you know a long time. I'm gonna 0:01:23.040 --> 0:01:26.200 date myself if I say when, but the remote story 0:01:26.200 --> 0:01:29.640 when he described the remotes that we did as a 0:01:29.720 --> 0:01:33.399 lemonade stand, that is the most perfect way to describe 0:01:34.240 --> 0:01:37.160 what that era of my career was. And you've been 0:01:37.160 --> 0:01:38.680 in radio a long time day, I'm sure you've had 0:01:38.720 --> 0:01:43.320 the same experience where you're like questioning what what decisions 0:01:43.360 --> 0:01:46.640 you made as a kid, like why why am I here? 0:01:47.480 --> 0:01:51.440 And uh and yeah. And it was even more amusing 0:01:51.480 --> 0:01:54.120 at the time because we we knew Ken was a 0:01:54.200 --> 0:01:56.960 very successful person in Hollywood. He worked on Mash and 0:01:57.520 --> 0:02:00.400 Cheers and all these big shows, and he's had a 0:02:00.480 --> 0:02:03.919 little little crappy card table in front of a tire 0:02:04.000 --> 0:02:07.600 shop in the South Bay at you know, seven in 0:02:07.640 --> 0:02:11.040 the morning on a Saturday. It was it was just outstanding. 0:02:11.160 --> 0:02:14.840 It was just great. I try to block those out, Danny, 0:02:15.520 --> 0:02:18.320 the remotes that we did because it was NonStop. Like 0:02:18.360 --> 0:02:22.200 the sales department that station was insane. Every I went 0:02:22.360 --> 0:02:25.560 on three or four remotes a week, and it was 0:02:25.600 --> 0:02:28.920 like we had Monday night football every Saturday. Those were 0:02:28.919 --> 0:02:34.600 guaranteed Monday and Saturday, usually Friday nights and sometimes Thursday. 0:02:34.880 --> 0:02:40.600 It's crazy and uh bars, we did home improvement stores 0:02:41.840 --> 0:02:45.320 anywhere that would spend a couple of bucks, they would 0:02:45.360 --> 0:02:52.480 get a remote broadcast donnut shops. Oh man, I'll never forget. 0:02:52.560 --> 0:02:55.760 As a kid, I got to do a live Monday 0:02:55.880 --> 0:03:02.720 night football broadcast from Carlos and Luigi's if Mexican, half Italian, 0:03:05.639 --> 0:03:09.080 covering all the bases, all the bas You get both 0:03:09.120 --> 0:03:12.320 the bread and the chips on the table right there 0:03:12.360 --> 0:03:16.160 waiting for it. It was at the port in Stockton, California, 0:03:16.760 --> 0:03:19.520 and I have a picture from it and I'm holding 0:03:19.560 --> 0:03:23.840 one of those brick cell phones h with two Miller 0:03:24.000 --> 0:03:29.800 light girls next to me. Great, I love it. I 0:03:29.840 --> 0:03:32.400 love it. Yeah, that was well we I did. I've 0:03:32.440 --> 0:03:34.119 told the story before, I don't have told the reason 0:03:34.240 --> 0:03:37.920 we we did remote. The one that's the most famous 0:03:37.960 --> 0:03:41.520 in the in those days was from a sports bar 0:03:42.640 --> 0:03:47.480 that was opened up behind a strip club, which I 0:03:47.560 --> 0:03:51.720 don't know is Bob's Classy Ladies still a thing. That 0:03:51.800 --> 0:03:56.200 was the name of the the location, but in the 0:03:56.240 --> 0:03:58.440 San Fernando Valley there, and they had opened up a 0:03:58.440 --> 0:04:01.680 sports bar and they wanted us to get people that 0:04:01.760 --> 0:04:06.720 come hang out watch games at the sports bar. Well 0:04:06.760 --> 0:04:09.720 know that the restaurants, see they had owned they opened 0:04:09.720 --> 0:04:12.120 a restaurant as I remember a long time ago, but 0:04:12.160 --> 0:04:15.400 they opened a restaurant behind the sports bar because it 0:04:15.720 --> 0:04:17.760 was like a restaurant sports bar thing, so you had 0:04:17.839 --> 0:04:21.480 to it's a great, great idea, So you had to 0:04:21.520 --> 0:04:27.160 walk by the ballet to get to the sports bar. 0:04:27.240 --> 0:04:29.080 And we were doing the show from the sports bar 0:04:29.160 --> 0:04:33.240 for Monday night football for a while. Genius. Yeah, And 0:04:33.920 --> 0:04:38.440 it was a good idea in theory, but in execution, uh, 0:04:38.560 --> 0:04:40.480 it was us. And the only people in there were 0:04:40.480 --> 0:04:43.040 the strippers who were on break, a bunch of hookers 0:04:43.040 --> 0:04:47.280 and cocaine trying to get away from everybody, and they 0:04:47.279 --> 0:04:50.360 realized that there's no one in the in the sports bar, 0:04:51.320 --> 0:04:53.559 and and then we were trying to for some reason, 0:04:53.680 --> 0:04:56.719 like we'll got some families to come eat have burgers 0:04:56.760 --> 0:04:59.680 at the restaurant part of it. And that's a tough 0:04:59.720 --> 0:05:02.760 sell to get, you know, your wife to take the 0:05:02.880 --> 0:05:05.719 kids past the strip club to go eat a cheeseburger. 0:05:06.120 --> 0:05:11.039 It's not that easy. But anyway, good good memories with 0:05:11.040 --> 0:05:13.960 with Ken, and I'm glad he got to tell the 0:05:13.960 --> 0:05:16.800 isotope story, which is hilarious too. That they he was 0:05:16.839 --> 0:05:19.560 doing a joke on Alburquerque and they named the damn 0:05:19.640 --> 0:05:23.520 minor league baseball team in honor, in many ways, in 0:05:23.600 --> 0:05:27.159 honor of Ken anyway, on this edition, it is the 0:05:27.240 --> 0:05:31.520 life of Mallard, the Life of Danny g And what 0:05:31.640 --> 0:05:37.560 is that. We've got time capsule, the Calie flood in 0:05:37.720 --> 0:05:43.560 the town, and back scratcher, and we're gonna combine all 0:05:43.600 --> 0:05:47.600 of these things together, and we're going to do a podcast, Danny. 0:05:47.600 --> 0:05:49.680 We're gonna We're gonna put all of these random things 0:05:49.680 --> 0:05:56.120 together and then amazingly, we will produce audio. I'm actually 0:05:56.400 --> 0:05:59.480 on the live are in theory. That's how this is 0:05:59.480 --> 0:06:02.000 gonna work. It's a house of cards situation. It could 0:06:02.080 --> 0:06:05.599 come tumbling down at any point in time. I got 0:06:05.600 --> 0:06:13.800 it all over me exactly, all right. So we begin 0:06:14.000 --> 0:06:17.720 by circling back. We had a conversation last weekend, Danny. 0:06:17.920 --> 0:06:20.200 I told you that the company had given me the 0:06:20.279 --> 0:06:25.120 dreaded phone call and mandated that I leave the home studio, 0:06:25.520 --> 0:06:27.839 which I've been working out for two years, over two years, 0:06:27.920 --> 0:06:31.560 two and a half years, and return to the main studio. Now, 0:06:31.560 --> 0:06:33.479 it's not for every show, as I said, it's a 0:06:33.520 --> 0:06:35.760 few times a week, two or three times a week, 0:06:36.560 --> 0:06:41.320 and outside of a few random shows, following Dodger playoff 0:06:41.400 --> 0:06:44.800 games and when the broadcast line went down. I have 0:06:44.960 --> 0:06:48.000 been working remotely for a while now, so I've kind 0:06:48.000 --> 0:06:50.080 of got my own routine. Now, I got everything now 0:06:50.600 --> 0:06:54.200 and H and I got a studio. I got pretty 0:06:54.200 --> 0:06:57.680 good studio here. I doubled dipped. I had done some 0:06:57.760 --> 0:07:01.799 shows in Boston remote leave for w e I, and 0:07:02.279 --> 0:07:05.680 in New Zealand, I had a weekly segment like a 0:07:05.720 --> 0:07:08.200 weekly show on Radio Sport, which is no longer that 0:07:08.240 --> 0:07:10.720 went out of business to any when COVID started. They 0:07:10.760 --> 0:07:13.080 they took advantage of COVID to pull the plug on 0:07:13.120 --> 0:07:17.800 the National Sports Network in New Zealand. Yeah, so my 0:07:17.920 --> 0:07:21.240 friend actually does a news talk who used to do 0:07:21.280 --> 0:07:24.320 sports talk. He does a news talk show. What he 0:07:24.360 --> 0:07:27.480 says is the I guess the comparison would be the 0:07:27.600 --> 0:07:30.120 number one station for news and l A is like 0:07:30.240 --> 0:07:34.400 kf I like that's their version of of CAB A 0:07:34.480 --> 0:07:37.840 huge used to anyway. UM, at that time, I spent 0:07:37.880 --> 0:07:41.640 some money. I got really decent, pretty good equipment in here, 0:07:41.680 --> 0:07:45.320 top notch equipment, and you know what what the company 0:07:45.360 --> 0:07:47.240 wants to company guess. And I actually had Jake Warner 0:07:47.320 --> 0:07:51.000 come in, our buddy Big brother Jake, and he helped 0:07:51.040 --> 0:07:53.920 fine tune the podcast part if you if you're listening 0:07:53.920 --> 0:07:56.680 to this podcast, and actually some of the stuff I've done, 0:07:56.680 --> 0:07:59.280 like Benny versus the Penny, before Jake came over, it 0:07:59.320 --> 0:08:03.280 was all stadty he and it was terrible, horrible. I 0:08:03.440 --> 0:08:07.360 maintain that the equipment I have in the home studio, 0:08:07.440 --> 0:08:11.200 which I'm broadcasting from right now, is better than the 0:08:11.240 --> 0:08:17.040 equipment there because it's newer. So I'm going with that. 0:08:17.920 --> 0:08:21.320 But I returned to the brick and mortar mother ship, 0:08:21.400 --> 0:08:25.720 the Fox Sports Radio station, Sport Radio Studio, and I 0:08:25.760 --> 0:08:30.120 took the long and winding road from the north Woods 0:08:30.920 --> 0:08:37.360 to beautiful Sherman Oaks. And Okay, I hate to pause 0:08:37.480 --> 0:08:42.079 the podcast right here, but a producer's note. Right after 0:08:42.160 --> 0:08:45.600 Ben got done bragging about the awesome equipment he put 0:08:45.640 --> 0:08:48.400 in at the Mallard Mansion, did you notice how his 0:08:48.480 --> 0:08:56.959 microphone buzzed out right there Sherman Oaks. I got. I 0:08:57.120 --> 0:08:59.840 got very comfortable. I've said this is very comfortable doing 0:08:59.840 --> 0:09:02.520 the show. I think the show has been pretty good 0:09:02.559 --> 0:09:04.959 from from where I've been working for but it is 0:09:04.960 --> 0:09:06.839 gonna take some time getting used to Danny. I'm not 0:09:06.880 --> 0:09:08.559 gonna lie to He's gonna be a little time. I'll 0:09:08.600 --> 0:09:12.880 get used to it. I will do it. Wow, But 0:09:13.160 --> 0:09:15.439 I'm hoping it's not going to impact the show too 0:09:15.520 --> 0:09:18.320 much because it is such a lump commute time I 0:09:18.320 --> 0:09:23.959 would spend watching games on the West Coast, uh and 0:09:23.960 --> 0:09:26.840 and putting notes together for the show. I I don't 0:09:26.880 --> 0:09:30.040 have that time anymore. So it's uh, which is you know? Okay, 0:09:30.040 --> 0:09:31.640 I probably spent too much time getting ready for the 0:09:31.679 --> 0:09:35.880 show anyway, many people have told me that, so we'll 0:09:35.920 --> 0:09:39.840 we'll see how that goes. But uh, you know, the equipment. 0:09:39.880 --> 0:09:43.600 I was hoping maybe some things were different anyway, So 0:09:43.760 --> 0:09:47.040 it was it was amazing that only one thing it 0:09:47.160 --> 0:09:51.920 chased out. It was like a time capsule. Danny and 0:09:52.040 --> 0:09:54.520 I've spent a lot of my life in that building. 0:09:54.720 --> 0:09:58.320 A lot of my adult life has been spent at 0:09:58.360 --> 0:10:05.040 the corner of Sepulva in Ventura. I've seen people jump 0:10:05.080 --> 0:10:10.560 off the building. I've seen car accidents, bullets flying. You know. 0:10:10.760 --> 0:10:13.920 It's craziness that that I've seen in that area. But 0:10:13.920 --> 0:10:15.440 the only one thing to change, what do you think? 0:10:15.520 --> 0:10:19.840 Danny and we did not go over this one thing 0:10:20.080 --> 0:10:23.719 I noticed in the building that change what do you 0:10:23.720 --> 0:10:28.680 think it is? Uh, there's a toaster of it. Now. No, 0:10:29.040 --> 0:10:31.679 I did not did not notice that toast. I saw 0:10:31.760 --> 0:10:36.600 the blue fridge and all that nonsense. It is kind 0:10:36.640 --> 0:10:41.440 of in that area though. It's right around that general 0:10:41.480 --> 0:10:45.880 area of the the building. D do do do do do 0:10:45.679 --> 0:10:50.480 do do do do do? Do do you? I don't 0:10:50.520 --> 0:10:53.400 know that we have the real wh Why am I doing, Jeffrey, 0:10:53.400 --> 0:10:59.880 we have the real we go. I have a sound 0:10:59.880 --> 0:11:04.960 of I have a sound effect machine and the radio. 0:11:05.080 --> 0:11:12.959 All here we go, dud, we must have an answer. Dishwasher, No, no, 0:11:13.120 --> 0:11:19.120 the dishwasher I noticed. No longer, here we go. This 0:11:19.200 --> 0:11:24.680 is very exciting. Here. No longer a women's only restroom, 0:11:25.120 --> 0:11:31.720 sexist longer. It is now men and women. For years 0:11:32.840 --> 0:11:36.000 it was there was a men's room and there was 0:11:36.400 --> 0:11:40.200 a ladies room. I didn't even know that changed. Yeah, 0:11:40.240 --> 0:11:43.800 they put they changed the sign on the door, and 0:11:43.960 --> 0:11:47.440 that was I was surprised by that they must have 0:11:47.480 --> 0:11:50.400 done that just recently, that they must have done that 0:11:50.440 --> 0:11:55.120 for Moncy. Right now, she's welcome to the family. Yes, 0:11:55.160 --> 0:11:58.160 we've now gotten rid of the bathroom. It never made 0:11:58.200 --> 0:12:00.600 any sense, though, and I'm glad this actually a good 0:12:00.640 --> 0:12:02.840 Chang and people say, what are you doing? Men's room? 0:12:02.920 --> 0:12:06.760 Women's room? But the if you break down the amount 0:12:06.800 --> 0:12:09.880 of dudes that have always worked in that building compared 0:12:09.920 --> 0:12:15.920 to women, the number of dudes is insane. Uh, it 0:12:16.120 --> 0:12:23.320 is scary. In the club business, we call that a 0:12:23.360 --> 0:12:27.600 weenie factory. I like the extended winner. Yeah, yeah, it 0:12:27.800 --> 0:12:31.319 was well. In Wisconsin they have the broad Race, a 0:12:31.400 --> 0:12:34.800 sausage race. Right, that's kind of kind of what it is. 0:12:35.240 --> 0:12:38.360 But but that's the only thing I noticed that was different. 0:12:38.360 --> 0:12:40.960 Everything else in the same carpet was named the coffee 0:12:40.960 --> 0:12:45.720 stains on the wall behind the studio same it's it 0:12:45.840 --> 0:12:49.360 is a time capsule, it is, uh, And I guess 0:12:49.440 --> 0:12:52.160 we're sticking around there for a while longer, right, We'll 0:12:52.160 --> 0:12:55.679 be staying longer. So it's wild though. It's one of 0:12:55.679 --> 0:12:57.959 those things in life. I told the story. I went 0:12:58.000 --> 0:13:02.280 to Nevada a couple of months ago with a buddy 0:13:02.559 --> 0:13:06.480 and we stopped at that big mall in prim right 0:13:06.520 --> 0:13:11.920 on the California Nevada border, and it was completely gone. 0:13:11.920 --> 0:13:14.720 It was a ghost town. It's like two stars about that. 0:13:14.760 --> 0:13:19.000 Just last weekend? Was it last weekend? That was like, 0:13:19.000 --> 0:13:20.559 oh man, this is I spent a lot of time. 0:13:20.559 --> 0:13:22.520 You have great memories coming back from Vegas or going 0:13:22.559 --> 0:13:25.120 to Vegas, stopping there. And I go into the Fox 0:13:25.120 --> 0:13:29.800 Sports Radio studios and I remember how excited we all were. 0:13:30.240 --> 0:13:34.280 We were broadcasting out of the Michael Reagan studios at 0:13:34.280 --> 0:13:37.000 the Premiere Networks. Michael Reagan, the Sun, the adopted son 0:13:37.040 --> 0:13:39.520 of Ronald Reagan, had a show at the Premiere Networks. 0:13:39.600 --> 0:13:42.320 Very nice man. And we did the show out of 0:13:42.360 --> 0:13:45.480 his studio and I remember, Oh, they showed us and 0:13:45.480 --> 0:13:48.280 it was like they had the red you know, that 0:13:48.400 --> 0:13:51.400 red tape with the ball, the whole thing. It was unbelievable, 0:13:51.400 --> 0:13:56.000 the biggest thing in time. Things things get worn down 0:13:56.080 --> 0:13:59.960 and it happens. But that was the world class radios. 0:14:00.320 --> 0:14:04.640 When that place opened, it was we were the jewel, 0:14:04.920 --> 0:14:08.120 the jewel of sports radio. This isn't not the number 0:14:08.120 --> 0:14:11.640 one station anymore, is it. I'm just do change though. 0:14:12.160 --> 0:14:14.920 I'm guessing somebody opened the first typewriter. They're like, oh 0:14:14.960 --> 0:14:17.600 my god, this is the greatest thing ever, the typewriter. 0:14:17.760 --> 0:14:23.840 That was that phones. So Bill Miller, now, what did 0:14:23.880 --> 0:14:27.520 you listen to as you drove in? Well, that actually 0:14:27.560 --> 0:14:29.520 presented problem. I was in a couple of days this week. 0:14:30.440 --> 0:14:33.320 One day I actually listened to the Dodgery game What 0:14:33.480 --> 0:14:37.400 a guy, because I was they were playing the Pirates 0:14:37.440 --> 0:14:42.880 and lost the embarrassing that what a joke. I would 0:14:42.880 --> 0:14:48.080 beat everybody except the damn Pirates. That's fertilizer. Yeah, So 0:14:48.160 --> 0:14:50.400 that I listened to that. And then the second night, 0:14:51.280 --> 0:14:54.640 for some reason, the car I was driving the the 0:14:54.640 --> 0:14:58.160 the Bluetooth wasn't working, so I was like flipping around 0:14:58.200 --> 0:15:00.800 trying to listen to some music because there's no sports on. 0:15:00.920 --> 0:15:03.640 So I was listening to some music to do to 0:15:03.640 --> 0:15:06.520 to to to, trying to get my mind in the 0:15:06.600 --> 0:15:09.360 right spot there when I when I'm driving in So 0:15:09.400 --> 0:15:13.480 I had that that going on. Uh, I have a 0:15:13.520 --> 0:15:15.040 lot of time to listen to kind one thing I 0:15:15.120 --> 0:15:17.480 will say, I have more free time to listen to 0:15:17.600 --> 0:15:21.440 podcast and I feel people that feel for people to 0:15:21.440 --> 0:15:24.760 have these long commutes, which I guess I'm part of 0:15:24.760 --> 0:15:27.080 the week. I'm complaining a lot, but there are worse 0:15:27.160 --> 0:15:29.920 problems to have, although with the price of gas not many, 0:15:30.800 --> 0:15:34.160 so you know, it's it's one of those one of 0:15:34.160 --> 0:15:37.480 those deals. But it was good to see someone from 0:15:37.680 --> 0:15:43.640 some familiar faces. Alex Tisher, the vegan who's an occasional 0:15:43.680 --> 0:15:46.920 non vegan, and he had a nasty scar he fell 0:15:46.960 --> 0:15:51.440 off his ward. Yeah, I saw that. He came in 0:15:51.480 --> 0:15:55.640 over the last weekend and told this story. He uh, 0:15:55.840 --> 0:15:59.000 he was showing off the war wounds. Yeah, we've had 0:15:59.040 --> 0:16:01.480 tight shirt on the podcast, like tech a good guy. 0:16:01.600 --> 0:16:03.960 And yeah, he was telling because he spent a lot 0:16:04.040 --> 0:16:06.200 of ways on one of his arms. I think it's 0:16:06.240 --> 0:16:10.160 his his left arm. He has a sleeve tattoo. He's 0:16:10.240 --> 0:16:15.320 fully invested. And he claimed that it was kind of 0:16:15.360 --> 0:16:18.920 like one of those superhero type movie deals where time 0:16:19.000 --> 0:16:22.680 kind of slows down. He said he made the decision 0:16:22.880 --> 0:16:25.840 to screw up his right arm, not his left arm. 0:16:25.920 --> 0:16:29.560 I believe that's right. Man. The tattoo would have been 0:16:29.560 --> 0:16:35.320 destroyed because the skin flecked. Appealed back when he when 0:16:35.320 --> 0:16:37.840 he fell and I said, you probably should. You've you've 0:16:37.840 --> 0:16:40.440 got an investment. I said, you should wear a sleeve 0:16:40.520 --> 0:16:42.840 on that arm to protect I'm not a tattoo guy, 0:16:42.840 --> 0:16:45.600 but you I would think protected tattoo. And you know 0:16:45.600 --> 0:16:49.480 what he told me, Danny, He said, yeah, I wouldn't 0:16:49.480 --> 0:16:52.440 even tan is what he said. That was his lines. 0:16:53.280 --> 0:16:56.000 Then we're sleeves on both arms. Yeah, there you go. 0:16:56.200 --> 0:17:00.760 That's that's a good idea. All right. So there's a flood, Callie. 0:17:01.120 --> 0:17:03.440 Even though it doesn't rain very often in these parts, 0:17:03.840 --> 0:17:08.080 but there's a flood. Do tell, do tell. Yeah, that's 0:17:08.080 --> 0:17:11.160 why this stood out to me. So this past week 0:17:11.680 --> 0:17:16.639 was the first week of summer school. Oh, now, is 0:17:16.680 --> 0:17:19.240 it true, Danny, that nobody goes to summer school who's 0:17:19.760 --> 0:17:22.800 getting straight a's. It's only the kids that did not 0:17:22.880 --> 0:17:25.439 get good grades. Is that No, Some of the kids 0:17:25.480 --> 0:17:29.240 there are there because their parents still need some time 0:17:29.280 --> 0:17:33.840 to adjust to summer hours. Okay, so yeah, not every 0:17:33.880 --> 0:17:39.000 kid there needs help. It's half babysitting, half teaching. I 0:17:39.119 --> 0:17:41.720 was sent over to the art room to teach art, 0:17:42.440 --> 0:17:45.920 and I got to bring my own curriculum, which means 0:17:45.960 --> 0:17:47.960 I taught the kids on the first day how to 0:17:48.359 --> 0:17:52.520 how to draw and air Jordan one, we know, did 0:17:52.560 --> 0:17:55.520 you really do that? Did? Yeah? You're gonna be the 0:17:55.560 --> 0:17:58.240 coolest summer You're like? Was that they made a movie 0:17:58.280 --> 0:18:03.600 about summer school, didn't they? Mark Carman, remember coolest teacher. 0:18:03.640 --> 0:18:05.400 All the kids will be like, oh man, we had 0:18:05.440 --> 0:18:07.320 this guy and he had his I got credit and 0:18:07.400 --> 0:18:10.800 I just had to draw shoes. Yeah, there were twins 0:18:10.840 --> 0:18:13.440 in the class, and when they saw what I was 0:18:13.480 --> 0:18:15.960 going to teach them how to draw, They're like, how 0:18:16.000 --> 0:18:20.840 can you do that? And one of them he took 0:18:20.840 --> 0:18:23.480 his shoe off and he set it on his desk 0:18:23.520 --> 0:18:26.520 and he's like, I'm just gonna draw from the shoe 0:18:27.240 --> 0:18:30.879 right here on my table. That's awesome. What caused you 0:18:30.920 --> 0:18:34.680 to decide to do that? Though? The drawing of the shoe, 0:18:35.119 --> 0:18:38.760 it's it's a really lame selection normally, so I've seen 0:18:38.800 --> 0:18:43.600 teachers like teach kids how to draw panda. Pablo Sandabar 0:18:44.200 --> 0:18:48.320 play with the giant panda. It's usually a teacher teaching 0:18:48.400 --> 0:18:51.359 kids how to draw a different kind of animal every time, 0:18:55.160 --> 0:18:57.879 and I'm like, that is so boring. I'm gonna find 0:18:57.960 --> 0:19:02.800 something different. So had, you know, thirty kids all drawing 0:19:02.880 --> 0:19:07.440 and air Jordan's shoe, which was really fun. So afterwards, 0:19:07.520 --> 0:19:11.320 we go out to all the tables because it's a lunchtime. 0:19:12.000 --> 0:19:16.840 I go out there. I'm at the lunch tables with 0:19:16.880 --> 0:19:20.800 some of the other teachers and school staff and one 0:19:20.880 --> 0:19:23.360 of the kids comes up to me. He's a first grader. 0:19:24.400 --> 0:19:26.560 He sounds like he's in his twenties. The way he 0:19:26.600 --> 0:19:31.560 starts talking to me. Immediately, he introduces himself and he says, 0:19:32.200 --> 0:19:40.720 so do you watch CNN? Who what what an introduction? Yeah, 0:19:41.520 --> 0:19:44.560 his first question to me, and he's like yeah. He's like, 0:19:44.600 --> 0:19:47.880 you know, I watched the news every morning because it's 0:19:47.920 --> 0:19:50.600 important to knowe what's going on out there in the world. 0:19:50.880 --> 0:19:55.560 Oh boy, here we go. You're gonna you know, we 0:19:55.640 --> 0:19:57.160 used to teach kids with the birds and the bees, 0:19:57.200 --> 0:20:00.320 and now you're gonna have to teach them. There's India 0:20:02.040 --> 0:20:04.280 side of the aisle. You're on. Which media you get 0:20:04.320 --> 0:20:09.560 your stories from? No, I'm like nope, I said, I 0:20:09.600 --> 0:20:14.080 watched Sports Center. I'll watch some different sports shows. I said, yeah, 0:20:14.080 --> 0:20:16.320 the news is not for me. And he said, oh, 0:20:16.520 --> 0:20:20.800 you probably didn't hear about the flood then. Yeah. So 0:20:20.840 --> 0:20:24.600 he started telling me about the news he watched that morning. Yeah, 0:20:24.640 --> 0:20:29.960 there's a flood in California. Oh boy. And I said, well, 0:20:30.000 --> 0:20:32.159 I said, I know there's a flood right now in 0:20:32.320 --> 0:20:36.439 Kansas City and Brazil. And I said, I think I 0:20:36.480 --> 0:20:39.440 read about a flood in Mexico. I said, so, maybe 0:20:39.440 --> 0:20:42.240 you're thinking about one of those, because we haven't had 0:20:42.320 --> 0:20:45.120 rain here in California in a while. Yeah, it's hard 0:20:45.119 --> 0:20:48.399 to have a flood without rain. Normally those two things 0:20:48.480 --> 0:20:52.840 are connected, an expert. But normally those two things are connected. 0:20:53.640 --> 0:20:56.240 I said, I think CNN has failed you so far. 0:20:58.520 --> 0:21:02.240 He said, well, you know, uh, my dad agrees. It's 0:21:02.240 --> 0:21:04.399 good to know what's going on out there in the world. 0:21:05.200 --> 0:21:07.680 And I said, well, when you watch it tomorrow, make 0:21:07.680 --> 0:21:10.320 sure you know where in the world the news is 0:21:10.320 --> 0:21:13.080 that you're gonna talk to me about. So the next 0:21:13.160 --> 0:21:17.600 day on Tuesday, he avoided me. Oh sure, is it? Well, 0:21:17.920 --> 0:21:19.720 you don't want to talk news with me the second 0:21:19.760 --> 0:21:24.119 day of school. Yeah, it's all political, it's all He's like, 0:21:24.359 --> 0:21:26.520 that's a sports guy. I'm gonna stay away from him. No, 0:21:26.680 --> 0:21:28.840 nothing to with sports. No, no, no, no, no no, no no. 0:21:29.640 --> 0:21:31.520 What a way to wake up and watch CNN in 0:21:31.560 --> 0:21:35.600 the morning. You're in first grade, watch some damn cartoon. 0:21:36.000 --> 0:21:38.399 Be a first grader? Man, what are you doing? You 0:21:38.440 --> 0:21:40.640 can do that when you're a middle aged angry guy 0:21:40.720 --> 0:21:42.320 like everyone else. You don't need to do that when 0:21:42.359 --> 0:21:47.439 you're a kid. Man, be a kid. Jeez. So have 0:21:47.520 --> 0:21:50.040 you taught art before, Danny or is this something new 0:21:50.080 --> 0:21:52.400 to you? You've done it? No? I have? Actually, yeah, 0:21:52.600 --> 0:21:56.040 worked out of summer school before taught art before I'm 0:21:56.080 --> 0:21:57.720 sure a lot of the parents were like you, Drew 0:21:57.760 --> 0:22:02.479 Air Jordan's Hey, art is art? Right? Yeah, I may 0:22:02.600 --> 0:22:07.320 come on, it's like the old line. Anythings are even 0:22:07.320 --> 0:22:09.800 a pancake if you present it the right way. Rights, 0:22:09.840 --> 0:22:14.080 it's it's how it works. Man. How many students do 0:22:14.119 --> 0:22:18.120 you have? Ah, there were thirty in that class. And 0:22:18.160 --> 0:22:21.119 then there was some outside time for the kids to 0:22:21.240 --> 0:22:24.639 chuck water balloons at each other. Oh well, that's that's 0:22:25.440 --> 0:22:27.119 and they're allowing that. What if somebody gets hit in 0:22:27.160 --> 0:22:31.560 the eye. Oh no, So these kids came back to 0:22:31.680 --> 0:22:35.000 class just drenched. And I said, yeah, I don't think 0:22:35.040 --> 0:22:38.480 the adults really thought that one through. That's great. They 0:22:39.200 --> 0:22:41.760 like summer school. Who cares, Let's do whatever they want. 0:22:41.800 --> 0:22:43.960 It's not the it's not the regular school, you know. 0:22:44.000 --> 0:22:47.600 I don't care how awkward this is, how uncomfortable. That's 0:22:47.680 --> 0:22:53.199 that's hilarious, all right. So I have in the town. 0:22:54.000 --> 0:22:58.560 In the town, We've got that. So I made a 0:22:58.880 --> 0:23:03.680 rare and a propriate, rare and appropriate appearance on another 0:23:03.760 --> 0:23:06.800 podcast other than this podcast. Now normally I only do 0:23:06.920 --> 0:23:11.040 one podcast, this podcast three shows a week, Friday, Saturday, Sunday. 0:23:11.240 --> 0:23:15.800 Listen to them whenever you want. Um. But it is 0:23:15.920 --> 0:23:19.520 true that I was a guest of honor in the town. 0:23:20.200 --> 0:23:22.080 I was in the town, Danny, you know what that means. 0:23:22.720 --> 0:23:30.720 I don't know. Mallard Town. Yeah, Mallardton, that's a fact. Jack. Wow. 0:23:30.880 --> 0:23:34.400 They had the god of their show on the program. 0:23:34.520 --> 0:23:38.879 Oh sure, yeah, that's it. Yeah, the God of the 0:23:39.320 --> 0:23:43.399 Fellas and Lady God. Yeah reached out to me. Queen 0:23:43.480 --> 0:23:46.240 Roxanne was the one that made the initial contact and 0:23:46.960 --> 0:23:48.840 she sent me a message. Ay, we loved having the show, 0:23:48.880 --> 0:23:52.439 so we booked a date. Danny and I made my 0:23:52.600 --> 0:23:57.040 triumphant debut maiden voyage on the Mallard Town podcast. We 0:23:57.200 --> 0:24:00.520 zoomed over to the Mallard Town and have you been 0:24:00.560 --> 0:24:03.119 on this show before? Have you been on? I have not. 0:24:03.320 --> 0:24:05.639 I did get an invite though. Okay, this is a 0:24:05.720 --> 0:24:11.560 collaboration between the Ozzy Guy, Jay Scoop, Queen Roxanne, and 0:24:11.640 --> 0:24:13.639 Robbie the Mariner fan. These are big names in the 0:24:13.680 --> 0:24:17.679 Mallard militia. I never heard of him. These are some 0:24:17.720 --> 0:24:21.360 heavy hitters, especially Robbie and uh and these are these 0:24:21.359 --> 0:24:23.520 are people that are big fans and show obviously, I've 0:24:23.560 --> 0:24:29.640 met all of them except Ozzy Guy, Mike, Uh, Jay Scoop, 0:24:29.680 --> 0:24:32.239 and Robbie. The Mariner fan in Seattle, Queen Roxann came 0:24:32.240 --> 0:24:35.320 out to California at one of the minor league games 0:24:36.000 --> 0:24:39.399 we were at. Ozzy guys, I'm gonna meet him at 0:24:39.400 --> 0:24:41.720 some point. I'm sure I'll go to Australia, he'll come here. 0:24:42.160 --> 0:24:48.200 He's geographically undesirable to hang out with right now. But uh, 0:24:48.440 --> 0:24:50.040 it was. It was a good time. I had a 0:24:50.040 --> 0:24:51.920 good time. I don't think the show has aired yet, 0:24:51.960 --> 0:24:55.280 at least as of us doing this. As far as 0:24:55.280 --> 0:24:58.280 I know, we have not done that. And they asked 0:24:58.320 --> 0:25:01.080 a bunch of questions about about meat. It was all 0:25:01.119 --> 0:25:03.040