Speaker 1: Kutbooms.
Speaker 2: If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes
Speaker 2: a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants
Speaker 2: of the Old Republic, a soul fashion of fairness. He
Speaker 2: treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the
Speaker 2: rich pill poppers in the penthouse.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 2: The Clearinghouse of Hot takes break free for something special.
Speaker 2: The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now.
Speaker 1: In the air everywhere. The Fifth Hour with Ben mal
Speaker 1: That would be me saying my name and the third
Speaker 1: person and Danny g Radio. This is not the original
Speaker 1: recipe podcast that would be the overnight show during the week.
Speaker 1: This is the Extra Crispy, extra Spicy Fifth Hour podcast,
Speaker 1: only available here because we can say bad words like
Speaker 1: the word shit. We can't say the word shit on radio,
Speaker 1: but we can say the word shit here on the podcast.
Speaker 1: That's how you know it's a podcast, Danny, and not
Speaker 1: some broadcast thing on commercial radio. No no, no, no
Speaker 1: no no.
Speaker 3: This past throwback Thursday on C and R, we were
Speaker 3: talking about America's best jingles of all time. I know
Speaker 3: You're a jingle guy, I love jingle. We brought that
Speaker 3: up number one radio station jingles TV commercials all that.
Speaker 3: There was actually a national radio campaign in the late nineties.
Speaker 3: It was for corn nuts. Do you remember this. They
Speaker 3: sang bust a nut, bust a nut. And I don't
Speaker 3: think that that would be okay to play on the
Speaker 3: radio right now. I don't know how they got away
Speaker 3: with it back then.
Speaker 1: Now, if you want to have fun and totally nerd
Speaker 1: yourself out on YouTube, there's a portal you can go
Speaker 1: in that's nothing but old jingles.
Speaker 3: Oh, I love it.
Speaker 1: It is so awesome. And I always ring this up
Speaker 1: when we talk about jingles because I'm a radio nerd
Speaker 1: and we've talked about this before. Clayton Kershaw's father, Yeah,
Speaker 1: made his living composing radio jingles.
Speaker 3: He was museum. I brought that up on the show.
Speaker 3: They had not none of them knew about that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a great fun fact. Clayton Kerschel's father passed
Speaker 1: away about, you know, ten years ago, but he was
Speaker 1: a He was a composer of jingles for radio stations.
Speaker 3: And there's what you had a name shout, So did I.
Speaker 3: Right before everything went digital. We had these carts and
Speaker 3: it set our name on it. It's a jingle shout
Speaker 3: and there'd be a jingle. It was like back to
Speaker 3: back fresh jams. And then there was a donut where
Speaker 3: just the music was there with no singing, and I
Speaker 3: would hit the shout saying Danny G. And then it
Speaker 3: would say Q one O four seven or something like that.
Speaker 3: You know, it was so cool. Z one hundred in
Speaker 3: New York had a famous jingle. Most famous stations from
Speaker 3: back in the day had a jingle.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there was a period everyone did. It was a
Speaker 1: very popular form of advertising. Jingles have actually been used
Speaker 1: for how many use you think jingle has been around?
Speaker 1: Broadcasting started in the nineteen twenties, but I bet you
Speaker 1: they predate broadcast. Thing you did the McDonald's one yesterday's podcast,
Speaker 1: didn't you? Oh?
Speaker 3: Yeah? The butt up which a rapper actually wrote that one,
Speaker 3: did he?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Okay, all right?
Speaker 3: Push a t from a popular group called the.
Speaker 1: Clips Nationwide is on your side. That's kind of right.
Speaker 1: The one I quote all the time when a player
Speaker 1: gets hurt. What do I say anytime a player gets hurt?
Speaker 1: Danny G? What is my my go to line? I
Speaker 1: quote Rice Crispies, Snap Pop. That's partly because when I
Speaker 1: was a kid, I I recall though, that commercial, it's
Speaker 1: stuck in my head.
Speaker 3: Remember Arms did Lucky Charms had a famous jingle magically delicious.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, how about this one pop pop fizz fizzhe
Speaker 1: it is?
Speaker 3: Yeah, YouTube had a top ten and that was in there. Boy, Oh,
Speaker 3: kit Cat, give me a break, Give me a break.
Speaker 3: Here's the winging off a piece of that kit Cat bar.
Speaker 1: That's a good one. How about this one, I Wish
Speaker 1: I was an oscar by your wead.
Speaker 3: That's one of the og ones that lasted for years,
Speaker 3: the old school band aid jingle.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Oh, how about I don't want to grow up,
Speaker 1: I want to be a toys Yeah, that was solid, man.
Speaker 3: There's been so many over the years.
Speaker 1: We keep going, no one, no one will be listening
Speaker 1: to this party. We can keep going, will be the
Speaker 1: only ones doing. Nobody, nobody listen, you got.
Speaker 3: No man, check this out. Not only were we flooded
Speaker 3: with calls that hour, people were still calling about it
Speaker 3: on Friday afternoon and texting and tweeting about it. So
Speaker 3: this struck a nerve, a good nerve with people. Because
Speaker 3: this stuff it's proven. Obviously, it stays in our head forever.
Speaker 1: No, it's true. Listen when when I think about ice cream,
Speaker 1: I think about what would you do for a condact bar.
Speaker 3: That's a good one. Nobody brought that one up. How
Speaker 3: about here's it? How about Mentos? Mentos Nils had that go.
Speaker 3: Remember the guy in the suit, he sits down on
Speaker 3: the wet paint, gets up and they just make his
Speaker 3: whole suit striped.
Speaker 1: The fresh maker. Oh yeah, yeah, I remember, I remember that.
Speaker 1: How about the one that was an infomercial and everyone
Speaker 1: used to goof on it. I think it's in the
Speaker 1: late eighties, early nineties. Clap on, clap off, the clapper. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Guy said that these are stingers, the word for what
Speaker 3: we do, a stinger. But like when you're out playing
Speaker 3: softball in a rec league or something like that and
Speaker 3: somebody makes a great snag, you'll always hear somebody go
Speaker 3: no no, no, no, no.
Speaker 1: No, oh yes, ESPN.
Speaker 3: Yeah, play of the day. And then also with the
Speaker 3: NFL Draft coming up this week, that tone they play
Speaker 3: before every pick.
Speaker 1: Sure he's in yeah no, no, no. I'm reading a study,
Speaker 1: it says study was according to a recent study, up
Speaker 1: to ninety five up to as a weasel term, but
Speaker 1: up to ninety five percent of people who here jingles
Speaker 1: are remembered by them the most effective marketing tool. But
Speaker 1: yet at some point in our business and radio they
Speaker 1: were looked down upon as being old and dated and
Speaker 1: dusty and you can't use them. But yet there they work.
Speaker 3: I feel like they're on the comeback because there's a
Speaker 3: couple of commercials playing on our network right now where
Speaker 3: you hear a jingle and it's a new, modern product.
Speaker 3: I just don't think they're ever gonna die.
Speaker 1: Now, Well, we should have the we should have the
Speaker 1: company make like a jingle open for the podcast.
Speaker 3: That, yeah, that would be good, right, yeah.
Speaker 1: If I think we're gonna got to the mailbag tomorrow,
Speaker 1: but somebody for number one, yeah something the number one, yeah,
Speaker 1: because I'll get I don't want to do it now.
Speaker 1: But in the mailbag somebody had written in saying, are
Speaker 1: you going to change the open to the podcast? And
Speaker 1: we should if we ever do change it, I think
Speaker 1: we should go that way. I think we should find
Speaker 1: the jingle.
Speaker 3: That's idea.
Speaker 1: I think we just go big, go jingle or go home.
Speaker 1: So we had the Mallard travel logs.
Speaker 3: See Cow Go, See Cow Cow, which, by the way,
Speaker 3: as little kids, we thought it was pussy Cow, pussy Cow.
Speaker 3: These guys on the show, they're not from LA, so
Speaker 3: they had no idea what I was talking about. But
Speaker 3: my older brother was cracking up, laughing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a solid. So we had a travelog yesterday.
Speaker 1: We will continue a little bit of the travelog.
Speaker 3: Will day shot nurse style.
Speaker 1: We start out with the wedding weekend Uber And I'm
Speaker 1: not talking about like actually using Uber or any of
Speaker 1: the car writing services. I was the Uber. So we
Speaker 1: had rented a car to drive from LA to the
Speaker 1: Bay Area, and my mother in law tagged along. Now
Speaker 1: you hear horror stories about mothers in law and all that,
Speaker 1: but I get along with.
Speaker 3: My mother in law.
Speaker 1: So she's a nice woman, a little neurotic at times
Speaker 1: because he's a nurse. She was a nurse in the
Speaker 1: trauma emergency room in LA one of the worst neighborhoods
Speaker 1: in LA for her career, but she's cool. We get
Speaker 1: along well. But she was in the car with us
Speaker 1: on the ten hour drive up to Northern California and
Speaker 1: then at the hotel a bunch of the family, pretty
Speaker 1: much everyone because most of the people don't live in
Speaker 1: Northern California, so they were all staying at this hotel,
Speaker 1: people from all over the country. And in order to
Speaker 1: get to the wedding. We'll tell you about that in
Speaker 1: a second, because I know you're dying to hear about
Speaker 1: some random wedding of people you don't know. But the
Speaker 1: wedding was in the forest. Like I'd never been to
Speaker 1: a wedding in the forest. It was out in the
Speaker 1: redwood forest, which I didn't even knows possible you could
Speaker 1: do that. But there was like a ranch, which is
Speaker 1: not a ranch because it's in a forest, So I
Speaker 1: don't know what the hell you call it. Resort something.
Speaker 1: They had wedding.
Speaker 3: Yeah, in space. I've seen this before up there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I've never seen that. But anyway, in order to
Speaker 1: get to the forest, you couldn't drive out there. There
Speaker 1: wasn't room to park. It was in the middle of
Speaker 1: the forest, and so you had to go to a
Speaker 1: destination drop off at this location and they picked up
Speaker 1: a shuttle. Yes, a shuttle bus takes you out to
Speaker 1: the forest. But to get there, there's not a lot
Speaker 1: of parking. So I had.
Speaker 3: The rental car to four by four shuttle.
Speaker 1: So so Danny I was the uber I was. I
Speaker 1: drove all the aunts, my wife's family, cousins, people I
Speaker 1: don't even know who they were. I drove them to
Speaker 1: the location.
Speaker 3: I was the Uber Benny the bus driver.
Speaker 1: Let me tell you something. You know, I went all in.
Speaker 1: I went all in. You know, we have some great
Speaker 1: Uber drivers that listen to the show, the Overnight radio
Speaker 1: show and whatnot. And my move is I went out
Speaker 1: there and I offered them mints, Like a good Uber driver,
Speaker 1: what kind of music do you want? You know, whatever
Speaker 1: you need.
Speaker 3: You know, the whole thing iPhone charger.
Speaker 1: I did not have that, but I had the mints
Speaker 1: and I had the.
Speaker 3: Music mini water bottles, and so we.
Speaker 1: Drove them, drove them around and cons it would be
Speaker 1: a little awkward, but no, So that was my gig.
Speaker 1: And then we went and I parked, and then we
Speaker 1: went out to the wedding. And this is so I
Speaker 1: got in this debate with my my wife and because
Speaker 1: the wedding started, we had to be there. I think
Speaker 1: that we were there at like four o'clock. And so
Speaker 1: I'm like, okay, when when are we out on this?
Speaker 1: Like what's the outtime on this? Because we had to
Speaker 1: wait for a shuttle, and so the wife's like Okay,
Speaker 1: So it ends at ten. So I'm like, I'm I'm
Speaker 1: six hours. I'm like, and I'm explaining to my wife
Speaker 1: that in any event, like I look at these things
Speaker 1: like a Vegas show or a Broadway play. If you've
Speaker 1: ever been to a Broadway play, there nutes and there's
Speaker 1: a there's a break in the middle, right there, No
Speaker 1: more than ninety minutes. You go to a Vegas show,
Speaker 1: they're ninety minutes and there's a there's a mid season,
Speaker 1: mid act break or whatever. And so I'm like, well,
Speaker 1: why don't we just go. We'll do the wedding, will
Speaker 1: take about fifteen minutes, we'll stick around, we'll wait for
Speaker 1: the cake, and then the cake's the sign to go,
Speaker 1: and then we're out after the cake. We don't need
Speaker 1: to stay, you know. And my wife said, well, no,
Speaker 1: this is my brother's wedding. We're going to stay, and
Speaker 1: you know. But but no, it's ninety minutes, you know,
Speaker 1: and they won't even know when we're gone and all that.
Speaker 1: But yeah, so we ended up staying till the very end, Danny,
Speaker 1: the very end of this wedding. But I want you
Speaker 1: to know that I made the most of my time
Speaker 1: because I tore the floora I was. I was torn
Speaker 1: up from the floor up. I tore the dance floor up.
Speaker 1: Is what I do.
Speaker 3: I was disco Benny out there, centipede man.
Speaker 1: I figured.
Speaker 4: You know, my my wife white boy racist. Yeah, so
Speaker 4: my my wife has taken me out dancing a few times,
Speaker 4: mainly because she likes to dance. I don't, but I
Speaker 4: have a little little niece and nephew, and my niece
Speaker 4: loves to dance, right, so she wants to dance with
Speaker 4: Uncle Benny.
Speaker 1: So I'm like all right, and so my move this
Speaker 1: is my move is too because I'm a big guy.
Speaker 1: I do the dance move, and then I can pick
Speaker 1: the kids up and spin them around like they're on
Speaker 1: a ride, one of those rides at the carnival, and
Speaker 1: they every kid loves this, right, so we do the day.
Speaker 1: I pick them up and spin them by their arms around.
Speaker 3: Like that new three sixty camera they have at the
Speaker 3: Super Bowl at our stage.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, So I'm doing this, and then what do
Speaker 1: kids always you know, you have your son and all that.
Speaker 3: Do it again?
Speaker 1: Yeah, do it again? Right, I'm like and I'm like, well,
Speaker 1: on my head, I'm like sure, you know, I got it.
Speaker 1: I'm stuck. I'm prisoner until ten o'clock.
Speaker 3: You throw up your chicken.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, I did it so many times. I
Speaker 1: had to stop and I was walking like I was drunk.
Speaker 1: I couldn't even walk in a straight line. I had
Speaker 1: to put my hands on the wall. It was so bad.
Speaker 3: I was like, oh my god, you were sipping some whiskey.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And then by the by the time the night
Speaker 1: is going on. My my nephew, this this kid, Jude,
Speaker 1: this kid, he's like he's getting so sweaty. He takes
Speaker 1: his shirt off like he's a Chippindale's dancer.
Speaker 3: Down Now.
Speaker 1: It's it's why it was.
Speaker 3: It was. It was fun.
Speaker 1: It was a good time, and I actually enjoyed it.
Speaker 1: I didn't. I didn't. I made the most of my time.
Speaker 1: I figured I had to be there anyway, so might
Speaker 1: as well have a good time. Although there was one
Speaker 1: awkward moment, which my my wife says is like a
Speaker 1: Larry David type moment. There, like a Curby enthusiasm type moment.
Speaker 1: So at the the meal, most important part of the wedding,
Speaker 1: the meal, you know that you know, you give the
Speaker 1: gift and you gotta be there and you gotta get
Speaker 1: the food, and most wedding food sucks.
Speaker 3: This was okay.
Speaker 1: They had bugogi and rice for me, which was pretty good.
Speaker 1: I like bugogi. Cut that meat. They have it at
Speaker 1: Costco where I live anyway, So whatever, find eat. And
Speaker 1: as as I'm eating, I did get a bad piece
Speaker 1: of ugogie, kind of a chewy one. So I had
Speaker 1: options here, Danny, all right, I'm going to fork in
Speaker 1: the road. Do I a just keep powering through and
Speaker 1: chew the bubblegum like piece of meat which I found disgusting,
Speaker 1: and just.
Speaker 3: Go for it.
Speaker 1: Do I be spit it out into a napkin, a
Speaker 1: nice cloth napkin in front of everyone at the table
Speaker 1: who's looking at me, or see, go to the bathroom,
Speaker 1: excuse myself, and then you get rid of it in
Speaker 1: the bathroom.
Speaker 3: But you got to keep it in your mouth like
Speaker 3: a squirrel.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you gotta be like a nineteen eighties baseball player
Speaker 1: with chewing with tobacco, chewing tobacco. So I chose, see, Danny,
Speaker 1: I try. I thought that was the light thing. I
Speaker 1: thought that was the proper decorum. But here's where I got.
Speaker 1: I got totally screwed. This is great, So I'm like,
Speaker 1: I kind of mumbled to the wife, I gotta go
Speaker 1: to the bathroom. I didn't have to go to the
Speaker 1: bathroom at all, by the way, I did not have
Speaker 1: to go to the bathroom at all, and so fine.
Speaker 1: But I got up and I waddled off to the bathroom,
Speaker 1: which is up a hill by the way, and go
Speaker 1: outside on the cold, crisp night. They put a tent
Speaker 1: up in the forest to have the dinner. So I
Speaker 1: walk up to the bathroom area and I walk over.
Speaker 1: I opened the door and out comes the groom of
Speaker 1: the wedding. He had gone my brother in law to
Speaker 1: go to the bathroom, and he says, hey, Ben, good
Speaker 1: to see you like that. I I couldn't say anything
Speaker 1: because I had the water meat in my mouth, So
Speaker 1: I was a dick hell and I didn't say anything
Speaker 1: to him. It was very I felt terrible because it
Speaker 1: was in.
Speaker 3: E motion, use your hands like you're Italian.
Speaker 1: Oh so bad Dan, I mean, this is he just
Speaker 1: got married. He's like nice, He's saying hello to me,
Speaker 1: and I couldn't say anything because I had the lot
Speaker 1: of the bad meat that was the bubble gump in
Speaker 1: my mouth.
Speaker 3: And were you able to redeem yourself later.
Speaker 1: Well, I said hello to him late. I don't I
Speaker 1: think he was enjoying himself with the open bar there,
Speaker 1: so I think I don't think he cared too much.
Speaker 1: But I felt bad. I felt bad about it. I
Speaker 1: was like, oh man, but I didn't. You know, if
Speaker 1: I would have been I felt like it would have
Speaker 1: been worse, Danny, if I had started to say hey,
Speaker 1: brother in law, and then the meat starts falling out
Speaker 1: of my motion with your hands to a head nod.
Speaker 3: This has happened to me before, because I try not
Speaker 3: to do it now. But I have the little travel
Speaker 3: sized mouthwash okay, and obviously I'm not carrying a toothbrush
Speaker 3: around at work. But there's some times where, you know,
Speaker 3: after a late lunch at the studios, I want to
Speaker 3: use the mouthwash and I'll be walking to the bathroom
Speaker 3: to spit it out, and somebody will try to stop
Speaker 3: me and speak to me, give me a point at
Speaker 3: your mouth. You're they're like, what what's in your mouth?
Speaker 3: You weirdo? And fish? So it's it's it's all bad.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's uh, it's pretty pretty wild. What else did
Speaker 1: there as a couple of things that happened that I
Speaker 1: wanted to share with the class here. Uh. When we
Speaker 1: were you know, we had a day where we were
Speaker 1: kind of did some family stuff in the afternoon and evening,
Speaker 1: but in the morning time we went to the Winchester House.
Speaker 1: Have you ever been You've been to the Oh?
Speaker 3: Yeah, my. When my family moved up to the Bay,
Speaker 3: my elementary school took us on a field trip there
Speaker 3: and I was spooped out as a kid.
Speaker 1: Yeah. So the Winchester House is the first testimonial to
Speaker 1: mental illness. Uh and uh, because I I learned, you know,
Speaker 1: when I didn't really know much about it, I knew
Speaker 1: it was haunted, and I knew it was like the biggest,
Speaker 1: most ridiculous house they never stopped building. The the daughter
Speaker 1: of the Winchester gun family.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, And so she believed the ghosts of anyone
Speaker 3: killed by one of those rifles were coming back to
Speaker 3: haunt her. So she built on, kept adding on to
Speaker 3: trying to fool the ghosts into like fake hallways rooms
Speaker 3: that yeah.
Speaker 1: Like yeah. But the story that the tour guide said
Speaker 1: was the reason she did that is she because she
Speaker 1: went to like a psychic or something or a medium
Speaker 1: who told her listen, if you just keep never stop building,
Speaker 1: and that's that'll keep the spirits away. You think that
Speaker 1: person like laughed, kept laughing at the woman, listened to
Speaker 1: her or him and just kept building.
Speaker 3: Maybe that was the wife of the construction guy.
Speaker 1: Right in the well, and it was built for that.
Speaker 1: She was a very small woman, and I was walking
Speaker 1: around there. I'm a pretty tall guy. It was the
Speaker 1: stairs were not designed for people with my size shoes
Speaker 1: and stuff, but it was. It was cool, and they
Speaker 1: got rid of most of it. There's only a little
Speaker 1: bit of it left, like they tore a lot of
Speaker 1: it down.
Speaker 3: Not only that, did you notice what is surrounding that house?
Speaker 1: Now, Well, there's a movie theater on one side.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, and there's like an open air mall. There's
Speaker 3: all these office buildings, modern buildings surrounding this old, old mansion.
Speaker 3: And it's crazy because when I went as a kid,
Speaker 3: that movie theater was there, but there wasn't all the
Speaker 3: other businesses surrounding it. So talk about some property that
Speaker 3: is worth a mint. They're obviously never going to get
Speaker 3: rid of that famous mansion, but it was so weird
Speaker 3: because it feels like that house in the cartoon movie
Speaker 3: up where it's just sitting in the middle of a
Speaker 3: huge city.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it's like I hear it's like that in
Speaker 1: like Greece or Italy. I've not been to those places
Speaker 1: where you have these really like, you know, this Winchester
Speaker 1: house isn't that old in comparison, but you have some
Speaker 1: ancient ruins in Greece. It's like, isn't that the old
Speaker 1: joke about the pyramids in the Middle East? There across
Speaker 1: the way there's like a McDonald's or something. You know,
Speaker 1: it's like, yeah, it's just ridiculous. Anyway, what else did
Speaker 1: I want?
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's a Chipotle now across the street from.
Speaker 1: The exactly I think there is, you know there is
Speaker 1: there is actually, yeah, we stopped there to get some Anyway,
Speaker 1: on the way back, we we high tailed it through California,
Speaker 1: went down through the bread Basket, the flatulent zone of California.
Speaker 1: And here's another deja vu situation. So when I was
Speaker 1: driving the wedding uber one of my aunts, we drove
Speaker 1: back on on Saturday, and one of my aunts is like, hey,
Speaker 1: you we're gonna leave early because there's a big storm
Speaker 1: coming into California and they might might close the grapevine
Speaker 1: because of snow. So I recall her telling me this
Speaker 1: and I was like, I pass it on to the
Speaker 1: to the wife. I said, you know, it looks like
Speaker 1: there's gonna be some snow in the grapevine and could
Speaker 1: be problem for us. And she said, no, no, now,
Speaker 1: there's gonna be no snow. You had nothing to worry about.
Speaker 1: Everything'll be fine. She looked at the forecast light rain.
Speaker 1: So we left kind of late in the day. We
Speaker 1: had to transport some of the wedding flowers to get saved.
Speaker 1: I didn't know you could do this, Danny, but wedding flowers,
Speaker 1: there's a way you can save them forever. I don't
Speaker 1: know what they put on them.
Speaker 3: They dry them out with They spray some stuff on
Speaker 3: them and dry them.
Speaker 1: Out, something like that. Yeah, So we had to take
Speaker 1: some of the bouquet, like the bouquet and some of
Speaker 1: the other stuff. Fine, so we had to wait for that.
Speaker 1: So we take off. I demand. My one demand was
Speaker 1: we stop in Gilroy.
Speaker 3: It's the same poison your wife puts in your food later,
Speaker 3: by the.
Speaker 1: Way, So we stopped in Gilroy. I rolled down the windows,
Speaker 1: smelled the garlic. Oh so good, So amazing. Stopped at
Speaker 1: the garlic I got a garlic burger with the roasted
Speaker 1: garlic on top, and then went to the garlic. We
Speaker 1: went over to the garlic store. They have garlic stores,
Speaker 1: and then we bought some garlic products that were overpriced tremendously,
Speaker 1: and but who cares, because you're in Gilroy, so.
Speaker 3: You do it.
Speaker 1: And then we got back on the road. We're driving
Speaker 1: and we didn't stop as many times on the way back.
Speaker 1: We did stop. And I wonder if you know what
Speaker 1: this I forget the name of the place. Is this
Speaker 1: touristy trap outside Gilroy that has like a little train
Speaker 1: and they sell like fruits and oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'd never been there before.
Speaker 3: Yeah that's a cool spot.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's got a lot going on. So we stopped there.
Speaker 1: Then we proceeded to stop. Out of leaving Gilroy, we
Speaker 1: proceeded to stop. There's all these fruit stands, twenty avocados
Speaker 1: for a dollar. You like avocados, My wife's I like avocado.
Speaker 1: So we stop and then those little baby avocados, but
Speaker 1: we got them, like we got we got those little
Speaker 1: baby avocados. I like goodles of course that they have
Speaker 1: the fresh and then they tried to upsell you, well,
Speaker 1: what about strawberries, you know, strawberries afresh, and you know
Speaker 1: I don't need any strawberry, but no, no, you should
Speaker 1: get some stoubery and try up sell you. Of course,
Speaker 1: we made the mistake. The first stand we saw was
Speaker 1: twenty avocados for a dollar, and then we didn't stop
Speaker 1: at that one. So then there was another stand that
Speaker 1: said ten avocados for a dollar. So so we said we
Speaker 1: better stop at that one because we probably won't see
Speaker 1: another one, and that's the last chance.
Speaker 3: It's like when the gas price at gas station slowly
Speaker 3: starts increasing as you drive.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so we stopped and we got the ten avocados
Speaker 1: for a dollar, and then we kept driving, and then
Speaker 1: the next stand was twenty avocados for a dollar. We're like, oh,
Speaker 1: fuck you, oh man, And so that was a that
Speaker 1: was a problem. But we we stopped a couple times.
Speaker 1: Then we got back and we're driving and it was
Speaker 1: a light rain. It was a light rain, and the
Speaker 1: whole time I'm drinking, I'm drinking either water or refresher.
Speaker 1: My wife had gotten me from Starbucks for the road
Speaker 1: trip back, so I'm consistently drinking, and then so of
Speaker 1: course I had to go to the bathroom. So we
Speaker 1: had to stop to go to the bathroom, and then
Speaker 1: I'm drinking some more water. Whatever. We get to the grapevine.
Speaker 1: It's light rain, you know, light rain. Nothing, it's open.
Speaker 3: We made it.
Speaker 1: We made it up. We get into the medium part
Speaker 1: of the grape vine and it starts snowing. Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1: We're like, oh crap. And of course, I, of course
Speaker 1: at that point, Danny, I turned to my wife and
Speaker 1: I did the old I told.
Speaker 3: You, Yeah, I told you. I bet that went overwhell oh.
Speaker 1: Yeah. This is the second time in a month this
Speaker 1: has happened. We were leaving Vegas and it started snowing.
Speaker 1: Going over the hill in the California Death Valley are
Speaker 1: it started snowing, but that was a light dusting. This
Speaker 1: was full on snow. This was full Monty snow. And
Speaker 1: it snowed for about thirty minutes of Maybe I'm exaggerating.
Speaker 1: It seemed like it was thirty minutes of the drive,
Speaker 1: but it was at least fifteen minutes, maybe thirty. As
Speaker 1: we're going through the Grapevine, it goes up to four
Speaker 1: thousand the elevation I think at the highest is like
Speaker 1: four thousand feet or something like that in the Grapevine
Speaker 1: and I'm driving, people are freaking out. Half the people
Speaker 1: are driving slow. Other other people are like they're they're
Speaker 1: driving too fast. The trucks don't really know what to do.
Speaker 1: It's a big it's a big ship show. And uh
Speaker 1: and then we get through the snow. They fortunately they
Speaker 1: again they didn't close the Grapevine. I think they closed
Speaker 1: the other side actually coming from La up towards Bakersfield.
Speaker 1: But our side was fine. But then I had to
Speaker 1: go to the bathroom again because I've been drinking, so
Speaker 1: I I I had to pull over. I'm you know,
Speaker 1: I had to do what bears do in the forest,
Speaker 1: the Angela's forest, Danny. I had to hit the star
Speaker 1: got off and yeah, yeah, what's that is? That is
Speaker 1: that you go to a basket? Yeah, which was fine
Speaker 1: except again and yet it's a little one big coming
Speaker 1: because my mother in law was with us on the
Speaker 1: way back, so as I, I gotta stop, and you know,
Speaker 1: she understood. So I tried to find a little like
Speaker 1: like a tree that I kind of hide behind, you know,
Speaker 1: But it was night time.
Speaker 3: I thought you were gonna say, so you felt like
Speaker 3: you were watering something?
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was. It was nighttime. So I went to
Speaker 1: the bathroom. But the problem I had when I go
Speaker 1: to the bathroom out in the great outdoors is I'm
Speaker 1: always in a rush. Number one. I want to get
Speaker 1: it over with as quick as possible, so I don't
Speaker 1: I don't you know what, You settle into the urinald
Speaker 1: Danny and just everything gets out. But I almost never
Speaker 1: let it all get out because I'm gonna hurry and
Speaker 1: I'm worried, Oh, you're not supposed to be doing this
Speaker 1: and all that. So I went to the bathroom, got
Speaker 1: back in the car, immediately start drinking water again, right,
Speaker 1: immediately start drinking the water again. So we're driving, we're driving,
Speaker 1: we're driving. We get to where do we get to somewhere?
Speaker 1: What's the town north of Burbank off the five oh
Speaker 1: Lend or something like that. Yeah, yeah, I think we're
Speaker 1: around Sunland. So we we get to there, and I'm like,
Speaker 1: I go to the bathroom again. You know, I didn't
Speaker 1: finish everything I needed to get out. So my wife's
Speaker 1: like looking on her phone, She's like, all right, there's
Speaker 1: a Starbucks says I, all right, and so I don't might.
Speaker 1: I don't remember what town it was in. It might
Speaker 1: have been it was somewhere around there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's the home of Roberto.
Speaker 1: So stopped at the Starbucks. Get out of the car.
Speaker 1: Go this is you know, eight o'clock at night. Go
Speaker 1: to the open the Starbucks. The inside's closed. You can
Speaker 1: only do the drive through. Well, I need to take
Speaker 1: a whiz, you know. And I wait, I'm like right
Speaker 1: right against it, Danny, like I have no, I can't
Speaker 1: get back in the car. I have to go right now.
Speaker 3: That's one of the worst ceilings. What do you think
Speaker 3: I did? Then peted into a cup.
Speaker 1: No, I dumpster? No, yeah, the dumpster. No I did.
Speaker 1: I did the dumpster. Yeah. I had to do it.
Speaker 1: I had to do it. It was either that or
Speaker 1: my pants, you know, I had to do it. So yeah,
Speaker 1: right there. Anyway, So that back and we went to
Speaker 1: On the way back, we stopped at the Great l Coyote.
Speaker 1: And this is where the story is gonna end. So
Speaker 1: we stopped at El Kyote, great Mexican restaurant in Beverly
Speaker 1: in LA. Used to eat there all the time, used
Speaker 1: to live down the street on Houser down the street
Speaker 1: from there, then Parklebrea, which a big housing complex there.
Speaker 1: So went to L Coyote and for for some reason,
Speaker 1: I randomly on my phone. I was like, looking around,
Speaker 1: I have a tracking thing where with my brothers. I
Speaker 1: have brother in Wisconsin, brother in New York, and I
Speaker 1: can they can keep track of me, and I can
Speaker 1: keep track of them, and in case we ever die,
Speaker 1: they can find us. And so I at least find
Speaker 1: our phones. And so I looked at my phone. I
Speaker 1: was like, well, holy crap. My older brother, the one
Speaker 1: from New York, is in LA and he's like literally
Speaker 1: across the street from the restaurant. I'm at, what are
Speaker 1: the odds? What are the odds? And so I start text.
Speaker 1: I called him. He didn't answer his phone. I text
Speaker 1: him like, hey, I need I need to see I
Speaker 1: think you're here.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 1: He didn't write stalker. Yeah, he didn't write back. So
Speaker 1: then I text my sister in law, his wife, and
Speaker 1: I'm like, hey, we're leaving the restaurant here, but it
Speaker 1: looks like you're like literally right across the street. I
Speaker 1: would like to see say.
Speaker 3: Hello before leaving in your car right now?
Speaker 1: Yeah? And uh and then they finally saw it. And
Speaker 1: then my brother actually Jay walked across the street to
Speaker 1: come say hello to us at the at the restaurant
Speaker 1: we were at, and his father in law, who's a
Speaker 1: very very successful, well known doctor, was it was his
Speaker 1: birthday and he was having a big birthday dinner at
Speaker 1: the rest There's an Italian restaurant across the street. Its
Speaker 1: apparently really good. They never been there, but it's supposed
Speaker 1: to be really good, and so they were having a
Speaker 1: big dinner there at the restaurant. So that was cool.
Speaker 1: I mean, it was a very odd It was like
Speaker 1: brotherly love right in the middle. I did not have
Speaker 1: that on my Bingo card that I would because we
Speaker 1: could have gone to any restaurant. We were debating which
Speaker 1: restaurant to go to. It wasn't like we went to
Speaker 1: El Coyote, this place, which I liked, but we were
Speaker 1: debating go to Fat sALS or some other restaurant which
Speaker 1: we normally normally go to.
Speaker 3: So, yeah, it's really crazy when things like that happened.
Speaker 1: I think they call called serendipity.
Speaker 3: Serendipitous for sure.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, I think we'll get out on that.
Speaker 1: Anything else, Danny, you want to commode Saturday.
Speaker 3: Well, today, after I produced this fine podcast, my wife
Speaker 3: is dragging me to Disneyland. We had one ticket that's
Speaker 3: just been sitting there as credit cause a few months
Speaker 3: back we bought a ticket for her mom speaking of
Speaker 3: in laws, and her mom was sick and couldn't join
Speaker 3: us that day. The credit's just been sitting there, So
Speaker 3: for months she's been saying, all we have to do
Speaker 3: is buy one ticket because we already have one, So
Speaker 3: we are cashing that in today. Say goodbye to the
Speaker 3: money that's in my checking account right now.
Speaker 1: That's It's Saturday at Disneyland. That is a tough one.
Speaker 3: Danny. Love the park, hate the prices.
Speaker 1: You gotta get there when they When do they open today?
Speaker 3: I don't even know. I think it's like eight am.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean you got to get there early because
Speaker 1: you can get on rides early. But if you go
Speaker 1: there like too late in the day, you're screwed.
Speaker 3: Well, she used her travel agent portal to get a
Speaker 3: really good deal on a room. Since we have an
Speaker 3: eight month old, that's the only way we could really
Speaker 3: do it. We're gonna have to take a break halfway
Speaker 3: through the day, go to the room. Change his diapers,
Speaker 3: let him like crawl around the bed without him falling
Speaker 3: off this time, and have him take a nap, and
Speaker 3: then bring them in for the evening and the fireworks
Speaker 3: and put the Drew Breese baby headphones on him.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, he'll be styling and profiling as he walks around.
Speaker 1: Everyone be look too, baby, look at the little baby
Speaker 1: and all that. All right, have you wonderful rest of
Speaker 1: your day today. We got another pod, the mail Bag,
Speaker 1: and we might even do some pop goes to culture
Speaker 1: on the Saturday Pod. But we'll see what we do.
Speaker 1: Then have a wonderful day. We'll talk to you next
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