WEBVTT - Can't Kill Ben 0:00:00.960 --> 0:00:05.480 Boom. If you thought four hours a day, minutes a 0:00:05.480 --> 0:00:09.200 week was enough, I think again. He's the last remnants 0:00:09.200 --> 0:00:12.480 of the old republic, a sole fashion of fairness. He 0:00:12.560 --> 0:00:15.480 treats crackheads in the ghetto cutter the same as the 0:00:15.600 --> 0:00:19.600 rich pill poppers in the penthouse, the clearing House of 0:00:19.640 --> 0:00:23.439 hot takes break free for something special. The Fifth Hour 0:00:23.560 --> 0:00:30.400 with Ben Maller starts right now. I was just imagine 0:00:30.480 --> 0:00:34.000 a big two dog. My voice is so shot. I 0:00:34.040 --> 0:00:36.920 can't even scream the way that I normally scream. But 0:00:36.920 --> 0:00:41.240 it is the Fifth Hour with Ben Maller and Danny 0:00:41.479 --> 0:00:47.080 g Radio, back at it again on a Saturday. Yeah, 0:00:47.120 --> 0:00:50.640 I'm glad you're still alive. Yeah. Now I feel fine. 0:00:51.880 --> 0:00:58.200 The voice not feeling fine, unfortunately, And I don't know 0:00:58.240 --> 0:01:00.400 what happened, Bro, I don't know what happened, man, but 0:01:00.520 --> 0:01:03.840 it's it's all messed up anyway. Uh. The Fifth Hour, 0:01:04.040 --> 0:01:05.880 I assume you know by now, and normally does not 0:01:06.000 --> 0:01:09.800 sound my part crabby. Danny's got the great pipes and 0:01:09.959 --> 0:01:13.440 he sounds fine. Uh. And then I have the sick 0:01:13.600 --> 0:01:16.640 cold voice, which we'll get more into. I have the 0:01:17.400 --> 0:01:19.000 on this edition of the Fifth Hour. It is a 0:01:19.040 --> 0:01:23.360 spinoff of the radio show, which has heard on Fox 0:01:23.400 --> 0:01:26.479 Sports Radio Monday through Friday on the overnight. And if 0:01:26.959 --> 0:01:29.679 you're relatively new and you don't remember Danny G. Danny 0:01:29.760 --> 0:01:32.800 G was with me for many years as one of 0:01:32.840 --> 0:01:36.280 my producers, an engineer, and he came up with many 0:01:36.319 --> 0:01:40.760 of the great drops that some are still paid played today. 0:01:40.800 --> 0:01:43.920 But he put his own spin on the sound of 0:01:43.959 --> 0:01:48.400 the show. And there's that one song that you came 0:01:48.480 --> 0:01:52.400 up with that you found you didn't write, the song 0:01:53.480 --> 0:01:56.640 that we still playing. And I've had radio people asked 0:01:56.680 --> 0:01:59.960 me what the name of that song is. It's get 0:02:00.080 --> 0:02:02.440 the Weekend Started or something like that. You know that 0:02:02.520 --> 0:02:08.840 the weekend song, that the Debbie deb song Lookout Weekend. Yes, yes, 0:02:09.040 --> 0:02:11.760 that I've had multiple people say what is that song. 0:02:12.639 --> 0:02:14.840 I'm like, I don't know, and I'm like, Danny G 0:02:15.080 --> 0:02:16.280 came up with that. I don't know what the hell 0:02:16.320 --> 0:02:18.720 that is. I have no idea, but yeah, Ever since 0:02:18.800 --> 0:02:22.240 I was a little kid fourteen years old on kb 0:02:22.480 --> 0:02:25.959 d G ninety point nine FM, every Friday we would 0:02:26.000 --> 0:02:29.560 play that song and so all through my adult life, 0:02:29.880 --> 0:02:32.359 I would always use that song going into the weekend. 0:02:32.840 --> 0:02:36.920 It's a it's a great song, and I was like, 0:02:36.960 --> 0:02:38.320 I don't know what that is, and then I had 0:02:38.360 --> 0:02:40.000 to ask somebody, and then he said, yeah, and I 0:02:40.360 --> 0:02:43.160 know we've been playing it since you were we're doing it. 0:02:43.160 --> 0:02:45.720 You were the one that founded and were still playing 0:02:46.240 --> 0:02:49.920 Who knew anyway. On this edition, we've met the Holiday Blues, 0:02:50.440 --> 0:02:55.840 Hotel Bed, Nightmare, Rain of Palooza, and the debut if 0:02:55.840 --> 0:02:59.640 we have time for pop Quiz. We used to do 0:02:59.680 --> 0:03:03.280 pop Quiz back in the past, and I thought, why 0:03:03.320 --> 0:03:05.320 not bring it back? So if if we have time, 0:03:05.360 --> 0:03:12.960 but we begin Danny with Holiday Blues. And this is 0:03:13.000 --> 0:03:14.880 a reminder in life. Every once in a while in 0:03:14.960 --> 0:03:20.000 life you need a reminder. And as you know, Danny, 0:03:20.040 --> 0:03:24.200 I do not take a lot of time off. I 0:03:24.240 --> 0:03:28.320 believe in hoarding my time off and squirreling away my 0:03:28.480 --> 0:03:32.880 days off until the end of the year. And so 0:03:32.919 --> 0:03:38.280 in I did that. I I think I had missed 0:03:38.280 --> 0:03:40.960 some time at the beginning here because my father passed away, 0:03:41.000 --> 0:03:45.280 But once I came back, I was there. I was in. 0:03:46.400 --> 0:03:48.800 I think I missed maybe one or two game shows 0:03:48.840 --> 0:03:52.400 the entire year. Very good at Tendants. They don't give 0:03:52.400 --> 0:03:54.480 you a bonus for that. By the way, if you're wondering. 0:03:54.840 --> 0:03:56.400 They don't give you like an extra you know, a 0:03:56.400 --> 0:03:59.760 couple of bucks or anything that. Uh. And there's also 0:04:00.000 --> 0:04:02.760 the story I'm about to tell is a reminder that 0:04:02.800 --> 0:04:05.920 God laughs. Quote that quote, God laughs at you while 0:04:05.920 --> 0:04:10.640 you're making plans. Uh. So I had all these big 0:04:11.280 --> 0:04:15.200 plans for the end of the year. Uh. And you know, 0:04:15.240 --> 0:04:17.919 I love doing the show, and I love radio. But 0:04:19.080 --> 0:04:22.040 after a while, I get tired of hearing my own 0:04:22.120 --> 0:04:26.480 voice and I just want to go away and not 0:04:26.839 --> 0:04:30.440 talk and not have to worry about monologues and this 0:04:30.640 --> 0:04:32.440 that and the other thing, all these things. You know, 0:04:32.720 --> 0:04:35.560 we all have our own problems, whatever job you have. 0:04:37.000 --> 0:04:40.320 So my expectation, Danny, I was gonna like, we're gonna 0:04:40.360 --> 0:04:43.719 small road trip, you know, me and the wife clean 0:04:43.760 --> 0:04:45.599 out the storage. That was a big one because I 0:04:45.640 --> 0:04:48.680 still have a lot of stuff in storage from moving 0:04:49.920 --> 0:04:53.560 during the middle of So I was gonna go through storage. 0:04:54.120 --> 0:04:58.200 And I guess how much of that happened, Danny, want 0:04:58.200 --> 0:05:00.880 to take a guess how much of that happened. Judging 0:05:01.040 --> 0:05:05.680 by your voice, I'm gonna say none of it happened. Zero, 0:05:05.880 --> 0:05:09.880 That is correct. You You win, Dan. I don't know 0:05:09.920 --> 0:05:14.000 what you win. But you went to her lifetime supply 0:05:14.120 --> 0:05:17.960 of nothing that's right and tripped to nowhere. And uh, 0:05:18.279 --> 0:05:25.960 this this is not a SOB story, although it sounds. Yeah, 0:05:26.000 --> 0:05:29.320 it sounds like a sub story. So so anyway, Um, 0:05:30.000 --> 0:05:35.240 I we went to a Christmas Eve family event. I 0:05:35.680 --> 0:05:38.680 was only off the day before. Um. So we went 0:05:38.720 --> 0:05:42.640 to this Christmas evening and you know, family was there, whatever, 0:05:43.400 --> 0:05:46.040 friends of the family were showing up, you know, usual, 0:05:46.320 --> 0:05:51.520 nothing out of the ordinary. Uh. And then my wife 0:05:52.520 --> 0:05:56.360 she started feeling sick. This is on Christmas Day. So 0:05:56.400 --> 0:05:58.200 she starts feeling sick. I'm like, oh, here we go, 0:05:58.440 --> 0:06:02.680 actually gonna be sick the whole time. Uh. And then 0:06:02.839 --> 0:06:05.599 on Saturday. On on Sunday, we were doing some work 0:06:06.040 --> 0:06:09.719 trying to clean out the garage at the Mallard Manch 0:06:11.080 --> 0:06:14.880 and then I start feeling kind of a new weather. Right, 0:06:14.880 --> 0:06:18.679 I'm like, what's going on here? That whole thing. And 0:06:20.080 --> 0:06:26.839 I had the standard cold symptoms, you know, cough, some mucous, 0:06:28.279 --> 0:06:30.359 maybe a little bit of a sore throat, but not 0:06:30.400 --> 0:06:34.320 really that bad. Um. It was nothing, nothing out of 0:06:34.320 --> 0:06:38.960 the ordinary. Uh. And so but my wife's like, oh, 0:06:39.000 --> 0:06:42.560 I got a test for COVID and I'm like, no, 0:06:42.720 --> 0:06:46.000 you don't. You don't have COVID. What are you talking 0:06:46.000 --> 0:06:48.680 about that you have a cold. I've had colds like 0:06:48.720 --> 0:06:53.080 this before, there's nothing, no big deal. Um. So anyways, 0:06:53.080 --> 0:06:55.960 she's like, no, I gotta test for cold. And she 0:06:56.080 --> 0:06:59.880 happened to have a COVID test at the Mallard match. 0:07:01.160 --> 0:07:04.159 And because of her job, she goes into the police station. 0:07:04.200 --> 0:07:08.240 They have to test all the time. And because she's 0:07:08.279 --> 0:07:10.640 around people, I'm not around people, Danny at the home 0:07:10.680 --> 0:07:16.240 studio as you know, right, thank god. So anyway, the 0:07:16.320 --> 0:07:21.720 wife gets the test and I'm watching TV and uh, 0:07:21.880 --> 0:07:27.880 amazingly it comes back negative, no COVID. Great. As I 0:07:27.920 --> 0:07:30.000 was I was telling her, see, we just have the cold. 0:07:30.800 --> 0:07:34.960 It's just the cold. Uh. And anyway, a couple of 0:07:35.000 --> 0:07:38.600 days go by and we're taking like all the over 0:07:38.640 --> 0:07:43.480 the counter cold medication because my wife picked up a 0:07:43.520 --> 0:07:46.679 bunch of this stuff. Um, and so we're taking whatever, 0:07:48.200 --> 0:07:51.320 and so she starts getting sick on Saturday. I got 0:07:51.320 --> 0:07:57.080 sick on a Sunday. And then on Thursday she's like, 0:07:57.160 --> 0:07:59.120 I got a test again for COVID. I'm like, no, 0:07:59.200 --> 0:08:03.360 you don't, we already tested. You don't have the COVID. Uh, 0:08:03.400 --> 0:08:05.160 you know, what are you doing. You're wasting a test. 0:08:05.200 --> 0:08:07.120 There's no need for it. It's just a cold. I've 0:08:07.120 --> 0:08:11.280 had cold before and that's it. You've got a cold. 0:08:11.360 --> 0:08:15.560 She said, No, I need to test again. She loves 0:08:15.600 --> 0:08:19.920 these tests, these these COVID tests. So anyway, I like, whatever, 0:08:20.080 --> 0:08:23.640 it makes you feel better, you know, I go, go 0:08:23.720 --> 0:08:26.760 do your little test. So she doesn't know a test, 0:08:26.880 --> 0:08:31.000 and then all of a sudden, surprised motherfucker. Yeah it's 0:08:31.160 --> 0:08:39.439 uh knock knock at the door, and sure enough, Yeah, 0:08:39.520 --> 0:08:44.679 the COVID had arrived at the Mallard mansion. So uh, yeah, 0:08:44.720 --> 0:08:48.040 it's uh, it's COVID, but it's I gotta tell you, Danny, 0:08:48.880 --> 0:08:52.559 I you know, I I know I'm still sick and 0:08:52.600 --> 0:08:56.439 I don't sound good. I feel fine. Uh, it's all 0:08:56.480 --> 0:09:02.640 in my vocal cords. I feel much better if I know. 0:09:02.679 --> 0:09:04.520 You're not supposed to say it. But if everyone could 0:09:04.559 --> 0:09:09.200 get this COVID, I don't think it's that bad. I 0:09:09.240 --> 0:09:11.079 don't I know. Are you're not supposed to say that 0:09:11.400 --> 0:09:14.960 or uh? And I didn't bring it up. I didn't 0:09:14.960 --> 0:09:16.720 want to address that because I know a lot of 0:09:17.920 --> 0:09:20.840 our our friends in the media love to run around 0:09:21.120 --> 0:09:25.000 and say, hey, I got the COVID and make a 0:09:25.000 --> 0:09:27.440 big deal about it and tweet about and I'm not 0:09:27.720 --> 0:09:29.480 I just thought, you know, I'm not that guy. You're 0:09:29.480 --> 0:09:32.400 not that guy. I'll trust me, You're not that guy. Yeah, 0:09:32.600 --> 0:09:35.320 I'm not that guy. And I'm not looking for attention. 0:09:35.720 --> 0:09:38.640 I don't think it's that big a deal. It's an illness. 0:09:39.080 --> 0:09:44.199 Uh And for people, they'll be fine and uh. And 0:09:44.360 --> 0:09:47.160 I will say I was hoping that I would get 0:09:47.200 --> 0:09:52.480 the a symptomatic version of the COVID. Omarion is a 0:09:52.520 --> 0:09:57.240 singer and Twitter was joking when the O macron version 0:09:57.280 --> 0:09:59.079 came out. All the kids are calling it at the 0:09:59.120 --> 0:10:02.520 omarion Arian. Oh, is that what they were doing? Which 0:10:02.600 --> 0:10:07.840 is I guess it's more contagious, but the symptoms are 0:10:07.880 --> 0:10:10.320 to a lesser degree, which is what you're talking about. 0:10:10.880 --> 0:10:14.439 It is they can call it COVID, which I guess 0:10:14.440 --> 0:10:18.040 I have COVID right now. But but it's just it's 0:10:18.040 --> 0:10:21.559 gonna be a common flu eventually. Yeah. I mean it 0:10:22.040 --> 0:10:26.280 feels like every other cold I've had. Uh, it doesn't 0:10:26.720 --> 0:10:28.280 feel any different. I mean, there was a little bit 0:10:28.320 --> 0:10:32.280 of a cough that I had, um and that really 0:10:32.360 --> 0:10:36.320 led me down the garden path where every time I 0:10:36.360 --> 0:10:40.360 get a cold, it with almost without fIF I don't 0:10:40.400 --> 0:10:45.480 catch it early with the garlic, it'll destroy my voice. 0:10:45.640 --> 0:10:49.960 And and so my voice was okay the first couple 0:10:50.000 --> 0:10:52.559 of nights. I came back and did radio. But as 0:10:52.600 --> 0:10:55.760 you know, Danny doing talk radio for four hours and 0:10:55.800 --> 0:10:58.600 I I rant, I admit, I talk a lot, and 0:10:59.800 --> 0:11:04.360 I got a big mouth, and I do monologues and yeah, 0:11:04.400 --> 0:11:07.760 I mean, I just don't shut up. And it's an 0:11:07.800 --> 0:11:11.760 instrument exactly. That's what I try to tell my wife, right, 0:11:11.800 --> 0:11:13.520 I mean, you know that you know, as a fellow 0:11:13.520 --> 0:11:17.240 broadcaster that there's a certain like it's not just your 0:11:17.280 --> 0:11:20.600 regular talking voice when you're when you're talking to a microphone, 0:11:21.640 --> 0:11:24.040 and the way we use our voice, it's up and 0:11:24.200 --> 0:11:27.600 down to try to make a point. It's there's a 0:11:27.600 --> 0:11:32.199 lot of effort used by the vocal cords. For sure. 0:11:32.280 --> 0:11:35.200 When you finish an entire show, you feel like you 0:11:35.320 --> 0:11:39.800 just did a little mini concert. Yeah, exactly so. And 0:11:40.160 --> 0:11:44.520 then once you get a little illness and and you're 0:11:44.559 --> 0:11:46.520 you're kind of cough on a little bit, or you 0:11:46.640 --> 0:11:49.200 just have a lot of mucus, you need to cough 0:11:49.320 --> 0:11:53.600 up um, But I guess the my mother in law, 0:11:53.679 --> 0:11:55.959 she she did gradual. She came over because the reason 0:11:56.040 --> 0:11:57.360 one of the reasons I didn't want to everyone to 0:11:57.400 --> 0:12:00.240 know I had COVID because people freak out. Some peopill 0:12:00.280 --> 0:12:02.079 freak out and make a big deal about it. But 0:12:02.120 --> 0:12:05.000 my my mother in law, who's actually an emergency room 0:12:05.120 --> 0:12:10.760 nurse in UH in Los Angeles, she's been doing forever 0:12:11.120 --> 0:12:14.400 and she's a wonderful woman, and she came over immediately 0:12:15.000 --> 0:12:19.240 and examined us and then said, you're fine pretty much. 0:12:19.400 --> 0:12:23.520 I mean, and she's been around COVID people for obviously, 0:12:23.520 --> 0:12:27.280 for like everyone else, for the hospital business, UH, for 0:12:27.320 --> 0:12:31.200 the for the last two years, and so anyway, I 0:12:31.240 --> 0:12:34.440 can check that box and it should be good to 0:12:34.480 --> 0:12:36.840 go at someone. I think this is gonna linger around, 0:12:36.880 --> 0:12:42.560 my voice because the weekend doesn't last that long, as 0:12:42.600 --> 0:12:46.840 you know, Danny, and then it's right back to mutilating, 0:12:46.880 --> 0:12:50.560 putting your voice in the wood chipper. So I think 0:12:50.559 --> 0:12:53.520 this is gonna hang around for a little longer, hopefully 0:12:53.559 --> 0:12:56.320 gets a little stronger. I'm gonna try garlic. Back to 0:12:56.360 --> 0:13:00.800 the garlic and the honey, salt water and every other 0:13:01.040 --> 0:13:05.120 home remedy. Yeah, that I can come up with. That's 0:13:05.160 --> 0:13:10.280 the plan. Glad your ice box heart is handling the 0:13:10.360 --> 0:13:14.439 omarion variant. I don't think this will knock me out. 0:13:14.520 --> 0:13:17.440 Something will kill me, but I don't think, yeah, that 0:13:17.600 --> 0:13:19.240 this will be the thing that does me. And so 0:13:19.960 --> 0:13:23.960 the hotel bed blues. What is this all about, Danny 0:13:23.960 --> 0:13:26.400 g What what do we have here? What happened? Well? 0:13:26.400 --> 0:13:30.720 This actually has a COVID kind of um spin to 0:13:30.800 --> 0:13:35.360 it as well, because my TINDERRONI and I had plans 0:13:35.360 --> 0:13:38.679 to go to Pisamo Beach for my birthday. We were 0:13:38.720 --> 0:13:40.240 going to make a huge deal out of it was 0:13:40.280 --> 0:13:43.719 just gonna be for one night, quick getaway. I had 0:13:43.960 --> 0:13:46.720 several shifts lined up for the holiday at the network, 0:13:47.360 --> 0:13:51.720 and her son came down sick. Now he's still in school, 0:13:51.840 --> 0:13:55.080 but he's old enough to take care of himself. But 0:13:55.200 --> 0:13:57.040 we didn't want to. She didn't want to be out 0:13:57.040 --> 0:13:59.400 of town, which I understand. You know, no matter how 0:13:59.440 --> 0:14:02.440 old your kid is, you don't want to be miles 0:14:02.440 --> 0:14:05.839 and miles away when that's the you know, yeah, you 0:14:05.880 --> 0:14:09.400 don't need our Mom's not far away, right, That's the key. 0:14:09.480 --> 0:14:12.120 The greatest thing about a mom. She's never that far away, right. 0:14:12.679 --> 0:14:16.679 And it's funny because last year her son, who you know, 0:14:16.720 --> 0:14:20.040 has his first car, he drove himself to urgent care 0:14:20.120 --> 0:14:22.480 for the first time, and I swear she did a 0:14:22.560 --> 0:14:27.720 dance like a happy path. He figured it out. As 0:14:27.840 --> 0:14:30.880 parents know, one of the worst parts of being a 0:14:30.920 --> 0:14:34.520 parent is having to deal with hospitals and appointments and 0:14:34.600 --> 0:14:38.120 checkups and e er and urgent care and all that mess. 0:14:38.160 --> 0:14:42.480 So when you're finally drives himself to the hospital or 0:14:42.520 --> 0:14:45.040 the urgent care, that's a big deal. Did the kid 0:14:45.200 --> 0:14:47.440 Once the kid realized how long they have the weighted 0:14:47.520 --> 0:14:49.720 urgent care, did they call their mom? And they wait 0:14:49.720 --> 0:14:52.560 a minute, Mom, it's the there's a four hour await. 0:14:52.640 --> 0:14:55.280 What are we doing? Right? They fill out the paperwork 0:14:55.360 --> 0:14:58.120 for the first time and deal with an insurance card 0:14:58.120 --> 0:15:01.840 and all that. They're really appreciate shading their parents. So 0:15:01.880 --> 0:15:04.000 she said, you know what, I was looking around, Let's 0:15:04.000 --> 0:15:07.880 do this. Um, he took a COVID test. He's negative 0:15:08.520 --> 0:15:11.080 even though he had all the symptoms. But I still 0:15:11.120 --> 0:15:14.040 want to be nearby. I'll just get a really nice 0:15:14.040 --> 0:15:17.080 hotel in the area so that we can, you know, 0:15:17.240 --> 0:15:20.440 have a jacuzzi and a nice room and at least 0:15:20.520 --> 0:15:23.400 after I take you out for a birthday dinner, we'll 0:15:23.440 --> 0:15:27.600 have a nice private hotel room. I hear you way 0:15:27.640 --> 0:15:31.840 to go right now. You see another reason why she's 0:15:31.880 --> 0:15:35.280 a keeper. So I'm like, all right, that's totally cool. 0:15:35.800 --> 0:15:39.160 We check in at a nice local hotel. We go 0:15:39.280 --> 0:15:42.520 to our room that they she's holding the key card. 0:15:43.040 --> 0:15:47.280 We find the section of the hotel, these nice garden grounds. 0:15:47.720 --> 0:15:50.400 We walk up the stairs and she's like, oh, top 0:15:50.400 --> 0:15:53.120 of the stairs there there it is. Uses the key 0:15:53.160 --> 0:15:57.440 card opens the door, pushes the door, and it kicks 0:15:57.480 --> 0:16:00.360 back that somebody was in there and they had that 0:16:00.440 --> 0:16:04.960 top walk on. No. Yeah, so there was wow. And 0:16:05.240 --> 0:16:09.120 but the key opened the door, open the door. The 0:16:09.200 --> 0:16:12.160 girl who checked us in gave us a room that 0:16:12.320 --> 0:16:16.120 somebody had not checked out of yet. Wow. Yeah, So 0:16:16.240 --> 0:16:18.880 there was a lady in a robe on the bed 0:16:19.040 --> 0:16:23.200 staring at us through the crack in the door. Holy crap, 0:16:23.280 --> 0:16:28.160 somebody's in there. Wait, how does that happen? Seriously? So 0:16:28.320 --> 0:16:31.280 maybe they thought these people were checking out and they 0:16:31.320 --> 0:16:34.920 decided to stay an extra day. That's when you cleaned 0:16:34.920 --> 0:16:37.360 the hotel room before somebody else comes in. Isn't that 0:16:37.520 --> 0:16:41.040 normal standard operating procedure, thank you. So there was some 0:16:41.160 --> 0:16:44.640 sort of communication breakdown where the girl at the front 0:16:44.640 --> 0:16:47.120 desk thought this room was cleaned and ready to go, 0:16:47.920 --> 0:16:51.280 and in fact there was somebody in there still. Now 0:16:51.320 --> 0:16:53.920 it's really awkward because we're pulling our luggage. I mean 0:16:53.960 --> 0:16:55.920 when we had a bag each, but we're carrying our 0:16:56.000 --> 0:16:59.440 bag and a couple of grocery bags we had in 0:16:59.560 --> 0:17:01.840 the lay. You who was wearing the robe is now 0:17:01.880 --> 0:17:05.320 on the back balcony smoking a cigarette staring at us. 0:17:06.480 --> 0:17:09.439 What the hell does happened? So we go back to 0:17:09.720 --> 0:17:13.120 the front desk and the lady was like, oh my god, 0:17:13.160 --> 0:17:16.639 I'm so sorry. My TENDERRONI was like, very calm and 0:17:16.760 --> 0:17:19.639 nice about it. She was totally cool. The girl at 0:17:19.680 --> 0:17:22.640 the front desk had just dealt with a major asshole 0:17:22.680 --> 0:17:26.840 complaining about everything because my girl was cool about it all. 0:17:27.200 --> 0:17:29.159 The girl at the hotel said, you know what I'm 0:17:29.160 --> 0:17:32.080 gonna do. I'm gonna upgrade you guys to our best 0:17:32.160 --> 0:17:36.040 room to a new part of our grounds, just constructed 0:17:36.560 --> 0:17:39.600 by like a lake, a man made lake they have there. 0:17:40.200 --> 0:17:42.520 We scored. We're like, this is perfect. So we go 0:17:42.600 --> 0:17:47.040 over there, dude, brand new construction. There's this huge fireplace 0:17:47.080 --> 0:17:50.680 in the room. I mean, this is a sprawling pad 0:17:51.480 --> 0:17:54.880 and we're just in this room. It's a perfect birthday night. 0:17:55.880 --> 0:17:59.399 But then we lay down on the bed. Ben, I 0:17:59.440 --> 0:18:02.200 know you did the sleep number commercials for a did 0:18:03.240 --> 0:18:06.959 you know my Tinderoni likes a solid bed, so if 0:18:07.000 --> 0:18:09.639 she had a sleep number it might was it. The 0:18:09.720 --> 0:18:12.440 higher the number, the harder the Yeah, hundred, it goes 0:18:12.480 --> 0:18:15.000 from a hundred. I actually still have my sleep number bed. 0:18:15.080 --> 0:18:17.920 I love it. I wish they were still an advertiser 0:18:18.000 --> 0:18:19.800 because it's a great bed. But yeah, it goes from 0:18:19.800 --> 0:18:24.399 a hundred the hardest to zero. Sleeping on the floor, 0:18:24.440 --> 0:18:29.160 it would be zero. So I might be a sixty 0:18:29.320 --> 0:18:34.119 and she's probably an eighty. This bed eighties pretty high. 0:18:34.320 --> 0:18:37.159 This bed, though, Ben, this was a hundred and five. 0:18:39.320 --> 0:18:41.199 It felt like we were laying on bricks. And I 0:18:41.200 --> 0:18:43.240 don't know if it was because the room is brand 0:18:43.280 --> 0:18:46.520 new and so no one's ever slept on this mattress. 0:18:46.960 --> 0:18:49.840 But you don't think the mattress would be more comfortable 0:18:49.880 --> 0:18:52.359 in this nice hotel. So what do you do do 0:18:52.400 --> 0:18:54.639 you You've you've gotten an upgrade, so you can't like, 0:18:54.760 --> 0:18:57.200 you can't say, wait a minute, the room sucks, right, 0:18:57.280 --> 0:19:00.440 can you so your screw and and it didn't and suck. 0:19:00.720 --> 0:19:03.640 It was just the bed plus the most I mean, 0:19:03.800 --> 0:19:06.400 you're gonna spend eight hours, you know, in the bed 0:19:06.440 --> 0:19:11.000 at least, plus some other extracurricular activity. Prior to this, 0:19:11.080 --> 0:19:13.679 we had walked around the grounds and we went to 0:19:13.720 --> 0:19:16.960 the jacuzzi, so we had already had a full night. 0:19:17.520 --> 0:19:20.479 She was like maybe a half hour into trying to sleep. 0:19:21.000 --> 0:19:24.000 I told her, I said, well, we're in our area. 0:19:24.520 --> 0:19:27.040 Let's just drive home and sleep in our own bed, 0:19:27.960 --> 0:19:30.159 wake up, and then come back to our room. And 0:19:30.200 --> 0:19:32.760 that's what we did. Wait a minute, you staying at 0:19:32.800 --> 0:19:37.960 hotel and you went back to your own bed. So yeah, 0:19:38.000 --> 0:19:40.800 so we threw our clothes on, got in the car, 0:19:41.280 --> 0:19:43.960 laughed when we were in the car, and we're like, well, 0:19:43.960 --> 0:19:46.199 oh thank god we're not in Pismo Beach. We wouldn't 0:19:46.200 --> 0:19:48.439 have been able to drive to our own bed. We 0:19:48.600 --> 0:19:51.480 get to our own bed, have a wonderful night's sleep, 0:19:52.119 --> 0:19:54.840 wake up in the morning, go through the Starbucks drive through, 0:19:55.240 --> 0:19:58.320 go back to our hotel room, put the fireplace back on, 0:19:59.000 --> 0:20:02.920 enjoy the room until checkout time. But we didn't sleep there. 0:20:03.960 --> 0:20:09.439 That's that's that's hilarious. That sounds like I My wife 0:20:09.560 --> 0:20:13.240 is very conscious of the bed. She hates. She actually 0:20:13.240 --> 0:20:16.720 doesn't like the really hard bed um and so she 0:20:16.840 --> 0:20:19.240 likes this kind of in in the middle. And we were 0:20:19.280 --> 0:20:23.680 staying one time in Vegas and the bed was just 0:20:23.760 --> 0:20:28.280 a ship bed, right, It was just horrific, and we 0:20:28.400 --> 0:20:32.560 were like waking up and our backs were hurting, and 0:20:32.640 --> 0:20:34.720 we we had one more night, so we stayed in 0:20:34.840 --> 0:20:37.480 Vegas and and as I remember the story, we were 0:20:37.480 --> 0:20:41.320 gambling and then we just decided, you know, it's like 0:20:42.160 --> 0:20:44.720 maybe one o'clock in the morning, and we're like, you 0:20:44.760 --> 0:20:48.320 know what, fuck it, and we just we took off 0:20:48.760 --> 0:20:51.760 and got in the car and and we left. We 0:20:51.760 --> 0:20:55.320 we didn't come back, uh to the obviously the longer, 0:20:55.400 --> 0:20:57.520 longer drive, but we we got the heck out of it. 0:20:57.600 --> 0:21:00.399 We started cursing, you know, like all that off and 0:21:00.400 --> 0:21:04.520 then uh, we we checked out and we were gone. 0:21:04.800 --> 0:21:07.159 We've actually done that a couple of times, did that 0:21:07.240 --> 0:21:10.800 in Palm Springs at a hotel that was not The 0:21:10.840 --> 0:21:14.680 bed wasn't very good, So but I've never that's hilarious 0:21:14.760 --> 0:21:19.479 that you came back that was outstanding. Uh. And and 0:21:19.520 --> 0:21:23.600 then now, we we had a bunch of weird holiday 0:21:23.600 --> 0:21:28.760 weather in the Los Angeles there. It's it's I always say, 0:21:28.760 --> 0:21:33.320 it's like California bad weather is like a really nice 0:21:33.440 --> 0:21:37.880 day in most of the country. And I watched I'm 0:21:37.920 --> 0:21:42.240 like Mike Trout, Now I'm watching the Weather Channel a lot. Uh, 0:21:42.320 --> 0:21:46.280 and I'm looking like, holy my. My brother lives in Appleton, 0:21:46.359 --> 0:21:50.920 Wisconsin and the h and they don't get tons of snow. 0:21:50.920 --> 0:21:53.560 They're compared to other parts of Wisconsin and Minnesota. But 0:21:53.600 --> 0:21:55.600 I look at that compared to what I grew up 0:21:55.640 --> 0:21:58.840 in and what he grew up in, and I'm like, 0:21:59.040 --> 0:22:02.000 holy canal man, what is it? I mean, it's just insane. 0:22:02.040 --> 0:22:05.240 But in l A, even though they made a movie, 0:22:05.280 --> 0:22:08.880 it never rains in l A. Bullshit. Uh, it does 0:22:09.040 --> 0:22:13.679 rain occasionally. And we had a rain of Pelloza event 0:22:13.800 --> 0:22:16.920 and you got locked in. This is that correct, Danny Man? Yeah, 0:22:16.960 --> 0:22:19.600 the famous Tony Tony Tony song. It never rains in 0:22:19.640 --> 0:22:24.480 southern California. Um. Yeah, It's already hard enough to drive 0:22:24.520 --> 0:22:27.840 to the studios in Sherman Oates when I fill in 0:22:27.960 --> 0:22:32.160 producing the Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon because it's 0:22:32.240 --> 0:22:35.959 drive time. Yeah, my trick is to just go a 0:22:35.960 --> 0:22:38.959 little earlier than I need to. Their show starts at 0:22:39.000 --> 0:22:42.480 seven pm on the West Coast, so I'll usually get 0:22:42.520 --> 0:22:45.639 on the road no later than four pm to go 0:22:45.840 --> 0:22:49.280 cover that show. Well, now that it's raining, right, and 0:22:49.320 --> 0:22:53.439 I mean it's pouring cats and dogs here in southern California. 0:22:53.480 --> 0:22:56.399 You're right. People in other parts of the country kind 0:22:56.440 --> 0:22:59.200 of roll their eyes when anyone in l A talks 0:22:59.320 --> 0:23:03.560 weather about how bad it might be here. But for us, 0:23:03.960 --> 0:23:07.000 you know, seven inches of rain like it dropped on 0:23:07.200 --> 0:23:09.080 l A the last time it rain. That's a big 0:23:09.119 --> 0:23:12.919 deal for us, especially with a drought. Now, half the 0:23:13.000 --> 0:23:16.720 people don't know how to drive in bad weather. Yeah, 0:23:16.800 --> 0:23:19.359 but maybe ten miles an hour. The other half of 0:23:19.359 --> 0:23:22.960 the people drive like maniacs and act like nothing is different. 0:23:23.440 --> 0:23:26.640 So you got this weird combination on the roads which 0:23:26.720 --> 0:23:30.320 causes tons of accident. Plus, since it hardly ever rains, 0:23:30.440 --> 0:23:34.320 when it starts raining, all the oil yes comes up, 0:23:34.440 --> 0:23:38.200 and so it's like a slipping slide. Yeah, and you've 0:23:38.200 --> 0:23:41.240 got got people going ninety miles an hour on a 0:23:41.240 --> 0:23:45.080 slipping slide. What could go wrong? Yeah? Spin out City, 0:23:45.080 --> 0:23:47.840 you're right about that, because there were people who were 0:23:47.920 --> 0:23:51.400 crashed into the center divider. Cars were off the road 0:23:51.520 --> 0:23:54.640 turned in the other direction. So you're exactly right. There's 0:23:54.720 --> 0:23:57.560 so many damn cars on the freeways here that that 0:23:57.680 --> 0:24:00.040 oil is all over the place, and so when it 0:24:00.040 --> 0:24:03.159 first starts coming down, that oil loosens up and it 0:24:03.280 --> 0:24:07.480 just turns into a water slide. So I'm like, Okay, 0:24:07.480 --> 0:24:09.200 well I need to get on the road as soon 0:24:09.240 --> 0:24:11.040