WEBVTT - The Fifth Hour: Combination Lock'd In 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 --> 0:00:19.880 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 --> 0:00:32.600 Ben Maller starts right now in the air everywhere, back 0:00:32.680 --> 0:00:37.520 at it again. The talking does not end. A brand 0:00:38.040 --> 0:00:42.120 spanking new addition of the Fifth Hour with Ben Mallard 0:00:42.240 --> 0:00:47.239 and Danny G Radio back in the podcast Ojo. We 0:00:47.320 --> 0:00:53.560 are never boring, and occasionally we get into the ring 0:00:53.680 --> 0:00:56.639 and we try to avoid taking calls from We don't 0:00:56.640 --> 0:01:00.280 want him here, but Danny G. A new weekend is 0:01:00.400 --> 0:01:04.800 upon us. A crazy week has played out, and here 0:01:04.840 --> 0:01:09.120 we are amazing, amazing, amazing, man. This is the second 0:01:09.280 --> 0:01:12.640 end of the week where we get football. So I'm 0:01:12.680 --> 0:01:18.080 a happy person. And this is the first real exhibition weekend. 0:01:18.200 --> 0:01:20.840 Last week we just had one game, the Hall of 0:01:20.880 --> 0:01:24.440 Fame game. But now it is on like donkey kong 0:01:25.080 --> 0:01:29.360 uh this weekend. And the thing that we always say 0:01:29.360 --> 0:01:32.679 about this when you talk about exhibition games, there's only 0:01:32.760 --> 0:01:35.160 one thing that comes out of these exhibition games. And 0:01:35.280 --> 0:01:38.240 much like Donkey Kong, your some of your star players 0:01:38.240 --> 0:01:43.320 who play end up, or like your boy Matt Stafford, 0:01:43.360 --> 0:01:45.520 they never get on the field to begin with because 0:01:45.640 --> 0:01:50.480 they're hurt. Ah, they'rebellishing that he's never gonna play again. Ben. 0:01:50.800 --> 0:01:53.600 His arm is gonna be amputated. He's gonna he's gonna 0:01:53.640 --> 0:01:55.760 lose an arm, the whole thing. He's gonna have his 0:01:55.800 --> 0:01:58.200 head chopped off. It's all over now, it's all over, 0:01:58.920 --> 0:02:05.040 just ramant, unless it's not exactly We have a carpool, 0:02:05.120 --> 0:02:13.600 Benny Opening Day, cookie Monster, Backscratcher, and whatever else we 0:02:13.680 --> 0:02:16.600 decided to talk about. All right, clear your ears out, 0:02:16.680 --> 0:02:18.680 get get a cute tip, whatever you have to do, 0:02:19.120 --> 0:02:21.840 We're good to go here. Rub your eyes, wake up, 0:02:22.480 --> 0:02:24.520 put some water on your face, do what you have 0:02:24.600 --> 0:02:28.680 to do. The show must go on. So uh, this 0:02:28.800 --> 0:02:32.520 being the Saturday podcast Danny the Life of Mallard and 0:02:32.639 --> 0:02:36.880 Danny g Spectacular. This doesn't have the number one station anymore, 0:02:36.919 --> 0:02:42.239 is it. So there has been a pattern in these parts. 0:02:42.240 --> 0:02:45.679 If you've been keeping track and you listen regularly, there 0:02:45.760 --> 0:02:53.360 is a theme to these podcasts, and it involves automobile blues. 0:02:54.160 --> 0:02:57.840 Uh yeah, and it has happened again now each weekend 0:02:57.880 --> 0:03:01.799 we have exchanged stories of car related shenan against. You 0:03:01.840 --> 0:03:06.200 got an unbelievably ridiculous bill from the auto shop, Danny, 0:03:06.440 --> 0:03:09.880 last week, and you told us about that you were 0:03:10.320 --> 0:03:15.440 trying to go. Was it uphill and uphill to work? 0:03:16.240 --> 0:03:20.440 Which did not work? Yeah, so this week is no different. 0:03:20.480 --> 0:03:25.440 Now again my wife was on the way to her job. 0:03:26.240 --> 0:03:29.720 My wife far away from the north Woods, far far 0:03:29.760 --> 0:03:35.240 away from the north Woods, and uh whatever, it's the 0:03:35.280 --> 0:03:37.280 normal driver. I think you know how the story ended. 0:03:37.320 --> 0:03:42.800 The malamobile started malfunctioning, much like the trip, the romantic 0:03:42.840 --> 0:03:45.960 trip up the California coast where we got to Sherman 0:03:46.000 --> 0:03:49.760 Oaks from the north Woods and turn out the lots 0:03:50.000 --> 0:03:53.360 the parties over so the same thing, bells and whistles, 0:03:54.000 --> 0:03:59.120 lights flashing on the dashboard and it was toe on 0:03:59.240 --> 0:04:03.080 the go. I had to get towed off the freeway. 0:04:03.680 --> 0:04:05.720 So the second time we've had a tow truck in 0:04:05.720 --> 0:04:11.880 the last couple of months, which began an absolute nightmare 0:04:12.400 --> 0:04:18.200 week scheduling wise, and down to one car, Danny, and 0:04:18.800 --> 0:04:21.800 living in California, there's no real rapid transit where we live, 0:04:22.400 --> 0:04:26.280 so you gotta take the automobile or uber or whatever. 0:04:26.320 --> 0:04:28.400 And you know this, you're you're living this also, so 0:04:28.520 --> 0:04:32.960 down to one car, we decided, you know, I can 0:04:33.000 --> 0:04:37.240 work from home some of the time, so I'm okay. 0:04:37.279 --> 0:04:41.280 But this week, because of scheduling and we had some visitors. 0:04:41.279 --> 0:04:43.960 We're gonna talk about that later on in the podcast. 0:04:44.040 --> 0:04:47.240 That paid a visit and I had to be in 0:04:47.279 --> 0:04:50.120 the studio. I had to be the one wearing the 0:04:50.160 --> 0:04:53.880 clown makeup, right, I had to have had I had 0:04:53.880 --> 0:04:56.520 to put on a show, and so I had to 0:04:56.520 --> 0:04:58.200 go in the studio. My wife had to go into 0:04:58.200 --> 0:05:00.200 her job at the police station. She's a nine when 0:05:00.240 --> 0:05:04.040 one operator and so uh, I picked up a new nickname, 0:05:05.120 --> 0:05:11.120 uh car pool Benny uh and UH. I normally avoid 0:05:11.200 --> 0:05:14.160 rush hour traffic. It's one of the perks of working overnight. 0:05:14.720 --> 0:05:17.960 I don't have to deal with the monotony of bumper 0:05:18.040 --> 0:05:22.920 to bumper to bumper to bumper to bumper. But I 0:05:22.920 --> 0:05:25.320 did a couple of days this week I had to 0:05:25.360 --> 0:05:29.000 take her to work. Now, one of the days I 0:05:29.040 --> 0:05:31.720 took her to work and then I said, you know what, 0:05:31.920 --> 0:05:34.200 I'll just go to the radio station. I'll get ready 0:05:34.240 --> 0:05:37.440 for the show at the radio station, and we're allowed 0:05:37.480 --> 0:05:39.120 to do that, although there's not a lot of room 0:05:39.160 --> 0:05:42.359 anymore because they got rid of the offices and so whatever. 0:05:42.720 --> 0:05:44.839 So I went and that was all right, and then 0:05:45.960 --> 0:05:49.719 I ended up coming back to her work because she 0:05:49.800 --> 0:05:53.320 worked much longer than a radio shift. You worked twelve 0:05:53.320 --> 0:05:55.960 hour shifts at the at the nine one one desk, 0:05:56.000 --> 0:05:58.560 and so she was there way after I got done. 0:05:58.560 --> 0:06:00.760 So I hung out at the police station and I 0:06:00.800 --> 0:06:04.000 got to use the WiFi. That was That was cool. 0:06:04.240 --> 0:06:09.719 Careful what you're searching, though, but here exactly no no porn. 0:06:09.920 --> 0:06:11.840 But the other thing thing, I you go to the 0:06:11.839 --> 0:06:13.680 police station, and you always loved going there when you're 0:06:13.720 --> 0:06:16.239 not in the jail, right that that you're doing pretty 0:06:16.240 --> 0:06:17.880 good there when you're not in jail. So I was 0:06:17.920 --> 0:06:19.240 hanging out with her, which is kind of cool. It 0:06:19.320 --> 0:06:21.080 was nice to talk to the officers, and I haven't 0:06:21.080 --> 0:06:23.360 seen them that often, certainly the COVID and all that stuff. 0:06:23.400 --> 0:06:25.640 I know some of the guys, uh and women that 0:06:25.720 --> 0:06:28.039 worked there, so so that was fine. So then the 0:06:28.120 --> 0:06:31.760 next day, this ended up being two days of purgatory. 0:06:32.120 --> 0:06:34.000 What a pain in the behind now that the car 0:06:34.120 --> 0:06:38.920 has actually been repaired and toda. We We went to 0:06:39.320 --> 0:06:43.920 a local mom and pop repair shop where near where 0:06:43.920 --> 0:06:45.560 the car broke down, which happened to be near where 0:06:45.560 --> 0:06:48.520 we used to live. And unlike the DVA, you would 0:06:48.520 --> 0:06:54.920 think the dealer would have all the answers. No, they 0:06:54.920 --> 0:06:56.600 couldn't fix it. They said, we don't know what the 0:06:56.600 --> 0:06:59.440 promise this other place. Oh yeah, we know exactly what 0:06:59.520 --> 0:07:02.839 that is. Here's three things you need about a being 0:07:02.960 --> 0:07:05.920 bout a boom uh you know, strike one, strike two, 0:07:05.920 --> 0:07:08.800 strike three, year out and the car will be fixed. 0:07:09.279 --> 0:07:11.440 So that's fine. But but I had to go another 0:07:11.560 --> 0:07:15.760 day to drive the wife out to her job. And 0:07:16.400 --> 0:07:18.480 I was like, Okay, I'm gonna come back home. I'll 0:07:18.480 --> 0:07:20.880 do the show from home. Nothing to worry about here, 0:07:20.920 --> 0:07:24.679 we're good to go. So, Danny, I'm on the way 0:07:25.520 --> 0:07:31.200 to the wife's work area. I'm stuck in horrendous traffic. 0:07:31.360 --> 0:07:36.160 I'm questioning my decision making at this point, and I'm like, 0:07:36.200 --> 0:07:39.320 how do people do this? I couldn't handle this. And 0:07:40.320 --> 0:07:43.160 so I'm driving and I get a buzz on my 0:07:43.240 --> 0:07:47.200 phone and it's from one of our bosses at Fox 0:07:47.240 --> 0:07:52.600 Sports Radio saying, hey, they're doing some work on the 0:07:52.640 --> 0:07:57.120 internet and some other things at the studio, and because 0:07:57.160 --> 0:08:00.120 of that, you can't work from the home studio. You 0:08:00.200 --> 0:08:05.320 have to be in studio. Yeah, so I'm on the way. 0:08:05.360 --> 0:08:08.840 I don't mind you. If I had had my headphones 0:08:08.920 --> 0:08:11.320 and my badge to get into the office the I 0:08:11.440 --> 0:08:14.880 Heart building, the Premier building, I would have just gone 0:08:15.000 --> 0:08:18.400 to the office. But I had already put my time 0:08:18.440 --> 0:08:20.559 in in the studio. I've been there a couple of days. 0:08:20.920 --> 0:08:23.360 So I was like, all right, you know, I didn't 0:08:23.360 --> 0:08:26.000 bring anything, so I couldn't go to the studio. I 0:08:26.000 --> 0:08:28.720 didn't have my anything I needed I didn't have, so 0:08:28.800 --> 0:08:31.920 I had to go home. So then I'm like texting back, 0:08:31.960 --> 0:08:34.480 I'm like, well, are you really sure there's there's nothing. 0:08:34.600 --> 0:08:39.160 We could we work on a compromise. So then uh, 0:08:39.360 --> 0:08:41.679 Scott was like, well, you know, if you can't make it, 0:08:41.760 --> 0:08:43.800 we'll get somebody to fill in. And I don't know. 0:08:43.880 --> 0:08:46.880 I didn't want didn't want that. I wanted to do 0:08:46.920 --> 0:08:50.720 the show, and so I dropped my wife off after 0:08:50.760 --> 0:08:55.240 spending ninety minutes in traffic, I then spent another hour 0:08:55.559 --> 0:08:58.280 in twenty minutes in traffic. So now I'm out to 0:08:59.200 --> 0:09:01.960 We had two hours in fifty minutes in traffic, and 0:09:02.000 --> 0:09:04.480 I've gotten nowhere. I've gone back to where I need 0:09:04.480 --> 0:09:07.839 to be. So then I've got a scramble because, as 0:09:07.880 --> 0:09:11.680 you know, Danny, I'm a very methodical preparer for the show. 0:09:11.800 --> 0:09:16.600 I I have a certain cadence that I followed ready 0:09:16.640 --> 0:09:20.640 for a radio show. And exactly I'm a creature of habit. 0:09:20.679 --> 0:09:24.920 That's what I was looking for. So completely just uh 0:09:25.200 --> 0:09:29.320 waylaid my entire schedule. And these are first world problems 0:09:29.360 --> 0:09:33.240 to have. So I'm scrambling. I'm like, all right, who 0:09:33.280 --> 0:09:35.320 the you know, who the f cares? I'll just put 0:09:35.360 --> 0:09:37.640 this out there. I don't give a crap, you know whatever. 0:09:38.200 --> 0:09:40.400 I got a few opinions. I was actually I was 0:09:40.520 --> 0:09:45.079 stopped near at one point near Anaheim Stadium, the Big A. 0:09:45.160 --> 0:09:48.280 I could look into the Big A. The entire freeway 0:09:48.440 --> 0:09:51.640 was was stopped. There was a traffic break because of 0:09:51.640 --> 0:09:55.480 an accident on the Connector road. So this actually worked 0:09:55.480 --> 0:09:58.839 out to be a good thing because I was able 0:09:58.880 --> 0:10:02.400 to on my I own throw some I was surfing 0:10:02.440 --> 0:10:05.760 around getting some stories and I was trying like, well, 0:10:05.800 --> 0:10:07.600 what do I think about that? Is that good enough 0:10:07.640 --> 0:10:10.040 for the show, and then I saw that actually helped 0:10:10.040 --> 0:10:12.400 me out. The traffic helped me out on it as 0:10:12.400 --> 0:10:15.360 weird as that is. So you were getting a Mallard 0:10:15.400 --> 0:10:20.320 show riddle while you were stopped in traffic. Yes, yes, exactly, 0:10:21.120 --> 0:10:24.280 that's exactly what was happening, Danny. So finally, you know, 0:10:24.320 --> 0:10:26.280 I got home. I as I said, I threw some 0:10:26.320 --> 0:10:29.960 stuff together, Bella hung out with me right next to me, 0:10:30.040 --> 0:10:33.000 and then got piste. When I left, I was went 0:10:33.080 --> 0:10:35.160 home for like a couple of hours, and I had 0:10:35.160 --> 0:10:36.480 to get back in the roads. And then I spent 0:10:36.520 --> 0:10:41.360 another hour in the car to get to the studio 0:10:41.520 --> 0:10:46.280 and then the cherry on top of the Sunday. Nothing happened, 0:10:48.960 --> 0:10:54.440 nothing went down, no equipment broke, there was no WiFi issue. 0:10:55.120 --> 0:11:00.000 Everything was fine. I could have stayed at the home 0:11:00.200 --> 0:11:04.400 studio and done the work and nobody would have known 0:11:04.440 --> 0:11:09.000 any different. Now, I was so upset that I kept 0:11:09.040 --> 0:11:10.960 hitting the computer. I said, I told her, I said, 0:11:11.000 --> 0:11:12.800 this is that this thing is gonna go down. This 0:11:13.240 --> 0:11:17.800 is gonna go down. It never went down, So that 0:11:17.920 --> 0:11:21.000 was my my nightmare. And then but wait, there's more. 0:11:21.120 --> 0:11:24.520 So now at this point I'm out three hours and 0:11:24.640 --> 0:11:27.520 fifty minutes, I believe. So then I do the show 0:11:27.679 --> 0:11:30.560 and I've got to run back because I do the 0:11:30.640 --> 0:11:33.360 podcast from the home studio. I don't I can't even 0:11:33.480 --> 0:11:36.960 do it at the the studios we work out of 0:11:37.000 --> 0:11:40.319 to do the radio show. I don't know the equipments 0:11:40.720 --> 0:11:42.240 and equated and all that. I don't know how to 0:11:42.240 --> 0:11:44.640 do it. There's nobody there. So I gotta come home 0:11:44.920 --> 0:11:47.760 so now, and I gotta not that I'm upset to 0:11:47.800 --> 0:11:52.040 work with you, Danny, but another hour. So now I'm 0:11:52.120 --> 0:11:55.760 out almost five hours if my math is correct on that. 0:11:55.880 --> 0:11:59.240 I think my math is right about five hours. And 0:11:59.240 --> 0:12:03.839 and you know, just driving around, just five hours, five 0:12:03.880 --> 0:12:06.640 hours I spent driving around. Well, at least you have 0:12:06.679 --> 0:12:09.559 air conditioning and you weren't slaving away in the hot sun. 0:12:10.160 --> 0:12:12.520 That is true. Yeah, there are people that actually do 0:12:12.559 --> 0:12:16.040 real work, card labor that that is. That is much harder. 0:12:16.160 --> 0:12:21.120 But I'm used to my usual routine. And so that 0:12:21.200 --> 0:12:25.040 was that opening day, if you will, Danny. Now I'm 0:12:25.040 --> 0:12:28.040 not talking baseball opening day. I'm not even talking foot 0:12:28.080 --> 0:12:30.880 were talking about football, but this is a whole different 0:12:31.559 --> 0:12:36.240 frontier here. It very much was like an MLB opening day. 0:12:36.320 --> 0:12:40.520 You could feel the excitement in the air. The kids 0:12:40.559 --> 0:12:44.840 were back on campus, the dress codes were being enforced 0:12:44.880 --> 0:12:50.480 once again, and I was on campus very early to 0:12:50.559 --> 0:12:54.000 help open up. So this past Tuesday, we open up 0:12:54.000 --> 0:12:59.160 the campus, all the kids come trampling back on twelve 0:12:59.480 --> 0:13:03.400 hundred middle schoolers. Ben. This is like a nightmare all 0:13:03.480 --> 0:13:05.840 right now. Mind you, a lot of these are sixth 0:13:05.840 --> 0:13:09.360 graders who have never had a locker. They've never had 0:13:09.480 --> 0:13:13.760 multiple classes, they've never had to deal with running to 0:13:13.840 --> 0:13:18.000 a class with two bells going off. They've just not 0:13:18.200 --> 0:13:21.920 had this experience. So, as you can imagine, there were 0:13:22.040 --> 0:13:26.080 lots of bug eyed kids walking around at seven thirty 0:13:26.120 --> 0:13:29.400 am trying to figure out what class was what and 0:13:29.440 --> 0:13:32.800 where they were supposed to go. Mapping out the rest 0:13:32.840 --> 0:13:36.000 of the day. I had several kids walk up to 0:13:36.080 --> 0:13:40.079 me asking me to please show them how to work 0:13:40.160 --> 0:13:43.720 the master lock. And as you know, Ben, it's right 0:13:43.840 --> 0:13:47.040 right right. You go right to clare it, then land 0:13:47.080 --> 0:13:50.160 on your first number, then you go left past it 0:13:50.240 --> 0:13:53.000 to the second number, and then you go right to 0:13:53.040 --> 0:13:56.640 the third number and pull it down. And and when 0:13:56.720 --> 0:13:59.520 it's really the pressure is really on you when you 0:13:59.600 --> 0:14:01.959 got to to class because the bell is about to ring, 0:14:02.960 --> 0:14:05.520 I just want to clarify for the kids that probably 0:14:05.559 --> 0:14:07.880 are not listening to this podcast, that I, as a 0:14:07.960 --> 0:14:13.720 middle aged adult, still have trouble with the lock. I 0:14:13.720 --> 0:14:17.960 I much prefer the key lock. I cannot stand those 0:14:18.000 --> 0:14:21.160 with the code. I hate him. I hate him, and 0:14:21.200 --> 0:14:24.400 they seem like cheaper locks too. These things feel like 0:14:24.400 --> 0:14:26.840 they're gonna fall apart in your hand. But this is 0:14:26.880 --> 0:14:29.800 what the school district hands out to the kids for 0:14:30.080 --> 0:14:33.680 their locker for their books, and then for their pe 0:14:33.720 --> 0:14:37.200 locker inside the locker rooms where they change, so they 0:14:37.200 --> 0:14:40.640 have two of these to figure out. These sixth graders 0:14:40.680 --> 0:14:45.600 been They looked like they were completely lost. One of 0:14:45.640 --> 0:14:47.680 them came up to me and he's like, can you 0:14:47.720 --> 0:14:50.200 please show me how to do the lock again? So 0:14:50.280 --> 0:14:52.440 I showed it to him, had him do it in 0:14:52.480 --> 0:14:54.920 front of me. He got it. But then he looks 0:14:54.960 --> 0:14:57.160 up at me and he says, I have to do 0:14:57.240 --> 0:15:05.280 this every day. Yes Toomey, welcome. It only goes downhill 0:15:05.320 --> 0:15:07.600 from here, God bless him. Man, wait till you have 0:15:07.680 --> 0:15:11.520 to do taxes and all the other adult bullshit the 0:15:11.520 --> 0:15:15.120 rest of us have to. Yes. Yeah, So these kids 0:15:15.120 --> 0:15:18.920 are lugging around books from their first classes trying to 0:15:18.960 --> 0:15:22.240 shove them in these lockers. It was fun to watch. 0:15:22.600 --> 0:15:26.000 Of course, the seventh and eighth graders were peacocking around 0:15:26.040 --> 0:15:28.760 the campus because they've been there before, they've been in 0:15:28.760 --> 0:15:32.080 the end zone. Um, it was a great first day. 0:15:32.680 --> 0:15:35.160 And i'll tell you what, Ben, the sixth graders overall 0:15:35.720 --> 0:15:39.800 seem a lot more calm because last year's collection of 0:15:39.880 --> 0:15:43.840 sixth graders, holy crap, they were just coming off of COVID, 0:15:44.560 --> 0:15:48.200 so they were wild. They had the numb chucks and 0:15:48.280 --> 0:15:51.560 the astro blasters ready to go. Yeah, you know, they 0:15:51.600 --> 0:15:55.040 hadn't been social for a while, they hadn't been at home, 0:15:55.720 --> 0:15:58.880 and then all of a sudden, like wild animals, they 0:15:58.880 --> 0:16:02.280 were released back into the wilderness. That's what it was 0:16:02.320 --> 0:16:05.600 like last school year. The sixth graders this year will 0:16:05.600 --> 0:16:08.840 be a little more calm. Well usually, and you could 0:16:08.840 --> 0:16:10.760 speak better to me, but as I better than me. 0:16:10.800 --> 0:16:13.640 But as I remember when I was in school, it's 0:16:13.760 --> 0:16:17.640 usually you start out, you're pretty good, and then at 0:16:17.680 --> 0:16:22.280 some point certain students common deer the school, you know, 0:16:22.320 --> 0:16:26.280 they overtake it and they try to topple the whole 0:16:26.720 --> 0:16:31.600 the whole operation, and boom goes to dynamite. Good start, well, 0:16:31.600 --> 0:16:36.680 that's good. So it was a busy beginning to the week. 0:16:36.920 --> 0:16:40.280 On the radio show, I mentioned the car troubles and 0:16:41.000 --> 0:16:44.720 back in business and all that, and it's really cool 0:16:45.000 --> 0:16:47.200 that if you were listening, you heard this if you 0:16:47.280 --> 0:16:49.840 listen to the live show, but a couple of card 0:16:49.960 --> 0:16:55.640 carrying legends in the Mallar Militia in studio visits Sunday 0:16:55.720 --> 0:17:00.120 into Monday. The Great J. Scoop paid us of is 0:17:00.120 --> 0:17:04.359 it very talented musician friend of the show, and he's 0:17:04.680 --> 0:17:08.760 he's actually documented he's met more listeners from coast to 0:17:08.800 --> 0:17:11.760 coast than I have. He was the ringleader of that 0:17:11.960 --> 0:17:15.560 very famous Mallard meet and greet that we did with 0:17:15.920 --> 0:17:20.520 all the big stars, all the bizzas the Wild Factor 0:17:20.560 --> 0:17:24.480 in Seattle just before the world shut down late in 0:17:25.160 --> 0:17:30.400 nineteen it was late December, if I remember correctly, it 0:17:30.560 --> 0:17:35.760 was between Christmas and New Year's at the Mallard Meet 0:17:35.800 --> 0:17:37.920 and greet, and that was that was a special. Like 0:17:38.040 --> 0:17:40.359 we had a lot of legends, Danny, we had JJ 0:17:40.520 --> 0:17:42.680 from Renton who doesn't call the show anymore, Robbie the 0:17:42.720 --> 0:17:47.960 Mariner fan ed and Christina from Spokane. No Stradinas was there. 0:17:47.960 --> 0:17:50.480 There were so many others that I'm forgetting right now. 0:17:50.560 --> 0:17:52.920 Bad job by me. Some of our joke writers showed 0:17:53.000 --> 0:17:55.480 up there, and so it was great. I had not 0:17:55.520 --> 0:18:00.040 seen Jay Scoop since then, and he stopped by and 0:18:00.080 --> 0:18:03.159 shot the Bullpucky with us, and we hung out and 0:18:03.240 --> 0:18:05.960 chatted the night away, and I had him on for 0:18:06.000 --> 0:18:08.240 a couple of segments. He took some some phone calls, 0:18:08.840 --> 0:18:12.280 and I actually ended up giving him a lift back 0:18:12.920 --> 0:18:16.959 to his hotel room. He was staying down the street 0:18:17.359 --> 0:18:21.760 at that Marriott. You know that hotel. Yeah, I stayed 0:18:21.760 --> 0:18:25.040 there one time when I got locked out of my apartment. Oh, 0:18:25.119 --> 0:18:27.280 I stayed there one time too. I stayed there when 0:18:27.280 --> 0:18:32.040 there was Karma Geddon. What was Karma Gedding? How long ago? 0:18:32.119 --> 0:18:36.200 Is that a few Yeah, it was a few years ago. Yes, 0:18:36.280 --> 0:18:39.360 So Karma Geddon they shut down the four oh five freeway. 0:18:39.520 --> 0:18:42.000 They had to put an overpass or something like that. 0:18:42.240 --> 0:18:45.919 And our studios are right at the base of the 0:18:45.960 --> 0:18:48.199 four oh five and the one on one in l A. 0:18:48.640 --> 0:18:51.800 And so I was doing a bunch of weekend shifts. 0:18:52.320 --> 0:18:54.400 So like, we'll get your hotel room. You can't go home, 0:18:54.440 --> 0:18:57.560 you won't be able to get back. And it turned out. 0:18:57.600 --> 0:19:02.280 There wasn't hardly any traffic. People were line. But anyway, 0:19:02.280 --> 0:19:04.080 so Jay scoo, I give him right back to the hotel. 0:19:04.119 --> 0:19:08.000 He actually brought a massive box of goodies. Yeah. I 0:19:08.119 --> 0:19:09.880 passed him in the hallway. I got to meet him 0:19:09.920 --> 0:19:12.639 really quick because I was leaving my shift as you 0:19:12.680 --> 0:19:15.919 were starting yours, and he's carrying this huge box of 0:19:15.960 --> 0:19:19.480 these huge cookies. Yeah, so what's in the box? And 0:19:19.640 --> 0:19:21.560 uh and and and then you saw the box. I 0:19:21.560 --> 0:19:24.200 don't want to exaggerate and embellish the size of the box. 0:19:24.520 --> 0:19:27.119 It was about the size of the state of Wisconsin, 0:19:27.600 --> 0:19:29.800 and it was about them, and it was all kinds 0:19:29.800 --> 0:19:34.520 of flavors. You know, Cookie Monster would have been in 0:19:35.800 --> 0:19:39.280 with this box of cookies. Okay, I mean he really did. 0:19:39.400 --> 0:19:41.359 Did it great. He went above and beyond the call. 0:19:42.040 --> 0:19:45.879 And he had the traditional chocolate chip, the snickerdoodle, the 0:19:45.960 --> 0:19:49.119 peanut butter. There were some more exotic flavors. There was 0:19:49.160 --> 0:19:53.320 like a banana flavor. You're the cookie man, though, are 0:19:53.359 --> 0:19:56.280 these were these as good as your batches of cookie? 0:19:56.520 --> 0:20:00.159 They're good. They were better than like process because they 0:20:00.160 --> 0:20:03.760 were made from a local bakery. Looked like that. So 0:20:04.640 --> 0:20:06.800 they had the label and whatnot. But no, I mean 0:20:06.800 --> 0:20:10.400 I love making making the cookies and I actually made 0:20:10.440 --> 0:20:13.720 some chocolate chip cookies this week. Actually made a few 0:20:13.960 --> 0:20:16.720 few chocolate chip cookies and all that. But but yeah, so, 0:20:16.760 --> 0:20:19.800 I mean, he brought the cookies and Eddie the hoarder 0:20:19.920 --> 0:20:22.760 ended up grabbing most of the snicker Doom. It's a 0:20:22.800 --> 0:20:26.359 bad job by him, but I was able to squirrel away. 0:20:26.520 --> 0:20:28.919 I had a bag I think it was Doug Gottlieb's 0:20:28.960 --> 0:20:31.840 bag that he left in the studio. I grabbed the 0:20:31.880 --> 0:20:35.120 bag and I put a hodgepodge of cookies in there. 0:20:35.880 --> 0:20:38.760 So then that was on Sunday night, and then Monday 0:20:38.760 --> 0:20:42.639 into Tuesday. Our old pal Chris and Houston he paid 0:20:42.680 --> 0:20:47.600 a visit. Yeah, yeah, we we've had many great sparring 0:20:47.640 --> 0:20:50.840 matches over the years. Chris sold out, he took the 0:20:50.920 --> 0:20:54.040 dreaded day shift, so he no longer works overnights, but 0:20:54.080 --> 0:20:58.560 he's a podcast listener and die hard rockets Texans and 0:20:58.640 --> 0:21:04.680 cheating stros am I on the live here. Well that 0:21:05.160 --> 0:21:08.320 of course a great homage to help with me. But 0:21:08.320 --> 0:21:09.879 but he he was in l A to take his 0:21:09.920 --> 0:21:14.080 skins to Disneyland and v I P package and all 0:21:14.119 --> 0:21:17.000 that and I gotta tell you, Danny, you know, he 0:21:17.040 --> 0:21:19.880 was pretty smooth. I mean, you can tell he's done 0:21:19.880 --> 0:21:23.200 some podcasting stuff. But was he good enough to impress 0:21:23.280 --> 0:21:27.080 Blind Scott? No, of course not no, no, no, Blind Scott. 0:21:27.160 --> 0:21:31.040 No Scott, if you didn't know, called Ben on the 0:21:31.080 --> 0:21:33.840 air and said that all the callers that have been 0:21:33.880 --> 0:21:36.720 coming in to meet you in studio are trash and 0:21:36.760 --> 0:21:39.920 if he came in, he'd be so good. Management would 0:21:39.920 --> 0:21:43.359 fire you and give the overnight shift to him. Yes, yes, 0:21:43.520 --> 0:21:46.399 the cream rises at the top of that, and Dylan 0:21:46.640 --> 0:21:52.040 as his sidekick. That would be wonderful. The press release 0:21:52.119 --> 0:21:57.040 on that alone would rock the sports world. Yeah, yeah, yeah, 0:21:57.040 --> 0:22:00.720 Blind the first dog on the air, right. No, we 0:22:00.760 --> 0:22:02.680 have have a whole lineup. We have a kennel, that 0:22:02.760 --> 0:22:05.000 is what we have. But what you're talking about, jeez, 0:22:06.640 --> 0:22:10.000 it's a madhouse around there. Well, we need a fleabath, 0:22:10.040 --> 0:22:12.000 that is what we need. Anyway, Chris, we made sure 0:22:12.040 --> 0:22:14.840 me and Roberto we patted him down. We checked him 0:22:14.880 --> 0:22:18.440 for the buzzers. We didn't see any buzzers. No Astros 0:22:18.560 --> 0:22:21.679 contraband if he's wearing Astro's merchandise, we were not going 0:22:21.760 --> 0:22:26.000 to allow him in the studio. Was he eyeing the 0:22:26.040 --> 0:22:29.000 trash can in the main studio, Well, he felt at 0:22:29.040 --> 0:22:31.280 home he saw the trash can, He's like, oh, that's 0:22:31.320 --> 0:22:34.760 my my happy place, that's my happy place. But it 0:22:34.800 --> 0:22:36.960 was it was cool to see him busting his chops 0:22:36.960 --> 0:22:40.119 and all that, and good job by Roberto. He wore 0:22:40.240 --> 0:22:44.840 the asterisks shirt. So remember I don't know if you 0:22:44.840 --> 0:22:46.960 remember that Eddie bought us all shirts that has it 0:22:47.000 --> 0:22:49.679 looks like the Astros logo, but it says asterisk on it. 0:22:49.960 --> 0:22:52.880 That's all right, that's a nice touch by Roberto. Yeah, 0:22:52.960 --> 0:22:56.520 so I'm I'm excited. The COVID rules have been rolled 0:22:56.560 --> 0:22:59.800 back and so we can hang out with fans of 0:22:59.800 --> 0:23:02.320 this show again. That happened to pass through Los Angeles, 0:23:02.359 --> 0:23:04.480 and so if you're interested in that, if you're it's 0:23:04.480 --> 0:23:06.560 gotta be somebody we know, I would think, right, Danny, 0:23:06.600 --> 0:23:09.680 we can't just let anyone in. But if we were 0:23:09.680 --> 0:23:12.320 aware of you, if you've contributed content to the show 0:23:13.040 --> 0:23:15.920 and you happen to be around and the schedule works out, 0:23:16.640 --> 0:23:19.080 as long as you don't outshine us, that would be bad. 0:23:19.840 --> 0:23:23.320 But we we'd love to meet you. We gotta get 0:23:23.320 --> 0:23:26.760 out on this, Danny. We have backscratcher, and I want 0:23:26.760 --> 0:23:32.720 to give you, Danny a gold star who you know why, 0:23:33.760 --> 0:23:39.119 because you explain paint by numbers, how to write a 0:23:39.280 --> 0:23:43.639 review and we had let me see, you went to 0:23:43.960 --> 0:23:50.440 three four five, We had a record five reviews. Yeah, 0:23:50.520 --> 0:23:54.960 and it's all because of you, Danny. Congratulations. I mean, seriously, 0:23:55.080 --> 0:23:56.960 you need to do that every week when we get 0:23:57.000 --> 0:24:00.000 done here. You have to explain because whatever you say, 0:24:00.240 --> 0:24:05.560