WEBVTT - The Fifth Hour: The Red, White, and Bikini 0:00:00.720 --> 0:00:01.480 Kubbooms. 0:00:02.279 --> 0:00:05.400 If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes 0:00:05.440 --> 0:00:09.200 a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants 0:00:09.200 --> 0:00:12.480 of the old Republic, a soul fashion of fairness. He 0:00:12.600 --> 0:00:15.520 treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the 0:00:15.640 --> 0:00:17.480 rich pill poppers in the penthouse. 0:00:18.079 --> 0:00:18.400 Wow. 0:00:18.640 --> 0:00:22.320 The Clearinghouse of Hot takes break free for something special. 0:00:22.680 --> 0:00:29.320 The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now in. 0:00:29.240 --> 0:00:35.840 The air everywhere. The Fifth Hour with Me, Big Ben 0:00:36.120 --> 0:00:40.599 and Danny G. Sliding into a day that is forgotten. 0:00:40.680 --> 0:00:44.159 Always feel bad for the third of July and the 0:00:44.200 --> 0:00:47.400 fifth of July today being the fifth of July, because 0:00:47.479 --> 0:00:49.960 it just does not get the same level of love. 0:00:50.000 --> 0:00:53.200 But we're hanging out as always with Dany G radio. 0:00:53.640 --> 0:00:56.960 The microphone throttler in the middle of a four day 0:00:56.960 --> 0:00:58.080 weekend for a lot of people. 0:00:58.480 --> 0:01:02.040 Well, I hope you had a fourth you survived, which is. 0:01:02.000 --> 0:01:03.880 I think a lot of the Fourth of July, Danny 0:01:03.920 --> 0:01:04.520 is survival. 0:01:05.160 --> 0:01:06.840 Not sure. You haven't seen my left hand. 0:01:07.560 --> 0:01:11.399 My right hand was getting a workout, that is true, 0:01:11.720 --> 0:01:13.880 So I just wrapped myself what I do at the 0:01:13.920 --> 0:01:16.319 Mallor House every year. Danny, I don't know about you, 0:01:16.360 --> 0:01:18.440 but I'm more patriotic to you. I wrap myself and 0:01:18.840 --> 0:01:23.280 old glory, red, white and blue. Wow, And that's what 0:01:23.319 --> 0:01:25.880 I do. That's why I've always done that, going way 0:01:25.920 --> 0:01:26.559 back in time. 0:01:26.920 --> 0:01:29.679 I light eighties with my right hand, holding them in 0:01:29.720 --> 0:01:31.720 my left hand, and then I play a game to 0:01:31.720 --> 0:01:33.040 see if I can get it out of my left 0:01:33.040 --> 0:01:35.000 hand in time before it explodes and. 0:01:35.080 --> 0:01:36.240 Boom goes to dynamite. 0:01:36.560 --> 0:01:36.880 Yeah. 0:01:36.959 --> 0:01:39.440 Well, you we call that the we call that the 0:01:39.760 --> 0:01:41.800 New York Giant. I think we call that, right, that's 0:01:41.840 --> 0:01:44.319 what we call that. It's it's a real blast, it 0:01:44.400 --> 0:01:52.040 really is. But I always I flashed back to elementary 0:01:52.080 --> 0:01:55.640 school this weekend. I know today's the fifth digitally, but 0:01:56.040 --> 0:01:58.400 we didn't do this podcast on the fourth edd of 0:01:58.480 --> 0:02:00.440 July because we had the race show. 0:02:00.480 --> 0:02:01.600 But here's the thing. 0:02:01.880 --> 0:02:06.080 So when I was a little kid, it was John 0:02:06.400 --> 0:02:09.720 I remember hearing about John Adams said. 0:02:09.480 --> 0:02:14.280 That they had this celebration that he wrote to as well. 0:02:14.320 --> 0:02:17.839 But it was on July third of. 0:02:18.080 --> 0:02:22.520 Seventeen seventy six. It wasn't like July fourth. While a 0:02:23.440 --> 0:02:27.840 obviously a big day, right, that was the day that 0:02:27.880 --> 0:02:31.080 they had celebration and all that stuff. But it was 0:02:31.320 --> 0:02:35.320 the weeks prior to that that this thing, the Declaration 0:02:35.400 --> 0:02:39.280 of Independence and all that I got got taken care of. 0:02:39.400 --> 0:02:43.720 But big weekend, Big weekend, one hundred and fifty million 0:02:43.800 --> 0:02:48.680 Wieners will be consumed. People love their their sausage. A 0:02:48.720 --> 0:02:52.120 lot of Wieners being consumed. I like the extended Wienner 0:02:52.919 --> 0:02:59.360 three hundred million dollars this weekend of flags, banners and 0:03:00.680 --> 0:03:05.160 stuff made in China with the USA flag that that 0:03:05.280 --> 0:03:07.400 also will be passed around. 0:03:07.480 --> 0:03:11.079 And there you go. Yeah, I get kind of confused 0:03:11.160 --> 0:03:14.960 with the red, white and blue speedos. I don't understand 0:03:15.040 --> 0:03:17.919 that move Like I'm gonna have the flag on my junk? 0:03:18.520 --> 0:03:19.400 Is it what's in it? 0:03:19.639 --> 0:03:22.680 Or is it the Because I don't mind the bikini, 0:03:23.280 --> 0:03:23.960 I'm okay. 0:03:24.240 --> 0:03:25.680 I feel like I know, I didn't say there was 0:03:25.680 --> 0:03:28.240 anything wrong with that, but the speedo that's on a guy, 0:03:28.560 --> 0:03:31.400 and that is kind of weird to have a flag 0:03:31.480 --> 0:03:36.040 on your balls. 0:03:36.880 --> 0:03:43.640 Yeah, now you bring that up, and it's it's almost 0:03:43.680 --> 0:03:48.760 like your intuitive Danny, because today, July fifth, you talk 0:03:48.800 --> 0:03:51.000 about having a bad day to have a holiday. Today 0:03:51.080 --> 0:03:56.080 is National Bikini Day today. Yeah, it's National Bikini Day today. 0:03:56.160 --> 0:04:00.840 Very exciting. Now, When I look at photos of people 0:04:00.880 --> 0:04:04.400 on the beach from the early days of photography, at 0:04:04.480 --> 0:04:06.720 least when it kind of became a thing. 0:04:07.680 --> 0:04:10.760 They were wearing like burkas on the beach. 0:04:10.800 --> 0:04:12.600 I think they had a lot of stuff going on, right, 0:04:12.840 --> 0:04:14.400 a lot of stuff. 0:04:14.120 --> 0:04:17.880 Going on there, and they weren't really concerned. 0:04:17.520 --> 0:04:21.479 About not uh you know, I guess we're worried about 0:04:21.480 --> 0:04:23.839 the sun because they were cold up. And I bring 0:04:23.920 --> 0:04:26.200 this up because it is an actual bikinni day and 0:04:27.320 --> 0:04:28.160 according to. 0:04:29.680 --> 0:04:34.640 History. We're all about history. The song that. 0:04:34.800 --> 0:04:38.800 Helped push the bikini revolution it only it's not that old. 0:04:38.839 --> 0:04:43.040 It goes back to the to the nineteen sixties and 0:04:43.680 --> 0:04:50.560 Brian Hyland song it'sy bitsy teenyweeny yellow polka dot bikini, 0:04:51.720 --> 0:04:55.640 that is what pushed the bikini. 0:04:56.760 --> 0:05:00.640 Yeah, it's a bad song too. I think it was 0:05:01.000 --> 0:05:03.760 probably cheesy back then. It's really corny when you hear 0:05:03.800 --> 0:05:04.440 that song now. 0:05:04.440 --> 0:05:06.840 There's a lot of music around that time that if 0:05:06.880 --> 0:05:08.600 you listen to it now, it's like, well, that's a 0:05:08.640 --> 0:05:09.200 little hokey. 0:05:09.600 --> 0:05:13.000 In the recording studio, was a producer really like bobbing 0:05:13.080 --> 0:05:15.039 his head like, yeah, this is gonna be a hit. 0:05:16.160 --> 0:05:20.880 Well, some of it is so ridonculous that I actually 0:05:21.080 --> 0:05:23.440 listened to it. Some like the bebop stuff, which I 0:05:23.440 --> 0:05:27.920 think nineteen fifties, But there's a song where I usually 0:05:27.960 --> 0:05:30.000 don't even listen to the lyrics. I just listened to 0:05:30.040 --> 0:05:31.040 the beat, the rhythm. 0:05:31.040 --> 0:05:31.160 You know. 0:05:31.240 --> 0:05:33.279 I like the rhythm, so that's that's my thing. I'm 0:05:33.279 --> 0:05:35.000 not a big music guy, but I like the rhythm. 0:05:35.000 --> 0:05:37.000 You're the music guy, but I'll listen to the lyrics 0:05:37.480 --> 0:05:39.919 on this one song. It's a bebop song. It's like 0:05:40.440 --> 0:05:44.600 and they're singing in this it sounds great, but they're like, man, 0:05:44.680 --> 0:05:48.080 your wife is ugly, and you're like, you better marry 0:05:48.080 --> 0:05:50.760 an ugly and they won't. They're advising you to marry 0:05:50.800 --> 0:05:54.680 an ugly woman because you'll have a better life. Sexist, 0:05:55.760 --> 0:05:57.560 but it's hilarious how they do the song. 0:05:57.800 --> 0:05:59.600 I forget the name of it, but it's. 0:05:59.640 --> 0:06:05.559 It's pretty funny now the itsy bitsy teeny weeny yellow 0:06:05.560 --> 0:06:10.880 polka dot bikini. That song inspired women to get the bikini. 0:06:11.080 --> 0:06:14.160 But to me, Danny, the key point in all this, 0:06:15.440 --> 0:06:17.080 and I think you'd agree with me, and I know 0:06:17.120 --> 0:06:22.839 the Kardashians would agree with me, is the thong bikini 0:06:23.000 --> 0:06:26.640 that did not pop up until the nineteen seventies, So 0:06:26.720 --> 0:06:30.120 that was really the point of demarcation for the bikini. 0:06:30.520 --> 0:06:34.240 And we can thank our friends in Brazil. That's where 0:06:34.240 --> 0:06:39.920 the thong bikini originated. And it was I remember I 0:06:39.920 --> 0:06:43.599 was a kid and we'd go to the beach and 0:06:44.080 --> 0:06:48.040 we'd see occasionally someone in that and my mom would say, wow, 0:06:48.080 --> 0:06:50.520 they're from you know, from wherever that came from, you know, 0:06:50.600 --> 0:06:52.839 some country where that's popular. I guess you was talking 0:06:52.839 --> 0:06:55.839 about Brazil. I have one other fun fact, Danny about 0:06:55.839 --> 0:06:56.320 the bikini. 0:06:56.880 --> 0:06:57.400 You ready here? 0:06:57.440 --> 0:07:00.360 So it started, I mean, the beginning been around before that. 0:07:00.520 --> 0:07:02.320 I'm on the edge of my boxers right now. 0:07:03.040 --> 0:07:05.880 The song, the song really got to go in nineteen 0:07:06.000 --> 0:07:09.280 sixty and then you had the thong bikini pop up 0:07:09.680 --> 0:07:13.120 or pop in in the nineteen seventies. But then in wait, 0:07:13.160 --> 0:07:18.680 there's more in the nineteen nineties, all right, the Olympic Committee, 0:07:18.720 --> 0:07:23.720 realizing we can get ratings on television, they said, you 0:07:23.720 --> 0:07:27.320 know what, We're gonna make the bikini the official uniform 0:07:27.520 --> 0:07:28.720 of women's beach. 0:07:28.600 --> 0:07:30.760 Volleyball white women. 0:07:31.640 --> 0:07:33.560 And has there been anything that has done more to 0:07:33.600 --> 0:07:36.680 help women's beach volleyball than the bikini and at the 0:07:36.760 --> 0:07:40.600 time people complained, they said, this is not right, you're 0:07:40.920 --> 0:07:42.040 sexualizing women. 0:07:42.400 --> 0:07:43.280 What's wrong with you? 0:07:44.200 --> 0:07:47.560 And it's still a thing, dummy. 0:07:48.800 --> 0:07:51.960 That's all my material on bikinishing, and I would argue 0:07:52.000 --> 0:07:55.840 that better than the beach volleyball are the little hot 0:07:55.840 --> 0:07:58.920 shorts that the indoor volleyball girls wear. 0:07:59.120 --> 0:08:02.800 Oh the short yeah, not bad either. I don't have 0:08:02.840 --> 0:08:05.040 any fun facts about the short shorts though. I don't, 0:08:05.240 --> 0:08:08.960 damn it, have any information. When is National Short Shorts Days? 0:08:08.960 --> 0:08:11.200 Do we know when the National Short Short Day is? 0:08:11.240 --> 0:08:12.120 We can celebrate that. 0:08:12.520 --> 0:08:15.560 Sure it'll be coming up on that corny calendar. Yeah, 0:08:15.640 --> 0:08:16.160 we have all that. 0:08:16.280 --> 0:08:20.400 It's also Comic Sands Day today. There's a day to 0:08:20.440 --> 0:08:24.760 celebrate a font. What why would there be a day 0:08:24.760 --> 0:08:27.120 to celebrate a font? I don't know. 0:08:27.800 --> 0:08:28.680 Apparently there is. 0:08:29.760 --> 0:08:32.679 You can celebrate the history of the Comic Sands font, 0:08:33.080 --> 0:08:37.600 which that typeface goes all the way back to the nineties, 0:08:37.679 --> 0:08:38.840 so they certainly need a day. 0:08:39.840 --> 0:08:40.440 I guess didn't. 0:08:40.480 --> 0:08:43.520 They didn't have anything like that before the mid nineteen 0:08:43.559 --> 0:08:49.880 nineties pencil. Next on this podcast, we've got extra Cheesy Bread, 0:08:50.679 --> 0:08:54.800 The Big Impulse mallor meet and greet the hogi hodown 0:08:55.960 --> 0:08:58.960 phrase all the week. We might even mix in a 0:08:59.000 --> 0:09:00.600 fun fact though, So let's get right to it. So 0:09:01.640 --> 0:09:07.160 wrapping up putting a bow on recent events, as this podcast. 0:09:06.600 --> 0:09:08.760 Serves as therapy. 0:09:09.600 --> 0:09:15.239 So my wife's birthday weekend two point zero, we continued 0:09:15.280 --> 0:09:17.760 the celebration at last weekend. It wrapped up the main 0:09:17.800 --> 0:09:24.680 event on that Sunday. Sunday. Sunday, we started the final 0:09:24.760 --> 0:09:31.720 weekend going to Burbank. As our friend like occasionally call 0:09:31.760 --> 0:09:36.480 the show says, we went to the Smokehouse in Burbank. 0:09:37.480 --> 0:09:39.440 This is I've been there a few times over the years. 0:09:39.440 --> 0:09:41.520 I used to work in Burbanks, so I went there 0:09:42.640 --> 0:09:45.480 somewhat more often. I don't live in that area anyway. 0:09:45.520 --> 0:09:47.520 That's a famous joint. Yeah. 0:09:47.640 --> 0:09:50.520 When I was a kid, my mom, we would communally 0:09:50.600 --> 0:09:53.120 get together the family and watch the Tonight Show. There's 0:09:53.160 --> 0:09:55.720 this guy named Johnny Carson who was very popular Tonight 0:09:55.800 --> 0:09:59.400 Show who I don't know, he's dead, but we would 0:09:59.440 --> 0:10:03.720 watch it on a regular basis and Johnny Carson would 0:10:03.800 --> 0:10:06.720 occasionally do this bit where he'd go into the audience 0:10:06.760 --> 0:10:10.680 and ask them questions, goofy questions and if they got 0:10:10.720 --> 0:10:12.560 it right, or even if they didn't get it right, 0:10:12.840 --> 0:10:15.120 he would make a joke that I'm giving you a 0:10:15.160 --> 0:10:20.000 gift certificate to the most famous restaurant in Burbank, the Smokehouse, 0:10:20.559 --> 0:10:25.080 And he'd always like mock he liked it, he said, 0:10:25.080 --> 0:10:27.040 he liked it, but everything else was like terrible in Burbank. 0:10:27.559 --> 0:10:29.160 So we went there, and this place has been around 0:10:29.200 --> 0:10:32.319 since the nineteen forties, I believe, So it's been around 0:10:32.360 --> 0:10:34.480 for a while. And it was place right across the street. 0:10:34.679 --> 0:10:36.880 If you're not from the area, it's right across the 0:10:36.920 --> 0:10:39.679 street from Warner Brothers. And so it's one of these 0:10:39.679 --> 0:10:41.720 places because back in the old days there was nothing 0:10:41.720 --> 0:10:44.959 in Burbank other than a few houses in a movie studio. 0:10:45.400 --> 0:10:49.520 And so people from the entertainment business when Hollywood was 0:10:51.240 --> 0:10:54.280 the greatest thing in the world. I have big movie stars, 0:10:54.520 --> 0:10:57.320 they would go hang out there. Producers and directors would 0:10:57.320 --> 0:11:02.000 hang out and have lunch and dine at the Smokehouse. 0:11:02.160 --> 0:11:04.400 That was that was the thing. So it's known for 0:11:04.440 --> 0:11:09.120 their their garlic bread, their their cheesy bread. And so 0:11:09.200 --> 0:11:11.400 we my wife I we have been there once. You 0:11:11.480 --> 0:11:13.600 wanted to go back. So we went out there, had 0:11:13.600 --> 0:11:17.760 the garlic, cheesy bread, the French onion soup which they 0:11:17.800 --> 0:11:21.880 only have on the weekends. Can't serve that Monday through Thursday, 0:11:21.960 --> 0:11:26.440 only on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. And while I enjoyed 0:11:27.040 --> 0:11:29.560 my meal for the most part, a lot of bread 0:11:29.600 --> 0:11:32.200 weigh too much bread, gained a couple pounds because of 0:11:32.240 --> 0:11:35.840 that bad job by the bread. I had a yeast infection. 0:11:35.920 --> 0:11:40.439 I guess you could say too much yeast. But we 0:11:40.559 --> 0:11:44.920 had what I call carmageddon that took place. Now we 0:11:44.960 --> 0:11:49.040 went in the afternoon on on Friday. You want to 0:11:49.080 --> 0:11:52.200 take a guest, Danny, how long you know where I live? 0:11:52.280 --> 0:11:53.720 I don't say where I live, but I live in 0:11:53.720 --> 0:11:56.400 the Malor Mansion on the north Woods. You want to 0:11:56.400 --> 0:12:00.520 take a guess how long door to door there and back? 0:12:00.679 --> 0:12:07.520 Just in the car it took to get extra garlicky, cheesy, 0:12:07.600 --> 0:12:11.000 delicious bread, French onion soup. 0:12:11.679 --> 0:12:14.960 And what else? I hate something else, but that was 0:12:15.000 --> 0:12:17.920 the main event. Let's see. You live on a cliff 0:12:18.280 --> 0:12:22.520 overlooking the ocean in Dana Point. So yeah, I'm gonna 0:12:22.520 --> 0:12:28.600 say from there to Burbonk two hours and thirty eight minutes. 0:12:28.480 --> 0:12:31.680 All right, So two hours you think total? Both there 0:12:31.720 --> 0:12:35.440 and back to all there and back. Oh, no, there 0:12:35.480 --> 0:12:40.160 and back. That's three hours and thirty two minutes. All right, 0:12:40.559 --> 0:12:46.679 pens down, reveal answers, reveal answers, and the survey says, 0:12:47.080 --> 0:12:50.240 you'll be happy to know Daddy that on my day 0:12:50.320 --> 0:12:53.440 off other than this podcast is how much I loved 0:12:53.480 --> 0:12:58.600 my wife. I spent four and a half hours in 0:12:58.640 --> 0:13:05.000 the car door to door. Say what, Yeah, took two 0:13:05.080 --> 0:13:09.040 hours to get there. Took two and a half hours 0:13:09.040 --> 0:13:13.760 to get home, bumper to bumper to bump. 0:13:13.800 --> 0:13:16.520 Wow. In other parts of the country, you could have 0:13:16.559 --> 0:13:18.079 been like four states deep. 0:13:18.920 --> 0:13:21.160 Oh true, yeah, I know exactly. I could have gone 0:13:21.559 --> 0:13:26.880 from outside Boston. I could have driven to Maine. I 0:13:26.920 --> 0:13:29.480 could have gone obviously New Hampshire's before Maine. I could 0:13:29.520 --> 0:13:33.240 have gone down to Providence easily, Rhode Island, got over 0:13:33.280 --> 0:13:37.560 to Connecticut. I could have gone on a plane and 0:13:37.679 --> 0:13:41.920 flown to Chicago. In that time, I could have made 0:13:41.920 --> 0:13:46.240 it most of the way to Hawaii. And one of 0:13:46.240 --> 0:13:48.760 the advantages I had. People often will ask me, so, 0:13:48.800 --> 0:13:50.439 why don't you do a daytime show? You can, you know, 0:13:50.440 --> 0:13:52.200 it's the daytime they pay more money on that you do. 0:13:52.640 --> 0:13:55.040 But then I have to deal with traffic. There's really 0:13:55.080 --> 0:13:57.120 really no traffic when you do the late night show, 0:13:57.160 --> 0:14:00.559 and there's one day a week where there's a little. 0:14:00.160 --> 0:14:00.760 Bit of traffic. 0:14:00.800 --> 0:14:03.360 That's Sunday and the Monday people are coming back from. 0:14:03.679 --> 0:14:06.280 Holiday, they're weekend away. But other than that, I don't 0:14:06.360 --> 0:14:08.160 deal with traffic. I used to deal with traffic all 0:14:08.200 --> 0:14:10.319 the time, but I hate traffic. Can't stand it. The 0:14:10.400 --> 0:14:14.120 other way to me to function living here where the 0:14:14.200 --> 0:14:17.360 taxation is insane and there's a lot of problems, but 0:14:17.360 --> 0:14:18.720 at least I don't have to deal with the traffic. 0:14:18.760 --> 0:14:22.120 That's one less problem I have to deal with. But 0:14:22.240 --> 0:14:26.960 I got home from lunch and I was completely gassed. 0:14:27.960 --> 0:14:31.400 I passed out. I don't nap. I had to take 0:14:31.440 --> 0:14:35.320 a nap. I was just a beaten human being from 0:14:35.360 --> 0:14:40.400 the highways and byways which were clogged up like a 0:14:40.680 --> 0:14:46.080 toilet that was poorly you know, with bad plumbing, bad plumbing, 0:14:46.160 --> 0:14:47.920 so man, it was. 0:14:48.120 --> 0:14:50.440 It was wild. But the cheesybread was good, So there 0:14:50.520 --> 0:14:53.680 was that. The cheesy bread made thirty seven minutes of 0:14:53.680 --> 0:14:56.000 the drive worth it the best cheesy bread. 0:14:56.840 --> 0:14:57.520 That's about right. 0:14:57.680 --> 0:14:59.880 Yeah, the other four hours, you know, they really sucked. 0:15:00.040 --> 0:15:02.800 But that was all right, really quick, would you like 0:15:02.920 --> 0:15:04.520 a fun fact about Burbank? 0:15:04.720 --> 0:15:06.520 Oh do I of course I want a fun fact. 0:15:06.520 --> 0:15:08.600 Come on, I'm all about the fun fact. Please give 0:15:08.600 --> 0:15:09.600 me the fun Hit me. 0:15:09.600 --> 0:15:10.800 With the fun fact please. 0:15:11.520 --> 0:15:14.120 I lived there for thirteen years, so I found out 0:15:14.120 --> 0:15:17.920 some things about Burbank. Now, you mentioned back in the day, 0:15:18.040 --> 0:15:22.080 the glory days of Hollywood, when the guys wore debonair 0:15:22.320 --> 0:15:26.280 suits and hats and the women of Hollywood were very glamorous. 0:15:27.160 --> 0:15:30.960 You said it was just studios in some residential streets, 0:15:30.960 --> 0:15:34.840 some houses, and which, man, too bad our grandparents couldn't 0:15:34.840 --> 0:15:38.840 have invested in those properties, right, absolutely, And then a 0:15:38.960 --> 0:15:44.920 horse trail was added in Burbank. You could ride horses 0:15:45.400 --> 0:15:48.040 through Burbank. And it's because of a movie star. 0:15:48.840 --> 0:15:51.480 Well, I know, the most famous star that lived in 0:15:51.480 --> 0:15:53.960 that area. I don't know if this is right, but 0:15:54.080 --> 0:15:57.040 he It was actually technically to Luca Lake, which is in. 0:15:57.440 --> 0:16:00.600 Is that Burbank proper or I don't think it's that's 0:16:00.600 --> 0:16:00.920 second that. 0:16:00.880 --> 0:16:03.120 As a different city to Luca Lake. Like I remember, 0:16:03.280 --> 0:16:04.920 Bob Hope was out there, was it, Bob Hope? 0:16:05.000 --> 0:16:08.000 Yeah? No, Well Bob, Bob Hope probably slept with this actress. 0:16:10.760 --> 0:16:15.800 I'm guessing he did movie star Barbara Stanwick. She and 0:16:15.880 --> 0:16:19.880 two others got that horse trail going there, and it 0:16:20.120 --> 0:16:26.160 runs Burbank, maybe even stops at to Luca Lake, because 0:16:26.200 --> 0:16:29.000 I know it runs for a little bit. Uh, But yeah, 0:16:29.400 --> 0:16:32.120 I went there. I read a plaque that's over there 0:16:32.160 --> 0:16:34.440 by one of the parks where the trail goes through. 0:16:35.000 --> 0:16:37.920 And it's just really interesting because you're in the city, 0:16:37.960 --> 0:16:40.800 you see the studios, and then suddenly you smell horse poop. 0:16:44.200 --> 0:16:48.920 Yeah, it is the whole to Lucal I live. I 0:16:48.960 --> 0:16:51.520 did live in Burbank, but I worked there on thirty 0:16:51.520 --> 0:16:54.480 four hundred Riverside Drive in a building which I believe 0:16:54.480 --> 0:16:56.960 has now been taken over completely by Warner Brothers. But 0:16:57.000 --> 0:17:00.000 it was right across the street from the Warner Brothers 0:17:00.000 --> 0:17:03.240 studios and Kitty Corner to what used to be my 0:17:03.320 --> 0:17:08.960 favorite restaurant at the time, Dults, which was amazing. And 0:17:10.720 --> 0:17:13.320 I never got to go to the actual te Luca Lake. 0:17:13.359 --> 0:17:17.159 There's an actual lake. It's a private lake. Bob Hope, 0:17:17.400 --> 0:17:20.360 the famous actor who's been dead for over twenty years, 0:17:20.760 --> 0:17:26.680 but he lived right on to Luca Lake and it's 0:17:26.800 --> 0:17:31.040 like a block away from in fact, I'm pretty sure 0:17:31.840 --> 0:17:35.159 on the street I was on. I'm not part of 0:17:35.160 --> 0:17:38.879 the Teluca Lake Chamber of Commerce, but the street I 0:17:39.000 --> 0:17:42.840 was on, which the smokehouse. I parked on this little 0:17:42.840 --> 0:17:44.280 street and there was a gate. I think it's a 0:17:44.320 --> 0:17:47.600 gated area. Am I correct? On that day to Luca 0:17:47.680 --> 0:17:51.280 Lake is a gated community to keep the riff raft out. 0:17:51.760 --> 0:17:54.240 Yes, sir, I've never even seen that lake because of 0:17:54.280 --> 0:17:56.960 the fact it's gated and back in the day it 0:17:57.040 --> 0:18:02.080 was during COVID. I read a biography on Bob Hope. 0:18:02.640 --> 0:18:07.520 He shagged more starlets than all the Hollywood stars in 0:18:07.600 --> 0:18:11.639 the rest of southern California combined, besides maybe Johnny Carson. 0:18:11.640 --> 0:18:17.280 A little later, speaking of Carson, Bob Hope was a pimp. 0:18:17.800 --> 0:18:20.800 And did not have to worry about social media, did 0:18:20.840 --> 0:18:25.159 not have to The story I heard about Hope was, 0:18:25.320 --> 0:18:26.600 and I don't know if this is true or not, 0:18:26.680 --> 0:18:29.800 but I'll just repeat it because he's dead and can'tssume me. 0:18:30.160 --> 0:18:33.359 But one of the reasons that he enjoyed doing those 0:18:33.800 --> 0:18:40.119 tours to visit the troops, Danny was because what happens 0:18:40.160 --> 0:18:41.800 in the tent stays in the tent. 0:18:41.840 --> 0:18:44.359 When you're out at a. 0:18:43.800 --> 0:18:48.520 At a military concert somewhere in Germany or whatever. You 0:18:49.840 --> 0:18:52.479 bring all the hottest young starlets with you, and whatever 0:18:52.560 --> 0:18:53.400 happens happened. 0:18:54.040 --> 0:18:56.600 But we were bombed in Bizourdi, and we were bombed 0:18:56.680 --> 0:18:58.280 in Palermo, and it's in the book. 0:18:58.320 --> 0:18:59.280 I tried to get under the bed. 0:18:59.280 --> 0:19:01.080 I didn't where they get to between the spring or 0:19:01.080 --> 0:19:05.000 the mattress, because they were bombing Daddy and I I'm 0:19:05.080 --> 0:19:07.840 just laying there saying, my whole life passed before me. 0:19:08.560 --> 0:19:10.560 And actually it was my lunch. 0:19:10.640 --> 0:19:19.399 But he's giving from the heart. He was giving some 0:19:19.480 --> 0:19:23.080 other things. Yeah, he was doing it. 0:19:24.240 --> 0:19:25.200 So I found this. 0:19:25.240 --> 0:19:26.320 I don't know if it's true or not, but. 0:19:26.359 --> 0:19:31.080 It says Warner Brothers opened their lot a block away. 0:19:31.119 --> 0:19:33.160 This happened to open it up a block away from 0:19:33.200 --> 0:19:37.080 Teluca Lake nineteen twenty eight. And that is when the 0:19:37.119 --> 0:19:41.160 elites of Hollywood in the nineteen twenties, early Hollywood, they 0:19:41.480 --> 0:19:47.120 discovered te Luca Lake and immediately became the most expensive 0:19:47.119 --> 0:19:50.359 homes in that area. And of course they said, we 0:19:50.400 --> 0:19:54.760 can't allow the unwashed to be here. So they said, 0:19:54.960 --> 0:19:57.560 it's not public, that's it. 0:19:57.560 --> 0:19:58.280 It is a. 0:19:58.240 --> 0:20:02.200 Tranquil, private community. But you can't in that area. There's 0:20:02.280 --> 0:20:06.720 the Great the Bob's Big Boy. There was a I. 0:20:06.680 --> 0:20:08.840 Think they I don't know if the ihop is still there. 0:20:08.920 --> 0:20:11.720 The first International House of Pancakes actually opened up into 0:20:11.760 --> 0:20:15.560 Luca Lake. Yeah, that's a fun fact. That is man, 0:20:15.640 --> 0:20:21.119 is that fun? That's a bonus fun fact. Moving on 0:20:21.240 --> 0:20:24.640 from that, we have the the in Pulse Malor meet 0:20:24.680 --> 0:20:31.320 and greet. So driving back from Carmageddon, Malord travelog wife 0:20:31.400 --> 0:20:35.399 birthday weekend two point zero so the Friday four and 0:20:35.400 --> 0:20:38.359 a half hours in traffic, had to take a nap, 0:20:38.600 --> 0:20:44.160 but we had last minute plans. My eighty six year 0:20:44.160 --> 0:20:48.320 old cousin Jerry and my lovely eighty one year old 0:20:48.880 --> 0:20:52.200 cousin Lynn, his wife decided, you know, we're gonna show 0:20:52.240 --> 0:20:57.239 up to La We head to southern California and we 0:20:57.280 --> 0:20:59.560 want to see you in town. 0:21:00.560 --> 0:21:02.200 They live in the Valley of the Sun. 0:21:02.880 --> 0:21:05.240 And you might remember we talked about them in a 0:21:05.240 --> 0:21:07.159 previous episode a while ago. But Jerry and Lyn s 0:21:07.280 --> 0:21:11.800 your daddle out of Arizona in late June and they 0:21:11.840 --> 0:21:15.479 don't come back until sometime in August. Because it is 0:21:15.520 --> 0:21:18.360 the Valley of the Sun and when you live in Phoenix, 0:21:18.400 --> 0:21:21.040 you're living in a frying pan, and they're at the 0:21:21.119 --> 0:21:24.600 age where they're like, screw that, I ain't messing around 0:21:24.640 --> 0:21:28.040 with that. And so they travel around the country in 0:21:28.119 --> 0:21:30.800 their car and visit family and friends, and they're retired 0:21:30.800 --> 0:21:34.000 obviously they're in their eighties, and so they're in good health. 0:21:35.240 --> 0:21:37.440 My guy Jerry was telling me he did get a pacemaker, 0:21:37.440 --> 0:21:41.760 but everything's good. And when they're in town, you stop 0:21:41.800 --> 0:21:44.920 what you're doing on a dime and you make time 0:21:44.960 --> 0:21:49.639 for family. That's important. Royalty, right, family, royalty. So I 0:21:49.720 --> 0:21:54.000 ended up going out to a nice dinner with my cousins. 0:21:54.000 --> 0:21:54.320 There. 0:21:55.160 --> 0:21:56.679 Italian was on the menu. 0:21:56.920 --> 0:21:58.160 That's some Italian on the menu. 0:21:58.200 --> 0:22:01.680 We went to a very bougie restaurant, which I would 0:22:01.720 --> 0:22:05.119 never have gone to unless I was invited. Got the 0:22:05.280 --> 0:22:09.240 VIP status, not because of me, not because of me. 0:22:10.480 --> 0:22:12.680 Ended up sitting at the chef's table. You ever sat 0:22:12.680 --> 0:22:13.520 at the chef's table? 0:22:13.640 --> 0:22:16.160 Danny? Just once in New Orleans. 0:22:16.800 --> 0:22:18.879 Yeah, I'd only done it a couple times, and normally 0:22:18.920 --> 0:22:21.119 I did it. I think the times as I remember, 0:22:21.200 --> 0:22:22.880 I might be wrong, but as I remember the times 0:22:22.920 --> 0:22:26.040 I did it, it was when I was with a 0:22:26.080 --> 0:22:28.600 group of athletes who were famous and people knew they 0:22:28.600 --> 0:22:30.280 were famous, and so they were like, hey, you want 0:22:30.320 --> 0:22:32.720