WEBVTT - The Fifth Hour: A Maze of Inflation 0:00:00.680 --> 0:00:05.320 Ka boom. If you thought four hours a day, minutes 0:00:05.360 --> 0:00:09.160 a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants 0:00:09.160 --> 0:00:12.440 of the old Republic, a sole fashion of fairness. He 0:00:12.560 --> 0:00:15.480 treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the 0:00:15.600 --> 0:00:19.840 rich pill poppers in the penthouse. The Clearinghouse of Hot 0:00:19.920 --> 0:00:23.599 takes break free for something special. The Fifth Hour with 0:00:23.800 --> 0:00:32.760 Ben Maller starts right now in the air everywhere and 0:00:32.840 --> 0:00:36.720 welcome into another Pipe and Hot. Addition to the Fifth 0:00:36.760 --> 0:00:43.239 Hour with Ben Mallard and Danny g Radio because clearly 0:00:44.200 --> 0:00:49.080 the radio show not enough content bonus content here and 0:00:49.320 --> 0:00:54.720 it is all free. We're not charging for any of this. No, no, 0:00:54.840 --> 0:00:59.600 there's no cash that's required here and Danny the Saturday 0:00:59.680 --> 0:01:04.319 Pot Cast the Life of Mallard and Danny. Before we 0:01:04.360 --> 0:01:07.200 get into this, though, I would like to address the 0:01:07.319 --> 0:01:11.080 great game show controversy that took place on the Overnight 0:01:11.120 --> 0:01:15.520 Show this week and one of the most despicable things 0:01:15.560 --> 0:01:18.959 that I have witnessed in my time in radio, Eddie 0:01:18.959 --> 0:01:25.560 Garcia conspiring with Justin Cooper and Justin in Cincinnati to 0:01:25.920 --> 0:01:33.800 Justin's and and Eddie to throw a game. Now you're laughing, Danny, 0:01:33.880 --> 0:01:37.640 but I'm laughing because this explains why my timeline got 0:01:37.680 --> 0:01:40.160 lit up a couple of days ago. Well, yeah, and 0:01:40.600 --> 0:01:43.600 Mallard's mounting of money, which is a staple of the show, 0:01:44.480 --> 0:01:48.520 and Eddie knowing that he could not win the game legitimately, 0:01:49.160 --> 0:01:53.360 he deputized Justin and Cincinnati's I said on the radio 0:01:53.400 --> 0:01:58.840 show The Manchurian candidate Justin and Cincinnati who as you know, Danny, 0:01:59.160 --> 0:02:02.200 I mean justin Love. He he loves listening to the 0:02:02.320 --> 0:02:06.720 radio station Fox Sports Radio, and he has an obsession 0:02:06.760 --> 0:02:10.880 for weed and sports tribute. Uh. He's very good at 0:02:10.880 --> 0:02:16.480 apparently smoking copious amounts of weed and also nose ridiculous 0:02:16.520 --> 0:02:19.280 sports tributes like rain Man when it comes to sports tribute, Right, 0:02:19.280 --> 0:02:21.720 you'd agree with me on those are two life goals 0:02:21.760 --> 0:02:24.240 for all of us. Yes, So anyway, the point of 0:02:24.280 --> 0:02:28.040 this is we're playing the game. Justin ends up picking 0:02:28.080 --> 0:02:31.800 me as the the partner. And there are other investigators 0:02:31.840 --> 0:02:35.560 in the Mallard militia that are claiming that this was 0:02:35.600 --> 0:02:38.079 all set up, that this was all a ruse, and 0:02:38.120 --> 0:02:40.639 it was all set up, and and the moment I 0:02:40.680 --> 0:02:44.160 picked Justin, the plan went to orbit. That that was 0:02:44.280 --> 0:02:48.040 the the ghost sign um, and I'm not sure about 0:02:48.080 --> 0:02:50.480 all that. I don't know how deep this is. All 0:02:50.600 --> 0:02:52.800 I know is it played down the radio. And the 0:02:52.840 --> 0:02:58.080 most amazing thing about this is Eddie gave the sign, Danny, 0:02:58.560 --> 0:03:01.440 you know what to do? Did he bang on a 0:03:01.480 --> 0:03:05.880 trash can? No, he said it. He said it. He 0:03:06.120 --> 0:03:11.919 said it. He didn't didn't dance around, he didn't juggle 0:03:11.960 --> 0:03:15.640 around or anything like that. He said you know what 0:03:15.800 --> 0:03:19.160 to do as kind of uh sorry a wink wink 0:03:19.280 --> 0:03:24.560 to Justin In in Cincinnati. And and Justin, who's usually 0:03:24.560 --> 0:03:27.440 so so good, he just completely felful. He took the 0:03:27.480 --> 0:03:29.760 bait and so he got all upset because I banned 0:03:29.800 --> 0:03:32.920 him for six months from the game shows, and I 0:03:32.919 --> 0:03:35.360 think that's completely reasonable. I should have banned him for 0:03:35.400 --> 0:03:37.560 life from the show, like real talk, but I chose 0:03:37.600 --> 0:03:40.440 not to do that, so I gave him a break. Now, 0:03:40.480 --> 0:03:43.000 I didn't get to hear the segment. So how many 0:03:43.200 --> 0:03:45.320 did he miss? How many? How do you know he 0:03:45.400 --> 0:03:49.840 threw it? Well because of the he was stalling and delaying. 0:03:50.560 --> 0:03:57.320 He was stalling, and he was a savoteur. It was 0:03:57.360 --> 0:04:02.000 absolutely ridiculous. And and the fact that there are some 0:04:02.160 --> 0:04:05.000 unethical people that listen to the show. That thought that 0:04:05.120 --> 0:04:08.720 was entertaining. Uh, these game shows are very serious. You've 0:04:08.720 --> 0:04:10.840 been on the show, Danny, you've played the game shows. 0:04:11.360 --> 0:04:16.560 You know that we take these game shows very seriously. 0:04:16.600 --> 0:04:18.880 People think we're goofing around and this is all stick. 0:04:19.279 --> 0:04:22.960 It ain't stick. Okay, these things are very important. This 0:04:23.000 --> 0:04:27.400 is competition, this is athletic competition, competition of the mind, 0:04:27.839 --> 0:04:30.880 all of that. It's a journey on these game shows. 0:04:31.000 --> 0:04:33.400 And so I just wanted to get that off my chest. 0:04:33.680 --> 0:04:36.560 I just wanted to start with that. Okay, But we 0:04:36.640 --> 0:04:43.120 have Rat in a Maze, Picasso of Goats, Tough, tragic burn, 0:04:43.279 --> 0:04:48.240 this summer down, not necessarily in that order, Backscratcher as well, 0:04:48.880 --> 0:04:51.320 and I thought we'd start with this, So the Rat 0:04:51.520 --> 0:04:55.120 in the Maze. I had a meeting the other day 0:04:55.240 --> 0:04:59.920 during the week, uh business meeting in Burbank, as one 0:05:00.000 --> 0:05:03.080 of our callers like to say, or we call a 0:05:03.120 --> 0:05:06.520 Burbank right near Warner Brothers. So I was meeting with 0:05:06.560 --> 0:05:08.320 some of the big shots that they're not able to 0:05:08.320 --> 0:05:10.960 talk about what happened in that meeting here, not yet. 0:05:11.000 --> 0:05:14.640 Hopefully soon we'll be able to discuss that share some 0:05:14.640 --> 0:05:19.760 more information. So I got up very early. Is being replaced, Yes, 0:05:20.279 --> 0:05:23.680 the new voice of the Dodgers, unless that's not the case. 0:05:23.800 --> 0:05:27.960 So I got up early. I spent ninety minutes in 0:05:28.200 --> 0:05:33.560 gridlock traffic at two in the afternoon. Now, I thought, 0:05:33.680 --> 0:05:36.640 two in the afternoon, that's midday people are working, that's 0:05:36.640 --> 0:05:40.400 not rush hour traffic. Ninety minutes at two o'clock in 0:05:40.440 --> 0:05:43.440 the afternoon, So that was ridiculous. And all over the 0:05:43.520 --> 0:05:47.880 highways and byways of southern California to get to this meeting. Now, 0:05:48.240 --> 0:05:53.520 I had not been to this Burbank compounds since I 0:05:53.560 --> 0:05:56.320 can't believe it's been that long, but it had been that. 0:05:56.360 --> 0:05:59.159 I checked my my notes and it had been six 0:05:59.279 --> 0:06:03.520 years since I had been there. Uh. And that's that's 0:06:03.560 --> 0:06:06.080 the I heart l A cluster. This is where the 0:06:06.080 --> 0:06:09.160 big l A stay. I Kiss FM, which big FM 0:06:10.080 --> 0:06:13.719 station kf I AM five seventy at the home of 0:06:13.720 --> 0:06:16.120 the Dodgers. These are the big stations in l A 0:06:16.640 --> 0:06:19.920 and others. There's whole bunch of FM stations other than 0:06:20.000 --> 0:06:24.400 Kiss FM. So I go to my meeting. Now, I'm 0:06:24.440 --> 0:06:28.240 not sure how long the meeting's gonna last. I have 0:06:28.440 --> 0:06:31.280 a lotted thirty minutes of time Danny for this meeting. 0:06:31.440 --> 0:06:34.279 I figured that's a fair amount. Thirty minutes, ten minute 0:06:34.320 --> 0:06:37.240 warm up, back, ten minute meeting, the meeting, and then 0:06:37.279 --> 0:06:41.840 ten minutes to wind up. Are these executives are salespeople? Uh? No, 0:06:41.920 --> 0:06:44.040 it was. It was a mishmash. It was. It was 0:06:44.080 --> 0:06:47.680 some big shots, some heavy hitters, and so hand the 0:06:47.760 --> 0:06:54.120 god Danny. By the time the meeting had ended, it 0:06:54.200 --> 0:06:58.120 was almost two hours. So I had only a lot 0:06:58.279 --> 0:07:01.240 of thirty minutes of time. And so what did you 0:07:01.320 --> 0:07:04.800 do a monologue for everybody? Oh? God no, And I 0:07:04.800 --> 0:07:06.120 want to tell you I had the patience of a 0:07:06.160 --> 0:07:09.000 saint to sit through. So I sat there and I, 0:07:09.120 --> 0:07:10.880 you know whatever. It was fine, and I enjoyed some 0:07:11.000 --> 0:07:12.760 I like talking shop you know that day, and I 0:07:12.800 --> 0:07:16.120 like talking radio and stuff. So we had a good conversation. 0:07:16.160 --> 0:07:19.440 But two hours is a long time, and so that 0:07:19.640 --> 0:07:24.000 completely messed up my entire schedule. And I planned to 0:07:24.040 --> 0:07:27.280 have this nice lunch. I used to work in Burbank 0:07:27.440 --> 0:07:32.880 and there's a a park into Luca Lake. So because 0:07:32.920 --> 0:07:36.160 of the meeting going so long, my lunch plans were 0:07:36.200 --> 0:07:39.400 completely bumped. Because I have a certain amount of time, 0:07:39.400 --> 0:07:42.000 I'm i'd like to micro manage the overnight show, so 0:07:42.040 --> 0:07:43.840 I have to prepare. I have a certain amount of time. 0:07:44.240 --> 0:07:47.080 Instead of spending a couple of minutes eating lunch in 0:07:47.120 --> 0:07:51.080 a park, I spent another thirty minutes going from Burbank 0:07:51.120 --> 0:07:54.600 to Sherman Oaks. So because I got caught in rush hour, 0:07:55.960 --> 0:08:00.200 now I'm two hours in traffic and I haven't really done. 0:08:00.240 --> 0:08:02.600 But I had a meeting that was so I make 0:08:02.680 --> 0:08:05.720 the decision on the fly. Here da, this is very important. 0:08:05.760 --> 0:08:07.200 So I make the decision on the fly. I'm like, 0:08:07.560 --> 0:08:09.360 I still need to eat something because I need to 0:08:09.360 --> 0:08:11.640 break my fast and then start my neck fast. So 0:08:11.760 --> 0:08:14.320 I had some food that my wife had had been 0:08:14.400 --> 0:08:18.040 kind enough to prepare for me. So I I then 0:08:18.160 --> 0:08:22.400 decided that I would just go to the Sherman Oaks 0:08:22.440 --> 0:08:26.760 facility and I would eat my meal in my car. 0:08:28.160 --> 0:08:33.200 So I scarfed down a Pastronomy sandwich on the fourth 0:08:33.240 --> 0:08:36.520 floor of the parking garage. This is the life of 0:08:36.559 --> 0:08:39.600 a radio star day. This is the life of a 0:08:39.720 --> 0:08:42.320 radio start by myself in a car on a hot 0:08:42.400 --> 0:08:46.800 day in Sherman Oaks, eating a Pastronomy sandwich and having 0:08:46.840 --> 0:08:50.680 some chips. And now I did notice and I don't 0:08:50.679 --> 0:08:53.080 see this at night. When I come in, there a 0:08:53.160 --> 0:08:58.040 lot of like hippie looking people doing hot yoga. Oh yeah, 0:08:58.360 --> 0:09:01.040 there was a lot of that. And some of them 0:09:01.080 --> 0:09:04.240 look swarthy, some of them look slim, some of them 0:09:04.240 --> 0:09:10.040 look lizard like. Yeah, the planning bed. Yeah, I noticed 0:09:10.080 --> 0:09:12.200 there were a lot of very thin people that I thought, 0:09:12.240 --> 0:09:14.800 instead of going here, they should probably eating the pastronomy 0:09:14.840 --> 0:09:18.600 sandwich that I'm eating. Uh but whatever. And then there 0:09:18.679 --> 0:09:20.160 are a couple of good looking people a couple of 0:09:20.200 --> 0:09:22.319 really ugly people like, you know whatever, it's a it's 0:09:22.360 --> 0:09:24.560 a mix. You go to a hot yoga thing. I 0:09:24.559 --> 0:09:27.240 have no interesting have you ever done hot yoga? I've 0:09:27.280 --> 0:09:30.439 never been to regular yoga. Now I know some of 0:09:30.480 --> 0:09:33.760 the yoga moves because they're funny, like the double down 0:09:33.840 --> 0:09:36.880 dog or whatever that is. Uh so that those those 0:09:36.880 --> 0:09:39.640 things are funny. But so anyway, I'm like, okay, I've 0:09:39.640 --> 0:09:43.040 eaten my lunch. Now I've started my next fast. I'm like, okay, 0:09:43.200 --> 0:09:46.120 I'm gonna prepare for the show. And I was like, 0:09:46.160 --> 0:09:49.160 I don't want to be bothered. If I go to 0:09:49.240 --> 0:09:51.680 the first floor, I'm gonna be bothered. And people are nice, 0:09:51.720 --> 0:09:53.240 they want to talk to me, so I'm like, I 0:09:53.240 --> 0:09:56.600 don't want. I don't want. So I said, Okay, I'm 0:09:56.679 --> 0:09:58.560 thinking in my head like there's been a lot of 0:09:58.640 --> 0:10:03.800 movement in the Premiere Networks facility because of there's a 0:10:03.840 --> 0:10:05.679 move that's gonna happen, it's gonna take a long time 0:10:05.679 --> 0:10:09.800 because of wiring and on um. So, so anyway, I'm like, okay, 0:10:11.080 --> 0:10:13.680 I think we have studios on one of the floors. 0:10:13.720 --> 0:10:18.120 Where where And actually parked next to the George nor So. 0:10:18.200 --> 0:10:20.400 I knew that he had. He was there the host 0:10:20.559 --> 0:10:23.560 of Coast to Coast and so I was like, all right, 0:10:23.559 --> 0:10:26.000 you don't want to do I'm gonna hide out at 0:10:26.040 --> 0:10:29.840 the Premier Network studio. And so how did that go? 0:10:29.960 --> 0:10:32.040 So I meagined, I parked near George Nory. So I 0:10:32.200 --> 0:10:38.240 get through the courtyard through the big glass doors. I 0:10:38.320 --> 0:10:40.559 go by the security guard, which I know because that 0:10:40.640 --> 0:10:43.240 used to be the overnight guy. He's now earlier on 0:10:43.440 --> 0:10:46.400 and so we're friends, me and and and there's great 0:10:47.720 --> 0:10:51.080 sec Yeah, the comic book guy, he's doing the earlier shift, 0:10:51.160 --> 0:10:52.800 and so you know, he waved me in and we 0:10:52.800 --> 0:10:57.240 were we were talking and uh we both we exchanged niceties. 0:10:57.280 --> 0:10:59.080 He said, you look great. And I said, well, you 0:10:59.120 --> 0:11:01.280 look great, you know that kind of thing, very polite, 0:11:01.800 --> 0:11:04.360 and so I keep walking doing my thing. I walked 0:11:04.440 --> 0:11:06.240 to the elevator, I get up. I go to the right. 0:11:06.440 --> 0:11:07.720 I want to name the floor, but I go to 0:11:07.760 --> 0:11:11.560 the floor where the studios and I'm like, okay, I'm 0:11:11.600 --> 0:11:13.640 just gonna go in Danny to one of these empty 0:11:13.679 --> 0:11:18.000 offices and I'm gonna use the WiFi and I'll watching 0:11:18.120 --> 0:11:20.920 I watched the Yankee Mets game and on my laptop, 0:11:21.000 --> 0:11:24.560 and I'll do the So I get out of the 0:11:24.559 --> 0:11:28.040 elevator on the floor and I go over to where 0:11:28.040 --> 0:11:31.160 I have normally gone for a long time, and I 0:11:31.200 --> 0:11:34.280 go by the bathrooms. I opened the door, I go 0:11:34.400 --> 0:11:36.559 through there on the left side, there's like a little 0:11:36.640 --> 0:11:40.360 kitchen at where there's like a vending machine and a 0:11:40.400 --> 0:11:43.559 couple of tables and some plastic wear and stuff like that. 0:11:44.040 --> 0:11:46.040 So I'm like, okay, that's there. And then I keep 0:11:46.080 --> 0:11:50.680 going straight and there's caution tape like a crime scene, 0:11:51.440 --> 0:11:56.200 and I'm like, who died? What happened? Um? And I 0:11:56.240 --> 0:11:58.360 look and I kind of peeked through the caution tape 0:11:58.559 --> 0:12:03.040 and I see a bunch of empty rooms. But I 0:12:03.080 --> 0:12:06.960 can't go by it's cautioned. So I'm like, okay, they 0:12:07.040 --> 0:12:09.200 must be doing some construction. So then I'm like, I'm 0:12:09.200 --> 0:12:11.559 gonna go to the other side of the building and 0:12:11.600 --> 0:12:13.400 I'm gonna go through the other side of the building, 0:12:13.400 --> 0:12:15.160 and then I'm gonna find where I need to go. 0:12:16.160 --> 0:12:17.760 So I go through the other side of the building 0:12:17.840 --> 0:12:23.280 and I you know, door opens, whatever, and I am 0:12:23.640 --> 0:12:26.680 wandering around. Now at this point, I am a rat 0:12:26.800 --> 0:12:32.720 in the maze. I'm wandering. I'm wandering, and it's you 0:12:32.760 --> 0:12:37.400 know how you've been somewhere and you go back and 0:12:37.480 --> 0:12:40.400 you don't recognize a lot of it. You're like, what happened? 0:12:40.440 --> 0:12:43.760 I wasn't here that long ago. It reminded me of 0:12:43.800 --> 0:12:47.880 the story of going to that mall on the Nevada 0:12:48.360 --> 0:12:53.720 a California border where it was, Yeah, it was it 0:12:53.800 --> 0:12:57.440 was that I got that vibe. It was very weird 0:12:57.559 --> 0:13:00.160 and and so anyway, I failed. I struck out up. 0:13:00.880 --> 0:13:03.160 I couldn't find a single empty They got rid of 0:13:03.200 --> 0:13:06.360 the all of the office. There were a few studios, 0:13:07.320 --> 0:13:10.680 and I was gonna sit in the guest studio, but 0:13:10.840 --> 0:13:13.120 then that's right near George Norri's office, and I didn't 0:13:13.120 --> 0:13:16.120 want to bother George. So I thought that would be rude. 0:13:16.120 --> 0:13:18.000 I wouldn't want someone coming in here and bother me 0:13:18.040 --> 0:13:20.080 and so so I didn't do that. So I did 0:13:20.160 --> 0:13:22.079 the walk of shame, Danny. I had to go back 0:13:22.120 --> 0:13:27.040 down to the the ground floor there and uh and 0:13:27.280 --> 0:13:30.520 sit in the old Casey Caseum studio, which is the 0:13:30.559 --> 0:13:37.440 podcast studio, and I took the defeat. I went back 0:13:37.520 --> 0:13:41.920 to the ground floor abode and hit out and put 0:13:41.920 --> 0:13:45.199 the blinders up and all that, and surprisingly not many 0:13:45.200 --> 0:13:46.880 people even noticed I was there, so that was good. 0:13:46.920 --> 0:13:49.120 There weren't many people there. A lot of the guys 0:13:49.120 --> 0:13:50.920 were doing the show from home, so I didn't have 0:13:50.960 --> 0:13:53.800 to I did run into my Karmit I talked to 0:13:53.840 --> 0:13:55.760 Harmon for a little bit. But it was a crazy 0:13:55.800 --> 0:13:59.480 busy night and then I did the show after spending 0:14:00.120 --> 0:14:02.959 all day there and all night. Did the show and 0:14:03.000 --> 0:14:05.760 then I had to do some other stuff and it 0:14:05.880 --> 0:14:08.319 was it was a hot mess. I know the floor 0:14:08.400 --> 0:14:12.800 you're talking about what happened to the million dollar renovation 0:14:12.880 --> 0:14:15.040 they had done up there with all the blue waiting 0:14:15.160 --> 0:14:18.560 rooms and lobbies. Well, I'm glad you brought that up, Danny, 0:14:18.640 --> 0:14:21.440 because you'll be happy to know that some other business 0:14:21.560 --> 0:14:25.920 will have that office space at some point in time, 0:14:26.080 --> 0:14:29.200 but it is no longer part of the company's office space. 0:14:29.880 --> 0:14:33.400 The hundreds of thousands of dollars that they spent to 0:14:33.480 --> 0:14:37.080 renovate that, all the monitors, all the bells and whistles, 0:14:37.120 --> 0:14:42.520 all of that, and just just great, just absolutely great. 0:14:43.000 --> 0:14:48.600 Basically an entire floor of Ryan Seacrest's dressing rooms. You're right, 0:14:48.600 --> 0:14:50.720 it was a lot of Hey, this guy is a 0:14:50.760 --> 0:14:53.440 great talk show host. That guy's a great talk shows 0:14:53.920 --> 0:14:57.640 and somehow they forgot to put my photo up in there, 0:14:57.800 --> 0:15:00.720 or several other people, but I did see, uh, you 0:15:00.720 --> 0:15:03.320 know a lot of the big names. They were bragging 0:15:03.320 --> 0:15:07.400 about that. But they've battened down the hatches preparing for 0:15:07.440 --> 0:15:10.680 the big move, so they're they're all excited about that. 0:15:10.960 --> 0:15:14.240 So that was the rat in the maze. Now the uh, 0:15:14.280 --> 0:15:21.320 the Picasso of goats real quick. So the Mallard Peluza 0:15:22.120 --> 0:15:24.600 big success. We We did have some controversy in that. 0:15:24.680 --> 0:15:29.320 Surfer Todd, the comedian, filed a formal complaint claiming that 0:15:29.360 --> 0:15:32.400 there was some funny business that had taken place. We 0:15:32.840 --> 0:15:35.080 can't do anything on this show without some kind of 0:15:35.120 --> 0:15:39.480 nonsense so Todd was all upset. He claimed election fraud. 0:15:40.000 --> 0:15:42.680 He said that Jay Scoop and just Josh had bought 0:15:43.680 --> 0:15:48.200 Twitter votes in this dopey pole and he was very upset. 0:15:48.200 --> 0:15:50.720 He claimed that they picked up hundreds of votes in 0:15:50.760 --> 0:15:54.280 a very short amount of time, both denying the charge. 0:15:55.160 --> 0:15:57.400 We have not gone further with the investigation, but Surfer 0:15:57.440 --> 0:16:00.440 Todd was perplexed, puzzled and pissed. He was on the 0:16:00.440 --> 0:16:04.440 war path. He was not happy. But the story for 0:16:04.480 --> 0:16:06.720 me has a happy because the Mallard Paluza Dan he 0:16:06.760 --> 0:16:08.680 has a purveyor of fine art. You've been to the 0:16:08.680 --> 0:16:10.480 Mallard Mansion, not the new one, but the old one, 0:16:11.480 --> 0:16:16.400 and I was able to add to my collection. The 0:16:16.480 --> 0:16:21.000 Mallard Mansion is a modern day louve of fine art. 0:16:21.480 --> 0:16:27.160 This latest piece a exclusive piece compliments of the Goatman, 0:16:27.720 --> 0:16:32.360 robbed the Goatman from Iowa Goat who I've dubbed him 0:16:32.360 --> 0:16:36.760 the Picasso of goats. What what? What a wonderful artist. 0:16:36.800 --> 0:16:42.080 He put together an unofficial poster of the Mallard Palooza. 0:16:42.840 --> 0:16:46.720 I think stent you a painting of Lebron James. Oh God, no, no, 0:16:46.880 --> 0:16:49.640 but but Robbie he did this little poster, you know, 0:16:49.640 --> 0:16:52.280 because any good music concert needs a poster. You need 0:16:52.320 --> 0:16:56.160 t shirts, you need call He made a poster and 0:16:56.200 --> 0:16:58.480 it was pretty cool. And I've shown my wife and 0:16:58.520 --> 0:17:00.360 she saw that's great. We should put that up, you know. 0:17:00.520 --> 0:17:03.080 Oh that's a good idea because we have some other 0:17:03.120 --> 0:17:07.080 things the Mad Clown made years ago that has a 0:17:07.119 --> 0:17:10.119 bunch of the characters of that era in the show 0:17:10.440 --> 0:17:13.639 on there. And I always love these unique things. Anyway, 0:17:13.680 --> 0:17:17.480 So Mallard Mallarpaluza poster rob I. I sent him a message. 0:17:17.880 --> 0:17:19.760 He said, yeah, absolutely, So he sent me the big 0:17:19.800 --> 0:17:23.920 file and at some point I'm not sure when we 0:17:24.000 --> 0:17:29.639 will have the Mallard Palooza poster will be added, and uh, 0:17:29.840 --> 0:17:32.160 it's pretty cool. I'm excited, but I have not gotten 0:17:32.160 --> 0:17:34.920 it yet, but I will. I'm sure keep you posted 0:17:35.520 --> 0:17:39.160 when that that great day arrives and it lands at 0:17:39.160 --> 0:17:44.000 my doorstep. Meanwhile, it's summertime in the city. But is 0:17:44.040 --> 0:17:47.960 it time to burn this summer down? Danny g This 0:17:48.040 --> 0:17:51.439 has been a long week and the reason why, and 0:17:51.600 --> 0:17:53.960 you can relate to this bend you've talked about the 0:17:54.000 --> 0:17:58.320 catalytic converter crisis that you've had on your hands. Yes, 0:17:58.920 --> 0:18:01.760 still don't have it. Yeah, I knew you didn't have 0:18:01.840 --> 0:18:05.280 it yet because I've been dealing with auto mechanics the 0:18:05.320 --> 0:18:10.760 past week. Man, I'm in your club right now, and 0:18:10.760 --> 0:18:13.240 it's not a good club to be in. I'll take 0:18:13.240 --> 0:18:15.720 you back to the very first day of summer school, 0:18:16.480 --> 0:18:20.280 and my first class started at ninety and I saw 0:18:20.320 --> 0:18:23.800 in the schedule that parent drop off was at eight forty. 0:18:24.240 --> 0:18:28.760 So I'm thinking, you know, to avoid that rush of cars, 0:18:29.320 --> 0:18:33.040 I should get there like nine. Give me some time 0:18:33.040 --> 0:18:35.840 to set the classroom up a little bit and not 0:18:36.160 --> 0:18:40.600 get there when everybody's dropping their kids off. Problem. I 0:18:40.680 --> 0:18:44.520 get there and most of the parents had been running late, 0:18:44.640 --> 0:18:46.720 probably because it was the first day of summer school 0:18:46.760 --> 0:18:50.280 for them, trouble getting their kid into the car on time, 0:18:50.400 --> 0:18:54.000 and they were just all running late in general. The 0:18:54.080 --> 0:18:56.480 other thing I didn't know. I hadn't been on this 0:18:56.600 --> 0:19:01.200 campus yet. It is up a hill on which wouldn't 0:19:01.200 --> 0:19:04.639 be an issue except I drive a stick shift. Blank 0:19:04.720 --> 0:19:07.800 my blank and blank you Now why do you drive 0:19:07.840 --> 0:19:09.800 a stick shift? Do you love the stick shift? Is 0:19:09.840 --> 0:19:12.560 that how you learned how to drive? Is it? What? What? 0:19:12.560 --> 0:19:14.320 What is the stick shift? There? I don't I don't 0:19:14.320 --> 0:19:16.359 know how to drive a stick shift. It's something that 0:19:16.400 --> 0:19:20.120 I've learned to love over the past few years. This 0:19:20.200 --> 0:19:23.360 is the first stick shift that I've had now. When 0:19:23.400 --> 0:19:27.720 I was working on OutKick the coverage, it was perfect talk. 0:19:28.480 --> 0:19:31.439 I had a clear race track to Sherman Oaks and 0:19:31.480 --> 0:19:35.640 then after post production there was some light morning traffic, 0:19:35.720 --> 0:19:38.760 but I still was able to move without a lot 0:19:38.800 --> 0:19:42.480 of bumper to bumper. It wasn't until my life recently 0:19:43.119 --> 0:19:45.879 that I was sitting in Saturday bumper to bumper l 0:19:45.920 --> 0:19:48.760 A traffic to get to the studios, the same thing 0:19:48.840 --> 0:19:52.520 for Sunday. And explain for those that don't understikes I 0:19:52.520 --> 0:19:55.400 I do they still make stick shifts? Is that still 0:19:55.400 --> 0:20:01.000 a thing? It's usually sports cars, okay, And explain for 0:20:01.000 --> 0:20:03.560 those that have never driven a stick shift, like, like, 0:20:03.960 --> 0:20:08.119 why is it harder in traffic? You're stopped, then you 0:20:08.119 --> 0:20:11.359 have to get your car back into first, back into second, 0:20:11.359 --> 0:20:14.200 back in the third. So basically you are down shifting 0:20:14.200 --> 0:20:17.600 and shifting back up constantly. So it's a lot of 0:20:17.680 --> 0:20:20.720 leg movement, it's a lot of our movement. You you 0:20:20.840 --> 0:20:22.680 come to a stop and you have to start all 0:20:22.720 --> 0:20:27.159 over again, whereas if you are gliding with your stick shift. 0:20:27.560 --> 0:20:30.440 You don't have to ride your clutch, so it's bad 0:20:30.480 --> 0:20:33.240 and bumper to bumper traffic because you are stepping on 0:20:33.280 --> 0:20:36.880 your clutch too often. So I get to that first 0:20:36.960 --> 0:20:39.119 day of summer school. Now, when I get around that 0:20:39.160 --> 0:20:41.840 bend and I start going up the hill, I see 0:20:41.880 --> 0:20:45.439 brake lights and I'm like, oh, step on my brake, 0:20:45.920 --> 0:20:49.280 pull up my emergency brake, which is the trick when 0:20:49.320 --> 0:20:52.000 you have a stick shift. And I looked behind me 0:20:52.040 --> 0:20:54.360 immediately because I'm like, I better you turn and get 0:20:54.359 --> 0:20:56.840 out of here, because I know from a few years 0:20:56.840 --> 0:21:00.520 ago being stuck at Dodger Stadium on the hill there, 0:21:01.040 --> 0:21:04.000 that this is no good for the clutch. I look 0:21:04.080 --> 0:21:07.399 back and there's already three parents behind me. So I 0:21:07.440 --> 0:21:11.400 am trapped in this line going up this steep hill. 0:21:12.119 --> 0:21:19.880 Don't panic, but I know it's bad. So I did 0:21:19.920 --> 0:21:23.119 the trick where you try to catch the gear and 0:21:23.160 --> 0:21:26.800 then release your break and you move forward. The problem 0:21:26.840 --> 0:21:30.439 is this line is putting, it's barely going up. So 0:21:30.520 --> 0:21:34.840 I make the executive decision screw this. I'm gonna drive 0:21:34.920 --> 0:21:40.080 against head on traffic, and if any parent is driving 0:21:40.119 --> 0:21:43.520 down the hill, oh well that's better. Than having to 0:21:43.520 --> 0:21:47.120 put a new clutch into my sports car. I get 0:21:47.200 --> 0:21:49.639 up the hill. The security guard at the gate of 0:21:49.680 --> 0:21:52.960 the school is looking at me like I'm nuts. Explained 0:21:52.960 --> 0:21:56.440 to him, I'm your new science teacher. Sorry, but I'm 0:21:56.520 --> 0:21:59.399 driving a stick shift. I couldn't fit in that line. 0:22:00.200 --> 0:22:02.080 And he's like, oh my god. He's like, I smell 0:22:02.160 --> 0:22:06.400 you're burning clutch. I could smell it as well when 0:22:06.400 --> 0:22:09.680 I rolled my window down, and I was like, oh boy, 0:22:09.760 --> 0:22:12.680 this is not good. I've only smelled this one other time, 0:22:13.160 --> 0:22:15.680 and it was at Dodger Stadium a few years ago. 0:22:16.200 --> 0:22:19.240 So I parked my car. It reeks of a burned clutch, 0:22:20.040 --> 0:22:22.800 praying at this point like please don't let it be serious, 0:22:23.240 --> 0:22:26.199 Please don't let it be bad. It smelled like this 0:22:26.280 --> 0:22:28.320 for a couple of days, to the point where I 0:22:28.440 --> 0:22:31.439 kept it parked and I had my Tenderoni dropped me 0:22:31.480 --> 0:22:33.840 off on the second and third day of summer school. 0:22:34.440 --> 0:22:37.760 So now fast forward, I am driving, and of course, 0:22:37.760 --> 0:22:40.680 of all things been I'm driving to pet Boys to 0:22:40.760 --> 0:22:45.919 get two new front tires installed. Finally, I'm caught up 0:22:45.960 --> 0:22:49.080 on bills. Been working my ass off, I've been needing 0:22:49.119 --> 0:22:52.159 two front tires, so I got my appointment. I'm on 0:22:52.280 --> 0:22:58.480 my way there. First into second revving, not going into gear, 0:22:59.080 --> 0:23:03.080 second to third revving, not going into gear, slipping, The 0:23:03.119 --> 0:23:06.800 clutch is giving out, and it is all compliments of 0:23:06.840 --> 0:23:09.479 that hill. On the first day of summer school. If 0:23:09.520 --> 0:23:12.160 I get it to the shop, the guy tells me, oh, yeah, yeah, 0:23:12.440 --> 0:23:17.560 you better go to Leon's Transmission. This is not good now, Ben, Normally, 0:23:17.600 --> 0:23:20.040 back in the day, you could get your clutch fixed. 0:23:20.520 --> 0:23:30.920 Maybe shipping stalking issues right now something you're well aware of. Yeah, 0:23:30.960 --> 0:23:34.240 what do you think that costs now? She said? Normally 0:23:34.280 --> 0:23:38.120 it's like in the past when things were cheaper. I'm 0:23:38.119 --> 0:23:44.440 gonna say it's closer. You're under three thousand. Maybe if 0:23:44.480 --> 0:23:47.840 the flywheel was okay, but if you got to replace 0:23:47.880 --> 0:23:51.320 the flywheel in the parts and the labor, don't forget 0:23:51.320 --> 0:23:55.560 the labor now. Yeah? Yeah? Did you do what I 0:23:55.600 --> 0:23:58.040