Speaker 1: Ka boom. If you thought four hours a day, minutes
Speaker 1: a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants
Speaker 1: of the old Republic, a sole fashion of fairness. He
Speaker 1: treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the
Speaker 1: rich pill poppers in the penthouse. The Clearinghouse of Hot
Speaker 1: takes break free for something special. The Fifth Hour with
Speaker 1: Ben Maller starts right now in the air everywhere and
Speaker 1: welcome into another Pipe and Hot. Addition to the Fifth
Speaker 1: Hour with Ben Mallard and Danny g Radio because clearly
Speaker 1: the radio show not enough content bonus content here and
Speaker 1: it is all free. We're not charging for any of this. No, no,
Speaker 1: there's no cash that's required here and Danny the Saturday
Speaker 1: Pot Cast the Life of Mallard and Danny. Before we
Speaker 1: get into this, though, I would like to address the
Speaker 1: great game show controversy that took place on the Overnight
Speaker 1: Show this week and one of the most despicable things
Speaker 1: that I have witnessed in my time in radio, Eddie
Speaker 1: Garcia conspiring with Justin Cooper and Justin in Cincinnati to
Speaker 1: Justin's and and Eddie to throw a game. Now you're laughing, Danny,
Speaker 1: but I'm laughing because this explains why my timeline got
Speaker 1: lit up a couple of days ago. Well, yeah, and
Speaker 1: Mallard's mounting of money, which is a staple of the show,
Speaker 1: and Eddie knowing that he could not win the game legitimately,
Speaker 1: he deputized Justin and Cincinnati's I said on the radio
Speaker 1: show The Manchurian candidate Justin and Cincinnati who as you know, Danny,
Speaker 1: I mean justin Love. He he loves listening to the
Speaker 1: radio station Fox Sports Radio, and he has an obsession
Speaker 1: for weed and sports tribute. Uh. He's very good at
Speaker 1: apparently smoking copious amounts of weed and also nose ridiculous
Speaker 1: sports tributes like rain Man when it comes to sports tribute, Right,
Speaker 1: you'd agree with me on those are two life goals
Speaker 1: for all of us. Yes, So anyway, the point of
Speaker 1: this is we're playing the game. Justin ends up picking
Speaker 1: me as the the partner. And there are other investigators
Speaker 1: in the Mallard militia that are claiming that this was
Speaker 1: all set up, that this was all a ruse, and
Speaker 1: it was all set up, and and the moment I
Speaker 1: picked Justin, the plan went to orbit. That that was
Speaker 1: the the ghost sign um, and I'm not sure about
Speaker 1: all that. I don't know how deep this is. All
Speaker 1: I know is it played down the radio. And the
Speaker 1: most amazing thing about this is Eddie gave the sign, Danny,
Speaker 1: you know what to do? Did he bang on a
Speaker 1: trash can? No, he said it. He said it. He
Speaker 1: said it. He didn't didn't dance around, he didn't juggle
Speaker 1: around or anything like that. He said you know what
Speaker 1: to do as kind of uh sorry a wink wink
Speaker 1: to Justin In in Cincinnati. And and Justin, who's usually
Speaker 1: so so good, he just completely felful. He took the
Speaker 1: bait and so he got all upset because I banned
Speaker 1: him for six months from the game shows, and I
Speaker 1: think that's completely reasonable. I should have banned him for
Speaker 1: life from the show, like real talk, but I chose
Speaker 1: not to do that, so I gave him a break. Now,
Speaker 1: I didn't get to hear the segment. So how many
Speaker 1: did he miss? How many? How do you know he
Speaker 1: threw it? Well because of the he was stalling and delaying.
Speaker 1: He was stalling, and he was a savoteur. It was
Speaker 1: absolutely ridiculous. And and the fact that there are some
Speaker 1: unethical people that listen to the show. That thought that
Speaker 1: was entertaining. Uh, these game shows are very serious. You've
Speaker 1: been on the show, Danny, you've played the game shows.
Speaker 1: You know that we take these game shows very seriously.
Speaker 1: People think we're goofing around and this is all stick.
Speaker 1: It ain't stick. Okay, these things are very important. This
Speaker 1: is competition, this is athletic competition, competition of the mind,
Speaker 1: all of that. It's a journey on these game shows.
Speaker 1: And so I just wanted to get that off my chest.
Speaker 1: I just wanted to start with that. Okay, But we
Speaker 1: have Rat in a Maze, Picasso of Goats, Tough, tragic burn,
Speaker 1: this summer down, not necessarily in that order, Backscratcher as well,
Speaker 1: and I thought we'd start with this, So the Rat
Speaker 1: in the Maze. I had a meeting the other day
Speaker 1: during the week, uh business meeting in Burbank, as one
Speaker 1: of our callers like to say, or we call a
Speaker 1: Burbank right near Warner Brothers. So I was meeting with
Speaker 1: some of the big shots that they're not able to
Speaker 1: talk about what happened in that meeting here, not yet.
Speaker 1: Hopefully soon we'll be able to discuss that share some
Speaker 1: more information. So I got up very early. Is being replaced, Yes,
Speaker 1: the new voice of the Dodgers, unless that's not the case.
Speaker 1: So I got up early. I spent ninety minutes in
Speaker 1: gridlock traffic at two in the afternoon. Now, I thought,
Speaker 1: two in the afternoon, that's midday people are working, that's
Speaker 1: not rush hour traffic. Ninety minutes at two o'clock in
Speaker 1: the afternoon, So that was ridiculous. And all over the
Speaker 1: highways and byways of southern California to get to this meeting. Now,
Speaker 1: I had not been to this Burbank compounds since I
Speaker 1: can't believe it's been that long, but it had been that.
Speaker 1: I checked my my notes and it had been six
Speaker 1: years since I had been there. Uh. And that's that's
Speaker 1: the I heart l A cluster. This is where the
Speaker 1: big l A stay. I Kiss FM, which big FM
Speaker 1: station kf I AM five seventy at the home of
Speaker 1: the Dodgers. These are the big stations in l A
Speaker 1: and others. There's whole bunch of FM stations other than
Speaker 1: Kiss FM. So I go to my meeting. Now, I'm
Speaker 1: not sure how long the meeting's gonna last. I have
Speaker 1: a lotted thirty minutes of time Danny for this meeting.
Speaker 1: I figured that's a fair amount. Thirty minutes, ten minute
Speaker 1: warm up, back, ten minute meeting, the meeting, and then
Speaker 1: ten minutes to wind up. Are these executives are salespeople? Uh? No,
Speaker 1: it was. It was a mishmash. It was. It was
Speaker 1: some big shots, some heavy hitters, and so hand the
Speaker 1: god Danny. By the time the meeting had ended, it
Speaker 1: was almost two hours. So I had only a lot
Speaker 1: of thirty minutes of time. And so what did you
Speaker 1: do a monologue for everybody? Oh? God no, And I
Speaker 1: want to tell you I had the patience of a
Speaker 1: saint to sit through. So I sat there and I,
Speaker 1: you know whatever. It was fine, and I enjoyed some
Speaker 1: I like talking shop you know that day, and I
Speaker 1: like talking radio and stuff. So we had a good conversation.
Speaker 1: But two hours is a long time, and so that
Speaker 1: completely messed up my entire schedule. And I planned to
Speaker 1: have this nice lunch. I used to work in Burbank
Speaker 1: and there's a a park into Luca Lake. So because
Speaker 1: of the meeting going so long, my lunch plans were
Speaker 1: completely bumped. Because I have a certain amount of time,
Speaker 1: I'm i'd like to micro manage the overnight show, so
Speaker 1: I have to prepare. I have a certain amount of time.
Speaker 1: Instead of spending a couple of minutes eating lunch in
Speaker 1: a park, I spent another thirty minutes going from Burbank
Speaker 1: to Sherman Oaks. So because I got caught in rush hour,
Speaker 1: now I'm two hours in traffic and I haven't really done.
Speaker 1: But I had a meeting that was so I make
Speaker 1: the decision on the fly. Here da, this is very important.
Speaker 1: So I make the decision on the fly. I'm like,
Speaker 1: I still need to eat something because I need to
Speaker 1: break my fast and then start my neck fast. So
Speaker 1: I had some food that my wife had had been
Speaker 1: kind enough to prepare for me. So I I then
Speaker 1: decided that I would just go to the Sherman Oaks
Speaker 1: facility and I would eat my meal in my car.
Speaker 1: So I scarfed down a Pastronomy sandwich on the fourth
Speaker 1: floor of the parking garage. This is the life of
Speaker 1: a radio star day. This is the life of a
Speaker 1: radio start by myself in a car on a hot
Speaker 1: day in Sherman Oaks, eating a Pastronomy sandwich and having
Speaker 1: some chips. And now I did notice and I don't
Speaker 1: see this at night. When I come in, there a
Speaker 1: lot of like hippie looking people doing hot yoga. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: there was a lot of that. And some of them
Speaker 1: look swarthy, some of them look slim, some of them
Speaker 1: look lizard like. Yeah, the planning bed. Yeah, I noticed
Speaker 1: there were a lot of very thin people that I thought,
Speaker 1: instead of going here, they should probably eating the pastronomy
Speaker 1: sandwich that I'm eating. Uh but whatever. And then there
Speaker 1: are a couple of good looking people a couple of
Speaker 1: really ugly people like, you know whatever, it's a it's
Speaker 1: a mix. You go to a hot yoga thing. I
Speaker 1: have no interesting have you ever done hot yoga? I've
Speaker 1: never been to regular yoga. Now I know some of
Speaker 1: the yoga moves because they're funny, like the double down
Speaker 1: dog or whatever that is. Uh so that those those
Speaker 1: things are funny. But so anyway, I'm like, okay, I've
Speaker 1: eaten my lunch. Now I've started my next fast. I'm like, okay,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna prepare for the show. And I was like,
Speaker 1: I don't want to be bothered. If I go to
Speaker 1: the first floor, I'm gonna be bothered. And people are nice,
Speaker 1: they want to talk to me, so I'm like, I
Speaker 1: don't want. I don't want. So I said, Okay, I'm
Speaker 1: thinking in my head like there's been a lot of
Speaker 1: movement in the Premiere Networks facility because of there's a
Speaker 1: move that's gonna happen, it's gonna take a long time
Speaker 1: because of wiring and on um. So, so anyway, I'm like, okay,
Speaker 1: I think we have studios on one of the floors.
Speaker 1: Where where And actually parked next to the George nor So.
Speaker 1: I knew that he had. He was there the host
Speaker 1: of Coast to Coast and so I was like, all right,
Speaker 1: you don't want to do I'm gonna hide out at
Speaker 1: the Premier Network studio. And so how did that go?
Speaker 1: So I meagined, I parked near George Nory. So I
Speaker 1: get through the courtyard through the big glass doors. I
Speaker 1: go by the security guard, which I know because that
Speaker 1: used to be the overnight guy. He's now earlier on
Speaker 1: and so we're friends, me and and and there's great
Speaker 1: sec Yeah, the comic book guy, he's doing the earlier shift,
Speaker 1: and so you know, he waved me in and we
Speaker 1: were we were talking and uh we both we exchanged niceties.
Speaker 1: He said, you look great. And I said, well, you
Speaker 1: look great, you know that kind of thing, very polite,
Speaker 1: and so I keep walking doing my thing. I walked
Speaker 1: to the elevator, I get up. I go to the right.
Speaker 1: I want to name the floor, but I go to
Speaker 1: the floor where the studios and I'm like, okay, I'm
Speaker 1: just gonna go in Danny to one of these empty
Speaker 1: offices and I'm gonna use the WiFi and I'll watching
Speaker 1: I watched the Yankee Mets game and on my laptop,
Speaker 1: and I'll do the So I get out of the
Speaker 1: elevator on the floor and I go over to where
Speaker 1: I have normally gone for a long time, and I
Speaker 1: go by the bathrooms. I opened the door, I go
Speaker 1: through there on the left side, there's like a little
Speaker 1: kitchen at where there's like a vending machine and a
Speaker 1: couple of tables and some plastic wear and stuff like that.
Speaker 1: So I'm like, okay, that's there. And then I keep
Speaker 1: going straight and there's caution tape like a crime scene,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, who died? What happened? Um? And I
Speaker 1: look and I kind of peeked through the caution tape
Speaker 1: and I see a bunch of empty rooms. But I
Speaker 1: can't go by it's cautioned. So I'm like, okay, they
Speaker 1: must be doing some construction. So then I'm like, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna go to the other side of the building and
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go through the other side of the building,
Speaker 1: and then I'm gonna find where I need to go.
Speaker 1: So I go through the other side of the building
Speaker 1: and I you know, door opens, whatever, and I am
Speaker 1: wandering around. Now at this point, I am a rat
Speaker 1: in the maze. I'm wandering. I'm wandering, and it's you
Speaker 1: know how you've been somewhere and you go back and
Speaker 1: you don't recognize a lot of it. You're like, what happened?
Speaker 1: I wasn't here that long ago. It reminded me of
Speaker 1: the story of going to that mall on the Nevada
Speaker 1: a California border where it was, Yeah, it was it
Speaker 1: was that I got that vibe. It was very weird
Speaker 1: and and so anyway, I failed. I struck out up.
Speaker 1: I couldn't find a single empty They got rid of
Speaker 1: the all of the office. There were a few studios,
Speaker 1: and I was gonna sit in the guest studio, but
Speaker 1: then that's right near George Norri's office, and I didn't
Speaker 1: want to bother George. So I thought that would be rude.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't want someone coming in here and bother me
Speaker 1: and so so I didn't do that. So I did
Speaker 1: the walk of shame, Danny. I had to go back
Speaker 1: down to the the ground floor there and uh and
Speaker 1: sit in the old Casey Caseum studio, which is the
Speaker 1: podcast studio, and I took the defeat. I went back
Speaker 1: to the ground floor abode and hit out and put
Speaker 1: the blinders up and all that, and surprisingly not many
Speaker 1: people even noticed I was there, so that was good.
Speaker 1: There weren't many people there. A lot of the guys
Speaker 1: were doing the show from home, so I didn't have
Speaker 1: to I did run into my Karmit I talked to
Speaker 1: Harmon for a little bit. But it was a crazy
Speaker 1: busy night and then I did the show after spending
Speaker 1: all day there and all night. Did the show and
Speaker 1: then I had to do some other stuff and it
Speaker 1: was it was a hot mess. I know the floor
Speaker 1: you're talking about what happened to the million dollar renovation
Speaker 1: they had done up there with all the blue waiting
Speaker 1: rooms and lobbies. Well, I'm glad you brought that up, Danny,
Speaker 1: because you'll be happy to know that some other business
Speaker 1: will have that office space at some point in time,
Speaker 1: but it is no longer part of the company's office space.
Speaker 1: The hundreds of thousands of dollars that they spent to
Speaker 1: renovate that, all the monitors, all the bells and whistles,
Speaker 1: all of that, and just just great, just absolutely great.
Speaker 1: Basically an entire floor of Ryan Seacrest's dressing rooms. You're right,
Speaker 1: it was a lot of Hey, this guy is a
Speaker 1: great talk show host. That guy's a great talk shows
Speaker 1: and somehow they forgot to put my photo up in there,
Speaker 1: or several other people, but I did see, uh, you
Speaker 1: know a lot of the big names. They were bragging
Speaker 1: about that. But they've battened down the hatches preparing for
Speaker 1: the big move, so they're they're all excited about that.
Speaker 1: So that was the rat in the maze. Now the uh,
Speaker 1: the Picasso of goats real quick. So the Mallard Peluza
Speaker 1: big success. We We did have some controversy in that.
Speaker 1: Surfer Todd, the comedian, filed a formal complaint claiming that
Speaker 1: there was some funny business that had taken place. We
Speaker 1: can't do anything on this show without some kind of
Speaker 1: nonsense so Todd was all upset. He claimed election fraud.
Speaker 1: He said that Jay Scoop and just Josh had bought
Speaker 1: Twitter votes in this dopey pole and he was very upset.
Speaker 1: He claimed that they picked up hundreds of votes in
Speaker 1: a very short amount of time, both denying the charge.
Speaker 1: We have not gone further with the investigation, but Surfer
Speaker 1: Todd was perplexed, puzzled and pissed. He was on the
Speaker 1: war path. He was not happy. But the story for
Speaker 1: me has a happy because the Mallard Paluza Dan he
Speaker 1: has a purveyor of fine art. You've been to the
Speaker 1: Mallard Mansion, not the new one, but the old one,
Speaker 1: and I was able to add to my collection. The
Speaker 1: Mallard Mansion is a modern day louve of fine art.
Speaker 1: This latest piece a exclusive piece compliments of the Goatman,
Speaker 1: robbed the Goatman from Iowa Goat who I've dubbed him
Speaker 1: the Picasso of goats. What what? What a wonderful artist.
Speaker 1: He put together an unofficial poster of the Mallard Palooza.
Speaker 1: I think stent you a painting of Lebron James. Oh God, no, no,
Speaker 1: but but Robbie he did this little poster, you know,
Speaker 1: because any good music concert needs a poster. You need
Speaker 1: t shirts, you need call He made a poster and
Speaker 1: it was pretty cool. And I've shown my wife and
Speaker 1: she saw that's great. We should put that up, you know.
Speaker 1: Oh that's a good idea because we have some other
Speaker 1: things the Mad Clown made years ago that has a
Speaker 1: bunch of the characters of that era in the show
Speaker 1: on there. And I always love these unique things. Anyway,
Speaker 1: So Mallard Mallarpaluza poster rob I. I sent him a message.
Speaker 1: He said, yeah, absolutely, So he sent me the big
Speaker 1: file and at some point I'm not sure when we
Speaker 1: will have the Mallard Palooza poster will be added, and uh,
Speaker 1: it's pretty cool. I'm excited, but I have not gotten
Speaker 1: it yet, but I will. I'm sure keep you posted
Speaker 1: when that that great day arrives and it lands at
Speaker 1: my doorstep. Meanwhile, it's summertime in the city. But is
Speaker 1: it time to burn this summer down? Danny g This
Speaker 1: has been a long week and the reason why, and
Speaker 1: you can relate to this bend you've talked about the
Speaker 1: catalytic converter crisis that you've had on your hands. Yes,
Speaker 1: still don't have it. Yeah, I knew you didn't have
Speaker 1: it yet because I've been dealing with auto mechanics the
Speaker 1: past week. Man, I'm in your club right now, and
Speaker 1: it's not a good club to be in. I'll take
Speaker 1: you back to the very first day of summer school,
Speaker 1: and my first class started at ninety and I saw
Speaker 1: in the schedule that parent drop off was at eight forty.
Speaker 1: So I'm thinking, you know, to avoid that rush of cars,
Speaker 1: I should get there like nine. Give me some time
Speaker 1: to set the classroom up a little bit and not
Speaker 1: get there when everybody's dropping their kids off. Problem. I
Speaker 1: get there and most of the parents had been running late,
Speaker 1: probably because it was the first day of summer school
Speaker 1: for them, trouble getting their kid into the car on time,
Speaker 1: and they were just all running late in general. The
Speaker 1: other thing I didn't know. I hadn't been on this
Speaker 1: campus yet. It is up a hill on which wouldn't
Speaker 1: be an issue except I drive a stick shift. Blank
Speaker 1: my blank and blank you Now why do you drive
Speaker 1: a stick shift? Do you love the stick shift? Is
Speaker 1: that how you learned how to drive? Is it? What? What?
Speaker 1: What is the stick shift? There? I don't I don't
Speaker 1: know how to drive a stick shift. It's something that
Speaker 1: I've learned to love over the past few years. This
Speaker 1: is the first stick shift that I've had now. When
Speaker 1: I was working on OutKick the coverage, it was perfect talk.
Speaker 1: I had a clear race track to Sherman Oaks and
Speaker 1: then after post production there was some light morning traffic,
Speaker 1: but I still was able to move without a lot
Speaker 1: of bumper to bumper. It wasn't until my life recently
Speaker 1: that I was sitting in Saturday bumper to bumper l
Speaker 1: A traffic to get to the studios, the same thing
Speaker 1: for Sunday. And explain for those that don't understikes I
Speaker 1: I do they still make stick shifts? Is that still
Speaker 1: a thing? It's usually sports cars, okay, And explain for
Speaker 1: those that have never driven a stick shift, like, like,
Speaker 1: why is it harder in traffic? You're stopped, then you
Speaker 1: have to get your car back into first, back into second,
Speaker 1: back in the third. So basically you are down shifting
Speaker 1: and shifting back up constantly. So it's a lot of
Speaker 1: leg movement, it's a lot of our movement. You you
Speaker 1: come to a stop and you have to start all
Speaker 1: over again, whereas if you are gliding with your stick shift.
Speaker 1: You don't have to ride your clutch, so it's bad
Speaker 1: and bumper to bumper traffic because you are stepping on
Speaker 1: your clutch too often. So I get to that first
Speaker 1: day of summer school. Now, when I get around that
Speaker 1: bend and I start going up the hill, I see
Speaker 1: brake lights and I'm like, oh, step on my brake,
Speaker 1: pull up my emergency brake, which is the trick when
Speaker 1: you have a stick shift. And I looked behind me
Speaker 1: immediately because I'm like, I better you turn and get
Speaker 1: out of here, because I know from a few years
Speaker 1: ago being stuck at Dodger Stadium on the hill there,
Speaker 1: that this is no good for the clutch. I look
Speaker 1: back and there's already three parents behind me. So I
Speaker 1: am trapped in this line going up this steep hill.
Speaker 1: Don't panic, but I know it's bad. So I did
Speaker 1: the trick where you try to catch the gear and
Speaker 1: then release your break and you move forward. The problem
Speaker 1: is this line is putting, it's barely going up. So
Speaker 1: I make the executive decision screw this. I'm gonna drive
Speaker 1: against head on traffic, and if any parent is driving
Speaker 1: down the hill, oh well that's better. Than having to
Speaker 1: put a new clutch into my sports car. I get
Speaker 1: up the hill. The security guard at the gate of
Speaker 1: the school is looking at me like I'm nuts. Explained
Speaker 1: to him, I'm your new science teacher. Sorry, but I'm
Speaker 1: driving a stick shift. I couldn't fit in that line.
Speaker 1: And he's like, oh my god. He's like, I smell
Speaker 1: you're burning clutch. I could smell it as well when
Speaker 1: I rolled my window down, and I was like, oh boy,
Speaker 1: this is not good. I've only smelled this one other time,
Speaker 1: and it was at Dodger Stadium a few years ago.
Speaker 1: So I parked my car. It reeks of a burned clutch,
Speaker 1: praying at this point like please don't let it be serious,
Speaker 1: Please don't let it be bad. It smelled like this
Speaker 1: for a couple of days, to the point where I
Speaker 1: kept it parked and I had my Tenderoni dropped me
Speaker 1: off on the second and third day of summer school.
Speaker 1: So now fast forward, I am driving, and of course,
Speaker 1: of all things been I'm driving to pet Boys to
Speaker 1: get two new front tires installed. Finally, I'm caught up
Speaker 1: on bills. Been working my ass off, I've been needing
Speaker 1: two front tires, so I got my appointment. I'm on
Speaker 1: my way there. First into second revving, not going into gear,
Speaker 1: second to third revving, not going into gear, slipping, The
Speaker 1: clutch is giving out, and it is all compliments of
Speaker 1: that hill. On the first day of summer school. If
Speaker 1: I get it to the shop, the guy tells me, oh, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: you better go to Leon's Transmission. This is not good now, Ben, Normally,
Speaker 1: back in the day, you could get your clutch fixed.
Speaker 1: Maybe shipping stalking issues right now something you're well aware of. Yeah,
Speaker 1: what do you think that costs now? She said? Normally
Speaker 1: it's like in the past when things were cheaper. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna say it's closer. You're under three thousand. Maybe if
Speaker 1: the flywheel was okay, but if you got to replace
Speaker 1: the flywheel in the parts and the labor, don't forget
Speaker 1: the labor now. Yeah? Yeah? Did you do what I
Speaker 1: did and what I've been trying to do here over
Speaker 1: the last to go on the internet and try to
Speaker 1: find the part for cheaper damn? Right? I did. Uh.
Speaker 1: Still still in the process of doing that right now.
Speaker 1: But now this shop and they had some good references
Speaker 1: coming from Pep Boys and Yelp. I wanted to think
Speaker 1: that they were being honest with me. They called around,
Speaker 1: they got the price in the parts from the dealership,
Speaker 1: They got parts and prices from some independent shops in
Speaker 1: my area. Four thousand dollars, oh my god, the high
Speaker 1: end from the dealership. So four thousands the minimum. So
Speaker 1: my car is just under forty thou miles. I'm early
Speaker 1: on this, and you know why, because I burned it
Speaker 1: out on that hill. It should last you for longer
Speaker 1: than four years. Coming to terms with the fact that
Speaker 1: I've basically just worked this summer school for pro bono.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, because the money that you're yeah, yeah, because
Speaker 1: the money I are is the money that it's gonna
Speaker 1: cost to put the new clutch in. So I've just
Speaker 1: kind of kept a positive attitude first day I found
Speaker 1: out about it, though I'm not gonna lie. Said some
Speaker 1: some words. I probably shouldn't have yelled out loud, probably
Speaker 1: kicked a few things around the garage. I did some
Speaker 1: shadow boxing. Um, there's nothing you can do because you're
Speaker 1: not a mechanic and know any mechanics. So it's like,
Speaker 1: and even if you know a mechanic, are they going
Speaker 1: to be able to pull that off? It's probably a
Speaker 1: very complex Yeah. Now, the family does have one auto
Speaker 1: mechanic friend in the San Fernando Valley, and I was
Speaker 1: able to get ahold of him. He's busy right now.
Speaker 1: As soon as he's not busy, I'm gonna bring the
Speaker 1: car to him, So I'm gonna go that route and
Speaker 1: see if he can help. But yeah, man, when you
Speaker 1: have issues and you need an auto mechanic, it's one
Speaker 1: of those deals where it's just as serious as needing
Speaker 1: a surgeon. Well, for sure, it's like, you know all
Speaker 1: those jobs is that people kind of pooh pooh, but
Speaker 1: they're so important, like auto mechanic, tow truck driver, When
Speaker 1: my car broke down, you're desperate for aiver to help you.
Speaker 1: Um all, like plumber. You have a pipe that bursts
Speaker 1: and you need a plumber. All of those things are
Speaker 1: so so valuable. But yet you know, oftentimes you're like,
Speaker 1: who cares about that? But those are very important things.
Speaker 1: I'm right there with you. Yeah, our cars are gonna
Speaker 1: be parked next to each other with car covers on
Speaker 1: both of them. We have the tub Tragic story. So
Speaker 1: the Life of Mallard podcast, we made a little upgrade.
Speaker 1: At least we thought was an upgrade at the Mallard mansion.
Speaker 1: And I've been channeling lately my inner sports sorceress Andrea
Speaker 1: and I have. I've turned to soothing baths, you know,
Speaker 1: taking the bath after a long week with ebs and salt,
Speaker 1: and I've heard her talk about is my wife actually like, yah,
Speaker 1: you should do this, it will help calm you, your
Speaker 1: body down and all that. She had recommended it. So
Speaker 1: last week, now we have a bathtub. I I think
Speaker 1: I used the thing like twice up until like a
Speaker 1: week ago, but now I've decided I want to use
Speaker 1: it all the time. So so we have this thing,
Speaker 1: and my wife's like, oh, we're gonna upgrade it. She
Speaker 1: decided to get a tub tray. You might think, well,
Speaker 1: why would you bring this up? Who cares? You got
Speaker 1: a tub tray. It's the most basic thing that's not
Speaker 1: something to talk about on a podcast. But wait till
Speaker 1: you hear the rest of the story. So she gets
Speaker 1: all you know, she's fired up. Look at this thing.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be great. You're gonna love the You're gonna
Speaker 1: take a bath every day. I'm like, yeah, it looks
Speaker 1: pretty good. Whatever. So I first bath, I take hand
Speaker 1: to God. Here, I'm taking the bath. I put the
Speaker 1: tray up. Everything's going fine, everything's going great. I'm like, oh,
Speaker 1: this is pretty good. I've got my phone there. It's
Speaker 1: this nice black tray and you put your phone or
Speaker 1: your tablet on there and you can lay back and
Speaker 1: enjoy a bubble bath and then just watch your phone
Speaker 1: or whatever play on your phone. Whatever. My So the
Speaker 1: bath ends not not eventful at all. Um. So then
Speaker 1: I'm getting out of the bathtub, and as I'm getting
Speaker 1: out of the bathtub, there was a little bit of
Speaker 1: a misstep and the tray for the the tub falls
Speaker 1: into the bathtub. So I'm like, oh, what's the big deal. Okay,
Speaker 1: I'll just pick it up. But somehow in the process
Speaker 1: of it falling and it's not it didn't fall very
Speaker 1: far far at all, and all this Danny, there are
Speaker 1: now black stains all over the white tub, and I'm like, wow,
Speaker 1: these are probably just scrub off, and so I grabbed
Speaker 1: some towels and starts scrubbing. They don't come on the yeah,
Speaker 1: the inside of the tub. When I got out of
Speaker 1: the tub, the thing fell down and not only did
Speaker 1: scratch it to put the cherry on top of the
Speaker 1: poop Sunday. It also stained it because it is one
Speaker 1: of these things you bought off Amazon that was made
Speaker 1: in China, and I guess they did not anticipate the
Speaker 1: degree of heat that would be in a bathtub and
Speaker 1: would melt the black paint that was it's like melted
Speaker 1: black plastic tar. Oh, it was a nightmare. It's still
Speaker 1: a nightmare. And so we pulled out the magic eraser.
Speaker 1: My wife's scrubbing, she's like originally she was like, oh,
Speaker 1: it's no big deal. Whatever. It was a big deal, Danny.
Speaker 1: And this has been a fair amount when when the
Speaker 1: home was renovated and all this stuff, we spent a
Speaker 1: fair amount. And uh, you know, those bathtubs are not
Speaker 1: are not inexpensive. So where you need that infamous l
Speaker 1: a cleaner that we've talked about. It's a good idea.
Speaker 1: It's so toxic it can clean anything. Yes, you will
Speaker 1: lose days of your life possibly, but that's a hell
Speaker 1: of a product. Diet we gotta get out on backscratchers. Oh,
Speaker 1: we always say every week, if you send us a
Speaker 1: nice review on the Apple podcast page, give us a
Speaker 1: nice You can give us five stars if you want
Speaker 1: and do whatever you want five stars would be great. Uh,
Speaker 1: and then we'll read the review on the show. It's
Speaker 1: you scratch our back, We'll scratch your back, well, Danny.
Speaker 1: This week we have reached a new milestone, a dead end, yes,
Speaker 1: not not one. We pitched a shutout this week on
Speaker 1: the Apple podcast page, which is disheartening. You know what,
Speaker 1: I'll take some solace in this though. Ben got a
Speaker 1: nice message from our boss this past week. It seems
Speaker 1: as if he has read through some of those reviews
Speaker 1: and he was very, very happy. So you always joke
Speaker 1: about how our management loves those Apple podcast reviews, Well
Speaker 1: they read through them this past week. Oh that's a big,
Speaker 1: big shout out, big thank you to everybody that's sent
Speaker 1: one end. Well, absolutely, and don't forget about that. And
Speaker 1: we got to turn the audience over, right, we've you've
Speaker 1: already done it, that's great. But if you haven't done
Speaker 1: it yet, you know, just just take a couple of minutes.
Speaker 1: And I know it's a pain in the ass. My
Speaker 1: ass feels so good right now. It's the podcast revolution.
Speaker 1: We gotta get out of here. On that. We've got
Speaker 1: the mail bag on Sunday, Sunday, Sunday, anything going on
Speaker 1: in your world. You're on Saturday. You want to promote Danny. Yeah,
Speaker 1: well I'm gonna be taking an uber. It sounds like
Speaker 1: the Sherman Oaks, the Jeff Schwartz and the man the
Speaker 1: main man from the Loose Cannons back in the days compartment.
Speaker 1: Are you you mentioned the bike thing? Is that apart?
Speaker 1: How many miles would that be on a bike? Yeah,
Speaker 1: that would be about nineteen miles on the bike one
Speaker 1: way around on the freeway, on the freeway if you had,
Speaker 1: if you had an electric bike, but even that would
Speaker 1: be pushing there. You can't ride any bike on the freeway. Unfortunately,
Speaker 1: my TINDERRONI will will drop me off there at Sherman
Speaker 1: Oaks and then after Hartman and Schwartz it will be
Speaker 1: Brian No and E from salam out Standing. All right,
Speaker 1: we'll talk to you on the mail bag on Sunday.
Speaker 1: Have a wonderful, wonderful rest of your day and we
Speaker 1: will catch you next time. Asta pasta gott a murder,
Speaker 1: Gotta go.