Speaker 1: Kaboom. If you thought four hours a day, minutes a
Speaker 1: week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants of
Speaker 1: the old republic, a sole fashion of fairness. He treats
Speaker 1: crackheads in the ghetto cutter the same as the rich
Speaker 1: pill poppers in the penthouse the Clearinghouse of Hot takes
Speaker 1: break free for something special. The Fifth Hour with Ben
Speaker 1: Maller starts right now in the air everywhere as it
Speaker 1: is the Saturday edition of the Fifth Hour with Ben
Speaker 1: Mallard and Danny G. Radio. I'm on drugs right now, man,
Speaker 1: and we do this podcast because listen, eight days a
Speaker 1: week is required, four hours a night or not enough
Speaker 1: for me. And Danny does the show during the week
Speaker 1: during the day there late afternoon, depending on where you
Speaker 1: are with Cavino and Rich. But we are hanging out
Speaker 1: with you all all weekend long. You can get this
Speaker 1: podcast wherever you find podcast. Now you've already found it,
Speaker 1: so I don't need to tell you, but you can
Speaker 1: tell a friend. And this the Saturday podcast Danny G Radio.
Speaker 1: So exciting, this is so amazing. We've got NFL playoff
Speaker 1: football today and tomorrow. This is the last Saturday with
Speaker 1: a playoff game. Because next week Championship Sunday, and then
Speaker 1: it's the Super Bowl a couple of weeks after that.
Speaker 1: That's the whole nine yards. Yeah, I love Saturday football.
Speaker 1: And one thing I've been loving about this podcast, Ben,
Speaker 1: even though we have thousands and thousands of downloads, nobody
Speaker 1: ratted you out on Twitter this past week about what
Speaker 1: you did to the microphone in the studio. It makes
Speaker 1: me feel comfortable that we could share intimate things on
Speaker 1: this podcast without snitches getting stitches. It is funny that
Speaker 1: you would bring that up, Danny, because I actually am
Speaker 1: going to tell a tale about that part of the
Speaker 1: podcast and something that is very important to me. And uh,
Speaker 1: it's it's it's an added bonus from doing the podcast
Speaker 1: because people have said, like, what are you doing? You
Speaker 1: do the show during the week. You don't need this,
Speaker 1: what why why would you bother with the podcast made
Speaker 1: with a shame on you? Uh? But but but there
Speaker 1: are reasons for it. Um not really financial, as you know, Danny,
Speaker 1: We're not getting rich doing this, but there's other reasons.
Speaker 1: So on this Saturday editional the podcast, I've got Unmasked
Speaker 1: Autoshop graduate, Mary Poppins Bag, and we've got pop goes
Speaker 1: the culture backscratcher and whatever else pops up, and we
Speaker 1: are the flag is up, Danny, We're off to the races.
Speaker 1: Are you ready? Let's do it? All right? So this
Speaker 1: past weekend I was away from my watch post and
Speaker 1: I want to tell I'm gonna tell a story in
Speaker 1: this podcast that's never been told before and probably should
Speaker 1: not be told because it's the kind of thing. When
Speaker 1: I tell this story later on, and it's a tease, Danny,
Speaker 1: people will be bringing this up and harassing me from
Speaker 1: the story. But I feel like I need to share
Speaker 1: the story. It's an embarrassing story, it's an awkward story,
Speaker 1: but I'm really doing it as a psc So I'll
Speaker 1: do that later. But this past week and I was
Speaker 1: away from the watch Tower for a couple of nights.
Speaker 1: And if you listen to this podcast every weekend, and
Speaker 1: if you listen last weekend, you had insider information. I
Speaker 1: had a memorial my father, my dear old dad, Papa,
Speaker 1: passed away h in early one, like the second day
Speaker 1: of one. I celebrated New Year's with him, actually with
Speaker 1: the hospital, and then I got he ended up dying
Speaker 1: in the hospital. But I had family traveling to the
Speaker 1: North Woods from four time zones. I had the eastern,
Speaker 1: the East Coast times on three hours ahead of the
Speaker 1: West Coast. I had the Central times on so all
Speaker 1: of them, and Mountains time zone, and of course people
Speaker 1: traveling from from the Pacific time zone, so I had
Speaker 1: every time zone covered, and my family spread out all
Speaker 1: of the country. These are important people in my life.
Speaker 1: I had a chance to hang out, for example, with
Speaker 1: my seventy nine year old uncle, is gonna turn eighty
Speaker 1: in February, my last living aunt or uncle that I
Speaker 1: know of. But but yeah, they're gonna hang out and
Speaker 1: and it's it's awesome, and it gives me hope, you know,
Speaker 1: because as we get older, Danny, we kind of looked
Speaker 1: at relatives that are older and we're like, well, that
Speaker 1: gives us a pathway that we have a shot. Otherwise
Speaker 1: you're like, oh, we're fucked. You know. It's like the
Speaker 1: famous story about Mickey Mantle. This is probably a dated
Speaker 1: story now, but this great Yankee Mickey Mantle, and he
Speaker 1: drank himself. I mean he had he thought he was
Speaker 1: gonna die when he was like fifty, and so he
Speaker 1: just kept drinking and drinking because his father had passed
Speaker 1: away young and a bunch of relatives, but he didn't
Speaker 1: like he didn't die when he thought he was gonna die,
Speaker 1: and then he had all the health problems because of it.
Speaker 1: So I thought you were gonna say, just fucking go
Speaker 1: for it because it doesn't matter. No. No, he died
Speaker 1: and then, if I remember correctly, his death was prematurely
Speaker 1: reported before social media, and then they had to apologize
Speaker 1: for him dying, and then I think it was NBC,
Speaker 1: and then they had to report on him dying again,
Speaker 1: which was awkward. Yeah, that's a that's an awkward situation.
Speaker 1: So it was great to see my uncle. You know,
Speaker 1: I be gud. I see everybody by my uncle Mel.
Speaker 1: We have we have people in our lives. We live
Speaker 1: different lives, much different lives, but we know people that
Speaker 1: that kind of crossed. Like there's a buddy of mine
Speaker 1: who's a realtor who knows my uncle. There's a there's
Speaker 1: a kid in Israel who's studying to become a rabbi
Speaker 1: who knows my uncle, and there's a few other people.
Speaker 1: Over the years, so I and being around him, I
Speaker 1: felt like I was like nine years old and a
Speaker 1: family reunion or a barn for or something like that.
Speaker 1: So it was really it was really neat and some
Speaker 1: of the some of the weekend was like a Brady
Speaker 1: Bunch reunion. It was like a flashback to a different time.
Speaker 1: My my wife went over the top. You've been to
Speaker 1: some of these parties, Danny, and yet again showing that
Speaker 1: she's the hostess with the mostess there. If it was
Speaker 1: up to me and my brothers, we would have had
Speaker 1: some bagels and some locks and maybe a couple of
Speaker 1: drinks and some crackers and that would have been that.
Speaker 1: Um and she, of course over Roade are planning for
Speaker 1: this shin dig and she put together the spread for
Speaker 1: the ages. It was bananas. It was like pasta to
Speaker 1: the right, sandwiches to the left, dessert here there and everywhere,
Speaker 1: and uh and so so she did an amazing job.
Speaker 1: And one of the other bonuses of this weekend get
Speaker 1: to the point, please Weekend with Family is unmasked the
Speaker 1: guys that are p ones but kind of folk p ones, right,
Speaker 1: And what I mean by it was an added benefit
Speaker 1: like the radio listener, the person that's loud and proud
Speaker 1: and interacts with the show when I'm on terrestrial radio,
Speaker 1: but they don't religiously download and we get great numbers
Speaker 1: on the podcast. It does very well. But I'm I'm
Speaker 1: fascinated by this because some of the biggest fans of
Speaker 1: the show don't tune in. If you listen, we talked
Speaker 1: about our personal lives. We divulge things that we don't
Speaker 1: talk about sometimes on the radio, and because we can
Speaker 1: in the podcast. It's a more intimate set up here
Speaker 1: than it is maybe in the radio studio, and so
Speaker 1: the naked truth is given and you if you listen
Speaker 1: to this podcast regularly, you are rewarded for being loyal.
Speaker 1: I had big time super fans and so Anthony and Anaheim,
Speaker 1: Justin and Cincinnati among others who were like outraged, they
Speaker 1: were blindsided, Danny that I was not at my position
Speaker 1: in my chair overseeing the playoffs in the NFL for
Speaker 1: that show, and these guys like busting my balls and
Speaker 1: they give me a hard time to throw in jabs
Speaker 1: at me, totally oblivious, totally clueless that this a has
Speaker 1: been planned for over two months and be we talked
Speaker 1: about it in detail on the podcast. Now there were
Speaker 1: some Mr Nice Guy and a few other guys were like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: we know what's going on. But bad job by them.
Speaker 1: And again they were unmasked, and my my brothers were
Speaker 1: in town, and my my younger brother from Wisconsin, my
Speaker 1: older brother from New York, and my my wife was
Speaker 1: actually upset Danny that he did not talk more. She
Speaker 1: wanted me to talk more. But as you know, working
Speaker 1: in radio, we we do are talking into microphones. We
Speaker 1: don't have to be the star of the show all
Speaker 1: the time when we're not on the radio. I don't anyway,
Speaker 1: kind of me in the background, in the shadows a
Speaker 1: moment when she wants you to talk more, she should
Speaker 1: hand you an old school mr microphone. Yeah, exactly, hand
Speaker 1: me a karaoke microphone or something along those lines. That's
Speaker 1: that's all I need. I'm good on that. I am
Speaker 1: such a radio loser, dare you. So that was my weekend.
Speaker 1: There is more to the weekend, uh, much more, which
Speaker 1: is quite embarrassing but needs to be said as a
Speaker 1: public service announcement, and we'll get to that. But I
Speaker 1: am not a graduate, certainly not an auto shop graduate.
Speaker 1: When I have a problem with my car, you know
Speaker 1: where I go a mechanic. That's where I go, Danny,
Speaker 1: g I go to a mechanic that's my spot. I
Speaker 1: I pay a professionals. What I do. I think you've
Speaker 1: already had another issue with your mallarmobile. Yes, a lot
Speaker 1: of us. When something goes wrong with our car, we're like, oh,
Speaker 1: this is not in the budget. My little race car
Speaker 1: has had the fancy cover on it in the carboard
Speaker 1: for a couple of months. Now, I remember when this happened.
Speaker 1: You were going like either uphill or something there down right.
Speaker 1: Do you remember the price on that clutch? It was
Speaker 1: like thousands of dollars and it's double or triple what
Speaker 1: you might think these days. So since I told that story,
Speaker 1: I have not had extra funds to get that new
Speaker 1: clutch because obviously wedding and you know now I got
Speaker 1: a little one on the way. So what I did, Ben,
Speaker 1: I found a broker way better than just trading your
Speaker 1: car in at a dealership. So this broker is gonna
Speaker 1: get me almost full money and my down payment on
Speaker 1: the car, which is nice. So I get to go
Speaker 1: shop for a new car eventually. Here. Yeah. To get
Speaker 1: the car sold though, I had to get the battery jumped.
Speaker 1: I had to had triple A come out also running
Speaker 1: the engine to try to keep the battery charged over
Speaker 1: these past few months. The tank was on empty, so
Speaker 1: I had to go down and get some fuel and
Speaker 1: put that in and you know, get the engine going
Speaker 1: because now when the buyer comes, they obviously want to
Speaker 1: make sure that the car is running. I've had my
Speaker 1: hands full of that. So I'm driving a little bucket
Speaker 1: right now. In l A And in San Jose we
Speaker 1: called this a hoopdi. You know what a hoop de
Speaker 1: is a hoop he is a beat up car that
Speaker 1: you don't mind denting. Okay, so yeah, we used to
Speaker 1: go we call them beaters back in the day. My
Speaker 1: right hand was getting a workout. Yeah, okay, I didn't know.
Speaker 1: I've not heard the term hoopti though, So yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: it sucks driving a hoopdi because the seed is uncomfortable.
Speaker 1: There are some upsides to it, like if you dent it,
Speaker 1: if you spill something inside. You know, you can kind
Speaker 1: of be sloppy with a hoopdi because it doesn't really matter. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's already beat up, it's already got the cruises on
Speaker 1: it and all that stuff that it's a and you
Speaker 1: can get these really cheap. There's a guy that worked
Speaker 1: at did some work on the Mallard mansion. Who's like,
Speaker 1: here's a guy from Mexico and he's like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: you need a car. I get your car for three grand,
Speaker 1: you know, I get your brand new car, you know,
Speaker 1: and not brand new obviously, but one of those like
Speaker 1: three thousand bucks. And you know it's it's amazing. There's
Speaker 1: a whole underground network of these cars. Wid. Yeah, you're
Speaker 1: exactly right now. The thing is, this doesn't belong to me.
Speaker 1: This car belongs to my tender Roni's oldest son. But
Speaker 1: he's at the dorms right now. He just started college,
Speaker 1: so he doesn't need the car on a day to
Speaker 1: day basis. So that's what gave me a cushion here
Speaker 1: to go ahead and find a broker and sell my car.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do the responsible thing, Ben, since I have
Speaker 1: a kid on the way, I'm gonna get a bigger
Speaker 1: race car. Oh. I thought I was to ask you
Speaker 1: if you're geting a minivan or like a station wagon,
Speaker 1: like an old school bio, like a nineteen seventies station
Speaker 1: wagon or something like that. But yeah, right, get a
Speaker 1: HEMI engine in a car that has a back seat.
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna trade my small race car in for
Speaker 1: a bigger race car. But I gotta get to the
Speaker 1: other side with this beater, as you call it. And
Speaker 1: I'm not doing a good job because I was at
Speaker 1: the McDonald's down the street from our Sherman Oaks studios
Speaker 1: because right before going in to prepare the Coveno and
Speaker 1: Rich show, I needed an iced coffee. I'm like, okay,
Speaker 1: I got time to get a coffee here and run
Speaker 1: back to the studios. You know what a ship show
Speaker 1: it is right there on Sepulvida. Oh it's a nightmare. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And now I gotta pull out. But there's a line
Speaker 1: of cars trying to get back onto Sepulvida, and one
Speaker 1: lane is supposed to go straight and one lane is
Speaker 1: supposed to turn right onto Sepulvida. You've probably seen this
Speaker 1: bend where that asshole gets right in the middle of
Speaker 1: both lanes. Oh sure, yeah. So there's a big line
Speaker 1: of cars and we're like, you idiot, like move over
Speaker 1: to the left so we can all turn right onto Sepulvida. Here,
Speaker 1: I wanted to get to the studios, you know how
Speaker 1: it is before the show. You're aunty, you want to
Speaker 1: be in the building Yeah, you definitely want to. You
Speaker 1: don't want to be walking in when you're like a
Speaker 1: minute from the You gotta get there earlier. Otherwise I'm like, crap,
Speaker 1: you know you had a breath. Jeez. Well, you and
Speaker 1: I are so psycho about our radio shows that I
Speaker 1: feel that way a half hour before the show, Like,
Speaker 1: I don't feel comfortable unless I'm in there forty minutes
Speaker 1: before the show. So I'm looking at my watch and
Speaker 1: I'm like, shoot, I only got forty five minutes before
Speaker 1: the show starts. I'm not gonna wait on this person.
Speaker 1: So I do what a race car driver would do,
Speaker 1: and I scowed it all the way over to the
Speaker 1: and even though there wasn't enough space to get by,
Speaker 1: I still went ahead and did it. But men I
Speaker 1: turned right, Boom was a dynamite. Oh no, the right
Speaker 1: side of the front of the car. Did that big
Speaker 1: drop off the curb? Yeah, and you know the feeling
Speaker 1: of the whole tire, the wheel well front bumper, and
Speaker 1: you you kind of panic because you're like, holy shit,
Speaker 1: what did I do? Is that permanent damage? What's it
Speaker 1: gonna look like when I get out of the car.
Speaker 1: And also when you do something like that, the In
Speaker 1: this case, there were a couple of homeless people right there.
Speaker 1: They just they like are they doing the Nelson? They're
Speaker 1: like from the sembis ha ha. They're like pointing at you,
Speaker 1: like you They all turned their heads and they looked
Speaker 1: like who just did that? Down to like the front
Speaker 1: of a car falling apart? Did you have to get
Speaker 1: out of the car at this point? Are you try? You?
Speaker 1: And that's the worst one. You don't really know and
Speaker 1: you have to get out and make that walk and
Speaker 1: like the anticipation, you're like, is that as bad as
Speaker 1: I think it is? Maybe I'll get lucky, you know
Speaker 1: that whole thing. Wow. Instead of a walk of shame,
Speaker 1: this is a drive of shame. As I go underneath
Speaker 1: the overpass turn into our parking garage. As I'm trying
Speaker 1: to find a parking space, that front wheel is dragging
Speaker 1: and I'm like, oh, this is not good. So I
Speaker 1: get into the parking space and I turned the car off.
Speaker 1: I walk around, and You're right, it's that anticipation, like
Speaker 1: what am I about to see right now? That front
Speaker 1: bumper on the right hand side was dragging down by
Speaker 1: the tire. I was like, holy sh it, how am
Speaker 1: I gonna mess up two cars in a row. But
Speaker 1: I had auto shop in school, all right, and not
Speaker 1: just a normal auto shop class. I had R. O P.
Speaker 1: Auto Mechanics, which was you got to stay in the
Speaker 1: class two classes in a row. All you were the
Speaker 1: teacher's pet. Oh you were special. I'm wearing a bathrobe
Speaker 1: and I'm not even sick. This though, is auto body class.
Speaker 1: I've never had that. That's a class many of us
Speaker 1: would benefit from. After Colvino and Rich was over, I
Speaker 1: finished the podcast, and now it's dark outside. I go
Speaker 1: to the parking garage and I'm like, I remember what
Speaker 1: the front of this car looks like. I lay my
Speaker 1: jacket down on the ground, bend, turned my flashlight on
Speaker 1: my phone on, crawl underneath the front of the bumper,
Speaker 1: and I was able to snap the front bumper back
Speaker 1: into position. It's almost like made out of plastic. It's
Speaker 1: like a liner inside of the bumper, right around the tire.
Speaker 1: And I was able to snapped that back into place.
Speaker 1: Oh nice. My clothes were filthy from being on the
Speaker 1: on the the ground there at our garage. But once
Speaker 1: I was able to snap all that back in place,
Speaker 1: you can't even tell, really it was that good. That's awesome.
Speaker 1: The Hoopdi is back to being in its standard Hoopdi condition.
Speaker 1: This is a circle of trust. As long as nobody
Speaker 1: tells my TENDERNI what I did, and she's not bored
Speaker 1: one day and downloads this podcast, nobody will be the
Speaker 1: wiser she's she's married to you. That that the podcast
Speaker 1: being downloaded happens only sporadically. Now now that now that
Speaker 1: she signed you up to the contract, you don't need
Speaker 1: to worry. You're you're good on that. That's great. I
Speaker 1: had I had a bumper issue years ago. I was
Speaker 1: driving to the old Mallard Matsion after the show. They
Speaker 1: were doing some Caltrans construction work, so a couple of
Speaker 1: lanes were closed. I got cut off by this guy
Speaker 1: going about seven any five, so I had to go
Speaker 1: into the kind of construction the cone zone, and I
Speaker 1: ended up hitting like four or five cones. You don't
Speaker 1: think of those cones is doing much damage, but if
Speaker 1: you're going fast enough, they fucking rip your car apart.
Speaker 1: And they took my bumper half My bumper was off
Speaker 1: the car like it was. It was bouncing as I drove,
Speaker 1: and uh and I and I didn't know how to
Speaker 1: fix it, and it cost a freaking fortune to get
Speaker 1: that thing done. So it was it was a nightmare
Speaker 1: as we pressed on, So I wanted to I want
Speaker 1: to tell the stories A P s A. I probably
Speaker 1: should not tell this story. It's a story that will
Speaker 1: come back to haunt me. But I'm gonna tell a
Speaker 1: name because it's all about the life of myself and
Speaker 1: Danny g and So this is a global podcast exclusive.
Speaker 1: Nobody else has what I'm about to say. Nobody else
Speaker 1: has this content. This past week, Danny I made a
Speaker 1: tactical error. Sun Zoo said that every war is one
Speaker 1: before it has ever fought. That the fighting it's already
Speaker 1: won before. So that also goes for some medical maladies
Speaker 1: that pop up. Now my routine was broken. This is
Speaker 1: also kind of a car story. So last week I
Speaker 1: had family in town. But before that, the mallarmobile broke
Speaker 1: down yet again, and that meant we only have a
Speaker 1: couple of cars here. So my wife has she has
Speaker 1: to go to a job. I don't. I can do
Speaker 1: the show from the home studio, So my wife took
Speaker 1: the car and so I was landlocked at the Mallard match.
Speaker 1: I was under home arrest for you for the time
Speaker 1: that the car. We were down to one car. My
Speaker 1: treadmill is broken. I have no vehicle to get to
Speaker 1: the gym. So I am living a sedentary life, sitting
Speaker 1: on my ass watching sports and then talking about sports
Speaker 1: all night. Is it too far away to do an
Speaker 1: uber rye Uh yeah, I mean I could have conceivably
Speaker 1: done that, but I was being frugal. I'm not gonna lie.
Speaker 1: So I'm doing a lot of soul serci. I'm sitting
Speaker 1: and I'm contemplating, you know, life and how I'm in
Speaker 1: this situation. But I had a kind of a digestive
Speaker 1: issue that popped up, or so I thought. My initial
Speaker 1: thought was I was doing the arithmetic, and I was like, wow,
Speaker 1: it's been a you know, a couple of days, and uh,
Speaker 1: you know, I haven't gone to the to the to
Speaker 1: the little boys room, you know, number two. So I
Speaker 1: was clogged up a little and a little snag in
Speaker 1: the digestive system. So it had been a couple of
Speaker 1: days since I'd gone to the potter room. Call it
Speaker 1: a constipation situation. This is the kind of content you need, Danny. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So that's what I thought it was. Now my wife
Speaker 1: recommended a cleanse. She said, oh, no, I got some
Speaker 1: out something for you know, I said, you know, clean
Speaker 1: out your small intestine and you'll be pooping like a champ.
Speaker 1: You know, it'll be just just just great. And uh.
Speaker 1: And at the time, Danny, it seemed like a wonderful idea.
Speaker 1: But this is actually a couple of days later, after
Speaker 1: the original problem popped up, I was like, oh, I'll
Speaker 1: give it a couple more days. And then I told
Speaker 1: my wife I was waiting a couple extra days, and
Speaker 1: and she had this great idea, and so she gave me.
Speaker 1: She went into her Mary Poppin's bag and she gave
Speaker 1: me some of her magic potions. That's the best laid
Speaker 1: plans of mice men and gastric experts. Well, much to
Speaker 1: my chagrin, Danny, it turns out that when I had
Speaker 1: self diagnosed myself as having a constipation situation, while I
Speaker 1: did have that, I somewhere along the way because of
Speaker 1: my sedentary life that ten days or so had developed.
Speaker 1: How can I describe this year? Um, there was a
Speaker 1: a situation that sometimes pops up if you you sit
Speaker 1: too long and don't move around. Dan, I don't know
Speaker 1: if this ever happened to you. Um, certain things take
Speaker 1: place on the back side there that uh, let's just say, well,
Speaker 1: we'll limit how things come out of that area. The
Speaker 1: garage door is covered. There's something there. You know what
Speaker 1: you're feeling what I'm saying here, you you know, uh
Speaker 1: to where that starts with an h oh yeah yeah yeah.
Speaker 1: Now keep in mind, I didn't realize this, but I
Speaker 1: guess there's different types of hemorrhoids. There's some that will
Speaker 1: be very painful, um and and and and and and
Speaker 1: bloody and all that, t am I. But there's others
Speaker 1: that's like, I kind of a flare up. I don't
Speaker 1: even know if that's the right term. I'm using. Hemorrhoid
Speaker 1: might be something else. But I I read a bunch
Speaker 1: of medical websites and uh so it didn't really cause
Speaker 1: me a lot of pain, So I didn't realize quite
Speaker 1: what the issue was. It was only when I when
Speaker 1: I had taken the magic Mary Poppins vitamins to cleanse
Speaker 1: my body, that I realized what I had done is
Speaker 1: I had created the perfect storm, Danny. I had sent
Speaker 1: a tidal wave of ship to exit out of the body,
Speaker 1: but there was a door closed, no exit situation. So
Speaker 1: the the trash shoot was closed for repairs, but there's
Speaker 1: a lot of trash that needed to go down the
Speaker 1: trash shoot, and uh man, so I I was in
Speaker 1: a lot of a lot of pain and it was
Speaker 1: a real, uh real shitty a couple of days. Danny
Speaker 1: and I got every kind of like, there's all kinds
Speaker 1: of medicine you can can put in that situation, that environment.
Speaker 1: But it would not have been nearly as bad if
Speaker 1: I had not made the decision to take the magic
Speaker 1: and I'd self, it's not my wife's ault. I thought
Speaker 1: I had a just a pure clogged situation and all
Speaker 1: that and from being sedentary for a few days and
Speaker 1: uh yeah, but I'm all back to normal now. But
Speaker 1: it was it was bad for a couple of days. Man,
Speaker 1: that sounds uncomfortable just tearing about it. And I've taken
Speaker 1: those cleansing pills before cleaning out. What a ship show, right,
Speaker 1: It is a ship show. And I you know, my
Speaker 1: wife's so great about coming up with the other remedies
Speaker 1: and stuff. So it's great, you know, having her and
Speaker 1: helping me out so much. It was great to see Pooh,
Speaker 1: you know, she is like Mary Poppins. But this was
Speaker 1: not super califragilistic xp aidocious. It was the opposite. This
Speaker 1: was shitty, shitty, bang bang exactly. It was shitty, shitty
Speaker 1: bang bang. Uh. As far as Backscratcher is GONC we'll
Speaker 1: move on from that. But I just wanted to share
Speaker 1: that story. So if my advice is, make sure if
Speaker 1: you get clogged up, well it happens as you go
Speaker 1: through life, make sure that that's your only problem, and
Speaker 1: and and double and triple check that you don't have
Speaker 1: a hidden problem elsewhere that might pop up. Okay, that's
Speaker 1: all I'm saying. That's all I'm saying, Backscratcher. Did we
Speaker 1: have one, three or none this week? Danny, g one,
Speaker 1: three or none? I'm gonna say we had no, Danny.
Speaker 1: You are an optimist. You are wrong. We pitched a shutout, Danny.
Speaker 1: We had not a single review. We had a bunch
Speaker 1: of last week, but none this week. That man, you're
Speaker 1: like a day Oh no, Mo, that's terrible. I have
Speaker 1: a feeling though, this story that I just told will
Speaker 1: inspire people to give us a nice review, probably rip
Speaker 1: me and goof on me. And that's fine. I don't care.
Speaker 1: T M I yeah, exactly. Uh So anyway you can
Speaker 1: you can help us out on the backscratcher and check
Speaker 1: that out via up the Apple podcast page, which it's
Speaker 1: in the description. Danny has been great about that, very simple,
Speaker 1: you can figure it out. So you're a smart person.
Speaker 1: I believe in you. I trust you. So let's get
Speaker 1: to pop goes the culture. Are you excited for pop goals?
Speaker 1: The culture? Here? Poopoooo? So these are stories that not
Speaker 1: necessarily sporty stories, but stories that have come across our
Speaker 1: our attention, our desk, if you will. And then we
Speaker 1: we didn't talk about them, maybe some of us did,
Speaker 1: but we're gonna spend more time on them here. So
Speaker 1: the the headline on this one, they're talking about weird.
Speaker 1: The lights have been on at a Massachusetts school for
Speaker 1: over a year because no one can turn them off. Danny,
Speaker 1: you see this story. Yeah, what a redunculus story. You
Speaker 1: talk about incompetence at the higher highest level. So the
Speaker 1: they're blaming this on the pandemic and supply chain issues.
Speaker 1: This comes from the the school district in Wilbraham, Massachusetts.
Speaker 1: For almost a year and a half, a high school
Speaker 1: in that city has had the lights on around the clock. Uh,
Speaker 1: and they have been unable to turn off. They have
Speaker 1: about seven thousand lights in this massive old building and
Speaker 1: it looks like the White House. I'm looking at a
Speaker 1: photo of it. It's it's pretty cool. I wonder if
Speaker 1: that includes lights like on their sports fields. UM, not
Speaker 1: sure about that. But it's m I N N E
Speaker 1: c h A U G min Chog Minschog. It might
Speaker 1: be Minshog, I don't know, but it's it's a region
Speaker 1: all high school in this town in Massachusetts. And so
Speaker 1: the story on this is that they built this thing,
Speaker 1: this light system, like a decade ago. The system was
Speaker 1: installed and the whole plan was they're gonna save money
Speaker 1: and energy and all this stuff. But the software that
Speaker 1: that runs the light system failed in August of this
Speaker 1: in the spring it's in the suburbs of Springfield where
Speaker 1: alf the alien O Piner lives. And so the lights
Speaker 1: failed in August, and ever since then they've continued to
Speaker 1: run and the taxpayers and this they've had to pay
Speaker 1: a small fortune in in electric bills, and so the
Speaker 1: the idiots at the school district they're like, wow, there's
Speaker 1: nothing we can do. It's a significant amount of money.
Speaker 1: But they had to get these special lights out of
Speaker 1: China to that to replace the system, and they could
Speaker 1: and get the lights and there was no other way
Speaker 1: to turn that of off. The system was fucked up,
Speaker 1: and they use these highly efficient fluorescent and led light
Speaker 1: bulbs and in anyway, so they couldn't get the lights fixed.
Speaker 1: They didn't have the access to it because of supply
Speaker 1: chain issues, and so rather than figure out a way
Speaker 1: to solve the problem, they just left the lights on
Speaker 1: and said, Okay, that's it. And the school the building
Speaker 1: dates back to nineteen fifty nine and it was it
Speaker 1: was replaced the original high school nineteen was replaced by
Speaker 1: this other building like over a decade ago. And anyway,
Speaker 1: if they finally just got the green light to get
Speaker 1: the system from China, but a year and a half, Danny,
Speaker 1: that is insane, right, I mean, that is it is
Speaker 1: not so. I mean I yell when the kids leave
Speaker 1: the living room light on for an hour. Yeah, you've
Speaker 1: become We've all become like our father or a mother.
Speaker 1: We've morphed into that as we've gotten older. He was like,
Speaker 1: what are they act like that? Now? We're like, we're
Speaker 1: just like them. We have new Ammo now you can say,
Speaker 1: what do you think you're in fucking Massachusetts? That's right,
Speaker 1: you think you're at a high school in Massachusetts. Come on,
Speaker 1: you think that power is free? Come on that way,
Speaker 1: you're born in a barn? Yeah, all right? Did you
Speaker 1: guys talk about this story on Caveto and Rich a
Speaker 1: woman has sued a concert venue because she got so
Speaker 1: drunk she blew up a home and caused fifteen million
Speaker 1: dollars of damage. About that? What? Yeah, this is in Canada,
Speaker 1: so I was reading this story. So apparently the woman
Speaker 1: went to like a Maryland Manson concert. I think she
Speaker 1: got completely ship faced drunk. She gets kicked out of
Speaker 1: the concert, she's that intoxicated. She then drives, because why
Speaker 1: wouldn't you do that if you're stinking drunk? She drives,
Speaker 1: She of course crashes her car because she's hammered. She
Speaker 1: ran her car into a house. The house then exploded
Speaker 1: because the car ran into it. A bunch of people
Speaker 1: got injured that the fire spread to three other houses,
Speaker 1: so four houses are destroyed. She played guilty. She she's
Speaker 1: in jail, but she's decided to sue the food services
Speaker 1: company from the concert venue because the claim is it's
Speaker 1: their fault because they kept serving her alcohol while she
Speaker 1: was drunk, and they didn't stop her from driving drunk.
Speaker 1: And so she's blaming all these other people and so
Speaker 1: and just trying to that you're liabel. Maybe the laws
Speaker 1: are different in Canada, but she's an adult, I believe, Like,
Speaker 1: what's what's the deal on that? We're not in charge
Speaker 1: of your life? You moron? Yeah, if you make bad decisions,
Speaker 1: you're going to end up doing things that you're going
Speaker 1: to regret and could get you in jail. You're lucky
Speaker 1: no one died in that in that I'm looking a
Speaker 1: photo here. It's it's freaking nuts. Like she took out
Speaker 1: one home and then that fire, like the whole neighborhood
Speaker 1: had to be evacuated and these homes are completely like
Speaker 1: charcoal craziness. What a loser? All right? How about this one? Spotify?
Speaker 1: There's a story out of Spotify. They they did a
Speaker 1: study on the top music to listen to to go
Speaker 1: to bed, the best music to help you fall asleep.
Speaker 1: It's going to replace the Bed Mallard show out there.
Speaker 1: You are you you want to take a swing at this?
Speaker 1: What do you think the top music is? If you
Speaker 1: want to snooze. Well, usually it's like quiet Storm, which
Speaker 1: is like jazz, soft, R and B. I mean I
Speaker 1: I use that. Um. There's an app where it plays like,
Speaker 1: you know, the rainforest and little birds chirping and a
Speaker 1: shotgun being cocked. I like the sound of rain um.
Speaker 1: But I don't usually have I like background I was
Speaker 1: I have a fan, I have some I gotta have
Speaker 1: background noise. But as long as I have white noise,
Speaker 1: I'm good. But according to Spotify, they claim that Billie
Speaker 1: Eilish a track from from Billie Eilish, and also there's
Speaker 1: a song from a South Korean boy band, Dynamite from
Speaker 1: the boy band BTS. I don't know what that is.
Speaker 1: Are you up on your South Korean boy bands? Then?
Speaker 1: I mean know who that is? Because there's there's even
Speaker 1: a K pop store at the mall in Thousand Oaks
Speaker 1: and it's everything BTS. It's ridiculous. That's a world I
Speaker 1: don't know anything about. That's a that's just a whole
Speaker 1: different universe for me. But anyway, they did the stock out, Yeah,
Speaker 1: they did the study and they identified that based on
Speaker 1: their information, this is what people end up end up
Speaker 1: listening to. And they claimed that the tracks, including Dynamite
Speaker 1: and Lovely are very popular, very very now, is it possible, Danny,
Speaker 1: that the people listen to this music to fall asleep
Speaker 1: because that's just music they like and they happen to
Speaker 1: fall asleep. Is that conceivable that this just happens to
Speaker 1: be music that's important to these people and they happen
Speaker 1: to listen to it at night when they fall asleep
Speaker 1: or is that outrageous? Well, it also confirms that this
Speaker 1: generation has really bad taste in music, I would think so.
Speaker 1: They say that Lovely the Billy Eilish duet with Khalid,
Speaker 1: and it was featured in a Netflix drama Thirteen Reasons Why,
Speaker 1: that has people go to sleep. So I don't know.
Speaker 1: How about this one from Vegas? You were just in
Speaker 1: Vegas a v I P. A big wig in Vegas
Speaker 1: has revealed how big a high roller you have to be?
Speaker 1: How much money do you have to spend to get
Speaker 1: a high rollers status in Sin City? Danny? To be
Speaker 1: called a whale, I'm gonna say you have to drop
Speaker 1: at least a hundred thousand dollars. Hundred thousand dollars you're
Speaker 1: going with here, So the numbers on this the way
Speaker 1: this is broken down the high rollers status. Uh you
Speaker 1: have to but I should take this back that the
Speaker 1: whale thing is maybe not the right term, just high roller. Um,
Speaker 1: so you have to play the twenty five dollar slots,
Speaker 1: the five dollar slots, things like that. I'm trying to
Speaker 1: get the exact number here. There's a lot of numbers
Speaker 1: in this in this story. So to get gold status,
Speaker 1: and that means he's got rooms are free, as much
Speaker 1: food and beverage as you want. Everything's done, uh, he said.
Speaker 1: In twenty this goes back to he bet sixties six
Speaker 1: thousand dollars. Yeah, not too far off. Yeah, he said,
Speaker 1: he won. This is wild. So he put sixty six
Speaker 1: grand in a slot machine or different slot machines, and
Speaker 1: he ended up netting a win of two was in
Speaker 1: one nine. So it's a lot of That's a lot
Speaker 1: of work, man, that's a lot of work, uh, he says.
Speaker 1: And then he this guy goes through everything. He's like
Speaker 1: two thousand eighteen. He was like the king right because
Speaker 1: he went it was in Vegas. The limo would pick
Speaker 1: him up. He was in the VIP lounge. He had
Speaker 1: a nine d square foot suite with a balcony overlooking
Speaker 1: the Bellaggio fountains. But in order to get that, he
Speaker 1: had to spend a hundred eighty three thousand dollars on slots.
Speaker 1: He lost that year almost fifteen thousand dollars. But that sheez.
Speaker 1: But he goes through. He he spends. He has a
Speaker 1: whole like spreadsheet this dude on how much he's spent
Speaker 1: at the slot machines per year, how much he's won. Like,
Speaker 1: he goes through the whole deal and he's yeah, he's
Speaker 1: gonna wind up dying of lung cancer. You spend that
Speaker 1: many hours in those smokey casinos. Yeah, Like it's cool
Speaker 1: getting the v I P status and all that, but
Speaker 1: does that offset the whole How about this? If you
Speaker 1: lose fourteen grand, but you get you stay at the
Speaker 1: hotels all the time and you get free free money,
Speaker 1: like free free drinks, food rooms, does that offset the
Speaker 1: loss of fourteen thousand? If that you'd have to live there,
Speaker 1: wouldn't you. It's like the Mallard calculator at the Super
Speaker 1: Bowl last year. Let's see, you would be adding up
Speaker 1: all of that stuff to make sure the offset was correct. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I did to do the math on that. Yeah, the
Speaker 1: free the free food in the hospitality room at the
Speaker 1: radio road things. So this guy coined out, since seven
Speaker 1: hundred thousand dollars, seven thousand, seven hundred thousand dollars coined
Speaker 1: out Jack Potts, he ended up winning a hundred and
Speaker 1: twenty four thousand dollars. Uh. And he goes through the
Speaker 1: whole thing and he ended up I believe he's lost
Speaker 1: over since he's lost over thirty four almost thirty five
Speaker 1: thousand dollars on slot machines. So, but he's a V.
Speaker 1: I P. Danny. Guys, if I'm reading this right, you
Speaker 1: guys a VP. Come on? What more do you need?
Speaker 1: All right? This is pop goes the culture with you
Speaker 1: a few more? Did you see this? Uh? Pamela Anderson
Speaker 1: said she she's never watched the tape that made her
Speaker 1: more famous than anything. I did see this? Yeah you
Speaker 1: believe that? No? I don't believe it. Yeah, she gotta
Speaker 1: be lying, right? Strippersh of people too not come Twitch
Speaker 1: banned a streamer this, this woman for showing her feet
Speaker 1: on camera? Should you be banned? Danny? Should be banned
Speaker 1: for showing your feet? They're like some Kevin Durant looking feet. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean I looked at a photo. I mean, maybe
Speaker 1: I'm looking at a bad photo, but they look all right.
Speaker 1: It don't look like the worst feet I've ever seen.
Speaker 1: You are, I'm an expert, me and Rex Ryan. Uh.
Speaker 1: Here's when waffle house employees are rebelling against a menu
Speaker 1: hack that has popped up on social media. And there
Speaker 1: are these people that work at the waffle house have
Speaker 1: said no, uh f you, we are not doing doing this,
Speaker 1: and some people have learned the the hack. It involves
Speaker 1: a breakfast sandwich that features eggs, cheese, and a variety
Speaker 1: of meat between two waffles. And so these people have
Speaker 1: been saying, oh, here's what you can get and all
Speaker 1: that you can assemble the sandwich yourself, ordering the ingredients
Speaker 1: by a number of customers have gone to waffle house
Speaker 1: and they've they've started to try to get the people
Speaker 1: at the waffle house to put the sandwich together and
Speaker 1: they're like, fuck you, we're not We're not doing it,
Speaker 1: and uh they've been shut down all because of a
Speaker 1: TikTok video. We did some research on the Covino and
Speaker 1: Rich show. There is one waffle house location in Phoenix.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, are you gonna go to the waffle house
Speaker 1: when you're there. I haven't been to one since I
Speaker 1: was in Atlanta. Yeah, it sounds good to me. It's
Speaker 1: better than way better than Denny's. I have not been
Speaker 1: to a waffle house since I was in Florida, like
Speaker 1: a long time ago in the nineties, i ate as
Speaker 1: at a waffle house and it was like the coolest thing,
Speaker 1: you know, because I've never seen a waffle house. I've
Speaker 1: heard about the waffle house, but you you go to
Speaker 1: the waffle house, it's like, oh man, this is like
Speaker 1: the legendary place in the South. Um. Now, when you're
Speaker 1: in Arizona, you gotta go to Holvers, which is a
Speaker 1: Wisconsin restaurant but a great, great fast food place. And
Speaker 1: it's all over Phoenix. They got a bunch of locations
Speaker 1: around Phoenix. Wonderful. Uh, let's see do a couple more,
Speaker 1: get out of here. On the the pop culture, all right,
Speaker 1: how about this one. A recent report says that something
Speaker 1: people use to commute is filthier than a toilet. And
Speaker 1: this is something we see all the time, especially where
Speaker 1: we do the show from you know those e scooters,
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, and those e bikes. Yeah, they're gross with germs. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they say that those are up to that's the weasel term,
Speaker 1: up to fifty eight thousand times filthier than a toilet.
Speaker 1: Researchers have looked at the amount of bacteria covering public
Speaker 1: transportation options, and they've pointed out that your typical public
Speaker 1: e biker scooter is carrying thousands of times germs of
Speaker 1: the average toilet bowl. Wow, how does that happen? Are
Speaker 1: people like pissing on the scooters? Are they shipping on
Speaker 1: the bikes? Like? What's going on with that? Yeah? Is
Speaker 1: that homeless people popping wheelie's on the bird scooter? Gotta
Speaker 1: be it's it's it's got I mean, it's gotta be
Speaker 1: the homeless people. I mean, maybe there's just disgusting people
Speaker 1: that aren't homeless, but man, and that is why right
Speaker 1: there that I have hand sanitizer attached to my keys
Speaker 1: and in my pocket at all times. Yeah, they say this,
Speaker 1: This thing says the two most bacteria written surfaces in
Speaker 1: public gyms are exercise mats and the weights. O good
Speaker 1: Sotta used the treadmill of the gym. My ass feels
Speaker 1: so good right now, so I don't have to necessarily
Speaker 1: worry about that. All right, We'll get out on that
Speaker 1: we got the mailbag on Sunday. Anything you'd like to
Speaker 1: promote here, Danny, As we wind things down on this
Speaker 1: fifth hour, it is our last NFL Saturday, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: be going to have some fun with Jonas Knox his
Speaker 1: Saturday program eleven am to one pm on the West Coast.
Speaker 1: And then right after that, Steve Hartman the loose Cannon
Speaker 1: himself along with Ephraim Salam a Heisman Trophy voter. Steve
Speaker 1: Hartman he is, yeah, he was never mentioned that. He
Speaker 1: doesn't like to bring that up. He said he never.
Speaker 1: He also doesn't like to point out that he worked
Speaker 1: for Al Davis and there in the Raiders that no, no,
Speaker 1: I know, it's it's you've never heard that before. All right,
Speaker 1: have a great rest of your day, enjoy the playoff
Speaker 1: games today, and we will catch you next time. Osta Pasta,
Speaker 1: gotta murder, Gotta go,