Speaker 1: Kabbooms.
Speaker 2: If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes
Speaker 2: a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants
Speaker 2: of the old Republic, a soul fashion of fairness. He
Speaker 2: treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the
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Speaker 2: The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now in
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Speaker 1: Everywhere The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller and Danny g
Speaker 1: hanging out in the podcast Ojo eight days a week,
Speaker 1: no days off, as we are literally in the air
Speaker 1: everywhere a global reach. The iHeart Podcast network can get
Speaker 1: this podcast everywhere on demand when you want, just like
Speaker 1: you can get the Ben Malor Show podcast to hear
Speaker 1: Danny G on with Covino and Rich during the week
Speaker 1: on the Fox Sports Radio. Oh, you get this podcast
Speaker 1: on the weekends. And so that is how it works. Danny,
Speaker 1: I would like to think Roberto who came on, he
Speaker 1: didn't have to do that. He doesn't work for the
Speaker 1: company anymore. But that's the big show. We'll talk you
Speaker 1: a little bit about that. But Roberto was on the
Speaker 1: Friday podcast. So if you had a chance to sample that.
Speaker 1: If not bad job by you. It is available to
Speaker 1: download right now. You can hear Roberto talk about his
Speaker 1: time at Fox Sports Radio and FSR and all of that.
Speaker 3: How cool is that.
Speaker 4: I've had situations I'm not sure if you ever have
Speaker 4: in your radio career where you didn't get to say
Speaker 4: goodbye to your audience. You just disappeared. It was almost
Speaker 4: like you were there one day and gone the next
Speaker 4: and back. When this happened to me, there was no
Speaker 4: Twitter or anything like that. I couldn't send out a
Speaker 4: message to the masses saying thank you so much and
Speaker 4: I enjoyed my time and you know, I appreciate you
Speaker 4: listening and all that. That's what radio hosts do nowadays.
Speaker 4: When I couldn't do that, I saw some listeners later
Speaker 4: down the line and they were pissed at me. They
Speaker 4: were like, how can you just leave like that? You'dn't
Speaker 4: even say goodbye or anything. And I'm like, well, you
Speaker 4: don't understand how broadcasting works. They come and give you
Speaker 4: your pink slip right after your show is over.
Speaker 3: Usually.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I remember when I was younger and I skipped
Speaker 1: school and I watched the History Channel and they had
Speaker 1: a documentary about Joseph Stalin and how he would make
Speaker 1: people disappear where they would be there one day, they
Speaker 1: would go to work and then they would never come home.
Speaker 1: And not only would they never come home, he would
Speaker 1: like erase all the back in those days, the books
Speaker 1: with their names in them, the picture all disappear, like everything,
Speaker 1: any trace of the people would go away. And it's
Speaker 1: a similar concept in the radio business, which is fascinating
Speaker 1: how they decided that is the way to go. But
Speaker 1: I was told by a program director that the reason
Speaker 1: we do that is to protect the license because if
Speaker 1: we put somebody on the air that and we say, oh,
Speaker 1: I get a final show, they are going to destroy
Speaker 1: us and they are going to tear down the radio
Speaker 1: station and they're gonna steal stuff, and you know all that.
Speaker 3: They were so paranoid, I know. And that's the thing
Speaker 3: is that there is no way in hell.
Speaker 4: After seven years at the radio station I helped build
Speaker 4: to number one, there's no way that I would go
Speaker 4: in there at a steal something and b say something
Speaker 4: bad on the air, because you know in broadcasting that
Speaker 4: burning bridges is a no no, a big time no no,
Speaker 4: because you're gonna somewhere along the way work with those
Speaker 4: people again, somewhere down the road. Radio is a small community,
Speaker 4: and you're gonna see one or two of those folks
Speaker 4: sometime again in the future. And even as a youngster
Speaker 4: in radio, I knew that, So there was no way
Speaker 4: I would do any I wasn't gonna pull any shenanigans.
Speaker 4: I just wanted to have a fun final show and
Speaker 4: say goodbye to the morning show listeners. Instead, like you said,
Speaker 4: they even erased my voice off of the commercials and
Speaker 4: suddenly you're Mia. You're on a milk carton immediately.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And it's all the media, Like I remember when
Speaker 1: Tucker Carlson got let go from Fox News, like he
Speaker 1: was like their number one guy, and they obviously they
Speaker 1: got rid of him, I guess on a Friday and
Speaker 1: immediately like any trace completely. So it was great to
Speaker 1: have Roberto on a retrospective on Roberto leaving the show.
Speaker 1: He's actually the guy that replaced you, Danny, when you
Speaker 1: went to the morning show. Yes, Roberto stepped in for you,
Speaker 1: and I hope you heard the chat. Roberto been a
Speaker 1: key part of the show the last five years, almost
Speaker 1: five years, I think it's just a little short of
Speaker 1: five years, and he's the guy that played the drops
Speaker 1: most of the drops. Eddie plays some, but most of
Speaker 1: the jobs come from Roberto. But change is part of
Speaker 1: the business. And as we've been through a lot of
Speaker 1: different people over the years, both of us in our
Speaker 1: different travels, our roads and radio and any job. But
Speaker 1: I feel like radio is more of like a Greyhound
Speaker 1: bus station. And I was going through my head. I
Speaker 1: was driving in and I was thinking about all the
Speaker 1: different board ops and producers that I've worked with since
Speaker 1: I started at Fox Sports Radio back in like two thousand.
Speaker 3: That must have been a long drive.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And I'm like, well, that guy became a team
Speaker 1: this guy's a baker, that guy's an insurance salesman. I
Speaker 1: don't know what happened to that guy. He moved back
Speaker 1: to Boston. I don't know what happened to that guy.
Speaker 1: Then the other guy, the last I heard, he was
Speaker 1: in rehab. Then there's the guy that I used to
Speaker 1: work with who's a real estate mogul. And then there's
Speaker 1: another guy who's like a program director at a radio station.
Speaker 1: But I don't really talk to him, but I used
Speaker 1: to be close to him. And you name it, someone
Speaker 1: formally has passed through the building who is now doing
Speaker 1: something totally efferent. Some of them are still working in radio.
Speaker 1: But people, that's the old thing. People will come and
Speaker 1: go in your lives all the time, and it's radio
Speaker 1: is a transient business. And what's the old thing. It's
Speaker 1: not your fault. It's the universe just making room for
Speaker 1: new people, I think, is Yeah.
Speaker 4: And when we came up in broadcasting, we were told,
Speaker 4: if you're able to stay at any call letters for
Speaker 4: three years, that's an accomplishment because usually something happened in
Speaker 4: three years, whether it's a lineup change, a programming change.
Speaker 4: And for me, at that station I mentioned, which I
Speaker 4: helped build for seven years, it was a management change
Speaker 4: and it was a guy from across town who had
Speaker 4: run the AC station in our market. And when he
Speaker 4: got over to our station, he called a big staff
Speaker 4: meeting and he proclaimed, why.
Speaker 3: Would I change anything?
Speaker 4: You guys are number one. And right after that meeting
Speaker 4: I told my assistant program director.
Speaker 3: I was like, you know what that means, right, He's
Speaker 3: going to change everything?
Speaker 1: Of course?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Yeah.
Speaker 1: I had I had a boss this really before I
Speaker 1: got the Fox. I had a guy at one of
Speaker 1: the stations I worked at that was like this really
Speaker 1: slick sales guy. He wore the power suits, you know,
Speaker 1: the purple jacket. One day had the bright red jacket,
Speaker 1: the next had the power blue jacket.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 1: He's a and he was like into the whole Tony
Speaker 1: Robbins thing. And we were in a labor negotiation because
Speaker 1: it was a union shop, and we were in a
Speaker 1: labor negotiation and the guy they turned this what had
Speaker 1: been an f It had been a music station and
Speaker 1: they had a contract where it was like a union contract.
Speaker 1: They flipped it the sports. Well, the sports station had
Speaker 1: no audience. When you start a new station, new format,
Speaker 1: there's no one listening. It takes a while to build
Speaker 1: an audience. And so they had to pay us ridiculous
Speaker 1: money that they had been paying the DJs that had
Speaker 1: been at the radio station. And they were trying to
Speaker 1: negotiate a lower pay because they're like, well, no one's listening.
Speaker 1: Pay these guys that kind of money. And this boss
Speaker 1: came into the meeting and he violated every labor law
Speaker 1: on maagement. This is a long time ago. The statute
Speaker 1: of limitations has run out. But he said, if you guys,
Speaker 1: do not take this deal. I will system I don't
Speaker 1: think he's used systematic, but I will take every one
Speaker 1: of you away and I will flip on. At that time,
Speaker 1: it was sports fan Radio, which was the network out
Speaker 1: of Vegas, and I will I will just put that
Speaker 1: on and I'll have the same number of people listening
Speaker 1: and I'll save all this man. It was like he
Speaker 1: violated every possible law you can do, and then he
Speaker 1: didn't even end up doing anything. He just ended up
Speaker 1: paying us and then and so it was a complete
Speaker 1: waste of time. But you know, it's listen, things things happen.
Speaker 1: I love Roberto, I'm gonna miss him, and uh, it's
Speaker 1: one of these things. I mean, you you get used
Speaker 1: to people and then you got to get use to
Speaker 1: new people.
Speaker 4: And yeah, and my point was that not only do
Speaker 4: we wish him well, and he's been a raider friend
Speaker 4: this whole time. In fact, on Sundays he's the one
Speaker 4: guy I know that's gonna text my phone with some
Speaker 4: filthy language because he's down to few and he's like
Speaker 4: fucking Derek Carr. I can't believe fucking Derek Carr. Yeah,
Speaker 4: I'm like the lifeline. I'm like the guy that has
Speaker 4: to save him from drowning and his alcohol. And I'm
Speaker 4: like Roberto, it's all right, it's the third corner. We
Speaker 4: have time to come back. I'm the positive one.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And I recall telling Roberto I think in the
Speaker 1: podcast we were talking about, you know that I'll still
Speaker 1: text him whenever the Dodgers screw up Dave Roberts makes
Speaker 1: the wrong pitching change or micro manages the front you know,
Speaker 1: the front office micro manages and they you know, this
Speaker 1: guy's only he's pitching a shutout, but he's thrown seventy
Speaker 1: eight pitches, so we have to take him out of
Speaker 1: the game because his arm will fall off on seventy nine.
Speaker 1: And this week we go back and forth on that.
Speaker 1: So I'm sure, especially when the playoffs come around for
Speaker 1: the Dodgers, I will be texting Roberto quite a bit.
Speaker 1: And you know it's it's people have been emailing me.
Speaker 1: I told Roberto this as people have been asking me
Speaker 1: what happened. You know, he told the story from his
Speaker 1: point of view, and I think it really is more
Speaker 1: of a it's a money thing, but it's a schedule
Speaker 1: of thing. And I think if the money was the
Speaker 1: same and he had daytime hours. I think you'd be fine,
Speaker 1: but people that all work overnight, you have no idea
Speaker 1: how difficult it is. It seems like you'd get used
Speaker 1: to it, but and I'm pretty used to it, but
Speaker 1: some people just go crazy and it's just not good
Speaker 1: and it creates Yeah, a lot of the issues are
Speaker 1: not necessarily with yourself.
Speaker 3: It's with your family family.
Speaker 4: I was just going to say that no one really
Speaker 4: realizes until you're in it and you're trying to do it,
Speaker 4: that your family expects you to flip your schedule around
Speaker 4: immediately every weekend, and you do your best, so you
Speaker 4: pretend like it's not bothering you, but you kind of
Speaker 4: feel like a zombie and everybody else is, you know,
Speaker 4: laughing and having a good time on the weekend, and
Speaker 4: it's just a weird feeling because you want to do
Speaker 4: it and you're trying your best, but it sucks, man,
Speaker 4: because your sleeping clock is completely twisted around.
Speaker 1: It's very rude of society, Like you can't go to
Speaker 1: a bank four in the morning. If you do, you're
Speaker 1: robbing it. You can't, I mean, you can't see as
Speaker 1: someone at the bank. You can't get a doctor's appointment
Speaker 1: at that time unless you're in the emergency room and
Speaker 1: then you've got to wait for seventeen hours and all that. Like,
Speaker 1: it's not designed. Society's not designed for people that work overnight.
Speaker 1: But I mean there are restaurants open, there's obviously people working.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of people working.
Speaker 4: The third shift in the first shift is the backbone
Speaker 4: of our country.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean it's like it's people stocking shelves and
Speaker 1: driving trucks and putting food out and cooking food and
Speaker 1: all that stuff. So some of the things, you know,
Speaker 1: we've obviously talked for a while here, but some of
Speaker 1: the things we've got to get to. We have Ben
Speaker 1: and Ben mister Miagi and the Word of the Week,
Speaker 1: and we'll see if we get to anything else. We
Speaker 1: might have to say pop culture and that other stuff
Speaker 1: for the Sunday podcast, but we'll start with this. So
Speaker 1: this past weekend, the Malord Mansion turned into a bend
Speaker 1: and breakfast. That's a bed and breakfast. It turned into
Speaker 1: my wife invited a childhood girlfriend of hers, her husband
Speaker 1: and their toddler to stop by from they live in Oregon,
Speaker 1: just outside Portland, Oregon, and they stopped by for a
Speaker 1: very long visit. They came on a Thursday early in
Speaker 1: the day and then they they left on Sunday, so
Speaker 1: the mallord bed and breakfast. Now I did not know this, Danny,
Speaker 1: this was unexpected. I knew they were coming, but they
Speaker 1: didn't know all the details. My wife kind of gave
Speaker 1: me some of the details and not all of them.
Speaker 1: I pretty much keep to myself. I talk a lot.
Speaker 1: We both talk a lot for our jobs. So on
Speaker 1: the weekends I shut her down. I go to second year.
Speaker 1: You know, stay in your lane. I don't make waves.
Speaker 1: But the one one thing that's very important to me
Speaker 1: is my domain, my my ecosystem, my world. I need.
Speaker 1: I need that unsullied. I need that untouched. That's my
Speaker 1: my domain, right, that's my spot. And I don't want,
Speaker 1: you know, somebody coming over for a couple hours for visit.
Speaker 1: I have no problem with that. I think that's great.
Speaker 1: I have family, We have family over all the time.
Speaker 1: But you start staying there and I mean, I'm trying
Speaker 1: to play nice and all that stuff, but I'm like,
Speaker 1: there's too many rogue actors running across the Serengetti, and
Speaker 1: I don't know whether they're going to try to eat
Speaker 1: me or anything like that. And so but anyway, I
Speaker 1: was fine. So I was okay. The first couple of days.
Speaker 1: I even went into the Mothership on a day that
Speaker 1: I normally don't go in so they could sleep and
Speaker 1: not hear me barking about some NFL scandal or the
Speaker 1: NBA finals that my wife and this was all in
Speaker 1: the brochure, but I didn't see the brochure. My wife
Speaker 1: ife rolled out the what I call the VIP package
Speaker 1: at the Mallard Bed and Breakfast, the club package, and
Speaker 1: it included the all inclusive. She went shopping with them
Speaker 1: and they picked out a few items at Costco, and
Speaker 1: then when they were checking out, much to my wife's surprise,
Speaker 1: she said, no one stepped up to buy said items.
Speaker 1: So by I guess they just assumed it was part
Speaker 1: of the y.
Speaker 3: They at least water or grass for you.
Speaker 1: So they well, we'll get to that. So we got
Speaker 1: like seven pounds of pasta because their kid likes pasta.
Speaker 1: Their kid, by the way, who just turned two. More
Speaker 1: on that in a minute, so fine, whatever, you know,
Speaker 1: there was pasta and a few other items. My wife
Speaker 1: didn't realize she was purchasing for them. She thought when
Speaker 1: they got to the teller they would buy the items.
Speaker 1: But they didn't do that. And maybe I'm wrong on this, Danny.
Speaker 1: And I'm going to ask you the listener. I'll ask you, Danny,
Speaker 1: if you stay at someone's house, is it true that
Speaker 1: you should buy your own stuff? Is that? Is that? Basically? Really?
Speaker 3: Now, my grandfather got even a question that you need
Speaker 3: to ask.
Speaker 1: It's a bit of a rhetorical question my grandfather. There's
Speaker 1: a Yiddish term hawser. My grandfather would say, but but
Speaker 1: you know, find you maybe it was a rookie mistake
Speaker 1: by them. So my wife then just this. I knew
Speaker 1: about this, She said, you know, the kid's turning to
Speaker 1: there's no one they're not They live in Oregon, they
Speaker 1: don't live in California. There are a lot of that
Speaker 1: are from California. So they have a lot of family
Speaker 1: and friends. And they want to have a birthday party
Speaker 1: for the two year old who will never remember anything
Speaker 1: about this party at all.
Speaker 4: So, you know, my wife, somebody else said this, I
Speaker 4: completely agree. Birthday parties are kids that young. They're not
Speaker 4: for the fricking kids. They're for the el to take pictures.
Speaker 1: Yes, and that is about to become your world, Danny,
Speaker 1: in August, possibly sooner. That is going to be your
Speaker 1: new new normal. So get ready for that. Uh but
Speaker 1: but anyway, so she said, my wife, she doesn't do
Speaker 1: anything small. So she we're gonna have a we're gonna
Speaker 1: have a party. We're gonna have a big party.
Speaker 4: We're gonna get Oh so we're going to invite other
Speaker 4: people to your house.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's the problem. So yeah, yeah, so not only
Speaker 1: do we have three house guests, now we have a party.
Speaker 1: I went out, I had to buy We bought a
Speaker 1: couple of cakes. We bought one of those blow up
Speaker 1: pools from Walmart for the kids, so we had a
Speaker 1: pool for them. There are other kids there.
Speaker 3: Like the Platinum package.
Speaker 1: Yeah, this is this is all out. So now, as
Speaker 1: you said, Danny, there are more strangers that are now
Speaker 1: in my house. Now I know some of these people
Speaker 1: casually there there, and I like them. They're nice people.
Speaker 1: But again, you know, it's more invasive and and all that.
Speaker 1: And uh so then we got through that, and I
Speaker 1: was so burned out I had to get away, Danny,
Speaker 1: and my wife realizes I was about to lose my
Speaker 1: lunch and I was gonna need the people on the
Speaker 1: white coach to come get me for I was about
Speaker 1: to I'm pretty calm, but when I blow up, it's
Speaker 1: like a volcano. It's molten lava everywhere. I don't do
Speaker 1: it very often, but when I blow up, I get
Speaker 1: my money's worth. So she's like, we got to get
Speaker 1: out of here. And so we went to the beach
Speaker 1: and hung out, and then she realized that, you know,
Speaker 1: she was like, well, maybe we should invite them to dinner.
Speaker 1: And I'm like, are they gonna pay for dinner? You know,
Speaker 1: they're gonna pay for dinner, And she's, I don't know,
Speaker 1: probably not. So then we just like we stayed out.
Speaker 1: We went out to I wasn't planning on going out
Speaker 1: to EA, so we went out to eat. So we
Speaker 1: went to the beach for like an hour and a half.
Speaker 1: Then when and we were walking around trying to find
Speaker 1: a place to eat, just to kill more time to
Speaker 1: avoid coming back to the to the home. And so yeah,
Speaker 1: it was quite quite the adventure. And and know they
Speaker 1: didn't buy us one meal. I find like I've had
Speaker 1: other people stay at the house and they've always at
Speaker 1: least the common courtesy is on your way out. You
Speaker 1: buy the host the meal.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, and.
Speaker 1: They did, thank us. But it's you know, I said,
Speaker 1: Ben and Ben because Benjamin Franklin Danny was right when
Speaker 1: he famously said that guests are like fish. They begin
Speaker 1: to smell after three days. I would argue they begin
Speaker 1: to smell after about a day and a half, so
Speaker 1: we might have to update that to a day and
Speaker 1: a half. And that's about it. But if anybody wants
Speaker 1: to stay at the Malor Mansion, the Malard bed and
Speaker 1: breakfast all inclusive, you'll get you know, food at Costco
Speaker 1: if you want, just put that in the cart. You know,
Speaker 1: we'll pay for it.
Speaker 3: Why not?
Speaker 1: What the hell? And knock yourself? Knock yourself.
Speaker 4: Well, you could have used some of mister Miyagi's breathing methods. Man,
Speaker 4: I don't know how you got through that. I would
Speaker 4: have been cursing by the second day.
Speaker 1: Wow, wax on and wax off?
Speaker 4: Right, Yeah, yeah, I remember when danielsun walked in on
Speaker 4: him meditating.
Speaker 3: That's what you needed to do.
Speaker 4: Oh me, holy shit, I think this thing is going
Speaker 4: to get July. I'm confused. Where are we in the
Speaker 4: NBA schedule?
Speaker 1: I don't even know, it's very rare. They usually it's
Speaker 1: an odd schedule because they played on Friday, which is,
Speaker 1: as you know, Danny, a bad television night because people
Speaker 1: usually go out, although it's different now with on demand,
Speaker 1: but the NBA's live programming, so they put it on
Speaker 1: a Friday, and then there's no game on Sunday, which
Speaker 1: is where they usually want to put the game because
Speaker 1: there's travel, so they have to give him two days.
Speaker 1: So the next NBA Finals game is on Monday. It's
Speaker 1: very odd scheduling, scheduling Game three.
Speaker 4: We were talking about it as a show on Cavino
Speaker 4: and Rich that we hadn't gone to Buffalo Wild Wings
Speaker 4: in a while. Every couple of months will go as
Speaker 4: a show and we'll watch a exporting event there and
Speaker 4: get some boneless nuggies. And we had a lot of fun,
Speaker 4: but I had a party foul bit. Rich took a
Speaker 4: picture saying, I can't wait to talk about this on
Speaker 4: the show tomorrow.
Speaker 5: Danny g for like twenty minutes, was trying to get
Speaker 5: her attention, trying to get a coke right, excuse, excuse me,
Speaker 5: let's let's years sitting register, you know, to her ears
Speaker 5: because it's so low she was like, she was like.
Speaker 4: The heat because she disappeared the entire third quarter. She
Speaker 4: come on, hey, excuse me, excuse me.
Speaker 5: Well, I'm sorry, I didn't hear you calling me for
Speaker 5: the last twenty five minutes.
Speaker 1: Got got another doctor pepper.
Speaker 5: So so Danny g finally gets his soda and.
Speaker 1: I don't even do you want to take it from here?
Speaker 1: How spill it? Yeah? So I didn't know that Rich
Speaker 1: ordered a dessert.
Speaker 4: No, leave it to Rich, because when we were in
Speaker 4: Vegas he did the same thing, and when he thought
Speaker 4: that it was a comp meal, he got two desserts
Speaker 4: for the table.
Speaker 1: Rich, Yes, bring him on.
Speaker 4: Then he found out his personal credit card was going
Speaker 4: to be used, and he was like, can we send
Speaker 4: one of these desserts back. So a dessert comes to
Speaker 4: the table and very nicely, Rich started passing out forks
Speaker 4: because they put it. She put it right in the
Speaker 4: middle of the table. So I scooped back a little
Speaker 4: bit to make some room because I'm like, yeah, dessert
Speaker 4: a cheat night. As Rich passes me my fork, I
Speaker 4: do a karate chop to get it, and my mister
Speaker 4: Miaki trained karate chop hit the top of my PEPSI
Speaker 4: cup spilled full cup, Thank goodness, not on any of you, guys.
Speaker 4: But it kind of came down the tall tabletop like
Speaker 4: a waterfall, got your phone on PEPSI waterfall on my
Speaker 4: legs and my phone.
Speaker 5: So now Danny G's calling the same waitress over hey, sorry, spillach,
Speaker 5: I got a spileach right, And she's like, don't worry, guys.
Speaker 5: And it was kind of embarrassing anytime it happens, and
Speaker 5: I try to pick the heat up off. It is funny,
Speaker 5: but like you feel like an ass, right, it's a
Speaker 5: major party foul, it is, she said, to worry it
Speaker 5: heavens once a day.
Speaker 1: But it's usually a kid.
Speaker 5: It's usually a three year old, not a forty three
Speaker 5: year old, you know, son, Yeah, kids probably get better
Speaker 5: service around here.
Speaker 1: Oh man, so that's a party foul.
Speaker 5: It happened. We laughed about it. No big deal, no
Speaker 5: big foul, no big crime. She cleaned it up. But
Speaker 5: there's a more important question and it doesn't have to
Speaker 5: do with spillage, and it was you know, I do
Speaker 5: you do?
Speaker 2: You know?
Speaker 5: Wor's the worst part about it though, when she's there
Speaker 5: mopping it up and you're just like, oh, you keep
Speaker 5: mopping him. Yeah, not only did Danny have this spillage,
Speaker 5: but she like busted out the mop and everything, and
Speaker 5: then she put up that that uh piece of mojaveo
Speaker 5: wet floor sign, this big giant like a big giant
Speaker 5: sign on the floor.
Speaker 3: That's great.
Speaker 4: Now, I gotta give Rich and spot credit Covino. He
Speaker 4: eats more like a girl. He's always watching his big ear.
Speaker 1: Ah, you can't live like that.
Speaker 3: Come on. He didn't partake, He didn't partake in the dessert.
Speaker 4: But do you think I think that Rich and spot
Speaker 4: a waited for me to dry the area and then
Speaker 4: we could all eat the dessert together or b they
Speaker 4: demolished it and by the time I was dry, it
Speaker 4: was gone.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think you were going to the ice cream shop
Speaker 1: over there to get some dessert, right, I think, Yeah,
Speaker 1: the dessert was gone, gone, gone in It's in my belly,
Speaker 1: my belly right now, in my belly.
Speaker 4: Yes, they took out the dessert, just the way the
Speaker 4: Nuggets took out the heat in Game three.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I've not been to the galleria, you know. I
Speaker 1: right across the street, the Shriman Oaks Galeria where what
Speaker 1: is the movie they filmed there?
Speaker 3: That great fast Times at Ridgemont High.
Speaker 1: Film, but it looked much different when they filmed it there.
Speaker 1: It's been completely renovated. We have the word of the week.
Speaker 1: Are you excited for the word of the week, Danny?
Speaker 1: Are you fired up for the word of the week? Yeah? Okay, word.
Speaker 1: We're word word word the word a week. So in
Speaker 1: honor of the mega mega mega mega mega sports merger
Speaker 1: that happened this week, so much that gasbags and blowhearts
Speaker 1: that only talk about golf four times a year unless
Speaker 1: Tiger Woods is involved in a scandal, all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: we're chowing down on the low hanging fruit of a
Speaker 1: merger between the Live Saudi you know, finance Live Golf
Speaker 1: Tour and the PGA Tour. A massive story and as
Speaker 1: I mentioned a few times on the radio show Overnight,
Speaker 1: this is the first time in my life something this
Speaker 1: big has happened in sports. I remember hearing stories when
Speaker 1: I was a kid because it was kind of I
Speaker 1: guess it might have happened when I was little. But
Speaker 1: the NBA ABA merger that took on, like the Denver
Speaker 1: Nuggets who were in the finals, the Indiana Pacers and
Speaker 1: some teams the Nets became NBA teams in baseball. In
Speaker 1: the early days of baseball, the American League in the
Speaker 1: National League joined forces, but they were separate outfits and
Speaker 1: they formed Major League Baseball NFL, the NFL AFL merger,
Speaker 1: like all these things, and like sometimes we'll do stats
Speaker 1: about since, you know, since the merger will be what
Speaker 1: we we mentioned and so now we have another merger.
Speaker 1: Not that we're big golf people, but massive, massive move
Speaker 1: and hypocrisy to the next level. But the word of
Speaker 1: the week this week is merger. That's the word of
Speaker 1: the week, following the Live PG eight tour merger and
Speaker 1: that is the word of the week. So the word
Speaker 1: merger as a noun goes back to seventeen twenty eight.
Speaker 1: So the word is almost you know, you do the
Speaker 1: math on that's that's that's old, three hundred years old almost.
Speaker 1: But in the legal sense it says extinguishment by absorption.
Speaker 1: It was originally for real estate. The term merger was
Speaker 1: for real estate and it was used in France, and
Speaker 1: it wasn't until eighteen eighty nine that it was used
Speaker 1: in business. But that was for security for a debt,
Speaker 1: like if you had debt by the creditors, stay with
Speaker 1: me on this. The word of the week merger, But
Speaker 1: the modern way we use merger, like two businesses merging together.
Speaker 1: That did not become common until nineteen twenty six. So
Speaker 1: the word is in the way we use the word.
Speaker 1: It's you know, it's old, but it's you know, it's
Speaker 1: not one hundred years old. It's close to one hundred
Speaker 1: years old. But the general meaning any act of merging,
Speaker 1: that was like eighteen eighty one. But the I'm in
Speaker 1: the term nineteen twenty six. So the war the week, merger, merger, merger, merger, merger.
Speaker 1: Anything you got going on today, we'll push back to
Speaker 1: the Sunday podcast. We'll do some pop goes the culture
Speaker 1: along with the mail bag and all that. Anything going
Speaker 1: on today, Danny, you want to promote, Yeah.
Speaker 4: I'll use the word of the week. I'm trying to
Speaker 4: merge my storage with my wifies. Last weekend, I cleaned
Speaker 4: out a storage unit that I had in West Lake
Speaker 4: Village smoke weed every day.
Speaker 3: I downsized it.
Speaker 4: If you know anything about storage units, they jack up
Speaker 4: your rent every six months.
Speaker 3: It's ridiculous.
Speaker 4: So I stormed into the office and I said, I
Speaker 4: demand a smaller unit, and so they gave me the
Speaker 4: smallest closet they had, and I threw some stuff away.
Speaker 4: I did the old trick where I took pictures of
Speaker 4: old crap and then tossed it.
Speaker 3: Good. The garage is clean.
Speaker 4: And I think now I'm going to start setting up
Speaker 4: my podcast area.
Speaker 1: Okay, did you do the move where you considered putting
Speaker 1: it on offer up or eBay the stuff that you
Speaker 1: ended up throwing out, or did it only have sentimental
Speaker 1: value to you?
Speaker 4: Sentimental value because a lot of it was older electronics
Speaker 4: like old boomboxes and speakers and stuff like that. It's
Speaker 4: not modern enough to where people would have been, you know,
Speaker 4: fighting for it on offer up.
Speaker 1: Gotcha, Yeah, I gotcha. I have nothing going. My wife's
Speaker 1: actually working.
Speaker 3: No house guests.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no house guests, thank god. So my wife's working
Speaker 1: an extra shift. So I am considering if anyone listening,
Speaker 1: if you're listening this early in the day today, if
Speaker 1: you're in southern California and you are going to be
Speaker 1: at the Angels game, I may make an appearance. I
Speaker 1: was going to try to go out and have a
Speaker 1: nice meal with my buddy, have like a guy's night,
Speaker 1: but he's he told me his worst nightmare. He's going camping.
Speaker 1: He hates camping, but his wife loves camping, and so
Speaker 1: they're taking the kids camping and he was complaining about that.
Speaker 1: So I will rather than do something other but maybe
Speaker 1: go to the Angel game for a little bit. Check
Speaker 1: that out. See the Big A haven't been out there
Speaker 1: in a while. And that is it. We've got the
Speaker 1: mail bag. Slash pop goes the culture. We'll get to
Speaker 1: that on Sunday. Have a wonderful Saturday and we will
Speaker 1: catch you then.
Speaker 3: Yeah, have fun watching Otani. Later, skater got a murder.
Speaker 3: I gotta go