1 00:00:00,680 --> 00:00:01,440 Speaker 1: Cutbooms. 2 00:00:02,279 --> 00:00:05,360 Speaker 2: If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes 3 00:00:05,400 --> 00:00:09,200 Speaker 2: a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants 4 00:00:09,200 --> 00:00:12,480 Speaker 2: of the Old Republic, a soul fashion of fairness. He 5 00:00:12,560 --> 00:00:15,480 Speaker 2: treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the 6 00:00:15,600 --> 00:00:19,599 Speaker 2: rich pill poppers in the penthouse. Wow to Clearinghouse of 7 00:00:19,640 --> 00:00:23,480 Speaker 2: hot takes, break free for something special. The Fifth Hour 8 00:00:23,600 --> 00:00:30,760 Speaker 2: with Ben Maller starts right now. 9 00:00:28,960 --> 00:00:33,520 Speaker 1: In the air everywhere. The Fifth Hour with Me, Ben 10 00:00:33,600 --> 00:00:38,080 Speaker 1: Maler and Danny G Radio. Happy Friday. It is the 11 00:00:38,159 --> 00:00:42,159 Speaker 1: thirteenth day of February. We were recording this early in 12 00:00:42,200 --> 00:00:46,519 Speaker 1: the morning on a Friday, and it is Valentine's Day weekend, 13 00:00:46,600 --> 00:00:50,320 Speaker 1: So hopefully at some point we'll have an emergency Tinderoni 14 00:00:50,360 --> 00:00:55,080 Speaker 1: Tips with Danny G Radio. But today on this edition 15 00:00:55,360 --> 00:01:00,240 Speaker 1: of the podcast, we've got the Mather travel Log a 16 00:01:00,280 --> 00:01:04,200 Speaker 1: little bit different, Malard Travelogus. This is our first Fifth 17 00:01:04,200 --> 00:01:09,880 Speaker 1: Hour podcast since the weekend getaway in Northern California. We're 18 00:01:09,920 --> 00:01:13,760 Speaker 1: gonna call this Barnacles on the Mayflower. We're gonna call 19 00:01:13,800 --> 00:01:17,160 Speaker 1: this one Barnacles on the Mayflower. Now, I did notice 20 00:01:17,200 --> 00:01:21,160 Speaker 1: it was World Radio Day today. I saw this. Now 21 00:01:21,200 --> 00:01:24,320 Speaker 1: I did not know that it is World Radio Day. 22 00:01:24,360 --> 00:01:27,880 Speaker 1: I did not realize this was a thing. However it is. 23 00:01:28,000 --> 00:01:31,280 Speaker 1: It hasn't been a thing for that long. World Radio 24 00:01:31,360 --> 00:01:36,640 Speaker 1: Day was first proposed in Spain in September of twenty ten, 25 00:01:37,480 --> 00:01:42,959 Speaker 1: and then it began shortly after that. In twenty eleven, 26 00:01:43,920 --> 00:01:48,040 Speaker 1: World Radio Day was accepted by all member states of 27 00:01:48,480 --> 00:01:51,360 Speaker 1: the I guess there's a world body that puts these 28 00:01:51,400 --> 00:01:56,080 Speaker 1: things together. And the first official World Radio Day was 29 00:01:56,160 --> 00:02:01,760 Speaker 1: the University of Pisa, the Leaning Tower of Peace in Italy. 30 00:02:02,120 --> 00:02:05,520 Speaker 1: They hosted an event there and we can thank the 31 00:02:05,600 --> 00:02:11,760 Speaker 1: great Marconi who invented radio, and then this guy James 32 00:02:12,000 --> 00:02:18,399 Speaker 1: Clerk Maxwell who proposed radio's possibility. But it was Marconi 33 00:02:19,120 --> 00:02:24,080 Speaker 1: that invented the first practical radio device and providing me 34 00:02:24,160 --> 00:02:29,240 Speaker 1: with a lifetime of employment. And the gadgets have changed 35 00:02:29,320 --> 00:02:31,160 Speaker 1: right to watch you McCall. It's the thinking. My jiggs 36 00:02:31,160 --> 00:02:34,680 Speaker 1: are all different now. But the radio it's as many 37 00:02:34,840 --> 00:02:38,959 Speaker 1: radio days today as one of them. So we honor 38 00:02:39,600 --> 00:02:45,720 Speaker 1: broadcasting and the history of the wacky, wacky business. And 39 00:02:45,760 --> 00:02:48,920 Speaker 1: it was some of the things that took place here 40 00:02:49,760 --> 00:02:52,560 Speaker 1: in radio. I don't know that I want to get 41 00:02:52,600 --> 00:02:55,200 Speaker 1: into this right now. Actually, I had to study this. 42 00:02:55,240 --> 00:02:58,280 Speaker 1: When I was in Saddleback College. I learned a little 43 00:02:58,280 --> 00:03:01,400 Speaker 1: bit about radio, and like the first radio station was 44 00:03:01,480 --> 00:03:09,200 Speaker 1: KDKA and Pittsburgh and nineteen nineteen and then radio FM 45 00:03:09,320 --> 00:03:12,360 Speaker 1: radio began. There was a bunch of pirate radio stations. 46 00:03:12,400 --> 00:03:17,919 Speaker 1: That's why the government regulated radio to avoid pirate radio. 47 00:03:18,000 --> 00:03:21,760 Speaker 1: Of course, now we have the Internet which has nothing 48 00:03:21,840 --> 00:03:26,480 Speaker 1: but pirated this, that and the other thing. So celebrate appropriately. 49 00:03:26,600 --> 00:03:31,519 Speaker 1: It is again World Radio Day. Meanwhile, the Mallard travelog 50 00:03:31,639 --> 00:03:37,440 Speaker 1: has been activated. The road from Los Angeles to San 51 00:03:37,480 --> 00:03:40,920 Speaker 1: Francisco is not merely a drive. Now, I've done this 52 00:03:41,000 --> 00:03:44,560 Speaker 1: a few times over the years, but this is a pilgrimage. 53 00:03:44,760 --> 00:03:48,240 Speaker 1: And I was reminded, having not done it in a 54 00:03:48,280 --> 00:03:51,000 Speaker 1: little bit of time, that the trip from the South 55 00:03:51,040 --> 00:03:55,720 Speaker 1: to the north, you feel like you're reading about Lewis 56 00:03:55,760 --> 00:03:58,320 Speaker 1: and Clark, but you're living it. But you get better snacks, 57 00:03:59,160 --> 00:04:03,960 Speaker 1: better snacks, conditioning, heating, that kind of stuff. Manifest destiny 58 00:04:04,080 --> 00:04:11,000 Speaker 1: in a malormobile. As we traveled the overnight sports talk 59 00:04:11,200 --> 00:04:14,800 Speaker 1: conn of Hall in the malomobile made the migration right 60 00:04:14,920 --> 00:04:19,599 Speaker 1: up the spine of California, right up the spine. Now 61 00:04:19,640 --> 00:04:22,599 Speaker 1: as you are aware because you are a loyal minion 62 00:04:22,800 --> 00:04:27,680 Speaker 1: of the Fifth Hour podcast. We completed a world wind 63 00:04:28,000 --> 00:04:32,280 Speaker 1: journey at what used to be called Radio Row. That's 64 00:04:32,320 --> 00:04:37,400 Speaker 1: the colloquial term Radio Row and is now more accurately 65 00:04:38,360 --> 00:04:46,320 Speaker 1: Influencer Row. A bizarre of ring lights and really self 66 00:04:46,400 --> 00:04:48,640 Speaker 1: important people. The guy I used to do the podcast 67 00:04:48,680 --> 00:04:51,719 Speaker 1: with West of the four h five. These are his peeps, right, 68 00:04:51,920 --> 00:04:56,640 Speaker 1: real smarmy, arrogant people who think their gods give the world. 69 00:04:57,000 --> 00:05:00,520 Speaker 1: That is what was here. It was a meet way 70 00:05:00,640 --> 00:05:04,799 Speaker 1: of marketing. Look like a lot of interns and dudes 71 00:05:04,880 --> 00:05:11,200 Speaker 1: who use the phrase content vertical and they use it. 72 00:05:11,200 --> 00:05:14,880 Speaker 1: There's no irony there they use it. So Fox Sports Radio, 73 00:05:15,160 --> 00:05:20,120 Speaker 1: as you are aware, they send the daytime Royalty. There's 74 00:05:20,160 --> 00:05:23,599 Speaker 1: two types of radio. There's night radio and there's daytime radio. 75 00:05:23,640 --> 00:05:27,119 Speaker 1: So the daytime radio shows get treated a little bit better. 76 00:05:27,839 --> 00:05:32,960 Speaker 1: The overnight peasants, as usual, are left to finance their 77 00:05:32,960 --> 00:05:39,200 Speaker 1: own travel expeditions, while the daytime guys get hotel rooms 78 00:05:39,240 --> 00:05:42,880 Speaker 1: and per diem and things like that. So fortunately, my 79 00:05:43,160 --> 00:05:47,080 Speaker 1: brother in law happens to live about ten miles from 80 00:05:47,240 --> 00:05:51,080 Speaker 1: the heart of San Francisco where this was going on. 81 00:05:51,200 --> 00:05:56,120 Speaker 1: At the convention, center and my wife, bless her. Intrepidzoul 82 00:05:56,560 --> 00:05:59,960 Speaker 1: loves a good road trip the way some people love 83 00:06:00,080 --> 00:06:06,120 Speaker 1: of breathing. So the journey north on I five Interstate 84 00:06:06,240 --> 00:06:12,880 Speaker 1: five is a lesson in humility regarding geography, and California 85 00:06:13,080 --> 00:06:19,599 Speaker 1: is a massive monster. It's vast, it's got the agriculture, 86 00:06:20,160 --> 00:06:24,159 Speaker 1: and it's empty because of that in the middle. There's 87 00:06:24,240 --> 00:06:31,839 Speaker 1: not a lot going on when you're driving through the middle. Bakersfield, Fresno, Visalia, 88 00:06:32,320 --> 00:06:36,880 Speaker 1: towns like that, I just feel like Commas in a sentence. 89 00:06:37,040 --> 00:06:41,040 Speaker 1: No one ever finishes the cows. They just outnumber people, 90 00:06:41,120 --> 00:06:44,800 Speaker 1: which drives the animal rights wackos crazy. Oh my god, 91 00:06:44,880 --> 00:06:48,360 Speaker 1: they're farting and there's come on, I want my milk, 92 00:06:48,400 --> 00:06:52,800 Speaker 1: I want my meat. Fart away boys, flatulence everywhere, And 93 00:06:53,160 --> 00:06:55,360 Speaker 1: what I enjoyed. One of the things I laughed at 94 00:06:55,480 --> 00:07:02,719 Speaker 1: was the billboards scolding the bozo gas newsome and I 95 00:07:02,720 --> 00:07:06,720 Speaker 1: didn't realize that this was as big a thing still, 96 00:07:06,160 --> 00:07:10,240 Speaker 1: and things maybe moved on, but no, there were a 97 00:07:10,240 --> 00:07:14,080 Speaker 1: bunch of billboards with this rural venom, which is a 98 00:07:14,160 --> 00:07:18,480 Speaker 1: different kind of venom. Farmer venom is a different kind 99 00:07:18,480 --> 00:07:21,320 Speaker 1: of venom, the kind of venom that could curdle milk. 100 00:07:22,040 --> 00:07:24,800 Speaker 1: And we're talking about the bread basket of California, which 101 00:07:24,800 --> 00:07:31,120 Speaker 1: stretches out like it's this green ocean. And you realize 102 00:07:31,160 --> 00:07:34,080 Speaker 1: that driving again from LA to San Francisco is the 103 00:07:34,120 --> 00:07:39,240 Speaker 1: West Coast equivalent of driving from Boston to Washington. Of 104 00:07:39,240 --> 00:07:44,040 Speaker 1: course we don't have the charming colonial plaques and historical monuments, 105 00:07:44,080 --> 00:07:48,960 Speaker 1: but you're going through. If you're going from Boston to Washington, 106 00:07:49,000 --> 00:07:53,840 Speaker 1: you're traveling through seven states. Right now, We in California 107 00:07:53,960 --> 00:07:58,800 Speaker 1: have a great deal of garlic. That's our advantage. Now, 108 00:07:58,800 --> 00:08:02,239 Speaker 1: we made the required stop at In and Out Burger. 109 00:08:02,280 --> 00:08:05,640 Speaker 1: We stopped right across the Grapevine, which is when you're 110 00:08:05,720 --> 00:08:07,760 Speaker 1: leaving LA, you gotta go up through the hills and 111 00:08:07,800 --> 00:08:11,880 Speaker 1: go down into the place where they have all the food. 112 00:08:12,280 --> 00:08:14,160 Speaker 1: They make the food, and that's the Grapevine. It's a 113 00:08:14,200 --> 00:08:16,920 Speaker 1: little like truck stop there, and there's hotels if you're 114 00:08:16,960 --> 00:08:18,680 Speaker 1: not familiar with it. And so we stopped at the 115 00:08:18,680 --> 00:08:21,800 Speaker 1: Grapevine at the in and Out Burger, which is less 116 00:08:21,800 --> 00:08:24,080 Speaker 1: a restaurant and more it's like a civic duty to 117 00:08:24,120 --> 00:08:26,160 Speaker 1: eat an in that burger. I don't eat there very much, 118 00:08:26,200 --> 00:08:28,320 Speaker 1: but when I see one on the road, we always 119 00:08:28,520 --> 00:08:32,480 Speaker 1: try to stop, so we kept going. After that, we 120 00:08:32,480 --> 00:08:36,760 Speaker 1: were fortified again from a Loves truck stop, not the 121 00:08:36,840 --> 00:08:40,040 Speaker 1: Flying j Not the Flying Jack. There was no Flying 122 00:08:40,120 --> 00:08:43,200 Speaker 1: Jay at this off ramp, so we went to Loves 123 00:08:43,960 --> 00:08:47,680 Speaker 1: Now keep Inlind. My wife piloted. It was a two 124 00:08:47,720 --> 00:08:50,880 Speaker 1: person operation. My wife piloted while I attempted to assemble 125 00:08:50,920 --> 00:08:54,960 Speaker 1: an overnight radio program from scratch while sitting in the 126 00:08:55,040 --> 00:08:59,839 Speaker 1: passenger seat. It was truly a dynamic duo maneuver that 127 00:09:00,240 --> 00:09:03,320 Speaker 1: would have impressed the road warriors. They were, oh, man, 128 00:09:03,400 --> 00:09:05,880 Speaker 1: that's the way to go. So the show on the 129 00:09:05,880 --> 00:09:09,840 Speaker 1: West Coast begins at eleven PM, and there is no 130 00:09:10,080 --> 00:09:14,240 Speaker 1: grace period in radio. I have friends that have normal 131 00:09:14,440 --> 00:09:17,640 Speaker 1: nine to five jobs, and if traffic is bad, they 132 00:09:17,679 --> 00:09:22,480 Speaker 1: show up at nine thirty or ten o'clock. The microphone 133 00:09:22,640 --> 00:09:26,840 Speaker 1: does not care about your plight, your journey, your traffic, 134 00:09:26,840 --> 00:09:30,400 Speaker 1: doesn't care about it, doesn't care about it. So Gilroy 135 00:09:31,559 --> 00:09:35,280 Speaker 1: announced itself before we saw it. The windows immediately came down. 136 00:09:35,320 --> 00:09:39,520 Speaker 1: That's a requirement. The windows came down. We inhaled the 137 00:09:39,600 --> 00:09:47,880 Speaker 1: stinking rows nature's antibiotic gangster name garlic, and that was awesome. 138 00:09:47,920 --> 00:09:50,120 Speaker 1: I just love the smell of the guard. Now, by 139 00:09:50,160 --> 00:09:54,559 Speaker 1: the time we reached San Francisco proper, it was now 140 00:09:54,640 --> 00:09:59,160 Speaker 1: rush hour. My wife was driving, trying to negotiate lanes 141 00:09:59,240 --> 00:10:02,880 Speaker 1: like a diplomat in a dispute at the border, and 142 00:10:04,120 --> 00:10:08,240 Speaker 1: no one gave an inch, No mercy was shown, and 143 00:10:08,640 --> 00:10:11,160 Speaker 1: the wife was not enjoying this part of the trip. Now, 144 00:10:11,160 --> 00:10:16,199 Speaker 1: eventually we reached the sanctuarya at my brother in law's home, 145 00:10:16,360 --> 00:10:23,600 Speaker 1: where I converted a room with cathedral ceilings into a 146 00:10:23,720 --> 00:10:28,240 Speaker 1: broadcast bunker, Benny's broadcast bunker. I brought this big, giant 147 00:10:28,320 --> 00:10:33,680 Speaker 1: container with a remote studio setup, including the microphone, the headphones, 148 00:10:34,000 --> 00:10:37,600 Speaker 1: the thing that we need to connect to everything. So 149 00:10:37,679 --> 00:10:41,959 Speaker 1: it was all there, and I was worried. I was like, well, 150 00:10:42,000 --> 00:10:43,920 Speaker 1: this is probably not going to sound that good. But 151 00:10:43,960 --> 00:10:47,520 Speaker 1: we had nowhere else to broadcast from because the cable 152 00:10:47,600 --> 00:10:50,840 Speaker 1: that we had wasn't very long and it had to 153 00:10:50,880 --> 00:10:54,120 Speaker 1: be connected to the do Hickey, and if it was 154 00:10:54,160 --> 00:10:56,360 Speaker 1: not connected to the dow Higgy as Alf the Alien 155 00:10:56,400 --> 00:10:59,360 Speaker 1: Opinter and Fergdog No, that would cause a problem that 156 00:10:59,360 --> 00:11:06,599 Speaker 1: would cause So the acoustics were horrific. My voice ricocheted 157 00:11:07,480 --> 00:11:11,960 Speaker 1: like a racquetball. In a gymnasium. Callers wondered if I 158 00:11:12,080 --> 00:11:16,040 Speaker 1: was ill. They were convinced that I had gotten the 159 00:11:16,080 --> 00:11:20,880 Speaker 1: creeping crud. No, no, I I was just echoing off 160 00:11:21,000 --> 00:11:26,960 Speaker 1: drywall to six hundred radio stations. So we improvised, which 161 00:11:27,040 --> 00:11:30,839 Speaker 1: meant going on our phones, well mostly my wife's phone, 162 00:11:31,000 --> 00:11:37,120 Speaker 1: to Amazon. We ordered a longer cable and we wanted 163 00:11:37,160 --> 00:11:39,800 Speaker 1: a lower ceiling. And in order to get a lower ceiling, 164 00:11:40,360 --> 00:11:44,040 Speaker 1: we're not doing the work that just Josh does. We decided, okay, 165 00:11:44,080 --> 00:11:46,800 Speaker 1: we'll get a longer cable, and so we used the 166 00:11:46,840 --> 00:11:50,880 Speaker 1: Malor method. My right hand was getting a workout, not 167 00:11:51,000 --> 00:11:53,719 Speaker 1: the Malor maneuver. That's something different. The Malor maneuver, as 168 00:11:53,720 --> 00:11:55,079 Speaker 1: you know, is on the game shows. But the Malor 169 00:11:55,200 --> 00:12:03,560 Speaker 1: method you adjust, adapt and broadcast, not man deflect and absorb. No, no, no. 170 00:12:04,320 --> 00:12:07,720 Speaker 1: We use the Malord method to just adapt and broadcast. 171 00:12:07,800 --> 00:12:11,000 Speaker 1: So the following day there was a package that showed 172 00:12:11,080 --> 00:12:15,480 Speaker 1: up at the door and it had the cable needed, 173 00:12:15,559 --> 00:12:18,360 Speaker 1: so we were able to broadcast where we wanted to. And 174 00:12:18,400 --> 00:12:21,560 Speaker 1: then we also had a luncheon. That's right, a power 175 00:12:21,640 --> 00:12:24,760 Speaker 1: luncheon at the fly Trap in San Francisco. This is 176 00:12:24,800 --> 00:12:27,960 Speaker 1: a relic of the olden days in San Francisco, with 177 00:12:28,040 --> 00:12:34,280 Speaker 1: more than a century of stories. If those plaster walls 178 00:12:34,280 --> 00:12:39,120 Speaker 1: could talk, My god, the things that likely happened at 179 00:12:39,160 --> 00:12:42,160 Speaker 1: the fly Trap. How great is that? What a great 180 00:12:42,240 --> 00:12:48,079 Speaker 1: name that is? So this event, there's a patriarchy to this. 181 00:12:48,120 --> 00:12:51,640 Speaker 1: So the daytime host who had their trip paid for, 182 00:12:51,840 --> 00:12:55,400 Speaker 1: with their nice jackets and all that, they were there. 183 00:12:55,480 --> 00:12:57,320 Speaker 1: But I had a chance to meet some really cool people, 184 00:12:57,559 --> 00:13:01,920 Speaker 1: the big sales executives for the company who came in 185 00:13:01,960 --> 00:13:06,600 Speaker 1: from New York and Nashville. A bunch of producers there. 186 00:13:06,679 --> 00:13:10,200 Speaker 1: Danny G was a bunch of my old producer, Danny G. 187 00:13:10,600 --> 00:13:15,280 Speaker 1: Wrong Button Bob the talent was also there. The big 188 00:13:15,360 --> 00:13:21,000 Speaker 1: daytime guys, Rob Parker and Jonas Knox and LaVar Arrington 189 00:13:21,160 --> 00:13:23,840 Speaker 1: and Brady Quinns. First time I met Brady quinn he 190 00:13:23,920 --> 00:13:27,320 Speaker 1: was there, the old Notre Dame quarterback Covino and Rich 191 00:13:27,800 --> 00:13:30,280 Speaker 1: and I did not see Stu Gotts. I did not 192 00:13:30,679 --> 00:13:32,640 Speaker 1: come across Stu Gotts. He was not at that event, 193 00:13:32,640 --> 00:13:36,000 Speaker 1: at least not when I was there. And we made 194 00:13:36,000 --> 00:13:38,959 Speaker 1: the rounds and said hello to everyone and all that, 195 00:13:39,040 --> 00:13:42,200 Speaker 1: and did did our thing that got to see the 196 00:13:42,240 --> 00:13:44,760 Speaker 1: president Yellow FaceTime with the president of the Premier Network. 197 00:13:44,840 --> 00:13:48,480 Speaker 1: She lives in Nashville there, Julie Talbot, very nice woman 198 00:13:48,640 --> 00:13:51,400 Speaker 1: who I haven't seen that often, obviously not living in 199 00:13:51,440 --> 00:13:54,120 Speaker 1: California anymore, and it was great to catch up with 200 00:13:54,160 --> 00:13:57,040 Speaker 1: her as a kind of a summit of the big 201 00:13:57,080 --> 00:13:59,560 Speaker 1: people at the company. And like I said, a lot 202 00:13:59,559 --> 00:14:03,319 Speaker 1: of these guys I'd not met, really cool dudes, and 203 00:14:03,480 --> 00:14:06,439 Speaker 1: they're the ones that keep us going because they're the 204 00:14:06,480 --> 00:14:09,160 Speaker 1: ones that sell all the commercials for dude wipes and 205 00:14:09,200 --> 00:14:10,520 Speaker 1: all the other stuff, and then we just have to 206 00:14:10,520 --> 00:14:13,000 Speaker 1: read them on the air. I did break my fast 207 00:14:13,040 --> 00:14:14,560 Speaker 1: a little early. I was not happy about it, but 208 00:14:14,600 --> 00:14:16,559 Speaker 1: I did break my fast little early for free food, 209 00:14:17,160 --> 00:14:23,640 Speaker 1: a small betrayal of the regular routine that I justified 210 00:14:23,640 --> 00:14:27,800 Speaker 1: it rare and appropriate. Rare, rare and appropriate. You got 211 00:14:27,800 --> 00:14:30,080 Speaker 1: to live life if you can't just be so locked 212 00:14:30,120 --> 00:14:33,880 Speaker 1: in that you gotta follow this. So I did fast 213 00:14:33,960 --> 00:14:39,080 Speaker 1: the very minimum amount of time. Then came a walk 214 00:14:39,520 --> 00:14:43,440 Speaker 1: to try to get to the credentialing gauntlet courtesy of 215 00:14:43,440 --> 00:14:46,640 Speaker 1: the National Football League see Radio Row. You can't just 216 00:14:46,720 --> 00:14:50,400 Speaker 1: walk into radio Row, No, you have to be approved 217 00:14:50,480 --> 00:14:53,360 Speaker 1: by the NFL and their security, and you have to 218 00:14:53,400 --> 00:14:56,320 Speaker 1: send in this thing and that thing, and I don't 219 00:14:56,360 --> 00:14:58,520 Speaker 1: know what the other thing is and all that stuff. 220 00:14:59,040 --> 00:15:02,120 Speaker 1: So when I say has to approve you, we are 221 00:15:02,200 --> 00:15:08,720 Speaker 1: talking NFL security, which includes a facial scan which leads 222 00:15:08,760 --> 00:15:14,800 Speaker 1: to you getting your badge printed. Pentagon level vigilance for 223 00:15:14,920 --> 00:15:20,040 Speaker 1: a room full of men and women who are arguing 224 00:15:20,360 --> 00:15:25,360 Speaker 1: about the future of the on side kick and you 225 00:15:25,560 --> 00:15:30,160 Speaker 1: have facial recognition, Pentagon level security. Now, my wife received 226 00:15:30,160 --> 00:15:32,760 Speaker 1: the pass as well, and so she was able to 227 00:15:32,800 --> 00:15:36,320 Speaker 1: hang out with me, and together we crossed over, crossing 228 00:15:36,360 --> 00:15:42,320 Speaker 1: the Rubicon into the funhouse. Radio Row. Now, legend has 229 00:15:42,400 --> 00:15:47,440 Speaker 1: it that radio Row began with Mike and the Mad Dog, 230 00:15:47,480 --> 00:15:50,560 Speaker 1: Mike Francesa and Chris Russo, who both did a stint 231 00:15:50,600 --> 00:15:52,600 Speaker 1: at Fox Sports Radio. A lot of people don't know 232 00:15:52,640 --> 00:15:55,760 Speaker 1: that they both did a stint at Fox Sports Radio 233 00:15:55,800 --> 00:16:00,440 Speaker 1: twenty five years ago. Their weekend shows from WFN picked 234 00:16:00,520 --> 00:16:04,960 Speaker 1: up in simulcast on Fox Sports Radio. However, we learned, 235 00:16:05,640 --> 00:16:07,840 Speaker 1: and I didn't know this, that even though Russo and 236 00:16:07,880 --> 00:16:11,600 Speaker 1: Francesa both had weekend shows, they almost never actually did them, 237 00:16:12,160 --> 00:16:16,280 Speaker 1: so they were mostly carrying the fill ins for Chris 238 00:16:16,400 --> 00:16:18,880 Speaker 1: Russo and Mike francessa but a couple of New Yorkers 239 00:16:18,880 --> 00:16:21,360 Speaker 1: with microphones and ambitions. They would go to the super 240 00:16:21,400 --> 00:16:24,360 Speaker 1: Bowl site. They'd set up in the lobby of the hotel, 241 00:16:24,480 --> 00:16:28,400 Speaker 1: and then word got out, and since Mike and the 242 00:16:28,440 --> 00:16:34,120 Speaker 1: Mad Dog, it has over the years metastasized into a 243 00:16:34,320 --> 00:16:37,960 Speaker 1: convention now which has been taken over by selfie sticks 244 00:16:38,760 --> 00:16:46,360 Speaker 1: and beautiful women who are really trying to dress down 245 00:16:46,480 --> 00:16:49,240 Speaker 1: unless they're not. Hey, good for them, you got it, 246 00:16:49,280 --> 00:16:53,640 Speaker 1: show it. The NFL, they really do seem more invested 247 00:16:53,760 --> 00:16:59,960 Speaker 1: in TikTok trends than terrestrial radio. I can't believe it. 248 00:17:00,000 --> 00:17:03,160 Speaker 1: I don't know why. Uh, this is the part where 249 00:17:03,160 --> 00:17:05,400 Speaker 1: I would go into a rant. It's the matrix. I've 250 00:17:05,440 --> 00:17:08,040 Speaker 1: already done that, you know how I feel about it. 251 00:17:08,520 --> 00:17:11,720 Speaker 1: At some point there will be the great Awakening. At 252 00:17:11,720 --> 00:17:15,760 Speaker 1: some point a bunch of really powerful people are going 253 00:17:15,840 --> 00:17:21,440 Speaker 1: to realize that they have been taking to the cleaners. 254 00:17:22,040 --> 00:17:24,480 Speaker 1: They're going to realize that. Now it hasn't happened yet, 255 00:17:24,480 --> 00:17:28,040 Speaker 1: but at some point it's going to happen. The fake 256 00:17:29,040 --> 00:17:32,320 Speaker 1: level of activity that goes on on these platforms is 257 00:17:32,400 --> 00:17:35,600 Speaker 1: next level. Like there's obviously a lot of people on them, 258 00:17:35,960 --> 00:17:38,760 Speaker 1: just not as many as the numbers indicate. So the 259 00:17:38,880 --> 00:17:44,040 Speaker 1: vibe has shifted from a barroom debate the old classic 260 00:17:44,119 --> 00:17:48,000 Speaker 1: sports radio Tom Rady is the great lo Joe mont Taylor. 261 00:17:48,960 --> 00:17:54,200 Speaker 1: Now it's this curated spectacle. To describe it, and if 262 00:17:54,240 --> 00:17:57,800 Speaker 1: you haven't been, you probably have it. It's Costco. If 263 00:17:57,840 --> 00:18:02,680 Speaker 1: Costco sold egos in bulk, this would be the loading dock, 264 00:18:02,840 --> 00:18:06,000 Speaker 1: this would be the loading dock. And still there were 265 00:18:06,080 --> 00:18:10,240 Speaker 1: friendly faces, colleagues, a bunch of other people that behind 266 00:18:10,280 --> 00:18:15,000 Speaker 1: the scenes pr veterans who I have crossed path with 267 00:18:15,359 --> 00:18:18,520 Speaker 1: in my time in radio, so it was cool to 268 00:18:18,520 --> 00:18:21,680 Speaker 1: see him. JT the Brick, who had a seventeen year 269 00:18:21,760 --> 00:18:24,439 Speaker 1: run I think at Fox Sports Radio. I got to 270 00:18:24,480 --> 00:18:28,040 Speaker 1: catch up with JT. And of course he does some 271 00:18:28,080 --> 00:18:30,800 Speaker 1: stuff with Tom Looney and I do Benny Versus the 272 00:18:30,800 --> 00:18:32,720 Speaker 1: Penny with Tom Looney, so it was great to see him. 273 00:18:32,800 --> 00:18:36,159 Speaker 1: Some of my old TV people who I knew from 274 00:18:37,000 --> 00:18:39,480 Speaker 1: the Benny Versus the Penny Show on NBC. My buddy 275 00:18:39,480 --> 00:18:42,480 Speaker 1: Bill was there. He was nice enough to come over 276 00:18:42,520 --> 00:18:44,679 Speaker 1: and say hello, so I got to catch up with 277 00:18:44,760 --> 00:18:50,119 Speaker 1: him and I briefly did some stuff at WEEI. I 278 00:18:50,119 --> 00:18:53,920 Speaker 1: can't believe it's been almost ten years twenty seventeen, twenty eighteen, 279 00:18:54,920 --> 00:18:58,200 Speaker 1: and they had a booth and I saw WIGGI, who 280 00:18:58,320 --> 00:19:00,240 Speaker 1: used to play for the Pages Old Tight like a 281 00:19:00,280 --> 00:19:02,280 Speaker 1: morning guy, but he was there in the afternoon. I 282 00:19:02,280 --> 00:19:05,240 Speaker 1: didn't ask many questions. Ted Johnson, the Old Patriot was 283 00:19:05,240 --> 00:19:08,240 Speaker 1: there also, So those guys were wandering around. A Rash 284 00:19:08,520 --> 00:19:11,040 Speaker 1: who I've known since he was an intern, and my 285 00:19:11,080 --> 00:19:13,440 Speaker 1: buddy from Canada. I'm always guys. It was cool. I 286 00:19:13,480 --> 00:19:16,240 Speaker 1: was shaking hands. I'm not much of a small talk guy. 287 00:19:16,280 --> 00:19:20,800 Speaker 1: This was mostly small talk. Did my interviews, traded pleasantries 288 00:19:21,359 --> 00:19:23,639 Speaker 1: that may or may not be remembered. I'm gonna go 289 00:19:23,680 --> 00:19:27,840 Speaker 1: with not remembered. And then on a sidewalk not far 290 00:19:28,119 --> 00:19:31,280 Speaker 1: from the madness of the convention center, which was secured 291 00:19:31,359 --> 00:19:41,119 Speaker 1: by a massive police presence, I nearly collided with Dave Chappelle. Yeah, 292 00:19:41,160 --> 00:19:44,399 Speaker 1: my right shoulder on my left, not my left. My 293 00:19:44,480 --> 00:19:50,680 Speaker 1: right shoulder passed within a foot of the Comic Royalty. 294 00:19:50,720 --> 00:19:55,399 Speaker 1: The gesture Dave Chappelle the court jester, and that was 295 00:19:55,520 --> 00:19:58,520 Speaker 1: that was pretty cool. And I didn't notice it that 296 00:19:58,680 --> 00:20:03,280 Speaker 1: there was a gaggle like group of people. These dudes 297 00:20:03,320 --> 00:20:08,400 Speaker 1: were following one of these influencer ladies who was shaking 298 00:20:08,400 --> 00:20:11,720 Speaker 1: her tooks while she walked and it was not ugly, 299 00:20:12,400 --> 00:20:15,600 Speaker 1: and so everything was slowed down. And then ahead of 300 00:20:15,640 --> 00:20:19,480 Speaker 1: her was Dave Chappelle. Was some dude just walking around. 301 00:20:19,720 --> 00:20:24,119 Speaker 1: Oh that's Dave Chappelle, very recognizable from all the Netflix 302 00:20:24,160 --> 00:20:27,200 Speaker 1: comedy stuff and all that. So there he was, and 303 00:20:27,600 --> 00:20:31,080 Speaker 1: we had that brief moment. That that brief moment there 304 00:20:31,520 --> 00:20:34,800 Speaker 1: and this in my private ledger. Not a big board 305 00:20:36,640 --> 00:20:39,560 Speaker 1: unless it is not a list. This is a big board. 306 00:20:39,600 --> 00:20:44,000 Speaker 1: So Terry and England come to so the celebrity siding. 307 00:20:44,119 --> 00:20:48,439 Speaker 1: Now this elevates me to the next level. I'm no 308 00:20:48,560 --> 00:20:53,680 Speaker 1: longer at the kiddy table and Dave Chappelle somewhere between 309 00:20:54,080 --> 00:20:59,160 Speaker 1: David Beckham when he was still playing Footebois and the Hoff, 310 00:21:00,160 --> 00:21:03,280 Speaker 1: the legend David Hasselhoff. Would they wink at a nod 311 00:21:03,359 --> 00:21:07,680 Speaker 1: to Justin Bieber the Beebes who's hoodie touched my arm 312 00:21:07,720 --> 00:21:11,200 Speaker 1: while he was going out to a Lakers game years ago. 313 00:21:11,760 --> 00:21:13,920 Speaker 1: So we are now me and Dave Chappelle the most 314 00:21:14,800 --> 00:21:19,960 Speaker 1: using the most generous interpretation of proximity lifelong acquaintances like 315 00:21:20,040 --> 00:21:22,680 Speaker 1: I'm sure next time, Dave Chappelle does a comedy show 316 00:21:23,200 --> 00:21:26,480 Speaker 1: in LA in Hollywood, I'll be like, hey, uh remember me, Dave. 317 00:21:26,520 --> 00:21:28,280 Speaker 1: Can I get a couple of tickets? Should? No problem, 318 00:21:28,480 --> 00:21:32,520 Speaker 1: No problem. Now, the city itself presented a curious amount 319 00:21:32,520 --> 00:21:36,600 Speaker 1: of theater in San Francisco because near the convention Center 320 00:21:37,960 --> 00:21:44,040 Speaker 1: it was fine. Order was there, laws were being followed. 321 00:21:44,800 --> 00:21:46,840 Speaker 1: I don't want to say the streets were scrubbed, because 322 00:21:46,880 --> 00:21:49,840 Speaker 1: there was still a lot of dirt around. The police 323 00:21:49,920 --> 00:21:53,720 Speaker 1: presence was abundant. Now, one of the offers, one of 324 00:21:53,720 --> 00:21:57,560 Speaker 1: the officers, confided with me and the wife, and you know, 325 00:21:57,600 --> 00:22:00,760 Speaker 1: the wife knows the lingo. She's a nine and one operator, 326 00:22:00,800 --> 00:22:02,760 Speaker 1: so she knows the lingo of the cops. And so 327 00:22:03,320 --> 00:22:05,720 Speaker 1: this guy was really cool and he's like confighted. He 328 00:22:05,800 --> 00:22:09,200 Speaker 1: used to be a radio guy names Marcus. I'm sure 329 00:22:09,200 --> 00:22:11,240 Speaker 1: there's more than one cop named Marcus. And it was 330 00:22:11,280 --> 00:22:13,720 Speaker 1: really cool. He's like, yeah, give me the whole rap. 331 00:22:13,760 --> 00:22:16,840 Speaker 1: And he essentially said, and this blew me away because 332 00:22:16,880 --> 00:22:19,160 Speaker 1: I heard guys like Pat McAfee who were like, oh, 333 00:22:19,320 --> 00:22:21,840 Speaker 1: people said San Francisco was, but it's not about at all. 334 00:22:22,280 --> 00:22:26,159 Speaker 1: And you're right around the convention center it was fine. 335 00:22:27,040 --> 00:22:31,320 Speaker 1: And the cop told me that the politicians in San Francisco, 336 00:22:32,320 --> 00:22:36,640 Speaker 1: they gave the mandate to treat the Super Bowl convention 337 00:22:36,760 --> 00:22:38,679 Speaker 1: area where all the media people were going to be 338 00:22:38,760 --> 00:22:45,720 Speaker 1: and the influencers, as a geopolitical event, like they swept 339 00:22:45,800 --> 00:22:50,160 Speaker 1: up the vagrants. And it was reminiscent the officer said 340 00:22:50,200 --> 00:22:53,720 Speaker 1: of when the President of China came for some meetings. 341 00:22:53,880 --> 00:22:58,080 Speaker 1: Is a similar thing, and so okay. But then you 342 00:22:58,200 --> 00:23:02,920 Speaker 1: leave that bubble you want under a few blocks, and 343 00:23:03,000 --> 00:23:09,399 Speaker 1: the varnishes thinned, the reality reasserts itself and does about 344 00:23:09,440 --> 00:23:12,719 Speaker 1: as subtle as a brass band about us, subtle as 345 00:23:12,720 --> 00:23:19,920 Speaker 1: a brass band. Traffic downtown was medievil, medievil. And I'd 346 00:23:19,960 --> 00:23:23,200 Speaker 1: like to meet the politician that decided we have these 347 00:23:23,240 --> 00:23:26,960 Speaker 1: three lane roads in downtown San Francisco. Why don't we 348 00:23:27,080 --> 00:23:30,840 Speaker 1: convert one of the lanes in all of downtown as 349 00:23:30,880 --> 00:23:38,359 Speaker 1: a busway or ride share corridor. Will paint that lane red, 350 00:23:39,240 --> 00:23:43,119 Speaker 1: and we will provide one of the legendary boondoggles in 351 00:23:43,280 --> 00:23:46,280 Speaker 1: any city I've ever been to. Now, traffic's bad in 352 00:23:46,440 --> 00:23:48,639 Speaker 1: la and it's bad in Boston. It's a lot of 353 00:23:48,640 --> 00:23:51,320 Speaker 1: it's underground, and New York City's terrible. And I've been 354 00:23:51,960 --> 00:23:54,239 Speaker 1: able to travel and drive in all these places, but 355 00:23:54,359 --> 00:24:00,600 Speaker 1: it once took us. This was I think on Thursday, 356 00:24:00,680 --> 00:24:02,800 Speaker 1: might not it was Friday. It took us forty five 357 00:24:02,920 --> 00:24:05,760 Speaker 1: minutes to go a mile and a half. We were 358 00:24:05,800 --> 00:24:07,880 Speaker 1: a mile and a half from where we needed a park. 359 00:24:07,960 --> 00:24:13,840 Speaker 1: Took forty five minutes. I could have crawled in my 360 00:24:13,960 --> 00:24:16,159 Speaker 1: knee pads or whatever. I would have made it in 361 00:24:16,400 --> 00:24:21,000 Speaker 1: less time. Now, after waiting, there was another moment where 362 00:24:21,000 --> 00:24:23,560 Speaker 1: we left Radio Row. We were going to go out 363 00:24:23,600 --> 00:24:26,439 Speaker 1: and get a bite to eat, and we walked a 364 00:24:26,440 --> 00:24:29,000 Speaker 1: few blocks over from the convention center. He's like, all right, 365 00:24:29,040 --> 00:24:31,639 Speaker 1: let's go a few blocks over. There'll be less traffic. Well, A, 366 00:24:31,760 --> 00:24:35,320 Speaker 1: there wasn't less traffic, and B we could not believe 367 00:24:35,359 --> 00:24:38,480 Speaker 1: every corner had a cop on it to avoid the 368 00:24:38,520 --> 00:24:41,200 Speaker 1: people that were down on their luck from hanging out 369 00:24:41,240 --> 00:24:43,840 Speaker 1: with the tourists and all that. So we went to 370 00:24:44,320 --> 00:24:47,760 Speaker 1: is it Union Square? I think something Union. We went 371 00:24:47,800 --> 00:24:50,080 Speaker 1: down there and it's like this really cool park surrounded 372 00:24:50,119 --> 00:24:53,199 Speaker 1: by these old buildings, and you might you could have 373 00:24:53,200 --> 00:24:55,600 Speaker 1: been in any city, could have been in Chicago, New York, LA. 374 00:24:55,720 --> 00:24:59,719 Speaker 1: Whatever the buildings are all. And so we saw we 375 00:24:59,720 --> 00:25:02,120 Speaker 1: were like all right, Let's order an uber all right, 376 00:25:02,240 --> 00:25:06,520 Speaker 1: no problem. The uber says, six minutes, will pick you 377 00:25:06,600 --> 00:25:09,240 Speaker 1: up from this spot. Walk a half a block to 378 00:25:09,280 --> 00:25:11,600 Speaker 1: this spot. Okay, I can walk a half a block. 379 00:25:12,080 --> 00:25:16,879 Speaker 1: So we walked a half a block and the app, 380 00:25:17,000 --> 00:25:21,520 Speaker 1: the uber app, said traffic is building. Car is still 381 00:25:21,600 --> 00:25:26,760 Speaker 1: six minutes away. So we said, okay, understandable. I was 382 00:25:26,800 --> 00:25:29,520 Speaker 1: just going to wait here. And we waited, and we 383 00:25:29,560 --> 00:25:32,719 Speaker 1: waited for about thirty to forty minutes. I forget exactly 384 00:25:32,800 --> 00:25:35,840 Speaker 1: how long it was. It was more than thirty less 385 00:25:35,880 --> 00:25:40,639 Speaker 1: than forty, but I'll say between thirty and forty. And 386 00:25:40,920 --> 00:25:43,159 Speaker 1: I was getting annoyed, and I said, you know what, 387 00:25:43,880 --> 00:25:45,760 Speaker 1: cancel it now. We had no other audit. We could 388 00:25:45,840 --> 00:25:48,719 Speaker 1: not walk the hills of San Francisco. We're not lunatics. 389 00:25:50,000 --> 00:25:52,480 Speaker 1: These hills are insane. I'd like to also go back 390 00:25:52,480 --> 00:25:54,439 Speaker 1: on a hot top time machine find out who decided 391 00:25:54,480 --> 00:25:57,960 Speaker 1: this is a good idea. Let's uh, this is almost 392 00:25:58,359 --> 00:26:01,600 Speaker 1: the hill is almost straight up. Let's build a house here, 393 00:26:01,920 --> 00:26:04,159 Speaker 1: Let's build a skyscraper. That's the way to do it. Anyway, 394 00:26:05,040 --> 00:26:09,080 Speaker 1: So I had this brilliant epiphany. I said, you know what, 395 00:26:09,920 --> 00:26:14,399 Speaker 1: we're in San Francisco. Cancel the uber. We did, and 396 00:26:14,600 --> 00:26:20,640 Speaker 1: I was overwhelmed with the tourism disease, if you will. 397 00:26:20,640 --> 00:26:25,199 Speaker 1: We boarded one of the iconic cable cars, you know, 398 00:26:25,240 --> 00:26:27,720 Speaker 1: the red cable cars, which is really only there for 399 00:26:27,760 --> 00:26:32,760 Speaker 1: the tourists, and it was packed. It was absolutely packed. 400 00:26:32,800 --> 00:26:34,679 Speaker 1: It was so packed. How packed was It was so 401 00:26:34,800 --> 00:26:37,720 Speaker 1: packed that we had to cling to the exterior like 402 00:26:37,920 --> 00:26:42,679 Speaker 1: barnacles on the Mayflower. Okay, we had to cling. The 403 00:26:42,680 --> 00:26:44,639 Speaker 1: only places they had were on the side, you know 404 00:26:44,720 --> 00:26:46,600 Speaker 1: the poles on the side you can stand up as 405 00:26:46,640 --> 00:26:50,520 Speaker 1: the cars movie. So we spent eight dollars each sixteen 406 00:26:50,600 --> 00:26:54,160 Speaker 1: dollars for a thrill ride like at an amusement park. 407 00:26:54,760 --> 00:26:57,560 Speaker 1: And at multiple points did we flirt with being the 408 00:26:57,640 --> 00:27:01,840 Speaker 1: lead store on the eleven o'clock news. Overnight radio host 409 00:27:02,000 --> 00:27:05,000 Speaker 1: is in the hospital after being hit while riding in 410 00:27:05,320 --> 00:27:12,600 Speaker 1: iconic San Francisco cable car. Yeah, the automobiles came about 411 00:27:12,720 --> 00:27:15,440 Speaker 1: as close as possible with no shame in their game. 412 00:27:16,320 --> 00:27:22,760 Speaker 1: So close they could smell our cologne or perfume, or 413 00:27:22,760 --> 00:27:26,960 Speaker 1: we could. They literally could read the expressions on our face. 414 00:27:27,320 --> 00:27:31,600 Speaker 1: They could have hugged us. It was wild and now 415 00:27:31,600 --> 00:27:34,600 Speaker 1: we obviously survived. I'm doing this podcast that felt like 416 00:27:34,680 --> 00:27:38,840 Speaker 1: a minor achievement, just surviving, and we were planning on 417 00:27:38,960 --> 00:27:43,400 Speaker 1: eating at my favorite restaurant in San Francisco, the Stick 418 00:27:43,440 --> 00:27:49,600 Speaker 1: and Rose. However, by the time we navigated the cable car, 419 00:27:50,200 --> 00:27:53,359 Speaker 1: we didn't have enough time, so we decided to cross over. 420 00:27:53,480 --> 00:27:54,879 Speaker 1: We went all the way to the end of the 421 00:27:54,880 --> 00:27:58,400 Speaker 1: cable car, too afraid to get off because of what 422 00:27:58,480 --> 00:28:00,680 Speaker 1: was going on. We almost got almost hit a car 423 00:28:00,720 --> 00:28:04,359 Speaker 1: that stopped. This white jeep stopped right in front of 424 00:28:04,359 --> 00:28:06,000 Speaker 1: the cable car. Why would you stop in front of 425 00:28:06,040 --> 00:28:08,720 Speaker 1: the cable car. Those things take a couple of minutes 426 00:28:08,760 --> 00:28:11,080 Speaker 1: to stop it. They don't stop right anyway. So we 427 00:28:11,240 --> 00:28:13,640 Speaker 1: were all way down to Fisherman's Wharf in San Francisco 428 00:28:13,720 --> 00:28:18,520 Speaker 1: and then walked over to Girideli Square for the Cookie Sunday, 429 00:28:19,240 --> 00:28:23,880 Speaker 1: a very decadent dessert that should require a coast. It's 430 00:28:23,920 --> 00:28:26,720 Speaker 1: my favorite dessert and I had to have it. So 431 00:28:27,200 --> 00:28:30,679 Speaker 1: from there we took the dessert and sat down on 432 00:28:30,720 --> 00:28:35,560 Speaker 1: that little park in Fisherman's Wharf and admired the silhouette 433 00:28:35,760 --> 00:28:40,720 Speaker 1: on the distance of Alcatraz Island, this amazing monument to misbehavior, 434 00:28:41,360 --> 00:28:44,600 Speaker 1: and I looked at us. Imagine how much a condo 435 00:28:44,680 --> 00:28:46,680 Speaker 1: would go for if you could put a condo on 436 00:28:46,760 --> 00:28:52,680 Speaker 1: Alcatraz Island and watch out, Oh my god, would that 437 00:28:52,800 --> 00:28:55,800 Speaker 1: be great? And also we admired the mighty Golden gate 438 00:28:55,840 --> 00:28:59,840 Speaker 1: Bridge was off to the left. It was a cool day, 439 00:29:00,120 --> 00:29:05,560 Speaker 1: San Francisco. Not East Coast coal, not Wooster Mask Cole, 440 00:29:05,640 --> 00:29:10,680 Speaker 1: but it was coal. And a woman who was just 441 00:29:10,720 --> 00:29:14,880 Speaker 1: a normal looking woman put on she put it on 442 00:29:14,880 --> 00:29:16,360 Speaker 1: somewhere else, but she had a bikini on. I don't 443 00:29:16,440 --> 00:29:18,440 Speaker 1: or she put the bikini on, but she was wearing 444 00:29:18,480 --> 00:29:22,680 Speaker 1: a bikini and she plunged in to the water. She 445 00:29:22,880 --> 00:29:27,560 Speaker 1: plunged into the water in San Francis. I was like, whoa, 446 00:29:27,600 --> 00:29:32,760 Speaker 1: what is this woman doing? It's wild? And uh yeah, 447 00:29:32,880 --> 00:29:39,120 Speaker 1: I admired her fortitude. I questioned her sanity equal amounts. 448 00:29:39,160 --> 00:29:40,800 Speaker 1: I was like, well, that's kind of cool. That's a 449 00:29:40,800 --> 00:29:44,600 Speaker 1: little different. What are you doing, my goodness, what are 450 00:29:44,640 --> 00:29:47,680 Speaker 1: you doing? And she see him fine, I'm guessing that's 451 00:29:47,720 --> 00:29:50,760 Speaker 1: not the first time she's done the Arctic plunge. And 452 00:29:50,920 --> 00:29:54,760 Speaker 1: she survived as far as we could tell. And that 453 00:29:54,920 --> 00:29:57,200 Speaker 1: was it. So we we had to get back the 454 00:29:57,320 --> 00:29:59,880 Speaker 1: radio road to get my bag. And the reason we 455 00:30:00,160 --> 00:30:02,760 Speaker 1: to go back and get the bag was because Radio 456 00:30:02,800 --> 00:30:04,600 Speaker 1: Row was going to shut down. It was Friday, So 457 00:30:04,640 --> 00:30:07,360 Speaker 1: we made it back to an uber. Had to walk 458 00:30:07,440 --> 00:30:10,440 Speaker 1: six blocks. The traffic was so bad. The guys like, listen, 459 00:30:10,480 --> 00:30:13,040 Speaker 1: I can you know we can keep going, or you 460 00:30:13,080 --> 00:30:15,040 Speaker 1: can just get out and walk. You'll get there sooner. 461 00:30:15,280 --> 00:30:17,600 Speaker 1: So we got out and walked a little bit, saw 462 00:30:17,760 --> 00:30:21,600 Speaker 1: some of the debauchery, and then we got closer and 463 00:30:21,600 --> 00:30:24,360 Speaker 1: the cops were there, and so everything was fine, and 464 00:30:24,680 --> 00:30:28,480 Speaker 1: we didn't eventually go back to the stinking Rows and 465 00:30:28,560 --> 00:30:31,920 Speaker 1: have dinner. So we did have that and just reeked 466 00:30:31,920 --> 00:30:35,760 Speaker 1: of garlic and it was just wonderful. And then on 467 00:30:35,800 --> 00:30:39,280 Speaker 1: Saturday we made the journey back. The following morning, there 468 00:30:39,320 --> 00:30:41,400 Speaker 1: had a brunch with the brother in law, and then 469 00:30:41,480 --> 00:30:45,239 Speaker 1: made the trip down the winding road of Highway one 470 00:30:45,280 --> 00:30:48,680 Speaker 1: oh one, stopping at all our favorites. The Madonna Inn 471 00:30:49,480 --> 00:30:53,840 Speaker 1: in San Louis Obispo for the champagne cake, the Old 472 00:30:53,920 --> 00:30:57,040 Speaker 1: West Cinnamon Roll Shop, which is about thirteen miles down 473 00:30:57,080 --> 00:31:03,280 Speaker 1: the coast. There iconic Cinnabon, Iconic Cinnabons, and I had 474 00:31:03,280 --> 00:31:08,080 Speaker 1: to stop at Costco in Central California for the Sacrament 475 00:31:08,120 --> 00:31:11,920 Speaker 1: of gasoline. And how long did it take us to 476 00:31:12,000 --> 00:31:15,320 Speaker 1: get back? We took the long way. Normally it takes 477 00:31:15,320 --> 00:31:18,360 Speaker 1: about six hours to go from LA to San Francisco 478 00:31:18,360 --> 00:31:22,480 Speaker 1: and vice versa. It took us ten hours, ten hours. 479 00:31:22,480 --> 00:31:25,800 Speaker 1: My brain was thoroughly sautaed by the time we got 480 00:31:25,800 --> 00:31:27,920 Speaker 1: back to California. I drove most of it. I didn't 481 00:31:27,960 --> 00:31:30,840 Speaker 1: drive the whole thing, but I drove about nine of 482 00:31:30,920 --> 00:31:34,800 Speaker 1: the ten hours. And it's always one of these things 483 00:31:34,800 --> 00:31:36,560 Speaker 1: when you look back at stuff like this, it was like, Wow, 484 00:31:36,600 --> 00:31:38,400 Speaker 1: that was a lot of fun. Man, that was fun. 485 00:31:39,840 --> 00:31:45,240 Speaker 1: It was a Tasmanian devil like journey. It really was 486 00:31:45,480 --> 00:31:51,680 Speaker 1: a Tasmanian devil like journey. The microphones, whirlwinds, power lunches, 487 00:31:52,880 --> 00:31:57,160 Speaker 1: hanging out with old radio friends, garlic, celebrity brush bys, 488 00:31:57,240 --> 00:32:01,320 Speaker 1: me and my buddy Dave Chappelle, cable call a peril, 489 00:32:01,600 --> 00:32:05,000 Speaker 1: all of that stuff. Now, none of that stuff's gonna 490 00:32:05,000 --> 00:32:08,120 Speaker 1: happen next year, because the Super Bowl sixty one will 491 00:32:08,160 --> 00:32:12,960 Speaker 1: return to Los Angeles in the hood in Englewood and 492 00:32:13,160 --> 00:32:16,880 Speaker 1: up to no good. There will be no trips through farmland, 493 00:32:17,680 --> 00:32:26,280 Speaker 1: no Gilroy perfume, no Northern pilgrimage, only traffic glorious grinding 494 00:32:26,360 --> 00:32:29,720 Speaker 1: gridlock traffic as only they can do it in La 495 00:32:29,840 --> 00:32:34,000 Speaker 1: La Land. And if all goes well, we will be there, microphone, live, 496 00:32:34,200 --> 00:32:39,040 Speaker 1: metaphors loaded, ready to declare once more that the show 497 00:32:40,400 --> 00:32:42,440 Speaker 1: has to go on. Whether we're invited or not. We're 498 00:32:42,440 --> 00:32:44,760 Speaker 1: gonna be interlopers. We're gonna crush the party, and that's 499 00:32:44,760 --> 00:32:47,960 Speaker 1: how that's going to go. And on that note we 500 00:32:48,000 --> 00:32:50,960 Speaker 1: will say goodbye for now. We got another episode of 501 00:32:50,960 --> 00:32:55,120 Speaker 1: The Fifth Hour tomorrow on Saturday, and then on Sunday 502 00:32:55,320 --> 00:32:57,840 Speaker 1: the mail Bag. Still time to get your questions in 503 00:32:57,880 --> 00:33:01,080 Speaker 1: for the mail bag. Send them in right now care 504 00:33:01,160 --> 00:33:04,440 Speaker 1: of Reel fifth Hour at gmail dot com. That's real 505 00:33:04,520 --> 00:33:08,920 Speaker 1: fifth Hour at gmail dot com. Have a wonderful rest 506 00:33:08,960 --> 00:33:10,960 Speaker 1: of your Saturday. I tell you to watch the All 507 00:33:11,000 --> 00:33:13,720 Speaker 1: Star NBA stuff, but I know you're not gonna do that, 508 00:33:14,360 --> 00:33:18,520 Speaker 1: So have a great day. Gotta murder, Gotta go