WEBVTT - The Fifth Hour: Get Their Money's Worth 0:00:00.800 --> 0:00:05.600 Kaboom. If you thought four hours a day, minutes a 0:00:05.600 --> 0:00:09.320 week was enough, I think again. He's the last remnants 0:00:09.320 --> 0:00:12.560 of the old republic, a sole fashion of fairness. He 0:00:12.680 --> 0:00:15.600 treats crackheads in the ghetto cutter the same as the 0:00:15.720 --> 0:00:20.360 rich pill poppers in the penthouse, to clearinghouse of hot takes, 0:00:20.400 --> 0:00:24.200 break free for something special. The Fifth Hour with Ben 0:00:24.239 --> 0:00:33.479 Maller starts right now in the air everywhere and another 0:00:33.840 --> 0:00:36.080 pipe and a hot edition of the Fifth Hour with 0:00:36.280 --> 0:00:42.559 Ben Maller and Danny G Radio back in the podcast 0:00:42.720 --> 0:00:48.960 dojo for round number two. Danny G of the weekend 0:00:49.200 --> 0:00:55.880 Extravaganza every single day, every single day, I follow the 0:00:56.040 --> 0:00:59.279 coat of the West. You must take pride in your 0:00:59.280 --> 0:01:02.760 work in all's finish what you start, among other things. 0:01:02.880 --> 0:01:06.000 And so we're doing that right now, even though some 0:01:06.200 --> 0:01:08.839 of us might be bumbling and stumbling and all that stuff. 0:01:08.880 --> 0:01:11.399 But no, no, we're good to go today. Yes, yeah, 0:01:11.600 --> 0:01:15.839 let's go. We're like Ox. We're carrying a heavy load. Ben. 0:01:16.040 --> 0:01:18.720 My lower back has been barking at me the past 0:01:18.760 --> 0:01:21.360 couple of days. Yeah, we're doing the dirty work, is 0:01:21.400 --> 0:01:25.320 what we're doing. We're doing the donkey work. I want 0:01:25.360 --> 0:01:29.399 a camel. Just a couple of donkeys. That's it. Just 0:01:29.440 --> 0:01:31.360 a couple of donkeys, all right. So on this edition 0:01:31.480 --> 0:01:36.240 the fifth Hour, please continue to give us five stars. 0:01:36.400 --> 0:01:41.119 We will check in later with the backscratcher segment. We've 0:01:41.160 --> 0:01:49.160 got Goofy, the Future Leaders, malfeasance, and if we have time, 0:01:49.240 --> 0:01:54.360 we'll have some scientifical nonsense as well. But we begin 0:01:55.680 --> 0:01:58.320 with this. It's been a rather hectic week in these 0:01:58.320 --> 0:02:02.840 parts The Life of Mallard and Danny g Podcast. That's 0:02:02.840 --> 0:02:06.440 how We roll here. We mentioned this last week on 0:02:06.520 --> 0:02:13.800 the podcast, The Mallard Mansion invasion underway. Cousins visiting from 0:02:14.080 --> 0:02:17.920 near and far. And these are people that I grew 0:02:18.000 --> 0:02:21.600 up with, and then they moved away. I wasn't that 0:02:21.680 --> 0:02:23.400 old they had moved away, but I was a little kid. 0:02:23.400 --> 0:02:25.079 I hung out with him like all the time. I 0:02:25.200 --> 0:02:28.600 used to live right down the street from the the 0:02:28.639 --> 0:02:31.000 house that I grew up in, and and we were 0:02:31.040 --> 0:02:33.880 like little snot nose punk kids and stuff, and and 0:02:33.919 --> 0:02:36.399 so they're really more like brothers and sisters rather than 0:02:37.000 --> 0:02:44.440 than cousins. They astonded on California from New York, Denver, Phoenix. 0:02:44.480 --> 0:02:48.200 They've scattered all over the country, for like a quasi 0:02:48.240 --> 0:02:50.679 family reunion, which is mostly about them. It really wasn't 0:02:50.720 --> 0:02:55.200 about about me, and it was great to see everyone. 0:02:55.320 --> 0:02:57.120 I should check that. It was great to see most 0:02:57.160 --> 0:03:01.200 of my my cousins. I had at a very awkward 0:03:02.000 --> 0:03:04.280 a story which I'm I'm debating whether or not to 0:03:04.280 --> 0:03:07.200 get into on the on the podcast. It's probably against 0:03:07.280 --> 0:03:09.120 my best judgment to do it, so I'll probably do 0:03:09.160 --> 0:03:12.840 it anything, but I'll get to that in a sect. 0:03:12.840 --> 0:03:16.880 So so anyway, all these cousins came in and I 0:03:16.960 --> 0:03:21.640 was very excited to everybody. And last Friday was the 0:03:21.720 --> 0:03:26.200 first day everyone had assembled. So we went whale watching, 0:03:26.680 --> 0:03:30.919 which is a California thing that you can't go whale 0:03:30.919 --> 0:03:35.280 watching in Phoenix or in Colorado, so we, you know, 0:03:35.280 --> 0:03:37.440 went out when California do what California do. So we 0:03:37.440 --> 0:03:42.000 went will watching, which is actually false advertising. You rarely 0:03:42.200 --> 0:03:47.920 see whales, you always see dolphins, so why don't they 0:03:47.960 --> 0:03:52.800 just call it dolphin watching? Danny, I don't get it seriously. 0:03:53.400 --> 0:03:59.640 So we actually saw hundreds of dolphins off the Newport 0:03:59.760 --> 0:04:04.600 code was beautiful. Not a single whale in that big 0:04:04.680 --> 0:04:08.480 blue ocean. I didn't see any whales, but that was 0:04:08.480 --> 0:04:12.680 like Friday afternoon. My cousins from Colorado there, my uh 0:04:12.800 --> 0:04:15.680 my one cousin, his wife, and then there air kids. 0:04:15.760 --> 0:04:19.359 They actually got stuck overseas during COVID. They were on 0:04:19.480 --> 0:04:26.479 vacation and the airport shut down and they were stuck. 0:04:26.560 --> 0:04:31.200 I think it was in Ireland for like six months. 0:04:31.520 --> 0:04:34.960 They were. They had they had an airbnb and they 0:04:35.000 --> 0:04:37.000 just had to stay there because they couldn't leave the country. 0:04:37.040 --> 0:04:40.920 It was unlocked up. Yeah. But but anyway, so I 0:04:40.960 --> 0:04:42.800 saw him hung out with that was great lot of fun. 0:04:43.520 --> 0:04:48.279 And my sister in law was also long and she 0:04:48.360 --> 0:04:50.720 brought her kids, and so I got uncle Benny got 0:04:50.720 --> 0:04:53.799 suckered into. They had a gift shop on the boat, 0:04:54.640 --> 0:04:56.560 so I had to I had to buy like a 0:04:56.640 --> 0:05:02.640 three dollar plastic whale thing. That is the only whale 0:05:02.680 --> 0:05:06.080 we saw. So I feel like, as an uncle, you 0:05:06.160 --> 0:05:08.160 have to spoil the kids, Like that's the job of 0:05:08.480 --> 0:05:11.320 an uncle to spoil the kids with all kinds of 0:05:11.360 --> 0:05:12.920 nonsense and all that. So we did that and then 0:05:13.360 --> 0:05:17.200 Friday night, As the Life of Mallard continues, Danny, we 0:05:17.200 --> 0:05:22.400 had a big welcome to, you know, back to California 0:05:22.480 --> 0:05:25.080 and a big kind of party. My wife had planned 0:05:25.640 --> 0:05:29.080 at the Mallard mansion and so it was great at 0:05:29.160 --> 0:05:31.800 a good turn out. Some of her family was there, 0:05:32.200 --> 0:05:35.320 My cousins were there, their kids. So it was a 0:05:35.360 --> 0:05:39.640 madhouse all right. The kids were running around and the 0:05:40.160 --> 0:05:42.680 house almost burned down. One of the kids, this three 0:05:42.760 --> 0:05:46.880 year old kid, Hudson. This kid is the Tasmanian devil, 0:05:47.000 --> 0:05:50.720 this kid, and he went into the the kitchen. We 0:05:50.800 --> 0:05:52.800 were out in the back talking. All the adults were 0:05:52.800 --> 0:05:54.080 in the back and some of the kids. They had 0:05:54.120 --> 0:05:57.400 like a gang of kids that took over the house. 0:05:58.000 --> 0:06:00.800 And this little three year old kid, like I was 0:06:00.880 --> 0:06:06.400 turning on the stove and boom, goes to dynamite. Yeah, 0:06:06.440 --> 0:06:10.640 it's experimenting with with fire and uh and and we 0:06:10.680 --> 0:06:12.640 had to we had to tell him not to do that. 0:06:12.640 --> 0:06:15.040 That's probably not a good idea because uh, you know, burn, 0:06:15.120 --> 0:06:17.039 baby burn and all that. So we got that under 0:06:17.080 --> 0:06:20.320 control and um now was when we stayed there pretty late. 0:06:20.360 --> 0:06:22.479 Had a little fire pit thing going on. So that 0:06:22.560 --> 0:06:26.640 was cool. And then on Saturday we decided we have 0:06:26.680 --> 0:06:29.520 a lot of time. They were they were Disneyland, and 0:06:29.560 --> 0:06:32.880 I considered going to Disneyland, Danny g and then I 0:06:32.920 --> 0:06:37.240 saw how much it costs to go to Disneyland, and 0:06:38.160 --> 0:06:42.520 I said, well, maybe I'll go another time. You didn't 0:06:42.520 --> 0:06:46.760 want to set money on fire, exactly exactly, and so 0:06:46.800 --> 0:06:48.120 I said, go on, I have a good time with 0:06:48.160 --> 0:06:52.719 your kids. Kids will go wildy, they love Disney and 0:06:52.880 --> 0:06:55.000 all I said, well, well, we're gonna go to the beach, right, 0:06:55.000 --> 0:06:56.520 because what could go wrong going to the beach. You 0:06:56.560 --> 0:06:57.960 go to Disney and we'll go to beach. We'll meet 0:06:58.000 --> 0:07:01.160 you for dinner. So we went over to the beach 0:07:01.880 --> 0:07:05.200 and drove around for half an hour trying to find 0:07:05.200 --> 0:07:09.960 a parking place, and we just decided finally that that 0:07:10.080 --> 0:07:12.400 we gave up. That was it, and we we never 0:07:12.480 --> 0:07:14.680 actually did go to the beach because it was so 0:07:15.000 --> 0:07:20.280 packed that there were more people trying to find parking 0:07:20.760 --> 0:07:23.600 then there were actually anywhere close to parking spaces. It 0:07:23.680 --> 0:07:26.880 was a complete nightmare. And well, I wish I could 0:07:26.880 --> 0:07:29.320 stop it, but I did stop. Actually I went back 0:07:29.360 --> 0:07:32.320 and I left so wrong, No, I did. I left 0:07:32.360 --> 0:07:35.000 and then I went back to the to that. So anyway, 0:07:35.040 --> 0:07:40.720 we met my cousins at Downtown Disney, but uh my, 0:07:41.280 --> 0:07:43.640 there was confusion with this yere so only my Colorado 0:07:43.720 --> 0:07:45.200 cousins went to hang out with us. We went to 0:07:45.240 --> 0:07:48.920 Downtown Disney where it's right near Disneyland. There. You you've 0:07:48.960 --> 0:07:51.600 been to Downtown Disney right then you have a great 0:07:51.600 --> 0:07:53.880 place to hang out. Did you go to the Lego Store? 0:07:54.360 --> 0:07:56.520 I did. Yeah. You walk right past the Lego Star 0:07:56.720 --> 0:07:58.520 when you park, and you you walk around there and 0:07:58.520 --> 0:08:00.400 they've got these giant Lego things in. There's a bunch 0:08:00.400 --> 0:08:02.520 of restaurants and whatnot. It's pretty cool. It's got the 0:08:02.560 --> 0:08:05.280 Disney vibe, but you don't have to spend any more 0:08:05.320 --> 0:08:09.040 than like ten bucks on parking in order to enjoy that, 0:08:09.200 --> 0:08:11.440 like the vibe of it and stuff like that. And 0:08:11.840 --> 0:08:15.239 you're so close, it's like being against the pearly gates, 0:08:15.240 --> 0:08:18.280 but you're not in heaven. And uh, because they they 0:08:18.320 --> 0:08:20.800 have that mono rail station. You take the mono rail 0:08:20.840 --> 0:08:24.400 to Disneyland and then you can keep walking and there's 0:08:24.480 --> 0:08:27.440 Disneyland in California in advention and all that. So we're 0:08:27.480 --> 0:08:29.720 gonna meet them for dinner. The restaurant we wanted to 0:08:29.760 --> 0:08:34.880 eat that had a ninety minute wait, oh no, ninety 0:08:34.920 --> 0:08:39.160 minute wait to eat some pasta, and that seemed a 0:08:39.160 --> 0:08:41.680 little outrageous. So we went to another place that didn't 0:08:41.679 --> 0:08:43.960 have a long wait, and but again only my cousins 0:08:43.960 --> 0:08:48.320 from from Colorado, UH. The ones from Arizona and UH 0:08:48.360 --> 0:08:52.200 in New York did not did not make it, and UM, 0:08:52.559 --> 0:08:54.280 so then we hung out with them, had a good 0:08:54.280 --> 0:08:57.040 time whatever, it went back UH then the fast forward day. 0:08:57.080 --> 0:08:58.800 So I'll tell the part of story I probably should 0:08:58.800 --> 0:09:01.280 not tell. But I don't think any of these people 0:09:01.360 --> 0:09:03.800 listen to podcast. So I'm gonna ask you a question. 0:09:04.440 --> 0:09:07.240 Did I make a mistake? Was the problem on me? 0:09:07.360 --> 0:09:10.360 Or is the problem on my my cousins? So my 0:09:10.440 --> 0:09:13.959 cousins from New York, I had not seen her in 0:09:14.280 --> 0:09:17.160 many years, and so a very busy schedule with the 0:09:17.240 --> 0:09:23.199 radio show. The only times I was available we're Friday, Saturday, 0:09:23.320 --> 0:09:27.640 and then on Thursday. So those three days were the 0:09:27.679 --> 0:09:32.480 time I was available. So Friday she said they were 0:09:32.520 --> 0:09:38.240 too tired from from traveling to UH to make the 0:09:38.800 --> 0:09:42.400 the shin dig. Saturday, we were at Downtown disney Is 0:09:42.400 --> 0:09:45.360 supposed to meet them, and they said they could not 0:09:45.440 --> 0:09:47.480 be inconvenience to come out of the park and hang 0:09:47.480 --> 0:09:50.360 out with it because they were having too much of 0:09:50.640 --> 0:09:55.600 too much of a good time. And then on the Thursday, 0:09:56.080 --> 0:09:59.719 my cousin. She said that she would meet with us, 0:09:59.760 --> 0:10:03.200 but she wanted us to go to her hotel even 0:10:03.240 --> 0:10:07.400 though she has a rental car. Who me, Yeah, So 0:10:07.520 --> 0:10:10.680 I I processed all this, and I said, you know, 0:10:10.720 --> 0:10:12.439 these people don't really want to hang out with us. 0:10:13.000 --> 0:10:17.520 So I said, we're good as I believe. I said, 0:10:17.559 --> 0:10:20.640 what are we trying to meet the pope here? Uh? 0:10:20.320 --> 0:10:22.840 Is what I said? And so am I the bad 0:10:22.840 --> 0:10:26.280 guy on that? Danny g Or? Are are they the 0:10:26.679 --> 0:10:29.720 bad people on that? Like? I mean, if people really 0:10:29.760 --> 0:10:32.600 want to hang out with you, family or not, then 0:10:32.640 --> 0:10:35.240 they make an effort to hang out with you. That's 0:10:35.280 --> 0:10:38.560 what I'm saying. Okay, see, good you're because that's my point. 0:10:39.040 --> 0:10:42.960 Like I wasn't on vacation. This was their vacation. I 0:10:43.000 --> 0:10:44.839 get it. You're on vacation. You want to do your 0:10:44.880 --> 0:10:50.199 thing and all that stuff, and that's fine. Yeah, I know. 0:10:51.160 --> 0:10:52.880 But at the same time, I only have a couple 0:10:52.840 --> 0:10:55.160 of like a day and a half off from from 0:10:55.160 --> 0:10:58.720 this radio stuff where I'm not NonStop doing it, and 0:10:58.760 --> 0:11:02.240 so I made sure to make myself available on both 0:11:02.280 --> 0:11:06.640 those days, and then I added a bonus day. So 0:11:06.800 --> 0:11:09.559 I'm like, okay, I'm like I feel like I'm doing 0:11:09.600 --> 0:11:13.160 everything I can to make this as convenient as possible. 0:11:13.760 --> 0:11:16.559 And I just got the vibe from my am. So 0:11:16.600 --> 0:11:19.000 I didn't even see them, you know, there, I here 0:11:19.040 --> 0:11:21.319 for a week from from New York, and they were 0:11:21.400 --> 0:11:25.640 so so uh selfish with you know, I don't know 0:11:25.640 --> 0:11:27.440 if that's the right word, but they were so one 0:11:27.440 --> 0:11:29.400 of their own thing. They didn't didn't make any time 0:11:29.480 --> 0:11:33.160 to to hang out, which is which is disappointing. So 0:11:33.240 --> 0:11:37.000 they didn't even at your Mallard mansion. Now, no, no, 0:11:37.120 --> 0:11:41.680 they said they were so so tired. I guess they Yeah, 0:11:41.679 --> 0:11:44.400 that was the Friday thing. But downtown Disney, we were 0:11:44.440 --> 0:11:46.400 like right there. It takes like, you know, ten minutes 0:11:46.440 --> 0:11:50.600 to take the monorail to get out, eat some food, 0:11:50.640 --> 0:11:53.360 and go back. It was just a goofy set of 0:11:54.120 --> 0:11:57.080 set of events. But I never really experienced anything like 0:11:57.160 --> 0:12:00.120 this in my life where a relative had traveled to 0:12:00.520 --> 0:12:03.200 literally like right down the street. I met all the 0:12:03.280 --> 0:12:06.600 other all the other cousins. In fact, some of them stayed. 0:12:06.760 --> 0:12:09.120 My cousins from Arizona stayed at the house, so I 0:12:09.160 --> 0:12:11.360 met everybody. It was great to see them, and there 0:12:12.040 --> 0:12:14.560 my my buddy and my cousin, Danny's kid was here 0:12:14.559 --> 0:12:16.640 and hanging out, little kid, and so it was. It 0:12:16.679 --> 0:12:20.320 was wonderful, but it was very odd. Yeah, what does 0:12:20.360 --> 0:12:22.880 this cousin have against you? I don't know what I did. 0:12:23.040 --> 0:12:25.079 I yeah, I mean I thought it was like very 0:12:25.160 --> 0:12:27.719 common in We aviided into a party. We we went 0:12:27.800 --> 0:12:31.000 right to where they were and just apparently didn't want 0:12:31.000 --> 0:12:32.640 to see us. I guess I must have done something. 0:12:32.679 --> 0:12:34.640 I don't know. I'm not sure what I did. I 0:12:35.200 --> 0:12:42.040 it's uh, yeah, did you get a text on their 0:12:42.080 --> 0:12:45.360 way out of town saying okay, sorry we didn't get 0:12:45.400 --> 0:12:48.280 to meet up. No, No, that's the weird thing, Like 0:12:48.320 --> 0:12:52.080 there were no texts. They were like middle people communicating 0:12:52.200 --> 0:12:56.040 like other cousins were communicating between us, Like they never 0:12:56.120 --> 0:13:02.160 reached out at at all. So you definitely offended somebody. Yeah, 0:13:02.240 --> 0:13:03.840 I don't really know what I did. I haven't seen 0:13:03.880 --> 0:13:08.240 them in years, so I'm I'm not sure. But so 0:13:08.320 --> 0:13:10.040 that was that was weird. That was the first time 0:13:10.120 --> 0:13:14.720 I can recall someone traveling thousands of miles being right 0:13:14.760 --> 0:13:17.160 down the street meeting with all of their brothers and 0:13:17.240 --> 0:13:21.480 sisters but not them. Ben. I have had family come 0:13:21.520 --> 0:13:26.240 down from northern California, go to Disneyland, and I find 0:13:26.240 --> 0:13:30.200 out about it a couple of weeks later. Yeah, well, yeah, 0:13:30.320 --> 0:13:33.520 you're not the only one where people are kind of 0:13:33.559 --> 0:13:38.200 inconvenience because when they're paying for Disneyland, they're all in. 0:13:38.320 --> 0:13:42.680 They want Disneyland to get their money's worth. Yeah. No, 0:13:42.800 --> 0:13:44.959 it's an obscene amount of money to go to Disneyland. 0:13:45.040 --> 0:13:46.920 I don't know how the people that run disney sleep 0:13:46.920 --> 0:13:49.760 at night, but good for them. Knock yourself out and 0:13:49.800 --> 0:13:51.440 all that. You might want to lower the prices a 0:13:51.440 --> 0:13:55.160 bit here, uh, and take the advice of our former president. 0:13:55.280 --> 0:13:58.679 Don't be rude. Just don't be rude. So moving on 0:13:58.760 --> 0:14:01.920 from that, it's all about the future. See we're old 0:14:01.960 --> 0:14:04.800 news mean you Danny g wor old news now, But 0:14:04.880 --> 0:14:08.439 it's all about the next generation. It's all about the 0:14:09.320 --> 0:14:12.600 future leaders, the people that will take over when we 0:14:12.720 --> 0:14:16.040 passed the baton, right, the ones that are right now 0:14:16.120 --> 0:14:21.840 little kids, but eventually they'll be angry, middle aged people 0:14:21.920 --> 0:14:25.440 and they'll be leaders of the world. Yeah, Ben, it's 0:14:25.480 --> 0:14:28.120 been a couple of weeks since I checked in from 0:14:28.240 --> 0:14:33.280 Science Room three at Summer School. Lots of cool projects. 0:14:33.400 --> 0:14:37.760 The kids have been great. The adults, but uh yeah, 0:14:37.760 --> 0:14:40.280 the kids make it worth going in. And then at 0:14:40.280 --> 0:14:42.400 the same time, I've been picking up all these fill 0:14:42.440 --> 0:14:47.000 in shifts at the network, so running NonStop. A couple 0:14:47.040 --> 0:14:49.840 of days ago, I'm in the classroom and I have 0:14:50.480 --> 0:14:53.800 one teacher's aid in there who helps out with the kids, 0:14:54.560 --> 0:14:58.080 and she's great. She goes to San Diego State. She's 0:14:58.120 --> 0:15:01.320 been in there when the year olds are in the class. 0:15:02.120 --> 0:15:04.880 I've had second through fifth most of the time. So 0:15:04.920 --> 0:15:07.240 they're like, yeah, we're gonna have the teens in your 0:15:07.240 --> 0:15:09.600 class for class three, and I'm like, all right, that's cool. 0:15:10.000 --> 0:15:13.680 So I had to make up some lesson plans that 0:15:13.840 --> 0:15:18.000 suited the older kids. Was going great. Making the kids laugh. 0:15:18.600 --> 0:15:21.560 They're getting more jokes than the little ones, because obviously 0:15:21.840 --> 0:15:24.360 second through fifth grade some of the jokes go right 0:15:24.360 --> 0:15:27.560 over their head. Teenagers are laughing, they're having fun in 0:15:27.600 --> 0:15:31.040 the class. And then towards the end of class Ben, 0:15:31.080 --> 0:15:34.880 when we're cleaning up the science project, she takes over 0:15:34.920 --> 0:15:38.200 and she does trivia and she's like, all right, it's 0:15:38.240 --> 0:15:41.800 time for Cassie Trivia. And the kids are like, yeah, 0:15:41.920 --> 0:15:46.680 let's do trivia, and she asked the kids raise your hand, 0:15:46.800 --> 0:15:50.880 don't part out the answer. Her first trivia question, what 0:15:50.960 --> 0:15:55.120 was the first state in America? Oh? Okay, and did 0:15:55.120 --> 0:15:57.440 the kids get it right? Did they? And shoot up? 0:15:58.440 --> 0:16:06.080 First kid answers Detroit. Oh boy, oh boy, all right, 0:16:06.200 --> 0:16:09.440 and so we're off to a good start. Then she 0:16:09.560 --> 0:16:15.320 asked which animal has the hardest skull? And this girl 0:16:15.560 --> 0:16:24.360 shoots her hand up and she answers, my brother. At 0:16:24.400 --> 0:16:28.400 least that one was a joke. Okay. Then she asked, 0:16:29.320 --> 0:16:31.920 and I made notes here afterwards because I was just 0:16:32.000 --> 0:16:35.520 sitting in the back at my desk laughing. She asked 0:16:36.040 --> 0:16:40.360 what causes most of the power outages each year? And 0:16:40.480 --> 0:16:43.120 a girl in the back raise your hand and answered 0:16:43.760 --> 0:16:47.880 mountain lions. Oh, well, that is a big problem. Mountain lions. 0:16:48.240 --> 0:16:50.840 Well they do is they eat the power lions and 0:16:51.040 --> 0:16:53.840 somehow they don't die. It doesn't make any sense. You'd 0:16:53.880 --> 0:16:57.080 think they die from eating the puck, but no, it's 0:16:57.120 --> 0:16:59.320 just a snack. And then they knocked a power out 0:16:59.360 --> 0:17:02.360 for the rest of us dummies. It's crazy. I hate 0:17:02.400 --> 0:17:05.800 to report this, but the kid who answered Detroit and 0:17:05.880 --> 0:17:09.160 the kid who answered mountain lions, they were both dead 0:17:09.280 --> 0:17:12.840 serious and thought they had the right answer. Well in 0:17:12.920 --> 0:17:15.320 defense of the kid that said Detroit. One of my 0:17:15.400 --> 0:17:20.520 favorite stories about an old NBA player Benoitt Benjamin Bennoit 0:17:20.680 --> 0:17:23.080 Benjamin when he was playing in the NBA. He had 0:17:23.160 --> 0:17:26.080 left the NBA. This is the old NBA player from 0:17:26.119 --> 0:17:28.479 the eighties and the early in the nineties. I think 0:17:28.520 --> 0:17:31.080 he played till two thou anyway, he had gone to 0:17:31.240 --> 0:17:36.720 Europe to play. And uh, Lee Klein, who you know? 0:17:37.160 --> 0:17:40.719 Lee knew Benoit and we we were all talking. Actually 0:17:40.800 --> 0:17:45.360 Lee was talking to Benoit, and but Lee asked him, 0:17:45.359 --> 0:17:50.160 he said, Hey, what countries did you play it? He? Uh, 0:17:49.119 --> 0:17:54.919 he named Paris, uh is what he named, and he 0:17:55.000 --> 0:17:59.040 named two other cities in Europe that he Again the 0:17:59.119 --> 0:18:01.199 question was what country did you play in? And he 0:18:01.320 --> 0:18:05.159 named named cities. And then the other part of that, 0:18:05.200 --> 0:18:07.800 which was greatly actually brought me over for this. But 0:18:07.960 --> 0:18:12.240 Nooy asked us if we knew any teams that needed 0:18:12.280 --> 0:18:16.960 a center, And I thought that was an interesting thing. 0:18:17.119 --> 0:18:19.919 I I don't believe that happens anymore. Do you think 0:18:19.960 --> 0:18:23.040 that modern NBA players will ask a couple of random 0:18:23.119 --> 0:18:25.400 radio people, hey, do you know anybody who might want 0:18:25.400 --> 0:18:29.359 to hire a basketball player a center? And the and 0:18:29.520 --> 0:18:33.160 and all that. Uh, but it's it is h as 0:18:33.200 --> 0:18:36.199 far as the kids think, Like, how many kids know 0:18:36.520 --> 0:18:38.640 Delaware was the first date? Right, the first day known 0:18:38.640 --> 0:18:41.960 as the first date and all that, and they don't 0:18:42.800 --> 0:18:45.040 they still learn that stuff and that they must not. Right, 0:18:45.119 --> 0:18:48.520 that's like kind of random trivia stuff. When you do trivia, 0:18:48.640 --> 0:18:52.639 you become trivial. That's a Tom loud Y. There is 0:18:52.720 --> 0:18:56.000 this thing called US history and it is taught in 0:18:56.119 --> 0:19:00.199 most schools. Um, apparently these kids need a brush up 0:19:00.240 --> 0:19:05.800 on that class. Yeah, those two answers scared me. Those 0:19:05.800 --> 0:19:10.240 are our future leaders of America. Yes, and they will 0:19:10.280 --> 0:19:17.560 be congress people, you name it, local politicians and we'll 0:19:17.600 --> 0:19:21.240 all have a ringside seat as we get over. And 0:19:21.280 --> 0:19:24.679 by the way, the answer was squirrel for the animal 0:19:24.760 --> 0:19:28.200 that causes most of the power outages. Yeah, those squirrels 0:19:28.200 --> 0:19:32.760 are trouble man. At the Mallard Mansion, the old Mallard mansion. 0:19:33.160 --> 0:19:37.720 I am convinced we had squirrels in the addict of 0:19:37.760 --> 0:19:40.840 the house running around. Either that or there was a 0:19:40.880 --> 0:19:49.840 poltergeist malfeasans over here. So I had big plans, big plans, 0:19:50.640 --> 0:19:54.600 uh to tweak the home studio which I'm broadcasting from 0:19:54.680 --> 0:19:59.880 right now over the last week, and the way this came, 0:20:00.000 --> 0:20:04.120 I mean Mike cartoon bubble above my head, a big 0:20:04.160 --> 0:20:06.680 cartoon bubble, and I was like, you know, I should 0:20:06.800 --> 0:20:08.320 upgrade this thing. I've done this for a couple of 0:20:08.359 --> 0:20:11.760 years from the home studio, and so the way this works, 0:20:11.800 --> 0:20:16.200 imagine if you will. I have on the left side 0:20:16.400 --> 0:20:20.480 a terrestrial radio setup and that's the equipment that hooks 0:20:20.480 --> 0:20:23.480 me up to Fox Sports Radio the mothers, and on 0:20:23.520 --> 0:20:26.600 that side I built that for w E I years ago, 0:20:26.720 --> 0:20:28.760 and so I have a lot of thing of the 0:20:28.880 --> 0:20:31.520 jigs and what your McCall it's and all kinds of 0:20:32.000 --> 0:20:36.120 things on the left side that makes me sound all 0:20:36.160 --> 0:20:40.680 neat and pretty and all that. So on the right side, 0:20:41.080 --> 0:20:45.040 I don't want to say it's bare bones, but in comparison, 0:20:45.560 --> 0:20:48.480 it's the podcast side. And so I was like, you know, 0:20:48.600 --> 0:20:51.719 I want to upgrade this loople. So I said, I'm 0:20:51.720 --> 0:20:54.879 gonna get a few toys and I'm gonna play around 0:20:54.880 --> 0:20:59.119 with this. And I figured you can never go wrong 0:20:59.160 --> 0:21:02.119 with more jets and gizmos. Danny right went in doubt, 0:21:02.160 --> 0:21:05.720 throw some more gadgets and gizmos out. Why not? These 0:21:05.720 --> 0:21:07.960 things aren't that expensive. There's little things to make you 0:21:08.040 --> 0:21:10.480 sound better and all that. So I I'm always trying 0:21:10.520 --> 0:21:14.000 to find things that can improve the quality of any 0:21:14.000 --> 0:21:15.800 of this nonsense that we do. So I decided to 0:21:15.840 --> 0:21:22.000 get a new mic filter and a mic arm, a 0:21:22.000 --> 0:21:25.159 convenient mic arm for the podcast. I have one for 0:21:25.240 --> 0:21:28.600 the other side. Let's see, these are relatively minor things 0:21:29.440 --> 0:21:32.119 that in my head the cartoon bubble would help the 0:21:32.119 --> 0:21:36.639 efficiency the quality of the product, and they were cost 0:21:36.640 --> 0:21:38.880 effective because these things didn't cost that much. So the 0:21:38.920 --> 0:21:42.760 microphone arm, the mic arm was just a convenience move, 0:21:43.600 --> 0:21:47.960 and I was just tired of holding the microphone. So 0:21:48.000 --> 0:21:50.840 the first world problem. So I decided to spend a 0:21:50.920 --> 0:21:53.600 few bucks. I got a mic arm to hold the microphone. 0:21:54.080 --> 0:21:56.119 I got a filter that I had read about. It 0:21:56.200 --> 0:21:59.520 was pretty good, smooth out the quality of the broadcast 0:21:59.600 --> 0:22:04.800 bestly plans of mice men and guess back, no popping 0:22:05.000 --> 0:22:11.639 peas exactly. So these do hickeys arrive and I had 0:22:11.680 --> 0:22:15.160 a lot going on as family in town, so I 0:22:15.200 --> 0:22:19.680 was unable to open them right away. So I finally 0:22:19.720 --> 0:22:21.800 get around to opening these these things, and then all 0:22:21.840 --> 0:22:24.120 boxed up and all that, So I get the scissors 0:22:24.160 --> 0:22:28.080 out under the box taking things apart. So I put 0:22:28.119 --> 0:22:31.400 the mic arm up, and I think you can tell 0:22:31.480 --> 0:22:34.440 Danny because you can see me. But the mic arm 0:22:34.560 --> 0:22:39.960 literally and figuratively was such a turd. As I was 0:22:40.000 --> 0:22:42.520 putting it up, it fell apart in my hands. As 0:22:42.520 --> 0:22:45.160 I was setting the thing up. Was it made out 0:22:45.160 --> 0:22:47.959 of legos? I mean it looked like it was solid, 0:22:48.040 --> 0:22:51.000 but it wasn't solid. I guess somehow they screw maybe 0:22:51.000 --> 0:22:53.199 I screwed it up, but it was not working like 0:22:53.240 --> 0:22:55.240 the thing. I twisted the thing in the middle and 0:22:55.280 --> 0:22:57.320 the whole thing came apart, and there were what I 0:22:57.400 --> 0:23:01.440 was crazy, something like, oh, I that's that's gonna be returned. 0:23:01.480 --> 0:23:02.879 So then I'm like, let me put the mic filter 0:23:04.440 --> 0:23:09.199 and you know, I'll hook it up with my mixer. Well, okay, 0:23:09.240 --> 0:23:10.720 so I hook it up. I went out and bought 0:23:10.720 --> 0:23:13.720 some cables and all that, and it turns out that 0:23:13.800 --> 0:23:17.240 the thing I got is not compatible with the mixer 0:23:17.320 --> 0:23:21.640 that I have because there's a voltage issue. I never 0:23:21.920 --> 0:23:23.760 factored that in. I didn't think of that as a 0:23:23.840 --> 0:23:26.359 variable that I need to worry about, but it was. 0:23:26.800 --> 0:23:29.520 So it turned out to be a total case of 0:23:29.560 --> 0:23:33.159 mouth feasance. So then to make matters worse, as I mentioned, 0:23:33.200 --> 0:23:37.080 I also had gone out and I had purchased some 0:23:37.160 --> 0:23:41.040 new cables to put all this stuff together. So now 0:23:41.560 --> 0:23:44.639 I gotta return the cables. So now I gotta I 0:23:44.680 --> 0:23:48.920 gotta go back, and I gotta return everything. And uh man, 0:23:49.200 --> 0:23:53.359 oh man, oh man. I was so so pisty again 0:23:53.400 --> 0:23:59.440 the best laid plans of mice men and podcasters. So 0:23:59.840 --> 0:24:03.920