WEBVTT - The Fifth Hour: Straight A's & Cancellations 0:00:00.720 --> 0:00:01.440 Kabooms. 0:00:02.279 --> 0:00:05.400 If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes 0:00:05.440 --> 0:00:09.160 a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants 0:00:09.200 --> 0:00:12.480 of the old Republic, a soul fashion of fairness. He 0:00:12.600 --> 0:00:15.520 treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the 0:00:15.640 --> 0:00:17.480 rich pill poppers in the penthouse. 0:00:18.079 --> 0:00:18.360 Wow. 0:00:18.600 --> 0:00:22.320 The Clearinghouse of Hot takes break free for something special. 0:00:22.680 --> 0:00:25.520 The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts. 0:00:25.200 --> 0:00:34.960 Right now in the air ywhere and a Happy Saturday? 0:00:34.920 --> 0:00:40.320 Idiot is National Ask a Stupid Question Day? And it 0:00:40.400 --> 0:00:43.320 is the Fifth Hour with Me Ben Maller and Danny 0:00:43.400 --> 0:00:45.960 G Radio as we were back at it on a 0:00:46.400 --> 0:00:52.040 college football kind of a Saturday. Hello, Danny G Radio. 0:00:53.000 --> 0:00:56.160 Where do babies come from? 0:00:56.360 --> 0:01:01.480 I cannot answer that question. I cannot Why are we here? 0:01:01.960 --> 0:01:04.000 Why is the sky blue? Yeah? 0:01:04.040 --> 0:01:07.280 What is it the very top of the world? Why 0:01:07.319 --> 0:01:08.039 can't we go there? 0:01:08.120 --> 0:01:08.480 Danny? 0:01:08.800 --> 0:01:09.440 What is going on? 0:01:09.520 --> 0:01:11.640 My mom told me that when I was a toddler, 0:01:11.840 --> 0:01:15.280 I would ask her questions like that and she is like, 0:01:15.760 --> 0:01:17.920 stop asking me. Shit, I don't know the answer to. 0:01:19.920 --> 0:01:21.440 Did we actually go to the moon? 0:01:21.560 --> 0:01:22.600 Danny? Maybe? 0:01:23.800 --> 0:01:26.600 Is the earth flat? Is it round? Is it hollow? 0:01:27.160 --> 0:01:29.840 I need to know Danny, I need to know the 0:01:29.920 --> 0:01:35.080 answers to these questions. On this podcast, we will have 0:01:35.200 --> 0:01:44.160 straight A's stormwatch a Gangsters Paradise, much other random random 0:01:44.360 --> 0:01:48.000 observations from the last few days, as we are known 0:01:48.040 --> 0:01:50.280 to do on this podcast, but I thought we'd start 0:01:50.280 --> 0:01:53.680 with this. Back on Thursday, Danny, they played the final 0:01:54.360 --> 0:01:59.560 game ever in Oakland. There will never be another baseball 0:01:59.560 --> 0:02:04.640 team likely in Oakland again. The Athletics played and there 0:02:04.880 --> 0:02:10.040 was some vandalism, but it wasn't nearly like what we 0:02:10.200 --> 0:02:13.960 thought was going to be. It was rather rather controlled. 0:02:14.440 --> 0:02:18.840 Of course, the Oakland Police had like one hundred and 0:02:18.880 --> 0:02:20.959 fifty officers or something like that out there. They had 0:02:21.400 --> 0:02:25.400 six hundred security guards. I mean, it was over the top, 0:02:26.600 --> 0:02:29.679 but I watched some of it. I was busy. I 0:02:29.720 --> 0:02:31.880 couldn't watch the whole game, but I watched some of it. 0:02:31.960 --> 0:02:35.840 And I'm not an A's fan. I talked about it 0:02:35.840 --> 0:02:39.360 on the Overnight Show a little bit, but it just 0:02:39.520 --> 0:02:43.600 bums me out when these teams relocate and it just 0:02:43.760 --> 0:02:47.480 seems so unnecessary to me. I don't run the business 0:02:47.480 --> 0:02:50.280 side of these things, but it just seems like they 0:02:50.320 --> 0:02:54.960 really effed it up. And I had some stories some 0:02:55.080 --> 0:02:59.440 I wanted to share here about my experience with the A's. 0:02:59.480 --> 0:03:04.000 I was a radio stringer way back way back in 0:03:04.040 --> 0:03:05.840 the day, many many years ago, when I was starting 0:03:05.880 --> 0:03:08.680 out in radio, one of my first jobs. And so 0:03:08.760 --> 0:03:12.120 back in those days before the Internet, in the Stone Age, 0:03:12.160 --> 0:03:15.560 they would use a reporter to call in and you 0:03:15.600 --> 0:03:18.760 have updates on the game and to get audio after 0:03:18.800 --> 0:03:21.880 the game. So I did that for several years before 0:03:21.880 --> 0:03:25.280 I became a talk show host full time, and in 0:03:25.320 --> 0:03:27.800 that time I covered the Dodgers and the Angels and 0:03:27.800 --> 0:03:30.680 all the teams in LA and I got a phone 0:03:30.680 --> 0:03:36.280 call from some executive for the Oakland Athletics. It's probably 0:03:36.320 --> 0:03:41.200 the late nineties, I forget exactly what year, but he's like, Hey, 0:03:41.480 --> 0:03:45.920 we're looking for somebody in Anaheim to do this thing. 0:03:45.960 --> 0:03:49.080 We were a sponsor and we want a live update 0:03:50.480 --> 0:03:53.120 from the Big A when the A's are on the 0:03:53.160 --> 0:03:56.360 West Coast. So I was like, yeah, I mean I'll 0:03:56.400 --> 0:03:59.160 do it. It's a paying gig. Of course I'll do it. 0:03:59.280 --> 0:04:03.240 And so I did that for a couple of years. 0:04:03.280 --> 0:04:07.040 It was called the Coca Cola like Road Report or 0:04:07.080 --> 0:04:09.920 something like that. It was like PEPSI was the sponsor 0:04:10.040 --> 0:04:14.480 and It was a long time ago, but I got 0:04:14.480 --> 0:04:19.720 a check every month from the Oakland Athletics and it 0:04:19.880 --> 0:04:22.200 was it was you know when you get those checks, Danny, 0:04:22.240 --> 0:04:24.720 you don't want to actually spend the money because it's 0:04:24.760 --> 0:04:28.720 so cool to have the actual paper check. Well, it 0:04:28.760 --> 0:04:29.400 wasn't a lot. 0:04:29.240 --> 0:04:31.320 Of money, it wasn't hard to save it. 0:04:31.400 --> 0:04:33.880 Then well, they don't even have checks like this anymore. 0:04:34.000 --> 0:04:36.200 It was it was just a check that had the 0:04:36.240 --> 0:04:38.680 Oakland A's logo on it and it said from the 0:04:38.720 --> 0:04:42.520 Oakland Baseball Club or whatever. And so I like, well, man, 0:04:42.560 --> 0:04:44.400 I'm on the A's payroll. I mean, this is all 0:04:45.800 --> 0:04:49.320 eighty nine cents. Yeah, I'm getting like, you know, fifty 0:04:49.320 --> 0:04:52.039 bucks a game or something like that. But whatever it was, 0:04:52.120 --> 0:04:54.279 and I don't even think it was that much. So 0:04:54.640 --> 0:04:59.640 I did it and then became kind of friendly with 0:05:00.160 --> 0:05:02.120 some of the guys worked on the broadcast. And so 0:05:02.160 --> 0:05:05.520 then when the A's would come to Anaheim, I would 0:05:05.600 --> 0:05:08.080 hang out in the A's broadcast booth. They would they 0:05:08.080 --> 0:05:12.200 would welcome me in, and it was really just a 0:05:12.440 --> 0:05:16.520 wonderful experience as a radio nerd to see how the 0:05:16.520 --> 0:05:20.200 broadcasts were done. And I had heard as a kid 0:05:21.080 --> 0:05:22.720 and I thought I was gonna be Ben Scully, but 0:05:22.760 --> 0:05:28.280 I would listen to far away broadcasts of different different teams, 0:05:28.320 --> 0:05:30.200 and I would get the Giants out of the Bay Area. 0:05:30.240 --> 0:05:33.360 Every once in a while, I could scan the AM 0:05:33.520 --> 0:05:40.360 dial and find a grainy, faraway feed of the Athletics, 0:05:40.960 --> 0:05:43.240 but it wasn't normally from Oakland. It was like a 0:05:44.160 --> 0:05:47.800 station in Fresno or something would come in where I live. 0:05:48.800 --> 0:05:51.440 So I heard Bill King. I had heard him a 0:05:51.440 --> 0:05:54.320 lot on NFL films from his work with the Raiders, 0:05:54.839 --> 0:05:57.560 but he was a by play guy for the Athletics, 0:05:57.560 --> 0:06:01.440 and I met him and hung out with him off 0:06:01.440 --> 0:06:05.000 and on when I was at those games. And Ken Korak. 0:06:05.800 --> 0:06:08.479 Yeah there was also Ray Fosse. Yeah. 0:06:08.600 --> 0:06:10.560 Ray was doing TV at that time, so I was 0:06:10.560 --> 0:06:13.880 in the radio booth. But it was It was great, 0:06:13.920 --> 0:06:18.680 and I have one of my favorite stories, just absolutely crazy. 0:06:19.360 --> 0:06:25.520 It was an August game in Anaheim, very hot. The 0:06:25.560 --> 0:06:30.000 A's were not a playoff team, the Angels were not 0:06:30.040 --> 0:06:33.160 a playoff team, so I'm The way it worked is 0:06:33.160 --> 0:06:35.640 the broadcasters sat in the front row and I sat 0:06:35.760 --> 0:06:37.719 in the second row, and I had the stats and 0:06:37.760 --> 0:06:42.280 the scores out of town scoreboard before before the internet again, 0:06:42.960 --> 0:06:45.640 So I was updating the scoreboard for the guy who 0:06:45.720 --> 0:06:48.599 dubbed it. So I'm sitting there and it's like the 0:06:48.960 --> 0:06:51.880 I know, it was the third inning. They were switching 0:06:52.000 --> 0:06:53.320 broadcast role, so it was like the end of the 0:06:53.360 --> 0:06:57.280 third inning, and then ken Korak was going to take over. 0:06:58.120 --> 0:07:04.240 So Bill King gets up and he walks up a 0:07:04.279 --> 0:07:07.159 couple of stairs behind me, and there's a lot of 0:07:07.200 --> 0:07:13.880 room there and and ken Korak jokingly said, well, Bill's 0:07:13.880 --> 0:07:16.760 going to get down to his underwear now, and I thought, well, 0:07:16.760 --> 0:07:20.760 that's funny, you know, that's that's pretty funny. And hand 0:07:20.800 --> 0:07:24.280 to God Bill King. And he was an old man 0:07:24.440 --> 0:07:26.640 at that, I mean, he didn't live much longer than that. 0:07:26.760 --> 0:07:28.720 I don't know when he passed away, but you know, 0:07:28.720 --> 0:07:33.000 it was the ninety So he took off his pants. 0:07:33.640 --> 0:07:36.600 I think he had shorts on. Actually, whatever he wanted, 0:07:36.640 --> 0:07:39.720 he took it off. And he walked back down to 0:07:39.760 --> 0:07:43.200 sit next to Ken and he was in his tidy whities, 0:07:43.920 --> 0:07:47.680 and it was it was wild. Wow, he really did it. 0:07:47.920 --> 0:07:51.200 That's that's nuts. But a very nice man lived on 0:07:51.240 --> 0:07:55.600 a boat, I think in in northern California somewhere, so 0:07:56.440 --> 0:07:58.440 that's my experience. But and I went to a few 0:07:58.440 --> 0:08:01.600 as games, not many. And now you were I think, Nanny, 0:08:01.640 --> 0:08:03.240 you were there much more than I was. I mean, 0:08:03.440 --> 0:08:05.680 you were you spent time in the Bay right when 0:08:05.680 --> 0:08:06.560 you were growing up. 0:08:07.240 --> 0:08:11.360 My mom went from Massachusetts to San Jose with her family, 0:08:11.400 --> 0:08:14.480 as I've talked about before, met my dad in high 0:08:14.480 --> 0:08:16.720 school there in San Jose, and then came down here 0:08:16.840 --> 0:08:19.880 together in Thousand Oaks, California. And then they bought a 0:08:19.920 --> 0:08:23.960 house in Simi Valley before moving to Woodland Hills, so 0:08:24.000 --> 0:08:26.760 they would go to Dodger games. But then they found 0:08:26.800 --> 0:08:30.480 out something about southern California. Ben, even back then you 0:08:30.520 --> 0:08:32.880 could sell your house and make a lot of money 0:08:32.880 --> 0:08:36.920 from it. Absolutely, my mom was telling my dad, I 0:08:36.960 --> 0:08:39.679 want to go back up to the Bay. Ben, I'm 0:08:39.679 --> 0:08:41.920 not kidding you. My mom and dad moved back and 0:08:41.960 --> 0:08:44.880 forth from the Bay to LA I can't even count 0:08:44.960 --> 0:08:47.880 on two hands. Got to go to my first Dodger 0:08:47.920 --> 0:08:50.719 game listening to Vince Scully when I was in kindergarten, 0:08:51.440 --> 0:08:54.280 really into baseball. When I was twelve, me and my 0:08:54.360 --> 0:08:59.000 older brother would convince our older friend Dion Hawes. Probably 0:08:59.040 --> 0:09:01.199 you two when you were kid, you had like that 0:09:01.280 --> 0:09:04.600 one older friend who had a car. Yeah, we would 0:09:04.640 --> 0:09:08.839 convince Dion to drive us to Oakland for A's baseball 0:09:09.240 --> 0:09:11.880 because even though we were Dodger fans and that's what 0:09:11.960 --> 0:09:15.839 we really knew as youngsters, that was the closest team. 0:09:16.320 --> 0:09:19.920 We hated the San Francisco Giants, obviously being Dodgers fans, 0:09:20.520 --> 0:09:23.200 but the Oakland A's were okay with us because, you know, 0:09:23.480 --> 0:09:26.760 in our region we had the modesto as we got 0:09:26.800 --> 0:09:31.160 to see Mark McGuire and Jose Canseco come through. I 0:09:31.240 --> 0:09:34.240 have an old picture where I I'm posing with a 0:09:34.280 --> 0:09:40.240 young Jose Conseco joja By. It was so fun to 0:09:40.280 --> 0:09:44.720 see these guys blossom into major league players in Oakland. 0:09:45.240 --> 0:09:47.960 So we would we would beg Dion, please take us 0:09:48.000 --> 0:09:51.120 to an Oakland game, and once in a while he'd 0:09:51.200 --> 0:09:54.280 be like, all right, you guys, pay for gas and 0:09:54.400 --> 0:09:55.040 I'll take you. 0:09:56.840 --> 0:09:59.199 Yeah, wasn't that expensive back then. 0:09:59.400 --> 0:10:01.480 Not at all. And Dion was one of those cool 0:10:01.600 --> 0:10:04.600 kids where he was just a few years older than us. 0:10:04.640 --> 0:10:07.200 He had a nice pickup truck and he had a 0:10:07.240 --> 0:10:09.880 booming system in it. Whenever he would pull up to 0:10:09.920 --> 0:10:13.079 our house, he'd be bumping some Eric b and rock him. 0:10:13.800 --> 0:10:15.559 Come on, Pippin, get your tims on. 0:10:16.720 --> 0:10:18.800 My older brother and I we were in kind of 0:10:18.800 --> 0:10:22.760 a weird position being Dodgers fans. But you know, baseball 0:10:22.840 --> 0:10:25.920 is very regional, and especially back then, as you know, Ben, 0:10:26.320 --> 0:10:29.360 we couldn't unless we were surfing the am doll like 0:10:29.440 --> 0:10:33.880 you late at night with an antenna trying to pick 0:10:33.960 --> 0:10:37.560 up games and other cities. You weren't getting coverage of 0:10:37.679 --> 0:10:41.000 other Major League Baseball teams the way you were your 0:10:41.080 --> 0:10:41.760 local team. 0:10:42.360 --> 0:10:44.920 Yeah, it was like a stone age. Like I told 0:10:45.200 --> 0:10:48.120 younger people, I'm like, well, I to see, like the 0:10:48.120 --> 0:10:50.360 Toronto Blue Jays. I had to watch this week in 0:10:50.480 --> 0:10:53.520 baseball and maybe they would show a highlight of the 0:10:53.559 --> 0:10:54.520 Toronto Blue Jays. 0:10:55.080 --> 0:10:56.439 Maybe you know it. 0:10:56.760 --> 0:10:59.280 It was on sat like Saturday morning, it would be 0:10:59.280 --> 0:11:00.520 this week in baseball. 0:11:00.600 --> 0:11:02.680 That's exactly true. If you tried to explain that to 0:11:02.760 --> 0:11:06.360 a kid right now, they wouldn't understand at all. So 0:11:06.520 --> 0:11:08.960 it was a strange thing. It was like, Eh, we're 0:11:08.960 --> 0:11:12.360 not exactly A's fans, but by family, we're kind of 0:11:12.400 --> 0:11:15.440 related to the A's. And we get to the Oakland 0:11:15.440 --> 0:11:18.559 Coliseum in nineteen eighty seven, one of the first A's 0:11:18.679 --> 0:11:22.679 games that we attended very late in the year, and 0:11:22.760 --> 0:11:27.480 in fact, it was Reggie Jackson's final home game playing 0:11:27.520 --> 0:11:28.120 in Oakland. 0:11:28.360 --> 0:11:29.439 Oh wow, that's cool. 0:11:29.920 --> 0:11:33.240 It was very cool now think about it. Reggie Jackson 0:11:33.400 --> 0:11:37.679 was literally on his last leg, but he was one 0:11:37.720 --> 0:11:40.680 of those guys where, even though he was an old 0:11:40.760 --> 0:11:43.440 player at the time, whenever he would come up to 0:11:43.520 --> 0:11:47.440 the plate, it was very special because man, he could 0:11:47.520 --> 0:11:50.760 hit a home run, still has power to hit it out. 0:11:51.040 --> 0:11:54.720 That's exactly what happened on this night. My older brother, 0:11:54.760 --> 0:11:57.080 i think, wanted to make this game count. We didn't 0:11:57.120 --> 0:11:59.480 get to go to very many baseball games in general, 0:12:00.400 --> 0:12:04.400 and so he looked around, elbows me and he starts 0:12:04.400 --> 0:12:08.920 a Reggie chant in our section. Okay, And it starts out, 0:12:09.080 --> 0:12:12.280 you know, just him, It's just my brother doing it, 0:12:12.760 --> 0:12:14.720 and he won't shut up. He's one of those annoying 0:12:14.800 --> 0:12:17.840 kids in the stands who's trying to get everybody else 0:12:17.880 --> 0:12:19.840 in the stands to follow him. 0:12:20.200 --> 0:12:21.400 Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know. 0:12:21.880 --> 0:12:24.920 The little annoying kids where you're like, shut up. 0:12:25.480 --> 0:12:26.360 Yeah. 0:12:26.400 --> 0:12:29.080 And my older brother finally gets our section into it, 0:12:29.120 --> 0:12:33.079 and our section now is chanting Reggie. Then the section 0:12:33.240 --> 0:12:35.160 next to us picks up on it and they go 0:12:36.000 --> 0:12:38.200 and it was kind of like the wave because the 0:12:38.240 --> 0:12:42.880 next thing you know, the entire stadium is chanting Reggie's 0:12:43.000 --> 0:12:49.080 name and Ben that at bat, Reggie knocks one out. 0:12:49.720 --> 0:12:53.640 Unbelievable. Reggie was bigger than life and all at the 0:12:53.760 --> 0:12:55.320 end of his career. At that time, he was like 0:12:55.559 --> 0:12:58.800 one of the biggest stars in baseball. And now have 0:12:58.880 --> 0:13:02.040 you seen those photos of like Reggie Jackson next to 0:13:02.080 --> 0:13:05.720 the modern slugger, he looks like a backup infielder. But 0:13:05.800 --> 0:13:09.520 when we were younger, I mean, he's amazing. Oh yeah, 0:13:10.040 --> 0:13:11.000 Reggie Jackson. 0:13:11.640 --> 0:13:13.839 Yeah, And I mean at this point of his life, 0:13:13.840 --> 0:13:16.640 he was like a balding, kind of had a little 0:13:16.640 --> 0:13:19.679 bit of a bare belly. Yeah, he looked like a 0:13:19.720 --> 0:13:22.600 former player already, even though he was still in a 0:13:22.640 --> 0:13:24.240 major league uniform. 0:13:24.640 --> 0:13:28.640 But Ricky Henderson said about the A's leaving Oakland, he 0:13:28.720 --> 0:13:32.080 was asked if he was sad about it, and he said, 0:13:32.280 --> 0:13:36.080 this is such a classic quote by Ricky Henderson. He says, 0:13:36.120 --> 0:13:39.440 I have too much money to be sad about the 0:13:39.440 --> 0:13:42.719 A's leaving leaving Oakland. Isn't that not on brand? You're 0:13:42.760 --> 0:13:43.400 an ass hat? 0:13:44.559 --> 0:13:47.320 I'm sure other people saw what Jeff Passen wrote the 0:13:47.400 --> 0:13:50.280 other day saying the Oakland A's were killed by greed. 0:13:50.960 --> 0:13:54.040 Don't allow the people responsible for this to spin it 0:13:54.120 --> 0:13:57.400 any other way. John Fisher did not have to move 0:13:57.480 --> 0:14:01.160 the team. Major League Baseball and it's owners did not 0:14:01.440 --> 0:14:05.840 need to be complicit in it. This was a choice, 0:14:06.080 --> 0:14:08.920 a wrong one. History will sneer. 0:14:09.480 --> 0:14:11.840 Well, what is He's going to make a lot of 0:14:11.880 --> 0:14:15.400 money going to Vegas eventually, But I yeah, I agree 0:14:15.440 --> 0:14:17.440 with the premise. The A's did not have to leave. 0:14:17.640 --> 0:14:21.280 From what I read, Baseball was going to cut off 0:14:22.280 --> 0:14:24.680 essentially all the welfare they were getting, right, That's why 0:14:24.680 --> 0:14:26.840 they left. They had to announce they were leaving because 0:14:26.840 --> 0:14:29.320 they weren't going to get the money from revenue sharing, 0:14:29.920 --> 0:14:32.800 and so that's why they did this when they did it. 0:14:33.760 --> 0:14:37.760 But yeah, why would Vegas is a great town. I 0:14:37.800 --> 0:14:41.840 love Vegas. I go to Vegas a lot, But Oakland, 0:14:42.000 --> 0:14:44.080 in the Bay Area, there's more people that live there. 0:14:44.080 --> 0:14:48.560 It's a bigger media market by far than Las Vegas. 0:14:48.720 --> 0:14:52.000 So from that standpoint in terms of television and all 0:14:52.080 --> 0:14:57.680 those things, it is a downgrade. We'll see how it 0:14:57.680 --> 0:15:00.240 plays out, But yeah, I agree, it didn't have to. 0:15:00.200 --> 0:15:02.960 Happen, so didn't have to happen. The only one thing 0:15:03.000 --> 0:15:05.560 I will say, and we've talked about this on our 0:15:05.600 --> 0:15:09.640 podcast before, it is pretty pathetic how they have let 0:15:09.720 --> 0:15:12.920 the city there in the flats of Oakland rot. And 0:15:13.360 --> 0:15:16.600 we've seen over the past couple of weeks people mention 0:15:17.280 --> 0:15:19.720 on their way to Oakland to go to one final 0:15:19.800 --> 0:15:22.760 game how they were disgusted by what it looks like 0:15:22.960 --> 0:15:24.640 surrounding the stadium there. 0:15:25.440 --> 0:15:27.640 Well, I had a call from Lance, the bus driver 0:15:28.000 --> 0:15:31.360 this week. Lance called up. His car was stolen from 0:15:31.360 --> 0:15:35.800 San Francisco, he lives there. He tracked it to a 0:15:35.840 --> 0:15:39.760 neighborhood in Oakland. So calls the cops. He says, I 0:15:39.760 --> 0:15:42.640 know where my car is, and since it was parked 0:15:42.680 --> 0:15:46.240 in a garage, they said, well, there's nothing we can do. 0:15:46.840 --> 0:15:48.240 He said, well, I know where it is. I know 0:15:48.320 --> 0:15:51.200 exactly where the car is. And they wouldn't help him 0:15:51.440 --> 0:15:54.920 at all. And so Lance thinks they're going to use 0:15:54.960 --> 0:15:57.240 his car in one of those neighborhood takeovers, you know 0:15:57.240 --> 0:16:01.160 where they take over the intersection and they ride their 0:16:01.160 --> 0:16:03.240 carton circles and burnouts and all that. 0:16:03.360 --> 0:16:07.800 And so, I mean, besides them losing their their sports 0:16:07.840 --> 0:16:08.720 teams there. 0:16:08.920 --> 0:16:12.920 In and out Burger right, they've. 0:16:11.680 --> 0:16:16.000 Lost, Oh, they've lost restaurants and businesses to crime. It's 0:16:16.080 --> 0:16:17.520 kind of like the wild Wild West. 0:16:18.400 --> 0:16:23.560 It's it's it's pretty bad now. The gangster's Paradise. I'll 0:16:23.560 --> 0:16:28.480 make this quick. But last weekend, Danny a fortieth birthday 0:16:28.520 --> 0:16:32.920 party for a friend of the wife. And when it's 0:16:32.920 --> 0:16:34.480 a friend of the wife, it's a friend of you. 0:16:35.640 --> 0:16:38.560 So I was dragged to Dave and Busters. 0:16:40.080 --> 0:16:41.080 Have you you've. 0:16:40.840 --> 0:16:42.640 Been to David Busters right over the years. 0:16:43.000 --> 0:16:45.160 Yeah, Oh yeah. We take the kids there sometimes for 0:16:45.240 --> 0:16:47.080 their birthday celebrations. Yeah. 0:16:47.120 --> 0:16:50.240 So they were having a big birthday party and they 0:16:50.280 --> 0:16:53.440 wanted to go to one in a different part of LA, 0:16:53.600 --> 0:16:56.440 but it was all booked up. So they said, all right, 0:16:56.520 --> 0:17:01.360 let's let's go out to Ontario, in the Inland Empire 0:17:01.560 --> 0:17:06.760 in southern California, the Ontario Mills Mall. I think it's fall, 0:17:06.960 --> 0:17:10.400 so we we it's pretty far from what we are. 0:17:10.440 --> 0:17:16.000 We drove out there and a little rough, Danny, a 0:17:16.040 --> 0:17:18.760 little rough. It was, you know, it was a gangster's 0:17:18.800 --> 0:17:20.520 paradise kind of set up. There were a lot of 0:17:21.000 --> 0:17:26.040 shady looking people playing the games, and hey, the Eastern Own. 0:17:26.040 --> 0:17:28.160 As long as they don't bother me whatever, I don't care. 0:17:28.760 --> 0:17:31.880 So they had reserved a table, but we actually when 0:17:31.880 --> 0:17:36.439 we got there, the table wasn't ready because there was 0:17:36.480 --> 0:17:38.960 a party. They told us one of the people in 0:17:39.000 --> 0:17:43.040 our party that the table that we were supposed to 0:17:43.119 --> 0:17:49.600 get the party had been there for seven hours at 0:17:49.600 --> 0:17:54.960 the table at a daven Busters seven hours. 0:17:55.920 --> 0:17:57.960 What do you do there for seven hours? 0:17:58.119 --> 0:18:01.240 I don't know. I have no idea. So we finally 0:18:01.600 --> 0:18:04.639 got a table and we had a group. There were 0:18:04.640 --> 0:18:08.439 probably about twelve of us all together, and we're eating, 0:18:08.600 --> 0:18:12.400 we're enjoying. You know, the food was really not very good, 0:18:12.440 --> 0:18:14.800 but we ate and pretended to like it and all 0:18:14.800 --> 0:18:21.760 that stuff. It's terrible. So whatever I was invited, I said, right, 0:18:21.800 --> 0:18:24.879 I'll go. And so then our waitress or a waiter 0:18:25.160 --> 0:18:30.400 comes over and there was another party right across from us, 0:18:31.800 --> 0:18:35.560 and she's she's in a bad mood, the waitress, and 0:18:35.600 --> 0:18:36.600 I said, oh, what's going on? 0:18:37.400 --> 0:18:37.840 Shocker? 0:18:38.720 --> 0:18:42.639 Apparently the group, and this was a group probably twelve 0:18:42.680 --> 0:18:52.280 to fifteen people, grandma, mom, dads, kids, little kids. They 0:18:52.359 --> 0:18:56.800 had eaten for about two hours and then left without 0:18:56.840 --> 0:18:59.960 paying their bill. They just took off and they didn't. 0:19:00.000 --> 0:19:02.840 They didn't pay their bill. We're not paying and they 0:19:02.880 --> 0:19:04.439 didn't eve say any in these percent like they were 0:19:04.440 --> 0:19:09.520 going to play games, and then they left. What are 0:19:09.560 --> 0:19:12.040 you doing? And this was a this had to be 0:19:12.080 --> 0:19:14.479 a ton of money, right. They were drinking alcohol, they 0:19:14.480 --> 0:19:15.040 had everything. 0:19:16.119 --> 0:19:18.320 So I got a bunch of losers. 0:19:18.680 --> 0:19:20.879 I know, it's like wild and you were allowed to 0:19:20.920 --> 0:19:23.200 do that in California. I think they don't really care, 0:19:24.480 --> 0:19:27.280 but yeah, it was. It was interesting that I had 0:19:27.280 --> 0:19:29.359 a good time playing the games. I didn't play too many, 0:19:29.400 --> 0:19:32.879 but but I mentioned yesterday on the podcast that I 0:19:32.920 --> 0:19:36.560 was watching the storm in the South through Florida and 0:19:37.200 --> 0:19:39.840 Carolina's and Georgia and then on the way up. And 0:19:40.560 --> 0:19:43.280 you've also been on storm Watch, right, Danny, this actually 0:19:43.320 --> 0:19:44.480 affected you more than me. 0:19:45.200 --> 0:19:48.520 Yeah, it's weird. I've never followed a hurricane or tracked 0:19:48.520 --> 0:19:52.719 one before where it affected me because of where we live, obviously, 0:19:53.280 --> 0:19:56.160 but in this case, we were set on the CNR 0:19:56.280 --> 0:20:00.960 show to broadcast live from the graduate at Hotels and Burn, Alabama, 0:20:01.680 --> 0:20:03.720 and it was supposed to be the pregame to the 0:20:03.720 --> 0:20:07.640 pregame to the game day the day before their big 0:20:07.680 --> 0:20:10.439 game was going to be you know, a lot of 0:20:10.440 --> 0:20:13.439 b Auburn fans, a lot of OU fans there in attendance, 0:20:14.119 --> 0:20:16.720 as well as you know, people in the region who 0:20:16.760 --> 0:20:19.520 listened to the Coveno and Rich show. There had been 0:20:19.680 --> 0:20:22.639 a lot of fans of the show that had RSVP'd, 0:20:23.040 --> 0:20:27.000 and the hotel was really excited to have the broadcast there. 0:20:27.720 --> 0:20:30.959 And then we start looking at the travel plans and 0:20:31.160 --> 0:20:35.720 we were scheduled to fly into Atlanta. We would have 0:20:35.760 --> 0:20:38.440 been landing in Atlanta right as the eye of the 0:20:38.560 --> 0:20:42.320 hurricane was over Georgia. We were tracking that to see 0:20:42.320 --> 0:20:45.159 if it was going to change. We get to Wednesday 0:20:45.440 --> 0:20:50.280 and Rich is pacing the halls of FSR, telling me 0:20:50.320 --> 0:20:52.679 in Coveno if we should fly into the eye of 0:20:52.680 --> 0:20:57.680 the storm. And I'm like, it's all right, dude, will 0:20:57.680 --> 0:20:59.720 be all right, and he's like, yeah, but even if 0:20:59.720 --> 0:21:02.560 we wouldn't we land, we're going to be driving in 0:21:02.600 --> 0:21:05.240 it because once we got to Atlanta, we were going 0:21:05.320 --> 0:21:08.000 to get a rental car drive for ninety minutes to 0:21:08.040 --> 0:21:10.000 get to Auburn in Alabama. 0:21:10.080 --> 0:21:13.200 Of course, I only ninety minutes out of Atlanta. I 0:21:13.200 --> 0:21:13.879 thought it was further. 0:21:14.000 --> 0:21:17.960 Yeah, yeah, no, not a long drive from Atlanta, but 0:21:18.040 --> 0:21:22.080 it would have been an interesting drive through a hurricane. Finally, 0:21:22.119 --> 0:21:25.040 what happens is Dan Beyer live on our show does 0:21:25.200 --> 0:21:30.720 breaking news the Braves and Mets were canceled. Uh oh, 0:21:30.800 --> 0:21:33.800 we better talk to our boss Scott. So we do 0:21:33.880 --> 0:21:37.760 a group chat and we tell Scott, hey, you know us, 0:21:37.840 --> 0:21:41.520 we're all in, but the games are being canceled. Now. 0:21:41.960 --> 0:21:44.399 Not sure how many of our listeners are going to 0:21:44.400 --> 0:21:47.919 be able to attend this live broadcast. Yeah, yeah, that 0:21:48.040 --> 0:21:51.080 was one thing. We were all focused on our travel, 0:21:51.200 --> 0:21:54.600 obviously trying to fly into that area. But then when 0:21:54.600 --> 0:21:56.520 we really stopped and thought about it, we were like, 0:21:56.560 --> 0:22:01.160 wait a second, if Georgia is declaring state of emergency 0:22:01.640 --> 0:22:04.439 and we're trying to fly in, aren't the other people 0:22:04.520 --> 0:22:08.760 trying to fly out or drive out? At that point, 0:22:08.920 --> 0:22:12.000 our boss got a hold of the client and talked 0:22:12.040 --> 0:22:14.600 to the people in charge to the Graduate hotels, and 0:22:15.080 --> 0:22:17.919 they decided we better call this a. 0:22:17.920 --> 0:22:21.040 Couple of other Auburn games that you can go to. 0:22:21.280 --> 0:22:25.280 But yeah, that's you know, because the powers out from 0:22:25.280 --> 0:22:29.119 when I was reading the Powers out all over you 0:22:29.320 --> 0:22:32.280 certain parts of the South, So, yeah, who's going to 0:22:32.359 --> 0:22:34.240 leave their house? Let me go to I want to 0:22:34.400 --> 0:22:36.280