1 00:00:00,680 --> 00:00:01,440 Speaker 1: Kutbooms. 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 --> 00:00:19,480 Speaker 2: rich pill poppers in the penthouse. Wow to the Clearinghouse 7 00:00:19,480 --> 00:00:23,200 Speaker 2: of hot takes, break free for something special. The Fifth 8 00:00:23,200 --> 00:00:29,400 Speaker 2: Hour with Ben Maller starts right now. 9 00:00:28,960 --> 00:00:32,720 Speaker 1: In the air everywhere. The Fifth Hour with Me, Ben 10 00:00:32,800 --> 00:00:36,839 Speaker 1: Maller and Danny g Radio a happy college football kind 11 00:00:36,920 --> 00:00:40,120 Speaker 1: of a Saturday. Is the weather getting nasty, which means 12 00:00:40,120 --> 00:00:42,519 Speaker 1: we should get some bad weather football today on this 13 00:00:42,720 --> 00:00:47,120 Speaker 1: eighth day of November. Back at it. No World Series 14 00:00:47,120 --> 00:00:49,760 Speaker 1: to recap. We don't have to do too much sporty stuff, Danny. 15 00:00:49,760 --> 00:00:52,040 Speaker 1: Now that the World Series is over, we don't have 16 00:00:52,080 --> 00:00:53,880 Speaker 1: to sit here and wait for a game to end 17 00:00:54,200 --> 00:00:56,640 Speaker 1: and then sleep and then go into the studio and 18 00:00:56,640 --> 00:00:58,360 Speaker 1: I we don't have to worry about any of that stuff. 19 00:00:58,800 --> 00:01:01,720 Speaker 3: I know, but I kind of liked how those shows 20 00:01:01,720 --> 00:01:05,760 Speaker 3: were just because our Dodgers won the Doyers. Yeah, anything 21 00:01:05,880 --> 00:01:07,280 Speaker 3: like weird without baseball. 22 00:01:08,880 --> 00:01:12,119 Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm not into the NBA. I tried to watch 23 00:01:12,200 --> 00:01:15,520 Speaker 1: some games this week. It's just it's tough. I actually 24 00:01:15,560 --> 00:01:19,399 Speaker 1: got hornswoggled by ESPN because I was watching the Nicks 25 00:01:19,520 --> 00:01:23,039 Speaker 1: Timberwolves game. I had it on and it was the 26 00:01:23,080 --> 00:01:24,759 Speaker 1: first half, and I was like, okay. So I looked 27 00:01:24,800 --> 00:01:26,240 Speaker 1: at the time. It was like the second quarter. It 28 00:01:26,240 --> 00:01:28,880 Speaker 1: was about five minutes ago, and I Doris Burke is 29 00:01:28,920 --> 00:01:31,000 Speaker 1: on there. She's an instant mute button. When I hear Doris, 30 00:01:31,000 --> 00:01:32,600 Speaker 1: I hit mute, right. I can't. 31 00:01:33,720 --> 00:01:36,520 Speaker 3: She's almost as bad as watching Clippers games right now? 32 00:01:36,880 --> 00:01:40,360 Speaker 1: All right, how about the Raiders pal anyway, So I 33 00:01:40,720 --> 00:01:42,520 Speaker 1: hit the mute button right. I'm like, okay, I don't 34 00:01:42,520 --> 00:01:44,360 Speaker 1: want to hear her, and so I'll turn it on 35 00:01:44,440 --> 00:01:47,040 Speaker 1: at halftime. So I see the first half coming to 36 00:01:47,080 --> 00:01:50,320 Speaker 1: an end, and then I hit the mute button so 37 00:01:50,360 --> 00:01:55,000 Speaker 1: that the audio comes back up, and no Charles Barkley, 38 00:01:55,480 --> 00:01:58,720 Speaker 1: no Kenny Smith, no Ernie Jonson. I guess the first 39 00:01:58,720 --> 00:02:00,920 Speaker 1: week they worked, they had to take some time off, 40 00:02:01,520 --> 00:02:04,560 Speaker 1: or maybe they're on for two weeks and they were 41 00:02:04,600 --> 00:02:08,240 Speaker 1: not there. Some other you know, typical hack ESPN people 42 00:02:08,280 --> 00:02:10,440 Speaker 1: were there and I saw immediately turned it off. I said, 43 00:02:10,440 --> 00:02:13,480 Speaker 1: I'm not watching this crap once and I saw Kendrick Perkins. 44 00:02:13,520 --> 00:02:15,640 Speaker 1: I'm like, Okay, I'm good, I'm out, I'm done, to 45 00:02:15,639 --> 00:02:18,679 Speaker 1: see you later, Bye bye and all that. Anyway, Yeah, 46 00:02:18,720 --> 00:02:20,919 Speaker 1: so I did get fooled by I just assumed that 47 00:02:21,320 --> 00:02:24,280 Speaker 1: they're on ESPN now, Barkley and Kenny Smith, so when 48 00:02:24,280 --> 00:02:27,720 Speaker 1: there's an ESPN game, they'll be on a halftime No. No, 49 00:02:28,320 --> 00:02:31,520 Speaker 1: what a sweetheart deal those guys got, right. I imagine 50 00:02:31,520 --> 00:02:33,440 Speaker 1: that they get paid all that money. They don't have 51 00:02:33,480 --> 00:02:36,959 Speaker 1: to deal with the ESPN bull crap, and they I 52 00:02:36,960 --> 00:02:39,160 Speaker 1: guess they don't have to work that much. It's good 53 00:02:39,360 --> 00:02:40,600 Speaker 1: living the high life, right there. 54 00:02:40,639 --> 00:02:40,919 Speaker 3: Man. 55 00:02:41,840 --> 00:02:44,480 Speaker 1: Anyway, on this podcast, we have the Twilight Zone on 56 00:02:44,520 --> 00:02:50,720 Speaker 1: the Pitch, Burrito Mania and the Solitaire Shuffle, so we'll 57 00:02:51,080 --> 00:02:53,880 Speaker 1: work our way through all this stuff and it's kind 58 00:02:53,880 --> 00:02:56,040 Speaker 1: of hang out here and get ready to watch some 59 00:02:56,760 --> 00:02:59,040 Speaker 1: college football, which is great. I love watching college football 60 00:02:59,040 --> 00:03:02,679 Speaker 1: because I don't have to worry about doing monologues. 61 00:03:02,240 --> 00:03:02,760 Speaker 3: Or things like that. 62 00:03:02,800 --> 00:03:05,360 Speaker 1: It's just just my day. Saturday is my day. And so, 63 00:03:06,240 --> 00:03:09,079 Speaker 1: as we know, the world a rather wacky place, and 64 00:03:09,200 --> 00:03:10,880 Speaker 1: a lot of stuff in life. You can plan for 65 00:03:10,880 --> 00:03:12,880 Speaker 1: a lot of stuff you can't plan for things you 66 00:03:12,919 --> 00:03:16,680 Speaker 1: cannot predict. And one thing I've noticed, especially since I 67 00:03:16,680 --> 00:03:19,440 Speaker 1: started doing the podcast, is I open my eyes more 68 00:03:19,480 --> 00:03:20,880 Speaker 1: to the world when I'm out and about. I don't 69 00:03:20,880 --> 00:03:24,280 Speaker 1: go out much anyway, but when I'm wandering around doing stuff, 70 00:03:24,320 --> 00:03:25,840 Speaker 1: I'm always like, all right, let's see what I can. 71 00:03:25,960 --> 00:03:26,920 Speaker 1: You know what's going on. 72 00:03:27,040 --> 00:03:30,320 Speaker 3: This is because your wife made you take notes, yeah. 73 00:03:30,120 --> 00:03:33,720 Speaker 1: For the podcast, of course, So you know, some days 74 00:03:33,720 --> 00:03:35,360 Speaker 1: I'll you know, I'll see somebody with a flat tire. 75 00:03:35,360 --> 00:03:35,680 Speaker 3: I did. 76 00:03:35,760 --> 00:03:37,920 Speaker 1: I told the story yesterday. I was driving home and 77 00:03:38,080 --> 00:03:41,120 Speaker 1: the fourth Street bridge was on fire underneath it in 78 00:03:41,280 --> 00:03:44,920 Speaker 1: LA and that was quite the quite detail. But earlier 79 00:03:44,920 --> 00:03:47,960 Speaker 1: this week I got one of those small moments, Danny, 80 00:03:48,560 --> 00:03:51,720 Speaker 1: where it just happens occasionally in life and whatnot. So 81 00:03:51,760 --> 00:03:53,720 Speaker 1: I was looking. I was not looking for this, but 82 00:03:54,040 --> 00:03:56,240 Speaker 1: I was not. I was just I was going about 83 00:03:56,280 --> 00:04:00,680 Speaker 1: my business, performing the most mundane of tasks, my duty 84 00:04:01,520 --> 00:04:04,960 Speaker 1: at a local voting station. It was election day, which 85 00:04:05,000 --> 00:04:07,320 Speaker 1: is like the worst election. There was one thing on 86 00:04:07,360 --> 00:04:11,280 Speaker 1: my ballot in California. One thing. One thing on the ballot, 87 00:04:11,280 --> 00:04:13,800 Speaker 1: which is like, why drag everyone into vote if there's 88 00:04:13,880 --> 00:04:16,240 Speaker 1: one thing on the ballot? But whatever, So I went 89 00:04:16,320 --> 00:04:19,040 Speaker 1: to cast my ballot. And of course the big thing 90 00:04:19,040 --> 00:04:22,159 Speaker 1: about voting, Danny is the sticker. See, that's that's the 91 00:04:22,160 --> 00:04:24,600 Speaker 1: big Now I am an absentee voter. But what I 92 00:04:24,640 --> 00:04:26,479 Speaker 1: like to do is I like to drop the ballot off. 93 00:04:26,560 --> 00:04:28,039 Speaker 1: I like to drop the bat off. It makes me 94 00:04:28,120 --> 00:04:31,359 Speaker 1: feel like I wait till election day. It makes me 95 00:04:31,400 --> 00:04:34,840 Speaker 1: feel like I've accomplished something. On election day, I don't 96 00:04:35,080 --> 00:04:37,960 Speaker 1: bother sending it in. But so this time I didn't, 97 00:04:38,320 --> 00:04:39,880 Speaker 1: you know, I got my stick or whatever, I go 98 00:04:39,920 --> 00:04:41,680 Speaker 1: to drop the thing off. And when I went to 99 00:04:41,800 --> 00:04:46,080 Speaker 1: park just off on the on there was a big field. 100 00:04:46,600 --> 00:04:48,359 Speaker 1: There was a building we could vote, and then behind 101 00:04:48,400 --> 00:04:50,719 Speaker 1: it was a park in the vast park lands of 102 00:04:50,760 --> 00:04:54,160 Speaker 1: the north Woods. And something caught my eye off in 103 00:04:54,200 --> 00:04:56,240 Speaker 1: the distance. There was there was a bit of movement, 104 00:04:56,279 --> 00:04:59,640 Speaker 1: there was some rhythm, so I knew it was. It 105 00:04:59,680 --> 00:05:02,960 Speaker 1: was on the the field, the big fielding a football field. 106 00:05:03,120 --> 00:05:06,680 Speaker 1: And what I kept walking out towards these guys and 107 00:05:06,680 --> 00:05:09,840 Speaker 1: there was a group of young men, all of them 108 00:05:09,880 --> 00:05:15,000 Speaker 1: wearing the same uniform, and they were darting up and 109 00:05:15,040 --> 00:05:19,880 Speaker 1: down the pitch with with the with the football at 110 00:05:19,880 --> 00:05:23,760 Speaker 1: their feet. Danny, all right, and so not the kind 111 00:05:23,800 --> 00:05:27,200 Speaker 1: we like, not the not the the duke, the NFL football, 112 00:05:27,200 --> 00:05:29,680 Speaker 1: the round kind, the soccer, the full on MESSI and 113 00:05:29,680 --> 00:05:30,360 Speaker 1: all that stuff. 114 00:05:30,920 --> 00:05:32,680 Speaker 3: Were they all dressed alike? 115 00:05:33,600 --> 00:05:35,400 Speaker 1: Well? They were? And so then I looked over to 116 00:05:35,440 --> 00:05:38,520 Speaker 1: the parking lot and I saw a lineup of six 117 00:05:38,680 --> 00:05:42,919 Speaker 1: vehicles that all had the same same logo. And it 118 00:05:43,040 --> 00:05:46,600 Speaker 1: turned out that I had stumbled into a new episode 119 00:05:46,640 --> 00:05:50,400 Speaker 1: of the Twilight Zone. They were all Amazon trucks. You 120 00:05:50,440 --> 00:05:54,080 Speaker 1: got a picture this, Danny. Half a dozen Amazon delivery drivers, 121 00:05:54,600 --> 00:05:57,279 Speaker 1: their vans parked, all lined up in a row in 122 00:05:57,320 --> 00:06:00,840 Speaker 1: the parking lot near the park hazard lights blinking. It's 123 00:06:01,480 --> 00:06:05,080 Speaker 1: perfectly synced. And the drive you know, those blue Amazon, 124 00:06:05,440 --> 00:06:09,839 Speaker 1: the road Warriors, the Amazon. They're all out on the grass, 125 00:06:10,080 --> 00:06:13,640 Speaker 1: laughing and shouting and sprinting and running around and having 126 00:06:13,640 --> 00:06:14,279 Speaker 1: a great time. 127 00:06:14,400 --> 00:06:17,120 Speaker 3: Right, So this is why my vitamins were delayed by 128 00:06:17,160 --> 00:06:17,719 Speaker 3: a day. 129 00:06:18,120 --> 00:06:19,240 Speaker 1: Exactly, That's what I was thinking. 130 00:06:19,480 --> 00:06:20,559 Speaker 3: These were the men and women. 131 00:06:20,839 --> 00:06:22,520 Speaker 1: It was all men. There were a couple of women. 132 00:06:22,560 --> 00:06:24,120 Speaker 1: They sat in the truck. I guess they didn't want 133 00:06:24,120 --> 00:06:26,000 Speaker 1: to play soccer, but they were. You know, these are 134 00:06:26,000 --> 00:06:28,040 Speaker 1: the people that spent all day hurling boxes of dog 135 00:06:28,080 --> 00:06:30,840 Speaker 1: food and phone charging cables and crap like that and 136 00:06:30,920 --> 00:06:34,320 Speaker 1: all the other stuff that we get on Amazon. And 137 00:06:34,600 --> 00:06:38,479 Speaker 1: I was thinking, like somebody trying to find their package. 138 00:06:39,200 --> 00:06:42,240 Speaker 1: And here I am. I was the only one watching 139 00:06:42,240 --> 00:06:44,880 Speaker 1: them play soccer. I was an audience of one. And 140 00:06:44,920 --> 00:06:46,560 Speaker 1: I gotta tell you it was it was pretty It 141 00:06:46,600 --> 00:06:48,520 Speaker 1: was pretty cool, Daddy. I was like, these guys are 142 00:06:48,600 --> 00:06:52,320 Speaker 1: loving life. And they were there I didn't say the 143 00:06:52,320 --> 00:06:55,000 Speaker 1: whole time. They were there well over at least an hour. 144 00:06:55,440 --> 00:06:57,719 Speaker 1: And I don't think your breaks are that long on Amazon, 145 00:06:57,760 --> 00:07:00,760 Speaker 1: I don't know. And these guys were really into it. 146 00:07:01,360 --> 00:07:03,279 Speaker 1: You know, there's nothing quite like a good pickup game. 147 00:07:03,279 --> 00:07:05,159 Speaker 1: I'm not a soccer guy, but I used to play 148 00:07:05,160 --> 00:07:07,799 Speaker 1: pick up football basketball back in the day. The midfield 149 00:07:07,839 --> 00:07:11,840 Speaker 1: maestros out there and these guys, I'm telling you, Dany, 150 00:07:11,840 --> 00:07:14,000 Speaker 1: they thought they were they were auditioning for the cover 151 00:07:14,080 --> 00:07:16,400 Speaker 1: of FIFA twenty five or twenty six or whatever. They 152 00:07:16,920 --> 00:07:20,480 Speaker 1: really into it, right, they were really into it. And uh, 153 00:07:20,920 --> 00:07:24,240 Speaker 1: the imaginary defenders he had the goaltender. You know, it 154 00:07:24,320 --> 00:07:26,440 Speaker 1: might as well have been these guys were playing for 155 00:07:26,560 --> 00:07:29,320 Speaker 1: Manchester City or Real Madrid or something like that. You know, 156 00:07:29,720 --> 00:07:31,240 Speaker 1: I think those are the only two soccer teams I 157 00:07:31,240 --> 00:07:34,400 Speaker 1: could name, but it was it was pretty cool. And 158 00:07:34,440 --> 00:07:37,800 Speaker 1: so again I did laugh, though, Danny, because I thought 159 00:07:38,320 --> 00:07:42,360 Speaker 1: there's somebody like you or my wife refreshing the Amazon app, 160 00:07:42,440 --> 00:07:45,840 Speaker 1: and I like, the truck seems to be stopped, stopped 161 00:07:45,840 --> 00:07:49,200 Speaker 1: at the park. I don't understand why. Part it makes 162 00:07:49,240 --> 00:07:51,400 Speaker 1: no sense. And then then they can well, the package 163 00:07:51,440 --> 00:07:53,880 Speaker 1: is delayed, the package is out for delivery is delayed. 164 00:07:54,080 --> 00:07:56,240 Speaker 1: So now, Danny, next time, if I if I were 165 00:07:56,280 --> 00:07:58,440 Speaker 1: something on Amazon, I usually don't want much. My wife does. 166 00:07:58,480 --> 00:08:01,000 Speaker 1: But if we don't get something right away, I'm just 167 00:08:01,040 --> 00:08:02,560 Speaker 1: gonna go down the park and say, what do you got? 168 00:08:02,560 --> 00:08:03,600 Speaker 1: You got my package? 169 00:08:03,960 --> 00:08:06,920 Speaker 3: If you are a regular on Amazon, you know the pattern. 170 00:08:07,520 --> 00:08:13,440 Speaker 3: Sometimes it'll say expected delivery tomorrow between noon and two pm, 171 00:08:13,920 --> 00:08:16,080 Speaker 3: and you're like, yeah, cool, And then you get to 172 00:08:16,120 --> 00:08:18,040 Speaker 3: that point and it doesn't show up, and then it 173 00:08:18,120 --> 00:08:22,480 Speaker 3: moves and it says new expected arrival time four to 174 00:08:23,040 --> 00:08:26,280 Speaker 3: seven pm, and it'll keep moving. They just keep kicking 175 00:08:26,280 --> 00:08:28,640 Speaker 3: the ball down the road. Now I know they're literally 176 00:08:28,720 --> 00:08:29,440 Speaker 3: kicking the ball. 177 00:08:30,080 --> 00:08:32,120 Speaker 1: Oh no, no, no, it was It was crazy, man. 178 00:08:32,280 --> 00:08:34,320 Speaker 1: I didn't really mind, you know whatever, these guys, you 179 00:08:34,320 --> 00:08:36,360 Speaker 1: know They probably make crap money and they work their 180 00:08:36,400 --> 00:08:38,480 Speaker 1: ass off and all this stuff, but these boxes will 181 00:08:38,520 --> 00:08:42,120 Speaker 1: eventually get get delivered. The packages will find their way, 182 00:08:42,240 --> 00:08:44,079 Speaker 1: and I just thought it was great. These guys are. 183 00:08:44,360 --> 00:08:47,679 Speaker 1: You know, they probably spend all day driving in traffic 184 00:08:47,760 --> 00:08:51,520 Speaker 1: delivering packages, and here's this one moment. You know, these 185 00:08:51,520 --> 00:08:53,400 Speaker 1: guys just having a great And I love the fact 186 00:08:53,400 --> 00:08:55,480 Speaker 1: that they didn't take off their uniforms. You'd think they 187 00:08:55,520 --> 00:08:57,480 Speaker 1: might want to take off their Amazon shirts and just 188 00:08:57,559 --> 00:09:00,720 Speaker 1: wear their T shirts underneath, but no, these the Amazon 189 00:09:00,760 --> 00:09:02,920 Speaker 1: all Stars of the north Woods. I don't know who 190 00:09:02,960 --> 00:09:04,640 Speaker 1: these guys are. I'll probably never see them again. I 191 00:09:04,679 --> 00:09:07,400 Speaker 1: don't know. Maybe they'll hear this somehow I salute them. 192 00:09:07,800 --> 00:09:10,640 Speaker 1: They'll probably never never hear about this. But I sat 193 00:09:10,679 --> 00:09:11,920 Speaker 1: there and I was like, wow, this is cool. Man. 194 00:09:11,960 --> 00:09:14,840 Speaker 1: These guys love soccer. I'm not a soccer guy, and 195 00:09:15,120 --> 00:09:18,480 Speaker 1: these guys are out there. Think about the coordination involved 196 00:09:18,480 --> 00:09:20,640 Speaker 1: in that. Because these guys are they deliver they working 197 00:09:20,640 --> 00:09:24,280 Speaker 1: at Amazon. They're not even though they're coworkers, Danny, They're 198 00:09:24,280 --> 00:09:26,000 Speaker 1: not like side by side, you know what I mean. 199 00:09:26,040 --> 00:09:28,960 Speaker 1: They're not driving by themselves. They're not with other people. 200 00:09:29,679 --> 00:09:33,880 Speaker 1: So they had to coordinate and plan. Hey, let's meet 201 00:09:34,000 --> 00:09:37,120 Speaker 1: at three o'clock at the north Woods Park. 202 00:09:37,640 --> 00:09:40,600 Speaker 3: Yeah, we'll do some Amazon. Yeah, if my packages are late, 203 00:09:40,720 --> 00:09:42,320 Speaker 3: your packages are gonna be late. 204 00:09:42,920 --> 00:09:45,959 Speaker 1: There you go, There you go exactly. Hey, they if 205 00:09:46,000 --> 00:09:48,800 Speaker 1: we all do it, Amazon can't get upset. Right. If 206 00:09:48,840 --> 00:09:54,720 Speaker 1: everyone slows down, then we're good, good to go. So now, 207 00:09:54,920 --> 00:09:57,120 Speaker 1: one thing I did not see when I was watching 208 00:09:57,200 --> 00:09:59,920 Speaker 1: them go back and forth and play little soccer thing 209 00:10:00,000 --> 00:10:02,200 Speaker 1: the twilight zone of the pitch. I did not see 210 00:10:02,200 --> 00:10:05,760 Speaker 1: any burritos, Daddy, I did not. Although you can't really 211 00:10:05,800 --> 00:10:07,959 Speaker 1: go wrong with a burrito. You cannot go wrong with 212 00:10:08,040 --> 00:10:08,480 Speaker 1: a brito. 213 00:10:09,000 --> 00:10:12,640 Speaker 3: What's better than a burrito? A free burrito? 214 00:10:13,080 --> 00:10:13,240 Speaker 2: Oh? 215 00:10:13,240 --> 00:10:18,280 Speaker 3: Absolutely, it's freeze. Oh you're a lifetime radio guy. Free burrito? 216 00:10:18,360 --> 00:10:20,360 Speaker 3: Are you kidding? You'd run to the front of the line, 217 00:10:20,800 --> 00:10:24,120 Speaker 3: just like Iowa Sam, who's alumni from your overnight show? 218 00:10:24,480 --> 00:10:29,000 Speaker 3: Who you know? Chipotle is a popular spot to go, 219 00:10:29,040 --> 00:10:31,840 Speaker 3: although their prices are a little outrageous right now for 220 00:10:31,920 --> 00:10:32,560 Speaker 3: what they serve. 221 00:10:33,040 --> 00:10:36,160 Speaker 1: Yeah, is it cheaper on the app? I haven't been 222 00:10:36,200 --> 00:10:37,760 Speaker 1: to the Crazy Chickens, you know. 223 00:10:38,160 --> 00:10:41,520 Speaker 3: I don't know because I don't go to Chipotle very often. 224 00:10:41,640 --> 00:10:47,199 Speaker 3: But there was this story circulating this last Wednesday saying, 225 00:10:47,240 --> 00:10:50,880 Speaker 3: hey tomorrow, don't miss it. In the greater Los Angeles 226 00:10:50,920 --> 00:10:55,200 Speaker 3: area Thursday from four to eight pm, it's buy one, 227 00:10:55,320 --> 00:10:59,560 Speaker 3: get one free burrito or burrito bowl if you are 228 00:10:59,600 --> 00:11:08,680 Speaker 3: wearing anything Dodgers. Okay, So Dodger fans started passing this around, like, hey, 229 00:11:08,720 --> 00:11:11,040 Speaker 3: make sure to go to Chipotle on Thursday to get 230 00:11:11,080 --> 00:11:15,280 Speaker 3: your buy one, get one free. At the network, everybody 231 00:11:15,440 --> 00:11:20,320 Speaker 3: was rocking extra Dodger gear that day, not surprisingly because 232 00:11:20,400 --> 00:11:23,040 Speaker 3: as I say, and as you probably know by listening 233 00:11:23,040 --> 00:11:26,400 Speaker 3: to the Fifth Hour radio, people love free food. So 234 00:11:27,080 --> 00:11:30,720 Speaker 3: Sam the editors had on some Dodger blue and they 235 00:11:30,760 --> 00:11:33,200 Speaker 3: were all set and ready to go get there buy one, 236 00:11:33,240 --> 00:11:35,800 Speaker 3: get one free. I told my wife, I said, hey, 237 00:11:36,520 --> 00:11:39,080 Speaker 3: when I get home, you know, i'll watch CoA. You 238 00:11:39,200 --> 00:11:42,200 Speaker 3: go get a burrito bowl or vice versa. So I 239 00:11:42,240 --> 00:11:44,480 Speaker 3: get home and he's kind of set in with her. 240 00:11:44,559 --> 00:11:46,199 Speaker 3: They're in the living room, and I told her it's 241 00:11:46,200 --> 00:11:49,000 Speaker 3: all right, I'll go run down there and get two 242 00:11:49,000 --> 00:11:52,880 Speaker 3: burrito bowls. I'm not gonna say that I don't see 243 00:11:52,920 --> 00:11:55,760 Speaker 3: lots of Dodger fans in my neighborhood, because I do. 244 00:11:55,880 --> 00:11:58,200 Speaker 3: I mean My next door neighbor is a big fan. 245 00:11:58,640 --> 00:12:02,000 Speaker 3: There's even some car flats in our building. I see 246 00:12:02,000 --> 00:12:04,160 Speaker 3: car flags on the freeway on my way into work. 247 00:12:04,480 --> 00:12:08,440 Speaker 3: Obviously work with Dodger fans, but maybe this is a 248 00:12:08,440 --> 00:12:11,319 Speaker 3: product of the World Series and back to back championships. 249 00:12:12,000 --> 00:12:14,480 Speaker 3: There was I'm not kidding you, there was a line 250 00:12:15,040 --> 00:12:19,160 Speaker 3: wrapped around this damn building. There's a Panda Express next 251 00:12:19,360 --> 00:12:23,719 Speaker 3: door to my Chipotle. Poor Panda. Yeah, they were blocking 252 00:12:24,160 --> 00:12:28,360 Speaker 3: the entrance and exit to Panda Express. This line literally 253 00:12:28,440 --> 00:12:31,200 Speaker 3: went into the parking lot. There had to have been 254 00:12:31,679 --> 00:12:35,520 Speaker 3: fifty people in this line, all wearing Dodger gear. Wow. 255 00:12:36,280 --> 00:12:38,000 Speaker 3: I looked at the line. 256 00:12:38,760 --> 00:12:39,480 Speaker 1: Is take it for it? 257 00:12:40,480 --> 00:12:43,800 Speaker 3: Yeah? No, I you know, and now Iowa. Sam tells 258 00:12:43,800 --> 00:12:46,400 Speaker 3: me that the one in Sherman Oaks or Van Eyes, 259 00:12:46,440 --> 00:12:49,280 Speaker 3: maybe fifteen minutes away from our studios. He only waited 260 00:12:49,280 --> 00:12:53,520 Speaker 3: a half hour. Jay Stu reported in at his local 261 00:12:53,720 --> 00:12:57,559 Speaker 3: Chipotle after his show Doug Gottlieb. He went. He said 262 00:12:57,679 --> 00:13:01,080 Speaker 3: it took him forty minutes at his Chipotle. This had 263 00:13:01,120 --> 00:13:03,520 Speaker 3: to be a good hour, right, I mean, there's no 264 00:13:03,640 --> 00:13:06,320 Speaker 3: way you've been in line at Chipotle before. There's no 265 00:13:06,440 --> 00:13:09,640 Speaker 3: way they could take fifty people and get you out 266 00:13:09,679 --> 00:13:11,760 Speaker 3: of there, even in an hour. That was a huge 267 00:13:12,040 --> 00:13:14,880 Speaker 3: I haven't seen a line that long since I was 268 00:13:14,920 --> 00:13:15,679 Speaker 3: at Disneyland. 269 00:13:16,400 --> 00:13:19,440 Speaker 1: Yeah, that's crazy. I would not I love free stuff, 270 00:13:20,360 --> 00:13:23,360 Speaker 1: but your time is valuable. Do you really want to 271 00:13:23,360 --> 00:13:26,960 Speaker 1: spend your man? That's a long time to stay online. 272 00:13:27,320 --> 00:13:30,160 Speaker 3: The best part of the line, it was good. It 273 00:13:30,200 --> 00:13:33,360 Speaker 3: was great people watching. Even though I decided not to 274 00:13:33,400 --> 00:13:36,480 Speaker 3: stay in the line, I looked at I looked at 275 00:13:36,480 --> 00:13:40,120 Speaker 3: other people in the line. It was all ages, all nationalities. 276 00:13:40,160 --> 00:13:42,920 Speaker 3: It was a great mix of Dodger fans and maybe 277 00:13:42,960 --> 00:13:45,480 Speaker 3: some people that were just taking advantage of the special 278 00:13:45,520 --> 00:13:48,680 Speaker 3: and didn't even give a shit about baseball. There. Have 279 00:13:48,760 --> 00:13:51,679 Speaker 3: you ever been to a mall or a store and 280 00:13:51,720 --> 00:13:55,640 Speaker 3: there is like a group of special needs kids with 281 00:13:55,720 --> 00:13:57,960 Speaker 3: a couple of instructors with them. It's almost like they're 282 00:13:57,960 --> 00:13:58,800 Speaker 3: on a field trip. 283 00:13:59,160 --> 00:14:03,120 Speaker 1: Mama, wake up. Yeah, yeah, I've seen that, sure. 284 00:14:03,200 --> 00:14:05,120 Speaker 3: Yeah at the Burbank mall. I used to see this 285 00:14:05,200 --> 00:14:06,960 Speaker 3: in the food court and the kids. 286 00:14:08,000 --> 00:14:09,640 Speaker 1: To go out and get out there. Yeah. 287 00:14:09,679 --> 00:14:11,640 Speaker 3: They wo took him to the food court and let 288 00:14:11,720 --> 00:14:15,360 Speaker 3: them run like crazy in circles the food court. Well, 289 00:14:15,520 --> 00:14:17,599 Speaker 3: there was a group they looked like they were on 290 00:14:17,640 --> 00:14:21,040 Speaker 3: a little mini field trip and half the kids had 291 00:14:21,120 --> 00:14:24,800 Speaker 3: blue clothes on, not all the clothes said Dodgers. And 292 00:14:24,840 --> 00:14:27,120 Speaker 3: I thought to myself, well, this would be interesting because 293 00:14:27,200 --> 00:14:29,560 Speaker 3: when those special needs kids get up to the line, 294 00:14:30,240 --> 00:14:32,680 Speaker 3: is the uh you know eighteen year old work in 295 00:14:32,760 --> 00:14:35,320 Speaker 3: the counter there at Chipotle gonna make a fuss about 296 00:14:35,440 --> 00:14:38,200 Speaker 3: there not being any Dodger logo? 297 00:14:39,240 --> 00:14:41,520 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, you can't well with that, You can't, right. 298 00:14:41,600 --> 00:14:46,240 Speaker 3: No, you'd get suit especially in California. But how viral 299 00:14:46,320 --> 00:14:49,960 Speaker 3: that would go. So they didn't serve the ball to the. 300 00:14:50,000 --> 00:14:52,600 Speaker 1: Kid because you didn't have the Dodger logo, you know. 301 00:14:52,640 --> 00:14:55,320 Speaker 3: I was like, wait a minute, no, you know, yeah, 302 00:14:55,360 --> 00:14:58,800 Speaker 3: you're right. Free food is great. Besides getting a kick 303 00:14:58,840 --> 00:15:01,720 Speaker 3: out of that line and people watching, I did a 304 00:15:01,800 --> 00:15:05,160 Speaker 3: U turn and I left and we wound up getting 305 00:15:05,200 --> 00:15:07,400 Speaker 3: some l Poyo Loco drive through for dinner. 306 00:15:08,240 --> 00:15:12,080 Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, no, I would. I would not wait in line. 307 00:15:12,800 --> 00:15:14,600 Speaker 1: When I was younger, I would I stayed. I waited 308 00:15:14,600 --> 00:15:17,000 Speaker 1: in line. I've talked about this. When I was a kid, 309 00:15:17,040 --> 00:15:19,320 Speaker 1: there was a Howard Stern book signing and I camped 310 00:15:19,360 --> 00:15:21,880 Speaker 1: out all night to get his autograph, and then everyone 311 00:15:21,920 --> 00:15:23,600 Speaker 1: was just smoking weed all night and they didn't care 312 00:15:23,640 --> 00:15:25,680 Speaker 1: it over there. But I now, would I camp out 313 00:15:25,720 --> 00:15:27,440 Speaker 1: all night for someone to hang out. You know, he's 314 00:15:27,480 --> 00:15:30,560 Speaker 1: get an autographed no way, not even free food. But 315 00:15:30,600 --> 00:15:34,200 Speaker 1: you know there's somebody, Danny, some opportunistic person in the 316 00:15:34,240 --> 00:15:37,720 Speaker 1: Greater LA area that started out when that promotion began 317 00:15:37,920 --> 00:15:44,240 Speaker 1: on that Thursday and hit ten fifteen restaurants to get 318 00:15:44,320 --> 00:15:46,800 Speaker 1: all the different food they could possibly get, and it's 319 00:15:46,800 --> 00:15:49,920 Speaker 1: all in a freezer somewhere and they're gonna be eating 320 00:15:50,000 --> 00:15:51,080 Speaker 1: like kings. 321 00:15:51,440 --> 00:15:54,040 Speaker 3: This is like when the Chick fil A finally opened 322 00:15:54,080 --> 00:15:56,280 Speaker 3: up in Burbank, California, and I was living there at 323 00:15:56,320 --> 00:15:58,160 Speaker 3: the time, and I told you remember there were people 324 00:15:58,440 --> 00:16:02,000 Speaker 3: with pop up tents who spent the night there in 325 00:16:02,040 --> 00:16:02,840 Speaker 3: the parking lot. 326 00:16:03,600 --> 00:16:07,440 Speaker 1: Yeah, no, I I There was a point when Raising Canes. 327 00:16:07,560 --> 00:16:09,480 Speaker 1: I talked about this two years ago on the podcast, 328 00:16:09,480 --> 00:16:12,280 Speaker 1: when Raising Canes came to LA. I had found Raising 329 00:16:12,360 --> 00:16:16,320 Speaker 1: Canes in Vegas and it was It's the only place 330 00:16:16,360 --> 00:16:18,960 Speaker 1: I'd ever seen it. It's from Louisiana. It's a chicken 331 00:16:19,000 --> 00:16:22,200 Speaker 1: fingerplace Raising Canes, so I'd never never been there before 332 00:16:22,200 --> 00:16:24,080 Speaker 1: I went to Vegas and then I kept going on 333 00:16:24,080 --> 00:16:25,640 Speaker 1: their website. When did they come in to La the 334 00:16:25,760 --> 00:16:27,720 Speaker 1: LA area. So I remember they had their first location 335 00:16:28,520 --> 00:16:30,680 Speaker 1: and they announced the date it was going to open. 336 00:16:30,880 --> 00:16:33,600 Speaker 1: So I was like, Okay, maybe i'll maybe I'll just 337 00:16:33,640 --> 00:16:35,640 Speaker 1: go down there and i'll camp you know, camp out 338 00:16:35,680 --> 00:16:38,480 Speaker 1: and get some free I figured they'd give like a 339 00:16:38,520 --> 00:16:41,720 Speaker 1: free thing or something if you're first in line, and uh. 340 00:16:41,880 --> 00:16:46,600 Speaker 1: And so I did contemplate it, and the night before 341 00:16:47,120 --> 00:16:49,720 Speaker 1: the opening, I was like, let me drive down there, 342 00:16:49,720 --> 00:16:52,440 Speaker 1: see what's going on. I drove down there and there 343 00:16:52,520 --> 00:16:55,040 Speaker 1: was already a line of people and I said, screw that. 344 00:16:55,360 --> 00:16:57,840 Speaker 1: I'm not I'm not sitting there with those people. It 345 00:16:57,880 --> 00:16:59,720 Speaker 1: was like it was like it wasn't even that late 346 00:16:59,720 --> 00:17:01,960 Speaker 1: at night, Danny, and there were already people lined up 347 00:17:02,000 --> 00:17:05,880 Speaker 1: online waiting for the morning after to get whatever free 348 00:17:05,880 --> 00:17:09,160 Speaker 1: stuff they're going to get from the restaurant. But any 349 00:17:09,200 --> 00:17:11,639 Speaker 1: other Dodger promotions we needed to know about, I guess 350 00:17:11,840 --> 00:17:14,480 Speaker 1: probably not. The World Series ended last weekend. Usually these 351 00:17:14,520 --> 00:17:16,720 Speaker 1: guys all go away and all that stuff, and. 352 00:17:16,960 --> 00:17:19,679 Speaker 3: I think this is when everyone turns the page and 353 00:17:20,000 --> 00:17:22,880 Speaker 3: everyone I'm talking to businesses who are trying to take 354 00:17:22,920 --> 00:17:27,560 Speaker 3: advantage of their local baseball team Excelling Costsco. I went 355 00:17:27,640 --> 00:17:30,600 Speaker 3: there I think it was Wednesday night, to grab some 356 00:17:30,640 --> 00:17:33,359 Speaker 3: eggs and a few things, and they had a table 357 00:17:33,400 --> 00:17:37,160 Speaker 3: of Dodger championship shirts. Oh my god, it was torn through. 358 00:17:37,200 --> 00:17:40,240 Speaker 3: It was madness there. There was just a few shirts, 359 00:17:40,240 --> 00:17:44,280 Speaker 3: all crumbled up in balls, all the same size, extra large, 360 00:17:44,640 --> 00:17:47,760 Speaker 3: and the material of these shirts were junk for eighteen 361 00:17:47,800 --> 00:17:50,600 Speaker 3: dollars and ninety nine cents hard pass. 362 00:17:51,000 --> 00:17:54,760 Speaker 1: So I have not seen the championship shirts. Do they 363 00:17:54,800 --> 00:17:55,840 Speaker 1: say back to back on them? 364 00:17:55,920 --> 00:17:58,640 Speaker 3: Or is it just no? They're pretty big, Yeah, they're 365 00:17:58,680 --> 00:18:02,359 Speaker 3: pretty generic because these shirts at Costco are not made 366 00:18:02,440 --> 00:18:04,040 Speaker 3: by a reputable brand. 367 00:18:04,920 --> 00:18:09,280 Speaker 1: So I know pat Riley owns the trademark for three pete. 368 00:18:09,520 --> 00:18:11,240 Speaker 1: Does somebody own the trademark. 369 00:18:10,840 --> 00:18:11,640 Speaker 3: For back to back? 370 00:18:11,880 --> 00:18:14,679 Speaker 1: Is that why they don't? I've not seen. I've been 371 00:18:14,720 --> 00:18:17,000 Speaker 1: out about this week and I've not seen anyone has 372 00:18:17,000 --> 00:18:19,200 Speaker 1: a shirt that says back to back champs. 373 00:18:18,880 --> 00:18:21,440 Speaker 3: Or that's good bar trivia. I don't know. We're gonna 374 00:18:21,440 --> 00:18:22,119 Speaker 3: have to look that up. 375 00:18:22,920 --> 00:18:27,680 Speaker 1: We'll do a search. We'll do a search. People trademark everything, 376 00:18:28,600 --> 00:18:31,600 Speaker 1: so I'm sure somebody, if you're allowed to trademark it, 377 00:18:31,720 --> 00:18:36,440 Speaker 1: I'm sure somebody trademarked that somewhere along the way. On 378 00:18:36,480 --> 00:18:38,800 Speaker 1: that note, as we try to go do the deep 379 00:18:38,840 --> 00:18:42,760 Speaker 1: dive the solitaire shuffle, Danny, it's time for these solitaire shuffles. 380 00:18:42,760 --> 00:18:47,480 Speaker 1: So I've played these games. I'm sure we all at 381 00:18:48,000 --> 00:18:50,960 Speaker 1: at some point have played these games. And years ago 382 00:18:51,560 --> 00:18:54,600 Speaker 1: I started. It was really mostly during the pandemic. I 383 00:18:54,640 --> 00:18:57,840 Speaker 1: blame the pandemic. But you play those win money while 384 00:18:57,880 --> 00:18:59,760 Speaker 1: you play games on your phone. You know, they pop 385 00:18:59,840 --> 00:19:03,680 Speaker 1: up and you're sitting online like you're at Costco or something. 386 00:19:03,720 --> 00:19:06,640 Speaker 1: You're waiting to return the toaster oven that you bought 387 00:19:06,640 --> 00:19:08,600 Speaker 1: that you don't need, and the ad pops up and 388 00:19:08,600 --> 00:19:12,200 Speaker 1: it says, hey, real freak win real money, real cash. 389 00:19:12,560 --> 00:19:15,600 Speaker 1: And if you play a few rounds of some you know, 390 00:19:15,800 --> 00:19:20,960 Speaker 1: word puzzle or solitaire, whatever, you think, Okay, it's harmless. 391 00:19:21,040 --> 00:19:22,840 Speaker 1: It takes a few minutes a day. And then at 392 00:19:22,840 --> 00:19:25,480 Speaker 1: some point, when you play these games where you win 393 00:19:25,680 --> 00:19:29,080 Speaker 1: real money while you play, you realize that you have 394 00:19:29,160 --> 00:19:33,280 Speaker 1: watched the same exact ad for some off brand TMU 395 00:19:33,400 --> 00:19:38,040 Speaker 1: thing thirty seven times. You're now stuck in some kind 396 00:19:38,040 --> 00:19:44,119 Speaker 1: of digital guantanamo Bay. And I bring this up because 397 00:19:44,160 --> 00:19:45,800 Speaker 1: I saw a story this week that several of you 398 00:19:45,840 --> 00:19:51,320 Speaker 1: idiots sent me involving stephen A Smith, and it triggered 399 00:19:51,480 --> 00:19:54,239 Speaker 1: my memory of my experience. Now Steve and A are 400 00:19:54,320 --> 00:19:57,439 Speaker 1: former Morning guy who is now apparently the face of 401 00:19:57,480 --> 00:20:02,240 Speaker 1: a Solitaire app, the World's Solitaire Championship. If you please 402 00:20:02,760 --> 00:20:05,840 Speaker 1: saw that, you want to moment to process that. So 403 00:20:06,160 --> 00:20:10,080 Speaker 1: this is all because steven A was so bored watching 404 00:20:10,640 --> 00:20:13,640 Speaker 1: the Thunder and the Pacers in the NBA Finals that 405 00:20:13,720 --> 00:20:17,159 Speaker 1: he was playing on his phone while the game was 406 00:20:17,200 --> 00:20:20,120 Speaker 1: going on. Somebody recorded it and it became a viral thing. 407 00:20:20,520 --> 00:20:25,199 Speaker 1: And so of course the World Solitaire Championship, not the 408 00:20:25,320 --> 00:20:28,679 Speaker 1: Super Bowl, not the not a charity bowling event. Solitaire, 409 00:20:29,000 --> 00:20:31,720 Speaker 1: which I believe danny as an introvert, is a game 410 00:20:31,800 --> 00:20:35,240 Speaker 1: design for people like me, introverted people who don't want 411 00:20:35,240 --> 00:20:39,160 Speaker 1: to talk to anyone. And yet this week the story 412 00:20:39,200 --> 00:20:42,160 Speaker 1: came out stephen A had signed on as the official 413 00:20:42,200 --> 00:20:45,840 Speaker 1: ambassador for the company behind it, the same company that 414 00:20:45,920 --> 00:20:51,920 Speaker 1: now is being sued sued for allegedly rigging the Solitaire game, 415 00:20:52,320 --> 00:20:55,840 Speaker 1: claiming it's a game of skill, when really, when you 416 00:20:55,920 --> 00:20:59,560 Speaker 1: get to a higher level, you're going against unbeatable bots, 417 00:21:00,440 --> 00:21:05,480 Speaker 1: unheatable box, and it reminded me of the famous Larry 418 00:21:05,600 --> 00:21:10,639 Speaker 1: David commercial. I don't think so, I don't think so. 419 00:21:10,640 --> 00:21:13,280 Speaker 1: So the lawsuit I started diving into this, Danny, because 420 00:21:13,280 --> 00:21:15,320 Speaker 1: I was like, oh, this is interesting. Here, this is crazy. 421 00:21:15,480 --> 00:21:19,560 Speaker 1: So the lawsuit accuses the company behind the game, the 422 00:21:19,600 --> 00:21:24,919 Speaker 1: folks behind the app, of creating unwinnable situations while advertising 423 00:21:25,040 --> 00:21:29,080 Speaker 1: cash prizes. So think about that for a second. We've 424 00:21:29,200 --> 00:21:34,520 Speaker 1: evolved from casino slot machines to slot machines in your pocket, 425 00:21:35,080 --> 00:21:39,560 Speaker 1: wrapped in skill competition. And here we are. It's late 426 00:21:39,560 --> 00:21:42,919 Speaker 1: twenty twenty five, and this is the new three card MONTI. 427 00:21:43,000 --> 00:21:45,880 Speaker 1: This is the new shell game on the corner, except 428 00:21:45,880 --> 00:21:50,600 Speaker 1: this time the con man is the algorithm. And yet 429 00:21:50,640 --> 00:21:55,159 Speaker 1: again it's the celebrity pitchman yelling about how you listen. 430 00:21:55,320 --> 00:21:57,800 Speaker 1: I mean, I've I'm a stay at home mom with 431 00:21:57,880 --> 00:22:00,200 Speaker 1: four kids, but I play Solitaire and I'm like five 432 00:22:00,280 --> 00:22:02,760 Speaker 1: hundred dollars a week, you know? Is that kind of crap? 433 00:22:02,840 --> 00:22:04,840 Speaker 1: And so I totally get why Steve Any would do it. 434 00:22:04,880 --> 00:22:06,800 Speaker 1: He loves the bag, you know, He'll we'll all hore 435 00:22:06,840 --> 00:22:09,439 Speaker 1: ourselves out. Steven a one of the great wars and 436 00:22:09,800 --> 00:22:13,080 Speaker 1: media advertising of all time. He's got dozens of side hustles, 437 00:22:13,480 --> 00:22:15,720 Speaker 1: so he's all about it. Get that money while you can. 438 00:22:15,800 --> 00:22:17,680 Speaker 1: At some point people are gonna hate steven A. Smith, 439 00:22:17,680 --> 00:22:19,200 Speaker 1: so you might as well make the money. But here's 440 00:22:19,240 --> 00:22:21,840 Speaker 1: the thing. To me, it's not even about steven A 441 00:22:22,480 --> 00:22:25,240 Speaker 1: or the company. It's the it's a whole, this digital 442 00:22:25,359 --> 00:22:28,840 Speaker 1: underworld that we're living in. I guess I'm the old 443 00:22:28,880 --> 00:22:31,680 Speaker 1: guy crying and screaming at the crowds, clouds because it's 444 00:22:31,680 --> 00:22:35,800 Speaker 1: it's the lawlessness of it. The frontier with push notifications, 445 00:22:36,240 --> 00:22:39,479 Speaker 1: a world it's like the wild Wild Western. We've seen it. 446 00:22:39,680 --> 00:22:42,840 Speaker 1: Play for cash, win fifty dollars right now, no risk, 447 00:22:43,720 --> 00:22:46,480 Speaker 1: you know, compete with real players and all this stuff. 448 00:22:46,960 --> 00:22:48,960 Speaker 1: And then of course you're not competing with real people. 449 00:22:49,200 --> 00:22:52,960 Speaker 1: You're competing with bots who never blink, Danny. They never 450 00:22:53,040 --> 00:22:54,720 Speaker 1: go to the they never go to the bathroom, they 451 00:22:54,720 --> 00:22:57,640 Speaker 1: don't take a lunch break. That the house isn't in 452 00:22:57,760 --> 00:23:01,159 Speaker 1: Vegas anymore. It's inside your phone while well, you know, 453 00:23:01,280 --> 00:23:03,720 Speaker 1: you're sitting there. It's got a smiling avatar and it's 454 00:23:03,880 --> 00:23:06,360 Speaker 1: you know, some its claims to be some woman from Michigan, 455 00:23:06,920 --> 00:23:10,040 Speaker 1: and you know it I again I got hooked on 456 00:23:10,040 --> 00:23:12,199 Speaker 1: one of these things years ago. I've talked about it 457 00:23:12,680 --> 00:23:14,520 Speaker 1: long ago. I'm sure Lucky Tony's heard the podcast. It 458 00:23:14,600 --> 00:23:17,800 Speaker 1: was many years ago and during the pandemic, and it 459 00:23:17,840 --> 00:23:20,520 Speaker 1: promised me one hundred dollars. All I had was a 460 00:23:20,520 --> 00:23:22,080 Speaker 1: word game. All I had to do was get to 461 00:23:22,160 --> 00:23:25,280 Speaker 1: level one hundred. So I played a little bit every day. 462 00:23:25,320 --> 00:23:27,520 Speaker 1: I played before bed, i'd play a little bit after 463 00:23:27,560 --> 00:23:29,600 Speaker 1: I woke up, and I made it. I made it 464 00:23:29,600 --> 00:23:31,920 Speaker 1: to level ninety nine. I then got to level one hundred. 465 00:23:31,960 --> 00:23:34,000 Speaker 1: Now you have to get past level one hundred. I 466 00:23:34,080 --> 00:23:37,760 Speaker 1: played this game for months. I watched every effing ad everything, 467 00:23:38,000 --> 00:23:39,600 Speaker 1: So I finally got there. I met the finish line. 468 00:23:39,600 --> 00:23:41,680 Speaker 1: I've run the New York Marathon. I've gone twenty six 469 00:23:41,720 --> 00:23:44,520 Speaker 1: point one miles. I got to go one more point 470 00:23:44,560 --> 00:23:46,480 Speaker 1: of a mile and I'm there. And I saw that 471 00:23:46,560 --> 00:23:50,000 Speaker 1: glorious level one hundred thing flashing, and I started playing. 472 00:23:50,520 --> 00:23:53,000 Speaker 1: And then I didn't win. So then I played again. 473 00:23:53,440 --> 00:23:56,199 Speaker 1: I didn't win, and I kept playing, and I kept playing, 474 00:23:56,359 --> 00:23:59,000 Speaker 1: and I kept playing. I never won. I never won. 475 00:23:59,359 --> 00:24:02,320 Speaker 1: I kept seeing it. I never won. It turned out 476 00:24:03,520 --> 00:24:06,440 Speaker 1: that I was the Mark Danny. I was the stool pigeon. 477 00:24:06,600 --> 00:24:09,320 Speaker 1: I was the sucker. It was a total scam that 478 00:24:09,800 --> 00:24:13,600 Speaker 1: I fell for. I was the rube, and I learned 479 00:24:13,600 --> 00:24:16,359 Speaker 1: my lesson. I do play solitaire. I've played against some 480 00:24:16,400 --> 00:24:17,760 Speaker 1: of the people that listen to this podcast. A lot 481 00:24:17,800 --> 00:24:19,640 Speaker 1: of you guys have quit playing Solitaire because I kicked 482 00:24:19,640 --> 00:24:22,720 Speaker 1: your ass. That's fine, but they don't. They just put 483 00:24:22,760 --> 00:24:24,760 Speaker 1: pop up ads on there and I don't who cares. 484 00:24:24,800 --> 00:24:26,399 Speaker 1: I just put my phone down when the ad comes up, 485 00:24:26,440 --> 00:24:28,680 Speaker 1: and then I picked the game back up. But we've 486 00:24:28,720 --> 00:24:31,600 Speaker 1: seen this movie before. I mentioned Larry David. You remember 487 00:24:31,680 --> 00:24:34,840 Speaker 1: Larry David, Shack, Tom Brady. I think Steph Curry was 488 00:24:34,840 --> 00:24:38,120 Speaker 1: involved in that. The celebrity Mount Rushmore of bad crypto endorsements. 489 00:24:38,200 --> 00:24:43,000 Speaker 1: Remember that, Yeah, FTX and they said it was the future, 490 00:24:43,640 --> 00:24:46,399 Speaker 1: and it turned out the future was bankruptcy. That that 491 00:24:46,560 --> 00:24:50,840 Speaker 1: was the future. But at least FTX they gave us 492 00:24:50,880 --> 00:24:55,040 Speaker 1: that great Larry David ad remember when he was questioning everything, 493 00:24:55,119 --> 00:24:58,160 Speaker 1: every invention in history and I already used the line, 494 00:24:58,160 --> 00:25:00,800 Speaker 1: but he said, I don't think so. And it was 495 00:25:00,840 --> 00:25:04,480 Speaker 1: like supposed to be ironic. It ended up being accurate, 496 00:25:04,600 --> 00:25:07,119 Speaker 1: not ironic. What was iron It was accurate and so 497 00:25:07,200 --> 00:25:11,040 Speaker 1: here comes stephen A shuffling digital cards promoting a game 498 00:25:11,640 --> 00:25:17,280 Speaker 1: that may may have been stacked against everybody from the start. 499 00:25:17,320 --> 00:25:21,120 Speaker 1: And it's the same story, new packaging, and you mix 500 00:25:21,480 --> 00:25:26,520 Speaker 1: celebrity technology and then people that are looking for the 501 00:25:26,600 --> 00:25:29,240 Speaker 1: quick fix, and it's like, there you go. And I 502 00:25:29,240 --> 00:25:32,399 Speaker 1: picked those footballs out at that point, you know, to me, 503 00:25:32,440 --> 00:25:35,760 Speaker 1: they're perfect, exactly, they're very perfect. So, because I know 504 00:25:35,800 --> 00:25:38,199 Speaker 1: I sound like a dinosaur here, Danny, I apologize, But 505 00:25:38,640 --> 00:25:41,840 Speaker 1: you listen these kids on their phones, Danny, I just 506 00:25:42,200 --> 00:25:45,040 Speaker 1: I look around and I see the stuff that we've 507 00:25:45,040 --> 00:25:49,800 Speaker 1: seen here. And the thing about it, too, is there 508 00:25:49,880 --> 00:25:52,640 Speaker 1: really are no watchdogs, like the people that are supposed 509 00:25:52,680 --> 00:25:54,879 Speaker 1: to keep track of the stuff. I guess the FTC 510 00:25:55,800 --> 00:25:57,800 Speaker 1: they're not going to keep up with ten thousand new 511 00:25:57,840 --> 00:26:02,080 Speaker 1: apps a month. And the app store is the homeland 512 00:26:02,119 --> 00:26:05,640 Speaker 1: of the wild wild West, and there are no sheriffs. 513 00:26:05,680 --> 00:26:07,720 Speaker 1: They laid off the sheriffs and all that stuff. So 514 00:26:08,880 --> 00:26:12,240 Speaker 1: if the same company promised you a skill based stock 515 00:26:12,359 --> 00:26:17,280 Speaker 1: market tomorrow, how about your half of America would download 516 00:26:17,359 --> 00:26:19,400 Speaker 1: it and they wouldn't read the fine print and all 517 00:26:19,400 --> 00:26:21,920 Speaker 1: that stuff and so, and they'll likely shut this thing 518 00:26:21,960 --> 00:26:23,919 Speaker 1: down and then they'll move on to some other hustle 519 00:26:23,960 --> 00:26:26,600 Speaker 1: and all that. So, hey, Steve and A got a check. 520 00:26:26,640 --> 00:26:31,120 Speaker 1: He triggered me, and you know he'll likely say, well, listen, 521 00:26:31,800 --> 00:26:33,920 Speaker 1: I need the money. They are I didn't read the 522 00:26:33,960 --> 00:26:37,919 Speaker 1: fine print whatever. But when the game's rigged and the 523 00:26:37,960 --> 00:26:40,879 Speaker 1: players are bots, Okay, when the game's rigged the players 524 00:26:40,880 --> 00:26:44,399 Speaker 1: at bots and all, it's not business. It's like a 525 00:26:44,520 --> 00:26:49,439 Speaker 1: con dressed up with celebrity cologne and all that. So 526 00:26:49,560 --> 00:26:53,399 Speaker 1: somewhere in the digital casino there the dealer just smiles, Hey, 527 00:26:53,400 --> 00:26:54,679 Speaker 1: would you like a new deck? Would you like a 528 00:26:54,720 --> 00:26:58,360 Speaker 1: new deck? Of of course, so there you go, Solitaire, 529 00:26:58,720 --> 00:27:02,159 Speaker 1: knock yourself out on that. All right, on that note, Danny, 530 00:27:02,280 --> 00:27:04,480 Speaker 1: we will put the baby to bed for this Saturday. 531 00:27:04,520 --> 00:27:08,000 Speaker 1: We will have the mail Bag on Sunday, actual questions 532 00:27:08,040 --> 00:27:10,000 Speaker 1: by actual listeners. We want to send a question in 533 00:27:10,600 --> 00:27:12,960 Speaker 1: for a future edition of the mail Bag, send it 534 00:27:13,040 --> 00:27:16,840 Speaker 1: care of Real fifth Hour at gmail dot com. That's 535 00:27:16,920 --> 00:27:20,800 Speaker 1: Real fifth Hour at gmail dot com, and we may 536 00:27:21,359 --> 00:27:23,920 Speaker 1: use it on a future episode. I also want to 537 00:27:23,960 --> 00:27:25,520 Speaker 1: thank all the people that sign up when I give 538 00:27:25,520 --> 00:27:28,119 Speaker 1: out the email, Danny. Many people think it's fun to 539 00:27:28,359 --> 00:27:32,520 Speaker 1: put my email in accounts where I get a lot 540 00:27:32,520 --> 00:27:35,879 Speaker 1: of spam email for all kinds of products that you 541 00:27:36,119 --> 00:27:38,439 Speaker 1: can imagine the things that I get. I really do 542 00:27:38,480 --> 00:27:41,199 Speaker 1: appreciate that that you love the podcast so much that 543 00:27:41,280 --> 00:27:45,159 Speaker 1: you share my email address with people that just bomb me, 544 00:27:45,320 --> 00:27:47,960 Speaker 1: carpet bomb me with spam email. It does mean a lot, Danny. 545 00:27:48,000 --> 00:27:50,520 Speaker 1: I might sound like I'm being sarcastic, but seriously, I 546 00:27:50,520 --> 00:27:52,960 Speaker 1: do appreciate the fact that I get so much email 547 00:27:53,119 --> 00:27:55,440 Speaker 1: that I have to sort through to find the people 548 00:27:55,680 --> 00:27:59,120 Speaker 1: that actually ask questions. You know what I'm saying. All Right, 549 00:27:59,359 --> 00:28:01,560 Speaker 1: have a great rest of your Saturday. We will yap 550 00:28:01,600 --> 00:28:03,240 Speaker 1: with you tomorrow. 551 00:28:03,720 --> 00:28:06,679 Speaker 3: Yeah, you enjoy the college football games and the NBA 552 00:28:07,480 --> 00:28:09,960 Speaker 3: asta pasta viopulation