WEBVTT - The Fifth Hour: Package People on the Pitch 0:00:00.680 --> 0:00:01.440 Kutbooms. 0:00:02.279 --> 0:00:05.360 If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes 0:00:05.400 --> 0:00:09.200 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 0:00:12.560 --> 0:00:15.480 treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the 0:00:15.600 --> 0:00:19.480 rich pill poppers in the penthouse. Wow to the Clearinghouse 0:00:19.480 --> 0:00:23.200 of hot takes, break free for something special. The Fifth 0:00:23.200 --> 0:00:29.400 Hour with Ben Maller starts right now. 0:00:28.960 --> 0:00:32.720 In the air everywhere. The Fifth Hour with Me, Ben 0:00:32.800 --> 0:00:36.839 Maller and Danny g Radio a happy college football kind 0:00:36.920 --> 0:00:40.120 of a Saturday. Is the weather getting nasty, which means 0:00:40.120 --> 0:00:42.519 we should get some bad weather football today on this 0:00:42.720 --> 0:00:47.120 eighth day of November. Back at it. No World Series 0:00:47.120 --> 0:00:49.760 to recap. We don't have to do too much sporty stuff, Danny. 0:00:49.760 --> 0:00:52.040 Now that the World Series is over, we don't have 0:00:52.080 --> 0:00:53.880 to sit here and wait for a game to end 0:00:54.200 --> 0:00:56.640 and then sleep and then go into the studio and 0:00:56.640 --> 0:00:58.360 I we don't have to worry about any of that stuff. 0:00:58.800 --> 0:01:01.720 I know, but I kind of liked how those shows 0:01:01.720 --> 0:01:05.760 were just because our Dodgers won the Doyers. Yeah, anything 0:01:05.880 --> 0:01:07.280 like weird without baseball. 0:01:08.880 --> 0:01:12.119 Yeah, I'm not into the NBA. I tried to watch 0:01:12.200 --> 0:01:15.520 some games this week. It's just it's tough. I actually 0:01:15.560 --> 0:01:19.399 got hornswoggled by ESPN because I was watching the Nicks 0:01:19.520 --> 0:01:23.039 Timberwolves game. I had it on and it was the 0:01:23.080 --> 0:01:24.759 first half, and I was like, okay. So I looked 0:01:24.800 --> 0:01:26.240 at the time. It was like the second quarter. It 0:01:26.240 --> 0:01:28.880 was about five minutes ago, and I Doris Burke is 0:01:28.920 --> 0:01:31.000 on there. She's an instant mute button. When I hear Doris, 0:01:31.000 --> 0:01:32.600 I hit mute, right. I can't. 0:01:33.720 --> 0:01:36.520 She's almost as bad as watching Clippers games right now? 0:01:36.880 --> 0:01:40.360 All right, how about the Raiders pal anyway, So I 0:01:40.720 --> 0:01:42.520 hit the mute button right. I'm like, okay, I don't 0:01:42.520 --> 0:01:44.360 want to hear her, and so I'll turn it on 0:01:44.440 --> 0:01:47.040 at halftime. So I see the first half coming to 0:01:47.080 --> 0:01:50.320 an end, and then I hit the mute button so 0:01:50.360 --> 0:01:55.000 that the audio comes back up, and no Charles Barkley, 0:01:55.480 --> 0:01:58.720 no Kenny Smith, no Ernie Jonson. I guess the first 0:01:58.720 --> 0:02:00.920 week they worked, they had to take some time off, 0:02:01.520 --> 0:02:04.560 or maybe they're on for two weeks and they were 0:02:04.600 --> 0:02:08.240 not there. Some other you know, typical hack ESPN people 0:02:08.280 --> 0:02:10.440 were there and I saw immediately turned it off. I said, 0:02:10.440 --> 0:02:13.480 I'm not watching this crap once and I saw Kendrick Perkins. 0:02:13.520 --> 0:02:15.640 I'm like, Okay, I'm good, I'm out, I'm done, to 0:02:15.639 --> 0:02:18.679 see you later, Bye bye and all that. Anyway, Yeah, 0:02:18.720 --> 0:02:20.919 so I did get fooled by I just assumed that 0:02:21.320 --> 0:02:24.280 they're on ESPN now, Barkley and Kenny Smith, so when 0:02:24.280 --> 0:02:27.720 there's an ESPN game, they'll be on a halftime No. No, 0:02:28.320 --> 0:02:31.520 what a sweetheart deal those guys got, right. I imagine 0:02:31.520 --> 0:02:33.440 that they get paid all that money. They don't have 0:02:33.480 --> 0:02:36.959 to deal with the ESPN bull crap, and they I 0:02:36.960 --> 0:02:39.160 guess they don't have to work that much. It's good 0:02:39.360 --> 0:02:40.600 living the high life, right there. 0:02:40.639 --> 0:02:40.919 Man. 0:02:41.840 --> 0:02:44.480 Anyway, on this podcast, we have the Twilight Zone on 0:02:44.520 --> 0:02:50.720 the Pitch, Burrito Mania and the Solitaire Shuffle, so we'll 0:02:51.080 --> 0:02:53.880 work our way through all this stuff and it's kind 0:02:53.880 --> 0:02:56.040 of hang out here and get ready to watch some 0:02:56.760 --> 0:02:59.040 college football, which is great. I love watching college football 0:02:59.040 --> 0:03:02.679 because I don't have to worry about doing monologues. 0:03:02.240 --> 0:03:02.760 Or things like that. 0:03:02.800 --> 0:03:05.360 It's just just my day. Saturday is my day. And so, 0:03:06.240 --> 0:03:09.079 as we know, the world a rather wacky place, and 0:03:09.200 --> 0:03:10.880 a lot of stuff in life. You can plan for 0:03:10.880 --> 0:03:12.880 a lot of stuff you can't plan for things you 0:03:12.919 --> 0:03:16.680 cannot predict. And one thing I've noticed, especially since I 0:03:16.680 --> 0:03:19.440 started doing the podcast, is I open my eyes more 0:03:19.480 --> 0:03:20.880 to the world when I'm out and about. I don't 0:03:20.880 --> 0:03:24.280 go out much anyway, but when I'm wandering around doing stuff, 0:03:24.320 --> 0:03:25.840 I'm always like, all right, let's see what I can. 0:03:25.960 --> 0:03:26.920 You know what's going on. 0:03:27.040 --> 0:03:30.320 This is because your wife made you take notes, yeah. 0:03:30.120 --> 0:03:33.720 For the podcast, of course, So you know, some days 0:03:33.720 --> 0:03:35.360 I'll you know, I'll see somebody with a flat tire. 0:03:35.360 --> 0:03:35.680 I did. 0:03:35.760 --> 0:03:37.920 I told the story yesterday. I was driving home and 0:03:38.080 --> 0:03:41.120 the fourth Street bridge was on fire underneath it in 0:03:41.280 --> 0:03:44.920 LA and that was quite the quite detail. But earlier 0:03:44.920 --> 0:03:47.960 this week I got one of those small moments, Danny, 0:03:48.560 --> 0:03:51.720 where it just happens occasionally in life and whatnot. So 0:03:51.760 --> 0:03:53.720 I was looking. I was not looking for this, but 0:03:54.040 --> 0:03:56.240 I was not. I was just I was going about 0:03:56.280 --> 0:04:00.680 my business, performing the most mundane of tasks, my duty 0:04:01.520 --> 0:04:04.960 at a local voting station. It was election day, which 0:04:05.000 --> 0:04:07.320 is like the worst election. There was one thing on 0:04:07.360 --> 0:04:11.280 my ballot in California. One thing. One thing on the ballot, 0:04:11.280 --> 0:04:13.800 which is like, why drag everyone into vote if there's 0:04:13.880 --> 0:04:16.240 one thing on the ballot? But whatever, So I went 0:04:16.320 --> 0:04:19.040 to cast my ballot. And of course the big thing 0:04:19.040 --> 0:04:22.159 about voting, Danny is the sticker. See, that's that's the 0:04:22.160 --> 0:04:24.600 big Now I am an absentee voter. But what I 0:04:24.640 --> 0:04:26.479 like to do is I like to drop the ballot off. 0:04:26.560 --> 0:04:28.039 I like to drop the bat off. It makes me 0:04:28.120 --> 0:04:31.359 feel like I wait till election day. It makes me 0:04:31.400 --> 0:04:34.840 feel like I've accomplished something. On election day, I don't 0:04:35.080 --> 0:04:37.960 bother sending it in. But so this time I didn't, 0:04:38.320 --> 0:04:39.880 you know, I got my stick or whatever, I go 0:04:39.920 --> 0:04:41.680 to drop the thing off. And when I went to 0:04:41.800 --> 0:04:46.080 park just off on the on there was a big field. 0:04:46.600 --> 0:04:48.359 There was a building we could vote, and then behind 0:04:48.400 --> 0:04:50.719 it was a park in the vast park lands of 0:04:50.760 --> 0:04:54.160 the north Woods. And something caught my eye off in 0:04:54.200 --> 0:04:56.240 the distance. There was there was a bit of movement, 0:04:56.279 --> 0:04:59.640 there was some rhythm, so I knew it was. It 0:04:59.680 --> 0:05:02.960 was on the the field, the big fielding a football field. 0:05:03.120 --> 0:05:06.680 And what I kept walking out towards these guys and 0:05:06.680 --> 0:05:09.840 there was a group of young men, all of them 0:05:09.880 --> 0:05:15.000 wearing the same uniform, and they were darting up and 0:05:15.040 --> 0:05:19.880 down the pitch with with the with the football at 0:05:19.880 --> 0:05:23.760 their feet. Danny, all right, and so not the kind 0:05:23.800 --> 0:05:27.200 we like, not the not the the duke, the NFL football, 0:05:27.200 --> 0:05:29.680 the round kind, the soccer, the full on MESSI and 0:05:29.680 --> 0:05:30.360 all that stuff. 0:05:30.920 --> 0:05:32.680 Were they all dressed alike? 0:05:33.600 --> 0:05:35.400 Well? They were? And so then I looked over to 0:05:35.440 --> 0:05:38.520 the parking lot and I saw a lineup of six 0:05:38.680 --> 0:05:42.919 vehicles that all had the same same logo. And it 0:05:43.040 --> 0:05:46.600 turned out that I had stumbled into a new episode 0:05:46.640 --> 0:05:50.400 of the Twilight Zone. They were all Amazon trucks. You 0:05:50.440 --> 0:05:54.080 got a picture this, Danny. Half a dozen Amazon delivery drivers, 0:05:54.600 --> 0:05:57.279 their vans parked, all lined up in a row in 0:05:57.320 --> 0:06:00.840 the parking lot near the park hazard lights blinking. It's 0:06:01.480 --> 0:06:05.080 perfectly synced. And the drive you know, those blue Amazon, 0:06:05.440 --> 0:06:09.839 the road Warriors, the Amazon. They're all out on the grass, 0:06:10.080 --> 0:06:13.640 laughing and shouting and sprinting and running around and having 0:06:13.640 --> 0:06:14.279 a great time. 0:06:14.400 --> 0:06:17.120 Right, So this is why my vitamins were delayed by 0:06:17.160 --> 0:06:17.719 a day. 0:06:18.120 --> 0:06:19.240 Exactly, That's what I was thinking. 0:06:19.480 --> 0:06:20.559 These were the men and women. 0:06:20.839 --> 0:06:22.520 It was all men. There were a couple of women. 0:06:22.560 --> 0:06:24.120 They sat in the truck. I guess they didn't want 0:06:24.120 --> 0:06:26.000 to play soccer, but they were. You know, these are 0:06:26.000 --> 0:06:28.040 the people that spent all day hurling boxes of dog 0:06:28.080 --> 0:06:30.840 food and phone charging cables and crap like that and 0:06:30.920 --> 0:06:34.320 all the other stuff that we get on Amazon. And 0:06:34.600 --> 0:06:38.479 I was thinking, like somebody trying to find their package. 0:06:39.200 --> 0:06:42.240 And here I am. I was the only one watching 0:06:42.240 --> 0:06:44.880 them play soccer. I was an audience of one. And 0:06:44.920 --> 0:06:46.560 I gotta tell you it was it was pretty It 0:06:46.600 --> 0:06:48.520 was pretty cool, Daddy. I was like, these guys are 0:06:48.600 --> 0:06:52.320 loving life. And they were there I didn't say the 0:06:52.320 --> 0:06:55.000 whole time. They were there well over at least an hour. 0:06:55.440 --> 0:06:57.719 And I don't think your breaks are that long on Amazon, 0:06:57.760 --> 0:07:00.760 I don't know. And these guys were really into it. 0:07:01.360 --> 0:07:03.279 You know, there's nothing quite like a good pickup game. 0:07:03.279 --> 0:07:05.159 I'm not a soccer guy, but I used to play 0:07:05.160 --> 0:07:07.799 pick up football basketball back in the day. The midfield 0:07:07.839 --> 0:07:11.840 maestros out there and these guys, I'm telling you, Dany, 0:07:11.840 --> 0:07:14.000 they thought they were they were auditioning for the cover 0:07:14.080 --> 0:07:16.400 of FIFA twenty five or twenty six or whatever. They 0:07:16.920 --> 0:07:20.480 really into it, right, they were really into it. And uh, 0:07:20.920 --> 0:07:24.240 the imaginary defenders he had the goaltender. You know, it 0:07:24.320 --> 0:07:26.440 might as well have been these guys were playing for 0:07:26.560 --> 0:07:29.320 Manchester City or Real Madrid or something like that. You know, 0:07:29.720 --> 0:07:31.240 I think those are the only two soccer teams I 0:07:31.240 --> 0:07:34.400 could name, but it was it was pretty cool. And 0:07:34.440 --> 0:07:37.800 so again I did laugh, though, Danny, because I thought 0:07:38.320 --> 0:07:42.360 there's somebody like you or my wife refreshing the Amazon app, 0:07:42.440 --> 0:07:45.840 and I like, the truck seems to be stopped, stopped 0:07:45.840 --> 0:07:49.200 at the park. I don't understand why. Part it makes 0:07:49.240 --> 0:07:51.400 no sense. And then then they can well, the package 0:07:51.440 --> 0:07:53.880 is delayed, the package is out for delivery is delayed. 0:07:54.080 --> 0:07:56.240 So now, Danny, next time, if I if I were 0:07:56.280 --> 0:07:58.440 something on Amazon, I usually don't want much. My wife does. 0:07:58.480 --> 0:08:01.000 But if we don't get something right away, I'm just 0:08:01.040 --> 0:08:02.560 gonna go down the park and say, what do you got? 0:08:02.560 --> 0:08:03.600 You got my package? 0:08:03.960 --> 0:08:06.920 If you are a regular on Amazon, you know the pattern. 0:08:07.520 --> 0:08:13.440 Sometimes it'll say expected delivery tomorrow between noon and two pm, 0:08:13.920 --> 0:08:16.080 and you're like, yeah, cool, And then you get to 0:08:16.120 --> 0:08:18.040 that point and it doesn't show up, and then it 0:08:18.120 --> 0:08:22.480 moves and it says new expected arrival time four to 0:08:23.040 --> 0:08:26.280 seven pm, and it'll keep moving. They just keep kicking 0:08:26.280 --> 0:08:28.640 the ball down the road. Now I know they're literally 0:08:28.720 --> 0:08:29.440 kicking the ball. 0:08:30.080 --> 0:08:32.120 Oh no, no, no, it was It was crazy, man. 0:08:32.280 --> 0:08:34.320 I didn't really mind, you know whatever, these guys, you 0:08:34.320 --> 0:08:36.360 know They probably make crap money and they work their 0:08:36.400 --> 0:08:38.480 ass off and all this stuff, but these boxes will 0:08:38.520 --> 0:08:42.120 eventually get get delivered. The packages will find their way, 0:08:42.240 --> 0:08:44.079 and I just thought it was great. These guys are. 0:08:44.360 --> 0:08:47.679 You know, they probably spend all day driving in traffic 0:08:47.760 --> 0:08:51.520 delivering packages, and here's this one moment. You know, these 0:08:51.520 --> 0:08:53.400 guys just having a great And I love the fact 0:08:53.400 --> 0:08:55.480 that they didn't take off their uniforms. You'd think they 0:08:55.520 --> 0:08:57.480 might want to take off their Amazon shirts and just 0:08:57.559 --> 0:09:00.720 wear their T shirts underneath, but no, these the Amazon 0:09:00.760 --> 0:09:02.920 all Stars of the north Woods. I don't know who 0:09:02.960 --> 0:09:04.640 these guys are. I'll probably never see them again. I 0:09:04.679 --> 0:09:07.400 don't know. Maybe they'll hear this somehow I salute them. 0:09:07.800 --> 0:09:10.640 They'll probably never never hear about this. But I sat 0:09:10.679 --> 0:09:11.920 there and I was like, wow, this is cool. Man. 0:09:11.960 --> 0:09:14.840 These guys love soccer. I'm not a soccer guy, and 0:09:15.120 --> 0:09:18.480 these guys are out there. Think about the coordination involved 0:09:18.480 --> 0:09:20.640 in that. Because these guys are they deliver they working 0:09:20.640 --> 0:09:24.280 at Amazon. They're not even though they're coworkers, Danny, They're 0:09:24.280 --> 0:09:26.000 not like side by side, you know what I mean. 0:09:26.040 --> 0:09:28.960 They're not driving by themselves. They're not with other people. 0:09:29.679 --> 0:09:33.880 So they had to coordinate and plan. Hey, let's meet 0:09:34.000 --> 0:09:37.120 at three o'clock at the north Woods Park. 0:09:37.640 --> 0:09:40.600 Yeah, we'll do some Amazon. Yeah, if my packages are late, 0:09:40.720 --> 0:09:42.320 your packages are gonna be late. 0:09:42.920 --> 0:09:45.959 There you go, There you go exactly. Hey, they if 0:09:46.000 --> 0:09:48.800 we all do it, Amazon can't get upset. Right. If 0:09:48.840 --> 0:09:54.720 everyone slows down, then we're good, good to go. So now, 0:09:54.920 --> 0:09:57.120 one thing I did not see when I was watching 0:09:57.200 --> 0:09:59.920 them go back and forth and play little soccer thing 0:10:00.000 --> 0:10:02.200 the twilight zone of the pitch. I did not see 0:10:02.200 --> 0:10:05.760 any burritos, Daddy, I did not. Although you can't really 0:10:05.800 --> 0:10:07.959 go wrong with a burrito. You cannot go wrong with 0:10:08.040 --> 0:10:08.480 a brito. 0:10:09.000 --> 0:10:12.640 What's better than a burrito? A free burrito? 0:10:13.080 --> 0:10:13.240 Oh? 0:10:13.240 --> 0:10:18.280 Absolutely, it's freeze. Oh you're a lifetime radio guy. Free burrito? 0:10:18.360 --> 0:10:20.360 Are you kidding? You'd run to the front of the line, 0:10:20.800 --> 0:10:24.120 just like Iowa Sam, who's alumni from your overnight show? 0:10:24.480 --> 0:10:29.000 Who you know? Chipotle is a popular spot to go, 0:10:29.040 --> 0:10:31.840 although their prices are a little outrageous right now for 0:10:31.920 --> 0:10:32.560 what they serve. 0:10:33.040 --> 0:10:36.160 Yeah, is it cheaper on the app? I haven't been 0:10:36.200 --> 0:10:37.760 to the Crazy Chickens, you know. 0:10:38.160 --> 0:10:41.520 I don't know because I don't go to Chipotle very often. 0:10:41.640 --> 0:10:47.199 But there was this story circulating this last Wednesday saying, 0:10:47.240 --> 0:10:50.880 hey tomorrow, don't miss it. In the greater Los Angeles 0:10:50.920 --> 0:10:55.200 area Thursday from four to eight pm, it's buy one, 0:10:55.320 --> 0:10:59.560 get one free burrito or burrito bowl if you are 0:10:59.600 --> 0:11:08.680 wearing anything Dodgers. Okay, So Dodger fans started passing this around, like, hey, 0:11:08.720 --> 0:11:11.040 make sure to go to Chipotle on Thursday to get 0:11:11.080 --> 0:11:15.280 your buy one, get one free. At the network, everybody 0:11:15.440 --> 0:11:20.320 was rocking extra Dodger gear that day, not surprisingly because 0:11:20.400 --> 0:11:23.040 as I say, and as you probably know by listening 0:11:23.040 --> 0:11:26.400 to the Fifth Hour radio, people love free food. So 0:11:27.080 --> 0:11:30.720 Sam the editors had on some Dodger blue and they 0:11:30.760 --> 0:11:33.200 were all set and ready to go get there buy one, 0:11:33.240 --> 0:11:35.800 get one free. I told my wife, I said, hey, 0:11:36.520 --> 0:11:39.080 when I get home, you know, i'll watch CoA. You 0:11:39.200 --> 0:11:42.200 go get a burrito bowl or vice versa. So I 0:11:42.240 --> 0:11:44.480 get home and he's kind of set in with her. 0:11:44.559 --> 0:11:46.199 They're in the living room, and I told her it's 0:11:46.200 --> 0:11:49.000 all right, I'll go run down there and get two 0:11:49.000 --> 0:11:52.880 burrito bowls. I'm not gonna say that I don't see 0:11:52.920 --> 0:11:55.760 lots of Dodger fans in my neighborhood, because I do. 0:11:55.880 --> 0:11:58.200 I mean My next door neighbor is a big fan. 0:11:58.640 --> 0:12:02.000 There's even some car flats in our building. I see 0:12:02.000 --> 0:12:04.160 car flags on the freeway on my way into work. 0:12:04.480 --> 0:12:08.440 Obviously work with Dodger fans, but maybe this is a 0:12:08.440 --> 0:12:11.319 product of the World Series and back to back championships. 0:12:12.000 --> 0:12:14.480 There was I'm not kidding you, there was a line 0:12:15.040 --> 0:12:19.160 wrapped around this damn building. There's a Panda Express next 0:12:19.360 --> 0:12:23.719 door to my Chipotle. Poor Panda. Yeah, they were blocking 0:12:24.160 --> 0:12:28.360 the entrance and exit to Panda Express. This line literally 0:12:28.440 --> 0:12:31.200 went into the parking lot. There had to have been 0:12:31.679 --> 0:12:35.520 fifty people in this line, all wearing Dodger gear. Wow. 0:12:36.280 --> 0:12:38.000 I looked at the line. 0:12:38.760 --> 0:12:39.480 Is take it for it? 0:12:40.480 --> 0:12:43.800 Yeah? No, I you know, and now Iowa. Sam tells 0:12:43.800 --> 0:12:46.400 me that the one in Sherman Oaks or Van Eyes, 0:12:46.440 --> 0:12:49.280 maybe fifteen minutes away from our studios. He only waited 0:12:49.280 --> 0:12:53.520 a half hour. Jay Stu reported in at his local 0:12:53.720 --> 0:12:57.559 Chipotle after his show Doug Gottlieb. He went. He said 0:12:57.679 --> 0:13:01.080 it took him forty minutes at his Chipotle. This had 0:13:01.120 --> 0:13:03.520 to be a good hour, right, I mean, there's no 0:13:03.640 --> 0:13:06.320 way you've been in line at Chipotle before. There's no 0:13:06.440 --> 0:13:09.640 way they could take fifty people and get you out 0:13:09.679 --> 0:13:11.760 of there, even in an hour. That was a huge 0:13:12.040 --> 0:13:14.880 I haven't seen a line that long since I was 0:13:14.920 --> 0:13:15.679 at Disneyland. 0:13:16.400 --> 0:13:19.440 Yeah, that's crazy. I would not I love free stuff, 0:13:20.360 --> 0:13:23.360 but your time is valuable. Do you really want to 0:13:23.360 --> 0:13:26.960 spend your man? That's a long time to stay online. 0:13:27.320 --> 0:13:30.160 The best part of the line, it was good. It 0:13:30.200 --> 0:13:33.360 was great people watching. Even though I decided not to 0:13:33.400 --> 0:13:36.480 stay in the line, I looked at I looked at 0:13:36.480 --> 0:13:40.120 other people in the line. It was all ages, all nationalities. 0:13:40.160 --> 0:13:42.920 It was a great mix of Dodger fans and maybe 0:13:42.960 --> 0:13:45.480 some people that were just taking advantage of the special 0:13:45.520 --> 0:13:48.680 and didn't even give a shit about baseball. There. Have 0:13:48.760 --> 0:13:51.679 you ever been to a mall or a store and 0:13:51.720 --> 0:13:55.640 there is like a group of special needs kids with 0:13:55.720 --> 0:13:57.960 a couple of instructors with them. It's almost like they're 0:13:57.960 --> 0:13:58.800 on a field trip. 0:13:59.160 --> 0:14:03.120 Mama, wake up. Yeah, yeah, I've seen that, sure. 0:14:03.200 --> 0:14:05.120 Yeah at the Burbank mall. I used to see this 0:14:05.200 --> 0:14:06.960 in the food court and the kids. 0:14:08.000 --> 0:14:09.640 To go out and get out there. Yeah. 0:14:09.679 --> 0:14:11.640 They wo took him to the food court and let 0:14:11.720 --> 0:14:15.360 them run like crazy in circles the food court. Well, 0:14:15.520 --> 0:14:17.599 there was a group they looked like they were on 0:14:17.640 --> 0:14:21.040 a little mini field trip and half the kids had 0:14:21.120 --> 0:14:24.800 blue clothes on, not all the clothes said Dodgers. And 0:14:24.840 --> 0:14:27.120 I thought to myself, well, this would be interesting because 0:14:27.200 --> 0:14:29.560 when those special needs kids get up to the line, 0:14:30.240 --> 0:14:32.680 is the uh you know eighteen year old work in 0:14:32.760 --> 0:14:35.320 the counter there at Chipotle gonna make a fuss about 0:14:35.440 --> 0:14:38.200 there not being any Dodger logo? 0:14:39.240 --> 0:14:41.520 Yeah, yeah, you can't well with that, You can't, right. 0:14:41.600 --> 0:14:46.240 No, you'd get suit especially in California. But how viral 0:14:46.320 --> 0:14:49.960 that would go. So they didn't serve the ball to the. 0:14:50.000 --> 0:14:52.600 Kid because you didn't have the Dodger logo, you know. 0:14:52.640 --> 0:14:55.320 I was like, wait a minute, no, you know, yeah, 0:14:55.360 --> 0:14:58.800 you're right. Free food is great. Besides getting a kick 0:14:58.840 --> 0:15:01.720 out of that line and people watching, I did a 0:15:01.800 --> 0:15:05.160 U turn and I left and we wound up getting 0:15:05.200 --> 0:15:07.400 some l Poyo Loco drive through for dinner. 0:15:08.240 --> 0:15:12.080 Okay, yeah, no, I would. I would not wait in line. 0:15:12.800 --> 0:15:14.600 When I was younger, I would I stayed. I waited 0:15:14.600 --> 0:15:17.000 in line. I've talked about this. When I was a kid, 0:15:17.040 --> 0:15:19.320 there was a Howard Stern book signing and I camped 0:15:19.360 --> 0:15:21.880 out all night to get his autograph, and then everyone 0:15:21.920 --> 0:15:23.600 was just smoking weed all night and they didn't care 0:15:23.640 --> 0:15:25.680 it over there. But I now, would I camp out 0:15:25.720 --> 0:15:27.440 all night for someone to hang out. You know, he's 0:15:27.480 --> 0:15:30.560 get an autographed no way, not even free food. But 0:15:30.600 --> 0:15:34.200 you know there's somebody, Danny, some opportunistic person in the 0:15:34.240 --> 0:15:37.720 Greater LA area that started out when that promotion began 0:15:37.920 --> 0:15:44.240 on that Thursday and hit ten fifteen restaurants to get 0:15:44.320 --> 0:15:46.800 all the different food they could possibly get, and it's 0:15:46.800 --> 0:15:49.920 all in a freezer somewhere and they're gonna be eating 0:15:50.000 --> 0:15:51.080 like kings. 0:15:51.440 --> 0:15:54.040 This is like when the Chick fil A finally opened 0:15:54.080 --> 0:15:56.280 up in Burbank, California, and I was living there at 0:15:56.320 --> 0:15:58.160 the time, and I told you remember there were people 0:15:58.440 --> 0:16:02.000 with pop up tents who spent the night there in 0:16:02.040 --> 0:16:02.840 the parking lot. 0:16:03.600 --> 0:16:07.440 Yeah, no, I I There was a point when Raising Canes. 0:16:07.560 --> 0:16:09.480 I talked about this two years ago on the podcast, 0:16:09.480 --> 0:16:12.280 when Raising Canes came to LA. I had found Raising 0:16:12.360 --> 0:16:16.320 Canes in Vegas and it was It's the only place 0:16:16.360 --> 0:16:18.960 I'd ever seen it. It's from Louisiana. It's a chicken 0:16:19.000 --> 0:16:22.200 fingerplace Raising Canes, so I'd never never been there before 0:16:22.200 --> 0:16:24.080 I went to Vegas and then I kept going on 0:16:24.080 --> 0:16:25.640 their website. When did they come in to La the 0:16:25.760 --> 0:16:27.720 LA area. So I remember they had their first location 0:16:28.520 --> 0:16:30.680 and they announced the date it was going to open. 0:16:30.880 --> 0:16:33.600 So I was like, Okay, maybe i'll maybe I'll just 0:16:33.640 --> 0:16:35.640 go down there and i'll camp you know, camp out 0:16:35.680 --> 0:16:38.480 and get some free I figured they'd give like a 0:16:38.520 --> 0:16:41.720 free thing or something if you're first in line, and uh. 0:16:41.880 --> 0:16:46.600 And so I did contemplate it, and the night before 0:16:47.120 --> 0:16:49.720 the opening, I was like, let me drive down there, 0:16:49.720 --> 0:16:52.440 see what's going on. I drove down there and there 0:16:52.520 --> 0:16:55.040 was already a line of people and I said, screw that. 0:16:55.360 --> 0:16:57.840 I'm not I'm not sitting there with those people. It 0:16:57.880 --> 0:16:59.720 was like it was like it wasn't even that late 0:16:59.720 --> 0:17:01.960 at night, Danny, and there were already people lined up 0:17:02.000 --> 0:17:05.880 online waiting for the morning after to get whatever free 0:17:05.880 --> 0:17:09.160 stuff they're going to get from the restaurant. But any 0:17:09.200 --> 0:17:11.639 other Dodger promotions we needed to know about, I guess 0:17:11.840 --> 0:17:14.480 probably not. The World Series ended last weekend. Usually these 0:17:14.520 --> 0:17:16.720 guys all go away and all that stuff, and. 0:17:16.960 --> 0:17:19.679 I think this is when everyone turns the page and 0:17:20.000 --> 0:17:22.880 everyone I'm talking to businesses who are trying to take 0:17:22.920 --> 0:17:27.560 advantage of their local baseball team Excelling Costsco. I went 0:17:27.640 --> 0:17:30.600 there I think it was Wednesday night, to grab some 0:17:30.640 --> 0:17:33.359 eggs and a few things, and they had a table 0:17:33.400 --> 0:17:37.160 of Dodger championship shirts. Oh my god, it was torn through. 0:17:37.200 --> 0:17:40.240 It was madness there. There was just a few shirts, 0:17:40.240 --> 0:17:44.280 all crumbled up in balls, all the same size, extra large, 0:17:44.640 --> 0:17:47.760 and the material of these shirts were junk for eighteen 0:17:47.800 --> 0:17:50.600 dollars and ninety nine cents hard pass. 0:17:51.000 --> 0:17:54.760 So I have not seen the championship shirts. Do they 0:17:54.800 --> 0:17:55.840 say back to back on them? 0:17:55.920 --> 0:17:58.640 Or is it just no? They're pretty big, Yeah, they're 0:17:58.680 --> 0:18:02.359 pretty generic because these shirts at Costco are not made 0:18:02.440 --> 0:18:04.040 by a reputable brand. 0:18:04.920 --> 0:18:09.280 So I know pat Riley owns the trademark for three pete. 0:18:09.520 --> 0:18:11.240 Does somebody own the trademark. 0:18:10.840 --> 0:18:11.640 For back to back? 0:18:11.880 --> 0:18:14.679 Is that why they don't? I've not seen. I've been 0:18:14.720 --> 0:18:17.000 out about this week and I've not seen anyone has 0:18:17.000 --> 0:18:19.200 a shirt that says back to back champs. 0:18:18.880 --> 0:18:21.440 Or that's good bar trivia. I don't know. We're gonna 0:18:21.440 --> 0:18:22.119 have to look that up. 0:18:22.920 --> 0:18:27.680 We'll do a search. We'll do a search. People trademark everything, 0:18:28.600 --> 0:18:31.600 so I'm sure somebody, if you're allowed to trademark it, 0:18:31.720 --> 0:18:36.440 I'm sure somebody trademarked that somewhere along the way. On 0:18:36.480 --> 0:18:38.800 that note, as we try to go do the deep 0:18:38.840 --> 0:18:42.760 dive the solitaire shuffle, Danny, it's time for these solitaire shuffles. 0:18:42.760 --> 0:18:47.480 So I've played these games. I'm sure we all at 0:18:48.000 --> 0:18:50.960 at some point have played these games. And years ago 0:18:51.560 --> 0:18:54.600 I started. It was really mostly during the pandemic. I 0:18:54.640 --> 0:18:57.840 blame the pandemic. But you play those win money while 0:18:57.880 --> 0:18:59.760 you play games on your phone. You know, they pop 0:18:59.840 --> 0:19:03.680 up and you're sitting online like you're at Costco or something. 0:19:03.720 --> 0:19:06.640 You're waiting to return the toaster oven that you bought 0:19:06.640 --> 0:19:08.600 that you don't need, and the ad pops up and 0:19:08.600 --> 0:19:12.200 it says, hey, real freak win real money, real cash. 0:19:12.560 --> 0:19:15.600 And if you play a few rounds of some you know, 0:19:15.800 --> 0:19:20.960 word puzzle or solitaire, whatever, you think, Okay, it's harmless. 0:19:21.040 --> 0:19:22.840 It takes a few minutes a day. And then at 0:19:22.840 --> 0:19:25.480 some point, when you play these games where you win 0:19:25.680 --> 0:19:29.080 real money while you play, you realize that you have 0:19:29.160 --> 0:19:33.280 watched the same exact ad for some off brand TMU 0:19:33.400 --> 0:19:38.040 thing thirty seven times. You're now stuck in some kind 0:19:38.040 --> 0:19:44.119 of digital guantanamo Bay. And I bring this up because 0:19:44.160 --> 0:19:45.800 I saw a story this week that several of you 0:19:45.840 --> 0:19:51.320 idiots sent me involving stephen A Smith, and it triggered 0:19:51.480 --> 0:19:54.239 my memory of my experience. Now Steve and A are 0:19:54.320 --> 0:19:57.439 former Morning guy who is now apparently the face of 0:19:57.480 --> 0:20:02.240