WEBVTT - The Fifth Hour: A Fast Entrance 0:00:00.960 --> 0:00:05.000 Booms. If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred 0:00:05.000 --> 0:00:08.560 minutes a week was enough, think again. He's the last 0:00:08.680 --> 0:00:12.280 remnants of the old Republic, a sole fashion of fairness. 0:00:12.400 --> 0:00:15.360 He treats crackheads in the ghetto cutter the same as 0:00:15.400 --> 0:00:19.120 the rich pill poppers in the penthouse. Wow. The clearing 0:00:19.200 --> 0:00:22.840 House of Hot takes break free for something special. The 0:00:22.880 --> 0:00:29.280 Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now in the 0:00:29.520 --> 0:00:36.400 air everywhere back at the Audio Dojo for a spicy, 0:00:36.560 --> 0:00:41.040 hot Carolina Reaper edition of The Fifth Hour with Ben 0:00:41.120 --> 0:00:45.640 Maller and Danny ge Radio. We are in the air everywhere. Indeed, 0:00:45.960 --> 0:00:51.200 the magic of podcasting in unlike radio, which booms out 0:00:51.240 --> 0:00:55.960 to the heavens. The podcast is available anywhere, anytime you want. 0:00:55.960 --> 0:00:59.400 Everywhere you get your podcast, you can hear this and 0:00:59.440 --> 0:01:03.920 we are on demand everywhere on the iHeartRadio app wherever 0:01:03.960 --> 0:01:09.800 you get your podcast, and Danny A Saturday Extravaganza is 0:01:09.920 --> 0:01:13.400 on tap. We are ready to kick it off right now. Yeah, 0:01:13.480 --> 0:01:16.560 let's do this. And Ben, I just want to address 0:01:16.640 --> 0:01:19.759 the rumors that I earned over two hundred and fifty 0:01:19.800 --> 0:01:24.840 dollars yesterday from selling some of my Gmail votes, and 0:01:24.959 --> 0:01:27.600 that is incorrect. It was only two hundred and forty 0:01:27.680 --> 0:01:31.119 nine dollars. Yeah, well, Alf, the alien of Pinter short 0:01:31.200 --> 0:01:34.040 changed you a dollar. And it's a bad job by Alf. 0:01:34.240 --> 0:01:38.200 Shame on you, Shame on you. Alf. Come on, do 0:01:38.319 --> 0:01:41.199 better next time. Alf. So on this podcast, we've got 0:01:41.240 --> 0:01:47.520 double Mint, that's normal, hanging with Monet what you're doing, 0:01:48.120 --> 0:01:51.680 and Pop goes to culture. That's a lot of content 0:01:52.480 --> 0:01:56.760 for a lazy Saturday podcast. I would say that's way 0:01:56.800 --> 0:02:02.520 too much content. Discretion is advised. I mean, it's unbelievable 0:02:02.520 --> 0:02:05.280 how we squeeze all that in day. We might have 0:02:05.320 --> 0:02:09.680 to time shift half of this to Sunday for ratings purposes. Only. 0:02:10.200 --> 0:02:14.080 For ratings purposes only, we'll be spinning our wheels, is 0:02:14.080 --> 0:02:16.920 what we'll be doing. Speaking of that, we will now 0:02:17.320 --> 0:02:22.240 move forward in the broadcast. And we had a very 0:02:22.520 --> 0:02:27.239 very very very busy start to last week on the 0:02:27.600 --> 0:02:30.960 terrestrial radio show. If you were listening, you heard the 0:02:31.040 --> 0:02:35.160 magic in the old Fox Sports Radio studio. We have 0:02:35.160 --> 0:02:38.320 not moved to the new studio. I'm a skeptic on that. 0:02:39.240 --> 0:02:42.560 And the main old studio always hectic, you know, and 0:02:42.720 --> 0:02:44.960 you know when you start back at work after a 0:02:44.960 --> 0:02:47.360 couple of days off during the overnight show, we have 0:02:47.400 --> 0:02:50.120 a day and a half off. We work on Friday 0:02:50.639 --> 0:02:53.560 and then we're off the rest of Friday, but we 0:02:53.600 --> 0:02:56.520 sleep most of Friday. We're off on Saturday, but then 0:02:56.560 --> 0:02:58.440 Sunday's workday, so it's really like a day and a 0:02:58.480 --> 0:03:01.040 half off. It's not two full days. It's a day 0:03:01.040 --> 0:03:03.160 and half. So it's it's a blessing and a curse 0:03:03.200 --> 0:03:05.320 because you're off Friday night and Saturday night, but you 0:03:05.360 --> 0:03:08.519 gotta work Sunday, and so it's hold it. So coming 0:03:08.560 --> 0:03:10.680 back from the weekend, it's kind of hectic and all 0:03:10.720 --> 0:03:14.400 that getting back up to speed. And this night was 0:03:14.520 --> 0:03:18.120 different than all other nights because we had a Greyhound 0:03:18.240 --> 0:03:24.040 bus terminal. It was a beehive on the show. It 0:03:24.200 --> 0:03:26.600 reminded me of that old commercial from the back of 0:03:26.639 --> 0:03:31.520 the Day, double mint Gum, double your Pleasure, double your Fun. First, 0:03:32.120 --> 0:03:37.680 we had planned a excursion with Mason, the Millennial, the 0:03:37.760 --> 0:03:41.760 legendary Mason. You met Mason at the mallord b good 0:03:41.800 --> 0:03:45.400 young guy works for Tesla and he wanted to stop by. 0:03:45.440 --> 0:03:47.200 He had emailed me, he had reached out, and you know, 0:03:47.240 --> 0:03:50.119 I'm doing the show. It's hybrid. Some of the time, 0:03:50.120 --> 0:03:52.520 I'm in the main studio. A lot of the times 0:03:52.560 --> 0:03:55.839 I'm in the in the mobile Mallar studio, the home 0:03:55.880 --> 0:03:58.520 studio and so. But if if you're going to be 0:03:58.520 --> 0:04:00.320 in town and you want to hang out out, I 0:04:00.320 --> 0:04:03.200 can certainly adjust my schedule. And so Mason was like, Hey, 0:04:03.200 --> 0:04:05.480 I'm gonna be there, like to stop buying, and I 0:04:05.520 --> 0:04:09.560 was like, okay, cool, and so he reached out. He 0:04:09.640 --> 0:04:12.200 was going to a concert in the hood in Inglewood 0:04:13.240 --> 0:04:15.119 and he lives in the Bay Area. A good guy, 0:04:15.160 --> 0:04:19.280 big fantasy show. So I'm going to the studio to 0:04:19.600 --> 0:04:21.760 hay because Mason's gonna show up near the end of 0:04:21.760 --> 0:04:24.680 the show. And I was excited to see him and 0:04:24.760 --> 0:04:27.200 meet him again and all this stuff. But I got 0:04:27.320 --> 0:04:31.240 a I got a message right before the show started saying, Hey, 0:04:31.279 --> 0:04:33.960 are you in studio? And I was like, yah, yeah, 0:04:33.960 --> 0:04:36.719 I'm in studio. And it was from Jay Scoop, the 0:04:36.839 --> 0:04:41.360 legendary Jay Scoop. Oh was he visiting from Tea Town? Yeah, 0:04:41.400 --> 0:04:45.320 he was in town and the gladiator known as Jay Scoop, 0:04:45.360 --> 0:04:50.440 and he said he was passing through La. He was 0:04:50.480 --> 0:04:54.200 in town to record some stuff. As he continues the 0:04:54.279 --> 0:04:56.680 musical career, and he wanted to stop buying say hello, 0:04:56.800 --> 0:04:59.320 and I was like, of course, the man almost died 0:05:00.200 --> 0:05:03.960 in December. Of course I'm gonna let Jay Scoop come 0:05:04.000 --> 0:05:06.760 hang out. So it was really cool to hang out 0:05:06.800 --> 0:05:10.480 with him. And Jay Scoop's been such a great part 0:05:10.480 --> 0:05:13.440 of the show and helped us out. He put together 0:05:13.520 --> 0:05:18.200 that Seattle meet and greet back in twenty nineteen, right 0:05:18.200 --> 0:05:23.680 before COVID a debonair a debonair member of the Malabusha, 0:05:24.160 --> 0:05:26.120 Jay Scoop, So I hung out with him for the 0:05:26.200 --> 0:05:30.200 first about the first maybe of the second hour, and 0:05:30.240 --> 0:05:33.360 then he got out of there. And then the very approachable, 0:05:33.440 --> 0:05:37.679 very friendly Mason the Millennial Show. So that was cool. 0:05:38.400 --> 0:05:41.720 And Mason's a bit of a social butterfly like I'm not, 0:05:41.960 --> 0:05:45.120 but you know, Mason's a people person. Now, did Mason 0:05:45.279 --> 0:05:49.279 find our friend Helmet Man outside of the concert in Inglewood? 0:05:50.160 --> 0:05:53.760 He did not report back to me that he did 0:05:53.839 --> 0:05:57.840 see Helmet Man. But I promise you Helmet Man is 0:05:58.000 --> 0:06:02.200 at every event at the Daanium in Inglewood, is outside 0:06:03.240 --> 0:06:07.440 well dressed, well groomed, as always right as the greatest 0:06:07.920 --> 0:06:11.719 set up in the world. There, I fell asleep and 0:06:12.279 --> 0:06:16.360 speaking a debonair. You can't get more charismatic than than 0:06:16.400 --> 0:06:20.040 that guy, right, I mean my and he's completely oblivious 0:06:20.080 --> 0:06:24.120 to the fact that he called the show pretty much 0:06:24.160 --> 0:06:28.720 every week for like five six years. I'm actually on 0:06:28.760 --> 0:06:32.920 the live air. And then he moved and completely forgot 0:06:32.960 --> 0:06:36.159 about the show, just completely moved on to something else. 0:06:36.320 --> 0:06:41.000 So I guess you could say that's normal for him, right, Danny, 0:06:41.040 --> 0:06:43.920 you could say that's normal for helmet man, but not 0:06:43.960 --> 0:06:46.640 for most other people. Yeah, he is a special member 0:06:46.680 --> 0:06:52.560 of the militia. Yeah, he's got a simpatico delivery he does. 0:06:52.920 --> 0:06:56.159 That's a good word, sympotico. I like that word. Somebody 0:06:56.160 --> 0:06:59.800 owes you five dollars. I don't use that word very much. Sympotico. 0:07:00.080 --> 0:07:02.640 It's good. It's a pleasant guy, is a pleasant guy. 0:07:02.760 --> 0:07:05.120 We like people like that. We don't. We'd rather hang 0:07:05.120 --> 0:07:07.440 out with people that are that are friendly and who 0:07:07.480 --> 0:07:12.200 wouldn't some douchebag who wants that. Did any of your 0:07:12.240 --> 0:07:16.040 guests bring you some fat sALS? No? And that did 0:07:16.120 --> 0:07:19.680 piss me off. As you know, Danny, we had the rule, 0:07:20.280 --> 0:07:22.880 if you're gonna visit, the price of admission you got 0:07:22.880 --> 0:07:25.800 to buy us off with food. Yes, that's been a 0:07:25.840 --> 0:07:30.320 long time entry fee. Yeah. The problem is this a 0:07:32.080 --> 0:07:35.120 we're all on these fughasy diets, right so we do 0:07:35.200 --> 0:07:37.960 this in a minute fast Even Eddie's on this nonsense. 0:07:38.360 --> 0:07:44.360 And I love fat sALS. It's very tough to recreate 0:07:44.400 --> 0:07:47.200 it if you if you don't eat it right away, 0:07:47.280 --> 0:07:49.040 like any food, if you don't eat it right away 0:07:49.080 --> 0:07:52.960 fat Seals, that fat Texas barbecue and you try to 0:07:53.040 --> 0:07:57.200 reheat it, it is not an enjoyable meal, you know 0:07:57.200 --> 0:07:59.360 what I'm saying. It's I mean, you can put it 0:07:59.400 --> 0:08:01.880 in the oven and it'll be okay, but it's not. 0:08:02.400 --> 0:08:06.640 It doesn't have the same razmatazz as if you have 0:08:06.760 --> 0:08:10.280 it right away. Not to belabor the point, but I 0:08:10.320 --> 0:08:12.200 think I've made it. It's kind of like eating any 0:08:12.240 --> 0:08:14.840 any fast food. I've got to eat it within You 0:08:14.920 --> 0:08:17.360 got about a twenty five thirty minute window to eat 0:08:17.400 --> 0:08:19.320 fast food. If you don't eat it right away, you're done. 0:08:19.400 --> 0:08:24.920 It sucks, it blows, it's terrible garbage, garbage. Well, then 0:08:25.000 --> 0:08:28.119 just smaller orders, like you guys could split a Fat 0:08:28.160 --> 0:08:31.000 Seals sandwich. Oh but if I'm doing inter minute fasting, 0:08:31.440 --> 0:08:34.160 I can't even eat anything. I can just drink water. 0:08:34.320 --> 0:08:37.120 That's the problem. Don't shake your head at me. Not 0:08:37.280 --> 0:08:41.720 dare you? How dare you shake at my Michigassi? Here 0:08:41.760 --> 0:08:45.600 was great, great fat seals history on the show, and 0:08:45.720 --> 0:08:48.760 you guys are just shameful right now. Well you were 0:08:48.800 --> 0:08:51.560 there for the cakes also though. That was unreal. God 0:08:51.960 --> 0:08:56.439 that now that was overboard. We were getting designer cakes 0:08:57.200 --> 0:09:00.880 for like every other week. At one point, even job 0:09:00.920 --> 0:09:04.360 of the Hut would have been like, Okay, that's too much, dude. 0:09:04.360 --> 0:09:08.280 It was insane. It was absolutely nuts. And these were 0:09:08.320 --> 0:09:14.000 like designer luxury cakes like these were like thousand dollars 0:09:14.080 --> 0:09:17.079 cakes that we were getting every week. We remember the 0:09:17.200 --> 0:09:20.839 chuck the Condor one. We had a camel. I remember 0:09:20.880 --> 0:09:24.480 we talked about Adrian Peterson had a camel at his 0:09:24.600 --> 0:09:27.360 birthday party, and so I was like, I want a 0:09:27.440 --> 0:09:32.920 camel and we had a camel cake. I still have 0:09:33.000 --> 0:09:40.320 your camel drop, I want a camel. That was crazy, man. 0:09:40.440 --> 0:09:45.880 That also cake pops pizza almost every week, lots of 0:09:45.920 --> 0:09:50.360 pizza bets and lots of listeners would send pizza in 0:09:50.800 --> 0:09:55.160 for whatever celebration happened to be going on that week 0:09:55.520 --> 0:09:58.199 for the show. I don't think I've ever eaten that 0:09:58.320 --> 0:10:01.960 much Domino's pizza in my life. Yeah, we knew every 0:10:02.200 --> 0:10:06.400 nuance from the Domino's pizza menu, and the Domino's delivery 0:10:06.400 --> 0:10:09.440 guy was on a first name basis. We'd let the 0:10:09.440 --> 0:10:11.200 guy come in, he'd hang out with us, you know, 0:10:11.240 --> 0:10:13.640 he'd have the pizzas. We'd let him kind of chill 0:10:13.679 --> 0:10:15.200 out in the studio, and it was like we were 0:10:15.360 --> 0:10:22.400 like buddies, we're hanging out. Why not? What the hell er? Exactly? 0:10:24.800 --> 0:10:27.320 So turning the page on that Dan He turning the 0:10:27.360 --> 0:10:30.800 page and that was normal back then. But is that 0:10:30.920 --> 0:10:34.520 normal now? Right? You know? And it's funny because this 0:10:34.640 --> 0:10:38.160 kind of ties into your buddy Jay Scoop, who you 0:10:38.200 --> 0:10:42.360 were just talking about. He moved to northern California, right, Yes, yes, 0:10:42.400 --> 0:10:46.440 he's back in Colin Kaepernick's old stomping ground. That's right. 0:10:46.480 --> 0:10:50.600 And that's also where my mom stays, and I drove 0:10:50.720 --> 0:10:54.319 up this past weekend to visit her. Now, I also 0:10:54.360 --> 0:10:57.040 wanted to be halfway between my family who live in 0:10:57.080 --> 0:11:00.840 the Bay Area, so I found the night Aist hotel 0:11:01.520 --> 0:11:06.959 in Stockton, California. And Stockton is known as a nice 0:11:07.080 --> 0:11:11.000 vacation city. It's underrated. You look at all the travel websites. 0:11:11.400 --> 0:11:13.719 That's some of the finest hotels in the world. They 0:11:13.720 --> 0:11:17.840 do the surveys every year. Yeah yeah, And of course 0:11:18.000 --> 0:11:22.480 this didn't happen until the famous mayor Michael Tubbs took 0:11:22.480 --> 0:11:25.400 over and cleaned up the city. I'm talking about the 0:11:25.520 --> 0:11:30.040 seventy ninth mayor of Stockton, California, who was featured on 0:11:30.320 --> 0:11:35.480 HBO and other big channels across the country. Because of 0:11:35.559 --> 0:11:40.440 mister Tubbs, there are now the four Seasons there, there 0:11:40.640 --> 0:11:43.960 is a Grand High, there's a ritz I believe. Yeah, 0:11:44.080 --> 0:11:49.040 I didn't know which fancy hotel to choose from in Stockton. Yeah, 0:11:49.080 --> 0:11:52.040 but I've been to a minor league hockey game in 0:11:52.120 --> 0:11:56.760 Stockton at their sports arena, really pretty arena right on 0:11:56.800 --> 0:12:01.760 the harbor. There's a hotel adjacent. Teams stay at the hotel. 0:12:02.360 --> 0:12:07.760 It's about it's about twenty stories high, really nice looking hotel. Yeah. 0:12:08.120 --> 0:12:11.400 So I found a good rate. Even though my Tenderni 0:12:11.559 --> 0:12:14.520 is really picky when it comes to hotels, I thought 0:12:14.559 --> 0:12:19.360 to myself, well, she's gonna really love this place. Get 0:12:19.400 --> 0:12:23.640 to Stockton, And as soon as we drive into the city, 0:12:24.400 --> 0:12:26.960 the first thing you see at the first stoplight that 0:12:27.040 --> 0:12:31.400 we're at is a building that's boarded up, always a 0:12:31.440 --> 0:12:34.079 good indicator that you're in a good part of town. Yeah, 0:12:34.120 --> 0:12:37.400 and it looked like this used to be an amazing restaurant, 0:12:37.559 --> 0:12:41.000 but now it had wood covering all of its windows. 0:12:41.000 --> 0:12:44.680 She looked at me and she said, this place looks abandoned. 0:12:47.840 --> 0:12:52.000 That is kind of hate. Well, it's just the ambiance 0:12:52.000 --> 0:12:54.079 of the town. It's it's it's you know, it's an 0:12:54.080 --> 0:12:57.760 old rustic It's a rustic look, is what it is now. 0:12:57.840 --> 0:13:00.920 Mind you. Stockton as a special place in my heart. 0:13:00.960 --> 0:13:04.680 This was the first radio market where I had my 0:13:04.760 --> 0:13:08.480 first professional radio gig. First time I ever got a 0:13:08.520 --> 0:13:14.280 paycheck for blabbing and talking on the microphone was in Stockton, California. 0:13:14.520 --> 0:13:17.040 Did a live broadcast there one time in front of 0:13:17.080 --> 0:13:23.000 the black Angus and it's the Chevy Impaula came scooting by, 0:13:23.040 --> 0:13:27.640 and the guys inside the impaula showed me a gun. Well, 0:13:29.320 --> 0:13:32.880 much like John Morant down the line, you know, you 0:13:32.960 --> 0:13:34.960 just want to sometimes you want to share. It's like 0:13:35.280 --> 0:13:37.880 it's like an elementary school, right, you bring things in 0:13:37.880 --> 0:13:40.679 to share with the class. Yeah, I felt like because 0:13:40.679 --> 0:13:43.360 I was holding a microphone and the dude in the car. 0:13:43.480 --> 0:13:45.760 He was showing me what he was holding. Yeah, so 0:13:46.160 --> 0:13:48.359 I felt like it was like a sign of respect, 0:13:48.440 --> 0:13:51.040 Like he was like, yeah, you're holding the steel, I'm 0:13:51.040 --> 0:13:54.480 holding the steel. Yeah. Come on, we're all friends here. 0:13:55.000 --> 0:13:57.319 Look at this. It's like the Old West. It's like 0:13:57.400 --> 0:14:01.200 a saloon in the Old West. So I have this 0:14:01.280 --> 0:14:04.640 connection with Stockton since I was a kid. You know, 0:14:04.720 --> 0:14:07.000 I spent half my life in La the other half 0:14:07.040 --> 0:14:10.959 up in the Bay in the Stockton area, and so 0:14:11.040 --> 0:14:14.199 I you know, this was the first time, by the way, 0:14:14.240 --> 0:14:17.680 that I got to take my TINDERRONI to that area. 0:14:17.800 --> 0:14:21.040 She's gonna meet my mom the next day. We're gonna 0:14:21.040 --> 0:14:24.080 have breakfast. So I'm thinking, well, what are we going 0:14:24.120 --> 0:14:27.160 to do tonight in the Stockton area. But first I 0:14:27.200 --> 0:14:30.360 gotta get checked into the hotel. So now we see 0:14:30.400 --> 0:14:34.640 this boarded up restaurant. She tells me this looks abandoned. 0:14:35.000 --> 0:14:38.000 I told her, no, no, no, that's normal. We go 0:14:38.120 --> 0:14:41.160 down the main drag and right in front of city Hall, 0:14:41.560 --> 0:14:43.120 I need to take a left to get to the 0:14:43.120 --> 0:14:47.400 waterfront for the hotel. As we are passing City Hall, 0:14:47.960 --> 0:14:51.760 there is a dude ben in broad daylight who is 0:14:51.880 --> 0:14:55.920 watering the city's lawn. I know they've got a lot 0:14:55.960 --> 0:14:58.760 of rain, but the drought you've got you gotta help 0:14:58.800 --> 0:15:05.200 out man, organic water, come on God's water. Now. Thank god. 0:15:05.200 --> 0:15:07.120 He had his back turned to us, but we could 0:15:07.120 --> 0:15:11.960 see the spray, yeah, onto the grass, and my girl said, 0:15:12.840 --> 0:15:14.480 oh my god, it is that guy doing what I 0:15:14.520 --> 0:15:17.320 think he's doing. And I was like, just look straight ahead, 0:15:17.320 --> 0:15:21.760 we're going to the waterfront. So now, in fairness, have 0:15:21.920 --> 0:15:24.280 you let your wife know that at the Fox Sports 0:15:24.360 --> 0:15:28.440 Radio studios on multiple occasions, there have been homeless people 0:15:28.920 --> 0:15:32.480 that have gotten up on the what do you call that, 0:15:32.560 --> 0:15:35.720 the planter in front of Fox Sports Radio, Yeah, and 0:15:36.040 --> 0:15:39.600 not realizing that the glass there's actually people behind it. 0:15:39.760 --> 0:15:43.240 The windows they have taken care of their bids right 0:15:43.280 --> 0:15:48.160 on the right there. Yeah, exactly what it looked like, 0:15:48.480 --> 0:15:51.800 but from a different vantage point in a car. Yeah. 0:15:51.800 --> 0:15:54.520 Now we get to the waterfront and I'm like, this 0:15:54.600 --> 0:15:57.480 is nice. I see the nice arena, I see the 0:15:57.600 --> 0:16:01.760 nice hotel. But there are two guys they must have 0:16:01.800 --> 0:16:04.760 been the guards working for the hotel, both of them 0:16:04.800 --> 0:16:09.800 standing outside of the hotel holding forties in brown paper bags. 0:16:13.720 --> 0:16:16.440 Oh okay yeah, and I'm like, wow, they left their 0:16:16.480 --> 0:16:21.400 security guards drink on the job. It's pretty cool. Listen, 0:16:21.400 --> 0:16:25.160 it's it's part of the uniform, right, yeah. Yeah. Were 0:16:25.160 --> 0:16:28.880 they smoking anything? Also, they have any Yeah. At this point, 0:16:28.920 --> 0:16:30.760 we just wanted to get in and get our bags 0:16:30.800 --> 0:16:33.640 to the room. So we go inside. My girl has 0:16:33.640 --> 0:16:36.640 to use the bathroom, and we both look at something 0:16:36.680 --> 0:16:40.240 that I don't normally see at any hotel. You know 0:16:40.280 --> 0:16:44.400 how there's usually a concierge desk. Yeah, yeah, sure. At 0:16:44.400 --> 0:16:50.800 this hotel, they turned the concierge area into a security station. Oh. 0:16:50.840 --> 0:16:54.280 Of course, this reminds me of the hotel I stay 0:16:54.760 --> 0:16:57.720 I was checked in at in Phoenix and we left. 0:16:58.240 --> 0:17:01.720 That's what this reminds me of. In really big letters 0:17:01.760 --> 0:17:06.280 across the desk and said security, and I was just 0:17:06.400 --> 0:17:08.919 shaking my head, like, oh man, well, at least they 0:17:08.960 --> 0:17:13.040 have security. Um, did you see anyone walking out with 0:17:13.119 --> 0:17:16.760 a wife beater on and any of that? No? No, 0:17:17.440 --> 0:17:19.680 But as I was bringing our bags up to the 0:17:19.760 --> 0:17:22.719 room on the second floor, there was a dude in 0:17:22.760 --> 0:17:28.000 the elevator smoking a blunt smoke. Okay, there you go, 0:17:28.200 --> 0:17:31.800 come on, like, okay, a lot of places in California 0:17:32.200 --> 0:17:36.440 don't allow you to smoke. So it's a smoke friendly hotel. Okay, perfect. 0:17:37.800 --> 0:17:40.800 Now I'm really hungry, and I tell my girl. I'm like, 0:17:41.480 --> 0:17:44.480 I'm gonna go find us a snack. You stay here 0:17:44.480 --> 0:17:47.639 at the hotel, take a shower, relax. I'm gonna go 0:17:47.680 --> 0:17:51.399 get us something to eat. Yeah. I am driving down 0:17:51.560 --> 0:17:55.040 March Lane and right next to me, Ben, there was 0:17:55.040 --> 0:17:58.840 a drag race going on. These two dudes aren't going 0:17:58.960 --> 0:18:01.960 for it. Drag race seen each other. It was fast 0:18:02.000 --> 0:18:05.919 and the Furious twelve. It was awesome, all right. So 0:18:05.960 --> 0:18:07.840 I got a free show on my way to the 0:18:07.880 --> 0:18:11.800 Togo sandwich shop and this jive turkey comes up to 0:18:11.840 --> 0:18:14.919 me and he says, man, I like your Dodger's hat, 0:18:15.000 --> 0:18:17.240 but you're in the Bay Area. You need to pay 0:18:17.480 --> 0:18:22.200 a giant's fee. Get away from me. San Francisco's that way. 0:18:22.240 --> 0:18:23.720 You need to go get a fee out of your 0:18:23.760 --> 0:18:27.639 giant's owner. You guys suck. Yeah, And then he pushed 0:18:27.680 --> 0:18:29.600 you right between the eyes right there. You know, he 0:18:29.640 --> 0:18:32.119 didn't know I don't look like the friendliest dude, so 0:18:32.240 --> 0:18:37.320 he left me alone. I mean, Biga, let alone. I 0:18:37.359 --> 0:18:40.119 got you, all right, So I get back to the 0:18:40.520 --> 0:18:43.920 fancy hotel. I told my girl I said, okay, you 0:18:44.040 --> 0:18:47.959 got three options. A minor league basketball game happening at 0:18:48.000 --> 0:18:51.359 the Arena tonight, there's a Sacramento Kings game a half 0:18:51.359 --> 0:18:55.600 hour up the road, or we can go towards my 0:18:55.680 --> 0:18:59.600 mom's town and see a movie. She said, well, well, 0:18:59.640 --> 0:19:05.199 which direction is the least violent? You say, none of 0:19:05.200 --> 0:19:14.560 the above. So we went to the cowtown and I 0:19:14.600 --> 0:19:18.200 took her to see Cocaine Bear Bunch of Hookers on Cocaine. 0:19:18.800 --> 0:19:20.879 It was actually better than we expected. It was a 0:19:20.880 --> 0:19:24.280 pretty good movie. It's a nice little town called Mantica. 0:19:25.080 --> 0:19:28.320 All was well, all was right in the world. Everything 0:19:28.400 --> 0:19:31.119 turned out okay. But when we got out of there, 0:19:31.160 --> 0:19:33.000 I told my girl, I was like, well, look at 0:19:33.359 --> 0:19:35.920 I didn't realize there was that shaine of hotel here. 0:19:36.200 --> 0:19:39.080 The next time we come back, we'll stay there. And 0:19:39.160 --> 0:19:41.720 she said, no, no, no, no, next time, have your 0:19:41.760 --> 0:19:44.560 mom come down here and I'll pay for Disneyland for her. 0:19:47.600 --> 0:19:51.199 Oh that's great. Oh man, do they still have they 0:19:51.240 --> 0:19:52.800 used to have a mir League team? He called the 0:19:52.880 --> 0:19:56.760 ports that still yeah, they still there. There's the Stockton 0:19:56.920 --> 0:20:00.159 Ports and the Modesto Nuts. I remember the stock In 0:20:00.280 --> 0:20:04.400 Ports back back in the day. So was it awkward. 0:20:04.440 --> 0:20:10.320 Your mom had not met you're married, You've got a 0:20:10.320 --> 0:20:12.919 a spawn on the way, and your mom had not 0:20:13.119 --> 0:20:16.480 approved of this. Is this was this awkward for you? No, 0:20:16.560 --> 0:20:19.280 it was not awkward. My mom is a fan of 0:20:19.520 --> 0:20:22.480 my life right now. She just had never met her 0:20:22.480 --> 0:20:25.199 in person yet, and we wanted her to go to 0:20:25.200 --> 0:20:27.960 the wedding really bad, but she could not take the 0:20:28.040 --> 0:20:31.439 long flight to Hawaii, so that's why we had to 0:20:31.520 --> 0:20:35.200 drive to her. And before my girl gets too big 0:20:35.320 --> 0:20:38.320 with the pregnancy, I was like, we better make our 0:20:38.359 --> 0:20:41.280 way up north. That's a smart move. Sure, yeah, yeah, 0:20:41.440 --> 0:20:43.120 now where you know? You weren't nervous at all, because 0:20:43.240 --> 0:20:48.640 when I introduced my now wife to my mom, I 0:20:48.720 --> 0:20:51.040 was like, I like threw up. I was so nervous, 0:20:51.040 --> 0:20:53.920 Like I needed my mom's I needed my mom's approval. 0:20:54.040 --> 0:20:55.960 But you're at the point where you've already gone down 0:20:56.000 --> 0:20:57.760 the road, so it's like, you know, you're it's a 0:20:57.760 --> 0:20:59.879 little different. I was just dating at the time, so 0:21:00.160 --> 0:21:02.240 for me, it was like a deal, and I think 0:21:02.240 --> 0:21:04.159 it would have been more nerve wracking if it was 0:21:04.200 --> 0:21:08.159 just somebody I was dating. My mom is very religious, 0:21:08.280 --> 0:21:12.080 always has been. To her. If you're just dating someone 0:21:12.200 --> 0:21:15.080 or living with them. You're living in sin So I'm 0:21:15.119 --> 0:21:17.120 on the up and up right now because I actually 0:21:17.119 --> 0:21:20.960 got hitched. You're you're you're legal. Everything's good. You know, 0:21:21.119 --> 0:21:31.080 your Bible approved Jesus hanging with money. So you were driving, 0:21:31.160 --> 0:21:36.240 you drove to to your old stopping grounds to see family. Well, 0:21:36.480 --> 0:21:38.960 my wife she wanted to get out of town. We 0:21:39.240 --> 0:21:41.320 get this new malamobile and she wanted to go on 0:21:41.359 --> 0:21:44.640 a road trip. Oh, tell her about Stockton. Yeah, I'll 0:21:44.720 --> 0:21:47.800 recommend that. You know, my wife loves thaying at hotels 0:21:47.840 --> 0:21:51.840 like that, as your wife does. She's like, we need 0:21:51.880 --> 0:21:55.320 to go somewhere. We need to go to Vegas, bas Vegas, 0:21:55.400 --> 0:21:59.800 Baby Vegas. And then I was like okay, And then 0:21:59.840 --> 0:22:01.520 she wanted me to see if I, you know, I 0:22:01.640 --> 0:22:04.040 know some people in Vegas. I might be able to 0:22:04.080 --> 0:22:05.960 get a deal on a hotel. So I reached out 0:22:06.359 --> 0:22:08.199 to one of the guys that I dealt with in 0:22:08.240 --> 0:22:10.320 the past to you know, could hook you up. And 0:22:11.280 --> 0:22:13.399 I send a nice email, said, hey, I'm gonna be 0:22:13.400 --> 0:22:15.720 in town, you know whatever. Didn't even bother right back. 0:22:15.720 --> 0:22:17.679 The guy didn't right back. I haven't talked to him 0:22:17.720 --> 0:22:20.360 since COVID, so maybe he's upset with me. So that 0:22:20.480 --> 0:22:22.480 was that was that total. The guy didn't get back 0:22:22.520 --> 0:22:24.560 to me. So then I say, well, we didn't want 0:22:24.560 --> 0:22:28.160 to go to Vegas because it's expensive and whatever, so 0:22:28.200 --> 0:22:31.080 we made a run for the border. We decided to 0:22:31.080 --> 0:22:35.720 stop in San Diego for the little one day sojourn 0:22:36.280 --> 0:22:39.080 to my old stomping grounds with San Diego. And every 0:22:39.080 --> 0:22:41.680 time we go to San Diego, I always point out 0:22:41.880 --> 0:22:44.720 that's the building I started in radio right over there. 0:22:44.920 --> 0:22:47.600 Well that's all right. Next year, off at sea World Drive, 0:22:47.720 --> 0:22:50.680 five South SeaWorld Drive. You make a right and a 0:22:50.840 --> 0:22:53.919 left and it's this building that's right across from the 0:22:54.520 --> 0:22:58.200 California Highway Patrol station, which we were always pissed about 0:22:58.280 --> 0:23:00.680 because we worked there. We couldn't beat out of the 0:23:00.760 --> 0:23:06.280 lot because literally right across the street were HP. So 0:23:06.560 --> 0:23:09.199 it was. But anyway, we went to San Diego and 0:23:09.800 --> 0:23:13.960 we stopped at Old Town. You've been there, right, you 0:23:14.000 --> 0:23:17.440 go in San Diego. That's a tourist trap. Oh yeah, yeah, 0:23:17.480 --> 0:23:21.520 that's great, And so parking was a boondoggle. Had a 0:23:21.640 --> 0:23:24.960 nice authentic Mexican you know me at that restaurant there, 0:23:25.000 --> 0:23:27.639 and then headed to bout Ball Park. I had not 0:23:27.720 --> 0:23:31.800 been to ballpark, and I was a kid. I didn't 0:23:31.800 --> 0:23:33.240 go there when I worked there. I just go to 0:23:33.240 --> 0:23:35.240 pottery games or Charger games. I didn't go to bout 0:23:35.280 --> 0:23:37.159 balla park. But that's where all the museums are in 0:23:37.240 --> 0:23:41.520 San Diego. And it was a freak show. I mean 0:23:41.720 --> 0:23:46.120 they had every base cupboard, the Gods squad was out, 0:23:46.200 --> 0:23:48.399 and then some you had one booth over here. There 0:23:48.440 --> 0:23:50.959 was a ten Aska Christian that was the first one, 0:23:50.960 --> 0:23:54.159 which is fine. Then it was Asking Atheist, then it 0:23:54.280 --> 0:23:56.600 was Aska Muslim and it was just like they all 0:23:56.640 --> 0:24:01.080 had their own They were all recruiting every even the 0:24:01.119 --> 0:24:03.920 non religions we recruiting. I did not see ask a Jew. 0:24:04.440 --> 0:24:06.760 I did not did not I could have helped. I 0:24:06.800 --> 0:24:08.960 could have put my own booth up. I'm a bad Jew, 0:24:09.000 --> 0:24:11.600 but I could have put that up. That was called Alexa. 0:24:11.880 --> 0:24:14.560 Yeah there you go, Oh dare you? But it's a 0:24:14.640 --> 0:24:18.159