WEBVTT - The Fifth Hour: Cool Hand Hurriquake 0:00:00.720 --> 0:00:01.480 Kubbooms. 0:00:02.279 --> 0:00:05.400 If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes 0:00:05.440 --> 0:00:09.160 a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants 0:00:09.200 --> 0:00:12.479 of the old Republic, a soul fashion of fairness. He 0:00:12.600 --> 0:00:15.520 treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the 0:00:15.640 --> 0:00:19.599 rich pill poppers in the penthouse. Wow, the Clearinghouse of 0:00:19.680 --> 0:00:23.479 Hot takes break free for something special. The Fifth Hour 0:00:23.600 --> 0:00:33.080 with Ben Maller starts right now in the air everywhere. 0:00:33.600 --> 0:00:37.200 Welcome in the Fifth Hour with Ben Mahler and Danny 0:00:37.280 --> 0:00:42.560 G Radio. Because four hours a night are not enough 0:00:42.640 --> 0:00:47.080 for me, and the daytime shift with Covino and Rich 0:00:47.159 --> 0:00:50.200 for Danny G not enough. But eight days a week, 0:00:50.400 --> 0:00:55.080 eight days a week from the podcast Dojo at a 0:00:55.200 --> 0:01:00.640 super secret location and Danny G. There is a sense 0:01:00.760 --> 0:01:07.840 of relief in the podcast Dojo today after over a year. 0:01:08.120 --> 0:01:12.319 It's gotta be over a year. Brian Billick, Brian Billick. 0:01:12.640 --> 0:01:15.400 This was two years ago that this all started. 0:01:16.120 --> 0:01:21.440 Two years jeez, crazy, but it was. It was wonderful 0:01:21.440 --> 0:01:24.680 to have Brian finally on and he gave a lot 0:01:24.720 --> 0:01:29.680 of good football information as he was hanging out in 0:01:30.080 --> 0:01:35.160 Minista right near the Canadian border there, just south of 0:01:35.200 --> 0:01:40.280 the border the north country in Minnesota. So I went 0:01:40.440 --> 0:01:43.400 to Duluth. I told him when we talked yesterday, I 0:01:43.440 --> 0:01:46.720 went to Duluth, and I thought that was like the 0:01:46.840 --> 0:01:49.120 farthest you could go. But he's like another hour and 0:01:49.160 --> 0:01:53.080 a half north of that, so he's way way up 0:01:53.160 --> 0:01:56.280 there around Lake Superior. But it was great to have 0:01:56.360 --> 0:01:59.240 him on. And so who's our next target, Danny, do 0:01:59.320 --> 0:02:02.640 we have a new target that Billick's done the podcast 0:02:02.680 --> 0:02:04.640 and now we have to move on to someone else. 0:02:05.400 --> 0:02:10.200 Well, the list is obviously Billick and Michael Jordan. Those 0:02:10.360 --> 0:02:14.160 are the two most sought after guests on any sports show. 0:02:14.639 --> 0:02:20.600 Neck and neck with Jerry Delabatti, Baba Booie who we 0:02:20.639 --> 0:02:24.360 could get on, But yeah, I mean Michael Michael. I 0:02:24.360 --> 0:02:27.399 guess Michael was texting Stephen A And do you see 0:02:27.440 --> 0:02:30.240 that this week that he's texting him at five in 0:02:30.280 --> 0:02:32.520 the morning, you think, do you think that actually happened 0:02:32.600 --> 0:02:33.320 or six in the morning. 0:02:34.200 --> 0:02:37.080 I don't know any of us that are on a 0:02:37.160 --> 0:02:41.640 media platform could say anybody texted us like, oh shit, 0:02:41.880 --> 0:02:44.239 Alicia Keys just texted me right now. 0:02:44.200 --> 0:02:47.320 Yeah exactly, Well that's congratulations. 0:02:46.840 --> 0:02:49.640 Good morning. Why did you have a baby without me? You, Dick. 0:02:52.720 --> 0:02:56.720 My only theory on that Jordan thing was that it's conceivable. 0:02:56.800 --> 0:02:59.000 I've heard Jordan's been spending a lot of time in Europe. 0:02:59.639 --> 0:03:03.080 So he's in Europe. It's not as early, right, because 0:03:03.120 --> 0:03:07.320 it's a few hours ahead of where he might you know, 0:03:07.360 --> 0:03:09.280 the East coast, so where he might have been. So 0:03:09.800 --> 0:03:12.520 I mean, that's conceivable. But we're not here to yap 0:03:12.560 --> 0:03:13.920 about that. We got a lot to get to. We 0:03:13.960 --> 0:03:19.639 got the cool hand, Luke smoked meats, back to school, backscratcher, 0:03:20.600 --> 0:03:23.720 the word of the week, not the phrase of the week, 0:03:23.800 --> 0:03:26.440 the word of the week, and we have time Pop 0:03:26.480 --> 0:03:29.000 goes to the culture. But we start with this. So 0:03:29.280 --> 0:03:32.799 I want to get your perspective, Danny and you listening. 0:03:32.840 --> 0:03:35.640 I want to get some feedback on this, okay, because 0:03:35.800 --> 0:03:38.400 this is our Saturday podcast. It's all about the life 0:03:38.440 --> 0:03:42.240 of malor the life of Danny g So. I had 0:03:42.280 --> 0:03:45.560 a buddy of mine. I've known this guy since elementary 0:03:45.600 --> 0:03:51.120 school in town. He don't live here anymore, and he's 0:03:51.120 --> 0:03:55.280 been gone. He lives in Dallas. He visits usually once 0:03:55.280 --> 0:03:56.800 a year, sometimes twice a year. 0:03:56.880 --> 0:03:57.040 Now. 0:03:57.040 --> 0:03:59.600 We grew up together and we spend a lot of 0:03:59.640 --> 0:04:04.400 time on the playgrounds, and every year we will get 0:04:04.400 --> 0:04:10.720 together and enjoy a nice meal and tell old stories 0:04:10.760 --> 0:04:14.320 from back on the swing, you know, the swing, the 0:04:14.400 --> 0:04:17.440 swings and the you know, the playing kickball and all 0:04:17.480 --> 0:04:17.960 that crap. 0:04:19.240 --> 0:04:19.360 Uh. 0:04:19.520 --> 0:04:21.360 So that's it's kind of a normal thing. I think 0:04:21.400 --> 0:04:24.279 most people do that with old friends. And this guy's 0:04:24.320 --> 0:04:27.280 an Elvis impersonator. That's not my thing. But whatever floats 0:04:27.320 --> 0:04:32.719 is both that's fine. But this year was different than 0:04:32.920 --> 0:04:36.839 all other years. So he told me about a month 0:04:37.880 --> 0:04:39.880 before he was visiting. He said, you know, I'm gonna 0:04:39.880 --> 0:04:41.840 be out there, and I said, okay. So then I 0:04:41.920 --> 0:04:44.679 explained to him, you know, I've got some big things 0:04:44.720 --> 0:04:47.640 going on right now. There's some exciting stuff happening. I've 0:04:47.640 --> 0:04:53.560 got a very busy schedule and I'm only available socially 0:04:54.600 --> 0:04:58.600 on Friday and Saturday. Right but he was going to 0:04:58.640 --> 0:05:00.520 come from Saturday to Saturday. So I explain no one 0:05:00.640 --> 0:05:03.160 to listen, I can see you Saturday you fly in. 0:05:03.240 --> 0:05:07.880 I could see you the following Friday, or like Saturday. 0:05:07.640 --> 0:05:09.920 Before you leave. Bertie sounds like you were a big 0:05:09.960 --> 0:05:10.440 time in him. 0:05:11.080 --> 0:05:12.640 Well no, no, no, no, no, no, no not at all, 0:05:12.680 --> 0:05:15.400 because that's like that's the schedule. I gave him plenty 0:05:15.440 --> 0:05:18.040 of advanced notice. So I figured, if I give someone 0:05:18.240 --> 0:05:22.120 enough advance notice, okay, they'll work with me, right Uh. 0:05:22.600 --> 0:05:25.600 And so he comes out, he comes out to visit. Now, 0:05:25.600 --> 0:05:30.000 we had the Malor Meet and great last Saturday. So 0:05:30.400 --> 0:05:33.200 that was that took up a big chunk of my time, 0:05:33.200 --> 0:05:35.400 which was great. I had a fine time with Andy 0:05:35.480 --> 0:05:36.599 the comic guy. 0:05:36.640 --> 0:05:36.920 It was. 0:05:37.320 --> 0:05:39.159 It was a fun, fun afternoon. 0:05:39.240 --> 0:05:39.920 It was cool. 0:05:40.000 --> 0:05:42.960 It was different. He's got a really cool comic book 0:05:43.000 --> 0:05:47.240 shop and Brave New World Comics is really neat and 0:05:47.279 --> 0:05:48.400 so I had a great time there. 0:05:48.440 --> 0:05:48.640 It was. 0:05:48.680 --> 0:05:50.400 It was really nice. A lot of people showed up. 0:05:50.480 --> 0:05:52.080 We had a good time. We had a good crowd. 0:05:52.120 --> 0:05:54.320 It wasn't too big, but it wasn't too small. So 0:05:54.600 --> 0:05:56.480 it was a good mix of people that showed up. 0:05:56.800 --> 0:06:00.240 To be a great but I then text him one 0:06:00.279 --> 0:06:03.640 of his favorite restaurants at La is L Coyote on Beverly. 0:06:03.800 --> 0:06:04.240 You know that. 0:06:04.160 --> 0:06:08.040 Mexican restaurant on Beverly there, So yeah, I used to 0:06:08.040 --> 0:06:09.200 eat there quite a bit. I used to live right 0:06:09.200 --> 0:06:11.080 across the way there, so I used to get there 0:06:11.080 --> 0:06:14.559 a lot. And the prices have gone up up and away. 0:06:14.640 --> 0:06:16.800 But anyways, like I was, I happen to be there 0:06:17.480 --> 0:06:19.720 with the wife, and so I was like text them 0:06:19.720 --> 0:06:21.960 and say, maybe he'll come over here and meet us. 0:06:22.520 --> 0:06:25.480 I said, well, I have I have plans. I have 0:06:25.760 --> 0:06:29.320 I have some tickets to some show, so I can't 0:06:29.360 --> 0:06:31.520 meet you today. I said, okay, So I said, all right, 0:06:31.560 --> 0:06:33.440 well let's do something next week. So let's do something 0:06:33.440 --> 0:06:41.680 on Friday. And so we tender. We made plans. He 0:06:41.720 --> 0:06:44.480 said he could squeeze me in. He had plans on 0:06:44.600 --> 0:06:49.880 Friday yesterday night, but he had lunch was available on 0:06:50.000 --> 0:06:57.320 yesterday yesterday. And then just before the Thursday night radio show, 0:06:58.640 --> 0:07:02.600 I get a tech you know, he's staying in the 0:07:02.640 --> 0:07:08.040 hood near Lax and I got a text. I got 0:07:08.040 --> 0:07:12.000 to cancel, and I'm like, we made plans for lunch. 0:07:12.040 --> 0:07:14.960 I mean we were gonna meet halfway, which I think 0:07:15.040 --> 0:07:16.960 was a good compromise. I think that was very generous. 0:07:16.960 --> 0:07:18.840 I've spent a lot of time in traffic this week. 0:07:18.880 --> 0:07:21.560 More on that. Later says we're gonna meet halfway. So 0:07:21.560 --> 0:07:23.280 then my buddy, right, So I was like, oh, he 0:07:23.320 --> 0:07:26.960 texted me right before the show the night before on Thursday, 0:07:27.000 --> 0:07:29.360 He's like, hey, I can't do it, and he says 0:07:29.440 --> 0:07:35.840 his rationale is he says it's too stressful because of 0:07:35.960 --> 0:07:41.040 the traffic in LA and the return of his rental 0:07:41.120 --> 0:07:45.040 car would have caused too much anxiety because he had 0:07:45.040 --> 0:07:47.240 to return it like at three o'clock. And I told him, 0:07:47.280 --> 0:07:49.080 I said, just extended a few more hours, it's no 0:07:49.120 --> 0:07:52.320 big deal. But he said they were closed. So we 0:07:52.440 --> 0:07:55.920 have here, Danny, a cool hand, luke situation, a failure 0:07:56.040 --> 0:07:59.640 to communicate. So the question I ask you, I asked 0:07:59.640 --> 0:08:03.760 the esteemed panel of listeners, who's the bad guy in this? 0:08:03.840 --> 0:08:06.320 Am I the bad guy? Am I the dick because 0:08:06.600 --> 0:08:08.640 the dick and Dayton because I only was a milla 0:08:08.720 --> 0:08:13.200 on Friday and Saturday? Or was my friend the bad 0:08:13.240 --> 0:08:17.120 guy because he did not work with me even though 0:08:17.160 --> 0:08:20.080 I was willing to meet him halfway and he would 0:08:20.160 --> 0:08:22.800 not meet with me. He said he was, and then 0:08:22.800 --> 0:08:25.400 he he canceled. What's your perspective, Nanny? 0:08:26.160 --> 0:08:28.119 Well, even though I was giving you a hard time 0:08:28.240 --> 0:08:33.080 at first about big timing because you gave him forewarning, 0:08:33.880 --> 0:08:37.040 then I think you're in the right here. And you 0:08:37.160 --> 0:08:39.600 also were going to meet him halfway, which is what 0:08:40.400 --> 0:08:42.360 I feel like we should do. Even if it's your 0:08:42.360 --> 0:08:45.679 host city where a friend or family member is visiting, 0:08:46.520 --> 0:08:50.560 we're still willing to, like, you know, drive halfway in 0:08:50.679 --> 0:08:54.120 between wherever they're staying at in our general area to 0:08:54.160 --> 0:08:58.040 meet them. Look, I've always been the one and my 0:08:58.160 --> 0:09:01.400 girl always says this too about visiting her family. A 0:09:01.400 --> 0:09:04.920 lot of her family lives in northern California near the 0:09:05.040 --> 0:09:08.840 Davis area. You see Davis in the house. The thing 0:09:08.960 --> 0:09:10.920 is she has to drive up there to see them. 0:09:11.679 --> 0:09:14.040 And my family I have half down here and half 0:09:14.080 --> 0:09:17.520 in northern California as well, and through the years, Ben, 0:09:17.600 --> 0:09:19.440 it's always been the same for me too. I have 0:09:19.520 --> 0:09:22.480 to drive all the way up there to see everybody, 0:09:22.480 --> 0:09:25.800 and I'll drive from house to house to visit everybody. 0:09:26.559 --> 0:09:30.440 What's the problem of coming down to southern California. Supposedly 0:09:30.480 --> 0:09:34.360 they're always stressed out over the traffic. The drive is long, 0:09:35.200 --> 0:09:40.120 there's so many excuses. But magically they could come down 0:09:40.120 --> 0:09:41.440 here and visit Disneyland. 0:09:42.040 --> 0:09:44.360 Yeah, well there's no traffic at Disneyland. 0:09:44.559 --> 0:09:50.079 It's amazing. I'm not a mathematician, but something doesn't add up. 0:09:50.320 --> 0:09:54.000 Yeah, it is frustrating, and over the years, like a 0:09:54.040 --> 0:09:56.559 lot of the people, I grew up with people I've 0:09:56.559 --> 0:09:59.880 known have moved out of California. My brothers live in 0:10:00.240 --> 0:10:02.480 I won in Wisconsin, I won in New York, so 0:10:02.520 --> 0:10:06.040 there's not, you know, too much family in the area, 0:10:06.400 --> 0:10:08.000 and it, uh, you know, I do end up having 0:10:08.040 --> 0:10:10.520 to travel to see them. But this one was like 0:10:10.559 --> 0:10:12.240 a buddy of mine. I've known him like, you know, 0:10:12.280 --> 0:10:15.000 he's like a you know, a guy that I've been 0:10:15.520 --> 0:10:17.600 close with. He knows all my secrets and all that 0:10:17.640 --> 0:10:22.440 I know all his secrets. But unfortunately did not work 0:10:22.480 --> 0:10:25.959 out this time. So we'll see. Maybe next time it'll 0:10:25.960 --> 0:10:26.400 work out. 0:10:26.920 --> 0:10:29.120 Yeah, you guys were on the teener totter together. 0:10:29.360 --> 0:10:33.319 Yeah, man, we when you when you play handball and kickball, 0:10:33.640 --> 0:10:36.240 and I mean, that's the next level. There's a there's 0:10:36.280 --> 0:10:40.800 a bond of brotherhood that is born on the playgrounds 0:10:40.800 --> 0:10:44.480 of elementary school that cannot be broken. So I had 0:10:44.520 --> 0:10:46.280 that and then I also had I want to mention 0:10:46.320 --> 0:10:47.920 this real quick. This will not be long because I 0:10:47.960 --> 0:10:49.960 know we have to we have to get to the 0:10:50.080 --> 0:10:53.959 back to school. But I had a power lunch in 0:10:54.080 --> 0:10:58.400 La La Land this week and uh, you know, to 0:10:58.520 --> 0:11:02.600 the decent name the medium logo types and I don't 0:11:02.640 --> 0:11:04.280 do these things very often. I mentioned this on the 0:11:04.360 --> 0:11:05.679 radio show a little bit. I don't do these things 0:11:05.760 --> 0:11:11.840 very often, Danny, mainly because I cannot stand I'm a 0:11:11.840 --> 0:11:14.480 creature a habit, and I have my whole routine down 0:11:14.679 --> 0:11:16.959 and it just screws me up when I have to 0:11:17.080 --> 0:11:21.720 change my routine. And in order to pull off this 0:11:21.840 --> 0:11:25.800 power luncheon we just mentioned the La traffic, I spent 0:11:26.120 --> 0:11:32.319 three hours, three hours in my car, an hour there, 0:11:32.320 --> 0:11:34.880 two hours on the way back in rush hour traffic, 0:11:35.360 --> 0:11:39.000 going through some fine parts of skid row in Los 0:11:39.040 --> 0:11:44.280 Angeles and places that I think makes Sodom and Gomora 0:11:44.440 --> 0:11:49.600 look like an attractive destination instead. But anyway, so one 0:11:49.600 --> 0:11:53.400 of the people I went out with and had outside 0:11:53.440 --> 0:11:55.480 we went to Langers Delhi. I love you. Ever been 0:11:55.480 --> 0:11:57.120 to Langers I love Langers Deli. 0:11:57.600 --> 0:12:00.880 Yeah, there's not much parking, but the food delicious. 0:12:01.120 --> 0:12:05.720 Yeah, there's a little lot. It's right across from MacArthur Park, 0:12:05.880 --> 0:12:08.079 and it is the greatest deli I've been to. I've 0:12:08.080 --> 0:12:10.200 been to all the big delis in New York, all 0:12:10.240 --> 0:12:14.719 the delis you know in Manhattan and Brooklyn, and this 0:12:14.840 --> 0:12:17.560 place is at the very top. It is better the 0:12:17.600 --> 0:12:21.400 way they make their pastrami is insane. The problem is 0:12:22.000 --> 0:12:28.000 you have to dodge landmines and it's just wild down 0:12:28.000 --> 0:12:31.800 there near MacArthur Park. Because it's so unsafe there, they 0:12:31.840 --> 0:12:34.400 close at four o'clock in the afternoon because you don't 0:12:34.400 --> 0:12:38.360 want to be there at four oh one. It's real bad. 0:12:38.480 --> 0:12:41.520 But that MacArthur Park's been around since the eighteen hundreds 0:12:41.720 --> 0:12:44.439 and it's one of the oldest parts of la and 0:12:44.720 --> 0:12:47.199 it's so old. I looked it up because I've been 0:12:47.200 --> 0:12:51.760 there so much that they actually filmed early Hollywood movies 0:12:51.800 --> 0:12:57.559 with Buster Keaton and Charles Chaplin Charlie Chaplin in MacArthur 0:12:57.679 --> 0:13:01.480 Park back in early days Hollywood in the nineteen twenties. 0:13:01.800 --> 0:13:05.000 So kind of crazy one hundred years ago. But so 0:13:05.040 --> 0:13:07.719 we had the power lunch. It was great, told some stories, 0:13:08.160 --> 0:13:11.880 you know, shot the biz and one of the people there, 0:13:12.000 --> 0:13:14.920 Danny has claim to fame, was he fired Skip Bayless 0:13:15.520 --> 0:13:20.480 from a radio job. So went into detail on that 0:13:20.800 --> 0:13:23.439 and gave some some dirt. Very few people can say 0:13:23.440 --> 0:13:27.360 they fired the highest paid person or one of the 0:13:28.040 --> 0:13:31.400 three highest paid people in sports media today. But obviously 0:13:31.640 --> 0:13:35.480 before Skip Bayless became Skip Bayliss and in the early days, Danny. 0:13:35.520 --> 0:13:37.880 I told the sturb before. But when Fox Sports Radio started, 0:13:38.280 --> 0:13:41.679 Skip Bayless was one of our contributors. He was writing 0:13:41.720 --> 0:13:44.240 books about the Dallas Cowboys, and he was like an 0:13:44.400 --> 0:13:48.360 NFL guest that was a paid contributor on Fox Sports 0:13:48.440 --> 0:13:50.839 Radio in the early days when the network started. So 0:13:51.120 --> 0:13:53.480 and then he went off through the show called Cold 0:13:53.559 --> 0:13:54.720 Pizza I think it was. 0:13:55.640 --> 0:13:57.559 I remember that, yeah. 0:13:57.040 --> 0:14:01.240 At ESPN, and then that became what eventually became First 0:14:01.320 --> 0:14:05.640 Take and all that. So interesting interesting times. There was 0:14:06.080 --> 0:14:08.200 a good time. I don't know that I'll do that 0:14:08.760 --> 0:14:11.800 very often because of the amount of time I spent 0:14:11.800 --> 0:14:16.920 in the car. I am such a radio loser. There 0:14:16.960 --> 0:14:18.880 were you know, there were fair amount of people on 0:14:18.920 --> 0:14:21.320 the roads. Is that because it's back to school time? 0:14:21.440 --> 0:14:21.680 Danny? 0:14:21.680 --> 0:14:23.960 Would that be why there's so many people on the roads. 0:14:24.400 --> 0:14:28.520 There's those windows now where anywhere near a school in 0:14:28.560 --> 0:14:31.480 your community, you know, shit, I got to stay away 0:14:31.480 --> 0:14:36.000 from those streets gets backed up really bad. Also when 0:14:36.080 --> 0:14:39.000 you go back to school, Ben, you know, for me, 0:14:39.600 --> 0:14:42.640 obviously I help out with the school district here in 0:14:42.680 --> 0:14:48.160 the morning time. I noticed that the weather it's kind 0:14:48.160 --> 0:14:51.000 of like a marker. Last year when we went back 0:14:51.080 --> 0:14:53.560 to school. One of the days, it was one hundred 0:14:53.600 --> 0:14:57.880 and nine outside. I remember the kids just panting and complaining, 0:14:57.960 --> 0:15:01.880 and you know, it was like two degrees by eight am, 0:15:02.360 --> 0:15:05.240 and the kids were hating life. And I thought to myself, 0:15:05.280 --> 0:15:08.440 why are they starting back to school so much earlier 0:15:08.440 --> 0:15:10.800 than when we were kids, because for us it was 0:15:10.840 --> 0:15:11.800 after Labor Day. 0:15:11.720 --> 0:15:13.760 Right, Yeah, yeah, Yeah, we had a full summer. We 0:15:13.760 --> 0:15:15.080 had a great time, wonderful. 0:15:15.120 --> 0:15:19.080 Yeah, they're like, screw you f them kids. They send 0:15:19.120 --> 0:15:22.080 them back in the middle of the bastard heat. But 0:15:22.800 --> 0:15:29.040 we had some weird slurricane, hurricane, tropical storm. I guess 0:15:29.120 --> 0:15:31.960 after the earthquake too. People were calling it a hurriquake. 0:15:32.840 --> 0:15:36.080 I don't know. In fact, a friend of mine JC 0:15:36.320 --> 0:15:39.840 in Nashville, he was texting me last weekend, Man, I 0:15:39.880 --> 0:15:44.080 can't wait to hear you and Mallard talk about the hurriquake. Now, 0:15:44.160 --> 0:15:45.920 you didn't feel the earthquake, right. 0:15:46.160 --> 0:15:48.840 No, I did not. You know, I'm pretty we live 0:15:48.960 --> 0:15:51.120 kind of far from each other, and you were closer 0:15:51.120 --> 0:15:55.360 to the epicenter, much closer than I was. But yeah, 0:15:55.840 --> 0:15:59.240 the whole storm thing, Like I saw some of the 0:15:59.240 --> 0:16:01.040 headlines on the inn I thought, oh my god, I'm 0:16:01.040 --> 0:16:05.160 gonna die. This is it's over. My life's gonna end, 0:16:05.280 --> 0:16:08.400 and I'm gonna die in a freaking hurricane tropical storm. 0:16:08.880 --> 0:16:11.400 The way they were pinning the picture. I was mainly 0:16:11.480 --> 0:16:14.320 concerned about the wind because I thought, Man, if it 0:16:14.360 --> 0:16:19.200 gets really windy, that's a nightmare situation. And fortunately it 0:16:19.240 --> 0:16:22.920 didn't seem all that windy. It just was consistent rain. 0:16:24.000 --> 0:16:27.080 I gotta I gotta tell you unpopular opinion, Danny. When 0:16:27.120 --> 0:16:30.720 I was back east in Maine the week prior, it 0:16:30.960 --> 0:16:34.120 rained much harder. When I was driving down I ninety 0:16:34.160 --> 0:16:37.480 five to go back to Boston, it was a much 0:16:37.960 --> 0:16:41.240 harder rain than it was here. It was just consistent. 0:16:41.320 --> 0:16:43.960 And the problem is, obviously we don't get a lot 0:16:43.960 --> 0:16:47.040 of rain, so when it rains, all hell breaks loose. 0:16:47.080 --> 0:16:49.000 And did you see the video clip on the internet 0:16:49.080 --> 0:16:52.440 of the people slipping and sliding on the freeway not 0:16:52.480 --> 0:16:55.200 being able to handle their way too fast and then raining. 0:16:55.720 --> 0:17:01.400 It was pure comedy watching the networks here in Los Angeles, 0:17:01.480 --> 0:17:03.880 so we turned the TV on middle of the day. 0:17:04.640 --> 0:17:09.159 I think they overhyped it so badly. Dallas Rains is 0:17:09.200 --> 0:17:11.800 going to be in the studio for twenty four hours 0:17:12.359 --> 0:17:15.480 and that sort of thing. They were running promos and 0:17:15.560 --> 0:17:18.080 they were just so excited over this. They were lathered 0:17:18.160 --> 0:17:21.080 up in the newsroom, you know, you know, if there's 0:17:22.000 --> 0:17:26.760 gonna be some sort of big catastrophe and it's being forecasted, 0:17:27.119 --> 0:17:30.280 Oh my god, like this, that's their super Bowl in 0:17:30.320 --> 0:17:33.800 the weather department. So we turn on the news because, 0:17:33.840 --> 0:17:36.119 like you said, it didn't seem so bad. It was 0:17:36.119 --> 0:17:39.240 a little windy outside. It was kind of strange because 0:17:39.280 --> 0:17:42.960 it had that dirty pre rain smell where the oil 0:17:43.000 --> 0:17:47.440 off the roads are beginning to you know, wash away, 0:17:47.560 --> 0:17:49.919 and it stayed like that. So it was kind of 0:17:49.960 --> 0:17:53.520 a weird tropical Florida feeling. But other than that, it 0:17:53.560 --> 0:17:56.560 wasn't a big deal because it was just a nice 0:17:56.600 --> 0:18:00.639 little rain shower, a little bit of wind, but nothing special. 0:18:01.160 --> 0:18:06.440 But then ben, oh my god, an earthquake. Oh yes, 0:18:07.040 --> 0:18:09.240 they took this earthquake and ran with. 0:18:09.160 --> 0:18:11.320 Its orgasm type. 0:18:12.640 --> 0:18:16.520 End of the world type shit, Oh my god, end 0:18:16.560 --> 0:18:18.960 an earthquake in the middle of a tornado. 0:18:19.040 --> 0:18:21.080 It's out of the Bible. It's out of the Bible. 0:18:23.080 --> 0:18:29.720 Volcanic eruptions and tornadoes and earthquakes and hurricanes. It was 0:18:29.880 --> 0:18:34.560 beautiful watching this all develop on the local TV stations. 0:18:34.640 --> 0:18:38.520 So I believe we started out by watching KTLA channel five, 0:18:39.080 --> 0:18:44.160 and it was comedy, pure comedy. There was this female newscaster, 0:18:44.359 --> 0:18:47.680 a female reporter, i should say, and she was driving 0:18:48.240 --> 0:18:52.159 the TV truck. They went to her because she was 0:18:52.200 --> 0:18:55.800 on the one eighteen freeway, not far from where the 0:18:56.160 --> 0:18:59.040 earthquake was, because she was on her way driving to 0:18:59.440 --> 0:19:03.800 a venture. Okay, so they're like, let's go to Janice, 0:19:04.080 --> 0:19:09.280 who's actually driving to Ventura right now. The camera goes 0:19:09.320 --> 0:19:12.400 to her. It's a live shot with her on the freeway. 0:19:12.960 --> 0:19:16.119 Ben She looked like she was about thirteen years old 0:19:16.600 --> 0:19:19.840 because she didn't even fit in the seat of the van. 0:19:20.520 --> 0:19:23.040 She's trying to drive and speak to them at the 0:19:23.080 --> 0:19:26.920 same time. It was the most awkward camera shot, and 0:19:27.080 --> 0:19:30.320 she was babbling on and on about headed towards the 0:19:30.359 --> 0:19:33.080 epicenter and as you can see in front of me, 0:19:33.160 --> 0:19:35.959 there's only a couple of cars on the freeway, so 0:19:36.040 --> 0:19:39.960 people are heating the warning about staying off the freeways. 0:19:40.480 --> 0:19:42.560 She was on the air with them, I'm not kidding 0:19:42.600 --> 0:19:46.120 you for a good ten minutes, reporting on the two 0:19:46.240 --> 0:19:48.840 cars that were driving in front of her on the freeway. 0:19:51.160 --> 0:19:52.520 Fascinating television. 0:19:52.960 --> 0:19:55.879 My wife summed it up the best. She said, what 0:19:55.920 --> 0:20:00.240 the fuck is this? That is called filler? I think 0:20:00.280 --> 0:20:03.520 that is called television spam. You're all trying to fill 0:20:03.600 --> 0:20:06.119 the time. You're just really trying to fill the time. 0:20:06.680 --> 0:20:08.960 It's kind of like a car chase too, because you're right, 0:20:09.000 --> 0:20:12.359 it is filler. They don't know what to do. They 0:20:12.720 --> 0:20:15.160 just keep repeating the same thing over and over. 0:20:15.400 --> 0:20:18.359 It's unscripted. Yeah, that's the other thing we needed, Danny. 0:20:18.359 --> 0:20:21.080 We had the earthquake, we had the storm. We needed 0:20:21.080 --> 0:20:24.160 a police chase. Also. That would have been the third 0:20:24.720 --> 0:20:28.200 third of Dante's Inferno, the Five Rings of Hell. That 0:20:28.200 --> 0:20:29.880 would have been the third one in the Five Rings 0:20:29.880 --> 0:20:30.160 of Hell. 0:20:30.640 --> 0:20:34.040 Yo, Well, they're tap dancing so much. They get super 0:20:34.119 --> 0:20:38.320 excited when somebody, anybody is brought in to speak to them, 0:20:38.960 --> 0:20:42.280 even if that person is regurgitating the same bullshit that 0:20:42.320 --> 0:20:45.920 they've been repeating for the past half hour. So now 0:20:46.359 --> 0:20:49.520 they get somebody on to talk about the earthquake and 0:20:49.640 --> 0:20:52.640 where it was centered and what does this mean? And 0:20:52.680 --> 0:20:55.760 so she and my girl's like, damn, she looks like 0:20:55.840 --> 0:21:00.960 she's been alive since the first earthquake. Now she's like 0:21:01.200 --> 0:21:05.959 stuttering and she's explaining to the audience what an earthquake is. 0:21:06.640 --> 0:21:07.040 Loser. 0:21:07.760 --> 0:21:12.159 This is a new low for Southern California television. Man, Okay, 0:21:12.280 --> 0:21:18.159 they overhyped the hurricane. Now they desperately were scrambling to 0:21:18.240 --> 0:21:21.240 have a big payoff. This was the best part. The 0:21:21.359 --> 0:21:25.520 Chargers game was still scheduled for Sunday, right and it 0:21:25.640 --> 0:21:29.560 was the same bad TV coverage. They are still still 0:21:29.600 --> 0:21:31.679 searching on a way to give a big payoff to 0:21:31.760 --> 0:21:34.480 all of the viewers on this what turned out to 0:21:34.480 --> 0:21:37.680 be a little storm for us. And they're like, yeah, 0:21:37.800 --> 0:21:40.359 you know, the Chargers game is still going to go 0:21:40.440 --> 0:21:45.040 on though. And the TV anchor said, I'll say this though, 0:21:45.440 --> 0:21:48.520 if you have a friend in Inglewood, I would go 0:21:48.600 --> 0:21:52.040 there after the game, just for precaution, you know, just 0:21:52.119 --> 0:21:57.760 go and hang out for a while. And the other 0:21:57.800 --> 0:22:03.280 anchor said, that's a great idea. Me and my wife, 0:22:03.320 --> 0:22:05.119 he looked at each other and we're like, yeah, because 0:22:05.160 --> 0:22:07.280 we all have friends in Inglewood. 0:22:07.600 --> 0:22:09.399 Oh, of course. Let me tell you something. There's a 0:22:09.440 --> 0:22:15.200 fine bubbling community in Southern California, in the hood in Inglewood. 0:22:15.840 --> 0:22:19.040 When Ben Maller is at the Chargers game. He's gonna 0:22:19.080 --> 0:22:22.920 call Joel Elliott from Fox Sports Radio and be like, hey, Joel, 0:22:22.920 --> 0:22:25.800 I know you live in Inglewood. Channel two told me 0:22:25.880 --> 0:22:27.639 to go hang out with you after the game. 0:22:28.200 --> 0:22:31.960 Yeah, no, i'd hang out. Well, Joel's great long suffering 0:22:32.040 --> 0:22:35.600 Lions fan. But remember Helmet Man lives in the hood 0:22:35.680 --> 0:22:39.359 in Inglewood, so that's right, that's his neighborhood over there, 0:22:39.640 --> 0:22:42.120 right near Sofi Stadium. So I'd have to track down 0:22:42.160 --> 0:22:46.720 Helmet man. I'm actually on the live air. Yes, there's 0:22:46.760 --> 0:22:50.000 an on air light, sir, the on air light indicats 0:22:50.040 --> 0:22:52.399 you're on the air. You're talking into a microphone in 0:22:52.480 --> 0:22:56.120