WEBVTT - The Fifth Hour: "What's a Phone Jack?" Mail Bag 0:00:00.720 --> 0:00:01.480 Kabooms. 0:00:02.320 --> 0:00:05.400 If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes 0:00:05.440 --> 0:00:09.160 a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants 0:00:09.200 --> 0:00:12.480 of the old Republic, a sole fashion of fairness. He 0:00:12.600 --> 0:00:15.520 treats crackheads in the ghetto cutter the same as the 0:00:15.640 --> 0:00:17.480 rich pill poppers in the penthouse. 0:00:18.079 --> 0:00:18.400 Wow. 0:00:18.600 --> 0:00:22.320 The Clearinghouse of Hot takes break free for something special. 0:00:22.680 --> 0:00:29.360 The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now. 0:00:29.000 --> 0:00:37.600 In the air everyway in a very happy, happy, happy 0:00:37.800 --> 0:00:44.280 Sunday Sunday Sunday to you as we are chamouing on 0:00:44.800 --> 0:00:50.360 this glorious day here in NFL Sunday week number ten 0:00:51.400 --> 0:00:55.240 in the National Football League. And I will be in 0:00:55.280 --> 0:00:58.480 attendance at one of the games today. As we are 0:00:58.520 --> 0:01:05.280 doing this. I am in can City on National Vanilla 0:01:05.319 --> 0:01:09.800 Cupcake Day, very specific holidays. National Vanilla Cupcake Day a 0:01:09.880 --> 0:01:12.759 very important day, and also Sesame Street Day today, Danny. 0:01:12.840 --> 0:01:14.880 I know it was very important for both of us 0:01:14.959 --> 0:01:16.199 growing up Sesame Street. 0:01:16.240 --> 0:01:18.920 And you are a big snuffle up a gift guy. 0:01:19.200 --> 0:01:22.959 I am, I am. I love snuffle love gus big 0:01:23.040 --> 0:01:27.319 military weekend as Veterans Day is tomorrow, it's US Marine 0:01:27.360 --> 0:01:33.119 Corps Day today. It's also it's the Marine Corps birthday today, 0:01:33.120 --> 0:01:34.680 so there's a lot going on. And as far as 0:01:34.720 --> 0:01:37.760 the Malar meet and greet, which was yesterday, as we 0:01:38.440 --> 0:01:41.720 normally like to point out Danny on this podcast, now, 0:01:41.840 --> 0:01:46.280 I sent some stuff out on the socials yesterday at 0:01:46.319 --> 0:01:48.000 the landing over in Liberty. 0:01:48.520 --> 0:01:51.040 So yeah, I saw pictures that looked like it was 0:01:51.080 --> 0:01:51.760 a good turnout. 0:01:52.120 --> 0:01:54.920 Yeah. Yeah. I like to let this stuff breathe and 0:01:54.960 --> 0:01:58.960 kind of collect my thoughts. It's been a whirlwind this weekend, 0:01:59.320 --> 0:02:01.960 and in just a few minutes. 0:02:01.800 --> 0:02:04.280 They the real reason is you want content for next 0:02:04.360 --> 0:02:05.920 weekend's podcast. 0:02:05.760 --> 0:02:09.280 Exactly, And I'm saving content. I know Terry and England 0:02:09.280 --> 0:02:12.080 loves that. He always likes to point that out, how 0:02:12.120 --> 0:02:15.000 great it is. Always looks forward to me saving content 0:02:15.400 --> 0:02:18.799 for the following week. But yeah, so we'll have, you know, 0:02:18.919 --> 0:02:21.919 have some of the stories and I'll have more stories. Today. 0:02:21.960 --> 0:02:24.120 I'm going to the Chiefs game. They're playing the Broncos 0:02:24.800 --> 0:02:30.919 this afternoon at Arrowhead and I will be tailgating the tailgating. 0:02:31.000 --> 0:02:37.320 Danny begins, the gates open. I think it's seven thirty 0:02:37.360 --> 0:02:41.640 this morning, the gates open. So I again, no sleep, 0:02:42.200 --> 0:02:44.200 but I'm fine, you know, I'm having a good time. 0:02:44.240 --> 0:02:47.280 I'm having fun. Everyone's been very nice here since I 0:02:47.320 --> 0:02:51.920 got to town, and I'm just enjoying a rare and 0:02:52.000 --> 0:02:55.360 appropriate weekend away because I normally do not travel at all, 0:02:55.480 --> 0:02:57.400 especially since I've started doing the TV show the last 0:02:57.440 --> 0:03:00.920 couple of years during football season, don't do it. But 0:03:01.000 --> 0:03:03.160 I made the exception, so I'm going to enjoy the 0:03:03.160 --> 0:03:05.520 hell out of it. Today. I am going to consume. 0:03:05.560 --> 0:03:08.000 I'm not a big drinker, but I will be consuming 0:03:08.639 --> 0:03:13.480 large amounts of alcohol and barbecue today. That's the plan. 0:03:13.919 --> 0:03:16.040 At the game, we do have the mail bag. This 0:03:16.120 --> 0:03:18.480 is a mail bag podcast, Danny. But before we get 0:03:18.480 --> 0:03:20.720 to that, I wanted to do the Idiom of the week. 0:03:20.760 --> 0:03:22.200 Are you prepared for the idiom of the week? 0:03:22.400 --> 0:03:24.280 The idiom of the week? 0:03:24.680 --> 0:03:28.600 All right? This one came from p Air from Springfield, 0:03:28.919 --> 0:03:32.960 friend of Alf the Alien Opiner, and he said, how 0:03:33.000 --> 0:03:37.000 about cornering the market? Since I've heard that phrase. Wants 0:03:37.000 --> 0:03:40.560 to know about cornering the market? So for those of 0:03:40.560 --> 0:03:44.000 you in the back of the room, it's rather obvious, 0:03:44.040 --> 0:03:46.800 but maybe not. What does the raise corner of the 0:03:46.840 --> 0:03:51.720 market mean? Well, make a long story short, it essentially 0:03:51.920 --> 0:03:57.560 means in business. You've acquired enough of a company, like 0:03:57.640 --> 0:04:00.200 the shares of a company, to be able to manipulate 0:04:00.280 --> 0:04:04.920 the price of the company. Hence the name. The market 0:04:05.160 --> 0:04:07.920 is backed into a corner where there is no room 0:04:07.960 --> 0:04:11.280 to move because you have cornered the market, and the 0:04:11.400 --> 0:04:15.880 corner is as old as trade itself. And this is crazy, though, 0:04:15.920 --> 0:04:17.919 I thought, well, this is probably a phrase from like 0:04:17.960 --> 0:04:21.359 the eighteen hundreds or something like that. No, no, it 0:04:21.480 --> 0:04:27.560 goes all the way back to a Greek mathematician, and 0:04:27.680 --> 0:04:30.360 I believe the name is Thales. I believe is that 0:04:30.360 --> 0:04:34.000 how you pronounced it? Dan, You're a big Greek guy, mathematician, 0:04:34.520 --> 0:04:39.400 asked astro astronomer. Easier for me to say philosopher. And 0:04:39.600 --> 0:04:42.640 according to the legend, I think I just butt youered 0:04:42.680 --> 0:04:46.919 all this. But according to the legend Aristotle on you 0:04:46.960 --> 0:04:49.159 got that one right, Yeah, corner of the market on 0:04:49.400 --> 0:04:53.039 olive oil presses. And so this this goes back to 0:04:53.520 --> 0:04:56.880 ancient Greece and all that. And so this, this guy, 0:04:57.279 --> 0:05:02.240 the mathematician, was able to predict the upcoming large crop 0:05:02.360 --> 0:05:06.640 of olives, and he knew he'd done the math on this. 0:05:06.760 --> 0:05:11.000 He figured it out the rudimentary numbers. He figured it 0:05:11.040 --> 0:05:13.800 out correctly and decided to make the best of it. 0:05:13.880 --> 0:05:18.039 He raised a small sum of money. He paid deposits 0:05:18.080 --> 0:05:22.039 for the whole of the olive presses, and you know, 0:05:22.160 --> 0:05:25.440 hire them these other people at low rent. And when 0:05:25.600 --> 0:05:29.360 the season arrived, there was a sudden demand for these 0:05:29.440 --> 0:05:33.520 olive presses and he made a ton of money. It 0:05:33.680 --> 0:05:37.800 cornered the market. So the phrase cornered the market goes 0:05:37.800 --> 0:05:39.960 all the way up, all the way back to ancient Greece, 0:05:40.920 --> 0:05:47.520 and it involves Aristotle and then also a famed fellow 0:05:47.680 --> 0:05:52.560 Greek mathematician and philosopher who was involved with Aristotle. So 0:05:52.680 --> 0:05:57.960 for the idiom of the week, cornering the market, cornering 0:05:58.279 --> 0:05:59.200 the market. 0:06:00.200 --> 0:06:01.640 Idea, I was going to learn something. 0:06:02.440 --> 0:06:05.000 It's educational. It's a teachable moment. 0:06:05.080 --> 0:06:05.359 Danny. 0:06:05.760 --> 0:06:07.200 Let's get to the mailbag. What do you say you 0:06:07.200 --> 0:06:08.800 want to mail bag? We got the mail bag, right, 0:06:09.200 --> 0:06:25.000 it's this mail bag. Thank you very much, ohio Al, 0:06:25.920 --> 0:06:30.120 the legend that is the great ohio Al. And right 0:06:30.160 --> 0:06:32.440 to the mailbag we go. These are actual letters by 0:06:32.560 --> 0:06:35.560 actual listeners. You can send in your questions anytime. You 0:06:35.560 --> 0:06:37.679 can do it right now, you can do it tomorrow, 0:06:37.800 --> 0:06:39.680 you can do it the day after. I don't care. 0:06:39.880 --> 0:06:44.320 Just put mail bag or mail in the headline on 0:06:45.320 --> 0:06:47.640 the email that you send, and make sure to send 0:06:47.640 --> 0:06:50.800 it to Real fifth hour at gmail dot com. That's 0:06:50.839 --> 0:06:55.760 Real fifth hour at gmail dot com. First one, Mike 0:06:55.960 --> 0:06:59.120 in Fullerton writes, and he says, hello, Ben and Danny, 0:07:01.000 --> 0:07:06.320 in response to Louis in Delaware's question from last week's mailbag. 0:07:07.440 --> 0:07:11.240 I don't know about masshole, Mickey, but I'm convinced that 0:07:11.440 --> 0:07:17.200 Alf and Ferddog are both AI chat box and they 0:07:17.240 --> 0:07:21.040 aren't even good bots of that. Everything they say on 0:07:21.160 --> 0:07:24.520 the show is stupid. According to Mike and Fullerton, even 0:07:24.560 --> 0:07:27.720 their names are stupid. Alf's spin off the air for 0:07:27.760 --> 0:07:31.600 over thirty years. If I were you, Ben, I'd stop 0:07:31.680 --> 0:07:36.440 reading their tweets immediately. Not to go all third rail 0:07:36.560 --> 0:07:40.360 on you guys, but I'm curious how much election coverage 0:07:40.360 --> 0:07:43.240 you guys watched back on Tuesday. It worked out well 0:07:43.840 --> 0:07:47.880 that it was called a little before Ben's show came 0:07:48.120 --> 0:07:54.480 on the air. Mike says, so yeah, I'll go first. 0:07:53.520 --> 0:07:56.880 I was trying to find something to watch I get 0:07:56.920 --> 0:07:59.200 ready for the show, and I usually watch basketball. There 0:07:59.240 --> 0:08:01.720 was no basketball, God forbid, the NBA plays an election 0:08:01.880 --> 0:08:05.120 night because their fans are they're so stupid they can't 0:08:05.160 --> 0:08:08.120 watch a game and vote, so they cancel all the game. 0:08:08.440 --> 0:08:10.440 So I ended up watching the Bruins and the Maple 0:08:10.560 --> 0:08:12.600 Leafs and the Kings in the wild. I was flipping 0:08:12.640 --> 0:08:18.240 back and forth. Those games were co inciting for a 0:08:18.280 --> 0:08:20.520 fair amount of time, for a fair amount of time. 0:08:20.600 --> 0:08:23.680 But then after that ended, I did turn on the 0:08:23.720 --> 0:08:27.240 election coverage, and I had it on in the background, 0:08:27.280 --> 0:08:31.960 and I was putting monologues together, notes for monologues, and 0:08:32.360 --> 0:08:35.160 I'd look up every you know, every ten minutes or 0:08:35.160 --> 0:08:38.760 so and see what was going on. And I was 0:08:38.800 --> 0:08:42.720 flipping to the different news channels, and people were not 0:08:43.520 --> 0:08:45.440 we're not handling it very well. In some of those 0:08:45.440 --> 0:08:48.400 liberal outlets. They were freaking out. They were like, oh, 0:08:48.600 --> 0:08:51.760 you know, this is not right. They're like, well, there's 0:08:51.760 --> 0:08:54.680 still time, you know. Not only but I did watch, 0:08:54.920 --> 0:08:59.960 and you know, it was I'm not a huge political guy, 0:08:59.800 --> 0:09:05.079 but I do enjoy the election coverage and the drama 0:09:05.200 --> 0:09:06.400 of it all. What about you, Danny. 0:09:07.000 --> 0:09:11.240 I brought back a present from the airplane and getting 0:09:11.320 --> 0:09:14.560 home from Seattle. You ever have those flights where it 0:09:14.640 --> 0:09:17.560 messes up the pressure in your head Oh yeah, in 0:09:17.600 --> 0:09:18.160 your ears. 0:09:18.400 --> 0:09:21.559 Yeah, I have terrible hearing. I mean my headphone and 0:09:22.160 --> 0:09:25.319 headphones have destroyed my earring. And yeah, I've got all 0:09:25.400 --> 0:09:26.040 kinds of issues. 0:09:26.480 --> 0:09:29.720 Yeah, I wasn't feeling well. Not only was I coming 0:09:29.720 --> 0:09:33.160 off a busy weekend for work. When I got home, 0:09:33.200 --> 0:09:35.559 I just felt like I had been run over by 0:09:35.600 --> 0:09:39.199 a truck. So I was in bed Monday. I worked, 0:09:39.440 --> 0:09:41.160 but I went right back to sleep as soon as 0:09:41.200 --> 0:09:43.760 I got home. I did the same thing on Election 0:09:43.960 --> 0:09:47.600 Day and evening, so I'm laying in bed. I had 0:09:47.640 --> 0:09:49.600 the coverage on. I was flipping around to see how 0:09:49.600 --> 0:09:52.920 the different channels were covering it, and I fell asleep, 0:09:53.400 --> 0:09:56.640 like in a kind of under the weather days where 0:09:57.040 --> 0:09:59.720 you hear things and you start having dreams about what 0:09:59.720 --> 0:10:00.880 you're hearing on the TV. 0:10:01.520 --> 0:10:06.120 Oh yeah, you confuse dream land with reality. 0:10:06.200 --> 0:10:09.360 Yeah, yes, yeah, that's what happened. 0:10:09.360 --> 0:10:14.160 And in my dream, Donald Trump was calling the network again, and. 0:10:14.400 --> 0:10:17.959 Buddy, that's right. You were friends with President Trump. That's right. 0:10:18.080 --> 0:10:21.480 Eh, Yeah, he voted for me. Remember to get a raise? 0:10:26.360 --> 0:10:29.360 Last question? Did you tell my producer Danny g that 0:10:29.440 --> 0:10:31.760 he deserved a raise when you called last time? 0:10:31.960 --> 0:10:35.040 Absolutely? I said, you get the president, but you really do. 0:10:35.080 --> 0:10:36.880 You have a great show, and he's a nice guy. 0:10:36.920 --> 0:10:39.199 But I said, you get the president of the phone, 0:10:39.240 --> 0:10:41.280 you deserve a raise. I haven't done too many of 0:10:41.280 --> 0:10:42.160 these calls lately. 0:10:43.360 --> 0:10:45.280 Now that he's president again, you should send him a 0:10:45.320 --> 0:10:49.400 letter and say, hey, by the way, Yeah, I think. 0:10:49.280 --> 0:10:51.720 That the best he could do right now for broadcasters 0:10:51.840 --> 0:10:54.240 is to ask for us not to get laid off. 0:10:54.640 --> 0:10:55.440 Yeah, exactly. 0:10:56.760 --> 0:10:59.320 So I wake up out of the stupor, and it 0:10:59.400 --> 0:11:03.040 was perfect timing because they had just one of the 0:11:03.080 --> 0:11:06.640 networks had just called it. As I woke up, splashed 0:11:06.679 --> 0:11:09.000 some cold water on my face and brushed my teeth. 0:11:09.440 --> 0:11:11.280 Trump was going to come out for his speech, so 0:11:11.320 --> 0:11:13.000 I got to watch all of that unfold. 0:11:13.480 --> 0:11:16.960 Good timing, way to go, and I didn't. I was 0:11:16.960 --> 0:11:19.640 hoping we would get a concession speech that night, but 0:11:19.679 --> 0:11:22.680 we did not, so I had to I did. I didn't. 0:11:23.000 --> 0:11:27.400 That happened while I was I was sleeping the next day, 0:11:27.480 --> 0:11:30.679 but it was. It was a wild night, man, just 0:11:31.040 --> 0:11:33.400 a wild couple of days because he had all the 0:11:33.520 --> 0:11:38.280 usual suspects before the election, like oh yeah, Trump's gonna 0:11:38.280 --> 0:11:40.960 lose blah blah blah blah blah, and then obviously that 0:11:41.000 --> 0:11:41.680 did not happen. 0:11:42.160 --> 0:11:42.760 You fired. 0:11:44.520 --> 0:11:46.680 Ron from Florida writes some of the mail bag. He says, 0:11:46.679 --> 0:11:50.160 Ben and Danny, how did you gen survive? Here would 0:11:50.200 --> 0:11:53.280 go again? A lot of political emails? My man third 0:11:53.320 --> 0:11:55.760 rail mo man. Ron says, how did you get you 0:11:55.840 --> 0:12:03.400 gen survive another? Election? Uh? Election cycle? So I I mean, 0:12:03.440 --> 0:12:06.079 we just talked about it, Ron, but it's pretty much 0:12:06.160 --> 0:12:07.839 just plug away, right, put one foot in front of 0:12:07.880 --> 0:12:09.600 the other, keep your head down, that kind of crap. 0:12:09.720 --> 0:12:13.319 And I did enjoy some of the insane stories that 0:12:13.360 --> 0:12:16.560 we got from this election cycle. The two that I 0:12:16.640 --> 0:12:21.720 loved the most were a large number of people the 0:12:21.880 --> 0:12:27.079 day of the election who googled did Joe Biden drop out? 0:12:27.400 --> 0:12:31.480 On election Day? You talk about not having a clue, 0:12:32.080 --> 0:12:34.760 right you met it is the day of the election, 0:12:35.040 --> 0:12:39.520 and you're like, did Joe Biden drop out of the election? Well? 0:12:39.960 --> 0:12:42.000 How else? Why else would his name not be on 0:12:42.040 --> 0:12:45.720 the ballot? Dummy? So that was pretty amusing. 0:12:46.280 --> 0:12:48.960 Those are the same people who ask you when is 0:12:48.960 --> 0:12:50.480 the Super Bowl? Oh? 0:12:50.559 --> 0:12:53.079 Yeah, yeah, it's the same crowd. And then my other story, 0:12:53.120 --> 0:12:54.800 which I love and it's a great way to rip 0:12:54.800 --> 0:12:57.480 the younger generation, which we both love so much. It's 0:12:57.520 --> 0:13:01.080 the number one pastime. Is this story that there were 0:13:01.280 --> 0:13:05.280 long delays in a lot of places because the younger voters, 0:13:05.320 --> 0:13:10.480 the eighteen plus voters that hadn't voted before eighteen, nineteen twenty, 0:13:10.480 --> 0:13:12.920 that didn't get to vote in the last presidential election, 0:13:13.600 --> 0:13:15.920 the younger voters did not know how to sign their 0:13:16.040 --> 0:13:19.000 name because they have not you know, they don't have 0:13:19.040 --> 0:13:21.640 to do that anymore in school. And so they couldn't 0:13:21.679 --> 0:13:25.880 sign the voter registry because they had never written their 0:13:25.960 --> 0:13:27.960 name out, or they didn't know how to write their 0:13:28.040 --> 0:13:30.320 name out, and you have to sign. You have to 0:13:30.400 --> 0:13:32.360 sign your name when you go in. 0:13:32.679 --> 0:13:34.480 They don't learn cursive yeah. 0:13:34.320 --> 0:13:37.160 Exactly, exactly, that's what you said. It better than me. 0:13:37.440 --> 0:13:39.199 But so they didn't know how to sign their name 0:13:39.320 --> 0:13:41.440 in cursive writing, and so it became this whole to 0:13:41.520 --> 0:13:44.719 do and which is just perfect. You talk about the 0:13:45.080 --> 0:13:47.560 zeitgeist of the times, say, then, I get it. You know, 0:13:47.600 --> 0:13:49.520 you're on your phone all the time, you're on computers. 0:13:49.520 --> 0:13:52.560 You know, we're dinosaurs, Danny. We had to learn how 0:13:52.559 --> 0:13:55.600 to write with a pen and use a typewriter, not 0:13:55.640 --> 0:13:58.520 a computer, a typewriter. But that's just so hilarious to 0:13:58.559 --> 0:14:03.960 me that at places across the country, from from Maine 0:14:04.080 --> 0:14:07.360 to Hawaii, the kids were like, I don't know, you 0:14:07.400 --> 0:14:09.400 want me to sign my name. I don't know what 0:14:09.440 --> 0:14:11.200 are I supposed to do? I just sign my name 0:14:12.280 --> 0:14:15.160 Kevin in Texas Rights And he says, Ben, you had 0:14:15.200 --> 0:14:19.000 said sarcastically on this podcast you do with Danny that 0:14:19.080 --> 0:14:22.920 you expected writing after the election, why didn't we get 0:14:22.960 --> 0:14:28.000 the mass looting Kevin from Texas? I think we covered 0:14:28.000 --> 0:14:32.600 this earlier, Danny, But I am surprised. I thought that 0:14:32.640 --> 0:14:35.040 we would see I'm happy that we didn't. We saw 0:14:35.120 --> 0:14:38.360 more violence after the Dodgers won the World Series? Am 0:14:38.360 --> 0:14:41.840 I correct in saying that than we did after the 0:14:41.880 --> 0:14:43.920 presidential election? Which is surprising? 0:14:43.960 --> 0:14:46.280 Control, wasn't it? Yeah? 0:14:47.080 --> 0:14:50.320 And I think it's because the Weienioles and whoever else 0:14:50.440 --> 0:14:54.360 might have voted for Kamala. They were crying on their keyboards. 0:14:54.360 --> 0:14:55.960 I don't think they were going to go out and 0:14:56.000 --> 0:14:57.600 do anything in the streets. 0:14:58.080 --> 0:15:01.480 Yeah, well, it's it's great. I mean, I'm obviously I 0:15:01.520 --> 0:15:04.960 love it. I think it's ridiculous burning stuff down because 0:15:05.040 --> 0:15:08.240 your favorite political hero didn't win. I think the whole 0:15:08.240 --> 0:15:12.920 thing's absurd, and it is a rather large upset that 0:15:13.400 --> 0:15:15.160 I didn't I haven't seen the numbers the last couple 0:15:15.160 --> 0:15:17.560 of days, but I at last I checked Trump. I 0:15:17.560 --> 0:15:19.920 don't think all the voting totals are even in yet, 0:15:19.920 --> 0:15:23.120 but Trump, I think he won the popular vote. He 0:15:23.200 --> 0:15:26.720 was winning the popular vote, which is now that is stunning. 0:15:27.760 --> 0:15:30.800 That is that's a that's a bigger upset since remember 0:15:30.800 --> 0:15:36.120 one University Maryland, Baltimore County and Farley Dickinson, those sixteen 0:15:36.160 --> 0:15:39.480 seeds won in the NCAA tournament. Like that, that's like 0:15:39.560 --> 0:15:41.880 that big an upset to me, a sixteen seed beating 0:15:41.880 --> 0:15:45.280 a one that Trump ended up winning the popular vote. 0:15:46.280 --> 0:15:49.280 So anyway, Mike and Iowa writes, and he says, Ben 0:15:49.320 --> 0:15:53.000 and Danny, do you think these celebrities and athletes like 0:15:53.080 --> 0:15:58.160 Lebron James are feeling like they failed because they endorsed 0:15:58.400 --> 0:16:00.480 the loser people did not list some of them and 0:16:00.560 --> 0:16:06.080 vote for their candidate in the presidential election. But there's 0:16:06.080 --> 0:16:08.240 a lot of political email this week day. It's almost 0:16:08.280 --> 0:16:10.440 like people are more concerned about the election than they 0:16:10.480 --> 0:16:17.000 are anything sporty. I guess, so, yeah, I don't. I 0:16:17.040 --> 0:16:18.800 don't think this is gonna what do you think that. 0:16:18.840 --> 0:16:20.720 I don't think this is going to change how athletes 0:16:21.240 --> 0:16:24.720 approach this kind of stuff. I mean, my belief is 0:16:25.640 --> 0:16:30.960 when you reach a certain level of celebrity like lebron 0:16:31.200 --> 0:16:34.280 and to a lesser degree some of the Hollywood people, 0:16:35.120 --> 0:16:37.240 that you live in a different dimension. You're not in 0:16:37.320 --> 0:16:39.760 the same world we're in. They're in a bubble and 0:16:39.760 --> 0:16:43.400 they're insulated from the real world and they live in 0:16:43.400 --> 0:16:46.440 a different universe, and they hang out with people who 0:16:46.480 --> 0:16:51.280 share their ideology and their dogma and all that, and 0:16:51.280 --> 0:16:55.120 and so they're convinced that they have all the power, 0:16:55.200 --> 0:16:59.920 and obviously they don't. Right otherwise, I mean, then the media, 0:17:00.120 --> 0:17:03.040 then the celebrities, the election would have come out differently. 0:17:03.640 --> 0:17:07.960 Well, the celebrities can't relate to our day to day lives. 0:17:08.520 --> 0:17:12.000 I saw Beyonce posting stuff on social media and the 0:17:12.040 --> 0:17:16.320 first comment are underneath her post for Harris said, what 0:17:16.359 --> 0:17:18.240 the hell are you talking about? You haven't been to 0:17:18.280 --> 0:17:21.040 the grocery store in decades. You don't know what the 0:17:21.040 --> 0:17:23.600 hell's going out there, and you got paid ten million 0:17:23.640 --> 0:17:27.440 dollars to side with who you're siding with. I don't 0:17:27.480 --> 0:17:29.639 know if that checks out or not. That she got paid, 0:17:30.200 --> 0:17:32.840 But you know, I take it with a grain of salt. 0:17:32.880 --> 0:17:36.680 Who cares what a rich celebrity says about politics? 0:17:37.119 --> 0:17:38.960 Yeah, yeah, I know. I'm right there with you. And 0:17:39.080 --> 0:17:43.520 I'm at the point now I'm old enough, like I'm 0:17:43.600 --> 0:17:45.960 kind of grown up. I guess I still talk about 0:17:46.000 --> 0:17:48.239 sports for a living, but I'm kind of growing up. 0:17:48.280 --> 0:17:50.520 And I know what I like in life and what 0:17:50.600 --> 0:17:52.560 I don't like in life. And I know what I 0:17:53.000 --> 0:17:54.919 want to have happened and what I don't want to 0:17:54.960 --> 0:17:57.880 have happened. And I don't need Lebron James or anyone 0:17:57.880 --> 0:18:01.320 else for that matter to tell me. And I do 0:18:01.400 --> 0:18:04.080 think it's very pretentious. In fact, I saw I think 0:18:04.080 --> 0:18:06.720 it was Aaron Rodgers this week. I did one of 0:18:06.720 --> 0:18:09.920 his paid interviews with Pat McAfee, and he was mocking 0:18:10.760 --> 0:18:15.680 the celebrity endorsements like Lebron and whatnot. And I think 0:18:15.720 --> 0:18:18.960 that's that's kind of where I am on it. Like 0:18:19.119 --> 0:18:21.920 I think we agree we're in lockstep when it comes 0:18:21.960 --> 0:18:28.520 to that. Oh me, since he Tommy writes in he says, uh, 0:18:29.200 --> 0:18:32.800 here Benny the Brazen and Danny Ganja the Wife and 0:18:32.840 --> 0:18:37.160 I finally tried raising canes this past weekend, and one 0:18:37.200 --> 0:18:42.760 word sums it up. Amazing. Amazing is the word that 0:18:42.920 --> 0:18:47.120 since he Tommy said, whodos to you, gentlemen for speaking 0:18:47.480 --> 0:18:51.280 of the deliciousness that is raising canes. Tommy says, I 0:18:51.359 --> 0:18:55.040 told the girl at the pickup window that Ben Mahler 0:18:55.800 --> 0:19:01.359 sent us, and she said who who? I quickly explained 0:19:01.359 --> 0:19:04.160 to who you are, and she said she'd give your 0:19:04.160 --> 0:19:07.880 show a try. Just out there repping your show and 0:19:08.000 --> 0:19:13.720 packing my grill with amazing dummy chicken fingers. Have a 0:19:13.920 --> 0:19:21.040 great day, gentleman. Who day from Sincy Tommy. The Bengals 0:19:21.040 --> 0:19:27.200 planned back, of course, on Thursday against the Baltimore Ravens. 0:19:27.760 --> 0:19:29.840 So there you go, Danny, we got a guy to 0:19:29.880 --> 0:19:32.280 go to Keynes. We should we should have Keynes as 0:19:32.280 --> 0:19:34.600 an advertiser or something like that. Come on, buy some 0:19:34.640 --> 0:19:38.199 spots on the podcast. All right, I want my chicken 0:19:38.760 --> 0:19:39.920 is one of those birds going. 0:19:44.200 --> 0:19:45.440 Damn you? 0:19:45.520 --> 0:19:50.120 All right, mass whole Mickey. He is next on the 0:19:50.200 --> 0:19:54.600 mail bag and he's he said he was riding this 0:19:54.720 --> 0:19:58.200 while he was waiting for the Boston Globe truck to arrive, 0:19:59.200 --> 0:20:02.000 and he always listens to our podcast, and he did 0:20:02.119 --> 0:20:06.000 confirm here massle Mickey Danny that if everything goes well 0:20:06.640 --> 0:20:11.000 and the TV show gets picked up that he knows 0:20:11.119 --> 0:20:18.200 people and I can end up going to Wooster, about 0:20:18.240 --> 0:20:21.680 a forty five minute trip west of Boston and throw 0:20:21.720 --> 0:20:24.320 out the first pitch at a at a minor league 0:20:24.359 --> 0:20:25.399 baseball and that'd be awesome. 0:20:25.440 --> 0:20:27.720 You mean throw out one of your lollipop pitches. 0:20:27.960 --> 0:20:30.680 Well, that's what you say, Danny, But listen, I am 0:20:30.680 --> 0:20:33.080 a veteran of the first pitch honors. It is a 0:20:33.119 --> 0:20:35.159 tremendous honor to throw out the first pitch, and I 0:20:35.160 --> 0:20:37.439 will put on a show. Well I bring back the 0:20:37.480 --> 0:20:40.320 lollipop curb. I don't know. Maybe I'll throw a knuckleball, 0:20:40.520 --> 0:20:44.640 Maybe I'll throw a fastball. Who knows. And Mickey also 0:20:44.680 --> 0:20:45.280 says there's a. 0:20:45.240 --> 0:20:47.760 Great maybe you look like one of the neat Crow brothers. 0:20:48.040 --> 0:20:48.600 How dare you? 0:20:49.760 --> 0:20:54.560 That is a cancel drop? So anyway, mass whole, Mickey says, 0:20:55.200 --> 0:21:00.400 there's a speak easy there. He says, it's a tell 0:21:00.520 --> 0:21:06.399 vernon where Babe Ruth used to drink during prohibition times. 0:21:06.960 --> 0:21:10.040 That's kind of cool, right, that's awesome. Go to a 0:21:10.080 --> 0:21:14.679 bar that Babe Ruth got hammered at during prohibition? Can 0:21:14.720 --> 0:21:18.400 you imagine they tried prohibition again today on like anything. 0:21:18.480 --> 0:21:22.040 How how ineffective that would be, right? I mean, the 0:21:22.160 --> 0:21:24.600 fact that they were able to do it for several 0:21:24.720 --> 0:21:29.119 years when they did is rather crazy. But imagine you're. 0:21:29.040 --> 0:21:31.440 Telling you what my telling you what my new job 0:21:31.440 --> 0:21:32.919 would be. I'd be a bootlegger. 0:21:33.040 --> 0:21:36.359 Oh yeah, Well I heard stories when I was a kid, 0:21:37.000 --> 0:21:39.080 and maybe it was my grandparents making it up, but 0:21:39.520 --> 0:21:43.359 they lived through prohibition and in LA what they would 0:21:43.359 --> 0:21:46.399 do is they'd all go on to a boat and 0:21:46.440 --> 0:21:50.320 they'd go out into international waters and just get hammered. 0:21:51.080 --> 0:21:53.520 It was. It was a drinking boat because you couldn't 0:21:53.600 --> 0:21:56.520 drink legally here. But if you're out how many I 0:21:56.520 --> 0:21:59.320 think we've had this conversation before, But how many miles 0:21:59.359 --> 0:22:02.719 is international waters? It's a certain number of miles off 0:22:02.760 --> 0:22:06.760 the coast. But you go out there and you're done. 0:22:06.800 --> 0:22:10.199 You're good. Do whatever you want, gamble, you can drink 0:22:10.359 --> 0:22:16.240 and do all kinds of debauchery out international waters. Alf 0:22:16.920 --> 0:22:21.080 from the future or is it the past? He says, gentlemen, 0:22:21.520 --> 0:22:25.280 did you ever envision a future in radio where you 0:22:25.320 --> 0:22:29.080 would be broadcasting remotely or producing for talent in a 0:22:29.240 --> 0:22:34.760 far away studio from weekend overnights to weekday overnight's, periscope, 0:22:34.840 --> 0:22:37.920 videos to YouTube and all things in between. It's hard 0:22:37.920 --> 0:22:40.560 to believe that in the last twenty years how media 0:22:41.080 --> 0:22:45.600 has changed, especially since the invention of the smartphone and 0:22:45.720 --> 0:22:53.320 social media. So he says, alf, well, yeah, absolutely, it's insane. 0:22:53.840 --> 0:22:56.320 I remember when I was in my early days in 0:22:56.400 --> 0:23:00.479 radio and Mike Thompson was the boss. He came up 0:23:00.480 --> 0:23:02.760 to me and I was working local radio in LA. 0:23:03.400 --> 0:23:07.080 We got covered up a lot by Dodger baseball and 0:23:07.119 --> 0:23:08.600 we were doing a show in the evening and the 0:23:08.600 --> 0:23:11.400 Dodgers played during the summer every night pretty much when 0:23:11.440 --> 0:23:15.520 we were on, so we weren't on very often. And 0:23:15.560 --> 0:23:17.800 my boss is like, listen, there's this thing we want 0:23:17.840 --> 0:23:19.879 to try to do. We're going to have you do 0:23:20.040 --> 0:23:24.800