WEBVTT - The Fifth Hour: The Nincompoop of NATO 0:00:00.680 --> 0:00:02.240 Kabbooms. 0:00:02.279 --> 0:00:05.360 If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes 0:00:05.400 --> 0:00:09.160 a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants 0:00:09.200 --> 0:00:12.480 of the old Republic, a soul fashion of fairness. He 0:00:12.560 --> 0:00:15.480 treats crackheads in the ghetto cutter the same as the 0:00:15.600 --> 0:00:17.439 rich pill poppers in the penthouse. 0:00:18.040 --> 0:00:18.400 Wow. 0:00:18.560 --> 0:00:22.280 The clearing House of Hot takes break free for something special. 0:00:22.640 --> 0:00:29.320 The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now. 0:00:28.920 --> 0:00:34.200 In the air everywhere. The Fifth Hour we meet Ben 0:00:34.280 --> 0:00:38.320 Maller and Danny g. Happy Saturday to you, the last 0:00:38.360 --> 0:00:41.320 Saturday before the holidays. But you already knew that. That's 0:00:41.360 --> 0:00:47.400 the twenty first day of December, Danny, and here we 0:00:47.440 --> 0:00:50.960 are hanging out on big, big holidays today. It's a 0:00:51.040 --> 0:00:52.879 winter solstice today. 0:00:53.479 --> 0:00:56.560 Yeah, I've been the past couple of days. Every single 0:00:56.680 --> 0:00:58.760 day on the freeway was like a Friday. 0:00:59.600 --> 0:01:03.960 Yeah, and it's been nasty, man. It took me forever 0:01:04.520 --> 0:01:08.440 to get back from Benny versus the Penny. On Thursday, 0:01:09.280 --> 0:01:13.880 it was as bad as like the day before Thanksgiving break, 0:01:13.920 --> 0:01:15.920 you know, and everyone's gone. It was unreal. 0:01:16.720 --> 0:01:18.920 I feel like half the people are trying to get 0:01:18.920 --> 0:01:21.440 the f out of Dodge and the other half of 0:01:21.480 --> 0:01:24.399 the people are trying to get one last work day in. 0:01:25.480 --> 0:01:28.959 Yeah, it's it's it's not so, it's not so. So 0:01:29.480 --> 0:01:31.800 how does one celebrate, by the way, the winter solstice? 0:01:31.840 --> 0:01:32.039 Do it? 0:01:32.120 --> 0:01:34.199 What are you supposed to do? I have a moment, 0:01:34.240 --> 0:01:36.399 you know, that's some kind of drink or a doughnutters, 0:01:36.520 --> 0:01:36.920 I don't know. 0:01:37.000 --> 0:01:39.880 It's uh, you think you're supposed to write six six 0:01:40.040 --> 0:01:41.319 six on your forehead. 0:01:41.920 --> 0:01:43.559 There you go, it's a good idea, and. 0:01:43.480 --> 0:01:46.000 You run naked through your nearest target. 0:01:47.440 --> 0:01:50.120 So this is the shortest period of daylight and the 0:01:50.200 --> 0:01:53.760 longest night of the year in the northern hemisphere. So 0:01:53.880 --> 0:01:57.320 this is that's the winter solstice. So there you got 0:01:57.400 --> 0:02:01.360 your farmer's almanac. And in the beginning, nine point eight 0:02:01.440 --> 0:02:04.360 billion years ago the universe was created, we think, who 0:02:04.360 --> 0:02:07.200 the hell knows? And the Sun the earth whole thing. 0:02:07.240 --> 0:02:11.560 And then sixteen hundred BC that is the latest possible 0:02:11.680 --> 0:02:16.080 date for the construction of the monument that revolves around 0:02:16.120 --> 0:02:17.480 the Sun's or I don't know. There's a lot of 0:02:17.520 --> 0:02:20.240 mumbo jumbo and they talk about stone hinge and all 0:02:20.280 --> 0:02:24.240 this stuff, but today is the day for the winter solstice. 0:02:24.320 --> 0:02:27.760 It is also there's some other fugazy holiday. It's Humbug 0:02:27.840 --> 0:02:29.919 Day today, Danny. So that's the day I can get 0:02:29.919 --> 0:02:31.200 into humbug. 0:02:31.800 --> 0:02:36.000 Yeah, I know, you could ruin somebody's trip to Disneyland. 0:02:36.240 --> 0:02:36.360 Oh. 0:02:36.480 --> 0:02:41.040 Yes, National Humbug Day today every December twenty first, and 0:02:41.639 --> 0:02:46.959 allows you to just say, bo humbug. That's it. It's 0:02:47.080 --> 0:02:49.000 holiday season, you know, a lot like going on. I 0:02:49.280 --> 0:02:53.000 presents for people and parties and all that, and so 0:02:53.080 --> 0:02:56.320 why not just have a day people that created is 0:02:56.320 --> 0:03:00.320 that you're allowed twelve humbugs today, which is the day 0:03:00.360 --> 0:03:04.799 of the holiday. It is a day with so many opportunities. 0:03:05.480 --> 0:03:10.640 Shout out my homeboy Ebenezer Scrooge. Absolutely right, it is 0:03:10.639 --> 0:03:13.760 a day for him ba humbug at the end of 0:03:13.800 --> 0:03:18.480 the day, Danny. We also celebrate It's don't make your 0:03:18.560 --> 0:03:19.040 bed Day. 0:03:19.800 --> 0:03:22.399 Our teenage daughter celebrates that daily. 0:03:22.680 --> 0:03:23.280 Celebrates that. 0:03:23.480 --> 0:03:23.799 The time. 0:03:23.919 --> 0:03:25.600 There was one other one that I caught my attention. 0:03:25.639 --> 0:03:27.240 I'm trying to find it. There's a bunch of these 0:03:27.280 --> 0:03:31.919 weird Oh, it's a short girl Appreciation Day today, Danny. 0:03:31.960 --> 0:03:38.160 That's yeah, goal Appreciation Day, the twenty first of December. 0:03:38.200 --> 0:03:41.400 Who came up with that? My god, I don't know. 0:03:41.480 --> 0:03:44.240 That's how I met my wife inside the grocery store. 0:03:44.280 --> 0:03:47.080 I reached up to get a jeremanne as far off 0:03:47.080 --> 0:03:50.280 the shelf, and. 0:03:50.200 --> 0:03:55.200 The rest is history. You get away from me. On 0:03:55.360 --> 0:04:00.280 today's Fifth Hour, we will have not my comrade, the 0:04:00.360 --> 0:04:05.240 PSA public service announcement, and fire the commons, plus well 0:04:05.240 --> 0:04:07.440 have the phrase of the week. All that and more. 0:04:07.840 --> 0:04:10.080 I would like to begin by pointing out that I 0:04:10.160 --> 0:04:15.320 was very excited on Friday. I had Thursday night into 0:04:15.360 --> 0:04:18.159 Friday off from the radio show. We still did the 0:04:18.200 --> 0:04:21.120 Fifth Hour podcast on Friday, but then the rest of 0:04:21.120 --> 0:04:23.719 the day I had time to relax and I was 0:04:23.760 --> 0:04:26.600 looking forward to watching a competitive college football playoff game 0:04:26.680 --> 0:04:29.520 yesterday between the fighting Irish of Notre. 0:04:29.360 --> 0:04:33.880 Dame bringing back the BCS bring back BC. 0:04:34.920 --> 0:04:37.240 I was like, I really, in my head, Indiana was 0:04:37.240 --> 0:04:38.440 going to make this a game. It would be a 0:04:38.480 --> 0:04:40.839 fourth quarter game. It would be decided in the fourth quarter, 0:04:41.160 --> 0:04:44.279 and it was like twenty seven to three years something 0:04:44.279 --> 0:04:47.240 like it was in Indiana scored late a couple of 0:04:47.320 --> 0:04:49.640 times to make it look a little closer than it was, 0:04:49.680 --> 0:04:52.400 but it was a total disaster for the Hoosiers. They 0:04:53.839 --> 0:04:56.320 had an opportunity. I had an opportunity, and they did 0:04:56.320 --> 0:04:58.799 not play well last night, so we'll see if better 0:04:58.839 --> 0:05:03.560 things happen. Here today is the College Football Extended Dance Remix. 0:05:03.600 --> 0:05:05.240 That's what we say in radio, right, Danny, the extended 0:05:05.320 --> 0:05:08.039 dance remix of the college football Playoff, which will be 0:05:08.080 --> 0:05:09.960 going on between now and forever. 0:05:10.160 --> 0:05:12.400 I guess yeah, I heard they're going to turn this 0:05:12.480 --> 0:05:15.200 into a European style tournament next year. 0:05:15.560 --> 0:05:16.280 Oh is that right? 0:05:16.320 --> 0:05:18.960 But yeah, they're taking a page from the NBA. 0:05:19.440 --> 0:05:22.239 Well yeah, yeah, have a cup. Just have a cup. 0:05:22.320 --> 0:05:24.960 Have a Middle Eastern airline. The other thing too, they 0:05:24.960 --> 0:05:27.359 can do they should have in college. You should go 0:05:27.400 --> 0:05:30.239 to a lower level. You know that. You know European soccer. 0:05:30.240 --> 0:05:32.160 If you soccer, you like the worst team, you gotta go. 0:05:32.880 --> 0:05:37.120 Relegation they call it. I love relegation. Relative in America 0:05:37.320 --> 0:05:41.719 we reward in competence. I don't like that in American sports, 0:05:41.720 --> 0:05:43.920 if you're the worst team, you get the top pick. 0:05:44.440 --> 0:05:47.559 But imagine, Danny, you're a Raider fan. Instead of playing 0:05:47.600 --> 0:05:50.080 for the top pick, imagine the Raiders and Giants were 0:05:50.120 --> 0:05:53.080 desperately trying to win to avoid being sent to the 0:05:53.080 --> 0:05:56.400 Canadian Football League. It would be a much different dynamic right. 0:05:56.640 --> 0:06:00.320 This whole season would have been completely different. Then, instead 0:06:00.320 --> 0:06:03.839 of losing on purpose, the front office would have scrambled 0:06:03.960 --> 0:06:08.000 and signed your quarterback Matthew Stafford back when he was available. 0:06:08.520 --> 0:06:08.680 Yeah. 0:06:08.720 --> 0:06:12.000 Oh a trane inform. Yeah, exactly, exactly, exactly. Yeah, So 0:06:12.279 --> 0:06:14.240 I did want to share this story. So earlier this 0:06:14.279 --> 0:06:17.279 week we had an in studio visit. Now, not a guest, 0:06:17.320 --> 0:06:19.680 because I don't do guests because I'm on at night. 0:06:19.920 --> 0:06:22.160 Guests are normally paid and all that stuff you go 0:06:22.279 --> 0:06:24.520 through the pr people, so I don't do that. On 0:06:24.560 --> 0:06:26.599 the overnight show, we have people I like, people I 0:06:26.720 --> 0:06:29.359 know or might know or know from the radio. And 0:06:29.440 --> 0:06:31.880 so this week our friend Jesse better known on the 0:06:31.880 --> 0:06:34.800 show as Jay Scoop, he had reached out to me. 0:06:34.839 --> 0:06:38.560 He just got back to the States from fifteen months 0:06:38.600 --> 0:06:41.600 this cat spent in Ukraine. He was helping out the 0:06:41.640 --> 0:06:45.000 military in Ukraine, and he came back to visit us. 0:06:45.080 --> 0:06:48.480 And he's won the Malord Palooza talent show four times, 0:06:48.480 --> 0:06:52.280 He's been a judge in the talent show. Very talented musician, 0:06:52.800 --> 0:06:55.280 he's got the gift. And so he stopped by and 0:06:55.400 --> 0:06:57.880 was telling his stories about what life was like living 0:06:57.920 --> 0:07:01.360 in a war zone and helping out the Ukrainian Jayscoop 0:07:01.440 --> 0:07:04.800 was in the US military. He served a number of 0:07:04.839 --> 0:07:06.920 years back in the day, and so he has military 0:07:06.960 --> 0:07:10.880 training and he felt that his family is from that 0:07:11.080 --> 0:07:14.680 part of the world, in the DNA and all that, 0:07:14.760 --> 0:07:17.360 so he felt the need to help out. So he 0:07:17.400 --> 0:07:21.720 went there and was helping the troops and not on 0:07:21.720 --> 0:07:24.520 the front lines, but he was occasionally on the on 0:07:24.560 --> 0:07:27.520 the front lines against the the Russian troop. So it 0:07:27.600 --> 0:07:29.720 was a controversial show. 0:07:29.960 --> 0:07:31.520 Danye Yea. I was going to say, did you get 0:07:31.560 --> 0:07:33.280 any complaints from any Russians? 0:07:34.600 --> 0:07:36.720 Well not, I don't know if they're Russian or not. 0:07:36.720 --> 0:07:40.080 But I got a lot of complaints from people that 0:07:40.120 --> 0:07:42.080 were upset by that. So I also got people that 0:07:42.160 --> 0:07:44.640 loved Jayscoop and thought, wow, this is great, this is wonderful. 0:07:44.920 --> 0:07:48.040 But everything's political. That certainly is political, listen, I And 0:07:48.160 --> 0:07:50.480 it's not an issue whether I agree with all the 0:07:50.640 --> 0:07:53.960 money that Joe Biden sent over to Ukraine, right because 0:07:54.000 --> 0:07:57.000 I obviously I think you know where I stand on 0:07:57.040 --> 0:08:00.560 that day. I think it's a little obsessive, but I 0:08:01.160 --> 0:08:03.920 respect a guy that would go out there and if 0:08:03.920 --> 0:08:05.760 you're living in a war zone. Jay Scoop could have 0:08:05.800 --> 0:08:09.640 easily died been hit by a missile. There were missiles 0:08:09.640 --> 0:08:13.360 that hit near where he was staying in Ukraine, so 0:08:13.400 --> 0:08:15.400 and I wanted to hear his stories. And he he 0:08:15.440 --> 0:08:18.240 had brought a couple of things that I didn't know 0:08:18.320 --> 0:08:22.520 about for show and tell. He did give me a 0:08:22.520 --> 0:08:25.480 as a gift. There was a medical pack that had 0:08:25.480 --> 0:08:29.560 been given from the US people that were there, the 0:08:29.920 --> 0:08:31.800 ex military that were there, that they'd given to the 0:08:31.920 --> 0:08:34.680 Ukraine people. He'd shown me that and he said that 0:08:34.800 --> 0:08:36.760 was something I could have. And then he also brought 0:08:36.800 --> 0:08:40.440 and this is where he got really controversial, the helmet 0:08:40.679 --> 0:08:45.320 that had been worn in the goggles from a Russian 0:08:46.559 --> 0:08:50.080 soldier that had been killed out in the battlefield. 0:08:50.320 --> 0:08:52.240 And I saw I saw pictures of this. 0:08:52.880 --> 0:08:54.880 Yeah yeah, So he didn't. I mean, he handed me 0:08:54.960 --> 0:08:57.400 this on the air. He checked this out, So I 0:08:57.440 --> 0:09:00.440 was all right, helmet whatever. So I grabbed it. And 0:09:00.480 --> 0:09:03.440 then as I'm holding it, he like tells me this 0:09:03.920 --> 0:09:09.480 somebody died in that. Oh you know, yea, yea, And 0:09:09.880 --> 0:09:12.960 you know it's a little creepy and a little odd, you know. 0:09:13.000 --> 0:09:14.440 But I looked at it and it was like this 0:09:14.800 --> 0:09:18.800 helmet looked like it was very old on the inside 0:09:18.800 --> 0:09:20.400 and stuff. I don't know if you tell from the photo. 0:09:20.840 --> 0:09:23.240 It only got weird when Coop took it and started 0:09:23.240 --> 0:09:26.400 to grind weed up inside of it. 0:09:26.679 --> 0:09:30.600 So that's a Russian bong, dude, Come on anyway. So 0:09:30.640 --> 0:09:32.720 he showed me that and some other things that he 0:09:32.760 --> 0:09:35.839 had taken from from Ukraine. He also said that when 0:09:35.840 --> 0:09:39.400 he left going he left through Poland and there was 0:09:40.160 --> 0:09:43.360 you know, some issues getting stuff out of there and whatnot. 0:09:43.480 --> 0:09:46.120 And it was really nice to catch up with him 0:09:46.120 --> 0:09:48.040 and we had a nice visit. But I did get 0:09:48.080 --> 0:09:50.840 some emails from people very upset, you know, ranting and raven. 0:09:50.880 --> 0:09:54.480 One person sent me about five pages Danny. I didn't respond, 0:09:54.800 --> 0:09:56.280 and I'm not going to name them because I'm. 0:09:56.160 --> 0:09:59.079 Gonna four and a half pages too much. 0:09:59.720 --> 0:10:02.679 Yeah, you know, going on this guy in the soapboxes. 0:10:02.760 --> 0:10:04.640 Oh my, you know, I love you. It's always I 0:10:04.679 --> 0:10:08.120 love your show. But you know, and did I point 0:10:08.160 --> 0:10:11.480 out Danny anything before the word but is not true? 0:10:11.559 --> 0:10:13.920 When you say something and then put the butt in there, 0:10:14.640 --> 0:10:18.080 then that you're changing the context of everything. So and 0:10:18.720 --> 0:10:22.480 I get that people have issues with the certain things 0:10:22.480 --> 0:10:25.760 I understand it. I did not put Jayscoop on to 0:10:25.800 --> 0:10:27.840 make some kind of political statement. He's just a friend 0:10:27.920 --> 0:10:29.920 of mine from the show. He's been great to us. 0:10:30.160 --> 0:10:32.839 He set up that Seattle meet and greet we did 0:10:32.840 --> 0:10:35.680 back in twenty nineteen, right before COVID, and that was 0:10:35.760 --> 0:10:38.320 his production and he made that happen and I had 0:10:38.320 --> 0:10:41.400 a great time in Seattle hanging with him and Robbie 0:10:41.440 --> 0:10:44.360 the Mariner fan came up from Oregon and all those guys, 0:10:44.360 --> 0:10:47.800 and we had we had a wonderful time. JJ and Renton, Nostridinius. 0:10:47.800 --> 0:10:49.800 I mean, these are legends on the show that we're 0:10:49.840 --> 0:10:52.640 at the Malor meet and greet, and some other people 0:10:52.640 --> 0:10:54.600 I did not name that will be very upset. I 0:10:54.640 --> 0:10:56.920 did not name them. So we go back to a 0:10:57.000 --> 0:10:58.559 number of years. He'd been a big part of the 0:10:58.600 --> 0:11:00.480 show over the years, and so he's back. We were 0:11:00.480 --> 0:11:02.480 worried about him. He would give me some updates while 0:11:02.520 --> 0:11:05.240 he was there, and so I'm happy he's back. And 0:11:05.400 --> 0:11:07.240 I felt like, well, I have him in every once 0:11:07.280 --> 0:11:09.199 in a while, why not change it up a little bit. 0:11:09.679 --> 0:11:11.920 So it was great to have Jay Scoop stuff. I 0:11:11.960 --> 0:11:14.000 think some of this also, Danny not only is it 0:11:14.040 --> 0:11:17.760 political right, because it is controversial the amount of US 0:11:17.880 --> 0:11:20.200 tax dollars that went to Ukraine. I totally get that. 0:11:21.160 --> 0:11:23.480 It was also a case of people, I think a 0:11:23.480 --> 0:11:26.320 little jealous of the amount of attention Jayscoop got. You 0:11:26.400 --> 0:11:29.120 know how the p Ones could be, Danny. They don't 0:11:29.200 --> 0:11:31.640 like the others getting too much attention. They want their 0:11:31.679 --> 0:11:34.200 own slice of the pie, and when somebody else gets 0:11:34.240 --> 0:11:36.280 the whole pie, they don't like that. 0:11:36.800 --> 0:11:39.320 So I think we got a new nickname for you 0:11:39.400 --> 0:11:42.920 to add to the list, that the income poop of NATO, 0:11:44.320 --> 0:11:45.600 NATO's nincom poopers. 0:11:45.800 --> 0:11:49.800 Yeah, exactly. I am not making some kind of geopolitical statement. 0:11:49.880 --> 0:11:52.440 I am not. I just thought it was an interesting story. 0:11:52.440 --> 0:11:54.920 It's not every day that you know somebody that spent 0:11:55.000 --> 0:11:57.560 fifteen months living in a country that is at war 0:11:58.000 --> 0:12:01.640 and chose to live there, just like you chose to 0:12:01.679 --> 0:12:05.120 go there and anyway, all right, but I guess that's 0:12:05.120 --> 0:12:08.160 a public service announcement to the p Ones. Danny was like, 0:12:08.320 --> 0:12:10.600 just if you're gonna complain, I get it, you're unhappy. 0:12:10.679 --> 0:12:13.480 You don't need to send five pages. That's way too much, 0:12:13.520 --> 0:12:16.720 As Danny said, just say, send one line. You fing 0:12:17.040 --> 0:12:20.160 f fu and then move on. That's all you need 0:12:20.200 --> 0:12:21.839 to do. Don't waste your time. I didn't read all 0:12:21.840 --> 0:12:23.760 five pages, by the way, I only read like one 0:12:23.840 --> 0:12:24.400 page and that. 0:12:24.520 --> 0:12:26.840 Was that blank, my blank and blank. 0:12:26.880 --> 0:12:32.280 You have you ever been to the CVS pharmacy right 0:12:32.360 --> 0:12:34.520 down the street from our studios. 0:12:34.800 --> 0:12:37.240 Yes, I have. And not only have I been there, Danny, 0:12:37.280 --> 0:12:40.800 I have been there in the like three thirty four 0:12:40.840 --> 0:12:46.640 in the morning, when every crackheads out. He's inside and 0:12:46.679 --> 0:12:48.840 outside that But are they still open twenty four hours? 0:12:48.840 --> 0:12:50.920 They used to be open twenty four hours? 0:12:50.960 --> 0:12:52.400 We ours, I know they still are. 0:12:52.679 --> 0:12:54.160 Okay, I've not been there in a while, but that 0:12:54.200 --> 0:12:55.480 is one of the few places out in the San 0:12:55.520 --> 0:12:57.679 Fernando Valley that is open twenty four hours. I've been 0:12:57.679 --> 0:13:00.200 there not a while, though not in a while while. 0:13:00.600 --> 0:13:03.360 Always a little shady crowd at that location. 0:13:03.559 --> 0:13:08.040 Though everything else in that shopping center has came and gone. 0:13:08.080 --> 0:13:10.920 There used to be a Marie Calendar's restaurant. 0:13:10.440 --> 0:13:11.680 There, remember that. 0:13:12.080 --> 0:13:15.960 Yeah, that's long gone. Now the big party City that's there. 0:13:16.400 --> 0:13:19.560 They just announced that their remaining locations are all closing. 0:13:20.160 --> 0:13:21.560 Party Cities going out of business. 0:13:21.559 --> 0:13:25.439 Really, yeah, out of business. And another company killed by Amazon. 0:13:26.160 --> 0:13:26.880 You killed it? 0:13:27.720 --> 0:13:30.120 Wow, that's wild. I did not know that. I did 0:13:30.120 --> 0:13:30.960 not know that. Interesting. 0:13:31.080 --> 0:13:36.080 So two afternoons in a row on Thursday and Friday, 0:13:36.320 --> 0:13:40.200 I left my house early. Where our school district is, 0:13:40.600 --> 0:13:42.560 they did half days for the middle school. 0:13:42.600 --> 0:13:46.040 In high school. They tortured the kids, made them stay. 0:13:45.800 --> 0:13:48.040 A week longer than a lot of other school districts, 0:13:48.040 --> 0:13:50.400 but they did half days. I guess just so the 0:13:50.440 --> 0:13:54.520 schools could still get that money. Okay, so my clock, 0:13:54.600 --> 0:13:58.200 I usually leave by one pm to get to the 0:13:58.240 --> 0:14:01.760 studios by one four. In this case, I had to 0:14:01.800 --> 0:14:04.520 get on the road at twelve thirty because I knew 0:14:04.559 --> 0:14:06.960 it was like a ticking time bomb with all the parents. 0:14:07.440 --> 0:14:09.800 Took me fifteen extra minutes just to make it to 0:14:09.840 --> 0:14:18.319 the freeway early. Getting to Sherman Oaks, I said, okay, well, 0:14:18.320 --> 0:14:19.600 you know what, I'm gonna do a little bit of 0:14:19.600 --> 0:14:24.080 stocking stuffer shopping by going to that CVS. There is 0:14:24.120 --> 0:14:26.800 a line, and I'm not exaggerating here. It had to 0:14:26.880 --> 0:14:31.160 have been at least twenty different people one checker. That's 0:14:31.200 --> 0:14:32.720 it in the whole stinking store. 0:14:33.240 --> 0:14:37.080 Nightmare, nightmare. Yeah, that's leave territory. That's I ain't wait. 0:14:38.480 --> 0:14:40.720 I figured I had to get at least one nice 0:14:40.840 --> 0:14:45.200 cool picture that was on a magnet for my Wifey 0:14:45.320 --> 0:14:49.920 of CoA, of big Baby CoA. Figured that would be 0:14:50.000 --> 0:14:54.760 a nice memory, great photo of him, and I turned 0:14:54.760 --> 0:14:58.800 it into three magnets, put the order in on their kiosk, 0:14:59.480 --> 0:15:02.520 avoided that big, long line. I'm like, great, I have 0:15:02.720 --> 0:15:05.400 my little receipt. I'll just come back after Covino and 0:15:05.520 --> 0:15:08.000 Rich and pay for it, and hopefully there won't be 0:15:08.000 --> 0:15:11.040 as many people in line. So I go back get 0:15:11.080 --> 0:15:14.480 these magnets. There was about ten people in line when 0:15:14.520 --> 0:15:17.160 I was there. It still sucked, but wasn't as bad 0:15:17.200 --> 0:15:19.440 as when I placed the order. I get out of 0:15:19.480 --> 0:15:22.400 the store, I open up the little thing they put 0:15:22.480 --> 0:15:25.920 pictures like photos in, and these magnets suck. 0:15:26.320 --> 0:15:30.120 They're too dark. The pictures came out dark. They look cheap. 0:15:30.320 --> 0:15:33.520 Yeah, they're off center, but I'm not going back in there. 0:15:34.160 --> 0:15:36.800 On Friday, I get there early again and I said, well, 0:15:36.840 --> 0:15:39.120 you know what, might as well talk to a manager. 0:15:39.200 --> 0:15:42.400 I'll ask if they could redo these. Oh my god, 0:15:42.440 --> 0:15:45.080 there's so many damn people in this one stupid line, 0:15:45.680 --> 0:15:51.680 standing there screaming at a manager as this older gentleman. 0:15:54.480 --> 0:15:57.680 Meanwhile behind me, more people are lining up. More people 0:15:57.680 --> 0:16:00.960 are lining up because this one guy is putting a 0:16:01.000 --> 0:16:04.280 stranglehold on things. By the time I got up there, 0:16:04.680 --> 0:16:07.920 I felt bad. I lightheartedly said to the guy, I 0:16:07.960 --> 0:16:10.560 have a return too, but I'm not gonna yell at you. 0:16:11.200 --> 0:16:13.920 He looked like he wanted to quit right on the spot. 0:16:13.960 --> 0:16:15.880 This guy looked like he wanted to say fuck you 0:16:15.920 --> 0:16:18.040 to all of us and leave the CVS. 0:16:18.200 --> 0:16:20.880 Oh I bet yeah. I mean, what a nightmare, And 0:16:20.920 --> 0:16:22.880 you don't make a ton of money doing that, and 0:16:23.040 --> 0:16:26.880 people are just complete assholes. 0:16:27.520 --> 0:16:29.880 Yeah, it just got me feeling a little bit. 0:16:30.400 --> 0:16:30.600 Man. 0:16:30.880 --> 0:16:34.080 This is the time of the year where customers need 0:16:34.120 --> 0:16:37.520 to take a chill pill, take a deep breath, and 0:16:37.600 --> 0:16:39.040 have a little bit of patience. 0:16:40.360 --> 0:16:43.040 Yeah. Fortunately, my wife buys everything on Amazon, I think, 0:16:43.080 --> 0:16:45.600 so we really haven't gone to the store other than 0:16:45.600 --> 0:16:49.200 for groceries we have. Today is a big party day today, Danny. 0:16:49.240 --> 0:16:52.080 It's the not the ugly sweater party that was a 0:16:52.120 --> 0:16:55.720 couple weeks back. Today is the day that we all 0:16:55.880 --> 0:16:59.600 get the family party together that later today, the mallor 0:17:00.360 --> 0:17:02.320 family party. More on that later. 0:17:03.760 --> 0:17:06.640 Peanut butter and banana, Oh. 0:17:06.480 --> 0:17:12.600 My God, Brownies, cookies, up the wazoo, Up the wazoo. Crazy. 0:17:13.000 --> 0:17:16.040 I'm ready to fire the cannons, is what I'm ready 0:17:16.040 --> 0:17:17.560 to do. So I did want to say that I 0:17:17.600 --> 0:17:21.000 had a wonderful time last week. I mentioned I was 0:17:21.040 --> 0:17:24.560 going to the Bucks Chargers game, and Chargers have played again. 0:17:24.640 --> 0:17:26.760 I'm back on Thursday against the Broncos. I did not 0:17:26.800 --> 0:17:28.720 go to that game, as I said on yesterday's podcast, 0:17:28.720 --> 0:17:33.360 but last Sunday I attended the Charger game mainly I'm 0:17:33.359 --> 0:17:35.960 not gonna lie, mainly to see my friend TJ Reeves, 0:17:36.920 --> 0:17:39.320 part of the Fox Alumni Association, used to host a 0:17:39.359 --> 0:17:42.920 weekend show, and TJ is a buddy of mine radio pal, 0:17:43.760 --> 0:17:46.480 and I make it a point every time Tampa comes 0:17:46.520 --> 0:17:48.960 to town. They don't come to town every offen you 0:17:49.160 --> 0:17:51.800 very often and maybe once every two or three years, 0:17:52.280 --> 0:17:54.520 sometimes longer than that, they'll come to LA And so 0:17:55.040 --> 0:17:59.399 I made sure to pay TJ a visit and hang out, 0:18:00.080 --> 0:18:05.520 good conversation and he says hello, Danny. He also told 0:18:05.520 --> 0:18:08.080 me he went to dinner on Saturday before the game 0:18:08.119 --> 0:18:10.760 with an old friend of ours, the z Dog, who 0:18:10.800 --> 0:18:12.480 works at our company. Used to be one of the 0:18:12.480 --> 0:18:14.320 big boss Fox sports. 0:18:14.000 --> 0:18:18.120 Radio and Ben I would have gave TJ a full 0:18:18.119 --> 0:18:20.679 time show, but you know, I don't have all the 0:18:20.720 --> 0:18:21.280 power at the. 0:18:21.240 --> 0:18:27.760 Network pretty much, so everyone's got z dog stories. So 0:18:27.800 --> 0:18:29.800 he told me about that and it was it was great. 0:18:29.800 --> 0:18:32.600 We had a good, good visit, tell all the radio stories. 0:18:32.600 --> 0:18:35.400 And TJ's got a couple of daughters who are now 0:18:35.400 --> 0:18:37.720 in high school. And I've known, Wow. 0:18:37.520 --> 0:18:38.960 I remember when his kids were little. 0:18:39.600 --> 0:18:41.760 I know, dude. It's like we used to see photos 0:18:41.800 --> 0:18:43.840 of his little kids, you know, and they were little girls, 0:18:44.119 --> 0:18:47.160 like little children and babies. And now they're in high school. 0:18:47.160 --> 0:18:49.840 It's like, wow, where is It's like we're just zooming 0:18:49.880 --> 0:18:52.159 by life. Anyway, it was great to catch up and 0:18:52.160 --> 0:18:54.040 hear about them a little bit and you know what 0:18:54.080 --> 0:18:57.320 they're doing and all that. And then TJ brought me 0:18:57.440 --> 0:19:02.200 over to say hello to my old friend Gene Deckerhoff, 0:19:02.320 --> 0:19:05.119 the iconic voice of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, and for 0:19:05.200 --> 0:19:08.320 so many years I knew him as the voice of 0:19:08.560 --> 0:19:11.119 the Florida State Seminals. Back in Florida State was good 0:19:11.160 --> 0:19:13.240 at college football. I'm old enough to remember when they 0:19:13.280 --> 0:19:15.879 were good. It's been a long time, and Geen Deckerhoff 0:19:15.920 --> 0:19:17.879 was the play by play guy for both Florida State 0:19:18.280 --> 0:19:21.120 in their glory days with Bobby Bowden and has done 0:19:21.160 --> 0:19:23.359 Tampa Bay. And his signature call with the Bucks is 0:19:23.480 --> 0:19:27.800 fire the Conons and so and the story that you 0:19:27.840 --> 0:19:30.000 know about Dan. We talked about it on this podcast. 0:19:30.160 --> 0:19:34.040 Last time Tampa Bay was in LA I think they 0:19:34.040 --> 0:19:36.760 were playing the Rams if I remember, But I was 0:19:36.800 --> 0:19:39.399 at the game again to see TJ and I was 0:19:39.440 --> 0:19:42.440 in the elevator at Sofi Stadium. I was going upstairs 0:19:43.000 --> 0:19:47.560 and I heard this voice of somebody trying to find 0:19:47.560 --> 0:19:49.679 out where to go. He needed to go to the 0:19:49.720 --> 0:19:53.879 Tampa Bay radio booth, and I immediately recognized the voice 0:19:53.920 --> 0:19:56.639 without ever knowing. I didn't know what this guy looked like. 0:19:56.720 --> 0:19:59.560 I didn't know much about other than the voice Geen 0:19:59.640 --> 0:20:02.359 decker Off, and so immediately, oh, wait a minute, I 0:20:02.440 --> 0:20:07.760 know where to go. Gene, and I escorted him down 0:20:08.520 --> 0:20:12.840 the corridor through a security door and to the Tampa 0:20:12.840 --> 0:20:16.120 Bay Visiting Radio booth at Sofi because I've been there 0:20:16.200 --> 0:20:18.679 a number of times, and so we were catching up 0:20:18.680 --> 0:20:21.439 and Gene was very polite, very nice man, and uh 0:20:21.720 --> 0:20:23.720 it was he told some stories and you know a 0:20:23.720 --> 0:20:25.520 couple of stories and I wasn't with him for that long. 0:20:25.600 --> 0:20:27.800 He was getting ready for the game, and and he 0:20:27.920 --> 0:20:29.960