1 00:00:00,960 --> 00:00:05,480 Speaker 1: Boom. If you thought four hours a day, minutes a 2 00:00:05,480 --> 00:00:09,200 Speaker 1: week was enough, I think again. He's the last remnants 3 00:00:09,200 --> 00:00:12,480 Speaker 1: of the old republic, a sole fashion of fairness. He 4 00:00:12,560 --> 00:00:15,480 Speaker 1: treats crackheads in the ghetto cutter the same as the 5 00:00:15,600 --> 00:00:19,600 Speaker 1: rich pill poppers in the penthouse the clearing House of 6 00:00:19,640 --> 00:00:23,439 Speaker 1: hot takes, break free for something special. The Fifth Hour 7 00:00:23,560 --> 00:00:31,720 Speaker 1: with Ben Maller starts right now in the air. Everywheares 8 00:00:31,920 --> 00:00:35,239 Speaker 1: we are back at it on a Saturday, Saturday, Saturday, 9 00:00:35,320 --> 00:00:40,080 Speaker 1: you have stumbled upon the Fifth Hour with Ben Mallor 10 00:00:40,240 --> 00:00:46,120 Speaker 1: and Danny g Radio on a great, wonderful weekend. We 11 00:00:46,159 --> 00:00:50,559 Speaker 1: have begun the month of April. Actually that was yesterday. 12 00:00:50,600 --> 00:00:52,600 Speaker 1: We begin the month of April, and here we are 13 00:00:52,680 --> 00:00:57,680 Speaker 1: on a Saturday, back at it. And now that's not 14 00:00:57,880 --> 00:01:00,920 Speaker 1: that's the wrong show. That's the wrong And I realized 15 00:01:00,960 --> 00:01:04,720 Speaker 1: though Danny on the podcast, it's not like to restaurant radio. 16 00:01:05,280 --> 00:01:08,319 Speaker 1: Nobody can stumble upon us. You have to go out 17 00:01:08,360 --> 00:01:12,640 Speaker 1: of your way to listen to the show. You can't 18 00:01:12,680 --> 00:01:15,200 Speaker 1: just like, how would you stumble into the podcast? It 19 00:01:15,240 --> 00:01:17,640 Speaker 1: is to me, there's no way to do that. So 20 00:01:17,680 --> 00:01:21,920 Speaker 1: it's a different dynamic. Yes, yes, what a great week 21 00:01:22,200 --> 00:01:25,160 Speaker 1: it was Ben. Now, I'm not sure if you won 22 00:01:25,240 --> 00:01:30,640 Speaker 1: one for saying couci. But look, it's a lot of playing. 23 00:01:30,640 --> 00:01:33,039 Speaker 1: It's probably hurting your eyes because it's so shiny. But 24 00:01:33,080 --> 00:01:35,960 Speaker 1: look what I'm holding up right now. Oh my god, 25 00:01:36,080 --> 00:01:38,880 Speaker 1: look at that. That is unbelievable. Where do you get that? 26 00:01:39,040 --> 00:01:43,800 Speaker 1: Is that my first ever? Benny? Oh, congratulate and well learned, 27 00:01:44,240 --> 00:01:47,960 Speaker 1: well learned. But I I would like to start by 28 00:01:48,040 --> 00:01:51,360 Speaker 1: thanking my mom. It all started when I was two 29 00:01:51,440 --> 00:01:55,480 Speaker 1: years old. Yeah, you have a little passion and Mr microphone, 30 00:01:55,880 --> 00:02:01,640 Speaker 1: she dropped me on my head and the rest is history. 31 00:02:02,080 --> 00:02:05,480 Speaker 1: The rest is history. Here we are all these years later, 32 00:02:06,080 --> 00:02:08,440 Speaker 1: like why didn't I become a doctor or a lawyer? 33 00:02:08,480 --> 00:02:12,400 Speaker 1: What what am I doing here? I'm a doctor? Thank you, 34 00:02:12,639 --> 00:02:17,160 Speaker 1: Thank you. Mallard Militia. Yeah, they love you, Danny G. Congratulations. 35 00:02:17,160 --> 00:02:21,200 Speaker 1: You beat out the entire field, very competitive field, and 36 00:02:21,320 --> 00:02:24,240 Speaker 1: you are the King of the fill ins. That was 37 00:02:24,280 --> 00:02:26,920 Speaker 1: the title Jonas Knox had for a long time. We 38 00:02:26,960 --> 00:02:29,679 Speaker 1: don't need to bring Jonas in and then now he's 39 00:02:29,680 --> 00:02:32,240 Speaker 1: no longer a fill in, so you have now replaced 40 00:02:32,320 --> 00:02:36,080 Speaker 1: him as the king. And the Mallam Militia they love you. 41 00:02:36,960 --> 00:02:40,440 Speaker 1: Just it's it's just love, is what it is, clearly. Anyway. 42 00:02:40,560 --> 00:02:42,320 Speaker 1: So on this edition of the Fifth Hour, we've got 43 00:02:42,320 --> 00:02:47,679 Speaker 1: the garage mirage pissing in the wind, and we've got 44 00:02:47,720 --> 00:02:53,520 Speaker 1: fertilizer backscratcher, maybe even some pop quiz depending on time. 45 00:02:53,680 --> 00:02:56,560 Speaker 1: You know, even though it's a podcast, we've got things 46 00:02:56,560 --> 00:02:59,240 Speaker 1: to do, places to go, people to see, right, we 47 00:02:59,280 --> 00:03:02,200 Speaker 1: don't have all all day here. And plus if a 48 00:03:02,280 --> 00:03:05,080 Speaker 1: podcast is too long, who's gonna listen to all this? 49 00:03:05,160 --> 00:03:09,760 Speaker 1: It just nobody wants that, right, Danny exactly. Even our 50 00:03:09,800 --> 00:03:12,480 Speaker 1: family members are like, can you keep it to forty 51 00:03:12,560 --> 00:03:15,880 Speaker 1: five minutes please? Yeah, he can't go too long. And 52 00:03:15,960 --> 00:03:18,480 Speaker 1: with all the commercials, that's like two hours, right, that's 53 00:03:18,480 --> 00:03:20,720 Speaker 1: like two hours of all the commercials, just the weight 54 00:03:20,760 --> 00:03:25,800 Speaker 1: loss commercial alone anyway. All right, So since August of 55 00:03:25,960 --> 00:03:31,120 Speaker 1: last year, we've documented this on the podcast The Life 56 00:03:31,200 --> 00:03:33,760 Speaker 1: of Mallard, the Saturday staple in Life of Danny G. 57 00:03:34,240 --> 00:03:39,280 Speaker 1: So over the last eight months, I have been overwhelmed 58 00:03:39,280 --> 00:03:43,720 Speaker 1: with stuff. My pops passed away that the second day 59 00:03:43,720 --> 00:03:50,040 Speaker 1: of one, and he had his entire life's worth of 60 00:03:50,320 --> 00:03:55,200 Speaker 1: belongings that he left behind, and we all leave stuff behind. 61 00:03:55,440 --> 00:03:58,760 Speaker 1: But also my mom's they've been married for many years. 62 00:03:58,800 --> 00:04:01,200 Speaker 1: My mom passed away number years ago. My my dad, 63 00:04:01,280 --> 00:04:04,080 Speaker 1: God love him. He left everything my mom left behind 64 00:04:04,120 --> 00:04:06,720 Speaker 1: there and so I had everything for both my parents. 65 00:04:06,840 --> 00:04:09,440 Speaker 1: My brothers are in the other parts of the country 66 00:04:09,440 --> 00:04:11,000 Speaker 1: that I where I am in l A. There in 67 00:04:11,040 --> 00:04:14,040 Speaker 1: the Midwest and the East Coast, and so I have 68 00:04:14,080 --> 00:04:17,320 Speaker 1: been the one to try to navigate my way, trying 69 00:04:17,320 --> 00:04:18,919 Speaker 1: to figure out what's going on here with the the 70 00:04:18,960 --> 00:04:24,080 Speaker 1: wife and so not to mention Danny moving twice over 71 00:04:24,120 --> 00:04:28,760 Speaker 1: the last year. We moved from the Mallard Mansion, which 72 00:04:28,760 --> 00:04:31,159 Speaker 1: you were at a couple of times for the holiday party, 73 00:04:31,200 --> 00:04:35,680 Speaker 1: to the Halfway House where Bella got eaten by a 74 00:04:35,720 --> 00:04:39,680 Speaker 1: coyote and survived, got the last laugh. Then we went 75 00:04:39,720 --> 00:04:45,039 Speaker 1: to the newly decked out Mallard Mansion in the north Woods. 76 00:04:45,560 --> 00:04:47,760 Speaker 1: And so this entire time is like what to keep 77 00:04:47,839 --> 00:04:50,920 Speaker 1: with the toss away? And these are very tough decisions, Uh, 78 00:04:51,160 --> 00:04:53,880 Speaker 1: you know, tear the place apart. Some of these belongings. 79 00:04:54,640 --> 00:04:56,640 Speaker 1: I look at them and then Danny, they're like my, 80 00:04:57,240 --> 00:05:00,719 Speaker 1: not mine. They were my parents pride and enjoy and 81 00:05:00,720 --> 00:05:03,320 Speaker 1: it's hard to see that stuff just go to a landfill, 82 00:05:04,120 --> 00:05:06,680 Speaker 1: get a little sappy and sentimental. I realized that everything 83 00:05:06,680 --> 00:05:08,400 Speaker 1: we own will eventually end up in a landfill. I 84 00:05:08,440 --> 00:05:12,000 Speaker 1: understand that, but I was like, well, my mom used 85 00:05:12,000 --> 00:05:13,719 Speaker 1: to say, you know, life is for the living, Life 86 00:05:13,760 --> 00:05:17,239 Speaker 1: goes on all those things that parents say. But anyway, 87 00:05:17,279 --> 00:05:21,680 Speaker 1: it's been a bleeping nightmare every weekend since August. I 88 00:05:21,760 --> 00:05:26,120 Speaker 1: have spent part or all of my weekend going bit 89 00:05:26,240 --> 00:05:29,280 Speaker 1: by bit through this crap that I've had to dig 90 00:05:29,360 --> 00:05:32,640 Speaker 1: through and literally dig through, like up to the ceiling 91 00:05:32,720 --> 00:05:35,440 Speaker 1: in the garage. And we've got storage sheds and you 92 00:05:35,520 --> 00:05:40,520 Speaker 1: name it. It is a man made debacle and just 93 00:05:40,520 --> 00:05:45,120 Speaker 1: just disaster. So finally, last week was different than every 94 00:05:45,120 --> 00:05:47,599 Speaker 1: other day. My wife decided, you know what, let's work smarter, 95 00:05:47,760 --> 00:05:52,800 Speaker 1: not harder, and she hired a guy that had worked 96 00:05:53,120 --> 00:05:56,560 Speaker 1: at the house helping to renovate kind of fix things 97 00:05:56,640 --> 00:06:01,279 Speaker 1: up here to co and sort through the garage. Yeah, 98 00:06:01,360 --> 00:06:04,280 Speaker 1: and so this is amazing, This is the great miracle 99 00:06:04,640 --> 00:06:08,920 Speaker 1: of the garage in one day, in one day, while 100 00:06:09,040 --> 00:06:12,840 Speaker 1: I was working getting ready for the show and then 101 00:06:12,839 --> 00:06:17,680 Speaker 1: doing the show, and all that stuff, everything had been 102 00:06:17,720 --> 00:06:23,440 Speaker 1: taken out, done, inventory of organized stuff had been thrown away, 103 00:06:23,480 --> 00:06:30,280 Speaker 1: cleaned up, and it took about eight hours of hard labor. 104 00:06:31,760 --> 00:06:36,680 Speaker 1: But I witnessed the garage mirage wa la danny g 105 00:06:36,920 --> 00:06:41,839 Speaker 1: presto amazing. I'm still shocked by this, and that means 106 00:06:41,880 --> 00:06:45,720 Speaker 1: though after finally getting some work done, there's some power 107 00:06:45,760 --> 00:06:48,720 Speaker 1: issues that have to be fixed. So once an electrician, 108 00:06:48,960 --> 00:06:51,200 Speaker 1: a licensed electrician comes over to make sure the house 109 00:06:51,200 --> 00:06:54,320 Speaker 1: doesn't burn down from an electrical fire, I will be 110 00:06:54,400 --> 00:06:58,920 Speaker 1: back on my beloved treadmill that I have not had 111 00:06:58,960 --> 00:07:01,920 Speaker 1: has been buried piles of stuff on top of it. 112 00:07:02,640 --> 00:07:06,080 Speaker 1: So I got a treadmill a while back that was 113 00:07:06,080 --> 00:07:09,480 Speaker 1: actually before COVID and uh, and I've been able to 114 00:07:09,560 --> 00:07:13,640 Speaker 1: use the thing since August. So the garage mirage danny 115 00:07:13,720 --> 00:07:18,040 Speaker 1: G Saving the day, Saving the day. Was it weird 116 00:07:18,160 --> 00:07:24,000 Speaker 1: having somebody else touched the Mallar Museum or were you 117 00:07:24,120 --> 00:07:28,680 Speaker 1: kind of supervising? I was making sure the person, did 118 00:07:28,840 --> 00:07:30,880 Speaker 1: you know, get out of there with anything, But no, 119 00:07:31,040 --> 00:07:33,520 Speaker 1: it was it was fine. I mean, it's okay. A 120 00:07:33,560 --> 00:07:36,640 Speaker 1: lot of the stuff was very old, and it's one 121 00:07:36,640 --> 00:07:38,280 Speaker 1: of those things that's like out of sight, out of 122 00:07:38,320 --> 00:07:40,000 Speaker 1: mind kind of you know, you know it's there, but 123 00:07:40,040 --> 00:07:41,880 Speaker 1: if you don't see it, and now it's gone, you're like, 124 00:07:41,920 --> 00:07:45,280 Speaker 1: well you feel better about it. You're like, well, something 125 00:07:45,320 --> 00:07:46,840 Speaker 1: happened to it, But I don't really know what happened 126 00:07:46,840 --> 00:07:48,760 Speaker 1: to it. Maybe it just vanished in the thin air. 127 00:07:49,200 --> 00:07:52,320 Speaker 1: You have no idea, you know, maybe a magician came 128 00:07:52,360 --> 00:07:55,480 Speaker 1: in thew Dany or somebody like that. Who knows. I 129 00:07:55,480 --> 00:07:59,440 Speaker 1: have no idea. But it's all cleaned up now and 130 00:07:59,560 --> 00:08:03,320 Speaker 1: I can get my weekends back, which I used to 131 00:08:03,360 --> 00:08:05,480 Speaker 1: never have weekends. I know you right now are going 132 00:08:05,480 --> 00:08:07,400 Speaker 1: through that, working on the weekends with the radio and 133 00:08:07,440 --> 00:08:12,440 Speaker 1: stuff and having a duck juggle everything. And so I 134 00:08:12,440 --> 00:08:16,080 Speaker 1: I have been very very busy here doing stuff, well 135 00:08:16,160 --> 00:08:18,120 Speaker 1: very busy, but apparently not that busy because it took 136 00:08:18,680 --> 00:08:20,760 Speaker 1: it took eight hours for stuff that I've I've taken 137 00:08:20,800 --> 00:08:25,760 Speaker 1: eight months and haven't made any real progress. So go figure. 138 00:08:26,840 --> 00:08:29,320 Speaker 1: I hear you. We've talked about it on the podcast before. 139 00:08:29,400 --> 00:08:32,240 Speaker 1: When you have a really busy schedule, you have this 140 00:08:32,559 --> 00:08:36,320 Speaker 1: to do list that just hangs around, usually on your fridge, 141 00:08:36,960 --> 00:08:38,760 Speaker 1: and you're like, I'm gonna get to that. I'm gonna 142 00:08:38,760 --> 00:08:41,600 Speaker 1: get to that. But once you do have a day offer, 143 00:08:41,640 --> 00:08:45,439 Speaker 1: an afternoon offer, even a few hours off, you're like, 144 00:08:45,760 --> 00:08:48,000 Speaker 1: I don't want to do that, right now, that's the 145 00:08:48,080 --> 00:08:52,080 Speaker 1: last thing I want to do. Yeah, no, absolutely, it's like, 146 00:08:52,120 --> 00:08:54,920 Speaker 1: you know, what are we doing here? And uh, we 147 00:08:55,000 --> 00:08:57,000 Speaker 1: got it done or I didn't really have anything to 148 00:08:57,040 --> 00:09:01,280 Speaker 1: do with it. But now now it's done and we 149 00:09:01,880 --> 00:09:04,720 Speaker 1: move on and it's all wonderful and all glorious and 150 00:09:04,720 --> 00:09:09,520 Speaker 1: all that stuff. So hallelujah, hallelujah. Now you are free 151 00:09:09,520 --> 00:09:14,240 Speaker 1: to hang clothes back onto the treadmill, Yes, exactly, free 152 00:09:14,280 --> 00:09:17,160 Speaker 1: to hang it all back and make it all dirty. 153 00:09:17,559 --> 00:09:20,040 Speaker 1: And then when I'm ready to meet my maker and 154 00:09:20,120 --> 00:09:22,640 Speaker 1: head to the pearly gates, I will leave all all 155 00:09:22,679 --> 00:09:26,079 Speaker 1: of it behind. So it's it's really just rinse, wash, repeat, right, 156 00:09:26,080 --> 00:09:29,040 Speaker 1: the cycle of life. You know. New people come into 157 00:09:29,120 --> 00:09:31,040 Speaker 1: the the act and they do the same crap that 158 00:09:31,080 --> 00:09:33,640 Speaker 1: we did, and we do the same crap that our 159 00:09:33,679 --> 00:09:36,199 Speaker 1: parents did and their parents did, and I bet you 160 00:09:36,200 --> 00:09:38,320 Speaker 1: wouldn't have done anything like just a mom and dad 161 00:09:38,360 --> 00:09:42,480 Speaker 1: were here. Sometimes the technology changes, but we just passed 162 00:09:42,480 --> 00:09:45,199 Speaker 1: the baton. We just passed the baton on, right, that's 163 00:09:45,200 --> 00:09:48,120 Speaker 1: what we do here. It's amazing, what an amazing thing. Anyway, 164 00:09:48,120 --> 00:09:52,840 Speaker 1: So that was the the garage mirage. Now, so after 165 00:09:52,920 --> 00:09:59,360 Speaker 1: the great garage mirage of I then pivoted. We we 166 00:09:59,400 --> 00:10:02,320 Speaker 1: actually pivot it turned to the next project. Well, I 167 00:10:02,320 --> 00:10:05,600 Speaker 1: actually had nothing to do with this also. Uh so 168 00:10:05,640 --> 00:10:09,360 Speaker 1: we finally after eight months of dealing with this, and 169 00:10:09,360 --> 00:10:13,920 Speaker 1: actually longer than that, the entire year plus a couple 170 00:10:14,000 --> 00:10:18,600 Speaker 1: of months, it's like fourteen months. So then the wife's like, hey, 171 00:10:18,640 --> 00:10:20,840 Speaker 1: why don't we get to the next project right away? 172 00:10:21,040 --> 00:10:23,400 Speaker 1: Right right like a day later, right away, Let's get 173 00:10:23,440 --> 00:10:26,880 Speaker 1: to the next And so she said, uh, you know, 174 00:10:26,960 --> 00:10:31,240 Speaker 1: there's one bathroom that hasn't been renovated in the home 175 00:10:31,280 --> 00:10:34,240 Speaker 1: we're in here in the north Woods. And so the 176 00:10:34,880 --> 00:10:38,640 Speaker 1: wife says, yeah, let's do it. And so she we 177 00:10:38,679 --> 00:10:41,960 Speaker 1: had purchased like a bunch of materials for the the bathroom, 178 00:10:42,040 --> 00:10:44,600 Speaker 1: like the flooring and all that stuff like that had 179 00:10:44,640 --> 00:10:46,560 Speaker 1: been sitting in the garage, but now we had access 180 00:10:46,600 --> 00:10:48,960 Speaker 1: to it, and they've been sitting in the house and stuff. Anyway, 181 00:10:49,000 --> 00:10:51,480 Speaker 1: that was backing on, So what the heck? So a 182 00:10:51,520 --> 00:10:55,839 Speaker 1: friend of a friend, Danny, was brought in because I 183 00:10:55,880 --> 00:10:57,199 Speaker 1: don't know how to do any of this stuff. We 184 00:10:57,240 --> 00:10:59,280 Speaker 1: don't know, and so it brought in to do the labor, 185 00:10:59,320 --> 00:11:01,880 Speaker 1: like the hard work heavy lift, friend of the family, 186 00:11:02,840 --> 00:11:06,880 Speaker 1: a new friend of the fan, and he's got a 187 00:11:06,920 --> 00:11:10,600 Speaker 1: full time gig elsewhere, so he can only come a 188 00:11:10,600 --> 00:11:12,840 Speaker 1: few days a week. You know what this means, Danny. 189 00:11:13,080 --> 00:11:16,120 Speaker 1: It's gonna take eight months too. Yeah. Yeah, so you 190 00:11:16,120 --> 00:11:17,520 Speaker 1: know we're a couple of days a week. But he's 191 00:11:17,720 --> 00:11:23,280 Speaker 1: the race exactly. He can't beat the rate. The rates amazing. No, 192 00:11:23,360 --> 00:11:26,520 Speaker 1: I'm not gonna stop it. It's an amazing thing. And 193 00:11:26,760 --> 00:11:29,320 Speaker 1: so you're kind of does good work, but he's busy 194 00:11:29,400 --> 00:11:31,360 Speaker 1: to get another job, and so you can only do 195 00:11:31,480 --> 00:11:34,680 Speaker 1: a few days a week. So last Sunday we started 196 00:11:34,720 --> 00:11:40,120 Speaker 1: on Saturday. On Sunday, I wake up to watch the 197 00:11:40,240 --> 00:11:43,040 Speaker 1: Final Four, which was the final games of the Elite 198 00:11:43,040 --> 00:11:46,040 Speaker 1: eight to get to the Final four. So then these 199 00:11:46,040 --> 00:11:48,000 Speaker 1: were terrible games anyway. But I wake up and I 200 00:11:48,040 --> 00:11:50,560 Speaker 1: get a message. I look at my phone, which everyone 201 00:11:50,559 --> 00:11:52,679 Speaker 1: does when you wake up, you'll get your phone, and 202 00:11:52,720 --> 00:11:55,800 Speaker 1: there's a message there and it's it's it's yells at me, 203 00:11:55,960 --> 00:11:59,280 Speaker 1: do not use the toilet. Do not use the toime. 204 00:11:59,320 --> 00:12:05,280 Speaker 1: I'm like, wait, h, I'm a normal, normal person, don't. 205 00:12:05,320 --> 00:12:07,760 Speaker 1: Most people when they wake up, the first thing they 206 00:12:07,760 --> 00:12:09,719 Speaker 1: do is they head to the powder room. That's what 207 00:12:09,760 --> 00:12:13,320 Speaker 1: they say an HGTV they called the powder room. Right. 208 00:12:13,360 --> 00:12:15,160 Speaker 1: I mean, I'm wrong, Danny. I know I'm wrong in 209 00:12:15,200 --> 00:12:17,520 Speaker 1: that right. The first thing I do I hit the 210 00:12:17,520 --> 00:12:21,360 Speaker 1: mouth wash, okay, and then I hit the john. Yeah. 211 00:12:21,400 --> 00:12:24,880 Speaker 1: But some whether that vice versa or whatnot, you're you're 212 00:12:24,920 --> 00:12:28,120 Speaker 1: doing that in some order. I spent some time in 213 00:12:28,160 --> 00:12:30,480 Speaker 1: the comfort station. So this time, this day is different. 214 00:12:30,480 --> 00:12:34,040 Speaker 1: I wake up and you know, I'm like, I'm a 215 00:12:34,080 --> 00:12:36,439 Speaker 1: little groggy, you know, like what's going on here? I 216 00:12:36,480 --> 00:12:38,439 Speaker 1: know I gotta work get ready for a show at 217 00:12:38,480 --> 00:12:46,559 Speaker 1: some point here and uh, anyway, the wife's tells me, listen, 218 00:12:46,679 --> 00:12:49,800 Speaker 1: something happened, something happened here, and there's no water in 219 00:12:49,840 --> 00:12:51,920 Speaker 1: the house. It turns out the guy doing the demo 220 00:12:52,920 --> 00:12:57,959 Speaker 1: had accidentally in his rushed to get the tile off 221 00:12:58,000 --> 00:13:02,280 Speaker 1: the floor the demo part had hit a hidden water 222 00:13:02,440 --> 00:13:06,880 Speaker 1: line that was buried kind of in the concrete and 223 00:13:06,960 --> 00:13:09,000 Speaker 1: kind of against the wall when the house was built. 224 00:13:09,600 --> 00:13:13,600 Speaker 1: Oh no, yeah, so this a caused a big flood, 225 00:13:14,320 --> 00:13:17,560 Speaker 1: which was the first problem, the Great Mallard Flood, of 226 00:13:19,240 --> 00:13:22,800 Speaker 1: which then led to the water being shut off so 227 00:13:23,559 --> 00:13:26,040 Speaker 1: I couldn't use the toilets couldn't take a shower, couldn't 228 00:13:26,080 --> 00:13:28,360 Speaker 1: do any of that stuff. You don't realize how much 229 00:13:28,600 --> 00:13:32,440 Speaker 1: water you need until you don't have it. And anyway, 230 00:13:32,440 --> 00:13:34,199 Speaker 1: was like, okay, the waters a little fine. It was 231 00:13:34,240 --> 00:13:37,680 Speaker 1: called plumber was Sunday. You know how much an emergency 232 00:13:37,679 --> 00:13:43,439 Speaker 1: plumber charges on a Sunday. Damn right, damn right. I 233 00:13:43,640 --> 00:13:46,280 Speaker 1: don't get paid that much to do a radio show anyway. 234 00:13:46,360 --> 00:13:49,400 Speaker 1: So these these guys were charging an armadal like literally 235 00:13:49,400 --> 00:13:53,199 Speaker 1: an armald fortunate just to show up, not even to 236 00:13:53,200 --> 00:13:57,120 Speaker 1: repair was ever damaged, but just to show up. So 237 00:13:57,160 --> 00:14:02,600 Speaker 1: we made a tactical decision that we would wait until 238 00:14:03,120 --> 00:14:06,120 Speaker 1: the following day, on Monday, because then it would be 239 00:14:06,160 --> 00:14:09,840 Speaker 1: a more reasonable price with the same job, but they 240 00:14:09,840 --> 00:14:12,400 Speaker 1: wouldn't charge the emergency rate because it was during business 241 00:14:12,440 --> 00:14:15,120 Speaker 1: hours and all that stuff. Tell me you drove down 242 00:14:15,120 --> 00:14:19,120 Speaker 1: the street to use Burger King's bathroom, Well, I will see. 243 00:14:19,200 --> 00:14:21,600 Speaker 1: That's where the story takes a turn. So that meant 244 00:14:21,720 --> 00:14:26,320 Speaker 1: that Sunday, all day Sunday and the better part of Monday, 245 00:14:26,440 --> 00:14:32,080 Speaker 1: I was literally and figuratively Danny g pissing in the 246 00:14:32,120 --> 00:14:35,400 Speaker 1: north Woods. I was pissing in the wind. It's what 247 00:14:35,480 --> 00:14:38,840 Speaker 1: I was doing, which I will point out not a 248 00:14:38,880 --> 00:14:41,960 Speaker 1: problem during the day, not a problem during the day, 249 00:14:42,000 --> 00:14:45,400 Speaker 1: but at night the degree of difficulty went up tremendously. 250 00:14:45,960 --> 00:14:48,080 Speaker 1: At night, you think of the other way because nobody 251 00:14:48,120 --> 00:14:49,680 Speaker 1: can see, you don't have to worry about that. But 252 00:14:50,480 --> 00:14:52,960 Speaker 1: you don't know where you're stepping, and you don't know 253 00:14:53,000 --> 00:14:55,120 Speaker 1: which direction the wind's blowing. As you know, you don't 254 00:14:55,120 --> 00:14:58,600 Speaker 1: want to be down wind when you're when you're leaving 255 00:14:58,600 --> 00:15:02,440 Speaker 1: yourself there, you're pissing in the wind. And and uh, anyway, 256 00:15:02,440 --> 00:15:06,000 Speaker 1: it was. It was interesting. I did go to uh, 257 00:15:06,040 --> 00:15:09,280 Speaker 1: the local grocery store. I did some shopping, which I 258 00:15:09,320 --> 00:15:11,240 Speaker 1: didn't actually buy anything. I just walked in there, looked 259 00:15:11,240 --> 00:15:14,800 Speaker 1: like I was shopping. And then I made my way 260 00:15:14,880 --> 00:15:19,680 Speaker 1: Danny eventually to the little boys room there two I 261 00:15:19,960 --> 00:15:22,680 Speaker 1: number two. That's right, I'll number two, that is correct. 262 00:15:23,720 --> 00:15:26,600 Speaker 1: And I was worried about those little critters and all that. 263 00:15:26,920 --> 00:15:29,360 Speaker 1: And then the water got turned back on. The thing 264 00:15:29,480 --> 00:15:32,240 Speaker 1: was fixed. The plumber did a good job, but the 265 00:15:32,280 --> 00:15:36,920 Speaker 1: water pressure it was not good. Oh yeah. It turns 266 00:15:36,960 --> 00:15:39,320 Speaker 1: out that when you turn the water on, you gotta 267 00:15:39,320 --> 00:15:40,920 Speaker 1: turn it all the way on. We had only turned 268 00:15:40,960 --> 00:15:45,200 Speaker 1: it like partially on. So there's that sweet spot, Danny. 269 00:15:45,600 --> 00:15:48,480 Speaker 1: I should know my grandfather was a plumber. My my 270 00:15:48,720 --> 00:15:52,560 Speaker 1: grandfather from Springfield, mass was a plumber. And I actually 271 00:15:52,600 --> 00:15:54,560 Speaker 1: have some of the business signs I have around the 272 00:15:54,600 --> 00:15:56,800 Speaker 1: house that you know that's those are a million years old. 273 00:15:57,360 --> 00:16:00,720 Speaker 1: But it clearly was a recessive gene and I did 274 00:16:00,800 --> 00:16:04,520 Speaker 1: not get it. It fell back the plumbing gene. Uh. 275 00:16:04,520 --> 00:16:07,720 Speaker 1: And I thought about going on YouTube, but yeah, I 276 00:16:07,840 --> 00:16:10,200 Speaker 1: dig into concrete and stuff like that. I'm like, that's 277 00:16:10,200 --> 00:16:12,280 Speaker 1: probably above my pay grade. And I don't think there's 278 00:16:12,320 --> 00:16:16,120 Speaker 1: a YouTube video where pipe breaks, turn off the water, 279 00:16:17,280 --> 00:16:21,400 Speaker 1: rip up some concrete and all that. You know what 280 00:16:21,440 --> 00:16:24,320 Speaker 1: I'm saying, how much money do you think you wound 281 00:16:24,400 --> 00:16:27,960 Speaker 1: up saving by pushing it off by one day? I 282 00:16:28,000 --> 00:16:34,720 Speaker 1: would estimate what with everything done showing up just the 283 00:16:34,800 --> 00:16:38,479 Speaker 1: rate the plumber was going to charge, I would say 284 00:16:38,520 --> 00:16:43,160 Speaker 1: three four dollars minimum safe minimum saved more than that. 285 00:16:43,600 --> 00:16:49,320 Speaker 1: Probably those were some expensive pisces in the woods, and 286 00:16:49,520 --> 00:16:53,400 Speaker 1: I'll number two stop offs drop offs. I did find 287 00:16:53,400 --> 00:16:55,680 Speaker 1: a spot in the north Woods that was like up 288 00:16:55,720 --> 00:16:58,920 Speaker 1: against a tree where you know, it was kind of hidden. 289 00:16:58,960 --> 00:17:01,520 Speaker 1: So that was my sweets. But that was my my 290 00:17:01,640 --> 00:17:05,920 Speaker 1: place to relieve myself there. Right, it was wonderful and 291 00:17:05,960 --> 00:17:08,560 Speaker 1: it wasn't bad, I said. During the day it was 292 00:17:08,560 --> 00:17:11,600 Speaker 1: all right, but at night it was like, oh boy. 293 00:17:11,880 --> 00:17:13,639 Speaker 1: And it keep in mind, Danny, I'm doing the radio 294 00:17:13,680 --> 00:17:17,679 Speaker 1: show and I'm in the middle of the show and 295 00:17:18,040 --> 00:17:21,200 Speaker 1: nature calls and I gotta I gotta sprint out to 296 00:17:21,280 --> 00:17:24,000 Speaker 1: the north Woods to you know, nobody beats the whiz. 297 00:17:26,119 --> 00:17:31,240 Speaker 1: It was. It was interesting. It was definitely interesting. So 298 00:17:31,320 --> 00:17:37,119 Speaker 1: that was my my wonderful weekend, the life of Mallard. 299 00:17:37,600 --> 00:17:42,440 Speaker 1: And I guess I was creating fertilizer in a way 300 00:17:42,560 --> 00:17:44,080 Speaker 1: with some of the stuff I was doing, but not 301 00:17:44,160 --> 00:17:47,920 Speaker 1: the kind of fertilizer you're talking about. Yeah, yeah, it's funny. 302 00:17:47,960 --> 00:17:50,480 Speaker 1: I didn't know we'd be on the same theme this week. 303 00:17:52,119 --> 00:17:55,000 Speaker 1: In between classes, I had to run to the A 304 00:17:55,160 --> 00:17:58,240 Speaker 1: t M to put some cash in. You know, I 305 00:17:58,320 --> 00:18:01,280 Speaker 1: probably had a ten minute wind. Sometimes you do the 306 00:18:01,320 --> 00:18:03,600 Speaker 1: math in your head. You're like, all right, down this 307 00:18:03,680 --> 00:18:06,720 Speaker 1: street that will be five minutes. Run to the A 308 00:18:06,840 --> 00:18:08,640 Speaker 1: t M in front of the bank. That will take 309 00:18:08,720 --> 00:18:11,800 Speaker 1: four minutes. So I'm I'm doing the math. I'm like, 310 00:18:11,920 --> 00:18:15,600 Speaker 1: I can get to my next class in time. Sure enough, 311 00:18:15,640 --> 00:18:17,760 Speaker 1: I was late. But I get to the A T 312 00:18:18,040 --> 00:18:22,119 Speaker 1: M and I'm I'm sprinting. Okay, Whenever you're in a 313 00:18:22,280 --> 00:18:25,800 Speaker 1: hurry like that, you notice people who have no care 314 00:18:25,840 --> 00:18:29,560 Speaker 1: in the world. There was a guy and he was 315 00:18:29,680 --> 00:18:35,280 Speaker 1: walking so slow that it made me pause because I 316 00:18:35,760 --> 00:18:38,960 Speaker 1: got jealous. I'm like, here, I am running like I'm 317 00:18:39,080 --> 00:18:42,600 Speaker 1: old school Carl Lewis, and this dude is just walking 318 00:18:42,720 --> 00:18:46,200 Speaker 1: like he's got no care in the world whatsoever, just 319 00:18:46,359 --> 00:18:49,679 Speaker 1: easy going, like Sunday drive kind of stuff like. I mean, 320 00:18:49,760 --> 00:18:53,800 Speaker 1: he was moving slower than a Sunday morning. Uh, And 321 00:18:53,840 --> 00:18:56,879 Speaker 1: I'm jealous. I'm like, man, this is a busy Thursday. 322 00:18:57,080 --> 00:19:00,720 Speaker 1: This guy is on a slow crawl. I get up 323 00:19:00,760 --> 00:19:03,359 Speaker 1: to the A T M machine, put my card in. 324 00:19:04,119 --> 00:19:07,320 Speaker 1: This guy slowly moves his way next to the machine 325 00:19:07,920 --> 00:19:10,359 Speaker 1: that I'm at. And now these A T M s 326 00:19:10,400 --> 00:19:13,320 Speaker 1: at Bank of America. They were made way pre COVID. 327 00:19:13,960 --> 00:19:16,720 Speaker 1: You are standing close enough to the person next to 328 00:19:16,760 --> 00:19:19,040 Speaker 1: you to where if you reach your arm out you 329 00:19:19,040 --> 00:19:23,000 Speaker 1: could touch them. You can light me on fire. As 330 00:19:23,040 --> 00:19:26,000 Speaker 1: I'm standing there putting the cash in, I get a 331 00:19:26,119 --> 00:19:31,639 Speaker 1: strong whiff of fertilizer. This is not are you talking, 332 00:19:31,720 --> 00:19:34,720 Speaker 1: body owner? What do we what do we actually fertilizer? 333 00:19:34,760 --> 00:19:41,280 Speaker 1: What is it, you know, like actual fertilize, a pungent fertilizer. Yeah, 334 00:19:41,400 --> 00:19:45,240 Speaker 1: as if he did landscaping for you, had it on 335 00:19:45,359 --> 00:19:48,919 Speaker 1: his boots and then was tracking it around the town. 336 00:19:49,560 --> 00:19:54,480 Speaker 1: Guy was a walking fertilizer bag. It was great to 337 00:19:54,520 --> 00:19:59,800 Speaker 1: see Pooh, just minding my own business. I'm like trying 338 00:19:59,840 --> 00:20:02,920 Speaker 1: to to look at them. And I finished. I get 339 00:20:02,920 --> 00:20:06,080 Speaker 1: my receipt and then I run. Then I sprint to 340 00:20:06,160 --> 00:20:09,160 Speaker 1: my car so that I can go be late. Still, 341 00:20:14,520 --> 00:20:18,040 Speaker 1: as I'm driving through the parking lot, there's about three 342 00:20:18,119 --> 00:20:21,959 Speaker 1: or four people surrounding a vehicle and they're walking around 343 00:20:22,040 --> 00:20:27,360 Speaker 1: it looking at it curiously, almost like they're out of museum. 344 00:20:27,359 --> 00:20:32,359 Speaker 1: Parked in the city parking lot is a tractor, like 345 00:20:32,400 --> 00:20:38,560 Speaker 1: an actual like you'd see out in the in the country. 346 00:20:38,920 --> 00:20:44,400 Speaker 1: Now I realized. Now, I realized there might be some 347 00:20:44,440 --> 00:20:47,800 Speaker 1: folks listening. And I say folks, because if you're listening 348 00:20:47,840 --> 00:20:51,200 Speaker 1: in a state where that's normal, let me assure you 349 00:20:51,240 --> 00:20:54,040 Speaker 1: where we are in southern California, that is not something 350 00:20:54,160 --> 00:20:57,720 Speaker 1: we see at all. Like if you're in Kansas or 351 00:20:57,760 --> 00:21:01,960 Speaker 1: in Iowa or Oklahoma, like somewhere that that's probably happens everyone. 352 00:21:02,280 --> 00:21:06,960 Speaker 1: You are in a metropoli, you are surrounded by concrete 353 00:21:07,080 --> 00:21:10,000 Speaker 1: as far as you can see. Would that be accurate, Danny? 354 00:21:10,040 --> 00:21:13,719 Speaker 1: That would be accurate. Now on the outskirts of the 355 00:21:13,720 --> 00:21:15,880 Speaker 1: city I live in, and I'm sure there are some 356 00:21:16,000 --> 00:21:19,760 Speaker 1: large properties where a tractor would be needed. So it 357 00:21:19,840 --> 00:21:22,480 Speaker 1: got me thinking, Ben, where the hell did this dude 358 00:21:22,560 --> 00:21:28,159 Speaker 1: drive in from? That's a great question. That's amazing. And 359 00:21:28,400 --> 00:21:31,520 Speaker 1: obviously I don't know for sure that that was his tractor, 360 00:21:31,680 --> 00:21:35,600 Speaker 1: but I kind of put two and two together there. Wow. 361 00:21:35,680 --> 00:21:37,760 Speaker 1: And then when you got back to class, Now you 362 00:21:37,800 --> 00:21:39,840 Speaker 1: were late for class. So when you showed up, did 363 00:21:39,880 --> 00:21:45,840 Speaker 1: the crowd go wild? And said, Danny jays back, You'll 364 00:21:45,840 --> 00:21:49,720 Speaker 1: love this. I had been bringing my nerf football, but 365 00:21:49,800 --> 00:21:52,240 Speaker 1: it's one of those newer nerve footballs where it's got 366 00:21:52,280 --> 00:21:56,160 Speaker 1: the hard plastic outside on it, so it's heavier than 367 00:21:56,200 --> 00:22:00,680 Speaker 1: the old school nerf okay okay. So I was hitting 368 00:22:00,800 --> 00:22:02,879 Speaker 1: kids with the ball, but it was too heavy. It 369 00:22:02,920 --> 00:22:07,680 Speaker 1: was knocking some of the kindergarteners backwards, and I was like, well, 370 00:22:07,720 --> 00:22:11,760 Speaker 1: this is not gonna be nice on the injury reports. Um, 371 00:22:11,800 --> 00:22:13,720 Speaker 1: So I told one of the kids, I'm like I'm 372 00:22:13,760 --> 00:22:17,560 Speaker 1: gonna dig in the garage and find one of my dodgeballs, 373 00:22:18,040 --> 00:22:25,240 Speaker 1: because those are those really lightweight squishy balls. If they 374 00:22:25,320 --> 00:22:28,320 Speaker 1: hit you in the head, bounces right off and does 375 00:22:28,400 --> 00:22:31,040 Speaker 1: no damage to your brain, which you definitely want in 376 00:22:31,200 --> 00:22:34,840 Speaker 1: dodgeball squishy balls elsewhere you probably don't want that exactly. 377 00:22:35,520 --> 00:22:38,920 Speaker 1: I was able to find one, Ben, and I brought 378 00:22:39,000 --> 00:22:41,639 Speaker 1: it with me, so they did chair because they saw 379 00:22:41,680 --> 00:22:45,560 Speaker 1: me walking up with that dodgeball. And let me tell you, 380 00:22:45,640 --> 00:22:48,600 Speaker 1: I was head hunting blank my blank, and blank you 381 00:22:49,920 --> 00:22:54,680 Speaker 1: from Thursday to Friday. Once they got on that play structure, 382 00:22:55,080 --> 00:22:57,640 Speaker 1: I was beating kids in the head left and right. 383 00:22:58,760 --> 00:23:03,119 Speaker 1: I started with a trouble acers first, I got multiple kills. 384 00:23:03,800 --> 00:23:07,239 Speaker 1: Nice and and did they get your back at all? 385 00:23:07,280 --> 00:23:09,679 Speaker 1: Were they able to attack? Because if they touched the 386 00:23:09,720 --> 00:23:16,000 Speaker 1: ball then they were immediately frozen. Oh perfect. Their first 387 00:23:16,040 --> 00:23:18,239 Speaker 1: reaction was to reach and grab the ball to try 388 00:23:18,320 --> 00:23:19,760 Speaker 1: to throw it back, and I'm like, no, no, no, 389 00:23:20,240 --> 00:23:23,720 Speaker 1: you touch that ball, You're dead, you die in the game. Yeah, 390 00:23:23,960 --> 00:23:26,240 Speaker 1: they left it alone. I was the one doing the 391 00:23:26,240 --> 00:23:29,080 Speaker 1: the headhunting. I love to hear that dodgeball is going 392 00:23:29,119 --> 00:23:31,119 Speaker 1: on because you know there's stories A couple of years ago, 393 00:23:31,240 --> 00:23:34,560 Speaker 1: Danny the dodgeball had been out load and the Woosters 394 00:23:34,600 --> 00:23:38,280 Speaker 1: didn't want the dodgeball going on. But that's even for me. 395 00:23:38,359 --> 00:23:40,680 Speaker 1: I was I was terrible at dodge Bob was fat kid, 396 00:23:40,800 --> 00:23:43,359 Speaker 1: you know, he's he's a target, fat kid dodgeball. But 397 00:23:44,200 --> 00:23:47,040 Speaker 1: I have fond memories of playing dodgeball, and also some 398 00:23:47,119 --> 00:23:52,840 Speaker 1: scary ones, you know, But overall it was a good 399 00:23:52,880 --> 00:23:55,640 Speaker 1: experience and I fondly remember that. So I think it's 400 00:23:55,680 --> 00:23:57,840 Speaker 1: it's good that the kids doing because the kids, I 401 00:23:57,840 --> 00:24:01,719 Speaker 1: don't think they become like a holes with all that 402 00:24:01,760 --> 00:24:04,000 Speaker 1: stuff until they're a little older, right, Because he's a 403 00:24:04,000 --> 00:24:08,639 Speaker 1: little kid. These are little ones. Dressed myself five year olds. 404 00:24:08,680 --> 00:24:12,280 Speaker 1: But there was one moment in the game that I 405 00:24:12,320 --> 00:24:15,520 Speaker 1: thought I was gonna get shut down. A teacher saw 406 00:24:15,560 --> 00:24:19,440 Speaker 1: me throw it hard and I being the back of Noah, 407 00:24:19,520 --> 00:24:22,080 Speaker 1: right in the middle of her back. Now, it wouldn't 408 00:24:22,119 --> 00:24:24,560 Speaker 1: have been a problem, except she was running away from 409 00:24:24,560 --> 00:24:28,000 Speaker 1: me and as she got beam, she lost her footing 410 00:24:28,640 --> 00:24:32,040 Speaker 1: and she fell. She fell head first, but she used 411 00:24:32,040 --> 00:24:36,040 Speaker 1: her hands nicely to break her fall. She got up, 412 00:24:36,080 --> 00:24:38,240 Speaker 1: looked at her hands. I was like, oh, don't cry, Please, 413 00:24:38,240 --> 00:24:40,720 Speaker 1: don't cry. She looked at her hands, wiped him off, 414 00:24:40,760 --> 00:24:44,080 Speaker 1: and ran back to the play structure. Good. Yeah, And 415 00:24:44,119 --> 00:24:47,840 Speaker 1: I was like, because she had started bawling, that teacher 416 00:24:47,880 --> 00:24:49,800 Speaker 1: that was looking at me would have probably called me 417 00:24:49,840 --> 00:24:52,600 Speaker 1: over and was like, Yeah, I'm not sure about this 418 00:24:52,640 --> 00:24:55,720 Speaker 1: dodgeball thing you're doing here. Listen, I've just talked to 419 00:24:55,800 --> 00:24:58,600 Speaker 1: the former president. You gotta stop. It just got a 420 00:24:58,640 --> 00:25:03,560 Speaker 1: knock it off there, it's another former president. But uh yeah. 421 00:25:03,280 --> 00:25:06,760 Speaker 1: The smiles though, Ben because they saw that I was 422 00:25:06,840 --> 00:25:11,919 Speaker 1: giving revenge back to the troublemakers. The huge smiles on 423 00:25:11,960 --> 00:25:14,920 Speaker 1: their faces when I would being a trouble head kid 424 00:25:15,400 --> 00:25:19,560 Speaker 1: right in the grill. It was awesome. Nice, that is cool. 425 00:25:20,080 --> 00:25:22,520 Speaker 1: I remember when I was in elementary school, we had 426 00:25:22,880 --> 00:25:25,119 Speaker 1: if you were in sixth grade, you got to play 427 00:25:25,200 --> 00:25:28,800 Speaker 1: in the teacher student like They had a kickball game. 428 00:25:29,600 --> 00:25:32,200 Speaker 1: It was a kickball back then, and it was students 429 00:25:32,200 --> 00:25:35,800 Speaker 1: against the teachers. It was awesome. It's like all the 430 00:25:35,880 --> 00:25:39,520 Speaker 1: kids would cheer against the teachers, and the teachers took 431 00:25:39,520 --> 00:25:41,320 Speaker 1: it very seriously and wanted to win the game, right. 432 00:25:41,320 --> 00:25:43,240 Speaker 1: They were totally in it to win it. Do you 433 00:25:43,320 --> 00:25:46,600 Speaker 1: ever playing a radio softball game? Did did any radio 434 00:25:46,640 --> 00:25:52,160 Speaker 1: station work at not softball. I did a radio basketball game. 435 00:25:52,600 --> 00:25:56,560 Speaker 1: We did it annually. It was jocks versus jocks, get 436 00:25:56,600 --> 00:26:00,199 Speaker 1: it because they called DJ jocks. Sure yeah, but it 437 00:26:00,280 --> 00:26:04,120 Speaker 1: was against the women's Ventura College basketball team. Well that's 438 00:26:04,119 --> 00:26:07,720 Speaker 1: no good. They rubbed our faces in ship in front 439 00:26:07,760 --> 00:26:10,679 Speaker 1: of this large crowd. Of course, the crowd's there to 440 00:26:10,720 --> 00:26:14,639 Speaker 1: see the radio DJs, and this girl's basketball team just 441 00:26:15,080 --> 00:26:18,359 Speaker 1: straight up embarrassed us on the court. Oh yeah, of 442 00:26:18,400 --> 00:26:22,040 Speaker 1: course I take advantage of you. Well, I've never been 443 00:26:22,080 --> 00:26:23,760 Speaker 1: able to do the radio ane of the radio staties 444 00:26:23,800 --> 00:26:26,639 Speaker 1: I've worked at about it. I did play We were 445 00:26:26,680 --> 00:26:28,359 Speaker 1: supposed to play two on two basketball. I think we 446 00:26:28,359 --> 00:26:30,280 Speaker 1: actually did. It was me and this guy David Smith 447 00:26:30,280 --> 00:26:34,359 Speaker 1: I was working with, and we played against. It was 448 00:26:34,560 --> 00:26:37,199 Speaker 1: John Ireland who's now the voice of the Lakers, and 449 00:26:37,240 --> 00:26:40,760 Speaker 1: Derek Hall, who's the Diamondbacks president, And it was like 450 00:26:40,800 --> 00:26:44,159 Speaker 1: a two on two thing, and it was I remember 451 00:26:44,160 --> 00:26:48,359 Speaker 1: going to the park over in Burbank and practicing and 452 00:26:48,560 --> 00:26:50,960 Speaker 1: spending a lot of time in it. Yeah, it's moneyball, Mallard. 453 00:26:50,960 --> 00:26:54,040 Speaker 1: I don't have to practice that much. Wrong. It was 454 00:26:54,040 --> 00:26:56,359 Speaker 1: a big promotion we had done kind of between the 455 00:26:56,359 --> 00:26:59,800 Speaker 1: shows and all that stuff and that was that was long, 456 00:27:00,359 --> 00:27:03,280 Speaker 1: long ago. So we have the backscratcher, Danny g Now 457 00:27:03,320 --> 00:27:05,359 Speaker 1: this is something we started a few weeks ago. And 458 00:27:05,400 --> 00:27:07,960 Speaker 1: the way this works, you're a fan of the podcast, 459 00:27:07,960 --> 00:27:09,879 Speaker 1: You're like, how can we help out the pocket, Well, 460 00:27:09,880 --> 00:27:13,440 Speaker 1: you gotta subscribe. I heard some people last week on 461 00:27:13,480 --> 00:27:16,080 Speaker 1: social media, Danny. They were busting my balls and said, 462 00:27:16,080 --> 00:27:18,200 Speaker 1: why was the podcast It wasn't on the I Heart app. 463 00:27:18,240 --> 00:27:20,960 Speaker 1: I couldn't they couldn't find the Fifth Hour podcast because 464 00:27:21,000 --> 00:27:23,800 Speaker 1: these are people that would get the podcast on the 465 00:27:23,800 --> 00:27:26,840 Speaker 1: the Ben Mallor feed and it did not cross over 466 00:27:26,880 --> 00:27:28,560 Speaker 1: to the Ben Mallar feed. Is that accurate, Danny? Is 467 00:27:28,560 --> 00:27:31,080 Speaker 1: that what happened last weekend? We talked about it at 468 00:27:31,119 --> 00:27:34,040 Speaker 1: the end of a podcast last week, how our company 469 00:27:34,119 --> 00:27:37,840 Speaker 1: is switching over to a new company that I Heart 470 00:27:37,920 --> 00:27:41,920 Speaker 1: bought and that is the platform that's gonna spit out 471 00:27:41,960 --> 00:27:45,720 Speaker 1: all of the podcasts worldwide that the company does. And 472 00:27:45,800 --> 00:27:50,360 Speaker 1: so while they're doing the transitioning, our shows were only 473 00:27:50,560 --> 00:27:53,800 Speaker 1: on the fifth Hour feed. Okay, So that explains it 474 00:27:53,840 --> 00:27:56,320 Speaker 1: because people I was getting angry messages, They're like, what's 475 00:27:56,320 --> 00:27:58,480 Speaker 1: wrong that this whole I want to hear your show 476 00:27:58,800 --> 00:28:01,040 Speaker 1: and I can't hear you shut Did you do you lazy? 477 00:28:01,240 --> 00:28:03,480 Speaker 1: Did you take the weekend off? You're not doing the 478 00:28:03,520 --> 00:28:06,439 Speaker 1: podcast anymore? What happened? Why can't Danny g do it 479 00:28:06,440 --> 00:28:08,399 Speaker 1: without you? He can do it, you know all. I'm 480 00:28:08,440 --> 00:28:11,360 Speaker 1: getting all these kind of messages and I'm like, what 481 00:28:11,119 --> 00:28:13,440 Speaker 1: the what the hell? I did the shows? We did him. 482 00:28:13,560 --> 00:28:17,160 Speaker 1: We talked talk talk talk the entire weekend, show after 483 00:28:17,240 --> 00:28:22,240 Speaker 1: show after show. Yeah, we never go away. Yeah, And 484 00:28:22,240 --> 00:28:26,119 Speaker 1: and trust me, I've got a little roady coming up. 485 00:28:26,119 --> 00:28:28,760 Speaker 1: But we will have fifth hour podcast, correct, and we're 486 00:28:28,760 --> 00:28:34,240 Speaker 1: gonna effort that. At the end of Timeless Podcast, Danny jays, Yes, 487 00:28:34,320 --> 00:28:36,840 Speaker 1: we will clear the decks. The show must go on 488 00:28:36,960 --> 00:28:42,880 Speaker 1: the podcast. God's demand we shock again. So we will 489 00:28:42,920 --> 00:28:47,680 Speaker 1: have original audio content every weekend. Imaginable. I'm sure at 490 00:28:47,680 --> 00:28:49,520 Speaker 1: the end of the year will likely skip a couple, 491 00:28:49,600 --> 00:28:51,800 Speaker 1: but maybe we'll do evergreen shows then too. You never know, 492 00:28:52,360 --> 00:28:56,440 Speaker 1: you have no idea. So anyway, the backscratcher thing is 493 00:28:56,600 --> 00:28:59,200 Speaker 1: you help us out, we help you out. You scratch 494 00:28:59,240 --> 00:29:01,040 Speaker 1: our back, we'll score at your back. That's the way 495 00:29:01,040 --> 00:29:04,440 Speaker 1: it works. And so the company, the management, for some reason, 496 00:29:04,480 --> 00:29:07,280 Speaker 1: the people involved in all this think these reviews online 497 00:29:07,360 --> 00:29:09,360 Speaker 1: or a big deal. I think it's bullshit. But the 498 00:29:09,440 --> 00:29:12,840 Speaker 1: people in charge, Danny, they think it's very important and 499 00:29:12,880 --> 00:29:16,840 Speaker 1: they want listeners like you, actual listeners to go on 500 00:29:16,880 --> 00:29:19,680 Speaker 1: the podcast page for the Fifth Hour podcast on the 501 00:29:19,720 --> 00:29:23,240 Speaker 1: Apple podcast page. So if you type into your search 502 00:29:23,280 --> 00:29:28,000 Speaker 1: engine Apple Fifth Hour, Ben Mallor, it'll come up if 503 00:29:28,040 --> 00:29:31,800 Speaker 1: you can't find it on your own. And so this 504 00:29:31,880 --> 00:29:34,200 Speaker 1: week we have some more reviews. So good news is 505 00:29:34,200 --> 00:29:36,720 Speaker 1: more people that have sent it sent in messages. We 506 00:29:36,760 --> 00:29:39,480 Speaker 1: did not mention these in the past. Uh last show anyway. 507 00:29:40,080 --> 00:29:44,320 Speaker 1: The first one comes from Sassy Jojo, who writes in 508 00:29:45,200 --> 00:29:49,360 Speaker 1: and says, hey, bet I've been listening to Mr Mallard 509 00:29:49,360 --> 00:29:53,560 Speaker 1: for years. Being retired. Sassy Jojo says, I listened to 510 00:29:53,920 --> 00:29:57,320 Speaker 1: his radio podcast and The Fifth Hour because I can't 511 00:29:57,360 --> 00:30:01,080 Speaker 1: stay up that late. Well, thank you god us. He 512 00:30:01,160 --> 00:30:03,880 Speaker 1: has great takes but is not always right. Well, you 513 00:30:03,880 --> 00:30:07,040 Speaker 1: didn't have to throw that in you, Sassy JoJo's bat 514 00:30:07,080 --> 00:30:10,720 Speaker 1: drop by you. Did he give you two stars? Uh? 515 00:30:11,240 --> 00:30:14,160 Speaker 1: Five stars? He said? He says, when he is wrong, 516 00:30:14,840 --> 00:30:17,840 Speaker 1: you'll never hear of it again. But if he was right, 517 00:30:18,280 --> 00:30:23,560 Speaker 1: you'll never hear the end of it. Wow, it's very accurate. 518 00:30:23,680 --> 00:30:25,760 Speaker 1: I learned that from Danny g. That's what I learned 519 00:30:25,760 --> 00:30:31,120 Speaker 1: that from. Very entertaining and blends in humor and facts 520 00:30:31,160 --> 00:30:35,600 Speaker 1: and strong opinions. Very bad at his games, No, that's wrong, 521 00:30:36,040 --> 00:30:39,240 Speaker 1: not bad at the game shows at all. That's proof 522 00:30:39,280 --> 00:30:45,160 Speaker 1: of how bad you are with your mallard maneuvers packaging. No, 523 00:30:45,400 --> 00:30:48,640 Speaker 1: not bad at all, uh, he says Edwin Garcia rules 524 00:30:48,680 --> 00:30:51,080 Speaker 1: the game shows good thing the fifth hour doesn't have 525 00:30:51,240 --> 00:30:55,200 Speaker 1: them give them a listen at sixty minutes of entertainment. 526 00:30:55,320 --> 00:30:59,720 Speaker 1: So a big salute from Sassy Jojo. So thank you, 527 00:30:59,760 --> 00:31:03,280 Speaker 1: said see Joe Joe for supporting the podcast even though 528 00:31:03,280 --> 00:31:08,560 Speaker 1: you're completely wrong off the cliff. No, not fair at all. 529 00:31:08,880 --> 00:31:14,280 Speaker 1: Good not a bad job by yo. Okay, that's a 530 00:31:14,320 --> 00:31:19,040 Speaker 1: bad job by you. I'm sorry, but thanks for ever you. 531 00:31:20,000 --> 00:31:22,120 Speaker 1: J Cole writes. And I think I might know who 532 00:31:22,120 --> 00:31:25,080 Speaker 1: this Jake Cole is, but maybe not, says I listened 533 00:31:25,120 --> 00:31:29,120 Speaker 1: to a lot of podcast This pod was the best. 534 00:31:29,720 --> 00:31:33,240 Speaker 1: See he did that on purpose, Nanny guys an asshole, 535 00:31:33,320 --> 00:31:36,320 Speaker 1: because what he did is he knows that triggers me 536 00:31:36,760 --> 00:31:39,920 Speaker 1: because the legal definition of the term best is as 537 00:31:39,960 --> 00:31:43,320 Speaker 1: good as all the rest in that particular category. So 538 00:31:43,400 --> 00:31:47,200 Speaker 1: he he knows that by saying this podcast is the best, 539 00:31:47,400 --> 00:31:50,880 Speaker 1: he's merely it's like a left handed compliment. He's like, well, yeah, 540 00:31:50,880 --> 00:31:52,760 Speaker 1: that's as good as all the other podcasts. Yeah, he 541 00:31:52,840 --> 00:31:55,200 Speaker 1: might as well have said that our podcast has a 542 00:31:55,240 --> 00:31:58,040 Speaker 1: lot of momentum right now. Oh see, that's a that's 543 00:31:58,040 --> 00:32:01,640 Speaker 1: another you know, we need to build a better mouse trap. 544 00:32:01,680 --> 00:32:05,640 Speaker 1: We need to build a better, not best, better podcast, 545 00:32:06,280 --> 00:32:08,840 Speaker 1: he says, clearly ahead of its time. I'm in the 546 00:32:08,880 --> 00:32:15,640 Speaker 1: business and it's my number one choice. Very entertaining. That's 547 00:32:15,680 --> 00:32:19,360 Speaker 1: an endorsement right there, all right. Next up on the 548 00:32:19,440 --> 00:32:26,120 Speaker 1: back scratch Scratch, Jonathan writes in and he says, the 549 00:32:26,160 --> 00:32:32,840 Speaker 1: following good bonus podcast, the regular podcast, the Benn Mallaw 550 00:32:32,880 --> 00:32:36,280 Speaker 1: Show for weeknights on Fox Boos Radio. It's great, but 551 00:32:36,800 --> 00:32:39,720 Speaker 1: this is a bit different and a nice change of 552 00:32:39,800 --> 00:32:43,760 Speaker 1: pace about that. I agree. It's not only is it 553 00:32:43,800 --> 00:32:48,920 Speaker 1: a Chris Rock free zone this weekend, um, but you 554 00:32:48,960 --> 00:32:51,480 Speaker 1: know when I tell people about the podcasts that are 555 00:32:51,520 --> 00:32:54,479 Speaker 1: new to it, they tune in thinking you and I 556 00:32:54,520 --> 00:32:57,880 Speaker 1: are going to talk the same old sports takes that 557 00:32:57,960 --> 00:33:00,480 Speaker 1: they heard all week long. And that's not what we 558 00:33:00,520 --> 00:33:02,760 Speaker 1: do on the podcast. No, No, not at all. We're 559 00:33:02,800 --> 00:33:06,080 Speaker 1: just a couple of guys talking living our lives the 560 00:33:06,080 --> 00:33:07,920 Speaker 1: best that we can see, the best that means as 561 00:33:07,960 --> 00:33:09,760 Speaker 1: good as everyone else. You see right there, that's an 562 00:33:09,760 --> 00:33:13,080 Speaker 1: example of what I was talking about. Anyway, Jonathan. Jonathan's 563 00:33:13,120 --> 00:33:15,960 Speaker 1: post continues. He said, we had momentum going there until 564 00:33:15,960 --> 00:33:19,560 Speaker 1: you put it up. Change of pace. He says, very good, 565 00:33:19,640 --> 00:33:24,960 Speaker 1: Hi Jinks, featuring a charismatic co host Danny j. Love 566 00:33:25,040 --> 00:33:29,640 Speaker 1: it from Jonathan. Thank you, Jonathan. All right, last one 567 00:33:29,680 --> 00:33:32,480 Speaker 1: we'll get out on this is from Adrian in the 568 00:33:32,600 --> 00:33:37,280 Speaker 1: Mile High City. He says, tell a friend, Tell a friend, 569 00:33:37,480 --> 00:33:41,040 Speaker 1: Tell a friend. Benn and Danny g make me laugh 570 00:33:41,200 --> 00:33:44,760 Speaker 1: every podcast. The Saturday Life and Times of Mallard is 571 00:33:44,800 --> 00:33:49,240 Speaker 1: my favorite episode of the weekend. God bless you Adrian 572 00:33:49,440 --> 00:33:54,400 Speaker 1: in the Mile High City. You are a mensch. We 573 00:33:54,440 --> 00:33:57,719 Speaker 1: appreciate all you guys, so thank you for the messages. 574 00:33:57,760 --> 00:33:58,960 Speaker 1: And if you'd like to add to this and we 575 00:33:59,000 --> 00:34:02,920 Speaker 1: will read your message on there, good, bad or ugly, well, 576 00:34:02,960 --> 00:34:05,200 Speaker 1: goof on you if you say something nasty, but we 577 00:34:05,280 --> 00:34:07,320 Speaker 1: need five star reviews. That helps us out a lot, 578 00:34:07,560 --> 00:34:10,920 Speaker 1: keeps the podcast going, makes management happy. It's really just 579 00:34:10,960 --> 00:34:13,799 Speaker 1: about pacifying our bosses at this point, Danny, isn't really 580 00:34:13,840 --> 00:34:16,080 Speaker 1: that what this is about. Yes, See, what it does 581 00:34:16,360 --> 00:34:19,520 Speaker 1: is Apple takes all of these reviews and then they 582 00:34:19,560 --> 00:34:23,600 Speaker 1: give you the average. So the bosses love to click 583 00:34:23,640 --> 00:34:27,200 Speaker 1: on a podcast and see, oh my god, these guys 584 00:34:27,200 --> 00:34:30,880 Speaker 1: are great four point nine. They have a four point nine. 585 00:34:31,480 --> 00:34:33,919 Speaker 1: That's why, if you want to be truthful, give Ben 586 00:34:34,040 --> 00:34:40,080 Speaker 1: two stars. Two stars. Flow your road, knock it off 587 00:34:40,320 --> 00:34:42,719 Speaker 1: out there. It is nice, though, to hear the behind 588 00:34:42,800 --> 00:34:46,840 Speaker 1: the scene stories, because then you're like in this exclusive club. 589 00:34:47,360 --> 00:34:49,479 Speaker 1: If you were ever to call Ben on his live 590 00:34:49,640 --> 00:34:53,720 Speaker 1: radio show, you could make mention to Ben pooping inside 591 00:34:53,719 --> 00:34:58,400 Speaker 1: a grocery store. Yes, yes, and also during the middle 592 00:34:58,440 --> 00:35:01,680 Speaker 1: of a show being brought cast on almost five hundred 593 00:35:01,760 --> 00:35:05,600 Speaker 1: radio stations, going out to piss in the woods. Yes, 594 00:35:05,760 --> 00:35:08,560 Speaker 1: that that happened. I didn't tell that story on there. 595 00:35:08,840 --> 00:35:11,000 Speaker 1: I did not reveal any of that. Now. I did 596 00:35:11,040 --> 00:35:15,440 Speaker 1: stop drinking water, hoping that would slow down my need 597 00:35:15,800 --> 00:35:19,520 Speaker 1: to urinate, and it didn't really slow down that much. 598 00:35:19,560 --> 00:35:22,480 Speaker 1: I had had so much water prior, so, I had 599 00:35:22,480 --> 00:35:25,319 Speaker 1: had so much to drink that it didn't really matter. No, 600 00:35:25,480 --> 00:35:29,080 Speaker 1: great job, you save yourself with the plumber. But you 601 00:35:29,120 --> 00:35:31,960 Speaker 1: give yourself kidney stones. Yes. Other than that, you know, 602 00:35:31,960 --> 00:35:34,319 Speaker 1: you win something, you lose something. Life's a game of 603 00:35:34,360 --> 00:35:36,759 Speaker 1: give and take, Danny. It's a game of give and take. 604 00:35:37,280 --> 00:35:40,040 Speaker 1: And we'll put the baby to bed unless you want to. 605 00:35:40,239 --> 00:35:41,799 Speaker 1: You know, we're short on time, so I don't think 606 00:35:41,800 --> 00:35:44,040 Speaker 1: we need to get into the pop quiz. Will save 607 00:35:44,080 --> 00:35:46,640 Speaker 1: that for another time. We have a big mailbag and 608 00:35:47,960 --> 00:35:50,239 Speaker 1: dance remix of the mail bag. We look forward to 609 00:35:50,320 --> 00:35:52,600 Speaker 1: that every week. The wise, the ware force, the whole 610 00:35:52,640 --> 00:35:59,040 Speaker 1: thing will mow that down, mow that long down on Sunday, Sunday, Sunday. 611 00:35:59,080 --> 00:36:02,360 Speaker 1: So and Any didn't promote anything, any gigs coming up, 612 00:36:02,400 --> 00:36:05,200 Speaker 1: and he saw no gigs to promote. But really quick, 613 00:36:05,480 --> 00:36:09,640 Speaker 1: my friend Jay in Nashville had a baby last weekend 614 00:36:09,760 --> 00:36:12,080 Speaker 1: and as they were listening to the podcast, he and 615 00:36:12,120 --> 00:36:14,759 Speaker 1: his wife, he had it on his phone as she 616 00:36:14,880 --> 00:36:21,320 Speaker 1: was giving birth a girl, now their second girl, Mary Jane. 617 00:36:21,480 --> 00:36:25,719 Speaker 1: On his daughter's birthday, they had another girl and they 618 00:36:25,800 --> 00:36:31,160 Speaker 1: named her Tennessee. Oh that's that's cool, very cool. Yeah, 619 00:36:31,239 --> 00:36:36,000 Speaker 1: so both girls have the same birthday. Wow, yeah right, 620 00:36:36,080 --> 00:36:38,080 Speaker 1: And I told him one of the odds I used 621 00:36:38,120 --> 00:36:41,440 Speaker 1: the conception the conception happened the same time. Apparently the 622 00:36:41,560 --> 00:36:44,319 Speaker 1: same kind of pattern there. First thing I told him, 623 00:36:44,360 --> 00:36:45,960 Speaker 1: his man, you're gonna save a lot of money on 624 00:36:46,040 --> 00:36:49,920 Speaker 1: birthday parties. Oh, those little girls when they become older 625 00:36:50,000 --> 00:36:51,839 Speaker 1: are gonna hate that, aren't they? I mean they might 626 00:36:51,880 --> 00:36:54,239 Speaker 1: like it when they like Yeah, I mean they're they're 627 00:36:54,280 --> 00:36:57,200 Speaker 1: gonna have a combined birthday party for their entire life. 628 00:36:57,239 --> 00:36:59,560 Speaker 1: But I guess if their parents do it big, they 629 00:36:59,560 --> 00:37:02,640 Speaker 1: won't eather them right. And how many years apart are they? 630 00:37:02,880 --> 00:37:05,680 Speaker 1: A couple of years apart, one year apart, only one 631 00:37:05,760 --> 00:37:09,719 Speaker 1: year apart? Yeah, so j C and his wife were 632 00:37:09,760 --> 00:37:15,880 Speaker 1: getting busy Burger King's bathroom. Congratulations j C A locking 633 00:37:15,880 --> 00:37:19,600 Speaker 1: out the family all in a couple of years. Congratulations. 634 00:37:19,800 --> 00:37:22,880 Speaker 1: Any We have a great rest your Saturday. We will 635 00:37:23,000 --> 00:37:27,279 Speaker 1: be back in the magic podcast Machine on Sunday. Will 636 00:37:27,320 --> 00:37:30,960 Speaker 1: catch you then see you bofulation