WEBVTT - The Fifth Hour: "Skat Cat Pack" Mail Bag 0:00:00.720 --> 0:00:01.440 Kubbooms. 0:00:02.279 --> 0:00:05.360 If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes 0:00:05.400 --> 0:00:09.200 a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants 0:00:09.200 --> 0:00:12.480 of the old republic, a sol fashion of fairness. He 0:00:12.560 --> 0:00:15.480 treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the 0:00:15.600 --> 0:00:19.440 rich pill poppers in the penthouse. Wow to the clearinghouse 0:00:19.480 --> 0:00:23.200 of hot takes, break free for something special. The Fifth 0:00:23.200 --> 0:00:30.680 Hour with Ben Maller starts right now. 0:00:28.960 --> 0:00:34.600 In the air everywhere. It's the Fifth Hour. 0:00:35.400 --> 0:00:39.120 You know that already with me Ben Maler and Danny 0:00:39.240 --> 0:00:43.720 g Radio in the audio dojo, don't you know? 0:00:44.760 --> 0:00:45.360 Brew crew? 0:00:45.880 --> 0:00:50.760 As the final four in Major League Baseball is set. 0:00:51.280 --> 0:00:52.680 Danny g and I. 0:00:52.680 --> 0:00:54.840 Mentioned this on the radio show the other night, but 0:00:54.960 --> 0:00:58.400 the Toronto Blue Jays announcers said, the blue Jays are 0:00:58.400 --> 0:01:01.680 into the final four. Now, you guys all busted my 0:01:01.840 --> 0:01:04.920 balls when the Clippers made the Final four. It is 0:01:04.959 --> 0:01:07.000 now becoming a colloquial. 0:01:06.520 --> 0:01:09.720 Term that, Oh, no, the final four is not an 0:01:09.840 --> 0:01:11.480 NBA thing whatsoever. 0:01:11.640 --> 0:01:13.119 Oh it is. It's a sports thing. 0:01:13.160 --> 0:01:16.160 You're in the five or it's well, how does college 0:01:16.360 --> 0:01:19.360 basketball have a choke hold on the final four? There 0:01:19.360 --> 0:01:23.000 are four teams left. You're in the final four. We 0:01:23.080 --> 0:01:26.560 now know the final four today tonight. 0:01:27.360 --> 0:01:30.200 That's a tournament thing. This is not a tournament thing. 0:01:30.240 --> 0:01:33.080 We play for championships in pro sports. 0:01:33.440 --> 0:01:37.080 Well, we'll have the first of the American League Championship 0:01:37.160 --> 0:01:39.680 Series the Seattle Mariners, who, based on what I've been 0:01:39.680 --> 0:01:42.200 reading here, Danny, have no chance because they used all 0:01:42.200 --> 0:01:46.200 these pitchers back on Friday night against the Tigers, and 0:01:46.280 --> 0:01:50.040 so why even bother showing up to Toronto and all that. So, 0:01:50.320 --> 0:01:53.160 but that'll be the game tonight, which it's NFL football, 0:01:53.880 --> 0:01:56.000 and which has got to be depressing for you, Danny, 0:01:56.040 --> 0:01:59.440 but for me it's not as depressing. I'm a little 0:01:59.440 --> 0:02:01.760 concerned though, because this game with the Rams play the 0:02:01.840 --> 0:02:06.200 Ravens today and it looks too easy. I always worry 0:02:06.200 --> 0:02:08.960 when those games look too easy, Like the Ravens don't 0:02:09.000 --> 0:02:13.040 have Lamar Jackson, they have no defense. The Rams have 0:02:13.200 --> 0:02:16.000 extra rest coming into this game today, and it's just 0:02:16.040 --> 0:02:16.239 like that. 0:02:18.120 --> 0:02:20.120 I actually took on Benny versus the pan which. 0:02:19.919 --> 0:02:23.160 You can still watch it on YouTube YouTube dot com 0:02:23.160 --> 0:02:28.000 slash at Bennyvspenny. But I took the Ravens plus the points, 0:02:28.000 --> 0:02:30.040 mainly because I think the Rams are gonna futz around. 0:02:30.040 --> 0:02:31.160 They're gonna play with their food. 0:02:31.639 --> 0:02:33.600 They'll turn the ball over a couple of times, they'll 0:02:33.600 --> 0:02:36.880 be a special teams blunder, and somehow, some way, against 0:02:36.960 --> 0:02:40.480 all logic, the game will be somewhat close in the 0:02:40.520 --> 0:02:42.600 fourth quarter, even if that means the Ravens get a 0:02:42.600 --> 0:02:43.320 backdoor cover. 0:02:44.040 --> 0:02:45.800 So that's my position. 0:02:46.320 --> 0:02:49.119 How about the clip that Uka Nakua is firing at 0:02:49.200 --> 0:02:49.720 right now? 0:02:50.120 --> 0:02:51.680 Yeah, yeah, he's he's been. 0:02:51.880 --> 0:02:56.000 Oldie Nikes man. At this rate, he'll get close to 0:02:56.040 --> 0:02:57.240 two thousand yards. 0:02:57.919 --> 0:02:58.280 Yeah. 0:02:58.320 --> 0:03:02.160 And Matthew Stafford, who I thought would be golfing by now, 0:03:02.280 --> 0:03:04.000 I did not believe he would even make it to 0:03:04.120 --> 0:03:07.240 the season. I was already planning on Jimmy Garoppolo being 0:03:07.280 --> 0:03:10.519 the Rams quarterback by week six. And here's Stafford leading. 0:03:10.560 --> 0:03:13.800 I believe he's leading the NFL in past. 0:03:14.200 --> 0:03:17.840 Remember that time the Raiders were trying to trade from Stafford. 0:03:18.240 --> 0:03:21.320 Instead they got Geno Smith. Damn it, you. 0:03:21.360 --> 0:03:27.079 Got the Booby Prize, You got the Booby Prize. Shit, shit, Well, 0:03:27.120 --> 0:03:30.000 the Raiders have a winnable game today, at least until Gino. 0:03:30.080 --> 0:03:33.639 Oh. If Pete Carroll can't beat the Titans, he should 0:03:33.680 --> 0:03:34.560 just hang it up. 0:03:35.240 --> 0:03:37.440 Now, I mentioned this on the radio show the other night. 0:03:37.440 --> 0:03:39.240 I want to get so you're the Raider guy, so 0:03:39.240 --> 0:03:41.760 I want to get your perspective on this. So my 0:03:41.920 --> 0:03:45.920 position on Pete Pete Carroll ripping Chip Kelly, it's more 0:03:45.960 --> 0:03:50.080 about him being upset because he gave Tom Brady. 0:03:50.120 --> 0:03:53.200 Pete Carroll. I'm I'm not. I don't have any inside 0:03:53.200 --> 0:03:54.240 information anything like that. 0:03:54.240 --> 0:03:58.280 It's just my it's using common sense that it's more 0:03:58.400 --> 0:04:01.560 likely than not tom Brady wanted Matthew Stafford. Stafford for 0:04:01.560 --> 0:04:02.960 whatever reason. They want to go to the Raiders, he 0:04:03.000 --> 0:04:05.520 want to stay with the Rams. Fine, so you got that, 0:04:06.000 --> 0:04:07.560 and so then they probably. 0:04:07.320 --> 0:04:07.840 Had a meeting. 0:04:08.120 --> 0:04:11.280 Imagining in my head in the cartoon bubble, tom Brady 0:04:11.400 --> 0:04:13.600 had a meeting with Pete Carroll said, you know who 0:04:13.640 --> 0:04:15.760 do you want? Pete said, hey, let's see we can 0:04:15.760 --> 0:04:17.520 get Geno Smith. I had him in Seattle. 0:04:17.600 --> 0:04:18.159 He knows me. 0:04:18.960 --> 0:04:21.360 We vibe well, I can win. I can at least 0:04:21.360 --> 0:04:24.839 be a competitive team with Gino Smith. And Tom Brady's like, okay, 0:04:24.880 --> 0:04:26.240 we'll call Seattle see if we. 0:04:26.200 --> 0:04:29.680 Can get Geno Smith. And so Pete put his name. 0:04:29.800 --> 0:04:32.920 He endorsed Geno Smith, and Geno Smith has been even 0:04:32.960 --> 0:04:35.240 worse than we all imagined he could possibly be. 0:04:35.440 --> 0:04:37.080 Like he's the. 0:04:37.000 --> 0:04:39.600 Only people worse than him are Joe Flacco who's been 0:04:39.640 --> 0:04:43.599 benched and traded, Jake Browning who's been benched, and cam 0:04:43.720 --> 0:04:46.680 Ward who they can't bench because he was the number 0:04:46.720 --> 0:04:48.919 one pick in the draft and they're just it's a 0:04:48.960 --> 0:04:51.000 developmental year for cam Ward. 0:04:51.120 --> 0:04:54.960 So Ashton Genty is starting to get a sliver of 0:04:55.080 --> 0:04:58.600 room to run. He's been looking like a beast the 0:04:58.640 --> 0:05:01.400 past few weeks at LEA East, if you have any 0:05:01.440 --> 0:05:05.279 glimmer of hope. But Carol and his son again efen 0:05:05.400 --> 0:05:08.200 up on how they put together that old line. Still 0:05:08.240 --> 0:05:13.440 they're stubborn with powers Johnson JPJ should be an elite 0:05:13.520 --> 0:05:16.400 center in the league, and they've been using them as 0:05:16.440 --> 0:05:20.520 a fricking guard and wasting him. And he's been proving 0:05:20.560 --> 0:05:23.119 them wrong week in and week out, and yet they're 0:05:23.240 --> 0:05:26.960 still staying stubborn with that black ass Meredith dude at 0:05:27.000 --> 0:05:30.920 center who can't push that line forward. I don't know, man. 0:05:30.960 --> 0:05:33.240 I thought that Carol, because of his age, I thought 0:05:33.320 --> 0:05:36.800 he would be in more of an urgency mode and 0:05:36.920 --> 0:05:41.240 make better decisions, not looking to win personal arguments and 0:05:41.880 --> 0:05:45.320 personal wins. You want your organization and your team to win. 0:05:45.800 --> 0:05:49.520 Your little spats and things you have with personnel and players. 0:05:49.880 --> 0:05:51.520 Come on, man, you don't have time for that, or 0:05:51.520 --> 0:05:53.039 you shouldn't have time for that. 0:05:53.760 --> 0:05:58.479 Remember when the Buffalo Bills hired Marv Levy as they're 0:05:59.240 --> 0:06:02.320 that gives like the and I remember I did a 0:06:02.400 --> 0:06:04.640 rant in a monologue. I was like, this is great. 0:06:04.720 --> 0:06:07.080 Every team should hire a GM and they're in like 0:06:07.120 --> 0:06:09.640 an old GM because they don't have time for a 0:06:09.680 --> 0:06:10.960 five year rebuilding plan. 0:06:11.240 --> 0:06:14.640 If you hire an old guy, you don't have You 0:06:14.720 --> 0:06:17.920 got to win right now, baby, you know five years 0:06:17.920 --> 0:06:19.960 so now you might be alive five years from now, 0:06:20.000 --> 0:06:20.200 you know. 0:06:20.560 --> 0:06:24.480 So yeah, like your Rams a few seasons ago, when 0:06:24.520 --> 0:06:27.000 they were trading all their picks away, you would have 0:06:27.040 --> 0:06:30.280 thought that your general manager was ninety three years old. 0:06:30.440 --> 0:06:32.760 Oh well yeah, but and then but everyone told me 0:06:32.800 --> 0:06:34.839 the Rams, man, they went for it, they won the 0:06:34.839 --> 0:06:35.440 Super Bowl. 0:06:35.720 --> 0:06:37.320 They're not going to be in the playoffs for years. 0:06:37.320 --> 0:06:38.800 They're going to be the Cleveland Browns. 0:06:39.240 --> 0:06:42.839 The Rams had like one bad season after that, and 0:06:42.920 --> 0:06:46.640 they've been right back to playoffs pretty much every year. 0:06:46.720 --> 0:06:48.320 So it was total bullshit. 0:06:49.040 --> 0:06:52.720 It just proves that these prospects are mostly suspect. 0:06:55.040 --> 0:06:58.120 See now you're stealing my material. Let's get ohio Allen here. 0:06:58.120 --> 0:06:59.480 We've got the mail bag. 0:06:59.279 --> 0:07:02.120 There quoting you, not stealing. I was quoting you. 0:07:02.600 --> 0:07:05.000 Anytime I hear that line, I think because Looney steals 0:07:05.040 --> 0:07:08.200 that from me. So you know anyway, ohio Al, it's. 0:07:14.680 --> 0:07:22.160 Mail all right. 0:07:22.240 --> 0:07:25.520 The first message, thank you, ohio Al. I love the man. 0:07:25.520 --> 0:07:28.440 It's a great supporter of our show music tunes for 0:07:28.560 --> 0:07:31.320 all the bits that we do. So we have let's 0:07:31.320 --> 0:07:32.680 see first up on the mail bak. By the way, 0:07:32.720 --> 0:07:36.720 these are actual letters from actual listeners, and the Real 0:07:36.840 --> 0:07:39.320 Fifth Hour at gmail dot com. Real fifth Hour at 0:07:39.320 --> 0:07:42.280 gmail dot com is the email address for a future 0:07:42.280 --> 0:07:46.080 episode of this podcast every Sunday. And Danny just want 0:07:46.120 --> 0:07:47.600 to point out, for those of you that are new 0:07:47.960 --> 0:07:49.680 and I want to learn all the affiliates down the 0:07:49.680 --> 0:07:52.320 line here on the podcast that this is nothing like 0:07:52.400 --> 0:07:55.480 Ask Ben, nothing all like Ask Ben. 0:07:55.520 --> 0:07:56.520 This is a stamp. 0:07:56.560 --> 0:07:58.640 This is not ask Ben two point oh. 0:07:58.880 --> 0:08:01.880 Not at all. We would never repackage tired old. 0:08:01.680 --> 0:08:04.080 Bits from the radio show and put them here on 0:08:04.120 --> 0:08:08.600 the podcast. But nonetheless we'll begin here for dog yes 0:08:09.200 --> 0:08:12.720 or who else, but fer Dog and Fullerton. He says, Hello, 0:08:12.800 --> 0:08:16.400 Ben and Dodger G congrats on your Dodgers advancing to 0:08:16.440 --> 0:08:20.480 the NLCS. Making it back to back final fours is 0:08:20.520 --> 0:08:22.200 a tremendous accomplishment. 0:08:24.360 --> 0:08:25.600 I'm assuming you've. 0:08:25.400 --> 0:08:28.920 Both been to games of every sport what's wrong with you? 0:08:29.920 --> 0:08:30.800 Many times? 0:08:30.800 --> 0:08:33.560 So what's your favorite and least favorite sport to watch 0:08:34.400 --> 0:08:40.400 in person? All right, Danny, favorite and least favorite? My favorite? 0:08:40.440 --> 0:08:41.040 I'll go first. 0:08:41.040 --> 0:08:45.880 My favorite playoff Baseball, close game, late innings, every pitch 0:08:46.520 --> 0:08:48.360 is just nails. 0:08:48.480 --> 0:08:51.400 I love that. I love that you. 0:08:51.360 --> 0:08:54.520 Told me you love fifteen inning games where the pitchers 0:08:54.520 --> 0:08:56.000 are probably. 0:08:56.720 --> 0:08:59.280 No, not when I have things to do. Danny, No, no, no, 0:08:59.320 --> 0:08:59.640 I don't. 0:09:00.120 --> 0:09:00.440 Is it all? 0:09:00.720 --> 0:09:01.080 In fact? 0:09:01.080 --> 0:09:06.040 I loathe those loas loathe those as like a. 0:09:05.360 --> 0:09:07.960 Man talk here. It's early on a Sunday. 0:09:07.960 --> 0:09:10.520 But no, the thing is, Danny, that like with that 0:09:10.600 --> 0:09:12.160 kind of like the worst the thing I hate, I 0:09:12.160 --> 0:09:16.880 would say regular season NBA. I just I have no 0:09:17.040 --> 0:09:20.480 time for it. The players don't care, the coaches don't care, so. 0:09:20.600 --> 0:09:23.320 I don't care. I just can't. I used to love it. 0:09:23.360 --> 0:09:25.920 I used to go to every game I was assigned 0:09:25.920 --> 0:09:27.080 to cover basketball. 0:09:27.679 --> 0:09:30.560 And why are those games christ so damn high if 0:09:30.600 --> 0:09:31.800 nobody gives a shit. 0:09:32.400 --> 0:09:33.440 Yeah, you got me. 0:09:33.880 --> 0:09:37.480 I just I'm over the NBA product. I like the 0:09:37.520 --> 0:09:40.120 playoffs in the NBA, now, that's ali. I'm in for that. 0:09:40.320 --> 0:09:43.120 I'm still a customer for the playoffs, but I just can't. 0:09:43.360 --> 0:09:45.839 I can't get into it, cannot. 0:09:45.440 --> 0:09:48.160 Get Yeah, the NBA really should start their season on 0:09:48.240 --> 0:09:49.000 Christmas Day. 0:09:49.960 --> 0:09:54.640 It's yeah, yeah, most they starting around Halloween. That's what 0:09:54.679 --> 0:09:58.959 they do. Expition's going on right now. It's craziness. 0:09:59.040 --> 0:10:02.640 So my favorite sport to see in person is NFL. 0:10:03.240 --> 0:10:05.760 I've been lucky enough to go to Allegiance three times. 0:10:05.800 --> 0:10:08.160 Now I'm three and zero, so I'm scared to go 0:10:08.280 --> 0:10:11.400 back there because I don't want to jinx that and 0:10:11.480 --> 0:10:13.440 it would be a good possibility of that if I 0:10:13.480 --> 0:10:17.360 went there this season. But yeah, there is nothing like 0:10:17.480 --> 0:10:21.719 watching your favorite NFL team, especially in a newer stadium. 0:10:22.080 --> 0:10:25.040 And then all those years I had season tickets in Oakland, 0:10:25.480 --> 0:10:28.440 and Oakland was just its own culture, its own thing. 0:10:28.559 --> 0:10:32.640 It was awesome, from the tailgating to the vibe inside 0:10:32.679 --> 0:10:36.840 that stadium, the walking out of the tunnel with everybody channing. 0:10:40.920 --> 0:10:43.680 Yeah, I only went to the obviously didn't live in 0:10:43.679 --> 0:10:45.920 the Bay Area. I only went there a few times, 0:10:46.160 --> 0:10:48.760 and I actually went to the first I was a 0:10:48.880 --> 0:10:52.480 sign by the Mighty six ninety. They flew me up 0:10:52.520 --> 0:10:55.640 to Oakland for the first Raiders game back in Oakland 0:10:55.679 --> 0:10:59.120 when they left Los Angeles. Oh it was Rams, right, Yeah, 0:10:59.160 --> 0:11:02.360 I believe you right, they flew me up and so 0:11:02.440 --> 0:11:04.240 I was there at the coliseum. 0:11:03.679 --> 0:11:06.120 When they were Raider Raiders Rams and I was there 0:11:06.120 --> 0:11:07.200 at that game ocome. 0:11:07.280 --> 0:11:07.800 Well look at that. 0:11:07.840 --> 0:11:09.880 We didn't know each other, but I had no I 0:11:09.960 --> 0:11:13.600 had season tickets right behind the black hole. Oh, there 0:11:13.640 --> 0:11:13.880 you go. 0:11:14.000 --> 0:11:15.040 That's cool, awesome. 0:11:15.320 --> 0:11:20.480 So and Firk Dog also says, Dandy G, you've burned 0:11:20.559 --> 0:11:23.559 all your remaining Geno Smith gear after last week's disaster. 0:11:23.679 --> 0:11:27.920 Correct from oh Lord, I pretty much was out on 0:11:28.160 --> 0:11:31.080 Geno Smith all the way back to that Chargers game 0:11:31.120 --> 0:11:34.040 where the defense kept giving the ball back to Geno 0:11:34.120 --> 0:11:37.200 Smith and he kept doing squat with that ball. 0:11:37.480 --> 0:11:40.120 Think about Genos He's You thought he would be okay, 0:11:40.160 --> 0:11:43.040 he'd be bad for five or six games, he'll be 0:11:43.920 --> 0:11:46.920 good for four games, he'll be average for the rest 0:11:46.960 --> 0:11:47.520 of the games. 0:11:47.880 --> 0:11:49.400 But it just seems he's been like. 0:11:49.360 --> 0:11:53.320 All of his bad games have happened already, and so hey, 0:11:53.400 --> 0:11:54.360 all right, I'm moving on. 0:11:54.960 --> 0:11:55.520 Let's see here. 0:11:55.520 --> 0:11:56.000 What do we have? 0:11:56.440 --> 0:11:59.280 Kwang from Ho Chi Men, Vietnam. That's what it says 0:11:59.320 --> 0:12:02.080 in the email Big Ben and Daddy G. 0:12:03.040 --> 0:12:06.920 Shot in Freuda is the experience of pleasure. 0:12:06.800 --> 0:12:11.680 Joy, or self satisfaction that comes from the first or 0:12:11.760 --> 0:12:16.559 secondhand learning of the troubles, failures, pain, suffering, or humiliation 0:12:16.679 --> 0:12:20.120 of another. He says, question number one to you Ben, 0:12:20.200 --> 0:12:24.079 whatever happened to that wonderful drop out? And then question 0:12:24.160 --> 0:12:26.720 two he says, for Danny or Daddy G Radio, what 0:12:26.840 --> 0:12:28.719 happened to the school job that you had? 0:12:28.720 --> 0:12:29.560 So I'll go first. 0:12:30.360 --> 0:12:32.040 We still, as far as I know, we still have 0:12:32.080 --> 0:12:34.080 the drop in and this is one of the things 0:12:34.360 --> 0:12:38.400 we've changed board ops a lot over the years. And 0:12:38.520 --> 0:12:40.600 Loraina is in charge of the drops. I don't have 0:12:40.640 --> 0:12:43.040 anything to do with that, and it's really her discretion. 0:12:43.720 --> 0:12:45.600 And some of you guys have complained that she uses 0:12:45.600 --> 0:12:48.080 certain drops too much. You can plain she doesn't use it, but. 0:12:49.280 --> 0:12:51.840 That's her artistic touch on the show. 0:12:51.880 --> 0:12:53.600 I have nothing to do with that. I would like 0:12:53.679 --> 0:12:55.640 more drops. I would like to have more rotation to 0:12:55.679 --> 0:12:58.200 the drops, but I don't control that. I stay in 0:12:58.280 --> 0:13:00.480 my lane. I worry about the monologue because I worry 0:13:00.480 --> 0:13:01.040 about the show. 0:13:01.160 --> 0:13:03.280 So as far as I know, you do. 0:13:03.360 --> 0:13:06.000 Pick the bumper music though, because you love bumper music 0:13:06.080 --> 0:13:06.480 so much. 0:13:08.960 --> 0:13:14.200 God, what about your daddy? Geo Quinn says, what happened 0:13:14.200 --> 0:13:16.959 to the school job? That's from quaint so daddy. 0:13:17.600 --> 0:13:21.720 I went from one before school program and after school 0:13:21.760 --> 0:13:25.720 program to my own before school and after school program. 0:13:25.760 --> 0:13:29.080 I had my own kid. Yeah, that's what happened to. 0:13:29.120 --> 0:13:32.920 That is now, when my better half is working from 0:13:33.200 --> 0:13:36.640 seven thirty or eight am until I leave for Covino 0:13:36.640 --> 0:13:39.360 and Rich at one pm, I am doing daddy daycare 0:13:39.440 --> 0:13:40.080 here at home. 0:13:40.720 --> 0:13:42.920 Now, when co is old enough to go to school, 0:13:43.800 --> 0:13:45.760 you get that gig back or try to. 0:13:45.679 --> 0:13:47.800 Get something similar where you're out, you know, at the school. 0:13:47.840 --> 0:13:50.680 Well, you know, I'm at a crossroad right now because 0:13:50.760 --> 0:13:55.320 the past couple of weeks he's been at the Dragonfly Room, 0:13:55.320 --> 0:13:58.800 which I talked about last weekend. He's been there on Monday, 0:13:58.960 --> 0:14:02.559 Wednesdays and Friday. That's only been a couple weeks now, 0:14:02.600 --> 0:14:06.800 But it's strange because now I have those days to 0:14:06.880 --> 0:14:10.120 do something in the morning, I'm working on the Covino 0:14:10.160 --> 0:14:13.960 and Rich show production, prepping their show for that day. 0:14:14.600 --> 0:14:17.640 But I do have some hours where I could do 0:14:17.800 --> 0:14:20.440 something else. But you know, Ben, with what we do 0:14:20.560 --> 0:14:22.560 for a living, at the end of the week and 0:14:22.720 --> 0:14:25.160 we work, you know, seven days a week, you and I, 0:14:25.600 --> 0:14:29.040 it's mentally exhausting. We're not digging ditches by any means. 0:14:29.600 --> 0:14:32.440 It's long hours, it's a lot of screen time, it's 0:14:32.440 --> 0:14:34.920 a lot of mic time, and so at the end 0:14:34.960 --> 0:14:36.040 of the week it's draining. 0:14:36.640 --> 0:14:39.640 Would you just show up and work three hours a day, 0:14:39.760 --> 0:14:41.040 what's the big deal? 0:14:41.320 --> 0:14:43.440 I love it. Yeah, I wish that's how it was, 0:14:43.480 --> 0:14:47.080 but there's a lot involved that people don't see. They 0:14:47.240 --> 0:14:49.160 just hear the finished product. 0:14:49.880 --> 0:14:52.680 Yeah, I've tried to explain to people it's not just 0:14:53.000 --> 0:14:55.360 roll into the rate. Not to be fair that we 0:14:55.440 --> 0:14:58.360 all know there are people in radio that are lazy 0:14:58.440 --> 0:15:01.160 and don't do any prep and show up literally right 0:15:01.200 --> 0:15:03.120 before the show with no preparation. 0:15:03.680 --> 0:15:07.360 But those people normally don't last because they're exposed and 0:15:07.440 --> 0:15:09.160 they don't generally get an audience. 0:15:09.360 --> 0:15:11.560 You got to put the work in. It does it 0:15:11.600 --> 0:15:13.880 isn't at least an eight hour day. It's often a 0:15:13.920 --> 0:15:15.960 lot longer than that, because of you have to do 0:15:16.000 --> 0:15:18.600 stuff before the show, and you have to do stuff 0:15:18.640 --> 0:15:22.800 after the show. Next up, Alf from a safe space, 0:15:22.880 --> 0:15:25.960 he says, greetings, gentlemen, Have either of you ever heard 0:15:26.120 --> 0:15:28.760 of such a thing as a cat parade? 0:15:29.000 --> 0:15:30.360 Yes, says I know right Well. 0:15:30.360 --> 0:15:34.640 Recently, some brazen individuals, Alf says, thought it would be 0:15:34.760 --> 0:15:37.720 a good idea to hold a cat parade in the 0:15:37.760 --> 0:15:39.960 town that I lived in for the first twenty plus 0:15:40.080 --> 0:15:42.600 years of my life. Now, not only did they hold 0:15:42.760 --> 0:15:46.560 said parade, they mocked me for having it in a 0:15:46.720 --> 0:15:50.560 park less than one hundred feet from the house I 0:15:50.640 --> 0:15:54.600 grew up in. What has this world come to where 0:15:54.680 --> 0:15:59.080 cats can roam freely without any fear of being eaten 0:15:59.160 --> 0:15:59.800 by an alien? 0:15:59.840 --> 0:15:59.920 All? 0:16:00.320 --> 0:16:01.920 No, I've not heard of a cat parade. I always 0:16:01.960 --> 0:16:05.320 thought cats. You can't walk a cat. A cat's going 0:16:05.360 --> 0:16:07.760 to do its own thing, right, that's the difference between 0:16:07.800 --> 0:16:08.560 cats and dogs. 0:16:09.600 --> 0:16:12.160 Women are cats, men are dogs. Right. You can walk 0:16:12.200 --> 0:16:14.120 a dog around, you can't walk a cat around. Isn't 0:16:14.160 --> 0:16:15.000 that normally how that goes? 0:16:15.080 --> 0:16:15.360 Danny? 0:16:15.640 --> 0:16:16.920 Yeah, yeah. 0:16:16.960 --> 0:16:19.000 I got to shout out the two O nine area 0:16:19.080 --> 0:16:22.480 code in northern California because my mom has lived there 0:16:22.520 --> 0:16:25.920 for years. She moved us from San Jose, from LA 0:16:25.960 --> 0:16:28.680 to San Jose and then to the Central Valley where 0:16:28.680 --> 0:16:31.800 housing was affordable when I was in high school and 0:16:31.880 --> 0:16:35.400 where she lives her neighborhood. The times I visited her, 0:16:36.240 --> 0:16:38.120 I have to do a double take, a triple take. 0:16:38.160 --> 0:16:42.800 I'm like, what in that f is that? It's like 0:16:42.840 --> 0:16:47.920 a herd of stray cats running the streets. I'm talking 0:16:48.800 --> 0:16:54.040 thirty forty fifty feral cats running in a pack. Definitely 0:16:54.160 --> 0:16:56.440 shit you don't see in southern California or in a 0:16:56.480 --> 0:17:00.080 city setting that we're used to. And I asked my 0:17:00.120 --> 0:17:02.200 mom about it. She said, oh, yeah, our town has 0:17:02.200 --> 0:17:04.360 had some problems with Farrell's. 0:17:04.960 --> 0:17:06.840 So not the ice cream place. Remember there was a 0:17:06.840 --> 0:17:07.920 Farrell's ice Cream. 0:17:08.160 --> 0:17:10.879 Yeah, that's the Farrells I'd rather go see. 0:17:11.280 --> 0:17:13.679 When I think of feral cats, I think of Disneyland. 0:17:13.720 --> 0:17:14.320 And here's why. 0:17:14.440 --> 0:17:18.560 Because at night, the legend of Disneyland is to keep 0:17:18.560 --> 0:17:22.600 the rat population down, they release a bunch of feral 0:17:22.680 --> 0:17:25.320 cats at Disneyland once they close the park down. 0:17:25.560 --> 0:17:26.840 To take care a true story. 0:17:27.280 --> 0:17:30.359 Yeah, yeah, so they I wonder what they do with 0:17:30.400 --> 0:17:32.480 the cats during the day. But they're they're there at night, 0:17:32.480 --> 0:17:34.600 they work at night, they let them out and keep 0:17:34.600 --> 0:17:34.880 the rest. 0:17:35.040 --> 0:17:37.680 Remember yesterday you were talking about island games. 0:17:37.880 --> 0:17:39.360 Yes, the island life. 0:17:40.000 --> 0:17:44.520 There's this thing called island cats. Our oldest is doing 0:17:44.560 --> 0:17:47.960 college right now in Hawaii and where he's at in 0:17:48.160 --> 0:17:52.000 yiki Ki every night, every evening he sees island cats 0:17:52.080 --> 0:17:52.840 roaming around. 0:17:53.400 --> 0:17:55.800 So they just they live in the in the woods. 0:17:55.880 --> 0:17:58.199 They're they're just they don't live in the woods, but 0:17:58.240 --> 0:18:02.200 they're just you know, they're feral and they they find 0:18:02.240 --> 0:18:05.640 food and water and they just roam. Yeah. 0:18:05.680 --> 0:18:09.080 I know in Kawhii they have chickens wandering around that 0:18:10.080 --> 0:18:14.560 you're not allowed to obviously, they're they're protected. They have 0:18:14.640 --> 0:18:15.520 feral chickens. 0:18:16.280 --> 0:18:18.960 Buck. Yeah. 0:18:17.600 --> 0:18:23.399 Anyway, Well, yeah, ALF, that's that's quite the trolling. I 0:18:23.760 --> 0:18:25.720 hope your wife was not involved in that, ALF to 0:18:25.720 --> 0:18:29.719 control you like that anyway. Scott from Florida Rights and says, Hey, 0:18:29.800 --> 0:18:33.040 Ben and Danny g a dad of one of my 0:18:33.160 --> 0:18:37.000 kids baseball teams, played one spring training game for the 0:18:37.040 --> 0:18:39.800 Colorado Rockies in the late nineties. When we were talking 0:18:39.800 --> 0:18:41.800 about it, he said, one of the things that stuck 0:18:41.840 --> 0:18:45.119 out from his experience is that he the belt for 0:18:45.200 --> 0:18:48.400 his uniform was real leather. He says, I guess when 0:18:48.880 --> 0:18:50.400 they were in the minor leagues they had some kind 0:18:50.400 --> 0:18:53.280 of cheap composite cotton or plastic or. 0:18:53.280 --> 0:18:54.600 Something like that. He says. 0:18:54.680 --> 0:18:57.760 Is there anything that sticks out? Scott says, when you 0:18:57.800 --> 0:19:01.159 did your first day of professional radio that made you 0:19:01.359 --> 0:19:05.600 think you were a pro and had arrived. I'm curious, 0:19:05.600 --> 0:19:09.600 and I says Danny, if there was anything on Clay 0:19:09.680 --> 0:19:15.280 Travis he talks about his program that took it to 0:19:15.320 --> 0:19:18.919 the next level, like a gold plated microphone or some 0:19:19.080 --> 0:19:22.440 over the top equipment. I think that's more Rush Rush 0:19:22.480 --> 0:19:25.960 Limbaugh did all that. So, but anyway, radio is a 0:19:26.040 --> 0:19:29.880 very weird world. I've been to a lot of radio stations. 0:19:29.920 --> 0:19:33.800 Some of them you feel really important. Some of them 0:19:33.840 --> 0:19:36.840 you feel like you're in a really big space and 0:19:37.240 --> 0:19:39.639 you're really just king of the world. 0:19:41.480 --> 0:19:44.560