1 00:00:00,640 --> 00:00:01,359 Speaker 1: Kabooms. 2 00:00:02,200 --> 00:00:05,280 Speaker 2: If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes 3 00:00:05,320 --> 00:00:09,120 Speaker 2: a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants 4 00:00:09,119 --> 00:00:12,400 Speaker 2: of the old republic, a sol fashion of fairness. He 5 00:00:12,480 --> 00:00:15,400 Speaker 2: treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the 6 00:00:15,520 --> 00:00:19,520 Speaker 2: rich pill poppers in the penthouse. Wow to Clearinghouse of 7 00:00:19,560 --> 00:00:23,400 Speaker 2: hot takes, break free for something special. The Fifth Hour 8 00:00:23,520 --> 00:00:30,640 Speaker 2: with Ben Mallard starts right now. 9 00:00:28,880 --> 00:00:32,200 Speaker 1: In the air everywhere. 10 00:00:32,520 --> 00:00:36,479 Speaker 3: The Fifth Hour with Me, Ben Mather and Danny G 11 00:00:36,760 --> 00:00:40,680 Speaker 3: Radio a hap be Happy, Be Happy. 12 00:00:41,400 --> 00:00:42,120 Speaker 1: Saturday to you. 13 00:00:42,240 --> 00:00:46,600 Speaker 3: We are hanging out a college football Saturday. Thanksgiving upcoming 14 00:00:47,280 --> 00:00:50,640 Speaker 3: and we got you covered. Danny G is producing this podcast. 15 00:00:51,040 --> 00:00:54,800 Speaker 3: He will be with us for the mail Bag on Sunday, 16 00:00:54,800 --> 00:00:57,959 Speaker 3: but you got just me today on this podcast. We 17 00:00:58,040 --> 00:01:05,480 Speaker 3: have through the fog, zip codes and Pineapple Express, and 18 00:01:05,640 --> 00:01:08,000 Speaker 3: we'll put all of those things together and we are 19 00:01:08,000 --> 00:01:11,760 Speaker 3: going to make the Gabba Ghoul and the Baba Gnoose. 20 00:01:11,800 --> 00:01:12,640 Speaker 1: We're gonna make all that. 21 00:01:13,040 --> 00:01:16,240 Speaker 3: But we open up with this so the theater is 22 00:01:16,400 --> 00:01:21,319 Speaker 3: open fun for all ages. Now, you have to understand 23 00:01:21,360 --> 00:01:28,440 Speaker 3: something about the weeknight radio show Overnight Radio. It's not 24 00:01:28,840 --> 00:01:32,559 Speaker 3: so much as a job. It's a form of time travel, 25 00:01:32,600 --> 00:01:35,880 Speaker 3: which is really really kind of cool, really really kind 26 00:01:35,880 --> 00:01:40,600 Speaker 3: of cool. So we sit alone in a little Sherman 27 00:01:40,680 --> 00:01:44,759 Speaker 3: Oaks studio. It's two thirty in the morning, and there 28 00:01:44,800 --> 00:01:47,960 Speaker 3: are no windows in the studio in now we have 29 00:01:48,040 --> 00:01:48,840 Speaker 3: no windows. 30 00:01:48,960 --> 00:01:51,480 Speaker 1: The lights hume along. 31 00:01:52,480 --> 00:01:55,480 Speaker 3: There's a security guard in the building in the courtyard, 32 00:01:55,800 --> 00:02:00,960 Speaker 3: somewhere in a galaxy far far away, acting like stephen 33 00:02:01,000 --> 00:02:04,680 Speaker 3: A Smith watching an NBA Finals game, playing solitaire. 34 00:02:05,000 --> 00:02:08,040 Speaker 1: That's if you're lucky, by the way, Okay, if you're lucky. 35 00:02:08,520 --> 00:02:12,280 Speaker 3: The security guard is acting like stephen A and an 36 00:02:12,360 --> 00:02:16,880 Speaker 3: NBA Finals game and he's playing solitaire. If you're not lucky, 37 00:02:17,320 --> 00:02:21,440 Speaker 3: he's conducting his own sleep study while working. He's doing 38 00:02:21,440 --> 00:02:25,680 Speaker 3: a sleep study while working. Now, the newsroom at the 39 00:02:25,760 --> 00:02:28,880 Speaker 3: company is a ghost town. It's a ghost ship, okay, 40 00:02:29,000 --> 00:02:34,640 Speaker 3: formally buzzing with life for years and years, but every 41 00:02:34,720 --> 00:02:37,080 Speaker 3: year they keep laying people off and they don't replace them, 42 00:02:37,560 --> 00:02:42,000 Speaker 3: and so it's made it kind of depressing. Right, Maybe 43 00:02:42,040 --> 00:02:46,560 Speaker 3: there's a leftover container of some orange chicken and some 44 00:02:47,080 --> 00:02:50,600 Speaker 3: memory of a clip of a stay Awake with Jake 45 00:02:50,800 --> 00:02:54,400 Speaker 3: back in the day, Jake the Great Jake Warner and 46 00:02:54,560 --> 00:02:56,200 Speaker 3: out of the silence. 47 00:02:57,160 --> 00:02:58,160 Speaker 1: In our studio. 48 00:02:59,120 --> 00:03:02,400 Speaker 3: You start barking into these microphones and your voice gets 49 00:03:03,000 --> 00:03:07,160 Speaker 3: shot out of satellites and into transmitters and out into 50 00:03:07,200 --> 00:03:10,480 Speaker 3: the abyss, the great beyond, and you don't know where 51 00:03:10,520 --> 00:03:13,680 Speaker 3: it lands. You don't know who catches it. And that's 52 00:03:13,720 --> 00:03:18,400 Speaker 3: the magic of overnight radio. You're speaking to everyone who's 53 00:03:18,600 --> 00:03:22,600 Speaker 3: among the living, and yet no one at the same time, 54 00:03:23,760 --> 00:03:29,639 Speaker 3: and that transmitter booming the voice. It might ricochet off 55 00:03:29,680 --> 00:03:34,080 Speaker 3: a commercial truck in Barstow and then bounce into a 56 00:03:34,240 --> 00:03:39,920 Speaker 3: casino surveillance room somewhere outside a Wheeling, West Virginia, at 57 00:03:40,320 --> 00:03:42,080 Speaker 3: a little casino there. I don't even know if they 58 00:03:42,080 --> 00:03:43,960 Speaker 3: have a casino in Wheeling, West Virginia. I just brought 59 00:03:44,000 --> 00:03:46,360 Speaker 3: up Wheeling, West Virginia. We used to have a caller 60 00:03:46,400 --> 00:03:50,200 Speaker 3: from Wheeling, West Virginia who was very annoying, and I 61 00:03:50,200 --> 00:03:54,160 Speaker 3: don't know if he's around anymore. Radio Rich or maybe 62 00:03:54,160 --> 00:03:57,520 Speaker 3: that signal sneaks under a bedroom door and Dayton, Ohio 63 00:03:57,920 --> 00:04:00,520 Speaker 3: at the exact moment someone woke up at three in 64 00:04:00,560 --> 00:04:03,320 Speaker 3: the morning, they make a pit stop, and that's how 65 00:04:03,360 --> 00:04:08,880 Speaker 3: it happens. Radio is discovered the way trains used to 66 00:04:09,160 --> 00:04:13,240 Speaker 3: back in the day be seen through fok. Right, it's 67 00:04:13,240 --> 00:04:15,000 Speaker 3: the same thing. You know, radio has discovered the way 68 00:04:15,040 --> 00:04:17,799 Speaker 3: that trains used to be seen through fog. And that's 69 00:04:17,839 --> 00:04:23,160 Speaker 3: how Ed from Dayton, who Ed from Dayton found us. 70 00:04:22,839 --> 00:04:27,520 Speaker 3: He said that the radio happened to be on one 71 00:04:27,640 --> 00:04:31,080 Speaker 3: night and he got up to use the powder room, 72 00:04:31,080 --> 00:04:34,640 Speaker 3: as they say on ht TV in Canada, HGTV in Canada, 73 00:04:34,680 --> 00:04:38,240 Speaker 3: they say the powder room. Now, that is how all 74 00:04:38,320 --> 00:04:44,279 Speaker 3: great romances begin in overnight talk radio. The creeping crud, indigestion, insomnia, 75 00:04:44,520 --> 00:04:46,760 Speaker 3: you gotta go, and nobody beats the ways, you know, 76 00:04:46,839 --> 00:04:49,599 Speaker 3: dumb luck, whatever that might be. So this week Ed 77 00:04:50,600 --> 00:04:55,760 Speaker 3: Ed Ed Ed showed up in Los Angeles and he 78 00:04:55,839 --> 00:04:59,119 Speaker 3: was saying in Pasadena, home of the Rose Bowl. 79 00:04:59,160 --> 00:05:03,640 Speaker 1: To be exact, now, fly no, he did not. Ed drove. 80 00:05:03,760 --> 00:05:08,240 Speaker 3: He took four days to drive nineteen hundred and twelve 81 00:05:08,279 --> 00:05:12,040 Speaker 3: miles from Dayton, Ohio to Los Angeles. And he got 82 00:05:12,080 --> 00:05:16,239 Speaker 3: to California and he was expecting that California sunshine, palm trees. 83 00:05:17,200 --> 00:05:21,920 Speaker 3: Maybe he'd get a celebrity siding at Erwan, the overpriced 84 00:05:22,200 --> 00:05:26,320 Speaker 3: trendy grocery store in southern California. 85 00:05:26,440 --> 00:05:27,320 Speaker 1: That's E. R. 86 00:05:28,000 --> 00:05:35,800 Speaker 3: Whon Home of the fifty Dollars Strawberry. Instead, Ed got rain. Now, 87 00:05:35,880 --> 00:05:40,800 Speaker 3: not the serious biblical El Nino rain that we get 88 00:05:40,839 --> 00:05:44,320 Speaker 3: every once in a while in the Golden State. Not 89 00:05:44,480 --> 00:05:48,440 Speaker 3: the type that makes the local TV reporter send the 90 00:05:49,320 --> 00:05:52,760 Speaker 3: camera person down and they stand dangerously close to the 91 00:05:52,800 --> 00:05:54,760 Speaker 3: storm drain and tell you to. 92 00:05:54,680 --> 00:05:55,520 Speaker 1: Stay in your home. 93 00:05:56,400 --> 00:06:00,640 Speaker 3: No, this was the kind of mild rain that makes 94 00:06:00,680 --> 00:06:05,960 Speaker 3: the SoCal basin act like they've entered the perfect storm. 95 00:06:06,480 --> 00:06:10,120 Speaker 3: But really, you just need windshield wipers that work. That's 96 00:06:10,160 --> 00:06:13,120 Speaker 3: all you need. Stay off the one oh one freeway. 97 00:06:14,400 --> 00:06:16,800 Speaker 3: I didn't take the one oh one Freeway driving into work. 98 00:06:16,839 --> 00:06:18,880 Speaker 3: I made sure I took the long way. I went 99 00:06:18,920 --> 00:06:21,080 Speaker 3: about twenty miles out of my way because I did 100 00:06:21,080 --> 00:06:23,760 Speaker 3: not want to deal with the water park that is 101 00:06:23,800 --> 00:06:27,000 Speaker 3: the one oh one Freeway. Still, listen, when you're from Ohio, 102 00:06:27,640 --> 00:06:30,920 Speaker 3: you expect California to beat California, just like the brochure, 103 00:06:31,720 --> 00:06:36,799 Speaker 3: you want paradise. Instead, Ed got puddles. Puddles and puddles 104 00:06:36,839 --> 00:06:38,839 Speaker 3: and puddles and puddles. Anyway, he called it in the 105 00:06:38,839 --> 00:06:42,560 Speaker 3: show one night, and first time ever I believe Ed's 106 00:06:42,560 --> 00:06:45,360 Speaker 3: called the show and he asked, he said, listen, I'm 107 00:06:45,400 --> 00:06:47,919 Speaker 3: in town. I'd love to come by and then stop 108 00:06:48,000 --> 00:06:52,560 Speaker 3: stop by the studio. Now, this is a tricky little dance. 109 00:06:54,400 --> 00:06:57,640 Speaker 3: Back in the old days, as you know, we used 110 00:06:57,680 --> 00:07:00,440 Speaker 3: to do studio business like it was the statue of liberty. 111 00:07:00,839 --> 00:07:04,000 Speaker 3: Give us you're tired, you're poor, your huddled masses yearning 112 00:07:04,040 --> 00:07:09,200 Speaker 3: to breathe free with Overnight Sports Radio. Then a gentleman 113 00:07:09,440 --> 00:07:12,880 Speaker 3: named Mike the Leprechaun jumped onto the scene. And Mike 114 00:07:12,920 --> 00:07:17,640 Speaker 3: the Leprekahn a harmless fellow, as harmless as a sunflower. 115 00:07:18,080 --> 00:07:21,880 Speaker 3: He arrived some twelve hours early, covered in suntanned lotion 116 00:07:22,160 --> 00:07:26,800 Speaker 3: head to toe, and he scared management so much. How 117 00:07:26,920 --> 00:07:32,040 Speaker 3: much he scared them so much that management is convinced 118 00:07:32,080 --> 00:07:36,520 Speaker 3: that we are harboring radio fugitives on the Overnight show. 119 00:07:36,640 --> 00:07:39,880 Speaker 3: So after that, there were several memos sent out. Thanks 120 00:07:39,880 --> 00:07:43,000 Speaker 3: to Mike the Leprechaun, the rules got tightened from the 121 00:07:43,040 --> 00:07:48,840 Speaker 3: corporate overlords of the people that pay my salary. Radio 122 00:07:48,880 --> 00:07:53,640 Speaker 3: executives do not speak harmless. They don't understand. Hey, Mike 123 00:07:53,800 --> 00:07:58,160 Speaker 3: just loves suntan lotion, he loves radio. He's a leprechaun. 124 00:07:58,640 --> 00:08:04,640 Speaker 3: Leave him alone. No, they speak legal liability, they speak 125 00:08:04,800 --> 00:08:10,120 Speaker 3: legal liability. No more pop ins is the message. No 126 00:08:10,320 --> 00:08:15,280 Speaker 3: unexpected mal or militia hello, none of that. But something 127 00:08:15,640 --> 00:08:19,400 Speaker 3: about Ed just felt right. He said he had been 128 00:08:19,400 --> 00:08:21,280 Speaker 3: a big fan for years. And I thought, you know, 129 00:08:21,280 --> 00:08:25,640 Speaker 3: if I was a guy like Ed, and I loved radio, 130 00:08:25,680 --> 00:08:28,320 Speaker 3: because I did love radio growing up before I gotten. 131 00:08:28,040 --> 00:08:30,400 Speaker 1: A ring, I loved man, the magic of it, the 132 00:08:30,400 --> 00:08:31,240 Speaker 1: theater of it, the holy. 133 00:08:31,640 --> 00:08:34,679 Speaker 3: So if I were like Ed, and I happen to 134 00:08:34,679 --> 00:08:36,400 Speaker 3: be in town, and I loved the radio show, and 135 00:08:36,440 --> 00:08:39,920 Speaker 3: I wanted to see the show. So what I did 136 00:08:39,960 --> 00:08:43,440 Speaker 3: is I said, listened, just email me, we'll figure something out. 137 00:08:43,480 --> 00:08:47,000 Speaker 3: That's a radio host way when a radio host says, hey, 138 00:08:47,040 --> 00:08:48,560 Speaker 3: email me, we'll figure something out. 139 00:08:48,760 --> 00:08:50,119 Speaker 1: That's a way of the host. 140 00:08:49,840 --> 00:08:51,920 Speaker 3: Saying I'm not really sure that I want to do this, 141 00:08:52,240 --> 00:08:54,240 Speaker 3: but I want you to think that I might do it. 142 00:08:54,520 --> 00:08:56,400 Speaker 3: So why don't you just send me an email and 143 00:08:56,440 --> 00:08:58,640 Speaker 3: then I'll say, well, maybe I will do it. And 144 00:08:58,679 --> 00:09:01,880 Speaker 3: we played a brief email tag game, and then I 145 00:09:01,960 --> 00:09:08,960 Speaker 3: remembered something that sometimes sometimes in life it is okay 146 00:09:08,960 --> 00:09:11,480 Speaker 3: to say yes. You can actually say yes, and it 147 00:09:11,520 --> 00:09:15,080 Speaker 3: doesn't cost me anything. I'm doing the show. I'll be 148 00:09:15,200 --> 00:09:18,480 Speaker 3: there at the studio. There's a slight level of risk. 149 00:09:18,559 --> 00:09:21,280 Speaker 3: This is a total stranger. I don't know Ed. I've 150 00:09:21,280 --> 00:09:25,439 Speaker 3: never met Ed. I don't know anything about Ed from Ohio. 151 00:09:25,720 --> 00:09:27,320 Speaker 3: I just know that he likes the show and he's 152 00:09:27,360 --> 00:09:30,079 Speaker 3: a listener. ED might have a giant butcher knife. I 153 00:09:30,120 --> 00:09:31,720 Speaker 3: want to chop me up in little pieces. 154 00:09:31,760 --> 00:09:35,240 Speaker 1: I don't know. However, I took a risk. I said, 155 00:09:35,240 --> 00:09:36,920 Speaker 1: you know, listen, help this guy out. 156 00:09:36,960 --> 00:09:41,520 Speaker 3: It's a good mitzvah, a little kind thing and active kindness. 157 00:09:41,760 --> 00:09:44,920 Speaker 3: So we set a time, and I held my breath, 158 00:09:45,480 --> 00:09:49,880 Speaker 3: and sure enough Ed showed up on time, on time, 159 00:09:50,040 --> 00:09:55,040 Speaker 3: a good Midwestern person, good Midwestern manners, not Minnesota nice 160 00:09:55,040 --> 00:09:58,240 Speaker 3: because he's from Ohio. He's from Ohio, not Minnesota. And 161 00:09:58,400 --> 00:10:01,560 Speaker 3: Ed stayed exactly thirty minutes. That's the allotted window. We 162 00:10:01,640 --> 00:10:05,120 Speaker 3: now have only thirty minutes. We asked if he could 163 00:10:05,160 --> 00:10:08,880 Speaker 3: take a photo for the social media, and we made 164 00:10:08,920 --> 00:10:11,640 Speaker 3: sure to get permission. That's also a new rule that 165 00:10:11,720 --> 00:10:13,840 Speaker 3: we added recently. We had one person I will not 166 00:10:13,920 --> 00:10:17,040 Speaker 3: name the woman, who once threatened to contact the state 167 00:10:17,080 --> 00:10:21,760 Speaker 3: department and also sue me because we posted a benign, 168 00:10:21,920 --> 00:10:25,920 Speaker 3: harmless selfie of the woman and she requested that we 169 00:10:26,040 --> 00:10:28,199 Speaker 3: delete it and the whole thing. And so now we 170 00:10:28,280 --> 00:10:32,000 Speaker 3: have to ask people to post photos on social media. 171 00:10:32,440 --> 00:10:36,160 Speaker 3: So we've had a bit of tough luck on studio visits. 172 00:10:36,160 --> 00:10:38,000 Speaker 3: I mean, it's not every day that you have someone 173 00:10:38,000 --> 00:10:40,000 Speaker 3: in you take a photo, post it to promote them 174 00:10:40,360 --> 00:10:42,760 Speaker 3: and they want to sue you. It's also not every 175 00:10:42,800 --> 00:10:44,960 Speaker 3: day that someone shows up twelve hours to the radio 176 00:10:45,000 --> 00:10:48,280 Speaker 3: station twelve hours early, covered in suntan lotion. But here 177 00:10:48,320 --> 00:10:50,760 Speaker 3: we are now Ed is not that person. Ed is 178 00:10:50,800 --> 00:10:54,200 Speaker 3: not that person. Ed is not He was there just 179 00:10:54,360 --> 00:10:57,960 Speaker 3: thirty minutes and we talked a little bit briefly about 180 00:10:58,040 --> 00:11:01,440 Speaker 3: what made Ed tick. We talked about from Dayton Hall 181 00:11:01,480 --> 00:11:05,760 Speaker 3: of Famer Dick from Dayton, the Babe Ruth of overnight callers. 182 00:11:07,240 --> 00:11:10,480 Speaker 3: Ed mentioned that he had become a fan he found 183 00:11:10,480 --> 00:11:13,520 Speaker 3: our show when Clay Travis, the man who once hosted 184 00:11:13,559 --> 00:11:16,400 Speaker 3: Mornings on Fox Sports Radio and now sits in one 185 00:11:16,400 --> 00:11:20,120 Speaker 3: of the most significant shares in American broadcasting, the post 186 00:11:20,200 --> 00:11:24,240 Speaker 3: Rush Limbaugh seat, which is a massive seat in broadcasting. 187 00:11:25,000 --> 00:11:28,000 Speaker 3: And I was Clay Travis's lead in for a few 188 00:11:28,040 --> 00:11:31,600 Speaker 3: years there, and Ed knew that he didn't forget that 189 00:11:32,800 --> 00:11:37,959 Speaker 3: and that's that right there. That is radio magic. The reason, 190 00:11:39,000 --> 00:11:42,000 Speaker 3: as Paul Harvey would say the rest of the story, 191 00:11:42,520 --> 00:11:45,560 Speaker 3: the reason that ed from Dayton, Ohio found the show 192 00:11:46,120 --> 00:11:48,679 Speaker 3: is because of Clay Travis and because. 193 00:11:48,320 --> 00:11:52,320 Speaker 1: He had to go take a peepee. Yeah, he stayed 194 00:11:53,080 --> 00:11:56,240 Speaker 1: because of something else entirely. But he happened to go 195 00:11:56,240 --> 00:11:59,679 Speaker 1: to the bathroom. He woke up early and he had 196 00:11:59,800 --> 00:12:02,480 Speaker 1: the radio on and it was our show, and he 197 00:12:02,640 --> 00:12:03,400 Speaker 1: liked what he heard. 198 00:12:03,600 --> 00:12:07,840 Speaker 3: And he has continued to listen since that point in time. 199 00:12:08,760 --> 00:12:11,000 Speaker 3: And so that's it. He stayed because of something else. 200 00:12:11,040 --> 00:12:15,280 Speaker 3: Once you find a show that you like, and I'm 201 00:12:15,320 --> 00:12:17,360 Speaker 3: the same way, I'm the same way. I'm not different 202 00:12:17,360 --> 00:12:20,600 Speaker 3: than you. You find something you like. If you watched 203 00:12:20,640 --> 00:12:23,400 Speaker 3: Benny Versus The Penny, there's a new episode up right now. 204 00:12:23,440 --> 00:12:25,360 Speaker 3: In one of the episodes we've done this week, we 205 00:12:25,480 --> 00:12:28,320 Speaker 3: talked about the Stardust Line, which I used to listen 206 00:12:28,320 --> 00:12:31,640 Speaker 3: to as a kid every Sunday night from ten to midnight. 207 00:12:31,679 --> 00:12:34,600 Speaker 3: The Stardust Line. I loved it, absolutely loved it. The 208 00:12:34,640 --> 00:12:37,800 Speaker 3: show really hit something with me and it just worked. 209 00:12:38,720 --> 00:12:39,200 Speaker 1: It worked. 210 00:12:39,240 --> 00:12:42,679 Speaker 3: So once you find a show that you like, it 211 00:12:42,800 --> 00:12:45,480 Speaker 3: becomes part of your routine. It becomes part of your life. 212 00:12:46,240 --> 00:12:49,559 Speaker 3: And that's why it's so important not to miss too 213 00:12:49,720 --> 00:12:51,800 Speaker 3: much work when you do these kind of jobs, because 214 00:12:52,080 --> 00:12:54,840 Speaker 3: unlike a podcast where you do one a week, and 215 00:12:54,880 --> 00:12:57,080 Speaker 3: it's easy to do a podcast like I'm doing right here, 216 00:12:57,080 --> 00:13:02,280 Speaker 3: it's very easy. Live radio just cuts a little different, 217 00:13:02,480 --> 00:13:04,600 Speaker 3: just a little harder to do live talk radio. 218 00:13:04,920 --> 00:13:06,680 Speaker 1: And you have to be there. You have to be there. 219 00:13:06,720 --> 00:13:08,360 Speaker 1: You have to do the dirty work, do. 220 00:13:08,360 --> 00:13:11,600 Speaker 3: The grunt work, and show up day after day, hour 221 00:13:11,720 --> 00:13:14,600 Speaker 3: after hour. And the way I look at it, it's 222 00:13:14,679 --> 00:13:19,880 Speaker 3: kind of like a sofa, not sufa stadium, which helmet 223 00:13:19,920 --> 00:13:24,440 Speaker 3: Man calls sofi stadium. It's like a sofa that you 224 00:13:24,600 --> 00:13:28,600 Speaker 3: have a sofa. You might not need that sofa. You 225 00:13:28,720 --> 00:13:31,400 Speaker 3: might go a day or two without using the sofa. 226 00:13:31,440 --> 00:13:34,600 Speaker 3: Maybe you go all week without using the sofa. However, 227 00:13:34,640 --> 00:13:37,520 Speaker 3: you like the fact that the sofa is there because 228 00:13:37,520 --> 00:13:40,520 Speaker 3: if you need the sofa, you can go on the sofa, 229 00:13:40,960 --> 00:13:43,000 Speaker 3: and every once in a while you just want to 230 00:13:43,040 --> 00:13:44,760 Speaker 3: go back on that sofa. And maybe you love the 231 00:13:44,800 --> 00:13:46,520 Speaker 3: sofa so much you go on there every day of 232 00:13:46,520 --> 00:13:48,680 Speaker 3: the week because that's a very important sofa. 233 00:13:49,600 --> 00:13:50,440 Speaker 1: You want to do it. 234 00:13:50,440 --> 00:13:52,480 Speaker 3: You want to go on the sofa. Sometimes you don't, 235 00:13:52,960 --> 00:13:53,840 Speaker 3: sometimes you don't. 236 00:13:54,840 --> 00:13:58,160 Speaker 1: And so there it was. And there are places you go. 237 00:13:58,080 --> 00:14:01,839 Speaker 3: Because they feed you, and there are places you go 238 00:14:01,880 --> 00:14:06,720 Speaker 3: because they know you. It's like it becomes part of 239 00:14:06,760 --> 00:14:09,240 Speaker 3: your routine, you know, like a diner becomes part of 240 00:14:09,240 --> 00:14:11,600 Speaker 3: a trucker's map for you boys that are on the 241 00:14:11,640 --> 00:14:14,880 Speaker 3: road all the time. So I told that, listen are 242 00:14:15,200 --> 00:14:17,360 Speaker 3: You're the backbone of the show. Not the callers, not 243 00:14:17,400 --> 00:14:20,840 Speaker 3: the characters, not the podcast reviewers or the social media 244 00:14:20,920 --> 00:14:25,480 Speaker 3: warriors with fake avatars. No, no, no, the silent majority, 245 00:14:26,000 --> 00:14:29,480 Speaker 3: the quiet ones, the ones who never text, the ones 246 00:14:29,520 --> 00:14:31,800 Speaker 3: who never post anything, the ones who listen to the 247 00:14:31,840 --> 00:14:36,320 Speaker 3: podcast while mowing the lawn on a Saturday morning, or 248 00:14:36,880 --> 00:14:42,560 Speaker 3: live overnight while stocking at Kroger Aisle seven or making 249 00:14:43,000 --> 00:14:47,200 Speaker 3: bullets at a factory in Missouri all night. Wink wink, 250 00:14:47,280 --> 00:14:51,400 Speaker 3: nod nod. They rarely call, but they are always there. 251 00:14:51,600 --> 00:14:56,360 Speaker 3: They know every nickname, every catchphrase, all the characters that 252 00:14:56,480 --> 00:14:59,240 Speaker 3: call the show, from Jed who Fled, to Marcel and 253 00:14:59,280 --> 00:15:03,320 Speaker 3: everyone in which Justin and Cincinnati and Robbie the Mariner fan, 254 00:15:03,520 --> 00:15:05,720 Speaker 3: mister nice Guy and no Stredinis. 255 00:15:06,320 --> 00:15:07,359 Speaker 1: And they know everybody. 256 00:15:08,040 --> 00:15:11,000 Speaker 3: They know who won Benny versus the Penny in Week 257 00:15:11,080 --> 00:15:13,680 Speaker 3: seven of the twenty nineteen NFL season. I don't even 258 00:15:13,760 --> 00:15:15,840 Speaker 3: know who won Benny versus the Penny in Week seven 259 00:15:15,880 --> 00:15:18,680 Speaker 3: of the twenty nineteen NFL season. They are the reason 260 00:15:18,800 --> 00:15:21,880 Speaker 3: the lights stay on at three in the morning, the 261 00:15:22,160 --> 00:15:27,480 Speaker 3: silent majority, and they're the reason that radio still feels 262 00:15:27,520 --> 00:15:30,440 Speaker 3: a little bit like magic presto. 263 00:15:31,400 --> 00:15:34,000 Speaker 1: Theater of the mind, they call. 264 00:15:33,920 --> 00:15:37,920 Speaker 3: It, and that's not I don't know if that's quite 265 00:15:38,040 --> 00:15:38,840 Speaker 3: right theater in mind. 266 00:15:38,840 --> 00:15:40,000 Speaker 1: It's theater of connection. 267 00:15:40,960 --> 00:15:44,640 Speaker 3: It's all about connection, the theater of stumbling into and 268 00:15:44,760 --> 00:15:49,120 Speaker 3: onto a voice in the night and deciding not to 269 00:15:49,160 --> 00:15:51,880 Speaker 3: turn it off. And radio just again means a little 270 00:15:51,920 --> 00:15:52,480 Speaker 3: more at night. 271 00:15:52,680 --> 00:15:53,440 Speaker 1: It just does. 272 00:15:53,960 --> 00:15:56,120 Speaker 3: You get paid more money during the day and people 273 00:15:56,200 --> 00:15:58,240 Speaker 3: like you more and all that, but it just is 274 00:15:58,360 --> 00:16:00,920 Speaker 3: more important at night. 275 00:16:02,360 --> 00:16:04,080 Speaker 1: It just is. 276 00:16:04,120 --> 00:16:06,600 Speaker 3: It just cuts a little different. And so when Ed 277 00:16:06,920 --> 00:16:09,240 Speaker 3: was ready to leave the studio because we're getting close 278 00:16:09,280 --> 00:16:11,880 Speaker 3: to the thirty minute mark, it was kind of a 279 00:16:11,960 --> 00:16:14,440 Speaker 3: rainy week, as we said, you know, not hard, just 280 00:16:14,600 --> 00:16:16,520 Speaker 3: enough to make the street lights glow a little bit. 281 00:16:16,560 --> 00:16:19,560 Speaker 1: And I escorted Ed. 282 00:16:19,640 --> 00:16:22,440 Speaker 3: From Dayton out of the building and we took our 283 00:16:22,480 --> 00:16:26,040 Speaker 3: photo walked him out and all that waved goodbye, and 284 00:16:26,200 --> 00:16:29,520 Speaker 3: back into the studio I went. And then the fan 285 00:16:29,960 --> 00:16:35,080 Speaker 3: was spinning, the control board was humming, the buttons were flashing. 286 00:16:36,000 --> 00:16:39,680 Speaker 1: The clock said really late, really late. 287 00:16:40,320 --> 00:16:44,800 Speaker 3: And somewhere out there heading back to Pasadena, a guy 288 00:16:44,840 --> 00:16:49,440 Speaker 3: from Dayton, Ohio now knew what the studio looked like, 289 00:16:49,920 --> 00:16:54,880 Speaker 3: what we look like. The voice in the dark and. 290 00:16:54,760 --> 00:16:57,080 Speaker 1: The other are actually real people. Hear human beings. 291 00:16:57,920 --> 00:17:01,040 Speaker 3: And you know a little little diner in the night 292 00:17:01,240 --> 00:17:05,600 Speaker 3: with the seat belt yourself or seat yourself down. 293 00:17:05,600 --> 00:17:07,440 Speaker 1: You have to wear a seatbelt, you can seat yourself 294 00:17:07,480 --> 00:17:12,000 Speaker 1: and all that. Now, isn't that something that's overnight radio. 295 00:17:12,640 --> 00:17:16,480 Speaker 3: You talk to strangers long enough and some of the 296 00:17:16,520 --> 00:17:18,000 Speaker 3: strangers become friends. 297 00:17:18,040 --> 00:17:21,879 Speaker 1: You never see them, yet they're your friends. You're just 298 00:17:21,960 --> 00:17:22,840 Speaker 1: weird for. 299 00:17:22,840 --> 00:17:26,600 Speaker 3: The midnight travelers. We'll leave the light on for you, 300 00:17:26,680 --> 00:17:28,960 Speaker 3: kind of like that hotel. Meanwhile, turning the page on 301 00:17:29,000 --> 00:17:32,440 Speaker 3: that it is a college football Saturday today. You will 302 00:17:32,440 --> 00:17:35,879 Speaker 3: not see Old Miss be playing on television. 303 00:17:35,880 --> 00:17:36,560 Speaker 1: No, Old Miss. 304 00:17:36,560 --> 00:17:40,080 Speaker 3: They play the day after Thanksgiving game against their blood 305 00:17:40,200 --> 00:17:43,000 Speaker 3: rival Old Miss versus Mississippi State. 306 00:17:44,080 --> 00:17:45,000 Speaker 1: So I bring this up. 307 00:17:45,040 --> 00:17:47,800 Speaker 3: There are reports now we're doing this early on a Saturday, 308 00:17:48,400 --> 00:17:52,000 Speaker 3: the twenty second day of November, that there are reports 309 00:17:52,000 --> 00:17:55,320 Speaker 3: here that came down overnight that said that Lane Kiffin 310 00:17:55,359 --> 00:17:58,639 Speaker 3: has been offered a record tying amount of money to 311 00:17:58,800 --> 00:18:06,040 Speaker 3: leave Miss for SEC rival LSU in a major college 312 00:18:06,040 --> 00:18:09,800 Speaker 3: football story. It's not done yet as we are rolling 313 00:18:09,840 --> 00:18:13,199 Speaker 3: on this podcast, but the coaching carousel going round and 314 00:18:13,280 --> 00:18:15,679 Speaker 3: round and round and round and round. So the question 315 00:18:16,400 --> 00:18:20,200 Speaker 3: for the esteem panel, what is Lane Kiffen going to do? 316 00:18:20,920 --> 00:18:23,520 Speaker 3: Report is he hasn't decided yet, but he's been offered 317 00:18:23,520 --> 00:18:27,119 Speaker 3: a record tying amount of money. So what does old 318 00:18:27,200 --> 00:18:31,119 Speaker 3: Miss coach Lane Kiffin do? That is the question. What 319 00:18:31,480 --> 00:18:34,400 Speaker 3: is the answer. So he is going to do what 320 00:18:34,520 --> 00:18:38,159 Speaker 3: Lane Kiffen always does. He's going to pack up the 321 00:18:38,200 --> 00:18:43,639 Speaker 3: suitcase and fire up the Hobo Express and many mana 322 00:18:43,640 --> 00:18:49,639 Speaker 3: many mane may This is not a hard decision. Lane 323 00:18:49,760 --> 00:18:53,479 Speaker 3: Kiffen was born to wonder. He's in a football family. 324 00:18:53,560 --> 00:18:57,359 Speaker 3: Monte Kiffen, the old the late coach, his dad football lifer, 325 00:18:57,880 --> 00:19:01,840 Speaker 3: and Lane Kiffin inherited that it's the family business. He's 326 00:19:01,880 --> 00:19:07,879 Speaker 3: a football carpetbagger, an opportunist, a traveling pigskin salesman. Most 327 00:19:07,960 --> 00:19:10,919 Speaker 3: of these college coaches, if they're any good, they're like 328 00:19:11,160 --> 00:19:14,320 Speaker 3: modern day snake oil hustlers. 329 00:19:14,880 --> 00:19:16,199 Speaker 1: They're snake oil husters. 330 00:19:16,240 --> 00:19:19,840 Speaker 3: They show up, crank up the hype machine, grab the bag, 331 00:19:20,400 --> 00:19:24,960 Speaker 3: and yodel out of town before the paint trials. Seven years, 332 00:19:25,119 --> 00:19:28,920 Speaker 3: ninety million dollars is the report that LSU has offered 333 00:19:30,000 --> 00:19:33,000 Speaker 3: their head coach their next head coach. They hope Lane Kiffin. 334 00:19:33,080 --> 00:19:35,840 Speaker 3: Keep in mind, they're gonna pay Brian Kelly the payout. 335 00:19:35,880 --> 00:19:37,919 Speaker 3: They got a lot of payout money they're paying, and 336 00:19:37,960 --> 00:19:41,840 Speaker 3: now they want this guy ninety million dollars plus twenty 337 00:19:41,840 --> 00:19:46,120 Speaker 3: five million dollars salary cap in nil money every year. 338 00:19:47,400 --> 00:19:49,960 Speaker 3: So what's he gonna do. You don't reject a winning 339 00:19:50,000 --> 00:19:54,119 Speaker 3: lottery ticket. You hop to the lottery office and you say, okay, 340 00:19:54,200 --> 00:19:57,000 Speaker 3: let's cash this thing, and you wave goodbye to Mississippi. 341 00:19:57,000 --> 00:19:59,480 Speaker 3: You say bye bye, We'll be back to see you 342 00:19:59,480 --> 00:20:04,320 Speaker 3: in a little bit. And old miss was never ever 343 00:20:04,440 --> 00:20:08,440 Speaker 3: going to be the final destination. The last supper for 344 00:20:08,600 --> 00:20:13,960 Speaker 3: Lane kifvin Oxford, Mississippi is essentially a BUCkies on the 345 00:20:14,000 --> 00:20:17,320 Speaker 3: coaching road trip map. I think Kiffin will go to 346 00:20:17,440 --> 00:20:21,480 Speaker 3: Baton Rouge or somewhere like it. Would go with Baton Ruge, 347 00:20:21,600 --> 00:20:24,720 Speaker 3: win some games, and in four years from now he'll 348 00:20:24,720 --> 00:20:27,240 Speaker 3: be on the sidelines deciding whether or not he wants 349 00:20:27,240 --> 00:20:30,680 Speaker 3: to leave to go back to USC again or coach 350 00:20:30,800 --> 00:20:34,560 Speaker 3: dot Dallas Gabbars. You see Lane Kiffin if he were 351 00:20:34,600 --> 00:20:40,000 Speaker 3: a stock, high volatility, high volatility, good. 352 00:20:39,880 --> 00:20:42,280 Speaker 1: For day trading only. Now. 353 00:20:42,320 --> 00:20:44,840 Speaker 3: The only thing that worries me, and this is I 354 00:20:44,840 --> 00:20:46,520 Speaker 3: have no skin in the game. I'm not an old 355 00:20:46,600 --> 00:20:49,919 Speaker 3: miss fan. I'm not like numb nuts. Brian Finley, fer 356 00:20:50,080 --> 00:20:52,880 Speaker 3: Dog's friend, I'm not like him. He's a huge old 357 00:20:52,920 --> 00:20:56,840 Speaker 3: Miss fan. Family goes there, Family's been there. I'm not 358 00:20:56,960 --> 00:20:59,920 Speaker 3: like that. I'm not certainly not an LSU fan. Although 359 00:21:00,080 --> 00:21:03,160 Speaker 3: I've dealt with some people in Baton Rouge. The great 360 00:21:03,240 --> 00:21:05,879 Speaker 3: Dale Brown, the LSU's basketball coach, did some shows for 361 00:21:05,920 --> 00:21:09,400 Speaker 3: Fox Sports Radio, and Chris Landry, the Fox football scout 362 00:21:10,040 --> 00:21:13,120 Speaker 3: at one point lived in Baton Rouge and whatnot. So 363 00:21:13,480 --> 00:21:15,320 Speaker 3: I have no skin in the game on that the 364 00:21:15,359 --> 00:21:17,479 Speaker 3: only thing that does concern me. The internet has been 365 00:21:17,520 --> 00:21:21,240 Speaker 3: buzzing here that the reason LSU is able to come 366 00:21:21,320 --> 00:21:23,880 Speaker 3: up with this kind of money, it is all the 367 00:21:24,000 --> 00:21:29,200 Speaker 3: brain child behind the guy who created raising Canes who's 368 00:21:29,400 --> 00:21:34,600 Speaker 3: a huge fan of LSU football. His money is involved. 369 00:21:35,840 --> 00:21:41,600 Speaker 3: Is it true? If indeed, if indeed the person behind 370 00:21:42,080 --> 00:21:45,280 Speaker 3: the person behind the raising cans chicken fingers has cut 371 00:21:45,280 --> 00:21:48,719 Speaker 3: a cartoon sized check in order to get Lane Kiffen 372 00:21:48,880 --> 00:21:50,040 Speaker 3: to baton Rouge. 373 00:21:50,520 --> 00:21:51,879 Speaker 1: And it's that money. 374 00:21:52,800 --> 00:21:56,720 Speaker 3: If this goes the way it could, where the canniac 375 00:21:56,840 --> 00:21:58,919 Speaker 3: combo now goes for thirty. 376 00:21:58,640 --> 00:22:01,160 Speaker 1: Five dollars, I'm out. 377 00:22:01,359 --> 00:22:05,679 Speaker 3: I am not financing LSU's defensive line push because I 378 00:22:05,720 --> 00:22:09,240 Speaker 3: want some crinckled cut fries and some Texas toast. No, 379 00:22:09,960 --> 00:22:12,080 Speaker 3: this is how college football works. 380 00:22:12,080 --> 00:22:12,280 Speaker 1: Though. 381 00:22:12,880 --> 00:22:17,000 Speaker 3: You buy a coach, you buy a roster, and you pray, 382 00:22:17,880 --> 00:22:21,320 Speaker 3: you pray in the transfer portal. That is what this 383 00:22:21,520 --> 00:22:25,560 Speaker 3: is right, that Lane Kifvin's already halfway to baton Rouge 384 00:22:25,600 --> 00:22:28,600 Speaker 3: as we talk here early on this twenty second day 385 00:22:29,119 --> 00:22:34,240 Speaker 3: of November. And this is subject to change based on 386 00:22:34,400 --> 00:22:38,480 Speaker 3: what I know. Lane Kifven just hasn't officially gassed up 387 00:22:38,520 --> 00:22:43,320 Speaker 3: the old U haul. And he's coaching like like you know, 388 00:22:43,359 --> 00:22:46,960 Speaker 3: he's coaching like it's coaching like he doesn't have a home. 389 00:22:47,240 --> 00:22:51,159 Speaker 3: He's a mentioned vagabond. Most of these big time coaches 390 00:22:51,200 --> 00:22:55,240 Speaker 3: don't have hometowns. They have zip codes with forwarding addresses. 391 00:22:55,280 --> 00:22:57,119 Speaker 3: It's all about the zip code. You don't even know 392 00:22:57,160 --> 00:22:58,200 Speaker 3: what zip code you're in. 393 00:22:58,840 --> 00:22:59,480 Speaker 1: You have no ID. 394 00:22:59,560 --> 00:23:02,439 Speaker 3: You just on the move, on the move again, you 395 00:23:02,440 --> 00:23:05,520 Speaker 3: have no idea. You don't put down roots. There's no roots. 396 00:23:05,640 --> 00:23:13,080 Speaker 3: You do not put down roots. Absolutely not no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, what. 397 00:23:13,040 --> 00:23:17,560 Speaker 1: Are you talking about? Put down roots? No? Never. Lane 398 00:23:17,640 --> 00:23:20,760 Speaker 1: Kiffin is LSU. 399 00:23:20,440 --> 00:23:25,920 Speaker 3: Bound, baby LSU bound, And don't get too comfortable. That 400 00:23:26,000 --> 00:23:30,040 Speaker 3: won't last. It certainly won't be his last stop, right, 401 00:23:30,280 --> 00:23:33,040 Speaker 3: it will not be his last stop. He'll end up 402 00:23:33,760 --> 00:23:36,840 Speaker 3: somewhere else. And you know whether that is you know, 403 00:23:36,880 --> 00:23:40,240 Speaker 3: a couple of years we said, coaching USC or the Dallas. 404 00:23:39,800 --> 00:23:43,160 Speaker 1: Cowboys or whoever. He will be be somewhere else. 405 00:23:43,640 --> 00:23:45,600 Speaker 3: All right, now, the final part of this, I got 406 00:23:45,640 --> 00:23:47,760 Speaker 3: several emails from people upset that I was not on 407 00:23:47,800 --> 00:23:50,760 Speaker 3: the radio Friday night into Saturday because of the news 408 00:23:50,760 --> 00:23:55,679 Speaker 3: out that the Lakers, who have been purchased by the 409 00:23:55,760 --> 00:24:01,080 Speaker 3: Dodgers owner, they whacked a couple of the bus kids, 410 00:24:01,119 --> 00:24:03,720 Speaker 3: not Genie, but a couple of the other bus kids. 411 00:24:03,760 --> 00:24:05,359 Speaker 1: They whacked them. 412 00:24:05,920 --> 00:24:12,240 Speaker 3: And now they brought in some Dodger executives as consultants. 413 00:24:13,440 --> 00:24:16,119 Speaker 3: So that's the stories. Several of our guys in so 414 00:24:16,320 --> 00:24:18,359 Speaker 3: Cow were like, I wondered what your take would be 415 00:24:18,400 --> 00:24:22,280 Speaker 3: on this. So the question is how do the Lakers 416 00:24:22,359 --> 00:24:24,880 Speaker 3: start operating more like the Dodgers? 417 00:24:24,960 --> 00:24:25,120 Speaker 1: Right? 418 00:24:25,160 --> 00:24:27,960 Speaker 3: More like the Dodgers here, Well, they've decided to bring 419 00:24:28,040 --> 00:24:33,440 Speaker 3: in Dodger executives far Han Zaedi, who was the general 420 00:24:33,520 --> 00:24:38,280 Speaker 3: manager of the Giants, Andrew Friedman, the longtime Dodger executive. 421 00:24:38,520 --> 00:24:42,680 Speaker 3: They're doing this to start consulting on the Dodger Way. 422 00:24:42,800 --> 00:24:44,600 Speaker 3: They want to bring the Lakers up to speed like 423 00:24:44,640 --> 00:24:49,040 Speaker 3: the Dodgers. Zaedi is serving as the new right hand 424 00:24:49,119 --> 00:24:55,000 Speaker 3: man for Mark Walter, his representative in the transition process. 425 00:24:56,040 --> 00:25:00,239 Speaker 3: So digging a little deeper, you got the dog your 426 00:25:00,320 --> 00:25:04,560 Speaker 3: executives with Andrew Friedman far Han z Aedi helping consult 427 00:25:04,840 --> 00:25:10,600 Speaker 3: the Lakers. Is this a good idea or a bad idea? 428 00:25:11,760 --> 00:25:14,679 Speaker 1: So my first thought is what are we doing here? Like? 429 00:25:14,720 --> 00:25:15,440 Speaker 1: What are we doing? 430 00:25:15,600 --> 00:25:21,080 Speaker 3: This is sports cross pollination gone nuclear. The Dodger Way, 431 00:25:21,880 --> 00:25:25,040 Speaker 3: while it has been so successful, does not apply to 432 00:25:25,080 --> 00:25:31,520 Speaker 3: the NBA on any level. It's like taking a pineapple expert, 433 00:25:31,640 --> 00:25:36,520 Speaker 3: someone who has studied the pineapple and knows the point 434 00:25:36,640 --> 00:25:40,760 Speaker 3: to pick the pineapple off the tree because it's so 435 00:25:41,280 --> 00:25:45,320 Speaker 3: juicy and it's so wonderful. It's a real pineapple expert. 436 00:25:45,480 --> 00:25:48,160 Speaker 3: And you take that person and you say, hey, can 437 00:25:48,200 --> 00:25:50,800 Speaker 3: you go run the grape division? Well, no, I'm the 438 00:25:50,800 --> 00:25:53,560 Speaker 3: pineapple person. I'm not the grape person. But we want 439 00:25:53,600 --> 00:25:55,520 Speaker 3: you to run the grape division. But I know, but 440 00:25:55,600 --> 00:25:58,960 Speaker 3: I've spent my life becoming a pineapple expert. I don't 441 00:25:59,000 --> 00:26:02,520 Speaker 3: know anything about Well, it doesn't matter. We want you 442 00:26:02,840 --> 00:26:05,280 Speaker 3: because you're so good at pineapple, we want. 443 00:26:05,119 --> 00:26:06,000 Speaker 1: You to do grapes. 444 00:26:06,320 --> 00:26:10,439 Speaker 3: It's a different sport Lakers to Dodgers, obviously, different system, 445 00:26:10,560 --> 00:26:14,399 Speaker 3: different economy, different clock, all of that. 446 00:26:14,800 --> 00:26:16,560 Speaker 1: Baseball is a marathon. 447 00:26:17,240 --> 00:26:21,119 Speaker 3: Basketball, in comparison, plays half about half as many games. 448 00:26:21,480 --> 00:26:25,159 Speaker 3: Baseball is a is a marathon. Basketball is a sprint, 449 00:26:26,040 --> 00:26:31,600 Speaker 3: and the salary cap much different. The draft value minor leagues. 450 00:26:31,640 --> 00:26:35,200 Speaker 3: There's no real minor league in basketball. The G league 451 00:26:35,240 --> 00:26:38,879 Speaker 3: doesn't really count. The roster turnover is not the same. 452 00:26:40,040 --> 00:26:46,240 Speaker 3: Nothing overlaps nothing. It's like taking a carpenter and sticking 453 00:26:46,359 --> 00:26:50,280 Speaker 3: him at Google headquarters and asking him to code. 454 00:26:50,960 --> 00:26:52,800 Speaker 1: You're really really. 455 00:26:52,480 --> 00:26:56,399 Speaker 3: Good, like just Josh and Cincinnati at redoing kitchens, like 456 00:26:56,480 --> 00:26:58,399 Speaker 3: Josh is amazing. I've seen some of these photos just 457 00:26:58,520 --> 00:27:02,200 Speaker 3: Josh post and like that guy's an artisan. Just Josh 458 00:27:02,280 --> 00:27:06,959 Speaker 3: is an artist of redoing kitchenes the guys great. That 459 00:27:07,000 --> 00:27:11,280 Speaker 3: doesn't mean I want him at Google getting him to code. 460 00:27:11,359 --> 00:27:13,800 Speaker 1: I don't know that that crosses over. I would say 461 00:27:13,840 --> 00:27:14,240 Speaker 1: it does. 462 00:27:14,280 --> 00:27:17,560 Speaker 3: Not say hey, hey, just Josh, here's your mouse and 463 00:27:17,600 --> 00:27:21,680 Speaker 3: a keyboard, big fella go nuts. Well, no, I would 464 00:27:21,800 --> 00:27:25,080 Speaker 3: rather have a toolbox with some hammers and I'd like 465 00:27:25,119 --> 00:27:27,280 Speaker 3: to have some saws in it. And I'd like, no, well, 466 00:27:27,320 --> 00:27:29,600 Speaker 3: we didn't. We don't want that. We want you to 467 00:27:29,640 --> 00:27:32,680 Speaker 3: do the code. But I'm not a code person. It's 468 00:27:32,720 --> 00:27:36,680 Speaker 3: the consultants for the sake of consultantc thing. 469 00:27:36,880 --> 00:27:38,920 Speaker 1: It's corporate bureaucracy at its peak. 470 00:27:39,880 --> 00:27:43,760 Speaker 3: And let's have a let's have a meeting to schedule 471 00:27:43,760 --> 00:27:47,240 Speaker 3: a meeting about future meetings. Who says, no, it'll hurt 472 00:27:47,240 --> 00:27:52,639 Speaker 3: both teams. The Dodgers are finally, finally in the middle 473 00:27:52,720 --> 00:27:54,520 Speaker 3: of this dynasty. It looked like they were going to 474 00:27:54,560 --> 00:27:57,560 Speaker 3: go the wrong direction after they lost in twenty seventeen 475 00:27:58,160 --> 00:27:59,359 Speaker 3: and again in twenty eighteen. 476 00:27:59,400 --> 00:28:01,359 Speaker 1: Although both the those teams they lost too cheated. 477 00:28:02,040 --> 00:28:06,240 Speaker 3: But the Dodgers now have turned this into essentially cookie cutter. 478 00:28:06,720 --> 00:28:08,639 Speaker 3: They have the depth, they have the data, they have 479 00:28:08,680 --> 00:28:13,160 Speaker 3: the durability, they have the flexibility of deferred contracts. The Lakers, 480 00:28:13,680 --> 00:28:17,080 Speaker 3: they don't even need the help. It's a rigged deal. 481 00:28:17,240 --> 00:28:20,800 Speaker 3: It's a rigged operation. If the Lakers ever get too bad, 482 00:28:21,000 --> 00:28:27,880 Speaker 3: the NBA delivers them stars like Door Dash Shaq, Paw Gasol, 483 00:28:28,200 --> 00:28:33,359 Speaker 3: the Luka Doncik gift wrapped trade from the Mavericks for 484 00:28:33,520 --> 00:28:34,640 Speaker 3: some broken glass. 485 00:28:35,880 --> 00:28:37,159 Speaker 1: All of that, all of that. 486 00:28:37,800 --> 00:28:42,240 Speaker 3: The league has been a concierge, a bell hop like 487 00:28:42,360 --> 00:28:47,040 Speaker 3: Joey the bellman for the Lakers for forty years. And 488 00:28:47,280 --> 00:28:51,880 Speaker 3: if this new owner, Mark Walter, who's the Dodger guy, 489 00:28:51,880 --> 00:28:54,720 Speaker 3: if he wants to feel smart by calling in the 490 00:28:54,760 --> 00:29:00,600 Speaker 3: Dodger Way, congratulations, you just created sports bureacra. See jazz. 491 00:29:00,640 --> 00:29:03,240 Speaker 3: There's no rhythm. There's no reason, there's no rhyme or reason. 492 00:29:03,840 --> 00:29:08,040 Speaker 3: You don't get cross sports expertise. It doesn't happen. The 493 00:29:08,160 --> 00:29:10,560 Speaker 3: Colorado Rockies are trying to do it. They hired a 494 00:29:10,600 --> 00:29:12,600 Speaker 3: guy that was a baseball guy who became a football 495 00:29:12,640 --> 00:29:15,800 Speaker 3: guy and now is a baseball guy by again, baseball 496 00:29:15,840 --> 00:29:18,120 Speaker 3: guy again, It's like, what are you doing? So is 497 00:29:18,200 --> 00:29:22,040 Speaker 3: this a good idea? Hell to the no, Hell to 498 00:29:22,120 --> 00:29:26,360 Speaker 3: the no. It's specialization malpractice. And that's the thing there, 499 00:29:26,520 --> 00:29:31,040 Speaker 3: there's no one size fits all in sports. You dilute 500 00:29:31,640 --> 00:29:37,240 Speaker 3: the Dodgers, well, who cares Andrew Freeman even consulting? This 501 00:29:37,280 --> 00:29:40,480 Speaker 3: is the time you turn the players over and Andrew Freeman. 502 00:29:40,600 --> 00:29:44,520 Speaker 3: Last year he did not have this, and he still 503 00:29:44,560 --> 00:29:50,040 Speaker 3: added some really terrible contracts, including for the year. It 504 00:29:50,120 --> 00:29:52,120 Speaker 3: turned out long term not to be a problem. Michael 505 00:29:52,160 --> 00:29:57,000 Speaker 3: Conforto and the single worst Dodger closer they've ever had, 506 00:29:57,520 --> 00:30:01,040 Speaker 3: was a big addition the Dodgers made last season in 507 00:30:01,080 --> 00:30:03,040 Speaker 3: the offseason. But this is the time you fix your 508 00:30:03,080 --> 00:30:06,520 Speaker 3: roster and all that stuff. Also, I checked the NBA bylaws. 509 00:30:06,560 --> 00:30:10,479 Speaker 3: I don't believe you are allowed to defer the amount 510 00:30:10,480 --> 00:30:13,680 Speaker 3: of money the Dodgers deferred for Otani and all of 511 00:30:13,720 --> 00:30:16,480 Speaker 3: these other big additions they've made recently, So that would 512 00:30:16,480 --> 00:30:19,080 Speaker 3: be a problem. You can't take that to the NBA. 513 00:30:19,680 --> 00:30:24,120 Speaker 3: So congratulations though, to the new Lakers owner there. Who's 514 00:30:24,160 --> 00:30:29,160 Speaker 3: the Dodgers owner? You just stepped on two rakes at once. Congratulations. 515 00:30:29,200 --> 00:30:31,520 Speaker 3: So you dilute the Dodgers a little bit, and you 516 00:30:31,560 --> 00:30:34,520 Speaker 3: don't really fix the Lakers, who again don't need to 517 00:30:34,560 --> 00:30:35,080 Speaker 3: be fixed. 518 00:30:35,080 --> 00:30:36,560 Speaker 1: We'll get out on that. 519 00:30:37,360 --> 00:30:42,040 Speaker 3: On that note, have a wonderful rest of your Saturday 520 00:30:42,080 --> 00:30:45,240 Speaker 3: here and the mail bag tomorrow. Danny g should be 521 00:30:45,320 --> 00:30:48,320 Speaker 3: with me on the mail bag and we'll answer your questions. 522 00:30:48,400 --> 00:30:49,320 Speaker 1: You can email the. 523 00:30:49,280 --> 00:30:52,880 Speaker 3: Mail bag at Real fifth Hour at gmail dot com, 524 00:30:52,920 --> 00:30:56,320 Speaker 3: Real fifth Hour at gmail dot com and keep it 525 00:30:56,360 --> 00:30:58,680 Speaker 3: a little open ended, whether it gets in the mail 526 00:30:58,720 --> 00:31:02,080 Speaker 3: bag tomorrow or or the following week, which I think 527 00:31:02,120 --> 00:31:05,000 Speaker 3: will be our last November show. 528 00:31:05,240 --> 00:31:06,520 Speaker 1: I believe that's right. 529 00:31:06,520 --> 00:31:08,280 Speaker 3: I don't know how many days are in November, but a 530 00:31:08,320 --> 00:31:11,880 Speaker 3: week from tomorrow it'll be November thirtieth, I believe. 531 00:31:11,920 --> 00:31:13,680 Speaker 1: I think that's accurate. I believe that would be accurate. 532 00:31:14,200 --> 00:31:16,000 Speaker 1: I don't have the calendar in front of me anyway. 533 00:31:16,000 --> 00:31:19,000 Speaker 3: I have a great college football Saturday at USC and 534 00:31:19,080 --> 00:31:20,360 Speaker 3: Notre Dame today. 535 00:31:20,480 --> 00:31:22,080 Speaker 1: I'm old school. I'm old school. 536 00:31:22,160 --> 00:31:24,720 Speaker 3: I'll check that out and some of the other nonsense. 537 00:31:24,880 --> 00:31:29,920 Speaker 3: We'll talk to you next time later, skater my Folacia