1 00:00:00,880 --> 00:00:01,640 Speaker 1: Kabooms. 2 00:00:02,480 --> 00:00:05,560 Speaker 2: If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes 3 00:00:05,600 --> 00:00:09,320 Speaker 2: a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants 4 00:00:09,360 --> 00:00:12,639 Speaker 2: of the old Republic, a sole fashion of fairness. He 5 00:00:12,760 --> 00:00:15,680 Speaker 2: treats crackheads in the ghetto cutter the same as the 6 00:00:15,800 --> 00:00:17,639 Speaker 2: rich pill poppers in the penthouse. 7 00:00:18,239 --> 00:00:18,560 Speaker 1: Wow. 8 00:00:18,760 --> 00:00:22,480 Speaker 2: The Clearinghouse of Hot takes break free for something special. 9 00:00:22,840 --> 00:00:30,800 Speaker 2: The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now. 10 00:00:29,120 --> 00:00:32,240 Speaker 1: In the air everywhere. 11 00:00:32,440 --> 00:00:35,320 Speaker 3: The Fifth Hour with Me, Ben Maller and Danny G 12 00:00:35,600 --> 00:00:40,440 Speaker 3: Radio A happy college football kind of a Saturday, and 13 00:00:41,479 --> 00:00:45,519 Speaker 3: we have baseball action today, the divisional round of the 14 00:00:45,520 --> 00:00:49,040 Speaker 3: baseball Playoffs. Great planning by Major League Baseball, Danny G 15 00:00:49,640 --> 00:00:52,040 Speaker 3: to have it on a college football Saturday. Really want 16 00:00:52,080 --> 00:00:55,400 Speaker 3: that full spotlight all to yourself, and boy are. 17 00:00:55,240 --> 00:01:02,840 Speaker 1: They gonna get it. Absolutely yikes. We got action all 18 00:01:03,600 --> 00:01:04,919 Speaker 1: day long. 19 00:01:05,200 --> 00:01:08,880 Speaker 3: Now we obviously here in SoCal in the LA area, 20 00:01:09,080 --> 00:01:13,480 Speaker 3: and I think the first game is at eleven this morning, 21 00:01:13,600 --> 00:01:14,120 Speaker 3: LA time. 22 00:01:14,440 --> 00:01:17,800 Speaker 4: So yeah, yeah, And I heard a promo on the 23 00:01:17,880 --> 00:01:20,680 Speaker 4: network you dog in the Dodgers again saying they have 24 00:01:20,800 --> 00:01:22,639 Speaker 4: no momentum going into this series. 25 00:01:22,720 --> 00:01:24,840 Speaker 1: Well, as you know, there is no such thing as momentum. 26 00:01:25,240 --> 00:01:30,040 Speaker 3: Wrong now I will address that a special emergency emergency 27 00:01:30,080 --> 00:01:33,839 Speaker 3: Mallard monologue, and I will call it Danny the big 28 00:01:33,880 --> 00:01:35,120 Speaker 3: Blue kool Aid. 29 00:01:35,000 --> 00:01:36,280 Speaker 1: Cult is what I'm going to call it. 30 00:01:36,319 --> 00:01:39,640 Speaker 3: But we'll get to that also the drop off and 31 00:01:39,760 --> 00:01:45,640 Speaker 3: the seaweed standoff on this edition of The Fifth Hour. Now, 32 00:01:45,720 --> 00:01:49,920 Speaker 3: I am planning on watching college football quite a bit today, 33 00:01:49,920 --> 00:01:52,960 Speaker 3: but I like baseball obviously, so I'll be flipping around 34 00:01:53,840 --> 00:01:57,720 Speaker 3: to check that out. So my remote control is going 35 00:01:57,720 --> 00:02:01,040 Speaker 3: to be getting quite the workout today. And if you 36 00:02:01,080 --> 00:02:04,040 Speaker 3: look at the gambling market, though, and you see who's 37 00:02:04,080 --> 00:02:06,840 Speaker 3: favorite in these games. The first game today is the 38 00:02:06,880 --> 00:02:11,320 Speaker 3: Brewers and the Cubs. And I was I was actually 39 00:02:11,320 --> 00:02:16,000 Speaker 3: in I was in Kenosha. I drove from Chicago to 40 00:02:16,080 --> 00:02:18,000 Speaker 3: visit my brother a couple of years ago, and we 41 00:02:18,040 --> 00:02:20,960 Speaker 3: stopped at the Cheesecastle in Kenosha, and it just happened 42 00:02:20,960 --> 00:02:24,840 Speaker 3: that the Cubs were playing the Brewers that night, and 43 00:02:24,960 --> 00:02:26,760 Speaker 3: the place was filled with Cub fans. 44 00:02:26,800 --> 00:02:27,960 Speaker 1: Like you know, it's a short. 45 00:02:27,680 --> 00:02:30,480 Speaker 3: Trip from Chicago to Milwaukee, so I can only imagine 46 00:02:30,480 --> 00:02:34,520 Speaker 3: what this is gonna be. Like Freddie Peralta versus Matthew Boyd, 47 00:02:35,200 --> 00:02:39,119 Speaker 3: who's left handed on the Mountain for the Cubs, who'll 48 00:02:39,120 --> 00:02:42,040 Speaker 3: be exactly the Brewers a minus one forty eight favorite 49 00:02:42,040 --> 00:02:44,840 Speaker 3: with Freddie Parolt in that game. Then after that you 50 00:02:44,919 --> 00:02:50,480 Speaker 3: got Toronto hosting the Yankees today Louis Heal and Kevin 51 00:02:50,639 --> 00:02:55,160 Speaker 3: Gossman and the blue Jays minus one twenty. 52 00:02:54,919 --> 00:02:56,840 Speaker 5: I think you just made that name up right now. 53 00:02:57,400 --> 00:03:00,800 Speaker 3: Well, yeah, a lot of these pictures are like, how 54 00:03:00,800 --> 00:03:04,360 Speaker 3: are they in the playoffs? Gosman though, is the blue 55 00:03:04,440 --> 00:03:07,679 Speaker 3: Jays favored minus one twenty four although there is more 56 00:03:07,760 --> 00:03:10,880 Speaker 3: money coming in on the Yankees. And then after that 57 00:03:11,680 --> 00:03:15,400 Speaker 3: the game that we're most interested in, the Doyers and 58 00:03:15,440 --> 00:03:20,760 Speaker 3: the Fighting Phills Christopher Sanchez versus show Hey O'tani. 59 00:03:21,000 --> 00:03:23,560 Speaker 1: Show, Hey Otani and the. 60 00:03:23,720 --> 00:03:26,799 Speaker 3: Dodgers and underdog the Phillies are the favorite to win 61 00:03:26,880 --> 00:03:30,600 Speaker 3: that game at minus one fifteen. And then the nightcap 62 00:03:31,280 --> 00:03:36,680 Speaker 3: in prime time at eight thirty eight Eastern five thirty 63 00:03:36,720 --> 00:03:40,040 Speaker 3: eight in the West, when the Tigers and Mariners get together, 64 00:03:40,120 --> 00:03:41,560 Speaker 3: Danny g you throw out the records. 65 00:03:41,560 --> 00:03:42,080 Speaker 1: You know why? 66 00:03:42,840 --> 00:03:43,120 Speaker 5: Why? 67 00:03:43,320 --> 00:03:45,040 Speaker 1: Because if you looked at the record now. 68 00:03:45,080 --> 00:03:49,520 Speaker 3: All right, the Robbie the Mariner fan, the big Dumper 69 00:03:50,080 --> 00:03:53,680 Speaker 3: his Mariners with George Kirby minus two hundred favorites over 70 00:03:53,720 --> 00:03:56,720 Speaker 3: someone named Troy Melton of the Tigers. 71 00:03:57,040 --> 00:03:58,840 Speaker 1: Wow, I don't know who that is. 72 00:03:58,880 --> 00:03:59,560 Speaker 5: I have no idea. 73 00:04:00,000 --> 00:04:01,400 Speaker 1: Well, let's get to this. You mentioned it. 74 00:04:01,440 --> 00:04:04,160 Speaker 3: You brought it up, Danny, the promos that have been 75 00:04:04,240 --> 00:04:07,720 Speaker 3: running NonStop here and this has been going on for 76 00:04:07,760 --> 00:04:11,120 Speaker 3: a couple weeks now ever since. Yours truly just a 77 00:04:11,240 --> 00:04:14,720 Speaker 3: random overnight gas bag. I like to think of truth teller, 78 00:04:15,400 --> 00:04:18,320 Speaker 3: an occasional agitator, like to stir the pot. 79 00:04:18,480 --> 00:04:21,120 Speaker 1: Now. I had the goal, I had the Hootzpa. 80 00:04:21,160 --> 00:04:23,120 Speaker 5: You're like the Manny Machado of radio. 81 00:04:26,200 --> 00:04:28,839 Speaker 3: I had the hoodspur to point out the obvious about 82 00:04:28,880 --> 00:04:32,800 Speaker 3: the twenty twenty five Dodgers, and as I anticipated, the 83 00:04:32,800 --> 00:04:36,920 Speaker 3: fanboys have been spitting nails my direction. So I did 84 00:04:36,960 --> 00:04:39,520 Speaker 3: a couple of hour monologues recently on the Overnight Show, 85 00:04:39,600 --> 00:04:43,039 Speaker 3: speaking the gospel, pointing out the frailties of this team. 86 00:04:43,080 --> 00:04:47,240 Speaker 3: The twenty twenty five bullpen, I call it the Chevron bullpen, 87 00:04:48,240 --> 00:04:52,440 Speaker 3: pumping gas and on fires and going the extra mile 88 00:04:53,520 --> 00:04:57,479 Speaker 3: to burn the thing up. The one that still gets 89 00:04:57,520 --> 00:05:00,440 Speaker 3: the most attention has been the one where I pointed 90 00:05:00,440 --> 00:05:02,880 Speaker 3: out how ridiculous and over the top of the state funeral, 91 00:05:02,920 --> 00:05:07,479 Speaker 3: including a burial for Clayton Kershaw, the bane of our 92 00:05:07,520 --> 00:05:10,359 Speaker 3: existence as Dodger supporters in the playoffs, who cost the 93 00:05:10,400 --> 00:05:13,800 Speaker 3: Dodgers at least three extra World championships with his mouth 94 00:05:13,839 --> 00:05:17,080 Speaker 3: FeAs And so I pointed that out, and we said 95 00:05:17,120 --> 00:05:18,839 Speaker 3: that what we did is we said the quiet part 96 00:05:18,880 --> 00:05:23,200 Speaker 3: out loud about mookie Bets for four months. He was 97 00:05:23,320 --> 00:05:27,479 Speaker 3: a ghost, a high priced ghost, mookie Bets. And so 98 00:05:27,600 --> 00:05:31,800 Speaker 3: the outrage on cue. The outrage started up, the fire breathing. 99 00:05:32,640 --> 00:05:34,840 Speaker 3: And it's not just from random people who listened to 100 00:05:34,880 --> 00:05:37,480 Speaker 3: the radio, but people I were with. Roberto, a bus driver, 101 00:05:37,640 --> 00:05:41,760 Speaker 3: was all upset with me. Manuel from Guardina angry. The 102 00:05:41,800 --> 00:05:44,400 Speaker 3: rest of the Dodger kool aid, the big blue kool 103 00:05:44,440 --> 00:05:48,719 Speaker 3: Aid cult, immediately branded me a hater. Manuel and Guardina 104 00:05:48,760 --> 00:05:52,360 Speaker 3: said I was a Giants fan, which I think, which 105 00:05:52,400 --> 00:05:55,240 Speaker 3: is worse like a trader of the whole thing. And 106 00:05:55,640 --> 00:05:59,719 Speaker 3: why because this is again a reminder in the modern world. 107 00:05:59,720 --> 00:06:05,360 Speaker 3: If you dare criticize the millionaire ballplayers wearing your team's laundry, 108 00:06:06,120 --> 00:06:07,440 Speaker 3: you're a bad fan. 109 00:06:07,720 --> 00:06:09,640 Speaker 1: You're a bad what's wrong with you? 110 00:06:10,680 --> 00:06:10,960 Speaker 5: All right? 111 00:06:11,000 --> 00:06:14,120 Speaker 3: So to me, it's nonsense, it's I've always been the 112 00:06:14,120 --> 00:06:16,760 Speaker 3: same way. It's not like I haven't, It's just the 113 00:06:16,760 --> 00:06:20,880 Speaker 3: way I'm wired. And the truth is, no one at 114 00:06:20,920 --> 00:06:23,680 Speaker 3: Dodger Stadium they don't want to hear it. 115 00:06:24,160 --> 00:06:26,080 Speaker 1: They want guys like Vasay. 116 00:06:25,720 --> 00:06:27,919 Speaker 3: To get on the radio and lick their toes, and 117 00:06:28,040 --> 00:06:31,880 Speaker 3: so nobody wants to hear in between the mariachi bands 118 00:06:31,880 --> 00:06:35,279 Speaker 3: and the drone shows at Dodger Stadium what real fans 119 00:06:35,320 --> 00:06:38,800 Speaker 3: are like, right, and what they should be like holding 120 00:06:38,839 --> 00:06:43,040 Speaker 3: people accountable, not just nodding along because you're a three 121 00:06:43,120 --> 00:06:46,400 Speaker 3: hundred and sixty five million dollars shortstop is batting two 122 00:06:46,440 --> 00:06:49,200 Speaker 3: thirty eight after ninety four games? 123 00:06:49,480 --> 00:06:51,479 Speaker 1: I mean just it blows me away. Is there any 124 00:06:51,560 --> 00:06:53,800 Speaker 1: other job you can be that bad at for that long? 125 00:06:53,839 --> 00:06:54,960 Speaker 1: And people are like, well, that's fine. 126 00:06:55,200 --> 00:06:58,080 Speaker 3: Imagine not showing up to work for four months, and 127 00:06:58,160 --> 00:07:00,680 Speaker 3: you'll see how long your boss lets you before the 128 00:07:01,200 --> 00:07:03,839 Speaker 3: security walks you out with a little cardboard box. I 129 00:07:03,839 --> 00:07:06,400 Speaker 3: know I've been there, I've been there, but this is 130 00:07:06,480 --> 00:07:10,920 Speaker 3: what the modern fan has become. It drives me bonkers, right, 131 00:07:11,000 --> 00:07:16,440 Speaker 3: just mascots, cheerleaders, corporate dupes who think criticism is some 132 00:07:16,560 --> 00:07:20,000 Speaker 3: kind of betrayal, and it drives me nuts. They don't 133 00:07:20,360 --> 00:07:22,840 Speaker 3: they don't want reality, they want fairy tales. And they 134 00:07:23,040 --> 00:07:25,080 Speaker 3: and I love Vin Scully. I knew vent a little bit. 135 00:07:25,120 --> 00:07:29,840 Speaker 3: They want Vin Scully nostalgia wrapped in bobblehead giveaways. Give 136 00:07:29,880 --> 00:07:34,360 Speaker 3: me seventeen Otani bobblehead giveaways. I'm happy, right. And we 137 00:07:35,200 --> 00:07:38,800 Speaker 3: come from the old country when fans were tough, they 138 00:07:38,800 --> 00:07:42,080 Speaker 3: were not soft. And the term is it's two words, 139 00:07:42,120 --> 00:07:46,200 Speaker 3: tough love, higher standards. And some of you call it 140 00:07:46,360 --> 00:07:49,480 Speaker 3: cranky and curmudgeony, you know, negative. 141 00:07:49,800 --> 00:07:51,080 Speaker 1: I call it saint. 142 00:07:51,640 --> 00:07:55,960 Speaker 3: Because what the Dodgers have been this season is not 143 00:07:56,160 --> 00:07:58,960 Speaker 3: dominance right to me, it's deja vu of some years 144 00:07:58,960 --> 00:08:03,360 Speaker 3: gone by here and they were projected to win one 145 00:08:03,480 --> 00:08:05,320 Speaker 3: hundred and five and a half. 146 00:08:05,120 --> 00:08:06,640 Speaker 5: Games this season. 147 00:08:06,640 --> 00:08:08,000 Speaker 3: This is going to be one of the all time 148 00:08:08,040 --> 00:08:12,520 Speaker 3: great teams stack roster and because of Mookie Betts under achieving, 149 00:08:12,520 --> 00:08:18,679 Speaker 3: the bullpen underachieving, this super team won ninety three games. 150 00:08:19,320 --> 00:08:21,720 Speaker 3: Ninety three games is what the Dodgers won, and they 151 00:08:21,760 --> 00:08:23,440 Speaker 3: had to play well the last couple of weeks to 152 00:08:23,480 --> 00:08:26,480 Speaker 3: get to ninety three wins. Now that means on the 153 00:08:26,520 --> 00:08:29,800 Speaker 3: Malord big board, not a list. Terry in England, not 154 00:08:29,840 --> 00:08:33,960 Speaker 3: a list. The Dodgers underachieved, right. They won, if my 155 00:08:34,040 --> 00:08:37,560 Speaker 3: math has scared, about fifteen percent fewer games than they 156 00:08:37,559 --> 00:08:41,600 Speaker 3: were projected to win, and they were outplayed by the 157 00:08:41,640 --> 00:08:46,600 Speaker 3: Milwaukee Brewers and the Toronto Blue Jays, among other won 158 00:08:46,720 --> 00:08:51,160 Speaker 3: more games than this super Dodger team, the greatest team 159 00:08:51,200 --> 00:08:51,920 Speaker 3: ever assembled. 160 00:08:52,160 --> 00:08:54,000 Speaker 1: So yeah, go ahead, I'm the bad guy. 161 00:08:54,080 --> 00:08:55,560 Speaker 3: You can call me a fraud of phone he send 162 00:08:55,600 --> 00:08:58,200 Speaker 3: me your nasty emails and all that stuff. Anything to 163 00:08:58,320 --> 00:09:02,400 Speaker 3: avoid confronting the Komodo dragon in the room, the fire 164 00:09:02,440 --> 00:09:06,199 Speaker 3: breathing dragon the corner of the Dodgers. Listen, they floated 165 00:09:06,200 --> 00:09:08,120 Speaker 3: along during the rest of it. Doesn't mean I don't 166 00:09:08,120 --> 00:09:09,800 Speaker 3: want them to win. I hope they win. I'd love 167 00:09:09,880 --> 00:09:11,319 Speaker 3: for this team to it. But even if they win 168 00:09:11,360 --> 00:09:13,800 Speaker 3: the World Series, it does not change the fact that 169 00:09:13,920 --> 00:09:16,000 Speaker 3: Mookie bets for ninety four games was terrible. 170 00:09:16,240 --> 00:09:17,800 Speaker 1: The bullpen was an embarrassment. 171 00:09:18,080 --> 00:09:21,120 Speaker 3: So go out, eat cheese steaks, enjoy the soft pretzels 172 00:09:21,120 --> 00:09:24,480 Speaker 3: in Philadelphia, and slay the Phillies and have a great weekend. 173 00:09:24,480 --> 00:09:25,600 Speaker 1: And that's wonderful and all that. 174 00:09:25,679 --> 00:09:28,520 Speaker 3: However, again, just to put a ball on this Danny 175 00:09:28,760 --> 00:09:34,040 Speaker 3: that the Dodger myth lives on is blind loyalty mixed 176 00:09:34,080 --> 00:09:38,560 Speaker 3: with corporate spin and bots and all that online on 177 00:09:38,640 --> 00:09:41,920 Speaker 3: social media, and then anyone who points it out like 178 00:09:42,000 --> 00:09:44,040 Speaker 3: the other part of is oh you shouldn't do that. 179 00:09:44,120 --> 00:09:47,559 Speaker 3: Oh my god, kay stop, I. 180 00:09:47,600 --> 00:09:49,079 Speaker 1: Just laugh at I think it's hilarious. 181 00:09:49,920 --> 00:09:51,080 Speaker 5: I look at their record. 182 00:09:51,200 --> 00:09:55,920 Speaker 4: I mean, Tanner Scott alone accounts for could have accounted 183 00:09:55,920 --> 00:09:58,000 Speaker 4: for ten more wins worse. 184 00:09:58,080 --> 00:09:59,920 Speaker 5: I mean to have ten blown saved. 185 00:10:00,400 --> 00:10:03,480 Speaker 3: But that was their big pickup. That was the guy 186 00:10:03,520 --> 00:10:05,360 Speaker 3: that everyone said is gonna put him over the top. 187 00:10:05,400 --> 00:10:07,560 Speaker 4: And the Bullen well looked. He looked good when he 188 00:10:07,640 --> 00:10:11,480 Speaker 4: was a padre. In his case, he went backwards. I'm 189 00:10:11,480 --> 00:10:12,160 Speaker 4: not sure why. 190 00:10:12,559 --> 00:10:12,840 Speaker 5: I know. 191 00:10:13,000 --> 00:10:15,000 Speaker 4: I read an article where he said he was just 192 00:10:15,040 --> 00:10:18,160 Speaker 4: having the worst season of his career. And obviously there 193 00:10:18,160 --> 00:10:20,400 Speaker 4: were injuries. They had to battle like a lot of 194 00:10:20,440 --> 00:10:23,920 Speaker 4: other teams. But now you see Roki come in and close. 195 00:10:24,080 --> 00:10:26,920 Speaker 4: He was hurt all throughout the season, so it looks 196 00:10:26,960 --> 00:10:29,880 Speaker 4: like they have him closer right now. Against the Phillies. 197 00:10:30,160 --> 00:10:33,760 Speaker 4: The Achilles heel is still the setup guys. 198 00:10:34,280 --> 00:10:37,319 Speaker 3: Yeah, the Phillies are much better than the Reds are, 199 00:10:37,400 --> 00:10:40,080 Speaker 3: like a Triple A team. The Phillies are a big 200 00:10:40,120 --> 00:10:43,920 Speaker 3: time team. The games are going to be close. I 201 00:10:44,080 --> 00:10:47,760 Speaker 3: just don't see this bullpen being able to get it done. 202 00:10:47,760 --> 00:10:49,640 Speaker 3: If you're the Phillies, you don't have to have a 203 00:10:49,720 --> 00:10:51,280 Speaker 3: league going to the seventh inning. You can be down 204 00:10:51,320 --> 00:10:54,040 Speaker 3: by two runs going to the seventh inning. Once Dave 205 00:10:54,160 --> 00:10:56,360 Speaker 3: Roberts makes the walk of shame and says I really 206 00:10:56,440 --> 00:10:58,360 Speaker 3: liked him in the spot, and they can know. 207 00:10:58,440 --> 00:11:01,720 Speaker 4: Guys like Vesia have been soon are inconsistent this season, 208 00:11:02,440 --> 00:11:05,040 Speaker 4: Guys where you have no confidence when they walk in 209 00:11:06,120 --> 00:11:08,560 Speaker 4: if you don't have a lead. If you're the Dodgers, 210 00:11:08,559 --> 00:11:11,640 Speaker 4: you need a lead of five runs. That happened against 211 00:11:11,640 --> 00:11:14,000 Speaker 4: the Reds, You're right, that's not going to happen against 212 00:11:14,040 --> 00:11:17,040 Speaker 4: teams like the Phillies. There's going to be, you know, 213 00:11:17,120 --> 00:11:19,200 Speaker 4: games that are three to one, three to two, and 214 00:11:19,600 --> 00:11:22,520 Speaker 4: if you have one of those yakers come in and 215 00:11:22,600 --> 00:11:25,199 Speaker 4: they vomit all over the mound, suddenly you're going to 216 00:11:25,240 --> 00:11:27,560 Speaker 4: be in a hole. Let's see if they use some 217 00:11:27,640 --> 00:11:30,160 Speaker 4: of the starters back to back, that would be the 218 00:11:30,160 --> 00:11:33,080 Speaker 4: way to go. But you know Friedman and his puppet 219 00:11:33,160 --> 00:11:35,360 Speaker 4: Dave Roberts, they probably won't go that route. 220 00:11:35,920 --> 00:11:38,600 Speaker 3: Out of an abundance of caution, Danny, out of an 221 00:11:38,600 --> 00:11:40,760 Speaker 3: abundance of caution, they will not do do that at 222 00:11:40,760 --> 00:11:43,600 Speaker 3: this point. Again, We'll see, we'll watch later today. We'll 223 00:11:43,600 --> 00:11:45,120 Speaker 3: see what the Dodgers do. See if they get to 224 00:11:45,160 --> 00:11:48,080 Speaker 3: jump on the Phillies with Otani. What do you think 225 00:11:48,120 --> 00:11:49,480 Speaker 3: Otani goes four innings today? 226 00:11:49,480 --> 00:11:50,079 Speaker 5: What do you think four? 227 00:11:50,160 --> 00:11:51,040 Speaker 1: Or five? Tops? 228 00:11:51,240 --> 00:11:54,320 Speaker 4: Probably five? But yeah, the Bats need to stay alive. 229 00:11:54,440 --> 00:11:57,319 Speaker 4: They need to get on the board early, and often 230 00:11:57,400 --> 00:11:59,720 Speaker 4: they need to take like a five to one lead 231 00:11:59,760 --> 00:12:02,240 Speaker 4: in the game. If they get behind against a team 232 00:12:02,320 --> 00:12:04,120 Speaker 4: like the Phillies, it's going to be a long night. 233 00:12:04,600 --> 00:12:06,480 Speaker 3: Well, maybe you can do the drop off, Danny and 234 00:12:06,520 --> 00:12:08,439 Speaker 3: give them some relief pitchers. I don't think you're allowed 235 00:12:08,440 --> 00:12:11,560 Speaker 3: to add relief pitchers, but you can possibly contact them 236 00:12:11,600 --> 00:12:13,480 Speaker 3: and I think I know what hotel they're staying at 237 00:12:13,559 --> 00:12:15,160 Speaker 3: in Philadelphia and you can go do your thing. 238 00:12:15,840 --> 00:12:16,080 Speaker 5: Yeah. 239 00:12:16,120 --> 00:12:18,920 Speaker 4: Well, Friedman didn't want to spend any more money this season. 240 00:12:19,000 --> 00:12:22,320 Speaker 4: He at the trade deadline, they let the Padres and 241 00:12:22,360 --> 00:12:24,920 Speaker 4: the Mets and other teams get the players that were 242 00:12:24,920 --> 00:12:28,520 Speaker 4: out there available. Hey, remember that headline at the trade 243 00:12:28,520 --> 00:12:32,360 Speaker 4: deadline that Padres and Mets won the trade deadline. 244 00:12:32,720 --> 00:12:34,960 Speaker 3: Oh well yeah, man, well that was the thing. But 245 00:12:35,160 --> 00:12:40,080 Speaker 3: I still and I actually defended Danny. I defended aj Preller, 246 00:12:40,480 --> 00:12:43,079 Speaker 3: the GM of the Padres like it obviously didn't work 247 00:12:43,120 --> 00:12:44,080 Speaker 3: out for the Padres. 248 00:12:44,120 --> 00:12:45,520 Speaker 1: They got to end up losing the Cubs. 249 00:12:45,520 --> 00:12:48,559 Speaker 3: But I love the fact that the Padres threw caution 250 00:12:48,640 --> 00:12:50,600 Speaker 3: to the win they traded. Was it eight of their 251 00:12:50,640 --> 00:12:53,960 Speaker 3: top ten minor league players to get all these relief pitchers. 252 00:12:54,000 --> 00:12:55,240 Speaker 1: And build a super pin. 253 00:12:55,760 --> 00:12:59,480 Speaker 3: And then the great thing about baseball is the reason 254 00:12:59,520 --> 00:13:01,640 Speaker 3: the pod his loss to the Cubs is because the 255 00:13:01,640 --> 00:13:04,320 Speaker 3: guys they already had Fernando to thiast the peacock. 256 00:13:04,720 --> 00:13:07,160 Speaker 1: I think he batted like ninety three or something like that. 257 00:13:07,200 --> 00:13:11,640 Speaker 3: Manny Machado didn't hit and you Darvish you that was 258 00:13:11,679 --> 00:13:14,440 Speaker 3: the you Darvers I saw in the twenty seventeen World 259 00:13:14,520 --> 00:13:19,640 Speaker 3: Series in Game seven against the cheating as holes. We 260 00:13:19,679 --> 00:13:22,560 Speaker 3: don't say that, you know, we can, we don't have 261 00:13:22,559 --> 00:13:25,080 Speaker 3: to pause. But Game seven, well they were cheating, but 262 00:13:25,120 --> 00:13:28,400 Speaker 3: still remember game something. It was over by the second inning. 263 00:13:28,520 --> 00:13:31,400 Speaker 3: The cheaters had such a big lead because Darvers was 264 00:13:31,400 --> 00:13:33,000 Speaker 3: so bad in that game. 265 00:13:33,200 --> 00:13:34,440 Speaker 5: So it was a. 266 00:13:34,480 --> 00:13:38,480 Speaker 4: Mess as far as a drop off, I know I 267 00:13:38,600 --> 00:13:41,120 Speaker 4: talked about this a few weeks back, and there were 268 00:13:41,160 --> 00:13:44,040 Speaker 4: a couple of comments about it in the mail bag. Sense, 269 00:13:44,160 --> 00:13:48,440 Speaker 4: but good news and bad news. We finally found a 270 00:13:48,559 --> 00:13:51,120 Speaker 4: pre school that CoA can attend. 271 00:13:51,920 --> 00:13:55,640 Speaker 5: I love my suit news. You remember we. 272 00:13:55,600 --> 00:13:59,400 Speaker 4: Took the tour of that monassory and everybody got sick 273 00:13:59,559 --> 00:14:03,240 Speaker 4: just from being anywhere near their germs there. Brenda and 274 00:14:03,280 --> 00:14:06,160 Speaker 4: I were almost like celebrating because it was amazing to 275 00:14:06,240 --> 00:14:10,200 Speaker 4: find a place that wasn't two thousand dollars a month. Sure, 276 00:14:10,800 --> 00:14:14,439 Speaker 4: now it's half that and it's part time, so it's 277 00:14:14,480 --> 00:14:17,800 Speaker 4: still a lot of money. And any parent listening right 278 00:14:17,840 --> 00:14:21,160 Speaker 4: now knows what we've been dealing with. We get to 279 00:14:21,760 --> 00:14:25,680 Speaker 4: this school and a great location. It is connected to 280 00:14:25,760 --> 00:14:29,160 Speaker 4: the college that our oldest attended at Kawlu. A lot 281 00:14:29,160 --> 00:14:32,920 Speaker 4: of the faculty members have their kids at this preschool 282 00:14:33,320 --> 00:14:39,200 Speaker 4: one month score, great staff, really nice yard with a 283 00:14:39,280 --> 00:14:43,600 Speaker 4: huge sandbox and a tricycle race track and a treehouse. 284 00:14:43,720 --> 00:14:46,240 Speaker 4: And I mean CoA was in heaven when we took 285 00:14:46,320 --> 00:14:49,480 Speaker 4: him to the orientation. He's running around, you would have 286 00:14:49,520 --> 00:14:50,920 Speaker 4: thought he was at Disneyland. 287 00:14:51,480 --> 00:14:51,800 Speaker 1: Nice. 288 00:14:51,840 --> 00:14:54,800 Speaker 4: So the first picture I sent you is CoA a 289 00:14:54,840 --> 00:14:57,920 Speaker 4: week ago day one at pre school. 290 00:14:58,640 --> 00:15:00,840 Speaker 5: Now, remember he's never been off his mom's. 291 00:15:00,600 --> 00:15:04,720 Speaker 4: Boob as far as being in the care of somebody else. Yeah, 292 00:15:05,320 --> 00:15:08,880 Speaker 4: I'm with him every morning from you know, seven thirty 293 00:15:08,920 --> 00:15:12,200 Speaker 4: am until I leave for Covino and Rich at one pm. 294 00:15:12,600 --> 00:15:13,680 Speaker 5: So this is a new thing. 295 00:15:13,720 --> 00:15:16,440 Speaker 4: And it's weird because, you know, the first day we'd 296 00:15:16,520 --> 00:15:18,680 Speaker 4: take him for day one of school, he's in that 297 00:15:18,720 --> 00:15:22,640 Speaker 4: picture I sent you smiling. We told him, Okay, we're 298 00:15:22,640 --> 00:15:24,760 Speaker 4: going to go now, we'll pick you up after work, 299 00:15:25,080 --> 00:15:28,120 Speaker 4: and he's like, no, no, no, but not because he 300 00:15:28,160 --> 00:15:30,040 Speaker 4: didn't want us to leave. He thought we were trying 301 00:15:30,080 --> 00:15:32,440 Speaker 4: to take him. He wanted to stay and. 302 00:15:32,360 --> 00:15:33,440 Speaker 1: Play good good. 303 00:15:33,920 --> 00:15:34,760 Speaker 5: Yes. 304 00:15:34,800 --> 00:15:37,440 Speaker 4: So we're like, oh, perfect, okay, he doesn't even care 305 00:15:37,520 --> 00:15:43,120 Speaker 4: that we're leaving. Reality set in. We try to take 306 00:15:43,200 --> 00:15:45,280 Speaker 4: him on day two, which now is a day later 307 00:15:45,280 --> 00:15:47,360 Speaker 4: because he's Monday, Wednesday, Friday. So we try to take 308 00:15:47,440 --> 00:15:50,680 Speaker 4: him back on Wednesday, and now he knows what's going 309 00:15:50,720 --> 00:15:54,840 Speaker 4: to happen, because somewhere along the way on Monday he 310 00:15:54,920 --> 00:15:58,920 Speaker 4: figured out where are they. Oh shit, I'm stuck here 311 00:16:01,680 --> 00:16:05,440 Speaker 4: nap time for two hours. Look these adults at this place, 312 00:16:05,440 --> 00:16:09,720 Speaker 4: they're crazy. Yeah, and you know, this candy is a 313 00:16:09,880 --> 00:16:12,640 Speaker 4: nap from twelve thirty to two thirty. 314 00:16:12,680 --> 00:16:13,800 Speaker 5: Are you nuts? 315 00:16:14,320 --> 00:16:16,960 Speaker 4: Wednesday, we try to do the drop off and Ben, 316 00:16:17,480 --> 00:16:19,640 Speaker 4: there are other kids there who have just started at 317 00:16:19,640 --> 00:16:23,240 Speaker 4: the preschool, and they're like whimpering, kind of clinging onto 318 00:16:23,320 --> 00:16:26,360 Speaker 4: their mom or dad, a little bit of tears rolling 319 00:16:26,400 --> 00:16:30,400 Speaker 4: down their cheek. They look depressed. That's not how CoA rolls. 320 00:16:31,120 --> 00:16:34,520 Speaker 4: How can I even describe it? I guess he's a thespian. 321 00:16:34,840 --> 00:16:39,520 Speaker 4: He is a future actor who he made the biggest 322 00:16:39,520 --> 00:16:43,080 Speaker 4: scene at any of these schools. And remember, I've had 323 00:16:43,160 --> 00:16:45,960 Speaker 4: my years at a lot of school campuses, so I've 324 00:16:46,000 --> 00:16:49,000 Speaker 4: seen kids get dropped off for the first time. I've 325 00:16:49,040 --> 00:16:53,560 Speaker 4: seen kids melt down. Oh my god, I wish I 326 00:16:53,560 --> 00:16:55,320 Speaker 4: could act it out. I'm not as good of an 327 00:16:55,320 --> 00:16:57,720 Speaker 4: actor as he is. Or if some of these emotions 328 00:16:57,760 --> 00:17:00,360 Speaker 4: were real, then we're in trouble here because I don't 329 00:17:00,400 --> 00:17:02,000 Speaker 4: know how long he's going to. 330 00:17:02,000 --> 00:17:06,040 Speaker 5: Be at this preschool. He was screaming. 331 00:17:05,960 --> 00:17:11,879 Speaker 4: Mama, no, no, no, Mama no, and clinging onto her leg. 332 00:17:17,160 --> 00:17:18,160 Speaker 5: There's a side gate. 333 00:17:18,320 --> 00:17:20,840 Speaker 4: So when we left and I had to pull Brenda away, 334 00:17:20,880 --> 00:17:23,600 Speaker 4: I'm like, come on, we gotta let him just go. 335 00:17:23,640 --> 00:17:23,960 Speaker 5: Through it. 336 00:17:24,000 --> 00:17:26,480 Speaker 4: He's having a meltdown. But they've you know, I'm sure 337 00:17:26,520 --> 00:17:28,960 Speaker 4: that they've had this happen before, even though we didn't 338 00:17:28,960 --> 00:17:32,720 Speaker 4: see any other kids doing this. So we're getting in 339 00:17:32,720 --> 00:17:35,000 Speaker 4: the car and she goes to the side gate. It's 340 00:17:35,080 --> 00:17:35,639 Speaker 4: like a movie. 341 00:17:35,720 --> 00:17:35,880 Speaker 5: Ben. 342 00:17:36,000 --> 00:17:37,960 Speaker 4: It looked like he was a prisoner trying to reach 343 00:17:38,000 --> 00:17:42,920 Speaker 4: his hand through the gate and he is screaming. 344 00:17:42,800 --> 00:17:44,600 Speaker 1: No, Mama, don't leave. 345 00:17:44,760 --> 00:17:45,359 Speaker 5: No. 346 00:17:47,000 --> 00:17:50,040 Speaker 4: We're driving away from the preschool, and of course Brenda 347 00:17:50,119 --> 00:17:51,359 Speaker 4: is plubbering in the car. 348 00:17:51,960 --> 00:17:53,399 Speaker 5: It has gotten no better. 349 00:17:53,960 --> 00:17:57,399 Speaker 4: Monday Wednesday again, and we held him back this past 350 00:17:57,440 --> 00:17:59,600 Speaker 4: Friday because he was under the weather. Of course, he 351 00:17:59,760 --> 00:18:02,720 Speaker 4: was a week and a half at a daycare or preschool. 352 00:18:02,720 --> 00:18:04,080 Speaker 4: What do you think is going to happen. He's got 353 00:18:04,080 --> 00:18:05,359 Speaker 4: a runny nose and a cold. 354 00:18:05,800 --> 00:18:08,840 Speaker 1: Yeah, it's like a wet market in China. 355 00:18:08,960 --> 00:18:10,879 Speaker 4: It's a lot of oh yeah, you know the college 356 00:18:11,000 --> 00:18:12,320 Speaker 4: kids they have the frat flu. 357 00:18:12,720 --> 00:18:14,920 Speaker 5: Yeah, already he's got the kinder flu. 358 00:18:15,720 --> 00:18:18,359 Speaker 4: The question is, when we get out of this weekend 359 00:18:18,400 --> 00:18:20,600 Speaker 4: and we get back to Monday, is he going to 360 00:18:20,720 --> 00:18:25,560 Speaker 4: keep with the theatrics those meltdowns only intensified. 361 00:18:26,160 --> 00:18:29,320 Speaker 1: Yeah, he'll he'll get over it. It might be a 362 00:18:29,359 --> 00:18:31,280 Speaker 1: month or two before he gets over, but I. 363 00:18:31,200 --> 00:18:34,680 Speaker 4: Guess he settles in after a half hour, calms down 364 00:18:34,680 --> 00:18:35,600 Speaker 4: and he settles in. 365 00:18:36,080 --> 00:18:37,840 Speaker 1: But have you thought about bribing him? Is there a 366 00:18:37,880 --> 00:18:38,679 Speaker 1: way you could bribe him? 367 00:18:38,720 --> 00:18:40,480 Speaker 3: Say if you're you know, you're good today, we'll give 368 00:18:40,480 --> 00:18:42,359 Speaker 3: you something extra after school or something like that. 369 00:18:42,680 --> 00:18:43,800 Speaker 5: They have the mail bag. 370 00:18:44,320 --> 00:18:48,080 Speaker 4: I mentioned that he loves Disney's cars right now and 371 00:18:48,119 --> 00:18:49,879 Speaker 4: he's been collecting all the characters. 372 00:18:50,119 --> 00:18:52,040 Speaker 5: Yeah, so his mom has been trying that. 373 00:18:52,200 --> 00:18:55,360 Speaker 4: He loves those mini cars and she's like, if you're 374 00:18:55,359 --> 00:18:57,960 Speaker 4: good after school, I'll take you to Target to get 375 00:18:58,000 --> 00:19:02,480 Speaker 4: some more minis and he says men. So he's excited 376 00:19:02,520 --> 00:19:04,840 Speaker 4: about that, but it doesn't help at the drop off. 377 00:19:04,880 --> 00:19:07,840 Speaker 4: Like at that drop off, you could tell him Mickey 378 00:19:07,840 --> 00:19:11,439 Speaker 4: Mouse himself is you know there on the playyard, and 379 00:19:11,480 --> 00:19:14,320 Speaker 4: he won't give a shit. He's just when he gets 380 00:19:14,359 --> 00:19:18,040 Speaker 4: focused on something or he's upset about something, that's just it. 381 00:19:18,680 --> 00:19:19,880 Speaker 5: Sure, let's see. 382 00:19:19,880 --> 00:19:22,040 Speaker 4: There's one other picture I'm gonna send you really quick, 383 00:19:22,080 --> 00:19:25,359 Speaker 4: and it's a prison photo. I don't think they intended 384 00:19:25,359 --> 00:19:27,920 Speaker 4: it to be a prison photo. The picture they took 385 00:19:28,000 --> 00:19:31,000 Speaker 4: of him on the playyard to put at his cubby 386 00:19:33,520 --> 00:19:35,439 Speaker 4: and it looks like a mug shot. 387 00:19:35,680 --> 00:19:36,240 Speaker 1: Yes, it does. 388 00:19:36,440 --> 00:19:41,200 Speaker 3: It appears that he has been arrested. He is being processed. 389 00:19:41,200 --> 00:19:46,760 Speaker 3: Did they take his fingerprints? What was his crime, Danny? 390 00:19:46,880 --> 00:19:47,800 Speaker 1: His crime. 391 00:19:50,760 --> 00:19:53,800 Speaker 4: Like you raised hell here for the first hour. Yeah, 392 00:19:53,800 --> 00:19:55,919 Speaker 4: it looked like he did some hard time, like some 393 00:19:55,960 --> 00:19:58,399 Speaker 4: hard labor that day, chain gang. 394 00:19:58,840 --> 00:20:00,560 Speaker 3: It is holding up what a period? Is that an 395 00:20:00,600 --> 00:20:02,920 Speaker 3: orange he's holding up or an orange ball? I can't 396 00:20:03,280 --> 00:20:05,919 Speaker 3: He's holding something up with his right hand. I'm not 397 00:20:05,960 --> 00:20:07,920 Speaker 3: sure what that is, but that that does look like 398 00:20:07,960 --> 00:20:08,520 Speaker 3: a muckshot. 399 00:20:08,560 --> 00:20:10,840 Speaker 5: That's funny. I think it's the gag that they took 400 00:20:10,880 --> 00:20:15,240 Speaker 5: out of his mouth. That's hilarious. 401 00:20:15,760 --> 00:20:17,880 Speaker 1: We've all been there. But yeah, yeah, good luck. 402 00:20:18,760 --> 00:20:21,320 Speaker 3: I drove my parents and I hated, Oh god, I 403 00:20:21,320 --> 00:20:23,360 Speaker 3: couldn't stay my entire education. 404 00:20:23,480 --> 00:20:25,800 Speaker 1: I hated hated it, hated it, hated it. 405 00:20:25,960 --> 00:20:30,440 Speaker 3: Uh. One more thing here, and it's I wanted to 406 00:20:30,480 --> 00:20:32,680 Speaker 3: tell this because the other day I went to costco 407 00:20:33,280 --> 00:20:37,480 Speaker 3: oh oh with a very simple mission, Danny. I had 408 00:20:37,800 --> 00:20:41,720 Speaker 3: shampoo on my mind, body wash, iced coffee for the wife, 409 00:20:41,720 --> 00:20:45,879 Speaker 3: A couple of berry container strawberry raspberry, BlackBerry, in and out. 410 00:20:46,080 --> 00:20:48,840 Speaker 3: That's what a trip to Costco is all about clinical precision. 411 00:20:48,880 --> 00:20:52,480 Speaker 3: Had it all planned out, of course, that is not 412 00:20:52,600 --> 00:20:54,640 Speaker 3: how Costco works. That's not how any of this works 413 00:20:54,640 --> 00:20:56,960 Speaker 3: when you go to Costco. Nobody has ever gone into 414 00:20:56,960 --> 00:21:01,399 Speaker 3: Costco and left with only the thing they wrote on 415 00:21:01,440 --> 00:21:03,720 Speaker 3: their little shopping list or on their phone. 416 00:21:03,760 --> 00:21:04,600 Speaker 1: Right, it's impossible. 417 00:21:05,040 --> 00:21:08,720 Speaker 5: You end up no a fifty planned fifty dollars trip 418 00:21:08,840 --> 00:21:10,480 Speaker 5: usually costs two hundred. 419 00:21:10,119 --> 00:21:11,800 Speaker 1: Dollars minimum two hundred dollars. 420 00:21:12,040 --> 00:21:16,359 Speaker 3: You end up wandering those airplane hangar aisles like Magellan 421 00:21:16,560 --> 00:21:20,520 Speaker 3: and and pretty soon you know you've got olive oil 422 00:21:20,600 --> 00:21:22,399 Speaker 3: the size of a fire ex thing. We're sure you've 423 00:21:22,440 --> 00:21:24,640 Speaker 3: got a palette of eggs. I don't need that many eggs. 424 00:21:24,680 --> 00:21:28,800 Speaker 3: I'm not running a breakfast that place. You've got chicken 425 00:21:28,960 --> 00:21:32,320 Speaker 3: bouyon cubes that could you could make a soup for 426 00:21:32,359 --> 00:21:33,560 Speaker 3: the United States Marines. 427 00:21:33,600 --> 00:21:34,840 Speaker 1: You know, it's just out of control. 428 00:21:34,920 --> 00:21:38,320 Speaker 3: So I'm there the other day, and and then and 429 00:21:38,320 --> 00:21:40,400 Speaker 3: that's even before like you kind of get grazing. Once 430 00:21:40,440 --> 00:21:43,720 Speaker 3: you start get grazing, now that's it because because Costco 431 00:21:44,160 --> 00:21:48,320 Speaker 3: is it's it's it's an American midway, right, the gauntlet 432 00:21:48,359 --> 00:21:53,639 Speaker 3: free samples. Now sometimes it's the little corn dogs. Sometimes 433 00:21:53,680 --> 00:21:57,320 Speaker 3: it's little cheese cubes they have, and sometimes it's something 434 00:21:57,359 --> 00:22:00,800 Speaker 3: you didn't know you needed, like like aros and uh, 435 00:22:00,960 --> 00:22:03,199 Speaker 3: you know, some kind of frozen ice cream sandwich that 436 00:22:03,280 --> 00:22:06,359 Speaker 3: you didn't know about but looks pretty good. And and 437 00:22:06,400 --> 00:22:08,520 Speaker 3: you whatever they have you usually take because it's free, 438 00:22:08,560 --> 00:22:10,840 Speaker 3: right all he's kind of rules say, well, it's Costco free. 439 00:22:11,440 --> 00:22:15,080 Speaker 3: The samples are Costco's trojan horse. You came for the 440 00:22:15,119 --> 00:22:19,399 Speaker 3: shampoo you lead with, you know, a thing of dumplings. 441 00:22:19,440 --> 00:22:23,200 Speaker 3: I didn't even know they had dumplings here. Accepting the 442 00:22:23,200 --> 00:22:25,280 Speaker 3: reason I'm bringing this up not this time, because this 443 00:22:25,440 --> 00:22:29,879 Speaker 3: time I was minding my own business wandering around Costco. 444 00:22:29,960 --> 00:22:35,360 Speaker 3: I was solicited, not by a sales weasel hawking solar panels. 445 00:22:35,640 --> 00:22:38,960 Speaker 3: You know, when you go down Costco, it's like walking 446 00:22:39,000 --> 00:22:42,159 Speaker 3: down the boardwalk in Atlantic City. There's a bunch of 447 00:22:42,160 --> 00:22:43,920 Speaker 3: people that are trying to sell your stuff. When you 448 00:22:43,920 --> 00:22:46,320 Speaker 3: first go to Costco, they've got them all lined up, right, 449 00:22:46,320 --> 00:22:47,240 Speaker 3: They've got the cookingness. 450 00:22:47,440 --> 00:22:49,120 Speaker 5: Oh I hate it, I have I just wave them 451 00:22:49,119 --> 00:22:50,160 Speaker 5: all off. Yeah. 452 00:22:50,240 --> 00:22:52,080 Speaker 1: My thing is I sidestep. 453 00:22:52,160 --> 00:22:54,520 Speaker 3: I go to the middle part of Costco to avoid 454 00:22:54,560 --> 00:22:56,960 Speaker 3: that part I've learned, I just don't want to deal 455 00:22:57,000 --> 00:22:59,800 Speaker 3: with people. So you walk down this aisle and they're 456 00:23:00,119 --> 00:23:03,080 Speaker 3: on the air conditioning, solar panels, the whole thing, and 457 00:23:03,200 --> 00:23:05,760 Speaker 3: you know you need tires, but you need deluxetis. Well, no, 458 00:23:05,800 --> 00:23:07,280 Speaker 3: I have tire rack, but no I need you need 459 00:23:07,320 --> 00:23:10,679 Speaker 3: these here and uh and so I was approached, not 460 00:23:10,760 --> 00:23:13,199 Speaker 3: by one of those people, by a man representing the 461 00:23:13,280 --> 00:23:16,640 Speaker 3: Kirkland brand, which I guess these are not actual Costco 462 00:23:16,680 --> 00:23:21,840 Speaker 3: employees they are they're hired third party, but uh, a 463 00:23:21,880 --> 00:23:25,040 Speaker 3: person working at the sample table. And you know, I 464 00:23:25,040 --> 00:23:27,800 Speaker 3: had the smile of a man convinced he was offering 465 00:23:27,840 --> 00:23:29,639 Speaker 3: you the secret to life itself? 466 00:23:30,040 --> 00:23:31,920 Speaker 1: Would you like to try one of my samples? 467 00:23:32,359 --> 00:23:32,479 Speaker 5: Uh? 468 00:23:32,560 --> 00:23:35,200 Speaker 1: He asked, kind of leaning forward, like you know, he's 469 00:23:35,280 --> 00:23:36,639 Speaker 1: letting me in on this little secret. 470 00:23:36,640 --> 00:23:36,720 Speaker 5: You know. 471 00:23:36,720 --> 00:23:38,119 Speaker 3: I was like, Oh, this is gonna be good, right, 472 00:23:38,240 --> 00:23:42,399 Speaker 3: and said, I'm in, I'm down, you know, I'm here, 473 00:23:42,520 --> 00:23:45,800 Speaker 3: and uh so I turned and kind of moved my 474 00:23:45,920 --> 00:23:49,199 Speaker 3: card over there, and there it was a little table 475 00:23:49,400 --> 00:23:55,240 Speaker 3: filled a little red tray filled with seaweed, not sushi, 476 00:23:55,840 --> 00:23:59,160 Speaker 3: not not you know, some people like the sushi Krispy 477 00:23:59,240 --> 00:24:02,240 Speaker 3: rice roll seaweed flat green salty sheet. 478 00:24:02,359 --> 00:24:04,919 Speaker 4: Oh yeah, you're talking about the stuffed kids take to 479 00:24:05,000 --> 00:24:06,200 Speaker 4: school as a snack. 480 00:24:06,600 --> 00:24:08,359 Speaker 1: Well, I never took it to school, so it's not. 481 00:24:08,440 --> 00:24:11,000 Speaker 5: Well, no, we didn't. I'm talking about kids nowadays. 482 00:24:11,040 --> 00:24:12,400 Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know who knows. 483 00:24:12,440 --> 00:24:16,240 Speaker 4: It's gross, it's in their teeth, it's yeah, I can 484 00:24:16,320 --> 00:24:18,240 Speaker 4: smell it. I smelled it on the kids I used 485 00:24:18,240 --> 00:24:18,919 Speaker 4: to take care of. 486 00:24:19,680 --> 00:24:20,280 Speaker 1: So nasty. 487 00:24:20,359 --> 00:24:23,520 Speaker 3: So I'm looking, I'm looking at this table, and I'm like, 488 00:24:23,560 --> 00:24:26,080 Speaker 3: you gotta be joking, right, I'm like, you know who 489 00:24:26,119 --> 00:24:28,240 Speaker 3: I am, even of course you don't know who I am. 490 00:24:28,440 --> 00:24:30,520 Speaker 3: But I'm like, I mean, just by my even if 491 00:24:30,560 --> 00:24:32,000 Speaker 3: you don't know who I am, just by looking at me, 492 00:24:32,040 --> 00:24:33,960 Speaker 3: I don't look like a seaweed eater. 493 00:24:34,080 --> 00:24:35,080 Speaker 5: I don't you know. 494 00:24:35,160 --> 00:24:37,960 Speaker 3: I don't like things that are green anyway, flat, green, salty, 495 00:24:38,000 --> 00:24:38,600 Speaker 3: the whole thing. 496 00:24:39,040 --> 00:24:40,520 Speaker 1: I mean, seaweed is. 497 00:24:40,520 --> 00:24:43,040 Speaker 3: Just horrid, you know, It's just I can't. I hate 498 00:24:43,080 --> 00:24:44,600 Speaker 3: it when I'm going walking on the beach. 499 00:24:45,280 --> 00:24:47,879 Speaker 1: Anyway. So I did what any red blooded American would do. 500 00:24:47,960 --> 00:24:50,640 Speaker 1: I declined. I said, no way, I'm good. 501 00:24:51,640 --> 00:24:53,639 Speaker 3: I don't need to I don't need to snack on 502 00:24:53,760 --> 00:24:56,280 Speaker 3: the kelp that was brushed up against my leg the 503 00:24:56,359 --> 00:24:58,000 Speaker 3: last time I swam, you know. 504 00:24:57,920 --> 00:25:03,439 Speaker 1: Over in Newport. But then, of course fate happened. 505 00:25:03,480 --> 00:25:03,760 Speaker 3: Danny. 506 00:25:03,760 --> 00:25:04,800 Speaker 1: I looped around the. 507 00:25:04,760 --> 00:25:08,680 Speaker 3: Store and I passed this gabbroni again and the poor 508 00:25:08,720 --> 00:25:11,240 Speaker 3: guy doubled down. I guess he forgot he had already 509 00:25:11,240 --> 00:25:12,320 Speaker 3: had this conversation with me. 510 00:25:12,640 --> 00:25:14,879 Speaker 1: He gave me the full elevator pitch again. 511 00:25:15,920 --> 00:25:19,040 Speaker 4: Oh yeah, and now we know why he was seeking 512 00:25:19,160 --> 00:25:21,600 Speaker 4: people out, because who the hell wants seaweed? 513 00:25:21,920 --> 00:25:24,880 Speaker 1: Exactly, That's what I'm saying. So he somehow. 514 00:25:24,480 --> 00:25:26,800 Speaker 3: Believed in this seaweed, or at least he was being 515 00:25:26,880 --> 00:25:29,159 Speaker 3: quite the thespian as you said, your son, you know, 516 00:25:29,680 --> 00:25:33,320 Speaker 3: cause a festment. He wanted me to believe again and 517 00:25:33,400 --> 00:25:37,320 Speaker 3: again I refused. And here's the thing. I was not alone, Danny, 518 00:25:38,080 --> 00:25:41,320 Speaker 3: And you pointed out nobody, and I mean nobody was 519 00:25:41,400 --> 00:25:45,320 Speaker 3: taking the seaweed, not kids, not parents, not even the 520 00:25:45,720 --> 00:25:50,080 Speaker 3: old people that are scavengers who normally hawks. It was 521 00:25:50,160 --> 00:25:55,040 Speaker 3: the costco version of chernobyl. They finally found a sample 522 00:25:55,160 --> 00:25:56,360 Speaker 3: that was abandoned. 523 00:25:56,400 --> 00:25:58,639 Speaker 1: It was radioactive, and that's it. 524 00:25:58,680 --> 00:26:03,399 Speaker 4: And I've seen people take the crappiest samples, like recently 525 00:26:03,440 --> 00:26:05,760 Speaker 4: they had a table where they had like two broken 526 00:26:05,880 --> 00:26:09,680 Speaker 4: tortilla chips in each cup. People were reaching for these 527 00:26:09,760 --> 00:26:10,560 Speaker 4: damn things. 528 00:26:11,320 --> 00:26:14,639 Speaker 1: Uh yeah, And so that tells you everything. 529 00:26:14,840 --> 00:26:17,840 Speaker 3: People don't turn down free food, as you know, and 530 00:26:17,880 --> 00:26:20,760 Speaker 3: I know we all know that they don't. They'll eat 531 00:26:20,800 --> 00:26:23,800 Speaker 3: your chicken nuggets that are half cooked on a toothpick. 532 00:26:23,840 --> 00:26:27,000 Speaker 3: They'll they'll eat heated ravioli which is still kind of 533 00:26:27,040 --> 00:26:29,800 Speaker 3: cold in the middle. As you said, the chips that 534 00:26:29,920 --> 00:26:33,399 Speaker 3: they'll eat whatever's on the train. Seaweed, though, that is 535 00:26:33,440 --> 00:26:36,480 Speaker 3: a point of demarcation. That is where the American public 536 00:26:36,560 --> 00:26:39,639 Speaker 3: draws the line. And Costco can sell you a kayak, 537 00:26:40,400 --> 00:26:44,040 Speaker 3: they can sell you a casket, they can sell you 538 00:26:44,520 --> 00:26:49,280 Speaker 3: a protein powder, the fuel a cult of CrossFit lunatics, 539 00:26:49,440 --> 00:26:51,639 Speaker 3: but they cannot make you eat seaweed. 540 00:26:51,960 --> 00:26:55,440 Speaker 1: They can't do it. And I just thought it was hilarious. 541 00:26:55,480 --> 00:26:57,639 Speaker 3: I mean, I've been going to cost for my my 542 00:26:57,720 --> 00:27:00,800 Speaker 3: tire adult life. I love Costco and I've never seen 543 00:27:00,800 --> 00:27:04,320 Speaker 3: that before. And meanwhile, two miles over right there's the 544 00:27:04,359 --> 00:27:07,239 Speaker 3: Little corn Dogs. There's a line that looked like it 545 00:27:07,280 --> 00:27:09,040 Speaker 3: was for Space Mountain at Disneyland. 546 00:27:09,119 --> 00:27:12,400 Speaker 5: Right, freaking talk about competition. 547 00:27:13,600 --> 00:27:17,000 Speaker 3: It's like people were camped out ready for waiting for 548 00:27:17,119 --> 00:27:20,440 Speaker 3: fifteen minutes for a stupid f and litle piece of 549 00:27:20,480 --> 00:27:21,000 Speaker 3: hot dog. 550 00:27:21,600 --> 00:27:24,520 Speaker 1: And they were smiling, you know, freebie and all that. 551 00:27:24,600 --> 00:27:25,439 Speaker 1: But there you go. 552 00:27:25,520 --> 00:27:28,800 Speaker 3: So that's that's my weekly Costco story. You walk in 553 00:27:28,840 --> 00:27:30,959 Speaker 3: with a plan, you leave with a shopping cart of 554 00:27:31,960 --> 00:27:34,600 Speaker 3: you know, the stuff you didn't need and regret that 555 00:27:34,680 --> 00:27:37,399 Speaker 3: you purchased. And somewhere in the middle there your face 556 00:27:37,480 --> 00:27:41,520 Speaker 3: with the great existential question of our time, seaweed or 557 00:27:41,560 --> 00:27:44,360 Speaker 3: no seaweeds? But no, you need this. Let me make 558 00:27:44,440 --> 00:27:48,439 Speaker 3: my pitch. No, I don't need your elevator pitch for me. 559 00:27:48,520 --> 00:27:51,600 Speaker 3: It's a no on seaweed. Every single time. I do 560 00:27:51,640 --> 00:27:54,880 Speaker 3: give the guy credit though, because you know, I'm assuming 561 00:27:54,880 --> 00:27:56,520 Speaker 3: these guys who do the samples. 562 00:27:56,119 --> 00:27:57,959 Speaker 1: And the women don't know what they're going to when 563 00:27:57,960 --> 00:27:58,760 Speaker 1: they show up to work. 564 00:27:59,200 --> 00:28:01,199 Speaker 3: Like this guy was really into the job, and I'm 565 00:28:01,240 --> 00:28:03,399 Speaker 3: sure he's not making a lot of money, that doesn't 566 00:28:03,400 --> 00:28:06,639 Speaker 3: pay a lot, and yet he's still he's pitching that 567 00:28:06,720 --> 00:28:08,679 Speaker 3: thing like he's trying to you know, he's working for 568 00:28:08,960 --> 00:28:12,160 Speaker 3: bm trying to sell you on a BMW or something wild. 569 00:28:12,200 --> 00:28:15,200 Speaker 4: It's the equivalent of you and Rob Parker's selling really 570 00:28:15,240 --> 00:28:16,159 Speaker 4: bad hot takes. 571 00:28:16,720 --> 00:28:18,080 Speaker 1: How dare you listen? 572 00:28:18,160 --> 00:28:21,639 Speaker 3: Rob's the og he's gotten the weekend, He's getting the 573 00:28:21,680 --> 00:28:22,920 Speaker 3: press box named after him. 574 00:28:22,920 --> 00:28:23,560 Speaker 1: I know it's coming up. 575 00:28:23,720 --> 00:28:26,199 Speaker 4: Yeah, he's in New York right now as we speak, 576 00:28:26,240 --> 00:28:28,240 Speaker 4: and I guess they're going to have a little little 577 00:28:28,240 --> 00:28:31,119 Speaker 4: get together for him at our studios on Monday evening. 578 00:28:31,480 --> 00:28:31,880 Speaker 5: That's great. 579 00:28:31,920 --> 00:28:33,240 Speaker 3: I was actually going to try to get back to 580 00:28:33,960 --> 00:28:37,400 Speaker 3: I guess it's Connecticut, Central Connecticut or something. 581 00:28:37,520 --> 00:28:40,160 Speaker 1: I forget what school says. School in Connecticut's naming their 582 00:28:40,160 --> 00:28:42,640 Speaker 1: press box after Rob. And I love Rob. 583 00:28:42,680 --> 00:28:44,040 Speaker 3: I don't get to see him much as we worked 584 00:28:44,040 --> 00:28:46,040 Speaker 3: different hours, and actually was gonna he invited us to 585 00:28:46,200 --> 00:28:48,280 Speaker 3: me and my wife to go back to the event, 586 00:28:48,360 --> 00:28:50,800 Speaker 3: but unfortunately we couldn't make the travel. 587 00:28:51,480 --> 00:28:54,600 Speaker 1: The travel happened. But anyway, we'll get out on that, Danny. 588 00:28:55,400 --> 00:28:57,720 Speaker 3: Hopefully the Dodgers do not let us down today and 589 00:28:58,400 --> 00:28:59,360 Speaker 3: win and all that. 590 00:28:59,280 --> 00:28:59,920 Speaker 5: And let's go. 591 00:29:00,000 --> 00:29:02,720 Speaker 4: Oh yeah, let's hope that we can string together a 592 00:29:02,760 --> 00:29:04,880 Speaker 4: couple of really good pitchers after Otani. 593 00:29:05,120 --> 00:29:06,920 Speaker 1: They got to have a seven run league going to 594 00:29:06,960 --> 00:29:07,400 Speaker 1: the eighth inning. 595 00:29:07,440 --> 00:29:10,480 Speaker 4: I'll feel pretty good. Seven second book, pretty much. I 596 00:29:10,520 --> 00:29:13,240 Speaker 4: have a Dodger stress ball, and I'm not making that up. 597 00:29:14,520 --> 00:29:16,600 Speaker 1: Well, I will, I will, I'm expecting. 598 00:29:16,640 --> 00:29:16,840 Speaker 5: See. 599 00:29:16,840 --> 00:29:18,720 Speaker 3: The good thing about this is I've already determined they're 600 00:29:18,760 --> 00:29:20,320 Speaker 3: not good enough to win, so if they win, I'll 601 00:29:20,360 --> 00:29:23,640 Speaker 3: be happy. I've created in my own head nanny sports 602 00:29:23,640 --> 00:29:26,680 Speaker 3: fan insurance. I've already gone the arithmetic, I've done the 603 00:29:26,760 --> 00:29:28,880 Speaker 3: Mather math. They're not good enough to win, so if 604 00:29:28,920 --> 00:29:32,440 Speaker 3: they win, I'll be pleasantly surprised. I'll be pleasantly surprised. 605 00:29:32,480 --> 00:29:34,600 Speaker 5: Anyway. All right, as you're hedging your bets. 606 00:29:34,400 --> 00:29:36,920 Speaker 3: I'm not hedging my bets. I'm just calling like it is. 607 00:29:37,040 --> 00:29:39,240 Speaker 3: All right, having a wonderful rest of your Saturday. 608 00:29:39,280 --> 00:29:40,040 Speaker 1: Here, we'll be back. 609 00:29:40,040 --> 00:29:44,320 Speaker 3: We get the mail bag on Sunday. Sunday, Sunday later. 610 00:29:44,400 --> 00:29:46,200 Speaker 3: Skater got a murder. 611 00:29:46,200 --> 00:29:46,640 Speaker 5: I gotta go,