WEBVTT - The Fifth Hour: Dodger Double Down & Selling Seaweed 0:00:00.880 --> 0:00:01.640 Kabooms. 0:00:02.480 --> 0:00:05.560 If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes 0:00:05.600 --> 0:00:09.320 a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants 0:00:09.360 --> 0:00:12.639 of the old Republic, a sole fashion of fairness. He 0:00:12.760 --> 0:00:15.680 treats crackheads in the ghetto cutter the same as the 0:00:15.800 --> 0:00:17.639 rich pill poppers in the penthouse. 0:00:18.239 --> 0:00:18.560 Wow. 0:00:18.760 --> 0:00:22.480 The Clearinghouse of Hot takes break free for something special. 0:00:22.840 --> 0:00:30.800 The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now. 0:00:29.120 --> 0:00:32.240 In the air everywhere. 0:00:32.440 --> 0:00:35.320 The Fifth Hour with Me, Ben Maller and Danny G 0:00:35.600 --> 0:00:40.440 Radio A happy college football kind of a Saturday, and 0:00:41.479 --> 0:00:45.519 we have baseball action today, the divisional round of the 0:00:45.520 --> 0:00:49.040 baseball Playoffs. Great planning by Major League Baseball, Danny G 0:00:49.640 --> 0:00:52.040 to have it on a college football Saturday. Really want 0:00:52.080 --> 0:00:55.400 that full spotlight all to yourself, and boy are. 0:00:55.240 --> 0:01:02.840 They gonna get it. Absolutely yikes. We got action all 0:01:03.600 --> 0:01:04.919 day long. 0:01:05.200 --> 0:01:08.880 Now we obviously here in SoCal in the LA area, 0:01:09.080 --> 0:01:13.480 and I think the first game is at eleven this morning, 0:01:13.600 --> 0:01:14.120 LA time. 0:01:14.440 --> 0:01:17.800 So yeah, yeah, And I heard a promo on the 0:01:17.880 --> 0:01:20.680 network you dog in the Dodgers again saying they have 0:01:20.800 --> 0:01:22.639 no momentum going into this series. 0:01:22.720 --> 0:01:24.840 Well, as you know, there is no such thing as momentum. 0:01:25.240 --> 0:01:30.040 Wrong now I will address that a special emergency emergency 0:01:30.080 --> 0:01:33.839 Mallard monologue, and I will call it Danny the big 0:01:33.880 --> 0:01:35.120 Blue kool Aid. 0:01:35.000 --> 0:01:36.280 Cult is what I'm going to call it. 0:01:36.319 --> 0:01:39.640 But we'll get to that also the drop off and 0:01:39.760 --> 0:01:45.640 the seaweed standoff on this edition of The Fifth Hour. Now, 0:01:45.720 --> 0:01:49.920 I am planning on watching college football quite a bit today, 0:01:49.920 --> 0:01:52.960 but I like baseball obviously, so I'll be flipping around 0:01:53.840 --> 0:01:57.720 to check that out. So my remote control is going 0:01:57.720 --> 0:02:01.040 to be getting quite the workout today. And if you 0:02:01.080 --> 0:02:04.040 look at the gambling market, though, and you see who's 0:02:04.080 --> 0:02:06.840 favorite in these games. The first game today is the 0:02:06.880 --> 0:02:11.320 Brewers and the Cubs. And I was I was actually 0:02:11.320 --> 0:02:16.000 in I was in Kenosha. I drove from Chicago to 0:02:16.080 --> 0:02:18.000 visit my brother a couple of years ago, and we 0:02:18.040 --> 0:02:20.960 stopped at the Cheesecastle in Kenosha, and it just happened 0:02:20.960 --> 0:02:24.840 that the Cubs were playing the Brewers that night, and 0:02:24.960 --> 0:02:26.760 the place was filled with Cub fans. 0:02:26.800 --> 0:02:27.960 Like you know, it's a short. 0:02:27.680 --> 0:02:30.480 Trip from Chicago to Milwaukee, so I can only imagine 0:02:30.480 --> 0:02:34.520 what this is gonna be. Like Freddie Peralta versus Matthew Boyd, 0:02:35.200 --> 0:02:39.119 who's left handed on the Mountain for the Cubs, who'll 0:02:39.120 --> 0:02:42.040 be exactly the Brewers a minus one forty eight favorite 0:02:42.040 --> 0:02:44.840 with Freddie Parolt in that game. Then after that you 0:02:44.919 --> 0:02:50.480 got Toronto hosting the Yankees today Louis Heal and Kevin 0:02:50.639 --> 0:02:55.160 Gossman and the blue Jays minus one twenty. 0:02:54.919 --> 0:02:56.840 I think you just made that name up right now. 0:02:57.400 --> 0:03:00.800 Well, yeah, a lot of these pictures are like, how 0:03:00.800 --> 0:03:04.360 are they in the playoffs? Gosman though, is the blue 0:03:04.440 --> 0:03:07.679 Jays favored minus one twenty four although there is more 0:03:07.760 --> 0:03:10.880 money coming in on the Yankees. And then after that 0:03:11.680 --> 0:03:15.400 the game that we're most interested in, the Doyers and 0:03:15.440 --> 0:03:20.760 the Fighting Phills Christopher Sanchez versus show Hey O'tani. 0:03:21.000 --> 0:03:23.560 Show, Hey Otani and the. 0:03:23.720 --> 0:03:26.799 Dodgers and underdog the Phillies are the favorite to win 0:03:26.880 --> 0:03:30.600 that game at minus one fifteen. And then the nightcap 0:03:31.280 --> 0:03:36.680 in prime time at eight thirty eight Eastern five thirty 0:03:36.720 --> 0:03:40.040 eight in the West, when the Tigers and Mariners get together, 0:03:40.120 --> 0:03:41.560 Danny g you throw out the records. 0:03:41.560 --> 0:03:42.080 You know why? 0:03:42.840 --> 0:03:43.120 Why? 0:03:43.320 --> 0:03:45.040 Because if you looked at the record now. 0:03:45.080 --> 0:03:49.520 All right, the Robbie the Mariner fan, the big Dumper 0:03:50.080 --> 0:03:53.680 his Mariners with George Kirby minus two hundred favorites over 0:03:53.720 --> 0:03:56.720 someone named Troy Melton of the Tigers. 0:03:57.040 --> 0:03:58.840 Wow, I don't know who that is. 0:03:58.880 --> 0:03:59.560 I have no idea. 0:04:00.000 --> 0:04:01.400 Well, let's get to this. You mentioned it. 0:04:01.440 --> 0:04:04.160 You brought it up, Danny, the promos that have been 0:04:04.240 --> 0:04:07.720 running NonStop here and this has been going on for 0:04:07.760 --> 0:04:11.120 a couple weeks now ever since. Yours truly just a 0:04:11.240 --> 0:04:14.720 random overnight gas bag. I like to think of truth teller, 0:04:15.400 --> 0:04:18.320 an occasional agitator, like to stir the pot. 0:04:18.480 --> 0:04:21.120 Now. I had the goal, I had the Hootzpa. 0:04:21.160 --> 0:04:23.120 You're like the Manny Machado of radio. 0:04:26.200 --> 0:04:28.839 I had the hoodspur to point out the obvious about 0:04:28.880 --> 0:04:32.800 the twenty twenty five Dodgers, and as I anticipated, the 0:04:32.800 --> 0:04:36.920 fanboys have been spitting nails my direction. So I did 0:04:36.960 --> 0:04:39.520 a couple of hour monologues recently on the Overnight Show, 0:04:39.600 --> 0:04:43.039 speaking the gospel, pointing out the frailties of this team. 0:04:43.080 --> 0:04:47.240 The twenty twenty five bullpen, I call it the Chevron bullpen, 0:04:48.240 --> 0:04:52.440 pumping gas and on fires and going the extra mile 0:04:53.520 --> 0:04:57.479 to burn the thing up. The one that still gets 0:04:57.520 --> 0:05:00.440 the most attention has been the one where I pointed 0:05:00.440 --> 0:05:02.880 out how ridiculous and over the top of the state funeral, 0:05:02.920 --> 0:05:07.479 including a burial for Clayton Kershaw, the bane of our 0:05:07.520 --> 0:05:10.359 existence as Dodger supporters in the playoffs, who cost the 0:05:10.400 --> 0:05:13.800 Dodgers at least three extra World championships with his mouth 0:05:13.839 --> 0:05:17.080 FeAs And so I pointed that out, and we said 0:05:17.120 --> 0:05:18.839 that what we did is we said the quiet part 0:05:18.880 --> 0:05:23.200 out loud about mookie Bets for four months. He was 0:05:23.320 --> 0:05:27.479 a ghost, a high priced ghost, mookie Bets. And so 0:05:27.600 --> 0:05:31.800 the outrage on cue. The outrage started up, the fire breathing. 0:05:32.640 --> 0:05:34.840 And it's not just from random people who listened to 0:05:34.880 --> 0:05:37.480 the radio, but people I were with. Roberto, a bus driver, 0:05:37.640 --> 0:05:41.760 was all upset with me. Manuel from Guardina angry. The 0:05:41.800 --> 0:05:44.400 rest of the Dodger kool aid, the big blue kool 0:05:44.440 --> 0:05:48.719 Aid cult, immediately branded me a hater. Manuel and Guardina 0:05:48.760 --> 0:05:52.360 said I was a Giants fan, which I think, which 0:05:52.400 --> 0:05:55.240 is worse like a trader of the whole thing. And 0:05:55.640 --> 0:05:59.719 why because this is again a reminder in the modern world. 0:05:59.720 --> 0:06:05.360 If you dare criticize the millionaire ballplayers wearing your team's laundry, 0:06:06.120 --> 0:06:07.440 you're a bad fan. 0:06:07.720 --> 0:06:09.640 You're a bad what's wrong with you? 0:06:10.680 --> 0:06:10.960 All right? 0:06:11.000 --> 0:06:14.120 So to me, it's nonsense, it's I've always been the 0:06:14.120 --> 0:06:16.760 same way. It's not like I haven't, It's just the 0:06:16.760 --> 0:06:20.880 way I'm wired. And the truth is, no one at 0:06:20.920 --> 0:06:23.680 Dodger Stadium they don't want to hear it. 0:06:24.160 --> 0:06:26.080 They want guys like Vasay. 0:06:25.720 --> 0:06:27.919 To get on the radio and lick their toes, and 0:06:28.040 --> 0:06:31.880 so nobody wants to hear in between the mariachi bands 0:06:31.880 --> 0:06:35.279 and the drone shows at Dodger Stadium what real fans 0:06:35.320 --> 0:06:38.800 are like, right, and what they should be like holding 0:06:38.839 --> 0:06:43.040 people accountable, not just nodding along because you're a three 0:06:43.120 --> 0:06:46.400 hundred and sixty five million dollars shortstop is batting two 0:06:46.440 --> 0:06:49.200 thirty eight after ninety four games? 0:06:49.480 --> 0:06:51.479 I mean just it blows me away. Is there any 0:06:51.560 --> 0:06:53.800 other job you can be that bad at for that long? 0:06:53.839 --> 0:06:54.960 And people are like, well, that's fine. 0:06:55.200 --> 0:06:58.080 Imagine not showing up to work for four months, and 0:06:58.160 --> 0:07:00.680 you'll see how long your boss lets you before the 0:07:01.200 --> 0:07:03.839 security walks you out with a little cardboard box. I 0:07:03.839 --> 0:07:06.400 know I've been there, I've been there, but this is 0:07:06.480 --> 0:07:10.920 what the modern fan has become. It drives me bonkers, right, 0:07:11.000 --> 0:07:16.440 just mascots, cheerleaders, corporate dupes who think criticism is some 0:07:16.560 --> 0:07:20.000 kind of betrayal, and it drives me nuts. They don't 0:07:20.360 --> 0:07:22.840 they don't want reality, they want fairy tales. And they 0:07:23.040 --> 0:07:25.080 and I love Vin Scully. I knew vent a little bit. 0:07:25.120 --> 0:07:29.840 They want Vin Scully nostalgia wrapped in bobblehead giveaways. Give 0:07:29.880 --> 0:07:34.360 me seventeen Otani bobblehead giveaways. I'm happy, right. And we 0:07:35.200 --> 0:07:38.800 come from the old country when fans were tough, they 0:07:38.800 --> 0:07:42.080 were not soft. And the term is it's two words, 0:07:42.120 --> 0:07:46.200 tough love, higher standards. And some of you call it 0:07:46.360 --> 0:07:49.480 cranky and curmudgeony, you know, negative. 0:07:49.800 --> 0:07:51.080 I call it saint. 0:07:51.640 --> 0:07:55.960 Because what the Dodgers have been this season is not 0:07:56.160 --> 0:07:58.960 dominance right to me, it's deja vu of some years 0:07:58.960 --> 0:08:03.360 gone by here and they were projected to win one 0:08:03.480 --> 0:08:05.320 hundred and five and a half. 0:08:05.120 --> 0:08:06.640 Games this season. 0:08:06.640 --> 0:08:08.000 This is going to be one of the all time 0:08:08.040 --> 0:08:12.520 great teams stack roster and because of Mookie Betts under achieving, 0:08:12.520 --> 0:08:18.679 the bullpen underachieving, this super team won ninety three games. 0:08:19.320 --> 0:08:21.720 Ninety three games is what the Dodgers won, and they 0:08:21.760 --> 0:08:23.440 had to play well the last couple of weeks to 0:08:23.480 --> 0:08:26.480 get to ninety three wins. Now that means on the 0:08:26.520 --> 0:08:29.800 Malord big board, not a list. Terry in England, not 0:08:29.840 --> 0:08:33.960 a list. The Dodgers underachieved, right. They won, if my 0:08:34.040 --> 0:08:37.560 math has scared, about fifteen percent fewer games than they 0:08:37.559 --> 0:08:41.600 were projected to win, and they were outplayed by the 0:08:41.640 --> 0:08:46.600 Milwaukee Brewers and the Toronto Blue Jays, among other won 0:08:46.720 --> 0:08:51.160 more games than this super Dodger team, the greatest team 0:08:51.200 --> 0:08:51.920 ever assembled. 0:08:52.160 --> 0:08:54.000 So yeah, go ahead, I'm the bad guy. 0:08:54.080 --> 0:08:55.560 You can call me a fraud of phone he send 0:08:55.600 --> 0:08:58.200 me your nasty emails and all that stuff. Anything to 0:08:58.320 --> 0:09:02.400 avoid confronting the Komodo dragon in the room, the fire 0:09:02.440 --> 0:09:06.199 breathing dragon the corner of the Dodgers. Listen, they floated 0:09:06.200 --> 0:09:08.120 along during the rest of it. Doesn't mean I don't 0:09:08.120 --> 0:09:09.800 want them to win. I hope they win. I'd love 0:09:09.880 --> 0:09:11.319 for this team to it. But even if they win 0:09:11.360 --> 0:09:13.800 the World Series, it does not change the fact that 0:09:13.920 --> 0:09:16.000 Mookie bets for ninety four games was terrible. 0:09:16.240 --> 0:09:17.800 The bullpen was an embarrassment. 0:09:18.080 --> 0:09:21.120 So go out, eat cheese steaks, enjoy the soft pretzels 0:09:21.120 --> 0:09:24.480 in Philadelphia, and slay the Phillies and have a great weekend. 0:09:24.480 --> 0:09:25.600 And that's wonderful and all that. 0:09:25.679 --> 0:09:28.520 However, again, just to put a ball on this Danny 0:09:28.760 --> 0:09:34.040 that the Dodger myth lives on is blind loyalty mixed 0:09:34.080 --> 0:09:38.560 with corporate spin and bots and all that online on 0:09:38.640 --> 0:09:41.920 social media, and then anyone who points it out like 0:09:42.000 --> 0:09:44.040 the other part of is oh you shouldn't do that. 0:09:44.120 --> 0:09:47.559 Oh my god, kay stop, I. 0:09:47.600 --> 0:09:49.079 Just laugh at I think it's hilarious. 0:09:49.920 --> 0:09:51.080 I look at their record. 0:09:51.200 --> 0:09:55.920 I mean, Tanner Scott alone accounts for could have accounted 0:09:55.920 --> 0:09:58.000 for ten more wins worse. 0:09:58.080 --> 0:09:59.920 I mean to have ten blown saved. 0:10:00.400 --> 0:10:03.480 But that was their big pickup. That was the guy 0:10:03.520 --> 0:10:05.360 that everyone said is gonna put him over the top. 0:10:05.400 --> 0:10:07.560 And the Bullen well looked. He looked good when he 0:10:07.640 --> 0:10:11.480 was a padre. In his case, he went backwards. I'm 0:10:11.480 --> 0:10:12.160 not sure why. 0:10:12.559 --> 0:10:12.840 I know. 0:10:13.000 --> 0:10:15.000 I read an article where he said he was just 0:10:15.040 --> 0:10:18.160 having the worst season of his career. And obviously there 0:10:18.160 --> 0:10:20.400 were injuries. They had to battle like a lot of 0:10:20.440 --> 0:10:23.920 other teams. But now you see Roki come in and close. 0:10:24.080 --> 0:10:26.920 He was hurt all throughout the season, so it looks 0:10:26.960 --> 0:10:29.880 like they have him closer right now. Against the Phillies. 0:10:30.160 --> 0:10:33.760 The Achilles heel is still the setup guys. 0:10:34.280 --> 0:10:37.319 Yeah, the Phillies are much better than the Reds are, 0:10:37.400 --> 0:10:40.080 like a Triple A team. The Phillies are a big 0:10:40.120 --> 0:10:43.920 time team. The games are going to be close. I 0:10:44.080 --> 0:10:47.760 just don't see this bullpen being able to get it done. 0:10:47.760 --> 0:10:49.640 If you're the Phillies, you don't have to have a 0:10:49.720 --> 0:10:51.280 league going to the seventh inning. You can be down 0:10:51.320 --> 0:10:54.040 by two runs going to the seventh inning. Once Dave 0:10:54.160 --> 0:10:56.360 Roberts makes the walk of shame and says I really 0:10:56.440 --> 0:10:58.360 liked him in the spot, and they can know. 0:10:58.440 --> 0:11:01.720 Guys like Vesia have been soon are inconsistent this season, 0:11:02.440 --> 0:11:05.040 Guys where you have no confidence when they walk in 0:11:06.120 --> 0:11:08.560 if you don't have a lead. If you're the Dodgers, 0:11:08.559 --> 0:11:11.640 you need a lead of five runs. That happened against 0:11:11.640 --> 0:11:14.000 the Reds, You're right, that's not going to happen against 0:11:14.040 --> 0:11:17.040 teams like the Phillies. There's going to be, you know, 0:11:17.120 --> 0:11:19.200 games that are three to one, three to two, and 0:11:19.600 --> 0:11:22.520 if you have one of those yakers come in and 0:11:22.600 --> 0:11:25.199 they vomit all over the mound, suddenly you're going to 0:11:25.240 --> 0:11:27.560 be in a hole. Let's see if they use some 0:11:27.640 --> 0:11:30.160 of the starters back to back, that would be the 0:11:30.160 --> 0:11:33.080 way to go. But you know Friedman and his puppet 0:11:33.160 --> 0:11:35.360 Dave Roberts, they probably won't go that route. 0:11:35.920 --> 0:11:38.600 Out of an abundance of caution, Danny, out of an 0:11:38.600 --> 0:11:40.760 abundance of caution, they will not do do that at 0:11:40.760 --> 0:11:43.600 this point. Again, We'll see, we'll watch later today. We'll 0:11:43.600 --> 0:11:45.120 see what the Dodgers do. See if they get to 0:11:45.160 --> 0:11:48.080 jump on the Phillies with Otani. What do you think 0:11:48.120 --> 0:11:49.480 Otani goes four innings today? 0:11:49.480 --> 0:11:50.079 What do you think four? 0:11:50.160 --> 0:11:51.040 Or five? Tops? 0:11:51.240 --> 0:11:54.320 Probably five? But yeah, the Bats need to stay alive. 0:11:54.440 --> 0:11:57.319 They need to get on the board early, and often 0:11:57.400 --> 0:11:59.720 they need to take like a five to one lead 0:11:59.760 --> 0:12:02.240 in the game. If they get behind against a team 0:12:02.320 --> 0:12:04.120 like the Phillies, it's going to be a long night. 0:12:04.600 --> 0:12:06.480 Well, maybe you can do the drop off, Danny and 0:12:06.520 --> 0:12:08.439 give them some relief pitchers. I don't think you're allowed 0:12:08.440 --> 0:12:11.560 to add relief pitchers, but you can possibly contact them 0:12:11.600 --> 0:12:13.480 and I think I know what hotel they're staying at 0:12:13.559 --> 0:12:15.160 in Philadelphia and you can go do your thing. 0:12:15.840 --> 0:12:16.080 Yeah. 0:12:16.120 --> 0:12:18.920 Well, Friedman didn't want to spend any more money this season. 0:12:19.000 --> 0:12:22.320 He at the trade deadline, they let the Padres and 0:12:22.360 --> 0:12:24.920 the Mets and other teams get the players that were 0:12:24.920 --> 0:12:28.520 out there available. Hey, remember that headline at the trade 0:12:28.520 --> 0:12:32.360 deadline that Padres and Mets won the trade deadline. 0:12:32.720 --> 0:12:34.960 Oh well yeah, man, well that was the thing. But 0:12:35.160 --> 0:12:40.080 I still and I actually defended Danny. I defended aj Preller, 0:12:40.480 --> 0:12:43.079 the GM of the Padres like it obviously didn't work 0:12:43.120 --> 0:12:44.080 out for the Padres. 0:12:44.120 --> 0:12:45.520 They got to end up losing the Cubs. 0:12:45.520 --> 0:12:48.559 But I love the fact that the Padres threw caution 0:12:48.640 --> 0:12:50.600 to the win they traded. Was it eight of their 0:12:50.640 --> 0:12:53.960 top ten minor league players to get all these relief pitchers. 0:12:54.000 --> 0:12:55.240 And build a super pin. 0:12:55.760 --> 0:12:59.480 And then the great thing about baseball is the reason 0:12:59.520 --> 0:13:01.640 the pod his loss to the Cubs is because the 0:13:01.640 --> 0:13:04.320 guys they already had Fernando to thiast the peacock. 0:13:04.720 --> 0:13:07.160 I think he batted like ninety three or something like that. 0:13:07.200 --> 0:13:11.640 Manny Machado didn't hit and you Darvish you that was 0:13:11.679 --> 0:13:14.440 the you Darvers I saw in the twenty seventeen World 0:13:14.520 --> 0:13:19.640 Series in Game seven against the cheating as holes. We 0:13:19.679 --> 0:13:22.560 don't say that, you know, we can, we don't have 0:13:22.559 --> 0:13:25.080 to pause. But Game seven, well they were cheating, but 0:13:25.120 --> 0:13:28.400 still remember game something. It was over by the second inning. 0:13:28.520 --> 0:13:31.400 The cheaters had such a big lead because Darvers was 0:13:31.400 --> 0:13:33.000 so bad in that game. 0:13:33.200 --> 0:13:34.440 So it was a. 0:13:34.480 --> 0:13:38.480 Mess as far as a drop off, I know I 0:13:38.600 --> 0:13:41.120 talked about this a few weeks back, and there were 0:13:41.160 --> 0:13:44.040 a couple of comments about it in the mail bag. Sense, 0:13:44.160 --> 0:13:48.440 but good news and bad news. We finally found a 0:13:48.559 --> 0:13:51.120 pre school that CoA can attend. 0:13:51.920 --> 0:13:55.640 I love my suit news. You remember we. 0:13:55.600 --> 0:13:59.400 Took the tour of that monassory and everybody got sick 0:13:59.559 --> 0:14:03.240 just from being anywhere near their germs there. Brenda and 0:14:03.280 --> 0:14:06.160 I were almost like celebrating because it was amazing to 0:14:06.240 --> 0:14:10.200 find a place that wasn't two thousand dollars a month. Sure, 0:14:10.800 --> 0:14:14.439 now it's half that and it's part time, so it's 0:14:14.480 --> 0:14:17.800 still a lot of money. And any parent listening right 0:14:17.840 --> 0:14:21.160 now knows what we've been dealing with. We get to 0:14:21.760 --> 0:14:25.680 this school and a great location. It is connected to 0:14:25.760 --> 0:14:29.160 the college that our oldest attended at Kawlu. A lot 0:14:29.160 --> 0:14:32.920 of the faculty members have their kids at this preschool 0:14:33.320 --> 0:14:39.200 one month score, great staff, really nice yard with a 0:14:39.280 --> 0:14:43.600 huge sandbox and a tricycle race track and a treehouse. 0:14:43.720 --> 0:14:46.240 And I mean CoA was in heaven when we took 0:14:46.320 --> 0:14:49.480 him to the orientation. He's running around, you would have 0:14:49.520 --> 0:14:50.920 thought he was at Disneyland. 0:14:51.480 --> 0:14:51.800 Nice. 0:14:51.840 --> 0:14:54.800 So the first picture I sent you is CoA a 0:14:54.840 --> 0:14:57.920 week ago day one at pre school. 0:14:58.640 --> 0:15:00.840 Now, remember he's never been off his mom's. 0:15:00.600 --> 0:15:04.720 Boob as far as being in the care of somebody else. Yeah, 0:15:05.320 --> 0:15:08.880 I'm with him every morning from you know, seven thirty 0:15:08.920 --> 0:15:12.200 am until I leave for Covino and Rich at one pm. 0:15:12.600 --> 0:15:13.680 So this is a new thing. 0:15:13.720 --> 0:15:16.440 And it's weird because, you know, the first day we'd 0:15:16.520 --> 0:15:18.680 take him for day one of school, he's in that 0:15:18.720 --> 0:15:22.640 picture I sent you smiling. We told him, Okay, we're 0:15:22.640 --> 0:15:24.760 going to go now, we'll pick you up after work, 0:15:25.080 --> 0:15:28.120 and he's like, no, no, no, but not because he 0:15:28.160 --> 0:15:30.040 didn't want us to leave. He thought we were trying 0:15:30.080 --> 0:15:32.440 to take him. He wanted to stay and. 0:15:32.360 --> 0:15:33.440 Play good good. 0:15:33.920 --> 0:15:34.760 Yes. 0:15:34.800 --> 0:15:37.440 So we're like, oh, perfect, okay, he doesn't even care 0:15:37.520 --> 0:15:43.120 that we're leaving. Reality set in. We try to take 0:15:43.200 --> 0:15:45.280 him on day two, which now is a day later 0:15:45.280 --> 0:15:47.360 because he's Monday, Wednesday, Friday. So we try to take 0:15:47.440 --> 0:15:50.680 him back on Wednesday, and now he knows what's going 0:15:50.720 --> 0:15:54.840 to happen, because somewhere along the way on Monday he 0:15:54.920 --> 0:15:58.920 figured out where are they. Oh shit, I'm stuck here 0:16:01.680 --> 0:16:05.440 nap time for two hours. Look these adults at this place, 0:16:05.440 --> 0:16:09.720 they're crazy. Yeah, and you know, this candy is a 0:16:09.880 --> 0:16:12.640 nap from twelve thirty to two thirty. 0:16:12.680 --> 0:16:13.800 Are you nuts? 0:16:14.320 --> 0:16:16.960 Wednesday, we try to do the drop off and Ben, 0:16:17.480 --> 0:16:19.640 there are other kids there who have just started at 0:16:19.640 --> 0:16:23.240 the preschool, and they're like whimpering, kind of clinging onto 0:16:23.320 --> 0:16:26.360 their mom or dad, a little bit of tears rolling 0:16:26.400 --> 0:16:30.400 down their cheek. They look depressed. That's not how CoA rolls. 0:16:31.120 --> 0:16:34.520 How can I even describe it? I guess he's a thespian. 0:16:34.840 --> 0:16:39.520 He is a future actor who he made the biggest 0:16:39.520 --> 0:16:43.080 scene at any of these schools. And remember, I've had 0:16:43.160 --> 0:16:45.960 my years at a lot of school campuses, so I've 0:16:46.000 --> 0:16:49.000 seen kids get dropped off for the first time. I've 0:16:49.040 --> 0:16:53.560 seen kids melt down. Oh my god, I wish I 0:16:53.560 --> 0:16:55.320 could act it out. I'm not as good of an 0:16:55.320 --> 0:16:57.720 actor as he is. Or if some of these emotions 0:16:57.760 --> 0:17:00.360 were real, then we're in trouble here because I don't 0:17:00.400 --> 0:17:02.000 know how long he's going to. 0:17:02.000 --> 0:17:06.040 Be at this preschool. He was screaming. 0:17:05.960 --> 0:17:11.879 Mama, no, no, no, Mama no, and clinging onto her leg. 0:17:17.160 --> 0:17:18.160 There's a side gate. 0:17:18.320 --> 0:17:20.840 So when we left and I had to pull Brenda away, 0:17:20.880 --> 0:17:23.600 I'm like, come on, we gotta let him just go. 0:17:23.640 --> 0:17:23.960 Through it. 0:17:24.000 --> 0:17:26.480 He's having a meltdown. But they've you know, I'm sure 0:17:26.520 --> 0:17:28.960 that they've had this happen before, even though we didn't 0:17:28.960 --> 0:17:32.720 see any other kids doing this. So we're getting in 0:17:32.720 --> 0:17:35.000 the car and she goes to the side gate. It's 0:17:35.080 --> 0:17:35.639 like a movie. 0:17:35.720 --> 0:17:35.880 Ben. 0:17:36.000 --> 0:17:37.960 It looked like he was a prisoner trying to reach 0:17:38.000 --> 0:17:42.920 his hand through the gate and he is screaming. 0:17:42.800 --> 0:17:44.600 No, Mama, don't leave. 0:17:44.760 --> 0:17:45.359 No. 0:17:47.000 --> 0:17:50.040 We're driving away from the preschool, and of course Brenda 0:17:50.119 --> 0:17:51.359 is plubbering in the car. 0:17:51.960 --> 0:17:53.399 It has gotten no better. 0:17:53.960 --> 0:17:57.399 Monday Wednesday again, and we held him back this past 0:17:57.440 --> 0:17:59.600 Friday because he was under the weather. Of course, he 0:17:59.760 --> 0:18:02.720 was a week and a half at a daycare or preschool. 0:18:02.720 --> 0:18:04.080 What do you think is going to happen. He's got 0:18:04.080 --> 0:18:05.359 a runny nose and a cold. 0:18:05.800 --> 0:18:08.840 Yeah, it's like a wet market in China. 0:18:08.960 --> 0:18:10.879 It's a lot of oh yeah, you know the college 0:18:11.000 --> 0:18:12.320 kids they have the frat flu. 0:18:12.720 --> 0:18:14.920 Yeah, already he's got the kinder flu. 0:18:15.720 --> 0:18:18.359 The question is, when we get out of this weekend 0:18:18.400 --> 0:18:20.600 and we get back to Monday, is he going to 0:18:20.720 --> 0:18:25.560 keep with the theatrics those meltdowns only intensified. 0:18:26.160 --> 0:18:29.320 Yeah, he'll he'll get over it. It might be a 0:18:29.359 --> 0:18:31.280 month or two before he gets over, but I. 0:18:31.200 --> 0:18:34.680 Guess he settles in after a half hour, calms down 0:18:34.680 --> 0:18:35.600 and he settles in. 0:18:36.080 --> 0:18:37.840 But have you thought about bribing him? Is there a 0:18:37.880 --> 0:18:38.679 way you could bribe him? 0:18:38.720 --> 0:18:40.480 Say if you're you know, you're good today, we'll give 0:18:40.480 --> 0:18:42.359 you something extra after school or something like that. 0:18:42.680 --> 0:18:43.800 They have the mail bag. 0:18:44.320 --> 0:18:48.080 I mentioned that he loves Disney's cars right now and 0:18:48.119 --> 0:18:49.879 he's been collecting all the characters. 0:18:50.119 --> 0:18:52.040 Yeah, so his mom has been trying that. 0:18:52.200 --> 0:18:55.360 He loves those mini cars and she's like, if you're 0:18:55.359 --> 0:18:57.960 good after school, I'll take you to Target to get 0:18:58.000 --> 0:19:02.480 some more minis and he says men. So he's excited 0:19:02.520 --> 0:19:04.840 about that, but it doesn't help at the drop off. 0:19:04.880 --> 0:19:07.840 Like at that drop off, you could tell him Mickey 0:19:07.840 --> 0:19:11.439 Mouse himself is you know there on the playyard, and 0:19:11.480 --> 0:19:14.320 he won't give a shit. He's just when he gets 0:19:14.359 --> 0:19:18.040 focused on something or he's upset about something, that's just it. 0:19:18.680 --> 0:19:19.880 Sure, let's see. 0:19:19.880 --> 0:19:22.040 There's one other picture I'm gonna send you really quick, 0:19:22.080 --> 0:19:25.359 and it's a prison photo. I don't think they intended 0:19:25.359 --> 0:19:27.920 it to be a prison photo. The picture they took 0:19:28.000 --> 0:19:31.000 of him on the playyard to put at his cubby 0:19:33.520 --> 0:19:35.439 and it looks like a mug shot. 0:19:35.680 --> 0:19:36.240 Yes, it does. 0:19:36.440 --> 0:19:41.200 It appears that he has been arrested. He is being processed. 0:19:41.200 --> 0:19:46.760 Did they take his fingerprints? What was his crime, Danny? 0:19:46.880 --> 0:19:47.800 His crime. 0:19:50.760 --> 0:19:53.800 Like you raised hell here for the first hour. Yeah, 0:19:53.800 --> 0:19:55.919 it looked like he did some hard time, like some 0:19:55.960 --> 0:19:58.399 hard labor that day, chain gang. 0:19:58.840 --> 0:20:00.560 It is holding up what a period? Is that an 0:20:00.600 --> 0:20:02.920 orange he's holding up or an orange ball? I can't 0:20:03.280 --> 0:20:05.919 He's holding something up with his right hand. I'm not 0:20:05.960 --> 0:20:07.920 sure what that is, but that that does look like 0:20:07.960 --> 0:20:08.520 a muckshot. 0:20:08.560 --> 0:20:10.840 That's funny. I think it's the gag that they took 0:20:10.880 --> 0:20:15.240 out of his mouth. That's hilarious. 0:20:15.760 --> 0:20:17.880