WEBVTT - The Fifth Hour: Silenced Thumper 0:00:00.720 --> 0:00:01.480 Kutbooms. 0:00:02.320 --> 0:00:05.400 If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes 0:00:05.440 --> 0:00:09.200 a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants 0:00:09.200 --> 0:00:12.479 of the old Republic, a soul fashion of fairness. He 0:00:12.600 --> 0:00:15.520 treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the 0:00:15.640 --> 0:00:17.480 rich pill poppers in the penthouse. 0:00:18.079 --> 0:00:18.400 Wow. 0:00:18.600 --> 0:00:22.320 The Clearinghouse of Hot takes break free for something special. 0:00:22.680 --> 0:00:30.640 The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now. 0:00:28.960 --> 0:00:34.320 In the air everywhere. The Fifth Hour with Me, Ben 0:00:34.400 --> 0:00:37.920 Maler and Danny g Radio. Who is away but you 0:00:38.000 --> 0:00:40.280 got me hanging out with you on this Saturday morning. 0:00:41.320 --> 0:00:45.800 We record this early on Saturday, and then you listen 0:00:45.840 --> 0:00:48.840 whenever the f you want on the twenty seventh day 0:00:48.960 --> 0:00:52.760 of June, giving you fresh audio. This is not the 0:00:52.800 --> 0:00:56.800 original Recipe podcast. This is the Extra Crispy, Extra Spicy Podcast. 0:00:57.160 --> 0:01:02.760 Oh so, there were a couple of stories yesterday that 0:01:03.240 --> 0:01:06.800 would have made great Malard monologues, but I didn't do 0:01:06.840 --> 0:01:10.080 the show last night in the overnight. So the one 0:01:10.120 --> 0:01:12.600 that really popped up and I thought, oh man, that 0:01:12.640 --> 0:01:15.920 would have been great. We have the rest of the story. 0:01:16.120 --> 0:01:21.320 Remember the player on the Diamondbacks, Coutell Marte, who there 0:01:21.360 --> 0:01:26.199 was a fan in Chicago suspended for an indefinite period 0:01:26.240 --> 0:01:30.880 of time from every Major League ballpark, and the Internet 0:01:31.040 --> 0:01:34.160 was convinced that this fan had said the most vile 0:01:34.360 --> 0:01:40.119 thing imaginable about Coatel Marte's mother that caused him to cry. 0:01:41.200 --> 0:01:43.679 So I saw this yesterday and I was like, well, 0:01:44.520 --> 0:01:48.560 I mean, what are we doing here? So the White 0:01:48.560 --> 0:01:50.240 Sox were playing the diamond Backs. If you if you 0:01:50.240 --> 0:01:53.000 didn't see this, maybe you missed it. So he was. 0:01:53.880 --> 0:01:56.400 The story was he was being taunted by a Chicago 0:01:56.440 --> 0:02:00.520 White Sox fan, and his mother had died in a 0:02:00.560 --> 0:02:04.040 car accident in the Dominican a number of years ago. 0:02:04.040 --> 0:02:06.640 I think I've been about eight ten years something like that. 0:02:06.680 --> 0:02:11.120 I think it's eight years. And so this twenty two 0:02:11.200 --> 0:02:15.840 year old Jabbroni was given an indefinite band by the 0:02:15.880 --> 0:02:18.560 White Sox in Major League Baseball because of what he 0:02:18.600 --> 0:02:20.760 had said. And nobody knew what he had said, but 0:02:20.760 --> 0:02:23.520 people were assuming that it was the worst thing ever. 0:02:23.960 --> 0:02:30.359 And Marte did an interview and explained what happened. And 0:02:30.600 --> 0:02:33.520 when he was done explaining what happened, everyone had the 0:02:33.520 --> 0:02:37.520 same reaction. They're like, holy f what are you driving 0:02:37.600 --> 0:02:41.320 a mister softy truck, like, what are you doing? So 0:02:41.360 --> 0:02:44.320 he said, in the seventh inning, he came to bat, 0:02:44.400 --> 0:02:46.840 he was at the plate. He heard a fan shouting 0:02:46.840 --> 0:02:49.120 at the top of the dugout and this is a 0:02:49.160 --> 0:02:52.320 quart I'm reading a quote here from Katel Marte the Diamondbacks, 0:02:52.320 --> 0:02:55.000 he said. Quote he yelled at me, saying stuff about 0:02:55.040 --> 0:02:57.520 my mom. He was like, I sent your mom a 0:02:57.639 --> 0:03:02.640 text last night, and that is what triggered him to cry, 0:03:03.919 --> 0:03:09.280 which is for that reaction, for him to cry, that's 0:03:09.320 --> 0:03:13.760 one thing, But then for Baseball to decide that that 0:03:13.919 --> 0:03:17.200 is worthy of an indefinite banishment from every ballpark in 0:03:17.200 --> 0:03:20.360 the major leagues, like, what are you doing? My god? 0:03:21.440 --> 0:03:28.480 I mean, that is unreal. What an overreaction by everyone involved, 0:03:28.840 --> 0:03:33.160 by everyone involved, just just ridiculous. Anyway, I saw, I 0:03:33.200 --> 0:03:36.600 saw that. You gotta be kidding me. And then I 0:03:36.760 --> 0:03:42.200 was not watching the NHL Draft because I'm anti draft 0:03:42.200 --> 0:03:46.119 and I didn't have to do a talk show on Friday, 0:03:46.160 --> 0:03:49.360 you know, Friday night into Saturday here, so I didn't 0:03:49.400 --> 0:03:51.080 have to talk show, so I didn't watch the draft. 0:03:51.520 --> 0:03:54.080 So I keep getting these messages on my phone. You've 0:03:54.080 --> 0:03:55.760 got to turn this on. Are you watching the draft? 0:03:55.760 --> 0:03:57.840 I'm not buying. I'm text back, I'm not watching the draft. 0:03:57.880 --> 0:03:59.520 Why when I watch the draft, I'm off tonight. I 0:03:59.520 --> 0:04:01.720 don't talk about it. And even if I was on, 0:04:01.760 --> 0:04:04.640 I probably wouldn't talk about it anyway. So a couple 0:04:04.680 --> 0:04:07.440 of my buddies, one lives on the East coast, the 0:04:07.480 --> 0:04:10.520 other on the West coast, and they were both texting me, 0:04:10.840 --> 0:04:13.280 and it wasn't Eddie. By the way, it wasn't Eddie. 0:04:14.160 --> 0:04:16.000 And so they're texting me, is like, you gotta watch this. 0:04:16.000 --> 0:04:21.320 This is so bad. And so after like the fifth message, 0:04:22.320 --> 0:04:30.400 I flipped it on my phone. Holy crap, Holy crap. Wow. Now, 0:04:30.880 --> 0:04:34.279 I know you're supposed to try new things. I get that. 0:04:35.760 --> 0:04:37.720 Don't you have to vet them a little bit? Don't 0:04:37.720 --> 0:04:41.200 you have to try to try to do some market research? 0:04:41.279 --> 0:04:44.920 And my god, So I'm gonna try to describe this 0:04:46.160 --> 0:04:49.400 as best I can. And I did not see did 0:04:49.400 --> 0:04:52.400 not see the beginning of it, and I did not 0:04:52.560 --> 0:04:56.600 see the end of it because I didn't stick around. 0:04:56.720 --> 0:05:00.480 I only saw a couple of picks. I saw the 0:05:00.920 --> 0:05:03.559 Boston Bruins pick I think, which was the seventh pick, 0:05:03.640 --> 0:05:07.440 and I watched a couple of selections, and I guess 0:05:07.520 --> 0:05:13.159 the draft was in in Los Angeles. I wonder if 0:05:13.240 --> 0:05:15.359 Eddie went. Maybe Eddie went to the draft. I don't know. 0:05:15.360 --> 0:05:17.720 But they had this thing called the NHL Draft House, 0:05:19.000 --> 0:05:26.920 which is I mean, it was just forced awkward, cringe worthy. 0:05:27.720 --> 0:05:33.159 It was a boone doggle, a boone doggle where even 0:05:33.240 --> 0:05:37.680 people that like hockey, like, I'm casual with hockey, right, 0:05:37.680 --> 0:05:39.680 I like the Stanley Cup Final. I'll watch a game 0:05:39.720 --> 0:05:42.719 every now and again, but I don't watch too much hockey. 0:05:42.760 --> 0:05:45.719 I don't. I used to cover hockey and I was 0:05:45.760 --> 0:05:47.760 there every night and I enjoyed it. People were very 0:05:47.839 --> 0:05:52.520 nice to me. But I've moved on. So they had 0:05:52.520 --> 0:05:56.160 this thing called the Draft House where they did interviews 0:05:57.320 --> 0:06:02.599 and it was on zoom and it just was way 0:06:03.600 --> 0:06:08.000 way to too cringe worthy. 0:06:08.960 --> 0:06:09.080 Uh. 0:06:09.279 --> 0:06:12.240 So the draft was at the some place in LA 0:06:12.800 --> 0:06:17.560 and you had Gary Bettman, you had the broadcasters, and 0:06:17.600 --> 0:06:20.240 then you had several of the top players like they 0:06:20.440 --> 0:06:23.000 had draft. So then then a player was in the 0:06:23.080 --> 0:06:25.240 When when a player was there, and a lot of 0:06:25.279 --> 0:06:27.919 them were, he would go on stage and do a 0:06:28.040 --> 0:06:32.360 zoom interview with members of the new team's front office. 0:06:33.440 --> 0:06:35.400 And in theory it's like, oh, this is great. We're 0:06:35.400 --> 0:06:37.160 going to take you behind the scenes and see how 0:06:37.200 --> 0:06:43.640 everything works in execution. My god, it's like, don't ever, 0:06:44.600 --> 0:06:49.200 don't ever do that again. And so apparently it started awkward. 0:06:49.240 --> 0:06:52.840 I didn't see the beginning of it, and I tuned in. 0:06:52.920 --> 0:06:55.040 I said, oh, yeah, you're right. I text back, I said, 0:06:55.080 --> 0:06:56.880 all right, you're you're correct that. I mean, there were 0:06:57.000 --> 0:07:00.160 technical issues, but watch and McCall it wasn't work and 0:07:00.240 --> 0:07:02.640 the thing of ajig didn't work, so there were issues 0:07:02.680 --> 0:07:07.640 on that, and then just the just really unnecessary, really 0:07:07.760 --> 0:07:13.120 really unnecessary. So you tried something new, it didn't work. 0:07:13.160 --> 0:07:16.200 We'll just pretend it didn't happen and change it up. 0:07:16.840 --> 0:07:20.560 My goodness, Yeah, what else? Toda s all right? Ron 0:07:20.680 --> 0:07:24.120 Washington another baseball story. He's out, Well, he's not out 0:07:24.160 --> 0:07:27.360 as Angels manager. Does anyone think Ron Washington's gonna return 0:07:27.560 --> 0:07:31.160 as Angel manager? Everyone in baseball loves the guy. The 0:07:31.200 --> 0:07:33.280 baseball writers can't say enough good things about him. He's 0:07:33.280 --> 0:07:37.520 a great storyteller. People in baseball love him. Ron Washington 0:07:38.040 --> 0:07:40.760 had been the Angels manager. He had some kind of 0:07:40.800 --> 0:07:44.400 health problem. He took a leave of absence this week 0:07:44.480 --> 0:07:46.440 and now the Angels have announced he will not be 0:07:46.560 --> 0:07:52.840 returning that that's it. He's done for this year and 0:07:53.120 --> 0:07:57.880 he will be Gonzo Gonzo Gonzo Gonzo for the rest 0:07:57.920 --> 0:08:01.320 of the year and at age seventy three, will he 0:08:01.480 --> 0:08:06.240 be back on this podcast though. Getting into the meat 0:08:06.280 --> 0:08:11.800 of the matter, we have the Military Education Silence, Thumper Sherlock, Pizza, 0:08:12.280 --> 0:08:16.680 and the phrase of the week. We'll begin with this now. 0:08:17.080 --> 0:08:22.520 A heartfelt thank you to every man, woman and child 0:08:22.520 --> 0:08:26.000 that reached out a lot of great feedback. I told 0:08:26.040 --> 0:08:29.880 my story last week about my son who's gone to 0:08:29.920 --> 0:08:32.280 boot camp and now out of boot camp and joined 0:08:32.320 --> 0:08:36.000 the United States Marines, and I always knew we had 0:08:36.040 --> 0:08:41.000 a lot of military families and ex military veterans and 0:08:41.440 --> 0:08:44.360 active military that were fans of the show and part 0:08:44.360 --> 0:08:47.480 of our group, you know, the malad militia, but you 0:08:47.559 --> 0:08:51.720 don't really know until you know you tell this story. 0:08:51.760 --> 0:08:55.520 And so many people reached out, from military guys, gals, 0:08:56.320 --> 0:08:58.760 people that are fans of Fox Sports Radio that listen 0:08:58.800 --> 0:09:01.560 to the Overnight. I heard from people that used to 0:09:01.600 --> 0:09:03.480 work the day shift, or it used to work the 0:09:03.559 --> 0:09:05.240 night shift, they're now on the day shift, the dreaded 0:09:05.320 --> 0:09:08.280 day shift, and they heard the podcast, and they were 0:09:08.400 --> 0:09:11.640 very excited about that, and so that whole mantra, once 0:09:11.720 --> 0:09:16.600 a marine, always a marine, it does run strong, and 0:09:16.720 --> 0:09:19.640 I did not right back there. When I apologize, I 0:09:19.640 --> 0:09:23.880 get overwhelmed. I get so many messages from Blind Scott 0:09:24.080 --> 0:09:26.600 and a couple of other people that I just give up. 0:09:27.320 --> 0:09:30.440 I know I shouldn't do that, but if you saw 0:09:30.480 --> 0:09:37.080 the volume of mail that I email, it's impossible to 0:09:37.120 --> 0:09:41.000 serve through everything. So I usually start out writing back 0:09:41.040 --> 0:09:43.560 to a few people and then I just say that's it. 0:09:43.640 --> 0:09:47.079 I can't do it. So I hope you will take 0:09:47.280 --> 0:09:50.600 what I'm about to say as a heartfelt tip of 0:09:50.600 --> 0:09:53.400 the headphones, a thank you to you if you did 0:09:53.440 --> 0:09:55.800 reach out to me. I did get your messages, I 0:09:55.840 --> 0:09:59.720 did read them. It was great to hear your story. 0:10:00.679 --> 0:10:02.600 So many of you shared your story, whether you were 0:10:02.600 --> 0:10:06.240 in the Marines years ago, as some hardy veterans who 0:10:06.240 --> 0:10:08.720 were in Vietnam. We had some of those guys called 0:10:08.720 --> 0:10:11.520 the show. Wayne from Missouri, for example, got on the 0:10:11.520 --> 0:10:13.840 air this week who was in Vietnam and told the 0:10:13.880 --> 0:10:16.400 story and I didn't even hear it because my headphones malfunctioned. 0:10:16.440 --> 0:10:20.000 Alf pointed out, Hey, that guy his drill sergeant was 0:10:20.040 --> 0:10:22.240 the guy from you know, Full Metal Jacket or whatever 0:10:22.240 --> 0:10:24.600 they get the guy the famous, most famous drill sergeant 0:10:24.640 --> 0:10:28.240 of all time. So that was cool. Wayne from Missouri 0:10:28.480 --> 0:10:32.320 and several others emailed me and you know, retired guys 0:10:32.360 --> 0:10:36.559 that can't sleep because you got you know whatever, insomnia 0:10:36.679 --> 0:10:38.920 or medical problems, and you listened to the show, and 0:10:39.000 --> 0:10:41.360 so you told me about your experience. Some of you 0:10:41.360 --> 0:10:42.680 guys were not on the Marines, who were in the 0:10:42.760 --> 0:10:45.320 army and other branches of the military, but it was 0:10:45.360 --> 0:10:48.280 wonderful to hear your stories. And some of you guys 0:10:48.280 --> 0:10:50.240 who also have kids in the military, and you were 0:10:50.240 --> 0:10:54.480 telling me how the Marine Corps in particular helped, you know, 0:10:54.600 --> 0:10:58.240 shape the life of your kids. Some of you your 0:10:58.320 --> 0:11:01.160 life as well. I'll give you an example. Some of 0:11:01.280 --> 0:11:03.640 I want to think Dale and Charleston. He sent a 0:11:03.720 --> 0:11:07.920 nice note Mountain Mark, fan of the show. He says, 0:11:07.960 --> 0:11:11.400 congrats on your young man completing book camp. He says, 0:11:11.440 --> 0:11:15.400 what is his mos My son was a radio repairman. 0:11:15.520 --> 0:11:18.200 That's cool, got a great job in tech when he 0:11:18.240 --> 0:11:21.800 got out. The Marines have been a big part of 0:11:21.840 --> 0:11:24.800 his maturation process. Now we have a daughter in law 0:11:24.920 --> 0:11:30.400 and two beautiful grandchildren. That's great, Mazeltov, congratulations mos. Now 0:11:30.440 --> 0:11:35.040 this is military jargon, something I did not know until 0:11:35.760 --> 0:11:41.880 until my guy Patrick joined the Marines, a military occupational specialty. 0:11:42.960 --> 0:11:46.760 And Patrick is going to be back at Camp Pendleton. 0:11:47.559 --> 0:11:52.440 His MOS is infantry. So the infantry is the ground forces, 0:11:53.559 --> 0:11:56.160 and they are you know, we all kind of know, 0:11:56.280 --> 0:11:58.560 even if you're not a military person, what that means. 0:11:58.840 --> 0:12:04.480 You locate, destroy the enemy wherever, anywhere you name it. 0:12:04.720 --> 0:12:09.160 And so by land, by sea, the Marines do it 0:12:09.200 --> 0:12:13.480 all and hopefully will not be needed right all. We 0:12:13.520 --> 0:12:15.600 want a strong military. We don't want to have to 0:12:15.600 --> 0:12:19.400 actually use the military until it's the last option. But 0:12:19.480 --> 0:12:23.800 he is there if the United States Marine Corps need him. 0:12:23.880 --> 0:12:27.600 And from everything I've been told, the infantry is the 0:12:27.640 --> 0:12:31.400 backbone of the Marines, and so he will be right 0:12:31.480 --> 0:12:37.360 in the middle of everything. My military education has been 0:12:37.400 --> 0:12:39.959 ie open. Now, when I grew up, I grew up. 0:12:40.760 --> 0:12:43.920 I'm not from a military family. I did grow up 0:12:44.000 --> 0:12:48.920 surrounded by military brats. I grew up literally in between 0:12:49.040 --> 0:12:52.440 two military bases. I think I told the story last 0:12:53.400 --> 0:12:55.880 last week. When I was a child, there was the 0:12:56.200 --> 0:12:59.160 Marine Corps Air Station El Toro, and then there was 0:12:59.240 --> 0:13:02.240 one in Tustin, which in Orange County, and I was 0:13:02.440 --> 0:13:06.120 literally grew up in the city in between both of them. 0:13:06.559 --> 0:13:08.120 So when I went to school, a lot of my 0:13:08.160 --> 0:13:10.440 classmates were in the military, and I told the story 0:13:10.440 --> 0:13:12.880 about how every once in a while we get to 0:13:12.920 --> 0:13:14.600 go on base and it was like a big deal 0:13:14.600 --> 0:13:16.520 because everything was cheaper because you didn't have to pay 0:13:16.559 --> 0:13:19.840 taxes and we'd buy a crap ton of candy and 0:13:19.880 --> 0:13:21.920 other stuff like that on the base and you felt 0:13:21.960 --> 0:13:24.720 like you were like rich and all that stuff. So 0:13:24.880 --> 0:13:28.720 my military education, though since this has happened recently, I 0:13:28.760 --> 0:13:31.320 had no idea give you a couple examples, okay, and 0:13:31.360 --> 0:13:34.400 I admit I'm naive to it. I had no idea 0:13:35.000 --> 0:13:38.920 that the Marines had to buy their uniforms like it 0:13:39.040 --> 0:13:44.559 comes out of your paycheck. I just assumed the position that, hey, 0:13:44.840 --> 0:13:48.120 you're working for the government, the government's got the money, 0:13:48.240 --> 0:13:51.240 they'll buy you the uniforms. I wonder if it's always 0:13:51.280 --> 0:13:53.880 been like that. I didn't really dig into it too deep, 0:13:53.920 --> 0:13:56.640 but I know for my son, he had to buy 0:13:56.679 --> 0:13:59.360 his uniforms and they take it out of the paycheck. Also, 0:13:59.559 --> 0:14:03.360 I thought, while you're in training, they would pay for 0:14:03.400 --> 0:14:07.880 your food, and no, that's not the case. They have 0:14:07.920 --> 0:14:12.160 to pay for your food while you're you're working. I 0:14:12.200 --> 0:14:15.280 was really surprised by that. I know, with the size 0:14:15.320 --> 0:14:19.240 of the military budget, and I know that when you're 0:14:19.240 --> 0:14:21.320 in the Marines, you're not getting a lot of money 0:14:21.360 --> 0:14:23.320 or any branch in the military. You're not getting rich 0:14:24.000 --> 0:14:27.120 in the military. So I just assumed that one of 0:14:27.120 --> 0:14:30.040 the perks would be, Hey, you're in the military, so 0:14:30.360 --> 0:14:32.440 we'll give you your gear that you're going to use 0:14:33.080 --> 0:14:36.080 for us will take care of it, and then I 0:14:36.120 --> 0:14:38.640 will also take care of your food, at least part 0:14:38.640 --> 0:14:42.080 of your food. But I'm told that is not the case. 0:14:42.520 --> 0:14:47.560 So which is wild. I mean, I'm all for a 0:14:47.600 --> 0:14:51.280 strong military and the I think I looked it up. 0:14:51.320 --> 0:14:56.400 The Department of Defense their military budget in the fiscal 0:14:56.520 --> 0:14:59.480 year twenty twenty five, which we're in right now, eight 0:14:59.600 --> 0:15:07.320 hundred and fifty billion, and they can't even buy the 0:15:07.840 --> 0:15:12.600 like the uniforms. That is wild. It's sixteen percent of 0:15:12.680 --> 0:15:18.120 total federal spending according to the Internet in the United States, 0:15:18.240 --> 0:15:21.440 and that is I know this. I know there's a 0:15:21.480 --> 0:15:23.680 lot of people in the military and the army and 0:15:23.720 --> 0:15:26.880 the Navy and the Air Force and the Space Force 0:15:27.000 --> 0:15:30.880 and the Coast Guard and all that stuff. But man, 0:15:31.000 --> 0:15:33.360 I mean, you think the US spends I think the 0:15:33.440 --> 0:15:36.320 stat I've seen this a few places, so I think 0:15:36.320 --> 0:15:38.760 it's true. If I'm wrong, you can correct me, and 0:15:38.800 --> 0:15:42.880 I know you will. But the US spends more on 0:15:42.960 --> 0:15:46.760 defense than any other country, more than the next ten 0:15:46.880 --> 0:15:53.400 nations combined. So it is extreme. So hey, you live 0:15:53.440 --> 0:15:56.400 and learn, and I didn't know that was the case. 0:15:57.360 --> 0:16:00.000 It is. You got to buy your own, your own stuff. 0:16:01.000 --> 0:16:03.640 So turning the page on that, we did have a 0:16:03.800 --> 0:16:07.880 beach day yesterday. Whether it was great here in California, 0:16:08.040 --> 0:16:10.880 we don't have the heat dome. It's hot, but it's 0:16:10.880 --> 0:16:14.120 not the heat dome. So myself, the wife, the kid, 0:16:14.440 --> 0:16:17.840 kids on some leave time before he goes back, as 0:16:17.840 --> 0:16:20.920 we mentioned, go back to Camp Pendleton, and so we 0:16:20.960 --> 0:16:23.360 went to the beach, had a little family bonding there 0:16:24.280 --> 0:16:27.360 break after boot camp. And so we arrived at the 0:16:27.400 --> 0:16:32.840 beach in SoCal here in Newport, and we had a 0:16:32.920 --> 0:16:38.880 welcoming committee that was there for us. They were all 0:16:38.920 --> 0:16:41.960 about it. Baby. They welcomed us with open arms, and 0:16:42.160 --> 0:16:46.440 not that we wanted this welcome. We were greeted by 0:16:47.160 --> 0:16:53.640 street evangelists, better known by their gangster name the God Squad. 0:16:54.600 --> 0:16:59.360 That's right, the God Squad. Now let me point out 0:17:00.120 --> 0:17:01.720 for those of you in the back of the room 0:17:02.640 --> 0:17:07.480 that we appreciate whatever your religious beliefs are I do. 0:17:08.800 --> 0:17:13.320 We have very happy that everyone bonds. We have one 0:17:13.480 --> 0:17:18.200 common goal on the overnight. Whether you're non religious, whether 0:17:18.240 --> 0:17:25.240 you're atheist, whatever your background is super religious, you do 0:17:25.320 --> 0:17:30.120 you right, live and let live. Generally speaking, the rule 0:17:30.200 --> 0:17:33.240 is just don't you don't have to shove anything down 0:17:33.320 --> 0:17:36.359 my throat or somebody else's throat. You believe what you 0:17:36.400 --> 0:17:40.120 want to believe, and we'll all take care of ourselves 0:17:40.160 --> 0:17:42.920 and all this stuff. So anyway, I arrived at the beach. 0:17:42.960 --> 0:17:46.160 We arrived at the beach, and we were greeted by 0:17:46.240 --> 0:17:51.480 a street evangelist also known as a Jackwagon who was 0:17:51.600 --> 0:17:53.560 out in front. Now the beach is packed, you know, 0:17:53.600 --> 0:17:57.200 it's summer. Kids are out of school, and this God 0:17:57.280 --> 0:18:02.440 Squad guy is out there just next lets evangelizing. We're talking. 0:18:03.040 --> 0:18:05.960 Let me paint the picture for a blind listeners. So 0:18:06.119 --> 0:18:10.760 imagine a like a two by four, but it goes 0:18:10.840 --> 0:18:13.200 up like eight feet in the sky and it's got 0:18:14.119 --> 0:18:18.280 signs from ground all the way up to eight feet 0:18:18.320 --> 0:18:21.359 in the sky and it's you know, repent here. That 0:18:21.400 --> 0:18:24.480 whole thing is repent Jesus, this, that and the other thing. 0:18:25.000 --> 0:18:28.760 It was about eight ten feet tall in the air. 0:18:29.720 --> 0:18:33.600 And if that was not enough, which it wasn't, but wait, 0:18:33.640 --> 0:18:37.400 there's more. The guy had a bullhorn, so that seemed 0:18:37.400 --> 0:18:39.960 to be the problem. That seemed to be the problem. 0:18:40.359 --> 0:18:42.920 If you just hold the sign up, I'm like, there's 0:18:43.000 --> 0:18:45.600 much you can do. But this guy who greeted us 0:18:45.600 --> 0:18:49.879 there the welcoming Committee at the beach, he was he 0:18:49.920 --> 0:18:53.639 was thumping, thumping the Bible. He had the bullhorn and 0:18:53.920 --> 0:18:58.919 shouting his version of the Gospel. And it was going 0:18:59.040 --> 0:19:05.919 well until it didn't go well. And now for the 0:19:06.160 --> 0:19:08.920 rest of the story, well, it was going all right 0:19:09.840 --> 0:19:15.359 until the men in blue arrived and it seems that 0:19:15.440 --> 0:19:19.880 he violated some kind of city code. I didn't get 0:19:19.920 --> 0:19:22.280 into the nitty gritty. I'm not sure exactly what the 0:19:22.359 --> 0:19:27.120 conversation was. All I know is that there were three 0:19:27.200 --> 0:19:30.199 members of law enforcement who had a chit chat with 0:19:30.240 --> 0:19:36.360 this guy from the street evangelist community. He stopped shouting 0:19:36.359 --> 0:19:40.520 and his boorn he carried the sign to his car, 0:19:41.520 --> 0:19:46.640 and he and his friend there were encouraged to move along. 0:19:47.160 --> 0:19:51.920 Move along, now, move along. All the joy of relative 0:19:52.920 --> 0:19:56.920 peace and quiet as you sit there and watch the water, 0:19:58.000 --> 0:20:01.280 the beautiful sky, bright blue sky, the water, the mighty 0:20:01.320 --> 0:20:05.680 Pacific Ocean there, the better ocean. Can we all agree 0:20:05.720 --> 0:20:09.679 on that, like the Atlantic Ocean takes a backseat to 0:20:09.720 --> 0:20:13.920 the Pacific, and it's not really all that close. It's 0:20:13.960 --> 0:20:17.680 not if you do a side by side breakdown, Pacific 0:20:17.760 --> 0:20:21.840 on one side, Atlantic on the other. I've been fortunate and 0:20:21.880 --> 0:20:24.520 I've been to both. Obviously, the Pacific a lot more 0:20:24.560 --> 0:20:29.600 because where I live. But the answer is Pacific and 0:20:29.760 --> 0:20:37.479 any other answer completely completely unacceptable. One thousand percent, one 0:20:37.520 --> 0:20:43.360 thousand percent. All right, turning the page on Hot Ocean 0:20:43.480 --> 0:20:47.919 Talk and we move on to the Great Pizza Caper. 0:20:48.920 --> 0:20:51.640 So let's go back in the hot tub time machine. 0:20:51.960 --> 0:20:54.960 We will go back to the end of the work week, 0:20:55.080 --> 0:20:59.960 the last night of the original Recupe podcast and bar 0:21:00.000 --> 0:21:01.960 working away. They're doing the overnight show. No, I did 0:21:02.000 --> 0:21:04.919 go into the mothership. I went into the mothership. I 0:21:05.040 --> 0:21:09.159 was told there was a time sensitive package that was 0:21:09.200 --> 0:21:15.240 there that was sent in by listener Perito, who was 0:21:15.280 --> 0:21:17.479 a big fan of the show and he wanted us 0:21:17.520 --> 0:21:22.399 to have the gift of Deep Dish Chicago pizza. Now 0:21:22.960 --> 0:21:27.040 I love Chicago pizza, and this was very nice. Had 0:21:27.040 --> 0:21:31.240 it overnighted from the Pizza Place in Chicago, one of 0:21:30.720 --> 0:21:35.000 the famous pizza chains in Chicago, and had it delivered 0:21:35.040 --> 0:21:38.159 to the Mothership. And so there were a couple of 0:21:38.200 --> 0:21:42.080 pies there. As I was told of this, there was 0:21:42.200 --> 0:21:45.320 one for Lorena and one one for me. So there 0:21:45.320 --> 0:21:49.240 were two pies. So I drove in far, far in 0:21:49.480 --> 0:21:52.760 from the north Woods, not normally a night I'm in. 0:21:52.880 --> 0:21:56.640 I was able to move my schedule around and work 0:21:56.680 --> 0:21:59.560 it all out. So I arrived at the studio and 0:21:59.560 --> 0:22:01.960 there there they were. There were the two pizza pies, 0:22:02.000 --> 0:22:04.280 and so I did the show and then they were 0:22:04.280 --> 0:22:07.159 in the freezer. And then on the way out, I 0:22:07.359 --> 0:22:09.880 asked Loraine, I said, well, which one do you want? 0:22:09.920 --> 0:22:13.240 I'm not really picky, and I mean my wife will 0:22:13.280 --> 0:22:16.080 probably end up consuming it, and people at the house 0:22:16.080 --> 0:22:18.280 will consume it. So I said, which one do you want? 0:22:18.480 --> 0:22:20.040 And she said, you know, I don't really care either, 0:22:20.119 --> 0:22:23.320 but I'll take the She said, I'll take the pepperoni. 0:22:23.480 --> 0:22:25.840 I said, okay, fine, you can have the pepperone, no problem. 0:22:26.240 --> 0:22:29.359 So I did the show, packed up my stuff, shot 0:22:29.400 --> 0:22:32.480 the crap with LeVar Arrington and Jonas Knox before their 0:22:32.520 --> 0:22:36.600 show started. For like three minutes we just talked. We 0:22:36.640 --> 0:22:39.480 solve all the world's problems in that three minutes. And 0:22:39.520 --> 0:22:43.560 then I went down the hall and grabbed I opened 0:22:43.560 --> 0:22:47.359 the freezer, I grabbed the pizza and that's it, and 0:22:47.800 --> 0:22:51.639 headed to the malormobile for the long drive back to 0:22:51.720 --> 0:22:56.920 the to the north Woods. So fine, I wake up 0:22:57.080 --> 0:23:00.520 and there are all these messages from Lorena. She's really 0:23:00.560 --> 0:23:03.119 like upset, like what happened? Why would you take the pizza? 0:23:03.840 --> 0:23:06.159 I was my pizza? And she's like and so I 0:23:06.200 --> 0:23:09.240 was like, what is this about? So she thought I 0:23:09.320 --> 0:23:13.640 had taken both pizzas, but I only took one pizza 0:23:13.960 --> 0:23:16.399 because we had a deal. She got the pep I 0:23:16.480 --> 0:23:21.560 got the other one. That's it. So somebody apparently took 0:23:21.600 --> 0:23:24.480 the other pizza because it wasn't there. She said she 0:23:24.720 --> 0:23:26.840 could not find it. It was not in the freezer. 0:23:27.440 --> 0:23:29.720 She thought I had taken it by mistake. I did not. 0:23:29.920 --> 0:23:32.879 I only took one pizza. So now we're trying to 0:23:32.880 --> 0:23:35.080 figure out, well, she's really trying to figure out, like 0:23:35.680 --> 0:23:39.800 where's the other pie? And there's a skeleton crew. You know, 0:23:39.840 --> 0:23:42.840 hardly anyone works in the building, and they can't even 0:23:42.880 --> 0:23:46.560 have live updates overnight, so it's hardly anyone there. And 0:23:46.640 --> 0:23:50.479 it's only a few people, so we're not sure. We 0:23:50.520 --> 0:23:53.840 don't know who took the pizza. Where the pizza went. 0:23:54.280 --> 0:23:57.000 I thought it may have still been in there, but 0:23:57.080 --> 0:24:01.680 just in a different part of the freezer. But Lorraine 0:24:01.760 --> 0:24:03.720 is like na, na, no, she said, it's not there. 0:24:04.280 --> 0:24:08.000 She's had multiple people. Look, she wants to go to 0:24:08.040 --> 0:24:10.840 the cameras, to the security cameras in the kitchen to 0:24:10.880 --> 0:24:14.880 find out who did it. And so, and I did offer. 0:24:14.960 --> 0:24:18.440 I said, listen, I like the pizza. I will give 0:24:18.520 --> 0:24:21.119 you the other pizza. I don't mind, it's not that 0:24:21.119 --> 0:24:24.080 big a deal. But she did not did not respond 0:24:24.119 --> 0:24:29.080 to that, so I'm not sure exactly where that went. Again, 0:24:29.119 --> 0:24:31.200 there's only a few people in the building. There are 0:24:31.400 --> 0:24:35.760 some employees that straddle in from another part of the 0:24:35.800 --> 0:24:41.120 building because there's one vending machine which is on our floor, 0:24:42.520 --> 0:24:46.800 which is I guess the better vending machine. So sometimes 0:24:47.400 --> 0:24:49.560 guys will walk through to go to the vending machine. 0:24:49.680 --> 0:24:53.080 But that would be pretty ballsy just to go into 0:24:53.119 --> 0:24:58.080