WEBVTT - The Fifth Hour: Finger Ammo & Golf Sh*t! 0:00:00.680 --> 0:00:01.440 Kutbooms. 0:00:02.279 --> 0:00:05.360 If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes 0:00:05.400 --> 0:00:09.200 a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants 0:00:09.200 --> 0:00:12.480 of the old republic, a sol fashion of fairness. He 0:00:12.560 --> 0:00:15.480 treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the 0:00:15.600 --> 0:00:19.440 rich pill poppers in the penthouse. Wow to a clearinghouse 0:00:19.480 --> 0:00:23.200 of hot takes, break free for something special. The Fifth 0:00:23.200 --> 0:00:30.680 Hour with Ben Maller starts right now. 0:00:28.960 --> 0:00:33.520 In the air everywhere. The Fifth Hour with Me, Ben 0:00:33.560 --> 0:00:36.920 Mahler and Danny G Radio A Happy Saturday to you. 0:00:37.120 --> 0:00:39.320 It is the what are we looking at? The sixteenth 0:00:39.440 --> 0:00:43.760 day today? The sixteenth day of August, and we were 0:00:43.800 --> 0:00:45.800 just a few weeks away from the start of the 0:00:45.840 --> 0:00:50.720 real NFL season. And no, I am not partaking in 0:00:50.800 --> 0:00:55.200 these exhibition games this weekend. I'm not. But that being said, 0:00:55.240 --> 0:00:58.760 it is national Danny G is National roller Coaster Day today. 0:00:58.760 --> 0:01:00.360 Are you a roller coaster guy? We we've had this 0:01:00.400 --> 0:01:02.760 conversation before. I feel like we've talked about this on. 0:01:02.840 --> 0:01:05.440 That Yeah, yeah, yeah, we talked about this just a 0:01:05.480 --> 0:01:08.360 couple of weekends ago. I love that one roller coaster 0:01:08.440 --> 0:01:09.200 in San Diego. 0:01:09.959 --> 0:01:13.360 Okay, all right, yeah, you mentioned SeaWorld rights turned into 0:01:13.400 --> 0:01:16.199 a roller coaster place, now, right, that's yeah. 0:01:16.240 --> 0:01:18.520 They had people picketing outside their park. 0:01:19.600 --> 0:01:22.240 I don't know what was that. Ten fifteen years ago. 0:01:22.280 --> 0:01:27.320 People were up in arms when that documentary came out. Remember, yeah, 0:01:27.440 --> 0:01:31.360 Shamou and the others being bent up and mistreated, and 0:01:32.319 --> 0:01:35.840 lots of questions about that. And so a couple of 0:01:36.000 --> 0:01:40.240 changes SeaWorld made was they were only going to rehabilitate 0:01:40.800 --> 0:01:43.880 sea creatures and not you know, just keep them captive 0:01:43.920 --> 0:01:47.680 for people's entertainment. Only because of that, they had to 0:01:47.720 --> 0:01:49.760 shift gears and go in a different direction. And so 0:01:49.800 --> 0:01:53.200 they started adding roller coasters and rides to their park. 0:01:53.240 --> 0:01:55.600 And man, they got a couple of really good roller 0:01:55.600 --> 0:01:56.320 coasters there. 0:01:56.680 --> 0:01:59.200 That's cool. That's cool. I went to SeaWorld a couple 0:01:59.280 --> 0:02:01.560 times when I was a kid. There were two things 0:02:01.600 --> 0:02:04.760 I remember about my trips to sea World. One, my 0:02:04.880 --> 0:02:09.480 dear old mom was hit in the head with bird 0:02:09.560 --> 0:02:11.919 crap A bird crapped on my mom's head. She was 0:02:12.040 --> 0:02:14.560 very upset by that. Next thing, I know, I just 0:02:14.639 --> 0:02:18.120 saw this white thing flying at my face. It ruined 0:02:18.120 --> 0:02:22.280 the whole day. And then I also remember seeing Shamoo, 0:02:22.480 --> 0:02:26.000 the famous Shamoo who's right up there with Elvis and 0:02:26.040 --> 0:02:28.280 some of the all time legends, and then getting a 0:02:28.280 --> 0:02:30.600 little shamoo stuffy. When I was a kid, I remember 0:02:30.600 --> 0:02:32.840 that at the world that was a big thing for 0:02:33.080 --> 0:02:35.880 good stuffy, right, yeah, yeah, I think I don't know 0:02:36.200 --> 0:02:39.720 who knows? I did learn because it's National roller Coaster 0:02:39.800 --> 0:02:41.520 Day and I have to provide a fun fact for 0:02:41.600 --> 0:02:44.760 alf and ferg Dog and those guys. Do you know 0:02:45.400 --> 0:02:49.200 the first roll the first country to have a roller coaster? 0:02:49.960 --> 0:02:50.720 What do you think it was? 0:02:50.800 --> 0:02:55.240 Danny? The first country that, according to documentation, to have 0:02:55.280 --> 0:02:58.120 a roller coaster? What do you they do? Do do? 0:03:00.240 --> 0:03:03.320 It's a strange question I ever thought about anything. Yeah, exactly, 0:03:03.400 --> 0:03:04.360 It's an odd question. 0:03:04.480 --> 0:03:04.720 Yeah. 0:03:05.120 --> 0:03:07.240 I thought I'm going to thought it was America. I 0:03:07.320 --> 0:03:08.079 thought America. 0:03:08.160 --> 0:03:09.880 So my guess was I'm going to say, I'm going 0:03:09.960 --> 0:03:10.720 to say the UK? 0:03:11.280 --> 0:03:13.320 The UK? All right? That makes sense a lot of 0:03:13.320 --> 0:03:16.320 things in the UK, right, Yeah, US built by people 0:03:16.320 --> 0:03:19.520 that left the UK and wanted less taxes, so now 0:03:19.520 --> 0:03:24.919 we have all the taxes. No. According to the documented history, 0:03:24.960 --> 0:03:32.640 the first roller coaster appeared in the fifteen hundreds in Russia. Russia. Russia. 0:03:33.040 --> 0:03:37.800 Russian roller coasters were made of wood with icy rams 0:03:38.160 --> 0:03:38.720 on which. 0:03:38.520 --> 0:03:40.400 People can have fun for three minutes. 0:03:41.320 --> 0:03:44.680 I get some ghoula, And so that was in the 0:03:44.680 --> 0:03:46.960 fifteen hundreds, but it was like a couple hundred years 0:03:47.000 --> 0:03:50.040 later the history. How about, how about you were a 0:03:50.120 --> 0:03:52.800 historian of the roller coaster? How do you end up 0:03:52.880 --> 0:03:57.480 in that gig Anyway, In the seventeen hundreds in Russia, 0:03:57.520 --> 0:04:01.320 the early roller coasters were such a hit that wheels 0:04:02.080 --> 0:04:06.280 were then added to the carts so people could continue 0:04:06.320 --> 0:04:07.920 to ride during the summer, because they only had them 0:04:07.960 --> 0:04:10.160 during the winter, because it was like a winter thing. 0:04:10.840 --> 0:04:12.880 It was kind of like what we'd call sledding, but 0:04:12.920 --> 0:04:15.119 they called it a roller coaster, and so they put 0:04:15.200 --> 0:04:17.640 wheels on them in the seventeen hundreds so people could 0:04:17.720 --> 0:04:20.280 ride even during the summer months, that one month of 0:04:20.279 --> 0:04:22.159 the year where the weather's pretty good. But the real 0:04:22.279 --> 0:04:25.919 golden age of the coaster, the golden age of the 0:04:25.960 --> 0:04:30.880 coaster was the early nineteen hundreds, and really like the 0:04:30.960 --> 0:04:35.919 nineteen teens, the Great Depression in America and Coney Island 0:04:36.440 --> 0:04:40.640 in Brooklyn, there were innovations and all kinds of things. 0:04:40.640 --> 0:04:43.120 So I mean, there's a bunch of coasters all over 0:04:43.160 --> 0:04:45.840 the place now, but so there you go Russia, Mother 0:04:45.960 --> 0:04:49.280 Russia and the fifteen hundreds, and then the Great Depression 0:04:50.040 --> 0:04:53.120 led to amazing, amazing fun. 0:04:53.920 --> 0:04:55.880 I think you mentioned in the past that you don't 0:04:55.920 --> 0:04:58.880 fit on a lot of the roller coasters, But have 0:04:59.000 --> 0:05:02.159 you ever been to Mountain in Valencia, California. 0:05:02.920 --> 0:05:06.520 I have not. I have not spent time at matt 0:05:06.600 --> 0:05:08.599 I've driven by it a bunch. I've not gone because, 0:05:08.880 --> 0:05:10.960 as you said, I don't fit. I don't even fit 0:05:11.000 --> 0:05:14.120 on Space Mountain. I can't imagine going on those. You're 0:05:14.160 --> 0:05:16.599 going north on the five. You go buy Magic Mountain, 0:05:16.600 --> 0:05:20.080 and these things are insane. It's like there are mountains 0:05:20.120 --> 0:05:22.520 of roller coaster but I've never never gone because I 0:05:22.520 --> 0:05:25.160 figured if I can't fit on Space Mountain at Disneyland, 0:05:25.160 --> 0:05:27.200 I'm not going to un stuff at Magic Mountain. 0:05:27.760 --> 0:05:30.280 I don't know if it's still open. It might it 0:05:30.360 --> 0:05:33.040 might be closed unless they renovated it. But it was 0:05:33.080 --> 0:05:36.719 an old wooden roller coaster. I'm going to have to 0:05:36.760 --> 0:05:40.040 look that up. But it's a big white wooden structure. 0:05:40.600 --> 0:05:43.279 Racist it looks. 0:05:42.920 --> 0:05:45.720 Awesome and you hear people screaming on it. Then you 0:05:45.800 --> 0:05:48.560 go on it and you realize everyone's screaming because their 0:05:48.600 --> 0:05:54.640 back is hurting. It's sticky, and yeah, because it's a 0:05:54.680 --> 0:05:57.680 wood roller coaster. Oh my god, that thing shakes you 0:05:57.760 --> 0:06:00.400 from side to side. And when you get off, there's 0:06:00.680 --> 0:06:05.679 a chiropractor's office representative standing outside handing out business cards. 0:06:05.920 --> 0:06:08.040 And is that where they came up with the billboard? 0:06:08.080 --> 0:06:08.719 Who hurt You? 0:06:08.960 --> 0:06:09.279 Is that? 0:06:09.560 --> 0:06:12.720 Is that right there? Right there? Who hurt you? When 0:06:12.720 --> 0:06:17.280 you're leaving Magic Mountain? So on this podcast we have 0:06:17.360 --> 0:06:21.120 give me liberty and give me chicken fingers some golf shit? 0:06:21.760 --> 0:06:23.520 Are you allowed to say that? Oh? 0:06:23.520 --> 0:06:26.840 I did? I just it's a podcast, Yes, I get yes, 0:06:26.960 --> 0:06:30.080 all right, So I'll begin with it. So, my my son, Patrick, 0:06:30.120 --> 0:06:32.640 who was if you followed along on this podcast, is 0:06:32.640 --> 0:06:36.920 now officially a United States Marine, graduated from boot camp 0:06:37.720 --> 0:06:41.160 not that long ago in San Diego. And he walked 0:06:41.160 --> 0:06:47.000 across the deck there the famous military based Marine training 0:06:47.040 --> 0:06:50.600 center there in San Diego. Now that was you know, 0:06:50.680 --> 0:06:52.320 that was big. That was a big deal, right, It 0:06:52.400 --> 0:06:54.800 was you know, lump in the throats type stuff, and 0:06:54.839 --> 0:06:56.719 you know, big day in someone's life. And then you know, 0:06:56.720 --> 0:07:01.480 he graduate from marine boot camp. And so this past weekend, 0:07:02.279 --> 0:07:04.920 and I had mentioned this to you Danny in passing, 0:07:04.920 --> 0:07:07.080 But this past weekend it was something a little different. 0:07:07.640 --> 0:07:14.000 He's currently at Infantry School, and so he's at Camp Pendleton, which, 0:07:14.080 --> 0:07:18.040 if you're not familiar, is this massive stretch of military land. 0:07:18.200 --> 0:07:20.960 If you're not from southern California, if you drive between 0:07:21.160 --> 0:07:26.440 La and San Diego, there's about seemingly twenty miles which 0:07:26.480 --> 0:07:28.920 is just a military base, and you know, you drive 0:07:28.960 --> 0:07:31.560 through and you're like, wow, yeah, yeah, you see the 0:07:31.600 --> 0:07:35.240 shooting ranges and all the practice, yeah buildings, it looks 0:07:35.280 --> 0:07:38.440 pretty cool. And it's like every time I've driven by there, 0:07:38.440 --> 0:07:40.560 and I used to work in San Diego, so I 0:07:40.600 --> 0:07:43.400 drove by there quite a bit and you're like, what 0:07:43.440 --> 0:07:46.600 are they actually doing there? It turns out they do 0:07:46.680 --> 0:07:49.680 a lot. They do a lot. Now I've been told 0:07:49.680 --> 0:07:52.080 I can't get into too many specifics, of course, because 0:07:52.120 --> 0:07:54.520 I don't want to knock on the door Danny from 0:07:54.560 --> 0:07:56.520 someone like they'd be worried about what I say on 0:07:56.560 --> 0:07:59.520 this stupid podcast. I don't want to be accused of 0:07:59.600 --> 0:08:04.000 harboring you know something. But I can tell you stuff 0:08:04.040 --> 0:08:08.760 that is readily available. For example, I can tell you 0:08:08.800 --> 0:08:13.680 that Camp Pendleton is ginormous Danny. In fact, I was 0:08:13.800 --> 0:08:16.080 driving around it. I'll explain why in a second. But 0:08:16.480 --> 0:08:20.280 two hundred square miles. It's estimated there are five hundred 0:08:20.360 --> 0:08:25.400 miles of roads on Camp Pendleton. You could hide, yes, 0:08:26.000 --> 0:08:29.040 you could hide, no idea. I didn't either. I had 0:08:29.120 --> 0:08:31.480 no idea. I just saw the stretch between La and 0:08:31.520 --> 0:08:34.680 San Diego, like through things, so you could you literally 0:08:34.760 --> 0:08:37.440 almost put Rhode Island in there and have room for Delaware. 0:08:37.440 --> 0:08:38.160 It's that big. 0:08:38.679 --> 0:08:40.760 That must be so cool to see that from the 0:08:41.080 --> 0:08:41.720 from the air. 0:08:42.520 --> 0:08:45.720 Uh yeah, yeah, So I've I've driven past it. Shot 0:08:45.800 --> 0:08:48.920 down but they kill you. So I've driven past it 0:08:49.040 --> 0:08:51.559 hundreds of times literally over the years. We've all done it, Danny, 0:08:51.600 --> 0:08:53.440 you going to San Diego with the family and whatnot, 0:08:53.440 --> 0:08:56.720 and we've made that drive. Uh. And so you know 0:08:56.800 --> 0:08:59.440 back then when I was missing, I never once stopped in. 0:08:59.559 --> 0:09:02.559 I wasn't invited Dan, he didn't invite me to Camp Pendleton. 0:09:02.640 --> 0:09:04.520 I never had a reason to go to Camp Pendleton. 0:09:04.880 --> 0:09:08.520 And so this past weekend, like the kid Patrick, he 0:09:08.600 --> 0:09:13.040 got on Base Liberty. Now, I had no fn idea. 0:09:12.800 --> 0:09:13.360 What that meant. 0:09:13.360 --> 0:09:15.440 I was like, he sent us a text here, I 0:09:15.480 --> 0:09:17.760 got some Liberty. This weekend, but I can only it's 0:09:17.800 --> 0:09:19.400 on Base Liberty. I said, what the F is that? 0:09:20.320 --> 0:09:23.079 So for the uninitiated, like I was that man, I 0:09:23.120 --> 0:09:24.720 know a lot of you guys have been in the military, 0:09:24.720 --> 0:09:26.440 have got family and military, but this is all new 0:09:26.480 --> 0:09:30.719 to me. So it means that he's free to hang out. 0:09:31.000 --> 0:09:33.400 He's not. He doesn't have any work stuff. He can 0:09:33.440 --> 0:09:37.240 hang out with visitors, provided he doesn't actually leave the base. 0:09:37.800 --> 0:09:40.520 He's not allowed to leave the base, which is telling 0:09:40.559 --> 0:09:42.439 a kid, you can eat as much ice cream as 0:09:42.440 --> 0:09:44.440 you want, but only in the freezer aisle at the 0:09:44.440 --> 0:09:46.640 grocery store in Aisle five. You can't go on Aisle six. 0:09:46.720 --> 0:09:48.200 You can't go on Aisle you know. You can't go 0:09:48.240 --> 0:09:49.680 on Aisle four. You got to stay on all five. 0:09:49.920 --> 0:09:53.200 So we drove down into Ocean Side or ocean side 0:09:53.240 --> 0:09:57.120 adjacent there, and you've you've been there. That's Junior se 0:09:57.240 --> 0:10:00.120 I was old town right ocean side back in the day, 0:10:00.440 --> 0:10:04.920 and just a little outpost. It's in between Orange County 0:10:04.960 --> 0:10:08.719 and San Diego. It's a little a little south of 0:10:08.760 --> 0:10:10.520 the San Diego Orange County line. 0:10:11.360 --> 0:10:15.840 It's a bit stop for us because traffic usually it's 0:10:15.880 --> 0:10:18.120 all clogged up right there. So you pull off in 0:10:18.280 --> 0:10:20.560 ocean side to have a little lunch and wait it out. 0:10:20.960 --> 0:10:24.559 Yeah. Yeah, it smells like salt water. There's lots of sunscreen, 0:10:25.000 --> 0:10:28.920 people in good looking people in bikinis, fish tacos, you know, 0:10:28.960 --> 0:10:31.720 the whole thing. And I did not know this, but 0:10:31.800 --> 0:10:34.000 amazing Chicken figures more on that in a minute. So 0:10:34.080 --> 0:10:37.600 getting onto the base, it felt like I was entering 0:10:38.040 --> 0:10:42.880 a different country, like a small sovereign country. And it 0:10:42.960 --> 0:10:46.280 was very clean, very organized. There were housing tracks and 0:10:46.320 --> 0:10:48.640 things like that, and I was like, wow, this is crazy, man, 0:10:49.720 --> 0:10:52.000 and I didn't know where the hell was going. The 0:10:52.040 --> 0:10:54.400 most amazing thing is at the gate, you know, there's 0:10:54.440 --> 0:10:56.720 this military police guy and he looks at your driver's 0:10:56.720 --> 0:10:59.199 license and kind of gives you the run around and stuff. 0:10:59.200 --> 0:11:00.959 And then you're on the base and they don't tell you, hey, 0:11:01.080 --> 0:11:03.160 you can't go here, you can't go there, you can 0:11:03.200 --> 0:11:04.920 only stay here. So we were just like free rein. 0:11:05.000 --> 0:11:09.400 I was like, holy crap. And then they've got an MCX, 0:11:09.440 --> 0:11:15.559 which is the Marine Corps Exchange thing and Patrick, my kid, says, 0:11:15.760 --> 0:11:17.760 he says, hey, he said, hey, this is the size 0:11:17.760 --> 0:11:20.960 of Walmart. And he wasn't wrong, and these things are 0:11:21.000 --> 0:11:23.679 all over. They had the big one on Camp Pendleton's 0:11:23.679 --> 0:11:25.679 like literally the size of going into a Costco or 0:11:25.720 --> 0:11:26.280 a Walmart. 0:11:27.080 --> 0:11:31.760 And oh, forget Kirkland Brand exactly. Maybe we're gonna start 0:11:31.760 --> 0:11:32.640 shopping there. 0:11:32.840 --> 0:11:35.800 Well there's one problem, Danny, there's one problem. So I 0:11:35.840 --> 0:11:38.439 went in there and I'm like, all right, I'm gonna 0:11:38.520 --> 0:11:40.679 you know, they had all the military uniforms and all 0:11:40.720 --> 0:11:42.640 that stuff. This is where the soldiers by their crap, 0:11:42.679 --> 0:11:45.360 and they they had the regular stuff. They had electronics, 0:11:45.400 --> 0:11:48.240 they had regular clothing cities as they call them, and 0:11:48.280 --> 0:11:50.000 all the kinds of house stuff and it was just 0:11:50.040 --> 0:11:54.400 a regular massive store the MCX and I realized I 0:11:54.400 --> 0:11:56.360 wanted to get something, but they didn't want to get 0:11:56.360 --> 0:11:58.320 an air fryer. I already have that. I didn't, you know. 0:11:58.559 --> 0:12:00.760 They weren't getting too big, and I was like, well, 0:12:00.760 --> 0:12:03.360 maybe I'll get some clothing. And then I realized that 0:12:04.320 --> 0:12:07.440 there's really only one thing that I could get, and 0:12:07.520 --> 0:12:11.880 so I bought a pair of socks because that's the 0:12:11.920 --> 0:12:17.080 only thing they sold that fit my body type. It 0:12:17.120 --> 0:12:21.760 turns out, Danny, I don't have a marine body. I'm 0:12:21.800 --> 0:12:25.959 not military grade. Apparently, I'm not built like Rambo. I'm 0:12:25.960 --> 0:12:29.240 built like Rambo's you know, gas bag uncle or something 0:12:29.320 --> 0:12:29.520 like that. 0:12:29.559 --> 0:12:32.760 Who sits So you can't get on roller coasters and 0:12:32.800 --> 0:12:34.920 you can't shop at the exchange there. 0:12:35.760 --> 0:12:38.000 Yeah, in my head, I was. I walked in. My 0:12:38.000 --> 0:12:39.360 eyes were huge. I was say, Oh, this is gonna 0:12:39.360 --> 0:12:41.120 be great, dude. I'm gonna get so much cool stuff. 0:12:41.320 --> 0:12:43.160 You know, it's all tax free because it's on a 0:12:43.160 --> 0:12:47.400 military base and all this. No, I got socks. They're 0:12:47.520 --> 0:12:50.760 nice green military socks, and I assume they'll last for 0:12:50.800 --> 0:12:54.120 a while. So anyway, but they also Danny, they have 0:12:54.200 --> 0:12:56.160 a raising canes on bass. 0:12:56.559 --> 0:12:56.760 Now. 0:12:56.800 --> 0:12:59.719 I mentioned this because Patrick suggests. He said, hey, you 0:12:59.760 --> 0:13:02.080 know we were there. He had liberty, so he come down. 0:13:02.080 --> 0:13:04.160 We'll have lunch. He didn't say where we're gonna have lunch, 0:13:04.280 --> 0:13:06.280 and then he said he suggested that we eat there, 0:13:07.040 --> 0:13:10.000 and I did not protest. Now, we both share a 0:13:10.080 --> 0:13:13.640 neutral love of raising canes, and I had taken him 0:13:14.080 --> 0:13:16.679 there pretty much every week for chunks of his child 0:13:16.720 --> 0:13:20.880 like we would. I would drag his ass to canes 0:13:21.040 --> 0:13:22.720 and so you know, he's all grown up now, so 0:13:22.840 --> 0:13:24.040 I forget happy meals. 0:13:24.080 --> 0:13:25.520 You're getting them box meals. 0:13:25.640 --> 0:13:28.400 Oh No, I was getting the the caneiat combo. Baby, 0:13:28.440 --> 0:13:30.760 that's what Now he's getting the caniat combo. Back then 0:13:30.800 --> 0:13:33.439 it was the box meal. Now some people try to 0:13:33.480 --> 0:13:36.800 trash on canes. Those people are called the dicks. But this, it's, 0:13:36.920 --> 0:13:40.080 you know, shaking finger equivalent of essentially waving the white 0:13:40.160 --> 0:13:43.160 flag that you're not dieting when you eat the caniat combo. 0:13:43.280 --> 0:13:47.960 And it's just amazing. It's a symphony of Texas toast 0:13:48.080 --> 0:13:52.360 the crinkle cut fry. They've got the sauce. I mean, 0:13:53.040 --> 0:13:55.120 you might as well just include a nap in that. 0:13:55.160 --> 0:13:57.400 I'm not really a napper, but anyway, it was great. 0:13:57.400 --> 0:14:00.840 We had that and we said around and we talked 0:14:00.840 --> 0:14:04.520 for a while, my wife, Patrick and me, and he 0:14:04.640 --> 0:14:08.439 regaled us with stories about, you know, his time in 0:14:08.559 --> 0:14:12.000 marine life, and you know, some were funny. Some I'm 0:14:12.040 --> 0:14:15.120 not gonna lie, Danny made made made me think about 0:14:15.200 --> 0:14:20.560 what road have you chosen here? But you know, he's, uh, 0:14:20.760 --> 0:14:22.960 it's his life and you've got to live your own life. 0:14:22.960 --> 0:14:25.640 And you know, I'm happy that that's what he wanted 0:14:25.680 --> 0:14:27.840 to do. And it's a it's great, but it doesn't 0:14:27.840 --> 0:14:29.960 amaze me how much better the food is also on 0:14:29.960 --> 0:14:33.600 the military base. I grew up near two defunct military 0:14:33.680 --> 0:14:37.320 bases in Orange County, in El Toro and Tustin Marine Base, 0:14:38.160 --> 0:14:40.400 and I had some buddies I went to school with 0:14:40.440 --> 0:14:43.760 that were military brat kids, and every now and again 0:14:44.920 --> 0:14:47.320 they would say, hey, hey, Benny, why do you know 0:14:47.600 --> 0:14:50.120 they call me Benji? Actually, Benny, they call me Benji. 0:14:50.400 --> 0:14:52.760 Why don't you come to the to the base. And 0:14:53.280 --> 0:14:55.400 it was always the selling point Danny was, well, get 0:14:55.480 --> 0:14:58.760 some candy because it's tax free, so it's cheaper. 0:14:59.720 --> 0:14:59.880 Right. 0:15:00.000 --> 0:15:02.400 I was a big bit fat kid wants candy, so 0:15:02.920 --> 0:15:05.680 we go to the base. I remember the El Tooral 0:15:05.680 --> 0:15:07.640 Base and they had the general store. It was like, 0:15:07.760 --> 0:15:12.080 let's go to the general store. Bear bones, right. They 0:15:12.120 --> 0:15:14.680 did have a McDonald's on the base, but nothing like 0:15:14.800 --> 0:15:18.840 Camp Pendleton with a store the size of Costco and 0:15:19.680 --> 0:15:23.120 raising canes, and they had I think there was a 0:15:23.120 --> 0:15:28.080 Panda Express I remember correctly. Just crazy. This is a 0:15:28.080 --> 0:15:31.240 new world order, Danny, Yeah, that's the way to do it. 0:15:31.160 --> 0:15:35.600 Man, most definitely. I mean we had ship places down 0:15:35.600 --> 0:15:37.600 the street from where I lived as a little kid. 0:15:38.080 --> 0:15:41.200 I can't imagine having a food court in your neighborhood. 0:15:41.240 --> 0:15:41.880 On your block. 0:15:42.560 --> 0:15:46.000 Oh yeah, it's wild, wild, wild, little crazy. So Benny 0:15:46.040 --> 0:15:47.880 the Baker also made an appearance. That's one of the 0:15:47.960 --> 0:15:51.480 nicknames my wife gave me. Realizing. And we didn't know 0:15:51.600 --> 0:15:56.160 until Friday. We went on last last Saturday, but we 0:15:56.160 --> 0:15:58.680 did not know until Friday night that we would be 0:15:58.720 --> 0:16:01.800 allowed to visit it. So we ran out to the 0:16:01.840 --> 0:16:04.960 store and got you know, we got some brownie stuff 0:16:04.960 --> 0:16:09.080 and I made emergency brownies for for Patrick. Uh And 0:16:09.440 --> 0:16:10.960 let me tell you something, Danny, All right, let me 0:16:10.960 --> 0:16:12.880 tell you I learned something. The Marines. You know, they 0:16:12.960 --> 0:16:14.640 might be big, tough guys, you know, and they eat 0:16:14.760 --> 0:16:16.480 m r s and all that stuff in the field, 0:16:16.760 --> 0:16:20.040 but you put a plate of warm brownies and uh, 0:16:20.160 --> 0:16:23.840 they are like piranha and smelling blood in the water. 0:16:24.360 --> 0:16:28.160 They they mean, they just go for it and uh man. 0:16:28.960 --> 0:16:32.560 Uh So anyway, that was that was it, and it 0:16:32.600 --> 0:16:34.960 was a good day, a little window into his world 0:16:35.000 --> 0:16:37.600 and all that. Laugh. I was really pleased. 0:16:37.600 --> 0:16:37.840 I was. 0:16:37.880 --> 0:16:39.880 I was concerned where we were gonna eat. I was like, 0:16:40.000 --> 0:16:42.720 that's gonna be a crappy meal. Uh, And we ate 0:16:42.760 --> 0:16:45.360 the chicken fingers and it was. It was cool. 0:16:45.400 --> 0:16:47.880 It was a few hours that did I mean your 0:16:47.920 --> 0:16:49.600 feet of them brownies. Did you at least get to 0:16:49.640 --> 0:16:52.600 shoot off a few rounds? Yes, I would have been bartering. 0:16:52.880 --> 0:16:54.040 I toss a few hand grenades. 0:16:54.520 --> 0:16:57.760 Uh No. Also, I'm not a looted of but some 0:16:57.800 --> 0:17:00.960 of the let's just say, Danny. They have several airports 0:17:01.000 --> 0:17:06.280 on Camp Pendleton, several. We drove an hour in Camp 0:17:06.280 --> 0:17:09.760 Pendleton to get to the Canes from where his uh 0:17:10.480 --> 0:17:12.879 where he's living, you know, on dorms. I don't what 0:17:12.960 --> 0:17:15.040 they call him. We drove an hour and we drove 0:17:15.080 --> 0:17:20.680 by severals and barracks. There we was there were some helicopters, Nanny, 0:17:21.240 --> 0:17:26.439 that I believe are worth I can't imagine, I mean, 0:17:26.480 --> 0:17:29.439 the amount of weaponry that are on those helicopters. And 0:17:29.440 --> 0:17:32.119 then just parked out there. I mean it was just 0:17:32.160 --> 0:17:33.200 in I was in awe. 0:17:33.960 --> 0:17:35.160 I love stuff like that. 0:17:35.800 --> 0:17:38.680 Been to a couple of air museums, and man, I 0:17:38.720 --> 0:17:41.800 could walk around and look at missiles and planes and 0:17:41.920 --> 0:17:43.920 jets and helicopters for hours. 0:17:44.200 --> 0:17:46.240 Oh I'm right there too. I mean, you just feel 0:17:46.280 --> 0:17:49.040 more masculine, right, you feel like you're you're you're you're 0:17:49.080 --> 0:17:52.440 the man's man, and it's just it's crazy and it's 0:17:52.880 --> 0:17:54.760 I was like, I can't take a photo. I was, 0:17:54.840 --> 0:17:56.400 I wanted to take a was I can't. I get 0:17:56.400 --> 0:17:57.720 in trouble, you know, I don't want to get in trouble. 0:17:58.040 --> 0:18:00.520 It was wild man. They were the layer, tons of 0:18:00.560 --> 0:18:03.880 them all lined up. There was another airport where they 0:18:03.880 --> 0:18:07.520 had like the big giant cargo plane things and stuff. 0:18:07.560 --> 0:18:10.640 So it was really a cool experience. And hopefully we'll 0:18:11.080 --> 0:18:12.600 I don't know when we'll see him again, and he's 0:18:13.720 --> 0:18:16.760 he's going to be there for a while at Camp Pendleton, Patrick, 0:18:16.840 --> 0:18:20.800 and then at some point he will be finish infantry school, 0:18:20.840 --> 0:18:23.040 he'll be assigned to a permanent base that's not his 0:18:23.119 --> 0:18:28.200 permanent base, somewhere in the world, and then we'll, I 0:18:28.200 --> 0:18:31.280 guess we'll be traveling to Japan or Italy or wherever 0:18:31.320 --> 0:18:32.000 the hell he ends up. 0:18:32.040 --> 0:18:32.479 I don't know. 0:18:32.640 --> 0:18:35.440 So maybe it's going to be exciting to see where 0:18:35.440 --> 0:18:36.119 they put him. 0:18:36.280 --> 0:18:39.840 Maybe he'll just stay there that'll be easy, but probably not. 0:18:40.560 --> 0:18:43.439 And then one thing about Patrick, though he loves chicken fingers, 0:18:43.480 --> 0:18:45.640 but he's not into golf shit, not yet. But when 0:18:45.680 --> 0:18:47.560 he gets older, maybe he'll be into golf shop. 0:18:47.840 --> 0:18:52.440 Well possibly, he'll probably get to retire at a decent age, right. 0:18:52.760 --> 0:18:55.199 I would think I don't want old guys in the Marines. Right, 0:18:55.240 --> 0:18:56.680 you got to get out by a certain age. 0:18:56.960 --> 0:18:59.280 Yeah, he'll be a high ranking officer and he'll have 0:18:59.359 --> 0:19:04.840 plenty of time to go golf. Now, u's being lifelong broadcasters. 0:19:05.400 --> 0:19:07.040 I don't know about you, but I've only picked up 0:19:07.080 --> 0:19:08.760 golf clubs a couple of times. 0:19:09.880 --> 0:19:13.600 My experience with golf is limited. I've played it a 0:19:13.640 --> 0:19:15.760 few times. I used to have some clubs. I never 0:19:15.840 --> 0:19:19.120 played it. I've gone for social events over the years. 0:19:19.160 --> 0:19:21.760 There's been a few radio gigs where they said, hey, 0:19:21.800 --> 0:19:25.040 let's go out and have golf with the sponsors. And 0:19:25.960 --> 0:19:28.159 we did one with Fox Sports Radio a couple of 0:19:28.240 --> 0:19:30.760 years back before the pandemic. I remember that it was 0:19:30.800 --> 0:19:33.080 the last time I played golf. That's like six years ago. 0:19:34.200 --> 0:19:36.399 Did you embarrass yourself or did you play? Okay? 0:19:36.600 --> 0:19:39.359 I absolutely embarrassed myself. Yeah, they there were some of 0:19:39.400 --> 0:19:42.160 those old NFL players. There's some guy I forget his name. 0:19:42.160 --> 0:19:46.800 He works at the NFL network. Every time I run 0:19:46.840 --> 0:19:49.760 into him, he says he tells everyone at the NFL 0:19:49.800 --> 0:19:52.919 network how bad a golfer I am? Like I hit 0:19:53.000 --> 0:19:56.560 a chair like I'm let's screw you, Bucky Brooks. Yeah, 0:19:56.600 --> 0:19:58.600 there you go. You know you know who it was, 0:19:58.640 --> 0:20:02.840 Bucky book And Yeah. So I wish I was more 0:20:02.880 --> 0:20:06.160 into golf because I feel like I would have been 0:20:06.400 --> 0:20:09.040 more successful in radio. Not that I haven't been successful, 0:20:09.040 --> 0:20:11.119 but I feel like if you're good at golf, that's 0:20:11.119 --> 0:20:13.359 where you go out there and you schmooze and a 0:20:13.359 --> 0:20:16.600