WEBVTT - The Fifth Hour: Garage, Gas & Garlic 0:00:00.680 --> 0:00:01.440 Kubbooms. 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 the Clearinghouse 0:00:19.480 --> 0:00:23.200 of hot takes, break free for something special. The Fifth 0:00:23.239 --> 0:00:32.200 Hour with Ben Maller starts right now. 0:00:29.840 --> 0:00:33.720 In the air, Andy. 0:00:33.440 --> 0:00:36.839 Where the Fifth Hour with Me, Ben Maller and Danny 0:00:36.880 --> 0:00:40.200 g Radio. Happy Saturday to you. It's the eighteenth day 0:00:41.080 --> 0:00:46.960 of January and it is on today. The NFL returns 0:00:47.280 --> 0:00:52.640 NFL Playoffs. Four games, well, two games today and two 0:00:52.680 --> 0:00:58.840 games tomorrow, the Texans and the Chiefs in Canza City. Danny, 0:00:58.880 --> 0:01:01.160 that's the first game, and that means that's the least 0:01:01.160 --> 0:01:01.840 attractive game. 0:01:01.840 --> 0:01:01.920 Now. 0:01:01.960 --> 0:01:05.600 I have several friends of mine in Kansas City or. 0:01:05.560 --> 0:01:09.320 Are going to that game today at Arrowhead and they're 0:01:09.400 --> 0:01:14.920 probably already outside the stadium tailgating. It's twenty I think 0:01:14.959 --> 0:01:19.280 the high today is in the twenties. Well, by the 0:01:19.319 --> 0:01:21.480 time they kick off, it's gonna be gonna be in 0:01:21.520 --> 0:01:23.640 the twenties. But it is a Chilead but no snow. 0:01:23.640 --> 0:01:26.040 They've had a lot of snow in Kansas City the 0:01:26.160 --> 0:01:29.200 last couple weeks. But that's the least attractive team, you 0:01:29.200 --> 0:01:31.600 know how, Like in basketball, the Toronto Raptors, if they 0:01:31.640 --> 0:01:34.480 make the playoffs, are always playing or Memphis plays that 0:01:34.640 --> 0:01:37.880 first playoff game in the NBA, because they're not the 0:01:37.920 --> 0:01:40.479 team that people are Toronto the Blue Jays and baseball, 0:01:40.720 --> 0:01:43.759 the Texans are that. In the NFL, the Texans are 0:01:43.760 --> 0:01:46.960 that because last week they played the first playoff game 0:01:47.040 --> 0:01:49.880 against the Chargers, and now this week, even with Kansas City, 0:01:49.960 --> 0:01:54.080 despite Taylor Swift and Kelsey and all mahomes and two 0:01:54.280 --> 0:01:57.400 Super Bowls in a row, the Texas are that bad, Danny, 0:01:57.600 --> 0:01:58.560 They're that bad. 0:01:58.880 --> 0:02:02.240 Well, that was supposed to be an unattractive game last weekend, 0:02:02.320 --> 0:02:04.040 but I thought it was one of the better ones 0:02:04.080 --> 0:02:04.760 of the weekend. 0:02:05.040 --> 0:02:06.840 I would disagree. I was on the Chargers. What a 0:02:06.880 --> 0:02:08.440 gutless performances. 0:02:08.520 --> 0:02:11.440 How loud I took the texit and so I loved it. 0:02:11.600 --> 0:02:14.280 Well, the Chargers should have been up, should have could 0:02:14.280 --> 0:02:16.480 have been up by like twenty one points the way 0:02:16.520 --> 0:02:20.000 the Texans started that game, and instead it was six nothing. 0:02:21.240 --> 0:02:25.400 It was ridiculous. It was so stupid the way they 0:02:25.600 --> 0:02:26.320 futched around it. 0:02:26.320 --> 0:02:28.680 And I just slippers of the NFL. 0:02:31.760 --> 0:02:35.280 Washington mouthact. Justin Herbert. Okay, let me tell you this. 0:02:35.560 --> 0:02:39.079 This fricking guy, he is on the brink. 0:02:39.160 --> 0:02:43.919 Okay, that's two playoff appearances, twenty seven nothing lead, twice 0:02:44.080 --> 0:02:46.840 point lead blown against Jacksonville a couple of years ago. 0:02:47.639 --> 0:02:50.919 And now this turd Burger, the first player in modern 0:02:51.040 --> 0:02:53.760 NFL history, had more turnovers in one playoff game than 0:02:53.800 --> 0:02:54.560 he died all season. 0:02:54.680 --> 0:02:57.280 The guys at choke artists and I had these Charger fans, 0:02:57.720 --> 0:02:59.680 all right, I these guys messaging me. 0:03:00.120 --> 0:03:02.000 Who never heard of them? 0:03:02.680 --> 0:03:05.040 Well, it's because of the fires. You know, they couldn't focus. 0:03:05.080 --> 0:03:08.440 Well, the Rams apparently were able to overcome that when 0:03:08.480 --> 0:03:12.040 they played the car. Don't stop stop making Hey, come on, man, 0:03:12.040 --> 0:03:14.000 you got a job. We got jobs to do, Danny, right, 0:03:14.040 --> 0:03:16.120 We don't know the world. I know it sucks and 0:03:16.160 --> 0:03:18.880 it's terrible, and we all I have several people I 0:03:18.960 --> 0:03:21.040 know that lost their homes in the fire, and I 0:03:21.080 --> 0:03:23.760 feel bad for them. But you got to keep going, right. 0:03:23.840 --> 0:03:28.400 You can't just shut her down. And that's justin Herbert Man. 0:03:28.760 --> 0:03:32.560 One more bad playoff game and then he that you're 0:03:32.560 --> 0:03:34.960 branded as that, right, one more bad playoff game, and 0:03:34.960 --> 0:03:38.400 that's who you are. Three bad playoff games, and that's 0:03:38.440 --> 0:03:40.800 what you become. You're known for what you've done. That's 0:03:40.800 --> 0:03:41.400 your Yeah. 0:03:41.440 --> 0:03:44.160 The guys called it the three year stink on the 0:03:44.200 --> 0:03:47.360 air the other day, like you have three years that 0:03:47.400 --> 0:03:48.760 you can stink before. 0:03:48.880 --> 0:03:49.720 That's who you are. 0:03:50.720 --> 0:03:54.640 Yeah, you get branded like a cow. That's that's what 0:03:54.640 --> 0:03:57.720 you're you're known as. So anyway, Texas and Chiefs. That 0:03:57.800 --> 0:04:00.480 game kicking off our time here on the West Coast 0:04:01.120 --> 0:04:06.720 four thirty eastern and in Cannesau City at three thirty 0:04:07.560 --> 0:04:10.840 local time. And then the Lake game the Lions and 0:04:10.880 --> 0:04:15.080 the Commanders. That's the eight o'clock eastern, five o'clock here 0:04:15.120 --> 0:04:16.120 in the West. 0:04:16.160 --> 0:04:18.080 Where we're doing the show from and the Commanders. 0:04:18.240 --> 0:04:20.839 We got big favorites Kansas City and Detroit, big favorites 0:04:20.920 --> 0:04:24.000 number one seeds. They're rested and it's still time to 0:04:24.040 --> 0:04:25.960 watch Benny Versus the Penny. By the way, if you 0:04:26.000 --> 0:04:29.240 want to get the analysis on these games, it's a 0:04:29.279 --> 0:04:31.920 half hour show. It's on Petecock. Check that out TV 0:04:32.040 --> 0:04:37.000 show Benny Versus the Penny. But I'm planning on multitasking. 0:04:37.160 --> 0:04:39.680 We're trying to clean out the garage Danny today, So 0:04:39.720 --> 0:04:42.680 I'm going to be watching the game while going through 0:04:42.800 --> 0:04:46.839 boxes of crap and we'll figure that out. 0:04:46.839 --> 0:04:48.080 But that's that's my plan. 0:04:48.839 --> 0:04:54.160 That sounds like something that should wait until after football season. Yeah, 0:04:54.520 --> 0:04:56.720 I've been cleaning out of my garage for three years. 0:04:57.279 --> 0:04:59.000 Well yeah, I mean it's pretty much the same. 0:04:59.040 --> 0:05:02.320 I mean, we clean, we put everything kind of in order, 0:05:02.360 --> 0:05:04.680 and now we're at the point now we gotta got 0:05:04.680 --> 0:05:06.960 to thin the herd a little bit, right, separate the 0:05:07.240 --> 0:05:08.160 wheat from the shaft. 0:05:08.360 --> 0:05:09.680 Is that the phrase they use in the farm? 0:05:10.240 --> 0:05:12.159 I think something about a shaft? 0:05:12.680 --> 0:05:14.279 Yeah, something along those lines. 0:05:14.560 --> 0:05:17.359 So did you guys get it containers? Are you like 0:05:17.839 --> 0:05:20.320 hyper focused on organizing? 0:05:20.839 --> 0:05:21.640 Yeah, I mean that. 0:05:21.720 --> 0:05:25.360 The problem we have here is my pops passed away 0:05:25.360 --> 0:05:28.280 a few years ago and left everything behind. You know, 0:05:28.320 --> 0:05:30.080 you don't take anything with you when you when you die, 0:05:30.400 --> 0:05:32.840 so he left everything behind. So some of the stuff 0:05:33.040 --> 0:05:36.560 is supposed to go to my two brothers, one the 0:05:36.560 --> 0:05:38.400 one in Wisconsin, the one in New York, and so 0:05:38.960 --> 0:05:43.000 we've collected everything, but then we got moved around, you know, 0:05:43.200 --> 0:05:43.520 life is. 0:05:43.839 --> 0:05:46.760 I see, because you guys moved. You guys moved in 0:05:46.760 --> 0:05:47.440 that time span. 0:05:48.240 --> 0:05:52.039 We moved during the COVID stuff, so which is just great, 0:05:52.200 --> 0:05:54.760 just a wonderful time to move. But so anyway, we uh, 0:05:55.000 --> 0:05:56.880 we got to go through everything. I'll do a little bit, 0:05:56.920 --> 0:05:59.920 but I just between me and you, I'll be mostly 0:06:00.040 --> 0:06:00.839 watching the football. 0:06:01.120 --> 0:06:03.680 Kind of like how Patrick Mahomes's wife let him watch 0:06:03.720 --> 0:06:05.360 football during the labor. 0:06:05.279 --> 0:06:07.880 How nice of how nice of her, how nice. 0:06:08.520 --> 0:06:10.719 We don't see enough of Mahomes on TV, you know, 0:06:10.960 --> 0:06:13.000 or Kelsey, they don't get any commercials. 0:06:13.360 --> 0:06:13.640 Really. 0:06:13.640 --> 0:06:15.960 I hope the people in Madison Avenue give them a 0:06:15.960 --> 0:06:16.880 few more commercials. 0:06:16.880 --> 0:06:17.120 I did. 0:06:17.320 --> 0:06:20.640 And Andy Reid, I just need to see more, more, more, 0:06:21.000 --> 0:06:21.760 more more. 0:06:21.800 --> 0:06:25.600 On this part, we've got the dds blame it on Costco, 0:06:26.320 --> 0:06:30.520 the stinking Rows and the phrase of week. 0:06:31.760 --> 0:06:32.640 But we'll begin with this. 0:06:33.760 --> 0:06:36.320 And you know, Danny, we've done this podcast together for 0:06:36.360 --> 0:06:36.960 a while now. 0:06:37.000 --> 0:06:37.920 I don't even know how long. 0:06:38.480 --> 0:06:40.000 Over three years. 0:06:39.839 --> 0:06:42.080 Is that right? Holy crap, it's been a while. 0:06:42.320 --> 0:06:43.200 It's been a minute. 0:06:43.920 --> 0:06:47.839 And we very rarely do sporty. We don't do sporty. 0:06:48.320 --> 0:06:51.080 Sometimes we'll lead off with some sports, but we get 0:06:51.160 --> 0:06:52.360 right back into life. 0:06:52.640 --> 0:06:55.520 Yeah, so I don't know that this is necessarily sporty, 0:06:55.520 --> 0:06:58.440 but a number of people sent me emails very upset 0:06:58.480 --> 0:07:03.600 that I was not on the radio overnight Friday into Saturday. 0:07:03.640 --> 0:07:05.800 They're like, we really wanted to hear it. 0:07:05.839 --> 0:07:07.480 And the reason they wanted to hear me was because 0:07:07.480 --> 0:07:09.960 on the big stories of the day on Saturday, they 0:07:10.000 --> 0:07:11.520 want to hear my rant about it, and they knew 0:07:11.520 --> 0:07:13.200 I would have done a monologue on it. I'm not 0:07:13.240 --> 0:07:16.000 doing the monologue obviously here it's not what that format 0:07:16.120 --> 0:07:18.720 is here the podcast, but I will say my thought 0:07:19.320 --> 0:07:22.960 based on the reaction I got that, Yeah, I had 0:07:23.160 --> 0:07:25.840 people wanted a monologue. I had other people very upset, 0:07:26.160 --> 0:07:30.080 you know, sending me nasty emails about you know this, 0:07:30.160 --> 0:07:32.240 that and the other thing. But a number of sports 0:07:32.280 --> 0:07:36.840 fans I have figured out through years of research here. 0:07:36.720 --> 0:07:39.560 And really just spending last last night. 0:07:39.760 --> 0:07:44.520 I was contemplating as I went bowling last night, so 0:07:44.600 --> 0:07:48.720 we were I had a long drive, and coming back 0:07:49.280 --> 0:07:53.720 from the bowling, I was contemplating the time space continuum, 0:07:53.760 --> 0:07:56.480 and I realized that a number of people, these are 0:07:56.520 --> 0:08:01.320 baseball fans, are suffering from an undiagnosed condition and I 0:08:01.440 --> 0:08:06.640 call it DDS, all right, No, what is DDS? Danny? 0:08:07.560 --> 0:08:12.480 It his Dodger Derangement syndrome. He's what it is. 0:08:12.880 --> 0:08:16.560 It is defined by the hatred of the Los Angeles 0:08:16.600 --> 0:08:20.920 Dodgers spending tons of money to build their roster. This 0:08:21.040 --> 0:08:25.280 hatred is so intense that it impairs people's judgment. And 0:08:26.080 --> 0:08:30.600 the latest news the Dodgers have signed another supposedly amazing 0:08:30.720 --> 0:08:33.760 picture from Japan, Roki Sazaki. 0:08:34.160 --> 0:08:37.079 Yeah, Kawasaki. That's got to be racist. 0:08:38.000 --> 0:08:41.400 Yeah, so like that, Yeah, something like that Sasaki. But 0:08:41.440 --> 0:08:44.760 he's supposedly great. You know, everyone's drooling about him. You know, 0:08:44.760 --> 0:08:47.960 they're getting all horny for him and all that. They've 0:08:47.960 --> 0:08:49.360 been keeping an eye on him since he was in 0:08:49.440 --> 0:08:51.559 high school. He's twenty three years old. He's a right 0:08:51.600 --> 0:08:54.360 handed pitcher. He chose the Dodgers over the Blue Jays 0:08:54.360 --> 0:08:57.600 and the Padres and all that, and all these people upset. 0:08:57.720 --> 0:08:59.680 So I had half the people who were Dodger fans 0:09:00.280 --> 0:09:02.000 half and they're like, will you go to. 0:09:02.040 --> 0:09:04.480 Talk about this man? We're not on we don't want to. 0:09:04.720 --> 0:09:06.319 So I was like, yeah, I'm excited. I don't I 0:09:06.400 --> 0:09:08.840 know anything about this guy. I read some stuff about him. 0:09:08.840 --> 0:09:11.079 I've heard about him for probably about a year and 0:09:11.120 --> 0:09:14.800 a half. I've heard about the guy and everything's great 0:09:14.840 --> 0:09:16.880 and wonderful and all that, but I want to see 0:09:16.920 --> 0:09:19.040 him pitch with my own two eyes. I did like 0:09:19.080 --> 0:09:21.800 the story Dot if you saw this, Danny, I think 0:09:21.800 --> 0:09:24.920 it was Nightingale had a report that Major League Baseball 0:09:24.960 --> 0:09:30.760 already investigated the Dodgers over the signing of Sazaki and 0:09:30.800 --> 0:09:33.440 they found that everything was on the up and up 0:09:33.480 --> 0:09:36.400 they claim, I mean, who knows. Rob Manford also investigated 0:09:36.440 --> 0:09:40.280 the Astros, remember in twenty seventeen. 0:09:40.320 --> 0:09:42.640 Oh they're not cheating. No, that's nothing going on. 0:09:45.200 --> 0:09:45.680 Yeah. 0:09:45.720 --> 0:09:50.160 So as far as the people that were suffering from 0:09:50.200 --> 0:09:55.880 the dds do Dodger Derangement syndrome, who were like the 0:09:56.800 --> 0:09:59.640 I'm gonna sum this up and I'm paraphrasing this, Danny, 0:09:59.679 --> 0:10:01.920 I'm not. There's a There are several emails, and I'm 0:10:01.960 --> 0:10:03.640 not going to go through all of them. This is 0:10:03.679 --> 0:10:05.320 not an email thing. But a lot of the people 0:10:05.360 --> 0:10:08.200 are like, hey, you can't really enjoy if the Dodgers 0:10:08.240 --> 0:10:10.080 win because they you know, they're supposed to win, so 0:10:10.160 --> 0:10:13.080 as a fan, you can't really enjoy that. And I'd 0:10:13.080 --> 0:10:16.640 say to that, bull Pucky no, I'm gonna enjoy it. 0:10:16.800 --> 0:10:19.400 I mean, I don't like Blake Snell either. You know, 0:10:19.800 --> 0:10:21.800 that guy annoys me. He's a Dodger, he signed a 0:10:21.800 --> 0:10:24.439 big money contract. But the way I look at it, 0:10:24.440 --> 0:10:25.680 most of these guys are gonna. 0:10:25.440 --> 0:10:26.679 Get hurt anyway. 0:10:26.800 --> 0:10:29.520 People think all these players are gonna stay Hey, yeah, 0:10:29.559 --> 0:10:31.080 if everyone stayed healthy, great. 0:10:31.120 --> 0:10:33.400 No one stays healthy, especially on the Dodgers. 0:10:33.640 --> 0:10:36.320 I was gonna say, especially Dodger arms. 0:10:36.559 --> 0:10:36.760 Yeah. 0:10:36.800 --> 0:10:39.560 I mean, this team's loaded in spring training and by 0:10:39.640 --> 0:10:42.400 July they'll be trading for some pitcher from the Cincinnati 0:10:42.440 --> 0:10:43.199 Reds to. 0:10:43.200 --> 0:10:44.120 Bail them out. 0:10:44.320 --> 0:10:46.240 Uh. But yeah, going into the year, Danny, I mean, 0:10:46.480 --> 0:10:50.920 you look at that rotation and Yoshinobu Yamamoto, Kyler Glass 0:10:50.960 --> 0:10:53.720 now is going to be back, and he's gonna pitch. 0:10:53.760 --> 0:10:58.280 Blake Snell, Gonsolin will be back, Dustin May, Bobby Miller. 0:10:58.520 --> 0:11:02.640 They are and this guy says they're absolutely loaded, and 0:11:02.679 --> 0:11:07.440 by July half those guys will be out in the 0:11:07.600 --> 0:11:11.760 elbow issues, shoulder hurts, whatever. 0:11:12.559 --> 0:11:15.679 So and don't forget how many Tobby John's have been 0:11:16.360 --> 0:11:21.079 Oh yeah, they could have just a surgeon for Dodger 0:11:21.160 --> 0:11:23.559 Tommy John operations. 0:11:23.080 --> 0:11:23.840 I'm a doctor. 0:11:24.720 --> 0:11:26.959 You have their own. Well, they probably do have that 0:11:27.200 --> 0:11:28.199 guy in the South Bay. 0:11:28.240 --> 0:11:31.000 I forget the guy, the doctor that replaced Frank Joe 0:11:31.040 --> 0:11:33.400 when Joe's dead now, but I the guy that came 0:11:33.480 --> 0:11:34.360 up with the Tommy Johnson. 0:11:34.480 --> 0:11:37.760 He could just be on a retainer for the Dodgers only. Yeah. 0:11:37.920 --> 0:11:40.040 No, So it's great and I'm happy. I'm not upset. 0:11:40.120 --> 0:11:42.679 This is what the Dodgers should do. I when I 0:11:42.440 --> 0:11:45.280 I've talked about this in the past and previous episodes Danny, 0:11:45.480 --> 0:11:47.120 when I did stuff with the Dodger, when I was 0:11:47.120 --> 0:11:48.880 doing Dodger talk back in the day, I was like, 0:11:48.960 --> 0:11:50.840 I used to say, my dream is for them to 0:11:50.880 --> 0:11:52.760 be like the Yankees and get all the good plays. 0:11:52.800 --> 0:11:55.320 Well now they're doing it, so fine, good, I'm gonna 0:11:55.400 --> 0:11:56.920 enjoy it. It's not gonna last forever. 0:11:57.400 --> 0:11:59.160 The good news is by the time the Dodgers suck 0:11:59.200 --> 0:12:01.440 will be really old, right so for you know, at 0:12:01.480 --> 0:12:03.400 that point we'll be like who they have cares. But 0:12:03.520 --> 0:12:06.440 for the next ten years or so, certainly the next 0:12:06.480 --> 0:12:10.400 five years, everything is about the Dodger. They are the 0:12:10.559 --> 0:12:14.120 absolute class at baseball, as they should. 0:12:13.800 --> 0:12:17.280 Be, and you know, good for them. I I this 0:12:17.360 --> 0:12:18.280 is what you're supposed to do. 0:12:18.320 --> 0:12:20.640 You the LA Dodgers, this is the Yankees should spend 0:12:20.640 --> 0:12:21.480 the money the red side. 0:12:21.480 --> 0:12:23.360 And I feel bad for my friends in Boston. 0:12:24.280 --> 0:12:26.280 They got not as much money as a Dodgers, but 0:12:26.320 --> 0:12:28.400 they got their own cable channel like the Dodgers. 0:12:28.760 --> 0:12:30.240 They have the similar setup. 0:12:30.320 --> 0:12:32.480 They've got, you know, big market, not as many people 0:12:32.480 --> 0:12:36.840 as in LA, but still they should be spending. The Cubs, 0:12:37.360 --> 0:12:39.719 the Giants in San Francisco, although the TV deals a 0:12:39.760 --> 0:12:43.120 little different for the Giants, but these teams should be spending. So, like, 0:12:43.600 --> 0:12:45.920 I don't know, do you feel bad Danny's a Dodger 0:12:45.960 --> 0:12:50.200 fan because the Dodgers signed another stud from you know, Pitcher. 0:12:50.400 --> 0:12:52.960 Come on, no, And we went through this when it 0:12:53.080 --> 0:12:57.520 was the Sodo sweep Steaks and when everybody was crying wondering. 0:12:57.280 --> 0:12:58.920 If the Dodgers were going to get Soto. 0:12:59.040 --> 0:13:01.800 At that point, I think that's when I switched to 0:13:02.320 --> 0:13:05.840 screw everybody, Let's sign all these players then, because we're 0:13:05.880 --> 0:13:09.920 already going to get the hate anyways. So yeah, you're right, 0:13:10.160 --> 0:13:12.880 do better if you're one of the other MLB owners. 0:13:12.880 --> 0:13:15.880 It's not the Dodger's fault. They're doing what they should 0:13:15.920 --> 0:13:17.560 do exactly exactly. 0:13:19.320 --> 0:13:21.720 Yeah, I mean, so it's just knock it off and 0:13:22.720 --> 0:13:25.040 we'll see spring training starts in like a month. 0:13:26.000 --> 0:13:28.959 Like a month you realize that we're that close to 0:13:29.040 --> 0:13:29.720 spring training. 0:13:29.760 --> 0:13:32.720 It's like, right, I'm definitely not ready for baseball yet. 0:13:32.840 --> 0:13:35.560 We're not prepared to enjoy spring training. You're not going 0:13:35.640 --> 0:13:37.880 to go over to Arizona for the Cactus League. No, 0:13:38.080 --> 0:13:40.040 I'm good, You'll not be making your tib. 0:13:40.120 --> 0:13:43.360 I'm not even ready for NBA quite yet. So definitely 0:13:43.400 --> 0:13:44.679 not ready for baseball. 0:13:44.679 --> 0:13:50.439 That's been going on since Halloween. That's been That's it. Yeah, 0:13:50.559 --> 0:13:54.520 I have watched I you know, at night, I'm getting 0:13:54.520 --> 0:13:56.440 ready for the show and I usually have something on 0:13:56.480 --> 0:13:58.559 the TV, which I'm not really you know, I kind 0:13:58.559 --> 0:14:00.560 of like watching with half an eye, have it on, 0:14:00.640 --> 0:14:04.040 but you're not really you're not really watching. It's kind 0:14:04.080 --> 0:14:05.959 of in the background. So I usually have an NBA 0:14:06.080 --> 0:14:06.440 game on. 0:14:07.200 --> 0:14:10.920 I've probably seen five six Laker games so far this year. 0:14:11.360 --> 0:14:14.520 But it's always that weird transition. Right after the Super Bowl, 0:14:15.080 --> 0:14:18.160 all of our shows on the network suddenly switched to 0:14:18.640 --> 0:14:22.720 basketball topics, and it seems so strange the first week 0:14:22.760 --> 0:14:27.480 that everybody's talking NBA and then slowly but surely, you know, 0:14:27.520 --> 0:14:29.800 we all get into a groove with it and it's normal, 0:14:30.120 --> 0:14:33.120 But that first week or two it sounds really weird. 0:14:33.440 --> 0:14:37.760 Yeah, and then after that you have the amazing and 0:14:37.920 --> 0:14:42.880 boys an amazing the college basketball talk, the Selection Sunday 0:14:43.360 --> 0:14:44.840 that goes on for about. 0:14:44.640 --> 0:14:47.600 Three weeks, where people really about two weeks. 0:14:48.040 --> 0:14:51.520 It's all college basketball, all the time, and that's that's 0:14:51.560 --> 0:14:55.120 where it's at. So anyway, Dodgers and Cubs first Cactus 0:14:55.200 --> 0:14:59.440 League game, Campbell back Range, Glendale, Arizona, February twentieth, So 0:14:59.480 --> 0:15:04.400 today's January eighteenth. So we've got that too to look 0:15:04.440 --> 0:15:07.800 forward to. So for all you people suffering from DDS, 0:15:08.280 --> 0:15:11.320 it's gonna be a long couple of years long, A 0:15:11.360 --> 0:15:14.240 couple of years long, A couple of years there. You can, 0:15:14.280 --> 0:15:16.040 I guess you can blame it on Costco, the Dodgers 0:15:16.040 --> 0:15:17.040 buying these guys at Costco. 0:15:17.160 --> 0:15:19.400 Danny, Maybe they're buying these guys at Costco. Maybe that's it. 0:15:19.680 --> 0:15:23.880 We could blame your wardrobe on Costco, how dare you? Well, Hey, 0:15:23.920 --> 0:15:26.240 they got some good stuff there now, right, I saw 0:15:26.320 --> 0:15:27.480 I do Kirkland brand. 0:15:27.600 --> 0:15:30.520 Yeah, yeah, I saw like some pretty good Puma gear 0:15:30.600 --> 0:15:32.360 there the last time I was in Costco. 0:15:33.040 --> 0:15:35.360 Oh yeah, no, I love it. I'm all about the costmo. 0:15:35.400 --> 0:15:35.960 Yeah, I don't know. 0:15:36.000 --> 0:15:39.120 I've still not sunk in that load to get my 0:15:39.200 --> 0:15:42.040 clothes from Costco yet. I feel like that's when you 0:15:42.160 --> 0:15:44.400 kind of give up in life on your wardrobe, but 0:15:44.520 --> 0:15:49.160 everything else, especially getting all those samples on the weekend. Man, 0:15:49.360 --> 0:15:51.360 I was late to the party. I always used to 0:15:51.400 --> 0:15:54.080 hear you talk about that, but I wasn't a big 0:15:54.120 --> 0:15:57.600 Costco shopper. Now that's the place when I'm hungry on 0:15:57.680 --> 0:16:00.280 the weekend. Do we go out to eat? No, we 0:16:00.320 --> 0:16:02.480 got a baby who screams and cries in a highchair. 0:16:02.560 --> 0:16:03.040 Forget that. 0:16:03.560 --> 0:16:06.040 Let's push them around in the cart and shove a 0:16:06.080 --> 0:16:08.280 smoothie sample in his face at Costco. 0:16:08.800 --> 0:16:10.440 Well, Costco, guys. 0:16:10.840 --> 0:16:11.720 That's the way to do it. 0:16:12.240 --> 0:16:15.360 Remember now, back in the day, I would hit My 0:16:15.480 --> 0:16:18.280 wife would drop me off at Costco to do samples. 0:16:18.320 --> 0:16:20.400 I'd get back in the car, we'd go to another Costco. 0:16:20.440 --> 0:16:22.560 So we had like three Costcos around us, and we 0:16:22.720 --> 0:16:23.600 hit them in a row. 0:16:24.320 --> 0:16:27.280 You started like noon, and then yeah, it was great. 0:16:27.520 --> 0:16:27.800 Love it. 0:16:29.520 --> 0:16:32.560 My wife she had to make a Costco run the 0:16:32.600 --> 0:16:35.360 other night and just couldn't wait for me to get 0:16:35.360 --> 0:16:39.160 home from the network, so she left CoA home with 0:16:39.240 --> 0:16:42.840 one of the kids. Our kids are responsible, they're good kids, 0:16:43.480 --> 0:16:46.880 but still when you get a text message saying, yeah, 0:16:46.920 --> 0:16:48.640 you know, I'm gonna go pick up the things we 0:16:48.680 --> 0:16:52.480 need at Costco this evening, it'll probably be about an 0:16:52.520 --> 0:16:53.400 hour overlap. 0:16:54.120 --> 0:16:56.640 Oh, I'm sitting. 0:16:56.320 --> 0:16:58.200 In bumper to bumper traffic on the one to one 0:16:58.240 --> 0:17:01.560 freeway in LA and the whole time I'm thinking the worst. 0:17:01.600 --> 0:17:05.960 I'm thinking of CoA jumping and doing wrestling moves. 0:17:05.640 --> 0:17:06.840 Off the top of the couch. 0:17:07.320 --> 0:17:07.600 Brother. 0:17:08.400 --> 0:17:11.240 I'm thinking of his brother doing wrestling moves on CoA, 0:17:11.280 --> 0:17:14.160 which I've seen with my own eyes. So all I'm 0:17:14.200 --> 0:17:16.879 thinking about is I got to get home just in case. 0:17:17.600 --> 0:17:22.040 I am a block away, and my car says park park, 0:17:22.320 --> 0:17:24.120 put the car in park. 0:17:24.560 --> 0:17:26.359 And I'm like, what is going on? 0:17:27.320 --> 0:17:30.359 And I realized I was so focused on getting home 0:17:30.800 --> 0:17:33.119 I didn't pay attention to the fact that I was 0:17:33.200 --> 0:17:34.320 low on gas. 0:17:34.760 --> 0:17:37.120 Oh no, you ran out of gas. 0:17:37.359 --> 0:17:40.040 I ran out of gas, which sucks, and that hasn't 0:17:40.040 --> 0:17:43.359 happened in years to me. The worst part was I 0:17:43.560 --> 0:17:47.959 was literally right down the street from home. So I'm thinking, crap, 0:17:48.040 --> 0:17:51.600 what do I do? Call Brenda? She is in line 0:17:51.600 --> 0:17:55.040 at Costco checking out. It's about a fifteen minute drive. 0:17:55.200 --> 0:17:58.399 Twenty minutes. Maybe should I wait for her. I do 0:17:58.480 --> 0:18:02.080 have a gas can in my trunk. My stepson, our oldest, 0:18:02.440 --> 0:18:04.840 is at home with CoA. His car is parked here 0:18:05.119 --> 0:18:06.120 because he was visiting. 0:18:06.880 --> 0:18:08.679 I know what I'm going to do. I'll do the 0:18:08.720 --> 0:18:09.920 walk of shame home. 0:18:10.560 --> 0:18:11.280 This is shame. 0:18:12.040 --> 0:18:15.640 Steal his car, drive it with my gas can, get 0:18:15.640 --> 0:18:17.080 the gas and drive back. 0:18:17.680 --> 0:18:20.280 Okay, you got a gas can. You were prepared for. 0:18:20.280 --> 0:18:22.040 This, I was, yeah, thank god. 0:18:22.680 --> 0:18:25.680 The last time this did happen, I was like, I'm 0:18:25.720 --> 0:18:27.959 never going to be stuck without a gas can in 0:18:28.000 --> 0:18:30.480 my trunk. So I learned the hard way on that one. 0:18:30.520 --> 0:18:33.520 So I get the empty gas can, get his car. 0:18:34.080 --> 0:18:36.879 I had to drive ten minutes to the closest gas station. 0:18:37.640 --> 0:18:39.920 There's the bottom. I ready to bring the gas. 0:18:40.560 --> 0:18:42.399 It was in such a hurry, Ben that I didn't 0:18:42.480 --> 0:18:45.159 put the gas can in the trunk of his car. 0:18:45.480 --> 0:18:47.600 Big mistake, because I had to do a U turn 0:18:47.640 --> 0:18:50.480 out of this stupid gas station and the gas can 0:18:50.600 --> 0:18:54.720 tumbled over for a second. Oh boy, gosh, shit, man, 0:18:54.720 --> 0:18:56.680 a whole nother thing I'm gonna have to deal with 0:18:57.040 --> 0:19:00.800 once I get to my destination. Car reek of gasoline. 0:19:00.840 --> 0:19:04.920 I roll the windows down, Gases on my hand, gases 0:19:05.040 --> 0:19:07.879 inside the car on the floor mat. This night is 0:19:07.920 --> 0:19:11.240 just getting better and better. Get over to where we live. 0:19:11.800 --> 0:19:15.520 Thank god nobody hit my car, So now I had 0:19:15.520 --> 0:19:18.679