WEBVTT - Writers Block 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:02.360 Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller 0:00:02.400 --> 0:00:05.560 Show weekdays at two a m. Eastern eleven pm Pacific. 0:00:07.840 --> 0:00:11.040 Have you thought more hours a day, dred minutes a 0:00:11.080 --> 0:00:14.840 week was enough? Think again. He's the last remnants of 0:00:14.840 --> 0:00:18.480 the old Republic, the sole fashion of fairness. He treats 0:00:18.520 --> 0:00:21.360 crackheads in the ghetto cutter the same as the rich 0:00:21.440 --> 0:00:25.439 pill poppers in the penthouse the clearing House of Hot 0:00:25.480 --> 0:00:29.160 takes break free for something special. The Fifth Hour with 0:00:29.400 --> 0:00:35.120 Ben Maller starts right now. Oh way we go here 0:00:35.240 --> 0:00:37.320 as it is the fifth Are you know that? All right? 0:00:37.479 --> 0:00:39.400 Thank you for supporting the show. 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This would be the eight day 0:00:51.760 --> 0:00:54.800 of the week, because four hours a night or not enough. 0:00:54.840 --> 0:00:57.680 If you're listening to us anytime from Sunday morning all 0:00:57.720 --> 0:01:00.840 the way to Sunday evening, we'll be on to recap 0:01:00.920 --> 0:01:06.280 all the NFL playoff games inside the Magic Radio Box, 0:01:06.920 --> 0:01:10.280 and we'll be doing that tonight into the early morning 0:01:10.280 --> 0:01:13.360 hours on Monday, two am Monday morning to six am, 0:01:13.600 --> 0:01:17.520 and then, of course, as you know, Sunday night, eleven 0:01:17.760 --> 0:01:22.800 pm in the west, two three three in the morning 0:01:22.800 --> 0:01:24.839 we were joined again by west of the four oh 0:01:24.880 --> 0:01:31.600 five David Gascon right over there here, I'm here, not 0:01:31.680 --> 0:01:34.759 to be confused with the District Attorney of Los Angeles, 0:01:34.760 --> 0:01:39.000 that's a different guest. Would not allow criminals to run 0:01:39.000 --> 0:01:42.280 scott free across this great wide world, or especially believe 0:01:42.280 --> 0:01:43.919 in law and for it, you believe in the laws 0:01:44.000 --> 0:01:46.440 and law and order and things like, Yeah, I didn't. 0:01:46.480 --> 0:01:49.800 I do acknowledge that needs to be some retuning, some refining, 0:01:49.880 --> 0:01:55.920 some recalibrating of of law enforcement practices. But nevertheless, uh yeah, 0:01:55.960 --> 0:01:58.160 I'm not down for any kind of anarchy or any 0:01:58.160 --> 0:02:01.440 other bullshit that's happening in our world right now. Understandable, 0:02:01.480 --> 0:02:05.280 understand So this is a mail bag. Yes, we haven't 0:02:05.280 --> 0:02:06.880 done a mail bag in a while. We have not 0:02:07.040 --> 0:02:10.560 answered the people's questions. There probably is not a lot 0:02:10.560 --> 0:02:14.640 of people whining, complaining, bitching to an any other bullshit 0:02:14.720 --> 0:02:17.800 that they do. So I'm happy about that. Oh no, no, no, no, 0:02:17.840 --> 0:02:21.239 there are plenty of people complaining and whining and all 0:02:21.320 --> 0:02:24.760 of that. Yes, that never ends. Did I'm a pilot, 0:02:24.800 --> 0:02:31.600 send you a note. Yes, actually he did. Good. Let 0:02:31.600 --> 0:02:33.200 me let me get that up. Hold on a sake, 0:02:33.440 --> 0:02:35.000 let me get that up. We haven't heard from him 0:02:35.000 --> 0:02:37.200 in a long time. So now he did. He said 0:02:37.280 --> 0:02:39.680 very nice. In fact, he sent um, I believe he 0:02:39.760 --> 0:02:41.680 sent something to that. I need to I need to 0:02:41.680 --> 0:02:44.400 pick up my mail here. But I believe there is 0:02:44.440 --> 0:02:47.440 something in the queue there for me and probably for you. 0:02:48.400 --> 0:02:50.320 But I heard they moved the mail from where the 0:02:50.320 --> 0:02:53.359 mail was. No, they didn't move the mail. Ben They 0:02:53.400 --> 0:02:55.200 took all the mail and just put it on top 0:02:55.200 --> 0:02:59.440 of a fucking table. He just said, go figure it out. Really, 0:02:59.480 --> 0:03:02.400 that's all they did. Yeah, so this seemed like a 0:03:02.440 --> 0:03:05.840 good strategy. But I shouldn't criticize. I should not criticize. 0:03:05.840 --> 0:03:08.760 It doesn't seem it seems right. It almost feels like 0:03:08.919 --> 0:03:11.680 Christmas in a way, because you just have a table 0:03:12.320 --> 0:03:15.480 that's just littered with mail and packages, and you're trying 0:03:15.520 --> 0:03:19.920 to situate all of it and separate those from yours 0:03:19.960 --> 0:03:23.160 and mine from his. So I'm a pilot. I don't 0:03:23.160 --> 0:03:24.240 know how much of this he wants me to read 0:03:24.280 --> 0:03:25.960 on the air or not, but he sounded very nice. 0:03:26.000 --> 0:03:28.480 Note a couple of nice notes. He had a trip 0:03:28.560 --> 0:03:32.679 to Tahiti recently, and he says he says he knew 0:03:32.720 --> 0:03:35.240 I liked Hawaiian. I got married in Hawaiian. I love Hawaiian. 0:03:35.280 --> 0:03:36.960 I've never been to Tahiti. And so he sent me 0:03:37.000 --> 0:03:42.840 some photos. They're gorgeous and uh, yeah, it's pretty cool 0:03:43.320 --> 0:03:47.040 there you go, and uh it flies a plane all 0:03:47.080 --> 0:03:51.320 around the world there and whatnot. And he's got a 0:03:51.360 --> 0:03:52.800 pretty good life. You got a couple of kids. He 0:03:52.840 --> 0:03:55.600 just loved sports. He's flying all over the place there 0:03:55.720 --> 0:03:58.800 and he sent a very nice note. I do appreciate it, 0:03:58.920 --> 0:04:01.440 and it was cool because it was pretty awesome. He 0:04:01.520 --> 0:04:03.480 sent a photo this will Anoi you gas go on. 0:04:03.920 --> 0:04:08.320 So it's from the cockpit and he's got his meal 0:04:08.400 --> 0:04:10.160 in front of him, which has way too many vegetable 0:04:10.160 --> 0:04:13.440 looks like salmon, looks like salmon. He's got a fruit. 0:04:14.120 --> 0:04:16.159 I'd eat the watermelon, I think the I'd eat the 0:04:16.160 --> 0:04:18.680 orange there. I don't know about the blueberries. A lot 0:04:18.680 --> 0:04:21.600 of vegetables. He's heats a healthy life, this guy. It's good. 0:04:21.800 --> 0:04:23.360 But he put a note it was really neat. It 0:04:23.440 --> 0:04:26.080 touched me on the on the steering wheel for this 0:04:26.240 --> 0:04:31.719 big plane, Ben Mallard in the air everywhere. Come on, Yeah, 0:04:32.360 --> 0:04:35.480 how cool is that? I had a big chech ire 0:04:35.560 --> 0:04:38.160 cat smile on my face. I was like, that's pretty neat, man, 0:04:38.680 --> 0:04:41.960 man's cool. That was awesome. So he didn't have your 0:04:42.040 --> 0:04:44.839 name anywhere? Guy, I didn't see gascon anywhere I see 0:04:44.920 --> 0:04:47.520 my name. I did not see Gascon. Have you ever 0:04:47.560 --> 0:04:50.120 been to Tehiti? Never? Never? I wonder what the length 0:04:50.120 --> 0:04:52.520 of the flight is because Hawaii from l A to 0:04:53.000 --> 0:04:56.359 Tona lou it's what five hours? Yeah, so it's longer 0:04:56.960 --> 0:05:00.479 going than coming back because you're going against the jet 0:05:00.760 --> 0:05:04.280 jet stream so but yeah, yeah, it's it's beauty. It 0:05:04.279 --> 0:05:06.880 looks beautiful on the photos there. Did he send me 0:05:07.080 --> 0:05:10.000 a night shot or was the daytime he said? He 0:05:10.320 --> 0:05:11.839 said a couple of plots. There was one as the 0:05:11.880 --> 0:05:15.720 sun was setting, which was beautiful, and then he had 0:05:15.800 --> 0:05:18.200 one gi of this resort. I guess that's where he 0:05:18.240 --> 0:05:20.599 was staying there. And there's a couple of big pools 0:05:20.680 --> 0:05:23.640 and little huts and then the water out in front 0:05:23.680 --> 0:05:28.160 of it. It's just looks awesome, beautiful place. But I 0:05:28.160 --> 0:05:29.720 have to get there at some point check it out. 0:05:29.800 --> 0:05:31.880 So thanks to I'm a pilot. Very kind of you. 0:05:32.040 --> 0:05:36.560 We appreciate your your kindness, and I'm gonna have to 0:05:36.560 --> 0:05:38.360 to get to the dude. I don't know how I'm 0:05:38.360 --> 0:05:39.880 gonna pick up the mail though, because I always I 0:05:39.920 --> 0:05:43.840 went to a certain spot, nails not there, and well, 0:05:43.880 --> 0:05:45.960 you know, I could always rummage through that and take 0:05:45.960 --> 0:05:48.240 a look and see, I'm good. You know, it's a 0:05:48.320 --> 0:05:51.240 crime to open another persons to crime, and he was 0:05:51.240 --> 0:05:54.320 gonna come after criminal. The good news is that Gascon 0:05:54.440 --> 0:05:56.360 will not punish you for that, so you don't have 0:05:56.400 --> 0:06:00.719 to worry about it. Yeah, yeah, oh, don't don't have 0:06:00.760 --> 0:06:02.960 to worry about it at all. The thing I do 0:06:03.080 --> 0:06:06.600 miss with your mail is that annually you would always 0:06:06.640 --> 0:06:12.680 get UM media vouchers or passes for Santa Anita. Yes, yes, 0:06:12.800 --> 0:06:16.920 I loved going to Santa Anita. UM was awesome hang 0:06:16.960 --> 0:06:20.920 out day with the ponies, and they gave me every 0:06:21.000 --> 0:06:22.680 year they would send me a v I P pass 0:06:22.839 --> 0:06:27.320 parking everything, and I loved it. I haven't I missed 0:06:27.320 --> 0:06:29.679 that too. I miss missed going out to the track 0:06:30.520 --> 0:06:33.640 and it was always always a lot of fun. But 0:06:33.800 --> 0:06:37.320 like this, that's not fund has been canceled. Yeah, we 0:06:37.400 --> 0:06:39.480 have mail you want mail. We got mail, all right, 0:06:39.960 --> 0:06:42.080 we have this one was sent in actually was saying 0:06:42.080 --> 0:06:43.400 in a while, I go, we'll use it now. This 0:06:43.480 --> 0:06:48.839 is from j A k. Ozzy momentum, he says, a 0:06:48.920 --> 0:06:51.599 mail bad question. What is your favorite body of water 0:06:51.720 --> 0:06:55.640 and its location? For example, I got married on this 0:06:55.720 --> 0:07:02.200 awesome beach here in southwestern Australia called meal Up Beach. Clarify, 0:07:02.400 --> 0:07:06.159 I'm not looking for riverpool beach. I'm talking about a 0:07:06.200 --> 0:07:10.960 specific location, all right, so Ozzy momentum. For me, it 0:07:11.120 --> 0:07:15.280 is in Kauai. When you land at the airport in Kauai, 0:07:15.400 --> 0:07:19.000 you go north. There's only one highway there and between 0:07:19.040 --> 0:07:22.360 the three and four mile marker there's a dirt road. 0:07:22.920 --> 0:07:25.360 You go down the dirt road. There's a lot of potholes. 0:07:25.640 --> 0:07:28.000 You go to the end of the dirt road. There's 0:07:28.000 --> 0:07:30.680 a little park. You park there and there is a 0:07:30.720 --> 0:07:36.080 deserted beach with no human beings around. And it is 0:07:36.120 --> 0:07:39.679 the most beautiful beach you have ever seen. Perfect weather, 0:07:39.800 --> 0:07:43.800 the sands, wonderful, unfettered by ugly human beings for the 0:07:43.840 --> 0:07:47.160 most part. And that is my my favorite beach. And 0:07:47.200 --> 0:07:49.400 that's actually the beach we got married on. So when 0:07:49.440 --> 0:07:52.280 we go to Kauai back on a vacation. We always 0:07:52.920 --> 0:07:54.520 and we've been there a few times and hopefully go 0:07:54.560 --> 0:07:57.480 again soon. We we always go to that spot. You 0:07:57.480 --> 0:07:59.800 guys have never been to the Bahamas? Right? No, never 0:07:59.880 --> 0:08:01.880 been the Bahamas. I was supposed to go. Fox Sports 0:08:01.960 --> 0:08:04.680 Radio sent everyone to the Bahamas for the Super Bowl 0:08:04.760 --> 0:08:08.000 years ago except me. What so, Yeah, they had that 0:08:08.040 --> 0:08:10.120 big resort down there, they had a promotion, they were 0:08:10.120 --> 0:08:12.640 a sponsor and they sent everyone went to the Bahamas 0:08:12.680 --> 0:08:16.040 to Yeah, I I was not. I say everyone except me, 0:08:16.120 --> 0:08:17.960 and they were like two other people that didn't go. 0:08:18.440 --> 0:08:21.520 That's unreal. Yeah, I did not, did not make it 0:08:21.520 --> 0:08:23.560 app what's your favorite body of water? I guess, and 0:08:23.720 --> 0:08:27.320 specifically I think probably the Gulf of Mexico. My sister 0:08:27.760 --> 0:08:32.320 and her husband and the kids, they live in Tampa Bay, 0:08:32.480 --> 0:08:36.199 and she took me to St. Petersburg and I mean, 0:08:36.200 --> 0:08:39.880 you know this, The sand was white and you can 0:08:39.960 --> 0:08:42.360 see your feet when you get into the water. It 0:08:42.520 --> 0:08:46.400 was absolutely gorgeous. There's calm and peaceful, and I know 0:08:46.520 --> 0:08:50.400 different seasons it's hurricane season and whatnot, and uh a 0:08:50.480 --> 0:08:53.800 little bit while down there, but yeah, it's it's absolutely gorgeous. 0:08:53.880 --> 0:08:57.720 In that area. The thing about the beach I love, 0:08:57.760 --> 0:08:59.240 I will. I don't usually go in the beach in 0:08:59.280 --> 0:09:02.000 California because water is usually disgusting in l A, I 0:09:02.040 --> 0:09:03.720 don't go in the water. Like, if I go to 0:09:03.800 --> 0:09:05.719 the beach, I'll look at it, I'll walk, maybe I 0:09:05.800 --> 0:09:07.880 put my feet in, but I won't like swim. But 0:09:08.080 --> 0:09:09.760 if the water is clear, I mean you know what 0:09:09.800 --> 0:09:12.400 I mean, Like Hawaii, places like that. Oh it's beautiful. 0:09:12.440 --> 0:09:14.600 I love it. Yeah. When I when I went to 0:09:14.600 --> 0:09:17.280 to Europe a couple of years ago, there was these 0:09:17.280 --> 0:09:20.800 little coves in Portugal where you can do cliff diving 0:09:20.840 --> 0:09:24.880 off of and it was gorgeous. The only problem is 0:09:24.880 --> 0:09:28.400 is that you could see to the bottom of the 0:09:28.960 --> 0:09:30.760 you know, of the bed that you were in in 0:09:30.760 --> 0:09:33.520 that lake or that river spot. The only problem is 0:09:33.640 --> 0:09:36.680 you couldn't gauge your depth. So when you jumped off 0:09:36.720 --> 0:09:40.200 these cliffs, you didn't know. I mean, we went with 0:09:40.280 --> 0:09:44.080 guys that were professional cliff jumpers and stuff. You let 0:09:44.080 --> 0:09:46.160 the other guy go first. Yeah, that's exactly what he did. 0:09:46.280 --> 0:09:48.440 So he's just like, hey, you're jumping here and in 0:09:48.480 --> 0:09:51.240 this direction, don't go that way, and don't do anything else, 0:09:51.280 --> 0:09:53.920 and so we did just that. The water was was 0:09:54.040 --> 0:09:59.360 obviously beautiful, cold as fuck, but it was pretty nice. Yeah, alright, 0:09:59.400 --> 0:10:01.360 what else do we heavy here? Let's see? Uh? Any 0:10:01.480 --> 0:10:05.560 menimny mo? Uh? This question? Who sent this one? In? 0:10:05.920 --> 0:10:09.600 This is from Brian from Parts Unknown. He says, I 0:10:09.640 --> 0:10:12.400 listened to the Fifth Hour, but when I asked Google 0:10:12.480 --> 0:10:14.360 to play the last episode of the best of the 0:10:14.360 --> 0:10:17.800 Ben Mallor Show, it always comes up the fifth Hour? 0:10:18.840 --> 0:10:22.720 Is that right? I don't know. Uh interesting, there's no 0:10:22.760 --> 0:10:25.920 big deal. But one time it played a song by 0:10:25.960 --> 0:10:30.280 Michael Buble. What it seems odd to me? Kevin in 0:10:30.440 --> 0:10:34.840 Kansas rites and he says, I teach high school English. 0:10:34.880 --> 0:10:37.000 What were you like in high school with English? You 0:10:37.320 --> 0:10:39.680 have a way with words, So I imagine you were 0:10:39.720 --> 0:10:44.120 that way or did you realize that gift later on? Kevin, 0:10:44.320 --> 0:10:46.960 much later on. I was not a good high school student. 0:10:47.160 --> 0:10:50.120 I just kind of passed skated by in high school, 0:10:50.320 --> 0:10:51.959 barely got out of high school. And be honest with you, 0:10:52.080 --> 0:10:55.000 I just I was not into it. But as I've 0:10:55.000 --> 0:10:58.280 gotten older, I have the great thing about the Internet 0:10:58.280 --> 0:11:01.560 as you can educate yourself, which is pretty cool, and 0:11:01.640 --> 0:11:07.280 so I've always had a passion as an adult for words. 0:11:08.720 --> 0:11:11.480 And I pointed out in the past that all we 0:11:11.559 --> 0:11:15.440 have in radio and audio broadcasting is words we don't 0:11:15.480 --> 0:11:19.520 we can't show you anything we're not on camera. And 0:11:19.600 --> 0:11:24.080 so I I learned. I've been inspired by certain people, Um, 0:11:24.120 --> 0:11:27.760 Brian Wheeler, we've had on the podcast Wheels the voice 0:11:27.760 --> 0:11:30.760 of the Trailblazers, a friend of mine, and he would 0:11:30.760 --> 0:11:34.319 always use these big words. And Vince Scully would use 0:11:34.320 --> 0:11:36.440 some words I've never heard of before watching dodging games 0:11:36.440 --> 0:11:39.520 grown up. And but just in general, it's like, you know, 0:11:39.559 --> 0:11:41.640 if you you you can say the same thing but 0:11:41.800 --> 0:11:44.560 using different words and it sounds a lot better. And 0:11:44.679 --> 0:11:46.560 in some words that I just love. They're fun to say, 0:11:46.559 --> 0:11:50.079 like hoodwinked or bamboozled or hornswoggled, like words like that. 0:11:50.120 --> 0:11:54.320 I love those type of words. And skullduggery not a 0:11:54.360 --> 0:11:57.959 word that's regularly is. You don't hear skullduggery all that much. 0:11:58.520 --> 0:12:01.520 But it's a fun word, and you know, you can 0:12:01.640 --> 0:12:04.320 you can have a good time with that and all 0:12:04.320 --> 0:12:07.920 those all those things. So but it in high school enough. 0:12:07.920 --> 0:12:10.000 If you if you met me in high school, this 0:12:10.000 --> 0:12:12.760 guy is an idiot. This guy's a dump dump. You know, 0:12:12.800 --> 0:12:15.760 he doesn't pay attention at all, But so and I 0:12:15.960 --> 0:12:18.079 was trying to learn something. As far as words, I'm 0:12:18.080 --> 0:12:22.559 always looking around trying to find new words and things 0:12:22.600 --> 0:12:29.000 I haven't heard before. Phrases I love, uh, idioms, old 0:12:29.400 --> 0:12:32.600 you know, proverbs, things like that, learning about those, the 0:12:32.640 --> 0:12:35.680 history of some of those things. So it's pretty I 0:12:35.720 --> 0:12:38.520 find it interesting. It's just happened. I've picked up. I'm 0:12:38.520 --> 0:12:41.920 at in Elmira, New York, right city. Since is there 0:12:41.960 --> 0:12:45.679 any tactful way to tell a receptionist coworker that their 0:12:45.760 --> 0:12:50.000 flagelence has become an issue? It honestly smells like a 0:12:50.160 --> 0:12:53.880 horse has ship in the entryway, which I find to 0:12:53.920 --> 0:12:58.800 be distracting, let alone disrespectful to the rest of the staff. 0:12:59.800 --> 0:13:02.319 And then he he says, Matt, how about an anonymous 0:13:02.400 --> 0:13:06.679 letter on the desk, a bottle of beano? Uh? Any 0:13:06.720 --> 0:13:14.080 suggestion would be appreciated, Sincerely, Matt in l Myra. All right, 0:13:14.120 --> 0:13:16.000 So this is a tough one. You've got someone you 0:13:16.080 --> 0:13:20.559 work with who stinks you have to be delicate with this. 0:13:21.640 --> 0:13:23.520 You have to be right because you get in trouble. 0:13:23.880 --> 0:13:26.160 I don't know if they have an HR department, what 0:13:26.360 --> 0:13:29.000 would be the move here Gascon. I think I think 0:13:29.000 --> 0:13:32.120 you gotta lie. I think the approaches you. You lie 0:13:32.120 --> 0:13:35.719 to that person and you basically say, hey, just a 0:13:35.800 --> 0:13:37.480 heads up. I don't know what time you got here, 0:13:37.520 --> 0:13:43.200 but I sprayed down this area, um, because it's been 0:13:44.120 --> 0:13:46.640 kind of smells like just in this region of the 0:13:46.720 --> 0:13:48.200 last couple of days. I don't know if you've noticed 0:13:48.240 --> 0:13:50.400 it or not. Um, So I spread it down so 0:13:50.440 --> 0:13:52.200 I apologize if it stinks to you, if it just 0:13:52.240 --> 0:13:55.960 has that kind of weird uh where it's sent. And 0:13:56.080 --> 0:13:58.360 if I spread down later, I'm gonna do that too. 0:13:59.480 --> 0:14:02.840 So that would be year solution to the yeah you lie, 0:14:02.920 --> 0:14:06.000 you played dumb and you make her ask the questions 0:14:06.040 --> 0:14:10.320 of like what does it smell like? Yeah? Uh? The 0:14:10.320 --> 0:14:12.640 one thing I will say, and we've all done this 0:14:12.720 --> 0:14:16.360 at some point with with flagelence, you're trying to cover 0:14:16.400 --> 0:14:19.120 it up with the spray. Yeah, it just makes it. 0:14:19.440 --> 0:14:21.320 You still smell it. It just has a little bit 0:14:21.320 --> 0:14:25.479 of a sugary smell, you know what I mean? Yeah? 0:14:25.600 --> 0:14:29.080 All right, anyway, let's see you. Who else do we 0:14:29.120 --> 0:14:33.200 have your any meny miney mo Jack in Greensboro and 0:14:33.480 --> 0:14:36.520 Carolina says, Hey, Ben, what is the most important piece 0:14:36.520 --> 0:14:39.400 of advice that your father passed down to you. Well, 0:14:39.400 --> 0:14:41.920 it's hard to summon up with just one piece of advice, 0:14:42.040 --> 0:14:45.480 the fatherly wisdom that you pick up just being around 0:14:46.000 --> 0:14:49.240 your dad or your mom. And uh, yeah, a lot, 0:14:49.280 --> 0:14:51.720 a lot of a lot of interest things. My dad 0:14:51.800 --> 0:14:55.120 had a tremendous knowledge. He was an engineer. He worked 0:14:55.280 --> 0:14:58.480 with computers when I was a kid. But this was 0:14:58.560 --> 0:15:01.520 before computers are com uters today. This is when computers 0:15:01.520 --> 0:15:05.240 were the size of a football field, and so he 0:15:05.240 --> 0:15:09.080 helped develop programs and things where computers in the early 0:15:09.160 --> 0:15:12.960 days before before they became the things that have overwhelmed us, 0:15:13.440 --> 0:15:17.200 uh these days. And he had interesting No, he loved 0:15:17.200 --> 0:15:19.400 there's certain things that were just he was very passionate 0:15:19.440 --> 0:15:23.320 about Mark Twain. He loved Mark Twain for some reason. 0:15:23.480 --> 0:15:26.600 That was this guy, old Mark Twain quotes books about 0:15:26.600 --> 0:15:30.280 Mark Twain, Ham Radio. Um, those are some of the things. 0:15:30.320 --> 0:15:32.600 But I mean, as far as advice, it just kind 0:15:32.600 --> 0:15:33.800 of like, you know, how to how to live and 0:15:34.120 --> 0:15:37.200 be a good family guy, and be loyal and supportive 0:15:37.200 --> 0:15:39.440 and all that. Those are things I learned from my 0:15:39.440 --> 0:15:41.800 my father just by observing. You know, my my mom 0:15:41.880 --> 0:15:45.240 and dad were married forever and ever and ever, and 0:15:45.480 --> 0:15:47.720 they had, you know, they didn't a good relationship. And 0:15:47.760 --> 0:15:50.280 also I tould I've told the story before. You know, 0:15:50.440 --> 0:15:54.480 both my parents are now gone and growing up. I 0:15:54.520 --> 0:15:56.600 think it's really interesting now looking at the way the 0:15:56.600 --> 0:15:59.920 world's gone. My mom was more liberal, my dad conservative. 0:16:00.840 --> 0:16:02.800 And they would talk about the issues of the day. 0:16:02.800 --> 0:16:05.800 There's always something and they would duke it out and 0:16:05.800 --> 0:16:08.520 they wouldn't agree, and but at the end of dinner 0:16:08.560 --> 0:16:12.120 they would you hug it out. They're good. No problem 0:16:12.200 --> 0:16:14.240 these days. So like you're at each other's next you 0:16:14.240 --> 0:16:15.640 want to you want to kill each other. You can't 0:16:15.640 --> 0:16:17.080 be in the same room. You can't have friends that 0:16:17.120 --> 0:16:20.960 don't agree with your political idea. You know your political beliefs. So, 0:16:22.000 --> 0:16:24.440 I mean, those are some of the things. Uh, Corey 0:16:24.480 --> 0:16:27.520 in Minnesota, is what's your favorite memory of your father? Again, 0:16:27.600 --> 0:16:29.160 that's the tough to sum it up in one memory. 0:16:29.200 --> 0:16:31.320 I I flashed back to some of the games. My 0:16:31.400 --> 0:16:33.240 dad was not a huge sportsman. My mom was more 0:16:33.240 --> 0:16:35.240 of a sportsman. But my dad knew I love sports, 0:16:35.640 --> 0:16:37.800 and so I remember some of the games we went 0:16:37.840 --> 0:16:41.000 to and he had gotten tickets, whether through work or 0:16:41.040 --> 0:16:42.800 something I remember when I was a kid. The first 0:16:42.880 --> 0:16:46.560 NFL game I went to was a RAM game and 0:16:46.800 --> 0:16:50.160 I was playing the forty Niners and this was Joe Montana, 0:16:50.480 --> 0:16:53.280 you know, big deal in in in Bill Walsh and 0:16:53.320 --> 0:16:55.840 all that. And I remember I was so excited, such 0:16:55.880 --> 0:16:58.760 a nerd as a kid, because I even at that age, 0:16:58.760 --> 0:17:00.480 I was like, maybe I'll be a broadcast to some day. 0:17:00.520 --> 0:17:03.320 And I saw the Madden Cruiser parked out the big 0:17:03.560 --> 0:17:07.280 parked outside the Big A in Anaheim because Madden doesn't fly, 0:17:07.400 --> 0:17:08.840 and he took the Madden Cruiser and it was like 0:17:08.880 --> 0:17:11.360 a big deal. And I remember it was with my dad, 0:17:11.440 --> 0:17:14.320 I went to the All Star Game. He got tickets 0:17:14.320 --> 0:17:16.920 to the All Star Game in Anaheim in the late 0:17:16.960 --> 0:17:19.720 eighties there, and it was funny because it was that 0:17:19.840 --> 0:17:21.520 was a big All Star game at the time because 0:17:21.520 --> 0:17:23.200 Bo Jackson was in the All Star Game Nike. He 0:17:23.240 --> 0:17:26.280 had a big marketing campaign about about Bow. But we 0:17:26.320 --> 0:17:28.359 had terrible seats, but it didn't matter. We were in 0:17:28.400 --> 0:17:30.720 the stadium and it was a big deal. And and 0:17:31.040 --> 0:17:33.840 my dad was more excited though, because Ronald Reagan was 0:17:33.960 --> 0:17:36.320 at the game in the press box. He did a 0:17:36.320 --> 0:17:38.960 couple of innings on NBC for the I think it 0:17:39.000 --> 0:17:40.760 was NBC for the All Star Game. They brought him in. 0:17:40.800 --> 0:17:43.080 He was no longer president at nineteen nine, but they 0:17:43.119 --> 0:17:46.399 brought him in. And I remember how exciting that was. 0:17:46.480 --> 0:17:48.560 And we were looking all the Secret Service people and 0:17:48.600 --> 0:17:51.800 all that so and uh and I also remember I 0:17:51.840 --> 0:17:56.480 was at an Angel game. They're playing the Tigers, and uh, 0:17:56.520 --> 0:17:59.920 I was a little kid with my dad and some guy. 0:18:00.040 --> 0:18:06.480 I tossed like a cigar cigarette thing over the upper 0:18:06.600 --> 0:18:09.200 you know, the deck above us, and landed on my leg. 0:18:09.240 --> 0:18:11.439 I was wearing shorts and burned the ship out of 0:18:11.440 --> 0:18:15.920 my legs, right, And um, I remember my dad taking 0:18:15.920 --> 0:18:17.080 care of me and all that stuff. So, I mean, 0:18:17.080 --> 0:18:18.680 there's some there's a bunch of those type of things. 0:18:18.680 --> 0:18:22.320 But I will I will miss my old man for sure. 0:18:22.480 --> 0:18:24.600 That's a that's a tough one. Enjoy you got your 0:18:24.640 --> 0:18:26.960 parents still. I I've I've I've found out now I've 0:18:27.040 --> 0:18:28.920 joined a club, a club I didn't want to join. 0:18:28.960 --> 0:18:30.320 But we're all going to join at some point if 0:18:30.320 --> 0:18:33.959 we're lucky. Actually, where you outlive your parents and it's uh, 0:18:34.160 --> 0:18:37.040 that's it sucks, but it's part of life. It's part 0:18:37.040 --> 0:18:41.560 of life. Um, Pierre in Springfield right saying he's now 0:18:41.560 --> 0:18:44.040 here we go. He says, did your father look down 0:18:44.040 --> 0:18:48.320 on your association with Gagon? And he says, did your 0:18:48.359 --> 0:18:50.639 parents approved your decision to go into radio? And no, 0:18:51.040 --> 0:18:55.119 my dad actually was impressed because Gagon's got credibility. Because 0:18:55.119 --> 0:18:58.439 my dad loved the police and law enforcement, and he 0:18:58.520 --> 0:19:02.080 actually volunteered with Ham Radio locally in the city he 0:19:02.119 --> 0:19:05.119 lived in with the police department. He loved the police. 0:19:05.119 --> 0:19:07.600 And so you know the fact that I could brag 0:19:07.680 --> 0:19:10.199 that I worked with Gascon and his dad ran the 0:19:10.280 --> 0:19:11.399 l A p D. You know, you know, it was 0:19:11.400 --> 0:19:13.040 a big shot. That was like a big deal. So 0:19:13.280 --> 0:19:16.120 he loved that. And uh, my parents, No, my my 0:19:16.160 --> 0:19:18.880 mom the good thing. I'm my mom and dad. They 0:19:18.920 --> 0:19:21.119 just wanted me to do something I was passionate about 0:19:21.240 --> 0:19:24.480 and to work hard at it. And they knew the 0:19:24.480 --> 0:19:27.200 odds were against making it in radio. But my mom 0:19:27.400 --> 0:19:29.080 was very supportive and my dad was you know, he 0:19:29.119 --> 0:19:30.800 went along with it. He was good, you know, give 0:19:30.800 --> 0:19:34.240 it a shot. Um. And I remember when I was 0:19:34.280 --> 0:19:36.840 making no money when I got hired at six ninety 0:19:36.840 --> 0:19:39.040 in San Diego and I was a reporter and I 0:19:39.080 --> 0:19:41.000 was making ship money. I could have worked at Jack 0:19:41.000 --> 0:19:43.000 in the box and made more money, and I was 0:19:43.040 --> 0:19:49.040 working everything, but I after the baseball strike in they 0:19:49.080 --> 0:19:51.879 ended the season early. They came back and they I 0:19:51.960 --> 0:19:56.920 covered every game Dodgers and Angels for for the following season. 0:19:56.960 --> 0:19:58.960 They had no days off, so I was at the 0:19:58.960 --> 0:20:01.960 ballpark every day. And I even got sick because I 0:20:02.000 --> 0:20:03.480 was going out there so much, so I could get 0:20:03.480 --> 0:20:05.040 sick o to baseball games. But I was like, I 0:20:05.080 --> 0:20:06.880 had no time off. I had like, no not even 0:20:06.920 --> 0:20:09.000 one day a week, and I was making no money. 0:20:09.040 --> 0:20:11.560 But they were very supportive. Both my parents were very 0:20:12.160 --> 0:20:13.960 very supportive, and they were proud of me. You know, 0:20:14.000 --> 0:20:15.600 that's and that's all you want as a kid, right 0:20:15.600 --> 0:20:18.000 you want your parents to be proud of you. And 0:20:18.480 --> 0:20:20.320 you know my mom and dad, I mean they made 0:20:20.320 --> 0:20:23.080 sure they always let me know that. Uh it was. 0:20:23.119 --> 0:20:25.640 They were very pregnant. And you know, my mom would 0:20:25.640 --> 0:20:27.800 listen to the overnight show. I was doing weekend overnights 0:20:27.800 --> 0:20:29.639 and my mom, who was not in the best of health, 0:20:30.160 --> 0:20:32.600 would stay up all night to listen to the show. 0:20:33.240 --> 0:20:35.679 She would change her schedule because she wanted to. And 0:20:35.680 --> 0:20:37.600 whenever I went and I worked some when I first 0:20:37.600 --> 0:20:39.680 started a Fox Sports radio, I was like the swing guy. 0:20:39.800 --> 0:20:42.800 I would fill in, you know, different different parts of 0:20:42.800 --> 0:20:44.960