1 00:00:00,720 --> 00:00:01,440 Speaker 1: Kubbooms. 2 00:00:02,279 --> 00:00:05,360 Speaker 2: If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes 3 00:00:05,400 --> 00:00:09,200 Speaker 2: a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants 4 00:00:09,200 --> 00:00:12,480 Speaker 2: of the old Republic, a soul fashion of fairness. He 5 00:00:12,560 --> 00:00:15,480 Speaker 2: treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the 6 00:00:15,600 --> 00:00:19,560 Speaker 2: rich pill poppers in the penthouse. Wow to Clearinghouse of 7 00:00:19,640 --> 00:00:23,480 Speaker 2: hot takes, break free for something special. The Fifth Hour 8 00:00:23,600 --> 00:00:30,680 Speaker 2: with Ben Maller starts right now. 9 00:00:28,960 --> 00:00:34,680 Speaker 1: In the air everywhere The Fifth Hour with Me, Ben 10 00:00:34,720 --> 00:00:38,519 Speaker 1: Mahler and Danny g Radio A Happy Friday to you. 11 00:00:38,600 --> 00:00:41,080 Speaker 1: It is the beginning of the weekend. But the Audio 12 00:00:41,159 --> 00:00:47,280 Speaker 1: Sweatshop does not stop. We produce fresh audio every single day. 13 00:00:47,320 --> 00:00:52,040 Speaker 1: Here of a new podcast on Saturday, another one on Sunday. 14 00:00:52,479 --> 00:00:55,360 Speaker 1: But here we are together on this podcast. Today we 15 00:00:55,440 --> 00:01:01,200 Speaker 1: have the Squiggly Zigzags and the flour is Lava. We'll 16 00:01:01,200 --> 00:01:04,559 Speaker 1: get to those, but first, it is National Handbag Day today. 17 00:01:05,360 --> 00:01:07,640 Speaker 1: I do not own a handbag. My wife owns many. 18 00:01:07,760 --> 00:01:12,920 Speaker 1: And it turns out that the handbag or the purse 19 00:01:14,319 --> 00:01:18,600 Speaker 1: goes all the way back, all the way back to 20 00:01:20,040 --> 00:01:23,039 Speaker 1: way way back in time. In fact, the first recorded 21 00:01:23,400 --> 00:01:26,720 Speaker 1: it goes back to prehistory. The first purse recorded in 22 00:01:26,840 --> 00:01:33,200 Speaker 1: history belonged to osi Otzi the Iceman. Atzi the Iceman, 23 00:01:33,959 --> 00:01:37,400 Speaker 1: who lived between thirty four hundred and thirty one hundred 24 00:01:37,440 --> 00:01:43,760 Speaker 1: BC between what's now Austria and Italy. So if you 25 00:01:43,800 --> 00:01:47,000 Speaker 1: need an ice, you went to Ozzi the Iceman in 26 00:01:47,480 --> 00:01:51,560 Speaker 1: that area right around Austria and Italy. And apparently he 27 00:01:51,600 --> 00:01:55,320 Speaker 1: was not alone. The historians I filled down this rabbit 28 00:01:55,360 --> 00:01:58,160 Speaker 1: hole and they actually said that in the beginning, back 29 00:01:58,200 --> 00:02:03,320 Speaker 1: in those days, mostly dudes carried purses because they needed 30 00:02:03,320 --> 00:02:06,960 Speaker 1: access to the coins. That's money was coins, and the 31 00:02:06,960 --> 00:02:11,680 Speaker 1: purse became a status symbol for men, the man purse, 32 00:02:12,320 --> 00:02:15,720 Speaker 1: which apparently is back now for some dudes like the person, 33 00:02:15,800 --> 00:02:19,240 Speaker 1: but he goes way way back. And obviously over time 34 00:02:20,160 --> 00:02:25,760 Speaker 1: women have hijacked the man purse and made it their 35 00:02:25,800 --> 00:02:29,840 Speaker 1: own and they became I guess it was like the 36 00:02:29,880 --> 00:02:33,880 Speaker 1: seventeen late seventeen hundreds. Many women I carried them, no 37 00:02:34,040 --> 00:02:37,720 Speaker 1: men carried them. So anyway, National Handbag Day, so go 38 00:02:37,760 --> 00:02:42,360 Speaker 1: out and buy a handbag. So I wanted to follow up. 39 00:02:42,520 --> 00:02:44,880 Speaker 1: I did the Overnight show, and the way this works 40 00:02:44,960 --> 00:02:46,520 Speaker 1: is I do the show and then I kind of 41 00:02:46,520 --> 00:02:49,519 Speaker 1: decompressed for a little bit, and then I leave the studio, 42 00:02:49,960 --> 00:02:53,800 Speaker 1: the remote studio, and then I walk away, and then 43 00:02:54,280 --> 00:02:56,960 Speaker 1: I try to collect my thoughts on what I want 44 00:02:57,000 --> 00:02:59,680 Speaker 1: to talk about because I have to do the podcast. 45 00:03:00,080 --> 00:03:03,000 Speaker 1: To do the podcast, I'm contractually obligated to the podcast. 46 00:03:03,919 --> 00:03:08,560 Speaker 1: And so I wandered away, and I walked back into 47 00:03:08,600 --> 00:03:11,840 Speaker 1: the remote studio, and I sat in the chair and 48 00:03:11,880 --> 00:03:14,360 Speaker 1: I jotted down a few bullet points and some things, 49 00:03:14,400 --> 00:03:17,440 Speaker 1: and then said, you know, I don't think I'm done 50 00:03:18,280 --> 00:03:21,280 Speaker 1: yapping about the baseball game. And there's something that I 51 00:03:21,440 --> 00:03:23,480 Speaker 1: missed on the overnight show that I meant to get 52 00:03:23,520 --> 00:03:24,840 Speaker 1: to that I didn't get to. And I thought, well, 53 00:03:24,880 --> 00:03:26,919 Speaker 1: this is the fifth hour, and the whole point of 54 00:03:26,960 --> 00:03:30,680 Speaker 1: the fifth hour is to follow up on things that 55 00:03:31,160 --> 00:03:33,480 Speaker 1: I could have or should have talked about during the week. 56 00:03:33,520 --> 00:03:35,640 Speaker 1: So anyway, get to the point, please. So I have 57 00:03:35,720 --> 00:03:38,280 Speaker 1: some more thoughts about the Dodger of Phillies series, which 58 00:03:38,360 --> 00:03:42,760 Speaker 1: ended yesterday, and it was very stressful. I didn't play 59 00:03:42,800 --> 00:03:44,400 Speaker 1: any of those games, but I'm trying to watch three 60 00:03:44,440 --> 00:03:46,360 Speaker 1: games at the same time because the Dodger game went 61 00:03:46,360 --> 00:03:48,640 Speaker 1: to extra innings and so there's a lot going on. 62 00:03:49,320 --> 00:03:51,320 Speaker 1: But I'm going to focus on the Phillies Dodgers game 63 00:03:51,320 --> 00:03:55,920 Speaker 1: because you know, not that much is going to change. However, 64 00:03:57,320 --> 00:04:01,680 Speaker 1: this particular National League Divisional series of two is empirical 65 00:04:01,760 --> 00:04:07,760 Speaker 1: data that the obsession with stats has a fatal flaw. 66 00:04:07,800 --> 00:04:12,320 Speaker 1: There's a soft underbelly. The three ring binder crowd got 67 00:04:12,400 --> 00:04:16,840 Speaker 1: absolutely pants in broad daylight. All the spreadsheets, all the 68 00:04:16,880 --> 00:04:24,159 Speaker 1: AI expected outcomes, all the smug process over results lectures 69 00:04:24,160 --> 00:04:28,440 Speaker 1: from the super nerds, and all all that went call 70 00:04:28,560 --> 00:04:33,360 Speaker 1: Bluey on a sun soaked day at Dodgers Stadium. Now 71 00:04:33,360 --> 00:04:36,320 Speaker 1: we saw actual, honest, the goodest, I'm not making this up, 72 00:04:36,960 --> 00:04:43,160 Speaker 1: unpredictable baseball. The Phillies followed the binder of numbers perfectly 73 00:04:43,760 --> 00:04:47,320 Speaker 1: checked all the boxes, right. What was the game plan 74 00:04:47,400 --> 00:04:50,440 Speaker 1: for the Philadelphia Phillies. Don't let sho Heo Tani beat 75 00:04:50,480 --> 00:04:53,240 Speaker 1: you check he's the Dodgers' top player. They checked that box, 76 00:04:53,720 --> 00:04:59,080 Speaker 1: get into that horrible Dodger bullpen. They blow check that box, 77 00:04:59,400 --> 00:05:03,599 Speaker 1: control game script check check check check check check. They 78 00:05:03,680 --> 00:05:07,440 Speaker 1: checked all the boxes, all the boxes in Philadelphia, and 79 00:05:07,520 --> 00:05:11,160 Speaker 1: yet they still today are cleaning out their locker and 80 00:05:11,880 --> 00:05:15,920 Speaker 1: packing their bags for Cancun because they forgot one it 81 00:05:16,200 --> 00:05:21,440 Speaker 1: cheap bit seat, tiny weeny. Inconvenient detail, the sport of 82 00:05:21,480 --> 00:05:24,359 Speaker 1: baseball is not played on a laptop. Oh what a bummer. 83 00:05:24,920 --> 00:05:29,240 Speaker 1: It's played by nervous humans with gloves and a heartbeat 84 00:05:29,279 --> 00:05:31,119 Speaker 1: that spikes up when they're playing in front of fifty 85 00:05:31,200 --> 00:05:36,159 Speaker 1: thousand screaming lunatics. The three true outcomes crowd, we all 86 00:05:36,200 --> 00:05:39,719 Speaker 1: know who they are. Home run, walk, strikeout. They got 87 00:05:39,720 --> 00:05:45,560 Speaker 1: their little fantasy land shattered. It was shattered. Boom goes 88 00:05:45,560 --> 00:05:48,760 Speaker 1: to the dynamite. Because when you live and die by 89 00:05:48,800 --> 00:05:51,760 Speaker 1: the measurable outcomes, there's these people like to tell us 90 00:05:52,400 --> 00:05:56,400 Speaker 1: you're banking on everything going exactly right. Now, before I 91 00:05:56,480 --> 00:05:59,680 Speaker 1: go forward, let me tell you something. I actually don't 92 00:05:59,720 --> 00:06:05,880 Speaker 1: hate analytics. I think everything in reasonable portions is fine. 93 00:06:06,720 --> 00:06:10,600 Speaker 1: The problem is the pendulum has swung so far in 94 00:06:10,680 --> 00:06:15,320 Speaker 1: this direction that it's insane. It's ridiculous right, and there's 95 00:06:15,680 --> 00:06:18,480 Speaker 1: seemingly no way to dig out of it. Hopefully this 96 00:06:18,520 --> 00:06:21,280 Speaker 1: will be the start of something. I'm not someone that 97 00:06:21,320 --> 00:06:24,520 Speaker 1: believes that'll be the case, because again, you're banging on 98 00:06:24,560 --> 00:06:27,799 Speaker 1: everything going right. However, October does not care about your 99 00:06:28,560 --> 00:06:32,760 Speaker 1: feelings about expected batting average or your launch angel latch, 100 00:06:32,920 --> 00:06:35,839 Speaker 1: angle bull craft or whatever that the Phillies did not 101 00:06:36,000 --> 00:06:41,120 Speaker 1: account for the old school thing, put the ball in play. 102 00:06:41,560 --> 00:06:45,000 Speaker 1: Put the ball in play, and this was how baseball 103 00:06:45,000 --> 00:06:47,080 Speaker 1: had been played for the first one hundred and thirty 104 00:06:47,120 --> 00:06:51,080 Speaker 1: five years. That two hopper by Andy Paez in Game 105 00:06:51,120 --> 00:06:54,440 Speaker 1: four and the eleventh inning, forty feet of nothing. He 106 00:06:54,560 --> 00:06:58,280 Speaker 1: hit the ball forty feet There should be shame he 107 00:06:58,320 --> 00:07:01,360 Speaker 1: was doing the postgame interview celebrating. His teammates ran out 108 00:07:01,400 --> 00:07:06,520 Speaker 1: to party with him. That turned the series switch off. 109 00:07:07,480 --> 00:07:11,000 Speaker 1: That's what happens when you force defenders to make plays 110 00:07:11,160 --> 00:07:14,840 Speaker 1: under pressure. And yeah, this is a bit of hot 111 00:07:14,880 --> 00:07:18,000 Speaker 1: take validation. I've done monologues over the last couple of 112 00:07:18,040 --> 00:07:20,680 Speaker 1: years about this very thing. When you put the ball 113 00:07:20,720 --> 00:07:25,040 Speaker 1: in play, crazy things happen, Unexpected things happen. The Phillies 114 00:07:25,080 --> 00:07:28,840 Speaker 1: built their game around avoiding that. The Dodgers, who also 115 00:07:29,280 --> 00:07:32,560 Speaker 1: play by the Algo rhythms, they're run by the almighty 116 00:07:32,600 --> 00:07:37,160 Speaker 1: alg rhythms. However, call it what you want is beneficiary 117 00:07:37,240 --> 00:07:40,880 Speaker 1: of dumb luck. Andy Piez did not have to hit 118 00:07:40,920 --> 00:07:43,320 Speaker 1: a ball four hundred and fifty shot over the four 119 00:07:43,360 --> 00:07:46,920 Speaker 1: hundred and fifty feet uarters over the pavilion. He hit 120 00:07:47,160 --> 00:07:49,560 Speaker 1: what many would describe the clinical term I believe in 121 00:07:49,600 --> 00:07:52,560 Speaker 1: baseball is a worm burner. He hit a worm burner 122 00:07:52,920 --> 00:07:58,480 Speaker 1: back to the mount. So what happens o'riyan Kirkering melts 123 00:07:58,720 --> 00:08:04,400 Speaker 1: down like butter airmails, the throw panic at the disco, 124 00:08:05,760 --> 00:08:11,240 Speaker 1: Dodgers score, the Dodgers win, and the Phillies go check 125 00:08:11,720 --> 00:08:16,520 Speaker 1: travel plans with their travel agent. That's the human element 126 00:08:17,000 --> 00:08:19,960 Speaker 1: the geekdom does not account for. They just don't. Do 127 00:08:19,960 --> 00:08:22,720 Speaker 1: you agree, you're shaking your head, yes, good. You can't 128 00:08:23,040 --> 00:08:28,800 Speaker 1: code a panic attack into your war protection, your wins 129 00:08:28,880 --> 00:08:32,840 Speaker 1: above replacement. This is why we rip the nerds. It's 130 00:08:32,960 --> 00:08:36,040 Speaker 1: the very essence of what we're talking about, the epitome 131 00:08:36,120 --> 00:08:38,640 Speaker 1: of what we're talking about. They don't trust the game 132 00:08:38,720 --> 00:08:42,240 Speaker 1: to be messy. They don't factor that in. They're obsessed 133 00:08:42,480 --> 00:08:44,679 Speaker 1: the people that run these big time teams. They's pretty 134 00:08:44,720 --> 00:08:47,840 Speaker 1: much every team in baseball. They're obsessed with controlling chaos, 135 00:08:48,400 --> 00:08:51,760 Speaker 1: with reducing liability. Everything has to be down to a 136 00:08:51,800 --> 00:08:59,280 Speaker 1: decimal And the problem is baseball pushes real baseball when 137 00:08:59,320 --> 00:09:01,520 Speaker 1: you play the right way, it pushes and punishes the 138 00:09:01,520 --> 00:09:05,200 Speaker 1: control freaks. Spoiler alert, spoiler alert all statistics and I 139 00:09:05,240 --> 00:09:09,479 Speaker 1: was taught this years ago all statistics have outliers. Stats 140 00:09:09,640 --> 00:09:14,280 Speaker 1: aren't linear, They're not They have squiggly zigzags. Not the 141 00:09:14,320 --> 00:09:16,120 Speaker 1: guy that used to call the Ben Maler Show twenty 142 00:09:16,200 --> 00:09:20,719 Speaker 1: years ago called zigzag. No, they have squiggly zigzags. October 143 00:09:21,679 --> 00:09:27,000 Speaker 1: still rewards teams that make something out of nothing, that 144 00:09:27,080 --> 00:09:31,000 Speaker 1: makes something happen. Put the ball in play, make a 145 00:09:31,080 --> 00:09:35,560 Speaker 1: shortstop plant and throw on a tough hop that reliever, 146 00:09:35,920 --> 00:09:38,480 Speaker 1: make him pick up the little dribbler with the sweaty 147 00:09:38,520 --> 00:09:43,199 Speaker 1: palms and the nerves and the brain fart happens right. 148 00:09:43,400 --> 00:09:46,280 Speaker 1: Make a catcher block a pitch in the dirt with 149 00:09:46,320 --> 00:09:51,120 Speaker 1: a runner coming home. That stuff's not necessarily glamorous, and 150 00:09:51,200 --> 00:09:54,960 Speaker 1: it doesn't fit into the computer. However, I am of 151 00:09:55,120 --> 00:09:58,200 Speaker 1: the dogma that it believes. I'm in the cult where 152 00:09:58,240 --> 00:10:01,600 Speaker 1: that still wins and that works. They didn't account, for example, 153 00:10:01,600 --> 00:10:04,000 Speaker 1: the Phillies when they talked about, hey, we got a sapotani, 154 00:10:04,040 --> 00:10:06,000 Speaker 1: we got to get to the Dodger bullpen, all this stuff. 155 00:10:06,120 --> 00:10:09,200 Speaker 1: They did not account for Bryce Harper riding the vomit 156 00:10:09,320 --> 00:10:12,480 Speaker 1: comet and batting two hundred. They didn't account for Kyle 157 00:10:12,520 --> 00:10:17,000 Speaker 1: Schwarber hitting what a buck forty three a dugout full 158 00:10:17,040 --> 00:10:20,200 Speaker 1: of dudes who I don't know where they're staring at 159 00:10:20,240 --> 00:10:22,160 Speaker 1: the table. I don't know what they were doing. And 160 00:10:22,440 --> 00:10:25,000 Speaker 1: you know they were staring at their tablets. They were 161 00:10:25,000 --> 00:10:28,520 Speaker 1: staring at something, but they didn't do the thing they 162 00:10:28,520 --> 00:10:30,480 Speaker 1: were supposed to do at the time they was doing. Meanwhile, 163 00:10:30,760 --> 00:10:33,920 Speaker 1: the Dodgers with a bullpen, which is a house of 164 00:10:33,960 --> 00:10:36,480 Speaker 1: horse things that go bump in the night. The Dodger bullpen. 165 00:10:36,800 --> 00:10:39,360 Speaker 1: Everyone said, we said, it's a disaster, and it was. 166 00:10:40,000 --> 00:10:43,080 Speaker 1: We were right. We won that take. It's a disaster. 167 00:10:44,040 --> 00:10:46,720 Speaker 1: They did pitch the contact. But if you look at 168 00:10:46,760 --> 00:10:52,599 Speaker 1: the numbers on the Dodger bullpen outside of Roku Suzaki, 169 00:10:52,679 --> 00:10:55,040 Speaker 1: the Dodger bullpen on an erea of five point five. 170 00:10:55,120 --> 00:10:57,199 Speaker 1: All so, the Phillies got to the bullpen, they got 171 00:10:57,280 --> 00:11:01,640 Speaker 1: runs off the bullpen. Kershaw melted down. The Dodgers, realizing 172 00:11:01,640 --> 00:11:05,120 Speaker 1: their bullpen such a national embarrassment that they were using, 173 00:11:05,200 --> 00:11:09,680 Speaker 1: starting pitching in relief. That was the move. And so 174 00:11:09,800 --> 00:11:12,640 Speaker 1: again this is just a kick to the nuts for 175 00:11:12,760 --> 00:11:15,440 Speaker 1: those of you in the back of the room. The 176 00:11:15,480 --> 00:11:18,800 Speaker 1: Phillies actually again they executed the plan. They got the 177 00:11:18,880 --> 00:11:22,600 Speaker 1: cold Oltani. He's supposedly the greatest player in baseball who 178 00:11:22,640 --> 00:11:26,240 Speaker 1: was terrible. They got the shaky bullpen. They had every 179 00:11:26,520 --> 00:11:30,840 Speaker 1: advantage possible on a tablet. We used to say paper, 180 00:11:30,880 --> 00:11:33,560 Speaker 1: but now they used tablets and the Phillies still lost. 181 00:11:33,800 --> 00:11:35,840 Speaker 1: And this is the end of this run. They're going 182 00:11:35,920 --> 00:11:38,600 Speaker 1: to have to reorganize that rosters. We talked about on 183 00:11:38,640 --> 00:11:43,400 Speaker 1: the radio show last night. This NLDS of twenty twenty five. 184 00:11:43,440 --> 00:11:48,160 Speaker 1: It reminded every man, woman and child that you can 185 00:11:48,559 --> 00:11:51,840 Speaker 1: still win by forcing the other team to make plays 186 00:11:52,080 --> 00:11:58,679 Speaker 1: under pressure. And it's the simplest thing to do, and 187 00:11:58,720 --> 00:12:06,120 Speaker 1: it's become underrated, which seems ridiculous to say that it's underrated. 188 00:12:06,160 --> 00:12:09,040 Speaker 1: Does that not seem dumb to dumb dumb dumb that 189 00:12:09,760 --> 00:12:13,160 Speaker 1: just making someone make a play is the most underrated 190 00:12:13,200 --> 00:12:15,840 Speaker 1: weapon in baseball Because everything is run the same way, 191 00:12:16,559 --> 00:12:19,920 Speaker 1: and so it's not original. Every team hires some nerd 192 00:12:20,120 --> 00:12:23,400 Speaker 1: from an IVY League school or an IVY League adjacent 193 00:12:23,440 --> 00:12:27,120 Speaker 1: school to run their front office. All the owners have 194 00:12:27,240 --> 00:12:30,080 Speaker 1: been convinced this is the way, and it's not just 195 00:12:30,120 --> 00:12:33,360 Speaker 1: the way, it's the only way to get it done. 196 00:12:33,640 --> 00:12:37,160 Speaker 1: You have to do it this way, and so you 197 00:12:37,200 --> 00:12:39,840 Speaker 1: get all the advantages, you still end up US losing 198 00:12:39,880 --> 00:12:44,520 Speaker 1: and all that stuff. So yeah, congratulations to the Phillies. 199 00:12:44,559 --> 00:12:47,800 Speaker 1: The binder was flawless. You executed your game plan, you 200 00:12:47,880 --> 00:12:51,679 Speaker 1: did everything you wanted to do. And as the great 201 00:12:51,800 --> 00:12:58,920 Speaker 1: John Sterling would say, that's baseball, Susan, that's baseball. You 202 00:12:59,040 --> 00:13:02,959 Speaker 1: know you didn't win. Binder Ball works in June and July. 203 00:13:03,559 --> 00:13:06,040 Speaker 1: You go through the numbers and all the different things, 204 00:13:06,080 --> 00:13:11,000 Speaker 1: and that'll work. The issue with playoff baseball, as has 205 00:13:11,040 --> 00:13:14,440 Speaker 1: been discussed and you've heard it, is small sample size 206 00:13:15,320 --> 00:13:19,520 Speaker 1: and stuff that works in April, May, June, July, and August. 207 00:13:19,679 --> 00:13:23,120 Speaker 1: It dies on the vine in October. And if you 208 00:13:23,120 --> 00:13:26,560 Speaker 1: don't believe me, you might want to call up the Phillies. 209 00:13:26,760 --> 00:13:28,920 Speaker 1: I'll also tell the Phillies did look good, those uniforms, 210 00:13:29,000 --> 00:13:36,679 Speaker 1: those powder blues, solid good look. Result not so much, 211 00:13:36,960 --> 00:13:42,240 Speaker 1: not so much so. Turning the page, well not too far. 212 00:13:42,480 --> 00:13:44,960 Speaker 1: It's still a sporty story, but it's not really about sports. 213 00:13:44,960 --> 00:13:48,720 Speaker 1: So let's take you back. I know Week six started 214 00:13:48,800 --> 00:13:53,600 Speaker 1: last night with the upset city as the Giants upset 215 00:13:53,679 --> 00:13:57,840 Speaker 1: the reeling Philadelphia Eagles that are coming apart of the scene, 216 00:13:58,400 --> 00:13:59,760 Speaker 1: but let's take you back to Week five of the 217 00:13:59,880 --> 00:14:03,720 Speaker 1: n season. Just last weekend. It was not the kind 218 00:14:03,760 --> 00:14:07,800 Speaker 1: of welcome you'd expect when you stroll into a multi 219 00:14:08,160 --> 00:14:14,079 Speaker 1: billion dollar infl facility. You imagine when you go into 220 00:14:14,120 --> 00:14:17,920 Speaker 1: a place like that, gleaming quarters, polished marble like the 221 00:14:18,000 --> 00:14:24,800 Speaker 1: taj Mahal, smiling staff, all wearing those matching polos, and 222 00:14:24,840 --> 00:14:28,840 Speaker 1: they greet you with welcome to Sofi Stadium, Sir, how 223 00:14:28,880 --> 00:14:32,720 Speaker 1: can I help you? Well, that's what you would imagine 224 00:14:33,000 --> 00:14:37,640 Speaker 1: you would get. Instead the person you're listening to, that 225 00:14:37,680 --> 00:14:42,040 Speaker 1: would be me. Ben got a masterclass in how to 226 00:14:42,120 --> 00:14:46,479 Speaker 1: weaponize a reflective vest. You see. Last weekend, the Chargers 227 00:14:47,040 --> 00:14:51,520 Speaker 1: were hosting the Washington Commanders. Yes, those Washington Commanders, the 228 00:14:51,560 --> 00:14:55,800 Speaker 1: team formerly known as the Redskins, but now known for 229 00:14:56,000 --> 00:15:00,800 Speaker 1: owning more rebrands than playoff wins, although I guess they 230 00:15:00,800 --> 00:15:02,480 Speaker 1: did win a few games last year, but still the 231 00:15:02,480 --> 00:15:05,920 Speaker 1: Commanders known as the Washington football team. They were the 232 00:15:05,960 --> 00:15:10,280 Speaker 1: Redskins for years that named Commanders. And I saw them, 233 00:15:10,320 --> 00:15:12,560 Speaker 1: and I saw the press notes that said Commanders on it, 234 00:15:12,600 --> 00:15:15,400 Speaker 1: and they know the Washington traveling media that was there. 235 00:15:16,080 --> 00:15:20,239 Speaker 1: Commanders feels like it's the great value brand from Walmart. 236 00:15:20,320 --> 00:15:26,160 Speaker 1: It's a generic store brand, it's not a real NFL brand. Well, nevertheless, 237 00:15:26,280 --> 00:15:30,360 Speaker 1: I made the track down to Inglewood in the hood 238 00:15:30,560 --> 00:15:33,920 Speaker 1: in Inglewood and up to no good. Apparently I was 239 00:15:34,000 --> 00:15:39,160 Speaker 1: up to no good. The modern day Colisseum the greatest 240 00:15:39,200 --> 00:15:44,640 Speaker 1: stadium in the NFL, where billionaires mingle with influencers and 241 00:15:45,240 --> 00:15:48,840 Speaker 1: occasionally the great unwashed, the hoy poloy make their way 242 00:15:48,920 --> 00:15:52,560 Speaker 1: inside that stadium, and really the rest of us just 243 00:15:52,680 --> 00:15:57,360 Speaker 1: kind of find the right escalator. It is a beautiful facility. 244 00:15:58,040 --> 00:16:01,280 Speaker 1: So before kickoff, sent the txed over to my old pal, 245 00:16:01,560 --> 00:16:06,800 Speaker 1: my former colleague, Eddie Garcia. Now Eddie is a Steeler fan, 246 00:16:06,920 --> 00:16:12,760 Speaker 1: but through marriage, Eddie is a Charger fan and his 247 00:16:12,800 --> 00:16:16,080 Speaker 1: wife is a super fan. He's become a podcaster since 248 00:16:16,120 --> 00:16:19,760 Speaker 1: he got whacked by the company, and one of the 249 00:16:19,880 --> 00:16:23,080 Speaker 1: few people in sports media who can still form a 250 00:16:23,160 --> 00:16:27,360 Speaker 1: coherent sentence without consulting a teleprompter. I'm not gonna send 251 00:16:27,360 --> 00:16:30,480 Speaker 1: any tom loony. I'm not saying any anyway. So we'd 252 00:16:30,520 --> 00:16:35,280 Speaker 1: agreed to meet for a quick catch up, nothing elaborate, 253 00:16:35,440 --> 00:16:38,000 Speaker 1: you know. It's a brief destent, I believe, is the 254 00:16:38,040 --> 00:16:42,920 Speaker 1: word between two men who over the years have spent 255 00:16:43,080 --> 00:16:48,720 Speaker 1: many many many nights in dark, dingy radio studios infested 256 00:16:48,720 --> 00:16:54,080 Speaker 1: by vermin giant coca roaches, talking about backup catchers and 257 00:16:54,160 --> 00:16:59,000 Speaker 1: third string quarterbacks and all this other blogoney that we 258 00:16:59,080 --> 00:17:01,960 Speaker 1: talk about. And so our meeting spot was a little 259 00:17:02,040 --> 00:17:05,920 Speaker 1: in between zone. Now what does that mean? I'll tell 260 00:17:05,920 --> 00:17:09,960 Speaker 1: you what that So I was media free loading in 261 00:17:10,000 --> 00:17:14,120 Speaker 1: the press box and it was one level down from 262 00:17:14,160 --> 00:17:16,480 Speaker 1: the press box, but one level up from Eddie. So 263 00:17:16,800 --> 00:17:19,440 Speaker 1: meet in the middle. The man in the middle, Eddie 264 00:17:19,440 --> 00:17:22,439 Speaker 1: sits in a bougie seat on the lower level. So 265 00:17:22,520 --> 00:17:24,639 Speaker 1: I had to go down out of the press box. 266 00:17:24,680 --> 00:17:26,119 Speaker 1: I had to walk down a flight of stairs and 267 00:17:26,160 --> 00:17:30,680 Speaker 1: then walked out a door that is designed for like emergencies, 268 00:17:30,720 --> 00:17:34,200 Speaker 1: the fire escape. I walked down that. I then walk 269 00:17:34,400 --> 00:17:38,160 Speaker 1: over and I have to walk down to an escalator. 270 00:17:38,160 --> 00:17:40,080 Speaker 1: I go down the escalator and then I met the 271 00:17:40,200 --> 00:17:45,320 Speaker 1: right turn and I walk about fifteen yards or so, 272 00:17:45,359 --> 00:17:47,800 Speaker 1: and then there's Eddie and Eddie has to go one 273 00:17:47,840 --> 00:17:51,080 Speaker 1: level up and he's right there. It's a neutral site. 274 00:17:51,720 --> 00:17:55,280 Speaker 1: It's like the Geneva you know group there. It's just 275 00:17:56,080 --> 00:17:59,240 Speaker 1: more nacho cheese, just with more nacho cheese. Now we 276 00:17:59,359 --> 00:18:05,119 Speaker 1: chatted for me maybe five minutes. This was not a 277 00:18:05,160 --> 00:18:09,440 Speaker 1: long thing. You know, we're both introverts. We talk when 278 00:18:09,480 --> 00:18:11,360 Speaker 1: we have microphones in front of us. We don't talk 279 00:18:11,359 --> 00:18:15,119 Speaker 1: that much without microphones. I have to talk four hours 280 00:18:15,119 --> 00:18:17,200 Speaker 1: a night. I do three hours on the weekend. So 281 00:18:17,320 --> 00:18:20,640 Speaker 1: I know I'm good. I like Eddie, and we had 282 00:18:20,720 --> 00:18:23,280 Speaker 1: standard pleasantries and all that. How's the family, how's the 283 00:18:23,280 --> 00:18:25,760 Speaker 1: wife doing, how's the podcast? How's life treating you in 284 00:18:25,800 --> 00:18:30,320 Speaker 1: the glamorous world of niche podcasting? And then came the 285 00:18:30,359 --> 00:18:33,440 Speaker 1: photo op. This is all basic, basic, This is paint 286 00:18:33,520 --> 00:18:37,600 Speaker 1: by numbers. A couple of old war horses smiling for 287 00:18:37,680 --> 00:18:40,560 Speaker 1: the camera, neither of us realizing that in that very 288 00:18:40,600 --> 00:18:44,520 Speaker 1: moment we had become fugitives. I didn't realize I was 289 00:18:44,560 --> 00:18:46,520 Speaker 1: a fugitive. I just wanted to meet an old friend 290 00:18:46,560 --> 00:18:48,679 Speaker 1: and take a photo and catch up and have some 291 00:18:48,680 --> 00:18:51,280 Speaker 1: small talk. I don't even like small talk normally. It 292 00:18:51,400 --> 00:18:54,679 Speaker 1: turns out that its Sofi stadium. When you stand in 293 00:18:54,840 --> 00:18:58,240 Speaker 1: the place I was standing, you became a fugitive. I 294 00:18:58,240 --> 00:19:01,919 Speaker 1: didn't realize it. I hope my family's not disappointed with me, 295 00:19:02,320 --> 00:19:09,920 Speaker 1: because apparently we were standing on sacred ground out of nowhere. 296 00:19:10,560 --> 00:19:18,399 Speaker 1: A Sofi stadium employee appeared a middle aged woman, very 297 00:19:18,720 --> 00:19:22,680 Speaker 1: negative injury energy, very negative jerurgy. You know that kind 298 00:19:22,680 --> 00:19:28,520 Speaker 1: of grumpy woman where she last smiled when Bill Clinton 299 00:19:28,640 --> 00:19:31,520 Speaker 1: was president. It's been been a minute, and I was 300 00:19:31,640 --> 00:19:34,879 Speaker 1: not getting a lot of loving And I'm telling you, 301 00:19:35,000 --> 00:19:37,680 Speaker 1: she was vibrating with the kind of energy that you 302 00:19:37,840 --> 00:19:42,680 Speaker 1: normally see when you go too the DMV right or HOA. 303 00:19:42,760 --> 00:19:44,520 Speaker 1: I used to have an HOA. God. I hated the 304 00:19:44,680 --> 00:19:46,560 Speaker 1: HOA like the people that run the ho I just 305 00:19:46,680 --> 00:19:50,240 Speaker 1: really just scum of the earth. She looked at us 306 00:19:51,040 --> 00:19:54,320 Speaker 1: the way that I imagine security guards look at teenagers 307 00:19:54,359 --> 00:19:59,320 Speaker 1: that are loitering outside an Apple store. You can't stand there, 308 00:19:59,560 --> 00:20:06,280 Speaker 1: she barked our our uh, and so that was pretty annoying. 309 00:20:07,800 --> 00:20:11,560 Speaker 1: There's ways to handle these situations, not hey guys. She 310 00:20:11,600 --> 00:20:14,200 Speaker 1: didn't say, hey guys, sorry, quick heads up. I kind 311 00:20:14,200 --> 00:20:15,760 Speaker 1: of need you to move. Can you do me a 312 00:20:15,800 --> 00:20:18,040 Speaker 1: good solid Please take the photo and then move on. 313 00:20:18,160 --> 00:20:20,920 Speaker 1: I need that space clear. Not even a polite would 314 00:20:20,960 --> 00:20:22,600 Speaker 1: you mind moving? I didn't get a polite would you 315 00:20:22,640 --> 00:20:26,320 Speaker 1: mind moving? No? No, no. This was the malibuz most 316 00:20:26,400 --> 00:20:30,879 Speaker 1: wanted of stadium enforcement. The tone, the stance, the whole 317 00:20:30,960 --> 00:20:34,520 Speaker 1: power trip ensemble. She had it all going on, and 318 00:20:34,560 --> 00:20:37,879 Speaker 1: as lee Elia would say, they're really really behind you 319 00:20:37,960 --> 00:20:41,560 Speaker 1: around here, my fucking ass. All right, that's what I 320 00:20:41,600 --> 00:20:43,120 Speaker 1: was thinking. I was thinking of Lee Ilia, the old 321 00:20:43,119 --> 00:20:46,080 Speaker 1: Cubs manager who died this year. Now, I have been 322 00:20:46,119 --> 00:20:50,160 Speaker 1: around long enough at this point in my life where 323 00:20:50,240 --> 00:20:53,359 Speaker 1: I recognize when I come across what I call a 324 00:20:53,440 --> 00:20:58,200 Speaker 1: Paul bart Malkop moment. We know, and I think most 325 00:20:58,240 --> 00:21:01,040 Speaker 1: people know even when you're younger. You recognize a Paul 326 00:21:01,119 --> 00:21:05,359 Speaker 1: Bart Malcott moment. When it's unfolded. You give someone who's 327 00:21:05,359 --> 00:21:08,520 Speaker 1: spent their life in the shadows being ignored by polite 328 00:21:08,560 --> 00:21:12,560 Speaker 1: society a tiny bit of authority, just a little bit 329 00:21:12,600 --> 00:21:19,720 Speaker 1: of authority, and suddenly they are patent storming Normandy, General Patton, 330 00:21:19,720 --> 00:21:23,080 Speaker 1: the storming Normandy. Now this woman, and I don't know 331 00:21:23,119 --> 00:21:26,840 Speaker 1: her name, she seemed to believe that that little hunk 332 00:21:26,880 --> 00:21:30,960 Speaker 1: of concrete that we were standing on was the last 333 00:21:31,040 --> 00:21:34,120 Speaker 1: unspoiled piece of American spoil, and it was her job 334 00:21:34,160 --> 00:21:36,600 Speaker 1: to keep it unspoiled. And it was only her job. 335 00:21:36,640 --> 00:21:38,320 Speaker 1: It was no one else's job, it was her job. 336 00:21:38,960 --> 00:21:42,159 Speaker 1: And so the floor was lava. I didn't realize it. 337 00:21:42,200 --> 00:21:43,520 Speaker 1: I'd played that game when I was a kid. The 338 00:21:43,560 --> 00:21:47,120 Speaker 1: floor is lava or the Flora's sharks, and we were trespassing. 339 00:21:47,920 --> 00:21:49,679 Speaker 1: I had to pass. Eddie had a ticket, but we 340 00:21:49,680 --> 00:21:53,600 Speaker 1: were trespassing. Now, I'm a reasonable human being, contrary to 341 00:21:53,760 --> 00:21:55,840 Speaker 1: what many of you think. And I'm talking about you 342 00:21:55,920 --> 00:21:58,760 Speaker 1: being the algorithms on social media. You know how I 343 00:21:58,760 --> 00:22:01,359 Speaker 1: feel about the matrix of X and all that stuff 344 00:22:01,359 --> 00:22:05,119 Speaker 1: which used to be Twitter. So based on that, you know, 345 00:22:05,320 --> 00:22:08,639 Speaker 1: then the suggestion is, I'm not that way. I promise you, 346 00:22:08,680 --> 00:22:11,120 Speaker 1: if you ask nicely, I'll move. I will I will 347 00:22:11,160 --> 00:22:13,360 Speaker 1: move if you ask nicely. But if you come at 348 00:22:13,400 --> 00:22:17,639 Speaker 1: me like a buzzsaw with this self righteous, condescending I 349 00:22:17,680 --> 00:22:22,000 Speaker 1: will hold the keys. I have the keys to the elevator. 350 00:22:22,080 --> 00:22:25,320 Speaker 1: You don't. That's my tone. Now that's a different animal, 351 00:22:25,600 --> 00:22:28,119 Speaker 1: that's a different story. And so for me, when you 352 00:22:28,200 --> 00:22:30,960 Speaker 1: do that to me, you've started the battle and it's 353 00:22:31,119 --> 00:22:33,560 Speaker 1: f around and find out. So, yes, I made a 354 00:22:33,600 --> 00:22:38,200 Speaker 1: few snarky remarks. I may have mentioned that this seemed 355 00:22:38,240 --> 00:22:40,760 Speaker 1: like a very curious way to treat two people who 356 00:22:41,040 --> 00:22:45,639 Speaker 1: theoretically help promote the stadium and the product on a 357 00:22:45,680 --> 00:22:50,439 Speaker 1: big platform, and I may have wandered aloud, you know, 358 00:22:51,119 --> 00:22:55,399 Speaker 1: just you know, in the public space there, you know, 359 00:22:55,520 --> 00:22:58,840 Speaker 1: wandered aloud whether this was the hill that this woman 360 00:22:58,920 --> 00:23:02,359 Speaker 1: wanted to die on the I am defending the honor 361 00:23:02,440 --> 00:23:05,679 Speaker 1: of the no photo zone between the pretzel stand and 362 00:23:05,720 --> 00:23:09,720 Speaker 1: the service elevator. And she didn't seem too amused. As 363 00:23:09,760 --> 00:23:11,680 Speaker 1: I said, she was a very angry woman. I feel 364 00:23:11,680 --> 00:23:13,480 Speaker 1: bad for her. She's apparently had a tough life. People 365 00:23:13,480 --> 00:23:16,119 Speaker 1: have been rude her, and I get it. Rules are 366 00:23:16,200 --> 00:23:20,280 Speaker 1: rules again, Someone somewhere probably wrote a memo, some corporate 367 00:23:20,280 --> 00:23:25,359 Speaker 1: weasel about this exact patch of the hallway, and likely 368 00:23:25,400 --> 00:23:28,680 Speaker 1: if you go through the bowels of Sofi Stadium, there's 369 00:23:29,080 --> 00:23:32,679 Speaker 1: I'm guaranteeing there's somewhere there's a laminated chart in some 370 00:23:32,920 --> 00:23:36,000 Speaker 1: break room with an overpriced vending machine that says no 371 00:23:36,200 --> 00:23:40,679 Speaker 1: standing between section one thirty two B and one thirty 372 00:23:40,680 --> 00:23:47,680 Speaker 1: two C. Photo ops require supervisor approval. That is bureaucracy 373 00:23:47,800 --> 00:23:52,080 Speaker 1: with a capital B. It is. It is the Actually, 374 00:23:52,320 --> 00:23:55,280 Speaker 1: it's a great American art form, and it's everywhere. I 375 00:23:55,400 --> 00:23:58,000 Speaker 1: work in a major corporation that has to deal with that, 376 00:23:58,200 --> 00:24:03,879 Speaker 1: and it's it's a tough thing and here's the point 377 00:24:03,960 --> 00:24:06,119 Speaker 1: that I wanted to make on this. We were not 378 00:24:06,240 --> 00:24:08,760 Speaker 1: at the Pentagon. You might think that we were at 379 00:24:08,800 --> 00:24:12,840 Speaker 1: the Pentagon. They have facial recognition similar to the Pentagon. 380 00:24:13,080 --> 00:24:16,720 Speaker 1: I would argue that going to an NFL game is 381 00:24:18,200 --> 00:24:22,119 Speaker 1: more secure than the Pentagon. I really believe that in 382 00:24:22,160 --> 00:24:25,000 Speaker 1: my heart that you have to sign away all of 383 00:24:25,040 --> 00:24:27,320 Speaker 1: your rights to go to an NFL game. Because the 384 00:24:27,400 --> 00:24:31,520 Speaker 1: NFL hired all of these old CIA people. That's what 385 00:24:32,080 --> 00:24:34,879 Speaker 1: I was told by somebody, and so they said, we 386 00:24:34,960 --> 00:24:37,600 Speaker 1: want these stadiums safe. We don't want anyone to get hurt. 387 00:24:37,600 --> 00:24:40,000 Speaker 1: So I have an abundance of caution. We're going to 388 00:24:40,040 --> 00:24:41,840 Speaker 1: have everyone that goes into a stadium, they're gonna be 389 00:24:41,880 --> 00:24:45,600 Speaker 1: facial recognition. You're gonna have to sign away your firstborn child. 390 00:24:46,480 --> 00:24:48,520 Speaker 1: So it wasn't the Pentagon. It was a stadium. It 391 00:24:48,520 --> 00:24:50,919 Speaker 1: was a football stadium, a place where people I assume 392 00:24:51,000 --> 00:24:54,640 Speaker 1: still paint their faces, scream until they lose their voices 393 00:24:54,680 --> 00:24:57,720 Speaker 1: because of running back fumbled at the one yard line 394 00:24:57,760 --> 00:25:00,919 Speaker 1: with a chance to win the game. Kyri Williams will Rams. 395 00:25:01,160 --> 00:25:02,760 Speaker 1: That's why I know this was a Charger game. But 396 00:25:02,760 --> 00:25:10,320 Speaker 1: the whole operation exists in theory to make fans feel something. Right, 397 00:25:10,359 --> 00:25:12,439 Speaker 1: you go to a game. Otherwise you wouldn't go to 398 00:25:12,480 --> 00:25:13,960 Speaker 1: a game. You just stay home and watch it on 399 00:25:14,000 --> 00:25:15,840 Speaker 1: TV or listening to on the radio. But you go 400 00:25:15,920 --> 00:25:18,040 Speaker 1: to a game because it's just you feel a vibration. 401 00:25:18,680 --> 00:25:21,359 Speaker 1: It's a communal thing when you go to a game, right, 402 00:25:21,359 --> 00:25:23,520 Speaker 1: you're with your other people that are kind of like you. 403 00:25:23,600 --> 00:25:27,240 Speaker 1: They're fans, and you see what happens with your own eyeballs. 404 00:25:27,280 --> 00:25:30,320 Speaker 1: Of course, these days when you see fans, they're doing 405 00:25:30,359 --> 00:25:32,560 Speaker 1: the statue of liberty. They're holding their hand up, doing 406 00:25:32,560 --> 00:25:38,800 Speaker 1: the statue of liberty taking photos. So maybe, just maybe 407 00:25:39,080 --> 00:25:42,159 Speaker 1: maybe you can use some common sense and let a 408 00:25:42,200 --> 00:25:45,320 Speaker 1: couple of old radio pals, you know now a podcaster 409 00:25:45,520 --> 00:25:47,480 Speaker 1: Eddie and I'm still I'm still a radio gup, but 410 00:25:47,480 --> 00:25:50,800 Speaker 1: I'm a podcaster, let them take a picture without treating 411 00:25:50,840 --> 00:25:53,919 Speaker 1: it like a national security breach. We don't have to 412 00:25:53,920 --> 00:25:56,359 Speaker 1: act like this is TSA and somebody's just gone through 413 00:25:56,400 --> 00:26:00,240 Speaker 1: the security exit at the airport. We now, we took 414 00:26:00,280 --> 00:26:02,760 Speaker 1: the photo anyway. The woman came over as we were 415 00:26:02,800 --> 00:26:05,119 Speaker 1: taking the foot the photo, and it wasn't exactly a 416 00:26:05,160 --> 00:26:07,800 Speaker 1: pulitzer shot. I did post one of them. It's you 417 00:26:07,840 --> 00:26:09,560 Speaker 1: really want to see a photo of two middle aged 418 00:26:09,640 --> 00:26:15,160 Speaker 1: dudes smiling like they just survived another season of radio nonsense. 419 00:26:15,480 --> 00:26:18,200 Speaker 1: And then I walked back up to the press box 420 00:26:18,400 --> 00:26:20,960 Speaker 1: muttering you ever do this when you're walking back and 421 00:26:21,000 --> 00:26:23,360 Speaker 1: something happened. We're like, why did that happen? You're kind 422 00:26:23,359 --> 00:26:26,280 Speaker 1: of muttering under your breath, like and in my head, 423 00:26:26,280 --> 00:26:29,320 Speaker 1: I was like, man, this is another example of how 424 00:26:29,359 --> 00:26:33,680 Speaker 1: America has perfected the art of unnecessary confrontation. Like there 425 00:26:33,680 --> 00:26:37,000 Speaker 1: are some confrontations that are necessary. This was not necessary. 426 00:26:37,000 --> 00:26:40,080 Speaker 1: This did not need to happen. And this, by the way, 427 00:26:40,640 --> 00:26:44,600 Speaker 1: is the modern fan experience. We have built these billion 428 00:26:44,720 --> 00:26:50,680 Speaker 1: dollars pleasure domes, but humanity's been replaced by protocol. It 429 00:26:50,760 --> 00:26:53,840 Speaker 1: is it's all about the protocol. It's no common sense. 430 00:26:53,880 --> 00:26:57,760 Speaker 1: You cannot linger here, you cannot take a picture there, No, 431 00:26:57,960 --> 00:27:01,160 Speaker 1: you can't. You can't bring in a bottle, but sure 432 00:27:01,320 --> 00:27:04,680 Speaker 1: you want to pay seventeen dollars, we'll have you buy 433 00:27:04,720 --> 00:27:07,200 Speaker 1: the same water bottle inside, but it's got our logo 434 00:27:07,280 --> 00:27:10,840 Speaker 1: on it. And if you have a purse. Just talked 435 00:27:10,840 --> 00:27:12,960 Speaker 1: about this being national handbag, that you can't bring a 436 00:27:13,000 --> 00:27:15,920 Speaker 1: handbag in. Why not because you got to have a clearbag. 437 00:27:16,000 --> 00:27:17,879 Speaker 1: Why do I need a clearbag because we need to 438 00:27:17,880 --> 00:27:19,560 Speaker 1: look through the bag? Why don't you don't you have 439 00:27:19,600 --> 00:27:22,120 Speaker 1: metal detectors. We do have metal detectors. Well, why would 440 00:27:22,119 --> 00:27:23,440 Speaker 1: you need a clear bag if you have a metal 441 00:27:23,480 --> 00:27:26,720 Speaker 1: detor detector? We just do it. Does that mean you 442 00:27:26,760 --> 00:27:30,480 Speaker 1: don't trust the metal detector? Don't ask us that question anyway. 443 00:27:31,359 --> 00:27:33,760 Speaker 1: So I got home that night after the radio show, 444 00:27:33,760 --> 00:27:35,680 Speaker 1: and I looked at some of the photos we'd taken, 445 00:27:35,680 --> 00:27:40,240 Speaker 1: some other photos there because you know why not. Lighting 446 00:27:40,320 --> 00:27:43,240 Speaker 1: wasn't great, Eddie's smiling, I look like a guy who 447 00:27:43,320 --> 00:27:46,600 Speaker 1: just got yelled at by the substitute teacher. But it's 448 00:27:46,640 --> 00:27:51,800 Speaker 1: it's perfect because it captures exactly what that day was. Now. 449 00:27:52,160 --> 00:27:57,080 Speaker 1: I enjoyed the game. Washington played very well in the 450 00:27:57,080 --> 00:27:59,600 Speaker 1: second half, but just a couple of friends, me and 451 00:27:59,720 --> 00:28:04,840 Speaker 1: Eddie reconnecting again in a sport the NFL that's increasingly 452 00:28:04,840 --> 00:28:11,960 Speaker 1: about control, rules and optics, and one moment of pure, absolute, 453 00:28:12,119 --> 00:28:19,000 Speaker 1: unadulterated absurdity, just absolute absurdity that reminded me why I 454 00:28:19,119 --> 00:28:22,680 Speaker 1: love bloviating about the circus. How absurd all of this 455 00:28:22,720 --> 00:28:26,880 Speaker 1: is right, that we are brought together to watch these 456 00:28:26,960 --> 00:28:30,000 Speaker 1: grown people play football. They're still young people, but they're 457 00:28:30,000 --> 00:28:34,520 Speaker 1: playing football. And thousands and thousands of people show up 458 00:28:34,520 --> 00:28:40,280 Speaker 1: to these games and are treated like they're douchebaged public 459 00:28:40,360 --> 00:28:43,600 Speaker 1: enemy number one by these other people that are They're 460 00:28:43,640 --> 00:28:47,160 Speaker 1: just a holes. So yeah, I survived so far as 461 00:28:47,200 --> 00:28:50,680 Speaker 1: no photo zone, and I'm going to add that to 462 00:28:50,760 --> 00:28:55,160 Speaker 1: my resume on Express Pros. I'm going to add that 463 00:28:55,200 --> 00:28:57,480 Speaker 1: to my LinkedIn page. I'll add it to the resume. 464 00:28:58,200 --> 00:29:02,120 Speaker 1: Once I was reprimanded for standing on the wrong square 465 00:29:02,360 --> 00:29:07,280 Speaker 1: a multi billion dollars football stadium, and I said, well, 466 00:29:07,360 --> 00:29:09,600 Speaker 1: I'm to talk about it. I cannot wait to see 467 00:29:09,640 --> 00:29:11,959 Speaker 1: what happens when I try to smile in the wrong direction. 468 00:29:12,080 --> 00:29:14,120 Speaker 1: Next time I go to a game. That will not 469 00:29:14,240 --> 00:29:17,160 Speaker 1: be this weekend, as both the Chargers and the Dolphin. 470 00:29:17,360 --> 00:29:20,520 Speaker 1: Chargers and the Rams rather are on the road, Rams 471 00:29:20,520 --> 00:29:25,680 Speaker 1: playing the Ravens and the Chargers are in Miami to 472 00:29:25,720 --> 00:29:28,760 Speaker 1: play the Dolphins. So no game to go to this 473 00:29:28,840 --> 00:29:32,680 Speaker 1: weekend in the NFL. All right, on that note, we 474 00:29:32,720 --> 00:29:36,240 Speaker 1: will put the baby to bed. Have a wonderful rest 475 00:29:36,400 --> 00:29:39,720 Speaker 1: of your Friday. Don't forget to watch Benny versus the Penny, 476 00:29:40,520 --> 00:29:46,000 Speaker 1: which is up right now streaming on the YouTube Benny 477 00:29:46,080 --> 00:29:49,640 Speaker 1: Versus Penny YouTube dot com slash at Benny Vspenny. The 478 00:29:49,720 --> 00:29:51,840 Speaker 1: numbers are good, keep going up. We're getting more and 479 00:29:51,880 --> 00:29:55,200 Speaker 1: more people to watch the show. It's awesome. And at 480 00:29:55,200 --> 00:29:57,760 Speaker 1: some point I was told by somebody that keeps track 481 00:29:57,800 --> 00:30:02,520 Speaker 1: of this type of stuff, there's this point of demarcation, 482 00:30:02,600 --> 00:30:05,800 Speaker 1: there's this fork in the road where you just skyrocket. 483 00:30:05,840 --> 00:30:07,680 Speaker 1: We're not there yet, and I'm not saying we're gonna 484 00:30:07,680 --> 00:30:10,800 Speaker 1: get there even this season, but from what I have 485 00:30:10,960 --> 00:30:13,200 Speaker 1: been told by people that work in the YouTube world, 486 00:30:13,680 --> 00:30:16,800 Speaker 1: there's this point where you get enough followers and then 487 00:30:16,840 --> 00:30:21,200 Speaker 1: it like the YouTube people's algorithm sees what you're doing there, 488 00:30:21,520 --> 00:30:23,959 Speaker 1: and then they start feeding you some people. Because it's 489 00:30:24,000 --> 00:30:27,400 Speaker 1: all fake anyway, right, it's mostly fake, like you're real, 490 00:30:27,560 --> 00:30:29,920 Speaker 1: like I want you. I'd rather have lower numbers and 491 00:30:29,960 --> 00:30:33,520 Speaker 1: have real people that deem the show worthy of watching. 492 00:30:33,560 --> 00:30:37,320 Speaker 1: But you actually don't make a lot of money on that. Anyway, 493 00:30:37,360 --> 00:30:41,120 Speaker 1: We'll look the other way. Here, have a wonderful, wonderful day, 494 00:30:41,360 --> 00:30:43,600 Speaker 1: and as Danny g would say, you should be with 495 00:30:43,640 --> 00:30:52,280 Speaker 1: me this weekend. Later, skater Asta Pasta got to murder 496 00:30:52,280 --> 00:30:52,719 Speaker 1: I Gotta go