WEBVTT - The Fifth Hour: Stafford, Get into the Hole 0:00:00.680 --> 0:00:01.440 Kutbooms. 0:00:02.279 --> 0:00:05.360 If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes 0:00:05.400 --> 0:00:09.200 a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants 0:00:09.200 --> 0:00:12.480 of the old republic, a sol fashion of fairness. He 0:00:12.560 --> 0:00:15.480 treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the 0:00:15.600 --> 0:00:19.600 rich pill poppers in the penthouse. Wow to Clearinghouse of 0:00:19.640 --> 0:00:23.479 hot takes, break free for something special. The Fifth Hour 0:00:23.560 --> 0:00:30.640 with Ben Maller starts right now. 0:00:28.960 --> 0:00:34.520 In the air everywhere. The Fifth Hour with Me, Ben 0:00:34.600 --> 0:00:40.400 Maller and Danny g Radioe. Happy Saturday. It's early and 0:00:41.040 --> 0:00:42.840 it is the first day of March. 0:00:43.040 --> 0:00:44.840 Here we are. We've made it to the third month 0:00:44.880 --> 0:00:45.280 of the year. 0:00:45.960 --> 0:00:49.320 In twenty twenty five, we celebrate National Peanut Butter Lovers 0:00:49.440 --> 0:00:52.479 Day today, big day, unless it's not I know only 0:00:52.520 --> 0:00:56.280 he's for gayzy holidays, but National Peanut Butter Lover's Day. 0:00:56.560 --> 0:00:57.200 Fun fact. 0:00:57.280 --> 0:01:01.800 Fun fact to begin the Fifth Hour podcast. The modern 0:01:02.000 --> 0:01:08.720 American delicacy of peanut butter goes back to around the 0:01:08.800 --> 0:01:13.160 eighteen forties, so we're about one hundred and eighty something 0:01:13.240 --> 0:01:16.399 years in the past and the hot Top time machine 0:01:16.560 --> 0:01:19.920 and no one knows exactly sure like where it began. 0:01:20.000 --> 0:01:21.240 There's a theory. 0:01:20.920 --> 0:01:25.280 That a person in New York began making peanut butter 0:01:25.400 --> 0:01:29.600 after her son saw a Cuban woman grind up peanuts 0:01:29.800 --> 0:01:34.160 and smear the paste on bread. So, but in America, 0:01:34.240 --> 0:01:36.800 that's the belief to be somewhere in the eighteen forties 0:01:36.840 --> 0:01:39.440 the beginning of peanut butter. But it wasn't until eighteen 0:01:39.480 --> 0:01:44.560 eighty four that peanut butter got patented. Because you know, 0:01:44.560 --> 0:01:47.240 you're not really anything until you get patented. So that 0:01:47.360 --> 0:01:50.600 was in the eighteen eighty four and then in nineteen 0:01:50.640 --> 0:01:56.000 oh four, twenty years later, we had the first major 0:01:56.200 --> 0:02:01.200 brand to market and sell to the masses peanut butter. 0:02:01.240 --> 0:02:03.480 That's beach nut in nineteen. 0:02:03.200 --> 0:02:06.640 Oh four, so one hundred and twenty one years ago 0:02:07.720 --> 0:02:10.519 it began being marketed here in America. 0:02:10.600 --> 0:02:13.679 So celebrated appropriately National Peanut Butter Lover's Day. 0:02:15.160 --> 0:02:18.440 Our podcast today, I know we try to avoid sporty, 0:02:18.919 --> 0:02:24.520 but that being said, rare and appropriate, rare and appropriate. 0:02:24.520 --> 0:02:28.440 We have standing pat We've got that, the w run 0:02:29.440 --> 0:02:32.760 the real handicap, and we'll see what else we have 0:02:32.800 --> 0:02:34.840 time for. So we'll get to all of those things, 0:02:34.919 --> 0:02:38.280 and who knows what else, But we begin with this 0:02:38.800 --> 0:02:43.560 and the news out on Friday, and here we are 0:02:43.600 --> 0:02:46.440 on Saturday. So I didn't do the overnight show last night. 0:02:46.520 --> 0:02:50.320 I'm not contractually obligated to do it Friday into Saturday. 0:02:50.760 --> 0:02:54.120 But the news came out that the decision is in. 0:02:54.400 --> 0:02:56.720 We were hoping it would wait till Sunday. But Matthew 0:02:56.720 --> 0:03:00.600 Stafford is he leaving the Rams? Is go play for 0:03:00.680 --> 0:03:08.000 the Raiders or the Giants? No, Matthew Stafford agreed yesterday 0:03:08.080 --> 0:03:12.400 to a restructured contract with the Rams, so he will 0:03:12.440 --> 0:03:16.200 be staying his the rest of his career, most likely 0:03:16.639 --> 0:03:20.359 in a Ram uniform, will be staying put. He remains 0:03:21.080 --> 0:03:25.960 in LA despite being attacked by Tom Brady. I don't 0:03:25.960 --> 0:03:29.400 have attack the right word being courted publicly courted by 0:03:29.440 --> 0:03:34.200 Tom Brady. Stafford's agent was given permission to talk to 0:03:34.240 --> 0:03:39.320 other teams, and according to everyone, Stafford was whined and 0:03:39.480 --> 0:03:42.080 nine by the Raiders and the Giants, and they talked 0:03:42.080 --> 0:03:47.160 about contract parameters, and in the end Stafford decides to 0:03:47.200 --> 0:03:50.080 stay with the Rams. So I've seen a couple of 0:03:50.120 --> 0:03:54.839 different reports on how the contract will be put out, 0:03:55.160 --> 0:03:57.080 and it doesn't really matter to me. I'm not paying 0:03:57.120 --> 0:04:00.520 the contract. So Stafford's staying now. I did get several 0:04:00.520 --> 0:04:04.160 emails from you knuckleheads saying that I must be upset 0:04:04.320 --> 0:04:08.720 because I was doing multiple Mallard monologues about Matthew Stafford 0:04:08.800 --> 0:04:12.160 leaving the Rams and so the fact that he didn't 0:04:12.200 --> 0:04:14.840 leave the Rams, therefore I must be upset. 0:04:14.880 --> 0:04:16.080 So let me address that right. 0:04:15.960 --> 0:04:20.880 Now, all right, the question, am I bothered by Matthew 0:04:20.920 --> 0:04:25.080 Stafford staying with the Rams? So my word for this 0:04:25.240 --> 0:04:28.920 is ambivalent, all right, So I have mixed feelings. The 0:04:29.920 --> 0:04:33.200 talk show host part of me, the talk show host 0:04:33.200 --> 0:04:38.520 part of me, is confused, is troubled because it would 0:04:38.520 --> 0:04:42.360 have been good for talk radio had Matthew Stafford gone 0:04:42.400 --> 0:04:44.800 to the Raiders or the Giants. Really, the Giants would 0:04:44.800 --> 0:04:48.400 have been better for talk radio purposes. So from that 0:04:48.560 --> 0:04:51.720 part of it, for my professional career, you know, I 0:04:52.279 --> 0:04:54.680 yap in front of microphones every night for four hours 0:04:54.680 --> 0:04:58.159 a night. That would have been a really cool thing 0:04:58.320 --> 0:05:01.920 for talk radio. He's got Stafford going to a new team. 0:05:02.240 --> 0:05:04.080 Can he make it in a town like New York? 0:05:05.040 --> 0:05:06.480 And if you can make it there, you can make 0:05:06.520 --> 0:05:09.200 it anywhere. So Natra told me that years ago when 0:05:09.200 --> 0:05:11.520 he was singing that medley back in the day. But 0:05:11.520 --> 0:05:15.280 there's such an infestation of suck with the Giants and 0:05:15.320 --> 0:05:19.680 the Raiders that in the end the Rams. The fan 0:05:19.800 --> 0:05:22.200 part of me is happy. Do I think Matthew Staffords 0:05:22.200 --> 0:05:23.360 a top run quarterback? 0:05:23.440 --> 0:05:23.960 No, I don't. 0:05:24.760 --> 0:05:26.800 I had him, and I'm not going to change my 0:05:26.800 --> 0:05:29.120 position because he's back with the Rams. We had said 0:05:29.160 --> 0:05:32.320 this in previous editions of The Overnight Show, the Original 0:05:32.360 --> 0:05:36.360 Recipe Podcast, that Stafford's a Tier two, low Tier two, 0:05:36.480 --> 0:05:41.480 high tier three quarterback at this point in his career. However, 0:05:41.640 --> 0:05:47.000 if the Rams defense continues to swarm around the field, 0:05:47.839 --> 0:05:52.320 then you can win with Stafford and Pukaakua and a 0:05:52.440 --> 0:05:57.160 gaggle of other random, random players. And it's a testimonial. 0:05:57.200 --> 0:06:00.720 The fact that Stafford turned down more money we are 0:06:00.800 --> 0:06:04.240 told to stay with the Rams is an endorsement of 0:06:04.279 --> 0:06:09.440 Sean McVay. It is also an endorsement of how incompetent 0:06:10.080 --> 0:06:12.520 the Vegas and New York teams are. And I didn't 0:06:12.520 --> 0:06:17.080 want to adjust that because Tom Brady, using malormth it 0:06:17.160 --> 0:06:20.400 has been a slippery slope for Tom Brady is zero 0:06:20.400 --> 0:06:23.520 for two if my math is correct. Now we know 0:06:23.640 --> 0:06:28.600 that he wanted Ben Johnson, give me my Johnson, Ben 0:06:28.720 --> 0:06:32.719 Johnson and Tom Brady had let it be known he 0:06:32.880 --> 0:06:36.839 believed that Ben Johnson would leave the Lions and go 0:06:36.880 --> 0:06:40.000 to Vegas because of Tom Brady. The Raiders got rid 0:06:40.000 --> 0:06:43.119 of Antonio Peter, something that I am told Mark Davis 0:06:43.640 --> 0:06:46.000 did not really want to do, but he followed the 0:06:46.040 --> 0:06:49.200 advice of Tom Brady, and Tom Brady's like, listen this, 0:06:49.279 --> 0:06:50.640 Ben Johnson is gonna be good. 0:06:50.760 --> 0:06:51.920 We got a shot to get him. This is what 0:06:52.000 --> 0:06:52.360 I'm hearing. 0:06:52.839 --> 0:06:56.440 And Brady got left by the side of the road. 0:06:56.600 --> 0:07:00.919 Ben Johnson said, screw you. I'm gonna go coach the 0:07:00.960 --> 0:07:04.359 team in Chicago, And so Brady was left without a 0:07:04.400 --> 0:07:06.640 coach and they had to hire Pete Carroll. Now, do 0:07:06.720 --> 0:07:08.360 I believe Pete Carroll's going to do a good job? 0:07:08.440 --> 0:07:08.600 Yet? 0:07:09.120 --> 0:07:10.960 Do I also know Pete Carroll's the oldest coach in 0:07:10.960 --> 0:07:13.040 the NFL? Yeah, I do know that, And I know 0:07:13.120 --> 0:07:16.240 that your coaching mortality there is a limit. 0:07:16.840 --> 0:07:18.040 There is a limit to that. 0:07:18.480 --> 0:07:20.960 And so now the story came out the other day, 0:07:20.960 --> 0:07:24.880 which led to an NFL Donning Brooke a verbal Donnybrook 0:07:24.960 --> 0:07:29.120 at a Starbucks in Indianapolis, one of the great stories 0:07:29.160 --> 0:07:33.800 of the week. A couple of NFL in signers got 0:07:33.840 --> 0:07:37.040 into it because the rap sheet, in my opinion, was 0:07:37.040 --> 0:07:40.480 doing the bidding of Tom Brady, and Jordan Schultz, the 0:07:40.520 --> 0:07:43.280 insider who's doing some work with Fox right now, he 0:07:43.400 --> 0:07:48.040 had the accurate report. And then Team Brady circled the wagons, 0:07:48.080 --> 0:07:52.480 and I believe they deputized the rap sheet former Patriot 0:07:52.480 --> 0:07:55.720 Beat writer to give their version of the story, which 0:07:55.880 --> 0:08:01.040 likely was not was not the accurate verse of the story, 0:08:01.080 --> 0:08:04.880 but they repeated it, and then that led to the 0:08:04.920 --> 0:08:08.640 incident at the Starbucks. So Tom Brady think about he 0:08:08.720 --> 0:08:10.840 thought he was getting Ben Jonson, as we said, didn't 0:08:10.840 --> 0:08:15.200 get him. So then Brady whinds and dines Matthew Stafford, 0:08:16.000 --> 0:08:18.840 and Stafford says, go Pound, Sad, I'm staying with the rams, 0:08:19.440 --> 0:08:22.240 Go Pound saying I'm out of here. You talk about 0:08:22.280 --> 0:08:26.480 being star crossed if you're Tom Brady, but you can't 0:08:26.520 --> 0:08:29.520 say that part. It has not been a very encouraging beginning. 0:08:30.240 --> 0:08:32.640 It's not very reassuring that Tom Brady's going to turn 0:08:32.679 --> 0:08:36.240 that thing around in Vegas. And at this point, based 0:08:36.280 --> 0:08:39.000 on so far in the offseason, you'd have to say 0:08:39.480 --> 0:08:43.559 Tom Brady's more like Michael Jordan as an executive than 0:08:43.600 --> 0:08:47.400 he is Jerry West. When it comes to decision making 0:08:47.480 --> 0:08:52.000 early on, it is not not gone. Well, the down 0:08:52.080 --> 0:08:57.840 trodden will be gone. Raiders continue. So again, listen, now 0:08:57.880 --> 0:09:01.679 we have quarterback Roulette, but the Rams are out of it. 0:09:01.720 --> 0:09:05.360 They have their guy, Matthew Stafford. So now we play 0:09:05.400 --> 0:09:08.960 the pin the tail on the donkey at quarterback. The 0:09:09.120 --> 0:09:13.480 hot rumor as of yesterday early on Saturate. They haven't 0:09:13.480 --> 0:09:16.240 seen if anything's changed yet since I got up. But 0:09:16.320 --> 0:09:19.040 the rumor yesterday when I went to bed was Aaron 0:09:19.120 --> 0:09:20.400 Rodgers to the Giants. 0:09:21.040 --> 0:09:24.440 That was all hot and heavy, and would. 0:09:24.320 --> 0:09:26.880 Rogers stay in New York and would he go across 0:09:26.920 --> 0:09:30.120 the way there and stay in the same stadium and 0:09:30.160 --> 0:09:33.720 all that stuff, And so I don't know that there'll 0:09:33.720 --> 0:09:37.760 be much of a public courtship for Rogers. I would 0:09:37.800 --> 0:09:40.520 doubt that it would have been fun. Again from a 0:09:40.559 --> 0:09:44.400 talk radio standpoint, to see Aaron Rodgers with Sean mcvahn. 0:09:44.400 --> 0:09:47.080 We're not going to get that. We'll get Matthew Stafford, 0:09:47.080 --> 0:09:51.199 and that's fine. I'm okay with it. It's not great talk radio, 0:09:51.240 --> 0:09:55.840 but we'll see where Rogers ends up. Also, the Raiders, 0:09:56.400 --> 0:10:00.439 the Raiders have to find someone that they can say hey, Chicka, 0:10:00.440 --> 0:10:04.000 wow wow and bring in their quarterback. And I'm looking 0:10:04.000 --> 0:10:08.000 around here. There's a lot of stank. There is a 0:10:08.240 --> 0:10:10.640 lot of stank. The names that are being out. I 0:10:10.640 --> 0:10:13.160 tossed around Russell Wilson, which I don't buy. There is 0:10:13.200 --> 0:10:15.000 a history there, It's not a good history. There was 0:10:15.040 --> 0:10:20.160 a tough divorce between Pete Carroll and Russell Wilson. 0:10:20.200 --> 0:10:21.920 So I don't I don't see that one happening. 0:10:22.000 --> 0:10:27.120 Sam Donald, Oh my god, Sam Donald. We have seen 0:10:27.160 --> 0:10:29.400 Sam Donald on bad teams. It does not go well. 0:10:29.480 --> 0:10:32.120 Donald on good teams goes well for a while and 0:10:32.200 --> 0:10:36.160 then falls apart. Justin Fields also an option. He's failed 0:10:36.200 --> 0:10:40.400 with two franchises already, two bad well, one bad franchise, 0:10:40.440 --> 0:10:41.240 one good franchise. 0:10:41.280 --> 0:10:44.280 But he's zero for two. So we will we will 0:10:44.280 --> 0:10:45.120 see how this goes. 0:10:45.160 --> 0:10:47.880 We will see what happens for the Raiders, and we 0:10:47.880 --> 0:10:53.040 will have in depth team coverage as the matchmaking game continues. 0:10:53.120 --> 0:10:55.040 I call it speed dating, if you will. 0:10:55.760 --> 0:10:57.760 As everyone's trying to get a chair here at the 0:10:57.840 --> 0:11:01.160 quarterback position, and if they don't get a share, well 0:11:01.280 --> 0:11:03.560 you know you're screwed. I didn't want to mention. Also 0:11:03.679 --> 0:11:06.920 the Benny Awards. We had the red carpet show yesterday. 0:11:07.640 --> 0:11:12.280 Hooray for Holly, would hooray for Hollywood? Keep voting. If 0:11:12.280 --> 0:11:15.600 you haven't voted yet, vote early. I would say, vote often, 0:11:15.640 --> 0:11:17.880 but you only get one vote per account. But the 0:11:18.240 --> 0:11:21.760 twenty twenty five Beny Awards or tomorrow night, the ballot 0:11:21.800 --> 0:11:25.600 is on a Google form. Now you can get that 0:11:25.720 --> 0:11:30.600 ballot on x It's pinned to the very top of 0:11:30.640 --> 0:11:34.880 my page, and then also on Facebook. 0:11:35.120 --> 0:11:37.559 It's pretty high up on the Facebook page too. 0:11:37.600 --> 0:11:40.000 So if you want to vote and you haven't done 0:11:40.080 --> 0:11:42.360 that yet, we'd love to have you. We'd love to 0:11:42.360 --> 0:11:43.920 have you be one of our voting members of the 0:11:43.960 --> 0:11:49.240 Malad militia and decide who's going who's going to end 0:11:49.320 --> 0:11:53.280 up winning the highest honors in overnight sports radio. And 0:11:53.320 --> 0:11:56.080 the ballot I was looking at it last night. We 0:11:56.080 --> 0:11:58.680 did the show yesterday morning, the Benny's Red Carpet Show, 0:11:59.240 --> 0:12:02.680 and looking at the back and forth, it is so 0:12:03.000 --> 0:12:06.439 close and I may or may not have access to 0:12:06.520 --> 0:12:10.000 the voting. The Benny for Caller of the Year, the 0:12:10.040 --> 0:12:14.800 Genium Medford Caller of the Year is insane. It is 0:12:14.960 --> 0:12:22.000 absolutely next level that particular category in particular and International. 0:12:21.240 --> 0:12:25.760 Caller of the Year very close. So that means in 0:12:25.840 --> 0:12:27.280 my head that. 0:12:27.520 --> 0:12:30.520 The people, the committee, the people that put the ballot 0:12:30.520 --> 0:12:33.240 together did a good job. That if it's that neck 0:12:33.280 --> 0:12:37.800 and neck, if the electorate is split that much, that's 0:12:37.800 --> 0:12:40.120 a solid that's a good thing. You want that. You 0:12:40.200 --> 0:12:42.320 want this to be neck and neck. There's no clear 0:12:42.360 --> 0:12:47.760 cut dominator. And even the social media influence of the year. 0:12:47.800 --> 0:12:52.440 The final round ballot, which is on X that also 0:12:53.559 --> 0:12:58.040 insanely close as of last night. I have not checked 0:12:58.320 --> 0:13:00.719 early today to see where it is as I woke up, 0:13:00.720 --> 0:13:06.440 but it is awesome. It is awesome to see so close, 0:13:07.240 --> 0:13:10.559 so close. And so again you have today to vote 0:13:10.600 --> 0:13:15.960 and then tomorrow as well, up until the award show, 0:13:16.760 --> 0:13:19.400 and then after that, obviously we shut the voting off. 0:13:19.400 --> 0:13:22.680 We start giving out Beny Awards. Everyone that wins gets 0:13:22.720 --> 0:13:27.640 two golden tickets. So good luck and may the power 0:13:27.720 --> 0:13:28.320 of the mal or. 0:13:28.360 --> 0:13:30.400 Militia be with you. 0:13:31.800 --> 0:13:35.360 We hope, we hope you can get her done, get 0:13:35.400 --> 0:13:40.040 her done. Anyway, moving on from that, we did something 0:13:40.120 --> 0:13:43.959 we don't normally do this week on the Ben Malors Show. 0:13:44.000 --> 0:13:46.960 It created quite the hullabaloo on the program. We go 0:13:47.040 --> 0:13:52.800 back to about a week ago, the Monday Show, and 0:13:52.920 --> 0:13:57.360 after several months of saying it's going to happen, it's 0:13:57.400 --> 0:14:02.000 going to happen, It's going to happen, it finally happened. 0:14:02.280 --> 0:14:06.240 For the first time ever, we played Are You Smarter? 0:14:06.760 --> 0:14:11.719 Are You Smarter than the FSR Tech Queen? Now, some 0:14:11.760 --> 0:14:15.600 thoughts on this, Okay, I thought the game was pretty good. 0:14:16.040 --> 0:14:18.320 Some of the feedback I've gotten some of you loved it, 0:14:18.360 --> 0:14:22.680 others of you hated it. Marcel ended up beating Lorraine up. 0:14:23.680 --> 0:14:26.640 A number of people complained the questions were too easy? 0:14:27.320 --> 0:14:31.240 What and my response to that, my rebuttal is that's 0:14:31.280 --> 0:14:32.200 how the game is played. 0:14:32.200 --> 0:14:34.240 The questions are supposed to be easy. That's the whole 0:14:34.240 --> 0:14:34.840 point of the game. 0:14:35.160 --> 0:14:39.320 And I got a stack of probably two hundred questions 0:14:39.480 --> 0:14:41.160 that we're going to work our way through and some 0:14:41.240 --> 0:14:46.120 will be easy like we did last week, and others 0:14:47.280 --> 0:14:51.480 not so much. Right, So it'll get harder at times. 0:14:52.440 --> 0:14:56.600 It's not always going to be as ridiculously easy as 0:14:56.600 --> 0:14:59.000 it was this week. And even with that, it was 0:14:59.120 --> 0:15:03.360 neck and neck between I mean, Marcel and lay Uh, 0:15:04.200 --> 0:15:06.680 and in the end, Marcel pulled it out, and I'm 0:15:06.720 --> 0:15:12.600 convinced now that is the greatest accomplishment that has ever happened. 0:15:12.680 --> 0:15:13.359 Marcel. 0:15:13.640 --> 0:15:17.600 He was strutting around there doing the electric boogoloo. He 0:15:17.760 --> 0:15:21.080 was so happy. You talk about making someone's life winning 0:15:21.120 --> 0:15:24.480 a cheesy radio game show. We were talking off the 0:15:24.480 --> 0:15:28.120 air like this unbelievable. Marcel likely called every one of 0:15:28.160 --> 0:15:30.360 his relatives and said, I won. 0:15:31.400 --> 0:15:33.440 Are you smarter than an FSR Techqueen? They all probably 0:15:33.440 --> 0:15:34.000 said what is that? 0:15:34.840 --> 0:15:37.880 And well, it's a game, and he tried to explain it, 0:15:37.960 --> 0:15:41.200 and then for I said, Marcel LINGO, good luck on that. 0:15:42.240 --> 0:15:43.680 We will play it again. We're not gonna play it 0:15:43.680 --> 0:15:46.080 this weekend. We have the Benny's. Everything is scrapped for 0:15:46.080 --> 0:15:49.120 the Bennys. All of the regular bits are scrapped for 0:15:49.120 --> 0:15:52.600 the Bennys. We may do the instant advice line. We 0:15:52.680 --> 0:15:54.920 may do that depending on the timing and how many 0:15:54.920 --> 0:15:59.200 awards we have to get through. That's in limbo. We're 0:15:59.320 --> 0:16:02.120 leaning to just doing it. We're leaning towards doing the 0:16:02.160 --> 0:16:05.960 instant of ice line. But outside of that, everything else 0:16:06.120 --> 0:16:10.360 is fully dedicated to giving out the Benny Awards, so 0:16:10.840 --> 0:16:13.280 we won't have are you Smarter than PHISI tech queen 0:16:13.440 --> 0:16:17.120 till next weekend or next week, and then we'll get 0:16:17.160 --> 0:16:17.680 back to it. 0:16:18.040 --> 0:16:21.800 Now, the real handicap. I wanted to mention this. Why not? 0:16:22.840 --> 0:16:23.960 So this past. 0:16:23.760 --> 0:16:27.800 Week we went out, me and the wife. We went 0:16:27.840 --> 0:16:31.480 out with some of our coworkers to Top Golf. Now 0:16:31.520 --> 0:16:33.880 I had never been to Top Golf. I'd been around 0:16:33.920 --> 0:16:36.160 Top Golf. I'd seen the one in Vegas. I'd seen 0:16:36.320 --> 0:16:38.680 in some other cities I've traveled to. I've seen Top Golf. 0:16:38.680 --> 0:16:41.640 It's a very popular thing. If you've never been. You 0:16:41.720 --> 0:16:44.120 go out there. It's a driving range, but you drink 0:16:44.280 --> 0:16:47.560 and eat and have a merry time. And they have 0:16:47.600 --> 0:16:53.080 a bar tracking thing which follows you, not you, follows 0:16:53.120 --> 0:16:54.360 the ball that you hit around. 0:16:55.840 --> 0:16:58.600 And this is my first time playing. I had not 0:16:58.640 --> 0:16:59.600 played golf in a long time. 0:16:59.600 --> 0:17:02.360 I'd mentioned in the previous episode of this podcast that 0:17:02.520 --> 0:17:03.240 I had. 0:17:03.040 --> 0:17:04.040 Some golf clubs. 0:17:05.400 --> 0:17:11.159 Unfortunately, the golf clubs I had were in my moving 0:17:11.240 --> 0:17:14.480 my many movements around the southern California have moved several 0:17:14.480 --> 0:17:17.600 times over the years, and one of the last moves, 0:17:18.320 --> 0:17:19.560 the wife's like, we got to get rid of the 0:17:19.560 --> 0:17:19.960 golf clubs. 0:17:19.960 --> 0:17:21.879 We have nowhere to put the golf clubs. You don't golf, let's. 0:17:21.720 --> 0:17:22.879 Get rid of them. We'll get rid of them. We'll 0:17:22.880 --> 0:17:25.000 get rid of them. So I was like, all right, 0:17:25.240 --> 0:17:27.320 I'll get rid of them. So we got rid of them, 0:17:27.920 --> 0:17:31.080 and I didn't really golf. I haven't golfed in many, 0:17:31.080 --> 0:17:35.480 many years. And then all of a sudden, I was like, wait, 0:17:35.480 --> 0:17:38.080 wait a minute, I need golf clubs. I got to 0:17:38.280 --> 0:17:40.280 the golf bug and I wanted to go to the 0:17:40.320 --> 0:17:42.240 driving range. I was like, I don't have my drivers. 0:17:42.720 --> 0:17:45.640 I got to play golf. So I was like, I'll 0:17:45.680 --> 0:17:49.000 go buy golf clubs. And we went to a PGA store, 0:17:50.040 --> 0:17:52.760 which was a mistake because it was PGA Brandon Golf 0:17:52.800 --> 0:17:56.640 Store and the drivers were like five six seven, eight 0:17:56.720 --> 0:18:00.920 hundred dollars for just a driver, and I'm like, wait 0:18:00.960 --> 0:18:05.720 a minute, do those things drive themselves? Do those golf 0:18:05.760 --> 0:18:09.400 clips drive themselves? That's insane. So that didn't work out. 0:18:09.440 --> 0:18:12.560 So we just showed up the top golf. It was 0:18:12.640 --> 0:18:16.120 last weekend and I had a great time. 0:18:16.160 --> 0:18:17.960 It was fun. We drank a little bit ate. 0:18:17.920 --> 0:18:21.760 Some appetizers, and everyone was in a good mood there 0:18:21.760 --> 0:18:25.800 playing golf. It was fine. However, I do have a 0:18:25.800 --> 0:18:28.119 bone to pick. I guess you call it pet peeve. 0:18:28.640 --> 0:18:33.240 So my pet peeve is that by hitting the ball further, 0:18:34.560 --> 0:18:39.199 you actually do worse, and it bothers me. It bothers me, 0:18:39.400 --> 0:18:44.720 and it may explain. So as we are playing the 0:18:44.800 --> 0:18:47.840 top golf and you're just driving, and they have if 0:18:47.840 --> 0:18:50.760 you've never been there again, they have out on the 0:18:51.440 --> 0:18:56.520 range there, they have different holes if you will to 0:18:56.600 --> 0:19:01.639 hit the ball into and you get credited with points. Okay, fine, 0:19:03.000 --> 0:19:05.879 But I noticed as we were playing top Golf and 0:19:05.920 --> 0:19:08.080 I was getting into it, and I was in it 0:19:08.119 --> 0:19:08.520 to win it. 0:19:08.560 --> 0:19:10.200 What's the point of showing up if you don't want 0:19:10.200 --> 0:19:10.560 to win it. 0:19:11.600 --> 0:19:16.800 So we're doing this and and I'm like, I'm crushing 0:19:17.359 --> 0:19:18.800 and I don't want I don't need to brag or 0:19:18.800 --> 0:19:21.040 anything like that. But I was hitting the ball very, 0:19:21.200 --> 0:19:25.639 very far, and it didn't matter because the further you 0:19:25.720 --> 0:19:29.240 get away from the front of the driving range. At 0:19:29.280 --> 0:19:32.240 Top Golf, we were on the second level, the further 0:19:32.320 --> 0:19:36.240 you get away, the less likely you are to score 0:19:36.280 --> 0:19:39.560 any points. So what I was noticing is that some 0:19:39.600 --> 0:19:42.240 of the worst fricking golfers in the world that could 0:19:42.240 --> 0:19:45.960 barely get the ball out of the driving range were 0:19:46.440 --> 0:19:49.560 killing it. They were dominating at top golf. They had 0:19:49.560 --> 0:19:52.080 the highest scores. And the reason they had the highest 0:19:52.080 --> 0:19:55.040 scores is because by not hitting the ball as hard 0:19:55.880 --> 0:19:59.080 you end up getting more points. Now, it is true 0:19:59.119 --> 0:20:02.840 that further out on top golf you there are some 0:20:03.080 --> 0:20:06.639 big money holes, if you will, like the blue and 0:20:06.680 --> 0:20:09.040 the white. I believe it is way out there. But 0:20:09.119 --> 0:20:11.960 the accuracy part of it is a problem. So I 0:20:12.080 --> 0:20:15.600 ended up getting smoked in this thing. And then at 0:20:15.640 --> 0:20:19.159 the end they have, oh the longest drive, and my 0:20:19.280 --> 0:20:21.040 name was there. I had the longest drive, but that 0:20:21.040 --> 0:20:23.760 didn't matter. So next time I go, and I don't 0:20:23.760 --> 0:20:25.320 know if we're going to go anytime soon, but next 0:20:25.320 --> 0:20:27.399 time I go to top golf, I am going to 0:20:27.440 --> 0:20:32.040 try to suck at a time you cannot suck, because 0:20:32.200 --> 0:20:36.800 by sucking, I will have a much better chance of winning. 0:20:37.880 --> 0:20:41.760 Do you understand you feel my agony? You don't care. 0:20:42.480 --> 0:20:44.400 I just wanted to rant. I just wanted to rant. 0:20:44.440 --> 0:20:48.320 I just wanted to complain, and I did. I've complained. 0:20:48.520 --> 0:20:54.520 I've ranted the the whole shebang, the whole dealio, if 0:20:54.520 --> 0:20:57.640 you will here a couple of other things I wanted 0:20:57.640 --> 0:21:03.240 to mention before we say goodbye and put the baby 0:21:03.240 --> 0:21:03.520 to bed. 0:21:03.560 --> 0:21:05.800 Here on the fifth hour. 0:21:05.680 --> 0:21:11.520 On this Saturday Saturday, Saturday Saturday story that caught my attention. 0:21:12.800 --> 0:21:16.119 And I don't know if you saw this one or not. 0:21:16.320 --> 0:21:19.120 I'm not sure what you got, what you got. 0:21:18.920 --> 0:21:20.439 Going on in your world. 0:21:21.119 --> 0:21:25.480 Even on my nights off, I futz around and see 0:21:25.960 --> 0:21:28.480 what's going on in the world and all that stuff, and. 0:21:30.960 --> 0:21:32.719 One thing in particular caught my attention. 0:21:32.760 --> 0:21:35.160 This would have been a malady monologue had I had 0:21:35.160 --> 0:21:39.520 a live radio show last night and there was a 0:21:39.560 --> 0:21:45.679 comment made by the Heisman Trophy winner who is trying 0:21:45.720 --> 0:21:48.600 to end up as the top pick in the draft. 0:21:48.600 --> 0:21:52.240 We're talking about Travis Hunter from Colorado, who would like 0:21:52.280 --> 0:21:54.520 to be a two way player. I fully support Travis 0:21:54.560 --> 0:21:57.520 Hunter being a two way player. Well, Travis Hunter said 0:21:57.560 --> 0:22:03.400 this week that by playing both ways in football, it's 0:22:03.520 --> 0:22:09.119 harder than baseball. That he said, it's more difficult being 0:22:09.119 --> 0:22:12.200 a two way role player than the Dodgers show. 0:22:12.240 --> 0:22:14.480 Hey Otani for example. 0:22:15.320 --> 0:22:20.760 Okay, time out, All right, So let's break this down scientifically, right. 0:22:21.359 --> 0:22:25.160 I would argue that from a physical standpoint, Travis Hunter 0:22:25.240 --> 0:22:30.520 is right, But from an absolute skill standpoint, what Otani 0:22:30.640 --> 0:22:34.720 does is much more difficult, and then explain why. All right, 0:22:34.760 --> 0:22:38.040 First of all, Travis Hunter, when he's playing, if he 0:22:38.040 --> 0:22:39.879 plays one hundred plays a game, that's a ton of 0:22:39.880 --> 0:22:41.720 plays to play in an NFL game. 0:22:41.880 --> 0:22:43.440 He won't like me play that many. 0:22:44.200 --> 0:22:48.040 But at any given Moll made he's playing defensive back, 0:22:48.080 --> 0:22:49.920 they're gonna run the ball some of the time, they're 0:22:49.920 --> 0:22:51.200 gonna throw it to the other side of the field. 0:22:51.200 --> 0:22:54.439 They're not gonna throw at him every single time. Just 0:22:54.520 --> 0:22:57.960 like when he's on offense as a slot receiver, whatever 0:22:58.040 --> 0:23:00.199 team he plays for, they're gonna run the ball some 0:23:00.280 --> 0:23:02.399 of the time, they're gonna they're gonna throw to other people. 0:23:02.440 --> 0:23:05.560