WEBVTT - The Fifth Hour: Maller Math & Gun Racks 0:00:00.920 --> 0:00:01.680 Kabbooms. 0:00:02.480 --> 0:00:05.560 If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes 0:00:05.600 --> 0:00:09.400 a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants 0:00:09.400 --> 0:00:12.680 of the old Republic, a soul fashion of fairness. He 0:00:12.800 --> 0:00:15.680 treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the 0:00:15.800 --> 0:00:19.640 rich pill poppers in the penthouse. Wow to the Clearinghouse 0:00:19.720 --> 0:00:23.400 of hot takes, break free for something special. The Fifth 0:00:23.440 --> 0:00:30.840 Hour with Ben Mahller starts right now. 0:00:29.160 --> 0:00:35.280 In the air every way. It's the Fifth Hour with 0:00:35.440 --> 0:00:40.040 Ben Mahler and Danny g Radio. And we know that 0:00:40.159 --> 0:00:45.040 there are eight gazillion podcasts, but we do thank you 0:00:45.159 --> 0:00:49.760 for listening to this podcast and not some other crappy podcasts. 0:00:49.760 --> 0:00:52.320 So we do thank you for that, Dany Gye. It 0:00:52.400 --> 0:00:56.800 is Saturday, a glorious day here, a great opportunity to 0:00:56.920 --> 0:01:03.480 enjoy collegiate football and bet On college football and all that, 0:01:03.520 --> 0:01:05.960 and also watch Benny Versus the Penny, which is airing 0:01:06.000 --> 0:01:09.800 all over the place. And so we've got a lot 0:01:09.959 --> 0:01:11.720 a lot going on here. Dan, There's a lot of 0:01:11.720 --> 0:01:12.560 things going on. 0:01:13.240 --> 0:01:16.000 And I feel like you and some other listeners who 0:01:16.520 --> 0:01:19.360 have gambled for a long time, because I have the 0:01:19.400 --> 0:01:22.800 itch now I wish I was in Vegas, not just 0:01:22.880 --> 0:01:25.840 for the Raiders and Patriots, but so that I could 0:01:25.880 --> 0:01:29.640 go to one of the kiosks and make some NFL bets. 0:01:30.080 --> 0:01:34.200 Well, eventually in California you'll be able to bet. That's 0:01:34.200 --> 0:01:37.160 when it gets dangerous, right when you can just bet 0:01:37.240 --> 0:01:39.000 and all that stuff. And the other thing too, about 0:01:39.000 --> 0:01:42.240 the whole gambling. My buddies in Vegas, they don't even 0:01:42.280 --> 0:01:45.000 go to the casino kiosk. They just do it on 0:01:45.040 --> 0:01:49.960 their phone. Yeah, it's like and they bet on they 0:01:50.000 --> 0:01:53.880 bet on games in Uh, this actually inspired. You just 0:01:53.920 --> 0:01:57.000 inspired a story. You just inspired, You just facilitated, Danny 0:01:57.000 --> 0:02:01.200 g a story that I was told this past week 0:02:01.360 --> 0:02:07.560 actually about in game betting. Okay, so you know in 0:02:07.640 --> 0:02:09.560 game betting. He was not a self explanatory. If you're 0:02:09.600 --> 0:02:11.040 not a gambler, maybe you don't know. But you can 0:02:11.040 --> 0:02:15.079 literally bet on like everything that happens. You can bet 0:02:15.200 --> 0:02:17.000 on whether the next pitch is going to be a 0:02:17.000 --> 0:02:22.320 strike or a ball. You can like, there's endless possibilities 0:02:22.360 --> 0:02:24.000 of what you bet. I bring that up because a 0:02:24.000 --> 0:02:27.200 friend of mine, who I will not name because he 0:02:27.240 --> 0:02:30.200 works for corporate Major League Baseball, but I've known this 0:02:30.240 --> 0:02:32.720 guy for a long time. And he was showing me 0:02:32.800 --> 0:02:37.560 around before the Dodger Diamondback playoff game, and he took 0:02:37.639 --> 0:02:41.679 me into a booth that I had never been in, 0:02:42.520 --> 0:02:45.119 and he explained, I said, well, that's where I sit, 0:02:45.160 --> 0:02:47.240 and there's a couple other people and and you know, 0:02:48.120 --> 0:02:50.640 like and then there's this person over here off to 0:02:50.720 --> 0:02:58.480 the side, and their job. Their job is to relay 0:02:59.160 --> 0:03:04.639 what's going on on back to the bookmakers and what happened. 0:03:05.800 --> 0:03:07.680 And this is what we talk about a great job 0:03:08.040 --> 0:03:10.960 because they had this in game betting, but with the 0:03:11.080 --> 0:03:14.480 delay to get a TV broadcast to the satellite, up 0:03:14.480 --> 0:03:17.640 to the satellite and back down, or even if it's online, 0:03:17.680 --> 0:03:19.799 there's a delay, right, there's some lag time. 0:03:20.200 --> 0:03:22.160 I was going to ask you this very question. 0:03:22.680 --> 0:03:27.240 Yeah, So what they have done to circumvent to cut 0:03:27.280 --> 0:03:34.160 off those, let's say, I don't know, unethical or gamesmanship 0:03:34.200 --> 0:03:38.120 type fans. I guess they were concerned about people having 0:03:38.200 --> 0:03:41.960 somebody at the game relaying, hey, this pitch is a strike, 0:03:42.040 --> 0:03:44.360 quickly bet it's going to be a strike, and then 0:03:44.760 --> 0:03:49.080 just bankrupting the casino. They're not in the business of 0:03:49.120 --> 0:03:54.200 losing money. So Major League Baseball employees someone to relay 0:03:54.760 --> 0:03:59.840 in real time on the phone and the internet, real 0:04:00.360 --> 0:04:05.400 time what's going on. So their only job is every 0:04:05.560 --> 0:04:07.840 pitch or if it's a foul ball, where does it go? 0:04:08.080 --> 0:04:11.200 Or all that that is their that's their gig to 0:04:11.240 --> 0:04:12.640 be ahead of the TV broadcast. 0:04:13.200 --> 0:04:14.600 That is a cool job. 0:04:14.880 --> 0:04:17.919 Yeah. And I was told that every sport has someone 0:04:18.000 --> 0:04:21.960 because gambling is so popular now, every professional sport that 0:04:22.160 --> 0:04:24.280 you can bet on, which is all of them, the 0:04:24.400 --> 0:04:30.240 NFL has it, the NHL, NBA, they all employ someone 0:04:30.880 --> 0:04:34.200 in house in the arena at these games to make 0:04:34.240 --> 0:04:37.760 sure there's no funny business and nothing gets pickled, as 0:04:37.800 --> 0:04:40.960 Alf the Alien opineer would say. And so I thought, 0:04:41.160 --> 0:04:43.000 I thought that was interesting. I was not planning on 0:04:43.040 --> 0:04:46.039 telling that story, but you just you mentioned the kiosk 0:04:46.120 --> 0:04:48.320 of the gambling, and that popped in my head randomly. 0:04:49.080 --> 0:04:53.000 So there you go. On this podcast we have it's 0:04:53.040 --> 0:04:58.200 not trigonometry, it's not trigonometry to the gun rack. I 0:04:58.240 --> 0:05:00.440 believe that's also on this podcast, A fly I over 0:05:01.200 --> 0:05:05.480 footy fun And I think, well, I think we'll save 0:05:05.600 --> 0:05:07.200 other stuff that we were going to do yesterday to 0:05:07.279 --> 0:05:11.679 the Mailbag podcast on Sunday, so we'll have some pop 0:05:11.720 --> 0:05:15.120 culture on a Sunday, but today is Saturday, and we'll 0:05:15.120 --> 0:05:17.320 start with this back to the Tales of the Life 0:05:17.360 --> 0:05:20.239 of Mahler and Danny g So another story related about 0:05:20.279 --> 0:05:25.000 Dodger Stadium. Yesterday we talked about how randomly Fernando Valezuela 0:05:25.200 --> 0:05:27.080 happened to sit down at a table I was sitting 0:05:27.080 --> 0:05:30.799 at to eat some spaghetti, which which was interesting and random. 0:05:31.520 --> 0:05:33.440 And I would like to point out that's that's in 0:05:33.480 --> 0:05:35.960 my top five random people to sit down at my 0:05:36.080 --> 0:05:42.200 table in the Other ones on that list include Tommy Heinzen, 0:05:43.680 --> 0:05:47.520 the late Celtics broadcaster on Celtics legend who happened to 0:05:48.320 --> 0:05:51.640 sit down at my table randomly, Billy Crystal at a 0:05:51.960 --> 0:05:54.680 at a Clipper game. He's on that short list of 0:05:54.720 --> 0:05:59.480 people that sat down there, John Cena years ago at 0:05:59.480 --> 0:06:03.400 a Laker game, and there's a couple others that. Anyway, 0:06:03.720 --> 0:06:08.760 I sound like Pat O'Brien dropping it. So I had 0:06:08.760 --> 0:06:10.120 to use some mall of math. Now, you know, I 0:06:10.240 --> 0:06:12.159 use Malard math on the radar. I love Malon math. 0:06:12.200 --> 0:06:15.120 I use malarmth all the time. Malamoth is great. I'm 0:06:15.120 --> 0:06:18.839 not a numbers guy, but that doesn't seem to add up. Yeah, 0:06:18.960 --> 0:06:23.479 so headline Los Angeles one thousand, Vin Scully Way Media 0:06:23.680 --> 0:06:27.800 Freeloaders update mentioned things a little different in the playoffs 0:06:28.160 --> 0:06:33.440 Baseball playoffs. So they provide snacks for the media freeloaders 0:06:33.440 --> 0:06:35.200 for free. That means you can get like a bag 0:06:35.240 --> 0:06:38.120 of Cheetos or a candy bar or something like that 0:06:38.240 --> 0:06:43.600 for free. But there is no hot lunch. They don't 0:06:43.600 --> 0:06:45.440 serve a hot lunch. They used to serve like a 0:06:45.480 --> 0:06:50.480 box lunch. But baseball there's so many media people, I mean, 0:06:51.400 --> 0:06:54.599 it's like a beehive in there, so many media people 0:06:54.839 --> 0:06:56.480 that they stopped doing that a couple of years ago. 0:06:56.560 --> 0:06:58.919 So what they do is they give you the working 0:06:59.000 --> 0:07:04.159 media in air quotes a meal voucher. It's like weed 0:07:04.279 --> 0:07:08.719 man hippie in Miami gets food stamps. The media gets 0:07:08.760 --> 0:07:12.040 a voucher. And so you used to get this lunch, 0:07:12.080 --> 0:07:14.240 this box lunch. They don't do that anymore. So they 0:07:14.240 --> 0:07:16.400 hand out this meal ticket. Now the meal ticket is 0:07:16.440 --> 0:07:20.920 good for twenty dollars. That's it, no more, no less. 0:07:20.960 --> 0:07:23.200 So it seems like a lot of money, right, twenty 0:07:23.200 --> 0:07:25.360 bucks whatever, But you got to read the fine print. 0:07:25.560 --> 0:07:27.840 Can't buy alcohol with it. You know, there's just like 0:07:27.880 --> 0:07:30.560 there's restrictions on food stamps. You can't buy alcohol with it. 0:07:30.880 --> 0:07:33.640 You can, you have to use it at the concession 0:07:33.680 --> 0:07:38.200 stands in the ballpark. And so it's kind of self explanatory. 0:07:38.200 --> 0:07:41.960 But you have twenty dollars to spend, and you you 0:07:42.120 --> 0:07:44.880 have to spend it all. If you go over the 0:07:44.920 --> 0:07:47.800 twenty dollars. If the item you're ordering, let's say it's 0:07:47.840 --> 0:07:51.120 like twenty five dollars, you've got to pay five dollars. 0:07:51.200 --> 0:07:55.520 You've got to pay the difference. Now, should you go under, 0:07:55.680 --> 0:07:59.240 should you buy something that is not twenty dollars, they 0:07:59.320 --> 0:08:02.920 don't give you change, You don't get the pocket the difference. 0:08:03.400 --> 0:08:07.680 That money goes back to them. You leave money on 0:08:07.800 --> 0:08:08.400 the table. 0:08:09.080 --> 0:08:11.040 Can you use this card more than once? 0:08:11.440 --> 0:08:15.680 No, that thing you can only use it once. I 0:08:15.720 --> 0:08:20.120 am such a radio loser. I'm a man on a mission. 0:08:20.200 --> 0:08:24.320 I was methodical. I was neurotic about this, Danny, Okay, 0:08:24.360 --> 0:08:27.320 So I'm like, you know, I don't want to leave 0:08:27.400 --> 0:08:28.360 money on the table. 0:08:29.440 --> 0:08:33.600 I I You're like a price is right contestant trying 0:08:33.640 --> 0:08:36.320 to get to nineteen dollars and ninety nine. 0:08:36.120 --> 0:08:40.880 Cents exactly exactly. So I'm out there. I got my 0:08:41.120 --> 0:08:46.640 calculator at I'm crunching the numbers, right, I'm circumventing Dodger Stadium, 0:08:46.679 --> 0:08:51.199 the concession stands there. I'm going going around crunching all 0:08:51.200 --> 0:08:55.760 the stats and it's not trigonometry, but it's pretty close. 0:08:56.040 --> 0:08:58.480 So I didn't realize, because you know, I don't hang 0:08:58.480 --> 0:09:01.040 out with the unwashed just I knew the prices were 0:09:01.040 --> 0:09:04.480 outrageous at Dodger Stadium, but I did not realize the 0:09:04.600 --> 0:09:07.599 levels they go to gouge the hardcore Dodger fans that 0:09:07.679 --> 0:09:11.000 go out to the ballpark. I was blown away. I 0:09:11.000 --> 0:09:15.080 guess the Putin price hack. I didn't realize it had 0:09:15.120 --> 0:09:17.040 gone to that level. I remember you told the famous 0:09:17.080 --> 0:09:19.640 story about Opening Day. Was that last year, Danny or 0:09:19.640 --> 0:09:20.080 this year. 0:09:20.840 --> 0:09:21.920 Two seasons ago? 0:09:22.040 --> 0:09:24.600 I believe in it was Opening Night where we spent 0:09:24.720 --> 0:09:26.959 almost one thousand dollars for our family to. 0:09:26.960 --> 0:09:31.040 Go thousand bucks to go to a freaking baseball game. Anyway, 0:09:32.240 --> 0:09:36.680 Oh my god. So I'm walking around, I'm like, well, 0:09:36.720 --> 0:09:38.600 what do I want to eat? That's the first thing, 0:09:38.640 --> 0:09:41.400 But what's in my budget? So I saw, well, there's 0:09:41.440 --> 0:09:44.600 a beef nacho helmet that looks kind of good, but 0:09:44.640 --> 0:09:47.320 that's twenty. That's twenty dollars and fifty cents. I don't 0:09:47.320 --> 0:09:48.800 want to have to pop. I don't have to spend 0:09:48.840 --> 0:09:53.280 fifty cents. Then I saw there's a cheese steak stand 0:09:53.320 --> 0:09:54.360 at dig Your. 0:09:54.200 --> 0:09:57.400 Goal really was to not go over twenty, not even 0:09:57.840 --> 0:09:59.480 by a quarter exactly. 0:09:59.559 --> 0:10:00.880 No, I'm I'm not kidding, Danny. 0:10:01.160 --> 0:10:01.560 I was. 0:10:01.800 --> 0:10:05.040 I was dissecting this. I was like, I was like, well, 0:10:05.360 --> 0:10:08.200 then I looked at this, this giant cheese steak that 0:10:08.360 --> 0:10:10.880 was twenty five bucks, twenty four to ninety nine for 0:10:10.880 --> 0:10:11.880 a giant cheese steak. 0:10:12.240 --> 0:10:14.800 Oh, so you're not spending five dollars of your own money. 0:10:14.960 --> 0:10:19.160 No chance. So then my friend Steve Futterman, who used 0:10:19.160 --> 0:10:21.880 to work at CBS, the great news reporter, Steve Futterman, 0:10:21.920 --> 0:10:25.600 who I've known for years. So Futterman's there and he's like, hey, 0:10:25.640 --> 0:10:26.959 I want to go get some food. I'm gonna go 0:10:27.000 --> 0:10:30.000 get a pizza. So he went to the California Pizza 0:10:30.080 --> 0:10:35.679 Kitchen at Dodger Stadium where they have the barbecue chicken pizza. 0:10:35.920 --> 0:10:39.240 You can get that for sixteen dollars and fifty cents 0:10:39.800 --> 0:10:42.640 plus tax. But I did the math on that, and 0:10:42.679 --> 0:10:44.719 I would have been leaving like a dollar and some 0:10:44.840 --> 0:10:49.000 change on the on the on the MLB's dime, I 0:10:49.000 --> 0:10:50.960 would have been giving back some money. I was like, well, 0:10:50.960 --> 0:10:53.320 I can't do that. So then I saw they had 0:10:53.400 --> 0:10:56.120 cotton candy, but it was five fifty and I don't 0:10:56.160 --> 0:10:59.640 like cotton candy anyway, I'm not nine years old. So 0:10:59.679 --> 0:11:03.600 it was five point fifty for sugar that is spun 0:11:04.520 --> 0:11:08.200 five fifty for that. I couldn't get past that. So 0:11:08.240 --> 0:11:09.720 then I'm like, all right, well, what about a bag 0:11:09.720 --> 0:11:12.920 of peanuts. That can't be that much seven bucks for 0:11:12.960 --> 0:11:15.439 a bag of peanuts. So I was like, okay, I 0:11:15.440 --> 0:11:17.520 could do I could do two bags of peanuts, but 0:11:17.520 --> 0:11:19.280 I can't do three because three would go over. So 0:11:19.280 --> 0:11:21.160 I can only do two bags of peanuts. That's it. 0:11:21.559 --> 0:11:25.520 So I'm scrutinizing this. And then it got to the 0:11:25.559 --> 0:11:27.800 point where I was like, well, maybe if I I 0:11:27.880 --> 0:11:31.640 was so desperate to get exactly twenty dollars that they 0:11:31.679 --> 0:11:34.720 had a pickle for four ninety nine, so I thought 0:11:34.760 --> 0:11:36.839 I could get four. I don't even like pickles. I 0:11:36.880 --> 0:11:39.720 hate pickles. Alfie alien O Piner likes pickles. I don't 0:11:39.760 --> 0:11:42.760 like pickles. So but I was like, well, wait a minute, 0:11:42.760 --> 0:11:44.959 fir for a moment, Danny in my head, I'm like, okay, 0:11:44.960 --> 0:11:47.240 I can get four pickles, that's twenty bucks. But then 0:11:47.280 --> 0:11:50.079 they add the tax, so the tax would have bumped 0:11:50.080 --> 0:11:52.640 me over the twenty dollars. So I can't do that. 0:11:53.120 --> 0:11:55.720 So I'm moving around right, I'm bobbing and weaving like 0:11:55.760 --> 0:11:58.640 I do on benny versus a penny, and I'm breaking 0:11:58.679 --> 0:12:02.480 things down. I'm analyzed everything and I'm getting into it. 0:12:03.120 --> 0:12:07.320 I'm very surgical, very surgical when i'm doing this, and 0:12:07.640 --> 0:12:11.400 you know i'm doing my thing. I'm using precision. So 0:12:11.440 --> 0:12:12.960 then I realized, you know what I really like, but 0:12:13.000 --> 0:12:17.600 I haven't had in a while a soft pretzel. So 0:12:17.600 --> 0:12:19.160 then I was like, how much is a soft pretzel? 0:12:20.320 --> 0:12:25.640 And there it was, the King sized soft pretzel. Hey 0:12:25.760 --> 0:12:32.120 you Jesus, five ninety nine, five ninety nine. 0:12:32.320 --> 0:12:34.320 What about the melted nacho cheese? 0:12:34.480 --> 0:12:37.480 Well, I could not afford that. That was out of 0:12:37.480 --> 0:12:40.160 my budget. They were charging this blew me away. I 0:12:40.160 --> 0:12:42.640 thought this was the most outrageously, most offensive thing I 0:12:42.640 --> 0:12:47.640 could comprehend or I witnessed at Dodger Stadium two twenty 0:12:47.679 --> 0:12:52.520 five for a cup of nacho cheese Dawn. Now two 0:12:52.960 --> 0:12:57.080 twenty five that's a side item twenty five for a 0:12:57.120 --> 0:12:58.160 little small cup. 0:12:58.559 --> 0:13:01.000 That's a seventy five per cent them. Yeah. 0:13:01.360 --> 0:13:03.559 So what I did, Danny, is I realized I have 0:13:04.320 --> 0:13:07.720 I have a hack that I can get the cheese cup. 0:13:07.720 --> 0:13:11.080 I can circumvent the two twenty five for the cheese cup, 0:13:11.120 --> 0:13:12.920 but I need the pretzels, and there's no way to 0:13:12.920 --> 0:13:15.920 get the pretzels other than the here. So I made 0:13:16.160 --> 0:13:20.160 an executive decision, and I punched the numbers into my 0:13:20.240 --> 0:13:27.960 calculator using Malormath. I purchased three five ninety nine king 0:13:28.160 --> 0:13:32.880 size soft pretzels at Dodger Stadium. They added the tax, Danny. 0:13:32.920 --> 0:13:34.840 So I got a little nervous because I wasn't sure 0:13:34.880 --> 0:13:37.319 if I knew the tax. I thought maybe the tax 0:13:37.559 --> 0:13:41.640 I was off on the tax. The total, Danny, the 0:13:41.679 --> 0:13:46.040 total on the showcase showdown three king size pretzels. Remember, 0:13:46.080 --> 0:13:48.680 I only had twenty dollars to spend. If I go over, 0:13:48.760 --> 0:13:50.600 I got to pay the difference. If I go under, 0:13:50.720 --> 0:13:57.000 they get the money. My total with tax nineteen dollars 0:13:58.440 --> 0:14:01.880 and sixty eight cents, I was only thirty two cents 0:14:01.920 --> 0:14:07.680 away from the perfect twenty dollars, but I'll take that 0:14:08.000 --> 0:14:12.040 thirty two cents. You're gonna win the showcase showdown at 0:14:12.040 --> 0:14:13.839 thirty two cents away most of the time. 0:14:13.920 --> 0:14:16.720 Wow, what did you do with three pretzels? 0:14:16.720 --> 0:14:19.960 Though, well, here's the here's the cheap code. I went 0:14:20.000 --> 0:14:21.880 back to the press box and I went to where 0:14:21.920 --> 0:14:24.440 the table. I sat next to Fernando at he wasn't there. 0:14:24.520 --> 0:14:26.640 There were some other people there, so I put the 0:14:26.680 --> 0:14:30.480 pretzels down and I walked over and they had some 0:14:30.680 --> 0:14:34.040 Dodger dogs, and they had like chili, and they had 0:14:34.280 --> 0:14:39.120 cheese for the Dodger dogs as topics. I then took 0:14:39.160 --> 0:14:42.520 a cup and got but I felt like I was 0:14:42.640 --> 0:14:49.920 robbing a bank. A cup of cheese, nacho cheese that 0:14:50.120 --> 0:14:53.240 was for the Dodger dogs. That is a two twenty 0:14:53.360 --> 0:14:57.480 five value. I then got two of them. So now 0:14:57.720 --> 0:15:02.160 I'm at four point fifty in bol this money. So 0:15:02.760 --> 0:15:07.400 I'm ahead Danny my head by over four dollars. 0:15:08.120 --> 0:15:09.160 You are ruthless. 0:15:09.320 --> 0:15:11.760 I am sticking it to the man. Okay, I am 0:15:11.800 --> 0:15:14.320 sticking it to rob Man for the Major League Baseball. 0:15:14.960 --> 0:15:19.640 So anyway, that was It's not trigonometry, and I'm very 0:15:19.640 --> 0:15:21.160 proud that I was able to do now as far 0:15:21.160 --> 0:15:23.360 as eating the pretzels. I ate two pretzels and then 0:15:23.400 --> 0:15:25.760 I got immediately tired. I could not eat the third one. 0:15:25.920 --> 0:15:29.160 But what I did is I waited, and they had 0:15:29.240 --> 0:15:33.480 a microwave em and I put the third one in 0:15:33.520 --> 0:15:35.960 a microwave and I warmed it up for twenty five seconds. 0:15:36.000 --> 0:15:39.200 I nuked it and it came back to life. And 0:15:39.240 --> 0:15:41.160 so then I ate the third one a little bit later. 0:15:41.680 --> 0:15:43.080 Got your second wind. 0:15:43.200 --> 0:15:45.520 I did. I did get my my second win. But 0:15:45.720 --> 0:15:47.800 I felt like I was very efficient. It took a 0:15:47.840 --> 0:15:51.480 long time, but I came within thirty two cents of 0:15:51.560 --> 0:15:52.360 a perfect score. 0:15:52.840 --> 0:15:57.600 And then that he knows that nothing like a good 0:15:58.200 --> 0:16:03.000 soft pretzel light least salted, dipped in nacho cheese. Agree, 0:16:03.720 --> 0:16:07.360 especially when that nacho cheese is hot. Yeah, oh man, 0:16:07.400 --> 0:16:10.240 that is. I had that at the Canelo fight. Best 0:16:10.280 --> 0:16:12.840 meal I had in Vegas that entire weekend, and we 0:16:12.880 --> 0:16:14.479 went to a stinking steakhouse. 0:16:15.440 --> 0:16:18.440 So good, yeah, so so wonderful. 0:16:19.560 --> 0:16:20.200 I agree. 0:16:21.080 --> 0:16:23.440 And I'm looking at these other people, like my friends 0:16:23.440 --> 0:16:26.480 in the media, and they're spending like twelve dollars for 0:16:26.600 --> 0:16:28.920 something and then they're giving eight dollars. What are you 0:16:28.960 --> 0:16:32.840 giving back eight bucks? What are you a loser throwing 0:16:32.920 --> 0:16:34.880 a couple of cheese cups? At least so at least 0:16:34.920 --> 0:16:36.440 you're you're getting closer. That's a ripple. 0:16:36.720 --> 0:16:38.880 Yeah, get a side of ranch or something. 0:16:39.160 --> 0:16:41.280 Yeah, maybe you can put a gun rack or something 0:16:41.360 --> 0:16:46.240 like that. I don't know, you can mess around with that, right. 0:16:46.840 --> 0:16:49.720 I don't know how to transition from your funny story 0:16:49.760 --> 0:16:52.640 to this story, which is slightly serious. 0:16:52.680 --> 0:16:56.000 But it is. Yeah, it's but it's one of those. 0:16:56.320 --> 0:16:58.160 I'm gonna put my grown up hat on. I'm gonna 0:16:58.160 --> 0:17:02.240 be my I'm not gonna be goofy, goofy guy. All yeah, Okay, 0:17:02.240 --> 0:17:03.840 I'll be very mature here. All right. 0:17:04.280 --> 0:17:07.480 Well, I mean it's funny what the kid said, but 0:17:07.760 --> 0:17:10.600 it's just through the eyes of a youngster, the damn 0:17:10.720 --> 0:17:14.240 things that kids say. Right, Yeah, So I haven't gotten 0:17:14.240 --> 0:17:16.480 to tell a story about the school campus in a 0:17:16.480 --> 0:17:17.040 little while. 0:17:17.640 --> 0:17:20.400 I'm in there. Thursday morning, I open up the campus. 0:17:20.400 --> 0:17:23.880 I'm in my classroom and there's a kid, let's see, 0:17:23.880 --> 0:17:27.200 I'll change his name to protect the innocent and the guilty, 0:17:27.880 --> 0:17:32.000 so let's call him Joseph. All right, Joseph walks in. 0:17:32.160 --> 0:17:35.880 I check him in for the early morning program. He's 0:17:35.920 --> 0:17:38.600 sitting there, he's doing some math homework. He's telling me 0:17:38.640 --> 0:17:42.359 all about algebra and how hard it is, and he's like, 0:17:42.560 --> 0:17:44.760 when am I going to use this in real life? 0:17:45.280 --> 0:17:47.760 And I said, heah, you're telling me, kid, I had 0:17:47.760 --> 0:17:51.840 to take algebra as well and suffer through it. He's 0:17:51.840 --> 0:17:54.320 talking about algebra and everything, and then he tells me, 0:17:55.240 --> 0:17:58.160 have you heard about what's going on with Israel and everything? 0:17:58.800 --> 0:18:02.080 He said, my dad told me I am not allowed 0:18:02.080 --> 0:18:04.920 to go to school on Friday because of the threats. 0:18:05.760 --> 0:18:08.840 He said, I need to stay home right next to 0:18:08.920 --> 0:18:09.640 the gun rack. 0:18:10.560 --> 0:18:13.879 What how old is the kid? 0:18:14.400 --> 0:18:15.840 He's an eighth grader. 0:18:16.359 --> 0:18:20.000 Wow, Now, Ben, A lot of people have this opinion 0:18:20.000 --> 0:18:24.800 of California that we are all anti guns, and you know, 0:18:24.800 --> 0:18:27.160 we're all a bunch of hippies here next to the ocean. 0:18:27.560 --> 0:18:30.520 Yeah No, there are a bunch of gun lovers that 0:18:30.600 --> 0:18:32.640 we all know here where we live. 0:18:32.920 --> 0:18:33.120 Yeah. 0:18:33.200 --> 0:18:35.800 Yeah. I got a bunch of friends that are like 0:18:35.880 --> 0:18:38.640 drive trucks and have shotgun racks. 0:18:38.359 --> 0:18:43.280 And we have that crowd here as well mixed in. 0:18:44.080 --> 0:18:46.040 And I just got a kick out of it, because 0:18:46.080 --> 0:18:49.120 I mean, I didn't know what to say how many 0:18:49.160 --> 0:18:52.239 guns do you have at your house? And I was like, 0:18:52.359 --> 0:18:56.080 this took a turn from algebra to gun talk. 0:19:02.280 --> 0:19:06.560 Through the eyes of the I actually had. And this 0:19:06.600 --> 0:19:11.360 is enough yet again, Danny, you are facilitating marginal conversation. 0:19:11.800 --> 0:19:15.119 But you're see, I'm so muddled, I'm forgettingthing. So the 0:19:15.160 --> 0:19:16.840 other day, this is actually you'll get a kick out 0:19:16.880 --> 0:19:19.000 of this. And it's not a long story. It's just 0:19:19.320 --> 0:19:21.720 like an antidote to your story, because it's about a kid. 0:19:21.920 --> 0:19:26.680 So I went to Target to I had to pick 0:19:26.800 --> 0:19:30.240 up something at Target. So I'm walking and it was 0:19:30.280 --> 0:19:32.520 in the grocery store part of Target, right, So I 0:19:32.560 --> 0:19:34.159 went to Target. I usually don't go. 0:19:34.280 --> 0:19:35.560 I like a. 0:19:35.600 --> 0:19:38.119 Costco and I'm not a Target guy with my wife 0:19:38.200 --> 0:19:41.200 likes to. But I had to get some So I 0:19:41.800 --> 0:19:44.280 go into Target and I'm looking for the item I need. 0:19:44.280 --> 0:19:47.520 It's a food item, and I'm walking through the grocery 0:19:47.520 --> 0:19:52.120 store and this woman's she's pushing a cart with her son. 0:19:53.000 --> 0:19:55.200 And I'm not sure how old the kid is, maybe 0:19:55.280 --> 0:19:58.240 like six or seven. I'm not really good at all 0:19:58.280 --> 0:20:01.080 with ages. And then she's got her daughter with her 0:20:01.720 --> 0:20:03.879 and they're walking through the store and they walked past 0:20:03.960 --> 0:20:05.800 me on the aisle and I'm looking for the thing, 0:20:06.280 --> 0:20:12.520 and this little kid, in this little cute voice says, 0:20:13.800 --> 0:20:18.480 oh my god, Becky, look at her butt. And he's 0:20:18.560 --> 0:20:20.879 like he keeps saying. He says it like four or 0:20:20.920 --> 0:20:24.800 five times in this cute little boy voice, right, and 0:20:25.280 --> 0:20:27.960 he's he's singing. I guess he had heard for the 0:20:28.000 --> 0:20:32.639 first time the sir mix a lot baby Baby got 0:20:32.720 --> 0:20:35.639 back and he kept repeating that, and the mom is like, 0:20:35.920 --> 0:20:38.960 you know, she's like totally embarrassed, and she's like freaking out. 0:20:39.400 --> 0:20:41.919 She's like, you can't say that, you know. It was 0:20:41.960 --> 0:20:45.120 so funny though. You had this cute little kid voice 0:20:45.200 --> 0:20:48.080 because he was a little kid and he's, oh my god, Becky, 0:20:48.160 --> 0:20:51.480 look at her butt, and it was hilarious. It was 0:20:51.560 --> 0:20:53.320 so it was so funny. I was like, it was 0:20:53.400 --> 0:20:57.080 laughing and and you get to experience that, Danny soon 0:20:57.200 --> 0:21:00.920 enough with Coha get wait a little bit, but soon enough, 0:21:01.000 --> 0:21:02.480 you'll be able to experience that. 0:21:03.160 --> 0:21:06.040 He watched the Raiders game with me again last weekend 0:21:06.480 --> 0:21:09.000 last Monday night, and he heard a lot of f 0:21:09.160 --> 0:21:13.520 bombs as the Raiders were in the red zone. They 0:21:13.560 --> 0:21:16.399 did score two touchdowns two of the three times so 0:21:17.440 --> 0:21:19.760 there were probably a few less f bombs than the 0:21:19.800 --> 0:21:22.960 week prior. But yeah, I'm a little scared that his 0:21:23.040 --> 0:21:28.240 first word is going to be ye by blank and blank. 0:21:28.320 --> 0:21:32.000 You he's learning by osmosis. He's learning by osmosis. So 0:21:32.359 --> 0:21:38.479 the flyover thing, let's get that real quick. So on Saturday, 0:21:38.520 --> 0:21:42.320 this actually kind of relates to Cole because I at 0:21:42.400 --> 0:21:46.080 Game one Dodgers and Diamondbacks last Saturday week ago. So 0:21:46.119 --> 0:21:47.800 I'm at the game, but I really was there because 0:21:47.800 --> 0:21:49.679 I had to pick up my pass. But it was 0:21:49.720 --> 0:21:52.679 my day off, and you know, I was planning on 0:21:52.720 --> 0:21:54.760 watching the game on TV. But I went there and 0:21:55.040 --> 0:21:58.280 I was just schmoozing. I was, I was hanging out 0:21:58.280 --> 0:22:04.760 with people cod you know, just chatting whatever. So I'm 0:22:04.800 --> 0:22:09.240 doing that and then I believe you had sent me 0:22:09.320 --> 0:22:12.320 a message, Danny. You were like, hey, you know, I'm 0:22:12.440 --> 0:22:14.359 gonna kind of be in the area you're at, you know, 0:22:14.520 --> 0:22:17.600 in the north Woods area, so maybe we can hang out. 0:22:17.600 --> 0:22:19.280 You can meet CoA. So I was like, oh, that's cool. 0:22:19.280 --> 0:22:21.200 I want to meet Cole. I've not met CoA. I'd 0:22:21.200 --> 0:22:22.919 like to meet the little guy. I've heard a lot 0:22:22.960 --> 0:22:24.960