October 26, 2024 • 29 mins
Ben Maller & Danny G. have a fun Saturday podcast for you! They talk: Dodgers Crazy Win, World Series Inflation, Out of Bullets, Clark Kent, Chuckles, & more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Kabooms.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes
a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants
of the Old Republic, a soul fashion of fairness. He
treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the
rich pill poppers in the penthouse. Wow to Clearinghouse of
hot takes, break free for something special. The Fifth Hour
(00:23):
with Ben Mallard starts right now.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
In the air everywhere, The Fifth Hour with Me, Ben
Mahler and Danny g Radio and a Happy Saturday to you,
the twenty sixth day of the month of October, and
Danny the toyers are now.
Speaker 4 (00:47):
This is not one not.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
To three winds away, three winds away Danny from winning
another champion ship is game one in the books against
those evil New York Yankees. Last night at the Ravine,
the scenario you dream about. Freddy is living first pitch swinging.
Speaker 5 (01:10):
High fly ball Dude, Freddie Friedman channeling is inner Kirk Gibson.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
Oh, walk up, home run hid Dame.
Speaker 5 (01:32):
One of the World.
Speaker 6 (01:33):
Series, Dude, What a way to start the World Series.
And Ben, we will not get robbed of a parade
this time in Los Angeles.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
No, we will not. Although I think last night there
was a parade.
Speaker 7 (01:45):
It was a slow moving parade by ways and byeways.
Bananas and the Dodgers are now one went into the
World Series. We'll see what happens later today with game
number two of the Fall Classic Boo. Now, speaking of
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the Dodgers, though, I got to address this, Danny.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
I know you didn't go to Game one. You were
working and you had your responsibilities. The microphone throttler. This
is the most expensive World Series on the secondary market
of all time? Does it really have to be that way?
Is it really necessary to have the minimum.
Speaker 7 (02:32):
Get in price at this World Series? I think they
say it was over one thousand dollars. I think overall,
when you can bind.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
The really really wealthy and the cheapest seat in the
upper deck, it's it's like seventeen hundred dollars or something
like that, it's gonna be outrageous at Yankee Stadium. Also,
so what happened? Did I'm old enough and you're around
my age, Danny. Remember when we were younger, people would
line up to try to buy tickets to the playoffs,
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and you'd get them at like a normal rate.
Speaker 6 (03:06):
There was a great thread Ben on threads that you
would have loved just to show you how out of
touch some, especially women. And I'm not trying to be sexist,
but think of a younger. She looked like she was
in her twenties, and she looked like maybe guys take
her to dinner a lot. But she wrote a thread
saying where can I please buy a Dodgers World Series
(03:29):
ticket for seventy five dollars? And in parentheses she wrote
good seats. And she was not being ironic, She wasn't
being sarcastic. She was dead serious because the first comment
or underneath her threads said, are you effing serious? It
costs one hundred and fifty dollars to get into the
(03:50):
damn parking lot to park. And then she replied to
a couple people, I had no idea. You had no idea.
You really think you can get into an LA event,
let alone a world series? And I looked it up, Ben,
the price for a nineteen eighty eight ticket for Dodger
Stadium for the World Series just to get in? Then
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what's fifty bucks?
Speaker 4 (04:13):
Eight bucks? All right?
Speaker 1 (04:14):
I was gonna say, I was going to say, actually.
Speaker 7 (04:15):
That, but still, yeah, let's do now, you want to
do the inflation.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
I love the inflation calculator. You want to do the
inflation calculator.
Speaker 6 (04:23):
Yeah, yeah, I'm dying to hear what it should be.
This is kind of like how we've done this for Disneyland.
Let me punch this in here, hit this button here.
Speaker 4 (04:32):
So the year.
Speaker 7 (04:35):
You go back in the hot tup time machine to
nineteen eighty eighty, you're nineteen eighty eight. Let's see the
Dodgers won the World Series.
Speaker 6 (04:44):
Yeah, you had the Bulldog oral herscheizer on the mound.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
You said fifty dollars for a World Series ticket?
Speaker 4 (04:52):
Yep, the same.
Speaker 7 (04:54):
And let's calculate it. So a world same item today,
a World Series ticket at face value should cost one
hundred and thirty three dollars and twenty six cents.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Say what what the f Yeah?
Speaker 7 (05:12):
You can't Wow, do not even look at Dodger Stadium.
You cannot even look at Dodger Stadium for one hundred
and thirty three dollars. I think the taxes when you
when you break down the taxes, Danny on these tickets
for a thousand.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
I looked. I was like, well, you know, maybe if
I can get a cheap ticket, you know, I don't.
I don't have media access anymore because I'm not from Japan,
I know, cover Otani, and so the Dodgers don't really
want me out there. So I was like, maybe I'll
buy some tings na NA the very top the worst
seats in Dodger Stadium where you have a better view
of the Mountain Range than anything in the.
Speaker 7 (05:46):
Ballpark upper deck, near the foul pole and near the
parle gates. A thousand dollars and some change. And that
was as of Monday. I think it's gone up.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
You know, who knows.
Speaker 7 (05:57):
We'll see it's game two tonight. They've played one games,
so you know, obviously we'll see if that changes. But
it's just just nuts man, just absolutely, and I get it.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
I understand.
Speaker 7 (06:09):
You've got the very wealthy in LA who have made
their money, a lot of them in entertainment, other people
because of social media stuff. And then in New York
you've got a lot of investment people, financial people, Wall
Street people that are ridiculously wealthy that have f you
money and they're like, either they want to go because
(06:30):
they actually like the Yankees, and then the people in
LA like the Dodgers or as you know, Danny a
lot of these freaking events. It's just a place to
be seen. You got to be out there, you got
to hang out, you got to mingle, even though you're
not you're not really a Yankee or Dodger fan. We're
gonna we saw this last night, and I think we're
going to see a ton of this, especially in New
York where the people behind home plate that are wearing
(06:51):
the hats with the tags on them.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
You know what I'm talking about.
Speaker 7 (06:54):
Yeah, like they gift shop and bought a bunch of merch.
Speaker 4 (07:00):
Now, Ben, you're gonna love this.
Speaker 6 (07:01):
It's something we talked about Friday afternoon on the Covino
and Rich Show. From Craigslist, I just texted it to you.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
Wow, I will marry you and get you citizenship for
Dodger too.
Speaker 6 (07:13):
This guy posted a picture of himself and it looks
like his son. But I guess he's divorced or never
got married because he is single, and he's offering to
marry a woman to get her her citizenship in exchange
for World Series seats.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
Wow, No, isn't that illegal? I think I don't.
Speaker 4 (07:36):
I don't know.
Speaker 6 (07:37):
On the black market, that's fifteen thousand dollars or maybe
even more nowadays. Right if you get somebody their citizenship.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
So this guy's that horny to go to the World
Series that he will marry some random stranger and they
have don't they have to stay married for like ten
years or something like that.
Speaker 4 (07:54):
I don't.
Speaker 6 (07:55):
I don't know what the length is. I think it
depends which state you're married in. That or that's gotta
be fake.
Speaker 4 (08:01):
No, that's real. That post I sent you is real, So.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
I should text I should text this guy right now say.
Speaker 4 (08:07):
Yeah, his phone number is on that Wow.
Speaker 7 (08:10):
It says I'm thirty one years old Dodger fan that
is looking for good World Series tickets. I offer getting
married to you and getting you citizenship. You don't have
to worry about Trump anymore. Wow, get married for Dodger
tickets and think of the future you will have getting
closer to the American dream.
Speaker 4 (08:29):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
Yeah, So there it is.
Speaker 6 (08:33):
The second picture is of me and groomsman text Chris
at seven one four blah blah blah.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Wow.
Speaker 7 (08:42):
I mean a guy must not have any money. I mean,
that's one way to do it. That is how many?
Speaker 1 (08:49):
How many women are looking for husbands on Craigslist and
this is where.
Speaker 6 (08:52):
They're Yeah, women who have an extra World Series ticket.
Speaker 7 (08:57):
Yeah, exactly. Well, I guess it is cheaper, you know,
if you spend four grand on tickets as opposed to
what you say, ten grand for citizenship or something like that.
Speaker 4 (09:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (09:07):
What I've heard in the past is that there are
people from other countries who may or may not pay
you quietly twenty thousand dollars to obtain their citizenship.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
Yeah, that's we missed out, Danny. We got we got married.
We didn't do this. I mean that's that's a money maker.
Speaker 4 (09:28):
Yeah, Instead it cost us ten to twenty thousand dollars
to kick me marry.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
We could have pulled this off multiple times, to be
like Larry King, the old Larry King. How many times
was he married? Seven, eight, nine times, ten years?
Speaker 4 (09:41):
I'll get know.
Speaker 7 (09:41):
The twenty thousand dollars. You invest that money and then
boom man. All right, well that that.
Speaker 4 (09:47):
Is what a world?
Speaker 1 (09:48):
What a world?
Speaker 7 (09:49):
So I have out of bullets, Clark Kent chuckles. So
I want to go back to the Friday Show. I
should have mentioned this yesterday, but I was talking about
my voice being shredded the other d and all that.
So the Friday show was interesting. The radio show, I
was on fumes.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
You know, normal routine, not quite as normal because I
took off Wednesday into Thursday because of my vocal issues,
and so I was on FUMES.
Speaker 7 (10:16):
I was doing the TV show, prepping for that and
all that, and then I came home, got ready for
the radio show. And I told a similar story a
couple weeks ago, but I was so bedraggled. I was bedraggled,
Benny that I clicked the thing you shouldn't have clicked
at the time.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
You shouldn't have clicked it.
Speaker 7 (10:36):
After spending a fair amount of my day getting ready
for the radio show, I what I do is I
put together bullet points things I think are important that
i'll i'll throw together in a monologue. And I spend
decent amount of time doing this get ready for the show.
Because if you're going to listen, it's your time. Is
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the most important thing you have, it's the most valuable
thing you have, and if you're going to spend your
time listening to the show, I feel like I need
to put my time in. So I put these bullet
points together and roughly, yet again, about thirty seconds before
it's my time to talk. I hear Monsey's she was
in for Eddie. Eddie was on assignment watching the Kings
(11:20):
play the Sharks, so he just.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
Took the night off. How about shut up.
Speaker 7 (11:26):
So it's like thirty seconds before the top of they
are in. Lorrain is in my headphone. She's like, all right,
your MIC's son, green light go, and I'm like, I
click on this thing to get my bullet points for
the monologue things you know, i'd put.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
Together, and instead of green light, oh, it's red light stop.
Speaker 7 (11:43):
And somehow I clicked the thing I shouldn't have clicked,
or I deleted something and that's it. No no bullets,
no bullet points, nothing.
Speaker 4 (11:56):
No ingredients for the Baba good news.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
Yeah. And uh. The thing that blows me away is
I just I did it and I thought it was
smooth enough. Nobody messaged me saying, hey, why does it
sound different or so?
Speaker 7 (12:10):
Or I don't understand. I don't get it what's going on.
I just like, in my head I tried. One of
the reason I do the bullplayers, I try to remember
I have them in front of me, but I try
to just let it rip, Danny, you know, I try
to let it rip and so, but nobody mentioned it,
which is either the fact that no one's listening, no
one's paying attention, or I was able to pull it off.
(12:31):
I'm not sure which one that is, but even my
biggest supporters, not a single one of them reached out
to me.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
It is like, hey, I something seemed a little off there.
I was able to pull off the naked bootleg. That
was about the hour three Mallar monologue, which was about
Daniel Jones and the situation with the Giants. It was
about Derrick Henry.
Speaker 7 (12:52):
There was a story behind a paywall on the Athletic
where some NFL executives like, well, now we're gonna we
should probably pay running back and be prisoner of a moment.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
But that was the That was the hour. So hour three.
Speaker 7 (13:06):
I have to make sure that doesn't happen. This has
now happened twice in like the last two months. This
has happened. So it's I always feel like Danny, like,
why am I wasting my if I'm just going to
delete this stuff. I mean, there's a lot of guys
just show up and don't do any prep Like I
could do that, my life would be a lot easier.
I'd have a lot more time, a lot more me
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time if I did that, but I actually prepare it,
I was like, and then then you know, every once
in a while, this crap happens.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
Sucks.
Speaker 6 (13:36):
The famous story about jay Z is that he's in
the studio. He's listening to the beat that back in
the day Kanye West or somebody else was playing for him,
and he just wanted to write to it right away
because he liked it so much. But he wouldn't take
out a pen and pad. He would just come up
with the lyrics in his head and keep going over
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it in his head. And then he walked straight into
the booth and lay down the verse from writing the
lyrics inside his head. So it sounds like you're pulling
a jay Z.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
Well, very similar. When you think of me and jay Z,
we have a lot in common other than our backgrounds,
our finances and everything.
Speaker 6 (14:20):
Your wife was a member of Destiny's Child when they
first came out, though, so you have that in common.
Speaker 7 (14:25):
According to Wikipedia, believe my favorite improv story, my favorite
improv story of all time is for my childhood, what
I was taught in school was one of the ten
greatest speeches in American history. Martin Luther King the I
Have a Dream speech, which was ad libbed and this
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famous speech in the whole deal. He just did it
on the fly. He did improv. He had the speech
written out. And the famous story is he gave a
copy of the speech to this this kid that was
working security in Washington, d C. Who happened to end
up becoming a famous college basketball coach, George Raveling. I
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believe he's a guy's name, and gave him the speech,
and but he didn't actually read the speech.
Speaker 5 (15:19):
It did.
Speaker 7 (15:20):
The actual speech that Martin Luther King had the dream
speech did not contain the passage that started with I
have a Dream, but he had lived.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
It and it's the you know, one of the great
speeches of all time.
Speaker 6 (15:35):
So yeah, he just felt it kind of like anything
as possible.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
My Daniel Jones monologue will not be anywhere else to.
Speaker 7 (15:46):
Any of these things, but you know, why not for
five minutes on a podcast What the hell?
Speaker 1 (15:52):
Danny right?
Speaker 4 (15:53):
Walking out of the park?
Speaker 3 (15:54):
Right.
Speaker 7 (15:55):
I transformed myself kind of like Clark Kate. I was
very similar to Clark Kent, where I was able to
transform into a different human being if you.
Speaker 6 (16:05):
Will, Yeah, if you're one of our younger listeners, and
you don't know who Clark Kent is. That is the
guy in the suit who works for the what was
it the Daily Bugle newspaper, Daily Planet or Daily Bugle? Oh,
there you go, Daily Plant. Who worked at the Bugle.
Maybe that's Spider Man, but at the Daily Planet, it
(16:25):
was Clark Kent, and we loved it, even as kids
were like, are you f and kiddy?
Speaker 3 (16:30):
Mean?
Speaker 6 (16:30):
Man, he just puts glasses on, and that's a disguise.
Glasses are his disguise. Because he took his glasses off
put this costume on with a cape, Suddenly nobody could
tell anymore that it was Clark Kent.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
Yeah, so that's it. Just a foam booth.
Speaker 6 (16:46):
And I'm glad you brought up phone booth because that's
where this is going. So Los Angeles made a lot
of news over the past couple of days because of
the traffic situation surrounding the World Series, the Lakers at
Crypto USC at the Coliseum, a couple of big high
school games, and then a concert.
Speaker 4 (17:08):
We have so many venues here in Los Angeles.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
There is one at the Into It Dome, the Great
Into It Dome.
Speaker 6 (17:14):
So this is the first concert in season with the Clippers. Yes,
all the news people in Los Angeles were dancing with
this news you know, doing the doing the centipede across
the newsroom floor like, yeah, traffic, kel, this is.
Speaker 4 (17:31):
Going to be fun to report.
Speaker 6 (17:32):
Anytime there's any sort of disaster in LA, they're all
over it with big smiles.
Speaker 7 (17:37):
Big smiles, and they get the helicopter up and it
always goes viral. That video of the four oh five
freeway where half, yes half of it's read that's that
is every time there's every time we get that, which
is pretty much every other week in LA, that thing
goes viral.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
People love that. They get round round.
Speaker 4 (17:57):
Covino and Rich.
Speaker 6 (17:59):
As you know, I always say two to four on
the West side, five to seven pm and beautiful fill
in the blank, East Coast city and state. The show
here in La ends at four pm. I always have
a dilemma because I have at least sixty, if not
ninety minutes of post production work to do. Do you
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think traffic is better at five pm on my way
home or at six pm?
Speaker 1 (18:24):
I would say six, six pm, because.
Speaker 7 (18:28):
I think a lot of people depends on well, it
depends on what day, because like Friday, you know, people
leave early on Friday.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
I'm not I don't.
Speaker 4 (18:37):
See I'm with you.
Speaker 6 (18:38):
I always just assumed, you know, it's better if I
just stay here in the production studio and wait it out.
Because of the initial rush at five pm, but because
there are so many money chasers and demanding bosses inside
the city limits of Los Angeles, California, the traffic is
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actually better at five because people aren't all out on
the road yet they're trying to get there. At six pm,
they're all there. So lately, what I've been doing, man,
I've been pulling this trick where I park the audio
for the Covino and Rich podcast. I get in front
of the traffic as much as I can, and at
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a halfway point home, I stop at a Starbucks, use
their Wi Fi on my laptop, and then post the
descriptions for that parked audio, kind of like splitting up
my podcast duties so that I can beat the traffic.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
Okay, that's smart.
Speaker 6 (19:36):
Yeah, yeah, there's only one problem with this. I've been
doing this out of Starbucks in Calabasas, the famous home
of the Kardashians Enslave.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
Is that what they call it enslave.
Speaker 4 (19:47):
Yeah, what'd you call it?
Speaker 1 (19:49):
The well, it's like they have their own kabul or whatever.
I mean, they have their own I don't know what
you'd call it the village.
Speaker 4 (19:55):
You say cabooths.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
I don't know. They have definitely that is the actually before.
I don't want to get carried away.
Speaker 7 (20:02):
But I had this debate with my my wife, and
you're you're perfect answer. So I we were talking about
like women's you know, the reception of sexuality and what's
what's hot or whatever? And in style is the booty, right,
the big booty is the in style these days.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
And so my wife's like, well, that's Jlo. Jlo's the
one that started. I said, no, Kim Kardashian. She started,
So where do you fall in? You're going to continue
to start.
Speaker 7 (20:31):
I just this popped in my head and I just
want to get it out before I forget.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
So is it Jlo or is it Kim Kardashian? The
modern obsession with the boutet in America.
Speaker 4 (20:45):
I think of the Kim Kardashian craze. When you say.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
That's what I told my she said though it was Jlo.
I said, no, it was Kim Kardashian and that was it.
Speaker 6 (20:56):
Yeah, I mean Jlo had a nice curse, but she
was kind of known as being an athletic dancer and
then obviously actress and then singer. But yeah, as far
as girls wanting to get but implants and all that,
that was because of Kim Kay.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
All right, so we agree, and I will. I will
for my wife and I will laugh at her and
say hi.
Speaker 4 (21:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (21:20):
So I'm gonna say Ben that it's actually better than
halfway because once I'm to that Calabasas Starbucks, I'm looking
at like four exits to get home, so not bad.
Once I make it to Calabasis, that's where the bumper
to bumper traffic for me coming from Sherman Oaks ends.
It's almost like I can breathe. I'm at the Starbucks,
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but I don't want to sit there like a mooch
on their internet without purchasing something. And the problem with Starbucks,
obviously everything is overpriced by a lot. So I'll just
get a small coffee five dollars and sixty nine cents.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
This is shame, you know.
Speaker 6 (22:02):
I started doing the math and I'm like, well, damn
if I'm going to spend this money on one little
cup of coffee every day. That's not smart. Well, let
me switch it up. There's a taco bell right across
the street from the Starbucks, and I wasn't sure if
they had internet or not. Let me give it a try,
you know, and I'll just have a little snack. I'll
get a classic bean and cheese burrito, a favorite.
Speaker 4 (22:24):
There.
Speaker 6 (22:25):
Bust out my laptop, hog a table, make it my
little office. So get in there, set up everything. I'm
ready to go. I order the bean and cheese burrito.
Let me wash my hands. Try to walk over to
the restroom, and there's a realatur and he looks like
a mogul. He's on his phone, he's got all his
notes and everything on the table.
Speaker 4 (22:47):
He's got a briefcase. He looks legit.
Speaker 6 (22:51):
He's kind of blocking the bathroom area where you walk in,
and he's loud on his cellphone and he said, look,
it's thirty two thousand, nine hundred and fifty four dollars down.
That's it. I can't lower it. Thirty two thousand plus.
That'll get you in.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
Yeah, I guess got some money here.
Speaker 6 (23:11):
I didn't want to be nosy, but this guy's being loud.
He looks at me and he kind of does a
sidestep like no, no, no, I'm here at the bathroom first,
even though he's busy on his phone call. He walks
into the restroom and locks the door. Come on, dude,
I just want to wash my hands before I eat
Ben Like Clark Kent changing into a superhero. He comes out.
(23:36):
He's no longer in his suit. Take a guess at
what he's wearing. Well, it's halloween season, so.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
He could be wearing anything. He's not working there? Is
he is? He working at the establishment?
Speaker 4 (23:50):
He came out in a Taco Bell staff uniform.
Speaker 7 (23:53):
No way, So the guy looked like he was a
real estate mogul one minute and then.
Speaker 1 (23:59):
Is ready to make like nachos.
Speaker 6 (24:04):
Look, I'm not gonna hate on anybody's side hustles in
southern California because we have to have a few of
them here in order to afford the cost of living.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
Well, I'll tell you, if you are a manager at
a Taco Taco Bell or whatever, you can make six
figures as a manager.
Speaker 4 (24:23):
That's a good point.
Speaker 6 (24:24):
And I mean maybe he was just trying to sell
one or two more properties before he told taco bell
to suck it. Wow, that's wild. Never seen anything like
that before.
Speaker 4 (24:36):
You know.
Speaker 6 (24:36):
Here, I'm thinking this guy must be in there dropping
a deuce or something, and instead he comes out with
his suit all folded up. He had his Taco Bell
name tag on. And then I felt weird because he
was overseeing the production of my bean and cheese burrito.
When I walked up to grab it, he looked at me,
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and it was kind of awkward because he knew I
saw his transfer.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
The butcher, the baker, the candlestick maker. That is that
is absolutely nice.
Speaker 4 (25:06):
Level.
Speaker 7 (25:07):
There was a couple of other things I wanted to
I did want to mention this because this is the
Saturday podcast and they got the Dodger game tonight, and uh.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
The story here.
Speaker 7 (25:18):
This past weekend, I was I was taken as a
guest by my wife Danny to hang out at the Improv,
the Irvine Improv and the OC because my wife is
she's got some friends that are made people. They they
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they know some people, the improv folks, and and so
I show up.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
Now, I don't know about you.
Speaker 7 (25:44):
I love comedy, but I normally only go see people
I'm familiar with. But in this situation, I'm pretty much
at the mercy. I don't even know who's going to
be performing. My my wife say hey, we're going to
the comedy club. It's you know, Saturday night. I'm like, okay,
who's the comedian and she'll, you know, she'll say something
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I don't even know it is. So this last weekend
we went to the comedy club and I want to see,
you know who this is?
Speaker 1 (26:12):
I I did not know who he was, just by.
Speaker 7 (26:14):
His name, and I guess the guy's been been around
for a little bit.
Speaker 1 (26:19):
Steve Trevino. Do you know who Steve Trevino is?
Speaker 4 (26:22):
Okay, yeah, I know that name.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
Yeah, he's He's pretty pretty funny.
Speaker 7 (26:27):
He's done some specials for like Showtime and and Netflix,
Amazon Prime like those kind of things, and he's worked
as a writer for Comedy Central and some other crap.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
So I I never heard of the guy, but I
went I was over in mind. He's around our age, Danny.
Speaker 4 (26:49):
He's got a beard, right, Yeah.
Speaker 7 (26:51):
He's got a beard, and he's from Texas. Does a
lot of like family comedy, like wife relationship, kid comedy.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
But it was pretty good. I laughed and so bit
job by him.
Speaker 4 (27:05):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
He seemed like he was in a hurry though. At
the end of the show he had to get out
of there. He had to get back to his home.
Speaker 7 (27:10):
I think he lives in San Antonio or something. I
don't know, somewhere in Texas and all that. But so
he did a he had about an hour and not
bad Steve Trevino. You can check him out on Netflix
and Showtime and Amazon Prime. And then after that, I
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went to David Busters.
Speaker 4 (27:34):
Danny, Oh, I haven't been there in a couple of years.
Speaker 7 (27:37):
We sted some money playing Papa Shot and my main
game is Skiball.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
I'm a ski ball master. I'm a ninja at skiball.
Speaker 4 (27:46):
It was right.
Speaker 7 (27:46):
He was right across the way from the comedy club.
So we went in there for we weren't even there
that long.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
That's going there have some fun. I went in there
for like half an hour.
Speaker 6 (27:56):
And so now you know they have axed inside David Busters.
Now it like digitally registers the X throw and has
this little digital board thing showing the score. Did you
work on your X throwing inside David Busters.
Speaker 7 (28:13):
I've done actual ax throwing in the Midwest.
Speaker 4 (28:20):
Oh we all know.
Speaker 7 (28:22):
Yeah, when you go to Minnesota, Danny. You don't go
to David Busters and throw access, you know what I mean. Okay,
I've done it with hardy people in Minnesota. I don't
need to go to some little cheeseball place, David must.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
Anyway, we'll get out on that, Danny. Dodgers tonight. Obviously
we'll both be watching that college football all day.
Speaker 4 (28:43):
Yeah, Game two, let's go Dodgers.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
Here we go, Dodgers, here we go, and we'll get
out on that. Anything you want to promote here, Danny
any at all?
Speaker 6 (28:54):
Saturday Saturday, just this fine podcast. Thank you for the download,
and make sure you pass this on to a frind
or family member.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
Yeah, and don't forget Benny Versus the Penny. I will
pour myself out.
Speaker 7 (29:06):
It's on TV today all day, different times, and on
demand on NBC's Peacock.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
It's a national show.
Speaker 7 (29:15):
We need you to download that, we need you to
watch it on Peacock. Keep those numbers up that way,
there will be a season three of Benny Versus the Penny.
I know that Alf's been doing a great job, and
Ferg Dog and Masshole, Mickey and you know the core
og are puffin. Those guys have been great, but keep
it up. Benny versus the penny. This is gonna be
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my weekend. Have a great day.
Speaker 4 (29:39):
And what do we have?
Speaker 1 (29:40):
The mail bag, right mail bag, tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (29:42):
Mail bag tomorrow morning. Asta pasta, my folation.
Kabooms.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes
a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants
of the Old Republic, a soul fashion of fairness. He
treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the
rich pill poppers in the penthouse. Wow to Clearinghouse of
hot takes, break free for something special. The Fifth Hour
(00:23):
with Ben Mallard starts right now.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
In the air everywhere, The Fifth Hour with Me, Ben
Mahler and Danny g Radio and a Happy Saturday to you,
the twenty sixth day of the month of October, and
Danny the toyers are now.
Speaker 4 (00:47):
This is not one not.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
To three winds away, three winds away Danny from winning
another champion ship is game one in the books against
those evil New York Yankees. Last night at the Ravine,
the scenario you dream about. Freddy is living first pitch swinging.
Speaker 5 (01:10):
High fly ball Dude, Freddie Friedman channeling is inner Kirk Gibson.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
Oh, walk up, home run hid Dame.
Speaker 5 (01:32):
One of the World.
Speaker 6 (01:33):
Series, Dude, What a way to start the World Series.
And Ben, we will not get robbed of a parade
this time in Los Angeles.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
No, we will not. Although I think last night there
was a parade.
Speaker 7 (01:45):
It was a slow moving parade by ways and byeways.
Bananas and the Dodgers are now one went into the
World Series. We'll see what happens later today with game
number two of the Fall Classic Boo. Now, speaking of
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the Dodgers, though, I got to address this, Danny.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
I know you didn't go to Game one. You were
working and you had your responsibilities. The microphone throttler. This
is the most expensive World Series on the secondary market
of all time? Does it really have to be that way?
Is it really necessary to have the minimum.
Speaker 7 (02:32):
Get in price at this World Series? I think they
say it was over one thousand dollars. I think overall,
when you can bind.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
The really really wealthy and the cheapest seat in the
upper deck, it's it's like seventeen hundred dollars or something
like that, it's gonna be outrageous at Yankee Stadium. Also,
so what happened? Did I'm old enough and you're around
my age, Danny. Remember when we were younger, people would
line up to try to buy tickets to the playoffs,
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and you'd get them at like a normal rate.
Speaker 6 (03:06):
There was a great thread Ben on threads that you
would have loved just to show you how out of
touch some, especially women. And I'm not trying to be sexist,
but think of a younger. She looked like she was
in her twenties, and she looked like maybe guys take
her to dinner a lot. But she wrote a thread
saying where can I please buy a Dodgers World Series
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ticket for seventy five dollars? And in parentheses she wrote
good seats. And she was not being ironic, She wasn't
being sarcastic. She was dead serious because the first comment
or underneath her threads said, are you effing serious? It
costs one hundred and fifty dollars to get into the
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damn parking lot to park. And then she replied to
a couple people, I had no idea. You had no idea.
You really think you can get into an LA event,
let alone a world series? And I looked it up, Ben,
the price for a nineteen eighty eight ticket for Dodger
Stadium for the World Series just to get in? Then
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what's fifty bucks?
Speaker 4 (04:13):
Eight bucks? All right?
Speaker 1 (04:14):
I was gonna say, I was going to say, actually.
Speaker 7 (04:15):
That, but still, yeah, let's do now, you want to
do the inflation.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
I love the inflation calculator. You want to do the
inflation calculator.
Speaker 6 (04:23):
Yeah, yeah, I'm dying to hear what it should be.
This is kind of like how we've done this for Disneyland.
Let me punch this in here, hit this button here.
Speaker 4 (04:32):
So the year.
Speaker 7 (04:35):
You go back in the hot tup time machine to
nineteen eighty eighty, you're nineteen eighty eight. Let's see the
Dodgers won the World Series.
Speaker 6 (04:44):
Yeah, you had the Bulldog oral herscheizer on the mound.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
You said fifty dollars for a World Series ticket?
Speaker 4 (04:52):
Yep, the same.
Speaker 7 (04:54):
And let's calculate it. So a world same item today,
a World Series ticket at face value should cost one
hundred and thirty three dollars and twenty six cents.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Say what what the f Yeah?
Speaker 7 (05:12):
You can't Wow, do not even look at Dodger Stadium.
You cannot even look at Dodger Stadium for one hundred
and thirty three dollars. I think the taxes when you
when you break down the taxes, Danny on these tickets
for a thousand.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
I looked. I was like, well, you know, maybe if
I can get a cheap ticket, you know, I don't.
I don't have media access anymore because I'm not from Japan,
I know, cover Otani, and so the Dodgers don't really
want me out there. So I was like, maybe I'll
buy some tings na NA the very top the worst
seats in Dodger Stadium where you have a better view
of the Mountain Range than anything in the.
Speaker 7 (05:46):
Ballpark upper deck, near the foul pole and near the
parle gates. A thousand dollars and some change. And that
was as of Monday. I think it's gone up.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
You know, who knows.
Speaker 7 (05:57):
We'll see it's game two tonight. They've played one games,
so you know, obviously we'll see if that changes. But
it's just just nuts man, just absolutely, and I get it.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
I understand.
Speaker 7 (06:09):
You've got the very wealthy in LA who have made
their money, a lot of them in entertainment, other people
because of social media stuff. And then in New York
you've got a lot of investment people, financial people, Wall
Street people that are ridiculously wealthy that have f you
money and they're like, either they want to go because
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they actually like the Yankees, and then the people in
LA like the Dodgers or as you know, Danny a
lot of these freaking events. It's just a place to
be seen. You got to be out there, you got
to hang out, you got to mingle, even though you're
not you're not really a Yankee or Dodger fan. We're
gonna we saw this last night, and I think we're
going to see a ton of this, especially in New
York where the people behind home plate that are wearing
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the hats with the tags on them.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
You know what I'm talking about.
Speaker 7 (06:54):
Yeah, like they gift shop and bought a bunch of merch.
Speaker 4 (07:00):
Now, Ben, you're gonna love this.
Speaker 6 (07:01):
It's something we talked about Friday afternoon on the Covino
and Rich Show. From Craigslist, I just texted it to you.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
Wow, I will marry you and get you citizenship for
Dodger too.
Speaker 6 (07:13):
This guy posted a picture of himself and it looks
like his son. But I guess he's divorced or never
got married because he is single, and he's offering to
marry a woman to get her her citizenship in exchange
for World Series seats.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
Wow, No, isn't that illegal? I think I don't.
Speaker 4 (07:36):
I don't know.
Speaker 6 (07:37):
On the black market, that's fifteen thousand dollars or maybe
even more nowadays. Right if you get somebody their citizenship.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
So this guy's that horny to go to the World
Series that he will marry some random stranger and they
have don't they have to stay married for like ten
years or something like that.
Speaker 4 (07:54):
I don't.
Speaker 6 (07:55):
I don't know what the length is. I think it
depends which state you're married in. That or that's gotta
be fake.
Speaker 4 (08:01):
No, that's real. That post I sent you is real, So.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
I should text I should text this guy right now say.
Speaker 4 (08:07):
Yeah, his phone number is on that Wow.
Speaker 7 (08:10):
It says I'm thirty one years old Dodger fan that
is looking for good World Series tickets. I offer getting
married to you and getting you citizenship. You don't have
to worry about Trump anymore. Wow, get married for Dodger
tickets and think of the future you will have getting
closer to the American dream.
Speaker 4 (08:29):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
Yeah, So there it is.
Speaker 6 (08:33):
The second picture is of me and groomsman text Chris
at seven one four blah blah blah.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Wow.
Speaker 7 (08:42):
I mean a guy must not have any money. I mean,
that's one way to do it. That is how many?
Speaker 1 (08:49):
How many women are looking for husbands on Craigslist and
this is where.
Speaker 6 (08:52):
They're Yeah, women who have an extra World Series ticket.
Speaker 7 (08:57):
Yeah, exactly. Well, I guess it is cheaper, you know,
if you spend four grand on tickets as opposed to
what you say, ten grand for citizenship or something like that.
Speaker 4 (09:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (09:07):
What I've heard in the past is that there are
people from other countries who may or may not pay
you quietly twenty thousand dollars to obtain their citizenship.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
Yeah, that's we missed out, Danny. We got we got married.
We didn't do this. I mean that's that's a money maker.
Speaker 4 (09:28):
Yeah, Instead it cost us ten to twenty thousand dollars
to kick me marry.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
We could have pulled this off multiple times, to be
like Larry King, the old Larry King. How many times
was he married? Seven, eight, nine times, ten years?
Speaker 4 (09:41):
I'll get know.
Speaker 7 (09:41):
The twenty thousand dollars. You invest that money and then
boom man. All right, well that that.
Speaker 4 (09:47):
Is what a world?
Speaker 1 (09:48):
What a world?
Speaker 7 (09:49):
So I have out of bullets, Clark Kent chuckles. So
I want to go back to the Friday Show. I
should have mentioned this yesterday, but I was talking about
my voice being shredded the other d and all that.
So the Friday show was interesting. The radio show, I
was on fumes.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
You know, normal routine, not quite as normal because I
took off Wednesday into Thursday because of my vocal issues,
and so I was on FUMES.
Speaker 7 (10:16):
I was doing the TV show, prepping for that and
all that, and then I came home, got ready for
the radio show. And I told a similar story a
couple weeks ago, but I was so bedraggled. I was bedraggled,
Benny that I clicked the thing you shouldn't have clicked
at the time.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
You shouldn't have clicked it.
Speaker 7 (10:36):
After spending a fair amount of my day getting ready
for the radio show, I what I do is I
put together bullet points things I think are important that
i'll i'll throw together in a monologue. And I spend
decent amount of time doing this get ready for the show.
Because if you're going to listen, it's your time. Is
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the most important thing you have, it's the most valuable
thing you have, and if you're going to spend your
time listening to the show, I feel like I need
to put my time in. So I put these bullet
points together and roughly, yet again, about thirty seconds before
it's my time to talk. I hear Monsey's she was
in for Eddie. Eddie was on assignment watching the Kings
(11:20):
play the Sharks, so he just.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
Took the night off. How about shut up.
Speaker 7 (11:26):
So it's like thirty seconds before the top of they
are in. Lorrain is in my headphone. She's like, all right,
your MIC's son, green light go, and I'm like, I
click on this thing to get my bullet points for
the monologue things you know, i'd put.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
Together, and instead of green light, oh, it's red light stop.
Speaker 7 (11:43):
And somehow I clicked the thing I shouldn't have clicked,
or I deleted something and that's it. No no bullets,
no bullet points, nothing.
Speaker 4 (11:56):
No ingredients for the Baba good news.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
Yeah. And uh. The thing that blows me away is
I just I did it and I thought it was
smooth enough. Nobody messaged me saying, hey, why does it
sound different or so?
Speaker 7 (12:10):
Or I don't understand. I don't get it what's going on.
I just like, in my head I tried. One of
the reason I do the bullplayers, I try to remember
I have them in front of me, but I try
to just let it rip, Danny, you know, I try
to let it rip and so, but nobody mentioned it,
which is either the fact that no one's listening, no
one's paying attention, or I was able to pull it off.
(12:31):
I'm not sure which one that is, but even my
biggest supporters, not a single one of them reached out
to me.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
It is like, hey, I something seemed a little off there.
I was able to pull off the naked bootleg. That
was about the hour three Mallar monologue, which was about
Daniel Jones and the situation with the Giants. It was
about Derrick Henry.
Speaker 7 (12:52):
There was a story behind a paywall on the Athletic
where some NFL executives like, well, now we're gonna we
should probably pay running back and be prisoner of a moment.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
But that was the That was the hour. So hour three.
Speaker 7 (13:06):
I have to make sure that doesn't happen. This has
now happened twice in like the last two months. This
has happened. So it's I always feel like Danny, like,
why am I wasting my if I'm just going to
delete this stuff. I mean, there's a lot of guys
just show up and don't do any prep Like I
could do that, my life would be a lot easier.
I'd have a lot more time, a lot more me
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time if I did that, but I actually prepare it,
I was like, and then then you know, every once
in a while, this crap happens.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
Sucks.
Speaker 6 (13:36):
The famous story about jay Z is that he's in
the studio. He's listening to the beat that back in
the day Kanye West or somebody else was playing for him,
and he just wanted to write to it right away
because he liked it so much. But he wouldn't take
out a pen and pad. He would just come up
with the lyrics in his head and keep going over
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it in his head. And then he walked straight into
the booth and lay down the verse from writing the
lyrics inside his head. So it sounds like you're pulling
a jay Z.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
Well, very similar. When you think of me and jay Z,
we have a lot in common other than our backgrounds,
our finances and everything.
Speaker 6 (14:20):
Your wife was a member of Destiny's Child when they
first came out, though, so you have that in common.
Speaker 7 (14:25):
According to Wikipedia, believe my favorite improv story, my favorite
improv story of all time is for my childhood, what
I was taught in school was one of the ten
greatest speeches in American history. Martin Luther King the I
Have a Dream speech, which was ad libbed and this
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famous speech in the whole deal. He just did it
on the fly. He did improv. He had the speech
written out. And the famous story is he gave a
copy of the speech to this this kid that was
working security in Washington, d C. Who happened to end
up becoming a famous college basketball coach, George Raveling. I
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believe he's a guy's name, and gave him the speech,
and but he didn't actually read the speech.
Speaker 5 (15:19):
It did.
Speaker 7 (15:20):
The actual speech that Martin Luther King had the dream
speech did not contain the passage that started with I
have a Dream, but he had lived.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
It and it's the you know, one of the great
speeches of all time.
Speaker 6 (15:35):
So yeah, he just felt it kind of like anything
as possible.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
My Daniel Jones monologue will not be anywhere else to.
Speaker 7 (15:46):
Any of these things, but you know, why not for
five minutes on a podcast What the hell?
Speaker 1 (15:52):
Danny right?
Speaker 4 (15:53):
Walking out of the park?
Speaker 3 (15:54):
Right.
Speaker 7 (15:55):
I transformed myself kind of like Clark Kate. I was
very similar to Clark Kent, where I was able to
transform into a different human being if you.
Speaker 6 (16:05):
Will, Yeah, if you're one of our younger listeners, and
you don't know who Clark Kent is. That is the
guy in the suit who works for the what was
it the Daily Bugle newspaper, Daily Planet or Daily Bugle? Oh,
there you go, Daily Plant. Who worked at the Bugle.
Maybe that's Spider Man, but at the Daily Planet, it
(16:25):
was Clark Kent, and we loved it, even as kids
were like, are you f and kiddy?
Speaker 3 (16:30):
Mean?
Speaker 6 (16:30):
Man, he just puts glasses on, and that's a disguise.
Glasses are his disguise. Because he took his glasses off
put this costume on with a cape, Suddenly nobody could
tell anymore that it was Clark Kent.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
Yeah, so that's it. Just a foam booth.
Speaker 6 (16:46):
And I'm glad you brought up phone booth because that's
where this is going. So Los Angeles made a lot
of news over the past couple of days because of
the traffic situation surrounding the World Series, the Lakers at
Crypto USC at the Coliseum, a couple of big high
school games, and then a concert.
Speaker 4 (17:08):
We have so many venues here in Los Angeles.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
There is one at the Into It Dome, the Great
Into It Dome.
Speaker 6 (17:14):
So this is the first concert in season with the Clippers. Yes,
all the news people in Los Angeles were dancing with
this news you know, doing the doing the centipede across
the newsroom floor like, yeah, traffic, kel, this is.
Speaker 4 (17:31):
Going to be fun to report.
Speaker 6 (17:32):
Anytime there's any sort of disaster in LA, they're all
over it with big smiles.
Speaker 7 (17:37):
Big smiles, and they get the helicopter up and it
always goes viral. That video of the four oh five
freeway where half, yes half of it's read that's that
is every time there's every time we get that, which
is pretty much every other week in LA, that thing
goes viral.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
People love that. They get round round.
Speaker 4 (17:57):
Covino and Rich.
Speaker 6 (17:59):
As you know, I always say two to four on
the West side, five to seven pm and beautiful fill
in the blank, East Coast city and state. The show
here in La ends at four pm. I always have
a dilemma because I have at least sixty, if not
ninety minutes of post production work to do. Do you
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think traffic is better at five pm on my way
home or at six pm?
Speaker 1 (18:24):
I would say six, six pm, because.
Speaker 7 (18:28):
I think a lot of people depends on well, it
depends on what day, because like Friday, you know, people
leave early on Friday.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
I'm not I don't.
Speaker 4 (18:37):
See I'm with you.
Speaker 6 (18:38):
I always just assumed, you know, it's better if I
just stay here in the production studio and wait it out.
Because of the initial rush at five pm, but because
there are so many money chasers and demanding bosses inside
the city limits of Los Angeles, California, the traffic is
(18:58):
actually better at five because people aren't all out on
the road yet they're trying to get there. At six pm,
they're all there. So lately, what I've been doing, man,
I've been pulling this trick where I park the audio
for the Covino and Rich podcast. I get in front
of the traffic as much as I can, and at
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a halfway point home, I stop at a Starbucks, use
their Wi Fi on my laptop, and then post the
descriptions for that parked audio, kind of like splitting up
my podcast duties so that I can beat the traffic.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
Okay, that's smart.
Speaker 6 (19:36):
Yeah, yeah, there's only one problem with this. I've been
doing this out of Starbucks in Calabasas, the famous home
of the Kardashians Enslave.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
Is that what they call it enslave.
Speaker 4 (19:47):
Yeah, what'd you call it?
Speaker 1 (19:49):
The well, it's like they have their own kabul or whatever.
I mean, they have their own I don't know what
you'd call it the village.
Speaker 4 (19:55):
You say cabooths.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
I don't know. They have definitely that is the actually before.
I don't want to get carried away.
Speaker 7 (20:02):
But I had this debate with my my wife, and
you're you're perfect answer. So I we were talking about
like women's you know, the reception of sexuality and what's
what's hot or whatever? And in style is the booty, right,
the big booty is the in style these days.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
And so my wife's like, well, that's Jlo. Jlo's the
one that started. I said, no, Kim Kardashian. She started,
So where do you fall in? You're going to continue
to start.
Speaker 7 (20:31):
I just this popped in my head and I just
want to get it out before I forget.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
So is it Jlo or is it Kim Kardashian? The
modern obsession with the boutet in America.
Speaker 4 (20:45):
I think of the Kim Kardashian craze. When you say.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
That's what I told my she said though it was Jlo.
I said, no, it was Kim Kardashian and that was it.
Speaker 6 (20:56):
Yeah, I mean Jlo had a nice curse, but she
was kind of known as being an athletic dancer and
then obviously actress and then singer. But yeah, as far
as girls wanting to get but implants and all that,
that was because of Kim Kay.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
All right, so we agree, and I will. I will
for my wife and I will laugh at her and
say hi.
Speaker 4 (21:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (21:20):
So I'm gonna say Ben that it's actually better than
halfway because once I'm to that Calabasas Starbucks, I'm looking
at like four exits to get home, so not bad.
Once I make it to Calabasis, that's where the bumper
to bumper traffic for me coming from Sherman Oaks ends.
It's almost like I can breathe. I'm at the Starbucks,
(21:44):
but I don't want to sit there like a mooch
on their internet without purchasing something. And the problem with Starbucks,
obviously everything is overpriced by a lot. So I'll just
get a small coffee five dollars and sixty nine cents.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
This is shame, you know.
Speaker 6 (22:02):
I started doing the math and I'm like, well, damn
if I'm going to spend this money on one little
cup of coffee every day. That's not smart. Well, let
me switch it up. There's a taco bell right across
the street from the Starbucks, and I wasn't sure if
they had internet or not. Let me give it a try,
you know, and I'll just have a little snack. I'll
get a classic bean and cheese burrito, a favorite.
Speaker 4 (22:24):
There.
Speaker 6 (22:25):
Bust out my laptop, hog a table, make it my
little office. So get in there, set up everything. I'm
ready to go. I order the bean and cheese burrito.
Let me wash my hands. Try to walk over to
the restroom, and there's a realatur and he looks like
a mogul. He's on his phone, he's got all his
notes and everything on the table.
Speaker 4 (22:47):
He's got a briefcase. He looks legit.
Speaker 6 (22:51):
He's kind of blocking the bathroom area where you walk in,
and he's loud on his cellphone and he said, look,
it's thirty two thousand, nine hundred and fifty four dollars down.
That's it. I can't lower it. Thirty two thousand plus.
That'll get you in.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
Yeah, I guess got some money here.
Speaker 6 (23:11):
I didn't want to be nosy, but this guy's being loud.
He looks at me and he kind of does a
sidestep like no, no, no, I'm here at the bathroom first,
even though he's busy on his phone call. He walks
into the restroom and locks the door. Come on, dude,
I just want to wash my hands before I eat
Ben Like Clark Kent changing into a superhero. He comes out.
(23:36):
He's no longer in his suit. Take a guess at
what he's wearing. Well, it's halloween season, so.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
He could be wearing anything. He's not working there? Is
he is? He working at the establishment?
Speaker 4 (23:50):
He came out in a Taco Bell staff uniform.
Speaker 7 (23:53):
No way, So the guy looked like he was a
real estate mogul one minute and then.
Speaker 1 (23:59):
Is ready to make like nachos.
Speaker 6 (24:04):
Look, I'm not gonna hate on anybody's side hustles in
southern California because we have to have a few of
them here in order to afford the cost of living.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
Well, I'll tell you, if you are a manager at
a Taco Taco Bell or whatever, you can make six
figures as a manager.
Speaker 4 (24:23):
That's a good point.
Speaker 6 (24:24):
And I mean maybe he was just trying to sell
one or two more properties before he told taco bell
to suck it. Wow, that's wild. Never seen anything like
that before.
Speaker 4 (24:36):
You know.
Speaker 6 (24:36):
Here, I'm thinking this guy must be in there dropping
a deuce or something, and instead he comes out with
his suit all folded up. He had his Taco Bell
name tag on. And then I felt weird because he
was overseeing the production of my bean and cheese burrito.
When I walked up to grab it, he looked at me,
(24:57):
and it was kind of awkward because he knew I
saw his transfer.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
The butcher, the baker, the candlestick maker. That is that
is absolutely nice.
Speaker 4 (25:06):
Level.
Speaker 7 (25:07):
There was a couple of other things I wanted to
I did want to mention this because this is the
Saturday podcast and they got the Dodger game tonight, and uh.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
The story here.
Speaker 7 (25:18):
This past weekend, I was I was taken as a
guest by my wife Danny to hang out at the Improv,
the Irvine Improv and the OC because my wife is
she's got some friends that are made people. They they
(25:38):
they know some people, the improv folks, and and so
I show up.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
Now, I don't know about you.
Speaker 7 (25:44):
I love comedy, but I normally only go see people
I'm familiar with. But in this situation, I'm pretty much
at the mercy. I don't even know who's going to
be performing. My my wife say hey, we're going to
the comedy club. It's you know, Saturday night. I'm like, okay,
who's the comedian and she'll, you know, she'll say something
(26:05):
I don't even know it is. So this last weekend
we went to the comedy club and I want to see,
you know who this is?
Speaker 1 (26:12):
I I did not know who he was, just by.
Speaker 7 (26:14):
His name, and I guess the guy's been been around
for a little bit.
Speaker 1 (26:19):
Steve Trevino. Do you know who Steve Trevino is?
Speaker 4 (26:22):
Okay, yeah, I know that name.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
Yeah, he's He's pretty pretty funny.
Speaker 7 (26:27):
He's done some specials for like Showtime and and Netflix,
Amazon Prime like those kind of things, and he's worked
as a writer for Comedy Central and some other crap.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
So I I never heard of the guy, but I
went I was over in mind. He's around our age, Danny.
Speaker 4 (26:49):
He's got a beard, right, Yeah.
Speaker 7 (26:51):
He's got a beard, and he's from Texas. Does a
lot of like family comedy, like wife relationship, kid comedy.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
But it was pretty good. I laughed and so bit
job by him.
Speaker 4 (27:05):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
He seemed like he was in a hurry though. At
the end of the show he had to get out
of there. He had to get back to his home.
Speaker 7 (27:10):
I think he lives in San Antonio or something. I
don't know, somewhere in Texas and all that. But so
he did a he had about an hour and not
bad Steve Trevino. You can check him out on Netflix
and Showtime and Amazon Prime. And then after that, I
(27:33):
went to David Busters.
Speaker 4 (27:34):
Danny, Oh, I haven't been there in a couple of years.
Speaker 7 (27:37):
We sted some money playing Papa Shot and my main
game is Skiball.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
I'm a ski ball master. I'm a ninja at skiball.
Speaker 4 (27:46):
It was right.
Speaker 7 (27:46):
He was right across the way from the comedy club.
So we went in there for we weren't even there
that long.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
That's going there have some fun. I went in there
for like half an hour.
Speaker 6 (27:56):
And so now you know they have axed inside David Busters.
Now it like digitally registers the X throw and has
this little digital board thing showing the score. Did you
work on your X throwing inside David Busters.
Speaker 7 (28:13):
I've done actual ax throwing in the Midwest.
Speaker 4 (28:20):
Oh we all know.
Speaker 7 (28:22):
Yeah, when you go to Minnesota, Danny. You don't go
to David Busters and throw access, you know what I mean. Okay,
I've done it with hardy people in Minnesota. I don't
need to go to some little cheeseball place, David must.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
Anyway, we'll get out on that, Danny. Dodgers tonight. Obviously
we'll both be watching that college football all day.
Speaker 4 (28:43):
Yeah, Game two, let's go Dodgers.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
Here we go, Dodgers, here we go, and we'll get
out on that. Anything you want to promote here, Danny
any at all?
Speaker 6 (28:54):
Saturday Saturday, just this fine podcast. Thank you for the download,
and make sure you pass this on to a frind
or family member.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
Yeah, and don't forget Benny Versus the Penny. I will
pour myself out.
Speaker 7 (29:06):
It's on TV today all day, different times, and on
demand on NBC's Peacock.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
It's a national show.
Speaker 7 (29:15):
We need you to download that, we need you to
watch it on Peacock. Keep those numbers up that way,
there will be a season three of Benny Versus the Penny.
I know that Alf's been doing a great job, and
Ferg Dog and Masshole, Mickey and you know the core
og are puffin. Those guys have been great, but keep
it up. Benny versus the penny. This is gonna be
(29:37):
my weekend. Have a great day.
Speaker 4 (29:39):
And what do we have?
Speaker 1 (29:40):
The mail bag, right mail bag, tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (29:42):
Mail bag tomorrow morning. Asta pasta, my folation.
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