August 6, 2022 • 33 mins
Ben Maller and his 5th Hour partner Danny G. have a fun Saturday broadcast for you, talking Off-Broadway, chasing $5 dollars, joy riding, deja vu, back scratcher and more!
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Boom boom. If you thought four hours a day, minutes
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with Ben Maller starts right now, nine in the air
everywhere and welcome into another addition to the Fifth Hour
with Ben Mallard and Danny G Radio. I know you
hold your applause please, there's no need to clap. Life Mallard,
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the Life of Danny G and Daniel Paul as well
with you here, We're back at it again on a Saturday.
I want to thank Hall of Famer Dick Vermeil, who joins.
That was pretty cool. That was really cool to hear
his voice. Yeah, Dick Fromil, who I I know him
as a coach, But also he did television. We talked
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about that a little bit in the interview. But he
did TV for so long that I recall for many
years when he left the Eagles until he coached the Rams,
like he was a staple of my Saturday or Sunday,
depending on whether he was doing NFL or college. And
he's still very sure. Eighty five years old. Eighty five
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years old Dick FROMIL and today's the big day actually,
So if you didn't get a chance to hear the
conversation on Friday, go back and listen. We we caught
up with him as he was preparing for his Hall
of Fame speech, and he kept saying, only got eight minutes.
I only got eight minutes. That's all I have. I
only have eight minutes. And it was it was interesting.
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I never heard the story before that he told either
about how you know, his father and family they wanted
him to going to the family business and uh and
what and so it's interesting. But it's good to have
him on. And congratulations to Dick for Meal on the
Hall of Fame. And I would say, you know, not
just being a big timer here, Danny. I'm looking at
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that list of names and I ran them down at
the beginning of the podcast on Friday, the Hall of
Fame class for my money, dollar for dollar, Dick for
Meal is the guy that I wanna. I want to
see his speak unless we could bring Cliff branch back. Yeah, well,
that would be something now that would get headlines. If
if he and Sam Mills and those guys were that
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would be that would be amazing. He kills not anymore.
It's the Hall of its. Remember that that bit John
Madden did, which was really cool. He talked about the
Hall of Fame at night, the bus come alive and
they each other. It was like, and how cool was
it to see actual football on the field, even though
it was backups playing. I'm sure you were riveted watching
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Stid him throw the ball. I have a tradition, and Danny,
this is my tradition for many years, the Hall of
Fame game. I get all excited to get all my
snacks ready, and then I watch about half a quarter
and and then I go watch a baseball game. And
and that's what I do every year. And every year
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I might call this is gonna be great, and then
it's gotten even worse. That's like one of those things
in life, you know, things usually get better, they don't
get worse. But because of Sean McVeigh. And I'll blame
Sean McVeigh the Rams coach. Because of McVeigh, everyone else
copy nobody plays their starters hardly anybody plays their start,
even for a series m Ramonal night. Wasn't it during
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COVID that we didn't even get a game because the
field conditions? Oh well, no, there was. I think that
might have been before COVID members. Before that was pre COVID.
It felt like a COVID shutdown. Yeah, I did have
the COVID vibes to it, if I remember correctly. They
had painted the field and it was slippery and the
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players were complaining about that. That's great. You think back
to the early days of football and where we've come
when it comes to our football, and it's uh. I
don't want to say it's a clown show, but some
of this stuff comforting though, Right, it's comforting just having
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the sounds of football on with Mike Tariko's voice. Well,
and you know you're only a month away, right or
like a month away, which seems odd to me because
you know, there's only how many three exhibition games now
they're down to three. They're down to three, so they
get three and then of a week off before the
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regular season. And the only thing that really happens my
experience in exhibition football is players get hurt. That's that's it.
You're starting right guard, we'll go down with an injury.
Your backup wide receiver who you need in the rotation
will hurt his ankle and be unavailable for the first
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part of the season. And so that's usually how that
That's usually how that goes. But coming up on this
podcast as we go inside the bodega, on the menu,
we've got Off Broadway Chasing five Dollars, joy Riding, and
the Deja Vu, and we will also have Backscratcher. Hopefully
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we have some of this week I have not checked yet,
but hopefully we will have at least one. Alright, So
Off Broadway and at this being the Saturday podcast Life
of Mallary, Life of Danny G. We take you behind
the velvet ropes the life of a major sports talk
radio figure, at least in my own head. Uh, it's
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not easy being a rock star, Danny. It's not easy
being a rock star. So many people want to be
around you have so many social events you have to
go to. It's just this, this job is not that easy.
You've had your run ins with paparazzi TMZ. They won't
leave me alone. So this past weekend, the wife worked
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on Friday, so I had some hometime. I had some
alone time, which was mostly running errands around, going to
Costco grocery store, adult ing. I don't like adults. I don't.
I don't. I actually don't mind the shopping stuff for
some reason. I don't mind. But a lot of stuff
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is like just bulb, you know, what has pained the
painted behind. So I did a lot of that. On Friday,
I met a friend, had had had dinner, and then
on Saturday had the only day with the wife. And
it was an early wake up call how to squeeze
a full weekend into one day because I work on
Sunday night the Monday, and so the first stop was
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the England Empire. If you're familiar with southern California. Now
the i E. And why did I go to the I?
I was doing some antiquing, not adulting, Danny and taking,
because that's something you do when you're old and boring.
You go a taking. Okay, I if you had told
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ten year old Benny, little fat Benny eating donuts and
cake that someday you'll be a middle aged man, you'll
be adulting and going to antique stores on the weekend.
Where is the antique store Riverside. Uh no, no, no,
this is actually a really cool place. I don't know
if you in the the TENDERNI are indo and taking,
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but it is a really cool story. Highly recommend. It's
called It's in Ontario, which is not Riverside, but on
the way to Riverside Treasures and Junk Treasures and then
the letter and and Junk. Now, seriously, did if you're
into these kind of stores, if you're in the l A,
don't shake your head, you know, can't. Why are you
shaking it? Because we go to Grandma Shirley's house and
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Long Beach and it's like a museum with antiques in it.
Uh so it's like we go to an antique store
every time we visit Grandma. Yeah, but if you take
Shirley stuff, she'll kick your ass. At this place, you
can buy it and you don't have to worry about it,
you know what I'm saying. Anyway, So it's very unique.
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It's a huge store. They've got everything from like if
you want to get an old gas pump. I don't
know why you would want to get an old gas pump,
but some people, you know, like like those things. Is
a display thing in your home. They're selling the stuff
that the American pickers guys exactly exactly. It's it's got
that vibe, although they got rid of I'm not watching
American Pickers in a long time. But the one guy
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had a stroke, right, the chubby guy, he's off the
shop and get a stroke on um. But anyway, so
I just wanted to come back and they're like, nope,
too late. Yeah, so do who they replace him? The
other guy's brother. Oh really? Oh is that right? Yeah,
he was already on the show part time, so they
just made him full time. Okay. Anyway, so this store
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has that kind of stuff. Yeah, you've seen American pictures.
It's that kind of stuff signs, and they've got an
outdoor area with all this like crazy stuff. A lot
of it needs to be refurbished. And but so that
that was the beginning of the day, and then it
was off to the main event, dinner and a show dinner.
And again, being a big time radio personality, you gotta
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you gotta do these things. And so I had a
very nice meal at a Mexican restaurant that I used
to eat at regularly back when I lived at the
old Mallard mansion and then it was closing night of
the Lion King. Yeah, not just any Lion King. This
was off Broadway, Danny. This was an off Broadway production.
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And when I say off Broadway, I'm talking three thousand
miles off Broadway. Okay. This was a summer playhouse production
for kids ranging from age nine to roughly fifteen. And
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the reason I was there my wife's girlfriend from her
childhood has a one of her kids. Her son was performing,
and so we were there for moral support. This kid,
total ham, this little munchkin. Great kid's name is Alex
and he's got the gift for gab and all that.
Total extrovert. I'm an introvert. This kid's like nine years
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old and thinks he's going He already thinks he's a
Hollywood star and he's convinced he's only going to be
a bigger star. And so, uh yeah, yeah, we were.
We were hanging out watching The Lion King with a
bunch of kids. The thing about full disclosure, Danny, we
had front row seats at this thing, front row seats.
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But the problem is, as soon as the lights in
the venue went down in the theater, what do you
think happened? A spotlight come on in it it's you.
Oh no, no, no, I wish that had happened. My
eyelids got very heavy. Oh no, oh yeah, no, oh
this is terrible. You pulled a wow. Oh my, oh
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my god. Hollary James is the most the most. But yeah,
so I got up early. I didn't get a lot
of sleep. I'm you were out in the sun shopping
at this antique store and some other places we went
to there, so the lights go down and my eyelids.
My wife has to poke me to stay away because
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it's very embarrassing. These little kids have been practicing for
this show. Here I am in the front row snoozing
while they were doing their lion king act. And it
was funny. Why is the big man in the front sleeping?
What is he not like our show? Why? Why did
he come here to sleep? Why is that? I would understand?
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And uh yeah, so my wife had to kind of
keep me awake there. I even took some caffeine and
it still didn't work. Something about movie theaters or shows.
I just zone out. Does anyone else have that problem? Danny?
Do you have that problem? Are you? Yeah? Especially if
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the A C kicks on? And it's them comfortable. Yeah, man,
because you're too comfortable to not take a little nap.
And I don't think the kids actually saw it because
my wife was pretty good about waken waking me up.
But the show, from what I saw when I wasn't sleeping,
was very good. And uh, a little kid Alex we
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were there to support, was wonderful. And it was really
funny because he was right in front of us on
stage and he, uh, my wife was trying to distract him,
and he didn't want to. He didn't want to look
at us because he didn't want to be distracted. He
wanted to stay in character. Danny. You know, when you're
a kid actor, you don't want to be distracted by
some grown ups and all that. Non, So this is
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where you needed the big time, the little big timers
by wearing sunglasses indoors. That way you can snooze if
you feel like it. Oh yeah, I could have got
a full Hollywood thing and all that. Yeah. Sure, we've
seen The Lion King before. Well, I saw the movie,
but never the play. No, I've never seen it. Well,
now I have, I've seen the kid version. What have
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you ever done drama with kids that's must be a
pain in the ast to get and there were a
lot of kids in this production, Like I don't know
who's behind it, but that that must be the biggest
pain in the behind too to put that thing together.
But they did a good job. So anyway, they're probably
chasing money. I don't know if they're chasing five dollars, Danny,
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but they're probably chasing something. Yeah. Well it's a good
tie in because school years about to start in southern California.
Can you believe that been when football season used to start.
That's when we used to go to school as kids, remember, yeah,
you had a legitimate So maybe I'm wrong, but I
remember being like two and a half months solid of
(14:06):
of summer. Yeah, we used to go to school in September.
Now these kids back it all the way up, back
that dump truck up a month. August nine is our
first day in the school district here for the new
school year. Well, you gotta get started early then because
of all those snow days in California. So you have
to start early because you're gonna miss some school because
of snow. Yeah, lots of big ten days. Yeah, So
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Chloe are eleven year old who. You hear her laugh
regularly on this podcast. She needed shoes, school shoes and
pe shoes, and she's all excited because she gets her
first locker of her life. It's a big deal, right,
It is that very first time you got a locker,
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you're like, oh man, this is so cool. I'm gonna
use this locker every day. And you wound up just
using your backpack all the time pretty much. So we go,
we take her to the mall and we're on a mission.
We're gonna get a backpack, we're gonna find her shoes.
We get to the mall. She's looking for some maybe
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some converts, something cool that you know, she can use
every day, because her mom already found the pe shoes,
so now we're looking for the everyday shoes. So we
go into the first shop and because of the workforce issues,
there's one guy working and about five or six kids
sitting around waiting for shoes to try on. Finally guy
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brings out the shoes. They don't fit. We go to
the next door. The shoes are tore up. At the
next door, they don't even have shoes on the shelf.
This this is gonna suck. Third stop, we go to
journeys and they actually had a pair of shoes she liked,
and girl brings out a pair that fitter and we're like, man,
we won the lotto right now? Yeah, I guess I
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got some money. Here. She points up to a little
sign and she was like, you can get five dollars
off if you text that code right there. Okay, five
dollars off. That's you know something. It's not a lot,
but it's something. I won't even buy a fast food
meal these days, but it's better than nothing. You know
that feeling where a kid is trying to help you
(16:20):
with your cell phone like you're a senior citizen. That's
what it felt like, because none of us could get
the stupid code to work on our phone. No, it's
got to be capitalized. Do you need help? Do you
need help? Sir? Can I see your phone? I'll help you.
Finally we get the stupid code for five dollars. We
literally wasted minutes of our life trying to get this
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five dollar off code. It was to the point where
my Tenderoni was just frustrated and she's like, the five dollars,
so just let me pay. Those are her words in
front of all the little girls working in the store.
We actually did get the five dollars off and were
kind of laugh about it. As we leave the store,
We're like, that was a nightmare, But we know that
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down at the other end of the mall, Ben, there's
one of those robot machines that you've been talking about
on the podcast. Remember when you read that story about
how they think those machines are the self serve machines
are going to replace fast food? Yes, yes, yes, yes,
I do recall that in this mall there are no
more ice cream shops, no more frozen yogurt shops. Instead,
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they have those machines. I don't know if I like that.
It's it's kind of like you've seen this maybe inside
movie theaters, where they'll have the pink berry machine and
you could get a serving of it for five bucks. Well,
let's go down there and get some pinkberry. Now, if
you don't know what pink berry yogurt is, take a
visit to California and get some pink berry. I don't
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know what they mix into that yogurt. Ben. It is
equivalent to crack. It is so so freaking delay. Pinkberry
places used to be everywhere. Yeah, not as add not
as many of them as their work, but there's still
a fair amount in there's a few left in southern California.
And I don't know why they closed the way they did,
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because that place is freaking delicious. So we walk all
the way down to the other end of the mall
on a mission to get some of this pinkberry. So
we get to the machine. My Tenderoni takes out her
card and swipes it. It looks like it took the card.
All rubbing our hands like yeah, here it comes the
first frozen yogurt cup. Yeah. No, no parts inside the
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machine are moving. What is going on? It was a
brand new machine, like shiny. There's no sign on it
anywhere saying it doesn't. So I'm like, well, hang on,
let me use my card. Take out my Dodgers debit
card and I swiped that and it says it's processing,
and we're all like doing many claps, like yeah, it
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took the Dodgers card to work. Then it says transaction canceled.
What it's like, damn it. She takes out another credit card,
same thing. I take out a credit card. We're on
our fourth card now because we want this frozen yogurt
so bad. It just shows an X on the screen.
Transaction canceled on the screen. It says you can put
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an exact change in a five dollar bill. So my
Tenderroni says, all right, I'm gonna go to Missfield's Cookies
right there. I'll get one little cookie for my daughter.
I'll get the change. We'll put a five dollar bill in.
That's gonna work for sure. So she stands in the
stupid line overpace for this tiny cookie, comes back with
a five dollar bill and she says, this better fucking work,
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and she puts the five dollars in and then has
a look of horror on her face because the machine
just straight up stole the five dollar bill and boom
goes a dynamite. Now we're piste. She's like, let's go
right now, or I'm gonna get arrested for kicking and
hitting and tipping this machine over. We're kind of mumbling
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and grumbling as we walk all the way to the
parking lot. We get to the car, and she was like,
you know what, why don't we just drive to yogurt Land?
And I looked at her and I was like, oh,
I just got an email from them yesterday. They sent
me a five dollar off coupon another five and we
just kind of looked at each other laughing and we're like, no, funk,
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five dollars, let's go home. And that's what we did.
The story of our life that night was five dollars
and we did. We just went home and we had
popsicles out of the freezer. Oh man, well, you save
some money on that one. But the ice cream, I'm
a little disappointed. I've not been to the mall very often,
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but they don't have the actual ice cream shop. They
just have the machine. It's just two machines at the
end of the mall, one regular ice cream, one pinkberry
frozen yogurt. And we took a photo of the number
and the email on the side of the machine was
gonna ask you that if you contacted to get your
money back. We called the number twice now and it's
a recording a robot voice saying that they're closed. Nice.
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You could kiss that five dollars goodbye. You know, somebody
owns that machine and it's that that's there their gig
little side hustle, like those those A T M machines.
You know the hustle on that those are privately owned
and then people have to keep up the money and
it's a big, big to do. Wow. All right, well
did you go to the mall and try to get
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some ice creams from yogurt and then look what happens?
At least we saved that five dollars at journeys very important.
All right, I want to go back I met you.
I saw The Lion King, a great off Broadway production
of nine, ten, eleven, twelve year olds and a few
high school kids. But after that, Danny, we attempted for
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a late night on the town and so we hit
all old town Pasadena. Now I don't usually eat late anymore.
I'm old, I guess, and I noticed that I eat
in the middle of the day and it's just better
for me. If eat after a certain time, it doesn't
go well. But once a week occasionally rare and appropriate.
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I was really rare and appropriate. You can do it.
So we were like, hey, about was our one night
a week together because my wife had working on Friday.
So we're like, we're gonna go to Pasadena hang out
old stomping grounds and all that. There was a soccer
friendly going on I think of the Rose Bowls. So
there were a lot of soccer fans walking around in
Pasadena is a mad house. And we found parking just
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a Jason to Colorado Boulevard where the Rose Parade goes
down and all that. And we knew there were a
bunch of restaurants that had good late night food, and
there was one that we were jones at for Burger
place in Pasadena and so what a Debacco Danny this
turned out. So we went to this place called Slater's
fifty fifty. Oh yeah, it's a good place. So we
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looked online and they said this the show that the
kids show ended like nine, nine thirty. By the time
we made it to Pasadena, it was a little after ten,
but they said online that they were open till eleven.
So we went in there to get our cheeseburgers and
our fries and all that, and we showed up well
after ten pm. We stroll in and immediately we were
(23:21):
greeted by a gentleman who says, welcome. The kitchen is closed,
only the bar is open. Ah, that's the work. We're like,
m effort. You're open to eleven, shouldn't the kitchen be
open to eleven? Is that that hard to ask? Am
I being unreasonable? Maybe I am being unreasonable? So only
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the bar was open. We weren't looking to drink, we
were looking to have some food. And so we walked
around Pasadena and we found several other locations that were
also supposedly open that we're not, and we there was
like the cheesecake factory over there, but there was a
long wait for that. Were like no, So we walked around.
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We end up walking around for like an hour. So
now it's like eleven. A little after eleven, we finally
tossed in the sponge and we say, okay, we gotta
go old reliable, and we went over to Hollywood just
south of Hollywood Highland and Fat Sous from its Fat
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Sous the Hollywood just just south of there, right near
a little south of the Hollywood Bowl and Hollywood and
Highland and all that, and so now this place never disappoints.
There was actually a long line, but they have big
sandwiches and filling food and you shouldn't eating that late,
but we're inappropriate, and so then we headed back to
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the north Woods, had a long drive. Wait what did
you eat at fat So we I ate the cheese, steak, fries,
and then we split the sandwich, me and my wife
because I didn't want to eat too much, so I
split all those sandwiches are huge, Yeah, they're massive. Back
in the old days, Danny, I could have polished off
one by myself, no problem, and fries and all that.
(25:04):
But I used to watch you do that across the glass.
I don't want to be a hawser anymore. So. Anyway,
so we're heading back and we got a long drive,
and all of a sudden we decided to go off
the Beaten Path. Off the Beaten Path, a notorious piece
of Los Angeles. And this is by this time. It's
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probably one thirty in the morning. By this time, maybe
two in the morning. Uh, and maybe I don't know.
I didn't write down the time, but it was late
and we ended up going joy riding. And if you're
not in l A, you probably have no idea what
this is. But Danny, I bet you know what this is.
The sixth Street Bridge. Have you heard about that. Yeah,
this bridge just opened up a couple of weeks earlier.
(25:49):
Been in the news a lot here, Yeah, exactly. So.
It took six years to build and it is a
beautiful piece of art. Uh. And it's obviously bridge. But
since this replaced this old nineteen thirties vintage bridge that
they took down and they put this thing up and
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immediately this being l a hoodlums have been running wild
on this bridge. It's been all over the news. The
police don't know what to do. They've been sending battalions
in there push the crowd out. Yeah, the bridge has
closed multiple times. There have been according to just what
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I looked. I looked up on the internet. I was like,
what's I remember hearing about it on the news and
it looked beautiful. I've driven by it a few times
going into the Mothership. It's right off the one on
one freeway in l A uh and the connecting to
the five. And so in the two weeks the thing's
been open, there have been people graffiti ing it, of course,
street art, doing donuts on their cars, rag racing, getting haircuts,
(27:02):
rutting up the incline. Yes, people have climbed for TikTok
or Instagram whatever it is. They've climbed up the side
of the bridge. Dumb asses, and so it's so bad
they're talking about putting like uh, what do you call
to break up the stop people from speeding on it? Uh? Oh, yeah,
(27:25):
I know what you're talking about, putting up barriers on there.
So I was the guy, what the hell? I thought?
You know, why not? I've heard about it. It looks
beautiful from Afar and I went down it and got
off the one on one connector at the seventh Street
off ramp, went back and took a joy ride down
the beautiful bridge. They did a great job. It's a
shame people are are goofing it up. Hopefully people will
(27:47):
calm down, but that bridge is gonna be a ton
of movies. Yeah. Now, why do you think it's been
like this since it opened? It's just like a new toy.
That's a good question. Like I just people it's new,
and the people have been seeing this thing being built
for years and they want to be part of it.
If you live in that area, there's a lot of
people that live there on top of each other. It's
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a very congested area of l A and so it's
like part of it's actually neighborhood pride. But you gotta,
as we say in football, Danny, you gotta act like
you've been there before, right, You can't. Yeah, it's not
your first bridge. Yes, I calm down, man, what are
you doing? Thank's wrong with you? Anyway, that was my
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joy writing experience. I don't know that I'll ever go
on the bridge again. I'd like to at some point,
but I can't guarantee I will ever end up doing that.
But it was neat to see. As far as the backscratcher,
you scratch our back, we scratchers, I I say we.
We will tip the microphone to people that take the
time out. I have gotten more email from people that
(28:51):
say they can't figure out how to post a review
then people that have actually reviewed the podcast. So I
I don't know how we can explain it, Danny, do
you know how we could explain it to make it
easy for the simpleton to find the page that they
need to go to and what they need to click
on on the page, because I've had people say, hey,
(29:12):
I got to the page, but I don't see where
to click. And the best way I can explain it
click on the link that's in the description of this
very podcast. When you click on that link that says
to leave your review, then just page down, page down,
and you'll see where the Apple podcast review goes okay,
(29:32):
so yeah, and it's a pain in the asset and
I get it, But that does help out the podcast.
If you want more podcasts, I don't know how many
more we can do. I don't how many more I
can do, but there's always room to expand. And if
the reviews go well and the company's happy and all,
that will put more product out there. Uh for sure,
So we we can absolutely do that. But go to
(29:55):
the Apple podcast page. This week on backscratcher, do we
have see here? Do we have three to one or none?
I'm gonna say that is a winner. Congratulations n G.
You the big winner. You won an opportunity for me
(30:16):
to read the review back. How about you're chasing five
dollars like you know, five bucks. It's on a string.
So Mark and Minneapolis writes in He says, excellent podcast.
Ben and Danny g have great chemistry. Well, Mark, you
know how I feel about chemistry. Uh, it's it's a
(30:38):
science thing. But anyway, I love the stories about life experiences,
kind of like the Seinfeld bit. A show about nothing exactly.
That's what I'm saying. Mark, especially you would agree Danny.
The Saturday podcast is the ultimate show about nothing. It
is just a couple of radio people telling stories about
(31:00):
the mundane parts of life. He says. It's a regular
part of my weekend. Mark says, I have listened to
talk radio for forty years, all kinds of topics. He says,
keep up the great work. Well, that's very kind of you. Mark,
as a connoisseur of the spoken word format of radio,
or as radio people now in management say, Danny audio
(31:21):
audio they don't like. They don't the d The word
radio is taboo. Now it's you can't say it. I
love the word radio. I'm old school Danny. I love
the word radio. I do. Oh. I forgot to mention
to you, Ben my Dodgers debit card. I checked my
account when I got home, and they charged me five dollars.
(31:42):
No way. Yeah, so they stole her five dollar bill
and they charged my Dodger card five dollars. So they
got ten bucks out of you, and you didn't get
any product. No, I got no frozen you. I forgot
to mention that party. Hey, you call them up and
they don't answer own answer. What a hustle. I'm gonna
(32:03):
go in there with a chisel and a hammer now,
The next move would be to contact the people that
own the mall and say, hey, oh yeah, I got
a problem here. I'm sure they'll answer their phone. Well,
they probably are. Well, I bet they would because they're
owned by a big real estate conglomerate or whatever. Right, probably,
so they probably would. Yeah that's not right, man on
(32:25):
a bunch of thieves. That's ten bucks and you got
uh well, no calories in the ice cream, though there
is that day a good point. It was a good diet. Yeah,
you got to experience what it would have been like
to get get that uh you know, ice cream, but
you didn't actually have it. Uh, So I think we'll
(32:46):
get out on that. Yes, anything else to promote? What
do we got going on here? It's a Saturday, Saturday, Saturday?
What do we have today? Saturday? So I'm gonna be
driving my tender Ronis car into Sherman Oaks for the
Hartman and Short Show and then through that. Of course
it is Brian no With from salam Oh. Speaking of that.
We we actually have something in common, Danny. Before I
(33:07):
forgot about this, the deja vu, the mallarmobile, My wife
was on our way to the dentist. Everything starts flashing,
pulsating again. Dejah. Yeah, car had to be towed off
the freeway, back in the shop, so we're down to
one car. So we both common both the same families,
(33:29):
both have one car in the shop. What a nightmare?
What apendon? Anyway, I have a great rest of your
day today, and don't forget the mail Bag podcast. At
least gas went down by twenty cents. Oh yeah, that'll
that'll save us. That'll save us. Talk to you next time.
Have a great day, Austa, Basta, got a murder, Gotta go.
Boom boom. If you thought four hours a day, minutes
a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants
of the old republic a sole fashion of fairness. He
treats crackheads in the ghetto cutter the same as the
rich pill poppers in the penthouse the clearing House of
hot takes break free for something special. The Fifth Hour
(00:23):
with Ben Maller starts right now, nine in the air
everywhere and welcome into another addition to the Fifth Hour
with Ben Mallard and Danny G Radio. I know you
hold your applause please, there's no need to clap. Life Mallard,
(00:46):
the Life of Danny G and Daniel Paul as well
with you here, We're back at it again on a Saturday.
I want to thank Hall of Famer Dick Vermeil, who joins.
That was pretty cool. That was really cool to hear
his voice. Yeah, Dick Fromil, who I I know him
as a coach, But also he did television. We talked
(01:08):
about that a little bit in the interview. But he
did TV for so long that I recall for many
years when he left the Eagles until he coached the Rams,
like he was a staple of my Saturday or Sunday,
depending on whether he was doing NFL or college. And
he's still very sure. Eighty five years old. Eighty five
(01:28):
years old Dick FROMIL and today's the big day actually,
So if you didn't get a chance to hear the
conversation on Friday, go back and listen. We we caught
up with him as he was preparing for his Hall
of Fame speech, and he kept saying, only got eight minutes.
I only got eight minutes. That's all I have. I
only have eight minutes. And it was it was interesting.
(01:48):
I never heard the story before that he told either
about how you know, his father and family they wanted
him to going to the family business and uh and
what and so it's interesting. But it's good to have
him on. And congratulations to Dick for Meal on the
Hall of Fame. And I would say, you know, not
just being a big timer here, Danny. I'm looking at
(02:10):
that list of names and I ran them down at
the beginning of the podcast on Friday, the Hall of
Fame class for my money, dollar for dollar, Dick for
Meal is the guy that I wanna. I want to
see his speak unless we could bring Cliff branch back. Yeah, well,
that would be something now that would get headlines. If
if he and Sam Mills and those guys were that
(02:33):
would be that would be amazing. He kills not anymore.
It's the Hall of its. Remember that that bit John
Madden did, which was really cool. He talked about the
Hall of Fame at night, the bus come alive and
they each other. It was like, and how cool was
it to see actual football on the field, even though
it was backups playing. I'm sure you were riveted watching
(02:54):
Stid him throw the ball. I have a tradition, and Danny,
this is my tradition for many years, the Hall of
Fame game. I get all excited to get all my
snacks ready, and then I watch about half a quarter
and and then I go watch a baseball game. And
and that's what I do every year. And every year
(03:15):
I might call this is gonna be great, and then
it's gotten even worse. That's like one of those things
in life, you know, things usually get better, they don't
get worse. But because of Sean McVeigh. And I'll blame
Sean McVeigh the Rams coach. Because of McVeigh, everyone else
copy nobody plays their starters hardly anybody plays their start,
even for a series m Ramonal night. Wasn't it during
(03:40):
COVID that we didn't even get a game because the
field conditions? Oh well, no, there was. I think that
might have been before COVID members. Before that was pre COVID.
It felt like a COVID shutdown. Yeah, I did have
the COVID vibes to it, if I remember correctly. They
had painted the field and it was slippery and the
(04:00):
players were complaining about that. That's great. You think back
to the early days of football and where we've come
when it comes to our football, and it's uh. I
don't want to say it's a clown show, but some
of this stuff comforting though, Right, it's comforting just having
(04:21):
the sounds of football on with Mike Tariko's voice. Well,
and you know you're only a month away, right or
like a month away, which seems odd to me because
you know, there's only how many three exhibition games now
they're down to three. They're down to three, so they
get three and then of a week off before the
(04:41):
regular season. And the only thing that really happens my
experience in exhibition football is players get hurt. That's that's it.
You're starting right guard, we'll go down with an injury.
Your backup wide receiver who you need in the rotation
will hurt his ankle and be unavailable for the first
(05:03):
part of the season. And so that's usually how that
That's usually how that goes. But coming up on this
podcast as we go inside the bodega, on the menu,
we've got Off Broadway Chasing five Dollars, joy Riding, and
the Deja Vu, and we will also have Backscratcher. Hopefully
(05:26):
we have some of this week I have not checked yet,
but hopefully we will have at least one. Alright, So
Off Broadway and at this being the Saturday podcast Life
of Mallary, Life of Danny G. We take you behind
the velvet ropes the life of a major sports talk
radio figure, at least in my own head. Uh, it's
(05:49):
not easy being a rock star, Danny. It's not easy
being a rock star. So many people want to be
around you have so many social events you have to
go to. It's just this, this job is not that easy.
You've had your run ins with paparazzi TMZ. They won't
leave me alone. So this past weekend, the wife worked
(06:11):
on Friday, so I had some hometime. I had some
alone time, which was mostly running errands around, going to
Costco grocery store, adult ing. I don't like adults. I don't.
I don't. I actually don't mind the shopping stuff for
some reason. I don't mind. But a lot of stuff
(06:31):
is like just bulb, you know, what has pained the
painted behind. So I did a lot of that. On Friday,
I met a friend, had had had dinner, and then
on Saturday had the only day with the wife. And
it was an early wake up call how to squeeze
a full weekend into one day because I work on
Sunday night the Monday, and so the first stop was
(06:53):
the England Empire. If you're familiar with southern California. Now
the i E. And why did I go to the I?
I was doing some antiquing, not adulting, Danny and taking,
because that's something you do when you're old and boring.
You go a taking. Okay, I if you had told
(07:13):
ten year old Benny, little fat Benny eating donuts and
cake that someday you'll be a middle aged man, you'll
be adulting and going to antique stores on the weekend.
Where is the antique store Riverside. Uh no, no, no,
this is actually a really cool place. I don't know
if you in the the TENDERNI are indo and taking,
(07:36):
but it is a really cool story. Highly recommend. It's
called It's in Ontario, which is not Riverside, but on
the way to Riverside Treasures and Junk Treasures and then
the letter and and Junk. Now, seriously, did if you're
into these kind of stores, if you're in the l A,
don't shake your head, you know, can't. Why are you
shaking it? Because we go to Grandma Shirley's house and
(08:00):
Long Beach and it's like a museum with antiques in it.
Uh so it's like we go to an antique store
every time we visit Grandma. Yeah, but if you take
Shirley stuff, she'll kick your ass. At this place, you
can buy it and you don't have to worry about it,
you know what I'm saying. Anyway, So it's very unique.
(08:21):
It's a huge store. They've got everything from like if
you want to get an old gas pump. I don't
know why you would want to get an old gas pump,
but some people, you know, like like those things. Is
a display thing in your home. They're selling the stuff
that the American pickers guys exactly exactly. It's it's got
that vibe, although they got rid of I'm not watching
American Pickers in a long time. But the one guy
(08:42):
had a stroke, right, the chubby guy, he's off the
shop and get a stroke on um. But anyway, so
I just wanted to come back and they're like, nope,
too late. Yeah, so do who they replace him? The
other guy's brother. Oh really? Oh is that right? Yeah,
he was already on the show part time, so they
just made him full time. Okay. Anyway, so this store
(09:03):
has that kind of stuff. Yeah, you've seen American pictures.
It's that kind of stuff signs, and they've got an
outdoor area with all this like crazy stuff. A lot
of it needs to be refurbished. And but so that
that was the beginning of the day, and then it
was off to the main event, dinner and a show dinner.
And again, being a big time radio personality, you gotta
(09:25):
you gotta do these things. And so I had a
very nice meal at a Mexican restaurant that I used
to eat at regularly back when I lived at the
old Mallard mansion and then it was closing night of
the Lion King. Yeah, not just any Lion King. This
was off Broadway, Danny. This was an off Broadway production.
(09:45):
And when I say off Broadway, I'm talking three thousand
miles off Broadway. Okay. This was a summer playhouse production
for kids ranging from age nine to roughly fifteen. And
(10:06):
the reason I was there my wife's girlfriend from her
childhood has a one of her kids. Her son was performing,
and so we were there for moral support. This kid,
total ham, this little munchkin. Great kid's name is Alex
and he's got the gift for gab and all that.
Total extrovert. I'm an introvert. This kid's like nine years
(10:28):
old and thinks he's going He already thinks he's a
Hollywood star and he's convinced he's only going to be
a bigger star. And so, uh yeah, yeah, we were.
We were hanging out watching The Lion King with a
bunch of kids. The thing about full disclosure, Danny, we
had front row seats at this thing, front row seats.
(10:50):
But the problem is, as soon as the lights in
the venue went down in the theater, what do you
think happened? A spotlight come on in it it's you.
Oh no, no, no, I wish that had happened. My
eyelids got very heavy. Oh no, oh yeah, no, oh
this is terrible. You pulled a wow. Oh my, oh
(11:17):
my god. Hollary James is the most the most. But yeah,
so I got up early. I didn't get a lot
of sleep. I'm you were out in the sun shopping
at this antique store and some other places we went
to there, so the lights go down and my eyelids.
My wife has to poke me to stay away because
(11:37):
it's very embarrassing. These little kids have been practicing for
this show. Here I am in the front row snoozing
while they were doing their lion king act. And it
was funny. Why is the big man in the front sleeping?
What is he not like our show? Why? Why did
he come here to sleep? Why is that? I would understand?
(12:01):
And uh yeah, so my wife had to kind of
keep me awake there. I even took some caffeine and
it still didn't work. Something about movie theaters or shows.
I just zone out. Does anyone else have that problem? Danny?
Do you have that problem? Are you? Yeah? Especially if
(12:21):
the A C kicks on? And it's them comfortable. Yeah, man,
because you're too comfortable to not take a little nap.
And I don't think the kids actually saw it because
my wife was pretty good about waken waking me up.
But the show, from what I saw when I wasn't sleeping,
was very good. And uh, a little kid Alex we
(12:41):
were there to support, was wonderful. And it was really
funny because he was right in front of us on
stage and he, uh, my wife was trying to distract him,
and he didn't want to. He didn't want to look
at us because he didn't want to be distracted. He
wanted to stay in character. Danny. You know, when you're
a kid actor, you don't want to be distracted by
some grown ups and all that. Non, So this is
(13:01):
where you needed the big time, the little big timers
by wearing sunglasses indoors. That way you can snooze if
you feel like it. Oh yeah, I could have got
a full Hollywood thing and all that. Yeah. Sure, we've
seen The Lion King before. Well, I saw the movie,
but never the play. No, I've never seen it. Well,
now I have, I've seen the kid version. What have
(13:24):
you ever done drama with kids that's must be a
pain in the ast to get and there were a
lot of kids in this production, Like I don't know
who's behind it, but that that must be the biggest
pain in the behind too to put that thing together.
But they did a good job. So anyway, they're probably
chasing money. I don't know if they're chasing five dollars, Danny,
(13:44):
but they're probably chasing something. Yeah. Well it's a good
tie in because school years about to start in southern California.
Can you believe that been when football season used to start.
That's when we used to go to school as kids, remember, yeah,
you had a legitimate So maybe I'm wrong, but I
remember being like two and a half months solid of
(14:06):
of summer. Yeah, we used to go to school in September.
Now these kids back it all the way up, back
that dump truck up a month. August nine is our
first day in the school district here for the new
school year. Well, you gotta get started early then because
of all those snow days in California. So you have
to start early because you're gonna miss some school because
of snow. Yeah, lots of big ten days. Yeah, So
(14:30):
Chloe are eleven year old who. You hear her laugh
regularly on this podcast. She needed shoes, school shoes and
pe shoes, and she's all excited because she gets her
first locker of her life. It's a big deal, right,
It is that very first time you got a locker,
(14:53):
you're like, oh man, this is so cool. I'm gonna
use this locker every day. And you wound up just
using your backpack all the time pretty much. So we go,
we take her to the mall and we're on a mission.
We're gonna get a backpack, we're gonna find her shoes.
We get to the mall. She's looking for some maybe
(15:13):
some converts, something cool that you know, she can use
every day, because her mom already found the pe shoes,
so now we're looking for the everyday shoes. So we
go into the first shop and because of the workforce issues,
there's one guy working and about five or six kids
sitting around waiting for shoes to try on. Finally guy
(15:34):
brings out the shoes. They don't fit. We go to
the next door. The shoes are tore up. At the
next door, they don't even have shoes on the shelf.
This this is gonna suck. Third stop, we go to
journeys and they actually had a pair of shoes she liked,
and girl brings out a pair that fitter and we're like, man,
we won the lotto right now? Yeah, I guess I
(15:57):
got some money. Here. She points up to a little
sign and she was like, you can get five dollars
off if you text that code right there. Okay, five
dollars off. That's you know something. It's not a lot,
but it's something. I won't even buy a fast food
meal these days, but it's better than nothing. You know
that feeling where a kid is trying to help you
(16:20):
with your cell phone like you're a senior citizen. That's
what it felt like, because none of us could get
the stupid code to work on our phone. No, it's
got to be capitalized. Do you need help? Do you
need help? Sir? Can I see your phone? I'll help you.
Finally we get the stupid code for five dollars. We
literally wasted minutes of our life trying to get this
(16:41):
five dollar off code. It was to the point where
my Tenderoni was just frustrated and she's like, the five dollars,
so just let me pay. Those are her words in
front of all the little girls working in the store.
We actually did get the five dollars off and were
kind of laugh about it. As we leave the store,
We're like, that was a nightmare, But we know that
(17:04):
down at the other end of the mall, Ben, there's
one of those robot machines that you've been talking about
on the podcast. Remember when you read that story about
how they think those machines are the self serve machines
are going to replace fast food? Yes, yes, yes, yes,
I do recall that in this mall there are no
more ice cream shops, no more frozen yogurt shops. Instead,
(17:26):
they have those machines. I don't know if I like that.
It's it's kind of like you've seen this maybe inside
movie theaters, where they'll have the pink berry machine and
you could get a serving of it for five bucks. Well,
let's go down there and get some pinkberry. Now, if
you don't know what pink berry yogurt is, take a
visit to California and get some pink berry. I don't
(17:48):
know what they mix into that yogurt. Ben. It is
equivalent to crack. It is so so freaking delay. Pinkberry
places used to be everywhere. Yeah, not as add not
as many of them as their work, but there's still
a fair amount in there's a few left in southern California.
And I don't know why they closed the way they did,
(18:10):
because that place is freaking delicious. So we walk all
the way down to the other end of the mall
on a mission to get some of this pinkberry. So
we get to the machine. My Tenderoni takes out her
card and swipes it. It looks like it took the card.
All rubbing our hands like yeah, here it comes the
first frozen yogurt cup. Yeah. No, no parts inside the
(18:34):
machine are moving. What is going on? It was a
brand new machine, like shiny. There's no sign on it
anywhere saying it doesn't. So I'm like, well, hang on,
let me use my card. Take out my Dodgers debit
card and I swiped that and it says it's processing,
and we're all like doing many claps, like yeah, it
(18:54):
took the Dodgers card to work. Then it says transaction canceled.
What it's like, damn it. She takes out another credit card,
same thing. I take out a credit card. We're on
our fourth card now because we want this frozen yogurt
so bad. It just shows an X on the screen.
Transaction canceled on the screen. It says you can put
(19:16):
an exact change in a five dollar bill. So my
Tenderroni says, all right, I'm gonna go to Missfield's Cookies
right there. I'll get one little cookie for my daughter.
I'll get the change. We'll put a five dollar bill in.
That's gonna work for sure. So she stands in the
stupid line overpace for this tiny cookie, comes back with
a five dollar bill and she says, this better fucking work,
(19:40):
and she puts the five dollars in and then has
a look of horror on her face because the machine
just straight up stole the five dollar bill and boom
goes a dynamite. Now we're piste. She's like, let's go
right now, or I'm gonna get arrested for kicking and
hitting and tipping this machine over. We're kind of mumbling
(20:01):
and grumbling as we walk all the way to the
parking lot. We get to the car, and she was like,
you know what, why don't we just drive to yogurt Land?
And I looked at her and I was like, oh,
I just got an email from them yesterday. They sent
me a five dollar off coupon another five and we
just kind of looked at each other laughing and we're like, no, funk,
(20:25):
five dollars, let's go home. And that's what we did.
The story of our life that night was five dollars
and we did. We just went home and we had
popsicles out of the freezer. Oh man, well, you save
some money on that one. But the ice cream, I'm
a little disappointed. I've not been to the mall very often,
(20:45):
but they don't have the actual ice cream shop. They
just have the machine. It's just two machines at the
end of the mall, one regular ice cream, one pinkberry
frozen yogurt. And we took a photo of the number
and the email on the side of the machine was
gonna ask you that if you contacted to get your
money back. We called the number twice now and it's
a recording a robot voice saying that they're closed. Nice.
(21:10):
You could kiss that five dollars goodbye. You know, somebody
owns that machine and it's that that's there their gig
little side hustle, like those those A T M machines.
You know the hustle on that those are privately owned
and then people have to keep up the money and
it's a big, big to do. Wow. All right, well
did you go to the mall and try to get
(21:32):
some ice creams from yogurt and then look what happens?
At least we saved that five dollars at journeys very important.
All right, I want to go back I met you.
I saw The Lion King, a great off Broadway production
of nine, ten, eleven, twelve year olds and a few
high school kids. But after that, Danny, we attempted for
(21:54):
a late night on the town and so we hit
all old town Pasadena. Now I don't usually eat late anymore.
I'm old, I guess, and I noticed that I eat
in the middle of the day and it's just better
for me. If eat after a certain time, it doesn't
go well. But once a week occasionally rare and appropriate.
(22:16):
I was really rare and appropriate. You can do it.
So we were like, hey, about was our one night
a week together because my wife had working on Friday.
So we're like, we're gonna go to Pasadena hang out
old stomping grounds and all that. There was a soccer
friendly going on I think of the Rose Bowls. So
there were a lot of soccer fans walking around in
Pasadena is a mad house. And we found parking just
(22:37):
a Jason to Colorado Boulevard where the Rose Parade goes
down and all that. And we knew there were a
bunch of restaurants that had good late night food, and
there was one that we were jones at for Burger
place in Pasadena and so what a Debacco Danny this
turned out. So we went to this place called Slater's
fifty fifty. Oh yeah, it's a good place. So we
(23:00):
looked online and they said this the show that the
kids show ended like nine, nine thirty. By the time
we made it to Pasadena, it was a little after ten,
but they said online that they were open till eleven.
So we went in there to get our cheeseburgers and
our fries and all that, and we showed up well
after ten pm. We stroll in and immediately we were
(23:21):
greeted by a gentleman who says, welcome. The kitchen is closed,
only the bar is open. Ah, that's the work. We're like,
m effort. You're open to eleven, shouldn't the kitchen be
open to eleven? Is that that hard to ask? Am
I being unreasonable? Maybe I am being unreasonable? So only
(23:41):
the bar was open. We weren't looking to drink, we
were looking to have some food. And so we walked
around Pasadena and we found several other locations that were
also supposedly open that we're not, and we there was
like the cheesecake factory over there, but there was a
long wait for that. Were like no, So we walked around.
(24:03):
We end up walking around for like an hour. So
now it's like eleven. A little after eleven, we finally
tossed in the sponge and we say, okay, we gotta
go old reliable, and we went over to Hollywood just
south of Hollywood Highland and Fat Sous from its Fat
(24:23):
Sous the Hollywood just just south of there, right near
a little south of the Hollywood Bowl and Hollywood and
Highland and all that, and so now this place never disappoints.
There was actually a long line, but they have big
sandwiches and filling food and you shouldn't eating that late,
but we're inappropriate, and so then we headed back to
(24:43):
the north Woods, had a long drive. Wait what did
you eat at fat So we I ate the cheese, steak, fries,
and then we split the sandwich, me and my wife
because I didn't want to eat too much, so I
split all those sandwiches are huge, Yeah, they're massive. Back
in the old days, Danny, I could have polished off
one by myself, no problem, and fries and all that.
(25:04):
But I used to watch you do that across the glass.
I don't want to be a hawser anymore. So. Anyway,
so we're heading back and we got a long drive,
and all of a sudden we decided to go off
the Beaten Path. Off the Beaten Path, a notorious piece
of Los Angeles. And this is by this time. It's
(25:26):
probably one thirty in the morning. By this time, maybe
two in the morning. Uh, and maybe I don't know.
I didn't write down the time, but it was late
and we ended up going joy riding. And if you're
not in l A, you probably have no idea what
this is. But Danny, I bet you know what this is.
The sixth Street Bridge. Have you heard about that. Yeah,
this bridge just opened up a couple of weeks earlier.
(25:49):
Been in the news a lot here, Yeah, exactly. So.
It took six years to build and it is a
beautiful piece of art. Uh. And it's obviously bridge. But
since this replaced this old nineteen thirties vintage bridge that
they took down and they put this thing up and
(26:10):
immediately this being l a hoodlums have been running wild
on this bridge. It's been all over the news. The
police don't know what to do. They've been sending battalions
in there push the crowd out. Yeah, the bridge has
closed multiple times. There have been according to just what
(26:34):
I looked. I looked up on the internet. I was like,
what's I remember hearing about it on the news and
it looked beautiful. I've driven by it a few times
going into the Mothership. It's right off the one on
one freeway in l A uh and the connecting to
the five. And so in the two weeks the thing's
been open, there have been people graffiti ing it, of course,
street art, doing donuts on their cars, rag racing, getting haircuts,
(27:02):
rutting up the incline. Yes, people have climbed for TikTok
or Instagram whatever it is. They've climbed up the side
of the bridge. Dumb asses, and so it's so bad
they're talking about putting like uh, what do you call
to break up the stop people from speeding on it? Uh? Oh, yeah,
(27:25):
I know what you're talking about, putting up barriers on there.
So I was the guy, what the hell? I thought?
You know, why not? I've heard about it. It looks
beautiful from Afar and I went down it and got
off the one on one connector at the seventh Street
off ramp, went back and took a joy ride down
the beautiful bridge. They did a great job. It's a
shame people are are goofing it up. Hopefully people will
(27:47):
calm down, but that bridge is gonna be a ton
of movies. Yeah. Now, why do you think it's been
like this since it opened? It's just like a new toy.
That's a good question. Like I just people it's new,
and the people have been seeing this thing being built
for years and they want to be part of it.
If you live in that area, there's a lot of
people that live there on top of each other. It's
(28:07):
a very congested area of l A and so it's
like part of it's actually neighborhood pride. But you gotta,
as we say in football, Danny, you gotta act like
you've been there before, right, You can't. Yeah, it's not
your first bridge. Yes, I calm down, man, what are
you doing? Thank's wrong with you? Anyway, that was my
(28:30):
joy writing experience. I don't know that I'll ever go
on the bridge again. I'd like to at some point,
but I can't guarantee I will ever end up doing that.
But it was neat to see. As far as the backscratcher,
you scratch our back, we scratchers, I I say we.
We will tip the microphone to people that take the
time out. I have gotten more email from people that
(28:51):
say they can't figure out how to post a review
then people that have actually reviewed the podcast. So I
I don't know how we can explain it, Danny, do
you know how we could explain it to make it
easy for the simpleton to find the page that they
need to go to and what they need to click
on on the page, because I've had people say, hey,
(29:12):
I got to the page, but I don't see where
to click. And the best way I can explain it
click on the link that's in the description of this
very podcast. When you click on that link that says
to leave your review, then just page down, page down,
and you'll see where the Apple podcast review goes okay,
(29:32):
so yeah, and it's a pain in the asset and
I get it, But that does help out the podcast.
If you want more podcasts, I don't know how many
more we can do. I don't how many more I
can do, but there's always room to expand. And if
the reviews go well and the company's happy and all,
that will put more product out there. Uh for sure,
So we we can absolutely do that. But go to
(29:55):
the Apple podcast page. This week on backscratcher, do we
have see here? Do we have three to one or none?
I'm gonna say that is a winner. Congratulations n G.
You the big winner. You won an opportunity for me
(30:16):
to read the review back. How about you're chasing five
dollars like you know, five bucks. It's on a string.
So Mark and Minneapolis writes in He says, excellent podcast.
Ben and Danny g have great chemistry. Well, Mark, you
know how I feel about chemistry. Uh, it's it's a
(30:38):
science thing. But anyway, I love the stories about life experiences,
kind of like the Seinfeld bit. A show about nothing exactly.
That's what I'm saying. Mark, especially you would agree Danny.
The Saturday podcast is the ultimate show about nothing. It
is just a couple of radio people telling stories about
(31:00):
the mundane parts of life. He says. It's a regular
part of my weekend. Mark says, I have listened to
talk radio for forty years, all kinds of topics. He says,
keep up the great work. Well, that's very kind of you. Mark,
as a connoisseur of the spoken word format of radio,
or as radio people now in management say, Danny audio
(31:21):
audio they don't like. They don't the d The word
radio is taboo. Now it's you can't say it. I
love the word radio. I'm old school Danny. I love
the word radio. I do. Oh. I forgot to mention
to you, Ben my Dodgers debit card. I checked my
account when I got home, and they charged me five dollars.
(31:42):
No way. Yeah, so they stole her five dollar bill
and they charged my Dodger card five dollars. So they
got ten bucks out of you, and you didn't get
any product. No, I got no frozen you. I forgot
to mention that party. Hey, you call them up and
they don't answer own answer. What a hustle. I'm gonna
(32:03):
go in there with a chisel and a hammer now,
The next move would be to contact the people that
own the mall and say, hey, oh yeah, I got
a problem here. I'm sure they'll answer their phone. Well,
they probably are. Well, I bet they would because they're
owned by a big real estate conglomerate or whatever. Right, probably,
so they probably would. Yeah that's not right, man on
(32:25):
a bunch of thieves. That's ten bucks and you got
uh well, no calories in the ice cream, though there
is that day a good point. It was a good diet. Yeah,
you got to experience what it would have been like
to get get that uh you know, ice cream, but
you didn't actually have it. Uh, So I think we'll
(32:46):
get out on that. Yes, anything else to promote? What
do we got going on here? It's a Saturday, Saturday, Saturday?
What do we have today? Saturday? So I'm gonna be
driving my tender Ronis car into Sherman Oaks for the
Hartman and Short Show and then through that. Of course
it is Brian no With from salam Oh. Speaking of that.
We we actually have something in common, Danny. Before I
(33:07):
forgot about this, the deja vu, the mallarmobile, My wife
was on our way to the dentist. Everything starts flashing,
pulsating again. Dejah. Yeah, car had to be towed off
the freeway, back in the shop, so we're down to
one car. So we both common both the same families,
(33:29):
both have one car in the shop. What a nightmare?
What apendon? Anyway, I have a great rest of your
day today, and don't forget the mail Bag podcast. At
least gas went down by twenty cents. Oh yeah, that'll
that'll save us. That'll save us. Talk to you next time.
Have a great day, Austa, Basta, got a murder, Gotta go.
Host
Ben Maller
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