November 8, 2025 • 28 mins
Ben Maller & Danny G. have a fun Saturday podcast for you! They talk: Twilight Zone on the Pitch, Burrito Mania, the Solitaire Shuffle, & more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:02):
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(00:23):
Hour with Ben Maller starts right now.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
In the air everywhere. The Fifth Hour with Me, Ben
Maller and Danny g Radio a happy college football kind
of a Saturday. Is the weather getting nasty, which means
we should get some bad weather football today on this
eighth day of November. Back at it. No World Series
to recap. We don't have to do too much sporty stuff, Danny.
(00:49):
Now that the World Series is over, we don't have
to sit here and wait for a game to end
and then sleep and then go into the studio and
I we don't have to worry about any of that stuff.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
I know, but I kind of liked how those shows
were just because our Dodgers won the Doyers. Yeah, anything
like weird without baseball.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Yeah, I'm not into the NBA. I tried to watch
some games this week. It's just it's tough. I actually
got hornswoggled by ESPN because I was watching the Nicks
Timberwolves game. I had it on and it was the
first half, and I was like, okay. So I looked
at the time. It was like the second quarter. It
was about five minutes ago, and I Doris Burke is
(01:28):
on there. She's an instant mute button. When I hear Doris,
I hit mute, right. I can't.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
She's almost as bad as watching Clippers games right now?
Speaker 1 (01:36):
All right, how about the Raiders pal anyway, So I
hit the mute button right. I'm like, okay, I don't
want to hear her, and so I'll turn it on
at halftime. So I see the first half coming to
an end, and then I hit the mute button so
that the audio comes back up, and no Charles Barkley,
no Kenny Smith, no Ernie Jonson. I guess the first
(01:58):
week they worked, they had to take some time off,
or maybe they're on for two weeks and they were
not there. Some other you know, typical hack ESPN people
were there and I saw immediately turned it off. I said,
I'm not watching this crap once and I saw Kendrick Perkins.
I'm like, Okay, I'm good, I'm out, I'm done, to
see you later, Bye bye and all that. Anyway, Yeah,
so I did get fooled by I just assumed that
(02:21):
they're on ESPN now, Barkley and Kenny Smith, so when
there's an ESPN game, they'll be on a halftime No. No,
what a sweetheart deal those guys got, right. I imagine
that they get paid all that money. They don't have
to deal with the ESPN bull crap, and they I
guess they don't have to work that much. It's good
living the high life, right there.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
Man.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Anyway, on this podcast, we have the Twilight Zone on
the Pitch, Burrito Mania and the Solitaire Shuffle, so we'll
work our way through all this stuff and it's kind
of hang out here and get ready to watch some
college football, which is great. I love watching college football
because I don't have to worry about doing monologues.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
Or things like that.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
It's just just my day. Saturday is my day. And so,
as we know, the world a rather wacky place, and
a lot of stuff in life. You can plan for
a lot of stuff you can't plan for things you
cannot predict. And one thing I've noticed, especially since I
started doing the podcast, is I open my eyes more
to the world when I'm out and about. I don't
go out much anyway, but when I'm wandering around doing stuff,
(03:24):
I'm always like, all right, let's see what I can.
You know what's going on.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
This is because your wife made you take notes, yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
For the podcast, of course, So you know, some days
I'll you know, I'll see somebody with a flat tire.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
I did.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
I told the story yesterday. I was driving home and
the fourth Street bridge was on fire underneath it in
LA and that was quite the quite detail. But earlier
this week I got one of those small moments, Danny,
where it just happens occasionally in life and whatnot. So
I was looking. I was not looking for this, but
I was not. I was just I was going about
(03:56):
my business, performing the most mundane of tasks, my duty
at a local voting station. It was election day, which
is like the worst election. There was one thing on
my ballot in California. One thing. One thing on the ballot,
which is like, why drag everyone into vote if there's
one thing on the ballot? But whatever, So I went
(04:16):
to cast my ballot. And of course the big thing
about voting, Danny is the sticker. See, that's that's the
big Now I am an absentee voter. But what I
like to do is I like to drop the ballot off.
I like to drop the bat off. It makes me
feel like I wait till election day. It makes me
feel like I've accomplished something. On election day, I don't
bother sending it in. But so this time I didn't,
(04:38):
you know, I got my stick or whatever, I go
to drop the thing off. And when I went to
park just off on the on there was a big field.
There was a building we could vote, and then behind
it was a park in the vast park lands of
the north Woods. And something caught my eye off in
the distance. There was there was a bit of movement,
there was some rhythm, so I knew it was. It
(04:59):
was on the the field, the big fielding a football field.
And what I kept walking out towards these guys and
there was a group of young men, all of them
wearing the same uniform, and they were darting up and
down the pitch with with the with the football at
(05:19):
their feet. Danny, all right, and so not the kind
we like, not the not the the duke, the NFL football,
the round kind, the soccer, the full on MESSI and
all that stuff.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
Were they all dressed alike?
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Well? They were? And so then I looked over to
the parking lot and I saw a lineup of six
vehicles that all had the same same logo. And it
turned out that I had stumbled into a new episode
of the Twilight Zone. They were all Amazon trucks. You
got a picture this, Danny. Half a dozen Amazon delivery drivers,
(05:54):
their vans parked, all lined up in a row in
the parking lot near the park hazard lights blinking. It's
perfectly synced. And the drive you know, those blue Amazon,
the road Warriors, the Amazon. They're all out on the grass,
laughing and shouting and sprinting and running around and having
a great time.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
Right, So this is why my vitamins were delayed by
a day.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Exactly, That's what I was thinking.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
These were the men and women.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
It was all men. There were a couple of women.
They sat in the truck. I guess they didn't want
to play soccer, but they were. You know, these are
the people that spent all day hurling boxes of dog
food and phone charging cables and crap like that and
all the other stuff that we get on Amazon. And
I was thinking, like somebody trying to find their package.
And here I am. I was the only one watching
(06:42):
them play soccer. I was an audience of one. And
I gotta tell you it was it was pretty It
was pretty cool, Daddy. I was like, these guys are
loving life. And they were there I didn't say the
whole time. They were there well over at least an hour.
And I don't think your breaks are that long on Amazon,
I don't know. And these guys were really into it.
You know, there's nothing quite like a good pickup game.
(07:03):
I'm not a soccer guy, but I used to play
pick up football basketball back in the day. The midfield
maestros out there and these guys, I'm telling you, Dany,
they thought they were they were auditioning for the cover
of FIFA twenty five or twenty six or whatever. They
really into it, right, they were really into it. And uh,
the imaginary defenders he had the goaltender. You know, it
(07:24):
might as well have been these guys were playing for
Manchester City or Real Madrid or something like that. You know,
I think those are the only two soccer teams I
could name, but it was it was pretty cool. And
so again I did laugh, though, Danny, because I thought
there's somebody like you or my wife refreshing the Amazon app,
and I like, the truck seems to be stopped, stopped
(07:45):
at the park. I don't understand why. Part it makes
no sense. And then then they can well, the package
is delayed, the package is out for delivery is delayed.
So now, Danny, next time, if I if I were
something on Amazon, I usually don't want much. My wife does.
But if we don't get something right away, I'm just
gonna go down the park and say, what do you got?
You got my package?
Speaker 3 (08:03):
If you are a regular on Amazon, you know the pattern.
Sometimes it'll say expected delivery tomorrow between noon and two pm,
and you're like, yeah, cool, And then you get to
that point and it doesn't show up, and then it
moves and it says new expected arrival time four to
seven pm, and it'll keep moving. They just keep kicking
(08:26):
the ball down the road. Now I know they're literally
kicking the ball.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
Oh no, no, no, it was It was crazy, man.
I didn't really mind, you know whatever, these guys, you
know They probably make crap money and they work their
ass off and all this stuff, but these boxes will
eventually get get delivered. The packages will find their way,
and I just thought it was great. These guys are.
You know, they probably spend all day driving in traffic
delivering packages, and here's this one moment. You know, these
(08:51):
guys just having a great And I love the fact
that they didn't take off their uniforms. You'd think they
might want to take off their Amazon shirts and just
wear their T shirts underneath, but no, these the Amazon
all Stars of the north Woods. I don't know who
these guys are. I'll probably never see them again. I
don't know. Maybe they'll hear this somehow I salute them.
They'll probably never never hear about this. But I sat
there and I was like, wow, this is cool. Man.
(09:11):
These guys love soccer. I'm not a soccer guy, and
these guys are out there. Think about the coordination involved
in that. Because these guys are they deliver they working
at Amazon. They're not even though they're coworkers, Danny, They're
not like side by side, you know what I mean.
They're not driving by themselves. They're not with other people.
So they had to coordinate and plan. Hey, let's meet
(09:34):
at three o'clock at the north Woods Park.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
Yeah, we'll do some Amazon. Yeah, if my packages are late,
your packages are gonna be late.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
There you go, There you go exactly. Hey, they if
we all do it, Amazon can't get upset. Right. If
everyone slows down, then we're good, good to go. So now,
one thing I did not see when I was watching
them go back and forth and play little soccer thing
the twilight zone of the pitch. I did not see
any burritos, Daddy, I did not. Although you can't really
(10:05):
go wrong with a burrito. You cannot go wrong with
a brito.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
What's better than a burrito? A free burrito?
Speaker 2 (10:13):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (10:13):
Absolutely, it's freeze. Oh you're a lifetime radio guy. Free burrito?
Are you kidding? You'd run to the front of the line,
just like Iowa Sam, who's alumni from your overnight show?
Who you know? Chipotle is a popular spot to go,
although their prices are a little outrageous right now for
what they serve.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
Yeah, is it cheaper on the app? I haven't been
to the Crazy Chickens, you know.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
I don't know because I don't go to Chipotle very often.
But there was this story circulating this last Wednesday saying,
hey tomorrow, don't miss it. In the greater Los Angeles
area Thursday from four to eight pm, it's buy one,
get one free burrito or burrito bowl if you are
(10:59):
wearing anything Dodgers. Okay, So Dodger fans started passing this around, like, hey,
make sure to go to Chipotle on Thursday to get
your buy one, get one free. At the network, everybody
was rocking extra Dodger gear that day, not surprisingly because
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as I say, and as you probably know by listening
to the Fifth Hour radio, people love free food. So
Sam the editors had on some Dodger blue and they
were all set and ready to go get there buy one,
get one free. I told my wife, I said, hey,
when I get home, you know, i'll watch CoA. You
go get a burrito bowl or vice versa. So I
(11:42):
get home and he's kind of set in with her.
They're in the living room, and I told her it's
all right, I'll go run down there and get two
burrito bowls. I'm not gonna say that I don't see
lots of Dodger fans in my neighborhood, because I do.
I mean My next door neighbor is a big fan.
There's even some car flats in our building. I see
car flags on the freeway on my way into work.
(12:04):
Obviously work with Dodger fans, but maybe this is a
product of the World Series and back to back championships.
There was I'm not kidding you, there was a line
wrapped around this damn building. There's a Panda Express next
door to my Chipotle. Poor Panda. Yeah, they were blocking
the entrance and exit to Panda Express. This line literally
(12:28):
went into the parking lot. There had to have been
fifty people in this line, all wearing Dodger gear. Wow.
I looked at the line.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
Is take it for it?
Speaker 3 (12:40):
Yeah? No, I you know, and now Iowa. Sam tells
me that the one in Sherman Oaks or Van Eyes,
maybe fifteen minutes away from our studios. He only waited
a half hour. Jay Stu reported in at his local
Chipotle after his show Doug Gottlieb. He went. He said
it took him forty minutes at his Chipotle. This had
(13:01):
to be a good hour, right, I mean, there's no
way you've been in line at Chipotle before. There's no
way they could take fifty people and get you out
of there, even in an hour. That was a huge
I haven't seen a line that long since I was
at Disneyland.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
Yeah, that's crazy. I would not I love free stuff,
but your time is valuable. Do you really want to
spend your man? That's a long time to stay online.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
The best part of the line, it was good. It
was great people watching. Even though I decided not to
stay in the line, I looked at I looked at
other people in the line. It was all ages, all nationalities.
It was a great mix of Dodger fans and maybe
some people that were just taking advantage of the special
and didn't even give a shit about baseball. There. Have
(13:48):
you ever been to a mall or a store and
there is like a group of special needs kids with
a couple of instructors with them. It's almost like they're
on a field trip.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
Mama, wake up. Yeah, yeah, I've seen that, sure.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
Yeah at the Burbank mall. I used to see this
in the food court and the kids.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
To go out and get out there. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
They wo took him to the food court and let
them run like crazy in circles the food court. Well,
there was a group they looked like they were on
a little mini field trip and half the kids had
blue clothes on, not all the clothes said Dodgers. And
I thought to myself, well, this would be interesting because
when those special needs kids get up to the line,
(14:30):
is the uh you know eighteen year old work in
the counter there at Chipotle gonna make a fuss about
there not being any Dodger logo?
Speaker 1 (14:39):
Yeah, yeah, you can't well with that, You can't, right.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
No, you'd get suit especially in California. But how viral
that would go. So they didn't serve the ball to the.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
Kid because you didn't have the Dodger logo, you know.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
I was like, wait a minute, no, you know, yeah,
you're right. Free food is great. Besides getting a kick
out of that line and people watching, I did a
U turn and I left and we wound up getting
some l Poyo Loco drive through for dinner.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
Okay, yeah, no, I would. I would not wait in line.
When I was younger, I would I stayed. I waited
in line. I've talked about this. When I was a kid,
there was a Howard Stern book signing and I camped
out all night to get his autograph, and then everyone
was just smoking weed all night and they didn't care
it over there. But I now, would I camp out
all night for someone to hang out. You know, he's
get an autographed no way, not even free food. But
(15:30):
you know there's somebody, Danny, some opportunistic person in the
Greater LA area that started out when that promotion began
on that Thursday and hit ten fifteen restaurants to get
all the different food they could possibly get, and it's
all in a freezer somewhere and they're gonna be eating
like kings.
Speaker 3 (15:51):
This is like when the Chick fil A finally opened
up in Burbank, California, and I was living there at
the time, and I told you remember there were people
with pop up tents who spent the night there in
the parking lot.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
Yeah, no, I I There was a point when Raising Canes.
I talked about this two years ago on the podcast,
when Raising Canes came to LA. I had found Raising
Canes in Vegas and it was It's the only place
I'd ever seen it. It's from Louisiana. It's a chicken
fingerplace Raising Canes, so I'd never never been there before
I went to Vegas and then I kept going on
(16:24):
their website. When did they come in to La the
LA area. So I remember they had their first location
and they announced the date it was going to open.
So I was like, Okay, maybe i'll maybe I'll just
go down there and i'll camp you know, camp out
and get some free I figured they'd give like a
free thing or something if you're first in line, and uh.
And so I did contemplate it, and the night before
(16:47):
the opening, I was like, let me drive down there,
see what's going on. I drove down there and there
was already a line of people and I said, screw that.
I'm not I'm not sitting there with those people. It
was like it was like it wasn't even that late
at night, Danny, and there were already people lined up
online waiting for the morning after to get whatever free
stuff they're going to get from the restaurant. But any
(17:09):
other Dodger promotions we needed to know about, I guess
probably not. The World Series ended last weekend. Usually these
guys all go away and all that stuff, and.
Speaker 3 (17:16):
I think this is when everyone turns the page and
everyone I'm talking to businesses who are trying to take
advantage of their local baseball team Excelling Costsco. I went
there I think it was Wednesday night, to grab some
eggs and a few things, and they had a table
of Dodger championship shirts. Oh my god, it was torn through.
(17:37):
It was madness there. There was just a few shirts,
all crumbled up in balls, all the same size, extra large,
and the material of these shirts were junk for eighteen
dollars and ninety nine cents hard pass.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
So I have not seen the championship shirts. Do they
say back to back on them?
Speaker 3 (17:55):
Or is it just no? They're pretty big, Yeah, they're
pretty generic because these shirts at Costco are not made
by a reputable brand.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
So I know pat Riley owns the trademark for three pete.
Does somebody own the trademark.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
For back to back?
Speaker 1 (18:11):
Is that why they don't? I've not seen. I've been
out about this week and I've not seen anyone has
a shirt that says back to back champs.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
Or that's good bar trivia. I don't know. We're gonna
have to look that up.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
We'll do a search. We'll do a search. People trademark everything,
so I'm sure somebody, if you're allowed to trademark it,
I'm sure somebody trademarked that somewhere along the way. On
that note, as we try to go do the deep
dive the solitaire shuffle, Danny, it's time for these solitaire shuffles.
So I've played these games. I'm sure we all at
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at some point have played these games. And years ago
I started. It was really mostly during the pandemic. I
blame the pandemic. But you play those win money while
you play games on your phone. You know, they pop
up and you're sitting online like you're at Costco or something.
You're waiting to return the toaster oven that you bought
that you don't need, and the ad pops up and
(19:08):
it says, hey, real freak win real money, real cash.
And if you play a few rounds of some you know,
word puzzle or solitaire, whatever, you think, Okay, it's harmless.
It takes a few minutes a day. And then at
some point, when you play these games where you win
real money while you play, you realize that you have
(19:29):
watched the same exact ad for some off brand TMU
thing thirty seven times. You're now stuck in some kind
of digital guantanamo Bay. And I bring this up because
I saw a story this week that several of you
idiots sent me involving stephen A Smith, and it triggered
(19:51):
my memory of my experience. Now Steve and A are
former Morning guy who is now apparently the face of
a Solitaire app, the World's Solitaire Championship. If you please
saw that, you want to moment to process that. So
this is all because steven A was so bored watching
the Thunder and the Pacers in the NBA Finals that
(20:13):
he was playing on his phone while the game was
going on. Somebody recorded it and it became a viral thing.
And so of course the World Solitaire Championship, not the
Super Bowl, not the not a charity bowling event. Solitaire,
which I believe danny as an introvert, is a game
design for people like me, introverted people who don't want
(20:35):
to talk to anyone. And yet this week the story
came out stephen A had signed on as the official
ambassador for the company behind it, the same company that
now is being sued sued for allegedly rigging the Solitaire game,
claiming it's a game of skill, when really, when you
(20:55):
get to a higher level, you're going against unbeatable bots,
unheatable box, and it reminded me of the famous Larry
David commercial. I don't think so, I don't think so.
So the lawsuit I started diving into this, Danny, because
I was like, oh, this is interesting. Here, this is crazy.
So the lawsuit accuses the company behind the game, the
(21:19):
folks behind the app, of creating unwinnable situations while advertising
cash prizes. So think about that for a second. We've
evolved from casino slot machines to slot machines in your pocket,
wrapped in skill competition. And here we are. It's late
twenty twenty five, and this is the new three card MONTI.
(21:43):
This is the new shell game on the corner, except
this time the con man is the algorithm. And yet
again it's the celebrity pitchman yelling about how you listen.
I mean, I've I'm a stay at home mom with
four kids, but I play Solitaire and I'm like five
hundred dollars a week, you know? Is that kind of crap?
And so I totally get why Steve Any would do it.
(22:04):
He loves the bag, you know, He'll we'll all hore
ourselves out. Steven a one of the great wars and
media advertising of all time. He's got dozens of side hustles,
so he's all about it. Get that money while you can.
At some point people are gonna hate steven A. Smith,
so you might as well make the money. But here's
the thing. To me, it's not even about steven A
or the company. It's the it's a whole, this digital
(22:25):
underworld that we're living in. I guess I'm the old
guy crying and screaming at the crowds, clouds because it's
it's the lawlessness of it. The frontier with push notifications,
a world it's like the wild Wild Western. We've seen it.
Play for cash, win fifty dollars right now, no risk,
you know, compete with real players and all this stuff.
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And then of course you're not competing with real people.
You're competing with bots who never blink, Danny. They never
go to the they never go to the bathroom, they
don't take a lunch break. That the house isn't in
Vegas anymore. It's inside your phone while well, you know,
you're sitting there. It's got a smiling avatar and it's
you know, some its claims to be some woman from Michigan,
and you know it I again I got hooked on
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one of these things years ago. I've talked about it
long ago. I'm sure Lucky Tony's heard the podcast. It
was many years ago and during the pandemic, and it
promised me one hundred dollars. All I had was a
word game. All I had to do was get to
level one hundred. So I played a little bit every day.
I played before bed, i'd play a little bit after
I woke up, and I made it. I made it
to level ninety nine. I then got to level one hundred.
(23:31):
Now you have to get past level one hundred. I
played this game for months. I watched every effing ad everything,
So I finally got there. I met the finish line.
I've run the New York Marathon. I've gone twenty six
point one miles. I got to go one more point
of a mile and I'm there. And I saw that
glorious level one hundred thing flashing, and I started playing.
And then I didn't win. So then I played again.
(23:53):
I didn't win, and I kept playing, and I kept playing,
and I kept playing. I never won. I never won.
I kept seeing it. I never won. It turned out
that I was the Mark Danny. I was the stool pigeon.
I was the sucker. It was a total scam that
I fell for. I was the rube, and I learned
(24:13):
my lesson. I do play solitaire. I've played against some
of the people that listen to this podcast. A lot
of you guys have quit playing Solitaire because I kicked
your ass. That's fine, but they don't. They just put
pop up ads on there and I don't who cares.
I just put my phone down when the ad comes up,
and then I picked the game back up. But we've
seen this movie before. I mentioned Larry David. You remember
Larry David, Shack, Tom Brady. I think Steph Curry was
(24:34):
involved in that. The celebrity Mount Rushmore of bad crypto endorsements.
Remember that, Yeah, FTX and they said it was the future,
and it turned out the future was bankruptcy. That that
was the future. But at least FTX they gave us
that great Larry David ad remember when he was questioning everything,
(24:55):
every invention in history and I already used the line,
but he said, I don't think so. And it was
like supposed to be ironic. It ended up being accurate,
not ironic. What was iron It was accurate and so
here comes stephen A shuffling digital cards promoting a game
that may may have been stacked against everybody from the start.
(25:17):
And it's the same story, new packaging, and you mix
celebrity technology and then people that are looking for the
quick fix, and it's like, there you go. And I
picked those footballs out at that point, you know, to me,
they're perfect, exactly, they're very perfect. So, because I know
I sound like a dinosaur here, Danny, I apologize, But
(25:38):
you listen these kids on their phones, Danny, I just
I look around and I see the stuff that we've
seen here. And the thing about it, too, is there
really are no watchdogs, like the people that are supposed
to keep track of the stuff. I guess the FTC
they're not going to keep up with ten thousand new
apps a month. And the app store is the homeland
(26:02):
of the wild wild West, and there are no sheriffs.
They laid off the sheriffs and all that stuff. So
if the same company promised you a skill based stock
market tomorrow, how about your half of America would download
it and they wouldn't read the fine print and all
that stuff and so, and they'll likely shut this thing
down and then they'll move on to some other hustle
(26:23):
and all that. So, hey, Steve and A got a check.
He triggered me, and you know he'll likely say, well, listen,
I need the money. They are I didn't read the
fine print whatever. But when the game's rigged and the
players are bots, Okay, when the game's rigged the players
at bots and all, it's not business. It's like a
(26:44):
con dressed up with celebrity cologne and all that. So
somewhere in the digital casino there the dealer just smiles, Hey,
would you like a new deck? Would you like a
new deck? Of of course, so there you go, Solitaire,
knock yourself out on that. All right, on that note, Danny,
we will put the baby to bed for this Saturday.
We will have the mail Bag on Sunday, actual questions
(27:08):
by actual listeners. We want to send a question in
for a future edition of the mail Bag, send it
care of Real fifth Hour at gmail dot com. That's
Real fifth Hour at gmail dot com, and we may
use it on a future episode. I also want to
thank all the people that sign up when I give
out the email, Danny. Many people think it's fun to
(27:28):
put my email in accounts where I get a lot
of spam email for all kinds of products that you
can imagine the things that I get. I really do
appreciate that that you love the podcast so much that
you share my email address with people that just bomb me,
carpet bomb me with spam email. It does mean a lot, Danny.
I might sound like I'm being sarcastic, but seriously, I
(27:50):
do appreciate the fact that I get so much email
that I have to sort through to find the people
that actually ask questions. You know what I'm saying. All Right,
have a great rest of your Saturday. We will yap
with you tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (28:03):
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Hour with Ben Maller starts right now.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
In the air everywhere. The Fifth Hour with Me, Ben
Maller and Danny g Radio a happy college football kind
of a Saturday. Is the weather getting nasty, which means
we should get some bad weather football today on this
eighth day of November. Back at it. No World Series
to recap. We don't have to do too much sporty stuff, Danny.
(00:49):
Now that the World Series is over, we don't have
to sit here and wait for a game to end
and then sleep and then go into the studio and
I we don't have to worry about any of that stuff.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
I know, but I kind of liked how those shows
were just because our Dodgers won the Doyers. Yeah, anything
like weird without baseball.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Yeah, I'm not into the NBA. I tried to watch
some games this week. It's just it's tough. I actually
got hornswoggled by ESPN because I was watching the Nicks
Timberwolves game. I had it on and it was the
first half, and I was like, okay. So I looked
at the time. It was like the second quarter. It
was about five minutes ago, and I Doris Burke is
(01:28):
on there. She's an instant mute button. When I hear Doris,
I hit mute, right. I can't.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
She's almost as bad as watching Clippers games right now?
Speaker 1 (01:36):
All right, how about the Raiders pal anyway, So I
hit the mute button right. I'm like, okay, I don't
want to hear her, and so I'll turn it on
at halftime. So I see the first half coming to
an end, and then I hit the mute button so
that the audio comes back up, and no Charles Barkley,
no Kenny Smith, no Ernie Jonson. I guess the first
(01:58):
week they worked, they had to take some time off,
or maybe they're on for two weeks and they were
not there. Some other you know, typical hack ESPN people
were there and I saw immediately turned it off. I said,
I'm not watching this crap once and I saw Kendrick Perkins.
I'm like, Okay, I'm good, I'm out, I'm done, to
see you later, Bye bye and all that. Anyway, Yeah,
so I did get fooled by I just assumed that
(02:21):
they're on ESPN now, Barkley and Kenny Smith, so when
there's an ESPN game, they'll be on a halftime No. No,
what a sweetheart deal those guys got, right. I imagine
that they get paid all that money. They don't have
to deal with the ESPN bull crap, and they I
guess they don't have to work that much. It's good
living the high life, right there.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
Man.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Anyway, on this podcast, we have the Twilight Zone on
the Pitch, Burrito Mania and the Solitaire Shuffle, so we'll
work our way through all this stuff and it's kind
of hang out here and get ready to watch some
college football, which is great. I love watching college football
because I don't have to worry about doing monologues.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
Or things like that.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
It's just just my day. Saturday is my day. And so,
as we know, the world a rather wacky place, and
a lot of stuff in life. You can plan for
a lot of stuff you can't plan for things you
cannot predict. And one thing I've noticed, especially since I
started doing the podcast, is I open my eyes more
to the world when I'm out and about. I don't
go out much anyway, but when I'm wandering around doing stuff,
(03:24):
I'm always like, all right, let's see what I can.
You know what's going on.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
This is because your wife made you take notes, yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
For the podcast, of course, So you know, some days
I'll you know, I'll see somebody with a flat tire.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
I did.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
I told the story yesterday. I was driving home and
the fourth Street bridge was on fire underneath it in
LA and that was quite the quite detail. But earlier
this week I got one of those small moments, Danny,
where it just happens occasionally in life and whatnot. So
I was looking. I was not looking for this, but
I was not. I was just I was going about
(03:56):
my business, performing the most mundane of tasks, my duty
at a local voting station. It was election day, which
is like the worst election. There was one thing on
my ballot in California. One thing. One thing on the ballot,
which is like, why drag everyone into vote if there's
one thing on the ballot? But whatever, So I went
(04:16):
to cast my ballot. And of course the big thing
about voting, Danny is the sticker. See, that's that's the
big Now I am an absentee voter. But what I
like to do is I like to drop the ballot off.
I like to drop the bat off. It makes me
feel like I wait till election day. It makes me
feel like I've accomplished something. On election day, I don't
bother sending it in. But so this time I didn't,
(04:38):
you know, I got my stick or whatever, I go
to drop the thing off. And when I went to
park just off on the on there was a big field.
There was a building we could vote, and then behind
it was a park in the vast park lands of
the north Woods. And something caught my eye off in
the distance. There was there was a bit of movement,
there was some rhythm, so I knew it was. It
(04:59):
was on the the field, the big fielding a football field.
And what I kept walking out towards these guys and
there was a group of young men, all of them
wearing the same uniform, and they were darting up and
down the pitch with with the with the football at
(05:19):
their feet. Danny, all right, and so not the kind
we like, not the not the the duke, the NFL football,
the round kind, the soccer, the full on MESSI and
all that stuff.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
Were they all dressed alike?
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Well? They were? And so then I looked over to
the parking lot and I saw a lineup of six
vehicles that all had the same same logo. And it
turned out that I had stumbled into a new episode
of the Twilight Zone. They were all Amazon trucks. You
got a picture this, Danny. Half a dozen Amazon delivery drivers,
(05:54):
their vans parked, all lined up in a row in
the parking lot near the park hazard lights blinking. It's
perfectly synced. And the drive you know, those blue Amazon,
the road Warriors, the Amazon. They're all out on the grass,
laughing and shouting and sprinting and running around and having
a great time.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
Right, So this is why my vitamins were delayed by
a day.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Exactly, That's what I was thinking.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
These were the men and women.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
It was all men. There were a couple of women.
They sat in the truck. I guess they didn't want
to play soccer, but they were. You know, these are
the people that spent all day hurling boxes of dog
food and phone charging cables and crap like that and
all the other stuff that we get on Amazon. And
I was thinking, like somebody trying to find their package.
And here I am. I was the only one watching
(06:42):
them play soccer. I was an audience of one. And
I gotta tell you it was it was pretty It
was pretty cool, Daddy. I was like, these guys are
loving life. And they were there I didn't say the
whole time. They were there well over at least an hour.
And I don't think your breaks are that long on Amazon,
I don't know. And these guys were really into it.
You know, there's nothing quite like a good pickup game.
(07:03):
I'm not a soccer guy, but I used to play
pick up football basketball back in the day. The midfield
maestros out there and these guys, I'm telling you, Dany,
they thought they were they were auditioning for the cover
of FIFA twenty five or twenty six or whatever. They
really into it, right, they were really into it. And uh,
the imaginary defenders he had the goaltender. You know, it
(07:24):
might as well have been these guys were playing for
Manchester City or Real Madrid or something like that. You know,
I think those are the only two soccer teams I
could name, but it was it was pretty cool. And
so again I did laugh, though, Danny, because I thought
there's somebody like you or my wife refreshing the Amazon app,
and I like, the truck seems to be stopped, stopped
(07:45):
at the park. I don't understand why. Part it makes
no sense. And then then they can well, the package
is delayed, the package is out for delivery is delayed.
So now, Danny, next time, if I if I were
something on Amazon, I usually don't want much. My wife does.
But if we don't get something right away, I'm just
gonna go down the park and say, what do you got?
You got my package?
Speaker 3 (08:03):
If you are a regular on Amazon, you know the pattern.
Sometimes it'll say expected delivery tomorrow between noon and two pm,
and you're like, yeah, cool, And then you get to
that point and it doesn't show up, and then it
moves and it says new expected arrival time four to
seven pm, and it'll keep moving. They just keep kicking
(08:26):
the ball down the road. Now I know they're literally
kicking the ball.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
Oh no, no, no, it was It was crazy, man.
I didn't really mind, you know whatever, these guys, you
know They probably make crap money and they work their
ass off and all this stuff, but these boxes will
eventually get get delivered. The packages will find their way,
and I just thought it was great. These guys are.
You know, they probably spend all day driving in traffic
delivering packages, and here's this one moment. You know, these
(08:51):
guys just having a great And I love the fact
that they didn't take off their uniforms. You'd think they
might want to take off their Amazon shirts and just
wear their T shirts underneath, but no, these the Amazon
all Stars of the north Woods. I don't know who
these guys are. I'll probably never see them again. I
don't know. Maybe they'll hear this somehow I salute them.
They'll probably never never hear about this. But I sat
there and I was like, wow, this is cool. Man.
(09:11):
These guys love soccer. I'm not a soccer guy, and
these guys are out there. Think about the coordination involved
in that. Because these guys are they deliver they working
at Amazon. They're not even though they're coworkers, Danny, They're
not like side by side, you know what I mean.
They're not driving by themselves. They're not with other people.
So they had to coordinate and plan. Hey, let's meet
(09:34):
at three o'clock at the north Woods Park.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
Yeah, we'll do some Amazon. Yeah, if my packages are late,
your packages are gonna be late.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
There you go, There you go exactly. Hey, they if
we all do it, Amazon can't get upset. Right. If
everyone slows down, then we're good, good to go. So now,
one thing I did not see when I was watching
them go back and forth and play little soccer thing
the twilight zone of the pitch. I did not see
any burritos, Daddy, I did not. Although you can't really
(10:05):
go wrong with a burrito. You cannot go wrong with
a brito.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
What's better than a burrito? A free burrito?
Speaker 2 (10:13):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (10:13):
Absolutely, it's freeze. Oh you're a lifetime radio guy. Free burrito?
Are you kidding? You'd run to the front of the line,
just like Iowa Sam, who's alumni from your overnight show?
Who you know? Chipotle is a popular spot to go,
although their prices are a little outrageous right now for
what they serve.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
Yeah, is it cheaper on the app? I haven't been
to the Crazy Chickens, you know.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
I don't know because I don't go to Chipotle very often.
But there was this story circulating this last Wednesday saying,
hey tomorrow, don't miss it. In the greater Los Angeles
area Thursday from four to eight pm, it's buy one,
get one free burrito or burrito bowl if you are
(10:59):
wearing anything Dodgers. Okay, So Dodger fans started passing this around, like, hey,
make sure to go to Chipotle on Thursday to get
your buy one, get one free. At the network, everybody
was rocking extra Dodger gear that day, not surprisingly because
(11:20):
as I say, and as you probably know by listening
to the Fifth Hour radio, people love free food. So
Sam the editors had on some Dodger blue and they
were all set and ready to go get there buy one,
get one free. I told my wife, I said, hey,
when I get home, you know, i'll watch CoA. You
go get a burrito bowl or vice versa. So I
(11:42):
get home and he's kind of set in with her.
They're in the living room, and I told her it's
all right, I'll go run down there and get two
burrito bowls. I'm not gonna say that I don't see
lots of Dodger fans in my neighborhood, because I do.
I mean My next door neighbor is a big fan.
There's even some car flats in our building. I see
car flags on the freeway on my way into work.
(12:04):
Obviously work with Dodger fans, but maybe this is a
product of the World Series and back to back championships.
There was I'm not kidding you, there was a line
wrapped around this damn building. There's a Panda Express next
door to my Chipotle. Poor Panda. Yeah, they were blocking
the entrance and exit to Panda Express. This line literally
(12:28):
went into the parking lot. There had to have been
fifty people in this line, all wearing Dodger gear. Wow.
I looked at the line.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
Is take it for it?
Speaker 3 (12:40):
Yeah? No, I you know, and now Iowa. Sam tells
me that the one in Sherman Oaks or Van Eyes,
maybe fifteen minutes away from our studios. He only waited
a half hour. Jay Stu reported in at his local
Chipotle after his show Doug Gottlieb. He went. He said
it took him forty minutes at his Chipotle. This had
(13:01):
to be a good hour, right, I mean, there's no
way you've been in line at Chipotle before. There's no
way they could take fifty people and get you out
of there, even in an hour. That was a huge
I haven't seen a line that long since I was
at Disneyland.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
Yeah, that's crazy. I would not I love free stuff,
but your time is valuable. Do you really want to
spend your man? That's a long time to stay online.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
The best part of the line, it was good. It
was great people watching. Even though I decided not to
stay in the line, I looked at I looked at
other people in the line. It was all ages, all nationalities.
It was a great mix of Dodger fans and maybe
some people that were just taking advantage of the special
and didn't even give a shit about baseball. There. Have
(13:48):
you ever been to a mall or a store and
there is like a group of special needs kids with
a couple of instructors with them. It's almost like they're
on a field trip.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
Mama, wake up. Yeah, yeah, I've seen that, sure.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
Yeah at the Burbank mall. I used to see this
in the food court and the kids.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
To go out and get out there. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
They wo took him to the food court and let
them run like crazy in circles the food court. Well,
there was a group they looked like they were on
a little mini field trip and half the kids had
blue clothes on, not all the clothes said Dodgers. And
I thought to myself, well, this would be interesting because
when those special needs kids get up to the line,
(14:30):
is the uh you know eighteen year old work in
the counter there at Chipotle gonna make a fuss about
there not being any Dodger logo?
Speaker 1 (14:39):
Yeah, yeah, you can't well with that, You can't, right.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
No, you'd get suit especially in California. But how viral
that would go. So they didn't serve the ball to the.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
Kid because you didn't have the Dodger logo, you know.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
I was like, wait a minute, no, you know, yeah,
you're right. Free food is great. Besides getting a kick
out of that line and people watching, I did a
U turn and I left and we wound up getting
some l Poyo Loco drive through for dinner.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
Okay, yeah, no, I would. I would not wait in line.
When I was younger, I would I stayed. I waited
in line. I've talked about this. When I was a kid,
there was a Howard Stern book signing and I camped
out all night to get his autograph, and then everyone
was just smoking weed all night and they didn't care
it over there. But I now, would I camp out
all night for someone to hang out. You know, he's
get an autographed no way, not even free food. But
(15:30):
you know there's somebody, Danny, some opportunistic person in the
Greater LA area that started out when that promotion began
on that Thursday and hit ten fifteen restaurants to get
all the different food they could possibly get, and it's
all in a freezer somewhere and they're gonna be eating
like kings.
Speaker 3 (15:51):
This is like when the Chick fil A finally opened
up in Burbank, California, and I was living there at
the time, and I told you remember there were people
with pop up tents who spent the night there in
the parking lot.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
Yeah, no, I I There was a point when Raising Canes.
I talked about this two years ago on the podcast,
when Raising Canes came to LA. I had found Raising
Canes in Vegas and it was It's the only place
I'd ever seen it. It's from Louisiana. It's a chicken
fingerplace Raising Canes, so I'd never never been there before
I went to Vegas and then I kept going on
(16:24):
their website. When did they come in to La the
LA area. So I remember they had their first location
and they announced the date it was going to open.
So I was like, Okay, maybe i'll maybe I'll just
go down there and i'll camp you know, camp out
and get some free I figured they'd give like a
free thing or something if you're first in line, and uh.
And so I did contemplate it, and the night before
(16:47):
the opening, I was like, let me drive down there,
see what's going on. I drove down there and there
was already a line of people and I said, screw that.
I'm not I'm not sitting there with those people. It
was like it was like it wasn't even that late
at night, Danny, and there were already people lined up
online waiting for the morning after to get whatever free
stuff they're going to get from the restaurant. But any
(17:09):
other Dodger promotions we needed to know about, I guess
probably not. The World Series ended last weekend. Usually these
guys all go away and all that stuff, and.
Speaker 3 (17:16):
I think this is when everyone turns the page and
everyone I'm talking to businesses who are trying to take
advantage of their local baseball team Excelling Costsco. I went
there I think it was Wednesday night, to grab some
eggs and a few things, and they had a table
of Dodger championship shirts. Oh my god, it was torn through.
(17:37):
It was madness there. There was just a few shirts,
all crumbled up in balls, all the same size, extra large,
and the material of these shirts were junk for eighteen
dollars and ninety nine cents hard pass.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
So I have not seen the championship shirts. Do they
say back to back on them?
Speaker 3 (17:55):
Or is it just no? They're pretty big, Yeah, they're
pretty generic because these shirts at Costco are not made
by a reputable brand.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
So I know pat Riley owns the trademark for three pete.
Does somebody own the trademark.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
For back to back?
Speaker 1 (18:11):
Is that why they don't? I've not seen. I've been
out about this week and I've not seen anyone has
a shirt that says back to back champs.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
Or that's good bar trivia. I don't know. We're gonna
have to look that up.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
We'll do a search. We'll do a search. People trademark everything,
so I'm sure somebody, if you're allowed to trademark it,
I'm sure somebody trademarked that somewhere along the way. On
that note, as we try to go do the deep
dive the solitaire shuffle, Danny, it's time for these solitaire shuffles.
So I've played these games. I'm sure we all at
(18:48):
at some point have played these games. And years ago
I started. It was really mostly during the pandemic. I
blame the pandemic. But you play those win money while
you play games on your phone. You know, they pop
up and you're sitting online like you're at Costco or something.
You're waiting to return the toaster oven that you bought
that you don't need, and the ad pops up and
(19:08):
it says, hey, real freak win real money, real cash.
And if you play a few rounds of some you know,
word puzzle or solitaire, whatever, you think, Okay, it's harmless.
It takes a few minutes a day. And then at
some point, when you play these games where you win
real money while you play, you realize that you have
(19:29):
watched the same exact ad for some off brand TMU
thing thirty seven times. You're now stuck in some kind
of digital guantanamo Bay. And I bring this up because
I saw a story this week that several of you
idiots sent me involving stephen A Smith, and it triggered
(19:51):
my memory of my experience. Now Steve and A are
former Morning guy who is now apparently the face of
a Solitaire app, the World's Solitaire Championship. If you please
saw that, you want to moment to process that. So
this is all because steven A was so bored watching
the Thunder and the Pacers in the NBA Finals that
(20:13):
he was playing on his phone while the game was
going on. Somebody recorded it and it became a viral thing.
And so of course the World Solitaire Championship, not the
Super Bowl, not the not a charity bowling event. Solitaire,
which I believe danny as an introvert, is a game
design for people like me, introverted people who don't want
(20:35):
to talk to anyone. And yet this week the story
came out stephen A had signed on as the official
ambassador for the company behind it, the same company that
now is being sued sued for allegedly rigging the Solitaire game,
claiming it's a game of skill, when really, when you
(20:55):
get to a higher level, you're going against unbeatable bots,
unheatable box, and it reminded me of the famous Larry
David commercial. I don't think so, I don't think so.
So the lawsuit I started diving into this, Danny, because
I was like, oh, this is interesting. Here, this is crazy.
So the lawsuit accuses the company behind the game, the
(21:19):
folks behind the app, of creating unwinnable situations while advertising
cash prizes. So think about that for a second. We've
evolved from casino slot machines to slot machines in your pocket,
wrapped in skill competition. And here we are. It's late
twenty twenty five, and this is the new three card MONTI.
(21:43):
This is the new shell game on the corner, except
this time the con man is the algorithm. And yet
again it's the celebrity pitchman yelling about how you listen.
I mean, I've I'm a stay at home mom with
four kids, but I play Solitaire and I'm like five
hundred dollars a week, you know? Is that kind of crap?
And so I totally get why Steve Any would do it.
(22:04):
He loves the bag, you know, He'll we'll all hore
ourselves out. Steven a one of the great wars and
media advertising of all time. He's got dozens of side hustles,
so he's all about it. Get that money while you can.
At some point people are gonna hate steven A. Smith,
so you might as well make the money. But here's
the thing. To me, it's not even about steven A
or the company. It's the it's a whole, this digital
(22:25):
underworld that we're living in. I guess I'm the old
guy crying and screaming at the crowds, clouds because it's
it's the lawlessness of it. The frontier with push notifications,
a world it's like the wild Wild Western. We've seen it.
Play for cash, win fifty dollars right now, no risk,
you know, compete with real players and all this stuff.
(22:46):
And then of course you're not competing with real people.
You're competing with bots who never blink, Danny. They never
go to the they never go to the bathroom, they
don't take a lunch break. That the house isn't in
Vegas anymore. It's inside your phone while well, you know,
you're sitting there. It's got a smiling avatar and it's
you know, some its claims to be some woman from Michigan,
and you know it I again I got hooked on
(23:10):
one of these things years ago. I've talked about it
long ago. I'm sure Lucky Tony's heard the podcast. It
was many years ago and during the pandemic, and it
promised me one hundred dollars. All I had was a
word game. All I had to do was get to
level one hundred. So I played a little bit every day.
I played before bed, i'd play a little bit after
I woke up, and I made it. I made it
to level ninety nine. I then got to level one hundred.
(23:31):
Now you have to get past level one hundred. I
played this game for months. I watched every effing ad everything,
So I finally got there. I met the finish line.
I've run the New York Marathon. I've gone twenty six
point one miles. I got to go one more point
of a mile and I'm there. And I saw that
glorious level one hundred thing flashing, and I started playing.
And then I didn't win. So then I played again.
(23:53):
I didn't win, and I kept playing, and I kept playing,
and I kept playing. I never won. I never won.
I kept seeing it. I never won. It turned out
that I was the Mark Danny. I was the stool pigeon.
I was the sucker. It was a total scam that
I fell for. I was the rube, and I learned
(24:13):
my lesson. I do play solitaire. I've played against some
of the people that listen to this podcast. A lot
of you guys have quit playing Solitaire because I kicked
your ass. That's fine, but they don't. They just put
pop up ads on there and I don't who cares.
I just put my phone down when the ad comes up,
and then I picked the game back up. But we've
seen this movie before. I mentioned Larry David. You remember
Larry David, Shack, Tom Brady. I think Steph Curry was
(24:34):
involved in that. The celebrity Mount Rushmore of bad crypto endorsements.
Remember that, Yeah, FTX and they said it was the future,
and it turned out the future was bankruptcy. That that
was the future. But at least FTX they gave us
that great Larry David ad remember when he was questioning everything,
(24:55):
every invention in history and I already used the line,
but he said, I don't think so. And it was
like supposed to be ironic. It ended up being accurate,
not ironic. What was iron It was accurate and so
here comes stephen A shuffling digital cards promoting a game
that may may have been stacked against everybody from the start.
(25:17):
And it's the same story, new packaging, and you mix
celebrity technology and then people that are looking for the
quick fix, and it's like, there you go. And I
picked those footballs out at that point, you know, to me,
they're perfect, exactly, they're very perfect. So, because I know
I sound like a dinosaur here, Danny, I apologize, But
(25:38):
you listen these kids on their phones, Danny, I just
I look around and I see the stuff that we've
seen here. And the thing about it, too, is there
really are no watchdogs, like the people that are supposed
to keep track of the stuff. I guess the FTC
they're not going to keep up with ten thousand new
apps a month. And the app store is the homeland
(26:02):
of the wild wild West, and there are no sheriffs.
They laid off the sheriffs and all that stuff. So
if the same company promised you a skill based stock
market tomorrow, how about your half of America would download
it and they wouldn't read the fine print and all
that stuff and so, and they'll likely shut this thing
down and then they'll move on to some other hustle
(26:23):
and all that. So, hey, Steve and A got a check.
He triggered me, and you know he'll likely say, well, listen,
I need the money. They are I didn't read the
fine print whatever. But when the game's rigged and the
players are bots, Okay, when the game's rigged the players
at bots and all, it's not business. It's like a
(26:44):
con dressed up with celebrity cologne and all that. So
somewhere in the digital casino there the dealer just smiles, Hey,
would you like a new deck? Would you like a
new deck? Of of course, so there you go, Solitaire,
knock yourself out on that. All right, on that note, Danny,
we will put the baby to bed for this Saturday.
We will have the mail Bag on Sunday, actual questions
(27:08):
by actual listeners. We want to send a question in
for a future edition of the mail Bag, send it
care of Real fifth Hour at gmail dot com. That's
Real fifth Hour at gmail dot com, and we may
use it on a future episode. I also want to
thank all the people that sign up when I give
out the email, Danny. Many people think it's fun to
(27:28):
put my email in accounts where I get a lot
of spam email for all kinds of products that you
can imagine the things that I get. I really do
appreciate that that you love the podcast so much that
you share my email address with people that just bomb me,
carpet bomb me with spam email. It does mean a lot, Danny.
I might sound like I'm being sarcastic, but seriously, I
(27:50):
do appreciate the fact that I get so much email
that I have to sort through to find the people
that actually ask questions. You know what I'm saying. All Right,
have a great rest of your Saturday. We will yap
with you tomorrow.
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