July 29, 2023 • 32 mins
Ben Maller & his 5th Hour home-skillet Danny G. have Saturday fun for you! They're talking: Irving Berlin, Bags of Ice, There She Blows, Back Scratcher, & more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Kubbooms.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes
a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants
of the old Republic, a soul fashion of fairness. He
treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the
rich pill poppers in the penthouse.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
The Clearinghouse of Hot takes break free for something special.
The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
In the air everywhere you have stumbled on. Well that's
not true. Nobody stumbles onto a podcast. You have discovered
and downloaded and are now listening to The Fifth Hour
with Ben Mahler and Danny G. Available wherever you get
your podcast. The Great Danny G Radio hanging out with
me all weekend long and you as we schmooze around here,
(00:52):
and we thank you for subscribing and listening. I understand
the Omar Viscull interview from last week did pretty well.
People seem to enjoy hearing from the old Cleveland Indian
short stuff from back in the day. As we continue
our mission to get as a big and eclectic group
of random baseball players, we've had as I mentioned, I
(01:13):
think it was last Saturday we had Tommy John, not
the Operation, the human being, Lenny Dykstra. We've now had
Omarvis Scale, just different generations of I think we've covered this.
Tommy John played in the sixties and the seventies, and
then Lenny Dykstra into the eighties and the nineties, and
(01:35):
then Omarvis scale from the nineties through the first decade
of the two thousands. The oats.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (01:43):
You know what I loved about hearing him too, was
he on a like a headset microphone booming through the.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Speakers, loud and proud.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Yeah, he's great.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
And you always worry about that, right because you're like, oh, man,
the only thing we have is audio. We don't have
picktures here. We got to get good audio right as
you don't know. And we've had people on that you've
had to crank up and edit and their voice up
so you can actually hear them.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
Nice job, omar Man made my post production job a
little easier.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Yeah, So I hope believe we'll have some other random
baseball players on down the line. But on this podcast,
we've got Irving Berlin. Bags of ice. There she blows
backscratcher and if we have time, we'll do pop gos
to the culture. If not, that will be bumped till tomorrow.
(02:36):
It's a lot of content, all right. So this being Saturday,
The Life of Malor and Danny g and I am
still in the injury tent. Danny, I have an update.
I talked about this on the podcast recently that I
stabbed myself with a katana, which is a Samurai sword,
(02:57):
and I am still covering from said stab wound. And
so I had a mellow weekend. The highlight I got
to the beach and all that, but I couldn't do anything.
I could go in the water, I could up my
feet in the water because I can't get sand on
the thing. So it was pin of the ass. But
I did have a power lunch. Now, I don't do
(03:18):
power lunches, Danny. I do it late night shows, you know,
and when you do the overnight show, you don't normally
get up early to go even lunch is like yeah,
and I don't eat that much and it's a big thing.
So but I did a power lunch. A friend of mine,
I've talked about him in the past on the show,
that he works for the Pittsburgh Pirates and the Pirates
who just played the Dodgers not that long ago, a
(03:41):
couple of weeks ago. They were right back in the
LA area playing the Angels, and so my friend Robbie
was in town. Robbie in Spokowski is his name. He
is the Yinsers in game reporter. So we watch a
Pirates game you live in Pittsburgh or get access to
Pirates baseball. He's the guy that does the pregame interview,
(04:03):
the in game you know, goofy stuff with fans, that
kind of.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
Stuff, and their version of David Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
Kind of well you know Tvassa does that on TV too,
So yeah, So the Pirates were in town playing the Angels,
and I had an Irving Berlin special because the legendary
musician before my time, Irving Berlin, by the way, putting
on the rits. So I went out to lunch. Pirates
had an off day. They flew in after a day game.
I think they were playing Cleveland and they flew in.
(04:31):
They had a day off in so cal So Robbie's like,
why why don't you know go out to lunch And
I was like, yeah, I shure, no problem, I'll pick
you up from the hotel. He said, sure, that'd be great.
And the Pirates, I can't say it. They're not there anymore.
They went back to Pittsburgh or whatever. So and they
asked you what the San Diego after they were in Anaheim,
but they stayed at the Ritz Carlton, that Riz Carlton
(04:53):
in Dana Point, Yeah, which is halfway to San Diego
from La Dana Point. And they were doing their thing
and all that, And so I went to pick up
Robbie at the Rich Carlton. I had actually been there
one other time, Danny, I snuck into the NFL Owners
meetings and that was that was the famous story years ago,
(05:15):
and so not great security at the NFL Owners meetings
about I don't remember year that was. It was probably
about fifteen years ago. I saw back there at just stunning.
And I can confirm Danny that the Pittsburgh Pirates traveling
party is living their best life. And Robbie told me
they don't normally stay at that hotel, but it was
(05:37):
a family trip, so they brought the wives, the girlfriends,
the kids were able to travel, some of them with
the team. And so this hotel is beautifulhich is right
on the Pacific, the Mighty Pacific, right behind hotel golf
courses down there. It's just amazing, and I picked Robby up.
(05:57):
We had a power lunch at a very expensive Mexican
restaurant with a bunch of people that looked famous, but
I don't know who famous people are, Danny. So there
was this one guy in particular who was a little
older than us, but he was covered in he had
like an arm tattoos. He looked like a rock and
roll guy. And even Robbie's like, I think that guy's
(06:17):
are I think I recognize him, but I'm not sure
who he is either, So we're not sure who it is,
but we and this guy, he just kind of oozed
that arrogant, confident music success.
Speaker 4 (06:29):
Probably like a famous guitarist from an eighties rock band.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
Yeah, Like he had his kids there and they were
hanging out and his trophy girlfriend was with him doing
their thing and all that. But it was it was
great to see Robbie. It was very nice. I'm glad
he reached out to me. He's a fan of the show.
I actually met Robbie through this show and we were
trading war stories, which you know, I love that day.
(06:54):
I can't get enough of that. Every once in a while,
I get one of these things, and I love hearing
the stories and I like to share some of the
stories I've had in my career in the business. And
Robbie has worked all over the place. He worked for
the Phoenix Coyotes there were then I think the Arizona
Coyotes back in the day. And he also has done
stuff in Minnesota with the Twins and the Timberwolves, and
(07:19):
now for many years he's been with the Pittsburgh Pirates
and so life in that television world. And he also
is interested in getting a radio He's actually done some stuff.
I talked about this as well. But Robbie we talked
about the radio business and he wants to do a
talk radio show and he likes the way that I
do the show. So we were talking about that and
different different techniques that we do a lot of it's preparing.
(07:42):
That's mostly what it is. Preparation is the key. So
that was my power lunch, which was kind of cool.
It was kind of cool and it was fun, and
so it's it's.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
How much where you're inas.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
Yeah, they were pressing. I just got the takeos because
I'm a child, So I ordered the taketos off the
appetizer menu. But yeah, the actual real meals at this
Mexican restaurant, which was literally on the Pacific Ocean. Like
you look out you see the waves of the ocean.
Insanely expensive and I just drank water, so I did
(08:22):
not have any.
Speaker 4 (08:23):
You know, I've been to that spot a couple of times,
right there in Dana Point. It's always for a major
event like my girl's birthday, obviously, because the night there
at the Ritz as expensive as you can imagine. Last
year for her birthday, I saved up a little bit
of money, booked a night there. I lucked out big time.
(08:43):
So we're celebrating her birthday. We turn the lights out,
go to bed after some you know, Bible study, Dan,
we get woken up. The people in the room next
to us are having a full on karaoke party.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
I thought you were gonna say something else. I thought orgy,
but I did not have karaoke on my Bingo card
for that.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
But okay, oh man, Ben.
Speaker 4 (09:11):
They were singing like I heard a dire straight song
money for Nothing in your Chicks for Free, And this
guy was screaming the song at the top of his lungs,
So my girl calls the front desk. They're not used
to things like this at the RITZ, so they are
falling all over themselves apologizing. They're like, we'll take care
(09:33):
of it. We'll take care of it. This party went
on for a good hour. Okay, it sounded like a
great party too. We kind of wished we were there.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
A bunch of hookers and cocaine.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
But by the time it was all said and done,
they wound up apologizing by putting a whole bunch of
points onto our card. Oh nice enough to wear. We
use those points for our honeymoon when we got marri.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
Oh that's sweet.
Speaker 4 (10:02):
So yeah, well that exact daing a point hotel you're
talking about is the reason I'm married right now.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
Screw them.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Yeah, that's nice, outstanding.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
Yeah, I mean I love them.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
You you actually triggered a thought in my head here
from hotel experiences and and then combining with the rock
and roll guy. I remember the video I think we
talked about on the show of it was a very
famous musician. I don't know if it was Eddie Van
Halen or David Lee Roth, one of those type of
guys that was walking in a in a hotel and
(10:42):
it was in I think it was in Vegas and
they heard it was they were filming a reality show.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
Oh Lee Roth, David Lee Roth.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
Okay, so you know what, I do you remember that
or they they were they were playing the one of
his songs and some I thought it would kind of
cool to knock on the door and the person as
there had no fucking idea who he was. You know.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
It was just an embarrassing, awkward moment.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
But wonderful at the same time. Yeh, but but wonderful
at the same time, just so good. And I don't
know how long ago that was, but I just google it.
Just David, I.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
Had no good memory by you. That was David Lee Roth,
the original lead singer to Van Halen.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
There you go, and he probably needed bags of ice
when he got done, right. He just needed the bags
of ice.
Speaker 4 (11:27):
Right there for his knees, probably because the way he
used to bounce up and down all over the concert stage.
Famous for his showmanship. I have some dark circles around
my eyes. I normally wear sunglasses a lot because when
I take them off, I resemble a raccoon because of
(11:49):
my sleeping pattern or my lack of sleeping pattern. But
I'm gonna look extra horrible on this Saturday because last night,
thousands of people in my neighborhood lost their power. At
twelve thirty pm. We woke up because the AC shut off,
(12:11):
All the powers shut off, and it's that feeling of
is this just our place?
Speaker 3 (12:17):
So what do you do? You have to walk outside? Right?
Speaker 1 (12:19):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (12:20):
Yeah, first move.
Speaker 4 (12:22):
So I walk out and I see my neighbors all
doing the same thing too, doing that neighborhood check, like,
oh shit, is this our power?
Speaker 3 (12:30):
Yeah? Everybody.
Speaker 4 (12:32):
So I'm out there, I see everybody walking around in
their pj's. It's the whole neighborhood. Everybody's dark. And it
was still ninety two degrees outside. We've had a heat
wave here in southern California. And when it's ninety two
and your AC cuts off, your place turns into it
What were those little ovens when we were kids.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
Yeah, I know what you're talking about. I don't remember
the name of them, but yeah, a little small Yeah,
it turns.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
Into one of those easy bit easy bake ovens.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
Bake there you go.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (13:04):
So told my wife, I'm like, well, I'm gonna have
to open the slider here because even though it's hot outside,
we need some sort of air circulating.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
And where do you stand on this?
Speaker 4 (13:14):
She told me that I was letting all the cool
air escape.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
Well, had it already gotten hot or was it still
kind of cool? If it was still kind of cool,
I got a side with the was was your bride there? Was?
She also like, was she hot? Also? Because like like
women seem to not get as like I'm always warm too,
Like I always feel like it's too hot, But I
think women generally takes them a little while before they
(13:41):
get to that point.
Speaker 4 (13:43):
And normally with her, you are correct. But because she's
got a little oven baking of her.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
Own, Oh that's true.
Speaker 4 (13:49):
Yeah, yeah, she needs to have a fan on her
right now at all times. I was just trying to
think ahead. I'm like, well, let me at least get
a little bit of air circulating in here. But she disagreed,
to the point where she got up, grabbed her pillows,
and walked downstairs.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
Flats. Oh, she's so upset with you. She left.
Speaker 4 (14:11):
Oh boy, man, I'm like, I'm not going to be
able to sleep and wake up for the podcast. What
the hell am I gonna do? How am I going
to go back to sleep. I'm thinking, hopefully this is
just like a twenty minute thing. Thirty minutes, the power
will come back on in a half hour and AC
will pop back on. Nope, go to the freezer, grab
(14:33):
some zip block bags, and here's my move. I'm like, well,
let me throw an ice in three ziplock bags. And
then I wandered back upstairs and I strategically placed one
on the top of my head, one on my chest,
and then like one on my like towards my knees.
(14:54):
So let me see if I can fall asleep. Yeah,
it wound up working, not right away. I do fall asleep,
but then I woke up ben in a frozen state.
Because I wake up like an hour later and the
bag of ice, I guess you know, from the ice melting,
(15:17):
It slid down and I woke up with frozen balls.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
Oh no, icy nuts.
Speaker 4 (15:27):
Ice ice baby yeah yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
So oh boy.
Speaker 5 (15:32):
Now I'm like, what the man, I'm still but you
didn't You didn't wake up initially when that happened, right,
That didn't Wait, it had been there for a little
while before you realize the problem is that.
Speaker 3 (15:44):
Defrost a little bit tm. I oh boy, but it's
that situation where you have the next wet and I
don't know about you, but I can't sleep when you
get that. It's the worst feeling ever.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
Yeah, it's bad, and I deal with that. This time
of the year is the worst time to do the
overnight show because even when I have air conditioning, it's
so hot, it doesn't by middle of the day and
I normally sleep and I get up at like two o'clock,
so I'm sleeping from like the middle of the hot
it's really hot. It's not the hottest part of the day,
but it starts getting really toasty around noon, and then
(16:19):
it keeps getting hotter and hotter as the afternoon goes on.
And as you know from doing the overnight shift, and
even though I have blackout curtains and an air conditioner
and all that stuff, it's still once it gets to
a certain point of heat, I get up. I can't
stay in bed because I get too hot. I'm like,
I got to get out of here because of the sweat.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
And you said blackout.
Speaker 4 (16:39):
That's what it turned out to be, because the power
did not cut back on until three thirty am.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
Well, I dealt with a Wi Fi situation. In fact,
I had to go in an extra night to the
Mothership because I woke up to get ready for the show.
And I go on the internet and everyone that's what
we do. They live on the internet, going on there,
going through different websites, and the Wi Fi is down.
So I'm like, gosh, oh crap, you know, everything's tied
(17:08):
to the Wi Fi. That's a sobering thought that the
WiFi is not working. And so I go on this
app and they say, well, the WiFi is going to
be down for a few hours, but don't worry, it'll
be back. Estimated time of return of Wi Fi five o'clock.
So I'm like, you know what, I'll use my hotspot
on my phone. I'll be fine. I'll use that and
(17:31):
I use my brain. Okay, fine, So I've used the hotspot.
It works, Okay, it's not that bad.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
It's fine.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
And then at five o'clock I go to use the
Wi Fi, turn the Wi Fi on and nothing, you know,
not not working. So I'm like, oh man, So I
go back to the app. I go on the app.
The app's like, well nine o'clock, Well, nine o'clock's kind
of cutting clothes, right, because nine o'clock is a couple
(18:02):
hours before showtime, and Wi Fi is tied into the
broadcast equipment that I use to do the show, and
so if I don't have the Wi Fi, I can't
do the show from the home studio. So it's all
tied together. So I'm like, all right, but I'll wait.
I'll wait till nine o'clock. Maybe it'll be back. So
we get to nine o'clock, they send a message out
we are still efforting to try to get your service back.
(18:24):
Sometime overnight we'll get it back. And I'm like, oh boy,
so I took off. I skid that I ski That.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
Might as well have been titled screw you, Bill Miller.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
Yeah. Yeah, it's a total shit show, total total poop
fest there and so so dependent on this. Although there
are some guys I will not name the guilty, but
I have heard there are some some of the people
that work at our company. There are certain apps that
you can now get on your phone where you can
(18:56):
broadcast from your phone as a backup. I got to
at one of these, and I'm gonna talk I know
one of the people that has them, because Iowa Sam
told me about it, So I'm gonna I'm gonna try
to get one of these apps, Danny as a backup
just in case that happens again, because I'm very paranoid
that that's gonna happen, and so I want to make
(19:17):
sure I have that just in case. And it's not
that expensive.
Speaker 4 (19:20):
And certain forty nine ers fan in the Bay area
who has that?
Speaker 1 (19:24):
Is that right? Is that right? Interesting? Yeah? So I
want to get my hands hands on that. So well,
maybe you know what it is. I mean, you can
text it Iowa. Sam gave me the name. He said,
there's two different things. One of them kind of doesn't
sound that good, the other one does. So I want
the one that sounds better. That's what I Obviously, I
want the one that sounds better.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
Because it's all about it's not a bad backup plan.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
Yeah. Is it hard to set up?
Speaker 3 (19:50):
Though?
Speaker 1 (19:50):
Is it a pain to set up?
Speaker 3 (19:52):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (19:53):
I do know that a couple of the times he
used it, it didn't sound amazing. It passed, it was
just passable, but it didn't sound like it should. So
the high standards you have with your live radio show,
I don't know if it would cut it.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
Well.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
This is what's known as inside radio. Danny what we're
doing right now is inside radio.
Speaker 3 (20:19):
Oh but our listeners love when we pull the curtains back.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
Yeah, yeah, yeah. So there's an app you can get
on your phone which is used by broadcasters in television
and radio. It's a remote app and you can download that,
and then there's a way you can use I guess
you'd hook up a microphone to it. Is that right,
it's part of the deal. And then and how how
expensive is that?
Speaker 3 (20:43):
I don't know that. I don't know.
Speaker 4 (20:45):
Yeah, I mean, obviously it works off a bluetooth because
there's no way to plug anything into iPhones anymore these days.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
I know there's only that one that one connected.
Speaker 4 (20:54):
And then what happened when they remember when they first
took the headphone jack away from our iPhone? Were freaked out, like,
holy shit, what are we gonna do without the headphone jack?
Speaker 1 (21:05):
Yeah, it was not a pleasant situation. But it's been okay.
Everything's been fine. We've adapted to the alien technology.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
Non human biologics.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
Yes, exactly exactly, we have there, she blues. So we
have an update, Danny. This is a podcast exclusive. Nobody
else has this content, and here it is now. If
you've listened over the last couple of months. You know
that I've mentioned both on the regular overnight show which
is on all night long, and this podcast, which is
(21:36):
on all weekend long, that the obsession I have with
our overnight security officer. I've sent you the photos, some
of the photos.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
Danny, you've seen the photos. Well, yeah, the snorer.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
Yeah, so this guy has been song logs when I've
wandered through the courtyard at the iHeart Slash Premiere Networks
building in beautiful Sherman Oaks, California, just down the hill
from Bell There. So earlier this week I showed up
my regular time. I went to a Dodger Blue Jay
game and I showed up there afterwards. And my friend James,
(22:09):
who used to be the overnight security guard. I love James,
wonderful guy, would give you the shirt off his back,
like that kind of guy, and he works his ass off,
gets paid shit money, but has the greatest attitude.
Speaker 3 (22:24):
I love the guy.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
And so we've known each other for years because he's
been at the building for a long time and he
works at the earlier shift. He works the swing shift,
not the overnight shift. And this is the guy that
wrote children's books. He's like cartoon children's books. Roots writes
the doodles for children. But so I he saw me.
We caught up. We were catching up on things. He
(22:47):
told me that some very wealthy woman who does some
of the workout there's a gym at the building, and
he said he he met the woman and she they
started talking in I guess she lives up in the
hills there where all the rich people live. And one
thing led to another, and then she said she wanted
(23:09):
him to write a book for her daughter and some
of the family friends like cousins, family friends, they know that.
So he said, sure, no proplem. So he's telling me
the whole story. He's offered to write this children's book.
The rate was four hundred dollars for he figured in
his head ten pages, like a small little book. Ten pages, okay.
(23:31):
He then tells me that this woman kept calling him
and saying, well, I'd like a page for this person
and that person. He said, as of a couple of
days ago, he was at forty pages, which is a
lot of work for four hundred dollars if you're doodling cartoons.
And I said, well, why don't you just tell her
(23:52):
you need more money? He says. No. He said, I
gave her my word, and my word is my bond,
you know that whole app And I was like, well,
that's that's kind of cool, but I'd ask for more money.
She's obviously she's got the dough. But anyway, the conversation pivoted,
and it pivoted to there she blows. So is it
(24:14):
true that our favorite beached whale overnight security guard sawing
logs in the middle of the night has been given
the pink slip? Is it also true that I had
nothing to do with said security guard being excommunicated from
the overnight shift.
Speaker 3 (24:34):
No, that part can't be true.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
Well, I thought Danny that he was just on vacation
or had some time off. But according to the streets,
I did not, of course, hear this from James, because
James would never talk about company policy. But the streets
are talking and they claim that this cat was caught
multiple times shockingly snoozing on the job. And one of
(24:58):
my securities, one of my security friends there, a different person,
told me that there are hidden cameras all over the
building and they had videos of this guy sleeping for hours.
This guy was sleeping, so then they called him on it,
(25:20):
and then he tried to challenge the people above him
to like a fight. He got into a verbal altercation
which could have turned physical, and they said, well, we've
got all the evidence. We were paying you and you
were sleeping on the job. And then I heard from
somebody else that there are ways you can do it.
There's a certain area of the building, there are no cameras.
But this guy, I guess, was not sharp enough to
(25:41):
figure it out. So it only took six months, Danny
six months, and they finally figured out that this guy
was not the guy, so he was given the coal
miners holiday there.
Speaker 4 (25:53):
Do you have any good stories about radio jocks falling
asleep during the graveyard shift?
Speaker 1 (26:00):
You have had? I will of course protect the names
of the guilty, but we did famously have I was
doing the weekend overnight show and one of the update
guys that was only there on the weekends, who's gone
on and become a pretty successful blogger in that in
that domain. This guy fell asleep at the top of
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the hour news update and we played the music the board.
I played the music. He's supposed to start talking silence.
I happened to be standing in the room at the
old studio. I looked over and I don't think you
were the one day ianway, this is before you that time.
That was before your time. So I look over and
(26:43):
he's on the mic with his headphones on and the
mic is on and he's sleeping. So we we Then
I go in. I walked a short walk. I go
in there and I kind of like I hit the table.
He wakes up and immediately starts talking like he's on
the I realized what. I don't know what, he just
(27:06):
like snapped into it. It was it was crazy.
Speaker 3 (27:09):
Was it a train wreck?
Speaker 2 (27:10):
Like?
Speaker 4 (27:10):
Because how do you time that out when you don't
even know where you're at?
Speaker 3 (27:14):
In the update?
Speaker 1 (27:15):
It was not Marconi Award winning Uh, it would not
be something you'd put on on a sizzle reel. You
would not, you would not use that at all. But
he I give him credit. He nuzzled up against the
microphone and he attempted to complete the mission. But yeah,
that was that was nuts that you just like literally
(27:36):
fall asleep right there. We've had There's one former NFL
coach that I will not name either because we may
have him on the podcast at some point, but he
also fell asleep. Well only when he talks, we we
fall asleep. I think that's that's how that works, Danny.
But yeah, so that was the fun, the sleep story.
(27:58):
We have a little time. I think we'll push back
pop goes the culture, but we should get to backscratcher
because we did not have any last week. Very embarrassing,
very embarrassing.
Speaker 4 (28:09):
So this is where you'se embarrassing. There's podcasts that don't
get any ever at all. No, I know, we just
we're just kind of spoiled a little bit.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
Yeah, so all we wants a couple of week in one, two, three, four,
a couple of week you know, that's a handful. So
you scratch our back, we'll scratch your back. And so
it's a weekly reminder that the corporate powers that be
love to read reviews. They look at the Apple podcast
page and say how many reviews and are they positive?
(28:41):
Are they negative? And all that, and it goes a
long way to keep the podcast going that of course,
and advertisers keep the podcast going. So that's the backdrop
on this. So this week, Danny, and it is all
in description how you can be part of the Apple
podcast page and help us out. But this week did
we get zero one or two.
Speaker 3 (29:06):
Let's say we got too two.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
You're being optimistic. Her two reviews Okay, the answer is
survey says two.
Speaker 3 (29:15):
You got it.
Speaker 1 (29:15):
Write the peace sign. You got it right there. Good job.
So thanks to Bill's Mafia. He wrote in, says love
the show, listen every week, keep up the great work.
Thank you for that. And Sarah wrote in from Columbus, Ohio,
the capital of the Buckeye State, and said best podcast
(29:38):
out there, Danny from Sarah and Columbus.
Speaker 3 (29:40):
So nice. She's got good taste.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
Rob, Yeah, so cool, both these nice short brevity is
the key, and so we thank you for listening. Thank you, Sarah,
Thank you Bill's Mafia. Appreciate that. And if you would
like to have us read your comment on the air
on a future podcast, you can certainly be part of this.
And it's all available in the description box on this podcast.
(30:07):
You've laid it all out, Danny. It's very simple. You
can follow along and have a fine time.
Speaker 4 (30:13):
Or bad taste. But she's a good person. So thank
you to Sarah. And then what was the gentleman's name?
Speaker 1 (30:19):
He just he did not give his name. He said
Bill's Mafia. That was his handle on there.
Speaker 3 (30:23):
Bill's ma.
Speaker 4 (30:24):
I wonder if the Bills are going to be able
to sign Dalvin Cook. Yeah, I would love to see
him run the ball there in Buffalo.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
Well, not the Patriots or the Dolphins, they wouldn't want
to see that. Probably the Jets. But yeah, we'll get
out on that. We will have pop goes to the
Culture and the mail Bag that will be on the
Sunday podcast. That will be tomorrow, unless you're listening to
this on Sunday, and then that would be yesterday or
I guess that day.
Speaker 3 (30:51):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (30:52):
See people, we think everyone just listens to the day
the podcast comes out, but not necessarily true. Right, People
will listen whenever they want to listen. That's a great
think about a podcast, listen whenever you want. So anyway, Saturday, Danny,
anything going on. I'll be hanging out with some family
later today. That's the plan. Anyway, tentative plans. We'll see
if that actually happens. What do you have going on?
Speaker 4 (31:14):
Actually have movie tickets and praying that the water doesn't
break as we're eating popcorn watching Oppenheimer.
Speaker 1 (31:23):
Oh man, that's a long movie, Danny.
Speaker 3 (31:25):
That's what it is.
Speaker 1 (31:26):
It is that's a three hour tourp okay.
Speaker 4 (31:31):
Come on, break that water, Oppenheimer, A nuke goes off
and a the placenta goes off.
Speaker 1 (31:37):
I would make for a good story, though, it's all
about the story. Day you were born. You started coming
out of the womb there and we were eating buttered
popcorn and M and ms and peanut butter cups. And
it was at the hour and ten minute mark of
the three hour move dawn. All right, we'll get out.
Thank you for listening and downloading, and we will catch
(32:00):
you next time.
Speaker 3 (32:02):
Later, skater got a murder. I gotta go.
Kubbooms.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes
a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants
of the old Republic, a soul fashion of fairness. He
treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the
rich pill poppers in the penthouse.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
The Clearinghouse of Hot takes break free for something special.
The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
In the air everywhere you have stumbled on. Well that's
not true. Nobody stumbles onto a podcast. You have discovered
and downloaded and are now listening to The Fifth Hour
with Ben Mahler and Danny G. Available wherever you get
your podcast. The Great Danny G Radio hanging out with
me all weekend long and you as we schmooze around here,
(00:52):
and we thank you for subscribing and listening. I understand
the Omar Viscull interview from last week did pretty well.
People seem to enjoy hearing from the old Cleveland Indian
short stuff from back in the day. As we continue
our mission to get as a big and eclectic group
of random baseball players, we've had as I mentioned, I
(01:13):
think it was last Saturday we had Tommy John, not
the Operation, the human being, Lenny Dykstra. We've now had
Omarvis Scale, just different generations of I think we've covered this.
Tommy John played in the sixties and the seventies, and
then Lenny Dykstra into the eighties and the nineties, and
(01:35):
then Omarvis scale from the nineties through the first decade
of the two thousands. The oats.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (01:43):
You know what I loved about hearing him too, was
he on a like a headset microphone booming through the.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Speakers, loud and proud.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Yeah, he's great.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
And you always worry about that, right because you're like, oh, man,
the only thing we have is audio. We don't have
picktures here. We got to get good audio right as
you don't know. And we've had people on that you've
had to crank up and edit and their voice up
so you can actually hear them.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
Nice job, omar Man made my post production job a
little easier.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Yeah, So I hope believe we'll have some other random
baseball players on down the line. But on this podcast,
we've got Irving Berlin. Bags of ice. There she blows
backscratcher and if we have time, we'll do pop gos
to the culture. If not, that will be bumped till tomorrow.
(02:36):
It's a lot of content, all right. So this being Saturday,
The Life of Malor and Danny g and I am
still in the injury tent. Danny, I have an update.
I talked about this on the podcast recently that I
stabbed myself with a katana, which is a Samurai sword,
(02:57):
and I am still covering from said stab wound. And
so I had a mellow weekend. The highlight I got
to the beach and all that, but I couldn't do anything.
I could go in the water, I could up my
feet in the water because I can't get sand on
the thing. So it was pin of the ass. But
I did have a power lunch. Now, I don't do
(03:18):
power lunches, Danny. I do it late night shows, you know,
and when you do the overnight show, you don't normally
get up early to go even lunch is like yeah,
and I don't eat that much and it's a big thing.
So but I did a power lunch. A friend of mine,
I've talked about him in the past on the show,
that he works for the Pittsburgh Pirates and the Pirates
who just played the Dodgers not that long ago, a
(03:41):
couple of weeks ago. They were right back in the
LA area playing the Angels, and so my friend Robbie
was in town. Robbie in Spokowski is his name. He
is the Yinsers in game reporter. So we watch a
Pirates game you live in Pittsburgh or get access to
Pirates baseball. He's the guy that does the pregame interview,
(04:03):
the in game you know, goofy stuff with fans, that
kind of.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
Stuff, and their version of David Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
Kind of well you know Tvassa does that on TV too,
So yeah, So the Pirates were in town playing the Angels,
and I had an Irving Berlin special because the legendary
musician before my time, Irving Berlin, by the way, putting
on the rits. So I went out to lunch. Pirates
had an off day. They flew in after a day game.
I think they were playing Cleveland and they flew in.
(04:31):
They had a day off in so cal So Robbie's like,
why why don't you know go out to lunch And
I was like, yeah, I shure, no problem, I'll pick
you up from the hotel. He said, sure, that'd be great.
And the Pirates, I can't say it. They're not there anymore.
They went back to Pittsburgh or whatever. So and they
asked you what the San Diego after they were in Anaheim,
but they stayed at the Ritz Carlton, that Riz Carlton
(04:53):
in Dana Point, Yeah, which is halfway to San Diego
from La Dana Point. And they were doing their thing
and all that, And so I went to pick up
Robbie at the Rich Carlton. I had actually been there
one other time, Danny, I snuck into the NFL Owners
meetings and that was that was the famous story years ago,
(05:15):
and so not great security at the NFL Owners meetings
about I don't remember year that was. It was probably
about fifteen years ago. I saw back there at just stunning.
And I can confirm Danny that the Pittsburgh Pirates traveling
party is living their best life. And Robbie told me
they don't normally stay at that hotel, but it was
(05:37):
a family trip, so they brought the wives, the girlfriends,
the kids were able to travel, some of them with
the team. And so this hotel is beautifulhich is right
on the Pacific, the Mighty Pacific, right behind hotel golf
courses down there. It's just amazing, and I picked Robby up.
(05:57):
We had a power lunch at a very expensive Mexican
restaurant with a bunch of people that looked famous, but
I don't know who famous people are, Danny. So there
was this one guy in particular who was a little
older than us, but he was covered in he had
like an arm tattoos. He looked like a rock and
roll guy. And even Robbie's like, I think that guy's
(06:17):
are I think I recognize him, but I'm not sure
who he is either, So we're not sure who it is,
but we and this guy, he just kind of oozed
that arrogant, confident music success.
Speaker 4 (06:29):
Probably like a famous guitarist from an eighties rock band.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
Yeah, Like he had his kids there and they were
hanging out and his trophy girlfriend was with him doing
their thing and all that. But it was it was
great to see Robbie. It was very nice. I'm glad
he reached out to me. He's a fan of the show.
I actually met Robbie through this show and we were
trading war stories, which you know, I love that day.
(06:54):
I can't get enough of that. Every once in a while,
I get one of these things, and I love hearing
the stories and I like to share some of the
stories I've had in my career in the business. And
Robbie has worked all over the place. He worked for
the Phoenix Coyotes there were then I think the Arizona
Coyotes back in the day. And he also has done
stuff in Minnesota with the Twins and the Timberwolves, and
(07:19):
now for many years he's been with the Pittsburgh Pirates
and so life in that television world. And he also
is interested in getting a radio He's actually done some stuff.
I talked about this as well. But Robbie we talked
about the radio business and he wants to do a
talk radio show and he likes the way that I
do the show. So we were talking about that and
different different techniques that we do a lot of it's preparing.
(07:42):
That's mostly what it is. Preparation is the key. So
that was my power lunch, which was kind of cool.
It was kind of cool and it was fun, and
so it's it's.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
How much where you're inas.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
Yeah, they were pressing. I just got the takeos because
I'm a child, So I ordered the taketos off the
appetizer menu. But yeah, the actual real meals at this
Mexican restaurant, which was literally on the Pacific Ocean. Like
you look out you see the waves of the ocean.
Insanely expensive and I just drank water, so I did
(08:22):
not have any.
Speaker 4 (08:23):
You know, I've been to that spot a couple of times,
right there in Dana Point. It's always for a major
event like my girl's birthday, obviously, because the night there
at the Ritz as expensive as you can imagine. Last
year for her birthday, I saved up a little bit
of money, booked a night there. I lucked out big time.
(08:43):
So we're celebrating her birthday. We turn the lights out,
go to bed after some you know, Bible study, Dan,
we get woken up. The people in the room next
to us are having a full on karaoke party.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
I thought you were gonna say something else. I thought orgy,
but I did not have karaoke on my Bingo card
for that.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
But okay, oh man, Ben.
Speaker 4 (09:11):
They were singing like I heard a dire straight song
money for Nothing in your Chicks for Free, And this
guy was screaming the song at the top of his lungs,
So my girl calls the front desk. They're not used
to things like this at the RITZ, so they are
falling all over themselves apologizing. They're like, we'll take care
(09:33):
of it. We'll take care of it. This party went
on for a good hour. Okay, it sounded like a
great party too. We kind of wished we were there.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
A bunch of hookers and cocaine.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
But by the time it was all said and done,
they wound up apologizing by putting a whole bunch of
points onto our card. Oh nice enough to wear. We
use those points for our honeymoon when we got marri.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
Oh that's sweet.
Speaker 4 (10:02):
So yeah, well that exact daing a point hotel you're
talking about is the reason I'm married right now.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
Screw them.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Yeah, that's nice, outstanding.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
Yeah, I mean I love them.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
You you actually triggered a thought in my head here
from hotel experiences and and then combining with the rock
and roll guy. I remember the video I think we
talked about on the show of it was a very
famous musician. I don't know if it was Eddie Van
Halen or David Lee Roth, one of those type of
guys that was walking in a in a hotel and
(10:42):
it was in I think it was in Vegas and
they heard it was they were filming a reality show.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
Oh Lee Roth, David Lee Roth.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
Okay, so you know what, I do you remember that
or they they were they were playing the one of
his songs and some I thought it would kind of
cool to knock on the door and the person as
there had no fucking idea who he was. You know.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
It was just an embarrassing, awkward moment.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
But wonderful at the same time. Yeh, but but wonderful
at the same time, just so good. And I don't
know how long ago that was, but I just google it.
Just David, I.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
Had no good memory by you. That was David Lee Roth,
the original lead singer to Van Halen.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
There you go, and he probably needed bags of ice
when he got done, right. He just needed the bags
of ice.
Speaker 4 (11:27):
Right there for his knees, probably because the way he
used to bounce up and down all over the concert stage.
Famous for his showmanship. I have some dark circles around
my eyes. I normally wear sunglasses a lot because when
I take them off, I resemble a raccoon because of
(11:49):
my sleeping pattern or my lack of sleeping pattern. But
I'm gonna look extra horrible on this Saturday because last night,
thousands of people in my neighborhood lost their power. At
twelve thirty pm. We woke up because the AC shut off,
(12:11):
All the powers shut off, and it's that feeling of
is this just our place?
Speaker 3 (12:17):
So what do you do? You have to walk outside? Right?
Speaker 1 (12:19):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (12:20):
Yeah, first move.
Speaker 4 (12:22):
So I walk out and I see my neighbors all
doing the same thing too, doing that neighborhood check, like,
oh shit, is this our power?
Speaker 3 (12:30):
Yeah? Everybody.
Speaker 4 (12:32):
So I'm out there, I see everybody walking around in
their pj's. It's the whole neighborhood. Everybody's dark. And it
was still ninety two degrees outside. We've had a heat
wave here in southern California. And when it's ninety two
and your AC cuts off, your place turns into it
What were those little ovens when we were kids.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
Yeah, I know what you're talking about. I don't remember
the name of them, but yeah, a little small Yeah,
it turns.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
Into one of those easy bit easy bake ovens.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
Bake there you go.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (13:04):
So told my wife, I'm like, well, I'm gonna have
to open the slider here because even though it's hot outside,
we need some sort of air circulating.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
And where do you stand on this?
Speaker 4 (13:14):
She told me that I was letting all the cool
air escape.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
Well, had it already gotten hot or was it still
kind of cool? If it was still kind of cool,
I got a side with the was was your bride there? Was?
She also like, was she hot? Also? Because like like
women seem to not get as like I'm always warm too,
Like I always feel like it's too hot, But I
think women generally takes them a little while before they
(13:41):
get to that point.
Speaker 4 (13:43):
And normally with her, you are correct. But because she's
got a little oven baking of her.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
Own, Oh that's true.
Speaker 4 (13:49):
Yeah, yeah, she needs to have a fan on her
right now at all times. I was just trying to
think ahead. I'm like, well, let me at least get
a little bit of air circulating in here. But she disagreed,
to the point where she got up, grabbed her pillows,
and walked downstairs.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
Flats. Oh, she's so upset with you. She left.
Speaker 4 (14:11):
Oh boy, man, I'm like, I'm not going to be
able to sleep and wake up for the podcast. What
the hell am I gonna do? How am I going
to go back to sleep. I'm thinking, hopefully this is
just like a twenty minute thing. Thirty minutes, the power
will come back on in a half hour and AC
will pop back on. Nope, go to the freezer, grab
(14:33):
some zip block bags, and here's my move. I'm like, well,
let me throw an ice in three ziplock bags. And
then I wandered back upstairs and I strategically placed one
on the top of my head, one on my chest,
and then like one on my like towards my knees.
(14:54):
So let me see if I can fall asleep. Yeah,
it wound up working, not right away. I do fall asleep,
but then I woke up ben in a frozen state.
Because I wake up like an hour later and the
bag of ice, I guess you know, from the ice melting,
(15:17):
It slid down and I woke up with frozen balls.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
Oh no, icy nuts.
Speaker 4 (15:27):
Ice ice baby yeah yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
So oh boy.
Speaker 5 (15:32):
Now I'm like, what the man, I'm still but you
didn't You didn't wake up initially when that happened, right,
That didn't Wait, it had been there for a little
while before you realize the problem is that.
Speaker 3 (15:44):
Defrost a little bit tm. I oh boy, but it's
that situation where you have the next wet and I
don't know about you, but I can't sleep when you
get that. It's the worst feeling ever.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
Yeah, it's bad, and I deal with that. This time
of the year is the worst time to do the
overnight show because even when I have air conditioning, it's
so hot, it doesn't by middle of the day and
I normally sleep and I get up at like two o'clock,
so I'm sleeping from like the middle of the hot
it's really hot. It's not the hottest part of the day,
but it starts getting really toasty around noon, and then
(16:19):
it keeps getting hotter and hotter as the afternoon goes on.
And as you know from doing the overnight shift, and
even though I have blackout curtains and an air conditioner
and all that stuff, it's still once it gets to
a certain point of heat, I get up. I can't
stay in bed because I get too hot. I'm like,
I got to get out of here because of the sweat.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
And you said blackout.
Speaker 4 (16:39):
That's what it turned out to be, because the power
did not cut back on until three thirty am.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
Well, I dealt with a Wi Fi situation. In fact,
I had to go in an extra night to the
Mothership because I woke up to get ready for the show.
And I go on the internet and everyone that's what
we do. They live on the internet, going on there,
going through different websites, and the Wi Fi is down.
So I'm like, gosh, oh crap, you know, everything's tied
(17:08):
to the Wi Fi. That's a sobering thought that the
WiFi is not working. And so I go on this
app and they say, well, the WiFi is going to
be down for a few hours, but don't worry, it'll
be back. Estimated time of return of Wi Fi five o'clock.
So I'm like, you know what, I'll use my hotspot
on my phone. I'll be fine. I'll use that and
(17:31):
I use my brain. Okay, fine, So I've used the hotspot.
It works, Okay, it's not that bad.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
It's fine.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
And then at five o'clock I go to use the
Wi Fi, turn the Wi Fi on and nothing, you know,
not not working. So I'm like, oh man, So I
go back to the app. I go on the app.
The app's like, well nine o'clock, Well, nine o'clock's kind
of cutting clothes, right, because nine o'clock is a couple
(18:02):
hours before showtime, and Wi Fi is tied into the
broadcast equipment that I use to do the show, and
so if I don't have the Wi Fi, I can't
do the show from the home studio. So it's all
tied together. So I'm like, all right, but I'll wait.
I'll wait till nine o'clock. Maybe it'll be back. So
we get to nine o'clock, they send a message out
we are still efforting to try to get your service back.
(18:24):
Sometime overnight we'll get it back. And I'm like, oh boy,
so I took off. I skid that I ski That.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
Might as well have been titled screw you, Bill Miller.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
Yeah. Yeah, it's a total shit show, total total poop
fest there and so so dependent on this. Although there
are some guys I will not name the guilty, but
I have heard there are some some of the people
that work at our company. There are certain apps that
you can now get on your phone where you can
(18:56):
broadcast from your phone as a backup. I got to
at one of these, and I'm gonna talk I know
one of the people that has them, because Iowa Sam
told me about it, So I'm gonna I'm gonna try
to get one of these apps, Danny as a backup
just in case that happens again, because I'm very paranoid
that that's gonna happen, and so I want to make
(19:17):
sure I have that just in case. And it's not
that expensive.
Speaker 4 (19:20):
And certain forty nine ers fan in the Bay area
who has that?
Speaker 1 (19:24):
Is that right? Is that right? Interesting? Yeah? So I
want to get my hands hands on that. So well,
maybe you know what it is. I mean, you can
text it Iowa. Sam gave me the name. He said,
there's two different things. One of them kind of doesn't
sound that good, the other one does. So I want
the one that sounds better. That's what I Obviously, I
want the one that sounds better.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
Because it's all about it's not a bad backup plan.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
Yeah. Is it hard to set up?
Speaker 3 (19:50):
Though?
Speaker 1 (19:50):
Is it a pain to set up?
Speaker 3 (19:52):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (19:53):
I do know that a couple of the times he
used it, it didn't sound amazing. It passed, it was
just passable, but it didn't sound like it should. So
the high standards you have with your live radio show,
I don't know if it would cut it.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
Well.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
This is what's known as inside radio. Danny what we're
doing right now is inside radio.
Speaker 3 (20:19):
Oh but our listeners love when we pull the curtains back.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
Yeah, yeah, yeah. So there's an app you can get
on your phone which is used by broadcasters in television
and radio. It's a remote app and you can download that,
and then there's a way you can use I guess
you'd hook up a microphone to it. Is that right,
it's part of the deal. And then and how how
expensive is that?
Speaker 3 (20:43):
I don't know that. I don't know.
Speaker 4 (20:45):
Yeah, I mean, obviously it works off a bluetooth because
there's no way to plug anything into iPhones anymore these days.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
I know there's only that one that one connected.
Speaker 4 (20:54):
And then what happened when they remember when they first
took the headphone jack away from our iPhone? Were freaked out, like,
holy shit, what are we gonna do without the headphone jack?
Speaker 1 (21:05):
Yeah, it was not a pleasant situation. But it's been okay.
Everything's been fine. We've adapted to the alien technology.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
Non human biologics.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
Yes, exactly exactly, we have there, she blues. So we
have an update, Danny. This is a podcast exclusive. Nobody
else has this content, and here it is now. If
you've listened over the last couple of months. You know
that I've mentioned both on the regular overnight show which
is on all night long, and this podcast, which is
(21:36):
on all weekend long, that the obsession I have with
our overnight security officer. I've sent you the photos, some
of the photos.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
Danny, you've seen the photos. Well, yeah, the snorer.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
Yeah, so this guy has been song logs when I've
wandered through the courtyard at the iHeart Slash Premiere Networks
building in beautiful Sherman Oaks, California, just down the hill
from Bell There. So earlier this week I showed up
my regular time. I went to a Dodger Blue Jay
game and I showed up there afterwards. And my friend James,
(22:09):
who used to be the overnight security guard. I love James,
wonderful guy, would give you the shirt off his back,
like that kind of guy, and he works his ass off,
gets paid shit money, but has the greatest attitude.
Speaker 3 (22:24):
I love the guy.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
And so we've known each other for years because he's
been at the building for a long time and he
works at the earlier shift. He works the swing shift,
not the overnight shift. And this is the guy that
wrote children's books. He's like cartoon children's books. Roots writes
the doodles for children. But so I he saw me.
We caught up. We were catching up on things. He
(22:47):
told me that some very wealthy woman who does some
of the workout there's a gym at the building, and
he said he he met the woman and she they
started talking in I guess she lives up in the
hills there where all the rich people live. And one
thing led to another, and then she said she wanted
(23:09):
him to write a book for her daughter and some
of the family friends like cousins, family friends, they know that.
So he said, sure, no proplem. So he's telling me
the whole story. He's offered to write this children's book.
The rate was four hundred dollars for he figured in
his head ten pages, like a small little book. Ten pages, okay.
(23:31):
He then tells me that this woman kept calling him
and saying, well, I'd like a page for this person
and that person. He said, as of a couple of
days ago, he was at forty pages, which is a
lot of work for four hundred dollars if you're doodling cartoons.
And I said, well, why don't you just tell her
(23:52):
you need more money? He says. No. He said, I
gave her my word, and my word is my bond,
you know that whole app And I was like, well,
that's that's kind of cool, but I'd ask for more money.
She's obviously she's got the dough. But anyway, the conversation pivoted,
and it pivoted to there she blows. So is it
(24:14):
true that our favorite beached whale overnight security guard sawing
logs in the middle of the night has been given
the pink slip? Is it also true that I had
nothing to do with said security guard being excommunicated from
the overnight shift.
Speaker 3 (24:34):
No, that part can't be true.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
Well, I thought Danny that he was just on vacation
or had some time off. But according to the streets,
I did not, of course, hear this from James, because
James would never talk about company policy. But the streets
are talking and they claim that this cat was caught
multiple times shockingly snoozing on the job. And one of
(24:58):
my securities, one of my security friends there, a different person,
told me that there are hidden cameras all over the
building and they had videos of this guy sleeping for hours.
This guy was sleeping, so then they called him on it,
(25:20):
and then he tried to challenge the people above him
to like a fight. He got into a verbal altercation
which could have turned physical, and they said, well, we've
got all the evidence. We were paying you and you
were sleeping on the job. And then I heard from
somebody else that there are ways you can do it.
There's a certain area of the building, there are no cameras.
But this guy, I guess, was not sharp enough to
(25:41):
figure it out. So it only took six months, Danny
six months, and they finally figured out that this guy
was not the guy, so he was given the coal
miners holiday there.
Speaker 4 (25:53):
Do you have any good stories about radio jocks falling
asleep during the graveyard shift?
Speaker 1 (26:00):
You have had? I will of course protect the names
of the guilty, but we did famously have I was
doing the weekend overnight show and one of the update
guys that was only there on the weekends, who's gone
on and become a pretty successful blogger in that in
that domain. This guy fell asleep at the top of
(26:21):
the hour news update and we played the music the board.
I played the music. He's supposed to start talking silence.
I happened to be standing in the room at the
old studio. I looked over and I don't think you
were the one day ianway, this is before you that time.
That was before your time. So I look over and
(26:43):
he's on the mic with his headphones on and the
mic is on and he's sleeping. So we we Then
I go in. I walked a short walk. I go
in there and I kind of like I hit the table.
He wakes up and immediately starts talking like he's on
the I realized what. I don't know what, he just
(27:06):
like snapped into it. It was it was crazy.
Speaker 3 (27:09):
Was it a train wreck?
Speaker 2 (27:10):
Like?
Speaker 4 (27:10):
Because how do you time that out when you don't
even know where you're at?
Speaker 3 (27:14):
In the update?
Speaker 1 (27:15):
It was not Marconi Award winning Uh, it would not
be something you'd put on on a sizzle reel. You
would not, you would not use that at all. But
he I give him credit. He nuzzled up against the
microphone and he attempted to complete the mission. But yeah,
that was that was nuts that you just like literally
(27:36):
fall asleep right there. We've had There's one former NFL
coach that I will not name either because we may
have him on the podcast at some point, but he
also fell asleep. Well only when he talks, we we
fall asleep. I think that's that's how that works, Danny.
But yeah, so that was the fun, the sleep story.
(27:58):
We have a little time. I think we'll push back
pop goes the culture, but we should get to backscratcher
because we did not have any last week. Very embarrassing,
very embarrassing.
Speaker 4 (28:09):
So this is where you'se embarrassing. There's podcasts that don't
get any ever at all. No, I know, we just
we're just kind of spoiled a little bit.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
Yeah, so all we wants a couple of week in one, two, three, four,
a couple of week you know, that's a handful. So
you scratch our back, we'll scratch your back. And so
it's a weekly reminder that the corporate powers that be
love to read reviews. They look at the Apple podcast
page and say how many reviews and are they positive?
(28:41):
Are they negative? And all that, and it goes a
long way to keep the podcast going that of course,
and advertisers keep the podcast going. So that's the backdrop
on this. So this week, Danny, and it is all
in description how you can be part of the Apple
podcast page and help us out. But this week did
we get zero one or two.
Speaker 3 (29:06):
Let's say we got too two.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
You're being optimistic. Her two reviews Okay, the answer is
survey says two.
Speaker 3 (29:15):
You got it.
Speaker 1 (29:15):
Write the peace sign. You got it right there. Good job.
So thanks to Bill's Mafia. He wrote in, says love
the show, listen every week, keep up the great work.
Thank you for that. And Sarah wrote in from Columbus, Ohio,
the capital of the Buckeye State, and said best podcast
(29:38):
out there, Danny from Sarah and Columbus.
Speaker 3 (29:40):
So nice. She's got good taste.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
Rob, Yeah, so cool, both these nice short brevity is
the key, and so we thank you for listening. Thank you, Sarah,
Thank you Bill's Mafia. Appreciate that. And if you would
like to have us read your comment on the air
on a future podcast, you can certainly be part of this.
And it's all available in the description box on this podcast.
(30:07):
You've laid it all out, Danny. It's very simple. You
can follow along and have a fine time.
Speaker 4 (30:13):
Or bad taste. But she's a good person. So thank
you to Sarah. And then what was the gentleman's name?
Speaker 1 (30:19):
He just he did not give his name. He said
Bill's Mafia. That was his handle on there.
Speaker 3 (30:23):
Bill's ma.
Speaker 4 (30:24):
I wonder if the Bills are going to be able
to sign Dalvin Cook. Yeah, I would love to see
him run the ball there in Buffalo.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
Well, not the Patriots or the Dolphins, they wouldn't want
to see that. Probably the Jets. But yeah, we'll get
out on that. We will have pop goes to the
Culture and the mail Bag that will be on the
Sunday podcast. That will be tomorrow, unless you're listening to
this on Sunday, and then that would be yesterday or
I guess that day.
Speaker 3 (30:51):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (30:52):
See people, we think everyone just listens to the day
the podcast comes out, but not necessarily true. Right, People
will listen whenever they want to listen. That's a great
think about a podcast, listen whenever you want. So anyway, Saturday, Danny,
anything going on. I'll be hanging out with some family
later today. That's the plan. Anyway, tentative plans. We'll see
if that actually happens. What do you have going on?
Speaker 4 (31:14):
Actually have movie tickets and praying that the water doesn't
break as we're eating popcorn watching Oppenheimer.
Speaker 1 (31:23):
Oh man, that's a long movie, Danny.
Speaker 3 (31:25):
That's what it is.
Speaker 1 (31:26):
It is that's a three hour tourp okay.
Speaker 4 (31:31):
Come on, break that water, Oppenheimer, A nuke goes off
and a the placenta goes off.
Speaker 1 (31:37):
I would make for a good story, though, it's all
about the story. Day you were born. You started coming
out of the womb there and we were eating buttered
popcorn and M and ms and peanut butter cups. And
it was at the hour and ten minute mark of
the three hour move dawn. All right, we'll get out.
Thank you for listening and downloading, and we will catch
(32:00):
you next time.
Speaker 3 (32:02):
Later, skater got a murder. I gotta go.
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