March 11, 2023 • 38 mins
Ben Maller & his 5th Hour home-slice Danny G. have fun for your Saturday! They're talking: Double Mint, That's Normal, Hangin' with Monet, What Ya Doing, & Pop Goes the Culture!
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on tap. We are ready to kick it off right now. Yeah,
let's do this. And Ben, I just want to address
the rumors that I earned over two hundred and fifty
dollars yesterday from selling some of my Gmail votes, and
that is incorrect. It was only two hundred and forty
nine dollars. Yeah, well, Alf, the alien of Pinter short
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changed you a dollar. And it's a bad job by Alf.
Shame on you, Shame on you. Alf. Come on, do
better next time. Alf. So on this podcast, we've got
double Mint, that's normal, hanging with Monet what you're doing,
and Pop goes to culture. That's a lot of content
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for a lazy Saturday podcast. I would say that's way
too much content. Discretion is advised. I mean, it's unbelievable
how we squeeze all that in day. We might have
to time shift half of this to Sunday for ratings purposes. Only.
For ratings purposes only, we'll be spinning our wheels, is
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what we'll be doing. Speaking of that, we will now
move forward in the broadcast. And we had a very
very very very busy start to last week on the
terrestrial radio show. If you were listening, you heard the
magic in the old Fox Sports Radio studio. We have
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not moved to the new studio. I'm a skeptic on that.
And the main old studio always hectic, you know, and
you know when you start back at work after a
couple of days off during the overnight show, we have
a day and a half off. We work on Friday
and then we're off the rest of Friday, but we
sleep most of Friday. We're off on Saturday, but then
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Sunday's workday, so it's really like a day and a
half off. It's not two full days. It's a day
and half. So it's it's a blessing and a curse
because you're off Friday night and Saturday night, but you
gotta work Sunday, and so it's hold it. So coming
back from the weekend, it's kind of hectic and all
that getting back up to speed. And this night was
different than all other nights because we had a Greyhound
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bus terminal. It was a beehive on the show. It
reminded me of that old commercial from the back of
the Day, double mint Gum, double your Pleasure, double your Fun. First,
we had planned a excursion with Mason, the Millennial, the
legendary Mason. You met Mason at the mallord b good
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young guy works for Tesla and he wanted to stop by.
He had emailed me, he had reached out, and you know,
I'm doing the show. It's hybrid. Some of the time,
I'm in the main studio. A lot of the times
I'm in the in the mobile Mallar studio, the home
studio and so. But if if you're going to be
in town and you want to hang out out, I
can certainly adjust my schedule. And so Mason was like, Hey,
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I'm gonna be there, like to stop buying, and I
was like, okay, cool, and so he reached out. He
was going to a concert in the hood in Inglewood
and he lives in the Bay Area. A good guy,
big fantasy show. So I'm going to the studio to
hay because Mason's gonna show up near the end of
the show. And I was excited to see him and
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meet him again and all this stuff. But I got
a I got a message right before the show started saying, Hey,
are you in studio? And I was like, yah, yeah,
I'm in studio. And it was from Jay Scoop, the
legendary Jay Scoop. Oh was he visiting from Tea Town? Yeah,
he was in town and the gladiator known as Jay Scoop,
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and he said he was passing through La. He was
in town to record some stuff. As he continues the
musical career, and he wanted to stop buying say hello,
and I was like, of course, the man almost died
in December. Of course I'm gonna let Jay Scoop come
hang out. So it was really cool to hang out
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with him. And Jay Scoop's been such a great part
of the show and helped us out. He put together
that Seattle meet and greet back in twenty nineteen, right
before COVID a debonair a debonair member of the Malabusha,
Jay Scoop, So I hung out with him for the
first about the first maybe of the second hour, and
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then he got out of there. And then the very approachable,
very friendly Mason the Millennial Show. So that was cool.
And Mason's a bit of a social butterfly like I'm not,
but you know, Mason's a people person. Now, did Mason
find our friend Helmet Man outside of the concert in Inglewood?
He did not report back to me that he did
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see Helmet Man. But I promise you Helmet Man is
at every event at the Daanium in Inglewood, is outside
well dressed, well groomed, as always right as the greatest
set up in the world. There, I fell asleep and
speaking a debonair. You can't get more charismatic than than
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that guy, right, I mean my and he's completely oblivious
to the fact that he called the show pretty much
every week for like five six years. I'm actually on
the live air. And then he moved and completely forgot
about the show, just completely moved on to something else.
So I guess you could say that's normal for him, right, Danny,
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you could say that's normal for helmet man, but not
for most other people. Yeah, he is a special member
of the militia. Yeah, he's got a simpatico delivery he does.
That's a good word, sympotico. I like that word. Somebody
owes you five dollars. I don't use that word very much. Sympotico.
It's good. It's a pleasant guy, is a pleasant guy.
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We like people like that. We don't. We'd rather hang
out with people that are that are friendly and who
wouldn't some douchebag who wants that. Did any of your
guests bring you some fat sALS? No? And that did
piss me off. As you know, Danny, we had the rule,
if you're gonna visit, the price of admission you got
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to buy us off with food. Yes, that's been a
long time entry fee. Yeah. The problem is this a
we're all on these fughasy diets, right so we do
this in a minute fast Even Eddie's on this nonsense.
And I love fat sALS. It's very tough to recreate
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it if you if you don't eat it right away,
like any food, if you don't eat it right away
fat Seals, that fat Texas barbecue and you try to
reheat it, it is not an enjoyable meal, you know
what I'm saying. It's I mean, you can put it
in the oven and it'll be okay, but it's not.
It doesn't have the same razmatazz as if you have
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it right away. Not to belabor the point, but I
think I've made it. It's kind of like eating any
any fast food. I've got to eat it within You
got about a twenty five thirty minute window to eat
fast food. If you don't eat it right away, you're done.
It sucks, it blows, it's terrible garbage, garbage. Well, then
just smaller orders, like you guys could split a Fat
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Seals sandwich. Oh but if I'm doing inter minute fasting,
I can't even eat anything. I can just drink water.
That's the problem. Don't shake your head at me. Not
dare you? How dare you shake at my Michigassi? Here
was great, great fat seals history on the show, and
you guys are just shameful right now. Well you were
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there for the cakes also though. That was unreal. God
that now that was overboard. We were getting designer cakes
for like every other week. At one point, even job
of the Hut would have been like, Okay, that's too much, dude.
It was insane. It was absolutely nuts. And these were
like designer luxury cakes like these were like thousand dollars
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cakes that we were getting every week. We remember the
chuck the Condor one. We had a camel. I remember
we talked about Adrian Peterson had a camel at his
birthday party, and so I was like, I want a
camel and we had a camel cake. I still have
your camel drop, I want a camel. That was crazy, man.
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That also cake pops pizza almost every week, lots of
pizza bets and lots of listeners would send pizza in
for whatever celebration happened to be going on that week
for the show. I don't think I've ever eaten that
much Domino's pizza in my life. Yeah, we knew every
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nuance from the Domino's pizza menu, and the Domino's delivery
guy was on a first name basis. We'd let the
guy come in, he'd hang out with us, you know,
he'd have the pizzas. We'd let him kind of chill
out in the studio, and it was like we were
like buddies, we're hanging out. Why not? What the hell er? Exactly?
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So turning the page on that Dan He turning the
page and that was normal back then. But is that
normal now? Right? You know? And it's funny because this
kind of ties into your buddy Jay Scoop, who you
were just talking about. He moved to northern California, right, Yes, yes,
he's back in Colin Kaepernick's old stomping ground. That's right.
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And that's also where my mom stays, and I drove
up this past weekend to visit her. Now, I also
wanted to be halfway between my family who live in
the Bay Area, so I found the night Aist hotel
in Stockton, California. And Stockton is known as a nice
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vacation city. It's underrated. You look at all the travel websites.
That's some of the finest hotels in the world. They
do the surveys every year. Yeah yeah, And of course
this didn't happen until the famous mayor Michael Tubbs took
over and cleaned up the city. I'm talking about the
seventy ninth mayor of Stockton, California, who was featured on
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HBO and other big channels across the country. Because of
mister Tubbs, there are now the four Seasons there, there
is a Grand High, there's a ritz I believe. Yeah,
I didn't know which fancy hotel to choose from in Stockton. Yeah,
but I've been to a minor league hockey game in
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Stockton at their sports arena, really pretty arena right on
the harbor. There's a hotel adjacent. Teams stay at the hotel.
It's about it's about twenty stories high, really nice looking hotel. Yeah.
So I found a good rate. Even though my Tenderni
is really picky when it comes to hotels, I thought
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to myself, well, she's gonna really love this place. Get
to Stockton, And as soon as we drive into the city,
the first thing you see at the first stoplight that
we're at is a building that's boarded up, always a
good indicator that you're in a good part of town. Yeah,
and it looked like this used to be an amazing restaurant,
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but now it had wood covering all of its windows.
She looked at me and she said, this place looks abandoned.
That is kind of hate. Well, it's just the ambiance
of the town. It's it's it's you know, it's an
old rustic It's a rustic look, is what it is now.
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Mind you. Stockton as a special place in my heart.
This was the first radio market where I had my
first professional radio gig. First time I ever got a
paycheck for blabbing and talking on the microphone was in Stockton, California.
Did a live broadcast there one time in front of
the black Angus and it's the Chevy Impaula came scooting by,
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and the guys inside the impaula showed me a gun. Well,
much like John Morant down the line, you know, you
just want to sometimes you want to share. It's like
it's like an elementary school, right, you bring things in
to share with the class. Yeah, I felt like because
I was holding a microphone and the dude in the car.
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He was showing me what he was holding. Yeah, so
I felt like it was like a sign of respect,
Like he was like, yeah, you're holding the steel, I'm
holding the steel. Yeah. Come on, we're all friends here.
Look at this. It's like the Old West. It's like
a saloon in the Old West. So I have this
connection with Stockton since I was a kid. You know,
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I spent half my life in La the other half
up in the Bay in the Stockton area, and so
I you know, this was the first time, by the way,
that I got to take my TINDERRONI to that area.
She's gonna meet my mom the next day. We're gonna
have breakfast. So I'm thinking, well, what are we going
to do tonight in the Stockton area. But first I
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gotta get checked into the hotel. So now we see
this boarded up restaurant. She tells me this looks abandoned.
I told her, no, no, no, that's normal. We go
down the main drag and right in front of city Hall,
I need to take a left to get to the
waterfront for the hotel. As we are passing City Hall,
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there is a dude ben in broad daylight who is
watering the city's lawn. I know they've got a lot
of rain, but the drought you've got you gotta help
out man, organic water, come on God's water. Now. Thank god.
He had his back turned to us, but we could
see the spray, yeah, onto the grass, and my girl said,
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oh my god, it is that guy doing what I
think he's doing. And I was like, just look straight ahead,
we're going to the waterfront. So now, in fairness, have
you let your wife know that at the Fox Sports
Radio studios on multiple occasions, there have been homeless people
that have gotten up on the what do you call that,
the planter in front of Fox Sports Radio, Yeah, and
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not realizing that the glass there's actually people behind it.
The windows they have taken care of their bids right
on the right there. Yeah, exactly what it looked like,
but from a different vantage point in a car. Yeah.
Now we get to the waterfront and I'm like, this
is nice. I see the nice arena, I see the
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nice hotel. But there are two guys they must have
been the guards working for the hotel, both of them
standing outside of the hotel holding forties in brown paper bags.
Oh okay yeah, and I'm like, wow, they left their
security guards drink on the job. It's pretty cool. Listen,
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it's it's part of the uniform, right, yeah. Yeah. Were
they smoking anything? Also, they have any Yeah. At this point,
we just wanted to get in and get our bags
to the room. So we go inside. My girl has
to use the bathroom, and we both look at something
that I don't normally see at any hotel. You know
how there's usually a concierge desk. Yeah, yeah, sure. At
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this hotel, they turned the concierge area into a security station. Oh.
Of course, this reminds me of the hotel I stay
I was checked in at in Phoenix and we left.
That's what this reminds me of. In really big letters
across the desk and said security, and I was just
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shaking my head, like, oh man, well, at least they
have security. Um, did you see anyone walking out with
a wife beater on and any of that? No? No,
But as I was bringing our bags up to the
room on the second floor, there was a dude in
the elevator smoking a blunt smoke. Okay, there you go,
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come on, like, okay, a lot of places in California
don't allow you to smoke. So it's a smoke friendly hotel. Okay, perfect.
Now I'm really hungry, and I tell my girl. I'm like,
I'm gonna go find us a snack. You stay here
at the hotel, take a shower, relax. I'm gonna go
get us something to eat. Yeah. I am driving down
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March Lane and right next to me, Ben, there was
a drag race going on. These two dudes aren't going
for it. Drag race seen each other. It was fast
and the Furious twelve. It was awesome, all right. So
I got a free show on my way to the
Togo sandwich shop and this jive turkey comes up to
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me and he says, man, I like your Dodger's hat,
but you're in the Bay Area. You need to pay
a giant's fee. Get away from me. San Francisco's that way.
You need to go get a fee out of your
giant's owner. You guys suck. Yeah, And then he pushed
you right between the eyes right there. You know, he
didn't know I don't look like the friendliest dude, so
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he left me alone. I mean, Biga, let alone. I
got you, all right, So I get back to the
fancy hotel. I told my girl I said, okay, you
got three options. A minor league basketball game happening at
the Arena tonight, there's a Sacramento Kings game a half
hour up the road, or we can go towards my
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mom's town and see a movie. She said, well, well,
which direction is the least violent? You say, none of
the above. So we went to the cowtown and I
took her to see Cocaine Bear Bunch of Hookers on Cocaine.
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It was actually better than we expected. It was a
pretty good movie. It's a nice little town called Mantica.
All was well, all was right in the world. Everything
turned out okay. But when we got out of there,
I told my girl, I was like, well, look at
I didn't realize there was that shaine of hotel here.
The next time we come back, we'll stay there. And
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she said, no, no, no, no, next time, have your
mom come down here and I'll pay for Disneyland for her.
Oh that's great. Oh man, do they still have they
used to have a mir League team? He called the
ports that still yeah, they still there. There's the Stockton
Ports and the Modesto Nuts. I remember the stock In
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Ports back back in the day. So was it awkward.
Your mom had not met you're married, You've got a
a spawn on the way, and your mom had not
approved of this. Is this was this awkward for you? No,
it was not awkward. My mom is a fan of
my life right now. She just had never met her
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in person yet, and we wanted her to go to
the wedding really bad, but she could not take the
long flight to Hawaii, so that's why we had to
drive to her. And before my girl gets too big
with the pregnancy, I was like, we better make our
way up north. That's a smart move. Sure, yeah, yeah,
now where you know? You weren't nervous at all, because
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when I introduced my now wife to my mom, I
was like, I like threw up. I was so nervous,
Like I needed my mom's I needed my mom's approval.
But you're at the point where you've already gone down
the road, so it's like, you know, you're it's a
little different. I was just dating at the time, so
for me, it was like a deal, and I think
it would have been more nerve wracking if it was
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just somebody I was dating. My mom is very religious,
always has been. To her. If you're just dating someone
or living with them. You're living in sin So I'm
on the up and up right now because I actually
got hitched. You're you're you're legal. Everything's good. You know,
your Bible approved Jesus hanging with money. So you were driving,
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you drove to to your old stopping grounds to see family. Well,
my wife she wanted to get out of town. We
get this new malamobile and she wanted to go on
a road trip. Oh, tell her about Stockton. Yeah, I'll
recommend that. You know, my wife loves thaying at hotels
like that, as your wife does. She's like, we need
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to go somewhere. We need to go to Vegas, bas Vegas,
Baby Vegas. And then I was like okay, And then
she wanted me to see if I, you know, I
know some people in Vegas. I might be able to
get a deal on a hotel. So I reached out
to one of the guys that I dealt with in
the past to you know, could hook you up. And
I send a nice email, said, hey, I'm gonna be
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in town, you know whatever. Didn't even bother right back.
The guy didn't right back. I haven't talked to him
since COVID, so maybe he's upset with me. So that
was that was that total. The guy didn't get back
to me. So then I say, well, we didn't want
to go to Vegas because it's expensive and whatever, so
we made a run for the border. We decided to
stop in San Diego for the little one day sojourn
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to my old stomping grounds with San Diego. And every
time we go to San Diego, I always point out
that's the building I started in radio right over there.
Well that's all right. Next year, off at sea World Drive,
five South SeaWorld Drive. You make a right and a
left and it's this building that's right across from the
California Highway Patrol station, which we were always pissed about
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because we worked there. We couldn't beat out of the
lot because literally right across the street were HP. So
it was. But anyway, we went to San Diego and
we stopped at Old Town. You've been there, right, you
go in San Diego. That's a tourist trap. Oh yeah, yeah,
that's great, And so parking was a boondoggle. Had a
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nice authentic Mexican you know me at that restaurant there,
and then headed to bout Ball Park. I had not
been to ballpark, and I was a kid. I didn't
go there when I worked there. I just go to
pottery games or Charger games. I didn't go to bout
balla park. But that's where all the museums are in
San Diego. And it was a freak show. I mean
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they had every base cupboard, the Gods squad was out,
and then some you had one booth over here. There
was a ten Aska Christian that was the first one,
which is fine. Then it was Asking Atheist, then it
was Aska Muslim and it was just like they all
had their own They were all recruiting every even the
non religions we recruiting. I did not see ask a Jew.
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I did not did not I could have helped. I
could have put my own booth up. I'm a bad Jew,
but I could have put that up. That was called Alexa.
Yeah there you go, Oh dare you? But it's a
missed opportunity, a missed opportunity. But we we didn't have
a lot of time. By the time we got to
Balboa Park, it was kind of later in the day,
and all these freaking museums closed early. Why on, somebody
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explained to me, why does a museum have to close
at five o'clock. Why can't it be open to eight o'clock?
Why five o'clock? Why not six o'clock, seven o'clock, maybe
nine o'clock? Why why do they keep bankers hours at museums?
Can you explain that to me? Danny, you're smarter than me.
Can you explain why museums have to close at five o'clock?
Everybody knows Ben that when it gets dark outside, museums
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come alive. Oh, that's true. I did see that. That That
was a good movie. Yea, Robins A couple of those movies, yea,
if you why, I saw the first one. So we
went to the SDMA, the San Diego Museum Art, and
I was hanging with Monet, Claude Monet and someone I've
goofed on many times. I said, it's like a Monee.
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It looks great from a distance and you get close,
you get closer and you're like, ooh. But they had Monet's,
they had Picasso's, Salvador Dolli Batisse. And I don't think
my wife appreciated some of my commentary, Danny, because I'm
not a big art museum guy. That was more for
her she's more to this than I am. But I
was like, I'll be a good sport, I'll be a
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team player. Why not? And so we we did our thing,
and some of the paintings I would I told my wife,
I said, I think if I went to like Michael's
or Joanne's and bought some paint and gave it to
my four year old nephew and told him on a
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blank canvas to paint, that he would do a very
similar job to what I'm looking at in the art
museum that is a million dollars masterpiece. And I don't
think she appreciated that. And anyway, that was it was fun.
We went to the gas gas lamp district in San Diego.
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That was also crazy, and there were long waits to
eat and I didn't see Poppy or anyone I know.
But the art thing, it reminds me of that great
quote anything and everything can be art. It's true, anything
can be art. I could I could say right now
this podcast is art. It's art. If you say it's art,
it's art. Yeah. And a lot of it's just marketing.
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I've determined a lot of what makes art popular is
just a certain percentage of rich people who think it's
like the intellectual crowd. I'm not an intellectual. I talk
about sports. You just need a really good manager like
suld Night. Oh yeah, what's what's he? What's he doing
these days? Do we know what he's up to? Is
he's listening to our podcast Behind Bars. He's on an
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extended vacation at the Great Bar Hotel. Is that right? Yeah?
What ug? There? You go? All right, So that was
my trip to to Sandy. Also, my favorite art quote
is from Andy Warhol, who said an artist is somebody
who produces things that people don't need to have. That's
about right. That's much like sports talk radio or podcasting.
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Wait a second, though, when I visited you for your
Halloween party at the mallor Mansion, you had some art
up on the walls. Well, that was not my doing,
and I did dresses Bob Ross, the greatest painter of
all right, all right, what you're doing? What you're doing?
Portion of the show. Now, we've asked people to send
in comments on what they're doing, and our friend Jennifer
(27:42):
from Richmond, Virginia writes in she says I am late
to the what You're Doing party? She says, I love
to listen to the fifth dollar Pods. When I am
Jennifer says lifting weights about this wonder woman doing Aaron
laying in the tanning bed, Hello, Giggy and cooking dinner.
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So she says, thanks all you guys do and we
thank you. Jennifer, that's kind of cool. You think she's
got a tanning bed in her house or she goes
to like a tanning bed somewhere out in the city,
probably a tanning salon. Those things are expensive, aren't they
have the tank? Yeah, those things are pricey. Plus they
probably break all the time. Be a pain, a pain
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in the behind, for sure. We'll do a few. Pop
goes the culture and stories and that means, ohio, all right,
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thank you, ah hi, we'll do a couple. Did you
see this story? You might guys might have talked about
this on Caveno and Rich. There was a couple that
sued is Snorkeling Company. Oh yeah, yeah. They allegedly were
abandoned in the middle of the ocean. They almost drowned. Yeah,
that is crazy the story. The New York Post had
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it the other day. And the water became turbulent and
all that stuff, and that is have you you've been
on these things, right, these snorkeling I was in Hawaii. Yeah,
I've been on snorkeling boats twice now. And that's why
reading the story gave me anxiety. That water is pretty
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rough sometimes, and so when you fight your way back
to the boat, you have a sigh of relief, like, oh,
thank god, I'm back on the boat. It's fun while
you're snorkeling, but it takes everything out of you to
fight that choppy water. So imagine the boat leaving and
you being stuck in that choppy water. How does that happen?
(29:54):
This happened in Hawaii. It happened near Maui. I've I
was snorkeling near Kawaie, the the great coast there forgetting
the name of it, but that beautiful coast in Hawaii,
which is just wonderful. But yeah, they's having a Maui
in September of twenty twenty one, Like, don't you do
a headcount? Don't you say, all right, everyone, everyone that
(30:17):
is in our foxhole is going to be in our foxhole.
When they blamed it on people moving around during the
head count on the boat, they said that they couldn't
get everyone to sit still okay, do the head count again? Then, yeah,
you gotta make sure on that. Oh yeah, you talk
about negligence. They're gonna win some money, right, Yeah, I
(30:39):
don't know. Well, yeah, it's normally to win a lot
of money, you gotta have permanent damage. Do they have
permanent damage? Oh? I guess if they're scarred to ever
get back in the water. Maybe, Yeah, another pop goes
the culture story. Study finds that making daylight saving time permanent,
which is supposed to happen. I guess it's not official.
(31:01):
We're supposed to change the clocks in April, and if
everything goes right, that'll be the last time we change
the clocks. I think, yeah, that's what I read too. Yeah.
But this new study claims that by doing that. This
is from the journal Current Biology this week. They claim
they predict that keeping year round daylight savings time will
(31:24):
reduce the amount of time that rush hour traffic takes
place during darkness, which makes sense. That would prevent thirty
three deaths and two thousand injuries, and would save about
one point two billion dollars in collision costs. Do you
buy that? I think that's bullshit. I'm not a numbers guy.
(31:45):
But that doesn't seem to add up. Yeah, one point
two billion. How do they know it's exactly thirty three
people that will be saved? Why is it not thirty
five people or forty people? Why is it only thirty three?
Why you gotta be so skeptical. I'm just saying, man,
I'm just I'm just put that out. Here's one right
(32:07):
out of a horror movie. Football sized self cloning monster goldfish.
Do you see this one taking over Canadian lakes by
the thousands, by the thousands. How the hell did this happen? Well,
the fish. The fish rank third in both countries, behind
(32:30):
dogs and cats as the most popular household pet. The goldfish,
I guess, just fish in general, but people regularly will
abandon their pets and in this case fish, and so
these monster goldfish have been popping up because when the
goldfish outgrows the tank, the owner dumps it in the
(32:53):
pond or the lake and flushing them down the toilet,
which I guess makes them stronger. Anyway, a CBC is
reporting that these monster goldfish are the size of an
NFL football. Yeah. Yeah, Thousands of large invasive goldfish have
(33:15):
multiplied in bodies of water around the province there in
Canada and the goldfish. Wow, they can release fifty thousand
eggs at one time. They do this three times a summer,
so you can do the math on that. Who needs
a koi pond? Like, check out my fat ass goldfish?
(33:37):
Check this out. The female goldfish do not even need
the male to reproduce. They can do it on their own.
I'm a female goldfish, hear me, swim, I'm a woman,
hear me raw. Wow. Yeah, the females do not need
us male goldfish. They have a special process that's got
(33:59):
a funny typical name. But the female will get the
sperm from different kinds of minnow and to start the
egg developing. And what a ho h man? How about that?
I guess like you matter so useless. We don't need you,
male goldfish. Screw you, We'll do it our own. You
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lose it. Uh. And they went doing it on their own. Uh.
There was one as one other one. I wanted to
get to um trying to trying to find it. There's
a few things that that popped up here, all right,
how about this one? These stories pop up every every
(34:42):
so often and we all just kind of like, look
at this and say, ah, that's uh, that's bull pucky.
That's bullpucky. Uh. This is another one of these weight
loss ones. It says edible flowers from West Africa maybe
a natural weight loss supplement. I don't know these weight
(35:04):
loss things. You know how many these things I've read
over the years, and they're all bullshit because people are
still gaining weight and doing their thing. Here's another one.
Cars could be powered by baking powder, while planes could
run on fertilizer by the end of the decade, by
twenty thirty. That sounds like a bunch of fertilizer. That's fertilizer, right.
(35:30):
This comes out of the guy that is a chemistry
professor at the University of Oxford in England. He predicts
that sodium will become the dominant battery type for cars,
ammonia found and fertilizer could be used to power airlines. Yeah.
You imagine being on a plane and you're like, we
gotta go back. We need more fertilizers so we can fly. Yeah.
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I got one for you. A big band. What's that?
If you grew up in southern California, or even if
you just ever visited Southern California, you knew Cal Worthington
in his famous commercials. That's right, Worthington family sold their
very last dealership, marking an end of an era. And
(36:17):
of course it was go see cow, go see caw,
go see caw. But as little kids, what did we
think they were saying? It was something a little different,
something a little let's see cow put the cow exactly.
And you know the story I heard that that started
as a gag that Cal Worthington did that to goof
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on a another car dealer, that he started paying it
to people that aren't familiar with this. So Cal Worthington
was a local car dealership in LA in Long Beach,
I believe, but they had a bunch of dealerships by
the time they got going. And so Cal would show
up in this oversized cowboy hat, Cal Worthington, and he'd
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have like a lion or a bear or a dog
or whatever, like crazy exotic animals, and he would do
the commercial like he'd just pretend like he wasn't scared
for his life, and he'd have a brown bear right
next to him. Yeah, almost like the animal tamer that
would bring different animals to the tonight show. Yeah, yeah,
(37:23):
and they were so over the top. In fact, if
you want to, if you want to check them out,
a lot of those commercials are on YouTube. You can
type in cal Worthington and they'll come up and you
can check him out. It was it was crazy, but
that isn't the end of an era. I mean that
was a big part of television when everyone was watching
the same eight channels. Yeah, pretty crazy. There. We've outlived
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cal Worthington and his dog spot, right, and his dog spot. Yeah,
and the joke was his dog spot might be a lion,
it might be an alligator, it might be a bear.
Come see my dogs. Right, Good times in the hood,
good memories, doing nostalgia, nostalgia. It is all right, having
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wonderful rest of your day on this Saturday. We will
catch you next time. Anything you want to promote. You're
off today, right, Danny. You've got nothing going on? You
just oh yeah, it's a clean the garage day until Sunday.
Gonna go to Santa Barbara for a little bit, which
should be cool. And don't forget we have the mail
bag coming up on Sunday. That's right, mail Bag on Sunday.
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on tap. We are ready to kick it off right now. Yeah,
let's do this. And Ben, I just want to address
the rumors that I earned over two hundred and fifty
dollars yesterday from selling some of my Gmail votes, and
that is incorrect. It was only two hundred and forty
nine dollars. Yeah, well, Alf, the alien of Pinter short
(01:31):
changed you a dollar. And it's a bad job by Alf.
Shame on you, Shame on you. Alf. Come on, do
better next time. Alf. So on this podcast, we've got
double Mint, that's normal, hanging with Monet what you're doing,
and Pop goes to culture. That's a lot of content
(01:52):
for a lazy Saturday podcast. I would say that's way
too much content. Discretion is advised. I mean, it's unbelievable
how we squeeze all that in day. We might have
to time shift half of this to Sunday for ratings purposes. Only.
For ratings purposes only, we'll be spinning our wheels, is
(02:14):
what we'll be doing. Speaking of that, we will now
move forward in the broadcast. And we had a very
very very very busy start to last week on the
terrestrial radio show. If you were listening, you heard the
magic in the old Fox Sports Radio studio. We have
(02:35):
not moved to the new studio. I'm a skeptic on that.
And the main old studio always hectic, you know, and
you know when you start back at work after a
couple of days off during the overnight show, we have
a day and a half off. We work on Friday
and then we're off the rest of Friday, but we
sleep most of Friday. We're off on Saturday, but then
(02:56):
Sunday's workday, so it's really like a day and a
half off. It's not two full days. It's a day
and half. So it's it's a blessing and a curse
because you're off Friday night and Saturday night, but you
gotta work Sunday, and so it's hold it. So coming
back from the weekend, it's kind of hectic and all
that getting back up to speed. And this night was
different than all other nights because we had a Greyhound
(03:18):
bus terminal. It was a beehive on the show. It
reminded me of that old commercial from the back of
the Day, double mint Gum, double your Pleasure, double your Fun. First,
we had planned a excursion with Mason, the Millennial, the
legendary Mason. You met Mason at the mallord b good
(03:41):
young guy works for Tesla and he wanted to stop by.
He had emailed me, he had reached out, and you know,
I'm doing the show. It's hybrid. Some of the time,
I'm in the main studio. A lot of the times
I'm in the in the mobile Mallar studio, the home
studio and so. But if if you're going to be
in town and you want to hang out out, I
can certainly adjust my schedule. And so Mason was like, Hey,
(04:03):
I'm gonna be there, like to stop buying, and I
was like, okay, cool, and so he reached out. He
was going to a concert in the hood in Inglewood
and he lives in the Bay Area. A good guy,
big fantasy show. So I'm going to the studio to
hay because Mason's gonna show up near the end of
the show. And I was excited to see him and
(04:24):
meet him again and all this stuff. But I got
a I got a message right before the show started saying, Hey,
are you in studio? And I was like, yah, yeah,
I'm in studio. And it was from Jay Scoop, the
legendary Jay Scoop. Oh was he visiting from Tea Town? Yeah,
he was in town and the gladiator known as Jay Scoop,
(04:45):
and he said he was passing through La. He was
in town to record some stuff. As he continues the
musical career, and he wanted to stop buying say hello,
and I was like, of course, the man almost died
in December. Of course I'm gonna let Jay Scoop come
hang out. So it was really cool to hang out
(05:06):
with him. And Jay Scoop's been such a great part
of the show and helped us out. He put together
that Seattle meet and greet back in twenty nineteen, right
before COVID a debonair a debonair member of the Malabusha,
Jay Scoop, So I hung out with him for the
first about the first maybe of the second hour, and
(05:30):
then he got out of there. And then the very approachable,
very friendly Mason the Millennial Show. So that was cool.
And Mason's a bit of a social butterfly like I'm not,
but you know, Mason's a people person. Now, did Mason
find our friend Helmet Man outside of the concert in Inglewood?
He did not report back to me that he did
(05:53):
see Helmet Man. But I promise you Helmet Man is
at every event at the Daanium in Inglewood, is outside
well dressed, well groomed, as always right as the greatest
set up in the world. There, I fell asleep and
speaking a debonair. You can't get more charismatic than than
(06:16):
that guy, right, I mean my and he's completely oblivious
to the fact that he called the show pretty much
every week for like five six years. I'm actually on
the live air. And then he moved and completely forgot
about the show, just completely moved on to something else.
So I guess you could say that's normal for him, right, Danny,
(06:41):
you could say that's normal for helmet man, but not
for most other people. Yeah, he is a special member
of the militia. Yeah, he's got a simpatico delivery he does.
That's a good word, sympotico. I like that word. Somebody
owes you five dollars. I don't use that word very much. Sympotico.
It's good. It's a pleasant guy, is a pleasant guy.
(07:02):
We like people like that. We don't. We'd rather hang
out with people that are that are friendly and who
wouldn't some douchebag who wants that. Did any of your
guests bring you some fat sALS? No? And that did
piss me off. As you know, Danny, we had the rule,
if you're gonna visit, the price of admission you got
(07:22):
to buy us off with food. Yes, that's been a
long time entry fee. Yeah. The problem is this a
we're all on these fughasy diets, right so we do
this in a minute fast Even Eddie's on this nonsense.
And I love fat sALS. It's very tough to recreate
(07:44):
it if you if you don't eat it right away,
like any food, if you don't eat it right away
fat Seals, that fat Texas barbecue and you try to
reheat it, it is not an enjoyable meal, you know
what I'm saying. It's I mean, you can put it
in the oven and it'll be okay, but it's not.
It doesn't have the same razmatazz as if you have
(08:06):
it right away. Not to belabor the point, but I
think I've made it. It's kind of like eating any
any fast food. I've got to eat it within You
got about a twenty five thirty minute window to eat
fast food. If you don't eat it right away, you're done.
It sucks, it blows, it's terrible garbage, garbage. Well, then
just smaller orders, like you guys could split a Fat
(08:28):
Seals sandwich. Oh but if I'm doing inter minute fasting,
I can't even eat anything. I can just drink water.
That's the problem. Don't shake your head at me. Not
dare you? How dare you shake at my Michigassi? Here
was great, great fat seals history on the show, and
you guys are just shameful right now. Well you were
(08:48):
there for the cakes also though. That was unreal. God
that now that was overboard. We were getting designer cakes
for like every other week. At one point, even job
of the Hut would have been like, Okay, that's too much, dude.
It was insane. It was absolutely nuts. And these were
like designer luxury cakes like these were like thousand dollars
(09:14):
cakes that we were getting every week. We remember the
chuck the Condor one. We had a camel. I remember
we talked about Adrian Peterson had a camel at his
birthday party, and so I was like, I want a
camel and we had a camel cake. I still have
your camel drop, I want a camel. That was crazy, man.
(09:40):
That also cake pops pizza almost every week, lots of
pizza bets and lots of listeners would send pizza in
for whatever celebration happened to be going on that week
for the show. I don't think I've ever eaten that
much Domino's pizza in my life. Yeah, we knew every
(10:02):
nuance from the Domino's pizza menu, and the Domino's delivery
guy was on a first name basis. We'd let the
guy come in, he'd hang out with us, you know,
he'd have the pizzas. We'd let him kind of chill
out in the studio, and it was like we were
like buddies, we're hanging out. Why not? What the hell er? Exactly?
(10:24):
So turning the page on that Dan He turning the
page and that was normal back then. But is that
normal now? Right? You know? And it's funny because this
kind of ties into your buddy Jay Scoop, who you
were just talking about. He moved to northern California, right, Yes, yes,
he's back in Colin Kaepernick's old stomping ground. That's right.
(10:46):
And that's also where my mom stays, and I drove
up this past weekend to visit her. Now, I also
wanted to be halfway between my family who live in
the Bay Area, so I found the night Aist hotel
in Stockton, California. And Stockton is known as a nice
(11:07):
vacation city. It's underrated. You look at all the travel websites.
That's some of the finest hotels in the world. They
do the surveys every year. Yeah yeah, And of course
this didn't happen until the famous mayor Michael Tubbs took
over and cleaned up the city. I'm talking about the
seventy ninth mayor of Stockton, California, who was featured on
(11:30):
HBO and other big channels across the country. Because of
mister Tubbs, there are now the four Seasons there, there
is a Grand High, there's a ritz I believe. Yeah,
I didn't know which fancy hotel to choose from in Stockton. Yeah,
but I've been to a minor league hockey game in
(11:52):
Stockton at their sports arena, really pretty arena right on
the harbor. There's a hotel adjacent. Teams stay at the hotel.
It's about it's about twenty stories high, really nice looking hotel. Yeah.
So I found a good rate. Even though my Tenderni
is really picky when it comes to hotels, I thought
(12:14):
to myself, well, she's gonna really love this place. Get
to Stockton, And as soon as we drive into the city,
the first thing you see at the first stoplight that
we're at is a building that's boarded up, always a
good indicator that you're in a good part of town. Yeah,
and it looked like this used to be an amazing restaurant,
(12:37):
but now it had wood covering all of its windows.
She looked at me and she said, this place looks abandoned.
That is kind of hate. Well, it's just the ambiance
of the town. It's it's it's you know, it's an
old rustic It's a rustic look, is what it is now.
(12:57):
Mind you. Stockton as a special place in my heart.
This was the first radio market where I had my
first professional radio gig. First time I ever got a
paycheck for blabbing and talking on the microphone was in Stockton, California.
Did a live broadcast there one time in front of
the black Angus and it's the Chevy Impaula came scooting by,
(13:23):
and the guys inside the impaula showed me a gun. Well,
much like John Morant down the line, you know, you
just want to sometimes you want to share. It's like
it's like an elementary school, right, you bring things in
to share with the class. Yeah, I felt like because
I was holding a microphone and the dude in the car.
(13:43):
He was showing me what he was holding. Yeah, so
I felt like it was like a sign of respect,
Like he was like, yeah, you're holding the steel, I'm
holding the steel. Yeah. Come on, we're all friends here.
Look at this. It's like the Old West. It's like
a saloon in the Old West. So I have this
connection with Stockton since I was a kid. You know,
(14:04):
I spent half my life in La the other half
up in the Bay in the Stockton area, and so
I you know, this was the first time, by the way,
that I got to take my TINDERRONI to that area.
She's gonna meet my mom the next day. We're gonna
have breakfast. So I'm thinking, well, what are we going
to do tonight in the Stockton area. But first I
(14:27):
gotta get checked into the hotel. So now we see
this boarded up restaurant. She tells me this looks abandoned.
I told her, no, no, no, that's normal. We go
down the main drag and right in front of city Hall,
I need to take a left to get to the
waterfront for the hotel. As we are passing City Hall,
(14:47):
there is a dude ben in broad daylight who is
watering the city's lawn. I know they've got a lot
of rain, but the drought you've got you gotta help
out man, organic water, come on God's water. Now. Thank god.
He had his back turned to us, but we could
see the spray, yeah, onto the grass, and my girl said,
(15:12):
oh my god, it is that guy doing what I
think he's doing. And I was like, just look straight ahead,
we're going to the waterfront. So now, in fairness, have
you let your wife know that at the Fox Sports
Radio studios on multiple occasions, there have been homeless people
that have gotten up on the what do you call that,
the planter in front of Fox Sports Radio, Yeah, and
(15:36):
not realizing that the glass there's actually people behind it.
The windows they have taken care of their bids right
on the right there. Yeah, exactly what it looked like,
but from a different vantage point in a car. Yeah.
Now we get to the waterfront and I'm like, this
is nice. I see the nice arena, I see the
(15:57):
nice hotel. But there are two guys they must have
been the guards working for the hotel, both of them
standing outside of the hotel holding forties in brown paper bags.
Oh okay yeah, and I'm like, wow, they left their
security guards drink on the job. It's pretty cool. Listen,
(16:21):
it's it's part of the uniform, right, yeah. Yeah. Were
they smoking anything? Also, they have any Yeah. At this point,
we just wanted to get in and get our bags
to the room. So we go inside. My girl has
to use the bathroom, and we both look at something
that I don't normally see at any hotel. You know
how there's usually a concierge desk. Yeah, yeah, sure. At
(16:44):
this hotel, they turned the concierge area into a security station. Oh.
Of course, this reminds me of the hotel I stay
I was checked in at in Phoenix and we left.
That's what this reminds me of. In really big letters
across the desk and said security, and I was just
(17:06):
shaking my head, like, oh man, well, at least they
have security. Um, did you see anyone walking out with
a wife beater on and any of that? No? No,
But as I was bringing our bags up to the
room on the second floor, there was a dude in
the elevator smoking a blunt smoke. Okay, there you go,
(17:28):
come on, like, okay, a lot of places in California
don't allow you to smoke. So it's a smoke friendly hotel. Okay, perfect.
Now I'm really hungry, and I tell my girl. I'm like,
I'm gonna go find us a snack. You stay here
at the hotel, take a shower, relax. I'm gonna go
get us something to eat. Yeah. I am driving down
(17:51):
March Lane and right next to me, Ben, there was
a drag race going on. These two dudes aren't going
for it. Drag race seen each other. It was fast
and the Furious twelve. It was awesome, all right. So
I got a free show on my way to the
Togo sandwich shop and this jive turkey comes up to
(18:11):
me and he says, man, I like your Dodger's hat,
but you're in the Bay Area. You need to pay
a giant's fee. Get away from me. San Francisco's that way.
You need to go get a fee out of your
giant's owner. You guys suck. Yeah, And then he pushed
you right between the eyes right there. You know, he
didn't know I don't look like the friendliest dude, so
(18:32):
he left me alone. I mean, Biga, let alone. I
got you, all right, So I get back to the
fancy hotel. I told my girl I said, okay, you
got three options. A minor league basketball game happening at
the Arena tonight, there's a Sacramento Kings game a half
hour up the road, or we can go towards my
(18:55):
mom's town and see a movie. She said, well, well,
which direction is the least violent? You say, none of
the above. So we went to the cowtown and I
took her to see Cocaine Bear Bunch of Hookers on Cocaine.
(19:18):
It was actually better than we expected. It was a
pretty good movie. It's a nice little town called Mantica.
All was well, all was right in the world. Everything
turned out okay. But when we got out of there,
I told my girl, I was like, well, look at
I didn't realize there was that shaine of hotel here.
The next time we come back, we'll stay there. And
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she said, no, no, no, no, next time, have your
mom come down here and I'll pay for Disneyland for her.
Oh that's great. Oh man, do they still have they
used to have a mir League team? He called the
ports that still yeah, they still there. There's the Stockton
Ports and the Modesto Nuts. I remember the stock In
(20:00):
Ports back back in the day. So was it awkward.
Your mom had not met you're married, You've got a
a spawn on the way, and your mom had not
approved of this. Is this was this awkward for you? No,
it was not awkward. My mom is a fan of
my life right now. She just had never met her
(20:22):
in person yet, and we wanted her to go to
the wedding really bad, but she could not take the
long flight to Hawaii, so that's why we had to
drive to her. And before my girl gets too big
with the pregnancy, I was like, we better make our
way up north. That's a smart move. Sure, yeah, yeah,
now where you know? You weren't nervous at all, because
(20:43):
when I introduced my now wife to my mom, I
was like, I like threw up. I was so nervous,
Like I needed my mom's I needed my mom's approval.
But you're at the point where you've already gone down
the road, so it's like, you know, you're it's a
little different. I was just dating at the time, so
for me, it was like a deal, and I think
it would have been more nerve wracking if it was
(21:04):
just somebody I was dating. My mom is very religious,
always has been. To her. If you're just dating someone
or living with them. You're living in sin So I'm
on the up and up right now because I actually
got hitched. You're you're you're legal. Everything's good. You know,
your Bible approved Jesus hanging with money. So you were driving,
(21:31):
you drove to to your old stopping grounds to see family. Well,
my wife she wanted to get out of town. We
get this new malamobile and she wanted to go on
a road trip. Oh, tell her about Stockton. Yeah, I'll
recommend that. You know, my wife loves thaying at hotels
like that, as your wife does. She's like, we need
(21:51):
to go somewhere. We need to go to Vegas, bas Vegas,
Baby Vegas. And then I was like okay, And then
she wanted me to see if I, you know, I
know some people in Vegas. I might be able to
get a deal on a hotel. So I reached out
to one of the guys that I dealt with in
the past to you know, could hook you up. And
I send a nice email, said, hey, I'm gonna be
(22:13):
in town, you know whatever. Didn't even bother right back.
The guy didn't right back. I haven't talked to him
since COVID, so maybe he's upset with me. So that
was that was that total. The guy didn't get back
to me. So then I say, well, we didn't want
to go to Vegas because it's expensive and whatever, so
we made a run for the border. We decided to
stop in San Diego for the little one day sojourn
(22:36):
to my old stomping grounds with San Diego. And every
time we go to San Diego, I always point out
that's the building I started in radio right over there.
Well that's all right. Next year, off at sea World Drive,
five South SeaWorld Drive. You make a right and a
left and it's this building that's right across from the
California Highway Patrol station, which we were always pissed about
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because we worked there. We couldn't beat out of the
lot because literally right across the street were HP. So
it was. But anyway, we went to San Diego and
we stopped at Old Town. You've been there, right, you
go in San Diego. That's a tourist trap. Oh yeah, yeah,
that's great, And so parking was a boondoggle. Had a
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nice authentic Mexican you know me at that restaurant there,
and then headed to bout Ball Park. I had not
been to ballpark, and I was a kid. I didn't
go there when I worked there. I just go to
pottery games or Charger games. I didn't go to bout
balla park. But that's where all the museums are in
San Diego. And it was a freak show. I mean
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they had every base cupboard, the Gods squad was out,
and then some you had one booth over here. There
was a ten Aska Christian that was the first one,
which is fine. Then it was Asking Atheist, then it
was Aska Muslim and it was just like they all
had their own They were all recruiting every even the
non religions we recruiting. I did not see ask a Jew.
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I did not did not I could have helped. I
could have put my own booth up. I'm a bad Jew,
but I could have put that up. That was called Alexa.
Yeah there you go, Oh dare you? But it's a
missed opportunity, a missed opportunity. But we we didn't have
a lot of time. By the time we got to
Balboa Park, it was kind of later in the day,
and all these freaking museums closed early. Why on, somebody
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explained to me, why does a museum have to close
at five o'clock. Why can't it be open to eight o'clock?
Why five o'clock? Why not six o'clock, seven o'clock, maybe
nine o'clock? Why why do they keep bankers hours at museums?
Can you explain that to me? Danny, you're smarter than me.
Can you explain why museums have to close at five o'clock?
Everybody knows Ben that when it gets dark outside, museums
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come alive. Oh, that's true. I did see that. That That
was a good movie. Yea, Robins A couple of those movies, yea,
if you why, I saw the first one. So we
went to the SDMA, the San Diego Museum Art, and
I was hanging with Monet, Claude Monet and someone I've
goofed on many times. I said, it's like a Monee.
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It looks great from a distance and you get close,
you get closer and you're like, ooh. But they had Monet's,
they had Picasso's, Salvador Dolli Batisse. And I don't think
my wife appreciated some of my commentary, Danny, because I'm
not a big art museum guy. That was more for
her she's more to this than I am. But I
was like, I'll be a good sport, I'll be a
(25:31):
team player. Why not? And so we we did our thing,
and some of the paintings I would I told my wife,
I said, I think if I went to like Michael's
or Joanne's and bought some paint and gave it to
my four year old nephew and told him on a
(25:52):
blank canvas to paint, that he would do a very
similar job to what I'm looking at in the art
museum that is a million dollars masterpiece. And I don't
think she appreciated that. And anyway, that was it was fun.
We went to the gas gas lamp district in San Diego.
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That was also crazy, and there were long waits to
eat and I didn't see Poppy or anyone I know.
But the art thing, it reminds me of that great
quote anything and everything can be art. It's true, anything
can be art. I could I could say right now
this podcast is art. It's art. If you say it's art,
it's art. Yeah. And a lot of it's just marketing.
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I've determined a lot of what makes art popular is
just a certain percentage of rich people who think it's
like the intellectual crowd. I'm not an intellectual. I talk
about sports. You just need a really good manager like
suld Night. Oh yeah, what's what's he? What's he doing
these days? Do we know what he's up to? Is
he's listening to our podcast Behind Bars. He's on an
(26:59):
extended vacation at the Great Bar Hotel. Is that right? Yeah?
What ug? There? You go? All right, So that was
my trip to to Sandy. Also, my favorite art quote
is from Andy Warhol, who said an artist is somebody
who produces things that people don't need to have. That's
about right. That's much like sports talk radio or podcasting.
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Wait a second, though, when I visited you for your
Halloween party at the mallor Mansion, you had some art
up on the walls. Well, that was not my doing,
and I did dresses Bob Ross, the greatest painter of
all right, all right, what you're doing? What you're doing?
Portion of the show. Now, we've asked people to send
in comments on what they're doing, and our friend Jennifer
(27:42):
from Richmond, Virginia writes in she says I am late
to the what You're Doing party? She says, I love
to listen to the fifth dollar Pods. When I am
Jennifer says lifting weights about this wonder woman doing Aaron
laying in the tanning bed, Hello, Giggy and cooking dinner.
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So she says, thanks all you guys do and we
thank you. Jennifer, that's kind of cool. You think she's
got a tanning bed in her house or she goes
to like a tanning bed somewhere out in the city,
probably a tanning salon. Those things are expensive, aren't they
have the tank? Yeah, those things are pricey. Plus they
probably break all the time. Be a pain, a pain
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in the behind, for sure. We'll do a few. Pop
goes the culture and stories and that means, ohio, all right,
(28:51):
thank you, ah hi, we'll do a couple. Did you
see this story? You might guys might have talked about
this on Caveno and Rich. There was a couple that
sued is Snorkeling Company. Oh yeah, yeah. They allegedly were
abandoned in the middle of the ocean. They almost drowned. Yeah,
that is crazy the story. The New York Post had
(29:13):
it the other day. And the water became turbulent and
all that stuff, and that is have you you've been
on these things, right, these snorkeling I was in Hawaii. Yeah,
I've been on snorkeling boats twice now. And that's why
reading the story gave me anxiety. That water is pretty
(29:33):
rough sometimes, and so when you fight your way back
to the boat, you have a sigh of relief, like, oh,
thank god, I'm back on the boat. It's fun while
you're snorkeling, but it takes everything out of you to
fight that choppy water. So imagine the boat leaving and
you being stuck in that choppy water. How does that happen?
(29:54):
This happened in Hawaii. It happened near Maui. I've I
was snorkeling near Kawaie, the the great coast there forgetting
the name of it, but that beautiful coast in Hawaii,
which is just wonderful. But yeah, they's having a Maui
in September of twenty twenty one, Like, don't you do
a headcount? Don't you say, all right, everyone, everyone that
(30:17):
is in our foxhole is going to be in our foxhole.
When they blamed it on people moving around during the
head count on the boat, they said that they couldn't
get everyone to sit still okay, do the head count again? Then, yeah,
you gotta make sure on that. Oh yeah, you talk
about negligence. They're gonna win some money, right, Yeah, I
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don't know. Well, yeah, it's normally to win a lot
of money, you gotta have permanent damage. Do they have
permanent damage? Oh? I guess if they're scarred to ever
get back in the water. Maybe, Yeah, another pop goes
the culture story. Study finds that making daylight saving time permanent,
which is supposed to happen. I guess it's not official.
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We're supposed to change the clocks in April, and if
everything goes right, that'll be the last time we change
the clocks. I think, yeah, that's what I read too. Yeah.
But this new study claims that by doing that. This
is from the journal Current Biology this week. They claim
they predict that keeping year round daylight savings time will
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reduce the amount of time that rush hour traffic takes
place during darkness, which makes sense. That would prevent thirty
three deaths and two thousand injuries, and would save about
one point two billion dollars in collision costs. Do you
buy that? I think that's bullshit. I'm not a numbers guy.
(31:45):
But that doesn't seem to add up. Yeah, one point
two billion. How do they know it's exactly thirty three
people that will be saved? Why is it not thirty
five people or forty people? Why is it only thirty three?
Why you gotta be so skeptical. I'm just saying, man,
I'm just I'm just put that out. Here's one right
(32:07):
out of a horror movie. Football sized self cloning monster goldfish.
Do you see this one taking over Canadian lakes by
the thousands, by the thousands. How the hell did this happen? Well,
the fish. The fish rank third in both countries, behind
(32:30):
dogs and cats as the most popular household pet. The goldfish,
I guess, just fish in general, but people regularly will
abandon their pets and in this case fish, and so
these monster goldfish have been popping up because when the
goldfish outgrows the tank, the owner dumps it in the
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pond or the lake and flushing them down the toilet,
which I guess makes them stronger. Anyway, a CBC is
reporting that these monster goldfish are the size of an
NFL football. Yeah. Yeah, Thousands of large invasive goldfish have
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multiplied in bodies of water around the province there in
Canada and the goldfish. Wow, they can release fifty thousand
eggs at one time. They do this three times a summer,
so you can do the math on that. Who needs
a koi pond? Like, check out my fat ass goldfish?
(33:37):
Check this out. The female goldfish do not even need
the male to reproduce. They can do it on their own.
I'm a female goldfish, hear me, swim, I'm a woman,
hear me raw. Wow. Yeah, the females do not need
us male goldfish. They have a special process that's got
(33:59):
a funny typical name. But the female will get the
sperm from different kinds of minnow and to start the
egg developing. And what a ho h man? How about that?
I guess like you matter so useless. We don't need you,
male goldfish. Screw you, We'll do it our own. You
(34:21):
lose it. Uh. And they went doing it on their own. Uh.
There was one as one other one. I wanted to
get to um trying to trying to find it. There's
a few things that that popped up here, all right,
how about this one? These stories pop up every every
(34:42):
so often and we all just kind of like, look
at this and say, ah, that's uh, that's bull pucky.
That's bullpucky. Uh. This is another one of these weight
loss ones. It says edible flowers from West Africa maybe
a natural weight loss supplement. I don't know these weight
(35:04):
loss things. You know how many these things I've read
over the years, and they're all bullshit because people are
still gaining weight and doing their thing. Here's another one.
Cars could be powered by baking powder, while planes could
run on fertilizer by the end of the decade, by
twenty thirty. That sounds like a bunch of fertilizer. That's fertilizer, right.
(35:30):
This comes out of the guy that is a chemistry
professor at the University of Oxford in England. He predicts
that sodium will become the dominant battery type for cars,
ammonia found and fertilizer could be used to power airlines. Yeah.
You imagine being on a plane and you're like, we
gotta go back. We need more fertilizers so we can fly. Yeah.
(35:56):
I got one for you. A big band. What's that?
If you grew up in southern California, or even if
you just ever visited Southern California, you knew Cal Worthington
in his famous commercials. That's right, Worthington family sold their
very last dealership, marking an end of an era. And
(36:17):
of course it was go see cow, go see caw,
go see caw. But as little kids, what did we
think they were saying? It was something a little different,
something a little let's see cow put the cow exactly.
And you know the story I heard that that started
as a gag that Cal Worthington did that to goof
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on a another car dealer, that he started paying it
to people that aren't familiar with this. So Cal Worthington
was a local car dealership in LA in Long Beach,
I believe, but they had a bunch of dealerships by
the time they got going. And so Cal would show
up in this oversized cowboy hat, Cal Worthington, and he'd
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have like a lion or a bear or a dog
or whatever, like crazy exotic animals, and he would do
the commercial like he'd just pretend like he wasn't scared
for his life, and he'd have a brown bear right
next to him. Yeah, almost like the animal tamer that
would bring different animals to the tonight show. Yeah, yeah,
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and they were so over the top. In fact, if
you want to, if you want to check them out,
a lot of those commercials are on YouTube. You can
type in cal Worthington and they'll come up and you
can check him out. It was it was crazy, but
that isn't the end of an era. I mean that
was a big part of television when everyone was watching
the same eight channels. Yeah, pretty crazy. There. We've outlived
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cal Worthington and his dog spot, right, and his dog spot. Yeah,
and the joke was his dog spot might be a lion,
it might be an alligator, it might be a bear.
Come see my dogs. Right, Good times in the hood,
good memories, doing nostalgia, nostalgia. It is all right, having
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wonderful rest of your day on this Saturday. We will
catch you next time. Anything you want to promote. You're
off today, right, Danny. You've got nothing going on? You
just oh yeah, it's a clean the garage day until Sunday.
Gonna go to Santa Barbara for a little bit, which
should be cool. And don't forget we have the mail
bag coming up on Sunday. That's right, mail Bag on Sunday.
(38:33):
Download that support the podcast with your questions and we
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