June 10, 2023 • 30 mins
Ben Maller & his 5th Hour homie Danny G. have Saturday fun! They're talking: Roberto/stories from past radio gigs, Ben & Ben, Mr. Miyagi, the Word of the Week & more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Kabbooms.
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 in
the a.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Everywhere The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller and Danny g
hanging out in the podcast Ojo eight days a week,
no days off, as we are literally in the air
everywhere a global reach. The iHeart Podcast network can get
this podcast everywhere on demand when you want, just like
(00:52):
you can get the Ben Malor Show podcast to hear
Danny G on with Covino and Rich during the week
on the Fox Sports Radio. Oh, you get this podcast
on the weekends. And so that is how it works. Danny,
I would like to think Roberto who came on, he
didn't have to do that. He doesn't work for the
company anymore. But that's the big show. We'll talk you
(01:14):
a little bit about that. But Roberto was on the
Friday podcast. So if you had a chance to sample that.
If not bad job by you. It is available to
download right now. You can hear Roberto talk about his
time at Fox Sports Radio and FSR and all of that.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
How cool is that.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
I've had situations I'm not sure if you ever have
in your radio career where you didn't get to say
goodbye to your audience. You just disappeared. It was almost
like you were there one day and gone the next
and back. When this happened to me, there was no
(01:57):
Twitter or anything like that. I couldn't send out a
message to the masses saying thank you so much and
I enjoyed my time and you know, I appreciate you
listening and all that. That's what radio hosts do nowadays.
When I couldn't do that, I saw some listeners later
down the line and they were pissed at me. They
(02:18):
were like, how can you just leave like that? You'dn't
even say goodbye or anything. And I'm like, well, you
don't understand how broadcasting works. They come and give you
your pink slip right after your show is over.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
Usually.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
Yeah. I remember when I was younger and I skipped
school and I watched the History Channel and they had
a documentary about Joseph Stalin and how he would make
people disappear where they would be there one day, they
would go to work and then they would never come home.
(02:51):
And not only would they never come home, he would
like erase all the back in those days, the books
with their names in them, the picture all disappear, like everything,
any trace of the people would go away. And it's
a similar concept in the radio business, which is fascinating
how they decided that is the way to go. But
I was told by a program director that the reason
(03:14):
we do that is to protect the license because if
we put somebody on the air that and we say, oh,
I get a final show, they are going to destroy
us and they are going to tear down the radio
station and they're gonna steal stuff, and you know all that.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
They were so paranoid, I know. And that's the thing
is that there is no way in hell.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
After seven years at the radio station I helped build
to number one, there's no way that I would go
in there at a steal something and b say something
bad on the air, because you know in broadcasting that
burning bridges is a no no, a big time no no,
because you're gonna somewhere along the way work with those
(04:01):
people again, somewhere down the road. Radio is a small community,
and you're gonna see one or two of those folks
sometime again in the future. And even as a youngster
in radio, I knew that, So there was no way
I would do any I wasn't gonna pull any shenanigans.
I just wanted to have a fun final show and
(04:21):
say goodbye to the morning show listeners. Instead, like you said,
they even erased my voice off of the commercials and
suddenly you're Mia. You're on a milk carton immediately.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
Yeah, And it's all the media, Like I remember when
Tucker Carlson got let go from Fox News, like he
was like their number one guy, and they obviously they
got rid of him, I guess on a Friday and
immediately like any trace completely. So it was great to
have Roberto on a retrospective on Roberto leaving the show.
(05:00):
He's actually the guy that replaced you, Danny, when you
went to the morning show. Yes, Roberto stepped in for you,
and I hope you heard the chat. Roberto been a
key part of the show the last five years, almost
five years, I think it's just a little short of
five years, and he's the guy that played the drops
(05:22):
most of the drops. Eddie plays some, but most of
the jobs come from Roberto. But change is part of
the business. And as we've been through a lot of
different people over the years, both of us in our
different travels, our roads and radio and any job. But
I feel like radio is more of like a Greyhound
bus station. And I was going through my head. I
(05:45):
was driving in and I was thinking about all the
different board ops and producers that I've worked with since
I started at Fox Sports Radio back in like two thousand.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
That must have been a long drive.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Yeah, And I'm like, well, that guy became a team
this guy's a baker, that guy's an insurance salesman. I
don't know what happened to that guy. He moved back
to Boston. I don't know what happened to that guy.
Then the other guy, the last I heard, he was
in rehab. Then there's the guy that I used to
work with who's a real estate mogul. And then there's
(06:17):
another guy who's like a program director at a radio station.
But I don't really talk to him, but I used
to be close to him. And you name it, someone
formally has passed through the building who is now doing
something totally efferent. Some of them are still working in radio.
But people, that's the old thing. People will come and
go in your lives all the time, and it's radio
(06:38):
is a transient business. And what's the old thing. It's
not your fault. It's the universe just making room for
new people, I think, is Yeah.
Speaker 4 (06:48):
And when we came up in broadcasting, we were told,
if you're able to stay at any call letters for
three years, that's an accomplishment because usually something happened in
three years, whether it's a lineup change, a programming change.
And for me, at that station I mentioned, which I
(07:08):
helped build for seven years, it was a management change
and it was a guy from across town who had
run the AC station in our market. And when he
got over to our station, he called a big staff
meeting and he proclaimed, why.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
Would I change anything?
Speaker 4 (07:26):
You guys are number one. And right after that meeting
I told my assistant program director.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
I was like, you know what that means, right, He's
going to change everything?
Speaker 1 (07:38):
Of course?
Speaker 3 (07:38):
Yeah? Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
I had I had a boss this really before I
got the Fox. I had a guy at one of
the stations I worked at that was like this really
slick sales guy. He wore the power suits, you know,
the purple jacket. One day had the bright red jacket,
the next had the power blue jacket.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
You know.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
He's a and he was like into the whole Tony
Robbins thing. And we were in a labor negotiation because
it was a union shop, and we were in a
labor negotiation and the guy they turned this what had
been an f It had been a music station and
they had a contract where it was like a union contract.
(08:19):
They flipped it the sports. Well, the sports station had
no audience. When you start a new station, new format,
there's no one listening. It takes a while to build
an audience. And so they had to pay us ridiculous
money that they had been paying the DJs that had
been at the radio station. And they were trying to
negotiate a lower pay because they're like, well, no one's listening.
(08:41):
Pay these guys that kind of money. And this boss
came into the meeting and he violated every labor law
on maagement. This is a long time ago. The statute
of limitations has run out. But he said, if you guys,
do not take this deal. I will system I don't
think he's used systematic, but I will take every one
(09:03):
of you away and I will flip on. At that time,
it was sports fan Radio, which was the network out
of Vegas, and I will I will just put that
on and I'll have the same number of people listening
and I'll save all this man. It was like he
violated every possible law you can do, and then he
didn't even end up doing anything. He just ended up
(09:24):
paying us and then and so it was a complete
waste of time. But you know, it's listen, things things happen.
I love Roberto, I'm gonna miss him, and uh, it's
one of these things. I mean, you you get used
to people and then you got to get use to
new people.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
And yeah, and my point was that not only do
we wish him well, and he's been a raider friend
this whole time. In fact, on Sundays he's the one
guy I know that's gonna text my phone with some
filthy language because he's down to few and he's like
fucking Derek Carr. I can't believe fucking Derek Carr. Yeah,
(10:01):
I'm like the lifeline. I'm like the guy that has
to save him from drowning and his alcohol. And I'm
like Roberto, it's all right, it's the third corner. We
have time to come back. I'm the positive one.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Yeah, And I recall telling Roberto I think in the
podcast we were talking about, you know that I'll still
text him whenever the Dodgers screw up Dave Roberts makes
the wrong pitching change or micro manages the front you know,
the front office micro manages and they you know, this
guy's only he's pitching a shutout, but he's thrown seventy
eight pitches, so we have to take him out of
(10:33):
the game because his arm will fall off on seventy nine.
And this week we go back and forth on that.
So I'm sure, especially when the playoffs come around for
the Dodgers, I will be texting Roberto quite a bit.
And you know it's it's people have been emailing me.
I told Roberto this as people have been asking me
what happened. You know, he told the story from his
point of view, and I think it really is more
(10:56):
of a it's a money thing, but it's a schedule
of thing. And I think if the money was the
same and he had daytime hours. I think you'd be fine,
but people that all work overnight, you have no idea
how difficult it is. It seems like you'd get used
to it, but and I'm pretty used to it, but
some people just go crazy and it's just not good
(11:17):
and it creates Yeah, a lot of the issues are
not necessarily with yourself.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
It's with your family family.
Speaker 4 (11:23):
I was just going to say that no one really
realizes until you're in it and you're trying to do it,
that your family expects you to flip your schedule around
immediately every weekend, and you do your best, so you
pretend like it's not bothering you, but you kind of
feel like a zombie and everybody else is, you know,
(11:43):
laughing and having a good time on the weekend, and
it's just a weird feeling because you want to do
it and you're trying your best, but it sucks, man,
because your sleeping clock is completely twisted around.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
It's very rude of society, Like you can't go to
a bank four in the morning. If you do, you're
robbing it. You can't, I mean, you can't see as
someone at the bank. You can't get a doctor's appointment
at that time unless you're in the emergency room and
then you've got to wait for seventeen hours and all that. Like,
it's not designed. Society's not designed for people that work overnight.
(12:17):
But I mean there are restaurants open, there's obviously people working.
There's a lot of people working.
Speaker 4 (12:23):
The third shift in the first shift is the backbone
of our country.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
Yeah, I mean it's like it's people stocking shelves and
driving trucks and putting food out and cooking food and
all that stuff. So some of the things, you know,
we've obviously talked for a while here, but some of
the things we've got to get to. We have Ben
and Ben mister Miagi and the Word of the Week,
and we'll see if we get to anything else. We
might have to say pop culture and that other stuff
(12:51):
for the Sunday podcast, but we'll start with this. So
this past weekend, the Malord Mansion turned into a bend
and breakfast. That's a bed and breakfast. It turned into
my wife invited a childhood girlfriend of hers, her husband
(13:12):
and their toddler to stop by from they live in Oregon,
just outside Portland, Oregon, and they stopped by for a
very long visit. They came on a Thursday early in
the day and then they they left on Sunday, so
(13:35):
the mallord bed and breakfast. Now I did not know this, Danny,
this was unexpected. I knew they were coming, but they
didn't know all the details. My wife kind of gave
me some of the details and not all of them.
I pretty much keep to myself. I talk a lot.
We both talk a lot for our jobs. So on
the weekends I shut her down. I go to second year.
(13:55):
You know, stay in your lane. I don't make waves.
But the one one thing that's very important to me
is my domain, my my ecosystem, my world. I need.
I need that unsullied. I need that untouched. That's my
my domain, right, that's my spot. And I don't want,
(14:17):
you know, somebody coming over for a couple hours for visit.
I have no problem with that. I think that's great.
I have family, We have family over all the time.
But you start staying there and I mean, I'm trying
to play nice and all that stuff, but I'm like,
there's too many rogue actors running across the Serengetti, and
I don't know whether they're going to try to eat
me or anything like that. And so but anyway, I
(14:40):
was fine. So I was okay. The first couple of days.
I even went into the Mothership on a day that
I normally don't go in so they could sleep and
not hear me barking about some NFL scandal or the
NBA finals that my wife and this was all in
the brochure, but I didn't see the brochure. My wife
ife rolled out the what I call the VIP package
(15:05):
at the Mallard Bed and Breakfast, the club package, and
it included the all inclusive. She went shopping with them
and they picked out a few items at Costco, and
then when they were checking out, much to my wife's surprise,
she said, no one stepped up to buy said items.
(15:28):
So by I guess they just assumed it was part
of the y.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
They at least water or grass for you.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
So they well, we'll get to that. So we got
like seven pounds of pasta because their kid likes pasta.
Their kid, by the way, who just turned two. More
on that in a minute, so fine, whatever, you know,
there was pasta and a few other items. My wife
didn't realize she was purchasing for them. She thought when
they got to the teller they would buy the items.
(15:58):
But they didn't do that. And maybe I'm wrong on this, Danny.
And I'm going to ask you the listener. I'll ask you, Danny,
if you stay at someone's house, is it true that
you should buy your own stuff? Is that? Is that? Basically? Really?
Speaker 3 (16:16):
Now, my grandfather got even a question that you need
to ask.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
It's a bit of a rhetorical question my grandfather. There's
a Yiddish term hawser. My grandfather would say, but but
you know, find you maybe it was a rookie mistake
by them. So my wife then just this. I knew
about this, She said, you know, the kid's turning to
there's no one they're not They live in Oregon, they
don't live in California. There are a lot of that
are from California. So they have a lot of family
(16:41):
and friends. And they want to have a birthday party
for the two year old who will never remember anything
about this party at all.
Speaker 4 (16:51):
So, you know, my wife, somebody else said this, I
completely agree. Birthday parties are kids that young. They're not
for the fricking kids. They're for the el to take pictures.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
Yes, and that is about to become your world, Danny,
in August, possibly sooner. That is going to be your
new new normal. So get ready for that. Uh but
but anyway, so she said, my wife, she doesn't do
anything small. So she we're gonna have a we're gonna
have a party. We're gonna have a big party.
Speaker 4 (17:17):
We're gonna get Oh so we're going to invite other
people to your house.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
Yeah, that's the problem. So yeah, yeah, so not only
do we have three house guests, now we have a party.
I went out, I had to buy We bought a
couple of cakes. We bought one of those blow up
pools from Walmart for the kids, so we had a
pool for them. There are other kids there.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
Like the Platinum package.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
Yeah, this is this is all out. So now, as
you said, Danny, there are more strangers that are now
in my house. Now I know some of these people
casually there there, and I like them. They're nice people.
But again, you know, it's more invasive and and all that.
And uh so then we got through that, and I
was so burned out I had to get away, Danny,
(18:05):
and my wife realizes I was about to lose my
lunch and I was gonna need the people on the
white coach to come get me for I was about
to I'm pretty calm, but when I blow up, it's
like a volcano. It's molten lava everywhere. I don't do
it very often, but when I blow up, I get
my money's worth. So she's like, we got to get
(18:26):
out of here. And so we went to the beach
and hung out, and then she realized that, you know,
she was like, well, maybe we should invite them to dinner.
And I'm like, are they gonna pay for dinner? You know,
they're gonna pay for dinner, And she's, I don't know,
probably not. So then we just like we stayed out.
(18:47):
We went out to I wasn't planning on going out
to EA, so we went out to eat. So we
went to the beach for like an hour and a half.
Then when and we were walking around trying to find
a place to eat, just to kill more time to
avoid coming back to the to the home. And so yeah,
it was quite quite the adventure. And and know they
didn't buy us one meal. I find like I've had
(19:08):
other people stay at the house and they've always at
least the common courtesy is on your way out. You
buy the host the meal.
Speaker 3 (19:14):
Yeah, you know, and.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
They did, thank us. But it's you know, I said,
Ben and Ben because Benjamin Franklin Danny was right when
he famously said that guests are like fish. They begin
to smell after three days. I would argue they begin
to smell after about a day and a half, so
we might have to update that to a day and
a half. And that's about it. But if anybody wants
(19:39):
to stay at the Malor Mansion, the Malard bed and
breakfast all inclusive, you'll get you know, food at Costco
if you want, just put that in the cart. You know,
we'll pay for it.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
Why not?
Speaker 1 (19:49):
What the hell? And knock yourself? Knock yourself.
Speaker 4 (19:55):
Well, you could have used some of mister Miyagi's breathing methods. Man,
I don't know how you got through that. I would
have been cursing by the second day.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
Wow, wax on and wax off?
Speaker 4 (20:06):
Right, Yeah, yeah, I remember when danielsun walked in on
him meditating.
Speaker 3 (20:11):
That's what you needed to do.
Speaker 4 (20:13):
Oh me, holy shit, I think this thing is going
to get July. I'm confused. Where are we in the
NBA schedule?
Speaker 1 (20:20):
I don't even know, it's very rare. They usually it's
an odd schedule because they played on Friday, which is,
as you know, Danny, a bad television night because people
usually go out, although it's different now with on demand,
but the NBA's live programming, so they put it on
a Friday, and then there's no game on Sunday, which
is where they usually want to put the game because
there's travel, so they have to give him two days.
(20:41):
So the next NBA Finals game is on Monday. It's
very odd scheduling, scheduling Game three.
Speaker 4 (20:49):
We were talking about it as a show on Cavino
and Rich that we hadn't gone to Buffalo Wild Wings
in a while. Every couple of months will go as
a show and we'll watch a exporting event there and
get some boneless nuggies. And we had a lot of fun,
but I had a party foul bit. Rich took a
(21:09):
picture saying, I can't wait to talk about this on
the show tomorrow.
Speaker 5 (21:14):
Danny g for like twenty minutes, was trying to get
her attention, trying to get a coke right, excuse, excuse me,
let's let's years sitting register, you know, to her ears
because it's so low she was like, she was like.
Speaker 4 (21:29):
The heat because she disappeared the entire third quarter. She
come on, hey, excuse me, excuse me.
Speaker 5 (21:35):
Well, I'm sorry, I didn't hear you calling me for
the last twenty five minutes.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
Got got another doctor pepper.
Speaker 5 (21:41):
So so Danny g finally gets his soda and.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
I don't even do you want to take it from here?
How spill it? Yeah? So I didn't know that Rich
ordered a dessert.
Speaker 4 (21:51):
No, leave it to Rich, because when we were in
Vegas he did the same thing, and when he thought
that it was a comp meal, he got two desserts
for the table.
Speaker 1 (21:59):
Rich, Yes, bring him on.
Speaker 4 (22:00):
Then he found out his personal credit card was going
to be used, and he was like, can we send
one of these desserts back. So a dessert comes to
the table and very nicely, Rich started passing out forks
because they put it. She put it right in the
middle of the table. So I scooped back a little
bit to make some room because I'm like, yeah, dessert
a cheat night. As Rich passes me my fork, I
(22:24):
do a karate chop to get it, and my mister
Miaki trained karate chop hit the top of my PEPSI
cup spilled full cup, Thank goodness, not on any of you, guys.
But it kind of came down the tall tabletop like
a waterfall, got your phone on PEPSI waterfall on my
legs and my phone.
Speaker 5 (22:43):
So now Danny G's calling the same waitress over hey, sorry, spillach,
I got a spileach right, And she's like, don't worry, guys.
And it was kind of embarrassing anytime it happens, and
I try to pick the heat up off. It is funny,
but like you feel like an ass, right, it's a
major party foul, it is, she said, to worry it
heavens once a day.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
But it's usually a kid.
Speaker 5 (23:05):
It's usually a three year old, not a forty three
year old, you know, son, Yeah, kids probably get better
service around here.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
Oh man, so that's a party foul.
Speaker 5 (23:13):
It happened. We laughed about it. No big deal, no
big foul, no big crime. She cleaned it up. But
there's a more important question and it doesn't have to
do with spillage, and it was you know, I do
you do?
Speaker 2 (23:24):
You know?
Speaker 5 (23:24):
Wor's the worst part about it though, when she's there
mopping it up and you're just like, oh, you keep
mopping him. Yeah, not only did Danny have this spillage,
but she like busted out the mop and everything, and
then she put up that that uh piece of mojaveo
wet floor sign, this big giant like a big giant
sign on the floor.
Speaker 3 (23:41):
That's great.
Speaker 4 (23:44):
Now, I gotta give Rich and spot credit Covino. He
eats more like a girl. He's always watching his big ear.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
Ah, you can't live like that.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
Come on. He didn't partake, He didn't partake in the dessert.
Speaker 4 (23:58):
But do you think I think that Rich and spot
a waited for me to dry the area and then
we could all eat the dessert together or b they
demolished it and by the time I was dry, it
was gone.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
I think you were going to the ice cream shop
over there to get some dessert, right, I think, Yeah,
the dessert was gone, gone, gone in It's in my belly,
my belly right now, in my belly.
Speaker 4 (24:30):
Yes, they took out the dessert, just the way the
Nuggets took out the heat in Game three.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
Yeah, I've not been to the galleria, you know. I
right across the street, the Shriman Oaks Galeria where what
is the movie they filmed there?
Speaker 3 (24:44):
That great fast Times at Ridgemont High.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
Film, but it looked much different when they filmed it there.
It's been completely renovated. We have the word of the week.
Are you excited for the word of the week, Danny?
Are you fired up for the word of the week? Yeah? Okay, word.
We're word word word the word a week. So in
honor of the mega mega mega mega mega sports merger
(25:10):
that happened this week, so much that gasbags and blowhearts
that only talk about golf four times a year unless
Tiger Woods is involved in a scandal, all of a sudden,
we're chowing down on the low hanging fruit of a
merger between the Live Saudi you know, finance Live Golf
(25:30):
Tour and the PGA Tour. A massive story and as
I mentioned a few times on the radio show Overnight,
this is the first time in my life something this
big has happened in sports. I remember hearing stories when
I was a kid because it was kind of I
guess it might have happened when I was little. But
(25:52):
the NBA ABA merger that took on, like the Denver
Nuggets who were in the finals, the Indiana Pacers and
some teams the Nets became NBA teams in baseball. In
the early days of baseball, the American League in the
National League joined forces, but they were separate outfits and
they formed Major League Baseball NFL, the NFL AFL merger,
(26:17):
like all these things, and like sometimes we'll do stats
about since, you know, since the merger will be what
we we mentioned and so now we have another merger.
Not that we're big golf people, but massive, massive move
and hypocrisy to the next level. But the word of
the week this week is merger. That's the word of
(26:41):
the week, following the Live PG eight tour merger and
that is the word of the week. So the word
merger as a noun goes back to seventeen twenty eight.
So the word is almost you know, you do the
math on that's that's that's old, three hundred years old almost.
But in the legal sense it says extinguishment by absorption.
(27:08):
It was originally for real estate. The term merger was
for real estate and it was used in France, and
it wasn't until eighteen eighty nine that it was used
in business. But that was for security for a debt,
(27:29):
like if you had debt by the creditors, stay with
me on this. The word of the week merger, But
the modern way we use merger, like two businesses merging together.
That did not become common until nineteen twenty six. So
the word is in the way we use the word.
It's you know, it's old, but it's you know, it's
(27:51):
not one hundred years old. It's close to one hundred
years old. But the general meaning any act of merging,
that was like eighteen eighty one. But the I'm in
the term nineteen twenty six. So the war the week, merger, merger, merger, merger, merger.
Anything you got going on today, we'll push back to
(28:11):
the Sunday podcast. We'll do some pop goes the culture
along with the mail bag and all that. Anything going
on today, Danny, you want to promote, Yeah.
Speaker 4 (28:19):
I'll use the word of the week. I'm trying to
merge my storage with my wifies. Last weekend, I cleaned
out a storage unit that I had in West Lake
Village smoke weed every day.
Speaker 3 (28:34):
I downsized it.
Speaker 4 (28:35):
If you know anything about storage units, they jack up
your rent every six months.
Speaker 3 (28:40):
It's ridiculous.
Speaker 4 (28:42):
So I stormed into the office and I said, I
demand a smaller unit, and so they gave me the
smallest closet they had, and I threw some stuff away.
I did the old trick where I took pictures of
old crap and then tossed it.
Speaker 3 (28:57):
Good. The garage is clean.
Speaker 4 (29:00):
And I think now I'm going to start setting up
my podcast area.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
Okay, did you do the move where you considered putting
it on offer up or eBay the stuff that you
ended up throwing out, or did it only have sentimental
value to you?
Speaker 4 (29:16):
Sentimental value because a lot of it was older electronics
like old boomboxes and speakers and stuff like that. It's
not modern enough to where people would have been, you know,
fighting for it on offer up.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
Gotcha, Yeah, I gotcha. I have nothing going. My wife's
actually working.
Speaker 3 (29:35):
No house guests.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
Yeah, no house guests, thank god. So my wife's working
an extra shift. So I am considering if anyone listening,
if you're listening this early in the day today, if
you're in southern California and you are going to be
at the Angels game, I may make an appearance. I
was going to try to go out and have a
nice meal with my buddy, have like a guy's night,
but he's he told me his worst nightmare. He's going camping.
(30:01):
He hates camping, but his wife loves camping, and so
they're taking the kids camping and he was complaining about that.
So I will rather than do something other but maybe
go to the Angel game for a little bit. Check
that out. See the Big A haven't been out there
in a while. And that is it. We've got the
(30:21):
mail bag. Slash pop goes the culture. We'll get to
that on Sunday. Have a wonderful Saturday and we will
catch you then.
Speaker 3 (30:30):
Yeah, have fun watching Otani. Later, skater got a murder.
I gotta go
Kabbooms.
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 in
the a.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Everywhere The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller and Danny g
hanging out in the podcast Ojo eight days a week,
no days off, as we are literally in the air
everywhere a global reach. The iHeart Podcast network can get
this podcast everywhere on demand when you want, just like
(00:52):
you can get the Ben Malor Show podcast to hear
Danny G on with Covino and Rich during the week
on the Fox Sports Radio. Oh, you get this podcast
on the weekends. And so that is how it works. Danny,
I would like to think Roberto who came on, he
didn't have to do that. He doesn't work for the
company anymore. But that's the big show. We'll talk you
(01:14):
a little bit about that. But Roberto was on the
Friday podcast. So if you had a chance to sample that.
If not bad job by you. It is available to
download right now. You can hear Roberto talk about his
time at Fox Sports Radio and FSR and all of that.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
How cool is that.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
I've had situations I'm not sure if you ever have
in your radio career where you didn't get to say
goodbye to your audience. You just disappeared. It was almost
like you were there one day and gone the next
and back. When this happened to me, there was no
(01:57):
Twitter or anything like that. I couldn't send out a
message to the masses saying thank you so much and
I enjoyed my time and you know, I appreciate you
listening and all that. That's what radio hosts do nowadays.
When I couldn't do that, I saw some listeners later
down the line and they were pissed at me. They
(02:18):
were like, how can you just leave like that? You'dn't
even say goodbye or anything. And I'm like, well, you
don't understand how broadcasting works. They come and give you
your pink slip right after your show is over.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
Usually.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
Yeah. I remember when I was younger and I skipped
school and I watched the History Channel and they had
a documentary about Joseph Stalin and how he would make
people disappear where they would be there one day, they
would go to work and then they would never come home.
(02:51):
And not only would they never come home, he would
like erase all the back in those days, the books
with their names in them, the picture all disappear, like everything,
any trace of the people would go away. And it's
a similar concept in the radio business, which is fascinating
how they decided that is the way to go. But
I was told by a program director that the reason
(03:14):
we do that is to protect the license because if
we put somebody on the air that and we say, oh,
I get a final show, they are going to destroy
us and they are going to tear down the radio
station and they're gonna steal stuff, and you know all that.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
They were so paranoid, I know. And that's the thing
is that there is no way in hell.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
After seven years at the radio station I helped build
to number one, there's no way that I would go
in there at a steal something and b say something
bad on the air, because you know in broadcasting that
burning bridges is a no no, a big time no no,
because you're gonna somewhere along the way work with those
(04:01):
people again, somewhere down the road. Radio is a small community,
and you're gonna see one or two of those folks
sometime again in the future. And even as a youngster
in radio, I knew that, So there was no way
I would do any I wasn't gonna pull any shenanigans.
I just wanted to have a fun final show and
(04:21):
say goodbye to the morning show listeners. Instead, like you said,
they even erased my voice off of the commercials and
suddenly you're Mia. You're on a milk carton immediately.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
Yeah, And it's all the media, Like I remember when
Tucker Carlson got let go from Fox News, like he
was like their number one guy, and they obviously they
got rid of him, I guess on a Friday and
immediately like any trace completely. So it was great to
have Roberto on a retrospective on Roberto leaving the show.
(05:00):
He's actually the guy that replaced you, Danny, when you
went to the morning show. Yes, Roberto stepped in for you,
and I hope you heard the chat. Roberto been a
key part of the show the last five years, almost
five years, I think it's just a little short of
five years, and he's the guy that played the drops
(05:22):
most of the drops. Eddie plays some, but most of
the jobs come from Roberto. But change is part of
the business. And as we've been through a lot of
different people over the years, both of us in our
different travels, our roads and radio and any job. But
I feel like radio is more of like a Greyhound
bus station. And I was going through my head. I
(05:45):
was driving in and I was thinking about all the
different board ops and producers that I've worked with since
I started at Fox Sports Radio back in like two thousand.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
That must have been a long drive.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Yeah, And I'm like, well, that guy became a team
this guy's a baker, that guy's an insurance salesman. I
don't know what happened to that guy. He moved back
to Boston. I don't know what happened to that guy.
Then the other guy, the last I heard, he was
in rehab. Then there's the guy that I used to
work with who's a real estate mogul. And then there's
(06:17):
another guy who's like a program director at a radio station.
But I don't really talk to him, but I used
to be close to him. And you name it, someone
formally has passed through the building who is now doing
something totally efferent. Some of them are still working in radio.
But people, that's the old thing. People will come and
go in your lives all the time, and it's radio
(06:38):
is a transient business. And what's the old thing. It's
not your fault. It's the universe just making room for
new people, I think, is Yeah.
Speaker 4 (06:48):
And when we came up in broadcasting, we were told,
if you're able to stay at any call letters for
three years, that's an accomplishment because usually something happened in
three years, whether it's a lineup change, a programming change.
And for me, at that station I mentioned, which I
(07:08):
helped build for seven years, it was a management change
and it was a guy from across town who had
run the AC station in our market. And when he
got over to our station, he called a big staff
meeting and he proclaimed, why.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
Would I change anything?
Speaker 4 (07:26):
You guys are number one. And right after that meeting
I told my assistant program director.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
I was like, you know what that means, right, He's
going to change everything?
Speaker 1 (07:38):
Of course?
Speaker 3 (07:38):
Yeah? Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
I had I had a boss this really before I
got the Fox. I had a guy at one of
the stations I worked at that was like this really
slick sales guy. He wore the power suits, you know,
the purple jacket. One day had the bright red jacket,
the next had the power blue jacket.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
You know.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
He's a and he was like into the whole Tony
Robbins thing. And we were in a labor negotiation because
it was a union shop, and we were in a
labor negotiation and the guy they turned this what had
been an f It had been a music station and
they had a contract where it was like a union contract.
(08:19):
They flipped it the sports. Well, the sports station had
no audience. When you start a new station, new format,
there's no one listening. It takes a while to build
an audience. And so they had to pay us ridiculous
money that they had been paying the DJs that had
been at the radio station. And they were trying to
negotiate a lower pay because they're like, well, no one's listening.
(08:41):
Pay these guys that kind of money. And this boss
came into the meeting and he violated every labor law
on maagement. This is a long time ago. The statute
of limitations has run out. But he said, if you guys,
do not take this deal. I will system I don't
think he's used systematic, but I will take every one
(09:03):
of you away and I will flip on. At that time,
it was sports fan Radio, which was the network out
of Vegas, and I will I will just put that
on and I'll have the same number of people listening
and I'll save all this man. It was like he
violated every possible law you can do, and then he
didn't even end up doing anything. He just ended up
(09:24):
paying us and then and so it was a complete
waste of time. But you know, it's listen, things things happen.
I love Roberto, I'm gonna miss him, and uh, it's
one of these things. I mean, you you get used
to people and then you got to get use to
new people.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
And yeah, and my point was that not only do
we wish him well, and he's been a raider friend
this whole time. In fact, on Sundays he's the one
guy I know that's gonna text my phone with some
filthy language because he's down to few and he's like
fucking Derek Carr. I can't believe fucking Derek Carr. Yeah,
(10:01):
I'm like the lifeline. I'm like the guy that has
to save him from drowning and his alcohol. And I'm
like Roberto, it's all right, it's the third corner. We
have time to come back. I'm the positive one.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Yeah, And I recall telling Roberto I think in the
podcast we were talking about, you know that I'll still
text him whenever the Dodgers screw up Dave Roberts makes
the wrong pitching change or micro manages the front you know,
the front office micro manages and they you know, this
guy's only he's pitching a shutout, but he's thrown seventy
eight pitches, so we have to take him out of
(10:33):
the game because his arm will fall off on seventy nine.
And this week we go back and forth on that.
So I'm sure, especially when the playoffs come around for
the Dodgers, I will be texting Roberto quite a bit.
And you know it's it's people have been emailing me.
I told Roberto this as people have been asking me
what happened. You know, he told the story from his
point of view, and I think it really is more
(10:56):
of a it's a money thing, but it's a schedule
of thing. And I think if the money was the
same and he had daytime hours. I think you'd be fine,
but people that all work overnight, you have no idea
how difficult it is. It seems like you'd get used
to it, but and I'm pretty used to it, but
some people just go crazy and it's just not good
(11:17):
and it creates Yeah, a lot of the issues are
not necessarily with yourself.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
It's with your family family.
Speaker 4 (11:23):
I was just going to say that no one really
realizes until you're in it and you're trying to do it,
that your family expects you to flip your schedule around
immediately every weekend, and you do your best, so you
pretend like it's not bothering you, but you kind of
feel like a zombie and everybody else is, you know,
(11:43):
laughing and having a good time on the weekend, and
it's just a weird feeling because you want to do
it and you're trying your best, but it sucks, man,
because your sleeping clock is completely twisted around.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
It's very rude of society, Like you can't go to
a bank four in the morning. If you do, you're
robbing it. You can't, I mean, you can't see as
someone at the bank. You can't get a doctor's appointment
at that time unless you're in the emergency room and
then you've got to wait for seventeen hours and all that. Like,
it's not designed. Society's not designed for people that work overnight.
(12:17):
But I mean there are restaurants open, there's obviously people working.
There's a lot of people working.
Speaker 4 (12:23):
The third shift in the first shift is the backbone
of our country.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
Yeah, I mean it's like it's people stocking shelves and
driving trucks and putting food out and cooking food and
all that stuff. So some of the things, you know,
we've obviously talked for a while here, but some of
the things we've got to get to. We have Ben
and Ben mister Miagi and the Word of the Week,
and we'll see if we get to anything else. We
might have to say pop culture and that other stuff
(12:51):
for the Sunday podcast, but we'll start with this. So
this past weekend, the Malord Mansion turned into a bend
and breakfast. That's a bed and breakfast. It turned into
my wife invited a childhood girlfriend of hers, her husband
(13:12):
and their toddler to stop by from they live in Oregon,
just outside Portland, Oregon, and they stopped by for a
very long visit. They came on a Thursday early in
the day and then they they left on Sunday, so
(13:35):
the mallord bed and breakfast. Now I did not know this, Danny,
this was unexpected. I knew they were coming, but they
didn't know all the details. My wife kind of gave
me some of the details and not all of them.
I pretty much keep to myself. I talk a lot.
We both talk a lot for our jobs. So on
the weekends I shut her down. I go to second year.
(13:55):
You know, stay in your lane. I don't make waves.
But the one one thing that's very important to me
is my domain, my my ecosystem, my world. I need.
I need that unsullied. I need that untouched. That's my
my domain, right, that's my spot. And I don't want,
(14:17):
you know, somebody coming over for a couple hours for visit.
I have no problem with that. I think that's great.
I have family, We have family over all the time.
But you start staying there and I mean, I'm trying
to play nice and all that stuff, but I'm like,
there's too many rogue actors running across the Serengetti, and
I don't know whether they're going to try to eat
me or anything like that. And so but anyway, I
(14:40):
was fine. So I was okay. The first couple of days.
I even went into the Mothership on a day that
I normally don't go in so they could sleep and
not hear me barking about some NFL scandal or the
NBA finals that my wife and this was all in
the brochure, but I didn't see the brochure. My wife
ife rolled out the what I call the VIP package
(15:05):
at the Mallard Bed and Breakfast, the club package, and
it included the all inclusive. She went shopping with them
and they picked out a few items at Costco, and
then when they were checking out, much to my wife's surprise,
she said, no one stepped up to buy said items.
(15:28):
So by I guess they just assumed it was part
of the y.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
They at least water or grass for you.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
So they well, we'll get to that. So we got
like seven pounds of pasta because their kid likes pasta.
Their kid, by the way, who just turned two. More
on that in a minute, so fine, whatever, you know,
there was pasta and a few other items. My wife
didn't realize she was purchasing for them. She thought when
they got to the teller they would buy the items.
(15:58):
But they didn't do that. And maybe I'm wrong on this, Danny.
And I'm going to ask you the listener. I'll ask you, Danny,
if you stay at someone's house, is it true that
you should buy your own stuff? Is that? Is that? Basically? Really?
Speaker 3 (16:16):
Now, my grandfather got even a question that you need
to ask.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
It's a bit of a rhetorical question my grandfather. There's
a Yiddish term hawser. My grandfather would say, but but
you know, find you maybe it was a rookie mistake
by them. So my wife then just this. I knew
about this, She said, you know, the kid's turning to
there's no one they're not They live in Oregon, they
don't live in California. There are a lot of that
are from California. So they have a lot of family
(16:41):
and friends. And they want to have a birthday party
for the two year old who will never remember anything
about this party at all.
Speaker 4 (16:51):
So, you know, my wife, somebody else said this, I
completely agree. Birthday parties are kids that young. They're not
for the fricking kids. They're for the el to take pictures.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
Yes, and that is about to become your world, Danny,
in August, possibly sooner. That is going to be your
new new normal. So get ready for that. Uh but
but anyway, so she said, my wife, she doesn't do
anything small. So she we're gonna have a we're gonna
have a party. We're gonna have a big party.
Speaker 4 (17:17):
We're gonna get Oh so we're going to invite other
people to your house.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
Yeah, that's the problem. So yeah, yeah, so not only
do we have three house guests, now we have a party.
I went out, I had to buy We bought a
couple of cakes. We bought one of those blow up
pools from Walmart for the kids, so we had a
pool for them. There are other kids there.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
Like the Platinum package.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
Yeah, this is this is all out. So now, as
you said, Danny, there are more strangers that are now
in my house. Now I know some of these people
casually there there, and I like them. They're nice people.
But again, you know, it's more invasive and and all that.
And uh so then we got through that, and I
was so burned out I had to get away, Danny,
(18:05):
and my wife realizes I was about to lose my
lunch and I was gonna need the people on the
white coach to come get me for I was about
to I'm pretty calm, but when I blow up, it's
like a volcano. It's molten lava everywhere. I don't do
it very often, but when I blow up, I get
my money's worth. So she's like, we got to get
(18:26):
out of here. And so we went to the beach
and hung out, and then she realized that, you know,
she was like, well, maybe we should invite them to dinner.
And I'm like, are they gonna pay for dinner? You know,
they're gonna pay for dinner, And she's, I don't know,
probably not. So then we just like we stayed out.
(18:47):
We went out to I wasn't planning on going out
to EA, so we went out to eat. So we
went to the beach for like an hour and a half.
Then when and we were walking around trying to find
a place to eat, just to kill more time to
avoid coming back to the to the home. And so yeah,
it was quite quite the adventure. And and know they
didn't buy us one meal. I find like I've had
(19:08):
other people stay at the house and they've always at
least the common courtesy is on your way out. You
buy the host the meal.
Speaker 3 (19:14):
Yeah, you know, and.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
They did, thank us. But it's you know, I said,
Ben and Ben because Benjamin Franklin Danny was right when
he famously said that guests are like fish. They begin
to smell after three days. I would argue they begin
to smell after about a day and a half, so
we might have to update that to a day and
a half. And that's about it. But if anybody wants
(19:39):
to stay at the Malor Mansion, the Malard bed and
breakfast all inclusive, you'll get you know, food at Costco
if you want, just put that in the cart. You know,
we'll pay for it.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
Why not?
Speaker 1 (19:49):
What the hell? And knock yourself? Knock yourself.
Speaker 4 (19:55):
Well, you could have used some of mister Miyagi's breathing methods. Man,
I don't know how you got through that. I would
have been cursing by the second day.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
Wow, wax on and wax off?
Speaker 4 (20:06):
Right, Yeah, yeah, I remember when danielsun walked in on
him meditating.
Speaker 3 (20:11):
That's what you needed to do.
Speaker 4 (20:13):
Oh me, holy shit, I think this thing is going
to get July. I'm confused. Where are we in the
NBA schedule?
Speaker 1 (20:20):
I don't even know, it's very rare. They usually it's
an odd schedule because they played on Friday, which is,
as you know, Danny, a bad television night because people
usually go out, although it's different now with on demand,
but the NBA's live programming, so they put it on
a Friday, and then there's no game on Sunday, which
is where they usually want to put the game because
there's travel, so they have to give him two days.
(20:41):
So the next NBA Finals game is on Monday. It's
very odd scheduling, scheduling Game three.
Speaker 4 (20:49):
We were talking about it as a show on Cavino
and Rich that we hadn't gone to Buffalo Wild Wings
in a while. Every couple of months will go as
a show and we'll watch a exporting event there and
get some boneless nuggies. And we had a lot of fun,
but I had a party foul bit. Rich took a
(21:09):
picture saying, I can't wait to talk about this on
the show tomorrow.
Speaker 5 (21:14):
Danny g for like twenty minutes, was trying to get
her attention, trying to get a coke right, excuse, excuse me,
let's let's years sitting register, you know, to her ears
because it's so low she was like, she was like.
Speaker 4 (21:29):
The heat because she disappeared the entire third quarter. She
come on, hey, excuse me, excuse me.
Speaker 5 (21:35):
Well, I'm sorry, I didn't hear you calling me for
the last twenty five minutes.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
Got got another doctor pepper.
Speaker 5 (21:41):
So so Danny g finally gets his soda and.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
I don't even do you want to take it from here?
How spill it? Yeah? So I didn't know that Rich
ordered a dessert.
Speaker 4 (21:51):
No, leave it to Rich, because when we were in
Vegas he did the same thing, and when he thought
that it was a comp meal, he got two desserts
for the table.
Speaker 1 (21:59):
Rich, Yes, bring him on.
Speaker 4 (22:00):
Then he found out his personal credit card was going
to be used, and he was like, can we send
one of these desserts back. So a dessert comes to
the table and very nicely, Rich started passing out forks
because they put it. She put it right in the
middle of the table. So I scooped back a little
bit to make some room because I'm like, yeah, dessert
a cheat night. As Rich passes me my fork, I
(22:24):
do a karate chop to get it, and my mister
Miaki trained karate chop hit the top of my PEPSI
cup spilled full cup, Thank goodness, not on any of you, guys.
But it kind of came down the tall tabletop like
a waterfall, got your phone on PEPSI waterfall on my
legs and my phone.
Speaker 5 (22:43):
So now Danny G's calling the same waitress over hey, sorry, spillach,
I got a spileach right, And she's like, don't worry, guys.
And it was kind of embarrassing anytime it happens, and
I try to pick the heat up off. It is funny,
but like you feel like an ass, right, it's a
major party foul, it is, she said, to worry it
heavens once a day.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
But it's usually a kid.
Speaker 5 (23:05):
It's usually a three year old, not a forty three
year old, you know, son, Yeah, kids probably get better
service around here.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
Oh man, so that's a party foul.
Speaker 5 (23:13):
It happened. We laughed about it. No big deal, no
big foul, no big crime. She cleaned it up. But
there's a more important question and it doesn't have to
do with spillage, and it was you know, I do
you do?
Speaker 2 (23:24):
You know?
Speaker 5 (23:24):
Wor's the worst part about it though, when she's there
mopping it up and you're just like, oh, you keep
mopping him. Yeah, not only did Danny have this spillage,
but she like busted out the mop and everything, and
then she put up that that uh piece of mojaveo
wet floor sign, this big giant like a big giant
sign on the floor.
Speaker 3 (23:41):
That's great.
Speaker 4 (23:44):
Now, I gotta give Rich and spot credit Covino. He
eats more like a girl. He's always watching his big ear.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
Ah, you can't live like that.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
Come on. He didn't partake, He didn't partake in the dessert.
Speaker 4 (23:58):
But do you think I think that Rich and spot
a waited for me to dry the area and then
we could all eat the dessert together or b they
demolished it and by the time I was dry, it
was gone.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
I think you were going to the ice cream shop
over there to get some dessert, right, I think, Yeah,
the dessert was gone, gone, gone in It's in my belly,
my belly right now, in my belly.
Speaker 4 (24:30):
Yes, they took out the dessert, just the way the
Nuggets took out the heat in Game three.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
Yeah, I've not been to the galleria, you know. I
right across the street, the Shriman Oaks Galeria where what
is the movie they filmed there?
Speaker 3 (24:44):
That great fast Times at Ridgemont High.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
Film, but it looked much different when they filmed it there.
It's been completely renovated. We have the word of the week.
Are you excited for the word of the week, Danny?
Are you fired up for the word of the week? Yeah? Okay, word.
We're word word word the word a week. So in
honor of the mega mega mega mega mega sports merger
(25:10):
that happened this week, so much that gasbags and blowhearts
that only talk about golf four times a year unless
Tiger Woods is involved in a scandal, all of a sudden,
we're chowing down on the low hanging fruit of a
merger between the Live Saudi you know, finance Live Golf
(25:30):
Tour and the PGA Tour. A massive story and as
I mentioned a few times on the radio show Overnight,
this is the first time in my life something this
big has happened in sports. I remember hearing stories when
I was a kid because it was kind of I
guess it might have happened when I was little. But
(25:52):
the NBA ABA merger that took on, like the Denver
Nuggets who were in the finals, the Indiana Pacers and
some teams the Nets became NBA teams in baseball. In
the early days of baseball, the American League in the
National League joined forces, but they were separate outfits and
they formed Major League Baseball NFL, the NFL AFL merger,
(26:17):
like all these things, and like sometimes we'll do stats
about since, you know, since the merger will be what
we we mentioned and so now we have another merger.
Not that we're big golf people, but massive, massive move
and hypocrisy to the next level. But the word of
the week this week is merger. That's the word of
(26:41):
the week, following the Live PG eight tour merger and
that is the word of the week. So the word
merger as a noun goes back to seventeen twenty eight.
So the word is almost you know, you do the
math on that's that's that's old, three hundred years old almost.
But in the legal sense it says extinguishment by absorption.
(27:08):
It was originally for real estate. The term merger was
for real estate and it was used in France, and
it wasn't until eighteen eighty nine that it was used
in business. But that was for security for a debt,
(27:29):
like if you had debt by the creditors, stay with
me on this. The word of the week merger, But
the modern way we use merger, like two businesses merging together.
That did not become common until nineteen twenty six. So
the word is in the way we use the word.
It's you know, it's old, but it's you know, it's
(27:51):
not one hundred years old. It's close to one hundred
years old. But the general meaning any act of merging,
that was like eighteen eighty one. But the I'm in
the term nineteen twenty six. So the war the week, merger, merger, merger, merger, merger.
Anything you got going on today, we'll push back to
(28:11):
the Sunday podcast. We'll do some pop goes the culture
along with the mail bag and all that. Anything going
on today, Danny, you want to promote, Yeah.
Speaker 4 (28:19):
I'll use the word of the week. I'm trying to
merge my storage with my wifies. Last weekend, I cleaned
out a storage unit that I had in West Lake
Village smoke weed every day.
Speaker 3 (28:34):
I downsized it.
Speaker 4 (28:35):
If you know anything about storage units, they jack up
your rent every six months.
Speaker 3 (28:40):
It's ridiculous.
Speaker 4 (28:42):
So I stormed into the office and I said, I
demand a smaller unit, and so they gave me the
smallest closet they had, and I threw some stuff away.
I did the old trick where I took pictures of
old crap and then tossed it.
Speaker 3 (28:57):
Good. The garage is clean.
Speaker 4 (29:00):
And I think now I'm going to start setting up
my podcast area.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
Okay, did you do the move where you considered putting
it on offer up or eBay the stuff that you
ended up throwing out, or did it only have sentimental
value to you?
Speaker 4 (29:16):
Sentimental value because a lot of it was older electronics
like old boomboxes and speakers and stuff like that. It's
not modern enough to where people would have been, you know,
fighting for it on offer up.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
Gotcha, Yeah, I gotcha. I have nothing going. My wife's
actually working.
Speaker 3 (29:35):
No house guests.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
Yeah, no house guests, thank god. So my wife's working
an extra shift. So I am considering if anyone listening,
if you're listening this early in the day today, if
you're in southern California and you are going to be
at the Angels game, I may make an appearance. I
was going to try to go out and have a
nice meal with my buddy, have like a guy's night,
but he's he told me his worst nightmare. He's going camping.
(30:01):
He hates camping, but his wife loves camping, and so
they're taking the kids camping and he was complaining about that.
So I will rather than do something other but maybe
go to the Angel game for a little bit. Check
that out. See the Big A haven't been out there
in a while. And that is it. We've got the
(30:21):
mail bag. Slash pop goes the culture. We'll get to
that on Sunday. Have a wonderful Saturday and we will
catch you then.
Speaker 3 (30:30):
Yeah, have fun watching Otani. Later, skater got a murder.
I gotta go
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