June 11, 2022 • 35 mins
Ben and his 5th Hour partner Danny G. have a fun Saturday in store for you! A conversation about AM radio shifts, stories about ringing it up, a Charlie horse, winter parka, tactical error and more!
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and a very good Saturday to you. A brand new
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Mallor and Danny g Radio and congratulated. I want to
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congratulate you, Danny, on the fact that you survive not one,
but two appearances on the overnight shows. So I know
you're a little choked up right now, Danny, a little emotional,
you little. I understand that. But you did survive two
nights in the Madhouse, so it was most I don't
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know when I'm sleeping, when I'm awake, when I'm eating dinner,
And it's funny at the geat Household, I was eating
dinner at eight thirty pm every night before I went
into your show. At first, it was gonna be like
my tinder RONI said, well, I'll make your dinner at
eight thirty. The rest of us are going to eat
at six thirty. Oh my guy, that's cool. But I
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get down there the first night at eight thirty and
everybody's eating. It was like that the next night to
at nine pm. People were still roaming around the kitchen eating. Wow.
Kind of a grazing situation here, you know, now you
know later I like it. I like it, got a
bonus dinner at my pad. Solid Ben. You don't get
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enough credit for the hours that you live. Yeah, it's
just it's all a blurred in it. It's all a blur.
But I still maintain. And you did mornings for a while,
like to me, the worst schedule I've done the full
cycle and radio. I think you have to where you
do the whole every day part twenty four hours in
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the in the day. But for me having to get up,
like to go to bed early and get up to
do a morning show. I did that for a year.
It was dreadful. It was so bad. I tried to
make it an overnight show and I tried to stay up.
I've told the story before, but I tried to stay
up to like thirty eleven in the morning and it
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just and then I go to bed. I figured, I
go to bed like like eleven o'clock and sleep until
six and then do it all over again, and it
just it just ate at me. It was just brutal.
It's funny you say that because when your show was
ending on Tuesday and Wednesday, the morning crew obviously comes
in after us, after the Ben Mallor show and Day
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or Dragon Ass the second day especially, and I heard
someone in the hallway say, oh my god, it was
so hard to get out of bed today, And so
you're right. You hear that a lot from morning crews. Obviously,
once they're into their first hour or maybe the second hour,
they've had a little bit of coffee and they're getting awake.
But yeah, that is a very tough schedule to do
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every day, every day of the week. Yeah, the very
bleary eyed the morning guys when they come in there.
I saw, I felt bad for LaVar erything. And this
guy's at a stud in the NFL back in the day.
Now he's doing mornings. He's coming in there and he's like,
oh what am I dough? And I goes like a zombie.
He speaking of LaVar after doing post production for your show.
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I left about five am West Coast time, and as
I'm leaving, I waved to those guys goodbye. And I
just see this huge boat up on the counter, crusty boat.
It was LaVar's bare foot Oh is that right? He's
just kind of reason of a Klein situation. Looked like
we had an eagle in the studio. Yeah, you gotta
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be careful because there was and I don't know I
should reveal the name here, I probably not. But years ago,
and I think before you were at Fox Sports Radio,
there was a NFL coach who was working there who
leaned back, put his feet up on the table and
then fell over, like passed out in the chair in
the in the Studio's crazy, yeah, wild story, But I
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mean it's all of a sudden, It's like, wait a minute,
what's going on. No, he's all right, he's fine. I
mean he was. He was down for the count for
that day. I don't think he continued his show, Danny.
I think that was the end of the show and
he said, that's it, I'm done, get me out of here.
Got a murder gotta go. So on this Saturday podcast,
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The Life and Times of Mallard and Danny g We've
got ringing up, Charlie Horse Winner, part tactical error and backscratcher.
That's a lot of content, never that on this show.
And mc hammer used to say, let's get it started, hammertime,
all right. Now, I spent last weekend kind of gets
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caught up on stuff that I do when I'm not
barking into a microphone about Deshaun Watson junk. But I
spent my weekend going to part of my weekend going
to various jewelry stores around southern California. As we continue
now the Wild Goose Chase. All of this in an
effort Danny to find the replacement band. In a previous episode,
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I had told the story, if you remember, if you
heard that podcast, the tale of making the taij Ma
Hall of Sand Castles at a beautiful beach in southern California. However,
in my haste to build the towers with my young cousin,
I my ring was buried at sea. And it's been
a while and still no no wing ring. I have
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a backup, I'm not wearing it because that also falls off.
So I went to a couple of jewelry stores and
I got my ring finger. I got fitted to find
out what size I have as a ring, which I
didn't know. I guess my ring that I had before
is a little too big, which probably explains why it
came flying off playing insane. But a few observations here
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that I learned things I picked up from my weekend
shopping with the wife. So, uh. These were a couple
of big jewelry stores, one of them very well known,
another one more of a local place, but they're popular
on the internet and they sell rings all over the country.
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So I go in here and you walk into it,
and I don't spend a lot of time at jewelry stores.
It's not how I rolled. But I I go in
there and I'm like, oh my god, this place is
gonna be the greatest, right. It's like the Costco of jewelry.
It's like everywhere you look, uh, there's cases displaying all
these different jewelry. So that this person greets you the
door and I'm like, what do you need and maybe
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a little small talk. Well I lost my my wedding
ring and said okay, uh, and then he points to
the very far corner of this massive warehouse like it's
like the size of a seemed like a football field,
and he points over to the corner in the very back.
He says, that's where you need to go. So I
said okay, and I walked over there and this massive store.
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There was one and a half cases of men's wedding bands.
Everything else was for women or I don't know, but
it was only like a case and a half, so
there were not many options. And and we looked and
there was some stuff that kind of it all kind
of looked the same. And so my my wife had
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actually found something that looked pretty pretty good online, but
you never know online, You never really know online. But
they claimed they had this great return policy, so we
ended up getting that and since nothing clicked on the store,
we we decided to ring it up. And we did
ring it up. And I also did take advice of
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our buddy Adrian, who's a super fan of the show.
Adrian's the guy that went to Disneyland with his family
and had shirts with our like the Mallard name on it,
which crazy, but Adrian in Denver, he did advise buying
some of those like silicone rings of people the gym.
Yeah yeah, yeah. So so my plan is that I'll
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probably end up wearing those a lot. Most of the
time I'm not doing something that I might use my
hands with. But then for like a nice night out
or you know, when I'm not doing anything physical, I'll
probably wear the actual actual ring. But that's if it's good.
I might end up returning it. I don't know, might
it might blow. You have no idea. I have no
idea because you see, you see photos of stuff online.
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You don't know until you got to me. You gotta
hold it, you gotta look at it. You don't know
now in your opinion, why is the selection for men
so crappy? Is it just because the whole engagement thing
is for women? Really? Yeah, well, my theory on that is, yeah,
guys don't give a rat's ass, right, They just want
to get in and out. They're like, okay, I'm signing
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the contract. That's it's not who cares. And most most
men's rings are either gold, silver, or black. Yeah, I
don't know if there's any variation. I didn't see any
variation other than that for wedding bands. With my copious
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you know, minutes long walking through the one case and
a half case of wedding rings, but yeah, so it's yeah,
women and there's they were like chains, and I mean
they all kinds out of the jewelry. It wasn't just rings,
but it was mostly rings. What's interesting is that as guys,
I mean, we grew up with run DMC and big
gold rope chains, and you know, for a moment there
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a lot of dudes had Mr T Starter sets and
you know, some guys still try to go with that look.
I guess, come on, pimping, get your tim's off. But well,
at the gym in in Glendale, they got I used
to work out there in southern California. Here a lot
of dudes with the like the one gold chain, what
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up bro? A lot of of action. You would think
there would be even maybe a small market for men's
rings that had a lot of bling to them. Yeah,
so I I got something. It has a little pop
to it. I thought, why not? You know the other
one didn't have much pop to it. This is that
little pop to it. So we'll see if I actually
end up liking it. So that is the tale of
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ringing up as far as the Charlie Horse. So, yeah,
this is not really big news, but since it's the
podcast and for some reason, people seem to be interested
in this off this past week at the Mallard Mansion,
and we've had we've had some a C issues. It's
getting that time of the year, although usually in l
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A it's the June gloom and then it gets hot
in July and August and really September, like August, September
is the hottest time of the year, but it's supposed
to get June hot around here. So I was holding
down fort the fort over there at the Mallard Mansion.
My wife had scheduled a friend of the family to
come check out the air condition and this happened while
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I was prepping for the show. And as you know, Danny,
there's a there's a method to the madness, and I
have a routine. We all have routines, very methodical. I
often start out paranoid that I won't have anything interesting
that I want to talk about, and then then I'll
end up finding too much stuff and I won't have
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enough time for But anyway, I desperately try to turn
over every rock, leave no stone unturned, right, that's my goal.
If someone's gonna give their time up to listen to
this dopey radio show. I want to make sure I
put my time to give them something that they will appreciate.
So I spent a lot of time on it, scouring
the globe for content. Uh. There's a term that that
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I remember when I was a kid growing up in
a a Jewish household that you're you're trying to find
the offie coon, like the hidden maza, uh hidden jewel.
So all of this is happening, and the air conditioning
guy comes over and I've met this guy in the
past at a social event a friend of my my
wife said, Uh, so I met the guy and you know,
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nice guy and all that, but I really know him.
And um my wife said, he's a fan of the show.
And but she said she told him, don't really talk
to Ben because it'll be busy, which I appreciate. You know,
I'm willing to talk, but I you know, I'm not
a big small talk guy. But so anyway, so he
comes in and he's doing the whole he's checking out
the air conditioning, pulling wires. There's some electrical issues that
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some some wires had burned together probably years ago, and
I we moved in here and we had to get
it fixed. So he's coming over about every half hour,
and he's in very places giving me updates. But at
some point along the way these detailed updates morphed into uh,
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what I would call it Charlie Horse because name is
Charlie R A c guy. Charlie. He was giving me
the inside skinny Danny. Now. I love the fact that
he enjoys the show. And he had mentioned he was
relaying some of the things that had happened on the
show that he had heard because he don't listen every night,
because most people can't listen to every night because he's
not over. So Charlie is he's going through? Yeah, I
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heard you. He took a call from this guy and
then I really liked that, and he he likes the callers.
He thinks that's a good part of the show. Not
really a podcast guest. So I think we're okay. I
don't think he listened to the pocket and if we
are were in trouble. If he does, were in trouble,
you're not in trouble. I'm in trouble. Um. He also
loves Phil Henry, so then he like every time he
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thinks would get cranked up a little bit, like the
first time. I was like, hey, I like the show.
You know, here's what's going on with d C. And
then half an hour later he'd come back. Here's an update.
By the way, I loved Phil Hendon. I used to
listen to him all the time on cafe in l A.
And then he said I I he tell me like
a bit that Phil Henry And he's like, did you
ever meet Phil? I said, yes, I did. He used
to work at the Premier Networks back and I did
meet Phil. Oh really, what was he like? I really
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didn't know him that well. You know, I met him,
but it's a casual meeting and we didn't really talk.
And he said, okay, okay, and uh as I think
Phil is doing a podcast now. So I said, well,
why don't you listen to his podcast all he's doing
a podcast. I said, yeah, I think he's doing a podcast.
And then and I was like, oh, wait a minute,
because I am friends with Phil henry On on Facebook.
So I was like, oh, I'll just I'll look it
up or whatever and I'll get back to you. So
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so he leaves, he comes back again half he was
here for hours day, come back in half an hour later,
we're talking about you know, solar and this, that and
the other thing. And he's saying he he has like
sleep at me, and he said, you can get an
exemption for your power if you have sleep at me. Yeah,
so that's kind of cool. Yeah, apparently, you know, in
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California they tax you if you go over a certain
threshold with your But he said, if you have like
a sleep condition, our health condition, you can have your
doctor write a note and that you will always stay
in tier one. Wo. Yeah, so if anyone. I don't
know if that works in other states other than California,
but that was like an interesting life fact. So then
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we move on from that, and now he's telling me
he's got these black Russian Terrier service dogs. Now I
didn't know what a black Russian Terrier dog looks like.
These dogs are the size of a human being. Danny,
I hate the curse, but this thing weighs about a
hundred thirty pounds. It's massive. Ear unbelieved was one of
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the biggest, he says to me, shows me a photo.
He's like, yeah, my wife doesn't like the dog on
the bed, but one night, you know, I let the
dog on the bed. The dogs like a human being
in the bed. That dogs licked that whole thing. He's
your best friends. Yeah, we're pals. Now we're boys, man,
me and Charlie and and so I I was, I
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was looking at this, this Russian terry, the black Russian terry,
and I was thinking, boy blind Scott and his dog
Dylan would be so freaked out if they saw obviously
good to see it, but if they if they were
aware of how big huge. And I looked it up.
The dog was created in the USSR in the Red
Star kennel for military use. It's a military trained dog anyway,
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So this this one on and I did the math
on it. When when Charlie finally left, very nice man, Charlie,
very good, and he's apparently he's great at the air
condition he's really good at air conditioning stuff, and that
the electricity and and wiring and all that crap, which
is important. Uh, but I estimate we spent ninety minutes talk.
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I'm not exaggerating, but I think it was not because
every time he came over it got a little longer
and a little longer, and then when he left, there
was like an added twenty minutes on top of that.
And did you do the cut off movie or the
the end of the conversation. Was it an open end
where you kept trying to end it but then it
kept continuing. Yeah, So I had my laptop open, so
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I'm watching a ball game watching I was watching the
Blue Jays were playing the Royal So I'm watching this
right and okay, all right, thanks, But he's not making
eye context. So I'm trying to do the whole eye
contact things like I'm looking at it, and he didn't.
He didn't make eye contact, so I couldn't. It was
nice of you to do ninety minutes because you're very
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antisocial normal I am. I am. My wife said, you
just gotta cut him off, Like that's what my My
father in law just cut him off. That's so you
have to cut him. No, I don't. I don't want
to be rude. The guy's a Fanish show. I don't
want to be a dick. You don't wanna be Ada
and the guys a fan of the show, and I
don't want to be an a hole. So what am
I supposed to do? You know, hosts will have very
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outgoing personalities, it's real. But because you're outgoing on the
air for all those hours off the radio, you don't
really want to talk that much. Yeah, you save it
for the show. The reason we don't talk a lot
of before the show or anything like that. Yeah, you
gotta say you don't want to waste anything because we
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we've talked about this to Danny both being in the
radio business a long time. When you do something in
a meeting and it's pretty good, you're like, oh, that's
that should be on the air, and then you try
it on there, it's never the same. Yeah, there's no
good take two's you lose your edge on that. You
lose your edge and then you need to go out
and buy a Winter Parker. And he said, why would
you need a winter Parker because it's June, But Danny
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will explain. Yeah, And this kind of ties into your
air conditioning story. You know, I'm a couple hours away
from you. My part of southern California has heated up already.
It is that Chatsworth heat. You know what that is? Yeah? Yeah,
oh boy, that's blazing sun hitting the rocks and Chatsworth.
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It's that kind of heat where it feels like death valley. Yeah,
it's bad. Now what I lived, I never have lived
in the San Fernando Valley where you are. I lived
in the San Gabriel Valley, which was also horrific. It
was like living in a blow torch near the mountains there,
the foothills. I loved it. They're it was beautiful, but
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it was so hot in the summer. But yeah, and
I only know like the San Fernando vo I worked
in Burbank, which is hot, and obviously Sherman Oaks where
the studios are, and it's brutal. It's just I can
only and further the further you get out where you
are in that part of the valley. For those not
familiar to chats Worth, which at one point was the
porn capital, Yeah, the adult industries headquarters. I don't think
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it is anymore, but for a while I think there's
a fair amount of people still there that do that.
But it's not like it was. Yeah, it's a border
town of San Fernando Valley in Ventura County and one
of the hottest places in southern California. Ninety four feels
like a hundred and four And they'll usually call the
kids inside the classroom because it's just too hot to
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be outside for the kids. So We encountered this at
summer school on Friday. First recess was early enough to
where yeah I was in the eighties. It was hot,
but you know, we're doing okay. But then we get
to the afternoon and I hear two announcements on the radio.
The first one says, and I had seen this kid
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Ben and I talked to him, but he wouldn't listen
to me. The announcement over the radios, though, said, will
somebody please escort the kid wearing the winter parka to
the office. What? Yeah, this kid, his name is san Gee.
He refuses to take his win her parka off. Then
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I had kids on the basketball court that we're getting
the yard duties, whistles blown because the boys were taking
their shirts off. You know, this is elementary school, so
some of the fifth grade boys were like wearing tank
tops and trying to do that trick where they flipped
their shirt up because it's so hot. They wanted to
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play basketball, but they're also trying to be at the
y m c A and take their shirt off. Meanwhile,
san Gee is walking around the campus wearing jeans, a
long sleeve T shirt and a winter parka. Wow, so
this is it's like a lioness had the blanket and
the peanuts, and this is this kid's thing is the park?
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What's the hiding? Is there something he's trying to hide
or Man? Now, I saw him about an hour before
this radio call. When I saw him, I said, dude,
what are you doing? Take your jacket off. You're gonna
die of a heat stroke. I'm not hot, he said,
I'm always cold. He's like, I'm cold right now? What
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he laughed like he had some sort of superpower that
I was unaware of. Okay, maybe maybe he does, because
he continued to wear the winter park up until somebody
must have informed the office. Hey, we got a kid
out here that's gonna die if somebody doesn't peel this
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big jacket off of him. So what do we look?
How old is this kid? What? What? What grade was he?
Let's see he is a third grader? Oh, a third grade?
There you go. Yeah, boy, built that little kids stage
at third grade. You're not quite out of it yet.
You can't get the man. I didn't get to be
there in the office when the Park of boy showed up.
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I wonder how that encounter went and what they said
to him, and how they were able to get that
packet off because my conversation didn't work. I'm sure he
told the office people the same thing. So did they
physically like pull the jacket off of them? Was this
a hostage negotiation where the parents contacted? Was there a
ransom note? I will I will take the jacket off
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if I get extra candy, and that's it if I
don't get extra candy. But when we were in school,
we've all had our parents called about something or other.
I man imagine that phone call. It's a hundred and
two degrees outside right now, and your son is a
sweating like a hyena. Moments later, there was a second
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radio call and it was a heat advisory, no more
outdoor activities that day, shutting her down, shutting down the
outdoor activities. First call was hey, get park a boy
in the office, and the second call was none of
you jackos can be out here. Wo. So what was
the air? Interesting? Work at that place? Is good? Say?
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Or so? I've for stories about some of the schools
where the A C doesn't work, Right, Charlie Lee, I
I know a guy. I was so excited I wanted
to pick more guys. I love it, absolutely, no question
about it. So I made a tactical error here, Danny.
This past week, the management had reached out to me.
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I was told very stern, like a stern message like
this is very important for the company. The power at
the main building, the Fox Sports radio Hub, was going
to be out all day on Sunday, and one of
the big bosses was very concerned that my remote studio
would not be able to connect because everything was messed up,
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and so he said, we need you to go to
the mother ship. It's one of the days we need
to go. I said, okay, no problems. So but I
made a tactical error since I did not want to
miss it. This was Sunday night. I did not want
to miss any minutes of Game two of the NBA Finals,
which was back on Sunday. So I decided, you know
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what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna waste my entire day.
I'm gonna drive out early from the north Woods. I'm
gonna go out. My wife was busy, she was working,
so I said, I'm gonna make a day. And I
love Tito's tacosm so I said, I haven't been there
a long time, so I'm gonna go to Tito's Tacos.
I go there. This is the mecca. As my Mexican
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buddy who passed away years ago Alex said, the home
of the green got taco, And so I went there.
I got my green Goat tacos. Very delicious, wonderful, crunchy. Man,
is that place good? And I've been going there? I can't.
I can't believe I'll date myself if I say how
long I've been going there? Danny, But the inflation is
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even more. I opened up. Now, I went back to
when I first went to Tito's Tacos. The tacos were
less than two dollars right at that time, and at
that time it seems like a lot. It was still
less than two dollars. So I looked up at the
menu board. Mhm, have you been to the Tito's. I
don't know if you have you ever been there? I've
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been there, not recently, though. You want to take you
guess how much a single taco with cheese cost? Now?
Double that? Now it's got to be four dollars. Uh,
keep going, how about five dollars and ten cents one taco? Now,
this taco is a fair sized taco. It is not
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the biggest taco you can have possibly get. It's like
it's just like a regular kind of talk how it's
possible to charge a charge five dollars for taco and
be gets get idiots like me to pay five dollars
for taco is it blows me away. But for me
it was rare and appropriate. I enjoy it as I
am not gonna eat it maybe once a year, twice
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a year at the most, So like what what that?
So then I pick up the food and then that's
in Culver City, So I make to drive up the
dreaded four oh five, and my plan I've all mapped
out in my head. I'm like, listen, it's way before
the show. It's the afternoon. So I got my food.
I'm gonna watch the finals game in privacy. So I'm
gonna go up to the office tower where the other
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studios are for the Premier Networks, where like George Nor
does his show and the other host. I parked my car.
I can't even get in the garage to park my
car because there's all these electrical trucks that are blocking
the main entrance. So then I have to go all
the way down Ventura down a side street and then
kind of make a you turn to towards the exit.
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So I gotta do all that, and then I have
to enter through the exit. So I get in there
and I find a parking through the exit, head to
the main tower. I use my thing to get in
the building, and as I am going to the elevator,
the security guard comes running in in a panic, arms
waving and informs me that all the elevators are not
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And I'm thinking, well, there's a generator. Why would the
elevators not work on the generator. But for some reason,
I mean, I assumed if the generator is powering the building,
that the at least one because this has happening four
and I remember there was one service elevator that was
worth But the guy's like no, he said, I'm sorry,
there's no elevators. He declined, but then he said, you know,
(28:23):
if you want, you know, there's a there's an emergency exit.
You can walk up that five flights, five stories you
can walk up. So I'm thinking, I'm like, well, wait
a minute, I got I got my laptop, I've got
my my other bag, I've got tacos, I've got a thermis.
Do I want to walk up five stories uh, you know,
(28:44):
and there's no air conditioning because of that, and I'm like,
I politely decline. So then I'm like, okay, So I'm
stuck in the main Fox Sports radio studio. So I
go in there with my tail. I'm a defeated maid
day my tail between my legs. I go in there
and I try to go in the act to eat
kind of away from the riff raft. There's just like
(29:04):
weird setup. When you come to the building, there's a kitchen,
and then the other side of the kitchen there's really
just like kind of dead space. There's not a lot
going on. And I'm like, I I spouted, I'm like, well,
no one will bug me, you know, And so I said,
that's perfect. I put my stuff down, put my computer down,
put the tacos down, put the I filled up my
thermis with some water. It's a little studio next to
the production studio. Yeah, and I don't even know what's
(29:26):
in that. That's stude. I don't even know. But so anyway,
but after that, it was like a conda line of
people saying hello, Hello. I don't even know how they
knew I was there. Wreck it Ralph came by, Dan
Fire came by some editors people I don't even know
(29:46):
who they are. I don't even know what they do.
They were coming by saying hello, which is very nice. Um,
but I'm trying to eat and I don't like people
watching me when I eat, So then every time somebody
came over, I had to stopped eating. And then by
the time I ate the tacos, they were cold. But
then I was like, I paid five dollars for cold tacos,
but I couldn't heat him up because the microwave wasn't working.
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So I made a lot of mistakes. Here's what I'm
trying to say. And then I finally got down to
do my prem but I was able to watch the game,
which was fine because they had the generator power in
the studio. But then another thing happened on the way
out of work after the show that night. So Sunday night,
you were not producing that night. You had already produced earlier.
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So I'm leaving the studio. I get out of the
parking lot. I'm right at the corner of the Pulviano Matura.
I'm heading to the one oh one freeway in the valley.
Out there. I'm at a red light, and as I
am it turns green, so I'm now clear to go
through the intersection. I I start picking up some speed
(30:52):
and then immediately I have to pump the brakes because
a Los Angeles Public Transit bus decided to run their
red light local rapid express and apparently reckless ramal night
ran and I almost got t boned by a Los
Angeles public transit bus in the middle of the night,
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a block away, not even a block, a corner where
the studio is. And that's a reminder, Danny, and you know,
driving late, I have seen over the years doing the
Overnight show. I've seen many accidents. I've seen fatalities. I've
seen three times, I've seen wrong way drivers. I have
a theory and a lot of like at night, especially
(31:37):
around there, there's a lot of really rich people that
live in the hills. Bel Air is right up above
the famous neighborhood bell Air, where like Lebron, doesn't Lebron
live up there? I think I don't a lot of
famous people, so uh, yes, that's right. So my theory is'
all I blame Vin Diesel and the Fast and the
(31:59):
Furious move be franchise because I think everyone he's got
these high end sports cars. And now this was a
bust that I at this time, but I see people
at night on the street. It's like the Autobahn driving around.
It's wild, all right. And when we get out of
here on this we've got the backscratcher. You scratch our back,
we scratch your back, and we have some gamesmanship this
(32:22):
week in backscratching. This is where we begged you to
go and support the podcast on the Apple podcast page
fifth Hour Apple Podcast and really spread the word. We
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I think there's this listener, twizzle Te Danny. We had
two reviews this but this guy, twizzle Te found a loophole.
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This is the second consecutive week that he's written review.
So I was like, that name looks familiar. So I
was like, I swear he wrote a review last week.
So then I went back and looked and that was gone.
And now there's this review from twizzle t. So he
updated it, I guess, but the other one was gone.
So yeah, are you only allowed to do one? Is
(33:04):
that one per customer? That's a good question. So he says,
CNN schooling summer school sounds as awesome as this show,
news coverage and water balloons covering all the bases. I
had no idea about the flood. So thanks kid. So
that's from Twizzle Teeth like he was quoting some of
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the great moments of the of last weekend's podcast. Yes,
so he gave us five stars, so thank you. And
then the other one was from the one and only
Turret Burglar. How lucky are we Danny that the Turret
Burglars a fan of our show We Gotta go man uh?
And that was a five star review and it said,
(33:46):
whoa big Ben and Danny are going to top the charts,
watch out Joe Rogan wrong. So sure the people over
at Spotify are going to steal us away Danny at
any moment and throw lots of money or or what's
the DraftKings with Pat mcafeel come knocking on our door
and say, here's a bunch of money. Is there a
(34:08):
better chance of that? Or the Saudi Arabian Group offerings.
I'm gonna go knock the Saudi Arabian Group. I think
I have a distinct disadvantage to have them offer me
any money. Nor would I really want to work with them.
How much would it take for the Saudias to steal
you away? Big? Listen? We all have a price, Danny,
(34:29):
as you know, we all have a price. But I
would have to not talk to many, many people who
are part of my life to take that money. That
would be the problem. There's a lot of people who
have been very important in my life. If I did that,
they would never talk to me again, and nor would
I blame them, Nor would I blame them. All Right,
we gotta get out of here. Anything to promote Danny anything?
I'm not Cammy. Oh what are you got going up?
(34:50):
I have a very rare day off today. All Right,
my tender Roady and I are going to head to
the beach. We've been talking to how the weather's heating
up here in southern California. And what's your beach? Do
you go to a toursty beach like Venice? Do you
go to the celebrity beaches in Malibu? Like? What's your
move here? Starting the weekend in San Diego and ending
(35:13):
the weekend in Newport Beach? Oh little South oh Sea action? Well,
let me know, maybe we'll we'll cross paths. You never
know could happen. So anyway, have a great rest of
your Saturday. The mail bag can't wait on Sunday. We'll
talk to you then, Asta pasta, go after yourself, San Diego,
(35:39):
what's with it
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congratulate you, Danny, on the fact that you survive not one,
but two appearances on the overnight shows. So I know
you're a little choked up right now, Danny, a little emotional,
you little. I understand that. But you did survive two
nights in the Madhouse, so it was most I don't
(01:10):
know when I'm sleeping, when I'm awake, when I'm eating dinner,
And it's funny at the geat Household, I was eating
dinner at eight thirty pm every night before I went
into your show. At first, it was gonna be like
my tinder RONI said, well, I'll make your dinner at
eight thirty. The rest of us are going to eat
at six thirty. Oh my guy, that's cool. But I
(01:32):
get down there the first night at eight thirty and
everybody's eating. It was like that the next night to
at nine pm. People were still roaming around the kitchen eating. Wow.
Kind of a grazing situation here, you know, now you
know later I like it. I like it, got a
bonus dinner at my pad. Solid Ben. You don't get
(01:53):
enough credit for the hours that you live. Yeah, it's
just it's all a blurred in it. It's all a blur.
But I still maintain. And you did mornings for a while,
like to me, the worst schedule I've done the full
cycle and radio. I think you have to where you
do the whole every day part twenty four hours in
(02:15):
the in the day. But for me having to get up,
like to go to bed early and get up to
do a morning show. I did that for a year.
It was dreadful. It was so bad. I tried to
make it an overnight show and I tried to stay up.
I've told the story before, but I tried to stay
up to like thirty eleven in the morning and it
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just and then I go to bed. I figured, I
go to bed like like eleven o'clock and sleep until
six and then do it all over again, and it
just it just ate at me. It was just brutal.
It's funny you say that because when your show was
ending on Tuesday and Wednesday, the morning crew obviously comes
in after us, after the Ben Mallor show and Day
(03:00):
or Dragon Ass the second day especially, and I heard
someone in the hallway say, oh my god, it was
so hard to get out of bed today, And so
you're right. You hear that a lot from morning crews. Obviously,
once they're into their first hour or maybe the second hour,
they've had a little bit of coffee and they're getting awake.
But yeah, that is a very tough schedule to do
(03:22):
every day, every day of the week. Yeah, the very
bleary eyed the morning guys when they come in there.
I saw, I felt bad for LaVar erything. And this
guy's at a stud in the NFL back in the day.
Now he's doing mornings. He's coming in there and he's like,
oh what am I dough? And I goes like a zombie.
He speaking of LaVar after doing post production for your show.
(03:43):
I left about five am West Coast time, and as
I'm leaving, I waved to those guys goodbye. And I
just see this huge boat up on the counter, crusty boat.
It was LaVar's bare foot Oh is that right? He's
just kind of reason of a Klein situation. Looked like
we had an eagle in the studio. Yeah, you gotta
(04:07):
be careful because there was and I don't know I
should reveal the name here, I probably not. But years ago,
and I think before you were at Fox Sports Radio,
there was a NFL coach who was working there who
leaned back, put his feet up on the table and
then fell over, like passed out in the chair in
the in the Studio's crazy, yeah, wild story, But I
(04:30):
mean it's all of a sudden, It's like, wait a minute,
what's going on. No, he's all right, he's fine. I
mean he was. He was down for the count for
that day. I don't think he continued his show, Danny.
I think that was the end of the show and
he said, that's it, I'm done, get me out of here.
Got a murder gotta go. So on this Saturday podcast,
(04:53):
The Life and Times of Mallard and Danny g We've
got ringing up, Charlie Horse Winner, part tactical error and backscratcher.
That's a lot of content, never that on this show.
And mc hammer used to say, let's get it started, hammertime,
all right. Now, I spent last weekend kind of gets
(05:17):
caught up on stuff that I do when I'm not
barking into a microphone about Deshaun Watson junk. But I
spent my weekend going to part of my weekend going
to various jewelry stores around southern California. As we continue
now the Wild Goose Chase. All of this in an
effort Danny to find the replacement band. In a previous episode,
(05:41):
I had told the story, if you remember, if you
heard that podcast, the tale of making the taij Ma
Hall of Sand Castles at a beautiful beach in southern California. However,
in my haste to build the towers with my young cousin,
I my ring was buried at sea. And it's been
a while and still no no wing ring. I have
(06:03):
a backup, I'm not wearing it because that also falls off.
So I went to a couple of jewelry stores and
I got my ring finger. I got fitted to find
out what size I have as a ring, which I
didn't know. I guess my ring that I had before
is a little too big, which probably explains why it
came flying off playing insane. But a few observations here
(06:25):
that I learned things I picked up from my weekend
shopping with the wife. So, uh. These were a couple
of big jewelry stores, one of them very well known,
another one more of a local place, but they're popular
on the internet and they sell rings all over the country.
(06:46):
So I go in here and you walk into it,
and I don't spend a lot of time at jewelry stores.
It's not how I rolled. But I I go in
there and I'm like, oh my god, this place is
gonna be the greatest, right. It's like the Costco of jewelry.
It's like everywhere you look, uh, there's cases displaying all
these different jewelry. So that this person greets you the
door and I'm like, what do you need and maybe
(07:08):
a little small talk. Well I lost my my wedding
ring and said okay, uh, and then he points to
the very far corner of this massive warehouse like it's
like the size of a seemed like a football field,
and he points over to the corner in the very back.
He says, that's where you need to go. So I
said okay, and I walked over there and this massive store.
(07:32):
There was one and a half cases of men's wedding bands.
Everything else was for women or I don't know, but
it was only like a case and a half, so
there were not many options. And and we looked and
there was some stuff that kind of it all kind
of looked the same. And so my my wife had
(07:54):
actually found something that looked pretty pretty good online, but
you never know online, You never really know online. But
they claimed they had this great return policy, so we
ended up getting that and since nothing clicked on the store,
we we decided to ring it up. And we did
ring it up. And I also did take advice of
(08:16):
our buddy Adrian, who's a super fan of the show.
Adrian's the guy that went to Disneyland with his family
and had shirts with our like the Mallard name on it,
which crazy, but Adrian in Denver, he did advise buying
some of those like silicone rings of people the gym.
Yeah yeah, yeah. So so my plan is that I'll
(08:37):
probably end up wearing those a lot. Most of the
time I'm not doing something that I might use my
hands with. But then for like a nice night out
or you know, when I'm not doing anything physical, I'll
probably wear the actual actual ring. But that's if it's good.
I might end up returning it. I don't know, might
it might blow. You have no idea. I have no
idea because you see, you see photos of stuff online.
(08:59):
You don't know until you got to me. You gotta
hold it, you gotta look at it. You don't know
now in your opinion, why is the selection for men
so crappy? Is it just because the whole engagement thing
is for women? Really? Yeah, well, my theory on that is, yeah,
guys don't give a rat's ass, right, They just want
to get in and out. They're like, okay, I'm signing
(09:20):
the contract. That's it's not who cares. And most most
men's rings are either gold, silver, or black. Yeah, I
don't know if there's any variation. I didn't see any
variation other than that for wedding bands. With my copious
(09:41):
you know, minutes long walking through the one case and
a half case of wedding rings, but yeah, so it's yeah,
women and there's they were like chains, and I mean
they all kinds out of the jewelry. It wasn't just rings,
but it was mostly rings. What's interesting is that as guys,
I mean, we grew up with run DMC and big
gold rope chains, and you know, for a moment there
(10:05):
a lot of dudes had Mr T Starter sets and
you know, some guys still try to go with that look.
I guess, come on, pimping, get your tim's off. But well,
at the gym in in Glendale, they got I used
to work out there in southern California. Here a lot
of dudes with the like the one gold chain, what
(10:25):
up bro? A lot of of action. You would think
there would be even maybe a small market for men's
rings that had a lot of bling to them. Yeah,
so I I got something. It has a little pop
to it. I thought, why not? You know the other
one didn't have much pop to it. This is that
little pop to it. So we'll see if I actually
end up liking it. So that is the tale of
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ringing up as far as the Charlie Horse. So, yeah,
this is not really big news, but since it's the
podcast and for some reason, people seem to be interested
in this off this past week at the Mallard Mansion,
and we've had we've had some a C issues. It's
getting that time of the year, although usually in l
(11:09):
A it's the June gloom and then it gets hot
in July and August and really September, like August, September
is the hottest time of the year, but it's supposed
to get June hot around here. So I was holding
down fort the fort over there at the Mallard Mansion.
My wife had scheduled a friend of the family to
come check out the air condition and this happened while
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I was prepping for the show. And as you know, Danny,
there's a there's a method to the madness, and I
have a routine. We all have routines, very methodical. I
often start out paranoid that I won't have anything interesting
that I want to talk about, and then then I'll
end up finding too much stuff and I won't have
(11:54):
enough time for But anyway, I desperately try to turn
over every rock, leave no stone unturned, right, that's my goal.
If someone's gonna give their time up to listen to
this dopey radio show. I want to make sure I
put my time to give them something that they will appreciate.
So I spent a lot of time on it, scouring
the globe for content. Uh. There's a term that that
(12:15):
I remember when I was a kid growing up in
a a Jewish household that you're you're trying to find
the offie coon, like the hidden maza, uh hidden jewel.
So all of this is happening, and the air conditioning
guy comes over and I've met this guy in the
past at a social event a friend of my my
wife said, Uh, so I met the guy and you know,
(12:37):
nice guy and all that, but I really know him.
And um my wife said, he's a fan of the show.
And but she said she told him, don't really talk
to Ben because it'll be busy, which I appreciate. You know,
I'm willing to talk, but I you know, I'm not
a big small talk guy. But so anyway, so he
comes in and he's doing the whole he's checking out
the air conditioning, pulling wires. There's some electrical issues that
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some some wires had burned together probably years ago, and
I we moved in here and we had to get
it fixed. So he's coming over about every half hour,
and he's in very places giving me updates. But at
some point along the way these detailed updates morphed into uh,
(13:21):
what I would call it Charlie Horse because name is
Charlie R A c guy. Charlie. He was giving me
the inside skinny Danny. Now. I love the fact that
he enjoys the show. And he had mentioned he was
relaying some of the things that had happened on the
show that he had heard because he don't listen every night,
because most people can't listen to every night because he's
not over. So Charlie is he's going through? Yeah, I
(13:45):
heard you. He took a call from this guy and
then I really liked that, and he he likes the callers.
He thinks that's a good part of the show. Not
really a podcast guest. So I think we're okay. I
don't think he listened to the pocket and if we
are were in trouble. If he does, were in trouble,
you're not in trouble. I'm in trouble. Um. He also
loves Phil Henry, so then he like every time he
(14:05):
thinks would get cranked up a little bit, like the
first time. I was like, hey, I like the show.
You know, here's what's going on with d C. And
then half an hour later he'd come back. Here's an update.
By the way, I loved Phil Hendon. I used to
listen to him all the time on cafe in l A.
And then he said I I he tell me like
a bit that Phil Henry And he's like, did you
ever meet Phil? I said, yes, I did. He used
to work at the Premier Networks back and I did
meet Phil. Oh really, what was he like? I really
(14:26):
didn't know him that well. You know, I met him,
but it's a casual meeting and we didn't really talk.
And he said, okay, okay, and uh as I think
Phil is doing a podcast now. So I said, well,
why don't you listen to his podcast all he's doing
a podcast. I said, yeah, I think he's doing a podcast.
And then and I was like, oh, wait a minute,
because I am friends with Phil henry On on Facebook.
So I was like, oh, I'll just I'll look it
up or whatever and I'll get back to you. So
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so he leaves, he comes back again half he was
here for hours day, come back in half an hour later,
we're talking about you know, solar and this, that and
the other thing. And he's saying he he has like
sleep at me, and he said, you can get an
exemption for your power if you have sleep at me. Yeah,
so that's kind of cool. Yeah, apparently, you know, in
(15:08):
California they tax you if you go over a certain
threshold with your But he said, if you have like
a sleep condition, our health condition, you can have your
doctor write a note and that you will always stay
in tier one. Wo. Yeah, so if anyone. I don't
know if that works in other states other than California,
but that was like an interesting life fact. So then
(15:29):
we move on from that, and now he's telling me
he's got these black Russian Terrier service dogs. Now I
didn't know what a black Russian Terrier dog looks like.
These dogs are the size of a human being. Danny,
I hate the curse, but this thing weighs about a
hundred thirty pounds. It's massive. Ear unbelieved was one of
(15:54):
the biggest, he says to me, shows me a photo.
He's like, yeah, my wife doesn't like the dog on
the bed, but one night, you know, I let the
dog on the bed. The dogs like a human being
in the bed. That dogs licked that whole thing. He's
your best friends. Yeah, we're pals. Now we're boys, man,
me and Charlie and and so I I was, I
(16:16):
was looking at this, this Russian terry, the black Russian terry,
and I was thinking, boy blind Scott and his dog
Dylan would be so freaked out if they saw obviously
good to see it, but if they if they were
aware of how big huge. And I looked it up.
The dog was created in the USSR in the Red
Star kennel for military use. It's a military trained dog anyway,
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So this this one on and I did the math
on it. When when Charlie finally left, very nice man, Charlie,
very good, and he's apparently he's great at the air
condition he's really good at air conditioning stuff, and that
the electricity and and wiring and all that crap, which
is important. Uh, but I estimate we spent ninety minutes talk.
(17:01):
I'm not exaggerating, but I think it was not because
every time he came over it got a little longer
and a little longer, and then when he left, there
was like an added twenty minutes on top of that.
And did you do the cut off movie or the
the end of the conversation. Was it an open end
where you kept trying to end it but then it
kept continuing. Yeah, So I had my laptop open, so
(17:23):
I'm watching a ball game watching I was watching the
Blue Jays were playing the Royal So I'm watching this
right and okay, all right, thanks, But he's not making
eye context. So I'm trying to do the whole eye
contact things like I'm looking at it, and he didn't.
He didn't make eye contact, so I couldn't. It was
nice of you to do ninety minutes because you're very
(17:44):
antisocial normal I am. I am. My wife said, you
just gotta cut him off, Like that's what my My
father in law just cut him off. That's so you
have to cut him. No, I don't. I don't want
to be rude. The guy's a Fanish show. I don't
want to be a dick. You don't wanna be Ada
and the guys a fan of the show, and I
don't want to be an a hole. So what am
I supposed to do? You know, hosts will have very
(18:04):
outgoing personalities, it's real. But because you're outgoing on the
air for all those hours off the radio, you don't
really want to talk that much. Yeah, you save it
for the show. The reason we don't talk a lot
of before the show or anything like that. Yeah, you
gotta say you don't want to waste anything because we
(18:25):
we've talked about this to Danny both being in the
radio business a long time. When you do something in
a meeting and it's pretty good, you're like, oh, that's
that should be on the air, and then you try
it on there, it's never the same. Yeah, there's no
good take two's you lose your edge on that. You
lose your edge and then you need to go out
and buy a Winter Parker. And he said, why would
you need a winter Parker because it's June, But Danny
(18:47):
will explain. Yeah, And this kind of ties into your
air conditioning story. You know, I'm a couple hours away
from you. My part of southern California has heated up already.
It is that Chatsworth heat. You know what that is? Yeah? Yeah,
oh boy, that's blazing sun hitting the rocks and Chatsworth.
(19:10):
It's that kind of heat where it feels like death valley. Yeah,
it's bad. Now what I lived, I never have lived
in the San Fernando Valley where you are. I lived
in the San Gabriel Valley, which was also horrific. It
was like living in a blow torch near the mountains there,
the foothills. I loved it. They're it was beautiful, but
(19:31):
it was so hot in the summer. But yeah, and
I only know like the San Fernando vo I worked
in Burbank, which is hot, and obviously Sherman Oaks where
the studios are, and it's brutal. It's just I can
only and further the further you get out where you
are in that part of the valley. For those not
familiar to chats Worth, which at one point was the
porn capital, Yeah, the adult industries headquarters. I don't think
(19:55):
it is anymore, but for a while I think there's
a fair amount of people still there that do that.
But it's not like it was. Yeah, it's a border
town of San Fernando Valley in Ventura County and one
of the hottest places in southern California. Ninety four feels
like a hundred and four And they'll usually call the
kids inside the classroom because it's just too hot to
(20:17):
be outside for the kids. So We encountered this at
summer school on Friday. First recess was early enough to
where yeah I was in the eighties. It was hot,
but you know, we're doing okay. But then we get
to the afternoon and I hear two announcements on the radio.
The first one says, and I had seen this kid
(20:39):
Ben and I talked to him, but he wouldn't listen
to me. The announcement over the radios, though, said, will
somebody please escort the kid wearing the winter parka to
the office. What? Yeah, this kid, his name is san Gee.
He refuses to take his win her parka off. Then
(21:04):
I had kids on the basketball court that we're getting
the yard duties, whistles blown because the boys were taking
their shirts off. You know, this is elementary school, so
some of the fifth grade boys were like wearing tank
tops and trying to do that trick where they flipped
their shirt up because it's so hot. They wanted to
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play basketball, but they're also trying to be at the
y m c A and take their shirt off. Meanwhile,
san Gee is walking around the campus wearing jeans, a
long sleeve T shirt and a winter parka. Wow, so
this is it's like a lioness had the blanket and
the peanuts, and this is this kid's thing is the park?
(21:49):
What's the hiding? Is there something he's trying to hide
or Man? Now, I saw him about an hour before
this radio call. When I saw him, I said, dude,
what are you doing? Take your jacket off. You're gonna
die of a heat stroke. I'm not hot, he said,
I'm always cold. He's like, I'm cold right now? What
(22:12):
he laughed like he had some sort of superpower that
I was unaware of. Okay, maybe maybe he does, because
he continued to wear the winter park up until somebody
must have informed the office. Hey, we got a kid
out here that's gonna die if somebody doesn't peel this
(22:35):
big jacket off of him. So what do we look?
How old is this kid? What? What? What grade was he?
Let's see he is a third grader? Oh, a third grade?
There you go. Yeah, boy, built that little kids stage
at third grade. You're not quite out of it yet.
You can't get the man. I didn't get to be
there in the office when the Park of boy showed up.
(22:55):
I wonder how that encounter went and what they said
to him, and how they were able to get that
packet off because my conversation didn't work. I'm sure he
told the office people the same thing. So did they
physically like pull the jacket off of them? Was this
a hostage negotiation where the parents contacted? Was there a
ransom note? I will I will take the jacket off
(23:17):
if I get extra candy, and that's it if I
don't get extra candy. But when we were in school,
we've all had our parents called about something or other.
I man imagine that phone call. It's a hundred and
two degrees outside right now, and your son is a
sweating like a hyena. Moments later, there was a second
(23:41):
radio call and it was a heat advisory, no more
outdoor activities that day, shutting her down, shutting down the
outdoor activities. First call was hey, get park a boy
in the office, and the second call was none of
you jackos can be out here. Wo. So what was
the air? Interesting? Work at that place? Is good? Say?
(24:02):
Or so? I've for stories about some of the schools
where the A C doesn't work, Right, Charlie Lee, I
I know a guy. I was so excited I wanted
to pick more guys. I love it, absolutely, no question
about it. So I made a tactical error here, Danny.
This past week, the management had reached out to me.
(24:24):
I was told very stern, like a stern message like
this is very important for the company. The power at
the main building, the Fox Sports radio Hub, was going
to be out all day on Sunday, and one of
the big bosses was very concerned that my remote studio
would not be able to connect because everything was messed up,
(24:47):
and so he said, we need you to go to
the mother ship. It's one of the days we need
to go. I said, okay, no problems. So but I
made a tactical error since I did not want to
miss it. This was Sunday night. I did not want
to miss any minutes of Game two of the NBA Finals,
which was back on Sunday. So I decided, you know
(25:09):
what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna waste my entire day.
I'm gonna drive out early from the north Woods. I'm
gonna go out. My wife was busy, she was working,
so I said, I'm gonna make a day. And I
love Tito's tacosm so I said, I haven't been there
a long time, so I'm gonna go to Tito's Tacos.
I go there. This is the mecca. As my Mexican
(25:31):
buddy who passed away years ago Alex said, the home
of the green got taco, And so I went there.
I got my green Goat tacos. Very delicious, wonderful, crunchy. Man,
is that place good? And I've been going there? I can't.
I can't believe I'll date myself if I say how
long I've been going there? Danny, But the inflation is
(25:52):
even more. I opened up. Now, I went back to
when I first went to Tito's Tacos. The tacos were
less than two dollars right at that time, and at
that time it seems like a lot. It was still
less than two dollars. So I looked up at the
menu board. Mhm, have you been to the Tito's. I
don't know if you have you ever been there? I've
(26:13):
been there, not recently, though. You want to take you
guess how much a single taco with cheese cost? Now?
Double that? Now it's got to be four dollars. Uh,
keep going, how about five dollars and ten cents one taco? Now,
this taco is a fair sized taco. It is not
(26:33):
the biggest taco you can have possibly get. It's like
it's just like a regular kind of talk how it's
possible to charge a charge five dollars for taco and
be gets get idiots like me to pay five dollars
for taco is it blows me away. But for me
it was rare and appropriate. I enjoy it as I
am not gonna eat it maybe once a year, twice
(26:55):
a year at the most, So like what what that?
So then I pick up the food and then that's
in Culver City, So I make to drive up the
dreaded four oh five, and my plan I've all mapped
out in my head. I'm like, listen, it's way before
the show. It's the afternoon. So I got my food.
I'm gonna watch the finals game in privacy. So I'm
gonna go up to the office tower where the other
(27:19):
studios are for the Premier Networks, where like George Nor
does his show and the other host. I parked my car.
I can't even get in the garage to park my
car because there's all these electrical trucks that are blocking
the main entrance. So then I have to go all
the way down Ventura down a side street and then
kind of make a you turn to towards the exit.
(27:39):
So I gotta do all that, and then I have
to enter through the exit. So I get in there
and I find a parking through the exit, head to
the main tower. I use my thing to get in
the building, and as I am going to the elevator,
the security guard comes running in in a panic, arms
waving and informs me that all the elevators are not
(28:01):
And I'm thinking, well, there's a generator. Why would the
elevators not work on the generator. But for some reason,
I mean, I assumed if the generator is powering the building,
that the at least one because this has happening four
and I remember there was one service elevator that was
worth But the guy's like no, he said, I'm sorry,
there's no elevators. He declined, but then he said, you know,
(28:23):
if you want, you know, there's a there's an emergency exit.
You can walk up that five flights, five stories you
can walk up. So I'm thinking, I'm like, well, wait
a minute, I got I got my laptop, I've got
my my other bag, I've got tacos, I've got a thermis.
Do I want to walk up five stories uh, you know,
(28:44):
and there's no air conditioning because of that, and I'm like,
I politely decline. So then I'm like, okay, So I'm
stuck in the main Fox Sports radio studio. So I
go in there with my tail. I'm a defeated maid
day my tail between my legs. I go in there
and I try to go in the act to eat
kind of away from the riff raft. There's just like
(29:04):
weird setup. When you come to the building, there's a kitchen,
and then the other side of the kitchen there's really
just like kind of dead space. There's not a lot
going on. And I'm like, I I spouted, I'm like, well,
no one will bug me, you know, And so I said,
that's perfect. I put my stuff down, put my computer down,
put the tacos down, put the I filled up my
thermis with some water. It's a little studio next to
the production studio. Yeah, and I don't even know what's
(29:26):
in that. That's stude. I don't even know. But so anyway,
but after that, it was like a conda line of
people saying hello, Hello. I don't even know how they
knew I was there. Wreck it Ralph came by, Dan
Fire came by some editors people I don't even know
(29:46):
who they are. I don't even know what they do.
They were coming by saying hello, which is very nice. Um,
but I'm trying to eat and I don't like people
watching me when I eat, So then every time somebody
came over, I had to stopped eating. And then by
the time I ate the tacos, they were cold. But
then I was like, I paid five dollars for cold tacos,
but I couldn't heat him up because the microwave wasn't working.
(30:08):
So I made a lot of mistakes. Here's what I'm
trying to say. And then I finally got down to
do my prem but I was able to watch the game,
which was fine because they had the generator power in
the studio. But then another thing happened on the way
out of work after the show that night. So Sunday night,
you were not producing that night. You had already produced earlier.
(30:30):
So I'm leaving the studio. I get out of the
parking lot. I'm right at the corner of the Pulviano Matura.
I'm heading to the one oh one freeway in the valley.
Out there. I'm at a red light, and as I
am it turns green, so I'm now clear to go
through the intersection. I I start picking up some speed
(30:52):
and then immediately I have to pump the brakes because
a Los Angeles Public Transit bus decided to run their
red light local rapid express and apparently reckless ramal night
ran and I almost got t boned by a Los
Angeles public transit bus in the middle of the night,
(31:15):
a block away, not even a block, a corner where
the studio is. And that's a reminder, Danny, and you know,
driving late, I have seen over the years doing the
Overnight show. I've seen many accidents. I've seen fatalities. I've
seen three times, I've seen wrong way drivers. I have
a theory and a lot of like at night, especially
(31:37):
around there, there's a lot of really rich people that
live in the hills. Bel Air is right up above
the famous neighborhood bell Air, where like Lebron, doesn't Lebron
live up there? I think I don't a lot of
famous people, so uh, yes, that's right. So my theory is'
all I blame Vin Diesel and the Fast and the
(31:59):
Furious move be franchise because I think everyone he's got
these high end sports cars. And now this was a
bust that I at this time, but I see people
at night on the street. It's like the Autobahn driving around.
It's wild, all right. And when we get out of
here on this we've got the backscratcher. You scratch our back,
we scratch your back, and we have some gamesmanship this
(32:22):
week in backscratching. This is where we begged you to
go and support the podcast on the Apple podcast page
fifth Hour Apple Podcast and really spread the word. We
need we need more downloads, spread the word, share the sugar.
I think there's this listener, twizzle Te Danny. We had
two reviews this but this guy, twizzle Te found a loophole.
(32:44):
This is the second consecutive week that he's written review.
So I was like, that name looks familiar. So I
was like, I swear he wrote a review last week.
So then I went back and looked and that was gone.
And now there's this review from twizzle t. So he
updated it, I guess, but the other one was gone.
So yeah, are you only allowed to do one? Is
(33:04):
that one per customer? That's a good question. So he says,
CNN schooling summer school sounds as awesome as this show,
news coverage and water balloons covering all the bases. I
had no idea about the flood. So thanks kid. So
that's from Twizzle Teeth like he was quoting some of
(33:25):
the great moments of the of last weekend's podcast. Yes,
so he gave us five stars, so thank you. And
then the other one was from the one and only
Turret Burglar. How lucky are we Danny that the Turret
Burglars a fan of our show We Gotta go man uh?
And that was a five star review and it said,
(33:46):
whoa big Ben and Danny are going to top the charts,
watch out Joe Rogan wrong. So sure the people over
at Spotify are going to steal us away Danny at
any moment and throw lots of money or or what's
the DraftKings with Pat mcafeel come knocking on our door
and say, here's a bunch of money. Is there a
(34:08):
better chance of that? Or the Saudi Arabian Group offerings.
I'm gonna go knock the Saudi Arabian Group. I think
I have a distinct disadvantage to have them offer me
any money. Nor would I really want to work with them.
How much would it take for the Saudias to steal
you away? Big? Listen? We all have a price, Danny,
(34:29):
as you know, we all have a price. But I
would have to not talk to many, many people who
are part of my life to take that money. That
would be the problem. There's a lot of people who
have been very important in my life. If I did that,
they would never talk to me again, and nor would
I blame them, Nor would I blame them. All Right,
we gotta get out of here. Anything to promote Danny anything?
I'm not Cammy. Oh what are you got going up?
(34:50):
I have a very rare day off today. All Right,
my tender Roady and I are going to head to
the beach. We've been talking to how the weather's heating
up here in southern California. And what's your beach? Do
you go to a toursty beach like Venice? Do you
go to the celebrity beaches in Malibu? Like? What's your
move here? Starting the weekend in San Diego and ending
(35:13):
the weekend in Newport Beach? Oh little South oh Sea action? Well,
let me know, maybe we'll we'll cross paths. You never
know could happen. So anyway, have a great rest of
your Saturday. The mail bag can't wait on Sunday. We'll
talk to you then, Asta pasta, go after yourself, San Diego,
(35:39):
what's with it
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