Latest / The Ben Maller Show / The Fifth Hour: Sock & Hawk
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Cut Booms.
- 0:02Speaker 2: If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes
- 0:05Speaker 2: a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants
- 0:09Speaker 2: of the old Republic, a soul fashion of fairness. He
- 0:12Speaker 2: treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the
- 0:15Speaker 2: rich pill poppers in the penthouse.
- 0:18Speaker 3: Wow.
- 0:18Speaker 2: It's the clearinghouse of hot takes. Break free for something special.
- 0:22Speaker 2: The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now.
- 0:28Speaker 1: In the air everywhere. The Fifth Hour with Me, Ben
- 0:33Speaker 1: Maller and Danny G Radio a happy early Saturday.
- 0:38Speaker 3: Here.
- 0:38Speaker 1: You can listen whenever, so maybe it's late on Saturday,
- 0:41Speaker 1: but it is the now seventeenth day of May. As
- 0:44Speaker 1: we hang out together. The Fifth Hour podcast every single
- 0:48Speaker 1: day on the weekend Friday, Saturday, Sunday. We got to
- 0:51Speaker 1: cover new podcast every single day, and I was very excited.
- 0:56Speaker 1: Danny G, who's with me on the Saturday pot, I
- 0:57Speaker 1: was very excited. Last night I was like, game, We're
- 1:00Speaker 1: gonna get a Game seven between the Celtics and the Knicks.
- 1:05Speaker 1: And Monday night I had my whole menu planned out.
- 1:09Speaker 1: I don't eat much, but on Monday night I was
- 1:11Speaker 1: gonna have a big meal and enjoy a game seven
- 1:14Speaker 1: in Boston on TV, sitting on my ass, and that
- 1:19Speaker 1: dream ended right around tip off last night.
- 1:23Speaker 3: Insert buzzer sound effect right here.
- 1:27Speaker 1: Wow, what a great effort by the Boston Celtics. Their
- 1:30Speaker 1: way to compete, boys, way to go out there and
- 1:32Speaker 1: fight to the very end. Down by forty one points
- 1:35Speaker 1: at one point, there was a right when the I
- 1:39Speaker 1: was gonna say when the game started, but really it
- 1:41Speaker 1: was like early second quarter that was it. It was
- 1:43Speaker 1: turned out the lots the party's over. So does New
- 1:48Speaker 1: York Now New York becomes the team?
- 1:49Speaker 3: Right?
- 1:50Speaker 1: They have to the NBA. From a television ratings standpoint,
- 1:54Speaker 1: you can't have Indiana and like Oklahoma or Indiana and Denver. Really,
- 2:00Speaker 1: combination with Indiana and whoever's left in the West would
- 2:03Speaker 1: not be particularly great for TV. So you kind of
- 2:07Speaker 1: need the Knicks, right, You need the New York market.
- 2:10Speaker 4: The other arenas you're not gonna get. Lenny Kravitz and
- 2:13Speaker 4: Ben Stiller looking straight into the camera.
- 2:18Speaker 1: I wanted to puke in my mouth. At the end
- 2:19Speaker 1: of the game, Danny they I realized there was nothing
- 2:22Speaker 1: to show on the broadcast. Had I had the audio
- 2:27Speaker 1: down because Doris Burke was on the broadcast, So when
- 2:29Speaker 1: she's on, that's a sign.
- 2:31Speaker 3: I think that sexist drop sexist.
- 2:36Speaker 1: No, No, I'm just I'm sure she's a lovely lady
- 2:38Speaker 1: and she's really good, but for some reason I'd rather
- 2:41Speaker 1: listen to nails on the chalkboard than her, So I
- 2:45Speaker 1: mute it. So I didn't have the audio up. I
- 2:47Speaker 1: know Mike Breen was doing the game and Doris and
- 2:51Speaker 1: somebody else, so I didn't have the audio up, but
- 2:54Speaker 1: I was watching it, and in the like the last
- 2:58Speaker 1: seven to eight minutes of the game, there was more
- 3:00Speaker 1: shots of Ben Stiller and Tracy Morgan and Spike Lee
- 3:05Speaker 1: and all like that's what they were doing, like to me,
- 3:08Speaker 1: And maybe I'm wrong. I don't know. It could be
- 3:10Speaker 1: completely the whole card is getting pregnant, Like that's not
- 3:15Speaker 1: the real Nick fan. That's like the fake Nick fan.
- 3:18Speaker 1: Those aren't the real Nick fans. Anybody's sitting in the
- 3:21Speaker 1: front row at Madison Square Garden.
- 3:23Speaker 4: Well, Tracy Morgan and Ben Stiller at least have been
- 3:26Speaker 4: seen at quite a few Knicks games. I don't recall
- 3:29Speaker 4: Lenny Kravitz and some of those other celebrities in attendance,
- 3:33Speaker 4: though obviously things get ramped up during playoffs.
- 3:36Speaker 1: Well, and it's like, as Howard Stern mentioned on his
- 3:41Speaker 1: his thing the other day, like he he's like, I'm
- 3:44Speaker 1: not going to the Knicks games unless I get a
- 3:45Speaker 1: front row seat because they assigned the tickets based on
- 3:49Speaker 1: your celebrity status. So if you're not in the front row,
- 3:52Speaker 1: that means you're deemed a B list celebrity. So you're
- 3:55Speaker 1: either A list in the front row or B list
- 3:58Speaker 1: in the back.
- 3:58Speaker 4: But no, like, didn't the podcast could get a spot
- 4:01Speaker 4: out with those fans by the corridors.
- 4:03Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I think No, we'd be actually in Penn Station.
- 4:05Speaker 1: We'd be underneath Mas the Square Garden. We would be
- 4:09Speaker 1: down there cleaning the toilets in the battlem You know,
- 4:12Speaker 1: it's like it's like, listen, the New York Nick fan,
- 4:15Speaker 1: the die hard fan. That's not that I know whose
- 4:18Speaker 1: celebrity people love celebrities don't. I'm over it. I can
- 4:21Speaker 1: call me what you want. I'm over it. It's it's
- 4:23Speaker 1: annoying to me. But congratulations to the Knicks. They kicked
- 4:26Speaker 1: the Tale of the Celtics a total soup to nuts.
- 4:32Speaker 4: They showed a few celebrities in attendance at your new
- 4:35Speaker 4: Clippers arena. During the few the handful of playoff games,
- 4:39Speaker 4: you guys were.
- 4:39Speaker 1: Thinking about it, like the Clippers. I didn't mention the Clippers.
- 4:42Speaker 1: You mentioned the Clippers. I didn't bring up the no.
- 4:44Speaker 4: But I'm saying I know you hate it, but they
- 4:46Speaker 4: did show you know, like, who is it the dead
- 4:51Speaker 4: corpse of Was she la Verne or Shirley?
- 4:54Speaker 1: Well, she died several years ago. I dare you, is
- 5:01Speaker 1: there anyone? I guess there's maybe one or two people. Actually,
- 5:04Speaker 1: Lavernon Shirley was a popular show, like in the seventies, right,
- 5:08Speaker 1: the seventies and eighty seventies.
- 5:09Speaker 4: Probably, Hey, I don't know, because we saw reruns. I
- 5:12Speaker 4: think that's the show our parents saw when it was
- 5:15Speaker 4: actually on.
- 5:16Speaker 1: It is odd though that I in the course of
- 5:19Speaker 1: my yap of the app career, I got to know
- 5:23Speaker 1: Squiggy Dave Lander, who passed away all seasons.
- 5:28Speaker 3: Oh yeah, he was a good actor.
- 5:29Speaker 1: He was a good he loved baseball. He actually worked
- 5:32Speaker 1: as a scout for several teams, and I got to
- 5:36Speaker 1: know him a little bit in the press box. He
- 5:38Speaker 1: was cool. And then, as you mentioned Laverne from Lavernon Shirley,
- 5:41Speaker 1: she was a huge basketball fan. And there was an
- 5:46Speaker 1: incident Marshall, Yeah, Penny Marshall, But there was an incident
- 5:49Speaker 1: at Staples Center where a couple of media guys got
- 5:53Speaker 1: in a couple of camera guys got into a dust up.
- 5:55Speaker 1: This is back in the Shaq Kobe Laker days, and
- 5:57Speaker 1: a couple of camera guys got into a shouting match
- 6:01Speaker 1: and we're pushing each other trying to get positioned around
- 6:04Speaker 1: Shack's locker waiting for Shack. So there was a bit
- 6:07Speaker 1: of a rhubarb in locker room. So we a couple
- 6:10Speaker 1: of us came walking out. Oh man, that was quite
- 6:12Speaker 1: the fun. And Penny Marshall comes running up to me.
- 6:15Speaker 1: She was so excited. She was she thought like the
- 6:17Speaker 1: Laker players were fighting with each other, and she was
- 6:20Speaker 1: very disappointed to find out. No, it was just a
- 6:22Speaker 1: guy from Channel five versus the guy from Channel two
- 6:25Speaker 1: that were shoving each other in the locker room because
- 6:28Speaker 1: they were trying to get positioned to get the proper
- 6:31Speaker 1: camera angle and all that. It was a good Now.
- 6:34Speaker 1: The game last night, the Celtics and Knicks, no contest,
- 6:38Speaker 1: not much to talk about, not good talk radio, but
- 6:40Speaker 1: there were some good sports stories, and it was one
- 6:43Speaker 1: of those things like last night, Danny, I was like, man,
- 6:46Speaker 1: I would have loved to do the show because there's
- 6:48Speaker 1: a lot of meat on the ball and sometimes you
- 6:50Speaker 1: come in there and you're just throwing stuff together and
- 6:52Speaker 1: you're you're you're doing Ramen noodles, and there was a
- 6:55Speaker 1: lot of meat. You had the brock Party contract. Great
- 6:57Speaker 1: news for the Rams, great news for the car Awks.
- 7:00Speaker 1: I mean, mister irrelevant will turn the forty nine ers
- 7:03Speaker 1: into irrelevancy. So good job.
- 7:06Speaker 4: Yeah, fifty three million a year. What he's a thirty
- 7:11Speaker 4: million dollar quarterback. He's getting fifty three million dollars.
- 7:14Speaker 1: The guy that does not elevate his teammates. So good luck.
- 7:17Speaker 1: And I'm very happy for Terry and England and you know,
- 7:21Speaker 1: so the forty nine er fans or nest though and
- 7:24Speaker 1: you guys that love the forty nine ers that are
- 7:26Speaker 1: listeners to the show because you enjoy that you got
- 7:29Speaker 1: your quarterback. He won't make anyone better.
- 7:32Speaker 4: And as the roster, what he does do well with
- 7:36Speaker 4: what's around him there, he works well in that system.
- 7:39Speaker 1: So oh yeah, he's a good system quarterback. It's good
- 7:41Speaker 1: for him.
- 7:41Speaker 3: Yeah, he's a good system quarterback.
- 7:43Speaker 1: And I gotta tell you, as you know, no animosity
- 7:46Speaker 1: Danny for the forty nine er fan, as a RAM fan,
- 7:49Speaker 1: I fully endorse this. I think it's great. I think
- 7:51Speaker 1: you should have gotten more. I think you should. Why
- 7:53Speaker 1: stop it? Was it one hundred and eighty one million
- 7:56Speaker 1: or something like that? Why stop there.
- 7:58Speaker 3: One to eighty one was guaranteed? Yeah.
- 8:00Speaker 1: Yeah, that's really the most the most important part. What
- 8:03Speaker 1: else I read the last night there or yesterday was
- 8:06Speaker 1: a story that I think it was Adam Schefter said
- 8:09Speaker 1: that the NFL is going to ban the tush push
- 8:13Speaker 1: this coming week during the owners meetings. I mean, then
- 8:17Speaker 1: this is kind of obviously they because they pushed it back.
- 8:21Speaker 1: Remember we talked, we all talked about this a couple
- 8:24Speaker 1: of weeks back at the owners the owners meetings they
- 8:26Speaker 1: had in.
- 8:28Speaker 3: That's right, and they tabled it.
- 8:29Speaker 1: They hit the pause by yeah, which is a way
- 8:31Speaker 1: of all right, what teams need a favor from the league,
- 8:35Speaker 1: We'll get them to vote against the Toush push to
- 8:39Speaker 1: kick it out. And uh, I think it's I think
- 8:43Speaker 1: it's as dumb to ban the Toush push as it
- 8:45Speaker 1: was for Major League Baseball to say you can't do
- 8:48Speaker 1: the shift. It's just to me, it's stupid. Find a way.
- 8:51Speaker 3: It's stupid.
- 8:52Speaker 4: But I don't think it ever should have been allowed
- 8:54Speaker 4: in the first place. Now that it's there, just leave
- 8:57Speaker 4: it alone. But it it doesn't make sense with the
- 9:01Speaker 4: forward progress of that game. It doesn't make sense.
- 9:04Speaker 1: Yeah, it's just people that are pissed off because they
- 9:07Speaker 1: can't do it, because really there's only been a couple
- 9:09Speaker 1: of teams that have consistently been able to pull it off,
- 9:12Speaker 1: and nobody can do it like the philadelph Eagles can
- 9:14Speaker 1: do it.
- 9:14Speaker 4: Well, you know when I knew it was over though,
- 9:16Speaker 4: you're a boy from the Chiefs on defense hurt his
- 9:19Speaker 4: neck trying to stop it in the Super Bowl, remember, Yeah, Well,
- 9:24Speaker 4: as soon as I saw that injury and I was like, oh,
- 9:27Speaker 4: that play is going away.
- 9:28Speaker 1: The one that did it for me where I thought, well,
- 9:30Speaker 1: this is really not going to be around is remember
- 9:33Speaker 1: the Washington Philadelphia playoff game where the referees came on
- 9:38Speaker 1: because the Commanders kept jumping off sides trying to they
- 9:41Speaker 1: were trying.
- 9:42Speaker 4: Oh that's right, yeah, yeah, the dude kept flying in
- 9:45Speaker 4: the air on defense off sides every play.
- 9:47Speaker 3: What do you go like three in a row.
- 9:48Speaker 1: Yeah, and the referee got on the PA system. We
- 9:51Speaker 1: can award a score.
- 9:55Speaker 4: That's right. That was awesome. Imagine do you give a
- 9:58Speaker 4: tea None of us knew that either. None of us
- 10:00Speaker 4: knew that rule. We were like, that's a weird rule.
- 10:02Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah.
- 10:04Speaker 1: So that was a good story. That would have been
- 10:06Speaker 1: a monologue on the Overnight Show if I had one
- 10:09Speaker 1: last night and then the other one. Your boy, your guy,
- 10:12Speaker 1: Danny G's guy, Derek Carr. Who there's some Weasley stuff.
- 10:17Speaker 3: Guy that ain't my guy.
- 10:18Speaker 1: There's some Weasley stuff, mo Man Weasley stuff moment.
- 10:22Speaker 3: How about the rumors that his team talked to two teams.
- 10:25Speaker 1: Yes, yes, yes, retirement. So if you have a debilitating
- 10:30Speaker 1: injury that you must retire from the NFL, why are
- 10:34Speaker 1: you shopping around trying to go work for some other the.
- 10:39Speaker 3: I told you this whole thing.
- 10:41Speaker 4: I told you back when he first announced his injury
- 10:44Speaker 4: that it smelled really fishy. I don't think we've seen
- 10:47Speaker 4: the last of him. I say he comes back for
- 10:50Speaker 4: another team. I just don't see him leaving the NFL
- 10:53Speaker 4: like you think he's done. What has he made something
- 10:56Speaker 4: like two hundred million dollars.
- 10:59Speaker 1: He's done very well. And I pointed out in a
- 11:03Speaker 1: previous the radio show I did a monologue. I put
- 11:06Speaker 1: it out, Derek Carr has a role. If you were
- 11:10Speaker 1: to assign we love the blame, the blame pie, and
- 11:13Speaker 1: if you were to assign blame on how the Raiders
- 11:16Speaker 1: ended up leaving Oakland, some of that blame. Now, you'd
- 11:19Speaker 1: always just blame politicians, right, and the Davis family whatever.
- 11:23Speaker 1: But if you look at the history of stadiums and
- 11:27Speaker 1: money and taxpayer money, Derek Carr was the last hope
- 11:32Speaker 1: for the Oakland Raiders as a quarterback, and he just
- 11:35Speaker 1: wasn't good enough with the Oakland Raiders. If he had
- 11:39Speaker 1: been the real deal and the Raiders had actually had
- 11:43Speaker 1: success and gone to the Super Bowl, I bet you
- 11:47Speaker 1: they get the money and there's still the Oakland Raiders.
- 11:49Speaker 1: But you know, he played a role in that anyway.
- 11:52Speaker 1: And ultimately, what he thirty, he's gonna be thirty four.
- 11:57Speaker 4: You know what, Ben I wanted to at least see
- 12:00Speaker 4: how that twenty sixteen season would have wound up. He
- 12:04Speaker 4: was a different guy and a different player back then
- 12:07Speaker 4: that they were twelve and three when he went down
- 12:09Speaker 4: with that injury, they were the best in the West
- 12:12Speaker 4: and he was on a roll. He definitely would have
- 12:14Speaker 4: won at least one playoff game because the Texans stunk
- 12:18Speaker 4: in that wild card game and they still were able
- 12:21Speaker 4: to beat the Raiders back up to the backup.
- 12:23Speaker 1: Remember who was the Raiders quarterback in that playoff game,
- 12:26Speaker 1: because at the Texans their backup too, right, it was
- 12:28Speaker 1: backup versus backup?
- 12:30Speaker 3: Was that it was the third string Raider quarterback.
- 12:32Speaker 1: Remember again, was brock Oswiler playing though? Was he?
- 12:35Speaker 4: Os Wiler is the one that won it for the Texans?
- 12:38Speaker 4: Well won it in it loose and it was that
- 12:41Speaker 4: Raider rookie. God, I can't even think of his name
- 12:43Speaker 4: right now.
- 12:44Speaker 1: You are how soon we forget that's guy started a
- 12:47Speaker 1: playoff game.
- 12:51Speaker 3: He had no business playing in that game. He looked.
- 12:53Speaker 4: Remember he kept holding onto the ball too long and
- 12:56Speaker 4: the Texans defense was all over them.
- 12:58Speaker 1: Oh I remember, I remember they were like, what are
- 13:00Speaker 1: we watching? Why is this a playoff?
- 13:02Speaker 3: Right?
- 13:03Speaker 4: I think Derrek Carr's entire career changed, obviously from that injury,
- 13:08Speaker 4: because he would have made at least a deep run
- 13:11Speaker 4: into those playoffs if not gotten that team because they
- 13:14Speaker 4: had a good defense, a really good defense that season
- 13:16Speaker 4: as well. Every week they went out there, they looked
- 13:19Speaker 4: like they were one of the top three teams in
- 13:22Speaker 4: the NFL in twenty sixteen. I remember pinching myself. It
- 13:25Speaker 4: felt like a weird dream that year. They had sucked
- 13:29Speaker 4: so bad in the years, you know, leading up to
- 13:30Speaker 4: that one. It's broke, it's broke. He never he never
- 13:34Speaker 4: bounced back from that. He was always real fidgety in
- 13:38Speaker 4: the pocket. Remember if a shadow got near him after
- 13:41Speaker 4: that injury, he would drop down like a sack of potatoes.
- 13:44Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 13:45Speaker 3: No, he was.
- 13:46Speaker 1: Always like the easy year standard. He wasn't terrible, just
- 13:50Speaker 1: you don't. You don't want him in any kind of
- 13:52Speaker 1: pressure situation, and you look at the numbers and then
- 13:56Speaker 1: you watch the game and it's not it doesn't add up.
- 13:59Speaker 1: Like the numbers don't look terrible for Derek Carr most
- 14:01Speaker 1: of the time, but when you watch the games, it's
- 14:04Speaker 1: like they're not. He's not making plays to win games.
- 14:07Speaker 1: He's just kind of.
- 14:08Speaker 4: He had that makeable fourth down play against the Bengals
- 14:12Speaker 4: the last time the Raiders were in the playoffs, and
- 14:15Speaker 4: what did he do? He threw the ball away on
- 14:17Speaker 4: fourth down.
- 14:18Speaker 1: Oh, in the back of the end zone if I
- 14:19Speaker 1: remember correctly.
- 14:20Speaker 4: Yeah, the short came the pass came up really short,
- 14:23Speaker 4: but he had a wide open receiver in the end zone.
- 14:26Speaker 4: That was Derek Carr in a nutshell. He at times
- 14:29Speaker 4: had the worst field vision, but he was a gamer.
- 14:32Speaker 4: I remember other plays and other games where he would
- 14:36Speaker 4: look incredible and you would come away from the game like, man,
- 14:39Speaker 4: maybe he is a star quarterback. And then there'd be
- 14:42Speaker 4: other games where he would throw Philip Rivers type interceptions
- 14:45Speaker 4: and you would walk away scratching your head. So he
- 14:47Speaker 4: was a really confusing quarterback to try to root for.
- 14:51Speaker 1: Well, it's like when you were Daton, Danny and the
- 14:53Speaker 1: girl that would flirt with the bar. You think, oh,
- 14:56Speaker 1: I got a shot here, and then yeah, yeah, oh me,
- 15:00Speaker 1: no shot. All right, we're doing wait, too much sporty stuff.
- 15:02Speaker 1: So on this podcast we have the wedding crashers. We've
- 15:06Speaker 1: got a very special moment. I want to starry this.
- 15:12Speaker 1: So last weekend I attended my presence was requested via
- 15:17Speaker 1: my wife to attend a wedding for the in laws,
- 15:22Speaker 1: and so we traveled.
- 15:23Speaker 3: Yeah, this is where you start doing the conga.
- 15:26Speaker 1: Well, it was pretty interesting. So we went to beautiful Beaumont, California,
- 15:32Speaker 1: which is kind.
- 15:34Speaker 4: From PanAm Prana from Frano.
- 15:38Speaker 1: Yeah, kind of near Palm Springs but not and kind
- 15:43Speaker 1: of it's past riverside in southern California.
- 15:46Speaker 3: It's San Bernardino County. It's out in Styx.
- 15:49Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, man. So I I was very excited.
- 15:53Speaker 1: I told the wife, I said, listen, we are staying
- 15:56Speaker 1: at the top hotel in Beaumont, and actually the only
- 16:02Speaker 1: hotel in Beaumont. We spent the night there and it's
- 16:05Speaker 1: so beautiful. They actually have vending machines. You can get
- 16:08Speaker 1: any variety of Matthe you want, Danny and they've got
- 16:11Speaker 1: a f vanding machine right there. So it's really just wonderful.
- 16:14Speaker 4: But not even eight out of five stars, because it's
- 16:17Speaker 4: a super eight.
- 16:19Speaker 1: So we went out there, got all dulled up, you know,
- 16:21Speaker 1: get ready for the big wedding there, getting it all
- 16:23Speaker 1: dressed up in the in laws hanging out there. It
- 16:25Speaker 1: was a nice wedding at this big they had rented
- 16:28Speaker 1: out this mansion. Now, I did not realize there were
- 16:32Speaker 1: nice houses there up in the hills. I had no idea.
- 16:34Speaker 1: When I think of Beaumont. I think of people all
- 16:36Speaker 1: strung out on pharmaceuticals and you know, drugs or whatever.
- 16:41Speaker 1: So they had these really nice mansions up in the hills,
- 16:43Speaker 1: which I had no idea, and they had rented out
- 16:45Speaker 1: this mansion. So we went to the wedding, got all
- 16:49Speaker 1: dressed up, and it was it was fine.
- 16:51Speaker 4: And yeah, this is like when you used to go
- 16:53Speaker 4: to diddy parties back in the day.
- 16:55Speaker 1: You know, you get the baby oil on one side,
- 16:57Speaker 1: you know, you're ready to go. So we were. We
- 16:58Speaker 1: were there doing our thing, and the gentleman that was
- 17:02Speaker 1: getting married into the family, my wife's family. It was
- 17:07Speaker 1: a he's a little bit of a mix up, you know,
- 17:10Speaker 1: different different background, but he It was like a Greek
- 17:16Speaker 1: Latin type wedding, if that makes any sense.
- 17:19Speaker 3: To you, a Greek Latin fusion pretty much.
- 17:22Speaker 1: Yeah, pretty much. And I was just in for whatever,
- 17:25Speaker 1: you know. I was like, hey, open bar. I don't
- 17:26Speaker 1: drink much, but I'm in Beaumont, so I'll probably have
- 17:30Speaker 1: a couple. So I went out and so it was.
- 17:34Speaker 1: It was the kind of a night where a couple
- 17:37Speaker 1: of things happened that I will remember for many, many years,
- 17:40Speaker 1: including schmoozing before that, they had the wedding. They had
- 17:45Speaker 1: the open bar, and it was on this courtyard on
- 17:49Speaker 1: the side of this mansion overlooking the hills, and it
- 17:53Speaker 1: was really a beautiful setting. The sun was setting and
- 17:56Speaker 1: we were all drinking and they had a shark couterie
- 17:58Speaker 1: boards out which he and crackers and all that. So
- 18:02Speaker 1: I'm wandering around and I'm an introvert, but I'm trying
- 18:05Speaker 1: to be polite and talk to people, and people are
- 18:07Speaker 1: coming up and asking me stuff whatever. So I'm going
- 18:08Speaker 1: around and I knew a few people, some people didn't know.
- 18:11Speaker 3: Whatever. Are you working sports? Who's gonna win the Super Bowl?
- 18:14Speaker 1: Oh? God, yes, pretty much every conversation. Yeah. So the
- 18:20Speaker 1: wife says, oh, yeah, my uncle fell down. He fell
- 18:26Speaker 1: down there and he passed out. And I was like, oh, yeah, whatever.
- 18:30Speaker 1: So I thought she was just like busting my chops.
- 18:32Speaker 1: And then I go walk around the corner through this
- 18:35Speaker 1: little courtyard thing. Sure enough, her uncle had fallen over
- 18:39Speaker 1: and there were like seven or eight people surrounding the
- 18:42Speaker 1: uncle trying to get trying to get him back on
- 18:45Speaker 1: his feet. What's wrong? What happened? Is this a medical emergency?
- 18:48Speaker 1: Everyone's freaking out, So they take him into the mansion.
- 18:53Speaker 1: They put him down there, they've got ice. There's people
- 18:56Speaker 1: trying to figure out. Now he wants no parties. He says,
- 18:58Speaker 1: I'm fine, I'm fine, screaming. So, uh, you'll get a
- 19:03Speaker 1: kick out of this daddy. So it turns out that
- 19:06Speaker 1: the will call him the Uncle. He was enjoying the
- 19:10Speaker 1: the open bar, and then he went down to the
- 19:14Speaker 1: parking lot at the mansion and somebody else at the
- 19:19Speaker 1: wedding said, hey, I got some really good weed. You
- 19:21Speaker 1: should try something. Well, the Uncle doesn't normally do that.
- 19:28Speaker 1: He this saying, I'm just saying, I'm just saying, so
- 19:33Speaker 1: the so the uncle, the Uncle ends up again. You're
- 19:37Speaker 1: a pretty button up guy. Uh. He had a couple
- 19:40Speaker 1: of drinks. He goes does some really uh you know,
- 19:43Speaker 1: powerful weed.
- 19:44Speaker 3: Past strong medicinal. Yes.
- 19:47Speaker 1: Now keep in mind the people around him, they think
- 19:51Speaker 1: he's having a medical he's you know older, you know,
- 19:53Speaker 1: he's older than us by a number of years.
- 19:55Speaker 3: The word medical was involved, but not an emergency.
- 19:59Speaker 1: Yeah, So they everyone they they don't think of him
- 20:02Speaker 1: doing anything like that, right, So they think he's having
- 20:05Speaker 1: some kind of medical problem. And and so there's there's
- 20:08Speaker 1: like a couple of nurses that are there, and it
- 20:11Speaker 1: was hilarious, and he knew the whole time what happened, right,
- 20:13Speaker 1: he was aware of what happened. And then one of
- 20:16Speaker 1: the guys that I I also I'm friendly with, he
- 20:20Speaker 1: was the guy that gave him the powerful stuff or whatever.
- 20:23Speaker 1: So he couldn't stop laughing. He thought it was the
- 20:25Speaker 1: funniest thing in the world, right because everyone he knew,
- 20:28Speaker 1: and he told me, and then other people told me.
- 20:30Speaker 1: I was like it was, but the the the nurse
- 20:34Speaker 1: and the couple of people, the I don't know, more
- 20:36Speaker 1: buttoned up people had no idea.
- 20:38Speaker 3: They had no idea.
- 20:39Speaker 1: But that was just the warm up day. So this
- 20:41Speaker 1: was kind of funny, right, that's like, okay, that's that's
- 20:43Speaker 1: pretty that's out of an eighties comedy. And then it
- 20:45Speaker 1: gets even better. So we're sitting down at the table
- 20:49Speaker 1: and they introduted. Here come the you know, the bride
- 20:52Speaker 1: and the groom. You know. The crowd goes wild and
- 20:54Speaker 1: then what do you do. You have speeches. You have
- 20:57Speaker 1: the the the wedding party, the best man and whatever.
- 21:01Speaker 1: They go on there and speak. So the best man
- 21:05Speaker 1: gets up there and he's given this heartfelt speech about
- 21:10Speaker 1: the guy that's getting married. And you know, I'm just
- 21:13Speaker 1: minding my own business. I just want to get the food.
- 21:15Speaker 1: We got to wait for the speeches to get the food. Fine,
- 21:19Speaker 1: So the best man gets up there and he starts
- 21:22Speaker 1: out the speech. I want to tell you about my
- 21:25Speaker 1: friend I've known since we were little kids, Saki, right,
- 21:29Speaker 1: that's his nickname, Sake Danny hand to guy. After that
- 21:34Speaker 1: first time he said Saki. The rest of the speech,
- 21:37Speaker 1: he gave this heartfelt, emotional speech about his best friend
- 21:42Speaker 1: SUCKI he kept calling him sucky and yes, yes, why
- 21:49Speaker 1: I don't know why, I don't know, but like the
- 21:52Speaker 1: first time, I thought, well, maybe maybe he made a mistake.
- 21:56Speaker 1: And he kept saying sucky instead of socking, and I
- 22:02Speaker 1: died Dandy. I could not control myself. He's telling these
- 22:07Speaker 1: stories about me and little Sucky in the playing ground.
- 22:12Speaker 1: It was the funniest thing. It is one of the
- 22:14Speaker 1: great speeches I've ever heard. People talk about the Gettysburg
- 22:17Speaker 1: address or I have a dream. This best man I've
- 22:21Speaker 1: never heard of, I'll never see him again giving this
- 22:24Speaker 1: heartfelt It seemed like it was a two hour speech.
- 22:27Speaker 1: It was probably only about six minutes, but It was
- 22:30Speaker 1: the funniest thing, and I am trying not to laugh.
- 22:34Speaker 1: I'm getting my wife's elbowing me. People at the table
- 22:37Speaker 1: are looking at me, and then I'm trying to keep
- 22:39Speaker 1: my composure, so I'm looking across the table. Well, the
- 22:42Speaker 1: guy I'm looking at across the table, he starts laughing, right,
- 22:46Speaker 1: So now we're both cracking up and everyone's looking at
- 22:49Speaker 1: U's like, what.
- 22:50Speaker 3: Are you doing?
- 22:50Speaker 4: Oh, this is like being at church and you're trying
- 22:52Speaker 4: not to laugh with your sibling during the prayer.
- 22:56Speaker 1: I was like, I was trying to think, you know,
- 22:57Speaker 1: when you don't want to laugh, I'm trying to think
- 22:58Speaker 1: of like things that are not funny.
- 23:01Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 23:02Speaker 4: Yeah, But every time he was just like when you
- 23:04Speaker 4: think about baseball during you know what to try to
- 23:07Speaker 4: hold one.
- 23:08Speaker 1: Exactly, you know, hold off the big finish. And so
- 23:11Speaker 1: I I could not I could not stop. It was
- 23:14Speaker 1: the funniest thing I have heard in a long time.
- 23:18Speaker 1: I could not believe what I was hearing it. And
- 23:20Speaker 1: it's like it was one of those things. Am I
- 23:23Speaker 1: the only person hearing this? Am I in the Twilight
- 23:25Speaker 1: Zone episode? And I'm the only one hearing instead of
- 23:29Speaker 1: Saki or Saki rather I'm hearing Sucky and it was
- 23:32Speaker 1: just it was they were talking about playground stuff, you know,
- 23:35Speaker 1: riding bikes around the neighbor, playing video games of Sucky,
- 23:39Speaker 1: going you know, dating with SUCKI it.
- 23:41Speaker 3: Was just unbelievable. It was so good.
- 23:45Speaker 1: It was a you know what it was. It was
- 23:46Speaker 1: a very special moment, Danny, very special moment.
- 23:50Speaker 4: My god, you and your wife will always refer to
- 23:53Speaker 4: it as the Sucky speech.
- 23:56Speaker 1: It was so it was so great and I have
- 23:59Speaker 1: not had a belly laugh like that in a long time.
- 24:03Speaker 1: So I do want to I don't know who, I
- 24:05Speaker 1: don't know who it was. I want to thank whoever
- 24:06Speaker 1: that person was. But that was one of the great
- 24:08Speaker 1: speeches of all time.
- 24:10Speaker 4: Well, we had a family event too. In fact, I
- 24:12Speaker 4: just sent two pictures your way so you could see
- 24:16Speaker 4: the youngest of the klan and the oldest. So there's
- 24:19Speaker 4: baby Koa and you can see that he looks like
- 24:22Speaker 4: a kindergartener.
- 24:23Speaker 1: Wow, he's got the gooby hair going on too. I
- 24:26Speaker 1: like that he does.
- 24:27Speaker 4: So he's in that weird between stage where it's still
- 24:31Speaker 4: baby here, but he needs his first haircut. But he's
- 24:35Speaker 4: a wild banshee. We know, it's not going to go
- 24:37Speaker 4: well at the barber shop, so we're forced to bring him,
- 24:42Speaker 4: I think next weekend for his first haircut.
- 24:45Speaker 3: But you could see how Mammothy is.
- 24:47Speaker 4: He's twenty one months old and he looks what what
- 24:50Speaker 4: would you say if you saw that kid?
- 24:52Speaker 1: Yeah, he looks old. That's the starting left tackle for
- 24:55Speaker 1: the Raiders in twenty What are we looking at twenty forty?
- 24:59Speaker 3: Yeah?
- 25:00Speaker 4: Yeah, and then the oldest. He graduated from Cal Lutheran
- 25:03Speaker 4: yesterday morning. The family was very proud of him. I'm
- 25:07Speaker 4: very proud of him. He is the first to graduate
- 25:10Speaker 4: in his family since his grandfather, who was a long
- 25:13Speaker 4: time accountant and I believe graduated from UC Irvine, which
- 25:17Speaker 4: you know well I do.
- 25:18Speaker 1: Congratulations. That's great.
- 25:20Speaker 4: Cal lou famous for the Dallas Cowboys training there during
- 25:24Speaker 4: the off season for years. That's one of the reasons
- 25:27Speaker 4: why the Cowboys have such a big footprint in southern California.
- 25:32Speaker 1: Oh, there you go, that's awesome. What was his major
- 25:34Speaker 1: sports medicine? Okay, Hey, the Lakers are looking for a trainer.
- 25:39Speaker 1: If he wants there, you go.
- 25:41Speaker 4: Yeah, And the Rams are hiring for positions like that,
- 25:44Speaker 4: so maybe he'll join your squad.
- 25:46Speaker 1: There you go, and the Rams have they're building that
- 25:48Speaker 1: massive well. I think it's already built, right, most of
- 25:51Speaker 1: it there's.
- 25:52Speaker 3: In Woodland Hills.
- 25:53Speaker 4: Now they they built just a couple of pieces of
- 25:56Speaker 4: big plan. They are going to spend a billion dollars
- 25:59Speaker 4: to make little city inside the city of Woodland Hills,
- 26:03Speaker 4: and they're gonna call it the Rams Village.
- 26:05Speaker 1: I know you're excited about that, Danny, You're gonna be
- 26:07Speaker 1: over there. You you take the family out the Ram Village.
- 26:10Speaker 3: You can ram the village all day, and you can
- 26:12Speaker 3: ram the whole village.
- 26:13Speaker 1: All night, ram it all nights. The nex.
- 26:19Speaker 4: So, Ben, you think that speech went a long time?
- 26:23Speaker 4: Oh my god, these graduation ceremonies, can't they limit it
- 26:27Speaker 4: to two speakers? There were probably five or six different speakers.
- 26:31Speaker 4: Then there were two speakers after they announced all the kids' names,
- 26:35Speaker 4: which takes forever. Everybody is melting in the hot sun
- 26:38Speaker 4: there in Thousand Oaks, California. It was the longest thing
- 26:43Speaker 4: ever at one point though, And the special moment is
- 26:47Speaker 4: not the actual special moment. The special moment is my
- 26:50Speaker 4: beautiful wife proving that she's very special. Because above us
- 26:54Speaker 4: were two hawks circling.
- 26:57Speaker 1: What what?
- 26:58Speaker 3: What? Just like that, she kept looking up.
- 27:02Speaker 4: They were talking about, you know, you soaring into your
- 27:05Speaker 4: future now that you're a graduate. She's weeping a little bit,
- 27:08Speaker 4: and she's like, that's so beautiful. And she looked around
- 27:11Speaker 4: and she looked at me and she said, where are
- 27:13Speaker 4: the hawk trainers standing?
- 27:20Speaker 2: Uh?
- 27:21Speaker 4: These were just two hawks looking for a meal. She
- 27:25Speaker 4: thought that there were trainers somewhere there on the campus.
- 27:29Speaker 1: Grounds, the show hawks. Yeah.
- 27:32Speaker 4: Yeah, she thought the school released the hawks and that
- 27:34Speaker 4: they were going to come back and land on the
- 27:36Speaker 4: person's arm and everybody was going to applaud.
- 27:42Speaker 1: Now at this point, did she have you jump on
- 27:45Speaker 1: top of the child to protect you the kid from
- 27:49Speaker 1: the hawks? Of course the kid. Your kid's so big.
- 27:51Speaker 1: If you know, you don't have to worry about that.
- 27:54Speaker 1: The hawk's not getting the kid.
- 27:56Speaker 4: He came out the size of a bowling ball, so hot,
- 27:58Speaker 4: couldn't have picked them up even when he was a newborn.
- 28:01Speaker 3: I don't think she was worried.
- 28:03Speaker 4: I just think she thought it was this beautiful moment
- 28:05Speaker 4: that the school put together. And her daughter looked at
- 28:09Speaker 4: her and was like, Mom, you are so special. Don't
- 28:12Speaker 4: share that story with anybody.
- 28:14Speaker 1: That's funny.
- 28:16Speaker 3: That was a very special moment.
- 28:17Speaker 1: Yeah, the Auburn football game. Don't they do that at
- 28:19Speaker 1: Auburn they release the birds and war eagle and all that.
- 28:25Speaker 4: Yeah, not at KL lou for a small ceremony though.
- 28:28Speaker 4: I don't think there's hot trainers at the school.
- 28:30Speaker 1: Oh they don't. They don't do that. They don't mess up,
- 28:32Speaker 1: they don't play like that. All right. So I did
- 28:35Speaker 1: want to mention before we got a couple of things
- 28:37Speaker 1: to get to the I thought this was right in
- 28:39Speaker 1: your wheelhouse, Danny. I saw this story and I thought
- 28:42Speaker 1: of you. The summer concert season is underway, right, the
- 28:47Speaker 1: biggest musical tours of twenty twenty five is. We're into
- 28:51Speaker 1: mid May now and get June and July and all
- 28:55Speaker 1: the summer months coming up with all the concerts and
- 28:57Speaker 1: all that. So they've done a study to reveal the
- 29:01Speaker 1: economics behind the biggest music tours of twenty twenty five
- 29:04Speaker 1: in the United States, and the music tour that will
- 29:09Speaker 1: cost you the most per song on a per song basis. Danny,
- 29:15Speaker 1: you want to take a shot here. Yeah, I assume
- 29:16Speaker 1: you didn't see this, but take a shot. What do
- 29:18Speaker 1: you think the musical tour of this summer that will
- 29:23Speaker 1: cost you the most per song?
- 29:26Speaker 3: All right, Oh, what do you think here? I'm trying
- 29:30Speaker 3: to think who's on tour this summer.
- 29:34Speaker 1: Let's see, it's not Ditty, It is not Diddy.
- 29:37Speaker 3: I know.
- 29:38Speaker 4: I saw something in the news about Lady Gaga having
- 29:40Speaker 4: a big tour.
- 29:42Speaker 3: Beyonce gotta be on that list.
- 29:45Speaker 1: Yeah, not Beyonce the weekend. No, let me give it
- 29:50Speaker 1: to you here. It is, okay, Lana del Rey. Lana
- 29:54Speaker 1: del Ray the priceiest performer on a person basis. She
- 29:59Speaker 1: doesn't eighty three minute show features fifteen tracks on the show.
- 30:04Speaker 1: That means that fans pay per song sixteen dollars and
- 30:09Speaker 1: two cents for every song at her concert.
- 30:11Speaker 4: Oh yeah, okay, I see. So this is about the
- 30:14Speaker 4: amount of songs that the artist does as well.
- 30:17Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah. And they said by time, that's two
- 30:20Speaker 1: dollars and ninety cents per minute of the performance, the
- 30:24Speaker 1: fourth highest minute by minute rate among major artists. They
- 30:29Speaker 1: say that Oasis generates the most revenue per song eight
- 30:35Speaker 1: hundred and fifty eight thousand dollars per song, with nightly
- 30:38Speaker 1: earnings of seventeen point six seventeen point one six million
- 30:44Speaker 1: across the reunion. I imagine that.
- 30:46Speaker 3: This is the artists then that are like, screw you.
- 30:49Speaker 3: You're paying a lot of money to come in here,
- 30:51Speaker 3: but I'm not going to do a lot of songs.
- 30:53Speaker 1: Yeah, let's do the bare minimum. The bug, they say,
- 30:58Speaker 1: the budget conscience fan. The best value is Ed Sheeran
- 31:02Speaker 1: at less than a dollar per minute, ninety one cents
- 31:06Speaker 1: per minute. Usher Usher does it for three dollars and
- 31:11Speaker 1: seventy six cents per song. So there's some some value.
- 31:16Speaker 1: So I don't know, I haven't been a concert in
- 31:17Speaker 1: a while. You go to concerts, Danny's still doing that,
- 31:19Speaker 1: or you kind of.
- 31:20Speaker 3: We did before we had a little kid.
- 31:22Speaker 1: Yeah, now you're your locker.
- 31:25Speaker 3: We're kind of stuck at home now.
- 31:26Speaker 4: But when he gets old enough that we can have
- 31:29Speaker 4: a babysitter, we'll go back to some concerts.
- 31:31Speaker 3: Yeah, I gotcha, all right.
- 31:32Speaker 1: The word of the week, the word of my guy, Ohio,
- 31:38Speaker 1: aw so the word This is in honor of Charlie.
- 31:40Speaker 1: Charlie's a kid caller, Danny. He lives in Dallas, he's homeschool.
- 31:44Speaker 1: He calls the Overnight show. Charlie.
- 31:46Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I've heard Charlie on the air before Yeah.
- 31:48Speaker 1: This week, Charlie started calling from the bathroom, and so
- 31:51Speaker 1: we got what a what an appropriate way to honor
- 31:54Speaker 1: Charlie in Dallas than the word of the week being
- 31:57Speaker 1: come ode, come ode, I'm going to the come out mode.
- 32:01Speaker 3: Oh.
- 32:01Speaker 1: I think most of us know that that is a
- 32:05Speaker 1: slang way of saying a toilet euphanism for toilet. However,
- 32:11Speaker 1: is it true that, despite now meaning toilet, historically, at
- 32:16Speaker 1: one point commode was a woman's wig, and at one
- 32:21Speaker 1: point it was that of a madame or female pimp.
- 32:27Speaker 1: About that. The original word going way way way, way, way, way,
- 32:33Speaker 1: way way back. Comode first appeared in English in the
- 32:35Speaker 1: late seventeenth century, and it meant a tall headdress or
- 32:40Speaker 1: wig built upon a wire frame, and that was a commode.
- 32:45Speaker 1: So we're going back a minute to the sixteen hundreds
- 32:51Speaker 1: and there's some examples of that, and then if you
- 32:54Speaker 1: move forward in time the eighteenth century, come ode also
- 33:00Speaker 1: used to mean a female pimp or producer. That I's
- 33:05Speaker 1: here it for the female pimp commode. Yeah, So anyway,
- 33:09Speaker 1: over time, it's obviously it's obviously changed several times with
- 33:13Speaker 1: the connection to toilets began in the eighteen hundreds commode
- 33:21Speaker 1: as a toilet, but it actually was taken from a
- 33:24Speaker 1: piece of furniture because before it was the toilet. I
- 33:28Speaker 1: went out of order here. A commode, before it was
- 33:32Speaker 1: known as a toilet, used to refer to a ornate
- 33:35Speaker 1: waist high chest of drawers. It was a style of
- 33:39Speaker 1: furniture that was in France, so that that was in
- 33:43Speaker 1: the seventeen hundred, so sixteen hundreds it was. Originally it
- 33:47Speaker 1: was known as a as a wig, then it became
- 33:49Speaker 1: a female pimp, then it became then it became a
- 33:53Speaker 1: piece of furniture.
- 33:54Speaker 3: Old new meaning to shitting in your drawers.
- 33:58Speaker 1: And then finally in the eighteen hundreds it became known
- 34:02Speaker 1: as a toilet, and still to this day known as
- 34:06Speaker 1: a toilet. So the word all the week, come ode, Come,
- 34:11Speaker 1: we get out on that, and Danny, we will be
- 34:15Speaker 1: back at it again tomorrow tomorrow. Is there any I
- 34:18Speaker 1: don't think there's any NBA game today.
- 34:20Speaker 4: No, no NBA today. Of course we got the Big
- 34:23Speaker 4: Game seven tomorrow.
- 34:24Speaker 1: Yeah, Sunday's Tomorrow's the big day with the Nuggets and
- 34:29Speaker 1: okaysees so nothing else to do? Well, I guess we
- 34:31Speaker 1: can go out and live a life. And I'm sure
- 34:33Speaker 1: there's some random crap. Oh there's the golf tournament and
- 34:36Speaker 1: all that, if you're into that kind of thing. Anyway,
- 34:37Speaker 1: have a wonderful day and we'll yap at you with
- 34:41Speaker 1: a mail bag. The mail bag tomorrow later, skater my
- 34:46Speaker 1: flatous