Mensch on a Float Bench

Ben Maller starts right now in the air everywhere. We're back at it again on a Saturday, the final full weekend, in fact, the final weekend of The Fifth Hour with Ben Mallord and Dainty g Radio back on a Saturday. I hope you enjoyed the holiday music from Friday. I had fun out. That was a lot of work, though, Danny right, A lot of work for you were all over it, Roberto and Coope, and there were a lot

of moving parts. I was very skeptical whether or not we were actually gonna be able to pull that off. But a great job by everybody putting that together. And you spent a lot of time helping to put everything where it needed to be, so I do appreciate that making that happen. I gotta say, man, that's one of the best Christmas specials I've ever been a part of. Yeah, definitely a team effort. So shouts out to everybody that made that happen, and of course the Mallard Militia members

who sang those wonderful Christmas songs. Yeah, some very talented people. And so thank you guys again. And I understand we got a few more that actually came in over the weekend, but unfortunately, uh, it's already made the special. We're not adding more songs. We've already made the special. But but we do thank you guys for continuing to send in the holiday tunes. One of the guys who just sent one in over the weekend that wasn't in the holiday uh show on Friday, said that he was just recording

it in his bathroom on his iPhone. So the quality of this, Danny g unbelievable believe. But just imagine remember when we had a radio. We were young guys, and you had to go with the It was like a lot of equipment, professional equipment. You couldn't do this stuff at home. But now you have a studio in your house. It's unbelievable. You have a in your phone, you have

a studio. It's crazy. Then I remember when kids would line up at Great America in Santa Clara, California to record at one of those makeshift studios that they put inside the amusement park where you could record to your favorite instrumental. So there were girls singing tiffany, uh, you know, thinking they had wonderful voices, and they would just put tons of reverb on the girl's voice and be like you could be a star too. I think they would

charge each kid like bucks for a record. Did you ever have a Mr microphone when you were a kid. Were you really get one of those uh that cheeseball toy I had? I had one of those things. I think my mom was too broken. She also pointed out that she thought it would break. Definitely, it definitely would break, but it was you could like broadcast on the radio, like it came across on your radio. It's really I

think I'm thinkuring of the MR microphone I had. I had some kind of device when I was a kid that I had gotten that you could turn it on like the FM dial and it would come through the speakers like something like that. So I think that was a MR microphone. Maybe not, I'm sure none of those waves went through your brain either No, no, not at all. Not Actually, before we started rolling on the podcast full disclosure.

So I fell down a rabbit hole. I popped up on the YouTube and I was watching a nineteen eighties six NBC game of the week, the Red Sox and the Yankees. This just popped up, and so I started watching it, right, and I'm watching this thing and the interviewed George Steinbrenner, the you know, legendary owner of the Yankees in that era, and it was the funniest thing,

Danny looking at where the world is now? And I watched I probably second when I was a kid, but watching it now and seeing like Steinbrenner say, you know, my top guy in the Yankees is getting one point six million, and for that kind of money, you expect win, you know, and you expect criticism and and and then he was talking to Joe Garashi Old and so passed away a few years ago, but the legendary broadcaster who was a player, and Steinbrenners complaining to him. He says,

these players today aren't like you. Guys played for the love of the game, and these players today they show up with their briefcase and their agent right behind him, and it was it was just hilarious looking at where the salaries are now and all these guys are long gone. But the highest guy in the Yankees is Garrett Cole, who's got to be around thirty five million, maybe a little more than that. I don't know. I just famdomly things that popping your head, Danny, when you know the

guys today wipe their butt with those old contracts. I remember, being a small kid. I think it was Dave Winfield who made the million dollar contract. I don't look at Winfield. There was like, was it Nolan Ryan, Kirby Park, I remember Kirby Pucket at one point was last bad Winfield got a big contract. I remember when Winfield got a big contract and it was on the news and my grandmother was cursing out the TV. Yeah, because she thought

it was outrageous to play a kid's game. And she also was the kind of lady who bitched constantly about gas prices. Yeah, well i'm i'm, I'm I'm sharen. Didn't like that woman. I complained about gas prices all the time. I hated uh and I get gas a lot, but uh, let me let me also but that's one of those things. Like watching that Steinbrenner rant. It triggered like a light

bulb in my head because my entire life. I remember when I started covering the NBA in the nineties and this is like, yeah, you know mid nights, and then Iverson came in after that and Chris Webber and guys used to rip those guys and the older generation beyond these players today are soft and now we fast forward. And then it was after that generation. It was like the Kobe Jet aeration that came in, and then it was that generation ripping the old generation. And now we're

it's the same. It's the same thing. It just like the circle of life, and in sports it just continues like whoever's doing it now doesn't do it as good as the old people, and then when they're the old people, they then complain about who's doing it now. So it's a wonderful thing. Anyway. On this edition of The Fifth Hour, we have a couple of random things, so this is the Life of Mallard edition. We've got the strapper, the coke bottle, hairy situation, the Christmas party and chim Chimminy

and whatever else pops up. Alright, so we'll get right into it. So I what a wonderful weekend. I put some photographs up on Instagram and Facebook. I hope you guys got to see it last weekend if you want to check that out and snoop around on what I was doing. But I got the play dress up. I do this every year once a year, and I had

a wonderful time. It's a yearly tradition like the swallows returning to Capistrano or Punksitani Phil coming out to see his shadow, and uh so I played it was Mallard Clause. Mallard Claus always see pictures of this every year. Yeah. So it was a lot of fun. So me and the wife headed out to this magical town. I cannot say which town it is, but we went into a trailer and I put on the st nick outfit. Become pretty good at this. I've done it a long time now, so I know how to put the boots on the

whole thing. I'll tell everybody it's for the kids in Compton. Yes exactly. Yes. So I climbed up the fire truck a a real real strapper. Uh yeah, because I got strapped to the chair. They had to strap me in. They didn't want me flying. How devastating would that have been to the kids? If if Santa goes flying off the fire truck and dies, Uh, that would have that would have been a problem. But it went out, It went off without a blast. I mean a great time.

It's it's combination. I said. Every year, it's like the Rose Parade with the Disneyland electrical Parade. Do they even have the electrical parade anymore? Is that old news? Is that? Like, am I dating myself due to COVID? Or at least they've blamed it on that Disneyland is not doing their usual parades they do like little mini parades. Now, Oh really, I didn't know. I was never a big parade. I mean I remember when I was a kid and I went.

My mom wanted to see the electrical parade and see all the stuff, and I actually I wanted to hang out in the magic shop. I thought I was gonna be a professional magician when I was Well, everybody knows ben you get COVID from parades. Yes, yes, and uh, it's good to know that the state of California this week. But the mask mandate because the mask works so well so why don't we bring it back and mandate everyone

It hadn't ended. I don't even understanding it had. It hadn't not not where you are, where I am, it had ended and it wasn't required. Oh, most people still wore the mask. But where I was living, you know, where I've been living, they don't, you know, that require the mess. But I don't think they're really enforcing this. So I try to avoid going out anyway because I don't like to see people, so I don't really go out much. But I don't think they're enforcing it very

much anyway. By so I I played, you know, Santa Claus through the whole thing, hawking, the horns were hawking, the science, the sirens were going. Did it seem like a normal pre COVID parade route? You know it did. It's it's very very similar to I went on the same There's there's a it's a pretty big city, the city that I do this in, and so there's there's different routes or routes depending on where you grew up.

And so I on this route. We went in the in the foothills, and so it was very cold and it had just rained all day So the only complaint that I have is in the Santa suit, I'm not as fat as I used to be. I don't have the insulation that I had at one point, and so it got California cold, and California cold is not really cold, it's just cal for you cold. But it was in the high thirties up in the hills and you're outside strapped to a fire truck for three hours and you're

you're by the end of the night. Uh. We were going back to the place where I was going to get off the fire truck. I could not feel my fingers. I I literally felt like I was Frosty the Snowman as I was coming coming off the fire truck. And uh. And the other thing that I would point out is it it was not all perfect because I did somewhere along the parade route in my haste to be a good Santa and wave at everyone that came running out

of their house to see Santa on the fire truck. Uh. I somehow lost my Fitbit tracker that I have my fitness tracker, but flying off the truck, I don't know where I'm never seeing that again. So that that was didn't know anybody had a fit bit anymore, and I don't have one anymore either. It's gone. I liked it though I had. It has stop Watch on it, but I I've already replaced it, so to the Amazon. But

I was gonna say, Santa's gonna have to hook up Santa. No. I I sacrificed so I could give the joy of having someone on a fire truck wave at you. But it was it was and some some blocks we would go down and there'd be nobody, and then other blocks like they be whole parties of like fifty people coming out in their long to see Santa. And at one point it was a lot of fun. There were these kids thing because there's no real snow they were throwing

fake snowballs, these little, these little foam things. So I, of course, being evil Santa, I was taking them and throwing them back at the kids that were throwing the things. I was a lot of fun. Move Yeah, it was like the people doing that. It was like the famous trope of Philadelphia. You know, are you they threw snowballs at Santa Claus. Yeah. Well, my favorite Santa is Billy Bob Thornton, so right in that arena. Oh sure, absolutely

on that. So so that was my Santa. And when I mentioned Santa, I bring this story up from time to time, but the whole Santa thing every year. It's probably not a lot of kids listening to this, But since I was playing Santa, I thought, you know what, I need to remind that the magical fairy tale of Santa Claus that has been molded into the zeitgeist of society is in large part because of not pepsi a coke bottle. And it's just it's still fascinates me to

think about how big Santa Claus is. And if you go back to the nineteen twenties, it was a much different, much different world, like the whole legend Coca Cola. Not that they invented Santa Claus, because they didn't invent Santa Claus, but they did shape what the modern image of Santa

Claus looks like. And it's before nineteen thirty one. There were a bunch of different drawings of Santa Claus, wore different color outfits, didn't didn't know some some Santa Claus were red, but a lot of them did not, were purple blue, different colors and all that. And they they had a guy draw Santa Claus. They commissioned an illustrator and this guy in nineteen thirty one, so it's been

ninety years. This guy drew Santa Claus for Coca Cola advertisements and that established what is to this day what people think of as what Santa Claus looks like. Wild to think of the part that is an unbelievable thing that you know, maybe somebody else would have done it eventually, but that's crazy to me. Yeah, obviously Jewish growing up, I didn't have Santa Claus other than holiday things at school and stuff like that. But when I remember as a kid, there was a Saturday Night Live this is

the Hairy Situation. Do you did you ever see the skit hanaka Harry from the late eighties. Yeah, so this was like a big deal as a Jewish kid and uh and I still still finally remember and one of these days, I'm gonna get this outfit. So John Lovett's

it was, I guess still around. Um he was on Saturday Night, this is probably and they did a skit the night Hanakah Harry Saved Christmas, And you know it was just back I used to watch Saturday and I have all the way all the time, back when I was a kid, and it's a big deal on the weekends, and we got to stay up late because it was on Saturday obviously, and so uh yeah, it was really funny because in the skit, John Lovett is playing Santa Claus.

You know, he's got the Santa outfit, but it's blue with white and he's got he's got the old you know, old man beard and all that, and he he lives on Mount Sinai that's where he lives. He lives instead of the North Pole. And he comes over there and I think, if I remember correctly, he like helped out Santa Claus because there's something wrong with Santa Claus. So he he had a cart with three donkeys, and yeah, he flew around in a flying cart and Shlomo was

the name of one of them. I don't remember the other names, but it was. It was pretty funny. And uh and now they have the well, I know my wife's family they do. They did the Santa what is the Santa on a the elf Elf on a shelf right there. Yeah, and uh, I know in the Jewish culture we have Mention on the bench, which is the rip off version of Elf on the shelf, so they have that, but but no no Hanaka thing, no Hanaka Harry, but you can't get the costume online one of these areas.

I'm gonna do it, but I can't wear it to the whole parade thing because if if I show up with the blue sand outfit, man, I'll get in trouble. They'll get very upset with me, right, and that will not go over well. I'm gonna YouTube Hanaka Harry this weekend so I can see what you're talking about. Yeah, you should check it out. Honaker Harry was on twice. I'm sure it's on YouTube once in late nineteen nine and then probably the I would assume nineteen early and

nine popped up. I don't think they did anything with with that. Again, I think that was it. That was the character was only on a couple of times. But it's still all these years later, I still flashback to that and think fondly of of all that. So, uh, now,

what's going on? Holiday party? I did? We did not have our Christmas party at the Mallard Mansion this year, unfortunately, because not because of an abundance of caution and not because of COVID Uh, no, no, no, we would have absolutely had the party, but the house is a mess and we were embarrassed and we didn't want anyone to come over and say, what are you living like this? What's wrong with you? And plus it's far away from everyone, so we wanted to wait until the house is nice

and all that. But I understand that you are the man of the people there. You are out and about and doing holiday parties. Is that accurate? Am I hearing incorrectly? Yeah? So I'm not proud to share this story, but I will share it because it's entertaining. Let's go back two weeks and uh, a friend of mine in the San Fernando Valley and the hills there told me, Hey, I have a party at my at my house, and uh, you know, why don't you and your lovely tenderoni come

to the party. It's Saturday. So I'm like, okay, cool, sounds good. And I told him I do work at the network on Saturday, but I'm out of there at like seven. She could meet me there in the valley and you know, we'll be there around eight or so eight thirty probably. He's like, yeah, that's cool. He's like, tell you what in the next couple of days, I'll forward you the digital invite. I'll text it to you that way you have a few days or whatever. And

I'm like, okay, cool, perfect. Is this a house party or is this like a private party. It's a house party for like him and co workers and friends, just get together, a private get together. Yeah. I told my girl about it and she was like, sounds good. And so we spent the week last week preparing for the party. I think it was like Tuesday. I get the text from him and there's the digital flyer and I forwarded

that onto my tinder RONI. We looked at both looked at the address on there, and we're like okay, and so we're we're ready now for this party. You know, we have our outfits and we coordinated it. So I'm like, okay, I'm at work. As soon as my shift is over, I'll go there to the FSR bathroom and change really quick. And she ironed a shirt for me and she brought the shirt so she Now, and you know, Ben, women spend how many hours getting ready for Christmas party? God? Yeah, yeah, yeah, guy,

that's one of the biggest adjustments. And you're you're engaged and all that, Danny, so be prepared. The it's never you know, as a single man, and I was single for a long time before I met my wife. If I wanted to go somewhere within five minutes, I could get up and leave and be in the car. But it's a hole to do. It's a whole process. There's there's layers to it. It's no just wake up and go. And even to this day, like my wife will have to wake up forty minutes before I do because I'm

ready to go. I'm good to go. But yeah, it's a whole And then and I get it. They want to look good and they want to, you know, get all dressed up and all dolled up and stuff for the party. And that's always nice, but you do it quicker. And in their defense, they're trying to look good for you too, because they want to be her arm candy. That's commendable, but it does take hours. And in my girls defense, on a normal date night, she could get

ready pretty easily. It's not a big fiasco. In this case though for a Christmas party, no I knew she was taking the whole day. There's nails involved, there's hair, curling. There's basically the eyebrow model type makeup. I mean, it's a whole thing, glitter around the eyes, everything. So I knew this was gonna be a half a day process.

But she's on time. She meets me there. There's a little bit of stress involved because I had to park a little bit aways away from the house because she has my shirt and I have to finish changing at the car. So she finally with her GPS, finds where I'm at. I get into her car, I put the dress shirt on and we both take a you know, a breath of air, and okay, let's go. We get to the house. Crickets ben nobody there. The wrong Well,

that's what we're thinking. We're like, is this the wrong address? Like, I've not been to this friend's house before. You know, he hasn't lived there long. That's why I haven't been there before. So I'm like, this has got to be it. I I put it in the in both our GPS is. So we pull up the digital flyer. Well should we go up to the door, and she's like, no, no, no, let's check the flyer again. It's got to be the wrong address. Right, both pull up the flyers on our phones.

The digital flyer says, December eighteen. It was the next Saturday. Oh no, so you got all Oh no, so we were there a week early, premature for the parte ready, I swear for the party. And no, it's the first time I've ever been prematured. He's a pill for that. We have an ad that will take care of that for you. That is oh my god. So so out did you say? Well, we're dressed up, we might as well go out. I tried that. It didn't work. She was piste. Yeah. I can't understand why I would be

piste too. Yeah. Right, And I wasn't happy either. Um, you know, I had just come from a long work shift and I was tired. I blame my friend because the way he set this up. All he said was Saturday. He said Saturday, and I'll get the text to you so that you have a few days to get ready. That's how he worded it. Yeah, wouldn't you take it like that too? Yeah? I mean did he have the date like promintly written? No? And that's the thing. And I want to put a p s A out on

our podcast. If you make a digital flyer, please make the date larger than the rest of the small on the dumb, stupid digital flyer. Well, really, that's the most important part, invitation is can I make it? What's the date? That's the most important part. Are you going to the thing tonight on Saturday? Are you gonna go get dressed up again? Are you so upset by what happened you're gonna be like? I'm not going? Not sure, because this

is how that night ended. At first, we laugh. We laugh because she says, can you imagine if we had walked up to the door. Both start laughing, and it was almost kind of a laughter of relief and frustration. But then the car gets quiet, and I'm like, okay, she's not laughing anymore. So I tell her, I'm like, oh, that's like a dead giveaway, right when a woman's really quiet, that's almost good thing. There's something bad going on? Oh for sure. The wheels are turning and not in a

good way. And so now the car is quiet, and I tell her, I say, well, we're all dressed up, let's just go to a nice place around here. And she's like, well, it's late now and we're not going to get in anywhere, and it's just upset, and she's like, and don't think I'm gonna do this all over again next weekend. Oh whoa, Okay, well here we go. It's starting. So now she's driving around and she's getting closer to the freeway. She gets to the frontage road and I

tell her what restaurant are you going to? And she's like, I'm just gonna drive us closer to home. Maybe we could find somewhere to eat around there. Well, my car is back there at the house. Oh my god, I forgot about your stupid car. So she had to backtrack dropped me off at my car. Now she's really pissed, and I tell her, well, i'll meet you at home. We'll find somewhere to eat. To make a long story short, too late. We get home and I finally find a sushi place near us that would take us if we

sat down by PM. The problem is, Ben, it was one of those fancy sushi places. So I'm talking. You know you're gonna pay over a hundred dollars once you step foot in this place. So my friends, bad misscommunity Asian cost me over a hundred dollars, and the very irritated Tim DERRONI that's that's things. Well, she had a week to come down maybe so maybe by tonight she'll

be You're like, okay, let's do it again. Why And when we talked about it later, she was like, well, I didn't want to go to dinner right there where we were because I was thinking I didn't want to ruin my outfit if I had to wear it over again the following Saturday. And I said, well, I thought you said you didn't want to do it over again. Well last weekend. Actually I did not plan on talking about this, but after the Santa thing, when once I

warmed my hands up, I actually went out. I had not been out to a bar in a long time, but my wife wanted one of her girlfriends. It was her birthday and she wanted to go out, and of course, I, being the designated driver, Danny the one beer Benny and then drink water the rest of the night. And so we went to see a Johnny Cash tribute band that was planning like Johnny Cash and so it was. It was fun, but you know, not really my my jam. But I had a good time. They're hanging out and

all that stuff. But yeah, you do have to go out occasionally, get dressed up. That's important. Yeah, hermit, you can't stay home the whole thing, you know, all all the time. And so what's a woman's number one complaint usually when they leave a guy and go to a more exciting guy. Oh yeah, you just want to sit home all the time. You don't want to You're boring. I never wanted to do anything. He was boring. I never went out. All I want to do is dance

sometimes and have a good time. Yeah, exactly, fellows. Remember Timderni tip, make sure you let your girl get dressed up once in a while. Just make sure you look at the date on the invite. Yes, yes, exactly, very important. Footnote addendum that you need to add now the chim chimminy part of the story here on this podcast. So another tale life of Mallard story. So the other day I was sleeping. Now, as as you guys know, I sleep during the day doing the overnight show, and so

I have very odd sleep pattern. I don't sleep right after the show. I'm usually up for several hours. And so anyway, I finally fell asleep, and about thirty five minutes after I fell asleep, all of a sudden, it's like, yeah, like you know, not it was. It was construction work and all. I mean, it was just a nightmare. So I hear this noise coming on the roof, this thunderous noise coming down from them. I said, oh, my god, we're having an earthquake, right, what is going on here?

It must be a big earthquake. And I hear that I've never heard that noise before. And then I was like, well, it's not an earthquake because it's not. It's not really shaking like I've been an earthquakes. It's not shaking like that. So I was like, well, maybe something hit the house, like something fell down and hit the house. No, no, it's not that. But it was really loud, and it continued and it was like right near the chim chimney, right, So I thought maybe something was wrong with the chimney

or something like that. And we eventually figured it out that it turns out some construction workers had shown up unannounced, unannounced, and just I that they were gonna do some work on the roof because we're getting some solar panels put up there to save money on the electricity and all that, and uh so they did not schedule anything. We had talked to them and work something out to have them do it. But isn't it common courtesy to at least let you know that you're going to be doing work.

I guess they just assumed, since everyone's usually gone by that time, who would be home other than a nocturnal creature and all that. So, but my wife is so upset. She's like the very nice and the nicest people I've ever remember. I mean, she's very sweet to everybody. And she was like, no, you've got to leave, and she she made them all leave and so they have to come back at another point. But that's that did remind

me of looking at the people on the roof. It was like Chim chim, and remember the the Mary Poppins with the super califragilistic xpialidoecious and that little thing. And that guy just had a birthday. What's the guy? D Van Dyke? He's still around? Yeah, very cool and what is he gonna? I know he's an older well yeah, yeah, Betty White and she's still doing Okay. We haven't seen a lot of Betty White, but I don't watch a lot of TV shows. Betty White would be on, but

you don't want to stop at you want that. When Dyke he turned I was right, he turned ninety six m December. It seems like a very happy guy. It seems like, you know, I saw a documentary with him. I saw that, yeah, about the older gentleman and all. Yeah, yeah, okay, that was a good show, right, really cool. Yeah. I mean to see how happy they are later in life. It gives us some hope exactly that they found things and like the keys to enjoying life when you get

past a certain age. It's very very important. Absolutely, I love that that. That was great. We have time for a little study this. This is a couple of things here real quick. These are some studies. And then the way this works, it's a tribute to the old show on U was a showtime bullshit? Is it real or bullshit? The Penn and Tellers show. So there's a study out this week that says microbes in the ocean and the soil have evolved. This is wild. This is gonna really

upset environmentalists. These microbes have evolved to eat plastic. As you and you know, and you you go out and I was in Hawaii a few years ago. I know, you were just in Hawaii but I remember being in Kawaii and there was a lot of plastic that had come from Asia. It had like Asian writing on it, that had made it all the way across the Pacific and was on the beaches in Hawaii. I'm sure some of it came from America too, floating out in the Atlantic. And this has been a concern for a long time.

I've read story after story about what are we gonna do? The oceans are filled with plastic. It's a nightmare. If this is true, I hope it is, then there's your answer. Just get these microbes. They've evolved to eat the plastics, so you're actually you're providing them with food. Not that you should throw the plastic out, but you're you're helping You're helping out the microbes. That's crazy, isn't it. Yeah? And this is good news for entitled little ship head

kids to throw their trash on the ground. Yeah. This comes out of Sweden. Researchers and Sweden measured samples of DNA at hundreds of locations around the world, taken from both soil and water. They found thirty thousand ensigns in these DNA samples and the potential to degrade ten different types of commonly used plastic. Yeah, aren't they inventing things to take out to the ocean to swoop up all the plastic? I just put these microbes out there. That's

all there. You go. That's great. And once they figure out how to turn and that they have the technology but it's too expensive, how to turn salt water into drinkable water, then we're good. Right, Then we're then then we're made right, you know. And when they do that, can you imagine that the houses we bought over at the Salton Sea will actually be worth some money? Yes, the big investments that we we made. What else popped up that caught my attention to the scientifical department this week.

Oh here's a good once. It's a lot of people taking some time off over the next week and a half or so, and it says checking work email over Christmas leads to burn out, mental distress, and poor physical health. So make sure to tell our bosses we cannot check our work email. I have not checked my work email in years, so I don't need to worry about that. I get stressed out if it's June. I don't need the Christmas holiday season, So Yeah, your head would spin if you saw my inbox. Now, I I have over

seventy thou emails on my personal email. Yeah, I don't even know what's going on at the work email. I don't. I don't check. But see, you get to have producers, the producers emails in the in our in boxes. It's crazy because it's like Las Vegas sponsorship, this sponsorship, this salesperson's and there's lots of details, so it's not anything you could ignore. There are a lot of attachments and scripts and copy and things that are very time sensitive

and obviously things that are attached to making money. Cannot ignore my email in bucks at all. Yeah, I can't uh andrew you, and but I do get the occasional screw you Bill Miller. Oh no, I get the occasional reminder email. Hey Ben, you might want to check your work email because of X, Y and Z, and so then I have to run over there and say what what the dome doing? Yeah? I have to say that, and then you know, open it up. We're good to go. All right, that's it. We have the mail bag on Sunday,

the final mail bag of twenty one. Looking forward to that. Anything to promote Danny any comedy gigs, any performances, any djaying gigs, anything to promote here. No, all right, I'm on Fox Sports Radio later today from one to seven pm, and then I'm on Sunday from five to eleven pm Pacific time. So that's where I'll be this week. There you go, catch up with Danny g radio and all that. We have the mail bag on Sunday. Have a great rest of your day. Don't forget last few days before

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