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g back in the Magic Podcast Studio. I know you're saying, no, no, enough, hell no, oh, We're here anyway to dazzle you eight days a week, a spinoff of the Overnight Show, which is available as you know, five nights a week, typically five nights a week, and then the podcast Friday, a, Saturday and Sunday and Danny, I know we've got a lot to get to here in a limited amount of time on the Saturday Podcast, but I gotta tell you

we've had some crazy people on this podcast. I've been doing this a few years now, and I'm talking like Lenny Dikstra, guys like that that are really out there, and my guy Scott Farrell who I've known for years, my radio brother from a different mother. I gotta tell you, Danny, I'm still trying to recover. This is one of the

most amazing conversations I've had with Farrell. And if anybody missed that, if you if you're listening, is like I missed the Friday podcast, you gotta go back and listen to it, because Scott was in a hotel room in Atlantic City and it began with that. And I'm just happy we were on the podcast because Danny, I don't I don't know how much of that was consumption for like terrestrial radio, but but boy, Scott, he has a gift for gab. That guy. He was out of control.

I gotta tell you. Been doing the post production on that episode. I think it's gonna be one of the most dreamed editions of the Fifth Hour. Yeah, because when I posted the photo, uh that you took of me and Farrell and then with with Pat McAfee, you would have thought that the biggest reaction would have been for Pat McAfee because he's the hundred million dollar guy in radio.

He's the big name in the business right now. But no, I had much more reaction, not that you judge these things off that, but on social media people were like fired off Horrell Man. I grew up listening to him, and you know, I feel like I've I've inherited a number of Scott's listeners. And Scott finally retired from from just doing nighttime radio, and if you listen to the podcast, he goes into great detail about how that has impacted his life, doing a life of nighttime radio, and uh,

you know, it was, it was, it was interesting. But people really love Scott. I think he's worked the last couple of years kind of a smaller place, a smaller shop, and so I think some people lost track of him. But to me, you should never really be able to lose track of people, Danny with social media, but people do people for whatever reason, Uh they don't follow certain

guys or whatever. But but anyways, fun So on this edition of The Fifth Hour with Ben and Danny, we've got drive Time Benny, the Power of Fats, eating a ship sandwich. That'll be it'll be interesting, Survey says, and whatever else. We have a few other things that we might get to depending on the timing of it all, but we must start. I was very excited this week, a rare inappropriate opportunity to sit in for one of

the big titans in the business, Dan Patrick. And when I got called by my boss and they said, hey, uh, you know, we're having some different people fill in for Dan, and your name came up and we were wondering if you're interested, I immediately thought I was being punked, and I thought that this was a joke and that there's gonna be like jokes on you, loser, But no, it turned out to be true, and I would like to thank Danny all of the p ones who crossed over.

We had a great turnout of Mallard Militia foot Soldiers, and it was a rather hectic week. I'm still not quite over it as we are doing this podcast right now because um my sleep schedule. I've been a pretty good routine and I'm in a bizarro world where like up is down, right is left. It's just trying to trying to get back on track here. My bio rhythms

are all messed up. But that's the first world problem to and you deal with that all the time, Danny, and you you do radio in addition to everything else you've got going on, you have like a real grown up job. I guess we can work with the kids, but but no. So it was it was fun to fill in for Dan and uh work with Rob Park A big fan of Rob. People said I kissed his ass too much. He kissed my ass a little bit too. So it was like a mutual admiration society. And that

shows a big deal. That's a very profitable show for the company. They have big sexy sponsors like Mercedes Benz on that show, so you know that's not and that's not a chump show. You know, that's a big show for the company. And Dan's a Hall of Famer Dan Patrick, So getting a chance to fill in. It's morning Drive in the number one radio market Los Angeles in the country and a tremendous reach. The audience for that show is humongst I will argue though, and it's probably my

head's going to explode. You. I think we have the the loyalty that we have in the Mallam militia, but I think we can get that because we're not as big. We don't have as bigger reach because morn late at night. But but Dan obviously has his father and no danyants were there. I was bummed out. I was hoping the Danants would give me a manny and a petty while I was doing the Dan Patrick Show, but that did not happen. So I also would like to address a few of the members of the militia Danny have been

belly ache that we were unable to do. I didn't do some of the usual bits that I do on the overnight show, and they were like, well why not. I don't understand. What do you do? You think you can't do that during the day, And that's not it at all. So when you fill in on a radio So this is all I was taught from people on radio. When you're the fill in guy, your house city like you wouldn't go to somebody's house and rearrange the furniture and bring in your own sofa. Say you just you

can't do that. You are a guest. You have to honor that whatever that show has going. And they have a different Dan Patrick got a much different format than I have. If if I started doing the stick ala I do overnight on the Dan Patrick Show, I mean they would drag me off the studio and that would be it. It would be all over there. So you have to respect the boundaries. There's guard rails and that's part of it. And I was an interloper when in Rome.

Act like a Roman Danny. That's what you have to do, right, You just gotta follow the rules. Let me tell you

one thing about radio, and it is the pits. Is when you've been doing morning drive for year after year after year, busting your ass, waking up super early every single day, show prep, post production, pre production, and really you're burning your candle at both ends, and you get tired, and you don't want to take a vacation, because we know what happens to radio guys when they go on vacation. A lot of them don't get to come back because

you are tired. When you finally get to leave, Inevitably, whoever fills in for you sounds nice and fresh, but they only have to do it for a few days, so you're right, they should just house it. There was a time at k c a Q where I've made the mistake of having my afternoon drive DJ fill in for me and my morning crew while we took one week off. When we got back then it was a ship show because this guy had created this whole morning

zoo thing. That he did for a week with all these brand new bells and whistles and games and features, and people were blown away. They were like, that was one of the best things. Not that we don't like you guys, but what wasn't fair is obviously he did that for one week and then got to go back to sleeping at night like a normal human being and doing his afternoon show. So yeah, it's really hard because we've talked about it on your show a lot about how there is no way in hell you can take

more than five days off as a radio host. No, And I've explained that to my wife several times. You know, we always wanted to go on these exotic vacations and she'd love to go to Europe and all that night. I never wanted to go to Europe before. But now as I've gotten older, what the hell? Why No, I'm becoming a softie here as I get older, and I'm like, let's do some things. We're gonna check out, you know, life before you know it. Anyways, you might as well

enjoy the journey. But uh, yeah, it's really tough. That's a that's a tough part of the business. But that is that is so hilarious this story you told about the guy that filled in because he was a dick too. He told us behind the scenes in the hallway, I'm glad you guys are back. There's no way I could have kept up that energy for a second week. Yeah. Yeah, Well he admitted that he couldn't do it continually like we did for five years there. So yeah, it's not fair,

But what are you gonna do. I guess that's why they say some hosts purposely have boring guys on when they're gone. Oh yeah, well there's a famous host. I don't know if I can say the person. Well, it's a podcast. Yeah. Uh, the great Jim Rome, a legend in sports radio. Jim for years when he was at the very top. Jim is not the very top anymore, but he was at the very top of the business.

He would have the worst people possible filling in for him because he never wanted to be upstaged by the fill in guy, you know, and then because then you get that, and you don't you want to avoid that, So he'd bring in boring people. And but there there are some guys, and I've noticed this over the years in radio, they're are there are guys that are sprinters and they're not marathon and it's part of the hard part of the business to me is just doing it

every day and showing up. If anybody could do this like what we do sports radio, when there's like a big story and there's a lot of stuff going on, I feel like anyone could come in here and do this and be Okay, maybe we won't have the formatics down, but where we earn our money is when we're just throwing spaghetti against the wall and we've got to make

it sound like there's a lot going on. Guys that have the great tape that I call them the sprinters, and they get hired because programming people in consultants here these guys and they go, Wow, this guy is great. He's got the razmataz. You know, man, oh man, this is this is true. It's like hiring Rick Flair. You know, it's great, and then yeah, higher and then after one or two shows they got nothing, and you're like, wait and shut the funk up. Okay, shut the funk up. Yeah.

So I but I would again back to the damn Patrick. I would like to thank I'm gonna name people and to miss some I love that blind Scott called in immediately annoyed Rob Parker because anytime Robs's Boston on the screen, his eyes light up. Facts from Philly called in Antony and a. I'm among others and a number of the Mallard Militia holding up the social media platforms Alfa at Piner, Justin and Cincinnati just Josh, and I said this on the Overnight Show during the week. Some of these guys,

I don't know if they're real or not. They I have some really wacky hours and whenever I'm doing something, Uh, these guys, it's like it's like Star Wars. They march in, you know, all right, Mallard Militia Hostyle take over. There were job I was like, they do some of that also. But it's great. I mean, it's wonderful. These guys have followed me around all the different nonsense that we've done, so it was fun. I don't know that we'll ever do they I'll ever do the damn Patrick Show again.

But I heard that management liked it, but I don't know. Maybe they were and they probably told that to everyone, so who the heck knows, But we will certainly fight out soon enough now as far as the power of fats and this again goes back to facts in Philadelphia. So I had a very odd thing happened this week. Out of thin air, Danny. I get contacted by a producer of the w i P Morning show in Philadelphia and they're like, hey, we want to have you on. And I've never been on this show before. I don't

know any of these people on this show. It's hosted by Angelo Cataldi, who's a Philadelphia radio legend. This guy Angelo Contaldi. You're not from Philadelphia, but Tony Brunois to work with Tony Anthony Gargatto. Gargonald's also a Philadelphia legend, but that but this guy, Angela Cataldi has been on forever. He's about to retire. He's been in the business for years. He's an old sportswriter, gossip guy. He's done some amazing bit. So anyway, I get called by are you a contact email?

By his producer out of thin air and they're like, hey, would you like to come on that We're doing a segment about Doc Rivers because there you know, they rip all the Philadelphia coaches and players pretty much, so they were they knew that I, uh, they that I hate you despise what Doc did with the clippers blowing the both the lobb City era and the beginning of the Kalai era, and he was there for both of that, and I was very upset by all of the disappearing

acts they went to full who Dany. Yes, they vanished very quickly there. And so anyway, I was like, yeah, sure, I love doing it. I very rarely turned down those things if I have time. I I love making random pop up appearances on different radio shows. It's fun to do if I have the time. I like to do it because I know I would like people to come on my show or my podcast. So if they asked me, it's very nice. It's a courtesy. You should do it. And so I didn't get paid for anything like that.

But the reason I went on the Angelo Cataldi show was because of Fats in Philadelphia. Fats loves Cataldi apparently, and he reached out and so you gotta get Malaron and he bugged these people so much that they put me on the show with It was Angelo and Billy King, the old general manager of the Philadelphia seventies sixers. So I am bashing Doc Rivers. What is and a former NBA executive is on the show listening to this. He actually agreed with a lot of the points that I

was making, which which made me feel pretty good. But Angelo, just give you a brief thumbnail recap of Angelo's career, and I'm probably missing most of the stuff. But the most famous things that Angelo Cataldi has done in radio the wing Bowl. You are you familiar with the wing Bowl? I don't think they do it anymore in Philadelphia, but it was like the weekend before the Super Bowl, that dead week they had a chicken wigging and contest in Philadelphia has become a national story and it was a

big deal in Philadelphia. Also, Angelo led a group of listeners of his radio station to the NFL Draft. They drove up to New York and this was when Ricky Williams was in the draft and the Eagles and that show wanted Ricky Williams to be drafted by the Eagles. They ended up drafting McNabb Donovan McNabb, and they famously booed me yeah. And it was his listeners that had

driven up from from Philadelphi. He's done a bunch of crazy other things and he's gotten in a bunch of trouble, So it was it was cool to talk to him, and he's had a great run in radio, and here I come on as a total uh clown, ranting away about him. So what about this this ship sandwich? Here? What what is this all about? Danny g Now, this is never a good thing when I hear that in the headline. So what happened here? A week ago? While

you were busy chopping it up with fur Ball? Andy Furman, I had a rare day off, so I took my tender roney to Santa Barbara. She's been great about how many days I've been working my crazy radio hours. So I thought, let me spoiler. I got a hotel. I have a statin night. John On had some bells and whistles on it, like they let you take the by makes out on the waterfront there on the bike path. So we were getting some exercise. It was a beautiful

day there. Uh. We get down at the towards the end of the bike path and we pull the bikes over lay them down on the grass. She runs across the bike trail, goes up the stairs of a lifeguard station. Yeah, and I'm resting. I'm like, I wonder what she You know, I kind of had an idea of what she was doing up there. Ben Our women love to use their iPhones to do some makeshift photo sessions. So she's taking pictures up there. There was a breeze blowing, her hair

is blowing in the wind. She's doing glamour shots up on this lifeguard station. So she hops down from the stairs and sees that I saw what she was doing, and she was embarrassed. So she runs across the bike path back towards me, and there's some green grass right there next to the bike path, but it was super uneven. How do I know that because she put her arms

out trying to look cute like running towards me. The soundtrack if one had been playing, because this was a rom com movie, it would have been Whitney Houston run to you and her arms are open. Problem, she lost her balance when she hit the uneven grass man. You know the famous YouTube clip of bar Tolo Cologne losing his balance. Yeah, yeah, and everything, all the everything's kind of floating around there. It's like it's like he's an

outer space. Now, she's not the size of bar Tolo Cologne, obviously, but the way she lost her balance and the way it looked like she was sliding head first into second base, she bounced. She hit the grass so hard that she bounced and then slid towards me safe. Now what did she do that? Now, because there's a couple of ways to get up from that, there's a okay, dust it off. I'm gonna laugh and it's all funny, the jokes on me or oh my god, I need to go to

the doctor. Well, it was a busy day in Santa Barbara, because remember this was the first day of a long President's Day weekend. Well, there were a lot of people around on this bike path and on the beach there. So she hopped up super fast because of all the eyes that were on us. Then she had a look of pain on her face, thinking, oh now she's hurt. She gets up to me. You could tell her hands are stinging. She heard her knee. She had stinging hands, and she sat next to me and I saw tears

welling up in her eyes. And this was like me working with the kindergarteners. This has happened several times during freeze Monster, where I say it's all right, it's okay, you're a tough cookie. When she heard those words, she stopped crying. It works. Those are magic words. Yeah, whether you're five or thirty five, those words are magic. So she ducked it up. I gave her a lot of props for that, but I told her, I said, that was God punishing you for taking that selfie. That is

that is right. This should have been playing in the back of the Benny Hill music right, and she's running down there. You could have played played that man oh man. Anyway, have a great story. That's tremendous from Twitter that night. Then I moosted the pictures she took right before she ate ship like the final acted. At any moment now, because everyone's got a professional camera. Like when I was a kid, I'm we're on the same age, Danny, we

had like the polaroid cameras. Remember that you have to wait. Now we have professional cameras. At any moment, you could have a flash mob photo shoot anywhere, any place, anytime. And I love Santa Barbara. I try to go there once a year. I love one of the vacations. I love going on like a little weekend getaways driving up the California coast Central can I always usually get to

northern California because I too far. But central California, the Hearst Castle area, righting around their Santa Cruz and then on the way back, stopping in Santa Barbara's beautiful because you have Solving Pismo Beach, Beach, San Luis Obispo, Morrow Base, and Simion Pass the Robos. You're right, it's beautiful up the coast. And every time I drive through Central California, I am I'm just blown back by the fact that all that land around the Hearst Castle is owned by

the State of California's donated. Otherwise there would be massive cities, amazing real estate right on the California coast, picturesque and and instead you have like a beach where seals lay out in fart. I fell asleep. No, that's yeah, on the California coast. But it is just wonderful. And uh, and my my wife loves the Madonna And I don't know if you've been to have you been to the

Haunted Haunted? Is it haunted? Really? I've been there a few times because she loves it, so I I have to take one for the team on that for sure. And did you eat at the famous Santa Barbara ice cream shops at McConnell's. I believe it's called there that everyone's like eat mcconals there the ice I know what you're talking about. Well, we didn't, but we did get

some good food. We went to the famous Santa Barbara Fish House, okay, and they have that pier you can drive on in Santa And then we had some wonderful eggs Benedict in front of the water. We got fortunate. We had really good weather, really good food. Just not so good on the bike path. Yeah yeah. And uh, whale watching, great whale watching in Santa bar I've gone on whale watching boats in like Orange County in l A. And I've not had much luck Santa Barbara though. I

mean you you're just surrounded by wales everywhere. Me laying on the beach during the summer. All right, Well, moving on from that, the and the survey says Danny, Now this is right out of the old hokey baseball movie Field the Dreams that we the quote I've changed and everyone changed with the quote if you build it, they will come. That's not the actual movie quote that's been twisted for everyday use and so we asked. We said, listen,

we need positive reviews for this podcast. We demand positive reviews to this podcast, and if you ask for it, they will come. And so the survey says, we shamelessly begged for people to post reviews on the Fifth Hour podcast. And one of the deals we've made here is that if you take time out of your busy life, away from your family and friends and away from work, even though it takes five minutes to do this it's busybody work, we will take time out of our schedule and our

podcast to thank you tit for tat. You scratch my back, I will scratch your back capeche, as my late grandfather in law would say. So. Uh. These are some of the actual reviews we've gotten over the last last couple of weeks or so last. I guess it's actually more like the last ten days. I think. Rabbi Mallard posted, Uh. This is on the middle of February. He says, hey, uh, Rabbi, I left you five stars. I guess that was for me. He calls me Rabbi mal It's very polite to say

that I'm not a rabbi. He says, I left you five stars. Hopefully corporate gives you the much needed rays. However, I must bemoan the fact that you're no longer in studio during the week. I know that you can't see the crew, but I feel the difference. Hopefully that changes anyhow, keep up the great, awesome work. I get this question a lot. Danny and I don't understand it because they are studios at the mother Ship are set up. Even when I'm there, I can't see anybody. Like, literally, Eddie's

down the hall. You've got to go down the hall, make a left turn and then another left. Roberto. I can kind of see Roberto, but there's TV monitors and there's computers between me and Roberto and Cooper. Loop is far back and off to the side. So literally it's no different. People seem to think there's a huge difference with everything that's going on with me in the home studio the remote studio. Yeah, you guys have all been

together for so many years. You know how to take turns talking, whether you're looking at the person or not, right, Because we also learned that early on in broadcasting is if you're doing a two man show, we should be looking at each other. That way, we know you know when to stop talking, and you don't step all over each other. But when you have good chemistry with somebody, you don't even need to see them. Yeah, And the way the show's formatted, typically the first twelve thirteen minutes

of the hour, I'm just barking by myself anyway. And then we, you know, do a segment. We'll take a couple of calls, and then I'll mix the guys in and will we have the bits that we do. And so there's a certain cadence to the show. But I do appreciate that you think the show sucks because where I'm not in studio, that does mean a lot. Uh hermal dude, right, since says and not your typical this is a review he wrote, Danny, not your typical sports Takes.

Whether you're a hardcore sports fan or not, you will enjoy this show does not just regurgitate the normal, boring sports takes, has original thoughts that aren't your run of the milk PC takes. That's a very flattering, very entertaining spinoff from his radio show. I highly recommend giving this podcast and his radio show listen. You won't be sorry. Wow, that's that's almost like my mom wrote it, but she's

not alive anymore. But if my mom was alive, that's something she would probably have written in her own words. A Juice from Dallas wrote review, Well, he says actually from Orlando, so I guess he's in Orlando, but it says Dallas originally a longtime listener Big Band. One thing I like about is you won't always agree with his take, but he gives you a good perspective on both sides of his takes. I also love the whole crew and all the drops and callers that participate in the Malle motion.

So glad that guests scan or guest scan got s can and Danny G is backed behind the boards and Mike with Big Ben. So there's a vote for Danny G Radio from Juice from Orlando. Ronda from Fort Worth Road In she wrote a review on the podcast. You actually posted this. I didn't notice, Danny. Some people were mistaking the Ben Maller Show Apple podcast page for the fifth hour. And not that I don't want good reviews on the Ben Mallery Radio Show, but we have a

lot of those. We need reviews over here is what we need on the fifth out because this is a newer show. I've done the radio show for a long time. The podcast is only a few years old, so it's confusing though, right, you know what? They all look the same? Yeah, and you know, I gotta think Linda's boyfriend now, I don't know his name, but somebody I work with during the week, Man, I just happened to mention your name, and a couple of days later she told me my

boyfriend looked up his name. He listened to your guys podcast and he loved it. He subscribed to it. No nice, ye, man, love that. Now all we need is click the subscribe button on the podcast and give us what was it take Danny? One minute? Do we need one minute of download listening time and we're good. Yeah. Rhonda from Fort Worth wrote a review of the podcast. He says the Ben Mallay Fifth Our podcast is amazing. Rhonda said, well, thank you, it's a great word amazing. I found the

Ben Mallaw show when I started working overnight. I was so pleased to find entertaining content to help time fly. Four hours a night truly aren't enough, and I am always checking the app to see when the fifth Hour podcasts are available so I can listen. Well, thank you for that. I appreciate it. Rona. She says, Ben and Danny G are great to get. I'm so glad to

hear Danny G was joining the Weekend podcast. And she also points out here Rondo that started learning about interminute fasting by listening to my me Betton stories after starting the lifestyle and says lost thirty pounds, so that's great. Wow. I was talking to our fine engineer, the Detroit Lion fan there. What's his name, I'm forgetting, yell the great Joel. Yeah, bad job by me, John, I saw. I'm sorry, but

Joel said he's doing the interminute fasting thing. And we both agreed that we wish we had known about this

when we were a little bit younger. Could we could have started the lifestyle a little bit younger, and but you know, you live and learn right, you live in and and plus the other thing about it is, I'm pretty sure when I was a big large ass in my younger days, if somebody had said, hey, he just won meal the day, you'll be good, I would have said, you're full of crap, you loser, Because everyone who's below a certain age thinks they have all the answers to

life's mysteries, and you don't take advantage of the wisdom of those that have lived and experienced all that. But it is I'm part of the cult. It's not for everybody. In fact, I'll give you this story real quick. A little sidebar. So I had a buddy of mine from Dallas, one of my best friends. I've known this kid since elementary school. We grew up together, we lived, we used to hang out with are kids. He's lived in Dallas for like twenty years and he comes out to visit

every year. He wants to move back to l A. But you know whatever, it was far away. So he comes out on a Monday, and I was fasting and I was waiting to eat my meal with him to have lunch. So he lands at l a X. I'm like, I don't hear from him. So then I sent him a text what's going on? And then uh, I call him. I guess there was a problem with the rental car. So it took him a little while to get the rental car. So I was like, all right, so you know,

what do you want to eat for you know? And he he says, oh no, no, I'm I'm hungry right now. I'm going I'm going to eat and about you, but I'm here. You know we're gonna you. No, No, I want to eat by myself. I just want to eat right now. I'm really hungry. I can't I'm starving. I said, He's I haven't eaten since like last night, and I'm like, oh my, that's early and certainly in the day. And that really pissed me off day and I was like that,

I felt like, am I wrong? I felt like I was rude, you know, like traveled to see somebody, and I realized he's the one traveling. Yeah, you know I was. I was piste off. Yeah, it's not a good look. Yeah. Fur Dog wrote a review he says, pretty pretty good. I see what he did, quoted the great Larry David. I give the show five stars. I almost gave it four stars for the hassle it took to write this review. That's fair. I would only give you one star if I was doing it. Ben. There you uh the Craigster

right since says no ball washing. I love that Ben gives us the real story, not the popular narrative. That's exactly right. There you go, the real story, not the popular narrative. That's what we do right here. Uh now, I would want one other before I forget it. We're limited time here because we've got things to do. It's the weekend. I'm gonna go out and live our life on a Saturday. But uh, this past weekend, speaking of living our lives, we had a first party. I called

it the first party at the Mallard mansion. Danny, my wife, we got a little disagreement kerfluffle, me and my wife. We had the in laws over to enjoy a nice night of family time, and my wife informed me that this was not an official party. She told me, I said, it's a party we're having. You know, your your parents are coming over, your sister, your brother, the kids that, my nieces and nephews, everyone's here. It's a part of She said, no, that's wrong, Ben, this is a family

get together, not a party. I said, what's the it's a it's a damn party that it's we're having. We got a clean up the house, make it seem like we don't live like pigs. It's not a pig sty and she's not. She had a party is when you have people that you don't really know that. Well over these are people that we know, And I said, I disagree. A party is when you have more than one Kirkland brand items exactly. Well, speaking of that, I I had

provided the menu. We decided to have a nice meal in the house, and I was the cook Danny g and I had the the Dean Martin tune in my head when the moon hits your eye like a pizza pie. That's samar Yeah, we made pe I made pizza, made five pizzas, five pizzas, three pepperoni to cheese pizzas for the non meat eating members of the family there. And uh it was. It was a little hectic. I even made so I'm a good uncle Uncle Ben. They got

rid of my rice. But I made cookie dough for my niece and nephew so I can hang out and they want to decorate. My niece wanted it. She want to decorate your little kids. You want to decorate the cookies. So I made. I spent a lot of time making sugar dough. You know, they kind of especially kind of cookie dough shape. And I could have had these kids just I could have pulled out a paper plate and just had them put food coloring on the plate. They

had no interest in eating the cookies. They just wanted to squeeze all the blue and pink and all the different nonsense that comes out of the baking products all over the place and make a total mess. And they sure they sure did that. But it was it was. It was a fun good night, A lot of cooking, a lot of random stuff. I still gotta get my griddle day. That's my next thing. I gotta I love the griddle. That's my new Michigas. I gotta find a

good griddle. So anybody wants to recommend a great griddle for the backyard, I'm all ears. I want someone that's that's used it, that knows the ins and outs, the good and the bad, and can help me out on that. What a good week it was because I had some family time. On Monday, we took the kids to Universal Studios. Awesome. I hadn't been I hadn't been to that park in ten years? Have you been there since they had How long has Harry Potter lay had been there that? Yeah?

I think it opened. Okay, so you hadn't been there since they added Harry. But that castle is insane, but not fat guy friendly, not fat guy friendly. I do not, at least back in the day when I went, I was a big, bigger guy, but I couldn't fit on the Harry Potter right, Yeah, I thought you meant because that butter beer has so many calories. Well listen that. And they've got that little Simpsons land with most tavern and all the different you can get a giant did

you see they sell those giant doughnuts the pink top? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, from the Simpsons. It was a good time. You know that. It had been a long time for me not being there because I was like, where's Backdraft? At what happened to Backdraft? I mean they took it out? Um. Yeah, so a lot of obviously a lot of updates no longer Jurassic Park the ride, Jurassic World the Ride. I love the updates. I love how they metched the old with the new. So yeah, that was a fun time

and a really good week for radio and personal life. Yeah. This is one of those guys. Not every week is like that. This was a cool week for for that. And just when I used to live in Hollywood, I would take the Gold Line up and I changed trains and I I'd go across the city walks sometimes just kind of hang out and people watch, which is you don't have to pay to get in city walks right next to Universal Studios, and you just stare at all

the tourists as they walk around. Ask you, Ben, Mike SIDRONI did not believe me that there used to be a peanut butter and jelly sandwich shop. Oh yeah, you remember that, yes, yes, y, I know every I used to know every store they. Oh yeah, well, we'd go to concerts there when they had that venue, and after the concert we'd be buzzed and we would get peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. That's awesome. Yeah, why would peanut

butter and jelly? That doesn't even make sense. That's a that's a that's an all time no. Peanut butter and jelly. You can make it. You can put it on burgers, you can put it on all kinds of stuff. It's yeah. They had like all different kinds of breads. They would cut the crust off, even you would choose what kind of jelly. It was an amazing store. Obviously didn't last, but yeah, that was it. Lights out all right, we gotta get out of here. We have the mail bag

on Sunday, Sunday Sunday, cannot wait for that. Amazing questions as always, and remember if you give us the review, we will read. I promise you, bye bye. I'll check every every couple of days. I'm gonna check the reviews. And if you give us a review, even if it's bad, I don't We'd rather have good reviews. But I'll read it on the podcast. And you're gonna start mailing your bubblehead collection to everybody who sends a review. Benny Bobbleheads?

How much with that costing? Benny? And have I got Benny energy like mini bobbleheads? Oh, I'm gonna look into that. We should we should get that going to promote the fifth hour and we have a great rest of your Saturday. And don't forget Scott farrell wild conversation with Scotty on the Friday Podcast. We'll catch you next time though later Skater Bolation