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Speaker 1: In the ad every way, it's the Fifth Hour with
Speaker 1: Ben Maller and Danny g. But you already knew that.
Speaker 1: You already knew you don't stumble onto a podcast. We've
Speaker 1: been through that before. But we're hanging out in the
Speaker 1: podcast dojo, and I hope you're having a wonderful What
Speaker 1: Night Day Another college football Saturday here in September, as
Speaker 1: it is a great time to consume sporting content and
Speaker 1: this show. Of course, we're a hardcore sports podcast. Danny wrong,
Speaker 1: That's right.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: The problem is I don't think I'll be able to
Speaker 4: get on the Sunday podcast with you to react to
Speaker 4: all the college football action because I am a Spectrum
Speaker 4: La customer, which means been no ABC, no ESPN channels.
Speaker 4: They are all blacked out because Disney is fighting with
Speaker 4: Spectrum over a new contract.
Speaker 1: Well that's wonderful. Yeah, And who's caught in the middle.
Speaker 1: You You are caught in the middle. You have nothing
Speaker 1: to do with either one of those massive media companies.
Speaker 1: And you'd think with all the changes that have happened
Speaker 1: in media now we work in radio, radio is a
Speaker 1: lot different than it was when we both started. Television
Speaker 1: is a lot different. I'm learnering even more about that.
Speaker 1: I'm getting I'm getting taught just how different TV is
Speaker 1: than it used to be. But you'd think they say, listen,
Speaker 1: everyone's fighting for eyeballs or ear drums or both. Like
Speaker 1: there's a path to make it work, right, there's a path,
Speaker 1: but they got to fight.
Speaker 3: Disney's hurting for money.
Speaker 4: So yeah, I feel for them.
Speaker 1: Well, I read online somebody wrote that they're trying to
Speaker 1: get Apple or Google to buy them or something, and
Speaker 1: I imagine how many that would cost. Holy crap, that
Speaker 1: would be insane by Disney. But yeah, they got enough
Speaker 1: money these internet companies, they could do it. They do
Speaker 1: what real they want with that for sure. So on
Speaker 1: this podcast, they's been our Saturday Life of Malar, Life
Speaker 1: of Danny g We've got musical chairs, the radio, walk off, backscratcher,
Speaker 1: the word of the week, pop goes to the culture.
Speaker 1: We even get some science stuff going. We'll see if
Speaker 1: we have time for that. I always think in my head, Danny,
Speaker 1: that we have more time than we do. You know,
Speaker 1: we all gather together here. It's a very communal situation.
Speaker 1: You there, me here, you listening the whole thing, and
Speaker 1: then like the time kind of goes by. And as
Speaker 1: we've talked about, Danny, the sweet spot for a podcast
Speaker 1: about thirty minutes, maybe thirty five minutes. That's the average
Speaker 1: time somebody spends on a treadmill or an elliptical machine,
Speaker 1: about thirty thirty five minutes. So if you go too long,
Speaker 1: it's like these Joe Rogan podcasts that are four hours.
Speaker 1: I don't know that people are tuning into the three
Speaker 1: hour and twenty minute mark, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: Maybe I'm wrong, though, I don't know. Maybe Rogan's the
Speaker 1: king of the podcast game, and maybe people just tuning
Speaker 1: in that's.
Speaker 3: The way to do it.
Speaker 1: So we'll start with this now. Last weekend, last weekend
Speaker 1: before I was locked in doing the TV stuff and
Speaker 1: the radio stuff all ye, which I'm very excited about.
Speaker 1: That's why I took some time off early in the year.
Speaker 1: I anticipated that this my schedule is gonna be nuts
Speaker 1: during football season, so I normally take a lot of
Speaker 1: December off. I will not be doing that. I might
Speaker 1: take a couple of days off, but I still have
Speaker 1: to do the television shows. So I figured, like, if
Speaker 1: I got to do that, why would I nearly do anything?
Speaker 1: You know, It's like, come on, I'll be here anyway.
Speaker 1: So anyway, visited last weekend Catalina. I love Catalina Island.
Speaker 1: Kind of a last second trip and not really planned
Speaker 1: out that great, but we wanted to go before the
Speaker 1: NFL and I was part of a group, a large
Speaker 1: group of very important people, very important people including my wife,
Speaker 1: and we went there, little island life. It was a
Speaker 1: quick day trip. Went in the morning, came back, and
Speaker 1: at night went to a restaurant called, I believe it
Speaker 1: was called the Antonios on Avalon, On, which is the
Speaker 1: only city we go to on Catalia. It's only one
Speaker 1: city there, Avalon and the big city. And we It's
Speaker 1: beautiful catalin Island right off the coast, about thirty miles
Speaker 1: off the coast, to La. So we went there and
Speaker 1: had had a seat right on the table next to
Speaker 1: the mighty Pacific Ocean, right just beachside, picturesque, perfect chef's kiss,
Speaker 1: and then we took a trip to the wild side.
Speaker 1: They said, what could possibly go wrong? It's a laid
Speaker 1: back rather just calm place and the word is tranquil.
Speaker 1: So we're sitting there and they ordered the food and
Speaker 1: all that, and I ordered the ribbi cheese, a grilled
Speaker 1: cheese sandwich. The grilled cheese, they put some ribbi in there.
Speaker 1: I said, well, that sounds pretty good. I'll go with that.
Speaker 1: And that's when things really flipped into the twilight zone.
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna paint the picture for you. What's going on?
Speaker 1: So again, where did this nice restaurant sitting right there
Speaker 1: near the water look out that it's really a harbor.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of boats parked there. It's just magic.
Speaker 1: Then all of a sudden, out of nowhere, with no warning,
Speaker 1: this random rogue ghost wave water comes flying over and
Speaker 1: soaks the entire table. I get, you know, pretty wet,
Speaker 1: my legs are covered in water, and like it was wild.
Speaker 1: I never seen anything like it.
Speaker 3: You know what your on the end of splash mountain.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, exactly, And the water was fine, and then
Speaker 1: out of nowhere, boom, cup boom, like holy holy crap
Speaker 1: on a cracker Batman. That's not supposed to happen. So
Speaker 1: the tables soaks. So we're like, we gotta get out
Speaker 1: of here. So me, the wife, the party, the people
Speaker 1: we were hanging out with, cool people. Uh, there's actually
Speaker 1: five so there was a party. It was seven, told
Speaker 1: me woife. We had five other people with us, some
Speaker 1: friends of my shall we say roommate. So but we
Speaker 1: ended up moving tables. We go across the restaurant, so
Speaker 1: we're now as far away on outdoor seating, as far
Speaker 1: away from the water as we can get. Otherwise we
Speaker 1: have to leave the restaurant. Okay, we have to leave
Speaker 1: the other So okay, we're sitting there eating Food's pretty good,
Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden, cuff flewey. Well this
Speaker 1: was not a wave. This was more of a we
Speaker 1: were attacked by a pack of bees. Oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: there was an infestation of yellow jacket bees.
Speaker 3: Did they sound like.
Speaker 1: Just like that?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Oh that sounds like something else. Does that sound yeah?
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, I think the first time you try to
Speaker 4: do it, your mic cutout like you were on NBC.
Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly. So there's an infestation of yellowjacket. So now
Speaker 1: we've moved at this point, we've moved tables twice. But
Speaker 1: these bees are hungry and they apparently liked what we
Speaker 1: were eating based on their movements. They were swarming around
Speaker 1: the table. So now we're like, well, we've already moved once,
Speaker 1: are we going to move a third time? Where else
Speaker 1: do we go? So we determined we must go indoors.
Speaker 1: So there was a little section of the restaurant that
Speaker 1: was indoors. Most of the seating was outdoors. So we
Speaker 1: then went inside the restaurant. We said, listen, we're gonna
Speaker 1: attacked by bees here. People. They're bees big, they look
Speaker 1: like the massive wasp. I mean, these things are here.
Speaker 1: And so we went inside the restaurant and we were
Speaker 1: able to finish the meal, but we had to sit
Speaker 1: the first time ever I had said three tables at
Speaker 1: a restaurant to try to get it out. I was
Speaker 1: convinced we weren't go inside. We're gonna be attacked by
Speaker 1: like termites or something I don't know, or locusts. And
Speaker 1: the bees were not just in the restaurant. Like all
Speaker 1: the trash cans on Catalina Island covered with bees. It's crazy.
Speaker 1: I guess this happened every ten years or something. There's
Speaker 1: some kind of biblical event where the bees just ascend
Speaker 1: on Catalina Island, and that happened to be the day
Speaker 1: we were there. So we finished the meal. Then my
Speaker 1: wife and the group, the five Pack, the wolf Pack, decided, Hey,
Speaker 1: let's go snorkling. Why else you know why we go
Speaker 1: to Catalina? Go to snork great snorkler. Now, Danny, I
Speaker 1: gotta tell you know. We just played musical chairs and
Speaker 1: I determined I made a tactical decision. I want to
Speaker 1: ask you if I made the right decision. So everyone's
Speaker 1: going snorkeling. Guess who the party pooper was, Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 1: I sat on the beach right near that beautiful casino
Speaker 1: in Catalina, that round building which is not an actual casino,
Speaker 1: it's a movie theater. You've got that, you got lover's
Speaker 1: cove on the other side. Amazing. Snorkeling just world class,
Speaker 1: and I love it. I've always loved snorkeling and Catalina.
Speaker 1: It's wonderful. But I sat up. Why did I sit out?
Speaker 1: I have dreadful hearing from working in radio, and I
Speaker 1: had bad hearing before I got into radio, So it's
Speaker 1: not like it's not like I started out with great
Speaker 1: hearing and then all of a sudden things went sideways. No,
Speaker 1: I have hearing that is just hor horrific, right, and
Speaker 1: so I have to be very mindful of that. And
Speaker 1: when I you know, I haven't been. I'm unable to
Speaker 1: find too many elixirs, the magic potions that will well.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So one of the problems I've had over the years
Speaker 1: is when I go into a swimming pool or the
Speaker 1: ocean and I swim, if I end up getting any
Speaker 1: water in my ear, I then have a major problem.
Speaker 1: I get this thing called swimmer's ear and my ability
Speaker 1: to hear. My auditory perception of sound goes way down,
Speaker 1: which becomes quite a problem here, And in my left
Speaker 1: ear I become almost hearing and paired, which is a problem.
Speaker 1: So I said, you know what, this is a big
Speaker 1: week for me. I got this dopey TV show. This
Speaker 1: is something I never thought would happen. It's happened. So
Speaker 1: now it's like, I do I really want to go
Speaker 1: snorkeling for like forty minutes and then have to deal
Speaker 1: for the next month because it takes about a month
Speaker 1: for my year to snap back. So I really want
Speaker 1: to deal with this, and I was like, nah no,
Speaker 1: So I sat. I think that was the right call.
Speaker 1: Though I don't know. He's like, yeah, maybe it might
Speaker 1: have been all right, Maybe I would have been okay,
Speaker 1: but I didn't want to chance it.
Speaker 4: So, you know, I have the same sort of ear
Speaker 4: canal issues. My left ear does the same thing. So
Speaker 4: the last time my wife and I were in Hawaii,
Speaker 4: and if we're there, she has to go snorkling.
Speaker 3: I get it.
Speaker 4: It's the favorite thing for a lot of people when
Speaker 4: they're in beautiful waters. So what we did is we
Speaker 4: got the air putty. There is special air plugs for
Speaker 4: the water. I think that's what you've got to try
Speaker 4: next time.
Speaker 1: Well, I've tried some, and I guess my ear drum
Speaker 1: is shaped, my ear canal is shaped weirdly. But is
Speaker 1: it over the counter? You can get ear plugs custom made.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I don't know how much of those things cost.
Speaker 3: Maybe I should do that. That would be a good investment.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the ear the ear puddies do just get that
Speaker 1: at the Walgreens or CBS or something that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly, and you know it was. It was kind
Speaker 4: of uncomfortable while I was in the water, but I
Speaker 4: was grateful that when we got back on the boat
Speaker 4: and we were done that day, I took them out
Speaker 4: and had no swimmers there, no issues.
Speaker 1: Okay, well that's good. Yeah. I've tried different ear plug
Speaker 1: things and so some of them have worked, okay, but usually,
Speaker 1: like even if a little water gets in my ear,
Speaker 1: I'm screwed. So it's like it has to be one
Speaker 1: hundred percent or it's either one hundred percent or nothing.
Speaker 1: You know, there's no middle ground and all that. And
Speaker 1: then if I had had water in my ear, I
Speaker 1: would have not only not been able to do the
Speaker 1: TV show well, but I would have I guess you
Speaker 1: could say I would have done a radio walk off, Dandy.
Speaker 1: I would have just walked off and that would have
Speaker 1: been that.
Speaker 4: You know, After Covino and Rich, I do post production,
Speaker 4: like find promos for them and get the podcast up
Speaker 4: and make their best of and take little drops out
Speaker 4: of the show, little funny moments, whatever the case might be.
Speaker 4: Takes me a couple of hours to get all that done.
Speaker 4: So while I'm in the production studio doing all that
Speaker 4: after the show live in the studio is the odd
Speaker 4: couple Chris Broussard. He's on the East Coast, but in
Speaker 4: the studio, the actual brand new, state of the art
Speaker 4: FSR Studios is on.
Speaker 1: Rob Parker, Rob Parker, Rob Parker, out of the Parker.
Speaker 3: Speaking of TV.
Speaker 4: He's got a new TV gig that's gonna be happening
Speaker 4: after Sunday Night Football.
Speaker 1: I saw that he's gonna be on Channel four in
Speaker 1: l A. And they actually film that right near this,
Speaker 1: like the next building over from where my show is
Speaker 1: filmed at Universal. So that's kind of cool.
Speaker 4: It is cool he and Jonas are going to be
Speaker 4: on that show. Yeah, props to them. So, you know,
Speaker 4: I get to hear some funny things coming out of
Speaker 4: that studio because let's just say, Rob's voice penetrates studio
Speaker 4: walls and doors.
Speaker 1: Rob, and he's you know, he does not stop when
Speaker 1: we're playing commercials. He's still going oh yeah yeah.
Speaker 4: So even with my production studio door shut, I'll still
Speaker 4: hear him, especially in the hallway yelling down to the
Speaker 4: editors Peecocky about a pick that he had or something
Speaker 4: that was going on in a baseball game, you know,
Speaker 4: so it's kind of normal for me to hear him,
Speaker 4: but on Tuesday it was extra special. I call it
Speaker 4: a radio walk off because I happened to have my
Speaker 4: production studio door cracked open, and then I saw the
Speaker 4: reflection at his studio off the old studio door, and
Speaker 4: I'm glad I didn't have the door shut all the way, Ben,
Speaker 4: because I got to experience what I guess is the
Speaker 4: equivalent in our business to a crazy bat flip.
Speaker 3: Their argument.
Speaker 4: Their big debate on the air between Parker and Brusard
Speaker 4: was what is this game, this Thursday night game mean
Speaker 4: to the Detroit Lions with you know, Kelsey out and
Speaker 4: no Chris Jones. Rob Parker's take was if the Lions
Speaker 4: lose this game, they suck.
Speaker 3: They they just.
Speaker 4: Are the worst thing on the planet. There is no
Speaker 4: excuse for them to lose this game. And Chris Broussard
Speaker 4: had the other side of it, saying, you know, I'll
Speaker 4: respect them as long as they keep it close against
Speaker 4: the world champs, and Parker was screaming, how could you
Speaker 4: even have that take? Just admit it. The Lions are
Speaker 4: perennial losers. If they don't turn things around right now
Speaker 4: on Thursday night, this is their big chance. He was
Speaker 4: screaming at the top of his lungs. This is one
Speaker 4: of the loudest times I've ever heard Rob Parker on
Speaker 4: the air. So the segment is over. I heard a
Speaker 4: lot of the screaming and shouting. You know, as you know,
Speaker 4: there's hallway speakers, so I heard the speakers distorting with
Speaker 4: their argument on the air, and then a door flings
Speaker 4: open Rob Parker. I see the reflection of him walking
Speaker 4: out of the on air studio. This was like a
Speaker 4: bat flip Big Ben. He sees Shaye and some other
Speaker 4: editors down the hallway and he screams to them.
Speaker 3: Did you just hear me shouting on the air? That's
Speaker 3: how it's done. That's sports talk radio right there.
Speaker 4: And it was talk about peacocking. It was awesome to see, though,
Speaker 4: And at that moment I stopped and I thought to myself, Man,
Speaker 4: it's moments like this where I really got to take
Speaker 4: it in and appreciate where I'm at and what I'm
Speaker 4: doing right now.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's outstanding. I love I love working with Rob.
Speaker 1: When I've worked with him over the years, he's great.
Speaker 1: Did he do a pirouette? Did he just I.
Speaker 4: Mean it looked like he was about to round first
Speaker 4: and second base.
Speaker 3: That's awesome.
Speaker 1: And I feel feel bad for Rob because he has
Speaker 1: such disdain for the Detroit Lineons. There's such a hatred
Speaker 1: from his time with Detroit that he is convinced the
Speaker 1: Lions are going to be terrible and he is unwilling
Speaker 1: to change his position on the Lions. And if you
Speaker 1: look at the Detroit Lions schedule, they are set up
Speaker 1: based on the point spread games that you should win.
Speaker 1: The Lions have a pretty good opportunity. Now, usually you
Speaker 1: lose a game you're not supposed to lose, but if
Speaker 1: you just do what you're supposed to do, the Lions
Speaker 1: should get off to a six and zero start. And
Speaker 1: then if they play the Baltimore Ravens in Week seven,
Speaker 1: Ravens are pretty good team, so that's the game you
Speaker 1: can lose. But they're going to be favored over Seattle
Speaker 1: at home, Atlanta at home at Green Bay. I would
Speaker 1: be surprised if the Lions aren't favored there. Carolina is
Speaker 1: a bad team, the Bucks are a bad team. There's
Speaker 1: a lot of cupcase for the Lions to play early
Speaker 1: in the season, so you get off to a six
Speaker 1: and oh start seven and oh eight and oh I
Speaker 1: mean or your mate, your set. So they got a
Speaker 1: really favorable schedule. They do have to play the Cowboys,
Speaker 1: who are a good regular season team, and they play
Speaker 1: the Chargers and the Ravens outside and the Raiders. So
Speaker 1: we'll see what happens. But yeah, Rob Man, he he
Speaker 1: has no compassion for the Lion fan.
Speaker 3: He is just.
Speaker 5: I'm not impressed. I'm not anybody could have beaten the Chiefs,
Speaker 5: you know, that.
Speaker 3: Did what they should have done.
Speaker 5: Chris Tony game the game, that guy Tony there is
Speaker 5: Tony all right, So we have back scratcher, backscratcher.
Speaker 1: Now what is backscratcher? You scratch our back. We scratch
Speaker 1: her as it is our weekly tip of the on
Speaker 1: air light to the listener. You the loyal p one
Speaker 1: minion in the malor militia. And I want to point out, Danny,
Speaker 1: these are actual reviews. Like we don't make them up,
Speaker 1: We don't write them ourselves. These are just people that
Speaker 1: are fans. And if we don't have any reviews, we
Speaker 1: don't read the reviews. So Danny, do you think this week.
Speaker 1: We almost were completely shut out in the month of August.
Speaker 1: We had the last couple of days of August we
Speaker 1: avoided the shutout. We're now into the month of September.
Speaker 1: Do you think we had any reviews on the on
Speaker 1: the podcast.
Speaker 4: I'm going to say, with you being a big TV
Speaker 4: star suddenly and with the afternoon show Cavino and Rich
Speaker 4: on fire, that the stars have aligned for at least
Speaker 4: two reviews on our page.
Speaker 1: Well, Danny, you will be happy to know, or maybe
Speaker 1: not happy to know, that we have exactly two review
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, what did I win? You win? And chicken dinner?
Speaker 1: So congratulations, you win a chicken dinner. All right, I
Speaker 1: want my chicken now. Speaking of that, the first mail,
Speaker 1: first message from Mike in beautiful Holland, Michigan. He says,
Speaker 1: I love the Fifth Hour podcast. I enjoy the dabbling
Speaker 1: into all aspects of sports and life. It's all about
Speaker 1: the life.
Speaker 3: That's right. Email.
Speaker 1: Actually, the post continues, he says, listen to me, Powers
Speaker 1: that be, Oh see, he knows the powers that be
Speaker 1: read these things on the Apple podcast page. This podcast
Speaker 1: is a winner, winn winner, he says, chicken dinner. See
Speaker 1: what I did there? God bless you both and congrats
Speaker 1: on Benny going against the Penny and Danny G's newborn.
Speaker 1: Plus the added bonus is the dash of history sprinkled
Speaker 1: in with the phrase that pays. How would I ever
Speaker 1: know we're crossing the Rubicon? Came from thank you, signed
Speaker 1: Mike and Hot Michigan, written while sitting at the beach
Speaker 1: on Lake Michigan. Wow, that is dope. That is cool
Speaker 1: love Lake Michigan. And my wife she had never been
Speaker 1: to Lake Michigan. We were in Chicago, driving around Chicago
Speaker 1: and we came across Lake Michigan and my wist said, well,
Speaker 1: that's like an ocean. I said, well, no, it's not
Speaker 1: an ocean. It's a lake. And it's so big though,
Speaker 1: it's like you might as well be an ocean, right,
Speaker 1: And it's like mass thinks, all those great lakes Lake Superior. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm a I'm a fan.
Speaker 4: It's like the first time I saw the Saltan Sea,
Speaker 4: I was like, what ocean is this?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Should be. It's like that's big enough. He's long everywhere.
Speaker 1: Alex the Seahawks fan, right, Sandy says hip with the youth.
Speaker 1: Hear that, Danny, We're not just a couple of boomers.
Speaker 1: We're not just a couple of old dudes. No, on all,
Speaker 1: we were late.
Speaker 4: I don't think our birthdays qualify as boomer anyways.
Speaker 1: We're definitely not boomers, but we were late to the
Speaker 1: cool young generation. Fold drizzle that will replace us, Danny
Speaker 1: when we're old and our bodies breakdown, and they'll replace
Speaker 1: us and take these jobs. And he says, hip with
Speaker 1: the youth, Alex and the Seahawk fan. Do you like sports?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 1: Well, the good news is big Ben and Danny g
Speaker 1: cover all sorts of topics in the entertainment film show.
Speaker 1: This podcast has easily earned a five star review from
Speaker 1: May How about that. That's big and it should from
Speaker 1: you as well. I'm currently in my senior year of
Speaker 1: high school, Alex tells us, and this, as well as
Speaker 1: the Overnight Show, have guided me through the past eleven
Speaker 1: months of my life. This duo never gets out and
Speaker 1: can turn the simplest of topics into an engaging podcast.
Speaker 1: Thank you for the hours you've poured in to working
Speaker 1: on the podcast YouTube. Keep up the good work, Alex
Speaker 1: the Seahawks fan, Well, thank you, Alex, and don't be
Speaker 1: upset with me when the rams beat your Seahawks tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Don't be angry. Everything will be okay. Everything's fine, But
Speaker 1: thank you, and you are in a great spot in life.
Speaker 1: You remember senior year of high school, Danny kind of nervous.
Speaker 1: You're not sure what's gonna happen after high school and
Speaker 1: what direction your life's gonna go. And you're like, are
Speaker 1: you gonna lose all your friends? It is a lot
Speaker 1: different though, now, I would say, because you can keep
Speaker 1: track of everybody on social media. But when we were
Speaker 1: in high school, it's like, you're pretty much. If you
Speaker 1: didn't get somebody's phone number, you're you know, you're done.
Speaker 3: That was it?
Speaker 4: Yeah, man, we were fresh off of sober grad night
Speaker 4: where we got to dance with the hot girls from
Speaker 4: the high school all night long.
Speaker 5: I got turned on and it scared me.
Speaker 3: Try to extend that sober grad night for a couple
Speaker 3: more years.
Speaker 1: Joja Bayay. Thank you guys for the reviews. It does
Speaker 1: help us out. I don't understand why, but you know whatever,
Speaker 1: it's the corporate machine.
Speaker 3: What are you going to do?
Speaker 1: And you want to leave a review, you can do that.
Speaker 1: The podcast page, Danny, right up and running, and you
Speaker 1: put a review right there and help us out. Yes,
Speaker 1: I think so.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Click a description on this podcast and where you see
Speaker 4: the link click on that for writing a review and subscribing,
Speaker 4: and you'll page down. The big overall score of the
Speaker 4: podcast is right in front of you, and next to
Speaker 4: that it says write a review.
Speaker 3: Click on that.
Speaker 4: It'll have you make a handle hit five stars if
Speaker 4: you think we're worthy, and then write your review.
Speaker 1: And if you don't think we're worthy of five stars,
Speaker 1: and just don't bother. You know we're good. No, I'm kidding. Now,
Speaker 1: word of the week. Are you ready, Danny?
Speaker 3: Word of the week?
Speaker 1: I need the word? What is the word? The bird
Speaker 1: is the word? No, that's not the word. Bird is
Speaker 1: not the word this is. We don't do shout outs,
Speaker 1: well I guess we can. It's a podcast Mike and
Speaker 1: Holland Michigan. A fan of the word of the week
Speaker 1: or phrase of the week. We're gonna do a word
Speaker 1: though this week. The word of the week television television. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I wonder how I came up with that one. So
Speaker 1: the word is television. Now, this comes from a mix
Speaker 1: of a couple of words. There's a word in ancient
Speaker 1: Greek telly t e l e the beginning of television
Speaker 1: t e l e, which is ancient Greek that means far,
Speaker 1: and then in the Latin language visio means site. So
Speaker 1: they combined an ancient Greek word with a Latin word
Speaker 1: telly visio, and then they made that they morphed that
Speaker 1: into television, the first time that word has been documented
Speaker 1: in use. It does not go back that far. Television
Speaker 1: hasn't been around that long. The first use of the
Speaker 1: word television was in nineteen hundred by a Russian scientist,
Speaker 1: Constantine Persky was his name, and words was his game.
Speaker 1: He used it in some academic paper that was presented.
Speaker 1: It actually wasn't even just an academic paper. It was
Speaker 1: presented in France at the first International Congress of Electricity. Boy,
Speaker 1: that must have been really entertaining.
Speaker 3: They split pictures of root beer.
Speaker 1: Oh, that must have been wonderful. And that was in
Speaker 1: August of nineteen hundred during the International World's Fair in Paris.
Speaker 1: So it started at nineteen hundred. But the first time
Speaker 1: the word television appeared after that, they said, was nineteen
Speaker 1: oh seven. And there was this discussion about at the
Speaker 1: time what was supposed to be a theoretical device that
Speaker 1: transported images across telegraph or telephone wires. And then years later,
Speaker 1: I think it took another fifteen years roughly give or take,
Speaker 1: as the crow flies, and then that television came around.
Speaker 1: So when you hear me bragging or shouting about television,
Speaker 1: I think I'm bragging. But you know, television is a
Speaker 1: combo word of ancient Greek and Latin past together. Who knew, well,
Speaker 1: somebody knew.
Speaker 3: My mom had another name for it. She called it
Speaker 3: the boob tube.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, and I use that too, Although I don't
Speaker 1: know the team the people actually work in TV. I
Speaker 1: don't know if they liked that boob tube. I think
Speaker 1: they they have a hatred. There's a contempt for that word,
Speaker 1: so I try to I only use that with my
Speaker 1: radio people. So we went a little longer on this one.
Speaker 1: Danny said, I think we'll move pop Goos the Culture
Speaker 1: to the Sunday podcast. That'll give us more time to
Speaker 1: find some stories for that. So I think we'll be
Speaker 1: good on that. And we have the mailbag, so we
Speaker 1: have a lot to get to on the Sunday podcast
Speaker 1: as well. Right, anything else you want to promote Saturday
Speaker 1: in the City College football all day long. Dion Sanders
Speaker 1: his second act for the Buffalos, the star of the
Speaker 1: college season so far.
Speaker 4: Well, the one thing I will give you a reminder
Speaker 4: on is, yes, we realize there is now going to
Speaker 4: be Sunday football games on, so I will do my
Speaker 4: very best to hurry my post production and get Sunday
Speaker 4: Show up before the first game. That way, you can
Speaker 4: download it and that'll be your pre game. So please
Speaker 4: keep downloading the Sunday edition of this show early in
Speaker 4: the morning.
Speaker 1: Yeah, otherwise we'll just not do the Sunday Show. So
Speaker 1: we want to keep doing the mail Bag. People love
Speaker 1: the mail Bag. It's one of the more popular.
Speaker 3: Well, I have a new announcement.
Speaker 4: Then I will make sure Sunday Show is up by
Speaker 4: three pm on the West though.
Speaker 1: No, no, we watch it. We want you to be
Speaker 1: part of this, but we're not going to do it
Speaker 1: if no one's listening. And sometimes early in the NFL
Speaker 1: season things go now. But yeah, what's the sweet spot
Speaker 1: time for Friday morning? We tape on Friday morning, so
Speaker 1: that can't be earlier than when we're actually working. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but Sunday I'll have a little bit of a head start.
Speaker 1: I will say at least if you have maybe ninety
Speaker 1: minutes before the first game, that's enough time for you
Speaker 1: to get the Sunday show downloaded. Yeah yeah, so yeah,
Speaker 1: the Friday one, it'll be up. When it's up, Yeah,
Speaker 1: just deal with it, and we'll try to get it
Speaker 1: up as early. You know, Danny's got a lot of
Speaker 1: plates he's spinning, so he'll get it up as quickly
Speaker 1: as he can. But you've got the Malord Show to
Speaker 1: listen doing. You've got Covino and Rich, so you got
Speaker 1: plenty of audio content on Friday, and then this podcast,
Speaker 1: which was yesterday's podcast, is like bonus content. And then
Speaker 1: on Saturday, which is today, you got this.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and just remember nobody's sitting around drinking martinis with
Speaker 4: their feet up.
Speaker 3: On a counter. This is like serious business to us.
Speaker 4: So as soon as we can get it on the platform,
Speaker 4: will be up for your downloading pleasure.
Speaker 1: So stop berating us, stop yelling, and mind you know.
Speaker 4: What actually been The listeners have been really cool lately
Speaker 4: because a couple of years ago, when I first joined you,
Speaker 4: it reminded me about kick the coverage because there would
Speaker 4: be people literally tapping their foot waiting for the upload
Speaker 4: and talk about pressure.
Speaker 3: Oh my god.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I know for sure, And I get that
Speaker 1: during the week if if something goes wrong, people get
Speaker 1: very contentious and they blame me, and I'm like, well,
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't have anything to do with that.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's not well.
Speaker 3: Your dating is on it, so it is your fault.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Like, there was a day this week for some reason,
Speaker 1: Hour two of the Thursday podcast didn't make it up.
Speaker 1: There was some kind of glitch, something went wrong. Maybe
Speaker 1: there was a bot attack. I don't know what happened.
Speaker 1: And I'm getting messages people are wanting to squabb with me.
Speaker 1: You fired, they're upset with me. They're taking me to
Speaker 1: task and you know, dressing me down an email. I'm like, well,
Speaker 1: I don't, I mean, you know, to do with that.
Speaker 1: I did the hour I mean I did. I didn't
Speaker 1: take hour two off. I didn't say let me do
Speaker 1: hour one. I'll take our two off. I'll go have
Speaker 1: a burger, a cheeseburger, and then I'll come back for
Speaker 1: hour three. So there's no need to laceen to me.
Speaker 1: You know, we'll get it up. And I don't know
Speaker 1: what happened hour two. I don't know if our two
Speaker 1: ever made it up, I have no idea, but people
Speaker 1: were very hot blooded.
Speaker 3: It's a good problem to have.
Speaker 4: And can you imagine taping podcasts that nobody wants to hear?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, well I've done radio shows no one wanted
Speaker 1: to hear, so I do know that. Anyway, I definitely
Speaker 1: don't want to go back to that world. I toally
Speaker 1: do not want. I would much rather have a dysfunctional
Speaker 1: relationship with a bunch of grumpy, belligerent cantaker as people
Speaker 1: that are unsympathetic to the lives that we lead. Danny
Speaker 1: then have to do a show where it's just h
Speaker 1: there's nothing, there's no buzz, there's no juice. You don't
Speaker 1: want that.
Speaker 3: That's the great? Uh well, what's his name? You know? Weber?
Speaker 1: Uh uh, not Chris Weber, but Brian Weber.
Speaker 4: Brian Weber as the great. Brian Weber once said to
Speaker 4: me at NBC Sports Radio, are.
Speaker 3: We even on the air right now? Not even phone call?
Speaker 3: What is this in college radio?
Speaker 1: Is outstanding?
Speaker 3: Uh? Now?
Speaker 1: He didn't he didn't complain on the air, did he.
Speaker 1: Because you're never supposed to go there. You're never supposed
Speaker 1: to go there. You on the air. But it is
Speaker 1: funny when you're you know, and these things happen from
Speaker 1: time to time. People come in there and they'll say, well,
Speaker 1: you're on five hundred radio stations, you know, and all this,
Speaker 1: and but a lot of the call a lot of
Speaker 1: the shows don't take calls anymore. So people have kind
Speaker 1: of been programmed over the years to stop calling as much,
Speaker 1: and people got stuff going on and all that. But
Speaker 1: it's funny when people have absolute meltdowns. And one of
Speaker 1: my favorite stories when I did local radio in La
Speaker 1: they hired one of the news inc one of the
Speaker 1: sports news guys who was a big star. That was
Speaker 1: back when local television really mattered and it was a
Speaker 1: big deal and all that, and so they hired this
Speaker 1: guy and his theory was he was going to come
Speaker 1: in there and not do any prep read a couple
Speaker 1: of lines out of the La Times, the print edition
Speaker 1: of the La Times, add a little of his opinion
Speaker 1: on top of it, give out the phone number, toss
Speaker 1: the break for the rest of the hour. He was
Speaker 1: going to take call, and he has all planned out, right,
Speaker 1: So he opens up the show. He reads like the
Speaker 1: Bill Plashki column in the La Times and the TJ.
Speaker 1: Seimers column from Back in the Day, does a quick take,
Speaker 1: gives out the number, goes to break, comes back from break,
Speaker 1: no calls, h not a single person called. And this guy,
Speaker 1: uh I was not the name. Maybe he's still working
Speaker 1: in the business, but was such a prima donna. Okay,
Speaker 1: he was so he had nothing. He didn't know what
Speaker 1: to do, It's like, and so then he starts giving
Speaker 1: out his name and mentioning the station, the TV station
Speaker 1: he works at, thinking well, that'll get people to call
Speaker 1: because I'm important, don't you know who I am. I'm
Speaker 1: a cool kid. You know, you're you know you people
Speaker 1: are wallowing here listening to a radio show. But I'm
Speaker 1: on you know, doing that. And it didn't work, and
Speaker 1: it was he just unraveled. It was so good. It
Speaker 1: was so the audience gave him the silent treatment and
Speaker 1: it was so good. But it was just wonderful. Have
Speaker 1: a great rest of the Saturday. We got the mail
Speaker 1: bag on Sunday and also pop goes the culture will
Speaker 1: talk to you then, Yeah, wait, wat watch Beta versus
Speaker 1: the Penny today.
Speaker 3: You know what ends on this TV thing? Yeah? Watch
Speaker 3: google Ben Maller on television. Now you don't want to
Speaker 3: see that asta pasta hi.
Speaker 1: I like the Saints