Speaker 1: Kutbooms.
Speaker 2: If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes
Speaker 2: a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants
Speaker 2: of the old Republic, a sol fashion of fairness. He
Speaker 2: treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the
Speaker 2: rich pill poppers in the penthouse. Wow to Clearinghouse of
Speaker 2: hot takes, break free for something special. The Fifth Hour
Speaker 2: with Ben Mahller starts right now.
Speaker 3: In the air eywhere The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller
Speaker 3: and Danny g As we kick off a bran spake
Speaker 3: in new month, Happy March, as we flip the calendar
Speaker 3: a brand new month here of fun, and we are
Speaker 3: both celebrating a big day to day, Danny, as we
Speaker 3: like to look at goofy holidays. It's National Day of
Speaker 3: Unplugging today, which I don't think we're unplugging by doing
Speaker 3: this podcast, and anyone who is listening to this podcast
Speaker 3: is also not unplugging, so technically we're not celebrating National
Speaker 3: Day of Unplugging. But it is today, the first day
Speaker 3: of March twenty twenty four, so you're supposed to unplug
Speaker 3: all of your devices.
Speaker 4: And just oh, I thought it was getting the plunger
Speaker 4: and fixing your toilet.
Speaker 3: Well, you can do that also if you want, if
Speaker 3: you want to eat a really hearty meal and just
Speaker 3: clog up your toilet, you can do that.
Speaker 1: But it is.
Speaker 3: Technically a day to get off all those annoying devices
Speaker 3: with you know, your iPhone or whatever, you know electric
Speaker 3: device you're using when you're not.
Speaker 1: You don't have an iPhone, you have an Android, whatever
Speaker 1: you might have.
Speaker 3: So it's a global day of unplugging, which is not
Speaker 3: is not honored at all. Dan, how many days a
Speaker 3: year do you actually unplug from electronic devices?
Speaker 5: Probably one week when you're on vacation and you try
Speaker 5: your beat to do that. Yeah, you gotta have maybe
Speaker 5: your phone on if you have kids, but other than that,
Speaker 5: it's just that one week of vacation and you a
Speaker 5: funny way to celebrate this, stay Ben, you should get
Speaker 5: on all your platforms on social media and every hour
Speaker 5: tweet about how you're unplugging.
Speaker 3: Yes, I am honoring National Day of Unplugging.
Speaker 1: I just want you to know that I am not
Speaker 1: on these devices.
Speaker 3: Even though it looks like I'm on these devices, I
Speaker 3: am not on these devices at all. It just appears
Speaker 3: that way. But that is actually not what's going on
Speaker 3: at all.
Speaker 5: So nice to unplug today dot dot dot and then
Speaker 5: bring up a topic and keep tweeting about it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, exactly. I also saw.
Speaker 3: And the only reason I bring this one up is
Speaker 3: because there's a guy that calls the show randomly from
Speaker 3: Arkansas who has this as his nickname, although he's got
Speaker 3: many nicknames. It is national dad Gum, That's good day. Yeah,
Speaker 3: and I don't even know what that is, but national Happy,
Speaker 3: National dad Gum, that's good day, which I guess means
Speaker 3: good food, good company, good times and all that, but
Speaker 3: it also means a random truck driver from Arkansas that
Speaker 3: calls the show promised us little Debbie cakes on the
Speaker 3: overnight show.
Speaker 1: And we're still waiting.
Speaker 3: We're still waiting for those and used to be called
Speaker 3: to scratch off and then you got hear a lot
Speaker 3: of nicknames. Oh, by the way, I should also probably
Speaker 3: mention before we get too far into this podcast. You
Speaker 3: probably know by now if you're listening to the original
Speaker 3: Recipe podcast, the Ben Mallor Show podcast, Not at My Watchtower,
Speaker 3: Danny last night or this morning, depending how you look
Speaker 3: at it, I was not there. You fired on assignment,
Speaker 3: a secret assignment, I cannot say, but I was not
Speaker 3: able to do the show, but somehow I'm able to
Speaker 3: do the podcast. It's the magic of podcasting, Danny that
Speaker 3: we're here.
Speaker 5: Yeah, because podcast it's us waking up at five am
Speaker 5: for your live show.
Speaker 4: You have to be awake at ten pm.
Speaker 3: Yes, the never ending, never ending life of bloviation, full bloviation.
Speaker 3: So I wanted to start here on the Friday Pod.
Speaker 3: As we get into a new month and we'll have
Speaker 3: regular season baseball, huh, We're gonna have Talking Bays ball.
Speaker 3: These exhibition games, which are fine. I'm not against exhibition games,
Speaker 3: but I'm not you know. I'll tune in for like
Speaker 3: a couple of innings, but I'm not really sitting there
Speaker 3: and watching him. I used to watch Back in the
Speaker 3: old days, I would watch every exhibition game, but as
Speaker 3: I've gotten more jaded and i've aged, I'll sample a
Speaker 3: little bit, but I'm not watching anything past like the
Speaker 3: third inning of these early exhibition games in Arizona and Florida,
Speaker 3: I'm out.
Speaker 5: I know it must have put a smile on your face, though.
Speaker 5: When Otani hit that bomb in his first Dodger preseason game, it.
Speaker 1: Was pretty good.
Speaker 3: Now he's only got to hit seven one hundred home
Speaker 3: runs and then one million dollars for each home run.
Speaker 1: Is that how it works?
Speaker 3: Is that the math on that is seven hundred and
Speaker 3: then well he got seven hundred million. But it's all deferred, right,
Speaker 3: most of it's deferred. I'm not a numbers guy, but
Speaker 3: that doesn't seem to add up. You think Otani moved
Speaker 3: or do you think he still lives? He lived in
Speaker 3: Orange County. When he's playing for the Angels, you think
Speaker 3: he moved to La or he probably not.
Speaker 1: He's in Arizona right now, but I wonder.
Speaker 5: When he gets back to southern California. I heard that
Speaker 5: he hired Kobe's backup pilot.
Speaker 1: Oh good luck.
Speaker 4: To make he rest in peace?
Speaker 3: You know you should take is just have him like
Speaker 3: fire him out of a cannon and they can fire
Speaker 3: him over the traffic and then it's like, yeah, the
Speaker 3: old circus back and he can land at Dodger State
Speaker 3: or get a catapult, oh like like super Dave, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: super Dave Osmorne, the late great Super Dave Osmonn. But
Speaker 3: Otani could also just get a catapult like the olden.
Speaker 1: Days and they could.
Speaker 3: Just launch him over the five Freeway, the ninety one,
Speaker 3: the fifty seven, the one oh one, all that and
Speaker 3: just land right there at the pitching mountain. With the
Speaker 3: technology they have today, Danny, that's an easy move. That's
Speaker 3: an easy But I did enjoy watching Otani hit the
Speaker 3: home run, and I like how everyone obsessed over it.
Speaker 3: You know, that's always my I get a kick out
Speaker 3: of it. It's like the biggest thing of the world.
Speaker 3: It's gonna be like that for a while though. With Otanio,
Speaker 3: he's getting the rockstar treatment. He's the biggest thing in baseball.
Speaker 3: He's reminds me of Barry Bonds when Bonds was getting
Speaker 3: all the attention back in the day with the Giants.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and Super Dave was underrated by the way.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, he was great. And right up until the
Speaker 1: end on Curb Your Enthusiasm.
Speaker 4: Ah yeah, he was a great character on that show.
Speaker 1: He was.
Speaker 3: He was absolutely great. So interesting week this week, obviously
Speaker 3: not on the radio overnight here into Friday, but at
Speaker 3: the Mothership. So it started out with a bang, let's
Speaker 3: take you back in the hot tub time machine. We're
Speaker 3: gonna go back to the beginning of the week. So
Speaker 3: My week starts on Sunday night into Monday morning. We
Speaker 3: do the podcast on Sunday and then I do whatever
Speaker 3: I do during the day, and then at Sunday night
Speaker 3: I come back into the radio station. So Sunday night
Speaker 3: in a Monday and I have to drive in. The
Speaker 3: company wants me to be there. I'm very honored the
Speaker 3: company wants me to be this important for the company
Speaker 3: to have me there. So I drive in long drive
Speaker 3: from the north Woods. Most of the week I drive in,
Speaker 3: so I go into the studio and Sunday night. There's
Speaker 3: two things about Sunday night. When you go into the
Speaker 3: radio station on Sunday night, there is this nice aroma
Speaker 3: of rotting fish, chicken, and beef. Whatever the boys ate
Speaker 3: over the weekend just sits in the trash and rots.
Speaker 3: It's time for trash and get that nice aroma. It's
Speaker 3: not that bad this time of the year, but comes summertimes,
Speaker 3: even though we're indoors. For some reason, it seems to
Speaker 3: smell more.
Speaker 1: In the summer. Not sure what that's about. The Other
Speaker 1: thing on the weekends in there's the South any.
Speaker 3: Bey there it's just a bones type crew there, just
Speaker 3: sculling bones, not much going on. So I go in there,
Speaker 3: and I have to walk down the hall, around the
Speaker 3: around the corner to prep in the back update studio
Speaker 3: because the main studio we used to use is a
Speaker 3: construction zone.
Speaker 1: So I'm not allowed in there.
Speaker 3: The big yellow tape not allowed in it, so I
Speaker 3: don't go. I honor the yellow tape that says don't
Speaker 3: go in, so I don't go in. So I go
Speaker 3: to the one room I can sit in way in
Speaker 3: the back, near the vending machine, which is the loudest
Speaker 3: vending machine in the history of vending machines. I think
Speaker 3: when they installed the vending machine, they said, can we
Speaker 3: get the loudest possible vending machine we can get, and
Speaker 3: then can we go even louder? And they've got that.
Speaker 3: So I sit in there and I hear the hum
Speaker 3: of the vending machine.
Speaker 4: Soda drops. It sounds like a bomb.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, it's like the neutron bomb is dropping.
Speaker 3: So it's about fifteen minutes or so, ten or fifteen
Speaker 3: minutes until my time to take over. The microphone owns
Speaker 3: a Fox Sports tradio. The button has passed me, so
Speaker 3: I flip on the programming in the studio and I
Speaker 3: hear Arnie Spanier, but I don't hear Chris plain. Now,
Speaker 3: Arnie is my lead in on Sunday Night and the
Speaker 3: Monday Arnie Spanier and Chris Plank can.
Speaker 1: They do a great job.
Speaker 3: And so I'm used to hearing them, and I hear
Speaker 3: a few minutes of their show usually on Sunday Night.
Speaker 3: So I heard Arnie and then I heard someone. I
Speaker 3: didn't regularly recognize the voice, and Arnie didn't reset and
Speaker 3: say who it was. The person didn't say their names.
Speaker 3: I had no idea who it was.
Speaker 1: I was just listening, and you know, I knew it
Speaker 1: was a former athlete. I knew that, but I didn't
Speaker 1: really know who it was.
Speaker 3: And so I'm like whatever, And so I walked over
Speaker 3: to the to the air studio. I walked by the
Speaker 3: vending machine, down the hall, make a right, go down
Speaker 3: the hall, and then make another right. Then I go
Speaker 3: down a little hall, make a left, and then I'm
Speaker 3: in this little area where there's the main studio, and
Speaker 3: then the engineer and the producer sit in the other room.
Speaker 3: So I go there and I look at the on
Speaker 3: air studio. It is pitch black, right, completely dark, nothing
Speaker 3: going on, right, So I'm like, all right, I guess
Speaker 3: this guy, whoever it is, must must be on the
Speaker 3: com Rex, the ISD and whatever. He's doing the show remote.
Speaker 3: So I know Arnie's in Vermont, so he's not here.
Speaker 3: So I'm like, all right, I'll go in there and
Speaker 3: I'll set my stuff up and get ready. So I
Speaker 3: walk over to this giant glass door which is the
Speaker 3: door to the studio, and I pushed the door open.
Speaker 3: I've got two bags, I've got my computer in one hand,
Speaker 3: I've got the headphones in the other.
Speaker 1: And I open the door and I walk in and.
Speaker 4: Much to my shock, just like the time I walked
Speaker 4: in on my mom going pe.
Speaker 1: Yeah, very similar.
Speaker 3: So I walked in and staring back at me in
Speaker 3: the darkness is Ephraim Salaam from my boy from from
Speaker 3: the the Broncos lineman from back in the day, who
Speaker 3: was sitting.
Speaker 4: Oh oh no, and he worried member of the COVID team.
Speaker 1: Oh easy. I did not know that. I I don't
Speaker 1: think i've met him.
Speaker 3: So I I did the Homer Simpson meme Danny, where
Speaker 3: I quickly turned around. Uh, I was like, you gotta
Speaker 3: be joking. I'm like, who's like, I sit in a
Speaker 3: dark studio. I liked the studio with the lights turned down.
Speaker 4: I like the mood.
Speaker 3: I've never seen anyone work with all the lights completely off.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Anything.
Speaker 4: And it's not like he has pale skin like Brian Finley.
Speaker 1: Well, I'm not saying that.
Speaker 3: I just I just assumed because I looked at the
Speaker 3: lights in the studio and there were none on.
Speaker 1: I said, well, there's no way there's anyone in there.
Speaker 3: So I was like, here's my time, and man, it
Speaker 3: was a turnout the lights the parties over.
Speaker 4: So yeah, did his eyes get really big when he
Speaker 4: saw you?
Speaker 3: Yeah, he looked at me and he gave me like
Speaker 3: what the f are you doing here? Kind of looking
Speaker 3: I and I gave him the same look I gave
Speaker 3: him somebody.
Speaker 1: I was like, wait a minute, what are you doing here?
Speaker 5: I used to do some weekend shows with e from
Speaker 5: So I produced he from every Saturday, and he's a
Speaker 5: no nonsense guy Ben and he always would come in
Speaker 5: with gloves, a face mask, a mask, COVID mask.
Speaker 4: Over his face.
Speaker 1: Oh boy, that's a regular mask.
Speaker 5: But also he used to do a show with your
Speaker 5: boy Brian Know, and he loved that. Brian Know was
Speaker 5: always remote because he would have the studio to himself
Speaker 5: when he would come in, the show would leave and
Speaker 5: he would spray lysol for about five minutes. He'd spend
Speaker 5: ten minutes cleaning everything down, even though he was looking
Speaker 5: like he had a hazmat suit on. And one of
Speaker 5: the shows on the air, Brian tells him, Hey, by
Speaker 5: the way, I'm in La next week, so I'm gonna
Speaker 5: be broadcasting live with you there and he said, where
Speaker 5: from the parking lot?
Speaker 4: You ain't coming into the studio.
Speaker 3: Oh man, I'm trying to block out that two and
Speaker 3: a half years of my life, daddy, where everyone was
Speaker 3: it was the apocalypse.
Speaker 1: My god.
Speaker 3: I still I've been going to the gym. We talked
Speaker 3: about this in a previous episode of the podcast. I've
Speaker 3: been going to the gym during the day now. I
Speaker 3: used to always go after the show, and I'd go
Speaker 3: in the morning and there was no one there and
Speaker 3: it was a bunch of old people.
Speaker 1: So I go during the day. There's like younger people whatever.
Speaker 1: I guess. No one works during the day.
Speaker 3: Maybe they all do overnight radio shows like I do,
Speaker 3: and so they're available to go to the gym in
Speaker 3: the middle of the day. And so I've been going
Speaker 3: during the day, but I still see a good number
Speaker 3: of people that are completely invested in like they think
Speaker 3: it's like July of twenty twenty, which is you know
Speaker 3: what you know gets you through life.
Speaker 1: But it's just odd. It's just still it's still odd.
Speaker 3: To me to see that, especially with all the the
Speaker 3: data pointing one direction, not the not the other way.
Speaker 3: That was my run in with literally a collig and
Speaker 3: it was very nice. He did have a Bronco like
Speaker 3: Jack and on, so he was still repping the Broncos stuff.
Speaker 5: Yeah, he said that he loved his time in Denver,
Speaker 5: even though he wasn't there for very long. He spent
Speaker 5: most of his career playing for the Texans.
Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, yeah, but he had he definitely had Bronco
Speaker 3: Bronco merch.
Speaker 1: Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 4: He was a Bronco homer on the air.
Speaker 1: There you go.
Speaker 3: Well, I you know, Coop likes the Broncos. He didn't
Speaker 3: talk about m much of these days because they suck,
Speaker 3: but if they're good, he'll be back.
Speaker 4: And the Raiders have beat you eight games in a row.
Speaker 3: I don't think Coop played for the Broncos though. I
Speaker 3: don't think I mean, I'm not sure. Maybe maybe he
Speaker 3: was like the backup kicker punter or something like that
Speaker 3: back in the day.
Speaker 1: Cool gosh, not sure.
Speaker 3: So I did want to send a We don't do
Speaker 3: shout outs on the radio show, but this is the podcast,
Speaker 3: and this is not really a shout out. But Coach Mack,
Speaker 3: the Coach Mack attack. Who Coach Mack. You don't know
Speaker 3: Coach Mack. Never heard of him?
Speaker 1: Oh man, it's a bad job by you.
Speaker 3: So from Big Timber, Big Timber, Montana. Coach Mack is
Speaker 3: a p one. He used to live in southern California
Speaker 3: and he was a regular loyal minion, a p one
Speaker 3: in the mal Or militia, and Coach Mack ended up
Speaker 3: moving to Big Timber, Montana.
Speaker 4: Wait wait, I do remember this dude from back in
Speaker 4: the day.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, he used to call the show and he's
Speaker 3: a big fan. He wanted to get out of California
Speaker 3: for because it's California. There's a lot of crazy things
Speaker 3: going on in California he didn't agree with and so
Speaker 3: he knew.
Speaker 1: He couldn't change him. So he's like, I'm going to
Speaker 1: get out of here.
Speaker 3: And he's a coach and he ended up in Montana,
Speaker 3: in Big Timber, Montana, and he is a coach at
Speaker 3: sweet Grass County High School in Big Timber of Montana,
Speaker 3: and he is a big fan of the show and
Speaker 3: on this high school goes back to nineteen o five.
Speaker 3: Imagine what Montana must have been like in nineteen oh five.
Speaker 1: Can only imagine.
Speaker 3: But the reason I bring this up is because coach
Speaker 3: Max said, Hey, I like you guys. I want you
Speaker 3: to I want you to know kind of support my
Speaker 3: school and stuff. He's a coach there, and he sent
Speaker 3: us a gift box filled with hats from the high school. Now,
Speaker 3: normally I'd be like, Okay, it's a high school, why
Speaker 3: would I wear that? But this is one of the coolest,
Speaker 3: the coolest logos in an age where in my lifetime
Speaker 3: we've had the Washington Bullets name canceled because that was
Speaker 3: gonna end gun violence. Can you check to see how
Speaker 3: gun violence is doing in DC since they got rid
Speaker 3: of the Bullet's nickname?
Speaker 1: Is it all gone now? Maybe it is. I don't know.
Speaker 1: They've gotten rid of the Redskins name, the Cleveland Indians name.
Speaker 1: You know, this fixes the world one nickname at a time.
Speaker 3: So the Montana High School, Big the sweet Grass County
Speaker 3: High School. Their mascot is just tremendous. It's just absolutely.
Speaker 1: Tremendo Let me see if I can send this. I
Speaker 1: don't know if you've seen.
Speaker 4: It, Danny.
Speaker 1: I I posted some.
Speaker 3: Photos the other day, But their mascot, I believe they're
Speaker 3: the Sheepherders.
Speaker 1: They're the Sheepherders, and their mascot.
Speaker 3: Danny is an old guy with a beard and an
Speaker 3: old Montana Western hat smoking a pipe is the mascot.
Speaker 3: And it's like, if you did that in California, seven
Speaker 3: people would be fired and they'd bring in therapist for
Speaker 3: the students to look at. I sent you a copy
Speaker 3: of it on.
Speaker 5: Your Oh nice, yeah, yeah, it looks like an old
Speaker 5: gold miner smoking.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, it's an old guy smoking a pipe.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 3: Just that's that's wrong on so many levels, Danny, that
Speaker 3: that mascot is wrong just about every way you can
Speaker 3: slice a maskcot. So anyway, he was very kind, Coach Mack,
Speaker 3: and he he sent us a gift pack of hats,
Speaker 3: and then he wanted me to give some to Petrols
Speaker 3: some money. But I see Petros maybe once or twice
Speaker 3: a year. Maybe it's very random. Sometimes it'll be a
Speaker 3: Dodger game. Sometimes I'll fill in. Usually once or twice
Speaker 3: a year, I fill in for a guy named Fred
Speaker 3: Rogan or I with Brett. I'll fill in for Rodney
Speaker 3: Pete with Fred.
Speaker 4: We saw Petros at the racetrack.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we saw that's right.
Speaker 3: I caught up. I big a hog. You know, every
Speaker 3: time I see Petros, we flashed back. We known each
Speaker 3: other for a long time. I've known him since he
Speaker 3: played at USC, so we've known each other a long
Speaker 3: time before he got in the media.
Speaker 1: And I love Petrols and it's always great.
Speaker 3: And we're very similar, like we're around the same age,
Speaker 3: me and Petros.
Speaker 1: We kind of look at sports similar.
Speaker 3: We like sports, but you know we're we like the
Speaker 3: different perspective on things.
Speaker 5: Then, yeah, you both love to bachel lebron and you
Speaker 5: both can suck the joy out of Disneyland.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know what you're talking about.
Speaker 3: I have no idea, but so that's my relationship with Petros.
Speaker 3: So I have some hats. I have a few extra
Speaker 3: hats from Coach Mac and I plan on My intention
Speaker 3: is to leave them in the car and then at
Speaker 3: some point I'll run into Petros and hopefully I'll be
Speaker 3: in that car and then I'll say, hey, Petros, here
Speaker 3: you go ta Da and I'll give the spets. But
Speaker 3: we don't broadcast from the same building. People don't know that.
Speaker 3: Who are coach Mac? I just didn't know that. And
Speaker 3: so anyway, thank you for the hats. Appreciate it. It
Speaker 3: is really cool and that will be in my rotation, Danny.
Speaker 3: I love it. It's it's a good looking hat. We
Speaker 3: sent out some photos on the socials. I think we
Speaker 3: posted something time flies here the other day, so you
Speaker 3: can can check those out on the Facebook page and
Speaker 3: also on Instagram and all that. It is now time
Speaker 3: for you know what time it is, Danny. It is
Speaker 3: time for the word of the week, the word of.
Speaker 1: The week, the word of the week. And this is
Speaker 1: by request.
Speaker 3: And I do like that the minions and the Mala
Speaker 3: militia are contacting me.
Speaker 1: Four words of the week.
Speaker 3: And this request coming from Pierre and he says here
Speaker 3: here this is what I wrote, he said, and he
Speaker 3: wants to hear.
Speaker 1: This as the word of the week. And what is
Speaker 1: this announced? What this is? I will announce what this
Speaker 1: is the word of the week.
Speaker 3: Is kerfluffle A fun word? Kerfluffle? Right, fun word kerfluffle.
Speaker 3: I do use this word at least once or twice
Speaker 3: a week in one form or another. Usually in a
Speaker 3: mall of monologue. I will mix in the word kerfluffle.
Speaker 3: So what the hell does the word kerfluffle me? Kerfluffle
Speaker 3: is a state of being disordered or ruffled, hence agitation
Speaker 3: and perturbation.
Speaker 1: That's a big word, the word. Now, my right hand
Speaker 1: was getting a workout out, David. That was one of
Speaker 1: the greatest commercials in the history of commercials.
Speaker 3: Okay, let me tell you something. Those people that sleep
Speaker 3: numbers should still send me checks. Okay for those commercials
Speaker 3: that I did for those sleep number beds back in
Speaker 3: the day.
Speaker 1: I digress.
Speaker 3: So this word, now, we goes way back. If you
Speaker 3: want to go way, way, way, way way back, it
Speaker 3: goes to the fifteen hundreds. But in eighteen thirteen, according
Speaker 3: to those that keep track of such things, the word
Speaker 3: kerfluffle was actually spelled with a C. Now it's spelled
Speaker 3: with a K, and it was first attested to Scottish writers.
Speaker 1: It's a Scottish word.
Speaker 3: And it comes from the verb meaning to disorder, dishevel
Speaker 3: that's said to be from the fifteen eighties, so we're
Speaker 3: going way back to the fifteen eighties. And the origin though,
Speaker 3: is rather obscure. They think it came from another Scottish
Speaker 3: word fuffle, that kerf fluffle. They just added the curve
Speaker 3: onto fluffle and boom, you got a word. You can
Speaker 3: just add that on top and put a little spice
Speaker 3: on there, and you've got the word a fuffle, a
Speaker 3: fluffle or kerf fluffle next it.
Speaker 1: So and that means to throw into disorder.
Speaker 3: That comes out all the way from the fifteen thirties,
Speaker 3: but as normally happens, over time the term has been
Speaker 3: sharpened and broadened and evolved, and it also involved military.
Speaker 3: There's some military usage involved in this. But the word
Speaker 3: is a kerfluffle. It's the word of the week, a
Speaker 3: state of being disordered or ruffled. The modern usage of
Speaker 3: this word dates back to the nineteen hundreds nineteen hundreds
Speaker 3: and often used in Canada. So even though it originated
Speaker 3: in Scotland and it's a Scottish word, it did end
Speaker 3: up coming from the fine folks there in Canada the
Speaker 3: way that we use so that is the word of
Speaker 3: the week, kerfluffle and this is not a fishing podcast, Danny,
Speaker 3: But did you see that story earlier in the week
Speaker 3: that a fisherman reeled in a white sailfish in Guatemala.
Speaker 3: That is amazing, Like this is like the one you
Speaker 3: hear these fishing stories, but now because of social media.
Speaker 3: I wanted to mention this before I forget, because I
Speaker 3: saw this this week.
Speaker 1: It was crazy.
Speaker 3: I'm not a fish I'm not, but I do admire
Speaker 3: oddities of the ocean. There's so much of the ocean
Speaker 3: that we have no idea what's there. And if you
Speaker 3: knew what was there, your head would probably explode thinking
Speaker 3: about it.
Speaker 1: But these these odd.
Speaker 3: Ball fishing stories are pretty wild. And this guy in
Speaker 3: Guatemala happy to catch a white sailfish. The odds of
Speaker 3: this are insane to the member, and he was. The
Speaker 3: guy was on a luxury fishing boat while he did it.
Speaker 3: The billfish unicorn as it is called, one in a million.
Speaker 3: It is an albino sailfish.
Speaker 1: Racist, I claim.
Speaker 3: And I'm not like, I'm not known. I don't know
Speaker 3: everything about fish. Obviously, I'm an amateur when it comes
Speaker 3: to that. But even as an amateur, this is this
Speaker 3: like ridiculous. Now, do you think the other fish goof
Speaker 3: on that fish? Do you think they're like fish bullies
Speaker 3: out there? And well, wait a minute, you don't look
Speaker 3: like us, so like what's going on with you? Or
Speaker 3: you think they don't give a crap and they're like
Speaker 3: like whatever, it is a good looking fish, Like it's
Speaker 3: a it is a good looking fish.
Speaker 1: I'll give you that. So I don't know know how
Speaker 1: that works.
Speaker 3: But there you go, so a fishtail and you like,
Speaker 3: you're a fisherman though, Danny, you've told us that you
Speaker 3: like to go fishing and that's your thing, right.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean I do that fishing derby at Bass
Speaker 5: Lake where they have all those money tags on different fish.
Speaker 5: If you catch a bass that has the ten thousand
Speaker 5: dollars marker on it, then you know you're set for
Speaker 5: the rest of the fishing season. But we've never even
Speaker 5: reeled one end during that derby. We are convinced that
Speaker 5: there are paid actors there on the lake showing you
Speaker 5: the fish that they caught. We've seen a couple of
Speaker 5: boats go by and it's the same guys holding up
Speaker 5: their prize fish that they caught, and I'm like, those
Speaker 5: are paid actors for the city.
Speaker 3: And that does have We've we've talked about stories like
Speaker 3: that over the years. I think there was a big
Speaker 3: scandal in the whole was it Ohio? Yep, you guys
Speaker 3: were like weighing down fish and winning contests and doing
Speaker 3: weird prap to to win contests.
Speaker 1: All right, we'll get out on that. We got another pod. Uh,
Speaker 1: well tomorrow as we hit.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, and I hope we have time for foody
Speaker 5: fun tomorrow. I can't wait to hear your thoughts on
Speaker 5: how Wendy's is testing out their new digital menus for
Speaker 5: surge prices. The devil are you talking about? Oh man,
Speaker 5: you're yeah, you're gonna hate to see this. Ben talk
Speaker 5: about greed.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's that is a no bueno no Wendy's. Oh
Speaker 3: you have one price and that's the price. You don't
Speaker 3: This is what do you think you're uber?
Speaker 1: Come on, what's wrong with you?
Speaker 3: You'd like the you like the airlines, So that means
Speaker 3: you're gonna lower the prices at two in the morning
Speaker 3: when they're there's no one there.
Speaker 5: Not to jump ahead to tomorrow's podcast. But the shitty
Speaker 5: part is it's not like you're going to get a
Speaker 5: discount during the off hours where they don't have a
Speaker 5: lot of traffic, it'll just be regular prices, but it'll
Speaker 5: surge like Lyft and Uber. When it's a busy time
Speaker 5: for the restaurant, the prices will go way up.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm good because I will guarantee you wherever there
Speaker 3: is a Windy's, there is another fast food restaurant which
Speaker 3: is either as good or maybe even better, right next
Speaker 3: door or a block away.
Speaker 1: So we'll get out you, Dan. I assume you've got
Speaker 1: Covino and Rich today, Is that correct? Or Am I
Speaker 1: wrong on that?
Speaker 5: Gonna be a fun Friday before our show has a
Speaker 5: week off, so we're going to make today count all right.
Speaker 3: Very cool, got the VAK coming up, and I was
Speaker 3: off last night, but we obviously here for the podcast
Speaker 3: and I'll have a regional podcasts all weekend long. Have
Speaker 3: a wonderful rest of your Friday, and we will talk
Speaker 3: to you tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Tomorrow.
Speaker 4: Asta pasta got a murder. I gotta go