Speaker 1: Cut booms.
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 soul fashion of fairness. He
Speaker 2: treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the
Speaker 2: rich pill poppers.
Speaker 3: In the penthouse.
Speaker 2: Wow to Clearinghouse of hot takes, break free for something special.
Speaker 2: The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now.
Speaker 1: In the air everywhere The Fifth Hour with Me, Ben
Speaker 1: Maller and Danny g Radio and a Happy Saturday to you.
Speaker 1: We are sliding on in to a brand spanking new
Speaker 1: day every days fresh Audio. We got the Overnight Show
Speaker 1: during the week you yet that five days a week,
Speaker 1: the Original Recipe podcast, which is the Overnight Show repackage
Speaker 1: in the podcast, and then on the weekends you get
Speaker 1: the Fifth Hour podcast. Danny's on with Covino and Rich
Speaker 1: during the weekend. He joins me on the weekends, and
Speaker 1: we formed Voltron here on Saturday, and normally we start
Speaker 1: with some dope holiday and all that. But the Dodger
Speaker 1: game last night with the Detroit Tigers, you shouldn't talk
Speaker 1: about that. It's just one regular season game. It's game
Speaker 1: number four. Nobody cares about game number five. Listen, that's fine.
Speaker 1: You know the Dodgers at this point, as we as
Speaker 1: we sit here early on Saturday morning, the Dodgers are
Speaker 1: undefeated and they could be the first Dan I don't
Speaker 1: think this is hyperbole, the first one hundred and sixty
Speaker 1: two game winner. This could be it. This could be
Speaker 1: an undefeated team during the regular season. But what a game.
Speaker 1: The Detroit Tigers, who are supposed to be a playoff
Speaker 1: team this season. They were a playoff team last year.
Speaker 1: The Tigers and the Dodgers were up against it a
Speaker 1: couple of times and then they end up winning it
Speaker 1: in extra innings. Will Smith tied it and then Mookie Betts.
Speaker 1: I thought Mookie had a parasite Danny? Is that what happened?
Speaker 3: I was told that he was on death's doorstep?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Can I get if I can hit home runs,
Speaker 1: I'll take a pair of site. You lose weight and
Speaker 1: hit home runs? What's up with that? Maybe he just
Speaker 1: wanted to get out of Japan early. He had something
Speaker 1: he had to do. But man, a couple of home
Speaker 1: runs last night. So the Dodgers are Is it over?
Speaker 2: Now?
Speaker 1: What's the magic number? Do we know what the magic
Speaker 1: number is for the Dodgers. We determined. Have we done
Speaker 1: the math on that?
Speaker 3: Do you know the stat the last time the Dodgers
Speaker 3: started a season four?
Speaker 1: And oh, I don't I remember they had I think
Speaker 1: like Joe Tory was man. They had a really good
Speaker 1: start with toy But well, I don't I didn't see
Speaker 1: the stat.
Speaker 3: What was the stat? It was actually their nineteen eighty
Speaker 3: one World Series title year.
Speaker 1: Oh is it even? Well that was the sort of
Speaker 1: Dodgers back in the day, Yes, back to the old school.
Speaker 1: All right, well listen, they're they're doing great, but we
Speaker 1: still have let's see we have we're not even April yet. Wow,
Speaker 1: wonderful start. And it was weird though. I saw on
Speaker 1: my phone got a message that Max Munsey hit a
Speaker 1: home run. But it was the guy for the A's.
Speaker 1: It wasn't the Dodgers.
Speaker 3: Max Munsei. Our Max Munsey in southern California is in
Speaker 3: a slump.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, well see, not everyone's gonna be playing well.
Speaker 1: You got to pace it where like if Mookie's playing
Speaker 1: well and Freddie Freeman and then they go into a
Speaker 1: slump and then Munsey starts hitting. As long as you
Speaker 1: have a couple guys that are hitting, you're gonna have
Speaker 1: a couple guys in a slump. And that's the hot baseball.
Speaker 1: Speaking of baseball, I did love you know, I just
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's the podcast, but I saw
Speaker 1: this story. The Tampa Bay Rays took the field on
Speaker 1: Friday for their season opening game. They played the Rockies,
Speaker 1: and you know who cares whatever it was at their
Speaker 1: spring training the Yankee Spring Training Stadium and the broadcast
Speaker 1: of Tampa Bay they the crowd MIC picked up the
Speaker 1: fans serenading in the ballpark. Sell the team, which was
Speaker 1: just outstanding. Just the ten out of ten out of ten.
Speaker 1: It's your first broadcast, sell the team. Just uh, just wonderful.
Speaker 3: Anyway, last night I simultaneously had the Dodgers game on
Speaker 3: and the Houston game as they were able to hang
Speaker 3: on versus per Due.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I did. I was focused more on the Dodger game.
Speaker 1: We actually went to uh Top Golf, which you know
Speaker 1: you've you've been there. It's it's a fun fun thing
Speaker 1: to fut's around. And there was mostly Dodgers. There weren't
Speaker 1: too many people into the college basketball where I was,
Speaker 1: and I was checking my phone.
Speaker 3: Are you more skilled at top golf or acts throwing?
Speaker 1: Well, I'm great at both, as you know. And I
Speaker 1: don't believe some edited video. You know, some edited video clip.
Speaker 1: You know that some dope tried to make me look bad.
Speaker 1: It's probably AI was used in that and in the
Speaker 1: minute so to meet and greet. But no, the top
Speaker 1: golf thing. The only problem with top golf and I
Speaker 1: talked about we went a few weeks back, or I
Speaker 1: don't know, it's maybe been a couple of months. The
Speaker 1: problem with top golf is it really depends on where
Speaker 1: the bay is. It's a massive building, it's three or
Speaker 1: four stories or whatever, so it depends what part of
Speaker 1: the thing you're in the sight lines, and then you're
Speaker 1: almost better off hitting it shorter and adding a lot
Speaker 1: of points because if you hit it far, you got
Speaker 1: to be more accurate. So there's a lot goes into it.
Speaker 1: This is not that easy. But I won that. We
Speaker 1: played a couple of rounds and I won both. But
Speaker 1: I was like, I was terrible for most of it,
Speaker 1: but I just hit a couple of good shots and
Speaker 1: I was able to pull it out. But normally in
Speaker 1: the past that has not not been the case as
Speaker 1: far as the Sweet sixteen though, the number one, number
Speaker 1: one seeds both winning last night. Right, so we have
Speaker 1: Auburn one, Houston one. So all the higher seeds won
Speaker 1: last night and we have the Elite eight. You're not
Speaker 1: a gambler, right then? You know? You know bet on
Speaker 1: these things, right, you know?
Speaker 3: No, I mean I pay attention to it for the
Speaker 3: sake of talking about it on the radio, but yeah,
Speaker 3: I don't actually put any of my real money on it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well you've got all that radio money, you know what.
Speaker 1: You know, you're so loaded.
Speaker 3: Hey, come on, man, I'm gonna have to put go
Speaker 3: through school. I'm gonna put him through cal State Northrage.
Speaker 1: There you go, El Matador, all matter. So what do
Speaker 1: we have we have today? What is the card today?
Speaker 1: We've got trying to think the Elite eight? So we
Speaker 1: have what do we got? Texas Tech and the Duchies?
Speaker 1: What's that?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Do? And we you know we got the Duchies playing, Yeah.
Speaker 1: The Sunday Games, the games tomorrow. Yet Auburn is five
Speaker 1: and a half over Michigan State and Houston is four
Speaker 1: and a half over Tennessee. I don't I don't see
Speaker 1: the duke line. I do see a Florida Florida and
Speaker 1: Texas Tech. Florida is a six and a half point
Speaker 1: favorite in that game. I did want a couple of
Speaker 1: things I want to bring up later on. We'll have
Speaker 1: the idiom of the week. We got these Sports Talk Airbnb,
Speaker 1: Bottomless fro Yo and the travel quagmire. The travel quagmire
Speaker 1: always a fun always a fun thing. But we'll begin
Speaker 1: with this. I should have mentioned this yesterday. Bad job
Speaker 1: by me. I got carried away with baseball props on
Speaker 1: the Friday podcast, so I did not bring this up.
Speaker 1: But the big story that we men everyone talking about this.
Speaker 1: It was the talk of the town. People were so excited.
Speaker 1: The Fox Sports Radio Alumni Association, one of the newest
Speaker 1: members of the Fox Sports Radio Alumni Association, made the
Speaker 1: rare and appropriate visit back to the Holy Land, and
Speaker 1: we welcome back our Fred, Eddie the Great Eddie Garcia
Speaker 1: stop by and.
Speaker 3: I saw the photos you posted.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, we took some photos and stuff and Sirius
Speaker 1: Sean was with him. And so it was the Sports
Speaker 1: Talk Airbnb in beautiful Sherman Oaks, and it was wonderful
Speaker 1: to see Eddie and a number of people reached out
Speaker 1: to me, fans of the show, and they were like,
Speaker 1: what's going on? How did this happen? What led to this?
Speaker 1: Did you reach out to Eddie? Did Eddie reach out
Speaker 1: to you? What happened? And so I'll let you in
Speaker 1: on behind the scenes a little bit. Uh. First, I
Speaker 1: want to I want to thank the management of Fox
Speaker 1: Sports Radio because they could have been like total dicks
Speaker 1: and been like, you know, you can't let Eddie back in.
Speaker 1: What are you doing? You know? None of that.
Speaker 3: They were, Yeah, you might bulkar race all of the
Speaker 3: desktop computers.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, something unforeseen might happen. Yeah, if he can
Speaker 1: get into those those computers, the top computers from like
Speaker 1: nineteen ninety four and really really messing. But but but no,
Speaker 1: they were they were cool and.
Speaker 3: Tape.
Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly exactly, So none of those concerns happened. But
Speaker 1: but no, the reason Eddie was there is mainly because
Speaker 1: of Sirias Sean. So Siaus Sean is all grown up.
Speaker 1: He lives in Phoenix. But Sean has been a super
Speaker 1: fan of the show going back. It's been man, it's
Speaker 1: been like ten years or so.
Speaker 3: And thanks to you, we're all super fans. Of his
Speaker 3: delivery service. Oh, that's right, Sean, to see where he's
Speaker 3: delivering all his food.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I had to explain to Sean. He said, what
Speaker 1: do you call me that name? Mister non secret or whatever.
Speaker 1: I had to explain to him, but made me nauseous.
Speaker 1: But no, But so Sean started listening to He was
Speaker 1: in high school, and you know, a tough high school
Speaker 1: sucks for everybody's for some people, it sucks more than
Speaker 1: other people. And Sean got picked on a lot in
Speaker 1: high school and people were total assholes to him. And
Speaker 1: so he loved our show. And one of his teachers
Speaker 1: actually hooked us up with Sean to come visit the studio,
Speaker 1: and we loved hanging out with him, and we brought
Speaker 1: him into our little world. And Sean moved on from
Speaker 1: that and he's all. He left La. He lives in
Speaker 1: Phoenix and he delivers, as Danny referenced, he delivers food,
Speaker 1: drives car service Phoenix.
Speaker 3: Hey, that was cool. I'll never forget when he came
Speaker 3: to the studio. You want to talk about somebody in
Speaker 3: the presence of what they considered Disneyland, he did not
Speaker 3: want to leave. Yeah, that's the most blown away I've
Speaker 3: seen any visitor.
Speaker 1: And Danny it made us feel important. You know, sometimes
Speaker 1: you're there and.
Speaker 3: You're in the middle.
Speaker 1: You know, you're in the what's the line, you're in
Speaker 1: the forest, you can't see the trees, you know you're
Speaker 1: you're in there, and you just to see him mesmerized
Speaker 1: and hypnotized by the studio and just like everything in
Speaker 1: the building. And he was so excited, he was dancing,
Speaker 1: and it was like it was really cool. It's a
Speaker 1: magical place for him. And so that was neat. That
Speaker 1: was neat. And so we've kept in contact with Sean,
Speaker 1: and as I said, Sean lives in Phoenix now, and
Speaker 1: so he comes back to southern California a couple of
Speaker 1: times a year, and since we're buddies since he was
Speaker 1: in high school, we always try to welcome him back
Speaker 1: in because it means so much to him to come
Speaker 1: see the show and to be part of the show
Speaker 1: and all that, and so we make sure to welcome
Speaker 1: him in. And then now that Eddie's unfortunately not with us,
Speaker 1: and you know, he's still alive, but just not.
Speaker 3: On the show.
Speaker 1: He's Sean's really good friends with Eddie. Maybe a little
Speaker 1: too close to Eddie. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: But anyway, so edd Doc Jim, I heard, no, no,
Speaker 3: the paperwork go through.
Speaker 1: Sean follows Eddie around like a puppy dog. It's amazing.
Speaker 1: But but anyway, so Sean was pestering Eddie, how about
Speaker 1: shut up to get my schedule because after Doc Mike
Speaker 1: my neurosis from Doc Mike, where Doc I give him
Speaker 1: his number. I gave him my number when he went
Speaker 1: to jail, and Doc still calls me regularly. Even though
Speaker 1: I said, only call me one time when you get
Speaker 1: out of jail, he still calls me. So I don't
Speaker 1: give out my number. I'm very very rare. A couple
Speaker 1: of times I've done it rare and appropriate, but I
Speaker 1: generally don't do it. So Sean doesn't serious. Sean does
Speaker 1: not have my number. So Eddie reached out to me
Speaker 1: on behalf of serious Shawn. He said, hey, Sean's going
Speaker 1: to be you know, in town. He wants to come
Speaker 1: by and see it. And I said that's great, And
Speaker 1: he said, why why don't you Why don't you come
Speaker 1: with him, we'll hang out, you know, And Eddie's like, well,
Speaker 1: you know sure, And Eddie goes to bed early. Now
Speaker 1: he doesn't work the late hours. He does not have
Speaker 1: the the odds schedule that we overnight people have. And
Speaker 1: but Eddie was cool with it. He wanted to come on,
Speaker 1: and I said, yeah, come on, you can promote whatever
Speaker 1: you want to promote. He's got a new podcast that
Speaker 1: he's starting, a hockey podcast next month that he wanted
Speaker 1: to promote. And so yeah, I mean, I'm sure there's
Speaker 1: plenty of you know, plenty of ways you can can
Speaker 1: go about this.
Speaker 3: You can listen to any of Canadians listening.
Speaker 1: Yes, exactly, exactly. So so that's kind of the origin.
Speaker 1: It's because of serious Sean and and Eddie was nice
Speaker 1: enough to come in there and hang out and was
Speaker 1: it was really nice to see him. And you know,
Speaker 1: he's doing as good as can be expected under the
Speaker 1: conditions and all that he's he's loving all the hockey podcasts.
Speaker 1: He's doing three, well, starting next month, he'll be doing
Speaker 1: three hockey podcasts. And so you can find that where
Speaker 1: you find this podcast. And so thanks to Siria Sean
Speaker 1: and then I had to explain to Sean. Sean had
Speaker 1: no idea. I said, he was annoyed every time he
Speaker 1: would post about Hey, I made ten dollars tip. You know,
Speaker 1: I took this package to and Sean would be annoyed
Speaker 1: because I'd say, you're mister non secutor guy or man
Speaker 1: or whatever, and I don't know what that means, you know.
Speaker 1: And so I then had to explain to him that
Speaker 1: the non sequitors that we're talking about one thing and
Speaker 1: you bring up something that is not related at all,
Speaker 1: a non sequitur. And I explained it to him, Danny,
Speaker 1: and I still am ninety eight percent sure he had
Speaker 1: no idea what I was saying. But I did explain
Speaker 1: it to him. I did explain it to him. It
Speaker 1: just kind of like went in one ear and out
Speaker 1: the other. The other thing about Siria Sean is this guy.
Speaker 1: He loves radio, and he loves the train. He loves Amtrak.
Speaker 1: He takes the train from Phoenix to la He's taking
Speaker 1: the train all the way to the East coast, He's
Speaker 1: taking it up to the northwest, Pacific Northwest. So he
Speaker 1: loves radio and Amtrak. He should have been born much earlier, right.
Speaker 1: Imagine if Sean had been around when radio ruled the roost,
Speaker 1: like in the nineteen thirties or something like that, before
Speaker 1: before television he could have taken trains and listened to
Speaker 1: the radio and it would have been amazing. That would
Speaker 1: have been his life and it would.
Speaker 3: Have been a huge Lone Ranger fan too.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, see Tonto and all that. Anyway, but it
Speaker 1: was fun and then Sean the night ended, Eddie went
Speaker 1: his way, and we'll have Eddie on again and all that,
Speaker 1: and it was nice. It was not a bottomless fro
Speaker 1: yo though. It was not that Danny, definitely not that.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Well I didn't get a bottomless fro yo either.
Speaker 3: What I did get was a big dent to my
Speaker 3: debit card. I'm gonna blame this one on the wife.
Speaker 3: As I usually get home around seven pm after doing
Speaker 3: post production for Covino and Rich and then sitting in
Speaker 3: beautiful bumper to bumper traffic in Los Angeles, I get
Speaker 3: a text message usually and it'll say something like I'm
Speaker 3: really craving frozen yogurt. Not a big deal. It's like
Speaker 3: two exits off my path, so I have to continue
Speaker 3: to go north to get to the yogurt land here
Speaker 3: in our area. Now, Benny, we've talked about it, you know,
Speaker 3: so much throughout the past few years, especially on the
Speaker 3: podcast inflation and how much food is right now groceries.
Speaker 3: Price at groceries sucks. Should you go sit down at
Speaker 3: Chili's or should you go through a drive through? Or
Speaker 3: should you get two bags of groceries for one hundred
Speaker 3: and fifteen dollars? You know, for two little bags.
Speaker 1: I was at the story the other day I bought
Speaker 1: I bought a bag of like free do's and it
Speaker 1: was like six dollars and forty cents or I mean
Speaker 1: for one little half a bag of chips. It was crazy.
Speaker 3: Oh, it's ridiculous right now. One of the stops I
Speaker 3: made breakfast stuff we needed to like sour dough and
Speaker 3: the thing of peanut butter, and it was like four
Speaker 3: or five random items we needed self checkout and the
Speaker 3: total said like thirty two dollars. And I'm like, I
Speaker 3: fucking have four or five things right here. Price is
Speaker 3: killing us all over the country right now, Little taste,
Speaker 3: there aren't any sweets inside the house, so you know,
Speaker 3: we'll chop up bananas, strawberry, We'll put some granola on
Speaker 3: the froyo at home to save money. All I do
Speaker 3: is I get one big cup and I do the swirl.
Speaker 3: I get the froyo in the cup. They put it
Speaker 3: on the scale, and it's not the cheapest treat, but
Speaker 3: it's usually not what it was a couple of evenings ago. Okay,
Speaker 3: this is just a cup of froyo that I could
Speaker 3: split in half. How much was that froyo? Don't pull
Speaker 3: an eddie.
Speaker 1: I'm not going to pull an eddie. My lips have
Speaker 1: been on it all right, five fifty Yeah.
Speaker 3: Maybe in the year two thousand and eight it was
Speaker 3: eighteen dollars and fifty eight cents.
Speaker 1: Wait, so you eat it was nine over nine dollars each. Wow,
Speaker 1: you could still buy couldn't you buy a gallon of
Speaker 1: ice cream or something like that?
Speaker 3: Froyo is healthier than ice cream. Yeah, don't eat ice cream. Yeah.
Speaker 3: The only that's the only dessert we get once in
Speaker 3: a while is frozen yok We're gonna have to think
Speaker 3: about it twice now, because as I was driving home,
Speaker 3: I was thinking to myself, did I really almost pay
Speaker 3: nineteen dollars? Right now? Frozen yogurt?
Speaker 1: You get some little gold toppings or something like that,
Speaker 1: or diamond toppings.
Speaker 3: It was just frozen yogurt, So.
Speaker 1: You didn't get any topics.
Speaker 3: I mean in any that only we'd say in a nutshell,
Speaker 3: We'll say in a frozen yogurt cup. That explains the
Speaker 3: situation right now, with all these places gouging us.
Speaker 1: You're better off just buying your own frozen yogurt machine
Speaker 1: for the house and renty and then you can have
Speaker 1: it whenever you want and you'll you'll save money. That
Speaker 1: is that is insane? Is that just an LA thing?
Speaker 1: That Maybe that's a valley pricing thing. You know, you're
Speaker 1: you're not far from the Kardashians. Maybe it's because of them.
Speaker 2: A bunch of hookers and cocaine.
Speaker 1: That's wild.
Speaker 3: I took a note of it, and I was like, man,
Speaker 3: I gotta do the guessing game with Ben on this one.
Speaker 3: He's not gonna come close. Took a snapshot of the
Speaker 3: receipt and I'm gonna save that now for my accountant.
Speaker 3: At the end of the year, I'm gonna write this
Speaker 3: yogurt off.
Speaker 1: That's good And because of this podcast, it's a business
Speaker 1: related expense. And that's the reason I'll be starting a
Speaker 1: travel vlog, just so I can write off all of
Speaker 1: my travel expenses. We're going to do a YouTube channel
Speaker 1: of just me traveling. What whenever I go anywhere, and
Speaker 1: then it's all it's all gonna be a tax right off,
Speaker 1: So the travel quagmire. It is that time of the year.
Speaker 1: We're almost into April. This is the final Saturday show
Speaker 1: of the Fifth Hour in the month of March, and
Speaker 1: the last Saturday because there are no worse Saturdays in
Speaker 1: the month of March. And so nonetheless, look at looking
Speaker 1: around at the calendar, trying to map out when the
Speaker 1: weather gets good and where we're gonna end up and
Speaker 1: mallard meet and greets and travel and seeing family and
Speaker 1: whatnot and friends, and so I'm trying to logistically plan
Speaker 1: out how far in between events I would like to
Speaker 1: have these things, because you want to map everything. It's
Speaker 1: all about planning, right. I love it when a plan
Speaker 1: comes together. So we have an event scheduled, although not booked.
Speaker 1: I'm not going to give the exact details, but it's
Speaker 1: going to be in late May early June in Vancouver,
Speaker 1: so we will be in Vancouver. Barring some kind of
Speaker 1: unforeseen change in circumstance, we will be in Vancouver in
Speaker 1: late May early June. That like that last weekend where
Speaker 1: it crosses over. So that's the plan. That's the plan.
Speaker 1: And then after that, I want to get to Ohio.
Speaker 1: I have been promising this and we've done very well.
Speaker 1: The podcast number two state behind California for downloads has
Speaker 1: been recently Ohio with a lot of listeners, and so
Speaker 1: I wanted to go. And the main reason I'm going
Speaker 1: to go is because, Yeah, I'm going to see Dick.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna gonna hang out with Dick in Ohio. And
Speaker 1: he's been much like Sirias Sean, will as much as
Speaker 1: you can handle, but no, no, so so Sirias Sean,
Speaker 1: as you referenced Danny, just that that sparkle in his
Speaker 1: eye when he walked into the radio station, you know,
Speaker 1: just a magical just a magical place, and how special
Speaker 1: that was. And Dick and Dayton, who's much older than
Speaker 1: Sirious Shawn Sean's just early on in his life. But
Speaker 1: Dick and Dayton, he looks at radio the same way.
Speaker 1: It just ignites something in him, you know, it just
Speaker 1: makes him happy, just makes him happy. And I I'd
Speaker 1: love to meet him. He's called me for years. I've
Speaker 1: talked to this guy probably for twenty years now while
Speaker 1: he's called the show. And I'll never forget some of
Speaker 1: those early calls when I was doing the weekend show
Speaker 1: and I worked every holiday, and he called me up
Speaker 1: on Thanksgiving and he is so happy as could be.
Speaker 1: You know, no family, no friends, just me and he'd
Speaker 1: call us up and I had Thanksgiving dinner and how
Speaker 1: much you spend deck five dollars? Five dollars for Thanksgiving dinner?
Speaker 1: He was so excited about it. So no, but I
Speaker 1: want to meet him. I want to meet Justin in Cincinnati,
Speaker 1: just Josh ohioil like all the legends that are in
Speaker 1: the state of Ohio. Some of you guys I've met.
Speaker 1: We had a few dudes came out to Vegas and
Speaker 1: various other meet and greets that we've had. So I'm
Speaker 1: planning on getting to oh Hi, and I'm thinking it's
Speaker 1: going to be sometime in June. I have a date
Speaker 1: in my head. I'm not going to give it out
Speaker 1: right now, so I'm trying to figure out the logistics.
Speaker 1: We need a venue, and we need a date and
Speaker 1: a venue. So there's a gentleman who is a big
Speaker 1: fan of the Fifth Hour podcast. In fact, he sends
Speaker 1: us stories right about the stories from the bar and
Speaker 1: things that happened and whatnot, and we enjoy those stories.
Speaker 1: We think those are those are good stories, and they're
Speaker 1: fun for the podcast and all that. And so he
Speaker 1: is offered. He runs a restaurant in Columbus, and he's like, hey,
Speaker 1: we're let's make this happen. You know, we got an
Speaker 1: establishment here. His name Zach, and he's been very kind
Speaker 1: and very popular bar in Columbus. He's the big shot,
Speaker 1: he's the big cheese over there, and it's a hockey bar.
Speaker 1: And he's like, hey, well, why don't you, you know, come down,
Speaker 1: we'll hang out, we'll have a good time and all
Speaker 1: that stuff. So I want to do it, but I'm
Speaker 1: looking to try to get from and I talked about
Speaker 1: this in the previous episode of this podcast. Logistically, to
Speaker 1: get from LA to Columbus, there are no direct flights,
Speaker 1: which is I'm not a bougie bitch. I can stop somewhere, right, Danny.
Speaker 1: I'm able to stop somewhere. In fact, I actually like
Speaker 1: stopping because it breaks up the flight. What I don't
Speaker 1: like is stopping and then having enough time to eat
Speaker 1: two meals at an airport because the next flight is
Speaker 1: six seven hours later.
Speaker 3: I don't need you want the you want the layover
Speaker 3: to be about an hour hour and a half max.
Speaker 1: Exactly, time to get out of the plane, take a whiz,
Speaker 1: maybe get something to eat if you know, I don't eat,
Speaker 1: but the wife or whatever eats, and then move on
Speaker 1: to the next plane. The logistics are terrible because there's
Speaker 1: no direct flights to Columbus, and I could fly into Columbus,
Speaker 1: or I could fly into Cincinnati, which is a little easier,
Speaker 1: but then you got to drive from Cincinnati to Columbus.
Speaker 1: Or I could fly into Cleveland and then go down
Speaker 1: to Columbus. But either way it's a lot of driving.
Speaker 1: It's a lot of driving.
Speaker 3: Now, are the two iHeart private jets not available for
Speaker 3: these dates?
Speaker 1: Well, it's funny you bring that up, and I did
Speaker 1: try to get that, but apparently your buddy Clay has
Speaker 1: it one of them, and then I believe Seacrest has
Speaker 1: the other one, and then and I'm not even third,
Speaker 1: by the way, I think Steve Harvey has He's next
Speaker 1: line if one of those opened up. Unfortunately. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it's sad. So anyway, that's where I met, and
Speaker 1: I've I did ask for some help from someone in Ohio.
Speaker 1: If there was another location, maybe in Cincinnati or Cleveland.
Speaker 1: At this point, I did get an email from another
Speaker 1: big fan of the show who say, Hey, I you
Speaker 1: know I live. I live in Toledo. Why don't you
Speaker 1: just fly into Detroit. You can drive down to Toledo
Speaker 1: and then it's close enough to everywhere you need to be.
Speaker 1: So I looked into that, and so I'm still I'm
Speaker 1: still debating what's gonna happen, and I don't have anything
Speaker 1: official on that. I'm just basically venting, Danny. That's really
Speaker 1: what I'm doing here. I'm just basically venting.
Speaker 3: You know. By the way, Russia Limbaugh's ashes are fourth in.
Speaker 1: Line, as they should be, Megadiddo's as they with one
Speaker 1: ash tied behind its back. Yes, but but no. Brian
Speaker 1: was the very nice gentleman who I kicked his ass
Speaker 1: at scrabble. I believe he's given up at scrabble. I've
Speaker 1: beaten him so bad. And he was very kind, and
Speaker 1: he said he knows some people with the mud Hens,
Speaker 1: and you know, maybe there and be something there and
Speaker 1: and I could even go to like a mud Hens game,
Speaker 1: which will be kind of cool. I actually have a
Speaker 1: Mudheads hat that's in my my rotation. And it's an
Speaker 1: old hat. It's the it's the classic mud actually a
Speaker 1: listener from Ohios and it's a classic mud Hens hat
Speaker 1: they used to wear on this show called mash back
Speaker 1: in the Stone Age and all that. So that's the
Speaker 1: travel quagmire. So basically it's just me complaining and I
Speaker 1: haven't figured it out. I'll let you know when we
Speaker 1: come up with a with a date and all that.
Speaker 1: The idiom of the week. Are you ready for the
Speaker 1: idiom of the.
Speaker 3: Week of the week? All right?
Speaker 1: This one requested by Steve O. That's not Steve. It
Speaker 1: says Steve O. STEVEO is in the Great State of Arizona.
Speaker 1: I assume he's in Phoenix because or the Phoenix area,
Speaker 1: because that's where most people in Arizona live. But he
Speaker 1: did not say Steve BO. He just said Steve OO
Speaker 1: from Arizona. So I'll just assume Phoenix. And if I'm wrong,
Speaker 1: I'm wrong, who cares? So he says, use this from
Speaker 1: time to time on the show in a pickle And
Speaker 1: where did that come from? I'd like you to tell
Speaker 1: me the story, says Steve O. Big fan of the
Speaker 1: Overnight show and occasional I like, how about this daddy
Speaker 1: occasional Fifth Hour listener. I hope he's listening, Steve, I
Speaker 1: hope you're listening anyway. In a pickle, which I think
Speaker 1: is pretty obvious that you're in an awkward, tough situation. Now,
Speaker 1: I think I've used this STEVEO in the past, but
Speaker 1: maybe not. I feel like I've used this on this
Speaker 1: podcast in the past, but possibly not. And this is
Speaker 1: also a tribute to alf the alien opiner who loves pickles.
Speaker 1: It's one of the weak spots. He's really good in
Speaker 1: every other area other than his love of pickles. So
Speaker 1: the in a pickle phrase in lexicon really started with
Speaker 1: William Shakespeare and his play The Tempest, where the pickle
Speaker 1: meant being drunk and being drunk, and it's obviously evaulved
Speaker 1: over the years has become in a difficult situation. But
Speaker 1: in The Tempest, King Alonzo asked his gesture, how comest
Speaker 1: thou in this pickle? Meaning how did you get so drunk? Okay,
Speaker 1: the early meaning of pickle seventeenth century meaning pickled heavily intoxicated.
Speaker 1: And then over the years it became that you're in
Speaker 1: a troublesome situation and you're being pickled, which is in
Speaker 1: a difficult state. And in my modern times it means
Speaker 1: to be in a difficulty awkward situation like a pickle
Speaker 1: stuck in the jar, and that fermentation and all that.
Speaker 1: So the idiom of the week in a pickle. You
Speaker 1: can in many ways think William Shakespeare and you want
Speaker 1: to fall down a rabbit hole, and you got a
Speaker 1: lot of time on your hands, just start searching phrases
Speaker 1: from William Shakespeare that are still used today. It is
Speaker 1: insane the amount of things that we say day to
Speaker 1: day that either were popularized popularized by Shakespeare or or
Speaker 1: he came up with on his own, next level, next level.
Speaker 1: All right, we'll get out on that. Join the college
Speaker 1: basketball today. I got to get some stuff moving around
Speaker 1: here today, so I'll be be busy, busy, busy, Danny,
Speaker 1: what are you going on here?
Speaker 3: Gonna watch Texas Tech at Florida and then Alabama at Duke.
Speaker 1: All right, watch some college basketball today. We'll be back
Speaker 1: on Sunday with a mail bag. It's all about the mailbag.
Speaker 1: Have a wonderful rest of your Saturday.
Speaker 3: Later, skater, my folation