Speaker 1: Kubbooms.
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 Cutter the same as the
Speaker 2: rich pill poppers in the penthouse.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 2: The Clearinghouse of Hot takes break free for something special.
Speaker 2: The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now.
Speaker 3: In the air eyway, The Fifth Hour with me, Ben
Speaker 3: Mallor and Danny g Radio and a Happy Sunday to you.
Speaker 4: It is the twenty ninth day of December. We were
Speaker 4: hanging out the last Sunday edition of the podcast for
Speaker 4: the year twenty twenty four. I did want to mention
Speaker 4: I know we mentioned this the other day on the
Speaker 4: Christmas Eve. I guess it was Christmas Day spectacular that
Speaker 4: we had on the air that we wanted to spend
Speaker 4: a little bit of time here a special tip of
Speaker 4: the cap before we get to the mailbag, some of
Speaker 4: the big show contributors that we lost in the year
Speaker 4: twenty twenty four. So a special goodbye to our friends
Speaker 4: that were part of the overnight show during the week
Speaker 4: this year and if I'm forgetting anyone, please let me know.
Speaker 4: I know that I can't get everyone. I think I
Speaker 4: have all the big names here.
Speaker 5: This is in Memoriam.
Speaker 1: In Memoriam, much like they do with the award shows
Speaker 1: in Hollywood.
Speaker 4: Back in February, we lost the great Rachel and Montabello.
Speaker 4: Rachel and Montabello left us a longtime show contributor, A
Speaker 4: sweet woman.
Speaker 1: She was.
Speaker 5: I was obsessed with you. Let's be honest.
Speaker 1: He loved me and I loved her. It was mutual.
Speaker 4: She's older than me, not really in our demo, Danny right,
Speaker 4: we don't normally go older women crowd.
Speaker 1: But we loved Rachel. She really was one of our us.
Speaker 1: She loved the show.
Speaker 4: She was an entertainer, she loved to sing, and she
Speaker 4: sent us cookies and whatnot and different. He was guilf
Speaker 4: She was wonderful and just just a sweet, sweet heart
Speaker 4: of a woman. And we miss her and we hope
Speaker 4: that you know. There was a smooth transition to the
Speaker 4: other side. Calligan, Tim and Michigan another just real sad story.
Speaker 4: Calligan Tim from La relocated to Michigan, thus the name
Speaker 4: Callagan Cali and the beginning of California and then the
Speaker 4: gut Gan the end of Michigan, and Tim was a
Speaker 4: huge fan. He loved that we were doing the show
Speaker 4: from LA because he had many of his great stories
Speaker 4: in life were involving the teams in LA and going
Speaker 4: to games, and it was really a connection for him
Speaker 4: back to his roots in southern California. And a guy
Speaker 4: that was around our age, Danny, another one of these
Speaker 4: guys around our age, just got a really really shit
Speaker 4: bag set of medical cards, had cancer and just kept
Speaker 4: eating him away. And Tim had been a pen pal
Speaker 4: and was keeping us updated and did everything he could,
Speaker 4: and he did everything that fing guy could to try
Speaker 4: to stick stick it out with the family.
Speaker 1: And then he had young young.
Speaker 4: Kids and just just a real sad one for caliging.
Speaker 5: Tim.
Speaker 1: Rest in peace to him.
Speaker 4: And the last part of the year at the end
Speaker 4: of the year was we were just getting knocked down
Speaker 4: right and left Danny Masshole Mickey, who I had met
Speaker 4: at the Malur Meet and greet in Boston. He drove
Speaker 4: all the way out from from Worcester and he came
Speaker 4: in to hang out with me for like thirty minutes.
Speaker 1: On a rainy night, and we were we.
Speaker 4: Were catching up and he was talking about what a
Speaker 4: big fan of the show was and he was the
Speaker 4: guy that wanted us to next time, assuming they pick
Speaker 4: up the TV show next year, we'll be back in Boston.
Speaker 1: And wanted to do a Mallard meet and greet at.
Speaker 4: A WUSS game and he was going to make that happen.
Speaker 4: He was talking to some people and whatnot, and but
Speaker 4: just a huge fan. I mean, he supported the TV
Speaker 4: show the whole thing. And he almost died, got out
Speaker 4: of a medical situation, had some surgery done, and then
Speaker 4: ends up dying a couple of months later in an
Speaker 4: automobile accident, which you know, who knows if that was
Speaker 4: related to the hard or not. But he was younger
Speaker 4: than me and you, Danny, and just just a terrible
Speaker 4: thing left behind a young family.
Speaker 1: Mass Ole Mickey, so rest in peace.
Speaker 4: Also Skeeter in Montana, beloved Skeeter in Montana, the guy
Speaker 4: behind the Mallar Militia oath. Skeeter had had been ill
Speaker 4: yet cancer and he again got some good medical news.
Speaker 4: Another one of these guys called, I got good news here.
Speaker 4: Things are looking better. My scans are good, and he
Speaker 4: was very positive, and then unfortunately things went sideways on Skeeter.
Speaker 4: He was older. Doesn't make it easier, but he was
Speaker 4: older and he ends up dying rather quickly. So rest
Speaker 4: in peace, Skeeter. And then the one that just tappened
Speaker 4: near the end of the year, right after Skeeter, like
Speaker 4: a week later, our friend, our friend Mark though, the.
Speaker 1: The the Raider Warrior fan and all.
Speaker 4: I mean, we we have been losing people, damn.
Speaker 5: I mean this year when we lost Matt the.
Speaker 1: Mat Yes Matt, that said Mark.
Speaker 6: The Raiders Warriors fan. Yeah, that really hit close to
Speaker 6: home because I had to just talk to him on Twitter.
Speaker 4: Not that long ago, Yeah, no, it was. It was
Speaker 4: Brew and Matt, Matt's and I of corsponded. Mark corresponded
Speaker 4: with with Matt's wife a little bit, and we talked
Speaker 4: about him on the last like it was last Friday's
Speaker 4: podcast or two Fridays ago.
Speaker 1: The great mass of the Radies, Yeah, I mean he was.
Speaker 4: It was a big part of the show and loved
Speaker 4: loved the program and supported it.
Speaker 1: For years and years and years. Never got a chance
Speaker 1: to meet him, Matt, but he was.
Speaker 5: A staple on our Twitter.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, every monologue he would have something to say
Speaker 4: and critique the show and whatever.
Speaker 1: So those are some of the.
Speaker 4: Big names that we lost this year. If I forgot anyone,
Speaker 4: I apologize, reach.
Speaker 1: Out, let me know, and I.
Speaker 4: Will correct that on a future episode of the show.
Speaker 4: With that being said that we do have new mail
Speaker 4: to get to and these are actual letters by actual
Speaker 4: listeners to the show. Are you excited about this? I'm excited.
Speaker 1: Let's get to it.
Speaker 6: Yes, please take vitamins, please, and take care of your health.
Speaker 6: It's time for the mail bag.
Speaker 4: It's all right, thank you very much, ohio Al the
Speaker 4: great ohiol First one is from Mike in sub zero Fullerton.
Speaker 4: He says, Hello, Ben and Danny g what is your
Speaker 4: favorite type of tree? Are you more of an evergreen
Speaker 4: or decedious kind of guy?
Speaker 6: I think it was sarcasm because last week you said
Speaker 6: evergreen questions.
Speaker 4: I know, I know, he says, I think the changing
Speaker 4: colors of leaves is pretty, but boy do they look
Speaker 4: like a pain to clean up when they drop. I
Speaker 4: was told that this week's mail bag is an evergreen
Speaker 4: podcast and all questions had to be about trees or
Speaker 4: a favorite chemical spray in the bathroom. I don't know
Speaker 4: a lot about trees, so that's all I got as
Speaker 4: for my favorite chemical spray. I don't use any I'm
Speaker 4: old school. I just light a match, says Mike in Fullerton.
Speaker 5: Very good.
Speaker 4: You're not a lifesol guy. I think of Mike is
Speaker 4: a liesol guy, and I think Fullerton. I've been to Fullerton.
Speaker 4: I've spent time in fullertin that Fullerton's.
Speaker 1: All about the lifesol.
Speaker 4: You kill that, It's all about the It is right
Speaker 4: near Siberia, Fullerton very cold there. Kevin in Kansas right
Speaker 4: since it says dear band and Danny g he sent
Speaker 4: some photos here. He says, I took these photos of
Speaker 4: cousin Eddie's, a business in southwest Kansas, in the small
Speaker 4: town of Coolidge, population one hundred and seventy nine. What
Speaker 4: would it take to get you to stop at a
Speaker 4: small town business in the middle of nowhere? How about
Speaker 4: a malard meet and greet in Coolidge, Kansas. So I'm
Speaker 4: you can't see this, Danny, because you're not looking at
Speaker 4: the email. But remember Cousin Eddie from the National Lampoon
Speaker 4: vacation and they'd stopped at Cousin Eddie's and Coolidge, Kansas.
Speaker 1: And yeah, so.
Speaker 4: There's a mural on the side of this little small
Speaker 4: business in Coolidge, Kansas, and it's a mural of cousin
Speaker 4: Eddie leaning on a sign that says cousin. And then
Speaker 4: they have the National Lampoon family station wagon.
Speaker 6: Cousin Eddie. That's classic. We just watched that here at
Speaker 6: the G House the other night.
Speaker 4: Now, fun fact, I did a little research on this.
Speaker 4: They filmed what was they said was Coolidge, Kansas a
Speaker 4: few hundred miles maybe not even a few hundred miles
Speaker 4: in I think it was Pueblo, Colorado, which is the
Speaker 4: next stayed over because Coolidge, Kansas is on the way
Speaker 4: to Colorado. So they filmed a lot of those parts
Speaker 4: of the movie National Lampoon's Vacation over in Colorado. But
Speaker 4: they suppose he did stop by by there, and I'd
Speaker 4: be all for Kevin doing a mala meat. Get The
Speaker 4: problem is, if you go to a town of one
Speaker 4: hundred and seventy nine, if you get like three people there,
Speaker 4: you're doing pretty well. And so it's not a lot.
Speaker 1: There's not a lot to draw from.
Speaker 5: But here's the thing.
Speaker 6: When Covino and Rich have done all these graduate tell remotes, Yeah,
Speaker 6: one of the best stops was Eugene organ and it's
Speaker 6: because it was a smaller city. The other ones were
Speaker 6: much bigger. It was like the thing to do that
Speaker 6: week in Eugene. Everybody had been talking about it. A
Speaker 6: lady told us that it had been the talk of
Speaker 6: the town, and so the turnout was amazing. So think
Speaker 6: of it like that, if you get half the town.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so if there's one hundred and seventy nine people there,
Speaker 4: if we got forty people to show up, that's twenty
Speaker 4: two percent of.
Speaker 1: The entire population of Coolidge, Kansas.
Speaker 5: That's a malormath right there.
Speaker 4: We would be doing very well. We would be doing
Speaker 4: very well. No, that's the kind of thing though. And
Speaker 4: you know this, Kevin, you probably did the same thing.
Speaker 4: That's the kind of thing. You're driving along, you see it.
Speaker 4: You pull over for about ninety five seconds, a little
Speaker 4: over a minute and a half, you turn off the car,
Speaker 4: you get out, you take a photo, and then you
Speaker 4: do a selfie, and then you get back in the
Speaker 4: car and get back on the road. That the ninety
Speaker 4: ninety five seconds tops. That's what you do there. That's
Speaker 4: about it. And if I did own a business in
Speaker 4: a small town like that, I would have a great
Speaker 4: mural because that draws people in, right, that's what.
Speaker 1: And I don't know if those people that stop buy anything.
Speaker 1: Maybe they do. I don't know what kind of store
Speaker 1: it is, but.
Speaker 5: Why not get them to stop their engine?
Speaker 4: You got to get eyeballs on you, right, got to
Speaker 4: get any new eyeballs anything with.
Speaker 1: Eyeballs, right, that's what you you, Danny.
Speaker 4: I mean, you've gone over the top with some of
Speaker 4: the things you've done in radio over the years to
Speaker 4: try to get attention.
Speaker 1: Right, come on, let's.
Speaker 6: See Blind, do the angel wings too, Ben for all
Speaker 6: the goals to Yeah? Do the pilars with the stupid
Speaker 6: angel wings.
Speaker 1: Stand in the middle there.
Speaker 4: Blind Jake in Minnesota rights and says, you say the
Speaker 4: dirty secret is that you only need the people listen
Speaker 4: for two minutes and you get credit on the podcast.
Speaker 4: I listen to all podcasts from beginning to end because
Speaker 4: I am lame and I'm working on still having a purpose,
Speaker 4: blind Jake says. He says, does the three minutes of
Speaker 4: commercials before the pod even starts get you to your goal?
Speaker 4: Or do we need to listen to a few minutes
Speaker 4: after you begin bloviating?
Speaker 5: That is from.
Speaker 1: Blind Jake in Minnesota.
Speaker 4: So I have made this a point of emphasis on
Speaker 4: the Overnight Show, Danny, that in order for us to
Speaker 4: get credit, we just nearly need you to listen to you,
Speaker 4: the consumer of the podcast, for at least a few minutes.
Speaker 4: I think I said two minutes, and then we get credit,
Speaker 4: because that's usually how that works, right, Is that what you.
Speaker 5: Used to ask for? Five? Remember, give us five good minutes.
Speaker 1: But normally two is five because we're rounding down. I'm
Speaker 1: not a numbers guy, but that doesn't seem to add up.
Speaker 5: Five. How about three?
Speaker 6: The three opening commercials and two minutes of the show.
Speaker 6: But the two minutes of the show is going to
Speaker 6: hook you because you know you're gonna hear us ramping
Speaker 6: into the topics and you're not gonna leave.
Speaker 4: Yeah, once we do that opening pod teas blind, Jake's
Speaker 4: in for the full podcast. It's that Svengali effect and
Speaker 4: he's in.
Speaker 1: He's in.
Speaker 4: Next up, This email is from anonymous.
Speaker 1: I wonder who that could be?
Speaker 4: Email from anonymous? When you have these parties at your home, Ben,
Speaker 4: what's the worst thing anybody ever has done to your bathroom?
Speaker 1: Huh?
Speaker 6: That's appropriate considering we Yeah, go back and listen to
Speaker 6: yesterday's podcast.
Speaker 4: Clogged Up the Toilet. What have you found in your bathroom?
Speaker 4: What is your bathroom like after these parties? Also when
Speaker 4: you both do this stuff, these parties you all attend.
Speaker 1: What type of bathrooms do you go?
Speaker 4: Do you very interest this person is very interested in
Speaker 4: bathroost What type of bathrooms do you go into when
Speaker 4: you go to other people's homes? Do you ever feel
Speaker 4: like destroying someone's bathroom and going number two because it's
Speaker 4: so nice? And that's one of these parties. You leave
Speaker 4: it clean for people to use drugs?
Speaker 6: Child man, we know that the Malor Mansion bathroom is
Speaker 6: not for drugs. That's Ben's backyard. Hey and Ben, anybody
Speaker 6: that is gross in somebody else's bathroom, there's something twisted
Speaker 6: in your head.
Speaker 5: My mom taught us when we were little kids growing up.
Speaker 6: You leave any room you enter a little bit cleaner
Speaker 6: than it was before, like make it a better place
Speaker 6: when you leave. Like I remember being at Rich Davis's
Speaker 6: house just a few weeks back for big football get together,
Speaker 6: and I went into his bathroom and people had like
Speaker 6: thrown some trash to the side of the trash can
Speaker 6: and messed up his towels, and I just straightened it out,
Speaker 6: and I wipe the water off the sink that gets
Speaker 6: your shirt wet.
Speaker 5: You know what I'm talking about.
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 6: Yeah, people are so damn sloppy in these bathrooms and
Speaker 6: it's embarrassing.
Speaker 5: Sing.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, tell me you're you're you were raised
Speaker 4: by Neanderthals.
Speaker 1: You know, you're you're grown up. You don't leave things
Speaker 1: in shambles.
Speaker 4: Uh, and not every party, anonymous, Do you have to
Speaker 4: go to and do a line of coke off the
Speaker 4: back of the toilet or whatever you're doing.
Speaker 6: Yeah, that's for afterwards at the strip club, off the
Speaker 6: stripper's body.
Speaker 4: Ah yeah, have some decorum, have some damned decorum, right,
Speaker 4: follow social norms, proper etiquette. Okay, and what kind of
Speaker 4: heathens do you think are going to these parties?
Speaker 1: My god?
Speaker 6: By the way, more dudes followed our advice, we'd still
Speaker 6: have two bathrooms at the studios.
Speaker 4: That well, that and Loraina complaining, So for we have
Speaker 4: I don't know how many people work at Fox Sports Radio,
Speaker 4: but there's I think four women and everyone else is
Speaker 4: a man, and the men must share one bathroom. The
Speaker 4: four women have one bathroom, so.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and the four women don't all work at the
Speaker 6: same time either. But what Lorena complained about was, I
Speaker 6: guess over the weekend some guys working there had pissed
Speaker 6: all over the toilet set.
Speaker 4: Yeah, she was upset by that, and so she complained,
Speaker 4: and so they segregated the bathroom. And I thought we
Speaker 4: were beyond segregation.
Speaker 1: But apparently not racist. That sucks.
Speaker 4: Alf writes in from the Drive three, says, I hope
Speaker 4: this message finds you, gentlemen well and in good spirits.
Speaker 1: When did Burger Kings.
Speaker 4: Switch from their flame broiled slogan to flame grilled?
Speaker 1: And was what has this world come to it?
Speaker 5: From? Alf?
Speaker 1: They got good question there, flame. I didn't realize they
Speaker 1: were no longer flame broiled? Is that true?
Speaker 6: We know that's news to me. I think the last
Speaker 6: time you and I ate there was the nineties.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we agreed.
Speaker 4: We liked the onion rings and we liked the elongated
Speaker 4: chicken sandwich.
Speaker 5: Right.
Speaker 6: Yes, let's see what type I'm researching right now? When
Speaker 6: did Burger King start sucking?
Speaker 1: Says Burger King.
Speaker 4: According to this internet thing I clicked on, Burger King
Speaker 4: still uses flame broiling process to cook their burgers, which gives.
Speaker 1: The unique and smoky flavor.
Speaker 4: The technique involves cooking the patties directly over an open flame,
Speaker 4: although not completely over and open fire.
Speaker 1: Burger King burgers are broiled under.
Speaker 4: Intense gas flames during the cooking process.
Speaker 1: That's according to that.
Speaker 6: Look at what this person wrote why burger King sucks
Speaker 6: from a customer.
Speaker 5: This is on Reddit.
Speaker 6: Burger King was my absolute favorite as a kid in
Speaker 6: the late eighties and early nineties. My mom's pregnancy cravings
Speaker 6: were the original long chicken sandwich.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Back then they were served in little boxes, cut in
Speaker 6: half and always hot and fresh. Then I found the Whopper.
Speaker 6: My childhood memories were fond. But now the food is
Speaker 6: not fresh. It just seems gross. Their brand has really
Speaker 6: fallen off. Yeah, this is something you and I have
Speaker 6: talked about for a couple of years now.
Speaker 4: Yeah, no, it's not not good. I don't eat a
Speaker 4: lot of fast food anymore. Like the the fast food
Speaker 4: I eat is raising canes.
Speaker 1: I'll eat that.
Speaker 4: I'm trying to think what else, like maybe Panda Express
Speaker 4: on Christmas or something like that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, we do.
Speaker 6: We have Panda Express in rotation. There's some tricks there,
Speaker 6: like waiting for them to put another you know, hot,
Speaker 6: helping out of an entree that you want. That way
Speaker 6: you get it fresh, yeah, because they'll they'll tell you, oh,
Speaker 6: you have to wait ten minutes.
Speaker 4: Okay, fine, Yeah, you don't want to eat the orange
Speaker 4: chicken that's been sitting around because it's all soggy. You
Speaker 4: get the It's really good if it's fresh. But that's
Speaker 4: my theory. It's always been my theory on fast food.
Speaker 4: You've got to eat it within about five minutes of
Speaker 4: getting it, and with every second after that that goes
Speaker 4: without eating the fast food, the quality of the food goes.
Speaker 1: Down further and further.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's especially true for in and out if you
Speaker 6: can eat at an in and out Burger, because I've
Speaker 6: had some people come into California and they take it
Speaker 6: to go and they're like, oh, it wasn't that good.
Speaker 6: I'm like, did you eat it at the restaurant? No,
Speaker 6: we didn't sit there, And well, you have to because
Speaker 6: if you're not eating that hot, then you're not getting
Speaker 6: the full experience.
Speaker 5: You try to take that home. It sucks once it's cold.
Speaker 5: Oh it's terrible. Yeah, and especially those fries.
Speaker 1: I did order.
Speaker 4: There was a it wasn't even a fast food place.
Speaker 4: There was a local restaurant that I had. I ordered
Speaker 4: some chicken from last last Sunday. I didn't feel like cooking,
Speaker 4: so I ordered some chicken and some fries, some some
Speaker 4: chicken tenders, and it was a quick trip home. But
Speaker 4: by the time I got home in that styrofoam container,
Speaker 4: it got soggy and it was not an enjoyable meal.
Speaker 4: It was not an enjoyable situation. But answer your question
Speaker 4: of if I did not, I was unaware of this
Speaker 4: burger King information, so I do not know. I would
Speaker 4: assume if that's what happened. What you're telling is true
Speaker 4: that there must have been some kind of lawsuit where
Speaker 4: they cannot use flame broiled. Otherwise they why would they
Speaker 4: change it? It makes no sense. Maybe somebody sued them
Speaker 4: and said it. You can't say flame broiled because it's
Speaker 4: not an actual The actual process is not one hundred
Speaker 4: percent kosher.
Speaker 1: Moving on Gary from Pittsburgh, PA.
Speaker 4: Right since us with the holidays here, my significant other
Speaker 4: had the unfortunate luck to miss a get together because
Speaker 4: she was sick as a dog. I'm sure Danny went
Speaker 4: through this during Brenda's pregnancy. In this phase or this
Speaker 4: phrase a Pittsburgh saying like a red up your room
Speaker 4: or can be traced back to somewhere else minutes long.
Speaker 4: Mallard investigationation seems rare and appropriate since this is the
Speaker 4: cold and flew season.
Speaker 1: So the phrase in Pittsburgh saying like red up your room?
Speaker 5: Huh have you.
Speaker 1: Heard red up your room?
Speaker 4: Den?
Speaker 5: Nah, I've not heard that before.
Speaker 4: What do you think that's from red up your room?
Speaker 5: I don't know. He's right about the pregnancy part, though.
Speaker 6: Yeah, there's challenging parts once the baby's born, obviously, and
Speaker 6: then in the phase where they're learning to crawl, and
Speaker 6: even before then, when they roll off a bed.
Speaker 5: And when they're running the way CoA is now.
Speaker 6: And yeah, like he scraped his hands up really bad
Speaker 6: the other day. He fell and he braced himself with
Speaker 6: his hands. So you go through all these stages, but Ben,
Speaker 6: there was nothing like that pregnancy stage. Because your woman
Speaker 6: her ankles, her feet, they swell up the size of balloons.
Speaker 6: Her stomach is always bothering her, She's always having these
Speaker 6: strange cravings. But then when you answer the bell and
Speaker 6: you get her what she's craving, she feels sick after
Speaker 6: eating it.
Speaker 1: Just be happy, that pregnancy doesn't last like two years.
Speaker 5: I would have went out for a pack of cigarettes.
Speaker 1: I understand well. The answer question Gary from Pittsburgh.
Speaker 4: Read up your room. The phrase read up comes from
Speaker 4: Scottish slang. It is a common way to say tidy
Speaker 4: up in Pennsylvania. That's what it means, tidy up. The phrase,
Speaker 4: according to a minute long Mallor investigation, comes from Scottish
Speaker 4: immigrants who brought the word red r d d to
Speaker 4: the American Midlands. The word red r ed d and
Speaker 4: they believe comes from the Middle English verb redden, which
Speaker 4: meant to rescue or to clear. May also come from
Speaker 4: the Middle English word written, which means to clear out.
Speaker 4: But the phrase a common phrase in Pennsylvania, where our
Speaker 4: friend Gary in Pittsburgh a ginzer right from me. Listen
Speaker 4: to the podcast. It's also part of Pittsburgh's unique accent,
Speaker 4: which is influenced by a combination of German, Polish, Scottish
Speaker 4: and Irish. So there it is the unexpecting phrase of.
Speaker 1: The week which was not planned.
Speaker 4: Red up your room, which according to this means tidy
Speaker 4: up your room the way Gary said that it did
Speaker 4: not seem that that was used in that context right,
Speaker 4: because he said his significant other, you know, had to
Speaker 4: was sick as a dog and all that stuff.
Speaker 5: And yeah, he made it sound like puke was all
Speaker 5: over the room.
Speaker 4: It sounds to me like Gary, you mean sick as
Speaker 4: a dog, which is another phrase, but you said read
Speaker 4: up the room, which again, according to my research, means
Speaker 4: tidy up the room. But sick as a dog that
Speaker 4: goes back to the early seventeen hundreds. We've actually had
Speaker 4: that on the podcast in years past. But sick as
Speaker 4: a dog started in seventeen five. It was to describe
Speaker 4: like nausea or you know, dogs at that time were
Speaker 4: running wild. And you also had phrase like sick as
Speaker 4: a horse, sick as a cat that came later, and horses.
Speaker 4: Here's a fun fact, Danny fun fact. Fun fact, fun fact.
Speaker 4: Horses are not able to vomit. How about that a
Speaker 4: horse cannot vomit. So if you don't like animals that vomit,
Speaker 4: get a horse. They can't vomit. There was a phrase
Speaker 4: sick as a cushion in seventeen thirty one, sick as
Speaker 4: a parrot in the nineteen seventies talked about mental mental issues.
Speaker 4: But anyway, so sick as a dog from the seventeen hundreds.
Speaker 4: Because dogs were always sick, there were there was no
Speaker 4: medical care. Didn't take a dog. So it's like a
Speaker 4: bonus phrase from Gary in Pitts. Reggie from Detroit writes
Speaker 4: in on the mail Bag. He says, hey, Ben and
Speaker 4: Danny story out this week said scientists are warning to
Speaker 4: prepare for an impending volcanic eruption that humanity is not
Speaker 4: prepared for. How do you prepare for something that humanity
Speaker 4: is not prepared for? Signed Reggie from from Detroit. No,
Speaker 4: I know that you talked. We talked about this last
Speaker 4: week was something. The way you prepare is by all
Speaker 4: the toilet paper and all the bottle of water and
Speaker 4: some hand sanitizer.
Speaker 1: That's what you do.
Speaker 4: But yeah, I mean you don't worry about it and
Speaker 4: then if it happens, you deal with it. I'm this
Speaker 4: is the classic scare tactics. At some point, one of
Speaker 4: these things will be accurate and we'll all be you know,
Speaker 4: we'll all be porked. It's all, you know, game over
Speaker 4: and all that. But ninety nine percent of these things
Speaker 4: are just to scare you and get you to click
Speaker 4: on the story.
Speaker 6: And so, speaking of being port hopefully we get a
Speaker 6: twenty minute heads up so we can all tell the
Speaker 6: female near us, hey, this is our last chance?
Speaker 4: Is it one last chance to make sweet love before
Speaker 4: it's over.
Speaker 1: And lights out?
Speaker 4: But we do know, as we talked about, we will
Speaker 4: find out when the nukes are on their way, Danny,
Speaker 4: we will find out that we'll get a text message.
Speaker 1: That's how our lives are going to end. Inbound. This
Speaker 1: is not a test. Inbound missiles. Shelter in place, inbound missiles.
Speaker 1: And then that's it.
Speaker 4: No no, no, no, no no no noa hey, good bye.
Speaker 1: Just like that, just like that?
Speaker 5: Did you say sweet love?
Speaker 1: Floppy?
Speaker 4: I don't know, Mike in wiscon the last one? Mike
Speaker 4: and Wasson writes and he says it is a wonderful
Speaker 4: he says, Ben and Danny, he says, it's a wonderful life.
Speaker 4: Fans are very upset because of what Amazon Prime did
Speaker 4: this this week. They cut out a scene of the
Speaker 4: A Christmas Classic and apparently this is Mike, he kind
Speaker 4: of sent the this disjointed details.
Speaker 1: But they are a wonderful life. It's a wonderful life. Yeah,
Speaker 1: of course they cut out a scene on Amazon Prime.
Speaker 5: Why would they do that.
Speaker 4: Because there's a it's a nineteen forty six film the
Speaker 4: guy considers taking his own life. So anyway, that's actually
Speaker 4: what Mike wanted to know. He said, Ben and Danny,
Speaker 4: you guys work in the entertainment business.
Speaker 1: Do we work in the entertainment business? Danny?
Speaker 4: Anyway, he says, how did something like this happen? Because
Speaker 4: I guess it's a big part of that movie. I
Speaker 4: have not seen a wonderful life in many ways.
Speaker 6: I mean, just put a disclaimer before the film if
Speaker 6: you feel the need to say something. Aladdin on Disney
Speaker 6: Plus they have a disclaimer before the movie starts, saying
Speaker 6: that there's some stereotypes. Weren't okay then and aren't okay now.
Speaker 6: They don't change anything.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And if you have that big a problem with it,
Speaker 4: don't put it on your platform.
Speaker 1: Let somebody else have it who you know, because Amazon does.
Speaker 4: Not have to put it out there if they're that
Speaker 4: woke that they can't handle it. And there's other streaming
Speaker 4: services although also woke, that might be willing to put
Speaker 4: it out there. So uh, I mean, I saw, I
Speaker 4: saw this story. My I don't know what to tell you.
Speaker 4: I mean, it's just there's a lot of layers of
Speaker 4: bureaucracy at these media companies and stuff that goes on.
Speaker 4: By the way, though, that Lauren Sanchez is going to
Speaker 4: marry Jeff Bezos that you see that story last week?
Speaker 6: Oh my god, boy, six hundred million? What do you
Speaker 6: need that much money for a damn wedding for?
Speaker 4: Again, Danny, I had dinner at the same table with
Speaker 4: that woman several times when she was a laker, like
Speaker 4: locker room reporter, you know, twenty granted it was twenty
Speaker 4: five years ago or twenty two years or whatever it was.
Speaker 4: But Mike, God, good for her and she you know
Speaker 4: a lot of women in la Danny, they tried to
Speaker 4: get that big rich guy, and she got the richest.
Speaker 1: Of them all.
Speaker 4: I mean she she You talk about out kicking your
Speaker 4: coverage drum, dumb drum in terms of trying to find
Speaker 4: a guy that's loaded.
Speaker 1: Wow, unbelievable. Anyway, we'll get out on that, Danny. I'll
Speaker 1: be back.
Speaker 4: I will not be back tonight. The rare and appropriate
Speaker 4: a couple of ys.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you almost told a lie right there, Pinocchio.
Speaker 1: I will not be back tonight.
Speaker 6: Do you deserve a break just because last weekend. Your
Speaker 6: felt like the weekend I should just say Christmas. When
Speaker 6: we celebrated the Christmas break, the network had the best
Speaker 6: of specials on and I listened to the hour that
Speaker 6: years was on.
Speaker 5: You did a great job.
Speaker 4: Well, thank you, Danny. I appreciate that. Some of the
Speaker 4: great highlights of the year. And it was great to
Speaker 4: hear all the different shows.
Speaker 1: I like it.
Speaker 4: They do that every year to hear yeah to this,
Speaker 4: a little bit of that and lets people. I like
Speaker 4: it because it lets people in other day parts here
Speaker 4: the other shows like because usually people who work at
Speaker 4: night don't get to hear the daytime shows and vice versa,
Speaker 4: so it gives them an opportunity.
Speaker 1: It's like a sampler Danny.
Speaker 4: Right, It's like going to a restaurant. You're trying different
Speaker 4: foods and you see what you like and what you
Speaker 4: don't like.
Speaker 1: And I think it's kind of a thing that they do.
Speaker 6: And that's money in the bank because that was good.
Speaker 6: You deserve an hour off, So I expect you in
Speaker 6: the studios for hour two tonight, told.
Speaker 4: Stool oh, and you just keep expecting that, Danny. No quiet,
Speaker 4: And I assume you you're a big radio star. You're
Speaker 4: not working this week.
Speaker 1: Right, the next couple of days, are you, Danny? Are
Speaker 1: you back in this week?
Speaker 5: We are back on, but we're going to be in
Speaker 5: for the cow show.
Speaker 1: Stars attract other stars.
Speaker 6: Schedule is all over the place, but if you tune
Speaker 6: in on the regular Covino and Rich show, you'll either
Speaker 6: hear us or you'll hear somebody saying where to find us?
Speaker 4: All right, have a wonderful rest of your Sunday, enjoy
Speaker 4: the holiday break if you have it, and we will
Speaker 4: have a new.
Speaker 1: TV show this coming weekend.
Speaker 4: I still watch this weekend's episode of Benny Versus the
Speaker 4: Penny for a little bit longer if you listen in
Speaker 4: the morning here, and then we'll be back at it
Speaker 4: next week with a new TV show, and we'll be
Speaker 4: on later in the week with more radio. Have a
Speaker 4: wonderful rest of your day there, and we'll talk to
Speaker 4: you next time later.
Speaker 5: Skater got a murder. I gotta go.