Speaker 1: Kabbooms.
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 in.
Speaker 1: The air everywhere, The Fifth Hour with Me, Big Ben
Speaker 1: and Danny g Radio. We are going full throttle as
Speaker 1: the center of attention from a certain secret location, far
Speaker 1: far away out in the wild blue yonder and there's
Speaker 1: a lot of blue. I do see a lot of
Speaker 1: blue here in a secret location. As this is the
Speaker 1: Bora Fifth Hour podcast. Well I can't afford Bora Borb.
Speaker 1: Thanks for bringing that up. But Daddy here we are
Speaker 1: back again on a Saturday podcast. We survived the Friday pod,
Speaker 1: and that's usually what happens. You survive one, you come
Speaker 1: back and do another one. So we'll see how this goes.
Speaker 1: And again this is a test because I didn't do
Speaker 1: the radio show the last couple of days of the week,
Speaker 1: the last three days of the week I was off
Speaker 1: from the radio show, so I wasn't promoting this. So
Speaker 1: we'll see how we do with the downloads. But it's
Speaker 1: been pretty good. If I've often forgotten Danny to send
Speaker 1: out a link on I usually send something out on
Speaker 1: X yeah to a promoter, but I haven't done that
Speaker 1: the last couple of weeks, and the downloads have been
Speaker 1: pretty good.
Speaker 3: So I'm gonna tweet something out from the FSR account
Speaker 3: this weekend, because I know you're busy.
Speaker 1: My right hand was getting a workout. Yeah all right,
Speaker 1: well that would be good. Yeah, send it out. Let
Speaker 1: people know they can find the content, which is important.
Speaker 1: On this podcast. We've got the the Malor Merch.
Speaker 3: I'm malor Merch. I'm gonna post on there exactly where
Speaker 3: you are too.
Speaker 1: I don't think that's a good idea, but anyway, we
Speaker 1: have Malor Merch, me and Julio go f yourself, San Diego,
Speaker 1: the Immensa Meeting, and kids say the Darknessings. There's actually
Speaker 1: a lot of stuff to get to. We'll see if
Speaker 1: we have time to get to all of it. But
Speaker 1: we begin on this Saturday with the Malor Merch. We
Speaker 1: tease this on the radio show, and this will be
Speaker 1: coming to Viva Las Vegas August third. It is a
Speaker 1: trial run. It is a trial run. It's not available
Speaker 1: for sale to the general public, but only if you
Speaker 1: show up to the Malord Meet and greet. So I
Speaker 1: think we'll bring about seven of these things. But the
Speaker 1: Malor Keychaine, the first ever Ben Malor show keychain, will
Speaker 1: be available a must have item for p ones of
Speaker 1: the show. Must have item, only available in Vegas, and
Speaker 1: it's gonna cost a couple bucks to cover the fees
Speaker 1: of having the crap made, but it will be available.
Speaker 3: So the must have item of nineteen eighty nine, No.
Speaker 1: No, this in the keychain. He goes everywhere. This is
Speaker 1: a great keepsake of the show. Much like I talked
Speaker 1: about in yesterday's show, Danny that here I am a
Speaker 1: middle aged man. I'm still excited about a Jim Healey
Speaker 1: ashtray right now. I considered making an ashtray, but I
Speaker 1: don't know. There's a keychain. So someday there'll be a
Speaker 1: kid right now who's a child who will grow up
Speaker 1: to follow in my footsteps and radio and we'll have
Speaker 1: this keychain.
Speaker 3: You should have did a Mallard pipe can you imagine
Speaker 3: Coop walking around the hallways with the one Hey, that
Speaker 3: would be so popular. That is a great idea.
Speaker 1: Maybe for the holidays we could do.
Speaker 3: Finally, glass Blower.
Speaker 1: We can call it Benny's Bong, the Mallard Bomb. Yeah.
Speaker 3: In fact, there was a glass blower that used to
Speaker 3: call up the show when I worked on your Live
Speaker 3: Overnight show, and Coop took all his information down because
Speaker 3: the guy swore he was gonna mail Coop a package.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I remember that. We had a guy from
Speaker 1: someone in the Bahamas. I think they called up. Was
Speaker 1: like he was a wee guy and he was gonna
Speaker 1: he was gonna to hook up Coop with the weed.
Speaker 1: He never that guy disappeared like a Rastafarian guy. He
Speaker 1: called up for a while and then he took off.
Speaker 3: I don't know what happened to that guy.
Speaker 1: Remember the guy in Houston that used to send us
Speaker 1: the rings that was great. Yeah, he made Ben Malers
Speaker 1: show rings which was awesome. And I have some ripoff
Speaker 1: championship rings from different teams, the Dodgers of course the
Speaker 1: twenty twenty ring. And he stopped calling and he still
Speaker 1: sent me the twenty twenty ring. Yeah, he still listens,
Speaker 1: say Malard Merch Again, it's not that big, but it's
Speaker 1: kind of cool. It's unique. There's only a limited number
Speaker 1: of these things made, so it's when they're gone, they're
Speaker 1: gone type situation. I'm not sure how much they're gonna
Speaker 1: a couple of bucks, but if you go to the
Speaker 1: Mallar meet and greet, you'll be able to get that.
Speaker 1: So if you're interested in Vegas, August third, at the
Speaker 1: stakeout in Vegas, just near UNLV and we'll have a
Speaker 1: great time. So me at Julio. I've had a lot
Speaker 1: of requests for more details on what happened Danny, and
Speaker 1: so I'll use it right now here on this podcast.
Speaker 1: I will stoop so low as to flash back in
Speaker 1: the hot tub time machine. But several of you have said,
Speaker 1: how did this happen? So let's go back to the
Speaker 1: holiday weekend back on July fourth. And if you missed
Speaker 1: it because you actually have a life and you were
Speaker 1: not listening, it was just a random holiday show. So
Speaker 1: that means no, Eddie, Eddie wasn't there, Coop wasn't there.
Speaker 1: Just random chat whatever. And this guy calls up Julio
Speaker 1: from LA and so put the guy on. He starts
Speaker 1: busting my chops. He's goofing on the clippers and all that,
Speaker 1: and then he says he likes the show a lot,
Speaker 1: but he really misses Roberto. Like all right, well that's fine.
Speaker 1: And then he's like, well, why did Roberto leave the show?
Speaker 1: Why is Roberto? Why'd you get rid of Roberto? You know,
Speaker 1: He's like accusing me of getting rid of Roberto. So
Speaker 1: I'm like, well, I didn't get rid of Roberto. Roberto
Speaker 1: quit the show. He didn't want to work here anymore.
Speaker 1: He quit the show would become a bus ruck, right,
Speaker 1: And so it turns out that that was Roberto. He
Speaker 1: was doing a phony phone called Danny. It was a
Speaker 1: phony phone call from Roberto, and he didn't sound like him.
Speaker 1: He had just had a bit too much to drink.
Speaker 1: I don't know. He had a higher pitched voice than
Speaker 1: I remember. And it was weird because Loreno was there
Speaker 1: and she wouldn't know who Roberto is because she replaced him. Well,
Speaker 1: I was saying, but she wasn't there when Roberto was
Speaker 1: working at the company.
Speaker 3: So she would know who he is. And Coop didn't
Speaker 3: answer the phone.
Speaker 1: Well, he wasn't even there. It was Ian and Ian
Speaker 1: was Roberto has been gone so long? Ian who was
Speaker 1: filling in Ian Roddy the producer, and he not Roddy
Speaker 1: Roddy Piper Ian Roddy and then Brian Finley. Brian Finley
Speaker 1: was there, and of course he was. He didn't know who,
Speaker 1: you know, you know what was going on. You know,
Speaker 1: he he's zoned out eating some whatever, twig whatever nonsense.
Speaker 1: He's eating, you know, vegetables or whatever. So really sounded
Speaker 1: different and it was him. I would also like to
Speaker 1: point out I did reach out to Roberto about coming
Speaker 1: on the podcast. He says he'll do it. He was
Speaker 1: unavailable at the times we wanted to get him on,
Speaker 1: said he couldn't do it. Got stuff going.
Speaker 3: On big time, isn't you.
Speaker 1: I know? The wheels on the bus turned round and round.
Speaker 1: The wheels on the bus turned round and round. He
Speaker 1: did complain though, Danny, that the La Unified School District
Speaker 1: gave him a bus that does not have air conditioning
Speaker 1: in the one hundred degree weather in the San Fernando
Speaker 1: Valley in Los Angeles.
Speaker 3: I'd rather take cockroaches and really strong AC over a
Speaker 3: bus with no AC.
Speaker 1: At this point, the cockroaches Danny. It's it's like we're
Speaker 1: working at an exotic zoo at this point. The cockroaches
Speaker 1: are that big. They really are they really ah, this
Speaker 1: is like Jurassic Park sized cockroaches. They run the company.
Speaker 1: They really do run the building anyway, They run the building.
Speaker 1: So there is that, and so it was good to
Speaker 1: hear from Roberto. I did not expect that. And I'm
Speaker 1: also upset with myself because I'm usually pretty good at
Speaker 1: detecting the phony phone calls, been pretty good about that
Speaker 1: over the years on this one. Did not figure it out.
Speaker 1: Did not figure it out. So I guess you could say,
Speaker 1: go f yourself, San Diego to me is what you
Speaker 1: can say.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I actually have a famous drop from you saying that,
Speaker 3: go f yourself, San Diego. Do you remember that? And
Speaker 3: then we would play it sometimes in San Diego. Callers
Speaker 3: would call in and be like, I didn't appreciate that.
Speaker 1: That must have been when I was ranting about the
Speaker 1: Padres or something. Yeah, I believe so, San Diego.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, because you know what we have in common
Speaker 3: as Dodger fans, boy do Padre fans annoy us. I'll
Speaker 3: get to that in a second. So you know, haven't
Speaker 3: been to San Diego in a couple of years, and
Speaker 3: you probably know why. What's between us and San Diego there.
Speaker 1: Is a roadblock. It's a nuclear power plant which is
Speaker 1: not activated and a military base which is a freakin' nightmare. Yes,
Speaker 1: that you It should take about thirty five minutes to
Speaker 1: go through that stretch, you would say, is that fair?
Speaker 1: About thirty five to forty minutes maybe to go through? Yeah,
Speaker 1: it takes an hour and a half to two hours, right.
Speaker 3: Ye, That stretch past Camp Pendleton is death. It's a
Speaker 3: couple hours just sitting there, bumper to bumper. So a
Speaker 3: lot of us just avoid going to San Diego unfortunately,
Speaker 3: beautiful city, amazing weather. In fact, that's why my better
Speaker 3: half suggested, Hey, we got a day here for the holiday,
Speaker 3: let's go to San Diego. We'll just take off early
Speaker 3: in the morning. So that's what we did. As I
Speaker 3: was producing the podcast to get it out to the world,
Speaker 3: my wife he was packing our bags and so I finished,
Speaker 3: I packed the computer, got in the car, boom, We're
Speaker 3: on the road. It was actually okay going there because
Speaker 3: it was a holiday morning where I think people were
Speaker 3: kind of already to their destinations. So we lucked out.
Speaker 3: We get to San Diego. Checking into the hotel was
Speaker 3: a whole nother situation though, because the city was way
Speaker 3: overcrowded for the Fourth of July weekend, long weekend holiday,
Speaker 3: so many damn people, and we kind of make our
Speaker 3: way through all the long lines to get into the room.
Speaker 3: And now the first stop on the Garadelli family trip SeaWorld.
Speaker 3: Visited SeaWorld.
Speaker 1: God I was I was a little kid, famous story
Speaker 1: in my family. My mom took us kids to sea
Speaker 1: World and we were sitting waiting for shamou and a
Speaker 1: seagull like I think it was some bird shit on
Speaker 1: my mom's hat. Why don't you help yourself? And it
Speaker 1: was like it was like a direct hit, and it
Speaker 1: was we were as kids. You know, when you're a kid,
Speaker 1: it's the funniest thing in the world, right, Danny, You're like, oh,
Speaker 1: oh man, that's like the greatest thing ever. I still
Speaker 1: remember that. And of course, when I worked in San
Speaker 1: Diego at the mighty six ninety we got all it
Speaker 1: was at Pacific Coast Highway, but SeaWorld Drive was the
Speaker 1: off ram. But I've not been a SeaWorld. I mean,
Speaker 1: I didn't even know it was still open.
Speaker 3: Well here's what they did. I'm not sure how many
Speaker 3: years ago the transition began, but half of it is
Speaker 3: roller coaster rides and excitement like that. The other half
Speaker 3: is marine biology and rescuing animals because after the backlash
Speaker 3: from that documentary about Shamou and Wales being in captivity,
Speaker 3: then they pivoted, pivot, they pivoted, and so now it's
Speaker 3: all about rescue and thrill rides there. They've done a
Speaker 3: great job at that park. So I got to give
Speaker 3: SeaWorld a lot of credit for the way the park
Speaker 3: is right now. In twenty twenty four, we took a
Speaker 3: big baby CoA to see big baby Belugas. One came
Speaker 3: right up to the glass and looked them in the face.
Speaker 3: It's nice, Yeah, it wanted to see him and a
Speaker 3: couple other little kids right there at the glass. That
Speaker 3: was really cool. And then we took him to a
Speaker 3: dolphin show. Superhumid that day. It was like eighty nine
Speaker 3: percent humidity in San Diego, which is odd for that city.
Speaker 3: But we had like one of those handheld fans and
Speaker 3: I had it on CoA like he was a prince
Speaker 3: the whole time. During the dolphin show. Who me get
Speaker 3: back to the hotel, sleep it off. Next day, go
Speaker 3: to the San Diego Zoo because we wanted to cram
Speaker 3: as much stuff into a couple of days as we could.
Speaker 3: Go into the San Diego Zoo again, Ben another amazing
Speaker 3: place in that city because not only do they have
Speaker 3: really large are they exhibits, enclosures what would you call
Speaker 3: it where the animals all have their space.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, you have the reptile section, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: the monkeys.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they renovated the big area for the elephants. Yeah.
Speaker 3: And so those enclosures in San Diego, it's much different
Speaker 3: from the La Zoo. The LA Zoo is way smaller.
Speaker 3: A little bit sad when you're in the l A
Speaker 3: Zoo because it doesn't feel like the animals have enough
Speaker 3: room to roam. Not the case in San Diego, and
Speaker 3: so they got a lot of room for themselves. We
Speaker 3: saw an orangutang. He came up to the window and
Speaker 3: he ship right in front of Cola.
Speaker 1: All right, nice that, Yeah, that's what I do.
Speaker 3: CoA clapped and I'm like, that is your ancestor, for
Speaker 3: sure you It was awesome. And they have buses that
Speaker 3: will take you around the zoo there, props to them.
Speaker 3: One of the best zoos in California for sure, hands down,
Speaker 3: and one of the.
Speaker 1: One of the great zoos in the entire country. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it's voted one of the top zoos in the country.
Speaker 1: And it's great and a little better than the Bronx Zoo,
Speaker 1: a little better than the zoo, and I consider it.
Speaker 1: It's not in Burbank, but it's Burbank adjacent the l
Speaker 1: A Zoo because it's in Griffith Park right, it's right
Speaker 1: next to Bourbank. So that's what I think. And then
Speaker 1: have you been to the Wild Animal Park?
Speaker 3: No, haven't been there yet. I think that'll be the
Speaker 3: next time, in two more years from now that we
Speaker 3: get back to San Diego again. Going super early in
Speaker 3: the morning, we were in the car I'm not kidding you,
Speaker 3: at like five forty five am because we weren't taking
Speaker 3: any chances. It paid off. After the awesome experience at
Speaker 3: the zoo, we get back to the hotel and that
Speaker 3: night the padres we're gonna shoot off fireworks for what
Speaker 3: they called a Star Wars fireworks extravaganza. All right, nice, Now,
Speaker 3: we couldn't exactly hear the music coming out of the stadium.
Speaker 3: But from our hotel room window you could see the stadium,
Speaker 3: so we're thinking, oh, free fireworks show. You know, we
Speaker 3: get to see whatever they're seeing at the ballpark. Yeah,
Speaker 3: and we're waiting around for the game to end. Of course,
Speaker 3: it goes into extra innings that night the Diamondbacks beat them,
Speaker 3: so me and my wife are giving each other a
Speaker 3: high five, like, you know, petty, Dodger fans understand why
Speaker 3: Dodger fans feel this way about the Padres. Here's why.
Speaker 3: The day we were at the zoo, I was wearing
Speaker 3: my Otani shirt. We saw so many ugly brown Padres
Speaker 3: gear that day. And what do you think they did
Speaker 3: when they saw my Dodger blue Otani shirt. They busted
Speaker 3: your balls, busted my boss gave your thumbs down. One
Speaker 3: lady was like with her thumb down. These Padre fans
Speaker 3: are so vocal you would think that they're like a
Speaker 3: five time World Series champion team. They are not okay,
Speaker 3: my Padre horrible, but they are very uh, you know
Speaker 3: what's the word, very boastful.
Speaker 1: Did they say, hey, we beat you in the wildcard
Speaker 1: rad we own you.
Speaker 3: They like to mix it up. So even at the hotel,
Speaker 3: I saw some Padre fans and they were giving me
Speaker 3: the thumbs down and all that. But now I'm downstairs
Speaker 3: grabbing us some dinner because we have about twenty minutes
Speaker 3: until the fire fireworks show begins. They lose an extra innings.
Speaker 3: I'm doing a victory lap in my Otani shirt. I
Speaker 3: run across probably eight nine ten different Padres fans as
Speaker 3: I walked through the marina to get back to my hotel,
Speaker 3: and now I get to give it back to them.
Speaker 1: Go f yourself, San Diego.
Speaker 3: And I said, and don't miss the fireworks show that's
Speaker 3: gonna happen in a few minutes to celebrate your loss.
Speaker 3: And a couple of them smiled. Other ones were, you know,
Speaker 3: giving me the business. But it was so fun because
Speaker 3: I did get to do a victory lap and then
Speaker 3: the fireworks shot off. Yeah, I was so wonderful. Ben,
Speaker 3: go f yourself, San Diego.
Speaker 1: There you go, go f yourself, San Diego. The Padres
Speaker 1: and I used to go to those games day back
Speaker 1: to the Murph Jack Murphy Stadium when I worked in
Speaker 1: San Diego. I would go out there for the Thursday
Speaker 1: Businessman specials and This was during one of the many
Speaker 1: fire sales the padres used to have all the time.
Speaker 1: And I recall I've told the so before I buy
Speaker 1: the cheapest ticket I could get, and then by the
Speaker 1: second inning I would be sitting either behind the podre
Speaker 1: dugout or behind the visiting dugout because I could do
Speaker 1: whatever I wanted.
Speaker 3: I mean, there was no one there.
Speaker 1: It was like being in an Oakland A's game right now.
Speaker 3: They do have a nice stadium there now, that pet
Speaker 3: Coo Park is pretty amazing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it's a pretty cool as long as.
Speaker 3: They lose at the end of the game.
Speaker 1: Thing there downtowns, it's hard to keep people away from
Speaker 1: the like the fireworks shows cool and stuff. But like
Speaker 1: you could have just put on Amazon music or whatever, Danny, right,
Speaker 1: you could have put the Star Wars theme on and
Speaker 1: just crafted ourselves. Yeah, do it yourself, Yeah, d I
Speaker 1: y all right. Moving on in that, we have the
Speaker 1: MENSA meeting. Another great moment in raded. This is one
Speaker 1: of the things I love about live radio that you
Speaker 1: can't do on a podcast. So we had over the
Speaker 1: holiday weekend, we had hollering James call up fast Asleep.
Speaker 3: Of course, as always.
Speaker 1: And Marcel and I had a conversation between mar Sell
Speaker 1: and hollering James. This really was a mensa meeting and
Speaker 1: if you heard it, it's one of the great moments.
Speaker 1: I hope it's on the year end show. I told people,
Speaker 1: I said, listen, you people, this thing's got to be
Speaker 1: on the year end show. This is one of the
Speaker 1: great moments we've done on the show. I know it's
Speaker 1: only July and there's a lot of time left between
Speaker 1: now and the end of the year, but hollering James
Speaker 1: was sleeping. Marcel always says, can you He wants to
Speaker 1: do this bit where he puts another caller on the
Speaker 1: air and all this stuff. So I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: I'll appease Marcel, so I put him on with James.
Speaker 1: I would then put Marcel on hold. I then went
Speaker 1: back to James. I would say something Marcel said, and
Speaker 1: then James would snore, and then I would come back
Speaker 1: to Marcell and said and I would I would say,
Speaker 1: here's what holler and James said, and then Marcell would
Speaker 1: respond to it, right, because you keep responding to it.
Speaker 1: So then I would go back to hollering James. And
Speaker 1: we did this seesaw type of thing, and it was.
Speaker 3: It was a lot of fun.
Speaker 1: I'd agree. I hope you enjoy a lot of people
Speaker 1: seem to enjoy it based on the feedback I got
Speaker 1: on the email bag, So you guys seem to like
Speaker 1: it a lot. And James, that is his superpower. Yes,
Speaker 1: that is his superpower. It's one of the more enjoyable
Speaker 1: segments I've done in years, going back and forth with
Speaker 1: Holler and James and Marcel. And you can't do that
Speaker 1: kind of thing on a podcast. The podcast is great
Speaker 1: because we are on vacation somewhere far far away in
Speaker 1: the boondocks. You can do a podcast. It's easy to
Speaker 1: do it. You don't need to have all this equipment
Speaker 1: and all that stuff like a radio show. But at
Speaker 1: the same time, there's some things that you can't do
Speaker 1: on a podcast that you can't do on a radio show.
Speaker 1: So it's just the reality of the world. Now, moving
Speaker 1: on from that, we have turning the page. Kids say
Speaker 1: the Darnedest Things. The Uncle Benny addition, not to be
Speaker 1: confused with other editions of kids say the Darnedest things.
Speaker 1: This is totally separate here, Dan, all right, so took
Speaker 1: my niece and nephew out to a nice bonding tell
Speaker 1: me me my wife, of course, the aunt, the ton
Speaker 1: as she's called. So I took the niece and nephew
Speaker 1: out for a trip to Hollywood in the Wood in Hollywood,
Speaker 1: it was my niece's birthday. Recently she's now the Crazy eights,
Speaker 1: So happy birthday to my.
Speaker 3: Niece and she.
Speaker 1: Gets to pick something for her birthday. She said she
Speaker 1: wanted to go to the Funko Pop Store in Hollywood.
Speaker 1: Have you ever been to the Funko Pop store in Hollywood, Danny, No.
Speaker 3: But I have a couple of Funko Pops at home
Speaker 3: on my memorabilia shelf.
Speaker 1: So co is a little too young for this. I
Speaker 1: would wait a couple of years. It's amazing though. It's
Speaker 1: like going to Disneyland. Oh, I bet it's insane. I
Speaker 1: did not know what to expect when I went in there,
Speaker 1: and I was blown away by what I saw. Just
Speaker 1: they nailed it. Free to get in there, of course
Speaker 1: you end up spending a bunch of money. You can
Speaker 1: make your own custom made Funko Pop, which is what
Speaker 1: my niece wanted. And so that was the highlight. That
Speaker 1: was the main event. We had a fun trip. We
Speaker 1: went to my favorite Mexican place in La el Coyote
Speaker 1: on Beverly. I used to live right near there, eat
Speaker 1: some Mexican food. That was where Sharon Tate had her
Speaker 1: final meal, killed by the Manson family. They actually have
Speaker 1: a little drawing of her out in front of the restaurant.
Speaker 1: That's a long time ago. Anyway, the kids get to
Speaker 1: the point. Please the kids say, of the darnest things.
Speaker 1: My five year old nephew who was tagging along because
Speaker 1: why not. His big sister was going, so he had
Speaker 1: to go with. So my five year old nephew, Jude,
Speaker 1: and on the way going to La and a little
Speaker 1: bonding Aunt and uncle kids bonding. Why not? And we
Speaker 1: get off the one to one freeway in La La,
Speaker 1: land in La and immediately we are transformed in a portal,
Speaker 1: not the transfer portal, but a portal, and we are
Speaker 1: dropped in to Dante's inferno. It looks like the Tenderloin
Speaker 1: district in San Francisco, but we're in La shanty town. USA.
Speaker 1: Looks like a third world country. There's tens over here,
Speaker 1: which is people are down, like the people in tents
Speaker 1: on the sidewalk there's zombies half naked walking around like
Speaker 1: you'd seen in the Tenderloin district. There's a flophouse here,
Speaker 1: there's a rat hole over there. So get to the
Speaker 1: main event. My nephew, now I did not prod him
Speaker 1: on this. My nephew looks out the window, sees the
Speaker 1: hard scrabble streets of La, the vagrants walking through the feces,
Speaker 1: the uror in the trash, and he says, without flinching,
Speaker 1: he says to me, is this a junkyard?
Speaker 3: How do you ever walk by a homeless person and
Speaker 3: ask yourself what can one person really do to.
Speaker 1: Help five year old kid? Is this a junkyard? He
Speaker 1: didn't know what homeless people are. He doesn't know any
Speaker 1: of that, That's what he said. Doubt you can thank
Speaker 1: your politicians for not keeping track of any lines, any
Speaker 1: laws or anything like that. So that that was my
Speaker 1: tail with my nephew. Moving on and we have the
Speaker 1: fun facts up hit the fun fun fact for fact
Speaker 1: for FA.
Speaker 3: I think you already met your quota for the weekend.
Speaker 1: Get one more time, Come on, Ohio, come.
Speaker 3: On one more.
Speaker 1: And thank you Ohio. Well, here's a fun fact for
Speaker 1: this Saturday. Saturday the annual number of worldwide shark bites
Speaker 1: is ten ten times less. It's not ten, but ten
Speaker 1: times less than the number of people beaten by other
Speaker 1: human beings in New York. That is my fun And
Speaker 1: let me repeat that. So because there's a lot of
Speaker 1: moving parts. So the annual number of worldwide shark bites
Speaker 1: ten times less than the number of people bitten by
Speaker 1: other people in New York.
Speaker 3: Now, are those hickeyes or like a bite trying to
Speaker 3: injure somebody in New York?
Speaker 1: It doesn't say, but I'm going vampire. I'm going vampire
Speaker 1: sucking blood is what I'm going with.
Speaker 3: Yeah, all right, at.
Speaker 1: What bonus fun fact? Bonus fun fact? We have two
Speaker 1: fun facts. According to a recent survey of Americans, eighty
Speaker 1: four percent of vegetarians and vegans go back to the
Speaker 1: flesh of animals. They go back to eating meat eighty
Speaker 1: four percent. Fail rate eighty four percent.
Speaker 3: I believe it. Yeah, we have sharp teeth for a reason.
Speaker 1: That is similar to the percentage. You know, the numbers
Speaker 1: on people that go to rehab, and how if you
Speaker 1: go to rehab, usually you have to go to rehab
Speaker 1: multiple time because it's very difficult to overcome the demons,
Speaker 1: you know, and all that, and so I think that's
Speaker 1: around the same percent. So whether you're getting off meet,
Speaker 1: you're trying to stay off Meet, or stay off drugs,
Speaker 1: the success rate is about the same. It's about the same.
Speaker 1: Are we have the idiom of the week? Are you
Speaker 1: ready for the idiom of the week? The off the
Speaker 1: week idium of the week is the witching hour when
Speaker 1: I'm on the radio, not you, Danny, you'res during the day,
Speaker 1: but when I'm on the radio, it's the witching hour.
Speaker 1: The phrase witching hour the idiom began at least as
Speaker 1: early as seventeen to seventy five. It is credited to
Speaker 1: a poem that was the Internet before the Internet poems
Speaker 1: night an Ode. It was called by Reverend Matthew Wesh
Speaker 1: was his name. I believe it's an odd name. Oh,
Speaker 1: Matthew West. That makes more sense. Matthew West. Wesh Matthew West.
Speaker 1: He's dead, so he get upset with us. But the
Speaker 1: origin actually goes back further than that. But the seventeen
Speaker 1: seventy five is when it kind of became more out
Speaker 1: there with that poem. But it goes back even further
Speaker 1: to the fifteen hundreds when the Catholic Church prohibited activities
Speaker 1: during the three am and four am time frame because
Speaker 1: they were they were fearing that witchcraft was taking over
Speaker 1: in Europe, that the witches were out at that time
Speaker 1: between three and four am. So people think the witching
Speaker 1: hours at midnight, and most people do think of it
Speaker 1: as midnight, but back in the fifteen hundreds, it was
Speaker 1: between three and four am that time period. They were
Speaker 1: afraid witchcraft in Europe, worried about that. Now the term
Speaker 1: even goes back further. It goes back to medieval Europe
Speaker 1: when people were freaking out about witches and there they
Speaker 1: thought that Harry Potter was real. They were convinced of that.
Speaker 1: And according to the Celtic folklore, which has gathered to
Speaker 1: practice magic and conduct rituals at midnight on the eve
Speaker 1: of the Sabbath. And so that's that's all tied together.
Speaker 1: The witching hour, which is either three to four am
Speaker 1: or midnight to one am on the eve of the Sabbath.
Speaker 1: We'll get out on that, Danny, it's Saturday. Anything you
Speaker 1: want to promote here.
Speaker 3: Just this fine podcast. As soon as I get done
Speaker 3: producing it, shipping it out to the world and you
Speaker 3: get done listening to it. I would love for you
Speaker 3: to go hit a five star review and then not
Speaker 3: only write a podcast review, send it to like a friend,
Speaker 3: a family member, and Ben funk I was gonna say,
Speaker 3: fun fact, I don't want to use that, Ohio, I'll
Speaker 3: drop again. But our overall rating when I started with
Speaker 3: you four point six. Now our overall rating on the
Speaker 3: podcast four point nine.
Speaker 1: Oh man.
Speaker 3: Do you know Dawn and Scott they saw that and
Speaker 3: they gave each other not only a high five in sync,
Speaker 3: they did cartwheels down the hallways at FSR.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and they said, each of us get a bonus.
Speaker 1: We get to take as many cockroaches home as we want.
Speaker 1: So congratulations, Danny, you picked the biggest cockroach in the building.
Speaker 1: That is your gift. Happy summer, enjoy the summer with
Speaker 1: the cocker roach. Absolutely all right, have a wonderful day.
Speaker 1: We got one more pod tomorrow as I continue my
Speaker 1: long long trip far far away at a distant location,
Speaker 1: and we'll catch you next time.
Speaker 3: Enjoy wyoming later, Skater my flation