1 00:00:00,680 --> 00:00:01,440 Speaker 1: Cutbooms. 2 00:00:02,279 --> 00:00:05,360 Speaker 2: If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes 3 00:00:05,400 --> 00:00:09,200 Speaker 2: a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants 4 00:00:09,200 --> 00:00:12,480 Speaker 2: of the old republic, a sol fashion of fairness. He 5 00:00:12,560 --> 00:00:15,480 Speaker 2: treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the 6 00:00:15,600 --> 00:00:19,440 Speaker 2: rich pill poppers in the penthouse. Wow to the Clearinghouse 7 00:00:19,480 --> 00:00:23,200 Speaker 2: of hot takes, break free for something special. The Fifth 8 00:00:23,200 --> 00:00:29,440 Speaker 2: Hour with Ben Maller starts right now in. 9 00:00:29,280 --> 00:00:33,840 Speaker 3: The air everywhere, The Fifth Hour with Me, Ben Mallor 10 00:00:33,960 --> 00:00:38,360 Speaker 3: and Danny g Radio and a very happy Friday to you. 11 00:00:38,440 --> 00:00:40,279 Speaker 3: We have made it to the end of the road, 12 00:00:40,320 --> 00:00:42,080 Speaker 3: which is never really the end of the road, because 13 00:00:42,120 --> 00:00:43,680 Speaker 3: when you do the radio show during the week and 14 00:00:43,800 --> 00:00:46,280 Speaker 3: you've got the podcast on the weekends, it never ends. 15 00:00:46,640 --> 00:00:49,000 Speaker 3: It never ever ends. But we are back at it 16 00:00:49,040 --> 00:00:53,640 Speaker 3: here on this Friday morning, celebrating National Merry Go Round Day. 17 00:00:54,280 --> 00:00:59,880 Speaker 1: We It's National Merry Go Round Day, So listen. 18 00:01:00,160 --> 00:01:01,600 Speaker 3: I used to love merry go rounds when I was 19 00:01:01,600 --> 00:01:03,800 Speaker 3: a kid. I rotate nuts. 20 00:01:04,160 --> 00:01:07,160 Speaker 1: How dare you? I'm an adult. I haven't been on 21 00:01:07,160 --> 00:01:07,959 Speaker 1: one in a long time. 22 00:01:08,120 --> 00:01:10,400 Speaker 3: I did love, though, I fell down another rabbit hole 23 00:01:10,440 --> 00:01:12,600 Speaker 3: when I see these dopey holidays that get my attention. 24 00:01:12,640 --> 00:01:14,200 Speaker 3: I'm like, hey, I want to know more about the 25 00:01:14,240 --> 00:01:17,039 Speaker 3: merry go round. So then I started doing some research 26 00:01:17,080 --> 00:01:18,840 Speaker 3: and you start typing some things in and some other 27 00:01:18,880 --> 00:01:20,600 Speaker 3: things come up, and you keep going and going and 28 00:01:20,640 --> 00:01:25,480 Speaker 3: going and going. The earliest known carousels five hundred a d. 29 00:01:26,520 --> 00:01:32,360 Speaker 3: But it was really the Middle Ages, the beginning of 30 00:01:32,400 --> 00:01:35,920 Speaker 3: the modern I say modern, it's crazy to say that, 31 00:01:35,959 --> 00:01:39,199 Speaker 3: but the medieval period is when the merry go round 32 00:01:39,280 --> 00:01:43,440 Speaker 3: as we know it first popped up. And it was soldiers, 33 00:01:43,480 --> 00:01:46,440 Speaker 3: medieval soldiers who would compete in this game. It was 34 00:01:46,480 --> 00:01:50,560 Speaker 3: a version of the current carousel ride to train for 35 00:01:50,760 --> 00:01:55,560 Speaker 3: jousting tournaments. And they believe that's one of the reasons 36 00:01:55,760 --> 00:01:59,800 Speaker 3: most carousels have horses on them, as a homage. 37 00:01:59,640 --> 00:02:02,440 Speaker 1: To me evol times and the jousting. 38 00:02:02,680 --> 00:02:05,720 Speaker 3: And then the next big period of time was one 39 00:02:05,760 --> 00:02:09,120 Speaker 3: hundreds of years later. In the Industrial Revolution, the mass 40 00:02:09,160 --> 00:02:15,280 Speaker 3: production of heavy machinery used in merrygo rounds became possible 41 00:02:16,240 --> 00:02:20,280 Speaker 3: and so the carousels were more available. We couldn't really 42 00:02:20,320 --> 00:02:22,359 Speaker 3: do that before there were a little small things. And 43 00:02:22,400 --> 00:02:26,919 Speaker 3: then right around eighteen hundred, the first known carousel ride 44 00:02:26,960 --> 00:02:32,240 Speaker 3: in America, and it was operated in Salem, Massachusetts, the 45 00:02:32,360 --> 00:02:35,360 Speaker 3: Salem Witch Trials famous there it was called the Wooden 46 00:02:35,480 --> 00:02:41,680 Speaker 3: Horse Circus Ride and that was in actually seventeen ninety nine. 47 00:02:41,800 --> 00:02:45,040 Speaker 3: And then later on in the eighteen hundreds, the mass 48 00:02:45,880 --> 00:02:51,240 Speaker 3: migration to America from Europe. Immigrants from Europe European countries 49 00:02:51,320 --> 00:02:55,000 Speaker 3: began to put carousels everywhere. 50 00:02:55,040 --> 00:02:56,800 Speaker 1: They loved carousels, probably it was big. 51 00:02:56,639 --> 00:02:58,360 Speaker 3: In Europe, and so they came to America and they 52 00:02:58,360 --> 00:02:59,800 Speaker 3: were like, hey, this is what we got to check 53 00:02:59,800 --> 00:03:01,760 Speaker 3: it out and people were into it. 54 00:03:02,600 --> 00:03:05,200 Speaker 1: So that's I think that's all I have. I think 55 00:03:05,240 --> 00:03:06,120 Speaker 1: that's that's all I have. 56 00:03:06,360 --> 00:03:12,040 Speaker 3: The first carousel patented was by William Schneider from Davenport, Iowa, 57 00:03:12,840 --> 00:03:16,160 Speaker 3: and that was considered the first modern modern caressel. 58 00:03:16,160 --> 00:03:19,239 Speaker 1: That was in eighteen seventy one. So there you go. 59 00:03:19,440 --> 00:03:21,240 Speaker 1: That's that's enough. We're good on that. 60 00:03:21,560 --> 00:03:25,919 Speaker 3: So on this podcast, we've got a Melancholie Maler Marlborough 61 00:03:25,960 --> 00:03:29,200 Speaker 3: Man Malar meatball and if we have time, the phrase 62 00:03:29,280 --> 00:03:31,799 Speaker 3: of the week, but we begin with this and it's 63 00:03:31,880 --> 00:03:35,360 Speaker 3: Melancholy Maler. Last night, if you were listening, we did 64 00:03:35,360 --> 00:03:41,760 Speaker 3: a special homage, a eulogy to a legend who was 65 00:03:41,880 --> 00:03:45,520 Speaker 3: not someone that had wins and losses, not real wins 66 00:03:45,560 --> 00:03:47,520 Speaker 3: and losses. There was somebody that wrote who won and 67 00:03:47,560 --> 00:03:50,880 Speaker 3: who lost? But a cultural icon if you're of a 68 00:03:50,880 --> 00:03:54,839 Speaker 3: certain age. I was a hall comaniac because I talked 69 00:03:54,880 --> 00:03:57,400 Speaker 3: about last night, Halt Cogan seemed through the eyes of 70 00:03:57,440 --> 00:04:00,880 Speaker 3: a child like he was one of the cartoon characters 71 00:04:00,920 --> 00:04:03,200 Speaker 3: I would watch on Saturday morning when I was a 72 00:04:03,200 --> 00:04:05,120 Speaker 3: little kid, and all we had was Saturday Morning cartoons 73 00:04:05,160 --> 00:04:07,240 Speaker 3: because we lived in the dark ages, and I would 74 00:04:07,240 --> 00:04:11,240 Speaker 3: watch he Man or some of these other superheroes, Captain America, 75 00:04:11,520 --> 00:04:13,560 Speaker 3: you know, comic books. I'd look at those different things, 76 00:04:13,840 --> 00:04:15,680 Speaker 3: and then you saw, like haul kose won, this guy 77 00:04:15,800 --> 00:04:18,960 Speaker 3: looks like a real life superhero, Like this is legit, 78 00:04:19,480 --> 00:04:22,640 Speaker 3: these comics, that's real life. And I was like, this 79 00:04:22,720 --> 00:04:25,520 Speaker 3: must be based on real life. And Hulk Hogan. And 80 00:04:25,560 --> 00:04:30,200 Speaker 3: then every as I talked about in the monologue last night, 81 00:04:30,360 --> 00:04:34,440 Speaker 3: everything Hulk Hogan, I was in on some of my finest, 82 00:04:34,600 --> 00:04:38,080 Speaker 3: fondest memories through the eyes of a child. Okay, through 83 00:04:38,120 --> 00:04:40,520 Speaker 3: the eyes of a child, listen. I yeah, you don't know. 84 00:04:40,640 --> 00:04:42,360 Speaker 3: At that time, when I was a kid, they had 85 00:04:42,360 --> 00:04:45,960 Speaker 3: not revealed that wrestling was fake we were so stupid, 86 00:04:46,000 --> 00:04:49,719 Speaker 3: were like, looks legit, you know, Andre the Giant taking 87 00:04:49,760 --> 00:04:54,680 Speaker 3: on hul Cogan and Macho Man, Randy Savage and all 88 00:04:54,680 --> 00:04:58,000 Speaker 3: these wild characters, right, wild characters. 89 00:04:58,040 --> 00:04:58,360 Speaker 1: And so. 90 00:05:00,080 --> 00:05:02,840 Speaker 3: Rest in peace, the hall Coger and I did see 91 00:05:02,839 --> 00:05:06,040 Speaker 3: some stuff, people trying to urinate all over the holster 92 00:05:06,160 --> 00:05:08,680 Speaker 3: and all that stuff. And listen, he was not perfect. 93 00:05:09,080 --> 00:05:12,919 Speaker 3: No one's perfect. And hall Cogan, though it touched a 94 00:05:12,920 --> 00:05:15,359 Speaker 3: lot of lives and was one of the most famous 95 00:05:15,400 --> 00:05:18,800 Speaker 3: people in the United States. 96 00:05:18,480 --> 00:05:19,839 Speaker 1: Of America when I was a kid. 97 00:05:20,839 --> 00:05:22,960 Speaker 3: He was I think of when I was a kid, 98 00:05:23,000 --> 00:05:26,760 Speaker 3: who were the most famous people? And hal Cogan is, 99 00:05:27,120 --> 00:05:29,760 Speaker 3: I don't do a list. I'm not doing a list 100 00:05:29,800 --> 00:05:32,120 Speaker 3: Terry in England. But I'm just telling you it's my 101 00:05:32,240 --> 00:05:35,479 Speaker 3: big board, haul Cogan, as I've talked about, on that 102 00:05:35,560 --> 00:05:36,080 Speaker 3: big board. 103 00:05:37,000 --> 00:05:40,560 Speaker 1: So turning the page on that story time. 104 00:05:41,000 --> 00:05:43,680 Speaker 3: Storytime on the fifth hour with me, Ben Mahler and 105 00:05:43,800 --> 00:05:46,920 Speaker 3: Danny g who is producing this podcast and will hopefully 106 00:05:47,040 --> 00:05:49,240 Speaker 3: joined me at some point this weekend, But we flashed 107 00:05:49,240 --> 00:05:52,719 Speaker 3: back to a recent journey to the face of the Sun. 108 00:05:52,760 --> 00:05:56,280 Speaker 3: So last weekend, the malordmobile was loaded up. We went 109 00:05:56,320 --> 00:06:01,960 Speaker 3: to Rancho Mirage in the californ You desert, because why not. 110 00:06:02,040 --> 00:06:04,200 Speaker 3: It's one hundred and fifteen degrees. Why would you not 111 00:06:04,279 --> 00:06:06,440 Speaker 3: go there. It's the kind of heat that makes you 112 00:06:06,520 --> 00:06:09,200 Speaker 3: question whether you're actually a human being or just a 113 00:06:09,240 --> 00:06:12,800 Speaker 3: soft boiled egg. So we went out there to enjoy 114 00:06:12,920 --> 00:06:17,200 Speaker 3: the nice heat and those beautiful luxury pools they have, 115 00:06:17,400 --> 00:06:22,800 Speaker 3: and they were nice, tepid bathwater, lukewarm, wonderful, had a 116 00:06:22,880 --> 00:06:27,919 Speaker 3: lazy river barely moving, just floating along there in the sun, 117 00:06:28,120 --> 00:06:32,400 Speaker 3: baking like you're in a rotisserie. And it was just 118 00:06:32,440 --> 00:06:35,880 Speaker 3: a nice weekend, a really more of a day than anything. 119 00:06:35,680 --> 00:06:37,560 Speaker 1: Because you gotta do this podcast, but just. 120 00:06:37,520 --> 00:06:40,240 Speaker 3: A day to kind of unwine and unplugged for a 121 00:06:40,240 --> 00:06:44,440 Speaker 3: little bit and try not to die from the atmospheric pressure. 122 00:06:45,000 --> 00:06:47,680 Speaker 1: Mind you, it is not global warming. It's called summer. 123 00:06:47,800 --> 00:06:51,719 Speaker 1: It happens every year. And yet there I was, there 124 00:06:51,760 --> 00:06:56,080 Speaker 1: I was, and there he was? And who is he? 125 00:06:56,200 --> 00:06:58,440 Speaker 1: You ask, what are your pronoun who is he? 126 00:06:58,920 --> 00:06:59,080 Speaker 2: Well? 127 00:06:59,160 --> 00:07:05,600 Speaker 3: That guy or go the guy guy fiery in the kitchen, now, 128 00:07:05,640 --> 00:07:08,880 Speaker 3: mind you, not the actual guy. Of course, I'm talking 129 00:07:08,880 --> 00:07:14,440 Speaker 3: about a glossy eight by ten of him mid bite, 130 00:07:14,560 --> 00:07:17,760 Speaker 3: or maybe he was laughing. I don't know, sunglasses lowered, 131 00:07:18,200 --> 00:07:21,840 Speaker 3: the look, the smile like he had just heard the 132 00:07:21,880 --> 00:07:25,200 Speaker 3: punchline to a joke that involves some kind of bacon 133 00:07:25,320 --> 00:07:27,320 Speaker 3: and bourbon, and he. 134 00:07:27,360 --> 00:07:28,720 Speaker 1: Was dreaming of his camaro. 135 00:07:29,600 --> 00:07:33,880 Speaker 3: And I had this epiphany while I was looking at 136 00:07:33,880 --> 00:07:34,440 Speaker 3: this photo. 137 00:07:34,600 --> 00:07:39,280 Speaker 1: You go to these places and it's like he was 138 00:07:39,360 --> 00:07:39,720 Speaker 1: just there. 139 00:07:40,760 --> 00:07:43,440 Speaker 3: You know, you toss in some kind of weird sign 140 00:07:43,520 --> 00:07:46,280 Speaker 3: spatchelor or something like that, or you know there's a 141 00:07:46,320 --> 00:07:51,080 Speaker 3: menu item like kangaroo sauce, nacho bomb, and that's the 142 00:07:51,080 --> 00:07:55,200 Speaker 3: full guy theory experience. So this was a local burger 143 00:07:55,280 --> 00:07:59,920 Speaker 3: joint out in the Palm Springs area and my wife 144 00:08:00,400 --> 00:08:02,920 Speaker 3: found I don't know whether it's up to me. 145 00:08:03,000 --> 00:08:04,360 Speaker 1: I eat it raising canes every time. 146 00:08:04,360 --> 00:08:06,720 Speaker 3: But she's like, hey, let's let's find a restaurant, what 147 00:08:06,800 --> 00:08:08,200 Speaker 3: kind of food as let's get burgers. 148 00:08:08,400 --> 00:08:10,640 Speaker 1: So she goes on Yelp. She loves Yelp. 149 00:08:10,720 --> 00:08:13,120 Speaker 3: I try to tell her, I said, listen, Yelp's fine, 150 00:08:13,280 --> 00:08:16,920 Speaker 3: but a lot of those reviews are bullshit, and but she's. 151 00:08:16,720 --> 00:08:19,480 Speaker 1: Like, oh, this is well reviewed, So she goes on there. 152 00:08:19,520 --> 00:08:23,720 Speaker 3: She's flutzing around on Yelp, and this is not a 153 00:08:23,800 --> 00:08:28,280 Speaker 3: food network pilgrimage. She didn't type in Food Network, diners, 154 00:08:28,400 --> 00:08:30,200 Speaker 3: dive ins and drives. She didn't type any of that in. 155 00:08:30,280 --> 00:08:32,920 Speaker 3: She just typed in burger places on Yelp, and this 156 00:08:32,920 --> 00:08:36,760 Speaker 3: place came up. And if she typed in diners, drive 157 00:08:36,800 --> 00:08:38,560 Speaker 3: ins and dives, I'd be like, okay, that she typed 158 00:08:38,600 --> 00:08:42,480 Speaker 3: it into Google Maps or something. This wasn't that right. 159 00:08:43,000 --> 00:08:47,839 Speaker 3: It wasn't you know, eat prey love with extra aoli. Regardless, 160 00:08:48,480 --> 00:08:53,480 Speaker 3: it didn't matter. So Guy was already there, and he's 161 00:08:53,520 --> 00:08:55,080 Speaker 3: always there, and that's the point. 162 00:08:55,200 --> 00:08:56,679 Speaker 1: That's the point. I mean, I did not. 163 00:08:56,880 --> 00:09:01,480 Speaker 3: Ask for Guy Fieri to be staring at me as 164 00:09:01,480 --> 00:09:03,960 Speaker 3: I walked into this restaurant. I didn't look for Guy Fiery, 165 00:09:04,280 --> 00:09:05,960 Speaker 3: but somehow he always is there. 166 00:09:05,960 --> 00:09:08,679 Speaker 1: He finds me. And it's the same old thing. 167 00:09:08,720 --> 00:09:11,560 Speaker 3: You walk into a diner off some dusty highway in 168 00:09:11,640 --> 00:09:13,760 Speaker 3: some place you're not normally. 169 00:09:13,360 --> 00:09:18,719 Speaker 1: At, and bam, bam bam, there is God. And this 170 00:09:18,760 --> 00:09:19,840 Speaker 1: is not an exaggeration. 171 00:09:19,880 --> 00:09:21,959 Speaker 3: The reason I'm bringing this up full disclosure, it's not 172 00:09:22,000 --> 00:09:25,120 Speaker 3: just because of a one off at some burger joint 173 00:09:25,160 --> 00:09:28,200 Speaker 3: in Palm Springs. But this is the fifth or sixth 174 00:09:28,200 --> 00:09:31,439 Speaker 3: time in my travels in recent years that I have 175 00:09:31,640 --> 00:09:36,320 Speaker 3: randomly sashade wandered into some restaurant I had never been 176 00:09:36,360 --> 00:09:39,200 Speaker 3: to before, only to be greeted by the mayor of 177 00:09:39,240 --> 00:09:44,839 Speaker 3: Flavortown right there. Now, One, you say, Okay, that's it, 178 00:09:45,200 --> 00:09:48,480 Speaker 3: that's fine. Two maybe that's a coincidence, but keeps happening. 179 00:09:48,520 --> 00:09:53,360 Speaker 3: It's like I'm getting getting photo bombed by a cartoon ghost. 180 00:09:54,040 --> 00:09:58,440 Speaker 3: And he's not like stalking me, He's just there. And 181 00:09:58,520 --> 00:10:01,080 Speaker 3: it is like he's the culinary version of the Virgin 182 00:10:01,160 --> 00:10:04,839 Speaker 3: Mary appearing on toast. You see those stories every so often, right, 183 00:10:04,960 --> 00:10:08,120 Speaker 3: or Jesus or something like that. Only this, this is 184 00:10:08,160 --> 00:10:11,800 Speaker 3: with frosted tips and the wristbands and all that, which 185 00:10:11,880 --> 00:10:16,240 Speaker 3: raises the obvious question, what the hell is going on? 186 00:10:16,400 --> 00:10:16,600 Speaker 1: Right? 187 00:10:16,640 --> 00:10:19,480 Speaker 3: What the f is going on now? Guy Fieri. At 188 00:10:19,480 --> 00:10:22,880 Speaker 3: some point in the last decade, and maybe it's been 189 00:10:22,920 --> 00:10:24,319 Speaker 3: longer than that, I just feel like it's been the 190 00:10:24,400 --> 00:10:28,600 Speaker 3: last decade, he went from being a guy that was 191 00:10:28,679 --> 00:10:33,000 Speaker 3: goofed on a late night punchline to a full blown 192 00:10:33,200 --> 00:10:37,320 Speaker 3: spiritual symbol. Now not in a religious sense, I don't 193 00:10:37,480 --> 00:10:39,280 Speaker 3: upset you, and not in a religious sense, more so 194 00:10:40,480 --> 00:10:43,880 Speaker 3: in the sense that when you walk into a mom 195 00:10:43,920 --> 00:10:50,040 Speaker 3: and pop eatery and you see that framed Guy Fiery photo. 196 00:10:51,240 --> 00:10:55,600 Speaker 3: You're experiencing something to the point now where I'm starting 197 00:10:55,640 --> 00:10:58,199 Speaker 3: to wonder if these mom and pop restaurants it's part 198 00:10:58,240 --> 00:11:01,000 Speaker 3: of the starter kit where when you're starting the restaurant, 199 00:11:01,040 --> 00:11:02,760 Speaker 3: just to make it seem like you got street cred, 200 00:11:03,120 --> 00:11:06,000 Speaker 3: you buy a photo of Guy Fieri with some chef 201 00:11:06,040 --> 00:11:07,719 Speaker 3: and you just pretend like it's in the back of 202 00:11:07,800 --> 00:11:08,320 Speaker 3: your kitchen. 203 00:11:09,480 --> 00:11:10,000 Speaker 1: But there it is. 204 00:11:10,080 --> 00:11:13,280 Speaker 3: Right. If Guy Fieri's face and a restaurant, it is 205 00:11:13,320 --> 00:11:17,960 Speaker 3: like some kind of secular blessing, like a neon open 206 00:11:18,080 --> 00:11:20,680 Speaker 3: sign to let you know it's okay, this is a 207 00:11:20,720 --> 00:11:23,640 Speaker 3: safe space for your stomach. And it says this place 208 00:11:24,200 --> 00:11:26,800 Speaker 3: may not pass the health inspection, but. 209 00:11:26,840 --> 00:11:29,400 Speaker 1: It is going to slap good. It is going to 210 00:11:29,440 --> 00:11:29,760 Speaker 1: be good. 211 00:11:29,760 --> 00:11:33,520 Speaker 3: It's not really the fame anymore. It's a mythological thing. 212 00:11:34,360 --> 00:11:36,559 Speaker 3: And so I've determined that Guy Fieri when it comes 213 00:11:36,600 --> 00:11:40,040 Speaker 3: to mom and pop restaurants is Buddha. He's Buddha with 214 00:11:40,080 --> 00:11:43,000 Speaker 3: Oakley's right, He's back in the day. I loved Anthony Bourdain. 215 00:11:43,200 --> 00:11:46,440 Speaker 3: I loved his take on restaurants and the way that 216 00:11:46,520 --> 00:11:49,000 Speaker 3: he yapped and the voiceovers and all that. But it's 217 00:11:49,000 --> 00:11:52,160 Speaker 3: like Guy Fieri is now Anthony Bourdain and technicolor, and 218 00:11:52,800 --> 00:11:56,280 Speaker 3: he is. What happens when you take out that old 219 00:11:56,320 --> 00:12:00,000 Speaker 3: food pyramid and you put a hype man right now, 220 00:12:00,320 --> 00:12:03,960 Speaker 3: It like that's the hype man, and people talk about, hey, 221 00:12:04,000 --> 00:12:06,640 Speaker 3: you got to support local businesses, and I grew. I 222 00:12:06,640 --> 00:12:11,120 Speaker 3: believe that's important, right, that's important, and I tried to 223 00:12:11,520 --> 00:12:14,960 Speaker 3: do that. I try to avoid when I'm traveling, uh, 224 00:12:15,000 --> 00:12:18,719 Speaker 3: and I actually commit to that life as much as 225 00:12:18,720 --> 00:12:22,360 Speaker 3: I can, and I try to avoid the Applebee's and 226 00:12:22,440 --> 00:12:25,600 Speaker 3: the Cheesecake Factory and the Olive Garden and all those place. 227 00:12:25,640 --> 00:12:27,199 Speaker 3: It's not that I don't enjoy the food there. I 228 00:12:27,240 --> 00:12:28,839 Speaker 3: used to eat a cheesecat factory all the time. 229 00:12:29,400 --> 00:12:30,280 Speaker 1: And you know all. 230 00:12:30,160 --> 00:12:32,920 Speaker 3: The places that have the big calorie counts on the 231 00:12:32,960 --> 00:12:37,840 Speaker 3: menu because they are big, corporately run restaurants. So once 232 00:12:37,880 --> 00:12:40,640 Speaker 3: you commit to going away from those places, you begin 233 00:12:40,720 --> 00:12:44,760 Speaker 3: to notice what I call the fiery effect. 234 00:12:44,800 --> 00:12:45,880 Speaker 1: It just appears. 235 00:12:46,320 --> 00:12:49,440 Speaker 3: And it's not just the photo on the wall in 236 00:12:49,480 --> 00:12:54,600 Speaker 3: these mom and pop joints. It's like the whole zeitgeist. 237 00:12:54,600 --> 00:12:58,600 Speaker 3: Like the portions are always usually supersized, like the good 238 00:12:58,640 --> 00:13:01,960 Speaker 3: old days at McDonald's back in the day. They've got 239 00:13:01,960 --> 00:13:08,320 Speaker 3: some funky sauce that the foodies love. There's a weird cocktail. 240 00:13:08,440 --> 00:13:11,200 Speaker 3: They threw a holapano in there. Nobody knows why. 241 00:13:11,000 --> 00:13:11,760 Speaker 1: They just did it. 242 00:13:12,480 --> 00:13:16,040 Speaker 3: And there's an eighty four percent chance that the server 243 00:13:16,120 --> 00:13:19,360 Speaker 3: will be wearing a shirt with some kind of flying 244 00:13:19,480 --> 00:13:22,280 Speaker 3: pig or a flame on it. And it always goes 245 00:13:22,320 --> 00:13:26,080 Speaker 3: back to the Buddha, right, the Buddha with Oakleys. The 246 00:13:26,120 --> 00:13:30,400 Speaker 3: man is omnipresent, so he's not necessarily following you. He 247 00:13:30,960 --> 00:13:36,760 Speaker 3: has become you, at least the culinary aspect. And I 248 00:13:36,880 --> 00:13:39,000 Speaker 3: used to think it was. 249 00:13:39,000 --> 00:13:44,959 Speaker 1: A wack adoodle, right, wackadoodle, But he's omnipresent. Like, how 250 00:13:45,520 --> 00:13:46,200 Speaker 1: is Guy? 251 00:13:46,400 --> 00:13:51,880 Speaker 3: Everywhere I go again, and everywhere I'm obviously embellishing a bit. 252 00:13:53,320 --> 00:13:56,480 Speaker 3: I had that moment that he is and this is 253 00:13:56,520 --> 00:13:59,840 Speaker 3: really the other thing here. When I kept seeing Guy 254 00:14:00,520 --> 00:14:03,680 Speaker 3: the breaking point, the tipping point was last weekend. But 255 00:14:03,800 --> 00:14:09,040 Speaker 3: Guy Fieri is like one of the final unifying mascots 256 00:14:09,080 --> 00:14:10,760 Speaker 3: we have in America now. When I was a kid 257 00:14:10,800 --> 00:14:13,400 Speaker 3: back in my day, and I grew up watching Haul Cogan, 258 00:14:13,520 --> 00:14:17,400 Speaker 3: but I also had in these things called magazines a 259 00:14:17,440 --> 00:14:21,600 Speaker 3: lot of advertisements with Joe Cammell and the Marble Man, 260 00:14:22,880 --> 00:14:24,760 Speaker 3: and they're gone, right, you don't see a lot of 261 00:14:24,800 --> 00:14:27,160 Speaker 3: the Marble Man. You don't see Joe Campbell. Now we 262 00:14:27,280 --> 00:14:32,760 Speaker 3: have Guy. It's like post all that. It's you know, 263 00:14:33,080 --> 00:14:36,600 Speaker 3: the thing that made him easy to mock back in 264 00:14:36,600 --> 00:14:42,520 Speaker 3: the day, the flames, the hokey, corny catchphrases, the diners 265 00:14:42,760 --> 00:14:46,320 Speaker 3: drenched in the devil's blood of ranch dressing. Now that 266 00:14:46,480 --> 00:14:50,160 Speaker 3: is what has become his signature and is universally loved. 267 00:14:50,920 --> 00:14:56,360 Speaker 3: And you don't need to know who the national is to, 268 00:14:56,920 --> 00:15:01,160 Speaker 3: you know, enjoy the triple stacked French to stuffed with 269 00:15:01,680 --> 00:15:06,520 Speaker 3: blueberries and cheesecake and all this other. But Guy speaks 270 00:15:06,560 --> 00:15:10,800 Speaker 3: to to the fact that restaurants they feel like they 271 00:15:10,800 --> 00:15:12,040 Speaker 3: need that as a street credit. 272 00:15:12,040 --> 00:15:13,240 Speaker 1: I said earlier, like. 273 00:15:13,200 --> 00:15:15,640 Speaker 3: They need that a guys provide street because, like they 274 00:15:15,640 --> 00:15:19,520 Speaker 3: were legit. He's the rubber stamp, the you know, in 275 00:15:19,520 --> 00:15:23,280 Speaker 3: sports memorabilia, you got to get something authenticated. He's the 276 00:15:23,320 --> 00:15:28,760 Speaker 3: authenticator for a generation, you know. And then you know, 277 00:15:28,760 --> 00:15:32,200 Speaker 3: we talking about Michelin Star restaurants and all that, but 278 00:15:32,640 --> 00:15:34,400 Speaker 3: you know, I don't necessarily want to go to those places. 279 00:15:34,400 --> 00:15:34,920 Speaker 1: But he will. 280 00:15:34,960 --> 00:15:39,000 Speaker 3: You can absolutely trust some dude who used to work 281 00:15:39,040 --> 00:15:39,840 Speaker 3: at a restaurant. 282 00:15:39,920 --> 00:15:41,440 Speaker 1: You know, he's a barely. 283 00:15:41,120 --> 00:15:44,440 Speaker 3: Got out of school from northern California, Nor cal the 284 00:15:44,560 --> 00:15:49,000 Speaker 3: bleach blonde dude yelling this is money, this is money, 285 00:15:49,320 --> 00:15:52,360 Speaker 3: and uh, you know, the riding off into the sunset. 286 00:15:52,840 --> 00:15:56,280 Speaker 3: So maybe it's not a coincidce. I don't think it's 287 00:15:56,280 --> 00:15:59,240 Speaker 3: a coincidence, Like maybe guy Fiery is just what ends 288 00:15:59,320 --> 00:16:03,840 Speaker 3: up happening when you're on the journey. And I'm not 289 00:16:03,880 --> 00:16:07,520 Speaker 3: talking about some fake social media sojourn. We're talking about 290 00:16:07,520 --> 00:16:12,880 Speaker 3: the real sweaty you know, melting pot road trip that 291 00:16:13,080 --> 00:16:15,120 Speaker 3: involves stopping somewhere. 292 00:16:14,840 --> 00:16:16,200 Speaker 1: That you didn't really plan on. 293 00:16:16,400 --> 00:16:18,960 Speaker 3: And they might have an elk burger on the menu, 294 00:16:19,120 --> 00:16:21,680 Speaker 3: smothered and ghost pepper aolie. 295 00:16:21,720 --> 00:16:22,640 Speaker 1: I don't even know what that is. 296 00:16:24,240 --> 00:16:27,440 Speaker 3: And there he is, you know, he's not working as 297 00:16:27,480 --> 00:16:30,160 Speaker 3: the chef. Is he a celebrity? 298 00:16:30,160 --> 00:16:31,040 Speaker 1: Well not in this case. 299 00:16:31,080 --> 00:16:34,120 Speaker 3: He's just not even a real person at this point. Again, 300 00:16:34,520 --> 00:16:38,200 Speaker 3: he is smiling the kitchen Buddha. He's there. 301 00:16:38,280 --> 00:16:42,040 Speaker 1: He's saying, welcome, you found it. The food is good here, 302 00:16:42,760 --> 00:16:43,480 Speaker 1: It's okay. 303 00:16:44,680 --> 00:16:47,320 Speaker 3: Yes, Now, one thing that was not on the menu 304 00:16:47,360 --> 00:16:49,400 Speaker 3: at this burger place was the Malar meatball. But we 305 00:16:49,440 --> 00:16:52,080 Speaker 3: turned the page because I would like to remind you 306 00:16:52,280 --> 00:16:53,360 Speaker 3: some of the highlights of the week. 307 00:16:53,400 --> 00:16:56,040 Speaker 1: Here we mentioned the Hull cogan. That not a highlight. 308 00:16:56,200 --> 00:16:59,240 Speaker 1: Doing a eulogy. It's like the old Casey Kasem thing. 309 00:16:59,240 --> 00:17:01,600 Speaker 3: I'm sick and tied coming out of an upbeat song, 310 00:17:01,920 --> 00:17:04,720 Speaker 3: and I got to do a dog death dedication. You 311 00:17:04,760 --> 00:17:08,560 Speaker 3: know all that, But watch out for the algorithm army. 312 00:17:08,960 --> 00:17:11,480 Speaker 3: Another reminder this week now, if you listen to the 313 00:17:11,520 --> 00:17:13,879 Speaker 3: Overnight Show, and God bless you if you do, and 314 00:17:13,920 --> 00:17:16,360 Speaker 3: you probably do. Most people, very rarely do I get 315 00:17:16,359 --> 00:17:18,480 Speaker 3: an email. You know, I don't never hear your Overnight show, 316 00:17:18,520 --> 00:17:20,600 Speaker 3: but I hear that fifth hour podcast. 317 00:17:21,080 --> 00:17:22,000 Speaker 1: I don't get a lot of that. 318 00:17:22,280 --> 00:17:28,399 Speaker 3: So we do twenty hours of original audio content on 319 00:17:28,880 --> 00:17:33,000 Speaker 3: the show. Mallard monologues. Each hour starts with the Malar monologue. Now, 320 00:17:33,040 --> 00:17:38,080 Speaker 3: typically each one covers not one, not two, but three stories. Right, 321 00:17:38,520 --> 00:17:45,040 Speaker 3: that is roughly sixty topics covered on live radio six 322 00:17:45,160 --> 00:17:49,560 Speaker 3: hundred plus stations. That's the math, right, So all of 323 00:17:49,800 --> 00:17:53,159 Speaker 3: the week's work, the one that launched all of the 324 00:17:53,200 --> 00:17:55,439 Speaker 3: things I talked about, the one that launched the biggest uprising. 325 00:17:55,440 --> 00:17:55,919 Speaker 1: You know what it was. 326 00:17:57,040 --> 00:17:58,639 Speaker 3: It was not the Malleur pluse. I will have the 327 00:17:58,680 --> 00:18:01,520 Speaker 3: Mallard pluza postgame though later this weekend. We like to 328 00:18:01,560 --> 00:18:04,119 Speaker 3: learn all the affiliates down line. The malod Palooza postgame 329 00:18:04,600 --> 00:18:06,600 Speaker 3: coming up down line. But take a guess what do 330 00:18:06,600 --> 00:18:08,160 Speaker 3: you think costs the biggest uprising? 331 00:18:09,160 --> 00:18:09,320 Speaker 1: Ding? 332 00:18:09,400 --> 00:18:09,879 Speaker 2: Ding ding ning? 333 00:18:10,240 --> 00:18:12,000 Speaker 1: Yes, the spicy. 334 00:18:12,520 --> 00:18:17,919 Speaker 3: Margherita Mallard monologue, the late night soliloquy on Hail to 335 00:18:18,320 --> 00:18:24,080 Speaker 3: the red Skins, Hail to Victry. Yes, the Redskins and 336 00:18:24,119 --> 00:18:31,320 Speaker 3: the Cleveland Indians nickname monologue did that, and suddenly I 337 00:18:31,440 --> 00:18:36,360 Speaker 3: had a bullseye on my chest. Public Anime number one, 338 00:18:36,440 --> 00:18:42,199 Speaker 3: I mentioned President Donald J. Trump supporting the return of 339 00:18:42,200 --> 00:18:45,800 Speaker 3: those old sporty nicknames that were canceled in the crazy 340 00:18:45,920 --> 00:18:49,800 Speaker 3: COVID hayze of the twenty twenty period and all that. 341 00:18:50,680 --> 00:18:51,679 Speaker 1: So I ended up. 342 00:18:51,560 --> 00:18:55,639 Speaker 3: With the pitchfork wokester p one charging I don't think 343 00:18:55,640 --> 00:18:57,880 Speaker 3: they're p ones, but they were. They were charging at 344 00:18:57,880 --> 00:19:02,280 Speaker 3: me like I had just pulled the fire alarm during 345 00:19:02,320 --> 00:19:07,520 Speaker 3: their nap time over at NPR headquarters. And why because 346 00:19:07,800 --> 00:19:12,040 Speaker 3: I dare say something they did not like? And More importantly, 347 00:19:13,000 --> 00:19:15,480 Speaker 3: I believe this to be true. The algorithm told them 348 00:19:15,520 --> 00:19:20,680 Speaker 3: not to like it, and now let's not kid ourselves, right, 349 00:19:20,760 --> 00:19:24,359 Speaker 3: every man, woman and child knows that I don't believe 350 00:19:24,400 --> 00:19:26,720 Speaker 3: this was like totally on the up and up, and 351 00:19:26,760 --> 00:19:28,600 Speaker 3: I didn't talk about it on the air too much 352 00:19:28,640 --> 00:19:32,679 Speaker 3: because I didn't want to give them the satisfaction that 353 00:19:32,760 --> 00:19:36,359 Speaker 3: what they were getting. Really a lot of the trolls 354 00:19:36,440 --> 00:19:38,280 Speaker 3: just want the reaction, So if I don't bring it up, 355 00:19:38,359 --> 00:19:41,160 Speaker 3: you know, fine. Sometimes I like to engage dumb people 356 00:19:41,200 --> 00:19:47,920 Speaker 3: like astro fans, Ehstros. But this was digital attempted, digital stoning, stoning. 357 00:19:48,480 --> 00:19:51,119 Speaker 3: You could feel it happening in real time. A lot 358 00:19:51,119 --> 00:19:54,080 Speaker 3: of us was email also, so the second the mal 359 00:19:54,280 --> 00:19:56,320 Speaker 3: monologue hit the airwas I say, hit the airways. I'm 360 00:19:56,320 --> 00:19:59,760 Speaker 3: talking about the rebroadcast and repackaging on the different social 361 00:19:59,800 --> 00:20:00,840 Speaker 3: media is like. 362 00:20:00,840 --> 00:20:01,639 Speaker 1: YouTube or whatever. 363 00:20:01,800 --> 00:20:05,399 Speaker 3: The algorithm was then activated like some kind of weird 364 00:20:05,480 --> 00:20:10,959 Speaker 3: trapdoor beneath the gas bag headquarters, and boom, bam, bang, 365 00:20:11,520 --> 00:20:15,520 Speaker 3: out came the box. That's right, like Transformers, more than 366 00:20:15,600 --> 00:20:18,600 Speaker 3: meets the eye, or in this case, more than meets 367 00:20:18,600 --> 00:20:21,280 Speaker 3: the ear. So the I'm talking about the paid blue 368 00:20:21,359 --> 00:20:24,159 Speaker 3: check mark wannabes. Also that used to mean something if 369 00:20:24,200 --> 00:20:25,120 Speaker 3: he had a blue check mark. 370 00:20:25,160 --> 00:20:29,360 Speaker 1: Not anymore. The the buzzword brigadiers. 371 00:20:29,080 --> 00:20:33,679 Speaker 3: Screaming, You're just a Malor Mallor meatball is all you are. 372 00:20:33,720 --> 00:20:35,399 Speaker 1: That's why you're doing the overnight show. You know, all 373 00:20:35,400 --> 00:20:36,360 Speaker 1: the usual nonsense. 374 00:20:36,440 --> 00:20:38,520 Speaker 3: If you were any good, you'd be on during today. 375 00:20:39,080 --> 00:20:41,359 Speaker 3: Uh And but the Malor meatball one. 376 00:20:41,280 --> 00:20:43,200 Speaker 1: One one dude. I don't even know where the guy 377 00:20:43,280 --> 00:20:46,280 Speaker 1: was from. I can assume, but I. 378 00:20:46,240 --> 00:20:49,800 Speaker 3: Think he is from Boston and might might or might 379 00:20:50,000 --> 00:20:52,520 Speaker 3: based on his email and I might have looked him up. 380 00:20:52,880 --> 00:20:55,119 Speaker 3: May have gone to an Ivy League school in the 381 00:20:55,119 --> 00:20:57,919 Speaker 3: Boston area. Anyway, the guy was very upset with me. 382 00:20:58,240 --> 00:21:00,760 Speaker 3: You just to malor me, you know, the meatball while 383 00:21:00,760 --> 00:21:02,320 Speaker 3: you're on a night And I was like, Malor meatball, 384 00:21:02,359 --> 00:21:05,560 Speaker 3: that sounds delicious. We got to get a Mallard meatball 385 00:21:05,640 --> 00:21:07,679 Speaker 3: on the menu. We have the Ben Mallard chicken fingers 386 00:21:08,040 --> 00:21:10,280 Speaker 3: at the Landing in Liberty, Missouri. We have the Ben 387 00:21:10,320 --> 00:21:13,280 Speaker 3: Maller chicken sandwich at the Sportsbook Bar and Grill in Denver, 388 00:21:14,040 --> 00:21:17,280 Speaker 3: but not the Malar meatball. How about an oversized giant 389 00:21:17,320 --> 00:21:23,320 Speaker 3: meatball with an not spaghetti Feticini. How about that who 390 00:21:23,400 --> 00:21:29,760 Speaker 3: says no, malar meatball covered in marinera but surrounded by fetichini, 391 00:21:29,800 --> 00:21:33,440 Speaker 3: Alfredo with the Alfredo sauce chef's kiss, who says no, 392 00:21:33,720 --> 00:21:36,880 Speaker 3: he contacted me. Let's do it, malar meatball. I'm in 393 00:21:37,119 --> 00:21:40,520 Speaker 3: come on anyway. So back to the story. So I decided, okay, fine, 394 00:21:40,600 --> 00:21:43,440 Speaker 3: let's play ball. And again, this is a one on 395 00:21:43,440 --> 00:21:45,760 Speaker 3: one situation. So what was my response to this guy 396 00:21:45,800 --> 00:21:47,240 Speaker 3: who called me a malar meatball? 397 00:21:47,240 --> 00:21:48,800 Speaker 1: That's why you're on an overnights dude. 398 00:21:49,280 --> 00:21:52,640 Speaker 3: I pointed out that what I do is an opinion 399 00:21:52,680 --> 00:21:53,240 Speaker 3: based show. 400 00:21:53,880 --> 00:21:55,440 Speaker 1: And while it is true I'm on in. 401 00:21:55,400 --> 00:21:58,080 Speaker 3: The middle of the night, the fact that you valued 402 00:21:58,119 --> 00:22:01,280 Speaker 3: my opinion so much you spent time to track down 403 00:22:01,320 --> 00:22:04,200 Speaker 3: how to contact me, I'm honored by because I have 404 00:22:04,320 --> 00:22:06,480 Speaker 3: no idea who you are, and I would have had 405 00:22:06,520 --> 00:22:09,119 Speaker 3: no contact with you if you hadn't reached out to me. 406 00:22:09,640 --> 00:22:11,560 Speaker 3: And then I said, listen again, it's opinion based. I 407 00:22:11,600 --> 00:22:14,399 Speaker 3: gave my opinion. Then I asked, what exactly did I 408 00:22:14,440 --> 00:22:17,479 Speaker 3: say that was wrong? It's always a tough question. Their 409 00:22:17,520 --> 00:22:21,359 Speaker 3: response was pretty much radio silence. Crickets, you know nothing 410 00:22:21,400 --> 00:22:25,920 Speaker 3: real nothing tangible. Instead with this guy, this one guy 411 00:22:26,119 --> 00:22:29,399 Speaker 3: in particular, sent was a copy and paste. It seemed 412 00:22:29,440 --> 00:22:31,480 Speaker 3: like he had sent it to other people links from 413 00:22:31,480 --> 00:22:36,080 Speaker 3: like a New York Times opinion page article, and there 414 00:22:36,200 --> 00:22:37,240 Speaker 3: was something else. 415 00:22:37,480 --> 00:22:38,560 Speaker 1: I go back to NPR. 416 00:22:38,680 --> 00:22:41,639 Speaker 3: It was like some kind of NPR thing about this, 417 00:22:41,960 --> 00:22:43,840 Speaker 3: And so listen, here's the truth. 418 00:22:44,160 --> 00:22:46,119 Speaker 1: The Outgo Rhythm Warriors. 419 00:22:46,560 --> 00:22:50,880 Speaker 3: They don't really want to admit that they're locked in 420 00:22:50,880 --> 00:22:54,639 Speaker 3: in their dogma. Everything's political, right, mascots are political, and 421 00:22:54,680 --> 00:22:57,480 Speaker 3: this is more evidence of that. But the mere mention 422 00:22:58,640 --> 00:23:01,200 Speaker 3: of a story that was in the news cycle because 423 00:23:01,240 --> 00:23:03,639 Speaker 3: the President of the United States talked about it, and 424 00:23:03,680 --> 00:23:06,720 Speaker 3: we're a sports show and it tied in, the mere 425 00:23:06,800 --> 00:23:10,800 Speaker 3: mention of team nicknames sends certain people into full death 426 00:23:10,880 --> 00:23:14,840 Speaker 3: con one meltdown, right meltdown. It's no longer you know 427 00:23:15,040 --> 00:23:18,080 Speaker 3: context or your opinion. We can agree to disagree. It's 428 00:23:18,080 --> 00:23:20,000 Speaker 3: been it han't been less way in years. Right, it's 429 00:23:20,000 --> 00:23:21,520 Speaker 3: not new, but it's about. 430 00:23:21,920 --> 00:23:25,679 Speaker 1: Enforcing your worldview. And it doesn't matter. 431 00:23:26,000 --> 00:23:28,560 Speaker 3: They don't even know who I am, you know, but 432 00:23:28,640 --> 00:23:31,119 Speaker 3: yet they want to take shots and over even an 433 00:23:31,200 --> 00:23:37,200 Speaker 3: adopey overnight sports radio show. And if I'm someone they 434 00:23:37,240 --> 00:23:41,439 Speaker 3: agree with, and I had said the thing they like, 435 00:23:42,000 --> 00:23:45,280 Speaker 3: then I would have been nominated for a Nobel prize. 436 00:23:45,440 --> 00:23:49,720 Speaker 1: Right. But if somebody like me says, hey, you know 437 00:23:49,960 --> 00:23:52,119 Speaker 1: they didn't. You know you said the wrong thing. You know, 438 00:23:52,280 --> 00:23:55,920 Speaker 1: I'm a maul or meatball, burn the radio tower down. Now. 439 00:23:55,960 --> 00:24:01,840 Speaker 3: Look, I'm not here to be the advocate for the 440 00:24:01,880 --> 00:24:04,520 Speaker 3: Redskins of the Indies. I'm merely pointing out the information 441 00:24:04,640 --> 00:24:07,800 Speaker 3: I have that the fans in Cleveland, the fans in Washington, 442 00:24:08,160 --> 00:24:11,160 Speaker 3: the real customers of those teams want those nicknames back, 443 00:24:11,640 --> 00:24:15,760 Speaker 3: that the uprising was greatly embellished by the algorithms, the 444 00:24:15,800 --> 00:24:18,160 Speaker 3: bots and all that stuff, and most people don't give 445 00:24:18,160 --> 00:24:22,240 Speaker 3: a crap, and most people look at mascots as an honor, 446 00:24:22,400 --> 00:24:25,600 Speaker 3: not a shameful thing. But anyway, listen, I mean, I 447 00:24:25,640 --> 00:24:27,920 Speaker 3: get it. I'm here to talk sports occasionally. Part of 448 00:24:27,960 --> 00:24:30,480 Speaker 3: the job is you have to ruffle feathers. It goes 449 00:24:30,520 --> 00:24:33,959 Speaker 3: with the territory. But from time to time, when you 450 00:24:34,000 --> 00:24:39,760 Speaker 3: speak some truth right, you end up not passing the 451 00:24:39,880 --> 00:24:42,879 Speaker 3: NPR sniff test. Now, I'm always amazed, like, we have 452 00:24:42,880 --> 00:24:45,040 Speaker 3: a diverse audience. We have a lot of people from 453 00:24:45,040 --> 00:24:47,679 Speaker 3: different backgrounds, and the great thing. I love Jonathan and 454 00:24:47,720 --> 00:24:50,199 Speaker 3: Delaware sent me an email the other day and I 455 00:24:50,240 --> 00:24:52,040 Speaker 3: love Jonathan's been with the show a long time. 456 00:24:52,160 --> 00:24:54,680 Speaker 1: I love the guy. He's great. Hope to meet him someday. 457 00:24:55,040 --> 00:24:58,520 Speaker 3: And Jonathan like he gets the show. He's like, listen, 458 00:25:00,080 --> 00:25:01,400 Speaker 3: he said, this is the thing I like about the show. 459 00:25:01,480 --> 00:25:04,640 Speaker 1: Jonathan. I'm paraphrasing this, but he says, You've. 460 00:25:04,119 --> 00:25:07,320 Speaker 3: Always been the guy that it doesn't matter your background, 461 00:25:07,359 --> 00:25:13,240 Speaker 3: whether you're you know, gay, transgender, you're a pig, you're 462 00:25:13,359 --> 00:25:16,760 Speaker 3: a deviant, whatever, You're a criminal, you're a crackhead, you're 463 00:25:16,840 --> 00:25:20,360 Speaker 3: a meth head, whatever, Hello Jed who fled like all 464 00:25:20,440 --> 00:25:22,719 Speaker 3: that stuff, raging alcoholic. 465 00:25:23,760 --> 00:25:24,639 Speaker 1: You're all welcome. 466 00:25:25,160 --> 00:25:27,840 Speaker 3: You're all welcome, right, And as Jonathan was pointing out, 467 00:25:27,840 --> 00:25:30,199 Speaker 3: I was like, you know, we just accept people for 468 00:25:30,240 --> 00:25:33,400 Speaker 3: who they are. But with one rule, we bust balls, 469 00:25:33,760 --> 00:25:36,160 Speaker 3: we bust chops. That's kind of how it works, right. 470 00:25:36,200 --> 00:25:40,920 Speaker 3: We're sarcastic, we bust each other's weaknesses, whatever that might be. 471 00:25:41,560 --> 00:25:45,919 Speaker 3: And so I'm not sitting here reading press releases from 472 00:25:46,080 --> 00:25:51,240 Speaker 3: activist groups or corporations pretending to care about things they 473 00:25:51,320 --> 00:25:56,280 Speaker 3: ignored for decades. I'm not That's not my jam man, 474 00:25:56,359 --> 00:25:58,080 Speaker 3: I'm not. I just try to get through the day. 475 00:25:58,560 --> 00:26:01,760 Speaker 3: I worry about that, you know, old John woodenline, win 476 00:26:01,800 --> 00:26:03,880 Speaker 3: the day right, make every day your masterpiece, and that's 477 00:26:03,880 --> 00:26:04,240 Speaker 3: my goal. 478 00:26:04,840 --> 00:26:06,480 Speaker 1: And then when I'm done with the show, I put 479 00:26:06,520 --> 00:26:08,480 Speaker 1: the show to bed and I move on. And then 480 00:26:08,520 --> 00:26:10,320 Speaker 1: people react and they get all worked up. 481 00:26:11,520 --> 00:26:13,639 Speaker 3: And you know, if you're honest, like the outrage on 482 00:26:13,720 --> 00:26:15,560 Speaker 3: this is not again, it's not organic. 483 00:26:15,640 --> 00:26:16,800 Speaker 1: It's like prepackage. 484 00:26:16,840 --> 00:26:20,040 Speaker 3: It's like Marcel eating a Celeste pizza, a frozen pizza. 485 00:26:20,920 --> 00:26:23,119 Speaker 3: The people who claim to have been offended, we're not 486 00:26:23,200 --> 00:26:27,520 Speaker 3: even listening until the offendo meter lit up on their feed. 487 00:26:28,560 --> 00:26:32,000 Speaker 3: And again, I just to double down. They don't know 488 00:26:32,080 --> 00:26:33,679 Speaker 3: the show, they don't know who I am. They have 489 00:26:33,680 --> 00:26:35,879 Speaker 3: no idea who I am. They don't care. It's just 490 00:26:36,000 --> 00:26:41,679 Speaker 3: that's backstory, the Mama Luke's. They saw something, you know, 491 00:26:41,800 --> 00:26:46,439 Speaker 3: some kind of sign and they leapt into action, and 492 00:26:46,440 --> 00:26:48,720 Speaker 3: it's about, you know, I have moral superiority to you, 493 00:26:48,840 --> 00:26:50,600 Speaker 3: and I'm going to tell you you're wrong, and it's 494 00:26:50,680 --> 00:26:52,520 Speaker 3: performative outrage. 495 00:26:51,960 --> 00:26:55,760 Speaker 1: And just listen. If you disagree, that's fine. I mean, 496 00:26:55,880 --> 00:26:57,120 Speaker 1: who knows, you could be wrong. 497 00:26:57,160 --> 00:26:59,639 Speaker 3: I could be wrong, but spurry the lecture, right, and 498 00:26:59,680 --> 00:27:00,960 Speaker 3: I don't need the hyperlinks. 499 00:27:01,800 --> 00:27:04,520 Speaker 1: You know, it's fine. I'm good. I don't need that. 500 00:27:04,800 --> 00:27:06,760 Speaker 3: And you know, I kind of like the fact that 501 00:27:06,800 --> 00:27:09,760 Speaker 3: you called me a malar meatball. And hopefully that will 502 00:27:09,800 --> 00:27:13,800 Speaker 3: inspire some restaurant that I don't even know of that 503 00:27:13,880 --> 00:27:18,760 Speaker 3: I'll learn of to put the malar meatball oversized jumbo 504 00:27:18,840 --> 00:27:22,640 Speaker 3: sized malar meatball with fetichini on the side, and then 505 00:27:22,960 --> 00:27:27,679 Speaker 3: a big helping of garlic bread yum yum to my 506 00:27:27,920 --> 00:27:29,600 Speaker 3: tomb tumb who says no? 507 00:27:30,720 --> 00:27:33,760 Speaker 1: Who says no? All right, time now for the phrase 508 00:27:34,119 --> 00:27:35,000 Speaker 1: of the week. 509 00:27:36,000 --> 00:27:40,200 Speaker 3: That's right, I know it's exciting, the phrase of the week. 510 00:27:40,640 --> 00:27:42,840 Speaker 3: So here's the phrase of the week. So the phrase 511 00:27:43,119 --> 00:27:48,679 Speaker 3: is flash in the pan. Now it originates from believe 512 00:27:48,720 --> 00:27:55,960 Speaker 3: it or not, not cooking, not sports, from military. So 513 00:27:56,040 --> 00:28:00,479 Speaker 3: many of these phrases start in the military. A lot 514 00:28:00,520 --> 00:28:04,399 Speaker 3: of veterans, a lot of active duty military help. My 515 00:28:04,560 --> 00:28:07,720 Speaker 3: son is in the Marines right now, is in Camp Pendleton. 516 00:28:08,200 --> 00:28:10,479 Speaker 3: But this is another one of those things that starts 517 00:28:10,520 --> 00:28:15,720 Speaker 3: out in the military. Flash in the pan. It originated 518 00:28:16,160 --> 00:28:21,440 Speaker 3: in early firearms. Now specifically they say the flint lock musket. 519 00:28:21,720 --> 00:28:24,440 Speaker 3: So we're going back to the musket in the seventeenth 520 00:28:24,520 --> 00:28:29,040 Speaker 3: and eighteenth centuries, the flintlock musket had a small pan, 521 00:28:30,160 --> 00:28:33,480 Speaker 3: according to my research, and it held this thing called gunpowder, 522 00:28:34,800 --> 00:28:39,240 Speaker 3: and when the trigger was pulled on the flint lock musket, 523 00:28:39,560 --> 00:28:44,840 Speaker 3: when you pulled it, the flint would struck. It struck 524 00:28:45,200 --> 00:28:47,760 Speaker 3: to produce a spark. There was a little spark there. 525 00:28:47,800 --> 00:28:52,800 Speaker 3: It ignited the powder in the pan. And apparently sometimes 526 00:28:52,800 --> 00:28:56,200 Speaker 3: the powder in the pan would flash and the main 527 00:28:56,400 --> 00:28:59,440 Speaker 3: charge in the barrel would not ignite, resulting in yes, 528 00:29:00,280 --> 00:29:03,760 Speaker 3: wait for it, a flash in the pan, but no 529 00:29:03,920 --> 00:29:08,960 Speaker 3: real musket shot. And over time, as all great metaphors, 530 00:29:09,200 --> 00:29:13,160 Speaker 3: over time a flash in the pan came to mean 531 00:29:13,280 --> 00:29:18,160 Speaker 3: something that initially showed great promise like shooting a musket 532 00:29:19,240 --> 00:29:22,840 Speaker 3: or excitement, but failed to deliver, failed to live up 533 00:29:22,920 --> 00:29:28,200 Speaker 3: to the expectation. So brief, intense moment of success, but 534 00:29:28,440 --> 00:29:33,720 Speaker 3: fizzled out quickly. And that is what we have used 535 00:29:34,000 --> 00:29:38,080 Speaker 3: in sports. Someone starts out their career and they're like, oh, man, 536 00:29:38,160 --> 00:29:40,440 Speaker 3: that players like Paul Skins. 537 00:29:40,440 --> 00:29:45,360 Speaker 1: I give Paul Skins of the Pirates great electric Is 538 00:29:45,400 --> 00:29:48,280 Speaker 1: he going to keep doing that? Who knows? 539 00:29:48,320 --> 00:29:48,640 Speaker 2: I don't know. 540 00:29:48,960 --> 00:29:50,640 Speaker 3: He won't If he doesn't, it'll be a flash in 541 00:29:50,640 --> 00:29:52,680 Speaker 3: the pan. All right, we'll get out on that. I 542 00:29:52,680 --> 00:29:55,400 Speaker 3: will have the malord Palooza post game. We're gonna save 543 00:29:55,440 --> 00:29:58,840 Speaker 3: that for the Saturday podcast. And I've got some other 544 00:29:58,880 --> 00:30:01,000 Speaker 3: things planned as well, but we'll get to that. Danny 545 00:30:01,040 --> 00:30:02,440 Speaker 3: g should join me on that. 546 00:30:02,480 --> 00:30:04,920 Speaker 1: We'll have new pods all weekend long. 547 00:30:05,000 --> 00:30:06,960 Speaker 3: If you want to send something into the mail bag, 548 00:30:07,480 --> 00:30:11,360 Speaker 3: do it right now, send it in care of the 549 00:30:11,800 --> 00:30:15,800 Speaker 3: Real Real Fifth Hour at gmail dot com. The Real 550 00:30:15,880 --> 00:30:22,160 Speaker 3: Fifth Hour at gmail dot com, and your comments can 551 00:30:22,280 --> 00:30:22,840 Speaker 3: and we'll be. 552 00:30:22,920 --> 00:30:26,480 Speaker 1: Used on future editions of the show. 553 00:30:26,680 --> 00:30:30,680 Speaker 3: So anyway, I have a great Friday, and hopefully nobody 554 00:30:30,680 --> 00:30:33,040 Speaker 3: famous that was a hero in my youth will die today. 555 00:30:34,040 --> 00:30:36,240 Speaker 1: I'm good with the Haulkster. Well I'm not good with 556 00:30:36,320 --> 00:30:38,120 Speaker 1: him dying, but you get the point. All right. 557 00:30:38,160 --> 00:30:42,480 Speaker 3: Well, we'll talk to you next time later, Skater, who 558 00:30:43,400 --> 00:30:46,080 Speaker 3: asta pasta got a murder? 559 00:30:46,080 --> 00:30:46,560 Speaker 1: I gotta go.