WEBVTT - The Fifth Hour: Star Chef Stamp & Maller Meatball 0:00:00.680 --> 0:00:01.440 Cutbooms. 0:00:02.279 --> 0:00:05.360 If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes 0:00:05.400 --> 0:00:09.200 a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants 0:00:09.200 --> 0:00:12.480 of the old republic, a sol fashion of fairness. He 0:00:12.560 --> 0:00:15.480 treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the 0:00:15.600 --> 0:00:19.440 rich pill poppers in the penthouse. Wow to the Clearinghouse 0:00:19.480 --> 0:00:23.200 of hot takes, break free for something special. The Fifth 0:00:23.200 --> 0:00:29.440 Hour with Ben Maller starts right now in. 0:00:29.280 --> 0:00:33.840 The air everywhere, The Fifth Hour with Me, Ben Mallor 0:00:33.960 --> 0:00:38.360 and Danny g Radio and a very happy Friday to you. 0:00:38.440 --> 0:00:40.279 We have made it to the end of the road, 0:00:40.320 --> 0:00:42.080 which is never really the end of the road, because 0:00:42.120 --> 0:00:43.680 when you do the radio show during the week and 0:00:43.800 --> 0:00:46.280 you've got the podcast on the weekends, it never ends. 0:00:46.640 --> 0:00:49.000 It never ever ends. But we are back at it 0:00:49.040 --> 0:00:53.640 here on this Friday morning, celebrating National Merry Go Round Day. 0:00:54.280 --> 0:00:59.880 We It's National Merry Go Round Day, So listen. 0:01:00.160 --> 0:01:01.600 I used to love merry go rounds when I was 0:01:01.600 --> 0:01:03.800 a kid. I rotate nuts. 0:01:04.160 --> 0:01:07.160 How dare you? I'm an adult. I haven't been on 0:01:07.160 --> 0:01:07.959 one in a long time. 0:01:08.120 --> 0:01:10.400 I did love, though, I fell down another rabbit hole 0:01:10.440 --> 0:01:12.600 when I see these dopey holidays that get my attention. 0:01:12.640 --> 0:01:14.200 I'm like, hey, I want to know more about the 0:01:14.240 --> 0:01:17.039 merry go round. So then I started doing some research 0:01:17.080 --> 0:01:18.840 and you start typing some things in and some other 0:01:18.880 --> 0:01:20.600 things come up, and you keep going and going and 0:01:20.640 --> 0:01:25.480 going and going. The earliest known carousels five hundred a d. 0:01:26.520 --> 0:01:32.360 But it was really the Middle Ages, the beginning of 0:01:32.400 --> 0:01:35.920 the modern I say modern, it's crazy to say that, 0:01:35.959 --> 0:01:39.199 but the medieval period is when the merry go round 0:01:39.280 --> 0:01:43.440 as we know it first popped up. And it was soldiers, 0:01:43.480 --> 0:01:46.440 medieval soldiers who would compete in this game. It was 0:01:46.480 --> 0:01:50.560 a version of the current carousel ride to train for 0:01:50.760 --> 0:01:55.560 jousting tournaments. And they believe that's one of the reasons 0:01:55.760 --> 0:01:59.800 most carousels have horses on them, as a homage. 0:01:59.640 --> 0:02:02.440 To me evol times and the jousting. 0:02:02.680 --> 0:02:05.720 And then the next big period of time was one 0:02:05.760 --> 0:02:09.120 hundreds of years later. In the Industrial Revolution, the mass 0:02:09.160 --> 0:02:15.280 production of heavy machinery used in merrygo rounds became possible 0:02:16.240 --> 0:02:20.280 and so the carousels were more available. We couldn't really 0:02:20.320 --> 0:02:22.359 do that before there were a little small things. And 0:02:22.400 --> 0:02:26.919 then right around eighteen hundred, the first known carousel ride 0:02:26.960 --> 0:02:32.240 in America, and it was operated in Salem, Massachusetts, the 0:02:32.360 --> 0:02:35.360 Salem Witch Trials famous there it was called the Wooden 0:02:35.480 --> 0:02:41.680 Horse Circus Ride and that was in actually seventeen ninety nine. 0:02:41.800 --> 0:02:45.040 And then later on in the eighteen hundreds, the mass 0:02:45.880 --> 0:02:51.240 migration to America from Europe. Immigrants from Europe European countries 0:02:51.320 --> 0:02:55.000 began to put carousels everywhere. 0:02:55.040 --> 0:02:56.800 They loved carousels, probably it was big. 0:02:56.639 --> 0:02:58.360 In Europe, and so they came to America and they 0:02:58.360 --> 0:02:59.800 were like, hey, this is what we got to check 0:02:59.800 --> 0:03:01.760 it out and people were into it. 0:03:02.600 --> 0:03:05.200 So that's I think that's all I have. I think 0:03:05.240 --> 0:03:06.120 that's that's all I have. 0:03:06.360 --> 0:03:12.040 The first carousel patented was by William Schneider from Davenport, Iowa, 0:03:12.840 --> 0:03:16.160 and that was considered the first modern modern caressel. 0:03:16.160 --> 0:03:19.239 That was in eighteen seventy one. So there you go. 0:03:19.440 --> 0:03:21.240 That's that's enough. We're good on that. 0:03:21.560 --> 0:03:25.919 So on this podcast, we've got a Melancholie Maler Marlborough 0:03:25.960 --> 0:03:29.200 Man Malar meatball and if we have time, the phrase 0:03:29.280 --> 0:03:31.799 of the week, but we begin with this and it's 0:03:31.880 --> 0:03:35.360 Melancholy Maler. Last night, if you were listening, we did 0:03:35.360 --> 0:03:41.760 a special homage, a eulogy to a legend who was 0:03:41.880 --> 0:03:45.520 not someone that had wins and losses, not real wins 0:03:45.560 --> 0:03:47.520 and losses. There was somebody that wrote who won and 0:03:47.560 --> 0:03:50.880 who lost? But a cultural icon if you're of a 0:03:50.880 --> 0:03:54.839 certain age. I was a hall comaniac because I talked 0:03:54.880 --> 0:03:57.400 about last night, Halt Cogan seemed through the eyes of 0:03:57.440 --> 0:04:00.880 a child like he was one of the cartoon characters 0:04:00.920 --> 0:04:03.200 I would watch on Saturday morning when I was a 0:04:03.200 --> 0:04:05.120 little kid, and all we had was Saturday Morning cartoons 0:04:05.160 --> 0:04:07.240 because we lived in the dark ages, and I would 0:04:07.240 --> 0:04:11.240 watch he Man or some of these other superheroes, Captain America, 0:04:11.520 --> 0:04:13.560 you know, comic books. I'd look at those different things, 0:04:13.840 --> 0:04:15.680 and then you saw, like haul kose won, this guy 0:04:15.800 --> 0:04:18.960 looks like a real life superhero, Like this is legit, 0:04:19.480 --> 0:04:22.640 these comics, that's real life. And I was like, this 0:04:22.720 --> 0:04:25.520 must be based on real life. And Hulk Hogan. And 0:04:25.560 --> 0:04:30.200 then every as I talked about in the monologue last night, 0:04:30.360 --> 0:04:34.440 everything Hulk Hogan, I was in on some of my finest, 0:04:34.600 --> 0:04:38.080 fondest memories through the eyes of a child. Okay, through 0:04:38.120 --> 0:04:40.520 the eyes of a child, listen. I yeah, you don't know. 0:04:40.640 --> 0:04:42.360 At that time, when I was a kid, they had 0:04:42.360 --> 0:04:45.960 not revealed that wrestling was fake we were so stupid, 0:04:46.000 --> 0:04:49.719 were like, looks legit, you know, Andre the Giant taking 0:04:49.760 --> 0:04:54.680 on hul Cogan and Macho Man, Randy Savage and all 0:04:54.680 --> 0:04:58.000 these wild characters, right, wild characters. 0:04:58.040 --> 0:04:58.360 And so. 0:05:00.080 --> 0:05:02.840 Rest in peace, the hall Coger and I did see 0:05:02.839 --> 0:05:06.040 some stuff, people trying to urinate all over the holster 0:05:06.160 --> 0:05:08.680 and all that stuff. And listen, he was not perfect. 0:05:09.080 --> 0:05:12.919 No one's perfect. And hall Cogan, though it touched a 0:05:12.920 --> 0:05:15.359 lot of lives and was one of the most famous 0:05:15.400 --> 0:05:18.800 people in the United States. 0:05:18.480 --> 0:05:19.839 Of America when I was a kid. 0:05:20.839 --> 0:05:22.960 He was I think of when I was a kid, 0:05:23.000 --> 0:05:26.760 who were the most famous people? And hal Cogan is, 0:05:27.120 --> 0:05:29.760 I don't do a list. I'm not doing a list 0:05:29.800 --> 0:05:32.120 Terry in England. But I'm just telling you it's my 0:05:32.240 --> 0:05:35.479 big board, haul Cogan, as I've talked about, on that 0:05:35.560 --> 0:05:36.080 big board. 0:05:37.000 --> 0:05:40.560 So turning the page on that story time. 0:05:41.000 --> 0:05:43.680 Storytime on the fifth hour with me, Ben Mahler and 0:05:43.800 --> 0:05:46.920 Danny g who is producing this podcast and will hopefully 0:05:47.040 --> 0:05:49.240 joined me at some point this weekend, But we flashed 0:05:49.240 --> 0:05:52.719 back to a recent journey to the face of the Sun. 0:05:52.760 --> 0:05:56.280 So last weekend, the malordmobile was loaded up. We went 0:05:56.320 --> 0:06:01.960 to Rancho Mirage in the californ You desert, because why not. 0:06:02.040 --> 0:06:04.200 It's one hundred and fifteen degrees. Why would you not 0:06:04.279 --> 0:06:06.440 go there. It's the kind of heat that makes you 0:06:06.520 --> 0:06:09.200 question whether you're actually a human being or just a 0:06:09.240 --> 0:06:12.800 soft boiled egg. So we went out there to enjoy 0:06:12.920 --> 0:06:17.200 the nice heat and those beautiful luxury pools they have, 0:06:17.400 --> 0:06:22.800 and they were nice, tepid bathwater, lukewarm, wonderful, had a 0:06:22.880 --> 0:06:27.919 lazy river barely moving, just floating along there in the sun, 0:06:28.120 --> 0:06:32.400 baking like you're in a rotisserie. And it was just 0:06:32.440 --> 0:06:35.880 a nice weekend, a really more of a day than anything. 0:06:35.680 --> 0:06:37.560 Because you gotta do this podcast, but just. 0:06:37.520 --> 0:06:40.240 A day to kind of unwine and unplugged for a 0:06:40.240 --> 0:06:44.440 little bit and try not to die from the atmospheric pressure. 0:06:45.000 --> 0:06:47.680 Mind you, it is not global warming. It's called summer. 0:06:47.800 --> 0:06:51.719 It happens every year. And yet there I was, there 0:06:51.760 --> 0:06:56.080 I was, and there he was? And who is he? 0:06:56.200 --> 0:06:58.440 You ask, what are your pronoun who is he? 0:06:58.920 --> 0:06:59.080 Well? 0:06:59.160 --> 0:07:05.600 That guy or go the guy guy fiery in the kitchen, now, 0:07:05.640 --> 0:07:08.880 mind you, not the actual guy. Of course, I'm talking 0:07:08.880 --> 0:07:14.440 about a glossy eight by ten of him mid bite, 0:07:14.560 --> 0:07:17.760 or maybe he was laughing. I don't know, sunglasses lowered, 0:07:18.200 --> 0:07:21.840 the look, the smile like he had just heard the 0:07:21.880 --> 0:07:25.200 punchline to a joke that involves some kind of bacon 0:07:25.320 --> 0:07:27.320 and bourbon, and he. 0:07:27.360 --> 0:07:28.720 Was dreaming of his camaro. 0:07:29.600 --> 0:07:33.880 And I had this epiphany while I was looking at 0:07:33.880 --> 0:07:34.440 this photo. 0:07:34.600 --> 0:07:39.280 You go to these places and it's like he was 0:07:39.360 --> 0:07:39.720 just there. 0:07:40.760 --> 0:07:43.440 You know, you toss in some kind of weird sign 0:07:43.520 --> 0:07:46.280 spatchelor or something like that, or you know there's a 0:07:46.320 --> 0:07:51.080 menu item like kangaroo sauce, nacho bomb, and that's the 0:07:51.080 --> 0:07:55.200 full guy theory experience. So this was a local burger 0:07:55.280 --> 0:07:59.920 joint out in the Palm Springs area and my wife 0:08:00.400 --> 0:08:02.920 found I don't know whether it's up to me. 0:08:03.000 --> 0:08:04.360 I eat it raising canes every time. 0:08:04.360 --> 0:08:06.720 But she's like, hey, let's let's find a restaurant, what 0:08:06.800 --> 0:08:08.200 kind of food as let's get burgers. 0:08:08.400 --> 0:08:10.640 So she goes on Yelp. She loves Yelp. 0:08:10.720 --> 0:08:13.120 I try to tell her, I said, listen, Yelp's fine, 0:08:13.280 --> 0:08:16.920 but a lot of those reviews are bullshit, and but she's. 0:08:16.720 --> 0:08:19.480 Like, oh, this is well reviewed, So she goes on there. 0:08:19.520 --> 0:08:23.720 She's flutzing around on Yelp, and this is not a 0:08:23.800 --> 0:08:28.280 food network pilgrimage. She didn't type in Food Network, diners, 0:08:28.400 --> 0:08:30.200 dive ins and drives. She didn't type any of that in. 0:08:30.280 --> 0:08:32.920 She just typed in burger places on Yelp, and this 0:08:32.920 --> 0:08:36.760 place came up. And if she typed in diners, drive 0:08:36.800 --> 0:08:38.560 ins and dives, I'd be like, okay, that she typed 0:08:38.600 --> 0:08:42.480 it into Google Maps or something. This wasn't that right. 0:08:43.000 --> 0:08:47.839 It wasn't you know, eat prey love with extra aoli. Regardless, 0:08:48.480 --> 0:08:53.480 it didn't matter. So Guy was already there, and he's 0:08:53.520 --> 0:08:55.080 always there, and that's the point. 0:08:55.200 --> 0:08:56.679 That's the point. I mean, I did not. 0:08:56.880 --> 0:09:01.480 Ask for Guy Fieri to be staring at me as 0:09:01.480 --> 0:09:03.960 I walked into this restaurant. I didn't look for Guy Fiery, 0:09:04.280 --> 0:09:05.960 but somehow he always is there. 0:09:05.960 --> 0:09:08.679 He finds me. And it's the same old thing. 0:09:08.720 --> 0:09:11.560 You walk into a diner off some dusty highway in 0:09:11.640 --> 0:09:13.760 some place you're not normally. 0:09:13.360 --> 0:09:18.719 At, and bam, bam bam, there is God. And this 0:09:18.760 --> 0:09:19.840 is not an exaggeration. 0:09:19.880 --> 0:09:21.959 The reason I'm bringing this up full disclosure, it's not 0:09:22.000 --> 0:09:25.120 just because of a one off at some burger joint 0:09:25.160 --> 0:09:28.200 in Palm Springs. But this is the fifth or sixth 0:09:28.200 --> 0:09:31.439 time in my travels in recent years that I have 0:09:31.640 --> 0:09:36.320 randomly sashade wandered into some restaurant I had never been 0:09:36.360 --> 0:09:39.200 to before, only to be greeted by the mayor of 0:09:39.240 --> 0:09:44.839 Flavortown right there. Now, One, you say, Okay, that's it, 0:09:45.200 --> 0:09:48.480 that's fine. Two maybe that's a coincidence, but keeps happening. 0:09:48.520 --> 0:09:53.360 It's like I'm getting getting photo bombed by a cartoon ghost. 0:09:54.040 --> 0:09:58.440 And he's not like stalking me, He's just there. And 0:09:58.520 --> 0:10:01.080 it is like he's the culinary version of the Virgin 0:10:01.160 --> 0:10:04.839 Mary appearing on toast. You see those stories every so often, right, 0:10:04.960 --> 0:10:08.120 or Jesus or something like that. Only this, this is 0:10:08.160 --> 0:10:11.800 with frosted tips and the wristbands and all that, which 0:10:11.880 --> 0:10:16.240 raises the obvious question, what the hell is going on? 0:10:16.400 --> 0:10:16.600 Right? 0:10:16.640 --> 0:10:19.480 What the f is going on now? Guy Fieri. At 0:10:19.480 --> 0:10:22.880 some point in the last decade, and maybe it's been 0:10:22.920 --> 0:10:24.319 longer than that, I just feel like it's been the 0:10:24.400 --> 0:10:28.600 last decade, he went from being a guy that was 0:10:28.679 --> 0:10:33.000 goofed on a late night punchline to a full blown 0:10:33.200 --> 0:10:37.320 spiritual symbol. Now not in a religious sense, I don't 0:10:37.480 --> 0:10:39.280 upset you, and not in a religious sense, more so 0:10:40.480 --> 0:10:43.880 in the sense that when you walk into a mom 0:10:43.920 --> 0:10:50.040 and pop eatery and you see that framed Guy Fiery photo. 0:10:51.240 --> 0:10:55.600 You're experiencing something to the point now where I'm starting 0:10:55.640 --> 0:10:58.199 to wonder if these mom and pop restaurants it's part 0:10:58.240 --> 0:11:01.000 of the starter kit where when you're starting the restaurant, 0:11:01.040 --> 0:11:02.760 just to make it seem like you got street cred, 0:11:03.120 --> 0:11:06.000 you buy a photo of Guy Fieri with some chef 0:11:06.040 --> 0:11:07.719 and you just pretend like it's in the back of 0:11:07.800 --> 0:11:08.320 your kitchen. 0:11:09.480 --> 0:11:10.000 But there it is. 0:11:10.080 --> 0:11:13.280 Right. If Guy Fieri's face and a restaurant, it is 0:11:13.320 --> 0:11:17.960 like some kind of secular blessing, like a neon open 0:11:18.080 --> 0:11:20.680 sign to let you know it's okay, this is a 0:11:20.720 --> 0:11:23.640 safe space for your stomach. And it says this place 0:11:24.200 --> 0:11:26.800 may not pass the health inspection, but. 0:11:26.840 --> 0:11:29.400 It is going to slap good. It is going to 0:11:29.440 --> 0:11:29.760 be good. 0:11:29.760 --> 0:11:33.520 It's not really the fame anymore. It's a mythological thing. 0:11:34.360 --> 0:11:36.559 And so I've determined that Guy Fieri when it comes 0:11:36.600 --> 0:11:40.040 to mom and pop restaurants is Buddha. He's Buddha with 0:11:40.080 --> 0:11:43.000 Oakley's right, He's back in the day. I loved Anthony Bourdain. 0:11:43.200 --> 0:11:46.440 I loved his take on restaurants and the way that 0:11:46.520 --> 0:11:49.000 he yapped and the voiceovers and all that. But it's 0:11:49.000 --> 0:11:52.160 like Guy Fieri is now Anthony Bourdain and technicolor, and 0:11:52.800 --> 0:11:56.280 he is. What happens when you take out that old 0:11:56.320 --> 0:12:00.000 food pyramid and you put a hype man right now, 0:12:00.320 --> 0:12:03.960 It like that's the hype man, and people talk about, hey, 0:12:04.000 --> 0:12:06.640 you got to support local businesses, and I grew. I 0:12:06.640 --> 0:12:11.120 believe that's important, right, that's important, and I tried to 0:12:11.520 --> 0:12:14.960 do that. I try to avoid when I'm traveling, uh, 0:12:15.000 --> 0:12:18.719 and I actually commit to that life as much as 0:12:18.720 --> 0:12:22.360 I can, and I try to avoid the Applebee's and 0:12:22.440 --> 0:12:25.600 the Cheesecake Factory and the Olive Garden and all those place. 0:12:25.640 --> 0:12:27.199 It's not that I don't enjoy the food there. I 0:12:27.240 --> 0:12:28.839 used to eat a cheesecat factory all the time. 0:12:29.400 --> 0:12:30.280 And you know all. 0:12:30.160 --> 0:12:32.920 The places that have the big calorie counts on the 0:12:32.960 --> 0:12:37.840 menu because they are big, corporately run restaurants. So once 0:12:37.880 --> 0:12:40.640 you commit to going away from those places, you begin 0:12:40.720 --> 0:12:44.760 to notice what I call the fiery effect. 0:12:44.800 --> 0:12:45.880 It just appears. 0:12:46.320 --> 0:12:49.440 And it's not just the photo on the wall in 0:12:49.480 --> 0:12:54.600 these mom and pop joints. It's like the whole zeitgeist. 0:12:54.600 --> 0:12:58.600 Like the portions are always usually supersized, like the good 0:12:58.640 --> 0:13:01.960 old days at McDonald's back in the day. They've got 0:13:01.960 --> 0:13:08.320 some funky sauce that the foodies love. There's a weird cocktail. 0:13:08.440 --> 0:13:11.200 They threw a holapano in there. Nobody knows why. 0:13:11.000 --> 0:13:11.760 They just did it. 0:13:12.480 --> 0:13:16.040 And there's an eighty four percent chance that the server 0:13:16.120 --> 0:13:19.360 will be wearing a shirt with some kind of flying 0:13:19.480 --> 0:13:22.280 pig or a flame on it. And it always goes 0:13:22.320 --> 0:13:26.080 back to the Buddha, right, the Buddha with Oakleys. The 0:13:26.120 --> 0:13:30.400 man is omnipresent, so he's not necessarily following you. He 0:13:30.960 --> 0:13:36.760 has become you, at least the culinary aspect. And I 0:13:36.880 --> 0:13:39.000 used to think it was. 0:13:39.000 --> 0:13:44.959 A wack adoodle, right, wackadoodle, But he's omnipresent. Like, how 0:13:45.520 --> 0:13:46.200 is Guy? 0:13:46.400 --> 0:13:51.880 Everywhere I go again, and everywhere I'm obviously embellishing a bit. 0:13:53.320 --> 0:13:56.480 I had that moment that he is and this is 0:13:56.520 --> 0:13:59.840 really the other thing here. When I kept seeing Guy 0:14:00.520 --> 0:14:03.680 the breaking point, the tipping point was last weekend. But 0:14:03.800 --> 0:14:09.040 Guy Fieri is like one of the final unifying mascots 0:14:09.080 --> 0:14:10.760 we have in America now. When I was a kid 0:14:10.800 --> 0:14:13.400 back in my day, and I grew up watching Haul Cogan, 0:14:13.520 --> 0:14:17.400 but I also had in these things called magazines a 0:14:17.440 --> 0:14:21.600 lot of advertisements with Joe Cammell and the Marble Man, 0:14:22.880 --> 0:14:24.760 and they're gone, right, you don't see a lot of 0:14:24.800 --> 0:14:27.160 the Marble Man. You don't see Joe Campbell. Now we 0:14:27.280 --> 0:14:32.760 have Guy. It's like post all that. It's you know, 0:14:33.080 --> 0:14:36.600 the thing that made him easy to mock back in 0:14:36.600 --> 0:14:42.520 the day, the flames, the hokey, corny catchphrases, the diners 0:14:42.760 --> 0:14:46.320 drenched in the devil's blood of ranch dressing. Now that 0:14:46.480 --> 0:14:50.160 is what has become his signature and is universally loved. 0:14:50.920 --> 0:14:56.360 And you don't need to know who the national is to, 0:14:56.920 --> 0:15:01.160 you know, enjoy the triple stacked French to stuffed with 0:15:01.680 --> 0:15:06.520 blueberries and cheesecake and all this other. But Guy speaks 0:15:06.560 --> 0:15:10.800 to to the fact that restaurants they feel like they 0:15:10.800 --> 0:15:12.040 need that as a street credit. 0:15:12.040 --> 0:15:13.240 I said earlier, like. 0:15:13.200 --> 0:15:15.640 They need that a guys provide street because, like they 0:15:15.640 --> 0:15:19.520 were legit. He's the rubber stamp, the you know, in 0:15:19.520 --> 0:15:23.280 sports memorabilia, you got to get something authenticated. He's the 0:15:23.320 --> 0:15:28.760 authenticator for a generation, you know. And then you know, 0:15:28.760 --> 0:15:32.200 we talking about Michelin Star restaurants and all that, but 0:15:32.640 --> 0:15:34.400 you know, I don't necessarily want to go to those places. 0:15:34.400 --> 0:15:34.920 But he will. 0:15:34.960 --> 0:15:39.000 You can absolutely trust some dude who used to work 0:15:39.040 --> 0:15:39.840 at a restaurant. 0:15:39.920 --> 0:15:41.440 You know, he's a barely. 0:15:41.120 --> 0:15:44.440 Got out of school from northern California, Nor cal the 0:15:44.560 --> 0:15:49.000 bleach blonde dude yelling this is money, this is money, 0:15:49.320 --> 0:15:52.360 and uh, you know, the riding off into the sunset. 0:15:52.840 --> 0:15:56.280 So maybe it's not a coincidce. I don't think it's 0:15:56.280 --> 0:15:59.240 a coincidence, Like maybe guy Fiery is just what ends 0:15:59.320 --> 0:16:03.840 up happening when you're on the journey. And I'm not 0:16:03.880 --> 0:16:07.520 talking about some fake social media sojourn. We're talking about 0:16:07.520 --> 0:16:12.880 the real sweaty you know, melting pot road trip that 0:16:13.080 --> 0:16:15.120 involves stopping somewhere. 0:16:14.840 --> 0:16:16.200 That you didn't really plan on. 0:16:16.400 --> 0:16:18.960 And they might have an elk burger on the menu, 0:16:19.120 --> 0:16:21.680 smothered and ghost pepper aolie. 0:16:21.720 --> 0:16:22.640 I don't even know what that is. 0:16:24.240 --> 0:16:27.440 And there he is, you know, he's not working as 0:16:27.480 --> 0:16:30.160 the chef. Is he a celebrity? 0:16:30.160 --> 0:16:31.040 Well not in this case. 0:16:31.080 --> 0:16:34.120 He's just not even a real person at this point. Again, 0:16:34.520 --> 0:16:38.200 he is smiling the kitchen Buddha. He's there. 0:16:38.280 --> 0:16:42.040 He's saying, welcome, you found it. The food is good here, 0:16:42.760 --> 0:16:43.480 It's okay. 0:16:44.680 --> 0:16:47.320 Yes, Now, one thing that was not on the menu 0:16:47.360 --> 0:16:49.400 at this burger place was the Malar meatball. But we 0:16:49.440 --> 0:16:52.080 turned the page because I would like to remind you 0:16:52.280 --> 0:16:53.360 some of the highlights of the week. 0:16:53.400 --> 0:16:56.040 Here we mentioned the Hull cogan. That not a highlight. 0:16:56.200 --> 0:16:59.240 Doing a eulogy. It's like the old Casey Kasem thing. 0:16:59.240 --> 0:17:01.600 I'm sick and tied coming out of an upbeat song, 0:17:01.920 --> 0:17:04.720 and I got to do a dog death dedication. You 0:17:04.760 --> 0:17:08.560 know all that, But watch out for the algorithm army. 0:17:08.960 --> 0:17:11.480 Another reminder this week now, if you listen to the 0:17:11.520 --> 0:17:13.879 Overnight Show, and God bless you if you do, and 0:17:13.920 --> 0:17:16.360 you probably do. Most people, very rarely do I get 0:17:16.359 --> 0:17:18.480 an email. You know, I don't never hear your Overnight show, 0:17:18.520 --> 0:17:20.600 but I hear that fifth hour podcast. 0:17:21.080 --> 0:17:22.000 I don't get a lot of that. 0:17:22.280 --> 0:17:28.399 So we do twenty hours of original audio content on 0:17:28.880 --> 0:17:33.000 the show. Mallard monologues. Each hour starts with the Malar monologue. Now, 0:17:33.040 --> 0:17:38.080 typically each one covers not one, not two, but three stories. Right, 0:17:38.520 --> 0:17:45.040 that is roughly sixty topics covered on live radio six 0:17:45.160 --> 0:17:49.560 hundred plus stations. That's the math, right, So all of 0:17:49.800 --> 0:17:53.159 the week's work, the one that launched all of the 0:17:53.200 --> 0:17:55.439 things I talked about, the one that launched the biggest uprising. 0:17:55.440 --> 0:17:55.919 You know what it was. 0:17:57.040 --> 0:17:58.639 It was not the Malleur pluse. I will have the 0:17:58.680 --> 0:18:01.520 Mallard pluza postgame though later this weekend. We like to 0:18:01.560 --> 0:18:04.119 learn all the affiliates down line. The malod Palooza postgame 0:18:04.600 --> 0:18:06.600 coming up down line. But take a guess what do 0:18:06.600 --> 0:18:08.160 you think costs the biggest uprising? 0:18:09.160 --> 0:18:09.320 Ding? 0:18:09.400 --> 0:18:09.879 Ding ding ning? 0:18:10.240 --> 0:18:12.000 Yes, the spicy. 0:18:12.520 --> 0:18:17.919 Margherita Mallard monologue, the late night soliloquy on Hail to 0:18:18.320 --> 0:18:24.080 the red Skins, Hail to Victry. Yes, the Redskins and 0:18:24.119 --> 0:18:31.320 the Cleveland Indians nickname monologue did that, and suddenly I 0:18:31.440 --> 0:18:36.360 had a bullseye on my chest. Public Anime number one, 0:18:36.440 --> 0:18:42.199 I mentioned President Donald J. Trump supporting the return of 0:18:42.200 --> 0:18:45.800 those old sporty nicknames that were canceled in the crazy 0:18:45.920 --> 0:18:49.800 COVID hayze of the twenty twenty period and all that. 0:18:50.680 --> 0:18:51.679 So I ended up. 0:18:51.560 --> 0:18:55.639 With the pitchfork wokester p one charging I don't think 0:18:55.640 --> 0:18:57.880 they're p ones, but they were. They were charging at 0:18:57.880 --> 0:19:02.280 me like I had just pulled the fire alarm during 0:19:02.320 --> 0:19:07.520 their nap time over at NPR headquarters. And why because 0:19:07.800 --> 0:19:12.040 I dare say something they did not like? And More importantly, 0:19:13.000 --> 0:19:15.480 I believe this to be true. The algorithm told them 0:19:15.520 --> 0:19:20.680 not to like it, and now let's not kid ourselves, right, 0:19:20.760 --> 0:19:24.359 every man, woman and child knows that I don't believe 0:19:24.400 --> 0:19:26.720 this was like totally on the up and up, and 0:19:26.760 --> 0:19:28.600 I didn't talk about it on the air too much 0:19:28.640 --> 0:19:32.679 because I didn't want to give them the satisfaction that 0:19:32.760 --> 0:19:36.359 what they were getting. Really a lot of the trolls 0:19:36.440 --> 0:19:38.280 just want the reaction, So if I don't bring it up, 0:19:38.359 --> 0:19:41.160 you know, fine. Sometimes I like to engage dumb people 0:19:41.200 --> 0:19:47.920 like astro fans, Ehstros. But this was digital attempted, digital stoning, stoning. 0:19:48.480 --> 0:19:51.119 You could feel it happening in real time. A lot 0:19:51.119 --> 0:19:54.080 of us was email also, so the second the mal 0:19:54.280 --> 0:19:56.320 monologue hit the airwas I say, hit the airways. I'm 0:19:56.320 --> 0:19:59.760 talking about the rebroadcast and repackaging on the different social 0:19:59.800 --> 0:20:00.840 media is like. 0:20:00.840 --> 0:20:01.639 YouTube or whatever. 0:20:01.800 --> 0:20:05.399 The algorithm was then activated like some kind of weird 0:20:05.480 --> 0:20:10.959 trapdoor beneath the gas bag headquarters, and boom, bam, bang, 0:20:11.520 --> 0:20:15.520 out came the box. That's right, like Transformers, more than 0:20:15.600 --> 0:20:18.600 meets the eye, or in this case, more than meets 0:20:18.600 --> 0:20:21.280 the ear. So the I'm talking about the paid blue 0:20:21.359 --> 0:20:24.159 check mark wannabes. Also that used to mean something if 0:20:24.200 --> 0:20:25.120 he had a blue check mark. 0:20:25.160 --> 0:20:29.360 Not anymore. The the buzzword brigadiers. 0:20:29.080 --> 0:20:33.679 Screaming, You're just a Malor Mallor meatball is all you are. 0:20:33.720 --> 0:20:35.399 That's why you're doing the overnight show. You know, all 0:20:35.400 --> 0:20:36.360 the usual nonsense. 0:20:36.440 --> 0:20:38.520 If you were any good, you'd be on during today. 0:20:39.080 --> 0:20:41.359 Uh And but the Malor meatball one. 0:20:41.280 --> 0:20:43.200 One one dude. I don't even know where the guy 0:20:43.280 --> 0:20:46.280 was from. I can assume, but I. 0:20:46.240 --> 0:20:49.800 Think he is from Boston and might might or might 0:20:50.000 --> 0:20:52.520 based on his email and I might have looked him up. 0:20:52.880 --> 0:20:55.119 May have gone to an Ivy League school in the 0:20:55.119 --> 0:20:57.919 Boston area. Anyway, the guy was very upset with me. 0:20:58.240 --> 0:21:00.760 You just to malor me, you know, the meatball while 0:21:00.760 --> 0:21:02.320 you're on a night And I was like, Malor meatball, 0:21:02.359 --> 0:21:05.560 that sounds delicious. We got to get a Mallard meatball 0:21:05.640 --> 0:21:07.679 on the menu. We have the Ben Mallard chicken fingers 0:21:08.040 --> 0:21:10.280 at the Landing in Liberty, Missouri. We have the Ben 0:21:10.320 --> 0:21:13.280 Maller chicken sandwich at the Sportsbook Bar and Grill in Denver, 0:21:14.040 --> 0:21:17.280 but not the Malar meatball. How about an oversized giant 0:21:17.320 --> 0:21:23.320 meatball with an not spaghetti Feticini. How about that who 0:21:23.400 --> 0:21:29.760 says no, malar meatball covered in marinera but surrounded by fetichini, 0:21:29.800 --> 0:21:33.440 Alfredo with the Alfredo sauce chef's kiss, who says no, 0:21:33.720 --> 0:21:36.880 he contacted me. Let's do it, malar meatball. I'm in 0:21:37.119 --> 0:21:40.520 come on anyway. So back to the story. So I decided, okay, fine, 0:21:40.600 --> 0:21:43.440 let's play ball. And again, this is a one on 0:21:43.440 --> 0:21:45.760 one situation. So what was my response to this guy 0:21:45.800 --> 0:21:47.240 who called me a malar meatball? 0:21:47.240 --> 0:21:48.800 That's why you're on an overnights dude. 0:21:49.280 --> 0:21:52.640 I pointed out that what I do is an opinion 0:21:52.680 --> 0:21:53.240 based show. 0:21:53.880 --> 0:21:55.440 And while it is true I'm on in. 0:21:55.400 --> 0:21:58.080