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Speaker 1: In the air every Way, A happy Saturday to you.
Speaker 1: It is the Fifth Hour with me, Ben and Danny.
Speaker 1: G Radio is back with us here on this Saturday
Speaker 1: as we celebrate Miniature Golf Day today. Danny, and when
Speaker 1: was the last time you went miniature golfing? Has it
Speaker 1: been a.
Speaker 3: While, not that long ago? I think I was fifteen.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's Tue. It's only a couple of years, give
Speaker 1: or take. I was. I was like the tiger Woods
Speaker 1: of mini golf. I don't want to I don't want
Speaker 1: to embellish, but I dominated the windmill. I owned the windmill.
Speaker 1: My short game was amazing. Did you know miniature golf
Speaker 1: goes back to it's over one hundred and I think
Speaker 1: it's almost two hundred years old. It's like the eighteen hundreds,
Speaker 1: they had miniature golf that was born at a club
Speaker 1: in Saint Andrews. They created a game of minister golf.
Speaker 1: So miniature golf has been part of the world since
Speaker 1: like the eighteen sixties. This isn't This is part of
Speaker 1: the fabric of what human beings are at this point,
Speaker 1: unless it's not. I was when I was in when
Speaker 1: I went went down to visit my father in law
Speaker 1: and then my niece in North Carolina and South Carolina
Speaker 1: and Myrtle Beach, they claimed to be the miniature golf
Speaker 1: capital of America. And if not, maybe maybe it's a world.
Speaker 1: But there's one stretch in Myrtle Beach that is like
Speaker 1: nothing but designer, bougie miniature golf courses.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 1: On this podcast, the Saturday Extravagance that we've got the Brownie,
Speaker 1: the Okay Heat or the Oka Sea Heats, the YouTuber
Speaker 1: God of Garlic, and the Idiom of the week, all
Speaker 1: of that content, assuming we have time to get to it.
Speaker 1: We'll start with this. So if you follow the podcast,
Speaker 1: you're obviously listening. Now, if you've been keeping up on
Speaker 1: the pod, you know that because it's football season and
Speaker 1: the TV shows on and all that. I've changed some
Speaker 1: things in my regular routine and my cooking. We're really
Speaker 1: my baking. I'm my cooking. My baking has been put
Speaker 1: on a hiatus. It's been embargoed until February, and who
Speaker 1: knows if all even go back to it. But you know,
Speaker 1: sometime in February, that's it. The Super bowls mid February.
Speaker 1: So after that I'm in. I might try it again,
Speaker 1: but for right now, nah, no, no baking. Try to
Speaker 1: avoid the extra sugar, just like you, Danny. We're getting old.
Speaker 1: We can't have too much sugar, right, How boring is
Speaker 1: our lives, my god? So I try to limit it,
Speaker 1: even eating any kind of sugar. I know there's sugar
Speaker 1: and everything, but like regular foods that we eat, but
Speaker 1: I try to avoid sweets, except maybe on one day
Speaker 1: on the weekends, I might have some M and m's
Speaker 1: or something like that, or if it's rare and appropriate.
Speaker 3: A little extra cocaine to make up for the lack
Speaker 3: of junk food.
Speaker 1: A bunch of hookers and cocaine exactly exactly. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: you add some fentanyl whatever, But I only eat it,
Speaker 1: you know, every now and again, and you get rare
Speaker 1: and appropriate. But this past weekend was a rare and
Speaker 1: appropriate situation. My wife, you had a big party here
Speaker 1: at the house and a lot of family had come
Speaker 1: in here, a lot of aunts, cousins on her side,
Speaker 1: nobody from my family, nobody from you know, they're all
Speaker 1: my people pretty much live you know far. I have
Speaker 1: like one cousin that kind of lives in the area,
Speaker 1: and everyone else is in other states. So I'm pretty
Speaker 1: much on an island out here.
Speaker 3: We're just fine. Whatever.
Speaker 1: So they were all there hanging out a big hooton
Speaker 1: nanny and tray toff during.
Speaker 3: People did you say hoot nanny?
Speaker 1: Yeah, hooton nanny. It's a great word, so it's wonderful. Anyway,
Speaker 1: it was fun. We had a good time. You have
Speaker 1: a lot of food and family and all that stuff,
Speaker 1: and so big event. And my wife had requested but
Speaker 1: my baking services because she came up with this whole menu. Now,
Speaker 1: originally we were going to do like cheese steak. The
Speaker 1: plan was to do cheese steak, but there were a
Speaker 1: lot of people. Roughly fifteen to twenty people were here,
Speaker 1: so it's a lot of people, and to make mass
Speaker 1: quantities of cheese steak. You got to make each sandwich
Speaker 1: kind of individually. Even though you make all the meat
Speaker 1: and the onions and the bell peppers and all that
Speaker 1: together like the the assembly line, it's a lot quicker
Speaker 1: to make some other food. So we settled on a
Speaker 1: menu that was easy to mass produce. But one of
Speaker 1: the things my wife wanted was dessert, and so I
Speaker 1: was deputized as Benny the brownie baker. Benny the brownie baker.
Speaker 1: So I made homemade brownies. But good news, Danny, I
Speaker 1: helped the family business. I used you know what kind
Speaker 1: of brownie mix I used here to make these brownies?
Speaker 3: Sugar free?
Speaker 1: No, Garrett Delli Girt, Yes.
Speaker 3: The complete opposite, thank god, the complete opposite of sugar free.
Speaker 1: Yeah, these are these are terrible for you. But then
Speaker 1: I took it next level because I was like, I
Speaker 1: don't I've made a lot of cookies. I don't think
Speaker 1: i've I've ever made browns. Probably my mom, you know,
Speaker 1: I I guarantee I mad it with my mom. But
Speaker 1: as a grown up, you know, my mom passed years ago.
Speaker 1: I haven't made brownies. And so this was like, Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm studying. I am like a food scientist is what
Speaker 1: I am. I'm going in there, and I'm like, I
Speaker 1: don't want to make just basic bach brownies, Like I
Speaker 1: want I want to.
Speaker 3: Go next left.
Speaker 1: If you're going to go in there, I want these
Speaker 1: to be amazing, right. And so I was like I
Speaker 1: started falling down a rabbit hole. And I was like, okay,
Speaker 1: how I know. I got the mix, but that's just
Speaker 1: the that's just the raw ingredients. Like, how can I
Speaker 1: make this amazing right? How can I crank this up here?
Speaker 1: So I went into the sweet science of a brownie
Speaker 1: baking and there were a few hacks that I came
Speaker 1: up with, you know, simple things like substituting water with buttermilk,
Speaker 1: and I added some extra chocolate and whatnot. It wasn't
Speaker 1: a lot, but it was enough to put them over
Speaker 1: the top. And so they came out Chef's kiss just great.
Speaker 1: And there was one error though, Danny with the brownies.
Speaker 1: So we made the brownies. They took a little longer
Speaker 1: to bake because I put some buttermilk instead of the water.
Speaker 1: I think that's why. So took them, took them out
Speaker 1: and out of the oven. And the normal protocol is
Speaker 1: if you make brownies, you let them sit until they cool.
Speaker 1: You don't cut them right away, because if you cut
Speaker 1: them right away, that's problematic. You don't want to cut
Speaker 1: them right away. My wife was in a hurry, so
Speaker 1: she did not allow them to properly cool. So she's
Speaker 1: trying to cut them while they're still warm. And it
Speaker 1: made like quite the quite the crime scene, the brownie
Speaker 1: crime scene. But they still taste me good. They didn't
Speaker 1: look good. I wanted presentation, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: I wanted presentation.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that was in your error. That was hers, Yeah,
Speaker 3: wasn't mine.
Speaker 1: So I felt fun. It was my mistake, Hey, my fault.
Speaker 1: And then as far as the menu mentioned we were
Speaker 1: gonna do cheese sticks, we didn't dow cheese stacks. We
Speaker 1: ended up doing fihitas. I was back on the griddle
Speaker 1: and we had like ten twelve. It was a lot
Speaker 1: of chicken, a lot of chicken, chopped it all up
Speaker 1: into little pieces, had rice, We had tortillas, had eat
Speaker 1: those up, nacho bar, the malard mess hall was open
Speaker 1: for business. It was an all evening situation, but it
Speaker 1: was a good times. And the other gripe that I
Speaker 1: had was the decision that was not my decision to
Speaker 1: use instead of paper plates, actual plates, which caused me
Speaker 1: a big hulla balloo on the other side because he
Speaker 1: had to do all the dishes and so there was
Speaker 1: a lot of oh that, but overall a fine, fine event.
Speaker 1: It was hot in the kitchen, but it was not
Speaker 1: like that, Okay, sea heat. It wasn't that kind of danny, dude.
Speaker 3: I mean that area they're obviously known for their thunder
Speaker 3: and lightning and their tornadoes. They call it tornado. Ali.
Speaker 3: The uber driver when I got to OKC last weekend,
Speaker 3: was telling me all about how high the insurance rates
Speaker 3: are there. Everything else is great, Like we landed in
Speaker 3: the gasoline. Of course we pay attention to these things
Speaker 3: because we're California people. Two dollars and sixty nine cents
Speaker 3: a gallon.
Speaker 1: Say, what did you attempt to go to like home
Speaker 1: depot and buy a jug that you could put gasoline
Speaker 1: on for the flight back? Did you think, mate?
Speaker 3: They figured they might frown on that during airports security.
Speaker 1: Okay, fairpoint, fairpoint.
Speaker 3: But we got breakfast everything, you know, the eggs that
Speaker 3: I'm like, do it up, the potatoes, the fruit, give
Speaker 3: me a cup of fruit extra, all that, and the
Speaker 3: bill came to the door for the room service and
Speaker 3: we got these two huge breakfast plates and the bill
Speaker 3: was twenty four bucks, and I was like, man, you know,
Speaker 3: probably sucks being in the middle of nowhere, but the
Speaker 3: prices are affordable. I knew that they were in Tornado Alley.
Speaker 3: What I didn't know was it could get so damn
Speaker 3: hot there, and it was that kind of heat where
Speaker 3: it feels like your face is melting off hot nuts.
Speaker 3: We get to we get to owe you our son,
Speaker 3: he's just started there. He got there in August. Was
Speaker 3: pretty cool. Getting to see the lay of the land.
Speaker 3: We get to his frat house where he's pledging. It
Speaker 3: looks like the movies everything you imagine from Revenge of
Speaker 3: the Nerds on up to know the latest movie where
Speaker 3: you might see college campuses. What a beautiful campus there
Speaker 3: in Oklahoma, the Sooners. I can see why so many
Speaker 3: of them brag about their campus. We do the family
Speaker 3: Day thing there and there's a ton of people. The
Speaker 3: only thing that was bad at Family Day bend your
Speaker 3: food sounds way better at your party because they had
Speaker 3: sloppy joes, eh, egg salad and yeah, stuff like that.
Speaker 3: And so we get a couple of plates. Finally have
Speaker 3: to wait in this big line because it was so
Speaker 3: crowded there, and it's just the food stunk. So we're like, well,
Speaker 3: we'll we'll eat at the stadium. It'll be better at
Speaker 3: the stadium. I'm sure now. It was some gross hot
Speaker 3: dogs that were thirteen bucks, barely edible, barely cooked, nachos
Speaker 3: that looked like the high school nachos that you were
Speaker 3: slinging a couple of weekends back.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was.
Speaker 3: The only part that well, that wasn't the only part.
Speaker 3: We get up to our seats. They're in the student
Speaker 3: section because that's where our two kids were. They're telling
Speaker 3: me and the wifey, Yeah, you guys got to stand
Speaker 3: with us in the student section. These seats are way
Speaker 3: up high and ben. When we got there, they're doing
Speaker 3: their all their ou traditions and chants, and there was
Speaker 3: an early touchdown scored, so the place is going nuts. Oh,
Speaker 3: you looked like a juggernaut on the field that day,
Speaker 3: but that sun just blazing in everybody's face. There was
Speaker 3: about ten thousand Carrie Underwood lookalikes. In fact, I'm going
Speaker 3: to text you right now a picture I took where
Speaker 3: you'll be like, oh, Okay, I see what you're talking about.
Speaker 3: When you're in that southern California heat at a stadium, Well,
Speaker 3: I guess you may not know what it's like because
Speaker 3: you're up in the media booth.
Speaker 1: No, I've been something. I've never sat outside in the
Speaker 1: summer at Dodger Stadium or what I've been outside. I've
Speaker 1: been at USC football games back in the day when
Speaker 1: I was there all the time, when Pete Carroll was
Speaker 1: coaching and they had Reggie Bush and those guys in
Speaker 1: the different area. I mean, it was ridiculously hot. They
Speaker 1: didn't even have an air conditioning in the press box.
Speaker 1: But yeah, no, it's much. It's a different kind of
Speaker 1: heat because you're like when you're in Oklahoma, arc saws
Speaker 1: right across the way there on one side. You like, Amarillo,
Speaker 1: Texas is not that far. I mean, that's are very
Speaker 1: hot places. There's no water. It's like there's no massive
Speaker 1: body of water, you know, anywhere near there.
Speaker 3: I'm surprised that they designed the stadium the way they did, too,
Speaker 3: because there's not a lot of overhang. There's no shade
Speaker 3: to be found. That was my biggest takeaway from the stadium.
Speaker 3: Beautiful campus Great Stadium, but literally everybody was exposed to
Speaker 3: the sun just shining right in your eyes, and there
Speaker 3: were people being taken away on stretchers by paramedics. I
Speaker 3: thought I was at a Michael Jackson concert in the
Speaker 3: late eighties. It was insane how many people had to
Speaker 3: have medical help. And you know, these kids are drinking alcohol.
Speaker 3: They're not drinking water. So I think that was a
Speaker 3: lot of the problem was just tons of dehydration all
Speaker 3: around us. But these girls all were cake faced, and
Speaker 3: they all had the same It was like they were
Speaker 3: distributed the same uniform to wear here.
Speaker 1: And I have a plan, and I would like you
Speaker 1: to invest in my plan. So I think what we'll do.
Speaker 1: We will make cowboy boots for women, college age women,
Speaker 1: will open up a couple of shops in Oklahoma, and
Speaker 1: then we'll just retire. We'll be good.
Speaker 3: We'd be millionaires. We would be millionaires.
Speaker 1: Think of all wearing like jean shorts or well the
Speaker 1: two and then they've got the cowboy cowboy Yeah.
Speaker 3: So they got the little shirts with the girls sticking
Speaker 3: out so barely any top on ou hat or a
Speaker 3: cowboy hat, a girl cowboy hat. The boots that they
Speaker 3: were like usually red colored to match OU's colors. You
Speaker 3: see that in the photo and these little jean shorts.
Speaker 1: Might I say, not a bad look, you know, not
Speaker 1: a terrible look?
Speaker 3: Ten thousand at least of I mean, was there was
Speaker 3: more than that? But I saw ten thousand personally, thank you?
Speaker 1: Like did I like at the memo, like, what's going
Speaker 1: on here?
Speaker 3: I think they all looked like they had been cloned.
Speaker 3: There was no individuality whatsoever. But at least they didn't
Speaker 3: have so many clothes on that they were extra hot.
Speaker 3: The problem was they all had a shit ton of
Speaker 3: makeup on. Literally, their makeup was melting off in the sun.
Speaker 3: We saw the girls next to us in the stands.
Speaker 3: They had those personal fans, and they had the fans
Speaker 3: right up to their face so that their makeup wouldn't melt,
Speaker 3: and then they would rotate to the boobs to the face,
Speaker 3: to the boobs to the face.
Speaker 1: Listen when in warm in Oklahoma.
Speaker 3: I'm sure that'll solve it.
Speaker 1: You sing the sooner born, sooner bread and when I die,
Speaker 1: I'll be sooner dead like fight song.
Speaker 3: Thing.
Speaker 1: Did you do that? Did they do that?
Speaker 3: Did they they did a oh oh oh you okay?
Speaker 3: And they Yeah, they kept doing that to that song
Speaker 3: that oh oh oh oh.
Speaker 1: Still I assume they still have the super.
Speaker 3: Bump bump bump bum bum hello, oh oh oh. You
Speaker 3: did that so many times it's been blazoned into my brain.
Speaker 3: Really awesome home crowd, good experience. But we were not
Speaker 3: able to make it to halftime in those seats. So
Speaker 3: what we did is we sat down by the concession
Speaker 3: stands with the big monitors, the big flat screens, and
Speaker 3: we weren't the only ones. There were hundreds of people
Speaker 3: sitting down in the bowels of the stadium, and so
Speaker 3: we got a bird's eye view of all the hundreds
Speaker 3: of people being stretchered into the medical area. So at halftime,
Speaker 3: we told the kids, we know you want to be
Speaker 3: here for the Toby Keith Salute third quarter video tribute
Speaker 3: to the late great Toby Keith, who famously was the
Speaker 3: face of OU, their biggest celebrity fan. We didn't make
Speaker 3: it that far, so we left at halftime. We weren't
Speaker 3: the only ones. There were hundreds of people walking out
Speaker 3: of the stadium at halftime because it was just too
Speaker 3: damn hot for a football game. But we were able
Speaker 3: to go to a steak dinner.
Speaker 1: You want for steak. You didn't go barbecue, you want steak.
Speaker 3: We went steak. We found a steakhouse. Okay, there were
Speaker 3: four of us and a kid's menu, so five people
Speaker 3: on the bill. We went all out with a steak.
Speaker 3: How much do you think that final bill was?
Speaker 1: Well, you said the room service was like twenty four dollars.
Speaker 1: So this was a good steak Oklahoma steakhouse.
Speaker 3: A chain steakhouse there in Oklahoma.
Speaker 1: All right, I mean five people, I mean a couple
Speaker 1: hundred bucks.
Speaker 3: That's what we were thinking. We kind of had it
Speaker 3: in our budget in our heads, like, all right, this
Speaker 3: is our one big meal of the trip, celebrating the
Speaker 3: ou victory. Bill comes to our table one hundred bucks. Nice,
Speaker 3: Like Holly said, it was worth the heat. Man, really cool.
Speaker 3: Stay there our son. He lives in a little bubble
Speaker 3: there right off the campus. He's having the time of
Speaker 3: his life, especially with his frat house. And it was
Speaker 3: a good time all around. In my very first visit
Speaker 3: to Oklahoma and OKC, we stayed at a nice hotel
Speaker 3: in OKC at the Omni where the next day at
Speaker 3: their sports bar, I got to see the Raiders upset
Speaker 3: the Ravens, which was beautiful. So not only did we
Speaker 3: get a OU win, we got a Raider win. And
Speaker 3: OKC was nice. It really was. Yeah, there was a
Speaker 3: lot of heat, but there were a lot of cool restaurants.
Speaker 3: And that night before we left, we went to the
Speaker 3: Oklahoma County Fair. Saw a lot of animals and animal
Speaker 3: shit all over the ground, but we got to walk
Speaker 3: around their county Fair, which was fun before we headed
Speaker 3: back to California.
Speaker 1: Oh, that's great, awesome. You mentioned the Sooner fight thing
Speaker 1: that they were doing. It reminds me. I went to
Speaker 1: a Buffalo Bills game years ago and they kept playing.
Speaker 1: Every time the Bills got a first down or did anything,
Speaker 1: they would play Let's go Buffalo. The Bills make me
Speaker 1: want to shout, you know, and they was endless. It was,
Speaker 1: oh my god, it was so bad. I was like, man,
Speaker 1: a nightmare. But I had I've been to Oklahoma to
Speaker 1: years ago. I don't want to say when, but it
Speaker 1: was a long time ago, and I did get to
Speaker 1: do a radio broadcast from Oklahoma. But it was also
Speaker 1: one of the eye opening experiences because I was working
Speaker 1: college radio broadcast. I was the sideline reporter for Oklahoma
Speaker 1: played Nebraska. They used to be huge rivals, and so
Speaker 1: Nebraska was kind of that. They had a dynasty in
Speaker 1: college football in the nineties, but it was the tail
Speaker 1: end of that and they were starting to suck. But
Speaker 1: they still didn't completely suck. But Oklahoma had been bad
Speaker 1: and they were starting to become good, and so I
Speaker 1: was excited. Was like it was kind of a big
Speaker 1: game and it was early in the college football season.
Speaker 1: So we went down. They flew me into Oklahoma City.
Speaker 1: That was the trip where the guy that paid for
Speaker 1: the trip said, hey, I don't I can't give you
Speaker 1: per diem. You can eat whatever you want at the
Speaker 1: hotel though, so I just kept at the hotel and
Speaker 1: then we drove out to Norman actually the day before
Speaker 1: to it was Friday, to do some meetings with the
Speaker 1: Oklahoma people. And that's where I saw Lee Corso walking
Speaker 1: around in like jeans and he was old then now
Speaker 1: he's still doing it, but very old.
Speaker 3: Everybody raves about the college football atmosphere, yeah, and they're
Speaker 3: right on, it's amazing. The problem is in our age group,
Speaker 3: you feel like the old people there.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, you don't want to feel.
Speaker 3: You feel no, And that that was the only thing
Speaker 3: you feel left out a little bit because you're thinking
Speaker 3: in your mind, Man, if I could just come back
Speaker 3: here when I was twenty or twenty one, this would
Speaker 3: be even more amazing. Like next weekend, I'm gonna be
Speaker 3: with Covino and Rich at Auburn the day before their
Speaker 3: big game for the graduate hotels. And it's kind of
Speaker 3: going to be like a rally almost because it's the
Speaker 3: day before the game. But I'm sure it's the same
Speaker 3: kind of vibe. And everybody had told me, oh, man,
Speaker 3: once you go to a college game, you're going to
Speaker 3: want to go to another. And that might be the case,
Speaker 3: but I'm not in my early twenties to get into
Speaker 3: all that trouble with the ten thousand Carrie Underwoods. I saw.
Speaker 1: Yeah, if you were a little younger and single, you'd
Speaker 1: be like I'm in You'd be on every weekend. You'd
Speaker 1: be let's try Southern footballs to we'll do the big ten.
Speaker 3: Let's do what else would have did? A college football tour?
Speaker 1: Yeah, for sure. Now I was a cool, cool experience,
Speaker 1: and that's really the only place I've been I've not been.
Speaker 1: I'd like to get to it, says No Notre Dame,
Speaker 1: but I don't know if I guarantee Notre Dame is
Speaker 1: not like that LSU at night, LSU Night game. You
Speaker 1: hear a lot about that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I could see that.
Speaker 1: You know, there's some cool, cool spots. Most of them
Speaker 1: are in the South. It's just just means more.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Michigan. I know they were talking about maybe sending
Speaker 3: us to broadcast live out of Michigan game.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, Ann Arbor.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, we might be a season too late for that, but.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it might be on the back side of it
Speaker 1: on the way down. But they had the I think
Speaker 1: we didn't come the sooner schooner. Did that come out
Speaker 1: on the field?
Speaker 3: I saw it one time. I'm sure it came out
Speaker 3: more than once, but we saw it one time while
Speaker 3: we were in the stands and took a cool video
Speaker 3: of it. And is this uh is this evil that
Speaker 3: I was hoping it was going to flip over like
Speaker 3: we've seen and I don't. I don't think it's happened
Speaker 3: a lot, but the times it's happened, it's been caught
Speaker 3: on video and has gone viral where the wagon is
Speaker 3: just sliding on its side.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, when I the game, I was at and
Speaker 1: it was crazy because I'm standing on the sidelines and
Speaker 1: I didn't, you know, I didn't really know what to
Speaker 1: I mean, i'd seen Oklahoma games on TV, but you're
Speaker 1: you're there and you see it's like, whoa dude. That's
Speaker 1: like what a bunch of dudes with cowboy hats running around?
Speaker 1: Crap and you know, whole thing. But it was it
Speaker 1: was pretty cool that I remember. Also Nebraska had they
Speaker 1: had one of those blow up mascot things, you know,
Speaker 1: that inflatable like it was a person, but they blew
Speaker 1: up the costumes so they were like giant and they
Speaker 1: were walking around and so I remember that from that
Speaker 1: particular day. And also I was gonna mention this going
Speaker 1: to the radio station and we had to record. We
Speaker 1: did like an hour syndicated college football show, so we
Speaker 1: had to go record at the radio station. So we
Speaker 1: go to the radio station, and it was so at
Speaker 1: that time, I'd only been to like big market radio stations.
Speaker 1: I'd never been to a small market radio station. But
Speaker 1: the guy he talked to the person that carried the
Speaker 1: show in Oklahoma, like Norman. So we show up to the.
Speaker 3: Radio station, Danny.
Speaker 1: It's in a mobile home that like a trailer mobile
Speaker 1: home thing that's parked right below the It's like parked
Speaker 1: it is the right word, but it's set up right
Speaker 1: underneath the transmitter the tower. I don't know if you noticed,
Speaker 1: but they have very big towers there because it's flat.
Speaker 1: There's not not a lot of hills in Oklahoma. So
Speaker 1: we pull up and I was like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: and they had all this really old radio equipment and
Speaker 1: it kind of smelled musky, and it just was terrible.
Speaker 1: And it wasn't even a double wide. They couldn't even
Speaker 1: afford a double wide. And I remember going in there
Speaker 1: and I'm like, oh man, It's like, how many of
Speaker 1: these radio stations in these small towns are just like this?
Speaker 1: It was wild.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm sure all those satellite rays and electricity there
Speaker 3: right above your head is good for your health too.
Speaker 1: Doctors recommend it, Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 3: I'm a doctor.
Speaker 1: Well, I'm a YouTuber, not that kind of YouTuber. But
Speaker 1: did something I'd never done before last last weekend, I
Speaker 1: was the invited guest by my wife. My presence was
Speaker 1: requested at the YouTube theater at Sofi Stadium. Now, I'd
Speaker 1: never been to the YouTube theater at Sofi stadium, never
Speaker 1: been until now I've been. My wife got tickets to see.
Speaker 1: I wonder if you know who this is and see Danny.
Speaker 1: I think you probably know who this person is, but
Speaker 1: maybe not that familiar. Do you know who Steven Sanchez is?
Speaker 1: You heard the name?
Speaker 3: No, I don't know who that is?
Speaker 1: Okay, good, you don't know. I'm not really familiar with
Speaker 1: his work. Be This guy's a young cat, he's twenty one.
Speaker 1: He was discovered on TikTok. So you remember Bieber was
Speaker 1: discovered on the internet, And I guess that's the way
Speaker 1: everyone's discovered now in music is on the internet.
Speaker 3: You just yeah, same as Taylor Swift.
Speaker 1: Yeah, used to be back in the day that you
Speaker 1: had to go on the.
Speaker 3: Radio, but Caine Brown. Yeah. Now it's cover other people's
Speaker 3: songs and put those videos on YouTube and then people
Speaker 3: start following you.
Speaker 1: Yeah. So the wife got tickets for us and her
Speaker 1: friend and her friend's husband from work. So we all
Speaker 1: went together out in the hood in Inglewood. And my
Speaker 1: wife really likes this guy's music or whatever, So not
Speaker 1: really my jam, kind of old school like krooner love style,
Speaker 1: love song type crap. But you know, it was cool
Speaker 1: to be at the YouTube theater, and my wife enjoyed it.
Speaker 1: We had pretty good seats. I don't want to know
Speaker 1: how much they cost because I probably lose my lunch.
Speaker 1: But this guy's from southern California originally. He's now based
Speaker 1: in Nashville, and my wife swears that he's going to
Speaker 1: just blow up in the next couple of years. He's
Speaker 1: won a bunch of nominations from like iHeart the iHeart
Speaker 1: Music Awards, the People's Choice Awards, a bunch of random
Speaker 1: stuff that I've never heard of in that world. But
Speaker 1: it's fine. Is there a lot of you know, good
Speaker 1: looking people, much like you sent me the photo from Oklahoma.
Speaker 1: People not wearing a lot of clothes. I think maybe
Speaker 1: they thought the women that Steven Sanchez was going to
Speaker 1: go go to the crowd and to start picking out women.
Speaker 1: But they were all dressed up. Everyone seem to have a,
Speaker 1: you know, a good time in the YouTube.
Speaker 3: Thah, just I just looked him up right now.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's a young guy. I mean it's like you
Speaker 1: look at that, You're like, whoa dude? I mean that's
Speaker 1: now I feel like.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he was born in El Dorado Hills, California.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so, and I don't know much about him. There's
Speaker 1: not a lot of information about where he went to
Speaker 1: school or whatever. I don't know much. But he's I
Speaker 1: guess doing all right. So that was the YouTuber part.
Speaker 3: It says it's easy to sway into the embrace of
Speaker 3: his breezy baritone stylings.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm sure. Well, yet again, Danny, the God of
Speaker 1: Garlic has saved the day.
Speaker 3: So follow up, Oh no, alleged allegedly.
Speaker 1: Oh no, no, there's no allegedly here. Let me let
Speaker 1: me give you the backstory. So about ten days ago
Speaker 1: or so the timeline, I'm not exactly sure in the
Speaker 1: exact time, but my niece and nephew I think I
Speaker 1: told the story on this pot because we hung out
Speaker 1: with him and we went to I went to the
Speaker 1: beach and had lunch or dinner and had a good time.
Speaker 1: But my my nephew had strap throat. He was sick, right,
Speaker 1: and they took him to the doctor. And so I'm
Speaker 1: I'm freaking out.
Speaker 3: You.
Speaker 1: I can't miss the TV show, I can't miss the
Speaker 1: radio show. I don't want miss any time. And I'm
Speaker 1: paranoid about all that. So my wife's telling me she says, Oh,
Speaker 1: it's probably nothing. He's a kid, you know, don't worry
Speaker 1: about it. I'm freaking out. So then I kind of
Speaker 1: started feeling sick. I woke up on last last Friday.
Speaker 1: I woke up feeling a little, a little off. You
Speaker 1: know how you get that feeling like you're about to
Speaker 1: get sick, and you're like, oh, man, So I went
Speaker 1: immediately to nature's antibiotic and I took two giant handfuls
Speaker 1: of garlic, and I roasted this garlic. I went roasted
Speaker 1: garlic because if used properly, it will kill most oncoming infections,
Speaker 1: you know, old and stuff like that. I wouldn't treat
Speaker 1: it for cancer. But anyway, so I went there, and
Speaker 1: sure enough, the next day I fell back to my
Speaker 1: old self. And so that proves that the Egyptians were right, Danny,
Speaker 1: that when they worshiped garlic as a god and they
Speaker 1: used it as currency, they were correct. And somewhere along
Speaker 1: the way humanity has lost its way. Not only can
Speaker 1: garlic be worshiped, can be money, could cure vampiresm right,
Speaker 1: you could do that the whole thing. So anyway, I
Speaker 1: was very nice. The god of garlic or garlic the
Speaker 1: god however you want to say it helping me out,
Speaker 1: and we have the idiom of the week and we'll
Speaker 1: get out on this the idiom of the week. Are
Speaker 1: you ready for the idiom of the week?
Speaker 3: Danny the of the week?
Speaker 1: The idiom of the week a request from Sarah who
Speaker 1: is in Dallas or the Dallas area. She's actually in
Speaker 1: a suburb, but thank you, sir. I'm guessing her husband
Speaker 1: probably listens and not her, but she sent the email.
Speaker 1: So anyway, the idiom of the week is ostracize. You
Speaker 1: ever say, hey, you've been ostracized, or that person's gonna
Speaker 1: get ostracized or anything like that. So that phrase, which
Speaker 1: is a bit of an idiom. The original meaning of
Speaker 1: the word ostracize, most of us know do exile, be
Speaker 1: kicked out of a group, or something like that. But
Speaker 1: it goes back to ancient Greece, the ancient Greeks, and
Speaker 1: they had a practice of ostracism. And the word comes
Speaker 1: from a Greek word that I'm not even going to
Speaker 1: try to pronounce, but it means to banish. And if
Speaker 1: you go back to those times, allegedly in ancient Greece,
Speaker 1: citizens could be exiled if their power influence threatened the
Speaker 1: leadership class in Greece among the Greeks, and so the
Speaker 1: way it would work, as I understand it, falling down
Speaker 1: the rabbit hole here for the word ostracized. The idiom
Speaker 1: of the week is that there was a whole big
Speaker 1: process of citizens who voted to banish other citizens. It's like,
Speaker 1: you know how we go to HR to complain about somebody. Well,
Speaker 1: back in Greece, they didn't have HR. So what they
Speaker 1: did was people would write the name, the name of
Speaker 1: the person they had an issue with on a not
Speaker 1: a piece of paper. They don't have paper, but the
Speaker 1: potchard or what is it potchard by the way, I
Speaker 1: didn't even know what that is, but they beat their
Speaker 1: name on this and then if enough citizens wrote the
Speaker 1: same name, that person would be exiled from Greece for
Speaker 1: ten years, you imagine. Yeah, And so the exiled person
Speaker 1: was given ten days because like round numbers, so it
Speaker 1: kicked out for ten years. But they were given ten
Speaker 1: days to organize their affairs and then they had to
Speaker 1: leave the city to never return to the region of
Speaker 1: Attica in the next decade day to be away. Of course,
Speaker 1: today we still use the word ostracize, which in modern jive.
Speaker 1: Modern lingo means to exclude someone from a group or whatnot.
Speaker 1: So that is the idiom of the week ostracized. I
Speaker 1: thought that was a pretty interesting one, so thank you, Sarah.
Speaker 1: If you would like to request in idiom for a
Speaker 1: future show, you just want to hear us talk about it.
Speaker 1: I mean, some of the stuff you can find on
Speaker 1: your own, but if you want to hear us, go
Speaker 1: down a rabbit hole and chat. You're lazy. We are
Speaker 1: here Real fifth Hour and I love words anyway, so
Speaker 1: it's kind of cool for me to learn new things
Speaker 1: like this. So Real fifth Hour at gmail dot com
Speaker 1: and we all kind of learned together, so it's a.
Speaker 3: Yeah, really cool, and you're featured as the idiot of
Speaker 3: the week.
Speaker 1: It was idiom idiom. All right, we'll get out on
Speaker 1: that anything, Dan. It's Saturday. I'm going to be watching
Speaker 1: I mentioned this on yesterday's podcast. I'll be watching a
Speaker 1: little bit of the UCLA game because Brian Finley is
Speaker 1: doing the postgame show and UCLA is going to likely
Speaker 1: lose by four touchdowns, so I want to see how
Speaker 1: bad it. Guess they're playing LSU today, and then I'll
Speaker 1: be checking out some of the other college games randomly.
Speaker 1: But you got anything going on you want to promote here?
Speaker 3: No, last week I was recording podcasts with you and traveling.
Speaker 3: This weekend, it's recording podcasts and trying to kick back
Speaker 3: and relax a little bit with college football. And same thing.
Speaker 3: Man going to be watching some college football and making
Speaker 3: some nachos in the kitchen.
Speaker 1: Sounds good, sounds good. All right, have a wonderful rest
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