Speaker 1: Kabbooms.
Speaker 2: If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes
Speaker 2: a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants
Speaker 2: of the Old Republic, a soul fashion of fairness. He
Speaker 2: treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the
Speaker 2: rich pill poppers in the penthouse. Wow to a clearinghouse
Speaker 2: of hot takes, break free for something special. The Fifth
Speaker 2: Hour with Ben Maller starts right now.
Speaker 3: In the air everywhere, and you have stumbled onto the
Speaker 3: Saturday edition of The Fifth Hour with Me, Ben Mallor
Speaker 3: and my guy Danny g who is still floating on
Speaker 3: cloud nine, even though it's November two now and we're
Speaker 3: past Halloween, we're past the World Series, but no, we're
Speaker 3: not past the World seriesday. And I know you were
Speaker 3: not on yesterday, so you didn't have a chance to
Speaker 3: regale the listener with the joys of victory, the wonderful
Speaker 3: experience of the Dodgers winning the World Series.
Speaker 1: The other day, Danny, we text a little bit.
Speaker 3: I was actually driving while you were texting me, so
Speaker 3: I couldn't really get fully immersed into the text chain.
Speaker 1: But what a wonderful week it was.
Speaker 4: I don't know about you, but I almost emptied my
Speaker 4: entire box of illegal fireworks.
Speaker 5: I know you saw a free show, right.
Speaker 1: Oh, it was just saying. I talked about it yesterday.
Speaker 3: It reminded me of the COVID Fourth of July, Like
Speaker 3: it is wild that everyone has that amount of projectiles
Speaker 3: explosives ready to go at any moment. It's rather scary
Speaker 3: when you think about it. I mean everywhere I look.
Speaker 3: I was driving. I took off right after the game
Speaker 3: ended because I had to get into the studio, and
Speaker 3: I knew it was gonna be crazy with the the
Speaker 3: hoodlums running around La celebrated, not even celebrated. These are
Speaker 3: not even Dodger fans, most of them. I think they
Speaker 3: were just trying to cause trouble. But I knew there
Speaker 3: was gonna be a lot problem. So I got in
Speaker 3: the cars. I I got to get out of here,
Speaker 3: got to get to the studio. So I took off
Speaker 3: and panoramic to paint the picture for like our blind guys,
Speaker 3: everywhere from right to left was it was like the
Speaker 3: Fourth of July.
Speaker 1: It was it was bananas.
Speaker 3: So you've been traveling so you were unable to attend
Speaker 3: the parade, right, I did not go to the parade
Speaker 3: because I had to sleep.
Speaker 1: You know, that's my thing there.
Speaker 3: I don't do parades because they're during the day and
Speaker 3: I work at night. Now, if they ever had a
Speaker 3: parade about three four in the morning, I think I'd
Speaker 3: be good.
Speaker 1: But they don't do those.
Speaker 3: They always do them during the day for those daytime
Speaker 3: people could skip work whenever they want.
Speaker 4: I'm still in Seattle right now. We were here for
Speaker 4: the Graduate Hotels live broadcast yesterday, the day before today's
Speaker 4: big Washington USC game.
Speaker 5: Is it a big game? Really?
Speaker 1: Well?
Speaker 3: No, now you allowed. I don't know if you're going
Speaker 3: to the game. I saw this week that the USC
Speaker 3: football program has banned the media from practice because obviously
Speaker 3: the reason they blow this year is because of the media.
Speaker 1: That's why you.
Speaker 3: Got to have a fall guy, And I see, my god,
Speaker 3: what they thought they had there forever coach. Now, Seattle.
Speaker 3: I love Seattle by you've been there before, right, I
Speaker 3: assume you've been there.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, it's been about a decade or so for
Speaker 4: me though.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Seattle's beautiful visually, the skyline. It reminds me of
Speaker 3: a Northeastern city a little bit because of you know,
Speaker 3: it's right on the water, and you had all this
Speaker 3: downtown's right there, beautifully visually, just stunning Seattle with the
Speaker 3: Mountain Range in the background. Yes, but there are a
Speaker 3: lot of wackadoodles that are downtown Seattle, and we.
Speaker 4: Had some normal There were some normal people too that
Speaker 4: showed up for the remote yesterday afternoon. So I would
Speaker 4: say half wacka doodles and half normal nice people.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, but I think it's the same thing.
Speaker 3: Like I got offered a RADO job in Portland, Oregon,
Speaker 3: which I know is not Seattle. I realized it's not Seattle,
Speaker 3: and I remember talking to the program director at the
Speaker 3: radio station in Portland. He was explaining to me these
Speaker 3: listen says, you know, you probably heard about Portland, he said,
Speaker 3: they know it's true, this downtown part of Portland. There's
Speaker 3: a lot of people here that are you know, on
Speaker 3: the fringes, you know, on the spectrum. But outside it's
Speaker 3: normal people. These are normal, I mean outside the city.
Speaker 3: These are you know, these are just regular people trying
Speaker 3: to make it through life and all that, and they're
Speaker 3: they're not on the edges. But I think it's similar
Speaker 3: in Seattle. And I've had a great time We had
Speaker 3: a great meet and greet.
Speaker 1: I mean it was awesome. Jay Scoop put that together.
Speaker 3: I got to meet Robbie the Mariner, Finn and some
Speaker 3: of the other guys in the Pacific Northwest who came
Speaker 3: in for that back in twenty nineteen, just before the
Speaker 3: pandemic at the end of twenty nineteen.
Speaker 1: I loved it.
Speaker 3: We watched we had the Malorman march through the streets
Speaker 3: of Seattle down to the Seahawks stadium there and that
Speaker 3: was that was the next level.
Speaker 1: We were harassing.
Speaker 3: Well, we had the bullhorn and Ed from Spokane and
Speaker 3: Christina from Spokane, who don't call it show anymore. They
Speaker 3: worked during the day, but they had the megaphone and
Speaker 3: they were promoting my show and marching and the homeless
Speaker 3: people were trying to sleep during the day and they
Speaker 3: were yelling back knock at all. It was really it's
Speaker 3: like a nineteen eighties comedy. It was really funny. But no,
Speaker 3: I love You're very lucky you go on these little
Speaker 3: road trips Seattle's see, it was pretty pretty cool, man.
Speaker 1: Some good good restaurants and whatnot there.
Speaker 4: And yeah, and some good college football fans here who
Speaker 4: showed up yesterday. Obviously, the Huskies have a long tradition,
Speaker 4: and so it was fun to hang out with college
Speaker 4: fans yesterday and today after the podcast. So that's what
Speaker 4: you and I are going to be doing, sitting on
Speaker 4: our butts and watching some college football.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we don't have to worry about Game seven of
Speaker 3: the World Series, which if things had gone the other
Speaker 3: way back this week, we might have had to worry
Speaker 3: about that. But we don't just focus in on on
Speaker 3: college football.
Speaker 1: It's yeah.
Speaker 3: So and when you think Big ten, you think Seattle
Speaker 3: and La Big ten.
Speaker 1: That's big Hey.
Speaker 4: To bring it full circle to Ben, I'm so happy
Speaker 4: there was not a Game six last night because I
Speaker 4: would have had to watch that with Covino, who's a
Speaker 4: diehard Yankees fan, and the listeners who I just met.
Speaker 4: Can you imagine that instead of being with my family
Speaker 4: and celebrating with friends in LA, I would have had
Speaker 4: to be in Seattle with my show and strangers, well
Speaker 4: almost strangers, with that game on as I bit my fingernails.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that would not have been an ideal situation.
Speaker 3: But this has gotta be the greatest playoff run, at
Speaker 3: least to get back to people you work with, because
Speaker 3: you had Mets fan and you had a Yankee fan,
Speaker 3: and you slayd both of them in the playoffs.
Speaker 1: So that's that's perfect.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they're nice fans for being East Coast guys. The
Speaker 4: guy really want to like like.
Speaker 5: Get the.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah, give it to give the East Coast
Speaker 4: business back to him. One Jason Smith, who works out
Speaker 4: of our network. Well Jackson, yeah, oh, Ben, that dude
Speaker 4: is the most annoying New York Mets fan on the planet.
Speaker 4: When the Mets forced that series back to La I
Speaker 4: unfortunately bumped into him as he was dancing and spinning,
Speaker 4: playing that stupid New York Groove song really loud on
Speaker 4: his cell phone above his head, and he was doing
Speaker 4: like this nineteen eighties danced in the hallway, and he
Speaker 4: was telling all the Dodgers fans here that work here
Speaker 4: to suck it, and he was he was floating, Ben,
Speaker 4: he was floating. He swore up and down the Mets
Speaker 4: were coming back to beat the Dodgers.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well they were coming back to lose to the
Speaker 3: dub Ja. I've known Jason for I've known him since
Speaker 3: the early days of Beast before Fox Sports Radio, and
Speaker 3: he has not seen any of his teams have success,
Speaker 3: not one of them ever since I've known him for
Speaker 3: over twenty years.
Speaker 1: The Mets haven't won.
Speaker 3: The Jets did get to the AFC Title Game a
Speaker 3: couple of times, but that you know, they didn't get to.
Speaker 1: The Super Bowl.
Speaker 3: And the Knicks they got to the finals but they
Speaker 3: didn't win. So those are his three favorite teams never won.
Speaker 3: But you're right, he is so over the top, so dramatic.
Speaker 1: Jason.
Speaker 3: Your your typical New York sports fan right out of
Speaker 3: Central Casting for a Met and a Jets fan. He
Speaker 3: is absolutely right there. So on this this is our
Speaker 3: Saturday plot. A couple of things I wanted to get
Speaker 3: to now. We just had Halloween on Thursday. I think
Speaker 3: we all know that probably a lot of candy. I
Speaker 3: don't know if you like me, Nanny, but what we
Speaker 3: did is we went to the Costco and my wife said, well,
Speaker 3: I like chalcolate.
Speaker 1: She likes more of the gummy candies.
Speaker 3: So she's like, well, let's get a bag of the
Speaker 3: chocolate and a bag of the gummies, and then we
Speaker 3: end up getting like fifteen your treats. So we end
Speaker 3: up having about twelve pounds of candy left over at
Speaker 3: the end.
Speaker 1: Of the Halloween experience.
Speaker 3: We bought way too much candy and inevitably either you
Speaker 3: take that to work or you eat it and then
Speaker 3: you gain about thirty pounds. So that's that's usually hother wors.
Speaker 3: But this past weekend we had the Malor. Now this
Speaker 3: was not the official Malar Halloween party because it was
Speaker 3: not at the Malor mansion. But there was a Halloween
Speaker 3: party my wife co hosted with some of her co workers,
Speaker 3: and so I spent last weekend. And this actually is
Speaker 3: a during game Game two of the of the World series.
Speaker 1: I watched it at.
Speaker 3: A Halloween party, and I had the full Kirkland brand
Speaker 3: outfit on as I went as Costco guy, not the
Speaker 3: Costco the annoying Costco guys on the internet. I I
Speaker 3: dressed as an actual Costco employee. I had the robe,
Speaker 3: I had the hat, I had the I had the samples.
Speaker 3: I had a little tray with samples. And but it
Speaker 3: was it was awfu we Lorraina actually showed up, which
Speaker 3: is great to see her.
Speaker 1: She was there hanging out with us.
Speaker 3: Uh, and you know it was. It wasn't a great
Speaker 3: turnout because of the Dodgers. A lot of people stayed
Speaker 3: home to watch the Dodger game, and and then they
Speaker 3: didn't end up coming out. We had some people show
Speaker 3: up late after the game. But we had a great time.
Speaker 3: We had They had a bartender and all kinds of food.
Speaker 3: There was a taco bar there. It was pretty pretty nice.
Speaker 3: Uh Halloween party and a lot of mass consumption and alcohol.
Speaker 1: I did play some uh some beer pong, played.
Speaker 3: A little bit of that, so uh yeah, a little
Speaker 3: bit of that, a little bit of this, and had
Speaker 3: had a grand time.
Speaker 1: And you know, it's fine. Halloween.
Speaker 3: Wife used to dress up for Halloween, you know, so
Speaker 3: why not? What the hell knock it out?
Speaker 4: I know that Dodger game prevented a full full oft times.
Speaker 4: This is the first time. The other night was the
Speaker 4: first time ever that our teenage daughter was interested at
Speaker 4: all in baseball. She's not a sports person, and that's fine.
Speaker 4: Everybody else in the house is not. Every single person
Speaker 4: in your family needs to be a psycho about sports. Yeah,
Speaker 4: I wish she liked sports more. Seeing Sephora kids all
Speaker 4: over TikTok, I wish she loved sports as much as
Speaker 4: she loved Sephora, but that's not in the cards.
Speaker 1: Now, did she get into sports, because she did she
Speaker 1: have like a two team parlay or something like that.
Speaker 5: You're not far.
Speaker 4: She had a lot on the line because her progress
Speaker 4: report came out from middle school and she had two,
Speaker 4: not one, but two d's.
Speaker 1: Uh oh.
Speaker 4: We threatened her before the school year started because she
Speaker 4: is in eighth grade.
Speaker 5: Now.
Speaker 4: You can't screw around anymore. There's no more room left
Speaker 4: for you to wiggle. You're about to be in high school.
Speaker 4: If you continue to suck at your classes, you're in
Speaker 4: for a world of hurt in life. And as much
Speaker 4: as we've tried to explain all this to her, it
Speaker 4: goes in one air and out the other because she
Speaker 4: has the attention span of a flea, which is one
Speaker 4: of her problems in class. And not surprisingly, ben the
Speaker 4: classes she's having the most trouble in are the ones
Speaker 4: where she has friends in the same class. We've gotten
Speaker 4: these emails from a couple of her teachers. She is
Speaker 4: super distracted blabbing with her friends.
Speaker 1: Well, she's a social butterfly that can work in life too. Right,
Speaker 1: If you can make it through school, you can.
Speaker 3: You know, people that are very social go very far
Speaker 3: in life, right, Because it's who you know, not what
Speaker 3: you know that kind of thing.
Speaker 5: Yeah, some of those people are also homeless.
Speaker 1: Well that is true, they're also crackhead. But that's fine.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it could go either way. Now, her mom told her, look,
Speaker 4: you're on restriction. When you get home from school, I'm
Speaker 4: taking your phone. You're not watching TV. Maybe I'll give
Speaker 4: you fifteen minutes to a half hour after your homework's done.
Speaker 4: After I review your homework, you better show me something
Speaker 4: in the next couple of weeks.
Speaker 5: Because Halloween was on the way.
Speaker 4: She's been talking about going out with her girlfriends from
Speaker 4: school to trick or treat. She's been talking about this
Speaker 4: for about a month. And when those bad grades came
Speaker 4: in or the bad progress report came in, my wife,
Speaker 4: he said, I don't think you're going anywhere. She's been
Speaker 4: pouting around the house. She's been doing a better job
Speaker 4: with her homework. But she's been pouty, and she brought
Speaker 4: home a couple of good grades on tests the past
Speaker 4: couple of weeks. So her mom said, tell you what,
Speaker 4: I'll make a deal with you. If the Dodgers win
Speaker 4: on Wednesday night, you can go trick or treating the
Speaker 4: next night on Thursday. Woo for the first time ever been.
Speaker 4: She was in the living room with all of us
Speaker 4: glued to every pitch of that World Series game.
Speaker 3: No, when they were down five to nothing, did she
Speaker 3: understand that the odds were against the Dodgers winning at
Speaker 3: that point? Did she ree the math was not in
Speaker 3: her favor? When the Yankees were up five to nothing
Speaker 3: and it appeared they were gonna win the game fifteen
Speaker 3: to nothing at that moment, did you tell your daughter?
Speaker 3: Did you say, hey, listen, you're screwed. You're not going
Speaker 3: You're not going out for Halloween. The Dodgers have no chance,
Speaker 3: and they're dead. They're dead in the waters. It's terrible.
Speaker 3: Flairty got lit up the hole because they were in
Speaker 3: the toilet. They were a clogged toilet. The Dodgers at
Speaker 3: that point in the middle and right before the top
Speaker 3: of the fifth, they were getting smoked.
Speaker 4: That's the beauty of being a sports ring. Oh man,
Speaker 4: that's a third ram, a man being special. I'll say
Speaker 4: it this way, being special when it comes to sports.
Speaker 4: Her response was, what they can score five?
Speaker 5: Easy?
Speaker 3: Yeah, just you hit a touchdown, you'll be up by one,
Speaker 3: maybe two with the extra point.
Speaker 1: Maybe you'll go for two and then you'll you'll let
Speaker 1: up by three.
Speaker 4: But yeah, tie the game. After the yank, he's melt down.
Speaker 4: We get our shit together finally, and then with those
Speaker 4: couple of sacrifice runs, we go up in the game,
Speaker 4: trying in comes through and then of course who do
Speaker 4: we see Walker Buehler step out.
Speaker 5: It was a beautiful ending.
Speaker 4: Obviously, we're celebrating in the living room, me, my Wifie,
Speaker 4: our oldest.
Speaker 5: We're jumping around.
Speaker 4: She's on the couch and she's just smiling, saying, yes,
Speaker 4: I'm going, Yes, I get to go. So everybody was
Speaker 4: a winner. But I feel like that's gonna be a
Speaker 4: core memory somedays. She'll probably tell her kids, oh, yeah,
Speaker 4: the Dodgers won the World Series back in twenty twenty four,
Speaker 4: and that night I had everything riding on the line,
Speaker 4: going out with my friends, trick or treating or not.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and only that she'll likely when she's an adult,
Speaker 3: end up like betting her kids something involving a Dodger
Speaker 3: game or some sporting event. You know'll that'll become a thing.
Speaker 3: You know, it's because you planted the seed.
Speaker 1: But that's great.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 3: Would she have a special costume or she just go
Speaker 3: out running a mark trying to cause trouble.
Speaker 4: Yeah, this is where this is where they get into
Speaker 4: the weeds. Her and her friends, Oh yeah, she normally
Speaker 4: I've known her for four years now, and she normally
Speaker 4: goes as something scary. Mom, do my makeup? I want
Speaker 4: to be a scary witch. Now, her and her friends,
Speaker 4: they're all about dressing cute. She said, mom, we're all
Speaker 4: going to dress cute this year. Oh, and her mom
Speaker 4: looked at her and said, you mean slutty. These girls
Speaker 4: are fourteen and fifteen years old and they already want
Speaker 4: to dress like Halloween's.
Speaker 1: Oh boy, watch out, Danny, watch it.
Speaker 4: I know her mom made her put another layer of
Speaker 4: clothes on on Thursday night.
Speaker 5: She was like, no, you need to go put some
Speaker 5: more clothes on.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 3: Did you follow I'm assuming she went out with her
Speaker 3: friends and you weren't with her, or your wife wasn't
Speaker 3: with her, so she'd have taken that off, you know,
Speaker 3: and she got out.
Speaker 5: She may have.
Speaker 4: There was one chaperone, one of the other girl's mom's
Speaker 4: was chaperoning the group.
Speaker 3: Okay, all right, well buckle up, buccaloo, you're in for
Speaker 3: a wild rune man.
Speaker 5: Yeah, no kidding, Yes, yes, Dodgers. Yes, now I could
Speaker 5: go dress like a.
Speaker 1: Little I love it. I love it.
Speaker 4: Well, this is starting earlier and earlier with girls. Man,
Speaker 4: we used to laugh at club nights because obviously all
Speaker 4: the jokes you've heard this for years now that the
Speaker 4: girls it's just an excuse for them to wear no
Speaker 4: clothes basically.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we've talked about that in past Halloween shows that
Speaker 3: we've done, you know, Halloween week shows, and it's true.
Speaker 3: It's like when we were kids, and maybe it was
Speaker 3: like that. I just don't remember it like that. I
Speaker 3: feel like that happened when we became like teenagers or
Speaker 3: something like that.
Speaker 1: Maybe a little even older than that, like Halloween.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I want to say, like maybe mid late nineties
Speaker 4: it started where to over as a whole phenomenon.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I mean at one point it was just
Speaker 3: like a wholesome type weird thing, and then maybe it
Speaker 3: was never wholesome.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: It's weird what you remember and what actually happened, you know. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the eyes of a child who knows.
Speaker 3: I did want to mention this being the Saturday podcast,
Speaker 3: the Talk of the Town, this was unreal Danny the
Speaker 3: other night, just doing the regular show, you know, yapp
Speaker 3: and away, And occasionally I'll look up at my board
Speaker 3: see who's on on hold? Who wants to come on
Speaker 3: the air there? And I see a name on my board.
Speaker 3: I said, wow, I remember that name. That's a name
Speaker 3: from the past. I was like, well that I haven't
Speaker 3: heard for that person a long time. That must be
Speaker 3: like a fake phony funk. So I told Coop, I say,
Speaker 3: is that is that the real real person? He said, yeah,
Speaker 3: that's the real guy. That's no joke. So I put
Speaker 3: him on the air, and for the first time in
Speaker 3: almost four years, the caller from New York known as
Speaker 3: real Talk hauled into the show. Now Real Talk point
Speaker 3: was at the very top of the payroll on the
Speaker 3: characters on the show. He was a primary character on
Speaker 3: the show. And then we had a falling out right
Speaker 3: after my father unfortunately passed away, and Real Talk called
Speaker 3: up and I banned him from.
Speaker 1: The show for six months. I said, you can't you know,
Speaker 1: I can't call the.
Speaker 3: Show for six months. So he has not called the
Speaker 3: show in. That was in January of twenty twenty one.
Speaker 3: Here we are in announced November he called in. I
Speaker 3: think it was October thirtieth or twenty ninth or something
Speaker 3: like that. But it was a few days ago, so
Speaker 3: that is why. And he claimed he made up some
Speaker 3: fugazy story, but it's why. And this is one of
Speaker 3: those things about the job dat And you know, you've
Speaker 3: been in radio your whole life too, when you do
Speaker 3: talk radio and people call up and they're kind of
Speaker 3: part of the show, and they're a character on the show,
Speaker 3: and they're part of what you.
Speaker 1: Do, and then they vanish. You don't know.
Speaker 3: You don't know whether they're dead. You don't know what happened.
Speaker 3: You have maybe they got arrested, maybe they're in jail.
Speaker 3: You have no idea, and oftentimes you never get any closure.
Speaker 1: They just they just disappear. That's it.
Speaker 3: So it's very odd when they when they returned, and
Speaker 3: so it was, it was right away. I knew it
Speaker 3: was real talk right away, I said, I can I
Speaker 3: recognize that voice.
Speaker 1: That's that's real talk. Now.
Speaker 4: Sometimes when people just reappear back into your life, you
Speaker 4: just pick up where you left off, like best friends,
Speaker 4: and no time ever elapsed.
Speaker 5: Of the way we were.
Speaker 1: Learning. Gentlemen, you can't see that scattered picture.
Speaker 5: Of the smiles we.
Speaker 1: Left be.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, I mean there is that I mean, but
Speaker 3: this was there must be something in the cosmos, because
Speaker 3: not only did we hear from Real Talk, which was wild,
Speaker 3: here's a guy and I think you know this guy
Speaker 3: called in on the regular call in line from Toronto.
Speaker 1: Do you know anybody in Toronto?
Speaker 5: Uh, nothing coming to mind.
Speaker 3: Do you remember a guy that worked at Fox Sports
Speaker 3: Radio named Canadian Mike? You remember that name?
Speaker 4: Oh, of course I know. I didn't know he moved
Speaker 4: back to Toronto, though.
Speaker 1: I didn't know either. I didn't talk to him in
Speaker 1: I hadn't seen him in ten years.
Speaker 5: Probably the guy was a lunatic.
Speaker 4: I loved him though we both Yeah, we both worked
Speaker 4: with him in radio, and I think I told you
Speaker 4: the story before I worked with him at I worked
Speaker 4: with him at NBC Sports Radio and he didn't show
Speaker 4: up for a shift one time and the host was
Speaker 4: so pissed and he stumbled in like the last ten
Speaker 4: minutes of the show and was like very sullen and
Speaker 4: like mean to all of us. Instead of kissing the
Speaker 4: ass saying I'm sorry, Oh my god, he walked in
Speaker 4: and he was mean to us, like we did something wrong.
Speaker 1: Wow. Yeah, I like him. I haven't seen him a
Speaker 1: lot of times.
Speaker 3: I knew him when he was an intern at Fox
Speaker 3: Sports Radio and then he got hired there.
Speaker 1: And I liked his energy. But I don't know what happened.
Speaker 3: I guess he had said he got carjacked or something
Speaker 3: in LA and he moved back to Canada like four
Speaker 3: years ago, and anyway, he just like randomly called up
Speaker 3: because wow, the Dodgers won the World Series.
Speaker 1: He's like, Hey, it's Canadian Mike.
Speaker 3: And I'm like, so this is in two days I
Speaker 3: heard from Real Talk, who I hadn't talked to in
Speaker 3: four years, and Canadian Mike at least four years since
Speaker 3: I had any contact with him, ten years since I've
Speaker 3: seen him.
Speaker 1: And it's like, it's.
Speaker 3: Very odd that though maybe the it's just nothing, it's
Speaker 3: just random, you know, the random world of life. But
Speaker 3: it's just a strange quinky dink that this happened on
Speaker 3: back to back days in the past weeks, like people
Speaker 3: from your your life in the past coming back to
Speaker 3: re enter your life.
Speaker 1: So I thought that was that was pretty pretty cool.
Speaker 1: We have the Idiom of the week. Are you ready
Speaker 1: for the Idiom of the week?
Speaker 5: The Idiom of the week.
Speaker 3: So I've been very happy. We've been getting a lot
Speaker 3: of requests. We had one yesterday for the phrase of
Speaker 3: the week.
Speaker 1: This is the idiom of the week, Scott. This guy
Speaker 1: every week sends me something. This guy Scott. Not blind Scott.
Speaker 1: It's different Scott.
Speaker 3: We got to come up with a nickname for this
Speaker 3: guy Scott because it's not blind Scott's different kind of Scott.
Speaker 3: So this guy Scott, he writes in he says, in
Speaker 3: honor of the US National Third Rail Day this upcoming week,
Speaker 3: what about kick the can down the road? It's a
Speaker 3: Washington tradition. I want to know the origin of the
Speaker 3: phrase kick the can down the road, so I use
Speaker 3: this phrase. I didn't know where it came from. It's
Speaker 3: just something a colloquial term that I've used a long time.
Speaker 3: So Scott, I did some legwork. I dug around the
Speaker 3: dark web to try to find out where the phrase
Speaker 3: kicked the can down the road came from. And here's
Speaker 3: what I've uncovered. This is the idiom of the week,
Speaker 3: kicked the can down the road. So the phrase kicked
Speaker 3: the can down the road originates, believe it or not,
Speaker 3: from the Great Depression.
Speaker 1: Say what, Yeah, the Great Depression was back what one.
Speaker 3: Hundred years over one hundred years, and it was a
Speaker 3: game children played during the Great Depression in America. And
Speaker 3: the game children improvised, they made their own rules. I
Speaker 3: was kind of like hide and seek, and if someone
Speaker 3: managed to elude being caught and kicked the can, everyone
Speaker 3: who had been caught was free to go. So it
Speaker 3: was an old can because it was the Great Depression.
Speaker 3: You didn't have much and one player would be it
Speaker 3: and the other players, as I understand it, would hide, right,
Speaker 3: so the other players hide and it's the job that
Speaker 3: the job was to guard the can while trying to
Speaker 3: find the others. Anyone who found was found would be
Speaker 3: escorted to a holding area. And anyway, this goes back
Speaker 3: to the Great Depression. The game had its heyday then,
Speaker 3: but in the early nineteen sixties it was pretty much
Speaker 3: gone in America. But then in the mid eighties, so
Speaker 3: this is like the Ronald Reagan era in American politics.
Speaker 3: It started being used by members on Capitol Hill in
Speaker 3: Congress to kick the can down the road, and that
Speaker 3: has become ever since in the last forty plus years.
Speaker 3: Rhetoric that lawmakers use to say that you're putting an
Speaker 3: issue off down the line, it's kicked the can down
Speaker 3: the road. So again, for those of you in the
Speaker 3: back of the room and for Scott who sent this in,
Speaker 3: kick the can down the road is a phrase that
Speaker 3: originates from the Great Depression and literally a game where
Speaker 3: match how.
Speaker 1: Boring it must have been to be a kid during
Speaker 1: the Great Depression.
Speaker 3: You're kicking a can down the road, literally, and that
Speaker 3: is the idiom of the week, the idiom of the.
Speaker 5: Week that was actually interesting.
Speaker 1: Are you saying they're normally not interesting? Is that what
Speaker 1: you're saying, Danny.
Speaker 5: I didn't say that, you just implied that.
Speaker 1: Anyway.
Speaker 3: No, all right, we'll get out on that. You're in Seattle.
Speaker 3: You just gonna say, are you relocating to Seattle? You're
Speaker 3: planning back to LA. What's the plane?
Speaker 4: We're gonna jump back on an airplane in just a
Speaker 4: few hours from now.
Speaker 3: All right, so we'll be back in LA which means
Speaker 3: you'll be able to be with me tomorrow. Yes for
Speaker 3: the mailbag, I sume, yes, sir, bright and early on
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Speaker 3: us today watching all kinds of random college football, which
Speaker 3: I never end up talking about on the radio because
Speaker 3: I only talk about the NFL. I know you're talking
Speaker 3: about college football, that dope Miami.
Speaker 1: Danny always gets upset. What are you talking about college football?
Speaker 1: Because I come on after the NFL games. That's why
Speaker 1: in the NFL is more important.
Speaker 3: All right, any you want to promote, Danny, you just
Speaker 3: did promote the fact that you'll be back tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Had a great time in Seattle.
Speaker 4: And yeah, and I say this from time to time,
Speaker 4: but make it a point today to share this podcast
Speaker 4: with at least one friend or family member this weekend.
Speaker 1: Yes, anybody in your circle.
Speaker 3: And if they share it with somebody else, we will
Speaker 3: double triple the ratings on this podcast.
Speaker 1: We had unbelievable numbers.
Speaker 3: We'll probably talk more about that tomorrow for the last
Speaker 3: podcast period we got graded on. So I have a wonderful,
Speaker 3: glorious rest of your Saturday, the first Saturday here in November,
Speaker 3: and we'll catch you tomorrow with the mailbag.
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