WEBVTT - The Fifth Hour: Arnie the River Monster 0:00:00.720 --> 0:00:01.480 Kabbooms. 0:00:02.320 --> 0:00:05.400 If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes 0:00:05.440 --> 0:00:09.160 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 0:00:12.600 --> 0:00:15.520 treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the 0:00:15.640 --> 0:00:17.480 rich pill poppers in the penthouse. 0:00:18.079 --> 0:00:18.360 Wow. 0:00:18.640 --> 0:00:22.320 The clearing House of Hot takes break free for something special. 0:00:22.680 --> 0:00:29.160 The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now here. 0:00:29.200 --> 0:00:35.559 We go in the air everywhere. The Fifth Hour with Me, 0:00:36.360 --> 0:00:39.680 Big Ben and Danny g Radio The Weekend kicks off. 0:00:39.880 --> 0:00:43.400 A Happy Friday to you the sixteenth day of August. 0:00:43.479 --> 0:00:44.320 But you are knew that? 0:00:45.280 --> 0:00:48.800 And Dan, are you wearing your Hawaiian shirt? It's Hawaiian 0:00:48.840 --> 0:00:52.559 Shirt Day today, big big holiday, Hawaiian Shirt Day. I 0:00:52.560 --> 0:00:54.639 don't look good in Hawaiian shirts. Of course you would argue, 0:00:54.640 --> 0:00:56.000 I don't look good in a lot of things, but 0:00:56.120 --> 0:00:57.959 Hawaiian shirts. I used to have a lot of them, 0:00:58.320 --> 0:01:00.520 and then people pointed out that they made me look 0:01:00.640 --> 0:01:02.720 like job of the hut, so I don't really have 0:01:02.800 --> 0:01:04.399 any at this particular point. 0:01:04.680 --> 0:01:08.639 Some of them look like tablecloths, so I actually only 0:01:08.720 --> 0:01:12.400 have one, and I got it there in Maui the 0:01:12.480 --> 0:01:15.240 last time we were on that island. I'm not a 0:01:15.280 --> 0:01:17.319 big Hawaiian shirt guy either. 0:01:18.040 --> 0:01:20.200 Yeah, when you're a bigger guy, it often looks like 0:01:20.240 --> 0:01:23.800 a moo MoU and it's not a great look. But 0:01:23.840 --> 0:01:26.280 I used to love them because they were very comfortable, 0:01:26.520 --> 0:01:29.319 and in my head because they had a call or 0:01:29.319 --> 0:01:32.120 the Hawaiian shirt, I was like, Okay, I must be 0:01:32.120 --> 0:01:35.200 looking good. And then other people say, you know, it's 0:01:35.280 --> 0:01:38.280 not a really good look. You know, it's not it's 0:01:38.319 --> 0:01:41.440 not particularly great there, and I'm like, all right, there 0:01:41.480 --> 0:01:45.800 you go. It was also National work from a Home 0:01:46.360 --> 0:01:48.840 for Wellness Day. That must be one of it. That 0:01:48.920 --> 0:01:51.040 sounds like a fugesy holiday. They must have just came 0:01:51.120 --> 0:01:53.360 up with that in like the last couple of years. 0:01:53.160 --> 0:01:55.600 Right, Oh, that's for sure from COVID. 0:01:56.080 --> 0:01:59.880 Gotta be gott to be definitely. 0:02:00.040 --> 0:02:03.760 Feel like Grudy Gobert invented that day. 0:02:03.880 --> 0:02:05.560 It's pretty pretty bad. 0:02:05.760 --> 0:02:08.520 I Hey, I I like, I have a remote studio, 0:02:08.600 --> 0:02:12.480 which I love. It's great, but I don't know that 0:02:12.560 --> 0:02:18.960 my wellness has improved my time. I have extra time, 0:02:19.040 --> 0:02:22.240 So I guess that's that's pretty important. You have extra 0:02:22.280 --> 0:02:25.600 time and all that. But yeah, that's that's that's another 0:02:25.600 --> 0:02:26.880 one of these these weird holies. 0:02:26.919 --> 0:02:28.720 Anyway, let's get into it right now. Let's not waste 0:02:28.720 --> 0:02:29.200 any time. 0:02:29.680 --> 0:02:32.119 A lot of email, Danny, I was on the East 0:02:32.200 --> 0:02:36.520 Coast doing my thing and so we are reunited on 0:02:36.560 --> 0:02:40.960 this podcast, and many people were wanting details on what 0:02:41.240 --> 0:02:43.440 was a mallor. 0:02:44.639 --> 0:02:45.760 How would you describe this now? 0:02:45.880 --> 0:02:48.560 It was it's not a malord meet and greet because 0:02:48.639 --> 0:02:51.560 it was just me and one other person, well, me 0:02:51.600 --> 0:02:53.920 and my wife and one other person. It was. 0:02:54.480 --> 0:02:56.000 It was like a military. 0:02:57.040 --> 0:02:58.919 Date. Man. 0:03:01.680 --> 0:03:03.640 It's like, I'm old. 0:03:03.720 --> 0:03:06.919 So you remember like the Flintstones and the Jetsons got 0:03:06.919 --> 0:03:09.320 together and it was like whoa. It's like mind blowing, right, 0:03:09.440 --> 0:03:11.079 you know when like shows crossover. 0:03:11.720 --> 0:03:15.079 Oh yeah, it's crazy. It's like, whoa, how did that happen? 0:03:15.240 --> 0:03:20.120 It doesn't happen as much anymore because everything is compartmentalized, 0:03:20.960 --> 0:03:25.799 its streaming and all that. But I was on the 0:03:25.800 --> 0:03:29.320 East Coast last week for a fair amount of time. 0:03:29.520 --> 0:03:30.440 Fair amount of time as. 0:03:30.480 --> 0:03:31.120 Most of the week. 0:03:31.200 --> 0:03:35.280 Actually, I was in Boston, and I went to a 0:03:35.280 --> 0:03:38.080 bunch of Northeastern states they're the New England states. In fact, 0:03:38.080 --> 0:03:43.280 I made it to all of them outside of Rhode Island. 0:03:43.320 --> 0:03:45.640 I didn't get the Rhode Island this time. I know 0:03:45.760 --> 0:03:50.280 Redbreast Paul's likely devastated. And I did not get to Connecticut. 0:03:50.320 --> 0:03:51.760 But I made it to all the other states. And 0:03:52.040 --> 0:03:54.000 the only state I've been, I've been to Boston a 0:03:54.040 --> 0:03:56.400 lot over year, is the only state in that region 0:03:56.440 --> 0:03:59.560 that I had not been to. I had to cross 0:03:59.640 --> 0:04:04.560 that off, and I did, and that that box was 0:04:04.720 --> 0:04:08.360 the state of Vermont. And the only reason that was 0:04:08.760 --> 0:04:10.880 not the only reason. There were two reasons I went. 0:04:11.560 --> 0:04:14.680 Number one was I hadn't been there, and I was like, oh, 0:04:14.760 --> 0:04:17.920 you know, it's so close, it's not that far. 0:04:18.200 --> 0:04:21.000 Drive why not listen in my head it wasn't that far. 0:04:21.000 --> 0:04:23.080 I drive so fine. 0:04:23.560 --> 0:04:27.799 The other thing is I have a friend, old radio friend, 0:04:28.680 --> 0:04:32.280 that lives there and someone you know a little bit 0:04:32.279 --> 0:04:37.080 as well, Danny, our buddy Arnie Spanier, who lives in Burlington, Vermont. 0:04:37.520 --> 0:04:38.400 And so I was like, you know. 0:04:38.360 --> 0:04:41.440 I can kill two birds with one stone. I can 0:04:41.839 --> 0:04:44.840 go to Vermont. I don't know anything about Vermont, and 0:04:44.880 --> 0:04:48.440 then I can hang out with with Arnie. So it 0:04:48.520 --> 0:04:52.440 was like military exercises. It's malad militia and Arnie's Army. 0:04:53.160 --> 0:04:56.599 I got together and I had text Arnie and I said, 0:04:56.600 --> 0:04:58.080 you know, I'm going to be in Boston. 0:04:58.120 --> 0:05:00.039 I guess some stuff I gotta do there, and I 0:05:00.040 --> 0:05:00.800 I'd like to. 0:05:00.720 --> 0:05:04.480 Come by and say hello. And he wrote back a 0:05:04.600 --> 0:05:07.160 serious you know. He went back and forth and then 0:05:07.279 --> 0:05:09.560 the text exchange and we're going back and all that stuff. 0:05:09.800 --> 0:05:12.160 Yeah probably, you know, if something comes up, I might 0:05:12.200 --> 0:05:14.240 not make there, make it there, but I most likely 0:05:14.279 --> 0:05:16.760 will be there. And so we're going back and forth, 0:05:16.800 --> 0:05:20.599 and Arnie's recommending like hotels to stay at. He's telling 0:05:20.640 --> 0:05:22.719 me like all the things to do in Vermont. He's 0:05:22.760 --> 0:05:24.599 asking what my hobbies are and all that if I 0:05:24.600 --> 0:05:27.440 could go there, and I ended up having to brave 0:05:27.480 --> 0:05:30.159 The Element's more on that in a second. 0:05:30.320 --> 0:05:32.279 Actually almost I'll do it right now. I almost died 0:05:32.360 --> 0:05:33.640 on the way to Burlington, Vermont. 0:05:34.640 --> 0:05:38.640 So if you're not familiar to get from Boston up 0:05:38.640 --> 0:05:42.160 actually I was in Needham, Massachusetts, and the Boston suburbs 0:05:42.320 --> 0:05:43.080 that's where we're standing. 0:05:43.120 --> 0:05:43.480 Need them. 0:05:43.960 --> 0:05:49.159 To get from Needham to Burlington, Vermont is give or 0:05:49.279 --> 0:05:53.720 take a three and a half to four hour. 0:05:55.600 --> 0:06:00.000 Drive. It's a very lengthy drive. It's I guess the. 0:06:00.040 --> 0:06:05.520 Quickly would be like going from LA to not San Francisco, 0:06:05.600 --> 0:06:08.680 maybe San Jose in that area, you know, you're driving 0:06:08.800 --> 0:06:11.520 a fair amount and maybe it's not even that far, 0:06:11.560 --> 0:06:13.600 but but what either way, So, but I had things 0:06:13.600 --> 0:06:15.080 I had to do. Was I was in Boston, had 0:06:15.080 --> 0:06:18.000 some meetings and things that I cannot talk about. But 0:06:18.040 --> 0:06:20.080 hopefully we'll be able to talk about those things soon soon. 0:06:20.400 --> 0:06:23.719 Fingers crossed on that. So I had, I had, you know, 0:06:23.800 --> 0:06:25.120 adult stuff I had to do. 0:06:25.080 --> 0:06:27.200 Which I don't like being an adult and all that. 0:06:27.240 --> 0:06:30.880 And I had a dinner in Boston that I had 0:06:30.920 --> 0:06:33.640 to attend on Thursday, but I was gonna hang out 0:06:33.640 --> 0:06:37.160 with Arnie on Friday. And so we made a tactical decision, 0:06:38.080 --> 0:06:41.560 much to the chagrid of my wife. We decided, you know, 0:06:41.800 --> 0:06:45.000 to enjoy the day in Vermont. Why don't we just 0:06:45.240 --> 0:06:49.880 drive after the dinner and we'll just drive at night 0:06:50.000 --> 0:06:53.320 and we'll get to Burlington and we'll have all day 0:06:53.480 --> 0:06:55.640 two futts around in Burlington. 0:06:55.760 --> 0:06:57.200 It's like, that's a good idea. You know, we do 0:06:57.240 --> 0:06:57.640 this a lot. 0:06:57.720 --> 0:07:01.359 We get a Friday, we'll just hear, will get in 0:07:01.360 --> 0:07:04.119 the car and drive to Vegas on a whim. 0:07:04.640 --> 0:07:06.120 Let's go to Vegas. What the hell? 0:07:06.200 --> 0:07:09.440 So that's the same thing. Did not look at the 0:07:09.480 --> 0:07:11.679 weather app. Danny did not look at the weather app. 0:07:11.880 --> 0:07:18.760 Figured out, come on, who's worried about weather? Summer August. Yeah, 0:07:18.960 --> 0:07:22.680 So the dinner ended much later than I anticipated. Then 0:07:22.720 --> 0:07:25.440 I had another thing I had to do after the dinner. 0:07:26.640 --> 0:07:29.320 So now it's getting late. It's getting kind of late. 0:07:29.840 --> 0:07:34.560 And we ended up getting back to where we were 0:07:34.600 --> 0:07:38.800 staying at like eleven o'clock. I think it was eleven, 0:07:38.800 --> 0:07:40.520 if I remember doing this off the top of my head, 0:07:40.560 --> 0:07:42.800 so I think it was about eleven, maybe eleven thirty, 0:07:43.400 --> 0:07:50.360 got in the malor Mobile rental Malormobile typed in the 0:07:50.440 --> 0:07:53.320 name of the hotel in Burlington where we were going, 0:07:53.560 --> 0:07:56.800 and then we were on a way and off to 0:07:56.840 --> 0:08:01.880 the races. And we drove and drove and drove, and 0:08:02.280 --> 0:08:05.240 my wife was very tired. I was the driver. She 0:08:05.280 --> 0:08:09.800 fell asleep off and on and she does not know 0:08:09.840 --> 0:08:14.000 this because she was sleeping, but we almost slid off 0:08:14.000 --> 0:08:18.200 the road into the woods multiple times. Because once we 0:08:18.200 --> 0:08:19.840 got out of Boston, it wasn't raining in Boston. But 0:08:19.880 --> 0:08:22.400 we got out of Boston, got up to New Hampshire, 0:08:23.280 --> 0:08:25.600 which is just like it's a suburb of Boston, that 0:08:25.640 --> 0:08:27.360 part of New Hampshire. We got out there and it 0:08:27.440 --> 0:08:31.280 started raining and it rained the rest of the trip, 0:08:31.600 --> 0:08:34.439 the remnants of Hurricane Debbie, which I guess at that 0:08:34.480 --> 0:08:38.200 point was tropical Storm Debbi, and it was just pounding 0:08:38.720 --> 0:08:41.760 that part of the country. And the other thing I 0:08:41.880 --> 0:08:44.360 learned is that on Highway eighty three, which is the 0:08:44.400 --> 0:08:48.360 main drag that goes out to Burlington, Vermont, they don't. 0:08:48.160 --> 0:08:50.959 Believe in lights. They don't believe in lights. There are 0:08:51.000 --> 0:08:51.560 no lights. 0:08:52.040 --> 0:08:58.600 So I'm driving on a very small highway and it's 0:08:58.920 --> 0:09:01.160 raining off and on very hard. 0:09:01.960 --> 0:09:04.760 There are no lights. I don't know where the hell 0:09:04.800 --> 0:09:05.160 I'm going. 0:09:05.200 --> 0:09:07.480 And every like mile there's a sign of like a 0:09:07.520 --> 0:09:11.920 warning sign moose bears, you know, be alert all this 0:09:12.040 --> 0:09:16.000 all this crop and we what's the term I'm looking for? 0:09:16.240 --> 0:09:17.840 You know, when you hit water and you kind of 0:09:17.920 --> 0:09:20.240 like it's you take off. Hydro plane? 0:09:20.280 --> 0:09:20.719 Is that the term? 0:09:20.760 --> 0:09:22.360 I think that's it, right, yeah, hydro plane? 0:09:22.720 --> 0:09:26.760 Yeah. So this happened like many times. 0:09:27.040 --> 0:09:30.360 It's like, oh my god, we have all the ways 0:09:30.440 --> 0:09:34.200 to die on my way to see Arnie Spaniard did 0:09:34.200 --> 0:09:36.400 not have that on my big board that that would 0:09:36.400 --> 0:09:39.360 be how I met my demise. But obviously we made 0:09:39.360 --> 0:09:41.280 it there, and you guys. 0:09:41.080 --> 0:09:43.400 Have quite the history together when it involves water. 0:09:45.520 --> 0:09:51.400 Yes, unreal, absolutely unreal. 0:09:51.440 --> 0:09:53.360 So we got we got to the hotel like three 0:09:53.400 --> 0:09:58.720 point thirty four in the morning, and at hotels they 0:09:58.760 --> 0:10:01.400 don't care what time you check you check out at 0:10:01.400 --> 0:10:05.000 the same time. So they kicked us out at eleven 0:10:05.000 --> 0:10:06.400 in the morning. And you know, it takes a while 0:10:06.400 --> 0:10:09.640 to fall asleep, and I was kind of on adrenaline 0:10:09.760 --> 0:10:14.640 high from almost dying or at least having my night ruined. 0:10:14.640 --> 0:10:16.599 There wasn't really cell reception out there, and some of 0:10:16.679 --> 0:10:20.960 those some of those parts of the highway, and unfortunately 0:10:20.960 --> 0:10:24.439 there weren't many cars on the road because I think 0:10:24.480 --> 0:10:27.360 there's more I think this is true. There's more cows 0:10:27.480 --> 0:10:31.480 in Vermont than people by a wide margin, I believe. 0:10:31.720 --> 0:10:34.360 So we had to check out at eleven am, so 0:10:34.679 --> 0:10:37.520 I probably went to sleep around six or so, got 0:10:37.600 --> 0:10:42.960 up at like ten four hours and Arnie was so 0:10:43.440 --> 0:10:47.520 bright eyed and bushy tailed, the stinking genius that he 0:10:47.640 --> 0:10:49.719 drove up to the hotel to pick us up. 0:10:50.120 --> 0:10:51.240 And he was our chauffeur. 0:10:52.040 --> 0:10:56.160 He was the chamber of Commerce for Burlington and all 0:10:56.200 --> 0:10:56.760 of Vermont. 0:10:57.679 --> 0:10:58.160 Great to see. 0:10:58.240 --> 0:10:59.679 I love Arnie. I've known Arnie. 0:11:00.040 --> 0:11:02.720 We both were doing local radio in La a long 0:11:02.760 --> 0:11:07.080 time ago. We fought the good fight. He dragged me 0:11:07.080 --> 0:11:08.920 into a hot tub and ruined a chance for me 0:11:09.040 --> 0:11:11.880 to have, you know, nice nice time with some beautiful 0:11:11.920 --> 0:11:14.720 women there in Indianapolis. Went a single bad job by 0:11:14.800 --> 0:11:18.120 him because he started talking. But anyway, so it's great 0:11:18.120 --> 0:11:20.199 to see him. He picked us up. He drives a jeep, 0:11:21.240 --> 0:11:23.439 and I guess in Vermont you gotta have a jeep. 0:11:24.400 --> 0:11:26.400 So he's he's got all this planned out. I'm gonna 0:11:26.400 --> 0:11:28.480 show you all of Vermont. We're gonna go everywhere. I 0:11:28.480 --> 0:11:30.080 got zal planned out. I want to show you this, 0:11:30.160 --> 0:11:31.680 that and the other thing, you know, And I was okay. 0:11:33.160 --> 0:11:36.480 So the wife needed a coffee, so we went to 0:11:36.480 --> 0:11:40.160 this local Vermont coffee shop, which is like the the 0:11:40.200 --> 0:11:42.760 Ben and Jerry's of coffee. But I don't drink coffee, 0:11:42.840 --> 0:11:45.040 so I abstained. My wife got some. 0:11:45.240 --> 0:11:47.839 Arnie got some and then said it was disgusting. And 0:11:47.880 --> 0:11:48.840 then we went. 0:11:48.880 --> 0:11:54.199 On a pilgrimage driving around. We drove all over Burlington 0:11:54.520 --> 0:11:57.920 and some of the other towns around there. Arnie took us. 0:11:58.080 --> 0:12:01.160 You'd get a kick out of this. Danny Arnie takes 0:12:01.240 --> 0:12:03.400 us to the store. He buys all the Fox Sports 0:12:03.480 --> 0:12:05.200 radio producers maple syrup. 0:12:07.360 --> 0:12:08.960 We went in there and it's ah. 0:12:09.360 --> 0:12:10.439 You were at the source. 0:12:10.960 --> 0:12:13.520 Yeah, yeah, I was at the I was at ground 0:12:13.640 --> 0:12:17.360 zero for maple syrup. And uh we went in there 0:12:17.360 --> 0:12:20.400 and it was pretty impressive. Not gonna lie a massive 0:12:21.520 --> 0:12:26.800 gift shop. Uh, it was like the Walmart of or 0:12:26.960 --> 0:12:30.439 Costco of maple syrup in in Vermont. 0:12:30.520 --> 0:12:31.880 Let me see if I can find the name here. 0:12:32.040 --> 0:12:34.000 I didn't. I gotta I gotta look. 0:12:33.840 --> 0:12:37.640 At my photos. I didn't write down the name. If 0:12:37.640 --> 0:12:41.120 you're in Vermont, you know exactly what I'm what I'm 0:12:41.160 --> 0:12:46.120 discussing here. But the page down going those for the 0:12:46.320 --> 0:12:50.160 photos here, and it took took a few, took a few. 0:12:50.480 --> 0:12:52.080 Uh let's see it's uh oh yeah. We took one 0:12:52.160 --> 0:12:54.480 right out in front, which I posted on social media. 0:12:54.960 --> 0:13:00.840 It's a cold Hollow cider mill. If you're ever Inton, Vermont, 0:13:01.320 --> 0:13:07.720 Cold Hollow Cider Mill, that is the that is the place. 0:13:07.760 --> 0:13:11.200 So they have like a whole, like a mile of 0:13:11.520 --> 0:13:14.600 maple syrup. Might be exaggerating, Maybe it was two miles. 0:13:14.880 --> 0:13:17.880 And then they have souvenirs, Vermont souvenirs, you know, all 0:13:17.880 --> 0:13:19.520 the usual stuff like you're at the gift shop at 0:13:19.520 --> 0:13:22.360 Disneyland or disney World or whatever. So they had all that. 0:13:23.040 --> 0:13:27.400 They had maple donuts, which were okay, I. 0:13:27.360 --> 0:13:29.000 Mean, I'm not gonna lie. They weren't the greatest thing 0:13:29.000 --> 0:13:29.400 in the world. 0:13:29.400 --> 0:13:32.280 So then we my wife bought like, oh my god, 0:13:33.200 --> 0:13:34.679 she's oh my god, maple. 0:13:34.440 --> 0:13:36.400 Syrup, and she bought a time. 0:13:36.440 --> 0:13:38.520 We had to buy another suitcase just to put the 0:13:38.559 --> 0:13:41.679 maple syrup in the suitcase. That's how much maple syrup 0:13:41.720 --> 0:13:44.520 she bought. And I don't even know how much it cost. 0:13:45.280 --> 0:13:45.880 My god. 0:13:46.200 --> 0:13:49.560 So then we're driving around and we drove by the 0:13:49.600 --> 0:13:52.120 world headquarters of Ben and Jerry's ice. 0:13:51.920 --> 0:13:55.680 Cream, the Wolkesters, and. 0:13:55.840 --> 0:13:58.520 I am not a big fan of their politics or whatever, 0:13:58.559 --> 0:14:01.520 so we abstained from that. I didn't we didn't actually 0:14:01.520 --> 0:14:03.719 have time. My wife did want to go and get 0:14:03.760 --> 0:14:06.840 the Ben and Jerry's there. We ended up eating it 0:14:06.920 --> 0:14:12.079 at a different location. We went to Stove Vermont. You 0:14:12.120 --> 0:14:15.640 ever heard of Stove Vermont. There's a famous church. This 0:14:15.720 --> 0:14:19.120 is all within like forty minutes of Burlington and Stove, 0:14:19.200 --> 0:14:23.800 Vermont is the ski capital of the Eastern United States, 0:14:24.400 --> 0:14:29.040 and it is an amazing town. It's like you're living 0:14:29.280 --> 0:14:35.000 in a postcard. They have this old white church. In fact, 0:14:35.080 --> 0:14:39.360 if you type in Stove Vermont, I think that's the 0:14:39.360 --> 0:14:43.040 first thing that comes up the hills and then you'll 0:14:43.080 --> 0:14:49.479 see this famous white church that goes back many, many years. 0:14:49.800 --> 0:14:51.880 I don't know how it is, but it was very 0:14:51.880 --> 0:14:57.640 prominent in Stove Vermont, very prominent. And you know, we're 0:14:58.000 --> 0:15:01.200 moving around doing all that little snow because it was 0:15:02.000 --> 0:15:02.600 it's August. 0:15:02.680 --> 0:15:03.640 It was just last week. 0:15:04.640 --> 0:15:07.280 And uh, and Arnie's given us the whole deal, the 0:15:07.280 --> 0:15:09.320 whole information thing. He's like, oh, yeah, this is where 0:15:09.320 --> 0:15:13.040 they film the Hallmark movies. And he says there's a 0:15:13.080 --> 0:15:15.800 lot of movie productions that come here in Burlington, in 0:15:15.840 --> 0:15:19.080 Stoue Vermont. And since Arnie's the Chamber of Commerce guy, 0:15:19.080 --> 0:15:20.880 he's like breaking it all down, Like Arnie, I live 0:15:20.880 --> 0:15:22.440 in Hollywood. I mean, I'm not, you know, it's good 0:15:22.440 --> 0:15:25.600 for you. But and Arnie's from La so he gets it. 0:15:25.640 --> 0:15:27.760 But he was He's he told me, He's like, yeah, 0:15:27.800 --> 0:15:30.480 they want the locals that they don't. It's so expressive 0:15:30.480 --> 0:15:32.560 to get people to come out here. That when they 0:15:32.600 --> 0:15:36.120 film movies, they invite the locals to come down and 0:15:36.160 --> 0:15:38.480 be extras in the movies because they need bodies for 0:15:38.560 --> 0:15:44.120 the movies. And he said they filmed Beetlejuice too, was 0:15:44.160 --> 0:15:48.720 filmed in in that I think it was in Burlington, 0:15:49.320 --> 0:15:50.760 and he said he was invited. 0:15:50.800 --> 0:15:51.760 He said, I didn't do it. 0:15:51.760 --> 0:15:52.320 I didn't do it. 0:15:53.560 --> 0:15:55.200 So then we kept going around. 0:15:55.560 --> 0:15:59.440 We ended up at Church Street, which is like their 0:15:59.560 --> 0:16:02.760 famous I say famous. I'd never heard of it before 0:16:02.840 --> 0:16:04.120 Arnie told me about it, but they have a bunch 0:16:04.160 --> 0:16:07.040 of shops. It's kind of a cool vibe, hipster vibe 0:16:07.960 --> 0:16:12.320 in Burlington. And we did that, walked around there, a 0:16:12.720 --> 0:16:15.600 lot of against souvenirs, Nick Knacks stuff that will land 0:16:15.680 --> 0:16:17.960 up in the landfill, but it has Vermon on it. 0:16:18.080 --> 0:16:21.160 And there's actually there was another ben in Jerry's there. 0:16:21.240 --> 0:16:24.160 So my wife's like, I gotta get Berend and Jerry's whatever, 0:16:24.240 --> 0:16:26.120 Just get me, give me something with cookies and ice 0:16:26.120 --> 0:16:28.520 cream and I'll be good and so done. 0:16:29.200 --> 0:16:29.760 We did that. 0:16:30.560 --> 0:16:33.680 We walked by actually I would have real So we 0:16:33.760 --> 0:16:38.200 walked by the office what Arnie claimed this was his 0:16:38.280 --> 0:16:43.880 office Bernie Sanders office is in Burlington, and we walked by, 0:16:43.920 --> 0:16:45.400 and Arnie sad, oh, yeah, he's not here. You know, 0:16:45.560 --> 0:16:47.120 I've seen him before though he comes in here. 0:16:47.120 --> 0:16:48.760 Everyone here right now. 0:16:49.400 --> 0:16:54.160 And so I posted something on social media. I was like, 0:16:54.200 --> 0:16:59.960 I didn't I didn't see that whack a doodle Bernie say. 0:17:00.480 --> 0:17:03.000 And so, of course, with anything political, that's a. 0:17:02.880 --> 0:17:04.800 Third rail, Momma, that's a third rail. 0:17:05.720 --> 0:17:09.120 And it always starts like this anytime you mentioned anything political, 0:17:09.119 --> 0:17:13.320 it's I like your show, but you know, it's like, 0:17:13.520 --> 0:17:14.240 that's that whole thing. 0:17:15.280 --> 0:17:16.960 I like your show. 0:17:17.320 --> 0:17:20.080 But you know, right there, the but everything before the 0:17:20.080 --> 0:17:21.760 butt's a lie, as we like. 0:17:21.760 --> 0:17:26.480 To say, but your political views, I can't agree a 0:17:26.560 --> 0:17:27.680 line with my own. 0:17:27.960 --> 0:17:31.520 So therefore I must disown you, and I must send 0:17:31.560 --> 0:17:34.120 you to the hoo's gal. I would like to point out, 0:17:34.359 --> 0:17:36.520 maybe why don't we just do the phrase of the 0:17:36.520 --> 0:17:37.160 week right now. 0:17:37.200 --> 0:17:39.399 We'll do the phrase. Are you ready for the phrase 0:17:39.400 --> 0:17:40.480 of the week, Danny. 0:17:40.800 --> 0:17:43.280 The phrase of the week. 0:17:43.560 --> 0:17:45.560 Yeah, So the phrase of the week is whackadoo, because 0:17:45.560 --> 0:17:47.880 that's the word that triggered some of Bernie is who 0:17:47.880 --> 0:17:49.320 do they what do they call Bernie's fans? 0:17:49.359 --> 0:17:51.679 I don't know. I'm sure there's a nickname for him, 0:17:51.680 --> 0:17:53.359 but whatever, Who cares? Uh? 0:17:53.440 --> 0:17:57.800 So I called Bernie a wackadoodle. Some people got upset. 0:17:57.800 --> 0:18:00.160 I guess some angry emails. You know, that whole thing's 0:18:00.200 --> 0:18:02.480 just part of the job. You're not doing your job. 0:18:02.520 --> 0:18:04.760 If everyone loves you, some people have to hate you. 0:18:04.840 --> 0:18:05.000 Right. 0:18:05.080 --> 0:18:06.320 Isn't that the Howard Stern thing? 0:18:06.400 --> 0:18:06.600 Right? 0:18:06.640 --> 0:18:09.520 The people that hated and listen longer and all that stuff. 0:18:09.560 --> 0:18:13.440 And anyway, wackadoodle is if you don't know what the 0:18:13.600 --> 0:18:14.879 true set the Bernie Bros. 0:18:15.320 --> 0:18:16.479 The Bernie Bros. There you go. 0:18:16.720 --> 0:18:23.320 So the whack a doodle describes someone who is a bizarre, foolish, 0:18:23.359 --> 0:18:27.040 you know, kind of in an amusing way, that kind 0:18:27.040 --> 0:18:30.400 of thing. Whack a doodle comes from the word wacky. 0:18:30.600 --> 0:18:33.560 It's kind of obvious. It goes back to the mid 0:18:33.760 --> 0:18:37.880 eighteen hundreds in England and it started out as wacky 0:18:38.160 --> 0:18:42.919 and it was called the fool simpleton, left handed person. 0:18:42.920 --> 0:18:44.040 There's a shot at lefties. 0:18:45.560 --> 0:18:50.080 And so from that point, advancing forward through the years 0:18:50.800 --> 0:18:55.159 in by the nineteen thirties, so roughly eighty years later, 0:18:56.920 --> 0:19:01.080 it became a way of describing someone who was eccentric, 0:19:01.880 --> 0:19:07.280 and by the nineteen fifties, wackadoo emerged and it kind 0:19:07.280 --> 0:19:08.680 of a playful addition. 0:19:10.000 --> 0:19:11.399 And here's a fun fact for you. 0:19:11.440 --> 0:19:12.720 I don't know if we can get this and play 0:19:12.760 --> 0:19:16.280 a little bit on the podcast here, Danny I fell 0:19:16.359 --> 0:19:18.120 down this wack a doodle. Hole was like, I didn't 0:19:18.119 --> 0:19:20.439 realize wackadoodle would trigger people. I was like, I use 0:19:20.520 --> 0:19:22.080 that term a lot. I didn't realize that was an 0:19:22.119 --> 0:19:25.840 offensive term to me. All politicians are whackadoodles. Otherwise, why 0:19:25.880 --> 0:19:28.399 would you become a politician? Normal people do not go 0:19:28.520 --> 0:19:31.480 into politics. Good people don't go into politics. Right, You've 0:19:31.520 --> 0:19:33.920 got to be a bit of a whack adoodle, right, Yeah. 0:19:34.000 --> 0:19:34.240 Yeah. 0:19:34.280 --> 0:19:38.280 We actually spoke about this on the Afternoon Show, saying 0:19:38.320 --> 0:19:41.240 that the reason there's not a lot of good youngsters 0:19:41.680 --> 0:19:44.080 in that game right now is because there's not a 0:19:44.119 --> 0:19:47.440 lot in it for them. It's kind of all negative, 0:19:47.800 --> 0:19:50.959 you know, for you if you go take bullets in 0:19:51.000 --> 0:19:52.280 that industry. 0:19:52.520 --> 0:19:53.960 Yeah, it's not it's not great. 0:19:54.160 --> 0:19:57.000 And now you can make a lot of money as 0:19:57.000 --> 0:20:01.320 a politician when you're done, like the amount of money, 0:20:02.119 --> 0:20:03.760 I mean a lot of I mean you go everyone 0:20:03.760 --> 0:20:08.320 that like goes into the political machine and leaves. I 0:20:08.359 --> 0:20:11.280 saw a story about like Barack Obama, who was kind 0:20:11.280 --> 0:20:13.160 of a regular guy, didn't have a lot of money 0:20:13.200 --> 0:20:15.880 when he went into politics, and now after he's been president, 0:20:15.880 --> 0:20:20.160 he's worth hundreds of millions of dollars. And you hear 0:20:20.320 --> 0:20:22.880 stories about congress people that go in and then they 0:20:22.880 --> 0:20:24.800 get side you know, side deals when they get out 0:20:24.800 --> 0:20:27.080 and they get but yeah, you're right, at a young age, 0:20:27.600 --> 0:20:32.000