Speaker 1: Kabooms.
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 cutter the same as the
Speaker 2: rich pill poppers in the penthouse. Wow, the clearing House
Speaker 2: of Hot takes break free for something special. The Fifth
Speaker 2: Hour with Ben Maller starts right now.
Speaker 1: In the air.
Speaker 3: Everywhere. Well, come in to the audio dojo. It is
Speaker 3: the twelfth day of January. Happy Friday, Friday Friday. It's
Speaker 3: a super wild card weekend, big marketing by the NFL.
Speaker 3: This the Fifth Hour with Ben Mahler. That would be
Speaker 3: me and Danny G Radio as we hang out. Because
Speaker 3: four hours a night or not enough. We do this
Speaker 3: eight days a week, eight days a week. Now you're
Speaker 3: either in for a special treat today or this is
Speaker 3: going to be an annoying podcast. So normally I am
Speaker 3: joined by Danny G. But Danny's on assignment right now.
Speaker 3: He is working with Covino and Rich later this afternoon.
Speaker 1: I'm still here producing this bad Boy.
Speaker 4: I'm not panicked.
Speaker 1: You were stuck with just dear old me that would
Speaker 1: be me being Ben. That's it.
Speaker 3: That's all we have is me on this podcast, and
Speaker 3: we have a lot of ground to cover. My right
Speaker 3: hand was getting a workout, a lot of ground to cover,
Speaker 3: and we're gonna we're gonna jump right into it. As
Speaker 3: you know, on these Friday podcasts, we try to have
Speaker 3: a lighthearted look at things that are going on. We've
Speaker 3: done a lot of sporty stuff the last couple of weeks,
Speaker 3: and I think we'll continue that because the big.
Speaker 1: News of the week, which came down.
Speaker 3: Yesterday, the demise of Bill Belichick, as he turned out
Speaker 3: the lies the parties over Bill Belichick exiting stage left
Speaker 3: from the Commonwealth out as coach of the Patriots after
Speaker 3: a miserable season that saw in New England be so
Speaker 3: bad they end up with the number three pick in
Speaker 3: the NFL Draft. Now, how do I relate to the
Speaker 3: Belichick story? Did we do monologues on the Overnight Show
Speaker 3: a few hours ago? Yes, of course we did. But
Speaker 3: I have an interesting spin on this and it relates
Speaker 3: to the TV show. So you know that we do
Speaker 3: the show in La Me and Looney do Benny Versus
Speaker 3: the Penny in Los Angeles, But the show is produced
Speaker 3: out of NBC Sports Boston. Our guy Vinnie and the
Speaker 3: production team mostly is in Boston, and another big executive,
Speaker 3: NBC John is in Philadelphia. And everyone's been great. Everyone's
Speaker 3: been wonderful on the TV show. Could not have been
Speaker 3: nice or very positive if not used to that from
Speaker 3: working into radio all these years, and in the radio business,
Speaker 3: people usually negative. So it's really cool to have all
Speaker 3: these positive people. But it was very stressful yesterday when
Speaker 3: we were recording this episode of Benny Versus the Penny,
Speaker 3: the Super wild Card weekend episode, because coinciding with that
Speaker 3: taping of the show was a rather massive neutron bomb
Speaker 3: that was dropped for those that care about sports, for
Speaker 3: those of us that work in the sports world, in
Speaker 3: our little world, this was a big deal that Bill
Speaker 3: Belichick had been excommunicated from.
Speaker 1: The Patriots Brona Cincinnati.
Speaker 3: And so what this means when you work at a
Speaker 3: TV station or radio station that covers sports, I think
Speaker 3: we know what happens. You are going to blog that
Speaker 3: to death, is what you're going to do. You are
Speaker 3: just going to pound that story over and over and
Speaker 3: over again. And so our friends at NBC Sports Boston,
Speaker 3: while they were producing Benny Versus the Penny. We're doing
Speaker 3: copious amounts of work to deal with the bed of
Speaker 3: thorns that is Bill Belichick. It was a Bellachickian edition
Speaker 3: of Benny Versus the Penny because everyone's running around. As
Speaker 3: our guy Vinnie told me, he said, all hands on deck,
Speaker 3: all hands on deck, and everyone was trying to present
Speaker 3: the greatest coverage they can. They were doing reaction shows.
Speaker 3: They were going non stop, non stop reaction to Belichick
Speaker 3: being out with the Patriots.
Speaker 1: It's a great story. It's a great story.
Speaker 3: Depending on how old you are, we likely will not
Speaker 3: ever see a coach have a run like Belichick. This
Speaker 3: usually happens once every couple of generations, So that would
Speaker 3: mean we would skip a generation and we'll have a decade,
Speaker 3: a couple of day where there's really nothing like this
Speaker 3: on the table, and then eventually somebody will come along
Speaker 3: who is a little hoggler right now, little.
Speaker 1: Kid or maybe hasn't even been born yet, who.
Speaker 3: Will hold the stage and have the reins of a
Speaker 3: dominant NFL team. But for those of us that are
Speaker 3: around my age, this is it. This is like the
Speaker 3: last great NFL coach and it just is a weird
Speaker 3: Quinkie dink that we happen to be doing the TV
Speaker 3: show at the same time that all that went down,
Speaker 3: And exciting news for Benny versus the Penny. Not only
Speaker 3: did it continue into the plus we qualified for the playoffs,
Speaker 3: which is exciting because they could have just dumped the
Speaker 3: show at the end of the regular season and said
Speaker 3: that's it, you're good. We did the regular season and
Speaker 3: there's not as many games to pick in the playoffs.
Speaker 3: And there's also the issue of we do one show
Speaker 3: a week, which is actually three shows, but it is
Speaker 3: weekend program. The TV show airs on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.
Speaker 1: That would be the week. So if you have Wildcard
Speaker 1: games on Saturday and games on Sunday and then games
Speaker 1: on Monday, by the time the show airs on Sunday,
Speaker 1: there might only be one game left to break down.
Speaker 1: So what do you do.
Speaker 3: So the fine executives that NBC Regional Sports Networks said, Okay,
Speaker 3: we'll do the show on Thursday. We'll then release it
Speaker 3: to the affiliates on Thursday night, the same day that
Speaker 3: we record the show, and allow them to start playing
Speaker 3: it on Thursday. But everyone's been very cool. The show
Speaker 3: is still going to air a number of times on Friday,
Speaker 3: which is today and Saturday and then Sunday. In fact,
Speaker 3: I looked at the schedule. We will be on SNY
Speaker 3: in New York, our weekly timeslot that we've had all
Speaker 3: football season, eleven thirty am in the Big Apple on
Speaker 3: SNY on Sunday and today tonight, a couple of showings
Speaker 3: on NBC Sports Boston, assuming we don't get bumped for
Speaker 3: more Belichick coverage. But we were on at seven thirty
Speaker 3: tonight primetime and nine o'clock. I love the seven to
Speaker 3: thirty slot on NBC Sports Boston. Here's why, cause there'll
Speaker 3: be some people that are creatures a habit that just
Speaker 3: assume the Celtics who play they usually play. The Celtics
Speaker 3: usually play on Friday, so maybe they'll turn on NBC
Speaker 3: Sports Boston thinking they're gonna get the Celtics and they'll
Speaker 3: get my fat ass with Looney Tunes breaking down the game.
Speaker 3: So that's tonight seven thirty and then at nine o'clock
Speaker 3: an encore showing. We're on in Philly night if you're
Speaker 3: listening in the Delaware Valley at eleven thirty, you can
Speaker 3: watch that on NBC Sports Philadelphia. Chicago got a ten
Speaker 3: to thirty time slot tonight on NBC Sports Chicago, and
Speaker 3: in the Bay Area they love Benny versus Depending on
Speaker 3: NBC Sports Bay Area.
Speaker 1: We've got three showings. That's pretty cool.
Speaker 3: San Francisco here we come three pm, nine pm, and
Speaker 3: eleven thirty pm. And we're also on NBC Sports California,
Speaker 3: which is home the Sacramento Kings at eight o'clock tonight,
Speaker 3: in a couple of showings on Saturday in the La
Speaker 3: market on sn Why but I have a voice in
Speaker 3: my head, and the voices is Danny G. It's like, Hey,
Speaker 3: I know I'm not here, but you moron. Just tell
Speaker 3: people to check their local TV listings. And so I
Speaker 3: probably should have done that, but I just gave most
Speaker 3: of the schedule, at least for today.
Speaker 1: So I guess I'm not good at this, but that
Speaker 1: I just wanted to mention now.
Speaker 3: I wanted to turn the page for a second and
Speaker 3: spend at least a couple of minutes acknowledging a tip
Speaker 3: of the headphones. So if you listen to the radio show,
Speaker 3: you know it was. Last week has been kind of
Speaker 3: tough because my beloved dog Bella has has checked out
Speaker 3: of this mortal coil. Bye Bye Bella. We're gonna call
Speaker 3: this and I didn't post any photos on social media.
Speaker 3: I really want the purpose of Bye Bye Bella. I
Speaker 3: wanted to thank you. A number of you reached out
Speaker 3: to me, and it's always wonderful when.
Speaker 1: People that you know. I know some of you because.
Speaker 3: You've interacted with me, whether you're a character on the
Speaker 3: show or you're a show contributor.
Speaker 1: In one way or another, I know you a little.
Speaker 3: But there are people that I have no idea who
Speaker 3: they are, who are just fans of the show and
Speaker 3: they love dogs and pets, and they sent me a
Speaker 3: nice message and it's very kind, and you didn't have
Speaker 3: to do that, and I appreciate it, and thank you.
Speaker 3: I loved being Bella's companion and enjoying my dog's time.
Speaker 3: And she was so amazing when we first got her
Speaker 3: and for years, but she got old and it's one
Speaker 3: of those things that for me, the reason this was
Speaker 3: very traumatic, But there was two reasons. I love the dog,
Speaker 3: and then number two is I had never actually been
Speaker 3: the adult in the room in something like this. It
Speaker 3: had always been someone else. I've had a bunch of
Speaker 3: dogs my mom. We had a dog named Oliver. There
Speaker 3: was a dog named Corny when I was a little kid,
Speaker 3: and so I've always been a dog guy, you know,
Speaker 3: who let the dogs out. That's my thing, that's my jam,
Speaker 3: the dogs. All about the dogs. And so with that
Speaker 3: being said, dogs live, they don't live as long as us.
Speaker 3: We all know that you probably had this happen to you,
Speaker 3: and so when the time has come to say bye
Speaker 3: bye to the dog, it has always been someone else
Speaker 3: that I have been detached from the reality of having
Speaker 3: to be there when the.
Speaker 1: Pet goes away.
Speaker 3: And it was a little different with Bella because she
Speaker 3: has been pretty ill for a while. Me and the wife,
Speaker 3: we've kind of been saying to each other off and
Speaker 3: on for the past I don't know how long exactly,
Speaker 3: it's been, maybe a year, probably a little less than that,
Speaker 3: but it has been a case where bell has kind
Speaker 3: of been in hospice, doggy hospice, and we knew that
Speaker 3: this time was coming, so we had plenty of time.
Speaker 1: To prepare for It.
Speaker 3: Doesn't mean that you're like excited when it happens and
Speaker 3: all that, but Bella she got attacked by a coyote about.
Speaker 1: Three years ago.
Speaker 3: I think it was in fact three almost three years exactly,
Speaker 3: and it was in the middle of the night I
Speaker 3: was doing the show. Was during COVID, kind of the
Speaker 3: tail end of COVID. I was doing the show from
Speaker 3: the home studio and the belarue the Belaruski went out
Speaker 3: to get busy, and a coyote thought, that's dinner. Not
Speaker 3: a big dinner. It's a small dinner. I'm on a diet,
Speaker 3: but it's a dinner, and so the coyote went out
Speaker 3: to attack attack Bella, and she was a bit pretty good.
Speaker 1: I mean, there was a big chunk of her that
Speaker 1: was gone, and we were freaking out.
Speaker 3: She was freaking out, and we took her, spent thousands
Speaker 3: of dos to get her fixed up and all of that,
Speaker 3: and it was successful. She lived several more years, but
Speaker 3: she was never really the same after that. And I
Speaker 3: don't know that that's directly related to that attack. Maybe
Speaker 3: it was just the whole thing, all of it together.
Speaker 3: And she started slowing down.
Speaker 1: A little bit more, a little bit more, as dogs
Speaker 1: do as they get older, and it got to the
Speaker 1: point where she.
Speaker 3: Kind of just wanted to be by herself, and dogs
Speaker 3: are all about companionship, and I know you let him
Speaker 3: roam around and whatnot. Maybe you have a backyard, maybe
Speaker 3: you take them to the dog park, you let him
Speaker 3: roam around. But ultimately, if the dog doesn't want anything
Speaker 3: to do with you, that generally is a bad sign.
Speaker 1: That's generally a bad soie. I don't want to speak
Speaker 1: for all dogs, but what the hell why not? And
Speaker 1: so it's been that way for a while. Bella's been there,
Speaker 1: We've been feeding her. She pretty much has been unable
Speaker 1: to control the bodily function. Anyways, I don't want to
Speaker 1: get in too deep, but I just wanted.
Speaker 3: To thank you, many of some I didn't even expect
Speaker 3: to hear from because you're known as douchebags on the show.
Speaker 1: You know who you are, and you still reach them,
Speaker 1: so so thank I appreciate that.
Speaker 3: Now to turn away from that and I want to
Speaker 3: get back to the funt on this podcast, we like
Speaker 3: to highlight some of the more as any things that
Speaker 3: have happened now this week on the show, we were
Speaker 3: given the gift of great audio.
Speaker 1: And when you work in a radio show, you need
Speaker 1: great audio. You need it. It's all you have is audio.
Speaker 1: You don't have pictures, just have audience. You need the audio.
Speaker 3: And if you listen every night, you probably know where
Speaker 3: I'm going with this. I'm gonna call this one the
Speaker 3: dark O Delight, someone I had never heard of. I
Speaker 3: had no idea who this person was, and he gave
Speaker 3: me smiles. This person made me enjoy a night of
Speaker 3: radio and so I'm grateful for that. We are talking
Speaker 3: about dark oh Ryakovic, the head coach of the Toronto
Speaker 3: pro bouncy ball team. And so before I break this
Speaker 3: down to the Bruner film style frame by frame, I want
Speaker 3: to play you a chunk of this legendary news conference
Speaker 3: after the Toronto Raptors played the Los Angeles slash Minneapolis Lakers.
Speaker 1: What is still wrong with the Clippers?
Speaker 3: The Toronto Raptors were just led to the slaughter by
Speaker 3: the referees. It was they didn't even try to hide it.
Speaker 3: It's clear bias and embarrassing level of bias where the
Speaker 3: officials were working as guardian angels to help Lebron.
Speaker 1: That's crap.
Speaker 3: Been over a decade since the game had been this
Speaker 3: lopside in the foul shot to sparity. So anyway, that's
Speaker 3: the setup and moments after Toronto lost.
Speaker 1: The game, the prime loser.
Speaker 3: The head coach of the Raptors, dark Go Ryakovic, got
Speaker 3: up to the desk and let's go to the audio tape,
Speaker 3: take all this and enjoy this.
Speaker 4: That's that's that's outrageous. What happened tonight. This is completely bias.
Speaker 4: This is shame. Shame for the referee, shame for the
Speaker 4: league to allow this. Twenty three free throws for them
Speaker 4: and we get two free throws in the fourth quarter,
Speaker 4: Like how to play the game. I understand respect for
Speaker 4: all stars and all that, but we have.
Speaker 1: Star players on our team as well.
Speaker 4: How's possible a Scattie Barnes, who is all Star caliber
Speaker 4: player in this league. He goes every single time to
Speaker 4: the rim with fours and trying to get get to
Speaker 4: the rim.
Speaker 1: Without flopping and and not trying to get foul calls.
Speaker 1: He gets two three throws for the whole game. How
Speaker 1: is that possible?
Speaker 4: How are you gonna explain it to me if that's
Speaker 4: If that's the case, just let us know so we
Speaker 4: don't show up for the game.
Speaker 1: Just give them a win.
Speaker 4: But that was not fair tonight, and this is not
Speaker 4: hippening first time for us. Scottie Barnes is gonna be
Speaker 4: old started, he's gonna be the face of this league.
Speaker 4: And what's hippening going here? During whole season, I've been
Speaker 4: calding you back. It's a complete crap.
Speaker 1: Wow, I still like it.
Speaker 3: I'm not gonna lie. I still like it. I enjoy it.
Speaker 3: I'm a fan. I'm a fan.
Speaker 1: Of this.
Speaker 3: So the highlight, there's a couple of drops that we
Speaker 3: got on this. The one right there he says, it's
Speaker 3: a complete crap. Darko's from Serbia and it's a complete
Speaker 3: crap crap.
Speaker 1: That is wonderful. That is so good.
Speaker 3: And when he said what happened tonight, this is completely bs.
Speaker 1: This is shame.
Speaker 3: This is shame, solid solid, that's a solid sound bite.
Speaker 3: That is a solid bite. And the one that which
Speaker 3: I loved, I actually got to know an argument.
Speaker 1: If you listen to the show this week, we talked
Speaker 1: about this.
Speaker 3: There was a bit of a disagreement between myself, Eddie
Speaker 3: and Cooper. These guys don't think any of these things
Speaker 3: are that good, and I like, no, no, this is great.
Speaker 3: The one that I loved though he came completely out
Speaker 3: of cuckoo land. Here's a head coach of the Toronto Raptors,
Speaker 3: Darko Ryakovic, and he says, Scottie Barnes is gonna be
Speaker 3: an All Star, He's gonna be the face of the league.
Speaker 1: Scottie Barnes. Scottie Barnes, He's gonna be old Stott. He's
Speaker 1: gonna be the.
Speaker 3: Face of this league. Scotty bleeping Barns. It's like you
Speaker 3: gotta be I mean, come on, he's a nice player,
Speaker 3: but he's not He's not anywhere close to that level.
Speaker 3: And maybe he becomes an All Star by chance, but
Speaker 3: basically face of the NBA in Canada. So where does
Speaker 3: the Darko Raptors coach rank? It's and I don't I
Speaker 3: don't do this. This is not a list. It's big board.
Speaker 3: It's big Ben's big board. And it's just off the
Speaker 3: top of my head. I've compared nothing. I have compiled enough.
Speaker 3: It's gonna fly by the seat of my pants. So
Speaker 3: is it in the category of a Dennis Green where
Speaker 3: if you want to crowd them, then crown their ass.
Speaker 1: If you want to crown them, then crown their ass. No,
Speaker 1: it's not that, certainly not that is it.
Speaker 3: Mike Tomlin going on a rant about the Steelers and
Speaker 3: you know, Mojoe and all that stuff.
Speaker 1: We want them to be fat and sassy and spoiled.
Speaker 3: It is our job, fat and sassy and spoiled. It's
Speaker 3: our job.
Speaker 1: Is it that? No, it's not that. It's not that.
Speaker 3: It's not Jim Mora saying that was a disgraceful performance,
Speaker 3: or we couldn't do Diddley Pooh.
Speaker 1: We just got our ass totally kicked.
Speaker 3: We couldn't do Diddley pooh offensively. This is more in line.
Speaker 3: This darko thing is more in line. If you remember,
Speaker 3: during the baseball playoffs, there was a guy named aj
Speaker 3: Minter of the Atlanta baseball team, and the Braves had
Speaker 3: a big comeback in the playoffs, and they asked him
Speaker 3: how were.
Speaker 1: You able to come back?
Speaker 3: And aj Minter said three words, heart and nuts. What
Speaker 3: kind of nuts do you like, Martha pe nuts?
Speaker 1: What do you enjoy?
Speaker 3: There's richardal nuts, that's what.
Speaker 1: And that's a great bite. Heart and nuts, I said on.
Speaker 3: The radio show, and I believe this to be true,
Speaker 3: that it's more of a David Fizdale type thing where
Speaker 3: Fizzdale hounded the table looking at the box score and said.
Speaker 1: Take that for data, Take that for data. And walked off.
Speaker 3: So it's more like that, or maybe a buzz Williams
Speaker 3: back when he was at Marquette saying the Butcher, the Baker,
Speaker 3: the candlestick Maker, The Butcher, the.
Speaker 1: Baker, the candlestick Maker.
Speaker 3: Which we played years, years and years ago. It's in
Speaker 3: that category. But I enjoyed it. I didn't expect it.
Speaker 3: I'd put the baby to bed, I'd put the show
Speaker 3: to bed. I actually had the Laker game on that night,
Speaker 3: and I thought, well, this seems like an obscene amount
Speaker 3: of foul shots, but that's just a typical Laker game.
Speaker 1: The officials often are biased and help them out.
Speaker 4: Ben sucks, so I thought.
Speaker 1: Well, that's probably just that's just the way. I wasn't
Speaker 1: paying that close attention.
Speaker 3: It was on the background, like background TV, and then
Speaker 3: next thing I know, I was like this, this popped
Speaker 3: up on our radar. I was like, whoa Wausers, zoom, bam,
Speaker 3: all that stuff, like, that's really good. That's really good
Speaker 3: audio from a guy that I had never heard that
Speaker 3: I had never heard of. Time now for the Dish
Speaker 3: of the Day. It's a new feature, the Dish of
Speaker 3: the Day, Dish all the day, Dish, all the day. Now,
Speaker 3: the reason we're doing dish of today is because randomly
Speaker 3: I mentioned Salisbury College. Now that's not the dish of day,
Speaker 3: but the reason I mentioned Salisbury College is because of.
Speaker 1: The reality, the stork reality.
Speaker 3: We were talking about mister Quinn, medicine man, defensive coordinator,
Speaker 3: Dan Quinn of the Dallas football team, Dallas Calvin's, and
Speaker 3: we did a monologue about Pete Carroll and Dan Quinn
Speaker 3: is certainly the betting favorite to go back and replace
Speaker 3: Pete Carroll in Seattle, and he went to Salisbury College.
Speaker 3: So I used that as one of my three things,
Speaker 3: and these monologues, I usually do three little things and
Speaker 3: try to tie them all together and make them make sense.
Speaker 3: So Salisbury College in Maryland. And then I was like,
Speaker 3: wait a minute, is that Salisbury's steak? Is that the
Speaker 3: same thing? And I was like, well, that's not really
Speaker 3: the same thing. And then I was like, where did
Speaker 3: Salisbury steak come from? Is it named after something related
Speaker 3: to this part of Maryland? No, So then I did
Speaker 3: a little deep dive and the dish of the day
Speaker 3: is Salisbury's steak. I haven't had one of these Salisbury
Speaker 3: steaks since I was as a kid. But it is
Speaker 3: actually named after a person, not a city, not a college,
Speaker 3: just named after a person.
Speaker 1: James H.
Speaker 3: Salisbury. He was a physician back in the eighteen hundreds.
Speaker 3: He was a chemist and he was an advocate. He
Speaker 3: was one of these people that were advocating for a
Speaker 3: fugesi diet at that time. It was a meat centered diet.
Speaker 3: The effort was to help forward health, to promote health
Speaker 3: and all that stuff. And so the term Salisbury's steak,
Speaker 3: if you don't know what that is, that's a ground
Speaker 3: beef patty, like a burg ground beef patty. But it
Speaker 3: served as the main course. No bun on this, no bun,
Speaker 3: and it's got the sauce on top of that and
Speaker 3: all that stuff. But here's the thing that blew me
Speaker 3: away about this. Now this goes back to eighteen ninety seven.
Speaker 3: This guy came up with Salisbury steak in the late
Speaker 3: eighteen hundreds.
Speaker 1: And he did that.
Speaker 3: And so this guy's whole agen everyone's got an agenda,
Speaker 3: was that he believed he believed that this dinner or
Speaker 3: lunch would help with treatment of digestive disorders. So that
Speaker 3: if you eat that, eat this, and you know, help
Speaker 3: you out. They haven't chop the the Salisbury steak, they
Speaker 3: would chop the bones, tendons.
Speaker 1: All that other crap.
Speaker 3: They'd cut away from it and they'd have the lean
Speaker 3: muscle and whatnot. And so anyway, it's named Salisbury stick,
Speaker 3: named after James H.
Speaker 1: Salisbury.
Speaker 3: And there you go.
Speaker 5: The dish of the day, the dish of the day.
Speaker 5: And now we move ahead in the broadcast, we keep
Speaker 5: the line moving.
Speaker 1: Not only do we have the dish of the day.
Speaker 1: That would be enough.
Speaker 3: We wouldn't need any more content than that on the
Speaker 3: fifth hour. But how about the word of the week.
Speaker 1: What is the word of the week? Glad you asked?
Speaker 1: The word of the week is edgy gen.
Speaker 3: Now why are we doing this as the word of
Speaker 3: the week. We're doing this because of a historical week
Speaker 3: of no shortage of big name coaches saying bye bye,
Speaker 3: turnout the ladd it's the parties over. It started on Wednesday,
Speaker 3: Bye bye, Nikki, the little debbie eating oatmeal moonpie loving
Speaker 3: Nick Saban said Asta la vista to the folks in Tuscaloosa.
Speaker 3: And then on a Thursday, Bill Belichick said, were the jay.
Speaker 1: I am out of here.
Speaker 3: Make sure whoever's last turns out the lads, because it's
Speaker 3: all over now.
Speaker 1: And these guys who worked together back in the day
Speaker 1: in Cleveland.
Speaker 3: We told the story a few times. If you've not
Speaker 3: heard it, because you only listen a little bit, we
Speaker 3: get it. In the early days of Fox Sports Radio,
Speaker 3: we had a wonderful football punted.
Speaker 1: By the name of Chris Landry. I really like this.
Speaker 3: A good guy, Chris Landry, very good on the radio.
Speaker 3: You ask him one question, he'll give you ten minutes.
Speaker 1: Just wonderful.
Speaker 3: And Chris Landry had worked for a number of NFL teams,
Speaker 3: but he had worked for the Cleveland Browns when Belichick
Speaker 3: was the head coach and Nick Sabin was on the staff.
Speaker 3: And so Chris Landry would regale us with stories about
Speaker 3: working for the Browns and everything involved in that. And
Speaker 3: I have fond memories of Chris Landry telling us some
Speaker 3: of those behind the scenes stories when they were in
Speaker 3: team meetings and he would be in there, what it
Speaker 3: was like, the interaction and all that.
Speaker 1: It was kind of cool. It's like a.
Speaker 3: Trip behind the curtain to see how they make the sausage.
Speaker 3: So these guys have had good runs. Saban my theory.
Speaker 3: I did a monologue about this you can follow the
Speaker 3: Ben Maler Show podcast and hear that monologue in its entirety.
Speaker 3: But my position on Saban was that it was nil
Speaker 3: that he just got tired of the bull crap and
Speaker 3: he didn't want to deal with it, and he saw
Speaker 3: where this was going. He looked at his age, he
Speaker 3: looked how much money he had, and he said, Okay,
Speaker 3: I'm good.
Speaker 1: I am good.
Speaker 3: I ween to get out of here and enjoy myself
Speaker 3: and I'm the king and everyone will kiss my ass
Speaker 3: the rest of my life in Alabama and I'll be
Speaker 3: remembered as an all time great, easy peasy, good to go,
Speaker 3: and maybe I'll do some television and that's great. And
Speaker 3: then Belichick, it's complicated because I do believe he wanted
Speaker 3: to stay with the Patriot. Turns out that game against
Speaker 3: the Jets and the snow was his last hurrah with
Speaker 3: the Pagries, but he wanted to stay. But anyway, Belichick
Speaker 3: and Saban are legends. They are legends. So the word
Speaker 3: of the week is again legend. Now, this word dates
Speaker 3: back all the way to the early fourteen hundreds. Yes,
Speaker 3: a narrative dealing with a happening or an event. It's
Speaker 3: from old French and originally goes all the way back
Speaker 3: even further back to the twelfth century. And that word
Speaker 3: originated in the Medieval Latin language legend or it's a
Speaker 3: synonym for story, and they told stories in the middle
Speaker 3: Medieval Latin language. They would tell stories about saints and
Speaker 3: other people of that time, and.
Speaker 1: They would read certain stories about the church. A lot
Speaker 1: of the meaning of.
Speaker 3: The word legend comes from tales that were told in
Speaker 3: church and extended out. According to those that study this
Speaker 3: for a living, it meant non historical or mythical story,
Speaker 3: and it often in those days, back in the old days,
Speaker 3: involves saints, wonders, and miracles, and that goes back. That
Speaker 3: version goes back to the fourteenth century, meaning a writing
Speaker 3: or inscription. Now in those days it was on a
Speaker 3: coin or a medal. And then as the decades have
Speaker 3: moved on, of the years have moved on, to be
Speaker 3: a legend in one's time, that goes back only to
Speaker 3: nineteen fifty eight, which is not all that long ago.
Speaker 3: So the word of the week, the word of the
Speaker 3: week is legend, legend, legend, legend, which goes back to
Speaker 3: the fourteen hundred, and you can think even before that
Speaker 3: modern French, before that medieval Latin. We're coming up with
Speaker 3: the term. Legend today is kiss a Ginger Day. So
Speaker 3: if you know someone who you want to kiss who's
Speaker 3: a redhead, this would be the day.
Speaker 1: It's actually a holiday. I've never heard of it, but
Speaker 1: there you go. What other holiday?
Speaker 2: We have?
Speaker 1: National kettle ball Day. That's a great day.
Speaker 3: Who the hell came up with that? What kind of
Speaker 3: loser came up with that? National hot Tea Day? The
Speaker 3: only time I drink tea is when I'm when I'm
Speaker 3: losing my voice. I drink hot, hot, hot tea. That's it,
Speaker 3: and that's rare. That's very rare.
Speaker 1: What else is it? Today?
Speaker 3: It's a hard work harder day. I think I'm good.
Speaker 3: I think I work harder though. It's also stick to
Speaker 3: your New Year's resolution day. This is usually about the
Speaker 3: time the New Year's resolution crowd taps out. Says I'm good,
Speaker 3: you know, start out in January, I'm gonna work out
Speaker 3: every day, I'm I go to the gym.
Speaker 1: I got my gym membership.
Speaker 3: And then it's like just kidding, psych just kidding, I'm good,
Speaker 3: I'm good.
Speaker 1: Blah blah blah blah blah.
Speaker 3: I think we'll put the baby to bed on that
Speaker 3: we got fresh podcast. Danny g is schedule, We'll see
Speaker 3: if he can make it. Will you schedule to join
Speaker 3: me tomorrow on Super wild Card weekends, kickoff of the
Speaker 3: big NFL games. But please, if you get a chance,
Speaker 3: check out Benny Versus the Penny, check out the radio
Speaker 3: show podcast follow that and either way, I'm just grateful
Speaker 3: that you've listened to this pod, and that's very kind
Speaker 3: of you to do, and we do thank you for that.
Speaker 3: We will have another pot on Saturday. We'll catch you
Speaker 3: next time. And as Danny would say, later, skater, did
Speaker 3: I get that right?
Speaker 1: Danny? Later, Skater? What Aloha? It's a complete crap. Gotta murder,
Speaker 1: I gotta go