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 sol fashion of fairness. He
Speaker 2: treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the
Speaker 2: rich pill poppers in the penthouse.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 2: It's a clearinghouse of hot takes. Break free for something special.
Speaker 2: The Fifth Hour with Ben Mallard starts right.
Speaker 1: Now in the air everywhere, The Fifth Hour with Me,
Speaker 1: Big Ben and Danny g Radio. Happy Saturday to you
Speaker 1: as we slide into the twenty fourth day of August.
Speaker 1: And I don't know what you're having for breakfast today, Danny,
Speaker 1: but it's National Waffle Day today, so celebrate appropriately.
Speaker 3: Oh. I love blueberry waffles.
Speaker 1: You're all about the blueberry waffle. Yeah. I don't eat
Speaker 1: breakfast food very often, but I don't reject waffles. I'm
Speaker 1: a big fan of the waffle. Which, by the way,
Speaker 1: fun fact, fun fact. We got to start the Saturday
Speaker 1: Pie with a fun fact. And the word waffle first
Speaker 1: appeared in the English language in the seventeen hundreds. That
Speaker 1: word goes back to seventeen twenty five, but it wasn't
Speaker 1: until the eighteen sixties. Almost eighteen seventy eighteen sixty ninety
Speaker 1: exact year, someone named Cornelius Swarthout received the first waffle
Speaker 1: iron patent in Troy, New York. So you can thank
Speaker 1: Cornelius for bringing the waffle to America. So congratulations to Cornelius.
Speaker 3: But yeah, it's national an American hero.
Speaker 1: He is real patriot, real patriot businessman. Over three quarters
Speaker 1: of Americans love golden brown waffles, seventi percent. The region
Speaker 1: you want to take a guest, which region of the
Speaker 1: US eats the most waffles.
Speaker 3: The most waffles, I'm gonna say at Atlanta.
Speaker 1: You are well, you're correct. The South. Yeah, eighty one
Speaker 1: percent of Southerners say they love their waffles, and it's
Speaker 1: it's everyone kind of likes it. The least popular place
Speaker 1: for the waffles, like the Northeast. Those codres in the
Speaker 1: Northeast not big fans. But anyway, in this podcast, it
Speaker 1: is said, I hope you heard the Friday podcast. I
Speaker 1: was excited to bring Looney Tunes back. The big announcement
Speaker 1: Benny Penny is back season two. We're going national this
Speaker 1: year on Peacock. We're still on regional cable television. On NBC,
Speaker 1: but they're putting us on Peacock, so I'm very excited
Speaker 1: about that. It's gonna be a fun season. You can
Speaker 1: go back and hear that from yesterday's podcast with Looney
Speaker 1: Tunes as we broke it all down and just played
Speaker 1: grab ass, I told the story Danny of Tom Looney
Speaker 1: at the Big Power dinner that we had in Boston,
Speaker 1: and Looney took about three hours to finish his broccoli.
Speaker 1: Everyone was done eating, we were all waiting for Looney
Speaker 1: to finish, and it was he was eating like like
Speaker 1: an old geezer, you old man. It was really really uncomfortable.
Speaker 1: It was really it took forever, you know, and you
Speaker 1: want to be polite, but I also wanted to like
Speaker 1: poke Looney in the arm and say, what are you doing?
Speaker 1: You know, we got places to go. We don't want
Speaker 1: to sit here and watch you eat broccoli. And it
Speaker 1: reminded me of those old meetings we had at Fox
Speaker 1: where we'd all agree not to ask any questions, get
Speaker 1: the meeting over with, and then Looney would inevitably ask
Speaker 1: like fifteen questions at the end.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, and you know, how to not be that
Speaker 4: guy sitting at the table for that many hours with broccoli.
Speaker 1: How's that?
Speaker 3: Don't order frickin' broccoli. That's that's what I said.
Speaker 1: I told, I said, listen, they got so many great options.
Speaker 1: We went to an expensive restaurant. We all got steak
Speaker 1: because I'm not paying for it. Why I don't even
Speaker 1: really like steak that much, but I'm not paying for it.
Speaker 3: Why not?
Speaker 1: And Louie gets the side up broccoli. No, give me
Speaker 1: this whole raps of well World on TV.
Speaker 4: You know, if you got to have some greens, get
Speaker 4: the fancy asparagus right next to the steak and the
Speaker 4: mashed potatoes.
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, or just I guess it's really the cooking process, right,
Speaker 1: If you get roasted and maybe you put some sauce
Speaker 1: or something on it, you can eat it. It's possible
Speaker 1: to enjoy it. But that's not my domain. So on
Speaker 1: this podcast, we've got unleashed the power, offer up adulting,
Speaker 1: the trident and whatever else pops up here. So we'll
Speaker 1: begin with this. I have not one, but two or
Speaker 1: two dogs. I got Moxie, who is an English bulldog,
Speaker 1: and Luigi, who is a combo dish of a French
Speaker 1: bulldog and a pug. Otherwise no as a frog. And
Speaker 1: so we've had these dugs for about a year. We
Speaker 1: lost our beloved Bella a year ago, and then we
Speaker 1: waited a little while, not long, not long, picked up.
Speaker 3: Not too long before you replaced her.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that's usually how it works. Maxie and we
Speaker 1: went through the proper. We sat shiva. We were mourning
Speaker 1: for a little bit, then we went and moved on.
Speaker 1: But Maxi and Luigi, who I love them. However, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna say the word butt, which means I don't really
Speaker 1: love them, because when you say the word butt, everything
Speaker 1: before the word butts a lie. So Maxie and Luigi
Speaker 1: have an addiction to urinating as soon as they come
Speaker 1: out of the Malar mansion, a little concrete in the back,
Speaker 1: and they immediately have to relieve their bladder. And over
Speaker 1: time it has become a bit of an issue because
Speaker 1: if you every single day, twice a day, if you
Speaker 1: go out and you take care of your business right
Speaker 1: there there, eventually becomes a bit of an odor becomes
Speaker 1: an issue.
Speaker 3: So I was.
Speaker 1: Able, with the help of the wife there, to solve
Speaker 1: the problem here, Danny, we went on the interweb and
Speaker 1: bought a power washer, a starter powerwasher.
Speaker 3: Oh that's an old guide purchase.
Speaker 1: I feel. Let me tell you something. I love it.
Speaker 1: I am so happy. I am embracing this because middle
Speaker 1: age is great, Danny. Because I got a griddle which
Speaker 1: I love. That was a couple of years ago, a
Speaker 1: Blackstone griddle, which is just wonderful. And now I've got
Speaker 1: the next level powerwasher. It is amazing, and it really
Speaker 1: it's a starter. It's not like a high end one.
Speaker 1: It's not I can't go out and get commercial jobs
Speaker 1: with it. It's not that much of a power washer.
Speaker 1: But it's wonderful what I need. It wasn't all that much.
Speaker 1: Very cool. I've been unable to unleash the power. I
Speaker 1: was able to clean the concrete where the dogs have
Speaker 1: been pissing up a storm. I even got carried away.
Speaker 1: I washed the front of the Malor mansion. I was
Speaker 1: able to clean the blue malormobile Harvey liked. And this thing, Danny,
Speaker 1: is like a professional car wash. They've got an attachment
Speaker 1: that you can put the soap on it and it
Speaker 1: sprays out like it's at the car wash. It's just
Speaker 1: a wonderful device, and I feel very productive. I feel
Speaker 1: very masculine with the powerwasher, split splash.
Speaker 3: Your neighbors are like, get off our driveway.
Speaker 1: Well, I did get a little carried away this past
Speaker 1: weekend because I was so excited to have this thing
Speaker 1: that I was trying to use it on all different
Speaker 1: you know, I want to see what it could clean.
Speaker 1: And there's different attachments to it depending on how powerful
Speaker 1: you want it to be. And you got to be
Speaker 1: careful because you don't want to hurt yourself. You know,
Speaker 1: it's so powerful that it could damage your skin if
Speaker 1: you put it right in your hand, right in front
Speaker 1: of it. So I was just experimenting. It was like
Speaker 1: in Frankenstein's lab. I was just experimenting and messing around
Speaker 1: and all that. And I got carried away. And it
Speaker 1: was kind of hot this past weekend here in the
Speaker 1: south Land of southern California. And I'm a bit of
Speaker 1: a vampire from doing the Overnight show. So I got
Speaker 1: a bit of a sunburn, a bit of a sunburn
Speaker 1: on my legs and my arms. And because I was
Speaker 1: out there and I didn't put any suntand lotion on,
Speaker 1: I wasn't like going to the beach or anything like that.
Speaker 1: And I lost track of time, and then I was like, oh.
Speaker 3: Man, is it a truckers tan?
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was a bad. It's not bad. You know,
Speaker 1: no one sees me him at night and no one
Speaker 1: no even noticed. But it was a little painful. The
Speaker 1: worst thing about the sunburn now is when you go
Speaker 1: into the shower, the hot water just kill it. Stings
Speaker 1: when you got a sunburn. Foh, drizzle, Oh it's bad.
Speaker 1: What I should have done, Danny's I should have gone
Speaker 1: on offer up and bought some suntan lotion or something.
Speaker 1: I didn't do that. I did not go on there.
Speaker 4: Good luck buying something as inexpensive as that on offer up,
Speaker 4: because you know, usually if it's an item that's under
Speaker 4: twenty dollars, people don't even want to make the trip
Speaker 4: to go pick up the item. So you know, offer
Speaker 4: up is better for bigger or more expensive things that
Speaker 4: you're trying to get rid of.
Speaker 1: Outdoor furniture. Well, you had the famous stor with your
Speaker 1: son CoA, right, you went to buy a stroller. Was
Speaker 1: it was that? What?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Oh? That No, it was the skip pop remember.
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, yeah, I remember, I forget exactly, but I
Speaker 1: remember you were buying something for your side.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that bouncer and the lady had Oh she had
Speaker 4: spilled mango all over it. Remember it's like clean your
Speaker 4: shit before you try to sell it. And to prove
Speaker 4: my point on that there was a cat for sale.
Speaker 4: God help us all. Our teenage daughter wants a cat
Speaker 4: for herself. We have one in the house with a doggie.
Speaker 4: You were talking about your two dogs. Well, two days
Speaker 4: ago I took her when I got home in the
Speaker 4: evening from CNR, I took her to where a cat
Speaker 4: was being sold. And supposedly it's like this twenty five
Speaker 4: hundred dollars British short hair. We walk inside this house
Speaker 4: to visit the cat ben and it reaked of cat
Speaker 4: piss inside their living room.
Speaker 1: Oh wonderful. That makes you really want to beat cat
Speaker 1: right there.
Speaker 4: Oh bur all over their furniture, and that that scent
Speaker 4: of cat piss has got to be one of the
Speaker 4: top ten worst smells in the world. Once they pee
Speaker 4: like that, if you don't get them spade or newter,
Speaker 4: and then they start like the male starts spraying. Man,
Speaker 4: you cannot get rid of that odor. Whatever they pee on,
Speaker 4: you'll have to burn it. So that's one. That's one. Now,
Speaker 4: she didn't find that on offer up that would have
Speaker 4: been too good. Everything on offer Up's even worse than
Speaker 4: that right now, So I have a few items on there,
Speaker 4: and I keep getting these drive buys. It's so annoying
Speaker 4: when you sell something on the offer up app. You
Speaker 4: go and you put old you market sold, and it
Speaker 4: has you give Like this podcast, it has you give
Speaker 4: five stars to the buyer if they're worthy, and the
Speaker 4: seller vice versa, and it has you, you know, rate
Speaker 4: the doing business with them that way.
Speaker 3: Everybody has kind of like.
Speaker 4: A little track record on their profile, so you know
Speaker 4: who you're dealing with. Well, I have right now one
Speaker 4: of my e bikes for sale. Over the years, I
Speaker 4: paid monthly on getting two of these suckers. One was
Speaker 4: a city bike that I bought in Burbank, and then
Speaker 4: when I moved outside of La in the San Fernando
Speaker 4: Valley here where we're at, there's all these hills and
Speaker 4: the city bike just won't work on these hills, so
Speaker 4: I needed the fat tire.
Speaker 3: Have you seen those e bikes with the fat tires?
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, those are the way to go there.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's one of the big reasons for me having
Speaker 4: problems selling the other e bike. I have the city
Speaker 4: e bike for sale and nobody wants it. Ben it
Speaker 4: is a beautiful thousand dollars bike. I'm trying to sell
Speaker 4: it for not even half that price.
Speaker 1: It's not fat enough. They want they want to exactly.
Speaker 4: I've had two customers come test right it and they're like, Wow,
Speaker 4: what a beautiful bike. But you know what, it just
Speaker 4: doesn't happen the pickup I was looking for in the
Speaker 4: in the tires. They don't want bikes, they want mopeds,
Speaker 4: they want motorcycles.
Speaker 1: Well listen, you know, you know where I live in
Speaker 1: the north Woods, and every fricking kid around here it
Speaker 1: is like a moped. It's like a motorcycle. It's insane.
Speaker 1: I I mean I back in I on want to
Speaker 1: be old guy back in my day, but I was like,
Speaker 1: we drove bikes around. We thought we were going fast
Speaker 1: going down a hill. But these guys are going like
Speaker 1: forty five miles an hour on a bike.
Speaker 4: In the city bike. It's not some weeny thing. It's
Speaker 4: not some flimsy ten speed. It's called a stealth Hurricane.
Speaker 4: It's a thick, well made bike, but it's got the
Speaker 4: city tires on it. Eyeamn, the max speed with the
Speaker 4: pedal assist is like twenty five, twenty six miles per hour.
Speaker 4: These kids and youngsters who are buying bikes, they want
Speaker 4: bikes that go forty five miles per hour, which aren't
Speaker 4: even street legal. By the way, you need a special
Speaker 4: license for that. But do you think any of these
Speaker 4: people are getting the license.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go no for a thousand Hell no.
Speaker 4: If the cops wanted to be dicks, they could pull
Speaker 4: all these fat tire kids over and give them tickets.
Speaker 4: Now I've struck out twice with people test writing it.
Speaker 4: I get one guy just a week ago who said,
Speaker 4: he writes, this is where the Lebron James violin music
Speaker 4: should come in. He writes me a sad note about
Speaker 4: how his car was in a minor accident and it's
Speaker 4: on the shelf right now. He can't even drive to
Speaker 4: Sherman Oaks. He needs me to drive the bike to
Speaker 4: him in Santa Monica.
Speaker 1: Oh no, no, no bueno. He says.
Speaker 4: He is taking ubers and getting rides from coworkers to
Speaker 4: get to his job right now. But to hang on
Speaker 4: and I hear the violin again. He feels bad though,
Speaker 4: because if I come all the way to Santa Monica.
Speaker 4: What if it's not a good match in a red
Speaker 4: flag right now and offer up. When anybody says I
Speaker 4: want to see if it's a good match or not,
Speaker 4: that means they're not going to buy it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so what we don't even bother, right and move on.
Speaker 1: That's it.
Speaker 3: I'm good, Yeah, I'm I'm to the point right now.
Speaker 4: And no, I did not drive the bike to Santa
Speaker 4: Monica yesterday. He wanted me to take it there Friday afternoon.
Speaker 3: I didn't do it. He's like, after your shift, can
Speaker 3: you come.
Speaker 4: I'm yeah, I'm going to sit in traffic for two
Speaker 4: hours to bring a bike to you that you probably
Speaker 4: will test drive and then say, yeah, the tires aren't
Speaker 4: fat enough.
Speaker 1: Yeah, just tell him to send you like forty bucks
Speaker 1: per gas or something you'll drive out there.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Well, if this guy can't even fix his car,
Speaker 3: chances yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 4: And that's the other thing you get all these lowballers
Speaker 4: on there. He already was trying to cut the price
Speaker 4: down by forty bucks. I'm like, so you're offering me
Speaker 4: forty less than what I'm listening it for and you
Speaker 4: want me to drive all the way to you. I
Speaker 4: don't know, I'm close to retiring my offer up career.
Speaker 1: That sucks.
Speaker 3: I might just take weekend trips to the city to
Speaker 3: have an excuse to ride the city bike.
Speaker 1: There you go, Well maybe when Co is old. By
Speaker 1: the time Co is old enough to ride that thing,
Speaker 1: that thing will be uh out extinct.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 4: Yeah, by the time he gets to a bike, they'll
Speaker 4: probably be flying jetson's bikes.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, we did talk about that it is legal
Speaker 1: not have flying flying cars, so flying bikes that's that's
Speaker 1: gonna happen. So I mentioned the unleashed the power I
Speaker 1: get this power washer up and futzing around with that.
Speaker 1: Also we asked the question is there a gardener in house?
Speaker 1: We noticed in the back that there's a lot of
Speaker 1: flooding going on behind the mall mach and while we
Speaker 1: were doing some adulting this past weekend in addition to
Speaker 1: the powerwasher, and it was pointed out we talked about
Speaker 1: this in the past on this podcast that Moxie, our bulldog,
Speaker 1: loves water and loves attacking any source of water, which
Speaker 1: includes sprinklers, and so we noticed Moxie's been eating several
Speaker 1: sprinklers and so there has been at one point water
Speaker 1: going in the air everywhere a massive geyser style courtesy
Speaker 1: of our dog Moxie. So we addressed the fountain in
Speaker 1: the yard, and we made several trips to Home Depot,
Speaker 1: multiple multiple stops fixing sprinklers. Now this is something that
Speaker 1: thanks to YouTube is possible. I believe prior to YouTube
Speaker 1: it was impossible, Danny, but we've been able to fix
Speaker 1: the sprinklers because of these YouTube videos. And if you
Speaker 1: get someone who's like a professional to do it, like
Speaker 1: a guard, they charge you like eighty ninety bucks or
Speaker 1: something like that. But you can buy the sprinkler for
Speaker 1: like ten fifteen bucks and do it yourself and save
Speaker 1: seventy or eighty bucks, depending on how much they try
Speaker 1: to price gouge you. And it's real easy, Like it's
Speaker 1: real simple. You just seed a couple of things from
Speaker 1: from Home Depot or Low's or whatever your local store is.
Speaker 1: And so we were doing that and very productive, you know,
Speaker 1: the powerwasher, the fixing the sprinklers and all that. So
Speaker 1: that was good. And then as far as the radio
Speaker 1: show this past week, it was wonderful to have our
Speaker 1: friend Robbie the Marger fan came by. You might have
Speaker 1: seen some photos.
Speaker 3: Rob I was just gonna say I saw the pictures.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Robbie's a great guy. He lives in Oregon, actually
Speaker 1: not in Seattle, but he's in the Pacific Northwest. He
Speaker 1: loves his Seattle Mariners. He has been a loyal minion
Speaker 1: since you were on the show, Danny, back in the day.
Speaker 1: Robbie's been with the show a long time. And I
Speaker 1: met him him back in twenty nineteen before the pandemic,
Speaker 1: and we were at the Seattle Meet and greed. It
Speaker 1: was was great, and then Robbie was there hanging out
Speaker 1: with us. We had a fine time and he I
Speaker 1: told him, I said, listen, you ever get to La
Speaker 1: and let me know, I'll give you the tour of
Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio. And it only took five years, but
Speaker 1: he showed up this week and he was very excited
Speaker 1: the VIP tour of the mothership, Fox Sports Radio's headquarters
Speaker 1: there and it was great. Dan. I was walking around,
Speaker 1: I was like, I felt like I was a tour
Speaker 1: guide at Universal Studios, like I said, I might. Walking through.
Speaker 1: I'm all right, well over here is where the cockroaches are, right,
Speaker 1: that's right there, there's several cockroaches died right there, and
Speaker 1: then I'm like, this is where the ghost of Casey
Speaker 1: Casem is right over here. This is where he used
Speaker 1: to do his Top forty Countdown show. I'm sick and
Speaker 1: tired of doing it. Coming in on an upbeat song
Speaker 1: and I got to do a death dedication for a
Speaker 1: goddamn dog. I'm singing, you know, do that? Holy so
Speaker 1: Casey case his little booth is there, and pointed out
Speaker 1: to to Robbie where wrong button Bob turned the network
Speaker 1: off the air. The rack room.
Speaker 4: That's the fun fact, fun fact. Can I get the
Speaker 4: Ohio Al sounder?
Speaker 1: Yeah, go ahead, Ohio, I'll give it to me, Ohio Al.
Speaker 4: And you got to add this to your tour ben
Speaker 4: That rack room used to be where the kitchen was
Speaker 4: when it was a Denny's.
Speaker 1: Dummy, I did not know that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that was the kitchen area.
Speaker 1: Okay, Yeah, I try not to go in there. There's
Speaker 1: cameras in now. I don't know where they go, but
Speaker 1: there's cameras in there. But I don't want to hit
Speaker 1: the wrong button. If wrong button Bob hit it, I
Speaker 1: don't want to be wrong button Benny. I don't want that,
Speaker 1: so I don't I don't go in there. I showed
Speaker 1: uh where I show Robbie the old studio, pointed out
Speaker 1: the old studio. He could not believe how far away
Speaker 1: Eddie and the Update people were from the main studio.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I showed him the fountain across the street where Eddie
Speaker 1: stood there like a jack wagon in the fountain. We
Speaker 1: pointed out the Whole Foods about a block away where
Speaker 1: all the celebrities shop, right Danny Big Oh, Yeah.
Speaker 4: Did he see the famous l Toyo Loco where I
Speaker 4: ate chicken with mister t Oh?
Speaker 1: Yes, I don't know. I mean we drove by it,
Speaker 1: so he might have seen it. I pointed out where
Speaker 1: a lot of the homeless there like to do their drugs,
Speaker 1: and that little fire escape on the side of the building.
Speaker 1: When you leave the parking garage.
Speaker 3: There a bunch of hookers and cocaine.
Speaker 1: I pointed out that many a night I have seen
Speaker 1: people in there shooting things into their veins as I've
Speaker 1: been driving around. So it was the VIP to. It
Speaker 1: was great. Robbie seemed to really enjoy it. It was fun.
Speaker 1: We put him on the air for a little bit
Speaker 1: and it was great. I also took a bunch of
Speaker 1: crap this week, Danny, because I was asked by the
Speaker 1: company to sit in with Rob Parker. I need a
Speaker 1: cole shower.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah.
Speaker 4: You came on right after the Covino and Rich show,
Speaker 4: so I heard at least the first half hour of
Speaker 4: you blabbing with Rob.
Speaker 1: Yeah, hanging it out with Rob. And they asked me
Speaker 1: to sit in. And they usually asked me maybe three
Speaker 1: or four times a year, not regularly, rare and appropriate
Speaker 1: and inevitably what happens when I am not on the
Speaker 1: normal post overnight, they gave me the night off and
Speaker 1: I sat in with Rob and it's it was great.
Speaker 3: I mean, Rob was really kissing your ass on the air.
Speaker 1: I don't I don't think enough. But Rob was very nice.
Speaker 1: It was it was fun, and man, is it easier.
Speaker 1: I forgot how easy it is to do a three
Speaker 1: hour show compared to a four hour show. It's like,
Speaker 1: holy crap, this is such an easier world that fourth hour.
Speaker 1: Not that four hours is hard, mind you, but when
Speaker 1: you go from using four hours of airtime to three hours,
Speaker 1: it's like, oh my god, it's a whole different world. Perfect.
Speaker 1: So that was that was kind of cool. I was like,
Speaker 1: we were getting ready for I was getting ready for
Speaker 1: hour four. I was like, the show's over, Like I'm
Speaker 1: ready for another hour. I mean, I don't know what
Speaker 1: is this.
Speaker 4: That's how we feel when we fill in for the
Speaker 4: Dan Patrick Show. We're like a third hour, three hours,
Speaker 4: and in that third hour we're like, man, we should
Speaker 4: be home already.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, you're used to your your routine and
Speaker 1: and but but yeah, I know it was it was fun.
Speaker 1: We had a good time.
Speaker 3: Did you guys actually get into it over any topics?
Speaker 1: No, it was we We didn't really fight too much,
Speaker 1: and usually what we fight about is baseball. There was
Speaker 1: there really wasn't anything juicy in baseball that really really
Speaker 1: got going. We we did debate Russell Wilson. That was
Speaker 1: the one that resonated with the insers who and they
Speaker 1: got pretty upset with me, which is annoying because it's
Speaker 1: it's one of these things that we have to deal
Speaker 1: with in sports radio where you know you're right and
Speaker 1: the people on the other side are just being fanboys
Speaker 1: and they're delusional and they're you know, fan is short
Speaker 1: for fanatic and all that, and like they're they're really
Speaker 1: trying to upsell Russell Wilson. They were given me the
Speaker 1: whole arguments like well, you know, twenty six touchdowns and
Speaker 1: it or someven because my whole point it was that
Speaker 1: this is not an upgrade. If Russell Wilson is indeed
Speaker 1: the starter in Pittsburgh, this is a lateral move. You
Speaker 1: might as well have kept Kenny Pickett. And they were
Speaker 1: getting so upset. They thought this was like the most
Speaker 1: outrageous thing, being a shock jocking. So I knew I
Speaker 1: was right, and I was like, okay, I'll let you
Speaker 1: be an idiot, let you be all emotional and ver
Speaker 1: klempt Oh. Russell Wilson's great. You know you said he
Speaker 1: was good at one point. Great, And I'm thinking of myself.
Speaker 1: He's never ever gotten a single vote for the Most
Speaker 1: Valuable Player Award. Don't you think maybe one of those years,
Speaker 1: if he was great, he would have gotten I don't know,
Speaker 1: one vote for the MVP award. Possibly, Like he has
Speaker 1: as many votes as you listening have, Danny and me,
Speaker 1: all of us, that's it, you know, as many votes
Speaker 1: for the MVP. We have as many as Russell Wilson.
Speaker 1: The mother of all stats, which I was very proud.
Speaker 1: I dug deep in the rabbit hole.
Speaker 3: On this one, Danny.
Speaker 1: So, last season, Russell Wilson in Denver had twenty six
Speaker 1: touchdown passes and eight interceptions, So those numbers look pretty good.
Speaker 1: I was like, well, those are misleading numbers, you know.
Speaker 1: I was pointing out that that's not really an accurate
Speaker 1: reflection of his performance. And it was going through all that,
Speaker 1: and I then stumbled on this mother of all stats,
Speaker 1: which I'm very proud of, very very proud of. So
Speaker 1: with Russell Wilson in Denver last year, the Broncos passing
Speaker 1: offense ranked twenty fourth in the NFL. The Pittsburgh Steelers,
Speaker 1: who mostly had Kenny Pickett, finished twenty fifth in passing offense.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 1: The difference between the Russell Wilson led Broncos and the
Speaker 1: Kenny Pickett led Steelers was two point nine yards per
Speaker 1: game difference between the Broncos and Steelers. So that's within
Speaker 1: the margin everver. So I point this out of and
Speaker 1: what do you think the Steeler fans do?
Speaker 3: Well, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 1: You're just giving numbers, of course, and you give me
Speaker 1: numbers back at me. The twenty six and eight, you
Speaker 1: give me those numbers. Russell Wilson has been sucking for
Speaker 1: at least three years, and I look forward to his
Speaker 1: failure in Pittsburgh. I like Mike Tomlin, but there they'll
Speaker 1: win some games because of their defensive special teams, but
Speaker 1: not because of Russell Wilson. And so we we got.
Speaker 4: Did you celebrate after you made that point? Did you
Speaker 4: grab your junk like Jesse Winker of the Mets?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 1: When he was You know what I did? I dotted
Speaker 1: the eye like the Ohio State marching bat. I I
Speaker 1: doubt that. Yeah, yes, what's he gonna do?
Speaker 3: You did the move and you're like, lateral bitches.
Speaker 1: What's he gonna do if he ends up? Jesse went,
Speaker 1: you're hitting a home run in a playoff game because
Speaker 1: he's You can't get more over the top than what
Speaker 1: he did hitting a home run against the Baltimore Memorials.
Speaker 1: So what's he gonna do if you it's a home
Speaker 1: run in a in a big spot, in a playoff game.
Speaker 3: This was a regular season game.
Speaker 4: I know the Mets are trying to chase that last
Speaker 4: wildcard spot, but he said he blocked out. You're right,
Speaker 4: what's gonna happen if he's on a bigger stage?
Speaker 1: Yeah, good luck on that? Are we have the idiom
Speaker 1: of the the idiom of the week. It's an email
Speaker 1: from our friend Sarah in Minnesota, and Sarah says, hey,
Speaker 1: Ben and Danny, this phrase has bugged me for a
Speaker 1: long time. Push it back, which actually means to push
Speaker 1: it forward by some amount. Why it makes no sense
Speaker 1: to me? Think of another saying turning back the hands
Speaker 1: of time. We all know that means to go back
Speaker 1: in time. Why does push it back mean to go forward?
Speaker 1: She says? Thanks guys. Sarah from Minnesota says Ben. By
Speaker 1: the way, we met you at the mal Or Meet
Speaker 1: and greet in Minnesota last May, and we still wear
Speaker 1: our purple shirts from that event. Well, thank you.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, that's the event where you were kind of
Speaker 4: in a bad mood at first because you had just
Speaker 4: got a speeding ticket.
Speaker 1: Yes, on my way on my way to the event,
Speaker 1: I got pulled over by the Minnesota state trooper. But yes,
Speaker 1: I do remember meeting you, Sarah, and it was great.
Speaker 1: We had a great time. But here's the problem, though, Sarah,
Speaker 1: I went deep into the dark web to try to
Speaker 1: find the origins of push it back, and I failed you.
Speaker 1: I could not find anything. You have stumped me. So
Speaker 1: if anyone listening here, if you listening, has the answer
Speaker 1: to push it back, Like I've I've heard it. That's
Speaker 1: like a cheer if you go to a high school
Speaker 1: football game, push it back, push it back, right, isn't
Speaker 1: that one of the cheers the cheerleaders do.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: It was also a big hit by Salt and Peppa.
Speaker 1: Well, yeah that too, but it was like defense, push
Speaker 1: it back, push back. It sounds like a high school,
Speaker 1: high school thing, so I could I couldn't find that.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 1: The idiom that we are going to use here is
Speaker 1: chip on your shoulder. You ever used that? Hey, this
Speaker 1: guy's got a chip on his shoulder, right, you know
Speaker 1: that guy over? That guy a schmuck, it's got a
Speaker 1: chip on his shoulder.
Speaker 3: Gotta be right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I guess from freed Ola. It's the Freeto Bandito
Speaker 1: came up with it. Actually, no, the term to have
Speaker 1: a chip on your shoulder originated in the eighteenth century
Speaker 1: the British royal dockyards. Now, the way this works, the
Speaker 1: legend goes that way back in the eighteenth century, the
Speaker 1: fellas working on the ship they were called ship rights,
Speaker 1: and the people that employed them through them a solid
Speaker 1: They were permitted to carry chips pieces of wood for
Speaker 1: fuel or building. They could carry some chips home on
Speaker 1: their shoulders, and the meaning first appeared in a play.
Speaker 1: The phrase also reported to be originated the modern version
Speaker 1: from the nineteenth century and the practice for a fight.
Speaker 1: If you wanted to engage in a fight, supposedly you
Speaker 1: carry a chip of wood on your shoulder and you
Speaker 1: dare someone like, hey, Danny, I dare you to knock
Speaker 1: this off my shoulder? I dare you, you know, and
Speaker 1: you know, chip on your shoulder, and then somebody would
Speaker 1: try to knock it off, and then you'd engage in
Speaker 1: a fight. I think the British the British shipyard once
Speaker 1: seems more more viable to me, or more viable. But
Speaker 1: those are the two origin stories for chip on the shoulder.
Speaker 1: I think we'll get out on that. Danny. It is Saturday.
Speaker 1: You got anything going on today? What do you got
Speaker 1: in your world?
Speaker 4: Well, after I finished producing this fine podcast, got to
Speaker 4: sit my big butt down in front of the TV
Speaker 4: and watch Florida State at Georgia Tech.
Speaker 3: No, no, no, no, can you believe it's time for
Speaker 3: college football?
Speaker 4: And then in just what a short week, in a
Speaker 4: few days NFL.
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, we've got college football this weekend. Next weekend,
Speaker 1: college football has the full slate because the NFL is dark.
Speaker 1: And then the week after that it starts on Thursday night,
Speaker 1: Chiefs and Ravens, I believe is the first game. I
Speaker 1: think that's the first game of the NFL season. All right,
Speaker 1: very good. I will be hanging out, schmoozing around, messing
Speaker 1: with my powerwasher, and probably doing something on the griddle.
Speaker 1: But I have a wonderful, wonderful rest of your Saturday,
Speaker 1: And we have another podcast tomorrow. We'll have the mail
Speaker 1: Bag tomorrow's will talk to you then again tomorrow. Have
Speaker 1: a wonderful rest of your day.
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