WEBVTT - The Fifth Hour: Battering Ram 0:00:00.800 --> 0:00:01.560 Kubbooms. 0:00:02.400 --> 0:00:05.480 If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes 0:00:05.519 --> 0:00:09.240 a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants 0:00:09.280 --> 0:00:12.559 of the old republic, a sol fashion of fairness. He 0:00:12.680 --> 0:00:15.600 treats crackheads in the ghetto cutter the same as the 0:00:15.720 --> 0:00:17.560 rich pill poppers in the penthouse. 0:00:18.160 --> 0:00:18.480 Wow. 0:00:18.680 --> 0:00:22.400 The Clearinghouse of Hot takes break free for something special. 0:00:22.760 --> 0:00:30.720 The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now. 0:00:29.040 --> 0:00:34.240 In the air everywhere. The Fifth Hour with Me, Ben 0:00:34.320 --> 0:00:40.120 Mallor and Danny g Radio. Happy Friday to you. It 0:00:40.159 --> 0:00:43.360 is the twenty third day of the month of May 0:00:43.760 --> 0:00:47.640 and the last Friday Pod before we head to Van 0:00:47.720 --> 0:00:50.360 Vancouver for the Malor Meet and Greet. 0:00:50.960 --> 0:00:52.239 Hopefully you'll be able to make it. 0:00:52.240 --> 0:00:55.320 If you're in British Columbia, somewhere in Western Canada or 0:00:56.000 --> 0:00:59.840 in the Pacific Northwest, come out say hello. All the 0:01:00.080 --> 0:01:03.959 details all the information available on the Instagram page Ben 0:01:04.000 --> 0:01:06.880 Maller on Fox the Facebook page Ben Maler Show. The 0:01:06.920 --> 0:01:09.160 Malar Meet and Greet is coming up on Thursday the 0:01:09.240 --> 0:01:12.319 twenty ninth, Unless my flight gets canceled. 0:01:12.360 --> 0:01:13.000 Thursday of the. 0:01:13.000 --> 0:01:16.360 Twenty ninth Malor Meet and Greet in Vancouver, we'll spend 0:01:16.360 --> 0:01:18.480 the weekend there, have a great time. Cannot wait to 0:01:18.560 --> 0:01:20.920 check out your fine city. It is going to be 0:01:21.200 --> 0:01:26.080 a glorious time. Didn't want to mention today is a 0:01:26.160 --> 0:01:32.480 melanancholy day. Is Lucky Penny Day, as in the penny 0:01:33.400 --> 0:01:35.920 from kind of like benny versus the penny and all that. 0:01:36.120 --> 0:01:36.200 Now. 0:01:36.240 --> 0:01:37.760 I wanted to bring this up because the news out 0:01:37.760 --> 0:01:39.840 this week and I think it's been confirmed, but who knows. 0:01:39.880 --> 0:01:42.360 There's been rumors on this for a while. The US 0:01:42.480 --> 0:01:48.520 will stop putting new pennies into circulation by early twenty 0:01:48.600 --> 0:01:53.480 twenty six. You have got to be kiddy me uh 0:01:53.480 --> 0:01:57.600 oh spaghettio. Yeah, Businesses will need to start rounding up 0:01:57.800 --> 0:02:02.080 or down to the nearest five cents. There was a 0:02:02.120 --> 0:02:04.639 statement made by the US Treasury this week. The penny 0:02:04.640 --> 0:02:09.200 currently cost four cents to make, so cutting production is 0:02:09.200 --> 0:02:15.000 set to save a bunch of money, which is appropriate. 0:02:15.120 --> 0:02:19.200 This being Lucky Penny Day, the news would come out 0:02:19.680 --> 0:02:22.480 and we're not sure how the Lucky Penny Day started. 0:02:23.040 --> 0:02:25.600 We do know some fun facts about the penny. It 0:02:25.760 --> 0:02:31.320 started in seven seven fifty seven AD. The very first 0:02:31.360 --> 0:02:36.160 pennies were minted during the reign of OFA and Marcia 0:02:36.680 --> 0:02:41.800 in Anglo Saxon, England, and then in seventeen ninety three 0:02:41.840 --> 0:02:45.079 the first pennies were minted in America. Benjamin Franklin supposedly 0:02:45.080 --> 0:02:49.080 designed the first pennies. Eighteen fifty seven the penny was 0:02:49.120 --> 0:02:54.200 resized in America, and over the last number of years 0:02:54.240 --> 0:02:57.280 it's been pointed out how expensive it is for the 0:02:57.360 --> 0:03:00.400 penny to be made. A couple of years back, there 0:03:00.440 --> 0:03:03.000 was a story that for eighty million dollars worth of pennies, 0:03:03.000 --> 0:03:05.440 it cost one hundred and thirty four million. Gave you 0:03:05.480 --> 0:03:08.920 the new numbers here. A penny currently cost four cents 0:03:08.960 --> 0:03:14.359 to make. So bye bye penny, but not necessarily bye 0:03:14.360 --> 0:03:19.240 bye benny versus the penny. As that iconic TV show 0:03:19.960 --> 0:03:21.520 not quite done yet. 0:03:21.600 --> 0:03:22.600 We'll see what happens. 0:03:22.639 --> 0:03:25.040 It's up to the good folks over there at NBC's 0:03:25.160 --> 0:03:28.760 side whether or not the TV show will have a 0:03:28.840 --> 0:03:34.960 longer lifespan than the actual penny. So stay tuned. Inquiring 0:03:35.120 --> 0:03:38.680 minds would like to know. But on with the show 0:03:38.880 --> 0:03:44.760 we go. On this podcast, we have the surprise cartoon 0:03:44.800 --> 0:03:49.320 mascot Storm and Norman and the phrase. 0:03:49.560 --> 0:03:50.440 Of the work. 0:03:51.240 --> 0:03:55.080 But we'll begin with this so not so very long ago, 0:03:55.680 --> 0:03:59.800 in a kingdom not listing on any map. We went 0:03:59.800 --> 0:04:03.400 to the dogs. Because we are suckers for positive feedback. 0:04:03.480 --> 0:04:07.720 We do this podcast every weekend, and by request, we 0:04:07.760 --> 0:04:13.120 bring you more tales from the Mox, Tales from the Mox, 0:04:13.200 --> 0:04:18.320 the files of the Mox. Moxie my dog. Sarah in Minnesota, 0:04:18.320 --> 0:04:20.520 who's not the normal. I don't think that's the normal 0:04:20.600 --> 0:04:23.479 Sarah that we know, who I met at the Mala 0:04:23.520 --> 0:04:26.920 meet and greet there in Minnesota a couple years ago. 0:04:26.920 --> 0:04:30.599 But Sarah Minnesota, Lisa in Arizona, and some guy named 0:04:30.640 --> 0:04:33.400 Dennis in Ohio, which is. 0:04:33.400 --> 0:04:34.880 Kind of a big state, so is Arizona. 0:04:34.920 --> 0:04:39.080 But Arizona's like pretty much here in Phoenix, Tucson or Flagstaff, right, 0:04:39.120 --> 0:04:42.800 it's pretty much it the greater Phoenix area of flag Staff, Tuson, Ohio. 0:04:43.360 --> 0:04:45.039 You could be where. You could be in Cleveland, you 0:04:45.040 --> 0:04:45.440 could be. 0:04:45.440 --> 0:04:48.400 In Cincinnati, Columbus. You know, there's a few places you 0:04:48.400 --> 0:04:51.080 could be in Ohio. Anyway, all of them reached out 0:04:51.800 --> 0:04:55.279 and said they enjoyed these stories last week about what 0:04:55.480 --> 0:04:58.719 was really one story about Mox. And so here we 0:04:58.760 --> 0:05:04.159 are again and I will regale you with another story 0:05:04.600 --> 0:05:06.480 because some of you like this, and even if it's 0:05:06.480 --> 0:05:09.080 only for Sarah, Lisa and Dennis and that's it, we'll 0:05:09.120 --> 0:05:13.480 do it for them. The glamours, the glamours of an 0:05:13.520 --> 0:05:17.880 exciting rock star life doing overnight talk radio, being a 0:05:17.880 --> 0:05:18.880 professional gas back. 0:05:18.960 --> 0:05:22.480 This job is not that easy. This job is not 0:05:24.160 --> 0:05:26.480 so we just take it one show at a time. Right. 0:05:26.520 --> 0:05:28.239 We go out there, we do each hour. 0:05:28.360 --> 0:05:31.000 We have sixty minutes of content and we just try 0:05:31.000 --> 0:05:31.719 to do good radio. 0:05:31.880 --> 0:05:32.040 Right. 0:05:32.400 --> 0:05:37.159 There's no easy radio in overnight talk radio, and you 0:05:37.360 --> 0:05:42.159 cannot afford to look past any individual segment. 0:05:42.880 --> 0:05:44.800 I think I got all the cliches, right, I think 0:05:44.839 --> 0:05:47.080 I did. I get it, I got most of them. 0:05:48.120 --> 0:05:52.240 So nonetheless, getting ready for the show, as I imagine 0:05:52.240 --> 0:05:55.520 you are, we are all wired the same way. 0:05:55.560 --> 0:05:56.400 We're hardwired. 0:05:56.680 --> 0:06:00.640 We have routine, and who doesn't like I like poutine 0:06:00.680 --> 0:06:02.720 and I like routine. And next week we'll be in 0:06:02.760 --> 0:06:05.720 Canada for the Malor Meet and Greet. We're looking forward 0:06:05.760 --> 0:06:07.000 to that. It can be a lot of fun. 0:06:07.040 --> 0:06:08.200 Hopefully I'll be able to meet you. 0:06:08.760 --> 0:06:11.680 If you're in the Vancouver area or British Columbia, or 0:06:11.880 --> 0:06:14.400 if you want to drive over from another part in Canada, 0:06:14.960 --> 0:06:17.840 come say hello and very excited to meet you. 0:06:17.880 --> 0:06:19.440 And also if you're in the Pacific Northwest. 0:06:20.279 --> 0:06:22.960 Details on a previous edition of this podcast, but also 0:06:23.000 --> 0:06:28.640 available on my Facebook page and the Instagram page. You 0:06:28.680 --> 0:06:32.719 can find all of that information there. The Instagram page 0:06:32.720 --> 0:06:36.320 Ben Mahler on Fox, the Facebook page Ben malor Show, 0:06:36.960 --> 0:06:39.880 two different pages, two different names, and all that. So 0:06:39.960 --> 0:06:42.839 get back to the story, please, So the Glamour's Life 0:06:42.880 --> 0:06:46.599 of overnight talk radio doing my thing, creature of habit, 0:06:47.480 --> 0:06:49.680 and I have my routine, which is not poutine. It's 0:06:49.800 --> 0:06:53.680 endlessly looking for things that get my blood flowing. Now 0:06:53.760 --> 0:06:57.080 years ago on this podcast, we had one of the 0:06:57.320 --> 0:07:01.960 iconic broadcasters of all time, a Hall of Fame Brent Mussburger. 0:07:02.480 --> 0:07:08.800 You're looking alive Brent Musburger, who gave some advice, not 0:07:09.040 --> 0:07:11.040 on this podcast, but he gives some advice and I 0:07:11.080 --> 0:07:13.840 read it somewhere along the way. He said, the key 0:07:13.920 --> 0:07:15.680 to life is to stay interested. 0:07:15.720 --> 0:07:16.400 Well, it's also the. 0:07:16.440 --> 0:07:20.200 Key if you have to do four monologues, which are 0:07:20.240 --> 0:07:23.480 each about fifteen minutes, sometimes longer, sometimes less. But if 0:07:23.520 --> 0:07:26.520 you have to do those monologues, you got to stay interested. 0:07:26.680 --> 0:07:29.040 You can't really fake it till you'll make it, and 0:07:29.160 --> 0:07:30.640 you can't fake it till you make it, and all 0:07:30.720 --> 0:07:34.480 that stuff, and so passing the test of time and 0:07:34.520 --> 0:07:37.040 doing this for a long time my goal every year. 0:07:37.480 --> 0:07:39.880 The hardest part of the show, and I've talked about 0:07:39.880 --> 0:07:42.760 this to you in the past. To me, the hardest 0:07:42.760 --> 0:07:48.720 part of the show is getting the show ready. It's practice, 0:07:49.320 --> 0:07:51.280 not a game. We in here talking about practice, if 0:07:51.320 --> 0:07:55.080 you will. And so the way I go about it 0:07:55.240 --> 0:07:58.600 my ingredients that I get to make the show. And 0:07:58.960 --> 0:08:00.960 again I've discussed this, but there's new people listening, and 0:08:01.000 --> 0:08:04.880 if not, we're totally porked. So the way I approached this, 0:08:05.400 --> 0:08:09.120 if you were to drop into the Malor mansion, most days, 0:08:09.320 --> 0:08:11.160 not not all days, there's some days are different. But 0:08:11.200 --> 0:08:16.920 most days you'll find me sitting casually on the sofa, 0:08:17.800 --> 0:08:23.040 laptop open seventeen to twenty five web pages open, scanning 0:08:23.240 --> 0:08:27.960 RSS feeds, and futzing around on some of the dark 0:08:28.040 --> 0:08:32.960 corners of the dark web. As I am surfing around 0:08:33.040 --> 0:08:35.080 the same way I did for many many years at 0:08:35.440 --> 0:08:38.920 my website. I don't do that anymore, but I have 0:08:39.000 --> 0:08:42.120 the same tools that I used back then. I just 0:08:42.160 --> 0:08:44.040 do it for the radio show to try to find 0:08:44.080 --> 0:08:48.160 things that interest me, because, as Musburger said, stay interesting. 0:08:48.200 --> 0:08:50.600 You can't just do monologues and you don't care. 0:08:51.679 --> 0:08:57.320 And that becomes problematic because some days there's not a 0:08:57.320 --> 0:09:03.720 lot going on. Now, while I am readily working away 0:09:03.880 --> 0:09:07.120 with my laptop, my right hand, as I like to say, 0:09:07.160 --> 0:09:10.440 is getting a workout back and forth. I got usually 0:09:10.480 --> 0:09:12.640 two or three games in my rotation. This time of 0:09:12.679 --> 0:09:14.920 the year. It's a lot of baseball and then the 0:09:14.920 --> 0:09:18.079 basketball game. So I'll go to baseball one basketball. Don't 0:09:18.120 --> 0:09:21.120 tell anyone, and certainly don't tell Eddie, my old buddy, 0:09:21.200 --> 0:09:21.840 Eddie Garcia. 0:09:21.880 --> 0:09:24.160 But occasionally I will mix a hockey game in. 0:09:24.720 --> 0:09:27.160 We don't talk about hockey, but occasionally I'll mix a 0:09:27.200 --> 0:09:30.079 hockey game in if the baseball is not that good. 0:09:30.160 --> 0:09:32.600 In the basketball game is a blowout. So keep in mind, 0:09:32.640 --> 0:09:37.600 this is a story about mox my dog, Moxie erf erf. 0:09:39.360 --> 0:09:43.240 While this is going on, my partner in crime. My 0:09:43.280 --> 0:09:46.000 wife's at work, she's doing her thing, and so Moxie 0:09:46.080 --> 0:09:51.920 is with me, our beloved English bulldog. And Moxie is wonderful. 0:09:52.160 --> 0:09:56.920 She's also a fat bulldog. She's so fat. In fact, 0:09:56.960 --> 0:09:59.880 she's not even fat She's strong, but she's so big 0:10:00.040 --> 0:10:02.160 she cannot fit through the doggy door that we put in, 0:10:02.200 --> 0:10:05.120 which was designed for my previous dog, the late Great Bella, 0:10:05.760 --> 0:10:08.640 and Bella was a wonderful dog also, so Bella passed 0:10:08.679 --> 0:10:11.720 away we got Moxie. And Bella is a very little dog. 0:10:12.520 --> 0:10:17.920 Moxie gigantic. Right, Moxie is the round mound of dog town. 0:10:18.679 --> 0:10:21.800 And so instead of just having her go out the 0:10:21.800 --> 0:10:25.680 doggy door, I have to let her get busy on 0:10:25.880 --> 0:10:27.880 the ones and the twos, right, the ones and the 0:10:27.920 --> 0:10:31.160 twos every so often so she can go the ones. 0:10:31.600 --> 0:10:34.920 And it is so this time of the year, it's May. 0:10:35.000 --> 0:10:37.920 The weather's nice these days, and so I made an 0:10:38.120 --> 0:10:42.160 editorial decision that I would take advantage of the great 0:10:42.240 --> 0:10:45.560 weather and the nice air, good temperature where we do 0:10:45.640 --> 0:10:48.640 the show from. And so I decided to leave the 0:10:48.720 --> 0:10:51.839 door open. And then I just had the screen. So 0:10:51.880 --> 0:10:54.160 I had the screen door which was closed, but the 0:10:54.320 --> 0:10:57.920 actual door was open. So I let the air flow in. 0:10:59.080 --> 0:11:02.640 And I'm on my life and I'm neck deep trying 0:11:02.679 --> 0:11:04.960 to find crap that I think is somewhat interesting that 0:11:05.000 --> 0:11:06.960 you might be interested in, right, And it's like I 0:11:07.000 --> 0:11:09.160 have to be interested. You have to be interested, otherwise 0:11:09.160 --> 0:11:14.520 we're totally screwed. So why is this night different from 0:11:14.559 --> 0:11:16.880 all other nights? So I'm throwing down bullet points as 0:11:16.920 --> 0:11:19.760 I like to do for the Malor monologues. I am 0:11:19.880 --> 0:11:22.679 minding my own business. I'm in my own world. I 0:11:22.679 --> 0:11:25.480 got the TV going, I'm watching the game. There was 0:11:25.520 --> 0:11:28.839 a Phillies Rockies game. That's the game I was watching. No, 0:11:28.920 --> 0:11:31.760 I'm a loser watching a Phillies Rockies game. So I'm 0:11:31.800 --> 0:11:38.440 watching that and I hear this sound and it sounded 0:11:38.559 --> 0:11:42.960 like something was gearing up, and I knew Moxy was outside, 0:11:42.960 --> 0:11:44.640 but I didn't really think much about it. I wonder 0:11:44.679 --> 0:11:47.840 what that is, and then I thought, well, maybe there 0:11:47.880 --> 0:11:50.600 was some kind of rodent that came in the yard 0:11:50.640 --> 0:11:53.200 there behind the Malor mansion, and Mox was just going 0:11:53.280 --> 0:11:54.960 to attack the rodent and that would be that. 0:11:56.240 --> 0:11:58.720 So I'm focused, but I hear. 0:11:58.559 --> 0:12:00.800 This kind of in the background, and then I hear 0:12:00.840 --> 0:12:03.720 a couple of steps, and then I hear nothing, and 0:12:03.760 --> 0:12:05.120 then okay, that's probably it. 0:12:05.200 --> 0:12:05.840 That's just over. 0:12:06.160 --> 0:12:09.280 And again I'm just doing my thing, and then again 0:12:09.640 --> 0:12:12.200 I hear the same thing, like i'd something gearing up 0:12:12.240 --> 0:12:14.920 to attack like maybe Moxie was getting to attack, getting 0:12:14.920 --> 0:12:17.880 ready to attack something. It's got kind of heavy breathings, 0:12:18.040 --> 0:12:21.720 the sighing's going on, and I'm like, okay, well, you 0:12:21.760 --> 0:12:24.200 know again, I'm not just kind of my peripheral hearing. 0:12:24.240 --> 0:12:27.760 I'm not really focused on that. And I'm putting the 0:12:27.800 --> 0:12:31.360 bullets together for the monologue and just doing my thing, 0:12:31.440 --> 0:12:35.960 and all of a sudden, like a police battering ram. 0:12:37.880 --> 0:12:44.800 Next thing I know, I'm in a movie and ca boom, 0:12:45.000 --> 0:12:52.440 car boom. My friend who I let outside on the 0:12:52.559 --> 0:12:56.000 chance that she would go ones and twos, My friend Moxy. 0:12:57.280 --> 0:13:01.319 Hand to god, I'm not making this up for the podcast, 0:13:01.760 --> 0:13:10.160 crashed through the screen, breaking the screen door like a 0:13:10.280 --> 0:13:14.240 picture shaped cartoon mascot known as the kool Aid Man. 0:13:14.760 --> 0:13:17.599 The only thing she didn't do was shout oh yeah 0:13:17.800 --> 0:13:20.920 as she came through. But I'm telling you, she bulldozed 0:13:20.960 --> 0:13:23.880 her way into the house like a freaking wrecking ball. 0:13:25.120 --> 0:13:26.600 And my favorite part. 0:13:26.480 --> 0:13:30.080 Of it is not only that, because it's ridiculous that 0:13:30.200 --> 0:13:33.240 she just was so desperate to get back in that 0:13:33.320 --> 0:13:37.160 she just slammed through the freaking screen, But then she 0:13:37.440 --> 0:13:39.320 took one look at me. She was very proud of 0:13:39.320 --> 0:13:44.040 herself like a peacock with his feathers out. She took 0:13:44.040 --> 0:13:45.800 a look at me, kind of gave me the eye, 0:13:46.440 --> 0:13:49.000 and then she was so exhausted because she's out of shape, 0:13:49.320 --> 0:13:55.240 she laid down for a nap right in front of me, like, hey, sucker, Yeah, 0:13:55.280 --> 0:13:57.240 you're not going to keep me out of here now, sucker. 0:13:58.160 --> 0:13:59.320 It was. It was hilarious. 0:13:59.640 --> 0:13:59.960 Anyway. 0:14:00.120 --> 0:14:03.559 That is my story of the week, the one and 0:14:03.679 --> 0:14:05.920 only mocks the Tales from the mox. 0:14:06.679 --> 0:14:10.760 If you will now turning the page on that I 0:14:10.960 --> 0:14:15.920 did want to mention and this is old guy podcast. 0:14:16.000 --> 0:14:18.120 This is what I'm about to do is old guy podcast. 0:14:19.120 --> 0:14:20.760 I didn't mention this on the radio, so I think 0:14:20.760 --> 0:14:23.920 I might have, in passing brought it up at. 0:14:23.880 --> 0:14:24.680 One point or another. 0:14:24.720 --> 0:14:27.440 But I wanted to spend a few good minutes with 0:14:27.560 --> 0:14:30.080 a tip of the headphones, a tip of the microphone 0:14:30.560 --> 0:14:36.000 to someone in my youth that I watched a lot 0:14:36.960 --> 0:14:39.960 and enjoyed the art that they provided. 0:14:40.720 --> 0:14:44.040 And they left this mortal coil this week. And it's 0:14:44.080 --> 0:14:46.800 not Jim Ursay, although he passed away. 0:14:48.160 --> 0:14:51.120 The story here is about a gentleman named George Went, 0:14:52.440 --> 0:14:56.760 a beloved member of the Hollywood community who for me 0:14:56.840 --> 0:14:59.040 as a kid, one of my favorite shows to watch 0:14:59.400 --> 0:15:00.760 was the calm Cheers. 0:15:00.800 --> 0:15:02.640 And I grew up in an era we didn't have 0:15:03.640 --> 0:15:05.440 the little social media. 0:15:05.120 --> 0:15:07.400 And all that, so in order to get entertainment, we 0:15:07.480 --> 0:15:09.520 watched television. And when I was a little kid, we 0:15:09.600 --> 0:15:13.000 only had like eight channels or something like that before 0:15:13.040 --> 0:15:18.840 cable really took off and on and b see, Cheers 0:15:19.080 --> 0:15:22.360 was a very important show. We watched it every week. 0:15:22.440 --> 0:15:25.640 Everyone talked about Cheers and all that. My parents liked it. 0:15:25.680 --> 0:15:29.440 We all watched it and George Went was the character 0:15:29.520 --> 0:15:32.000 known as Norm Peterson. If you didn't watch. 0:15:31.760 --> 0:15:33.200 The show and you don't know what the hell it is, 0:15:33.240 --> 0:15:34.120 doesn't mean anything to. 0:15:34.080 --> 0:15:36.480 You, But to me, it was kind of a cool 0:15:36.520 --> 0:15:39.400 deal because he was a fat guy, and I was 0:15:39.440 --> 0:15:41.320 a big kid growing up. 0:15:41.360 --> 0:15:42.680 I was, hey, this guy's on TV. 0:15:42.720 --> 0:15:45.120 You looks kind of overweight, a little disheveled every day, 0:15:46.440 --> 0:15:49.440 and so I fell out a rabbit hole. When someone 0:15:50.040 --> 0:15:53.040 passes away, if I don't know them, but I know 0:15:53.280 --> 0:15:56.680 of them, I try to soak in as much knowledge 0:15:56.680 --> 0:15:58.960 because the further you get away from the person dying, 0:15:59.000 --> 0:16:01.120 the less stuff that's out there, and it's fresh and 0:16:01.160 --> 0:16:04.400 you want to learn these things, and so I started 0:16:04.840 --> 0:16:06.600 going down a rabbit hole, and I wanted to share 0:16:06.640 --> 0:16:08.280 some of the things that I found with you from 0:16:08.400 --> 0:16:10.640 my sojourn down. 0:16:10.480 --> 0:16:11.240 The rabbit hole. 0:16:12.640 --> 0:16:16.000 Is it true that the iconic actor George went that 0:16:16.080 --> 0:16:21.920 his character Noorn Peterson was initially intended to have just 0:16:22.000 --> 0:16:26.440 a single line in the pilot for the show. 0:16:27.800 --> 0:16:33.160 However, upon further review, upon further. 0:16:32.960 --> 0:16:35.840 Review, after the producers and the audience, they did the 0:16:35.880 --> 0:16:39.400 testing and all that stuff, they determined that wait a minute, 0:16:39.440 --> 0:16:42.200 this is like the everyman like, this is the relatable guy, 0:16:42.880 --> 0:16:45.640 and George Wentz character instead of having just a single 0:16:45.680 --> 0:16:49.720 line in the pilot episode and that's it, he became 0:16:51.080 --> 0:16:54.480 central figures in an ensemble cast, but appeared in two 0:16:54.520 --> 0:16:57.000 hundred and seventy five all two hundred and seventy five 0:16:57.000 --> 0:17:01.280 episodes of that that show. There's There's a gentleman we 0:17:01.360 --> 0:17:04.879 had on this podcast a while back who's a friend 0:17:04.880 --> 0:17:07.760 of mine. We did some radio stuff together back in 0:17:07.800 --> 0:17:09.520 the day, and he was one of the writers on 0:17:09.600 --> 0:17:15.159 Cheers and and has had some great stories to tell me. 0:17:15.640 --> 0:17:18.639 I don't think it was here, but about working on 0:17:18.680 --> 0:17:20.800 that show and some of the things that happened, and 0:17:21.160 --> 0:17:24.160 it was great, and George Went was a decorated actor. 0:17:24.200 --> 0:17:31.560 He won six consecutive Primetime Emmy nominations for Outstanding Supporting 0:17:31.600 --> 0:17:36.679 Actor because of because of Cheers, and they even tossed 0:17:36.720 --> 0:17:40.280 his real life wife on the show. His real life 0:17:40.320 --> 0:17:47.359 wife was the voice of Norm's wife, never seen on camera, 0:17:48.200 --> 0:17:51.879 never seen on camera, but was was mentioned, right, It 0:17:52.040 --> 0:17:57.920 was mentioned on a a semi regular regular basis, right, 0:17:58.320 --> 0:18:03.400 And so there was that. Now you had also the 0:18:03.520 --> 0:18:11.600 academic part of George Went. He attended Notre Dame right 0:18:12.040 --> 0:18:16.199 junior year Notre Dame. His GPA was very relatable. It 0:18:16.359 --> 0:18:22.560 was zero point zero zero was his GPA, and yeah, 0:18:22.680 --> 0:18:26.440 in that wild Yeah. So he transferred to a school 0:18:26.480 --> 0:18:34.280 in can City, Can City, where he completed a degree 0:18:34.280 --> 0:18:34.960 in economics. 0:18:35.000 --> 0:18:36.080 So there's some ties there. 0:18:36.080 --> 0:18:39.160 And of course we do some fun stuff in Kansas 0:18:39.160 --> 0:18:44.920 City as well, and he was like acting on stage 0:18:45.000 --> 0:18:46.800 and all that stuff. He did a bunch of animation 0:18:47.920 --> 0:18:52.480 George Went. He did animated versions of Norm Peterson on 0:18:52.560 --> 0:18:55.440 The Simpsons and Family Guy and all that stuff. So, 0:18:56.600 --> 0:18:59.119 and there's also clearly a sports tie, as he was 0:18:59.160 --> 0:19:02.280 on Saturday Night Live and one of the great characters 0:19:03.080 --> 0:19:05.560 in the history of Saturday Night Live. George Went was 0:19:05.600 --> 0:19:11.080 a lifelong fan of Dump Bears, the Chicago Bears and 0:19:11.160 --> 0:19:16.439 had a passion for Chicago sports and that was a 0:19:16.560 --> 0:19:17.000 part of. 0:19:16.960 --> 0:19:18.240 His personality and all that. 0:19:18.440 --> 0:19:23.240 And the most famous character outside of Norm Peterson was 0:19:23.480 --> 0:19:25.439 in the early nineties. 0:19:25.240 --> 0:19:27.520 On Saturday Night Live. 0:19:28.480 --> 0:19:35.080 It was George Went sitting around as the original super 0:19:35.119 --> 0:19:39.359 fan sketch on Saturday Night Live in nineteen ninety one 0:19:39.640 --> 0:19:44.640 and just a group of stereotypical sausage eating beer drinking 0:19:45.400 --> 0:19:51.960 Bears fans obsessing over Dump Bears and the coach Mike Ditka, 0:19:53.000 --> 0:19:57.879 and he played this character, Bob Swirsky, and it was 0:19:58.200 --> 0:20:00.399 it was outsetting in fact, that bit. It was so 0:20:00.840 --> 0:20:04.880 amazing that it was supposed to be made into a movie, 0:20:05.880 --> 0:20:08.359 and as I remember hearing the story, there was something 0:20:08.359 --> 0:20:10.000 that happened that screwed that up. 0:20:09.880 --> 0:20:13.439 But it was going to be in the movie. 0:20:12.640 --> 0:20:17.719 And didn't quite didn't quite work out. So anyway, he 0:20:17.760 --> 0:20:20.440 was a fan of the Cubs and all the Chicago teams. 0:20:20.480 --> 0:20:25.159 In fact, he did celebrate at Wrigley Field as saying 0:20:25.240 --> 0:20:27.919 them take me out to the ball game because of 0:20:28.240 --> 0:20:30.720 Harry Carey and all that he was a big part 0:20:30.720 --> 0:20:36.040 of Chicago sports. So rest in peace. Rest in peace 0:20:36.240 --> 0:20:39.360 to the late great George went I know him as 0:20:39.480 --> 0:20:45.000 Norm Peterson, the Great Norm Peterson. All right, time now 0:20:45.080 --> 0:20:50.360 for the phrase of the week, the phrase of the week. 0:20:51.240 --> 0:20:53.160 And here's the phrase of the week. 0:20:54.040 --> 0:20:56.640 The phrase of the week is to call a spade 0:20:56.840 --> 0:21:01.800 a spade. Yes, the expression to call a spade a spade. 0:21:01.800 --> 0:21:06.119 Now that means to speak plainly and directly about something, 0:21:06.440 --> 0:21:10.600 even if it's unpleasant and impolite. We've heard this phrase. 0:21:10.640 --> 0:21:13.520 I use the phrase, let's call a spade a spade. 0:21:14.160 --> 0:21:18.640 So the phrase actually comes from ancient Greece. It's an 0:21:18.720 --> 0:21:24.960 expression to call a fig a fig was the original phrase, 0:21:25.160 --> 0:21:27.800 and it comes from a Greek philosopher there in the 0:21:27.840 --> 0:21:33.240 early sixteenth century of the phrase was translated and to 0:21:33.320 --> 0:21:37.439 call a ho a hoe, as in a shovel, the 0:21:37.640 --> 0:21:43.560 English version which was translated in fifteen forty two, where 0:21:43.880 --> 0:21:48.479 hoe was translated to spade, because that was a common 0:21:48.600 --> 0:21:53.359 digging tool for the English. So you have this all 0:21:53.440 --> 0:21:56.639 kind of moving around and all that stuff. And so 0:21:57.320 --> 0:22:02.080 to call a spade a spade has. 0:22:01.920 --> 0:22:03.600 Its roots in ancient Greece. 0:22:04.320 --> 0:22:09.040 It passed through Latin and it became a popular phrase 0:22:09.200 --> 0:22:14.600 in the fifteen hundreds, and it has always been about 0:22:14.800 --> 0:22:15.680 keeping it real. 0:22:15.720 --> 0:22:15.880 Man. 0:22:15.920 --> 0:22:18.040 We got to keep it real, is what we gotta do. 0:22:18.080 --> 0:22:22.280 We gotta keep it real. So there the phrase of 0:22:22.320 --> 0:22:27.560 the week, to call a spade a spade. And now 0:22:27.680 --> 0:22:33.480 time for some foody fun. That's right, foody fun, because 0:22:33.480 --> 0:22:37.159 we all have to eat, the one common denominator that 0:22:37.240 --> 0:22:40.640 we all have unless we're not around, we have to eat. 0:22:41.720 --> 0:22:46.399 We have to have to eat, otherwise we're in trouble. 0:22:46.840 --> 0:22:48.159 Some of the items I saw this week that I 0:22:48.160 --> 0:22:49.879 thought we're interesting that it would like to share with you. 0:22:50.920 --> 0:22:54.520 If you are in a region of the company that 0:22:54.600 --> 0:22:58.000 has Jack in the Box, what's in the box? Jack 0:22:58.119 --> 0:23:01.960 in the Box free the onion rings with a one 0:23:02.040 --> 0:23:05.399 dollar purchase. So if you're a frugal connoisseur of food, 0:23:05.920 --> 0:23:08.360 of course, all this crap is on the app. If 0:23:08.359 --> 0:23:10.000 you're a fan of Windy's, we know we have the 0:23:10.040 --> 0:23:13.160 Windy's guy in Minnesota who's a big fan of the show. 0:23:13.880 --> 0:23:19.760 Windy's planning their fast food expansion into Poland. Because if 0:23:19.760 --> 0:23:22.200 there's one thing the people of Poland need that would 0:23:22.200 --> 0:23:26.760 make their life complete, it's fried chicken sandwiches, square burgers. 0:23:27.080 --> 0:23:28.120 What more could you need? 0:23:28.440 --> 0:23:33.439 But they're head into Poland Dominoes has served up for 0:23:33.480 --> 0:23:38.080 a limited time. This is in Australia, a meat pie 0:23:38.600 --> 0:23:39.720 crust pizza. 0:23:40.840 --> 0:23:41.199