Speaker 1: Cutbooms.
Speaker 2: If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes
Speaker 2: a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants
Speaker 2: of the old Republic, a soul fashion of fairness. He
Speaker 2: treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the
Speaker 2: rich pill poppers in the penthouse.
Speaker 1: Wow.
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Speaker 2: The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now.
Speaker 1: In the air everywhere The Fifth Hour with Me, Ben
Speaker 1: Maller and Danny g Radio A Happy Saturday to you.
Speaker 1: It is the tenth day of May. As we continue
Speaker 1: on marching on, day after day, hour after hour, even
Speaker 1: on the weekends with the Fifth Hour Podcast. And we
Speaker 1: celebrate now's Mother's Day weekend, which is like a big deal, right,
Speaker 1: which is a good way to buy cards and flowers
Speaker 1: and stuff like that to spoil them mom. But it
Speaker 1: is also today's National Mini Golf Day. And I have
Speaker 1: not played at Mintea Golf in some time. I would
Speaker 1: like to point out, though, Nanny, that I fell down
Speaker 1: a rabbit hole. I was like, why do we need
Speaker 1: a National Mini Golf Day? And so then I fell
Speaker 1: down this rabbit hole and I was blown away. The
Speaker 1: origins of miniature golf. Did you know that miniature golf
Speaker 1: is a rogue rebellion sport?
Speaker 2: What could it be?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Was it started by Al Davis.
Speaker 1: H Well kind of sots, let's go back in the
Speaker 1: hot top time masion. This is wild. I thought I
Speaker 1: was being punked when I started going down this rabbit hole,
Speaker 1: because like miniature golf, you know, I think of people
Speaker 1: like I'm in Florida or South Carolina or North Carolina,
Speaker 1: vacation just golfing, you know, their kids or whatever. But
Speaker 1: it turns out that in the eighteen hundreds, in eighteen
Speaker 1: sixty seven, to be exact, in polite society, these social
Speaker 1: norms did not allow the ladies to go out there
Speaker 1: and golf. So, in an act of rebellion against the
Speaker 1: society that would not allow the women to get out
Speaker 1: there and look like idiots on the golf course like
Speaker 1: the men, the Ladies Putting Club of Saint Andrew's was founded,
Speaker 1: and it was essentially the origin of miniature golf. The
Speaker 1: beginning stages of that was in eighteen sixty seven. It
Speaker 1: was not though, for another fifty years or so till
Speaker 1: like the early nineteen one hundreds nineteen and sixteen. I
Speaker 1: think it was where the first standardized minister golf course
Speaker 1: was created. That was in Pinehurst, North Carolina. And if
Speaker 1: I'm not mistaken, I believe the miniature golf capital of
Speaker 1: the world is in Myrtle Beach.
Speaker 3: Yes, you've talked about it before because you drove through there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we drove through there when my father in law
Speaker 1: lives part of the year in North Carolina. So we
Speaker 1: drove through there and it was it was insane, how
Speaker 1: many minutes like this street after street of nothing but
Speaker 1: ministure golf courses. Now the big breakthrough moment, as I
Speaker 1: give you the full, all inclusive history of ministure golf,
Speaker 1: there were two things that changed miniature golf and really
Speaker 1: took it took off. In nineteen twenty two they invented
Speaker 1: essentially artificial turf, the fake green carpet turf whatever, So
Speaker 1: that was a big moment. And then in the nineteen
Speaker 1: thirties they created obstacles like windmills and castles and crap
Speaker 1: like that, and then after that, forget about it. So
Speaker 1: that's all the fun facts I have on miniasterure golf, Danny,
Speaker 1: I have nothing other other than that.
Speaker 3: I think I think that we're all way too smart
Speaker 3: about miniature golf now.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, when's the last time you went miniature golfing.
Speaker 1: It's been a good decade. Yeah, there is a miniature
Speaker 1: golf course. It's still there. I'm not sure if it
Speaker 1: is just down the street from the Fox Sports radio studios,
Speaker 1: right off the one oh one if you're coming from.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's still there with the batting pages.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I have been to that one a
Speaker 1: few times back many many years ago. We used to
Speaker 1: go futs around. I think they filmed some movies there too.
Speaker 1: I believe some famous movies were filmed that that miniature
Speaker 1: golf course. So or the batting cages, all the arcade
Speaker 1: and whatnot. On this pot, we've got the chop House,
Speaker 1: Javier Ant Attack, and the Word of the Winnen, all
Speaker 1: of that, all of that content coming up here throughout.
Speaker 1: Not too And I was watching some of the NBA
Speaker 1: last night, Danny, not not too And there was another dud,
Speaker 1: the Cleveland, Indiana game. Not much, not much of a game.
Speaker 1: And Tyrese Haliburton, you're talking about coming crashing back down
Speaker 1: to earth. Tyrese Haliburton, who had a couple of big
Speaker 1: shots in Cleveland for the Pacer and he you talk
Speaker 1: about sticking up the place two of eight. He had
Speaker 1: four points in the game and three turnovers.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he pulled a James Harden.
Speaker 1: Well, some would say, well, I can't. I'm not going
Speaker 1: to go there. I'll leave it alone. Yeah. You see,
Speaker 1: you're trying to pick a fight.
Speaker 3: I'm not.
Speaker 1: You're trying to pick a fight. I know what you're doing.
Speaker 1: You're trying to pick a fight, and I'm not going
Speaker 1: to engage.
Speaker 3: I just want to know why your promo, your anti
Speaker 3: Laker playoff promo ran one hundred and seventy five times
Speaker 3: on the network, and your Clipper promo ran exactly zero times.
Speaker 1: Well, listen, if you don't listen, I did multiple monologues
Speaker 1: about the Clippers and their downfall, and I went minute
Speaker 1: by minute, and if you choose not to listen, But
Speaker 1: you see, you.
Speaker 3: Folks, it wasn't It wasn't that I didn't listen. I
Speaker 3: did hear that show, and I heard you call them.
Speaker 3: Let's see, how did you phrase it gutless? Did you
Speaker 3: use that word? Yeah, you said it was a gutless
Speaker 3: game seven performance up. They didn't try Yeah, and you said,
Speaker 3: you said you tuned away because you said if they
Speaker 3: didn't try, then you weren't gonna.
Speaker 1: That is correct. But the moment I tuned out was
Speaker 1: when Russell Westbrook was shooting a foul shot and he
Speaker 1: missed it, and there were three Clipper players that stood
Speaker 1: there while Westbrook sashayed his way through the lane hustling
Speaker 1: to get the rebound, while they were sitting there holding
Speaker 1: their Johnson, the Clipper players. So I said, hey, listen,
Speaker 1: I don't need to see this like it's you know,
Speaker 1: it's ridiculous.
Speaker 3: Now, you know what's coming up in a couple hours
Speaker 3: here the Madison Square Garden crowd is gonna be going bananas.
Speaker 1: Yeah. This afternoon game today, right is early start at
Speaker 1: the garden, the mecca.
Speaker 3: Yeah, where the cheapest nosebleed seat is seven hundred and
Speaker 3: twenty one dollars.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm good. I can I can sit and watch
Speaker 1: on my TV, and I'm fine. I don't need There's
Speaker 1: a lot of people in New York that have ridoculous
Speaker 1: amounts of money because of obviously Wall Street and all that,
Speaker 1: So knock yourself out, good luck. I saw one one
Speaker 1: of the more expensive I think was the most expensive.
Speaker 1: You want to sit near all the celebrities on celebrity Row.
Speaker 1: It's like two tickets for one hundred thousand or something
Speaker 1: like that. Fifty grand get to sit on celebrity Row.
Speaker 3: A game, by the way, a game that the Celtics
Speaker 3: have to have, well.
Speaker 1: You would assume they have to have the game, but
Speaker 1: you would also have assumed they had to have game
Speaker 1: number two and they lost that. So yeah, very very true.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I did enjoy pat Riley yesterday, who
Speaker 1: says he has no plans to retire. Obviously he was
Speaker 1: going to retire, he wouldn't say that, and he's you know,
Speaker 1: he talked about blowing up the roster and all that stuff,
Speaker 1: and he's not going to apologize to Jimmy Butler. Riley.
Speaker 1: When you get to a certain age and listen, Riley's old.
Speaker 1: He's eighty. I think he's eighty years old or something
Speaker 1: like that. And he's old. But people, well they just
Speaker 1: try to push you away when you get to a
Speaker 1: certain age. And Riley, I I dealt with him a
Speaker 1: little bit. He left La to go to the Knicks
Speaker 1: early on. I mean it was, you know, I was
Speaker 1: a young pump, but I heard many stories from the
Speaker 1: Great Joe McDonald about pat Riley and some of the
Speaker 1: stuff that it took place back in the Showtime days
Speaker 1: with the Lakers, and yeah, he's a he's a firecracker
Speaker 1: and he's only getting more fiery as he gets older,
Speaker 1: pat Riley. So there is that. Well, this last week,
Speaker 1: you know, it's a Saturday pod, which is the Life
Speaker 1: of Mallar, Life of Danny g And so this past
Speaker 1: week I went into the Mallard test kitchen. It was
Speaker 1: open for business. I added another new dish because I
Speaker 1: know you're very concerned about my dietary habits and that,
Speaker 1: and futsing around the kitchen the culinary arts. So I
Speaker 1: was experimenting the us the test kitchen. I was futting
Speaker 1: around and I fell down this this kind of spider
Speaker 1: hole with different recipes on I think it was on instagramer.
Speaker 1: So I was on one of the social media I
Speaker 1: don't know, messing around with my phone, and then I
Speaker 1: fell into this thing where they had all these different
Speaker 1: foods and different recipes or whatever, and it wasn't really
Speaker 1: like the recipe. It was like, hey, this is a
Speaker 1: new restaurant, this is very popular or whatever. So I
Speaker 1: fell that on this thing. And the item I cooked
Speaker 1: up here I found on Instagram and I'd never heard
Speaker 1: of it. It's the chopped cheese sandwich, the New York
Speaker 1: chop cheese sandwich. Are you familiar with that sandwich? Dany
Speaker 1: Have you ever had a New York chop cheese sandwich?
Speaker 3: No? Actually, I was googling it as you were talking
Speaker 3: about it.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, So I've been to New York for a
Speaker 1: long time. My brother lives in New York and i'd
Speaker 1: go there every couple of years to visit him, and
Speaker 1: the kids have grown up. They're all grown up now,
Speaker 1: so I'd never even heard of it. But the chop
Speaker 1: sandwich is New York City staple.
Speaker 3: Look it's good. I don't know if it's because I'm
Speaker 3: hungry this morning, but that looks good.
Speaker 1: It's really good and easy to make. Dan, you you
Speaker 1: should get in there and you could. You could make
Speaker 1: this and it's great. So it supposedly came from the bodegas,
Speaker 1: and I think it started in Harlem. Supposedly. I don't know.
Speaker 1: There's a debate where it started. But it's just basic
Speaker 1: as can be. It's this ground beef, it's onion, put
Speaker 1: a lot of seasoning on it and a ton of cheese,
Speaker 1: and you chop it all up and mix it all together.
Speaker 1: And yeah, you put that in there and put it
Speaker 1: on some bread and melt the cheese and good to go,
Speaker 1: and you're good. Well, no, the ranch is not part
Speaker 1: of it. Now, there are there are toppings that are
Speaker 1: option I call them optional. Lettuce don't need it, Tomato
Speaker 1: don't need it. I mean, there's other things you can
Speaker 1: put on there. But it's it's served on a on
Speaker 1: a Hogy roll or a hero roll as they call
Speaker 1: it in New York. And so it's supposed to start
Speaker 1: in Harlem and at some deli which I guess is
Speaker 1: somewhat famous and all that. I don't know. I've never
Speaker 1: heard of the deli. But the Malar Food Scorecard, the
Speaker 1: Malar Food Scorecard Danny on the chopped cheese sandwich, which
Speaker 1: was made in the Malard Test kitchen. The chop House
Speaker 1: scale of one to ten. Now, ten would be the
Speaker 1: perfect perfect meal. I'm at a nine, nine pointer, not
Speaker 1: a ten, not a ten. Now, this is a first
Speaker 1: cousin of the cheese steak. It is a first cousin
Speaker 1: of the cheese steak. Very similar to a cheese steak.
Speaker 1: Obviously the meat's different, but other than that, it's you
Speaker 1: can add the bell pepper if you want. I just
Speaker 1: did the onions the cheese.
Speaker 3: And what kind of flavoring did you put on the
Speaker 3: ground beef.
Speaker 1: Yes, I put a lot of seasoning, a lot of pepper,
Speaker 1: and then I mixed in some It's not everything seasoning,
Speaker 1: but it's got like garlic, salt and a little more
Speaker 1: pepper and just kind of I was very generous with
Speaker 1: the season very generous. And the key to the ground
Speaker 1: beef I've noticed is you have to get it a
Speaker 1: little crisp like part of it's got to be crisp,
Speaker 1: but you got to cook the ground beef for a
Speaker 1: fair amount if it's not crisp but doesn't have that
Speaker 1: same that same rasmataz to it, so you got to
Speaker 1: have that mixed in. But it was enjoyable. I'll make
Speaker 1: it again at some point. I don't know how often
Speaker 1: I want to make it, but it's really simple to make,
Speaker 1: and I like things that are simple, and it taste good.
Speaker 1: And you only live once. She might as well, you're
Speaker 1: not here for a long time, here for a good time,
Speaker 1: so you might as well, enjoy yourself and every once
Speaker 1: in a while go for it. So that was my
Speaker 1: new dish, the chopped cheese sandwich. I saw something like this.
Speaker 1: It was Anthony Bourdain, I guess helped expand it. He's
Speaker 1: been dead for a while, but he didn't know about it,
Speaker 1: and that was like a big deal. I'd never even
Speaker 1: heard of it, as I said, until until recently. But
Speaker 1: maybe maybe if I had a friend and my friend
Speaker 1: into a guy named Avier, maybe then Danny, then I
Speaker 1: would have known about it. But I did not.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So I this past week, I was pretty much
Speaker 3: at work, and when I wasn't at work, I was
Speaker 3: at home thinking about work. And when I wasn't thinking
Speaker 3: about work, I was on my laptop doing extra work.
Speaker 3: It was one of those sort of weeks. So I'm
Speaker 3: gonna pull the curtain back a little bit because everything
Speaker 3: that happened to me happened in the studios. Do you
Speaker 3: want to hear the story about Brian No, Chris Purfet
Speaker 3: or Iowa Sam uh So? There's three stories, three stories.
Speaker 3: Where do you want to start?
Speaker 1: Let's let's start with Chris Purfet worked on my show
Speaker 1: several times, A proud, proud guy from Toledo, Ohio, if
Speaker 1: I'm not mistaken.
Speaker 3: That's right. Everybody assumes he's from Detroit because he's such
Speaker 3: a lion honk, but he actually is from Ohio. So Perfet,
Speaker 3: I guess is Catholic. Not that that matters. But it
Speaker 3: was the crowning of the new Pope this fast.
Speaker 1: That's right, the Pope, the big announcement, you first American pope.
Speaker 3: From Nova from Villa Nova, standing five eleven. So the
Speaker 3: guys Covino in which they had a lot of fun,
Speaker 3: and I'll get to that in a second, because on
Speaker 3: air they talked just a few minutes of pope talk
Speaker 3: because they were both raised Catholic, so they had some
Speaker 3: fun with it. Chris Purfetto took it very seriously because
Speaker 3: he was in here doing a morning shift. And then
Speaker 3: when the Dan Patrick show was over, you know that
Speaker 3: studio goes quiet because Colin does his show out of
Speaker 3: a different studio. Well, purfet was still in that studio
Speaker 3: with every screen set to the Pope coverage by a
Speaker 3: different network, so he just think of NFL red zone,
Speaker 3: but this was Pope coverage.
Speaker 1: Does he realize though, that they used the same feed,
Speaker 1: like they're.
Speaker 3: Not I guess yeah, I guess they had just different
Speaker 3: people opining or so.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the talking heads AGA, but the seed. I'm pretty
Speaker 1: sure the Vatican provides the camera feeds. I don't probably
Speaker 1: have eighteen cameras the Vatican. They have like one standard.
Speaker 3: I guess he wanted different takes on what was happening.
Speaker 1: It's very important. You don't want to make sure everyone's
Speaker 1: a line with their thanks so that.
Speaker 3: This is the first time I've ever heard of somebody
Speaker 3: watching something like that and needing multiple screens. But Iowa
Speaker 3: Sam went in and said, hey, uh, there's an engineer
Speaker 3: on the line, and and Jason Stewart was in there
Speaker 3: as well, and he was like, yeah, he's he's going
Speaker 3: to run a test right now, so you're going to
Speaker 3: have to turn the TV volume down. And Profett looked
Speaker 3: at Jason Stewart and IOA Sam like they were nuts,
Speaker 3: and he said, no, that's not happening right now. I
Speaker 3: need to watch this coverage.
Speaker 1: What does he need to watch it for? Is he
Speaker 1: is he to go on see NBC or something can
Speaker 1: break it down how it relates to the business of
Speaker 1: I mean, what are you doing?
Speaker 3: So I guess from the way the story was related
Speaker 3: to me. Jay stew had to just be very blunt
Speaker 3: and say, we need this room right now, and Profet
Speaker 3: wasn't wasn't too pleased, but he had to switch the
Speaker 3: Pulpe coverage to his phone and walk down the hallway
Speaker 3: kicking rocks. We all love Chris. He is a passionate guy.
Speaker 3: The things he really likes, he's super passionate about. I
Speaker 3: guess this is one of them. So I'm gonna remember that.
Speaker 3: And I think if I ever see like a Pupe
Speaker 3: magnet or any sort of Pope memorabilia, I'm gonna get
Speaker 3: it for a Profet.
Speaker 1: I am obviously not Catholic, I'm definitely not. But Danny,
Speaker 1: I gotta tell you the Pope story. I'm pretty sure
Speaker 1: that this dude listened to my show back in the day.
Speaker 3: I believe it because he's a Chicago dude who goes
Speaker 3: to White Sox game.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean sports talk radio. We had Mike North
Speaker 1: on here last week, and sports radio is part of
Speaker 1: the culture. If you're a sports fan in Chicago, you're
Speaker 1: listening to sports radio. And I can't believe how the
Speaker 1: time is gone. It just blows by. But in twenty
Speaker 1: oh five, when the White Sox won the World Series.
Speaker 1: I was working at Fox Sports Radio. We were on
Speaker 1: in Chicago on the score in Chicago, and there's a
Speaker 1: photo which has gone viral of the gentleman named Robert
Speaker 1: who now became Pope Leo, who was at a White
Speaker 1: Sox game. I believe it during the World Series series,
Speaker 1: and so, I mean there's a pretty good chance it
Speaker 1: was about a crazy He wasn't the Pope obviously then,
Speaker 1: but yeah, I just thinks he became the Pope and
Speaker 1: he was wearing the photo was wearing a White Sox jersey.
Speaker 1: How about how about that as a flex. We don't
Speaker 1: know what jersey, like what player jersey was wearing, but.
Speaker 3: Can you imagine can you imagine being Harold Baines and
Speaker 3: you're like, man, this dude actually worships me.
Speaker 1: I was trying to I was trying to think, like
Speaker 1: the two thousand and five White Sox, like, what do
Speaker 1: you think the future Pope? What jersey do you think
Speaker 1: he was? I don't know, I mean, because he had
Speaker 1: like you can just see the stripes of the jersey.
Speaker 1: You cannot see the name or the number an like that.
Speaker 1: But that team that won the World Series, which was
Speaker 1: a one off. I think they were not great aft
Speaker 1: They didn't win another World Series. That was the only
Speaker 1: one they appeared in with Ozzie Yann. But that was
Speaker 1: the team that had Paul Knerico former Dodger, by the way,
Speaker 1: former Dodger. Uh pod Sednik, who's got the greatest SoundBite
Speaker 1: of all time, the king of the cliches, got Pod Sednick.
Speaker 1: And then we played that, and we haven't played that
Speaker 1: in a while. I don't think the Lorrain is aware
Speaker 1: of that. We got to go out and get him.
Speaker 1: Is one game in a long season. He'd like thirty
Speaker 1: five different Uh. It was sports cliches, back to back
Speaker 1: to back to back to back to back to back
Speaker 1: to back to and it was actually that was when
Speaker 1: he was on the Dodgers, Pod Sednick after he had
Speaker 1: left the White Socks. He wasn't on the White Sox.
Speaker 1: That White Sox team also had Carl Everett over him.
Speaker 3: Look a look at it. I found Scotty's drop.
Speaker 1: Let's see.
Speaker 4: Well, they're all important. We got to win as many
Speaker 4: as we can. A lot of baseball we played. Anything
Speaker 4: can happen. We're gonna come the yard each and every day,
Speaker 4: battle each night, and look up at the NFCEE.
Speaker 2: What we're saying.
Speaker 3: We know our work is cut out for us. We
Speaker 3: got a lot of work to do.
Speaker 4: Hopefully we can all come together realize what we have
Speaker 4: here and try to get something done.
Speaker 1: So good And the great thing about that Denny is
Speaker 1: I don't think he references baseball. I think that's just
Speaker 1: you could use that like for example, we could say, hey,
Speaker 1: this is uh, this is Jason Tatum of the Boston Celtics,
Speaker 1: and here are his thoughts on what they need to
Speaker 1: do against the next Jason.
Speaker 3: Well, they're all important.
Speaker 4: We got to win as many as we can.
Speaker 3: Oh man, Uh.
Speaker 1: That is that is one of the all time greats.
Speaker 1: And also the John McClaren, remember you played that a lot.
Speaker 1: John McClaren was an interim like part time brief manager
Speaker 1: of the Seattle Mariners, and he went on, I'm sick
Speaker 1: and tired of losing, and if these guys are, you know,
Speaker 1: we gotta go out there. We gotta, you know, win
Speaker 1: these games. And he went on his lump. But another
Speaker 1: guy that never mentioned baseball just was Genie Eric terms
Speaker 1: John McLaren. It was it was so good and I
Speaker 1: just love those classic. The evergreen SoundBite is my favorite
Speaker 1: among the drops. Were talking about Tortorella. You know, sucked
Speaker 1: at a time. He cannot suck the things that you
Speaker 1: can play out of context, but they still work. So
Speaker 1: the pod said Nick the McLaren and obviously the suck
Speaker 1: at a time he cannot suck from John Tortorella. All
Speaker 1: among the greatest. But this we started this with the Pope.
Speaker 3: So yes, one more quick Pope story, okay, right before
Speaker 3: and in the middle. This is like the cherry filling
Speaker 3: to the donut. So Brian now unfortunately, had a little
Speaker 3: medical issue a few days back.
Speaker 1: Saw that I saw that what happened. I saw a
Speaker 1: photo of him, like he in a hospital.
Speaker 3: They're not exactly sure. He thought it was a stroke,
Speaker 3: like a mild stroke at first, but yeah, right, but
Speaker 3: he's already back at home. And when I checked on
Speaker 3: him a couple of days ago, he said he actually
Speaker 3: drove his car and he was feeling, you know, halfway normal.
Speaker 3: So if it was a mild stroke, it was very mild.
Speaker 3: So that's good news. But around here we were all
Speaker 3: worried about Bno. So one of the girls on the staff,
Speaker 3: of course, it was one of the girls got a
Speaker 3: greeting card at like a get well soon card and
Speaker 3: was passing it around for everybody to sign. So Friday,
Speaker 3: I get the card and I start signing it, and
Speaker 3: I and I'm kind of you know what you do
Speaker 3: with all cards. You look at what other people are
Speaker 3: saying in the card, And at the very top somebody
Speaker 3: wrote in big letters, happy birthday b No so out
Speaker 3: of touch that they just assumed it was a birthday
Speaker 3: card being passed around. Obviously, obviously they didn't look at
Speaker 3: what other people were writing, because every other signature on
Speaker 3: the card said dude, feel better, get better soon, We
Speaker 3: need you on the air, bro and stuff like that.
Speaker 3: And then this one said happy b Dave. You know
Speaker 3: the smiley face. Yeah, so I said, who has the
Speaker 3: white out because we need some of that right now.
Speaker 1: You could have written like psych just kidding, you know,
Speaker 1: but that's pretty funny. Ah.
Speaker 3: And then finally on the Pope coverage, so that same
Speaker 3: day that CNR having fun with it on the air
Speaker 3: that the day it happened, they said it was great
Speaker 3: TV coverage. The only thing missing for the event because
Speaker 3: they said it was kind of like the NFL Draft
Speaker 3: the way it looked. But they said it lacked drama
Speaker 3: because there was no big introduction for the new pope,
Speaker 3: like it should have been like, you know, Michael Buffer
Speaker 3: or somebody like that, almost like bringing a boxer out,
Speaker 3: you know, from Villanova. And of course they had Iowa
Speaker 3: Sam play like the famous Chicago Bulls music when the
Speaker 3: Bulls were announced. So then they're talking about the names
Speaker 3: they used when they had their confirmations. Well, you know
Speaker 3: what here, let me play for you what it sounded
Speaker 3: like on the air.
Speaker 1: Do you know my confirmation name?
Speaker 5: You got to pick it where I grew up at
Speaker 5: it like, and I chose I chose Joseph because of Joe.
Speaker 2: Oh.
Speaker 5: Iok, because if you had an amazing Technicolor dream coat.
Speaker 5: I chose Thomas after my grandfather, Thomas Thomas.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 6: So I was supposed to be Javier, but the the.
Speaker 3: Xavier was my confirmation name.
Speaker 1: What that?
Speaker 6: But the clergyman that was doing this ceremony, he called
Speaker 6: me Xavier and I'm like, no, it's Xavier. He's from
Speaker 6: like I think he was from Argentina or something. So
Speaker 6: you so you picked like a saint, right, is that
Speaker 6: what you say?
Speaker 5: I packed my grandfather's name Javier bro Are you serious?
Speaker 1: Ioa Sam I.
Speaker 6: Was, but he is. It is spelled x A v
Speaker 6: i e R. He was from. Oh he's from Spain.
Speaker 5: Spain, Okay, if we called you, that is his confirmation name,
Speaker 5: Xavier Spain.
Speaker 1: By the way, that might be the funniest thing, your
Speaker 1: standard midwestern guy. But the hair's a little different.
Speaker 3: He looks like Peabody from that card soon.
Speaker 1: Yeah, midwestern value, right, like everyone everyone in radio. Little neurotic,
Speaker 1: you know, we're all like that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's very neurotic. But it hit the funny bone.
Speaker 3: And these guys they called him Javier for the rest
Speaker 3: of the week, So he is not going to live
Speaker 3: this down for the rest of eternity. Now on Covino
Speaker 3: and Rich, he's going to be Hoavy Air.
Speaker 1: What's his name, Carlos perfect. That's that's hilarious. That's great.
Speaker 1: This is why you know, you don't let your kids
Speaker 1: pick their names, you know whatever, Hold off on that.
Speaker 1: That's funny, man. I did not know that. But that's
Speaker 1: that's that's a good one. That's a good one. All right.
Speaker 1: Time Now for the word of the week, the word
Speaker 1: of the week. The word of the week here is
Speaker 1: muscle everyone wants muscle, whether you want to be strong,
Speaker 1: you want muscle. You want to you know, date someone
Speaker 1: or hook up with someone who's got muscle. So the
Speaker 1: word muscle is a Latin word, and it actually the
Speaker 1: origin of it is it means little mouse in Latin.
Speaker 1: And that's because ancient Romans. This is great. Ancient Romans
Speaker 1: thought the movement of muscles under the skin resembled a
Speaker 1: mouse scurrying around. You know how your flex with your
Speaker 1: bicep and thing pops up there. The term was adopted
Speaker 1: into English in the fourteenth century. And so your bicep,
Speaker 1: according to the ancient Roman dialect, the bicept is you
Speaker 1: got a little tiny rodent in there, And that is
Speaker 1: how they came up with the word muscle.
Speaker 3: How about when you get a Charlie horse. Uh oh
Speaker 3: back of your what is that quad? Oh my, that
Speaker 3: feels like a big rat. A New York City rat
Speaker 3: is in there.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, that's well fed, a well fed New York
Speaker 1: City rat. Oh. I forgot to get to that. I
Speaker 1: mentioned ant attack. I got to get this real quick, Danny.
Speaker 1: So did you see the latest invasive species to it
Speaker 1: spread across America. There was a report out earlier this
Speaker 1: week that we need to be on guard Danny for
Speaker 1: the Asian needle ant. I didn't see this, Yes, we
Speaker 1: need to be on guard. Now. These things have actually
Speaker 1: been in the United States for a number of years. However,
Speaker 1: they continue to grow and it's becoming more and more
Speaker 1: of an issue. They're mostly concentrated in the South, but
Speaker 1: there's some reports this week that the species has spread
Speaker 1: to the Midwest and the New England States as it
Speaker 1: worked a toway across the country. So you're saying, what
Speaker 1: the f is an Asian needle ant. Well, the reason
Speaker 1: this is, they say, is a big deal because they're
Speaker 1: very tiny, as most ants are. By the way, they're
Speaker 1: twenty quadrillion ants on Earth. If you were to say
Speaker 1: what is the most populous thing on planet Earth, it
Speaker 1: would be the ant. There's twenty that's a drillion of them. Anyway,
Speaker 1: the Asian needle ant one sting can send you, if
Speaker 1: you're of a sensitive type, into anaphlactic shock. One sting
Speaker 1: from one of these things creates an allergic reaction. The
Speaker 1: condition is called it's called the described as intense fast acting.
Speaker 1: Symptoms include swelling, wheezing, rashes, dizziness, depending on its severity,
Speaker 1: and at its worst, it will kill you. A person
Speaker 1: would lose the ability to breathe, their blood pressure would plummet,
Speaker 1: similar to like a food allergy. And so officials currently
Speaker 1: don't know how many people have died from the Asian
Speaker 1: needle ants thing worldwide or in the US, but they
Speaker 1: claim watch out, watch out. So another thing to worry about.
Speaker 1: Remember the murder hornet from a few years ago.
Speaker 3: Of course, yeah, I had an expert get on the
Speaker 3: phone with Klay Travis and talk about it.
Speaker 1: And when we were younger, Dan, it was the killer
Speaker 1: bees are on the way. Remember that the killer bees
Speaker 1: are coming and they're gonna We're all dead, We're all done.
Speaker 1: They were giving updates. When people used to watch the
Speaker 1: news every night, they were like, oh my god, the
Speaker 1: killer bees. It's all over. All right, we'll get out
Speaker 1: on that. Danny. We got Celtics and Nicks. I'll be
Speaker 1: checking that out today. I also have to I have
Speaker 1: to go to a wedding today, Danny. My my my
Speaker 1: wife is dragging me to a family wedding. So I'll
Speaker 1: be doing that tonight.
Speaker 3: Well, you know, when it's a good time to take
Speaker 3: a break, you know where everybody grabs each other's hips.
Speaker 3: They start doing the train I'm good, yeah, the conga ben.
Speaker 1: When they do the conga line, I'm god do the yeah.
Speaker 3: And that's when you go take a break to the bathroom.
Speaker 1: The bath yeah, I mean so my my my appearance
Speaker 1: is needed, my uh so I will be there. I
Speaker 1: will represent all right, You got any going on to
Speaker 1: Danny tonight? Anything at all?
Speaker 3: Just hanging out, yeah, producing this fine podcast and then
Speaker 3: crashing out, man, because not only was it a crazy
Speaker 3: week at work, but it was a week where I
Speaker 3: had to hold down the home front because my better
Speaker 3: half has been under the weather, and then big Baby
Speaker 3: Koa caught her sickness and now the past two days he's.
Speaker 1: Had a cold. Uh oh yeah, no fun, dude.
Speaker 3: And that's what happens with the weather changes, right, because
Speaker 3: it was like gray and Seattle style weather here in
Speaker 3: LA and then two days later it was ninety three degrees.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it's time of the year. Although we get
Speaker 1: a lot better than back east where it's like forty
Speaker 1: degrees and then it's like, you know, ninety, but it's us.
Speaker 1: It wasn't too far off this week anyway. I have
Speaker 1: a great day, thank you for listening to well the
Speaker 1: mail Bag tomorrow and I started looking at some of
Speaker 1: the questions for the mail Bag, Danny, and there's some
Speaker 1: very deep, deep questions, so be prepared for that. All right.
Speaker 3: Time to put our philosophical minds to youths.
Speaker 1: All right, we'll talk to it next time. We'll tell
Speaker 1: you tomorrow'll see you later.
Speaker 3: Skater fite delicious