WEBVTT - The Fifth Hour: Bootcamp Benny 0:00:00.720 --> 0:00:01.480 Cutbooms. 0:00:02.320 --> 0:00:05.400 If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes 0:00:05.440 --> 0:00:09.240 a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants 0:00:09.240 --> 0:00:12.520 of the old republic, a sol fashion of fairness. He 0:00:12.600 --> 0:00:15.560 treats crackheads in the ghetto cutter the same as the 0:00:15.640 --> 0:00:17.520 rich pill poppers in the penthouse. 0:00:18.120 --> 0:00:18.440 Wow. 0:00:18.640 --> 0:00:22.360 The clearing House of Hot takes break free for something special. 0:00:22.720 --> 0:00:29.400 The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now. 0:00:29.000 --> 0:00:32.159 In the air everywhere. 0:00:32.360 --> 0:00:35.720 The Fifth Hour with Me, Ben Mahler and Danny g Radio, 0:00:35.800 --> 0:00:39.479 who is away this weekend hanging out with his pals 0:00:40.200 --> 0:00:45.560 Covino and Rich. So you got me and this podcast 0:00:45.600 --> 0:00:52.040 a super duper special pod on this Friday. And I'm 0:00:52.080 --> 0:00:56.320 not blowing smoke. I'm not blowing smoke at all. No, no, no, oh, 0:00:56.360 --> 0:00:59.160 what a week it was. As you know by listening, 0:00:59.280 --> 0:01:03.000 the phones went haywire. There was a glitch here, a 0:01:03.040 --> 0:01:08.360 glitch there, a glitch everywhere. Oh yeah, we had some issues. 0:01:08.880 --> 0:01:11.200 We'll get to that at some point over the weekend. 0:01:11.240 --> 0:01:15.120 But this being the Fifth Hour podcast, we go behind 0:01:15.160 --> 0:01:20.080 the scenes, behind the microphone, behind the headphones and all that. 0:01:20.520 --> 0:01:24.759 And it is a show dedicated to the super fans 0:01:24.959 --> 0:01:27.720 of the Overnight if you have listened on a regular 0:01:27.760 --> 0:01:30.440 basis to the Fifth Hour podcast, you are in the 0:01:30.600 --> 0:01:36.039 one percent of the one percent. God bless you, all right, 0:01:36.120 --> 0:01:42.039 God bless you for that. We thank you, because without that. 0:01:42.120 --> 0:01:45.479 I mean we are wor screwed. We are. 0:01:45.840 --> 0:01:49.520 And I was away from my poach in the post 0:01:49.800 --> 0:01:53.160 in the watch Tower of the overnight a couple of 0:01:53.280 --> 0:01:57.480 nights this week. And those of you who were listening 0:01:57.520 --> 0:02:03.160 to this podcast last weekend, of course you knew that 0:02:03.240 --> 0:02:04.800 I was going to be away because I had said 0:02:04.840 --> 0:02:06.920 at the end of the mail bag on Sunday that 0:02:07.000 --> 0:02:08.320 I had some things to do. 0:02:08.240 --> 0:02:09.160 And I was gonna be away. 0:02:09.240 --> 0:02:11.920 And of course that did not stop a number of 0:02:11.919 --> 0:02:14.960 people who are not p ones, who are more P 0:02:15.160 --> 0:02:17.880 two s P three's, who sent me angry messages. Among 0:02:17.919 --> 0:02:20.360 my favorites were, why are you not here? I'm working, 0:02:20.760 --> 0:02:24.080 Why are you not here? Get your fat ass behind 0:02:24.120 --> 0:02:27.799 the microphone? You only work four hours a day, Why 0:02:27.880 --> 0:02:30.440 are you not here? Blah blah blah blah, went on 0:02:30.680 --> 0:02:33.799 and on and on and on. So I didn't write 0:02:33.840 --> 0:02:36.360 back to any of those people. I did not and 0:02:36.440 --> 0:02:41.240 I've decided on this pod today that we are going 0:02:41.280 --> 0:02:48.000 to go behind the scenes to a galaxy far far away. 0:02:49.000 --> 0:02:52.240 And as the great radio man Paul Harvey would say, 0:02:53.360 --> 0:02:57.360 you know what the news is, But in a minute, 0:02:57.400 --> 0:03:00.000 you're gonna know what the rest of the story is. 0:03:00.000 --> 0:03:01.280 In this case, you're going to know that I was 0:03:01.280 --> 0:03:06.720 not hosting the overnight show. I was away a couple 0:03:06.840 --> 0:03:11.040 nights Monday and Tuesday, Monday into Tuesday, and then Tuesday 0:03:11.240 --> 0:03:15.000 Wednesday and all that, And in a minute, you're going 0:03:15.080 --> 0:03:17.160 to find out the rest of the story. So it 0:03:17.160 --> 0:03:21.000 has been many years since I have talked about what 0:03:21.120 --> 0:03:24.720 I'm about to talk about into a microphone. In fact, 0:03:24.840 --> 0:03:30.000 this goes back probably ten, twelve, thirteen, fourteen years. It's 0:03:30.000 --> 0:03:33.280 been a long time, certainly over ten years, and I 0:03:33.320 --> 0:03:36.720 think much longer than that. So let's go back in 0:03:36.800 --> 0:03:38.480 the hot tub time machine. 0:03:39.040 --> 0:03:41.880 To a random year in. 0:03:43.280 --> 0:03:48.920 About the twenty twenty nine, twenty twenty ten, well probably 0:03:48.920 --> 0:03:51.840 twenty ten, twenty eleven, I guess would be the period 0:03:51.840 --> 0:03:54.920 somewhere in that period of time, probably twenty eleven. So 0:03:55.000 --> 0:03:58.920 it's been fourteen years twenty eleven. We've locked in on 0:03:58.960 --> 0:04:03.840 twenty eleven. So going back then, and I was hosting 0:04:04.200 --> 0:04:09.400 filling in locally on our affiliate AM five seventy in 0:04:09.440 --> 0:04:11.960 Los Angeles, the home of the Dodgers. Every once in 0:04:12.000 --> 0:04:13.600 a while they will call me out of the bullpen 0:04:14.080 --> 0:04:17.840 on a rogue mission, and I will go in and 0:04:17.920 --> 0:04:21.440 yap away. And so I was asked by the person 0:04:22.160 --> 0:04:24.560 who produced the show to step in. 0:04:24.600 --> 0:04:26.000 So I did, and then. 0:04:25.920 --> 0:04:28.840 The host of the show during that broadcast it was 0:04:29.560 --> 0:04:31.240 I want to say it was on a Thursday, but 0:04:31.560 --> 0:04:34.000 might have been on a Wednesday or a Friday. But 0:04:34.040 --> 0:04:38.400 I was hosting the show and the conversation came up 0:04:38.440 --> 0:04:42.560 about you know, being a parent and family and all 0:04:42.600 --> 0:04:47.039 that stuff, and I was asked if I had kids 0:04:47.120 --> 0:04:50.640 or not, and I explained on that show against a 0:04:50.720 --> 0:04:57.640 local show AM five seventy years ago, LA, I explained 0:04:58.040 --> 0:05:01.600 that I did have a son, son who I helped raise. 0:05:01.640 --> 0:05:04.359 I was helping raise at the time, and I helped 0:05:04.400 --> 0:05:06.440 raised him since he was four years old at that time. 0:05:06.480 --> 0:05:09.560 He was probably not much older than that. And it 0:05:09.600 --> 0:05:17.440 was a rather benign conversation. However, that would be something 0:05:17.480 --> 0:05:24.560 that sparked a bunch of diabolical fans of mine who 0:05:24.600 --> 0:05:29.440 could not read the room and were starting to kind 0:05:29.440 --> 0:05:33.240 of lurk around, and it freaked out my wife right 0:05:33.480 --> 0:05:38.920 Whichel freaked out and some of these Stoker types who 0:05:38.960 --> 0:05:41.560 are big fans, and I'm sure meant no harm at all, 0:05:42.560 --> 0:05:46.000 but they were trying to get more intel about my son. 0:05:46.320 --> 0:05:50.280 And this led to my wife getting some odd requests 0:05:51.160 --> 0:05:58.400 on social media, and she was flustered, bedraggled, and she 0:05:59.040 --> 0:05:59.640 was very upset. 0:05:59.680 --> 0:06:02.320 She who I did that I not talk. 0:06:02.200 --> 0:06:07.600 About him anymore on the radio to protect the family 0:06:07.839 --> 0:06:11.040 from the lunatics that are out there. So I did 0:06:11.080 --> 0:06:15.919 not talk about my steps on throughout his entire education. 0:06:16.440 --> 0:06:19.680 All of the. 0:06:18.400 --> 0:06:20.560 Days I would take him to school or pick him 0:06:20.600 --> 0:06:23.680 up from school, or the sporting events, all that stuff 0:06:23.960 --> 0:06:26.559 that was just off the table, so off the table. 0:06:26.600 --> 0:06:27.919 Did not talk about it on the radio. 0:06:28.120 --> 0:06:33.800 Lived it, loved it, enjoyed all of it, just wonderful memories, 0:06:34.040 --> 0:06:37.280 but not for the radio. Because my wife had requested 0:06:37.480 --> 0:06:39.159 not to talk about it. So I never brought it 0:06:39.279 --> 0:06:44.760 up until today, and I honored her request, and today 0:06:45.120 --> 0:06:47.440 I'm allowed to talk about it because on Monday and 0:06:47.560 --> 0:06:50.960 Tuesday of this past week, me and the wife took 0:06:51.040 --> 0:06:54.359 off in the middle of the night after the show 0:06:54.440 --> 0:06:58.000 a Sunday night and a Monday and headed to San Diego, 0:06:58.839 --> 0:07:01.960 a city near and dear to my heart, that was 0:07:02.000 --> 0:07:03.960 the place, as you may know if you followed the 0:07:04.000 --> 0:07:09.080 nonsense here that I began my journey into broadcasting at 0:07:09.080 --> 0:07:12.200 a commercial radio station, the mighty six ninety, which was a. 0:07:12.160 --> 0:07:13.440 Border blaster station. 0:07:14.840 --> 0:07:20.480 Ironically, it was only a couple miles away from the 0:07:20.560 --> 0:07:21.160 address of. 0:07:21.160 --> 0:07:25.000 The old studio. Got off on SeaWorld Drive Pacific Coast Highway. 0:07:25.680 --> 0:07:27.080 You make a right. 0:07:26.960 --> 0:07:30.320 Turn on the off ramp coming from from the north, 0:07:30.880 --> 0:07:33.520 make a right turn, then a quick left, and then 0:07:33.680 --> 0:07:37.560 right across from the California Highway Patrol station is. 0:07:37.960 --> 0:07:39.560 The studio, which is no longer. 0:07:39.720 --> 0:07:45.200 The studio stations moved and it's a a Spanish station 0:07:45.360 --> 0:07:48.040 border blaster station, but they're not there anymore. So anyway, 0:07:48.440 --> 0:07:53.560 that's where I was, and literally less than two miles away, 0:07:53.600 --> 0:07:59.160 I believe it was was MCRD. Now, if you live 0:07:59.200 --> 0:08:02.640 in San Diego or you've spent time in San Diego, 0:08:02.720 --> 0:08:05.840 chances are you know it's a great military town and 0:08:06.040 --> 0:08:09.760 right next to the airport in prime real estate, some 0:08:09.840 --> 0:08:13.040 of the most valuable real estate in all of San Diego, 0:08:13.200 --> 0:08:17.960 right on the ocean is the Marine Corps Recruitment Depot 0:08:18.240 --> 0:08:21.960 known as MCRD and that is where me and my 0:08:22.000 --> 0:08:26.080 wife attended because there was family Day on Monday, and 0:08:26.120 --> 0:08:29.160 then on Tuesday was graduation day. My son, my step son, 0:08:29.240 --> 0:08:34.240 Patrick graduated. He is now a United States Marine. He 0:08:34.280 --> 0:08:39.160 was in boot camp for the last three four months whatever. 0:08:39.160 --> 0:08:42.600 It was, no phone, no contact, just sending letters. That 0:08:42.640 --> 0:08:46.439 was the only contact, snail mail, as we like to say. 0:08:47.320 --> 0:08:53.040 And very proud of his hard work, his dedication, his commitment. 0:08:53.040 --> 0:08:54.959 This is something he's wanted for a long time. And 0:08:55.000 --> 0:08:58.960 I recall he would come home from school and pop 0:08:59.000 --> 0:09:04.040 on some military documentary and he'd study the military and 0:09:04.080 --> 0:09:06.200 the different branches of the military and wanted to decide, 0:09:06.200 --> 0:09:07.920 like what branch is he gonna go to? Is he 0:09:07.920 --> 0:09:09.480 gonna go to the Army? Is he gonna go to 0:09:09.760 --> 0:09:10.839 the Navy. 0:09:10.600 --> 0:09:13.920 The Air Force, the Marines? 0:09:14.000 --> 0:09:21.400 And after meticulous research, he determined that the Marines were 0:09:21.400 --> 0:09:25.120 for him. And I'm very excited for him. 0:09:25.120 --> 0:09:26.080 This is something he's wanted to do. 0:09:26.120 --> 0:09:29.760 He's a young guy, just graduated high school and he 0:09:29.840 --> 0:09:32.680 has already passed boot camp and a bunch of his 0:09:33.440 --> 0:09:37.240 friends and his contemporaries in school are just enjoying the 0:09:37.280 --> 0:09:40.000 summer and trying to figure out what they're gonna do 0:09:40.080 --> 0:09:44.320 next in their life. And he's got his life all 0:09:44.360 --> 0:09:46.240 kind of mapped out, at least the next few years 0:09:47.080 --> 0:09:51.440 of his life. So we spent several days in San Diego. 0:09:51.559 --> 0:09:55.440 There was a a ceremony. I had never been to this. 0:09:55.720 --> 0:09:59.400 It's an odd thing. I mentioned that the MCRD is 0:09:59.480 --> 0:10:04.480 right neck to the radio station I used to work at, 0:10:04.559 --> 0:10:06.400 and so it's close to that. And when I was 0:10:06.440 --> 0:10:10.600 a kid growing up, I grew up surrounded by orange groves, 0:10:10.600 --> 0:10:13.920 and then around the orange groves there was two military bases. 0:10:14.000 --> 0:10:17.920 There was a El Tooral Marine Base and a Tust 0:10:17.960 --> 0:10:20.160 and neither one's there by the way, Tust Orange and 0:10:20.200 --> 0:10:23.080 El Toro and so much of them. My classmates when 0:10:23.080 --> 0:10:28.160 I was in school were military brats that changed schools 0:10:28.200 --> 0:10:30.840 every couple of years, and every once in a while 0:10:31.000 --> 0:10:34.240 they would be friend one of these kids and they'd 0:10:34.240 --> 0:10:36.800 take me on. I remember the Eltoral Marine Base. They 0:10:37.240 --> 0:10:41.320 took us to the store there where we could buy 0:10:41.400 --> 0:10:46.160 candy and all kinds of crap that we could get 0:10:46.200 --> 0:10:48.920 without paying tax. So it was like, man, we're living 0:10:48.920 --> 0:10:51.120 the dream here. We can get everything a lot cheaper 0:10:51.160 --> 0:10:53.680 and all that stuff, And so I grew up around 0:10:54.480 --> 0:10:57.520 the military. I remember the air show, watching the Blue Angels, 0:10:58.120 --> 0:11:00.880 and when I was a kid, back before or a 0:11:00.880 --> 0:11:02.320 lot of things changed in the world. 0:11:02.559 --> 0:11:04.800 When I went to the tust And Marine. 0:11:04.559 --> 0:11:08.880 Base, they would allow us to like run through as 0:11:08.920 --> 0:11:13.560 I remember, as I remember the planes, and they'd have 0:11:13.600 --> 0:11:15.760 a plane open. You could like sit in the cockpit 0:11:15.800 --> 0:11:18.800 of a real frickin plane, and they had tanks you 0:11:18.800 --> 0:11:19.920 could go into the tank. 0:11:19.960 --> 0:11:21.760 I mean, these are things. I don't think they do 0:11:21.840 --> 0:11:22.400 that anymore. 0:11:22.440 --> 0:11:25.880 I doubt they do for liability reasons and for other reasons, 0:11:26.360 --> 0:11:29.280 but back then we got to do it. So that 0:11:29.400 --> 0:11:32.280 was my experience with that. And so even though I'd 0:11:32.320 --> 0:11:34.440 worked in San Diego and I have friends that have 0:11:34.480 --> 0:11:36.520 been in the Marines and the military and all that, 0:11:36.559 --> 0:11:39.240 it was a much different experience actually being there, having 0:11:39.280 --> 0:11:43.320 to go through security at the Marine Corps recruit depot 0:11:43.440 --> 0:11:45.800 and they search your entire car. There's like a drug 0:11:45.840 --> 0:11:50.360 sniffing dog out. So, as I understand it, the way 0:11:50.360 --> 0:11:55.920 it works, if you're west of the Mississippi, if you're 0:11:56.000 --> 0:11:59.840 west of the Mississippi River, you will go to San Diego. 0:12:00.520 --> 0:12:03.000 And if you're east of the Mississippi River, you'll go 0:12:03.000 --> 0:12:07.120 to Paris Island, which is in South Carolina, and this 0:12:07.200 --> 0:12:10.640 place in San Diego has been around for over. 0:12:10.440 --> 0:12:13.760 One hundred years. It's been around since nineteen. It opened 0:12:13.800 --> 0:12:15.000 in nineteen nineteen. 0:12:15.640 --> 0:12:19.040 We were learning all about it, and so you're there 0:12:19.120 --> 0:12:22.120 and just run around and follow orders and they teach 0:12:22.160 --> 0:12:26.080 you hygiene and cleanliness and all that stuff that you 0:12:26.120 --> 0:12:31.240 need to know in the military. And it wraps up, 0:12:31.400 --> 0:12:34.280 if you will, with this thing they called the Crucible, 0:12:36.080 --> 0:12:41.560 which is a test of endurance and you have to 0:12:41.640 --> 0:12:45.760 pass that if you want to end up becoming a marine. 0:12:46.480 --> 0:12:49.160 And so the kid was able to pull that off 0:12:49.520 --> 0:12:52.200 and lost a lot of weight, got in great shape 0:12:52.240 --> 0:12:54.280 and dominated. 0:12:55.080 --> 0:12:55.960 So we were in San. 0:12:55.840 --> 0:13:01.319 Diego hanging out and that the family day was on Monday, 0:13:01.520 --> 0:13:03.280 so we got to go around, got to go to 0:13:03.360 --> 0:13:06.520 the They have a big museum, military museum, which is 0:13:06.679 --> 0:13:08.840 next level, as you might imagine because it's from the 0:13:08.920 --> 0:13:10.000 United States military. 0:13:10.800 --> 0:13:12.960 And we went to that. We went to some of 0:13:13.000 --> 0:13:17.320 the stores and checked it all out all of it. 0:13:18.120 --> 0:13:21.480 Ended up buying a few things at the store there, 0:13:21.920 --> 0:13:25.800 and we did eat a meal the family there and 0:13:26.679 --> 0:13:29.520 had some of my son's friends there. They were hanging 0:13:29.559 --> 0:13:33.000 out from his high school buddies and so paid the 0:13:33.000 --> 0:13:34.719 food actually wasn't that cheap, which I was like a 0:13:34.720 --> 0:13:36.600 little bummed out by. I thought, well, it'd be cheaper 0:13:36.679 --> 0:13:41.800 and it's like seventeen seventy for three pieces of chicken 0:13:41.840 --> 0:13:45.360 and some fries some chicken figures, which was not not idea, 0:13:45.400 --> 0:13:47.920 but you paid it whatever. Rare and appropriate, right, rare 0:13:47.920 --> 0:13:52.040 and appropriate and whatnot. So got to experience family Day. 0:13:52.080 --> 0:13:56.199 They had a presentation in this old theater and kind 0:13:56.200 --> 0:14:01.400 of went over everything that takes place during boot camp 0:14:01.559 --> 0:14:06.800 and all of that fine stuff, and it was very interesting. 0:14:06.840 --> 0:14:11.600 I'm intrigued by it. And you know, fifty four hour 0:14:11.960 --> 0:14:15.479 crucible things we talked about there where you're testing. 0:14:15.120 --> 0:14:17.280 Your will and you run up. 0:14:17.240 --> 0:14:21.360 A hill and all this other random stuff. And so, 0:14:21.880 --> 0:14:24.280 as I understand, you go through the boot camp and 0:14:24.280 --> 0:14:25.960 then you pass that, and a lot of you guys 0:14:25.960 --> 0:14:27.040 have been in the military. 0:14:26.720 --> 0:14:29.680 So you know better than me, and. 0:14:28.640 --> 0:14:31.200 You then get assigned to a different unit and different 0:14:31.200 --> 0:14:36.400 branch of the Marines, and you're on your way. And 0:14:36.640 --> 0:14:38.840 I've had a chance to correspond with a number of 0:14:38.880 --> 0:14:40.880 my friends who I've worked with in radio who are 0:14:40.920 --> 0:14:45.120 former Marines and former military, and there's a great rivalry 0:14:45.960 --> 0:14:48.480 between the different branches of the military. One of my 0:14:48.520 --> 0:14:51.720 great friends, Artie Art Martinez, who I worked with, was 0:14:51.720 --> 0:14:54.600 a Fox Sports radio guy, and Art's a proud Marine. 0:14:54.640 --> 0:14:59.080 He was in Desert Storm and has many many military 0:14:59.080 --> 0:15:03.040 stories and he was very excited, very excited. He was 0:15:03.080 --> 0:15:06.280 telling me some of the things about his experience and whatnot, 0:15:06.680 --> 0:15:11.200 and that was great. And there's certain things about this 0:15:11.360 --> 0:15:17.760 that I didn't know about. For example, on MCRD San Diego, 0:15:17.920 --> 0:15:20.880 there is a piece of land which is like the 0:15:20.920 --> 0:15:24.880 Holy Land there the Marine Corps. They have the parade 0:15:24.920 --> 0:15:27.440 Deck they call it, which is just a big field 0:15:27.640 --> 0:15:32.560 of not cement, but it's like it's paved, but it's 0:15:32.600 --> 0:15:35.960 a memorial. It's honored as a memorial to the veterans 0:15:35.960 --> 0:15:39.840 of World War Two, Korea, Vietnam, and the Iraq War. 0:15:40.400 --> 0:15:44.320 And they will not allow you to walk on that. 0:15:44.320 --> 0:15:45.520 That is right in the middle. 0:15:45.520 --> 0:15:48.960 That's where they had the graduation ceremony on Tuesday, and 0:15:49.040 --> 0:15:54.080 there are people standing around it, these military drill sergeant 0:15:54.120 --> 0:15:56.720 people who will scream at you and chase you if 0:15:56.760 --> 0:15:59.560 you walk on this. It's like the flora is lava 0:15:59.680 --> 0:16:04.160 and you cannot cannot talk about that, you cannot do 0:16:04.280 --> 0:16:08.000 it or cannot walk on that rather. So so anyway, 0:16:08.000 --> 0:16:10.960 the graduation was on Tuesday, and went out, had a nice, 0:16:11.920 --> 0:16:15.240 nice meal in San Diego and just learned all about 0:16:15.600 --> 0:16:19.560 the military. So that was why I was away from 0:16:19.840 --> 0:16:23.120 my post behind the microphone for a couple of nights 0:16:23.880 --> 0:16:28.920 this week. The rare and appropriate personal duty called. And 0:16:28.960 --> 0:16:33.720 now you know the rest of the story. The rest 0:16:33.880 --> 0:16:38.240 of the story. So I'll give you occasional updates on 0:16:38.800 --> 0:16:43.200 what happens next. And I believe the next assignment will 0:16:43.240 --> 0:16:45.720 be Camp Pendleton. I think pretty much all these guys 0:16:45.720 --> 0:16:48.200 who graduated boot Camp. I'm not saying anything out of 0:16:48.200 --> 0:16:51.560 school here, you end up going to San Diego's up. 0:16:51.680 --> 0:16:55.000 You go from San Diego up to Ocean Side, which 0:16:55.040 --> 0:16:58.000 is like halfway a little north of Ocean Side, between 0:16:58.920 --> 0:17:02.720 South Orange County and San Diego is Camp Pendleton's massive base, 0:17:02.800 --> 0:17:07.520 which covers up some amazing real estate in southern California. 0:17:07.560 --> 0:17:09.879 So he'll he'll be going there, and then he'll be 0:17:09.960 --> 0:17:12.200 gone for another couple of months, and then eventually he'll 0:17:12.200 --> 0:17:15.440 get assigned wherever he's going to go, and who knows, 0:17:15.440 --> 0:17:18.879 could be anywhere in the United States or Japan, or 0:17:18.920 --> 0:17:22.360 who knows where. I have no idea. He doesn't know, 0:17:23.160 --> 0:17:27.199 nobody knows. It's the mystery of it all, the mystery 0:17:27.320 --> 0:17:29.919 of it all. So very excited for him. This is 0:17:29.920 --> 0:17:33.359 again what he wanted to do. It's his life is 0:17:33.560 --> 0:17:38.720 dream to be in this, and he's getting that dream. 0:17:38.560 --> 0:17:39.680 Started early on. 0:17:39.840 --> 0:17:43.879 So I wish him nothing but success and hopefully this 0:17:44.000 --> 0:17:47.919 leads to amazing experiences and all of that fun stuff. 0:17:48.760 --> 0:17:50.960 So turning the page from that is time now for 0:17:51.040 --> 0:17:53.120 the word of the week. 0:17:53.520 --> 0:17:57.160 That's right, the word of the week on this Friday, 0:17:57.280 --> 0:17:58.520 the twentieth. 0:17:58.080 --> 0:18:04.639 Day of June, and the word of the week is marine. 0:18:04.800 --> 0:18:07.440 I figure it will be appropriate. Yeah right. 0:18:07.480 --> 0:18:11.000 I mean, I just told a story about going to 0:18:11.040 --> 0:18:14.760 see the Marine boot camp facility in San Diego, which 0:18:14.800 --> 0:18:17.120 is as again, I'm amazed at the real estate right 0:18:17.160 --> 0:18:20.119 next to the airport, the views of the skyline of 0:18:20.160 --> 0:18:21.720 San Diego off in the distance. 0:18:21.960 --> 0:18:23.840 We're right on the water. It's just amazing. Anyway. 0:18:24.600 --> 0:18:29.919 The word marine, like much of our language, originates from 0:18:29.960 --> 0:18:35.160 the Latin word marinus, meaning of the sea, belonging to 0:18:35.240 --> 0:18:39.960 the sea. The term is derived from mayor, the Latin 0:18:40.000 --> 0:18:40.760 word for sa. 0:18:41.600 --> 0:18:41.760 Now. 0:18:41.800 --> 0:18:48.440 The term entered the English lexicon through Old French marine 0:18:48.600 --> 0:18:53.560 in the fourteenth century, and originally the word was used 0:18:53.600 --> 0:18:56.159 to describe things related to the sea, such as marine 0:18:56.200 --> 0:18:58.520 life or navigation, like Hey. 0:18:58.400 --> 0:19:00.240 I'm going down to the marine. 0:19:01.000 --> 0:19:04.919 And over time it expanded, as you might imagine, to 0:19:05.000 --> 0:19:12.080 include military context like the Marine Forces or go the 0:19:12.200 --> 0:19:17.520 United States Marine Corps referring to soldiers who serve at 0:19:17.600 --> 0:19:22.840 sea or associated with naval operations. And there are related 0:19:22.920 --> 0:19:27.879 terms such as maritime and which also means of the 0:19:27.920 --> 0:19:32.400 sea and near the sea, and the shares similar origins 0:19:32.480 --> 0:19:37.080 and whatnot. But the word of the week, the word 0:19:37.160 --> 0:19:41.840 of the week is marine marine, and that takes us 0:19:41.880 --> 0:19:44.040 into some food e fun. 0:19:44.840 --> 0:19:46.080 Great for food e fun. 0:19:47.040 --> 0:19:50.600 So these are some actual food deals that have popped up. 0:19:50.720 --> 0:19:52.360 Now most of these are fast. 0:19:52.040 --> 0:19:55.560 Food, because most of us eat fast food. Even I 0:19:56.240 --> 0:19:59.720 rare and appropriate will make a pilgrimage to raising canes, 0:20:00.440 --> 0:20:02.080 although some of you tell me it's not that good, 0:20:02.080 --> 0:20:06.879 but anyway, Del Taco, which is not available everywhere, but 0:20:06.960 --> 0:20:11.800 Del Taco, debuted a new slow cooked pork carnita. Those 0:20:11.800 --> 0:20:14.800 are available now at Del Taco, which is mostly in 0:20:14.880 --> 0:20:18.160 the western part of the United States. 0:20:19.040 --> 0:20:19.920 So you've got that. 0:20:20.400 --> 0:20:24.800 Little Caesars has introduced a new Fantastic four and one 0:20:24.880 --> 0:20:31.320 pizza inspired by Yes, the Fantastic Four. It's a well 0:20:31.359 --> 0:20:36.560 cross promotion with the the movie, and that has been 0:20:36.600 --> 0:20:41.879 available since back on June sixteenth. Now Marvel Studio is 0:20:41.920 --> 0:20:46.240 Fantastic four first Steps will be hitting theaters coming up 0:20:46.280 --> 0:20:49.399 on July twenty fifth, but in advance of that, The 0:20:49.600 --> 0:20:53.920 Fantastic four and one pizza features eight slices made from 0:20:54.000 --> 0:20:56.000 the signature Crust brand. 0:20:56.359 --> 0:20:58.119 You know, the brand signats across. 0:20:58.200 --> 0:21:04.640 Each top, with classic cheese, Pepperoni, Italian sausage and bacon 0:21:05.119 --> 0:21:10.720 and pepper and holopano, all for the suggested price of 0:21:11.520 --> 0:21:15.639 seven ninety nine. This must be a pain in the 0:21:15.720 --> 0:21:19.800 tukis to make. It's gotta be right. So it's two 0:21:19.840 --> 0:21:21.320 of this, two of that, two of that, two of 0:21:21.359 --> 0:21:25.240 that and throw it all together and tada. 0:21:26.200 --> 0:21:27.280 Yeah. Now. 0:21:27.320 --> 0:21:33.200 Additionally, to celebrate the launch, they are partnering Little Caesars 0:21:33.560 --> 0:21:37.359 partnering with Fandango to offer fans who spend twenty dollars 0:21:37.480 --> 0:21:42.359 or more online or in store between this past week 0:21:42.440 --> 0:21:46.280 and then August tenth, they'll get a code for four 0:21:46.359 --> 0:21:48.600 dollars off a movie ticket. 0:21:49.760 --> 0:21:50.359 So you got that. 0:21:50.840 --> 0:21:55.560 If that's your jam, have a great time, knock yourself out. 0:21:55.760 --> 0:21:58.720 What else do we have on foody Fun Now? Wendy's 0:21:59.640 --> 0:22:04.880 has long launched a Talkies Fueg meal with new Fuego 0:22:05.000 --> 0:22:13.560 chicken sandwich and Fuego fries. Fuego at participating restaurants. You 0:22:13.600 --> 0:22:16.919 can have a little spice, a little bit of a 0:22:17.000 --> 0:22:20.800 spice in your life that actually starts today, by the way, 0:22:20.840 --> 0:22:21.920 that starts. 0:22:22.119 --> 0:22:23.440 Today on June twentieth. 0:22:24.440 --> 0:22:30.320 And the new Fuego fries the classic hot and crispy fries, 0:22:30.400 --> 0:22:34.440 tossed them in a tangy chili lime seasoning and serve 0:22:34.520 --> 0:22:37.840 them in a custom limit edition tear away bag for 0:22:37.920 --> 0:22:42.480 easier snacking. So that is available. And they also have 0:22:44.040 --> 0:22:48.520 additional arcade game where you can earn points and unlock 0:22:48.600 --> 0:22:53.479 prizes with a chance to win ten thousand dollars. That 0:22:53.520 --> 0:22:58.240 meal available at Windy's restaurants in Canada beginning June twentieth. 0:22:58.680 --> 0:23:03.919 Prices may vary, so not just in the States, but 0:23:03.960 --> 0:23:05.000 also in Canada. 0:23:06.359 --> 0:23:08.399 So you've got that. What else do we have on 0:23:08.800 --> 0:23:11.720 food he Fun? Ready for food he fun Well? 0:23:11.800 --> 0:23:15.600 Taco Bell has launched a new Crispy Chicken taco and 0:23:15.840 --> 0:23:21.159 burrito featuring all new Crispy Chicken strips, so you can 0:23:21.200 --> 0:23:26.280 get that, put that in in your belly and knock 0:23:26.359 --> 0:23:32.200 yourself out. Sonic has unveiled the new Grillos Pickles Big 0:23:32.280 --> 0:23:37.480 deal meal. That's a mouthful that starts ten days from today. 0:23:37.480 --> 0:23:40.080 It's available for a limited time starting on June thirtieth. 0:23:41.200 --> 0:23:45.440 And I'm good. I know that alf is addicted to pickles. 0:23:45.440 --> 0:23:51.160 He sent us a gift basket of pickle items which 0:23:51.440 --> 0:23:54.960 we're given to other people at the radio station because 0:23:55.119 --> 0:23:58.520 both myself and Eddie not fans of the pickle, but 0:23:58.640 --> 0:24:04.400 other people did did enjoy the pickle, So there was that. 0:24:05.280 --> 0:24:06.399 There was that for sure. 0:24:07.280 --> 0:24:11.320 What else, There's nothing really major. I don't think I'm 0:24:11.320 --> 0:24:13.560 missing anything. I mean, we had a lot of the 0:24:13.560 --> 0:24:17.399 food stuff last week. All right, we'll get out on that. 0:24:17.920 --> 0:24:19.840 I got a big weekend ahead. I will be here 0:24:19.880 --> 0:24:27.399 with tails from a random early morning surprise. I'll tease 0:24:27.480 --> 0:24:31.840 that for the next edition of the podcast. A random 0:24:32.040 --> 0:24:38.720 early in the morning surprise that should not should not 0:24:38.800 --> 0:24:41.840