Speaker 1: Kutbooms.
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. Wow, the clearing House
Speaker 2: of hot takes break free for something special. The Fifth
Speaker 2: Hour with Ben Maller starts right now.
Speaker 1: In the air everywhere, The Fifth Hour with Me, Big
Speaker 1: Ben and Danny g Radio on this first day of June.
Speaker 1: With a bunch of goofy holidays and whatnot here, but
Speaker 1: we're hanging out with you on a Saturday, Saturday Saturday
Speaker 1: celebrating which is I would say the most important. There's
Speaker 1: a bunch of these dopey holidays every day, but the
Speaker 1: one that's most important to me and dearest to my
Speaker 1: heart is Flip a Coin Day. Today is Flip a
Speaker 1: Coin Day?
Speaker 3: Oh the passion?
Speaker 1: Right, that's right? Three June, first most important day in history?
Speaker 1: Is it heads or is it tails? Is it heads
Speaker 1: or is it tails? And today I know who decided
Speaker 1: we need a day for that? I don't know, but
Speaker 1: somebody did. And here we are a perfect way. If
Speaker 1: you have a fifty to fifty option, do you go
Speaker 1: right or do you go left? Flip a coin. That's
Speaker 1: all you gotta do. Flip it in the air, flip
Speaker 1: it everywhere there you go. Do you know that Portland,
Speaker 1: Oregon was named via a coin toss? That's true. I
Speaker 1: think it was either gonna be Portland or Hartford.
Speaker 3: I think I learned that on this very podcast.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think we talked about them in the back
Speaker 1: in the day. But yeah, a coin toss also decided
Speaker 1: if the brand Hewlett Packard or Packard Hewlett, and they
Speaker 1: went with Hewlett Packard.
Speaker 3: You know what else had decided? What is that whether
Speaker 3: or not my older brother was going to give me
Speaker 3: a Charlie horse on my left shoulder or my right shoulder.
Speaker 1: How about this, though, I'll one up you. I'll one
Speaker 1: up you. Going back to Roman days, the legend is
Speaker 1: that the great Joyous Caesar, who later on would be
Speaker 1: known as the naming of Caesar's Palace. I don't think
Speaker 1: his family's getting any money his relatives, but Joyous Caesar
Speaker 1: forty nine BC, the Roman leader Juius Caesar used a
Speaker 1: coin to make very important life decisions. So many of
Speaker 1: the great Roman successes are because of the way the
Speaker 1: coin landed. So yeah, how about that the great Julius Caesar.
Speaker 1: You don't want to mess with Julius Caesar, man, you don't.
Speaker 1: It worked for him. So it is National flip a
Speaker 1: coin Day today. So really, my TV show, I hope
Speaker 1: it comes back. I don't know for sure yet. Either way,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm waiting to hear back from the network executives
Speaker 1: on what the show comes back. But if it does
Speaker 1: come back, I'll have to work in Julius Caesar's name. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'll have to.
Speaker 3: I would be surprised if your TV show doesn't return
Speaker 3: because there were dozens of yours.
Speaker 1: How dare you? How dare you? I did tell the
Speaker 1: people at NBC. I said, listen. I mean most of
Speaker 1: my people can't afford cable television. Can we get on
Speaker 1: the streaming? Can we get on the peacock? So I
Speaker 1: don't know. We'll see if they actually listen to or not.
Speaker 3: Like what's up Amazon, You're shitting this money all over
Speaker 3: the place by this show.
Speaker 1: Well, I'm wor at NBC spent all their money on
Speaker 1: the basketball because they're getting the NBA rights years I'm like,
Speaker 1: there's no money for Benny versus the Benny. I'm like,
Speaker 1: wait a minute, I I need some fricking money here.
Speaker 3: For not even going to have money for inside the NBA.
Speaker 1: They better find a way. I think Barkley's gonna end
Speaker 1: u at NBC. I don't have any insider information.
Speaker 3: Yeah, did you see when he was on the Dan
Speaker 3: Patrick Show he said that he and his production company
Speaker 3: are going to try to hire all the guys and
Speaker 3: go independent.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean why not. I mean, Barkley got f
Speaker 1: you money. He can't take it with you when you die.
Speaker 1: You might as well enjoy your buddies and get paid
Speaker 1: to do it. And yeah, I mean sure absolutely. It's
Speaker 1: also here's another dope, Holly. Its National Billboard Day today,
Speaker 1: So that's that's been.
Speaker 3: I have really good radio memories with billboards.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I have someone I have some good memories too
Speaker 1: with billboards. Were you ever on a billboard like I was?
Speaker 3: I broadcast an entire morning show in the same pose
Speaker 3: that I was on the billboard.
Speaker 1: That's great. We we had we did a bit one
Speaker 1: year back in the I think it was in the nineties.
Speaker 1: My god, dating myself, but the Clippers had a shocking
Speaker 1: of Danny had had a terrible team. We're losing a
Speaker 1: bunch of games. We were the Clips, so we put
Speaker 1: our morning update woman. We put her on a billboard,
Speaker 1: camped out until the Clippers won a game, and it
Speaker 1: became like a big thing, like the local TV morning
Speaker 1: news shows showed up to you know, here's an update.
Speaker 1: She's still on the billboard. They put a tent up there,
Speaker 1: and it was the plan was she'd be up there
Speaker 1: for like a couple of days. But the Clippers kept losing.
Speaker 3: So, yeah, that's the wrong that's the wrong team.
Speaker 1: In the nineties, it sure was, but it was very problematic.
Speaker 3: Was a candy man on the team.
Speaker 1: It was around that time. It was around that time.
Speaker 1: Needless to say that the promotion went a little bit off.
Speaker 1: The tracks did not go so well. But so you
Speaker 1: were on a billboard. I never I was supposed to
Speaker 1: be on a billboard, but they did not include me
Speaker 1: on I've never been on a billboard, so.
Speaker 3: I got to be Basically I got to be on
Speaker 3: that billboard twice, right next to the one on one
Speaker 3: Freeway and beautiful Ventura, California. The other time, one of
Speaker 3: my morning show co hosts was planning a wedding, and
Speaker 3: he kept bitching about what a mess it was trying
Speaker 3: to coordinate everything and how his fiance was getting on
Speaker 3: his nerves with a wedding planning. And I looked at
Speaker 3: him and I'm like, why don't we just marry you
Speaker 3: guys on our station billboard? And we all kind of laughed.
Speaker 3: We looked at each there and we're like, daw, that's
Speaker 3: a good radio stunt. So we set it all up.
Speaker 3: Took a couple of weeks. We even got recording artist
Speaker 3: war and g to be the best man. It's the
Speaker 3: show stood up there as the best man, uh, and
Speaker 3: we broadcast the entire thing had tory. Yeah, like the
Speaker 3: whole thing. The wedding took place up on the thing
Speaker 3: that you stand on, yeah watch McCully.
Speaker 1: Yeah thing, the thing that.
Speaker 3: You could stand on right underneath the yeah big sign.
Speaker 3: And dude, if you're scared of heights, that is no
Speaker 3: fun to be up there clowning around like that. But
Speaker 3: I remember also we got a complaint from the Ventura
Speaker 3: PD because we stopped traffic on the one oh one
Speaker 3: from all the lookie loudes.
Speaker 1: He was like, hey, Blue, we're warning that is cool.
Speaker 1: That's a good memory. That's a solid memory. And if
Speaker 1: you don't like billboards, you need to go to Santa Barbara. Yeah,
Speaker 1: because they do not allow billboards. There are no billboards.
Speaker 1: There are no poll signs, there's no neon signs. They're
Speaker 1: not allowed in Santa Barbara. No poles in the sea.
Speaker 1: They keep everyone off the pole. In Santa Barbara.
Speaker 3: They do not experiment rhino there.
Speaker 1: Well, hello on this pot. We got mister Maler's Wild Ride,
Speaker 1: Piano Man, the Gang Tackle, and we get to the
Speaker 1: phrase of the week, pop culture. You got some other
Speaker 1: things to get to, but we'll start with this. So
Speaker 1: this past weekend, I had what was just going to
Speaker 1: be a standard, normal night, standard normal night. It always
Speaker 1: starts out like a normal night. Then it goes sideways. Say,
Speaker 1: this is the worst roller coaster ride ever. So I'm
Speaker 1: cruising and I'm driving on the Highway twenty two, which
Speaker 1: is the twenty two, which is not normally not normally
Speaker 1: a road I travel on. But we had to run
Speaker 1: an erran, me and the wife and the family. So
Speaker 1: we're out. We're running an errand and we're right near
Speaker 1: If you're familiar with southern California, which most people who
Speaker 1: listen to this podcast are not. An amusement park which
Speaker 1: is very cheap to go to, by the way now,
Speaker 1: and it's like four payments of thirteen dollars you can
Speaker 1: get a season passed a knots Berry Farm. Yes, so
Speaker 1: we're cruising in that area around knots Berry Farm and
Speaker 1: just normally my wife's driving because I was a little tired.
Speaker 1: So the wife's driving, I'm in the passenger seat, and
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, kaboom, whoa what happened? And I
Speaker 1: see this piece of something go flying in front of
Speaker 1: the car and roll off to the side of the road.
Speaker 1: And I realized, wait.
Speaker 3: A minute, it was a dead body.
Speaker 1: I would have made this even worse. That was the
Speaker 1: right front tire of the car that we were driving
Speaker 1: had come off the car and was blown to smithering.
Speaker 3: What don't tell me this is that same jinxed car
Speaker 3: that you guys. No, this is a different car.
Speaker 1: So here's the thing though, So my wife's driving, I'm like,
Speaker 1: all right, get pull it. We're in in the fast lane,
Speaker 1: but we're not in the car poolane. So we're in
Speaker 1: the fast lane, we're not in the car poolane, So
Speaker 1: I'm like, get pull over to the left because that
Speaker 1: was the close. I just get off the road. Pull
Speaker 1: over the left. We got to get off the road.
Speaker 1: So she very calmly pulls over. She did a great job.
Speaker 1: So this is a holiday weekend, right, people are zooming
Speaker 1: all over the place. So we're we call. She contacts
Speaker 1: the auto club because I didn't want to get out
Speaker 1: change the tire. I mean, it's my god, we're I
Speaker 1: mean it's cars zooming by. So we're sitting there waiting
Speaker 1: in the auto clubs like, oh, we'd be there in
Speaker 1: thirty minutes, you know, but we're sitting there. We can't
Speaker 1: go anywhere, but we're inches away. This is the most
Speaker 1: heart pounding experience I've had. You know how crazy people
Speaker 1: drive on a holiday weekend. Everyone's driving eighty five ninety
Speaker 1: ninety five miles an hour. It's the autobhn and you're
Speaker 1: a sitting duck and I'm I'm the one on the
Speaker 1: passenger's side, so I'm not that it matters that we
Speaker 1: get hit. We're both you know, it game over, game
Speaker 1: over for the Malor family. So we're like less than
Speaker 1: a foot away because the car wasn't all the way
Speaker 1: over to the to the left hand side. It was
Speaker 1: still a little bit of you know, room in between
Speaker 1: zoom zoom zoom, and my heart is I'm like, man,
Speaker 1: this is this is wild. So we again try to
Speaker 1: get an update from Triple A and you know, thirty
Speaker 1: minutes whatever. So finally my wife, she knows what to
Speaker 1: do in these situations, not panic like me, So she
Speaker 1: calls nine to one one. She's like, hey, we got
Speaker 1: you know, we got a situation here. And so fortunately
Speaker 1: the California Highway Patrol came very rapidly, and I am
Speaker 1: responsible for a traffic break. Well I wasn't the tire
Speaker 1: blew out on mister Mahler's Wild Ride or the Mallard
Speaker 1: Family wild Ride. So the CHP does a traffic break
Speaker 1: and I'm like, I'm still like, I know, you're not
Speaker 1: supposed to drive on just the rim, right, didn't we
Speaker 1: learn that, Danny when we were.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, we learned that from riding our bikes as well.
Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly, you're not supposed to ride on. So my
Speaker 1: initial thought was I put my hand out the window,
Speaker 1: on my head out the window and say I'm yelling
Speaker 1: at the CHP. We can't drive anywhere because we don't
Speaker 1: have a tire. And the cops like, he gets on
Speaker 1: the speaker, just drive. He's like, just drive. You got
Speaker 1: through your rim, He's all. We did traffic and it's
Speaker 1: head spy. We did a traffic big dummy, get off
Speaker 1: the damn road. So we drove.
Speaker 3: So is that where they zigzag in front of all
Speaker 3: the cars and make everybody slow down.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, they did a traffic break for us. And
Speaker 1: then they so they told everyone to stop. They stopped
Speaker 1: the traffic. Then they come up and they didn't come
Speaker 1: up right next to us. They used to bullhorn the megaphone.
Speaker 1: They're like, hey, pull all right, the traffic stop. Pull
Speaker 1: its safe, pull over, like the right side of the road,
Speaker 1: get off the highway right now. And so we did.
Speaker 3: And this is a good life lesson. I didn't know
Speaker 3: that that is what you should do in that situation.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean we really had no choice. I couldn't.
Speaker 1: Neither one of us could get out of the car.
Speaker 1: It wasn't safe. And I've seen too many videos on
Speaker 1: so the media of people getting hit by trying to
Speaker 1: get out of the car and change a tire, and
Speaker 1: then somebody whether they're drunk or not they come over, and.
Speaker 3: Just just a lot of people not paying attention while
Speaker 3: they're at the wheel exactly.
Speaker 1: Futsing around with their phone or whatever. And so it was.
Speaker 1: It was quite a hair raising experience. And I do
Speaker 1: want to point out that while I was waiting, once
Speaker 1: we got off the road and I was out of
Speaker 1: harm's way for the most part, got on the tire,
Speaker 1: I did go to the tire I've done so many
Speaker 1: tire rack commercials, Danny. I went to the tire rack
Speaker 1: dot com website and I went to try to in
Speaker 1: my head, I'm trying to figure out, all right, how
Speaker 1: much is this these tires? How much these tires going
Speaker 1: to cost me? Yeah, So I went on there. I
Speaker 1: was I was shopping on tire rack dot com because
Speaker 1: I put my the name of the car, the mate,
Speaker 1: make ear and all that stuff, and then they give
Speaker 1: you all these different options on what kind of tires
Speaker 1: you can get for your specific car, whether you want
Speaker 1: tires for speed cruising and whatever, weather tires, and so
Speaker 1: it was. It is a good resource to look at
Speaker 1: and kind of shop around and price what you what
Speaker 1: you want and what you need.
Speaker 3: And that's how I got my handcooked tires. You know,
Speaker 3: I'm going to isolate this part of the podcast and
Speaker 3: shoot it over to Scott, our boss, and I'm sure
Speaker 3: he will hobnob with the tire rack people.
Speaker 1: No, it's true.
Speaker 3: I mean I don't know. I know, that's why it's
Speaker 3: a cool story.
Speaker 1: I know my wife. My wife was like, what are
Speaker 1: you doing. I'm like, well, I just want to see
Speaker 1: what this is going to cost me. I mean, they
Speaker 1: got all the tires here on tire recks, So I
Speaker 1: mean I've done the commercial.
Speaker 3: I was going to say, you read their live commercials
Speaker 3: so much, you probably haven't memorized pretty much.
Speaker 1: I mean, at this point, I have the main name
Speaker 1: brands I have. I have memorized for sure. I mean
Speaker 1: I could literally play the piano, Danny, and I can
Speaker 1: recite like a piano man. I can recite all the
Speaker 1: different tire brands.
Speaker 3: Yeah, look at that professional segue. Last weekend, as you know,
Speaker 3: got to broadcast live from Tempe, Arizona.
Speaker 1: Now, I will tell you, Danny, I've been to Arizona
Speaker 1: many times. I would say the hottest people are in
Speaker 1: Tempe and Scottsdale in terms of as as.
Speaker 3: Far as their blonde girls and long legs.
Speaker 1: A lot of first round draft picks, as we used
Speaker 1: to say back in the day, some lottery picks.
Speaker 2: Women.
Speaker 3: Guys we've worked with the are like, there's a lot
Speaker 3: of talent. A lot of talent, yes, a lot of
Speaker 3: high end talent. We saw some of that right right
Speaker 3: when we landed at the Phoenix airport. There was a
Speaker 3: group of nine girls and they were there for a
Speaker 3: bachelorette party. And we know this because they were talking
Speaker 3: very loudly. They were waiting at the baggage claim. They
Speaker 3: were discussing how they were gonna split the bills on
Speaker 3: this trip, and one of them said, don't worry, I
Speaker 3: have an app on my phone and it's gonna split
Speaker 3: all the bills nine ways evenly. And you know, we
Speaker 3: have nothing to worry about. And Rich came over and
Speaker 3: he's like, get a load of these chicks. He's like,
Speaker 3: they're not used to paying for themselves. So when they're
Speaker 3: all together and they got to pay for their own
Speaker 3: drinks and stuff, they watch every single penny.
Speaker 1: How do you think that would go, Danny? If they
Speaker 1: were on dates, what do you think they would, oh,
Speaker 1: come on, yeah, yeah, they'd order everything and not a concern.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So we get to the hotel, we did the
Speaker 3: live broadcast, great audience participation.
Speaker 1: Looked like a really cool crowd.
Speaker 3: It was. It was a great crowd, yeah, really good,
Speaker 3: good turnout. Great sounded good on the air, and then
Speaker 3: we did a happy hour from four to six pm.
Speaker 3: Even more listeners showed up because obviously they were getting
Speaker 3: out of work and everything for the holiday weekend. So
Speaker 3: then there's always at these graduate hotels remotes, there's always
Speaker 3: like a little group of listeners that stays for the
Speaker 3: after after party for show. All right, yeah yeah. They
Speaker 3: told me they're like, okay, let's regroup downstairs in a
Speaker 3: half hour. So I go up, I change my clothes,
Speaker 3: I go downstairs, exit. Boom, that hot heat hits me,
Speaker 3: Like I had no idea. It was like eighty something
Speaker 3: degrees out here, and this is the evening time, and
Speaker 3: here in California, we're a bunch of woosies because we
Speaker 3: get the ocean breeze. Right yeah.
Speaker 1: Sure.
Speaker 3: So there's about fifteen listeners standing there and Rich says
Speaker 3: we're gonna walk the neighborhood. We're gonna walk to some bars.
Speaker 3: And I was like, all right, I like the bars part.
Speaker 3: I don't know about this walking part. So we walk
Speaker 3: about five city blocks until we get to some of
Speaker 3: the big hotels there, like Omni and Weston. We go
Speaker 3: up to the top like a skyview bar, and we
Speaker 3: watched the Western Conference finals game. It was cool. It
Speaker 3: was like a kind of a fufu. It was a
Speaker 3: little too fancy for our likings. So the ringleader, the
Speaker 3: guy that he does a morning show in Phoenix, that's
Speaker 3: a buddy of theirs, told them, hey, let's leave. He's like,
Speaker 3: we'll have one more drink at a piano bar down
Speaker 3: the street. Now, Rich Davis from Covino and Rich his
Speaker 3: eyes lit up. He was all about a piano bar, like, yeah,
Speaker 3: a piano bar. And I'm thinking to myself, oh man,
Speaker 3: this is like a Caucasian dude's dream right here, like
Speaker 3: a wet dream for a dude who loves to dance
Speaker 3: at weddings. Right sure, So we walked to this piano
Speaker 3: bar called low Key. You go down these steps, it's
Speaker 3: really cool. It's almost like you're walking into a secret
Speaker 3: jazz club, except when we get in there, there's nothing
Speaker 3: secret about it. The girls look like they're dressed for Hooters,
Speaker 3: but in darker colors that I saw her booms. Now
Speaker 3: I'm a believer. All right. That's the first thing we notice.
Speaker 3: There's a strange mix of clientele. A bunch of people
Speaker 3: turning twenty one with college aged parties, and then a
Speaker 3: bunch of old people who look like they're at their
Speaker 3: last hurrah, like last Supper, yes, last Vegas. Yeah, all right,
Speaker 3: so it was a very strange mix. And then there's
Speaker 3: like dueling pianos and one guy on a little drum
Speaker 3: set and they are playing like all the white people
Speaker 3: classics racist, whatever song you hear at a wedding where
Speaker 3: all the white people get out there and start doing
Speaker 3: the chicken dance, Dad is what they are playing. Hell, yeah,
Speaker 3: Covino was. He was standing there like cool, standing by
Speaker 3: the bar there, and I had the best laugh, man,
Speaker 3: because Billy Joel piano man comes on. Rich Davis jumps
Speaker 3: out of his seat and he is dancing in front
Speaker 3: of the stage band. I thought I was at a
Speaker 3: really bad wedding.
Speaker 1: Now what level of intoxication were we at this point
Speaker 1: or was this without intoxication.
Speaker 3: I feel like he would have danced like this to
Speaker 3: piano Man even if he was sober. But I want
Speaker 3: to say at this point he was probably five drinks in, gotcha.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so he was feeling pretty good.
Speaker 3: He was, he was, and so he's the whisper and
Speaker 3: he was, oh, he was dancing and snapping his fingers.
Speaker 3: It reminded me of Step Brothers, where that Billy Joel
Speaker 3: Singer was one at the motherfucking Catalina wine mixer. Oh yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: Oh it was awesome, Ben, it was. It was such
Speaker 3: great entertainment. And if you get a chance to go
Speaker 3: out with Rich Davis at one of our events, do it.
Speaker 3: Not only is he a really good dude, but so
Speaker 3: fun to be out in the night life with. I
Speaker 3: love a party. And when the song ended, he looked
Speaker 3: like a sad puppy, like it's over see. He goes
Speaker 3: up on the stage and this was the move. If
Speaker 3: you want these guys at the pianos to play your song,
Speaker 3: write it down on a little piece of paper with
Speaker 3: a twenty dollars bill and put that in the tip jar. Okay,
Speaker 3: so Rich writes mister Jones on a piece of paper
Speaker 3: with a twenty and puts it in that jar. We
Speaker 3: all want to leave at this point. Now it's midnight,
Speaker 3: where like We've had a long day of travel and broadcasting.
Speaker 3: We're like, man, let's go, it's time to go. Now,
Speaker 3: time to call it a night. And Rich was like,
Speaker 3: I'm not leaving until he plays mister Jones. So we
Speaker 3: stood there for another thirty thirty five minutes. Finally mister
Speaker 3: Jones comes on. The guy that the one of the
Speaker 3: two guys that was singing it. His voice was cracking.
Speaker 3: He couldn't hit that range of that song. Yeah, and
Speaker 3: Rich was shaking his head. He said, I waited a
Speaker 3: fucking half hour for this.
Speaker 1: Well, he paid twenty bucks for it, though, I mean, yeah,
Speaker 1: you paid twenty bucks. You're gonna stay till that song
Speaker 1: is played? Yeah, he walked, pay twenty bucks, you're gonna stay.
Speaker 3: He went from so high to solo. We walk outside.
Speaker 3: We spotted a pizza pie by the slice place that
Speaker 3: was open. Oh perfect, Yeah, we went in there. The
Speaker 3: guy who owned the joint had Baltimore raven stuff all
Speaker 3: inside this pizza place, so it was like a slice
Speaker 3: of Baltimore in Tempe. And so we, uh, we had
Speaker 3: some pizza, walked back to the hotel. It was a wonderful,
Speaker 3: wonderful night, but I'm never gonna forget the low key
Speaker 3: piano bar, because that is where I saw Rich Davis
Speaker 3: go nuts to piano.
Speaker 1: Man, I don't fake the funk. I guess he's gotta
Speaker 1: kee him away. It's like he gets near water and
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, man, stuff happens. It's like a
Speaker 1: Gremlins Now, was that right or rest being a water Tempe?
Speaker 1: That beautiful Tempee Lake thing they got there? Were you
Speaker 1: near that?
Speaker 3: Oh we saw Yeah, we saw that from the skybar.
Speaker 1: Very cool. I didn't. I don't know how long that's
Speaker 1: been there. I used to go to Arizona for spring
Speaker 1: training years ago, when you know, I was around the
Speaker 1: Angels and stuff, and I don't remember seeing that when
Speaker 1: an Angels train in Tempe. I don't remember seeing that there.
Speaker 1: But I was there for the Super Bowl. Is that
Speaker 1: this year? I guess last year? And it was really
Speaker 1: like beautiful.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a reservoir, Tempe Town Lake.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it's really really cool. They did a great job.
Speaker 1: It is the fifth Hour, as you know, and we
Speaker 1: have a tradition. I like words phrases, So let's get
Speaker 1: to the phrase of the week, the phrase of the week,
Speaker 1: praise of the week. This week is elevator pitch. I
Speaker 1: do use this dandy in my lexicon.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I hear this. I actually hear this
Speaker 3: one a lot.
Speaker 1: Yeah, elevator pitch. This is one of the great word
Speaker 1: origins phrase origins that we've had doing this podcast. So
Speaker 1: you know who Elijah Otis is? Do you know who
Speaker 1: Elijah Otis is?
Speaker 3: The guy who does social media for our network.
Speaker 1: No, this is the owner of the Otis Elevator Company.
Speaker 1: All right. So back in the eighteen hundreds, when elevators
Speaker 1: first became a thing, right, they were a death ride
Speaker 1: that many of the elevators were not made well. The
Speaker 1: cables would break and if the lift broke, the people
Speaker 1: in the elevator would plummet to their deaths. You can
Speaker 1: imagine that, And so people were so freaked out they
Speaker 1: had the HEB GBI's and the eighteen hundreds when these
Speaker 1: elevators came about, that they would just avoid the elevators.
Speaker 1: As a result of that, the rent on those higher floors,
Speaker 1: you know, if like you go to Manhattan and the
Speaker 1: very top of the building that has the view of
Speaker 1: Central Park is ridiculously expensive, which is ridiculously expensive, and
Speaker 1: so you have that and because back in the day
Speaker 1: that was the opposite. The most expensive floors were the
Speaker 1: lower floors because you didn't have to walk up a
Speaker 1: bunch of flights of stairs. But once the elevator became
Speaker 1: a thing, then they could charge more and people didn't
Speaker 1: have to climb stairs. But anyway, bring that up, because
Speaker 1: Elijah Otis was the owner of the Otis Elevator Company,
Speaker 1: and he figured out a way to get people to
Speaker 1: ride elevators. He had pioneered some new technology at the time.
Speaker 1: This is a mid eighteen hundreds eighteen fifty three, and
Speaker 1: it was a failsafe, meaning that if something went wrong,
Speaker 1: you wouldn't die. The elevator would stop and someone could
Speaker 1: come bail you out of the elevator. And it was
Speaker 1: more like a wagon spring attached the cables that held
Speaker 1: it in play until it could be fixed in someone
Speaker 1: rather than its snapping and falling and all that. And
Speaker 1: so in order to make a demonstration to prove to
Speaker 1: people that hey, you're not going to die in this,
Speaker 1: he was so confident of this technology that he arranged
Speaker 1: a bunch of media to come out at this big
Speaker 1: public spectacle to show everyone how effective this elevator was.
Speaker 1: And he used himself as the guinea pig. He used
Speaker 1: himself as the crash test dummy. He stood on the
Speaker 1: platform as it went up several stories in the air.
Speaker 1: He then this is wild. He used a knife to
Speaker 1: cut the elevator cable. The people watching screamed in horror,
Speaker 1: thinking they were about to witness the man's death. But
Speaker 1: he didn't die. He didn't die. And now if you
Speaker 1: ever go into an elevator, chances are the name Otis
Speaker 1: to this day is it's the Otis Elevator Company. And
Speaker 1: it's still to this day on almost every elevator I
Speaker 1: go into, the Otis name is there, and it's you
Speaker 1: know that without that, that was the original elevator pitch.
Speaker 1: Of course, now in modern times, Danny, it's more about
Speaker 1: if you're in Hollywood where we live.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, giving somebody your idea very quickly, because it's
Speaker 3: just a short elevator ride with the executive.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you got like half a minute or so to
Speaker 1: try to convince some big studio mogul. You're you're playing right, like, yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, Jeffrey Katzenberg or whatever is in an elevator, right,
Speaker 1: here's my movie and uh, you know here's what I
Speaker 1: want to do and blah blah blah blah blah. So
Speaker 1: the phrase of the week. I think that's a pretty
Speaker 1: good origin.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a really good one. Elijah Otis Man had
Speaker 3: no idea.
Speaker 1: What a dared devil? What are the things you do
Speaker 1: to sell your product? And if you died, we wouldn't
Speaker 1: have the otis name all over the elevators, But there
Speaker 1: it is, elevator pitch the phrase of the week.
Speaker 3: This would be like getting herpes on purpose to show
Speaker 3: that the elixir that you have really works.
Speaker 1: Oh so so so so so good. All right, I
Speaker 1: think we'll get out on that dandy. We don't want
Speaker 1: to go too long here because you have things to
Speaker 1: do and I have things to do. It's the first
Speaker 1: day of June, as we said it, the first of
Speaker 1: the month. Get out and enjoy the good weather. At
Speaker 1: least we have good weather. I don't know about where
Speaker 1: you are, but usually not that bad. I did see
Speaker 1: some wild storms in Texas. I did see that, so
Speaker 1: a few places have bad ones.
Speaker 3: And did you see how Barkley got fooled last week
Speaker 3: on he thought it was snowing in Minnesota and somebody
Speaker 3: said the video that somebody sent him. It was actually cottonwood.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I saw the video from the Twins game. It
Speaker 1: did look like it was snowing, but you got to
Speaker 1: pay close attention because the people in the crowd were
Speaker 1: not dressed up in winter conditions exactly.
Speaker 3: It was a seventy degree day in Minnesota at the
Speaker 3: Twin game, but it was cottonwood seed that was flowing
Speaker 3: down from the sky, so it looked kind of like snow.
Speaker 1: But yeah, the best part of my favorite part of
Speaker 1: that was the rest of the TNT night. It was
Speaker 1: Charles Barkley or was Shaquille O'Neal and Kenny Smith. It
Speaker 1: was like, shaq your big gummy, that's an Auburn education
Speaker 1: right now.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they were busting as chops as well as the
Speaker 3: viewers with all their tweets and everything.
Speaker 1: That was pretty fun, really really good, really really good.
Speaker 1: All Right, we'll have a great rest of your Saturday.
Speaker 1: We'll have a mail bag on Sunday and well anything
Speaker 1: you want to promote Danny on a Saturday here, you're good, yes.
Speaker 3: Yeah, just this podcast. Man, make sure that you tell
Speaker 3: a friend send this podcast the link to this podcast
Speaker 3: to two friends or family members. Yeah, it's like a
Speaker 3: disease spread it.
Speaker 1: Maybe one of them will actually click it, you know,
Speaker 1: and all we need what do we need, Danny? How
Speaker 1: long do they have to listen for?
Speaker 3: Five minutes?
Speaker 1: Five minutes we get credit. That's it. Five minutes, were good, that's.
Speaker 3: All all of us. We're all looking for new podcasts
Speaker 3: and entertainment. So when I know, whenever I send recommendations
Speaker 3: of TV shows and podcasts to family members or friends,
Speaker 3: they like it because they're like, oh cool, thank you,
Speaker 3: I'll put it on my list.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Well that is the famous line Danny. Right. The
Speaker 1: most important advertising is word of mouth advertising. Yes, sir,
Speaker 1: I know we're you know, restaurants. Yeah, if you recommend
Speaker 1: a restaurant, I'm like, oh, he says, that's pretty good.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go check that out, right, you know, I
Speaker 1: want to see what that's all about.
Speaker 3: So and he let them listen and decide if they
Speaker 3: want to spit it out.
Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly. And and and we're not supposed to say
Speaker 1: this part out loud, but as long as you turn
Speaker 1: the podcast on, whether you actually actively listen or not,
Speaker 1: I mean, we're fine with that. We want you to listen.
Speaker 1: But if you don't we get the five minute credit anyway,
Speaker 1: Like I don't think they care if the audio is.
Speaker 3: Up or not.
Speaker 1: But have me wonderful rest of your day and we
Speaker 1: will chat with you tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow later.
Speaker 3: Skater my flation