Speaker 1: Kabbooms.
Speaker 2: If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes
Speaker 2: a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants
Speaker 2: of the Old Republic, a soul fashion of fairness. He
Speaker 2: treats crackheads in the ghetto cutter the same as the
Speaker 2: rich pill poppers in the penthouse.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 2: The Clearinghouse of Hot takes break free for something special.
Speaker 2: The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now.
Speaker 1: In the a eywhere the Fifth Hour with me, Ben
Speaker 1: Malor and Danny g Radio Happy Saturday. Saturday. Saturday is
Speaker 1: the eleventh day of January, and we continue our in
Speaker 1: depth team coverage here on the Fifth Hour. Oh what
Speaker 1: a wacky week it's been with the wildfires here in
Speaker 1: southern California where we are emanating from. Danny was supposed
Speaker 1: to be with me today, but he is away. He
Speaker 1: is producing this podcast. But Danny's away, He'll be with
Speaker 1: us on the Sunday Mailbag podcast. It's a fluid situation
Speaker 1: with the way things have gone this week. In fact,
Speaker 1: last night on Friday night, the Palisades fire, which is
Speaker 1: the biggest of the fires. There's like a fire circles
Speaker 1: Dante's inferno here in Los Angeles and the Palisades fire
Speaker 1: made its way over the hill, heading towards the San
Speaker 1: Fernando Valley. Now we broadcast from the San Fernando Valley
Speaker 1: our studios in Sherman Oaks. If you're familiar with the
Speaker 1: geography of southern California. The fire was headed towards Encino,
Speaker 1: which is the next the next city over from Sherman Oaks.
Speaker 1: But last I saw its early here on Saturday. But
Speaker 1: last I saw they had a pretty good handle on
Speaker 1: keeping it out of that part of the valley, which
Speaker 1: is a tremendously well populated part of Los Angeles. We
Speaker 1: emanate from Ventura and some Pulvida, the corner of Venturnasalvida,
Speaker 1: and it is insane, insane how many people are in
Speaker 1: that area. There are a lot, a lot, a lot,
Speaker 1: a lot, a lot. As far as the whole sporty thing,
Speaker 1: it's concerned because I don't even know if this is
Speaker 1: a sports podcast at this point, I'm not sure exactly
Speaker 1: what it is. It's just about it's the podcast about nothing.
Speaker 1: It's the podcast about nothing. I was watching last night
Speaker 1: as the Ohio State University. You look for that dramatic
Speaker 1: plot twist and there it was Quin Ears, the quarterback
Speaker 1: for Texas, set up the Longhorns about to tie the
Speaker 1: game at Tory, and then all hell broke loose as
Speaker 1: Jack Sawyer with the play of the decade and many
Speaker 1: decades for Ohio State stripping the Texas quarterback is former
Speaker 1: roommate back in the day and returned that fumble eighty
Speaker 1: three yards touchdown. Buck Eys in Ohio State gets a
Speaker 1: twenty eight to fourteen win last night in Arlington over
Speaker 1: the Longhorns in the Cotton Bowl, and that sets up
Speaker 1: a made for TV extravaganza. Ohio State. The Buck guys
Speaker 1: who looked we had all fired their head coach Ryan
Speaker 1: Day after they lost to Michigan, and now they have
Speaker 1: a chance at their sixth national championship. The Buck guys
Speaker 1: and a kid from Ohio making the play there Ohio
Speaker 1: State thirteen to two. They have been the most dominant
Speaker 1: team in the college football Playoff and now they'll take
Speaker 1: on the fighting Irish in all Upper Midwest battle Royal
Speaker 1: Ohio State versus the pride of the State of Indiana
Speaker 1: South Bend, Indiana. Touchdown, Jesus, and that's it. The Southeastern
Speaker 1: Conferences out you have an independent in Notre Dame taking
Speaker 1: on the Big Ten traditional old school Big Ten Ohio
Speaker 1: State for the championship game a week from Monday. A
Speaker 1: week from Monday, it is on now. Later today we
Speaker 1: have NFL Wild Card Action. A reminder, Benny Versus the
Speaker 1: Penny is available. Benny Versus the Penny is available for
Speaker 1: you can check out the latest stylings on Benny Versus
Speaker 1: the Penny available on Peacock, airing all day long throughout
Speaker 1: the country on NBC Sports regional cable channels. Hopefully we'll
Speaker 1: have a chance to watch that. Very proud of the show.
Speaker 1: Otherwise I wouldn't do it, but it was crazy week.
Speaker 1: We talked about that a lot on the Friday podcast
Speaker 1: about having to work out the logistics our studios at
Speaker 1: Universal Studios. We have a little studio there that we
Speaker 1: use to do Benny Versus the Penny. We were unable
Speaker 1: to get in there because of the fires. The studios
Speaker 1: were closed. Hard to believe that doing a television show
Speaker 1: picking NFL games against the spread is not essential, but
Speaker 1: apparently it was deemed non essential. The games today, I
Speaker 1: assume you know the games today, they'll kick off the
Speaker 1: NFL playoffs Wild card Saturday, the Los Angeles Chargers. We'll
Speaker 1: take on the Texans in Houston, and the Chargers a
Speaker 1: three point favorite in that game on the road over CJ.
Speaker 1: Stroud and the Texans. It is interesting to know, then,
Speaker 1: in the eyes of television, that is the least attractive matchup,
Speaker 1: that is the matchup that has no juice, according to
Speaker 1: TV How do we know that it's the first matchup.
Speaker 1: It's kind of like in the baseball playoffs they often
Speaker 1: put if the Blue Jays make the playoffs, or the Royals,
Speaker 1: or that the first game that's played during the day
Speaker 1: is the team least attractive in the eyes of television. Now,
Speaker 1: I do work in television, but barely work in television,
Speaker 1: So I just want to point out that that's just
Speaker 1: what TV pop will say. They they judge us on
Speaker 1: who's got the most juice, who's got that Gennis Aquah,
Speaker 1: who can bring eyeballs to the schoolyard, who can bring
Speaker 1: all the eyeballs to the schoolyard. So the Texans are
Speaker 1: deemed the Chargers also, so that's the first game. Kind
Speaker 1: of like in basketball, they would they would put trying
Speaker 1: to think like the Memphis Grizzlies would play that first
Speaker 1: playoff game, Chargers and Texans again. First game Chargers favorite
Speaker 1: on the road, the Lake game, which I think is
Speaker 1: on Amazon on the Amazon the Pets, Bag Stealers, the
Speaker 1: Insers taking on the Ravens in Baltimore, third times the Charm.
Speaker 1: The Steelers won the first game. The Ravens won the
Speaker 1: second game thanks to some gifts by Russell Wilson. That
Speaker 1: game will kick off later today at eight o'clock Eastern Time,
Speaker 1: and the Ravens a nine and a half point favorite.
Speaker 1: Holy Smokes Batman a nine and a half point favorite
Speaker 1: for the Baltimore Ravens in that game. Are you kidding me? No? Now,
Speaker 1: turning the page from the NFL. On this edition of
Speaker 1: the Fifth Hour podcast, the Saturday Special, We've got the
Speaker 1: cookie drop, the Oldie but a goodie, the code head,
Speaker 1: and the phrase of the week. You phrase the week.
Speaker 1: We'll start with this so we hear doing the show
Speaker 1: from southern California been affected more so than most by
Speaker 1: the by the wildfires. Now I'm fortunate where the Malor
Speaker 1: Mansion is. I'm pretty far removed from the fire zone,
Speaker 1: as I do not live in any place where the
Speaker 1: fires are directly the smoke is is very real. Depends
Speaker 1: if your down range from the from where the fires are.
Speaker 1: The wind changing directions, so we've gotten a fair amount
Speaker 1: of smoke. The wind has calmed down, and it was
Speaker 1: like a haunted mansion. At the Malor Mansion the other night.
Speaker 1: My dog, Moxie, the mox Alatto, freaked me out. Right,
Speaker 1: Moxie freaked me out. Now, I didn't realize this was
Speaker 1: the thing. I'm sitting there getting ready for the show,
Speaker 1: and I'm preparing for the show. The wind is howling.
Speaker 1: It is. I feel like we're in like some kind
Speaker 1: of hurricane or somebody was. It was insane. There were
Speaker 1: hurricane strength winds, whole level hurricane blowing around and everything's
Speaker 1: flying all over the place. And I'm sitting there and
Speaker 1: I'm like, I'm trying to get ready for the show,
Speaker 1: and I'm I'm distracted because I got the I got
Speaker 1: the local news on. They're showing the fires and people
Speaker 1: are panicked and they're leaving and things are burning and
Speaker 1: it's a big to do. And Moxie starts shaking her head.
Speaker 1: She's freaking out with all the wind. My dog mocks you.
Speaker 1: The bulldog starts freaking out right, going crazy and all
Speaker 1: this stuff, and I thought she was having a seizure.
Speaker 1: I was like, I was like, oh, crap, I don't
Speaker 1: know what to do. You know, what do you do?
Speaker 1: You know? I had no idea, so I started googling,
Speaker 1: and it turns out, and I didn't know this because
Speaker 1: this is the first time I ever had a bulldog,
Speaker 1: but the English bulldog they have bulldog head shaking SYNDROMEFFERF
Speaker 1: say what yeah, also known as idiopathic head tremors ihcheese.
Speaker 1: It just carriterized by a sudden episodic head bob, come on, Pippin',
Speaker 1: get your tims up. Tremors or nodding of the head,
Speaker 1: which is what my dog Moxie was doing. The nodding
Speaker 1: of the head. The exact cause of the idiopathic head tremors,
Speaker 1: according to the Internet, is unknown. However, they believe it's
Speaker 1: because of great excitement or anxiety. In this case, it
Speaker 1: appears it was anxiety. So Moxy was freaking out. This big, strong,
Speaker 1: muscular bulldog absolutely freaked out by the wind. And so anyway,
Speaker 1: I was like trying to hold Moxie. Anything be all right.
Speaker 1: But eventually she chilled out and then she just slept
Speaker 1: for like seven or eight hours. My dog, so dog
Speaker 1: just sleeps nonstock just wonderful. If I could sleep as
Speaker 1: much as Moxie man, would life be good. Last week
Speaker 1: I bought a dog and I needed an emotion. Now,
Speaker 1: as far as the cookie drop is concerned, my sister
Speaker 1: in law was one of those that was affected by
Speaker 1: the fire. She lives in the foothills. The Eaton Canyon fire,
Speaker 1: which is not the Palisades fire with the Palisades fire
Speaker 1: was the one that's making its way tried to make
Speaker 1: its way over the hill last night into the San
Speaker 1: Fernando Valley. But the Eaton Canyon fire, which I love
Speaker 1: eating can you used to go hiking there quite a bit.
Speaker 1: I've been there with my dad back in the name
Speaker 1: my older brother. We all went up to the waterfall
Speaker 1: at Eaton Canyon. But that area burned in the Altadena
Speaker 1: area of Los Angeles, and my sister in law and
Speaker 1: my niece and nephew, who I see quite a bit,
Speaker 1: they all had to vacate, so they were at a
Speaker 1: park with some other I don't know, fire refugees I
Speaker 1: guess you'd call them, and a couple of my sister
Speaker 1: in law's good friends lost their homes already, they burned
Speaker 1: down from the fire. So they're trying to figure out
Speaker 1: like what to do, and so they've been staying with
Speaker 1: other relatives, the friends of my sister in law. So
Speaker 1: they had a like a playdate thing at the park.
Speaker 1: And so I as uncle Benny. When your uncle Benny,
Speaker 1: you got to go help the kids. You know, this
Speaker 1: goes to the grown ups can figure out how they're
Speaker 1: going to rebuild their lives. And so Uncle Benny went
Speaker 1: to the park and I was the monster that and
Speaker 1: I make a great monster that was attacking the kids.
Speaker 1: And there's nothing better in life. Because there were kids
Speaker 1: of all age, all the way from one probably to
Speaker 1: like nine or ten, you know, in that age range.
Speaker 1: And there's nothing I love more than a There was
Speaker 1: a one year old kid there, little red headed kid.
Speaker 1: And if you ever ever you know, like an uncle
Speaker 1: or a dad or whatever, if you're around kids, you
Speaker 1: know whatever, and the kid, like, you know how they
Speaker 1: like fake punch you. And then when you act like
Speaker 1: you have been taken by this atomic fist and it's
Speaker 1: you know, just a total body blow body blow and
Speaker 1: you fall back. And to see the pure joy. The
Speaker 1: pure excitement on that kid's face is just outstanding. Right,
Speaker 1: It's just the greatest thing in the world. And sure
Speaker 1: enough I was able to provide that service. And I
Speaker 1: feel like I'm one of the top fake punch guys.
Speaker 1: I could have been a stunt man. I could have
Speaker 1: been a Hollywood stunt man, you know, doing the thing.
Speaker 1: And but it was a lot of fun. And I
Speaker 1: actually I stopped by and made some cinnamon cinnamon raisin cookies,
Speaker 1: cinnamon raising oatmeal cinnamon raisin cookies. Now I was going
Speaker 1: to make chocolate chip. I text my sister in law.
Speaker 1: I said, Hey, what what cookies do the kids want?
Speaker 1: And she said, well, you know they're good with like
Speaker 1: chocolate chip, but your sister in law would love oatmeal raisin.
Speaker 1: So then I realized I had I had some cookies
Speaker 1: I had made for last weekend, and so those were
Speaker 1: kind of laying around. So I had the cookies for
Speaker 1: last weekend, the chocolate chip. They had some walnuts in them,
Speaker 1: and I I said, you know, the kids don't give
Speaker 1: a they don't give a crap whether the cookies are
Speaker 1: fresh or they are a few days old. But I said,
Speaker 1: I make some oatmeal raisin. I'll drop these off, the
Speaker 1: oatmeal raisin or these other cookies the kids will have.
Speaker 1: So that's what I did. So we stopped by. There
Speaker 1: was a like I said, they were a meeting at
Speaker 1: a playground at a park so the kids could play
Speaker 1: and the parents could figure out how they're going to
Speaker 1: deal with the insurance and all the grown up crap,
Speaker 1: and just just absolutely terrible as they got to get
Speaker 1: everything right. All their clothes are gone. Just I mean,
Speaker 1: if you've ever been through that, I know some of
Speaker 1: you have. I've heard email, I've gotten emails from people,
Speaker 1: have heard stories from people who have sent me emails
Speaker 1: about what that's like. So, and the fire is still
Speaker 1: going on from what i've from what I understand the forecast,
Speaker 1: the winds are supposed to pick up here in La
Speaker 1: again I think on Tuesdays. So they only have today
Speaker 1: and Tomorrow and Monday to get this thing under wraps
Speaker 1: before there's another round of fires. And I promise you
Speaker 1: there will be, because it appears that several of these
Speaker 1: fires have been started by arsonists, by people that should
Speaker 1: be sent to be executed by a firing squad. In fact,
Speaker 1: there's an apparently video of two people caught lighting a
Speaker 1: fire with gasoline moments before the Palisades Fire, which is
Speaker 1: the biggest fire in the history of I believe, United
Speaker 1: States in many, many different categories. So there's video of that,
Speaker 1: and there's multiple other fires that have been started by individuals. Now,
Speaker 1: are these people all related? Are these just people who
Speaker 1: are opportunistic who realize what was going on? I mean,
Speaker 1: and it's one of these catch twenty two situations. I
Speaker 1: was texting a friend of mine about this, not to
Speaker 1: get political, however, Yeah, no, we were talking about the
Speaker 1: local news. However you get is whether it's the Internet,
Speaker 1: old school media, television, radio, whatever, they make such a
Speaker 1: big point of emphasis and we're gonna have extreme wind conditions.
Speaker 1: You know, it's being very dangerous, you know, high fire warning.
Speaker 1: Isn't that like a dog whistle to people on the
Speaker 1: spectrum who are up to no good? They're like, oh, look,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be really bad if I were to start
Speaker 1: a fire right about here, and boy, that would be
Speaker 1: really bad, do it. You know, there's a whole bunch
Speaker 1: of Internet conspiracies. Who knows what's true and who's not.
Speaker 1: Who knows what's not. One thing I've learned though from
Speaker 1: the whole COVID thing when they say, oh, it's one
Speaker 1: hundred percent of conspiracy, there's no truth to it. Like
Speaker 1: a lot of stuff people they were saying about COVID
Speaker 1: being conspiracy theories have been proven correct. So just because
Speaker 1: somebody says something is a conspiracy theory does not mean
Speaker 1: it's just a conspiracy theory. That is a way to
Speaker 1: dismiss a claim. That is a way to belittle a claim. Right,
Speaker 1: And so I you gotta you gotta judge things for yourself.
Speaker 1: You gotta you gotta determine what's important, what you think
Speaker 1: is real in your world in the multiverse. Right, So
Speaker 1: that's that's the way that goes. That's the way that goes.
Speaker 1: So we'll see what happens. But apparently this video of
Speaker 1: at least the Palisades fire, which is the biggest, and
Speaker 1: a couple of the other fires, which makes sense, right.
Speaker 1: I know, I know it's going to be devastating to
Speaker 1: the climate change crowd. They're gonna be very upset by
Speaker 1: this because they were really hoping this is just climate change,
Speaker 1: but no, it's opportunistics people. It appears that you would
Speaker 1: not have this number of fires strategically placed all around
Speaker 1: Los Angeles unless some, if not all, of them were
Speaker 1: being started by individuals. And so the pieces to the puzzle.
Speaker 1: We don't have all the pieces, but the pieces we
Speaker 1: have are leaning that direction. We will see. But anyway,
Speaker 1: I brought some cookies over. That was the big cookie drop.
Speaker 1: Now the oldie, but a goodie, the oldie but of goodie.
Speaker 1: So this is in the next month. My wife has
Speaker 1: decided that we ate out a lot in November and
Speaker 1: December because of Thanksgiving and Christmas, and we had a
Speaker 1: lot of events. And so for the next month from
Speaker 1: this point in January until this point in February, right
Speaker 1: around the Super Bowl, no eating out, no restaurants. Every
Speaker 1: meal will be prepared and consumed inside the Mallard kitchen.
Speaker 1: That's how this is gonna go. That's how this is
Speaker 1: gonna go. And so we've been preparing. For example, this weekend,
Speaker 1: we back on Friday, made corn dogs. And the reason
Speaker 1: I made corn dogs because they came up on the
Speaker 1: Overnight Show this week and I was like, I haven't
Speaker 1: had corn dogs in a while. And then I was like, well,
Speaker 1: I can't get one because we're not allowed to go
Speaker 1: to restaurants and normally I get my corn dogs at
Speaker 1: the restaurants. So I told my told the wife and
Speaker 1: so home. So we got the corn meal, We got
Speaker 1: everything we need, the eggs, all that stuff, milk, whatever,
Speaker 1: put it all together, and obviously the hot dogs and
Speaker 1: made some corn dogs. We made some corn and they
Speaker 1: were very good. There were more like corn biscuits than
Speaker 1: corn dogs. There was hot dog in there, but these
Speaker 1: things had a lot of corn meal on them and
Speaker 1: they were really delicious, delicious. And so we're trying different
Speaker 1: recipes and whatnot. But the reason I bring up odie
Speaker 1: but a goodie date line, date line, the hot tub
Speaker 1: time machine. Is it true that a container in the
Speaker 1: Mallard kitchen belongs to the archive of years gone by?
Speaker 1: A container of Morton salt? Morton salt in the very
Speaker 1: back of a cabinet, the Malar Kinchen Malar kitchen. I
Speaker 1: would like you to take a guess. Guess the year?
Speaker 1: Can you guess the year of the salt? All right?
Speaker 1: Inquiring minds would like to know? All right? Reveal answers,
Speaker 1: Reveal answers, pens down, no more guesses. Survey says, how
Speaker 1: about twenty oh four? A container of Morton salt from
Speaker 1: the year twenty oh four in the back of the
Speaker 1: malar cabinet. Now, this was not mine originally, this was
Speaker 1: my dad's. I inherited this when my pops passed away
Speaker 1: a few years ago, and it survived a bunch of
Speaker 1: moves and all kinds of stuff, and there was and
Speaker 1: I was saying about it, like, salt doesn't really go bad, right,
Speaker 1: Why would salt expire? It's salt. It's the salt of
Speaker 1: the earth. So anyway, we were using it, we'd been
Speaker 1: using it. We're not dead, so apparently everything's okay and
Speaker 1: just wild. I was tving like where I was in
Speaker 1: twenty oh four, it's twenty twenty five now, and then
Speaker 1: I'm like, you know, a lot has changed around me.
Speaker 1: I've lost a lot of my friends and my loved ones.
Speaker 1: My parents are both gone. But I was still working
Speaker 1: at Fox Sports Radio in twenty oh four. Like, professionally,
Speaker 1: it's cool. I have a TV show now and that's
Speaker 1: pretty neat and I'm very proud of that. But like
Speaker 1: the radio stuff, I wasn't doing the overnight show. Well
Speaker 1: I was. I was doing the weekend overnight show in
Speaker 1: twenty oh four, and I was filling in. I was
Speaker 1: doing shows with like Chris Myers and people like that
Speaker 1: at Fox. And but that's a long well, I mean
Speaker 1: twenty one years. That salt has been on the shelf
Speaker 1: at a mallor home for twenty one bleeping years. That
Speaker 1: is insane, absolutely insane. Now you know it's also insane.
Speaker 1: Want to tell you a story. Story time on the
Speaker 1: fifth hour. So the other day, a few days back
Speaker 1: in a galaxy far far away, I pull up to
Speaker 1: the iHeart Premiere Network building in the Oaks, Sriman, Oak.
Speaker 1: So I make the long drive from the North Woods
Speaker 1: on many highways and byways, and I'm pulling into the
Speaker 1: parking lot place I've worked for many, many years. So
Speaker 1: I get in there and the very front space, which
Speaker 1: is where I usually park because at night there's not
Speaker 1: many people there. It's a barebone staff. It's a barebone staff.
Speaker 1: So at night I park in the front because I
Speaker 1: get there early, and this space is always open. So
Speaker 1: this space, there were a couple of cones, those orange cones,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm talking about. Yeah, So there's two
Speaker 1: orange cones in the space. And I had seen this
Speaker 1: last couple of days and I was like, well, somebody
Speaker 1: must be fing around, you know, somebody must be moving
Speaker 1: those cones out. So I said, you know, this is ridiculous.
Speaker 1: There's no one here. It's late at night. So I
Speaker 1: stopped my car, I got out, and I moved the
Speaker 1: cones out of the space, and then I backed into
Speaker 1: the space and I'm grabbing my possessions. I have a
Speaker 1: couple of bags I take with me to work, and
Speaker 1: I grab the bags and I'm like, okay, I'm gonna chop, chop.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna get to work and you know, do my thing.
Speaker 1: And all I turn out my peripheral vision to my left,
Speaker 1: I see this, this guy sprinting out and it was
Speaker 1: the security guard for the building, the Conehead security guard.
Speaker 1: I've never seen the security do anything. There have been
Speaker 1: people doing shooting drugs up in their veins in the
Speaker 1: building when I've left, and they haven't stopped them. There
Speaker 1: have been homeless people sleeping in the parking garage, haven't
Speaker 1: stopped him. I saw a guy drive on his bicycle
Speaker 1: in there to break into cars plot because he had
Speaker 1: the tools to break in. They didn't do a damn thing.
Speaker 1: This security guard sprinted out, said what are you doing?
Speaker 1: What are you doing. And I looked at him. I said, well,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm parking my car. He said, you can't park
Speaker 1: you are you allowed to park there? You can't park there?
Speaker 1: What are you doing parking? You can't park there? And
Speaker 1: guy was all flustered. I so, I've worked here for
Speaker 1: twenty five years. I've always parked in this spot. I
Speaker 1: don't know why the cones were there, so I just
Speaker 1: moved the cones and I said, that's there. He says,
Speaker 1: you can't. You're not allowed to park there. You cannot
Speaker 1: part there. So then the guy tells me, and I
Speaker 1: don't think he was supposed to tell me this. He
Speaker 1: says that some some broad right, some woman who works
Speaker 1: the building is paying an extra five hundred dollars a
Speaker 1: month to have that parking space secured in the building. Now,
Speaker 1: keep in mind, I cannot stress this enough. At the
Speaker 1: time I come in, the entire parking garage is wide open.
Speaker 1: Now I get saving a space during the day, the
Speaker 1: building gets very busy. There's a lot of people that
Speaker 1: worked there during the day. But to think somehow you
Speaker 1: need that space reserved overnight is ridiculous to me. It's
Speaker 1: like the dumbest thing I look at the guy. You
Speaker 1: gotta be kidding me. And another guy makes like no
Speaker 1: money and probably you know, this is a guy I
Speaker 1: don't know. Some of the security guards. I get along
Speaker 1: with the one guy, James. He's been there a long time,
Speaker 1: and I just love the guy, like he's great, dude.
Speaker 1: I know his whole story, the whole thing, very positive guy.
Speaker 1: This guy's kind of knew and just the way I
Speaker 1: don't know, the whole the whole vibe thing was like,
Speaker 1: you gotta be kidding me. So it was the to me,
Speaker 1: it was the funniest thing in the world. It was
Speaker 1: just another example of like here we are twenty twenty
Speaker 1: five in an empty parking lot. Literally there was two
Speaker 1: other cars. There's hundreds of parking places in this parking
Speaker 1: garage goes up like eight stories of parking. It's a
Speaker 1: very large car. There's only a few cars in there,
Speaker 1: and this space was reserved. This is so stupid to me,
Speaker 1: but I moved my car. I moved my car, and
Speaker 1: I snickered as I walked by, and I was telling you.
Speaker 1: I was talking to a few people in the building
Speaker 1: and we were like, this is this is crazy, this
Speaker 1: is absolutely nuts. But that's that's what happened. Anyway, why
Speaker 1: do we have the phrase? All we here we go
Speaker 1: the phrase of the week and the phrase of the
Speaker 1: week sent in by Steve O Steveo's New Jersey. He says,
Speaker 1: Ben and Danny, I in the pod, I am not
Speaker 1: that far away from the city that never sleeps. I
Speaker 1: want to know where that phrase came from. Is it true?
Speaker 1: It came from the Sinatra song. That's from Stevo. So yeah,
Speaker 1: this will be the phrase of the week, the City
Speaker 1: that Never sleeps. So I did a little bit of investigating,
Speaker 1: and while it is true the iconic New York New
Speaker 1: York song Frank Sinatra nineteen seventies, late nineteen seventies, he
Speaker 1: said he wanted to wake up in a city that
Speaker 1: doesn't sleep. The phrase is actually much much older than
Speaker 1: the Frank Sinatra song. And you can actually thank the
Speaker 1: United States Postal Service for the phrase the city that
Speaker 1: never sleeps, not some slick marketing firm. No, no, no,
Speaker 1: let's take you back in the DeLorean. We're gonna set
Speaker 1: the year nineteen oh seven seven. It was August of
Speaker 1: nineteen oh seven, big announcement that in Manhattan the mail
Speaker 1: would be delivered at night. That's right, the mail was
Speaker 1: going to be delivered at night. So the New York
Speaker 1: Tribune in New York City, they had a headline that
Speaker 1: read about the mail delivery and said New York City
Speaker 1: a city that never sleeps. That was from the New
Speaker 1: York Tribune around that time. And then later on in
Speaker 1: the early nineteen seventies, the people at City Bank, their
Speaker 1: slogan was the city never sleeps, as in Citi, and
Speaker 1: that was in the nineteen seventies, and then the Sinatra
Speaker 1: song in the late seventies, want to wake up in
Speaker 1: a city that doesn't sleep And so oh, anyway, the
Speaker 1: city for Stebo, the city that never sleeps. The slogan
Speaker 1: of New York City actually from a newspaper headline. But
Speaker 1: you can thank night mail delivery. They were delivering the
Speaker 1: mail at eight o'clock. Big news, big news back in
Speaker 1: the day in Manhattan. And that is that the phrase
Speaker 1: of the week, the city that never sleeps. All right,
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