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: It's a clearinghouse of hot takes. Break free for something special.
Speaker 2: The fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now in.
Speaker 3: The air everywhere back in the podcast dojo, as it
Speaker 3: is our Saturday podcast, Big Night, Tonight, Big Afternoon, actually
Speaker 3: not night, Big Afternoon.
Speaker 1: The Malard Meet and greet is today. I hope you
Speaker 1: heard Andy, the comic book guy who is kind enough
Speaker 1: to open his store to us this afternoon. All that
Speaker 1: information on the Friday podcast, but we're looking forward to
Speaker 1: seeing you. And I'm excited about this podcast because the
Speaker 1: much anticipated return of a man whose life has been
Speaker 1: changed forever. I think we should call this podcast father
Speaker 1: Knows Best, Fatherly Advice. Now from Daddy G Radio, Welcome back,
Speaker 1: Danny G. My man.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, Now, whenever I play the infamous Daddy drop
Speaker 4: on the podcast, it has a whole new meaning.
Speaker 1: Daddy Congratulations man, I'm very excited for you and your
Speaker 1: lovely wife.
Speaker 2: There.
Speaker 1: You guys, everything seems to be going pretty well now, right,
Speaker 1: You got a little bit of a routine at this point.
Speaker 4: It's been a few days of things kind of settling
Speaker 4: down into a routine as far as the baby, eating, pooping,
Speaker 4: diaper change, napping for just a little bit, and then
Speaker 4: waking up and putting it all on repeat.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's quite amazing, the whole thing of life, because
Speaker 1: you start out needing that, and then when you're about
Speaker 1: to check out, if you're lucky enough to live long enough,
Speaker 1: you need people to feed you and to wipe your tooks.
Speaker 1: It's fascinating how that works. But the kid looks great.
Speaker 1: Everything I've seen, all the photos are awesome. You've been
Speaker 1: posting a lot of stuff and so it's it's been
Speaker 1: cool to see. And you've got to get that daily grind, right.
Speaker 1: I guess it's going to change a lot like the
Speaker 1: first few years of the kid. It's every month it changes, right. Yeah.
Speaker 4: It's interesting because you know, because all of a sudden,
Speaker 4: you're more worried about some little human than yourself, and
Speaker 4: you're constantly checking on this baby, even when it's snapping
Speaker 4: because you're like, is he blocking his nose in his
Speaker 4: mouth with his hands?
Speaker 1: What is he?
Speaker 4: You know, you've got your eye on this little baby.
Speaker 4: Twenty four to seven. And then the hospital is like, oh,
Speaker 4: you have your first doctor's appointment the next day. And
Speaker 4: so the next day we're in the car and we're
Speaker 4: taking this kid to a doctor's appointment. And I'm like,
Speaker 4: but we just left the hospital. Why are we back
Speaker 4: at a doctor's appointment. And she's like, oh, you got
Speaker 4: to come back next week too, And I was like, man, shit, this.
Speaker 5: Is going to be never ending. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and make sure you bring your checkbook with you
Speaker 1: when you come back. And yeah, well, because they have
Speaker 1: to do all the measurements right and all. That's like
Speaker 1: it's like buying a car. You got to make sure
Speaker 1: everything's working, all the spark plugs and all that stuff
Speaker 1: are working. Make sure everything's are right.
Speaker 4: It's more like getting a lemon if you got to
Speaker 4: bring it to the mechanic every week.
Speaker 1: That's a fair point. That's a point. Fair point. And
Speaker 1: the other thing which is fascinating is that you know,
Speaker 1: this is obviously we're in a advanced country, but there's
Speaker 1: a lot of people around the world that don't live
Speaker 1: in places like this that are having kids. And methinks, Danny,
Speaker 1: they're not not going to the doctor every week, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean? You know, just it's better off
Speaker 1: doing it. But there is a path to not necessari
Speaker 1: necessarily doing it. And then you have to wait a
Speaker 1: little while to get all like the shots, right, you
Speaker 1: have to get those kid shots at some point, so
Speaker 1: I don't know how long they wait for that. But
Speaker 1: there's a whole there's a whole list they have all
Speaker 1: like a laundry list, right of stuff you have to
Speaker 1: go through step by step with the kid, dude.
Speaker 4: And some of these nurses inside we went to like
Speaker 4: the Mini Kaiser here where we live locally, and the
Speaker 4: nurse who took us back into our room, I swear to.
Speaker 5: God, Ben I'm a doctor.
Speaker 4: She was uncoordinated, she was lost at what she was doing.
Speaker 4: She measured the kid's head in centimeters instead of inches.
Speaker 1: Oh boy.
Speaker 4: We found this out when the doctor came in and
Speaker 4: was like, what whoa You know? The doctor thought the
Speaker 4: kid had the world's largest melon.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: And also she pulled up the computer to try to
Speaker 4: schedule us for all these dumb appointments that probably aren't
Speaker 4: necessary until the kid needs the shots, like you said, yeah,
Speaker 4: because yeah, it's just basically the weigh and measure.
Speaker 5: And my wife he's like, he's eating too much. I'm
Speaker 5: not worried about any of that.
Speaker 4: So she's like, you know, looking in the computer, she's like,
Speaker 4: I don't understand what's going on.
Speaker 5: There is nothing available all next week.
Speaker 4: I don't get it. She was in two thoy and
Speaker 4: twenty two in her computer.
Speaker 1: That would make it a little difficult. But if you
Speaker 1: had a DeLorean, Danny could go back and you might
Speaker 1: be able to worry. So you had any walking disasters
Speaker 1: and nurse that's too bad, Yes, either having a bad
Speaker 1: day or she's just generally be draggled, I guess. So
Speaker 1: then you get at some point you're gonna get the
Speaker 1: I always love the measurables, right that you are the percentile,
Speaker 1: you're in this percentile or that percentile, and they got
Speaker 1: the mat. That's the early analytics, Danny, that's the analytics
Speaker 1: for your son will be or in this percentile for
Speaker 1: or weight or right. I mean, so you got that in.
Speaker 4: The early signs are he will be an NFL linebacker?
Speaker 1: And what team will you be playing for the.
Speaker 5: Las Vegas Raiders are all be very upset.
Speaker 1: Well, by the time your son is twenty in his
Speaker 1: early twenties, when most people play in the NFL, the
Speaker 1: Raiders will likely have moved on from Vegas. They'll move
Speaker 1: on somewhere, don't they move every like twenty twenty five
Speaker 1: years or so. It seems like it.
Speaker 4: Just get us that bullet train that we need and
Speaker 4: it'll basically be part of Los Angeles.
Speaker 1: It's a suburb of LA It's just that's the way
Speaker 1: it is.
Speaker 6: So.
Speaker 1: But I did see the photo your son partaking in
Speaker 1: the family bonding there. You were watching the Raider game.
Speaker 4: It's his first silver and Black Sunday, even though it's
Speaker 4: practiced football. It was Raiders Niners in Vegas where the
Speaker 4: Raiders put the whoop in all over the forty nine ers,
Speaker 4: and he proudly wore his Raider Onesie.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he looked good too. That's a good looking, good
Speaker 1: looking photo there, And I'm sure you will use that
Speaker 1: when he grows up to become a cowboy fan. You
Speaker 1: will use that as evidence to say, from the very beginning,
Speaker 1: before you were even like, you know, two weeks old,
Speaker 1: you were wearing that Raider stuff.
Speaker 4: So I almost feel like Ben that I should pose
Speaker 4: him in lots of different NFL gear. That way, if
Speaker 4: he does finally make it to the NFL Draft someday,
Speaker 4: we can pull out some bullshit story about how he
Speaker 4: grew up a fan of that team.
Speaker 1: That's a great idea. Yeah, that's that's solidesdays. Can just
Speaker 1: photoshop it, but it would be more fun, like with
Speaker 1: you in it. You know, they do like the father's
Speaker 1: son and you get your wife in there, the mom,
Speaker 1: the whole family there. I get the other kids around there,
Speaker 1: and uh yeah.
Speaker 5: I'd dream come true.
Speaker 1: When I was before I even knew what a football was.
Speaker 1: So have you been getting sleep? People have been emailing
Speaker 1: asking I know, we get the mail bag tomorrow, but
Speaker 1: people have been asking Danny about You know a lot
Speaker 1: of guys that have kids. They are like, oh, I'm
Speaker 1: sure Danny's not sleeping anymore. How's he going to handle
Speaker 1: working and all that stuff? So has it been terrible?
Speaker 1: Do you have the the shifts down? Are you doing
Speaker 1: I assume you're doing part of the day and then
Speaker 1: the wife's doing the rest of it. Wrong, how's it work?
Speaker 4: We don't have our schedules down yet because for Monday, Tuesday,
Speaker 4: Wednesday the Covino and Rich Show, and I were doing
Speaker 4: the Dan Patrick Show.
Speaker 1: Pleasure to be here this week for Dan Patrick. Yes,
Speaker 1: there's a there's a piece that comes with you.
Speaker 6: I mean, look at like I said, Jamar Chase is
Speaker 6: having to go to court to tell a one night
Speaker 6: stand to stop bothering my mother, my family.
Speaker 1: He's worried about it. Yeah.
Speaker 6: So no, no, peace of mind better than piece of booty.
Speaker 1: He's not kidding.
Speaker 4: And there was a moment last night where I was
Speaker 4: holding my new son, Koa, and I looked at him
Speaker 4: and I was like, holy crap, what did I do?
Speaker 1: No, I'm kidding. It's such a blessing. There there are.
Speaker 6: Times where you know, you look back and you're like, yeah,
Speaker 6: single days in your twenties or thirties, it's it's a
Speaker 6: lot of fun. But peace of mind you can't beat it.
Speaker 4: As you know, you got to wake your butt up
Speaker 4: at four am for that early morning show. I was
Speaker 4: in the studios by five am and then home around
Speaker 4: brunch time. So when I and when I got home,
Speaker 4: I needed a nap, but first hold the baby and
Speaker 4: wash bottles and relieve my wifey a little bit. She
Speaker 4: has been a trooper. Man, She's doing most of the
Speaker 4: hard work. I'm just her rn, if you know what
Speaker 4: I'm saying. I'm her assistant.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And I mean it's got to be scary, right
Speaker 1: because it's the kids so fragile, right, It's like it's
Speaker 1: got to be like, you know, you will wait a
Speaker 1: little bit till the kid gets bigger, but you got
Speaker 1: to keep an eye on it.
Speaker 4: And man, it's yeah, it's like in high school when
Speaker 4: they made it carry those stupid eggs around. You know,
Speaker 4: I didn't break mine, Thank god I got a good
Speaker 4: grade in that class.
Speaker 5: But it's just like that, and you have this new sense.
Speaker 4: Of worrying about somebody that you have this really strong
Speaker 4: connection to. Immediately the moment he started crying when he
Speaker 4: was delivered.
Speaker 5: Blank my blank and blank you.
Speaker 4: I can't even explain the experience. Strange, almost like how
Speaker 4: do you see? Can't put it into words, And parents
Speaker 4: would always tell me that can't explain it to you,
Speaker 4: you have to go through it. And now that I've
Speaker 4: gone through it, I understand it. Can't really explain it
Speaker 4: except I feel like I have a GPS as I
Speaker 4: get further away from him, closer to work, I'm more
Speaker 4: worried and I have a little more anxiety based on
Speaker 4: the fact that I want to know that he's good
Speaker 4: all the time.
Speaker 1: So now you have to make the house like the Pentagon,
Speaker 1: where you have cameras every or I guess at Vegas
Speaker 1: Casino would be a better I think that more cameras
Speaker 1: in Vegas than they do the Pentagon. Just get air
Speaker 1: camera everywhere, and then when the kid gets a little older,
Speaker 1: you'll put like an Apple tag and air tag, yes,
Speaker 1: inside the kid, just to keep track, just in case
Speaker 1: the kid goes anywhere there you'll be able to keep
Speaker 1: track completely. And that's that's the way to Have you
Speaker 1: been eating regularly?
Speaker 5: Did I know?
Speaker 1: I have heard friends of mine that I've had kids.
Speaker 1: You have a kid, you know you eat a little
Speaker 1: a little more off hours. Has that started for you?
Speaker 1: Or have you been able to avoid the leftovers and
Speaker 1: the cold pizza and the half eaten turkey sandwich and
Speaker 1: that kind of stuff.
Speaker 5: You know?
Speaker 4: It's funny because my in laws brought over these delicious
Speaker 4: lemon cakes. We didn't even eat any of them because
Speaker 4: we were like, okay, that's the kind of crap we
Speaker 4: were eating while she was pregnant, and now the right portions,
Speaker 4: there's like the right proteins on the plate now the
Speaker 4: past few days. And so my girl already has transitioned
Speaker 4: to all right, now, I gotta lose this baby weight.
Speaker 5: I'm healing right now.
Speaker 4: And you know, when she puts her mind to anything,
Speaker 4: she kicks ass at it. So what's going to happen
Speaker 4: now is she's going to go back to eating very
Speaker 4: healthy like she did before she got pregnant. And there's
Speaker 4: not going to be a lot of in and out
Speaker 4: runs anymore the way there was when she was making
Speaker 4: this guy.
Speaker 1: So bad news for the local in and out Burger
Speaker 1: and several other doll Taco bell. Sorry, but that that's over.
Speaker 1: That's over for now. So it's like training camp. You
Speaker 1: got to get back in shape, right, You got to
Speaker 1: get back and that whole thing. And that'll take a while.
Speaker 4: This new weird schedule that I'm creating somewhere in there,
Speaker 4: I have to at least add swimming or you know,
Speaker 4: cardio or something where I'm getting my ass in gear
Speaker 4: again because I definitely also have some baby weight to lose.
Speaker 1: Well, the move here from what I've heard from buddies
Speaker 1: of mine that have had kids, is the three wheeled
Speaker 1: stroller and the pushy pushy and where you go for
Speaker 1: the walk and I don't know, it's not great cardio,
Speaker 1: but at least your body's moving, you're getting out. You
Speaker 1: can take the kid with you. He'll probably sleeping the
Speaker 1: whole time. Make sure it's covered so they don't get
Speaker 1: most of the sun or whatever, but that could be
Speaker 1: the way to do it.
Speaker 4: We have one of those fancy strollers that the kid
Speaker 4: pops off, it turns into a car seat.
Speaker 1: Oh nice.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and the stroller part of it is still in
Speaker 4: the garage. I need to put that part together. So
Speaker 4: I'm sure we'll be ready to take walks next year.
Speaker 1: So are you still in the I don't know if
Speaker 1: honeymoon stage is the right place, but I've I've also
Speaker 1: heard from my friends that have had the kids that
Speaker 1: when you first have the kid, like everyone wants to
Speaker 1: help you out, and then after a while they might
Speaker 1: come and see the kid, but you're kind of you're
Speaker 1: on you know, But I think you're still in that
Speaker 1: nice period right where people like bringing your food and
Speaker 1: stuff and they're like, hey, what can we do let's
Speaker 1: help you out a little.
Speaker 4: It's funny that you ask about that, because that was
Speaker 4: one of my Wifey's takeaways after we got home. She's like,
Speaker 4: where are all the meals that I thought friends and
Speaker 4: friendly would bring over? Instead it was us ordering Instacart
Speaker 4: and doing Costco and ordering from the grocery store where
Speaker 4: you just go park in their special parking space where
Speaker 4: they load the back of your car, you know, Like
Speaker 4: I said her, I said in laws. It was my
Speaker 4: mother in law. She came over with groceries. And then
Speaker 4: my girl's dad came and visited the baby just for
Speaker 4: a few minutes this past weekend, and that was pretty cool.
Speaker 4: And they brought some things, and they brought a nice
Speaker 4: little Costco meal for us. That was nice. But other
Speaker 4: than that, nothing. There's been some things in the mail.
Speaker 4: There was actually a few packages, some clothing from the
Speaker 4: mal Or Militia. Oh nice Camion company. Yeah, yeah, a
Speaker 4: lot of it raiter related.
Speaker 5: That was cool.
Speaker 4: Yeah, there's been things in the mail. It was and
Speaker 4: you back up a few months. It was a really
Speaker 4: cool baby shower and registry and like you and your
Speaker 4: lovely wife gave us a really really cool gift that's
Speaker 4: been in total use right now, and so you know,
Speaker 4: I feel like I feel very grateful for anything that
Speaker 4: anybody gives you to help out, because it is a
Speaker 4: stressful time financially. The fact that we had to do
Speaker 4: some of our own grocery shopping right now not a
Speaker 4: big deal. I think my wife was just kind of
Speaker 4: kidding more than anything, because she was like, I didn't
Speaker 4: think i'd have to be cooking or in the kitchen,
Speaker 4: and I was like, yeah, well you're stubborn. Go sit down,
Speaker 4: I'll make you something. She's obviously the better cook than
Speaker 4: I am, so that's why she wants to get back
Speaker 4: into the kitchen so.
Speaker 1: Badly understandable, you know, from what I've heard, Danny, it's
Speaker 1: a fiasco when you're in the option there. But you know,
Speaker 1: it's certain things like it's really hard to mess up
Speaker 1: air fryer stuff, like you know, it's like that's stuff.
Speaker 1: It's pretty much set it and forget it. It's it's
Speaker 1: hard to have a catastrophe in the kitchen when you
Speaker 1: do the air fire and all that. But anyway, congratulations
Speaker 1: that I'm happy for. It's great and I'm sure we'll
Speaker 1: get many updates on the changing world of your son
Speaker 1: here as we as we move forward. I did want
Speaker 1: to also mention on this being the Saturday podcast the Northeaster.
Speaker 1: I call it the unexpected trip that I had last week,
Speaker 1: and I hope you enjoyed the podcast. We made sure
Speaker 1: to have original podcast even though I was away on
Speaker 1: assignment and I was unable to You were away, Danny,
Speaker 1: because you had obviously your fatherly duties. I was traveling
Speaker 1: and this was not a trip that I had planned
Speaker 1: way in advance. It was only a short amount of
Speaker 1: time and I ended up in Boston. I had a
Speaker 1: great time. I can't really get too deep into it yet.
Speaker 1: Hopefully soon, probably very soon, I'll be able to give
Speaker 1: you some information on it. But it was mostly in Boston,
Speaker 1: but I ended up having a little bit starting.
Speaker 5: The East Coast wing of Chippendale's.
Speaker 1: Yes, I've decided to branch out from being the overnight
Speaker 1: guy and I want to give people nightmares. I'm going
Speaker 1: to start Chippendales for fat guys, for the women who
Speaker 1: love fat men, and I think that's a great way
Speaker 1: to go and what could possibly go wrong with that?
Speaker 1: So Yeah, I was in Boston and I hit all
Speaker 1: the new England States. Though I did not hit Vermont,
Speaker 1: I was gonna see Arnie span Your I figured, you know,
Speaker 1: I was in Boston, I had, I had. I decided
Speaker 1: to stay a little bit longer so I could enjoy
Speaker 1: Boston because I had some work stuff. But and then
Speaker 1: I went to UH I called. I text Arnie. The
Speaker 1: first thing about this, Danny g is now, I used
Speaker 1: to work with Arnie a long time ago. We've known
Speaker 1: each other for way too long. But I went. I
Speaker 1: typed Arnie's number into my phone to text him, and
Speaker 1: I had not sent him a text in over ten years.
Speaker 1: It was like eleven years the last time I sent
Speaker 1: a text, So like, oh man, that's a lot I want.
Speaker 1: I didn't even know it was still this number. So
Speaker 1: I sent a text, and I kind of was vague
Speaker 1: because I wasn't sure. I thought maybe Arnie changed his
Speaker 1: number because it was like an I think it was
Speaker 1: an LA number, and he's in Vermont the area code.
Speaker 1: So I sent him a message and he wrote back
Speaker 1: and he's like, who's this, which tells me he deleted
Speaker 1: my number from his phone, you know what. Either that
Speaker 1: or it was somebody else. So we're going back and
Speaker 1: forth and it turns out it was Arnie. So then
Speaker 1: I'm like, all right, you know, you know I'm in Boston.
Speaker 1: I love to see you, I know, maybe go lunch
Speaker 1: or something dinner. And he's like, he's like, it's like
Speaker 1: two and a half three hours from where I was
Speaker 1: to where he is. And I was like, I don't
Speaker 1: know about that. Yeah, So I didn't do it, but
Speaker 1: I do want to get to Vermont. I will see
Speaker 1: Arnie at some point when I get back to Boston.
Speaker 1: But I didn't get to Vermont. But we made it
Speaker 1: all the other New England states. I the wife had
Speaker 1: not been to Rhode Island. I had been to Rhode Island.
Speaker 1: So we did the full New England one day trip
Speaker 1: from Provident and we drove down to Providence, Rhode Island.
Speaker 1: Here's a fun fact. We went to rent a car
Speaker 1: because I usually did not have a car. So we
Speaker 1: went to this small commuter airport, which is a private
Speaker 1: airport outside Boston, which is where Robert Craft and Bill
Speaker 1: Belichick and Gronk well he used to have he's not
Speaker 1: there anymore, but Belichick and Craft have their private plane,
Speaker 1: and Brady used to fly out of this private airport,
Speaker 1: and so the guy at the rental car place, you know,
Speaker 1: typical Boston, New England guy. You know, he's rapping about it.
Speaker 1: And all these people that come into the airport. You know,
Speaker 1: it's no commercial, it's no public, it's just for some reason,
Speaker 1: they at a rental car place, but it's a private airport.
Speaker 1: And he's like, oh yeah, yeah. Robert Craft comes to
Speaker 1: you know, he's very nice, very polite. You know, everyone
Speaker 1: loves him. Belichick, you know, total jerk. He doesn't talk
Speaker 1: to anybody. And then he was talking about great Gronk
Speaker 1: was and all that. So but got the car and
Speaker 1: then we ended up partly because the Uber driver to
Speaker 1: get to the runner car place is like, oh eh,
Speaker 1: you go down to Rhode Island, you know, And I
Speaker 1: had been to Rade Island. My wife had not been.
Speaker 1: So we ended up driving down to Rhode Island, Providence,
Speaker 1: Rhode Island, capital of Rhode Island, the small estate and
Speaker 1: it's only like it was like forty five miles or
Speaker 1: whatever from where we were. So we drove down there,
Speaker 1: and then my wife had to have breakfast. I'm not
Speaker 1: a breakfast guy, Danny's you know, but my wife's like,
Speaker 1: we got to get breakfast. So we stopped at this
Speaker 1: place in Pawtucket, which was important to me because when
Speaker 1: I was a kid, the Red Sox Triple A team
Speaker 1: was in paw Tucket. So it's always a town I
Speaker 1: had heard of, even though I went to a Red
Speaker 1: Sox fan. But I remember this guy, Kevin Kennedy. Remember
Speaker 1: Kevin Kennedy, the old course, Yeah, the old Red Sox manager.
Speaker 1: He worked at Fox Sports Radio. And Kevin was part
Speaker 1: of a game the past Socks played in which was
Speaker 1: like the longest game in professional baseball history. And so
Speaker 1: I was when I was driving through there, I was
Speaker 1: kind of looking around. I was like, oh, no, I know,
Speaker 1: the team's not there anymore, at least the Triple A
Speaker 1: team's not there anymore. Then we went to We went
Speaker 1: from there, we went back up through Salem. My wife
Speaker 1: loves Salem. That's her favorite town in Massachusetts. Salem. We
Speaker 1: stopped there, it's the famous Witch's Place. And then I
Speaker 1: went to Portsmouth, New Hampshire. I'd never been to New Hampshire.
Speaker 1: It was beautiful, you know. It reminded me of for
Speaker 1: those that have not been like Santa Barbara, but in
Speaker 1: East Coast Santa Barbara, that kind of like a night
Speaker 1: It's like Santa Barbara with that New England flavor to it.
Speaker 1: And then we kept going and we drove up to Portland, Maine,
Speaker 1: and I had never been to Maine. A lot of
Speaker 1: signs to watch out of the moose, a lot of trees,
Speaker 1: and I really liked Portland, Maine. It was I thought
Speaker 1: it was outstanding. It was really cool. A lot of restaurants,
Speaker 1: a lot of bars, a lot of night life people
Speaker 1: out and enjoined them. So the weather was great, so
Speaker 1: it was kind of cool. And then leaving Maine that
Speaker 1: night on the way back to Boston, ended up driving
Speaker 1: through one of the worst rain storms I had ever
Speaker 1: driven through. We we saw we were watching we were
Speaker 1: having dinner at this restaurant in Portland and they had
Speaker 1: the Red Sox game on and there's like a little
Speaker 1: rain at the Red Sox game. They were playing the
Speaker 1: I think they're playing the Royals that night. There's like
Speaker 1: a little rain. It was like, you know whatever, I thought,
Speaker 1: it's not that bad. I don't mind driving in the
Speaker 1: rain if it's not that bad. So we didn't even
Speaker 1: bother looking. I should have looked at one of the
Speaker 1: weather apps. So we get on the road. I stayed
Speaker 1: in Portland, Maine, probably after midnight by the time we Yeah,
Speaker 1: maybe not. I was close to midnight by the time
Speaker 1: we got on the road back to Boston. And so
Speaker 1: I'm driving and all of a sudden starts raining. It
Speaker 1: was kind of a light rain. And then a few
Speaker 1: more miles down the road right right between you know,
Speaker 1: the end of the road from Maine, like the last
Speaker 1: twenty miles from Maine into New Hampshire, and then in
Speaker 1: New Hampshire, just horrifically bad rain, like we were waiting
Speaker 1: for Noah's Ark to pull up alongside us, and just brutal.
Speaker 1: And it was like that for most of the way
Speaker 1: back to Boston. One of the worst decisions I've made
Speaker 1: to make that I should have waited. I was like, ah,
Speaker 1: I let the storm pass, but didn't do it. And
Speaker 1: then I went back to Boston and we had a fine,
Speaker 1: fine day there at the North End. I did all
Speaker 1: the usual spots went down. I actually I took a
Speaker 1: boat tour, not a boat tour, just we cruised around
Speaker 1: a boat in the harbor and did not get to
Speaker 1: a Red Sox game. There were a couple of reasons
Speaker 1: for that. Tickets very expensive, and my brother who drove
Speaker 1: up from New York to hang out, my sister in law,
Speaker 1: and my wife not sports people, So it would have
Speaker 1: just been for me, and it would have been a
Speaker 1: lot of money for people that aren't really like sporty people.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it would have been a waste of money.
Speaker 1: It was just me and my wife. I probably would
Speaker 1: have done it, and I actually had a connection if
Speaker 1: we had been able to go to one of the
Speaker 1: games with the Royals. I actually know I know somebody
Speaker 1: who probably could have gotten some freebies, but I didn't.
Speaker 1: They're playing the Tigers on Friday, and I don't know
Speaker 1: anybody from Detroit. So so that was that. So that
Speaker 1: was my Nor Easter experience. But I we'll have probably
Speaker 1: some more details on that coming up. There's some things
Speaker 1: that may or may not have been left on the
Speaker 1: cutting room floor. Danny.
Speaker 4: Yes, And you know you always learned something on the
Speaker 4: Fifth Hour podcast. You were in the OJ Portland because
Speaker 4: I remember learning in school that Portland, Maine was founded
Speaker 4: much sooner than the West Coast counterpart.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it wasn't the I heard the story too, and
Speaker 1: they were the Portland in Oregon. They didn't they do
Speaker 1: it like a flip. They were gonna call it either
Speaker 1: Portland or was it Portland or Salem or Portland or Boston.
Speaker 1: And they decided on Portland. Weren't they deciding between? I
Speaker 1: think if I remember hearing the story correctly, it was
Speaker 1: like a flip of the coin or a vote or
Speaker 1: something like that. But it was either Portland. They're gonna
Speaker 1: name it off Portland, Maine, or they're gonna name it
Speaker 1: off another New England city like Salem or Boston.
Speaker 4: I think it was like sixty five years that Portland,
Speaker 4: Maine was there before Portland, Oregon.
Speaker 5: So if you ever wonder which Portland came.
Speaker 1: First, now you know the rest of the story, and
Speaker 1: that is not the town called Portlandia that is that
Speaker 1: is different. All right, So here's the history of Portland
Speaker 1: or this is the kind of content you need on
Speaker 1: the fifth hour. This shows you we are versatile, Danny.
Speaker 1: We are very versatile on this podcast. So how did
Speaker 1: Portland get the name? In eighteen forty five, the name
Speaker 1: of Portland was chosen for the community by a coin toss.
Speaker 1: It was a coin. Yeah, they flipped a coin to
Speaker 1: the side and they were versus the coin, says the
Speaker 1: two people involved in this. Oh yeah, I think I
Speaker 1: kind of got most of it right. I think I
Speaker 1: think I got kind of We're just talking on my ass.
Speaker 1: I think I got a lot of it right. So
Speaker 1: the site of the future city of Portland, Oregon, was
Speaker 1: known as American, Canadian and British, known to American, Canadian
Speaker 1: and British traders, trappers, and settlers going back to the
Speaker 1: eighteen thirties early eighteen forties. It was known as the
Speaker 1: Clearing and it was small stopping place along the west
Speaker 1: bank of the Big River there used by travelers to
Speaker 1: go between Oregon City and Fort Vancouver. And so there
Speaker 1: was a Tennessee pioneer William Overton and Boston, Massachusetts lawyer
Speaker 1: Assa love Joy. I believe I might have been mispronouncing
Speaker 1: the first name Asa Asa. Is it Awsa Awesome? I
Speaker 1: don't know anyway, So this is a person of Tennessee,
Speaker 1: person from from Boston, and they they were trying to
Speaker 1: figure out what to call it. And Overton sold his
Speaker 1: half of the claim to this other person, Francis Petty
Speaker 1: Grove of Portland, Maine, and they flipped a coin to side.
Speaker 1: Petty Grove won, and then this guy loved Joy, sold
Speaker 1: his half of the land and the rest is history.
Speaker 4: It would have been great to be alive back then
Speaker 4: because we would have been millionaires.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you could have just named crap after yourself or
Speaker 1: whatever you felt like and have a fine time.
Speaker 5: Right, Tom, cruise on a horse. Then just plant your
Speaker 5: flag in the land that you.
Speaker 1: Want exactly, exactly. Why don't we have the phrase of
Speaker 1: the week. You want the phrase of the week, Danny,
Speaker 1: I know you need the phrase of the week. Let's go, Well,
Speaker 1: this is your bally Hood. Return to the podcast. You're
Speaker 1: much bally Hood. Return to the podcast. And the phrase,
Speaker 1: which actually the word of the week this week is
Speaker 1: bally Hood, bally Hood.
Speaker 4: So I only have a little production piece where it's
Speaker 4: me and with echo saying phrase of the week.
Speaker 5: This is word of the week.
Speaker 1: Yeah, this is totally different. This is nothing like the
Speaker 1: phrase of the week. Okay, nothing, let me.
Speaker 5: Do a remix. Then the word of the week.
Speaker 1: The word word word word is bally Hoo. It's a
Speaker 1: fun word. It's in my lexic. I don't use it
Speaker 1: all the time. I use it occasionally. I'll probably use
Speaker 1: it more after this on the Fifth Hour podcast. So
Speaker 1: bally Who is a word that dates back only to
Speaker 1: the eighteen hundreds. It's not that old. The word it's
Speaker 1: it's common usage is dated back to nineteen oh eight.
Speaker 1: It's from circus carnie slang, and it's supposed to be
Speaker 1: a short sample of a side show. So bally who
Speaker 1: is circus jargon for a short sample of a sideshow.
Speaker 1: It was used to lure customers in the early nineteen hundreds,
Speaker 1: and that's the origin. It obviously goes back further than that.
Speaker 1: The word was used in a various colloquial senses. They
Speaker 1: say the word experts in the eighteen nineties. And there's
Speaker 1: even a town, a village in County Cork, Ireland. Bally
Speaker 1: Hooley is the name of it, which scen Ireland dates
Speaker 1: way back before nineteen hundred. But they don't know for
Speaker 1: sure where the phrase originally started other than the common usage,
Speaker 1: which comes from America. They say they're in nautical lingo.
Speaker 1: Bally who was a sailor's contemptuous word for any vessel
Speaker 1: they disliked. They actually took it from a Spanish word,
Speaker 1: So there you go. The word of the week, not
Speaker 1: the phrase of the week. The word of the week,
Speaker 1: the word of the week, Bally who. It is Saturday today, Danny,
Speaker 1: I have the big Mallard meet and greet, and you,
Speaker 1: of course have father duty today. So I will be
Speaker 1: at a comic book shop with Andy, the comic book guy.
Speaker 1: Eddie's going to be there for one hour. So if
Speaker 1: you want to see Eddie and you're hearing this in
Speaker 1: the morning, you want to be there from two o'clock
Speaker 1: till three o'clock. I'll be there till from two until
Speaker 1: at least four o'clock. If people are still hanging out,
Speaker 1: I'll stay longer than that if people want to talk
Speaker 1: to me. Otherwise I'm gone. But I plan I'll be
Speaker 1: on at least till four impossibly longer, and I will
Speaker 1: be baking. I'll be bringing I should say I already
Speaker 1: baked them. I'll be bringing Danny my homemade chocolate chip cookies.
Speaker 1: And I saw this.
Speaker 4: I saw this on your post about the event, and
Speaker 4: it made me want to pack up my week and
Speaker 4: a half old baby and come join the fun.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, oh yeah, could be a rock star there.
Speaker 1: But so I'm baking the cookies, and I'm using a
Speaker 1: hack that I got from Alf the Alien Opiner. So
Speaker 1: if the cookies suck. I'm gonna blame out. But alf
Speaker 1: is on TikTok. He's a cool hipster on TikTok. Seah,
Speaker 1: I'm not on TikTok, but he sent me this video
Speaker 1: on how to. People said my cookies were too flat,
Speaker 1: so I need to fatten up my cookies. I need
Speaker 1: to have my cookies stand attention. So I there's a
Speaker 1: little hack. We'll see how it goes, and I'm gonna
Speaker 1: make as many cookies as it gonna make. And then
Speaker 1: when we run out of cookies, that's it game, you know.
Speaker 5: So some Aaron Rodgers mushrooms to fatten those babies up.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, and uh and that's it. So we'll
Speaker 1: put the baby to bed and we'll have another podcast
Speaker 1: on on Sunday. So we'll be back with the mail bag.
Speaker 1: And I also have some other stuff we can mix
Speaker 1: into the Sunday podcast. We have pop Goo's the Culture.
Speaker 1: There's some Safari Kingdom stuff that's in there as well.
Speaker 1: So we got a lot of stuff for you, including
Speaker 1: the mail bag on Sunday. Right, well, chat with you then.
Speaker 5: Can't wait mail mother Sucker and later Skater Gotta murder.
Speaker 5: I gotta go