Speaker 1: Cutbooms.
Speaker 2: If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes
Speaker 2: a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants
Speaker 2: of the old Republic, a soul fashion of fairness. He
Speaker 2: treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the
Speaker 2: rich pill poppers in the penthouse. Wow, it's a clearinghouse
Speaker 2: of hot takes. Break free for something special. The Fifth
Speaker 2: Hour with Ben Maller starts right now.
Speaker 3: In the air everywhere, The Fifth Hour with Me, Ben
Speaker 3: Maller and Danny G Radio Happy Saturday. As we are
Speaker 3: recording this live on tape. I like to say that
Speaker 3: because it used to annoy Tom Looney when I did.
Speaker 1: The stuff with him. Oh you can not live blo tape.
Speaker 1: But whatever. Anyway, it is the twelfth day of April.
Speaker 3: We have made it till Saturday, and Danny G is
Speaker 3: back in the hissy. As we hang out here on
Speaker 3: this glorious Saturdays, I was thinking, maybe we do a
Speaker 3: sporty podcast. Danny, I'm like, well, like, what's the big
Speaker 3: NFL story Joe Flacco.
Speaker 1: Going to the Browns.
Speaker 3: I don't know that I needed to mention that on
Speaker 3: the I guess I just mentioned it, but I Drew
Speaker 3: Locke going back to Seattle.
Speaker 1: That does not exactly stir there.
Speaker 4: I have one for you. How about your boy Derek Carr.
Speaker 4: After he and his agent told the Saints, hell, no,
Speaker 4: we won't take a pay cut, Suddenly he is hurt.
Speaker 4: What is it? His shoulder?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah, I saw you.
Speaker 4: He need Yeah, And they think he's not going to
Speaker 4: be able to play at all. So who is it
Speaker 4: going to be? Rattler? No, they're going to now draft
Speaker 4: a quarterback.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Well, that reminds me of one of the great episodes
Speaker 3: in Laker history, back when I used to go out
Speaker 3: to those games with Shaquille O'Neill. And do you remember
Speaker 3: in the Shaq Kobe days there was one season that
Speaker 3: Shaq came back and waited to get.
Speaker 1: Surgery until the season like began.
Speaker 3: Yes, And you remember the quote he says, I got
Speaker 3: hurt on company time. I'm gonna heal on company time.
Speaker 3: And it drove Phil Jackson. Those those people are crazy,
Speaker 3: but that was his line. I got hurt on company time.
Speaker 3: Somebody hill in company time, and that the Derek Carr thing,
Speaker 3: that is a good story, I'll admit I it wasn't
Speaker 3: at the top of my head. But the Derek Carr thing,
Speaker 3: it's it's like when did he hurt his shoulder? Like
Speaker 3: all of a sudden, you need shoulder surgery in April.
Speaker 3: The season ended for the Saints in early January, they
Speaker 3: didn't make the playoffs, and so now you need surgery.
Speaker 1: It's like.
Speaker 4: Fishy going on.
Speaker 1: Well this and it does happen.
Speaker 3: Look, the Atlanta Braves signed Jerkson Profar to a contract
Speaker 3: when chances are pretty good it's more likely than not
Speaker 3: that he knew he was going to fail h He
Speaker 3: had already failed the PD test and he got forty
Speaker 3: million dollars from from the Atlanta Braves. He's gonna miss
Speaker 3: half the season, he won't be able to play in
Speaker 3: the playoffs.
Speaker 1: I know it's not an.
Speaker 3: Injury, but it's it's a similar scam. And I looked
Speaker 3: it up for a monologue this week, Danny. The Jerkson
Speaker 3: Profar contract one of my favorite fun facts of the week,
Speaker 3: that he got forty two million from the Atlanta Braves.
Speaker 3: And if you look up the Loofs Tanza heist. You
Speaker 3: know that famous heist from the airport in New York.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the cargo.
Speaker 3: They made movies about it. In Today's money. It would
Speaker 3: have been like four million dollars or something like that.
Speaker 3: It's a very small amount. So Jerks and Profar actually
Speaker 3: got more than the Luftanza heist from the Atlanta Braves
Speaker 3: by a lot.
Speaker 1: Like going to him close close and all that.
Speaker 3: But on this podcast, we've got the cheesy goodness when
Speaker 3: the legend isn't the fact. We'll check the report card,
Speaker 3: we've got no bullets, phrase of the week, all kinds
Speaker 3: of stuff, but we'll start with this. It is Saturday,
Speaker 3: and today is National Grilled Cheese Sandwich Day, Danny Grilled
Speaker 3: Cheese Sandwich Day, And.
Speaker 4: Well that goes perfect ben for what I woke up
Speaker 4: to on this early Saturday morning. My wife and and
Speaker 4: a couple of kids had some parmesan tomato soup last night. Okay,
Speaker 4: and I didn't partake, but they left me some, so
Speaker 4: I heated it up in the microwave as we were
Speaker 4: getting set to broadcast the podcast. So in front of
Speaker 4: me is a pipe and hot bowl of parmesan tomato soup.
Speaker 4: What goes better with that than a grilled cheese.
Speaker 1: Damn right, damn right?
Speaker 3: And fun fact, bonus fun fact, the modern grilled cheese sandwich.
Speaker 3: We are told, Danny that we still enjoy today that
Speaker 3: you're hopefully going to enjoy here originated about one hundred
Speaker 3: years ago, in the nineteen twenties. And they don't know
Speaker 3: exactly who the first person to combine the bread and
Speaker 3: cheese was, but the modern success they credit otto Frederick
Speaker 3: Wahwetter raw Bedwetter. Oh see see if she probably wasn't
Speaker 3: Beadweather when he was a kid. Rohwe d r. He
Speaker 3: invented the bread slicer during the Industrial Revolution, the Gilded Age,
Speaker 3: Gilded Age, and that invention, you know, dividing bread up
Speaker 3: and all that stuff, making it affordable or affordable and
Speaker 3: all that stuff, and that meant cheese could be transported
Speaker 3: over long distances and not spoiled.
Speaker 1: Yummy, Yeah, very yummy, mars so very yummy.
Speaker 3: And the term grilled cheese originated in the nineteen sixties.
Speaker 3: How about that. That's only that that phrase, you know,
Speaker 3: that's a long time ago.
Speaker 4: That's when you were born.
Speaker 3: No no, I was born in two thousand and five.
Speaker 1: I think I'm twenty years old right now.
Speaker 3: But the first reference to a melted cheese sandwich was
Speaker 3: nineteen oh two.
Speaker 1: The French word for it nineteen ten or so.
Speaker 3: But it really was the the nineteen twenty seven culinary revolution,
Speaker 3: the bread slicing.
Speaker 1: Machine that opened up the world to what we have today.
Speaker 3: And so there we are, cheesy celebrated appropriately with grilled
Speaker 3: cheese and a little life hack as the wife is
Speaker 3: able to make the grilled cheese. Put the cheese on
Speaker 3: the outside also not just the inside.
Speaker 4: Oh man, missus Malard's grilled cheese sandwiches are some of
Speaker 4: the best I've ever had.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they're solid. Don't eat them that often. That great
Speaker 1: for you. But when I ate them, man, outstanding, out standing.
Speaker 3: Now, some people like to cut their grilled cheese up
Speaker 3: and they like to put it like a little fondu
Speaker 3: type situation, you know, the sandwich, dip it in the
Speaker 3: cheese fondue and a little pot of cheese, and that's
Speaker 3: cheese on top of cheese and top of cheese, and
Speaker 3: that's extra.
Speaker 1: Cheesy goodness is what is now.
Speaker 3: I did want to mention this when the legend isn't
Speaker 3: the fact. Now, there's a phrase that I use from
Speaker 3: time to time, when the legend becomes the fact. Go
Speaker 3: with the legend the man that shot liberty balance. But
Speaker 3: when the legend isn't the fact? And I have an example. Now,
Speaker 3: we love doing this podcast. We do it every weekend.
Speaker 3: It's a labor of love, Danny, and we also get
Speaker 3: paid for it on not much, not much, but on Friday,
Speaker 3: Saturday and Sundays. We do this podcast today being Saturday,
Speaker 3: and we'll have another one tomorrow and we do radio.
Speaker 3: You're on with Colvino and Richard in the week I
Speaker 3: got the Overnight show and so we do that a lot.
Speaker 3: We've been we're radio nerds. We've both gotten a radio
Speaker 3: when we were young. Danny was younger than I was.
Speaker 3: I started when I was nineteen in radio. Danny, you
Speaker 3: were like fifteen.
Speaker 4: Or ything, like fifteen years old.
Speaker 3: Yep, yeah, you're you're a young punk. And we love radio.
Speaker 3: We've always loved radio. And over the years, the public
Speaker 3: perception I blame Joe Rogan for this is that podcasting's
Speaker 3: cool and radio.
Speaker 1: Is not right, and that's the legend.
Speaker 3: Now you know lately it's podcastings where all the cool
Speaker 3: kids are and all that stuff. And well it turns
Speaker 3: out when the legend isn't the facts. We get this
Speaker 3: information all the time, and there was a big information dump.
Speaker 1: It came and I think we're allowed to say this stuff.
Speaker 1: I don't think this is bad stuff to say. I mean,
Speaker 1: who knows, nobody told me not to say it? How
Speaker 1: about that?
Speaker 3: But when the public messaging doesn't line up with the reality.
Speaker 1: Of the situation.
Speaker 3: Another terms for that, people will say, you know, disinformation.
Speaker 3: You can maybe say it's an urban legend, modern folklore
Speaker 3: and all that.
Speaker 1: So I bring this up just to.
Speaker 3: Show you the power that regular radio still has. According
Speaker 3: to research, this goes to the fourth quarter of twenty
Speaker 3: twenty four, and it's the power of the radio dial.
Speaker 3: And they found that AMFM old school, oh your boomer,
Speaker 3: your old head, still accounts for eighty six percent of
Speaker 3: listening within a car for Americans eighteen plus eighty six
Speaker 3: percent of listening in the car and most if you
Speaker 3: went up to the average person Danny on the street
Speaker 3: and you said, hey, you know how many people are
Speaker 3: listening to podcast or you know, streaming music even rather
Speaker 3: than radio, there's this misconception. I would think that most
Speaker 3: people would say, well, podcasting or streaming music, but according to.
Speaker 1: The research, it's not true. While pretty crazy.
Speaker 4: We talked about some of the numbers last weekend, remember
Speaker 4: and this backs up our conversation.
Speaker 1: Yeah, for sure. They broke it down even further.
Speaker 3: It's an hour's worth of US AD supported audio consumption.
Speaker 3: Am FM represented forty one point two minutes of listening
Speaker 3: out of an hour. Now podcasts worse second, but only
Speaker 3: about eleven minutes. Now, my one of my podcast mentors
Speaker 3: taught me that a podcast is only supposed to be
Speaker 3: like about thirty.
Speaker 1: Minutes right around. We try to keep this to about
Speaker 1: thirty minutes.
Speaker 3: And the reason we do that is because the talk
Speaker 3: is most people listen to a podcast. Maybe you're on
Speaker 3: the gym or you're working out or something like that,
Speaker 3: and you work out for about thirty minutes.
Speaker 1: So it's like you're supposed to do a prep about
Speaker 1: thirty minutes or whatever. So that's why we do this.
Speaker 3: Some of the other stuff they broke down, the Spotify
Speaker 3: was on there serious XM, but just for a couple
Speaker 3: of minutes. And then Pandora Pandoraly got one point nine
Speaker 3: minute per minutes per hour. So I thought those numbers
Speaker 3: were interesting, and it shows you the still the overall number,
Speaker 3: it's sixty nine percent audio time spent among people eighteen
Speaker 3: plus sixty nine percent to the AMFM radio, and then
Speaker 3: podcasting is second, and then after podcasting, it's it falls
Speaker 3: off the map.
Speaker 1: There's just not not a lot going on, Danny. After
Speaker 1: not a lot going on, for sure, but no juice. Yeah,
Speaker 1: definitely no juice.
Speaker 3: And I know I haven't been in school in a
Speaker 3: long time because I was a bad student and all
Speaker 3: that stuff. But somewhere when those teachers that gave me
Speaker 3: C plus's dandy, I want them to know that those
Speaker 3: C pluses, I'm still working, So screw you.
Speaker 1: That's what I and c's get degrees, Danny. That's the
Speaker 1: most important.
Speaker 4: Thing, right man. We've been having issues with our fourteen
Speaker 4: year old for a couple of school years now because
Speaker 4: there was a possibility that she was going to have
Speaker 4: to be kept back in the eighth grade for another
Speaker 4: go around, and that's a kid's worst nightmare. We finally
Speaker 4: threatened her, We said, think about this, your friends are
Speaker 4: going to be freshman in high school and you're going
Speaker 4: to do the eighth grade over again in middle school.
Speaker 4: Lo and behold, as my mom always used to say,
Speaker 4: she started to study. She gets home now, actually goes
Speaker 4: up to her room, and the first thing she does
Speaker 4: is homework.
Speaker 1: Ben.
Speaker 4: She had a D, she had an F, she had
Speaker 4: a C. She didn't even have a C plus on
Speaker 4: her last report card. We really had to, you know,
Speaker 4: get her fired up for school.
Speaker 1: Did you did you offer a financial reward or just threatening? Right? Yeah?
Speaker 4: You know, smart or evil minds think alike, because yes,
Speaker 4: Brenda did offer her five hundred dollars.
Speaker 1: Whoa wow.
Speaker 4: She offered her five hundred dollars if she could get
Speaker 4: straight a's. And Brenda kind of laughed after she said that,
Speaker 4: because it's like, there's no way in hell you're ever
Speaker 4: going to get straight a's. But the progress reports came
Speaker 4: out yesterday, and I have the progress report right here.
Speaker 4: Are you ready?
Speaker 1: Reveal answers, Reveal answers.
Speaker 4: All right, humanities, don't ask me what that is. I
Speaker 4: think it's like social studies C plus all right, Algebra introductions.
Speaker 4: It was an F last time, C.
Speaker 1: C plus all right.
Speaker 4: So she's trying to get that five hundred dollars. It
Speaker 4: looks like new media art. That's like them teaching kids
Speaker 4: photoshop E A plus.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's hard to f that one.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: And King, she's stuck with her devices in front of
Speaker 4: her face at all hours of the day and night.
Speaker 4: We knew she'd be good at that class. Pe. You
Speaker 4: can't mess up Pe, right. You would think she had
Speaker 4: a C last time in Pe because she was being lazy.
Speaker 4: She got that up to a B.
Speaker 1: All right, good lunch.
Speaker 4: There's no grade next to it. I don't even know
Speaker 4: why they put that on.
Speaker 1: I always got the top of my class. I was
Speaker 1: going on school based.
Speaker 4: Uh, that's been so good. Then finally and then finally,
Speaker 4: finally science. That was a side that was a C
Speaker 4: minus last time she raised it to a B minus.
Speaker 4: Oh good, So she's she's moving in the right direction.
Speaker 4: At least she's gonna be able to graduate and you know,
Speaker 4: whatever small graduation they do from eighth to ninth grade.
Speaker 3: But is there gonna be Is there gonna be a
Speaker 3: side deal because she, uh, that's a that's a funny
Speaker 3: thing your wife did, because yeah, she knew she never
Speaker 3: had five hundred.
Speaker 1: But if she if she gets b's, that's doable.
Speaker 3: Would they be like, well, we'll give me half or
Speaker 3: something like that?
Speaker 1: A side situation here?
Speaker 4: And yeah, this is like if we started the show
Speaker 4: talking about Derek Carr, this would be like if you
Speaker 4: put an incentive in his contract. We'll give you ten
Speaker 4: million extra dollars if you take us to the super Bowl. Yeah,
Speaker 4: of course, uh not gonna get the straight a's. But
Speaker 4: this is just the progress report. This is not the
Speaker 4: official report card yet. So she has a chance to
Speaker 4: get these c pluses raised up, and then I'm sure
Speaker 4: her mom will give in a little bit and give
Speaker 4: her some of that money based on the different classes
Speaker 4: where she raised those grades up. And this weekend, in fact,
Speaker 4: later today, we're gonna pack up the car and we're
Speaker 4: gonna take her to Laguna Beach to the shops there
Speaker 4: and her mom for the effort she's put in, her
Speaker 4: mom's gonna let her shop with a one hundred dollars bill.
Speaker 4: She was really excited about that. She's like, you didn't
Speaker 4: get five hundred yet. I'll give you one hundred dollars
Speaker 4: for your work and effort you put in, and you
Speaker 4: can go shopping this evening in Laguna Beach.
Speaker 1: Nice. Look at that little South O s action.
Speaker 4: Yeah, except today with inflation, you can get two items
Speaker 4: for one hundred dollars. She'll probably get two little bracelets
Speaker 4: and it'll be like seventy five bucks.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it'll they'll be made out of like paper or something. Yeah, handmade,
Speaker 3: handcrafted and all that. Wow, well no bullets, no bullets.
Speaker 3: Now we had a I call it Mal's law. Some
Speaker 3: people say it's Murphy's law. But anything that can go
Speaker 3: wrong will go wrong the other night. So it started out,
Speaker 3: let's go back in the way back machine. A few
Speaker 3: days ago and I was getting ready for the show.
Speaker 3: And I have a routine that I do. I normally
Speaker 3: lay down on the sofa, I have the TV on,
Speaker 3: watching some games or whatever.
Speaker 1: I've got my dog, Moxie. I'm a bulldog who lays.
Speaker 3: On the lays on the feet. And then I'm getting
Speaker 3: ready for the show. And so when I do the
Speaker 3: show from the remote studio, it involves you know, I
Speaker 3: don't have to hurry up and rush into the studio
Speaker 3: or anything like that to drive in.
Speaker 1: When it's a remote broadcast, I have a lot of
Speaker 1: extra time.
Speaker 3: I don't spend, you know, a long time in the
Speaker 3: car driving in from the north Woods, and saves me time.
Speaker 1: And so so I'm getting ready for show and.
Speaker 3: Futs to around there putting everything together. And there's a
Speaker 3: term we use put the baby to bed. So I've
Speaker 3: got the notes done and I do these monologues, and
Speaker 3: I have bullet points and things that I won't want
Speaker 3: to hit on during the mall are monologues that we do.
Speaker 3: And I have a lot of commercials. That's the most
Speaker 3: important part. I've been told the commercials are the most
Speaker 3: important part. You've got to get the commercials in.
Speaker 1: So there's a lot.
Speaker 3: We have a lot more as I think it was
Speaker 3: Reggie complained last week, was it last week or two
Speaker 3: out of complained about the commercial But we we have
Speaker 3: a lot, and so you have to keep track. There's
Speaker 3: a lot of live reads, and so I have to
Speaker 3: make sure everything's where it needs to go. And so
Speaker 3: so I'm getting ready for the show.
Speaker 1: And and.
Speaker 3: I got everything done, ready ready for the show, and
Speaker 3: I'm just kind of hanging out and then I walk,
Speaker 3: I get up, throw a little water on my face,
Speaker 3: so I'm somewhat awake, and then make the trip up
Speaker 3: to and then down the hall and then around the corner,
Speaker 3: and then I get to the remote studio. Got to
Speaker 3: turn everything on, make sure everything's good on that. So
Speaker 3: I go in there and then I settle in. I
Speaker 3: got to turn all these lights on because we're on
Speaker 3: the YouTube now, So I got to turn all the
Speaker 3: lights on, turn everything on, and we are about at
Speaker 3: this point by the time, I just kind of settle
Speaker 3: in for maybe ninety seconds from on airtime to start talking.
Speaker 1: So I got about ninety seconds.
Speaker 4: All right, this sounds like firing up the Starship Enterprise.
Speaker 3: Oh, very similar, very similar to Dani. I'm glad you
Speaker 3: brought that up. So I then I'm sitting down. I'm
Speaker 3: settling in. I've got the lights on, I turned the
Speaker 3: camera on, I got everything ready to go. Lights, camera,
Speaker 3: and it's about.
Speaker 1: To be action.
Speaker 3: So the way this works, I have my laptop that
Speaker 3: I use everything I do my prep with, and then
Speaker 3: when I do the remote show everything from the laptop
Speaker 3: through the magic.
Speaker 1: I don't even know how this works. It really is magic.
Speaker 1: It's sorcery.
Speaker 3: So everything from the laptop transfers to the studio computer
Speaker 3: that I use in the remote studio. So I don't
Speaker 3: need my laptop. I don't even bring my laptop with me.
Speaker 3: Everything's the same thing is on that computer. It say
Speaker 3: it's a mirror of what I was using, So I
Speaker 3: don't even worry about I don't need to finagle with it.
Speaker 3: I'm good to go. So I get in there, and
Speaker 3: I said, I think you can imagine where this is going.
Speaker 3: So I click on the file that has my bullet
Speaker 3: points for the malad monologue. I click on the file
Speaker 3: that has the commercial that I have to do at
Speaker 3: the top of the hour, the copy, and.
Speaker 1: Nothing, no nothing.
Speaker 3: When I say nothing, I mean blankety mcblank, I am
Speaker 3: saying absolutely nothing. And I'm getting I'm hearing the recorded
Speaker 3: update because we don't you know, we don't have a
Speaker 3: budget for live update people.
Speaker 1: So I hear a recorded update and I know what's coming.
Speaker 3: You know, I'm gonna have to start the yapp and
Speaker 3: away And I'm like, well, I don't, I.
Speaker 1: Mean, boy, and boom goes the dynamite. Yeah, pretty much.
Speaker 1: So I'm like, all right, I've been doing this a
Speaker 1: long time. We'll just let it rip, and you know,
Speaker 1: what the hell?
Speaker 3: And so I did not have I had no bullets,
Speaker 3: but unshaken, unseen.
Speaker 1: Nobody noticed, not one person.
Speaker 3: Not Alf Wow Miner, not ferg Dog, not Tony in
Speaker 3: the Bay area, not Nick in Wisconsin, none of these guys.
Speaker 1: Nobody noticed that.
Speaker 3: And then, to make matters even better, Danny, So I'm
Speaker 3: then I'm doing everything.
Speaker 1: I'm doing the monologue.
Speaker 3: I'm letting it rip, right, you know, it's trying to
Speaker 3: trying to remember as much as I can. And then
Speaker 3: midway through the monologue, I get a malfunction.
Speaker 1: The camera breaks. There was a there was an issue
Speaker 1: a recording.
Speaker 3: Now the camera's broken in the middle of the monologue,
Speaker 3: and I'm like, oh, crap, man, what that f is going?
Speaker 3: It is ridiculous.
Speaker 1: What are we doing here?
Speaker 4: Wait back to you free styling off the top of
Speaker 4: your dome. Yes, did you just like close your eyes
Speaker 4: and imagine what you had typed? Well?
Speaker 3: I couldn't close my eyes because the camera was on.
Speaker 3: All true, I was trying to channel like the I
Speaker 3: don't know what.
Speaker 4: Jay z the way he writes lyrics in his head,
Speaker 4: goes into the booth and then spits them on the
Speaker 4: microphone and doesn't need any paper in front of them.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: And to be fair, I mean, you know, Danny, you've
Speaker 3: worked with me for a long time, and I have
Speaker 3: a lot of nodes, bullet points or whatever. But usually
Speaker 3: what ends up happening is it's I try to ignore them.
Speaker 3: They're just there in case I have a drowning moment
Speaker 3: where I forget my train of thought and I'm like,
Speaker 3: I need something to kind of get.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's just a template. It's more of a template exactly.
Speaker 3: It's like a template and so but it's a safety blanket.
Speaker 3: And when you don't have the safety.
Speaker 4: Blanket, oh, I hate I hate that feeling, especially in broadcasting,
Speaker 4: because I need that safety blanket.
Speaker 1: H Exactly.
Speaker 4: It's like it's like Coha when he is on the boo,
Speaker 4: he has to hold an emotional support toy in his hand.
Speaker 4: I'm not sure why, but as he's sucking on the boo,
Speaker 4: he's got a toy in his hand and he's got
Speaker 4: to have that emotional support toy. I'm like that with radio.
Speaker 4: If I don't have the preparation in front of me,
Speaker 4: I just it's not panic. It's more of, oh my god,
Speaker 4: this is it messes your routine up, is what it is?
Speaker 1: Yeah, one hundred percent.
Speaker 3: And it's it's kind of like I guess like seatbelts.
Speaker 3: You don't you hope you never actually need to use
Speaker 3: the safety belt, but if you do, you're.
Speaker 1: Glad you put it on.
Speaker 3: It's like that kind of thing, right, It's like, well,
Speaker 3: I probably won't ever need this, but just in case,
Speaker 3: just in case, that one night where everything goes to
Speaker 3: hell and where we're good to go. So anyway that fortunately,
Speaker 3: after that opening monologue, I was able to update. I
Speaker 3: had to reset some things and everything transferred over to
Speaker 3: the computer. But in the commercial, that part was a
Speaker 3: little tricky. I had to get them that was off
Speaker 3: my phone. I did grab my phone to do the
Speaker 3: do I do not remember the commercial copy?
Speaker 1: I don't you.
Speaker 4: Weren't you weren't like your boy Harlan. Did you see
Speaker 4: how he screwed up that read on on TV? Oh
Speaker 4: that was so good?
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's awesome.
Speaker 4: Chicken Tenders listen, listen to this. This happened a few
Speaker 4: nights ago.
Speaker 5: The NBA on TMT is brought to you by the
Speaker 5: new Crispy Tenders at CarMax. What the way car buying
Speaker 5: should be? Can that be?
Speaker 2: What is that?
Speaker 1: Waited a minute?
Speaker 2: Hold on?
Speaker 1: I'm holding hold on?
Speaker 5: Are they serving tenders with cars?
Speaker 1: Are there tenders in the car? Because if there is,
Speaker 1: you're in.
Speaker 5: We just had the marriage of two different sponsors and
Speaker 5: it was ugly.
Speaker 1: Who wrote that. Only you can laugh about it.
Speaker 5: That just goes to show you I literally will read
Speaker 5: anything they put in front of me without it even
Speaker 5: looking like the Holy Cow.
Speaker 1: That's great.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, what I say, like like a train?
Speaker 1: Seal right, it just right there.
Speaker 4: Oh, some producer got slapped on the wrist after that.
Speaker 4: He accidentally copied in paste two sponsor reads together.
Speaker 1: Oops, that is Ron Burgundy, that is the anchorman.
Speaker 3: Yes, they did that with Charles Barkley, one of the
Speaker 3: famous T and T bloopers. Realized Barkley would read anything
Speaker 3: on the teleprompter, so they put and then sure enough
Speaker 3: Barkley read read read everything.
Speaker 1: But oh after yourself, san Diego. Hey, damn, you.
Speaker 4: Sound like you're seventeen years old, right there.
Speaker 1: I was. I was actually sixteen. I was actually sixteen.
Speaker 1: Go after yourself, san Diego. Wow, that's that's old school, man.
Speaker 3: There are so many drops in it we need to have,
Speaker 3: Like I need to talk to the rain and get
Speaker 3: her to bring back some of the classic like rotating
Speaker 3: some of these old school drops and all that stuff.
Speaker 1: That'd be cool to have those back.
Speaker 3: All right, let's get to the phrase of the week.
Speaker 2: I don't know how I could do with a whole
Speaker 2: mouthful of that goo oh boy.
Speaker 1: All right, the phrase of the week. Phrase the phrase
Speaker 1: of the week.
Speaker 3: This comes courtesy of Bill from Korea Town. Now, Danny,
Speaker 3: you remember billing Bill and Venice. Oh yeah, yes, got
Speaker 3: a very distinctive cadence. Bill in Venice is he he's
Speaker 3: not overrated. I would say he's underrated as a caller.
Speaker 3: So Bill called up the other night and he's a bet.
Speaker 3: I used the word.
Speaker 1: That's not a word, you know, he starts Bill.
Speaker 3: Bill is trying to trying to touch up my work, right,
Speaker 3: So I'm like, well, maybe I said something.
Speaker 1: I was tired. I said something I shouldn't say. So
Speaker 1: I said, I said what's the word, Bill? And I
Speaker 1: don't know?
Speaker 3: And then I kept asking him, I said what's and
Speaker 3: so eventually he said he said the word was the
Speaker 3: word that I used was harbinger or no, he said barringer.
Speaker 1: I think he's aid barringer.
Speaker 3: And then we determined he meant harbinger and he said
Speaker 3: that I made I made that up. Now, A, I
Speaker 3: don't remember saying it. B I do say it. And
Speaker 3: so I thought, in honor of Bill in Koreatown, who
Speaker 3: I'm pretty sure does not listen to this podcast, just
Speaker 3: to f with him because it was very bizarre. I'm
Speaker 3: like the guy he calls up to correct me, and
Speaker 3: he doesn't know what exactly he's corrected me about. Then
Speaker 3: he says, I made up the word, which is bull crap.
Speaker 3: So the phrase harbinger of things to come, it originates
Speaker 3: from the beginning of that at harbinger. The obviously, the
Speaker 3: word harbinger dates back to Middle English around the twelfth
Speaker 3: cent Harbinger now it initially referred to a person who
Speaker 3: provided lodging or acted as a host for travelers. It
Speaker 3: comes from the Old French word herbringer, which means to
Speaker 3: provide the lodging, to provide lodging, and the phrase itself,
Speaker 3: combining harbinger with things to come, that emerged in English
Speaker 3: literature to describe a sign, event, or a person foreshadowing
Speaker 3: future developments, and that.
Speaker 1: Is what it is today. It became more and more.
Speaker 3: Popular in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, often used in
Speaker 3: very poetic, traumatic context. And another one of these phrases
Speaker 3: that really took off because of Shakespeare, and it appears
Speaker 3: in works like Macbeth, which is in sixteen oh six
Speaker 3: from Shakespeare. And this so many phrases that are Shakespearean
Speaker 3: that are still used to this day. How crazy is
Speaker 3: that that you can get some stuff in the sixteen hundreds,
Speaker 3: and here we are all these years later, and people
Speaker 3: are still using these phrases that Shakespeare came up with.
Speaker 3: Its roots lie in the evolution of Harbinger as a
Speaker 3: herald of what lies ahead, and it took off in
Speaker 3: many ways because of a Shakespeare. So the phrase of
Speaker 3: the week harbinger of things to come, thanks to Bill
Speaker 3: in Koreatown one of the Odder moments, and we can
Speaker 3: add that to the big stack of odd moments that
Speaker 3: have happened on the.
Speaker 1: Show, like this, give me a little taste of that dick.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, dar you that's Ai edit. I put
Speaker 3: Bill in Koreatown's comment. Danny right up there with the
Speaker 3: guy from jail that sent me a prison letter.
Speaker 1: I remember I talked about this. He was complaining I
Speaker 1: was doing intimint facts as in jail. He sent me
Speaker 1: a letter to complain this. If we'll get out on that, Danny,
Speaker 1: it is Saturday. You're gonna be you going down to
Speaker 1: the O C today, O see fun. Are you gonna
Speaker 1: stay at home? Yeah?
Speaker 4: Uh no, it looks like I'm gonna go along. But
Speaker 4: I feel like I'm going to be the usher for
Speaker 4: you know who, Bam bam.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, guard with bam bam.
Speaker 4: I will be the bodyguard for one big baby brute. Coha,
Speaker 4: no no, no no, bam bam.
Speaker 3: Don't do that, finey, don't speak mean to him, reason
Speaker 3: with him.
Speaker 1: Okay, no, bam bam. You mustn't hit anything with your couch.
Speaker 1: He caught my finger. That's great.
Speaker 3: The big fella will have fun, enjoy that. Whether should
Speaker 3: be good in the very nice beach day. All right,
Speaker 3: we'll get out on that, have a wonderful rest of
Speaker 3: the get the mail bag tomorrow and we'll catch you
Speaker 3: then later.
Speaker 4: Skater my felicious