WEBVTT - The Fifth Hour: Captain of the Safe Harbor 0:00:00.760 --> 0:00:01.520 Kabbooms. 0:00:02.360 --> 0:00:05.440 If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes 0:00:05.480 --> 0:00:09.240 a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants 0:00:09.280 --> 0:00:12.560 of the old Republic, a soul fashion of fairness. He 0:00:12.640 --> 0:00:15.560 treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the 0:00:15.680 --> 0:00:17.520 rich pill poppers in the penthouse. 0:00:18.120 --> 0:00:18.440 Wow. 0:00:18.640 --> 0:00:22.360 The clearing House of Hot takes break free for something special. 0:00:22.720 --> 0:00:29.479 The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now. 0:00:29.040 --> 0:00:33.240 In the air everywhere. 0:00:33.600 --> 0:00:36.400 Well, come in, here we go. 0:00:36.920 --> 0:00:41.200 It is the Fifth Hour podcast, which means the weekend 0:00:41.720 --> 0:00:46.159 is upon us. I am Ben Hi, and you like 0:00:46.200 --> 0:00:48.280 we already know what this podcast is about. Now, My 0:00:48.400 --> 0:00:52.360 man Danny G is on assignment, hard at work doing 0:00:52.400 --> 0:00:54.319 stuff with the Colino and Rich Joe, so he will 0:00:54.360 --> 0:00:57.520 return to the Saturday podcast. We'll be back tomorrow, but 0:00:57.720 --> 0:01:00.400 we wanted to get the weekend started. Just have to 0:01:00.400 --> 0:01:01.080 settle for me. 0:01:02.720 --> 0:01:06.840 Yeah, Danny G here, I'm still producing this bad boys, 0:01:06.920 --> 0:01:07.720 It's just me. 0:01:09.880 --> 0:01:15.440 This the second day of February, and a thing that 0:01:15.480 --> 0:01:17.399 has become a bit of a tradition here of late 0:01:17.600 --> 0:01:19.960 on the podcast is to see what dope holiday it 0:01:20.040 --> 0:01:23.360 is today? Today is not a dopey holiday day. Today 0:01:24.000 --> 0:01:26.679 we mentioned this on The Overnight Show February second. 0:01:27.319 --> 0:01:32.639 A massive day for you if you live in. 0:01:32.520 --> 0:01:36.160 A city that actually gets winter, because today you probably 0:01:36.160 --> 0:01:40.920 already know now it is groundhog Day today. Now I 0:01:41.000 --> 0:01:44.560 reference groundhog Day quite a bit. Part of the reason 0:01:44.760 --> 0:01:46.640 I loved the movie. 0:01:47.040 --> 0:01:49.320 Named Groundhog Day with Bill Murray back in the day. 0:01:49.360 --> 0:01:52.760 It's a classic and has stood the test of time 0:01:52.880 --> 0:01:56.920 in my opinion. But it's a day where Pontsatani phil 0:01:57.760 --> 0:02:00.680 is the star and there's actual see a couple of 0:02:00.680 --> 0:02:03.560 different Groundhog Day celebrations, but the one that is the 0:02:03.600 --> 0:02:12.120 most famous is Gobbler's Knob in punk Satani, Pennsylvania, and you're. 0:02:11.800 --> 0:02:15.120 Waiting for the rodent. The rodent is the star of 0:02:15.160 --> 0:02:15.520 the show. 0:02:15.600 --> 0:02:18.000 It's the only time other than like Mickey Mouse, which 0:02:18.040 --> 0:02:20.000 is like a cartoon thing, this is a real rodent. 0:02:20.680 --> 0:02:26.200 A groundhog is a legitimate rodent. And this tradition actually 0:02:26.240 --> 0:02:29.880 started back in the seventeen hundreds, and it was started 0:02:29.880 --> 0:02:34.280 by German immigrants, the settlers in Pennsylvania. I don't know, 0:02:34.360 --> 0:02:37.800 well you called immigrants in the seventeen hundreds before before 0:02:37.840 --> 0:02:39.800 the you know, everything was settled, probably not, you were 0:02:39.840 --> 0:02:42.680 just like traveling, but anyway, the German settlers will call 0:02:42.720 --> 0:02:48.280 them racist. They visited Pennsylvania and they put up residency there, 0:02:48.400 --> 0:02:51.320 and in the seventeen hundreds, over three hundred years ago, 0:02:52.560 --> 0:02:59.240 they brought this superstition from Germany with them. And the 0:02:59.320 --> 0:03:04.440 legend is if punks atany phil sees his shadow, the. 0:03:04.520 --> 0:03:10.760 Winter chill will continue. This good day. 0:03:10.800 --> 0:03:12.919 To watch Groundhog Day, I might have to dust off. 0:03:12.919 --> 0:03:15.919 I don know what streaming service groundhog Days on. I'm 0:03:15.960 --> 0:03:20.200 not sure, but I'll have to track it down and 0:03:20.280 --> 0:03:25.200 watch it. A yearly rite of passage on this day, 0:03:25.760 --> 0:03:28.400 Groundhog Day, Gobbler's Knob. 0:03:29.040 --> 0:03:33.200 What a town, What a town? Just absolutely wonderful. 0:03:33.320 --> 0:03:36.000 I believe though that Groundhog Day was filmed in Chicago, 0:03:36.120 --> 0:03:39.440 a lot of it. I read that years ago. What 0:03:39.440 --> 0:03:41.800 else did we got National Bubblegum Day Today? 0:03:42.640 --> 0:03:43.640 It's a big day there. 0:03:44.640 --> 0:03:48.000 And the urban legend if you swallow a piece of 0:03:48.080 --> 0:03:51.640 bubble gum, it will stay in your stomach for what 0:03:51.760 --> 0:03:53.880 eight years or something like that remem when I was 0:03:53.880 --> 0:03:54.320 a kid. 0:03:54.440 --> 0:03:57.960 My family would scare me used to a lot of 0:03:58.000 --> 0:03:59.400 bubble gum, But I was a kid. 0:04:00.400 --> 0:04:02.960 The big thing was well, first of all, it was 0:04:03.000 --> 0:04:05.480 like toys, R US fruit stripe gum, which I believe 0:04:05.480 --> 0:04:08.560 just went out of business within the last couple of months. 0:04:09.200 --> 0:04:11.680 But then we also had this Big League chew, and 0:04:11.760 --> 0:04:14.880 as I remember it, as a kid playing little league, 0:04:15.120 --> 0:04:17.920 I grew up in an era where baseball players would 0:04:17.960 --> 0:04:23.839 take softball size gobs of chewing tobacco and their entire 0:04:24.760 --> 0:04:30.120 cheek could be blown up like a cartoon with this nasty, 0:04:30.320 --> 0:04:33.800 repulsive chew, And of course, being an impressionable child, I 0:04:33.839 --> 0:04:35.320 wanted to be just like them. Not that I did 0:04:35.360 --> 0:04:40.000 chewing tobacco, but the next next best thing. I had 0:04:40.480 --> 0:04:43.039 Big League chew, which came into pouch just like the 0:04:43.120 --> 0:04:46.640 chewing tobacco, and I was able to get the whole 0:04:46.720 --> 0:04:50.880 pack and chew it, and I recreated recreated that. Now 0:04:50.960 --> 0:04:53.240 I am not a bubble gum guy these days. I 0:04:53.279 --> 0:04:55.480 do not do bubble gum. I have not had a 0:04:55.520 --> 0:04:59.000 stick of bubble gum in I would say at least 0:04:59.040 --> 0:05:02.080 ten years, at least ten years, probably longer than that. 0:05:03.440 --> 0:05:07.400 I don't think I'm exaggerating about ten years, give or take. 0:05:08.560 --> 0:05:09.600 But it is national. 0:05:09.360 --> 0:05:12.720 Bubblegum today, so day today, so enjoy chewing that rubber. 0:05:13.200 --> 0:05:15.280 Have a great day, Dick and Dayton like this one. 0:05:15.320 --> 0:05:17.920 It's National ukulele Day. Loser. 0:05:18.760 --> 0:05:21.400 Whoopie damn do and Marcel. 0:05:21.720 --> 0:05:23.600 I thought of Marcel when I saw this and I 0:05:24.000 --> 0:05:26.360 was going through the calendar, I said, this is this 0:05:26.400 --> 0:05:28.160 is a day for Marcel. 0:05:28.640 --> 0:05:32.719 It is National tater Tat Day today. 0:05:33.480 --> 0:05:35.440 You killed it with the knife. 0:05:37.000 --> 0:05:39.360 As you you probably know from listening to the Overnight show, 0:05:40.320 --> 0:05:42.560 one of the many ridiculous drops we have from our 0:05:42.560 --> 0:05:45.920 friend Marcel is tater Tots. 0:05:46.520 --> 0:05:48.680 The way he said, tater Tots outstanding. 0:05:49.279 --> 0:05:50.160 Don't worry, it's. 0:05:50.279 --> 0:05:56.320 Just tat the Tots. Marvelous drop from our friend Marcel. 0:05:56.400 --> 0:05:57.440 But anyway, now we get. 0:05:57.360 --> 0:06:00.640 To the main event and no dilly dowling, no wasting time, 0:06:00.880 --> 0:06:04.760 none of that stuff. It is the Friday Pod here, 0:06:04.800 --> 0:06:09.040 the second of February, Groundhog Day, and normally on Friday. 0:06:09.080 --> 0:06:14.600 For the past twenty weeks we have provided you with 0:06:15.040 --> 0:06:18.279 shameless touring of a. 0:06:18.160 --> 0:06:19.520 Certain television show. 0:06:20.320 --> 0:06:25.440 However, this weekend different than all other weekends that we've 0:06:25.480 --> 0:06:29.560 had over the last several months. Because all was quiet 0:06:30.000 --> 0:06:32.800 on the Western front this week I did not make 0:06:32.839 --> 0:06:38.440 my weekly sojourn to Universal Studios. I did not walk 0:06:38.520 --> 0:06:41.480 through the bowels of the NBC News bureau to go 0:06:41.520 --> 0:06:44.719 to our studio in order to record the show. You see, 0:06:44.760 --> 0:06:49.039 there was no NFL game this weekend, and it's pretty 0:06:49.080 --> 0:06:52.640 hard to do a TV show picking NFL games if 0:06:52.680 --> 0:06:55.000 there are no NFL games with a winking a nod 0:06:55.040 --> 0:06:59.160 to that Fugese Pro Bowl, which I believe is unwatchable 0:06:59.440 --> 0:07:00.880 the Pro Bowl games. 0:07:00.920 --> 0:07:02.440 Not for me, maybe for you. 0:07:02.880 --> 0:07:05.200 So the TV show was dark this week after twenty 0:07:05.240 --> 0:07:10.520 consecutive weeks in sun, rain and whatever their weather popped up. 0:07:10.960 --> 0:07:13.360 No new episode this weekend. 0:07:13.440 --> 0:07:16.840 Yup, bupkis And I'm not sure whether NBC is going 0:07:16.880 --> 0:07:19.240 to put a test pattern up or not in our 0:07:19.280 --> 0:07:20.240 time slot. 0:07:20.520 --> 0:07:23.400 It might get a better ratings. I'm kidding, but do 0:07:23.520 --> 0:07:23.960 not fear. 0:07:24.360 --> 0:07:28.440 Benny versus the Penny will return to local regional cable 0:07:28.480 --> 0:07:34.640 television for one final shining moment as our final of 0:07:34.680 --> 0:07:38.880 the season. The finale episode. You always remember, the last episode, right, 0:07:39.240 --> 0:07:41.880 The most famous last episode of all time in television 0:07:42.360 --> 0:07:46.080 and the highest rated television show I believe ever still 0:07:46.160 --> 0:07:47.760 is Mash. 0:07:47.800 --> 0:07:50.520 When I was a kid, Mash was on. My parents 0:07:50.720 --> 0:07:51.040 liked it. 0:07:52.080 --> 0:07:55.880 I watched more reruns than the original show, but it 0:07:55.960 --> 0:07:59.440 was fine, you know, at that time that was quality entertainment. 0:07:59.440 --> 0:08:02.520 But everyone I was watching that most ratings of all time, 0:08:02.520 --> 0:08:03.080 and that show went. 0:08:03.040 --> 0:08:03.360 Off the air. 0:08:03.400 --> 0:08:06.760 And then in addition to that, you would say the 0:08:06.760 --> 0:08:10.720 most ridiculous ending would be Seinfeld back in the nineties 0:08:10.760 --> 0:08:13.760 when their final episode with very bizarre odd ending, and 0:08:13.800 --> 0:08:18.840 the Sopranos had a weird, weird ending to that. But 0:08:18.920 --> 0:08:21.920 this will be our Super Bowl fifty eight extravag is now. 0:08:21.960 --> 0:08:24.360 We weren't able to pull off last week a TV 0:08:24.440 --> 0:08:28.160 show with only two games. Now this coming week next 0:08:28.200 --> 0:08:29.640 week will have just one game. 0:08:30.280 --> 0:08:31.040 But I'm not gonna lie to you. 0:08:31.080 --> 0:08:34.600 Ask a creature of habit. It was occasionally I do 0:08:34.640 --> 0:08:36.600 a lot to you, but not now a creature of habit. 0:08:37.040 --> 0:08:38.320 It was a little odd. 0:08:39.000 --> 0:08:42.079 It was a little lot not doing the normal preparation 0:08:42.360 --> 0:08:45.600 for the various things I need to do during the week. 0:08:45.720 --> 0:08:48.280 He was wandering aimlessly across the side of the road 0:08:49.040 --> 0:08:52.560 looking for something to help kill the time. You see, 0:08:52.640 --> 0:08:57.480 I have become programmed like a robot to handicap NFL 0:08:57.559 --> 0:08:58.760 games every week. 0:09:00.160 --> 0:09:02.319 This a long time, and really. 0:09:02.040 --> 0:09:05.839 Got into it this year. I waited till the playoffs 0:09:05.920 --> 0:09:07.400 to take it to. 0:09:07.360 --> 0:09:08.160 The next level. 0:09:08.720 --> 0:09:12.280 Playoffs, and so it threw off this week threw off 0:09:12.320 --> 0:09:13.240 my bio rhythms. 0:09:13.280 --> 0:09:14.520 If that's even a thing, I don't know. 0:09:14.840 --> 0:09:17.520 But on a positive note, I did go to and 0:09:17.600 --> 0:09:20.760 oh last week in against the spread, so my playoff 0:09:20.800 --> 0:09:22.640 record is a chef's kiss. 0:09:23.200 --> 0:09:25.480 I got a little more sleep this week, so I'm 0:09:25.480 --> 0:09:27.880 told that is good for my health. Who knows. 0:09:28.280 --> 0:09:30.040 I believe no matter how much sleep you get, you're 0:09:30.040 --> 0:09:34.320 still going to drop dead. Also had a few spicy 0:09:34.440 --> 0:09:38.640 text message exchanges with my TV partner Tom Looney and 0:09:38.679 --> 0:09:42.600 reminded him he looked like a total jackass on national 0:09:42.640 --> 0:09:46.560 television with the outfit he wore last week. If you 0:09:46.600 --> 0:09:50.400 happened to watch last week's episode of Benny Versus the Penny, 0:09:50.880 --> 0:09:53.200 you likely know what I'm talking about. If you missed it, though, 0:09:53.240 --> 0:09:58.800 Looney went full Lamar Jackson brown noser fanboy, and he 0:09:59.320 --> 0:10:03.080 had the Ravens colored jacket which looked like it was 0:10:03.120 --> 0:10:07.920 from the nineteen nineties. He had that going on purple jacket. 0:10:08.679 --> 0:10:10.079 You could tell us an old jacket was in the 0:10:10.080 --> 0:10:11.560 back of Looney's closet for a long time. I made 0:10:11.559 --> 0:10:13.440 a black shirt so he was wear in the Ravens colors, 0:10:14.160 --> 0:10:19.360 and he was waxing poetic, singing the praises of Lamar 0:10:19.520 --> 0:10:22.200 Jackson and just going on and. 0:10:22.040 --> 0:10:24.960 On and on and on and on. 0:10:25.920 --> 0:10:29.840 And then they had to play the game, and Lamar said, 0:10:29.840 --> 0:10:31.960 thank you very much, I am now going to puke 0:10:32.080 --> 0:10:37.160 all over my uniform, all over my uniform. And despite 0:10:37.200 --> 0:10:41.280 a defense for Baltimore that shut out Kansas City in 0:10:41.360 --> 0:10:45.520 the second half, there was no roar from Lamar Jackson 0:10:45.520 --> 0:10:48.360 in the Ravens effect the signature of moment for Lamar, 0:10:48.640 --> 0:10:49.760 and I thought of Looney. 0:10:49.800 --> 0:10:51.120 I laughed when I saw this. 0:10:52.120 --> 0:10:55.640 Lamar jacks the chess master during the regular season, who's 0:10:55.640 --> 0:10:58.360 playing checkers in the playoffs. Lamar goes out there and 0:10:58.720 --> 0:11:00.480 the Ravens are trying to come back the second and 0:11:00.480 --> 0:11:03.400 a half, they're driving the ball down the field and 0:11:04.280 --> 0:11:06.080 he threw the ball into triple coverage. 0:11:06.760 --> 0:11:08.600 Triple coverage against Kansas City. 0:11:08.640 --> 0:11:12.319 A bold strategy, Cotton, and it did not work out. 0:11:12.400 --> 0:11:13.280 Did not work out. 0:11:13.360 --> 0:11:16.480 So now we have the upcoming week Super Bowl fifty 0:11:16.520 --> 0:11:20.200 eight next week the Chiefs. The Chiefs in the Super 0:11:20.240 --> 0:11:24.800 Bowl were sixty minutes away from all Taylor Swift all 0:11:24.840 --> 0:11:28.160 the time. Well, it's actually been all Taylor Swift. I 0:11:28.160 --> 0:11:30.560 stand corrected all Taylor Swift all the time this week. 0:11:31.160 --> 0:11:34.280 And then if the Chiefs win the Super Bowl, oh man, 0:11:34.320 --> 0:11:39.320 all bets are off. All bets are off. Should the 0:11:39.400 --> 0:11:43.360 Chiefs win the Super Bowl, point that out. But we'll 0:11:43.520 --> 0:11:46.679 have another episode next week. So thank you for supporting 0:11:46.720 --> 0:11:48.840 that TV show all year. It has been a dream 0:11:48.880 --> 0:11:51.000 of mine to have the TV show. 0:11:51.679 --> 0:11:53.400 I didn't think it was gonna happen. 0:11:53.480 --> 0:11:57.480 I was a contributor at NBC years ago, and it's 0:11:57.520 --> 0:12:01.080 it's been awesome. It's been an amazing experience to have 0:12:01.080 --> 0:12:03.120 a team of people that work with you, work hard, 0:12:03.800 --> 0:12:08.000 that want you to look good and put the effort 0:12:08.040 --> 0:12:10.360 in and the energy and this is something I've wanted 0:12:10.400 --> 0:12:12.880 my entire career to have, you know, that kind of 0:12:12.920 --> 0:12:16.280 support system, and it's been great to have that at 0:12:16.320 --> 0:12:18.920 the people at NBC have just been just absolutely wonderful 0:12:19.320 --> 0:12:22.280 and hopefully that shows and the product. But we got 0:12:22.280 --> 0:12:24.760 one more We got one more episode and we'll see 0:12:24.800 --> 0:12:27.880 what happens with that time. Now for the phrase all 0:12:28.080 --> 0:12:31.000 the week, that's right, not the word of the week, 0:12:31.400 --> 0:12:33.160 no no, no, not the metaphor of the week. 0:12:33.520 --> 0:12:39.920 The phrase all the week on the fifth hour podcast. 0:12:41.280 --> 0:12:44.520 So if you listen at all, and you obviously listen now, 0:12:44.559 --> 0:12:47.800 so you do listen some you know that I love words. 0:12:48.800 --> 0:12:51.200 I'm not the most educated chap in the world. I 0:12:51.280 --> 0:12:55.000 was a bad student. I was did not do that 0:12:55.040 --> 0:12:57.679 well in school. But I like to pride myself on 0:12:57.720 --> 0:13:03.400 self education that every single day I try to learn 0:13:03.600 --> 0:13:06.400 a little something and put it in the back of 0:13:06.440 --> 0:13:08.480 my head, put it in my toolbox so I can 0:13:08.600 --> 0:13:11.280 I can use that at some point, and maybe I'll never. 0:13:11.280 --> 0:13:12.360 Use but I like to do that. 0:13:13.000 --> 0:13:15.000 And a guy early in my radio career, a guy 0:13:15.040 --> 0:13:18.360 told me, he says, you know, talk show host is 0:13:18.640 --> 0:13:22.200 not someone that digs a giant hole. They don't go 0:13:22.600 --> 0:13:25.920 deep down in any topic, but they have to know 0:13:26.040 --> 0:13:30.320 a lot at the surface of just about everything. A 0:13:30.360 --> 0:13:33.240 good talk show host knows a little something about everything, 0:13:33.800 --> 0:13:38.560 but not too much about anything, because you're talking about random, 0:13:38.640 --> 0:13:40.880 different topics. And so I've always taken that to light 0:13:42.000 --> 0:13:44.520 and tried to pick some things up. Now, this week 0:13:44.559 --> 0:13:48.920 the phrase of the week is by request. By request, 0:13:49.000 --> 0:13:51.440 I actually do read your email. I'm bad about it, 0:13:51.480 --> 0:13:55.600 but I do. Certainly for this podcast, I have to 0:13:55.640 --> 0:13:57.600 do it. And you know it's an invasion of my 0:13:57.640 --> 0:13:59.200 privacy to have to read the email, but I do. 0:14:00.120 --> 0:14:00.600 No, it's fine. 0:14:01.280 --> 0:14:05.280 But this one comes from listener Gary, a dedicated minion 0:14:05.920 --> 0:14:08.400 to the Overnight Show, and he said, why don't you 0:14:08.400 --> 0:14:12.360 you look up the term safe harbor. Now, this came 0:14:12.440 --> 0:14:16.360 up in conversation earlier in the week as a listener 0:14:16.480 --> 0:14:19.120 said something you can't say. I think it was angry Bill, 0:14:20.520 --> 0:14:22.520 but it could have been a number of people that 0:14:22.600 --> 0:14:24.240 say things you're not supposed to say. 0:14:25.200 --> 0:14:26.680 But it came up a conversation. 0:14:26.760 --> 0:14:30.520 We pointed out that we are floating in the Overnight 0:14:30.600 --> 0:14:32.920 through the safe Harbor, that I am the captain of 0:14:32.960 --> 0:14:34.360 the SS Safe Harbor. 0:14:34.920 --> 0:14:35.960 So Gary wrote. 0:14:35.720 --> 0:14:37.480 In He's like, hey, you know you and Jason Smith 0:14:37.480 --> 0:14:40.200 are on at why don't you let me know more 0:14:40.240 --> 0:14:41.120 about safe harbor. 0:14:41.440 --> 0:14:44.160 I'm paraphrasing, so I said, you know what, that's a 0:14:44.160 --> 0:14:45.920 good idea. I don't really know much. I know the 0:14:46.040 --> 0:14:48.120 term because I have to do training every year. 0:14:49.240 --> 0:14:53.480 For the show to be able to broadcast, I'm required 0:14:53.520 --> 0:14:56.800 to do a certain amount of red tape training, which 0:14:56.840 --> 0:14:58.840 is I actually did it during the show. 0:14:59.400 --> 0:15:01.520 This was kidding. People thought I was kidding. I was 0:15:01.520 --> 0:15:04.720 not kidding. I got an email. You're fully you're full 0:15:04.760 --> 0:15:06.320 of crap. You didn't do it, ur I did, no, 0:15:06.360 --> 0:15:08.800 I had. I literally was doing it while I was 0:15:08.800 --> 0:15:10.400 doing the show. Because one of those things is like 0:15:11.040 --> 0:15:12.360 the way I would go through that. 0:15:12.480 --> 0:15:14.360 I want to get too specific here, let you know 0:15:14.400 --> 0:15:16.360 how we make the hot talks, but what the hell, 0:15:16.800 --> 0:15:18.800 it's the podcast. If you're listening to this, you're like 0:15:18.880 --> 0:15:20.920 the one percent of the one percent, right, you're the 0:15:20.960 --> 0:15:24.640 super fan, God bless you. So the way the training goes. 0:15:24.920 --> 0:15:27.880 The closest I would say it is too, is if 0:15:27.960 --> 0:15:30.760 you've ever gotten a speeding ticket and you have to 0:15:30.800 --> 0:15:34.920 go online and take one of those courses online. It's 0:15:34.960 --> 0:15:37.760 a lot of clicking and waiting for videos to play 0:15:38.240 --> 0:15:41.760 and to scroll through things. It's all timed out, so 0:15:41.800 --> 0:15:43.560 you just have to click the next one. You know, 0:15:43.720 --> 0:15:45.880 here's a here's a vignette about so and so, and 0:15:46.000 --> 0:15:48.200 five minutes, click the button, move on to the next one. 0:15:48.520 --> 0:15:51.360 So it's that kind of thing. And I already know 0:15:51.640 --> 0:15:53.760 what I need to know, right. Everything's I've done this 0:15:53.800 --> 0:15:56.560 a long time and it's not my first rodeo. I've 0:15:56.640 --> 0:15:57.120 I've been. 0:15:57.000 --> 0:15:59.800 Here, I know how to do it, and I know 0:15:59.840 --> 0:16:01.200 what you need to do, what you don't need to do, 0:16:01.280 --> 0:16:03.920 and all that stuff. So I'm well versed in FCC 0:16:04.120 --> 0:16:06.680 rules and they don't change the rules very often, so 0:16:06.720 --> 0:16:09.280 I'm good. So the term safe harbor get to the point. 0:16:09.320 --> 0:16:11.000 Please well believe it or not. Listener Gary, and you 0:16:11.040 --> 0:16:16.160 listening as well. We can thank dead comedian George Carlin, 0:16:16.320 --> 0:16:20.560 former sports talk radio caller in Los Angeles. George from Venice. 0:16:21.040 --> 0:16:21.640 He used to call. 0:16:22.760 --> 0:16:25.800 He was a big sports radio listener in Los Angeles. 0:16:25.880 --> 0:16:29.360 New York had Jerry Seinfeld. We had George from Venice, 0:16:30.080 --> 0:16:32.160 and he didn't say he was George Carlin. He would 0:16:32.160 --> 0:16:34.760 just call up as George from Venice and want to 0:16:34.760 --> 0:16:38.440 talk ball and talk sports. He became friends with a 0:16:38.680 --> 0:16:40.680 guy that I worked with a long time, Lee Klein, 0:16:41.760 --> 0:16:44.640 likely a lot. Actually they went to lunch and they 0:16:44.720 --> 0:16:47.560 hung out and George invited him to his comedy shows. 0:16:47.280 --> 0:16:49.000 And all that. It was pretty cool. It's pretty cool. 0:16:49.160 --> 0:16:51.680 But we can thank George Carlin for the term safe harbor. 0:16:52.320 --> 0:16:54.520 You see, the term safe harbor refers, if you're not 0:16:54.520 --> 0:16:58.080 familiar with it, the lingo of broadcasting. It refers to 0:16:58.120 --> 0:17:04.160 the hours during which broadcasters can legally transmit material deemed 0:17:04.200 --> 0:17:10.040 indecent for children. The term safe harbor legally means from 0:17:10.080 --> 0:17:14.239 ten pm to six am, from ten o'clock at night 0:17:14.320 --> 0:17:17.119 to six am. That was established, believe it or not 0:17:17.280 --> 0:17:19.880 by the United States Supreme Court, not even the FCC. 0:17:20.240 --> 0:17:24.760 The United States Supreme Court which validated a case. It 0:17:24.840 --> 0:17:30.720 was the FCC versus Pacifica, pacifica Broadcast Company. It goes 0:17:30.760 --> 0:17:33.800 all the way back in the hot tub time machine 0:17:34.160 --> 0:17:39.760 to nineteen seventy three October thirtieth, just before Halloween nineteen 0:17:39.840 --> 0:17:46.240 seventy three, radio station WBAI in New York City FM 0:17:46.400 --> 0:17:50.360 Radio New York City, they aired a broadcast we are 0:17:50.400 --> 0:17:55.600 told that included a segment which featured the George Carlin 0:17:55.680 --> 0:18:00.480 comedy routine Filthy Words, the seven things you can't say 0:18:01.119 --> 0:18:07.320 on radio. It's one of the iconic bits in comedy, right. 0:18:07.320 --> 0:18:11.639 It's just absolutely wonderful. Uh and and I love it. 0:18:12.040 --> 0:18:14.640 I love it, and it's it's it's actually more now 0:18:15.680 --> 0:18:19.479 than than then. But but Carlin's comedy bit was gold 0:18:19.480 --> 0:18:22.240 and you know seven, I'll say it now and maybe 0:18:22.240 --> 0:18:26.240 maybe Danny in the editing can can bleepless. But the 0:18:26.240 --> 0:18:30.919 the seven curse words that George Carlin listed in that 0:18:31.040 --> 0:18:33.359 comedy bit seven words you can never say on television 0:18:34.400 --> 0:18:38.479 were shit, pissed, fuck, cunt, cocksucker, motherfucker. 0:18:37.960 --> 0:18:38.720 And tits. 0:18:39.600 --> 0:18:43.199 And he he did that bit was hilarious. It was 0:18:43.240 --> 0:18:48.679 absolutely hilarious. It was wonderful. And uh but he got 0:18:48.720 --> 0:18:53.040 played on w b A I in New York and 0:18:53.280 --> 0:18:54.960 the wrong person was listening. 0:18:55.680 --> 0:18:57.320 Right, it was part of the program. 0:18:57.600 --> 0:19:01.040 And you know, Carlin did his bit about the attitudes 0:19:01.080 --> 0:19:03.679 towards language, and a couple of weeks later, this guy 0:19:03.760 --> 0:19:05.440 named John Douglas. You don't know who that is, and 0:19:05.480 --> 0:19:06.840 nor should you know who that is, but he was 0:19:06.880 --> 0:19:09.720 a member of something called the Morality in Media group. 0:19:10.280 --> 0:19:13.720 Sounds like a fun, fun group of people. So he 0:19:13.760 --> 0:19:17.200 had stated in a formal complaint to the Federal Communications 0:19:17.200 --> 0:19:21.480 Commission that he happened to be listening. He happened to 0:19:21.520 --> 0:19:25.120 be listening while he was driving with his fifteen year 0:19:25.160 --> 0:19:27.359 old son as they played the Carlin bit. 0:19:27.440 --> 0:19:30.160 I'm sure the kid never said any of those. 0:19:29.960 --> 0:19:34.600 Words, right, never, ever, never would have used any of 0:19:34.600 --> 0:19:38.280 those words. Now, this guy Douglas also stated that the 0:19:38.320 --> 0:19:42.879 material was inappropriate for that time of day. The broadcast 0:19:42.960 --> 0:19:48.840 happened at two o'clock in the afternoon AM time, right 0:19:48.840 --> 0:19:52.919 two o'clock in the afternoon. Now, in response, the Pacific 0:19:53.280 --> 0:19:58.800 Broadcast Group, which owned WBAI in New York, they received 0:19:58.800 --> 0:20:02.679 a letter a reprimand from the Federal Communications Commission and 0:20:02.720 --> 0:20:09.120 they were censured for violating broadcast regulations. They were prohibited 0:20:09.200 --> 0:20:11.440 from airing indecent material. 0:20:11.600 --> 0:20:12.200 Okay, fine. 0:20:13.359 --> 0:20:16.399 So this led all the way to a Supreme Court 0:20:17.000 --> 0:20:20.520 battle because s PACIFICA Broadcasting said, that's bullshit. 0:20:21.480 --> 0:20:24.720 What are you doing. It's ridiculous. This is a long 0:20:24.800 --> 0:20:27.280 ass time ago, right, We're going back fifty years. 0:20:27.520 --> 0:20:30.520 Fifty plus years. So they went to the Supreme Court. 0:20:30.720 --> 0:20:35.199 The Supreme Court upheld the FCC's ruling. This happened in 0:20:35.280 --> 0:20:37.800 nineteen seventy eight, so the original broadcast was in nineteen 0:20:37.840 --> 0:20:38.400 seventy three. 0:20:38.880 --> 0:20:41.760 This thing lasted five years. 0:20:42.560 --> 0:20:45.640 To nineteen seventy eight, and it was by one vote, 0:20:46.280 --> 0:20:48.720 a five to four rulings. So if it had gone 0:20:48.720 --> 0:20:52.800 the other way, if that ninth person had gone the 0:20:52.800 --> 0:20:55.480 other way, we would have had a much different outcome. 0:20:55.520 --> 0:20:59.280 But the ruling was that the routine was indecent but 0:20:59.440 --> 0:21:04.879 not obs scene. You know, I think he's up there now, 0:21:06.000 --> 0:21:12.280 smiling down at US. So the court, the Supreme Court 0:21:12.320 --> 0:21:15.160 said that the FCC had the authority to prohibit such 0:21:15.240 --> 0:21:19.640 broadcast of the George Carlin comedy bit during hours which 0:21:19.760 --> 0:21:23.720 children were likely to be among the audience. And so 0:21:23.800 --> 0:21:27.520 that opened up Pandora's box for the Federal Communications Commission, 0:21:27.560 --> 0:21:33.680 gave them an iron fist to determine what constituted indecency 0:21:34.920 --> 0:21:39.560 in different context. And it's like that old line from 0:21:39.600 --> 0:21:43.080 the the FCC or the Supreme Court justice. 0:21:44.000 --> 0:21:48.159 From from back. I'm trying to remember the it involved. 0:21:48.840 --> 0:21:53.200 I think I think it was involving Uh it was imhorn, 0:21:53.480 --> 0:21:58.840 I believe it was, and uh it was what was 0:21:58.840 --> 0:22:01.600 it it was I'm trying to think of the exact 0:22:02.640 --> 0:22:05.879 the exact term, but it was something like you know 0:22:05.960 --> 0:22:07.399 it when you see it. It was it was that 0:22:07.560 --> 0:22:13.160 kind of thing, uh, regarding pornography, right, it was. 0:22:13.080 --> 0:22:14.760