Speaker 1: Kutbooms.
Speaker 2: If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes
Speaker 2: a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants
Speaker 2: of the old Republic, a soul fashion of fairness. He
Speaker 2: treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the
Speaker 2: rich pill poppers in the penthouse. Wow, it's the clearinghouse
Speaker 2: of hot takes. Break free for something special. The Fifth
Speaker 2: Hour with Ben Maller starts right now.
Speaker 1: In the air everywhere.
Speaker 3: The Fifth Hour with Me, Big Ben and Danny g Radio.
Speaker 3: Happy Saturday, as the fun continues. No days off, no
Speaker 3: days off on this the twenty second day of June.
Speaker 3: It is National Onion Ring Day today. It's a very
Speaker 3: important holiday. Please celebrate appropriately.
Speaker 4: Can you have onion rings without ranch?
Speaker 1: That's wrong, that's the bad answer.
Speaker 4: To hell, do you dip onion rings in because it
Speaker 4: is a proven, proven barbecue sauce. No, it's a scientifical
Speaker 4: fact that you have to dip onion rings into a
Speaker 4: good ranch.
Speaker 3: That's the wrong answer. And when an onion ring is
Speaker 3: made properly, you don't need you do not need the ranch.
Speaker 3: Justsing now. Unpopular opinion to some, but I will share
Speaker 3: my opinion. Anyway on this National Onion Ring Day. To me,
Speaker 3: the onion ring should be thin, not thick.
Speaker 4: The I agree, I agree, okay, all right.
Speaker 3: And when they're too thick, it's the crust fells off.
Speaker 1: And it's a big mess.
Speaker 4: Yeah. I don't like the onion thick, and I don't
Speaker 4: like the breading thick either.
Speaker 3: So get your onion all the way slash stuff is. Yeah,
Speaker 3: there's that fine sweet spot. Now did you know that
Speaker 3: the onion ring? I love these facts. I'm addicted to
Speaker 3: fun facts. The onion ring goes back. The earliest recorded
Speaker 3: recipe for an onion ring goes back to eighteen o two.
Speaker 3: Eighteen o two, someone named John Mollard.
Speaker 4: This zy bastard just dipped an onion into.
Speaker 3: The recipe, had fried onions with parmersan cheese in his
Speaker 3: cookbook The Art of Cookery Made Easy and Refined not great.
Speaker 3: Even in the eighteen hundreds of they're writing books easy
Speaker 3: and refined. All those marketing terms, I'll make it easy,
Speaker 3: make it Yeah, we're more refined. They still use those
Speaker 3: terms all these years later. A restaurant chain in Texas
Speaker 3: named Kirby's Pig Stand is believed to be the first
Speaker 3: that started selling onion rings at a restaurant, and then
Speaker 3: in eight nineteen thirty three they became more mainstream. So
Speaker 3: about fifteen years after that original recipe restaurant in Texas
Speaker 3: and really took off in the nineteen sixties when A
Speaker 3: and W restaurants added onion rings to the menu. And
Speaker 3: my favorite onion ring fact that we've learned from doing
Speaker 3: this podcast is the story about McDonald's. Remember that story, Danny,
Speaker 3: That McDonald's had opportunities to add the onion rings to
Speaker 3: the menu. Oh, yes, but they decided not to do
Speaker 3: it because they make so much money from their fries.
Speaker 3: They were afraid people were just going to buy the
Speaker 3: onion rings and they wouldn't have as large a a
Speaker 3: profit margin from the onion rings. So McDonald's has passed
Speaker 3: on selling onion rings even though they could. But we
Speaker 3: have out here Carls Junior or Harty's if you're east
Speaker 3: of the Mississippi.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they got good onion rings.
Speaker 3: They've got pretty good onion rings. I'm trying to think
Speaker 3: the greatest onion ring you've had.
Speaker 4: Also, if you want to go like an onion ring,
Speaker 4: taste but healthier fried zucchini at Carl's Junior slash Hearties.
Speaker 3: Now. The greatest quantity of onion rings you can get,
Speaker 3: at least here in southern California is a place called
Speaker 3: the Hat. They give you a bag of onion rings.
Speaker 4: The stand is another one.
Speaker 3: The stands, Yeah, stands got big around here, so you've
Speaker 3: got that. Is also today's National Chocolate a Claire Day.
Speaker 3: If does that move you at all? The Chocolate Claire No, yeah,
Speaker 3: I'm not really a Chocolate a Claire guy either. On
Speaker 3: this podcast, we've got Side of the Road, the Selfie,
Speaker 3: we'll have the idiom of the week, and if we
Speaker 3: have time, Pop goes the culture. So we have all
Speaker 3: that as we must get to it right now. So
Speaker 3: we'll start with this. Is it a bird? Is it
Speaker 3: a plane?
Speaker 4: What is it?
Speaker 2: So?
Speaker 3: On my way to work, normal week, nothing special going on.
Speaker 3: It was Tuesday, and I have the very long commute,
Speaker 3: usually too much traffic, but it's just a lot of miles,
Speaker 3: a lot of miles to make the trip from the
Speaker 3: north Woods to the beautiful Fox Sports Radio mothership. I'm
Speaker 3: again very happy the company's mandated I come in on
Speaker 3: a regular basis. I have this whole planned out, my
Speaker 3: whole day is completely dedicated to the commute, and because
Speaker 3: it takes a long time, I have to leave at
Speaker 3: a certain point in that but I have to prepare
Speaker 3: for the show. And so you know, these are first
Speaker 3: world problems. I'm not playing the victim. I'm just saying
Speaker 3: that's what I have to do. And so on my
Speaker 3: way to work this past Tuesday, I'm making the long
Speaker 3: drive to the mean streets of Los Angeles and then
Speaker 3: into the San Fernando Valley, trying to avoid the crime,
Speaker 3: homelessness that's all around.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 3: I had just left the Malor Mansion and then out
Speaker 3: of the corner of my eye was turning left, and
Speaker 3: out of the corner of my eye, I saw the light.
Speaker 1: And then I did a double.
Speaker 3: Take, and I said, well, maybe I'm getting like secondhand
Speaker 3: weed or something like that. Or I've been hanging out
Speaker 3: with jet who fled? Are we being either invaded by aliens?
Speaker 3: Or has someone from North Korea or Russia Senna nuk
Speaker 3: our way? Is this what the end of the world
Speaker 3: looks like? So I don't want to go all coast
Speaker 3: to coast and George Nori on yall or all that,
Speaker 3: But let me just tell you what I saw was
Speaker 3: awesome because I didn't know it was coming. I didn't
Speaker 3: expect it so much, so I never do this. I
Speaker 3: never do I was rubbernecking. I pulled off to the
Speaker 3: side of the road.
Speaker 4: I thought you were going to say you called nine
Speaker 4: one one.
Speaker 1: No, I didn't.
Speaker 4: I didn't do that.
Speaker 3: I have called nine one one a few times when
Speaker 3: I've had people driving the wrong way at me. And
Speaker 3: I'll tell you what, if you want the police to
Speaker 3: show up, tell them somebody's driving the wrong way on
Speaker 3: the freeway. They'll show up real quick. But anyway, so
Speaker 3: I'm sorry. I pulled up a side of the road
Speaker 3: and I get my phone out. I don't usually do that.
Speaker 3: I like record this whole thing. I want to soak
Speaker 3: it all in. And it did look like a nuclear
Speaker 3: missile or a rocket, or it was heading out to
Speaker 3: the heavens or was it coming in from the heavens.
Speaker 3: I wasn't sure. And uh, it's pretty well. I'm gonna
Speaker 3: try to multitask your Danny, and a good, good podcaster
Speaker 3: would have sent this to you probably a while ago,
Speaker 3: so I'm gonna send it to you right now.
Speaker 4: That's what separates us from the other podcasts.
Speaker 1: We keep it real. That's what we do.
Speaker 3: Of course, now I can't find it. I mean, oh
Speaker 3: I find I'll find the video.
Speaker 4: Take my compliment back.
Speaker 3: All right, No, no, I'm gonna send it to you
Speaker 3: right now. Just see. Tell me this does not look
Speaker 3: like a missile or some kind of religious uh like
Speaker 3: sign from the heavens or something like that.
Speaker 4: Just driving along, I have a funny feeling that what
Speaker 4: you're sending me is something I saw. Okay other people
Speaker 4: post on social media?
Speaker 1: Probably probably so, yes, probably so yes.
Speaker 4: I saw this on social media.
Speaker 3: Well I didn't know about it. That is a a
Speaker 3: rocket from elon Musk. I think he might have been
Speaker 3: on the rocket from SpaceX that was flying over the
Speaker 3: night sky.
Speaker 4: Did this launch from Vandenburg?
Speaker 3: Yes, okay, launched from Vanderburgh. And I will not name
Speaker 3: the person here because I did not want to incriminate
Speaker 3: the guilty. But the naked streets a friend of mine
Speaker 3: who I've known for many, many years, sent me a
Speaker 3: message because he loves photography of just different random things
Speaker 3: and stuff, and he was at Vandenberg to he was
Speaker 3: waiting for this launch. He was there all day and
Speaker 3: a rumor has it that he got completely hammered but
Speaker 3: drove home because he has a self driving Tesla.
Speaker 1: So here's the question.
Speaker 3: I didn't bring this up to him and I will
Speaker 3: not name him, but can one get a dui? If
Speaker 3: you're in the car drunk but not driving the car?
Speaker 4: Once the car is on, they can give you a
Speaker 4: ticket for being drunk?
Speaker 3: Okay, Well, and they're toning the ruse while Luisa was
Speaker 3: driving to be passed out in an intersect.
Speaker 4: Yeah, taking a nap, you know you're you're trying to sleep.
Speaker 3: Let us maybe we have a lot of police that
Speaker 3: like these shows. Somebody law enforcement. Let us let us know.
Speaker 3: If you're in the back seat sleeping and the car
Speaker 3: is off, can you get a dui? See, I don't
Speaker 3: think they can give you. Yeah, it's a great cake.
Speaker 3: If you pull over to the side of the road
Speaker 3: and you're sleeping but you're in the back seat, you're
Speaker 3: technically in the car, you have the keys to the car,
Speaker 3: but the car's not on, you're not moving, and you're
Speaker 3: taking a nap, trying to get rid of the buzz
Speaker 3: that you have.
Speaker 4: It says based on the ruling and Mercer Versus Department
Speaker 4: of Motor Vehicles nineteen ninety one, while you can still
Speaker 4: get a DUI if the vehicle isn't in motion, proof
Speaker 4: of volitional movement is required for a conviction.
Speaker 3: Okay, gotcha. And if you're sleeping in the back, that's
Speaker 3: where you have to hire one of those billboard attorneys
Speaker 3: and you'll be in good shape. Hey, speaking of extraterrestrials
Speaker 3: and things like that, there was a story that I
Speaker 3: was reading about that was pretty cool. I've never been
Speaker 3: to Roswell. Have you ever been to Roswell, New Mexico. No, Yeah,
Speaker 3: there's a story I read in the Daily Mail, so
Speaker 3: it must be true because it was in the Daily Mail,
Speaker 3: and the Daily Mail is never wrong. But they say
Speaker 3: they found new compelling evidence at that site, the Roswell
Speaker 3: UFO site that proved an alien crash happened in nineteen
Speaker 3: forty seven according to experts. Now you're probably wondering, how
Speaker 3: the hell could they put it's been so long, what's
Speaker 3: left there? But the suppose it extraterrestrial craft crashed in
Speaker 3: the outskirts of Roswell, And of course the military came
Speaker 3: out right away the crash site and somebody who's they've
Speaker 3: been using metal detectors since twenty ten and this geologists
Speaker 3: claimed that they uncovered about twenty unusual scraps of metal material,
Speaker 3: most no bigger than a fingernail, and have now submitted
Speaker 3: one odd metal for testing to uh uh, it's to
Speaker 3: a TV show Danny on Discovery Channel Alien Encounters Fact
Speaker 3: or Fiction. The testing revealed that the metal was one
Speaker 3: percent pure aluminum, which experts said was compelling evidence that
Speaker 3: proved the crash happened.
Speaker 4: So they claimed, big, guys that're looking at us, there
Speaker 4: you go. It's like Man in Black came to life,
Speaker 4: because everything they joke about being true has come true.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, in one way or another. It seems that way.
Speaker 3: Like the technology stuff that we have and all that.
Speaker 4: There's like an apol person beside it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's pretty crazy.
Speaker 3: If you see an alien, take a selfie with with
Speaker 3: the alien, right, that's what you should do.
Speaker 4: They usually move so fast though, that the picture is
Speaker 4: always just a blur. Yeah. And the ones who don't
Speaker 4: believe this, we've argued about it on Covino and Rich
Speaker 4: Rich always says, well, why is every picture blurry? I
Speaker 4: don't understand, And it's because these spacecrafts and aliens move
Speaker 4: so fast.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: How do you explain the fighter pilots in the military,
Speaker 3: they're in the Air Force or the Navy, that are
Speaker 3: out in the ocean and see, they witness things that
Speaker 3: are impossible with human technology on a regular basis, like
Speaker 3: things coming out of the ocean. Now, my theory is
Speaker 3: that there's a whole underworld under the ocean, and like
Speaker 3: there's a whole species of level critters that live under
Speaker 3: the ocean, like Land of the Lost, and they have
Speaker 3: ports that they exit and they are studying us, and
Speaker 3: then they go back into the ocean and they just
Speaker 3: hang out wherever they live.
Speaker 4: In the middle of a plane, Georgie and Nori better
Speaker 4: watch out. I think we're listening to his replacement right now.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm just saying. I'm just saying, I've already got
Speaker 3: the callers. All I just need is the content. That's
Speaker 3: all I need is the content. That's it.
Speaker 4: I'm in command. Last Saturday night, we could have really
Speaker 4: used one of those space shuttles because we were sitting
Speaker 4: in traffic to go to country star Luke Comb's sold
Speaker 4: out concert at SOFI.
Speaker 1: Louke Albert Combes.
Speaker 4: Oh, so we kind of knew we were in for
Speaker 4: it as far as it being a travel day, because
Speaker 4: we went to the ways app and it said two
Speaker 4: hours and thirty one minutes to go twenty nine miles.
Speaker 4: That's a tough one, yo. The old joke from way
Speaker 4: back in the day, it's called the four or five
Speaker 4: because it's four or five hours to get to wherever
Speaker 4: you're going. Sure enough, that's how long it took us
Speaker 4: to get to Inglewood. But it was worth it, man,
Speaker 4: because we knew Luke Colmmes was gonna put on a
Speaker 4: great concert. My girl, though, for half of that time,
Speaker 4: sitting in that traffic, that mess, She's like, I gotta
Speaker 4: go to the bathroom. Oh man, I got a pee.
Speaker 4: You know, you know when your significant others doing the
Speaker 4: pea dance. Yeah, oh yeah. So she's kind of rocking
Speaker 4: back and forth a little bit, like, I got a pee.
Speaker 4: This traffic's ridiculous. I gotta go. When we got into Inglewood,
Speaker 4: we hit city limits and I remember the name of
Speaker 4: the street. You would have loved it, Nutwood. And I
Speaker 4: saw on my ways app that there was a Target
Speaker 4: right when we got into city limits, So I'm thinking, okay,
Speaker 4: target parking garage we run in use the bathroom. Usually
Speaker 4: when you run into a target. At least here in California,
Speaker 4: there's a family bathroom, a men's bathroom, a lady's bath bathroom,
Speaker 4: and there's several stalls inside, so you could just walk
Speaker 4: right in and use the restroom. It's easy. Not at
Speaker 4: this inglewood bathroom. We get inside, the first thing we
Speaker 4: notice there are three guards. One of them is armed. God,
Speaker 4: this is different from where we live. We find the restroom.
Speaker 4: It's got the buttons on it, you know where you
Speaker 4: have to put the code in. Yeah, So I'm like, ah, jeszu,
Speaker 4: this is a pain in the ass. So I go
Speaker 4: find an employee and I said, hey, can I please
Speaker 4: have the code for your restroom? And she says, hang on,
Speaker 4: I have to send someone over. So they don't even
Speaker 4: give you the actual code. They make an employee punch
Speaker 4: the code in. Man, this is like the verification it
Speaker 4: takes to get into our work email. This is nuts.
Speaker 4: So yeah, we're standing over there in front of these
Speaker 4: restrooms inside the single would target, and finally an employee
Speaker 4: makes his way over and he says, oh, you know what,
Speaker 4: there's only one restroom and someone's been in there for
Speaker 4: a long time. There was one other restroom down the
Speaker 4: hall had a big sign on it that said employees only.
Speaker 4: So we're standing, We're waiting, we're waiting, we're waiting. He
Speaker 4: comes back around. He's like, the person's still in there.
Speaker 4: We're like, yeah, you see us, still standing here. So
Speaker 4: finally he feels bad and he's like, come over here.
Speaker 4: He walks us down the hall. He punches in the
Speaker 4: employee code and lets us into that bathroom. Thank god.
Speaker 4: So we use that bathroom get out of there. By
Speaker 4: the way, there were homeless people camped out inside the
Speaker 4: Target in the Aisles, California.
Speaker 1: Man, California where we live.
Speaker 4: It's on the outside of the buildings in the city city,
Speaker 4: it's inside of the businesses. That's how bad it's gotten.
Speaker 4: So we're feeling bad for these employees at the Target, like, man,
Speaker 4: what a job. There was one guy his job was
Speaker 4: just to babysit the cameras, and another guy he was
Speaker 4: just watching the door. So it was like a look
Speaker 4: out situation. We we get to the venue finally and
Speaker 4: it is a mess with cars and people parking in
Speaker 4: the residential on the residential streets. We knew SOFI is
Speaker 4: expensive because we've been there for a rams Raiders preseason game.
Speaker 1: A great mass of the rators.
Speaker 4: We get into one of the lots. No signage doesn't
Speaker 4: say how much the parking is. We thought the girl
Speaker 4: was kidding. She said, that'll be one hundred dollars.
Speaker 1: One hundred dollars.
Speaker 4: This is what one hundred looks like.
Speaker 1: One hundred dollars to see And how long is the concert?
Speaker 1: Ninety minutes? So much life that ninety minutes.
Speaker 4: My wife had that same reaction and I said, sorry, babe,
Speaker 4: your concert t shirt budget just went out the window.
Speaker 4: Get away from me. We walk into Sofar. You've been there, right,
Speaker 4: but only in the media portion of the stadium.
Speaker 3: Yeah, walked around a little bit, but I'm not. I
Speaker 3: have not walked the entire stadium.
Speaker 4: No, it's a long walk. It's like Jurassic Park inside there.
Speaker 4: Beautiful stadium, but a lot of walking. And uh, we're
Speaker 4: both wearing cowboy boots because you know we're authentic. When
Speaker 4: in Rome, Yeah, when in Inglewood, went in Inglewood in
Speaker 4: the hood. Uh, and my wife, Yeah, my wife had
Speaker 4: a cowboy hat on. It wasn't from Target unless it was.
Speaker 4: We find out.
Speaker 3: Did she just buy it? Did she just buy it
Speaker 3: at the Target?
Speaker 4: A week before the concert. She got it because we're
Speaker 4: authentic country music fans. We both listening to country music
Speaker 4: for a long time. Luke Combs is one of her
Speaker 4: favorite artists on the planet. She's hyped by the way.
Speaker 4: Her mom was babysitting big baby Koa. This is the
Speaker 4: first date night we've had in ten months. She was
Speaker 4: a static. She's drinking a cold one. It's our first
Speaker 4: Bruski in almost a year. The night's looking good. Sit
Speaker 4: down in our seats. There's one opener left before the headliner,
Speaker 4: Luke Combs comes on stage. Cool seats, great view of
Speaker 4: the stage, the best view. These three girls about two
Speaker 4: rows in front of us. Nobody else was in front
Speaker 4: of them. They were standing up taking turns, taking greats.
Speaker 4: Not only selfies, but they were taking turns, doing modeling
Speaker 4: sessions where one of them would take a photo of
Speaker 4: the other so you could see like the stage, you know.
Speaker 1: In the background, stuppi break.
Speaker 4: Twenty year olds all doing the same like four or
Speaker 4: five poses, butt out, fish lips, chest out. They all
Speaker 4: had cutoff jeans, boots, booty, showing bellies, showing flat abs, tans.
Speaker 4: They looked like country hussies.
Speaker 3: Maybe you want to hang out with me. Were the
Speaker 3: only fans models.
Speaker 4: They looked like my grandmother would have called them hussies.
Speaker 4: But my better half, she is a cool mom. She
Speaker 4: kept facetiming her oldest who loves Lukecomb's and country music,
Speaker 4: and for a lot of the face time, she put
Speaker 4: her camera on the three hussies.
Speaker 2: Oh yes, that's when you start to look creepy and shit.
Speaker 4: We had the best laugh about, though, Ben is when
Speaker 4: they were looking back at their photos trying to find
Speaker 4: a good one. And this was going on for like
Speaker 4: a half hour, where they're just sliding to the left,
Speaker 4: to the left, to the left, looking for the best
Speaker 4: slutty photo of each pose. And then we could see
Speaker 4: them going to their contacts, Send Send, Send, Send everybody
Speaker 4: on their friends lists.
Speaker 1: Men and women take selfies differently.
Speaker 3: When Lebron set the scoring record for the NBA scoring record,
Speaker 3: and you looked at the photo and everyone in the
Speaker 3: photo except for like two people had their hand extended
Speaker 3: like the Statue of Liberty, and they were taking photos
Speaker 3: and video of the moment rather than just soaking it
Speaker 3: all in and enjoying what was going on.
Speaker 1: Rather than that.
Speaker 3: They're like, no, no, no, we want we want to have
Speaker 3: our camera up in the air. Ever, in fact, if
Speaker 3: I remember the guy Phil Knight from Nike and the
Speaker 3: lady he was with were like the only people in
Speaker 3: that one iconic photo. We're not taking taking the picture, Lebron.
Speaker 3: Was JJ Reddick at that game? Was he broadcasting that game?
Speaker 3: Probably not. Congratulations on your new coach, big news in Lakerland.
Speaker 1: You hired a podcast as your coach.
Speaker 4: Congratulations, and I'd like to congratulate you on that ty
Speaker 4: Leu extension.
Speaker 1: Hey, that's fine. We got Jeff van Gundy, so that's
Speaker 1: a win.
Speaker 3: Van Gunday in the house and Gunday like like that move.
Speaker 4: Why not?
Speaker 3: Hey, it's funny you mentioned the target in Englewood. Ever
Speaker 3: since they built Sofi Stadium and now they have the
Speaker 3: into it, don't home the City of Champions, which is
Speaker 3: the nickname of Inglewood. You could have gotten a house
Speaker 3: in Inglewood about ten or fifteen years I think maybe
Speaker 3: fifteen years ago for around four hundred thousand dollars right Inglewood.
Speaker 3: The median house price in the hood in Inglewood, one
Speaker 3: of the rougher neighborhoods in la is seven hundred and
Speaker 3: twenty thousand dollars to live in a place as you described, Danny,
Speaker 3: that has a target that has security guards outside the
Speaker 3: bathrooms as homeless people sleeping in the target, and that'll
Speaker 3: cost you over seven hundred thousand dollars.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And my girl's theory was they can get away
Speaker 4: with charging one hundred for parking because you don't want
Speaker 4: to park on any of those residential streets.
Speaker 3: That is generally true. But I do remember when I
Speaker 3: used to go to the coliseum. They've cleaned up that
Speaker 3: area a lot where USC played. The Rams played there,
Speaker 3: and there would be people, remember, on the lawns around
Speaker 3: the coliseum where people would park, and they'd trust, they'd
Speaker 3: trust random people with the keys to their car.
Speaker 1: Pretty pretty crazy.
Speaker 4: A lot of families they would have signs out on
Speaker 4: their front yard that said thirty dollars for parking, and
Speaker 4: then they would fit as many cars and fans on
Speaker 4: their front lawn and in front of their house as
Speaker 4: they could fit. If you look closely, I got some
Speaker 4: yellowing spots in the nutsedge area.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And they'd sit there in lawn chairs or beach
Speaker 3: chairs and just hang out while the game was going
Speaker 3: on and get their money and.
Speaker 1: Not a little hustle.
Speaker 4: Why not.
Speaker 1: I'm sure they do it in Inglewood too.
Speaker 3: The problem with Ingwood is you you're fine going to
Speaker 3: the event because the sun's probably up when you're walking
Speaker 3: into the stadium. It's after the game when you have
Speaker 3: to get an uber and then you don't know whether
Speaker 3: or not your car is going to be there when
Speaker 3: you get there. That's the problem. All right, I think
Speaker 3: we'll do the idiom of the week. Then we'll get out.
Speaker 3: We have pop goes the culture. We'll do that tomorrow.
Speaker 3: But the idiom of.
Speaker 1: The week idiom.
Speaker 3: Of all right, So the idiom of the week here
Speaker 3: cry uncle, as requested by Pierre from Springfield. The term
Speaker 3: which is generally like a wrestling term, whether your thumb
Speaker 3: wrestling or having a real wrestling match, cry uncle. So
Speaker 3: there's a couple of different theories in play here on
Speaker 3: the origin of this particular idiom, this phrase, a lot
Speaker 3: of speculation about it. The term which is universally recognized
Speaker 3: as you're conceding. It's a concession speech, I give up
Speaker 3: that kind of thing. It goes back to the late
Speaker 3: nineteenth century and was used as a focal point in
Speaker 3: a joke originally and as the story goes Once upon
Speaker 3: a time, a long long time ago, in a land
Speaker 3: far far away, a gentleman was boasting that his parrot
Speaker 3: would repeat anything he told the bird. For example, he
Speaker 3: told the parrots several times before some friends to say uncle,
Speaker 3: but the parrot would not repeat it. In anger, he
Speaker 3: seized the bird, and, half twisting the bird's neck, said
Speaker 3: say uncle, you beggar, and threw him into the bird
Speaker 3: pen there and in which he had ten prize birds.
Speaker 3: Shortly afterwards, thinking he had killed the bird, he came
Speaker 3: over to the bird cage, and much to his surprise,
Speaker 3: he found nine of the birds dead on the floor
Speaker 3: with their necks rung, and the parrot standing on the tenth,
Speaker 3: twisting his neck and screaming.
Speaker 1: Say uncle, you beggar, Say uncle, Yeah, that sounds like
Speaker 1: bull crap.
Speaker 3: Now. Other versions of the stories is a man whose
Speaker 3: niece had convinced him in to coerced him. I guess
Speaker 3: this is a better word, coerced them into buying a parrot.
Speaker 3: Succeeded in getting a bird that was warranteed as a
Speaker 3: good talker, guaranteed it was a good talker, and all
Speaker 3: this stuff. And so there was that, and then there's
Speaker 3: also a theory that goes back to the Roman Empire
Speaker 3: in which children confronted by bullies would be forced to say.
Speaker 1: Patrue or uncle or my best.
Speaker 3: Uncle in order to be freed. So there's a couple
Speaker 3: of different versions on that. But I don't believe the
Speaker 3: parrot one. I think that's bull crap. Makes a lot
Speaker 3: of sense to me. I think that's ridiculous.
Speaker 1: But cry uncle the idiom of the week.
Speaker 3: Okay, we'll get out having wonderful rest of your Saturday.
Speaker 3: We'll be back on Sunday tomorrow with another brand spank
Speaker 3: anew podcast.
Speaker 4: You're gonna have shorts on today. It's in the low
Speaker 4: nineties in most of southern California.
Speaker 1: I'm living the life. What are you talking about?
Speaker 3: At the ac going you get the shorts on, enjoying
Speaker 3: the beautiful weather. You gotta do it right. We pay
Speaker 3: a lot in taxes and all that. Although the way,
Speaker 3: it's pretty nice everywhere. Right, it's not really bad anywhere
Speaker 3: at this point. Maybe a little too hot, but you'd
Speaker 3: rather have that than the opposite. Anyway, have a great
Speaker 3: arrest of your day. We'll talk to you tomorrow later.
Speaker 4: Skater population