Speaker 1: Kubbooms.
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.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 2: The clearing House of Hot takes break free for something special.
Speaker 2: The Fifth Hour with Ben Mallard starts right now.
Speaker 1: In the air everywhere The Fifth Hour back at it
Speaker 1: on a Friday, the eighth day of December. We're hanging
Speaker 1: out with you here because five nights a week not enough.
Speaker 1: On the overnight and Ben Maller hanging out with Danny
Speaker 1: g Hello, Danny, welcome.
Speaker 3: Good morning.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's so early on a Friday that I was
Speaker 4: trying to turn a heater on in the garage.
Speaker 1: Well, you know, we do these tire rack commercials and
Speaker 1: part of the copy is the terrible winter weather that
Speaker 1: we have in California in La how bad it is
Speaker 1: and really is that wintery mix that we get in
Speaker 1: California where it occasionally gets down to like fifty degrees
Speaker 1: or something like that. It's a real problem.
Speaker 3: I thought you were going to tell me to burn
Speaker 3: some tires in the grudge.
Speaker 1: Oh no, I listen, if you want, I can do
Speaker 1: a tire rock commercial now, if you want. I have
Speaker 1: them memorized at this particular point. We love them so much,
Speaker 1: Danny that in if you need insurance, I know who
Speaker 1: you can contact.
Speaker 3: What is your favorite piece of copy to read?
Speaker 1: Well, let me tell you someth Danny. Winter is coming
Speaker 1: and you know what that means. To us here that
Speaker 1: means well, it doesn't mean anything, but for other people
Speaker 1: it's that wintery combination.
Speaker 3: Northern California that means rain.
Speaker 1: No.
Speaker 4: I have the copy memorized as well, because I get
Speaker 4: it ready every day for Covino and Rich, so we
Speaker 4: have that in common in our lives.
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter whether you need Bridgestone tires, it be
Speaker 1: of Good, Rich or Continental. We know them all. In fact,
Speaker 1: I'm more qualified to work at a tire shop tire
Speaker 1: rack than I am to do a radio show. So
Speaker 1: I think I should just sell tires. Maybe that's my future, Dan.
Speaker 1: I'll just become a tire salesman and I'll work for
Speaker 1: the people at Tyreck, which is kind of like what
Speaker 1: we're doing now anyway, right, In many ways in many ways,
Speaker 1: we love them, but that's what we're doing. So anyway,
Speaker 1: on this podcast, we have The Mickey Mouse Show, The Pods,
Speaker 1: Squad Flawed, the Word of the Week, and Foody Fund.
Speaker 1: So a lot to get to, but that's always shameless promotion.
Speaker 1: It is week fourteen in the NFL season. It began
Speaker 1: on Thursday night.
Speaker 3: Can you believe it's already Week fourteen?
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's only a few weeks to go in the
Speaker 1: regular season as we wind things down or wind up
Speaker 1: for the home stretch. But week fourteen, and for the
Speaker 1: purposes of this podcast, and if you want to help
Speaker 1: us out, that means Benny Versus the Penny Week fourteen
Speaker 1: is back and we are on all over the clock,
Speaker 1: all weekend long, starting today. The first episode that will air,
Speaker 1: I believe, is in the Bay Area on NBC Sports
Speaker 1: Bay Area. We are the pre pregame show for the
Speaker 1: Golden State Warriors as they play. If I'm correct, I
Speaker 1: think they play Okay, see today and the pregame coverage
Speaker 1: will begin after Benny Versus the Penny. But I believe
Speaker 1: we if I have the schedule correct, which I think
Speaker 1: I do. Three point thirty in San Francisco in the
Speaker 1: Bay Area there and then a non core showing at
Speaker 1: ten o'clock. But we'll be on all over the map.
Speaker 1: The Hub in Boston on NBC Sports Boston, we're on
Speaker 1: late night after Celtics programming and whatnot eleven thirty pm,
Speaker 1: and then another replay showing and encore showing after the
Speaker 1: Witching Hour. Actually it's during the Witching Hour at twelve thirty,
Speaker 1: so they'll be on there Philadelphia at eleven o'clock. I mean,
Speaker 1: you go through the whole schedule here. Check it out.
Speaker 1: Benny versus the Penny goof around with a penny handicapping
Speaker 1: NFL games, So check that out.
Speaker 4: Tons of eyes on you on the Lakers Channel tomorrow
Speaker 4: as well, pre and post.
Speaker 1: Right, well, we'll be on yeah, well we were back
Speaker 1: to more normal times there on the Saturday Spectrum sportsnet
Speaker 1: so cal because the six am showing who the Hell's
Speaker 1: awake at six am? One on Saturday, I don't know,
Speaker 1: raising my hand all right, yeah, you got a kid,
Speaker 1: three pm and then seven pm, so three showings at least.
Speaker 1: There might be more, but at least three showings on
Speaker 1: the Laker Channel and then on Sunday if you're in
Speaker 1: New York or New Jersey or Connecticut and you have
Speaker 1: SNY you can check it out at eleven thirty am
Speaker 1: and there'll be a bunch of other showings as well. Now,
Speaker 1: big doings this week and big thanks to Danny g
Speaker 1: So the big reveal. Now, I was not at the
Speaker 1: watch post on Wednesday into Thursday. I did not do
Speaker 1: the show per normal. Now, we have talked about this
Speaker 1: in the past. I don't know if I've done it
Speaker 1: with you, Danny, but typically in broadcasting, if you take
Speaker 1: a day off in the middle of the week and
Speaker 1: then you come back following that, that's less than ideal.
Speaker 1: Like usually people take days off, it's either Monday or Friday.
Speaker 1: You don't normally take a Wednesday into a Thursday off.
Speaker 1: But I did, and there was a reason for it.
Speaker 1: I was hanging out with a bunch of vermin, well
Speaker 1: cartoon vermin. This actually goes back to a story we
Speaker 1: talked about last year, and it's really been going on
Speaker 1: for many, many years.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you not opening your work email?
Speaker 1: Yes, I Ever since I got whacked by the company
Speaker 1: in nine, I made a pack with myself. I'm never
Speaker 1: going to open up the work email unless I'm forced
Speaker 1: to because I have to do some kind of training
Speaker 1: because when I needed to get access to the email,
Speaker 1: when I got let go, the first thing they shut
Speaker 1: off that you want to take You guess what the
Speaker 1: first thing they shut off is.
Speaker 4: Besides bulk erasing all of your voice from everything on
Speaker 4: the network, Yeah, but shut your email off.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's I remember I was a kid. I watched
Speaker 1: a History channel and they had to think about Joseph
Speaker 1: Stalin right the way he would erase people I give
Speaker 1: it of their photos and it was pretty much what happens.
Speaker 1: But the email thing was annoyed, right, the Great Purge
Speaker 1: and the email thing would always you know, So I
Speaker 1: stop checking my email, and that's that's good because I
Speaker 1: don't have to worry if anything happens. I don't have
Speaker 1: to worry about missing email because I don't have I
Speaker 1: don't even know it's there. But it's bad because, as
Speaker 1: Looney used to say, sometimes they have free cupcakes on
Speaker 1: the fourth floor or something like that, you can't get them,
Speaker 1: or tickets to big events and things like that. And
Speaker 1: so iHeartMedia, which is the parent company of Fox Sports Radio,
Speaker 1: the radio Mega. They don't like the word radio, right, Danny.
Speaker 1: They just like the word broadcasting or media audio audio
Speaker 1: audio company.
Speaker 3: I think they prefer media company, now.
Speaker 1: Company, right whatever, whatever. The consultants all platforms including TV,
Speaker 1: that's right. So anyway, the people at iHeart the parent company,
Speaker 1: the LA Cluster, which I don't even know if we're
Speaker 1: part of because we're not at the LA Cluster. They
Speaker 1: have a bunch of big radio stations that have a
Speaker 1: lot of listeners and all that stuff. Anyway, every year
Speaker 1: they have an event. We talked about this in years
Speaker 1: past at Disneyland, the California Adventure, and this is where
Speaker 1: they close the park to the great unwashed and then
Speaker 1: it's a private party. I have worked at the company
Speaker 1: for over twenty years. This thing has been going on,
Speaker 1: not that long, but close, and I have never ever
Speaker 1: been to this event. I remember last year you went
Speaker 1: and I was like, I was, I was very jealous,
Speaker 1: and several other people went and I was like damn.
Speaker 1: So I asked you. I said, Danny, let me know,
Speaker 1: give me a heads up. I don't check my working
Speaker 1: and you're a man of your word, Danny, you're a
Speaker 1: man of integrity. You immediately alerted me to the events
Speaker 1: the way I guess it had worked in the past, Danny,
Speaker 1: it no longer worked, right, They had changed it up
Speaker 1: a little bit this year. Just my luck, right, they
Speaker 1: decided to change it up.
Speaker 3: A little bit.
Speaker 4: They still did their quote unquote raffle for employees. Yeah,
Speaker 4: but who wants to, you know, live their life by chance.
Speaker 4: So if you are friends with the right people, you
Speaker 4: can still get into the park for this iHeart event.
Speaker 4: So I went through the right channels. But yeah, they
Speaker 4: had given away their extra tickets this year at our
Speaker 4: company Christmas party.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so it looked like I wasn't gonna go. No,
Speaker 1: to be fair, and just for the record, I liked
Speaker 1: the event. I wanted to go to the event, and
Speaker 1: Danny directed, you knew the right person. I actually I
Speaker 1: knew the person. Also. I reached him as well. A
Speaker 1: guy that I've known for twenty five years who funny story,
Speaker 1: our promotions guy, Dave Dave Weis. So I met him
Speaker 1: he was working I was covering baseball. I was a kid,
Speaker 1: and he was the He was working at a station
Speaker 1: in Orange County where Steve Desager worked. So that's when
Speaker 1: I first met the Sager and I met Dave Weis. Also,
Speaker 1: it was like the same the same time. It was
Speaker 1: a ninety five to nine, which I think is like
Speaker 1: a religious station. Now maybe I'm wrong on that.
Speaker 3: I don't know, but that.
Speaker 1: Was the station they all worked at. And so I
Speaker 1: met him and I reached out to him. You were
Speaker 1: you were great.
Speaker 4: It seems like a religious guy. I've never been to
Speaker 4: a strip club with him in a super Bowl city before.
Speaker 1: That would never happen. That would be that would be inappropriate.
Speaker 4: When I got a hold of Dave Ben, I told
Speaker 4: him and I used your wife, my wife, if I said, look,
Speaker 4: as long as Ben's been at the company, he's never
Speaker 4: been to one of our big iHeart events. And his
Speaker 4: wife is a big Disney fan, so you can't fail
Speaker 4: him on this.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And I was getting pestered. My wife wanted to go,
Speaker 1: but her aunt really wanted to go, and so I
Speaker 1: was getting pestered a lot. I hate, you know, I
Speaker 1: hate getting pestered, Danny. I don't like I hate asking
Speaker 1: for things. It annoys me. I think so much more stuff.
Speaker 1: If I just was a pain in the ass and
Speaker 1: just asked, you know, give me this, that and the
Speaker 1: other thing. But I don't. I just hate doing so
Speaker 1: I don't do it. I mean rarely, rarely do I do.
Speaker 1: This was like a rare exception. But anyway, it worked out.
Speaker 1: Was able to go and the Scott our Ball gave
Speaker 1: me the night off, so that that worked out pretty well,
Speaker 1: and it was interesting. It's a weird situation because it's
Speaker 1: I'd not been to this before. Because you go into
Speaker 1: the park, it's still open. They're in the process of
Speaker 1: like shutting it down.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they kick the regular customers out by a certain
Speaker 4: time and then only the iHeart winners and staff get
Speaker 4: to run around the park after that for a few hours.
Speaker 1: Yeah. And so I was in social butterfly mode, Danny,
Speaker 1: thinking I was just going to run into a bunch
Speaker 1: of people that I knew because I've met a lot
Speaker 1: of people over the years, and a lot of the
Speaker 1: radio people. So I was like, all right, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: have to be social butterfly guy. And I'm an introvert,
Speaker 1: but I'll be social butterfly guy. I didn't see one person,
Speaker 1: not one person that I recognized or knew from the company.
Speaker 1: I mean, California Adventure is a pretty big chunk of land,
Speaker 1: so it is a spread out situation. But I didn't
Speaker 1: see one person, and I knew people that were there
Speaker 1: because they told me they were going to be there,
Speaker 1: so I was like, okay, and I started texting people.
Speaker 1: But that's fine. I mean, it got on everything that
Speaker 1: we wanted to get on and all that, and it
Speaker 1: was good.
Speaker 3: And to watch the water show.
Speaker 1: We did actually, and we didn't take your advice initially
Speaker 1: because you did advise us to get real close. You
Speaker 1: told us like to find the times and stuff. We
Speaker 1: didn't get real close, but the wife loved it, the
Speaker 1: light show and the water and it's like the Bellagio
Speaker 1: on steroids is what it's like.
Speaker 3: Yes, but it was good.
Speaker 1: I only got motion sickness on like one ride, which
Speaker 1: was pretty good. That's not bad. And I got on
Speaker 1: the cars right still had like an hour hour and
Speaker 1: a half wait. We waited till the very end and
Speaker 1: went on that that's the big ride at California Adventure.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a good one.
Speaker 1: And Soaring Over used to be California, now Soaring Over America.
Speaker 1: That went on that. So it was good. And unfortunately,
Speaker 1: to the dismay of Disney, Danny did not dust off
Speaker 1: the wallet for a five dollars and fifty cents soda.
Speaker 4: I was going to ask you about your purchases there
Speaker 4: because I just couldn't imagine you taking your wallet out
Speaker 4: to pay for any of their overpriced concessions.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, it was a weird situation because you know,
Speaker 1: it's rare and appropriate. I'm a rare and appropriate guy, Danny.
Speaker 1: I'm like, okay, rare and appropriate. You know, how often
Speaker 1: do you go to Disney It's you know, everything was
Speaker 1: taken care of. They gave us the VIP status, So
Speaker 1: I mean they charged thirty five bucks for parking at Disneyland.
Speaker 1: Thirty five bucks to park your car. That's insane, insane,
Speaker 1: which is why a lot of people and you should
Speaker 1: never do this, Danny. People in southern California will park
Speaker 1: in the neighborhoods around Anaheim and then walk to Disney.
Speaker 3: To say, it sounds like one of my mom's moves.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I think you might have mentioned that too,
Speaker 1: But I know that's that's been a thing. But you park,
Speaker 1: and you just kind.
Speaker 4: Of Since I was a kid, my mom parked her
Speaker 4: station Wagon in the Anaheim neighborhoods and she'd be like,
Speaker 4: come on, walking's not going to kill any of you.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're gonna walk anyway when you get to the
Speaker 1: amusement park.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah. So so here's the deal. So I had an
Speaker 1: interesting day because I was off from the radio show
Speaker 1: and I spent a lot of my days, you know, Danny,
Speaker 1: I'm obsessive, compulsive with preparation. I have like a factory
Speaker 1: type situation getting ready for the show. And I didn't
Speaker 1: have to worry about that. But I wasn't off because
Speaker 1: I had the TV show that we record the TV
Speaker 1: show at Universal Studios on Thursday. So I had the
Speaker 1: TV show and I had to get ready for the show.
Speaker 1: But I was off from work. So I spent time
Speaker 1: with the wife and we had been wrestling thing we
Speaker 1: had to go to and all that. But I had
Speaker 1: to get ready for the TV show. And so what
Speaker 1: ended up happening. I popped up. I was on my
Speaker 1: phone using I wrote notes using the I have an iPhone,
Speaker 1: so this notes thing, which I don't you have an iPhone,
Speaker 1: but it's a little notepad, yeah, digital notepad, and so
Speaker 1: I use that and I pretty much wrote all of
Speaker 1: my notes that I needed for the TV show, which
Speaker 1: I don't read. I have to memorize them, or memorize
Speaker 1: as much as I can but I wrote all this
Speaker 1: stuff down like on my iPhone. I usually use a laptop,
Speaker 1: but I use the notes thing, and so I'm like
Speaker 1: scrambling to get all that done. And then so the
Speaker 1: Disney thing went to one in the morning, Mickey Mouse
Speaker 1: Show was till one in the morning. And then by
Speaker 1: the time you get out of there, it's like one thirty.
Speaker 1: You had to drive to the house, the Malor Mansion,
Speaker 1: which isn't that far away from Disneyland, but it's still
Speaker 1: far enough. And did all that, but then I had
Speaker 1: to I took like a thirty minute power nap, and
Speaker 1: then I started going into TV mode and I had
Speaker 1: to put my my my church temple clothes on and
Speaker 1: get ready for for the TV thing. So it was
Speaker 1: a busy day.
Speaker 3: Were you inspired by getting a glimpse of the Great
Speaker 3: ellen k Well?
Speaker 1: Ellen k a legend, And might I add I knew
Speaker 1: ellen k before she became the Great Well And I
Speaker 1: don't want to say that before she became the Great ok,
Speaker 1: because she was like Rick Dez's sidekick.
Speaker 4: Yeah, she went from Rick D's to your Boy from
Speaker 4: American Idol. Oh right, yeah, and then after Seacrest she
Speaker 4: went to coach FM so man talk about three different
Speaker 4: lives in radio and all big stations.
Speaker 1: Yeah, when I met her, she was with with D's Rick,
Speaker 1: the legend. This guy was a massive start. I mean,
Speaker 1: he had the number one radio show in La on
Speaker 1: Kiss FM back in the yedies, and she was with
Speaker 1: him and all that. So yeah, I mean they had
Speaker 1: the Coast logo up in a bunch of different places
Speaker 1: and they had little photo op things. I didn't take
Speaker 1: a lot of photos because I was we were running
Speaker 1: around and all that, but but it was a lot
Speaker 1: of fun. So thanks Danny for helping it help me
Speaker 1: out there. Hopefully next year we can all go again,
Speaker 1: but who knows. If not, you know, if it's one
Speaker 1: and done, it's one and done. You know, at least
Speaker 1: we got in there, so that's good and it all
Speaker 1: it all worked out now. I didn't want to. I
Speaker 1: want to mention this as we turned the page. Here
Speaker 1: the pod squad is flawed. Not the podres Dandy, although
Speaker 1: you could make that argument. They gave away Juan Soto
Speaker 1: U and who saw that one coming? Everyone everyone, because
Speaker 1: the owner died and they're going to cut back. The
Speaker 1: TV deal fell apart in San Diego. But anyway, this
Speaker 1: is not about the poty. This is about the podcast,
Speaker 1: which we're doing right now. So we need help. Probably
Speaker 1: not you gotta to mention this on the podcast. But
Speaker 1: I got this big email. Did you get this big email?
Speaker 1: Dani's big company email.
Speaker 3: I did get that email, yep.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah. So they made some changes to the podcast game,
Speaker 1: which affects this podcast and the Ben Malor Show radio podcast,
Speaker 1: which is problematic. But so we want to be proactive,
Speaker 1: not reactive. Then I guess in a way we're reactive,
Speaker 1: but we're being proactive because we're making sure that this
Speaker 1: does not continue to cause issues. So we get, according
Speaker 1: to the numbers, the analytics, because we are all about
Speaker 1: big data, we get over eighty percent of all of
Speaker 1: our podcast listens from the Apple podcast, which we've mentioned
Speaker 1: how we desperately need people to review the podcast. We
Speaker 1: begged for that on the show. So we have the analytics.
Speaker 1: I don't know how much of this we want to
Speaker 1: give out, but over eighty percent of the downloads we
Speaker 1: get come from the Apple podcast.
Speaker 3: Of course, because so many people have iPhones.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and so Apple made some rather large changes to
Speaker 1: the to the way they do business and their metrics
Speaker 1: and all that, and without getting into the minutia of
Speaker 1: how they make the hot dogs.
Speaker 3: Yeah right, I don't think anyone.
Speaker 1: Wants to know how they make DoD dogs. But the
Speaker 1: main thing is they stopped auto downloading podcasts. For years,
Speaker 1: we had just begged people just describe to the podcast.
Speaker 1: You automatically get the podcast, which is true if you
Speaker 1: if you would, you know, sign up. I guess the
Speaker 1: terminology has changed. Right, You're supposed to just follow because
Speaker 1: subscribe means pay for it. We don't charge anybody. It's
Speaker 1: completely free. So you just follow the podcast. So that's
Speaker 1: the big word. They want to follow. You follow the podcast.
Speaker 1: And the issue here and I mentioned this the other
Speaker 1: night on the radio show, but it bears repeating because
Speaker 1: like the show that I do and you guys with
Speaker 1: Covino and Rich, we're a high volume podcast because we
Speaker 1: do a lot of content every day. We have the
Speaker 1: Ben Malacher we have four hours, and then we have
Speaker 1: the best of podcasts, so we're doing five podcasts a day.
Speaker 1: And from what I understand, if I who knows, if
Speaker 1: I'm right on this, the way it works if you
Speaker 1: follow the Ben Malershow podcast and then you start getting
Speaker 1: the downloads of the podcast, and then as a follower
Speaker 1: of the podcast, you don't listen to the five most
Speaker 1: recent episodes, and then you don't listen to an episode
Speaker 1: in fifteen days, they stop, they stop. You know, you
Speaker 1: don't get we don't get credit. Right, that's it, it's done,
Speaker 1: it's over, I believe. Yeah, and so that for us,
Speaker 1: that's five podcasts a day, and so it adds up
Speaker 1: pretty quick. So we need you to follow. What can
Speaker 1: people do here, Danny?
Speaker 3: Do you know?
Speaker 1: I forgot? There's some of the things that people can
Speaker 1: do to help us out, but mainly just be vigilant
Speaker 1: and don't go more than a day. Just give us
Speaker 1: at least a few minutes a day of.
Speaker 4: That's the key is, don't let episodes pile up. If
Speaker 4: at all possible, at least go back and download Friday
Speaker 4: or Saturday and listen to at least five ten minutes,
Speaker 4: and then you know, later you can get more caught up.
Speaker 4: But yeah, that's the thing. They're not going to let
Speaker 4: endless amounts of episodes just sit there in a pile
Speaker 4: on your iPhone.
Speaker 1: Yeah. So I do hear from people. I'm sure you
Speaker 1: hear the same thing, Danny, Like I save up podcast
Speaker 1: to binge listen to the podcast, which we love that
Speaker 1: you're listening as you go on a long road trip
Speaker 1: or something like that. Man, that's pretty cool. That's neat
Speaker 1: that you listen to the podcast and catch up. I know,
Speaker 1: moving man, Matt. A lot of the truck drivers, they're
Speaker 1: on the road a long time. Obviously, they're hours in
Speaker 1: the car and so in the big rig, and they'll
Speaker 1: they'll save up podcasts to listen to. But it helps
Speaker 1: us out more if you can listen just a little
Speaker 1: bit every other day or every day. Every day would
Speaker 1: be ideal, but you got stuff going on and maybe
Speaker 1: you miss a day or two, but just make sure
Speaker 1: you're keeping track.
Speaker 4: And it helps when it's a topical show, and I
Speaker 4: think we do a pretty good job with that with
Speaker 4: our different features. Yeah, it's not that it gets outdated
Speaker 4: right away, but we're obviously talking about things that are
Speaker 4: you know, in the news or headlines right now. And
Speaker 4: so it's fun to listen every weekend because it's like
Speaker 4: opening a couple of new Christmas gifts every single weekend.
Speaker 4: So yeah, I think our listeners are going to be
Speaker 4: okay with this, but hopefully our competition Ben they have
Speaker 4: problems and their downloads go way down and our stay
Speaker 4: way up.
Speaker 1: Well, that would be ideal and that we would love
Speaker 1: that to crush the competition. And I've heard from people
Speaker 1: the weird weirdos that like to go back way back
Speaker 1: in the archive and listen to old podcasts because they
Speaker 1: like to hear knowing. They you know, how you can
Speaker 1: go back and walk watch an old game and you
Speaker 1: know what happened to every player's life.
Speaker 3: Yeah, like you randomly watch old baseball games.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, I watch old baseball games, old football games.
Speaker 1: It's like I started that during COVID and I still
Speaker 1: do it. A lot of it's nostalgia. I just love
Speaker 1: the old school broadcast just because it brings me back
Speaker 1: to when I was younger and watching it and some
Speaker 1: of the stuff I didn't even watch. Some of the
Speaker 1: stuff was before I was even around. And I'll watch
Speaker 1: a random game from Howard Coseuth calling a Monday night
Speaker 1: football game and it's so hokey and so like, there's
Speaker 1: high school football broadcast today that are better than network
Speaker 1: television was, as you would imagine in the nineteen early
Speaker 1: nineteen eighties or the you know, the late seventies or
Speaker 1: whatever it might be like, it was just it's actually
Speaker 1: high school football broadcasts are better as things have evolved
Speaker 1: over time. And you mentioned some of the features we have,
Speaker 1: including the word of the week, the old of the week,
Speaker 1: and in honor of hearing NonStop Christmas music, the word
Speaker 1: of the week is ba humbug, which is really I
Speaker 1: guess two words, ba and humbug, but combined it I
Speaker 1: thought it was going to be Mariah Well ba humbug.
Speaker 1: And most people know that came from the modern usage
Speaker 1: came from Charles Dickens Christmas Carol, a Christmas Carol which
Speaker 1: goes back to the eighteen hundreds, the mid eighteen hundreds,
Speaker 1: and Ebenezer Scrooge ba humbug talking about Christmas and all that.
Speaker 1: I don't think he cares. Eben he's a scrooge about Hanaka,
Speaker 1: but he was very upset about Christmas. So anyway, the
Speaker 1: ba humbug thing, and obviously he's in part of culture.
Speaker 1: Most people know it. It means you dislike something, something
Speaker 1: that's popular, but you don't like it, so you say
Speaker 1: bah humbug. But it is interesting note that Ebenezer Scrooge
Speaker 1: did not create the term humbug, that that term did
Speaker 1: not mean I hate Christmas. Before Charles Dickens wrote that
Speaker 1: in to the famous A Christmas Carol that it first
Speaker 1: appeared in writing about fifty years before Charles Dickens wrote
Speaker 1: A Christmas Carroll, but a much different world. There was
Speaker 1: no Internet, you couldn't look stuff up or anything like that.
Speaker 1: It was a much different time than today by a
Speaker 1: long shot, anyway. Charles Dickens wrote that in the play
Speaker 1: in his story, But it first appeared in Oxford and Cambridge,
Speaker 1: and it was described as a word very much in
Speaker 1: vogue with the people of taste and fashion, they said,
Speaker 1: And so long story short, it was like a trendy
Speaker 1: slang word coined by college kids in the era, and
Speaker 1: the exact person that came up with it, nobody seems
Speaker 1: to know, has been longustin history. But humbug was used
Speaker 1: widely enough that it's definition as was made clear. So anyway,
Speaker 1: it was according to the Oxford English Dictionary, the actual
Speaker 1: word humbug, not bah humbug, just humbug, referred to like
Speaker 1: a hoax, befooling someone, a trick, something which is not
Speaker 1: really what it pretends to be, like a sham a fraud.
Speaker 1: Horn swaggling someone sculduggery is a ba humbug. So that
Speaker 1: is the word of the week. Bah humbug. We went
Speaker 1: a little along, Danny. So we will have to push
Speaker 1: back the Foodie Fund to our Saturday podcast. We'll have
Speaker 1: that on Saturday, some foodie fun and had I did
Speaker 1: have a request for FOODI fund that I'll have to
Speaker 1: try to remember tomorrow when we do that. It is Friday,
Speaker 1: the eighth day of December. I've already worked. They did
Speaker 1: the overnight show last night. I'm doing this you, Danny.
Speaker 1: You have I assume you have a full full plate
Speaker 1: ahead of you.
Speaker 4: Here, take a quick nap and then get on the
Speaker 4: road to beautiful Sherman Oaks, California, right next to bel
Speaker 4: Air where the Fresh Prince used to live and Covino
Speaker 4: Enrich the Friday edition of the show. It's gonna be fun.
Speaker 4: We're actually gonna do last one standing on a Friday
Speaker 4: two to four pm on the West Coast. That's five
Speaker 4: to seven pm in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Speaker 1: Where they used to have a good football team in
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh but not any more. Have a wonderful day and
Speaker 1: we will catch you next time.
Speaker 3: Austa pasta by flation