Speaker 1: Kabooms.
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 Clearinghouse of Hot takes break free for something special.
Speaker 2: The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now in.
Speaker 3: The air every way, The Fifth Hour with Me, Big
Speaker 3: Ben and Danny g Radio. It is Saturday, Saturday, Saturday,
Speaker 3: and you have made me very happy. You've made Danny
Speaker 3: very happy. You are my most favorite person today because
Speaker 3: you're listening to this podcast. Otherwise, Danny, why are we
Speaker 3: doing the pot If no one's listening to the podcast,
Speaker 3: why would we be doing the pot cast? It's Saturday?
Speaker 3: What are we doing here? But fortunately you're listening, so
Speaker 3: thank you for that. I appreciate it.
Speaker 4: You would have zero soapboxes to stand on if you
Speaker 4: didn't have the podcast.
Speaker 3: I know, what would I do?
Speaker 1: Be a nightmare?
Speaker 3: Absolutely here, But it says seventeenth day of August today,
Speaker 3: and so we're getting a little closer here. You got
Speaker 3: a couple more Saturdays to go before the NFL starts.
Speaker 3: Is that right? I think my math is correct on.
Speaker 5: That we're just less than three weeks away.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's almost.
Speaker 1: It's almost here.
Speaker 3: We usually look at all the dope holidays and there's
Speaker 3: anything good. Today. It's National Thrift Shop Day. That's a
Speaker 3: big day for Dick and Dayton. He loves those seth
Speaker 3: I like thrift shops too, but he really loves thrift shops.
Speaker 3: It's World Honeybee Day. Do they really need a day?
Speaker 3: Do they know just the honeybee? No, they have a day.
Speaker 5: Let me go, knowing that they're busy pollinating.
Speaker 3: It's National Massachusetts Day, he says, grab some turkey and Cranberry's.
Speaker 3: I'm good.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the dvice, Holly, this is stupid.
Speaker 3: It's a dumb the dumb, dumb, dumb Black Cat Appreciation Day.
Speaker 1: Racist. I know you can't have that.
Speaker 3: Well, it is our Saturday podcast, and so the Life
Speaker 3: and Times of yours truly me and Danny g I know,
Speaker 3: Danny's gonna dazzle us with some stories coming up in
Speaker 3: a bit from his week that was, and hopefully have
Speaker 3: a fun fact and all that and whatnot.
Speaker 1: We talked yesterday on the pod about.
Speaker 3: Arnie the meet and not meet again, not meeting like
Speaker 3: military exercise malar militia, that would be me the general
Speaker 3: and then meeting with Arnie's army.
Speaker 1: So that was my dan Vermont.
Speaker 3: We drove back on that day through Dartmouth, as we
Speaker 3: talked about yesterday, and there's a long drive on Friday.
Speaker 3: Got back to Boston proper around nine a'clock or so.
Speaker 3: Got back to the hotel we're staying at in the
Speaker 3: Boston area around nine o'clock and so I got this
Speaker 3: be up my my Badonka Donk. I was like, you
Speaker 3: know what, I I know, I'm I'm gonna be leaving soon,
Speaker 3: but I want to see if I can meet with
Speaker 3: any listeners. I want to see if anyone will will
Speaker 3: hang out. And I didn't schedule anything. You know, normally
Speaker 3: with these meet and greets, you have someone who either
Speaker 3: owns a restaurant or has a friend that owns the restaurant,
Speaker 3: or puts the legwork in boots on the ground. They
Speaker 3: set up a venue and then you go there. It's
Speaker 3: like we did in Vegas. You know, our guys Slug
Speaker 3: in Vegas did a great job. He set the thing
Speaker 3: up at the bar. We had a great time. It
Speaker 3: was a lot of fun. Regina and Minnesota. She put
Speaker 3: that together. Our buddy in Charleston, he set up the
Speaker 3: deal down there. So that's usually what happens. But I
Speaker 3: was like, you know, I'm here. We have a lot
Speaker 3: of listeners in Boston. We do very well in the
Speaker 3: Sports Hub. The show does great there. It's the number
Speaker 3: one sports station in the country. All four four hours
Speaker 3: are cleared on the Sports Hub. It's it's a big deal.
Speaker 3: So I was like, I was like, I told my wife, I,
Speaker 3: why don't we go down to the North End. I
Speaker 3: love the North End of Boston. It's my favorite place
Speaker 3: in Boston. So in this bakery, which is great Boba's Bakery,
Speaker 3: because it's open.
Speaker 1: I think it's open all night.
Speaker 3: I know it's open to like three in the morning,
Speaker 3: and they do great business at night because people go
Speaker 3: eat the Italian food and there's a lot of college
Speaker 3: kids in Boston. They go out drinking and partying and
Speaker 3: then they go and they eat Canoli's at like two
Speaker 3: in the morning, and so they do very good business.
Speaker 3: So we got back the hotel. We drove all day
Speaker 3: at like nine to nine thirty.
Speaker 1: I think it was around then. Maybe not, it might
Speaker 1: have been earlier, but.
Speaker 3: I'd send a comment out at some point, probably a
Speaker 3: few hours actually before that, and I said, all right,
Speaker 3: we're gonna do a flash mob Boston mallord get together
Speaker 3: type thing. If anybody wants to meet me. I'm in town.
Speaker 3: I have a little time. I'll be at Boba's Bakery.
Speaker 3: And I think it was like, I'm not sure when
Speaker 3: it's gonna be, but it's gonna be too. I'll keep
Speaker 3: you posted. Gave a tentative time, and my wife's like, hey,
Speaker 3: we're you know, we're gonna be in the North End.
Speaker 3: Why don't we go eat dinner. There's there's great Italian
Speaker 3: restaurants there and the great Italian food Mecca in America.
Speaker 3: Better Italian food than in Italy. So like, all right, fine,
Speaker 3: and so I need some chicken palm. But we had
Speaker 3: to wait. So we got this this restaurant. The most
Speaker 3: amazing part of this is we found parking. You know
Speaker 3: how hard it is to find parking, Danny on the
Speaker 3: North End of Boston. It's street parking. It's it's like
Speaker 3: toon Town. It's a small world. It's it's crazy. But
Speaker 3: we found parking, and so we went to the restaurant.
Speaker 5: Well, a lot of people there just go with getaway drivers.
Speaker 3: It's pretty, it's it's an interesting place, Danny. We we
Speaker 3: found parking, we had to wait for a table. Finally
Speaker 3: got a table. They took their time giving us the
Speaker 3: food and so we ate and then I sent out
Speaker 3: a message on I'm like, okay, I'm heading over to Bobo's.
Speaker 3: I'll be there, you know, ten thirty eleven whatever it was.
Speaker 3: It was ten thirty.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 3: So we walked over and I didn't think anyone was
Speaker 3: really gonna be there. I was, you know, probably be
Speaker 3: very disappointed. But yeah, there were a bunch of people
Speaker 3: showed up. It was. It was.
Speaker 1: It was cool.
Speaker 3: We had a considering that I gave people a few
Speaker 3: hours notice.
Speaker 1: Uh it was it was neat.
Speaker 3: Blind Scott, who lives down the street, so it was
Speaker 3: like basically at his house. He walked over with Dylan,
Speaker 3: his dog ru ruh.
Speaker 5: Two of my favorite Bostonians.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Then you had a guy who happened to be named Dylan,
Speaker 3: but not the dog, just this cool guy that paints
Speaker 3: hockey rinks.
Speaker 4: Oh that must have been confusing anytime Blind Scott yelled
Speaker 4: for Dylan.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was a little a little weird, and but
Speaker 3: Dylan's like a really cool deal guy and he he's
Speaker 3: such a big fan of the show. He wanted to
Speaker 3: come down. It was raining that I should point that out.
Speaker 3: It was, you know, still raining in Boston, and he
Speaker 3: left his girlfriend in the car and he walked over.
Speaker 3: We're all standing in the rain. We're standing in the
Speaker 3: rain in front of Bova's Bakery. I got blind Scott,
Speaker 3: his dog, deal, my wife was with me. I got Dylan,
Speaker 3: the other Dylan's there. We're all getting soaked. And then
Speaker 3: Masshole Mickey, the legend Masshole Mickey. He drove an hour
Speaker 3: and a half in the rain, last.
Speaker 5: Minute dead occasion.
Speaker 3: And I was so taken. Aback this poor guy. All right,
Speaker 3: you talk about it behind the eight ball, Okay, getting
Speaker 3: kicked in the nuts from your health. Masshole Mickey in
Speaker 3: the last month has had a heart attack and a stroke.
Speaker 3: In fact, he's got a device over his heart to
Speaker 3: make sure it still works. And he drove ninety minutes
Speaker 3: in the rain to stand outside and hang out. That's
Speaker 3: how big a fit end of the show he is.
Speaker 3: Just I was just so I was so taken aback
Speaker 3: by that it was awesome. It was great to meet him.
Speaker 3: Cool guy and obviously loves loves the show and what
Speaker 3: we do, and you know, give me his whole backstory
Speaker 3: and all that. I mean, get the guy's already back
Speaker 3: at work because he doesn't have he has to work.
Speaker 3: He doesn't have this job where he can take months off,
Speaker 3: and he's got family and kids. He's got to put
Speaker 3: food on on the plate and all that. So he
Speaker 3: drives a truck and I think.
Speaker 1: He does deliveries.
Speaker 5: I believe.
Speaker 1: I believe around Boston.
Speaker 3: So he was, he was there, We were all standing around,
Speaker 3: he took some photos, were standing in the rain and
Speaker 3: all that, and uh, you know, raining and raining and raining.
Speaker 3: And then I was like, I got to get out
Speaker 3: of here because this is ridiculous, the weather and and whatnot.
Speaker 3: And so then I was like, I told the wife,
Speaker 3: I'm like, all right, listen, it's not it's raining, But
Speaker 3: why don't we just we can go back to the
Speaker 3: to the car. We had parked a few blocks away,
Speaker 3: and my wife said, no, I'm not I'm not doing that.
Speaker 3: I'm not walking you know, four blocks in the ring.
Speaker 3: So I said, all right, I'll bite the bullet, just
Speaker 3: call an uber. So she calls an uber. Now it's
Speaker 3: it's rush pricing for uber because it's it was like
Speaker 3: Friday night, it's kind of late, and it's there's not
Speaker 3: a lot of people who are available, so.
Speaker 1: We paid for it was a long wait.
Speaker 3: Anyway, this taxi pulls up and it's filled with these
Speaker 3: college kids the taxi and so all right, fine whatever,
Speaker 3: and I didn't think of it, and the taxi driver
Speaker 3: starts shaking us down. He's like, hey, you want to ride?
Speaker 3: And my wife's like how much? You know again, we're
Speaker 3: going four blocks. We're going four blocks, and so my
Speaker 3: wife gives him the address and the guy says thirty bucks. Yeah,
Speaker 3: and I'm like absolutely not. So then the guy's like
Speaker 3: shaken down the wife. He's like, well, you know, if
Speaker 3: you wait call for an uber, you know it's going
Speaker 3: to take you half an hour, and you know, you know,
Speaker 3: maybe even longer than that. You're standing in the rain.
Speaker 3: I'm right here right now. I've got you know, kids,
Speaker 3: I've got you know, I have all these bills I
Speaker 3: need to pay, I need money, and those whole this
Speaker 3: whole thing, which is total bullshit because I know for
Speaker 3: a fact, knowing how cabs are supposed to work. They
Speaker 3: have this thing called a meter, right, and and the
Speaker 3: way where you get in the cab is like a
Speaker 3: couple bucks to get in the cab, and then for
Speaker 3: every mile or whatever they charge you. Whatever it did.
Speaker 3: But if they had charged us New York City prices,
Speaker 3: I know we're in Boston, that cab ride would have
Speaker 3: been maybe twelve bucks, maybe twelve bucks, thirty bucks.
Speaker 1: And my wife's like, well this, just do it. I
Speaker 1: want to get out of the rain.
Speaker 3: So, you know, Danny, every once in a while, you
Speaker 3: got to take one for the team. So we got
Speaker 3: absolutely ripped off by a Boston cabby to go four
Speaker 3: blocks thirty bucks. Thirty bucks because it happened to be raining.
Speaker 3: Ah yeah, good good times, good time. Now the one
Speaker 3: that got away, the one I'm bummed out about. The
Speaker 3: person that I also wanted to meet that I didn't
Speaker 3: get a chance to meet. This guy, I would argue,
Speaker 3: is the biggest fan of the show that I had, Alf,
Speaker 3: the alien o Pinter who Alf lives kind of near Springfield,
Speaker 3: so it's a bit of a drive and I had
Speaker 3: reached out to Alf to let him know, and he
Speaker 3: follows me on X and all that. I said, Hey,
Speaker 3: I'm going to be there. I'd love to meet you.
Speaker 3: And Alf wanted to do it, but the weather was terrible.
Speaker 3: I totally get it. The weather was bad and he
Speaker 3: didn't like you know, driving at night and parking on
Speaker 3: the North End is terrible, and so he just didn't
Speaker 3: end up doing it, which is a bummer. But he
Speaker 3: was considering it, but it didn't happen. So Alf still
Speaker 3: a man of.
Speaker 1: Mystery or alien of mystery. So there is that.
Speaker 3: But nothing I do Danny can match the tales of
Speaker 3: Danny G Radio. The life and times of Danny G Radio,
Speaker 3: the microphone throttler, a man with a young child.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well, CoA had his first birthday which was an
Speaker 4: adventure and then some I'll put it this way to
Speaker 4: wrap up his first birthday party, which was great. By
Speaker 4: the way, everybody from the radio show in the afternoon,
Speaker 4: Covino and Rich they were able to make the party.
Speaker 4: We did it in beautiful Oxnard Shores at Mandalay Beach.
Speaker 4: There perfect weather when we left the San Fernando Valley.
Speaker 4: It was one hundred degrees when we landed in Oxnard
Speaker 4: by the water. It was a beautiful seventy two and
Speaker 4: sunny with a little bit of a breeze. Put out
Speaker 4: the lawn chairs. I put out the that Have you
Speaker 4: ever seen the game ladder Ball?
Speaker 3: No? I have no. What is that?
Speaker 4: If you have a get together, it's worth the investment,
Speaker 4: Like the pro ladder ball set needs to be sturdy
Speaker 4: because you throw these two balls that are tethered together,
Speaker 4: try to hook them onto three different levels.
Speaker 5: Think cornhole. It's the same kind of scoring.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, okay, now I didn't know that was
Speaker 3: what it was called. Yeah, that's a cold balls are
Speaker 3: different colors, right, not the kind of balls I like.
Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly. So I had played this when we were
Speaker 4: camping in more Obey. You know, I think it's like
Speaker 4: seventy eighty bucks for a really good version of the
Speaker 4: game because you don't want it to fall down when
Speaker 4: your balls hit it, so well, you don't want to
Speaker 4: falling when your ball smack it.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, to protect the balls.
Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, So eighty dollars for some good balls. It
Speaker 4: was well worth it, though, man, because that game was
Speaker 4: a big hit. There was one incident there. My wife
Speaker 4: was also celebrating the middle kid's birthday because he was
Speaker 4: on his way to Sooner Country. As I talked about
Speaker 4: a couple of weekends ago. Birthday was on August tenth,
Speaker 4: so we did that a week early to combine the
Speaker 4: two birthday parties. Koa, he gets his birthday cake, he
Speaker 4: sticks his foot in it. Oh, he gets a little
Speaker 4: taste of it. Wasn't interested in the cake, ben He
Speaker 4: really just wanted the toy sharks that were on top
Speaker 4: of it. He wanted to smash it with his fist
Speaker 4: in his foot, slap around a little bit.
Speaker 5: And then my wife.
Speaker 4: He brings out the second cake for the middle Sun
Speaker 4: gives a little speech to everybody about how proud she
Speaker 4: is of him for getting accepted to Oklahoma and explain
Speaker 4: that he was going to be on his way to
Speaker 4: go start school and she gets emotional.
Speaker 5: He goes over and gives her a big hug.
Speaker 4: Problem she had had the cake in her hands at
Speaker 4: this time. She tries to do the waitress move. She
Speaker 4: slips the cake into one hand and holds it. Think
Speaker 4: about how a major d would be holding a.
Speaker 3: Ladder statue of liberty.
Speaker 4: Yes, and the cake proceeds to slide off of it,
Speaker 4: slide off her hand and smashes onto the ground. It's
Speaker 4: a total pancake. It was a big marble sheet cake.
Speaker 4: This thing literally was a pancake. But to her credit,
Speaker 4: she didn't flinch, She held the hug.
Speaker 3: She stayed in the moment.
Speaker 4: Her mom was the only one who got the crash
Speaker 4: on tape. She has crashed footage. The faces around this
Speaker 4: cake splashing on the ground were marvelous, kind of like
Speaker 4: that still photo we look at sometimes of Michael Jordan
Speaker 4: and that amazing shot he made in Utah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, at first, she didn't know.
Speaker 4: How to react, whether to laugh or be upset about
Speaker 4: all the calories going down the drain. Nobody even got
Speaker 4: to taste this thing. Of course, that didn't stop rich Davis.
Speaker 4: He went down with his hand, grabbed a scoop of
Speaker 4: the cake in his hand and ate it, just.
Speaker 5: To let her know it still tastes.
Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, well the part that wasn't touching the grass.
Speaker 1: You can pay you do it quick.
Speaker 3: You're probably okay, right, you're right.
Speaker 4: I don't know that was the cake, the semi cake disaster,
Speaker 4: but it wound up being a funny moment. The night
Speaker 4: was finally over, we collapsed into chairs in the hotel room.
Speaker 4: My wife looked at me, and she said, we are
Speaker 4: not having another birthday party until he's like five years old.
Speaker 5: And that's if he asks for one.
Speaker 3: In the moment that she's saying that, but you know,
Speaker 3: given a little bit of time, she'll be, oh, we
Speaker 3: gotta have a party. You know, this is like this
Speaker 3: is probably the last kid or whatever.
Speaker 4: You know, that whole thing, right, Yeah, it's kind of
Speaker 4: that same theory when you ask people why in the
Speaker 4: hell they decided to have another kid.
Speaker 5: You know, it's a long, long nine months. It zaps you.
Speaker 4: It's it's obviously super memorable and special, but at the
Speaker 4: same time, flat out exhausted, and you wonder how do
Speaker 4: people have multiple kids? And she tells me that the
Speaker 4: way it works is that once people fast forward a
Speaker 4: couple of years and the kid is one two years old,
Speaker 4: they're not thinking back to how hard the whole process was.
Speaker 5: They just have the end result. So then people make
Speaker 5: the mistake of doing it again.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they block out. It's like you get in the
Speaker 3: car accidents and you block out the bad place arts,
Speaker 3: you know, you know those life maybe car accidents not
Speaker 3: the greatest example, but you when you like when you
Speaker 3: have a traumatic event in your life.
Speaker 1: You have like amnesia or something. You block it out.
Speaker 3: It's a repressed memory. You remember the good and hide
Speaker 3: the bad. Right, you remember the wonderful things of having
Speaker 3: a child, and what an amazing thing, and you've created
Speaker 3: something that will hopefully outlast you and continue on and
Speaker 3: continue humanity. And you forget all the shitty diapers and uh,
Speaker 3: you know, days the kids were you know, an asshole
Speaker 3: or all that stuff. Right, you block it out, otherwise
Speaker 3: humanity would not continue.
Speaker 5: Right.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't you know, mean to knock parents that
Speaker 4: have more than one baby at home, but I can't
Speaker 4: imagine having two babies at the house, or even two
Speaker 4: youngsters at the home at the same time. The middle
Speaker 4: one did get on the road bend. He did not
Speaker 4: show up for that tattoo appointment. Oh yeah, really, we
Speaker 4: were taking bets on that a couple of weekends ago.
Speaker 4: I was there at the tattoo appointment by myself. As
Speaker 4: I predicted, chickened out of that. But he did make
Speaker 4: it to Oklahoma. His uncle and older brother went on
Speaker 4: the road trip with him. It took them two days
Speaker 4: of driving to make it to the beautiful state of Oklahoma,
Speaker 4: and when they got there, they were so amused by
Speaker 4: the prices of everything.
Speaker 5: He's like, Mom, I got a Hamburger combo.
Speaker 4: It was only eight dollars, and you know here we
Speaker 4: pay sixteen dollars for the same thing. He was taking
Speaker 4: prices of gas stations and comparing and contrasting everything to
Speaker 4: what he knows growing up in southern California. So not
Speaker 4: just the prices, but he loves the wide open spaces
Speaker 4: there and loves the campus so far taking all these
Speaker 4: sooner pictures, he got the tour of the stadium and
Speaker 4: he is a happy college student right now.
Speaker 5: No classes have started yet.
Speaker 3: Well that's when the rubber meets the road right there.
Speaker 3: That's that's why we find out. But yeah, I've been
Speaker 3: to that campus. I've told the story before. But one
Speaker 3: of my great gigs I had it was a one off.
Speaker 3: I got hired to do sidelines for a network radio
Speaker 3: broadcast of Oklahoma, Nebraska back when that was like a
Speaker 3: big deal, so many years ago. But they flew me
Speaker 3: into Oklahoma City, we drove over to Norman and it
Speaker 3: was one of my fond memories. The pomp and circumstance,
Speaker 3: big rivalry. You know, this was a long time ago.
Speaker 3: Danny and we were younger. Oklahoma Nebraska was a one
Speaker 3: of the big time matchups in college football, and I
Speaker 3: just remember being around there and it was such a
Speaker 3: different world. And I'd not been to anything like that
Speaker 3: either at that time of my life, and it was
Speaker 3: it was just awesome to see see everything.
Speaker 1: You're gonna go back there.
Speaker 3: Right, You're gonna go down to Oklahoma for a game
Speaker 3: or something like that and not the plan?
Speaker 5: Yeah, next month in September, they're going to do family day.
Speaker 3: What part of September early late September.
Speaker 4: What do we look at September fourteenth, Okay perdue at
Speaker 4: Oklahoma that Saturday, and so all the kids families are
Speaker 4: going to be in town getting the tour. That's when
Speaker 4: I'll have my first experience in ok c slash Norman.
Speaker 3: I remember seeing we got there a couple of days
Speaker 3: before the game, and I remember seeing Lee Corso in
Speaker 3: blue jeans and like a tank top walking around and Lee,
Speaker 3: who's old now and kind of barely hanging on.
Speaker 5: Did he have a mascot head on?
Speaker 1: And no, But it was the funniest thing.
Speaker 3: Lee was old men and like there were these you know,
Speaker 3: college dudes and a few women that were kind of
Speaker 3: like ogling Lee Corse. That was pretty funny. I still
Speaker 3: I still remember that. What else, there was a couple
Speaker 3: of things I wanted to get to on the Saturday
Speaker 3: pod here. Oh, the Motor City Marathon. I did not
Speaker 3: realize I was doing the Motor City Marathon. So on
Speaker 3: the way back from Boston we made flew back on Sunday,
Speaker 3: now Saturday. I spent the entire day. My brother came
Speaker 3: up from New York with his wife and we just
Speaker 3: hung out. We went to a couple different locations in
Speaker 3: New England. There we actually ended up technically in three states.
Speaker 3: Actually what no, I think we did? Yeah? Three?
Speaker 1: Now three states are four states? I who knows.
Speaker 3: We were started out where the Salem witch trials were
Speaker 3: in Salem, walked around. My wife loves going to Stems,
Speaker 3: so we had to Salem, had lunch. Then we drove
Speaker 3: up to New Hampshire and hung out there, had a
Speaker 3: fine time, did the did the kind of like an
Speaker 3: ice cream thing. Then right across this bridge is Kidtery Kitterly, Maine.
Speaker 3: So technically we're in Maine. But my people in Maine
Speaker 3: tell me that's not really Maine, that's fake Maine. It's
Speaker 3: not in Portsmith, New Hampshire. And then you cross a
Speaker 3: bridge that's not real Maine, but we were. It said
Speaker 3: welcome to Maine when we drove across the bridge. So
Speaker 3: I consider myself in Maine. If I had died there,
Speaker 3: it would have said I died in Maine. So I
Speaker 3: was in Maine, just not real Maine.
Speaker 1: So that was that was it.
Speaker 3: We stayed out late, had a morning flight, had to
Speaker 3: get to the airport at like we got up at
Speaker 3: like three thirty in the morning.
Speaker 1: It stuck.
Speaker 3: Had to get to return the rental car, which I
Speaker 3: didn't even get to that story. I have to tell
Speaker 3: that at some point they all do it tomorrow. But
Speaker 3: so we get to the rental car place, and we
Speaker 3: hate Lax so much. We could have gotten NonStop flights
Speaker 3: from Boston to Lax, no problem, no prob at all,
Speaker 3: but we said we don't want to go to Lax.
Speaker 3: So we ended up flying to a different airport in
Speaker 3: southern California, but there were no non stops, so that
Speaker 3: meant on the way to Boston we stopped in Atlanta,
Speaker 3: which I don't mind. I love the Atlanta airport. What
Speaker 3: a great airport. I'd live in Atlanta just because of
Speaker 3: the airport. Like Tom Tommy in Atlanta, what a wonderful airport.
Speaker 4: I saw a university banned or for him live. When
Speaker 4: the super Bowl was at Atlanta, there was a band,
Speaker 4: a marching band inside the airport welcoming people in for
Speaker 4: the big game.
Speaker 1: That's cool, that's neat.
Speaker 3: They got a subway that takes you to the different
Speaker 3: terminals and so so cool. But anyway, on the way back,
Speaker 3: we had to stop in Detroit, and I hadn't been
Speaker 3: to the Detroit airport and some time I have vague
Speaker 3: memories of it. But we're very tired. I can't sleep.
Speaker 3: I was kind of in zombie mode. Actually was supposed
Speaker 3: to read something on the plane that was very important
Speaker 3: that a you know, a project I'm working on with
Speaker 3: with a friend, and I told them I would read it.
Speaker 3: And I tried to read it.
Speaker 5: A scientology pamphlet.
Speaker 3: Yes, And I was just trying to read it, and
Speaker 3: I just you know how when you're really tired and
Speaker 3: kind of half awake, half asleep, you can't really focus.
Speaker 3: So I had to email. I emailed the guys that
Speaker 3: you know, I'm really sorry. I just want to I
Speaker 3: want to give this the proper attention it deserves, and
Speaker 3: I'm in zombie MoES. But we get to Detroit. It's
Speaker 3: very short flight to Detroit from Boston, and we're at
Speaker 3: at the airport that we flew Delta Delta Delta Delta.
Speaker 3: So we get a gate ten and then we had
Speaker 3: to change planes and go to the different plane to
Speaker 3: get back to southern California.
Speaker 1: So we look and it says your.
Speaker 3: Next flight is at gate seventy seven, so we had
Speaker 3: to go through sixty seven gates. Now, they do have
Speaker 3: a tram at the Detroit airport, but it's not nearly
Speaker 3: as efficient as the one in Atlanta. They have a
Speaker 3: lot of walking, you know those things that go on there.
Speaker 3: There will walk people, movers, so we did a lot
Speaker 3: of those. But I had to go to the bathroom.
Speaker 3: But my whole strategy was I've got to get close
Speaker 3: to the next gate because if I go to the
Speaker 3: bathroom here and then I have to I'd rather just
Speaker 3: get to the gate and then go to the bathroom,
Speaker 3: thinking it wouldn't take all that long, And it took forever,
Speaker 3: and there were some really nice restaurants, but it was
Speaker 3: early in the morning. This was probably by the time
Speaker 3: we got to Detroit, I think it was like nine
Speaker 3: o'clock in the but they have like a PF. Chanin's
Speaker 3: in the airport, like a full PF. Chang's. They had
Speaker 3: a Coney Island Dog, that famous Detroit hot dog. They
Speaker 3: had a location there. I actually wanted to eat that
Speaker 3: because I'd heard I'd never had one of those, and
Speaker 3: I've heard that's like the Detroit hot Dog. I like
Speaker 3: the extended winer. But I was like, it's in the morning,
Speaker 3: I'm fasting, I can't eat it. I kept going, I'm
Speaker 3: looking back, my wife's I'm losing my wife. She's behind me,
Speaker 3: She's not keeping the pace, you know, And I'm like,
Speaker 3: oh crap. And but I barely made it to the
Speaker 3: bathroom before we had a unfortunate situation which would have
Speaker 3: been really difficult, very difficult on the flight back. But
Speaker 3: then the plane Danny on the flight from Detroit back
Speaker 3: to southern California not properly insulated.
Speaker 1: I determined, now, how did I determine that I.
Speaker 3: Was freezing my ass off and my my wife also,
Speaker 3: and so they actually had to give were we were
Speaker 3: not sitting in first class. We were sitting in like
Speaker 3: the middle of the plane. It was so cold because
Speaker 3: we were near it like a door thing in an
Speaker 3: exit row. Because they have extra leg room. They gave
Speaker 3: us blankets to try to keep us warm.
Speaker 1: It was that bad.
Speaker 3: They had us blankets, and that didn't even really do much.
Speaker 3: I don't think I've ever been that cold on a plane.
Speaker 3: It was craziness, absolute craziness. But obviously we made it
Speaker 3: back and survived. I was I was pretty much a
Speaker 3: zombie on the Sunday and the Monday Show. I am
Speaker 3: such a radio loser. Let's get to the idiom of
Speaker 3: the week.
Speaker 5: The id of the week, all.
Speaker 1: Right, idiom of the week is bee line. You could
Speaker 1: say I made a bee line for.
Speaker 3: The bathroom Danny when I got off that plane and
Speaker 3: then had to get on another plane. So the roots
Speaker 3: of the word phrase or idiom b line is pretty simple.
Speaker 3: Pretty simple began with beekeepers. Shocking it goes back. It
Speaker 3: first appeared in print in the eighteen hundreds.
Speaker 1: Eighteen twenties.
Speaker 3: A research journal, American Quarterly Review, used bee line to
Speaker 3: describe the movement made by bees when beekeepers observed their
Speaker 3: flight patterns. However, it's not exactly that. Let me explain
Speaker 3: bees do not actually fly in a straight line.
Speaker 5: They don't.
Speaker 3: They do not. In fact, they fly in a zigzag
Speaker 3: pattern because wind, turbulence, whatever. They are not flying straight.
Speaker 3: They make sharp turns, they have evasive flying patterns and whatnot,
Speaker 3: and it's all resistance.
Speaker 1: Bee line.
Speaker 3: What it actually refers to is the lack of stops
Speaker 3: or distractions. There's no rest stops for the bees when
Speaker 3: they're flying back to the bee home, the b ness,
Speaker 3: the beehive, after collecting nectar or the pollen, whatever you
Speaker 3: want to say. And so, yeah, they might not fly
Speaker 3: in a straight line, but they fly in a bee
Speaker 3: line back to bring the pollen the nectar back to
Speaker 3: the queen bee. And so the idiom of the week, yeah,
Speaker 3: bee line, which goes back to the eighteen hundreds and
Speaker 3: is about the perseverance, not the actual flight pattern, but
Speaker 3: the perseverance the bees take to get back.
Speaker 1: All right, That is it Saturday here, daddy, No radio
Speaker 1: for you.
Speaker 3: Right, nothing you have to worry about today. You're good
Speaker 3: on that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, just a day of recovery after waking up at
Speaker 4: four am and staying awake all day long all week.
Speaker 5: You know, you already know all about the third shift.
Speaker 4: But when you jump from some other schedule right into
Speaker 4: that and then back into the regular schedule, it really
Speaker 4: messes with your your sleep clock.
Speaker 1: Yeah, one hundred percent, hundred percent.
Speaker 3: It's it took me a day a going from the
Speaker 3: East coast and running around getting back. And like I said,
Speaker 3: that's Sunday and the Monday show I was on FUMES.
Speaker 4: I was just jet lag radio. But that's when you
Speaker 4: do some of your best work because you over focus.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you gotta just keep persevering, right, And that other
Speaker 3: thing is, even if you think you're a suck bag,
Speaker 3: most people listening don't pay that close attention, so they
Speaker 3: might not hear how bad you think you are, and
Speaker 3: you're probably not and you're probably not as bad as
Speaker 3: you think you are. Anyway, all Right, we'll get out
Speaker 3: on that, have a wonderful rest Saturday. We'll have the
Speaker 3: mail bag on Sunday, and we'll talk.
Speaker 5: To you then later. Skater by Relations