1 00:00:00,760 --> 00:00:01,480 Speaker 1: Kubbooms. 2 00:00:02,320 --> 00:00:05,400 Speaker 2: If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes 3 00:00:05,440 --> 00:00:09,240 Speaker 2: a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants 4 00:00:09,240 --> 00:00:12,520 Speaker 2: of the Old Republic, a soul fashion of fairness. He 5 00:00:12,600 --> 00:00:15,520 Speaker 2: treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the 6 00:00:15,640 --> 00:00:19,639 Speaker 2: rich pill poppers in the penthouse. Wow to Clearinghouse of 7 00:00:19,680 --> 00:00:23,520 Speaker 2: hot takes, break free for something Special. The Fifth Hour 8 00:00:23,640 --> 00:00:29,560 Speaker 2: with Ben Mallard starts right now in. 9 00:00:29,320 --> 00:00:32,400 Speaker 1: The air everywhere. 10 00:00:32,680 --> 00:00:35,680 Speaker 3: The Fifth Hour with Me, Ben Maller and Danny g 11 00:00:35,960 --> 00:00:40,040 Speaker 3: Radio A Happy Friday to you. We have made it 12 00:00:40,080 --> 00:00:44,200 Speaker 3: to the weekend, and that means we slide on over 13 00:00:44,960 --> 00:00:49,360 Speaker 3: to the pod studio, not the regular radio studio. No, no, no, 14 00:00:49,440 --> 00:00:51,600 Speaker 3: this is a podcast only. We thank you for being 15 00:00:51,640 --> 00:00:55,360 Speaker 3: part of the Ultimate P one Club and listening here 16 00:00:55,400 --> 00:00:58,640 Speaker 3: to the Fifth Hour Podcast with Me and Danny g Is. 17 00:00:58,680 --> 00:01:02,200 Speaker 3: It's now Friday, the twenty first day of the month 18 00:01:02,280 --> 00:01:06,319 Speaker 3: of March, and if my math is correct, this is 19 00:01:06,400 --> 00:01:12,360 Speaker 3: the last Friday without Major League Baseball until October. I 20 00:01:12,440 --> 00:01:14,319 Speaker 3: believe I'm correct on that right because I know the 21 00:01:14,360 --> 00:01:18,679 Speaker 3: season starts next week and then every Friday, even though 22 00:01:18,680 --> 00:01:21,240 Speaker 3: there's the All Star break that does not include Friday 23 00:01:21,720 --> 00:01:26,000 Speaker 3: so we will have baseball every weekend between now and 24 00:01:26,600 --> 00:01:30,160 Speaker 3: the World Series, which is exciting. And we actually have 25 00:01:30,200 --> 00:01:34,080 Speaker 3: a baseball related story here on the fifth hour that 26 00:01:34,120 --> 00:01:37,080 Speaker 3: we'll get to it a little bit and a lot 27 00:01:37,640 --> 00:01:39,679 Speaker 3: to break apart, a lot to break apart. 28 00:01:40,120 --> 00:01:41,160 Speaker 1: It's been a very busy week. 29 00:01:41,200 --> 00:01:46,280 Speaker 3: We'll start with this though, on this National Crunchy Taco 30 00:01:46,400 --> 00:01:49,840 Speaker 3: Day today. Yeah, somebody sent that to me and said 31 00:01:49,880 --> 00:01:55,480 Speaker 3: you better mention this. I want to thank Steve in Arizona, 32 00:01:55,720 --> 00:01:58,960 Speaker 3: a rather large state. I'm assuming Phoenix, but maybe not 33 00:01:59,120 --> 00:02:01,840 Speaker 3: someone in the Phoenix area. Anyway, Steve rhad in and said, Ben, 34 00:02:02,040 --> 00:02:03,600 Speaker 3: I know you do the you like to begin the 35 00:02:03,600 --> 00:02:05,720 Speaker 3: podcast by saying, you know what you know, dopey days. 36 00:02:05,880 --> 00:02:10,639 Speaker 3: It's National Crunchy doc Taco Day on Friday. That is correct, now, Steve, 37 00:02:10,680 --> 00:02:13,400 Speaker 3: I have gotten into many arguments with some of our 38 00:02:13,440 --> 00:02:17,959 Speaker 3: great Latin listeners who have the Latin blood that say 39 00:02:18,080 --> 00:02:21,880 Speaker 3: that what I enjoyed the crunchy taco is not an 40 00:02:21,919 --> 00:02:26,720 Speaker 3: authentic taco. And to those people, I say, FUOI I 41 00:02:26,880 --> 00:02:29,400 Speaker 3: like what I like, and I like the crunchy taco. 42 00:02:29,919 --> 00:02:31,680 Speaker 3: One of my great friends, he passed away a couple 43 00:02:31,680 --> 00:02:34,280 Speaker 3: of years ago, this guy, Alex, who was a worked 44 00:02:34,280 --> 00:02:37,120 Speaker 3: at a Mexican radio station in Los Angeles, did Mexican 45 00:02:37,200 --> 00:02:40,760 Speaker 3: sports talk and just one of my great friends. I 46 00:02:40,840 --> 00:02:42,760 Speaker 3: knew him since I was like a teenager, and he 47 00:02:42,840 --> 00:02:46,720 Speaker 3: was always very supportive and he would always bust my balls. 48 00:02:46,919 --> 00:02:52,080 Speaker 3: He said, gringo tacos racist, But they're actually called tacos dorado. 49 00:02:52,840 --> 00:02:54,359 Speaker 3: And one of the great things about living in Los 50 00:02:54,400 --> 00:02:57,880 Speaker 3: Angeles is not the traffic, it's not the politics. 51 00:02:57,960 --> 00:03:01,840 Speaker 1: It's the food. Amazing crunchy tacos. 52 00:03:02,400 --> 00:03:04,760 Speaker 3: A lot of plays not everywhere, a lot of the 53 00:03:05,720 --> 00:03:09,320 Speaker 3: more authentic stick up that took his places. Oh, we 54 00:03:09,360 --> 00:03:11,840 Speaker 3: don't serve loose, we only shift soft tacos. But I 55 00:03:11,919 --> 00:03:15,000 Speaker 3: love a crunchy taco. So thanks to Steve for pointing 56 00:03:15,000 --> 00:03:18,120 Speaker 3: out it is National Crunchy Taco Day, and I think 57 00:03:18,200 --> 00:03:20,160 Speaker 3: later today I will eat crunchy tacos. But it has 58 00:03:20,200 --> 00:03:26,440 Speaker 3: been a very busy extended dance remix on this show. 59 00:03:26,480 --> 00:03:29,720 Speaker 3: I don't know how literally I've been yappy. I feel 60 00:03:29,720 --> 00:03:31,560 Speaker 3: like I've been talking all week. I don't know whether 61 00:03:31,680 --> 00:03:33,880 Speaker 3: or not you've been consuming all of this or not. 62 00:03:34,080 --> 00:03:38,080 Speaker 3: I have no idea. We have been promoting it and 63 00:03:38,080 --> 00:03:41,120 Speaker 3: not trying to provoke anyone, but we have been promoting 64 00:03:41,120 --> 00:03:44,280 Speaker 3: it and I filled in not once but twice. In 65 00:03:45,400 --> 00:03:49,080 Speaker 3: LA I worked with Jonas Knox, my guy Jonas who 66 00:03:49,120 --> 00:03:52,360 Speaker 3: hosts the morning show on Fox Sports right now, on 67 00:03:52,360 --> 00:03:56,720 Speaker 3: the pregame show for Jonas, and despite us working essentially 68 00:03:56,760 --> 00:03:59,520 Speaker 3: both the overnight shift, regardless of that, we both formed 69 00:03:59,600 --> 00:04:02,920 Speaker 3: Vulture during the day. So right now, I'm not looking 70 00:04:02,920 --> 00:04:05,200 Speaker 3: for a purple heart. I'm not looking for some kind 71 00:04:05,200 --> 00:04:07,200 Speaker 3: of star near my name. I just want to point 72 00:04:07,200 --> 00:04:13,960 Speaker 3: out that in the last maybe twenty eight hours or so, 73 00:04:14,160 --> 00:04:20,320 Speaker 3: give or take, starting on Wednesday night, So Wednesday night 74 00:04:20,640 --> 00:04:25,200 Speaker 3: into Thursday, I did the overnight show, So that's four 75 00:04:25,240 --> 00:04:28,719 Speaker 3: hours of live national talk radio. So I did that, 76 00:04:29,880 --> 00:04:34,120 Speaker 3: and then I went to the gym, and then I 77 00:04:34,160 --> 00:04:36,360 Speaker 3: went back. I went to sleep, and that was basically it. 78 00:04:36,600 --> 00:04:42,120 Speaker 3: I slept for like four hours, and then I arose 79 00:04:42,480 --> 00:04:46,880 Speaker 3: thanks to my watch waking me up. I then wandered 80 00:04:47,080 --> 00:04:52,960 Speaker 3: into the studio disheveled, and I started talking and I 81 00:04:53,120 --> 00:04:55,240 Speaker 3: was the connoisseur of some hot takes. So I did 82 00:04:56,120 --> 00:04:58,919 Speaker 3: several hours of daytime talk radio. I think that was 83 00:04:58,960 --> 00:05:02,400 Speaker 3: what we three hours there, so that's seven hours and 84 00:05:02,440 --> 00:05:06,359 Speaker 3: then I had about an eight hour break in which 85 00:05:06,400 --> 00:05:12,440 Speaker 3: time I was the artisan and I crafted together some 86 00:05:12,800 --> 00:05:13,800 Speaker 3: malard monologues. 87 00:05:14,960 --> 00:05:18,200 Speaker 1: So I did that and watched some some random games 88 00:05:18,240 --> 00:05:18,560 Speaker 1: or whatever. 89 00:05:18,640 --> 00:05:22,520 Speaker 3: I was watching some college basketball because it's college basketball season. 90 00:05:23,120 --> 00:05:23,440 Speaker 1: Uh. 91 00:05:23,480 --> 00:05:28,600 Speaker 3: And then I went back into the studio, wandered around 92 00:05:28,640 --> 00:05:32,880 Speaker 3: into the studio and did one, two, three, four more 93 00:05:32,960 --> 00:05:39,000 Speaker 3: hours of radio and not not copycat radio. This is 94 00:05:39,160 --> 00:05:43,840 Speaker 3: our intellectual property, not looking for any kind of again award. 95 00:05:44,160 --> 00:05:48,560 Speaker 3: So four hours and then I had a few hours off. 96 00:05:48,640 --> 00:05:50,920 Speaker 3: I went to the gym for a little bit, and 97 00:05:50,960 --> 00:05:54,360 Speaker 3: then I walked back in here to the podcast studio. 98 00:05:55,560 --> 00:05:59,920 Speaker 3: I cranked on the mic and the underground mix. Here 99 00:06:00,160 --> 00:06:03,800 Speaker 3: found the secret sauce, the secret blend of eleven herbs 100 00:06:03,800 --> 00:06:07,920 Speaker 3: and spices, mixed that all together, and here we are. 101 00:06:08,920 --> 00:06:13,280 Speaker 3: So the fifth hour pocast. So the math on that 102 00:06:13,279 --> 00:06:15,760 Speaker 3: that is, by the time I get done with this, 103 00:06:16,920 --> 00:06:21,919 Speaker 3: it's about twelve hours of talk radio in a day 104 00:06:22,640 --> 00:06:24,360 Speaker 3: and a few hours. 105 00:06:25,040 --> 00:06:27,560 Speaker 1: So that's a fair amount. It's all right. 106 00:06:27,960 --> 00:06:31,800 Speaker 3: I love the job. And it was interesting being on 107 00:06:32,360 --> 00:06:36,320 Speaker 3: the show that I fill in on on the local station, 108 00:06:36,600 --> 00:06:41,719 Speaker 3: which is a five seventy in LA. Because the show 109 00:06:41,760 --> 00:06:47,039 Speaker 3: went viral indirectly went viral. I sit in for Fred 110 00:06:47,120 --> 00:06:50,200 Speaker 3: Rogan or Rodney Pete, depending on which one you want 111 00:06:50,200 --> 00:06:52,600 Speaker 3: to choose. They were both off from their show this week, 112 00:06:53,680 --> 00:06:57,880 Speaker 3: and Rodney Pete and Fred were in Japan at the 113 00:06:58,040 --> 00:07:02,280 Speaker 3: Dodger Cub game in Tokyo, not your Cup games in Tokyo, 114 00:07:03,480 --> 00:07:04,480 Speaker 3: and so. 115 00:07:04,520 --> 00:07:06,080 Speaker 1: They're, you know, doing their thing whatever. 116 00:07:06,920 --> 00:07:12,360 Speaker 3: And in the sixth inning of game two, Dodgers and Cubs. 117 00:07:12,600 --> 00:07:16,480 Speaker 3: Bottom of the sixth inning, there's a foul ball and 118 00:07:16,760 --> 00:07:19,520 Speaker 3: Max Munsey is playing third base. He goes over to 119 00:07:19,560 --> 00:07:22,800 Speaker 3: try to make the catch right along the line there 120 00:07:23,520 --> 00:07:25,600 Speaker 3: if you can kind of close your eyes and imagine 121 00:07:25,640 --> 00:07:27,600 Speaker 3: over and left field. But months he's playing third base. 122 00:07:27,960 --> 00:07:29,600 Speaker 3: So he goes over there, he puts the glove out 123 00:07:29,720 --> 00:07:38,360 Speaker 3: and the ball is is grabbed snatched by Rodney Pete. Yeah, 124 00:07:38,560 --> 00:07:42,960 Speaker 3: the same Rodney Pete that does the midday show. Rogan 125 00:07:43,040 --> 00:07:45,320 Speaker 3: and Rodney used to play for the Lions. I saw 126 00:07:45,360 --> 00:07:47,360 Speaker 3: a lot of stories, So why he's former Eagles quarterback. 127 00:07:48,040 --> 00:07:49,800 Speaker 3: When I think of Rodney Pete, I think of him 128 00:07:49,800 --> 00:07:51,600 Speaker 3: with the Lions. I actually think of him as a 129 00:07:51,600 --> 00:07:53,840 Speaker 3: college quarterback at USC. But I guess that means I'm old. 130 00:07:54,120 --> 00:07:56,120 Speaker 3: So anyway, this thing went virals. It was seen millions 131 00:07:56,120 --> 00:07:59,480 Speaker 3: of times. A former NFL quarterback who does a sports 132 00:07:59,520 --> 00:08:04,360 Speaker 3: talk radio show wearing full Dodger gear and he ends 133 00:08:04,440 --> 00:08:07,440 Speaker 3: up stealing a foul ball for Max Munsey, who appeared 134 00:08:07,480 --> 00:08:11,280 Speaker 3: to reprimand him and give him a tongue lashing. And 135 00:08:11,560 --> 00:08:13,960 Speaker 3: some of you have messaged saying, well, you shouldn't be 136 00:08:14,000 --> 00:08:17,080 Speaker 3: taking a glove. You're over a certain age, you should 137 00:08:17,080 --> 00:08:20,640 Speaker 3: not take a glove and all that, and people complaining 138 00:08:20,760 --> 00:08:21,800 Speaker 3: and all this stuff. 139 00:08:21,800 --> 00:08:23,960 Speaker 1: So that's that's the week. 140 00:08:24,040 --> 00:08:25,600 Speaker 3: I don't need to give a whole sermon on it, 141 00:08:26,080 --> 00:08:29,000 Speaker 3: but that's the week that was. So the the Golden 142 00:08:29,080 --> 00:08:33,000 Speaker 3: Pipes have gotten a heavy, heavy amount. 143 00:08:32,760 --> 00:08:35,000 Speaker 1: Of work this week. 144 00:08:35,880 --> 00:08:38,120 Speaker 3: And one of the things that I didn't want to 145 00:08:38,160 --> 00:08:39,679 Speaker 3: mention and share with you, since this is for the 146 00:08:39,800 --> 00:08:44,200 Speaker 3: super p Ones, a couple of you knuckleheads have said, well, 147 00:08:44,559 --> 00:08:45,920 Speaker 3: this is going to be the year. You know, the 148 00:08:46,000 --> 00:08:47,920 Speaker 3: Dodgers are going to take care of you now because 149 00:08:48,600 --> 00:08:49,880 Speaker 3: last year they didn't take carry. 150 00:08:50,040 --> 00:08:50,880 Speaker 1: Well, we have an update. 151 00:08:50,920 --> 00:08:53,920 Speaker 3: I got an email from the Los Angeles Dodgers this week. 152 00:08:54,480 --> 00:08:58,160 Speaker 3: The some pr weasel for the LA Dodgers emailed me 153 00:08:58,880 --> 00:09:04,560 Speaker 3: and now that for the second conceived year after thirty 154 00:09:05,200 --> 00:09:08,200 Speaker 3: well was it twenty nine years? Twenty nine or thirty 155 00:09:08,240 --> 00:09:12,599 Speaker 3: years of covering the Dodgers in the media. For the 156 00:09:12,640 --> 00:09:15,840 Speaker 3: second consecutive year, I have been asked not to. 157 00:09:15,800 --> 00:09:19,560 Speaker 1: Regularly cover the Dodger. I got an email. 158 00:09:19,600 --> 00:09:23,439 Speaker 3: I was saying, they've denied my mi crenation and you 159 00:09:23,480 --> 00:09:25,320 Speaker 3: probably don't care, and you probably what who cares about 160 00:09:25,360 --> 00:09:28,000 Speaker 3: you and your stupid cranchial And I totally get it. 161 00:09:28,040 --> 00:09:28,679 Speaker 1: I understand. 162 00:09:29,720 --> 00:09:32,200 Speaker 3: It's just very bizarre to me, and I know why 163 00:09:32,200 --> 00:09:33,800 Speaker 3: they did it. I don't make them any money. I 164 00:09:33,840 --> 00:09:36,320 Speaker 3: guess they don't need the overnight listener, but it's bizarre. 165 00:09:36,320 --> 00:09:39,679 Speaker 3: The reason it's bizarre, first of all, is I've I 166 00:09:39,760 --> 00:09:44,480 Speaker 3: know the people out there, many of them I've considered friends. 167 00:09:45,320 --> 00:09:48,600 Speaker 3: I guess maybe I should revisit that. So I've been 168 00:09:48,600 --> 00:09:50,480 Speaker 3: either I know the people involved. A lot of them 169 00:09:50,480 --> 00:09:52,400 Speaker 3: have changed, and so that's part of the problem. A 170 00:09:52,440 --> 00:09:54,520 Speaker 3: lot of the people I knew really well are dead 171 00:09:55,120 --> 00:09:57,280 Speaker 3: or they're not working out there anymore. So the next 172 00:09:57,880 --> 00:10:00,160 Speaker 3: people that took those jobs, they don't really appreciate at 173 00:10:00,200 --> 00:10:01,199 Speaker 3: the work that we do here. 174 00:10:01,440 --> 00:10:02,959 Speaker 1: So that's part of the problem. 175 00:10:03,360 --> 00:10:06,560 Speaker 3: But the reason it's bizarro world to me is first 176 00:10:06,559 --> 00:10:10,040 Speaker 3: of all, that I'm on the Dodger station I just mentioned. 177 00:10:10,080 --> 00:10:12,880 Speaker 3: I filled in on the AM five to seventy airways 178 00:10:13,360 --> 00:10:16,360 Speaker 3: that station. I'll let you in on a little inside radio. 179 00:10:16,440 --> 00:10:18,480 Speaker 3: I'll get to the word of the week, by the way, 180 00:10:18,800 --> 00:10:21,920 Speaker 3: or the word up today anyway, coming up in a 181 00:10:21,920 --> 00:10:24,720 Speaker 3: little bit. But let me get in my soapbox. So 182 00:10:25,320 --> 00:10:27,360 Speaker 3: when I fill in on AM five to seventy in LA, 183 00:10:28,040 --> 00:10:30,680 Speaker 3: or when I do my own overnight show, those shows 184 00:10:30,720 --> 00:10:34,640 Speaker 3: are broadcast on AM five to seventy, which is owned 185 00:10:34,679 --> 00:10:38,160 Speaker 3: by about I think it's like forty nine point five 186 00:10:38,280 --> 00:10:40,800 Speaker 3: percent or something like that. Somebody told me, I forget, 187 00:10:41,080 --> 00:10:43,880 Speaker 3: it's a lot. Don't hold me to that about half 188 00:10:43,920 --> 00:10:49,320 Speaker 3: the radio station. And it's a partnership with the parent company, 189 00:10:49,320 --> 00:10:50,880 Speaker 3: which is the company. 190 00:10:50,520 --> 00:10:52,160 Speaker 1: That I work for. iHeart. 191 00:10:53,640 --> 00:10:56,480 Speaker 3: So I work not for the Dodgers, but I work 192 00:10:56,559 --> 00:11:02,600 Speaker 3: on the Dodgers station. I've been out there. It's not 193 00:11:02,640 --> 00:11:05,040 Speaker 3: like I need a seat. The thing that's that's bizarre. 194 00:11:05,280 --> 00:11:08,360 Speaker 3: I usually my my strategy in recent years, I often 195 00:11:08,360 --> 00:11:11,320 Speaker 3: don't even stay for the games because I need I 196 00:11:11,400 --> 00:11:15,800 Speaker 3: need tunnel vision to lock in and put some notes together, 197 00:11:15,880 --> 00:11:19,120 Speaker 3: bullet points for the Mallard monologues. Very long winded and 198 00:11:19,160 --> 00:11:22,520 Speaker 3: all that stuff, as you know, and it takes time to, 199 00:11:23,160 --> 00:11:28,520 Speaker 3: as we like to say, handcraft those prolonged Mallard monologues. 200 00:11:28,559 --> 00:11:32,480 Speaker 3: And so if I'm at Dodger Stadium and I'm there 201 00:11:32,559 --> 00:11:36,400 Speaker 3: for a long time and people like to talk to me, 202 00:11:36,440 --> 00:11:38,599 Speaker 3: which I don't know why I'm an introvert, but people. 203 00:11:38,400 --> 00:11:40,679 Speaker 1: I say, how you doing? I heard the show? Or 204 00:11:40,840 --> 00:11:42,240 Speaker 1: you know, what's this? Uh? 205 00:11:42,400 --> 00:11:44,559 Speaker 3: This guy that takes all the pills in Minnesota? Or 206 00:11:44,600 --> 00:11:45,920 Speaker 3: who's the the you got? 207 00:11:46,120 --> 00:11:48,959 Speaker 1: He got? Alf? Is that an alien? He call? 208 00:11:49,160 --> 00:11:52,120 Speaker 3: He just doesn't call, but he sends him. He asked 209 00:11:52,120 --> 00:11:57,080 Speaker 3: me random questions. And I'm honored that they listen. You know, 210 00:11:57,080 --> 00:11:59,160 Speaker 3: we have a lot of a lot of the listeners 211 00:11:59,240 --> 00:12:02,520 Speaker 3: in the the media in LA and a lot of 212 00:12:02,200 --> 00:12:06,120 Speaker 3: the baseball people because they'll listen on their way home. 213 00:12:07,440 --> 00:12:10,560 Speaker 3: I'm on in LA, our shows on after Dodger Talk 214 00:12:10,679 --> 00:12:12,160 Speaker 3: most of the time when they're on the West Coast, 215 00:12:12,640 --> 00:12:14,560 Speaker 3: they play a night game, so a lot of them 216 00:12:14,559 --> 00:12:17,600 Speaker 3: will hear the beginning of our show and whatever we're 217 00:12:17,679 --> 00:12:21,240 Speaker 3: ranting about, and sometimes they'll hear the the end of 218 00:12:21,280 --> 00:12:23,240 Speaker 3: the show when they're playing an early game on the 219 00:12:23,280 --> 00:12:27,080 Speaker 3: East Coast, so people ask questions. Fine, but the fact 220 00:12:27,120 --> 00:12:29,120 Speaker 3: that they they wouldn't let me out there, it's you know, 221 00:12:29,160 --> 00:12:30,800 Speaker 3: idealy and they'll say, well, you just still go out 222 00:12:30,800 --> 00:12:34,200 Speaker 3: there occasionally, you know, I have to to get approval. 223 00:12:34,200 --> 00:12:38,360 Speaker 3: It's just a it's a giant inconvenience, and I guess 224 00:12:38,360 --> 00:12:39,960 Speaker 3: I'm at the point now where I've done this for 225 00:12:40,000 --> 00:12:44,000 Speaker 3: so long, I don't need to go out there in 226 00:12:44,120 --> 00:12:45,959 Speaker 3: terms of actually watching the games. I need to go 227 00:12:45,960 --> 00:12:48,559 Speaker 3: out there to network, to to talk to the guys 228 00:12:48,640 --> 00:12:53,400 Speaker 3: during batting practice, to you know, kind of get stories 229 00:12:54,840 --> 00:12:56,520 Speaker 3: the story when the story you talk to some of 230 00:12:56,520 --> 00:12:59,520 Speaker 3: the Dodger players during batting practice, some of the coaches, 231 00:13:00,360 --> 00:13:02,319 Speaker 3: some of the broadcasters, and that's where you get a 232 00:13:02,320 --> 00:13:03,920 Speaker 3: lot of stuff you don't get it during the game. 233 00:13:04,320 --> 00:13:05,000 Speaker 1: During the game. 234 00:13:05,240 --> 00:13:09,000 Speaker 3: It's great, And I certainly don't dislike watching the Dodger games. 235 00:13:09,040 --> 00:13:12,000 Speaker 3: I watched them all the time. But as I said, 236 00:13:12,080 --> 00:13:14,480 Speaker 3: you know, getting ready for the show, people past you 237 00:13:14,559 --> 00:13:17,640 Speaker 3: and bought you know, kind of badgie and it's tough 238 00:13:17,679 --> 00:13:20,320 Speaker 3: to stay focused, and so that ends up provoking me 239 00:13:21,440 --> 00:13:24,440 Speaker 3: at some point. So the whole point of it is 240 00:13:24,480 --> 00:13:28,360 Speaker 3: to be out there and just kind of get those stories. 241 00:13:28,440 --> 00:13:30,760 Speaker 3: And then I'll often leave early in the game and 242 00:13:30,800 --> 00:13:34,760 Speaker 3: then go to the mother Ship and I go to 243 00:13:34,800 --> 00:13:38,040 Speaker 3: the very back and get ready for the show. I 244 00:13:38,080 --> 00:13:42,960 Speaker 3: put the monologue together and all the monologues and that's that. 245 00:13:43,000 --> 00:13:45,240 Speaker 3: But will not be at Dodger Stadium. I don't know 246 00:13:45,280 --> 00:13:46,840 Speaker 3: if I'll go out there at all. I went one 247 00:13:46,880 --> 00:13:51,840 Speaker 3: time last year. It was again very frustrating thing. And 248 00:13:52,120 --> 00:13:55,959 Speaker 3: it's funny. I last year I visited the great t 249 00:13:56,120 --> 00:14:00,520 Speaker 3: J Seimer's who died. He had terminal care answer and 250 00:14:01,160 --> 00:14:02,920 Speaker 3: TJ was a friend of mine and I was able 251 00:14:02,920 --> 00:14:06,320 Speaker 3: to see him several times in hospice and right up 252 00:14:06,400 --> 00:14:10,160 Speaker 3: until the end. TJ was a total firecracker. And I 253 00:14:10,480 --> 00:14:14,319 Speaker 3: remember one of the conversations we had. TJ was bedridden 254 00:14:15,120 --> 00:14:18,440 Speaker 3: and he was talking about his career and some of 255 00:14:18,600 --> 00:14:21,120 Speaker 3: the great moments in his writing career. At the La 256 00:14:21,200 --> 00:14:23,680 Speaker 3: Times and some other places in San Diego he worked, 257 00:14:23,720 --> 00:14:27,400 Speaker 3: and he was on ESPN on the show that's about 258 00:14:27,400 --> 00:14:28,200 Speaker 3: to be canceled. 259 00:14:28,720 --> 00:14:30,480 Speaker 1: I think it's called Around the Horn. I think something 260 00:14:30,480 --> 00:14:30,800 Speaker 1: like that. 261 00:14:31,480 --> 00:14:33,800 Speaker 3: He was one of the original panels on the show. Anyway, 262 00:14:33,840 --> 00:14:35,960 Speaker 3: we talked about TEJ. I talking to TJ. I remember 263 00:14:36,280 --> 00:14:38,160 Speaker 3: one of the things TJ told me before he checked out, 264 00:14:38,160 --> 00:14:41,680 Speaker 3: he I'd mentioned to him. We talked about the Dodgers 265 00:14:41,720 --> 00:14:45,360 Speaker 3: and some of the old stories back when Davy Johnson 266 00:14:45,440 --> 00:14:48,120 Speaker 3: was the manager and Kevin Malone was the GM and 267 00:14:48,800 --> 00:14:53,600 Speaker 3: trading stories. And there was this great uprising, this insurgency 268 00:14:53,640 --> 00:14:56,640 Speaker 3: when TJ took over, because the La Times had always 269 00:14:56,640 --> 00:14:59,840 Speaker 3: been a safe space for the Dodgers, like they just 270 00:15:00,160 --> 00:15:05,560 Speaker 3: lick the toes, right. It was full throttle propaganda for 271 00:15:05,640 --> 00:15:08,640 Speaker 3: the Dodgers, and because they were one of the big advertisers, 272 00:15:08,680 --> 00:15:11,800 Speaker 3: they bought a lot of newspaper space. 273 00:15:11,880 --> 00:15:13,360 Speaker 1: And when TJ took over. 274 00:15:14,600 --> 00:15:16,800 Speaker 3: He came in there and he was a fire hose 275 00:15:17,440 --> 00:15:20,480 Speaker 3: and he was a flamethrower and you know all that, 276 00:15:20,720 --> 00:15:23,000 Speaker 3: and I mean, just whatever adjective you want to use. 277 00:15:23,680 --> 00:15:27,240 Speaker 3: He was throwing razor blades all over the place, and 278 00:15:27,320 --> 00:15:33,440 Speaker 3: there was a rebellion. There was anarchy among the media, 279 00:15:33,680 --> 00:15:35,320 Speaker 3: the other writers at the La. 280 00:15:35,280 --> 00:15:38,800 Speaker 1: Times because TJ was such. 281 00:15:38,520 --> 00:15:43,000 Speaker 3: A muckraker, if you will, and he would call the 282 00:15:43,040 --> 00:15:46,600 Speaker 3: Dodgers out and they hadn't won in a fair amount 283 00:15:46,640 --> 00:15:51,160 Speaker 3: of years at that time, and so it was very awkward. 284 00:15:51,280 --> 00:15:55,160 Speaker 3: It was a mutiny on the Dodger bounty. But eventually 285 00:15:55,280 --> 00:15:58,000 Speaker 3: things calmed down and TJ continued. He was a great 286 00:15:58,080 --> 00:16:01,640 Speaker 3: columnist and did a wonderful job, but there were people 287 00:16:01,640 --> 00:16:05,760 Speaker 3: that wouldn't like sit. They board cutted the manager's news 288 00:16:05,760 --> 00:16:08,440 Speaker 3: conference because they were so upset with TJ. 289 00:16:08,800 --> 00:16:10,160 Speaker 1: And they went on and anyway. 290 00:16:10,960 --> 00:16:13,040 Speaker 3: So I remember talking to TJ at the end of 291 00:16:13,080 --> 00:16:14,920 Speaker 3: his life and I told him, I said, TJ, listen. 292 00:16:15,720 --> 00:16:17,680 Speaker 1: He asked me something about going to the games. I said, 293 00:16:17,680 --> 00:16:18,640 Speaker 1: I'm not going to the games. 294 00:16:19,200 --> 00:16:21,960 Speaker 3: And I said, TJ, I I I'm not going because 295 00:16:22,000 --> 00:16:24,960 Speaker 3: the Dodgers did not give me a season credit. He said, 296 00:16:24,960 --> 00:16:28,000 Speaker 3: what are you talking about? And he then explained to me, 297 00:16:28,040 --> 00:16:30,840 Speaker 3: said you shouldn't. You should raise holy hell. He says, 298 00:16:30,840 --> 00:16:33,920 Speaker 3: if that happened to me, I would write about it 299 00:16:34,000 --> 00:16:37,080 Speaker 3: every single column in the La Times, back when people 300 00:16:37,080 --> 00:16:40,200 Speaker 3: actually read the La Times, and uh there would be 301 00:16:40,240 --> 00:16:42,840 Speaker 3: a complete I would. I would raise you a massive 302 00:16:42,880 --> 00:16:45,360 Speaker 3: amount of noise. He my word is Hulda blue. He 303 00:16:45,360 --> 00:16:46,880 Speaker 3: didn't use the word Hulda blue. I used the word 304 00:16:46,920 --> 00:16:49,920 Speaker 3: Hulda blue. So I'm not necessarily going to do that. 305 00:16:50,000 --> 00:16:51,720 Speaker 3: I'm mentioning it here and I'm mention it on the 306 00:16:51,800 --> 00:16:54,720 Speaker 3: radio show at some point. But like I said, I 307 00:16:54,880 --> 00:16:58,760 Speaker 3: can watch the games. I have access to everything I need. 308 00:16:59,000 --> 00:17:01,120 Speaker 3: It was just more of I felt like to make 309 00:17:01,160 --> 00:17:03,520 Speaker 3: the show a little bit better. I always got a 310 00:17:03,560 --> 00:17:07,600 Speaker 3: lot of good stuff because baseball people love to talk, 311 00:17:08,400 --> 00:17:11,920 Speaker 3: and some of those cats I've known for many, many years, 312 00:17:11,960 --> 00:17:14,000 Speaker 3: Like I said, the people that work kind of behind 313 00:17:14,000 --> 00:17:18,919 Speaker 3: the scenes and they just tell you stuff, and a 314 00:17:18,960 --> 00:17:25,000 Speaker 3: lot of the time it's stuff that is not mainstream, 315 00:17:25,440 --> 00:17:28,800 Speaker 3: and it's usually pretty good. I can get some scoops. 316 00:17:28,840 --> 00:17:32,440 Speaker 3: I've found some stuff out, We've broken some stories over 317 00:17:32,480 --> 00:17:35,159 Speaker 3: the years because of that interaction during batting practice with 318 00:17:35,240 --> 00:17:38,879 Speaker 3: players and coaches and people that work for the team. 319 00:17:39,000 --> 00:17:42,280 Speaker 3: And so it's disappointing that the Dodgers don't do that. 320 00:17:42,320 --> 00:17:45,760 Speaker 3: It's also kind of frustrating because if I feel like 321 00:17:45,800 --> 00:17:49,080 Speaker 3: if I worked for a radio station in Tokyo, i'd 322 00:17:49,080 --> 00:17:49,840 Speaker 3: get a credential. 323 00:17:50,240 --> 00:17:51,440 Speaker 1: I guess season credential. 324 00:17:52,119 --> 00:17:54,320 Speaker 3: And actually I told one of my buddies, who is 325 00:17:54,320 --> 00:17:58,359 Speaker 3: a sports writer and longtime sportswriter who I will not 326 00:17:58,440 --> 00:18:00,760 Speaker 3: name because they're still employed, one of the few that 327 00:18:00,840 --> 00:18:04,320 Speaker 3: are employed, and I told him by this and I said, 328 00:18:05,320 --> 00:18:06,360 Speaker 3: I said, what should I do? 329 00:18:06,440 --> 00:18:07,960 Speaker 1: And he said, you know what you should do? Ben. 330 00:18:08,840 --> 00:18:09,720 Speaker 1: This was his idea. 331 00:18:10,480 --> 00:18:13,680 Speaker 3: Contact the radio stations in Japan and tell them you 332 00:18:13,760 --> 00:18:17,840 Speaker 3: want to be their US correspondent, and they'll probably just 333 00:18:17,920 --> 00:18:19,840 Speaker 3: give you a credential because they'll see they'll see like 334 00:18:19,960 --> 00:18:21,560 Speaker 3: Radio Tokyo or something like that. 335 00:18:21,600 --> 00:18:22,120 Speaker 1: And you're good. 336 00:18:22,560 --> 00:18:25,320 Speaker 3: The fact that you're in the backyard, you're too close, 337 00:18:25,880 --> 00:18:28,560 Speaker 3: they're too comfortable with you. They can screw you over. 338 00:18:29,600 --> 00:18:33,439 Speaker 3: But I get I understand the economics. And there were 339 00:18:33,480 --> 00:18:36,920 Speaker 3: twenty five million people that watch watch the Dodger cub 340 00:18:36,960 --> 00:18:41,080 Speaker 3: opener the other day this week on TV, and you know, 341 00:18:41,119 --> 00:18:45,119 Speaker 3: that's an insane amount of people. And the amount of 342 00:18:45,119 --> 00:18:48,720 Speaker 3: people that watch regular season baseball in America is a 343 00:18:48,960 --> 00:18:53,320 Speaker 3: fraction of that. And the Dodgers in Major League Baseball 344 00:18:53,320 --> 00:18:56,960 Speaker 3: are complete whores when it comes to making money in Japan. 345 00:18:57,040 --> 00:18:59,200 Speaker 3: And I don't disagree with that. I would do the 346 00:18:59,200 --> 00:19:02,720 Speaker 3: same thing. I mean, and they are completely pillaging the 347 00:19:02,840 --> 00:19:07,439 Speaker 3: pockets of baseball loving fans in Japan, and that's what 348 00:19:07,480 --> 00:19:10,159 Speaker 3: they should be doing, right. They're selling a bunch of 349 00:19:10,240 --> 00:19:12,280 Speaker 3: jerseys and a bunch of knick knacks and all that 350 00:19:12,320 --> 00:19:15,560 Speaker 3: stuff and slapping the Dodger logo on it. People are 351 00:19:15,640 --> 00:19:17,879 Speaker 3: buying it and they can't sell enough, so they're allowing 352 00:19:17,920 --> 00:19:21,880 Speaker 3: every newspaper and all these people to get the creditors. 353 00:19:22,080 --> 00:19:26,520 Speaker 3: I just think you shouldn't forget the people in your backyard. 354 00:19:26,600 --> 00:19:28,560 Speaker 3: But you know, maybe I'm wrong, Maybe I'm what do 355 00:19:28,600 --> 00:19:30,400 Speaker 3: I know? I just do the overnight show, so who knows? 356 00:19:31,400 --> 00:19:31,800 Speaker 1: Anyway? 357 00:19:31,840 --> 00:19:33,640 Speaker 3: Moving on from that, I want to spend the whole 358 00:19:33,640 --> 00:19:35,240 Speaker 3: time yapping. I feel like I have spent the whole 359 00:19:35,280 --> 00:19:38,840 Speaker 3: time yapping about that time. Now for the I guess 360 00:19:38,840 --> 00:19:42,600 Speaker 3: we'll call this the phrase all the week, the phrase 361 00:19:42,920 --> 00:19:46,520 Speaker 3: all the week, and I feel it's appropriate. This being 362 00:19:46,640 --> 00:19:50,080 Speaker 3: the unofficial soft launch of the Major League Baseball season. 363 00:19:51,240 --> 00:19:54,720 Speaker 3: The phrase of the week on this Friday heading into 364 00:19:54,720 --> 00:20:01,600 Speaker 3: the weekend, the last Friday without baseball, is inside baseball. 365 00:20:01,680 --> 00:20:05,639 Speaker 3: That is the fresh all the week praise Lee. All right, 366 00:20:05,640 --> 00:20:07,800 Speaker 3: so the week inside baseball. Now, this goes all the 367 00:20:07,840 --> 00:20:13,320 Speaker 3: way back. Believe it or not to they say eighteen 368 00:20:13,520 --> 00:20:18,919 Speaker 3: ninety two, Say why yes? The man credited as the pioneer, 369 00:20:18,960 --> 00:20:25,320 Speaker 3: the forefather of inside baseball is a guy named Ned Hamlin, 370 00:20:25,720 --> 00:20:27,600 Speaker 3: who the f is ned at and ned Hamler's been 371 00:20:27,640 --> 00:20:31,320 Speaker 3: dead longer than dead. But this goes way back to 372 00:20:31,480 --> 00:20:33,840 Speaker 3: the late eighteen hundreds. He was the manager, he was 373 00:20:33,880 --> 00:20:37,720 Speaker 3: a player, and he had he had the Raleigh fingers mustache. 374 00:20:37,720 --> 00:20:40,560 Speaker 3: I've seen a photo of him, had the Raleigh fingers mustache, 375 00:20:40,600 --> 00:20:43,960 Speaker 3: you know, the handleball mustache. And they played baseball with 376 00:20:44,080 --> 00:20:50,479 Speaker 3: ties in the eighteen eighties. They had ties and very bizarre. 377 00:20:50,760 --> 00:20:53,040 Speaker 3: But anyway, I don't need to get in that here, 378 00:20:53,560 --> 00:20:56,360 Speaker 3: so get to the point, please. So this guy Net 379 00:20:56,359 --> 00:20:59,080 Speaker 3: Hamlin was a former professional player in the eighteen eighties. 380 00:20:59,400 --> 00:21:02,399 Speaker 3: He became the manager of the Baltimore Orioles, yep, the 381 00:21:02,440 --> 00:21:07,480 Speaker 3: Orioles in eighteen ninety two, and they were in the 382 00:21:07,600 --> 00:21:11,359 Speaker 3: National League and they were very good. They supposedly, as 383 00:21:11,440 --> 00:21:14,440 Speaker 3: legend goes, they won a bunch of pennants and in 384 00:21:14,560 --> 00:21:17,280 Speaker 3: the decade they were like the Dodgers of that time. 385 00:21:18,080 --> 00:21:21,480 Speaker 3: And this guy need Handling came up with all these 386 00:21:22,119 --> 00:21:24,520 Speaker 3: different ways to play baseball that nobody prior in the 387 00:21:24,560 --> 00:21:26,280 Speaker 3: eighteen seventies of the eighteen eighties had. 388 00:21:26,160 --> 00:21:26,600 Speaker 1: Come up with. 389 00:21:27,359 --> 00:21:30,200 Speaker 3: The Orioles are the team that gave us the Baltimore chop. 390 00:21:30,960 --> 00:21:33,840 Speaker 3: And if you're a baseball nerd, you know the Baltimore chop. 391 00:21:33,880 --> 00:21:35,240 Speaker 3: When I was a kid, if I hit a ball 392 00:21:35,320 --> 00:21:37,800 Speaker 3: right into the ground in front of home plate, it 393 00:21:37,880 --> 00:21:40,040 Speaker 3: was the coach would be the you hit the Baltimore chop? 394 00:21:40,080 --> 00:21:41,600 Speaker 3: I said, what they have is the Baltimore chop? Is 395 00:21:41,600 --> 00:21:43,199 Speaker 3: that like a pork chop? Is that something I know? 396 00:21:44,080 --> 00:21:46,280 Speaker 3: That is where the batter tries to hit the ball 397 00:21:46,320 --> 00:21:51,000 Speaker 3: almost straight down and it results in a giant bounce 398 00:21:51,520 --> 00:21:54,359 Speaker 3: and the ball will stand in there long enough where 399 00:21:54,359 --> 00:21:55,879 Speaker 3: the runner will reach for a space. 400 00:21:55,920 --> 00:21:58,240 Speaker 1: And the story. I remember hearing stories about the. 401 00:21:58,160 --> 00:22:03,320 Speaker 3: Orioles, even like the nineteen eighties when Earl Weaver was 402 00:22:03,320 --> 00:22:04,719 Speaker 3: trying to hit home runs all the time, but they 403 00:22:04,720 --> 00:22:08,119 Speaker 3: would at the old Memorial Stadium in Baltimore. The legend 404 00:22:08,160 --> 00:22:10,360 Speaker 3: is they would make the ground in front of home 405 00:22:10,359 --> 00:22:15,560 Speaker 3: plate very hard, like rock hard, because they still up 406 00:22:15,560 --> 00:22:17,920 Speaker 3: to like the nineteen eighties, would hit them. They called 407 00:22:17,920 --> 00:22:21,320 Speaker 3: the Baltimore chop. So in order to have the Baltimore chop, 408 00:22:21,320 --> 00:22:24,280 Speaker 3: you got to have the ground in that area. So 409 00:22:25,359 --> 00:22:28,879 Speaker 3: by the early twentieth century, as we continue the long 410 00:22:28,880 --> 00:22:33,720 Speaker 3: winded version of the phrase of the week, inside Baseball, 411 00:22:34,440 --> 00:22:38,600 Speaker 3: the Dictionary says that inside baseball is anything known or 412 00:22:38,680 --> 00:22:41,160 Speaker 3: understood only by a small group of people. But again, 413 00:22:41,200 --> 00:22:45,719 Speaker 3: this guy Ned good old Ned, the manager Ned Hamlin 414 00:22:45,840 --> 00:22:47,959 Speaker 3: of the Orioles is supposedly the guy that had inside 415 00:22:48,000 --> 00:22:53,640 Speaker 3: baseball first, and they actually called it early on scientific baseball, 416 00:22:53,640 --> 00:22:56,160 Speaker 3: which is what interesting. 417 00:22:58,119 --> 00:22:59,080 Speaker 1: And then we move on. 418 00:22:59,240 --> 00:23:05,800 Speaker 3: The Chicago Hubs also developed a kind of a nuance 419 00:23:06,160 --> 00:23:10,560 Speaker 3: to that in terms of communication between the fielders. If 420 00:23:10,600 --> 00:23:13,880 Speaker 3: fielders knew what kind of pitch to expect, they could 421 00:23:14,040 --> 00:23:18,280 Speaker 3: better predict where to play and they could adjust. And 422 00:23:18,320 --> 00:23:23,520 Speaker 3: so that was part of inside baseball as well. The 423 00:23:24,200 --> 00:23:27,720 Speaker 3: first time the phrase was used in print was by 424 00:23:28,280 --> 00:23:32,160 Speaker 3: a writer named Sai Sanborn. Doesn't that sound like a 425 00:23:32,200 --> 00:23:36,440 Speaker 3: newspaper man from the nineteen tens. Yeah, So this guy, 426 00:23:36,560 --> 00:23:42,320 Speaker 3: Sai Sandburn or Sanborn worked at the Chicago Tribune. He 427 00:23:42,359 --> 00:23:46,480 Speaker 3: wrote about it in the Chicago Tribune. And it all 428 00:23:46,600 --> 00:23:50,440 Speaker 3: started again with this guy Ned Reagan, the guy from 429 00:23:50,440 --> 00:23:56,639 Speaker 3: the Orioles, back back in the day. But the term 430 00:23:56,920 --> 00:23:59,840 Speaker 3: inside baseball, now, of course you got like the moneyball, 431 00:24:00,320 --> 00:24:03,320 Speaker 3: and you got nerd Army. It is interesting how life 432 00:24:03,400 --> 00:24:06,800 Speaker 3: repeats itself though over and over, and the fact that 433 00:24:06,880 --> 00:24:11,600 Speaker 3: baseball you got the same two arguments in baseball over 434 00:24:11,640 --> 00:24:14,439 Speaker 3: the years have been, well, baseball is dying, it's not 435 00:24:14,520 --> 00:24:16,600 Speaker 3: as popera as it used to be. You get a 436 00:24:16,640 --> 00:24:18,639 Speaker 3: lot of that that's been going on for over one 437 00:24:18,720 --> 00:24:21,399 Speaker 3: hundred years, and you get the nerd ball. What is 438 00:24:21,480 --> 00:24:23,760 Speaker 3: annoying the people that like baseball a certain way? And 439 00:24:23,800 --> 00:24:26,280 Speaker 3: then it changes and all that Now in terms of 440 00:24:27,119 --> 00:24:31,119 Speaker 3: the phrase in a political sense, there's a guy named 441 00:24:31,119 --> 00:24:36,640 Speaker 3: Thomas L. Stokes, no relation to former NFL receiver JJ Stokes, 442 00:24:37,160 --> 00:24:38,080 Speaker 3: So Thomas L. 443 00:24:38,160 --> 00:24:39,480 Speaker 1: Stokes a political journalist. 444 00:24:39,560 --> 00:24:42,760 Speaker 3: He's the first person, at least in a published article 445 00:24:43,440 --> 00:24:47,640 Speaker 3: to combine inside baseball and politics. He said, there's such 446 00:24:47,640 --> 00:24:50,439 Speaker 3: a thing as inside politics, in which folks in the 447 00:24:50,480 --> 00:24:54,719 Speaker 3: grand stands and the bleachers seldom see and rarely understand, 448 00:24:55,240 --> 00:24:58,359 Speaker 3: just as crowds watching the great national pastime missed the 449 00:24:58,440 --> 00:25:01,800 Speaker 3: fine points of what it's called inside baseball. He wrote 450 00:25:01,840 --> 00:25:07,720 Speaker 3: that in nineteen fifty one, so it's been seventy seventy 451 00:25:07,720 --> 00:25:10,080 Speaker 3: five years or so almost since then. And I talked 452 00:25:10,080 --> 00:25:14,840 Speaker 3: about inside politics and the way that lobbyists work and 453 00:25:15,200 --> 00:25:17,919 Speaker 3: the clever operators of the political world and all that. 454 00:25:18,000 --> 00:25:21,520 Speaker 3: So that was at that particular point, of course, over 455 00:25:21,560 --> 00:25:26,359 Speaker 3: the years now political or inside baseball, inside baseball. It 456 00:25:26,480 --> 00:25:30,240 Speaker 3: just means anything where a very small amount of people 457 00:25:30,320 --> 00:25:33,480 Speaker 3: have inside information. So the phrase of the week again, 458 00:25:34,320 --> 00:25:40,000 Speaker 3: the phrase of the week is inside baseball, inside baseball. 459 00:25:41,080 --> 00:25:43,560 Speaker 3: And that is a long winded boy. 460 00:25:43,560 --> 00:25:45,000 Speaker 1: I went a little long on that. We do have 461 00:25:45,080 --> 00:25:49,119 Speaker 1: time though, for some food. He fun. Hooray for food, 462 00:25:49,200 --> 00:25:52,760 Speaker 1: he fun. It's all about that food, he fun. I know, 463 00:25:53,040 --> 00:25:56,320 Speaker 1: I know you're excited. I know. Try to stick. Come 464 00:25:57,000 --> 00:25:58,760 Speaker 1: all right, So here's some foody fun. We have a 465 00:25:58,840 --> 00:25:59,639 Speaker 1: few stories for you. 466 00:26:00,280 --> 00:26:03,960 Speaker 3: Is we continue this fifth hour podcast trying to help 467 00:26:04,000 --> 00:26:06,919 Speaker 3: you boys out. Another story that popped up on the 468 00:26:06,960 --> 00:26:08,840 Speaker 3: food blogs, and we talked about this on the Fifth 469 00:26:08,840 --> 00:26:13,920 Speaker 3: Hour podcast any previous episode. The reason McDonald's is anti 470 00:26:14,000 --> 00:26:17,440 Speaker 3: onion ring. They don't mind onions, They have the little 471 00:26:17,480 --> 00:26:19,639 Speaker 3: chopped onions on the burgers, but they do not like 472 00:26:19,760 --> 00:26:20,600 Speaker 3: the onion ring. 473 00:26:21,280 --> 00:26:23,840 Speaker 1: And it's all about mount of many. Yeah. 474 00:26:23,880 --> 00:26:26,880 Speaker 3: They did a cost benefit analysis back in the day 475 00:26:26,920 --> 00:26:30,720 Speaker 3: and they determined it is bad for business that the 476 00:26:30,880 --> 00:26:34,040 Speaker 3: cost of the onion ring to mass produce the onion ring, 477 00:26:34,920 --> 00:26:38,280 Speaker 3: the amount of people that would buy onion rings does 478 00:26:38,320 --> 00:26:40,840 Speaker 3: not match the effort for the onion rings, and they 479 00:26:40,880 --> 00:26:44,359 Speaker 3: mark up their fries so much. Those McDonald's French fries 480 00:26:44,359 --> 00:26:47,240 Speaker 3: are the jack you and so because of that, they're like, 481 00:26:47,280 --> 00:26:49,159 Speaker 3: we're making so much money on the fries. If we 482 00:26:49,200 --> 00:26:53,080 Speaker 3: start selling onion rings, then people will buy those. Maybe 483 00:26:53,119 --> 00:26:55,080 Speaker 3: we'll sell some, but we're not going to be able 484 00:26:55,080 --> 00:27:00,439 Speaker 3: to make the amount of money that we make. You know, 485 00:27:00,600 --> 00:27:04,120 Speaker 3: we make at that point, you know the price points, 486 00:27:04,119 --> 00:27:07,439 Speaker 3: so it's not even a profitable. So I saw that 487 00:27:07,480 --> 00:27:09,800 Speaker 3: story again. I thought, if you missed that episode of 488 00:27:09,800 --> 00:27:14,000 Speaker 3: the podcast Carl's Junior, that is, what is that west 489 00:27:14,040 --> 00:27:17,280 Speaker 3: of the Mississippi. East of the Mississippi's Harty's Carls Junior 490 00:27:17,280 --> 00:27:24,479 Speaker 3: indescing the new Triple Burger and Tropicali refresher. It's some 491 00:27:24,600 --> 00:27:28,320 Speaker 3: kind of Fugeese lemonade. They've got that heart Ease, which 492 00:27:28,359 --> 00:27:32,719 Speaker 3: is east of the Mississippi. They've got the new chicken 493 00:27:32,960 --> 00:27:39,080 Speaker 3: Cordon Blue sandwich in select market that's not everywhere limited 494 00:27:39,119 --> 00:27:44,280 Speaker 3: time on that quiz Nos the sandwich shop has gluten 495 00:27:44,359 --> 00:27:49,359 Speaker 3: free bread options. They've also got this new Buffalo Chicken 496 00:27:49,400 --> 00:27:51,320 Speaker 3: Club that doesn't really look like my kind of thing. 497 00:27:52,920 --> 00:27:56,639 Speaker 1: My wife has the gluten analogy, so I'll let her know. 498 00:27:56,720 --> 00:27:58,400 Speaker 3: We usually eat at home though most of the time, 499 00:27:58,480 --> 00:28:00,640 Speaker 3: so I don't think we'll be hitting. 500 00:28:00,720 --> 00:28:04,440 Speaker 1: The Quiznos gluten free situation. 501 00:28:04,880 --> 00:28:09,160 Speaker 3: Crumble Boy, they're really good, and man are the expensive 502 00:28:09,560 --> 00:28:15,520 Speaker 3: Crumble baking new chocolate mint cake through March twenty second, 503 00:28:16,280 --> 00:28:20,280 Speaker 3: So you got till that's kind of odd Toillmorrow, Like, 504 00:28:20,320 --> 00:28:22,439 Speaker 3: why would you stop on a Saturday. I don't get it, 505 00:28:22,480 --> 00:28:25,760 Speaker 3: but wouldn't you at least stop on Sunday? Yeah, so 506 00:28:25,800 --> 00:28:28,560 Speaker 3: they have that looks really good and I'm sure it'll 507 00:28:28,560 --> 00:28:32,800 Speaker 3: cost you like an arm and a leg and all that. Dominoes, 508 00:28:33,400 --> 00:28:36,879 Speaker 3: they've got a fifty percent off pizza deal. It is 509 00:28:37,000 --> 00:28:39,320 Speaker 3: back for a limited time. It's available. You have to order, 510 00:28:39,320 --> 00:28:41,880 Speaker 3: of course, through the app. All these things through the app. 511 00:28:42,560 --> 00:28:46,480 Speaker 3: And it ends on Sunday, so that makes sense. You 512 00:28:46,480 --> 00:28:48,240 Speaker 3: don't end it on a Saturday like the people over 513 00:28:48,240 --> 00:28:50,840 Speaker 3: it Crumble you ended on a Sunday. So you've got that. 514 00:28:51,000 --> 00:28:55,920 Speaker 3: KFC has launched a new dunk It bucket. Gee, I 515 00:28:55,960 --> 00:28:58,600 Speaker 3: wonder why could that be because of March Madness which 516 00:28:58,640 --> 00:29:04,240 Speaker 3: is going on. Yeah, I got mashed potato poppers available 517 00:29:04,240 --> 00:29:07,880 Speaker 3: for a limited time. Wall supplies last, so there is 518 00:29:08,200 --> 00:29:12,480 Speaker 3: there's that and anything else that really stands out. There 519 00:29:12,520 --> 00:29:15,680 Speaker 3: was a bunch of stuff this week because of Saint 520 00:29:15,760 --> 00:29:20,080 Speaker 3: Patrick's Day and all that. I think that's enough enough 521 00:29:20,120 --> 00:29:24,160 Speaker 3: for now. We will have new podcasts all weekend. My god, unbelievable, 522 00:29:24,200 --> 00:29:26,400 Speaker 3: what are we doing. We'll have the Fifth Hour with 523 00:29:26,400 --> 00:29:29,280 Speaker 3: me and Danny g hopefully back with me on the 524 00:29:29,320 --> 00:29:32,320 Speaker 3: Friday Pod, and then we'll have or the Saturday Pod. 525 00:29:32,400 --> 00:29:35,320 Speaker 1: Rather, this is today's the Friday Pod. I've been talking 526 00:29:35,360 --> 00:29:36,440 Speaker 1: so much, I don't even know what DAT is. 527 00:29:37,000 --> 00:29:39,600 Speaker 3: But but Danny will be with me tomorrow on the 528 00:29:39,640 --> 00:29:42,040 Speaker 3: Saturday Pod, and then we'll have the mail bag on Sunday. 529 00:29:42,120 --> 00:29:42,840 Speaker 1: So if you want. 530 00:29:42,640 --> 00:29:46,160 Speaker 3: To sneak a question in and be part of the 531 00:29:46,240 --> 00:29:50,360 Speaker 3: drama of the podcast, send a question in care of 532 00:29:50,520 --> 00:29:54,880 Speaker 3: Real fifth Hour at gmail dot com. Reeal fifth Hour 533 00:29:54,960 --> 00:29:58,760 Speaker 3: at gmail dot com. Put your name in city A lot, 534 00:29:58,800 --> 00:30:00,960 Speaker 3: do you knuckleheads? Send me email and you don't put 535 00:30:00,960 --> 00:30:03,440 Speaker 3: what city you're in, so we have to say parts 536 00:30:03,520 --> 00:30:05,560 Speaker 3: unknown or whatever. You know, you're not proud of where 537 00:30:05,600 --> 00:30:06,840 Speaker 3: you live. You don't want us to give you a 538 00:30:06,840 --> 00:30:09,200 Speaker 3: little love. I mean, come on anyway, I don't care 539 00:30:09,280 --> 00:30:11,800 Speaker 3: as long as you contact us but have a wonderful 540 00:30:11,880 --> 00:30:13,960 Speaker 3: rest of your Friday. I'm gonna go shut up for 541 00:30:14,000 --> 00:30:17,520 Speaker 3: a few hours, maybe even take a nap, who knows. 542 00:30:17,800 --> 00:30:21,080 Speaker 3: And yeah, I watched college basketball. When I wake up, 543 00:30:21,320 --> 00:30:25,400 Speaker 3: I'll do that. Riveting, absolutely riveting. I have a wonderful 544 00:30:25,480 --> 00:30:30,000 Speaker 3: rest of your day. And was Danny say asta pasta 545 00:30:30,720 --> 00:30:32,240 Speaker 3: stop later? 546 00:30:32,440 --> 00:30:32,840 Speaker 1: Skater? 547 00:30:33,760 --> 00:30:39,760 Speaker 3: Oh oh reaver, darja aloha nah? 548 00:30:40,120 --> 00:30:44,400 Speaker 1: Now all right, well whatever, have a good day. Got 549 00:30:44,440 --> 00:30:45,200 Speaker 1: a murder, I gotta go.