WEBVTT - The Fifth Hour: "I Don't Work Here!" 0:00:00.920 --> 0:00:01.680 Kabbooms. 0:00:02.520 --> 0:00:05.600 If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes 0:00:05.640 --> 0:00:09.400 a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants 0:00:09.440 --> 0:00:12.720 of the old Republic, a soul fashion of fairness. He 0:00:12.800 --> 0:00:15.720 treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the 0:00:15.840 --> 0:00:17.720 rich pill poppers in the penthouse. 0:00:18.280 --> 0:00:18.600 Wow. 0:00:18.800 --> 0:00:22.520 The Clearinghouse of Hot takes break free for something special. 0:00:22.880 --> 0:00:28.680 The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now. 0:00:29.200 --> 0:00:37.320 In the air everywhere. Welcome into the audio Dojo, a 0:00:37.320 --> 0:00:41.120 another spin around the audio world. As it is The 0:00:41.280 --> 0:00:45.080 Fifth Hour with Ben Mahler and Danny g On this 0:00:45.800 --> 0:00:51.559 the thirtieth day of December. Happy Saturday, Happy Saturday, a 0:00:51.600 --> 0:00:55.440 long holiday weekend for most. As we are here hanging 0:00:55.480 --> 0:00:59.880 out with you every single day of the week, fresh 0:01:00.080 --> 0:01:05.080 audio content just ready to be delivered, hyping hot right 0:01:05.200 --> 0:01:09.600 into your ear drums. On this holiday weekend and on 0:01:09.640 --> 0:01:13.319 this edition of the Fifth Hour, we've got Benny Brittle. 0:01:14.080 --> 0:01:20.000 Nerds are real, the firm of the week, the term 0:01:20.319 --> 0:01:22.880 of the week, and you never know what else is 0:01:22.920 --> 0:01:24.959 going to pop up. So that's at least the base, 0:01:26.080 --> 0:01:27.920 that's how we're going to start. And then things happen. 0:01:28.640 --> 0:01:30.560 Things happen so I wanted to start with this. Now. 0:01:30.600 --> 0:01:38.959 We had the Malor Holiday party last weekend on Christmas Eve. 0:01:39.240 --> 0:01:44.399 Now Hetbridge Farm remembers the mal Holiday Party, which is 0:01:44.400 --> 0:01:47.200 not to be confused. A lot of people confuse this 0:01:47.319 --> 0:01:53.080 with the Ugly Sweater party, and it's often mixed up. 0:01:53.240 --> 0:01:55.480 And I just want you to know and not to 0:01:55.520 --> 0:01:59.200 be corny or you know, it's a heartwarming event holiday party, 0:01:59.680 --> 0:02:04.320 nothing like the ugly sweater part. It's almost all family. 0:02:04.560 --> 0:02:07.720 There's a few friends, but it's almost all family at 0:02:07.760 --> 0:02:11.600 the tabernacle, and it's just endless amounts of food and 0:02:11.639 --> 0:02:15.400 all that. This is a separate deal, separate deal. And 0:02:15.600 --> 0:02:18.560 here's the same thing that happens every year before every 0:02:18.560 --> 0:02:22.640 one of these parties, Danny g. Every year it is 0:02:22.760 --> 0:02:26.919 a mad dash. My wife runs around like the tornado, 0:02:27.000 --> 0:02:30.560 the Tasmanian devil, trying to make everything perfect right. Everything 0:02:30.680 --> 0:02:37.560 has to be just wonderful, beautiful, like it's back in 0:02:37.840 --> 0:02:41.160 colonial times. Everything's perfect right, Everything's just wonderful and all 0:02:41.200 --> 0:02:45.560 that stuff. And so there's like three or four days 0:02:45.600 --> 0:02:50.840 of preparation, buying crap, figuring out the menu of these parties, 0:02:51.160 --> 0:02:55.119 cleaning up everything, like the whole deal it's a big. 0:02:55.600 --> 0:02:57.840 You ever get tired of hosting all these parties? 0:02:58.040 --> 0:03:01.800 Yes, yes, because my wife freaks out Danny. She's like, 0:03:02.000 --> 0:03:05.880 oh my, if things are not perfect, it's very dramatic, 0:03:05.919 --> 0:03:08.560 and I don't need the drama, right, I'm good with 0:03:08.680 --> 0:03:11.760 the drama not being where it is now. The odd 0:03:11.800 --> 0:03:14.880 thing is like before the party, it reminds me of 0:03:14.919 --> 0:03:19.680 like a dramatic Shakespearean type play because it's so dramatic. 0:03:20.240 --> 0:03:22.119 But then afterwards it's Oh, I can't wait to host 0:03:22.120 --> 0:03:24.960 another one, and I'm like, wait a minute. You know, 0:03:25.000 --> 0:03:27.480 it's like we're running around, everyone's in a tizzy, and 0:03:27.560 --> 0:03:29.320 I was like, will we get this thing done or not? 0:03:29.520 --> 0:03:32.480 And it's like, oh, it's just But anyway, so we 0:03:32.520 --> 0:03:36.080 had we had the holiday party, and as you know, 0:03:36.600 --> 0:03:39.680 being the king of introverts, Danny not a big party 0:03:39.920 --> 0:03:43.560 not a big party guy. But put on a happy face. 0:03:43.720 --> 0:03:48.160 Put on a happy face, and yet again morphed into 0:03:48.360 --> 0:03:53.880 Benny the Baker and over baked, made double the chocolate 0:03:53.960 --> 0:03:58.880 chip cookies, made some sugar cookies. Half of them were 0:03:59.280 --> 0:04:03.240 given green frosting, half of them are red. The Yin 0:04:03.320 --> 0:04:08.200 and the Yang, but the star of the show a 0:04:08.320 --> 0:04:14.760 debut item. You can call me now Benny Brittle. And 0:04:14.840 --> 0:04:17.080 not because I have Britle bones and I can't even 0:04:17.120 --> 0:04:19.240 get off a fire truck without my back hurting for 0:04:19.279 --> 0:04:23.560 a week. Not because of that. No, it's the delicious 0:04:23.640 --> 0:04:27.680 new treat that I and the confectionery have. I don't 0:04:27.680 --> 0:04:31.600 know that I've mastered it, but it's pretty good. It's 0:04:31.640 --> 0:04:35.680 pretty good. And that is the delicious new treat, the 0:04:35.720 --> 0:04:41.599 peanut brittle, homemade peanut brittle, which I have always loved 0:04:41.680 --> 0:04:43.800 peanut brittle. It is terrible for you, it's bad for 0:04:43.880 --> 0:04:46.360 your teeth, and you shouldn't eat it and all this stuff. 0:04:46.400 --> 0:04:48.360 It's got a lot of sugar, and I get all that, 0:04:49.240 --> 0:04:53.559 but it's so freaking good. It is so so freaking good. 0:04:53.839 --> 0:04:56.200 This y that's in my top five. 0:04:56.720 --> 0:04:59.240 Yeah. And I remember when I was a kid, and 0:04:59.360 --> 0:05:01.360 one of my fing favorite memories we went on a 0:05:01.360 --> 0:05:04.760 family vacation to Hawaii and it was a big deal, 0:05:04.839 --> 0:05:07.000 right for my mom and stuff, and you know, anyway 0:05:07.040 --> 0:05:10.320 you're Hawaii, it's a long trip. I've ended up lucky enough. 0:05:10.360 --> 0:05:11.920 I've been there many times over the years. But as 0:05:11.920 --> 0:05:13.800 a kid, I didn't really know what I was getting into. 0:05:13.880 --> 0:05:16.440 I didn't really appreciate it. The thing that I loved 0:05:16.480 --> 0:05:20.120 as a fat kid in Hawaii was mac Damien nut brittle. 0:05:21.400 --> 0:05:22.839 My mom got me a lot of that. I was like, 0:05:22.839 --> 0:05:25.000 oh man, this is like the greatest stuff I've ever had. 0:05:26.279 --> 0:05:29.960 Well, there's something about that and toffee both underrated. 0:05:30.320 --> 0:05:34.719 Yeah, So I was able to make peanut brittle and 0:05:34.839 --> 0:05:39.200 it I think it's I'll have to I'll get you some, Dannie, 0:05:39.440 --> 0:05:40.720 I'll have to get you some. I know you're not 0:05:40.760 --> 0:05:42.520 eating sugar, so maybe I shouldn't get you some. But 0:05:43.080 --> 0:05:46.440 it's really easy to make. The only thing I had 0:05:46.520 --> 0:05:51.680 to get was they call it a candy thermometer, because 0:05:51.720 --> 0:05:54.720 the key to this is a science to it, and 0:05:55.360 --> 0:05:57.919 you've got to have the obviously the ingredients of the 0:05:57.960 --> 0:06:04.600 most important things corn syrup, sugar, salt, baking soda, and 0:06:04.680 --> 0:06:08.440 obviously a mother load of peanuts. But the science to 0:06:08.480 --> 0:06:11.000 it is you have to do it all to the 0:06:11.040 --> 0:06:15.200 right temperature and there's this sweet spot the goldilockswon for 0:06:15.279 --> 0:06:19.039 peanut brittle. And so you mix all these ingredients and 0:06:19.160 --> 0:06:21.720 you turn up the heat. You turn up the heat, 0:06:22.000 --> 0:06:26.279 and then it's the magic hour, the golden hour, as 0:06:26.320 --> 0:06:30.680 they say in photography right right before sunset, the golden hour, 0:06:30.839 --> 0:06:33.200 when the lights, you know, God's light is just there. 0:06:33.200 --> 0:06:35.320 It's perfect. The photos are amazing. You don't need to 0:06:35.360 --> 0:06:41.400 filter anything. So when the sticky goo gets to the 0:06:41.440 --> 0:06:44.560 perfect temperature, which is usually three hundred degrees to three 0:06:44.640 --> 0:06:48.279 hundred and ten degrees, you then while you are stirring 0:06:48.320 --> 0:06:52.080 it at that magical moment, you then quickly have to 0:06:52.120 --> 0:06:54.680 turn the stove off. You have to grab the giant 0:06:54.800 --> 0:07:00.880 bowl of sloppy, sugary peanutty syrup all too good to 0:07:00.880 --> 0:07:05.640 be true, and you then have to pour it in 0:07:05.680 --> 0:07:10.480 to a tray with parchment paper, and then you have 0:07:10.520 --> 0:07:13.280 to let it sit for like thirty forty minutes and 0:07:13.320 --> 0:07:17.800 that's all. So it's it's a lot of moving parts, 0:07:17.960 --> 0:07:20.800 but you can make it really great. And the thing 0:07:20.840 --> 0:07:22.920 that they got I've always loved is we talked about Danny. 0:07:22.920 --> 0:07:25.720 But I went to the store because I was like, 0:07:26.120 --> 0:07:27.640 you know, I haven't had it in a while. And 0:07:27.680 --> 0:07:29.840 I made it and and so I was like, Okay. 0:07:30.760 --> 0:07:32.840 I went to a store the other night this week 0:07:33.000 --> 0:07:35.440 and they were selling peanut brittle, like a small box 0:07:35.440 --> 0:07:41.559 of peanut brittle. Nine for a small box of peanut. 0:07:41.880 --> 0:07:42.560 What are they doing? 0:07:43.280 --> 0:07:47.840 It's crazy from your old producer, wrong button Bob. His 0:07:48.000 --> 0:07:51.080 daughter was doing a fundraiser for her preschool. Yeah, it 0:07:51.440 --> 0:07:54.559 was twenty two dollars for a box of peanut brittle. 0:07:54.840 --> 0:07:59.040 God, anytime you need peanut britle, I'll do it for it. 0:07:59.400 --> 0:08:03.840 I'm even think I might go next level and make 0:08:04.200 --> 0:08:07.800 macadamia nut brittle. How about that? I might go next 0:08:07.920 --> 0:08:09.600 level Macadamian nut brill. 0:08:09.920 --> 0:08:11.680 Last, ye crazy, You're going crazy? 0:08:11.720 --> 0:08:13.960 Now I'm going wild man. But you know who would 0:08:14.000 --> 0:08:17.040 buy that? The nerds? Because nerds are real Danny, and 0:08:17.080 --> 0:08:21.160 they would buy that. That Macadamian nut brill is what 0:08:21.160 --> 0:08:21.600 they would do. 0:08:22.360 --> 0:08:27.640 You know what nerds buy two hundred dollars musta made lightsabers. 0:08:28.240 --> 0:08:31.119 So we had this topic on Covino and Rich filling 0:08:31.200 --> 0:08:34.320 in for the Dan Patrick Show this past Thursday morning. 0:08:34.640 --> 0:08:38.280 What's worse a sports nerd or a regular nerd? 0:08:40.559 --> 0:08:43.000 Now you mean regular or do you mean a Disney nerd? 0:08:43.040 --> 0:08:47.120 Because I think regular nerd, Disney nerds, sports nerd are 0:08:47.160 --> 0:08:50.520 all different types of nerd. There's different qualities to each. 0:08:51.080 --> 0:08:53.920 That's a good point. But I guess the nerd would 0:08:53.920 --> 0:08:56.119 fall into the category of a regular nerd. 0:08:56.400 --> 0:08:59.480 Not necessarily, because there are Disney nerds that are really stupid, 0:08:59.559 --> 0:09:02.560 but they're they love their Disney, right, and they're like, 0:09:02.600 --> 0:09:06.440 there's the Poindexter nerd that isn't into Disney and really 0:09:06.480 --> 0:09:09.240 isn't into sports, but it's like into like like there's 0:09:09.320 --> 0:09:11.880 I guess, I guess you'd call them like a sci 0:09:11.920 --> 0:09:14.200 fi nerd, Right, there's the sci Fi nerd, there's the 0:09:14.240 --> 0:09:17.960 Star Trek nerd, the Star Wars nerd, there's that nerd. 0:09:18.080 --> 0:09:20.800 Or do you think the sports nerd ranks in there? 0:09:21.520 --> 0:09:23.720 Well, this is very sensitive. It's a very delicate topic, 0:09:23.760 --> 0:09:25.840 as you know, Danny, because we are dependent on the 0:09:25.840 --> 0:09:29.600 sports nerd, and we My belief is we got into 0:09:29.600 --> 0:09:32.320 this at one point because we were sports nerds. So 0:09:32.360 --> 0:09:35.160 as I cycle analyze the sports nerd, I would have 0:09:35.400 --> 0:09:39.000 them actually lower on the list. Like I think that 0:09:39.320 --> 0:09:42.439 to me, And I'm not a big I don't hate Disneyland, 0:09:42.920 --> 0:09:44.760 but I'm old enough to remember when I could go 0:09:44.840 --> 0:09:47.440 for twenty dollars to get to Disneyland. They remember they 0:09:47.440 --> 0:09:49.160 had that SoCal race. 0:09:49.240 --> 0:09:51.600 Yeah, yeah, yeah, And see I agree with you because 0:09:52.120 --> 0:09:56.760 Rich pointed out that a football or a sports nerd 0:09:57.320 --> 0:10:00.959 will spend two hundred dollars on a jersey, and I say, yeah, 0:10:01.000 --> 0:10:04.120 but I don't think I'm in the game. This Star 0:10:04.160 --> 0:10:07.239 Wars nerd who's spending two hundred dollars on a lightsaber 0:10:07.720 --> 0:10:11.200 really thinks that he's in a Star Wars movie. Now, 0:10:11.520 --> 0:10:15.640 to back up my point, we're there at Star Wars 0:10:15.720 --> 0:10:19.120 Land and the big ride is Rise of the Resistance. 0:10:19.760 --> 0:10:20.680 Amazing ride. 0:10:20.720 --> 0:10:23.720 Okay, I like Star Wars, but I'm not a Star 0:10:23.760 --> 0:10:26.880 Wars nerd by any means. Then now you get the 0:10:26.880 --> 0:10:29.880 fast pass, you know, obviously you got to pay extra 0:10:30.000 --> 0:10:32.719 for that. The problem with that Rise of the Resistance 0:10:32.840 --> 0:10:36.559 ride is they have technical issues a lot. It's broke, 0:10:36.600 --> 0:10:40.080 it's broke, and you scan your phone for the lightning lane. 0:10:40.800 --> 0:10:43.920 But what happens is you get an alert saying that 0:10:44.000 --> 0:10:46.560 the ride is not functioning, so you got to come 0:10:46.600 --> 0:10:51.240 back later. Once the ride reopens, it sends an alert 0:10:51.440 --> 0:10:54.560 you to the app to your phone. So all these 0:10:54.600 --> 0:10:58.440 Star Wars nerds come running like bats out of hell 0:10:59.160 --> 0:11:04.240 and pushing and shoving, and my wife turned wife. 0:11:04.240 --> 0:11:04.920 He turned and. 0:11:04.840 --> 0:11:07.320 Looked at me and said, what a bunch of Star 0:11:07.400 --> 0:11:10.640 Wars nerds. And I say you're not kidding. So we 0:11:10.720 --> 0:11:14.440 get inside the ride and at the beginning there's like 0:11:14.480 --> 0:11:17.720 a like a fake general from the Dark Side who's 0:11:18.160 --> 0:11:20.600 gonna get the info out of us. We all know 0:11:21.200 --> 0:11:25.680 where the base for the Good Guys is, and they 0:11:25.720 --> 0:11:27.920 tell you at the beginning of the ride. No matter what, 0:11:28.559 --> 0:11:32.160 do not give the Dark Side the information about where 0:11:32.200 --> 0:11:35.600 the base is for the Resistance. And this guy in 0:11:35.640 --> 0:11:38.720 front of us, wearing a star accustomed Star Wars jacket, 0:11:39.200 --> 0:11:42.640 turns to his buddy and says, if this was real life, 0:11:43.040 --> 0:11:45.240 I wouldn't tell them even if they tortured me. 0:11:47.559 --> 0:11:49.440 And how old was this person? 0:11:49.559 --> 0:11:53.959 This guy was in his thirties for sure, and he 0:11:54.040 --> 0:11:57.240 wasn't kidding. He was dead serious. We get out of 0:11:57.280 --> 0:12:01.360 the ride and you know, the family to use the restroom. 0:12:01.800 --> 0:12:05.280 So my wife he walks up to somebody dressed up 0:12:05.480 --> 0:12:08.280 as you know, they have Star Wars characters walking around 0:12:08.720 --> 0:12:12.559 who work for the park, And I mean, that's kind 0:12:12.559 --> 0:12:14.400 of got to be a cool job, right if you 0:12:14.440 --> 0:12:18.200 want to be a stormtrooper yeah or yeah, or you know, 0:12:19.320 --> 0:12:21.520 you know, one of the one of the bad guys. 0:12:22.040 --> 0:12:23.959 And there's a couple of good guys walking So. 0:12:23.920 --> 0:12:25.640 That's what you want to. That's what you should do. 0:12:25.679 --> 0:12:28.000 If you're a Star Wars nerd, you should work at Disneyland. 0:12:28.040 --> 0:12:30.520 You can get paid to dress up, as you said, 0:12:30.520 --> 0:12:32.559 a stormtrooper and walk around exactly. 0:12:32.720 --> 0:12:34.280 We even met the Mandalorian. 0:12:34.880 --> 0:12:35.200 Nice. 0:12:35.840 --> 0:12:38.320 So my wife walks up to one of these characters 0:12:38.320 --> 0:12:41.199 and she says, which way is the restroom. He's got 0:12:41.240 --> 0:12:44.040 like this fancy lightsaber and he's decked out, and I 0:12:44.080 --> 0:12:46.120 was like, man, this is one of the better characters 0:12:46.160 --> 0:12:49.040 we've seen in here. He looks at my wife, he 0:12:49.080 --> 0:12:52.400 would wide open eyes and he's like, I don't work here. 0:12:58.360 --> 0:13:01.920 Now. The one advantage Danny, that the Star war that 0:13:01.920 --> 0:13:05.360 that guy that Star Wars nerd has as opposed to 0:13:05.640 --> 0:13:08.560 the sports nerd that goes to a game, is the 0:13:08.640 --> 0:13:12.760 sports nerd ends up occasionally having to walk out of 0:13:12.760 --> 0:13:14.800 the stand. It's like they're all dressed up and their 0:13:14.800 --> 0:13:18.200 team loses, right, And it's like if you were a 0:13:18.400 --> 0:13:20.800 Charger fan and you went to that Charger Raider game 0:13:20.840 --> 0:13:23.679 a few weeks ago, and you were all dauled up 0:13:23.720 --> 0:13:25.400 and you had your gar on, and then you had 0:13:25.400 --> 0:13:27.000 to do the walk of shame out of the state. 0:13:27.240 --> 0:13:29.240 Like if you're a Star wars nerd. You never have 0:13:29.360 --> 0:13:32.240 to walk out at Disneyland like, oh man, we just lost. 0:13:32.320 --> 0:13:33.719 You know, it is embarrassing. 0:13:34.080 --> 0:13:38.920 Somebody says sports nerd, I picture a geek crunching numbers 0:13:39.360 --> 0:13:43.880 and having multiple fantasy teams, not necessarily somebody that goes 0:13:43.880 --> 0:13:46.960 to the stadium, but more like a nerd at his 0:13:47.080 --> 0:13:49.640 home office crunching numbers and stats. 0:13:50.520 --> 0:13:54.240 So you don't think the guy that wears the full 0:13:54.440 --> 0:13:58.680 uniform to go to a game qualifies as a sports nerd. 0:13:58.679 --> 0:13:59.480 I'm going to disagree. 0:13:59.640 --> 0:14:00.920 I'm you on that. 0:14:01.520 --> 0:14:03.000 It's a different kind of nerds. 0:14:03.240 --> 0:14:05.439 Yeah, it's a different kind I'll give you that. It's 0:14:05.480 --> 0:14:06.560 a different kind of nerds. 0:14:06.559 --> 0:14:10.199 We're talking shoulder pads, I'm talking to pants like I'm 0:14:10.240 --> 0:14:12.280 going all in, right, there are people that go all 0:14:12.320 --> 0:14:12.960 in on that. 0:14:13.559 --> 0:14:17.200 Well, there's that confusing TV commercial right now where the 0:14:17.280 --> 0:14:20.360 kid transfers to a different school and he's wearing a 0:14:20.400 --> 0:14:22.920 forty nine Ers shirt and the kids in the class 0:14:22.920 --> 0:14:26.800 are talking shit to him, and then Christian McCaffrey is 0:14:26.840 --> 0:14:30.160 there like his angel, his guardian, and he's like, oh, 0:14:30.200 --> 0:14:32.440 you're gonna have to up your game. And so the 0:14:32.480 --> 0:14:35.200 second day of school for the kid he goes in 0:14:35.240 --> 0:14:38.240 with even more forty nine ers gear on, and the 0:14:38.320 --> 0:14:41.840 kids are still talking crap to him. So then McCaffrey's 0:14:41.960 --> 0:14:45.240 like man, bunch of haters, So then he has to 0:14:45.320 --> 0:14:47.760 up his game even more. And the kid has shoulder 0:14:47.880 --> 0:14:52.600 pads on the uniform, pants, the cleats. Like this kid 0:14:52.640 --> 0:14:56.080 walks into class looking like a real forty nine er player. 0:14:56.720 --> 0:14:59.000 How is that not gonna get him picked on? 0:15:00.160 --> 0:15:03.000 Yeah? No, no, no. What was the commercial for? I 0:15:03.040 --> 0:15:03.720 don't even remember. 0:15:04.960 --> 0:15:06.400 That's a good question. I don't even know. 0:15:06.760 --> 0:15:08.000 It's a very effective commercial. 0:15:08.000 --> 0:15:11.240 We liked what they were saying, great marketing. 0:15:13.400 --> 0:15:16.160 No idea what the product was. But the commercial is very. 0:15:16.040 --> 0:15:18.600 Good, very memorable, but for the wrong reason. 0:15:18.920 --> 0:15:24.640 Yeah, it is the most memorable commercials in my life. 0:15:24.760 --> 0:15:26.600 I'm pretty sure I could remember what the product is. 0:15:26.680 --> 0:15:28.880 When I was a kid, there was a Wendy's commercial 0:15:28.880 --> 0:15:32.240 with this old lady saying where's the beef? But I 0:15:32.280 --> 0:15:34.600 remember it was Wendy's like their whole market, like where's 0:15:34.640 --> 0:15:34.960 the beef? 0:15:35.040 --> 0:15:35.160 Right? 0:15:35.200 --> 0:15:38.400 That was their whole thing? Remember the gate? There was 0:15:38.440 --> 0:15:42.120 another when I was a kid, Gatorade commercial. Remember that 0:15:42.200 --> 0:15:43.560 want to be like Mike's song? 0:15:43.840 --> 0:15:45.920 Oh of course I was going to mention that right now. 0:15:46.040 --> 0:15:49.360 Yeah, that was that was a big deal because kids 0:15:49.440 --> 0:15:51.920 would like walk around singing that song out loud. 0:15:52.600 --> 0:15:54.680 Oh it was a great tune, especially if your name 0:15:54.720 --> 0:15:57.520 was Mike. You know, it's wonderful. 0:15:58.320 --> 0:15:59.960 And you got the Mars Black. 0:16:00.120 --> 0:16:03.960 Then commercials for Air Jordan, Oh yeah, yes, those were great. 0:16:04.400 --> 0:16:06.960 Bow Noose the Bownose campaign. 0:16:06.840 --> 0:16:13.000 Have a solid bo Jackson nightmare. Yeah, yeah, that was good. 0:16:13.480 --> 0:16:15.560 There were some classics. But we usually know what the 0:16:15.600 --> 0:16:18.320 product is. Usually, you know, we don't know what the 0:16:18.320 --> 0:16:21.560 product is that you're not necessarily the marketing arm is 0:16:21.560 --> 0:16:25.960 not doing something right? What do I know? Moving on, 0:16:26.040 --> 0:16:28.880 we have the term of the week, not the words 0:16:28.880 --> 0:16:30.280 of the week or the word of the week. The 0:16:30.480 --> 0:16:32.040 term of the week. 0:16:32.400 --> 0:16:35.480 Are you ready of the week? 0:16:36.160 --> 0:16:38.360 This is an exclusive to the Fifth Hour podcast. If 0:16:38.360 --> 0:16:40.400 you would like to recommend a term of the week 0:16:40.520 --> 0:16:44.120 to a future episode of the podcast, please send that in. 0:16:44.640 --> 0:16:49.920 The term of the week is rain check rain check. 0:16:50.000 --> 0:16:51.800 Now today is Saturday, Danny, And if you look at 0:16:51.840 --> 0:16:54.800 your weather apps, supposed to be raining today. And where 0:16:54.840 --> 0:16:57.440 we do the show from in La But you know, 0:16:57.600 --> 0:17:01.880 winter for most people, snows lead all that stuff. But 0:17:01.960 --> 0:17:05.199 here in California's just rained. You need tires, by the way, No, 0:17:05.600 --> 0:17:07.520 I feel like I'm doing a tire rack commercial. So 0:17:07.760 --> 0:17:10.119 it's gonna's supposed to rain to it. But the term raincheck, 0:17:10.800 --> 0:17:12.320 I think we know what that means, right, So it's 0:17:12.359 --> 0:17:18.200 a promisory note. It was originally written as a form 0:17:18.320 --> 0:17:21.439 of like a written ticket. Well here's a great story. 0:17:21.480 --> 0:17:23.640 I just kind of fell into this. And I don't 0:17:23.680 --> 0:17:25.720 know how I stumbled upon this because I'm I guess 0:17:25.760 --> 0:17:27.800 I'm a nerd. I'm a word nerd. I admit it. 0:17:27.920 --> 0:17:30.560 I'm okay with that. I'm, you know, nerd Poindexter guy. 0:17:30.760 --> 0:17:37.000 But didn't you know the first rain checks were issued? 0:17:37.880 --> 0:17:38.919 Where do you think they were issued? 0:17:39.640 --> 0:17:43.959 What do you think, man, I don't know. 0:17:44.760 --> 0:17:49.160 At a baseball game? And it started in okay, all right, 0:17:49.600 --> 0:17:53.320 it started in baseball. Uh And and this is this 0:17:53.440 --> 0:17:57.960 is wild to me. So the first recorded rain check 0:17:58.200 --> 0:18:01.960 was issued on the twenty first day of June eighteen 0:18:02.040 --> 0:18:07.240 eighty three by the Saint Louis Brown Stockings. Now they 0:18:07.280 --> 0:18:11.000 are the forerunner to what eventually became the Saint Louis Cardinals, 0:18:12.160 --> 0:18:16.520 and they made a policy in Saint Louis to issue 0:18:16.640 --> 0:18:19.919 rainchecks to fans who paid for a game that was 0:18:20.000 --> 0:18:26.040 rained out. The reason that was rather important is because 0:18:26.440 --> 0:18:30.480 I believe it was the association, which was not the 0:18:30.600 --> 0:18:32.720 major leagues. This was something other than the Major League. 0:18:32.720 --> 0:18:35.920 I think it was the Federal League. I'm not sure 0:18:35.920 --> 0:18:37.600 exactly the name of the league, so you know, don't 0:18:37.600 --> 0:18:41.960 hold me to that. But the Saint Louis Brown Stockings, 0:18:42.359 --> 0:18:46.760 according to that Post Dispatch story, they decided they will 0:18:46.800 --> 0:18:48.720 not make in eighteen eighty three. They said, we will 0:18:48.760 --> 0:18:52.639 no longer make patrons pay, not fans. Patrons pay for 0:18:52.760 --> 0:18:56.600 what they don't see, as was the case. That was 0:18:56.720 --> 0:19:00.720 standard operating procedure with all the other teams in that association, 0:19:02.119 --> 0:19:05.440 and everyone buying a ticket to a game in Saint 0:19:05.480 --> 0:19:10.159 Louis on days where rain is apprehend you know, stopping 0:19:10.200 --> 0:19:14.119 the game, they said, apprehended, they will be given a 0:19:14.200 --> 0:19:16.800 raincheck which will allow them to come to a game 0:19:16.880 --> 0:19:19.480 the following day where the weather's good and all that. 0:19:19.800 --> 0:19:23.640 And that was the beginning of rainchecks. It started in 0:19:23.920 --> 0:19:31.360 baseball in eighteen eighty three and is still used today, 0:19:31.400 --> 0:19:32.040 which is why. 0:19:32.480 --> 0:19:35.359 So it was a literal thing, because then it also 0:19:35.520 --> 0:19:39.320 just became a part of our speech where you'd say 0:19:39.359 --> 0:19:41.560 to a girl, can we have sex tonight and she'd 0:19:41.560 --> 0:19:42.359 say raincheck. 0:19:44.840 --> 0:19:48.399 Well, yes, that is you could definitely add that to 0:19:48.480 --> 0:19:51.439 the mix. But I the thing about this that is 0:19:51.520 --> 0:19:54.520 wild to me is that at that time they just 0:19:54.560 --> 0:19:57.480 had a policy where they wouldn't give you an opportunity 0:19:57.480 --> 0:19:59.240 to go to another game. But now the problem we 0:19:59.240 --> 0:20:00.800 have now we don't really deal with this where we 0:20:00.840 --> 0:20:02.960 lived any but I know from friends that live in 0:20:03.040 --> 0:20:05.400 Boston and other places, like, you'll go to a Red 0:20:05.440 --> 0:20:08.200 Sox game and if it's kind of a rainy night, 0:20:08.600 --> 0:20:11.640 they'll sit around for three or four hours through rain 0:20:11.680 --> 0:20:14.199 delays off and on to make sure they get the 0:20:14.240 --> 0:20:16.679 game in so they don't have to issue rain checks 0:20:17.200 --> 0:20:17.760 to people. 0:20:18.119 --> 0:20:18.399 Gay. 0:20:20.000 --> 0:20:22.479 Yeah, they hate it. They can't stand I bet you 0:20:22.520 --> 0:20:25.000 the people in sports, if you behind the scenes you 0:20:25.080 --> 0:20:27.480 asked them, they'd be like, Oh, this is terrible. How 0:20:27.600 --> 0:20:30.280 dare that team in Saint Louis? What's wrong with them? 0:20:30.680 --> 0:20:32.920 Why do they have to do this? It's a bad 0:20:33.000 --> 0:20:35.760 job by them, And they go on and on and 0:20:35.800 --> 0:20:37.080 on and all about it, you know, because you know 0:20:37.080 --> 0:20:39.359 how cheap it is. As far as I want to 0:20:39.359 --> 0:20:41.720 go back to the nerd thing though, because the Disney 0:20:41.760 --> 0:20:47.240 nerd and the sports nerd are experiencing the same, the 0:20:47.320 --> 0:20:54.000 same thing. Where Disney used to be affordable, affordable family fund, 0:20:54.640 --> 0:20:59.000 sporting events, affordable family fund. Right, you could even get merch. 0:20:59.240 --> 0:21:01.520 You could get merch for a reasonable price. 0:21:02.840 --> 0:21:06.160 Yeah, and you just made me think about something. 0:21:06.600 --> 0:21:11.080 That sports nerd at the Chicago Cubs game that got 0:21:11.119 --> 0:21:12.040 in the way of the ball. 0:21:12.760 --> 0:21:14.159 Oh Bartman, Steve Bartman. 0:21:14.280 --> 0:21:16.080 Yeah, now that's a sports nerd. 0:21:16.280 --> 0:21:17.880 Yep, that is a sports nerd. 0:21:17.920 --> 0:21:19.240 He is a walkman on. 0:21:20.920 --> 0:21:25.520 And amazingly, all these years later, twenty years later, he 0:21:25.600 --> 0:21:29.320 is still knocked done an on camera interview. He has 0:21:29.400 --> 0:21:34.680 completely stayed hidden, which tells you two things. He is 0:21:34.720 --> 0:21:38.399 an introvert and he must be loaded because he could 0:21:38.400 --> 0:21:40.960 have made a fair amount of money. They would have 0:21:41.080 --> 0:21:45.240 paid to have Steve Bartman on TV time, and he 0:21:45.359 --> 0:21:46.679 turned down that money. 0:21:47.240 --> 0:21:49.520 They even wanted him to be a part of their 0:21:49.880 --> 0:21:52.760 championship parade, remember, yeah. 0:21:52.640 --> 0:21:54.560 Yeah, and he didn't. He didn't want any part of it. 0:21:54.640 --> 0:21:57.600 Oh, it's crazy. He could have got a ring and 0:21:57.680 --> 0:21:58.000 all that. 0:21:58.200 --> 0:22:03.080 Yeah crazy, Yeah, Yeah, you wonder if he's been back. 0:22:02.880 --> 0:22:07.200 To like in a disguise well, he probably. 0:22:06.880 --> 0:22:09.000 Looks a lot different he was he what was his 0:22:09.080 --> 0:22:11.560 mid twenties, It looked like around that time, so he's 0:22:11.560 --> 0:22:12.960 probably his mid forties now. 0:22:13.480 --> 0:22:15.360 Probably still looks like a sports nerd though. 0:22:16.280 --> 0:22:21.119 Yeah, there were people dressing up for Halloween as Steve Bartman. 0:22:21.160 --> 0:22:23.800