WEBVTT - The Fifth Hour: Turkey Pardon, Frosty Snow Blake 0:00:00.920 --> 0:00:02.440 Kabooms. 0:00:02.480 --> 0:00:05.560 If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes 0:00:05.600 --> 0:00:09.400 a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants 0:00:09.400 --> 0:00:12.680 of the old Republic, a soul fashion of fairness. He 0:00:12.800 --> 0:00:15.680 treats crackheads in the ghetto cutter the same as the 0:00:15.800 --> 0:00:17.639 rich pill poppers in the penthouse. 0:00:18.280 --> 0:00:18.640 Wow. 0:00:18.800 --> 0:00:22.520 The clearing House of Hot takes break free for something special. 0:00:22.880 --> 0:00:29.560 The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now. 0:00:29.200 --> 0:00:35.559 In the A A rewhere. Welcome into the podcast Dojo. 0:00:35.800 --> 0:00:39.360 No days off, not even on a holiday weekend. Now, 0:00:39.880 --> 0:00:43.240 we had the podcast on Friday and we're back again. 0:00:43.760 --> 0:00:50.159 The Fifth Hour with Ben Mallor and Danny G Radio. Danny, 0:00:50.960 --> 0:00:53.960 are you surviving the holiday weekend? Yeah? 0:00:54.360 --> 0:00:56.840 Early on this Saturday morning, cod is to my right. 0:00:57.760 --> 0:01:00.920 It's been a really good Thanksgiving so far, although only 0:01:01.000 --> 0:01:02.840 one of the football games was decent. 0:01:03.280 --> 0:01:07.360 Yeah, well back back on Thanksgiving it was not. Yeah, 0:01:07.440 --> 0:01:11.000 it was like there was only the early game, although 0:01:11.000 --> 0:01:14.000 that was green Bay jumped out way ahead of the Lions. 0:01:14.200 --> 0:01:18.160 But yeah, oh I like that because Perfet was filling 0:01:18.200 --> 0:01:20.520 in on the board when Covino and Rich and I 0:01:20.560 --> 0:01:25.200 were doing the Dan Patrick Show on Thursday morning, was 0:01:25.440 --> 0:01:29.200 labbing about the Lions, and he even got into it 0:01:29.200 --> 0:01:32.120 a little bit with Nick Cope after the show was 0:01:32.160 --> 0:01:37.160 over desecrating the Chicago Bears. He was talking crap about 0:01:37.160 --> 0:01:40.920 the Packers and Nick Cope told him, you know what, Chris, 0:01:41.000 --> 0:01:43.760 maybe your team needs to win something before you talk. 0:01:43.880 --> 0:01:44.280 Smack. 0:01:44.840 --> 0:01:47.000 Oh man, look at that Nick Kopien right in his 0:01:47.080 --> 0:01:50.080 face there. Yeah. We got those Lions muscles though now 0:01:50.320 --> 0:01:53.360 because they won a few games, but they go kaput 0:01:53.920 --> 0:01:55.400 on Thanksgivings. 0:01:56.240 --> 0:01:59.440 Those muscles didn't flex quite right on Turkey Day. 0:02:00.160 --> 0:02:03.040 Yeah. Well, I would like to thank this Thanksgiving that 0:02:03.120 --> 0:02:06.480 we had the Jim Mersey that came out on that 0:02:06.560 --> 0:02:08.679 story came out on Thanksgiving. They were like several good 0:02:08.680 --> 0:02:09.959 stories on Thanksgiving. 0:02:10.240 --> 0:02:12.320 Greg Popovich grabbing the mic. 0:02:12.320 --> 0:02:14.480 Yeah that was a good one too. I mean there's 0:02:14.480 --> 0:02:16.800 some decent stuff, and I want to thank these guys 0:02:16.800 --> 0:02:18.799 because Thanksgiving, you know, we still have to work, right 0:02:18.840 --> 0:02:21.640 the radio station doesn't shut down and all that. And 0:02:21.680 --> 0:02:25.480 I did the show leading into Thanksgiving, so it's nice. 0:02:25.480 --> 0:02:29.080 And we've had big holidays. I remember, we've been NBA trades, 0:02:29.080 --> 0:02:32.480 they've been free agent signings. I think years ago I 0:02:32.520 --> 0:02:35.200 was doing a Thanksgiving show and Kurt Shilling signed with 0:02:35.280 --> 0:02:36.760 the Red Sox. I want to think, I want to 0:02:36.760 --> 0:02:39.680 say that happen on Thanksgiving. There have been NBA trades 0:02:39.720 --> 0:02:43.240 that have happened on Thanksgiving. So we've had over the years, 0:02:43.240 --> 0:02:45.800 we've had stuff. It's not like it's just completely shuts down. 0:02:46.680 --> 0:02:50.400 It's not like the month of what June right, the 0:02:50.800 --> 0:02:53.480 month of June and sports radio, which is generally after 0:02:53.480 --> 0:02:57.240 the NBA Finals before football gets going, it is kind 0:02:57.280 --> 0:03:01.640 of a waste land where you have to get creative, 0:03:02.440 --> 0:03:05.440 really have to get creative to make the magic. But 0:03:06.360 --> 0:03:09.760 Thanksgiving pretty good. So on this podcast, we've got parton 0:03:09.880 --> 0:03:15.720 issued vip baby, backscratcher or do we have backscratcher phrase 0:03:15.760 --> 0:03:18.560 of the week, and pop goes to the culture if 0:03:18.600 --> 0:03:20.760 we have time for all that, which we probably won't 0:03:20.800 --> 0:03:23.280 have time for. So whatever we don't get to we'll 0:03:23.320 --> 0:03:28.760 serve up as leftovers on tomorrow's podcast on Sunday when 0:03:28.800 --> 0:03:31.240 we have the mail bag as well. But we'll begin 0:03:31.320 --> 0:03:34.040 with this, so it's wonderful that you're chilling with us 0:03:34.080 --> 0:03:37.520 on Thanksgiving weekend since this is the Saturday pot. It's 0:03:37.520 --> 0:03:41.280 all about the life of Malar and Danny g Behind 0:03:41.320 --> 0:03:46.520 the microphone tails from behind the microphone, giving you the 0:03:46.680 --> 0:03:50.360 inside skinny on what makes us tick, not tick talk, 0:03:50.520 --> 0:03:55.200 just makes us tick. And this being feast weekend, I 0:03:55.280 --> 0:03:58.920 will start off. I'll go first here. So once upon 0:03:59.000 --> 0:04:02.200 a time, a couple of days ago, at Thanksgiving twenty 0:04:02.240 --> 0:04:05.240 twenty three, and me and the wife cooked up a massive, 0:04:06.000 --> 0:04:08.800 massive amount of food. Now it was a small shin dig. 0:04:08.880 --> 0:04:13.160 Normally in the past we've hosted Thanksgiving, and you know, 0:04:13.640 --> 0:04:16.640 my wife's extended family, which all lives in the area, 0:04:17.000 --> 0:04:20.599 would be here. But you know, the last couple of years, 0:04:21.440 --> 0:04:25.799 your grandparents passed away and a number of the cousins 0:04:25.839 --> 0:04:30.080 moved away, and so they were all hanging out in 0:04:30.160 --> 0:04:34.360 a town in Utah. Her one of her her aunts 0:04:34.400 --> 0:04:36.520 moved to Utah, and so they've got like this big 0:04:36.560 --> 0:04:40.600 place out in the out in the sticks, and so 0:04:40.680 --> 0:04:42.320 much of the other family went there. So we had 0:04:42.600 --> 0:04:47.000 a very small turnout, but we did cook up a 0:04:47.080 --> 0:04:49.080 ton of food. It was a small shined dig. Most 0:04:49.120 --> 0:04:51.279 of the families spread out. My family's all over the place. 0:04:51.279 --> 0:04:52.800 They go brother in Wisconsin, I got a brother in 0:04:52.839 --> 0:04:54.640 New York. I got cousins all over the place. But 0:04:54.839 --> 0:04:56.880 we did have a few cousins that are left in 0:04:56.960 --> 0:05:00.400 the area. My sister in law with her kids, she 0:05:00.880 --> 0:05:04.360 was there and we had all together, my younger cousins. 0:05:04.440 --> 0:05:07.719 We had a pack of like five kids and a 0:05:07.720 --> 0:05:11.760 few other people and now feeling very generous. Though feeling generous, 0:05:11.800 --> 0:05:16.960 on Thanksgiving, we issued a Malard pardon. A Malard pardon 0:05:17.200 --> 0:05:21.880 was issued. No turkeys were harmed at the Thanksgiving at 0:05:21.880 --> 0:05:26.880 the Malar Mansion twenty twenty three. Instead, we focused on 0:05:27.440 --> 0:05:31.800 Benny's brisket, and I sent some photos out on Friday, 0:05:31.880 --> 0:05:33.760 so if you want to check out what that looked like. 0:05:34.120 --> 0:05:38.920 But we made barbecue brisket, which it came out pretty good. 0:05:38.920 --> 0:05:40.800 I mean probably could have cooked it even longer. We 0:05:40.839 --> 0:05:43.680 cooked it for like fifteen hours. The thing was in 0:05:43.720 --> 0:05:46.520 there forever, but I probably could even cooked it even longer, 0:05:46.560 --> 0:05:48.720 because you got to cook the crap out of these 0:05:49.080 --> 0:05:51.640 briskets to get them to taste tafoy decent, but they 0:05:51.680 --> 0:05:55.560 can't came out all things considered pretty good. Made dozens 0:05:55.680 --> 0:05:59.120 of cookies, had a ton of oatmeal raisin. That's because 0:05:59.160 --> 0:06:01.080 the wife likes those, and then I like the chocolate 0:06:01.160 --> 0:06:06.440 chip and thanks to Alf the alien opiner back in 0:06:06.480 --> 0:06:09.200 the day. Thanks to Alf, the Alien of Pinter, he 0:06:09.360 --> 0:06:11.320 sent a little hack. We talked about this on the 0:06:11.320 --> 0:06:14.960 podcast this this TikTok video how to make perfect cookies 0:06:15.520 --> 0:06:20.839 cookies every single time. So Ever since then, thanks to Alf, 0:06:20.880 --> 0:06:24.680 my cookie game has got even better, even better cookie game, 0:06:25.320 --> 0:06:27.919 because there's a little trick you can do after the 0:06:27.960 --> 0:06:29.920 cookie comes right out of the oven if they sometimes 0:06:29.920 --> 0:06:33.960 they get too flat during the cooking process and you 0:06:34.040 --> 0:06:37.960 take like a metal you can take a cap to. 0:06:38.839 --> 0:06:40.800 I mean there's coupleys you can do it. Trying to 0:06:40.800 --> 0:06:42.560 think of what the actual thing is. I have like 0:06:42.600 --> 0:06:48.760 a I bought on Amazon. There's these little metal rings 0:06:48.760 --> 0:06:51.599 to like make biscuits. But you put them around the 0:06:51.640 --> 0:06:53.520 cookie right out of the oven and you shake it 0:06:54.279 --> 0:06:57.480 and it makes perfect cookies every time. It's awesome. So 0:06:57.600 --> 0:07:01.159 thanks to Alf for that. I use that trick. And 0:07:01.200 --> 0:07:03.520 we had everything. We had, you know, all the usual 0:07:04.080 --> 0:07:08.400 apple pie, pumpkin pie thanks to Costco, mashed potatoes, mac 0:07:08.440 --> 0:07:12.600 and cheese. My wife made delicious mac and cheese, had rolls, lasagna, 0:07:12.760 --> 0:07:15.520 somebody brought lasagna. There was all kinds of stuff and 0:07:15.760 --> 0:07:19.080 it was full gluttony. It was full gluttony on display 0:07:19.320 --> 0:07:22.760 a good time I think had by all. And now 0:07:23.080 --> 0:07:25.960 I'd made one mistake. I had fasted for a little 0:07:26.000 --> 0:07:30.320 too long leading into Thanksgiving, because in my head I 0:07:30.440 --> 0:07:34.480 was going to eat like back fifteen years ago when 0:07:34.520 --> 0:07:36.720 I was like really going for it in life, and 0:07:36.720 --> 0:07:39.560 I would just eat everything. So I thought my strategy 0:07:39.560 --> 0:07:43.000 would be, Okay, I'm not going to eat for a while. 0:07:43.120 --> 0:07:47.720 So I stopped eating on Monday, and I ate like 0:07:47.760 --> 0:07:51.560 a meal Monday afternoon, which is when I normally eat. 0:07:51.600 --> 0:07:53.920 If I eat, I eat normally in the late afternoon, 0:07:54.600 --> 0:07:57.440 and because I sleep during the day, so I get 0:07:57.520 --> 0:08:01.840 up and then I saw I'm not gonna eat Tuesday, 0:08:01.880 --> 0:08:05.240 I don't eat it Wednesday. And then we had a 0:08:05.320 --> 0:08:09.640 late Thanksgiving back on Thursday. So I ended up fasting 0:08:09.640 --> 0:08:13.080 for seventy one hours. I almost made it a full 0:08:13.120 --> 0:08:14.720 seventy two, but I had I had to stop at 0:08:14.720 --> 0:08:18.040 seventy one, so I went seventy one hours. But the 0:08:18.160 --> 0:08:21.120 problem is when you fast that long, at least for me, 0:08:21.160 --> 0:08:25.400 and you eat a big meal, your body reacts to 0:08:25.480 --> 0:08:28.880 that in a very odd way where you immediately have 0:08:28.920 --> 0:08:31.240 to run to the powder room, as they say on HTTV, 0:08:32.240 --> 0:08:34.040 and and then you have to drink like tons of 0:08:34.080 --> 0:08:36.520 water because you start cramping and it's a whole it's 0:08:36.559 --> 0:08:38.839 a hole to do. So I had that. I had 0:08:38.840 --> 0:08:41.160 that problem. But other than that, it was all It 0:08:41.240 --> 0:08:44.240 was all good. And we gave all the kids like 0:08:44.280 --> 0:08:47.199 tons of candy. We just gave them endless. And I 0:08:47.280 --> 0:08:49.600 don't even think they ate any brisket. I think all 0:08:49.640 --> 0:08:53.040 they did was eat nothing but candy. I think that's 0:08:53.320 --> 0:08:56.480 that's what they went for. But that was our our Thanksgiving. 0:08:56.559 --> 0:08:58.200 That was our Thanksgiving in a nut show. We had 0:08:58.240 --> 0:08:59.880 a great time. It was a lot of fun all that. 0:09:00.559 --> 0:09:03.120 What was your favorite side to go with the brisket? 0:09:04.160 --> 0:09:06.760 I love well, the mashed potatoes came out really good 0:09:06.840 --> 0:09:09.000 in the in the mac and cheese, those two were 0:09:09.040 --> 0:09:12.959 my That was my go to. So we had a 0:09:12.679 --> 0:09:15.640 good good amount of that. Although I caught in there 0:09:15.640 --> 0:09:18.400 a little late. I let everyone else eat first, so 0:09:18.760 --> 0:09:21.400 like everything was going quick. Even though we made a 0:09:21.400 --> 0:09:24.200 ton of food, everything was going quick. So but I 0:09:24.320 --> 0:09:27.320 was not a VIP baby. I was definitely not. I 0:09:27.440 --> 0:09:30.000 ate last I had cramps into the whole thing. 0:09:31.880 --> 0:09:36.960 Yeah, it was a fairly quiet Thanksgiving at the Garadelli household. 0:09:37.640 --> 0:09:40.400 A couple of days ago. I was busy. 0:09:40.200 --> 0:09:43.240 Working, as I mentioned at the start for the Dan 0:09:43.320 --> 0:09:46.720 Patrick Show, so we had it all planned out. We 0:09:46.800 --> 0:09:50.640 could either go out to eat somewhere, which is like 0:09:50.880 --> 0:09:54.760 forty five dollars a person usually with those fixed menus 0:09:54.800 --> 0:09:58.600 that we talked about, yep. Or you could order a 0:09:58.640 --> 0:10:01.520 head and get a pas package meal to go and 0:10:01.559 --> 0:10:03.720 you go and pick it up and then bring it 0:10:03.760 --> 0:10:06.480 home and reheat it. So that's what we decided to do, 0:10:06.559 --> 0:10:10.080 and we ordered from lou Seals, which is a famous 0:10:10.360 --> 0:10:12.840 barbecue joint in southern California. 0:10:13.280 --> 0:10:14.720 I love lou Seals Good. 0:10:14.840 --> 0:10:19.480 Famous for those sweet biscuits, those sugar yeah. 0:10:19.320 --> 0:10:21.640 Yeah, the biscuits covered in sugar. Yeah, those are. 0:10:21.679 --> 0:10:23.360 Yeah, in the apple honey butter. 0:10:23.720 --> 0:10:25.959 Yeah yeah, yeah, you're making me hungry here. 0:10:29.360 --> 0:10:31.600 After work I do the post production on the Dan 0:10:31.679 --> 0:10:34.680 Patrick Show. If I head to Woodland Hills to pick 0:10:34.720 --> 0:10:37.600 that up, I get to the restaurant, the parking lot 0:10:37.720 --> 0:10:41.480 is jam packed there because inside the restaurant it was 0:10:41.559 --> 0:10:46.280 completely full. Go to the takeout area and I tell them, hey, 0:10:46.320 --> 0:10:50.079 I'm here for the package free order. The girl's kind 0:10:50.080 --> 0:10:52.280 of rude and she's like, well, you don't pick that 0:10:52.400 --> 0:10:58.200 up here she lecturing you. She says, go across the 0:10:58.240 --> 0:11:02.400 street two blocks up and then go into the abandoned 0:11:02.400 --> 0:11:03.480 mall parking lot. 0:11:04.559 --> 0:11:05.640 Oh that's great. 0:11:06.040 --> 0:11:07.680 I'm like that sounds good. 0:11:08.120 --> 0:11:10.280 I was just like, it's like an adventure movie from 0:11:10.320 --> 0:11:12.320 the nineteen eighties or something. What are we doing here? 0:11:12.760 --> 0:11:14.000 Get back into my car. 0:11:14.240 --> 0:11:17.120 And now I'm frustrated because you know, I had to 0:11:17.160 --> 0:11:20.679 find parking and walk to the stupid restaurant and all that, 0:11:20.800 --> 0:11:23.720 and they didn't tell us that we don't pick it 0:11:23.800 --> 0:11:27.160 up from the restaurant where we ordered it from. So 0:11:27.200 --> 0:11:29.800 now I'm driving around in circles trying to find what 0:11:29.880 --> 0:11:35.080 she said was a truck, a cold truck she called it. Yeah, 0:11:35.120 --> 0:11:38.920 I find the abandoned There is a mall in Woodland 0:11:39.000 --> 0:11:41.360 Hills that now belongs to Stan Kronkey. 0:11:41.559 --> 0:11:43.160 Yeah, that's where the RAMS are going to be, right 0:11:43.200 --> 0:11:45.840 there's yeah, okay, all right, all right. 0:11:45.920 --> 0:11:50.480 So I'm like I'm now driving around on RAMS property. 0:11:51.880 --> 0:11:54.640 The only thing I saw was it looked like some 0:11:54.679 --> 0:11:58.120 Good Samaritans were passing out turkeys, because there was a 0:11:58.160 --> 0:12:02.959 line of cars that had their trunks open, and I'm like, oh, 0:12:03.160 --> 0:12:06.280 somebody's feeding the needy. It's like a like, maybe it's 0:12:06.320 --> 0:12:10.199 the Rams or a famous football player that's passing out turkeys. 0:12:09.880 --> 0:12:12.199 Like a photo op. They usually do that for Thanksgiving. 0:12:12.320 --> 0:12:17.360 The photo exactly, no signage, nothing. So I'm sitting there, 0:12:17.400 --> 0:12:20.240 I'm typing in an address that's on the stupid email 0:12:20.760 --> 0:12:23.439 from the restaurant, and I'm like, maybe we missed something. 0:12:23.920 --> 0:12:25.880 Maybe they told us where to go and we're just 0:12:26.000 --> 0:12:30.600 dumb and we didn't recognize that. So finally I look 0:12:30.720 --> 0:12:33.920 over at the line of cars a little closer. I 0:12:34.000 --> 0:12:36.280 see Alexis and Mercedes. 0:12:35.800 --> 0:12:38.520 Benz really down on their luck. 0:12:39.000 --> 0:12:41.800 And it clicked when I saw a range Rover in 0:12:41.880 --> 0:12:45.760 the line. Wait a second here, that's got to be 0:12:45.840 --> 0:12:49.120 the line for Lucille's. And it was one of those 0:12:49.200 --> 0:12:54.920 huge refrigerated trucks, trailer trucks that was parked there. I 0:12:55.000 --> 0:12:57.080 get into the line and the girl comes over and 0:12:57.120 --> 0:13:01.600 she says, what time was your Lucille's order. She's not 0:13:01.679 --> 0:13:04.680 wearing Lucille's clothes either, by the way, ben So I 0:13:04.760 --> 0:13:06.600 told her. I said, well, you guys could have at 0:13:06.679 --> 0:13:09.880 least thrown Lucille's banner on top of the truck. 0:13:10.400 --> 0:13:10.640 You know. 0:13:11.760 --> 0:13:15.199 I got the food, I brought it back we reheated it. 0:13:15.200 --> 0:13:18.880 It turned out to be a decent meal. Okay, nothing 0:13:19.000 --> 0:13:21.400 vip about it. It was quiet. I want to go 0:13:21.600 --> 0:13:26.199 back to last weekend because we were in beautiful Palm Springs. 0:13:26.600 --> 0:13:29.559 That's right. Yeah, you took the baby swimming. 0:13:29.280 --> 0:13:33.920 Right celebrating our one year wedding anniversary, and it was 0:13:33.960 --> 0:13:35.960 going to be Coha's first time in a pool. 0:13:36.720 --> 0:13:40.040 He's wearing his sunglasses. He looks like a little pimp. 0:13:40.080 --> 0:13:40.920 He's ready to go. 0:13:41.559 --> 0:13:42.320 Come on, Pippin. 0:13:43.320 --> 0:13:46.400 You know about Palm Springs. They're famous on the way 0:13:46.400 --> 0:13:50.720 there in the Coachella Valley, famous for those huge windmills yep, 0:13:51.000 --> 0:13:52.480 that helped produce energy. 0:13:52.880 --> 0:13:56.480 Whole valley of is endless as long as far as 0:13:56.520 --> 0:13:58.200 you can see their windmills out there. 0:13:58.720 --> 0:14:01.920 We're at the pool. It's a nice eighty nine degrees. 0:14:02.800 --> 0:14:05.320 But the waiter came by and he was like, oh, 0:14:05.400 --> 0:14:08.840 I'm sorry, we're gonna have to close your umbrella down, 0:14:09.520 --> 0:14:11.800 and we're like, damn it. So now the sun has 0:14:11.880 --> 0:14:15.000 hitting right on us and the baby. We couldn't take 0:14:15.000 --> 0:14:17.120 the baby in the pool because it was too windy. 0:14:17.679 --> 0:14:20.320 He looks at little CoA and he says, God, you 0:14:20.320 --> 0:14:21.840 guys have an adorable baby. 0:14:22.920 --> 0:14:25.960 I won't say anything. He's like, you see that cabana 0:14:26.080 --> 0:14:26.600 over there. 0:14:27.400 --> 0:14:30.880 These are those fancy cabanas that they rent out for 0:14:30.960 --> 0:14:32.640 like three hundred four hundred bucks. 0:14:32.720 --> 0:14:34.760 Yeah, they charge a ton of money for those, That's right. 0:14:34.920 --> 0:14:37.520 The dude, he's like, go ahead and go over to 0:14:37.640 --> 0:14:43.800 that cabana and I'll serve you guys over there. Oh yes, yeah, 0:14:43.840 --> 0:14:48.240 baby v I literally yeah, baby vip for the baby. 0:14:48.640 --> 0:14:49.280 Yeah. 0:14:49.600 --> 0:14:54.760 Coah's first complimentary cabana booo. And we laid there, took 0:14:54.960 --> 0:14:58.400 naps and had drinks and snacks brought to us like 0:14:58.560 --> 0:15:02.720 kings and queens for two three hours. CoA had his 0:15:02.800 --> 0:15:06.120 bottle so he really did have bottle service. 0:15:06.960 --> 0:15:07.280 Nice. 0:15:07.800 --> 0:15:09.440 Yeah, it was. It was awesome. Ben. 0:15:09.600 --> 0:15:12.200 Now I know what it feels like to be a 0:15:12.240 --> 0:15:15.600 parent who gets to leave work early because they have 0:15:15.760 --> 0:15:20.240 something to do regarding their child. Always jealous of people 0:15:20.600 --> 0:15:23.200 that had a leg up on us because they had 0:15:23.200 --> 0:15:23.680 a kid. 0:15:24.280 --> 0:15:26.920 Yeah, that's the But it is the ultimate get out 0:15:26.920 --> 0:15:29.120 of jail free card the kid. Right, you're you're set 0:15:29.200 --> 0:15:30.880 up and you don't have to go to any parties. 0:15:31.360 --> 0:15:33.040 You can blame it on the kid, you know, the 0:15:33.120 --> 0:15:34.880 kid's sick. I got to stay home with the kid, 0:15:35.600 --> 0:15:38.760 and you can. It's it's awesome because nobody can really 0:15:38.840 --> 0:15:41.480 question it, Like you just it's the kid, you know, 0:15:41.520 --> 0:15:44.560 and you're good, You're you're You're set up Danny for 0:15:44.600 --> 0:15:46.480 the next couple of years, right, you're saying, and really 0:15:46.560 --> 0:15:49.520 probably for until he's eighteen, so like that's a long 0:15:49.600 --> 0:15:50.680 time you're going. 0:15:50.760 --> 0:15:53.160 I had a running joke at one of my radio 0:15:53.240 --> 0:15:57.080 stations back in the day. The office manager left work 0:15:57.160 --> 0:16:01.120 early at least twice a week and always blamed it 0:16:01.320 --> 0:16:04.840 on his kids. Yeah, and I remember telling my morning 0:16:04.840 --> 0:16:07.200 show co host at the time, damn it, I can't 0:16:07.240 --> 0:16:09.440 wait till I have a kid so I could join 0:16:09.520 --> 0:16:10.040 that club. 0:16:10.760 --> 0:16:12.760 Yeah, there was an episode I think it was a 0:16:12.840 --> 0:16:15.120 Curb Your Enthusiasm years ago, and it was just about this. 0:16:15.240 --> 0:16:17.240 It was about the kid thing. Just use the kid, 0:16:17.320 --> 0:16:20.720 the ultimate excuse, the greatest excuse of all time, the kid. 0:16:21.080 --> 0:16:22.800 I did it for the kid, and you can't nobody 0:16:22.800 --> 0:16:24.840 can question it and all that. And sometimes you actually 0:16:24.840 --> 0:16:26.480 do have to do stuff for the kid, but other 0:16:26.560 --> 0:16:27.840 times you just don't want to go to do a 0:16:27.840 --> 0:16:29.960 certain location or or whatever, and you're just like, I 0:16:30.000 --> 0:16:33.880 got the kid, that's awesome. Yeah, you're living living large there. 0:16:34.440 --> 0:16:36.840 And how busy was it? Because you know, it's kind 0:16:36.880 --> 0:16:38.600 of weird time of the year because it was cool 0:16:38.800 --> 0:16:41.320 in the la or people go out to Palm Springs 0:16:41.360 --> 0:16:43.200 to get away. But I don't know if people assumed 0:16:43.240 --> 0:16:45.720 it was gonna be that hot out there last weekend. 0:16:46.240 --> 0:16:49.280 Seems like that resort is busy on the weekend and 0:16:49.400 --> 0:16:51.560 kind of like a ghost town right now during the week. 0:16:52.240 --> 0:16:56.000 Gotcha? Gotcha? All right, we have the backscratcher, and the 0:16:56.080 --> 0:16:59.040 question is did we get in it's Thanksgiving week? Danny, 0:16:59.040 --> 0:17:04.480 did we get zero, zero, won, three or four reviews? 0:17:04.520 --> 0:17:08.360 And this is the Apple podcast page. Now we give 0:17:08.400 --> 0:17:11.160 this disclaimer all the time, but we do the backscratcher 0:17:11.200 --> 0:17:14.639 every Saturday pod and we give back. We will read 0:17:14.840 --> 0:17:19.200 your comments from the Apple podcast page. Now, we don't 0:17:19.200 --> 0:17:21.280 care whether you leave a comment or not. The people 0:17:21.320 --> 0:17:25.040 that run the podcast department at iHeart, they're the ones 0:17:25.080 --> 0:17:27.440 that care, the people in the corner office over there. 0:17:27.800 --> 0:17:30.200 This is not some kind of Mickey Mouse operation. They 0:17:30.320 --> 0:17:33.080 burst into flames if we don't have any reviews. So, Danny, 0:17:33.080 --> 0:17:36.800 do we have zero, one, or three or four reviews 0:17:36.800 --> 0:17:40.360 this week? On the backscratcher on the Apple podcast. 0:17:39.880 --> 0:17:43.320 Page number one, number one. 0:17:44.280 --> 0:17:48.840 Danny, you are wrong. We pitched us shutout this week. 0:17:49.280 --> 0:17:56.479 We had none bupkus, zero zipo. Unfortunately we did not. 0:17:57.400 --> 0:18:00.000 It would be wonderful if we were pitchers for the dogs. 0:18:01.480 --> 0:18:04.040 Yeah, exactly, exactly, well, or I think it was more 0:18:04.080 --> 0:18:06.280 like we were rookie Betts at home, you know, in 0:18:06.359 --> 0:18:09.680 bat at bats we had zero hits in four at 0:18:09.680 --> 0:18:11.800 bats or five at bats or whatever. But we would 0:18:11.880 --> 0:18:14.000 love to love for you to help us out, Danny. 0:18:14.040 --> 0:18:16.679 Make sure to put the description in the description on 0:18:16.720 --> 0:18:18.560 this podcast. You can see how you can write a 0:18:18.600 --> 0:18:22.080 review on the Apple podcast page. We don't think you're 0:18:22.119 --> 0:18:24.800 able to do that unless you have an Apple product, right, Danny, 0:18:24.840 --> 0:18:28.240 We don't think that's allowed. We're not sure, So check 0:18:28.280 --> 0:18:32.160 that out write a review. My right hand was getting 0:18:32.160 --> 0:18:38.320 a workout in order. It's time for It's time for 0:18:38.359 --> 0:18:40.680 the phrase of the week. 0:18:41.359 --> 0:18:43.680 The phrase of the week. 0:18:44.000 --> 0:18:46.439 The phrase of the week this week is phoning it 0:18:46.600 --> 0:18:51.160 in now. This comes from my friend Jerry in Baltimore. 0:18:51.200 --> 0:18:53.560 He was requesting this as the phrase of the week 0:18:53.560 --> 0:18:57.399 because I had the Gremlins attack earlier this week. Danny, 0:18:57.440 --> 0:19:00.800 the gremlins attack the Malor mansion in the middle of 0:19:00.880 --> 0:19:05.159 a wonderful radio show, ranting and raving, and all of 0:19:05.200 --> 0:19:10.320 a sudden it goes away. The line drops, the broadcast 0:19:10.440 --> 0:19:15.800 line drops, so we're scrambling and ended up having to 0:19:15.920 --> 0:19:19.840 drive into the mothership, which is a long, painful drive, 0:19:20.880 --> 0:19:24.240 but drove it to the mothership. Now, I'm told Danny 0:19:24.280 --> 0:19:25.879 the company is going to make sure I have a 0:19:26.000 --> 0:19:30.080 backup line in the future in case this happens again, 0:19:30.520 --> 0:19:33.760 although I have not yet received said backup line. But 0:19:34.280 --> 0:19:36.359 the line went down, so I had to go in 0:19:36.600 --> 0:19:39.040 and as my friend Jerry says, I phoned it in. 0:19:39.200 --> 0:19:42.679 I phoned it in. Now, where does the phrase phoning 0:19:42.720 --> 0:19:44.520 it in comes from? It is the phrase of the 0:19:44.520 --> 0:19:47.840 week here on the podcast, and so we'll start with 0:19:47.920 --> 0:19:51.480 this the beginnings of the phrase. It's not that old 0:19:51.480 --> 0:19:54.000 the phrase because the phone's not that old. Right, So again, 0:19:54.359 --> 0:19:57.600 phoning it in does not come from the Bronze Age. 0:19:58.440 --> 0:20:00.440 It does not come from medieval time. They didn't know 0:20:00.440 --> 0:20:03.120 where the phone, what is a phone? So the roots 0:20:03.160 --> 0:20:05.399 of phoning it in it can go back to the 0:20:05.400 --> 0:20:09.320 world of actually journalism. There's two theories on this. The 0:20:10.880 --> 0:20:13.760 main theory is the journalism theory. But there is one 0:20:14.119 --> 0:20:17.919 absolutely opposite that from the theater. But we'll start with 0:20:17.960 --> 0:20:22.040 the one phoning it in from journalism. And this goes 0:20:22.160 --> 0:20:26.200 back less than one hundred years to the nineteen thirty, 0:20:26.240 --> 0:20:28.840 so almost one hundred years ago. Nineteen thirties, so ninety 0:20:28.880 --> 0:20:32.840 plus years ago. And the theory was in the newspaper business, 0:20:32.880 --> 0:20:34.840 back when there were these things called newspapers, and they 0:20:34.880 --> 0:20:37.080 really mattered. It was a big deal to be a newspaper. 0:20:37.720 --> 0:20:41.440 The journalists were very busy and they were filing stories. 0:20:41.680 --> 0:20:44.000 They were chasing the next big thing, right, the next 0:20:44.040 --> 0:20:46.639 big story. They were working leads and all that, and 0:20:46.720 --> 0:20:49.080 so they didn't always have time to actually do the 0:20:49.119 --> 0:20:51.200 writing of the story, where they had to sit down 0:20:51.720 --> 0:20:54.719 with a typewriter back in those days and write up 0:20:54.720 --> 0:20:59.200 a story before computers. So what they would do instead 0:20:59.520 --> 0:21:03.720 they would phone their editor and tell them over the 0:21:03.760 --> 0:21:07.679 phone relay, hey, here's the story, here's how I want 0:21:07.760 --> 0:21:10.320 it written, and then the editor actually had to write 0:21:10.400 --> 0:21:14.000 the story based on the phone call. So the writer 0:21:14.320 --> 0:21:18.720 phoned it in and literally phoning it in, telling the 0:21:18.760 --> 0:21:22.040 person what to write the editor to put in the newspaper. 0:21:22.080 --> 0:21:25.080 So phoning it in. That is one definition which I 0:21:25.080 --> 0:21:28.920 think is the actual definition or the origin, the origin 0:21:29.000 --> 0:21:33.040 of the phrase phoning it in. Now, there's another theory 0:21:33.160 --> 0:21:36.639 that phoning it in actually comes from the acting and 0:21:36.800 --> 0:21:41.040 theater world. They have their own spin spins, spin spin, Spin, Spin, 0:21:41.119 --> 0:21:44.280 spin Spin, They have their own spin on this, and 0:21:44.359 --> 0:21:46.399 it also goes back to the same time period. So 0:21:46.400 --> 0:21:50.840