Speaker 1: Kubbooms.
Speaker 2: If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes
Speaker 2: a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants
Speaker 2: of the Old Republic, a soul fashion of fairness. He
Speaker 2: treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the
Speaker 2: rich pill poppers in the penthouse.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 2: The Clearinghouse of Hot takes break free for something special.
Speaker 2: The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now.
Speaker 1: In the air everywhere as we launched, we catapult into
Speaker 1: the Fifth Hour with Ben Mahler and Danny g Radio.
Speaker 1: And a happy Saturday to you as we are hanging
Speaker 1: out here on this twenty third day of the month.
Speaker 1: There's a bunch of dope holidays and all that, but
Speaker 1: it's college basketball weekend. By the end of tomorrow we
Speaker 1: will be down to this. Yeah, sixteen in college basket.
Speaker 3: You want to update on my bracket?
Speaker 1: Hell, you want to? You want a cigarette letter to
Speaker 1: burn it? Would you like that? I don't even want
Speaker 1: to look. I'm not I'm not gonna look. I don't
Speaker 1: even need to look at my bracket. And here's why,
Speaker 1: because I know that I will be told how I'm
Speaker 1: doing if I suck, if I'm good. No one will
Speaker 1: bring it up. If I my bracket is terrible, I
Speaker 1: will have fifteen thousand trolls.
Speaker 3: You suck.
Speaker 1: You claim to be an expert.
Speaker 3: What do you have a John R. Wooden Award vote.
Speaker 1: You don't even know college basketball. You're a loser. You suck.
Speaker 1: That's what you're doing overnights.
Speaker 3: You have to pay attention to your picks though, because
Speaker 3: you have a chance to win a fifteen inch Westinghouse TV. No.
Speaker 1: No, no, you get the hotel, you get the old
Speaker 1: I don't know the listener gets that.
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 1: No, oh, yeah, no I did. I emailed Scott. I said,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna win this, So where can I go?
Speaker 2: On?
Speaker 1: But I want to stay at that graduate hotels? Thin?
Speaker 1: Can I? Can I pick my hotel? He said, well,
Speaker 1: you're not really eligible. I say, well, why why not?
Speaker 3: I'm gonna win it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm sorry. You work for the company, so you
Speaker 1: can't do it. So on this podcast, we've got the
Speaker 1: Gag Order, the Music City, Serendipity on Fire, the Holding Pattern,
Speaker 1: we got a lot of stuff. We got a lot
Speaker 1: of stuff on this podcast, but I wanted to start
Speaker 1: with this. Dan. We'll get right into it. Okay, No, Dillydelling.
Speaker 1: So this is behind the scenes, behind the microphones, if
Speaker 1: you will, behind the microphones of Fox Sports.
Speaker 3: Radio, and.
Speaker 1: I wanted to so this week I had On Monday,
Speaker 1: I was given a gag order. I woke up in
Speaker 1: the middle of my night. Now for most people this
Speaker 1: would be a normal hour, but because of my hours
Speaker 1: with the radio show, I sleep during the day. Now
Speaker 1: I have changed my schedule a little bit. I don't
Speaker 1: stay up quite as late as I did during football season.
Speaker 1: I've been trying to go to bed earlier and get
Speaker 1: more quality, more quality rest. But I was contacted by
Speaker 1: someone of pretty high power in the media business who
Speaker 1: who wanted to have a phone meeting with multiple people,
Speaker 1: and it had to be These are people that are
Speaker 1: on the East Coast and so they it has to
Speaker 1: be at this time. So I went on there and
Speaker 1: we had about an hour meeting on the phone. But
Speaker 1: I have been told I am not allowed to discuss
Speaker 1: said meeting. The gag order is in place, So fingers
Speaker 1: crossed that I will be able to talk about that
Speaker 1: at some point. But as you know, Danny, over the years,
Speaker 1: we have had many I've had many meetings with powerful
Speaker 1: people in media and almost never does it work. It
Speaker 1: did work last year, there was we got a TV
Speaker 1: show last year, so hopefully it'll be something bruined. I
Speaker 1: can't say what it is about, but.
Speaker 3: I'm guessing it's going to be the mail back on TV.
Speaker 3: But Looney's gonna replace me.
Speaker 1: Well, we've already done that. I think Coop will be
Speaker 1: in for you, but I don't know, but he's I
Speaker 1: think he might just move to Japan after this. So
Speaker 1: I have the gag order. I wanted to I wanted
Speaker 1: to share that the gag order is not about anything
Speaker 1: to do with the Music City though, Danny. It does
Speaker 1: not evolve anything in the Music City, so we don't
Speaker 1: have to worry about that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, I'm going to text you right now.
Speaker 3: I just called up my pictures. This is the this
Speaker 3: is the hotel room I walked into at the Graduate.
Speaker 3: All right, let me let me do this. Benny, Benny
Speaker 3: does radio is how you're listed in my phone.
Speaker 1: Oh, I'm honored. It's very impressive that you're Danny g
Speaker 1: Radio on my phone.
Speaker 3: The microphone throttler. We walk into our hotel rooms at
Speaker 3: the Graduate, and the way the commercials read on the air,
Speaker 3: it is truly like that in real life. I mean,
Speaker 3: these hotels are decked out with sports memorabilia and then
Speaker 3: memorabilia that represents their city. So obviously, with it being Nashville,
Speaker 3: you could imagine all the Neon signs and Dolly Parton
Speaker 3: portraits everywhere and above each bed that I saw her boobs.
Speaker 3: Now I'm a believer. Oh wow, yeah, right now a
Speaker 3: painting of Dolly and big bosoms right above your head.
Speaker 1: That's solid. I like that curtain too.
Speaker 2: That.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's what it's a big canopy above you.
Speaker 1: Yeah, my wife would love that. That's her style.
Speaker 3: Last weekend, as you know, we were broadcasting live there
Speaker 3: for the SEC tournament, so there were a lot of
Speaker 3: sports fans in Nashville, but mostly we just saw bridal parties.
Speaker 3: We saw bachelorette parties up the ass. I mean these girls,
Speaker 3: they travel in what you would call a gaggle of
Speaker 3: women who smell like they put way too much perfume on,
Speaker 3: have their boobs sticking out, their butts and legs showing.
Speaker 3: They're all wearing those denim tubes. It's lots of denim,
Speaker 3: lots of girl like pink cowgirl hats with lots of
Speaker 3: glitter and jewels, and it looks like they'red be dazzled
Speaker 3: and they are just roaming these streets.
Speaker 1: Yeah, do you think they that see that they're like biology,
Speaker 1: it's like primitive. They act like wolves, like pack of wolves.
Speaker 1: You know women on the when they're out like with
Speaker 1: their girlfriends.
Speaker 3: You know Rich a little bit. He's kind of a
Speaker 3: horn dog. He's all chocked up on the show. We
Speaker 3: have to hold him back sometimes from what he really
Speaker 3: wants to say about, you know, male female relations. That's
Speaker 3: that's why podcasts are good for him. He brought it
Speaker 3: up on our show on the network that there were
Speaker 3: a lot of bachelorette parties and hey, if you're a
Speaker 3: single guy, this is probably a good place for you
Speaker 3: to come visit. Now, I butted in. I didn't butt in,
Speaker 3: but I raised my hand and I said, Rich, you're
Speaker 3: forgetting one thing. When we were in the lobby broadcasting
Speaker 3: live and I got a thank you to all the
Speaker 3: listeners who showed up. There were also a couple of
Speaker 3: bachelorette parties on the other side of the lobby. We
Speaker 3: saw with our own eyes a couple of guys approach
Speaker 3: these bachelorette parties and try to talk to girls in
Speaker 3: the group, and what do you think happened?
Speaker 1: Oh, they were kicked away.
Speaker 2: Yeah it was.
Speaker 3: Yes, it was like an invisible force field around these
Speaker 3: bachelorette parties.
Speaker 1: Well that's because the guys weren't good looking at them.
Speaker 1: Because they were good looking enough. You know, you're you're
Speaker 1: allowed in. Yeah, now it works, They'll give you a pass.
Speaker 1: The women aren't interested in yet. But if you you know,
Speaker 1: if you look like who, I don't. I always use
Speaker 1: Brad Pitt, But that's an outdated it really is.
Speaker 3: That dude's like sixty two, I know.
Speaker 1: So who's the new Brad Pitt? I don't even know
Speaker 1: who's Yeah, a sex symbol.
Speaker 3: They think we've asked this question on the podcast, Well
Speaker 3: we asked the question. We don't. Yeah, I don't know either.
Speaker 3: If a listener knows the answer to that, like a
Speaker 3: good reference to a younger like.
Speaker 1: Male, you know, beefcake two guys is enough for me,
Speaker 1: mayle Hollywood beef case.
Speaker 3: That's it. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't know what it would be. I have no
Speaker 1: I have no idea. After it was Brad Pitt the last,
Speaker 1: he can't be the last of other people I'm trying.
Speaker 3: You should build like a Donnis Google Sexiest Man Alive.
Speaker 3: I wonder what pops up. You know, they fight over
Speaker 3: that magazine cover. But I know, I know the last
Speaker 3: time I googled that. When we talked about this, an
Speaker 3: older actor came up.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Patrick Dempsey, yeah, twenty twenty three. Twenty twenty three
Speaker 1: was Chris Evans.
Speaker 3: Okay, he's younger than Dempsey. Paul Rudd, Yeah, old, he's
Speaker 3: fifty four.
Speaker 1: Michael B.
Speaker 3: Jordan all right, he's a little younger in twenty twenty,
Speaker 3: but he's in his thirties now.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but he doesn't, like, you know, you know, look
Speaker 1: like Brad Pitt.
Speaker 3: You say, there's no modern reference that matches how we
Speaker 3: used Brad Pitt for a couple of decades.
Speaker 1: Even Chris Evans, like, you can't really like, you know,
Speaker 1: it's such a generic I know it's Captain America, but
Speaker 1: it's a generic name.
Speaker 3: Let's say you were Michael B. Jordan, maybe the girls
Speaker 3: would entertain you and let you into that little bridal group.
Speaker 3: But you know, the girl who's getting married, who has
Speaker 3: the sachet and the little princess thing on her head
Speaker 3: and all that, she's not gonna cheat on her two
Speaker 3: be husband unless the guy is a hundred times better
Speaker 3: looking than her husband. So you're right about that. There
Speaker 3: was a force field around those group of girls. That
Speaker 3: was the first takeaway I had. Then, when we get
Speaker 3: out to the streets, not only was the SEC tournament
Speaker 3: causing a lot of traffic, but there were obviously people
Speaker 3: partying and drinking. And it's just you know, they call
Speaker 3: it Vegas of the South. It's a huge party there.
Speaker 3: The food is delicious, the people are nice, it is overcrowded.
Speaker 3: It does get kind of dirty, just like the streets
Speaker 3: of Vegas. We eat early dinner after the live broadcast,
Speaker 3: and I'm just tired. I had produced our podcast, then
Speaker 3: I produced their live show. We had been on the
Speaker 3: plane for four hours, we had been at the airport
Speaker 3: for three hours. It was a long day as they
Speaker 3: were with some hardcore Covino and rich listeners, planning to
Speaker 3: go to the Jason Al Dean Bar and all these
Speaker 3: different tourist spots. I checked out. I raised my hand,
Speaker 3: I asked for my check, gave the guy a nice tip,
Speaker 3: told the waiter, yeah, I'm sorry, I just can't make
Speaker 3: it as long as the rest of our group here
Speaker 3: before I get back to the graduate though, Ben, I'm
Speaker 3: now walking on these famous streets next to Broadway. Then
Speaker 3: I get on Broadway to get my lift, and I
Speaker 3: noticed something on Broadway which I feel like, this is
Speaker 3: only a Nashville thing, because here on the West coast,
Speaker 3: what is it about even a strip of nightclubs. It's
Speaker 3: like VIP. There's security guys in front. The doors are closed, right,
Speaker 3: it's kind of like you're important. If you can get inside.
Speaker 3: You might hear the music thumping, like some bass or whatever,
Speaker 3: but you don't exactly hear everything that's going on inside
Speaker 3: the club. Yeah, for sure, not in Nashville.
Speaker 1: Wide open.
Speaker 3: All the doors are open, the windows are open.
Speaker 1: You've got a vantage point. You see everything you can see.
Speaker 3: But here's the bad part. You can hear everything out
Speaker 3: of every single place. So it sounds like you have
Speaker 3: taken some mushrooms with Aaron Rodgers. Relax because it is
Speaker 3: this mishmash of all these beats and people singing and
Speaker 3: karaoke and DJ's mixing and live bands. It it is
Speaker 3: just a wreck. I mean, I felt drunk and I
Speaker 3: hadn't had one drink, so up in booze and a lettice.
Speaker 3: It's just soaking it all in, right, I mean, yeah,
Speaker 3: it made me dizzy.
Speaker 1: Yeah. So I've not spent any real time in Nashville,
Speaker 1: so I have not experienced that. I have friends, radio
Speaker 1: friends that live in in Nashville, and I know our
Speaker 1: guy Clay Is, he's you know, that's his town, right,
Speaker 1: he runs, he runs Nashville, right, that's.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's going to be a governor someday.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I wouldn't doubt it. I wouldn't doubt it. And
Speaker 1: I hope that happens because I've always wanted to have,
Speaker 1: like to be able to say, I know somebody that
Speaker 1: became like a big muckety muck in politics. Like That's
Speaker 1: why I'm kind of pulling for Steve Garvey because I
Speaker 1: knew Garvy. I used to interview him all the time,
Speaker 1: and that he's he's going to have a chance to
Speaker 1: get to d C out of California. It's kind of cool.
Speaker 1: And wanted to meet any president. Never met a president,
Speaker 1: all that kind of stuff. But yeah, I can see
Speaker 1: Clay Clay doing it. So best Food you ate or
Speaker 1: top food best means as good as all the rest
Speaker 1: was the top thing. Eight in music city.
Speaker 3: So I went to a let me.
Speaker 1: Guess Nashville Hot Chicken.
Speaker 3: No. I went to a spot called Spenders and it
Speaker 3: was a cool sports bar and grill. And right before
Speaker 3: our live broadcast, I got a really good on their menu.
Speaker 3: It said really good beef when it was describing they're cheeseburger,
Speaker 3: and I'm like, well, if they say really good beef,
Speaker 3: it must be really good beef. I got a salad
Speaker 3: with ranch. You're excited about that.
Speaker 1: Well, you got the Devil's blood right there below the
Speaker 1: Mason Dixon line. Yeah, I gotcha.
Speaker 3: I love that. If I'm going to do a cheeseburger,
Speaker 3: I'd never have fries because then I really feel fat.
Speaker 3: But if I don't do the fries and I have
Speaker 3: a salad, I'm eating half healthy or so I trick
Speaker 3: my brain into thinking.
Speaker 1: It's like getting a salad and putting ten gallons of
Speaker 1: salad dressing on it.
Speaker 3: It's what I do, all right. So I had the salad,
Speaker 3: the ranch dressing was phenomenal, and then I bite into
Speaker 3: this burger heaven Ben. They take a lot of time
Speaker 3: and care with their food there in Nashville. No matter
Speaker 3: what you order, there's a lot of great flavors coming
Speaker 3: out of the restaurants and we were like in this
Speaker 3: fancy food court. For the dinner, I had a penny
Speaker 3: pesto pasta. It was a nine out of ten Chef's kiss. Yes,
Speaker 3: it was really good. The food is definitely worth the
Speaker 3: travel time to get to Nashville.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'd like to like to get there. I haven't
Speaker 1: spent too much time in the South. I was in
Speaker 1: North Carolina, Virginia a couple of years ago. I'm actually
Speaker 1: going to South Carolina later this year's schedule to go
Speaker 1: to South Carolina. And actually, a listener to this podcast
Speaker 1: is the plan, if it works out, is to have
Speaker 1: a Mallor meet and greet. And the guys from yeah,
Speaker 1: from California actually, but he's he's been living there and
Speaker 1: he loves it is and how great it is there,
Speaker 1: and so he he's got to a restaurant lined up.
Speaker 1: So I just have to confirm my travel arrangements and
Speaker 1: we'll hopefully have a Malor meet and greet, which will
Speaker 1: be pretty cool.
Speaker 3: Edward Nouth Carolina really quick off the news of South Carolina.
Speaker 3: There a little bit of dirt. Coveno and Rich did
Speaker 3: stay out all night with the listeners, and not only
Speaker 3: did they go to the Jason al Dean bar, wound
Speaker 3: up on the rooftop of our hotel at the Graduate,
Speaker 3: where they have a karaoke bar, an outdoor karaoke bar,
Speaker 3: where Rich Davis was singing songs until two in the morning.
Speaker 1: Living your great You're living your great life. You living
Speaker 1: your best life.
Speaker 3: I'm sure there were no dogs howling at all.
Speaker 1: Well, you have enough alcohol. Everyone sounds like Elvis, you know,
Speaker 1: if you have enough alcohol. So there was a case
Speaker 1: this week, Dandy. I'm gonna call this serendipity on fire.
Speaker 1: So I had a buddy of mine, old newspaper guy
Speaker 1: who I haven't seen this guy in person since before COVID.
Speaker 1: But we're text buddies. Now, that's pretty much it. We're
Speaker 1: text buddies. We don't even talk on the phone. We
Speaker 1: just text. He'll send me news stories, he'll send me
Speaker 1: dirt about the newspaper business. He'll ask me questions about
Speaker 1: the radio business, and I'll tell him what I know,
Speaker 1: and we'll go back and forth whatever the hot button
Speaker 1: topic of the day is. So he also keeps close track.
Speaker 1: He loves car chases. I never need to watch a
Speaker 1: car chase, or watch the news in LA to see
Speaker 1: a car chase, because anytime there's a car chase, my
Speaker 1: buddy will send me a link. There's a high speed
Speaker 1: chase in Riverside and here's a link. It's on channel
Speaker 1: two or whatever, channel nine, and so he's really good
Speaker 1: about that. But he sent me this story. His favorite
Speaker 1: restaurant is this place, which is in Sherman Oaks, which
Speaker 1: is a celebrity hangout. We do the show from the
Speaker 1: Sherman Oaks neighborhood of LA and in the San Fernando Valley,
Speaker 1: and he sent me the story about this restaurant, Casa Vega.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you've been to Casa Vega. It's
Speaker 1: a famous Mexican restaurant. The Kardashians, a lot of.
Speaker 3: People that haven't been there before.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I've been there many times as well. I stopped
Speaker 1: going once they raised the price of the crunchy taco
Speaker 1: to eight dollars. I thought that was a little much,
Speaker 1: but you know, it's a cool place. It's one of
Speaker 1: those places you go to kind of be seen and
Speaker 1: all that, and it's any So somebody lit the dumpster
Speaker 1: behind this Mexican restaurant on fire, and it became a
Speaker 1: news story because it was on video and they were like,
Speaker 1: my buddy was sending me the story. He's like, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: this is a rash of fires in Sherman Oaks, that
Speaker 1: there's some vagrants going around lighting stuff on fire. So
Speaker 1: all right whatever. I was like, Oh, that sucks, you know.
Speaker 1: So then I get in the car. I'm driving to
Speaker 1: the radio station. I get off the one oh one
Speaker 1: freeway there at Ventura and I turn turned the corner
Speaker 1: there and go down and uh, and I see this
Speaker 1: sea of fire trucks like not one not to not
Speaker 1: There's like eight fire trucks right in front of the
Speaker 1: Fox Sports radio building. Oh what's this? So I get
Speaker 1: closer and then I realized that they were actually mostly
Speaker 1: for across the street. Somebody had lit a fire right
Speaker 1: across the street. So it was like they're indipity on
Speaker 1: fire right across the street. Somebody had lit like I
Speaker 1: don't know if it was a dumpster or like a
Speaker 1: small building behind the building. There's a restaurant a bar
Speaker 1: right across the street from where we do the show
Speaker 1: from and behind that there was this thing on fire,
Speaker 1: and I could see, like they don't mess around the
Speaker 1: fire department. They had like every fire truck within a couple,
Speaker 1: you know, a couple of cities. It seemed like was
Speaker 1: right there to put that fire out. It was wild.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 1: I was like, wow, that is that is crazy that
Speaker 1: the guy would send me the story and within a
Speaker 1: couple hours, I'm going to work and I see something
Speaker 1: immediately on fire, like right across, right across the way.
Speaker 3: So that was my That reminds me of the time
Speaker 3: the fire alarm system came on while we were live
Speaker 3: on your show.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, that's that's happened. My favorite is the
Speaker 1: skunk though. I liked that where the skunk. The skunk
Speaker 1: gets in the air conditioning and then the whole building
Speaker 1: smells like skunk and it's just you can't breath because
Speaker 1: there's no windows.
Speaker 3: And I was used to that smell sitting next to
Speaker 3: Koop every night. Well, I understand, smoke is kind of
Speaker 3: your whole thing.
Speaker 1: The the fire alarm where we had to do the
Speaker 1: show and there was.
Speaker 3: That was going on to drop.
Speaker 1: That's what it sounded like. Yeah, you can't leave your
Speaker 1: battle station, you know you can't. You got to man
Speaker 1: your battle station, Danny. We learned that you can't crawl out.
Speaker 1: You gotta stay there.
Speaker 3: It was very Battlestar Galactica, like.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was. It was bizarre. Now, I would like
Speaker 1: to see if anyone listening, that would be you listening
Speaker 1: to this podcast, if you can help us out. So
Speaker 1: during the week, the Dodgers released a statement about old Tani.
Speaker 1: We talked about Otani yesterday on the podcast a bit,
Speaker 1: and the the statement was your standard boiler plate statement.
Speaker 1: And I was trying to find out who originally came
Speaker 1: up with a statement, and it's one of these things
Speaker 1: I used to know. It's a holding we'll call it
Speaker 1: the holding pattern. But it's a holding statement. And the
Speaker 1: whole point of a holding statement is to keep the
Speaker 1: media at bay, to keep them on hold if there's
Speaker 1: a scandal. Every major corporation uses a version of the
Speaker 1: same holding statement when there's a scandal and it goes
Speaker 1: something like this, it's typical pr spin. It is we
Speaker 1: are aware of the situation, we are in the process
Speaker 1: of gaining information, it would be inappropriate to comment further
Speaker 1: at this time, or it is an ongoing police investigation,
Speaker 1: so we cannot comment further at this time. But some
Speaker 1: version of that and so I had known. In fact,
Speaker 1: I think we talked about it on this podcast years ago,
Speaker 1: and in the back of my head it was like
Speaker 1: somebody from Pennsylvania, but I didn't write it down and
Speaker 1: it escaped the back of my brain, and so I
Speaker 1: spent probably two hours googling different things trying to find
Speaker 1: the original person that came up with that statement, because
Speaker 1: whoever that person is, that is going to be with
Speaker 1: major businesses for the rest of the world crisis spin
Speaker 1: the greatest holding statement ever, which is, you know, we
Speaker 1: are aware of the allegations and are currently gathering information,
Speaker 1: but it would be inappropriate to comment further. At this time,
Speaker 1: we have no further comment. I want to know who
Speaker 1: came up with that, and if you know, let me know.
Speaker 1: Email me Real fifth hour at gmail dot com. Real
Speaker 1: fifth hour at gmail dot com because I can't I
Speaker 1: can't find it. I tried, and I swear it was
Speaker 1: a I want to say, a professor or something like that,
Speaker 1: somebody some ties to Pennsylvania, as I remember. Maybe I'm
Speaker 1: completely wrong and I remembered it wrong, but I feel
Speaker 1: like it came from somebody in the state of Pennsylvania.
Speaker 1: So if you could help me out on that that
Speaker 1: would be great. We have the phrase of the week.
Speaker 3: The phrase of the week.
Speaker 1: The phrase of the week is gaslight. Now, this is
Speaker 1: a term that I use quite a bit on the
Speaker 1: radio show. And the reason I use the term gaslight
Speaker 1: quite a bit is because it happens all the time.
Speaker 1: It happens all the time. And I know, Danny, you
Speaker 1: know what gaslighting is. It's a form of psychological manipulation.
Speaker 3: Yep.
Speaker 1: And politicians and people in sports do this all the time,
Speaker 1: where you do something and then claim the opposite happened.
Speaker 1: You do something, No, I didn't do that. I don't
Speaker 1: know what you're talking about. I didn't do that, and
Speaker 1: then the person that's consuming the content they start questioning
Speaker 1: their own memory and the perception of what happened. Eventually
Speaker 1: you start questioning your sanity. And it's gaslighting. That's the term.
Speaker 1: But the term which is our phrase of the week, gaslight,
Speaker 1: It actually comes from Hollywood and it goes all the
Speaker 1: way back to the nineteen forties. Nineteen forty four, there
Speaker 1: was a film called Gaslight. The film was set in
Speaker 1: Victorian times when gaslighting, of course, that was what was
Speaker 1: before electric lighting was in common use. And one of
Speaker 1: the leads in the movie is the Harris of a
Speaker 1: famous opera singer and was going to receive her inheritance,
Speaker 1: but she ends up getting caught in this romance and
Speaker 1: married to an aspiring composer, and the story goes on
Speaker 1: and on, and she's doing things she forgets and seeing
Speaker 1: things that aren't real. And so that was the movie.
Speaker 1: It's like, okay, fine, whatever. But over time that term
Speaker 1: got dragged in to politics and got twisted around to
Speaker 1: what it is today, the modern definition, which is a
Speaker 1: play on that movie Gaslight from nineteen forty four. The
Speaker 1: title of the film became a term for tricking someone
Speaker 1: into thinking that they're crazy, and so it's dismissing or
Speaker 1: discrediting your perception of reality, and usually with a suggestion
Speaker 1: of malice attached to said action. So that is the
Speaker 1: phrase of the week, the phrase of the week, gaslighting.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know who does that all the time? Our
Speaker 3: middle kid. He'll say to me and my girl, you
Speaker 3: guys are eating dinner without me. In a half hour earlier,
Speaker 3: he literally told us he didn't want to eat with us.
Speaker 1: Well, at the time he didn't want eat, but once
Speaker 1: he saw what you guys were eating.
Speaker 3: No, but he's just doing it to mess with us. Yeah,
Speaker 3: he's gaslighting us.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there you go. Oh I wanted to mention this.
Speaker 1: I did talk about this a little bit on the
Speaker 1: Overnight Show, but I wanted to go into some more detail.
Speaker 1: This being the pod, we kept tell these stories behind
Speaker 1: the microphone and whatnot. It's become a staple of the show.
Speaker 1: And we had another week of Big Bend's Big adventures.
Speaker 1: And as Paul Harvey used to say, you know the news,
Speaker 1: but you're about to get the rest of the story,
Speaker 1: so real quick. This guy who's a p one who
Speaker 1: lives in North Carolina. He goes by the Moniker Speccoli,
Speaker 1: very kind gentleman, very kind gentleman. He's from Wisconsin, but
Speaker 1: he lives in North Carolina. And he is someone that
Speaker 1: appreciates the art of the spoken words, a big radio fan,
Speaker 1: and he likes spoken word radio done right. And so
Speaker 1: he actually dropped by the studio. We told the story.
Speaker 1: He dropped by the studio several months ago, and he
Speaker 1: looked up, he did some opposition research. He found this
Speaker 1: really nice donut shop, this high end donut shop in
Speaker 1: la and he bought a box of these really nice
Speaker 1: donuts designer donuts, and then he got to the radio
Speaker 1: station to hang out with us, and Kooper Loop and
Speaker 1: Iowa Sam were so paranoid they didn't want him in
Speaker 1: the studio. They're like, oh, oh, we don't want this kid.
Speaker 1: So he ended up waiting outside for forty minutes on
Speaker 1: a cold night, California, cold night, and then eventually they
Speaker 1: let him in and they thought he was fine, he
Speaker 1: was a good guy and all that, and it was
Speaker 1: ridiculous anyway advancing the story. So that's the backstory. So
Speaker 1: we'll call him Spacoli. And he reached out. He sent
Speaker 1: me an email. He says, listen, I'm sending you something.
Speaker 1: It's time sensitive. I need you to get this out
Speaker 1: of the mail. You have to do this for me.
Speaker 1: And I was like, okay. You know, normally I'll just
Speaker 1: send Coop to go get something, and if it's food,
Speaker 1: he'll definitely get it. He'll definitely, he'll definitely go get it.
Speaker 1: But Coop's not there. He's on his honeymoon in Japan,
Speaker 1: and so we had Shae producing, and Shaye doesn't really
Speaker 1: know where where the mailroom is, and so I really
Speaker 1: couldn't send him. I don't even think he has access
Speaker 1: to that part of the building, and so I was
Speaker 1: on my own. So I got there early, as I
Speaker 1: usually do, and I'm walking around the fifth floor of
Speaker 1: the Premiere Networks and it it took me about thirty minutes.
Speaker 1: I was wandering. There's so I don't know if you've
Speaker 1: been up there recently, Danny. There's so many empty offices.
Speaker 3: It's a ghost town.
Speaker 1: It'sgot ship it's so depressing. It reminded me of when
Speaker 1: I was at that mall in prim, Nevada, right on
Speaker 1: the California Nevada border that used to be this great
Speaker 1: mall with all these wonderful outlet stores and there were
Speaker 1: kids playing and families having a great time and people
Speaker 1: shopping and living their lives. And I went there after
Speaker 1: COVID and there's like two stores left and it's completely
Speaker 1: boarded up and just brutal, just absolutely brutal. And I'm
Speaker 1: like walking around and a lot of these people are
Speaker 1: still working at the company, they're working from home. So
Speaker 1: I'm walking. I could not.
Speaker 3: I went.
Speaker 1: I went to where the old mail room was. I
Speaker 1: couldn't find it. So then I was like, Okay, let
Speaker 1: me the mailroom is probably where it used to be
Speaker 1: before they moved it to this other place. So then
Speaker 1: I couldn't get over there because they closed off that
Speaker 1: side of the building for some I guess that's they
Speaker 1: didn't they're not paying for it, so it's somebody else.
Speaker 1: I don't know. So I walking around and it's like
Speaker 1: twenty eight minutes of been going by. I'm like, what
Speaker 1: am I doing? I finally sees the first person I've
Speaker 1: seen other I'm the only one on the floor. I
Speaker 1: didn't see anybody. So this guy walks down from the
Speaker 1: we call it the Knock, the network operations control center,
Speaker 1: and he's walking by. I say, hey, let's go on. Now,
Speaker 1: you know where the mailroom is? And he shrugs his shoulders, Danny,
Speaker 1: I don't know. And he's like, well, I think they
Speaker 1: put the mail near the door, and he points behind me. Well,
Speaker 1: I've already walked by there four times. There's no mail there.
Speaker 1: So I said, all right, thank you. So right about
Speaker 1: the time that ends, this guy pops out of an office.
Speaker 1: Are you looking? Are you what you're looking for? The
Speaker 1: mail room? Yes, yes, I'm looking for the mailroom. Are
Speaker 1: you sending or are you picking up mail? And it
Speaker 1: was the Great George Nori, the host of Coast to
Speaker 1: Coast Good morning, and we've had George on this podcast
Speaker 1: in Yeah. George is a great guy, great radio man,
Speaker 1: Hall of Famer, and George popped out of his office
Speaker 1: he heard. He probably was as shocked as I was
Speaker 1: to see another human being on that floor and just like, well,
Speaker 1: you said, I'm like, well, why were in my head?
Speaker 1: I'm like, why am I going to send something?
Speaker 2: You know?
Speaker 1: This time? But he was very kind. He knew exactly
Speaker 1: where it was. And because of George Norie, I was
Speaker 1: able to pick up the delicious and this was you
Speaker 1: talk about Chef's kiss as you were saying, there, my god,
Speaker 1: this Kringle amazing, This Danish pastry from Racine, from Racine, Wisconsin,
Speaker 1: which was shipped overnight, just absolutely wonderful. They sell a
Speaker 1: version of this Danis Kringle at I think it's the
Speaker 1: same company, but this was this was from the mother
Speaker 1: ship They sell the Trader Joe, I believe. But this was,
Speaker 1: oh man, it was like a cherry cheesecake thing or
Speaker 1: something like that. I don't even know exactly what the
Speaker 1: flavor was, but it was delicious, so good, so amazing.
Speaker 1: So I want to thank s Paccoli. I would like
Speaker 1: to thank George Nori for helping me find that. And
Speaker 1: that's my ghost ship at the Premiere Networks building there
Speaker 1: and beautiful Schrimann Oaks.
Speaker 3: Now, did you tell Nori, Hey, it's me mallor you've
Speaker 3: been on my show? No?
Speaker 1: You know, I'm Anti, So I think he recognized me,
Speaker 1: but he was his show was literally about to start,
Speaker 1: like he was within the five minute window where his
Speaker 1: show was going to going to begin. Did they move
Speaker 1: his studio though I didn't see a path to his studio,
Speaker 1: I don't know if they moved.
Speaker 3: I don't think so, because I walked past it when
Speaker 3: we were using the old Jim Rome studio a couple
Speaker 3: of weeks ago.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I think they're moving out of that old
Speaker 1: Gym Rome studio, right, They're moving back to the old
Speaker 1: studio downstairs, that's what I heard.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, our old FSR studio is going to be
Speaker 3: the new Colin Cowherd studio for when he does radio only.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and he does radio only, what do you think
Speaker 1: maybe a week a year maybe?
Speaker 3: Yeah, maybe a total of two weeks a year.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And they're getting all new equipment. Everything's gonna be
Speaker 1: brand new, you know, because that's Coward's a big deal.
Speaker 1: You know, you're a big deal when they get new stuff.
Speaker 1: When I do a show somewhere, it's like, let's go
Speaker 1: on eBay and we'll find a couple of couple of
Speaker 1: things and we'll throw them together and we're good to go.
Speaker 1: All right, we get out on that. It is Saturday.
Speaker 1: Enjoy the day, enjoy the college basketball today, and remember
Speaker 1: all roads lead to the fifth hour mail Bag, which
Speaker 1: is Sunday. Will burn up the microphones yet again. Anything
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Speaker 1: Absolutely help us out. Have a great day today, and
Speaker 1: then we will catch.
Speaker 3: You next time. Austa pasta viopulation