WEBVTT - The Fifth Hour: Shredded Chicken 0:00:00.760 --> 0:00:01.480 Kubbooms. 0:00:02.320 --> 0:00:05.400 If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes 0:00:05.440 --> 0:00:09.240 a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants 0:00:09.240 --> 0:00:12.520 of the old Republic, a sol fashion of fairness. He 0:00:12.600 --> 0:00:15.520 treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the 0:00:15.640 --> 0:00:19.200 rich pill poppers in the penthouse. Wow, it's a clearing 0:00:19.239 --> 0:00:22.880 house of hot takes. Break free for something special. The 0:00:22.920 --> 0:00:29.200 Fifth Hour with Ben Mallard starts right now in. 0:00:29.280 --> 0:00:34.839 The air eywhere A happy Friday to you. It's the 0:00:34.920 --> 0:00:38.000 Fifth Hour. I think you already know that with me, 0:00:38.159 --> 0:00:42.040 Ben Mallor and Danny g Radio, who will join me 0:00:43.000 --> 0:00:46.640 this weekend on Saturday and Sunday. But you're stuck with 0:00:46.760 --> 0:00:51.600 just me on this Friday, very early in the morning 0:00:51.800 --> 0:00:57.120 as we are recording this, my god, a very unholy hour. 0:00:57.200 --> 0:01:02.000 But we are celebrating the start of Game number one 0:01:02.280 --> 0:01:05.440 later tonight, Game one of the World Series at Chavez Ravine. 0:01:05.959 --> 0:01:08.679 As Tommy Lisordi used to call it, blue Heaven on Earth, 0:01:09.080 --> 0:01:13.000 as the Doyers try to win another World Series against 0:01:13.040 --> 0:01:18.399 the hated Yankees, and the media has had an absolute 0:01:18.440 --> 0:01:21.760 field day the last week talking about the Dodgers and 0:01:21.800 --> 0:01:23.560 the Yankees and the tradition all that. I get a 0:01:23.640 --> 0:01:25.000 kick out of it because a bunch of the players 0:01:25.000 --> 0:01:28.319 have been interviewed about this, and not a single player, 0:01:28.840 --> 0:01:34.280 not a single player in the World Series was playing 0:01:34.520 --> 0:01:36.560 in Major League Baseball the last time the Dodgers and 0:01:36.680 --> 0:01:41.480 Yankees played, nor not a single player was even really 0:01:41.560 --> 0:01:46.199 alive on the Yankees and the Dodgers. But nonetheless, they're 0:01:46.240 --> 0:01:49.240 going at it tonight and I will not be there. 0:01:50.040 --> 0:01:52.200 Some of you have been sending me messages, are you 0:01:52.320 --> 0:01:53.880 going to be a Game one of the World Series? 0:01:53.960 --> 0:01:54.040 No. 0:01:54.640 --> 0:01:59.240 I tried to explain that the Dodgers, once they got Otani, 0:02:00.560 --> 0:02:04.560 I was no longer a priority, which is fine. I 0:02:04.600 --> 0:02:08.520 am able to watch anything I want on the Mallard TV, 0:02:09.240 --> 0:02:12.560 so I'm good, and I'll go out there from time 0:02:12.600 --> 0:02:14.080 to time, but I will not beat the World Series 0:02:14.160 --> 0:02:18.720 unless I get a last minute phone call from Marlin's man. 0:02:19.720 --> 0:02:22.960 That has not happened. It is the day of Game 0:02:23.040 --> 0:02:26.400 one of the World Series, and I have not heard 0:02:27.040 --> 0:02:30.160 from Marlin's man, so I'm assuming he's either not going 0:02:30.320 --> 0:02:33.919 or he's got somebody else who's most likely a bigger name, 0:02:34.720 --> 0:02:38.160 who will go. And the ticket prices are so outrageous 0:02:39.280 --> 0:02:42.440 my god, but I actually like did Dodgers chances tonight 0:02:42.480 --> 0:02:45.880 with Jack Flaherty against Garrett Coleble see what happens with that? 0:02:46.360 --> 0:02:48.280 In Game one of the World Series. It is also 0:02:49.600 --> 0:02:51.920 a big day, I mean, the worlds of the late 0:02:51.960 --> 0:02:57.280 Tommy Losorda colliding. You've got the Dodgers in game number 0:02:57.360 --> 0:03:03.000 one of the World Series. And today is World Pasta Day. 0:03:04.160 --> 0:03:08.519 Oh yeah, World Pasta Day, which is another one of 0:03:08.520 --> 0:03:11.160 those made up holidays. They made this up in nineteen 0:03:11.720 --> 0:03:15.000 ninety eight. It was not made by Chef Boyard. It 0:03:15.040 --> 0:03:19.519 was not. Now there is a great urban legend which 0:03:19.560 --> 0:03:22.639 I'm pretty sure is not true. I'm pretty sure is 0:03:22.680 --> 0:03:25.959 not true, but I heard it when I was a kid, 0:03:26.919 --> 0:03:29.800 and you probably have heard it too. The legend is 0:03:29.800 --> 0:03:38.560 that Marco Polo Marco Polo imported pasta from China in 0:03:38.600 --> 0:03:43.720 the twelve hundreds and that that was the whole love 0:03:43.800 --> 0:03:48.200 of pasta in Italy. It was actually a Chinese food 0:03:49.040 --> 0:03:55.200 and all that. Well, likely that is bull crap, because 0:03:55.240 --> 0:03:58.480 there was a story years ago that said a Canadian 0:03:58.560 --> 0:04:04.520 spaghetti company of all things likely started that urban legend 0:04:05.720 --> 0:04:08.520 in the nineteen twenties, about a hundred years ago, and 0:04:08.600 --> 0:04:10.320 By the time I was a kid, I had heard 0:04:10.360 --> 0:04:13.000 about it and all that. But if you trace the 0:04:13.040 --> 0:04:20.520 origins of pasta, it's been a staple in Italy going 0:04:20.600 --> 0:04:24.840 back to the seventeen hundreds. Like, apparently, I haven't ever 0:04:24.839 --> 0:04:28.920 been to Italy. The wheat that has grown in Sicily, 0:04:29.520 --> 0:04:36.200 in southern Italy is amazing and pretty inexpensive, pretty inexpensive. 0:04:36.600 --> 0:04:40.400 So you've got that, so celebrate appropriately. I don't know 0:04:40.440 --> 0:04:43.560 what your favorite pasta is. I'm a Fetichini alfredo guy. 0:04:43.600 --> 0:04:47.960 Myself and I used to love spaghetti, but I ate 0:04:48.040 --> 0:04:51.520 so much spaghetti. When I was a kid, My mom 0:04:52.120 --> 0:04:55.440 spaghetti and meatballs, and then she'd make a lot of 0:04:55.480 --> 0:04:59.320 mac and cheese, and I just like, eh, I don't 0:04:59.360 --> 0:05:01.360 mind macan cheese every once in a while, rare and 0:05:01.400 --> 0:05:05.800 appropriate spaghetti. I'm over it. I'm good. I've had my 0:05:05.839 --> 0:05:13.479 share of spaghetti. It is Frankenstein Friday today, Yes, Frankenstein Friday, which, 0:05:14.080 --> 0:05:18.920 by the way, we learned, was filmed at Universal Studios. 0:05:18.960 --> 0:05:23.880 The movie Frankenstein filmed at Universal Studios on the back lot, 0:05:24.320 --> 0:05:28.200 not far away from where we filmed Benny Versus the Penny. Oh, 0:05:28.240 --> 0:05:31.880 by the way, that's right, that's right, you know what 0:05:31.960 --> 0:05:34.760 time it is? Ding ding, ding ding ding. Yes, time 0:05:34.760 --> 0:05:37.839 for me to Shamelelly. See me promote the week eight, 0:05:38.960 --> 0:05:43.880 Week eight of Benny Versus Payne. Now, last night I 0:05:43.920 --> 0:05:47.120 took the Vikings. They of course lost the game. They 0:05:47.120 --> 0:05:49.880 were favored by a few points against the Rams. Sam 0:05:49.960 --> 0:05:53.480 Darnold pooped the Bed played well for one quarter and 0:05:53.520 --> 0:05:57.039 then not so much the final three quarters of the game. 0:05:57.440 --> 0:05:59.839 But I'm okay with that. And I've said this a 0:05:59.839 --> 0:06:03.480 lot time. If you're a big fan and you dabbling gambling, 0:06:04.160 --> 0:06:08.400 but you're ultimately a fan, it's called sports fan insurance, 0:06:09.040 --> 0:06:10.840 and it's one of the coolest things you can do 0:06:10.920 --> 0:06:12.960 if you love your team. And I'm a Ram fan. 0:06:13.600 --> 0:06:15.159 But I looked at the game. At the time I 0:06:15.200 --> 0:06:17.920 handicapped the game, I had to submit my my picks 0:06:17.960 --> 0:06:22.240 to the big Kahunas at NBC bye you a certain hour. 0:06:22.240 --> 0:06:23.600 I don't want to get into all the details and 0:06:23.640 --> 0:06:25.200 all that. You don't need to know about that, but 0:06:26.800 --> 0:06:29.800 my deadline. By the time my deadline to submit the 0:06:29.800 --> 0:06:33.919 picks had shown up, I did not know for sure 0:06:35.160 --> 0:06:37.880 that Cooper Cup was going to play, and I had 0:06:37.920 --> 0:06:41.479 no knowledge that Puka Nakua was going to play. Had 0:06:41.480 --> 0:06:46.360 I known that they were both going to play, I 0:06:46.440 --> 0:06:49.839 likely would have flipped my pick. But you know, bygones bye, bygones, 0:06:50.040 --> 0:06:52.400 I did not took the took the vikings, but I 0:06:52.400 --> 0:06:55.880 wasn't upset. I lost the game, and I'm fine with 0:06:55.920 --> 0:06:59.000 that because the Rams won, so I was happy about that. 0:06:59.040 --> 0:07:01.599 But it's Week eight in the NFL. We got every 0:07:01.640 --> 0:07:04.920 game covered. We make our maiden voyage again. We kick 0:07:04.960 --> 0:07:07.840 off a new week here on NBC Sports Boston tonight, 0:07:08.560 --> 0:07:13.520 also NBC Sports Philadelphia in San Francisco, all the other 0:07:13.640 --> 0:07:19.640 regional cable channels associated with NBC. And because of you, 0:07:19.800 --> 0:07:21.960 I want you to know, mainly because of the people 0:07:21.960 --> 0:07:26.040 on this podcast that were complaining when I said, oh, 0:07:26.040 --> 0:07:28.400 I can't watch your show, I don't have you know, 0:07:28.400 --> 0:07:29.960 I want to live in a city where the show's on, 0:07:30.120 --> 0:07:32.080 and you're complaining about this, that and the other thing. 0:07:32.360 --> 0:07:36.320 So I then took your complaints and I went to 0:07:36.360 --> 0:07:40.000 the few people I know at NBC and I was like, 0:07:40.000 --> 0:07:42.800 you know, these guys really want to be on the Peacock. 0:07:43.480 --> 0:07:46.360 They want access to the show. They say they'll watch, 0:07:47.000 --> 0:07:49.119 and they said, are you sure they're actually going to watch, 0:07:49.480 --> 0:07:51.000 and I said, well, yeah, I think they're gonna watch. 0:07:51.040 --> 0:07:52.400 They say they're going to watch, but I don't know 0:07:52.440 --> 0:07:54.440 if they're going to actually watch. I'd like them to watch. 0:07:54.480 --> 0:07:57.960 They claim they want to watch, and so heya. One 0:07:57.960 --> 0:08:00.360 thing led to another and here we are. So we're 0:08:00.400 --> 0:08:03.800 on Peacock now. It's not on right now. And I've 0:08:03.840 --> 0:08:08.160 noticed the trend here the last month where I'll be like, hey, 0:08:08.360 --> 0:08:11.120 I watched the show. The podcast goes up, and then 0:08:11.480 --> 0:08:13.960 I get a message I looked on Peacock and I 0:08:14.000 --> 0:08:18.320 didn't see the show. I don't control when the show 0:08:18.360 --> 0:08:21.320 gets uploaded. I have no control. The show is in 0:08:21.360 --> 0:08:24.640 the can. We did the show on Thursday, right We 0:08:24.680 --> 0:08:28.400 did the show on Thursday before the Ram Viking game. 0:08:28.960 --> 0:08:31.920 So we've done the show. The show is ready to go, 0:08:32.200 --> 0:08:33.560 but they have to edit it and they have to 0:08:33.559 --> 0:08:36.559 address it up and make us look like somewhat civilized 0:08:36.640 --> 0:08:39.520 human beings and not Neanderthals. So that's part of it. 0:08:40.559 --> 0:08:43.120 But it'll be up today late afternoon. I know my 0:08:43.160 --> 0:08:46.320 buddy Sports with Coleman and Baltimore. He sends me a 0:08:46.320 --> 0:08:49.679 message every Friday, I don't see your show. What's going 0:08:49.760 --> 0:08:52.679 on with that want. He wants me to have him 0:08:52.880 --> 0:08:57.240 have the show published by I think noon, which I'm 0:08:57.280 --> 0:08:58.920 all for. I have no problem with that. But again 0:08:58.960 --> 0:09:02.840 I don't I don't control it. So watch it tonight 0:09:03.679 --> 0:09:06.840 and then watch the world series, and then watch it 0:09:06.880 --> 0:09:10.319 again and again and again and again. We had a 0:09:10.360 --> 0:09:15.320 lot of fun this week. It was interesting. Now one 0:09:15.320 --> 0:09:19.960 of the main reasons that this was interesting. I wanted 0:09:19.960 --> 0:09:23.720 to go a little bit behind the microphone. And this 0:09:23.840 --> 0:09:29.320 is a companion podcast about the radio show and the 0:09:29.360 --> 0:09:33.760 original Recipe radio show and also the TV show. So 0:09:33.960 --> 0:09:37.480 many of you, I say many. I got like five emails. 0:09:37.559 --> 0:09:39.360 Sudden you were not going to take any time off 0:09:39.440 --> 0:09:42.520 and you didn't show up to work and I don't understand, 0:09:42.559 --> 0:09:45.320 and you ruin my whole day and it's not right 0:09:45.480 --> 0:09:48.400 and it's not fair and I don't understand. 0:09:49.120 --> 0:09:54.520 Yeah, well that was not a scheduled deb Actually I 0:09:54.520 --> 0:09:58.400 wanted to find there's one email, but there were a couple. 0:09:58.520 --> 0:10:00.360 See if I can find it here. Just bear with me. 0:10:01.200 --> 0:10:04.040 La la la la la la la la la la 0:10:04.120 --> 0:10:07.320 la la la la. Because several of you sent very 0:10:07.360 --> 0:10:12.520 passionate letters that I got a kick out. I was like, Wow, 0:10:13.600 --> 0:10:16.240 I had no idea that me barking into a microphone 0:10:17.760 --> 0:10:22.079 about some random nonsense would inspire this kind of commentary. 0:10:22.080 --> 0:10:25.440 But here we are. Well, here's one I don't have. 0:10:25.720 --> 0:10:28.760 The other one I don't have. This one's from listener Anthony, 0:10:29.920 --> 0:10:32.560 who is a big fan. He says, Ben, I listened 0:10:32.600 --> 0:10:34.920 to your podcast while working out at the gym. It 0:10:35.080 --> 0:10:38.400 motivates me more than listening to Metallica while on meth. 0:10:41.480 --> 0:10:46.960 That's wild, Anthony, A sports radio podcast motivates you while 0:10:47.000 --> 0:10:51.000 working out to my cha grin. He then rips the 0:10:51.000 --> 0:10:54.920 person that fill in for me, so you know how 0:10:54.960 --> 0:10:58.320 your legs fall asleep when you have sat on the 0:10:58.360 --> 0:11:01.960 toilet for an hour or two long. He then goes 0:11:02.000 --> 0:11:05.280 on and rants and rants, and rants and rants. I 0:11:05.320 --> 0:11:08.320 am the guy who recites the pledge with each new 0:11:08.640 --> 0:11:13.800 mal or militia member. Please, if you cannot find someone 0:11:13.960 --> 0:11:16.600 half as smart as you, how about someone who is 0:11:16.640 --> 0:11:19.720 half as entertaining, well, listen, I don't know what happened 0:11:19.720 --> 0:11:24.160 when I wasn't there, Anthony. Thank you for your support. 0:11:25.360 --> 0:11:28.760 And I do love that whoever dares fill in for 0:11:28.800 --> 0:11:33.040 me is public enemy number one. And it is a 0:11:33.080 --> 0:11:36.880 blessing and a curse and as you know, Anthony, you're 0:11:37.160 --> 0:11:39.640 likely pumping weight right now in the gym, pumping iron. 0:11:40.800 --> 0:11:43.840 Here's the deal. The type of radio show that we 0:11:43.880 --> 0:11:49.280 do is, I would say, in the modern sports radio game. 0:11:49.320 --> 0:11:51.560 It's unique. But maybe not. Maybe there's other people that 0:11:51.600 --> 0:11:54.560 sound just like me, and I don't know about them. 0:11:54.640 --> 0:11:56.400 I don't listen to everything. I don't listen to much 0:11:56.400 --> 0:11:59.080 sports radio at all because I don't want to copy 0:11:59.120 --> 0:12:05.640 what somebody else's doing. However, I do believe that aside 0:12:05.640 --> 0:12:10.880 from all the puffery and all that, we have something 0:12:10.880 --> 0:12:16.480 that's rather rather unique, you know, and whether that's good 0:12:16.559 --> 0:12:19.720 or bad. You know, some people absolutely hate it and 0:12:20.280 --> 0:12:23.760 they believe it goes together like toothpaste and orange juice, 0:12:23.840 --> 0:12:26.840 and it's just disgusting. And why are you on the radio? 0:12:27.080 --> 0:12:29.480 And I always get, well, you're on and in the 0:12:29.520 --> 0:12:31.840 middle of the night, and that's why your show is terrible. 0:12:32.160 --> 0:12:34.040 And that's the bottom line, and this, that and the 0:12:34.120 --> 0:12:36.960 other thing. And then I have other people like this guy, 0:12:37.000 --> 0:12:39.400 Anthony and some others that I can't find the email 0:12:39.480 --> 0:12:41.440 right now, we're like, I love the show. I listen. 0:12:41.480 --> 0:12:45.400 You're a cornerstone, right You're the centerpiece of my day. 0:12:45.520 --> 0:12:50.959 So Fortunately, there's more people like Anthony then there are 0:12:51.000 --> 0:12:56.280 people that hate the show. And I've never understood, and 0:12:56.360 --> 0:12:58.280 I will never understand. I'm in the radio business my 0:12:58.400 --> 0:13:02.600 entire adult life. I will never understan and how people 0:13:03.600 --> 0:13:08.320 have this weird relationship with radio, especially talk radio, where 0:13:08.400 --> 0:13:12.520 if you don't like a talk show host, you have 0:13:12.600 --> 0:13:15.400 to let them know you don't like. If I if 0:13:15.440 --> 0:13:17.479 I go to a restaurant, I look at the menu. 0:13:18.320 --> 0:13:21.200 We do this all the time. We go to travel somewhere, meanwife, Hey, 0:13:21.200 --> 0:13:23.640 can we look at the menu? And THO, the maj 0:13:23.720 --> 0:13:27.640 or d will hand you the menu and you'll look 0:13:27.720 --> 0:13:30.160 and you get some eggs over there, you know, I 0:13:30.200 --> 0:13:33.880 guess some kind of mixed things, some food processing crap 0:13:33.920 --> 0:13:36.640 over there. Andy, Well, it's not really for me. You 0:13:36.760 --> 0:13:40.600 hand the menu back very politely, and you walk out, 0:13:40.640 --> 0:13:43.959 and you walk to the next restaurant. And there doesn't 0:13:43.960 --> 0:13:47.080 need to be a tug of war. But yet in 0:13:47.160 --> 0:13:52.680 sports radio it's I must have my opinion heard, and 0:13:53.000 --> 0:13:56.959 I don't like your opinion. You're a schmuck, and I'm 0:13:56.960 --> 0:13:58.920 gonna let you know. It's just I get a kick. 0:13:59.440 --> 0:14:04.560 I am at I think that if that stopped, I 0:14:04.559 --> 0:14:07.960 wouldn't like it. I'd be like, am I doing something wrong? 0:14:09.120 --> 0:14:11.040 Having strong opinions and all. So. So it's one of 0:14:11.080 --> 0:14:16.120 those weird things that it kind of crisscrosses between it's dumb. 0:14:16.200 --> 0:14:19.400 But then if you don't have people randomly sending you messages, 0:14:20.200 --> 0:14:23.600 then then there's a problem. I'm still getting people randomly, 0:14:23.840 --> 0:14:27.360 you know, I'll make some passing reference politically and somebody, 0:14:27.800 --> 0:14:30.680 you know, some triggered so and so will oh I, Chad, 0:14:30.800 --> 0:14:33.760 listen to your show anymore? And we are heading towards 0:14:33.760 --> 0:14:39.000 the epicenter. The trade deadline in the NFL is November fifth, However, 0:14:39.200 --> 0:14:41.840 that is also the day of the election, and it 0:14:42.040 --> 0:14:44.680 is going to be wild. It's always wild. This is 0:14:44.720 --> 0:14:49.440 one thing that's changed in my lifetime. These presidential elections. 0:14:50.360 --> 0:14:52.240 There are always a big deal. Like when I was 0:14:52.240 --> 0:14:54.600 a little kid, you know, my parents were into politics. 0:14:54.640 --> 0:14:57.320 My mom was was liberal, my dad was conservative, and 0:14:57.400 --> 0:14:59.680 so they would debate the issues of the day and 0:14:59.720 --> 0:15:01.560 they do back and forth and this that and the 0:15:01.640 --> 0:15:05.120 other thing, and it was a big deal. But the 0:15:05.240 --> 0:15:11.600 last twenty five years, it started with that hanging chad thing. 0:15:12.960 --> 0:15:17.040 It's next level. It has attracted every whack job in 0:15:17.080 --> 0:15:21.160 the world. There's nothing like it. There's no show quite 0:15:21.240 --> 0:15:26.720 like a presidential election. The country is so split, it's 0:15:26.800 --> 0:15:29.760 next level. I'm getting off on a tangent here, but 0:15:30.200 --> 0:15:35.520 thank you all for your support on the show. As 0:15:35.560 --> 0:15:40.640 I often end up paddling my own canoe and again 0:15:40.680 --> 0:15:43.880 when somebody fills in, it's different. But I appreciate you 0:15:44.520 --> 0:15:47.360 letting me know. It's good to be missed. Got to 0:15:47.440 --> 0:15:49.560 be missed now one of the reasons I was away. 0:15:49.560 --> 0:15:51.360 In fact, the main reason I was away was not 0:15:51.400 --> 0:15:54.840 to go to the Clipper game. Eddie last night took 0:15:54.880 --> 0:15:56.440 off to go to the hockey game, which is fine. 0:15:56.440 --> 0:15:58.200 He's got time off. He didn't want to do the show. 0:15:58.240 --> 0:16:02.520 He wanted to do the hockey. More power to In 0:16:02.560 --> 0:16:07.080 my case, I made a tactical decision. If you're listening 0:16:07.080 --> 0:16:08.720 to this podcast, and there's no other way to hear 0:16:08.760 --> 0:16:12.920 it other than listening, you know that my voice likely 0:16:13.160 --> 0:16:18.040 sounds a little more How should I describe it? Punch 0:16:18.080 --> 0:16:22.560 it a raspy, a little more rasp to my voice. 0:16:22.840 --> 0:16:24.680 You can hear it, right, you can hear it. I 0:16:24.720 --> 0:16:28.520 don't sound exactly the same. I sound close, but not 0:16:28.640 --> 0:16:33.840 exactly the same. And there's a reason for that. I've 0:16:33.880 --> 0:16:38.400 been baddling like a little head cold type situation. I 0:16:38.440 --> 0:16:42.280 did do the garlic and I was able to do 0:16:42.320 --> 0:16:46.120 the show. And over the years, I've been doing this 0:16:46.160 --> 0:16:49.680 a long time, and I do treat my voice like 0:16:49.840 --> 0:16:55.000 a musical instrument. That that is my moneymaker. If you're 0:16:55.280 --> 0:16:58.680 a prostitute, you have a different money maker. If you're 0:16:58.720 --> 0:17:01.360 a professional athlete, of a different money maker. But for 0:17:01.480 --> 0:17:04.320 me in my line of work, and I know I'm 0:17:04.320 --> 0:17:05.920 doing the TV show now, which is kind of cool 0:17:05.920 --> 0:17:09.119 and stuff, but it's really the voice. It's all about 0:17:09.160 --> 0:17:12.960 the voice. That is my melody. That is the sweet 0:17:13.040 --> 0:17:16.159 harmony that I can provide. And I remember when I 0:17:16.160 --> 0:17:18.119 got into radio. We talked about this on a previous 0:17:18.119 --> 0:17:21.320 episode being Danny G when he was there. We talked 0:17:21.320 --> 0:17:28.960 about radio and the whole mindset of sports radio in 0:17:29.000 --> 0:17:31.640 the early days, and I got in trouble with program 0:17:31.680 --> 0:17:34.359 directors because they said I was to FM and I said, well, 0:17:34.359 --> 0:17:36.320 I'm just doing the show and I'm not really FM, 0:17:36.359 --> 0:17:38.760 and well, you'll be more AM, which means boring, and 0:17:38.800 --> 0:17:41.159 I'm like, I don't want to be boring and so 0:17:41.240 --> 0:17:45.920 all that. But as a result, I project. I go 0:17:46.280 --> 0:17:49.399 up and down and all around, and I use my 0:17:49.600 --> 0:17:52.080 lungs and my throat and the whole thing. I use 0:17:52.119 --> 0:17:56.720 the upper part of my throat, my mouth. We all do. 0:17:57.280 --> 0:18:03.879 But I create these vibrations and I've done it long 0:18:04.040 --> 0:18:08.080 enough where when I have a head cold with the 0:18:08.160 --> 0:18:13.440 proper amount of sucking on rock garlic and other garlic 0:18:13.560 --> 0:18:18.400 related remedies from the old world, as Andrea would say, 0:18:18.400 --> 0:18:23.160 probably the pagan witch world. But this garlic stuff, it's 0:18:23.200 --> 0:18:29.320 worth the issue This week when I do the four 0:18:29.400 --> 0:18:32.440 hour show, and it's a lot more than it used 0:18:32.440 --> 0:18:34.320 to be because we do a lot of live reads. 0:18:35.440 --> 0:18:37.639 I don't know if you've noticed, but I try to 0:18:37.880 --> 0:18:39.679 dress them up, try to put my own touch on 0:18:39.720 --> 0:18:43.800 the live reads and add my flavor to them. Even 0:18:43.840 --> 0:18:46.480 though I don't get paid for that, I add my flavor, 0:18:46.840 --> 0:18:49.400 So I do that to the show. Is it's extra 0:18:50.119 --> 0:18:55.320 and it adds up. And despite everything that I do 0:18:55.560 --> 0:19:01.480 to protect my musical instrument, my mouth, it takes a 0:19:01.520 --> 0:19:04.840 fair amount of time once I finished the radio show 0:19:05.640 --> 0:19:10.879 to be ready to perform again, to get my vocal 0:19:10.960 --> 0:19:15.000 cord set and reset, and there's a hole to do 0:19:15.160 --> 0:19:22.000 involving gargling salt water and sucking on garlic and just time. 0:19:22.520 --> 0:19:26.480 There just has to be time. So I did the 0:19:26.520 --> 0:19:31.800 show on Tuesday into Wednesday, and I had every intention 0:19:32.160 --> 0:19:35.080 when I went to bed of doing the show on 0:19:35.280 --> 0:19:41.120 Wednesday and Thursday. My voice was really bad. It was 0:19:42.359 --> 0:19:45.200 the consistency of shredded chicken. By the time I had 0:19:45.200 --> 0:19:51.359 finished the show, pulled barbecue shredded chicken, so I knew 0:19:51.359 --> 0:19:55.199 it wasn't good. I woke up. My wife was not 0:19:55.480 --> 0:20:01.880 feeling particularly good either, just going around and she's like, well, 0:20:01.880 --> 0:20:04.560 I'm gonna call him sick. And I said, okay, that's fine, 0:20:05.080 --> 0:20:07.320 I'm gonna work and she she then was explaining we 0:20:07.320 --> 0:20:09.639 were doing a cost benefit analysis. He says, well, you 0:20:10.400 --> 0:20:13.480 do the TV show on Thursday. It's Wednesday, but you 0:20:13.560 --> 0:20:15.480 have to work all night. And then if you work 0:20:15.560 --> 0:20:18.800 all night, you don't go to bed before the TV 0:20:18.880 --> 0:20:22.040 show is taped. You have to tape the TV show. 0:20:23.240 --> 0:20:26.720 Your voice takes X number of hours to get back 0:20:26.760 --> 0:20:31.280 to where you can do another show. And she's she's 0:20:31.320 --> 0:20:34.800 doing the math, and she's got her version of math. 0:20:34.840 --> 0:20:36.679 I do. I do malar math. She's a malice, So 0:20:36.720 --> 0:20:40.719 she does her own malar math and we're crunching the numbers, 0:20:41.800 --> 0:20:46.879 and I have this in the cartoon bubble, the soundtrack 0:20:46.920 --> 0:20:50.000 of my life. I have flashing in front of me 0:20:51.160 --> 0:20:57.119 doing the radio show. My voice completely destroyed. The tone 0:20:57.240 --> 0:21:03.480 quality is terrible, horrific, right, just bad, bad, bad bad. 0:21:03.600 --> 0:21:09.240 I'm rasp beat. I have laryngitis, the whole thing. So 0:21:09.320 --> 0:21:10.840 in my head, I'm like, well, I'm doing the show. 0:21:10.840 --> 0:21:13.440 I sit down, they put the camera on. I'm talking 0:21:13.440 --> 0:21:15.359 to Vinnie, the producer in Boston, all these guys, and 0:21:15.400 --> 0:21:18.840 they're like, we can't do the show. We can't do it. 0:21:18.880 --> 0:21:24.639 What I'm like, Oh my god, this is terrible. I 0:21:24.680 --> 0:21:27.480 got to do the show. There's a lot of people, producers, 0:21:28.720 --> 0:21:34.040 people that work behind the scenes, directors, lighting people, camera people. 0:21:35.200 --> 0:21:37.520 It's not like a radio show. I mean there's a 0:21:37.680 --> 0:21:39.960 lot of moving parts, right, there's a lot of moving 0:21:40.000 --> 0:21:41.560 parts of a TV show. One of the reasons I 0:21:41.560 --> 0:21:46.280 love radio. It's pretty much just me and you and 0:21:46.280 --> 0:21:49.160 there's somebody putting the buttons on and occasionally some other 0:21:49.160 --> 0:21:51.960 people will chime in. But ultimately, if Eddie's not there, 0:21:52.080 --> 0:21:55.280 the show's the same. If Coop's not there, you don't notice. 0:21:56.119 --> 0:21:59.879 And as long as the mic is on the show's 0:22:00.040 --> 0:22:05.680 there and I can present the show. So in television, 0:22:05.720 --> 0:22:09.920 obviously there's a lot more involved. And I didn't want 0:22:10.119 --> 0:22:11.760 I didn't want to let those people down as I 0:22:11.840 --> 0:22:13.959 had the sick time. I've been saving sick days for 0:22:14.000 --> 0:22:18.120 ten years, and so I took the night off and 0:22:19.720 --> 0:22:22.280 I watched the Clipper game, and I stayed up. I 0:22:22.320 --> 0:22:24.920 didn't go to bed, I stayed up. I just rested 0:22:24.960 --> 0:22:28.439 my voice. I did some garlic, I sucked on some 0:22:28.560 --> 0:22:33.480 rock garlic, I did some gargling, the whole thing, and 0:22:33.880 --> 0:22:37.000 fortunately my voice held up. I was able to do 0:22:38.240 --> 0:22:43.240 the TV show and it went pretty well. You'll be 0:22:43.280 --> 0:22:45.480 the judge of that again. It'll start airing later today, 0:22:45.560 --> 0:22:49.840 and I thought my voice was relatively solid, much better 0:22:49.880 --> 0:22:53.600 than it would have been had I done the radio show. 0:22:53.720 --> 0:22:57.240 And didn't want to take any chances, because you know, 0:22:58.080 --> 0:23:00.880 not that I it's not only the fact that there's 0:23:00.880 --> 0:23:03.200 a lot of people depending on me for the TV show, 0:23:03.240 --> 0:23:07.040 it's also I had the sick time. And I don't 0:23:07.080 --> 0:23:08.840 know if you know this, but television pays a little 0:23:08.840 --> 0:23:11.160 bit more than radio, just a little bit. A half 0:23:11.200 --> 0:23:14.520 hour TV show pays a little better than a four 0:23:14.560 --> 0:23:18.639 hour nighttime radio show, which seems impossible but not really 0:23:19.720 --> 0:23:23.120 not really time now, time now for what what time 0:23:23.200 --> 0:23:25.040 is it? Well, it's time for me to end the podcast. No, 0:23:25.080 --> 0:23:30.280 it's not. Because we have the always popular Footy Fun, 0:23:32.480 --> 0:23:37.359 Footy Fun. Let's do it a few items. I'm not 0:23:37.359 --> 0:23:38.680 gonna do too many of these things, but some of 0:23:38.680 --> 0:23:41.680 the new items coming out and about. And I had 0:23:41.680 --> 0:23:46.080 an epiphany. I was driving my A seven eleven. I said, 0:23:46.119 --> 0:23:48.720 the number one person to going who goes into seven 0:23:48.760 --> 0:23:55.640 eleven and buys their lunch contractors, construction guys, you are 0:23:55.640 --> 0:24:00.399 the boys. Without you, seven to eleven would not be 0:24:00.440 --> 0:24:02.920 able to sell as much food. I bring that up. 0:24:03.440 --> 0:24:05.800 We have a great number of people that work as 0:24:05.880 --> 0:24:10.000 handyman and the contracting jobs, plumbers, things like that. So 0:24:10.359 --> 0:24:13.920 seven eleven launching the new five dollars pizza meal deal. 0:24:14.600 --> 0:24:17.200 But they also have wait, there's more, the new Philly 0:24:17.320 --> 0:24:21.560 cheese steak pizza. It's available starting October thirtieth, so coming 0:24:21.640 --> 0:24:25.400 up next week through January seventh of the new year. 0:24:26.560 --> 0:24:29.320 So go to seven of how good could a cheese 0:24:29.320 --> 0:24:34.760 steak be? At seven eleven? Let me know that's a 0:24:34.880 --> 0:24:37.080 day before Halloween. That thing's going to debut with the 0:24:37.080 --> 0:24:41.399 Philly cheese steak Pizza. Now I've made cheese steak pizza before. 0:24:41.760 --> 0:24:44.800 Not bad, not bad. All the ingredients are right there. 0:24:44.840 --> 0:24:49.399 You got the bell pepper, the onion, you got the beef, 0:24:49.760 --> 0:24:53.000 and you throw in you know, the proper amount of 0:24:53.040 --> 0:24:57.080 cheese and that's it. I mean, it's pretty easy, tomato, sauce, 0:24:57.280 --> 0:25:01.920 mix it all together. Subway new deserted Subway they've introduced. 0:25:01.960 --> 0:25:05.200 This is right up the alley of alf the Alien Opiner. 0:25:06.200 --> 0:25:10.000 Unless it's not maybe more fer Dog the new double 0:25:10.200 --> 0:25:16.280