Speaker 1: Kabooms.
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. Wow to clearinghouse of
Speaker 2: hot takes, break free for something special. The Fifth Hour
Speaker 2: with Ben Maller starts right now in the air.
Speaker 1: Eywey, Welcome to another sparkling edition of The Fifth Hour
Speaker 1: with Ben Mahler and Danny G. The thirteenth day of
Speaker 1: the month of January. But more importantly, Danny, for our purposes,
Speaker 1: we have football action on wild Card weekend. It begins
Speaker 1: later today, double barrel action. Are you do you have
Speaker 1: a proper cushion to sit on, Danny G to watch
Speaker 1: the two games later today?
Speaker 3: Well, first, I think we should start with the major news,
Speaker 3: fourth big announcement of the week. Okay, first we had
Speaker 3: Pat Carroll, then Nick Saban, then of course Bill Belichick,
Speaker 3: and I hear that Ben Mallor is going to be
Speaker 3: retiring from radio.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, I'm retiring doing TV now, Danny, I have
Speaker 1: much too important to do radio so I that is
Speaker 1: a fair point. I have decided that this is my
Speaker 1: last podcast. We won't even do the Sunday podcast. This
Speaker 1: is it, this is all I'm doing. I'm retiring. I
Speaker 1: just need to spend more time with my family. That's
Speaker 1: all I need to do. Danny, that's what a week.
Speaker 4: Huh Yeah, crazy week.
Speaker 3: And I feel like when you and I get to
Speaker 3: that age, though, our only option is going to be
Speaker 3: like a Walmart greeter.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, we're not at the financial status of Nick Saban.
Speaker 1: Although I am a conspiracy theory guy, Danny, I am
Speaker 1: one that believes that, hey, wait a minute here, there's
Speaker 1: more to the story. We're not getting the whole story.
Speaker 1: Like I'm kind of that guy. I think we're getting
Speaker 1: a version of what happened. But there's a lot of
Speaker 1: stuff that's being left on the cutting room floor that's
Speaker 1: on the same thing. And really the Belichick thing too,
Speaker 1: because and I mentioned this in a monologue this week
Speaker 1: where I was talking about Belichick and it was like
Speaker 1: I was like in a show me state of mind.
Speaker 1: I was like, all right, let's see this actually play out.
Speaker 1: And the fact that they waited until Thursday, you know, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday.
Speaker 1: It tells you that there was some consternation with the
Speaker 1: Patriots and that this line that they were using that
Speaker 1: it was a mutual decision. It's it's never people break up.
Speaker 1: I look at this like breakups.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 1: It's someone has to be the first person to say,
Speaker 1: all right, it's over, we're done. You know what I mean, Dan,
Speaker 1: It's it's not like you don't exactly the same time.
Speaker 1: Maybe it happened a handful of times, but at the
Speaker 1: exact same time. Come on, that's bullshit.
Speaker 3: One person is drinking to ease the pain. The other
Speaker 3: person is drinking to have fun.
Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly, exactly. So you know, the mutual. When I
Speaker 1: hear a mutual decision, I say bullshit, that's what That's
Speaker 1: what I say in my head. And uh, and that's
Speaker 1: just the reality of the situation the way I see it.
Speaker 1: So you know, take that for what it's worth now. Uh.
Speaker 1: With that being said, great week for talk radio. I
Speaker 1: was texting some of my radio friends that I have
Speaker 1: a little network, and we were talking about how we
Speaker 1: need to really relish this, really enjoy this. When we
Speaker 1: are breaking down mock drafts and who's going to be
Speaker 1: selected in the sixth round by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
Speaker 1: You know, it's like that. That's that's where we have
Speaker 1: to we have to enjoy days like that. We had
Speaker 1: this week and it was great, and I want to
Speaker 1: thank the NFL because what they've done is it's no
Speaker 1: longer black Monday Racist. It's an entire week of festivities
Speaker 1: because you had on Monday, well, Sunday night it started
Speaker 1: Arthur Blank was fired Arthur Smith. Rather Arthur Blank fired
Speaker 1: Arthur Smith. Who Sunday night. Then Monday you had Ron Rivera.
Speaker 1: Tuesday was Mike Rabel, Wednesday was Pete Carroll, Thursday was
Speaker 1: Bill Belichick and also Wednesday you had Nick Savor. That's
Speaker 1: great and I have proposed that the NFL what they
Speaker 1: should do. I mentioned this on the Overnight Show, but maybe.
Speaker 4: You hear it.
Speaker 1: What the NFL should do is when coaches start getting hired,
Speaker 1: they should have each day dedicated to a different team,
Speaker 1: like the Raiders get Tuesday, and after that, you know,
Speaker 1: the Falcons can hire their coach on a Wednesday, and
Speaker 1: the Patriots they can go on a Thursday. And just
Speaker 1: like boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom
Speaker 1: boom boom boom boom boom, just like that, because for
Speaker 1: guys like us, Dandy, that would be great, right, that
Speaker 1: we'd be able to bite into everything we wonder.
Speaker 3: Yeah, whenever you have a fresh headline every day for
Speaker 3: every show, it's awesome.
Speaker 1: No, it's a wonderful thing. And today, you know who
Speaker 1: knows this, we got football, so actual games, so I
Speaker 1: guess we don't have to worry. But as far as
Speaker 1: this podcast, we've got to bucko Bruce, Religious Revival, back
Speaker 1: to school, the term of the week, not to be
Speaker 1: confused with the word of the week or the stuff
Speaker 1: that we did on yesterday's podcast. And we'll see what
Speaker 1: else we have time for. But I want to start
Speaker 1: with this. So the other day I got a text
Speaker 1: message from a member of the Fox Sports Radio Alumni Association.
Speaker 1: And if you've heard the podcast and the radio show
Speaker 1: over the years, you know that when you're part of
Speaker 1: the FSR Alumni Association, you're awesome, right, You're fantastic, You're wonderful.
Speaker 1: All that a very special group of people who worked
Speaker 1: at Fox Sports Radio. And there's a lot of people
Speaker 1: who have worked at Fox Sports RADO over the years.
Speaker 1: So this guy reaches out to me and he's like, hey,
Speaker 1: I want to have you come on my podcast. And
Speaker 1: you know, I don't know. I try to help out
Speaker 1: people when I can.
Speaker 4: Gaston has his own podcast. Now who I.
Speaker 1: Don't I don't know who that who's at? Well say
Speaker 1: what yeah, I think he's running LA into the ground.
Speaker 1: Gascott isn't he the district attorney anyway? So so I said, okay,
Speaker 1: I'll do it. So the guy is TJ Reeves. If
Speaker 1: you've listened to Fox Sports Radio a lot over the years,
Speaker 1: you know who.
Speaker 4: TV buccaneers sideline reporter.
Speaker 1: The Buck's Sideline guy exactly, Buck Obruce And so he
Speaker 1: does a couple of different podcasts and TJ wanted me
Speaker 1: to come out, so we chatted. It was supposed to
Speaker 1: be about thirty minutes. I think we did almost an hour.
Speaker 1: I think it seemed like it was an hour, and
Speaker 1: we were just catching up, telling stories about the Z
Speaker 1: dog an e Z, one of the bosses at Fox
Speaker 1: in the early days, and breaking everything down and tossing
Speaker 1: it up, putting some Cayenne pepper on it. And it
Speaker 1: was a really fun conversation because it was kind of
Speaker 1: about radio and the evolution of the business and how
Speaker 1: it's changed because me and TJ we're around the same age. Danny,
Speaker 1: You're kind of in the same group as us, and
Speaker 1: so just talking about the way it was in radio
Speaker 1: when we got into it and how it has evolved
Speaker 1: over the years and it's a much different animal now
Speaker 1: than it was. And I actually sent out a link
Speaker 1: to that if you want to hear that podcast. But
Speaker 1: you should listen to all these podcasts before you listen
Speaker 1: to that, Like that should be like the last thing
Speaker 1: that you listen to. Like that's like if you're on
Speaker 1: a long road trip you're moving man, Matt and you're
Speaker 1: going around the country, that's what you listen to after
Speaker 1: you've listened to all the archive of this podcast.
Speaker 4: But it was fun.
Speaker 1: It was fun to catch up with TJ. And it
Speaker 1: made me feel old because when TJ worked at Fox
Speaker 1: Sports Radio, he was a doting father bragging about his
Speaker 1: little girls and all that. And then then of course
Speaker 1: now he gave me an update and they're almost out
Speaker 1: of high school. So it's a boom just happened really fast,
Speaker 1: like really fast.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, it goes so fast. Cole is already riding
Speaker 3: a big wheel.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Cole actually went out to the bar and had
Speaker 1: a beer with you the other day, right, beer nuts
Speaker 1: at the bar talking about girls. So that was fun
Speaker 1: with Brocco Bruce. So this was a wild day. So
Speaker 1: this is the same day. I had a lot going on.
Speaker 1: I had a lot going on this day. So I
Speaker 1: did the conversation with TJ Reeves on his podcast. So
Speaker 1: then I had a conference call with NBC about the
Speaker 1: TV show because we're still doing it and it's on
Speaker 1: this week, is on, it was on yesterday, and he's
Speaker 1: even on today. It's gonna be awkward because it'll be
Speaker 1: broadcast even after the first couple of playoff games. Normally,
Speaker 1: in the past there's a kill switch on Benny Versus
Speaker 1: the Penny. Once the games kick off on Sunday, that's it.
Speaker 1: They don't air the show anymore because it's not evergreen,
Speaker 1: it's dated. But because of the playoffs, they made a
Speaker 1: decision to continue to broadcast it, and they actually released
Speaker 1: the show on Thursday this week, and it was It
Speaker 1: was kind of cool because normally just airs on Friday,
Speaker 1: Saturday and Sunday morning, but now it was on Thursday
Speaker 1: in some markets, and so that's that was gonna go anyway.
Speaker 1: The whole point of this is that I did the TJ.
Speaker 1: Reeves podcast. I then had a conference call, but I
Speaker 1: had about thirty minutes in between. I had about thirty
Speaker 1: minutes in between, and I had a decision do I
Speaker 1: just sit there and kind of twiddle my thumbs, which
Speaker 1: is nothing wrong with that. I could have played Solitaire
Speaker 1: on my phone and would have loved that. I love
Speaker 1: playing solitaire. Could have done that, and then I could
Speaker 1: have just like stared at a wall. Or I decided,
Speaker 1: you know what, why did I go on Marcel in
Speaker 1: Brooklyn's YouTube show? This is shame?
Speaker 2: What mean?
Speaker 1: Yeah? So so Marcel from the Projects there in Brooklyn
Speaker 1: has a YouTube show, like a Facebook YouTube show, and
Speaker 1: he had sent me a a stream yard. Is that
Speaker 1: what it is? Streamyard? I think it's what it's called.
Speaker 1: He sent me a link and he's like, hey, you
Speaker 1: know when I have you on? And I was like, okay,
Speaker 1: whatever you know, and I was like, ah, thirty five
Speaker 1: thousand bucks, I'll come on. That's my appearance fee, that's
Speaker 1: what it cost to get me. But for some reason,
Speaker 1: I was like, you know what, why don't I just
Speaker 1: I'll do it for like a few minutes, I'll go
Speaker 1: on there for a few minutes and I'll I'll just
Speaker 1: say hello to him and see what's going on. I
Speaker 1: think it'd be funny. And so I log in to
Speaker 1: this this link, and all of a sudden boom, I'm
Speaker 1: on his show, which I think friends and family watch
Speaker 1: and one of those deals. And I gotta tell you,
Speaker 1: I'm so happy I did it. The smile, the joy
Speaker 1: that Marcel had on his face was unbelievable for him.
Speaker 1: This was like an amazing thing. And I mean just
Speaker 1: getting that reaction, I mean, who the hell am I doing?
Speaker 1: Overnight show? You know who the f am I and.
Speaker 4: You are his old Trump?
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, I mean it felt like that. I was like,
Speaker 1: I was like the Beatles, I was. I was like,
Speaker 1: you know, Taylor Swift going out on stage, the way
Speaker 1: that he reacted with pure joy in his heart and
Speaker 1: a cheshire cat smile, and he was giddy, and it
Speaker 1: was just wonderful. I just enjoyed the hell out of it,
Speaker 1: and it was great. It made me feel good. Then
Speaker 1: congratulations made me feel like I did a good thing.
Speaker 1: And then immediately after that, Danny, this is this is
Speaker 1: you know, no good deed goes on punished. So immediately
Speaker 1: after that, me and Marcella talking and he says, let's
Speaker 1: do a prayer. He then it turns into a religious revival.
Speaker 1: He now not knowing does he not do the prayer.
Speaker 1: He plays a some minister that he found on the
Speaker 1: internet doing the daily prayer. No, I'm not against the way,
Speaker 1: was it, Kurt Warner? Yeah, thank you Jesus, Jesus. So
Speaker 1: I'm not against any of that. I give sermons every
Speaker 1: night on the radio. I do four sermons a night.
Speaker 1: The mall monologues a sermon. But I was not expected.
Speaker 1: I was blindsided. Danny like, I'm thinking, I'll just go
Speaker 1: on there for five minutes. I'll bust marselves balls a
Speaker 1: little bit, we'll talk some sports, I'll get out. Next
Speaker 1: thing I know, I'm sitting in the tabernacle. It's just like,
Speaker 1: what are we doing? Was unreal? So then after that,
Speaker 1: I was like, I didn't know what to do, because
Speaker 1: you can't. I was going to hang up, but I
Speaker 1: was like, you can't hang up in a prayer. The
Speaker 1: guy's doing a prayer. Can't hang up here.
Speaker 4: Transition.
Speaker 1: I had to wait till the prayer was over. I
Speaker 1: just kind of sat there bemused. I was like, what
Speaker 1: is going on? And then once the prayer ended, Danny
Speaker 1: I was like, okay, now I'm out. Now I'm going
Speaker 1: to make the quick I'm going to make the Irish goodbye.
Speaker 1: And I did actually have to go. I could have
Speaker 1: gone like fifteen minutes later, but I was like, no,
Speaker 1: after that, I'm good.
Speaker 3: I like when we were little kids you could finally
Speaker 3: loosen your tie or take off the clip on bow tie,
Speaker 3: and then your mom took you for the Sunday special
Speaker 3: at Burger King.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah. The best part of you know, for
Speaker 1: me temple, for you church, the best part was when
Speaker 1: it was over right and you're like, all right, I'm good,
Speaker 1: I survived another week.
Speaker 4: Oh.
Speaker 3: During the song in the prayer, me and my older
Speaker 3: brother would try to not make each other laugh because
Speaker 3: my mom would give us the evil side eye and say.
Speaker 4: You're not getting burger King after this.
Speaker 3: If you keep laughing, the more you try not to laugh,
Speaker 3: the more you laugh.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, for sure. And now these days, as an adult, Danny,
Speaker 1: if somebody said, hey, you're not gonna get your burger King,
Speaker 1: you'd probably be Okay, I'm good. I don't need the
Speaker 1: burger king. I'm all right, I've moved on. I don't
Speaker 1: need the whopper, I'm fine and all that. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I remember we were kids and we would be dragged.
Speaker 1: Usually Friday night there was a service and we'd go
Speaker 1: there and we knew we realized at some point like
Speaker 1: if we kind of futched around at the beginning, our
Speaker 1: mom would let us go outside and just play. And
Speaker 1: so we kind of went that direction as often as
Speaker 1: we could. But it's a it's a back to school
Speaker 1: kind of experience Danny's word. It's kind of a back
Speaker 1: to school thing, you know.
Speaker 3: Yeah, this past Tuesday, school started back up for my
Speaker 3: school district, so I had to set my alarm clock
Speaker 3: for five point fifty am. You know, getting up for
Speaker 3: me is not that difficult because in radio we work
Speaker 3: a lot of weird hours. The time isn't what gets me.
Speaker 3: It's the weather right now. What thirty eight degrees for
Speaker 3: us is icy. It's hard in the thirty eight degree
Speaker 3: weather for a southern California kid. Damn, I put two
Speaker 3: layers of clothes on. I never do that because.
Speaker 4: I run hot greaty to bring the gas still.
Speaker 3: Dark outside, I pull up to the school, I open
Speaker 3: up the campus. I get into my classroom and usually
Speaker 3: I'm in there for about ten minutes setting things up
Speaker 3: before the first students start arriving. But the weirdest thing
Speaker 3: ben is the first day back to school. I'm wondering
Speaker 3: what mood the kids are going to be in. They
Speaker 3: had a long winter break. Are they going to be
Speaker 3: in a good mood? Are they going to be tired
Speaker 3: and grouchy because they've been, you know, staying up until
Speaker 3: two am every day and sleeping in until noon like
Speaker 3: a lot of middle school kids do during their breaks.
Speaker 3: I'm waiting, I'm waiting. I look up at the clock.
Speaker 3: It's now seven twenty. No kids, it's now seven point thirty.
Speaker 3: Not one student?
Speaker 1: OK.
Speaker 4: I looked.
Speaker 3: I double checked the school calendar. I'm like, am I
Speaker 3: here a day before school opens back up?
Speaker 4: That would have been embarrassing. That would have been bad. Yeah,
Speaker 4: you know.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: The first student did not arrive to my classroom until
Speaker 3: seven forty five am. That's only fifteen minutes before kids
Speaker 3: start running around finding their home room. It was amazing,
Speaker 3: and I think besides it being the first day back,
Speaker 3: the cold weather must have made everybody run late and
Speaker 3: stay inside their warm house and their warm bed for
Speaker 3: longer than they should have. There's no other explanation. I've
Speaker 3: never had. The first student arrived that late. I wound
Speaker 3: up signing out three kids at eight fifteen am, three
Speaker 3: students the whole morning.
Speaker 1: Yeah, as far as the cold weather stuff, it did
Speaker 1: feel like this week, you know, California cold, which is
Speaker 1: a different kind of cold. But I am proud to
Speaker 1: say that the listener I talked about this, I think
Speaker 1: last week on the podcast. Our friend Chris from North
Speaker 1: Carolina was out here and he's from Wisconsin, and he
Speaker 1: was complaining about how cold it was outside the FSR studios.
Speaker 1: Of course we let him sit outside for about forty minutes,
Speaker 1: but he was complaining about that. But yeah, it's our
Speaker 1: version of Siberia. And unlike you, Danny, because you're actually
Speaker 1: kind of an an adult. You're a father now, so
Speaker 1: you're an adult. You're a grown up, and you know
Speaker 1: that you should wear an extra coat. But I'm like, no,
Speaker 1: I'm not. You know, I still think of myself as
Speaker 1: a job of the hut, where I never needed to
Speaker 1: wear extra clothing at all, And so when I go out,
Speaker 1: even on the cold weather, when it gets you know,
Speaker 1: the night we work it over and I work over night,
Speaker 1: and so we're there. I'm getting out driving around, going
Speaker 1: to my car, and it's in the thirties. It's in
Speaker 1: the thirties, which is cold. That's cold anywhere. Thirties is
Speaker 1: in the cold range. And it's funny at the TV show.
Speaker 1: We get there and there's still a polar vortex going on.
Speaker 1: It's cold and chili and all that stuff, and I'm like,
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna wear an extra jacket, so I just
Speaker 1: like walk in my clothes short sleeves, you know, sometimes shorts.
Speaker 1: And by the time I get from the parking lot,
Speaker 1: the Abbott and Costello parking garage, to to the to
Speaker 1: the NBC whatever news bureau there and I walk in,
Speaker 1: I'm as cold as a frosted frog. I am. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's like it's I've got like, you know that mucus
Speaker 1: that kind of freezes on your nose because your nose
Speaker 1: runs because it's so cold. Like, dude, It's like, what
Speaker 1: is this?
Speaker 3: The people who brag about being in the coldest places
Speaker 3: on our planet are interesting because, in fact, this came
Speaker 3: up on the Covino and Rich Show last week. One
Speaker 3: of the topics was weird flexes. Things people brag about,
Speaker 3: but it's kind of a strange brag. Sometimes people are
Speaker 3: like minus ten right now, and somebody tries to one
Speaker 3: up them, like, no, no, I'm up here in Canada
Speaker 3: and it's minus twenty degrees. I know this has happened
Speaker 3: on your show before, where you mentioned the weather or
Speaker 3: something like that, and then you get a hundred messages
Speaker 3: of people telling you what their weather is.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, for sure. Well there's two things that happen,
Speaker 1: and this is universal as long as I've been in radio.
Speaker 1: If you say the weather, you get hundreds of people
Speaker 1: that will say it's either hotter where they are or
Speaker 1: colder where they are. And you say the price of gas.
Speaker 4: Oh that's another good one.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the price. I'll say I can't believe how expensive
Speaker 1: gas is in California. I will then get a parade
Speaker 1: of people saying, well, I live in Texas and I
Speaker 1: paid three dollars less a gallon than you pay it.
Speaker 1: It's like it's that kind of thing. It's usually not
Speaker 1: people saying it's more expensive, because it's hard to get
Speaker 1: more expensive than the crappy California gas prices. It's usually
Speaker 1: people saying, hey, yeah, so much cheaper.
Speaker 3: And yeah they're bragging about how much cheaper their gas is.
Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly, exactly.
Speaker 3: Like you loser, my gas is three point fifty nine. Meanwhile,
Speaker 3: you and I are pumping six dollars and fifty cent gas.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and we think we get a deal because it
Speaker 1: was six dollars and sixty five cents the day before
Speaker 1: at Costco. So we were like, we're saving fifteen cents
Speaker 1: a gallon, and like we're in really good shape. We're
Speaker 1: in really good shape with that term of the week.
Speaker 1: Are you ready for the term of the week, the
Speaker 1: term of the week, Yeah, big bit, big bit. On
Speaker 1: the show all I love words and I like to
Speaker 1: change up my lexicon. I was having a conversation with
Speaker 1: Looney Tunes this week about how the sports media, just
Speaker 1: media in general could be so much better if everyone
Speaker 1: just worked on improving their their lexicon, just improving the
Speaker 1: different versions of words we say. And I'm not perfect.
Speaker 1: I screw up a lot of words. In fact, I
Speaker 1: get more emails from listeners, hey you mispronounced that word.
Speaker 1: You know you screwed that word up. And of course
Speaker 1: in my head, I never make any mistakes. There's no
Speaker 1: weak spots at all, And everything I say is the
Speaker 1: King's English. And people will point out, no, you screwed up,
Speaker 1: that was a mistake, blah blah blah. You know.
Speaker 3: Oh, and the great Rick D's taught you years ago
Speaker 3: to make those mistakes on purpose so that you know
Speaker 3: which listeners are paying attention.
Speaker 1: Exactly one of the greatest pieces of advice I've ever gotten.
Speaker 1: I love that to death. Rick D's radio legend, the
Speaker 1: biggest DJ in LA for Top forty radio when I
Speaker 1: was a kid and had a TV show, came up
Speaker 1: with the number one song and all that, and yeah,
Speaker 1: he came under. He used to record the first hour
Speaker 1: of a show on Kiss FM, and and he would say, yeah,
Speaker 1: just make make a mistake, leave it in there. People
Speaker 1: hear mistakes and they love to correct you. But they
Speaker 1: also they would assume that it's a live show. They
Speaker 1: would assume it's a live show. So the term of
Speaker 1: the week, which is I end of a word of
Speaker 1: a week, but I think of it as a term.
Speaker 1: It's something that I've used quite a bit called hum
Speaker 1: dinger um dinger That is a hum dinger of a.
Speaker 4: Story that's not sure you can say that word on
Speaker 4: the podcast.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm gonn get in trouble. They're gonna get bleeped.
Speaker 1: Are we gonna gonna be outlawed?
Speaker 4: Black List are talking about dingers again?
Speaker 1: I know, I know, I know. My right hand was
Speaker 1: getting a workout. So there's a couple of bogus stories.
Speaker 1: But I love the bogus stories on the origin of
Speaker 1: this word. And these have gone around the Internet for years,
Speaker 1: and one of them comes back somebody that was allegedly
Speaker 1: named Arnold Humdinger. And the legend, the internet legend, is
Speaker 1: have you heard this? By the way, Danny, this is
Speaker 1: a lot.
Speaker 4: I feel like you're making this up.
Speaker 1: No, no, no, the Internet made it up. I just
Speaker 1: I've seen it over the years, and at one point,
Speaker 1: at one point in my life, I actually thought this
Speaker 1: was actually true. I thought this was true.
Speaker 5: So the story goes long ago, in the eighteen hundreds,
Speaker 5: there was a guy named Arnold Humdinger who tried to
Speaker 5: land his biplane on the summit of Mount.
Speaker 1: Everest, very difficult to do, right, and since he attempted
Speaker 1: to do that, anything that was outrageous and over the
Speaker 1: top has been called a hum Dinger. In honor of
Speaker 1: good old Arnold humdinger. Unfortunately that is not true. That
Speaker 1: is horse junk or bullshoy or whatever you want to say.
Speaker 1: So the real story, the word humdinger is an American word,
Speaker 1: so we can pat ourselves in the back. And the
Speaker 1: original origin is not completely known, but it was first
Speaker 1: used in the United States in the early nineteen hundreds.
Speaker 1: It believes to date back to the late eighteen hundreds.
Speaker 1: The theory behind it is, in those days in American English,
Speaker 1: the term dinger was a slang term that if they
Speaker 1: had Urban Dictionary back in like eighteen eighty seven, you know,
Speaker 1: dinger would have been in there. Danny, that's a kid's term.
Speaker 1: Those kiddos used dinger back in the late eighteen hundreds,
Speaker 1: and at that time it meant anything that was just
Speaker 1: over the top superlative would be a dinger, and that's
Speaker 1: just what it meant. And so they added hum to that,
Speaker 1: and then they got hum dinger as an added bonus,
Speaker 1: and then the word dinger is not used very much today.
Speaker 1: There's only one thing I know of they used the
Speaker 1: word dinger for, and I think we both know what
Speaker 1: that is. Right, when you think of a dinger, what
Speaker 1: do you think do you think of baseball, right a dinger? Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: tany hitting a dinger. But that's it. They don't it
Speaker 1: doesn't have you used the word dinger for any other reason.
Speaker 4: Ding.
Speaker 1: I know Tim Conway, our buddy over at KFI and
Speaker 1: LA it does the Afternoon Drive show. Conway uses ding dong.
Speaker 1: I don't think he uses dinger though, because he used
Speaker 1: I don't think he uses dinger.
Speaker 4: I don't think so.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't think that's that's part of his his
Speaker 1: lexing anyway. The term of the week hum dinger, and
Speaker 1: I do use that one. That's one I used, Danny.
Speaker 1: I liked that's a fun word to say. People kind
Speaker 1: of smile when they hear the word hum dinger. They
Speaker 1: like it. They like it. Now, how are you celebrating Danny?
Speaker 1: National rubber ducky Day? Today is National rubber ducky Day.
Speaker 1: Are you doing anything special to celebrate National rubber ducky Day?
Speaker 4: Rubber ducky. I'm going to give Coha a bath.
Speaker 3: And I think the only ducky has those of stuffed animals,
Speaker 3: so that might be kind of soggy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that would be difficult. You gotta get him a
Speaker 1: rubber ducky, you know, I'll buy him one. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: get him a rubber ducky. I'm gonna get I want
Speaker 1: cold when he takes a bath. To have a rubber ducky,
Speaker 1: you gotta have a rubber ducky. Man, we gotta get
Speaker 1: a Now, how about a big rubber ducky, like a
Speaker 1: jumbo sized rubber ducky that's like next level rubber ducky
Speaker 1: on steroids.
Speaker 3: Now, that would help get him in the bathtub, because,
Speaker 3: as I told the story on last weekend's podcast, Parent Fail,
Speaker 3: Double Fail, him getting a cold and getting almost a
Speaker 3: near eye infection with that soap in his eye from
Speaker 3: the bath and ever since then, he doesn't want to
Speaker 3: go near the bathtub.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yes, And it's a it's survival of the
Speaker 1: Fittest Danny right when you learn it's National sticker Day today,
Speaker 1: so celebrate that. Oh here's one that relates to our world, Danny.
Speaker 1: It's National Public Radio Broadcasting Day.
Speaker 4: Oh our future.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, public. I have a buddy of mine in
Speaker 1: the early days of LA Sports radio, this guy named
Speaker 1: A Martinez, you know, a good dude. I love a
Speaker 1: But he went into public radio, public broadcasting, and he's
Speaker 1: made a lot of money. He still does it as
Speaker 1: far as I know. It's like the West Coast Bureau
Speaker 1: guy for public radio.
Speaker 3: And yeah, he left the ESPN LA radio station to
Speaker 3: do public radio.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we worked together back then, so I don't want
Speaker 1: to say when. It was a long, long time ago,
Speaker 1: but we were young punks and he went to public radio.
Speaker 1: And I still to this day like the bust balls
Speaker 1: of people that listen to public radio and they think
Speaker 1: they're better than everyone else. Right, you listen to public radio, like, hey,
Speaker 1: you know, I read what are the Things West of
Speaker 1: the four or five?
Speaker 5: An?
Speaker 1: I read The New York Times, and I listened to
Speaker 1: public radio. Now, I guess it's a certain podcast that
Speaker 1: you listen to. I'm not sure their names. Anyway, we'll
Speaker 1: get out on that. We got football tonight. TV show
Speaker 1: is on Benny Versus the Penny. Check that out. We'd
Speaker 1: love to have you watch. That would be awesome. What
Speaker 1: do you have going on your world, Danny today? I
Speaker 1: know we'll be back on the Sunday Pod having fun there.
Speaker 3: Yeah for Saturday today, gonna watch some football. I'm hyped
Speaker 3: up for Super wild Card weekend, man, not just wild
Speaker 3: Card weekend. And then after that actually gonna go on
Speaker 3: a little date night. I should say, I should say
Speaker 3: date evening because cod can only be out until about
Speaker 3: seven pm.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Well, and and when you get older, you'll only be
Speaker 1: able to be out.
Speaker 4: Till seven in about five years.
Speaker 1: Who you got today? I got on the TV show.
Speaker 1: I picked the Texans and I picked the Chiefs tonight.
Speaker 4: Those are my.
Speaker 3: Oh, those are the same two I picked on Covino
Speaker 3: and Rich for Saturday.
Speaker 1: All right, well, hopefully you go to and oh, because
Speaker 1: then I will go to and Oh we'll both be.
Speaker 4: To and Oh. Yeah, let's go c J. Stroud.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm a love CJ. Stroud. It's a great story.
Speaker 1: All right, have a wonderful rest of your Saturday. And
Speaker 1: we got the mailback. We'll have the mailback for you tomorrow.
Speaker 3: Have a great day whatever you do later, Skaterva fulacious