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 in the.
Speaker 3: Air everywhere, and a happy Friday to you as we
Speaker 3: are recording this podcast in real time early on Friday,
Speaker 3: the fifteenth day of December, Ben Mallor and Danny g
Speaker 3: Radio because five.
Speaker 1: Overnights are not enough. As we are here every Friday,
Speaker 1: Saturday and Sunday original audio content. You have to follow
Speaker 1: the podcast. I assume you're already following because you're listening,
Speaker 1: but we are available all weekend long here with new
Speaker 1: podcasts and Danny. Have you recovered from the Raiders scoring
Speaker 1: over sixty points in an NFL game? A Raider team
Speaker 1: that has been unable to cross twenty most games putting
Speaker 1: up sixty three points. That was absolutely bonkers on Thursday
Speaker 1: night football.
Speaker 4: It's not often that I'm comfortable during a Raiders game,
Speaker 4: usually I'm biting my nails, I'm pacing. I usually can
Speaker 4: just have the game on my iPad as I'm finishing
Speaker 4: up at work and just have it on in the background.
Speaker 4: In this case, they scored so much that it interrupted
Speaker 4: me working on the podcast, so I got home late.
Speaker 4: I just hope they saved some points for next week
Speaker 4: at the Chiefs.
Speaker 1: Well, the key to this, if you want to score,
Speaker 1: is to have the other team just hand you the
Speaker 1: ball via door dash and just drop it off at
Speaker 1: your front door. So it was very kind of the
Speaker 1: Chargers who played. And I said this on the Overnight
Speaker 1: Show as I it reminds me of when I covered
Speaker 1: the Clippers in the nineties and every once in a
Speaker 1: while they you know, they passed through a lot of coaches,
Speaker 1: and sometimes the players just revolted on the coach and
Speaker 1: decided they were not going to play, and then they wouldn't,
Speaker 1: they wouldn't, and they would get the coach fired. Usually
Speaker 1: it took more than one game. But in the NFL,
Speaker 1: it's not like Brandon Staley, the coach of the Chargers,
Speaker 1: was you know, was locked into the job.
Speaker 4: It reminds me of when Josh McDaniels would speak like,
Speaker 4: get this guy out of here. He was the coach
Speaker 4: of my favorite team and I didn't like him. So
Speaker 4: I can't imagine what Charger fans, the few we know
Speaker 4: must think about all this. But blessing in disguise. Right
Speaker 4: as we're recording this, he's not fired yet, but that
Speaker 4: probably will be coming in an hour or two, I'm guessing.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean, the story is he's the ownership group has
Speaker 1: called Stalyan for a meeting, so that's generally a bad sign.
Speaker 1: That doesn't Yeah, that doesn't seem like a great time.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I mean, we're doing this on early Friday morning,
Speaker 1: and the plan is they will they will get together.
Speaker 1: I mean, you gotta fire the coach. You have to
Speaker 1: fire the coach you fire.
Speaker 4: This is the fifth year in a row that they
Speaker 4: have gone under their expected win total, which was nine
Speaker 4: and a half this year, by the way, and they
Speaker 4: are standing at five games. Pretty crazy when you look
Speaker 4: at that stat. They're always a paper tiger. They always
Speaker 4: blame it on injuries. They always have quote unquote bad
Speaker 4: luck with close games. When do you just say that
Speaker 4: they're a piece of crap team in the NFL messed
Speaker 4: up by putting them in LA Well, yeah, I.
Speaker 1: Mean that's it has not gone like they expect. There
Speaker 1: are a bunch of people, though, I go to these
Speaker 1: Charger games sometimes and there are a bunch of people
Speaker 1: that work for the Chargers on game day that still
Speaker 1: drive up from San Diego. It's an odd it's an
Speaker 1: odd thing. But the fans, the actual fans of the
Speaker 1: old San Diego Chargers, not a lot of them making
Speaker 1: the drive from San Diego up I five and crossing
Speaker 1: over the four or five there in the hood in Inglewood.
Speaker 1: But yeah, that's a that's a bad I mean, the
Speaker 1: Vegas odds makers that set the point the total for wins,
Speaker 1: I mean, they're pretty spot on right. If you're you're
Speaker 1: underachieving if you don't get to that level once in
Speaker 1: five years. And the Chargers have not hit on all
Speaker 1: cylinders since what Ladanian Tomlinson was playing for them.
Speaker 4: Is that?
Speaker 1: Am I going back far enough? No?
Speaker 5: You're right.
Speaker 4: I have nightmares about that dude running in touchdowns and
Speaker 4: throwing in touchdowns against my favorite team. You're right, that's
Speaker 4: when the Chargers were a threat to beat any team. Now,
Speaker 4: who would have thought, especially at the start, of the
Speaker 4: season because we always hear quote unquote experts picking them
Speaker 4: to go all the way or making it deep into
Speaker 4: the playoffs, and they always wind up wedding the bed.
Speaker 1: It'll happen again. Brandon Staley is not going to be
Speaker 1: coaching next year. The Spanos family will will have to
Speaker 1: get rid of him, and then they'll hire some whether
Speaker 1: it's Belichick or some other hot shot coach, and the
Speaker 1: media is going to hype up the Chargers. All they
Speaker 1: did I had to do was get rid of Brandon
Speaker 1: Staley and now it's gonna be sunshine, rainbows and lollipops.
Speaker 1: And just like last year, Justin Fields won MVP of
Speaker 1: the offseason, and they didn't make a coaching change, but
Speaker 1: they made a couple of roster moves right They added
Speaker 1: a wide receiver, they made some other moves, and we
Speaker 1: were all excited and saw how that worked out.
Speaker 4: And by the way, congrats to Antonio Pierce. You and
Speaker 4: I both called it. If he could get some wins
Speaker 4: under his belt, he would have a really good shot
Speaker 4: at getting the job. Based on the way Mark Davis
Speaker 4: was making those facial expressions last night, I don't see
Speaker 4: how he can't give Harris a long term contract.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean the Gruden rumors are still out there though,
Speaker 1: that he might come.
Speaker 5: Through, that that ship has sailed.
Speaker 1: Look at you, you're all in.
Speaker 5: But I was before this game. I mean, I liked
Speaker 5: what I saw.
Speaker 4: I know it was two New York teams that they
Speaker 4: beat up on, but I just like, I like his swag.
Speaker 4: The moment he was on the sideline as the leader
Speaker 4: of the team, it just looked right and it felt right.
Speaker 1: We're doing a sporty podcast, you know we're doing.
Speaker 5: I know I like it doing sporty. We better transition
Speaker 5: before half our audience.
Speaker 1: I know people don't tune in for sporty. They don't
Speaker 1: want that. They want to hear nonsense. But yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: pulling for Antonio Pierce because, as as I told you,
Speaker 1: I one of my buddies from from high school. His
Speaker 1: sister is very good friends with Antonio Pearce has known
Speaker 1: him since he was coaching in high school. And possibly
Speaker 1: if he gets the Raider job, she might end up
Speaker 1: moving moving to Vegas so and working for the Raiders,
Speaker 1: which would be which be cook. I think then I
Speaker 1: might be able to get the tickets or something, you know,
Speaker 1: and then then you can go. We'll go together. Anyway.
Speaker 1: We have eat, drink and be merry, Unappreciated comedy and
Speaker 1: dream Weaver and we'll get to all that. We also
Speaker 1: have the Word of the Week. So it's a jam
Speaker 1: packed pod and we just started with about seven or
Speaker 1: eight minutes of hot sports talk. So anyway, yeah, Joe,
Speaker 1: I mean that Raider game was so crazy. I'm like,
Speaker 1: I'm watching it. You know, these games Thursday night Football,
Speaker 1: coming on after the game doing the over reread show,
Speaker 1: I'm like, well, these games are usually terrible, and that
Speaker 1: game was supposed to be bad.
Speaker 4: Rich Davis told us on the afternoon show to take
Speaker 4: the under neither team would score twenty. I try to
Speaker 4: tell him what the game meant for Antonio Pears, and
Speaker 4: he brushed me off. This was a game I was told,
Speaker 4: don't even bother to watch it. And then they score
Speaker 4: a franchise record, and I mean, they broke all kinds
Speaker 4: of records last night.
Speaker 5: It was insane.
Speaker 4: And that Jack Jones interception, it was a throwaway. The
Speaker 4: Patriots kicked him off their team, and that was the
Speaker 4: most athletic defensive move I've seen all season on the
Speaker 4: Raider team. And their defense has been pretty decent. I
Speaker 4: had to keep watching that back. I think it was
Speaker 4: underappreciated because of what happened with everything else. That one
Speaker 4: handed grab as he was floating in the other direction.
Speaker 4: That was like some mentalist shit in Vegas. That was
Speaker 4: so awesome.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and you wonder why more defensive backs can't make
Speaker 1: that because he just he read the play, he saw
Speaker 1: what was going to happen, and he reacted. And you
Speaker 1: see that in basketball where guys will jump the passing lane.
Speaker 1: You don't see that often on that kind of play
Speaker 1: in the NFL, but you would think think there'll be
Speaker 1: other guys that'll copy that and try to mimic what
Speaker 1: was going on. But when I'm watching these games on
Speaker 1: Thursday night that I don't really have any interest in,
Speaker 1: and I'm not a Raider fan or a Charger fan,
Speaker 1: I don't even skinning the game. I do go to
Speaker 1: the Charger games, but I'm not a Charger guy, and
Speaker 1: I'm always looking for the story and I'm like, Wow,
Speaker 1: there's gonna be nothing really here. It's gonna be a
Speaker 1: you know, a seventeen, a twenty to seventeen game, and
Speaker 1: you know you got backup quarterback here for the Chargers
Speaker 1: and then that happens, so I was able to wax
Speaker 1: poet it, so I was happy about that. Before we
Speaker 1: get to eat, drink and be merry. Do want to
Speaker 1: shamelessly promote there's a little TV show that is popping up.
Speaker 1: It's called Benny Versus the Penny, and it'll be airing
Speaker 1: all over the country on regional cable television starting later today.
Speaker 1: The first airing, if I'm reading my notes properly, is
Speaker 1: in Chicago, seven o'clock local time in Chicago, which is
Speaker 1: five o'clock out here in LA on NBC Sports Chicago
Speaker 1: the Bulls and Blackhawks. I do not believe we're playing,
Speaker 1: so that's a prime spot for us at seven o'clock
Speaker 1: in Chicago. We'll be on late night after the Celtics
Speaker 1: game on NBC Sports Boston there Magic or playing the
Speaker 1: Celtics at the Garden there and that's our hub. The
Speaker 1: show's produced out of NBC Sports Boston, so we'll be
Speaker 1: on there at eleven and eleven thirty one on Philly
Speaker 1: tonight at eleven, and a couple of showings in the
Speaker 1: Bay Area today starting at six pm, and then we're
Speaker 1: on all day we have three airrings on Spectrum Sports
Speaker 1: Net SoCal on Saturday, and there's other airings on these channels.
Speaker 1: I'm just giving you some of the ones I know,
Speaker 1: and then the big slot for us in New York
Speaker 1: on Sunday morning. I'll remind you on Sunday, but we're
Speaker 1: on SNY, the channel of the Mets are on in
Speaker 1: New York Sunday morning at eleven thirty in the am.
Speaker 1: But eat drinking me Marry. So we strive, Danny. We strive,
Speaker 1: both of us profecstional radio guys, broadcasters. We strive for excellence,
Speaker 1: whether it's the fifth hour, you with Covino and Rich
Speaker 1: or me with the gas bag buddies I have there
Speaker 1: in the overnight. But the goal is to provide your
Speaker 1: ears with a cacophony of goodness. And as you escape,
Speaker 1: you unlock the door. I remember seeing this one as
Speaker 1: a get the key to imagination. Beyond it is another dimension, Danny,
Speaker 1: a dimension of sound, a dimension of mind. You're moving
Speaker 1: in to a land of both shadow and substance of
Speaker 1: things and ideas. You've crossed over into the Mallard zone,
Speaker 1: otherwise known as a twilight zone. But this is a
Speaker 1: yearly podcast. I now present, without further interruption, the twenty
Speaker 1: twenty three Mallard Ugly Sweater Party postgame show. Nobody else
Speaker 1: has this content, Danny. It is a global exclusive. iHeartMedia
Speaker 1: sparing no expense. Hey, the company paid a shopping four
Speaker 1: dollars and twenty eight cents to win a ginning war,
Speaker 1: so we're very happy. Last year we paid the company
Speaker 1: paid three dollars and eighty eight cents, So we've added
Speaker 1: value here. That's forty extra cents. Inflation is a mofo, Danny.
Speaker 5: WHOA You could buy a Panthers ticket with that?
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, And you're better off keeping the money though,
Speaker 1: and than buying a Panther's ticket. But what can you
Speaker 1: expect from the pod? Post game exclusive never before told stories.
Speaker 1: We're gonna go deep into the weeds. This year was
Speaker 1: an absolute blast. In fact, if you watch Benny Versus
Speaker 1: the Penny, you will see something that has never been
Speaker 1: broadcast before involving this event. And I'm gonna tell you
Speaker 1: when it happens, or how it happens, or what it is,
Speaker 1: but just file that away, file out away. Something related
Speaker 1: to this event made the television show. But we had
Speaker 1: a packed house. We had a great turnout and my
Speaker 1: wife's plan was accurate. Now last year we had a
Speaker 1: Halloween party and a Christmas party. Too many parties, so
Speaker 1: if you have one, everyone shows them. If you have two,
Speaker 1: people choose one and they don't go to the other.
Speaker 1: So we had we had one. We had Radio Royalty,
Speaker 1: big radio celebrities at Eddie Garcia made the appearance Iowa
Speaker 1: Sam Mike Harmon from The Jesus Show, Bobo on the radio,
Speaker 1: a legend Bobo who doesn't really work at our place anymore,
Speaker 1: but he did and I love Bobo. Rob Parker stop
Speaker 1: by with buddy of his, the great Art Martinez, the
Speaker 1: Prince of Darkness, League Line Ted Sobol. They have a
Speaker 1: bunch of other people that made the guest list, and
Speaker 1: then my wife had a bunch of her friends, so
Speaker 1: we had a bunch of police officers ex law enforcement people.
Speaker 1: There was a rambunctious night and sustenance is that a
Speaker 1: word I can say? I think this early in the morning. Yeah,
Speaker 1: food was provided, not to say grub exactly. And the
Speaker 1: menu we had the traditional nacho bar which is very popular.
Speaker 1: Kirkland brand pizza both pepperoni and cheese pizza. Here's a
Speaker 1: big one, Danny. A charcuterie board with various meats, cheeses,
Speaker 1: and crackers or Kuca River. Yeah, I just you know,
Speaker 1: I say it my own way. And we had a
Speaker 1: chocolate bar. I told you last weekend. I was busy
Speaker 1: making chocolate as the chocolate tear, and I posted some
Speaker 1: photos on Instagram and also on Facebook if you want
Speaker 1: to see. And I'm pretty proud of my chocolate. I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna lie, Danny. My chocolate game's on point, I think.
Speaker 1: But I had Hanukka chocolates. I had Christmas chocolates good
Speaker 1: for everyone. I didn't have any I didn't have any
Speaker 1: atheist chocolates. But those are just chocolates, so any of that.
Speaker 1: But people loved the bakery, Benny's Bakery. I made homemade
Speaker 1: chocolate chip and oatmeal raisin cookies and every tasty morsel
Speaker 1: finger licking good. And I can report exclusively on this
Speaker 1: postgame coverage here. On the fifth hours, everyone ate drank
Speaker 1: and was merry that the chocolate chip mixed with the
Speaker 1: peanut butter was a big hit. It was chewey ooey,
Speaker 1: gooey goodness, and it actually went quicker than the oatmeal
Speaker 1: raisin But the main reason I make the oatmeal raisin
Speaker 1: is because my wife likes so she actually is happy
Speaker 1: that people don't eat them as much. They did eat
Speaker 1: a lot of them, but they didn't need as much
Speaker 1: as the chocolate chip ones. In fact, I was told
Speaker 1: I have to double the chocolate chip for the family
Speaker 1: version of the party. So we've got that now, turning
Speaker 1: the page, Danny, we had unappreciated comedy. As we continue
Speaker 1: our in depth team coverage of the twenty twenty three
Speaker 1: malar Ugly Sweater party, the night got off to a
Speaker 1: rather bizarre start. People showed up around the time the
Speaker 1: party started. There are a few people early. Mike Harmon
Speaker 1: was the first one there, by the way, he was
Speaker 1: the first one there, and then there were a bunch
Speaker 1: of other people. But my friend Art Martinez, you know
Speaker 1: from these parties. He's been in these things over the years.
Speaker 4: Oh and I worked with him for a few years
Speaker 4: at NBC Sports Radio back in the day.
Speaker 1: So I've known Art for I don't know to say
Speaker 1: how long I'm gonna date myself, but we go way
Speaker 1: back to local radio in LA and I love Art.
Speaker 1: Art's the greatest board op I've ever had. He's amazing
Speaker 1: at what he does. He's the big engineer at Westwood One,
Speaker 1: and he's.
Speaker 5: Famous for always shutting down your parties pretty much.
Speaker 1: And that happened, of course again we'll get to that.
Speaker 1: But he's a Fox Sports Radio veteran. He's a US
Speaker 1: Marine veteran, which is much more proud of it should
Speaker 1: be served in Desert storm. We tell all kinds of
Speaker 1: stories anyway. So Artie loves to kind of pak the bear,
Speaker 1: and he loves and he wanted to have some fun
Speaker 1: with the Prince of Darkness, the original Prince of Darkness
Speaker 1: league line, which is not hard to press his button.
Speaker 1: You know that. I mean you had your run ins
Speaker 1: with Lee. I mean you guys, I didn't get along now,
Speaker 1: but you had when you first met him. He was
Speaker 1: kind of a douche slightly racist, yes, so, which is
Speaker 1: funny because he's like pretty liberal, which is odd so
Speaker 1: easy to get a reaction. So art goes up to
Speaker 1: Lee and tells him this in my kitchen. He tells
Speaker 1: a kind of an off colored joke in a dead
Speaker 1: pan delivery, and he was very serious as he was
Speaker 1: telling that. He tried to be the straight man. Now
Speaker 1: I happened to hear that joke earlier, because he tried
Speaker 1: that on me and I ignored it. So, knowing what
Speaker 1: I know about art, and I knew this guy, this
Speaker 1: guy's he didn't he didn't mean what he's saying. He's
Speaker 1: busting balls, so I know where he's at in that realm.
Speaker 1: And nevertheless, Lee apparently did not either that or he
Speaker 1: chose to ignore his ear plugs, and he almost threw hands.
Speaker 1: We almost had a punch of heart, and it took
Speaker 1: a little while for Lee to calm down and realize
Speaker 1: that he was not serious.
Speaker 4: And now Lee is usually the one offending other people. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 4: So I mean, was this racial? Was it religious? Like?
Speaker 5: What tone was this joke that set off Bullie?
Speaker 1: It was a religious joke. I will not repeat it
Speaker 1: in a friendly company, but you know, it's just a joke.
Speaker 1: It was just kidding around and Lee got really really
Speaker 1: upset later on, though, you'll be happy to know the
Speaker 1: tradition continues because one of my buddies, my guy Hunter,
Speaker 1: who I don't know if you've met him, he's he's
Speaker 1: my my like, my only friend left from high school
Speaker 1: that I still socialize with, is this guy Hunter. We're
Speaker 1: gambling buddies. We go to Vegas maybe once a year,
Speaker 1: and we's a bunch of money and we think we're
Speaker 1: gonna win and all this. Anyway, so he's at the
Speaker 1: party and he he not really met Lee, and so
Speaker 1: he had heard about Lee. He's known I've known Lee,
Speaker 1: we've done we did shows together a long time and
Speaker 1: Lee and Lee's retired from radio and we see him
Speaker 1: once a year at this thing. So my buddy's like,
Speaker 1: all right, I'm gonna get into it. Lee, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go political because Lee used to host shows at KFI,
Speaker 1: the big political talk station in La So he goes
Speaker 1: out to the back of the Malor mansion and he's
Speaker 1: talking politics and the Prince of Darkness, Lee Kleine, the
Speaker 1: original Prince of Dartaness. He works himself into a lather
Speaker 1: talking about politics. So and my buddy, knowing what he knows,
Speaker 1: he tried like everyone else, just like Art Martinez tried
Speaker 1: to press buttons. My buddy like, hey, I'll press some buttons,
Speaker 1: and so he starts. He starts tapping buttons, and Lee's
Speaker 1: getting more and more worked up. And a group of
Speaker 1: my wife's friend approached Lee. They were concerned that he
Speaker 1: was getting two out of control, so they told him
Speaker 1: to calm down. How do you think Lee handled.
Speaker 4: That the same way women do when you tell them
Speaker 4: to calm down.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, it escalated the situation. It was interesting. It
Speaker 1: was interesting, but nobody threw any punches. As far as
Speaker 1: I know, I didn't see anything at any reports of that.
Speaker 1: Other of that. People were getting along and were singing, dancing, partying.
Speaker 1: It was all all good in the neighborhood. And as
Speaker 1: far as the the dream Weaver is concerned, the highlight
Speaker 1: for me, the highlight for I love hanging out with
Speaker 1: radio people and telling old radio stories and all that stuff.
Speaker 1: I'll become that guy. I'm that guy. So we had
Speaker 1: a passionate conversation. It was me my friend Ted Sobel,
Speaker 1: who briefly worked at Fox Sports Radio is mostly a
Speaker 1: news radio guy and did network NFL radio studio hosting
Speaker 1: for a long time. Just recently stopped doing that. So
Speaker 1: Sobl's there, Iowa Sam, a couple other people, some of
Speaker 1: them in the business, some of them out of the business,
Speaker 1: but a lot of them were mostly from the audio wars.
Speaker 1: Give me an example. Ted Sobil loves to point out
Speaker 1: that he's friends with Sandy Kofax, not just casual friends,
Speaker 1: like they're like their buddies. Sandy lives in Florida, but
Speaker 1: they talk quite a bit, and Ted, much like Pat O'Brien,
Speaker 1: likes to drop names from time to time. He did
Speaker 1: point out that he also had a phone conversation this
Speaker 1: past week with a gentleman who's rather famous, who I'm
Speaker 1: gonna admit I did not know was still alive. I
Speaker 1: thought this person was not with us anymore. But lator yes,
Speaker 1: that is absolutely correct, unless it is not my budd
Speaker 1: Ted Sobell, he is friends. He had a phone conversation
Speaker 1: this week with mel Brooks in that wild I thought
Speaker 1: mel Brooks had passed.
Speaker 5: Away, but he's Wow. I did too.
Speaker 1: He's ninety seven years old. Seven years old.
Speaker 5: That's Dick van Dijke Territory.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's still going. That's nuts. And if you're younger,
Speaker 1: you know who mel Brooks is. I mean, the guy's
Speaker 1: a Hollywood ken That blaze he made blazing saddles right
Speaker 1: that that movie could never win the white women at
Speaker 1: exactly with Richard Pryor and all those those knuckleheads in
Speaker 1: that movie. Spaceball's made a bunch of parody movies the
Speaker 1: producers young Frankenstein were a bunch of a bunch of
Speaker 1: famous stuff And anyway, that's just randomly came up. So
Speaker 1: Ted's also friends. One of the other stories I love
Speaker 1: about Teddy's I tell us every year, but he's friends
Speaker 1: with Paul. Do you know who Paul Olden is?
Speaker 5: The name rings the bell?
Speaker 1: So Paul Olden now is the public address announcer in
Speaker 1: the Bronx at Yankee Stadium. Okay, but the reason I
Speaker 1: know Paul Olden is because he is the young radio reporter.
Speaker 1: As a kid, he was a young guy, probably a teenager,
Speaker 1: maybe in his early twenty and he went up to
Speaker 1: Dodger manager Tommy Lasorda and asked, what is your opinion
Speaker 1: of Kingman's performance?
Speaker 5: Yes, that's where his name rings a bell.
Speaker 1: So we're talking about that. That was kind of the
Speaker 1: origin of the conversation. We started talking about Paul Olden,
Speaker 1: and I was like, you know, what's going on with Paul.
Speaker 1: I've met him a few times. I don't really know him,
Speaker 1: but I've met him. And he used to be an
Speaker 1: MLB Broadchester He was the PA announcer for the Super
Speaker 1: Bowl for years. But now he's been the Yankee guy,
Speaker 1: and it's a great job from what I understand. You
Speaker 1: do the spring training game, so you get a month
Speaker 1: in Florida, which is where his offseason home is, and
Speaker 1: then you do the eighty one home game and that's it.
Speaker 1: So he essentially works about one hundred and twelve days
Speaker 1: a year, give or take, and if there's playoff games,
Speaker 1: it's a little more. And that's it. He just has
Speaker 1: to be available when the Yankees have a game at home.
Speaker 1: So we're talking about these coaching ti rads, which it's
Speaker 1: a topic I love. I just love this topic. And
Speaker 1: we started going down the usual suspects. It was like
Speaker 1: Lee Elia and I celebrated Lee ilya. Eighty five percent
Speaker 1: of the world's work. The other fifteen percent come out here.
Speaker 1: It's a playground for the seasuckers, you know, and all that,
Speaker 1: and so that to me is always the measuring stake, Danny,
Speaker 1: that's the measuring stake. But the reason this became a
Speaker 1: very interesting conversation, I'm talking about these coaching tirades, and
Speaker 1: a couple of the younger guys that were at the
Speaker 1: party had never heard Manager's Corner with Earl Weaver, and
Speaker 1: so we went to the YouTube and we played Manager's
Speaker 1: Corner for Earl Weaver and people started dying, they were balling,
Speaker 1: they were laughing. It was so good. It's pure comedy
Speaker 1: gold And if you've not heard it, we played it
Speaker 1: on this podcast before. Yeah, it's nineteen eighties radio. Orioles
Speaker 1: are really good and they used to do these pregame
Speaker 1: shows which are only like half an hour, but the
Speaker 1: coaches Corner Earl Weaver manager Coaches Corner was twenty minutes.
Speaker 1: Our Manager's Corner was twenty minutes before the start of
Speaker 1: Orioles game. And so they did this parody one where
Speaker 1: they did a mail bag and it was hilarious. Team
Speaker 1: Speed for Christ's sakes. And then Terry Crowley, you know,
Speaker 1: he's if you could hit an F and baseball and
Speaker 1: it was hilarious. Is Terry Crowley all baseball fan? He's like,
Speaker 1: we picked up Terry Crowley because we saw that he
Speaker 1: could sit in the end, you know his FN asked
Speaker 1: for eight innings and enjoy watching a baseball game just
Speaker 1: like any other fan. And the funniest was at the
Speaker 1: end we talked about this, he took a letter, a
Speaker 1: fake letter from Alice Sweet from Norfolk Virginia and she
Speaker 1: wanted to know when the best time was to plant
Speaker 1: her tomato plant. And that was hilarious. So it was.
Speaker 1: It was a lot of fun at a good time.
Speaker 1: And I look forward to to next year and hopefully Danny,
Speaker 1: I know you've got the kid now, so you have
Speaker 1: the ultimate excuse to never come to these things again.
Speaker 1: But I would hope hopefully next year maybe maybe.
Speaker 4: You know, I think CoA will be old enough this
Speaker 4: time next year to have a sitter. Right now, he
Speaker 4: would just shoot saliva and poop all over a wannabe babysitter.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, I totally, I totally get it and all
Speaker 1: that stuff. And we did have competing party we had.
Speaker 1: Covino and Rich had their own party. It was a
Speaker 1: few hours before our our party, so they had their
Speaker 1: their holiday.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I saw that your boy Iowa Sam double dip.
Speaker 1: He did. He did. In fact, he texts me while
Speaker 1: at the other party to say, hey, I'm here, but
Speaker 1: I will be making the appearance, but I'm gonna be
Speaker 1: a little bit later. So yeah, that's cool, It's all good.
Speaker 1: I guess I'll have to get to it with Covino
Speaker 1: and Rich. We'll have to coordinate so I can go
Speaker 1: to not that I was invited to their party, but
Speaker 1: if they invite now, I'll go to them, and then
Speaker 1: they can come to our party.
Speaker 4: So we know you were because remember they told me
Speaker 4: to invite you. You told me to invite them, and
Speaker 4: I had to inform both parties that the date was
Speaker 4: the same.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's unfortunate. Yeah. My wife was like, hey, we
Speaker 1: got to get Comuno and Rich because she's met them
Speaker 1: at the super Bowl and that horse track Santa Anita.
Speaker 1: But it didn't work out tobly. Next year, Well, I'll
Speaker 1: do like a Saturday. They can do a Friday or
Speaker 1: vice versa or whatever. All right, so we will get out.
Speaker 1: We have one more fun thing to do. The word
Speaker 1: of the week dandy.
Speaker 5: Of the week.
Speaker 1: So I thought of this word at the Ugly Sweater
Speaker 1: party because there were people in the back of the
Speaker 1: Malor mansion who were smoking stogies and they were really
Speaker 1: enjoying themselves, smoking like a victory cigar.
Speaker 5: So I thought, ah, you're pulling a Max Crosby.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, you know what do we do? Yeah? I
Speaker 1: saw that boy. Max doesn't need a shirt. He's got
Speaker 1: a shirt. You know, He's got his own shirt without
Speaker 1: his shirt on. He spent a lot of money on tattoos.
Speaker 1: That's probably I looked at that photo of him. You
Speaker 1: think that's like thirty thousand dollars of tattoos or more
Speaker 1: than that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I do, because he he hired a really good
Speaker 4: tattoo artist.
Speaker 5: Those don't come cheap.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they look good. I'm not a tattoo guy, but
Speaker 1: they look good. I respect someone's tattoos, I do, all right.
Speaker 1: So stogy. The word of the week is stogy in
Speaker 1: honor of the people who are smoking them at the
Speaker 1: mallor mansion Ugly Sweater party circa twenty twenty three. So
Speaker 1: if you don't know, it's kind of obviously it's large
Speaker 1: sheep cigars called the stogy. That word stogy. I think
Speaker 1: this is interesting. I stumbled into a rabbit hole. That's
Speaker 1: why I'm bringing this up as the word of the week.
Speaker 1: So it goes back to eighteen sixty nine. It's a
Speaker 1: colloquial term. The word supposedly originally from the eighteen thirties.
Speaker 1: It was an adjective meaning rough, heavy, or coarse, kind
Speaker 1: of like workshoes or something along those lines, but also cigars,
Speaker 1: long and cheap. In eighteen sixty one. But it is
Speaker 1: a base and essentially what it is. They believe the
Speaker 1: word itself came from Conestoga, which is the name of
Speaker 1: an agricultural region in the Lancaster, Pennsylvania area, Conestoga. I
Speaker 1: believe I'm saying that properly. And these cigars came from
Speaker 1: that area. And there's also a claim that they were
Speaker 1: favored by drivers of the covered wagons, the people that
Speaker 1: drove the wagons from the agricultural area in this town
Speaker 1: near Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Conestoga, and people just said, Hey, the
Speaker 1: guy's coming with the wagon and he's got us. They
Speaker 1: shortened it from Conestoga to Stogy. So there you go,
Speaker 1: the word of the week, which is a tribute to
Speaker 1: a town in Pennsylvania, the term Stogy from the eighteen hundreds.
Speaker 1: Stogy is the word of the week. We'll get out
Speaker 1: on that, Danny. Anything you want to promote here. It
Speaker 1: is a Friday. I know you at work. You get
Speaker 1: the radio show. I'm done with my work here, so
Speaker 1: you've got yeah, I've.
Speaker 4: Your post production of this fine podcast. After a little
Speaker 4: short nap, I will get my butt over to Sherman
Speaker 4: Oaks California for the fun Friday afternoon program Covino and Rich,
Speaker 4: and on Fridays we do weekend hob Nobin and Nervous
Speaker 4: Farts and Techmobile high fives as we preview NFL Week
Speaker 4: fifteen outstanding.
Speaker 1: Have fun with that. Remember the TV show Benny Versus
Speaker 1: the Penny, It's on all day today. And also check
Speaker 1: social media. I'm gonna be posting some photos from beer
Speaker 1: drinking Brian. I don't want to short change him. I'll
Speaker 1: talk more about that tomorrow, but there's some photos up
Speaker 1: of a memorial We're old buddy, beer drinking Brian. I
Speaker 1: have a wonderful rest of your Friday and we will
Speaker 1: catch you next time.
Speaker 5: Later, skater got a murder. I gotta go