WEBVTT - The Fifth Hour: Sunday East Coast Special 0:00:00.720 --> 0:00:01.480 Kabbooms. 0:00:02.320 --> 0:00:05.400 If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes 0:00:05.440 --> 0:00:09.200 a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants 0:00:09.240 --> 0:00:12.520 of the Old Republic, a soul 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 --> 0:00:17.520 rich pill poppers in the penthouse. 0:00:18.079 --> 0:00:18.400 Wow. 0:00:18.600 --> 0:00:22.320 The clearing House of Hot takes break free for something special. 0:00:22.680 --> 0:00:29.440 The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now in the. 0:00:29.640 --> 0:00:36.000 Air and everywhere. The Fifth Hour with Me, Big Ben 0:00:36.320 --> 0:00:41.600 and Danny g Radio final day here on the East Coast. 0:00:41.640 --> 0:00:44.479 I'm heading back to La La Land, have a very 0:00:44.479 --> 0:00:47.479 early flight this morning, so I said, ah, and I'm 0:00:47.479 --> 0:00:50.879 gonna get up when you shouldn't be awake, and I'm 0:00:50.920 --> 0:00:54.680 gonna start talking into a microphone. And here we are 0:00:55.320 --> 0:00:59.000 with this edition of The Fifth Hour. On Mountain Day, 0:00:59.280 --> 0:01:03.480 not Mountain time zone Day. Today August eleventh, this Sunday 0:01:03.720 --> 0:01:09.080 is Mountain Day. What the f is that? I don't 0:01:09.160 --> 0:01:11.560 really know. I think it has something to do with 0:01:11.680 --> 0:01:17.560 Japan Mountain Day, relatively new holiday. We are told there 0:01:17.600 --> 0:01:20.840 aren't many traditions associated with because they just made it up. 0:01:21.520 --> 0:01:25.600 The inaugural national ceremony form Mountain Day was held in 0:01:25.640 --> 0:01:30.720 the Japanese Alps, so not that long ago. I don't 0:01:30.720 --> 0:01:33.760 know how these things happen, but it is National Mountain Day, 0:01:33.880 --> 0:01:41.240 so celebrate accordingly, foh drizzle. On this podcast, we'll get 0:01:41.280 --> 0:01:47.000 to engagement farming. Also, I have been remiss over the weekend. 0:01:47.040 --> 0:01:51.640 Here we have not gotten to the word of the week, 0:01:51.800 --> 0:01:55.360 or in this case, we'll have multiple words of the week. 0:01:55.400 --> 0:02:00.760 But we begin with this after many many days of 0:02:01.040 --> 0:02:04.960 messages coming in regarding a recent malad monologue, well not 0:02:05.000 --> 0:02:07.960 even that recent three year old mal monologue that still 0:02:07.960 --> 0:02:10.920 has legs, I would like to present to you, the 0:02:10.960 --> 0:02:16.120 home consumer here on the fifth hour, the single biggest 0:02:16.440 --> 0:02:20.120 board that we have done. It is Big Bend's Big 0:02:20.160 --> 0:02:25.919 Board of viral monologue moments, otherwise known as engagement farming. Yes, 0:02:25.960 --> 0:02:29.920 we are in the engagement farming business. We are paid 0:02:30.520 --> 0:02:34.959 to engage. That is out of necessity because we have 0:02:35.040 --> 0:02:39.400 bills to pay. But the fact is doing an overnight 0:02:39.440 --> 0:02:43.040 sports radio show. And you know how this works by 0:02:43.080 --> 0:02:47.639 consuming the product that we work in a disposable form 0:02:48.160 --> 0:02:52.960 of entertainment. We do all right, So say it is 0:02:53.720 --> 0:02:56.480 every single day there's a new fire to put out, 0:02:56.480 --> 0:02:59.720 there's a new outrage that we must discuss in the 0:02:59.720 --> 0:03:05.760 world sports. And ultimately, it is a fungible situation that 0:03:06.639 --> 0:03:11.200 more times than not, I will do a mal monologue 0:03:11.240 --> 0:03:14.799 and then all of a sudden it pops out there 0:03:14.800 --> 0:03:17.639 into the microphone, into your ear drums, and you chew 0:03:17.680 --> 0:03:20.639 it up and you spit it out. Maybe you like it. 0:03:21.000 --> 0:03:22.920 Maybe it didn't hit the mark for you. It wasn't 0:03:22.919 --> 0:03:25.680 to your taste. Everyone's taste buds are different. You didn't 0:03:25.680 --> 0:03:31.120 see eye to eye with the mal monologue. But that's it. Ultimately, 0:03:31.160 --> 0:03:33.280 it's done right. You think of it in the same 0:03:33.360 --> 0:03:36.680 context of tissue. You gotta blow your nose, You need 0:03:36.720 --> 0:03:39.440 a tissue. When you're done blowing your nose, you throw 0:03:39.480 --> 0:03:41.680 the tissue away. How about you go to the bathroom. 0:03:42.040 --> 0:03:44.440 You like that toilet paper, right, use the toilet paper, 0:03:44.960 --> 0:03:47.720 take care of business, and then eventually you're like, all right, 0:03:47.760 --> 0:03:53.560 I'm done with that, and da hey, goodbye. You flush 0:03:53.600 --> 0:03:57.200 it away, go fast food. We'll get some ketchup. You 0:03:57.240 --> 0:03:59.800 will pack it the ketchup. Maybe get some honey mustard 0:03:59.800 --> 0:04:02.760 sauce with your chicken. Okay, use it up, and when 0:04:02.800 --> 0:04:04.880 it's done, you have to throw it away. How about 0:04:04.880 --> 0:04:07.320 a plastic fork. Maybe you went out to get some 0:04:08.000 --> 0:04:10.520 nice Chinese food and Panda Express and you're like, all right, 0:04:10.560 --> 0:04:13.000 I'll use one of the plastic forks there, and then 0:04:13.040 --> 0:04:14.960 you're done with it. You throw it away. How about 0:04:14.960 --> 0:04:18.080 a cupcake? You want a cupcake, You wrap that cupcake 0:04:18.080 --> 0:04:20.120 in that little wrapper. You're done with that. Boom, eat 0:04:20.120 --> 0:04:22.800 the cupcake, throw that thing away. So the point is, 0:04:22.880 --> 0:04:27.040 get to the point, please that often these monologues are 0:04:27.320 --> 0:04:30.880 just background noise. They're elevator music. You skip through them 0:04:31.279 --> 0:04:35.440 without missing a beat, and that's it. We're done. That's all. 0:04:35.560 --> 0:04:38.600 But every once in a while that is not the case. Now, 0:04:38.600 --> 0:04:42.479 the normal lifespan of a Mallard monologue, I know you're 0:04:42.760 --> 0:04:45.719 curious about this. How long does it last? How long 0:04:45.760 --> 0:04:48.440 does that malar monologue list? I'll tell you so, the 0:04:48.560 --> 0:04:53.240 average Mallard monologue lifespan is anywhere from a couple of 0:04:53.279 --> 0:04:56.560 hours to twenty four to forty eight hours. I would 0:04:56.640 --> 0:04:58.919 argue I've done this for a long time that the 0:04:59.160 --> 0:05:06.680 malar monologue on average, the lifespan is that of a waterfly. Now, 0:05:06.680 --> 0:05:11.240 if you're unfamiliar in the entire span of the planet, 0:05:11.480 --> 0:05:17.120 the mayfly, waterfly has the shortest lifespan of just about 0:05:17.160 --> 0:05:21.440 anything on the planet, meaning the average lifespan of a 0:05:21.480 --> 0:05:27.440 mayfly these waterflies is less from less than five minutes 0:05:27.839 --> 0:05:31.040 to one to two days, from less than five minutes 0:05:31.440 --> 0:05:33.600 to one to two days. So the average if you're 0:05:33.640 --> 0:05:37.599 living a long life as a waterfly, the may fly 0:05:38.360 --> 0:05:42.280 you're living forty eight hours. You've lived a long, full, 0:05:42.360 --> 0:05:44.440 complete life, and then it's time to check out. So 0:05:44.480 --> 0:05:46.600 the point is they don't last very long. But as 0:05:46.640 --> 0:05:51.080 we said, every now and again, every now and again 0:05:52.080 --> 0:05:57.120 we paint an oil painting a masterpiece. Doesn't happen often, 0:05:57.600 --> 0:05:59.640 but it does happen, and it normally happens when you 0:05:59.720 --> 0:06:04.000 least suspected everyone's feeling all groovy after a great monologue, 0:06:04.040 --> 0:06:06.840 but you're like, well, I don't know, did that really resonate? 0:06:07.800 --> 0:06:11.240 And I bring this up because when that happens, we 0:06:11.320 --> 0:06:15.880 go from a waterfly that doesn't live more than two 0:06:15.960 --> 0:06:20.920 days to a sequoia tree in the mighty Redwood forests 0:06:20.920 --> 0:06:26.960 of California and those living metaphorically for two thousand years. 0:06:27.760 --> 0:06:31.240 Those giant sequoia trees are some of the greatest things 0:06:31.279 --> 0:06:33.520 you can see as a human being being around the planet, 0:06:33.640 --> 0:06:37.520 and those things live for two thousand years. So without 0:06:37.680 --> 0:06:44.000 further ado, we now present the most comprehensive, most important 0:06:44.160 --> 0:06:50.360 big board. It's Big Benz big board, four leaf clover style. 0:06:50.440 --> 0:06:54.719 These are the four Malar monologues that got turned into 0:06:55.000 --> 0:06:59.720 the Mona Lisa of monologues, the gold standard. We crossed 0:06:59.760 --> 0:07:04.960 the rubicon, clear sailing, smooth, open waters, as long as 0:07:05.000 --> 0:07:07.160 you can, as far as you can see, as far 0:07:07.160 --> 0:07:09.760 as you can see. So here they are now I 0:07:09.800 --> 0:07:13.880 will present them in reverse order in honor of what 0:07:14.040 --> 0:07:16.960 has transpired the last couple of weeks at this Olympic 0:07:17.720 --> 0:07:22.040 event in Perie, and in the qundary of it all. 0:07:22.080 --> 0:07:26.880 So number fall number four on Big Ben's big board, 0:07:26.920 --> 0:07:30.640 four leaf clover style. These only four most memorable mal 0:07:30.880 --> 0:07:33.760 monologues at this time. Now, maybe I'm forgetting something. You 0:07:33.760 --> 0:07:36.920 can help me out, so pay close attention alf the 0:07:37.040 --> 0:07:39.840 Alien Opiner and some of the other boys that have 0:07:39.920 --> 0:07:42.200 been with the show for a long time. So number four, 0:07:42.240 --> 0:07:46.280 I'm gonna put someone Biles in number four, and sim oone. 0:07:46.280 --> 0:07:49.360 Biles is someone I've talked about maybe two or three 0:07:49.400 --> 0:07:54.080 times in my life. She's not someone that I pay 0:07:54.200 --> 0:07:58.080 close attention to. We do meat and potatoes, sports talk, gymnastics. 0:07:58.080 --> 0:08:01.040 I don't know if you know this not eat and potatoes. 0:08:01.200 --> 0:08:07.120 It's not. However, the rare and appropriate Malard monologue when 0:08:07.480 --> 0:08:10.480 it pops up and there's something going on involving Simone 0:08:10.480 --> 0:08:12.720 Biles and there's not much else out there, then we 0:08:12.760 --> 0:08:16.440 will put that in the microwave. We'll heat it up, 0:08:16.640 --> 0:08:19.360 take it out, We'll enjoy it, We'll partake in the feast. 0:08:19.680 --> 0:08:22.880 So Simone Biles is, I've told a very good Olympic gymnast. 0:08:22.960 --> 0:08:26.160 She also quit back in twenty twenty one in a 0:08:26.360 --> 0:08:31.400 tremendously embarrassing move there for Simone Biles and Team USA gymnastics. 0:08:31.600 --> 0:08:34.400 So I did at Malar monologue. I pointed it out, 0:08:35.760 --> 0:08:39.360 and over the last almost a month now, I've been 0:08:39.360 --> 0:08:42.440 getting messages. Even when I was in Vegas last weekend 0:08:42.760 --> 0:08:45.320 at the Malor Meet and greet, hanging out with the people, 0:08:46.120 --> 0:08:50.560 got several messages from people that stumbled into the monologue 0:08:50.880 --> 0:08:53.720 who wanted to say hello. People I've worked with in 0:08:53.760 --> 0:08:56.760 the past, people that I haven't talked to in years. 0:08:56.760 --> 0:09:00.680 They still have my number and they're sending me messages. 0:09:00.720 --> 0:09:03.400 And so the Simone Biles monologue was something I did, 0:09:03.400 --> 0:09:05.839 as I said, twenty twenty one, but it has been 0:09:05.920 --> 0:09:11.400 immortalized because of a documentary, a docuseriies on Simone Biles 0:09:12.000 --> 0:09:15.600 on Netflix. So on this one, I've been getting some 0:09:15.840 --> 0:09:20.960 wokester dudes and a lot of angry middle aged women 0:09:21.840 --> 0:09:27.880 in a fury defending their hero. They love Simone Biles. 0:09:27.920 --> 0:09:33.880 How dare anyone have a dissenting opinion about the Olympic 0:09:33.960 --> 0:09:37.600 gymnast quitting on her teammates in twenty twenty one? So 0:09:37.600 --> 0:09:40.959 I'm getting these messages and people are going to great 0:09:41.080 --> 0:09:43.520 lengths to try to get a hold of me, tracking 0:09:43.600 --> 0:09:50.120 down email addresses, ranting and raving about that social media platforms, 0:09:50.760 --> 0:09:55.239 Oh no, hell, Bill Miller. The attacks are pretty elementary. 0:09:55.280 --> 0:09:58.320 These women aren't that bright. They're not, and so they'll 0:09:58.360 --> 0:10:01.760 they'll send messages like, hey, you know you're middle age, 0:10:01.840 --> 0:10:06.880 you're fat, you don't have any hair, which is it's 0:10:07.040 --> 0:10:11.440 what low information people do. We kind of know that 0:10:13.000 --> 0:10:17.520 when you attack someone, you often look for weak spots. 0:10:17.559 --> 0:10:19.760 That's how you do it, that's how you attack. And 0:10:19.840 --> 0:10:23.880 so since they can't really attack the quality of the monologue, 0:10:24.520 --> 0:10:27.520 what they do is they attack my vanity and they 0:10:27.559 --> 0:10:31.920 attack my appearance and my place in life and all 0:10:31.960 --> 0:10:34.440 that stuff. And I get it. I mean, these are 0:10:34.480 --> 0:10:37.120 lazy people. These are people that sit around watch Netflix 0:10:37.160 --> 0:10:39.880 documentaries all day. They don't have much of life. I 0:10:39.960 --> 0:10:43.439 understand it. But I would like to thank the people 0:10:43.440 --> 0:10:47.120 at Netflix for opening this up to think that I 0:10:47.200 --> 0:10:51.000 did a monologue that I had not even thought about. 0:10:51.120 --> 0:10:54.480 Why would I in all these years in twenty twenty one, 0:10:54.559 --> 0:10:59.319 Here we are in twenty twenty four, and the monologue 0:10:59.600 --> 0:11:03.000 is still alive. It's still got legs. That is a 0:11:03.040 --> 0:11:08.320 Sequoia tree monologue that I'm getting angry messages from people 0:11:08.440 --> 0:11:11.600 who I guess they might think they're not that bright. 0:11:11.640 --> 0:11:14.560 They're kind of stupid people. Maybe they think that just happened. 0:11:15.000 --> 0:11:17.240 It's a recent monologue. I don't know. You'd have to 0:11:17.280 --> 0:11:21.199 ask them, but I did learn over the years there's 0:11:21.240 --> 0:11:25.559 certain rules of etiquette that you have to follow. And 0:11:25.679 --> 0:11:30.079 one of the big ones. We talk about this from 0:11:30.160 --> 0:11:33.040 time to time. When you're at the beach on a 0:11:33.160 --> 0:11:36.760 nice summer day, you're doing your thing, I just yeah, 0:11:36.920 --> 0:11:41.160 having a good time. Well, the birds come over. They 0:11:41.200 --> 0:11:44.000 want to eat, they want to have a nice meal. 0:11:44.880 --> 0:11:51.480 And if you start feeding the seagulls. What happens is 0:11:51.520 --> 0:11:57.960 one of those birds going tadda. Yes, you start feeding 0:11:57.960 --> 0:12:02.760 the seagulls, and all of us sudden there's a bunch 0:12:02.840 --> 0:12:06.280 more that come in, right, And so addressing trolls is 0:12:06.320 --> 0:12:09.840 like feeding the seagulls. If you feed one, a dozen 0:12:10.000 --> 0:12:12.000 more are going to appear all of a sudden, and 0:12:12.040 --> 0:12:14.599 they're gonna there's gonna be convoys of seagulls that come in. 0:12:15.640 --> 0:12:19.760 Let's call them seagulls, monsters, whatever you want. You feed 0:12:19.760 --> 0:12:23.559 the monsters, and then you get more monsters that show up, 0:12:23.760 --> 0:12:25.400 and they're just trying to get a reaction, and they 0:12:25.480 --> 0:12:28.480 got no lives. And I get it. I understand. You're 0:12:28.720 --> 0:12:30.719 in a tough spot in life. You've got nothing going on, 0:12:31.240 --> 0:12:34.000 and you're watching Netflix documentaries by yourself, and you want 0:12:34.000 --> 0:12:37.360 to defend your girls. Simone Biles, I am flattered. I 0:12:37.400 --> 0:12:40.360 am honored. You do not understand Again, I go back 0:12:40.360 --> 0:12:43.120 to my point in this business, what I do for 0:12:43.160 --> 0:12:48.080 a living, I have Every day I come into my studio, 0:12:48.280 --> 0:12:51.240 I get ready for the show, and my takes have 0:12:51.320 --> 0:12:56.440 a lifespan of a mayfly. At the longest, it's usually 0:12:56.480 --> 0:12:59.160 forty eight hours. So the fact that this is three 0:12:59.240 --> 0:13:02.800 years old. God bless you, God bless you, and you're 0:13:02.840 --> 0:13:05.760 so stupid you don't even realize that. Every time I 0:13:05.760 --> 0:13:07.440 get one of these messages, I'm like, Wow, that is 0:13:07.520 --> 0:13:10.920 such a great monologue. I need more of that. It's 0:13:10.960 --> 0:13:13.880 amazing now. Number three on Big Ben's big board, four 0:13:13.960 --> 0:13:17.880 leaf clover style. These are the four most memorable Mallard 0:13:17.920 --> 0:13:22.000 monologues that created a reaction from those that attempted to 0:13:22.080 --> 0:13:26.120 taunt and ridicule and shout disapproval my direction from their 0:13:26.160 --> 0:13:29.679 burner email accounts and their fake social media accounts. Number 0:13:29.679 --> 0:13:31.319 three We're gonna go all the way back. 0:13:31.160 --> 0:13:31.360 To the. 0:13:32.920 --> 0:13:36.040 Year twenty sixteen. I believe was some aer of twenty sixteen. 0:13:36.120 --> 0:13:41.719 Some are of love the Cleveland Cadavers, the Cleveland Cavaliers 0:13:42.160 --> 0:13:45.440 and Golden State Warriors in the NBA Finals, and I 0:13:45.559 --> 0:13:48.560 went on a rant, and I went on a rant. 0:13:49.040 --> 0:13:52.480 Golden State jumped out, they came out like gamebusters, and 0:13:52.559 --> 0:13:56.720 I went on a rant. I pointed out that the 0:13:56.880 --> 0:13:59.520 Cavaliers were not going to come back and beat the 0:13:59.559 --> 0:14:03.320 Golden State Warriors in that NBA Finals. Summed it up, 0:14:03.559 --> 0:14:08.000 spelled it out, the whole thing, and sure, enough, Sure 0:14:08.080 --> 0:14:12.360 enough Teada. Yeah, the Cavaliers came back. And one the 0:14:12.440 --> 0:14:15.440 reason this is in the top four big ben big board, 0:14:15.800 --> 0:14:19.080 four leaf clover malard monologues that have a long lifespan 0:14:19.920 --> 0:14:22.960 is that summer after the Calves won the title, a 0:14:23.000 --> 0:14:26.160 couple days later, they had a parade in downtown Cleveland. 0:14:26.960 --> 0:14:29.960 And if you come into my studio, the remote studio 0:14:30.000 --> 0:14:32.160 that I broadcast from about half the time, if you 0:14:32.240 --> 0:14:34.560 come in there and I record the podcast from the studio, 0:14:34.600 --> 0:14:37.160 although I'm on the East coast today, but if you 0:14:37.200 --> 0:14:41.840 go into the studio, you will see a photo of 0:14:42.040 --> 0:14:47.880 a gentleman standing at the Calves parade. And in said photo, 0:14:48.560 --> 0:14:54.160 he's holding up a large sign. And what is the sign? Say, 0:14:54.560 --> 0:14:57.200 it's got I got boxes next to it and all that, 0:14:58.160 --> 0:15:03.000 But it's regarding the people that did not believe in 0:15:03.040 --> 0:15:05.920 the Cleveland Cavaliers' ability to come back against the Golden 0:15:05.960 --> 0:15:08.960 State Warriors. Is that the championship parade, there's like a 0:15:09.000 --> 0:15:13.080 million people in downtown Cleveland and this guy's going around 0:15:13.080 --> 0:15:16.760 holding up this large poster board sign. It's got me 0:15:17.520 --> 0:15:23.880 Skip Bayless and Stephen A. Smith side by side by side, 0:15:24.800 --> 0:15:28.360 and I'm being compared to Skip Bayless and Stephen A. Smith, 0:15:28.360 --> 0:15:32.000 people that you know, very similar pace structure, unless that's 0:15:32.040 --> 0:15:35.200 not the case. But that's number three on Big Ben's 0:15:35.240 --> 0:15:40.440 big board, the four leaf clover style of the four mona. 0:15:40.520 --> 0:15:43.800 Lisa Malon monologues the gold Standard as I remember him 0:15:43.880 --> 0:15:47.600 on this day, on this Sunday, the eleventh day of August. 0:15:47.600 --> 0:15:54.840 Now number two shooting straight from the hip, A longtime 0:15:55.040 --> 0:16:01.560 nemesis of you know who, someone that has annoyed us 0:16:01.760 --> 0:16:05.480 for many, many years, is in the number two slot. 0:16:05.600 --> 0:16:10.000 That would be The Cheating as Holes. We can say 0:16:10.040 --> 0:16:15.960 it's a podcast, the Cheating as Holes. So back in 0:16:16.280 --> 0:16:19.280 I think it was twenty nineteen when the story broke 0:16:19.760 --> 0:16:23.560 Astros cheated in twenty eighteen. It wasn't until twenty nineteen. 0:16:23.680 --> 0:16:26.360 I believe it was early in twenty nineteen that a 0:16:26.400 --> 0:16:29.040 story came out on the Athletic about the cheating that 0:16:29.080 --> 0:16:31.280 took place. It was either late twenty eighteen or early 0:16:31.320 --> 0:16:33.880 twenty nineteen. I forget exactly when, but it was a 0:16:33.920 --> 0:16:36.720 while after the twenty seventeen World Series that was sullied 0:16:36.760 --> 0:16:41.320 forever by the team from Houston. So I had done 0:16:41.360 --> 0:16:45.239 many rants. I rant and raped like an absolute buffoon 0:16:46.240 --> 0:16:49.760 for many, many, many many days, and I still do 0:16:49.840 --> 0:16:51.280 to this day. I bring it up at least once 0:16:51.280 --> 0:16:57.640 a week, the cheating holes. So one of these monologues 0:16:57.680 --> 0:17:03.280 went viral. It took off and had a life of 0:17:03.320 --> 0:17:06.720 its own. Me barking like a dog into the microphone. 0:17:07.440 --> 0:17:11.960 And it's number two on our slot, the cheating Astros mattelemonel. 0:17:12.080 --> 0:17:15.200 The reason that's at number two is because I got 0:17:15.320 --> 0:17:20.639 complaints from the Commissioner's Office of Major League Baseball. Rob Manford, 0:17:21.359 --> 0:17:25.120 the face of Major League Baseball. The Commissioner's office, someone 0:17:25.200 --> 0:17:30.240 in his office called the complaint to the mothership because 0:17:30.400 --> 0:17:37.560 of my rant about the cheating astros going on and 0:17:37.640 --> 0:17:40.360 on and on. So now I'm pretty sure Rob Manfraud 0:17:40.440 --> 0:17:44.480 did not make the phone call, but someone underneath rob 0:17:44.520 --> 0:17:50.320 Manfraud made the phone call running interference, running the naked 0:17:50.359 --> 0:17:53.600 boot like they wanted the sound of silence from me 0:17:54.480 --> 0:18:01.320 regarding my commentary about the cheating assholes. And so that's 0:18:01.400 --> 0:18:05.000 number two. I just love that Major League Baseball, with 0:18:05.200 --> 0:18:08.720 all the things they're supposed to worry about, that right 0:18:08.760 --> 0:18:11.800 near the top of the list is silencing or trying 0:18:11.840 --> 0:18:18.680 to silence the overnight radio guy. Because of his commentary 0:18:18.760 --> 0:18:23.120 about the cheating Astro. It's just absolutely great. So that's 0:18:23.240 --> 0:18:25.680 number three or number two rather number two, so again 0:18:25.720 --> 0:18:29.280 the top top four. Number four is the Simone Biles 0:18:29.320 --> 0:18:33.440 Netflix documentary where I'm still getting crapola from middle aged 0:18:33.440 --> 0:18:37.040 women defending their girl their favorite gymnasts. Number three was 0:18:37.080 --> 0:18:41.760 the Calves not only winning the championship against the Warriors, 0:18:42.000 --> 0:18:45.359 but a guy going around in front of a million 0:18:45.400 --> 0:18:48.720 plus people in Cleveland holding up a sign with my 0:18:48.960 --> 0:18:53.520 face on it, right next to Skip Bayless and Steven A. Smith. 0:18:53.560 --> 0:18:58.199 So that's number three. Number two the aforementioned cheating a 0:18:58.240 --> 0:19:01.800 Stros Major League Baseball calling up to complain the Commissioner's 0:19:01.840 --> 0:19:05.160 office with Rob Manford. I'm not sure who exactly called. 0:19:05.200 --> 0:19:07.159 I just got it secondhand. They were not happy with 0:19:07.200 --> 0:19:14.840 my work. And now no Burrow. Number one, all right, 0:19:14.880 --> 0:19:19.520 so number one Top four four leaf clover Big Ben's 0:19:19.520 --> 0:19:22.680 Big Board, Mala monologues. So we are going to now 0:19:22.760 --> 0:19:25.920 go to pro Bouncy Ball, the pro Bouncy Ball Hall 0:19:25.960 --> 0:19:29.960 of Fame in Springfield, Massachusetts. It is a dog eat 0:19:30.119 --> 0:19:38.520 Dog world and man new Genobili popped up randomly list 0:19:38.600 --> 0:19:41.240 of Hall of Famer not Hall of Famer came up, 0:19:41.800 --> 0:19:44.480 man who Genobili's name was on there? We said, not 0:19:44.600 --> 0:19:48.360 a Hall of Famer, And you would have thought that 0:19:48.440 --> 0:19:51.679 we had started a nuclear war. You would have thought that, right, 0:19:51.680 --> 0:19:54.760 this was some kind of war crime. They need to 0:19:54.760 --> 0:19:59.320 call a war tribunal to attack us. So this got 0:19:59.320 --> 0:20:02.120 picked up first of all by a TV station in 0:20:02.240 --> 0:20:06.840 San Antonio, I remember that, and then within a couple 0:20:06.880 --> 0:20:11.240 of days it was all over Argentina. Now how do 0:20:11.320 --> 0:20:15.040 I know that? Much like the middle aged women. Mostly 0:20:15.080 --> 0:20:17.120 there's a few wokes to men, but middle aged women 0:20:17.119 --> 0:20:20.200 that are sending me nasty messages. Because of the Netflix 0:20:20.280 --> 0:20:24.239 documentary about Simone Biles, where I'm included in that, you 0:20:24.359 --> 0:20:30.320 also have the mad Genobili Hall of Fame conversation. And 0:20:30.760 --> 0:20:35.080 I was getting messages from people in Spanish. Now I 0:20:35.160 --> 0:20:37.800 speak Spanguish, I don't speak Spanish. I know a little 0:20:37.800 --> 0:20:40.680 bit of broken Spanish and that's about it. So I'm 0:20:40.720 --> 0:20:43.400 getting all of these messages and I was like, what 0:20:43.480 --> 0:20:45.480 is this about. I couldn't understand them. I was using 0:20:45.520 --> 0:20:49.119 Google Translate. They were like something about Genobili and they 0:20:49.119 --> 0:20:51.680 were attacking me and my character and all that stuff. 0:20:51.720 --> 0:20:53.040 So I was like what is this about? And eventually 0:20:53.080 --> 0:20:56.080 I figured it out because I was getting sent links 0:20:56.720 --> 0:21:00.840 from the local TV news in Argentina that this was 0:21:00.880 --> 0:21:05.560 such an outrageous take, going against all of the sensibilities 0:21:06.359 --> 0:21:10.639 of the people there in Argentina, that they immortalized me 0:21:11.480 --> 0:21:15.440 and put me on the nightly news in Argentina, that 0:21:15.640 --> 0:21:20.800 my monologue resonated so much about Manu Genobil and I 0:21:20.800 --> 0:21:22.720 do believe that's not like a made up take, like 0:21:22.760 --> 0:21:25.200 I do believe it's not. I'm not being an extremist here. 0:21:25.960 --> 0:21:30.800 It is my belief that Manu Gerobili, if you had 0:21:30.880 --> 0:21:34.000 real standards in the Hall of fame, you would say, 0:21:34.400 --> 0:21:36.359 not a hall of fame. But they don't really do 0:21:36.440 --> 0:21:39.560 that anymore. They let everyone and they've always sid Muffin MacGrath. 0:21:39.560 --> 0:21:42.280 We make the joke Muffin mcgras's Hall of Famer. The 0:21:42.320 --> 0:21:46.000 precedent has been set where the doors are open, come 0:21:46.040 --> 0:21:49.000 on down, knock yourself out. There's not a lot of 0:21:49.119 --> 0:21:52.800 vetting process, So Manu Ginobili not a hall of famer. 0:21:53.320 --> 0:21:57.000 Not want my cup of tea that rant. To this day, 0:21:57.080 --> 0:22:00.159 I still get messages in Spanish, so I've got the 0:22:00.160 --> 0:22:03.159 the housewives on one hand, or the cat lady on 0:22:03.160 --> 0:22:06.960 one hand. That's got all the anger, all the rage 0:22:07.520 --> 0:22:09.480 about my Simone Biles take. And then you've got the 0:22:09.520 --> 0:22:14.800 Manu Gernobili crowd in Spanish. And I still get cheating 0:22:15.080 --> 0:22:20.080 Asstro defenders. For example, sir scratch off that weasel who 0:22:20.119 --> 0:22:21.920 claims to be a Cardinal fan, but I think he's 0:22:21.960 --> 0:22:25.440 a closeted fan of the assholes, and he'll send me 0:22:25.440 --> 0:22:27.760 a messages very upset about that. I don't hear as 0:22:27.800 --> 0:22:30.000 much from the people with Cleveland anymore. The Calves have 0:22:31.080 --> 0:22:34.760 fallen back and they're just kind of eh playoff team, 0:22:34.800 --> 0:22:38.280 but not a real threat in the Eastern Conference. So 0:22:38.400 --> 0:22:42.080 there it is. Big Ben's big board four leaf clover style, 0:22:42.200 --> 0:22:47.080 the four monologues that do not have the lifespan of 0:22:47.119 --> 0:22:49.800 a mayfly up to forty eight hours. These are the 0:22:49.840 --> 0:22:54.880 mala monologues that are forever monologues, like the mighty Sequoia 0:22:54.960 --> 0:22:59.399 trees in California. They go up, up, and away, the 0:22:59.560 --> 0:23:04.080 four le clover style Simone Biles number three, the Calves 0:23:04.440 --> 0:23:08.480 won't win a title, the cheating as stros at number two. 0:23:08.480 --> 0:23:11.520 At number one, the manus you're nobly not a Hall 0:23:11.520 --> 0:23:14.680 of famer. Now again, that's not a list. Wrong, don't 0:23:14.720 --> 0:23:16.359 send me an email, Terry in England and some of 0:23:16.400 --> 0:23:19.399 the other idiots. Not a list, not a list, it 0:23:19.480 --> 0:23:24.520 is merely a big board. Wrong time. Now for the 0:23:24.680 --> 0:23:30.280 word all the weekly, a phrase of the week, thank you, ohial. 0:23:30.720 --> 0:23:34.119 The phrase of the week is cutting corners. Now there 0:23:34.160 --> 0:23:37.040 is always pet peeve. I always pet peeve of mine. 0:23:38.440 --> 0:23:41.720 I'm a big believer that you put an honest day's 0:23:41.760 --> 0:23:44.440 work in. You don't cut corners. Now, I realize that 0:23:44.680 --> 0:23:47.159 certain people will try to do things as quickly as 0:23:47.200 --> 0:23:50.200 possible to mitigate the amount of time being used. You 0:23:50.240 --> 0:23:54.760 could argue that is cutting corners. But we're smarter, not harder. 0:23:54.800 --> 0:23:57.440 That's counter argument to that. But let's go way back. 0:23:57.480 --> 0:24:01.560 In the eighteenth century. Carpenters would use a ribbon at 0:24:01.560 --> 0:24:04.719 the end of a completed piece or work, and they 0:24:04.720 --> 0:24:08.560 would do that to signify that the project was done. 0:24:08.720 --> 0:24:10.960 It's like here, I am, I'm done. I'm putting a 0:24:10.960 --> 0:24:14.439 little ribbon on there. The practice gave rise to the 0:24:14.440 --> 0:24:18.160 phrase cutting corners because in order to get into whatever 0:24:18.200 --> 0:24:20.160 they were doing, you had to cut the corner off. 0:24:20.600 --> 0:24:25.439 So cutting corners meaning to do something also poorly in 0:24:25.560 --> 0:24:28.200 order to save time or money. The phrase is also 0:24:28.400 --> 0:24:33.639 used by hunters. For example, in the English Etiquette Guide 0:24:33.920 --> 0:24:38.000 in their instructions writers, they are instructed to follow the 0:24:38.119 --> 0:24:43.360 line of the hounds and to not cut corners unless 0:24:43.400 --> 0:24:47.160 they are well behind the hounds. Then you are allowed 0:24:47.840 --> 0:24:49.840 to cut corners. Otherwise you or not. So a couple 0:24:49.920 --> 0:24:55.199 different meetings there, But cutting corners comes from carpenters and 0:24:55.320 --> 0:25:01.560 also English hunting etiquette. So cutting corners the phrase or 0:25:01.720 --> 0:25:04.199 word all the week, and since we did not do 0:25:04.320 --> 0:25:10.920 this on Friday or Saturday, we must add a bonus, 0:25:11.800 --> 0:25:15.760 a bonus phrase. You know what. I have a couple 0:25:15.800 --> 0:25:17.720 I found here recently, So I'd like to share with 0:25:17.760 --> 0:25:22.880 the class, if you would so oblige me, number number two. 0:25:23.600 --> 0:25:27.719 Number two, that would be in the same boat. Now 0:25:27.760 --> 0:25:29.280 we're in the same boat. We both got a lot 0:25:29.320 --> 0:25:31.440 of homework, right, we're in the same boat. What a nightmare? 0:25:31.680 --> 0:25:33.520 Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah 0:25:33.520 --> 0:25:35.199 blah blah blah blah blah. Al right, so in the 0:25:35.280 --> 0:25:38.960 same boat. What the heck does in the same boat mean? 0:25:39.480 --> 0:25:42.560 I am glad you have asked so in the same boat. 0:25:42.640 --> 0:25:45.600 It goes back to ancient times. People who lived near 0:25:45.680 --> 0:25:49.800 bodies of water frequently used boats to get from island 0:25:49.800 --> 0:25:52.040