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Speaker 3: Ywhere The Fifth Hour with Ben Mallor and Danny g
Speaker 3: The Weekend for All Intensive Purposes has arrived because it's
Speaker 3: our kickoff of the podcast and a glorious Friday to you.
Speaker 3: The sixteenth day of February and we've arrived at another weekend. Hallelujah.
Speaker 3: Valentine's Day in the rear view mirror. So we survived
Speaker 3: another year of Valentine's Day, which is a positive.
Speaker 1: I believe that's a positive. You don't part take anyways.
Speaker 4: You've always said that you celebrate the day after so
Speaker 4: you can get all the candy half price.
Speaker 1: Well.
Speaker 3: I have advised for many years to help the frugal
Speaker 3: listener save a little bit of money, But it's.
Speaker 1: When you're married. It's not it's not like that.
Speaker 3: Right, when you're dating, you can get away with that,
Speaker 3: but when you're married, it's.
Speaker 4: I don't think you can get away with it at all.
Speaker 4: But okay, yeah you can't. I don't know what women
Speaker 4: you've dealt with.
Speaker 3: Well, if you work a lot and it's during the week,
Speaker 3: Valentine's Day fell on what a Wednesday?
Speaker 1: I see, So you blame work. You're like, I can't
Speaker 1: because of work, I'm swamped. I can't do anything.
Speaker 4: Well, what if they suggested to have the Valentine's date
Speaker 4: the day before?
Speaker 1: What would you say?
Speaker 3: Well, you know you're busy, so you really want to,
Speaker 3: you know, live it up.
Speaker 1: On the weekend is.
Speaker 3: When you want to live it up, Right, Friday or
Speaker 3: Saturday you want to live it up and and all that. Well,
Speaker 3: how come I looked at the dopey calendar of stupid holidays.
Speaker 3: Today is National Almond Day? Why why is that not
Speaker 3: a big day? National Almonday? And isn't that the group
Speaker 3: of people that complain that to grow almonds, because a
Speaker 3: lot of almonds are grown in California, they take too
Speaker 3: much water. Yeah, but don't people complain about that, Like
Speaker 3: to eat one almond, you have to have like ten
Speaker 3: million gallons of water.
Speaker 1: Some ridiculous things like that. Take that for data. They
Speaker 1: complain about that.
Speaker 3: But it is National Almonday today, So you are you
Speaker 3: a big almond guy? I like chocolate covered almonds.
Speaker 1: I am. I really like pistachios, and that's not an almond.
Speaker 1: I know, I know, I don't.
Speaker 3: It's not National Pistachio Day, Danny.
Speaker 4: I don't hate almonds. I just think pistachios with the
Speaker 4: shell on, lightly salted, so good. Like once you start
Speaker 4: eating them, you can't stop.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I like the National or not national.
Speaker 3: The chocolate covered almonds milk chocolate at Coser those a brand. Yeah,
Speaker 3: but of course you would cover anything in chocolate and
Speaker 3: it would be pretty good, right. You don't really taste
Speaker 3: the almond.
Speaker 4: Some almonds seem too dry though, you know what I mean,
Speaker 4: Like you eat a handful of them and.
Speaker 1: You can get bad pistachios though, too true.
Speaker 4: There's not that many though. Like you know, as kids,
Speaker 4: there was a walnut tree near our church, and the
Speaker 4: church claimed it because it was close enough to their property.
Speaker 4: So my mom would go early to church and she'd
Speaker 4: tell us, all right, collect the walnuts and she'd give
Speaker 4: us bags, and then she gave us like these walnut crackers,
Speaker 4: and that was supposed to be like this awesome snack
Speaker 4: for us that she didn't have to pay any money
Speaker 4: for because she was just stealing from the church's trees. Well,
Speaker 4: most of those walnuts, you would crack them open and
Speaker 4: they would be gross inside, either water logged, you know, burnt,
Speaker 4: like dark colored, you know what I'm talking about. Once
Speaker 4: in a while you'd like eat a walnut, you're like earn,
Speaker 4: spit it out. I mean half the walnuts sucked. And
Speaker 4: finally we told our mom, we're not collecting these things anymore.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they were bad, Yeah, not good. It was a
Speaker 1: bad tree, you're right.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, Yeah, here's one. It's National tartar Sauce Day.
Speaker 1: And that's that's a big one. Did you ever go
Speaker 1: to Long John Silver?
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, absolutely, man, that was a huh yeah. The fish,
Speaker 3: everything deep fried. Just they just threw everything in the
Speaker 3: bat frier for like ten minutes and it was just wonderful.
Speaker 1: Did they ever change their oil? No?
Speaker 3: No, and and and we thank them for that. But
Speaker 3: I thought tartar sauce was invented to eat fish, But
Speaker 3: they don't really know.
Speaker 1: The origin of tartar sauce. I was.
Speaker 3: I was reading up on this because they do a
Speaker 3: podcast Nanny you got to look up the origins of
Speaker 3: tartar sauce.
Speaker 1: Very important there.
Speaker 3: But they they think it actually began all the way
Speaker 3: back in the Roman era, that that that was originally
Speaker 3: in the Roman era. But other people say that was
Speaker 3: not the case, and they're not really sure when tartar
Speaker 3: sauce originated the modern version as a condiment, and it
Speaker 3: was some part of Europe. Yeah, but the tartar sauce
Speaker 3: corse mostly just that mayo.
Speaker 1: And then they put the herbs.
Speaker 3: In there and the lemon juice and now are you
Speaker 3: a fish and chips?
Speaker 1: Guy? I eat fish once a year.
Speaker 3: It's deep fried beer battered fish. I'll eat that once
Speaker 3: a year and then I'll say, well that's pretty good,
Speaker 3: and then I'll never eat it again. Usually when I'm
Speaker 3: going to the beach, something like if we go to
Speaker 3: like San Diego or Santa Barbara or something like that, Okay.
Speaker 1: I'll eat fish. But yeah, day to day, no, day
Speaker 1: to day I do not.
Speaker 3: But if long John Silver's, I guess they're still around.
Speaker 3: But I don't know if I went back in there. Now,
Speaker 3: I have such fond memories as a child going there
Speaker 3: and eating everything just deep fried.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's like our really good memories of burger King
Speaker 4: when we were kids.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, I have fond memories of burger King
Speaker 1: long gone or those days. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Now I go there, I'll get into ingestin heart, you know,
Speaker 3: the heartburn and all that be.
Speaker 1: Like, what am I doing here? Now?
Speaker 3: Do you think that tartar sauce was created for fish
Speaker 3: or do you think that it was created for something
Speaker 3: else and then people just decided, well it goes great
Speaker 3: with fish. Maybe if it originated in the Middle Ages,
Speaker 3: I mean, yeah, that's pretty wild.
Speaker 4: They probably first invented it to cure gout and somebody
Speaker 4: accidentally put their finger in their mouth.
Speaker 1: They're like, that's not bad. Let's just put tonight's catch
Speaker 1: on that.
Speaker 3: It says National Tartars Days celebrated at a time when
Speaker 3: the condiment is in high demand.
Speaker 1: During the period of seafood.
Speaker 3: Seafood becomes the premier dish, of course, because of the
Speaker 3: calendar with lent and whatnot and people fasting and staying
Speaker 3: away from from the chicken and the beef and all that.
Speaker 1: So okay, Yeah, there you go. I'm good.
Speaker 3: I think that's all we need to ever know about
Speaker 3: tartar Sauce. I think we've met our quota.
Speaker 4: Dude, I get us so smart from this show. I
Speaker 4: don't even have to read anymore.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I am such a loser. I am such a
Speaker 3: radio loser. I read a story this week about I'm
Speaker 3: sure you guys on Covino and Rich you talked about this,
Speaker 3: but I'll give you a name. It's a pop quiz here,
Speaker 3: and let's see if you This week this name came
Speaker 3: up on the show. The name is William Post. Yeah,
Speaker 3: all right, we talked about the pop tart. Yeah, William Post,
Speaker 3: who helped create the pop tart. What a gift to humanity.
Speaker 3: What an amazing life. He lived a full life.
Speaker 1: He was ninety six. Yeah.
Speaker 4: By the way, Rich claims the strawberry pop tart changed
Speaker 4: his childhood.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I am of the age. I'm not sure how
Speaker 1: old Riches.
Speaker 3: I think we're around the same where we only had
Speaker 3: limited pop tarts. We did not have a lot of options.
Speaker 3: But I went down this rabbit hole Danny, and I
Speaker 3: know I can't use this on the Overnight show, so
Speaker 3: I figured I'd save it for the podcast, so I had.
Speaker 3: I was fascinated by pop tarts. I was like, this
Speaker 3: is an amazing thing. It's been around for a long time,
Speaker 3: Like what were the origins of it? So I started
Speaker 3: going down a rabbit hole and digging around on pop tarts,
Speaker 3: and I was blown away because the concept of pop tarts,
Speaker 3: from what I read on my internet research, came from
Speaker 3: refrigerated dog food.
Speaker 1: Is that not an outstanding Oh yeah? Yeah.
Speaker 3: The legend is that the William Post pet food division
Speaker 3: had developed a dog food. It was like a burger
Speaker 3: games Burgers is what it was called. It was a
Speaker 3: concept because the dog food was semi moist but didn't have.
Speaker 1: To be refrigerated.
Speaker 3: And again, everything but pop tarts were created was early
Speaker 3: on in terms of modern food manufacturing and whatnot. And
Speaker 3: so Post, William Post's company, not Kellogg's, but the Post company,
Speaker 3: they took the technology that they were testing out for
Speaker 3: the refrigerated dog food and they shifted it over to
Speaker 3: the what became pop tarts, the fruit filled pastry and
Speaker 3: all that.
Speaker 1: And so this is just like tartar sauce. Yeah, there
Speaker 1: you go, very similar.
Speaker 3: And there was an item before pop tarts that was
Speaker 3: the precursor to pop tarts called country squares, but that
Speaker 3: did not sell very well.
Speaker 1: That did not sell very well.
Speaker 3: And I mean there were originally and this one in
Speaker 3: my childhood. I remember the strawberry, the brown sugar, cinnamon
Speaker 3: is like I remember those. I don't remember any other flavors.
Speaker 3: I know there were other ones. They said from the
Speaker 3: story I was eating. They said, when Kellogg's first launched
Speaker 3: what became pop tarts, they had four flavors. They had
Speaker 3: apple jelly, strawberry, blueberry, and brown.
Speaker 1: Cinnamon, brown sugar, and then they had it was.
Speaker 3: A Dutch apple, concord, grape raspberry and whatnot. Now there's
Speaker 3: like over thirty different kinds of pop tarts, and they
Speaker 3: have special edition pop tarts.
Speaker 1: But the favorite fun fact.
Speaker 3: And I'm saving this one for alf the alien o
Speaker 3: pineer who sends me fun facts during the Overnight Show
Speaker 3: and religiously downloads this podcast, and I'm saving this for him.
Speaker 3: So the reason you know why they're called pop tarts,
Speaker 3: you know the origin of this. It's it's one of
Speaker 3: the great stories. You can thank Andy Warhol, the legendary
Speaker 3: Andy Warhol, for the name pop tarts. Now, he didn't
Speaker 3: even know that he was responsible for this. But pop
Speaker 3: tarts originally were called fruit scone.
Speaker 1: What a dumb name, right, roots gone, who's gonna buy that?
Speaker 1: That wouldn't have caught on with kids.
Speaker 3: No, that would not or hit mom, Can I get
Speaker 3: a fruit scone? No, no you can't. But they changed it.
Speaker 3: And the legend is that the pop tart's name. The
Speaker 3: reason they went with that is because these were marketed
Speaker 3: in the nineteen sixties and Andy Warhol's pop art was
Speaker 3: popular and so they just like the people at Kellogg's
Speaker 3: were like, well, this is Andy.
Speaker 1: Warhol Pop pop art.
Speaker 3: Pop tart just added tea there and boom, we got
Speaker 3: a product.
Speaker 1: Boom, shaka loaca, Yeah to the moon, to the Moon.
Speaker 2: I'm in command.
Speaker 1: I could order this.
Speaker 3: And they originally did not have the delicious frosting on
Speaker 3: the pop tarts.
Speaker 1: They did not. That's a bad job by them.
Speaker 3: But they say, and I don't know if this is
Speaker 3: still true, because this is the story I came across
Speaker 3: that had This was a couple years ago, but they
Speaker 3: said that every year they have sold more pop tarts
Speaker 3: for over thirty years, a generation and a half, the
Speaker 3: sales of pop tarts have continued to go off. They've
Speaker 3: increased sales every year since nineteen eighty two.
Speaker 1: Now, wild, wow, that's nuts.
Speaker 3: You think at some point people will be like, I'm good,
Speaker 3: I don't need any more. I'm alright with my cinnamon, sugar,
Speaker 3: brown sugar, whatever it is. My frost is draw. Those
Speaker 3: strawberry ones were the bomb.
Speaker 4: See, that's what rich was all about. He said that
Speaker 4: later in life, when he was adult, he accidentally looked
Speaker 4: at the back of the box. He couldn't believe how
Speaker 4: much sugar and crap was inside the strawberry pop tart.
Speaker 4: And he's never had another one. But he's like, man,
Speaker 4: his kids running around like we were dosed up on
Speaker 4: twelve cups of coffee. And now he's like, I know
Speaker 4: why because I ate two pop tarts at a time,
Speaker 4: you know, sometimes multiple times a day. That was probably
Speaker 4: five thousand calories in pop tarts.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Well, think about when we were growing up, like they
Speaker 3: didn't really concern themselves with nutrition at all, Like we know,
Speaker 3: we would have cinnamon toast crunch. I down it with
Speaker 3: a glass of tang which is just powdered sugar that
Speaker 3: tastes like orange.
Speaker 1: I love the marketing because it was.
Speaker 3: I remember when I was a kid, it was like
Speaker 3: my mom's big selling point, this is what the astronauts
Speaker 3: drink when they're in space, is saying. I'm like, oh,
Speaker 3: I'm an astronaut.
Speaker 4: All better that we had the kool aid that we
Speaker 4: made ourselves, and we would dump half the jar of
Speaker 4: sugar into that orange tumperware thing everybody had in their kitchen.
Speaker 4: I remember, yeah, you remember, we all had that orange
Speaker 4: tupperware pitcher, all right, and the bottom would just be
Speaker 4: this huge pile of pure sugar. My brother would be like,
Speaker 4: it's all right, and he would just stir it up
Speaker 4: with his hand, or he'd put a wooden spoon in
Speaker 4: there to try to get that sugar up off the bottom.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, that was great, oh man, all the days.
Speaker 4: And then we wonder why our teeth were all rotten
Speaker 4: as we were children, and they made us flush our
Speaker 4: mouths out with fluoride.
Speaker 3: Oh man, uh yeah, the stuff that we It was
Speaker 3: a different time, obviously, but yeah.
Speaker 4: Oh, our grandparents thought pasta was a diet. I remember
Speaker 4: my grandmother telling my mom, all you got to do
Speaker 4: if you want to lose weight, just eat pasta for
Speaker 4: every meal.
Speaker 1: What in the world. And it's no coincidence she keeled
Speaker 1: over from a heart attack. Intermittent chest pain and I
Speaker 1: shortness of breath and pain in my whips arm.
Speaker 3: Well, yeah, you know you get you eventual rest, Grandma.
Speaker 3: I speaking of that. A former guest, I just read
Speaker 3: this story. I think I saw yesterday the guest on
Speaker 3: this podcast had a stroke.
Speaker 1: Lenny Dykstra. Remember remember nails Lenny Dykstra and we had
Speaker 1: him on the podcast.
Speaker 4: Yeah, the reason famous car wash and seem me Valley, California.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he was at one point a financial financial advisor.
Speaker 1: Schemist. Well that's what he turned out to be. But yeah,
Speaker 1: we love Lenny.
Speaker 3: Lenny a listener to the Overnight show and uh and
Speaker 3: we I wanted him in studio. Lenny wanted to come
Speaker 3: in studio. We we communicate on on X and Eddie
Speaker 3: did not. Eddie was so afraid of Lenny that he
Speaker 3: didn't want Lenny to come into the studio because he
Speaker 3: Lenny has he's got some skeletons, not even in his closet.
Speaker 3: The skeletons are laying outside the closet searching. But yeah,
Speaker 3: Lenny Dykstra out of the intensive care unit. He's somewhere
Speaker 3: here in the LA area, he suffered a stroke and
Speaker 3: sixty one years on day, there's a guy Lenny who's
Speaker 3: gone for it. And like every kind of vibe, any
Speaker 3: any and every vice, Lenny has taken part in, sex,
Speaker 3: drugs and rock and roll.
Speaker 1: Right, he's Yeah, what a life that dude had.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean he still has, but I doubt he's
Speaker 4: living that sort of lifestyle now.
Speaker 3: When we were kids, though, the eighty five eighty six Mets,
Speaker 3: that that mid eighties Mets team, they had all the
Speaker 3: wild childs of baseball at those days, and they're all
Speaker 3: still alive, right that. The argument was always all those
Speaker 3: guys aren't gonna make it, like the strawberry is still around,
Speaker 3: Dwight Gooden, Lenny Distra, isn't it odd? The one I
Speaker 3: know that's not with us anymore is Gary Carter, the catcher.
Speaker 1: On the eighty six Mets.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the one that was like that you know your dad,
Speaker 3: you know your next door ever dad type, And he
Speaker 3: passed away a number of years ago.
Speaker 1: And I think some of the Mets pitches look like
Speaker 1: the Brady dad. Yeah. Yeah, he was Afro is white man,
Speaker 1: Afro racist.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he was just kind of cool, you know, cool
Speaker 3: guy and I always smiling, always happy and all that.
Speaker 3: And he passed away with dykstra Strawberry, Kevin Mitchell was
Speaker 3: on that team Gooden, like all those crazy guys are
Speaker 3: still still hanging out. Strawberry has gone straight and narrow.
Speaker 3: He isn't Strawberry a preacher in Saint Louis or something
Speaker 3: like that.
Speaker 1: He lives in the Midwest. Yeah.
Speaker 4: I remember how excited we were as kids when Strawberry
Speaker 4: joined our Dodgers.
Speaker 1: Oh this is.
Speaker 3: Like, oh my god, are you kidding me? Super team,
Speaker 3: super team, right, Darryl Strawberry My memory.
Speaker 1: Of thought he was going to hit fifty home runs.
Speaker 3: I know they had Darryl Straub and Eric Davis. That
Speaker 3: was oh my god, yeah, oh my god. But Darryl Strawberry.
Speaker 3: My only memory of him as a Dodger is during
Speaker 3: the Freeway Series, the exhibition games with the Agels, when
Speaker 3: he went a wall. They couldn't find him. He wanted
Speaker 3: to remember he went on a coke bender.
Speaker 1: A bunch of hookers and cocaine before the season. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's right.
Speaker 3: And I remember I remember Lesorta rest his soul. Tommy
Speaker 3: was trying to be somewhat diplomatic. The Dodgers had no
Speaker 3: idea where Strawberry was. He just he vanished and I
Speaker 3: think they found him with a mountain of cocaine somewhere,
Speaker 3: just just enjoying.
Speaker 1: The hell out of himself.
Speaker 3: And uh yeah, that was That was my memory of
Speaker 3: Daryl Strawberry as a Dodger, and he's he hated he
Speaker 3: would rip the Dodger.
Speaker 1: He was the original.
Speaker 3: Barrett Robbins, Oh yeah, yeah, he got caught also Strawberry.
Speaker 3: It was I think he was playing for the Giants
Speaker 3: at the time and they were, as there usually are,
Speaker 3: a bunch of brushfires in La, and Strawberry on a
Speaker 3: conference call he made some joke about like let it
Speaker 3: all burners like La or something like that. And this
Speaker 3: is in the days before the internet, but still I
Speaker 3: still was like a huge deal. I remember at the
Speaker 3: time people were like freaking out, freaking out by that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was a dick man. Karma would burn his
Speaker 1: roof down.
Speaker 3: It was a not the nice thing say, not the
Speaker 3: nice thing to say. So the reunion. I had a
Speaker 3: reunion this week, Dan. It was a big week for me.
Speaker 3: This week, a reunion with my friend Jim. I went
Speaker 3: back for the first time in a while. I had
Speaker 3: during football season, I was so slammed with the radio show,
Speaker 3: the podcast, the TV show, I had no time for
Speaker 3: myself to go to the gym.
Speaker 1: So i'd stopped going to the gym. I'm back, though
Speaker 1: I had with the gym. For you, it's just cardio, right.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I just do some car I get my body
Speaker 3: move and I get my ten thousand steps that kind
Speaker 3: of thing, and so yeah, but I had not gone.
Speaker 3: It was part of my routine and I've changed it
Speaker 3: up a little bit.
Speaker 1: Though I went back.
Speaker 3: It was a little weird because I'm changing my schedule
Speaker 3: around a little bit, trying to get a.
Speaker 1: Little better quality sleep.
Speaker 3: So I'm trying to go to bed earlier because I
Speaker 3: kept going to bed later and later, and it became
Speaker 3: kind of a big issue. Just my schedule was completely
Speaker 3: messed up. So we're trying to change that around a
Speaker 3: little bit. So I've been going to the gym in
Speaker 3: the afternoon. But the problem is there's like people there
Speaker 3: who you know, when I was going to the gym,
Speaker 3: there was like crackheads. Crackhead Bob would be there and
Speaker 3: you know, grands or whatever.
Speaker 1: You know, Yeah, exactly. So it's odd, like vacuuming the floor.
Speaker 3: Not only am I going during the day, but there's
Speaker 3: like good looking people and it's it's a little awkward.
Speaker 1: It's just weird. It's uh And I'm like, don't it.
Speaker 3: I'm thinking, like, well, if I thought when I walked
Speaker 3: in the gym was in the afternoons, like, who the
Speaker 3: else gonna be there? Doesn't everyone worked during the day.
Speaker 3: Most people worked during the day, but there were like
Speaker 3: tons of people there.
Speaker 1: It was packed. I was like, I guess none of
Speaker 1: these people have jobs.
Speaker 4: Good thing you got a palette of Adrian Peterson's Nirvana
Speaker 4: of Water. Yeah, you're about to be ripped.
Speaker 3: We we had our guy that was fun last week
Speaker 3: in Vegas was yeah.
Speaker 2: No.
Speaker 4: I actually got to listen back to that interview because
Speaker 4: I wanted to make sure his audio was loud enough.
Speaker 4: In post production. I kept lifting it up every time
Speaker 4: he spoke, because you know, we're loudmouth radio guys. So
Speaker 4: many of these athletes are soft spoken that as a
Speaker 4: producer the whole time, you're like, oh, this is going
Speaker 4: to be so much work afterwards, and I did it
Speaker 4: as quick as I could. When we finished the interview,
Speaker 4: but I had to keep pulling his audio level up
Speaker 4: and it turned out great, So I'm happy for that.
Speaker 4: But yeah, man, I wish these athletes took classes about
Speaker 4: how to project their voices.
Speaker 3: Well, yeah, and the problem there. First of all, you
Speaker 3: had a lot of ambient noise because it was a
Speaker 3: big call, a big room, and there were.
Speaker 1: People walking around.
Speaker 4: There are a lot of people walking around with bounty
Speaker 4: paper towels.
Speaker 1: As I said.
Speaker 3: As I said last weekend we were in Vegas, I said,
Speaker 3: it's like it's like the boardwalk on Atlantic City or
Speaker 3: in Santa Monica right on the ocean there, you know,
Speaker 3: and and or Venice. I guess Venice would be a
Speaker 3: better example. Yeah, the speech where's just a lot of
Speaker 3: people hawking stuff.
Speaker 1: And you know they and then there I love the.
Speaker 3: Attitude right because they're like, well are you are you national?
Speaker 1: Are you local? Like they only want to do certain shows.
Speaker 3: And we we had we got blown off by several
Speaker 3: people on that the Saturday pod last week.
Speaker 1: We we had we were we.
Speaker 3: Had several people lined up one flake, we had another
Speaker 3: one lined up. They flaked and I was like, oh,
Speaker 3: I'm gonna tweet the list out this weekend.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you should. We're calling out names, Brian Billi, Brian Billick.
Speaker 1: After like the third one, I was like, oh, you
Speaker 1: know what, I I don't.
Speaker 3: Even want to talk to these people. I was like,
Speaker 3: let me just put Lingard on. I know, I know
Speaker 3: he'll give me some good stories.
Speaker 4: At least Kevin har You're Kevin Harlan story was better
Speaker 4: than any athlete would have been.
Speaker 1: That made that made the trip. No it did I
Speaker 1: know you sounded?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 1: I was so.
Speaker 3: I was so happy because I, you know, you don't
Speaker 3: know who's listening, Danny, and.
Speaker 1: I thought, you know, I love Harlan. I think he's great.
Speaker 3: Kevin Harlan's one of the great play by play guys
Speaker 3: of our generation and he's been doing it forever.
Speaker 1: And I was like, you know, it's cool. It was
Speaker 1: nice to meet him.
Speaker 3: But then when he like knew who I was and
Speaker 3: as a listener like that, blew. That was like total fanboy.
Speaker 1: Moment right there. Total fanboy moment was great.
Speaker 4: Well, sometimes I mean we get into a comfortable mode
Speaker 4: where we're not even thinking about how many people out
Speaker 4: there in the world are listening, especially on the live
Speaker 4: radio show. If you get in a nice groove, You're
Speaker 4: not thinking about all of the millions of ears tuned
Speaker 4: on to the network over six hundred affiliates throughout the
Speaker 4: United States. You're not thinking about that. Otherwise you would
Speaker 4: probably psych yourself out right. Oh yeah, yeah, but once
Speaker 4: in a while, and of course, especially your audience and
Speaker 4: the Malard Militia. Our audience is special. I don't mean
Speaker 4: that as a slight. I mean special as far as
Speaker 4: your callers are their own characters. And I would rather
Speaker 4: hear militia callers than most athletes on the radio. I
Speaker 4: would say the Malard Militia callers are more entertaining than
Speaker 4: most athletes.
Speaker 1: Yes. The thing is, though, sometimes.
Speaker 4: We'll hear or we'll see a tweet where it's like
Speaker 4: this famous TV guy like from the News is listening,
Speaker 4: or this actor or actress or singer will tweet, or
Speaker 4: we'll hear from somebody that a big time athlete is listening,
Speaker 4: not being interviewed, but they'll just be listening to the show.
Speaker 4: And then it's almost like, oh shit, people are listening.
Speaker 4: You know, we don't really think about it until somebody points.
Speaker 1: That out, and it's really it's cool.
Speaker 4: I certain people, So Kevin Harlan, you know, and I
Speaker 4: picture him in his car practicing his calls, just because
Speaker 4: he's so famous calling games, right, And do you think
Speaker 4: he listens to your show? Like, what's some of his
Speaker 4: tendencies when he calls a game?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 3: Well, he does the outrageous commercial reads and things like.
Speaker 3: I mean, it's just but I don't think that's from me.
Speaker 3: I just it's just it's just.
Speaker 1: Cool to know that.
Speaker 4: What do you think when he likes one of your segments,
Speaker 4: he lets it rip as if you hit a three pointer, Well.
Speaker 3: I would say, I would say, Danny, it's kind of
Speaker 3: like one there is. I try not to listen to
Speaker 3: too much. I will end up if I hear something
Speaker 3: that sounds good, I might I might not realize that
Speaker 3: I'm doing a version.
Speaker 1: Of that, you know what I mean, Like, is it
Speaker 1: just you you.
Speaker 3: Pick stuff up just through osmosis, just by hearing it
Speaker 3: or whatever being around it. And but I just like
Speaker 3: the fact that he's getting back from a TNT game
Speaker 3: early in the morning and he's driving home from the
Speaker 3: airport or whatever, and he's got he's got to show
Speaker 3: on late at night. I think that's that's pretty cool.
Speaker 3: We've got the word of the week. Danny, are you
Speaker 3: ready for the word of the week.
Speaker 1: The word of the week.
Speaker 3: And the word of week on this Friday is Amazon.
Speaker 3: Now you might say Amazon or yesterday. Yeah, I just
Speaker 3: gotta we have Maxie now, so we had to upgrade
Speaker 3: our pooper scoop. We had we had to get and
Speaker 3: Luigi and I gotta send out. Maybe on Saturday, I'll
Speaker 3: send a photo.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I'll have to talk more about that on.
Speaker 3: The Saturday pot but I I have We had to
Speaker 3: buy a big pooper scooper because the dog Moxie is
Speaker 3: a bigger dog than Bella.
Speaker 1: Makes you rest in peace.
Speaker 3: And so Moxie she has full size, grown up poops
Speaker 3: and so you've got to you've got to stay up
Speaker 3: on the pooper scooper patrol. And so we got a
Speaker 3: bigger pooper scooper uh to handle Moxie. But and we
Speaker 3: did get it from Amazon. But yeah, there was a time,
Speaker 3: believe it or not, the word Amazon did not mean
Speaker 3: buying anything you want on the internet. It was different
Speaker 3: now Amazon, This is great now if you say a
Speaker 3: woman is an Amazon, right, Danny, that was the term
Speaker 3: we grew up with.
Speaker 1: You're that one's Amazon, That that meant a big woman.
Speaker 3: Well actually, the original definition amazon originally meant a breastless woman.
Speaker 1: How about that? Weird?
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's right. Uh, the breastless women were Amazonians. Uh
Speaker 3: this goes back to the days of ancient Greece, so
Speaker 3: we're going way back.
Speaker 1: In the hot hot tub time. Shee.
Speaker 3: But but yeah, Amazon Amazonians were tall, fierce, and not
Speaker 3: very feminine. The fable goes that these female warriors they
Speaker 3: lived near the Black Sea in ancient Greece. Uh those times,
Speaker 3: and they were they were both feared and uh, fighting
Speaker 3: force and all that, and and how do they become
Speaker 3: known as breathless breathless?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 3: Well, they were so committed to violence and living the
Speaker 3: life and being fearless on the battlefield that in order
Speaker 3: to better pull the bow strings in combat, the legend
Speaker 3: goes that they would burn off their breast so they
Speaker 3: would not because the boobs, I guess, got in the
Speaker 3: way when you're trying to shoot a bow string.
Speaker 1: So the women did not want to be held back.
Speaker 1: And so oh my, that's it.
Speaker 3: Now, that's commitment to battle there, that is commitment. You're
Speaker 3: willing to burn off your bosom in order to shoot
Speaker 3: a bow and arrow better.
Speaker 2: That is.
Speaker 1: That's impressive. Imagine if you wanted to be a ballet dancer.
Speaker 3: Anyway, So that is the word of the week. Amazon
Speaker 3: will get out on that, Danny, anything you want to
Speaker 3: promote here, You've got Covino and Rich today.
Speaker 4: I assume yes, yes, sir, after post production of this
Speaker 4: fine podcast, I'll take a little nap, wake my ass
Speaker 4: up and scoot on. Just beautiful Sherman Oaks, California, bordering
Speaker 4: bell Air.
Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, we have bell Air to the north and
Speaker 1: to the south we have Van Eyes.
Speaker 3: I believe beautiful van one of these like the others.
Speaker 3: You want to go north, you don't want to go south.
Speaker 3: We have Encino to the west.
Speaker 4: And have you noticed how Van Eyes has kind of
Speaker 4: moved into Sherman Oaks.
Speaker 1: Yea, I have those.
Speaker 3: The other night I was walking around the building and
Speaker 3: I was walking down the hall and I looked out
Speaker 3: the window and somebody had tagged the glass. Oh yeah,
Speaker 3: somebody had decided to tag they showcase.
Speaker 1: Window outside of our old studio and somebody, Thank god,
Speaker 1: they're a fan.
Speaker 4: It says number one, number one. I don't know why
Speaker 4: the one is in the shape of a finger.
Speaker 1: I know what that's all about it.
Speaker 4: We're gonna be doing the Fun Friday edition of Covino
Speaker 4: and Rich, which is two to four pm on the
Speaker 4: West Side, and that is five to seven pm in
Speaker 4: Rhode Island.
Speaker 1: Beautiful Rhode Island, small estate. I've been there.
Speaker 3: Great capital of Providence, Rhode Island, great capitol building right
Speaker 3: there in downtown Providence.
Speaker 1: Have a wonderful rest of your day. We will catch
Speaker 1: you tomorrow later. Skater gotta murder, I gotta go.