WEBVTT - The Fifth Hour: Barbeque Smoke 0:00:00.880 --> 0:00:01.600 Kabooms. 0:00:02.440 --> 0:00:05.520 If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes 0:00:05.559 --> 0:00:09.360 a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants 0:00:09.360 --> 0:00:12.640 of the old Republic, a soul fashion of fairness. He 0:00:12.720 --> 0:00:15.640 treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the 0:00:15.760 --> 0:00:19.320 rich pill poppers in the penthouse. Wow to the clearing 0:00:19.360 --> 0:00:22.919 House of hot takes, break free for something special. The 0:00:23.040 --> 0:00:30.920 Fifth Hour with Ben Mahler starts right now. 0:00:29.120 --> 0:00:35.440 In the air everywhere. Welcome to the Fifth Hour with Me, 0:00:35.960 --> 0:00:41.120 Ben Mahler and Danny g Radio. Happy Friday, Friday Friday. 0:00:41.200 --> 0:00:44.720 A very busy fifth Hour today. If you were listening 0:00:44.800 --> 0:00:48.680 last night on the Overnight Show, you know it is 0:00:48.720 --> 0:00:53.239 a hectic time for me. And since this is my podcast, 0:00:53.320 --> 0:00:57.400 Danie'll be back with me tomorrow in on Sunday, kind 0:00:57.400 --> 0:01:00.520 of give you a blow by blow of what has 0:01:00.560 --> 0:01:03.000 been going on the last twenty four hours and what 0:01:03.120 --> 0:01:05.920 is to come this weekend. I am so excited that 0:01:06.040 --> 0:01:11.839 this is the day before the epic Malard Meet and Greet, 0:01:12.040 --> 0:01:17.680 the unscheduled, unplanned surprise pop up Malor Meet and Greet, 0:01:17.680 --> 0:01:21.319 which will be taking place tomorrow. Did the TV show 0:01:21.520 --> 0:01:25.960 on Thursday back yesterday and of course, I was on 0:01:26.000 --> 0:01:28.959 the radio all night. Hopefully you heard the overnight show, 0:01:28.959 --> 0:01:32.880 which is almost as good as like Chicken Forma or 0:01:33.040 --> 0:01:34.679 Taketos or something like that. 0:01:34.720 --> 0:01:35.120 I don't know. 0:01:35.720 --> 0:01:38.759 So I did the overnight show, and then I paused 0:01:40.040 --> 0:01:44.960 and waited several hours, and then I am now doing 0:01:45.000 --> 0:01:49.240 this the fifth Hour podcast, and I did not sleep. 0:01:50.520 --> 0:01:52.600 These are first world problems, so I did not sleep. 0:01:53.440 --> 0:01:56.640 And my plan is, as soon as I get done 0:01:56.640 --> 0:01:58.919 with this podcast, I'm going to pack up my suitcase. 0:01:59.400 --> 0:02:01.560 I'm going to head over to the airport from the 0:02:01.560 --> 0:02:08.800 North Woods and on my way to Canza City, I 0:02:08.840 --> 0:02:12.600 will be stopping later today in beautiful Salt Lake City. 0:02:13.280 --> 0:02:15.240 I've never been to the airport in Salt Lake City. 0:02:15.360 --> 0:02:16.959 I had no reason to go to the airport in 0:02:17.000 --> 0:02:17.600 Salt Lake City. 0:02:17.639 --> 0:02:21.040 But I have a connecting flight from Utah down to 0:02:21.120 --> 0:02:24.560 Kansas City and that'll be taking place today and I'll 0:02:24.639 --> 0:02:28.520 hopefully be eating some delicious barbecue by tonight. Looking forward 0:02:28.520 --> 0:02:30.560 to seeing my friends in Kansas City. It's gonna be 0:02:30.600 --> 0:02:34.600 a wonderful time, and I would love to meet you 0:02:35.320 --> 0:02:39.000 if you're in the area, if you got nothing going on, 0:02:39.600 --> 0:02:42.280 or even if you have something going on and you 0:02:42.360 --> 0:02:47.520 still want to be there, Come on out tomorrow Liberty, Missouri. 0:02:48.000 --> 0:02:51.560 We're gonna meet the landing in Liberty from two o'clock 0:02:51.680 --> 0:02:55.919 till four o'clock in the afternoon. Two hours, probably longer 0:02:55.919 --> 0:02:59.640 than that, but at least two hours hanging out, schmoozing 0:03:00.240 --> 0:03:04.320 and the big news. Very excited about this. I've done 0:03:04.360 --> 0:03:06.480 a lot of these meet and greets over the years. 0:03:06.560 --> 0:03:08.680 If you follow the show, which you obviously do, you're 0:03:08.840 --> 0:03:11.560 p one, you're listening to this podcast, then you know 0:03:12.000 --> 0:03:13.919 that we've done them all over the place, and they're 0:03:14.000 --> 0:03:15.440 usually small, little deals. 0:03:15.919 --> 0:03:18.800 They're small, you know. I mean, we have a good turnout. 0:03:18.800 --> 0:03:20.919 We do very well. Some cities we do better than others. 0:03:21.680 --> 0:03:26.000 We've viealing them from Seattle to Boston, to Charleston, South Carolina, 0:03:26.160 --> 0:03:31.359 to Appleton, Wisconsin, Pittsburgh, Syracuse, a bunch in Los Angeles, 0:03:31.840 --> 0:03:35.400 did Vegas. We've been all over doing the Mallard meet 0:03:35.400 --> 0:03:37.360 and greets, and I love doing it. It's a lot 0:03:37.360 --> 0:03:42.000 of fun. But normally we don't give you anything. We 0:03:42.160 --> 0:03:43.880 just asked you to show up and hang out with us. 0:03:43.880 --> 0:03:46.400 We don't have bumper stickers, we have no budget, there's 0:03:46.400 --> 0:03:53.680 nothing However, big news from our affiliate in Kansas City, 0:03:53.760 --> 0:03:59.240 the home of this show in Kansas City, ninety six 0:03:59.240 --> 0:04:02.600 point five on the FM dial, ninety six point five 0:04:02.640 --> 0:04:05.560 to the fan, which is this FM blowtorch if you're 0:04:05.560 --> 0:04:09.480 not in Kansas City for those most aren't, and it 0:04:09.720 --> 0:04:12.960 carries the Chiefs games and the Royals. It's the big 0:04:13.040 --> 0:04:16.560 sports station in town. And I go on every Thursday. 0:04:16.560 --> 0:04:18.960 I was on yesterday with my friend Bob Fesco on 0:04:19.000 --> 0:04:22.480 his morning show. Bob is going to be at the event, 0:04:22.600 --> 0:04:25.880 and I am told that we will be giving out 0:04:26.440 --> 0:04:28.080 as far as I know, and I believe this is 0:04:28.120 --> 0:04:31.400 the correct information, we will be giving away T shirts 0:04:32.320 --> 0:04:34.560 for ninety six point five to the fans. So not 0:04:34.600 --> 0:04:37.039 only will you get to come out, and if you 0:04:37.080 --> 0:04:40.400 spend money, have the Ben Mather chicken fingers and hang 0:04:40.440 --> 0:04:40.839 out with me. 0:04:41.400 --> 0:04:43.120 You know who am I I'm nobody. 0:04:42.960 --> 0:04:44.960 Never heard of them, but you can hang out with 0:04:45.000 --> 0:04:47.560 me and then possibly end up with a ninety six 0:04:47.640 --> 0:04:51.919 point five T shirt who which is kind of cool. 0:04:52.240 --> 0:04:54.400 And just give me an update on where we are 0:04:55.240 --> 0:04:59.600 in terms of the listeners that have RSVP. And I'm 0:04:59.600 --> 0:05:01.680 always luck and I say this every time, I'm reluctant 0:05:01.720 --> 0:05:03.920 to say, well, so and so is coming. But we've 0:05:03.920 --> 0:05:12.200 had listeners from Tennessee, Iowa, all over Missouri, Kansas, a 0:05:12.240 --> 0:05:17.280 couple people from Texas that are planning to make the pilgrimage, 0:05:17.279 --> 0:05:19.599 probably later today. I would assume if you're unless you're flying, 0:05:20.040 --> 0:05:22.000 you're going to have to drive. If you're coming from 0:05:22.040 --> 0:05:24.800 a far distance, you don't have to do that. There's 0:05:24.800 --> 0:05:26.159 no need to do that. But if you want to 0:05:26.160 --> 0:05:27.680 do it, I'd be honored to meet you and be 0:05:27.720 --> 0:05:29.039 great to meet you. I don't know when I'm going 0:05:29.080 --> 0:05:31.479 to be back in Kansas City, so I will be 0:05:31.560 --> 0:05:34.120 traveling there today. We have the meet and greet tomorrow, 0:05:35.080 --> 0:05:37.719 and I'm looking forward to seeing everyone at the landing. 0:05:37.760 --> 0:05:40.279 They've honored me all these years with the Ben Mallard 0:05:40.360 --> 0:05:42.359 chicken fingers, So I'm going to go out there and 0:05:42.400 --> 0:05:44.960 hang out with the good people at the Landing, and 0:05:45.520 --> 0:05:51.240 then on Sunday we will have a wonderful time at 0:05:51.400 --> 0:05:54.320 Arrowhead Stadium. I have been to that sports complex in 0:05:54.360 --> 0:05:57.520 the past. I was at a Royals game years ago, 0:05:58.120 --> 0:06:01.240 but have never been to a Chief game, and so 0:06:01.279 --> 0:06:03.960 I'm very excited about that. I've heard so much about 0:06:04.000 --> 0:06:09.000 the experienced tailgating at Arrowhead and we'll tell you more 0:06:09.000 --> 0:06:11.120 about it. I don't even know all the details. I've 0:06:11.120 --> 0:06:15.680 been invited to a massive tailgate party. A massive tailgate party. 0:06:16.520 --> 0:06:18.440 There's like a bus that picks you up and takes 0:06:18.480 --> 0:06:20.400 you out there. So it's going to be next level, 0:06:20.800 --> 0:06:23.120 next level for sure, so I'm looking for that. We 0:06:23.120 --> 0:06:26.680 should get a lot of stories to tell here on 0:06:26.760 --> 0:06:29.720 this podcast and of course the radio show, so it's 0:06:29.760 --> 0:06:31.520 gonna be fun. And if you listen to this, and 0:06:31.600 --> 0:06:35.640 you obviously are, I will share everything, every detail, all 0:06:35.680 --> 0:06:39.680 of that. Consider it my duty. We like to call 0:06:39.720 --> 0:06:44.040 it a little thing called the malor Travellog, So not 0:06:44.080 --> 0:06:46.720 only do we have that, but don't forget even though 0:06:46.760 --> 0:06:51.080 I'm traveling, we're still doing the podcast. I'm gonna be 0:06:51.120 --> 0:06:54.720 in full on zombie mode because not only did I 0:06:54.760 --> 0:06:58.520 not get any sleep today and I'm traveling, but I 0:06:58.520 --> 0:07:01.000 have an early day on Saturday because to have some 0:07:01.040 --> 0:07:03.160 things to do in Kansas City before the Malard meet 0:07:03.200 --> 0:07:08.279 and greet, which is two o'clock. So I'm gonna need 0:07:08.480 --> 0:07:13.880 some kind of heavy duty caffeine, massive caffeine. 0:07:13.920 --> 0:07:15.280 But we'll still do the podcast. 0:07:15.640 --> 0:07:19.040 We will have a fresh podcast for you on Saturday 0:07:19.280 --> 0:07:23.720 and Sunday again, hopefully with Danny g. But don't forget 0:07:23.720 --> 0:07:27.680 to watch the TV show. Do not forget to watch 0:07:27.760 --> 0:07:30.800 the TV show. We had a fun time. We had 0:07:30.840 --> 0:07:34.840 a good time this week at Universal Studios putting Benny 0:07:34.920 --> 0:07:40.000 Versus the Penny together. Hopefully you'll enjoy Week ten, Week 0:07:40.160 --> 0:07:44.720 ten of the NFL season as we break down all 0:07:44.920 --> 0:07:47.840 the big games. The show actually started airing on Thursday 0:07:47.920 --> 0:07:51.400 night in some markets, but the big debut is today 0:07:52.200 --> 0:07:55.560 and you can watch it all over the place regional 0:07:55.600 --> 0:07:59.440 cable channels from Boston to California and in between. 0:08:00.040 --> 0:08:02.920 So check your local TV listings now. 0:08:02.960 --> 0:08:06.280 If you don't have old school TV, if you're one 0:08:06.320 --> 0:08:08.720 of those people and I listen, I'm right there with you. 0:08:08.880 --> 0:08:12.800 I do not have traditional old school cable television anymore. 0:08:12.800 --> 0:08:14.240 We got rid of it years ago. I used to 0:08:14.280 --> 0:08:16.440 have direct TV, we got rid of that. Then we 0:08:16.520 --> 0:08:19.040 went to cable, got rid of that, and now I 0:08:19.200 --> 0:08:23.560 just have streaming and I watch Benny Versus the Penny 0:08:23.840 --> 0:08:29.200 on the Peacock. That's right, the Peacock. Now, when the 0:08:29.280 --> 0:08:33.240 show becomes available on Peacock, I don't really know. I 0:08:33.280 --> 0:08:36.600 don't really know. Sometimes it's early in the day. Normally 0:08:36.640 --> 0:08:38.480 it's later in the day. Last week we had a 0:08:38.559 --> 0:08:41.560 late start. Didn't get on Peacock till late in the 0:08:41.600 --> 0:08:43.560 day on Friday. 0:08:43.720 --> 0:08:44.200 I don't know. 0:08:44.760 --> 0:08:46.920 That's out of my pay grade. All I know is 0:08:46.960 --> 0:08:49.640 at some point the newest episode will be up. So 0:08:49.720 --> 0:08:52.520 if you have the streaming service Peacock not very much money, 0:08:52.760 --> 0:08:55.520 you can watch the latest episode of Benny Versus the 0:08:55.559 --> 0:08:58.080 Penny support the show. I got some good shots in 0:08:58.160 --> 0:09:02.880 on Looney. This week is unloading, and I went rapid fire. 0:09:03.679 --> 0:09:06.959 If you watch this week's episode, you'll know what I'm saying. 0:09:08.080 --> 0:09:11.600 I overwhelmed him at one point because he was annoying me. 0:09:11.720 --> 0:09:13.360 There was something he was doing. He did like four 0:09:13.440 --> 0:09:17.640 times in the A block of this episode of Bening 0:09:17.679 --> 0:09:22.679 Versus Benny. Now, this episode of the show red Hot. Now, 0:09:22.679 --> 0:09:28.240 when I say red hot, I mean next level, next 0:09:28.480 --> 0:09:31.120 level hot. So I'm done with the TV show. I'm 0:09:31.200 --> 0:09:35.320 driving home. It's during the day on Thursday, and I'm 0:09:35.360 --> 0:09:36.520 just minding my own business. 0:09:36.640 --> 0:09:36.760 Now. 0:09:36.760 --> 0:09:40.360 I'm very tired, very tired, right, So I take a 0:09:40.360 --> 0:09:42.840 lot of caffeine, try to stay awake the whole thing. 0:09:44.160 --> 0:09:46.520 It's a daytime taping of the TV show. But I 0:09:46.559 --> 0:09:50.080 work overnight and I don't sleep. I stay stay where 0:09:50.120 --> 0:09:53.520 I need to be. And I'm driving back and there's 0:09:53.520 --> 0:09:56.520 a lot of traffic in La, you know whatever. 0:09:57.360 --> 0:09:59.440 But my thing is all right, just I'll drive slow 0:09:59.480 --> 0:10:00.200 and study. 0:10:00.840 --> 0:10:03.160 My goal is just to not get in an accident 0:10:03.240 --> 0:10:06.040 because I'm tired, and I'm not that tired. I can't drive, 0:10:06.120 --> 0:10:07.640 but you you know what I mean, you're tired and 0:10:07.679 --> 0:10:12.119 all that. So I'm driving back and I had to 0:10:12.160 --> 0:10:15.760 play what I like to call freeway roulette where or 0:10:15.800 --> 0:10:17.839 freeway bingo, I guess is the way we would call it. 0:10:17.880 --> 0:10:20.480 Where you just go on this freeway and that freeway. 0:10:20.480 --> 0:10:21.560 And if you've ever been to. 0:10:21.640 --> 0:10:23.200 La, if you're in La, you know what I'm talking about. 0:10:23.200 --> 0:10:24.000 There's a million. 0:10:23.720 --> 0:10:27.600 Different highways, highways and byways, that innercross and all that. 0:10:28.679 --> 0:10:31.199 So I'm like whatever, I just I type in the 0:10:31.280 --> 0:10:36.120 destination into the north Woods. I put that in my map, 0:10:36.240 --> 0:10:39.240 and I'm like, wherever it takes me, I'm there. But 0:10:39.320 --> 0:10:42.720 I ended up playing freeway bingo and I got on 0:10:43.360 --> 0:10:46.040 the I think it was the ninety. 0:10:45.760 --> 0:10:49.200 One headed towards knots Berry Farm. 0:10:49.200 --> 0:10:52.120 If you're familiar with LA it's big amusement park. 0:10:52.120 --> 0:10:52.880 Not it's very farm. 0:10:53.200 --> 0:10:57.520 So I'm driving and I see up ahead this massive, 0:10:58.840 --> 0:11:06.840 massive huff of black smoke and it keeps getting bigger 0:11:07.160 --> 0:11:10.160 and bigger and bigger and bigger. And it's off in 0:11:10.200 --> 0:11:14.080 the distance. It's not near where I am, but it's 0:11:14.120 --> 0:11:19.240 where I'm going. It's up ahead, and I'm like, okay, whatever, 0:11:19.760 --> 0:11:20.640 I don't know what that is. 0:11:20.640 --> 0:11:23.000 Maybe there's a building on fire or something like that. 0:11:23.800 --> 0:11:26.000 And what happens is you get the lookie lose, you 0:11:26.000 --> 0:11:30.600 get the rubberneckers. So traffic starts slowing down. Mind you, 0:11:30.920 --> 0:11:33.280 the only reason I'm on this road is because it 0:11:33.520 --> 0:11:35.559 tells me. It says, well, this is the quickest way 0:11:35.640 --> 0:11:35.959 or whatever. 0:11:35.960 --> 0:11:36.480 You're faster. 0:11:37.880 --> 0:11:40.480 So I'm getting closer and closer, and I'm realized, like 0:11:40.600 --> 0:11:43.280 I'm driving right into where the. 0:11:45.080 --> 0:11:46.360 Smoke is coming from. 0:11:46.520 --> 0:11:49.719 This is either right near the highway or it is 0:11:50.040 --> 0:11:53.720 on the highway and it. 0:11:53.920 --> 0:11:54.800 Just comes to a hole. 0:11:56.120 --> 0:11:59.440 I keep going and the smoke is just getting bigger 0:11:59.520 --> 0:12:01.400 and bigger and bigger. 0:12:01.200 --> 0:12:02.640 And I'm like, oh, what is this? 0:12:03.760 --> 0:12:05.480 And I'm like, man, we're going to get Not only 0:12:05.520 --> 0:12:07.040 am I driving, I'm gonna get a show. 0:12:07.440 --> 0:12:11.440 It's like entertainment, and of course, no one. You don't 0:12:11.440 --> 0:12:12.800 want anyone to get hurt and all that. 0:12:13.160 --> 0:12:15.720 So I'm driving and then I get closer. I see 0:12:15.760 --> 0:12:19.520 like one fire truck had just arrived. It turns out 0:12:19.559 --> 0:12:23.199 it was not a warehouse that was on fire. It 0:12:23.240 --> 0:12:26.640 turns out it was actually a car on the road. 0:12:26.720 --> 0:12:34.199 But not just any car, a garbage truck was fully engulfed, 0:12:35.040 --> 0:12:40.959 fully engulfed in flames, and no one was attempting to 0:12:41.000 --> 0:12:41.360 put it out. 0:12:41.400 --> 0:12:42.400 It just the fire. 0:12:42.440 --> 0:12:45.240 It apparently just started when I first saw it, and 0:12:45.280 --> 0:12:48.120 the fire department was just arriving. There were people running around. 0:12:48.160 --> 0:12:50.640 The firemen were trying to do their thing. The cops 0:12:50.640 --> 0:12:51.960 were trying to get the cars. 0:12:51.679 --> 0:12:52.240 Off the road. 0:12:53.400 --> 0:12:55.720 It was wild, man, it was. It was nuts. And 0:12:55.720 --> 0:12:57.920 I'm on the other side. Now I wasn't, it wasn't 0:12:57.960 --> 0:13:00.840 on my side of the highway. But I'm driving and 0:13:00.880 --> 0:13:02.839 I'm like, wow, this is nuts, and you kind of 0:13:02.880 --> 0:13:03.880 feel the heat a little bit. 0:13:04.640 --> 0:13:05.520 This has happened before. 0:13:05.559 --> 0:13:08.319 I was on my way to Vegas and out in 0:13:08.760 --> 0:13:11.559 the California desert and I'm driving by and there was 0:13:11.600 --> 0:13:14.520 this car completely engulfed. But that was like a regular 0:13:14.520 --> 0:13:16.520 sitay that was like a Toyota or something like this. 0:13:16.520 --> 0:13:20.000 This was a giant garbage truck, and I don't know 0:13:20.040 --> 0:13:21.800 what happened. I've heard stories. I don't know if this 0:13:21.840 --> 0:13:26.440 is what happened here. However, I've heard stories that people 0:13:26.559 --> 0:13:31.280 are stupid, not you, of course, but other people, because 0:13:31.320 --> 0:13:32.520 you and I are never stupid. 0:13:33.000 --> 0:13:35.880 Other people are stupid. We're not. They're stupid. 0:13:36.320 --> 0:13:38.800 So I've heard these stories over the years that people 0:13:39.240 --> 0:13:43.320 often are f ups. And when it comes to trash, 0:13:43.760 --> 0:13:46.559 you know, there's certain things you're not supposed to throw 0:13:46.600 --> 0:13:51.360 away because they're highly flammable and they can cause all 0:13:51.440 --> 0:13:58.960 kinds of problems. Well, oftentimes people either didn't learn that adulting, 0:14:00.000 --> 0:14:03.520 they're not sure what's going on. But either way, I've 0:14:03.559 --> 0:14:06.800 heard and I actually did some research when I got 0:14:06.800 --> 0:14:09.800 back from driving home from Benny Versus the Penny, that 0:14:09.840 --> 0:14:12.960 apparently this is a regular occurrence if you're a trash man, 0:14:13.280 --> 0:14:15.400 if you're in the garbage business, and I know some 0:14:15.440 --> 0:14:17.440 of you guys are, I've heard from you over the years, 0:14:17.960 --> 0:14:21.320 so you can email me if you want, Real fifth 0:14:21.360 --> 0:14:25.680 hour at gmail dot com, Real fifth Hour at. 0:14:25.560 --> 0:14:27.040 Gmail dot com and let me know. 0:14:27.560 --> 0:14:31.160 But as I understand it, because people throw away so 0:14:31.320 --> 0:14:37.920 much stuff that's highly flammable. Trash trucks catch on fire 0:14:38.920 --> 0:14:45.040 quite a bit, like it happens a lot. And what 0:14:45.120 --> 0:14:49.480 I've seen videos of I fell down this rabbit hole 0:14:50.000 --> 0:14:53.800 and more like a trash hole, more like a trash hole. 0:14:54.840 --> 0:14:58.120 So I'm watching these videos, and so what they do 0:14:58.240 --> 0:15:00.520 is when the trash piles up up in the back 0:15:00.560 --> 0:15:03.880 of the truck, they advise you to empty the trash 0:15:04.000 --> 0:15:07.920 out if it starts smoldering, so that way the truck 0:15:07.960 --> 0:15:11.360 doesn't burn up, and you just throw the trash down 0:15:11.440 --> 0:15:13.880 and then it burns up on the road. You call 0:15:13.880 --> 0:15:17.280 the fire department that put the fire out. Well, this 0:15:17.440 --> 0:15:20.760 was on a highway and they didn't empty the truck. 0:15:21.480 --> 0:15:23.520 And I don't even know if that's what led to 0:15:23.560 --> 0:15:28.800 the fire. I'm just speculating. I didn't see where it began. 0:15:28.880 --> 0:15:33.040 I just saw the whole thing fully flamed up and 0:15:33.200 --> 0:15:38.960 it was wacky, whacky. I took a couple of photos 0:15:38.960 --> 0:15:41.800 of it because why not. You know everyone else is 0:15:41.840 --> 0:15:45.480 doing it, and that's a great excuse. Why not just 0:15:45.560 --> 0:15:49.560 go for it. So I did that, and yeah, that 0:15:49.760 --> 0:15:55.560 was my journey home. My sojourn home from the taping 0:15:55.680 --> 0:15:59.640 of Benny Versus the Penny, and what a day it was, 0:16:00.280 --> 0:16:01.600 What a wonderful. 0:16:01.240 --> 0:16:01.600 Day it was. 0:16:01.720 --> 0:16:04.680 And then I got like three hours of sleep and 0:16:04.840 --> 0:16:09.800 went right back into the studio to get ready for 0:16:10.480 --> 0:16:14.840 the radio show, which we did overnight. Turning the page 0:16:14.880 --> 0:16:18.080 from that, it is time now for the phrase of 0:16:18.440 --> 0:16:19.040 the week. 0:16:19.560 --> 0:16:20.360 That's right, the. 0:16:20.280 --> 0:16:23.320 Phrase of the week, which I don't even know if 0:16:23.360 --> 0:16:26.640 this counts as a phrase of the week, but we 0:16:26.920 --> 0:16:29.560 I love words, I love the origins of words. You 0:16:29.560 --> 0:16:32.200 guys have been great the last month and a half 0:16:32.240 --> 0:16:35.960 two months. Every week I'm getting multiple messages, Hey, can 0:16:36.000 --> 0:16:40.960 you I'm lazy, can you look up the origin of X? 0:16:41.880 --> 0:16:47.320 And sometimes I'm interested, sometimes I'm not. Now, this week, 0:16:47.400 --> 0:16:51.880 the phrase of the week is grand father clock. 0:16:52.600 --> 0:16:54.640 Grandfather clock is the phrase of the week. 0:16:55.480 --> 0:17:00.360 So why is that specific clock called a grandfather clock? 0:17:00.400 --> 0:17:00.560 Well? 0:17:00.920 --> 0:17:03.240 Is it true? By the way, this was sent in 0:17:03.280 --> 0:17:08.960 by Mike from southern Illinois. He said the real Illinois, 0:17:09.000 --> 0:17:12.240 not the Chicago part of Illinois, the real Illinois. And 0:17:12.280 --> 0:17:16.119 then he says that voted for Trump, which I guess, 0:17:16.160 --> 0:17:17.639 I don't know, maybe your county did. 0:17:17.680 --> 0:17:19.320 I don't know. I didn't keep trying that. 0:17:19.320 --> 0:17:24.199 But anyway, and it turns out that the origin this 0:17:24.240 --> 0:17:30.239 is fascinating. So the term grandfather clock does not have 0:17:30.320 --> 0:17:35.120 anything to do with a grandfather. In fact, the story 0:17:35.160 --> 0:17:40.879 behind it is bananas right, and it can be traced 0:17:40.920 --> 0:17:47.600 to a single person, a musician. I fell down a RABBITO. 0:17:47.640 --> 0:17:51.840 This is from the Oxford English Dictionary. The first known 0:17:51.960 --> 0:17:58.560 reference to grandfather clock came in eighteen seventy six, So 0:17:58.840 --> 0:18:01.639 that's a long time ago, but in the big picture, 0:18:01.680 --> 0:18:05.480 it's not that long ago. There was a songwriter and 0:18:05.520 --> 0:18:08.600 his name Henry Clay work. 0:18:09.640 --> 0:18:10.840 He must have really loved working. 0:18:11.440 --> 0:18:15.280 So the way the story goes, this guy Henry, he 0:18:15.359 --> 0:18:20.440 composed a piece of sheet music titled Grandfather Clock or 0:18:20.840 --> 0:18:27.399 My Grandfather's Clock. Now, in that music, the writer, this 0:18:27.440 --> 0:18:31.680 guy Henry, relates the story of a clock taller by 0:18:31.880 --> 0:18:36.920 half than the old man himself, that stood ninety years 0:18:37.000 --> 0:18:37.879 on the floor. 0:18:38.400 --> 0:18:39.760 And he continues on. 0:18:39.880 --> 0:18:42.560 He said that the time piece kept the time with 0:18:42.680 --> 0:18:48.120 a soft and muffled chime as his grandfather began slipping 0:18:48.160 --> 0:18:51.080 away but stop short, never to go again. 0:18:52.280 --> 0:18:53.040 When he passed on. 0:18:54.960 --> 0:19:03.280 That apparently was commissioned to be composed after visiting the 0:19:03.440 --> 0:19:07.639 George Hotel. You've never been to the Georgiatown The George 0:19:07.680 --> 0:19:13.920 Hotel in North Yorkshire, England, not all that far away 0:19:13.960 --> 0:19:18.000 from Terry in England, who loves when I do lists, 0:19:18.040 --> 0:19:20.720 But I don't do this. I do big boards, Terry, 0:19:20.720 --> 0:19:23.639 I do big boards. I don't do list anyway, the 0:19:23.720 --> 0:19:28.720 legendary story, it's just kind of cool. Corner hotel staff 0:19:28.760 --> 0:19:34.120 at this hotel in the eighteen seventies. The clock they 0:19:34.160 --> 0:19:38.400 had there had been previously owned by two brothers who 0:19:38.520 --> 0:19:41.800 once operated the hotel, and when one of the brothers 0:19:41.840 --> 0:19:43.320 passed away, the clock slowed down. 0:19:43.920 --> 0:19:47.800 When the other brother died, it stopped immediately. Do do 0:19:47.800 --> 0:19:49.359 do Do Do Do Do? Do? Do? Do Do do 0:19:49.480 --> 0:19:52.760 poultry geist, haunting, spooky. 0:19:53.400 --> 0:19:59.680 Now most believed the story was bullshit, that it wasn't 0:20:00.040 --> 0:20:03.840 actually what happened, that it was just a legendary tale. 0:20:03.840 --> 0:20:07.920 It got passed around people drinking some alcohol, and it 0:20:07.960 --> 0:20:11.639 was repeated over and over again. They would say to 0:20:11.760 --> 0:20:13.919 hotel guests, you know, it's kind of like that hotel 0:20:13.960 --> 0:20:20.680 in Milwaukee were there's this old hotel which is allegedly 0:20:21.320 --> 0:20:25.639 haunted in Milwaukee and a lot of the baseball teams 0:20:25.640 --> 0:20:28.760 basketball teams that go through Milwaukee will stay there. It's 0:20:28.800 --> 0:20:32.000 called I think the Pfiser Hotel. Now, whether or not 0:20:32.200 --> 0:20:35.520 it's haunted or not, I don't know. I know when 0:20:35.560 --> 0:20:38.119 I was doing stuff with the Dodgers years ago, they 0:20:38.160 --> 0:20:40.760 would stay there, and they had a young player who 0:20:40.800 --> 0:20:43.160 turned out to be a Hall of Fame player named 0:20:43.160 --> 0:20:48.439 Adrian Beltray who was so afraid of ghosts that he 0:20:49.080 --> 0:20:54.119 slept with his baseball bat is Louisville slugger in bed, 0:20:55.480 --> 0:21:00.440 clearly thinking that he could use the bat to take 0:21:00.480 --> 0:21:06.439 down a non physical being a ghost, Like wouldn't you 0:21:06.440 --> 0:21:09.679 think if you sway, if you swung, rather you swung 0:21:09.720 --> 0:21:13.000 a bat at a ghost, it would go right through 0:21:13.040 --> 0:21:14.120 the ghost because. 0:21:13.840 --> 0:21:18.960 Hello, spoiler alert, it's a ghost. But what do I know? 0:21:19.920 --> 0:21:22.600 Back to the story and the phrase of the week, 0:21:22.600 --> 0:21:23.800 which is Grandfather Clock. 0:21:24.200 --> 0:21:26.240 So the song was written. 0:21:26.080 --> 0:21:31.760 About this hotel and likely bullcrap just to promote the hotel, 0:21:32.840 --> 0:21:37.160 and that song took off. 0:21:38.280 --> 0:21:40.679 It was number one on the pop charts. 0:21:40.720 --> 0:21:42.560 With a bullet keep your feet on the ground, I 0:21:42.640 --> 0:21:44.240 keep reaching for the stars. 0:21:44.720 --> 0:21:47.479 My Grandfather Clock was a big hit. 0:21:48.280 --> 0:21:53.120 And because of the song, that single song written by 0:21:53.520 --> 0:21:58.920 somebody you'd probably never heard of from long, long ago 0:22:00.119 --> 0:22:05.000 reclay work in eighteen seventy six. That is why to 0:22:05.119 --> 0:22:09.560 this day, all these years later, right all, we're looking 0:22:09.600 --> 0:22:14.600 one hundred and fifty plus years and that term grandfather 0:22:14.680 --> 0:22:19.639 clock became synonymous with that specific type of clock. Now, 0:22:19.960 --> 0:22:23.959 clearly those clocks have existed way before the song. And 0:22:24.000 --> 0:22:27.720 you know what they were called clocks, right, they were 0:22:27.760 --> 0:22:32.439 called the long case clocks. Prior to that song, the 0:22:32.680 --> 0:22:36.720 colloquial term grandfather clocks were known as long case or 0:22:36.840 --> 0:22:39.040 tall case clocks, which. 0:22:38.800 --> 0:22:39.399 Is what they are. 0:22:41.000 --> 0:22:44.120 And then, as we said in the seventeen hundreds, there 0:22:44.160 --> 0:22:47.800 you go. But there it is the phrase of the week. 0:22:48.920 --> 0:22:52.359 And oh what a phrase it is, grand father clock. 0:22:52.440 --> 0:22:55.520 Thanks to our friend from Illinois for sending that interview. 0:22:55.600 --> 0:22:58.760 Have a phrase that you would like me to look 0:22:58.880 --> 0:23:01.359 up and try to figure out, moron, or you're just 0:23:01.480 --> 0:23:03.840 lazy and want me to tell you about it because 0:23:03.840 --> 0:23:04.639 that's what you're into. 0:23:04.760 --> 0:23:05.520 I'm fine with that. 0:23:05.680 --> 0:23:08.800 I've got a podcast to do every Friday, Saturday and Sunday. 0:23:09.320 --> 0:23:12.320