Speaker 1: Kabbooms.
Speaker 2: If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes
Speaker 2: a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants
Speaker 2: of the old Republic, a soul fashion of fairness. He
Speaker 2: treats crackheads in the ghetto cutter the same as the
Speaker 2: rich pill poppers in the penthouse.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 2: The clearing House of Hot takes break free for something special.
Speaker 2: The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now.
Speaker 3: In the air ey way, The Fifth Hour with Me,
Speaker 3: Ben Mahler and Danny.
Speaker 1: G Radio, as we hang out with you.
Speaker 3: On this twentieth day of December, Happy Friday. I am
Speaker 3: aware that I was not on my post last night
Speaker 3: doing the overnight show, a rare and appropriate, rare and
Speaker 3: appropriate day off. But we are back at it, full
Speaker 3: weekend of podcast, full weekend of podcast, and I'm only
Speaker 3: gonna be off a couple of days next week, so
Speaker 3: I'll be here most of the upcoming week on the radio.
Speaker 3: So Thursday's pretty tough day, and so I figured I
Speaker 3: had plenty of time off in my box. If you will,
Speaker 3: you know the work they have, how many days off
Speaker 3: you have and all that stuff. I don't normally take
Speaker 3: many days off, but Thursdays are very difficult because I
Speaker 3: do the overnight show. Then I'm up during the day
Speaker 3: filming Benny Versus the Penny, and then I have to
Speaker 3: go back and do the overnight show and somewhere in
Speaker 3: there I usually get about two and a half to
Speaker 3: three hours of sleep.
Speaker 1: So I figured it's the end of the year.
Speaker 3: They want me to use some of the time. The
Speaker 3: company always wants me to use more time than I use.
Speaker 3: They kind of get upset with me that I don't
Speaker 3: take more time off. So I said, what DF. So
Speaker 3: I was not here last night, but I did watch
Speaker 3: the Charger game. I want the record to show I
Speaker 3: was I didn't go to the Charger game. I didn't
Speaker 3: see our friend Eddie. I was not at the Charger
Speaker 3: game last night because of the logistics of getting from
Speaker 3: Universal Studios in Hollywood Inglewood not not an easy path
Speaker 3: at the time that game kicked off.
Speaker 1: But oh what a game it was.
Speaker 3: The Chargers getting absolutely roasted at halftime, looking like they
Speaker 3: were dead in the water, down twenty one to thirteen
Speaker 3: and a half time in that game last night against
Speaker 3: the Broncos, the upstart Broncos, and after watching the way
Speaker 3: the Chargers played last week against Tampa Bay, and then
Speaker 3: seeing the performance here.
Speaker 1: I was like, WHOA, what's going on?
Speaker 3: But they obviously played much better than the second half,
Speaker 3: and we saw we saw the wacky play that I
Speaker 3: didn't even know was a thing because it's never happened
Speaker 3: since I was a child. The Chargers. The comeback included
Speaker 3: Cameron Dicker, the kicker, making the first successful fair catch
Speaker 3: kick in the NFL in forty eight years. That's two generations,
Speaker 3: and he hit it from fifty seven yards the final
Speaker 3: play the first half, so that made it twenty one
Speaker 3: to thirteen. The Chargers saw the game, you know, they win,
Speaker 3: So they're nine and six, justin Herbert, a couple of
Speaker 3: touchdown passes, a couple of rushing touchdowns for the Gus Bus,
Speaker 3: and the Chargers now have a ninety seven percent probability
Speaker 3: of making the playoffs.
Speaker 1: So they're in good shape.
Speaker 3: And they can wrap it up without doing anything on
Speaker 3: Sunday because they've already played. If the Colts lose to
Speaker 3: the Titans in Miami, also goes down to the forty
Speaker 3: nine Ers and the Chargers are in the post season,
Speaker 3: so they've they've got that in the back. As far
Speaker 3: as the dope Holidays. Today is dot your Eyes Day.
Speaker 3: You probably don't know what that is. I didn't know
Speaker 3: what that was. I had no idea. But we are
Speaker 3: told that the dot your eyes Day every December twentieth.
Speaker 1: And what is this?
Speaker 3: You say, Well, it's pretty simple, you know, dot your eyes,
Speaker 3: cross your t's and all that stuff. But this is
Speaker 3: the day when you're supposed to supposed to finish things, right,
Speaker 3: He's supposed to finish things that need to be finished.
Speaker 3: And there's no real history. I think this is just
Speaker 3: one of those fugazy holidays and all that stuff. But
Speaker 3: the entire phrase dot your eyes and all that stuff,
Speaker 3: most of the history that goes back to I think
Speaker 3: eighteen forty nine. There was an article by this guy
Speaker 3: named William in Scribner's magazine that first carried the expression.
Speaker 3: The earliest known evidence of that saying was apparently used
Speaker 3: widely in the mid eighteen hundreds.
Speaker 1: The phrase, of.
Speaker 3: Course, is used today to kind of goof on kids
Speaker 3: and all that stuff.
Speaker 1: Dot your eyes and all that. But anyway, said dope
Speaker 1: Dope Holiday.
Speaker 3: On today's podcast, the Fifth hourt we will not only
Speaker 3: have an amazing final roast, we'll also say What's Up Doc,
Speaker 3: A little foody fun and the Idiom of the Week.
Speaker 1: The Idiom of the Week.
Speaker 3: But I wanted to begin with this another somber note here,
Speaker 3: But I want to be as.
Speaker 1: Positive as I can because I really like this guy.
Speaker 3: And I've done a lot of eulogies this year on
Speaker 3: this podcast. We've lost a lot of good people that
Speaker 3: have been a part of our family, a part of
Speaker 3: our radio family.
Speaker 1: And we lost another one.
Speaker 3: If you heard the radio show during the week a
Speaker 3: big part of this show, we lost Matt the Warrior
Speaker 3: and well, he used to be Matt the Warrior Raider
Speaker 3: as fan and over the years he just he got
Speaker 3: rid of the a's he's the Warrior Raider fan and
Speaker 3: all that stuff.
Speaker 1: He loved the Raiders.
Speaker 3: And Matt died last I guess last.
Speaker 1: Week or two weeks ago.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 1: We found out about it over the weekend. Last weekend.
Speaker 3: We shared with you on on Sunday night into Monday.
Speaker 3: And if you've listened to the show at all over
Speaker 3: the last ten to fifteen years, you know his name.
Speaker 3: You might not know what he sounds like. He's only
Speaker 3: called in Mat, only called in a few times, but
Speaker 3: he was a key part of this show, and my
Speaker 3: condolences to his wife, Jennifer has got a teenage daughter,
Speaker 3: she's fourteen. My condolences to the whole family. I just
Speaker 3: want to share some stories. I talked about some of
Speaker 3: these things on the radio show on Sunday Night, but
Speaker 3: if you didn't have a chance to hear that over
Speaker 3: the years, as you know, we use social media quite
Speaker 3: a bit. It is a tool during the show on
Speaker 3: x real time feedback and we go back and forth.
Speaker 3: You'll bust my balls, I'll bust your balls. That's how
Speaker 3: the show's worked. I mean usually I open up with
Speaker 3: the monologue and then the next part of the show
Speaker 3: will eventually take calls, but the first part of it
Speaker 3: is all just reaction from you listening, hiding behind your
Speaker 3: smartphone and giving me commentary. And over the years, Matt,
Speaker 3: who I never had the chance to meet, I wanted
Speaker 3: to meet him.
Speaker 1: I was.
Speaker 3: I tried to get him to go to the meet
Speaker 3: and greet we did in Vegas, and he was very stubborn.
Speaker 1: Matt.
Speaker 3: He's like, I want to go to the I'm gonna
Speaker 3: wait till you come to the Bay Area. We were
Speaker 3: worthy of a Malor meet and greet. In the Bay Area,
Speaker 3: so he didn't go to Vegas, he didn't come down
Speaker 3: to LA And a number of you guys that live
Speaker 3: in northern California have made the trek to other locations
Speaker 3: for the Malor meet and greet. So I never got
Speaker 3: a chance to meet Matt but every night. And he's
Speaker 3: been sick recently, he had some issues over the last
Speaker 3: couple of months, but prior to that, pretty much four
Speaker 3: or five nights a week, I knew that I would
Speaker 3: do a monologue and I would get real time feedback.
Speaker 1: For Matt.
Speaker 3: And he did not suck up. He was not a
Speaker 3: toll liquor, was not would be critic goal. He would
Speaker 3: also point out things that might not have been completely
Speaker 3: accurate in the Malard monologue and was one of my
Speaker 3: great fact checkers. And I really enjoyed. I really enjoyed
Speaker 3: his feedback. I looked forward to it, and as I
Speaker 3: told his wife Jennifer that he had been such a
Speaker 3: beloved part of our show, you know, I actually want
Speaker 3: to thank a couple of other people, Robbie the Mariner,
Speaker 3: fan og Art puffin the community on the radio show.
Speaker 3: We're a small community, but you guys, the super p
Speaker 3: Ones you reached out to me when you found out
Speaker 3: the news that Matt had passed away. Robbie was able
Speaker 3: to give me the phone number, and I felt a
Speaker 3: little odd texting Matt's wife.
Speaker 1: You know, how do you do this?
Speaker 3: You know, it's a very tough situation, obviously much tougher
Speaker 3: for her, and you know, I'm just I'm just a
Speaker 3: guy on the radio, you know, That's all I and
Speaker 3: I wanted to be sympathetic, but I also wanted to
Speaker 3: give the proper tribute to Matt.
Speaker 1: And I needed some more.
Speaker 3: Information because I know a little bit about him from
Speaker 3: the radio show, but he didn't tell me everything. I
Speaker 3: knew he loved AMPM he used to talk about ANPA.
Speaker 3: I knew he loved Costco. I loved Costco too, and
Speaker 3: so I reached out to Matt's wife over the weekend.
Speaker 3: And for those that don't know the backstorm, I don't
Speaker 3: get all of it. But Matt had had a medical
Speaker 3: emergency I think about a month before, but I'm not
Speaker 3: sure on the timeline. I'm not sure exactly on the timeline,
Speaker 3: but he stopped interacting with the show. We were concerned
Speaker 3: about him. We did a Hey, what's going on? He
Speaker 3: had almost died a couple of weeks prior, and he
Speaker 3: came back. He had cardiac arrest and all kinds of
Speaker 3: problems and whatnot, and based on like a COVID thing,
Speaker 3: but it was something else mixed in, and I don't
Speaker 3: know about everything involved in it, but he almost died,
Speaker 3: and then he came back and he messaged me and
Speaker 3: some of the fans of the show, and I'd give
Speaker 3: them a little message on on X. In fact, I
Speaker 3: was actually going to do a big to do I
Speaker 3: can tell the story now. I was going to this
Speaker 3: whole big to do for Matt Welcome, I'm back. And
Speaker 3: I was actually told not to do that by some
Speaker 3: of the guys that are friends with Matt on the show.
Speaker 3: They said Matt didn't really want that. He didn't want
Speaker 3: all the attention. So he's probably annoyed on the other
Speaker 3: side that I'm doing this, but you know, deal with it.
Speaker 3: So so anyway, I reached out to Matt's wife to
Speaker 3: get some more information, and Matt, as I said, four
Speaker 3: or five nights a week, would give me feedback. He
Speaker 3: sent jokes in occasionally for the lame jokes that we did.
Speaker 3: I did that a few times over the years. And
Speaker 3: the thing that Matt was a maestro at was the
Speaker 3: insta trivia and the who am I?
Speaker 1: Game?
Speaker 3: And this mfor okay, this Matt all right, Matt the
Speaker 3: war ear raider fan, Matt was a master of trivia.
Speaker 3: And I told his wife, you know, we were talking
Speaker 3: about him a little bit, we're texting back and forth,
Speaker 3: and she explained to me that he had the memory
Speaker 3: like an elephant, right, and she these are her words,
Speaker 3: and they were like, he should be a lawyer. You know,
Speaker 3: he should have been a lawyer because he could have
Speaker 3: war anyone down in an argument, which is perfectly accurate.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 3: And as I told Jennifer, Matt's wife that he had
Speaker 3: become a big character on this show over the years,
Speaker 3: and as a fact checker, as I said, and Matt
Speaker 3: was forty nine, which is which is my age.
Speaker 1: We're the same age. Matt to work at night.
Speaker 3: He drove for Uber full time, and that that allowed
Speaker 3: him to keep an eye on his daughter when she
Speaker 3: was younger and kind of take care of her and
Speaker 3: all that stuff, pick her up from school and help
Speaker 3: pay for daycare and all that. So his wife had
Speaker 3: a normal eight to five or nine to five whatever job,
Speaker 3: and then he would work from five or so in
Speaker 3: the evening in northern California until.
Speaker 1: Midnight or one in the morning, and so he would
Speaker 1: listen to.
Speaker 3: Our show at that particular time. He's a huge, huge
Speaker 3: sports guy, obviously, you know, listening to sports radio.
Speaker 1: But he loved the.
Speaker 3: Raiders, the A's, the Warriors, and even the San Jose Sharks.
Speaker 3: You didn't talk much about the Sharks on the show.
Speaker 3: And while he was in active P one, Matt, the
Speaker 3: Raiders left Oakland, the Warriors left Oakland to go across
Speaker 3: the Bay, and the Athletics announced they're leaving to go
Speaker 3: to Sacramento, and then eventually they're moving.
Speaker 1: To Las Vegas.
Speaker 3: And Matt would go to quite a few baseball games
Speaker 3: and hockey games with his wife and whatnot. And he
Speaker 3: loved to travel, loved to travel, wanted to cross his
Speaker 3: many states off his list as he could. He got
Speaker 3: up to twenty one of the fifty one states we
Speaker 3: are told, So that's a good run. I mean, he
Speaker 3: lived in California and the states are far apart, so
Speaker 3: you get to twenty one, that's a solid, solid run.
Speaker 3: I'm also told that Matt loved Seinfeld. He could recite
Speaker 3: old lines from Seinfeld, and he and his old man,
Speaker 3: his dad loved Seinfeld, which is one of the iconic
Speaker 3: shows of all time, right our period of time, the
Speaker 3: same age as Matt, and that was a massively important
Speaker 3: show for sure, for sure. And also Matt loved planes, trains,
Speaker 3: and automobiles, and he was a big fan of that
Speaker 3: and actually was watching it. Jennifer told me he watched
Speaker 3: it a couple days before he had to go back
Speaker 3: to the emergency room, and he watched it every Thanksgiving.
Speaker 3: That was the tradition for moving for Matt, moving.
Speaker 1: Around there around the bay. He always had the planes, trains,
Speaker 1: and automobiles.
Speaker 3: Now, I mentioned the final roast because one of the
Speaker 3: great final moments on our show as a super contributor
Speaker 3: for Matt was the Tom Brady Roast. The Tom Brady Roast.
Speaker 3: So I think we're actually going to replay some of
Speaker 3: this monologue. I did a monologue after the Brady Roast,
Speaker 3: which was on I think it was on Netflix, and
Speaker 3: I watched it. I thought it was funny, and I
Speaker 3: was like, my show, I have editorial control, so I'm
Speaker 3: gonna do a little mention in the monologu.
Speaker 1: I don't think I started the monologue with it.
Speaker 3: It was like at the end of a monologue, the
Speaker 3: last couple of minutes, I just ranted about what I
Speaker 3: enjoyed and the Tom Brady roast and this that and
Speaker 3: the other thing, and so that was fine.
Speaker 1: And that was so offensive to Matt. He was so
Speaker 1: taken aback.
Speaker 3: He did not think it was funny at all. So
Speaker 3: he was trying. He was busting my balls, Matt. And
Speaker 3: then I decided, all right, you know what I'm going
Speaker 3: to add on, just to get back at you, you sucker.
Speaker 3: I'm going to add on a fan of the Tom
Speaker 3: Brady rose to any of your name. So I did
Speaker 3: that for a while, and he seemed to be annoyed
Speaker 3: by that, but he played along, and so we went
Speaker 3: back and forth.
Speaker 1: On that quite a bit, and.
Speaker 3: Just my my condole insist to everyone that loved him
Speaker 3: and knew him. And you know, I didn't get a
Speaker 3: chance to meet him. I wish I had, But I
Speaker 3: really felt a connection as much as he can on
Speaker 3: the radio show, because he was there for so long.
Speaker 3: I just knew that no matter how stupid I was,
Speaker 3: or what ridiculous thing I said, or you know, whether
Speaker 3: it was a lot going on in sports, or it
Speaker 3: was kind of a sluggish.
Speaker 1: Time where we were.
Speaker 3: I remember during COVID we were throwing marble racing monologues
Speaker 3: out there and just anything to fill the time. We
Speaker 3: had a lot of time and there wasn't a lot
Speaker 3: of stuff going on, and we had to fill the time.
Speaker 1: And Matt was one of the guys that was there
Speaker 1: and support of our show.
Speaker 3: So again I wanted to thank his contribution and hopefully
Speaker 3: rest in peace. They're Matt and on the other side
Speaker 3: and all that, and we'll hopefully get together again some
Speaker 3: time down the line. We got a lot of good
Speaker 3: listeners that have passed away. This has been a tough
Speaker 3: year in my time doing this show is there's never
Speaker 3: been a year quite like this. We've lost people from illness,
Speaker 3: and a lot of people end up finding our show
Speaker 3: when they're not doing well and then they're lonely, they're
Speaker 3: at night in the hospital whatever, and it's in pain
Speaker 3: and they can't sleep, and so they'll they'll find the show,
Speaker 3: and so we've We've always had a fair number of
Speaker 3: people that are sick or not doing well, and then
Speaker 3: eventually a lot of them will get better and then
Speaker 3: they'll move on to other stuff, they'll forget about us,
Speaker 3: and then some of them will keep listening, and then
Speaker 3: all those, unfortunately will not make it and then we
Speaker 3: lose them.
Speaker 1: But this has been the year.
Speaker 3: We lost Matt, who was many more years to live
Speaker 3: at age forty nine. And mass Ole Mickey died in
Speaker 3: a car accident, also around Matt's age, so actually a
Speaker 3: little younger, I believe.
Speaker 1: So just a tough time, a.
Speaker 3: Tough time, all right, turning the page on that, though
Speaker 3: there's no good transition, there's really no good transition.
Speaker 1: What's up, Doc? What's up? Doc? So Benny versus the Penny?
Speaker 3: I know, shameless promotion for the TV show, but it's
Speaker 3: not really about the TV show. So the TV show's
Speaker 3: on Week sixteen. They'll start airing today the first run.
Speaker 3: We say, the biggest affiliate. It's on a bunch of
Speaker 3: cable channels, but for us, it's produced out of NBC
Speaker 3: Sports Boston, so that is the mothership, that is the flagship.
Speaker 3: It's on all these other NBC affiliates, but it's NBC
Speaker 3: Sports Boston. It's their show. We do the show from
Speaker 3: La Universal Studios, but they produce it. So we go
Speaker 3: live on tape on and B see Sports Boston at
Speaker 3: six pm tonight and then again at eight thirty and
Speaker 3: nine to thirty. So that's in the span of three
Speaker 3: and a half hours, three showings of Benny Versus the Penny,
Speaker 3: and then we'll be on in the Bay Area, in
Speaker 3: San Francisco and in Sacramento and Philadelphia and all these
Speaker 3: other cities.
Speaker 1: Los Angeles, that's tomorrow.
Speaker 3: They'll pick up Benny Versus the Penny for week sixteen,
Speaker 3: and this week's episode, there's something that happened that you'll
Speaker 3: not see on the episode, but we'll make the if
Speaker 3: we have a blooper.
Speaker 1: Show at the end of the year.
Speaker 3: Tom Looney did the thing you can't do at the time,
Speaker 3: you can't do it and drove me to lose my
Speaker 3: mind on set while we were recording Benny Versus the Penny.
Speaker 3: It actually involves the segment if you pay attention to
Speaker 3: the show. I mentioned the name of one of the
Speaker 3: callers to the show, and what Tom Looney did in
Speaker 3: that moment was the thing you can't do at the time,
Speaker 3: you can't do it, and that just drove me bonkers.
Speaker 1: I was on the hinge.
Speaker 3: Now you probably won't see much of that. I don't
Speaker 3: think that made the final cut of the TV show.
Speaker 3: I'm just telling you when you're watching this weekend's episode,
Speaker 3: keep an eye on that. Now, as far as What's Up, Doc,
Speaker 3: I had one of the greatest days I've had.
Speaker 1: How frickin lucky have I been.
Speaker 3: We've been wandering around the back lot at the iconic
Speaker 3: Universal Studios, Hollywood, and I'm going to post a video
Speaker 3: later today I made my way to Hill Valley.
Speaker 1: Now, if you don't know what Hill.
Speaker 3: Valley is, that is the scene, the iconic scene in
Speaker 3: the Back to the Future movies nineteen fifty five, the
Speaker 3: town square, the lightning strike and Back.
Speaker 1: To the Future. Back to the.
Speaker 3: Future, that was where they filmed the amazing episode the
Speaker 3: Key Mole in that It was Saturday, November twelfth, nineteen
Speaker 3: fifty five, at ten oh four pm when lightning strikes
Speaker 3: the courthouse clock tower, freezing the clock at ten oh four,
Speaker 3: and the clock is never repaired and becomes a local landmark.
Speaker 3: And so we were in that town square where they
Speaker 3: filmed that part of the iconic Back to the Future movies,
Speaker 3: and they filmed several of them there, and it's a
Speaker 3: working set, so a working set on the back lot.
Speaker 3: You know, hello to Marty McFly and Biff and all
Speaker 3: those other people. But it was really one of those
Speaker 3: moments where you're sitting there and you're walking around, you're like,
Speaker 3: oh man.
Speaker 1: When I was a kid, that was a big time movie.
Speaker 3: I was in the perfect age range when that movie
Speaker 3: came out in nineteen.
Speaker 1: Eighty five, so for me, it was like, whoa dude,
Speaker 1: this is like unreal. And I just loved the whole thing.
Speaker 1: And we watched it a bunch.
Speaker 3: And here I am middle aged guy and I'm standing
Speaker 3: right in front of a clock tower in the middle
Speaker 3: of the town square, and I'm looking around. I see
Speaker 3: the old gas station there. It's not gas station right now.
Speaker 3: They're using it as a used car dealership, but for
Speaker 3: the Back to the Future movie, it was a gas station.
Speaker 1: And I saw the.
Speaker 3: Restaurant where they went in there, the diner where a
Speaker 3: lot of the action took place in that town square.
Speaker 1: It was just awesome.
Speaker 3: It was just so much fun, and I just one
Speaker 3: of those things you got to pinch yourself.
Speaker 1: And I hope you enjoyed it. I don't know if
Speaker 1: you enjoy these things or not.
Speaker 3: We put videos up every week from around Universal Studios,
Speaker 3: and it's one of those things we feel like imposters, like.
Speaker 1: What are we doing here?
Speaker 3: You know, we don't really belong here, but we actually
Speaker 3: have passes. We're allowed to be there. And speaking of hat,
Speaker 3: when I showed up to do Benny Versus the Penny
Speaker 3: this week, so we normally go into Gate one, but
Speaker 3: Gate one's been closed, so we've had to go into
Speaker 3: Gate two and we only go in there once a week.
Speaker 3: We do the TV show we recorded on Thursday and
Speaker 3: then it starts airing Thursday night and Friday. So yesterday,
Speaker 3: what I what I'll do is I'll normally do the
Speaker 3: radio show and then I got to do a little
Speaker 3: production after the radio show, and then I'll cruise over
Speaker 3: there and just hang out.
Speaker 1: No one, you know, no one's really there when I know,
Speaker 1: four in the morning or whatever when I show up.
Speaker 3: So I'll go over to Universal Studios and I'll hang out.
Speaker 3: And I've got my own little space right across the
Speaker 3: hall from the studio where we tape Benny Versus the Penny,
Speaker 3: which is right in the It's pretty funny because on
Speaker 3: one side you have I guess like MSNBC's La Bureau
Speaker 3: and CNBC's La Bureau and all these, and then the
Speaker 3: other side is this little studio, not very big, and
Speaker 3: that is where we record our show. But in between
Speaker 3: that is a little meeting room which I take over
Speaker 3: every Thursday.
Speaker 1: It's my room. I feel like it's my office.
Speaker 3: So I set up my shop and plug everything in
Speaker 3: to charge everything and put my final notes together for
Speaker 3: the TV show, look for any last minute injuries that
Speaker 3: I might have missed or anything like that.
Speaker 1: And I prepare for the show.
Speaker 3: But getting there, I get there very early, way before
Speaker 3: I need to be there, way before I need to
Speaker 3: be there. But I live far away, and so why
Speaker 3: would I Why would I bother? Why would I bother
Speaker 3: going all the way back back home and then having
Speaker 3: to come back and traffic and all that rush hour traffic.
Speaker 1: Didn't want to deal with it. So I go in
Speaker 1: there and hang out.
Speaker 3: But yesterday was different than most days because I show up,
Speaker 3: go to the gate I've been going to this season,
Speaker 3: and I pulled through and I where I normally would
Speaker 3: turn left, there's cones, not allowed to go, not allowed
Speaker 3: to go. So I'm like, okay, So I keep driving,
Speaker 3: thinking at some point I'll be able to make a
Speaker 3: left turn and then I'll be able to go back
Speaker 3: where I need to go on River Road and get
Speaker 3: to the Abbott and Costello parking lot, and I'll be fine.
Speaker 3: So I keep driving and there's nowhere to turn. There's
Speaker 3: literally nowhere to turn. I am pretty much boxed in here,
Speaker 3: and I keep driving and driving. Next thing I know,
Speaker 3: the malormobile is driving in Manhattan. I'm in the New
Speaker 3: York part the set, and I was like, oh boy,
Speaker 3: I probably should turn around.
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't want to.
Speaker 3: Get caught, you get in trouble. Not that I was
Speaker 3: not breaking any rule, It was a harmless mistake. I
Speaker 3: was trying to get where I needed to go. So anyway,
Speaker 3: I made a U turn. Drive all the way back
Speaker 3: to the front to the gate. I asked the security
Speaker 3: I said, listen, I mean I need to go here,
Speaker 3: and I can't go where I need to go. What's
Speaker 3: going on with that? And the security guard is very
Speaker 3: nice and say, well, now gate one's open, So you
Speaker 3: got to get out of here, and you got to
Speaker 3: turn right, and then you got to make another right
Speaker 3: and then you can go where you need to go,
Speaker 3: but you can't go here.
Speaker 1: Because it's Gate two and Gate two doesn't go to
Speaker 1: Gate one. Where you need to go is Gate one,
Speaker 1: and so I was all right.
Speaker 3: But anyways, it's just a fun a fun day to
Speaker 3: go to the They call it the court House Square
Speaker 3: is what it's called.
Speaker 1: Originally. I looked this up because I was really fascinated
Speaker 1: by the stuff. I'm not even a big movie person.
Speaker 3: I mean there's some when I was a kid, I
Speaker 3: love them, but I'm not a movie historian by any means.
Speaker 3: But the town Square set was originally called the Mockingbird Square,
Speaker 3: and that was after a film that was made there
Speaker 3: in nineteen sixty two, To Kill a mocking Bird, one
Speaker 3: of the iconic films in the history of Hollywood from
Speaker 3: nineteen sixty two, and then they renamed it court House
Speaker 3: Square after that, and it's been used in a lot
Speaker 3: of different productions over the years.
Speaker 1: One of them, you know, it was one of these moments.
Speaker 3: I wish my dad was still around because he loved
Speaker 3: The Twilight Zone, and I actually remember this episode. I
Speaker 3: used to watch The Twilight Zone with my dad sometimes,
Speaker 3: the black and white show that would air in the
Speaker 3: archaic days of my childhood. But they filmed the episode
Speaker 3: of the Twilight Zone called where is Everybody in that
Speaker 3: Courtyard Square? And I remember that vividly, that particular episode
Speaker 3: of the show, and so walking around there and I
Speaker 3: looked this up and I was like, wow, this is
Speaker 3: kind of cool. And then I text my buddy. My
Speaker 3: buddy Shane, who lives in Dallas, who's a huge movie fan,
Speaker 3: would appreciate this much more than I would. My guy, Shane,
Speaker 3: I've known him since we were little kids. He works
Speaker 3: for the Irs, so he's not perfect. But Shane, immediately
Speaker 3: I said him the phot I said, you know where
Speaker 3: I am? I said, oh, yeah, yeah, you're in Hill
Speaker 3: Valley and that They also filmed part of Gremlins there.
Speaker 3: Whoa they filmed, Yeah, they filmed like the opening scene
Speaker 3: in Gremlins, which was another iconic movie from the nineteen eighties.
Speaker 1: They filmed that.
Speaker 3: There.
Speaker 1: All this on the Universal Studios Hollywood back a lot. Now.
Speaker 1: To be fair, this thing has been burned over the years.
Speaker 1: There have been fires there.
Speaker 3: There was an arson fire in nineteen ninety and destroyed
Speaker 3: a lot of it Courtyard Square. It was rebuilt, the facades,
Speaker 3: everything reconstructed the same as it was. The courthouse itself.
Speaker 3: That building I believe was the one used for Hill Valley.
Speaker 3: That was the one they didn't need to rebuild that
Speaker 3: did not burn The other ones around there did burn.
Speaker 1: Up, So that was my dad.
Speaker 3: I'll post a video since you listened to the Fifth
Speaker 3: Hour podcast and you'll get an inside look before and
Speaker 3: you'll see.
Speaker 1: It if you watch the video I'll put on this
Speaker 1: afternoon sometime.
Speaker 3: On Instagram and also on the Facebook picture. Maybe I'll
Speaker 3: put it on x as well, who the heck knows.
Speaker 3: And with that, now it is time for some foody fun,
Speaker 3: foody fun.
Speaker 1: Let's do it. Now.
Speaker 3: We're winding down the year, and as we wind down
Speaker 3: the year, there's not as many food stories. These things
Speaker 3: will pick up in January, not as many right now.
Speaker 3: Some of the stories that stood out this week. Taco
Speaker 3: Bell has introduced new Crispy chicken nuggets maybe deluxe meal,
Speaker 3: And I've been told these things are really good. If
Speaker 3: you've had them, let me know if you liked them
Speaker 3: or not. But I've been told by boots on the
Speaker 3: ground that have had those Crispy Chicken nuggets in their
Speaker 3: mouth that they were wonderful. So I've not had them,
Speaker 3: I do not know, but I've heard good reviews about that.
Speaker 1: What else do we have?
Speaker 3: McDonald's has launched a one dollar ten piece chicken nugget
Speaker 3: deal limited time. Of course, all of these things through
Speaker 3: the app, As we have tried to point out. I
Speaker 3: don't know if we've been eloquent enough with this. If
Speaker 3: you eat, if you eat fast food a lot and
Speaker 3: you actually want to get fast food at the price
Speaker 3: it should be, you have to use your phone. You
Speaker 3: have to allow them to track you, and you will
Speaker 3: get reasonably apply priced fast food.
Speaker 1: If you don't do that, they will gouge you.
Speaker 3: Okay, they will absolutely hit a grand slam against your wallet.
Speaker 1: Okay, So you have to be willing.
Speaker 3: If you eat a lot of fast food, you have
Speaker 3: to be willing to use your fine I think most
Speaker 3: people know that. But if you don't know that, I'm
Speaker 3: telling you it is the price difference. It's wild, the
Speaker 3: difference between where we are on the apps and where
Speaker 3: we are just if you walk in off the street,
Speaker 3: you know, hey, I want some I want some nuggets.
Speaker 1: You know that's what I want?
Speaker 3: Yeah, speak of nuggets, And we talked about Taco Bell
Speaker 3: and their nuggets. There's a story from the Taste of
Speaker 3: Home website. I don't even know what that is. But
Speaker 3: Mike sent me this story from Utah. He knows I
Speaker 3: love chicken, and yeah, he said, these are the top.
Speaker 1: We can get this right.
Speaker 3: The top ranked fast food chicken nuggets number eight was
Speaker 3: McDonald This is not a list, by the way, Terry
Speaker 3: and England. This is a big board, not a list,
Speaker 3: and it's not mine. It's Taste of Home McDonald's chicken
Speaker 3: nuggets number eight.
Speaker 1: Number seven Burger King.
Speaker 3: I can't tell you the last time I had Burger
Speaker 3: King chicken nuggets.
Speaker 1: Last time I had it on I mean that good. Wendy's.
Speaker 1: I have had Wendy's nuggets. They're not bad.
Speaker 3: Number six on the big Board Chick fil A at
Speaker 3: number five. The Chick fil A Nuggets sandwich is obviously
Speaker 3: much better than the nuggets. Number four Kentucky Fried Chicken
Speaker 3: Kentucky Fried Chicken three pieces for about seven bucks. Number
Speaker 3: three so Campc's number four. K Number three is Popeyes,
Speaker 3: Number two is Wingstop, and number one Culvers. So they
Speaker 3: didn't even have raising canes. So this is a bogus list.
Speaker 3: They did not have raising Keynes the list. They didn't
Speaker 3: even have them rated and that's a bad job by
Speaker 3: them who goofed. I've got to know who goofed. I've
Speaker 3: got to know what else do we have. Let's see
Speaker 3: page down here, let's see here. Can't read that? Yeah,
Speaker 3: that's I mean some of the stuff is is not
Speaker 3: not all that riveting? Now you know it is riveting.
Speaker 3: This is a must on every episode on Fridays. We
Speaker 3: try to do this every single episode.
Speaker 1: The idiom of the week. That's right, the Midium oh week.
Speaker 3: Danny jim Ranio is doing the production and he'll be
Speaker 3: in tomorrow. Yes, he'll be back with me for these
Speaker 3: Saturday and Sunday podcasts. So the idiom oh a week?
Speaker 3: Here it is jump on the bandwagon. Now we have
Speaker 3: heard this, I have. I assume you have. You're in
Speaker 3: the same world I'm in. We're in different parts of
Speaker 3: the universe, but I assume we all have heard this.
Speaker 3: Possibly use it.
Speaker 1: Hey, jump on the bandwag. You know team's doing well
Speaker 1: in sport. You're jumping on the bandwagon here you are? Well?
Speaker 3: Did you know that the bandwagon term is a fusion idiom.
Speaker 3: It combines both politics and the circus. Say what back
Speaker 3: in a different age before social media, before the Internet,
Speaker 3: before television, before radio, A.
Speaker 1: Time in the Stone Age? Man? Was it a time
Speaker 1: in the Stone Age?
Speaker 3: So eighteen forty eight the first time the phrase jump
Speaker 3: on the bandwagon was used, at least in print, was when.
Speaker 1: A clown named Dan Rice. Oh so nice. His name
Speaker 1: is Dan Rice.
Speaker 3: So this famous clown named Dan Rice, and he would
Speaker 3: use his circus bandwagon to transport politicians around town while
Speaker 3: the music from the circus bandwagon would attract the public,
Speaker 3: and there would be campaign speeches were given and all
Speaker 3: this stuff. So this originates in the nineteenth century. It
Speaker 3: was the circus bandwagon, literally carrying a band to get
Speaker 3: the attention during political rallies. And essentially it obviously means
Speaker 3: you're jumping on a movement. And so what would happen
Speaker 3: Because people love music, they would flock to hear the
Speaker 3: circus band play, and not that they really cared that
Speaker 3: much about the politics, but they would follow the crowd
Speaker 3: because you know, someone you know just supporting something solely
Speaker 3: because it was popular, which is what happens all the time.
Speaker 1: Right You ask anyone who's in the political world and
Speaker 1: they will tell you ninety nine.
Speaker 3: Percent of the time, the person that wins an election
Speaker 3: is the person that has the most money to promote themselves.
Speaker 3: I think ninety nine percent of them. Every once in
Speaker 3: a while there's someone that ends up winning who doesn't
Speaker 3: have the most money. But that's rare and appropriate, right
Speaker 3: that is, you know, man bites dog. It's rare and
Speaker 3: it doesn't happen all that off and all stuff. So
Speaker 3: jump on the bandwagon. A great tribute to a famous
Speaker 3: clown from the eighteen hundreds named Dan Rice, who used
Speaker 3: to drive around his circus bandwagon with a literal circus
Speaker 3: band to get the attention to people to show up
Speaker 3: to hear some hack politician sing and dance and promise
Speaker 3: them the world.
Speaker 1: So you would get on.
Speaker 3: The bandwagon and and then people would maybe not care
Speaker 3: that much, but they wanted to hear the music, and
Speaker 3: so they wanted to be part of the in crowd,
Speaker 3: so they'd be out there to support the candidate.
Speaker 1: And that is the idiom of the week.
Speaker 3: All right, Well, some more pod fun on Saturday and Sunday.
Speaker 3: I have a wonderful final weekend before Christmas and Hanukkah
Speaker 3: tis the season of giving, ho ho ho and all that. Anyway,
Speaker 3: we'll have a wonderful rest of your Friday, and we
Speaker 3: will yap.
Speaker 1: With you tomorrow, tomorrow later, skater, Is that how you
Speaker 1: do it? Danny asta pasta? Is that you want that
Speaker 1: one wrong again? Idiot? Are we done? Can I leave now?
Speaker 1: Can I walk out of the studio? I'm good you
Speaker 1: killed it with the knife. Shake your head yet, yes, Danny,
Speaker 1: all right, I'm gonna walk out now. I'm gonna go. Uh,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna stare at a wall. Gotta murder, I gotta go.