1 00:00:00,720 --> 00:00:01,480 Speaker 1: Kabbooms. 2 00:00:02,279 --> 00:00:05,400 Speaker 2: If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes 3 00:00:05,440 --> 00:00:09,160 Speaker 2: a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants 4 00:00:09,200 --> 00:00:12,480 Speaker 2: of the Old Republic, a soul fashion of fairness. He 5 00:00:12,600 --> 00:00:15,520 Speaker 2: treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the 6 00:00:15,640 --> 00:00:19,480 Speaker 2: rich pill poppers in the penthouse. Wow, it's the clearinghouse 7 00:00:19,520 --> 00:00:23,200 Speaker 2: of hot takes. Break free for something special. The Fifth 8 00:00:23,239 --> 00:00:30,720 Speaker 2: Hour with Ben Maller starts right now. 9 00:00:28,960 --> 00:00:35,640 Speaker 3: In the air everywhere, The Fifth Hour with Me, Big 10 00:00:35,680 --> 00:00:41,120 Speaker 3: Ben and Danny G Radio and a happy, Happy Saturday 11 00:00:41,120 --> 00:00:43,479 Speaker 3: to you the sixth day of July. 12 00:00:43,760 --> 00:00:46,720 Speaker 1: As we are not in the air everywhere. This is 13 00:00:46,760 --> 00:00:51,839 Speaker 1: the Extra Crispy, extra Spicy Fifth Hour podcast, even on 14 00:00:51,880 --> 00:00:55,120 Speaker 1: a holiday weekend. And as we like to point out 15 00:00:55,120 --> 00:00:58,040 Speaker 1: when we do these podcasts on the holiday Danny G Radio, 16 00:00:58,720 --> 00:01:02,400 Speaker 1: that it is the for us to continue them on 17 00:01:02,760 --> 00:01:06,280 Speaker 1: people actually listening to them. So this is a test. 18 00:01:06,560 --> 00:01:10,440 Speaker 1: This is a test of the Emergency Podcast Network, and 19 00:01:10,680 --> 00:01:12,800 Speaker 1: it is only a test, so we'll see, we'll see 20 00:01:12,840 --> 00:01:17,320 Speaker 1: how many downloads we get and what's the next big holiday? 21 00:01:17,480 --> 00:01:19,480 Speaker 1: Today is July. 22 00:01:19,319 --> 00:01:24,640 Speaker 4: Fourth weekend September second Monday, September second Labor Day. 23 00:01:25,400 --> 00:01:29,160 Speaker 1: Okay, so Labor Day. It is. Okay, Labor Day is 24 00:01:29,200 --> 00:01:32,360 Speaker 1: the next big holidays, so well, we have live podcast 25 00:01:32,440 --> 00:01:35,240 Speaker 1: on Labor Day weekend. Inquiry minds would like to know 26 00:01:35,319 --> 00:01:35,919 Speaker 1: stay tuned. 27 00:01:35,959 --> 00:01:39,160 Speaker 4: You know, last year in twenty twenty three, the numbers 28 00:01:39,200 --> 00:01:42,040 Speaker 4: I remember were good on holidays, so I hope that 29 00:01:42,080 --> 00:01:42,840 Speaker 4: trend stays. 30 00:01:43,040 --> 00:01:46,320 Speaker 1: Well, we're already deep into it. We're in the deep end. 31 00:01:46,440 --> 00:01:49,240 Speaker 1: We have no choice, no return. We're all in on this. 32 00:01:49,360 --> 00:01:51,960 Speaker 1: And today is one of those days which should be 33 00:01:51,960 --> 00:01:56,200 Speaker 1: a bigger holiday, but it's not. And I don't know 34 00:01:56,280 --> 00:01:59,760 Speaker 1: why it's not because it's an American thing. It's something 35 00:01:59,800 --> 00:02:03,080 Speaker 1: that we all indulge in, other than those evil vegans 36 00:02:03,800 --> 00:02:09,040 Speaker 1: cut that mead. But I don't get it. But it's 37 00:02:09,160 --> 00:02:14,320 Speaker 1: national fried chicken day to day Danny O. Yes, greasy, 38 00:02:14,639 --> 00:02:20,000 Speaker 1: delicious comfort food. Fried chicken something that I love but 39 00:02:20,760 --> 00:02:24,600 Speaker 1: rarely eat because I feel like the grease kind of 40 00:02:24,600 --> 00:02:26,880 Speaker 1: comes out of your pores right after you eat it. 41 00:02:28,120 --> 00:02:33,080 Speaker 1: I love fried chicken, Okay. I have two sandwiches, actually 42 00:02:33,080 --> 00:02:36,200 Speaker 1: three sandwiches named after me that are fried chicken sandwiches 43 00:02:36,320 --> 00:02:40,560 Speaker 1: or fried chicken the Chicken Mallow Chicken Tenders in Kansas City, 44 00:02:40,600 --> 00:02:43,480 Speaker 1: which is Liberty Missouri, and you can get that on 45 00:02:43,560 --> 00:02:47,720 Speaker 1: the menu there at the at that establishment which is 46 00:02:47,800 --> 00:02:53,240 Speaker 1: right near the Chiefs Stadium there in Liberty, Missouri, which 47 00:02:53,280 --> 00:02:56,560 Speaker 1: is which is great. And then we have the sandwich 48 00:02:56,600 --> 00:02:59,960 Speaker 1: in Denver at the sportsbook Bar and grill, a couple 49 00:03:00,120 --> 00:03:03,080 Speaker 1: locations in Denver, I mean in Kansas we have the 50 00:03:03,120 --> 00:03:06,600 Speaker 1: malar Fowler, which is on the menu. All chicken. I'm 51 00:03:06,639 --> 00:03:09,240 Speaker 1: the king of the chicken, Danny, all right, I want 52 00:03:09,280 --> 00:03:12,639 Speaker 1: my chicken. And here's a fun fact about chicken. You 53 00:03:12,680 --> 00:03:16,240 Speaker 1: want a fun factory about chicken. It's an American thing. 54 00:03:16,320 --> 00:03:21,320 Speaker 1: It began where they combined the Scottish chicken frying method 55 00:03:21,760 --> 00:03:26,360 Speaker 1: with West African seasoning and they put those two things 56 00:03:26,400 --> 00:03:30,799 Speaker 1: together and it became te da what we have today, 57 00:03:30,880 --> 00:03:37,000 Speaker 1: American fried chicken. It was a very expensive delicacy up 58 00:03:37,080 --> 00:03:40,320 Speaker 1: until World War Two kind of figured out they could 59 00:03:40,320 --> 00:03:43,240 Speaker 1: make it ways to make it cheaper and all that, 60 00:03:43,400 --> 00:03:47,080 Speaker 1: and American fried chicken is considered better. There are other 61 00:03:47,160 --> 00:03:50,680 Speaker 1: fried chicken around the world, but it Europeans had already 62 00:03:50,680 --> 00:03:52,920 Speaker 1: fried chicken in the Middle Ages, but it was the 63 00:03:53,040 --> 00:03:55,320 Speaker 1: Scottish immigrants in the US. Here we go, that's here 64 00:03:55,320 --> 00:04:00,400 Speaker 1: for the Scots. Racist who brought with them that and 65 00:04:00,440 --> 00:04:03,440 Speaker 1: then they, as I said, they combined it with the 66 00:04:03,720 --> 00:04:09,200 Speaker 1: the African slaves of the immigrants. So they put those 67 00:04:09,200 --> 00:04:12,560 Speaker 1: two together and they gave the world what we have today, 68 00:04:13,200 --> 00:04:15,720 Speaker 1: Southern fried chicken. 69 00:04:16,120 --> 00:04:18,760 Speaker 4: You know what Grandma Mary used to do. She's the 70 00:04:18,760 --> 00:04:23,400 Speaker 4: one that always wore a Mumo fry her chicken up. 71 00:04:23,880 --> 00:04:26,919 Speaker 1: I'm gonna take these chicken wings to the neck. She 72 00:04:26,960 --> 00:04:32,400 Speaker 1: would roll them in corn flakes. Dummy. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, 73 00:04:32,680 --> 00:04:37,960 Speaker 1: greasy and crunchy and delicious. Well, I've made fried chicken 74 00:04:38,360 --> 00:04:42,599 Speaker 1: at the Malor Mansion a couple of times, and I 75 00:04:42,720 --> 00:04:47,919 Speaker 1: use Painco flour multi coat. Your hands get all dirty, 76 00:04:48,040 --> 00:04:53,520 Speaker 1: and it's so freaking good. It is so amazing. It 77 00:04:53,160 --> 00:04:59,279 Speaker 1: is wonderful. Now, the biggest figure in the spreading of 78 00:04:59,640 --> 00:05:05,040 Speaker 1: fry chicken is none other than Harlan Sanders, better known 79 00:05:05,120 --> 00:05:09,400 Speaker 1: as Colonel Sanders. And he's the guy started that in 80 00:05:09,400 --> 00:05:16,160 Speaker 1: a gas station, started selling at a gas station in Corbin, Kentucky, 81 00:05:17,000 --> 00:05:21,039 Speaker 1: and did not succeed, did not. The famous thing about 82 00:05:21,080 --> 00:05:25,279 Speaker 1: Colonel Sanders, as we've learned over the years doing podcasts 83 00:05:25,360 --> 00:05:28,880 Speaker 1: like this, is that he was an overnight success at 84 00:05:28,920 --> 00:05:32,080 Speaker 1: age sixty five and It wasn't until he started hitting 85 00:05:32,160 --> 00:05:38,279 Speaker 1: the road selling his fried chicken, and that was when 86 00:05:38,279 --> 00:05:41,520 Speaker 1: it took off. So he was sixty five years old 87 00:05:41,680 --> 00:05:46,600 Speaker 1: and he had sold six hundred different fried chicken franchises 88 00:05:47,080 --> 00:05:50,920 Speaker 1: by the time that year had come around. So anyway, 89 00:05:50,920 --> 00:05:54,760 Speaker 1: it's National Fried Chicken Day today. The first known recipe 90 00:05:54,800 --> 00:05:59,359 Speaker 1: for American fried chicken seventeen to seventy four. American style 91 00:05:59,400 --> 00:06:02,760 Speaker 1: Fried Chicken KFC came into the picture in the nineteen 92 00:06:03,520 --> 00:06:10,520 Speaker 1: fifties and took off after that. Sixteen percent of Americans 93 00:06:11,040 --> 00:06:14,560 Speaker 1: say they would marry fried chicken. Sixteen percent they would 94 00:06:14,600 --> 00:06:17,240 Speaker 1: like to marry fried chicken. How often do you eat 95 00:06:17,279 --> 00:06:19,080 Speaker 1: fried chicken? You don't need it very often to anything. 96 00:06:19,080 --> 00:06:20,040 Speaker 1: It's too heavy for you. 97 00:06:20,160 --> 00:06:23,880 Speaker 4: Too heavy once a year for me, once a year, 98 00:06:24,160 --> 00:06:28,960 Speaker 4: once a year. As far as actual like bucket chicken, yeah, okay, yeah, 99 00:06:28,960 --> 00:06:30,760 Speaker 4: I don't eat bucket chicken. I'll eat like a chicken 100 00:06:30,760 --> 00:06:32,760 Speaker 4: breast fried or something. Yeah, that's a little different, but 101 00:06:32,839 --> 00:06:36,080 Speaker 4: I'm talking KFC bucket. Yeah, that's like a once a 102 00:06:36,160 --> 00:06:36,679 Speaker 4: year treat. 103 00:06:37,279 --> 00:06:39,040 Speaker 1: Well, they say how often you eat fried chicken? There 104 00:06:39,040 --> 00:06:42,000 Speaker 1: was a national survey done twenty two percent said once 105 00:06:42,240 --> 00:06:45,320 Speaker 1: every couple of weeks. That was the most popular answer. 106 00:06:45,520 --> 00:06:48,280 Speaker 1: Six percent said they eat it every day, like chicken 107 00:06:48,320 --> 00:06:52,480 Speaker 1: fingers and stuff like that. Eighteen percent said they rarely 108 00:06:52,839 --> 00:06:55,720 Speaker 1: eat it or once every couple of months. Twenty one 109 00:06:55,800 --> 00:06:59,960 Speaker 1: percent said once a meat once a week. Let's see 110 00:07:00,080 --> 00:07:04,840 Speaker 1: what was your favorite fried chicken topping? The most popular 111 00:07:04,880 --> 00:07:08,360 Speaker 1: topping for free chicken Let's see, I look at you. 112 00:07:08,400 --> 00:07:11,960 Speaker 1: I was barbecue sauce. But the actual number one answer 113 00:07:12,000 --> 00:07:15,480 Speaker 1: was no topic. They're purest they're fried chicken purists. They 114 00:07:15,480 --> 00:07:18,680 Speaker 1: do not want anything to mass. They don't want ketchup, 115 00:07:18,840 --> 00:07:24,320 Speaker 1: hot sauce, honey mustard, honey, butter, ranch, dress and gravy, cheese, garlic, 116 00:07:24,400 --> 00:07:26,720 Speaker 1: flavored it whatever. They don't want any of that o. 117 00:07:26,960 --> 00:07:29,240 Speaker 1: The grease makes it delicious. You don't want to water 118 00:07:29,320 --> 00:07:32,960 Speaker 1: down the grease. Now, sixty percent of Americans think chicken 119 00:07:33,000 --> 00:07:37,320 Speaker 1: and waffles belong together. Holy Roscoes. Do you see that 120 00:07:37,440 --> 00:07:42,600 Speaker 1: Rosco's in Pasadena clothes? Yeah? Yeah, Famous Roscos in Pasadena. 121 00:07:43,320 --> 00:07:47,560 Speaker 1: Rosco's Chicken and Waffles is an institution in southern California, 122 00:07:48,200 --> 00:07:50,080 Speaker 1: and another one bites the dust. 123 00:07:50,480 --> 00:07:53,080 Speaker 4: Too many stuck up people in the Pasadena area who 124 00:07:53,120 --> 00:07:55,440 Speaker 4: think they're better than chicken and waffles. 125 00:07:55,040 --> 00:07:58,240 Speaker 1: And it appears so, although if you go up to Altadna, 126 00:07:58,920 --> 00:08:01,520 Speaker 1: there's a very very interesting there's a point of demarcation, 127 00:08:01,520 --> 00:08:02,800 Speaker 1: a lot of crime. I used to go to the 128 00:08:02,800 --> 00:08:06,520 Speaker 1: gym in Altadena above Pasadena and I have my car 129 00:08:06,600 --> 00:08:08,960 Speaker 1: broken into. There was a lot of crime there and 130 00:08:09,000 --> 00:08:11,440 Speaker 1: that was years ago. You can only imagine it's gotten 131 00:08:11,480 --> 00:08:14,400 Speaker 1: better unless it hasn't. So on this podcast we have 132 00:08:14,640 --> 00:08:18,280 Speaker 1: the Drive and a show, the coffee break, the Hogey 133 00:08:18,280 --> 00:08:22,560 Speaker 1: ho down, international mail of mystery, and whatever else we 134 00:08:22,600 --> 00:08:25,680 Speaker 1: have time for. Might even mix in a bonus fun 135 00:08:25,760 --> 00:08:27,840 Speaker 1: factoid and idiom of the week. We'll see if we 136 00:08:27,880 --> 00:08:31,080 Speaker 1: have time for that. But we begin with this in 137 00:08:31,520 --> 00:08:35,840 Speaker 1: fourth or July weekend, sliding into a Saturday here, but 138 00:08:36,000 --> 00:08:41,040 Speaker 1: always good time for a story. This past week followed 139 00:08:41,080 --> 00:08:46,080 Speaker 1: the guidance the mandate from corporate at iHeart made my 140 00:08:46,240 --> 00:08:50,400 Speaker 1: trip ind the long winding road to the mothership, the 141 00:08:50,679 --> 00:08:53,680 Speaker 1: Premiere Network's iHeart Building there in Sherman Oaks, where the 142 00:08:53,679 --> 00:08:56,400 Speaker 1: homeless sit outside, the cockroaches are inside, and we do 143 00:08:56,520 --> 00:09:03,439 Speaker 1: talk radio. And this week it was a special week. Now, 144 00:09:03,480 --> 00:09:08,240 Speaker 1: this being the weekend show, here we go back and 145 00:09:08,240 --> 00:09:09,720 Speaker 1: look at some of the events that took place during 146 00:09:09,720 --> 00:09:13,880 Speaker 1: the week and big holiday weekend. And normally when I 147 00:09:13,960 --> 00:09:16,439 Speaker 1: drive it's rather uneventful. There's not a lot going on. 148 00:09:16,600 --> 00:09:19,160 Speaker 1: Just dodging some trucks, that's about it. Driving into the 149 00:09:19,160 --> 00:09:23,640 Speaker 1: Mothership from the north Woods. However, smashing your car, that 150 00:09:23,720 --> 00:09:27,080 Speaker 1: happens too. But this week tires flying. Ever, this week 151 00:09:27,080 --> 00:09:30,480 Speaker 1: providing special entertainment. It's not dinner in a show. It's 152 00:09:30,520 --> 00:09:34,839 Speaker 1: a drive in a show, a traveling pyrotechnic show. And 153 00:09:34,920 --> 00:09:37,040 Speaker 1: I'm not sure if it's like this everywhere. Maybe it is. 154 00:09:37,800 --> 00:09:39,760 Speaker 1: I don't live everywhere. Let me know if it's like 155 00:09:39,800 --> 00:09:41,800 Speaker 1: this in the I'd say in the comments, but just 156 00:09:41,840 --> 00:09:45,840 Speaker 1: send me an email. Real fifth hour at gmail dot com. 157 00:09:45,880 --> 00:09:50,280 Speaker 1: Real fifth Hour at gmail dot com. But this week, 158 00:09:50,600 --> 00:09:54,280 Speaker 1: the fourth isly week, and now into the weekend, driving 159 00:09:54,320 --> 00:09:59,560 Speaker 1: in is majestic. Every couple of miles, driving in from 160 00:09:59,600 --> 00:10:03,319 Speaker 1: the north Woods, from the Malor Mansion to the Oaks, 161 00:10:03,640 --> 00:10:06,559 Speaker 1: from the Woods to the Oaks and Shriman Oaks, where 162 00:10:06,600 --> 00:10:12,320 Speaker 1: the iHeart building is. I was given a fireworks show. Now, 163 00:10:12,360 --> 00:10:15,839 Speaker 1: most of these were neighborhood fireworks shows at the local park. 164 00:10:16,000 --> 00:10:21,040 Speaker 1: Some of them were illegal fireworks courtesy of Mexico, Tijuana, 165 00:10:21,520 --> 00:10:26,360 Speaker 1: or places somewhere further into Mexico. Racist. So I'm making 166 00:10:26,440 --> 00:10:30,040 Speaker 1: my way. I'm driving, and a couple of nights this 167 00:10:30,120 --> 00:10:35,200 Speaker 1: past week, I'm driving on the one oh one, which 168 00:10:35,920 --> 00:10:43,800 Speaker 1: circumnavigates Hollywood, goes through, you go by the iconic Circle. 169 00:10:45,280 --> 00:10:46,720 Speaker 1: Is it the Capitol Records Building? 170 00:10:46,720 --> 00:10:47,079 Speaker 3: Is that what it is? 171 00:10:47,120 --> 00:10:49,240 Speaker 1: I believe is what it is. Yeah, drive around that 172 00:10:49,400 --> 00:10:52,840 Speaker 1: and you see some of the neon signs of Hollywood, 173 00:10:52,880 --> 00:10:55,160 Speaker 1: and you drive through there. So I'm driving and up 174 00:10:55,200 --> 00:11:01,160 Speaker 1: ahead I witnessed the Mona Lisa of Pyrotech Nicks. I 175 00:11:01,280 --> 00:11:04,400 Speaker 1: was driving on the backside, right near the Barum Boulevard, 176 00:11:04,679 --> 00:11:09,880 Speaker 1: the backside of the iconic Hollywood Bowl, and I slowed down. 177 00:11:09,960 --> 00:11:12,760 Speaker 1: Everyone slowed down. We were all lookie loose. We were 178 00:11:12,760 --> 00:11:17,679 Speaker 1: all rubber necking. It was a rubber necker's paradise. And 179 00:11:17,800 --> 00:11:22,760 Speaker 1: I saw a good five minutes of the Hollywood Bowl 180 00:11:23,640 --> 00:11:27,760 Speaker 1: fireworks show. A couple of nights. Oh yeah, right there, 181 00:11:27,800 --> 00:11:30,240 Speaker 1: just driving on on the one on one for you. 182 00:11:30,360 --> 00:11:32,480 Speaker 1: So that was that was pretty cool. I didn't realize 183 00:11:32,520 --> 00:11:34,760 Speaker 1: they did it so many nights in a row. I 184 00:11:34,800 --> 00:11:37,839 Speaker 1: didn't realize it either. They did it at least a 185 00:11:37,880 --> 00:11:41,680 Speaker 1: couple of nights because I saw it and they had 186 00:11:41,720 --> 00:11:45,840 Speaker 1: what they usually do is they have the orchestra and 187 00:11:45,880 --> 00:11:48,640 Speaker 1: they have sung and then they have have patriotic songs 188 00:11:48,640 --> 00:11:50,160 Speaker 1: and red, white and blue, this, that and the other, 189 00:11:50,440 --> 00:11:52,760 Speaker 1: and then they have the fireworks going off. And so 190 00:11:52,840 --> 00:11:55,360 Speaker 1: I got to work and then I needed a coffee break, 191 00:11:55,440 --> 00:11:57,280 Speaker 1: is what I needed. I needed a coffee break when 192 00:11:57,320 --> 00:11:57,880 Speaker 1: I got to work. 193 00:11:58,400 --> 00:12:03,000 Speaker 4: Well, driving in on Wednesday morning for the Dan Patrick 194 00:12:03,080 --> 00:12:05,880 Speaker 4: fill in, they called it the Dan Slam. For a 195 00:12:05,920 --> 00:12:09,200 Speaker 4: Grand Slam four days, you need coffee at that time 196 00:12:09,240 --> 00:12:12,079 Speaker 4: of the morning. It was four point thirty four forty 197 00:12:12,080 --> 00:12:15,199 Speaker 4: five that I was leaving my hood to drive into 198 00:12:15,240 --> 00:12:17,559 Speaker 4: the Oaks, as you call it. I had a plan. 199 00:12:17,679 --> 00:12:20,679 Speaker 4: I'm like, why, I can't afford time. I don't have 200 00:12:20,720 --> 00:12:24,000 Speaker 4: the time to find a Starbucks that opens up at five. 201 00:12:24,080 --> 00:12:26,920 Speaker 4: Those are a special breed of Starbucks. As you know, 202 00:12:27,640 --> 00:12:30,200 Speaker 4: not every single Starbucks opens up at the butt crack 203 00:12:30,240 --> 00:12:30,680 Speaker 4: of dawn. 204 00:12:30,840 --> 00:12:36,959 Speaker 1: Unfortunately that ended twenty twenty with COVID. Yeah, you're exactly right, yep. 205 00:12:37,400 --> 00:12:40,800 Speaker 1: And so there is one Starbucks near the studios that 206 00:12:40,920 --> 00:12:45,280 Speaker 1: opens at five, crazy packed because the other ones open 207 00:12:45,360 --> 00:12:48,440 Speaker 1: at five thirty or six. I don't have time to 208 00:12:48,559 --> 00:12:50,760 Speaker 1: wait there and get my coffee with all the other 209 00:12:51,559 --> 00:12:54,120 Speaker 1: all the other losers like me that are awake this early. 210 00:12:54,800 --> 00:12:59,120 Speaker 1: So getting off the exit for Ventura Boulevard. Here for 211 00:12:59,160 --> 00:13:02,800 Speaker 1: our building. There is a gas station right across the 212 00:13:02,840 --> 00:13:06,680 Speaker 1: freeway exit. And it's perfect because instead of turning left 213 00:13:06,679 --> 00:13:09,880 Speaker 1: on a Venturo Boulevard, I just go straight, turn in, 214 00:13:10,000 --> 00:13:13,440 Speaker 1: park in front of a pump run in. It's not Starbucks, 215 00:13:13,440 --> 00:13:16,240 Speaker 1: but it's not horrible either, so it'll save me time. 216 00:13:16,880 --> 00:13:20,800 Speaker 4: Win win situation. Monday, I do this, Tuesday, I do 217 00:13:20,920 --> 00:13:25,480 Speaker 4: this Wednesday. I'm dragging butt a little bit. Oh man, 218 00:13:25,679 --> 00:13:29,560 Speaker 4: it is five thirty six am right now. I should 219 00:13:29,640 --> 00:13:32,480 Speaker 4: already be at the pre show meeting with Coveno and Rich, 220 00:13:33,080 --> 00:13:35,720 Speaker 4: but I know Coveno's dragging a little bit too, So 221 00:13:35,760 --> 00:13:38,320 Speaker 4: I'm like, I think I can pull this off. Run 222 00:13:38,360 --> 00:13:41,560 Speaker 4: to the doors of this gas station. They don't open. 223 00:13:41,600 --> 00:13:45,120 Speaker 4: Almost run into the damn glass. These doors are locked. 224 00:13:45,559 --> 00:13:48,640 Speaker 4: It's like a ghost town. Nobody's around. This guy saw 225 00:13:48,720 --> 00:13:51,480 Speaker 4: work in the past two mornings, not there, So I 226 00:13:51,520 --> 00:13:53,160 Speaker 4: have a decision to make. I'm like, should I go 227 00:13:53,320 --> 00:13:56,400 Speaker 4: down the street to the seven elevens. I don't think 228 00:13:56,440 --> 00:13:58,240 Speaker 4: I have time for that. I'm just gonna have to 229 00:13:58,320 --> 00:14:01,800 Speaker 4: go in with no coffee. I'm desperate. At this point, 230 00:14:01,840 --> 00:14:05,120 Speaker 4: I'm looking around, knocking on the glass. I look in 231 00:14:05,640 --> 00:14:08,040 Speaker 4: deeper into you know, you could see the back area 232 00:14:08,040 --> 00:14:11,199 Speaker 4: of the gas station where they have some of their 233 00:14:11,320 --> 00:14:14,880 Speaker 4: stacks of pallettes and crap, and I don't see anybody. 234 00:14:15,559 --> 00:14:18,840 Speaker 4: But then I look across the street. Right across the 235 00:14:18,840 --> 00:14:22,240 Speaker 4: street from the gas station is the guy that's supposed 236 00:14:22,280 --> 00:14:25,760 Speaker 4: to be in there working. He's leaning on a car 237 00:14:26,200 --> 00:14:27,400 Speaker 4: talking to a girl. 238 00:14:28,000 --> 00:14:31,640 Speaker 1: Oh, man, guy's got game. Come on, man, you guys 239 00:14:31,640 --> 00:14:33,600 Speaker 1: trying to pick up a lady. What's wrong with you? 240 00:14:34,320 --> 00:14:36,480 Speaker 1: Don't need to rupt the guy. Come on, man, he's 241 00:14:36,480 --> 00:14:37,960 Speaker 1: trying to get he's trying to have a good time. 242 00:14:38,040 --> 00:14:41,680 Speaker 4: Yeah, he's parking lot pimping. It's now five forty am. 243 00:14:41,680 --> 00:14:43,520 Speaker 4: Because I'm looking at my phone sweating. 244 00:14:44,720 --> 00:14:46,480 Speaker 1: He's offering the worms, says, I can get any kind 245 00:14:46,480 --> 00:14:48,360 Speaker 1: of coffee you on, I get you got a hook 246 00:14:48,440 --> 00:14:48,800 Speaker 1: up here. 247 00:14:48,720 --> 00:14:52,240 Speaker 4: Any kind of stale croissant inside that you want, baby girl? 248 00:14:52,640 --> 00:14:55,000 Speaker 1: Exactly. Man, that's the carrot on the stick that gets 249 00:14:55,000 --> 00:14:56,120 Speaker 1: the ladies. Okay, it does. 250 00:14:56,360 --> 00:14:59,360 Speaker 4: Now I have to make a decision, an executive decision. 251 00:15:00,040 --> 00:15:03,160 Speaker 4: Do I holler across the street and get this guy's 252 00:15:03,200 --> 00:15:06,520 Speaker 4: attention or do I just leave this alone and leave. 253 00:15:08,480 --> 00:15:08,520 Speaker 3: Me? 254 00:15:09,440 --> 00:15:13,400 Speaker 1: I did Yeah, I said. 255 00:15:13,320 --> 00:15:17,840 Speaker 4: Yo, And he turns and looks, and he gave me 256 00:15:17,960 --> 00:15:21,440 Speaker 4: the look of death, like, how dare you interrupt me 257 00:15:21,560 --> 00:15:23,520 Speaker 4: talking to this girl right here? 258 00:15:23,840 --> 00:15:27,160 Speaker 1: What? What are you thinking? He's going bava boom and 259 00:15:27,200 --> 00:15:29,640 Speaker 1: you're going bah bah Coffee is where you're going? Ben. 260 00:15:29,720 --> 00:15:32,120 Speaker 4: She didn't look like Janet Jackson. She looked more like 261 00:15:32,240 --> 00:15:37,400 Speaker 4: Freddie Jackson. I don't think I was interrupting anything too important. 262 00:15:38,760 --> 00:15:42,280 Speaker 4: Beggars can't be choosers, Okay, come on, you know not 263 00:15:42,440 --> 00:15:45,800 Speaker 4: that his nationality matters, but I have to share it 264 00:15:45,880 --> 00:15:48,920 Speaker 4: because if I impersonate him or you know, it'll make 265 00:15:48,960 --> 00:15:49,400 Speaker 4: more sense. 266 00:15:49,360 --> 00:15:51,040 Speaker 1: I want to properly mock him. That's what you want 267 00:15:51,080 --> 00:15:54,360 Speaker 1: to say. Well, and you've seen this for years on 268 00:15:54,400 --> 00:15:58,520 Speaker 1: The Simpsons. It was an Indian gentleman, Hapoo who had 269 00:15:58,560 --> 00:16:01,800 Speaker 1: some game. Think of a young Hopoo but with game. 270 00:16:02,160 --> 00:16:04,800 Speaker 1: Because he's leaning on this girl's it looked like a 271 00:16:04,960 --> 00:16:08,760 Speaker 1: Lexus and I'm like, man, well she's got money. He 272 00:16:09,160 --> 00:16:10,200 Speaker 1: comes across the street. 273 00:16:10,240 --> 00:16:13,120 Speaker 4: He looks very annoyed, and I told him, I said, man, 274 00:16:13,440 --> 00:16:15,040 Speaker 4: I got to get to work down the street. I 275 00:16:15,080 --> 00:16:18,480 Speaker 4: just want to get coffee really quick. He takes his keys, 276 00:16:18,600 --> 00:16:24,240 Speaker 4: reluctantly opens the sliding doors. I go inside and I 277 00:16:24,320 --> 00:16:26,960 Speaker 4: get the coffee and he gets behind the register and 278 00:16:27,000 --> 00:16:31,440 Speaker 4: he mumbles something. I said, excuse me, and he wouldn't 279 00:16:31,480 --> 00:16:33,880 Speaker 4: repeat himself. Does he want to fight? 280 00:16:34,160 --> 00:16:34,360 Speaker 1: You know? 281 00:16:34,600 --> 00:16:36,760 Speaker 4: At now five I'm looking at my watch now five 282 00:16:36,760 --> 00:16:40,560 Speaker 4: point forty four am. He's making me late because he's 283 00:16:40,600 --> 00:16:44,200 Speaker 4: trying to mac on some girl outside. Obviously he's not 284 00:16:44,280 --> 00:16:47,120 Speaker 4: doing his job. So I finish, you know, getting the 285 00:16:47,120 --> 00:16:49,840 Speaker 4: coffee together. I put the lid on, go to the 286 00:16:50,440 --> 00:16:54,720 Speaker 4: cash register, and he tells me just take it, just. 287 00:16:54,640 --> 00:17:01,040 Speaker 1: Take it, just take it. He gave you for free. Yeah. 288 00:17:00,280 --> 00:17:05,080 Speaker 4: Now I'm like, okay, well, thank you, Grozzi. 289 00:17:05,160 --> 00:17:05,600 Speaker 1: Grozzi. 290 00:17:06,160 --> 00:17:07,840 Speaker 4: Hey, you can lock the doors and go back to 291 00:17:07,880 --> 00:17:12,080 Speaker 4: your girl out there. And he's like, blah blah blah, 292 00:17:12,119 --> 00:17:16,760 Speaker 4: but jump, bastard. It sounded like he said bastard. I'm 293 00:17:16,800 --> 00:17:20,280 Speaker 4: not sure if that's the word he said, but whatever, 294 00:17:20,320 --> 00:17:23,560 Speaker 4: I'm in a hurry. I got freak coffee, got in 295 00:17:23,640 --> 00:17:26,440 Speaker 4: my car, got down the street to the studio's Ben 296 00:17:26,680 --> 00:17:29,920 Speaker 4: sat at the pre show table with my bastard coffee. 297 00:17:30,520 --> 00:17:31,320 Speaker 1: I mean, thank y'all. 298 00:17:31,320 --> 00:17:34,919 Speaker 5: Come again, now, were you concerned it all, Danny, that 299 00:17:35,040 --> 00:17:37,480 Speaker 5: this was a bait and switch situation, that he gave 300 00:17:37,520 --> 00:17:41,359 Speaker 5: you the coffee for free, then called the cops and said, 301 00:17:41,880 --> 00:17:45,560 Speaker 5: this asshole stole the coffee and here's what his car 302 00:17:45,600 --> 00:17:46,119 Speaker 5: looks like. 303 00:17:46,320 --> 00:17:48,159 Speaker 1: And I don't get it. 304 00:17:48,520 --> 00:17:50,520 Speaker 4: I don't think he had time to do all that 305 00:17:50,600 --> 00:17:51,959 Speaker 4: with what he was in the middle of. 306 00:17:52,600 --> 00:17:55,560 Speaker 1: Oh you have good the beginning, sir. Yeah. Now you 307 00:17:55,600 --> 00:17:59,200 Speaker 1: think he brought the late Jula Lizzo. You think he 308 00:17:59,240 --> 00:18:01,920 Speaker 1: brought her back to the to the stacks of pallettes, 309 00:18:01,960 --> 00:18:04,760 Speaker 1: the palette room. Let me let me show you where 310 00:18:04,800 --> 00:18:07,360 Speaker 1: we keep the donuts. Let me show you. They don't 311 00:18:07,359 --> 00:18:10,400 Speaker 1: have a champagne room there. They have a pallette room. Wow, 312 00:18:10,640 --> 00:18:14,200 Speaker 1: very very Now, you don't use the coffee machine at work. 313 00:18:14,240 --> 00:18:16,480 Speaker 1: They have a horrible, horrible machine. 314 00:18:16,520 --> 00:18:19,320 Speaker 4: It looks like expensive, it looks like yeah, it looks 315 00:18:19,320 --> 00:18:22,679 Speaker 4: like it should taste good, and it tastes like crape. 316 00:18:22,800 --> 00:18:25,400 Speaker 1: I never see anyone using it, but it's been there 317 00:18:25,440 --> 00:18:27,200 Speaker 1: for a while. No one ever seems to. 318 00:18:27,240 --> 00:18:30,000 Speaker 4: It's funny because Covino uses it every day, and every 319 00:18:30,080 --> 00:18:32,440 Speaker 4: day as he's drinking the coffee, he's complaining about how 320 00:18:32,440 --> 00:18:33,000 Speaker 4: it tastes. 321 00:18:33,440 --> 00:18:37,280 Speaker 1: I'm such a rocking dude. Yeah there, all right, Well 322 00:18:37,320 --> 00:18:42,920 Speaker 1: the Hogy ho down, Hogy ho down. Uh, follow up, 323 00:18:42,960 --> 00:18:47,879 Speaker 1: follow up. This past weekend, I visited Ike's Sandwich Shop. 324 00:18:48,280 --> 00:18:49,600 Speaker 1: You ever been to ike sandwich Shop? 325 00:18:50,119 --> 00:18:52,520 Speaker 4: No, I've driven past one before, so I know what 326 00:18:52,520 --> 00:18:56,160 Speaker 4: you're talking about. The logos like a genie head exactly. 327 00:18:56,920 --> 00:19:02,720 Speaker 4: So backstory. I had a chance to meet Ike in Vegas. 328 00:19:03,000 --> 00:19:06,960 Speaker 1: Yeah, a guy behind He actually looks like that in 329 00:19:07,200 --> 00:19:08,960 Speaker 1: the super Bowl in Vegas. When I was there, I 330 00:19:08,960 --> 00:19:12,840 Speaker 1: met Ike and he said hello to me. He was 331 00:19:12,880 --> 00:19:16,560 Speaker 1: a listener in the Bay Area to the Overnight Show. 332 00:19:17,520 --> 00:19:21,119 Speaker 1: And you know sometimes people say they listen and you 333 00:19:21,160 --> 00:19:24,359 Speaker 1: know they're lying. But he seemed genuinely excited to beat me, 334 00:19:25,280 --> 00:19:27,280 Speaker 1: and he was telling me about his business and stuff. 335 00:19:27,320 --> 00:19:31,199 Speaker 1: And this is back in February, and I lived not 336 00:19:31,359 --> 00:19:33,960 Speaker 1: that far away from an Ike's Sandwich Shop, but I 337 00:19:34,240 --> 00:19:37,560 Speaker 1: had not been there, and he wanted me to go, 338 00:19:37,680 --> 00:19:39,040 Speaker 1: and he wanted me to try it, and so I 339 00:19:39,080 --> 00:19:46,240 Speaker 1: of course waited through March April May and then I 340 00:19:46,280 --> 00:19:48,280 Speaker 1: waited till late chun so I went in four months 341 00:19:49,080 --> 00:19:53,680 Speaker 1: and decided, my, you know, we'll go have hogies. So 342 00:19:53,760 --> 00:19:57,680 Speaker 1: we went to Ike Sandwich Shop and went in. There 343 00:19:57,720 --> 00:20:01,199 Speaker 1: a nice looking restaurant. They have many locations. It's a 344 00:20:01,240 --> 00:20:04,639 Speaker 1: small chain. In fact, I'll tell you more about the 345 00:20:04,720 --> 00:20:07,879 Speaker 1: chain in a minute. But they have sandwiches named after people. 346 00:20:09,000 --> 00:20:13,000 Speaker 1: There's a Jim Rome sandwich. There's a Damon Bruce sandwich. 347 00:20:13,080 --> 00:20:18,960 Speaker 1: Damon Bruce longtime Northern California Bay area radio guy. I've 348 00:20:19,000 --> 00:20:21,640 Speaker 1: known him for years. He does his own thing now 349 00:20:21,720 --> 00:20:25,480 Speaker 1: because the company got rid of him, so he does 350 00:20:25,480 --> 00:20:28,600 Speaker 1: his own product now. I ended up actually eating the 351 00:20:28,680 --> 00:20:31,640 Speaker 1: Damon Bruce danny. I had the Damon Bruce. That's house 352 00:20:31,680 --> 00:20:38,960 Speaker 1: personal and I love the crunch bread delicious. And he 353 00:20:39,000 --> 00:20:43,800 Speaker 1: also has hogies named after old giants players like Madison Bumgardner, 354 00:20:44,600 --> 00:20:48,439 Speaker 1: which is I guess only good on holidays Madison Bumgardner, right, 355 00:20:48,480 --> 00:20:51,879 Speaker 1: and then Hunter Pence. Hunter Pence, they had a sandwich 356 00:20:51,920 --> 00:20:54,800 Speaker 1: named after him. Some other giants is are Matt Cain sandwich. 357 00:20:54,840 --> 00:20:59,199 Speaker 1: For example, does he have a pussy posy? Not all? 358 00:20:59,640 --> 00:21:02,640 Speaker 1: Maybe he does. I didn't remember that one, so that's 359 00:21:02,680 --> 00:21:05,159 Speaker 1: not at the top of my mind here. So this 360 00:21:05,200 --> 00:21:08,520 Speaker 1: guy was a listener and we took some photos together. 361 00:21:08,880 --> 00:21:11,440 Speaker 1: He sent me the photo, so I had his number. 362 00:21:11,800 --> 00:21:14,959 Speaker 1: I actually have Ike's number on my phone and so 363 00:21:15,240 --> 00:21:18,400 Speaker 1: I sent him. I sent him a text. I was like, hey, Ike, 364 00:21:18,520 --> 00:21:20,760 Speaker 1: I'm eating your sandwich, you know, and he, you know, 365 00:21:20,800 --> 00:21:22,960 Speaker 1: here we go. And so he was very happy and 366 00:21:23,000 --> 00:21:25,000 Speaker 1: he was asking me, like what location I went to, 367 00:21:25,560 --> 00:21:29,200 Speaker 1: and he told me business is doing very well. He's 368 00:21:29,200 --> 00:21:31,719 Speaker 1: got a hundred locations. He just opened his one hundredth 369 00:21:31,760 --> 00:21:34,840 Speaker 1: location right across from the Giants Ballpark in that area, 370 00:21:35,600 --> 00:21:37,920 Speaker 1: and they're planning on expanding. I don't know if he 371 00:21:37,920 --> 00:21:39,320 Speaker 1: wants me to say this or not, so I don't 372 00:21:39,359 --> 00:21:42,399 Speaker 1: know if I should. But he's very polite, very kind. 373 00:21:42,920 --> 00:21:49,320 Speaker 1: It seemed genuinely excited and it was great and and 374 00:21:49,440 --> 00:21:52,840 Speaker 1: so I posted on social media. And who knows if 375 00:21:52,840 --> 00:21:55,120 Speaker 1: anything will come of that. Maybe maybe they can add 376 00:21:55,160 --> 00:21:58,000 Speaker 1: another sandwich. I don't know, maybe a Ben Maller sandwich. 377 00:21:59,000 --> 00:22:01,520 Speaker 1: I'm just saying, Danny, you know, if Ike's listening to 378 00:22:01,560 --> 00:22:03,879 Speaker 1: this at all, I wouldn't be opposed to that. I 379 00:22:03,880 --> 00:22:07,119 Speaker 1: would I would give my name, and I would bet 380 00:22:07,160 --> 00:22:09,359 Speaker 1: you that my sandwich will sell more than Jim Roman. 381 00:22:09,440 --> 00:22:12,200 Speaker 1: Dame Bruce that the Malor sandwich would be a bigger 382 00:22:12,240 --> 00:22:16,000 Speaker 1: sandwich and a better sandwich and would dominate the sandwich game. 383 00:22:16,359 --> 00:22:20,040 Speaker 1: It should be called the moneyball Mallar like nothing green 384 00:22:20,119 --> 00:22:22,040 Speaker 1: will be in it. We don't want anything green. Green 385 00:22:22,119 --> 00:22:25,280 Speaker 1: is the side, like a pesto bread, a green pesto bread. 386 00:22:25,600 --> 00:22:27,879 Speaker 1: I do like the moneyball mallo though. That could be 387 00:22:27,920 --> 00:22:30,280 Speaker 1: a good name for a sandwich, or just the Mallor 388 00:22:30,440 --> 00:22:32,639 Speaker 1: because everyone will just mispronounce it, say the mauler. 389 00:22:33,160 --> 00:22:35,879 Speaker 4: If it is the moneyball Mallor, it should be the 390 00:22:35,880 --> 00:22:39,679 Speaker 4: most expensive sandwich on the menu. No, I'm looking for 391 00:22:40,280 --> 00:22:43,399 Speaker 4: I'm looking to sell product here. Okay, not the miser Mallard, 392 00:22:43,520 --> 00:22:46,159 Speaker 4: the moneyball mal dare you? 393 00:22:46,640 --> 00:22:52,760 Speaker 1: But that was the the hogi hodown hogy Hoda always 394 00:22:53,119 --> 00:22:55,080 Speaker 1: always cool when you try something, and I actually did 395 00:22:55,119 --> 00:22:57,480 Speaker 1: like the sandwich. I will be back there, and every 396 00:22:57,480 --> 00:22:59,240 Speaker 1: time I go, I will make sure to send Ike 397 00:22:59,280 --> 00:23:02,440 Speaker 1: a message to remind Ike, Hey, I'm eating your sandwich. 398 00:23:02,720 --> 00:23:05,920 Speaker 1: I'm having I'm having a I'm having a sandwich snacks. 399 00:23:06,960 --> 00:23:12,840 Speaker 1: The International Mail of Mystery, so on this show we 400 00:23:12,960 --> 00:23:18,880 Speaker 1: do a mail bag wonderful, glorious mail bag on Sunday. 401 00:23:18,920 --> 00:23:21,800 Speaker 1: Today is Saturday, so we're not doing the mail bag today. 402 00:23:22,119 --> 00:23:27,359 Speaker 1: No mailbag, So instead I will regale you with tails 403 00:23:27,440 --> 00:23:30,639 Speaker 1: from the snail mail. Let me call this one the 404 00:23:30,680 --> 00:23:34,600 Speaker 1: International Mail of Mysteries. I said so the other night, 405 00:23:35,640 --> 00:23:39,040 Speaker 1: watching fireworks near the Hollywood Bowl. On my way into 406 00:23:39,040 --> 00:23:44,440 Speaker 1: the FSR studios, I walk in. I walk past the 407 00:23:45,320 --> 00:23:49,120 Speaker 1: what I like to call the free eyewash box and 408 00:23:49,560 --> 00:23:53,520 Speaker 1: band aid box that I use those band aids all 409 00:23:53,520 --> 00:23:55,840 Speaker 1: the time, and it's right near the door. So I 410 00:23:55,880 --> 00:23:58,840 Speaker 1: walk past that. I make a right turn. I'm now 411 00:23:58,880 --> 00:24:02,439 Speaker 1: in the Smurf kitchen. If the Smurfs had a kitchen, 412 00:24:02,600 --> 00:24:04,399 Speaker 1: it would be that kitchen. So I walk into that. 413 00:24:05,480 --> 00:24:08,080 Speaker 1: What I do is I fill up my cup with ice. 414 00:24:08,600 --> 00:24:10,719 Speaker 1: I like drinking cold water, and then I fill up 415 00:24:10,720 --> 00:24:14,879 Speaker 1: my cup with water. Now in my peripheral vision to 416 00:24:14,960 --> 00:24:19,040 Speaker 1: the left, I see the pile of mail. Now this 417 00:24:19,119 --> 00:24:21,280 Speaker 1: is mail for everybody. This is mail for Rob Parker, 418 00:24:21,920 --> 00:24:27,120 Speaker 1: Colin Cowherd Covino and Rich Jason Smith, Mike Harmon, everyone 419 00:24:27,160 --> 00:24:29,120 Speaker 1: that works in the building. They just dump the mail. 420 00:24:29,119 --> 00:24:31,359 Speaker 1: There's a mail room, but nobody goes up there. So 421 00:24:31,400 --> 00:24:34,119 Speaker 1: they just dump the mail right across from the kitchen. 422 00:24:34,440 --> 00:24:37,320 Speaker 4: Usually the mail either has your name on it or 423 00:24:37,400 --> 00:24:40,280 Speaker 4: it's Andy Furman sending mail to a staff member. 424 00:24:40,280 --> 00:24:40,399 Speaker 2: Here. 425 00:24:40,480 --> 00:24:43,040 Speaker 1: Yeah, there's a stack of Andy Furman mail. Don't let 426 00:24:43,080 --> 00:24:45,000 Speaker 1: Andy know that. No one opens those. They just leave 427 00:24:45,040 --> 00:24:47,639 Speaker 1: them there. Slop me around a little bit. So I 428 00:24:47,680 --> 00:24:51,520 Speaker 1: see out of the peripheral vision. I see a couple 429 00:24:51,560 --> 00:24:55,080 Speaker 1: of boxes, and I'm like, okay, let me let me 430 00:24:55,240 --> 00:24:57,400 Speaker 1: make make a turn here, let me go to the left. 431 00:24:57,440 --> 00:24:59,480 Speaker 1: All veer to the left in my peripheral vision. I 432 00:24:59,480 --> 00:25:01,720 Speaker 1: go to the left and I look through and I 433 00:25:01,800 --> 00:25:04,120 Speaker 1: saschet my way over there, and I'm hoping maybe there's 434 00:25:04,119 --> 00:25:08,080 Speaker 1: some goodies for me. What's what's there now? Mostly, even 435 00:25:08,119 --> 00:25:09,720 Speaker 1: though you think a lot of the mails for me, 436 00:25:09,840 --> 00:25:12,879 Speaker 1: A lot of the time, Cooperloop Bogart's the mail. He 437 00:25:13,000 --> 00:25:15,560 Speaker 1: takes the mail for me, and I don't even get 438 00:25:15,600 --> 00:25:17,480 Speaker 1: to Sometimes I don't even get to open my mail 439 00:25:17,640 --> 00:25:21,160 Speaker 1: because other people take But this that's against the law, 440 00:25:21,800 --> 00:25:25,040 Speaker 1: federal violation. So why was this stay different? There was 441 00:25:25,119 --> 00:25:29,000 Speaker 1: a package with my name on it and the email 442 00:25:29,000 --> 00:25:31,840 Speaker 1: address with a real fifth hour, so that got my attention. 443 00:25:33,560 --> 00:25:36,840 Speaker 1: Not a normal package. Why was it not normal? How 444 00:25:36,880 --> 00:25:44,480 Speaker 1: come it was Australian post Mail? Oh? They called there's 445 00:25:44,480 --> 00:25:49,520 Speaker 1: a parcel. You're ready to past apostle? Kids? Yeah, I 446 00:25:49,640 --> 00:25:55,600 Speaker 1: love past apostles. We kid say international, I've got it. 447 00:25:58,480 --> 00:26:01,080 Speaker 4: We were watching a blue carts in which is Australian 448 00:26:01,119 --> 00:26:02,879 Speaker 4: and they call it parcels. Can you hear this? 449 00:26:03,960 --> 00:26:06,280 Speaker 1: That's I'm holding in the studio here. I have the 450 00:26:06,320 --> 00:26:11,440 Speaker 1: actual package. It says Australian post on it Express International 451 00:26:12,359 --> 00:26:17,560 Speaker 1: from Australia Postage paid EP And I'm like, what's in 452 00:26:17,800 --> 00:26:19,720 Speaker 1: it's not really a box, but what's in the box? 453 00:26:20,320 --> 00:26:25,280 Speaker 1: What's in the box? What's in the box? You want 454 00:26:25,280 --> 00:26:28,680 Speaker 1: to take a guess this beautiful surprise that was gifted 455 00:26:29,560 --> 00:26:30,760 Speaker 1: in the in the package. 456 00:26:31,560 --> 00:26:35,120 Speaker 4: That's pretty easy because growing up being a little kid 457 00:26:35,160 --> 00:26:38,600 Speaker 4: watching the classic movie Crocodile Dundee, it's got to be 458 00:26:38,640 --> 00:26:39,200 Speaker 4: a knife. 459 00:26:39,920 --> 00:26:44,760 Speaker 1: That's a hard that is correct, unless it's not. They 460 00:26:44,920 --> 00:26:47,240 Speaker 1: it was a little baby kangaroo, Danny, there's a little 461 00:26:47,280 --> 00:26:52,040 Speaker 1: baby kangaroo, Yes, Joey the kangaroo. No, it was a roach, 462 00:26:52,240 --> 00:26:55,080 Speaker 1: but not that kind of roach, Danny. That would be 463 00:26:55,320 --> 00:26:58,840 Speaker 1: I've got a cap here. Let me see if I 464 00:26:58,840 --> 00:27:00,560 Speaker 1: can send this to you. Hold on, say, I have 465 00:27:01,720 --> 00:27:07,320 Speaker 1: a photo of a If you look at it, there 466 00:27:07,400 --> 00:27:14,159 Speaker 1: a New South Wales cap. Is that a roach? That 467 00:27:14,359 --> 00:27:17,480 Speaker 1: is a cockroach? It says on the bill of the cap. 468 00:27:17,560 --> 00:27:23,080 Speaker 1: Come on, cockroaches a rugby roach. Uh yeah, yeah yeah. 469 00:27:23,160 --> 00:27:26,520 Speaker 1: So our friend this comes from Ozzy Was. Thank you. 470 00:27:26,600 --> 00:27:31,280 Speaker 1: Ozzi was from Western Australia, big fan of the show, 471 00:27:31,320 --> 00:27:35,280 Speaker 1: listens all the time and he's become a next level 472 00:27:35,320 --> 00:27:38,320 Speaker 1: member of the Mala Militia where he contributes content on 473 00:27:38,359 --> 00:27:41,120 Speaker 1: a regular basis, sends us stuff in the mail. That's awesome. 474 00:27:41,160 --> 00:27:43,959 Speaker 1: We thank you. He's got his family involved in this 475 00:27:44,000 --> 00:27:45,760 Speaker 1: a little bit. I'm sure they're annoyed by that, but 476 00:27:45,800 --> 00:27:49,399 Speaker 1: thank you for that anyway. And so I looked this up. 477 00:27:49,440 --> 00:27:52,399 Speaker 1: I'm like, I remember he had sent something in the mail. 478 00:27:52,520 --> 00:27:54,360 Speaker 1: He had sent messages saying there was a team called 479 00:27:54,400 --> 00:27:57,400 Speaker 1: the Cockroaches. I think we read one on this podcast 480 00:27:57,440 --> 00:28:00,760 Speaker 1: from Ozzie Was, but I'd forgotten about it and I 481 00:28:00,800 --> 00:28:04,160 Speaker 1: looked it up. And the New South Wales rugby team. 482 00:28:05,440 --> 00:28:09,960 Speaker 1: They originally were known as the Mighty Blues because they've 483 00:28:09,960 --> 00:28:14,440 Speaker 1: got the light blue there, and now over the years 484 00:28:14,440 --> 00:28:18,880 Speaker 1: they've become the cockroaches. According to some Internet research, the 485 00:28:18,920 --> 00:28:23,720 Speaker 1: origin story is off the hook on this. And before 486 00:28:23,760 --> 00:28:25,119 Speaker 1: I get into that, I did want to thank Ozzie 487 00:28:25,119 --> 00:28:29,159 Speaker 1: Wahs who spent thirty six dollars thirty six dollars on 488 00:28:29,240 --> 00:28:33,600 Speaker 1: postage to send this from Australia, So thank you. So 489 00:28:33,680 --> 00:28:39,240 Speaker 1: this began a long long time ago in the nineteen seventies, 490 00:28:39,280 --> 00:28:43,719 Speaker 1: mid nineteen seventies a rival coach nothing like a good 491 00:28:43,800 --> 00:28:46,960 Speaker 1: rugby story to get your day going. Here, Danny a 492 00:28:47,440 --> 00:28:52,160 Speaker 1: former coach of a rival team, Queensland rugby team. Barry 493 00:28:52,280 --> 00:28:56,520 Speaker 1: Muirror is the guy's name who you don't know who 494 00:28:56,560 --> 00:29:00,880 Speaker 1: Barry Muror is. He's the Popovich of rugby. He's watching 495 00:29:01,040 --> 00:29:06,320 Speaker 1: a TV story about North South Wales or New South 496 00:29:06,320 --> 00:29:09,280 Speaker 1: Wales rather, so he's watching this and the players faces 497 00:29:09,360 --> 00:29:14,160 Speaker 1: on this grainy nineteen seventies TV in Australia, and he 498 00:29:14,360 --> 00:29:18,080 Speaker 1: noticed the antennas on the television looked as though they 499 00:29:18,120 --> 00:29:21,880 Speaker 1: were protruding from the players' heads, giving them a cockroach 500 00:29:22,040 --> 00:29:27,000 Speaker 1: like appearance. So the coach decided, oh, I'll mess around here. 501 00:29:27,080 --> 00:29:32,680 Speaker 1: I'll call the New South Welshman cockroaches. And he did. 502 00:29:32,880 --> 00:29:35,120 Speaker 1: He told it to one of the reporters. He says, 503 00:29:35,120 --> 00:29:41,400 Speaker 1: what's this cockroach business? Barry the reporter asked the coach, 504 00:29:41,760 --> 00:29:45,560 Speaker 1: and the guy said, that's the new name of the 505 00:29:45,760 --> 00:29:50,800 Speaker 1: new South Wales rugby team, and we're sick and tired 506 00:29:50,840 --> 00:29:53,880 Speaker 1: of the Mighty Blues and all that, and then he 507 00:29:54,000 --> 00:29:56,240 Speaker 1: kept repeating it. Originally they just kind of ignored it, 508 00:29:56,240 --> 00:29:58,120 Speaker 1: but in those days there was no internet, and so 509 00:29:58,560 --> 00:30:00,800 Speaker 1: he repeated it every time he would talk about the 510 00:30:00,840 --> 00:30:04,920 Speaker 1: new South Wales rugby team. Instead of calling them the 511 00:30:05,000 --> 00:30:08,560 Speaker 1: Mighty Blues, he called them the cockroaches. And then they 512 00:30:08,600 --> 00:30:11,120 Speaker 1: they went with it in the newspapers. They said, this 513 00:30:11,200 --> 00:30:17,480 Speaker 1: guy's call them the cockroaches, and then the fans embraced it. Yeah, 514 00:30:17,600 --> 00:30:20,360 Speaker 1: kind of like in Sacramento. Remember when Phil Jackson goofed 515 00:30:20,400 --> 00:30:23,120 Speaker 1: on the cow bells, said, there's like nothing but cow 516 00:30:23,160 --> 00:30:25,880 Speaker 1: bells there, or I think I think it was like 517 00:30:26,080 --> 00:30:28,400 Speaker 1: nothing but cows, and so fans brought cow bells to 518 00:30:28,400 --> 00:30:31,840 Speaker 1: the game. Yes, in the Shaq Kobe era. Yeah, so 519 00:30:31,880 --> 00:30:34,080 Speaker 1: that that was the origin of it. And they they 520 00:30:34,120 --> 00:30:39,920 Speaker 1: are selling merch with this is an official item from 521 00:30:40,240 --> 00:30:42,960 Speaker 1: Ozzie Wahs. I like that logo. It's like a cartoon 522 00:30:43,080 --> 00:30:46,959 Speaker 1: logo and it's like a puffy sticker. If you can 523 00:30:47,000 --> 00:30:48,560 Speaker 1: see on the hat the photo I sent you in 524 00:30:48,560 --> 00:30:51,680 Speaker 1: it's like a stuffy singer, scary looking. It looks kind 525 00:30:51,680 --> 00:30:54,920 Speaker 1: of like my wife said, it looks like Moxie, our bulldog. 526 00:30:55,720 --> 00:30:59,040 Speaker 1: I didn't know roach's faces looked like bulldogs. That's very 527 00:30:59,080 --> 00:31:01,960 Speaker 1: offensive too. And you can see the right below the 528 00:31:02,640 --> 00:31:06,360 Speaker 1: cockroach is the rugby ball. You see that white thing there, Yeah, 529 00:31:06,440 --> 00:31:09,040 Speaker 1: that's not an egg, that's a rugby ball. Yeah, So 530 00:31:09,200 --> 00:31:11,000 Speaker 1: thank you, Ozzie wi was. I appreciate it very kind. 531 00:31:11,040 --> 00:31:13,520 Speaker 1: I did not expect that. I did not realize you 532 00:31:13,520 --> 00:31:15,320 Speaker 1: were going to be sending that, so thank you. 533 00:31:15,600 --> 00:31:18,200 Speaker 4: It's pretty sad. We know what cockroach eggs really look 534 00:31:18,320 --> 00:31:19,200 Speaker 4: like from work. 535 00:31:20,560 --> 00:31:22,720 Speaker 1: Our Coveno and Rich, the guys putting those photos up 536 00:31:22,760 --> 00:31:27,200 Speaker 1: around the building of Cochro. Nor your former tech producer 537 00:31:27,600 --> 00:31:32,720 Speaker 1: is responsible for that. Oh is that right? Wrong button? Bob? No? No, 538 00:31:32,840 --> 00:31:37,320 Speaker 1: the other former one, oh Iowa Sam. Okay, you are 539 00:31:37,360 --> 00:31:40,080 Speaker 1: the pummeler of producers. Yeah, we have, I think, yeah, 540 00:31:40,120 --> 00:31:42,760 Speaker 1: I know, there's a long list. I'm pretty sure I've 541 00:31:42,800 --> 00:31:45,440 Speaker 1: worked with every one of them. Yes, yes, every engineer 542 00:31:45,440 --> 00:31:47,960 Speaker 1: at Fox Sports Radio at one point or another the full 543 00:31:48,000 --> 00:31:50,000 Speaker 1: time staff. I've worked with oh Iowa Sam. 544 00:31:50,040 --> 00:31:54,280 Speaker 4: Iowa Sam a week ago had to kill a cockroach, 545 00:31:54,320 --> 00:31:57,040 Speaker 4: a big one. It ruined his whole day. He was 546 00:31:57,080 --> 00:31:59,320 Speaker 4: talking about it constantly for the rest of the day. 547 00:31:59,800 --> 00:32:02,720 Speaker 4: And then he was making copies, big pictures of roaches 548 00:32:02,760 --> 00:32:06,640 Speaker 4: and taping them up. I guess he was protesting. Yeah, 549 00:32:06,880 --> 00:32:10,760 Speaker 4: it's roach art. It's like the love around the building there. 550 00:32:10,800 --> 00:32:14,320 Speaker 4: There's different art up, and we have the roaches all 551 00:32:14,360 --> 00:32:17,280 Speaker 4: the time at night, as you know, they like to 552 00:32:17,280 --> 00:32:21,120 Speaker 4: come out at night and they The thing about it 553 00:32:21,160 --> 00:32:23,320 Speaker 4: that is fascinating is they fall out of the ceiling. 554 00:32:23,880 --> 00:32:27,000 Speaker 1: It's like a horror movie. Roaches come crawling out or 555 00:32:27,080 --> 00:32:30,240 Speaker 1: falling out of the ceiling. The roaches come out at 556 00:32:30,360 --> 00:32:32,880 Speaker 1: night on a regular bab I'd like to come out 557 00:32:32,920 --> 00:32:35,600 Speaker 1: at night. When I negotiate my new contract, I would 558 00:32:35,600 --> 00:32:38,040 Speaker 1: like to say that I get a bonus based on 559 00:32:38,080 --> 00:32:42,480 Speaker 1: how many roaches come down during the show. And I 560 00:32:42,560 --> 00:32:46,920 Speaker 1: was talking about this too Jonas Knox, and I told Jonas, 561 00:32:46,920 --> 00:32:50,280 Speaker 1: I said, listen, there is one way I might have 562 00:32:50,320 --> 00:32:51,440 Speaker 1: said this on there. I don't know if I said 563 00:32:51,440 --> 00:32:54,680 Speaker 1: this on there. There's one way that this roach infestation 564 00:32:54,760 --> 00:32:56,640 Speaker 1: will come doing an on Fox Sports. Ready you know 565 00:32:56,640 --> 00:32:57,440 Speaker 1: what that is, Danny. 566 00:32:58,080 --> 00:33:02,120 Speaker 4: If one lands in an executive sandwich. 567 00:33:02,000 --> 00:33:07,680 Speaker 1: No close. Colin Cowherd shows up to that building a 568 00:33:07,720 --> 00:33:10,479 Speaker 1: couple times a year to do shows. You don't like it, 569 00:33:10,520 --> 00:33:13,640 Speaker 1: but he does. He likes TV better, but he shows 570 00:33:13,720 --> 00:33:16,640 Speaker 1: up right, so fine. And let's say Collin's in the 571 00:33:16,640 --> 00:33:20,800 Speaker 1: middle of Colin rant and a medium size, not even 572 00:33:20,800 --> 00:33:23,600 Speaker 1: a full size, a medium sized cockroach comes falling down, 573 00:33:24,360 --> 00:33:29,920 Speaker 1: parachuting down from the ceiling. Within seven minutes of that happening, 574 00:33:31,320 --> 00:33:37,440 Speaker 1: every single exterminator from the Mexican border to Santa Barbara 575 00:33:37,760 --> 00:33:42,880 Speaker 1: will be hired by iHeart to exterminate all of the 576 00:33:42,880 --> 00:33:46,320 Speaker 1: cockroaches in that building. There will not be a cockroach 577 00:33:46,680 --> 00:33:51,560 Speaker 1: within fifty miles of that building. But it hasn't happened yet, Danny, 578 00:33:51,600 --> 00:33:56,560 Speaker 1: So it continues. It's wild. But now it's a good 579 00:33:56,560 --> 00:33:59,520 Speaker 1: story because I have now a cockroach hat. So I 580 00:33:59,760 --> 00:34:01,880 Speaker 1: got something out of it. So I want to thank 581 00:34:01,920 --> 00:34:06,760 Speaker 1: the cockroaches. Very cool, so very nice. We have a 582 00:34:07,880 --> 00:34:10,040 Speaker 1: let's get out of a let's see it. Wow, this 583 00:34:10,200 --> 00:34:12,000 Speaker 1: is the idiom of the week. This's is the idiom 584 00:34:12,040 --> 00:34:13,279 Speaker 1: of the week. You wannder the idiom of the week. 585 00:34:13,360 --> 00:34:15,600 Speaker 1: You have two minutes to do it, all right, hurry up. 586 00:34:16,080 --> 00:34:19,680 Speaker 1: The idiom of the week. The idium of the week 587 00:34:19,920 --> 00:34:26,040 Speaker 1: is polishing turds. It's a fun one, right, polishing turds. 588 00:34:26,560 --> 00:34:30,920 Speaker 1: I like it. Yeah. So where did it originate from? Okay? 589 00:34:31,719 --> 00:34:34,680 Speaker 1: A couple of theories on this. Nineteen ninety nine, there 590 00:34:34,800 --> 00:34:38,160 Speaker 1: was a oh bit on a famous Hollywood director named 591 00:34:38,200 --> 00:34:42,120 Speaker 1: Stanley Kubrick published in the New York Times magazine. Jerry 592 00:34:42,200 --> 00:34:48,560 Speaker 1: Lewis claimed that he came up with the term polishing turds. 593 00:34:48,880 --> 00:34:53,560 Speaker 1: The comedian Jerry Lewis, actor comedian. He says he was 594 00:34:54,040 --> 00:34:57,200 Speaker 1: in the editing room at one in the morning. He 595 00:34:57,280 --> 00:35:01,920 Speaker 1: went in to smoke a cigarette and and Stanley was 596 00:35:01,920 --> 00:35:04,759 Speaker 1: in there, and he says, can I watch? Jerry Lewis said, 597 00:35:04,800 --> 00:35:10,240 Speaker 1: can I watch whatever? So they were watching together, and 598 00:35:11,400 --> 00:35:14,880 Speaker 1: he says he coined the expression you cannot polish a turd, 599 00:35:15,680 --> 00:35:20,480 Speaker 1: and then the late director Stanley Kubrick looked at Jerry 600 00:35:20,560 --> 00:35:25,360 Speaker 1: Lewis and said, you can if you freeze. It is 601 00:35:25,360 --> 00:35:28,480 Speaker 1: what he said. But the first actual citation of that 602 00:35:28,600 --> 00:35:35,799 Speaker 1: term polishing turds, which means making something really disgusting a 603 00:35:35,840 --> 00:35:41,240 Speaker 1: little better a little better Oxford English Dictionary. It comes 604 00:35:41,239 --> 00:35:45,240 Speaker 1: from someone named Jeffrey Stokes nineteen seventy six books Star 605 00:35:45,400 --> 00:35:50,080 Speaker 1: Making Machinery Inside the Business of Rock and Roll, and 606 00:35:50,160 --> 00:35:57,120 Speaker 1: he wrote, listen, you can't polish a turd, which meant 607 00:35:57,160 --> 00:35:59,640 Speaker 1: that you can't take someone that doesn't have music ability 608 00:36:00,239 --> 00:36:03,520 Speaker 1: and turn them into a rock and roll star. So 609 00:36:03,640 --> 00:36:07,080 Speaker 1: that is the idiom of the week, polishing turns. We'll 610 00:36:07,080 --> 00:36:10,799 Speaker 1: get out on that. It is Saturday. Anything special going 611 00:36:10,840 --> 00:36:13,480 Speaker 1: on today on this holiday weekend? 612 00:36:14,120 --> 00:36:17,560 Speaker 4: Now, just this fine podcast right here. Some would say 613 00:36:17,560 --> 00:36:19,920 Speaker 4: it's polishing turds when I do post production. 614 00:36:20,200 --> 00:36:20,759 Speaker 1: How dare you? 615 00:36:21,200 --> 00:36:25,440 Speaker 4: And yeah, man, send this podcast to at least two 616 00:36:25,440 --> 00:36:27,960 Speaker 4: friends or family members today, and if. 617 00:36:27,800 --> 00:36:30,200 Speaker 1: One of them listens, we've doubled our audience. If both 618 00:36:30,239 --> 00:36:34,080 Speaker 1: of them listen, oh oh my goodness, holy crap on 619 00:36:34,120 --> 00:36:36,279 Speaker 1: a cracker. Anyway, have a great day. We've got a 620 00:36:36,280 --> 00:36:40,320 Speaker 1: mailbag on Sunday. We will talk to you then until tomorrow. 621 00:36:40,880 --> 00:36:43,160 Speaker 1: Asta pasta, my folation.