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 gutter the same as the
Speaker 2: rich pill poppers in the penthouse. Wow, it's the clearinghouse
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Speaker 2: Hour with Ben Maller starts right now.
Speaker 3: In the air everywhere, The Fifth Hour with Me, Big
Speaker 3: Ben and Danny G Radio and a happy, Happy Saturday
Speaker 3: to you the sixth day of July.
Speaker 1: As we are not in the air everywhere. This is
Speaker 1: the Extra Crispy, extra Spicy Fifth Hour podcast, even on
Speaker 1: a holiday weekend. And as we like to point out
Speaker 1: when we do these podcasts on the holiday Danny G Radio,
Speaker 1: that it is the for us to continue them on
Speaker 1: people actually listening to them. So this is a test.
Speaker 1: This is a test of the Emergency Podcast Network, and
Speaker 1: it is only a test, so we'll see, we'll see
Speaker 1: how many downloads we get and what's the next big holiday?
Speaker 1: Today is July.
Speaker 4: Fourth weekend September second Monday, September second Labor Day.
Speaker 1: Okay, so Labor Day. It is. Okay, Labor Day is
Speaker 1: the next big holidays, so well, we have live podcast
Speaker 1: on Labor Day weekend. Inquiry minds would like to know
Speaker 1: stay tuned.
Speaker 4: You know, last year in twenty twenty three, the numbers
Speaker 4: I remember were good on holidays, so I hope that
Speaker 4: trend stays.
Speaker 1: Well, we're already deep into it. We're in the deep end.
Speaker 1: We have no choice, no return. We're all in on this.
Speaker 1: And today is one of those days which should be
Speaker 1: a bigger holiday, but it's not. And I don't know
Speaker 1: why it's not because it's an American thing. It's something
Speaker 1: that we all indulge in, other than those evil vegans
Speaker 1: cut that mead. But I don't get it. But it's
Speaker 1: national fried chicken day to day Danny O. Yes, greasy,
Speaker 1: delicious comfort food. Fried chicken something that I love but
Speaker 1: rarely eat because I feel like the grease kind of
Speaker 1: comes out of your pores right after you eat it.
Speaker 1: I love fried chicken, Okay. I have two sandwiches, actually
Speaker 1: three sandwiches named after me that are fried chicken sandwiches
Speaker 1: or fried chicken the Chicken Mallow Chicken Tenders in Kansas City,
Speaker 1: which is Liberty Missouri, and you can get that on
Speaker 1: the menu there at the at that establishment which is
Speaker 1: right near the Chiefs Stadium there in Liberty, Missouri, which
Speaker 1: is which is great. And then we have the sandwich
Speaker 1: in Denver at the sportsbook Bar and grill, a couple
Speaker 1: locations in Denver, I mean in Kansas we have the
Speaker 1: malar Fowler, which is on the menu. All chicken. I'm
Speaker 1: the king of the chicken, Danny, all right, I want
Speaker 1: my chicken. And here's a fun fact about chicken. You
Speaker 1: want a fun factory about chicken. It's an American thing.
Speaker 1: It began where they combined the Scottish chicken frying method
Speaker 1: with West African seasoning and they put those two things
Speaker 1: together and it became te da what we have today,
Speaker 1: American fried chicken. It was a very expensive delicacy up
Speaker 1: until World War Two kind of figured out they could
Speaker 1: make it ways to make it cheaper and all that,
Speaker 1: and American fried chicken is considered better. There are other
Speaker 1: fried chicken around the world, but it Europeans had already
Speaker 1: fried chicken in the Middle Ages, but it was the
Speaker 1: Scottish immigrants in the US. Here we go, that's here
Speaker 1: for the Scots. Racist who brought with them that and
Speaker 1: then they, as I said, they combined it with the
Speaker 1: the African slaves of the immigrants. So they put those
Speaker 1: two together and they gave the world what we have today,
Speaker 1: Southern fried chicken.
Speaker 4: You know what Grandma Mary used to do. She's the
Speaker 4: one that always wore a Mumo fry her chicken up.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna take these chicken wings to the neck. She
Speaker 1: would roll them in corn flakes. Dummy. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: greasy and crunchy and delicious. Well, I've made fried chicken
Speaker 1: at the Malor Mansion a couple of times, and I
Speaker 1: use Painco flour multi coat. Your hands get all dirty,
Speaker 1: and it's so freaking good. It is so amazing. It
Speaker 1: is wonderful. Now, the biggest figure in the spreading of
Speaker 1: fry chicken is none other than Harlan Sanders, better known
Speaker 1: as Colonel Sanders. And he's the guy started that in
Speaker 1: a gas station, started selling at a gas station in Corbin, Kentucky,
Speaker 1: and did not succeed, did not. The famous thing about
Speaker 1: Colonel Sanders, as we've learned over the years doing podcasts
Speaker 1: like this, is that he was an overnight success at
Speaker 1: age sixty five and It wasn't until he started hitting
Speaker 1: the road selling his fried chicken, and that was when
Speaker 1: it took off. So he was sixty five years old
Speaker 1: and he had sold six hundred different fried chicken franchises
Speaker 1: by the time that year had come around. So anyway,
Speaker 1: it's National Fried Chicken Day today. The first known recipe
Speaker 1: for American fried chicken seventeen to seventy four. American style
Speaker 1: Fried Chicken KFC came into the picture in the nineteen
Speaker 1: fifties and took off after that. Sixteen percent of Americans
Speaker 1: say they would marry fried chicken. Sixteen percent they would
Speaker 1: like to marry fried chicken. How often do you eat
Speaker 1: fried chicken? You don't need it very often to anything.
Speaker 1: It's too heavy for you.
Speaker 4: Too heavy once a year for me, once a year,
Speaker 4: once a year. As far as actual like bucket chicken, yeah, okay, yeah,
Speaker 4: I don't eat bucket chicken. I'll eat like a chicken
Speaker 4: breast fried or something. Yeah, that's a little different, but
Speaker 4: I'm talking KFC bucket. Yeah, that's like a once a
Speaker 4: year treat.
Speaker 1: Well, they say how often you eat fried chicken? There
Speaker 1: was a national survey done twenty two percent said once
Speaker 1: every couple of weeks. That was the most popular answer.
Speaker 1: Six percent said they eat it every day, like chicken
Speaker 1: fingers and stuff like that. Eighteen percent said they rarely
Speaker 1: eat it or once every couple of months. Twenty one
Speaker 1: percent said once a meat once a week. Let's see
Speaker 1: what was your favorite fried chicken topping? The most popular
Speaker 1: topping for free chicken Let's see, I look at you.
Speaker 1: I was barbecue sauce. But the actual number one answer
Speaker 1: was no topic. They're purest they're fried chicken purists. They
Speaker 1: do not want anything to mass. They don't want ketchup,
Speaker 1: hot sauce, honey mustard, honey, butter, ranch, dress and gravy, cheese, garlic,
Speaker 1: flavored it whatever. They don't want any of that o.
Speaker 1: The grease makes it delicious. You don't want to water
Speaker 1: down the grease. Now, sixty percent of Americans think chicken
Speaker 1: and waffles belong together. Holy Roscoes. Do you see that
Speaker 1: Rosco's in Pasadena clothes? Yeah? Yeah, Famous Roscos in Pasadena.
Speaker 1: Rosco's Chicken and Waffles is an institution in southern California,
Speaker 1: and another one bites the dust.
Speaker 4: Too many stuck up people in the Pasadena area who
Speaker 4: think they're better than chicken and waffles.
Speaker 1: And it appears so, although if you go up to Altadna,
Speaker 1: there's a very very interesting there's a point of demarcation,
Speaker 1: a lot of crime. I used to go to the
Speaker 1: gym in Altadena above Pasadena and I have my car
Speaker 1: broken into. There was a lot of crime there and
Speaker 1: that was years ago. You can only imagine it's gotten
Speaker 1: better unless it hasn't. So on this podcast we have
Speaker 1: the Drive and a show, the coffee break, the Hogey
Speaker 1: ho down, international mail of mystery, and whatever else we
Speaker 1: have time for. Might even mix in a bonus fun
Speaker 1: factoid and idiom of the week. We'll see if we
Speaker 1: have time for that. But we begin with this in
Speaker 1: fourth or July weekend, sliding into a Saturday here, but
Speaker 1: always good time for a story. This past week followed
Speaker 1: the guidance the mandate from corporate at iHeart made my
Speaker 1: trip ind the long winding road to the mothership, the
Speaker 1: Premiere Network's iHeart Building there in Sherman Oaks, where the
Speaker 1: homeless sit outside, the cockroaches are inside, and we do
Speaker 1: talk radio. And this week it was a special week. Now,
Speaker 1: this being the weekend show, here we go back and
Speaker 1: look at some of the events that took place during
Speaker 1: the week and big holiday weekend. And normally when I
Speaker 1: drive it's rather uneventful. There's not a lot going on.
Speaker 1: Just dodging some trucks, that's about it. Driving into the
Speaker 1: Mothership from the north Woods. However, smashing your car, that
Speaker 1: happens too. But this week tires flying. Ever, this week
Speaker 1: providing special entertainment. It's not dinner in a show. It's
Speaker 1: a drive in a show, a traveling pyrotechnic show. And
Speaker 1: I'm not sure if it's like this everywhere. Maybe it is.
Speaker 1: I don't live everywhere. Let me know if it's like
Speaker 1: this in the I'd say in the comments, but just
Speaker 1: send me an email. Real fifth hour at gmail dot com.
Speaker 1: Real fifth Hour at gmail dot com. But this week,
Speaker 1: the fourth isly week, and now into the weekend, driving
Speaker 1: in is majestic. Every couple of miles, driving in from
Speaker 1: the north Woods, from the Malor Mansion to the Oaks,
Speaker 1: from the Woods to the Oaks and Shriman Oaks, where
Speaker 1: the iHeart building is. I was given a fireworks show. Now,
Speaker 1: most of these were neighborhood fireworks shows at the local park.
Speaker 1: Some of them were illegal fireworks courtesy of Mexico, Tijuana,
Speaker 1: or places somewhere further into Mexico. Racist. So I'm making
Speaker 1: my way. I'm driving, and a couple of nights this
Speaker 1: past week, I'm driving on the one oh one, which
Speaker 1: circumnavigates Hollywood, goes through, you go by the iconic Circle.
Speaker 1: Is it the Capitol Records Building?
Speaker 3: Is that what it is?
Speaker 1: I believe is what it is. Yeah, drive around that
Speaker 1: and you see some of the neon signs of Hollywood,
Speaker 1: and you drive through there. So I'm driving and up
Speaker 1: ahead I witnessed the Mona Lisa of Pyrotech Nicks. I
Speaker 1: was driving on the backside, right near the Barum Boulevard,
Speaker 1: the backside of the iconic Hollywood Bowl, and I slowed down.
Speaker 1: Everyone slowed down. We were all lookie loose. We were
Speaker 1: all rubber necking. It was a rubber necker's paradise. And
Speaker 1: I saw a good five minutes of the Hollywood Bowl
Speaker 1: fireworks show. A couple of nights. Oh yeah, right there,
Speaker 1: just driving on on the one on one for you.
Speaker 1: So that was that was pretty cool. I didn't realize
Speaker 1: they did it so many nights in a row. I
Speaker 1: didn't realize it either. They did it at least a
Speaker 1: couple of nights because I saw it and they had
Speaker 1: what they usually do is they have the orchestra and
Speaker 1: they have sung and then they have have patriotic songs
Speaker 1: and red, white and blue, this, that and the other,
Speaker 1: and then they have the fireworks going off. And so
Speaker 1: I got to work and then I needed a coffee break,
Speaker 1: is what I needed. I needed a coffee break when
Speaker 1: I got to work.
Speaker 4: Well, driving in on Wednesday morning for the Dan Patrick
Speaker 4: fill in, they called it the Dan Slam. For a
Speaker 4: Grand Slam four days, you need coffee at that time
Speaker 4: of the morning. It was four point thirty four forty
Speaker 4: five that I was leaving my hood to drive into
Speaker 4: the Oaks, as you call it. I had a plan.
Speaker 4: I'm like, why, I can't afford time. I don't have
Speaker 4: the time to find a Starbucks that opens up at five.
Speaker 4: Those are a special breed of Starbucks. As you know,
Speaker 4: not every single Starbucks opens up at the butt crack
Speaker 4: of dawn.
Speaker 1: Unfortunately that ended twenty twenty with COVID. Yeah, you're exactly right, yep.
Speaker 1: And so there is one Starbucks near the studios that
Speaker 1: opens at five, crazy packed because the other ones open
Speaker 1: at five thirty or six. I don't have time to
Speaker 1: wait there and get my coffee with all the other
Speaker 1: all the other losers like me that are awake this early.
Speaker 1: So getting off the exit for Ventura Boulevard. Here for
Speaker 1: our building. There is a gas station right across the
Speaker 1: freeway exit. And it's perfect because instead of turning left
Speaker 1: on a Venturo Boulevard, I just go straight, turn in,
Speaker 1: park in front of a pump run in. It's not Starbucks,
Speaker 1: but it's not horrible either, so it'll save me time.
Speaker 4: Win win situation. Monday, I do this, Tuesday, I do
Speaker 4: this Wednesday. I'm dragging butt a little bit. Oh man,
Speaker 4: it is five thirty six am right now. I should
Speaker 4: already be at the pre show meeting with Coveno and Rich,
Speaker 4: but I know Coveno's dragging a little bit too, So
Speaker 4: I'm like, I think I can pull this off. Run
Speaker 4: to the doors of this gas station. They don't open.
Speaker 4: Almost run into the damn glass. These doors are locked.
Speaker 4: It's like a ghost town. Nobody's around. This guy saw
Speaker 4: work in the past two mornings, not there, So I
Speaker 4: have a decision to make. I'm like, should I go
Speaker 4: down the street to the seven elevens. I don't think
Speaker 4: I have time for that. I'm just gonna have to
Speaker 4: go in with no coffee. I'm desperate. At this point,
Speaker 4: I'm looking around, knocking on the glass. I look in
Speaker 4: deeper into you know, you could see the back area
Speaker 4: of the gas station where they have some of their
Speaker 4: stacks of pallettes and crap, and I don't see anybody.
Speaker 4: But then I look across the street. Right across the
Speaker 4: street from the gas station is the guy that's supposed
Speaker 4: to be in there working. He's leaning on a car
Speaker 4: talking to a girl.
Speaker 1: Oh, man, guy's got game. Come on, man, you guys
Speaker 1: trying to pick up a lady. What's wrong with you?
Speaker 1: Don't need to rupt the guy. Come on, man, he's
Speaker 1: trying to get he's trying to have a good time.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he's parking lot pimping. It's now five forty am.
Speaker 4: Because I'm looking at my phone sweating.
Speaker 1: He's offering the worms, says, I can get any kind
Speaker 1: of coffee you on, I get you got a hook
Speaker 1: up here.
Speaker 4: Any kind of stale croissant inside that you want, baby girl?
Speaker 1: Exactly. Man, that's the carrot on the stick that gets
Speaker 1: the ladies. Okay, it does.
Speaker 4: Now I have to make a decision, an executive decision.
Speaker 4: Do I holler across the street and get this guy's
Speaker 4: attention or do I just leave this alone and leave.
Speaker 3: Me?
Speaker 1: I did Yeah, I said.
Speaker 4: Yo, And he turns and looks, and he gave me
Speaker 4: the look of death, like, how dare you interrupt me
Speaker 4: talking to this girl right here?
Speaker 1: What? What are you thinking? He's going bava boom and
Speaker 1: you're going bah bah Coffee is where you're going? Ben.
Speaker 4: She didn't look like Janet Jackson. She looked more like
Speaker 4: Freddie Jackson. I don't think I was interrupting anything too important.
Speaker 4: Beggars can't be choosers, Okay, come on, you know not
Speaker 4: that his nationality matters, but I have to share it
Speaker 4: because if I impersonate him or you know, it'll make
Speaker 4: more sense.
Speaker 1: I want to properly mock him. That's what you want
Speaker 1: to say. Well, and you've seen this for years on
Speaker 1: The Simpsons. It was an Indian gentleman, Hapoo who had
Speaker 1: some game. Think of a young Hopoo but with game.
Speaker 1: Because he's leaning on this girl's it looked like a
Speaker 1: Lexus and I'm like, man, well she's got money. He
Speaker 1: comes across the street.
Speaker 4: He looks very annoyed, and I told him, I said, man,
Speaker 4: I got to get to work down the street. I
Speaker 4: just want to get coffee really quick. He takes his keys,
Speaker 4: reluctantly opens the sliding doors. I go inside and I
Speaker 4: get the coffee and he gets behind the register and
Speaker 4: he mumbles something. I said, excuse me, and he wouldn't
Speaker 4: repeat himself. Does he want to fight?
Speaker 1: You know?
Speaker 4: At now five I'm looking at my watch now five
Speaker 4: point forty four am. He's making me late because he's
Speaker 4: trying to mac on some girl outside. Obviously he's not
Speaker 4: doing his job. So I finish, you know, getting the
Speaker 4: coffee together. I put the lid on, go to the
Speaker 4: cash register, and he tells me just take it, just.
Speaker 1: Take it, just take it. He gave you for free. Yeah.
Speaker 4: Now I'm like, okay, well, thank you, Grozzi.
Speaker 1: Grozzi.
Speaker 4: Hey, you can lock the doors and go back to
Speaker 4: your girl out there. And he's like, blah blah blah,
Speaker 4: but jump, bastard. It sounded like he said bastard. I'm
Speaker 4: not sure if that's the word he said, but whatever,
Speaker 4: I'm in a hurry. I got freak coffee, got in
Speaker 4: my car, got down the street to the studio's Ben
Speaker 4: sat at the pre show table with my bastard coffee.
Speaker 1: I mean, thank y'all.
Speaker 5: Come again, now, were you concerned it all, Danny, that
Speaker 5: this was a bait and switch situation, that he gave
Speaker 5: you the coffee for free, then called the cops and said,
Speaker 5: this asshole stole the coffee and here's what his car
Speaker 5: looks like.
Speaker 1: And I don't get it.
Speaker 4: I don't think he had time to do all that
Speaker 4: with what he was in the middle of.
Speaker 1: Oh you have good the beginning, sir. Yeah. Now you
Speaker 1: think he brought the late Jula Lizzo. You think he
Speaker 1: brought her back to the to the stacks of pallettes,
Speaker 1: the palette room. Let me let me show you where
Speaker 1: we keep the donuts. Let me show you. They don't
Speaker 1: have a champagne room there. They have a pallette room. Wow,
Speaker 1: very very Now, you don't use the coffee machine at work.
Speaker 1: They have a horrible, horrible machine.
Speaker 4: It looks like expensive, it looks like yeah, it looks
Speaker 4: like it should taste good, and it tastes like crape.
Speaker 1: I never see anyone using it, but it's been there
Speaker 1: for a while. No one ever seems to.
Speaker 4: It's funny because Covino uses it every day, and every
Speaker 4: day as he's drinking the coffee, he's complaining about how
Speaker 4: it tastes.
Speaker 1: I'm such a rocking dude. Yeah there, all right, Well
Speaker 1: the Hogy ho down, Hogy ho down. Uh, follow up,
Speaker 1: follow up. This past weekend, I visited Ike's Sandwich Shop.
Speaker 1: You ever been to ike sandwich Shop?
Speaker 4: No, I've driven past one before, so I know what
Speaker 4: you're talking about. The logos like a genie head exactly.
Speaker 4: So backstory. I had a chance to meet Ike in Vegas.
Speaker 1: Yeah, a guy behind He actually looks like that in
Speaker 1: the super Bowl in Vegas. When I was there, I
Speaker 1: met Ike and he said hello to me. He was
Speaker 1: a listener in the Bay Area to the Overnight Show.
Speaker 1: And you know sometimes people say they listen and you
Speaker 1: know they're lying. But he seemed genuinely excited to beat me,
Speaker 1: and he was telling me about his business and stuff.
Speaker 1: And this is back in February, and I lived not
Speaker 1: that far away from an Ike's Sandwich Shop, but I
Speaker 1: had not been there, and he wanted me to go,
Speaker 1: and he wanted me to try it, and so I
Speaker 1: of course waited through March April May and then I
Speaker 1: waited till late chun so I went in four months
Speaker 1: and decided, my, you know, we'll go have hogies. So
Speaker 1: we went to Ike Sandwich Shop and went in. There
Speaker 1: a nice looking restaurant. They have many locations. It's a
Speaker 1: small chain. In fact, I'll tell you more about the
Speaker 1: chain in a minute. But they have sandwiches named after people.
Speaker 1: There's a Jim Rome sandwich. There's a Damon Bruce sandwich.
Speaker 1: Damon Bruce longtime Northern California Bay area radio guy. I've
Speaker 1: known him for years. He does his own thing now
Speaker 1: because the company got rid of him, so he does
Speaker 1: his own product now. I ended up actually eating the
Speaker 1: Damon Bruce danny. I had the Damon Bruce. That's house
Speaker 1: personal and I love the crunch bread delicious. And he
Speaker 1: also has hogies named after old giants players like Madison Bumgardner,
Speaker 1: which is I guess only good on holidays Madison Bumgardner, right,
Speaker 1: and then Hunter Pence. Hunter Pence, they had a sandwich
Speaker 1: named after him. Some other giants is are Matt Cain sandwich.
Speaker 1: For example, does he have a pussy posy? Not all?
Speaker 1: Maybe he does. I didn't remember that one, so that's
Speaker 1: not at the top of my mind here. So this
Speaker 1: guy was a listener and we took some photos together.
Speaker 1: He sent me the photo, so I had his number.
Speaker 1: I actually have Ike's number on my phone and so
Speaker 1: I sent him. I sent him a text. I was like, hey, Ike,
Speaker 1: I'm eating your sandwich, you know, and he, you know,
Speaker 1: here we go. And so he was very happy and
Speaker 1: he was asking me, like what location I went to,
Speaker 1: and he told me business is doing very well. He's
Speaker 1: got a hundred locations. He just opened his one hundredth
Speaker 1: location right across from the Giants Ballpark in that area,
Speaker 1: and they're planning on expanding. I don't know if he
Speaker 1: wants me to say this or not, so I don't
Speaker 1: know if I should. But he's very polite, very kind.
Speaker 1: It seemed genuinely excited and it was great and and
Speaker 1: so I posted on social media. And who knows if
Speaker 1: anything will come of that. Maybe maybe they can add
Speaker 1: another sandwich. I don't know, maybe a Ben Maller sandwich.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying, Danny, you know, if Ike's listening to
Speaker 1: this at all, I wouldn't be opposed to that. I
Speaker 1: would I would give my name, and I would bet
Speaker 1: you that my sandwich will sell more than Jim Roman.
Speaker 1: Dame Bruce that the Malor sandwich would be a bigger
Speaker 1: sandwich and a better sandwich and would dominate the sandwich game.
Speaker 1: It should be called the moneyball Mallar like nothing green
Speaker 1: will be in it. We don't want anything green. Green
Speaker 1: is the side, like a pesto bread, a green pesto bread.
Speaker 1: I do like the moneyball mallo though. That could be
Speaker 1: a good name for a sandwich, or just the Mallor
Speaker 1: because everyone will just mispronounce it, say the mauler.
Speaker 4: If it is the moneyball Mallor, it should be the
Speaker 4: most expensive sandwich on the menu. No, I'm looking for
Speaker 4: I'm looking to sell product here. Okay, not the miser Mallard,
Speaker 4: the moneyball mal dare you?
Speaker 1: But that was the the hogi hodown hogy Hoda always
Speaker 1: always cool when you try something, and I actually did
Speaker 1: like the sandwich. I will be back there, and every
Speaker 1: time I go, I will make sure to send Ike
Speaker 1: a message to remind Ike, Hey, I'm eating your sandwich.
Speaker 1: I'm having I'm having a I'm having a sandwich snacks.
Speaker 1: The International Mail of Mystery, so on this show we
Speaker 1: do a mail bag wonderful, glorious mail bag on Sunday.
Speaker 1: Today is Saturday, so we're not doing the mail bag today.
Speaker 1: No mailbag, So instead I will regale you with tails
Speaker 1: from the snail mail. Let me call this one the
Speaker 1: International Mail of Mysteries. I said so the other night,
Speaker 1: watching fireworks near the Hollywood Bowl. On my way into
Speaker 1: the FSR studios, I walk in. I walk past the
Speaker 1: what I like to call the free eyewash box and
Speaker 1: band aid box that I use those band aids all
Speaker 1: the time, and it's right near the door. So I
Speaker 1: walk past that. I make a right turn. I'm now
Speaker 1: in the Smurf kitchen. If the Smurfs had a kitchen,
Speaker 1: it would be that kitchen. So I walk into that.
Speaker 1: What I do is I fill up my cup with ice.
Speaker 1: I like drinking cold water, and then I fill up
Speaker 1: my cup with water. Now in my peripheral vision to
Speaker 1: the left, I see the pile of mail. Now this
Speaker 1: is mail for everybody. This is mail for Rob Parker,
Speaker 1: Colin Cowherd Covino and Rich Jason Smith, Mike Harmon, everyone
Speaker 1: that works in the building. They just dump the mail.
Speaker 1: There's a mail room, but nobody goes up there. So
Speaker 1: they just dump the mail right across from the kitchen.
Speaker 4: Usually the mail either has your name on it or
Speaker 4: it's Andy Furman sending mail to a staff member.
Speaker 2: Here.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's a stack of Andy Furman mail. Don't let
Speaker 1: Andy know that. No one opens those. They just leave
Speaker 1: them there. Slop me around a little bit. So I
Speaker 1: see out of the peripheral vision. I see a couple
Speaker 1: of boxes, and I'm like, okay, let me let me
Speaker 1: make make a turn here, let me go to the left.
Speaker 1: All veer to the left in my peripheral vision. I
Speaker 1: go to the left and I look through and I
Speaker 1: saschet my way over there, and I'm hoping maybe there's
Speaker 1: some goodies for me. What's what's there now? Mostly, even
Speaker 1: though you think a lot of the mails for me,
Speaker 1: A lot of the time, Cooperloop Bogart's the mail. He
Speaker 1: takes the mail for me, and I don't even get
Speaker 1: to Sometimes I don't even get to open my mail
Speaker 1: because other people take But this that's against the law,
Speaker 1: federal violation. So why was this stay different? There was
Speaker 1: a package with my name on it and the email
Speaker 1: address with a real fifth hour, so that got my attention.
Speaker 1: Not a normal package. Why was it not normal? How
Speaker 1: come it was Australian post Mail? Oh? They called there's
Speaker 1: a parcel. You're ready to past apostle? Kids? Yeah, I
Speaker 1: love past apostles. We kid say international, I've got it.
Speaker 4: We were watching a blue carts in which is Australian
Speaker 4: and they call it parcels. Can you hear this?
Speaker 1: That's I'm holding in the studio here. I have the
Speaker 1: actual package. It says Australian post on it Express International
Speaker 1: from Australia Postage paid EP And I'm like, what's in
Speaker 1: it's not really a box, but what's in the box?
Speaker 1: What's in the box? What's in the box? You want
Speaker 1: to take a guess this beautiful surprise that was gifted
Speaker 1: in the in the package.
Speaker 4: That's pretty easy because growing up being a little kid
Speaker 4: watching the classic movie Crocodile Dundee, it's got to be
Speaker 4: a knife.
Speaker 1: That's a hard that is correct, unless it's not. They
Speaker 1: it was a little baby kangaroo, Danny, there's a little
Speaker 1: baby kangaroo, Yes, Joey the kangaroo. No, it was a roach,
Speaker 1: but not that kind of roach, Danny. That would be
Speaker 1: I've got a cap here. Let me see if I
Speaker 1: can send this to you. Hold on, say, I have
Speaker 1: a photo of a If you look at it, there
Speaker 1: a New South Wales cap. Is that a roach? That
Speaker 1: is a cockroach? It says on the bill of the cap.
Speaker 1: Come on, cockroaches a rugby roach. Uh yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 1: So our friend this comes from Ozzy Was. Thank you.
Speaker 1: Ozzi was from Western Australia, big fan of the show,
Speaker 1: listens all the time and he's become a next level
Speaker 1: member of the Mala Militia where he contributes content on
Speaker 1: a regular basis, sends us stuff in the mail. That's awesome.
Speaker 1: We thank you. He's got his family involved in this
Speaker 1: a little bit. I'm sure they're annoyed by that, but
Speaker 1: thank you for that anyway. And so I looked this up.
Speaker 1: I'm like, I remember he had sent something in the mail.
Speaker 1: He had sent messages saying there was a team called
Speaker 1: the Cockroaches. I think we read one on this podcast
Speaker 1: from Ozzie Was, but I'd forgotten about it and I
Speaker 1: looked it up. And the New South Wales rugby team.
Speaker 1: They originally were known as the Mighty Blues because they've
Speaker 1: got the light blue there, and now over the years
Speaker 1: they've become the cockroaches. According to some Internet research, the
Speaker 1: origin story is off the hook on this. And before
Speaker 1: I get into that, I did want to thank Ozzie
Speaker 1: Wahs who spent thirty six dollars thirty six dollars on
Speaker 1: postage to send this from Australia, So thank you. So
Speaker 1: this began a long long time ago in the nineteen seventies,
Speaker 1: mid nineteen seventies a rival coach nothing like a good
Speaker 1: rugby story to get your day going. Here, Danny a
Speaker 1: former coach of a rival team, Queensland rugby team. Barry
Speaker 1: Muirror is the guy's name who you don't know who
Speaker 1: Barry Muror is. He's the Popovich of rugby. He's watching
Speaker 1: a TV story about North South Wales or New South
Speaker 1: Wales rather, so he's watching this and the players faces
Speaker 1: on this grainy nineteen seventies TV in Australia, and he
Speaker 1: noticed the antennas on the television looked as though they
Speaker 1: were protruding from the players' heads, giving them a cockroach
Speaker 1: like appearance. So the coach decided, oh, I'll mess around here.
Speaker 1: I'll call the New South Welshman cockroaches. And he did.
Speaker 1: He told it to one of the reporters. He says,
Speaker 1: what's this cockroach business? Barry the reporter asked the coach,
Speaker 1: and the guy said, that's the new name of the
Speaker 1: new South Wales rugby team, and we're sick and tired
Speaker 1: of the Mighty Blues and all that, and then he
Speaker 1: kept repeating it. Originally they just kind of ignored it,
Speaker 1: but in those days there was no internet, and so
Speaker 1: he repeated it every time he would talk about the
Speaker 1: new South Wales rugby team. Instead of calling them the
Speaker 1: Mighty Blues, he called them the cockroaches. And then they
Speaker 1: they went with it in the newspapers. They said, this
Speaker 1: guy's call them the cockroaches, and then the fans embraced it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: kind of like in Sacramento. Remember when Phil Jackson goofed
Speaker 1: on the cow bells, said, there's like nothing but cow
Speaker 1: bells there, or I think I think it was like
Speaker 1: nothing but cows, and so fans brought cow bells to
Speaker 1: the game. Yes, in the Shaq Kobe era. Yeah, so
Speaker 1: that that was the origin of it. And they they
Speaker 1: are selling merch with this is an official item from
Speaker 1: Ozzie Wahs. I like that logo. It's like a cartoon
Speaker 1: logo and it's like a puffy sticker. If you can
Speaker 1: see on the hat the photo I sent you in
Speaker 1: it's like a stuffy singer, scary looking. It looks kind
Speaker 1: of like my wife said, it looks like Moxie, our bulldog.
Speaker 1: I didn't know roach's faces looked like bulldogs. That's very
Speaker 1: offensive too. And you can see the right below the
Speaker 1: cockroach is the rugby ball. You see that white thing there, Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's not an egg, that's a rugby ball. Yeah, So
Speaker 1: thank you, Ozzie wi was. I appreciate it very kind.
Speaker 1: I did not expect that. I did not realize you
Speaker 1: were going to be sending that, so thank you.
Speaker 4: It's pretty sad. We know what cockroach eggs really look
Speaker 4: like from work.
Speaker 1: Our Coveno and Rich, the guys putting those photos up
Speaker 1: around the building of Cochro. Nor your former tech producer
Speaker 1: is responsible for that. Oh is that right? Wrong button? Bob? No? No,
Speaker 1: the other former one, oh Iowa Sam. Okay, you are
Speaker 1: the pummeler of producers. Yeah, we have, I think, yeah,
Speaker 1: I know, there's a long list. I'm pretty sure I've
Speaker 1: worked with every one of them. Yes, yes, every engineer
Speaker 1: at Fox Sports Radio at one point or another the full
Speaker 1: time staff. I've worked with oh Iowa Sam.
Speaker 4: Iowa Sam a week ago had to kill a cockroach,
Speaker 4: a big one. It ruined his whole day. He was
Speaker 4: talking about it constantly for the rest of the day.
Speaker 4: And then he was making copies, big pictures of roaches
Speaker 4: and taping them up. I guess he was protesting. Yeah,
Speaker 4: it's roach art. It's like the love around the building there.
Speaker 4: There's different art up, and we have the roaches all
Speaker 4: the time at night, as you know, they like to
Speaker 4: come out at night and they The thing about it
Speaker 4: that is fascinating is they fall out of the ceiling.
Speaker 1: It's like a horror movie. Roaches come crawling out or
Speaker 1: falling out of the ceiling. The roaches come out at
Speaker 1: night on a regular bab I'd like to come out
Speaker 1: at night. When I negotiate my new contract, I would
Speaker 1: like to say that I get a bonus based on
Speaker 1: how many roaches come down during the show. And I
Speaker 1: was talking about this too Jonas Knox, and I told Jonas,
Speaker 1: I said, listen, there is one way I might have
Speaker 1: said this on there. I don't know if I said
Speaker 1: this on there. There's one way that this roach infestation
Speaker 1: will come doing an on Fox Sports. Ready you know
Speaker 1: what that is, Danny.
Speaker 4: If one lands in an executive sandwich.
Speaker 1: No close. Colin Cowherd shows up to that building a
Speaker 1: couple times a year to do shows. You don't like it,
Speaker 1: but he does. He likes TV better, but he shows
Speaker 1: up right, so fine. And let's say Collin's in the
Speaker 1: middle of Colin rant and a medium size, not even
Speaker 1: a full size, a medium sized cockroach comes falling down,
Speaker 1: parachuting down from the ceiling. Within seven minutes of that happening,
Speaker 1: every single exterminator from the Mexican border to Santa Barbara
Speaker 1: will be hired by iHeart to exterminate all of the
Speaker 1: cockroaches in that building. There will not be a cockroach
Speaker 1: within fifty miles of that building. But it hasn't happened yet, Danny,
Speaker 1: So it continues. It's wild. But now it's a good
Speaker 1: story because I have now a cockroach hat. So I
Speaker 1: got something out of it. So I want to thank
Speaker 1: the cockroaches. Very cool, so very nice. We have a
Speaker 1: let's get out of a let's see it. Wow, this
Speaker 1: is the idiom of the week. This's is the idiom
Speaker 1: of the week. You wannder the idiom of the week.
Speaker 1: You have two minutes to do it, all right, hurry up.
Speaker 1: The idiom of the week. The idium of the week
Speaker 1: is polishing turds. It's a fun one, right, polishing turds.
Speaker 1: I like it. Yeah. So where did it originate from? Okay?
Speaker 1: A couple of theories on this. Nineteen ninety nine, there
Speaker 1: was a oh bit on a famous Hollywood director named
Speaker 1: Stanley Kubrick published in the New York Times magazine. Jerry
Speaker 1: Lewis claimed that he came up with the term polishing turds.
Speaker 1: The comedian Jerry Lewis, actor comedian. He says he was
Speaker 1: in the editing room at one in the morning. He
Speaker 1: went in to smoke a cigarette and and Stanley was
Speaker 1: in there, and he says, can I watch? Jerry Lewis said,
Speaker 1: can I watch whatever? So they were watching together, and
Speaker 1: he says he coined the expression you cannot polish a turd,
Speaker 1: and then the late director Stanley Kubrick looked at Jerry
Speaker 1: Lewis and said, you can if you freeze. It is
Speaker 1: what he said. But the first actual citation of that
Speaker 1: term polishing turds, which means making something really disgusting a
Speaker 1: little better a little better Oxford English Dictionary. It comes
Speaker 1: from someone named Jeffrey Stokes nineteen seventy six books Star
Speaker 1: Making Machinery Inside the Business of Rock and Roll, and
Speaker 1: he wrote, listen, you can't polish a turd, which meant
Speaker 1: that you can't take someone that doesn't have music ability
Speaker 1: and turn them into a rock and roll star. So
Speaker 1: that is the idiom of the week, polishing turns. We'll
Speaker 1: get out on that. It is Saturday. Anything special going
Speaker 1: on today on this holiday weekend?
Speaker 4: Now, just this fine podcast right here. Some would say
Speaker 4: it's polishing turds when I do post production.
Speaker 1: How dare you?
Speaker 4: And yeah, man, send this podcast to at least two
Speaker 4: friends or family members today, and if.
Speaker 1: One of them listens, we've doubled our audience. If both
Speaker 1: of them listen, oh oh my goodness, holy crap on
Speaker 1: a cracker. Anyway, have a great day. We've got a
Speaker 1: mailbag on Sunday. We will talk to you then until tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Asta pasta, my folation.