WEBVTT - The Fifth Hour: Lookin’ Like He Robbed Liberace 0:00:00.920 --> 0:00:01.680 Kabbooms. 0:00:02.520 --> 0:00:05.600 If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes 0:00:05.640 --> 0:00:09.400 a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants 0:00:09.400 --> 0:00:12.680 of the old republic, a sol fashion of fairness. He 0:00:12.800 --> 0:00:15.720 treats crackheads in the ghetto cutter the same as the 0:00:15.840 --> 0:00:17.680 rich pill poppers in the penthouse. 0:00:18.280 --> 0:00:18.640 Wow. 0:00:18.800 --> 0:00:22.520 The Clearinghouse of Hot takes break free for something special. 0:00:22.880 --> 0:00:25.720 The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts. 0:00:25.400 --> 0:00:34.560 Right now in the air ey where The Fifth Hour 0:00:34.680 --> 0:00:37.640 with me Ben Mahler and Danny g Radio who's on 0:00:37.800 --> 0:00:40.520 assignment but his producing this show. 0:00:40.560 --> 0:00:44.080 He will be back tomorrow and the rest of the weekend. 0:00:44.120 --> 0:00:47.360 But you got me today on this Friday's the thirteenth 0:00:47.440 --> 0:00:54.960 day of December, as we celebrate National ice Cream Day. Yeah, 0:00:55.000 --> 0:00:57.560 you'd think National ice Cream Day would be sometime in 0:00:57.600 --> 0:01:00.840 the summer, right, There is actually another National ice Cream Day. 0:01:00.840 --> 0:01:02.640 There's two National ice Cream Days. 0:01:03.120 --> 0:01:06.560 There's one in July, which makes sense, right, I mean 0:01:06.800 --> 0:01:09.600 the ice cream you think of the summertime. But there's 0:01:09.640 --> 0:01:14.160 a second National ice Cream Day, which is today. And 0:01:14.240 --> 0:01:16.160 of course I think we talked about this in July. 0:01:16.200 --> 0:01:20.440 But the invention of ice cream, the people of the 0:01:20.520 --> 0:01:25.400 Persian Empire started making ice cream. They poured concentrate of 0:01:25.520 --> 0:01:29.640 grape juice over snow, and that was the original I scream. 0:01:29.680 --> 0:01:32.720 Of course, at some point before that, it's likely there 0:01:32.880 --> 0:01:35.920 was a lemon flavor, shall we say, of ice cream 0:01:36.360 --> 0:01:40.039 that was used, if you know what I'm saying, like 0:01:40.120 --> 0:01:44.559 a yellowy lemon flavor of ice cream. But ice cream 0:01:44.880 --> 0:01:49.480 was first patented in eighteen forty six. Someone named Nancy 0:01:49.640 --> 0:01:54.240 Johnson invented the She invented the patent for the first 0:01:54.320 --> 0:01:57.800 hand cranked ice cream maker, and the rest is history. 0:01:57.800 --> 0:02:00.000 And I was in Vermont earlier this year. 0:02:00.040 --> 0:02:02.520 You're visiting my friend Arnie, the great Ernie Spaniel, the 0:02:02.640 --> 0:02:06.200 sticking genius, and we drove by the Ben and Jerry's compound, 0:02:06.240 --> 0:02:11.240 those moon bats in Vermont, and the famous story back 0:02:11.280 --> 0:02:13.600 in the seventies they took a five dollars course on 0:02:13.680 --> 0:02:17.520 ice cream making and opened up the Ben and Jerry's 0:02:17.520 --> 0:02:21.400 there at a gas station, a converted gas station in Burlington. 0:02:22.040 --> 0:02:25.320 And and now they are looney tones, but they it 0:02:25.400 --> 0:02:28.720 all started with the little ice cream. Four out of 0:02:28.800 --> 0:02:33.760 five Americans eat more sugar. Here's a fun survey around 0:02:33.760 --> 0:02:36.079 the hollage. I thought it should be more than that 0:02:36.200 --> 0:02:38.880 it's eighty percent. And there's all kinds of I got 0:02:39.120 --> 0:02:42.360 all kinds of sugar ice cream stats here, all kinds 0:02:42.360 --> 0:02:47.240 of this by age group, they say the For example, 0:02:47.240 --> 0:02:50.640 according to Way survey, different age groups preferred different ice 0:02:50.680 --> 0:02:56.800 cream flavors. The fourteen to seventeen group enjoy mint chocolate chip. 0:02:57.440 --> 0:03:00.320 The eighteen to twenty four it's cookies and cream. 0:03:01.280 --> 0:03:06.440 Get them all turned on, and then the cookie dough 0:03:06.480 --> 0:03:11.200 twenty five to thirty four, and then above forty five 0:03:11.360 --> 0:03:15.840 it's it's chocolate. I I'm a cookie dough. I like 0:03:15.960 --> 0:03:19.960 midship mint chocolate chip cookie dough. It's really hard to 0:03:20.040 --> 0:03:22.480 turn down any kind of ice cream, right, fudge, brownie, 0:03:22.560 --> 0:03:23.120 you name it. 0:03:23.160 --> 0:03:26.280 Whatever might be ice cream on top of that. 0:03:26.800 --> 0:03:29.600 Anyway, So it's National ice Cream Day, but it'll happen 0:03:29.639 --> 0:03:33.920 again coming up in the month of July. So July 0:03:34.000 --> 0:03:37.760 of twenty twenty five, just have like multiple days wine. 0:03:37.760 --> 0:03:41.200 It's also National Cream cheese Frosting Day today, so celebrate 0:03:41.200 --> 0:03:46.040 appropriately for that, National Cocoa Day on this Friday, and 0:03:46.480 --> 0:03:48.320 randomly National violin Day. 0:03:49.280 --> 0:03:51.800 Okay, So on this edition. 0:03:51.520 --> 0:03:55.800 Of the Fifth Hour, we have Liberachi approved. Goodbye, my 0:03:56.160 --> 0:04:00.560 radio friend, A little foodie fun and a very bizarre 0:04:01.800 --> 0:04:04.720 word of the week, which actually could be two words 0:04:04.720 --> 0:04:05.200 of the week. 0:04:05.560 --> 0:04:07.800 It's not really one word, it's more than that. 0:04:08.160 --> 0:04:10.839 So we always begin the Friday podcast by pointing out 0:04:11.240 --> 0:04:17.279 that Noel am I lucky enough to have a radio 0:04:17.360 --> 0:04:20.160 show that hopefully listen to during the week. 0:04:20.160 --> 0:04:22.159 I mean, that's pretty cool, right, pretty that's a neat thing. 0:04:22.800 --> 0:04:24.880 And then I have this podcast, which I've been very 0:04:24.960 --> 0:04:27.600 blessed with to have this podcast as well. 0:04:27.720 --> 0:04:30.160 I've done this for a number of years. 0:04:29.960 --> 0:04:33.960 Now with gag On and of course Danny GE's been 0:04:33.960 --> 0:04:36.479 with me for a long time as well. And a 0:04:36.520 --> 0:04:40.200 couple of years ago, the good people at NBC gave 0:04:40.960 --> 0:04:45.400 me a TV show. Shocking, I know, and I feel 0:04:45.440 --> 0:04:49.479 like Jim Harbaugh evangelizing. Who's got it better than us? Well, 0:04:49.480 --> 0:04:51.800 probably nobody. Well there's a lot of people that have better, 0:04:52.080 --> 0:04:55.440 a lot of people that are worse than us. But nonetheless, 0:04:55.440 --> 0:04:58.640 I try to convert you if you have not already 0:04:58.920 --> 0:05:02.280 fallen for my crusade, as I missionize every week, the 0:05:02.279 --> 0:05:06.240 Little Missionary here, my campaign to spread the gospel of 0:05:06.320 --> 0:05:09.720 Benny versus the penny. It is a half hour of 0:05:09.760 --> 0:05:14.440 your time. It is a weekly NFL gambling show, but 0:05:14.560 --> 0:05:16.599 not really so much a gambling It's light on the 0:05:16.680 --> 0:05:21.640 gambling and mostly just me futzing around, goofing around with 0:05:21.760 --> 0:05:26.760 my sidekick, teleprompter Tom as we call him. So it's 0:05:26.760 --> 0:05:30.919 week fifteen. We recorded the TV show yesterday. It actually 0:05:30.960 --> 0:05:33.840 started airing on television around the country last night. 0:05:33.920 --> 0:05:37.480 It is a nationally syndicated show, thank god for that. 0:05:37.760 --> 0:05:41.520 NBC Sports Now for our purposes, the show is produced. 0:05:42.600 --> 0:05:46.720 The director, the producer, all the production team, my team, 0:05:46.839 --> 0:05:48.680 the people that put the show together behind the scenes 0:05:48.960 --> 0:05:52.520 are at NBC Sports Boston. So that's our flagship. So 0:05:52.600 --> 0:05:54.880 that to us is the biggest affiliate, not that we 0:05:54.920 --> 0:05:57.160 don't love being on in all these other cities, but 0:05:57.320 --> 0:06:00.480 that's the one where the people that make the magic, 0:06:00.560 --> 0:06:03.159 the people that make the hot dogs, they get to 0:06:03.520 --> 0:06:06.320 consume the hot dog right there in their backyard. And 0:06:06.360 --> 0:06:09.440 so with that being said, we will go live no 0:06:09.560 --> 0:06:14.480 Celtic game tonight, hallelujah, hallelujah, no Celtic game tonight in 0:06:14.520 --> 0:06:16.280 the early television window. 0:06:16.279 --> 0:06:17.240 Don't think they play it all. 0:06:17.080 --> 0:06:19.960 Today, So we will go live on tape on NBC 0:06:20.080 --> 0:06:25.960 Sports Boston in prime time six pm and then two 0:06:26.120 --> 0:06:29.200 more at least two more encore showings. The show will 0:06:29.240 --> 0:06:31.640 be broadcast again at eight thirty and then again at 0:06:31.800 --> 0:06:36.280 nine to thirty, so three showings between six pm and 0:06:37.320 --> 0:06:42.080 nine thirty ten ish, which means Alf the Alien ol 0:06:42.120 --> 0:06:45.080 Piner going to be very busy. Alf I know you 0:06:45.080 --> 0:06:47.040 have a homework assignment there, buddy, and you've been very 0:06:47.040 --> 0:06:49.799 good and loyal, and we lost our buddy masshole Mickey, 0:06:49.839 --> 0:06:51.960 so I need you to carry the load there and 0:06:52.080 --> 0:06:55.400 watch the show and all the episodes. 0:06:54.880 --> 0:06:56.560 And all that, and I know you will. I know 0:06:56.600 --> 0:06:56.880 you will. 0:06:56.920 --> 0:07:01.880 Rusty as well, Rusty in Boston. And now Danny DeVito, 0:07:01.920 --> 0:07:04.680 how cool is that the call the other night. 0:07:04.600 --> 0:07:05.560 From Danny DeVito. 0:07:06.279 --> 0:07:08.920 I'm gonna I'm gonna tell my wife this weekend, Danny 0:07:08.920 --> 0:07:12.200 DeVito is a fan of the show that I've arrived. 0:07:12.360 --> 0:07:13.920 Now, this is Danny Vieto. 0:07:13.920 --> 0:07:15.679 He just happened to be a trash man in Boston, 0:07:15.920 --> 0:07:17.920 but he's making like one hundred and fifty thousand dollars 0:07:17.920 --> 0:07:21.400 a year picking up other people's trash, which is not bad. 0:07:21.520 --> 0:07:24.560 So again, the whole point is Benny versus the Penny. 0:07:24.720 --> 0:07:27.640 Week fifteen break down, all the big matchups, this weekend 0:07:27.680 --> 0:07:29.920 in the NFL, and I want you another show. Is 0:07:29.960 --> 0:07:35.880 Liberacci approved at least teleprompter Tom his outfit Liberacci approved, 0:07:36.480 --> 0:07:38.400 And we're gonna send out another Sissor real. 0:07:38.840 --> 0:07:42.520 I gotta tell you, I have had so much fun. 0:07:42.560 --> 0:07:44.480 I feel like I'm a child the last couple of 0:07:44.480 --> 0:07:47.560 weeks walking around the back lot at Universal Studios, Hollywood, 0:07:48.120 --> 0:07:53.400 and we've stumbled on to the downtown city backdrop scene, 0:07:53.880 --> 0:07:58.520 the fake buildings where they've filmed so many iconic movies 0:07:58.680 --> 0:08:02.840 and TV shows over and mean, we get done with 0:08:02.880 --> 0:08:04.560 the TV show and we we walk and it's pretty 0:08:04.560 --> 0:08:05.800 long walk from when we do the show. 0:08:05.800 --> 0:08:06.920 We do the show kind of near. 0:08:06.800 --> 0:08:09.000 The front of Universal, the back lot, the front part 0:08:09.000 --> 0:08:11.080 of the back lot at univers Studios, if that makes 0:08:11.080 --> 0:08:13.120 any sense. So then we get out of that building. 0:08:13.400 --> 0:08:15.920 We have to walk down to the abb And and Costello 0:08:16.000 --> 0:08:18.240 parking garage. We then put our bags in the abb 0:08:18.360 --> 0:08:22.160 and Castello draw Abnue Costello Garage. We then go into 0:08:22.360 --> 0:08:26.880 an elevator. We go down the elevator to the ground floor. 0:08:27.200 --> 0:08:30.680 We then walk out through an office building. We then 0:08:30.720 --> 0:08:33.720 walk up to the left and have to go up 0:08:33.720 --> 0:08:35.440 a hill and then we have a long walk. 0:08:35.440 --> 0:08:36.280 We go by all. 0:08:36.120 --> 0:08:40.120 These massive studios and we walk, walk, walk, Why walk 0:08:40.160 --> 0:08:43.160 by the Johnny Carson building. There's a jay Leno street 0:08:43.320 --> 0:08:46.360 slash building right across the street from Johnny Carson's building. 0:08:46.640 --> 0:08:49.600 We keep going, keep going, keep going. At Boom there 0:08:49.640 --> 0:08:51.560 it is right there, right. 0:08:51.440 --> 0:08:55.920 In front of us, this beautiful city with a movie theater, 0:08:56.080 --> 0:08:59.960 it's got a hotel, it's got everything. So we've deterned 0:09:00.120 --> 0:09:02.800 and we love this Looney as well. And I tried 0:09:02.800 --> 0:09:04.400 to explain to Looney we should have been doing this 0:09:04.440 --> 0:09:06.880 a long time ago, and for some reason he thought 0:09:06.920 --> 0:09:10.439 I was taking him up to Universal Studios the amusement park. 0:09:10.760 --> 0:09:12.640 It's like, no, I don't. I can't fit on the 0:09:12.720 --> 0:09:15.680 rides at Universal Studios. I'm too tall for that. I 0:09:15.760 --> 0:09:17.719 used to be too fat too, but I'm too tall now, 0:09:17.760 --> 0:09:20.720 so I'm like no. So this is our new spot. 0:09:21.080 --> 0:09:23.960 And there's another video that we're putting out later today 0:09:24.679 --> 0:09:28.600 that you can check out behind the scenes of the 0:09:28.840 --> 0:09:32.200 Universal and you will see the Liberachi approved outfit from 0:09:32.240 --> 0:09:37.240 teleprompter Tom for this week's episode of Benny Versus the Penny. 0:09:37.400 --> 0:09:42.320 It is well, it's it's on brand for looning. It 0:09:42.400 --> 0:09:44.760 is on brand for Looney all right. Turned the page 0:09:44.760 --> 0:09:48.719 from that, I was I think I was trying to 0:09:48.720 --> 0:09:51.320 think who sent me a message out? One of you 0:09:51.360 --> 0:09:55.560 guys sent me a message saying, hey, we should go 0:09:55.600 --> 0:09:57.680 back and kind of honor some of the people that 0:09:58.120 --> 0:10:02.600 we've lost this year, and my buddy in Charleston. 0:10:02.640 --> 0:10:05.360 But anyway, we will do that at some point. 0:10:05.400 --> 0:10:09.920 I did want to spend some time this weekend to 0:10:10.400 --> 0:10:16.000 say goodbye to my radio friend, and that would be Skeeter. 0:10:16.760 --> 0:10:19.199 We talked about this at the beginning of the week. 0:10:19.240 --> 0:10:22.120 I found out over last weekend that we had lost 0:10:22.160 --> 0:10:27.000 our friend Skeeter. And over the last few days before 0:10:27.040 --> 0:10:31.120 Skeeter passed, I had been in contact with Colonel Rick 0:10:32.440 --> 0:10:36.760 and the Montana Girl. They are the two fine sweet 0:10:36.800 --> 0:10:41.120 souls that have kept an eye on Skeeter, and they 0:10:41.200 --> 0:10:46.280 reached out to me when Skeeter had a medical emergency. Now, Skeeter, 0:10:46.320 --> 0:10:49.720 if you're not familiar, is a caller to the show. 0:10:50.559 --> 0:10:55.280 He's one of the great characters on the show. And 0:10:55.640 --> 0:10:59.360 really what the Overnight Show is all about. We're keeping 0:10:59.400 --> 0:11:03.160 your company. We're there with you. You can't sleep, you 0:11:03.320 --> 0:11:07.840 got medical problems, whatever it might be, and there's another 0:11:08.040 --> 0:11:11.400 human being who is there. That's the whole point of 0:11:11.440 --> 0:11:14.520 doing it. Otherwise they just put tape programming on and 0:11:14.559 --> 0:11:17.000 that's it and save some money and they don't have 0:11:17.040 --> 0:11:21.720 to pay people like me, and that's that. But Skeeter 0:11:22.800 --> 0:11:25.559 is famous, and I will remember Skeeter as long as 0:11:25.559 --> 0:11:29.679 I do this show for what he inspired Skeeter is. 0:11:29.760 --> 0:11:31.920 I'm gonna tell you about his life here because Colonel 0:11:32.000 --> 0:11:34.600 Rick and the Montana Girl were kind of enough to 0:11:34.640 --> 0:11:39.400 share a nice little right up on Skeeter. I wanted 0:11:39.400 --> 0:11:41.360 to share that because this is the last time we'll 0:11:41.360 --> 0:11:44.040 probably mention him often on the show, and I wanted 0:11:44.040 --> 0:11:47.920 to give him the proper sendoff as he deserves. So 0:11:47.960 --> 0:11:50.720 Skeeter started calling the show years ago and just a 0:11:50.760 --> 0:11:54.040 sweet old man. But he loved being part of the show. 0:11:54.080 --> 0:11:57.400 He loved being part of the show, and so much 0:11:57.480 --> 0:12:00.360 so that we have the mal Or Militia. Listen to 0:12:00.400 --> 0:12:03.320 the show, you know that we wote to Mallard Militia, 0:12:03.480 --> 0:12:06.360 a group of super fans of the show that support 0:12:06.559 --> 0:12:08.880 and defend the honor of the Ben Maller Show. 0:12:10.200 --> 0:12:10.840 So fine. 0:12:11.120 --> 0:12:13.839 I had used the Malad Militia moniker for a long time. 0:12:13.840 --> 0:12:15.360 In fact, to Johatish John. 0:12:15.360 --> 0:12:18.679 If you remember that name from Michigan, who retired from 0:12:18.760 --> 0:12:21.679 sports radio calling. Very odd story. 0:12:21.679 --> 0:12:24.360 But johnis John's like Mallad Militia Maleman. So we did 0:12:24.360 --> 0:12:26.240 this years ago. This probably goes back twenty years we 0:12:26.320 --> 0:12:29.320 had the Mala Militia. But a few years back, and 0:12:29.360 --> 0:12:32.000 I don't even remember exactly when Skeeter started calling the show. 0:12:32.000 --> 0:12:33.880 And he really was into the show, and he loved it, 0:12:33.960 --> 0:12:35.840 and he had great energy, and he was a sweet 0:12:35.840 --> 0:12:40.880 old man, and he wanted to be a member of 0:12:40.920 --> 0:12:44.120 the militia. And he could not wrap his mind around 0:12:44.160 --> 0:12:46.520 the fact that that there's no way to enter. He 0:12:46.640 --> 0:12:48.840 wanted to be part of the club. He kept asking me, 0:12:49.640 --> 0:12:51.680 call after call, how do I get part of this? 0:12:51.720 --> 0:12:52.840 How do I want to be part of it? 0:12:54.559 --> 0:12:58.720 And so in a moment of weakness, I said, all right, fine, 0:12:59.000 --> 0:13:01.880 you want to be part of it. I stop annoying me, Skeeter. 0:13:02.920 --> 0:13:05.680 I'll come up with an oath. So I took the 0:13:06.280 --> 0:13:08.640 I went on, I did some creative editing. I took 0:13:08.679 --> 0:13:12.440 the United States Military Oath, and I twisted a few 0:13:12.920 --> 0:13:14.880 words around. I made it my own. I put my 0:13:14.920 --> 0:13:18.520 own touch on it and that was it. And then 0:13:18.559 --> 0:13:21.600 I did it on the air, and Skeeter loved it 0:13:22.559 --> 0:13:25.760 and he could not get enough of it, and other 0:13:26.000 --> 0:13:29.880 people in the listening audience wanted to be part of it. 0:13:30.840 --> 0:13:34.000 Many of you have taken the Malad Militia oath over 0:13:34.040 --> 0:13:35.880 the years, and it's all because of Skeeter. 0:13:36.120 --> 0:13:37.240 It's all because of Skeeter. 0:13:37.240 --> 0:13:40.440 It's a blood oath and accordance to the bylaws of 0:13:40.440 --> 0:13:44.120 the Mala Militia. And so that is all because of Skeeter. 0:13:44.240 --> 0:13:46.839 That is his lasting legacy on our little radio show. 0:13:47.640 --> 0:13:49.679 And it's the funniest thing because Skeeter. I'm gonna tell 0:13:49.720 --> 0:13:54.240 you about him here in a second. Skeeter spent a 0:13:54.320 --> 0:13:57.120 long time in the military. He spent time in the 0:13:57.160 --> 0:14:01.920 United States military, and here I am doing the military oath, 0:14:02.040 --> 0:14:03.760 is changing a few words around, and he loved it. 0:14:03.840 --> 0:14:06.120 And I get the biggest kick out of that because 0:14:06.160 --> 0:14:08.520 I've heard for a lot of guys that did time 0:14:08.559 --> 0:14:12.880 in the military, spent time there, and they all seem 0:14:12.960 --> 0:14:13.480 to enjoy it. 0:14:13.520 --> 0:14:16.560 I've not had anyone say I'm offended by that. It's 0:14:16.600 --> 0:14:20.600 just really a great tribute to Skeeter. So let me 0:14:20.640 --> 0:14:21.920 tell you a little bit about him. Let me tell 0:14:21.920 --> 0:14:24.400 you a little bit about him. Skeeter just on. 0:14:24.560 --> 0:14:26.720 I think it's proper right. It's interesting. You never really 0:14:26.720 --> 0:14:30.880 know who these people are when they call in. But Skeeter, 0:14:30.920 --> 0:14:32.040 we learned a little bit about him. 0:14:32.280 --> 0:14:33.600 His name, his real name is David. 0:14:34.960 --> 0:14:39.520 David aka Skeeter, was born and grew up in North 0:14:39.600 --> 0:14:44.280 Dakota on a farm, the son of a farmer. Graduated 0:14:44.280 --> 0:14:48.320 from school, he went off to the Navy. I'm in 0:14:48.360 --> 0:14:51.920 the Navy. He was a semen. Served twenty years in 0:14:51.960 --> 0:14:55.400 the United States Navy. Our buddy Skeeter, twenty years in 0:14:55.440 --> 0:14:59.040 the Navy. Now, after the Navy, he moved to Montana. 0:14:59.200 --> 0:15:01.560 He said, that's it. I'm done. I'm going to retire 0:15:01.640 --> 0:15:04.760 and I'm going to fish. And man, did he love 0:15:04.840 --> 0:15:08.080 to fish. And if you love to fish, Montana is 0:15:08.160 --> 0:15:08.880 heaven on earth? 0:15:08.920 --> 0:15:11.360 Is it not? Is it not heaven on earth? Going 0:15:11.400 --> 0:15:12.160 to Montana? 0:15:12.680 --> 0:15:15.720 So as the story was passed on to me by 0:15:15.720 --> 0:15:19.240 Colonel Rick. One of the famous Skeeter stories. In his 0:15:19.360 --> 0:15:24.680 life in Montana fishing, he one time caught a seagull. 0:15:26.080 --> 0:15:27.280 Yeah, he was fishing. 0:15:27.440 --> 0:15:32.480 Instead of catching a salmon or something, he caught a seagull, 0:15:33.600 --> 0:15:37.520 and he reeled it in and cut the tangled line 0:15:37.640 --> 0:15:40.040 and set it free. He was very excited about that. 0:15:40.240 --> 0:15:43.360 And I'm happy to report that I thought this might 0:15:43.400 --> 0:15:46.680 be bullshit. I thought this might not be true. And 0:15:46.800 --> 0:15:51.480 I have seen photos of said seagull. The seagull seemed 0:15:51.520 --> 0:15:55.600 to be doing okay, and it was not killed by this, 0:15:55.720 --> 0:15:59.360 but it was just amusing. As far as Skeeter's personal life, 0:16:00.040 --> 0:16:03.520 he had been married twice, He had no no children 0:16:03.560 --> 0:16:04.600 from his first marriage. 0:16:04.760 --> 0:16:07.000 He had three step sons with his second marriage. 0:16:07.600 --> 0:16:12.360 And since he had a retirement from the Navy, he 0:16:12.520 --> 0:16:16.320 had worked a little bit, worked as like a service station, 0:16:16.480 --> 0:16:19.000 a gas station attendant in Montana. 0:16:19.040 --> 0:16:23.400 He'd done that briefly. Liked music and sports and fishing. 0:16:23.160 --> 0:16:27.800 And all that, and also had a great love of 0:16:27.800 --> 0:16:31.400 of of the history of music, song titles from different dates. 0:16:31.440 --> 0:16:35.640 He knew all about that. And as far as what 0:16:35.760 --> 0:16:39.400 happened to Skeeter, without going into too much detail here, 0:16:40.360 --> 0:16:42.520 Skeeter had called the show we knew he had cancer. 0:16:43.360 --> 0:16:47.640 He had given us updates. Now it's it's pretty well. 0:16:47.680 --> 0:16:49.720 I mean, Skeeter was you know, we were we were 0:16:49.760 --> 0:16:50.640 like radio. 0:16:50.400 --> 0:16:52.840 Family, and you know Skeeter was one of those guys 0:16:52.840 --> 0:16:53.840 he wanted to share with us. 0:16:54.000 --> 0:16:56.680 We were important to him and and from any ways, 0:16:56.680 --> 0:16:57.880 he was important to us. 0:16:58.120 --> 0:16:59.000 On the Overnight show. 0:16:59.040 --> 0:17:01.560 And so Skeeter would call us up and give us 0:17:01.600 --> 0:17:04.000 medical updates when he visited the doctor about his cancer 0:17:04.040 --> 0:17:06.119 and the outlook and how things were looking and all that. 0:17:06.160 --> 0:17:11.840 He was very positive, very optimistic about everything. But about 0:17:12.400 --> 0:17:15.800 two weeks ago, Skeeter was taking the trash container out 0:17:16.000 --> 0:17:20.960 on a very cold, cold morning or afternoon, I guess 0:17:20.960 --> 0:17:24.600 it was. It was a Sunday, so not this past Sunday, 0:17:24.600 --> 0:17:28.760 the Sunday before, and there was a lot of wind, 0:17:29.040 --> 0:17:29.560 a lot. 0:17:29.400 --> 0:17:31.159 Of wind in Montana. 0:17:31.320 --> 0:17:34.760 Winds gusted up to sixty mile an hour, and baby, 0:17:34.840 --> 0:17:36.000 it is cold outside. 0:17:36.040 --> 0:17:37.679 It was cold, and pair of. 0:17:37.760 --> 0:17:39.960 Skeeter was not even though he's lived in Montana for 0:17:40.000 --> 0:17:42.920 a long time and he's a hardy North Dakota, he's 0:17:42.920 --> 0:17:46.120 gotten older and he's sick and whatnot, and so all 0:17:46.200 --> 0:17:49.639 that apparently caused him. He was not prepared for it. 0:17:49.640 --> 0:17:53.399 He fell down, and unfortunately he was by himself. He 0:17:53.480 --> 0:17:57.640 laid there for about an hour on a frigid afternoon, 0:17:58.359 --> 0:18:02.000 was sixty mile an hour wind Finally, one of his 0:18:02.080 --> 0:18:04.879 neighbors came home and saw him laying on the ground, 0:18:05.000 --> 0:18:08.520 called the paramedics. They got him up, helped him into 0:18:08.520 --> 0:18:14.000 his house, and Skeeter being a you know, being stubborn, 0:18:14.400 --> 0:18:17.440 which I respect. I'm stubborn too, excuters like, dude, I'm 0:18:17.480 --> 0:18:20.480 not going to the hospital, all right, get out of here. 0:18:20.640 --> 0:18:22.639 I don't I want to go to the hospital. I 0:18:22.640 --> 0:18:24.040 don't need to get checked out. 0:18:24.240 --> 0:18:25.040 So the next. 0:18:24.840 --> 0:18:29.320 Morning, as I'm told, the Colonel Rick, who has been 0:18:29.359 --> 0:18:31.920 his caregiver for a number of years with Montana girl, 0:18:31.920 --> 0:18:34.639 they they've done a great job with him. So Colonel 0:18:34.720 --> 0:18:39.240 Rick went to his home and found our buddy Skeeter 0:18:39.320 --> 0:18:43.200 had fallen yet again in his house. And so this 0:18:43.280 --> 0:18:47.000 time the Colonel got him up and kind of got 0:18:47.040 --> 0:18:52.480 him walking with the assistant a walker and made sure 0:18:52.520 --> 0:18:54.560 he had his phone with him twenty four to seven 0:18:54.600 --> 0:18:58.359 for help of needing. And you know, David, they was 0:18:58.720 --> 0:19:01.720 happy and all that he was good. But then the 0:19:01.800 --> 0:19:06.520 following Tuesday, there was a wellness check that was done 0:19:06.760 --> 0:19:09.600 on Skeeter and he didn't answer. 0:19:10.280 --> 0:19:11.920 It's never gonning done. That's what happened on my dad. 0:19:12.119 --> 0:19:14.400 My dad used to do wellness calls my dad one 0:19:14.400 --> 0:19:15.200 time he didn't answer. 0:19:15.240 --> 0:19:15.960 That was not good. 0:19:16.560 --> 0:19:20.240 So anyways, Colonel Rick ran over to check on Skeeter. 0:19:20.280 --> 0:19:24.480 He had fallen yet again. He was very weak and 0:19:24.680 --> 0:19:27.639 needed to call an ambulance. They called an ambulance, took 0:19:27.680 --> 0:19:30.640 him to the hospital, try to find out what was happening. 0:19:31.160 --> 0:19:33.399 He had fallen down three times in three days, so 0:19:33.400 --> 0:19:35.959 obviously this is not going well. He was taking to 0:19:35.960 --> 0:19:40.880 the hospital our buddy Skeeter and obviously not doing very well. Unfortunately, 0:19:42.520 --> 0:19:45.600 you never know when your time is, and you hope 0:19:45.720 --> 0:19:46.120 it's not. 0:19:46.560 --> 0:19:49.440 Today, you hope it's tomorrow. But Skeeter's body had been 0:19:49.600 --> 0:19:50.320 shutting down. 0:19:51.160 --> 0:19:57.040 He did suffer from kidney cancer and that in the falls, 0:19:57.040 --> 0:20:01.640 everything kind of tied together, we are told, and eventually 0:20:01.720 --> 0:20:05.639 he became unresponsive. But I am happy to report this 0:20:05.680 --> 0:20:09.880 actually made me made me very happy. The colonel who 0:20:09.920 --> 0:20:12.800 had been keeping an eye on Colonel Rick and the 0:20:12.840 --> 0:20:17.879 Montana girl deb they tell me that while Skeeter was 0:20:17.920 --> 0:20:21.919 in the hospital, before he crossed over to the pearly 0:20:22.000 --> 0:20:26.160 gates there and went to the other side, they had 0:20:26.200 --> 0:20:30.160 mentioned the name my name Skeeter wanted me to know 0:20:30.320 --> 0:20:31.399 about his situation. 0:20:32.280 --> 0:20:34.880 If something were to happen to him. So Colonel had 0:20:34.880 --> 0:20:41.800 reached out. But when he mentioned to Skeeter my name, 0:20:42.119 --> 0:20:45.800 Skeeter smiled, which made me feel very good. And I 0:20:46.040 --> 0:20:47.200 had left a. 0:20:47.200 --> 0:20:52.240 Voicemail message for Colonel Rick to I didn't know whether 0:20:52.320 --> 0:20:54.199 that was for Skeeter or not, but I left a 0:20:54.280 --> 0:20:57.119 very nice message on the phone. I was trying to 0:20:57.119 --> 0:21:00.480 get in contact, but Skeeter was unresponsive and whatnot. So 0:21:00.480 --> 0:21:02.520 I left a voicemail message about how much we loved 0:21:02.520 --> 0:21:04.920 Skeeter and how great he was and all that stuff. 0:21:05.560 --> 0:21:08.320 And before Skeeter passed, they were able to play that 0:21:08.400 --> 0:21:12.840 message for Skeeter and Colonel Rick. I teared up a 0:21:12.840 --> 0:21:14.880 little bit when I read this. But Colonel Rick sent 0:21:14.920 --> 0:21:17.080 me a message and he said that when they were 0:21:17.080 --> 0:21:20.400 playing my voice to Skeeter and he's, you know, unresponsive, 0:21:20.440 --> 0:21:22.639 he's dying, is on his deathbed in the hospital, and 0:21:22.680 --> 0:21:26.520 his eyes fluttered and he actually smiled, which made me 0:21:26.600 --> 0:21:29.800 feel just was great. You know, it's not about me, 0:21:29.920 --> 0:21:32.600 but it just it's like, wow, there's just that connection 0:21:32.680 --> 0:21:35.360 that you have. And I never met Skeeter. We never 0:21:35.400 --> 0:21:37.639 met in real life. We just talked on the phone 0:21:37.760 --> 0:21:44.800 on the radio several times, and and then his wife, 0:21:45.280 --> 0:21:49.080 Colonel Rick's wife told David, you know, we love you 0:21:49.119 --> 0:21:53.760 and all this stuff, and and then Skeeter shortly after 0:21:53.800 --> 0:21:58.320 that passed away and he was at peace. And I 0:21:58.480 --> 0:22:02.159 was also told by Colonel Rick that our buddy Skeeter, 0:22:03.880 --> 0:22:08.240 he had one last wish. I guess he wanted to 0:22:08.240 --> 0:22:11.760 see the Lions go to the Super Bowl. And so 0:22:12.800 --> 0:22:15.480