1 00:00:00,720 --> 00:00:01,480 Speaker 1: Kabooms. 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 --> 00:00:17,480 Speaker 2: rich pill poppers in the penthouse. 7 00:00:18,079 --> 00:00:18,360 Speaker 1: Wow. 8 00:00:18,600 --> 00:00:22,320 Speaker 2: The Clearinghouse of Hot takes break free for something special. 9 00:00:22,680 --> 00:00:29,440 Speaker 2: The Fifth Hour with Ben Mahler starts right now. 10 00:00:29,000 --> 00:00:35,600 Speaker 3: In the air andywhere back at it? In the podcast dojo. 11 00:00:35,800 --> 00:00:40,000 Speaker 3: The weekend is here. This is your weekend companion, your 12 00:00:40,159 --> 00:00:41,120 Speaker 3: best friends. 13 00:00:41,320 --> 00:00:42,240 Speaker 1: Every weekend. 14 00:00:43,159 --> 00:00:46,839 Speaker 3: The Fifth Hour with Ben Mahler and Danny g Radio, 15 00:00:47,159 --> 00:00:50,280 Speaker 3: Because hey, why don't we do this eight days a week, 16 00:00:50,360 --> 00:00:51,199 Speaker 3: four hours a night? 17 00:00:51,320 --> 00:00:54,920 Speaker 1: Not enough? Here we are again, Danny blah blah blah 18 00:00:54,960 --> 00:00:58,440 Speaker 1: blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. That's it. 19 00:00:58,480 --> 00:00:59,640 Speaker 1: See you next week, guys. 20 00:01:02,640 --> 00:01:06,679 Speaker 4: This podcast lasts as long as the NBA playoffs. They're 21 00:01:06,800 --> 00:01:07,680 Speaker 4: still going. 22 00:01:08,480 --> 00:01:12,240 Speaker 3: See, there's no reason to watch the regular season because 23 00:01:12,280 --> 00:01:17,080 Speaker 3: the playoffs take twelve months, So forget the regular season. 24 00:01:17,120 --> 00:01:21,480 Speaker 3: The playoffs go all year. They drag this stuff out anyway. Well, 25 00:01:21,480 --> 00:01:25,440 Speaker 3: we did have an NBA Finals game last night. I 26 00:01:25,440 --> 00:01:28,679 Speaker 3: I assume you watched, although I guess with the ratings 27 00:01:28,680 --> 00:01:30,520 Speaker 3: will come out later today, so we'll find out how 28 00:01:30,520 --> 00:01:35,039 Speaker 3: many people actually watched the Denver Nuggets and the Miami 29 00:01:35,120 --> 00:01:38,520 Speaker 3: Heat the Nicola Jokic NBA Finals. 30 00:01:39,000 --> 00:01:43,160 Speaker 4: Yeah, it's so exciting to watch the Serbian Frankenstein. But 31 00:01:43,640 --> 00:01:47,200 Speaker 4: it could be worse, and it's still some basketball left. 32 00:01:47,200 --> 00:01:50,640 Speaker 4: And then when the basketball is over, there's gonna be crickets, 33 00:01:50,640 --> 00:01:52,720 Speaker 4: tumbleweeds and baseball stadiums. 34 00:01:53,480 --> 00:01:55,760 Speaker 3: Oh, come on, that's when we earn our money. I 35 00:01:55,840 --> 00:01:57,840 Speaker 3: love that time of the year. Are you kidding me? 36 00:01:58,400 --> 00:02:00,520 Speaker 1: You can It's like COVID yet again. 37 00:02:00,560 --> 00:02:03,680 Speaker 3: Then when the whole world shut down for several months, 38 00:02:03,720 --> 00:02:05,960 Speaker 3: we had no sports and we could talk about whatever 39 00:02:05,960 --> 00:02:10,079 Speaker 3: we wanted, and I did rants about marble racing and yes. 40 00:02:10,360 --> 00:02:13,680 Speaker 4: Oh man, that's when you really won your Marconi Award. 41 00:02:13,880 --> 00:02:15,080 Speaker 1: Oh let me tell you something. 42 00:02:15,120 --> 00:02:18,360 Speaker 3: The month of June, once the finals end, which is 43 00:02:18,360 --> 00:02:23,160 Speaker 3: about mid June, there is a solid month from mid 44 00:02:23,280 --> 00:02:27,480 Speaker 3: June until mid July, and really even longer than that 45 00:02:27,520 --> 00:02:29,760 Speaker 3: because training camps in the NFL start in mid July. 46 00:02:30,600 --> 00:02:33,200 Speaker 3: But it is about a month month and a half 47 00:02:34,360 --> 00:02:37,800 Speaker 3: where you know, there's that saying you got to separate 48 00:02:37,840 --> 00:02:42,240 Speaker 3: the wheat from the shaft. I like the extended winners. 49 00:02:42,639 --> 00:02:44,760 Speaker 1: That's the time, that is the time. 50 00:02:45,120 --> 00:02:47,639 Speaker 3: But the good news is there's always some controversy. There's 51 00:02:47,639 --> 00:02:51,200 Speaker 3: always some scandal, so there will be something going on, 52 00:02:51,400 --> 00:02:53,120 Speaker 3: just like this podcast. People say, how do you come 53 00:02:53,160 --> 00:02:55,119 Speaker 3: up with new crap on the podcast? You do five 54 00:02:55,160 --> 00:02:56,560 Speaker 3: shows a week and all that stuff. 55 00:02:56,600 --> 00:02:58,480 Speaker 1: I said, yeah, just keep. 56 00:02:58,360 --> 00:03:00,840 Speaker 3: Throwing spaghetti against the wall. See what works. Keep throwing 57 00:03:00,840 --> 00:03:04,400 Speaker 3: spaghetti against the wall. And on this today's podcast, the 58 00:03:05,040 --> 00:03:08,720 Speaker 3: kickoff to the weekend we've got is that a softball? 59 00:03:08,880 --> 00:03:11,000 Speaker 1: Are you glad to see me? Or are you glad 60 00:03:11,040 --> 00:03:11,440 Speaker 1: to see me? 61 00:03:11,880 --> 00:03:17,600 Speaker 3: The word of the week, and by special request, an 62 00:03:17,639 --> 00:03:23,920 Speaker 3: extended dance remix of pop Goes the Culture and whatever 63 00:03:23,919 --> 00:03:27,359 Speaker 3: else we get to. So we'll get right into it now. 64 00:03:27,400 --> 00:03:33,280 Speaker 3: This beginning tale, which could have qualified for a Life 65 00:03:33,280 --> 00:03:37,360 Speaker 3: of Malar's story on the Saturday podcast, but I wanted 66 00:03:37,360 --> 00:03:41,400 Speaker 3: to get to this right away on the fun Frivolity 67 00:03:41,560 --> 00:03:45,840 Speaker 3: of a Friday. So we're not doing the Animal Kingdom 68 00:03:45,880 --> 00:03:48,080 Speaker 3: this weekend. Maybe we'll bring that back next weekend. But 69 00:03:48,160 --> 00:03:50,120 Speaker 3: this could also be an Animal Kingdom story. 70 00:03:51,160 --> 00:03:51,600 Speaker 1: But it's not. 71 00:03:52,640 --> 00:03:54,960 Speaker 3: That's the original bit. That has nothing to do with 72 00:03:55,000 --> 00:04:01,160 Speaker 3: the Animal Thunderdome. No, completely unique and just a creation 73 00:04:01,320 --> 00:04:02,000 Speaker 3: in my mind. 74 00:04:02,400 --> 00:04:03,800 Speaker 1: Danny, that's it. 75 00:04:03,880 --> 00:04:05,760 Speaker 3: How those lawyers, by the way, at iHeart how they 76 00:04:05,800 --> 00:04:07,360 Speaker 3: coming along and there everything good with that? 77 00:04:07,440 --> 00:04:10,160 Speaker 4: Yes, I'm not sure they haven't emailed me in a 78 00:04:10,160 --> 00:04:10,720 Speaker 4: few weeks. 79 00:04:10,960 --> 00:04:12,960 Speaker 1: Yeah, the lawyers that I heard have not emailed you. 80 00:04:13,120 --> 00:04:16,640 Speaker 3: But Animal Thunderdome, Danny will be eighty five years old, 81 00:04:16,680 --> 00:04:19,800 Speaker 3: his son will be you know, you know, God only knows, 82 00:04:20,200 --> 00:04:22,880 Speaker 3: and he'll be the one actually hosting Animal Thunderdome. That's 83 00:04:22,920 --> 00:04:29,280 Speaker 3: the surprise. But anyway, so but get to the storry. 84 00:04:29,320 --> 00:04:33,719 Speaker 3: So I was preparing it. How do all great fairy 85 00:04:33,760 --> 00:04:36,760 Speaker 3: tales start? Once upon a time, seemed like just a 86 00:04:36,760 --> 00:04:40,240 Speaker 3: normal day at the Malor mansion getting ready. I'm a 87 00:04:40,240 --> 00:04:42,320 Speaker 3: creature a habit. We've talked about this in the past, 88 00:04:43,040 --> 00:04:44,400 Speaker 3: and I get asked from time to. 89 00:04:44,440 --> 00:04:45,880 Speaker 1: Times how to get ready for the show. 90 00:04:45,920 --> 00:04:47,880 Speaker 3: And so I start each day out with a blank 91 00:04:47,960 --> 00:04:52,960 Speaker 3: canvas and I go wherever the sporting news of the 92 00:04:53,040 --> 00:04:55,800 Speaker 3: day takes me, which is kind of cool. It's it's 93 00:04:55,839 --> 00:04:59,920 Speaker 3: not a very repetitive job. There are stories that get repetitive. 94 00:05:00,640 --> 00:05:03,600 Speaker 3: If there's a big scandal, you can talk about that 95 00:05:03,960 --> 00:05:06,120 Speaker 3: day after day and that becomes annoying. 96 00:05:06,320 --> 00:05:09,200 Speaker 4: But normally, or if Aaron Rodgers is spotted at a 97 00:05:09,200 --> 00:05:10,800 Speaker 4: Taylor Swift concert. 98 00:05:10,839 --> 00:05:14,760 Speaker 1: Well yeah there's that too. But typically it changes and 99 00:05:14,880 --> 00:05:15,720 Speaker 1: there's different things. 100 00:05:15,800 --> 00:05:17,680 Speaker 3: You're talking about many of the same things, but the 101 00:05:18,040 --> 00:05:21,200 Speaker 3: storylines changed, So it does keep the job fresh. 102 00:05:21,240 --> 00:05:23,680 Speaker 1: It's like we're not talking about the same stuff every day. 103 00:05:24,080 --> 00:05:27,159 Speaker 3: It's like if you do politics, you're pretty much talking 104 00:05:27,160 --> 00:05:31,320 Speaker 3: about the same crap every day. Pain in the ass anyway, 105 00:05:31,360 --> 00:05:33,320 Speaker 3: so it keeps thing special. And so earlier this week, 106 00:05:33,360 --> 00:05:38,400 Speaker 3: I'm putting the blocks, the building blocks together in the ecosystem, 107 00:05:38,680 --> 00:05:41,680 Speaker 3: creating the ecosystem that is the finished product and the 108 00:05:41,680 --> 00:05:42,320 Speaker 3: Overnight show. 109 00:05:42,720 --> 00:05:43,800 Speaker 1: And what I do is I use. 110 00:05:43,800 --> 00:05:49,200 Speaker 3: The process of elimination, and my goal is to find 111 00:05:49,720 --> 00:05:53,680 Speaker 3: at least four stories that I am fascinated by. 112 00:05:53,800 --> 00:05:56,320 Speaker 1: I believe these are amazing stories. 113 00:05:56,600 --> 00:05:59,279 Speaker 3: Because I don't like to repeat myself too much, and 114 00:05:59,360 --> 00:06:02,000 Speaker 3: so I try to find four things that I'm really 115 00:06:02,000 --> 00:06:05,000 Speaker 3: interested in I think would make for a good conversation 116 00:06:05,080 --> 00:06:07,960 Speaker 3: for a few minutes in the Malay monologue. And then 117 00:06:08,320 --> 00:06:11,360 Speaker 3: normally I don't find anything, and I'm freaking out. I'm like, ah, 118 00:06:11,400 --> 00:06:14,120 Speaker 3: this sucks. There's nothing to talk about DDA, nothing interesting, 119 00:06:14,240 --> 00:06:15,479 Speaker 3: and it sucks. 120 00:06:17,040 --> 00:06:19,120 Speaker 1: But I want some of them to be equality. And so. 121 00:06:20,880 --> 00:06:25,960 Speaker 3: The food groups are pretty much scandal when a scandal breaks. 122 00:06:27,240 --> 00:06:32,520 Speaker 3: Palace intrigue is great. Name calling always good talk radio. 123 00:06:34,760 --> 00:06:36,520 Speaker 3: We break down the games. You got to try to 124 00:06:36,520 --> 00:06:39,160 Speaker 3: find an angle to the games, and so those kind 125 00:06:39,200 --> 00:06:42,760 Speaker 3: of things. Class warfare is always good, like an owner 126 00:06:43,760 --> 00:06:46,080 Speaker 3: spitting a loogie at fans, like what's going on in 127 00:06:46,120 --> 00:06:49,719 Speaker 3: Oakland right now, or a douchebag commissioner like Rob Manford 128 00:06:49,760 --> 00:06:52,560 Speaker 3: and major League Baseball. So those things are interesting to me, 129 00:06:54,200 --> 00:06:56,120 Speaker 3: and so we talk about those things. We try to 130 00:06:56,120 --> 00:06:59,680 Speaker 3: find those things. So doing the show, as we say, 131 00:06:59,720 --> 00:07:03,400 Speaker 3: it's it's not narrow casting. We're doing broadcast, right, That's 132 00:07:03,400 --> 00:07:05,760 Speaker 3: what they say, it's broadcasting. So we're trying to put 133 00:07:05,760 --> 00:07:10,760 Speaker 3: this together and the very powerful microphones of FSR and 134 00:07:10,800 --> 00:07:14,240 Speaker 3: all the reach that we had, plus the podcast, so 135 00:07:14,280 --> 00:07:17,360 Speaker 3: there's a lot of stuff going on. So during the afternoon, 136 00:07:17,400 --> 00:07:24,720 Speaker 3: I start getting ready late afternoon and sometimes I want 137 00:07:24,760 --> 00:07:25,480 Speaker 3: to have some company. 138 00:07:25,480 --> 00:07:26,960 Speaker 1: My wife is usually. 139 00:07:26,680 --> 00:07:33,000 Speaker 3: At work and I'm all alone in the harnous Malar Mansion. 140 00:07:33,520 --> 00:07:34,680 Speaker 1: But I do have Bella. 141 00:07:35,880 --> 00:07:38,480 Speaker 3: So I do have Bella, my pal Bella, my dog Bella, 142 00:07:38,520 --> 00:07:42,200 Speaker 3: who's in the retirement home right now. Bella because she 143 00:07:42,480 --> 00:07:46,400 Speaker 3: could not control her shit and her piss, and she 144 00:07:46,720 --> 00:07:50,560 Speaker 3: decided to turn the Malor Mansion into an indoor you know, 145 00:07:50,760 --> 00:07:55,360 Speaker 3: complete Florida ceiling toilet. We decided that Bella needed to 146 00:07:55,400 --> 00:07:57,640 Speaker 3: go to her retirement home, which is in the Malor Mansion. 147 00:07:57,640 --> 00:08:00,800 Speaker 3: It's just a small corner of the Malor Mansion. But 148 00:08:00,880 --> 00:08:05,040 Speaker 3: she's kind of like my service thought. If you willff, 149 00:08:05,800 --> 00:08:06,880 Speaker 3: I'm getting ready for the show. 150 00:08:06,960 --> 00:08:08,480 Speaker 1: Just to paint the picture for you here. 151 00:08:08,640 --> 00:08:12,480 Speaker 3: Just imagine I'm sitting on the sofa and I'm I've 152 00:08:12,520 --> 00:08:17,840 Speaker 3: got my laptop up. I'm I'm scanning my RSS feeds. 153 00:08:17,880 --> 00:08:19,600 Speaker 3: If you don't know what that is, that's usually how 154 00:08:19,680 --> 00:08:23,760 Speaker 3: I go through the different sources to find what I'm 155 00:08:23,760 --> 00:08:24,240 Speaker 3: talking about. 156 00:08:24,280 --> 00:08:25,800 Speaker 1: I don't usually use Twitter. 157 00:08:25,600 --> 00:08:30,679 Speaker 3: Much, especially not now since they changed it. It's pretty 158 00:08:30,720 --> 00:08:35,040 Speaker 3: much useless for what I need and so, and I 159 00:08:35,080 --> 00:08:37,000 Speaker 3: try to stay off Twitter anyway during the day. So 160 00:08:37,040 --> 00:08:40,040 Speaker 3: I have RSS fees I've used since I had Benmaller 161 00:08:40,120 --> 00:08:42,959 Speaker 3: dot com, and I've added to that, I always add 162 00:08:43,000 --> 00:08:45,920 Speaker 3: new feeds, and so I have a very unique way 163 00:08:45,960 --> 00:08:48,200 Speaker 3: of trying to find stuff to talk about. And so 164 00:08:48,280 --> 00:08:54,640 Speaker 3: I start going through chopping down the big sink filled 165 00:08:54,720 --> 00:08:58,720 Speaker 3: with all kinds of dirty dishes. Anyway, get to the point. 166 00:08:58,880 --> 00:09:04,079 Speaker 3: So Bella is a wonderful lapdog dog. So again I'm 167 00:09:04,080 --> 00:09:06,240 Speaker 3: painting the pictures. I'm trying to find stuff to talk about. 168 00:09:06,280 --> 00:09:08,880 Speaker 3: I'm sitting on the sofa. I've got like a blanket 169 00:09:08,920 --> 00:09:11,960 Speaker 3: on top of me, and I put Bella on top 170 00:09:12,000 --> 00:09:16,480 Speaker 3: of the blanket because I don't want any problems with 171 00:09:16,600 --> 00:09:19,280 Speaker 3: the sofas I figure if she she has a problem, 172 00:09:19,360 --> 00:09:21,240 Speaker 3: she can she can take care of the blanket. 173 00:09:21,280 --> 00:09:23,920 Speaker 4: You know what I mean, Danny, Yeah, take out a 174 00:09:23,920 --> 00:09:25,679 Speaker 4: whole blanket instead of your leg or the. 175 00:09:25,679 --> 00:09:29,280 Speaker 1: Sofa, exactly exactly. I don't have to change my shorts 176 00:09:29,320 --> 00:09:29,679 Speaker 1: or whatever. 177 00:09:29,800 --> 00:09:34,679 Speaker 3: So imagine remember that old movie Austin Powers International. 178 00:09:34,200 --> 00:09:37,920 Speaker 1: Amn of Mystery. Of course, remember Petting the Evil Cat, 179 00:09:38,080 --> 00:09:38,559 Speaker 1: Remember the. 180 00:09:38,559 --> 00:09:40,760 Speaker 4: Cat that's you, but with Bella. 181 00:09:41,000 --> 00:09:43,840 Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, exactly. Bella's about the size of a small cat. 182 00:09:44,120 --> 00:09:45,839 Speaker 1: So she's laying down. 183 00:09:45,840 --> 00:09:49,800 Speaker 4: And you talk about your contract one billion dollars and 184 00:09:49,920 --> 00:09:53,720 Speaker 4: one billion dollars but anyway, she's she's. 185 00:09:53,600 --> 00:09:57,199 Speaker 1: Laying down there, and normally she does not she does 186 00:09:57,240 --> 00:09:59,520 Speaker 1: not move very much. You pretty much put her down. 187 00:10:00,040 --> 00:10:01,480 Speaker 3: I've done this from time to time, a couple of 188 00:10:01,480 --> 00:10:03,200 Speaker 3: times a week. I'll do it and she'll just sit 189 00:10:03,280 --> 00:10:07,200 Speaker 3: there and lay down and fall asleep and couldn't give two. 190 00:10:07,120 --> 00:10:10,079 Speaker 1: Shits about me being there, right and just whatever. 191 00:10:10,920 --> 00:10:12,559 Speaker 3: So I put her down. It's like a normal day. 192 00:10:12,559 --> 00:10:15,320 Speaker 3: I'm getting ready for the show. She's laying down and 193 00:10:15,960 --> 00:10:21,000 Speaker 3: she starts fusing around, and I what's going on here? 194 00:10:21,040 --> 00:10:23,680 Speaker 3: Why is my friend Bella fusing around? 195 00:10:24,679 --> 00:10:25,079 Speaker 1: What's all? 196 00:10:25,080 --> 00:10:28,400 Speaker 3: What's this all about? So but I'm like, I'm into something. 197 00:10:28,440 --> 00:10:30,800 Speaker 3: I'm trying to find a story, and I'm I found 198 00:10:30,800 --> 00:10:32,840 Speaker 3: something I was kind of interested in, so I was like, 199 00:10:32,840 --> 00:10:35,360 Speaker 3: all right, let me focus on this. So she starts 200 00:10:35,400 --> 00:10:36,880 Speaker 3: fussing around. So then I'm like, all right, maybe I 201 00:10:36,880 --> 00:10:40,240 Speaker 3: should pick her up and move her. And I pick 202 00:10:40,280 --> 00:10:43,160 Speaker 3: her up and she starts like kind of screaming a 203 00:10:43,240 --> 00:10:49,960 Speaker 3: little bit, and then it's like it's one of those moments. 204 00:10:50,080 --> 00:10:53,760 Speaker 3: It's like, look up in the sky. Is it a baseball? 205 00:10:53,960 --> 00:10:55,200 Speaker 3: Is it a softball? 206 00:10:55,920 --> 00:10:56,160 Speaker 1: No? 207 00:10:57,000 --> 00:11:05,320 Speaker 3: It is a bella bathball, barfball, is that a softball 208 00:11:05,520 --> 00:11:08,280 Speaker 3: or are you glad to see me? This thing was 209 00:11:08,480 --> 00:11:11,680 Speaker 3: Oh man, it happened so fast, as the story always goes, 210 00:11:11,920 --> 00:11:19,000 Speaker 3: boom come boom. Yeah, my pal Bella, very small, normally 211 00:11:19,040 --> 00:11:22,360 Speaker 3: sleeps all the time, and that's it. In the retirement 212 00:11:22,360 --> 00:11:29,640 Speaker 3: home had puked up a big chunk, just a massive 213 00:11:29,720 --> 00:11:34,439 Speaker 3: hunk of vomit. And Danny, I do not want to exaggerate. 214 00:11:36,400 --> 00:11:40,959 Speaker 3: I don't want to the vomit was the size if 215 00:11:40,960 --> 00:11:42,839 Speaker 3: you look up in the sky at night, the moon. 216 00:11:44,200 --> 00:11:46,959 Speaker 1: It was like ten times that. It was so disgusting. 217 00:11:47,320 --> 00:11:51,040 Speaker 3: Now, fortunately I did have the blanket down. Now, Bella 218 00:11:51,160 --> 00:11:54,200 Speaker 3: has barfed in the past, most dogs do, but normally 219 00:11:54,240 --> 00:11:58,200 Speaker 3: it's like green goo, like she ate plants. 220 00:11:57,920 --> 00:11:59,720 Speaker 1: Or something in the backyard she wasn't supposed to eat. 221 00:12:00,080 --> 00:12:05,760 Speaker 3: But this time it counts because we're talking rotting, this rotting, 222 00:12:05,920 --> 00:12:13,480 Speaker 3: giant clump of black and yellow and orange, and it 223 00:12:13,520 --> 00:12:16,080 Speaker 3: was it was like oozing all over the blanket. It 224 00:12:16,120 --> 00:12:19,000 Speaker 3: was one of the most disgusting things that I have 225 00:12:19,160 --> 00:12:21,640 Speaker 3: ever witnessed, right on top of me. 226 00:12:22,480 --> 00:12:25,000 Speaker 1: So I I my first move. I'm like, oh man, 227 00:12:25,040 --> 00:12:28,520 Speaker 1: this is a well I'll get to that in a minute. 228 00:12:28,640 --> 00:12:31,079 Speaker 1: So so At this point, I'm like, I didn't know 229 00:12:31,120 --> 00:12:31,440 Speaker 1: what to do. 230 00:12:31,679 --> 00:12:34,040 Speaker 3: I put my laptop away because I'm like, I can't 231 00:12:34,040 --> 00:12:35,040 Speaker 3: get barf on that. 232 00:12:35,200 --> 00:12:37,080 Speaker 1: I need that for work, So I put that down. 233 00:12:38,840 --> 00:12:39,559 Speaker 4: Your keyboard. 234 00:12:39,840 --> 00:12:40,760 Speaker 1: Oh my god. 235 00:12:40,920 --> 00:12:44,280 Speaker 3: So then I'm like moving the blanket and I'm looking. 236 00:12:44,320 --> 00:12:47,160 Speaker 3: It's right on my lap. You know, It's like, oh man, 237 00:12:47,240 --> 00:12:51,040 Speaker 3: this smells. It's terrible. So then I kind of put 238 00:12:51,080 --> 00:12:54,000 Speaker 3: the blanket. I wrapped the blanket around it. I then 239 00:12:54,360 --> 00:12:57,760 Speaker 3: Bella's still freaking out. I grabbed the dog. I run 240 00:12:57,880 --> 00:13:01,000 Speaker 3: back to her little caged retirement home. I toss her 241 00:13:01,040 --> 00:13:03,319 Speaker 3: in there. I then have to come back and then 242 00:13:03,520 --> 00:13:06,520 Speaker 3: I have that uncomfortable thing where I have to decide what. 243 00:13:06,520 --> 00:13:07,440 Speaker 1: To do with the blanket. 244 00:13:07,679 --> 00:13:10,680 Speaker 3: Ibou said, wash it, But do I wash it with 245 00:13:10,800 --> 00:13:15,480 Speaker 3: the giant hunk of vomit or do I take the vomit. 246 00:13:15,600 --> 00:13:18,040 Speaker 3: I got to take the vomit out, but at this point, 247 00:13:18,480 --> 00:13:21,760 Speaker 3: the vomit has been oozing all over the blanket. 248 00:13:22,000 --> 00:13:23,360 Speaker 1: So now the blanket's covered. 249 00:13:23,400 --> 00:13:25,400 Speaker 3: It's like this white blanket, but it's covered with this 250 00:13:25,559 --> 00:13:29,920 Speaker 3: black and orange and yellow like layer. It's just terrible. 251 00:13:31,360 --> 00:13:37,440 Speaker 3: So I grabbed some paper towels and I I scooped 252 00:13:37,520 --> 00:13:42,959 Speaker 3: up the mass of disgusting this and I went over 253 00:13:43,000 --> 00:13:46,520 Speaker 3: to the trash. I then grabbed the blanket. I tossed 254 00:13:46,520 --> 00:13:49,600 Speaker 3: it in the washing machine, turned it on as hot 255 00:13:49,600 --> 00:13:51,520 Speaker 3: as temperature as I could get, put a bunch of 256 00:13:51,720 --> 00:13:57,320 Speaker 3: chemicals in there. I turned the thing on, and I said, oh, man, 257 00:13:57,360 --> 00:13:59,440 Speaker 3: then I had to go wash my hands. So then 258 00:13:59,600 --> 00:14:02,120 Speaker 3: I want you know how when you really touched disgusting things, 259 00:14:02,160 --> 00:14:04,920 Speaker 3: even though I had my paper towels, I washed my 260 00:14:05,000 --> 00:14:09,600 Speaker 3: hands probably for seven eight minutes. This was like early 261 00:14:09,640 --> 00:14:11,800 Speaker 3: on in COVID when you thought you had to really 262 00:14:11,960 --> 00:14:13,440 Speaker 3: wash your hands or else you were screwed. 263 00:14:13,480 --> 00:14:17,079 Speaker 1: You know that kind of thing. So I washed my hands. 264 00:14:17,200 --> 00:14:21,040 Speaker 3: And then now for the as Paul Harvey said back 265 00:14:21,040 --> 00:14:23,320 Speaker 3: in the day, the rest of the story. You know 266 00:14:23,400 --> 00:14:25,720 Speaker 3: the news, but you're about to find out the rest 267 00:14:25,720 --> 00:14:27,680 Speaker 3: of the story. So it turns out, and I didn't 268 00:14:27,680 --> 00:14:30,000 Speaker 3: realize this at the time, Danny, you asked the question, 269 00:14:30,040 --> 00:14:32,800 Speaker 3: what did I feed Bella? So I had had a 270 00:14:32,960 --> 00:14:39,080 Speaker 3: very nice meal of tacos at the Malord mansion. There 271 00:14:39,080 --> 00:14:42,800 Speaker 3: are some delicious tacos, and I ate as much as 272 00:14:42,840 --> 00:14:46,040 Speaker 3: I could eat. I did not finish the meal, and 273 00:14:46,160 --> 00:14:49,480 Speaker 3: I decided rather than throw away the leftovers, I would 274 00:14:49,480 --> 00:14:52,880 Speaker 3: just leave a little bit for Bella. And I'd forgotten 275 00:14:52,880 --> 00:14:56,760 Speaker 3: about this, And so Bella she really loved the tacos, 276 00:14:57,360 --> 00:14:57,760 Speaker 3: the meat. 277 00:14:58,000 --> 00:14:58,520 Speaker 1: She ate. 278 00:14:59,000 --> 00:15:03,160 Speaker 3: A lot of the meat was left over, and it 279 00:15:03,200 --> 00:15:12,120 Speaker 3: turns out she does not digest taco beat well. And yeah, 280 00:15:12,160 --> 00:15:15,480 Speaker 3: so that's the last time in Bella's life. 281 00:15:15,320 --> 00:15:18,440 Speaker 1: She will be getting taco meat. So that's that's it. 282 00:15:18,600 --> 00:15:24,160 Speaker 3: And so no good deed goes unpunished, Danny, good deed 283 00:15:24,240 --> 00:15:29,560 Speaker 3: goes unpunished. So that was my that was my day. 284 00:15:29,600 --> 00:15:30,920 Speaker 3: And then of course I had to get back and 285 00:15:30,920 --> 00:15:35,240 Speaker 3: get ready for the show. And good times, wonderful times. 286 00:15:37,480 --> 00:15:39,800 Speaker 3: Turning the page on that we have the word of 287 00:15:39,840 --> 00:15:42,680 Speaker 3: the week. The word of the week, Danny. 288 00:15:42,720 --> 00:15:43,480 Speaker 1: This is exciting. 289 00:15:43,920 --> 00:15:46,840 Speaker 4: I feel like it's the year two thousand right now, 290 00:15:47,200 --> 00:15:49,440 Speaker 4: and we were all scared to get in an elevator. 291 00:15:49,880 --> 00:15:53,280 Speaker 3: No, no, no, no, this is a different iconic thing. 292 00:15:53,360 --> 00:15:56,320 Speaker 3: This is not something from the past. This is brand new. 293 00:15:56,680 --> 00:15:58,280 Speaker 3: So the word of the week this week. 294 00:15:58,720 --> 00:16:01,120 Speaker 4: I feel like Karen k is gonna come on right 295 00:16:01,160 --> 00:16:02,160 Speaker 4: now there you. 296 00:16:03,600 --> 00:16:05,040 Speaker 3: I've tried to get her on. She won't come on 297 00:16:05,080 --> 00:16:08,160 Speaker 3: the podcast. All right, here we go the word of 298 00:16:08,200 --> 00:16:11,800 Speaker 3: the week. The word of the week is a word 299 00:16:11,880 --> 00:16:16,200 Speaker 3: that we use on Fox Sports Radio. We use it 300 00:16:16,240 --> 00:16:19,320 Speaker 3: for the NBA playoffs, the NHL playoffs, and the Major 301 00:16:19,400 --> 00:16:22,720 Speaker 3: League Baseball playoffs. We do not use it for football. 302 00:16:22,880 --> 00:16:25,520 Speaker 3: But it is a term that is pretty much only 303 00:16:25,680 --> 00:16:31,520 Speaker 3: used in the sports world, the term when a team 304 00:16:32,640 --> 00:16:38,120 Speaker 3: is facing elimination and they win a game, we. 305 00:16:38,000 --> 00:16:41,360 Speaker 1: Say they staved off elimination, right. 306 00:16:41,640 --> 00:16:45,000 Speaker 4: Staved Yeah, not everybody says that. That's kind of a 307 00:16:45,040 --> 00:16:46,040 Speaker 4: classic term. 308 00:16:47,040 --> 00:16:49,800 Speaker 3: Well, Joe, we had a conversation when Joe Buck was 309 00:16:49,840 --> 00:16:51,960 Speaker 3: working at Fox and I was doing the Blitz. We 310 00:16:52,000 --> 00:16:56,200 Speaker 3: had Joe Buck on and he brought Looney I think 311 00:16:56,320 --> 00:17:03,200 Speaker 3: asked him about that, if I remember correctly, and Looney, 312 00:17:03,240 --> 00:17:08,040 Speaker 3: of course, being a douche, I love him, But he asked, Joe, 313 00:17:08,240 --> 00:17:10,200 Speaker 3: what stave off elimination? 314 00:17:10,320 --> 00:17:11,119 Speaker 1: Why do you use that? 315 00:17:11,359 --> 00:17:14,720 Speaker 3: And of course Joe went into some rant about how 316 00:17:14,800 --> 00:17:17,560 Speaker 3: his father had used it or whatever. But so I 317 00:17:17,640 --> 00:17:20,119 Speaker 3: was actually I used this term on the air, and 318 00:17:20,240 --> 00:17:22,560 Speaker 3: I think it was Ferg Dog or Alf the Alien 319 00:17:22,600 --> 00:17:23,840 Speaker 3: of Pineer or somebody else. 320 00:17:23,880 --> 00:17:24,440 Speaker 1: I forget. 321 00:17:24,760 --> 00:17:27,600 Speaker 3: One of the guys asked me, said, what does that mean? 322 00:17:27,760 --> 00:17:31,960 Speaker 3: Stave off elimination. So I said, you know what, why 323 00:17:32,040 --> 00:17:33,480 Speaker 3: not that would be a good word of the week, 324 00:17:33,600 --> 00:17:35,800 Speaker 3: and so here it is the word of the week. 325 00:17:36,600 --> 00:17:40,240 Speaker 3: Like the Boston Celtics for three games staved off elimination 326 00:17:40,400 --> 00:17:44,080 Speaker 3: and then they were electrocuted in Game seven, and that's 327 00:17:44,080 --> 00:17:46,400 Speaker 3: why the Miami heater in the NBA Finals. What's you're 328 00:17:46,440 --> 00:17:50,480 Speaker 3: going on right now? So stave stave. The word stave 329 00:17:50,600 --> 00:17:53,119 Speaker 3: originally from the fifteen forties. 330 00:17:53,920 --> 00:17:57,800 Speaker 1: Think about that. This is almost a five hundred year 331 00:17:57,840 --> 00:17:58,480 Speaker 1: old word. 332 00:17:58,640 --> 00:18:01,920 Speaker 4: Stave. Need to spell this word. 333 00:18:01,560 --> 00:18:03,560 Speaker 1: It's sta ve. 334 00:18:04,080 --> 00:18:07,439 Speaker 3: Stave is how you spell the word stave off elimination. 335 00:18:07,720 --> 00:18:09,800 Speaker 3: So it goes back to the fifteen forest. Now, originally 336 00:18:10,720 --> 00:18:16,000 Speaker 3: it meant to fit with staves. From the noun versions, 337 00:18:16,080 --> 00:18:19,880 Speaker 3: the meaning is to break into staves. It's from that 338 00:18:19,920 --> 00:18:23,280 Speaker 3: originally came from the fifteen nineties, and it was a 339 00:18:23,400 --> 00:18:29,000 Speaker 3: nautical term. It was a nautical term. The more modern 340 00:18:29,080 --> 00:18:31,399 Speaker 3: version which is not really more modern, but it's the 341 00:18:31,480 --> 00:18:36,240 Speaker 3: version we use stave off elimination. But we the term 342 00:18:36,320 --> 00:18:40,639 Speaker 3: stave off comes from the sixteen twenties, so this is 343 00:18:40,680 --> 00:18:47,040 Speaker 3: from four hundred years ago, and it literally means to 344 00:18:47,320 --> 00:18:52,400 Speaker 3: keep off with a staff as one is beset. 345 00:18:51,960 --> 00:18:54,080 Speaker 1: By wolves or dogs. 346 00:18:55,840 --> 00:18:58,560 Speaker 3: So when we say stave off elimination, that is a 347 00:18:58,680 --> 00:19:03,200 Speaker 3: term that goes back to the sixteen twenties and its 348 00:19:03,280 --> 00:19:06,720 Speaker 3: literal meaning is to keep off with the staff if 349 00:19:06,760 --> 00:19:11,760 Speaker 3: you are attacked by wolves and dogs, and that stave 350 00:19:11,760 --> 00:19:15,920 Speaker 3: off elimination is your word. 351 00:19:16,040 --> 00:19:19,359 Speaker 1: Of the week. Word of the week. 352 00:19:20,520 --> 00:19:24,440 Speaker 3: So moving on from that, do we have my man 353 00:19:24,560 --> 00:19:27,040 Speaker 3: ohio al for a little Pop goes to the culture? 354 00:19:27,080 --> 00:19:28,320 Speaker 1: Do we have that ready to go? 355 00:19:28,880 --> 00:19:30,280 Speaker 4: Yeah, I'll fire it up right now. 356 00:19:35,200 --> 00:19:47,359 Speaker 3: Job John, Thank you my man ohio Al. Good job 357 00:19:47,440 --> 00:19:49,879 Speaker 3: by you. So Pop goes to the culture. These are 358 00:19:49,880 --> 00:19:52,159 Speaker 3: some of the stories we didn't talk about on the 359 00:19:52,240 --> 00:19:54,120 Speaker 3: radio show. At least I didn't talk about, and maybe 360 00:19:54,200 --> 00:19:57,000 Speaker 3: Danny did with Covino and Rich on the show that 361 00:19:57,040 --> 00:20:00,600 Speaker 3: he works on. But Pop goes the culture. Here's a 362 00:20:00,640 --> 00:20:04,640 Speaker 3: fun story from Hollywood. This is the second time in 363 00:20:04,960 --> 00:20:09,360 Speaker 3: the last month we've talked about this. A very old 364 00:20:09,600 --> 00:20:15,480 Speaker 3: Hollywood star has knocked up a much younger lady and 365 00:20:15,720 --> 00:20:20,320 Speaker 3: is going to have a kid. The latest is al Pacino, 366 00:20:22,040 --> 00:20:24,040 Speaker 3: who is eighty three years old. 367 00:20:24,880 --> 00:20:29,600 Speaker 4: We talked about this this past Wednesday. Old dudes having babies. 368 00:20:30,280 --> 00:20:34,160 Speaker 3: Yeah, and his girlfriend is twenty nine years old, and 369 00:20:34,240 --> 00:20:39,879 Speaker 3: they did consummate the relationship. And so al Pacino is 370 00:20:39,920 --> 00:20:42,399 Speaker 3: having a kid that will be born when he's eighty 371 00:20:42,480 --> 00:20:46,080 Speaker 3: four years old, and so Al to see the kid 372 00:20:46,160 --> 00:20:50,159 Speaker 3: graduate from high school. If my math, unless the kid's 373 00:20:50,240 --> 00:20:52,960 Speaker 3: like a MENSA member, Al's going to have to make 374 00:20:53,000 --> 00:20:56,960 Speaker 3: it past one hundred here for that math to work. 375 00:20:57,200 --> 00:20:58,440 Speaker 1: So good luck to Al. 376 00:20:59,160 --> 00:21:01,119 Speaker 4: You know, he's twenty nine year old bride. You know 377 00:21:01,160 --> 00:21:02,199 Speaker 4: who her ex is? 378 00:21:02,920 --> 00:21:04,399 Speaker 1: No, I don't know anything about her. 379 00:21:04,600 --> 00:21:05,760 Speaker 4: Clint Eastwood? 380 00:21:06,280 --> 00:21:07,880 Speaker 1: Oh really Yeah? 381 00:21:08,640 --> 00:21:10,760 Speaker 4: So she loves the older actors. 382 00:21:11,240 --> 00:21:15,000 Speaker 1: Hey, man, that's her. That's her thing. Huh, that's her jam. 383 00:21:15,080 --> 00:21:18,960 Speaker 1: It's gets her all excited. I guess, man, what's that? 384 00:21:19,119 --> 00:21:21,560 Speaker 1: So Al Pacino, let me do the math on this. 385 00:21:21,760 --> 00:21:24,720 Speaker 4: And happy birthday. Clint Eastwood just turned ninety three the 386 00:21:24,800 --> 00:21:25,280 Speaker 4: other day. 387 00:21:26,119 --> 00:21:27,480 Speaker 1: Oh I have a Clint Eastwood story. 388 00:21:27,520 --> 00:21:27,840 Speaker 4: By the way. 389 00:21:27,960 --> 00:21:31,720 Speaker 3: Uh, let's see the math on this. So this girl, 390 00:21:31,880 --> 00:21:34,160 Speaker 3: she's twenty nine, she's a woman, but she's twenty nine. 391 00:21:34,359 --> 00:21:37,800 Speaker 3: Pacino's eighty three. So that means you. 392 00:21:37,880 --> 00:21:39,120 Speaker 1: Do the math on that. 393 00:21:39,240 --> 00:21:44,359 Speaker 3: Pacino was fifty four years old when she was born. 394 00:21:47,480 --> 00:21:49,960 Speaker 3: That means we're both happily married. But for some reason, 395 00:21:50,000 --> 00:21:53,080 Speaker 3: it didn't work out that our future bride hasn't been 396 00:21:53,119 --> 00:22:00,600 Speaker 3: born yet by that math, right, Holy crap, that is insane. 397 00:22:01,280 --> 00:22:06,000 Speaker 3: So my Clint Eastwood story I got invited got I 398 00:22:06,040 --> 00:22:07,840 Speaker 3: forget the name of it was a baseball movie a 399 00:22:07,840 --> 00:22:10,560 Speaker 3: few years ago, about to scout for the Atlanta Braves. 400 00:22:11,240 --> 00:22:12,280 Speaker 1: Do you remember that movie? 401 00:22:12,600 --> 00:22:15,919 Speaker 3: It was a female Clint Eastwood was in it. 402 00:22:15,960 --> 00:22:18,560 Speaker 1: Sounds familiar anyway, So I got advanced. 403 00:22:18,600 --> 00:22:22,440 Speaker 3: I got invited to an advanced screening in Hollywood and 404 00:22:23,040 --> 00:22:25,360 Speaker 3: we were reviewing the movie. 405 00:22:25,600 --> 00:22:27,800 Speaker 1: And I had never been to one of these things. 406 00:22:27,800 --> 00:22:29,920 Speaker 3: These things go on at theaters around LA all the time, 407 00:22:29,960 --> 00:22:31,760 Speaker 3: but I'd never get invited these things. But we were 408 00:22:31,800 --> 00:22:35,040 Speaker 3: at that event because I'm a sports guy. So it 409 00:22:35,040 --> 00:22:36,840 Speaker 3: was a sports movie, so they invited me. 410 00:22:36,920 --> 00:22:40,119 Speaker 1: Whoo, fever Pitch? Was that the name of it? 411 00:22:42,520 --> 00:22:45,720 Speaker 4: Trouble with the curve? That's what comes up when you 412 00:22:45,880 --> 00:22:53,159 Speaker 4: type in Clint Eastwood baseball movie. Let see here? Uh? 413 00:22:55,560 --> 00:22:56,439 Speaker 1: Yeah, it was. 414 00:22:57,080 --> 00:23:00,199 Speaker 4: It was about a scout in the redheaded actress in 415 00:23:00,280 --> 00:23:04,320 Speaker 4: that Yeah, what what's her name? Adams? 416 00:23:05,560 --> 00:23:08,439 Speaker 1: So it wasn't fever Pitch. There was something else. It was. 417 00:23:08,640 --> 00:23:11,000 Speaker 4: What was it called Trouble with the Curve. 418 00:23:11,400 --> 00:23:12,840 Speaker 1: I don't remember the name of the movie. 419 00:23:12,920 --> 00:23:14,359 Speaker 3: Let me let me look here, so if I see 420 00:23:14,359 --> 00:23:18,600 Speaker 3: the thing, Trouble with the Curve, let's see. 421 00:23:19,680 --> 00:23:20,639 Speaker 1: Oh yeah that's about right. 422 00:23:21,080 --> 00:23:22,600 Speaker 4: Yeah, starring Amy Adams. 423 00:23:22,720 --> 00:23:24,679 Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, you're right. Why did I think 424 00:23:24,680 --> 00:23:26,720 Speaker 3: it was Fever Pitch? I guess Trouble with the Curve 425 00:23:26,760 --> 00:23:29,600 Speaker 3: wasn't that popular movie? Fever Pitch meant more to me? 426 00:23:29,960 --> 00:23:30,160 Speaker 1: Yeah? 427 00:23:30,359 --> 00:23:33,040 Speaker 4: Justin Timberlake was in it too, Okay. 428 00:23:33,160 --> 00:23:36,440 Speaker 3: Yeah, So anyway, they had the screening and I didn't 429 00:23:36,480 --> 00:23:39,800 Speaker 3: know this until after, but Clint Eastwood was in the 430 00:23:39,920 --> 00:23:43,159 Speaker 3: in the front. He came in after they started the 431 00:23:43,200 --> 00:23:46,880 Speaker 3: movie and he left just after the movie ended, and 432 00:23:47,200 --> 00:23:47,639 Speaker 3: we saw it. 433 00:23:47,720 --> 00:23:50,800 Speaker 1: We saw him wandering wandering away there. So I was like, oh, 434 00:23:50,840 --> 00:23:52,359 Speaker 1: I was in the same movie with the theater with 435 00:23:52,400 --> 00:23:55,280 Speaker 1: Clint Eastwood. Man, that guy's a badass back in the day. 436 00:23:56,040 --> 00:23:58,320 Speaker 4: So in this case, people could clap at the end 437 00:23:58,359 --> 00:24:01,560 Speaker 4: of the movie and it actually would mean because the 438 00:24:01,680 --> 00:24:04,359 Speaker 4: guy in the movie or directed the movie was there. 439 00:24:04,760 --> 00:24:04,920 Speaker 1: Yeah. 440 00:24:05,000 --> 00:24:07,600 Speaker 3: Yeah, So we were like a test audience and they 441 00:24:07,760 --> 00:24:10,520 Speaker 3: told us before They were like, well, this is not 442 00:24:10,680 --> 00:24:14,600 Speaker 3: the final edit. We might edit it more some of 443 00:24:14,640 --> 00:24:17,040 Speaker 3: this will be in the movie, some of it may not. 444 00:24:17,240 --> 00:24:21,240 Speaker 3: And so essentially when people graded different parts of the movie, 445 00:24:21,800 --> 00:24:24,479 Speaker 3: that's what they decided how to keep it and what 446 00:24:24,560 --> 00:24:26,879 Speaker 3: to take out of it. Which is fascinating with all 447 00:24:26,920 --> 00:24:29,760 Speaker 3: the shitty movies that they make, that they actually go 448 00:24:29,840 --> 00:24:32,840 Speaker 3: through these lengths to vet the movies. 449 00:24:32,760 --> 00:24:35,399 Speaker 1: And they still put shit out. It's amazing to me, 450 00:24:36,080 --> 00:24:37,679 Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. It's like nuts. 451 00:24:39,080 --> 00:24:43,879 Speaker 3: Anyway, pop goes to culture. Another old guy, Bruce Springsteen. 452 00:24:44,640 --> 00:24:46,919 Speaker 3: Do you see this in the last week seventy three 453 00:24:47,000 --> 00:24:52,080 Speaker 3: years old and fell off the stage. Fell off the 454 00:24:52,240 --> 00:24:55,440 Speaker 3: stage at age seventy three. 455 00:24:56,080 --> 00:24:58,160 Speaker 1: Yeah, not good, not good. 456 00:24:58,200 --> 00:25:02,080 Speaker 3: He was playing at an arena in Amsterdam and he 457 00:25:02,200 --> 00:25:05,240 Speaker 3: took a nasty fall. This and this happened last weekend. 458 00:25:06,359 --> 00:25:09,480 Speaker 3: And Springsteen hanging out with his buddies in the Eastreet 459 00:25:09,520 --> 00:25:13,440 Speaker 3: East Street band there performing a song from a couple 460 00:25:13,440 --> 00:25:16,440 Speaker 3: of years ago, uh, from from Ghosts. 461 00:25:17,520 --> 00:25:20,000 Speaker 1: And you know he's getting up there, Springsteen, and you 462 00:25:20,000 --> 00:25:21,119 Speaker 1: know he's doing his thing and. 463 00:25:26,800 --> 00:25:28,680 Speaker 3: I can't I just noticed. You can't see it, Dan, 464 00:25:28,760 --> 00:25:31,360 Speaker 3: So there's no point in me playing it because it's 465 00:25:31,359 --> 00:25:34,720 Speaker 3: a video clip. So bad job by me. But Yeah, 466 00:25:34,760 --> 00:25:37,040 Speaker 3: he took He took a bit of a stumble there. 467 00:25:37,680 --> 00:25:38,960 Speaker 3: He took a bit of a stumble. 468 00:25:39,000 --> 00:25:40,399 Speaker 1: That's unfortunate for I. 469 00:25:40,440 --> 00:25:42,960 Speaker 4: Mean it was in Amsterdam. Do you think that he 470 00:25:43,080 --> 00:25:45,000 Speaker 4: was on any substances. 471 00:25:45,480 --> 00:25:48,440 Speaker 3: Well, when in Rome, act as a Roman, and when 472 00:25:48,520 --> 00:25:51,040 Speaker 3: in Amsterdam you got a smoke. 473 00:25:52,680 --> 00:25:54,960 Speaker 4: Yep, you gonna do it. 474 00:25:57,800 --> 00:26:00,680 Speaker 3: Uh, let's see what else we had. Pop goes to alter. Oh, 475 00:26:00,720 --> 00:26:02,840 Speaker 3: I love this story. This is probably my favorite story 476 00:26:02,880 --> 00:26:05,040 Speaker 3: of the week. Well, I got two favorite stories on 477 00:26:05,119 --> 00:26:08,400 Speaker 3: Popco's the Culture. This one comes from the state of Maryland. 478 00:26:09,119 --> 00:26:11,840 Speaker 3: And you know how you can buy license plates that 479 00:26:11,880 --> 00:26:14,840 Speaker 3: are like specialty license plates in each state they make 480 00:26:14,920 --> 00:26:15,600 Speaker 3: extra money. 481 00:26:16,520 --> 00:26:17,040 Speaker 1: You know what I'm taking. 482 00:26:17,280 --> 00:26:20,480 Speaker 4: In California, we have the blacked out license plate right. 483 00:26:20,359 --> 00:26:21,920 Speaker 1: Now exactly they have that. 484 00:26:21,960 --> 00:26:24,320 Speaker 3: There's a few different California plates, but every state has 485 00:26:24,400 --> 00:26:26,520 Speaker 3: does this because it's an easy way to make money 486 00:26:26,920 --> 00:26:28,800 Speaker 3: and just have a bunch of dudes in prison make 487 00:26:28,880 --> 00:26:30,399 Speaker 3: these these license plates. 488 00:26:30,640 --> 00:26:33,119 Speaker 1: So this is great. 489 00:26:33,280 --> 00:26:38,960 Speaker 3: So the state of Maryland in the around two thousand 490 00:26:39,000 --> 00:26:45,840 Speaker 3: and seven ish through twy ten, they had a specialty plate. 491 00:26:47,160 --> 00:26:50,639 Speaker 3: The design of the plate was to celebrate the war. 492 00:26:50,840 --> 00:26:54,120 Speaker 3: To commemorate the war of eighteen twelve. The license plate 493 00:26:54,160 --> 00:26:58,159 Speaker 3: originated from the bi Centennial Commission for the War of 494 00:26:58,200 --> 00:27:04,160 Speaker 3: eighteen twelve was created in seven and this nonprofit group 495 00:27:04,280 --> 00:27:05,640 Speaker 3: partnered with the State of Maryland. 496 00:27:06,520 --> 00:27:08,400 Speaker 1: So they put this license plate out. 497 00:27:08,440 --> 00:27:11,120 Speaker 3: This is a great story, right, And so they put 498 00:27:11,160 --> 00:27:14,679 Speaker 3: this license plate out. Whatever, they had a website on 499 00:27:14,840 --> 00:27:20,480 Speaker 3: the license plate, and the Maryland Motor Vehicle Administration was. 500 00:27:20,440 --> 00:27:21,399 Speaker 1: All on board on this. 501 00:27:21,520 --> 00:27:23,879 Speaker 3: They were all excited because they charged money and people 502 00:27:23,880 --> 00:27:24,880 Speaker 3: paid extra money and. 503 00:27:24,800 --> 00:27:25,359 Speaker 1: This is great. 504 00:27:27,040 --> 00:27:32,240 Speaker 3: Well, it turns out that the website that was on 505 00:27:32,800 --> 00:27:37,280 Speaker 3: the license plate, the people that put that on the 506 00:27:37,320 --> 00:27:42,000 Speaker 3: license plate, they did not keep paying for the URL, 507 00:27:43,600 --> 00:27:48,160 Speaker 3: and the URL was sold at one of the auctioning 508 00:27:48,200 --> 00:27:55,200 Speaker 3: websites and was purchased by a gambling house in the Philippines. 509 00:27:58,200 --> 00:28:04,680 Speaker 3: Right now, right now, any there are currently step one 510 00:28:04,760 --> 00:28:08,359 Speaker 3: hundred and ninety eight thousand license plates from the state 511 00:28:08,400 --> 00:28:13,000 Speaker 3: of Maryland that have a URL on them for a 512 00:28:13,119 --> 00:28:22,679 Speaker 3: Philippine Filipino gambling website. Ow awesome is that? How great 513 00:28:22,920 --> 00:28:24,120 Speaker 3: is that? Now? 514 00:28:24,200 --> 00:28:27,720 Speaker 4: This is how you needed to bring back Benmallard dot com. 515 00:28:27,720 --> 00:28:30,919 Speaker 3: Oh, I know, right, these are the kind of stories 516 00:28:30,960 --> 00:28:32,960 Speaker 3: I loved on benmallar dot com. 517 00:28:32,960 --> 00:28:36,240 Speaker 1: Oh my god, it's so good. And I'll give out 518 00:28:36,240 --> 00:28:37,000 Speaker 1: the website. 519 00:28:37,040 --> 00:28:39,959 Speaker 3: Why not, It's on every other license plate in the 520 00:28:40,000 --> 00:28:45,640 Speaker 3: state of Maryland. But the url is star Spangled two 521 00:28:45,640 --> 00:28:50,000 Speaker 3: thousand dot org and that will take you to a 522 00:28:50,040 --> 00:28:56,440 Speaker 3: gambling website. And anyway, needless to say, it's very. 523 00:28:55,520 --> 00:28:58,040 Speaker 4: I'm saying you should have bought that url to put 524 00:28:58,080 --> 00:28:59,360 Speaker 4: benmallard dot com. 525 00:29:00,400 --> 00:29:03,320 Speaker 1: That is true, that you are not kidding on that. 526 00:29:03,320 --> 00:29:05,920 Speaker 1: That is wow? Is that great? 527 00:29:06,240 --> 00:29:06,520 Speaker 3: Man? 528 00:29:06,680 --> 00:29:07,520 Speaker 1: Is that wonderful? 529 00:29:07,680 --> 00:29:13,320 Speaker 3: Which tells you, by the way, that nobody really pays 530 00:29:13,360 --> 00:29:16,280 Speaker 3: attention to those URLs on license plates, right, Otherwise this 531 00:29:16,320 --> 00:29:19,280 Speaker 3: would have been figured out years ago, because it's been 532 00:29:19,320 --> 00:29:24,560 Speaker 3: this way for a while apparently. And the people in Maryland, 533 00:29:24,640 --> 00:29:27,680 Speaker 3: the political hacks, are desperately trying to They're trying to 534 00:29:27,680 --> 00:29:33,040 Speaker 3: figure out what to do, which is just just wonderful. 535 00:29:33,080 --> 00:29:34,400 Speaker 1: I love that. I love that. 536 00:29:34,480 --> 00:29:36,320 Speaker 3: So I also love this story, which is of a 537 00:29:36,440 --> 00:29:42,160 Speaker 3: similar similar nature on Popko's The Culture. It involves the 538 00:29:42,440 --> 00:29:49,000 Speaker 3: power of Wikipedia. Now do you use Wikipedia for show prep? 539 00:29:49,080 --> 00:29:53,080 Speaker 3: I do from time to time, I assume we all do. 540 00:29:53,080 --> 00:29:55,320 Speaker 1: Do you travel in that right that you have to? 541 00:29:55,360 --> 00:29:59,000 Speaker 4: It's kind of definitely to read the backstory on different 542 00:29:59,000 --> 00:30:01,840 Speaker 4: individuals hundred percent. 543 00:30:02,040 --> 00:30:04,920 Speaker 3: And we find things. If you find something you're interested in, 544 00:30:04,960 --> 00:30:09,440 Speaker 3: you popping it. So I saw this story and it's uh, 545 00:30:09,560 --> 00:30:10,720 Speaker 3: I had not seen it before. 546 00:30:10,760 --> 00:30:12,280 Speaker 1: Maybe maybe you had, I don't know. 547 00:30:12,920 --> 00:30:17,280 Speaker 3: Uh, but it comes out of Vatican City and it 548 00:30:17,400 --> 00:30:20,160 Speaker 3: involves Wikipedia. 549 00:30:20,040 --> 00:30:22,680 Speaker 1: And uh. 550 00:30:21,840 --> 00:30:29,480 Speaker 3: So there's a flag for Vatican City, and uh, you 551 00:30:29,520 --> 00:30:32,880 Speaker 3: know who. People are into flags whatever. You're a Catholic, 552 00:30:32,920 --> 00:30:35,880 Speaker 3: you love the Vatican, you want to support the Vatican. 553 00:30:36,160 --> 00:30:40,680 Speaker 3: So people were going to Wikipedia and they were looking 554 00:30:40,680 --> 00:30:42,400 Speaker 3: at the flags and they wanted to get and they 555 00:30:42,440 --> 00:30:44,400 Speaker 3: they thought it was a good looking flag whatever, so 556 00:30:44,520 --> 00:30:45,600 Speaker 3: they decided. 557 00:30:45,240 --> 00:30:45,680 Speaker 1: To get it. 558 00:30:46,600 --> 00:30:52,000 Speaker 3: And turns out, turns out, though that what had happened 559 00:30:52,040 --> 00:30:57,720 Speaker 3: here is that on Wikipedia for several years they had 560 00:30:57,760 --> 00:31:04,880 Speaker 3: the wrong Vatican City flag on the page. And as 561 00:31:04,960 --> 00:31:08,720 Speaker 3: a result, there are a bunch of fine, proud Catholic 562 00:31:08,760 --> 00:31:12,760 Speaker 3: folks that have incorrect flags and apparently they're everywhere. 563 00:31:14,280 --> 00:31:14,400 Speaker 4: Now. 564 00:31:14,400 --> 00:31:16,000 Speaker 1: I don't know if that, how could they be everywhere? 565 00:31:16,000 --> 00:31:18,400 Speaker 3: How many people are getting the flag of Vatican City, 566 00:31:19,560 --> 00:31:22,160 Speaker 3: I don't know. But it turns out the flag of 567 00:31:22,200 --> 00:31:27,600 Speaker 3: Vatican City displayed on Wikipedia had been wrong over the years, 568 00:31:27,840 --> 00:31:32,560 Speaker 3: and for like five years from twenty seventeen to twenty 569 00:31:32,640 --> 00:31:36,160 Speaker 3: twenty two, it was wrong. It was also wrong earlier 570 00:31:36,200 --> 00:31:38,320 Speaker 3: they had fixed it, and then it was wrong again, 571 00:31:38,400 --> 00:31:42,000 Speaker 3: and so people were buying. So who's selling the wrong flag? 572 00:31:42,080 --> 00:31:45,720 Speaker 3: Though I don't get it, but people were buying it. 573 00:31:45,760 --> 00:31:48,479 Speaker 4: So it sounds like our podcast promo. 574 00:31:49,320 --> 00:31:53,560 Speaker 3: Oh yeah, with the gascon who's now retired from media, 575 00:31:53,880 --> 00:31:57,160 Speaker 3: living in Florida, eating the Early Bird Special and his 576 00:31:57,280 --> 00:32:01,760 Speaker 3: name is still on the podcast. That is outstanding. Also 577 00:32:02,080 --> 00:32:06,920 Speaker 3: just right, just wonderful. Last last pop goes to the culture. 578 00:32:07,040 --> 00:32:10,000 Speaker 3: We'll leave on this note. I love New Zealand. I 579 00:32:10,080 --> 00:32:13,440 Speaker 3: have been a correspondent off and on for over a decade. 580 00:32:13,560 --> 00:32:17,120 Speaker 3: One of my good radio friends is Darcy Waldergrave, who 581 00:32:17,120 --> 00:32:20,240 Speaker 3: hosts a very popular show on the news talk station 582 00:32:20,960 --> 00:32:23,760 Speaker 3: in New Zealand and is kind enough to put me 583 00:32:23,880 --> 00:32:27,000 Speaker 3: on every once in a while to talk about American sports. 584 00:32:27,360 --> 00:32:30,840 Speaker 3: So I read this story out of New Zealand involving 585 00:32:31,120 --> 00:32:32,120 Speaker 3: Air New Zealand. 586 00:32:32,200 --> 00:32:36,080 Speaker 1: Did you see this? No, Air New. 587 00:32:36,040 --> 00:32:42,920 Speaker 3: Zealand has started weighing passengers. Oh or they board international flights. 588 00:32:43,520 --> 00:32:46,800 Speaker 4: Yeah, Spot had this in the midweek major segment. Yes, 589 00:32:47,240 --> 00:32:50,320 Speaker 4: this is actually they're doing research, right. 590 00:32:50,520 --> 00:32:53,360 Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, they're doing a survey to determine the average 591 00:32:53,400 --> 00:33:00,360 Speaker 3: weight of passengers. So they say they're doing a survey. Good, 592 00:33:02,560 --> 00:33:05,800 Speaker 3: that's no bueno on that. 593 00:33:05,800 --> 00:33:06,200 Speaker 2: That is. 594 00:33:07,000 --> 00:33:10,640 Speaker 4: Do you think they have a Carnival barker ben guessing 595 00:33:10,680 --> 00:33:12,280 Speaker 4: the weight on a microphone? 596 00:33:12,600 --> 00:33:15,440 Speaker 3: Yeah, with the with the straw hat and these the 597 00:33:15,440 --> 00:33:19,560 Speaker 3: red and white striped jacket and the what do you think? 598 00:33:19,600 --> 00:33:20,200 Speaker 1: What do you think? 599 00:33:20,240 --> 00:33:23,080 Speaker 3: Three hundred lower the price of the ticket right here, 600 00:33:23,200 --> 00:33:25,880 Speaker 3: lower price for the ticket, you know, get on the 601 00:33:25,880 --> 00:33:27,960 Speaker 3: plane for free if you can get his fatty's weight, 602 00:33:28,040 --> 00:33:29,640 Speaker 3: gets the fatties weight right now? 603 00:33:29,800 --> 00:33:35,080 Speaker 4: Come on, yeah, let's find out. 604 00:33:36,000 --> 00:33:38,400 Speaker 3: Yeah, what do they do if there's somebody like really 605 00:33:38,440 --> 00:33:40,600 Speaker 3: really fat that they can't figure out the weight? Do 606 00:33:40,680 --> 00:33:42,520 Speaker 3: they come out and get like a farming or a 607 00:33:42,560 --> 00:33:43,560 Speaker 3: factory scale? 608 00:33:43,600 --> 00:33:44,680 Speaker 1: Like what do they do there? 609 00:33:44,720 --> 00:33:48,160 Speaker 3: Like, well, this this guy's a heifer. We better get 610 00:33:48,200 --> 00:33:52,840 Speaker 3: that big factory scale here. My god, man, all right, 611 00:33:52,880 --> 00:33:54,720 Speaker 3: we'll get out on that. Anything in remote. It is 612 00:33:54,760 --> 00:33:57,360 Speaker 3: a Friday. I am done. I did the overnight show 613 00:33:57,440 --> 00:34:01,240 Speaker 3: last night, so I have no commitments all for today, 614 00:34:01,800 --> 00:34:04,600 Speaker 3: at least broadcasting wise, other than this podcast, which means 615 00:34:04,680 --> 00:34:05,480 Speaker 3: I am now done. 616 00:34:06,040 --> 00:34:08,880 Speaker 4: What do you have, Danny, Lucky Dog? As you are 617 00:34:08,960 --> 00:34:11,799 Speaker 4: napping and then making more taco meat. I will be 618 00:34:11,920 --> 00:34:15,400 Speaker 4: on with Covino and Rich. That's five to seven pm 619 00:34:15,440 --> 00:34:17,359 Speaker 4: in New York City. 620 00:34:17,400 --> 00:34:22,719 Speaker 3: Big Apple, Big, We'll get out, have a wonderful day. 621 00:34:22,800 --> 00:34:26,000 Speaker 3: We got a new podcast all weekend. Wait till you're 622 00:34:26,040 --> 00:34:29,320 Speaker 3: hear my new Michigas on the Saturday podcast. Get the 623 00:34:29,360 --> 00:34:32,400 Speaker 3: Mailbag on Sunday and we'll get to all of that 624 00:34:32,640 --> 00:34:33,919 Speaker 3: and catch you next time. 625 00:34:34,560 --> 00:34:36,839 Speaker 4: Later. Skater got a murder. 626 00:34:36,880 --> 00:34:37,279 Speaker 2: I gotta go