Speaker 1: Kutbooms.
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
Speaker 2: of hot takes. Break free for something special. The Fifth
Speaker 2: Hour with Ben Maller starts right now in.
Speaker 1: The a every way, welcome in. It is the Fifth Hour,
Speaker 1: you know that already with Ben Maller and Danny G
Speaker 1: Radio and we're hanging out. You're like, what are you doing?
Speaker 1: It's Saturday. You shouldn't be working now. We work every day, Danny,
Speaker 1: no days off, no days off. It's either live radio
Speaker 1: during the week or a little podcast fun.
Speaker 3: Yep on the weekends.
Speaker 4: And this is the part of the sports calendar where
Speaker 4: the weak asses who try to do sports go run
Speaker 4: and hide, and the strength of the sports backbone of
Speaker 4: America come out and not only cover baseball but also
Speaker 4: professional marble shooting.
Speaker 1: Damn right, And I am never ever concerned. I remember
Speaker 1: when I first started in radio, and this time of
Speaker 1: the year, guys would freak out. They'd have anxiety attacks.
Speaker 1: Every radio station I worked at when I was a
Speaker 1: young kid. I started in the business was in nineteen
Speaker 1: it's like nineteen twenty, twenty one, twenty two, twenty. These
Speaker 1: guys would be shitting bricks.
Speaker 3: What are we gonna do?
Speaker 1: There's nothing going on, you know. But at least back
Speaker 1: in those days there was interest in baseball more now
Speaker 1: than now. You know, they did talk baseball on the radio,
Speaker 1: but they'd always go back to the default answer, which
Speaker 1: was Pete Rose, should he be reinstated into baseball? Oh?
Speaker 1: That was always the go to.
Speaker 3: They had to make up their own fake drama.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, it's like the news shows in those days.
Speaker 1: They did abortion. I guess that's still a thing all
Speaker 1: these years later. And guns that was also So there's
Speaker 1: like certain boilerplate topics that you do when you do
Speaker 1: a radio show. But yet it's so easy, not easy,
Speaker 1: but it's so much easier than it had been now
Speaker 1: because just about every professional athlete is feeding the content
Speaker 1: kitty by saying stupid things or doing stupid things, and
Speaker 1: so we didn't have that before, not this time of
Speaker 1: the year. So it's been pretty good on this podcast.
Speaker 1: The Saturday Special. We've got Big John, the scene of
Speaker 1: the crime, fifteen point two miles, Phrase of the week,
Speaker 1: and Pop goes the culture. That's a lot of content.
Speaker 1: We're gonna have to get through it quickly, so we
Speaker 1: will attempt to get through everything. I always put too
Speaker 1: much in the show. If you noticed that, Danny, have
Speaker 1: you noticed that?
Speaker 4: Yes, it works out well because you listen to these
Speaker 4: in order, hopefully, and it all just flows over like
Speaker 4: a waterfall.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I try to shove fifteen pounds of crap and a
Speaker 1: two pound bag is what I try to do. So Barbi,
Speaker 1: this life of mal or life of Danny g is
Speaker 1: what we often do on the Saturday podcast. I last weekend,
Speaker 1: I had dinner with a buddy of mine and yesterday
Speaker 1: we told the story about the cheeseburger in Paradise. And
Speaker 1: you didn't hear that story. You can go back, So I.
Speaker 3: Go dirty Burger.
Speaker 1: Yeah exactly. So my wife was working and I had
Speaker 1: the option. I could have stayed home and made some
Speaker 1: food by myself. And I was like, my wife's like
Speaker 1: you should go out, you should you know, go you know,
Speaker 1: meet your friends or whatever. So it's like okay, you know,
Speaker 1: and I called a few people up and they're like,
Speaker 1: I can't go do my wife won't let me go,
Speaker 1: or you know, you know that kind of thing, you know,
Speaker 1: things you get when you're a middle aged man asking
Speaker 1: friends to go to dinner on a Saturday. So whatever.
Speaker 1: So I went down my roll the decks and I
Speaker 1: found a friend I used to work with in Rady
Speaker 1: who's been on this podcast. Who you know, the Prince
Speaker 1: of Darkness, the original Prince of Darkness, Lee Ah Kleine.
Speaker 1: So I met Lee at the one of our old
Speaker 1: places who I used to hang out with Lee all
Speaker 1: the time when I was a young guy, because no
Speaker 1: women would hang out with me, but Lee would hang
Speaker 1: out with me.
Speaker 4: And we used to still a dark cloud that follows
Speaker 4: over the top of him as he walks.
Speaker 1: Yes, oh, we'll get to that in a minute. So
Speaker 1: I met my friend Lee. I haven't seen him since April,
Speaker 1: and we check out, you know, we check check check
Speaker 1: out our and we catch up. As what I'm trying
Speaker 1: to say, we catch up every few months. And so
Speaker 1: we go to old Stomgres So I used to live
Speaker 1: kind of near If you're familiar with the geography of
Speaker 1: Los Angeles, I used to live right near where the
Speaker 1: Grove is Farmer's Market in LA and Lee lives in
Speaker 1: the South Bay kind of that part of LA in
Speaker 1: that area. So halfway we determined was Calver City. So
Speaker 1: we would often meet in Culver City because it was halfway.
Speaker 1: There's a movie studio there. It's like a movie it's
Speaker 1: like a movie TV time. So we met in Culver
Speaker 1: City at one of our old stomping grounds, Johnny's Pastrami,
Speaker 1: which is a legendary pastrami place there and they've been
Speaker 1: around forever. And so it's Saturday night. Now. I had
Speaker 1: actually gone to the Angel game prior to going to
Speaker 1: Johnny's Pastrami. So I met my friend Lee after the game.
Speaker 1: So we get there and we're debating what the order.
Speaker 1: Now you have two options. Now we've been there so
Speaker 1: much we know the entire menu. We also remember when
Speaker 1: it was actually affordable to eat a Johnny's pastrami, which
Speaker 1: was I think twenty years ago. Anyway, so whatever, doing
Speaker 1: this a long time. So we decide, I'm like I'm
Speaker 1: getting I'm going pastrami. You go to Johnny's astrom It's
Speaker 1: in the name. I'm gonna get Astromi. But they also
Speaker 1: make really good burgers, and so Lee's like, I'm getting
Speaker 1: the Big John. That's what I'm getting, a Big John,
Speaker 1: because that's a really good it's like a double burger.
Speaker 1: It's it's pretty big. So and they give you other
Speaker 1: stuff on the side. All right, So we order the
Speaker 1: food and the waitress is nice. You know, they're not
Speaker 1: that busy whatever. There's a little fire pits so you
Speaker 1: can sit outside. We sat outside. There's not much inside seating.
Speaker 1: It's an old school diner. So we're waiting for the
Speaker 1: food comes. There's a basket of fries in the middle
Speaker 1: community property. There's pastrami on my side, same as I remember.
Speaker 1: And then Lee gets the burger and it looks totally
Speaker 1: different than what it had looked like. Now you have
Speaker 1: two options. You can either just eat the burger and
Speaker 1: say that's fine, or you can raise Holy Hell, like
Speaker 1: this is a war crime and you have just you know,
Speaker 1: you need to go to Dante's Inferno. What do you
Speaker 1: think my friend Lee did, And you know him and
Speaker 1: you've had some situations with him in the past, what
Speaker 1: do you think he did?
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, you know my experience with him.
Speaker 4: I don't think the listeners really know, but the first
Speaker 4: time I met him, he just made racist joke after
Speaker 4: racist Mexican joke. And it turns out I'm Spanish and Sicilian,
Speaker 4: I'm not Mexican, But anyways, that doesn't matter to a
Speaker 4: guy like him. And he's like really loud, and some
Speaker 4: of it's playful. So I can see, you know, at
Speaker 4: the at your Christmas party, we're kind of laughing, like
Speaker 4: this guy needs to drink another one. But I'm going
Speaker 4: to say, in a situation like this, and he's already
Speaker 4: probably in a bad mood for overpaying for a burger
Speaker 4: that would have been affordable twenty years ago, so he
Speaker 4: probably went and raised hell at the front.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so it's it's a total ship show now that Lee. Uh.
Speaker 1: The way he breaks the ice, he's he's older. And
Speaker 1: the way he breaks the ice he is, uh to
Speaker 1: make offensive comments. That's how he breaks the ice at
Speaker 1: social eng so, uh, don't take it personally, Danny. He
Speaker 1: does it everywhere. It's very uncomfortable.
Speaker 4: But anyway, so he called somebody a beaner there too
Speaker 4: at the restaurant racist.
Speaker 1: Uh No, there was no but but but anyway, so whatever, anyway, Lee, Uh,
Speaker 1: you know, he's he's complaining.
Speaker 4: He's a lovable older guy. He's kind of like your
Speaker 4: racist grandfather.
Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly. So anyway, he's complaining to the to the waitress.
Speaker 1: So she can't you know, they come back, how's your food?
Speaker 1: Which is a rhetorical question, she just did. If you
Speaker 1: ask that, if you just you assume great, nobody's gonna
Speaker 1: say no. And but he did. He's like, that's just
Speaker 1: this is not a big John. You know, this is
Speaker 1: not this is not what I ordered.
Speaker 3: This is a little John.
Speaker 1: And uh so she looks at the burger and she
Speaker 1: kind of ex amz is it? And she said, well, no,
Speaker 1: that's a that's a big John. And he says, no,
Speaker 1: it's not. I've been coming here for you know, thirty years,
Speaker 1: and I've had this burger, you know, hundreds of times,
Speaker 1: and that ain't the big Johnt. And she she looks
Speaker 1: at it again and she examines the burger and she says,
Speaker 1: that's a big John. And then here, you know, we're
Speaker 1: going back and forth and he's like, well, no, that's
Speaker 1: not what I paid for. I don't give me the menu.
Speaker 1: Where's the menu? So he's like pointing at the menu,
Speaker 1: and she says, well and then he's like, oh, how
Speaker 1: long you worked here? And the and the waitress is like, well,
Speaker 1: I worked here like four years or something like, well,
Speaker 1: I've been coming here thirty right. So he's going on
Speaker 1: and on, and I'm like, I'm like, oh, mercy, get
Speaker 1: me out of here, you know, I am. And then
Speaker 1: so so they're going back and forth, and then of
Speaker 1: course it's, uh, you know, where's the owner, you know,
Speaker 1: where's the manager, you know that kind of thing, whether
Speaker 1: they're not here. You know, it's, uh, you know, I
Speaker 1: can't do anything they're not here. And then Lee's like, oh,
Speaker 1: of course you can't do anything. You know, that's the
Speaker 1: the world these days and all that stuff. So we
Speaker 1: went back and forth and he finally just gave up,
Speaker 1: which is shocking, and said, fine, I'll eat the burger
Speaker 1: and I will never come here again.
Speaker 3: Now, more importantly, how was your pastrami?
Speaker 1: Where it was great? It was wonderful, And it was
Speaker 1: good because if I had given my pastrami back, they
Speaker 1: would have spit Loogi's all over the pastrami if I'd
Speaker 1: given the food back. But I did not do that,
Speaker 1: and fortunately everything was all right. But yeah, it was
Speaker 1: it was uncomfortable and I've had my shared Danny of
Speaker 1: uncomfortable situations, and I try to not make a scene.
Speaker 1: I I attempt to be like a wall, like a
Speaker 1: plant on a wall, A wallflower is what I try
Speaker 1: to be, just in the background there. But occasionally I
Speaker 1: get dragged in to these situations. So the Big John.
Speaker 4: But it backfired a little bit because by the time
Speaker 4: he finally ate it, after he gave up, it was
Speaker 4: probably cold.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes it was. I will have more on the
Speaker 1: coldness at another point, possibly this podcast. I might even
Speaker 1: have it on this podcast. Johnny SPASTROMI was the scene
Speaker 1: of the crime, but not the scene of the crime,
Speaker 1: if you know what I'm saying, Dan.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it sounds like a couple of overpriced places are
Speaker 4: going to be mentioned on this Saturday edition of Our
Speaker 4: Fifth Hour. If you remember back to two baseball seasons ago,
Speaker 4: and I spoke about it on this very podcast. The
Speaker 4: WiFi and I at the time, I think we were engaged.
Speaker 4: We took the family to Opening Night at Dodger Stadium,
Speaker 4: and we were so excited. The seats were pricey, but
Speaker 4: you kind of expect that for Opening day slash Opening Night.
Speaker 4: What we did expect was the price of parking, the
Speaker 4: overpriced food, which you know it's been overpriced in the past,
Speaker 4: but now it's gone up tenfold. We wound up that
Speaker 4: night spending nine hundred and fifty.
Speaker 3: Dollars, Blank my blank, and blank you.
Speaker 4: A family of five for Dodger Stadium nine hundred and
Speaker 4: fifty dollars.
Speaker 1: Yes, so reminds you when I was a kid and
Speaker 1: they used to have commercials the greatest deal in town.
Speaker 1: Dodger Baseball got out. Family of four could come out
Speaker 1: for thirty dollars. Okay, yep.
Speaker 4: Obviously left a really bad taste in our mouth. We
Speaker 4: have not gone back to the ballpark since because that
Speaker 4: we can't afford that, and it's easier and better to
Speaker 4: just watch on our big flat screen in the living room.
Speaker 4: But somebody offered me some seats, got four comp seats
Speaker 4: and it was will smithlehead night. But I have an
Speaker 4: eight month pregnant woman who needs to get as close
Speaker 4: to the seats as possible. So the first security person
Speaker 4: told us where to go for special parking that would
Speaker 4: put us right near our section. And when we finally
Speaker 4: get around the stadium, it's the back end of the
Speaker 4: stadium where you can see the La City Skyline. Two
Speaker 4: rude security guards later, we finally found Bugs, who listens
Speaker 4: to this podcast bat right Bugs Bugs? And you know
Speaker 4: why because after I introduced myself and talked to Bugs,
Speaker 4: I told him all about the fifth hour, and he
Speaker 4: promised he was going to tune in on his phone.
Speaker 3: Right, And I said, give him a shout out. He
Speaker 3: is the man.
Speaker 4: He runs the parking lot basically, so all the radio
Speaker 4: calls were coming to him, and so he put us.
Speaker 3: In parking spot twenty.
Speaker 4: He stood there and blocked the traffic while he let
Speaker 4: me back into the spot.
Speaker 3: It was beautiful.
Speaker 4: But then when we got out of the car and
Speaker 4: we started walking into the stadium, another security guard was like,
Speaker 4: oh yeah, you have to walk like three blocks that way.
Speaker 4: So here's my pregnant wife waddling like a big penguin
Speaker 4: and I'm like, okay, let's go slow.
Speaker 3: We're not in a hurry.
Speaker 4: First forty thousand get this bobblehead. But we'll definitely be
Speaker 4: part of that first forty thousand. So we get in there,
Speaker 4: we get our bobbleheads, and you know how it is
Speaker 4: with bobblehead night, What a thrill to hold that up.
Speaker 4: It's like you know Lion King where they're holding the
Speaker 4: next king up to the sky?
Speaker 1: Heid you Jesus.
Speaker 4: Instead of nine hundred and fifty dollars I paid dinner,
Speaker 4: I paid parking.
Speaker 3: What do you think it costs this time?
Speaker 1: Well, I actually happened to be at that game Tuesday night, Danny.
Speaker 1: I didn't know you were there. What I would have
Speaker 1: said low to you and your wife. But I did
Speaker 1: walk around and I looked at the concessions, and my
Speaker 1: my eyeballs literally popped out of my head when I
Speaker 1: looked at the price of the food. So is you?
Speaker 1: Your wife? Was it just and who?
Speaker 3: And two of the kids?
Speaker 1: The kids? And then the kids are they're cha teenagers? Okay,
Speaker 1: so they eat a lot. I'm gonna say, for all
Speaker 1: four of you food parking, did anyone get a souvenir?
Speaker 3: Uh? Just a clear carry bag for my wifey?
Speaker 1: Did you buy that outside the stadium? One of those
Speaker 1: guys hacked hawking them outside of the station.
Speaker 3: No. I bought it inside the gift shop.
Speaker 1: Okay, so that costs you a lot more money. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna say.
Speaker 4: Two point fifty really good, guess all right?
Speaker 3: Two and twenty five dollars for the whole night.
Speaker 1: All right, there you go. So as long as you
Speaker 1: don't have to buy the tickets, you're you're, you're okay.
Speaker 3: I guess that's what I was saying.
Speaker 4: And I want to get some more seats and give
Speaker 4: them away to our listeners that are in southern California,
Speaker 4: because how in the hell can you bring your family
Speaker 4: nowadays to a ballpark and pay for all of that.
Speaker 1: No, it's it's insane. It's absolutely insane. And uh yeah,
Speaker 1: it's what did you eat? By the way, what did
Speaker 1: you did you get the chicken? There's a bunch of
Speaker 1: new restaurants at Dodger Stadium, like, there's all kinds.
Speaker 4: Of I found my way down to level two for
Speaker 4: the food. It was like a Mexican spot racist carne
Speaker 4: asada fries as well as nachos, and then a couple
Speaker 4: of Dodger dogs and oh and a couple of carnea
Speaker 4: sada tacos.
Speaker 1: See, all right, let me know the next time you
Speaker 1: because I have a hookup with the Dodger Dogs. I
Speaker 1: can get your free Dodger dogs. I can do that.
Speaker 1: That's about all I can get you.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you have a long trench coat with Dodger dogs
Speaker 4: stuffed inside the pocket.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I know I know a guy, all right, and
Speaker 1: you know I know a guy that would would help
Speaker 1: me with that. But that's about it. Yeah, all right,
Speaker 1: Well there you go.
Speaker 3: So you go much much better experience.
Speaker 4: And we were like, wow, that was nice back after
Speaker 4: a two year protest. It was like we were Oakland
Speaker 4: A's fans for two years.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I have not been out that much. I think
Speaker 1: I'm gonna get out there more now. You know, they're
Speaker 1: they're forcing me against my will to come back to
Speaker 1: the studio quite often. So I'm not in the north Woods.
Speaker 1: It's a long drive and all that. Well, speaking of that,
Speaker 1: I have my own Dodger related story to share and
Speaker 1: we'll calling this fifteen point two miles. So I was
Speaker 1: at the same Dodger game Danny was at. It was
Speaker 1: on a Tuesday night, and so I have a whole routine,
Speaker 1: It's a whole all this michigans I have to go
Speaker 1: through to go to a game because I work at
Speaker 1: night and I have to prepare for the show and
Speaker 1: all this. So and I live so far away, it's
Speaker 1: like when I come in, it's a hole to do.
Speaker 1: So to go and plan out the whole night. I
Speaker 1: was like, Okay. Originally I was going to eat it.
Speaker 1: I get a bite to eat at the house, save
Speaker 1: a little money. But my wife had worked an extra
Speaker 1: long shift at the police station. She's a nine one
Speaker 1: to one operator, so she worked an extra long shift.
Speaker 1: And she normally normally have lunch together, or she'll make
Speaker 1: food for me or whatever, because on workdays I don't
Speaker 1: really cook. And so and I happened to be eating
Speaker 1: this dance and I didn't want to get up early.
Speaker 1: So I was like, all right, I'll go find some food.
Speaker 1: So I was like, I go anywhere I want, you know.
Speaker 1: And I was like, you know what I'm gonna do.
Speaker 1: I love Tito's Tacos. Oh yeah, I know. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: stop by Tito's. I'll pick up some tacos. I'll quickly
Speaker 1: get back on the road and I'll make it to
Speaker 1: Dodger Stadium. I'll then eat the tacos in the parking
Speaker 1: lot at Dodger Stadium. I will then go in and
Speaker 1: I will prepare for the show. I had all planned
Speaker 1: out in my head, right, best laid plans of mice
Speaker 1: men and gas bags. So and it happened to be
Speaker 1: Taco Tuesday, not that it matters. And so Tito's Tacos
Speaker 1: is so good that I will literally empty my wallet.
Speaker 1: And it is the worst. The price gouge you. It's
Speaker 1: like a hotel after a hurricane and there's one room available.
Speaker 1: They just gouge you. It's so embarrassing what they do
Speaker 1: at that place. Five sixty five for a taco with cheese.
Speaker 1: One taco they charged like a dollar fifty for cheese.
Speaker 1: That's obscene too, But for me, five sixty five's about
Speaker 1: my limit. Yeah, taco and I got a few tacos
Speaker 1: and they give you a big box. And the cool
Speaker 1: thing about Tito's they give you a box and they
Speaker 1: put chips in there and salsa.
Speaker 3: What did that used to cost you at Tito's.
Speaker 1: I used to go. I remember my order. I could
Speaker 1: get five tacos and it was like, I think it
Speaker 1: was like eighteen bucks or something like that one point
Speaker 1: when I first started going there. And I'm the kind
Speaker 1: of guy when I go to restaurants, like I'm back
Speaker 1: when I was single, I would always count out, I'd cash.
Speaker 1: I paid with cash. Now everyone pays with Curray cars.
Speaker 1: But I'd always bring the exact amount. And I can't
Speaker 1: tell you the number of times I would go to
Speaker 1: Tito's and over the years, and I'd bring the exact amount,
Speaker 1: and then it'd be like, well that's two dollars more.
Speaker 1: Now we raised our prices, you know.
Speaker 3: I was like, wait a minute, So.
Speaker 1: Anyway, so I get to the point, please, so I
Speaker 1: get my tacos. I'm excited. I now I couldn't eat
Speaker 1: them at Tito's. And the reason I couldn't eat them
Speaker 1: at Titos, Danny, is I have not a handicap. But
Speaker 1: I had my gallbladder taken out a few years back.
Speaker 1: I think it was twenty twenty nineteen. I believe it was,
Speaker 1: So I had my gallbladder taken out. So when you
Speaker 1: have your gallbladder taken out, if you eat greasy foods
Speaker 1: and you fast, it is those are all the ingredients
Speaker 1: to a cluster bomb coming right out of your banunca dunk.
Speaker 1: So I have to be close to a bath. Not
Speaker 1: could have. I could have eaten at Titos and just
Speaker 1: waited about half an hour for the explosion to happen.
Speaker 1: But I decided not to do that because I wanted
Speaker 1: to be closer to Dodger stay in and I figured
Speaker 1: traffic would pile up. So I got my tacos, I
Speaker 1: get in the car, and I was literally only at
Speaker 1: Tito's for like five minutes. There was no line because
Speaker 1: why would there be aligned Most people don't want to
Speaker 1: pay five sixty five for tacos. They used to always
Speaker 1: be a line there, there'd be fifteen lines. Now every
Speaker 1: time I go, there's no line whatever. So I get
Speaker 1: in the car, I get set the GPS, I'm driving.
Speaker 1: I'm driving, I'm cruising, and all of a sudden, oh no,
Speaker 1: nothing but tail lights. Now, if you're not familiar with LA,
Speaker 1: there's a freeway, the ten Freeway, which guy know goes
Speaker 1: all the way across the country, but in La proper
Speaker 1: it ends at the Pacific Ocean in Santa Monica. From
Speaker 1: the west side of LA goes all the way through
Speaker 1: like Brent Woods around there, Culver City, the West Way.
Speaker 1: These are some of the most congested parts of Los Angeles.
Speaker 4: I would argue that that ten through Culver City is
Speaker 4: the worst freeway in southern California, and.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't disagree. Somehow, I had so I had a
Speaker 1: brain fog and I just typed in the GPS I
Speaker 1: didn't really look at the time, and I got on
Speaker 1: the ten Freeway and it was fifteen point two miles
Speaker 1: from Tito's to Dodger Stadium. You want to take a
Speaker 1: guess how long it took me to get from Tito's
Speaker 1: Tacos three thirty in the afternoon on a Tuesday, to
Speaker 1: enjoy my nice lunch and then go to work.
Speaker 4: What do you think, day, I'm going to say that
Speaker 4: fifteen miles took an hour and fifty seven minutes.
Speaker 1: Well, you actually went over, so you don't win. The
Speaker 1: showcase showed own. It took ninety minutes. To me, that
Speaker 1: was in ninety minutes an hour and a half to
Speaker 1: go fifteen point two two miles. Slap me around a
Speaker 1: little bit. That included me getting off the freeway and
Speaker 1: circumventing through surface streets some of that. So what do
Speaker 1: you think happened to my nice, hot, warm Tito's tacos
Speaker 1: that I paid five sixty five for each?
Speaker 3: Oh, they turned into cold, crappy.
Speaker 1: Soggy, gooey ice ice baby Tito's tacos And that was
Speaker 1: my and I still ate them because there were five
Speaker 1: sixty five each, Dandy, I still ate those those damn tacos.
Speaker 1: I ate them, but my goodness, what a freakin' I'll
Speaker 1: never do that again. I've now determined now I might
Speaker 1: go to Tito's again because I'm addicted because I went
Speaker 1: there for years and it brings me back to when
Speaker 1: I a younger time in my life. But I will
Speaker 1: only go to Sherman Oaks because you can get to
Speaker 1: Sherman Oaks quicker, which is I don't know how many
Speaker 1: miles that is, but it only takes like a half
Speaker 1: an hour to get to Sherman Oaks, ninety minutes to
Speaker 1: go to downtown. He blew me off at a hotel
Speaker 1: near La x. All right, moving on, we have the
Speaker 1: phrase of the week. I think we'll push pop culture
Speaker 1: due to time reasons here because I am on time
Speaker 1: mall or buy the clock four the clock evenly plausibly
Speaker 1: about the clock. We'll push that to the Sunday pops.
Speaker 3: Did this start? Well?
Speaker 1: I just began. It just began actually today. I just
Speaker 1: started it today and I thought that would be good.
Speaker 1: So the phrase of the week, are you ready for it?
Speaker 1: Not the word of the week, that's that's old phrase
Speaker 1: of the week.
Speaker 3: Phrase of the week.
Speaker 1: Yes, phrase of the week. Here it is sex, drugs
Speaker 1: and rock and roll. The phrase of the week, Danny
Speaker 1: g sex drugs and rock and roll, which is an idiom,
Speaker 1: and that came up with me. That came up on
Speaker 1: the show. That that's it. That's an idiot, right, that's
Speaker 1: a you know, old expression of colloquialism or whatever. So
Speaker 1: it came up on the on the radio show, and
Speaker 1: I was like, where did that come from? I know
Speaker 1: rock and roll? The term rock and roll was a
Speaker 1: d in Cleveland that is credited with coming up with that.
Speaker 1: That's why the rock and Roll Hall of Fame is
Speaker 1: in Cleveland, and so that's why they have that there.
Speaker 1: I was like, what's up with the sex, drugs and
Speaker 1: rock and roll? And I'd mentioned it for some reason
Speaker 1: on the show, and I was like, what is going on?
Speaker 1: And so I did a little search and I looked
Speaker 1: it up. Do you know where that phrase came from?
Speaker 2: Then?
Speaker 1: Are you familiar with the phrase?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 4: No, I figured it was like from Chuck Berry doing
Speaker 4: cocaine or something.
Speaker 1: A bunch of hookers and cocaine. Yeah, exactly. Well, the
Speaker 1: phrase was actually coined by a British singer and a
Speaker 1: musician named Ian Dewry. I think that's your pronounce his name,
Speaker 1: do you r y? You ever heard of that guy?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I never heard him either. So he wrote and
Speaker 1: released a single in nineteen seventy seven, that's when the
Speaker 1: term started, nineteen seventy seven, and he called it sex,
Speaker 1: Drugs and rock and Roll. And he released the song
Speaker 1: under his own name. He had been part of a
Speaker 1: punk band called Ian Dury and the Blockheads. That sounds
Speaker 1: like that sounds like a good name for a punk bank.
Speaker 1: My favorite part of the story, though, here's my favorite part.
Speaker 3: You're ahead.
Speaker 1: So this guy creates this song called sex, Drugs and
Speaker 1: rock and Roll, and no one gave a fuck. Nobody
Speaker 1: bought the song. The song was not a hit. It
Speaker 1: sold in the entire world nineteen thousand copies. That's it. Wow,
Speaker 1: that's all but the phrase, the title of the song,
Speaker 1: what a rip? I know, right? How pissed must that
Speaker 1: guy's dead now he died.
Speaker 3: He should have at least made some money off the
Speaker 3: stupid song.
Speaker 1: I know, right. And maybe it's a terrible song. I
Speaker 1: don't know, I've never heard.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so it was a good slogan, but not a
Speaker 4: good song.
Speaker 1: Maybe, yeah, it's a good name for a restaurant, but
Speaker 1: the food sucks. You know, It's like it's like Dick's
Speaker 1: last resort. You're like, oh that food.
Speaker 3: I don't know about that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, anyway, So that is the phrase of the week. Sex,
Speaker 1: drugs and rock and roll. Created nineteen seventy seven by
Speaker 1: a random punk musician from Britain and singer, and the
Speaker 1: song was a dud. Nobody bought it, but the term
Speaker 1: has lived on. That guy died twenty he's got at
Speaker 1: age fifty seven. He was, you know, relatively young. You're
Speaker 1: not supposed to die at that age. And he died
Speaker 1: in two thousands, so he's been gone for twenty three years,
Speaker 1: and still to this day that term is used regularly.
Speaker 4: DJs have single handedly kept that phrase alive.
Speaker 1: How about absolutely So it is Saturday dandy and anything
Speaker 1: you want to promote here your day of rest today.
Speaker 4: You know it's called adulting. People always say that term.
Speaker 4: I've always fought back, so I'm not part of it.
Speaker 4: But last weekend we were refrigerator shopping at best Buy.
Speaker 1: Oh that's fun.
Speaker 4: Oh god, I wanted to kill myself with a nail gun.
Speaker 4: So with a stupid tape measure I'm like, you know,
Speaker 4: looking at these refrigerators, and the refrigerator we ordered is
Speaker 4: going to be dropped off today.
Speaker 3: Oh my goodness, how exciting.
Speaker 1: Now someone needs to be there and the delivery driver
Speaker 1: will call and give you a five hour window.
Speaker 3: That you have. Oh no, you're gonna love this.
Speaker 4: Here's their window they gave us today, seven am to
Speaker 4: seven pm.
Speaker 1: I don't care.
Speaker 4: I'm leaving goodbye a bunch of clowns.
Speaker 1: That's it's terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible terrible. Well, I have
Speaker 1: nothing going on today, family day, wife day. I'm sure
Speaker 1: we'll get into some and we'll tell you all about
Speaker 1: it on the podcast next week. Have a wonderful rest
Speaker 1: of your day whatever you're doing, and we will catch
Speaker 1: you on the mailbag. And yeah, there's some pop goes
Speaker 1: to the culture stories as well. An added bonus will
Speaker 1: push that to Sunday.
Speaker 3: We'll catch you then later. Skater populations