Speaker 1: Kubbooms.
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, the Clearinghouse of
Speaker 2: Hot takes break free for something special. The Fifth Hour
Speaker 2: with Ben Maller starts right now in the air everywhere.
Speaker 1: Welcome in the Fifth Hour with Ben Mahler and Danny
Speaker 1: G Radio. Because four hours a night are not enough
Speaker 1: for me, and the daytime shift with Covino and Rich
Speaker 1: for Danny G not enough. But eight days a week,
Speaker 1: eight days a week from the podcast Dojo at a
Speaker 1: super secret location and Danny G. There is a sense
Speaker 1: of relief in the podcast Dojo today after over a year.
Speaker 1: It's gotta be over a year. Brian Billick, Brian Billick.
Speaker 3: This was two years ago that this all started.
Speaker 1: Two years jeez, crazy, but it was. It was wonderful
Speaker 1: to have Brian finally on and he gave a lot
Speaker 1: of good football information as he was hanging out in
Speaker 1: Minista right near the Canadian border there, just south of
Speaker 1: the border the north country in Minnesota. So I went
Speaker 1: to Duluth. I told him when we talked yesterday, I
Speaker 1: went to Duluth, and I thought that was like the
Speaker 1: farthest you could go. But he's like another hour and
Speaker 1: a half north of that, so he's way way up
Speaker 1: there around Lake Superior. But it was great to have
Speaker 1: him on. And so who's our next target, Danny, do
Speaker 1: we have a new target that Billick's done the podcast
Speaker 1: and now we have to move on to someone else.
Speaker 3: Well, the list is obviously Billick and Michael Jordan. Those
Speaker 3: are the two most sought after guests on any sports show.
Speaker 1: Neck and neck with Jerry Delabatti, Baba Booie who we
Speaker 1: could get on, But yeah, I mean Michael Michael. I
Speaker 1: guess Michael was texting Stephen A And do you see
Speaker 1: that this week that he's texting him at five in
Speaker 1: the morning, you think, do you think that actually happened
Speaker 1: or six in the morning.
Speaker 3: I don't know any of us that are on a
Speaker 3: media platform could say anybody texted us like, oh shit,
Speaker 3: Alicia Keys just texted me right now.
Speaker 1: Yeah exactly, Well that's congratulations.
Speaker 3: Good morning. Why did you have a baby without me? You, Dick.
Speaker 1: My only theory on that Jordan thing was that it's conceivable.
Speaker 1: I've heard Jordan's been spending a lot of time in Europe.
Speaker 1: So he's in Europe. It's not as early, right, because
Speaker 1: it's a few hours ahead of where he might you know,
Speaker 1: the East coast, so where he might have been. So
Speaker 1: I mean, that's conceivable. But we're not here to yap
Speaker 1: about that. We got a lot to get to. We
Speaker 1: got the cool hand, Luke smoked meats, back to school, backscratcher,
Speaker 1: the word of the week, not the phrase of the week,
Speaker 1: the word of the week, and we have time Pop
Speaker 1: goes to the culture. But we start with this. So
Speaker 1: I want to get your perspective, Danny and you listening.
Speaker 1: I want to get some feedback on this, okay, because
Speaker 1: this is our Saturday podcast. It's all about the life
Speaker 1: of malor the life of Danny g So. I had
Speaker 1: a buddy of mine. I've known this guy since elementary
Speaker 1: school in town. He don't live here anymore, and he's
Speaker 1: been gone. He lives in Dallas. He visits usually once
Speaker 1: a year, sometimes twice a year.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 1: We grew up together and we spend a lot of
Speaker 1: time on the playgrounds, and every year we will get
Speaker 1: together and enjoy a nice meal and tell old stories
Speaker 1: from back on the swing, you know, the swing, the
Speaker 1: swings and the you know, the playing kickball and all
Speaker 1: that crap.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: So that's it's kind of a normal thing. I think
Speaker 1: most people do that with old friends. And this guy's
Speaker 1: an Elvis impersonator. That's not my thing. But whatever floats
Speaker 1: is both that's fine. But this year was different than
Speaker 1: all other years. So he told me about a month
Speaker 1: before he was visiting. He said, you know, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: be out there, and I said, okay. So then I
Speaker 1: explained to him, you know, I've got some big things
Speaker 1: going on right now. There's some exciting stuff happening. I've
Speaker 1: got a very busy schedule and I'm only available socially
Speaker 1: on Friday and Saturday. Right but he was going to
Speaker 1: come from Saturday to Saturday. So I explain no one
Speaker 1: to listen, I can see you Saturday you fly in.
Speaker 1: I could see you the following Friday, or like Saturday.
Speaker 3: Before you leave. Bertie sounds like you were a big
Speaker 3: time in him.
Speaker 1: Well no, no, no, no, no, no, no not at all,
Speaker 1: because that's like that's the schedule. I gave him plenty
Speaker 1: of advanced notice. So I figured, if I give someone
Speaker 1: enough advance notice, okay, they'll work with me, right Uh.
Speaker 1: And so he comes out, he comes out to visit. Now,
Speaker 1: we had the Malor Meet and great last Saturday. So
Speaker 1: that was that took up a big chunk of my time,
Speaker 1: which was great. I had a fine time with Andy
Speaker 1: the comic guy.
Speaker 3: It was.
Speaker 1: It was a fun, fun afternoon.
Speaker 3: It was cool.
Speaker 1: It was different. He's got a really cool comic book
Speaker 1: shop and Brave New World Comics is really neat and
Speaker 1: so I had a great time there.
Speaker 3: It was.
Speaker 1: It was really nice. A lot of people showed up.
Speaker 1: We had a good time. We had a good crowd.
Speaker 1: It wasn't too big, but it wasn't too small. So
Speaker 1: it was a good mix of people that showed up.
Speaker 1: To be a great but I then text him one
Speaker 1: of his favorite restaurants at La is L Coyote on Beverly.
Speaker 3: You know that.
Speaker 1: Mexican restaurant on Beverly there, So yeah, I used to
Speaker 1: eat there quite a bit. I used to live right
Speaker 1: across the way there, so I used to get there
Speaker 1: a lot. And the prices have gone up up and away.
Speaker 1: But anyways, like I was, I happen to be there
Speaker 1: with the wife, and so I was like text them
Speaker 1: and say, maybe he'll come over here and meet us.
Speaker 1: I said, well, I have I have plans. I have
Speaker 1: I have some tickets to some show, so I can't
Speaker 1: meet you today. I said, okay, So I said, all right,
Speaker 1: well let's do something next week. So let's do something
Speaker 1: on Friday. And so we tender. We made plans. He
Speaker 1: said he could squeeze me in. He had plans on
Speaker 1: Friday yesterday night, but he had lunch was available on
Speaker 1: yesterday yesterday. And then just before the Thursday night radio show,
Speaker 1: I get a tech you know, he's staying in the
Speaker 1: hood near Lax and I got a text. I got
Speaker 1: to cancel, and I'm like, we made plans for lunch.
Speaker 1: I mean we were gonna meet halfway, which I think
Speaker 1: was a good compromise. I think that was very generous.
Speaker 1: I've spent a lot of time in traffic this week.
Speaker 1: More on that. Later says we're gonna meet halfway. So
Speaker 1: then my buddy, right, So I was like, oh, he
Speaker 1: texted me right before the show the night before on Thursday,
Speaker 1: He's like, hey, I can't do it, and he says
Speaker 1: his rationale is he says it's too stressful because of
Speaker 1: the traffic in LA and the return of his rental
Speaker 1: car would have caused too much anxiety because he had
Speaker 1: to return it like at three o'clock. And I told him,
Speaker 1: I said, just extended a few more hours, it's no
Speaker 1: big deal. But he said they were closed. So we
Speaker 1: have here, Danny, a cool hand, luke situation, a failure
Speaker 1: to communicate. So the question I ask you, I asked
Speaker 1: the esteemed panel of listeners, who's the bad guy in this?
Speaker 1: Am I the bad guy? Am I the dick because
Speaker 1: the dick and Dayton because I only was a milla
Speaker 1: on Friday and Saturday? Or was my friend the bad
Speaker 1: guy because he did not work with me even though
Speaker 1: I was willing to meet him halfway and he would
Speaker 1: not meet with me. He said he was, and then
Speaker 1: he he canceled. What's your perspective, Nanny?
Speaker 3: Well, even though I was giving you a hard time
Speaker 3: at first about big timing because you gave him forewarning,
Speaker 3: then I think you're in the right here. And you
Speaker 3: also were going to meet him halfway, which is what
Speaker 3: I feel like we should do. Even if it's your
Speaker 3: host city where a friend or family member is visiting,
Speaker 3: we're still willing to, like, you know, drive halfway in
Speaker 3: between wherever they're staying at in our general area to
Speaker 3: meet them. Look, I've always been the one and my
Speaker 3: girl always says this too about visiting her family. A
Speaker 3: lot of her family lives in northern California near the
Speaker 3: Davis area. You see Davis in the house. The thing
Speaker 3: is she has to drive up there to see them.
Speaker 3: And my family I have half down here and half
Speaker 3: in northern California as well, and through the years, Ben,
Speaker 3: it's always been the same for me too. I have
Speaker 3: to drive all the way up there to see everybody,
Speaker 3: and I'll drive from house to house to visit everybody.
Speaker 3: What's the problem of coming down to southern California. Supposedly
Speaker 3: they're always stressed out over the traffic. The drive is long,
Speaker 3: there's so many excuses. But magically they could come down
Speaker 3: here and visit Disneyland.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well there's no traffic at Disneyland.
Speaker 3: It's amazing. I'm not a mathematician, but something doesn't add up.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it is frustrating, and over the years, like a
Speaker 1: lot of the people, I grew up with people I've
Speaker 1: known have moved out of California. My brothers live in
Speaker 1: I won in Wisconsin, I won in New York, so
Speaker 1: there's not, you know, too much family in the area,
Speaker 1: and it, uh, you know, I do end up having
Speaker 1: to travel to see them. But this one was like
Speaker 1: a buddy of mine. I've known him like, you know,
Speaker 1: he's like a you know, a guy that I've been
Speaker 1: close with. He knows all my secrets and all that
Speaker 1: I know all his secrets. But unfortunately did not work
Speaker 1: out this time. So we'll see. Maybe next time it'll
Speaker 1: work out.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you guys were on the teener totter together.
Speaker 1: Yeah, man, we when you when you play handball and kickball,
Speaker 1: and I mean, that's the next level. There's a there's
Speaker 1: a bond of brotherhood that is born on the playgrounds
Speaker 1: of elementary school that cannot be broken. So I had
Speaker 1: that and then I also had I want to mention
Speaker 1: this real quick. This will not be long because I
Speaker 1: know we have to we have to get to the
Speaker 1: back to school. But I had a power lunch in
Speaker 1: La La Land this week and uh, you know, to
Speaker 1: the decent name the medium logo types and I don't
Speaker 1: do these things very often. I mentioned this on the
Speaker 1: radio show a little bit. I don't do these things
Speaker 1: very often, Danny, mainly because I cannot stand I'm a
Speaker 1: creature a habit, and I have my whole routine down
Speaker 1: and it just screws me up when I have to
Speaker 1: change my routine. And in order to pull off this
Speaker 1: power luncheon we just mentioned the La traffic, I spent
Speaker 1: three hours, three hours in my car, an hour there,
Speaker 1: two hours on the way back in rush hour traffic,
Speaker 1: going through some fine parts of skid row in Los
Speaker 1: Angeles and places that I think makes Sodom and Gomora
Speaker 1: look like an attractive destination instead. But anyway, so one
Speaker 1: of the people I went out with and had outside
Speaker 1: we went to Langers Delhi. I love you. Ever been
Speaker 1: to Langers I love Langers Deli.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's not much parking, but the food delicious.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's a little lot. It's right across from MacArthur Park,
Speaker 1: and it is the greatest deli I've been to. I've
Speaker 1: been to all the big delis in New York, all
Speaker 1: the delis you know in Manhattan and Brooklyn, and this
Speaker 1: place is at the very top. It is better the
Speaker 1: way they make their pastrami is insane. The problem is
Speaker 1: you have to dodge landmines and it's just wild down
Speaker 1: there near MacArthur Park. Because it's so unsafe there, they
Speaker 1: close at four o'clock in the afternoon because you don't
Speaker 1: want to be there at four oh one. It's real bad.
Speaker 1: But that MacArthur Park's been around since the eighteen hundreds
Speaker 1: and it's one of the oldest parts of la and
Speaker 1: it's so old. I looked it up because I've been
Speaker 1: there so much that they actually filmed early Hollywood movies
Speaker 1: with Buster Keaton and Charles Chaplin Charlie Chaplin in MacArthur
Speaker 1: Park back in early days Hollywood in the nineteen twenties.
Speaker 1: So kind of crazy one hundred years ago. But so
Speaker 1: we had the power lunch. It was great, told some stories,
Speaker 1: you know, shot the biz and one of the people there,
Speaker 1: Danny has claim to fame, was he fired Skip Bayless
Speaker 1: from a radio job. So went into detail on that
Speaker 1: and gave some some dirt. Very few people can say
Speaker 1: they fired the highest paid person or one of the
Speaker 1: three highest paid people in sports media today. But obviously
Speaker 1: before Skip Bayless became Skip Bayliss and in the early days, Danny.
Speaker 1: I told the sturb before. But when Fox Sports Radio started,
Speaker 1: Skip Bayless was one of our contributors. He was writing
Speaker 1: books about the Dallas Cowboys, and he was like an
Speaker 1: NFL guest that was a paid contributor on Fox Sports
Speaker 1: Radio in the early days when the network started. So
Speaker 1: and then he went off through the show called Cold
Speaker 1: Pizza I think it was.
Speaker 3: I remember that, yeah.
Speaker 1: At ESPN, and then that became what eventually became First
Speaker 1: Take and all that. So interesting interesting times. There was
Speaker 1: a good time. I don't know that I'll do that
Speaker 1: very often because of the amount of time I spent
Speaker 1: in the car. I am such a radio loser. There
Speaker 1: were you know, there were fair amount of people on
Speaker 1: the roads. Is that because it's back to school time?
Speaker 3: Danny?
Speaker 1: Would that be why there's so many people on the roads.
Speaker 3: There's those windows now where anywhere near a school in
Speaker 3: your community, you know, shit, I got to stay away
Speaker 3: from those streets gets backed up really bad. Also when
Speaker 3: you go back to school, Ben, you know, for me,
Speaker 3: obviously I help out with the school district here in
Speaker 3: the morning time. I noticed that the weather it's kind
Speaker 3: of like a marker. Last year when we went back
Speaker 3: to school. One of the days, it was one hundred
Speaker 3: and nine outside. I remember the kids just panting and complaining,
Speaker 3: and you know, it was like two degrees by eight am,
Speaker 3: and the kids were hating life. And I thought to myself,
Speaker 3: why are they starting back to school so much earlier
Speaker 3: than when we were kids, because for us it was
Speaker 3: after Labor Day.
Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, yeah, Yeah, we had a full summer. We
Speaker 1: had a great time, wonderful.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they're like, screw you f them kids. They send
Speaker 3: them back in the middle of the bastard heat. But
Speaker 3: we had some weird slurricane, hurricane, tropical storm. I guess
Speaker 3: after the earthquake too. People were calling it a hurriquake.
Speaker 3: I don't know. In fact, a friend of mine JC
Speaker 3: in Nashville, he was texting me last weekend, Man, I
Speaker 3: can't wait to hear you and Mallard talk about the hurriquake. Now,
Speaker 3: you didn't feel the earthquake, right.
Speaker 1: No, I did not. You know, I'm pretty we live
Speaker 1: kind of far from each other, and you were closer
Speaker 1: to the epicenter, much closer than I was. But yeah,
Speaker 1: the whole storm thing, Like I saw some of the
Speaker 1: headlines on the inn I thought, oh my god, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna die. This is it's over. My life's gonna end,
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna die in a freaking hurricane tropical storm.
Speaker 1: The way they were pinning the picture. I was mainly
Speaker 1: concerned about the wind because I thought, Man, if it
Speaker 1: gets really windy, that's a nightmare situation. And fortunately it
Speaker 1: didn't seem all that windy. It just was consistent rain.
Speaker 1: I gotta I gotta tell you unpopular opinion, Danny. When
Speaker 1: I was back east in Maine the week prior, it
Speaker 1: rained much harder. When I was driving down I ninety
Speaker 1: five to go back to Boston, it was a much
Speaker 1: harder rain than it was here. It was just consistent.
Speaker 1: And the problem is, obviously we don't get a lot
Speaker 1: of rain, so when it rains, all hell breaks loose.
Speaker 1: And did you see the video clip on the internet
Speaker 1: of the people slipping and sliding on the freeway not
Speaker 1: being able to handle their way too fast and then raining.
Speaker 3: It was pure comedy watching the networks here in Los Angeles,
Speaker 3: so we turned the TV on middle of the day.
Speaker 3: I think they overhyped it so badly. Dallas Rains is
Speaker 3: going to be in the studio for twenty four hours
Speaker 3: and that sort of thing. They were running promos and
Speaker 3: they were just so excited over this. They were lathered
Speaker 3: up in the newsroom, you know, you know, if there's
Speaker 3: gonna be some sort of big catastrophe and it's being forecasted,
Speaker 3: Oh my god, like this, that's their super Bowl in
Speaker 3: the weather department. So we turn on the news because,
Speaker 3: like you said, it didn't seem so bad. It was
Speaker 3: a little windy outside. It was kind of strange because
Speaker 3: it had that dirty pre rain smell where the oil
Speaker 3: off the roads are beginning to you know, wash away,
Speaker 3: and it stayed like that. So it was kind of
Speaker 3: a weird tropical Florida feeling. But other than that, it
Speaker 3: wasn't a big deal because it was just a nice
Speaker 3: little rain shower, a little bit of wind, but nothing special.
Speaker 3: But then ben, oh my god, an earthquake. Oh yes,
Speaker 3: they took this earthquake and ran with.
Speaker 1: Its orgasm type.
Speaker 3: End of the world type shit, Oh my god, end
Speaker 3: an earthquake in the middle of a tornado.
Speaker 1: It's out of the Bible. It's out of the Bible.
Speaker 3: Volcanic eruptions and tornadoes and earthquakes and hurricanes. It was
Speaker 3: beautiful watching this all develop on the local TV stations.
Speaker 3: So I believe we started out by watching KTLA channel five,
Speaker 3: and it was comedy, pure comedy. There was this female newscaster,
Speaker 3: a female reporter, i should say, and she was driving
Speaker 3: the TV truck. They went to her because she was
Speaker 3: on the one eighteen freeway, not far from where the
Speaker 3: earthquake was, because she was on her way driving to
Speaker 3: a venture. Okay, so they're like, let's go to Janice,
Speaker 3: who's actually driving to Ventura right now. The camera goes
Speaker 3: to her. It's a live shot with her on the freeway.
Speaker 3: Ben She looked like she was about thirteen years old
Speaker 3: because she didn't even fit in the seat of the van.
Speaker 3: She's trying to drive and speak to them at the
Speaker 3: same time. It was the most awkward camera shot, and
Speaker 3: she was babbling on and on about headed towards the
Speaker 3: epicenter and as you can see in front of me,
Speaker 3: there's only a couple of cars on the freeway, so
Speaker 3: people are heating the warning about staying off the freeways.
Speaker 3: She was on the air with them, I'm not kidding
Speaker 3: you for a good ten minutes, reporting on the two
Speaker 3: cars that were driving in front of her on the freeway.
Speaker 1: Fascinating television.
Speaker 4: My wife summed it up the best. She said, what
Speaker 4: the fuck is this? That is called filler? I think
Speaker 4: that is called television spam. You're all trying to fill
Speaker 4: the time. You're just really trying to fill the time.
Speaker 3: It's kind of like a car chase too, because you're right,
Speaker 3: it is filler. They don't know what to do. They
Speaker 3: just keep repeating the same thing over and over.
Speaker 1: It's unscripted. Yeah, that's the other thing we needed, Danny.
Speaker 1: We had the earthquake, we had the storm. We needed
Speaker 1: a police chase. Also. That would have been the third
Speaker 1: third of Dante's Inferno, the Five Rings of Hell. That
Speaker 1: would have been the third one in the Five Rings
Speaker 1: of Hell.
Speaker 3: Yo, Well, they're tap dancing so much. They get super
Speaker 3: excited when somebody, anybody is brought in to speak to them,
Speaker 3: even if that person is regurgitating the same bullshit that
Speaker 3: they've been repeating for the past half hour. So now
Speaker 3: they get somebody on to talk about the earthquake and
Speaker 3: where it was centered and what does this mean? And
Speaker 3: so she and my girl's like, damn, she looks like
Speaker 3: she's been alive since the first earthquake. Now she's like
Speaker 3: stuttering and she's explaining to the audience what an earthquake is.
Speaker 1: Loser.
Speaker 3: This is a new low for Southern California television. Man, Okay,
Speaker 3: they overhyped the hurricane. Now they desperately were scrambling to
Speaker 3: have a big payoff. This was the best part. The
Speaker 3: Chargers game was still scheduled for Sunday, right and it
Speaker 3: was the same bad TV coverage. They are still still
Speaker 3: searching on a way to give a big payoff to
Speaker 3: all of the viewers on this what turned out to
Speaker 3: be a little storm for us. And they're like, yeah,
Speaker 3: you know, the Chargers game is still going to go
Speaker 3: on though. And the TV anchor said, I'll say this though,
Speaker 3: if you have a friend in Inglewood, I would go
Speaker 3: there after the game, just for precaution, you know, just
Speaker 3: go and hang out for a while. And the other
Speaker 3: anchor said, that's a great idea. Me and my wife,
Speaker 3: he looked at each other and we're like, yeah, because
Speaker 3: we all have friends in Inglewood.
Speaker 1: Oh, of course. Let me tell you something. There's a
Speaker 1: fine bubbling community in Southern California, in the hood in Inglewood.
Speaker 3: When Ben Maller is at the Chargers game. He's gonna
Speaker 3: call Joel Elliott from Fox Sports Radio and be like, hey, Joel,
Speaker 3: I know you live in Inglewood. Channel two told me
Speaker 3: to go hang out with you after the game.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, i'd hang out. Well, Joel's great long suffering
Speaker 1: Lions fan. But remember Helmet Man lives in the hood
Speaker 1: in Inglewood, so that's right, that's his neighborhood over there,
Speaker 1: right near Sofi Stadium. So I'd have to track down
Speaker 1: Helmet man. I'm actually on the live air. Yes, there's
Speaker 1: an on air light, sir, the on air light indicats
Speaker 1: you're on the air. You're talking into a microphone in
Speaker 1: a radio station. You are on the live air, Yes, yes,
Speaker 1: you're on.
Speaker 3: Now. Lastly, how we are over earthquakes. I did feel it.
Speaker 3: I was taking a nap. It shook me out of bed.
Speaker 3: I walked downstairs, family sitting down in the living room,
Speaker 3: girls holding the baby, and they just calmly look at
Speaker 3: me and they're like, oh, you felt it, and I'm like, yeah,
Speaker 3: I felt it. And that's it. That was the beginning.
Speaker 3: In the end, there's no running around in circles screaming,
Speaker 3: oh my god, there's been an earthquake. We're so used
Speaker 3: to it and so jaded in California that that's how
Speaker 3: we react now, just like you felt it. Yea, I
Speaker 3: felt it.
Speaker 1: Well, now you can get a shirt, you know, baby's
Speaker 1: first earthquake and you can get something like that, those.
Speaker 3: First Southern California apocalypse.
Speaker 1: Now are you doing the full baby book, Danny? Do
Speaker 1: you have the full baby book where you're keeping everything
Speaker 1: and you know, all the scraps and all that, or
Speaker 1: are you too advanced for the baby book?
Speaker 3: Yeah? I don't know. I actually got a link sent
Speaker 3: to me yesterday by my chick and it was some
Speaker 3: modern baby book where you send the photos into them
Speaker 3: and then they put the kid's picture inside the book
Speaker 3: that they print out for you.
Speaker 1: Okay, my mom kept a is obviously a different time,
Speaker 1: but she kept a scrap book like of everything, like
Speaker 1: my hair, my first haircut, little scrap of that first
Speaker 1: tooth that I lost, you know all that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you're dried up in billical cord.
Speaker 1: Yeah, she wanted a little piece of everything there back
Speaker 1: back in the day. We have a little time. Let's
Speaker 1: get to the word of the week, Danny. The word
Speaker 1: of the week, word of the week, So the word
Speaker 1: of the week. This week is pundit. Big week for pundits.
Speaker 1: We have pundits in sports, but big week politically because
Speaker 1: there was a debate this week and so we saw
Speaker 1: if you were watching the cable news channels, there's a
Speaker 1: lot of political pundits who did their thing and commented
Speaker 1: and all that. And it's a word that I use
Speaker 1: off of it. I think I used it yesterday with
Speaker 1: Brian Billick. I used the word pundit. So where did
Speaker 1: the word begin? What's the origin story of the word pundit. Well,
Speaker 1: pundit dates back almost four hundred years to the sixteen seventies.
Speaker 1: It dates back to It's a Sanskrit word, whatever that means,
Speaker 1: but it's it's been translated as pundit from the original form.
Speaker 1: It was referred to originally as someone who had committed
Speaker 1: to memory a significant amount of the Hindu religious text
Speaker 1: known as the Vitas I believe vedas and essentially what
Speaker 1: it was. It became over the years, it became someone
Speaker 1: that was a learned man, a philosopher, and by the
Speaker 1: nineteenth century word pundit expanded to what it means today,
Speaker 1: like on television or radio, some expert we had Brian
Speaker 1: Billick on the Pundit yesterday, and so the word of
Speaker 1: the week he goes all the way back, all the
Speaker 1: way back to the sixteen seventies, and it involved memorizing
Speaker 1: Hindu religious texts. The word of the week is Pundit.
Speaker 3: Word of the week.
Speaker 1: Queen Quick and Danny, we you know how you have
Speaker 1: there's certain things you can't shave in one month. You
Speaker 1: can't you can't do certain other things in the bedroom
Speaker 1: for a month. You know how, there's like certain certain
Speaker 1: theme months. Well, the month of August is no review month,
Speaker 1: no backscratch your month, because yet again, Danny, we have
Speaker 1: pitched a shout out. Now we were away for some
Speaker 1: of this. You were away on Father I was away.
Speaker 1: We had some evergreen podcast that we put up, but
Speaker 1: we still have yet to have a review. This is
Speaker 1: the worst month we've ever had for reviews on Backscratcher.
Speaker 1: So really we need your help here. There's only a
Speaker 1: few days left in the month of August, and our
Speaker 1: next show will be in the month of September. So
Speaker 1: but if you get it in before August ends, we're
Speaker 1: going to count that for August and we'll just read
Speaker 1: it on next Saturday's podcast. But go to that podcast
Speaker 1: page or just look at the description Danny Wright, and
Speaker 1: you can figure out how to write a review. And
Speaker 1: it does help us out a lot. If you're a
Speaker 1: loyal minion, it's absolutely free to write a review. All
Speaker 1: that will cost you is your time, which is very valuable.
Speaker 1: But you're fuxing around with your phone anyway, you might
Speaker 1: as well just write a little review and it helps
Speaker 1: us out. And our boss is like that kind of crap,
Speaker 1: so's that's why we need it?
Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, this is a travesty not having at least
Speaker 3: one for the month. Do not make me contact that
Speaker 3: Channel five reporter in our van on this. Okay, she'll
Speaker 3: spend a good ten minutes on this story. So yet,
Speaker 3: in the description of this very podcast, click on it
Speaker 3: and then you'll see where it says write a review.
Speaker 3: It's right next to the overall, the big overall score
Speaker 3: of the podcast, and then it has you make a
Speaker 3: little handle for your name. Click on five stars if
Speaker 3: you think we're worthy, you write your review after that
Speaker 3: and boom, you're finished. So it really only takes five
Speaker 3: minutes of your life.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it's painless. It's relatively painless unless you're just
Speaker 1: not really good with tech stuff. But it's very simple
Speaker 1: even if you're not. I'm not the most technical savvy person,
Speaker 1: but I even I can figure out how a great
Speaker 1: rest of your day. Today, we will have another brand
Speaker 1: new original podcast myself.
Speaker 3: And Danny G.
Speaker 1: Tomorrow we will have the Mailbag. We'll also have some
Speaker 1: pop goes to cult Sure, and we will catch you
Speaker 1: next time. I have a great day today.
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