Speaker 1: Kabbooms.
Speaker 2: If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes
Speaker 2: a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants
Speaker 2: of the old Republic, a soul fashion of fairness. He
Speaker 2: treats crackheads in the ghetto cutter the same as the
Speaker 2: rich pill poppers in the penthouse.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 2: The clearing House of Hot takes break free for something special.
Speaker 2: The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now.
Speaker 1: In the air everywhere. The Fifth Hour we meet Ben
Speaker 1: Maller and Danny g. Happy Saturday to you, the last
Speaker 1: Saturday before the holidays. But you already knew that. That's
Speaker 1: the twenty first day of December, Danny, and here we
Speaker 1: are hanging out on big, big holidays today. It's a
Speaker 1: winter solstice today.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I've been the past couple of days. Every single
Speaker 3: day on the freeway was like a Friday.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's been nasty, man. It took me forever
Speaker 1: to get back from Benny versus the Penny. On Thursday,
Speaker 1: it was as bad as like the day before Thanksgiving break,
Speaker 1: you know, and everyone's gone. It was unreal.
Speaker 3: I feel like half the people are trying to get
Speaker 3: the f out of Dodge and the other half of
Speaker 3: the people are trying to get one last work day in.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it's it's not so, it's not so. So
Speaker 1: how does one celebrate, by the way, the winter solstice?
Speaker 4: Do it?
Speaker 1: What are you supposed to do? I have a moment,
Speaker 1: you know, that's some kind of drink or a doughnutters,
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 3: It's uh, you think you're supposed to write six six
Speaker 3: six on your forehead.
Speaker 1: There you go, it's a good idea, and.
Speaker 4: You run naked through your nearest target.
Speaker 1: So this is the shortest period of daylight and the
Speaker 1: longest night of the year in the northern hemisphere. So
Speaker 1: this is that's the winter solstice. So there you got
Speaker 1: your farmer's almanac. And in the beginning, nine point eight
Speaker 1: billion years ago the universe was created, we think, who
Speaker 1: the hell knows? And the Sun the earth whole thing.
Speaker 1: And then sixteen hundred BC that is the latest possible
Speaker 1: date for the construction of the monument that revolves around
Speaker 1: the Sun's or I don't know. There's a lot of
Speaker 1: mumbo jumbo and they talk about stone hinge and all
Speaker 1: this stuff, but today is the day for the winter solstice.
Speaker 1: It is also there's some other fugazy holiday. It's Humbug
Speaker 1: Day today, Danny. So that's the day I can get
Speaker 1: into humbug.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I know, you could ruin somebody's trip to Disneyland.
Speaker 4: Oh.
Speaker 1: Yes, National Humbug Day today every December twenty first, and
Speaker 1: allows you to just say, bo humbug. That's it. It's
Speaker 1: holiday season, you know, a lot like going on. I
Speaker 1: presents for people and parties and all that, and so
Speaker 1: why not just have a day people that created is
Speaker 1: that you're allowed twelve humbugs today, which is the day
Speaker 1: of the holiday. It is a day with so many opportunities.
Speaker 1: Shout out my homeboy Ebenezer Scrooge. Absolutely right, it is
Speaker 1: a day for him ba humbug at the end of
Speaker 1: the day, Danny. We also celebrate It's don't make your
Speaker 1: bed Day.
Speaker 4: Our teenage daughter celebrates that daily.
Speaker 1: Celebrates that.
Speaker 4: The time.
Speaker 1: There was one other one that I caught my attention.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to find it. There's a bunch of these
Speaker 1: weird Oh, it's a short girl Appreciation Day today, Danny.
Speaker 1: That's yeah, goal Appreciation Day, the twenty first of December.
Speaker 1: Who came up with that? My god, I don't know.
Speaker 3: That's how I met my wife inside the grocery store.
Speaker 3: I reached up to get a jeremanne as far off
Speaker 3: the shelf, and.
Speaker 1: The rest is history. You get away from me. On
Speaker 1: today's Fifth Hour, we will have not my comrade, the
Speaker 1: PSA public service announcement, and fire the commons, plus well
Speaker 1: have the phrase of the week. All that and more.
Speaker 1: I would like to begin by pointing out that I
Speaker 1: was very excited on Friday. I had Thursday night into
Speaker 1: Friday off from the radio show. We still did the
Speaker 1: Fifth Hour podcast on Friday, but then the rest of
Speaker 1: the day I had time to relax and I was
Speaker 1: looking forward to watching a competitive college football playoff game
Speaker 1: yesterday between the fighting Irish of Notre.
Speaker 3: Dame bringing back the BCS bring back BC.
Speaker 1: I was like, I really, in my head, Indiana was
Speaker 1: going to make this a game. It would be a
Speaker 1: fourth quarter game. It would be decided in the fourth quarter,
Speaker 1: and it was like twenty seven to three years something
Speaker 1: like it was in Indiana scored late a couple of
Speaker 1: times to make it look a little closer than it was,
Speaker 1: but it was a total disaster for the Hoosiers. They
Speaker 1: had an opportunity. I had an opportunity, and they did
Speaker 1: not play well last night, so we'll see if better
Speaker 1: things happen. Here today is the College Football Extended Dance Remix.
Speaker 1: That's what we say in radio, right, Danny, the extended
Speaker 1: dance remix of the college football Playoff, which will be
Speaker 1: going on between now and forever.
Speaker 3: I guess yeah, I heard they're going to turn this
Speaker 3: into a European style tournament next year.
Speaker 1: Oh is that right?
Speaker 4: But yeah, they're taking a page from the NBA.
Speaker 1: Well yeah, yeah, have a cup. Just have a cup.
Speaker 1: Have a Middle Eastern airline. The other thing too, they
Speaker 1: can do they should have in college. You should go
Speaker 1: to a lower level. You know that. You know European soccer.
Speaker 1: If you soccer, you like the worst team, you gotta go.
Speaker 1: Relegation they call it. I love relegation. Relative in America
Speaker 1: we reward in competence. I don't like that in American sports,
Speaker 1: if you're the worst team, you get the top pick.
Speaker 1: But imagine, Danny, you're a Raider fan. Instead of playing
Speaker 1: for the top pick, imagine the Raiders and Giants were
Speaker 1: desperately trying to win to avoid being sent to the
Speaker 1: Canadian Football League. It would be a much different dynamic right.
Speaker 3: This whole season would have been completely different. Then, instead
Speaker 3: of losing on purpose, the front office would have scrambled
Speaker 3: and signed your quarterback Matthew Stafford back when he was available.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Oh a trane inform. Yeah, exactly, exactly, exactly. Yeah, So
Speaker 1: I did want to share this story. So earlier this
Speaker 1: week we had an in studio visit. Now, not a guest,
Speaker 1: because I don't do guests because I'm on at night.
Speaker 1: Guests are normally paid and all that stuff you go
Speaker 1: through the pr people, so I don't do that. On
Speaker 1: the overnight show, we have people I like, people I
Speaker 1: know or might know or know from the radio. And
Speaker 1: so this week our friend Jesse better known on the
Speaker 1: show as Jay Scoop, he had reached out to me.
Speaker 1: He just got back to the States from fifteen months
Speaker 1: this cat spent in Ukraine. He was helping out the
Speaker 1: military in Ukraine, and he came back to visit us.
Speaker 1: And he's won the Malord Palooza talent show four times,
Speaker 1: He's been a judge in the talent show. Very talented musician,
Speaker 1: he's got the gift. And so he stopped by and
Speaker 1: was telling his stories about what life was like living
Speaker 1: in a war zone and helping out the Ukrainian Jayscoop
Speaker 1: was in the US military. He served a number of
Speaker 1: years back in the day, and so he has military
Speaker 1: training and he felt that his family is from that
Speaker 1: part of the world, in the DNA and all that,
Speaker 1: so he felt the need to help out. So he
Speaker 1: went there and was helping the troops and not on
Speaker 1: the front lines, but he was occasionally on the on
Speaker 1: the front lines against the the Russian troop. So it
Speaker 1: was a controversial show.
Speaker 4: Danye Yea. I was going to say, did you get
Speaker 4: any complaints from any Russians?
Speaker 1: Well not, I don't know if they're Russian or not.
Speaker 1: But I got a lot of complaints from people that
Speaker 1: were upset by that. So I also got people that
Speaker 1: loved Jayscoop and thought, wow, this is great, this is wonderful.
Speaker 1: But everything's political. That certainly is political, listen, I And
Speaker 1: it's not an issue whether I agree with all the
Speaker 1: money that Joe Biden sent over to Ukraine, right because
Speaker 1: I obviously I think you know where I stand on
Speaker 1: that day. I think it's a little obsessive, but I
Speaker 1: respect a guy that would go out there and if
Speaker 1: you're living in a war zone. Jay Scoop could have
Speaker 1: easily died been hit by a missile. There were missiles
Speaker 1: that hit near where he was staying in Ukraine, so
Speaker 1: and I wanted to hear his stories. And he he
Speaker 1: had brought a couple of things that I didn't know
Speaker 1: about for show and tell. He did give me a
Speaker 1: as a gift. There was a medical pack that had
Speaker 1: been given from the US people that were there, the
Speaker 1: ex military that were there, that they'd given to the
Speaker 1: Ukraine people. He'd shown me that and he said that
Speaker 1: was something I could have. And then he also brought
Speaker 1: and this is where he got really controversial, the helmet
Speaker 1: that had been worn in the goggles from a Russian
Speaker 1: soldier that had been killed out in the battlefield.
Speaker 4: And I saw I saw pictures of this.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, So he didn't. I mean, he handed me
Speaker 1: this on the air. He checked this out, So I
Speaker 1: was all right, helmet whatever. So I grabbed it. And
Speaker 1: then as I'm holding it, he like tells me this
Speaker 1: somebody died in that. Oh you know, yea, yea, And
Speaker 1: you know it's a little creepy and a little odd, you know.
Speaker 1: But I looked at it and it was like this
Speaker 1: helmet looked like it was very old on the inside
Speaker 1: and stuff. I don't know if you tell from the photo.
Speaker 3: It only got weird when Coop took it and started
Speaker 3: to grind weed up inside of it.
Speaker 1: So that's a Russian bong, dude, Come on anyway. So
Speaker 1: he showed me that and some other things that he
Speaker 1: had taken from from Ukraine. He also said that when
Speaker 1: he left going he left through Poland and there was
Speaker 1: you know, some issues getting stuff out of there and whatnot.
Speaker 1: And it was really nice to catch up with him
Speaker 1: and we had a nice visit. But I did get
Speaker 1: some emails from people very upset, you know, ranting and raven.
Speaker 1: One person sent me about five pages Danny. I didn't respond,
Speaker 1: and I'm not going to name them because I'm.
Speaker 4: Gonna four and a half pages too much.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, going on this guy in the soapboxes.
Speaker 1: Oh my, you know, I love you. It's always I
Speaker 1: love your show. But you know, and did I point
Speaker 1: out Danny anything before the word but is not true?
Speaker 1: When you say something and then put the butt in there,
Speaker 1: then that you're changing the context of everything. So and
Speaker 1: I get that people have issues with the certain things
Speaker 1: I understand it. I did not put Jayscoop on to
Speaker 1: make some kind of political statement. He's just a friend
Speaker 1: of mine from the show. He's been great to us.
Speaker 1: He set up that Seattle meet and greet we did
Speaker 1: back in twenty nineteen, right before COVID, and that was
Speaker 1: his production and he made that happen and I had
Speaker 1: a great time in Seattle hanging with him and Robbie
Speaker 1: the Mariner fan came up from Oregon and all those guys,
Speaker 1: and we had we had a wonderful time. JJ and Renton, Nostridinius.
Speaker 1: I mean, these are legends on the show that we're
Speaker 1: at the Malor meet and greet, and some other people
Speaker 1: I did not name that will be very upset. I
Speaker 1: did not name them. So we go back to a
Speaker 1: number of years. He'd been a big part of the
Speaker 1: show over the years, and so he's back. We were
Speaker 1: worried about him. He would give me some updates while
Speaker 1: he was there, and so I'm happy he's back. And
Speaker 1: I felt like, well, I have him in every once
Speaker 1: in a while, why not change it up a little bit.
Speaker 1: So it was great to have Jay Scoop stuff. I
Speaker 1: think some of this also, Danny not only is it
Speaker 1: political right, because it is controversial the amount of US
Speaker 1: tax dollars that went to Ukraine. I totally get that.
Speaker 1: It was also a case of people, I think a
Speaker 1: little jealous of the amount of attention Jayscoop got. You
Speaker 1: know how the p Ones could be, Danny. They don't
Speaker 1: like the others getting too much attention. They want their
Speaker 1: own slice of the pie, and when somebody else gets
Speaker 1: the whole pie, they don't like that.
Speaker 3: So I think we got a new nickname for you
Speaker 3: to add to the list, that the income poop of NATO,
Speaker 3: NATO's nincom poopers.
Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly. I am not making some kind of geopolitical statement.
Speaker 1: I am not. I just thought it was an interesting story.
Speaker 1: It's not every day that you know somebody that spent
Speaker 1: fifteen months living in a country that is at war
Speaker 1: and chose to live there, just like you chose to
Speaker 1: go there and anyway, all right, but I guess that's
Speaker 1: a public service announcement to the p Ones. Danny was like,
Speaker 1: just if you're gonna complain, I get it, you're unhappy.
Speaker 1: You don't need to send five pages. That's way too much,
Speaker 1: As Danny said, just say, send one line. You fing
Speaker 1: f fu and then move on. That's all you need
Speaker 1: to do. Don't waste your time. I didn't read all
Speaker 1: five pages, by the way, I only read like one
Speaker 1: page and that.
Speaker 4: Was that blank, my blank and blank.
Speaker 3: You have you ever been to the CVS pharmacy right
Speaker 3: down the street from our studios.
Speaker 1: Yes, I have. And not only have I been there, Danny,
Speaker 1: I have been there in the like three thirty four
Speaker 1: in the morning, when every crackheads out. He's inside and
Speaker 1: outside that But are they still open twenty four hours?
Speaker 1: They used to be open twenty four hours?
Speaker 4: We ours, I know they still are.
Speaker 1: Okay, I've not been there in a while, but that
Speaker 1: is one of the few places out in the San
Speaker 1: Fernando Valley that is open twenty four hours. I've been
Speaker 1: there not a while, though not in a while while.
Speaker 1: Always a little shady crowd at that location.
Speaker 3: Though everything else in that shopping center has came and gone.
Speaker 4: There used to be a Marie Calendar's restaurant.
Speaker 1: There, remember that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's long gone. Now the big party City that's there.
Speaker 3: They just announced that their remaining locations are all closing.
Speaker 1: Party Cities going out of business.
Speaker 3: Really, yeah, out of business. And another company killed by Amazon.
Speaker 4: You killed it?
Speaker 1: Wow, that's wild. I did not know that. I did
Speaker 1: not know that. Interesting.
Speaker 3: So two afternoons in a row on Thursday and Friday,
Speaker 3: I left my house early. Where our school district is,
Speaker 3: they did half days for the middle school.
Speaker 4: In high school. They tortured the kids, made them stay.
Speaker 3: A week longer than a lot of other school districts,
Speaker 3: but they did half days. I guess just so the
Speaker 3: schools could still get that money. Okay, so my clock,
Speaker 3: I usually leave by one pm to get to the
Speaker 3: studios by one four. In this case, I had to
Speaker 3: get on the road at twelve thirty because I knew
Speaker 3: it was like a ticking time bomb with all the parents.
Speaker 3: Took me fifteen extra minutes just to make it to
Speaker 3: the freeway early. Getting to Sherman Oaks, I said, okay, well,
Speaker 3: you know what, I'm gonna do a little bit of
Speaker 3: stocking stuffer shopping by going to that CVS. There is
Speaker 3: a line, and I'm not exaggerating here. It had to
Speaker 3: have been at least twenty different people one checker. That's
Speaker 3: it in the whole stinking store.
Speaker 1: Nightmare, nightmare. Yeah, that's leave territory. That's I ain't wait.
Speaker 3: I figured I had to get at least one nice
Speaker 3: cool picture that was on a magnet for my Wifey
Speaker 3: of CoA, of big Baby CoA. Figured that would be
Speaker 3: a nice memory, great photo of him, and I turned
Speaker 3: it into three magnets, put the order in on their kiosk,
Speaker 3: avoided that big, long line. I'm like, great, I have
Speaker 3: my little receipt. I'll just come back after Covino and
Speaker 3: Rich and pay for it, and hopefully there won't be
Speaker 3: as many people in line. So I go back get
Speaker 3: these magnets. There was about ten people in line when
Speaker 3: I was there. It still sucked, but wasn't as bad
Speaker 3: as when I placed the order. I get out of
Speaker 3: the store, I open up the little thing they put
Speaker 3: pictures like photos in, and these magnets suck.
Speaker 4: They're too dark. The pictures came out dark. They look cheap.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they're off center, but I'm not going back in there.
Speaker 3: On Friday, I get there early again and I said, well,
Speaker 3: you know what, might as well talk to a manager.
Speaker 3: I'll ask if they could redo these. Oh my god,
Speaker 3: there's so many damn people in this one stupid line,
Speaker 3: standing there screaming at a manager as this older gentleman.
Speaker 3: Meanwhile behind me, more people are lining up. More people
Speaker 3: are lining up because this one guy is putting a
Speaker 3: stranglehold on things. By the time I got up there,
Speaker 3: I felt bad. I lightheartedly said to the guy, I
Speaker 3: have a return too, but I'm not gonna yell at you.
Speaker 4: He looked like he wanted to quit right on the spot.
Speaker 3: This guy looked like he wanted to say fuck you
Speaker 3: to all of us and leave the CVS.
Speaker 1: Oh I bet yeah. I mean, what a nightmare, And
Speaker 1: you don't make a ton of money doing that, and
Speaker 1: people are just complete assholes.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it just got me feeling a little bit.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 3: This is the time of the year where customers need
Speaker 3: to take a chill pill, take a deep breath, and
Speaker 3: have a little bit of patience.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Fortunately, my wife buys everything on Amazon, I think,
Speaker 1: so we really haven't gone to the store other than
Speaker 1: for groceries we have. Today is a big party day today, Danny.
Speaker 1: It's the not the ugly sweater party that was a
Speaker 1: couple weeks back. Today is the day that we all
Speaker 1: get the family party together that later today, the mallor
Speaker 1: family party. More on that later.
Speaker 4: Peanut butter and banana, Oh.
Speaker 1: My God, Brownies, cookies, up the wazoo, Up the wazoo. Crazy.
Speaker 1: I'm ready to fire the cannons, is what I'm ready
Speaker 1: to do. So I did want to say that I
Speaker 1: had a wonderful time last week. I mentioned I was
Speaker 1: going to the Bucks Chargers game, and Chargers have played again.
Speaker 1: I'm back on Thursday against the Broncos. I did not
Speaker 1: go to that game, as I said on yesterday's podcast,
Speaker 1: but last Sunday I attended the Charger game mainly I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna lie, mainly to see my friend TJ Reeves,
Speaker 1: part of the Fox Alumni Association, used to host a
Speaker 1: weekend show, and TJ is a buddy of mine radio pal,
Speaker 1: and I make it a point every time Tampa comes
Speaker 1: to town. They don't come to town every offen you
Speaker 1: very often and maybe once every two or three years,
Speaker 1: sometimes longer than that, they'll come to LA And so
Speaker 1: I made sure to pay TJ a visit and hang out,
Speaker 1: good conversation and he says hello, Danny. He also told
Speaker 1: me he went to dinner on Saturday before the game
Speaker 1: with an old friend of ours, the z Dog, who
Speaker 1: works at our company. Used to be one of the
Speaker 1: big boss Fox sports.
Speaker 4: Radio and Ben I would have gave TJ a full
Speaker 4: time show, but you know, I don't have all the
Speaker 4: power at the.
Speaker 1: Network pretty much, so everyone's got z dog stories. So
Speaker 1: he told me about that and it was it was great.
Speaker 1: We had a good, good visit, tell all the radio stories.
Speaker 1: And TJ's got a couple of daughters who are now
Speaker 1: in high school. And I've known, Wow.
Speaker 4: I remember when his kids were little.
Speaker 1: I know, dude. It's like we used to see photos
Speaker 1: of his little kids, you know, and they were little girls,
Speaker 1: like little children and babies. And now they're in high school.
Speaker 1: It's like, wow, where is It's like we're just zooming
Speaker 1: by life. Anyway, it was great to catch up and
Speaker 1: hear about them a little bit and you know what
Speaker 1: they're doing and all that. And then TJ brought me
Speaker 1: over to say hello to my old friend Gene Deckerhoff,
Speaker 1: the iconic voice of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, and for
Speaker 1: so many years I knew him as the voice of
Speaker 1: the Florida State Seminals. Back in Florida State was good
Speaker 1: at college football. I'm old enough to remember when they
Speaker 1: were good. It's been a long time, and Geen Deckerhoff
Speaker 1: was the play by play guy for both Florida State
Speaker 1: in their glory days with Bobby Bowden and has done
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay. And his signature call with the Bucks is
Speaker 1: fire the Conons and so and the story that you
Speaker 1: know about Dan. We talked about it on this podcast.
Speaker 1: Last time Tampa Bay was in LA I think they
Speaker 1: were playing the Rams if I remember, But I was
Speaker 1: at the game again to see TJ and I was
Speaker 1: in the elevator at Sofi Stadium. I was going upstairs
Speaker 1: and I heard this voice of somebody trying to find
Speaker 1: out where to go. He needed to go to the
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay radio booth, and I immediately recognized the voice
Speaker 1: without ever knowing. I didn't know what this guy looked like.
Speaker 1: I didn't know much about other than the voice Geen
Speaker 1: decker Off, and so immediately, oh, wait a minute, I
Speaker 1: know where to go. Gene, and I escorted him down
Speaker 1: the corridor through a security door and to the Tampa
Speaker 1: Bay Visiting Radio booth at Sofi because I've been there
Speaker 1: a number of times, and so we were catching up
Speaker 1: and Gene was very polite, very nice man, and uh
Speaker 1: it was he told some stories and you know a
Speaker 1: couple of stories and I wasn't with him for that long.
Speaker 1: He was getting ready for the game, and and he
Speaker 1: you know, he's one of these guys. I was very
Speaker 1: lucky when I got into radio. I started out at
Speaker 1: you know, I think you were younger than I was.
Speaker 1: I was nineteen when I got into radio. You were
Speaker 1: how old were you? You were even younger than fifteen? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I was nineteen. Danny was fifteen. So we're lifetime radio dudes.
Speaker 1: But when I first started, I went from in the
Speaker 1: crowd like at eighteen and then nineteen, I'm in the
Speaker 1: press box and I got a chance to meet all
Speaker 1: these play by play guys. And they're all pretty much dead,
Speaker 1: you know. And I but I loved here. I love
Speaker 1: these old sorts. I read books about these guys, like Harry. Uh,
Speaker 1: Harry Carey in Chicago. I wrote an elevator with Harry Carey,
Speaker 1: saw him several times, talk to him several times. I
Speaker 1: was in the elevator Dodger Stadium when he tried to
Speaker 1: pick up the elevator girl. Uh, and it was very awkward. Uh.
Speaker 1: Ernie Harwell, the voice of the Tigers. I met Ernie,
Speaker 1: a very nice man. All these guys were really cool.
Speaker 1: They were just happy that some young loser knew who
Speaker 1: they were. And then Harry Callous. That wasn't all I
Speaker 1: used to have Harry. Harry Callous did PSAs he was
Speaker 1: the voice of NFL film Harry Callous and had the
Speaker 1: pipes the voice of God. It sounded.
Speaker 3: Now on this trip, did you get to meet the
Speaker 3: Chargers play by play guy Matt money Smith?
Speaker 1: No, I know. I know him, but I don't know
Speaker 1: him as well as Petros. It's weird, you know, it's
Speaker 1: like the Petrol's money shows. Yeah, you know, it's not
Speaker 1: like Petros. I I've known Petro since he played football
Speaker 1: at USC. It's an odd thing. We used to have
Speaker 1: him on the Ben and Dave show that I did
Speaker 1: in LA. So I'm known p since he was a
Speaker 1: college kid like Matt was at k Rock. So it's
Speaker 1: like a different I know him. He's polite and nice
Speaker 1: to me, but I don't really know him that well.
Speaker 1: You know what I mean, Danny. It's like one of those.
Speaker 1: But I did see him walking around. I did see
Speaker 1: him walking around, but I didn't want to bug him,
Speaker 1: and he obviously didn't want to bug me because he
Speaker 1: didn't say anything where you know, when you're in the
Speaker 1: room with petros He you know.
Speaker 3: Well, Matt had to save his voice anyways for those touchdown.
Speaker 1: Calls, especially in the second half. That was so impressive.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, twenty seven to nothing in the second
Speaker 1: half of that.
Speaker 3: Oh Manchlger's got their asses whooped by Baker Mayfield.
Speaker 1: Wow, was that an ass kicking in the second half.
Speaker 1: I did not see that one coming. I thought, well,
Speaker 1: I'll be a close game, fourth quarter game, whatever. And no,
Speaker 1: that was a punch to the solar plexus? Was that?
Speaker 1: What that wasn't that game? Oh? By the way, today
Speaker 1: there's a couple of NFL games today. It's a saddy.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, it's that time of the year.
Speaker 1: My buddy Ralph, Now, when I was in Kansas City
Speaker 1: at Arrowhead, I was there with Bob, Bob Fesco. He
Speaker 1: invited me to a Chiefs game and they tailgated at
Speaker 1: Arrowhead and the guy that is like the tailgate roast master.
Speaker 1: I don't know this guy, Ralph. So I get a
Speaker 1: message from Ralph, he owns this Chiefs bus. He's like, hey,
Speaker 1: why didn't you fly out? You can tailgate with us
Speaker 1: before the game on Saturday. It text me yesterday on Friday,
Speaker 1: and I was like, yeah, that's an easy trip to make,
Speaker 1: no problem, you know, fly out to Kansas City for
Speaker 1: the day. He didn't even say go to the game,
Speaker 1: just I go go tailgate and then you know, just
Speaker 1: sleeping the busy.
Speaker 4: If Mahomes could make the game banged up, you could
Speaker 4: make it. Ben.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah. I was like, you should have sent me
Speaker 1: a message on Thursday. I could have driven to Kansas City.
Speaker 4: That's it I have. Why not?
Speaker 1: It's with rush hour traffic in LA. It's like getting
Speaker 1: around LA. All right, let's go. I got the phrase
Speaker 1: of the week. Then are you ready for the phrase
Speaker 1: of the week?
Speaker 4: The phrase?
Speaker 1: Here's the phrase of the week?
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: I thought it was appropriate. At the end of the
Speaker 1: year and many corporations decide to whack people. We're included
Speaker 1: in that, by the way, unfortunately, but a lot of
Speaker 1: companies get rid of people this time of the year.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I saw buddy of mine who worked at a big
Speaker 3: station in Houston just got let go yesterday.
Speaker 1: It's terrible.
Speaker 3: I yeah, Eric, Eric listens to our podcast sometimes too,
Speaker 3: so sorry to hear about that. He was a great
Speaker 3: third guy on the morning show at this big Houston
Speaker 3: station and they cut him bullshit.
Speaker 1: Well hang in there, Eric, you're on the beach right now.
Speaker 1: But you know, hopefully things will get better. A lot
Speaker 1: of these companies wait until, you know, springtime and then
Speaker 1: they rehire people. It's like for tax reasons. But it
Speaker 1: doesn't make you feel any better when you're on the
Speaker 1: beach and all that stuff. And so anyway, the term
Speaker 1: getting the pink slip, So what does it mean? You
Speaker 1: actually get a pink slip? So we look up and whatnot.
Speaker 1: And according to the Dictionary, the first printed appearance of
Speaker 1: pink slip was nineteen oh one. It was used to
Speaker 1: reference insurance companies who notified customers of rate increases for
Speaker 1: property coverage, and in June of nineteen oh five, the
Speaker 1: Spokesman Review in Spokane, Washington reported insurance agents were upset
Speaker 1: about twenty percent rate hike for fire policies, fearing their
Speaker 1: customers would objectate. So that that was the first one
Speaker 1: of the first uses of it, So it was about insurance.
Speaker 1: In June of nineteen thirty seven, number of teachers were
Speaker 1: laid off from jobs and the federal government the WPA
Speaker 1: Adult Education Project, a corner to the New York Daily News.
Speaker 1: They said the people were laid off, They were dismissed
Speaker 1: in a dire scene at which police were present to
Speaker 1: prevent any civil disobedience. The woman and the women out
Speaker 1: there that were let go. There was like a line
Speaker 1: of guards up and tables and clerks and all that stuff.
Speaker 1: Some were handed pink slips. They were fired. If you
Speaker 1: got a pink slip, you were fired. Some were giving
Speaker 1: yellow buttons they were hired, and obviously they were fine.
Speaker 1: And so the Daily Mail or Daily News rather reported
Speaker 1: that one laidoff worker had pinned her pink slip to
Speaker 1: the lapel there to protest the firing. So how frequently
Speaker 1: this occurred, they don't really know, but it's evidence that
Speaker 1: people did actually get pink slips, wow, in nineteen thirty
Speaker 1: so it's not that old the phrase. It's before we
Speaker 1: were around, but it's not that old the phrase. So
Speaker 1: getting the pink slip actually did happen to some people,
Speaker 1: but the phrase it was originally for insurance stuff.
Speaker 4: So she pinned it on like fuck your pink slip.
Speaker 1: Like pretty much was. She was a spicy lady, I guess,
Speaker 1: and she she's pinned it on there, So there you go.
Speaker 1: That is it getting the pink slip or pink slip
Speaker 1: a phrase I've used. We've all used it and watch
Speaker 1: out for the pink slip, and so it actually was used,
Speaker 1: but it only goes back to the nineteen thirties. Well
Speaker 1: that's a while now, it's almost been one hundred years.
Speaker 1: So that is the phrase all the world, the phrase
Speaker 1: we enjoy the NFL, enjoy the college football. We play
Speaker 1: whack them all with our TV today, trying to watch
Speaker 1: everything and get the holiday stuff. I got a party
Speaker 1: going on today, so I get that going on. I'll
Speaker 1: try to sneak in some TV viewing mix that in
Speaker 1: as well. Anything going on with you, Danny? You want
Speaker 1: to share with the class?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean besides watching NFL and a couple of
Speaker 3: first round CFB playoff games. Hopefully they're better than the
Speaker 3: Notre Dame game. Yes, we're going to scramble a little
Speaker 3: bit today and try to pack some bags. We're going
Speaker 3: to get out of town. What's the one place that
Speaker 3: we can still afford to bring the kids and it
Speaker 3: involves a theme park?
Speaker 1: Oh, let me see, Nott's very far a little.
Speaker 4: Further south, son diego.
Speaker 1: Oh, you're going to Lego Land.
Speaker 3: Are you Uh no, no, you know, I've never been
Speaker 3: to Lego Land. But we're gonna take the kids to SeaWorld.
Speaker 1: Oh SeaWorld, I think in business SeaWorld.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, oh yeah, thriving because they now have a
Speaker 3: bunch of nice roller coasters there that the kids love.
Speaker 1: Okay, when when co is a little older, you got
Speaker 1: to take the Lego Land, but not too old, and
Speaker 1: you'll probably want to poke your eyeballs out when you
Speaker 1: go to Lego Land.
Speaker 3: Probably we're gonna we're gonna try to hit up the
Speaker 3: San Diego Zoo too.
Speaker 1: The Wild Animal part two. And that's if you get
Speaker 1: a chance.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, yeah, you get there, you get to ride drafts.
Speaker 1: Yeah, why not you go? Well, you just get off
Speaker 1: the tram and run out and run around.
Speaker 3: Uh as much as we pay Disneyland every month with
Speaker 3: those stupid season passes my wife got. There's all these
Speaker 3: blackout dates, so half the time, more than half the time,
Speaker 3: you can't even go, even you're a monthly member.
Speaker 4: It sucks. It's so stupid, it's so expensive and you
Speaker 4: can barely go.
Speaker 3: So yeah, we're gonna escape to San Diego for a
Speaker 3: couple of days and We told the kids that's pretty
Speaker 3: much your big Christmas gift.
Speaker 1: Okay, well why not ye yeah, I'll get out. The
Speaker 1: trips are expensive, all right. Well anyway, have a great
Speaker 1: rest of your day to day and we will have
Speaker 1: another pod tomorrow. Tomorrow is another day. We'll talk to
Speaker 1: you
Speaker 4: Then later Skater by flation