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 sol fashion of fairness. He
Speaker 2: treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the
Speaker 2: rich pill poppers in the penthouse.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 2: It's a clearinghouse of hot takes. Break free for something special.
Speaker 2: The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now in.
Speaker 1: The air everywhere.
Speaker 3: The Fifth Hour with Me, Ben Mallor and Danny g Radio.
Speaker 3: Danny is on assignment, but he will join us this
Speaker 3: weekend for the other podcast. We have podcasts every day.
Speaker 3: We are in the sweatshop of audio content here at
Speaker 3: the iHeartMedia Building today, the thirteenth day of September, as
Speaker 3: we hang out with you and this podcast celebrating National
Speaker 3: Peanut Day.
Speaker 1: I am a.
Speaker 3: Big fan of the nuts. A big fan of the
Speaker 3: nuts meaning peanuts by the way, and yeah, we celebrate
Speaker 3: National Peanut Day. I've added that to my diet. Now.
Speaker 3: I don't eat a lot. I eat once a day.
Speaker 3: I'll skip a day now and again. But here's the thing,
Speaker 3: the peanut. I enjoy the peanut. At the end of
Speaker 3: my meal. I'll eat once a day. I usually eat
Speaker 3: some like grilled chicken, or I'll eat some like ribbi
Speaker 3: and rice or potatoes.
Speaker 1: I have a very boring diet during the week.
Speaker 3: I crank it up on the weekends and I'll have
Speaker 3: like something I actually enjoy, Not that I don't enjoy
Speaker 3: that stuff during the week, but I end my meal
Speaker 3: after I'm done eating, I have a little cup of
Speaker 3: nuts because it supposedly helps the peanuts help you lose weight.
Speaker 1: Now that might be total bullshoy or bull junk or whatever,
Speaker 1: but I read it and I'm lying. Okay, I'm in
Speaker 1: on it because I like peanuts. So I am celebrating
Speaker 1: a National Peanut Day, not nuts. But enough of that,
Speaker 1: let's get to it.
Speaker 3: This podcast available everywhere, the Extra Crispy, Extra Spicy Podcast,
Speaker 3: because four hours a night or not enough on the
Speaker 3: Overnight show, eight days a week. This is not not
Speaker 3: a sporty podcast. Not a sporty podcast. Once in a
Speaker 3: blue moon. Once in a blue moon do we do sporty. Okay,
Speaker 3: that is the reality of the situation. But this podcast
Speaker 3: is all about random things and the Friday Podcast. I
Speaker 3: have made an editorial decision that this podcast is a
Speaker 3: companion podcast. It is right for a true TV officia
Speaker 3: not to watching the latest episode of BVP. Gotta get
Speaker 3: used to saying that Benny versus the Penny, we shorten
Speaker 3: it to BVP uh and so so think of it
Speaker 3: like that. The Friday podcast will get you ready to
Speaker 3: watch the TV show. And the numbers have been pretty
Speaker 3: good so far, God bless you, and I really think
Speaker 3: that it's because of this, Because of the podcast is
Speaker 3: the radio show. I'm trying to incorporate you into the
Speaker 3: to the ecosystem here and it appears so far, so good.
Speaker 3: The ratings have been good for the TV show and
Speaker 3: from what I understand on the streaming, the numbers have
Speaker 3: been pretty good.
Speaker 1: So but we can do better. We can do better.
Speaker 1: You know, I want to. I want to be near
Speaker 1: the top there.
Speaker 3: So there's no question that they love the show and
Speaker 3: there's people watching and everyone's happy and all that.
Speaker 1: And so this is a companion podcast.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: The reason we're going to call it that.
Speaker 3: It's a post episode debriefing for the Malord Militia, a
Speaker 3: post episode to briefing for the Malamiche. It's the unofficial
Speaker 3: official tie in podcast. The After Show which is a
Speaker 3: whole I was looking this up. It's a whole subgenre
Speaker 3: in entertainment and I was like, okay, so I have
Speaker 3: the platform and I'll use the platform. Why not if
Speaker 3: they if they do a Netflix show, then okay, they
Speaker 3: have a Companion Podcast and I'm like, well, we have
Speaker 3: a TV show, why don't we have that? So the
Speaker 3: after show is this, and we'll give you episode breakdowns
Speaker 3: of BVP. We'll have exclusive behind the scenes peaks at
Speaker 3: this week's episode of Benny Versus the Penny. We'll have
Speaker 3: all the plot twists, all the different theories on what's
Speaker 3: gonna happen, which games I'm gonna pick, and whatnot around
Speaker 3: the program and stuff that you will not hear anywhere else,
Speaker 3: keeping the conversation going and hopefully encouraging you to watch
Speaker 3: the TV show. And if you're already watching the show,
Speaker 3: thank you. This will just be an added bonus. So
Speaker 3: on this edition the Companion Pod, we've got Elvis or
Speaker 3: the Ghost of Elvis, bloopers and practical jokes, pecock perfection,
Speaker 3: the King of Random, and the Phrase.
Speaker 1: Of the Week.
Speaker 3: A lot to get to, but we'll start with this.
Speaker 3: So this week's episode, which will be up later today
Speaker 3: on the ENBC Sports regional cable networks around the United
Speaker 3: States in syndication. You can watch this show on our hub.
Speaker 3: The show is produced my guy Vinnie, who happens to
Speaker 3: be Felger and Maz television producer, is the producer of
Speaker 3: Benny Versus the Penny, and he's the guy that I
Speaker 3: worked together with in meetings and what not to get
Speaker 3: the show on the air. So Annie runs the show
Speaker 3: in Boston and he's the guy there, and that's our hub.
Speaker 3: So we've got NBC Sports Boston, NBC Sports San Francisco,
Speaker 3: NBC Sports Network in Philadelphia, also streaming nationally on Peacock.
Speaker 1: More on that in a minute. A Week two of.
Speaker 3: BVP again just hours away, starting to find our groove,
Speaker 3: starting to find our groove.
Speaker 1: The first week was a little rocky.
Speaker 3: Week two got a little better, and I thought, all
Speaker 3: things considered, this was pretty neat this week. And I
Speaker 3: got the least amount of sleep that I have ever
Speaker 3: gotten prior to an episode of Benny Versus the Penny,
Speaker 3: in part because of a schmooze cruise.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell that story.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna save that for the Saturday podcast when Danny
Speaker 3: g is back with me, but it involves an event
Speaker 3: that I was asked to be at and it just
Speaker 3: messed up my whole routine. But as far as we're concerned,
Speaker 3: so kind of take it behind the scenes. So preparing
Speaker 3: for the big show, this episode, unlike any other episode,
Speaker 3: very memorable.
Speaker 1: So I do the radio show as normal.
Speaker 3: I show up to Universal Studios, Hollywood, and I am
Speaker 3: dressed in my radio clothes. I used to change before
Speaker 3: I would go to the Universal Studios lot, but I'm like, well,
Speaker 3: I get there at an hour where there's no one
Speaker 3: there and so I can do what I want. So
Speaker 3: I show up. Now I'm that comfortable. I show up
Speaker 3: in my radio clothes. I then go in and change
Speaker 3: into my church clothes, my temple clothes, get all dulled
Speaker 3: up with makeup. We have the table read me and
Speaker 3: Looney Tunes. Now Looney Tunes, as we talked about in
Speaker 3: previous episodes of this podcast, Looney will show up.
Speaker 1: And you know this if you've listened.
Speaker 3: Loony shows up and he'd be a terrible Ninja or
Speaker 3: he would be the worst James Bond a double O
Speaker 3: seven imaginable because you always hear Looney before you see him,
Speaker 3: you always hear him because he's always talking anybody in
Speaker 3: the building, and he's memorizing people's names and making me
Speaker 3: look bad and all that stuff. I recognize faces, but
Speaker 3: I don't really remember names anyway. So Looney shows up,
Speaker 3: We do the table read. I'm all dulled up. I'm
Speaker 3: in my clothes, in my clown suit, and we go
Speaker 3: into the studio. So sit down, got the IFB and
Speaker 3: my left ear because that's my good ear. I've got
Speaker 3: my microphone on, Get all prepared, set my notes up,
Speaker 3: ready to go. Green screen behind me, lights, camera action.
Speaker 3: Not so fast, my friend, Not so fast, my friend.
Speaker 1: So I'm like, okay.
Speaker 3: As we were about to turn the camera on and
Speaker 3: we were in studio, we were about to start recording
Speaker 3: the A block of our one of episode three, second
Speaker 3: week of the NFL season. As we are doing this,
Speaker 3: we start, well, let's just say, we start experiencing something
Speaker 3: that was really weird. It was like the ghost of Elvis.
Speaker 3: Elvis Presley visited the building. It was shake, rattle, and roll.
Speaker 3: We had a four point seven earthquake in Malibubu. So
Speaker 3: the cameras are shaken, the lights are rattling, the chair
Speaker 3: is rolling. We'd never lost connection to Ball, so the
Speaker 3: line stayed up. We were still connected to Vinnie and
Speaker 3: the people that produced the show at NBC Sports Boston,
Speaker 3: So that was good. The other thing that freaked me out.
Speaker 3: And I've never gotten this message before. And I live
Speaker 3: in earthquake country, and I'm around earthquakes because I live here.
Speaker 3: I've had many of them my entire life, and I'll
Speaker 3: have many more.
Speaker 1: If I keep going here.
Speaker 3: But as the earthquake is happening, Looney says, we're having
Speaker 3: an earthquake. Everything's shaken, you know, the whole thing. And
Speaker 3: my phone starts buzzing Emergency alert, emergency alert text message.
Speaker 1: I'm like, what the hell.
Speaker 3: As the earthquake is happening, it says, earthquake detected, drop cover,
Speaker 3: hold on, Protect yourself, USGS Shake Alert, USGS Shake Alert.
Speaker 3: So as I am there preparing for the TV show
Speaker 3: about to start the open saying hey, it's week three,
Speaker 3: thanks for watching, blah blah blah blah blah, earthquake happens,
Speaker 3: I get a text message at that moment. So Big
Speaker 3: Brother is watching. They know where you are, and they
Speaker 3: are ready to send you a message. And it reminded
Speaker 3: me of years ago in Hawaii, Aloha, remember the story
Speaker 3: that somebody effed up and they sent out a massive
Speaker 3: text to everyone in Hawaii that said, if I remember correctly,
Speaker 3: it was like ballistic missile threat inbound the Hawaii seek
Speaker 3: immediate shelter.
Speaker 1: This is not a drill.
Speaker 3: And so that is a lesson that God forbid we
Speaker 3: ever live and end times where armageddon actually happened and
Speaker 3: one of these assholes sends military like nuclear bombs out
Speaker 3: and destroys our world. That is how we will know
Speaker 3: the world's about. Then we'll get a text message that Melissa,
Speaker 3: missile coming inbound. That's how it's gonna go. You're gonna
Speaker 3: get a message on your iPhone or your droid telling
Speaker 3: you what's going on. Now. Anyway, with this, and we
Speaker 3: did the show, and speaking of that bloopers and practical jokes. Now,
Speaker 3: I bring this up because again, this is the official
Speaker 3: Companion podcast who the debriefing of the mall of militia
Speaker 3: behind the scenes stuff. So I'm giving you this and
Speaker 3: I'm not sure if it's in the show. What I'm
Speaker 3: about to tell you it might not be in the show.
Speaker 3: And if it's not in the show. You can send
Speaker 3: me a nasty message and say, hey, dumb ass, it
Speaker 3: wasn't in the show, and I'll say, Okay, you're right,
Speaker 3: I shouldn't have said that. But I haven't seen the
Speaker 3: show because I've been so busy with the radio stuff
Speaker 3: and preparing for this podcast. But I'm relatively confident, not
Speaker 3: one hundred percent, but I'm relatively confident that we had
Speaker 3: Looney Tunes Magic my favorite mom this weeks show. I'm
Speaker 3: going to tell you exactly when it happened. Again, this
Speaker 3: is I haven't seen the final cut, so it might
Speaker 3: not have been there. But we were doing the Patriot
Speaker 3: Seahawk game, which will be played on Sunday, and a
Speaker 3: couple of teams that are off to one or no starts,
Speaker 3: and I want you to listen to when Looney's there
Speaker 3: and watch Looney because he's doing the commentary setting me
Speaker 3: up to handicap the game. And it was in my
Speaker 3: head comedy goal because Looney's trying to be mister, you know,
Speaker 3: football guy, and he Looney's there for entertainment purposes only,
Speaker 3: and he's trying to be the football guy. And he
Speaker 3: said the thing you can't say at the time you
Speaker 3: can't say it. I thought it came across as pretty funny.
Speaker 3: I tried to clean up the spill on Aisle seven
Speaker 3: from Tom. I was like, this is a spill on
Speaker 3: Aisle seven. I better clean that up. So that'll be
Speaker 3: on today's show. And remember the premiere episode for today's
Speaker 3: show on our flagship NBC Sports Boston is six pm,
Speaker 3: right after Felger and Maz We're gonna really soak that.
Speaker 3: We're really gonna enjoy that. Soak that up because once
Speaker 3: the Celtics start playing, I'm guessing we're getting bumped. I'm
Speaker 3: guessing we're gonna get bumped. But that's prime TV real estate.
Speaker 3: It's also on NBC Sports Philadelphia tonight late night. Forget
Speaker 3: those late night shows. It's eleven thirty tonight on NBC
Speaker 3: Sports Philadelphia.
Speaker 1: We'll be on there.
Speaker 3: Also the first showing on regional cable television our friends
Speaker 3: in San Francisco in the Bay Area on NBC Sports
Speaker 3: Bay Area at twelve thirty pm this afternoon lunchtime. You
Speaker 3: can have a hogi and watch the show. And then
Speaker 3: again at six pm, just before the Giants, the Higantas
Speaker 3: take on the Pod Squad and they'll be pregame coverage
Speaker 3: after that. But we are on at six o'clock and
Speaker 3: as always, streaming on Taycock. That's right, the show streaming
Speaker 3: on Peacock now, with that as the perfect lead into
Speaker 3: this Malor follow up.
Speaker 1: Malard follow up.
Speaker 3: Mentioned this in a previous episode of the show. There
Speaker 3: was a bit of a quagmire, people complaining about the
Speaker 3: access on Peacock to the show, the soft underbelly of BVP,
Speaker 3: and if you missed last week's episode of the show
Speaker 3: something like this.
Speaker 1: It was a series of.
Speaker 3: Emails saying, what do we want Benny versus the penny
Speaker 3: on Peacock? When do we want it now? Well, your
Speaker 3: voice was heard. Now you are about to hear the
Speaker 3: rest of the story. It turns out that those chants
Speaker 3: are accurate. There ain't no power like the power of
Speaker 3: the people. Because the power of the people don't stop.
Speaker 3: Say what if we don't get no BVP, you don't
Speaker 3: get no peace? Well, good news. Let there be peace
Speaker 3: and harmony in the world. I'm very proud of you
Speaker 3: for complaining. I reached out to my contact at NBC,
Speaker 3: one of the senior management guys who's a big part
Speaker 3: of the show, who Tom called a consultant on last
Speaker 3: week's episode. But his name is John wonderful man, great guy.
Speaker 3: He used to work on the Philadelphia Phillies television broadcast.
Speaker 3: He's told me some great stories about traveling with the
Speaker 3: Phillies back in the day. They've had some crazy characters
Speaker 3: and when he did it, they were pretty bad, pretty
Speaker 3: bad Philadelphia Philly teams. But he's got great memories and
Speaker 3: he shared a lot of those with me, you know,
Speaker 3: a few times over the years. So that's pretty cool.
Speaker 3: So I reached out to John. I'm like, hey, John,
Speaker 3: we got a problem. Yeah, what's the problem? I said, Well,
Speaker 3: you know, I'm promoting the crap out of this TV
Speaker 3: show on the radio show. I'm trying to get people
Speaker 3: to watch, you know, and I'm getting these people that
Speaker 3: are complaining. They're like, I can't find it on Peacock
Speaker 3: and I'm like, well, one guy even said he reached
Speaker 3: out to customer service for Peacock and they said that
Speaker 3: they don't carry the show. And I said, this is
Speaker 3: making me look bad. And it's not even really about
Speaker 3: making me look bad. It's just like it's you know,
Speaker 3: it's bad customer service. And so Johnson, he said, you
Speaker 3: know you're right, He says, I couldn't even find the
Speaker 3: show and I work here and he's like a big
Speaker 3: boss at NBCs. I couldn't find it. He says, I'll
Speaker 3: tell you what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna reach out
Speaker 3: to I have a contact who's at that part of NBC.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna reach out to them and hand a guy
Speaker 3: within a few hours, John, I don't know what he
Speaker 3: did by I kind of doing know what he did,
Speaker 3: but he fixed it. He solved the conundrum. The quagmire
Speaker 3: had ended, and it was one of those moments that's
Speaker 3: a small thing and you're like, well, who really cares?
Speaker 3: You know, It's like yeah, but it was a big deal.
Speaker 3: It was very refreshing. And now Alf the Alien, Opiner
Speaker 3: and Ferg Dog and Terry in England and Late Night
Speaker 3: Drug Tester and all you other guys that are pe ones.
Speaker 3: Now all you all you boys Masshole Mickey that listen
Speaker 3: to this show religiously and support what we do here.
Speaker 3: Blind Scott trying to trying to think who else that
Speaker 3: regular If I can only get the same service from
Speaker 3: my friends that are corporate here at iHeart right, because
Speaker 3: how long have we been trying to get that tire
Speaker 3: rack commercial change, the one that says winter is coming,
Speaker 3: that has been playing year round.
Speaker 1: So I've had I've had no success.
Speaker 3: I've sent multiple emails, I have sent text messages to
Speaker 3: people that should know that don't know. It's it's it's
Speaker 3: wild and crazy. It's wild and crazy. Well, we will
Speaker 3: get that fixed. I guess we don't have to fix
Speaker 3: it now because we're in September, it's almost fall, and then.
Speaker 1: It's going to be winter before you know it.
Speaker 3: So I guess they just leave it in, just just
Speaker 3: leave it right there, and and that's that right now.
Speaker 3: The King of Random, the King of Random. So I
Speaker 3: wanted to spend a few minutes on this now. Years ago,
Speaker 3: there was a YouTuber I watched a fair amount of
Speaker 3: YouTube stuff when I'm at the gym because I don't
Speaker 3: have all the different streaming things on my phone other
Speaker 3: than pretty much YouTube and like.
Speaker 1: Amazon, and that's about it.
Speaker 3: So anyway, I used to love this guy called the
Speaker 3: King of Random, but unfortunately he's dead now.
Speaker 1: He died years ago in a plane accident.
Speaker 3: It was flying some as I remember, he was a pilot,
Speaker 3: and then he became famous on YouTube. He made a
Speaker 3: lot of money, so he stopped being a pilot. But
Speaker 3: he was futzing around with an experimental plane, as I remember,
Speaker 3: and turned out the plane was experimental for a reason,
Speaker 3: did not work, and unfortunately he died.
Speaker 1: But he had a great YouTube channel.
Speaker 3: I think it's still around, but it's I haven't Once
Speaker 3: he died, I watched it for him, and that was that.
Speaker 1: I'm sure there's good people on there. Now.
Speaker 3: I assume I don't know, but I felt on this
Speaker 3: random hole of inventions that weren't supposed to happen that
Speaker 3: have changed the world. And I'm into this kind of crap.
Speaker 1: I'm into it.
Speaker 3: I like this kind of stuff. Last week we talked
Speaker 3: about the birthplace of the cheeseburger in Los Angeles, like Raindom,
Speaker 3: benign stuff like that. I mean, and you know, Danny's
Speaker 3: not here today, but he'll be in tomorrow. He knows
Speaker 3: the same thing. We're both into that kind of stuff.
Speaker 3: So with that said, here's a few that I found.
Speaker 3: And some of these I knew. Some of these I
Speaker 3: knew others not. Others were new to me, and I
Speaker 3: thought I'd enjoy this. You might have heard some of these,
Speaker 3: depending on how old you are, and how wise and
Speaker 3: how savvy you are. You might have heard some of these,
Speaker 3: but I think you'll you'll still appreciate it. How about penicillin.
Speaker 3: Pennascillin was discovered by somebody named Alexander Fleming do that is,
Speaker 3: but he was using some He was using a Petrie dish,
Speaker 3: and some mold became contaminated and in the Petri dish, penicillin,
Speaker 3: I think most of us know, is made out of
Speaker 3: moldy bread, and that turns out to be I'm allergic
Speaker 3: to penicillin.
Speaker 1: But for many people it's been a game changer.
Speaker 3: It's saved a lot of people lives, and it was
Speaker 3: discovered on accident when mold accidentally contaminated the Petri dish.
Speaker 3: The chocolate chip cookie, the epitome of a cookie is
Speaker 3: the chocolate chip cookie, created by the lovely Ruth Wakefield
Speaker 3: in the Commonwealth, who accidentally added chocolate chunks to cookie
Speaker 3: dough and the rest is history. All these years later,
Speaker 3: the chocolate chip cookie. The microwave oven was invented by
Speaker 3: this guy named Percy Spencer. After a radar melted his
Speaker 3: delicious chocolate bar that he was waiting to eat in
Speaker 3: his pocket. He went to eat the chocolate bar and
Speaker 3: all of a sudden it was melted. Like, wait a minute,
Speaker 3: we got something here, And sure enough, most homes have
Speaker 3: a microwave. Velcro Velcrow was inspired when Burrs stuck to
Speaker 3: this dude's clothing and it inspired him to create what
Speaker 3: became velcro. Coca cola is a famous one. Coca Cola
Speaker 3: was invented by a pharmacist in Georgia who was trying
Speaker 3: to create a headache remedy and had some cocaine in
Speaker 3: there and this tastes pretty good. Yeah, all these years later,
Speaker 3: they don't drink as much coca cola the unwashed, but
Speaker 3: still selling a lot of coke products.
Speaker 1: Potato chips, how about this one. I didn't know this one.
Speaker 3: Potato chips invented by somebody named George Crumb. And how
Speaker 3: did that go? Some customer was a schmuck and complained
Speaker 3: that his fries were too thick. So this guy, George
Speaker 3: Crumbs like, all right, you know what I'm gonna show you.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna cut these potatoes so thin. And then Cia
Speaker 3: liked those, buddy, and then that became the potato chip.
Speaker 1: Teta.
Speaker 3: You have vulcanized rubber Charles Goodyear. What a great name, Goodyear,
Speaker 3: Charles Goodyear. Thank god he didn't have a crap last name.
Speaker 3: That Goodyear brand all these years later, still very popular anyway,
Speaker 3: Charles Goodyear accidentally dropped rubber and sulfur onto a hot
Speaker 3: stove and abracadabra hocus pocused vulcanized rubber, just like that
Speaker 3: vulcanized rubber. There's some others, but those are some of
Speaker 3: the things here. That's from the you know, the rabbit
Speaker 3: hole in tribute and omah to that late YouTuber.
Speaker 1: The King of Random, the King of Random.
Speaker 3: All right, we've got to get to this. It is
Speaker 3: very important. The idiom. Actually no, the phrase the phrase
Speaker 3: of the week.
Speaker 1: I the phrase of the week.
Speaker 3: All right, praise of the week without breaking a stride.
Speaker 3: This is from an emailer, Murray D says, Hi, Ben
Speaker 3: and Danny G. I was wondering where the phrase get
Speaker 3: out of Dodge comes from. That is Murray D, signed Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Murray,
Speaker 3: you have reached out to us a few times over
Speaker 3: the years, and you have a competitive advantage when I
Speaker 3: see that you listen to this podcast and the radio
Speaker 3: show in Saskatoon.
Speaker 1: One of the great names of a city.
Speaker 3: And I don't want to go down that that particular
Speaker 3: rabbit hole right now, but let me just tell you
Speaker 3: the Saskatoon name is right up there with Rancho, Cucamonga,
Speaker 3: beaver Dam, the Sheboygan. There's certain cities in places that
Speaker 3: are just wonderful, that are super califragilistic, XBALI docious, right
Speaker 3: as Mary Poppins would say, say, Murray, get to the point,
Speaker 3: please get out of Dodge.
Speaker 1: Get out of Dodge. Where did that come from?
Speaker 3: So the Malor Investigative Bureau was activated, was activated, and
Speaker 3: I did get some intel on this, so I will
Speaker 3: share it with you right now. The phrase get out
Speaker 3: of Dodge originated Is it about the Dodge automobile? No,
Speaker 3: it's not get out of a Dodge car. It originated
Speaker 3: in Dodge City, Kansas. The word or the phrase actually
Speaker 3: the phrase get out of Dodge, which is forwards. It
Speaker 3: originated over one hundred and fifty years ago. It was
Speaker 3: in the eighteen seventies, sometime in the eighteen seventies around
Speaker 3: that time. And if you're unfamiliar with the term, it's
Speaker 3: rather obvious. It's used to describe leaving a place that's
Speaker 3: uncomfortable or dangerous. Okay, it turns out that Dodge City,
Speaker 3: Canas never been I've been to Kansas, but I've never
Speaker 3: been to Dutch City, Canas. Dodge City was a cowtown
Speaker 3: in the eighteen seventies, and there were cowboys in the
Speaker 3: eighteen seventies, right, I think about the Industrial Revolution and
Speaker 3: when cities really started being built up. It wasn't around
Speaker 3: that time, but it was a little later on. So anyway,
Speaker 3: in the eighteen seventies, you had the cowboys out there
Speaker 3: doing their thing, and they would bring the cattle to
Speaker 3: the railroads in Dodge City, and they would go there
Speaker 3: because they'd have to ship the cattle to the East.
Speaker 1: So the good people of.
Speaker 3: Boston and New York and Philadelphia and Washington and all
Speaker 3: the other eastern cities had access to the cattle.
Speaker 1: To eat their meat.
Speaker 3: And it became because of this a boomtown.
Speaker 1: Yeah. How crazy is that?
Speaker 3: Dodge City, Kansas in the eighteen seventies, what's considered.
Speaker 1: A boom town? Like that's that's kind of cool, right,
Speaker 1: I don't think of that now.
Speaker 3: But the other thing is, because of the fact that
Speaker 3: they had the railroads and the cattle and all that
Speaker 3: was a boomtown, but it was also known as a
Speaker 3: deep dark place, one of the most dangerous cowtowns in
Speaker 3: the Midwest.
Speaker 1: Dodge City.
Speaker 3: Now the reason, as the legend goes the legend of
Speaker 3: Dodge City. It was ruled by Bat Masterson. That's a
Speaker 3: great name. That sounds like his fake name, Bat Masterson.
Speaker 3: And Wyatt Earp. Now I know who Wyatt urpis. We
Speaker 3: all know who Wyatt Urpi is, right, I mean, that's
Speaker 3: a that is a big one.
Speaker 1: That is a big one. In the cowboy Jacques, that
Speaker 1: is a absolute big one.
Speaker 3: Anyway, these guys, if you don't know, they were the
Speaker 3: most feared hoodlums, desperadoes, peace officers.
Speaker 1: But the phrase was also used.
Speaker 3: What really became mainstream was in the dramatic television series
Speaker 3: gun Smoke, when the heroes wanted villains.
Speaker 1: Out of Dodge City. You gotta get out of Dodge City.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so I looked up some other fun facts Murray,
Speaker 3: since I started going down this rabbit hole about Dodge City, Kansas.
Speaker 1: This is the great Murray and Saskatoon.
Speaker 3: The first building built in Dodge City was a log
Speaker 3: cabin saloon called the White Elephant Saloon.
Speaker 1: What a great name. What a great name like that?
Speaker 3: A lot and Dodge City at one time or another
Speaker 3: in many of those who participated in the Dodge City War.
Speaker 3: There was a Dodge City War in eighteen eighty three,
Speaker 3: so that's after get out of Dodge became a thing.
Speaker 3: But this was a city of debauchery. They had the saloons,
Speaker 3: the gambling halls, the brothels. There was a place called
Speaker 3: the Long Branch Saloon and the China Doll brothel. That
Speaker 3: just sounds city. That just sounds a CD. The town
Speaker 3: was named after Colonel Samuel H. Dodge, who helped to
Speaker 3: establish it as the as a city in eighteen seventy two.
Speaker 1: So that's some fun facts.
Speaker 3: And the amount of people that live in Dodge City,
Speaker 3: Kansas today, how many people do you think lived there?
Speaker 3: Do you have a guess? Murray in Saskatoon. Now, this
Speaker 3: town that is known as a wild frontier town of
Speaker 3: the Old West, currently has an estimated popular of less
Speaker 3: than thirty thousand, less than it's about half the crowd
Speaker 3: in an NFL game, about half the crowd an NFL game,
Speaker 3: and it's called the wickedest little city in America. Got
Speaker 3: a bunch of nicknames. The cowboy, Cowbody, Capital of the World,
Speaker 3: King of Cowtowns. I've been going on and on. So
Speaker 3: there it is, Dodge City. I don't know that it'll
Speaker 3: ever be there, but that's it. Thank you very much, Murray,
Speaker 3: thank you for listening. Have a wonderful Friday. Don't forget
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Speaker 1: I'm willing to accept that. Hey, we have a wonderful
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Speaker 3: I didn't get to today that I save for the
Speaker 3: Saturday pod, and a whole bunch more. Anyway, have a wonderful,
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Speaker 1: You next time.
Speaker 3: And what does Danny say, Oh, that's right, Austa Asta,
Speaker 3: did I.
Speaker 1: Do it right? I think I did it right. I
Speaker 1: did it right right wrong? No, all right later, skater
Speaker 1: gotta murder, I gotta go