WEBVTT - The Fifth Hour: American Pie, David & Roscoe Tribute 0:00:00.640 --> 0:00:01.400 Kabbooms. 0:00:02.240 --> 0:00:05.320 If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes 0:00:05.360 --> 0:00:09.120 a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants 0:00:09.160 --> 0:00:12.440 of the old republic, a sole fashion of fairness. 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Two games day, all 0:01:01.120 --> 0:01:01.680 the marbles. 0:01:01.680 --> 0:01:02.880 You want to know who I like? 0:01:03.480 --> 0:01:09.119 A tremendous weekend of Benny Versus the Penny A masterclass. 0:01:09.200 --> 0:01:11.800 Now some of you have reached out and said, what 0:01:12.000 --> 0:01:15.640 did you make two episodes of Penny Versus the Penny? 0:01:15.680 --> 0:01:18.080 You only needed one episode? I don't know. I don't 0:01:18.280 --> 0:01:22.399 like that. Slow your role number one number two. 0:01:23.360 --> 0:01:28.760 The reason we did that is because of the outgo rhythms. 0:01:29.080 --> 0:01:29.600 I believe. 0:01:30.040 --> 0:01:34.200 I've been studying up on trickeration with YouTube and all that, 0:01:34.480 --> 0:01:38.760 and so the more episodes you have and the more 0:01:38.880 --> 0:01:42.120 views that you get, the better that you're doing. And 0:01:42.200 --> 0:01:45.360 then it all is tied together, the dew hickeys, the 0:01:45.360 --> 0:01:46.839 thing of my jigs, all that stuff. 0:01:46.880 --> 0:01:49.520 So that is why we are doing it. 0:01:49.520 --> 0:01:52.600 It's each episode is not very long, and you watch 0:01:52.680 --> 0:01:56.120 the AFC, it should roll into the NFC or vice versa, 0:01:56.720 --> 0:01:57.720 so help us out on that. 0:01:57.840 --> 0:01:58.320 Check it out. 0:01:58.360 --> 0:02:04.480 It's Benny Versus the Penny. It's on the YouTube global 0:02:04.520 --> 0:02:07.800 audience on YouTube. We are not paying for followers like 0:02:07.880 --> 0:02:11.280 so many of you frauds on YouTube, which have exceptional 0:02:11.760 --> 0:02:13.720 download numbers out of this world. 0:02:13.960 --> 0:02:14.600 We don't do this. 0:02:14.760 --> 0:02:18.119 Everyone that's watching, we assume is a real human being, 0:02:18.160 --> 0:02:19.440 so we're trying to build that up. 0:02:19.760 --> 0:02:21.360 So check out Benny Versus the Penny. 0:02:21.400 --> 0:02:24.880 On this episode of the Fifth Hour podcast, we've got 0:02:25.000 --> 0:02:30.720 mister American Pie and into the Parrot's nest, which is 0:02:31.680 --> 0:02:36.120 quite the plot twist. But we begin with this so 0:02:36.200 --> 0:02:40.200 certain days on the calendar they feel fake until you 0:02:40.280 --> 0:02:42.920 think about them for more than I don't know, twelve seconds. 0:02:42.960 --> 0:02:46.000 So I bring this up as I'm looking for things 0:02:46.320 --> 0:02:50.120 that interest me for the podcast. I came across National 0:02:50.280 --> 0:02:55.160 Pie Day, not the math. Pie today is National Pie Day. 0:02:55.639 --> 0:02:59.400 Delicious pie. It's one of those days. At first glance, 0:03:00.200 --> 0:03:03.720 it is something that you assume was invented by big 0:03:03.760 --> 0:03:08.320 Dessert in America, Big dessert, not big Pharma, big dessert 0:03:08.360 --> 0:03:10.320 to sell more whipped cream. 0:03:10.919 --> 0:03:11.320 Why not? 0:03:12.040 --> 0:03:16.200 Then you start looking around and you remember that pie 0:03:16.680 --> 0:03:21.720 is basically America's emotional support food, and suddenly it all 0:03:21.760 --> 0:03:25.640 makes perfect sense. It does so in honor of a 0:03:26.000 --> 0:03:33.640 National Pie Day today. Pie is woven in to my 0:03:33.919 --> 0:03:36.280 muscle memory, and I think all of our muscle memory. 0:03:36.360 --> 0:03:40.240 Right in America, we have a song literally called American Pie, 0:03:41.000 --> 0:03:48.800 American Pie, which somehow became this long history lesson you 0:03:49.000 --> 0:03:52.720 sing along with it. It's very gatchy at the campfire. 0:03:53.640 --> 0:03:58.119 It's a cultural test, all of that rolled. 0:03:57.880 --> 0:04:00.680 In one and in America. 0:04:01.040 --> 0:04:04.440 As wholesome as apple pie is, American is apple pie, 0:04:04.520 --> 0:04:10.560 right And even though apples are not native to North America, 0:04:10.680 --> 0:04:15.680 they're an invasive species, the apple. And that's peak Americana 0:04:15.800 --> 0:04:19.080 right there. We borrow something we in our head, we 0:04:19.120 --> 0:04:22.680 improve it, and we now own it. And pie is 0:04:22.760 --> 0:04:24.920 really old when I started going down this rabbit hole 0:04:24.920 --> 0:04:28.560 for National Pie Day. Like when I say really really old, 0:04:28.640 --> 0:04:30.640 I am talking about ancient Rome. 0:04:31.520 --> 0:04:33.440 Old, like the ancient Romans. 0:04:34.080 --> 0:04:38.760 We're eating pie, although they're pie, we're talking about goat, cheese, 0:04:38.880 --> 0:04:46.760 honey rye, and something called placenta, which sounds like you 0:04:46.960 --> 0:04:50.640 need to call an ambulance. There's some kind of medical 0:04:50.680 --> 0:04:52.320 condition with the placenta. 0:04:53.640 --> 0:04:57.719 As I was amused by breathing about this. 0:04:58.000 --> 0:05:02.160 Apparently it was like cheesecake, So the ancient Romans had 0:05:02.160 --> 0:05:07.280 their own cheesecake factory. And back then the crust was 0:05:07.400 --> 0:05:12.320 like tupperware. You weren't supposed to eat it. It was 0:05:12.360 --> 0:05:16.200 more like the container to keep the meat from turning 0:05:16.279 --> 0:05:21.719 into I guess charcoal or whatever. And they didn't instagram 0:05:21.800 --> 0:05:25.440 photos of this back in forty BC, so we just 0:05:25.520 --> 0:05:28.920 have to go by the historians putting all this together. 0:05:30.160 --> 0:05:33.359 Crust was the I guess, the shipping box you'd get 0:05:33.440 --> 0:05:36.920 when you get your Amazon delivery of food. And then 0:05:37.440 --> 0:05:40.400 later on, many years later, England picked up the pie 0:05:40.400 --> 0:05:43.560 baton and the relay race of the pie. Big Pie 0:05:44.240 --> 0:05:48.839 the twelfth century promptly filled pies with mystery meat. 0:05:49.080 --> 0:05:51.239 What's in the pie, not what's. 0:05:51.080 --> 0:05:53.400 In the box, what's in the pie, mystery meat, which 0:05:53.440 --> 0:05:58.600 led to urban legends, bad vibrations, and likely heartburn. And 0:05:58.640 --> 0:06:01.880 then our friends the pure Tins crossed the Mighty Atlantic 0:06:01.960 --> 0:06:02.760 and they said, you. 0:06:02.760 --> 0:06:04.640 Know what we're gonna bring with us Pie? 0:06:05.000 --> 0:06:07.960 They brought pie, because of course, why would you not 0:06:08.040 --> 0:06:08.640 bring pie? 0:06:09.040 --> 0:06:11.640 And then there's the twist. The first Thanksgiving. 0:06:11.920 --> 0:06:13.719 I knew this years ago, but I was reminded of 0:06:13.760 --> 0:06:16.839 it the very first th Thanksgiving. They did not have 0:06:17.880 --> 0:06:20.200 sweet pie like I would think they would be sitting 0:06:20.200 --> 0:06:24.320 around eating yams and pumpkin pie and all that stuff. Well, 0:06:24.360 --> 0:06:28.640 pumpkin pie did not really hit until the eighteen hundreds. 0:06:29.400 --> 0:06:35.800 So if you're annoyed by pumpkin pie Thanksgiving, you can 0:06:35.880 --> 0:06:39.080 blame progress. You can blame progress. So we continue here 0:06:39.400 --> 0:06:45.159 on National Pie Day. Modern American, right, Modern America. This 0:06:45.200 --> 0:06:50.880 is where pie became the thing and and sweet pies 0:06:51.240 --> 0:06:56.520 are the dominator. They run the show. The savory pie 0:06:56.560 --> 0:07:00.920 are hanging out like the weird cousin who moved far away, 0:07:01.240 --> 0:07:03.799 and you see them once in a while. And somehow, 0:07:03.839 --> 0:07:08.320 despite all of these artists in bakeries, at least where 0:07:08.320 --> 0:07:10.560 I am in La there's a lot of artists and 0:07:10.600 --> 0:07:16.560 bakeries and nine dollars slices and all that stuff. The 0:07:16.760 --> 0:07:21.920 MVP of pie still comes from the frozen aisle that 0:07:22.360 --> 0:07:24.200 Sarah Lee is the. 0:07:24.200 --> 0:07:25.480 Queen of the pie game. 0:07:25.880 --> 0:07:30.360 With Marie Calendars chasing after Sarah Lee, they're in a 0:07:30.360 --> 0:07:32.360 cat fight. And then you've got or I guess, a 0:07:32.360 --> 0:07:35.560 pie fight, and then you've got Missus Smith, the leader 0:07:35.560 --> 0:07:40.480 in the clubhouse of I'll just heat this up real quick, 0:07:41.440 --> 0:07:43.280 or I'll let it defrost. 0:07:43.360 --> 0:07:44.200 If it's in the freezer. 0:07:44.440 --> 0:07:48.000 So, in terms of the rankings, because America loves rankings 0:07:48.080 --> 0:07:51.160 almost as much as it loves pie, not a list, 0:07:51.520 --> 0:07:54.080 not a list to Terry in England, not a list. 0:07:54.160 --> 0:07:57.240 These are rankings, which is much different than a list. 0:07:57.240 --> 0:07:59.760 It's also not Big Men's Big board. It's also not 0:07:59.800 --> 0:08:03.880 Big Ben's Big board. So apple pie is the Swiss 0:08:04.000 --> 0:08:07.640 Army Knife of the pie community. You can have apple 0:08:07.720 --> 0:08:10.040 pie with literally any meal. 0:08:09.880 --> 0:08:10.520 Of the day. 0:08:10.600 --> 0:08:13.800 It works in any situation. There's something there. It's like 0:08:13.800 --> 0:08:17.600 a Swiss army knife. There's a tool for any job 0:08:17.680 --> 0:08:21.320 that you need, and the apple pie you want to 0:08:21.360 --> 0:08:23.160 have it with your eggs and bacon in the morning, 0:08:23.200 --> 0:08:24.680 you can do that. If that's what you eat, you 0:08:24.680 --> 0:08:27.280 can have it with you as your dessert. You can 0:08:27.320 --> 0:08:30.600 have it with lunch or dinner. You can throw some 0:08:30.640 --> 0:08:33.920 ice cream on top. It literally works in any way. 0:08:34.200 --> 0:08:39.240 You watch now number two on the rankings banana cream 0:08:39.280 --> 0:08:43.920 pie perfection. That is the Michael Jordan Bolls of desserts 0:08:44.440 --> 0:08:47.440 from back in the day. Then you've got pecan pie, 0:08:47.520 --> 0:08:52.520 very controversial pecan pie. For many, pecan pie is a 0:08:52.559 --> 0:08:54.680 once in a while situation. Even for me, I don't 0:08:54.679 --> 0:08:58.800 see pecan pie. It's like a holiday specialist. If you're 0:08:58.800 --> 0:09:01.280 a baseball fan, you might remember they got rid of 0:09:01.280 --> 0:09:04.960 this baseball because of the rules the nerd Rob Manford 0:09:05.000 --> 0:09:05.280 put in. 0:09:05.600 --> 0:09:06.400 But the lugi. 0:09:06.559 --> 0:09:10.760 Remember the lugi in baseball, like Jesse Orosco if you 0:09:10.760 --> 0:09:14.560 know that he was a lugie lefty one out guy 0:09:14.679 --> 0:09:18.280 is called the lugi. So you bring the pecan pie 0:09:18.320 --> 0:09:21.720 in to get one meal out at a holiday in 0:09:21.800 --> 0:09:26.040 November and possibly again in December, and then that's it. 0:09:26.120 --> 0:09:28.079 And then the lugi just kind of sits there in 0:09:28.120 --> 0:09:30.920 the bullpen and waits to be called out. Now, occasionally 0:09:30.920 --> 0:09:34.640 the lugis called in for Fourth of July. Occasionally you 0:09:34.640 --> 0:09:36.720 get the Lugi for the Fourth of July, but very rarely. 0:09:36.920 --> 0:09:42.520 The mud pie is just a whole bunch of chocolate 0:09:42.600 --> 0:09:46.800 moose and it's got the sweatpants with the elastic on it. 0:09:46.880 --> 0:09:50.200 Then you've got Lemon Mering, which is like a jazz album, 0:09:50.679 --> 0:09:56.680 Lemon Ring not for everybody, however, unforgettable if you're into it, hey, 0:09:56.679 --> 0:09:58.800 come on now. Then you got pumpkin, which is just 0:09:58.880 --> 0:10:02.160 I'm not a big pumpkin guy, very seasonal. You know, 0:10:02.320 --> 0:10:06.359 it's a Thanksgiving thing. Cherry pie is way too inconsistent. 0:10:07.360 --> 0:10:10.320 Cherry pie has a very high ceiling a low floor. 0:10:10.360 --> 0:10:14.320 There's other fruit pies like strawberry pie, which is not 0:10:14.480 --> 0:10:17.880 high up blueberry pie. And there's also some fun facts 0:10:17.960 --> 0:10:21.480 that are absolutely absurd. One hundred and eighty six million 0:10:21.600 --> 0:10:26.280 pies are sold every year in America. Now, to put 0:10:26.280 --> 0:10:31.480 that in perspective, nearly half of Americans fine pie comforting, 0:10:32.280 --> 0:10:35.240 which I mean, say what you want about that. You 0:10:35.280 --> 0:10:38.040 can do a whole dissertation on that. One in five 0:10:38.120 --> 0:10:42.320 Americans have eaten an entire pie alone. Anyone who want 0:10:42.360 --> 0:10:45.800 to raise your hand, my hands raised, no judgment. I 0:10:46.440 --> 0:10:48.160 give you respect. I've done it when I was at 0:10:48.200 --> 0:10:52.199 my fattest. I hit a whole pie by myself nine percent. 0:10:52.440 --> 0:10:55.000 Eat the crust first. I bet you that ferg dog 0:10:55.040 --> 0:10:57.440 eats the crust first. I bet you I do too. 0:10:57.480 --> 0:11:01.880 I like the crust, buttery crust, way to go. There's 0:11:01.960 --> 0:11:04.920 even a myth about pie. I learned on National Pie 0:11:05.000 --> 0:11:08.800 Day today that someone named Oliver Cromwell. 0:11:08.880 --> 0:11:09.400 I've heard of that. 0:11:09.440 --> 0:11:13.920 There's the Cromwell Cromwell Hotel in Vegas. But Oliver Cromwell 0:11:14.840 --> 0:11:20.440 banned pie in sixteen forty four for being too fun, 0:11:21.240 --> 0:11:23.120 which is just perfect, is it not. 0:11:23.320 --> 0:11:25.080 You know, we need to be serious. 0:11:25.080 --> 0:11:26.760 And then of course there were religious battles, but it 0:11:26.760 --> 0:11:30.080 was about pie, which just feels wonderful. 0:11:30.120 --> 0:11:33.800 It's on brand. You know. If it's not true, you 0:11:33.880 --> 0:11:37.800 know fine. Whatever. Of course, someone tried to cancel pie. 0:11:38.679 --> 0:11:39.640 We live in the age. 0:11:39.440 --> 0:11:42.600 Where they're still trying to cancel things. Not as much anymore, 0:11:42.640 --> 0:11:46.600 but you get the point. And so anyway, celebrate guil Free, 0:11:47.240 --> 0:11:50.680 have a big giant piece of pie, because pie is 0:11:50.720 --> 0:11:53.960 not just any dessert. You can get your cake and 0:11:54.000 --> 0:11:56.079 your cupcakes and your cookies and all that stuff. 0:11:56.160 --> 0:12:00.880 Pie is nostalgia. You're honoring America with pies. Pie. 0:12:01.160 --> 0:12:04.840 It's tradition, and you know it's one you get the 0:12:04.960 --> 0:12:06.559 flaky crust sometimes there. 0:12:06.720 --> 0:12:10.439 It's one of the if not the most American dessert. 0:12:10.920 --> 0:12:12.400 Apple pie. It's the way to go. 0:12:13.040 --> 0:12:14.960 All right now, turning the page on that, I did 0:12:15.000 --> 0:12:17.680 want to spend a couple of minutes going to a 0:12:17.720 --> 0:12:20.200 place I did not think I was going to go to. 0:12:20.280 --> 0:12:21.880 I did not think I was going to go to 0:12:21.920 --> 0:12:24.880 this place. So there are days in this wacky radio 0:12:25.000 --> 0:12:29.040 world when I'm very bad about writing back to people, 0:12:29.080 --> 0:12:29.959 and I apologize. 0:12:30.520 --> 0:12:33.120 I say that, you know, it annoys me. I wish 0:12:33.200 --> 0:12:34.720 I was better. I'm not very busy. 0:12:34.720 --> 0:12:37.640 I've limited time, so usually I'll open up my inbox 0:12:38.120 --> 0:12:41.400 and I'll just kind of scan it, and I'll occasionally 0:12:41.400 --> 0:12:44.040 I'll write back to somebody. So I opened up the mailbox, 0:12:44.800 --> 0:12:47.120 and you open things up, you expect a lot of 0:12:47.200 --> 0:12:51.760 junk mail, check complaints. I get, why did you do 0:12:51.840 --> 0:12:56.559 that monologue? Why didn't you say this? You should have 0:12:56.600 --> 0:12:59.400 said this, You didn't say this? People complaining about my 0:12:59.480 --> 0:13:03.240 hot take. There's people that have great conspiracy theories that 0:13:03.280 --> 0:13:03.920 reach out to me. 0:13:03.960 --> 0:13:06.760 There's people that recommend topics for monologues. 0:13:07.280 --> 0:13:09.800 I get all this on my inbox that's Benmathershow at 0:13:09.800 --> 0:13:12.480 gmail dot com. Every once in a while I'll get 0:13:12.480 --> 0:13:14.480 someone that sends me a long letter saying how much 0:13:14.480 --> 0:13:16.720 they hate the show. And then I'll get someone that 0:13:16.840 --> 0:13:20.319 sent an occasional love letter, which is written, of course, 0:13:20.400 --> 0:13:24.440 in entirely all caps the caplock is on, which is 0:13:24.480 --> 0:13:27.120 not psychotic at all. But they love me, so it's okay. 0:13:27.360 --> 0:13:31.600 And then there are days when one message nudges you 0:13:31.960 --> 0:13:35.480 down a I guess you call it a parrot's nest, 0:13:36.440 --> 0:13:40.560 and you didn't even know it was there, like a 0:13:40.679 --> 0:13:47.640 trapdoor opened up beneath years of talk radio, a lot 0:13:47.640 --> 0:13:52.360 of noise, laughter, late night static, whatever you want to 0:13:52.400 --> 0:13:55.360 call the thing that we do. And so this one 0:13:55.559 --> 0:13:58.640 started innocently enough. It's like, hey, Ben, I really like 0:13:58.720 --> 0:14:03.000 your show. I haven't listened for a while. I started 0:14:03.040 --> 0:14:06.520 listening again because of And then this person explained why. 0:14:06.400 --> 0:14:07.280 They started listening again. 0:14:07.320 --> 0:14:09.400 They started working at night again, so they started listening 0:14:09.480 --> 0:14:11.920 in I guess you can't listen to the podcast anyway. 0:14:12.240 --> 0:14:16.320 The listener reached out asking whatever happened to so? And 0:14:16.400 --> 0:14:20.160 so you know the drill, right, So the old celebrity 0:14:20.720 --> 0:14:23.480 caller roll call I guess we'll call it the celebrity 0:14:23.520 --> 0:14:25.680 caller roll call. So I was like, well, you know, 0:14:25.800 --> 0:14:28.440 Chris and Houston moved to the day shift. That guy 0:14:28.480 --> 0:14:32.360 got divorced, so he stopped listening, so he changed his routine. 0:14:33.000 --> 0:14:35.560 There's another guy that he had the health problem, so 0:14:35.640 --> 0:14:37.200 he kind of drifted away from the show. 0:14:37.240 --> 0:14:38.160 I don't know what happened to him. 0:14:38.680 --> 0:14:44.040 Life happens, and so the audience turns over on the 0:14:44.080 --> 0:14:48.160 Overnight Show like crops in a field denial, you can't 0:14:48.200 --> 0:14:51.680 get attached. I occasionally do get attached, which is my problem. 0:14:52.320 --> 0:14:54.480 So I'm going through this email and then a name 0:14:54.640 --> 0:14:57.000 surface that I had not heard in a good amount 0:14:57.040 --> 0:15:01.000 of time. David from Winter Park, Florida with his sidekick 0:15:01.160 --> 0:15:04.600 Roscoe the Parrot. Now, if you're an OG fan of 0:15:04.600 --> 0:15:08.120 the Overnight Show and we're around back in the day, 0:15:08.880 --> 0:15:12.320 you likely know who this is. You'll remember the name anyway, 0:15:12.960 --> 0:15:16.040 even if you don't remember his phone calls. If you weren't, 0:15:16.520 --> 0:15:18.560 let me catch you up to speed on this, you 0:15:18.640 --> 0:15:24.160 missed a live wire. So I did what anyone with 0:15:25.320 --> 0:15:29.320 insomnia and occasional access to a very powerful microphone, the 0:15:29.320 --> 0:15:33.480 bully pulpit and a suspicious mind would do. I said, 0:15:33.520 --> 0:15:34.960 you know, I haven't heard from David a while, so 0:15:35.120 --> 0:15:35.880 I went looking. 0:15:37.040 --> 0:15:39.560 I didn't go deep. I don't go deep on these things, 0:15:39.600 --> 0:15:39.920 mind you. 0:15:40.600 --> 0:15:46.360 I had a minutes long malor investigation, more flashlight than 0:15:46.400 --> 0:15:50.040 searchlight type situation going on. So I went down social media, 0:15:50.080 --> 0:15:52.160 because you always go there first. To go to social media. 0:15:52.640 --> 0:15:59.280 I checked out some old emails, digital breadcrumbs, silence. Then 0:16:00.000 --> 0:16:05.480 I looked he hadn't posted on the X machine in 0:16:05.600 --> 0:16:08.320 I think almost a year. I think it was March 0:16:09.560 --> 0:16:14.240 of twenty twenty five. And so then I started typing 0:16:14.320 --> 0:16:17.200 some words in what I knew about my friend, David 0:16:17.720 --> 0:16:18.480 radio friend. 0:16:19.920 --> 0:16:21.760 And then the. 0:16:21.600 --> 0:16:24.640 Thing you never want to find but you can't ignore 0:16:24.880 --> 0:16:28.960 once you do took place. And as I was searching around, 0:16:29.200 --> 0:16:34.840 an obituary that lined up too cleanly to totally dismiss. 0:16:34.920 --> 0:16:38.040 In fact, it was so clean you had to accept 0:16:38.080 --> 0:16:44.800 it from the Orlando Sentinel and listed all the key facts, 0:16:44.800 --> 0:16:49.880 winter Park, Florida, the right age, the right information. Now, 0:16:50.080 --> 0:16:54.920 the words that stopped me were not flowery or poetic. 0:16:55.280 --> 0:17:00.200 They were very clinical that this man who was a 0:17:00.200 --> 0:17:04.600 part of our world, if this is accurate, you're died alone, 0:17:04.920 --> 0:17:09.679 no listed family. Uh, and it said right underneath it 0:17:09.680 --> 0:17:12.560 is said, anyone with information about relatives was asked to 0:17:12.640 --> 0:17:13.840 contact the funeral home. 0:17:14.680 --> 0:17:16.359 And that's like when that happened, I was. 0:17:16.359 --> 0:17:20.120 Like, oh man, when I read that, I like, who 0:17:20.320 --> 0:17:24.840 took a deep breath, paused, and I started going through 0:17:26.320 --> 0:17:26.960 some memories. 0:17:27.000 --> 0:17:29.760 You know, I was like, well, I mean, far as 0:17:29.800 --> 0:17:30.920 I know, this is accurate. 0:17:31.240 --> 0:17:33.200 I mean, how what are the chances there are two 0:17:33.240 --> 0:17:36.160 people with the same name, at the same age, from 0:17:36.240 --> 0:17:39.760 the same city. Uh, you know, everything everything lined up 0:17:39.840 --> 0:17:44.520 like planets in a row. And at that time, I'm thinking, well, 0:17:44.520 --> 0:17:47.480 why do I keep doing this in terms of going 0:17:47.520 --> 0:17:51.119 down these rabbit holes, because you be careful, you really 0:17:51.200 --> 0:17:51.800 don't know what. 0:17:51.760 --> 0:17:52.480 You're going to find. 0:17:52.600 --> 0:17:56.800 And so just like this guy died alone, no listed family, 0:17:57.840 --> 0:18:00.800 and it's again it said anyone with information, you know, 0:18:00.880 --> 0:18:05.040 contact the funeral And so what we do is an 0:18:05.080 --> 0:18:07.960 odd circus. There's a lot going on, right. You hear 0:18:08.320 --> 0:18:13.120 people call in for years without ever seeing them. They 0:18:13.160 --> 0:18:18.760 become these these characters in your documentary, in your world. 0:18:18.880 --> 0:18:21.720 They become voices, some of them background noises, depending what 0:18:21.760 --> 0:18:25.320 you're doing, punchlines. There are people that are foils of mind. 0:18:25.359 --> 0:18:27.920 That that a goofon that play along with the bit 0:18:28.880 --> 0:18:32.320 familiar ghosts who pop up at three in the morning 0:18:32.840 --> 0:18:36.840 and then vanish and are gone. And you assume, like 0:18:37.000 --> 0:18:38.879 I always like to think, well everyone's ever called the 0:18:38.920 --> 0:18:41.960 shows alive until I hear they're dead right. They're out 0:18:41.960 --> 0:18:44.040 there somewhere, They're just not part of the show for 0:18:44.080 --> 0:18:46.399 whatever reason, you know, blame it on the wife or whatever. 0:18:46.680 --> 0:18:49.160 They're still breathing, they're still eating, they're still living life 0:18:49.160 --> 0:18:52.439 and enjoying life. They're still listening, they're still yelling at 0:18:52.480 --> 0:18:56.760 the radio until they're not right. So David was one 0:18:56.760 --> 0:19:00.320 of the great characters of the Mallard Militia, and so 0:19:00.359 --> 0:19:03.159 I wanted to spend a couple of minutes talking about 0:19:03.320 --> 0:19:04.800 what I remember. 0:19:04.520 --> 0:19:06.359 From David in Winter Park, Florida. 0:19:06.480 --> 0:19:08.679 Not because he was he was a great character, not 0:19:08.720 --> 0:19:12.280 because he was loud or outrageous, but because he was 0:19:12.320 --> 0:19:15.919 all in the kind of a fan who doesn't just listen. 0:19:17.440 --> 0:19:21.119 He participated, and he created content. 0:19:21.920 --> 0:19:25.280 He was a content creator showed up. So this goes 0:19:25.359 --> 0:19:29.200 back number of years. I don't know exactly how many. 0:19:29.280 --> 0:19:31.560 It's just one giant ball of time. 0:19:32.320 --> 0:19:35.000 So it goes back a number yusers before the pandemic, 0:19:35.240 --> 0:19:38.399 and when I was pulling double duty, I had a 0:19:38.920 --> 0:19:43.160 side hustle. I was doing Boston Radio Wei. I did 0:19:43.200 --> 0:19:47.440 it remotely from the home studio in la and I 0:19:47.480 --> 0:19:51.080 would fly back to Boston for certain events. And one 0:19:51.119 --> 0:19:54.560 of those trips included a meet and greet at a 0:19:54.680 --> 0:19:58.240 legendary bar which is just down the street from Finway 0:19:58.320 --> 0:20:03.040 pac a Pilgrim image site for baseball lifers, right and 0:20:03.119 --> 0:20:06.840 of course in this case radio diehards need to go there. 0:20:07.160 --> 0:20:10.200 So people came from everywhere. It was great. 0:20:10.200 --> 0:20:13.320 It was one of the great turnouts we've had, just 0:20:13.400 --> 0:20:16.400 phenomenal for a malor meet and greet. The show does 0:20:16.480 --> 0:20:20.440 very well in the Boston area, and so every corner 0:20:20.560 --> 0:20:24.240 of New England, all the Commonwealth, it was all involved there. 0:20:24.320 --> 0:20:27.560 We had a guy even that came down from Toronto. 0:20:27.880 --> 0:20:30.360 We had people from the South. Somebody drove up from 0:20:30.359 --> 0:20:33.119 North Carolina with their kids. I'm sure they love that. 0:20:33.640 --> 0:20:37.680 Blind Scott held court telling stories that nobody wanted to hear. 0:20:38.000 --> 0:20:42.199 Blair from Maine showed up with his assistant. He was 0:20:42.320 --> 0:20:47.000 wide eyed, very uneasy, and convinced that the late DMX 0:20:47.080 --> 0:20:49.800 group that he's dead DMX, but the fans who were 0:20:49.840 --> 0:20:51.480 there at that concert, he was just down the street. 0:20:51.880 --> 0:20:54.880 We're lurking in the shadows around every corner. You had 0:20:54.920 --> 0:21:00.760 Wayne from Southey, who torpedoed years of sobriety, jumped off 0:21:00.800 --> 0:21:06.399 the wagon, who immortalized himself with the iconic drop. I 0:21:06.560 --> 0:21:09.720 did it for Mala. Yeah, now we don't hear that anymore. 0:21:10.160 --> 0:21:13.159 Lorena's new kind. Shepelled the show for a while, but 0:21:13.200 --> 0:21:14.880 she doesn't know any of that stuff because she wasn't 0:21:14.920 --> 0:21:17.480 around for those days. And so unfortunately a lot of 0:21:17.520 --> 0:21:21.800 these drops just vanished. And that's it. It's over. And 0:21:21.840 --> 0:21:24.760 then there's David, David from Winter Park floor. So I 0:21:24.840 --> 0:21:28.480 remember doing a double take at this event, the Malor 0:21:28.560 --> 0:21:30.760 meet and greet, the last one we did in Boston, 0:21:30.760 --> 0:21:32.359 by the way, the lost official we didn't want. I 0:21:32.359 --> 0:21:34.159 did one on the streets of Boston after that, in 0:21:34.200 --> 0:21:36.720 the North End, but this was before that. So I 0:21:36.720 --> 0:21:39.639 remember doing a double take. And when he told me 0:21:39.800 --> 0:21:44.119 how far he had driven. You see, David got in 0:21:44.160 --> 0:21:47.960 the car and drove thirteen hundred miles from Winter Park, 0:21:48.000 --> 0:21:52.280 Florida to Boston. He did it to spend a couple 0:21:52.320 --> 0:21:57.360 of hours at a bar with a bunch of strangers and. 0:21:58.720 --> 0:22:00.240 Here I am. I'm out there shape. 0:22:00.240 --> 0:22:03.360 Hands and kissing babies and all that, and we're all 0:22:03.400 --> 0:22:07.520 telling stories and trying to soak it all in. And 0:22:07.680 --> 0:22:09.479 he was there, he was involved in all of it. 0:22:09.560 --> 0:22:15.720 That's not casual fandom. That is devotion, bordering on madness. 0:22:15.800 --> 0:22:19.679 The good kind, the good kind, all right. And so 0:22:19.840 --> 0:22:25.080 David in my interactions, he loved to talk about sports gambling. 0:22:25.119 --> 0:22:27.600 He was a big gamba. He would drive out to Vegas. 0:22:28.200 --> 0:22:31.080 There was a casino and I think it was Biloxi, Mississippi. 0:22:31.119 --> 0:22:32.960 He would drive over there because that was like the 0:22:33.000 --> 0:22:35.800 big one that this back before Florida had legalizing gambling. 0:22:36.200 --> 0:22:39.960 He loved the angles, the bad beats, the mythology of 0:22:40.000 --> 0:22:44.920 it all. And somewhere along the way, my man David 0:22:45.320 --> 0:22:49.439 in from Winter Park, Florida, invented Roscoe the Parrot, a 0:22:49.600 --> 0:22:55.040 character that lived on the airwaves so vividly as any 0:22:55.080 --> 0:22:59.280 flesh and blood collar. So when David walked into the 0:22:59.400 --> 0:23:05.879 cask and flagging, I asked him the obvious question. I said, David, 0:23:05.920 --> 0:23:10.520 where's Roscoe? So where's Roscoe at now? Without missing a beat, 0:23:11.480 --> 0:23:12.680 he said, it's He's. 0:23:12.480 --> 0:23:13.960 In my car. You want to meet him? 0:23:15.400 --> 0:23:15.640 Yes? 0:23:15.960 --> 0:23:21.280 Hell, yes, no. I assumed, rather foolishly that this was metaphorical. 0:23:22.280 --> 0:23:26.280 Well, David disappeared, and I went back to forcing myself 0:23:26.280 --> 0:23:28.920 to socialize at the Malor meet and greet. We did there, 0:23:28.960 --> 0:23:33.560 doing the awkward introvert dance, the devil's dance of smiling 0:23:33.640 --> 0:23:36.160