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. Wow to the Clearinghouse
Speaker 2: of hot takes, break free for something special. The Fifth
Speaker 2: Hour with Ben Maller starts right now.
Speaker 1: In the air, Andy.
Speaker 3: Where the Fifth Hour with Me, Ben Maller and Danny
Speaker 3: g Radio. Happy Saturday to you. It's the eighteenth day
Speaker 3: of January and it is on today. The NFL returns
Speaker 3: NFL Playoffs. Four games, well, two games today and two
Speaker 3: games tomorrow, the Texans and the Chiefs in Canza City. Danny,
Speaker 3: that's the first game, and that means that's the least
Speaker 3: attractive game.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 1: I have several friends of mine in Kansas City or.
Speaker 3: Are going to that game today at Arrowhead and they're
Speaker 3: probably already outside the stadium tailgating. It's twenty I think
Speaker 3: the high today is in the twenties. Well, by the
Speaker 3: time they kick off, it's gonna be gonna be in
Speaker 3: the twenties. But it is a Chilead but no snow.
Speaker 3: They've had a lot of snow in Kansas City the
Speaker 3: last couple weeks. But that's the least attractive team, you
Speaker 3: know how, Like in basketball, the Toronto Raptors, if they
Speaker 3: make the playoffs, are always playing or Memphis plays that
Speaker 3: first playoff game in the NBA, because they're not the
Speaker 3: team that people are Toronto the Blue Jays and baseball,
Speaker 3: the Texans are that. In the NFL, the Texans are
Speaker 3: that because last week they played the first playoff game
Speaker 3: against the Chargers, and now this week, even with Kansas City,
Speaker 3: despite Taylor Swift and Kelsey and all mahomes and two
Speaker 3: Super Bowls in a row, the Texas are that bad, Danny,
Speaker 3: They're that bad.
Speaker 5: Well, that was supposed to be an unattractive game last weekend,
Speaker 5: but I thought it was one of the better ones
Speaker 5: of the weekend.
Speaker 1: I would disagree. I was on the Chargers. What a
Speaker 1: gutless performances.
Speaker 4: How loud I took the texit and so I loved it.
Speaker 3: Well, the Chargers should have been up, should have could
Speaker 3: have been up by like twenty one points the way
Speaker 3: the Texans started that game, and instead it was six nothing.
Speaker 1: It was ridiculous. It was so stupid the way they
Speaker 1: futched around it.
Speaker 4: And I just slippers of the NFL.
Speaker 1: Washington mouthact. Justin Herbert. Okay, let me tell you this.
Speaker 1: This fricking guy, he is on the brink.
Speaker 3: Okay, that's two playoff appearances, twenty seven nothing lead, twice
Speaker 3: point lead blown against Jacksonville a couple of years ago.
Speaker 3: And now this turd Burger, the first player in modern
Speaker 3: NFL history, had more turnovers in one playoff game than
Speaker 3: he died all season.
Speaker 1: The guys at choke artists and I had these Charger fans,
Speaker 1: all right, I these guys messaging me.
Speaker 4: Who never heard of them?
Speaker 1: Well, it's because of the fires. You know, they couldn't focus.
Speaker 3: Well, the Rams apparently were able to overcome that when
Speaker 3: they played the car. Don't stop stop making Hey, come on, man,
Speaker 3: you got a job. We got jobs to do, Danny, right,
Speaker 3: We don't know the world. I know it sucks and
Speaker 3: it's terrible, and we all I have several people I
Speaker 3: know that lost their homes in the fire, and I
Speaker 3: feel bad for them. But you got to keep going, right.
Speaker 3: You can't just shut her down. And that's justin Herbert Man.
Speaker 3: One more bad playoff game and then he that you're
Speaker 3: branded as that, right, one more bad playoff game, and
Speaker 3: that's who you are. Three bad playoff games, and that's
Speaker 3: what you become. You're known for what you've done. That's
Speaker 3: your Yeah.
Speaker 5: The guys called it the three year stink on the
Speaker 5: air the other day, like you have three years that
Speaker 5: you can stink before.
Speaker 4: That's who you are.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you get branded like a cow. That's that's what
Speaker 3: you're you're known as. So anyway, Texas and Chiefs. That
Speaker 3: game kicking off our time here on the West Coast
Speaker 3: four thirty eastern and in Cannesau City at three thirty
Speaker 3: local time. And then the Lake game the Lions and
Speaker 3: the Commanders. That's the eight o'clock eastern, five o'clock here
Speaker 3: in the West.
Speaker 1: Where we're doing the show from and the Commanders.
Speaker 3: We got big favorites Kansas City and Detroit, big favorites
Speaker 3: number one seeds. They're rested and it's still time to
Speaker 3: watch Benny Versus the Penny. By the way, if you
Speaker 3: want to get the analysis on these games, it's a
Speaker 3: half hour show. It's on Petecock. Check that out TV
Speaker 3: show Benny Versus the Penny. But I'm planning on multitasking.
Speaker 3: We're trying to clean out the garage Danny today, So
Speaker 3: I'm going to be watching the game while going through
Speaker 3: boxes of crap and we'll figure that out.
Speaker 1: But that's that's my plan.
Speaker 5: That sounds like something that should wait until after football season. Yeah,
Speaker 5: I've been cleaning out of my garage for three years.
Speaker 1: Well yeah, I mean it's pretty much the same.
Speaker 3: I mean, we clean, we put everything kind of in order,
Speaker 3: and now we're at the point now we gotta got
Speaker 3: to thin the herd a little bit, right, separate the
Speaker 3: wheat from the shaft.
Speaker 1: Is that the phrase they use in the farm?
Speaker 4: I think something about a shaft?
Speaker 1: Yeah, something along those lines.
Speaker 5: So did you guys get it containers? Are you like
Speaker 5: hyper focused on organizing?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean that.
Speaker 3: The problem we have here is my pops passed away
Speaker 3: a few years ago and left everything behind. You know,
Speaker 3: you don't take anything with you when you when you die,
Speaker 3: so he left everything behind. So some of the stuff
Speaker 3: is supposed to go to my two brothers, one the
Speaker 3: one in Wisconsin, the one in New York, and so
Speaker 3: we've collected everything, but then we got moved around, you know,
Speaker 3: life is.
Speaker 5: I see, because you guys moved. You guys moved in
Speaker 5: that time span.
Speaker 3: We moved during the COVID stuff, so which is just great,
Speaker 3: just a wonderful time to move. But so anyway, we uh,
Speaker 3: we got to go through everything. I'll do a little bit,
Speaker 3: but I just between me and you, I'll be mostly
Speaker 3: watching the football.
Speaker 5: Kind of like how Patrick Mahomes's wife let him watch
Speaker 5: football during the labor.
Speaker 1: How nice of how nice of her, how nice.
Speaker 3: We don't see enough of Mahomes on TV, you know,
Speaker 3: or Kelsey, they don't get any commercials.
Speaker 1: Really.
Speaker 3: I hope the people in Madison Avenue give them a
Speaker 3: few more commercials.
Speaker 4: I did.
Speaker 1: And Andy Reid, I just need to see more, more, more,
Speaker 1: more more.
Speaker 3: On this part, we've got the dds blame it on Costco,
Speaker 3: the stinking Rows and the phrase of week.
Speaker 1: But we'll begin with this.
Speaker 3: And you know, Danny, we've done this podcast together for
Speaker 3: a while now.
Speaker 1: I don't even know how long.
Speaker 4: Over three years.
Speaker 1: Is that right? Holy crap, it's been a while.
Speaker 4: It's been a minute.
Speaker 1: And we very rarely do sporty. We don't do sporty.
Speaker 5: Sometimes we'll lead off with some sports, but we get
Speaker 5: right back into life.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so I don't know that this is necessarily sporty,
Speaker 3: but a number of people sent me emails very upset
Speaker 3: that I was not on the radio overnight Friday into Saturday.
Speaker 1: They're like, we really wanted to hear it.
Speaker 3: And the reason they wanted to hear me was because
Speaker 3: on the big stories of the day on Saturday, they
Speaker 3: want to hear my rant about it, and they knew
Speaker 3: I would have done a monologue on it. I'm not
Speaker 3: doing the monologue obviously here it's not what that format
Speaker 3: is here the podcast, but I will say my thought
Speaker 3: based on the reaction I got that, Yeah, I had
Speaker 3: people wanted a monologue. I had other people very upset,
Speaker 3: you know, sending me nasty emails about you know this,
Speaker 3: that and the other thing. But a number of sports
Speaker 3: fans I have figured out through years of research here.
Speaker 1: And really just spending last last night.
Speaker 3: I was contemplating as I went bowling last night, so
Speaker 3: we were I had a long drive, and coming back
Speaker 3: from the bowling, I was contemplating the time space continuum,
Speaker 3: and I realized that a number of people, these are
Speaker 3: baseball fans, are suffering from an undiagnosed condition and I
Speaker 3: call it DDS, all right, No, what is DDS? Danny?
Speaker 1: It his Dodger Derangement syndrome. He's what it is.
Speaker 3: It is defined by the hatred of the Los Angeles
Speaker 3: Dodgers spending tons of money to build their roster. This
Speaker 3: hatred is so intense that it impairs people's judgment. And
Speaker 3: the latest news the Dodgers have signed another supposedly amazing
Speaker 3: picture from Japan, Roki Sazaki.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Kawasaki. That's got to be racist.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so like that, Yeah, something like that Sasaki. But
Speaker 3: he's supposedly great. You know, everyone's drooling about him. You know,
Speaker 3: they're getting all horny for him and all that. They've
Speaker 3: been keeping an eye on him since he was in
Speaker 3: high school. He's twenty three years old. He's a right
Speaker 3: handed pitcher. He chose the Dodgers over the Blue Jays
Speaker 3: and the Padres and all that, and all these people upset.
Speaker 3: So I had half the people who were Dodger fans
Speaker 3: half and they're like, will you go to.
Speaker 1: Talk about this man? We're not on we don't want to.
Speaker 3: So I was like, yeah, I'm excited. I don't I
Speaker 3: know anything about this guy. I read some stuff about him.
Speaker 3: I've heard about him for probably about a year and
Speaker 3: a half. I've heard about the guy and everything's great
Speaker 3: and wonderful and all that, but I want to see
Speaker 3: him pitch with my own two eyes. I did like
Speaker 3: the story Dot if you saw this, Danny, I think
Speaker 3: it was Nightingale had a report that Major League Baseball
Speaker 3: already investigated the Dodgers over the signing of Sazaki and
Speaker 3: they found that everything was on the up and up
Speaker 3: they claim, I mean, who knows. Rob Manford also investigated
Speaker 3: the Astros, remember in twenty seventeen.
Speaker 1: Oh they're not cheating. No, that's nothing going on.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So as far as the people that were suffering from
Speaker 3: the dds do Dodger Derangement syndrome, who were like the
Speaker 3: I'm gonna sum this up and I'm paraphrasing this, Danny,
Speaker 3: I'm not. There's a There are several emails, and I'm
Speaker 3: not going to go through all of them. This is
Speaker 3: not an email thing. But a lot of the people
Speaker 3: are like, hey, you can't really enjoy if the Dodgers
Speaker 3: win because they you know, they're supposed to win, so
Speaker 3: as a fan, you can't really enjoy that. And I'd
Speaker 3: say to that, bull Pucky no, I'm gonna enjoy it.
Speaker 3: I mean, I don't like Blake Snell either. You know,
Speaker 3: that guy annoys me. He's a Dodger, he signed a
Speaker 3: big money contract. But the way I look at it,
Speaker 3: most of these guys are gonna.
Speaker 1: Get hurt anyway.
Speaker 3: People think all these players are gonna stay Hey, yeah,
Speaker 3: if everyone stayed healthy, great.
Speaker 1: No one stays healthy, especially on the Dodgers.
Speaker 4: I was gonna say, especially Dodger arms.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I mean, this team's loaded in spring training and by
Speaker 3: July they'll be trading for some pitcher from the Cincinnati
Speaker 3: Reds to.
Speaker 1: Bail them out.
Speaker 3: Uh. But yeah, going into the year, Danny, I mean,
Speaker 3: you look at that rotation and Yoshinobu Yamamoto, Kyler Glass
Speaker 3: now is going to be back, and he's gonna pitch.
Speaker 1: Blake Snell, Gonsolin will be back, Dustin May, Bobby Miller.
Speaker 3: They are and this guy says they're absolutely loaded, and
Speaker 3: by July half those guys will be out in the
Speaker 3: elbow issues, shoulder hurts, whatever.
Speaker 5: So and don't forget how many Tobby John's have been
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, they could have just a surgeon for Dodger
Speaker 5: Tommy John operations.
Speaker 3: I'm a doctor.
Speaker 1: You have their own. Well, they probably do have that
Speaker 1: guy in the South Bay.
Speaker 3: I forget the guy, the doctor that replaced Frank Joe
Speaker 3: when Joe's dead now, but I the guy that came
Speaker 3: up with the Tommy Johnson.
Speaker 4: He could just be on a retainer for the Dodgers only. Yeah.
Speaker 3: No, So it's great and I'm happy. I'm not upset.
Speaker 3: This is what the Dodgers should do. I when I
Speaker 3: I've talked about this in the past and previous episodes Danny,
Speaker 3: when I did stuff with the Dodger, when I was
Speaker 3: doing Dodger talk back in the day, I was like,
Speaker 3: I used to say, my dream is for them to
Speaker 3: be like the Yankees and get all the good plays.
Speaker 1: Well now they're doing it, so fine, good, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: enjoy it. It's not gonna last forever.
Speaker 3: The good news is by the time the Dodgers suck
Speaker 3: will be really old, right so for you know, at
Speaker 3: that point we'll be like who they have cares. But
Speaker 3: for the next ten years or so, certainly the next
Speaker 3: five years, everything is about the Dodger. They are the
Speaker 3: absolute class at baseball, as they should.
Speaker 1: Be, and you know, good for them. I I this
Speaker 1: is what you're supposed to do.
Speaker 3: You the LA Dodgers, this is the Yankees should spend
Speaker 3: the money the red side.
Speaker 1: And I feel bad for my friends in Boston.
Speaker 3: They got not as much money as a Dodgers, but
Speaker 3: they got their own cable channel like the Dodgers.
Speaker 1: They have the similar setup.
Speaker 3: They've got, you know, big market, not as many people
Speaker 3: as in LA, but still they should be spending. The Cubs,
Speaker 3: the Giants in San Francisco, although the TV deals a
Speaker 3: little different for the Giants, but these teams should be spending. So, like,
Speaker 3: I don't know, do you feel bad Danny's a Dodger
Speaker 3: fan because the Dodgers signed another stud from you know, Pitcher.
Speaker 5: Come on, no, And we went through this when it
Speaker 5: was the Sodo sweep Steaks and when everybody was crying wondering.
Speaker 4: If the Dodgers were going to get Soto.
Speaker 5: At that point, I think that's when I switched to
Speaker 5: screw everybody, Let's sign all these players then, because we're
Speaker 5: already going to get the hate anyways. So yeah, you're right,
Speaker 5: do better if you're one of the other MLB owners.
Speaker 5: It's not the Dodger's fault. They're doing what they should
Speaker 5: do exactly exactly.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, so it's just knock it off and
Speaker 3: we'll see spring training starts in like a month.
Speaker 1: Like a month you realize that we're that close to
Speaker 1: spring training.
Speaker 4: It's like, right, I'm definitely not ready for baseball yet.
Speaker 1: We're not prepared to enjoy spring training. You're not going
Speaker 1: to go over to Arizona for the Cactus League. No,
Speaker 1: I'm good, You'll not be making your tib.
Speaker 5: I'm not even ready for NBA quite yet. So definitely
Speaker 5: not ready for baseball.
Speaker 3: That's been going on since Halloween. That's been That's it. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I have watched I you know, at night, I'm getting
Speaker 3: ready for the show and I usually have something on
Speaker 3: the TV, which I'm not really you know, I kind
Speaker 3: of like watching with half an eye, have it on,
Speaker 3: but you're not really you're not really watching. It's kind
Speaker 3: of in the background. So I usually have an NBA
Speaker 3: game on.
Speaker 5: I've probably seen five six Laker games so far this year.
Speaker 5: But it's always that weird transition. Right after the Super Bowl,
Speaker 5: all of our shows on the network suddenly switched to
Speaker 5: basketball topics, and it seems so strange the first week
Speaker 5: that everybody's talking NBA and then slowly but surely, you know,
Speaker 5: we all get into a groove with it and it's normal,
Speaker 5: But that first week or two it sounds really weird.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and then after that you have the amazing and
Speaker 3: boys an amazing the college basketball talk, the Selection Sunday
Speaker 3: that goes on for about.
Speaker 4: Three weeks, where people really about two weeks.
Speaker 3: It's all college basketball, all the time, and that's that's
Speaker 3: where it's at. So anyway, Dodgers and Cubs first Cactus
Speaker 3: League game, Campbell back Range, Glendale, Arizona, February twentieth, So
Speaker 3: today's January eighteenth. So we've got that too to look
Speaker 3: forward to. So for all you people suffering from DDS,
Speaker 3: it's gonna be a long couple of years long, A
Speaker 3: couple of years long, A couple of years there. You can,
Speaker 3: I guess you can blame it on Costco, the Dodgers
Speaker 3: buying these guys at Costco.
Speaker 1: Danny, Maybe they're buying these guys at Costco. Maybe that's it.
Speaker 4: We could blame your wardrobe on Costco, how dare you? Well, Hey,
Speaker 4: they got some good stuff there now, right, I saw
Speaker 4: I do Kirkland brand.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, I saw like some pretty good Puma gear
Speaker 5: there the last time I was in Costco.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, no, I love it. I'm all about the costmo.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 5: I've still not sunk in that load to get my
Speaker 5: clothes from Costco yet. I feel like that's when you
Speaker 5: kind of give up in life on your wardrobe, but
Speaker 5: everything else, especially getting all those samples on the weekend. Man,
Speaker 5: I was late to the party. I always used to
Speaker 5: hear you talk about that, but I wasn't a big
Speaker 5: Costco shopper. Now that's the place when I'm hungry on
Speaker 5: the weekend. Do we go out to eat? No, we
Speaker 5: got a baby who screams and cries in a highchair.
Speaker 4: Forget that.
Speaker 5: Let's push them around in the cart and shove a
Speaker 5: smoothie sample in his face at Costco.
Speaker 1: Well, Costco, guys.
Speaker 4: That's the way to do it.
Speaker 3: Remember now, back in the day, I would hit My
Speaker 3: wife would drop me off at Costco to do samples.
Speaker 3: I'd get back in the car, we'd go to another Costco.
Speaker 3: So we had like three Costcos around us, and we
Speaker 3: hit them in a row.
Speaker 1: You started like noon, and then yeah, it was great.
Speaker 4: Love it.
Speaker 5: My wife she had to make a Costco run the
Speaker 5: other night and just couldn't wait for me to get
Speaker 5: home from the network, so she left CoA home with
Speaker 5: one of the kids. Our kids are responsible, they're good kids,
Speaker 5: but still when you get a text message saying, yeah,
Speaker 5: you know, I'm gonna go pick up the things we
Speaker 5: need at Costco this evening, it'll probably be about an
Speaker 5: hour overlap.
Speaker 4: Oh, I'm sitting.
Speaker 5: In bumper to bumper traffic on the one to one
Speaker 5: freeway in LA and the whole time I'm thinking the worst.
Speaker 5: I'm thinking of CoA jumping and doing wrestling moves.
Speaker 4: Off the top of the couch.
Speaker 1: Brother.
Speaker 5: I'm thinking of his brother doing wrestling moves on CoA,
Speaker 5: which I've seen with my own eyes. So all I'm
Speaker 5: thinking about is I got to get home just in case.
Speaker 5: I am a block away, and my car says park park,
Speaker 5: put the car in park.
Speaker 4: And I'm like, what is going on?
Speaker 5: And I realized I was so focused on getting home
Speaker 5: I didn't pay attention to the fact that I was
Speaker 5: low on gas.
Speaker 1: Oh no, you ran out of gas.
Speaker 5: I ran out of gas, which sucks, and that hasn't
Speaker 5: happened in years to me. The worst part was I
Speaker 5: was literally right down the street from home. So I'm thinking, crap,
Speaker 5: what do I do? Call Brenda? She is in line
Speaker 5: at Costco checking out. It's about a fifteen minute drive.
Speaker 5: Twenty minutes. Maybe should I wait for her. I do
Speaker 5: have a gas can in my trunk. My stepson, our oldest,
Speaker 5: is at home with CoA. His car is parked here
Speaker 5: because he was visiting.
Speaker 4: I know what I'm going to do. I'll do the
Speaker 4: walk of shame home.
Speaker 1: This is shame.
Speaker 5: Steal his car, drive it with my gas can, get
Speaker 5: the gas and drive back.
Speaker 1: Okay, you got a gas can. You were prepared for.
Speaker 4: This, I was, yeah, thank god.
Speaker 5: The last time this did happen, I was like, I'm
Speaker 5: never going to be stuck without a gas can in
Speaker 5: my trunk. So I learned the hard way on that one.
Speaker 5: So I get the empty gas can, get his car.
Speaker 5: I had to drive ten minutes to the closest gas station.
Speaker 2: There's the bottom. I ready to bring the gas.
Speaker 5: It was in such a hurry, Ben that I didn't
Speaker 5: put the gas can in the trunk of his car.
Speaker 5: Big mistake, because I had to do a U turn
Speaker 5: out of this stupid gas station and the gas can
Speaker 5: tumbled over for a second. Oh boy, gosh, shit, man,
Speaker 5: a whole nother thing I'm gonna have to deal with
Speaker 5: once I get to my destination. Car reek of gasoline.
Speaker 5: I roll the windows down, Gases on my hand, gases
Speaker 5: inside the car on the floor mat. This night is
Speaker 5: just getting better and better. Get over to where we live.
Speaker 5: Thank god nobody hit my car, So now I had
Speaker 5: to figure out once I finally got my car home,
Speaker 5: I had to figure out how to get this smell
Speaker 5: of gasoline and the actual gasoline office floormat.
Speaker 4: Have you ever dealt with gas?
Speaker 1: No, not very often.
Speaker 3: I think I've only I don't own I should probably
Speaker 3: have this up to be a grown up, but I
Speaker 3: don't have an extra thing. I think one time, when
Speaker 3: I was much younger, I did have to fill up.
Speaker 3: We have to put it on the ground and fill
Speaker 3: it up.
Speaker 1: And take it. But it's been a long time, so
Speaker 1: I haven't really done much with gas.
Speaker 3: It scares the crap out of me because it's so
Speaker 3: flammable that I don't fu's around with it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, especially with what we just dealt with in La Yeah.
Speaker 5: I told Brenda, I said, hey, I need your help,
Speaker 5: come downstairs with hot water in soap. I need to
Speaker 5: clean his car mat off. Thank god, he's got a
Speaker 5: little bit of a beater. He's been doing working his
Speaker 5: part time job while he's in school, so he's been
Speaker 5: saving up to get a new car.
Speaker 4: That part of it. I wasn't concerned about it.
Speaker 5: If I had to throw this floor mat away, I'm thinking,
Speaker 5: it's all right, I'll just buy him a new floor mat.
Speaker 4: That should have been plan A. That was plan B.
Speaker 5: Plan A was she's pouring this hot water on it,
Speaker 5: and we're thinking, oh, you know, the soap and SuDS.
Speaker 4: Will get this off.
Speaker 1: I was wrong.
Speaker 5: She makes a bad move though. She puts the car
Speaker 5: mat in the washing machine. Oh boy, when she got
Speaker 5: it out of there, it was a big sud shit show,
Speaker 5: and it smelled like gasoline. She has now, there's a
Speaker 5: setting on your washer where you can just clean out
Speaker 5: the inside. Sure, she's done that about ten times, put
Speaker 5: vinegar in there. It is three days later now and
Speaker 5: it still smells like gasoline.
Speaker 4: Wonderful. Well that's a.
Speaker 1: Nice party gift every time you use it.
Speaker 5: You know, I remember when I spilled the gasoline, bro
Speaker 5: And I blame all of this on Costco.
Speaker 3: It's clearly Costco's fault. You should hire a lawyer, you know. Yeah,
Speaker 3: you're one of those lawyers, the billboard lawyers who hurts you.
Speaker 3: You know, every city, every city you travel through, there's
Speaker 3: a bill there's an ambulance chasing.
Speaker 1: Lawyer who hurts you. Is your boss mean to you today?
Speaker 5: If I have to buy a new washer at Costco,
Speaker 5: I'm gonna be really pissed.
Speaker 1: Did Costco mess you up?
Speaker 4: Evey?
Speaker 3: So I wanted to mention this. I think I might
Speaker 3: have mentioned this in the past. I don't know, I
Speaker 3: just talked talked, So I think I mentioned this briefly
Speaker 3: on the on the radio show. So I got a
Speaker 3: bug up my keyster. The other day, I was like,
Speaker 3: I was in San Francisco over the holidays to visit family.
Speaker 1: My brother in law lives in San Francisco.
Speaker 3: So we went up to Bay and had a great
Speaker 3: time and you know, outside from the homeless people, it
Speaker 3: was nice. San Francisco is a beautiful city. And enjoyed
Speaker 3: my time there. I did not get to my favorite restaurant,
Speaker 3: which is the Stinking Rose.
Speaker 1: Loved the Stinking Ros.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, I remember you mentioning that you were going
Speaker 5: to try to go there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we didn't end up getting there because of timing
Speaker 3: and there was a weight, and the main problem was
Speaker 3: my brother in law and my father in law both
Speaker 3: can't go anywhere without their dogs, so we had to
Speaker 3: sit outside, and you know, there was a weight and
Speaker 3: it was kind of a bit of a trek to
Speaker 3: get over from where we were staying, so we didn't
Speaker 3: end up going there. The other day, I was like,
Speaker 3: you know, I really love those garlic mashed potatoes at
Speaker 3: the Stinking Rose. Man would I love some garlic mashed potatoes?
Speaker 3: So I went on the Stinking Roses website thus Stinking
Speaker 3: Rose dot com, and I looked it up and I
Speaker 3: was like no, no, no, no, no, no no. And then
Speaker 3: I got to the I looked at the Menuez. I
Speaker 3: can't you know, I just can't get it. I'm in
Speaker 3: La there in San Francisco, and it was like eight
Speaker 3: I think it was like eight ninety nine or something
Speaker 3: like that for a side of garlic mashed potatoes. And
Speaker 3: you know, I was like, wait a minute. I had
Speaker 3: this light ball moment. It's like I kind of know
Speaker 3: how to cook a little bit. I'm not that good,
Speaker 3: but I futs around with it.
Speaker 1: So I was like why not just make some?
Speaker 3: So I found a rip off recipe of stinking rows
Speaker 3: garlic mashed potatoes nice, and I made a giant, massive
Speaker 3: pot of the garlic.
Speaker 1: Mashed potatoes and it was it was wonderful.
Speaker 4: It was great.
Speaker 3: And that's like a you know, ninety ninety nine or
Speaker 3: eight ninety nine for one side. And you know, mashed
Speaker 3: potatoes is so cheap to make and so easy to make.
Speaker 3: So that's my new Michigan says. My grandfather would say,
Speaker 3: my mom would say, it's futzing.
Speaker 4: Around with that.
Speaker 3: I don't know how long this is gonna last. But
Speaker 3: made a ton of them. And the cool thing about
Speaker 3: mashed patotoes and this is my wife tells me this.
Speaker 3: I don't know if she's making this up, but she says,
Speaker 3: they're actually healthier, like the day after and the day
Speaker 3: after because I made a big giant part.
Speaker 1: Of these things with like fifty cloves of garlic and
Speaker 1: a ton of butter, and you mix it all together and.
Speaker 4: Do the calories evaporate?
Speaker 3: Well, what she said, because of the potato, like, it's
Speaker 3: supposedly a little healthier, she said, a little healthier a
Speaker 3: couple of days after if it's in the refrigerate. I
Speaker 3: don't know why, some science thing. I have no idea.
Speaker 1: Maybe she's making that up. I have no idea.
Speaker 3: Let's get to the phrase of the week, the phrase
Speaker 3: of the week.
Speaker 1: Our phrase of the week.
Speaker 3: Here on this Saturday, NFL Saturday, we have wax poetic.
Speaker 3: Wax poetic the phrase of the week. Now, waxpoetic somebody
Speaker 3: I use from time to time. It's part of my lexicon.
Speaker 3: I'll use it during the week, use it in just
Speaker 3: regular conversation. But wax poetic means only to you know,
Speaker 3: speak or write poetically, all right, It's kind of obvious.
Speaker 3: Sometimes there's a hint of using big words, using words
Speaker 3: that are outside of the norm, and you're trying to
Speaker 3: brag a little bit and all that stuff. So you're
Speaker 3: waxing poetic. Now, this is a phrase I thought goes
Speaker 3: back to Shakespeare. But no, no, it does not. It's
Speaker 3: actually not that old a phrase, at least in the
Speaker 3: modern definition. The Oxford English Dictionary, which many people that
Speaker 3: study phrases and words turned to as a bible for
Speaker 3: this kind of stuff, the entry for wax that was
Speaker 3: published in nineteen twenty six did not include the wax
Speaker 3: poetic phrase in any sense. It wasn't until twenty two
Speaker 3: thousand and six before it was added online. However, the
Speaker 3: earliest known reference as wax poetic does go back to
Speaker 3: the eighteen hundreds. Sir Henry Morton Stanley just sounds like
Speaker 3: an important person, right, Sir, Sir Henry Morton Stanley, sounds
Speaker 3: like someone is very important, because you're sir. You got
Speaker 3: three names. That's a lot going on, right. That's when
Speaker 3: you named your son Cooha. Did you put sir in there?
Speaker 3: Did you put like, you know, four names? No? But
Speaker 3: this guy was like an American explorer, soldier, colonel, administrator, author,
Speaker 3: I don't know. He lived from eighteen forty one to
Speaker 3: nineteen oh four, Sir Henry Morton Stanley, and he wrote
Speaker 3: a book, How I Found Livingstone. And in that book
Speaker 3: that was published in eighteen seventy two, he wrote, one
Speaker 3: could almost wax poetic, but we will keep such ambitious
Speaker 3: ideas for a future day. So that tells you that
Speaker 3: that phrase either he came up with it or he
Speaker 3: heard it somewhere in his travels. But that goes back
Speaker 3: to like the eighteen late eighteen sixties, early eighteen seventies,
Speaker 3: and that is the phrase of the week, wax poetic.
Speaker 3: We do that every Friday, Saturday, and Sunday on this podcast.
Speaker 3: Anny we wax poetic. Yes, sir, we'll get out on that.
Speaker 3: Anything you want to promote. Watched the football, watch the
Speaker 3: TV show Benny Versus the Penny.
Speaker 1: What do you got going on today, Danny?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I saw your Zoom episode which was fun.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I mentioned yesterday.
Speaker 3: We actually had really good ratings in Boston last week.
Speaker 1: We were in the top three in the demo that
Speaker 1: we need to get to keep the show going. So
Speaker 1: we were excited about that, which.
Speaker 5: Is almost like it's almost like that bad lighting is
Speaker 5: better lighting for your two mugs.
Speaker 1: I know, it was funny.
Speaker 3: I was telling I told somebody I forget this week,
Speaker 3: and I was like, you know, when I was a
Speaker 3: kid growing up, the idea that I could do a
Speaker 3: TV show at home would be and blew my mind.
Speaker 3: And then to think that people actually watched the show,
Speaker 3: it's like shocking. But anyway, so thank you for those
Speaker 3: of you to watch it. And it's on all over
Speaker 3: the place, but it's out of NBC Sports Boston, so
Speaker 3: it'll be on a bunch today, so check that out.
Speaker 1: It was on late last night after the Celtic came.
Speaker 3: So anyway, we'll get out, have a wonderful Saturday, enjoy
Speaker 3: the football today and we'll be back tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Tomorrow, tomorrow later.
Speaker 4: Skater vipulation