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- 0:00Speaker 1: Kabooms.
- 0:02Speaker 2: If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes
- 0:05Speaker 2: a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants
- 0:09Speaker 2: of the old republic, a sol fashion of fairness. He
- 0:12Speaker 2: treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the
- 0:15Speaker 2: rich pill poppers in the penthouse.
- 0:18Speaker 1: Wow.
- 0:18Speaker 2: The Clearinghouse of Hot takes break free for something special.
- 0:22Speaker 2: The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now.
- 0:28Speaker 1: In the air everywhere.
- 0:32Speaker 3: The Fifth Hour with Me, Ben Mahler and Danny g
- 0:35Speaker 3: Happy Saturday. As we are hanging out together here the
- 0:39Speaker 3: twenty sixth day of April, and yet another day of
- 0:43Speaker 3: the NFL Draft. And I Am not going to sit
- 0:48Speaker 3: here and pretend like I was watching every eye on
- 0:51Speaker 3: my phone, Danny the NFL yesterday, the Draft. I was
- 0:54Speaker 3: focused on other things, but I would go check. I
- 0:57Speaker 3: wasn't sitting on the edge of my seat watching the draft.
- 0:59Speaker 1: I did have it on my phone, and I would.
- 1:01Speaker 3: I would look over every like ten minutes or so,
- 1:04Speaker 3: and I like the Rams had. They didn't even have
- 1:07Speaker 3: a pick in the first round because they trade it
- 1:08Speaker 3: out of the first round, which I'm fine with. I
- 1:10Speaker 3: don't care because I want to see that they picked,
- 1:12Speaker 3: and so they picked like fourteenth in the second round,
- 1:14Speaker 3: so I had to keep checking back and all that.
- 1:16Speaker 3: But I was not hanging on the edge of my
- 1:19Speaker 3: seat for every single pick in the second round. So
- 1:23Speaker 3: I'm proud of myself that I actually have things going on.
- 1:25Speaker 3: I've got stuff going on.
- 1:27Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. I was just there locked
- 1:30Speaker 1: in on everything.
- 1:31Speaker 4: You got cookies to bake.
- 1:32Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm bet Benny Crocker, not Betty Crocker. I'm Benny Crocker.
- 1:36Speaker 3: So I got things to do. Man.
- 1:37Speaker 4: I Actually I pay too much.
- 1:40Speaker 5: We've talked about this in past years, but I'm one
- 1:43Speaker 5: of the weirdos who watches pretty much every minute of
- 1:46Speaker 5: not later, not like the sixth, seventh rounds, but you know,
- 1:50Speaker 5: I would say one through four and even the start
- 1:54Speaker 5: of five. I pay attention. Why because my favorite team
- 1:57Speaker 5: is the Raiders. This is our super Bowl annually, this
- 2:01Speaker 5: is our super Bowl.
- 2:03Speaker 1: I got you.
- 2:03Speaker 3: I mean, I come from FM picks Land, you know,
- 2:06Speaker 3: the Rams. And also I'm just bitter because I've been
- 2:09Speaker 3: sold to Billy Goods on so many draft picks over
- 2:11Speaker 3: the years that this guy's the next great you know whatever,
- 2:14Speaker 3: it's a whole cottage thing, and I just have been
- 2:16Speaker 3: so turned off by those prognostications over the years that
- 2:20Speaker 3: it's like, I know it's good for the show, and
- 2:22Speaker 3: I do look for storylines to talk about, and obviously
- 2:27Speaker 3: there's some things in the second and third round that
- 2:31Speaker 3: will be good talk radio. In the olden days when
- 2:34Speaker 3: we were kids, the NFL's draft would still be going
- 2:37Speaker 3: on if they if they had continued to spread this
- 2:40Speaker 3: thing out, because when I was little, I think the
- 2:42Speaker 3: draft was like thirteen rounds the NFL draft, And of course,
- 2:46Speaker 3: obviously now.
- 2:46Speaker 1: They've cut that back a lot.
- 2:48Speaker 5: By the way, is Shaudor Sanders still inside his private
- 2:52Speaker 5: club at the.
- 2:53Speaker 1: Green Green Bay Green Room.
- 2:57Speaker 5: Did he have a three day deal with the sound
- 2:59Speaker 5: man that they gave him for his concert in there?
- 3:04Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah.
- 3:04Speaker 3: Let me point out though that the Shudhar Sanders, if
- 3:08Speaker 3: Southwest Airlines brings back that those want to get away commercials,
- 3:12Speaker 3: that would be the one to get away moment for
- 3:13Speaker 3: sus Oh my god, holy craft.
- 3:16Speaker 5: Do you know when weeke they showed a camera on
- 3:19Speaker 5: him and he was just on a field throwing a
- 3:22Speaker 5: football around, and they're like, there he is throwing a
- 3:24Speaker 5: football around. Just waiting to be drafted. I don't know
- 3:28Speaker 5: what's worse, hanging out in a green room or out
- 3:32Speaker 5: on a field throwing a football around like looking like
- 3:35Speaker 5: Charlie Brown.
- 3:36Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 3:36Speaker 3: Well, the fall of Shooter Sands. We used to talk
- 3:38Speaker 3: about how this guy fell and that guy fell.
- 3:40Speaker 5: The fact that he did not get picked in the
- 3:43Speaker 5: second or third round is just crazy.
- 3:46Speaker 3: For the rest of our lives, probably, Danny, if a
- 3:48Speaker 3: quarterback falls in the draft, they'd be like, what could
- 3:50Speaker 3: always be worse? You could have been Shudar Sanders. You know,
- 3:54Speaker 3: it could always be worse.
- 3:55Speaker 1: And it's going.
- 3:56Speaker 3: To be like that because to think that he was
- 3:59Speaker 3: projected two months ago being a top five pick in
- 4:02Speaker 3: the draft and what's happened this weekend is just just
- 4:06Speaker 3: absolutely nuts. By the way, it is National Pretzel Day today,
- 4:08Speaker 3: so celebrate appropriately, Danny.
- 4:10Speaker 1: National Pretzel Day today.
- 4:11Speaker 5: That's my go to at a sporting event. If they
- 4:13Speaker 5: have the melted nacho cheese that you can the cup
- 4:17Speaker 5: of cheese you can get on the side with the
- 4:19Speaker 5: warm pretzel lightly salted, that's the go to.
- 4:23Speaker 3: Yeah, all right, you want some pretzel fun facts, I
- 4:25Speaker 3: have pretzel fun facts.
- 4:26Speaker 1: I come prepared. Danny fun facts.
- 4:28Speaker 4: Let's go.
- 4:29Speaker 3: This is not just some two bit weekend podcast. No,
- 4:33Speaker 3: the annual worth of the pretzel industry in the United States.
- 4:36Speaker 3: You want me to give it to your give you
- 4:38Speaker 3: the number you want to guess.
- 4:39Speaker 1: It's in the millions.
- 4:40Speaker 3: How much is the pretzel industry worth in the United States.
- 4:45Speaker 4: I'm going to say two hundred and thirty two million dollars.
- 4:50Speaker 3: All right, fine, answer, you did not go over, so
- 4:52Speaker 3: you do win the showcase. The answer five hundred and
- 4:56Speaker 3: fifty million dollar business an annual worth in the pres
- 5:00Speaker 3: that's an industry.
- 5:00Speaker 1: That's a lot of dough. Damn, that's dough and on average.
- 5:04Speaker 3: Now, keep in mind not everyone does eat pretzels, but
- 5:07Speaker 3: the average consumption in pounds of pretzels by your average
- 5:11Speaker 3: American per year, so yeah, we're average. How many pounds
- 5:16Speaker 3: of pretzels, give or take will the average American eat
- 5:21Speaker 3: per year?
- 5:23Speaker 4: Average?
- 5:24Speaker 3: Are pretzel fun facts of the fifth hour.
- 5:28Speaker 5: I'm going to say each American probably ten pounds. No,
- 5:35Speaker 5: you have gone over, Danny. You do not mean I'm
- 5:38Speaker 5: thinking of myself at sporting events.
- 5:40Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, No, it's at one point five.
- 5:44Speaker 4: That's wimpy, that's very wimpy.
- 5:46Speaker 3: Hold on, let's do some malormath on this whole mother sec.
- 5:48Speaker 3: Let's see here, what is the what is the population
- 5:53Speaker 3: in America? What are we like three hundred and thirty
- 5:55Speaker 3: million or something like that?
- 5:56Speaker 1: Is that? Am I?
- 5:57Speaker 4: Right? I guess I should have checked that into account.
- 6:00Speaker 1: Yeah, so let's let's do the math here.
- 6:02Speaker 3: So how many If it's three hundred thirty, let's do
- 6:07Speaker 3: three three you're listening to live math coverage now on
- 6:10Speaker 3: the podcast, three hundred million, and then you got one
- 6:18Speaker 3: point five.
- 6:20Speaker 4: Not a numbers guy, but.
- 6:21Speaker 1: But that doesn't seem to add up. Well, No, three
- 6:24Speaker 1: hundred million, and but one point five.
- 6:27Speaker 3: You just have to do the one point five times
- 6:30Speaker 3: three hundred million, right.
- 6:31Speaker 1: Wouldn't that be the math?
- 6:32Speaker 4: Carry the one?
- 6:34Speaker 1: Let's see you.
- 6:35Speaker 3: I'll just do one point five times three hundred Yeah,
- 6:38Speaker 3: four hundred and fifty. So then you extrapolate that and
- 6:42Speaker 3: it's a lot. The answer is a lot. It's a
- 6:44Speaker 3: lot of dough. Anyway, Joy Pretzel Day, Enjoy Pretzel Day.
- 6:47Speaker 3: On this podcast, We've got the Tiki Mania, the Mountain
- 6:50Speaker 3: Lion update, and the Strike Force.
- 6:53Speaker 1: We've got a lot of stuff to get to.
- 6:54Speaker 3: We'll begin with this so a spur of the moment,
- 6:57Speaker 3: last minute out of nowhere trip out to the wild
- 7:00Speaker 3: blue yonder. Last weekend The Life of malor the Life
- 7:04Speaker 3: of Danny g I know you're dining O what we
- 7:07Speaker 3: are doing, and that's why we have this podcast. But
- 7:10Speaker 3: last weekend I got a message, Hey, I'm going to
- 7:14Speaker 3: be in Nevada and if you're able, would love to
- 7:18Speaker 3: see you. This is one of my cousins that lives
- 7:21Speaker 3: in New York. And so we said sure, why not,
- 7:25Speaker 3: and last minute packed up the Malamobile and headed to
- 7:30Speaker 3: Sin City for a get together at the it was
- 7:35Speaker 3: last Saturday.
- 7:36Speaker 1: Now we drove, make made the trip we always drive.
- 7:40Speaker 3: We never flied to Vegas and so went hypersonic speed
- 7:45Speaker 3: through Apple Valley, Barstow, went past Zazi's Road or Isaac's
- 7:50Speaker 3: Road or they call it through Baker said hello to
- 7:54Speaker 3: the mad Greek, Thearren. Baker kept going over to Prim,
- 7:58Speaker 3: very depressing Whiskey Feeds.
- 8:00Speaker 4: I was gonna say everything is closing.
- 8:02Speaker 3: Oh yeah, there's only one hotel left in Prim. There's
- 8:06Speaker 3: that big gas station on one side, there's a truck
- 8:09Speaker 3: stop gas station on the other near Whiskey Pets. And
- 8:12Speaker 3: then there's one hotel, Buffalo Bills. I think that's the
- 8:15Speaker 3: only one left. The mall's pretty much gone. There's a
- 8:19Speaker 3: couple of scattered restaurants.
- 8:21Speaker 4: It is.
- 8:22Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a ghost town. That's wild.
- 8:24Speaker 3: Anyway, So we go through there and it finally got
- 8:26Speaker 3: to Vegas and a lot of traffic around the desk Star.
- 8:29Speaker 3: We were unaware that last weekend was WrestleMania and it
- 8:36Speaker 3: was popping. It was massively the wave of humanity that
- 8:40Speaker 3: had ascended in Vegas.
- 8:43Speaker 5: I saw the video when it led out and people
- 8:46Speaker 5: were just crammed like sardines, and it reminded me of
- 8:49Speaker 5: our recent past episode where we were talking about being claustrophobic.
- 8:54Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, no, it was It was wild. I
- 8:57Speaker 1: didn't know what was going on.
- 8:58Speaker 3: Bad job by me, I'm not, you know, and watching
- 9:01Speaker 3: wrestling every week and all that. I did get a
- 9:04Speaker 3: lot of messages from people that were very excited, fans
- 9:06Speaker 3: of the Malad militia that are like, hey, Russep's back,
- 9:08Speaker 3: you know, And I guess he made his debut on
- 9:11Speaker 3: his return actually on Monday night raw, I guess, but it.
- 9:15Speaker 1: Wasn't a wresmating.
- 9:16Speaker 3: But anyway, I was there for wrestlming and he I
- 9:18Speaker 3: was not there for Wrestlmening it was going on. So
- 9:21Speaker 3: I went to meet my cousin from New York and
- 9:23Speaker 3: then some other relatives scattered around the West on my
- 9:28Speaker 3: cousin's side of the things. They showed up, so we
- 9:30Speaker 3: were all hanging out and then we pretty much just
- 9:33Speaker 3: did that and we went to one of my favorite
- 9:38Speaker 3: pizza places is over in Henderson. So we were over
- 9:41Speaker 3: in Henderson and ate some delicious pizza, fried cheese and
- 9:47Speaker 3: just just wonderful, and took off from there and we
- 9:51Speaker 3: went to a tiki bar, because there's a bunch of
- 9:54Speaker 3: tiki bars, and this place in Vegas it was so cool,
- 9:57Speaker 3: little crappy like it was. I'm trying to describe it.
- 10:02Speaker 3: It's like your typical suburban. It's a mall, not a mall,
- 10:06Speaker 3: you know, the strip mall. I guess got a strip mall. Yeah,
- 10:09Speaker 3: strip mall, that's the word I was looking for. So
- 10:11Speaker 3: it's a strip mall and there's nothing special about it.
- 10:13Speaker 3: And like everything, it's like we're there like one in
- 10:16Speaker 3: the morning and everything's open. Place is packed and the
- 10:20Speaker 3: coolest thing. We got out of there went to the
- 10:21Speaker 3: Tiki bark is. My wife likes going to those things,
- 10:23Speaker 3: and so we.
- 10:24Speaker 1: Get out across the street they are we hear this.
- 10:29Speaker 3: Like that it's a tire repair shop, twenty four hour
- 10:34Speaker 3: tire repair shop.
- 10:35Speaker 1: It's like two in the morning, three in the.
- 10:37Speaker 3: Morning, and people are getting their tires were replaced at
- 10:41Speaker 3: this this twenty four hour tire shop. As while like,
- 10:44Speaker 3: that's the way to do it. Man, that's my kind
- 10:46Speaker 3: of schedule there. That's how they roll in Vega. You
- 10:49Speaker 3: know you want your tires replace it's three in the morning,
- 10:51Speaker 3: no problem, we got you. That's that's the way to go.
- 10:55Speaker 3: So we had We had a good time. It was
- 10:57Speaker 3: a short trip. Got a little stomach issue on the
- 11:01Speaker 3: way back, so unfortunately the wife had to drive back.
- 11:05Speaker 3: But I was good by the time we got back.
- 11:06Speaker 3: So there was that. I did not see any mountain
- 11:10Speaker 3: lions on my way back. I drove through Death Valley
- 11:14Speaker 3: in the same strip obviously that we took to get
- 11:17Speaker 3: to Vegas.
- 11:17Speaker 1: I didn't see any. But we we did have a
- 11:20Speaker 1: fun trip back and right back to work.
- 11:22Speaker 3: Immediately when you got back to La So we didn't
- 11:25Speaker 3: have much time much downtime with this podcast and everything
- 11:28Speaker 3: going on now.
- 11:30Speaker 5: I actually just sent you two text messages that you're
- 11:34Speaker 5: going to receive right now.
- 11:36Speaker 4: Okay, I'm going to look you.
- 11:37Speaker 5: I would like to alert all the affiliates down the
- 11:39Speaker 5: line that Ben is looking at his cellular device.
- 11:43Speaker 1: Oh okay, I'm looking right now.
- 11:45Speaker 5: Yes, the world's most expensive and largest wildlife crossing in
- 11:51Speaker 5: the world. Ben one hundred million dollars well spent by
- 11:55Speaker 5: taxpayers money and the Annenberg family. And if you see
- 12:00Speaker 5: the picture I took as I was crossing underneath of
- 12:02Speaker 5: it the other day to go to the network, you
- 12:05Speaker 5: see that their name is on it. Now, so that's
- 12:08Speaker 5: what how many I'm not sure what part of the
- 12:12Speaker 5: cost they covered, but they got their name. They got
- 12:15Speaker 5: their name on the damn thing. Though it says now
- 12:17Speaker 5: Ironnberg Wildlife crossing.
- 12:20Speaker 1: Are humans allowed to use it?
- 12:21Speaker 3: Like? What do they do? Do they kill a human?
- 12:23Speaker 3: If a human being crosses over it?
- 12:25Speaker 1: Do they shoot them? Is that because that's for the wildlife?
- 12:27Speaker 4: Why not?
- 12:28Speaker 1: Sure?
- 12:28Speaker 5: It says grand opening coming in twenty twenty six, So
- 12:32Speaker 5: does that mean like all the animals are gonna line
- 12:34Speaker 5: up with fanfare and.
- 12:36Speaker 3: It's gonna be It's gonna be like Noah's ark. They're
- 12:38Speaker 3: gonna have every animal cross at the same time.
- 12:42Speaker 5: When I read about them and I read about the
- 12:45Speaker 5: grand opening, that's what I pictured. Now this article from
- 12:50Speaker 5: ABC seven in Los Angeles, it says first layer of
- 12:54Speaker 5: soil was laid down for the wildlife crossing over the
- 12:57Speaker 5: one on one freeway. You and I spoke about this
- 13:00Speaker 5: when the fires were happening here. When when this turns
- 13:05Speaker 5: into a fire hazard because obviously, look at all those
- 13:08Speaker 5: lanes of traffic in both directions. It's really hard for
- 13:11Speaker 5: fire to cross a freeway with that many lanes from
- 13:14Speaker 5: one side to the other. But now with this soil
- 13:18Speaker 5: and grass on top of what happens when that grass
- 13:21Speaker 5: dries out on top of the wildlife crossing.
- 13:23Speaker 1: I'll tell you what's going to happen. First of all,
- 13:25Speaker 1: though the fire is going to spread.
- 13:27Speaker 3: Secondly, some attorneys will be running commercials on radio where
- 13:31Speaker 3: you're damaged by the fire that crossed over the wildfire bridge. We'll,
- 13:35Speaker 3: you know, contact us, will sue the Innenburg group or whoever.
- 13:40Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, this is the other dude, I've noticed it.
- 13:44Speaker 3: I saw a story about this too the other day,
- 13:46Speaker 3: and the comments of people that think they're saving the world.
- 13:51Speaker 1: It's wild to me.
- 13:52Speaker 3: It is it is next level, like they are so
- 13:55Speaker 3: convinced that this is the way to do it. Uh,
- 13:58Speaker 3: and it just I don't know, I don't get that mindset,
- 14:01Speaker 3: but it's not me. It just seems very bizarre to me.
- 14:04Speaker 3: But how many homeless people do you think could sleep
- 14:07Speaker 3: up there?
- 14:07Speaker 4: What do we look at it?
- 14:10Speaker 3: You can fit a lot of tents right, they got water,
- 14:12Speaker 3: they could go to the swing, they could swim there.
- 14:14Speaker 3: They could use one of the little ponds for swimming.
- 14:15Speaker 3: The other one they could use as a bathroom.
- 14:17Speaker 5: Have you ever been to Calabasas slash Agora Hills, California.
- 14:22Speaker 5: There are no homeless people in those towns. The cut
- 14:26Speaker 5: off line is Woodland Hills and they should.
- 14:29Speaker 1: We should get some buses go down to skid Row.
- 14:31Speaker 1: We can drive them up and then home.
- 14:34Speaker 5: Man that if you think about it, though, what a
- 14:38Speaker 5: sly place that would be to set up camp right
- 14:41Speaker 5: above the freeway there you know you're you're not far
- 14:45Speaker 5: from the off ramp. You could hold your sign there
- 14:48Speaker 5: on the off ramp and then go back. There's there's
- 14:51Speaker 5: some utility stairs on both sides of the Wild Cross
- 14:54Speaker 5: wildlife crossing, so you probably could set up camp up there.
- 14:58Speaker 5: But I think what's going to happen is it's going
- 15:00Speaker 5: to be a shit show. And I don't wish this
- 15:03Speaker 5: to happen. I don't want this to happen. But if
- 15:04Speaker 5: we get another fire like we had recently just a
- 15:07Speaker 5: few months back, and it crosses that bridge, that's gonna
- 15:12Speaker 5: be a big issue because right now, there are no
- 15:15Speaker 5: freeway overpasses right there for fire to jump.
- 15:19Speaker 4: They just made one.
- 15:20Speaker 3: Yeah, well they'll say it would have happened anyway, it
- 15:23Speaker 3: wasn't the bridge.
- 15:24Speaker 5: You know, they'll come up with some that's bullshit because
- 15:27Speaker 5: there's no there's not even any cement crossings right now.
- 15:30Speaker 5: They put a grass crossing, Well you're gonna say, what
- 15:34Speaker 5: three to four mountain lions per year? But you could
- 15:37Speaker 5: possibly endanger how many houses with a wildfire. I just
- 15:42Speaker 5: I look into my crystal ball and I think this
- 15:44Speaker 5: could be a major issue down the road.
- 15:47Speaker 3: Well, you just don't care about skunks that want to
- 15:49Speaker 3: cross the road, Okay, that's your problem.
- 15:51Speaker 5: Yeah, this is going to help endless squirrels and the owls.
- 15:57Speaker 5: This is going to totally hook the owls up because
- 15:59Speaker 5: you know, they can't figgure out how to fly over
- 16:00Speaker 5: the freeway so they can just walk across.
- 16:03Speaker 4: Yeah, like penguins.
- 16:05Speaker 1: Oh, I hear you, man, we did have a strike.
- 16:09Speaker 3: If you were listening to the Overnight Show this week,
- 16:10Speaker 3: some of you have sent me messages on that. We
- 16:12Speaker 3: don't need to actually break that down too much, but
- 16:17Speaker 3: I got well, I guess we'll talk about it here.
- 16:19Speaker 3: I'm not going to answer all the emails. And there
- 16:21Speaker 3: were like three of them, I say a lot, there
- 16:22Speaker 3: were three. So Blind Scott decided he was protesting, he
- 16:26Speaker 3: was going on strike, and then he recruited Supermarket Steve,
- 16:30Speaker 3: of all people, to go on strike. Yeah, so these
- 16:34Speaker 3: two jackasses, these jackwagons, decided to go on strike from
- 16:38Speaker 3: the show. Of course, it lasted all of one day,
- 16:41Speaker 3: Danny one day, and it was one phone call by
- 16:44Speaker 3: Blind Scott saying strike, strike, strike, Strike, strike over and
- 16:49Speaker 3: strike strike over and over and over and over and
- 16:51Speaker 3: over and over and over all that nonsense. And then
- 16:54Speaker 3: super Marike Steve complaining because of Mike the Leprechaun and
- 16:58Speaker 3: some other issues that he had.
- 17:00Speaker 1: And it always.
- 17:00Speaker 3: Fascinates me, Dan. We've talked about this before. It is
- 17:04Speaker 3: a radio show. It is not an airport. You do
- 17:07Speaker 3: not need to announce your departure. There's no need to
- 17:09Speaker 3: announce your departure. And it's just these guys needing attention, right,
- 17:12Speaker 3: they're just their attention starved.
- 17:16Speaker 1: To make attention.
- 17:19Speaker 3: This is their way to do it, and it's like
- 17:20Speaker 3: a reality show and that's their grand finale.
- 17:23Speaker 1: But it's not really their grand finale because.
- 17:26Speaker 3: Hey, they're like, we just want you to know that
- 17:30Speaker 3: we're here, and we're not getting enough attention. So it's like,
- 17:32Speaker 3: come on, it strikes on it. Who strikes on a
- 17:35Speaker 3: radio show.
- 17:36Speaker 1: It's so stupid.
- 17:37Speaker 3: These guys that complain, like some of you complain about
- 17:39Speaker 3: certain people to call the show, Danny.
- 17:41Speaker 1: These guys that call in are on for what two minutes?
- 17:45Speaker 1: It's two minutes.
- 17:46Speaker 3: It's nothing. It's a grain of sand on the beach.
- 17:51Speaker 3: It's absolutely nothing. To get all worked up into it
- 17:54Speaker 3: a lad about. I don't understand. It's like, not everyone
- 17:59Speaker 3: that calls the show is a good caller. In fact,
- 18:01Speaker 3: most of the people that call the show are not.
- 18:04Speaker 3: We all understand that there's no need to h to
- 18:08Speaker 3: jump up and down and scream and shout and all that.
- 18:11Speaker 1: Come on I'm a doctor.
- 18:13Speaker 3: Knock it off, buccaroo, Okay, it just stop stop stopping,
- 18:18Speaker 3: stopp yes anyway, Uh.
- 18:22Speaker 4: Not everybody is Genie.
- 18:24Speaker 3: No, there's you know, Genie's in all the time. I
- 18:26Speaker 3: wish I'd put Geenie on the air more. Back in
- 18:28Speaker 3: the day, I got to know were there people who
- 18:30Speaker 3: are upset with Genie too? People would send me messages.
- 18:33Speaker 3: Was she on so much? She's not in your demo,
- 18:36Speaker 3: she's you know, you're not supposed to get older women
- 18:38Speaker 3: to call the show. We're trying to get young dudes.
- 18:40Speaker 3: What's wrong with you? I don't want to hear what
- 18:41Speaker 3: she has to say. She didn't even talk about sports. Yeah,
- 18:44Speaker 3: I know, she doesn't talk about sports. That's the beauty
- 18:47Speaker 3: of her phone calls. She doesn't talk about sports. Okay,
- 18:50Speaker 3: she's not at their mining data to come up with
- 18:53Speaker 3: some statistic.
- 18:55Speaker 1: By the way, the other day, I I.
- 18:57Speaker 3: Don't listen to a lot of sports radio, and I
- 18:59Speaker 3: happen to be listening to something on the app and
- 19:02Speaker 3: then it ended up you know how you hit the
- 19:04Speaker 3: wrong button and it ends up on a It was
- 19:06Speaker 3: a local sports station that popped up.
- 19:09Speaker 1: I don't even know how that happened on the iHeart app.
- 19:12Speaker 3: I was listening to something else and it popped up
- 19:14Speaker 3: local station some listening, and it was some dude talking
- 19:18Speaker 3: baseball and he was just giving like analytics and ganny.
- 19:26Speaker 1: You know that.
- 19:27Speaker 3: Sounded like I wanted to take a sharp object and
- 19:30Speaker 3: poke my ears out listening to this moron.
- 19:36Speaker 1: Numbers are fine and all that.
- 19:38Speaker 3: But you cannot just sit there and read off a
- 19:43Speaker 3: bunch of percentages and data projected probabilities, and I mean.
- 19:48Speaker 1: It's just it's terrible. It is so bad.
- 19:52Speaker 3: And this I don't even know who the person was,
- 19:54Speaker 3: and I only listened for like forty five seconds, and
- 19:56Speaker 3: it was so terrifically terrible.
- 19:59Speaker 1: Just like you cannot you can't do it.
- 20:03Speaker 3: You can't just read a bunch of metrics or whatever
- 20:06Speaker 3: nonsense mumbo jumbo you have.
- 20:09Speaker 1: No it's a bad listen.
- 20:11Speaker 5: I don't even like baseball talk on the radio, to
- 20:13Speaker 5: be honest with you. Not network talk on AM five
- 20:16Speaker 5: seventy LA sports when you fill in there. I get
- 20:19Speaker 5: it in the local affiliates all across the country talk
- 20:22Speaker 5: away with your local baseball team, but nationally to try
- 20:26Speaker 5: to talk baseball really really difficult.
- 20:30Speaker 1: You can do it. But you can only do it
- 20:32Speaker 1: if it if it.
- 20:33Speaker 3: Has broad appeal, if it's not narrow, like if there's
- 20:36Speaker 3: a story that crosses over apps.
- 20:40Speaker 5: Like the Sure But yeah, right, that's a good example.
- 20:44Speaker 5: But how many of those stories do we get in
- 20:47Speaker 5: a baseball season?
- 20:49Speaker 1: Well that's the issue.
- 20:50Speaker 3: Rob Manfraud the commissioner, He's complained about this. He was
- 20:54Speaker 3: very upset with ESPN and they'll I've heard they're going
- 20:57Speaker 3: to get another deal with the ESPN Baseball, but that's
- 20:59Speaker 3: a different they don't have one. Now that's a different conversation.
- 21:02Speaker 3: But Manford was upset because the people over there that
- 21:07Speaker 3: are gas bags, like Steven A who used to work
- 21:10Speaker 3: at our place, and these other morons. They don't talk baseball.
- 21:14Speaker 3: They talked basketball, but basketball. I had a friend of
- 21:17Speaker 3: mine who's worked in media for thirty years. He said, Ben,
- 21:22Speaker 3: why don't they just not play the NBA games? They
- 21:25Speaker 3: just give us enough to talk about. We don't even
- 21:26Speaker 3: need the games to talk about. We'll just talk about
- 21:28Speaker 3: this stuff off the court. We don't even need the games.
- 21:31Speaker 3: Why do they play the games? And his whole point
- 21:34Speaker 3: was it's so great because of the drama, because of
- 21:36Speaker 3: the behind the scenes stuff that the games and I
- 21:38Speaker 3: do break down some of these playoff games.
- 21:40Speaker 1: I have been doing a lot of that, much to.
- 21:41Speaker 3: The disconnect of some people who are upset anytime I
- 21:46Speaker 3: talk about it, and well, you're talking about NBA playoff games.
- 21:48Speaker 3: It's not the conference finals yet and all that stuff.
- 21:50Speaker 3: But the NBA is, for what we do amazing. In
- 21:56Speaker 3: terms of conversation, it's great. It's it's the Greek tragedy
- 22:01Speaker 3: over here. It's a Shakespearean drama.
- 22:04Speaker 1: It's it's Anthony Edwards grabbing his dick.
- 22:09Speaker 6: Announcing how big his sausages to the world, and it's just, oh,
- 22:17Speaker 6: man is outstanding.
- 22:21Speaker 3: I wanted to thank to you the listener, and I
- 22:23Speaker 3: forget the name. Somebody sent us these giant cookies. There's
- 22:26Speaker 3: a cookie shop in Nashville. We did trade. I made
- 22:29Speaker 3: a trade. I was given the Elvis Cookie, which is
- 22:33Speaker 3: a banana cream pie type cookie thing.
- 22:37Speaker 1: I traded that. I made a trade with the Coop.
- 22:42Speaker 3: I picked up in the trade the Cookie Monster, which
- 22:45Speaker 3: is a blue cookie. It's so big it had like
- 22:48Speaker 3: four oreos stuffed in the middle. So I acquired the
- 22:51Speaker 3: Cookie Monster cookies. I got the Lemon cookie in the deal.
- 22:56Speaker 3: I'm happy with the deal. I went for quantity over quality,
- 23:01Speaker 3: and these things are so ridiculous the mistake I made,
- 23:04Speaker 3: and these are really good cookies, and I want to think,
- 23:06Speaker 3: and I don't off the top of my head, I
- 23:08Speaker 3: don't remember exactly the name. I apologize in advance. It's
- 23:12Speaker 3: bad job by me. But in my defense, Lorraine actually
- 23:15Speaker 3: opened the box. I didn't even open the box, so
- 23:17Speaker 3: I didn't see the name. She told me the name
- 23:20Speaker 3: one time.
- 23:20Speaker 1: That was it.
- 23:20Speaker 3: So I opened the cookies up and they had how
- 23:23Speaker 3: many calories were on the cookie? Okay, so there's two
- 23:27Speaker 3: things about this that pissed me off. The first is
- 23:29Speaker 3: that I saw how many calaries were on the cookie.
- 23:33Speaker 5: The second is that's like, that's like seeing the debit
- 23:37Speaker 5: card information from your wife exactly exactly.
- 23:40Speaker 3: You just things you don't need to know. You actually, well,
- 23:44Speaker 3: you do need to know, but you don't.
- 23:45Speaker 1: Want to know. It was that type of situation.
- 23:48Speaker 3: So I saw how many calories of the cookies were
- 23:50Speaker 3: and then that pissed me off. And then the other
- 23:52Speaker 3: thing was, now, this is a cookie and I don't
- 23:54Speaker 3: have a photo to send you, Dandy, but just imagine
- 23:57Speaker 3: the palm of your hand.
- 23:59Speaker 5: Oh no, no, I saw them in the studio. There
- 24:01Speaker 5: was one left behind in the studio and Covino and
- 24:04Speaker 5: Rich were breaking it into parts. One cookie fed the
- 24:08Speaker 5: entire crew. Yes, yes, exactly. It is a massive It's
- 24:12Speaker 5: like the size of your palm times ten. So that
- 24:16Speaker 5: they say that cookie has six six servings in that
- 24:21Speaker 5: one cookie.
- 24:23Speaker 1: How many people are gonna eat that in six servings?
- 24:26Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. Right then?
- 24:29Speaker 3: And then the one and every one of these things
- 24:31Speaker 3: was different. But the cook I think it averaged one
- 24:35Speaker 3: hundred and twenty five Let.
- 24:39Speaker 4: Me do the matho.
- 24:39Speaker 3: Yeah, it was one hundred and twenty five calories per serving,
- 24:42Speaker 3: So there's six servings, so it's like seven it was
- 24:44Speaker 3: almost eight hundred calories I think per cookie. This sounds like,
- 24:49Speaker 3: oh man, and I don't count calories. I eat once
- 24:52Speaker 3: a day, so I could probably be fine doing it
- 24:54Speaker 3: and all that.
- 24:55Speaker 1: It's just once, you know.
- 24:56Speaker 3: It's like I could have had a big mac and
- 24:58Speaker 3: fries or cookie and I was like, whoa, what is
- 25:03Speaker 3: up with that?
- 25:03Speaker 1: All?
- 25:03Speaker 5: Right?
- 25:04Speaker 3: Time now for the phrase of the week, the phrase
- 25:08Speaker 3: of the week. My phrase of the week this week
- 25:11Speaker 3: is the marching and Chowders Society. We talked about this
- 25:15Speaker 3: during the draft, certain people advocating for certain players. A
- 25:20Speaker 3: lot of chatter over the weekend about Schadur Sanders, for example,
- 25:24Speaker 3: the opening round of the draft back on Thursday night,
- 25:28Speaker 3: Dandy a lot of mel kiper with his knee pads
- 25:32Speaker 3: on for all Sason.
- 25:33Speaker 5: He definitely was paid by the Sanders family. That was awkward.
- 25:37Speaker 1: They gave him some nil money.
- 25:40Speaker 3: Yeah, that was a little much, A little much anyway.
- 25:43Speaker 3: The phrase marching in chowder society or chowder and marching
- 25:48Speaker 3: society originated way back in the eighteen hundred and nineteenth century,
- 25:52Speaker 3: and it was used for fraternal groups and social groups.
- 25:58Speaker 3: And there was the cherry Field Chowder Society founded in
- 26:03Speaker 3: eighteen sixty eight in the state of Maine, shout out
- 26:07Speaker 3: to our home boys in the state of Maine.
- 26:10Speaker 1: It became later the.
- 26:11Speaker 3: Cherry Field Chowder and Marching Society in the eighteen seventies.
- 26:16Speaker 3: And they had a band, they had secret bylaws.
- 26:19Speaker 1: It was like a secret society. They had a special.
- 26:22Speaker 3: Flag, all that crap, and it was like a social club.
- 26:26Speaker 3: There was also the East Lawn Chowder and Marching Society, which.
- 26:30Speaker 1: Formed in nineteen oh nine.
- 26:31Speaker 3: That was at the University of Virginia, Go Calves Go
- 26:36Speaker 3: and they had a friendly rivalry with the West Lawn group.
- 26:40Speaker 3: And that lasted from the nineteen o nine to nineteen
- 26:46Speaker 3: to the nineteen fifties. Now the phrase became even more widespread.
- 26:52Speaker 3: It was a There was a political fraternity founded in
- 26:57Speaker 3: nineteen forty nine by a congressman named Richard Nixon. I
- 27:02Speaker 3: wonder what happened to him? I wonder what happened to
- 27:05Speaker 3: Richard Nixon? And so that spread it a little further.
- 27:10Speaker 3: The term also appeared in pop culture. There was a
- 27:13Speaker 3: comic strip, a comic strip Barnaby in the nineteen forties.
- 27:19Speaker 3: There were some other cartoons that featured it. But the
- 27:23Speaker 3: thing that caught me when I was doing my main
- 27:25Speaker 3: research on this that the phrase was popularized by a
- 27:30Speaker 3: sportscaster who had national reach and is credited with continuing
- 27:37Speaker 3: to spread marching in shadow society. That sportscaster Danny Vin Scully.
- 27:44Speaker 3: It was popularized by Vin Scully on NBC when he
- 27:48Speaker 3: was doing the Game of the Week, and he did
- 27:51Speaker 3: football on NBC as well, and he would refer to
- 27:53Speaker 3: a player who had a lot of supporters. He'd be
- 27:57Speaker 3: like the Marching and Chowders Society for Willie Mays, the
- 28:01Speaker 3: Great Vince Scully, Yeah, Vin, Yeah, So that's that's pretty cool.
- 28:07Speaker 3: So there you go the phrase of the week, Marching
- 28:11Speaker 3: and Chowder Society.
- 28:14Speaker 1: Whoa the rally dowel? And if we have a sombrero,
- 28:19Speaker 1: throw it in the sky.
- 28:21Speaker 4: Oh that's got to be racist. So wonderful.
- 28:25Speaker 3: All right, we'll get out on that, Danny, enjoy watching
- 28:28Speaker 3: the rest of the draft today and see what happens
- 28:31Speaker 3: with all the all the fun and the shadder Sanders.
- 28:36Speaker 3: I get the clips today. Game that was a game
- 28:39Speaker 3: four Game four Clippers and Nuggets. That'll be this afternoon
- 28:42Speaker 3: our time, so I'll be checking that out today and
- 28:46Speaker 3: we will be back tomorrow to do it all over again.
- 28:48Speaker 1: What do you say? What a guy?
- 28:54Speaker 4: Later? Skater My Felatia