June 13, 2025 • 32 mins
Ben Maller (produced by Danny G.) has a fun Friday for you! He talks: Full Strawberry Moon Fun, Driving Through Riots to Do Sports Radio, Phones Go Down at FSR, Listener Calls LAPD, & more!
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If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes
a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants
of the old Republic, a soul fashion of fairness. He
treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the
rich pill poppers in the penthouse. Wow to clearing House
of hot takes, break free for something special. The Fifth
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Hour with Ben Maller starts right now in the.
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Air everywhere The Fifth Hour with Me, Ben Mahler and
Danny g Radio Happy Friday. We have reached the weekend,
which is not the end of the line, as you know,
because everyday audio, every effing day audio here did the
radio show last night, up all night, waited a couple hours,
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came back into the podcast studio, cut up here. We
are hopefully no speed bumps. Had a few speed bumps
this week. We'll get to that in the bar body
of the podcast later on. In this pod, we've got
strawberry shortcake. Unless it's not nine to one one, what's
your emergency? Lights camera action will have the phrase of
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the week, and also, if we have time, some foodie fun.
But we begin with this. It is National Sewing Machine Day.
That's why we love these dopey holidays on the Fifth
Hour podcast. So it's National Sewing Machine Day. Now. When
I was a kid, my mom would futs around with
the sewing machine, and I remember that was like a
big thing. She would we would always f up. We
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had had two brothers, so she was the mom of
three boys and we would f up our clothes tremendously.
And my mom would always be sewing crap together. And
she was really good, as I remember, she was good
at it. Now I don't know, maybe she was bad
at sewing, but as a kid, I thought, man, my
mom is like the greatest sewer of all time. So
it is National Sewing Machine Day and a major tip
of the cap to Elias Howe and Isaac Singer. Do
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you know who that is? No, you've never heard of
the name Elias Howe or Isaac Singer. Well, it's a
bad job by you now. Back in the day, I
don't know if they still have home eck. When I
was I'm a dinosaur. When I was in school, they
had a home ex where you had to like learn
You didn't have to learn who Elias how and Isaac
Singer were, but you had to learn like stuff like
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sewing and things like that. They tried to teach you,
you know, things that you need as a human being,
things like that. So it turns out that Elias Howe
and Isaac Singer are two of the more important people
in the history of the world. But nobody really cares
about them because they did not invent They did not
invent the wheel. They didn't come up with the telephone
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or the internet or any of that stuff. No, no, no, no, no,
let's go all the way back in the hot tub
time machine. We're gonna go back to the year seventeen
ninety one, not seventeen ninety and not seventeen ninety two.
Teen ninety one. Very important. So in seventeen ninety one,
a guy named Thomas Saint. Thomas Saint patented the sewing machine.
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The first sewing machine was patented in seventeen ninety one. Okay, wow,
it wasn't until eighteen thirty three, so we're looking at
forty forty years later or so. A guy named Walter
Hunt invented the lockstitch machine, but he didn't patent it.
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Bad job by him. I guess the internet wasn't around
in eighteen thirty three. He said, well, you haven't said
the names. You didn't say. You didn't say the name. Okay,
calm down. So that's right. Thomas Saint and Walter Hunt
are not Elias Howe and Isaac Singer. So we move
ahead in this tale of sewing greatness. It was in
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eighteen fifty one, March of eighteen fifty one, and that
is when Isaac Singer used other manufacturers' ideas. It was
not his idea to put together a foot pedal, and
was granted the first American patent, the very first one,
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in eighteen fifty one, and off to the races we go,
and so so, so so so, and then in nineteen
forty six, Toyota, Toyota. You think of Toyota, you think
of cars, but they built their first sewing machine in
nineteen forty six. So there you go a little fun
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fact on sewing the timeline, cause we're all about the history.
We're all about the history of the sewing machine. You say, well, what,
just he was involved in it. Okay, I was involved
in it. Just deal with it. That's it. And if
you want some other fun facts on that, go find
them yourself. I'm done on that now. It is also
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a day that is important to me. It's National Kitchen
Clutch Day, one of these made up holidays. As you
may or may not know, in recent years, I have
taken up the hobby of cooking. It started out as baking,
and I still bake occasionally. But the problem with baking
is you end up eating most of the product that
you bake. And if you bake cookies and cakes and
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things like that, brownies, you end up fat. So I'm
trying to avoid that, so I've cut back tremendously on
the baking. It's rare and appropriate. Now make a bunch
of cookies and do that whole thing, but rare inappropriate,
rare inappropriate. But it's National Kitchen Cluts of America Day
every June thirteenth. Why do we have this day? Well,
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why do we have Father's Day? Right, the least popular holiday,
Father's Day, Mother's Day very important. Father's Day which is
this weekend, not that big a deal. I'm guessing when
they discovered fire, which this is the Stone Age, the
beginning parts of the Stone Age, back in the day,
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there must have been some dude who had decided to
cook something over the fire and like drop the whole
thing into the fire, right, primitive Neanderthal type, you know,
half Neanderthal, half Homo sapey and just kind of throwing
the crap into the fire. It wasn't until seventeen twenty
five the world's very first restaurant opened up. Now I'm
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guessing somewhere in like the sixteen tens or something there
might have been something there was a restaurant, but just
go with it, right, just go with it. So it
was in seventeen twenty five the world's first restaurant opened,
and it opened in Madrid. I think we've had that
before in the podcast. I feel like we've talked about
that on this podcast. And anyway, seventeen twenty five it opened,
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and you know, somewhere in that kitchen at that nice
little restaurant in Madrid, they were they were affing around.
Stuff was not going right, and they dropped stuff. And
the history of klutz being a clutch, which I am
proudly a klutz I think most of us are, and
then the history of food go side by side and
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some of the things that we used today. It always
blows me away, like the random things that are in
the kitchen where you go back and you're like, well,
how did that start. I'll give you an example. I
was reading a story this week. I know this is
a little bit off topic, but it doesn't kind of
involve food. So I was reading stories. Somewhere I fell
down this rabbit hole and I was getting ready for
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the show, the radio show, and I started looking up.
I don't even remember what I was looking up. Somehow
I ended up down this rabbit hole where it was
like about foods that used to be medicine. And it's
a lot of stuff, but the one that stood out
was ketchup. Way back a couple hundred years ago, doctors
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would prescribe ketchup to treat diarrhea and indigestion. You got
the mana Zuma's revenge, you go get some some ketchup,
get some Heinz ketchup, and you're good to go. That's
all you need, and that's it. Just put put little
ketchup in there. You'll be good. Now. I would I
would definitely go to the doctor Moore. If the doctor says,
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you know, Ben, yeah, you don't feel right, there's something
wrong with you. Why don't you go eat a dozen
donuts and let's that's helped that that stomach for years.
You look like you need about a dozen donuts, a
combination of apple fritters and Sinmon rolls, and that will
take care of all of your props. That's it. That's
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all you need. Make it happen, Okay, Doc, whatever you say.
All right, So, as far as the strawberry shortcake thing,
if you were listening to the Overnight Show, I've been
told by some of you idiots that this Friday podcast
is a retrospective on the week that was. And sometimes
that's true. Sometimes that's true, sometimes it's not. It just
depends on my mood. Today. I'm looking back at the
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week that was. We had some zany things happen. I say,
strawberry shortcake. It's really strawberry moon. Our friend Andrea, she's
the astrology insider on the show, and she called up
and she pointed out she had the Farmer's Almanac out.
She said, hey, Ben, it's a strawberry moon. And so
I made a joke about strawberry donuts. She said, strawberry moon.
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And we know from life experience doing overnight talk radio
when there's a full moon, people act differently. Things pop up.
I say, well, it's a quinky dink, Ben, It's not
really true. It's just your perception. And I would argue
that if that only happened a couple of times over
the course of my long winding road doing audio talk radio,
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then I would say, Okay, you're right, it's just my interpretation.
That's not the case, though I have overwhelming I'm talking
twenty plus years of doing this, most of it overnight,
but it doesn't matter whether it's overnight or not. It
happens during the day too. People just and it doesn't
stand out as much during the day, but at night
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it stands out more so. We had the Strawberry Moon
and on Q on Queue everything hit the fan. We
had the lunatics, the people out committing criminal acts against police,
throwing bricks at police and whatnot, and taking rocks and
chucking them at people and lighting cars on fire, you know,
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normal activity in LA. And so that happened. The phone
lines clogged, which did coincide, as it was pointed out
to me by someone. I'm I'm not sure who pointed
this out. There might have been a couple of people
that it coincided with the LA curfews. More than that,
in a second. So it is a call in radio show,
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as you know, and with one line. We had one line.
We have a bunch of phone lines coming into the mothership.
There was one line that was working. Every other phone
line was messed up and you had to call like
fifty times to get in. We heard that that you
had to keep calling, and it depending on what phone
company you had. If you had certain carriers, you couldn't
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get through. So we tried resetting the phones. You know,
hit the thing of a jig and then you twist
the what you might call it, and then da da,
Well that didn't work, all right, that didn't work. Now. Fortunately,
because I am a loser, I have no life, type,
a personality, whatever you want to say, I over prepare
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for every radio show. And I do that because early
in my career, I've told this story from time to time.
I'll share it with you right now. I'm not going
to give you the full dance remix. But the first
time I ever did talk radio by myself was a
Saturday morning show, and I had worked in San Diego
for a while at the mighty six ninety, which no
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longer is in business and hasn't been in business for
probably twenty five years or twenty years, but anyway, So
I worked in the mighty sixth ninety I got transferred
to the station in Los Angeles, local station that was
owned by Jacore Media, which became a clear channel, which
became iHeart and I still work at iHeart. So anyway,
I'm doing my first radio show. The program director Bob Bennett,
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you know, he he thought early on and the company
thought that I had a chance to not suck. Not
that I would be good, but they thought I did.
They didn't think I would suck, so that that made
me feel pretty good. That made me feel pretty good.
And he said, hey, I want to give you a shot,
and you got to pay your dues. You gotta pay
your dues. I said, okay, I'll pay my dues. So
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we'll give you a slot on Saturday morning. And then
originally I did the show with other people. I had
other people. I did the show. It was I got
an hour or I think it started as an hour show,
and then as I remember, and then that was it.
So they said, we want to see what you sound
like by yourself. I said, okay, I'm in sign me up, coach,
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I'm ready to go. Put me in center field I
can play. So they gave me the show on the Saturday.
And this is in the days before the modern internet,
you know, like AOL America online, and there was limited,
limited content. People were still reading newspapers and so it
wasn't the world that we're in today. It's a much
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more difficult proposition to properly prepare for a radio show.
At least the way I prepare is whatever, because I'm
anal about this. So the first show I ever did,
I remember saying, I am just going to knock everyone's
socks off. I am just going to kill it. I
am going to kill it. And so I prepared, and
I prepared, and I spent two days putting my first
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ever Mallard monologue together. And this was going to be
my moment. I was going to prove everyone to everyone
that gave me a shot, hey, you were right. And
for those that wouldn't give me a shot, screw you,
you suck you blew it. Okay, fine, So I put
this monologue together and it was a piece of poetry.
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It was I had all my bullet points. I was
ready to go. I had practiced it. You know, the
whole thing got the timing rat a tat tat, ready
to go. I got on that microphone and I opened
the mic, and I nailed it. I absolutely nailed it,
ten out of ten. In fact, it was twenty out
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of ten perfect. Gave out the number, did a tease boom,
went right to the commercials. So then five minutes of
commercials play back to the show, and I drowned. I
had only prepared for that opening monologue, not realizing that
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was only ten or fifteen minutes. Shiver me timbers I
had at that time. I think that show was three hours,
so I had three hours I had. I had used
up all of my bullets in the first segment, and
I had this swat, this flop sweat. I was freaking out.
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I didn't know. I don't know how I survived that.
I gave out the number. Nobody knew who I was,
no one was calling. It was a nightmare. So ever
since then, long story short, I said I was gonna
be the short version. I gave you a longer version
that was like the mid version, so long story short.
Because of that experience, I always over prepare for a
radio show. I never want to be in that situation
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where I am not ready to go. I have to
prepare myself for all of the conceivable possibilities. And as
you know, especially these days on the Overnight Show, it's
a one man band. It's you know, just me, that's it.
You know. I don't even have a sidekick anymore. They
whacked Eddy, so I'm on my own. And so the
things I learned as a boy scout back in the day,
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and we're confirmed when I did my first talk radio
show I still use today. Your work is your signature.
That is my product. You never sell. I believe in
never selling an inferior product. I wouldn't want to buy
an inferior product. Why would I want to sell an
inferior product? And this is all I have is my words,
So that's it. And I want to be like some
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horse being sent to the glue factory. But it's the
code of the West. You take pride in your work,
you ride for the brand, and you finish what you start,
and those basic things. I feel like we could just
teach those basic things to people and they could follow them.
The world would be a better place. It just would,
and you wouldn't have that sinking feeling. Now nine to
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one one, what's your emergency. This is not a story
about my wife, who you may or may not know,
is a nine to one one operator. No, no, no,
This is a recreation of what we think happened, what
we think happened earlier this week. This go back back, back,
back back back, and uh any a day that was
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I don't know, was it was it Wednesday? Was it Thursday?
I don't know, A couple of days back, and we're
doing a recreation here. This is not the actual call.
This is a recreation ring ring ring nine one one.
What's your emergency? Yeah, my name is Scott. Hi, Scott,
what's your problem? I live on the North end of Boston. Well, Scott,
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this is this is La PD Scott. Uh yeah, I'm
I'm calling because my favorite radio show's having an issue
with the phones. I feel like this is an emergency.
Uh but you're you're in Boston, We're in Los Angeles.
What are you doing? Uh? Yeah, it's it's called Scott,
It's Scott. Here's it's the Ben Malor Show. Yeah. So
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if we are to believe Scott, now, Scott has is
he's admitted he has like multiple personalities and he's got
there's a lot going on I get a kick out
of Scott. Ninety five percent of the time I am
a fan of Blind Scott. The five percent I do
not like blind Scott is when he threatens to docks
me and he goes completely off the reservation. Not a fan,
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But for the rest of it, I get a kick
out of him. The fact that he's on You don't
realize he's on hold every night, almost the entire show,
and I only usually use him one time on the show.
Sometimes I'll use him two or three times, but usually
it's only one time, and he says on oh, and
most of the time he doesn't complain. And the thing
about him, unlike most of the callers, like I'll take
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calls and these are like regular star callers on the show.
These are legends, and they're gammering and they're not ready
to go. And Blind Scott always has a sharp tongue.
He's always ready to go, and he's he's listening somehow
to all the bull crap. So I appreciate that he
puts He's not getting paid, I don't think, but he's
putting work in so anyway, if we are to believe Scott,
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the phones go down at FSR and he thinks this
is a police matter, and he says he called LAPD. No,
he didn't call nine one one. I added that I don't.
If you call nine one one, you get your local
nine one one. But he called the LAPD office like
some he went on the internet and found some number.
And keep in mind, he did this while the city
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was under curfew. Downtown Los Angeles, the meat of LA
City Hall, that area one mile radius was under curfew,
and he ended up in the middle of that saying, Hey,
I'm gonna call the chat line here. I got a problem.
My radio show can't take calls and I'm a caller now,
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piggybacking off that piggybacking off that you have lights, camera action.
That is what it was like for me a couple
nights this week, driving in to the radio studios from
the north Woods, making the long drive in. So I'm
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driving into work. Now, the writing had been going on
for a couple of days, so that that's one issue.
Then you had the curfew, as we mentioned with the
blind Scott story, so you had that. So I'm making
the long drive in from the north Woods. Now keep
in mind, before this happened, I had I was watching
a game, and then I would flip over and they
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had the news on, and they had the helicopters, and
there were people, uh, just a few few bad actors
I'm sure looked like a lot, but they were out
there causing havoc, you know, messing with the cops and
all that stuff and usual activity that happens in La
La Land. So I'm watching this and I'm like, well,
I drive it in, and the way I go in,
I take the one oh one. If you're not familiar
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with Los Angeles, the one on one freeway, which slices
right in downtown, goes by Union Station is on the right,
and then on the other side is like the Men's
Central Jail. Actually, no, I think it's not the Men's
Central Jail. It's just the jail, the Men's Central Jails
on the other side. And then there there's a city hall.
There's Olavera Street, which is on the other side near
Union Station, and then there's this like this Walt Disney
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Music Hall. There's a weird high school that has some
art thing, and then up ahead is the from the
one oh one to the one ten, and to the
right you can get to Dodger stadium. So this is
how I go to get to work. So I'm driving
and I'm getting near Union Station and I get thanks
to the incompetent mayor of Los Angeles, I get a
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full on show. I end up driving right through the
heart of the knuckleheads. The only thing I was worried
about was that they would end up on the freeway,
because I've seen this happen a lot. They closed the
they walk down it's an old freeway, the one oh one,
or they'll close the one ten. There's a standard. So
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we had on my way to work, I had lights
from the police helicopters I had, and also from like
it seemed like two hundred police carers. I have not
seen that many police cars and that many cops in
one place since the previous LA riots. I'm going way
back when I was a kid. So we had the
lights from the police helicopters, and then there were some
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news helicopters that didn't have lights of police cars, and
they were actually what they had done is on the
on ramps to the freeway that was like the staging
area for the cops. So there was like a combination.
It wasn't just LAPD there was highway patrol. But there
were a ton of cops. I mean they were, well,
it was a lot. And then we had the cameras
provided by the media, the action from the lunatics that
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were throwing things and mocking the cops and all that stuff,
many of them being arrested for violin and curfew. So
it was not just your normal drive in. It was
the drive with the lights, camera action and a bit
of a show. We had a bit of a show
on that one. All right. Time out for the phrase
of the week. The phrase of the week. Now, the
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phrase of the week is really just two letters. It's
two letters or is it two letters? Well, let me
give it to you. The phrase of the week is
p you. Now, I do use this phrase on a
semi regular basis. In fact, you might have heard me
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say something last night on the show, on the Overnight
Show about this, and we talked about things that are
are smelling. So I'll say, p you what stinks? Right? Well,
the phrase PU does not does not stand for pretty,
unsavory or putrid eh or please use as in deodorant. No, no, no.
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In fact, if you if you go back and study
the origins, and I am not the one that did this,
but I did fall down an avenue that led me here.
So the phrase pu, it turns out likely it began
in the early seventeenth century. And it is not initials
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for anything. It's not initials for you name it. It is
the word pew. Pew, according to the Oxford English Dictionary,
defines an expressing contempt, disgust, or derision division, and it is.
It's pew. It's spelled a few different ways, but the
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way we'll use is pew. And there's different iterations and
all that stuff. And it's supposed to be pronounced with
one syllable. And so the theory is that over time,
to add a little rasmataz, add a little flair. Instead
of saying pew, they said p You like that, And
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it's similar to you can say beautiful or be you ful? Right,
be be twoful? You can say that as well, Yeah, exactly,
And so pu sounds exactly like the letters PU. So
it's believed that that's how it happened. Now that being
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pointed out, PW to pu isn't the only theory behind
the expression. It has also been suggested by competing wordsmith
a wordsmith out there that the phrase pu actually comes
from an Indo European word, which is pu, meaning to
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rot or decay. There's also a Latin phrase that is
similar that means to stink. And it turns out there's
actually a number of phrases and other Latin words that
are are similar. And I don't need to give you two.
I don't speak Latin very well, but anyway, in short,
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I just kind of sum this up. The letters PU
have been associated with stench, either from the seventeen hundreds
or even before that in the sixteenth century. So there
it is the phrase all the week pu, the phrase
of the week times for some food he fun, all right,
for food he fun. Now. I talked to my friend
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Nico when I was in Vancouver and we had Nico
on the podcast recently, and he was great. We love
Nico and Nico enjoys the pod. He listens, and I realized, though,
we have people that listen all over the place. Not
most people listening are here in America, but we have
people all over Canada, as we learned, great audience in
Vancouver and other places around Canada. And so I have
the foodie fun and I just put together a slap
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together some deals trap your boys out some new items
that are interesting. Realizing these are not available everywhere, so
as Nico said, well, you mentioned some restaurants and that's
not in Canada. We can't you know, I can't have that.
But these are some restaurants out. Even if these restaurants
are in your place, you might not get the item.
For example, McDonald's, they're everywhere. Just in time for the summer,
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McDonald's offering all the flavors of the classic campfire treat,
the S'mores s'mores mcflurry. They partnered with Hershey's so you
can have that. I was never a big Smores guy,
did a few campouts in my younger days. Eh. The
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problem was the melt of the chocolate and it didn't
match up. And then get one bite into the Graham cracker,
the marshmallow and the chocolate, and it was such an
f and mess. It was terrible. You had marshmallow all
over your hands and it would drip down on your shirt.
You were a pig. But anyway, if you're into that,
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if that's your jam, McDonald's unveiling the new Hershey's S'mores mcflurry.
It's got four hundred and sixty calories if you're buying mcfluury,
who the hell cares? Come on, don't count on that.
But they say vanilla soft serve ice cream swirled with
Hershey milk, chocolate, Graham Cracker, and soft marshmallows available in
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meni and regular size prices starting at dollars seventy nine.
That's probably for a thing the size of your thumb.
And the prices do vary based on location. And also
we're not sure if that's all over the place or
just in the US. Taco Bell on Foodie Fund. Taco
Bell has launched a new Crispy Chicken taco and burrito
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featuring all new Crispy Chicken strips. Okay, is there getting
in on that? Like the fries, the Taco Bell fries.
That's a win and this doesn't sound bad. Although, hey,
the Malor Mansion, we have mastered the crunchy taco and
the rolled taco, which is a taketo. We're in it.
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We have mastered that, and it only took a long
time to get there. But we are, we are here,
and boy are we happy to be here mastering that.
Papa John's has officially launched a new cheddar Crust pizza
nationwide in the US here, So if you're into that,
knock it out of the park. Culvers, which is in
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my This is not a list, but my big board
of great fast food establishments. I've got Raising Canes, Got
In and Out, Burger, Culver's is in there, and bo Jangles.
Those are some of my favorites. But Culver's launching new
and improved chicken sandwiches. They have a new lineup of
chicken sandwiches at culver. I've never had a Culver's chicken sandwich.
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I've only been there a few times. I'm not near
a Culver's. They have over a thousand locations, thousand locations,
and I'm not near one. I'm not. The next closest
is over in Arizona. There's none in La or in California,
where we do the show from. When I visit my
brother in Wisconsin, I go to anyone in the Midwest
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they have a Culvers. I'll try to stop by, But
the Culvers, they say, based on fan feedback, a MULTII
year MULTII year program fan feedback and research, Culver's culinary
team has come up with the new grilled Chicken, the
Crispy Chicken, and the spicy crispy chicken, which sounds like
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every other restaurants chicken lineup. It doesn't sound any different,
but it's culvers and you get the cheese curds, and
so you can go with that and have a fine time.
Just just absolutely knock yourself out there. And that's it,
all right. It is the Fifth Hour, and I want
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to solicit some letters if you would like to send
a question in for the mail bag, which is not
not ask man. We've been so happy with the feedback.
And when I say feedback, I just mean like people
that are new, not that we don't love the old people,
because we love the regulars. You guys are the base.
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We love the bass. But there are new people seemingly
finding the show. Other than Reggie in Detroit and Alf
and ferg Dog and those guys, there's new people that
are coming in, which is really cool because most people
that listen to a podcast like this will never actually
interact with the podcast. But Real fifth Hour at gmail
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dot com, Real fifth Hour at gmail dot com if
you'd like to be part of this podcast. The mail
bag is on Sunday, so even if you can't listen
on Sunday, you can go back and listen to it
later and enjoy that and have a fine, fine time.
So Danny should be with me on the Saturday and
the Sunday podcast. We've got pro bouncy ball tonight. I
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believe that is the case. Yeah, pro bouncy ball. So
we've got that to look forward to. Any have a
wonderful rest of your Friday. Here, maybe it's the end
of your Friday. Who knows. We put the pot out early.
It's up to you decide what you want to do,
how you want to consume the content. I'm sure that
Tony in the Bay Area will go back and listen
to this. He listens to stuff eight years ago, so
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he'll go back and listen to this in twenty thirty three.
Holy crap, he'll be listening to this. But have a
wonderful Friday. We got fresh content all weekend. We got
you on Saturday and Sunday. So I'll talk to you
next time. And as Danny g would say, asta pasta pill.
Yeah gotta murder. I gotta go
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Air everywhere The Fifth Hour with Me, Ben Mahler and
Danny g Radio Happy Friday. We have reached the weekend,
which is not the end of the line, as you know,
because everyday audio, every effing day audio here did the
radio show last night, up all night, waited a couple hours,
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came back into the podcast studio, cut up here. We
are hopefully no speed bumps. Had a few speed bumps
this week. We'll get to that in the bar body
of the podcast later on. In this pod, we've got
strawberry shortcake. Unless it's not nine to one one, what's
your emergency? Lights camera action will have the phrase of
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the week, and also, if we have time, some foodie fun.
But we begin with this. It is National Sewing Machine Day.
That's why we love these dopey holidays on the Fifth
Hour podcast. So it's National Sewing Machine Day. Now. When
I was a kid, my mom would futs around with
the sewing machine, and I remember that was like a
big thing. She would we would always f up. We
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had had two brothers, so she was the mom of
three boys and we would f up our clothes tremendously.
And my mom would always be sewing crap together. And
she was really good, as I remember, she was good
at it. Now I don't know, maybe she was bad
at sewing, but as a kid, I thought, man, my
mom is like the greatest sewer of all time. So
it is National Sewing Machine Day and a major tip
of the cap to Elias Howe and Isaac Singer. Do
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you know who that is? No, you've never heard of
the name Elias Howe or Isaac Singer. Well, it's a
bad job by you now. Back in the day, I
don't know if they still have home eck. When I
was I'm a dinosaur. When I was in school, they
had a home ex where you had to like learn
You didn't have to learn who Elias how and Isaac
Singer were, but you had to learn like stuff like
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sewing and things like that. They tried to teach you,
you know, things that you need as a human being,
things like that. So it turns out that Elias Howe
and Isaac Singer are two of the more important people
in the history of the world. But nobody really cares
about them because they did not invent They did not
invent the wheel. They didn't come up with the telephone
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or the internet or any of that stuff. No, no, no, no, no,
let's go all the way back in the hot tub
time machine. We're gonna go back to the year seventeen
ninety one, not seventeen ninety and not seventeen ninety two.
Teen ninety one. Very important. So in seventeen ninety one,
a guy named Thomas Saint. Thomas Saint patented the sewing machine.
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The first sewing machine was patented in seventeen ninety one. Okay, wow,
it wasn't until eighteen thirty three, so we're looking at
forty forty years later or so. A guy named Walter
Hunt invented the lockstitch machine, but he didn't patent it.
(03:33):
Bad job by him. I guess the internet wasn't around
in eighteen thirty three. He said, well, you haven't said
the names. You didn't say. You didn't say the name. Okay,
calm down. So that's right. Thomas Saint and Walter Hunt
are not Elias Howe and Isaac Singer. So we move
ahead in this tale of sewing greatness. It was in
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eighteen fifty one, March of eighteen fifty one, and that
is when Isaac Singer used other manufacturers' ideas. It was
not his idea to put together a foot pedal, and
was granted the first American patent, the very first one,
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in eighteen fifty one, and off to the races we go,
and so so, so so so, and then in nineteen
forty six, Toyota, Toyota. You think of Toyota, you think
of cars, but they built their first sewing machine in
nineteen forty six. So there you go a little fun
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fact on sewing the timeline, cause we're all about the history.
We're all about the history of the sewing machine. You say, well, what,
just he was involved in it. Okay, I was involved
in it. Just deal with it. That's it. And if
you want some other fun facts on that, go find
them yourself. I'm done on that now. It is also
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a day that is important to me. It's National Kitchen
Clutch Day, one of these made up holidays. As you
may or may not know, in recent years, I have
taken up the hobby of cooking. It started out as baking,
and I still bake occasionally. But the problem with baking
is you end up eating most of the product that
you bake. And if you bake cookies and cakes and
(05:25):
things like that, brownies, you end up fat. So I'm
trying to avoid that, so I've cut back tremendously on
the baking. It's rare and appropriate. Now make a bunch
of cookies and do that whole thing, but rare inappropriate,
rare inappropriate. But it's National Kitchen Cluts of America Day
every June thirteenth. Why do we have this day? Well,
(05:47):
why do we have Father's Day? Right, the least popular holiday,
Father's Day, Mother's Day very important. Father's Day which is
this weekend, not that big a deal. I'm guessing when
they discovered fire, which this is the Stone Age, the
beginning parts of the Stone Age, back in the day,
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there must have been some dude who had decided to
cook something over the fire and like drop the whole
thing into the fire, right, primitive Neanderthal type, you know,
half Neanderthal, half Homo sapey and just kind of throwing
the crap into the fire. It wasn't until seventeen twenty
five the world's very first restaurant opened up. Now I'm
(06:31):
guessing somewhere in like the sixteen tens or something there
might have been something there was a restaurant, but just
go with it, right, just go with it. So it
was in seventeen twenty five the world's first restaurant opened,
and it opened in Madrid. I think we've had that
before in the podcast. I feel like we've talked about
that on this podcast. And anyway, seventeen twenty five it opened,
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and you know, somewhere in that kitchen at that nice
little restaurant in Madrid, they were they were affing around.
Stuff was not going right, and they dropped stuff. And
the history of klutz being a clutch, which I am
proudly a klutz I think most of us are, and
then the history of food go side by side and
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some of the things that we used today. It always
blows me away, like the random things that are in
the kitchen where you go back and you're like, well,
how did that start. I'll give you an example. I
was reading a story this week. I know this is
a little bit off topic, but it doesn't kind of
involve food. So I was reading stories. Somewhere I fell
down this rabbit hole and I was getting ready for
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the show, the radio show, and I started looking up.
I don't even remember what I was looking up. Somehow
I ended up down this rabbit hole where it was
like about foods that used to be medicine. And it's
a lot of stuff, but the one that stood out
was ketchup. Way back a couple hundred years ago, doctors
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would prescribe ketchup to treat diarrhea and indigestion. You got
the mana Zuma's revenge, you go get some some ketchup,
get some Heinz ketchup, and you're good to go. That's
all you need, and that's it. Just put put little
ketchup in there. You'll be good. Now. I would I
would definitely go to the doctor Moore. If the doctor says,
(08:18):
you know, Ben, yeah, you don't feel right, there's something
wrong with you. Why don't you go eat a dozen
donuts and let's that's helped that that stomach for years.
You look like you need about a dozen donuts, a
combination of apple fritters and Sinmon rolls, and that will
take care of all of your props. That's it. That's
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all you need. Make it happen, Okay, Doc, whatever you say.
All right, So, as far as the strawberry shortcake thing,
if you were listening to the Overnight Show, I've been
told by some of you idiots that this Friday podcast
is a retrospective on the week that was. And sometimes
that's true. Sometimes that's true, sometimes it's not. It just
depends on my mood. Today. I'm looking back at the
(09:01):
week that was. We had some zany things happen. I say,
strawberry shortcake. It's really strawberry moon. Our friend Andrea, she's
the astrology insider on the show, and she called up
and she pointed out she had the Farmer's Almanac out.
She said, hey, Ben, it's a strawberry moon. And so
I made a joke about strawberry donuts. She said, strawberry moon.
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And we know from life experience doing overnight talk radio
when there's a full moon, people act differently. Things pop up.
I say, well, it's a quinky dink, Ben, It's not
really true. It's just your perception. And I would argue
that if that only happened a couple of times over
the course of my long winding road doing audio talk radio,
(09:51):
then I would say, Okay, you're right, it's just my interpretation.
That's not the case, though I have overwhelming I'm talking
twenty plus years of doing this, most of it overnight,
but it doesn't matter whether it's overnight or not. It
happens during the day too. People just and it doesn't
stand out as much during the day, but at night
(10:13):
it stands out more so. We had the Strawberry Moon
and on Q on Queue everything hit the fan. We
had the lunatics, the people out committing criminal acts against police,
throwing bricks at police and whatnot, and taking rocks and
chucking them at people and lighting cars on fire, you know,
(10:35):
normal activity in LA. And so that happened. The phone
lines clogged, which did coincide, as it was pointed out
to me by someone. I'm I'm not sure who pointed
this out. There might have been a couple of people
that it coincided with the LA curfews. More than that,
in a second. So it is a call in radio show,
(10:57):
as you know, and with one line. We had one line.
We have a bunch of phone lines coming into the mothership.
There was one line that was working. Every other phone
line was messed up and you had to call like
fifty times to get in. We heard that that you
had to keep calling, and it depending on what phone
company you had. If you had certain carriers, you couldn't
(11:20):
get through. So we tried resetting the phones. You know,
hit the thing of a jig and then you twist
the what you might call it, and then da da,
Well that didn't work, all right, that didn't work. Now. Fortunately,
because I am a loser, I have no life, type,
a personality, whatever you want to say, I over prepare
(11:42):
for every radio show. And I do that because early
in my career, I've told this story from time to time.
I'll share it with you right now. I'm not going
to give you the full dance remix. But the first
time I ever did talk radio by myself was a
Saturday morning show, and I had worked in San Diego
for a while at the mighty six ninety, which no
(12:04):
longer is in business and hasn't been in business for
probably twenty five years or twenty years, but anyway, So
I worked in the mighty sixth ninety I got transferred
to the station in Los Angeles, local station that was
owned by Jacore Media, which became a clear channel, which
became iHeart and I still work at iHeart. So anyway,
I'm doing my first radio show. The program director Bob Bennett,
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you know, he he thought early on and the company
thought that I had a chance to not suck. Not
that I would be good, but they thought I did.
They didn't think I would suck, so that that made
me feel pretty good. That made me feel pretty good.
And he said, hey, I want to give you a shot,
and you got to pay your dues. You gotta pay
your dues. I said, okay, I'll pay my dues. So
(12:48):
we'll give you a slot on Saturday morning. And then
originally I did the show with other people. I had
other people. I did the show. It was I got
an hour or I think it started as an hour show,
and then as I remember, and then that was it.
So they said, we want to see what you sound
like by yourself. I said, okay, I'm in sign me up, coach,
(13:08):
I'm ready to go. Put me in center field I
can play. So they gave me the show on the Saturday.
And this is in the days before the modern internet,
you know, like AOL America online, and there was limited,
limited content. People were still reading newspapers and so it
wasn't the world that we're in today. It's a much
(13:30):
more difficult proposition to properly prepare for a radio show.
At least the way I prepare is whatever, because I'm
anal about this. So the first show I ever did,
I remember saying, I am just going to knock everyone's
socks off. I am just going to kill it. I
am going to kill it. And so I prepared, and
I prepared, and I spent two days putting my first
(13:53):
ever Mallard monologue together. And this was going to be
my moment. I was going to prove everyone to everyone
that gave me a shot, hey, you were right. And
for those that wouldn't give me a shot, screw you,
you suck you blew it. Okay, fine, So I put
this monologue together and it was a piece of poetry.
(14:16):
It was I had all my bullet points. I was
ready to go. I had practiced it. You know, the
whole thing got the timing rat a tat tat, ready
to go. I got on that microphone and I opened
the mic, and I nailed it. I absolutely nailed it,
ten out of ten. In fact, it was twenty out
(14:38):
of ten perfect. Gave out the number, did a tease boom,
went right to the commercials. So then five minutes of
commercials play back to the show, and I drowned. I
had only prepared for that opening monologue, not realizing that
(15:01):
was only ten or fifteen minutes. Shiver me timbers I
had at that time. I think that show was three hours,
so I had three hours I had. I had used
up all of my bullets in the first segment, and
I had this swat, this flop sweat. I was freaking out.
(15:22):
I didn't know. I don't know how I survived that.
I gave out the number. Nobody knew who I was,
no one was calling. It was a nightmare. So ever
since then, long story short, I said I was gonna
be the short version. I gave you a longer version
that was like the mid version, so long story short.
Because of that experience, I always over prepare for a
radio show. I never want to be in that situation
(15:44):
where I am not ready to go. I have to
prepare myself for all of the conceivable possibilities. And as
you know, especially these days on the Overnight Show, it's
a one man band. It's you know, just me, that's it.
You know. I don't even have a sidekick anymore. They
whacked Eddy, so I'm on my own. And so the
things I learned as a boy scout back in the day,
(16:06):
and we're confirmed when I did my first talk radio
show I still use today. Your work is your signature.
That is my product. You never sell. I believe in
never selling an inferior product. I wouldn't want to buy
an inferior product. Why would I want to sell an
inferior product? And this is all I have is my words,
So that's it. And I want to be like some
(16:26):
horse being sent to the glue factory. But it's the
code of the West. You take pride in your work,
you ride for the brand, and you finish what you start,
and those basic things. I feel like we could just
teach those basic things to people and they could follow them.
The world would be a better place. It just would,
and you wouldn't have that sinking feeling. Now nine to
(16:48):
one one, what's your emergency. This is not a story
about my wife, who you may or may not know,
is a nine to one one operator. No, no, no,
This is a recreation of what we think happened, what
we think happened earlier this week. This go back back, back,
back back back, and uh any a day that was
(17:09):
I don't know, was it was it Wednesday? Was it Thursday?
I don't know, A couple of days back, and we're
doing a recreation here. This is not the actual call.
This is a recreation ring ring ring nine one one.
What's your emergency? Yeah, my name is Scott. Hi, Scott,
what's your problem? I live on the North end of Boston. Well, Scott,
(17:31):
this is this is La PD Scott. Uh yeah, I'm
I'm calling because my favorite radio show's having an issue
with the phones. I feel like this is an emergency.
Uh but you're you're in Boston, We're in Los Angeles.
What are you doing? Uh? Yeah, it's it's called Scott,
It's Scott. Here's it's the Ben Malor Show. Yeah. So
(17:51):
if we are to believe Scott, now, Scott has is
he's admitted he has like multiple personalities and he's got
there's a lot going on I get a kick out
of Scott. Ninety five percent of the time I am
a fan of Blind Scott. The five percent I do
not like blind Scott is when he threatens to docks
me and he goes completely off the reservation. Not a fan,
(18:12):
But for the rest of it, I get a kick
out of him. The fact that he's on You don't
realize he's on hold every night, almost the entire show,
and I only usually use him one time on the show.
Sometimes I'll use him two or three times, but usually
it's only one time, and he says on oh, and
most of the time he doesn't complain. And the thing
about him, unlike most of the callers, like I'll take
(18:33):
calls and these are like regular star callers on the show.
These are legends, and they're gammering and they're not ready
to go. And Blind Scott always has a sharp tongue.
He's always ready to go, and he's he's listening somehow
to all the bull crap. So I appreciate that he
puts He's not getting paid, I don't think, but he's
putting work in so anyway, if we are to believe Scott,
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the phones go down at FSR and he thinks this
is a police matter, and he says he called LAPD. No,
he didn't call nine one one. I added that I don't.
If you call nine one one, you get your local
nine one one. But he called the LAPD office like
some he went on the internet and found some number.
And keep in mind, he did this while the city
(19:19):
was under curfew. Downtown Los Angeles, the meat of LA
City Hall, that area one mile radius was under curfew,
and he ended up in the middle of that saying, Hey,
I'm gonna call the chat line here. I got a problem.
My radio show can't take calls and I'm a caller now,
(19:39):
piggybacking off that piggybacking off that you have lights, camera action.
That is what it was like for me a couple
nights this week, driving in to the radio studios from
the north Woods, making the long drive in. So I'm
(20:00):
driving into work. Now, the writing had been going on
for a couple of days, so that that's one issue.
Then you had the curfew, as we mentioned with the
blind Scott story, so you had that. So I'm making
the long drive in from the north Woods. Now keep
in mind, before this happened, I had I was watching
a game, and then I would flip over and they
(20:22):
had the news on, and they had the helicopters, and
there were people, uh, just a few few bad actors
I'm sure looked like a lot, but they were out
there causing havoc, you know, messing with the cops and
all that stuff and usual activity that happens in La
La Land. So I'm watching this and I'm like, well,
I drive it in, and the way I go in,
I take the one oh one. If you're not familiar
(20:44):
with Los Angeles, the one on one freeway, which slices
right in downtown, goes by Union Station is on the right,
and then on the other side is like the Men's
Central Jail. Actually, no, I think it's not the Men's
Central Jail. It's just the jail, the Men's Central Jails
on the other side. And then there there's a city hall.
There's Olavera Street, which is on the other side near
Union Station, and then there's this like this Walt Disney
(21:08):
Music Hall. There's a weird high school that has some
art thing, and then up ahead is the from the
one oh one to the one ten, and to the
right you can get to Dodger stadium. So this is
how I go to get to work. So I'm driving
and I'm getting near Union Station and I get thanks
to the incompetent mayor of Los Angeles, I get a
(21:30):
full on show. I end up driving right through the
heart of the knuckleheads. The only thing I was worried
about was that they would end up on the freeway,
because I've seen this happen a lot. They closed the
they walk down it's an old freeway, the one oh one,
or they'll close the one ten. There's a standard. So
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we had on my way to work, I had lights
from the police helicopters I had, and also from like
it seemed like two hundred police carers. I have not
seen that many police cars and that many cops in
one place since the previous LA riots. I'm going way
back when I was a kid. So we had the
lights from the police helicopters, and then there were some
(22:11):
news helicopters that didn't have lights of police cars, and
they were actually what they had done is on the
on ramps to the freeway that was like the staging
area for the cops. So there was like a combination.
It wasn't just LAPD there was highway patrol. But there
were a ton of cops. I mean they were, well,
it was a lot. And then we had the cameras
provided by the media, the action from the lunatics that
(22:32):
were throwing things and mocking the cops and all that stuff,
many of them being arrested for violin and curfew. So
it was not just your normal drive in. It was
the drive with the lights, camera action and a bit
of a show. We had a bit of a show
on that one. All right. Time out for the phrase
of the week. The phrase of the week. Now, the
(22:57):
phrase of the week is really just two letters. It's
two letters or is it two letters? Well, let me
give it to you. The phrase of the week is
p you. Now, I do use this phrase on a
semi regular basis. In fact, you might have heard me
(23:20):
say something last night on the show, on the Overnight
Show about this, and we talked about things that are
are smelling. So I'll say, p you what stinks? Right? Well,
the phrase PU does not does not stand for pretty,
unsavory or putrid eh or please use as in deodorant. No, no, no.
(23:48):
In fact, if you if you go back and study
the origins, and I am not the one that did this,
but I did fall down an avenue that led me here.
So the phrase pu, it turns out likely it began
in the early seventeenth century. And it is not initials
(24:11):
for anything. It's not initials for you name it. It is
the word pew. Pew, according to the Oxford English Dictionary,
defines an expressing contempt, disgust, or derision division, and it is.
It's pew. It's spelled a few different ways, but the
(24:34):
way we'll use is pew. And there's different iterations and
all that stuff. And it's supposed to be pronounced with
one syllable. And so the theory is that over time,
to add a little rasmataz, add a little flair. Instead
of saying pew, they said p You like that, And
(24:56):
it's similar to you can say beautiful or be you ful? Right,
be be twoful? You can say that as well, Yeah, exactly,
And so pu sounds exactly like the letters PU. So
it's believed that that's how it happened. Now that being
(25:17):
pointed out, PW to pu isn't the only theory behind
the expression. It has also been suggested by competing wordsmith
a wordsmith out there that the phrase pu actually comes
from an Indo European word, which is pu, meaning to
(25:38):
rot or decay. There's also a Latin phrase that is
similar that means to stink. And it turns out there's
actually a number of phrases and other Latin words that
are are similar. And I don't need to give you two.
I don't speak Latin very well, but anyway, in short,
(26:00):
I just kind of sum this up. The letters PU
have been associated with stench, either from the seventeen hundreds
or even before that in the sixteenth century. So there
it is the phrase all the week pu, the phrase
of the week times for some food he fun, all right,
for food he fun. Now. I talked to my friend
(26:21):
Nico when I was in Vancouver and we had Nico
on the podcast recently, and he was great. We love
Nico and Nico enjoys the pod. He listens, and I realized, though,
we have people that listen all over the place. Not
most people listening are here in America, but we have
people all over Canada, as we learned, great audience in
Vancouver and other places around Canada. And so I have
the foodie fun and I just put together a slap
(26:44):
together some deals trap your boys out some new items
that are interesting. Realizing these are not available everywhere, so
as Nico said, well, you mentioned some restaurants and that's
not in Canada. We can't you know, I can't have that.
But these are some restaurants out. Even if these restaurants
are in your place, you might not get the item.
For example, McDonald's, they're everywhere. Just in time for the summer,
(27:07):
McDonald's offering all the flavors of the classic campfire treat,
the S'mores s'mores mcflurry. They partnered with Hershey's so you
can have that. I was never a big Smores guy,
did a few campouts in my younger days. Eh. The
(27:28):
problem was the melt of the chocolate and it didn't
match up. And then get one bite into the Graham cracker,
the marshmallow and the chocolate, and it was such an
f and mess. It was terrible. You had marshmallow all
over your hands and it would drip down on your shirt.
You were a pig. But anyway, if you're into that,
(27:49):
if that's your jam, McDonald's unveiling the new Hershey's S'mores mcflurry.
It's got four hundred and sixty calories if you're buying mcfluury,
who the hell cares? Come on, don't count on that.
But they say vanilla soft serve ice cream swirled with
Hershey milk, chocolate, Graham Cracker, and soft marshmallows available in
(28:10):
meni and regular size prices starting at dollars seventy nine.
That's probably for a thing the size of your thumb.
And the prices do vary based on location. And also
we're not sure if that's all over the place or
just in the US. Taco Bell on Foodie Fund. Taco
Bell has launched a new Crispy Chicken taco and burrito
(28:32):
featuring all new Crispy Chicken strips. Okay, is there getting
in on that? Like the fries, the Taco Bell fries.
That's a win and this doesn't sound bad. Although, hey,
the Malor Mansion, we have mastered the crunchy taco and
the rolled taco, which is a taketo. We're in it.
(28:54):
We have mastered that, and it only took a long
time to get there. But we are, we are here,
and boy are we happy to be here mastering that.
Papa John's has officially launched a new cheddar Crust pizza
nationwide in the US here, So if you're into that,
knock it out of the park. Culvers, which is in
(29:16):
my This is not a list, but my big board
of great fast food establishments. I've got Raising Canes, Got
In and Out, Burger, Culver's is in there, and bo Jangles.
Those are some of my favorites. But Culver's launching new
and improved chicken sandwiches. They have a new lineup of
chicken sandwiches at culver. I've never had a Culver's chicken sandwich.
(29:39):
I've only been there a few times. I'm not near
a Culver's. They have over a thousand locations, thousand locations,
and I'm not near one. I'm not. The next closest
is over in Arizona. There's none in La or in California,
where we do the show from. When I visit my
brother in Wisconsin, I go to anyone in the Midwest
(30:01):
they have a Culvers. I'll try to stop by, But
the Culvers, they say, based on fan feedback, a MULTII
year MULTII year program fan feedback and research, Culver's culinary
team has come up with the new grilled Chicken, the
Crispy Chicken, and the spicy crispy chicken, which sounds like
(30:23):
every other restaurants chicken lineup. It doesn't sound any different,
but it's culvers and you get the cheese curds, and
so you can go with that and have a fine time.
Just just absolutely knock yourself out there. And that's it,
all right. It is the Fifth Hour, and I want
(30:45):
to solicit some letters if you would like to send
a question in for the mail bag, which is not
not ask man. We've been so happy with the feedback.
And when I say feedback, I just mean like people
that are new, not that we don't love the old people,
because we love the regulars. You guys are the base.
(31:06):
We love the bass. But there are new people seemingly
finding the show. Other than Reggie in Detroit and Alf
and ferg Dog and those guys, there's new people that
are coming in, which is really cool because most people
that listen to a podcast like this will never actually
interact with the podcast. But Real fifth Hour at gmail
(31:26):
dot com, Real fifth Hour at gmail dot com if
you'd like to be part of this podcast. The mail
bag is on Sunday, so even if you can't listen
on Sunday, you can go back and listen to it
later and enjoy that and have a fine, fine time.
So Danny should be with me on the Saturday and
the Sunday podcast. We've got pro bouncy ball tonight. I
(31:52):
believe that is the case. Yeah, pro bouncy ball. So
we've got that to look forward to. Any have a
wonderful rest of your Friday. Here, maybe it's the end
of your Friday. Who knows. We put the pot out early.
It's up to you decide what you want to do,
how you want to consume the content. I'm sure that
Tony in the Bay Area will go back and listen
to this. He listens to stuff eight years ago, so
(32:14):
he'll go back and listen to this in twenty thirty three.
Holy crap, he'll be listening to this. But have a
wonderful Friday. We got fresh content all weekend. We got
you on Saturday and Sunday. So I'll talk to you
next time. And as Danny g would say, asta pasta pill.
Yeah gotta murder. I gotta go
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Ben Maller
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