June 28, 2025 • 29 mins
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The Clearinghouse of Hot takes break free for something special.
The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
In the air everywhere. The Fifth Hour with Me, Ben
Maler and Danny g Radio. Who is away but you
got me hanging out with you on this Saturday morning.
We record this early on Saturday, and then you listen
whenever the f you want on the twenty seventh day
of June, giving you fresh audio. This is not the
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original Recipe podcast. This is the Extra Crispy, Extra Spicy Podcast.
Oh so, there were a couple of stories yesterday that
would have made great Malard monologues, but I didn't do
the show last night in the overnight. So the one
that really popped up and I thought, oh man, that
would have been great. We have the rest of the story.
(01:16):
Remember the player on the Diamondbacks, Coutell Marte, who there
was a fan in Chicago suspended for an indefinite period
of time from every Major League ballpark, and the Internet
was convinced that this fan had said the most vile
thing imaginable about Coatel Marte's mother that caused him to cry.
(01:41):
So I saw this yesterday and I was like, well,
I mean, what are we doing here? So the White
Sox were playing the diamond Backs. If you if you
didn't see this, maybe you missed it. So he was.
The story was he was being taunted by a Chicago
White Sox fan, and his mother had died in a
car accident in the Dominican a number of years ago.
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I think I've been about eight ten years something like that.
I think it's eight years. And so this twenty two
year old Jabbroni was given an indefinite band by the
White Sox in Major League Baseball because of what he
had said. And nobody knew what he had said, but
people were assuming that it was the worst thing ever.
And Marte did an interview and explained what happened. And
(02:30):
when he was done explaining what happened, everyone had the
same reaction. They're like, holy f what are you driving
a mister softy truck, like, what are you doing? So
he said, in the seventh inning, he came to bat,
he was at the plate. He heard a fan shouting
at the top of the dugout and this is a
quart I'm reading a quote here from Katel Marte the Diamondbacks,
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he said. Quote he yelled at me, saying stuff about
my mom. He was like, I sent your mom a
text last night, and that is what triggered him to cry,
which is for that reaction, for him to cry, that's
one thing, But then for Baseball to decide that that
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is worthy of an indefinite banishment from every ballpark in
the major leagues, like, what are you doing? My god?
I mean, that is unreal. What an overreaction by everyone involved,
by everyone involved, just just ridiculous. Anyway, I saw, I
saw that. You gotta be kidding me. And then I
(03:36):
was not watching the NHL Draft because I'm anti draft
and I didn't have to do a talk show on Friday,
you know, Friday night into Saturday here, so I didn't
have to talk show, so I didn't watch the draft.
So I keep getting these messages on my phone. You've
got to turn this on. Are you watching the draft?
I'm not buying. I'm text back, I'm not watching the draft.
(03:57):
Why when I watch the draft, I'm off tonight. I
don't talk about it. And even if I was on,
I probably wouldn't talk about it anyway. So a couple
of my buddies, one lives on the East coast, the
other on the West coast, and they were both texting me,
and it wasn't Eddie. By the way, it wasn't Eddie.
And so they're texting me, is like, you gotta watch this.
This is so bad. And so after like the fifth message,
(04:22):
I flipped it on my phone. Holy crap, Holy crap. Wow. Now,
I know you're supposed to try new things. I get that.
Don't you have to vet them a little bit? Don't
you have to try to try to do some market research?
And my god, So I'm gonna try to describe this
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as best I can. And I did not see did
not see the beginning of it, and I did not
see the end of it because I didn't stick around.
I only saw a couple of picks. I saw the
Boston Bruins pick I think, which was the seventh pick,
and I watched a couple of selections, and I guess
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the draft was in in Los Angeles. I wonder if
Eddie went. Maybe Eddie went to the draft. I don't know.
But they had this thing called the NHL Draft House,
which is I mean, it was just forced awkward, cringe worthy.
(05:27):
It was a boone doggle, a boone doggle where even
people that like hockey, like, I'm casual with hockey, right,
I like the Stanley Cup Final. I'll watch a game
every now and again, but I don't watch too much hockey.
I don't. I used to cover hockey and I was
there every night and I enjoyed it. People were very
(05:47):
nice to me. But I've moved on. So they had
this thing called the Draft House where they did interviews
and it was on zoom and it just was way
way to too cringe worthy.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
So the draft was at the some place in LA
and you had Gary Bettman, you had the broadcasters, and
then you had several of the top players like they
had draft. So then then a player was in the
When when a player was there, and a lot of
them were, he would go on stage and do a
zoom interview with members of the new team's front office.
(06:33):
And in theory it's like, oh, this is great. We're
going to take you behind the scenes and see how
everything works in execution. My god, it's like, don't ever,
don't ever do that again. And so apparently it started awkward.
I didn't see the beginning of it, and I tuned in.
I said, oh, yeah, you're right. I text back, I said,
(06:55):
all right, you're you're correct that. I mean, there were
technical issues, but watch and McCall it wasn't work and
the thing of ajig didn't work, so there were issues
on that, and then just the just really unnecessary, really
really unnecessary. So you tried something new, it didn't work.
We'll just pretend it didn't happen and change it up.
(07:16):
My goodness, Yeah, what else? Toda s all right? Ron
Washington another baseball story. He's out, Well, he's not out
as Angels manager. Does anyone think Ron Washington's gonna return
as Angel manager? Everyone in baseball loves the guy. The
baseball writers can't say enough good things about him. He's
a great storyteller. People in baseball love him. Ron Washington
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had been the Angels manager. He had some kind of
health problem. He took a leave of absence this week
and now the Angels have announced he will not be
returning that that's it. He's done for this year and
he will be Gonzo Gonzo Gonzo Gonzo for the rest
of the year and at age seventy three, will he
(08:01):
be back on this podcast though. Getting into the meat
of the matter, we have the Military Education Silence, Thumper Sherlock, Pizza,
and the phrase of the week. We'll begin with this now.
A heartfelt thank you to every man, woman and child
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that reached out a lot of great feedback. I told
my story last week about my son who's gone to
boot camp and now out of boot camp and joined
the United States Marines, and I always knew we had
a lot of military families and ex military veterans and
active military that were fans of the show and part
(08:44):
of our group, you know, the malad militia, but you
don't really know until you know you tell this story.
And so many people reached out, from military guys, gals,
people that are fans of Fox Sports Radio that listen
to the Overnight. I heard from people that used to
work the day shift, or it used to work the
night shift, they're now on the day shift, the dreaded
(09:05):
day shift, and they heard the podcast, and they were
very excited about that, and so that whole mantra, once
a marine, always a marine, it does run strong, and
I did not right back there. When I apologize, I
get overwhelmed. I get so many messages from Blind Scott
and a couple of other people that I just give up.
(09:27):
I know I shouldn't do that, but if you saw
the volume of mail that I email, it's impossible to
serve through everything. So I usually start out writing back
to a few people and then I just say that's it.
I can't do it. So I hope you will take
what I'm about to say as a heartfelt tip of
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the headphones, a thank you to you if you did
reach out to me. I did get your messages, I
did read them. It was great to hear your story.
So many of you shared your story, whether you were
in the Marines years ago, as some hardy veterans who
were in Vietnam. We had some of those guys called
the show. Wayne from Missouri, for example, got on the
(10:11):
air this week who was in Vietnam and told the
story and I didn't even hear it because my headphones malfunctioned.
Alf pointed out, Hey, that guy his drill sergeant was
the guy from you know, Full Metal Jacket or whatever
they get the guy the famous, most famous drill sergeant
of all time. So that was cool. Wayne from Missouri
and several others emailed me and you know, retired guys
(10:32):
that can't sleep because you got you know whatever, insomnia
or medical problems, and you listened to the show, and
so you told me about your experience. Some of you
guys were not on the Marines, who were in the
army and other branches of the military, but it was
wonderful to hear your stories. And some of you guys
who also have kids in the military, and you were
telling me how the Marine Corps in particular helped, you know,
(10:54):
shape the life of your kids. Some of you your
life as well. I'll give you an example. Some of
I want to think Dale and Charleston. He sent a
nice note Mountain Mark, fan of the show. He says,
congrats on your young man completing book camp. He says,
what is his mos My son was a radio repairman.
(11:15):
That's cool, got a great job in tech when he
got out. The Marines have been a big part of
his maturation process. Now we have a daughter in law
and two beautiful grandchildren. That's great, Mazeltov, congratulations mos. Now
this is military jargon, something I did not know until
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until my guy Patrick joined the Marines, a military occupational specialty.
And Patrick is going to be back at Camp Pendleton.
His MOS is infantry. So the infantry is the ground forces,
and they are you know, we all kind of know,
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even if you're not a military person, what that means.
You locate, destroy the enemy wherever, anywhere you name it.
And so by land, by sea, the Marines do it
all and hopefully will not be needed right all. We
want a strong military. We don't want to have to
actually use the military until it's the last option. But
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he is there if the United States Marine Corps need him.
And from everything I've been told, the infantry is the
backbone of the Marines, and so he will be right
in the middle of everything. My military education has been
ie open. Now, when I grew up, I grew up.
(12:40):
I'm not from a military family. I did grow up
surrounded by military brats. I grew up literally in between
two military bases. I think I told the story last
last week. When I was a child, there was the
Marine Corps Air Station El Toro, and then there was
one in Tustin, which in Orange County, and I was
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literally grew up in the city in between both of them.
So when I went to school, a lot of my
classmates were in the military, and I told the story
about how every once in a while we get to
go on base and it was like a big deal
because everything was cheaper because you didn't have to pay
taxes and we'd buy a crap ton of candy and
other stuff like that on the base and you felt
like you were like rich and all that stuff. So
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my military education, though since this has happened recently, I
had no idea give you a couple examples, okay, and
I admit I'm naive to it. I had no idea
that the Marines had to buy their uniforms like it
comes out of your paycheck. I just assumed the position that, hey,
you're working for the government, the government's got the money,
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they'll buy you the uniforms. I wonder if it's always
been like that. I didn't really dig into it too deep,
but I know for my son, he had to buy
his uniforms and they take it out of the paycheck. Also,
I thought, while you're in training, they would pay for
your food, and no, that's not the case. They have
to pay for your food while you're you're working. I
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was really surprised by that. I know, with the size
of the military budget, and I know that when you're
in the Marines, you're not getting a lot of money
or any branch in the military. You're not getting rich
in the military. So I just assumed that one of
the perks would be, Hey, you're in the military, so
we'll give you your gear that you're going to use
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for us will take care of it, and then I
will also take care of your food, at least part
of your food. But I'm told that is not the case.
So which is wild. I mean, I'm all for a
strong military and the I think I looked it up.
The Department of Defense their military budget in the fiscal
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year twenty twenty five, which we're in right now, eight
hundred and fifty billion, and they can't even buy the
like the uniforms. That is wild. It's sixteen percent of
total federal spending according to the Internet in the United States,
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and that is I know this. I know there's a
lot of people in the military and the army and
the Navy and the Air Force and the Space Force
and the Coast Guard and all that stuff. But man,
I mean, you think the US spends I think the
stat I've seen this a few places, so I think
it's true. If I'm wrong, you can correct me, and
(15:38):
I know you will. But the US spends more on
defense than any other country, more than the next ten
nations combined. So it is extreme. So hey, you live
and learn, and I didn't know that was the case.
It is. You got to buy your own, your own stuff.
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So turning the page on that, we did have a
beach day yesterday. Whether it was great here in California,
we don't have the heat dome. It's hot, but it's
not the heat dome. So myself, the wife, the kid,
kids on some leave time before he goes back, as
we mentioned, go back to Camp Pendleton, and so we
went to the beach, had a little family bonding there
(16:24):
break after boot camp. And so we arrived at the
beach in SoCal here in Newport, and we had a
welcoming committee that was there for us. They were all
about it. Baby. They welcomed us with open arms, and
not that we wanted this welcome. We were greeted by
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street evangelists, better known by their gangster name the God Squad.
That's right, the God Squad. Now let me point out
for those of you in the back of the room
that we appreciate whatever your religious beliefs are I do.
(17:08):
We have very happy that everyone bonds. We have one
common goal on the overnight. Whether you're non religious, whether
you're atheist, whatever your background is super religious, you do
you right, live and let live. Generally speaking, the rule
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is just don't you don't have to shove anything down
my throat or somebody else's throat. You believe what you
want to believe, and we'll all take care of ourselves
and all this stuff. So anyway, I arrived at the beach.
We arrived at the beach, and we were greeted by
a street evangelist also known as a Jackwagon who was
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out in front. Now the beach is packed, you know,
it's summer. Kids are out of school, and this God
Squad guy is out there just next lets evangelizing. We're talking.
Let me paint the picture for a blind listeners. So
imagine a like a two by four, but it goes
up like eight feet in the sky and it's got
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signs from ground all the way up to eight feet
in the sky and it's you know, repent here. That
whole thing is repent Jesus, this, that and the other thing.
It was about eight ten feet tall in the air.
And if that was not enough, which it wasn't, but wait,
there's more. The guy had a bullhorn, so that seemed
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to be the problem. That seemed to be the problem.
If you just hold the sign up, I'm like, there's
much you can do. But this guy who greeted us
there the welcoming Committee at the beach, he was he
was thumping, thumping the Bible. He had the bullhorn and
shouting his version of the Gospel. And it was going
(18:59):
well until it didn't go well. And now for the
rest of the story, well, it was going all right
until the men in blue arrived and it seems that
he violated some kind of city code. I didn't get
(19:19):
into the nitty gritty. I'm not sure exactly what the
conversation was. All I know is that there were three
members of law enforcement who had a chit chat with
this guy from the street evangelist community. He stopped shouting
and his boorn he carried the sign to his car,
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and he and his friend there were encouraged to move along.
Move along, now, move along. All the joy of relative
peace and quiet as you sit there and watch the water,
the beautiful sky, bright blue sky, the water, the mighty
Pacific Ocean there, the better ocean. Can we all agree
(20:05):
on that, like the Atlantic Ocean takes a backseat to
the Pacific, and it's not really all that close. It's
not if you do a side by side breakdown, Pacific
on one side, Atlantic on the other. I've been fortunate and
I've been to both. Obviously, the Pacific a lot more
because where I live. But the answer is Pacific and
(20:29):
any other answer completely completely unacceptable. One thousand percent, one
thousand percent. All right, turning the page on Hot Ocean
Talk and we move on to the Great Pizza Caper.
So let's go back in the hot tub time machine.
(20:51):
We will go back to the end of the work week,
the last night of the original Recupe podcast and bar
working away. They're doing the overnight show. No, I did
go into the mothership. I went into the mothership. I
was told there was a time sensitive package that was
there that was sent in by listener Perito, who was
(21:15):
a big fan of the show and he wanted us
to have the gift of Deep Dish Chicago pizza. Now
I love Chicago pizza, and this was very nice. Had
it overnighted from the Pizza Place in Chicago, one of
the famous pizza chains in Chicago, and had it delivered
to the Mothership. And so there were a couple of
(21:38):
pies there. As I was told of this, there was
one for Lorena and one one for me. So there
were two pies. So I drove in far, far in
from the north Woods, not normally a night I'm in.
I was able to move my schedule around and work
it all out. So I arrived at the studio and
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there there they were. There were the two pizza pies,
and so I did the show and then they were
in the freezer. And then on the way out, I
asked Loraine, I said, well, which one do you want?
I'm not really picky, and I mean my wife will
probably end up consuming it, and people at the house
will consume it. So I said, which one do you want?
And she said, you know, I don't really care either,
(22:20):
but I'll take the She said, I'll take the pepperoni.
I said, okay, fine, you can have the pepperone, no problem.
So I did the show, packed up my stuff, shot
the crap with LeVar Arrington and Jonas Knox before their
show started. For like three minutes we just talked. We
solve all the world's problems in that three minutes. And
then I went down the hall and grabbed I opened
(22:43):
the freezer, I grabbed the pizza and that's it, and
headed to the malormobile for the long drive back to
the to the north Woods. So fine, I wake up
and there are all these messages from Lorena. She's really
like upset, like what happened? Why would you take the pizza?
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I was my pizza? And she's like and so I
was like, what is this about? So she thought I
had taken both pizzas, but I only took one pizza
because we had a deal. She got the pep I
got the other one. That's it. So somebody apparently took
the other pizza because it wasn't there. She said she
(23:24):
could not find it. It was not in the freezer.
She thought I had taken it by mistake. I did not.
I only took one pizza. So now we're trying to
figure out, well, she's really trying to figure out, like
where's the other pie? And there's a skeleton crew. You know,
hardly anyone works in the building, and they can't even
have live updates overnight, so it's hardly anyone there. And
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it's only a few people, so we're not sure. We
don't know who took the pizza. Where the pizza went.
I thought it may have still been in there, but
just in a different part of the freezer. But Lorraine
is like na, na, no, she said, it's not there.
She's had multiple people. Look, she wants to go to
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the cameras, to the security cameras in the kitchen to
find out who did it. And so, and I did offer.
I said, listen, I like the pizza. I will give
you the other pizza. I don't mind, it's not that
big a deal. But she did not did not respond
to that, so I'm not sure exactly where that went. Again,
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there's only a few people in the building. There are
some employees that straddle in from another part of the
building because there's one vending machine which is on our floor,
which is I guess the better vending machine. So sometimes
guys will walk through to go to the vending machine.
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But that would be pretty ballsy just to go into
the freezer and grab a pizza like that. Like, I mean,
that's that's a tough I mean, that is not not
a solid move, especially when there's a camera that is
on top of you. It's like, what are you doing?
I guess they didn't notice that it's a police state
(25:13):
in that building. Their cameras all over. You are always
on camera when you're in that building. Now to the
phrase of the week. That's right, the phrase of the week.
And this was sent in by who is it sent
in by? Let's see page down, John in Dallas, Texas. Right,
So he says, Ben, I don't know if this would
(25:35):
be considered a word or phrase, but I was wondering.
John says, if you could please give us the lowdown
on how boo became an expression of discontent. By the way,
a well placed boot drop always works well on your show.
Boomoo from John in Dallas. Well, John, your wish is
(26:00):
my command. Your wish is my command. And it is
interesting to note that the almighty, all powerful, all encompassing,
omnipresent boo a single syllable that has been around for
so long. I did not realize this that that expression
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goes back to the fifteenth century wowie kauzawie. The roots
of boo. They have been booing entertainers and athletes and
politicians since the fifteenth century. Now, in the fifteenth century,
boo was just a loud, startling noise, something you would
(26:47):
shout to scare someone or to let them know you
were there. And it's believed the term boo has Scottish
or even Greek origins with ties to a words meaning
to cry aloud or roar and all that. So the
word goes back to the fifteenth century. But by the
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eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, boo had evolved into a weapon.
It had been weaponized. The boo suddenly had magical powers,
and the boo became something of a hammer. I'm going
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to drop the hammer on you, right, I'm going to
boo you. So it goes way back and they claim
that in the eighteenth nineteenth centuries that's when it really
got going. But the opera goers in Parma, Italy, that
is the legend. People talk about the bronx chier and
(27:54):
the booing of Yankee fans or fans in Philadelphia or Boston.
But the opera go in Parma, Italy, where Parmersiana comes from,
were notorious for booing, and also in London. The theater
audience in London were also known to let people know
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that they were not happy with what they were what
they were paying, and what they were getting in return
and all that stuff. And the phrase boo that man
has been in many many movies over the years, a
famous famous phrase. In fact, if you look and I
futs around with famous movie quotes, I think it was
(28:38):
water Boy. I think there was. I know, you know,
I don't know. We suck again was in water Boy.
I thought boo that man was in there. Maybe I'm
maybe I'm conflating that with some other movies, but it
has been in a bunch of of different movies where
they say boo that man, and all, you know, you
go through the whole thing and you're like, all right,
I kind of remember, I kind of remember that and all. Anyway,
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so that is the phrase, which is really just one
word for John and Dallas. The phrase of the week booooooo,
as in boo that man, boo that man. All right,
We'll get out on that. Have a wonderful, glorious rest
of your day. If you're listening early. If not, I
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hope you had a wonderful Saturday. If you're listening late
in the day, I will have the mail bag on Sunday.
Sunday Sunday, we will talk to you then later. Skater
Asta Pasta my folation
Kutbooms.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
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.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
The Clearinghouse of Hot takes break free for something special.
The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
In the air everywhere. The Fifth Hour with Me, Ben
Maler and Danny g Radio. Who is away but you
got me hanging out with you on this Saturday morning.
We record this early on Saturday, and then you listen
whenever the f you want on the twenty seventh day
of June, giving you fresh audio. This is not the
(00:52):
original Recipe podcast. This is the Extra Crispy, Extra Spicy Podcast.
Oh so, there were a couple of stories yesterday that
would have made great Malard monologues, but I didn't do
the show last night in the overnight. So the one
that really popped up and I thought, oh man, that
would have been great. We have the rest of the story.
(01:16):
Remember the player on the Diamondbacks, Coutell Marte, who there
was a fan in Chicago suspended for an indefinite period
of time from every Major League ballpark, and the Internet
was convinced that this fan had said the most vile
thing imaginable about Coatel Marte's mother that caused him to cry.
(01:41):
So I saw this yesterday and I was like, well,
I mean, what are we doing here? So the White
Sox were playing the diamond Backs. If you if you
didn't see this, maybe you missed it. So he was.
The story was he was being taunted by a Chicago
White Sox fan, and his mother had died in a
car accident in the Dominican a number of years ago.
(02:04):
I think I've been about eight ten years something like that.
I think it's eight years. And so this twenty two
year old Jabbroni was given an indefinite band by the
White Sox in Major League Baseball because of what he
had said. And nobody knew what he had said, but
people were assuming that it was the worst thing ever.
And Marte did an interview and explained what happened. And
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when he was done explaining what happened, everyone had the
same reaction. They're like, holy f what are you driving
a mister softy truck, like, what are you doing? So
he said, in the seventh inning, he came to bat,
he was at the plate. He heard a fan shouting
at the top of the dugout and this is a
quart I'm reading a quote here from Katel Marte the Diamondbacks,
(02:52):
he said. Quote he yelled at me, saying stuff about
my mom. He was like, I sent your mom a
text last night, and that is what triggered him to cry,
which is for that reaction, for him to cry, that's
one thing, But then for Baseball to decide that that
(03:13):
is worthy of an indefinite banishment from every ballpark in
the major leagues, like, what are you doing? My god?
I mean, that is unreal. What an overreaction by everyone involved,
by everyone involved, just just ridiculous. Anyway, I saw, I
saw that. You gotta be kidding me. And then I
(03:36):
was not watching the NHL Draft because I'm anti draft
and I didn't have to do a talk show on Friday,
you know, Friday night into Saturday here, so I didn't
have to talk show, so I didn't watch the draft.
So I keep getting these messages on my phone. You've
got to turn this on. Are you watching the draft?
I'm not buying. I'm text back, I'm not watching the draft.
(03:57):
Why when I watch the draft, I'm off tonight. I
don't talk about it. And even if I was on,
I probably wouldn't talk about it anyway. So a couple
of my buddies, one lives on the East coast, the
other on the West coast, and they were both texting me,
and it wasn't Eddie. By the way, it wasn't Eddie.
And so they're texting me, is like, you gotta watch this.
This is so bad. And so after like the fifth message,
(04:22):
I flipped it on my phone. Holy crap, Holy crap. Wow. Now,
I know you're supposed to try new things. I get that.
Don't you have to vet them a little bit? Don't
you have to try to try to do some market research?
And my god, So I'm gonna try to describe this
(04:46):
as best I can. And I did not see did
not see the beginning of it, and I did not
see the end of it because I didn't stick around.
I only saw a couple of picks. I saw the
Boston Bruins pick I think, which was the seventh pick,
and I watched a couple of selections, and I guess
(05:07):
the draft was in in Los Angeles. I wonder if
Eddie went. Maybe Eddie went to the draft. I don't know.
But they had this thing called the NHL Draft House,
which is I mean, it was just forced awkward, cringe worthy.
(05:27):
It was a boone doggle, a boone doggle where even
people that like hockey, like, I'm casual with hockey, right,
I like the Stanley Cup Final. I'll watch a game
every now and again, but I don't watch too much hockey.
I don't. I used to cover hockey and I was
there every night and I enjoyed it. People were very
(05:47):
nice to me. But I've moved on. So they had
this thing called the Draft House where they did interviews
and it was on zoom and it just was way
way to too cringe worthy.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
So the draft was at the some place in LA
and you had Gary Bettman, you had the broadcasters, and
then you had several of the top players like they
had draft. So then then a player was in the
When when a player was there, and a lot of
them were, he would go on stage and do a
zoom interview with members of the new team's front office.
(06:33):
And in theory it's like, oh, this is great. We're
going to take you behind the scenes and see how
everything works in execution. My god, it's like, don't ever,
don't ever do that again. And so apparently it started awkward.
I didn't see the beginning of it, and I tuned in.
I said, oh, yeah, you're right. I text back, I said,
(06:55):
all right, you're you're correct that. I mean, there were
technical issues, but watch and McCall it wasn't work and
the thing of ajig didn't work, so there were issues
on that, and then just the just really unnecessary, really
really unnecessary. So you tried something new, it didn't work.
We'll just pretend it didn't happen and change it up.
(07:16):
My goodness, Yeah, what else? Toda s all right? Ron
Washington another baseball story. He's out, Well, he's not out
as Angels manager. Does anyone think Ron Washington's gonna return
as Angel manager? Everyone in baseball loves the guy. The
baseball writers can't say enough good things about him. He's
a great storyteller. People in baseball love him. Ron Washington
(07:38):
had been the Angels manager. He had some kind of
health problem. He took a leave of absence this week
and now the Angels have announced he will not be
returning that that's it. He's done for this year and
he will be Gonzo Gonzo Gonzo Gonzo for the rest
of the year and at age seventy three, will he
(08:01):
be back on this podcast though. Getting into the meat
of the matter, we have the Military Education Silence, Thumper Sherlock, Pizza,
and the phrase of the week. We'll begin with this now.
A heartfelt thank you to every man, woman and child
(08:22):
that reached out a lot of great feedback. I told
my story last week about my son who's gone to
boot camp and now out of boot camp and joined
the United States Marines, and I always knew we had
a lot of military families and ex military veterans and
active military that were fans of the show and part
(08:44):
of our group, you know, the malad militia, but you
don't really know until you know you tell this story.
And so many people reached out, from military guys, gals,
people that are fans of Fox Sports Radio that listen
to the Overnight. I heard from people that used to
work the day shift, or it used to work the
night shift, they're now on the day shift, the dreaded
(09:05):
day shift, and they heard the podcast, and they were
very excited about that, and so that whole mantra, once
a marine, always a marine, it does run strong, and
I did not right back there. When I apologize, I
get overwhelmed. I get so many messages from Blind Scott
and a couple of other people that I just give up.
(09:27):
I know I shouldn't do that, but if you saw
the volume of mail that I email, it's impossible to
serve through everything. So I usually start out writing back
to a few people and then I just say that's it.
I can't do it. So I hope you will take
what I'm about to say as a heartfelt tip of
(09:50):
the headphones, a thank you to you if you did
reach out to me. I did get your messages, I
did read them. It was great to hear your story.
So many of you shared your story, whether you were
in the Marines years ago, as some hardy veterans who
were in Vietnam. We had some of those guys called
the show. Wayne from Missouri, for example, got on the
(10:11):
air this week who was in Vietnam and told the
story and I didn't even hear it because my headphones malfunctioned.
Alf pointed out, Hey, that guy his drill sergeant was
the guy from you know, Full Metal Jacket or whatever
they get the guy the famous, most famous drill sergeant
of all time. So that was cool. Wayne from Missouri
and several others emailed me and you know, retired guys
(10:32):
that can't sleep because you got you know whatever, insomnia
or medical problems, and you listened to the show, and
so you told me about your experience. Some of you
guys were not on the Marines, who were in the
army and other branches of the military, but it was
wonderful to hear your stories. And some of you guys
who also have kids in the military, and you were
telling me how the Marine Corps in particular helped, you know,
(10:54):
shape the life of your kids. Some of you your
life as well. I'll give you an example. Some of
I want to think Dale and Charleston. He sent a
nice note Mountain Mark, fan of the show. He says,
congrats on your young man completing book camp. He says,
what is his mos My son was a radio repairman.
(11:15):
That's cool, got a great job in tech when he
got out. The Marines have been a big part of
his maturation process. Now we have a daughter in law
and two beautiful grandchildren. That's great, Mazeltov, congratulations mos. Now
this is military jargon, something I did not know until
(11:35):
until my guy Patrick joined the Marines, a military occupational specialty.
And Patrick is going to be back at Camp Pendleton.
His MOS is infantry. So the infantry is the ground forces,
and they are you know, we all kind of know,
(11:56):
even if you're not a military person, what that means.
You locate, destroy the enemy wherever, anywhere you name it.
And so by land, by sea, the Marines do it
all and hopefully will not be needed right all. We
want a strong military. We don't want to have to
actually use the military until it's the last option. But
(12:19):
he is there if the United States Marine Corps need him.
And from everything I've been told, the infantry is the
backbone of the Marines, and so he will be right
in the middle of everything. My military education has been
ie open. Now, when I grew up, I grew up.
(12:40):
I'm not from a military family. I did grow up
surrounded by military brats. I grew up literally in between
two military bases. I think I told the story last
last week. When I was a child, there was the
Marine Corps Air Station El Toro, and then there was
one in Tustin, which in Orange County, and I was
(13:02):
literally grew up in the city in between both of them.
So when I went to school, a lot of my
classmates were in the military, and I told the story
about how every once in a while we get to
go on base and it was like a big deal
because everything was cheaper because you didn't have to pay
taxes and we'd buy a crap ton of candy and
other stuff like that on the base and you felt
like you were like rich and all that stuff. So
(13:24):
my military education, though since this has happened recently, I
had no idea give you a couple examples, okay, and
I admit I'm naive to it. I had no idea
that the Marines had to buy their uniforms like it
comes out of your paycheck. I just assumed the position that, hey,
you're working for the government, the government's got the money,
(13:48):
they'll buy you the uniforms. I wonder if it's always
been like that. I didn't really dig into it too deep,
but I know for my son, he had to buy
his uniforms and they take it out of the paycheck. Also,
I thought, while you're in training, they would pay for
your food, and no, that's not the case. They have
to pay for your food while you're you're working. I
(14:12):
was really surprised by that. I know, with the size
of the military budget, and I know that when you're
in the Marines, you're not getting a lot of money
or any branch in the military. You're not getting rich
in the military. So I just assumed that one of
the perks would be, Hey, you're in the military, so
we'll give you your gear that you're going to use
(14:33):
for us will take care of it, and then I
will also take care of your food, at least part
of your food. But I'm told that is not the case.
So which is wild. I mean, I'm all for a
strong military and the I think I looked it up.
The Department of Defense their military budget in the fiscal
(14:56):
year twenty twenty five, which we're in right now, eight
hundred and fifty billion, and they can't even buy the
like the uniforms. That is wild. It's sixteen percent of
total federal spending according to the Internet in the United States,
(15:18):
and that is I know this. I know there's a
lot of people in the military and the army and
the Navy and the Air Force and the Space Force
and the Coast Guard and all that stuff. But man,
I mean, you think the US spends I think the
stat I've seen this a few places, so I think
it's true. If I'm wrong, you can correct me, and
(15:38):
I know you will. But the US spends more on
defense than any other country, more than the next ten
nations combined. So it is extreme. So hey, you live
and learn, and I didn't know that was the case.
It is. You got to buy your own, your own stuff.
(16:01):
So turning the page on that, we did have a
beach day yesterday. Whether it was great here in California,
we don't have the heat dome. It's hot, but it's
not the heat dome. So myself, the wife, the kid,
kids on some leave time before he goes back, as
we mentioned, go back to Camp Pendleton, and so we
went to the beach, had a little family bonding there
(16:24):
break after boot camp. And so we arrived at the
beach in SoCal here in Newport, and we had a
welcoming committee that was there for us. They were all
about it. Baby. They welcomed us with open arms, and
not that we wanted this welcome. We were greeted by
(16:47):
street evangelists, better known by their gangster name the God Squad.
That's right, the God Squad. Now let me point out
for those of you in the back of the room
that we appreciate whatever your religious beliefs are I do.
(17:08):
We have very happy that everyone bonds. We have one
common goal on the overnight. Whether you're non religious, whether
you're atheist, whatever your background is super religious, you do
you right, live and let live. Generally speaking, the rule
(17:30):
is just don't you don't have to shove anything down
my throat or somebody else's throat. You believe what you
want to believe, and we'll all take care of ourselves
and all this stuff. So anyway, I arrived at the beach.
We arrived at the beach, and we were greeted by
a street evangelist also known as a Jackwagon who was
(17:51):
out in front. Now the beach is packed, you know,
it's summer. Kids are out of school, and this God
Squad guy is out there just next lets evangelizing. We're talking.
Let me paint the picture for a blind listeners. So
imagine a like a two by four, but it goes
up like eight feet in the sky and it's got
(18:14):
signs from ground all the way up to eight feet
in the sky and it's you know, repent here. That
whole thing is repent Jesus, this, that and the other thing.
It was about eight ten feet tall in the air.
And if that was not enough, which it wasn't, but wait,
there's more. The guy had a bullhorn, so that seemed
(18:37):
to be the problem. That seemed to be the problem.
If you just hold the sign up, I'm like, there's
much you can do. But this guy who greeted us
there the welcoming Committee at the beach, he was he
was thumping, thumping the Bible. He had the bullhorn and
shouting his version of the Gospel. And it was going
(18:59):
well until it didn't go well. And now for the
rest of the story, well, it was going all right
until the men in blue arrived and it seems that
he violated some kind of city code. I didn't get
(19:19):
into the nitty gritty. I'm not sure exactly what the
conversation was. All I know is that there were three
members of law enforcement who had a chit chat with
this guy from the street evangelist community. He stopped shouting
and his boorn he carried the sign to his car,
(19:41):
and he and his friend there were encouraged to move along.
Move along, now, move along. All the joy of relative
peace and quiet as you sit there and watch the water,
the beautiful sky, bright blue sky, the water, the mighty
Pacific Ocean there, the better ocean. Can we all agree
(20:05):
on that, like the Atlantic Ocean takes a backseat to
the Pacific, and it's not really all that close. It's
not if you do a side by side breakdown, Pacific
on one side, Atlantic on the other. I've been fortunate and
I've been to both. Obviously, the Pacific a lot more
because where I live. But the answer is Pacific and
(20:29):
any other answer completely completely unacceptable. One thousand percent, one
thousand percent. All right, turning the page on Hot Ocean
Talk and we move on to the Great Pizza Caper.
So let's go back in the hot tub time machine.
(20:51):
We will go back to the end of the work week,
the last night of the original Recupe podcast and bar
working away. They're doing the overnight show. No, I did
go into the mothership. I went into the mothership. I
was told there was a time sensitive package that was
there that was sent in by listener Perito, who was
(21:15):
a big fan of the show and he wanted us
to have the gift of Deep Dish Chicago pizza. Now
I love Chicago pizza, and this was very nice. Had
it overnighted from the Pizza Place in Chicago, one of
the famous pizza chains in Chicago, and had it delivered
to the Mothership. And so there were a couple of
(21:38):
pies there. As I was told of this, there was
one for Lorena and one one for me. So there
were two pies. So I drove in far, far in
from the north Woods, not normally a night I'm in.
I was able to move my schedule around and work
it all out. So I arrived at the studio and
(21:59):
there there they were. There were the two pizza pies,
and so I did the show and then they were
in the freezer. And then on the way out, I
asked Loraine, I said, well, which one do you want?
I'm not really picky, and I mean my wife will
probably end up consuming it, and people at the house
will consume it. So I said, which one do you want?
And she said, you know, I don't really care either,
(22:20):
but I'll take the She said, I'll take the pepperoni.
I said, okay, fine, you can have the pepperone, no problem.
So I did the show, packed up my stuff, shot
the crap with LeVar Arrington and Jonas Knox before their
show started. For like three minutes we just talked. We
solve all the world's problems in that three minutes. And
then I went down the hall and grabbed I opened
(22:43):
the freezer, I grabbed the pizza and that's it, and
headed to the malormobile for the long drive back to
the to the north Woods. So fine, I wake up
and there are all these messages from Lorena. She's really
like upset, like what happened? Why would you take the pizza?
(23:03):
I was my pizza? And she's like and so I
was like, what is this about? So she thought I
had taken both pizzas, but I only took one pizza
because we had a deal. She got the pep I
got the other one. That's it. So somebody apparently took
the other pizza because it wasn't there. She said she
(23:24):
could not find it. It was not in the freezer.
She thought I had taken it by mistake. I did not.
I only took one pizza. So now we're trying to
figure out, well, she's really trying to figure out, like
where's the other pie? And there's a skeleton crew. You know,
hardly anyone works in the building, and they can't even
have live updates overnight, so it's hardly anyone there. And
(23:46):
it's only a few people, so we're not sure. We
don't know who took the pizza. Where the pizza went.
I thought it may have still been in there, but
just in a different part of the freezer. But Lorraine
is like na, na, no, she said, it's not there.
She's had multiple people. Look, she wants to go to
(24:08):
the cameras, to the security cameras in the kitchen to
find out who did it. And so, and I did offer.
I said, listen, I like the pizza. I will give
you the other pizza. I don't mind, it's not that
big a deal. But she did not did not respond
to that, so I'm not sure exactly where that went. Again,
(24:29):
there's only a few people in the building. There are
some employees that straddle in from another part of the
building because there's one vending machine which is on our floor,
which is I guess the better vending machine. So sometimes
guys will walk through to go to the vending machine.
(24:49):
But that would be pretty ballsy just to go into
the freezer and grab a pizza like that. Like, I mean,
that's that's a tough I mean, that is not not
a solid move, especially when there's a camera that is
on top of you. It's like, what are you doing?
I guess they didn't notice that it's a police state
(25:13):
in that building. Their cameras all over. You are always
on camera when you're in that building. Now to the
phrase of the week. That's right, the phrase of the week.
And this was sent in by who is it sent
in by? Let's see page down, John in Dallas, Texas. Right,
So he says, Ben, I don't know if this would
(25:35):
be considered a word or phrase, but I was wondering.
John says, if you could please give us the lowdown
on how boo became an expression of discontent. By the way,
a well placed boot drop always works well on your show.
Boomoo from John in Dallas. Well, John, your wish is
(26:00):
my command. Your wish is my command. And it is
interesting to note that the almighty, all powerful, all encompassing,
omnipresent boo a single syllable that has been around for
so long. I did not realize this that that expression
(26:24):
goes back to the fifteenth century wowie kauzawie. The roots
of boo. They have been booing entertainers and athletes and
politicians since the fifteenth century. Now, in the fifteenth century,
boo was just a loud, startling noise, something you would
(26:47):
shout to scare someone or to let them know you
were there. And it's believed the term boo has Scottish
or even Greek origins with ties to a words meaning
to cry aloud or roar and all that. So the
word goes back to the fifteenth century. But by the
(27:10):
eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, boo had evolved into a weapon.
It had been weaponized. The boo suddenly had magical powers,
and the boo became something of a hammer. I'm going
(27:31):
to drop the hammer on you, right, I'm going to
boo you. So it goes way back and they claim
that in the eighteenth nineteenth centuries that's when it really
got going. But the opera goers in Parma, Italy, that
is the legend. People talk about the bronx chier and
(27:54):
the booing of Yankee fans or fans in Philadelphia or Boston.
But the opera go in Parma, Italy, where Parmersiana comes from,
were notorious for booing, and also in London. The theater
audience in London were also known to let people know
(28:16):
that they were not happy with what they were what
they were paying, and what they were getting in return
and all that stuff. And the phrase boo that man
has been in many many movies over the years, a
famous famous phrase. In fact, if you look and I
futs around with famous movie quotes, I think it was
(28:38):
water Boy. I think there was. I know, you know,
I don't know. We suck again was in water Boy.
I thought boo that man was in there. Maybe I'm
maybe I'm conflating that with some other movies, but it
has been in a bunch of of different movies where
they say boo that man, and all, you know, you
go through the whole thing and you're like, all right,
I kind of remember, I kind of remember that and all. Anyway,
(29:00):
so that is the phrase, which is really just one
word for John and Dallas. The phrase of the week booooooo,
as in boo that man, boo that man. All right,
We'll get out on that. Have a wonderful, glorious rest
of your day. If you're listening early. If not, I
(29:22):
hope you had a wonderful Saturday. If you're listening late
in the day, I will have the mail bag on Sunday.
Sunday Sunday, we will talk to you then later. Skater
Asta Pasta my folation
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