April 4, 2025 • 33 mins
Ben Maller (produced by Danny G.) has a fun Friday for you! He talks: Twin Towers, Picky Eaters, Bad Fortune, Phrase of the Week, & more!
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If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes
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with Ben Maller starts right now.
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In the air everywhere, The Fifth Hour with Me, Ben
Malor and Danny g Radio. And we've made it to
the end of the road, which is the start of
another road. The road does not end, The audio road
does not end. It is the weekend, the kickoff of
the Fifth Hour podcast, the vintage of the first weekend
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in the month of April.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
Here we are, We've made it to the fourth month
of the year.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
We are just a little pimple on an elephant's ass.
There are like thirty something thousand podcasts at iHeart, but
somehow the Fifth Hour podcast actually does pretty well, much
better than the vast majority. And we actually have people
listen to this podcast. Don't tell anyone because then they
won't listen. But here we are on the fourth day
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of April a very interesting day in the history of
the United States. On this day in nineteen seventy three,
the World Trade Center, the original the Twin Towers, the
one that unfortunately met its demise on nine to eleven.
But nineteen seventy three the World Trade Center opened in
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New York City, Lower Manhattan. Also on this date, in
nineteen sixty eight, it was the end of Martin Luther King.
He was assassinated on this day in nineteen sixty eight.
And there's a bunch of other things that happened, but
I would say those are the two most interesting, most
interesting events that happened on this day. And there are
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two hundred and seventy one more of these days until
the end of the year. So we have two hundred
and seventy one more days. We've made it through ninety
four days of the year twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
So there you go on this podcast.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
What you have tuned into for some reason, we have
not good fortune, but bad fortune. We've got the phrase
of the week, some foody fun as well, and whatever
else pops up. I did want to mention while I'm
talking about events and today's the day, and these things
have happened. It is also National Picky Eater's Day, and
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I've been accused wrongfully of being a picky eater. The
way I approach life, we are here for just seconds
in the big picture of things, and then we get
tossed into a box and they put dirt on top
of us, and then that's it. Game over. I want
to enjoy what I'm eating. I like what I like,
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and that's the way we do things. But today's National
Picky Eater's Day and some fun facts for alf the
alien opinter to back up.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
What exactly this day is for now.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
Supposedly, the origins of National Picky Eater's Day is a
day that is not about celebrating not eating certain foods.
It is actually a day to try to get your kids,
because normally it's the kids you're trying to get to
eat healthy and all that stuff. So it's a day
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to celebrate these small victories in life. And a recent
survey found that at most meal time issues with food.
The coniption fit happens because your kid doesn't want to
eat veggies. That's almost forty percent of the time. Thirty
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seven percent of the time, they estimate kids say ixnay
on the veggie A not interested. They say about thirty
three percent of the time, the kid's like, I'm not
eating that. It doesn't smell good. And they say about
thirty two percent of the time the kid doesn't eat
it because they don't like the way it looks, the
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presentation of the food. And then roughly fourteen percent of
the time they say, it's just the kid doesn't want
to try something new, and that's me.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
I like what I like, and that's it.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
And the first ever picky eater probably goes back I
don't know, the prehistoric times and all that, and I
can imagine that the kid didn't want to eat berries,
and it's like, I like the meat I'm eating, I
don't eat berries, And that was it. Picky eater actually
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first became a thing, you know, I like words. We
have the phrase of the week. We'll get too later
in this podcast. But the phrase picky eater first appeared
in the modern lexicon some fifty five years ago, nineteen seventy,
nineteen seventy, and the phrase made it into the normal
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range of.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Discussion, and it started that year.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
By the nineteen sixties and seventies, fussy eating was widespread
and it made Doctor Seuss's Green Eggs and Ham a
best seller, and that because the people could not get
their kids to eat.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
I guess there was.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
It must have been a boom in the sixties in
different foods and the frozen food thing, and that kind
of took off in that time, and one thing led
to another. There's actually been a bunch of studies that
have been done in all this.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
They say that.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
Fifty nine percent of kids are picky eaters. It's more
likely that your kid is not going to like what
you're serving, and there's a negotiation.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
It's like a hostage situation.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
And my dear old mom she still be resting in peace,
but man, I put my mom through the wringer. She
would serve always what she was taught, a balance meal,
protein like a meat or a fish or chicken, and
then we'd have like a starch of potato, but we'd
always have vegetables. My mom eat a lot of peas,
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a lot of peas, and I did not like peas.
Sam I am and Mom I am, and I wouldn't
eat the peas. And we would have very tense situations
where my mom, and she was really kind of the
gatekeeper in the family, and it was one of those
situations where my dad would just get up and leave
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the table, and it would be like a standoff between
me and my mom.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
And she's like, you're not leaving the.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
Table, Benjamin until you eat those vegetables. And I'm like,
all right, I'm not going anywhere. I'll sit right here.
I got nothing to do, and and we just kind
of try to negotiate my mom withou. Then we'll just
eat a little bit, try something, you know, just kind
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of gradually try a little bit. You'll like it, you know,
And then then of course it ends up like, well,
why don't I just we had spaghetti because I a
lot of spaghetti when I was a kid, or mac
and cheese, the box kind with the powder, which I
thought was authentic Italian food growing up.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
But anyway, my mom will be like, all right, so
why don't I.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
We mix the vegetables with the pasta and you will'n't
even be able to taste it, and you'll be all
about it, and yeah, I'm not doing that.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
I don't like the color green.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
I'm good, that's it. So anyway, Happy National Picky Eater's Day.
Flipping the page on that I fell down a rabbit
hole recently, and I'd like to share it with the class.
And since you're a member of the class and you're
still listening to this podcast, some I don't know eight nine,
ten minutes in whatever it is, I'm not keeping track.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
So not good fortune, but bad fortune.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
And I actually want to thank a listener who sent
me down this rabbit hole. Checking my email. You know,
I'm very bad about writing back and all that. Some
of you are very persistent and continue to pester me.
And I got an email from a guy that lives
in Florida, Mike, who is I think in the Orlando area.
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I could be completely long the town he mentioned.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
And I don't remember it right now.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
I don't have it in front of me, believe I.
When I was in Florida for spring training with the
Dodgers years ago, I think I drove through that town
and I'm pretty sure it's on the path between Orlando
and verro Beach, but I might be wrong.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
It could be God only knows.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
He could be out near Jed who fled out there
in the northern part.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
Anyway, So not good fortune, but bad fortune.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
And this was about he hand some questions about fortune
Telly telling he had fallen. He had sent me a
story and he was, I guess he had had a
friend who had fallen for a scam involving fortune tellers.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
And he listens to the show and he he knows
some of my shtick that I say on the.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
Air, and I'll say I'm a distant relative of Nostradamus
and friend of Nostradini's.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
It's one of my lines.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
And so he sent me this story and he said,
I had a friend that fell for this, and I
want you to, you know, to read read this. And
then I clicked on it and I read it, and
then I started reading more and I actually wrote back,
I said, listen, I hope you understand that that is
as I said here stick and it's just a gag.
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I know there is no such thing as as accurate
fortune telling. I am aware of it, and I do
it kind of in a mocking way. And I hope
the fact that I throw a friend of Nostradinas. So
I met at a mallor meet and greet in Seattle.
I've also used over the years magic eight ball. I've
actually I've actually jotted down sympathetic it is. I've jotted
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down some magic eight ball sayings like outlook not so.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
Good or without a doubt.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
I've incorporated this nonsense into the to the mount of
monologues and the different eight ball sayings, different phrases. There
was a I use the Zoltar machine from there was
this movie I saw when I was a kid. I
was younger Tom Hanks movie. He grew up and he
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became it was a grown ass man and it was.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
The machine that gave him the wish.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
And I've quoted Karnak the Magnificent, which is from the
old Tonight Show, dating myself also. So I've done all
these nonsense things over the years, really mocking the world
of fortune telling and someway. This guy sent me some
information and then I started digging and I wanted to
share my notes with the class. Think of it as
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a mallor webinar if you will. It is on the web,
so the fortune telling industry. I did not realize how
big this is, how massive this is now every town
I've been to and I've been able to travel a
lot over my life around just around the United States.
I don't go out of the We're going to Canada
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for a malor meet and greet here, which is, you know,
kind of like the same as you know, it's just
the nicer in Canada. We're going to Vancouver at the
end of May. More on that at some point this weekend.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
However, so every where.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
I've gone, whether it's Pittsburgh, Boston, Syracuse, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, Florida, Ohio, Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota,
everywhere I go, I see the fortune teller shop, and
they're normally in a pretty decent mall or you know,
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one of those like we you have the grocery store,
you've got the barber shop, and then you've got a
little spot that is a psychic fortune teller. And it's
one of those things. It's like how do they afford that?
Like the rent is not that cheap at these places,
Like how do they do it?
Speaker 1 (12:44):
How do they put off?
Speaker 3 (12:46):
Anyway, So I started starting reading what the gentleman from
Florida sent me, and then I started doing some other
stuff and the fortune telling, tarroot reading, palm reading.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
All that is valued.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
At two point three billion with a B like ben
two point three billion in the United States, and it
is estimated this blooming away that across the United States
there are one hundred and five thousand, over one hundred
and five thousand businesses that are in that industry, and
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the annual growth rate is around four point three percent,
and then they estimate the business is booming for a
lot during COVID, people just worked up and needing help
and looking anywhere they could.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
Get it pandemic.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
Certainly, it's gone down a little bit since the pandemic,
but it's continued overall to go up.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
And then you start digging.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
A little deeper and you're like, all right, so what's
going on? And so the way the scams work, the
fortune telling scams, is they're able to exploit people who
are curious, people that are at an emotionally weak spot
in their life. Essentially, we use the phrase also on
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the show getting that Dumb Money, which is a Wall
Street phrase, but in fortune telling, I don't know if
dumb is the right word, because I don't want to
say everyone that's falling forward is dumb. But your defense
systems go down.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
At certain points in your life.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
They just do right, whether you lose someone close to you,
whether you've got a medical problem, maybe you lose your job.
There's certain points in our life where we do not
have the defense up the force field. The protection goes away.
And the way that the fortune telling industry gets customers,
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I guess they call it the hook, right, the hook,
And how do you get people. It's like doing a
radio show. Well, a lot of the times in the
old days, you just get people that would scan the
radio dial and find you. Not so much anymore. A
lot of people just happened to be looking for a format.
We're on Fox Sports Radio. You're a sportsman, you find it.
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Or you're looking for something unique that's on late at night,
you might find the show.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
But the fortune telling.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
Industry, they'll post ads on street signs and online and
social media and all that, and they'll offer the tarot
readings and all the different things and all that stuff,
and they promised they'll give you information.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
The cold reading thing is.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
I remember there was a guy, James Randy. He died
a couple of years ago, The Amazing Randy. And there
was a pretty good documentary. Some of it was annoying
in the documentary, but most of it was pretty good.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
The Amazing Randy. It was recorded near the end of
his life.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
About the parts I liked were the parts about how
he tried to expose and he did expose many people
in this industry. And he had like a if I
remember correctly, and I haven't seen the documentary in a
number of years, and I think I recommended it on
this podcast. But anyway, the Amazing Randy, he had a
standing offer.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
James Randy.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
He was a magician, and he used to bother him
that people who were magicians would exploit the fact they
thought they would teach people that this was real. And
he's like, well, it's not real, it's magic. We're doing
a show, we're doing performance art, and it's all right. Anyway,
So James Randy had a Amazing Randy had an offer
a million dollars if you could go into a room
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under his conditions, with limited guidelines and prove prove that
you could actually tell the future.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
Million dollars.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
And despite one hundred thousand businesses offering services about predicting
the future, sure nobody, uh, nobody got it right. Nobody
took the offer. Well, I don't know nobody took the office.
I think one one or two people tried, but they
didn't succeed in that. And so the cold reading thing
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is and I think this was also in the documentary.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
It's a lot of guess work.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
It's a lot of vague phrases that could apply to anyone.
Like I see someone in your in your life that
their name starts with the first name starts with an M.
I see you you've had something that hasn't gone your
way recently in your life, which is one of those
things like you going to a cold reading. Chances are
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you're going there because something didn't go great, you know,
and you know someone in your world is hiding something
from you, and I see it's a woman, and you know, and.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
Just you, just you, And then they answer.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
And a lot of times the person that is having
the cold reading done to them will answer these questions
and give more information right, and they'll read.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
Body language, and they'll.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
They'll kind of refine and update predictions and things as
they go through the whole thing. And then eventually they
if they're good at it, they'll gain your trust. And
once they've got you, they got you by the balls,
all right, they got you by it right, because then
they introduce a different issue, right. And oftentimes, from what
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I've been able to discover from my rabbit hole, you
can go down your own rabbit hole is they will.
Once they've got you, they they then bring in a
curse or negative dark energy or.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
Some kind of spiritual block get to the other.
Speaker 3 (19:01):
Side, and they come up with all these terms and
they claim that the issue is what's really causing your
problems in life, that the reason you have a really
shitty job and you're in a in no relationship other
than with your right hand is because of this blockage
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or bad energy And then at that point's the pivot
or the upsell. At that point, suddenly the very affordable
visit to the fortune teller gets a lot more expensive
because they get you by a little you know, maybe
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forty to fifty bucks to get a reading. And then
they got you and you have a good relationship and
they offer a solution, and then it's like, well wait
a minute, this.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
Goes a little deeper. It's going to take more work.
Speaker 3 (20:04):
I need to spend more time with you, and I
have a bunch of rituals and I have a Harry
Potter spell book, and we need to cleanse this out
of you.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
And all of a sudden they start upselling right and
then you're it goes.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
From fifty bucks for a one time fee, and it's
one hundred and fifty dollars, and it's and then it
keeps getting worse.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
It's like, I didn't think it was this bad.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
And then it's you know it's gonna I'm gonna need
more candles and crystals and all the other bullshoi and
all that, and and if you don't play along, they
then give you a they give.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
You a guilt trip. They're like, wait a minute, you
don't believe you know, and they they'll warn you.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
They'll be like, oh man, if you don't do this,
not only are you going to have issues, but people
around you are going to the bad mojo is going
to go to them.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
And but if you do it, you know it won't happen.
And then there's other times.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
They'll be like, hey, wait a minute, you know your
significant other will will come back or will find them
or whatever. And so they essentially just take advantage of
people that are at a week spot. Like I said,
not necessarily dumb people. In fact, there's some very very successful,
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highly educated people. And it's like people in academia who
you'd think would know better, and they fall for And
I've had some friends that are magicians over the years and.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
They've told me. It's like, it's amazing.
Speaker 3 (21:38):
It's like people that you would think would never ever
go down this road and believe it, believe it.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
And it's the power of.
Speaker 3 (21:51):
The illusion that the magicians have found certain blind spots
that we all have, and often they're right in front
of us that we're not paying attention to, and they've
been able to take it.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
But as far as the fortune teller thing.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
They get you in cheap, they give you vague answers,
they manipulate you, they build their trust, the trust between
the client and the person, and then it's.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
Off to the races, right, it's off to the races.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
And the online scams are popular now. Back in the
old days they had infomercials, the Miss Cleo one the
most famous.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
These are traveling traveling.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
Gypsies, right going around and doing their thing, and then
they eventually will disappear at some point, go on to
the next city and try to do it all over again, right,
try to do it all over again, and it's very effective,
works a lot, works a lot, Otherwise there wouldn't be
so many people doing it now. Every once in a while,
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somebody in the government tries to step.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
In and say, well, wait a minute.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
And what they'll often do is they they've actually partner
with lawyers and they'll use these psychological tricks and all that,
but they'll seem authentic, but they operate on the margins,
on the fringes where they'll sell it in the fine
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print as for entertainment purposes only for entertainment purposes only.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
And when you.
Speaker 3 (23:24):
Toss that phrase in, it makes it, from a legal standpoint,
very difficult to charge someone with a crime because they say, well,
it's for entertainment purposes only. You signed the contract. And
it's only in the most blatant occurrences where they can
get somebody for stealing money, because oftentimes the people will
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just write the check and they'll transfer the money to
the account, and it's like it's wild and so everyone's
our authorities try to crack down on some is, but
the small time players that don't don't make a one
hundred thousand per client or something like that, they make
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a good amount of money. To the phrase of the week,
The phrase of the week is nitty gritty, you know,
getting down to the most important part of something is
the nitty gritty. Like this podcast, the entire thing is
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getting down to the nitty gritty, unless it's not so.
The phrase the nitty gritty, let's go back in the
hot tub time machine. It actually originated. It is believed
in the United States, and it's not that old a phrase.
The exact origin is a bit of a mystery, but
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there are a couple of popular debates on where the
phrase the nitty gritty came from. But it has been
in the vernacular a very colorful way to describe the
most essential part of something, the core, get down to
the most important information or details or whatever.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
So the phrase.
Speaker 3 (25:17):
Nitty gritty originated in the African American communities, and they
claim the roots of it likely came from like the
slavery era in American history, and they the debate is like,
where did it exactly come from?
Speaker 1 (25:37):
Is it linked to.
Speaker 3 (25:40):
The word nits, the eggs of lice and grits?
Speaker 1 (25:45):
Is that what it is? They're not sure about that.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
But where the word really took off was in New
Orleans in jazz jazz music, and the term started really
going for it in the nineteen fifties, Like the mid
twentieth century, nineteen fifties and nineteen sixties, it would pop
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up in by then music literature.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
People just use it.
Speaker 3 (26:16):
And but again it mostly started going mainstream because of
jazz and blues in New Orleans, and for people who
were doing jazz and blues in New Orleans at that time,
it meant the most important part of the song. You
got through all the fluff and you got down to
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the part of the song which was the most important part.
And in nineteen sixty three it really went mainstream because
there was a song.
Speaker 1 (26:54):
Surely Ellis released her song The Nitty Gritty.
Speaker 3 (26:58):
And that put it firmly in the pop culture.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
And there you go. Now there's also a theory.
Speaker 3 (27:06):
That nitty gritty didn't you know, didn't come from slavery times.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
It was in the jazz and blues world and that's
where it took off.
Speaker 3 (27:15):
But it's really just a way to kind of mix
words together, kind of like hocus Pocus or helter skelter.
You put nitty gritty in there, and the people that
study words, the linguist people claim it is a classic
trick that the English language and those that speak it love,
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where you repeat sounds and it gives a phrase some
wow like razmataz, right, Rasmataz.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
Things like that it works out well, works out well.
Speaker 3 (27:51):
So there it is the phrase of the week, nitty gritty,
which the early origin.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
Is up in debate. Was it from the slave times
of the Southern States.
Speaker 3 (28:04):
It did start becoming mainstream because of New Orleans jazz
and blues and all that, but we're exactly it recently
became a thing. That's the great, great unknown. Time out
for some foody fun. Hooray for food e fun. That's right,
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foody foody fun.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
Well, if you like Krispy Kreme, good news, they have
a new donut, not a diet donut. It's the Fruity
Pebbles donut.
Speaker 3 (28:38):
It became available yesterday and it is available through the weekend.
So if you this sounds like something that only a
kid would like, but who knows, maybe you got kids,
maybe you like it yourself. But as it is described,
it is just a donut covered in fruity pebbles, so.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
Sugar sugar on sugar.
Speaker 3 (29:01):
Popeyes offering any two chicken sandwiches and a regular side
for twelve dollars.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
It seems like a pretty good deal.
Speaker 3 (29:09):
Of course, only available through the app, available through April thirteenth, so.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
You got a little bit of time on that a
little time ago. What other specials are there?
Speaker 3 (29:21):
I think Applebee still has the two for twenty five
dollars menu deal. They've got the two new sizzling skillet
and steak deal for a limited time, so you can
get that. What else do we have about? Popeyes launched
a new pickle glaze chicken sandwich that makes me want
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to puke in my mouth. Fried pickles and pickle lemonade
go out right now, alf the alien O Pinter, you
shmuck and your love of pickles?
Speaker 1 (29:54):
How dare you? How dare you? Well?
Speaker 3 (29:59):
Pizza Hu Pizza Taiwan their latest pizza.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
How do I describe this? It looks like a turtle
with a snake on its back, and you grab that. Crumble.
I love Crumble.
Speaker 3 (30:15):
If they didn't cost seven hundred dollars for a cookie,
I'd eat there more. Crumble makes a new strawberry butter
cake through April fifth, So you got today and tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
Yeah, there you go. There was also a story that
made the rounds. I think this was like an April
Fools joke that Chipotle.
Speaker 3 (30:41):
Was not doing well. They were going to file for
bankruptcy and they were going to get.
Speaker 1 (30:46):
Rid of all of their stores. Apparently that was bullshoy,
not true, not true, wrong wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong wrong.
What else do we have?
Speaker 3 (30:57):
Taco Bell has introduced a new Caliente Cantina Chicken nacho
fries deal, which it looks all right.
Speaker 1 (31:08):
I don't know that. It's like the greatest thing in
the world.
Speaker 3 (31:12):
It's got slow roasted chicken, nacho cheese, sauce, shredded cheddar cheese,
crunchy Fiesta strips.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
Sour cream.
Speaker 3 (31:21):
Don't need that in Caliente sauce. It's five hundred and
forty calories for your side dish.
Speaker 1 (31:31):
And anyway there it is all right. We'll get out
on that.
Speaker 3 (31:33):
Danny g should be with me tomorrow on the Saturday part,
the Final four Tomorrow. I got the Dodgers and the Phillies. Today,
I'll be checking that out from the City of Brotherly Love.
Hope believe Fats will be out there. So we'll be
checking out the Dodgers and the Fills. And I think
that's really all I'll be checking out. Who knows, you'll
(31:54):
find out. I'll tell you tomorrow. All right, have a
wonderful rest of your Friday. Don't forget new podcast all
weekend long, and try to send something in today for
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at gmail dot com, and that will likely get your
(32:16):
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gonna guarantee that we're gonna use our email, but if
I see it and it's not a dumb question, then
we'll put it in. So again, if you would like
to send a question in the email address is Real
(32:37):
fifth Hour, all letters.
Speaker 1 (32:39):
No numbers, Real fifth Hour.
Speaker 3 (32:40):
At gmail dot com. I have a wonderful rest of
your day and we'll talk to you tomorrow. Yeah, tomorrow, tomorrow,
tomorrow later. Skater austa pasta.
Speaker 1 (32:54):
Uh yeah, that's not quite how I say it. All right,
that's all. Danny got a murder.
Speaker 2 (32:59):
I gotta go.
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Here we are, We've made it to the fourth month
of the year.
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We are just a little pimple on an elephant's ass.
There are like thirty something thousand podcasts at iHeart, but
somehow the Fifth Hour podcast actually does pretty well, much
better than the vast majority. And we actually have people
listen to this podcast. Don't tell anyone because then they
won't listen. But here we are on the fourth day
(01:19):
of April a very interesting day in the history of
the United States. On this day in nineteen seventy three,
the World Trade Center, the original the Twin Towers, the
one that unfortunately met its demise on nine to eleven.
But nineteen seventy three the World Trade Center opened in
(01:41):
New York City, Lower Manhattan. Also on this date, in
nineteen sixty eight, it was the end of Martin Luther King.
He was assassinated on this day in nineteen sixty eight.
And there's a bunch of other things that happened, but
I would say those are the two most interesting, most
interesting events that happened on this day. And there are
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two hundred and seventy one more of these days until
the end of the year. So we have two hundred
and seventy one more days. We've made it through ninety
four days of the year twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
So there you go on this podcast.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
What you have tuned into for some reason, we have
not good fortune, but bad fortune. We've got the phrase
of the week, some foody fun as well, and whatever
else pops up. I did want to mention while I'm
talking about events and today's the day, and these things
have happened. It is also National Picky Eater's Day, and
(02:42):
I've been accused wrongfully of being a picky eater. The
way I approach life, we are here for just seconds
in the big picture of things, and then we get
tossed into a box and they put dirt on top
of us, and then that's it. Game over. I want
to enjoy what I'm eating. I like what I like,
(03:03):
and that's the way we do things. But today's National
Picky Eater's Day and some fun facts for alf the
alien opinter to back up.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
What exactly this day is for now.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
Supposedly, the origins of National Picky Eater's Day is a
day that is not about celebrating not eating certain foods.
It is actually a day to try to get your kids,
because normally it's the kids you're trying to get to
eat healthy and all that stuff. So it's a day
(03:36):
to celebrate these small victories in life. And a recent
survey found that at most meal time issues with food.
The coniption fit happens because your kid doesn't want to
eat veggies. That's almost forty percent of the time. Thirty
(03:58):
seven percent of the time, they estimate kids say ixnay
on the veggie A not interested. They say about thirty
three percent of the time, the kid's like, I'm not
eating that. It doesn't smell good. And they say about
thirty two percent of the time the kid doesn't eat
it because they don't like the way it looks, the
(04:19):
presentation of the food. And then roughly fourteen percent of
the time they say, it's just the kid doesn't want
to try something new, and that's me.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
I like what I like, and that's it.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
And the first ever picky eater probably goes back I
don't know, the prehistoric times and all that, and I
can imagine that the kid didn't want to eat berries,
and it's like, I like the meat I'm eating, I
don't eat berries, And that was it. Picky eater actually
(04:52):
first became a thing, you know, I like words. We
have the phrase of the week. We'll get too later
in this podcast. But the phrase picky eater first appeared
in the modern lexicon some fifty five years ago, nineteen seventy,
nineteen seventy, and the phrase made it into the normal
(05:16):
range of.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Discussion, and it started that year.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
By the nineteen sixties and seventies, fussy eating was widespread
and it made Doctor Seuss's Green Eggs and Ham a
best seller, and that because the people could not get
their kids to eat.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
I guess there was.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
It must have been a boom in the sixties in
different foods and the frozen food thing, and that kind
of took off in that time, and one thing led
to another. There's actually been a bunch of studies that
have been done in all this.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
They say that.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
Fifty nine percent of kids are picky eaters. It's more
likely that your kid is not going to like what
you're serving, and there's a negotiation.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
It's like a hostage situation.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
And my dear old mom she still be resting in peace,
but man, I put my mom through the wringer. She
would serve always what she was taught, a balance meal,
protein like a meat or a fish or chicken, and
then we'd have like a starch of potato, but we'd
always have vegetables. My mom eat a lot of peas,
(06:32):
a lot of peas, and I did not like peas.
Sam I am and Mom I am, and I wouldn't
eat the peas. And we would have very tense situations
where my mom, and she was really kind of the
gatekeeper in the family, and it was one of those
situations where my dad would just get up and leave
(06:54):
the table, and it would be like a standoff between
me and my mom.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
And she's like, you're not leaving the.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
Table, Benjamin until you eat those vegetables. And I'm like,
all right, I'm not going anywhere. I'll sit right here.
I got nothing to do, and and we just kind
of try to negotiate my mom withou. Then we'll just
eat a little bit, try something, you know, just kind
(07:20):
of gradually try a little bit. You'll like it, you know,
And then then of course it ends up like, well,
why don't I just we had spaghetti because I a
lot of spaghetti when I was a kid, or mac
and cheese, the box kind with the powder, which I
thought was authentic Italian food growing up.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
But anyway, my mom will be like, all right, so
why don't I.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
We mix the vegetables with the pasta and you will'n't
even be able to taste it, and you'll be all
about it, and yeah, I'm not doing that.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
I don't like the color green.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
I'm good, that's it. So anyway, Happy National Picky Eater's Day.
Flipping the page on that I fell down a rabbit
hole recently, and I'd like to share it with the class.
And since you're a member of the class and you're
still listening to this podcast, some I don't know eight nine,
ten minutes in whatever it is, I'm not keeping track.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
So not good fortune, but bad fortune.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
And I actually want to thank a listener who sent
me down this rabbit hole. Checking my email. You know,
I'm very bad about writing back and all that. Some
of you are very persistent and continue to pester me.
And I got an email from a guy that lives
in Florida, Mike, who is I think in the Orlando area.
(08:40):
I could be completely long the town he mentioned.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
And I don't remember it right now.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
I don't have it in front of me, believe I.
When I was in Florida for spring training with the
Dodgers years ago, I think I drove through that town
and I'm pretty sure it's on the path between Orlando
and verro Beach, but I might be wrong.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
It could be God only knows.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
He could be out near Jed who fled out there
in the northern part.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
Anyway, So not good fortune, but bad fortune.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
And this was about he hand some questions about fortune
Telly telling he had fallen. He had sent me a
story and he was, I guess he had had a
friend who had fallen for a scam involving fortune tellers.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
And he listens to the show and he he knows
some of my shtick that I say on the.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
Air, and I'll say I'm a distant relative of Nostradamus
and friend of Nostradini's.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
It's one of my lines.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
And so he sent me this story and he said,
I had a friend that fell for this, and I
want you to, you know, to read read this. And
then I clicked on it and I read it, and
then I started reading more and I actually wrote back,
I said, listen, I hope you understand that that is
as I said here stick and it's just a gag.
(10:02):
I know there is no such thing as as accurate
fortune telling. I am aware of it, and I do
it kind of in a mocking way. And I hope
the fact that I throw a friend of Nostradinas. So
I met at a mallor meet and greet in Seattle.
I've also used over the years magic eight ball. I've
actually I've actually jotted down sympathetic it is. I've jotted
(10:25):
down some magic eight ball sayings like outlook not so.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
Good or without a doubt.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
I've incorporated this nonsense into the to the mount of
monologues and the different eight ball sayings, different phrases. There
was a I use the Zoltar machine from there was
this movie I saw when I was a kid. I
was younger Tom Hanks movie. He grew up and he
(10:57):
became it was a grown ass man and it was.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
The machine that gave him the wish.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
And I've quoted Karnak the Magnificent, which is from the
old Tonight Show, dating myself also. So I've done all
these nonsense things over the years, really mocking the world
of fortune telling and someway. This guy sent me some
information and then I started digging and I wanted to
share my notes with the class. Think of it as
(11:26):
a mallor webinar if you will. It is on the web,
so the fortune telling industry. I did not realize how
big this is, how massive this is now every town
I've been to and I've been able to travel a
lot over my life around just around the United States.
I don't go out of the We're going to Canada
(11:48):
for a malor meet and greet here, which is, you know,
kind of like the same as you know, it's just
the nicer in Canada. We're going to Vancouver at the
end of May. More on that at some point this weekend.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
However, so every where.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
I've gone, whether it's Pittsburgh, Boston, Syracuse, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, Florida, Ohio, Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota,
everywhere I go, I see the fortune teller shop, and
they're normally in a pretty decent mall or you know,
(12:23):
one of those like we you have the grocery store,
you've got the barber shop, and then you've got a
little spot that is a psychic fortune teller. And it's
one of those things. It's like how do they afford that?
Like the rent is not that cheap at these places,
Like how do they do it?
Speaker 1 (12:44):
How do they put off?
Speaker 3 (12:46):
Anyway, So I started starting reading what the gentleman from
Florida sent me, and then I started doing some other
stuff and the fortune telling, tarroot reading, palm reading.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
All that is valued.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
At two point three billion with a B like ben
two point three billion in the United States, and it
is estimated this blooming away that across the United States
there are one hundred and five thousand, over one hundred
and five thousand businesses that are in that industry, and
(13:31):
the annual growth rate is around four point three percent,
and then they estimate the business is booming for a
lot during COVID, people just worked up and needing help
and looking anywhere they could.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
Get it pandemic.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
Certainly, it's gone down a little bit since the pandemic,
but it's continued overall to go up.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
And then you start digging.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
A little deeper and you're like, all right, so what's
going on? And so the way the scams work, the
fortune telling scams, is they're able to exploit people who
are curious, people that are at an emotionally weak spot
in their life. Essentially, we use the phrase also on
(14:22):
the show getting that Dumb Money, which is a Wall
Street phrase, but in fortune telling, I don't know if
dumb is the right word, because I don't want to
say everyone that's falling forward is dumb. But your defense
systems go down.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
At certain points in your life.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
They just do right, whether you lose someone close to you,
whether you've got a medical problem, maybe you lose your job.
There's certain points in our life where we do not
have the defense up the force field. The protection goes away.
And the way that the fortune telling industry gets customers,
(14:58):
I guess they call it the hook, right, the hook,
And how do you get people. It's like doing a
radio show. Well, a lot of the times in the
old days, you just get people that would scan the
radio dial and find you. Not so much anymore. A
lot of people just happened to be looking for a format.
We're on Fox Sports Radio. You're a sportsman, you find it.
(15:19):
Or you're looking for something unique that's on late at night,
you might find the show.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
But the fortune telling.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
Industry, they'll post ads on street signs and online and
social media and all that, and they'll offer the tarot
readings and all the different things and all that stuff,
and they promised they'll give you information.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
The cold reading thing is.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
I remember there was a guy, James Randy. He died
a couple of years ago, The Amazing Randy. And there
was a pretty good documentary. Some of it was annoying
in the documentary, but most of it was pretty good.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
The Amazing Randy. It was recorded near the end of
his life.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
About the parts I liked were the parts about how
he tried to expose and he did expose many people
in this industry. And he had like a if I
remember correctly, and I haven't seen the documentary in a
number of years, and I think I recommended it on
this podcast. But anyway, the Amazing Randy, he had a
standing offer.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
James Randy.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
He was a magician, and he used to bother him
that people who were magicians would exploit the fact they
thought they would teach people that this was real. And
he's like, well, it's not real, it's magic. We're doing
a show, we're doing performance art, and it's all right. Anyway,
So James Randy had a Amazing Randy had an offer
a million dollars if you could go into a room
(16:43):
under his conditions, with limited guidelines and prove prove that
you could actually tell the future.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
Million dollars.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
And despite one hundred thousand businesses offering services about predicting
the future, sure nobody, uh, nobody got it right. Nobody
took the offer. Well, I don't know nobody took the office.
I think one one or two people tried, but they
didn't succeed in that. And so the cold reading thing
(17:16):
is and I think this was also in the documentary.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
It's a lot of guess work.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
It's a lot of vague phrases that could apply to anyone.
Like I see someone in your in your life that
their name starts with the first name starts with an M.
I see you you've had something that hasn't gone your
way recently in your life, which is one of those
things like you going to a cold reading. Chances are
(17:47):
you're going there because something didn't go great, you know,
and you know someone in your world is hiding something
from you, and I see it's a woman, and you know, and.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
Just you, just you, And then they answer.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
And a lot of times the person that is having
the cold reading done to them will answer these questions
and give more information right, and they'll read.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
Body language, and they'll.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
They'll kind of refine and update predictions and things as
they go through the whole thing. And then eventually they
if they're good at it, they'll gain your trust. And
once they've got you, they got you by the balls,
all right, they got you by it right, because then
they introduce a different issue, right. And oftentimes, from what
(18:41):
I've been able to discover from my rabbit hole, you
can go down your own rabbit hole is they will.
Once they've got you, they they then bring in a
curse or negative dark energy or.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
Some kind of spiritual block get to the other.
Speaker 3 (19:01):
Side, and they come up with all these terms and
they claim that the issue is what's really causing your
problems in life, that the reason you have a really
shitty job and you're in a in no relationship other
than with your right hand is because of this blockage
(19:27):
or bad energy And then at that point's the pivot
or the upsell. At that point, suddenly the very affordable
visit to the fortune teller gets a lot more expensive
because they get you by a little you know, maybe
(19:47):
forty to fifty bucks to get a reading. And then
they got you and you have a good relationship and
they offer a solution, and then it's like, well wait
a minute, this.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
Goes a little deeper. It's going to take more work.
Speaker 3 (20:04):
I need to spend more time with you, and I
have a bunch of rituals and I have a Harry
Potter spell book, and we need to cleanse this out
of you.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
And all of a sudden they start upselling right and
then you're it goes.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
From fifty bucks for a one time fee, and it's
one hundred and fifty dollars, and it's and then it
keeps getting worse.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
It's like, I didn't think it was this bad.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
And then it's you know it's gonna I'm gonna need
more candles and crystals and all the other bullshoi and
all that, and and if you don't play along, they
then give you a they give.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
You a guilt trip. They're like, wait a minute, you
don't believe you know, and they they'll warn you.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
They'll be like, oh man, if you don't do this,
not only are you going to have issues, but people
around you are going to the bad mojo is going
to go to them.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
And but if you do it, you know it won't happen.
And then there's other times.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
They'll be like, hey, wait a minute, you know your
significant other will will come back or will find them
or whatever. And so they essentially just take advantage of
people that are at a week spot. Like I said,
not necessarily dumb people. In fact, there's some very very successful,
(21:25):
highly educated people. And it's like people in academia who
you'd think would know better, and they fall for And
I've had some friends that are magicians over the years and.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
They've told me. It's like, it's amazing.
Speaker 3 (21:38):
It's like people that you would think would never ever
go down this road and believe it, believe it.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
And it's the power of.
Speaker 3 (21:51):
The illusion that the magicians have found certain blind spots
that we all have, and often they're right in front
of us that we're not paying attention to, and they've
been able to take it.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
But as far as the fortune teller thing.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
They get you in cheap, they give you vague answers,
they manipulate you, they build their trust, the trust between
the client and the person, and then it's.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
Off to the races, right, it's off to the races.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
And the online scams are popular now. Back in the
old days they had infomercials, the Miss Cleo one the
most famous.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
These are traveling traveling.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
Gypsies, right going around and doing their thing, and then
they eventually will disappear at some point, go on to
the next city and try to do it all over again, right,
try to do it all over again, and it's very effective,
works a lot, works a lot, Otherwise there wouldn't be
so many people doing it now. Every once in a while,
(22:52):
somebody in the government tries to step.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
In and say, well, wait a minute.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
And what they'll often do is they they've actually partner
with lawyers and they'll use these psychological tricks and all that,
but they'll seem authentic, but they operate on the margins,
on the fringes where they'll sell it in the fine
(23:18):
print as for entertainment purposes only for entertainment purposes only.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
And when you.
Speaker 3 (23:24):
Toss that phrase in, it makes it, from a legal standpoint,
very difficult to charge someone with a crime because they say, well,
it's for entertainment purposes only. You signed the contract. And
it's only in the most blatant occurrences where they can
get somebody for stealing money, because oftentimes the people will
(23:47):
just write the check and they'll transfer the money to
the account, and it's like it's wild and so everyone's
our authorities try to crack down on some is, but
the small time players that don't don't make a one
hundred thousand per client or something like that, they make
(24:09):
a good amount of money. To the phrase of the week,
The phrase of the week is nitty gritty, you know,
getting down to the most important part of something is
the nitty gritty. Like this podcast, the entire thing is
(24:30):
getting down to the nitty gritty, unless it's not so.
The phrase the nitty gritty, let's go back in the
hot tub time machine. It actually originated. It is believed
in the United States, and it's not that old a phrase.
The exact origin is a bit of a mystery, but
(24:54):
there are a couple of popular debates on where the
phrase the nitty gritty came from. But it has been
in the vernacular a very colorful way to describe the
most essential part of something, the core, get down to
the most important information or details or whatever.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
So the phrase.
Speaker 3 (25:17):
Nitty gritty originated in the African American communities, and they
claim the roots of it likely came from like the
slavery era in American history, and they the debate is like,
where did it exactly come from?
Speaker 1 (25:37):
Is it linked to.
Speaker 3 (25:40):
The word nits, the eggs of lice and grits?
Speaker 1 (25:45):
Is that what it is? They're not sure about that.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
But where the word really took off was in New
Orleans in jazz jazz music, and the term started really
going for it in the nineteen fifties, Like the mid
twentieth century, nineteen fifties and nineteen sixties, it would pop
(26:09):
up in by then music literature.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
People just use it.
Speaker 3 (26:16):
And but again it mostly started going mainstream because of
jazz and blues in New Orleans, and for people who
were doing jazz and blues in New Orleans at that time,
it meant the most important part of the song. You
got through all the fluff and you got down to
(26:39):
the part of the song which was the most important part.
And in nineteen sixty three it really went mainstream because
there was a song.
Speaker 1 (26:54):
Surely Ellis released her song The Nitty Gritty.
Speaker 3 (26:58):
And that put it firmly in the pop culture.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
And there you go. Now there's also a theory.
Speaker 3 (27:06):
That nitty gritty didn't you know, didn't come from slavery times.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
It was in the jazz and blues world and that's
where it took off.
Speaker 3 (27:15):
But it's really just a way to kind of mix
words together, kind of like hocus Pocus or helter skelter.
You put nitty gritty in there, and the people that
study words, the linguist people claim it is a classic
trick that the English language and those that speak it love,
(27:37):
where you repeat sounds and it gives a phrase some
wow like razmataz, right, Rasmataz.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
Things like that it works out well, works out well.
Speaker 3 (27:51):
So there it is the phrase of the week, nitty gritty,
which the early origin.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
Is up in debate. Was it from the slave times
of the Southern States.
Speaker 3 (28:04):
It did start becoming mainstream because of New Orleans jazz
and blues and all that, but we're exactly it recently
became a thing. That's the great, great unknown. Time out
for some foody fun. Hooray for food e fun. That's right,
(28:24):
foody foody fun.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
Well, if you like Krispy Kreme, good news, they have
a new donut, not a diet donut. It's the Fruity
Pebbles donut.
Speaker 3 (28:38):
It became available yesterday and it is available through the weekend.
So if you this sounds like something that only a
kid would like, but who knows, maybe you got kids,
maybe you like it yourself. But as it is described,
it is just a donut covered in fruity pebbles, so.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
Sugar sugar on sugar.
Speaker 3 (29:01):
Popeyes offering any two chicken sandwiches and a regular side
for twelve dollars.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
It seems like a pretty good deal.
Speaker 3 (29:09):
Of course, only available through the app, available through April thirteenth, so.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
You got a little bit of time on that a
little time ago. What other specials are there?
Speaker 3 (29:21):
I think Applebee still has the two for twenty five
dollars menu deal. They've got the two new sizzling skillet
and steak deal for a limited time, so you can
get that. What else do we have about? Popeyes launched
a new pickle glaze chicken sandwich that makes me want
(29:42):
to puke in my mouth. Fried pickles and pickle lemonade
go out right now, alf the alien O Pinter, you
shmuck and your love of pickles?
Speaker 1 (29:54):
How dare you? How dare you? Well?
Speaker 3 (29:59):
Pizza Hu Pizza Taiwan their latest pizza.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
How do I describe this? It looks like a turtle
with a snake on its back, and you grab that. Crumble.
I love Crumble.
Speaker 3 (30:15):
If they didn't cost seven hundred dollars for a cookie,
I'd eat there more. Crumble makes a new strawberry butter
cake through April fifth, So you got today and tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
Yeah, there you go. There was also a story that
made the rounds. I think this was like an April
Fools joke that Chipotle.
Speaker 3 (30:41):
Was not doing well. They were going to file for
bankruptcy and they were going to get.
Speaker 1 (30:46):
Rid of all of their stores. Apparently that was bullshoy,
not true, not true, wrong wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong wrong.
What else do we have?
Speaker 3 (30:57):
Taco Bell has introduced a new Caliente Cantina Chicken nacho
fries deal, which it looks all right.
Speaker 1 (31:08):
I don't know that. It's like the greatest thing in
the world.
Speaker 3 (31:12):
It's got slow roasted chicken, nacho cheese, sauce, shredded cheddar cheese,
crunchy Fiesta strips.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
Sour cream.
Speaker 3 (31:21):
Don't need that in Caliente sauce. It's five hundred and
forty calories for your side dish.
Speaker 1 (31:31):
And anyway there it is all right. We'll get out
on that.
Speaker 3 (31:33):
Danny g should be with me tomorrow on the Saturday part,
the Final four Tomorrow. I got the Dodgers and the Phillies. Today,
I'll be checking that out from the City of Brotherly Love.
Hope believe Fats will be out there. So we'll be
checking out the Dodgers and the Fills. And I think
that's really all I'll be checking out. Who knows, you'll
(31:54):
find out. I'll tell you tomorrow. All right, have a
wonderful rest of your Friday. Don't forget new podcast all
weekend long, and try to send something in today for
the mail bag that'll be on Sunday, Real fifth Hour
at gmail dot com, and that will likely get your
(32:16):
message read on the I can't guarantee it. I'm not
gonna guarantee that we're gonna use our email, but if
I see it and it's not a dumb question, then
we'll put it in. So again, if you would like
to send a question in the email address is Real
(32:37):
fifth Hour, all letters.
Speaker 1 (32:39):
No numbers, Real fifth Hour.
Speaker 3 (32:40):
At gmail dot com. I have a wonderful rest of
your day and we'll talk to you tomorrow. Yeah, tomorrow, tomorrow,
tomorrow later. Skater austa pasta.
Speaker 1 (32:54):
Uh yeah, that's not quite how I say it. All right,
that's all. Danny got a murder.
Speaker 2 (32:59):
I gotta go.
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