March 29, 2025 • 30 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:02):
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Speaker 3 (00:16):
In the penthouse.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Wow to 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
Maller and Danny g Radio and a Happy Saturday to you.
We are sliding on in to a brand spanking new
day every days fresh Audio. We got the Overnight Show
during the week you yet that five days a week,
(00:49):
the Original Recipe podcast, which is the Overnight Show repackage
in the podcast, and then on the weekends you get
the Fifth Hour podcast. Danny's on with Covino and Rich
during the weekend. He joins me on the weekends, and
we formed Voltron here on Saturday, and normally we start
with some dope holiday and all that. But the Dodger
game last night with the Detroit Tigers, you shouldn't talk
(01:11):
about that. It's just one regular season game. It's game
number four. Nobody cares about game number five. Listen, that's fine.
You know the Dodgers at this point, as we as
we sit here early on Saturday morning, the Dodgers are
undefeated and they could be the first Dan I don't
think this is hyperbole, the first one hundred and sixty
(01:32):
two game winner. This could be it. This could be
an undefeated team during the regular season. But what a game.
The Detroit Tigers, who are supposed to be a playoff
team this season. They were a playoff team last year.
The Tigers and the Dodgers were up against it a
couple of times and then they end up winning it
(01:53):
in extra innings. Will Smith tied it and then Mookie Betts.
I thought Mookie had a parasite Danny? Is that what happened?
Speaker 3 (02:01):
I was told that he was on death's doorstep?
Speaker 1 (02:04):
Yeah? Can I get if I can hit home runs,
I'll take a pair of site. You lose weight and
hit home runs? What's up with that? Maybe he just
wanted to get out of Japan early. He had something
he had to do. But man, a couple of home
runs last night. So the Dodgers are Is it over?
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Now?
Speaker 1 (02:19):
What's the magic number? Do we know what the magic
number is for the Dodgers. We determined. Have we done
the math on that?
Speaker 3 (02:24):
Do you know the stat the last time the Dodgers
started a season four?
Speaker 1 (02:28):
And oh, I don't I remember they had I think
like Joe Tory was man. They had a really good
start with toy But well, I don't I didn't see
the stat.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
What was the stat? It was actually their nineteen eighty
one World Series title year.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Oh is it even? Well that was the sort of
Dodgers back in the day, Yes, back to the old school.
All right, well listen, they're they're doing great, but we
still have let's see we have we're not even April yet. Wow,
wonderful start. And it was weird though. I saw on
my phone got a message that Max Munsey hit a
(03:02):
home run. But it was the guy for the A's.
It wasn't the Dodgers.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
Max Munsei. Our Max Munsey in southern California is in
a slump.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
Yeah, yeah, well see, not everyone's gonna be playing well.
You got to pace it where like if Mookie's playing
well and Freddie Freeman and then they go into a
slump and then Munsey starts hitting. As long as you
have a couple guys that are hitting, you're gonna have
a couple guys in a slump. And that's the hot baseball.
Speaking of baseball, I did love you know, I just
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I don't know if it's the podcast, but I saw
this story. The Tampa Bay Rays took the field on
Friday for their season opening game. They played the Rockies,
and you know who cares whatever it was at their
spring training the Yankee Spring Training Stadium and the broadcast
of Tampa Bay they the crowd MIC picked up the
(03:54):
fans serenading in the ballpark. Sell the team, which was
just outstanding. Just the ten out of ten out of ten.
It's your first broadcast, sell the team. Just uh, just wonderful.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
Anyway, last night I simultaneously had the Dodgers game on
and the Houston game as they were able to hang
on versus per Due.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
Yeah, I did. I was focused more on the Dodger game.
We actually went to uh Top Golf, which you know
you've you've been there. It's it's a fun fun thing
to fut's around. And there was mostly Dodgers. There weren't
too many people into the college basketball where I was,
and I was checking my phone.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
Are you more skilled at top golf or acts throwing?
Speaker 1 (04:47):
Well, I'm great at both, as you know. And I
don't believe some edited video. You know, some edited video clip.
You know that some dope tried to make me look bad.
It's probably AI was used in that and in the
minute so to meet and greet. But no, the top
golf thing. The only problem with top golf and I
talked about we went a few weeks back, or I
don't know, it's maybe been a couple of months. The
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problem with top golf is it really depends on where
the bay is. It's a massive building, it's three or
four stories or whatever, so it depends what part of
the thing you're in the sight lines, and then you're
almost better off hitting it shorter and adding a lot
of points because if you hit it far, you got
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to be more accurate. So there's a lot goes into it.
This is not that easy. But I won that. We
played a couple of rounds and I won both. But
I was like, I was terrible for most of it,
but I just hit a couple of good shots and
I was able to pull it out. But normally in
the past that has not not been the case as
far as the Sweet sixteen though, the number one, number
(05:55):
one seeds both winning last night. Right, so we have
Auburn one, Houston one. So all the higher seeds won
last night and we have the Elite eight. You're not
a gambler, right then? You know? You know bet on
these things, right, you know?
Speaker 3 (06:11):
No, I mean I pay attention to it for the
sake of talking about it on the radio, but yeah,
I don't actually put any of my real money on it.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
Yeah, well you've got all that radio money, you know what.
You know, you're so loaded.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
Hey, come on, man, I'm gonna have to put go
through school. I'm gonna put him through cal State Northrage.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
There you go, El Matador, all matter. So what do
we have we have today? What is the card today?
We've got trying to think the Elite eight? So we
have what do we got? Texas Tech and the Duchies?
What's that?
Speaker 3 (06:45):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (06:46):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (06:46):
Do? And we you know we got the Duchies playing, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
The Sunday Games, the games tomorrow. Yet Auburn is five
and a half over Michigan State and Houston is four
and a half over Tennessee. I don't I don't see
the duke line. I do see a Florida Florida and
Texas Tech. Florida is a six and a half point
favorite in that game. I did want a couple of
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things I want to bring up later on. We'll have
the idiom of the week. We got these Sports Talk Airbnb,
Bottomless fro Yo and the travel quagmire. The travel quagmire
always a fun always a fun thing. But we'll begin
with this. I should have mentioned this yesterday. Bad job
by me. I got carried away with baseball props on
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the Friday podcast, so I did not bring this up.
But the big story that we men everyone talking about this.
It was the talk of the town. People were so excited.
The Fox Sports Radio Alumni Association, one of the newest
members of the Fox Sports Radio Alumni Association, made the
(07:54):
rare and appropriate visit back to the Holy Land, and
we welcome back our Fred, Eddie the Great Eddie Garcia
stop by and.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
I saw the photos you posted.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Yeah, yeah, we took some photos and stuff and Sirius
Sean was with him. And so it was the Sports
Talk Airbnb in beautiful Sherman Oaks, and it was wonderful
to see Eddie and a number of people reached out
to me, fans of the show, and they were like,
what's going on? How did this happen? What led to this?
(08:28):
Did you reach out to Eddie? Did Eddie reach out
to you? What happened? And so I'll let you in
on behind the scenes a little bit. Uh. First, I
want to I want to thank the management of Fox
Sports Radio because they could have been like total dicks
and been like, you know, you can't let Eddie back in.
What are you doing? You know? None of that.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
They were, Yeah, you might bulkar race all of the
desktop computers.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
Yeah, yeah, something unforeseen might happen. Yeah, if he can
get into those those computers, the top computers from like
nineteen ninety four and really really messing. But but but no,
they were they were cool and.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
Tape.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
Yeah, exactly exactly, So none of those concerns happened. But
but no, the reason Eddie was there is mainly because
of Sirias Sean. So Siaus Sean is all grown up.
He lives in Phoenix. But Sean has been a super
fan of the show going back. It's been man, it's
(09:26):
been like ten years or so.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
And thanks to you, we're all super fans. Of his
delivery service. Oh, that's right, Sean, to see where he's
delivering all his food.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
Yeah, I had to explain to Sean. He said, what
do you call me that name? Mister non secret or whatever.
I had to explain to him, but made me nauseous.
But no, But so Sean started listening to He was
in high school, and you know, a tough high school
sucks for everybody's for some people, it sucks more than
other people. And Sean got picked on a lot in
high school and people were total assholes to him. And
(09:59):
so he loved our show. And one of his teachers
actually hooked us up with Sean to come visit the studio,
and we loved hanging out with him, and we brought
him into our little world. And Sean moved on from
that and he's all. He left La. He lives in
Phoenix and he delivers, as Danny referenced, he delivers food,
(10:22):
drives car service Phoenix.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
Hey, that was cool. I'll never forget when he came
to the studio. You want to talk about somebody in
the presence of what they considered Disneyland, he did not
want to leave. Yeah, that's the most blown away I've
seen any visitor.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
And Danny it made us feel important. You know, sometimes
you're there and.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
You're in the middle.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
You know, you're in the what's the line, you're in
the forest, you can't see the trees, you know you're
you're in there, and you just to see him mesmerized
and hypnotized by the studio and just like everything in
the building. And he was so excited, he was dancing,
and it was like it was really cool. It's a
magical place for him. And so that was neat. That
was neat. And so we've kept in contact with Sean,
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and as I said, Sean lives in Phoenix now, and
so he comes back to southern California a couple of
times a year, and since we're buddies since he was
in high school, we always try to welcome him back
in because it means so much to him to come
see the show and to be part of the show
and all that, and so we make sure to welcome
him in. And then now that Eddie's unfortunately not with us,
(11:27):
and you know, he's still alive, but just not.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
On the show.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
He's Sean's really good friends with Eddie. Maybe a little
too close to Eddie. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
But anyway, so edd Doc Jim, I heard, no, no,
the paperwork go through.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
Sean follows Eddie around like a puppy dog. It's amazing.
But but anyway, so Sean was pestering Eddie, how about
shut up to get my schedule because after Doc Mike
my neurosis from Doc Mike, where Doc I give him
his number. I gave him my number when he went
to jail, and Doc still calls me regularly. Even though
I said, only call me one time when you get
(12:05):
out of jail, he still calls me. So I don't
give out my number. I'm very very rare. A couple
of times I've done it rare and appropriate, but I
generally don't do it. So Sean doesn't serious. Sean does
not have my number. So Eddie reached out to me
on behalf of serious Shawn. He said, hey, Sean's going
to be you know, in town. He wants to come
by and see it. And I said that's great, And
(12:25):
he said, why why don't you Why don't you come
with him, we'll hang out, you know, And Eddie's like, well,
you know sure, And Eddie goes to bed early. Now
he doesn't work the late hours. He does not have
the the odds schedule that we overnight people have. And
but Eddie was cool with it. He wanted to come on,
and I said, yeah, come on, you can promote whatever
(12:45):
you want to promote. He's got a new podcast that
he's starting, a hockey podcast next month that he wanted
to promote. And so yeah, I mean, I'm sure there's
plenty of you know, plenty of ways you can can
go about this.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
You can listen to any of Canadians listening.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
Yes, exactly, exactly. So so that's kind of the origin.
It's because of serious Sean and and Eddie was nice
enough to come in there and hang out and was
it was really nice to see him. And you know,
he's doing as good as can be expected under the
conditions and all that he's he's loving all the hockey podcasts.
He's doing three, well, starting next month, he'll be doing
(13:22):
three hockey podcasts. And so you can find that where
you find this podcast. And so thanks to Siria Sean
and then I had to explain to Sean. Sean had
no idea. I said, he was annoyed every time he
would post about Hey, I made ten dollars tip. You know,
I took this package to and Sean would be annoyed
(13:43):
because I'd say, you're mister non secutor guy or man
or whatever, and I don't know what that means, you know.
And so I then had to explain to him that
the non sequitors that we're talking about one thing and
you bring up something that is not related at all,
a non sequitur. And I explained it to him, Danny,
(14:06):
and I still am ninety eight percent sure he had
no idea what I was saying. But I did explain
it to him. I did explain it to him. It
just kind of like went in one ear and out
the other. The other thing about Siria Sean is this guy.
He loves radio, and he loves the train. He loves Amtrak.
He takes the train from Phoenix to la He's taking
(14:27):
the train all the way to the East coast, He's
taking it up to the northwest, Pacific Northwest. So he
loves radio and Amtrak. He should have been born much earlier, right.
Imagine if Sean had been around when radio ruled the roost,
like in the nineteen thirties or something like that, before
before television he could have taken trains and listened to
(14:47):
the radio and it would have been amazing. That would
have been his life and it would.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
Have been a huge Lone Ranger fan too.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
Yes, yes, see Tonto and all that. Anyway, but it
was fun and then Sean the night ended, Eddie went
his way, and we'll have Eddie on again and all that,
and it was nice. It was not a bottomless fro
yo though. It was not that Danny, definitely not that.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
Yeah. Well I didn't get a bottomless fro yo either.
What I did get was a big dent to my
debit card. I'm gonna blame this one on the wife.
As I usually get home around seven pm after doing
post production for Covino and Rich and then sitting in
beautiful bumper to bumper traffic in Los Angeles, I get
(15:36):
a text message usually and it'll say something like I'm
really craving frozen yogurt. Not a big deal. It's like
two exits off my path, so I have to continue
to go north to get to the yogurt land here
in our area. Now, Benny, we've talked about it, you know,
so much throughout the past few years, especially on the
(15:58):
podcast inflation and how much food is right now groceries.
Price at groceries sucks. Should you go sit down at
Chili's or should you go through a drive through? Or
should you get two bags of groceries for one hundred
and fifteen dollars? You know, for two little bags.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
I was at the story the other day I bought
I bought a bag of like free do's and it
was like six dollars and forty cents or I mean
for one little half a bag of chips. It was crazy.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
Oh, it's ridiculous right now. One of the stops I
made breakfast stuff we needed to like sour dough and
the thing of peanut butter, and it was like four
or five random items we needed self checkout and the
total said like thirty two dollars. And I'm like, I
fucking have four or five things right here. Price is
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killing us all over the country right now, Little taste,
there aren't any sweets inside the house, so you know,
we'll chop up bananas, strawberry, We'll put some granola on
the froyo at home to save money. All I do
is I get one big cup and I do the swirl.
I get the froyo in the cup. They put it
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on the scale, and it's not the cheapest treat, but
it's usually not what it was a couple of evenings ago. Okay,
this is just a cup of froyo that I could
split in half. How much was that froyo? Don't pull
an eddie.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
I'm not going to pull an eddie. My lips have
been on it all right, five fifty Yeah.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
Maybe in the year two thousand and eight it was
eighteen dollars and fifty eight cents.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
Wait, so you eat it was nine over nine dollars each. Wow,
you could still buy couldn't you buy a gallon of
ice cream or something like that?
Speaker 3 (17:51):
Froyo is healthier than ice cream. Yeah, don't eat ice cream. Yeah.
The only that's the only dessert we get once in
a while is frozen yok We're gonna have to think
about it twice now, because as I was driving home,
I was thinking to myself, did I really almost pay
nineteen dollars? Right now? Frozen yogurt?
Speaker 1 (18:11):
You get some little gold toppings or something like that,
or diamond toppings.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
It was just frozen yogurt, So.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
You didn't get any topics.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
I mean in any that only we'd say in a nutshell,
We'll say in a frozen yogurt cup. That explains the
situation right now, with all these places gouging us.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
You're better off just buying your own frozen yogurt machine
for the house and renty and then you can have
it whenever you want and you'll you'll save money. That
is that is insane? Is that just an LA thing?
That Maybe that's a valley pricing thing. You know, you're
you're not far from the Kardashians. Maybe it's because of them.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
A bunch of hookers and cocaine.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
That's wild.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
I took a note of it, and I was like, man,
I gotta do the guessing game with Ben on this one.
He's not gonna come close. Took a snapshot of the
receipt and I'm gonna save that now for my accountant.
At the end of the year, I'm gonna write this
yogurt off.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
That's good And because of this podcast, it's a business
related expense. And that's the reason I'll be starting a
travel vlog, just so I can write off all of
my travel expenses. We're going to do a YouTube channel
of just me traveling. What whenever I go anywhere, and
then it's all it's all gonna be a tax right off,
So the travel quagmire. It is that time of the year.
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We're almost into April. This is the final Saturday show
of the Fifth Hour in the month of March, and
the last Saturday because there are no worse Saturdays in
the month of March. And so nonetheless, look at looking
around at the calendar, trying to map out when the
weather gets good and where we're gonna end up and
mallard meet and greets and travel and seeing family and
(19:54):
whatnot and friends, and so I'm trying to logistically plan
out how far in between events I would like to
have these things, because you want to map everything. It's
all about planning, right. I love it when a plan
comes together. So we have an event scheduled, although not booked.
(20:15):
I'm not going to give the exact details, but it's
going to be in late May early June in Vancouver,
so we will be in Vancouver. Barring some kind of
unforeseen change in circumstance, we will be in Vancouver in
late May early June. That like that last weekend where
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it crosses over. So that's the plan. That's the plan.
And then after that, I want to get to Ohio.
I have been promising this and we've done very well.
The podcast number two state behind California for downloads has
been recently Ohio with a lot of listeners, and so
(20:57):
I wanted to go. And the main reason I'm going
to go is because, Yeah, I'm going to see Dick.
I'm gonna gonna hang out with Dick in Ohio. And
he's been much like Sirias Sean, will as much as
you can handle, but no, no, so so Sirias Sean,
(21:18):
as you referenced Danny, just that that sparkle in his
eye when he walked into the radio station, you know,
just a magical just a magical place, and how special
that was. And Dick and Dayton, who's much older than
Sirious Shawn Sean's just early on in his life. But
Dick and Dayton, he looks at radio the same way.
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It just ignites something in him, you know, it just
makes him happy, just makes him happy. And I I'd
love to meet him. He's called me for years. I've
talked to this guy probably for twenty years now while
he's called the show. And I'll never forget some of
those early calls when I was doing the weekend show
and I worked every holiday, and he called me up
(22:00):
on Thanksgiving and he is so happy as could be.
You know, no family, no friends, just me and he'd
call us up and I had Thanksgiving dinner and how
much you spend deck five dollars? Five dollars for Thanksgiving dinner?
He was so excited about it. So no, but I
want to meet him. I want to meet Justin in Cincinnati,
just Josh ohioil like all the legends that are in
(22:22):
the state of Ohio. Some of you guys I've met.
We had a few dudes came out to Vegas and
various other meet and greets that we've had. So I'm
planning on getting to oh Hi, and I'm thinking it's
going to be sometime in June. I have a date
in my head. I'm not going to give it out
right now, so I'm trying to figure out the logistics.
We need a venue, and we need a date and
(22:44):
a venue. So there's a gentleman who is a big
fan of the Fifth Hour podcast. In fact, he sends
us stories right about the stories from the bar and
things that happened and whatnot, and we enjoy those stories.
We think those are those are good stories, and they're
fun for the podcast and all that. And so he
(23:06):
is offered. He runs a restaurant in Columbus, and he's like, hey,
we're let's make this happen. You know, we got an
establishment here. His name Zach, and he's been very kind
and very popular bar in Columbus. He's the big shot,
he's the big cheese over there, and it's a hockey bar.
(23:28):
And he's like, hey, well, why don't you, you know, come down,
we'll hang out, we'll have a good time and all
that stuff. So I want to do it, but I'm
looking to try to get from and I talked about
this in the previous episode of this podcast. Logistically, to
get from LA to Columbus, there are no direct flights,
which is I'm not a bougie bitch. I can stop somewhere, right, Danny.
(23:50):
I'm able to stop somewhere. In fact, I actually like
stopping because it breaks up the flight. What I don't
like is stopping and then having enough time to eat
two meals at an airport because the next flight is
six seven hours later.
Speaker 3 (24:06):
I don't need you want the you want the layover
to be about an hour hour and a half max.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
Exactly, time to get out of the plane, take a whiz,
maybe get something to eat if you know, I don't eat,
but the wife or whatever eats, and then move on
to the next plane. The logistics are terrible because there's
no direct flights to Columbus, and I could fly into Columbus,
or I could fly into Cincinnati, which is a little easier,
but then you got to drive from Cincinnati to Columbus.
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Or I could fly into Cleveland and then go down
to Columbus. But either way it's a lot of driving.
It's a lot of driving.
Speaker 3 (24:41):
Now, are the two iHeart private jets not available for
these dates?
Speaker 1 (24:45):
Well, it's funny you bring that up, and I did
try to get that, but apparently your buddy Clay has
it one of them, and then I believe Seacrest has
the other one, and then and I'm not even third,
by the way, I think Steve Harvey has He's next
line if one of those opened up. Unfortunately. Yeah, yeah,
it's it's sad. So anyway, that's where I met, and
(25:06):
I've I did ask for some help from someone in Ohio.
If there was another location, maybe in Cincinnati or Cleveland.
At this point, I did get an email from another
big fan of the show who say, Hey, I you
know I live. I live in Toledo. Why don't you
just fly into Detroit. You can drive down to Toledo
(25:29):
and then it's close enough to everywhere you need to be.
So I looked into that, and so I'm still I'm
still debating what's gonna happen, and I don't have anything
official on that. I'm just basically venting, Danny. That's really
what I'm doing here. I'm just basically venting.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
You know. By the way, Russia Limbaugh's ashes are fourth in.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
Line, as they should be, Megadiddo's as they with one
ash tied behind its back. Yes, but but no. Brian
was the very nice gentleman who I kicked his ass
at scrabble. I believe he's given up at scrabble. I've
beaten him so bad. And he was very kind, and
(26:12):
he said he knows some people with the mud Hens,
and you know, maybe there and be something there and
and I could even go to like a mud Hens game,
which will be kind of cool. I actually have a
Mudheads hat that's in my my rotation. And it's an
old hat. It's the it's the classic mud actually a
listener from Ohios and it's a classic mud Hens hat
they used to wear on this show called mash back
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in the Stone Age and all that. So that's the
travel quagmire. So basically it's just me complaining and I
haven't figured it out. I'll let you know when we
come up with a with a date and all that.
The idiom of the week. Are you ready for the
idiom of the.
Speaker 3 (26:48):
Week of the week? All right?
Speaker 1 (26:52):
This one requested by Steve O. That's not Steve. It
says Steve O. STEVEO is in the Great State of Arizona.
I assume he's in Phoenix because or the Phoenix area,
because that's where most people in Arizona live. But he
did not say Steve BO. He just said Steve OO
(27:13):
from Arizona. So I'll just assume Phoenix. And if I'm wrong,
I'm wrong, who cares? So he says, use this from
time to time on the show in a pickle And
where did that come from? I'd like you to tell
me the story, says Steve O. Big fan of the
Overnight show and occasional I like, how about this daddy
occasional Fifth Hour listener. I hope he's listening, Steve, I
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hope you're listening anyway. In a pickle, which I think
is pretty obvious that you're in an awkward, tough situation. Now,
I think I've used this STEVEO in the past, but
maybe not. I feel like I've used this on this
podcast in the past, but possibly not. And this is
also a tribute to alf the alien opiner who loves pickles.
(28:01):
It's one of the weak spots. He's really good in
every other area other than his love of pickles. So
the in a pickle phrase in lexicon really started with
William Shakespeare and his play The Tempest, where the pickle
meant being drunk and being drunk, and it's obviously evaulved
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over the years has become in a difficult situation. But
in The Tempest, King Alonzo asked his gesture, how comest
thou in this pickle? Meaning how did you get so drunk? Okay,
the early meaning of pickle seventeenth century meaning pickled heavily intoxicated.
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And then over the years it became that you're in
a troublesome situation and you're being pickled, which is in
a difficult state. And in my modern times it means
to be in a difficulty awkward situation like a pickle
stuck in the jar, and that fermentation and all that.
So the idiom of the week in a pickle. You
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can in many ways think William Shakespeare and you want
to fall down a rabbit hole, and you got a
lot of time on your hands, just start searching phrases
from William Shakespeare that are still used today. It is
insane the amount of things that we say day to
day that either were popularized popularized by Shakespeare or or
(29:38):
he came up with on his own, next level, next level.
All right, we'll get out on that. Join the college
basketball today. I got to get some stuff moving around
here today, so I'll be be busy, busy, busy, Danny,
what are you going on here?
Speaker 3 (29:53):
Gonna watch Texas Tech at Florida and then Alabama at Duke.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
All right, watch some college basketball today. We'll be back
on Sunday with a mail bag. It's all about the mailbag.
Have a wonderful rest of your Saturday.
Speaker 3 (30:10):
Later, skater, my folation
Cut booms.
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.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
In the penthouse.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Wow to 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
Maller and Danny g Radio and a Happy Saturday to you.
We are sliding on in to a brand spanking new
day every days fresh Audio. We got the Overnight Show
during the week you yet that five days a week,
(00:49):
the Original Recipe podcast, which is the Overnight Show repackage
in the podcast, and then on the weekends you get
the Fifth Hour podcast. Danny's on with Covino and Rich
during the weekend. He joins me on the weekends, and
we formed Voltron here on Saturday, and normally we start
with some dope holiday and all that. But the Dodger
game last night with the Detroit Tigers, you shouldn't talk
(01:11):
about that. It's just one regular season game. It's game
number four. Nobody cares about game number five. Listen, that's fine.
You know the Dodgers at this point, as we as
we sit here early on Saturday morning, the Dodgers are
undefeated and they could be the first Dan I don't
think this is hyperbole, the first one hundred and sixty
(01:32):
two game winner. This could be it. This could be
an undefeated team during the regular season. But what a game.
The Detroit Tigers, who are supposed to be a playoff
team this season. They were a playoff team last year.
The Tigers and the Dodgers were up against it a
couple of times and then they end up winning it
(01:53):
in extra innings. Will Smith tied it and then Mookie Betts.
I thought Mookie had a parasite Danny? Is that what happened?
Speaker 3 (02:01):
I was told that he was on death's doorstep?
Speaker 1 (02:04):
Yeah? Can I get if I can hit home runs,
I'll take a pair of site. You lose weight and
hit home runs? What's up with that? Maybe he just
wanted to get out of Japan early. He had something
he had to do. But man, a couple of home
runs last night. So the Dodgers are Is it over?
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Now?
Speaker 1 (02:19):
What's the magic number? Do we know what the magic
number is for the Dodgers. We determined. Have we done
the math on that?
Speaker 3 (02:24):
Do you know the stat the last time the Dodgers
started a season four?
Speaker 1 (02:28):
And oh, I don't I remember they had I think
like Joe Tory was man. They had a really good
start with toy But well, I don't I didn't see
the stat.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
What was the stat? It was actually their nineteen eighty
one World Series title year.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Oh is it even? Well that was the sort of
Dodgers back in the day, Yes, back to the old school.
All right, well listen, they're they're doing great, but we
still have let's see we have we're not even April yet. Wow,
wonderful start. And it was weird though. I saw on
my phone got a message that Max Munsey hit a
(03:02):
home run. But it was the guy for the A's.
It wasn't the Dodgers.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
Max Munsei. Our Max Munsey in southern California is in
a slump.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
Yeah, yeah, well see, not everyone's gonna be playing well.
You got to pace it where like if Mookie's playing
well and Freddie Freeman and then they go into a
slump and then Munsey starts hitting. As long as you
have a couple guys that are hitting, you're gonna have
a couple guys in a slump. And that's the hot baseball.
Speaking of baseball, I did love you know, I just
(03:33):
I don't know if it's the podcast, but I saw
this story. The Tampa Bay Rays took the field on
Friday for their season opening game. They played the Rockies,
and you know who cares whatever it was at their
spring training the Yankee Spring Training Stadium and the broadcast
of Tampa Bay they the crowd MIC picked up the
(03:54):
fans serenading in the ballpark. Sell the team, which was
just outstanding. Just the ten out of ten out of ten.
It's your first broadcast, sell the team. Just uh, just wonderful.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
Anyway, last night I simultaneously had the Dodgers game on
and the Houston game as they were able to hang
on versus per Due.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
Yeah, I did. I was focused more on the Dodger game.
We actually went to uh Top Golf, which you know
you've you've been there. It's it's a fun fun thing
to fut's around. And there was mostly Dodgers. There weren't
too many people into the college basketball where I was,
and I was checking my phone.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
Are you more skilled at top golf or acts throwing?
Speaker 1 (04:47):
Well, I'm great at both, as you know. And I
don't believe some edited video. You know, some edited video clip.
You know that some dope tried to make me look bad.
It's probably AI was used in that and in the
minute so to meet and greet. But no, the top
golf thing. The only problem with top golf and I
talked about we went a few weeks back, or I
don't know, it's maybe been a couple of months. The
(05:08):
problem with top golf is it really depends on where
the bay is. It's a massive building, it's three or
four stories or whatever, so it depends what part of
the thing you're in the sight lines, and then you're
almost better off hitting it shorter and adding a lot
of points because if you hit it far, you got
(05:30):
to be more accurate. So there's a lot goes into it.
This is not that easy. But I won that. We
played a couple of rounds and I won both. But
I was like, I was terrible for most of it,
but I just hit a couple of good shots and
I was able to pull it out. But normally in
the past that has not not been the case as
far as the Sweet sixteen though, the number one, number
(05:55):
one seeds both winning last night. Right, so we have
Auburn one, Houston one. So all the higher seeds won
last night and we have the Elite eight. You're not
a gambler, right then? You know? You know bet on
these things, right, you know?
Speaker 3 (06:11):
No, I mean I pay attention to it for the
sake of talking about it on the radio, but yeah,
I don't actually put any of my real money on it.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
Yeah, well you've got all that radio money, you know what.
You know, you're so loaded.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
Hey, come on, man, I'm gonna have to put go
through school. I'm gonna put him through cal State Northrage.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
There you go, El Matador, all matter. So what do
we have we have today? What is the card today?
We've got trying to think the Elite eight? So we
have what do we got? Texas Tech and the Duchies?
What's that?
Speaker 3 (06:45):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (06:46):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (06:46):
Do? And we you know we got the Duchies playing, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
The Sunday Games, the games tomorrow. Yet Auburn is five
and a half over Michigan State and Houston is four
and a half over Tennessee. I don't I don't see
the duke line. I do see a Florida Florida and
Texas Tech. Florida is a six and a half point
favorite in that game. I did want a couple of
(07:11):
things I want to bring up later on. We'll have
the idiom of the week. We got these Sports Talk Airbnb,
Bottomless fro Yo and the travel quagmire. The travel quagmire
always a fun always a fun thing. But we'll begin
with this. I should have mentioned this yesterday. Bad job
by me. I got carried away with baseball props on
(07:34):
the Friday podcast, so I did not bring this up.
But the big story that we men everyone talking about this.
It was the talk of the town. People were so excited.
The Fox Sports Radio Alumni Association, one of the newest
members of the Fox Sports Radio Alumni Association, made the
(07:54):
rare and appropriate visit back to the Holy Land, and
we welcome back our Fred, Eddie the Great Eddie Garcia
stop by and.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
I saw the photos you posted.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Yeah, yeah, we took some photos and stuff and Sirius
Sean was with him. And so it was the Sports
Talk Airbnb in beautiful Sherman Oaks, and it was wonderful
to see Eddie and a number of people reached out
to me, fans of the show, and they were like,
what's going on? How did this happen? What led to this?
(08:28):
Did you reach out to Eddie? Did Eddie reach out
to you? What happened? And so I'll let you in
on behind the scenes a little bit. Uh. First, I
want to I want to thank the management of Fox
Sports Radio because they could have been like total dicks
and been like, you know, you can't let Eddie back in.
What are you doing? You know? None of that.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
They were, Yeah, you might bulkar race all of the
desktop computers.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
Yeah, yeah, something unforeseen might happen. Yeah, if he can
get into those those computers, the top computers from like
nineteen ninety four and really really messing. But but but no,
they were they were cool and.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
Tape.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
Yeah, exactly exactly, So none of those concerns happened. But
but no, the reason Eddie was there is mainly because
of Sirias Sean. So Siaus Sean is all grown up.
He lives in Phoenix. But Sean has been a super
fan of the show going back. It's been man, it's
(09:26):
been like ten years or so.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
And thanks to you, we're all super fans. Of his
delivery service. Oh, that's right, Sean, to see where he's
delivering all his food.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
Yeah, I had to explain to Sean. He said, what
do you call me that name? Mister non secret or whatever.
I had to explain to him, but made me nauseous.
But no, But so Sean started listening to He was
in high school, and you know, a tough high school
sucks for everybody's for some people, it sucks more than
other people. And Sean got picked on a lot in
high school and people were total assholes to him. And
(09:59):
so he loved our show. And one of his teachers
actually hooked us up with Sean to come visit the studio,
and we loved hanging out with him, and we brought
him into our little world. And Sean moved on from
that and he's all. He left La. He lives in
Phoenix and he delivers, as Danny referenced, he delivers food,
(10:22):
drives car service Phoenix.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
Hey, that was cool. I'll never forget when he came
to the studio. You want to talk about somebody in
the presence of what they considered Disneyland, he did not
want to leave. Yeah, that's the most blown away I've
seen any visitor.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
And Danny it made us feel important. You know, sometimes
you're there and.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
You're in the middle.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
You know, you're in the what's the line, you're in
the forest, you can't see the trees, you know you're
you're in there, and you just to see him mesmerized
and hypnotized by the studio and just like everything in
the building. And he was so excited, he was dancing,
and it was like it was really cool. It's a
magical place for him. And so that was neat. That
was neat. And so we've kept in contact with Sean,
(11:07):
and as I said, Sean lives in Phoenix now, and
so he comes back to southern California a couple of
times a year, and since we're buddies since he was
in high school, we always try to welcome him back
in because it means so much to him to come
see the show and to be part of the show
and all that, and so we make sure to welcome
him in. And then now that Eddie's unfortunately not with us,
(11:27):
and you know, he's still alive, but just not.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
On the show.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
He's Sean's really good friends with Eddie. Maybe a little
too close to Eddie. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
But anyway, so edd Doc Jim, I heard, no, no,
the paperwork go through.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
Sean follows Eddie around like a puppy dog. It's amazing.
But but anyway, so Sean was pestering Eddie, how about
shut up to get my schedule because after Doc Mike
my neurosis from Doc Mike, where Doc I give him
his number. I gave him my number when he went
to jail, and Doc still calls me regularly. Even though
I said, only call me one time when you get
(12:05):
out of jail, he still calls me. So I don't
give out my number. I'm very very rare. A couple
of times I've done it rare and appropriate, but I
generally don't do it. So Sean doesn't serious. Sean does
not have my number. So Eddie reached out to me
on behalf of serious Shawn. He said, hey, Sean's going
to be you know, in town. He wants to come
by and see it. And I said that's great, And
(12:25):
he said, why why don't you Why don't you come
with him, we'll hang out, you know, And Eddie's like, well,
you know sure, And Eddie goes to bed early. Now
he doesn't work the late hours. He does not have
the the odds schedule that we overnight people have. And
but Eddie was cool with it. He wanted to come on,
and I said, yeah, come on, you can promote whatever
(12:45):
you want to promote. He's got a new podcast that
he's starting, a hockey podcast next month that he wanted
to promote. And so yeah, I mean, I'm sure there's
plenty of you know, plenty of ways you can can
go about this.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
You can listen to any of Canadians listening.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
Yes, exactly, exactly. So so that's kind of the origin.
It's because of serious Sean and and Eddie was nice
enough to come in there and hang out and was
it was really nice to see him. And you know,
he's doing as good as can be expected under the
conditions and all that he's he's loving all the hockey podcasts.
He's doing three, well, starting next month, he'll be doing
(13:22):
three hockey podcasts. And so you can find that where
you find this podcast. And so thanks to Siria Sean
and then I had to explain to Sean. Sean had
no idea. I said, he was annoyed every time he
would post about Hey, I made ten dollars tip. You know,
I took this package to and Sean would be annoyed
(13:43):
because I'd say, you're mister non secutor guy or man
or whatever, and I don't know what that means, you know.
And so I then had to explain to him that
the non sequitors that we're talking about one thing and
you bring up something that is not related at all,
a non sequitur. And I explained it to him, Danny,
(14:06):
and I still am ninety eight percent sure he had
no idea what I was saying. But I did explain
it to him. I did explain it to him. It
just kind of like went in one ear and out
the other. The other thing about Siria Sean is this guy.
He loves radio, and he loves the train. He loves Amtrak.
He takes the train from Phoenix to la He's taking
(14:27):
the train all the way to the East coast, He's
taking it up to the northwest, Pacific Northwest. So he
loves radio and Amtrak. He should have been born much earlier, right.
Imagine if Sean had been around when radio ruled the roost,
like in the nineteen thirties or something like that, before
before television he could have taken trains and listened to
(14:47):
the radio and it would have been amazing. That would
have been his life and it would.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
Have been a huge Lone Ranger fan too.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
Yes, yes, see Tonto and all that. Anyway, but it
was fun and then Sean the night ended, Eddie went
his way, and we'll have Eddie on again and all that,
and it was nice. It was not a bottomless fro
yo though. It was not that Danny, definitely not that.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
Yeah. Well I didn't get a bottomless fro yo either.
What I did get was a big dent to my
debit card. I'm gonna blame this one on the wife.
As I usually get home around seven pm after doing
post production for Covino and Rich and then sitting in
beautiful bumper to bumper traffic in Los Angeles, I get
(15:36):
a text message usually and it'll say something like I'm
really craving frozen yogurt. Not a big deal. It's like
two exits off my path, so I have to continue
to go north to get to the yogurt land here
in our area. Now, Benny, we've talked about it, you know,
so much throughout the past few years, especially on the
(15:58):
podcast inflation and how much food is right now groceries.
Price at groceries sucks. Should you go sit down at
Chili's or should you go through a drive through? Or
should you get two bags of groceries for one hundred
and fifteen dollars? You know, for two little bags.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
I was at the story the other day I bought
I bought a bag of like free do's and it
was like six dollars and forty cents or I mean
for one little half a bag of chips. It was crazy.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
Oh, it's ridiculous right now. One of the stops I
made breakfast stuff we needed to like sour dough and
the thing of peanut butter, and it was like four
or five random items we needed self checkout and the
total said like thirty two dollars. And I'm like, I
fucking have four or five things right here. Price is
(16:49):
killing us all over the country right now, Little taste,
there aren't any sweets inside the house, so you know,
we'll chop up bananas, strawberry, We'll put some granola on
the froyo at home to save money. All I do
is I get one big cup and I do the swirl.
I get the froyo in the cup. They put it
(17:11):
on the scale, and it's not the cheapest treat, but
it's usually not what it was a couple of evenings ago. Okay,
this is just a cup of froyo that I could
split in half. How much was that froyo? Don't pull
an eddie.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
I'm not going to pull an eddie. My lips have
been on it all right, five fifty Yeah.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
Maybe in the year two thousand and eight it was
eighteen dollars and fifty eight cents.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
Wait, so you eat it was nine over nine dollars each. Wow,
you could still buy couldn't you buy a gallon of
ice cream or something like that?
Speaker 3 (17:51):
Froyo is healthier than ice cream. Yeah, don't eat ice cream. Yeah.
The only that's the only dessert we get once in
a while is frozen yok We're gonna have to think
about it twice now, because as I was driving home,
I was thinking to myself, did I really almost pay
nineteen dollars? Right now? Frozen yogurt?
Speaker 1 (18:11):
You get some little gold toppings or something like that,
or diamond toppings.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
It was just frozen yogurt, So.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
You didn't get any topics.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
I mean in any that only we'd say in a nutshell,
We'll say in a frozen yogurt cup. That explains the
situation right now, with all these places gouging us.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
You're better off just buying your own frozen yogurt machine
for the house and renty and then you can have
it whenever you want and you'll you'll save money. That
is that is insane? Is that just an LA thing?
That Maybe that's a valley pricing thing. You know, you're
you're not far from the Kardashians. Maybe it's because of them.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
A bunch of hookers and cocaine.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
That's wild.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
I took a note of it, and I was like, man,
I gotta do the guessing game with Ben on this one.
He's not gonna come close. Took a snapshot of the
receipt and I'm gonna save that now for my accountant.
At the end of the year, I'm gonna write this
yogurt off.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
That's good And because of this podcast, it's a business
related expense. And that's the reason I'll be starting a
travel vlog, just so I can write off all of
my travel expenses. We're going to do a YouTube channel
of just me traveling. What whenever I go anywhere, and
then it's all it's all gonna be a tax right off,
So the travel quagmire. It is that time of the year.
(19:33):
We're almost into April. This is the final Saturday show
of the Fifth Hour in the month of March, and
the last Saturday because there are no worse Saturdays in
the month of March. And so nonetheless, look at looking
around at the calendar, trying to map out when the
weather gets good and where we're gonna end up and
mallard meet and greets and travel and seeing family and
(19:54):
whatnot and friends, and so I'm trying to logistically plan
out how far in between events I would like to
have these things, because you want to map everything. It's
all about planning, right. I love it when a plan
comes together. So we have an event scheduled, although not booked.
(20:15):
I'm not going to give the exact details, but it's
going to be in late May early June in Vancouver,
so we will be in Vancouver. Barring some kind of
unforeseen change in circumstance, we will be in Vancouver in
late May early June. That like that last weekend where
(20:36):
it crosses over. So that's the plan. That's the plan.
And then after that, I want to get to Ohio.
I have been promising this and we've done very well.
The podcast number two state behind California for downloads has
been recently Ohio with a lot of listeners, and so
(20:57):
I wanted to go. And the main reason I'm going
to go is because, Yeah, I'm going to see Dick.
I'm gonna gonna hang out with Dick in Ohio. And
he's been much like Sirias Sean, will as much as
you can handle, but no, no, so so Sirias Sean,
(21:18):
as you referenced Danny, just that that sparkle in his
eye when he walked into the radio station, you know,
just a magical just a magical place, and how special
that was. And Dick and Dayton, who's much older than
Sirious Shawn Sean's just early on in his life. But
Dick and Dayton, he looks at radio the same way.
(21:39):
It just ignites something in him, you know, it just
makes him happy, just makes him happy. And I I'd
love to meet him. He's called me for years. I've
talked to this guy probably for twenty years now while
he's called the show. And I'll never forget some of
those early calls when I was doing the weekend show
and I worked every holiday, and he called me up
(22:00):
on Thanksgiving and he is so happy as could be.
You know, no family, no friends, just me and he'd
call us up and I had Thanksgiving dinner and how
much you spend deck five dollars? Five dollars for Thanksgiving dinner?
He was so excited about it. So no, but I
want to meet him. I want to meet Justin in Cincinnati,
just Josh ohioil like all the legends that are in
(22:22):
the state of Ohio. Some of you guys I've met.
We had a few dudes came out to Vegas and
various other meet and greets that we've had. So I'm
planning on getting to oh Hi, and I'm thinking it's
going to be sometime in June. I have a date
in my head. I'm not going to give it out
right now, so I'm trying to figure out the logistics.
We need a venue, and we need a date and
(22:44):
a venue. So there's a gentleman who is a big
fan of the Fifth Hour podcast. In fact, he sends
us stories right about the stories from the bar and
things that happened and whatnot, and we enjoy those stories.
We think those are those are good stories, and they're
fun for the podcast and all that. And so he
(23:06):
is offered. He runs a restaurant in Columbus, and he's like, hey,
we're let's make this happen. You know, we got an
establishment here. His name Zach, and he's been very kind
and very popular bar in Columbus. He's the big shot,
he's the big cheese over there, and it's a hockey bar.
(23:28):
And he's like, hey, well, why don't you, you know, come down,
we'll hang out, we'll have a good time and all
that stuff. So I want to do it, but I'm
looking to try to get from and I talked about
this in the previous episode of this podcast. Logistically, to
get from LA to Columbus, there are no direct flights,
which is I'm not a bougie bitch. I can stop somewhere, right, Danny.
(23:50):
I'm able to stop somewhere. In fact, I actually like
stopping because it breaks up the flight. What I don't
like is stopping and then having enough time to eat
two meals at an airport because the next flight is
six seven hours later.
Speaker 3 (24:06):
I don't need you want the you want the layover
to be about an hour hour and a half max.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
Exactly, time to get out of the plane, take a whiz,
maybe get something to eat if you know, I don't eat,
but the wife or whatever eats, and then move on
to the next plane. The logistics are terrible because there's
no direct flights to Columbus, and I could fly into Columbus,
or I could fly into Cincinnati, which is a little easier,
but then you got to drive from Cincinnati to Columbus.
(24:34):
Or I could fly into Cleveland and then go down
to Columbus. But either way it's a lot of driving.
It's a lot of driving.
Speaker 3 (24:41):
Now, are the two iHeart private jets not available for
these dates?
Speaker 1 (24:45):
Well, it's funny you bring that up, and I did
try to get that, but apparently your buddy Clay has
it one of them, and then I believe Seacrest has
the other one, and then and I'm not even third,
by the way, I think Steve Harvey has He's next
line if one of those opened up. Unfortunately. Yeah, yeah,
it's it's sad. So anyway, that's where I met, and
(25:06):
I've I did ask for some help from someone in Ohio.
If there was another location, maybe in Cincinnati or Cleveland.
At this point, I did get an email from another
big fan of the show who say, Hey, I you
know I live. I live in Toledo. Why don't you
just fly into Detroit. You can drive down to Toledo
(25:29):
and then it's close enough to everywhere you need to be.
So I looked into that, and so I'm still I'm
still debating what's gonna happen, and I don't have anything
official on that. I'm just basically venting, Danny. That's really
what I'm doing here. I'm just basically venting.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
You know. By the way, Russia Limbaugh's ashes are fourth in.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
Line, as they should be, Megadiddo's as they with one
ash tied behind its back. Yes, but but no. Brian
was the very nice gentleman who I kicked his ass
at scrabble. I believe he's given up at scrabble. I've
beaten him so bad. And he was very kind, and
(26:12):
he said he knows some people with the mud Hens,
and you know, maybe there and be something there and
and I could even go to like a mud Hens game,
which will be kind of cool. I actually have a
Mudheads hat that's in my my rotation. And it's an
old hat. It's the it's the classic mud actually a
listener from Ohios and it's a classic mud Hens hat
they used to wear on this show called mash back
(26:33):
in the Stone Age and all that. So that's the
travel quagmire. So basically it's just me complaining and I
haven't figured it out. I'll let you know when we
come up with a with a date and all that.
The idiom of the week. Are you ready for the
idiom of the.
Speaker 3 (26:48):
Week of the week? All right?
Speaker 1 (26:52):
This one requested by Steve O. That's not Steve. It
says Steve O. STEVEO is in the Great State of Arizona.
I assume he's in Phoenix because or the Phoenix area,
because that's where most people in Arizona live. But he
did not say Steve BO. He just said Steve OO
(27:13):
from Arizona. So I'll just assume Phoenix. And if I'm wrong,
I'm wrong, who cares? So he says, use this from
time to time on the show in a pickle And
where did that come from? I'd like you to tell
me the story, says Steve O. Big fan of the
Overnight show and occasional I like, how about this daddy
occasional Fifth Hour listener. I hope he's listening, Steve, I
(27:37):
hope you're listening anyway. In a pickle, which I think
is pretty obvious that you're in an awkward, tough situation. Now,
I think I've used this STEVEO in the past, but
maybe not. I feel like I've used this on this
podcast in the past, but possibly not. And this is
also a tribute to alf the alien opiner who loves pickles.
(28:01):
It's one of the weak spots. He's really good in
every other area other than his love of pickles. So
the in a pickle phrase in lexicon really started with
William Shakespeare and his play The Tempest, where the pickle
meant being drunk and being drunk, and it's obviously evaulved
(28:24):
over the years has become in a difficult situation. But
in The Tempest, King Alonzo asked his gesture, how comest
thou in this pickle? Meaning how did you get so drunk? Okay,
the early meaning of pickle seventeenth century meaning pickled heavily intoxicated.
(28:48):
And then over the years it became that you're in
a troublesome situation and you're being pickled, which is in
a difficult state. And in my modern times it means
to be in a difficulty awkward situation like a pickle
stuck in the jar, and that fermentation and all that.
So the idiom of the week in a pickle. You
(29:12):
can in many ways think William Shakespeare and you want
to fall down a rabbit hole, and you got a
lot of time on your hands, just start searching phrases
from William Shakespeare that are still used today. It is
insane the amount of things that we say day to
day that either were popularized popularized by Shakespeare or or
(29:38):
he came up with on his own, next level, next level.
All right, we'll get out on that. Join the college
basketball today. I got to get some stuff moving around
here today, so I'll be be busy, busy, busy, Danny,
what are you going on here?
Speaker 3 (29:53):
Gonna watch Texas Tech at Florida and then Alabama at Duke.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
All right, watch some college basketball today. We'll be back
on Sunday with a mail bag. It's all about the mailbag.
Have a wonderful rest of your Saturday.
Speaker 3 (30:10):
Later, skater, my folation
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