August 21, 2026 • 33 mins
One random night watching a Yankees and Orioles game somehow turned Ben Maller into the executive producer and kingpin of "The Maller Matchmaker: Friend Edition," a completely spontaneous and unnecessary adventure some 2,300-miles away from the People's Republic of California, co-starring Marlins Man and Sports With Coleman. Because when you see Marlins Man behind home plate, naturally the next move is to start meddling in people’s lives. Along the way, Ben plays the adult version of Where’s Waldo?, while Bob Uecker, Don King, Casey Kasem-style “long-distance dedications,” and the Pentagon somehow wander into the story. Sure, why not? Then there’s the important historical investigation nobody requested: What clothing item did President Truman, Elvis Presley, Tom Selleck, and Jimmy Buffett help make popular? We also squeeze in the Atari 2600, Jonestown, and the philosophical dilemma that has tortured mankind for generations: What exactly qualifies as Kool-Aid? It’s Friday’s Fifth Hour — a perfectly normal podcast made by perfectly normal people, unless it's not.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Kabbooms.
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 sore fashion of fairness. He
treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the
rich pill poppers in the penthouse. Wow, it's a clearinghouse
of hot takes. Break free for something special. The Fifth
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Hour with Ben Mahller starts right now.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
In the air everywhere. The Fifth Hour with Me, Ben
Mahler and you know who you are. We are united
again on the Friday podcast. This not to be confused
with the original recipe podcast. No No, No, Praise the Heavens.
This is the add on item if you are a
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Malard Plus subscriber. Wink wink, nod nod. Unlike Wayne the
Curmudgeon in du Luth, we gave you special access to
this a little earlier. It is the two hundred and
thirty third day of the year. There are my computer,
like brain tells me, one hundred and thirty two days
left in the calendar year. And as you likely saw
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already if you read the description of this podcast, it's
the Malor Matchmaker Edition. Not what you might think. Not
what you might think. So we'll have that, and if
we have time, we will get to some other things
that we have on our agenda, including drinking the kool
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aid yet again. I feel like we do this every week.
We'll do it yet again, and who knows what else
we begin. Though, in a land far far away, there
is a magical kingdom called Baltimore. Okay, so a magical
kingdom likely is over selling Baltimore. I have not spent
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any time in Baltimore. I know a lot about it,
I just haven't spent any time there. I understand there
is no Cinderella Castle. I don't think you'll find the
enchanted forest in the suburbs of Baltimore. There's no talking
tea cups. There is Camden Yards. I do want to
get the Camden Yards at some point looks like a
beautiful place to watch a baseball game. I know the
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crabcakes or legendary the Old Bay seasoning. Kentucky Fried Chicken
talks about eleven herbs and spices. Well, how about the
blend of eleven herbs and spices that they have the
Old Bay seasoning which goes back, way way way back,
and a lot of people. When you watch a baseball game,
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a lot of people wearing enough orange to make a
traffic cone feel like they're underdressed. So there's a lot
of that in Baltimore, and on this particular night the
other night, while the New York Yankees and the Baltimore Orioles,
we're playing a major league game in the American League East,
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in this magical kingdom. I was roughly two thousand, three
hundred miles away at the Malor Mansion in the north Woods,
minding my own business as I normally do, lying on
the sofa. I had made some tacos, crunchy tacos the
top taco as my meal, and I was doing what
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I do pretty much every day, trying to take over
the world, preparing to do an overnight sports talk radio show.
And my dog, Moxie, my beloved English bulldog, was asleep
across my legs, not worried about anything, snoring away, farting,
occasionally doing it at the same time. This is my world.
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You hear about some of the legends of all time.
I remember when I was in school, and I didn't
really pay attention much in school except when they talked
about broadcasting and that world, and Walter Kronkite had a newsroom.
You know that news mean there's a whole journalism department
at Arizona State named after Walter Kronkai right, had the newsroom.
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Edward R. Murrow had a cigarette in his mouth and
a microphone. I have a taco and a bulldog with flatulence.
That's my world. And somehow from this rather unique command center,
I was about to become the Wizard of Oz of
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Camden Yards. Say what, Just imagine in the back they're
pulling levers from behind the curtain, bringing two complete strangers
together without ever leaving my sofa. A modern miracle, as
Don King, the boxing promoter back in the day, used
to say, only in America, Only in America. Now. It
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started with a simple message, my radio buddy, Sports with Coleman,
Yes that Sports with Coleman, Jerry Cole, epic freeloader, epic
media freeloader, renaissance man, Baltimore Media mogul, podcast guru man
about Town, someone who I consider a good radio friend
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and also who happens to be a personal friend of
Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson. Unless that's not exactly the case,
And so I'll get random messages. I'll send Jerry random messages.
He sends me a message on the text from Camden
Yards a photo of that beautiful warehouse. And so we're
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going back and forth, and we were talking about the
magic Box, and so that came up, and he asked
if I was watching the Orioles game versus the Yankees.
I was not. I was watching another game. So naturally,
because somebody two three hundred miles away asked, if you're
watching something, what do you think I did? Ding ding
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ding ding dingy. Yeah, I turned it on. I think
that's how television works in the modern days. You don't
decide what to watch. Somebody texts you and as signs homework.
So I flip on the game and immediately begin playing
one of my favorite games. You may remember Where's Waldough?
Now that's for little kids. I'm a grown ass man.
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I'm a grown I'm more advanced. I'm an adult. I
talk about sports for a living. So I play my version,
and I've played this for several years. Where in the
world is Marlin's Man? Not to be confused with Where's Waldough?
This is a much better version. Where in the world
is Marlins Man? It's played every baseball season from April
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all the way through the World Series. Every baseball game,
and I watch a lot of baseball. Every baseball game
I watch every single time. I like clockwork, I scan
the first two or three rows right behind home play
looking for this middle aged or slightly older than middle
aged gentleman and you know, very charitable to me. And
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a man wearing an orange Miami Marlin's shirt and his signature,
Marlin's Visor, Marlin's Man. He's got the glasses, the whole thing.
So he he shows up in orange like he's trying
to see you know, if anybody cannot see him, even
the blind can see him like he's He's essentially like
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the International Space station. That's what I'm trying to say,
right and there is there is, except here's the problem.
The hardest place to play my game where in the
world is Marlin's Man. There's two places that are very difficult,
Baltimore and San Francisco. And in Baltimore it really is
the perfect place for Marlin's Man to hide. Everybody is
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wearing orange. He's essentially camouflaged because of the ballpark and
the outfits everyone's wearing. He's like a chameleon. And it's
like trying to find Waldo at a convention of people
dressed as Waldo. Well, it becomes a lot harder to
find Waldough when everyone's wearing a Waldo costume. But I
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spotted him thanks to the byfocals that I wear. Of
course I spotted him. I have no discernible practical skills.
I don't, but apparently I can locate Marlin's Man on
television two thousand miles away through the magic of the
boob tube. And so now, for those unfamiliar, we'd like
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to pause this broadcast. For those unfamiliar with the legend
of Marlin's Man, his legal name is Lawrence, and call
him Marlin's Man or Lawrence. And he's somebody that I
met because of the radio show. Yeah, is it true?
Is it true that the legend that is Marlin's Man
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is a p one? A p one, a fan, a
listener of late night sports radio. Now, back in the day,
he'd be driving around late nights in Miami, all those
hot spots in South Florida, and he would be cruising
with the Ben Maler Show on the local radio airwaves
there in South Florida. And I was introduced to Marlon's
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Man through a mutual friend who had worked in TV
in Los Angeles, and I was like, oh, yeah, okay.
He said, yeah, the guy he's a fan of yours
or whatever. I thought, okay, fine. And I remember telling
Eddie Garcia when Eddie used to work on the show
before he was decommissioned unfortunately. And I remember talking to Eddie,
and you know, we were going over the whole thing
and all that, and I said, Eddie, this guy's a
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fan of the show, and he said, I, he's not.
Eddie was convinced I was lying. He always thought I
was lying. Why would I lie about that? Seriously, of
all the things to lie about in life, there's a
lot of things to lie about. Why would you lie
about that? If I were inventing celebrity listeners, wouldn't I go?
And not that there's anything against marlins Man. I love
marlins Man, but why would I not go higher than that?
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Why I say, hey, Eddie, George Clooney loved Our three
last night. I thought it was really good. And Brad
pitt Enjoys pucked the world. Yeah, you pucking idiot, you
know you mother pucker that No, I picked Marlin's Man
right or he picked me, but it was true. And
Lawrence does listen to the show. Every time I'm run
into him. I've been fortunate enough. He's invited me to
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sit next to him at Dodger games a few times
over the years, and Lawrence listens to the show. He'll
ask questions about the show. You know, he doesn't think
the show is good without Eddie. I agree with him.
I agree with him. And he'll travel around the country
sitting behind home played at major sporting events, and he's
always right there and typically does the national TV games
on Fox and NBC and all that, and it's great.
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You know, he's essentially living the life Bob Uker dreamed
of when I was like nine years old, those Miller
Lite commercials. I must be in the front room. Well
it turns out Marlin's Man actually is in the front row. Now. Meanwhile,
I'm in the back row of the Malor mansion in
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the living room and I'm watching the game, and suddenly
I noticed Lawrence. He gets up to leave. I'm like,
what the hell's going on? So I did what anyone
would do. I text him, said, where are you going?
Where do you think you are going. I don't see you,
you know, because apparently i'm his mother. Now it's only
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around the fourth inning. You don't leave your seat. This
is a very expensive seat. You don't leave your seat
like that at the fourth inning. You can't leave. There's
baseball happening. People paid money for this. You paid money
for this. So he text me back, going to get
a nice sandwich at a deli. There's a good deli
apparently at Camden Yards. That's what he said. Okay, So
now I'm monitoring another adult sandwich movements from my malar
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compound in southern California. Guys wandering around the ballpark there
in Maryland. And you see, this is where technology has
taken us. Okay. Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone, and
somewhere along the way it became so advanced that it
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allows a middle age slightly above that bald radio dope
to lie underneath an English bulldog and track a Pastrami
sandwich and matzabal soup. Itinerary of a man dressed like
a highway construction barrel out there on the road in Baltimore.
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That's called progress. Now at this point, I am texting
sports with Coleman, I'm texting marlins Man. We're both we're
going back, all three of us again on both of us.
All three of us are going back and forth. They
happen to be they happen to be at the same
baseball game. They don't know each other, and suddenly, for
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some reason this bothers me, like why, I have no idea,
but I decided to turn this into the Malard Matchmaker
Friend Edition, the Malord Matchmaker Friend Edition. So I text
Jerry Sports with Coleman. I say, hey, Marlin's Man is
at the game, and he knows, of course one of
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his friends ran into marlins Man. Of course he knows.
Jerry knows everything that goes on in Baltimore. He knows
where all the bodies are buried, he knows where the
gold Bouyon is hidden. He knows everything and everybody. However,
he's not marlins Man, right, and he doesn't know Marlin's Man.
And the guy dresses like a traffic cone and sits
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behind home plate. As we've said, so I asked Jerry
via text, would you like to meet marlins Man? And
Jerry's like, he took me a little while to get back,
took him a little while to get back. He says, sure.
Then I text Lawrence aka Marlins Man. I said, Hey,
would you like to meet my buddy Jerry. He's a
big media bogul in Baltimore. We are personal friend of
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Lamar Jackson. Bl I can to do a whole spiel. Sure,
why not? And suddenly I am two thousand, three hundred
miles as the crow flies away from Baltimore in LA
and I am like a long distance landlord who lost
the keys. Wai La presto, razzle dazzle time it happened.
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And here's the crazy part. I was able to watch
this interaction play out on live television, thinking about that.
I am sitting on my sofa again. Moxie is on
my legs. The tacos I'm eating. My dignity disappeared years ago,
and on the magic box in row three, right behind
home plate as the Yankees are pitching to the Orioles
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at Camden Yards, Marlin's man is holding court with my
palace sports with Coleman and it's all happening on TV
taking screenshots. I'm taking photos of this. They connected, you know,
we know how this works for me In California. I'm
not saying I'm powerful. I'm not. However, this is basically
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the Pentagon for spur of the moment, meet and greets
thousands of miles away in Maryland. There should have been
a giant map on my living room wall missed opportunity
here with little red lights blinking. Yeah, just like that,
and Jerry Coleman approaching from the concourse. Lawrence aka marlins Man,
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of course, has banded the Delhi. Operation orange Visor is
a go. Operation orange Visor is a go. Repeat, Operation
orange Visor is a go. And while all this international diplomacy,
well it's actually just American diplomacy, all of this was
taking place, there was an actual baseball game going on. Yeah,
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this happened to be the game the other night, Oriols
Yankees game where Pete Alonzo the Polar Bail Polar Bear
Polar Bear hit that controversial home run that somehow wasn't
a home run. Michael and Tulsa knows it was home run,
and Malard prop guy knows this as a home so
it's ferg Dog and Alf. They know it was home run,
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but it wasn't home run because the three blind mice
who addresses umpires ruled at foul even though everyone watching
the television could see the ball was fair. That is
Major League Baseball replay technology is what. That is high
definition cameras, ball tracking. They got the super duper computers
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over there that work all day and all night, dugout iPads.
They can probably tell you the launch angle, the exit
V low, and the astrological sign of a mosquito leaving
Camden Yards and filing a complaint with the cockroaches for
not paying. And yet somehow, some way they could not
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figure out whether a baseball hit by Pete Alonzo went
fair over the foul pole or foul over the foul pole. Meanwhile,
I located two people in Row three from my sofa
in California, so maybe, just maybe I should run the
replay center. But shortly, shortly before the controversy, they were
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again Coleman and Marlon's Man schmoozing. These worlds colliding, and
they both sent photos at the same time, at almost
the exact same time as they were talking. And I'm
watching them talk on TV, I'm seeing them take the photos,
and I then see the photos on my phone. What
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in the world Apparently I was the topic of conversation.
This scares me. I don't know what was said. Was
it good? Was it bad? Was it ugly? Was there
a scouting report? Yeah? Malard's okay. But have you noticed
he repeats himself a lot. He does repeat himself. He
definitely repeats himself. And those who am I game and
ista trivia things, those are lame. Those are lame. And
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what about that hollering James? Is that guy real? This
is what happens when you introduce people immediately, at least
for me, you become paranoid about what they're saying when
you're not there. And I'm like, well, I created this
mess and now I'm excluded from it. It's like Frankenstein's
Monster with baseball tickets. And apparently though the conversation went
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very well, very well, phone numbers were exchanged. From what
I understand, a friendship was born. So they're friends now.
So now we're all friends. I guess I don't even know.
Like they talked for a few minutes, It wasn't that long.
They exchanged numbers and it's twenty twenty six. That might
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qualify as a domestic partnership. This is the bromance nobody
asked for. A beautiful baseball disaster Coleman schmoozing with Marlin's Man.
It's like an episode of The Bachelor, mid Atlantic Friends Edition. Okay,
two blokes bonding over absolutely nothing, and the Malard militia knows.
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If you're part of the malle Militia, you've got to
be part of it. If you're listening to the Fifth
Hour podcast, this is exactly the kind of chaos that
we love. Playing friend Matchmaker from La La Land is
like trying to grill a steak through FaceTime. There's absolutely
no reason it should work, and yet somehow you eat.
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Dinner is served. Now we find out whether this friendship
has staying power over time, and it's possible that they
will become lifelong pals. It could be maybe they'll go
to games together. When Marlin's Man returns Sports with Coleman
and Marlin's Man will be sitting together. They can exchange
holiday cards, right, you get a Hana Kak card, You
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get a Hana Kak card, you get a New Year's card,
you get a New Year's card, Happy thanks heaving. Or
maybe they never speak to each other again, and six
months from now, my buddy Sports with Coleman is scrolling
through his contacts on his phone and sees Marlin's man
and thinks, why the hell do I have that? What
is that about? I don't understand, you know, And maybe
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this meetup becomes a podcast episode nobody would ever want
or download. I think we're in the process of finding
out if that's true right now on this podcast, which
seemingly is all about this. But whatever happens, I am
taking credit. Absolutely. People introduce couples who eventually get married,
and thirty years later somebody gives a toast about the
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person who brought them together. Now, this is obviously not
that they're just friends, you know, you know, the bromance. However,
a friend in need is a friend. Indeed, why shouldn't
I get something? Maybe a plaque. I'd like a plaque,
A box of trucklets, pastrami samwich from that deli. That
would be pretty good. Why not? So there you go,
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I just by happenstance, brought these two people together. I
didn't even have to put shoes on, didn't have to
take a shower, just laid on the sofa. That's not
too shabby, especially considering what was actually happening back at
Mission Control. Again, I was not sitting in some high
tech TV studio. For those of you that have fast
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forwarded through the podcast, I didn't have nineteen monitors in
a headset. I was just relaxing. I was lounging, and
I had Moxie sleeping and farting. I was eating my
supper and watching baseball, preparing for the radio show, and
apparently conducting long distance friendship negotiations between two grown men
in Baltimore. It's like, I imagine. I'm sure it's not
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like this, but in my head, it's like being in
the war room at the Pentagon if the Pentagon had
salsustains on the coffee table. And then it hit me,
what in the web? All of a sudden, I had
become part of a low budget ripoff America Top forty
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with the legend Casey Kaseum, the greatest DJ who ever lived,
who I almost killed in a Premiere network's accident that
I avoided because of my slithery likability, the king of
the long distant dedication. Yes, Casey Casum, the long distance dedication.
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Casey would read these beautiful letters about people separated by
thousands of miles in the days before Wi Fi, Love lost, heartbreak, destiny,
somebody stationed overseas requesting a special song for their sweetheart
waiting back home. Meanwhile, my long distance dedication involved Marlin's
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Man sports would call me, went an Oriels game, a
controversial pee Alnzo home run that wasn't because of the
foul poll, a Deli sandwich, and a bulldog committing chemical
warfare in my face, and close enough, close enough. So
tonight's long distance dedication goes to Lawrence aka Marlin's Man
and his new buddies sports with Coleman in Baltimore. May
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your friendship flourish, May there be many free Pastromi sandwiches
out there, and may Marlin's Man forever remain in the
front row. And most importantly, may neither one of you
ever reveal exactly what was said about me, because some
things are better left two three hundred something miles away.
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And as the Great Casey Casum used to say, rest
in peace, Casey, keep your feet on the ground and
keep reaching for the stars. And if you happen to
see a guy wearing a bright orange Marlins jersey while
you're reaching for the star, send me a text. I
can set up the meeting. I can do that. I
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probably know them. I probably know them, and I didn't
want to mention as well before we skid daddle out here.
There's a couple of holidays today that I thought we're
interesting enough to mention on the show. Today is August
twenty firth, It is twenty first, It is Friday. It
is also Hawaiian Shirt Day, Yes, Hawaiian Shirt Day. Now
they're technically called Aloha shirts. The Hawaiian shirt is the
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mainland nickname, the Aloha shirt is the traditional term. So
they're not as old as you might think. They really
took off in the nineteen thirties. And how did they start?
How did these ridonculous Hawaiian shirts start? Well, the tailors
in Honolulu began producing colorful, short sleeve shirts. They used
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fabrics that were influenced by Japanese, Chinese, Filipino, and Hawaiian cultures.
So it was a podge of all that, and several
tailors and businesses have been credited with being the first
one to the first Taylor Taylor zero to create the shirts. However,
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there is no universally accepted Thomas Edison of Hawaiian shirts
that does not list, that does not exist. The early
shirts often had Japanese kimono fabrics, and so that explains
the flowers, the birds, the bamboo, the ocean scenes and
the bold patterns and all that. And it was Elvis
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allegedly that helped support the Hawaiians. He wore the Aloha
shirt on the cover of the Blue Hawaii soundtrack because
the record label told him to do that. And when
you go to Hawaii, it's kind of a thing. You
got to either bring a Hawaiian shirt or buy one
to take home, and it's like a wearable postcard from Hawaii.
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So Hawaii had a Loha Friday movement and they actually
encouraged people there to wear these Hawaiian slash Aloha shirts
to the office on Friday, and it became widespread in
the nineteen sixties. And so Hawaii, if you enjoy casual Friday,
you can thank the good people there in Hawaii who
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decided this is a good idea. Why not? Yeah, exactly,
And the business is booming here. There are vintage Hawaiian
shirts that are traded and sold for thousands of dollars.
Think about that. Yeah, that's pretty wild. What else I mean,
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there's a bunch of other random fun facts about the
Hawaiian shirt. Tom Selleck gave them a renaissance as Magnum
Pi and that was filmed in Hawaii. Jimmy Buffett made
them his uniform, the late great Jimmy Buffett. That was
his shtick. There was even a presidential part of this,
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Harry S. Truman, President Harry Truman, he wore them. He
appeared in these ridonculous Hawaiian style shirts. And he's actually
helped credit as well much as Elvis is, but he
was credited with helping that look, you know, mainstream post
war America with the Hawaiian shirt. So that was that
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was his deal. That was absolutely his deal. And a
Laha shirt, if it's authentic, you know, it just signifies, hey, vacation,
We're in vacation. And and also it's like kind of
the dad outfit, you know, the suburban dad. You see
them standing next to the hotel breakfast buffet and they've
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got the Hawaiian shirt on and just kind of it
the bird pattern or the jungle pattern or whatever they're
and that's just kind of how it goes. And that's it. Also,
during World War Two, believe it or not, military personnel
stationed in or passing through Hawaii. They spread the Hawaiian
shirts back to the continental US. So you had President Truman,
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you had Elvis Presley, Yeah yeah, Jimmy Buffett, Magnum pi Aka,
you know who, Tom Selleck, and all these people who
helped promote and get awareness. That's a big term awareness
for the Hawaiian shirt. Today is also National kool Aid Day.
I feel like we've done a lot of these fun
facts over the years. I think in previous episodes. Recently
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we've done this, but I double on, triple checked, and
it did say today, August twenty first is National kool
Aid Day. Yeah, so who knew? Who knew? And some
fun facts about the kool aid product. The kool aid
man was not originally a man. The precursor or the
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forefather of the picture man was just a smiling glass
picture filled with kool aid. Was not a not a man,
not a man. It was a man in Nebraska. Kool
Aid was invented by the great Edwin Perkins who created
this in Hastings, Nebraska, and he called it cool aid
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ad not the aid that we have now. So didn't
do that. I mentioned this in a previous episode. During
the Great Depression, they sold the kool Aid packets for
instead of ten cents, five cents, and that turned into
a big deal. The kool Aid Man appeared when I
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was much younger, in the nineteen eighties. He appeared in
the Atari twenty six hundred and in television in those
early video game things, and they have a kool Aid
festival in his hometown there of Hastings, Nebraska, and the
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phrase my favorite thing about I don't know my favorite
thing about cool Ay. There's a lot of weird things
about I used to drinking a lot when I was
a kid, but the phrase drinking of the kool Aid
is very dark. It's also wrong. It's one of the
great bloopers that has maintained over time. In nineteen seventy eight,
there were these people that were part of a cult.
There was a whack a doodle leader who decided, well,
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why don't we just kill everyone? That seems like a
thing to do. Sure, why not? So there was this
huge murder suicide thing and the beverage most commonly identified
in contemporary accounts was flavor Aid. They actually used flavor
aid to kill all the people. That was a competitor
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powdered drink, not kool aid Aid still exists, So kool
Aid essentially took the linguistic poison for its competitor, Like
what in the world, Yeah, there you go. Now, the
kool Aid Man is technically a picture, not the liquid.
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At least that's how the character has generally been depicted,
which leads to the philosophical question is the kool Aid
is the kool aid his blood or is it merely
carrying kool Aid around inside his guts? Yeah? Who knows?
Who the heck knows? Now? All I know is that
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we're going to put the podcast to bed, have a
great rest of your Friday. It will be more exhibition games.
There were a few games last night that we were
watching and there'll be a few more tonight, and it's
kind of how that works. And so anyway, we'll be
back with you on the Saturday Pod tomorrow and then
again on Sunday. We've got the mail bag. This is
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the last week before we head to Vegas for the
big Malor meet and greet that's going to take place
in Lost Wages, Nevada, and that'll be a week from tomorrow.
We'll have more on that tomorrow on the podcast. So
we have that to look forward to on the Saturday
pod and as Dick and Dayton would say bye bye,
(32:32):
bye bye, just like that, right, Dick, No you're not here.
What's going on? Dude? Why are you not here? Come on,
you should know. Okay. I actually wanted to get Dick
and Dayton on the podcast. He doesn't know how to
do a podcast. He's too old for podcasts, which I respect,
and I'm gonna be too old when the next tech
comes along. I won't know what to do with that.
(32:52):
I guess I just ask one of these supercomputers. They'll
figure it out. Anyway. I have a great day again,
Dick and Dayton saying bye bye. Yeah,
Kabbooms.
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 sore fashion of fairness. He
treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the
rich pill poppers in the penthouse. Wow, it's a clearinghouse
of hot takes. Break free for something special. The Fifth
(00:23):
Hour with Ben Mahller starts right now.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
In the air everywhere. The Fifth Hour with Me, Ben
Mahler and you know who you are. We are united
again on the Friday podcast. This not to be confused
with the original recipe podcast. No No, No, Praise the Heavens.
This is the add on item if you are a
(00:51):
Malard Plus subscriber. Wink wink, nod nod. Unlike Wayne the
Curmudgeon in du Luth, we gave you special access to
this a little earlier. It is the two hundred and
thirty third day of the year. There are my computer,
like brain tells me, one hundred and thirty two days
left in the calendar year. And as you likely saw
(01:13):
already if you read the description of this podcast, it's
the Malor Matchmaker Edition. Not what you might think. Not
what you might think. So we'll have that, and if
we have time, we will get to some other things
that we have on our agenda, including drinking the kool
(01:34):
aid yet again. I feel like we do this every week.
We'll do it yet again, and who knows what else
we begin. Though, in a land far far away, there
is a magical kingdom called Baltimore. Okay, so a magical
kingdom likely is over selling Baltimore. I have not spent
(01:56):
any time in Baltimore. I know a lot about it,
I just haven't spent any time there. I understand there
is no Cinderella Castle. I don't think you'll find the
enchanted forest in the suburbs of Baltimore. There's no talking
tea cups. There is Camden Yards. I do want to
get the Camden Yards at some point looks like a
beautiful place to watch a baseball game. I know the
(02:19):
crabcakes or legendary the Old Bay seasoning. Kentucky Fried Chicken
talks about eleven herbs and spices. Well, how about the
blend of eleven herbs and spices that they have the
Old Bay seasoning which goes back, way way way back,
and a lot of people. When you watch a baseball game,
(02:41):
a lot of people wearing enough orange to make a
traffic cone feel like they're underdressed. So there's a lot
of that in Baltimore, and on this particular night the
other night, while the New York Yankees and the Baltimore Orioles,
we're playing a major league game in the American League East,
(03:02):
in this magical kingdom. I was roughly two thousand, three
hundred miles away at the Malor Mansion in the north Woods,
minding my own business as I normally do, lying on
the sofa. I had made some tacos, crunchy tacos the
top taco as my meal, and I was doing what
(03:24):
I do pretty much every day, trying to take over
the world, preparing to do an overnight sports talk radio show.
And my dog, Moxie, my beloved English bulldog, was asleep
across my legs, not worried about anything, snoring away, farting,
occasionally doing it at the same time. This is my world.
(03:44):
You hear about some of the legends of all time.
I remember when I was in school, and I didn't
really pay attention much in school except when they talked
about broadcasting and that world, and Walter Kronkite had a newsroom.
You know that news mean there's a whole journalism department
at Arizona State named after Walter Kronkai right, had the newsroom.
(04:06):
Edward R. Murrow had a cigarette in his mouth and
a microphone. I have a taco and a bulldog with flatulence.
That's my world. And somehow from this rather unique command center,
I was about to become the Wizard of Oz of
(04:29):
Camden Yards. Say what, Just imagine in the back they're
pulling levers from behind the curtain, bringing two complete strangers
together without ever leaving my sofa. A modern miracle, as
Don King, the boxing promoter back in the day, used
to say, only in America, Only in America. Now. It
(04:51):
started with a simple message, my radio buddy, Sports with Coleman,
Yes that Sports with Coleman, Jerry Cole, epic freeloader, epic
media freeloader, renaissance man, Baltimore Media mogul, podcast guru man
about Town, someone who I consider a good radio friend
(05:16):
and also who happens to be a personal friend of
Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson. Unless that's not exactly the case,
And so I'll get random messages. I'll send Jerry random messages.
He sends me a message on the text from Camden
Yards a photo of that beautiful warehouse. And so we're
(05:38):
going back and forth, and we were talking about the
magic Box, and so that came up, and he asked
if I was watching the Orioles game versus the Yankees.
I was not. I was watching another game. So naturally,
because somebody two three hundred miles away asked, if you're
watching something, what do you think I did? Ding ding
(05:59):
ding ding dingy. Yeah, I turned it on. I think
that's how television works in the modern days. You don't
decide what to watch. Somebody texts you and as signs homework.
So I flip on the game and immediately begin playing
one of my favorite games. You may remember Where's Waldough?
Now that's for little kids. I'm a grown ass man.
(06:21):
I'm a grown I'm more advanced. I'm an adult. I
talk about sports for a living. So I play my version,
and I've played this for several years. Where in the
world is Marlin's Man? Not to be confused with Where's Waldough?
This is a much better version. Where in the world
is Marlins Man? It's played every baseball season from April
(06:45):
all the way through the World Series. Every baseball game,
and I watch a lot of baseball. Every baseball game
I watch every single time. I like clockwork, I scan
the first two or three rows right behind home play
looking for this middle aged or slightly older than middle
aged gentleman and you know, very charitable to me. And
(07:08):
a man wearing an orange Miami Marlin's shirt and his signature,
Marlin's Visor, Marlin's Man. He's got the glasses, the whole thing.
So he he shows up in orange like he's trying
to see you know, if anybody cannot see him, even
the blind can see him like he's He's essentially like
(07:29):
the International Space station. That's what I'm trying to say,
right and there is there is, except here's the problem.
The hardest place to play my game where in the
world is Marlin's Man. There's two places that are very difficult,
Baltimore and San Francisco. And in Baltimore it really is
the perfect place for Marlin's Man to hide. Everybody is
(07:51):
wearing orange. He's essentially camouflaged because of the ballpark and
the outfits everyone's wearing. He's like a chameleon. And it's
like trying to find Waldo at a convention of people
dressed as Waldo. Well, it becomes a lot harder to
find Waldough when everyone's wearing a Waldo costume. But I
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spotted him thanks to the byfocals that I wear. Of
course I spotted him. I have no discernible practical skills.
I don't, but apparently I can locate Marlin's Man on
television two thousand miles away through the magic of the
boob tube. And so now, for those unfamiliar, we'd like
(08:34):
to pause this broadcast. For those unfamiliar with the legend
of Marlin's Man, his legal name is Lawrence, and call
him Marlin's Man or Lawrence. And he's somebody that I
met because of the radio show. Yeah, is it true?
Is it true that the legend that is Marlin's Man
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is a p one? A p one, a fan, a
listener of late night sports radio. Now, back in the day,
he'd be driving around late nights in Miami, all those
hot spots in South Florida, and he would be cruising
with the Ben Maler Show on the local radio airwaves
there in South Florida. And I was introduced to Marlon's
(09:18):
Man through a mutual friend who had worked in TV
in Los Angeles, and I was like, oh, yeah, okay.
He said, yeah, the guy he's a fan of yours
or whatever. I thought, okay, fine. And I remember telling
Eddie Garcia when Eddie used to work on the show
before he was decommissioned unfortunately. And I remember talking to Eddie,
and you know, we were going over the whole thing
and all that, and I said, Eddie, this guy's a
(09:40):
fan of the show, and he said, I, he's not.
Eddie was convinced I was lying. He always thought I
was lying. Why would I lie about that? Seriously, of
all the things to lie about in life, there's a
lot of things to lie about. Why would you lie
about that? If I were inventing celebrity listeners, wouldn't I go?
And not that there's anything against marlins Man. I love
marlins Man, but why would I not go higher than that?
(10:00):
Why I say, hey, Eddie, George Clooney loved Our three
last night. I thought it was really good. And Brad
pitt Enjoys pucked the world. Yeah, you pucking idiot, you
know you mother pucker that No, I picked Marlin's Man
right or he picked me, but it was true. And
Lawrence does listen to the show. Every time I'm run
into him. I've been fortunate enough. He's invited me to
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sit next to him at Dodger games a few times
over the years, and Lawrence listens to the show. He'll
ask questions about the show. You know, he doesn't think
the show is good without Eddie. I agree with him.
I agree with him. And he'll travel around the country
sitting behind home played at major sporting events, and he's
always right there and typically does the national TV games
on Fox and NBC and all that, and it's great.
(10:45):
You know, he's essentially living the life Bob Uker dreamed
of when I was like nine years old, those Miller
Lite commercials. I must be in the front room. Well
it turns out Marlin's Man actually is in the front row. Now. Meanwhile,
I'm in the back row of the Malor mansion in
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the living room and I'm watching the game, and suddenly
I noticed Lawrence. He gets up to leave. I'm like,
what the hell's going on? So I did what anyone
would do. I text him, said, where are you going?
Where do you think you are going. I don't see you,
you know, because apparently i'm his mother. Now it's only
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around the fourth inning. You don't leave your seat. This
is a very expensive seat. You don't leave your seat
like that at the fourth inning. You can't leave. There's
baseball happening. People paid money for this. You paid money
for this. So he text me back, going to get
a nice sandwich at a deli. There's a good deli
apparently at Camden Yards. That's what he said. Okay, So
now I'm monitoring another adult sandwich movements from my malar
(11:54):
compound in southern California. Guys wandering around the ballpark there
in Maryland. And you see, this is where technology has
taken us. Okay. Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone, and
somewhere along the way it became so advanced that it
(12:14):
allows a middle age slightly above that bald radio dope
to lie underneath an English bulldog and track a Pastrami
sandwich and matzabal soup. Itinerary of a man dressed like
a highway construction barrel out there on the road in Baltimore.
(12:40):
That's called progress. Now at this point, I am texting
sports with Coleman, I'm texting marlins Man. We're both we're
going back, all three of us again on both of us.
All three of us are going back and forth. They
happen to be they happen to be at the same
baseball game. They don't know each other, and suddenly, for
(13:02):
some reason this bothers me, like why, I have no idea,
but I decided to turn this into the Malard Matchmaker
Friend Edition, the Malord Matchmaker Friend Edition. So I text
Jerry Sports with Coleman. I say, hey, Marlin's Man is
at the game, and he knows, of course one of
(13:23):
his friends ran into marlins Man. Of course he knows.
Jerry knows everything that goes on in Baltimore. He knows
where all the bodies are buried, he knows where the
gold Bouyon is hidden. He knows everything and everybody. However,
he's not marlins Man, right, and he doesn't know Marlin's Man.
And the guy dresses like a traffic cone and sits
(13:45):
behind home plate. As we've said, so I asked Jerry
via text, would you like to meet marlins Man? And
Jerry's like, he took me a little while to get back,
took him a little while to get back. He says, sure.
Then I text Lawrence aka Marlins Man. I said, Hey,
would you like to meet my buddy Jerry. He's a
big media bogul in Baltimore. We are personal friend of
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Lamar Jackson. Bl I can to do a whole spiel. Sure,
why not? And suddenly I am two thousand, three hundred
miles as the crow flies away from Baltimore in LA
and I am like a long distance landlord who lost
the keys. Wai La presto, razzle dazzle time it happened.
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And here's the crazy part. I was able to watch
this interaction play out on live television, thinking about that.
I am sitting on my sofa again. Moxie is on
my legs. The tacos I'm eating. My dignity disappeared years ago,
and on the magic box in row three, right behind
home plate as the Yankees are pitching to the Orioles
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at Camden Yards, Marlin's man is holding court with my
palace sports with Coleman and it's all happening on TV
taking screenshots. I'm taking photos of this. They connected, you know,
we know how this works for me In California. I'm
not saying I'm powerful. I'm not. However, this is basically
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the Pentagon for spur of the moment, meet and greets
thousands of miles away in Maryland. There should have been
a giant map on my living room wall missed opportunity
here with little red lights blinking. Yeah, just like that,
and Jerry Coleman approaching from the concourse. Lawrence aka marlins Man,
(15:35):
of course, has banded the Delhi. Operation orange Visor is
a go. Operation orange Visor is a go. Repeat, Operation
orange Visor is a go. And while all this international diplomacy,
well it's actually just American diplomacy, all of this was
taking place, there was an actual baseball game going on. Yeah,
(15:58):
this happened to be the game the other night, Oriols
Yankees game where Pete Alonzo the Polar Bail Polar Bear
Polar Bear hit that controversial home run that somehow wasn't
a home run. Michael and Tulsa knows it was home run,
and Malard prop guy knows this as a home so
it's ferg Dog and Alf. They know it was home run,
(16:19):
but it wasn't home run because the three blind mice
who addresses umpires ruled at foul even though everyone watching
the television could see the ball was fair. That is
Major League Baseball replay technology is what. That is high
definition cameras, ball tracking. They got the super duper computers
(16:42):
over there that work all day and all night, dugout iPads.
They can probably tell you the launch angle, the exit
V low, and the astrological sign of a mosquito leaving
Camden Yards and filing a complaint with the cockroaches for
not paying. And yet somehow, some way they could not
(17:05):
figure out whether a baseball hit by Pete Alonzo went
fair over the foul pole or foul over the foul pole. Meanwhile,
I located two people in Row three from my sofa
in California, so maybe, just maybe I should run the
replay center. But shortly, shortly before the controversy, they were
(17:29):
again Coleman and Marlon's Man schmoozing. These worlds colliding, and
they both sent photos at the same time, at almost
the exact same time as they were talking. And I'm
watching them talk on TV, I'm seeing them take the photos,
and I then see the photos on my phone. What
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in the world Apparently I was the topic of conversation.
This scares me. I don't know what was said. Was
it good? Was it bad? Was it ugly? Was there
a scouting report? Yeah? Malard's okay. But have you noticed
he repeats himself a lot. He does repeat himself. He
definitely repeats himself. And those who am I game and
ista trivia things, those are lame. Those are lame. And
(18:13):
what about that hollering James? Is that guy real? This
is what happens when you introduce people immediately, at least
for me, you become paranoid about what they're saying when
you're not there. And I'm like, well, I created this
mess and now I'm excluded from it. It's like Frankenstein's
Monster with baseball tickets. And apparently though the conversation went
(18:38):
very well, very well, phone numbers were exchanged. From what
I understand, a friendship was born. So they're friends now.
So now we're all friends. I guess I don't even know.
Like they talked for a few minutes, It wasn't that long.
They exchanged numbers and it's twenty twenty six. That might
(19:00):
qualify as a domestic partnership. This is the bromance nobody
asked for. A beautiful baseball disaster Coleman schmoozing with Marlin's Man.
It's like an episode of The Bachelor, mid Atlantic Friends Edition. Okay,
two blokes bonding over absolutely nothing, and the Malard militia knows.
(19:25):
If you're part of the malle Militia, you've got to
be part of it. If you're listening to the Fifth
Hour podcast, this is exactly the kind of chaos that
we love. Playing friend Matchmaker from La La Land is
like trying to grill a steak through FaceTime. There's absolutely
no reason it should work, and yet somehow you eat.
(19:47):
Dinner is served. Now we find out whether this friendship
has staying power over time, and it's possible that they
will become lifelong pals. It could be maybe they'll go
to games together. When Marlin's Man returns Sports with Coleman
and Marlin's Man will be sitting together. They can exchange
holiday cards, right, you get a Hana Kak card, You
(20:10):
get a Hana Kak card, you get a New Year's card,
you get a New Year's card, Happy thanks heaving. Or
maybe they never speak to each other again, and six
months from now, my buddy Sports with Coleman is scrolling
through his contacts on his phone and sees Marlin's man
and thinks, why the hell do I have that? What
is that about? I don't understand, you know, And maybe
(20:33):
this meetup becomes a podcast episode nobody would ever want
or download. I think we're in the process of finding
out if that's true right now on this podcast, which
seemingly is all about this. But whatever happens, I am
taking credit. Absolutely. People introduce couples who eventually get married,
and thirty years later somebody gives a toast about the
(20:54):
person who brought them together. Now, this is obviously not
that they're just friends, you know, you know, the bromance. However,
a friend in need is a friend. Indeed, why shouldn't
I get something? Maybe a plaque. I'd like a plaque,
A box of trucklets, pastrami samwich from that deli. That
would be pretty good. Why not? So there you go,
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I just by happenstance, brought these two people together. I
didn't even have to put shoes on, didn't have to
take a shower, just laid on the sofa. That's not
too shabby, especially considering what was actually happening back at
Mission Control. Again, I was not sitting in some high
tech TV studio. For those of you that have fast
(21:37):
forwarded through the podcast, I didn't have nineteen monitors in
a headset. I was just relaxing. I was lounging, and
I had Moxie sleeping and farting. I was eating my
supper and watching baseball, preparing for the radio show, and
apparently conducting long distance friendship negotiations between two grown men
in Baltimore. It's like, I imagine. I'm sure it's not
(21:58):
like this, but in my head, it's like being in
the war room at the Pentagon if the Pentagon had
salsustains on the coffee table. And then it hit me,
what in the web? All of a sudden, I had
become part of a low budget ripoff America Top forty
(22:18):
with the legend Casey Kaseum, the greatest DJ who ever lived,
who I almost killed in a Premiere network's accident that
I avoided because of my slithery likability, the king of
the long distant dedication. Yes, Casey Casum, the long distance dedication.
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Casey would read these beautiful letters about people separated by
thousands of miles in the days before Wi Fi, Love lost, heartbreak, destiny,
somebody stationed overseas requesting a special song for their sweetheart
waiting back home. Meanwhile, my long distance dedication involved Marlin's
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Man sports would call me, went an Oriels game, a
controversial pee Alnzo home run that wasn't because of the
foul poll, a Deli sandwich, and a bulldog committing chemical
warfare in my face, and close enough, close enough. So
tonight's long distance dedication goes to Lawrence aka Marlin's Man
and his new buddies sports with Coleman in Baltimore. May
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your friendship flourish, May there be many free Pastromi sandwiches
out there, and may Marlin's Man forever remain in the
front row. And most importantly, may neither one of you
ever reveal exactly what was said about me, because some
things are better left two three hundred something miles away.
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And as the Great Casey Casum used to say, rest
in peace, Casey, keep your feet on the ground and
keep reaching for the stars. And if you happen to
see a guy wearing a bright orange Marlins jersey while
you're reaching for the star, send me a text. I
can set up the meeting. I can do that. I
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probably know them. I probably know them, and I didn't
want to mention as well before we skid daddle out here.
There's a couple of holidays today that I thought we're
interesting enough to mention on the show. Today is August
twenty firth, It is twenty first, It is Friday. It
is also Hawaiian Shirt Day, Yes, Hawaiian Shirt Day. Now
they're technically called Aloha shirts. The Hawaiian shirt is the
(24:29):
mainland nickname, the Aloha shirt is the traditional term. So
they're not as old as you might think. They really
took off in the nineteen thirties. And how did they start?
How did these ridonculous Hawaiian shirts start? Well, the tailors
in Honolulu began producing colorful, short sleeve shirts. They used
(24:52):
fabrics that were influenced by Japanese, Chinese, Filipino, and Hawaiian cultures.
So it was a podge of all that, and several
tailors and businesses have been credited with being the first
one to the first Taylor Taylor zero to create the shirts. However,
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there is no universally accepted Thomas Edison of Hawaiian shirts
that does not list, that does not exist. The early
shirts often had Japanese kimono fabrics, and so that explains
the flowers, the birds, the bamboo, the ocean scenes and
the bold patterns and all that. And it was Elvis
(25:39):
allegedly that helped support the Hawaiians. He wore the Aloha
shirt on the cover of the Blue Hawaii soundtrack because
the record label told him to do that. And when
you go to Hawaii, it's kind of a thing. You
got to either bring a Hawaiian shirt or buy one
to take home, and it's like a wearable postcard from Hawaii.
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So Hawaii had a Loha Friday movement and they actually
encouraged people there to wear these Hawaiian slash Aloha shirts
to the office on Friday, and it became widespread in
the nineteen sixties. And so Hawaii, if you enjoy casual Friday,
you can thank the good people there in Hawaii who
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decided this is a good idea. Why not? Yeah, exactly,
And the business is booming here. There are vintage Hawaiian
shirts that are traded and sold for thousands of dollars.
Think about that. Yeah, that's pretty wild. What else I mean,
(26:49):
there's a bunch of other random fun facts about the
Hawaiian shirt. Tom Selleck gave them a renaissance as Magnum
Pi and that was filmed in Hawaii. Jimmy Buffett made
them his uniform, the late great Jimmy Buffett. That was
his shtick. There was even a presidential part of this,
(27:12):
Harry S. Truman, President Harry Truman, he wore them. He
appeared in these ridonculous Hawaiian style shirts. And he's actually
helped credit as well much as Elvis is, but he
was credited with helping that look, you know, mainstream post
war America with the Hawaiian shirt. So that was that
(27:36):
was his deal. That was absolutely his deal. And a
Laha shirt, if it's authentic, you know, it just signifies, hey, vacation,
We're in vacation. And and also it's like kind of
the dad outfit, you know, the suburban dad. You see
them standing next to the hotel breakfast buffet and they've
(27:58):
got the Hawaiian shirt on and just kind of it
the bird pattern or the jungle pattern or whatever they're
and that's just kind of how it goes. And that's it. Also,
during World War Two, believe it or not, military personnel
stationed in or passing through Hawaii. They spread the Hawaiian
shirts back to the continental US. So you had President Truman,
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you had Elvis Presley, Yeah yeah, Jimmy Buffett, Magnum pi Aka,
you know who, Tom Selleck, and all these people who
helped promote and get awareness. That's a big term awareness
for the Hawaiian shirt. Today is also National kool Aid Day.
I feel like we've done a lot of these fun
facts over the years. I think in previous episodes. Recently
(28:41):
we've done this, but I double on, triple checked, and
it did say today, August twenty first is National kool
Aid Day. Yeah, so who knew? Who knew? And some
fun facts about the kool aid product. The kool aid
man was not originally a man. The precursor or the
(29:05):
forefather of the picture man was just a smiling glass
picture filled with kool aid. Was not a not a man,
not a man. It was a man in Nebraska. Kool
Aid was invented by the great Edwin Perkins who created
this in Hastings, Nebraska, and he called it cool aid
(29:28):
ad not the aid that we have now. So didn't
do that. I mentioned this in a previous episode. During
the Great Depression, they sold the kool Aid packets for
instead of ten cents, five cents, and that turned into
a big deal. The kool Aid Man appeared when I
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was much younger, in the nineteen eighties. He appeared in
the Atari twenty six hundred and in television in those
early video game things, and they have a kool Aid
festival in his hometown there of Hastings, Nebraska, and the
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phrase my favorite thing about I don't know my favorite
thing about cool Ay. There's a lot of weird things
about I used to drinking a lot when I was
a kid, but the phrase drinking of the kool Aid
is very dark. It's also wrong. It's one of the
great bloopers that has maintained over time. In nineteen seventy eight,
there were these people that were part of a cult.
There was a whack a doodle leader who decided, well,
(30:34):
why don't we just kill everyone? That seems like a
thing to do. Sure, why not? So there was this
huge murder suicide thing and the beverage most commonly identified
in contemporary accounts was flavor Aid. They actually used flavor
aid to kill all the people. That was a competitor
(30:57):
powdered drink, not kool aid Aid still exists, So kool
Aid essentially took the linguistic poison for its competitor, Like
what in the world, Yeah, there you go. Now, the
kool Aid Man is technically a picture, not the liquid.
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At least that's how the character has generally been depicted,
which leads to the philosophical question is the kool Aid
is the kool aid his blood or is it merely
carrying kool Aid around inside his guts? Yeah? Who knows?
Who the heck knows? Now? All I know is that
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we're going to put the podcast to bed, have a
great rest of your Friday. It will be more exhibition games.
There were a few games last night that we were
watching and there'll be a few more tonight, and it's
kind of how that works. And so anyway, we'll be
back with you on the Saturday Pod tomorrow and then
again on Sunday. We've got the mail bag. This is
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the last week before we head to Vegas for the
big Malor meet and greet that's going to take place
in Lost Wages, Nevada, and that'll be a week from tomorrow.
We'll have more on that tomorrow on the podcast. So
we have that to look forward to on the Saturday
pod and as Dick and Dayton would say bye bye,
(32:32):
bye bye, just like that, right, Dick, No you're not here.
What's going on? Dude? Why are you not here? Come on,
you should know. Okay. I actually wanted to get Dick
and Dayton on the podcast. He doesn't know how to
do a podcast. He's too old for podcasts, which I respect,
and I'm gonna be too old when the next tech
comes along. I won't know what to do with that.
(32:52):
I guess I just ask one of these supercomputers. They'll
figure it out. Anyway. I have a great day again,
Dick and Dayton saying bye bye. Yeah,
Host
Ben Maller
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