June 2, 2023 • 34 mins
Ben Maller & Danny G. have another fun Friday bonus broadcast! They talk: Softball or Glad to See Me?, Word of the Week, Pop Goes the Culture & more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Kabooms.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes
a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants
of the old Republic, a soul fashion of fairness. He
treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the
rich pill poppers in the penthouse.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
The Clearinghouse of Hot takes break free for something special.
The Fifth Hour with Ben Mahler starts right now.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
In the air andywhere back at it? In the podcast dojo.
The weekend is here. This is your weekend companion, your
best friends.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Every weekend.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
The Fifth Hour with Ben Mahler and Danny g Radio,
Because hey, why don't we do this eight days a week,
four hours a night?
Speaker 1 (00:51):
Not enough? Here we are again, Danny blah blah blah
blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. That's it.
See you next week, guys.
Speaker 4 (01:02):
This podcast lasts as long as the NBA playoffs. They're
still going.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
See, there's no reason to watch the regular season because
the playoffs take twelve months, So forget the regular season.
The playoffs go all year. They drag this stuff out anyway. Well,
we did have an NBA Finals game last night. I
I assume you watched, although I guess with the ratings
(01:28):
will come out later today, so we'll find out how
many people actually watched the Denver Nuggets and the Miami
Heat the Nicola Jokic NBA Finals.
Speaker 4 (01:39):
Yeah, it's so exciting to watch the Serbian Frankenstein. But
it could be worse, and it's still some basketball left.
And then when the basketball is over, there's gonna be crickets,
tumbleweeds and baseball stadiums.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Oh, come on, that's when we earn our money. I
love that time of the year. Are you kidding me?
Speaker 1 (01:58):
You can It's like COVID yet again.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
Then when the whole world shut down for several months,
we had no sports and we could talk about whatever
we wanted, and I did rants about marble racing and yes.
Speaker 4 (02:10):
Oh man, that's when you really won your Marconi Award.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Oh let me tell you something.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
The month of June, once the finals end, which is
about mid June, there is a solid month from mid
June until mid July, and really even longer than that
because training camps in the NFL start in mid July.
But it is about a month month and a half
where you know, there's that saying you got to separate
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the wheat from the shaft. I like the extended winners.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
That's the time, that is the time.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
But the good news is there's always some controversy. There's
always some scandal, so there will be something going on,
just like this podcast. People say, how do you come
up with new crap on the podcast? You do five
shows a week and all that stuff.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
I said, yeah, just keep.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
Throwing spaghetti against the wall. See what works. Keep throwing
spaghetti against the wall. And on this today's podcast, the
kickoff to the weekend we've got is that a softball?
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Are you glad to see me? Or are you glad
to see me?
Speaker 3 (03:11):
The word of the week, and by special request, an
extended dance remix of pop Goes the Culture and whatever
else we get to. So we'll get right into it now.
This beginning tale, which could have qualified for a Life
(03:33):
of Malar's story on the Saturday podcast, but I wanted
to get to this right away on the fun Frivolity
of a Friday. So we're not doing the Animal Kingdom
this weekend. Maybe we'll bring that back next weekend. But
this could also be an Animal Kingdom story.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
But it's not.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
That's the original bit. That has nothing to do with
the Animal Thunderdome. No, completely unique and just a creation
in my mind.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Danny, that's it.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
How those lawyers, by the way, at iHeart how they
coming along and there everything good with that?
Speaker 4 (04:07):
Yes, I'm not sure they haven't emailed me in a
few weeks.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Yeah, the lawyers that I heard have not emailed you.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
But Animal Thunderdome, Danny will be eighty five years old,
his son will be you know, you know, God only knows,
and he'll be the one actually hosting Animal Thunderdome. That's
the surprise. But anyway, so but get to the storry.
So I was preparing it. How do all great fairy
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tales start? Once upon a time, seemed like just a
normal day at the Malor mansion getting ready. I'm a
creature a habit. We've talked about this in the past,
and I get asked from time to.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Times how to get ready for the show.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
And so I start each day out with a blank
canvas and I go wherever the sporting news of the
day takes me, which is kind of cool. It's it's
not a very repetitive job. There are stories that get repetitive.
If there's a big scandal, you can talk about that
day after day and that becomes annoying.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
But normally, or if Aaron Rodgers is spotted at a
Taylor Swift concert.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
Well yeah there's that too. But typically it changes and
there's different things.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
You're talking about many of the same things, but the
storylines changed, So it does keep the job fresh.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
It's like we're not talking about the same stuff every day.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
It's like if you do politics, you're pretty much talking
about the same crap every day. Pain in the ass anyway,
so it keeps thing special. And so earlier this week,
I'm putting the blocks, the building blocks together in the ecosystem,
creating the ecosystem that is the finished product and the
Overnight show.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
And what I do is I use.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
The process of elimination, and my goal is to find
at least four stories that I am fascinated by.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
I believe these are amazing stories.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
Because I don't like to repeat myself too much, and
so I try to find four things that I'm really
interested in I think would make for a good conversation
for a few minutes in the Malay monologue. And then
normally I don't find anything, and I'm freaking out. I'm like, ah,
this sucks. There's nothing to talk about DDA, nothing interesting,
and it sucks.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
But I want some of them to be equality. And so.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
The food groups are pretty much scandal when a scandal breaks.
Palace intrigue is great. Name calling always good talk radio.
We break down the games. You got to try to
find an angle to the games, and so those kind
of things. Class warfare is always good, like an owner
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spitting a loogie at fans, like what's going on in
Oakland right now, or a douchebag commissioner like Rob Manford
and major League Baseball. So those things are interesting to me,
and so we talk about those things. We try to
find those things. So doing the show, as we say,
it's it's not narrow casting. We're doing broadcast, right, That's
what they say, it's broadcasting. So we're trying to put
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this together and the very powerful microphones of FSR and
all the reach that we had, plus the podcast, so
there's a lot of stuff going on. So during the afternoon,
I start getting ready late afternoon and sometimes I want
to have some company.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
My wife is usually.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
At work and I'm all alone in the harnous Malar Mansion.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
But I do have Bella.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
So I do have Bella, my pal Bella, my dog Bella,
who's in the retirement home right now. Bella because she
could not control her shit and her piss, and she
decided to turn the Malor Mansion into an indoor you know,
complete Florida ceiling toilet. We decided that Bella needed to
go to her retirement home, which is in the Malor Mansion.
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It's just a small corner of the Malor Mansion. But
she's kind of like my service thought. If you willff,
I'm getting ready for the show.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
Just to paint the picture for you here.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
Just imagine I'm sitting on the sofa and I'm I've
got my laptop up. I'm I'm scanning my RSS feeds.
If you don't know what that is, that's usually how
I go through the different sources to find what I'm
talking about.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
I don't usually use Twitter.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
Much, especially not now since they changed it. It's pretty
much useless for what I need and so, and I
try to stay off Twitter anyway during the day. So
I have RSS fees I've used since I had Benmaller
dot com, and I've added to that, I always add
new feeds, and so I have a very unique way
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of trying to find stuff to talk about. And so
I start going through chopping down the big sink filled
with all kinds of dirty dishes. Anyway, get to the point.
So Bella is a wonderful lapdog dog. So again I'm
painting the pictures. I'm trying to find stuff to talk about.
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I'm sitting on the sofa. I've got like a blanket
on top of me, and I put Bella on top
of the blanket because I don't want any problems with
the sofas I figure if she she has a problem,
she can she can take care of the blanket.
Speaker 4 (09:21):
You know what I mean, Danny, Yeah, take out a
whole blanket instead of your leg or the.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
Sofa, exactly exactly. I don't have to change my shorts
or whatever.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
So imagine remember that old movie Austin Powers International.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
Amn of Mystery. Of course, remember Petting the Evil Cat,
Remember the.
Speaker 4 (09:38):
Cat that's you, but with Bella.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
Yeah, yeah, exactly. Bella's about the size of a small cat.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
So she's laying down.
Speaker 4 (09:45):
And you talk about your contract one billion dollars and
one billion dollars but anyway, she's she's.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
Laying down there, and normally she does not she does
not move very much. You pretty much put her down.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
I've done this from time to time, a couple of
times a week. I'll do it and she'll just sit
there and lay down and fall asleep and couldn't give two.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
Shits about me being there, right and just whatever.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
So I put her down. It's like a normal day.
I'm getting ready for the show. She's laying down and
she starts fusing around, and I what's going on here?
Why is my friend Bella fusing around?
Speaker 1 (10:24):
What's all?
Speaker 3 (10:25):
What's this all about? So but I'm like, I'm into something.
I'm trying to find a story, and I'm I found
something I was kind of interested in, so I was like,
all right, let me focus on this. So she starts
fussing around. So then I'm like, all right, maybe I
should pick her up and move her. And I pick
her up and she starts like kind of screaming a
little bit, and then it's like it's one of those moments.
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It's like, look up in the sky. Is it a baseball?
Is it a softball?
Speaker 1 (10:55):
No?
Speaker 3 (10:57):
It is a bella bathball, barfball, is that a softball
or are you glad to see me? This thing was
Oh man, it happened so fast, as the story always goes,
boom come boom. Yeah, my pal Bella, very small, normally
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sleeps all the time, and that's it. In the retirement
home had puked up a big chunk, just a massive
hunk of vomit. And Danny, I do not want to exaggerate.
I don't want to the vomit was the size if
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you look up in the sky at night, the moon.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
It was like ten times that. It was so disgusting.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
Now, fortunately I did have the blanket down. Now, Bella
has barfed in the past, most dogs do, but normally
it's like green goo, like she ate plants.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
Or something in the backyard she wasn't supposed to eat.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
But this time it counts because we're talking rotting, this rotting,
giant clump of black and yellow and orange, and it
was it was like oozing all over the blanket. It
was one of the most disgusting things that I have
ever witnessed, right on top of me.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
So I I my first move. I'm like, oh man,
this is a well I'll get to that in a minute.
So so At this point, I'm like, I didn't know
what to do.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
I put my laptop away because I'm like, I can't
get barf on that.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
I need that for work, So I put that down.
Speaker 4 (12:38):
Your keyboard.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
Oh my god.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
So then I'm like moving the blanket and I'm looking.
It's right on my lap. You know, It's like, oh man,
this smells. It's terrible. So then I kind of put
the blanket. I wrapped the blanket around it. I then
Bella's still freaking out. I grabbed the dog. I run
back to her little caged retirement home. I toss her
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in there. I then have to come back and then
I have that uncomfortable thing where I have to decide what.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
To do with the blanket.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
Ibou said, wash it, But do I wash it with
the giant hunk of vomit or do I take the vomit.
I got to take the vomit out, but at this point,
the vomit has been oozing all over the blanket.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
So now the blanket's covered.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
It's like this white blanket, but it's covered with this
black and orange and yellow like layer. It's just terrible.
So I grabbed some paper towels and I I scooped
up the mass of disgusting this and I went over
to the trash. I then grabbed the blanket. I tossed
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it in the washing machine, turned it on as hot
as temperature as I could get, put a bunch of
chemicals in there. I turned the thing on, and I said, oh, man,
then I had to go wash my hands. So then
I want you know how when you really touched disgusting things,
even though I had my paper towels, I washed my
hands probably for seven eight minutes. This was like early
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on in COVID when you thought you had to really
wash your hands or else you were screwed.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
You know that kind of thing. So I washed my hands.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
And then now for the as Paul Harvey said back
in the day, the rest of the story. You know
the news, but you're about to find out the rest
of the story. So it turns out, and I didn't
realize this at the time, Danny, you asked the question,
what did I feed Bella? So I had had a
very nice meal of tacos at the Malord mansion. There
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are some delicious tacos, and I ate as much as
I could eat. I did not finish the meal, and
I decided rather than throw away the leftovers, I would
just leave a little bit for Bella. And I'd forgotten
about this, And so Bella she really loved the tacos,
the meat.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
She ate.
Speaker 3 (14:59):
A lot of the meat was left over, and it
turns out she does not digest taco beat well. And yeah,
so that's the last time in Bella's life.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
She will be getting taco meat. So that's that's it.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
And so no good deed goes unpunished, Danny, good deed
goes unpunished. So that was my that was my day.
And then of course I had to get back and
get ready for the show. And good times, wonderful times.
Turning the page on that we have the word of
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the week. The word of the week, Danny.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
This is exciting.
Speaker 4 (15:43):
I feel like it's the year two thousand right now,
and we were all scared to get in an elevator.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
No, no, no, no, this is a different iconic thing.
This is not something from the past. This is brand new.
So the word of the week this week.
Speaker 4 (15:58):
I feel like Karen k is gonna come on right
now there you.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
I've tried to get her on. She won't come on
the podcast. All right, here we go the word of
the week. The word of the week is a word
that we use on Fox Sports Radio. We use it
for the NBA playoffs, the NHL playoffs, and the Major
League Baseball playoffs. We do not use it for football.
But it is a term that is pretty much only
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used in the sports world, the term when a team
is facing elimination and they win a game, we.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
Say they staved off elimination, right.
Speaker 4 (16:41):
Staved Yeah, not everybody says that. That's kind of a
classic term.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
Well, Joe, we had a conversation when Joe Buck was
working at Fox and I was doing the Blitz. We
had Joe Buck on and he brought Looney I think
asked him about that, if I remember correctly, and Looney,
of course, being a douche, I love him, But he asked, Joe,
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what stave off elimination?
Speaker 1 (17:10):
Why do you use that?
Speaker 3 (17:11):
And of course Joe went into some rant about how
his father had used it or whatever. But so I
was actually I used this term on the air, and
I think it was Ferg Dog or Alf the Alien
of Pineer or somebody else.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
I forget.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
One of the guys asked me, said, what does that mean?
Stave off elimination. So I said, you know what, why
not that would be a good word of the week,
and so here it is the word of the week.
Like the Boston Celtics for three games staved off elimination
and then they were electrocuted in Game seven, and that's
why the Miami heater in the NBA Finals. What's you're
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going on right now? So stave stave. The word stave
originally from the fifteen forties.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
Think about that. This is almost a five hundred year
old word.
Speaker 4 (17:58):
Stave. Need to spell this word.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
It's sta ve.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
Stave is how you spell the word stave off elimination.
So it goes back to the fifteen forest. Now, originally
it meant to fit with staves. From the noun versions,
the meaning is to break into staves. It's from that
originally came from the fifteen nineties, and it was a
nautical term. It was a nautical term. The more modern
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version which is not really more modern, but it's the
version we use stave off elimination. But we the term
stave off comes from the sixteen twenties, so this is
from four hundred years ago, and it literally means to
keep off with a staff as one is beset.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
By wolves or dogs.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
So when we say stave off elimination, that is a
term that goes back to the sixteen twenties and its
literal meaning is to keep off with the staff if
you are attacked by wolves and dogs, and that stave
off elimination is your word.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
Of the week. Word of the week.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
So moving on from that, do we have my man
ohio al for a little Pop goes to the culture?
Speaker 1 (19:27):
Do we have that ready to go?
Speaker 4 (19:28):
Yeah, I'll fire it up right now.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
Job John, Thank you my man ohio Al. Good job
by you. So Pop goes to the culture. These are
some of the stories we didn't talk about on the
radio show. At least I didn't talk about, and maybe
Danny did with Covino and Rich on the show that
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he works on. But Pop goes the culture. Here's a
fun story from Hollywood. This is the second time in
the last month we've talked about this. A very old
Hollywood star has knocked up a much younger lady and
is going to have a kid. The latest is al Pacino,
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who is eighty three years old.
Speaker 4 (20:24):
We talked about this this past Wednesday. Old dudes having babies.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
Yeah, and his girlfriend is twenty nine years old, and
they did consummate the relationship. And so al Pacino is
having a kid that will be born when he's eighty
four years old, and so Al to see the kid
graduate from high school. If my math, unless the kid's
like a MENSA member, Al's going to have to make
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it past one hundred here for that math to work.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
So good luck to Al.
Speaker 4 (20:59):
You know, he's twenty nine year old bride. You know
who her ex is?
Speaker 1 (21:02):
No, I don't know anything about her.
Speaker 4 (21:04):
Clint Eastwood?
Speaker 1 (21:06):
Oh really Yeah?
Speaker 4 (21:08):
So she loves the older actors.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
Hey, man, that's her. That's her thing. Huh, that's her jam.
It's gets her all excited. I guess, man, what's that?
So Al Pacino, let me do the math on this.
Speaker 4 (21:21):
And happy birthday. Clint Eastwood just turned ninety three the
other day.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
Oh I have a Clint Eastwood story.
Speaker 4 (21:27):
By the way.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
Uh, let's see the math on this. So this girl,
she's twenty nine, she's a woman, but she's twenty nine.
Pacino's eighty three. So that means you.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
Do the math on that.
Speaker 3 (21:39):
Pacino was fifty four years old when she was born.
That means we're both happily married. But for some reason,
it didn't work out that our future bride hasn't been
born yet by that math, right, Holy crap, that is insane.
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So my Clint Eastwood story I got invited got I
forget the name of it was a baseball movie a
few years ago, about to scout for the Atlanta Braves.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
Do you remember that movie?
Speaker 3 (22:12):
It was a female Clint Eastwood was in it.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
Sounds familiar anyway, So I got advanced.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
I got invited to an advanced screening in Hollywood and
we were reviewing the movie.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
And I had never been to one of these things.
Speaker 3 (22:27):
These things go on at theaters around LA all the time,
but I'd never get invited these things. But we were
at that event because I'm a sports guy. So it
was a sports movie, so they invited me.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
Whoo, fever Pitch? Was that the name of it?
Speaker 4 (22:42):
Trouble with the curve? That's what comes up when you
type in Clint Eastwood baseball movie. Let see here? Uh?
Speaker 1 (22:55):
Yeah, it was.
Speaker 4 (22:57):
It was about a scout in the redheaded actress in
that Yeah, what what's her name? Adams?
Speaker 1 (23:05):
So it wasn't fever Pitch. There was something else. It was.
Speaker 4 (23:08):
What was it called Trouble with the Curve.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
I don't remember the name of the movie.
Speaker 3 (23:12):
Let me let me look here, so if I see
the thing, Trouble with the Curve, let's see.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
Oh yeah that's about right.
Speaker 4 (23:21):
Yeah, starring Amy Adams.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, you're right. Why did I think
it was Fever Pitch? I guess Trouble with the Curve
wasn't that popular movie? Fever Pitch meant more to me?
Speaker 1 (23:29):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (23:30):
Justin Timberlake was in it too, Okay.
Speaker 3 (23:33):
Yeah, So anyway, they had the screening and I didn't
know this until after, but Clint Eastwood was in the
in the front. He came in after they started the
movie and he left just after the movie ended, and
we saw it.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
We saw him wandering wandering away there. So I was like, oh,
I was in the same movie with the theater with
Clint Eastwood. Man, that guy's a badass back in the day.
Speaker 4 (23:56):
So in this case, people could clap at the end
of the movie and it actually would mean because the
guy in the movie or directed the movie was there.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (24:05):
Yeah, So we were like a test audience and they
told us before They were like, well, this is not
the final edit. We might edit it more some of
this will be in the movie, some of it may not.
And so essentially when people graded different parts of the movie,
that's what they decided how to keep it and what
to take out of it. Which is fascinating with all
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the shitty movies that they make, that they actually go
through these lengths to vet the movies.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
And they still put shit out. It's amazing to me,
you know what I'm saying. It's like nuts.
Speaker 3 (24:39):
Anyway, pop goes to culture. Another old guy, Bruce Springsteen.
Do you see this in the last week seventy three
years old and fell off the stage. Fell off the
stage at age seventy three.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
Yeah, not good, not good.
Speaker 3 (24:58):
He was playing at an arena in Amsterdam and he
took a nasty fall. This and this happened last weekend.
And Springsteen hanging out with his buddies in the Eastreet
East Street band there performing a song from a couple
of years ago, uh, from from Ghosts.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
And you know he's getting up there, Springsteen, and you
know he's doing his thing and.
Speaker 3 (25:26):
I can't I just noticed. You can't see it, Dan,
So there's no point in me playing it because it's
a video clip. So bad job by me. But Yeah,
he took He took a bit of a stumble there.
He took a bit of a stumble.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
That's unfortunate for I.
Speaker 4 (25:40):
Mean it was in Amsterdam. Do you think that he
was on any substances.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
Well, when in Rome, act as a Roman, and when
in Amsterdam you got a smoke.
Speaker 4 (25:52):
Yep, you gonna do it.
Speaker 3 (25:57):
Uh, let's see what else we had. Pop goes to alter. Oh,
I love this story. This is probably my favorite story
of the week. Well, I got two favorite stories on
Popco's the Culture. This one comes from the state of Maryland.
And you know how you can buy license plates that
are like specialty license plates in each state they make
extra money.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
You know what I'm taking.
Speaker 4 (26:17):
In California, we have the blacked out license plate right.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
Now exactly they have that.
Speaker 3 (26:21):
There's a few different California plates, but every state has
does this because it's an easy way to make money
and just have a bunch of dudes in prison make
these these license plates.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
So this is great.
Speaker 3 (26:33):
So the state of Maryland in the around two thousand
and seven ish through twy ten, they had a specialty plate.
The design of the plate was to celebrate the war.
To commemorate the war of eighteen twelve. The license plate
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originated from the bi Centennial Commission for the War of
eighteen twelve was created in seven and this nonprofit group
partnered with the State of Maryland.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
So they put this license plate out.
Speaker 3 (27:08):
This is a great story, right, And so they put
this license plate out. Whatever, they had a website on
the license plate, and the Maryland Motor Vehicle Administration was.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
All on board on this.
Speaker 3 (27:21):
They were all excited because they charged money and people
paid extra money and.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
This is great.
Speaker 3 (27:27):
Well, it turns out that the website that was on
the license plate, the people that put that on the
license plate, they did not keep paying for the URL,
and the URL was sold at one of the auctioning
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websites and was purchased by a gambling house in the Philippines.
Right now, right now, any there are currently step one
hundred and ninety eight thousand license plates from the state
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of Maryland that have a URL on them for a
Philippine Filipino gambling website. Ow awesome is that? How great
is that? Now?
Speaker 4 (28:24):
This is how you needed to bring back Benmallard dot com.
Speaker 3 (28:27):
Oh, I know, right, these are the kind of stories
I loved on benmallar dot com.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
Oh my god, it's so good. And I'll give out
the website.
Speaker 3 (28:37):
Why not, It's on every other license plate in the
state of Maryland. But the url is star Spangled two
thousand dot org and that will take you to a
gambling website. And anyway, needless to say, it's very.
Speaker 4 (28:55):
I'm saying you should have bought that url to put
benmallard dot com.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
That is true, that you are not kidding on that.
That is wow? Is that great?
Speaker 3 (29:06):
Man?
Speaker 1 (29:06):
Is that wonderful?
Speaker 3 (29:07):
Which tells you, by the way, that nobody really pays
attention to those URLs on license plates, right, Otherwise this
would have been figured out years ago, because it's been
this way for a while apparently. And the people in Maryland,
the political hacks, are desperately trying to They're trying to
figure out what to do, which is just just wonderful.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
I love that. I love that.
Speaker 3 (29:34):
So I also love this story, which is of a
similar similar nature on Popko's The Culture. It involves the
power of Wikipedia. Now do you use Wikipedia for show prep?
I do from time to time, I assume we all do.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
Do you travel in that right that you have to?
Speaker 4 (29:55):
It's kind of definitely to read the backstory on different
individuals hundred percent.
Speaker 3 (30:02):
And we find things. If you find something you're interested in,
you popping it. So I saw this story and it's uh,
I had not seen it before.
Speaker 1 (30:10):
Maybe maybe you had, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (30:12):
Uh, but it comes out of Vatican City and it
involves Wikipedia.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
And uh.
Speaker 3 (30:21):
So there's a flag for Vatican City, and uh, you
know who. People are into flags whatever. You're a Catholic,
you love the Vatican, you want to support the Vatican.
So people were going to Wikipedia and they were looking
at the flags and they wanted to get and they
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they thought it was a good looking flag whatever, so
they decided.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
To get it.
Speaker 3 (30:46):
And turns out, turns out, though that what had happened
here is that on Wikipedia for several years they had
the wrong Vatican City flag on the page. And as
a result, there are a bunch of fine, proud Catholic
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folks that have incorrect flags and apparently they're everywhere.
Speaker 4 (31:14):
Now.
Speaker 1 (31:14):
I don't know if that, how could they be everywhere?
Speaker 3 (31:16):
How many people are getting the flag of Vatican City,
I don't know. But it turns out the flag of
Vatican City displayed on Wikipedia had been wrong over the years,
and for like five years from twenty seventeen to twenty
twenty two, it was wrong. It was also wrong earlier
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they had fixed it, and then it was wrong again,
and so people were buying. So who's selling the wrong flag?
Though I don't get it, but people were buying it.
Speaker 4 (31:45):
So it sounds like our podcast promo.
Speaker 3 (31:49):
Oh yeah, with the gascon who's now retired from media,
living in Florida, eating the Early Bird Special and his
name is still on the podcast. That is outstanding. Also
just right, just wonderful. Last last pop goes to the culture.
We'll leave on this note. I love New Zealand. I
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have been a correspondent off and on for over a decade.
One of my good radio friends is Darcy Waldergrave, who
hosts a very popular show on the news talk station
in New Zealand and is kind enough to put me
on every once in a while to talk about American sports.
So I read this story out of New Zealand involving
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Air New Zealand.
Speaker 1 (32:32):
Did you see this? No, Air New.
Speaker 3 (32:36):
Zealand has started weighing passengers. Oh or they board international flights.
Speaker 4 (32:43):
Yeah, Spot had this in the midweek major segment. Yes,
this is actually they're doing research, right.
Speaker 3 (32:50):
Yeah, yeah, they're doing a survey to determine the average
weight of passengers. So they say they're doing a survey. Good,
that's no bueno on that.
Speaker 2 (33:05):
That is.
Speaker 4 (33:07):
Do you think they have a Carnival barker ben guessing
the weight on a microphone?
Speaker 3 (33:12):
Yeah, with the with the straw hat and these the
red and white striped jacket and the what do you think?
Speaker 1 (33:19):
What do you think?
Speaker 3 (33:20):
Three hundred lower the price of the ticket right here,
lower price for the ticket, you know, get on the
plane for free if you can get his fatty's weight,
gets the fatties weight right now?
Speaker 4 (33:29):
Come on, yeah, let's find out.
Speaker 3 (33:36):
Yeah, what do they do if there's somebody like really
really fat that they can't figure out the weight? Do
they come out and get like a farming or a
factory scale?
Speaker 1 (33:43):
Like what do they do there?
Speaker 3 (33:44):
Like, well, this this guy's a heifer. We better get
that big factory scale here. My god, man, all right,
we'll get out on that. Anything in remote. It is
a Friday. I am done. I did the overnight show
last night, so I have no commitments all for today,
at least broadcasting wise, other than this podcast, which means
I am now done.
Speaker 4 (34:06):
What do you have, Danny, Lucky Dog? As you are
napping and then making more taco meat. I will be
on with Covino and Rich. That's five to seven pm
in New York City.
Speaker 3 (34:17):
Big Apple, Big, We'll get out, have a wonderful day.
We got a new podcast all weekend. Wait till you're
hear my new Michigas on the Saturday podcast. Get the
Mailbag on Sunday and we'll get to all of that
and catch you next time.
Speaker 4 (34:34):
Later. Skater got a murder.
Speaker 2 (34:36):
I gotta go
Kabooms.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes
a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants
of the old Republic, a soul fashion of fairness. He
treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the
rich pill poppers in the penthouse.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
The Clearinghouse of Hot takes break free for something special.
The Fifth Hour with Ben Mahler starts right now.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
In the air andywhere back at it? In the podcast dojo.
The weekend is here. This is your weekend companion, your
best friends.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Every weekend.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
The Fifth Hour with Ben Mahler and Danny g Radio,
Because hey, why don't we do this eight days a week,
four hours a night?
Speaker 1 (00:51):
Not enough? Here we are again, Danny blah blah blah
blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. That's it.
See you next week, guys.
Speaker 4 (01:02):
This podcast lasts as long as the NBA playoffs. They're
still going.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
See, there's no reason to watch the regular season because
the playoffs take twelve months, So forget the regular season.
The playoffs go all year. They drag this stuff out anyway. Well,
we did have an NBA Finals game last night. I
I assume you watched, although I guess with the ratings
(01:28):
will come out later today, so we'll find out how
many people actually watched the Denver Nuggets and the Miami
Heat the Nicola Jokic NBA Finals.
Speaker 4 (01:39):
Yeah, it's so exciting to watch the Serbian Frankenstein. But
it could be worse, and it's still some basketball left.
And then when the basketball is over, there's gonna be crickets,
tumbleweeds and baseball stadiums.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Oh, come on, that's when we earn our money. I
love that time of the year. Are you kidding me?
Speaker 1 (01:58):
You can It's like COVID yet again.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
Then when the whole world shut down for several months,
we had no sports and we could talk about whatever
we wanted, and I did rants about marble racing and yes.
Speaker 4 (02:10):
Oh man, that's when you really won your Marconi Award.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Oh let me tell you something.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
The month of June, once the finals end, which is
about mid June, there is a solid month from mid
June until mid July, and really even longer than that
because training camps in the NFL start in mid July.
But it is about a month month and a half
where you know, there's that saying you got to separate
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the wheat from the shaft. I like the extended winners.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
That's the time, that is the time.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
But the good news is there's always some controversy. There's
always some scandal, so there will be something going on,
just like this podcast. People say, how do you come
up with new crap on the podcast? You do five
shows a week and all that stuff.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
I said, yeah, just keep.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
Throwing spaghetti against the wall. See what works. Keep throwing
spaghetti against the wall. And on this today's podcast, the
kickoff to the weekend we've got is that a softball?
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Are you glad to see me? Or are you glad
to see me?
Speaker 3 (03:11):
The word of the week, and by special request, an
extended dance remix of pop Goes the Culture and whatever
else we get to. So we'll get right into it now.
This beginning tale, which could have qualified for a Life
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of Malar's story on the Saturday podcast, but I wanted
to get to this right away on the fun Frivolity
of a Friday. So we're not doing the Animal Kingdom
this weekend. Maybe we'll bring that back next weekend. But
this could also be an Animal Kingdom story.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
But it's not.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
That's the original bit. That has nothing to do with
the Animal Thunderdome. No, completely unique and just a creation
in my mind.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Danny, that's it.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
How those lawyers, by the way, at iHeart how they
coming along and there everything good with that?
Speaker 4 (04:07):
Yes, I'm not sure they haven't emailed me in a
few weeks.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Yeah, the lawyers that I heard have not emailed you.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
But Animal Thunderdome, Danny will be eighty five years old,
his son will be you know, you know, God only knows,
and he'll be the one actually hosting Animal Thunderdome. That's
the surprise. But anyway, so but get to the storry.
So I was preparing it. How do all great fairy
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tales start? Once upon a time, seemed like just a
normal day at the Malor mansion getting ready. I'm a
creature a habit. We've talked about this in the past,
and I get asked from time to.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Times how to get ready for the show.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
And so I start each day out with a blank
canvas and I go wherever the sporting news of the
day takes me, which is kind of cool. It's it's
not a very repetitive job. There are stories that get repetitive.
If there's a big scandal, you can talk about that
day after day and that becomes annoying.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
But normally, or if Aaron Rodgers is spotted at a
Taylor Swift concert.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
Well yeah there's that too. But typically it changes and
there's different things.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
You're talking about many of the same things, but the
storylines changed, So it does keep the job fresh.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
It's like we're not talking about the same stuff every day.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
It's like if you do politics, you're pretty much talking
about the same crap every day. Pain in the ass anyway,
so it keeps thing special. And so earlier this week,
I'm putting the blocks, the building blocks together in the ecosystem,
creating the ecosystem that is the finished product and the
Overnight show.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
And what I do is I use.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
The process of elimination, and my goal is to find
at least four stories that I am fascinated by.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
I believe these are amazing stories.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
Because I don't like to repeat myself too much, and
so I try to find four things that I'm really
interested in I think would make for a good conversation
for a few minutes in the Malay monologue. And then
normally I don't find anything, and I'm freaking out. I'm like, ah,
this sucks. There's nothing to talk about DDA, nothing interesting,
and it sucks.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
But I want some of them to be equality. And so.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
The food groups are pretty much scandal when a scandal breaks.
Palace intrigue is great. Name calling always good talk radio.
We break down the games. You got to try to
find an angle to the games, and so those kind
of things. Class warfare is always good, like an owner
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spitting a loogie at fans, like what's going on in
Oakland right now, or a douchebag commissioner like Rob Manford
and major League Baseball. So those things are interesting to me,
and so we talk about those things. We try to
find those things. So doing the show, as we say,
it's it's not narrow casting. We're doing broadcast, right, That's
what they say, it's broadcasting. So we're trying to put
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this together and the very powerful microphones of FSR and
all the reach that we had, plus the podcast, so
there's a lot of stuff going on. So during the afternoon,
I start getting ready late afternoon and sometimes I want
to have some company.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
My wife is usually.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
At work and I'm all alone in the harnous Malar Mansion.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
But I do have Bella.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
So I do have Bella, my pal Bella, my dog Bella,
who's in the retirement home right now. Bella because she
could not control her shit and her piss, and she
decided to turn the Malor Mansion into an indoor you know,
complete Florida ceiling toilet. We decided that Bella needed to
go to her retirement home, which is in the Malor Mansion.
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It's just a small corner of the Malor Mansion. But
she's kind of like my service thought. If you willff,
I'm getting ready for the show.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
Just to paint the picture for you here.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
Just imagine I'm sitting on the sofa and I'm I've
got my laptop up. I'm I'm scanning my RSS feeds.
If you don't know what that is, that's usually how
I go through the different sources to find what I'm
talking about.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
I don't usually use Twitter.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
Much, especially not now since they changed it. It's pretty
much useless for what I need and so, and I
try to stay off Twitter anyway during the day. So
I have RSS fees I've used since I had Benmaller
dot com, and I've added to that, I always add
new feeds, and so I have a very unique way
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of trying to find stuff to talk about. And so
I start going through chopping down the big sink filled
with all kinds of dirty dishes. Anyway, get to the point.
So Bella is a wonderful lapdog dog. So again I'm
painting the pictures. I'm trying to find stuff to talk about.
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I'm sitting on the sofa. I've got like a blanket
on top of me, and I put Bella on top
of the blanket because I don't want any problems with
the sofas I figure if she she has a problem,
she can she can take care of the blanket.
Speaker 4 (09:21):
You know what I mean, Danny, Yeah, take out a
whole blanket instead of your leg or the.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
Sofa, exactly exactly. I don't have to change my shorts
or whatever.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
So imagine remember that old movie Austin Powers International.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
Amn of Mystery. Of course, remember Petting the Evil Cat,
Remember the.
Speaker 4 (09:38):
Cat that's you, but with Bella.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
Yeah, yeah, exactly. Bella's about the size of a small cat.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
So she's laying down.
Speaker 4 (09:45):
And you talk about your contract one billion dollars and
one billion dollars but anyway, she's she's.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
Laying down there, and normally she does not she does
not move very much. You pretty much put her down.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
I've done this from time to time, a couple of
times a week. I'll do it and she'll just sit
there and lay down and fall asleep and couldn't give two.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
Shits about me being there, right and just whatever.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
So I put her down. It's like a normal day.
I'm getting ready for the show. She's laying down and
she starts fusing around, and I what's going on here?
Why is my friend Bella fusing around?
Speaker 1 (10:24):
What's all?
Speaker 3 (10:25):
What's this all about? So but I'm like, I'm into something.
I'm trying to find a story, and I'm I found
something I was kind of interested in, so I was like,
all right, let me focus on this. So she starts
fussing around. So then I'm like, all right, maybe I
should pick her up and move her. And I pick
her up and she starts like kind of screaming a
little bit, and then it's like it's one of those moments.
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It's like, look up in the sky. Is it a baseball?
Is it a softball?
Speaker 1 (10:55):
No?
Speaker 3 (10:57):
It is a bella bathball, barfball, is that a softball
or are you glad to see me? This thing was
Oh man, it happened so fast, as the story always goes,
boom come boom. Yeah, my pal Bella, very small, normally
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sleeps all the time, and that's it. In the retirement
home had puked up a big chunk, just a massive
hunk of vomit. And Danny, I do not want to exaggerate.
I don't want to the vomit was the size if
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you look up in the sky at night, the moon.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
It was like ten times that. It was so disgusting.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
Now, fortunately I did have the blanket down. Now, Bella
has barfed in the past, most dogs do, but normally
it's like green goo, like she ate plants.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
Or something in the backyard she wasn't supposed to eat.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
But this time it counts because we're talking rotting, this rotting,
giant clump of black and yellow and orange, and it
was it was like oozing all over the blanket. It
was one of the most disgusting things that I have
ever witnessed, right on top of me.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
So I I my first move. I'm like, oh man,
this is a well I'll get to that in a minute.
So so At this point, I'm like, I didn't know
what to do.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
I put my laptop away because I'm like, I can't
get barf on that.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
I need that for work, So I put that down.
Speaker 4 (12:38):
Your keyboard.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
Oh my god.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
So then I'm like moving the blanket and I'm looking.
It's right on my lap. You know, It's like, oh man,
this smells. It's terrible. So then I kind of put
the blanket. I wrapped the blanket around it. I then
Bella's still freaking out. I grabbed the dog. I run
back to her little caged retirement home. I toss her
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in there. I then have to come back and then
I have that uncomfortable thing where I have to decide what.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
To do with the blanket.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
Ibou said, wash it, But do I wash it with
the giant hunk of vomit or do I take the vomit.
I got to take the vomit out, but at this point,
the vomit has been oozing all over the blanket.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
So now the blanket's covered.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
It's like this white blanket, but it's covered with this
black and orange and yellow like layer. It's just terrible.
So I grabbed some paper towels and I I scooped
up the mass of disgusting this and I went over
to the trash. I then grabbed the blanket. I tossed
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it in the washing machine, turned it on as hot
as temperature as I could get, put a bunch of
chemicals in there. I turned the thing on, and I said, oh, man,
then I had to go wash my hands. So then
I want you know how when you really touched disgusting things,
even though I had my paper towels, I washed my
hands probably for seven eight minutes. This was like early
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on in COVID when you thought you had to really
wash your hands or else you were screwed.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
You know that kind of thing. So I washed my hands.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
And then now for the as Paul Harvey said back
in the day, the rest of the story. You know
the news, but you're about to find out the rest
of the story. So it turns out, and I didn't
realize this at the time, Danny, you asked the question,
what did I feed Bella? So I had had a
very nice meal of tacos at the Malord mansion. There
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are some delicious tacos, and I ate as much as
I could eat. I did not finish the meal, and
I decided rather than throw away the leftovers, I would
just leave a little bit for Bella. And I'd forgotten
about this, And so Bella she really loved the tacos,
the meat.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
She ate.
Speaker 3 (14:59):
A lot of the meat was left over, and it
turns out she does not digest taco beat well. And yeah,
so that's the last time in Bella's life.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
She will be getting taco meat. So that's that's it.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
And so no good deed goes unpunished, Danny, good deed
goes unpunished. So that was my that was my day.
And then of course I had to get back and
get ready for the show. And good times, wonderful times.
Turning the page on that we have the word of
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the week. The word of the week, Danny.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
This is exciting.
Speaker 4 (15:43):
I feel like it's the year two thousand right now,
and we were all scared to get in an elevator.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
No, no, no, no, this is a different iconic thing.
This is not something from the past. This is brand new.
So the word of the week this week.
Speaker 4 (15:58):
I feel like Karen k is gonna come on right
now there you.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
I've tried to get her on. She won't come on
the podcast. All right, here we go the word of
the week. The word of the week is a word
that we use on Fox Sports Radio. We use it
for the NBA playoffs, the NHL playoffs, and the Major
League Baseball playoffs. We do not use it for football.
But it is a term that is pretty much only
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used in the sports world, the term when a team
is facing elimination and they win a game, we.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
Say they staved off elimination, right.
Speaker 4 (16:41):
Staved Yeah, not everybody says that. That's kind of a
classic term.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
Well, Joe, we had a conversation when Joe Buck was
working at Fox and I was doing the Blitz. We
had Joe Buck on and he brought Looney I think
asked him about that, if I remember correctly, and Looney,
of course, being a douche, I love him, But he asked, Joe,
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what stave off elimination?
Speaker 1 (17:10):
Why do you use that?
Speaker 3 (17:11):
And of course Joe went into some rant about how
his father had used it or whatever. But so I
was actually I used this term on the air, and
I think it was Ferg Dog or Alf the Alien
of Pineer or somebody else.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
I forget.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
One of the guys asked me, said, what does that mean?
Stave off elimination. So I said, you know what, why
not that would be a good word of the week,
and so here it is the word of the week.
Like the Boston Celtics for three games staved off elimination
and then they were electrocuted in Game seven, and that's
why the Miami heater in the NBA Finals. What's you're
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going on right now? So stave stave. The word stave
originally from the fifteen forties.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
Think about that. This is almost a five hundred year
old word.
Speaker 4 (17:58):
Stave. Need to spell this word.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
It's sta ve.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
Stave is how you spell the word stave off elimination.
So it goes back to the fifteen forest. Now, originally
it meant to fit with staves. From the noun versions,
the meaning is to break into staves. It's from that
originally came from the fifteen nineties, and it was a
nautical term. It was a nautical term. The more modern
(18:29):
version which is not really more modern, but it's the
version we use stave off elimination. But we the term
stave off comes from the sixteen twenties, so this is
from four hundred years ago, and it literally means to
keep off with a staff as one is beset.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
By wolves or dogs.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
So when we say stave off elimination, that is a
term that goes back to the sixteen twenties and its
literal meaning is to keep off with the staff if
you are attacked by wolves and dogs, and that stave
off elimination is your word.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
Of the week. Word of the week.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
So moving on from that, do we have my man
ohio al for a little Pop goes to the culture?
Speaker 1 (19:27):
Do we have that ready to go?
Speaker 4 (19:28):
Yeah, I'll fire it up right now.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
Job John, Thank you my man ohio Al. Good job
by you. So Pop goes to the culture. These are
some of the stories we didn't talk about on the
radio show. At least I didn't talk about, and maybe
Danny did with Covino and Rich on the show that
(19:57):
he works on. But Pop goes the culture. Here's a
fun story from Hollywood. This is the second time in
the last month we've talked about this. A very old
Hollywood star has knocked up a much younger lady and
is going to have a kid. The latest is al Pacino,
(20:22):
who is eighty three years old.
Speaker 4 (20:24):
We talked about this this past Wednesday. Old dudes having babies.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
Yeah, and his girlfriend is twenty nine years old, and
they did consummate the relationship. And so al Pacino is
having a kid that will be born when he's eighty
four years old, and so Al to see the kid
graduate from high school. If my math, unless the kid's
like a MENSA member, Al's going to have to make
(20:53):
it past one hundred here for that math to work.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
So good luck to Al.
Speaker 4 (20:59):
You know, he's twenty nine year old bride. You know
who her ex is?
Speaker 1 (21:02):
No, I don't know anything about her.
Speaker 4 (21:04):
Clint Eastwood?
Speaker 1 (21:06):
Oh really Yeah?
Speaker 4 (21:08):
So she loves the older actors.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
Hey, man, that's her. That's her thing. Huh, that's her jam.
It's gets her all excited. I guess, man, what's that?
So Al Pacino, let me do the math on this.
Speaker 4 (21:21):
And happy birthday. Clint Eastwood just turned ninety three the
other day.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
Oh I have a Clint Eastwood story.
Speaker 4 (21:27):
By the way.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
Uh, let's see the math on this. So this girl,
she's twenty nine, she's a woman, but she's twenty nine.
Pacino's eighty three. So that means you.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
Do the math on that.
Speaker 3 (21:39):
Pacino was fifty four years old when she was born.
That means we're both happily married. But for some reason,
it didn't work out that our future bride hasn't been
born yet by that math, right, Holy crap, that is insane.
(22:01):
So my Clint Eastwood story I got invited got I
forget the name of it was a baseball movie a
few years ago, about to scout for the Atlanta Braves.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
Do you remember that movie?
Speaker 3 (22:12):
It was a female Clint Eastwood was in it.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
Sounds familiar anyway, So I got advanced.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
I got invited to an advanced screening in Hollywood and
we were reviewing the movie.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
And I had never been to one of these things.
Speaker 3 (22:27):
These things go on at theaters around LA all the time,
but I'd never get invited these things. But we were
at that event because I'm a sports guy. So it
was a sports movie, so they invited me.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
Whoo, fever Pitch? Was that the name of it?
Speaker 4 (22:42):
Trouble with the curve? That's what comes up when you
type in Clint Eastwood baseball movie. Let see here? Uh?
Speaker 1 (22:55):
Yeah, it was.
Speaker 4 (22:57):
It was about a scout in the redheaded actress in
that Yeah, what what's her name? Adams?
Speaker 1 (23:05):
So it wasn't fever Pitch. There was something else. It was.
Speaker 4 (23:08):
What was it called Trouble with the Curve.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
I don't remember the name of the movie.
Speaker 3 (23:12):
Let me let me look here, so if I see
the thing, Trouble with the Curve, let's see.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
Oh yeah that's about right.
Speaker 4 (23:21):
Yeah, starring Amy Adams.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, you're right. Why did I think
it was Fever Pitch? I guess Trouble with the Curve
wasn't that popular movie? Fever Pitch meant more to me?
Speaker 1 (23:29):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (23:30):
Justin Timberlake was in it too, Okay.
Speaker 3 (23:33):
Yeah, So anyway, they had the screening and I didn't
know this until after, but Clint Eastwood was in the
in the front. He came in after they started the
movie and he left just after the movie ended, and
we saw it.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
We saw him wandering wandering away there. So I was like, oh,
I was in the same movie with the theater with
Clint Eastwood. Man, that guy's a badass back in the day.
Speaker 4 (23:56):
So in this case, people could clap at the end
of the movie and it actually would mean because the
guy in the movie or directed the movie was there.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (24:05):
Yeah, So we were like a test audience and they
told us before They were like, well, this is not
the final edit. We might edit it more some of
this will be in the movie, some of it may not.
And so essentially when people graded different parts of the movie,
that's what they decided how to keep it and what
to take out of it. Which is fascinating with all
(24:26):
the shitty movies that they make, that they actually go
through these lengths to vet the movies.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
And they still put shit out. It's amazing to me,
you know what I'm saying. It's like nuts.
Speaker 3 (24:39):
Anyway, pop goes to culture. Another old guy, Bruce Springsteen.
Do you see this in the last week seventy three
years old and fell off the stage. Fell off the
stage at age seventy three.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
Yeah, not good, not good.
Speaker 3 (24:58):
He was playing at an arena in Amsterdam and he
took a nasty fall. This and this happened last weekend.
And Springsteen hanging out with his buddies in the Eastreet
East Street band there performing a song from a couple
of years ago, uh, from from Ghosts.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
And you know he's getting up there, Springsteen, and you
know he's doing his thing and.
Speaker 3 (25:26):
I can't I just noticed. You can't see it, Dan,
So there's no point in me playing it because it's
a video clip. So bad job by me. But Yeah,
he took He took a bit of a stumble there.
He took a bit of a stumble.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
That's unfortunate for I.
Speaker 4 (25:40):
Mean it was in Amsterdam. Do you think that he
was on any substances.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
Well, when in Rome, act as a Roman, and when
in Amsterdam you got a smoke.
Speaker 4 (25:52):
Yep, you gonna do it.
Speaker 3 (25:57):
Uh, let's see what else we had. Pop goes to alter. Oh,
I love this story. This is probably my favorite story
of the week. Well, I got two favorite stories on
Popco's the Culture. This one comes from the state of Maryland.
And you know how you can buy license plates that
are like specialty license plates in each state they make
extra money.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
You know what I'm taking.
Speaker 4 (26:17):
In California, we have the blacked out license plate right.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
Now exactly they have that.
Speaker 3 (26:21):
There's a few different California plates, but every state has
does this because it's an easy way to make money
and just have a bunch of dudes in prison make
these these license plates.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
So this is great.
Speaker 3 (26:33):
So the state of Maryland in the around two thousand
and seven ish through twy ten, they had a specialty plate.
The design of the plate was to celebrate the war.
To commemorate the war of eighteen twelve. The license plate
(26:54):
originated from the bi Centennial Commission for the War of
eighteen twelve was created in seven and this nonprofit group
partnered with the State of Maryland.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
So they put this license plate out.
Speaker 3 (27:08):
This is a great story, right, And so they put
this license plate out. Whatever, they had a website on
the license plate, and the Maryland Motor Vehicle Administration was.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
All on board on this.
Speaker 3 (27:21):
They were all excited because they charged money and people
paid extra money and.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
This is great.
Speaker 3 (27:27):
Well, it turns out that the website that was on
the license plate, the people that put that on the
license plate, they did not keep paying for the URL,
and the URL was sold at one of the auctioning
(27:48):
websites and was purchased by a gambling house in the Philippines.
Right now, right now, any there are currently step one
hundred and ninety eight thousand license plates from the state
(28:08):
of Maryland that have a URL on them for a
Philippine Filipino gambling website. Ow awesome is that? How great
is that? Now?
Speaker 4 (28:24):
This is how you needed to bring back Benmallard dot com.
Speaker 3 (28:27):
Oh, I know, right, these are the kind of stories
I loved on benmallar dot com.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
Oh my god, it's so good. And I'll give out
the website.
Speaker 3 (28:37):
Why not, It's on every other license plate in the
state of Maryland. But the url is star Spangled two
thousand dot org and that will take you to a
gambling website. And anyway, needless to say, it's very.
Speaker 4 (28:55):
I'm saying you should have bought that url to put
benmallard dot com.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
That is true, that you are not kidding on that.
That is wow? Is that great?
Speaker 3 (29:06):
Man?
Speaker 1 (29:06):
Is that wonderful?
Speaker 3 (29:07):
Which tells you, by the way, that nobody really pays
attention to those URLs on license plates, right, Otherwise this
would have been figured out years ago, because it's been
this way for a while apparently. And the people in Maryland,
the political hacks, are desperately trying to They're trying to
figure out what to do, which is just just wonderful.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
I love that. I love that.
Speaker 3 (29:34):
So I also love this story, which is of a
similar similar nature on Popko's The Culture. It involves the
power of Wikipedia. Now do you use Wikipedia for show prep?
I do from time to time, I assume we all do.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
Do you travel in that right that you have to?
Speaker 4 (29:55):
It's kind of definitely to read the backstory on different
individuals hundred percent.
Speaker 3 (30:02):
And we find things. If you find something you're interested in,
you popping it. So I saw this story and it's uh,
I had not seen it before.
Speaker 1 (30:10):
Maybe maybe you had, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (30:12):
Uh, but it comes out of Vatican City and it
involves Wikipedia.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
And uh.
Speaker 3 (30:21):
So there's a flag for Vatican City, and uh, you
know who. People are into flags whatever. You're a Catholic,
you love the Vatican, you want to support the Vatican.
So people were going to Wikipedia and they were looking
at the flags and they wanted to get and they
(30:42):
they thought it was a good looking flag whatever, so
they decided.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
To get it.
Speaker 3 (30:46):
And turns out, turns out, though that what had happened
here is that on Wikipedia for several years they had
the wrong Vatican City flag on the page. And as
a result, there are a bunch of fine, proud Catholic
(31:08):
folks that have incorrect flags and apparently they're everywhere.
Speaker 4 (31:14):
Now.
Speaker 1 (31:14):
I don't know if that, how could they be everywhere?
Speaker 3 (31:16):
How many people are getting the flag of Vatican City,
I don't know. But it turns out the flag of
Vatican City displayed on Wikipedia had been wrong over the years,
and for like five years from twenty seventeen to twenty
twenty two, it was wrong. It was also wrong earlier
(31:36):
they had fixed it, and then it was wrong again,
and so people were buying. So who's selling the wrong flag?
Though I don't get it, but people were buying it.
Speaker 4 (31:45):
So it sounds like our podcast promo.
Speaker 3 (31:49):
Oh yeah, with the gascon who's now retired from media,
living in Florida, eating the Early Bird Special and his
name is still on the podcast. That is outstanding. Also
just right, just wonderful. Last last pop goes to the culture.
We'll leave on this note. I love New Zealand. I
(32:10):
have been a correspondent off and on for over a decade.
One of my good radio friends is Darcy Waldergrave, who
hosts a very popular show on the news talk station
in New Zealand and is kind enough to put me
on every once in a while to talk about American sports.
So I read this story out of New Zealand involving
(32:31):
Air New Zealand.
Speaker 1 (32:32):
Did you see this? No, Air New.
Speaker 3 (32:36):
Zealand has started weighing passengers. Oh or they board international flights.
Speaker 4 (32:43):
Yeah, Spot had this in the midweek major segment. Yes,
this is actually they're doing research, right.
Speaker 3 (32:50):
Yeah, yeah, they're doing a survey to determine the average
weight of passengers. So they say they're doing a survey. Good,
that's no bueno on that.
Speaker 2 (33:05):
That is.
Speaker 4 (33:07):
Do you think they have a Carnival barker ben guessing
the weight on a microphone?
Speaker 3 (33:12):
Yeah, with the with the straw hat and these the
red and white striped jacket and the what do you think?
Speaker 1 (33:19):
What do you think?
Speaker 3 (33:20):
Three hundred lower the price of the ticket right here,
lower price for the ticket, you know, get on the
plane for free if you can get his fatty's weight,
gets the fatties weight right now?
Speaker 4 (33:29):
Come on, yeah, let's find out.
Speaker 3 (33:36):
Yeah, what do they do if there's somebody like really
really fat that they can't figure out the weight? Do
they come out and get like a farming or a
factory scale?
Speaker 1 (33:43):
Like what do they do there?
Speaker 3 (33:44):
Like, well, this this guy's a heifer. We better get
that big factory scale here. My god, man, all right,
we'll get out on that. Anything in remote. It is
a Friday. I am done. I did the overnight show
last night, so I have no commitments all for today,
at least broadcasting wise, other than this podcast, which means
I am now done.
Speaker 4 (34:06):
What do you have, Danny, Lucky Dog? As you are
napping and then making more taco meat. I will be
on with Covino and Rich. That's five to seven pm
in New York City.
Speaker 3 (34:17):
Big Apple, Big, We'll get out, have a wonderful day.
We got a new podcast all weekend. Wait till you're
hear my new Michigas on the Saturday podcast. Get the
Mailbag on Sunday and we'll get to all of that
and catch you next time.
Speaker 4 (34:34):
Later. Skater got a murder.
Speaker 2 (34:36):
I gotta go
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