June 17, 2023 • 29 mins
Ben Maller & his 5th Hour homie Danny G. have Saturday fun! They're talking: the Big John, the Scene of the Crime, 15.2 Miles, Phrase of the Week, & more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Kutbooms.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes
a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants
of the old Republic, a soul fashion of fairness. He
treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the
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of hot takes. Break free for something special. The Fifth
(00:23):
Hour with Ben Maller starts right now in.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
The a every way, welcome in. It is the Fifth Hour,
you know that already with Ben Maller and Danny G
Radio and we're hanging out. You're like, what are you doing?
It's Saturday. You shouldn't be working now. We work every day, Danny,
no days off, no days off. It's either live radio
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during the week or a little podcast fun.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
Yep on the weekends.
Speaker 4 (00:56):
And this is the part of the sports calendar where
the weak asses who try to do sports go run
and hide, and the strength of the sports backbone of
America come out and not only cover baseball but also
professional marble shooting.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Damn right, And I am never ever concerned. I remember
when I first started in radio, and this time of
the year, guys would freak out. They'd have anxiety attacks.
Every radio station I worked at when I was a
young kid. I started in the business was in nineteen
it's like nineteen twenty, twenty one, twenty two, twenty. These
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guys would be shitting bricks.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
What are we gonna do?
Speaker 1 (01:38):
There's nothing going on, you know. But at least back
in those days there was interest in baseball more now
than now. You know, they did talk baseball on the radio,
but they'd always go back to the default answer, which
was Pete Rose, should he be reinstated into baseball? Oh?
That was always the go to.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
They had to make up their own fake drama.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Yeah, well, it's like the news shows in those days.
They did abortion. I guess that's still a thing all
these years later. And guns that was also So there's
like certain boilerplate topics that you do when you do
a radio show. But yet it's so easy, not easy,
but it's so much easier than it had been now
(02:24):
because just about every professional athlete is feeding the content
kitty by saying stupid things or doing stupid things, and
so we didn't have that before, not this time of
the year. So it's been pretty good on this podcast.
The Saturday Special. We've got Big John, the scene of
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the crime, fifteen point two miles, Phrase of the week,
and Pop goes the culture. That's a lot of content.
We're gonna have to get through it quickly, so we
will attempt to get through everything. I always put too
much in the show. If you noticed that, Danny, have
you noticed that?
Speaker 4 (03:01):
Yes, it works out well because you listen to these
in order, hopefully, and it all just flows over like
a waterfall.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
I try to shove fifteen pounds of crap and a
two pound bag is what I try to do. So Barbi,
this life of mal or life of Danny g is
what we often do on the Saturday podcast. I last weekend,
I had dinner with a buddy of mine and yesterday
we told the story about the cheeseburger in Paradise. And
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you didn't hear that story. You can go back, So I.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
Go dirty Burger.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
Yeah exactly. So my wife was working and I had
the option. I could have stayed home and made some
food by myself. And I was like, my wife's like
you should go out, you should you know, go you know,
meet your friends or whatever. So it's like okay, you know,
and I called a few people up and they're like,
I can't go do my wife won't let me go,
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or you know, you know that kind of thing, you know,
things you get when you're a middle aged man asking
friends to go to dinner on a Saturday. So whatever.
So I went down my roll the decks and I
found a friend I used to work with in Rady
who's been on this podcast. Who you know, the Prince
of Darkness, the original Prince of Darkness, Lee Ah Kleine.
So I met Lee at the one of our old
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places who I used to hang out with Lee all
the time when I was a young guy, because no
women would hang out with me, but Lee would hang
out with me.
Speaker 4 (04:26):
And we used to still a dark cloud that follows
over the top of him as he walks.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Yes, oh, we'll get to that in a minute. So
I met my friend Lee. I haven't seen him since April,
and we check out, you know, we check check check
out our and we catch up. As what I'm trying
to say, we catch up every few months. And so
we go to old Stomgres So I used to live
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kind of near If you're familiar with the geography of
Los Angeles, I used to live right near where the
Grove is Farmer's Market in LA and Lee lives in
the South Bay kind of that part of LA in
that area. So halfway we determined was Calver City. So
we would often meet in Culver City because it was halfway.
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There's a movie studio there. It's like a movie it's
like a movie TV time. So we met in Culver
City at one of our old stomping grounds, Johnny's Pastrami,
which is a legendary pastrami place there and they've been
around forever. And so it's Saturday night. Now. I had
actually gone to the Angel game prior to going to
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Johnny's Pastrami. So I met my friend Lee after the game.
So we get there and we're debating what the order.
Now you have two options. Now we've been there so
much we know the entire menu. We also remember when
it was actually affordable to eat a Johnny's pastrami, which
was I think twenty years ago. Anyway, so whatever, doing
this a long time. So we decide, I'm like I'm
(05:57):
getting I'm going pastrami. You go to Johnny's astrom It's
in the name. I'm gonna get Astromi. But they also
make really good burgers, and so Lee's like, I'm getting
the Big John. That's what I'm getting, a Big John,
because that's a really good it's like a double burger.
It's it's pretty big. So and they give you other
stuff on the side. All right, So we order the
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food and the waitress is nice. You know, they're not
that busy whatever. There's a little fire pits so you
can sit outside. We sat outside. There's not much inside seating.
It's an old school diner. So we're waiting for the
food comes. There's a basket of fries in the middle
community property. There's pastrami on my side, same as I remember.
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And then Lee gets the burger and it looks totally
different than what it had looked like. Now you have
two options. You can either just eat the burger and
say that's fine, or you can raise Holy Hell, like
this is a war crime and you have just you know,
(07:04):
you need to go to Dante's Inferno. What do you
think my friend Lee did, And you know him and
you've had some situations with him in the past, what
do you think he did?
Speaker 3 (07:14):
Yeah, well, you know my experience with him.
Speaker 4 (07:18):
I don't think the listeners really know, but the first
time I met him, he just made racist joke after
racist Mexican joke. And it turns out I'm Spanish and Sicilian,
I'm not Mexican, But anyways, that doesn't matter to a
guy like him. And he's like really loud, and some
of it's playful. So I can see, you know, at
(07:38):
the at your Christmas party, we're kind of laughing, like
this guy needs to drink another one. But I'm going
to say, in a situation like this, and he's already
probably in a bad mood for overpaying for a burger
that would have been affordable twenty years ago, so he
probably went and raised hell at the front.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Yeah, so it's it's a total ship show now that Lee. Uh.
The way he breaks the ice, he's he's older. And
the way he breaks the ice he is, uh to
make offensive comments. That's how he breaks the ice at
social eng so, uh, don't take it personally, Danny. He
does it everywhere. It's very uncomfortable.
Speaker 4 (08:16):
But anyway, so he called somebody a beaner there too
at the restaurant racist.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Uh No, there was no but but but anyway, so whatever, anyway, Lee, Uh,
you know, he's he's complaining.
Speaker 4 (08:30):
He's a lovable older guy. He's kind of like your
racist grandfather.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Yeah, exactly. So anyway, he's complaining to the to the waitress.
So she can't you know, they come back, how's your food?
Which is a rhetorical question, she just did. If you
ask that, if you just you assume great, nobody's gonna
say no. And but he did. He's like, that's just
this is not a big John. You know, this is
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not this is not what I ordered.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
This is a little John.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
And uh so she looks at the burger and she
kind of ex amz is it? And she said, well, no,
that's a that's a big John. And he says, no,
it's not. I've been coming here for you know, thirty years,
and I've had this burger, you know, hundreds of times,
and that ain't the big Johnt. And she she looks
at it again and she examines the burger and she says,
(09:17):
that's a big John. And then here, you know, we're
going back and forth and he's like, well, no, that's
not what I paid for. I don't give me the menu.
Where's the menu? So he's like pointing at the menu,
and she says, well and then he's like, oh, how
long you worked here? And the and the waitress is like, well,
I worked here like four years or something like, well,
I've been coming here thirty right. So he's going on
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and on, and I'm like, I'm like, oh, mercy, get
me out of here, you know, I am. And then
so so they're going back and forth, and then of
course it's, uh, you know, where's the owner, you know,
where's the manager, you know that kind of thing, whether
they're not here. You know, it's, uh, you know, I
can't do anything they're not here. And then Lee's like, oh,
of course you can't do anything. You know, that's the
(10:00):
the world these days and all that stuff. So we
went back and forth and he finally just gave up,
which is shocking, and said, fine, I'll eat the burger
and I will never come here again.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
Now, more importantly, how was your pastrami?
Speaker 1 (10:20):
Where it was great? It was wonderful, And it was
good because if I had given my pastrami back, they
would have spit Loogi's all over the pastrami if I'd
given the food back. But I did not do that,
and fortunately everything was all right. But yeah, it was
it was uncomfortable and I've had my shared Danny of
uncomfortable situations, and I try to not make a scene.
(10:45):
I I attempt to be like a wall, like a
plant on a wall, A wallflower is what I try
to be, just in the background there. But occasionally I
get dragged in to these situations. So the Big John.
Speaker 4 (11:04):
But it backfired a little bit because by the time
he finally ate it, after he gave up, it was
probably cold.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
Yes, yes it was. I will have more on the
coldness at another point, possibly this podcast. I might even
have it on this podcast. Johnny SPASTROMI was the scene
of the crime, but not the scene of the crime,
if you know what I'm saying, Dan.
Speaker 4 (11:27):
Yeah, it sounds like a couple of overpriced places are
going to be mentioned on this Saturday edition of Our
Fifth Hour. If you remember back to two baseball seasons ago,
and I spoke about it on this very podcast. The
WiFi and I at the time, I think we were engaged.
We took the family to Opening Night at Dodger Stadium,
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and we were so excited. The seats were pricey, but
you kind of expect that for Opening day slash Opening Night.
What we did expect was the price of parking, the
overpriced food, which you know it's been overpriced in the past,
but now it's gone up tenfold. We wound up that
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night spending nine hundred and fifty.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
Dollars, Blank my blank, and blank you.
Speaker 4 (12:18):
A family of five for Dodger Stadium nine hundred and
fifty dollars.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
Yes, so reminds you when I was a kid and
they used to have commercials the greatest deal in town.
Dodger Baseball got out. Family of four could come out
for thirty dollars. Okay, yep.
Speaker 4 (12:35):
Obviously left a really bad taste in our mouth. We
have not gone back to the ballpark since because that
we can't afford that, and it's easier and better to
just watch on our big flat screen in the living room.
But somebody offered me some seats, got four comp seats
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and it was will smithlehead night. But I have an
eight month pregnant woman who needs to get as close
to the seats as possible. So the first security person
told us where to go for special parking that would
put us right near our section. And when we finally
get around the stadium, it's the back end of the
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stadium where you can see the La City Skyline. Two
rude security guards later, we finally found Bugs, who listens
to this podcast bat right Bugs Bugs? And you know
why because after I introduced myself and talked to Bugs,
I told him all about the fifth hour, and he
promised he was going to tune in on his phone.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
Right, And I said, give him a shout out. He
is the man.
Speaker 4 (13:45):
He runs the parking lot basically, so all the radio
calls were coming to him, and so he put us.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
In parking spot twenty.
Speaker 4 (13:54):
He stood there and blocked the traffic while he let
me back into the spot.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
It was beautiful.
Speaker 4 (14:00):
But then when we got out of the car and
we started walking into the stadium, another security guard was like,
oh yeah, you have to walk like three blocks that way.
So here's my pregnant wife waddling like a big penguin
and I'm like, okay, let's go slow.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
We're not in a hurry.
Speaker 4 (14:19):
First forty thousand get this bobblehead. But we'll definitely be
part of that first forty thousand. So we get in there,
we get our bobbleheads, and you know how it is
with bobblehead night, What a thrill to hold that up.
It's like you know Lion King where they're holding the
next king up to the sky?
Speaker 1 (14:38):
Heid you Jesus.
Speaker 4 (14:41):
Instead of nine hundred and fifty dollars I paid dinner,
I paid parking.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
What do you think it costs this time?
Speaker 1 (14:49):
Well, I actually happened to be at that game Tuesday night, Danny.
I didn't know you were there. What I would have
said low to you and your wife. But I did
walk around and I looked at the concessions, and my
my eyeballs literally popped out of my head when I
looked at the price of the food. So is you?
(15:10):
Your wife? Was it just and who?
Speaker 3 (15:13):
And two of the kids?
Speaker 1 (15:14):
The kids? And then the kids are they're cha teenagers? Okay,
so they eat a lot. I'm gonna say, for all
four of you food parking, did anyone get a souvenir?
Speaker 3 (15:31):
Uh? Just a clear carry bag for my wifey?
Speaker 1 (15:35):
Did you buy that outside the stadium? One of those
guys hacked hawking them outside of the station.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
No. I bought it inside the gift shop.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
Okay, so that costs you a lot more money. I'm
gonna say.
Speaker 4 (15:45):
Two point fifty really good, guess all right?
Speaker 3 (15:50):
Two and twenty five dollars for the whole night.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
All right, there you go. So as long as you
don't have to buy the tickets, you're you're, you're okay.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
I guess that's what I was saying.
Speaker 4 (16:00):
And I want to get some more seats and give
them away to our listeners that are in southern California,
because how in the hell can you bring your family
nowadays to a ballpark and pay for all of that.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
No, it's it's insane. It's absolutely insane. And uh yeah,
it's what did you eat? By the way, what did
you did you get the chicken? There's a bunch of
new restaurants at Dodger Stadium, like, there's all kinds.
Speaker 4 (16:24):
Of I found my way down to level two for
the food. It was like a Mexican spot racist carne
asada fries as well as nachos, and then a couple
of Dodger dogs and oh and a couple of carnea
sada tacos.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
See, all right, let me know the next time you
because I have a hookup with the Dodger Dogs. I
can get your free Dodger dogs. I can do that.
That's about all I can get you.
Speaker 4 (16:52):
Yeah, you have a long trench coat with Dodger dogs
stuffed inside the pocket.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
Yeah, I know I know a guy, all right, and
you know I know a guy that would would help
me with that. But that's about it. Yeah, all right,
Well there you go.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
So you go much much better experience.
Speaker 4 (17:11):
And we were like, wow, that was nice back after
a two year protest. It was like we were Oakland
A's fans for two years.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
Yeah, I have not been out that much. I think
I'm gonna get out there more now. You know, they're
they're forcing me against my will to come back to
the studio quite often. So I'm not in the north Woods.
It's a long drive and all that. Well, speaking of that,
I have my own Dodger related story to share and
we'll calling this fifteen point two miles. So I was
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at the same Dodger game Danny was at. It was
on a Tuesday night, and so I have a whole routine,
It's a whole all this michigans I have to go
through to go to a game because I work at
night and I have to prepare for the show and
all this. So and I live so far away, it's
like when I come in, it's a hole to do.
So to go and plan out the whole night. I
was like, Okay. Originally I was going to eat it.
(18:04):
I get a bite to eat at the house, save
a little money. But my wife had worked an extra
long shift at the police station. She's a nine one
to one operator, so she worked an extra long shift.
And she normally normally have lunch together, or she'll make
food for me or whatever, because on workdays I don't
really cook. And so and I happened to be eating
this dance and I didn't want to get up early.
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So I was like, all right, I'll go find some food.
So I was like, I go anywhere I want, you know.
And I was like, you know what I'm gonna do.
I love Tito's Tacos. Oh yeah, I know. I'm gonna
stop by Tito's. I'll pick up some tacos. I'll quickly
get back on the road and I'll make it to
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Dodger Stadium. I'll then eat the tacos in the parking
lot at Dodger Stadium. I will then go in and
I will prepare for the show. I had all planned
out in my head, right, best laid plans of mice
men and gas bags. So and it happened to be
Taco Tuesday, not that it matters. And so Tito's Tacos
is so good that I will literally empty my wallet.
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And it is the worst. The price gouge you. It's
like a hotel after a hurricane and there's one room available.
They just gouge you. It's so embarrassing what they do
at that place. Five sixty five for a taco with cheese.
One taco they charged like a dollar fifty for cheese.
(19:31):
That's obscene too, But for me, five sixty five's about
my limit. Yeah, taco and I got a few tacos
and they give you a big box. And the cool
thing about Tito's they give you a box and they
put chips in there and salsa.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
What did that used to cost you at Tito's.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
I used to go. I remember my order. I could
get five tacos and it was like, I think it
was like eighteen bucks or something like that one point
when I first started going there. And I'm the kind
of guy when I go to restaurants, like I'm back
when I was single, I would always count out, I'd cash.
I paid with cash. Now everyone pays with Curray cars.
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But I'd always bring the exact amount. And I can't
tell you the number of times I would go to
Tito's and over the years, and I'd bring the exact amount,
and then it'd be like, well that's two dollars more.
Now we raised our prices, you know.
Speaker 3 (20:19):
I was like, wait a minute, So.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
Anyway, so I get to the point, please, so I
get my tacos. I'm excited. I now I couldn't eat
them at Tito's. And the reason I couldn't eat them
at Titos, Danny, is I have not a handicap. But
I had my gallbladder taken out a few years back.
I think it was twenty twenty nineteen. I believe it was,
So I had my gallbladder taken out. So when you
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have your gallbladder taken out, if you eat greasy foods
and you fast, it is those are all the ingredients
to a cluster bomb coming right out of your banunca dunk.
So I have to be close to a bath. Not
could have. I could have eaten at Titos and just
waited about half an hour for the explosion to happen.
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But I decided not to do that because I wanted
to be closer to Dodger stay in and I figured
traffic would pile up. So I got my tacos, I
get in the car, and I was literally only at
Tito's for like five minutes. There was no line because
why would there be aligned Most people don't want to
pay five sixty five for tacos. They used to always
be a line there, there'd be fifteen lines. Now every
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time I go, there's no line whatever. So I get
in the car, I get set the GPS, I'm driving.
I'm driving, I'm cruising, and all of a sudden, oh no,
nothing but tail lights. Now, if you're not familiar with LA,
there's a freeway, the ten Freeway, which guy know goes
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all the way across the country, but in La proper
it ends at the Pacific Ocean in Santa Monica. From
the west side of LA goes all the way through
like Brent Woods around there, Culver City, the West Way.
These are some of the most congested parts of Los Angeles.
Speaker 4 (22:06):
I would argue that that ten through Culver City is
the worst freeway in southern California, and.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
I wouldn't disagree. Somehow, I had so I had a
brain fog and I just typed in the GPS I
didn't really look at the time, and I got on
the ten Freeway and it was fifteen point two miles
from Tito's to Dodger Stadium. You want to take a
guess how long it took me to get from Tito's
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Tacos three thirty in the afternoon on a Tuesday, to
enjoy my nice lunch and then go to work.
Speaker 4 (22:41):
What do you think, day, I'm going to say that
fifteen miles took an hour and fifty seven minutes.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
Well, you actually went over, so you don't win. The
showcase showed own. It took ninety minutes. To me, that
was in ninety minutes an hour and a half to
go fifteen point two two miles. Slap me around a
little bit. That included me getting off the freeway and
circumventing through surface streets some of that. So what do
you think happened to my nice, hot, warm Tito's tacos
(23:12):
that I paid five sixty five for each?
Speaker 3 (23:15):
Oh, they turned into cold, crappy.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
Soggy, gooey ice ice baby Tito's tacos And that was
my and I still ate them because there were five
sixty five each, Dandy, I still ate those those damn tacos.
I ate them, but my goodness, what a freakin' I'll
never do that again. I've now determined now I might
(23:39):
go to Tito's again because I'm addicted because I went
there for years and it brings me back to when
I a younger time in my life. But I will
only go to Sherman Oaks because you can get to
Sherman Oaks quicker, which is I don't know how many
miles that is, but it only takes like a half
an hour to get to Sherman Oaks, ninety minutes to
go to downtown. He blew me off at a hotel
(24:01):
near La x. All right, moving on, we have the
phrase of the week. I think we'll push pop culture
due to time reasons here because I am on time
mall or buy the clock four the clock evenly plausibly
about the clock. We'll push that to the Sunday pops.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
Did this start? Well?
Speaker 1 (24:16):
I just began. It just began actually today. I just
started it today and I thought that would be good.
So the phrase of the week, are you ready for it?
Not the word of the week, that's that's old phrase
of the week.
Speaker 3 (24:27):
Phrase of the week.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
Yes, phrase of the week. Here it is sex, drugs
and rock and roll. The phrase of the week, Danny
g sex drugs and rock and roll, which is an idiom,
and that came up with me. That came up on
the show. That that's it. That's an idiot, right, that's
(24:49):
a you know, old expression of colloquialism or whatever. So
it came up on the on the radio show, and
I was like, where did that come from? I know
rock and roll? The term rock and roll was a
d in Cleveland that is credited with coming up with that.
That's why the rock and Roll Hall of Fame is
in Cleveland, and so that's why they have that there.
I was like, what's up with the sex, drugs and
(25:12):
rock and roll? And I'd mentioned it for some reason
on the show, and I was like, what is going on?
And so I did a little search and I looked
it up. Do you know where that phrase came from?
Speaker 2 (25:27):
Then?
Speaker 1 (25:27):
Are you familiar with the phrase?
Speaker 3 (25:29):
No?
Speaker 4 (25:29):
No, I figured it was like from Chuck Berry doing
cocaine or something.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
A bunch of hookers and cocaine. Yeah, exactly. Well, the
phrase was actually coined by a British singer and a
musician named Ian Dewry. I think that's your pronounce his name,
do you r y? You ever heard of that guy?
Speaker 3 (25:50):
No?
Speaker 1 (25:50):
Yeah, I never heard him either. So he wrote and
released a single in nineteen seventy seven, that's when the
term started, nineteen seventy seven, and he called it sex,
Drugs and rock and Roll. And he released the song
under his own name. He had been part of a
punk band called Ian Dury and the Blockheads. That sounds
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like that sounds like a good name for a punk bank.
My favorite part of the story, though, here's my favorite part.
Speaker 3 (26:19):
You're ahead.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
So this guy creates this song called sex, Drugs and
rock and Roll, and no one gave a fuck. Nobody
bought the song. The song was not a hit. It
sold in the entire world nineteen thousand copies. That's it. Wow,
(26:42):
that's all but the phrase, the title of the song,
what a rip? I know, right? How pissed must that
guy's dead now he died.
Speaker 3 (26:52):
He should have at least made some money off the
stupid song.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
I know, right. And maybe it's a terrible song. I
don't know, I've never heard.
Speaker 4 (26:59):
Yeah, so it was a good slogan, but not a
good song.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
Maybe, yeah, it's a good name for a restaurant, but
the food sucks. You know, It's like it's like Dick's
last resort. You're like, oh that food.
Speaker 3 (27:12):
I don't know about that.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
Yeah, anyway, So that is the phrase of the week. Sex,
drugs and rock and roll. Created nineteen seventy seven by
a random punk musician from Britain and singer, and the
song was a dud. Nobody bought it, but the term
has lived on. That guy died twenty he's got at
(27:34):
age fifty seven. He was, you know, relatively young. You're
not supposed to die at that age. And he died
in two thousands, so he's been gone for twenty three years,
and still to this day that term is used regularly.
Speaker 4 (27:45):
DJs have single handedly kept that phrase alive.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
How about absolutely So it is Saturday dandy and anything
you want to promote here your day of rest today.
Speaker 4 (27:59):
You know it's called adulting. People always say that term.
I've always fought back, so I'm not part of it.
But last weekend we were refrigerator shopping at best Buy.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
Oh that's fun.
Speaker 4 (28:13):
Oh god, I wanted to kill myself with a nail gun.
So with a stupid tape measure I'm like, you know,
looking at these refrigerators, and the refrigerator we ordered is
going to be dropped off today.
Speaker 3 (28:27):
Oh my goodness, how exciting.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
Now someone needs to be there and the delivery driver
will call and give you a five hour window.
Speaker 3 (28:34):
That you have. Oh no, you're gonna love this.
Speaker 4 (28:36):
Here's their window they gave us today, seven am to
seven pm.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
I don't care.
Speaker 4 (28:42):
I'm leaving goodbye a bunch of clowns.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
That's it's terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible terrible. Well, I have
nothing going on today, family day, wife day. I'm sure
we'll get into some and we'll tell you all about
it on the podcast next week. Have a wonderful rest
of your day whatever you're doing, and we will catch
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you on the mailbag. And yeah, there's some pop goes
to the culture stories as well. An added bonus will
push that to Sunday.
Speaker 3 (29:15):
We'll catch you then later. Skater populations
Kutbooms.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes
a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants
of the old Republic, a soul fashion of fairness. He
treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the
rich pill poppers in the penthouse. Wow, it's the clearinghouse
of hot takes. Break free for something special. The Fifth
(00:23):
Hour with Ben Maller starts right now in.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
The a every way, welcome in. It is the Fifth Hour,
you know that already with Ben Maller and Danny G
Radio and we're hanging out. You're like, what are you doing?
It's Saturday. You shouldn't be working now. We work every day, Danny,
no days off, no days off. It's either live radio
(00:51):
during the week or a little podcast fun.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
Yep on the weekends.
Speaker 4 (00:56):
And this is the part of the sports calendar where
the weak asses who try to do sports go run
and hide, and the strength of the sports backbone of
America come out and not only cover baseball but also
professional marble shooting.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Damn right, And I am never ever concerned. I remember
when I first started in radio, and this time of
the year, guys would freak out. They'd have anxiety attacks.
Every radio station I worked at when I was a
young kid. I started in the business was in nineteen
it's like nineteen twenty, twenty one, twenty two, twenty. These
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guys would be shitting bricks.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
What are we gonna do?
Speaker 1 (01:38):
There's nothing going on, you know. But at least back
in those days there was interest in baseball more now
than now. You know, they did talk baseball on the radio,
but they'd always go back to the default answer, which
was Pete Rose, should he be reinstated into baseball? Oh?
That was always the go to.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
They had to make up their own fake drama.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Yeah, well, it's like the news shows in those days.
They did abortion. I guess that's still a thing all
these years later. And guns that was also So there's
like certain boilerplate topics that you do when you do
a radio show. But yet it's so easy, not easy,
but it's so much easier than it had been now
(02:24):
because just about every professional athlete is feeding the content
kitty by saying stupid things or doing stupid things, and
so we didn't have that before, not this time of
the year. So it's been pretty good on this podcast.
The Saturday Special. We've got Big John, the scene of
(02:46):
the crime, fifteen point two miles, Phrase of the week,
and Pop goes the culture. That's a lot of content.
We're gonna have to get through it quickly, so we
will attempt to get through everything. I always put too
much in the show. If you noticed that, Danny, have
you noticed that?
Speaker 4 (03:01):
Yes, it works out well because you listen to these
in order, hopefully, and it all just flows over like
a waterfall.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
I try to shove fifteen pounds of crap and a
two pound bag is what I try to do. So Barbi,
this life of mal or life of Danny g is
what we often do on the Saturday podcast. I last weekend,
I had dinner with a buddy of mine and yesterday
we told the story about the cheeseburger in Paradise. And
(03:32):
you didn't hear that story. You can go back, So I.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
Go dirty Burger.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
Yeah exactly. So my wife was working and I had
the option. I could have stayed home and made some
food by myself. And I was like, my wife's like
you should go out, you should you know, go you know,
meet your friends or whatever. So it's like okay, you know,
and I called a few people up and they're like,
I can't go do my wife won't let me go,
(03:56):
or you know, you know that kind of thing, you know,
things you get when you're a middle aged man asking
friends to go to dinner on a Saturday. So whatever.
So I went down my roll the decks and I
found a friend I used to work with in Rady
who's been on this podcast. Who you know, the Prince
of Darkness, the original Prince of Darkness, Lee Ah Kleine.
So I met Lee at the one of our old
(04:20):
places who I used to hang out with Lee all
the time when I was a young guy, because no
women would hang out with me, but Lee would hang
out with me.
Speaker 4 (04:26):
And we used to still a dark cloud that follows
over the top of him as he walks.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Yes, oh, we'll get to that in a minute. So
I met my friend Lee. I haven't seen him since April,
and we check out, you know, we check check check
out our and we catch up. As what I'm trying
to say, we catch up every few months. And so
we go to old Stomgres So I used to live
(04:51):
kind of near If you're familiar with the geography of
Los Angeles, I used to live right near where the
Grove is Farmer's Market in LA and Lee lives in
the South Bay kind of that part of LA in
that area. So halfway we determined was Calver City. So
we would often meet in Culver City because it was halfway.
(05:13):
There's a movie studio there. It's like a movie it's
like a movie TV time. So we met in Culver
City at one of our old stomping grounds, Johnny's Pastrami,
which is a legendary pastrami place there and they've been
around forever. And so it's Saturday night. Now. I had
actually gone to the Angel game prior to going to
(05:35):
Johnny's Pastrami. So I met my friend Lee after the game.
So we get there and we're debating what the order.
Now you have two options. Now we've been there so
much we know the entire menu. We also remember when
it was actually affordable to eat a Johnny's pastrami, which
was I think twenty years ago. Anyway, so whatever, doing
this a long time. So we decide, I'm like I'm
(05:57):
getting I'm going pastrami. You go to Johnny's astrom It's
in the name. I'm gonna get Astromi. But they also
make really good burgers, and so Lee's like, I'm getting
the Big John. That's what I'm getting, a Big John,
because that's a really good it's like a double burger.
It's it's pretty big. So and they give you other
stuff on the side. All right, So we order the
(06:18):
food and the waitress is nice. You know, they're not
that busy whatever. There's a little fire pits so you
can sit outside. We sat outside. There's not much inside seating.
It's an old school diner. So we're waiting for the
food comes. There's a basket of fries in the middle
community property. There's pastrami on my side, same as I remember.
(06:41):
And then Lee gets the burger and it looks totally
different than what it had looked like. Now you have
two options. You can either just eat the burger and
say that's fine, or you can raise Holy Hell, like
this is a war crime and you have just you know,
(07:04):
you need to go to Dante's Inferno. What do you
think my friend Lee did, And you know him and
you've had some situations with him in the past, what
do you think he did?
Speaker 3 (07:14):
Yeah, well, you know my experience with him.
Speaker 4 (07:18):
I don't think the listeners really know, but the first
time I met him, he just made racist joke after
racist Mexican joke. And it turns out I'm Spanish and Sicilian,
I'm not Mexican, But anyways, that doesn't matter to a
guy like him. And he's like really loud, and some
of it's playful. So I can see, you know, at
(07:38):
the at your Christmas party, we're kind of laughing, like
this guy needs to drink another one. But I'm going
to say, in a situation like this, and he's already
probably in a bad mood for overpaying for a burger
that would have been affordable twenty years ago, so he
probably went and raised hell at the front.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Yeah, so it's it's a total ship show now that Lee. Uh.
The way he breaks the ice, he's he's older. And
the way he breaks the ice he is, uh to
make offensive comments. That's how he breaks the ice at
social eng so, uh, don't take it personally, Danny. He
does it everywhere. It's very uncomfortable.
Speaker 4 (08:16):
But anyway, so he called somebody a beaner there too
at the restaurant racist.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Uh No, there was no but but but anyway, so whatever, anyway, Lee, Uh,
you know, he's he's complaining.
Speaker 4 (08:30):
He's a lovable older guy. He's kind of like your
racist grandfather.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Yeah, exactly. So anyway, he's complaining to the to the waitress.
So she can't you know, they come back, how's your food?
Which is a rhetorical question, she just did. If you
ask that, if you just you assume great, nobody's gonna
say no. And but he did. He's like, that's just
this is not a big John. You know, this is
(08:53):
not this is not what I ordered.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
This is a little John.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
And uh so she looks at the burger and she
kind of ex amz is it? And she said, well, no,
that's a that's a big John. And he says, no,
it's not. I've been coming here for you know, thirty years,
and I've had this burger, you know, hundreds of times,
and that ain't the big Johnt. And she she looks
at it again and she examines the burger and she says,
(09:17):
that's a big John. And then here, you know, we're
going back and forth and he's like, well, no, that's
not what I paid for. I don't give me the menu.
Where's the menu? So he's like pointing at the menu,
and she says, well and then he's like, oh, how
long you worked here? And the and the waitress is like, well,
I worked here like four years or something like, well,
I've been coming here thirty right. So he's going on
(09:38):
and on, and I'm like, I'm like, oh, mercy, get
me out of here, you know, I am. And then
so so they're going back and forth, and then of
course it's, uh, you know, where's the owner, you know,
where's the manager, you know that kind of thing, whether
they're not here. You know, it's, uh, you know, I
can't do anything they're not here. And then Lee's like, oh,
of course you can't do anything. You know, that's the
(10:00):
the world these days and all that stuff. So we
went back and forth and he finally just gave up,
which is shocking, and said, fine, I'll eat the burger
and I will never come here again.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
Now, more importantly, how was your pastrami?
Speaker 1 (10:20):
Where it was great? It was wonderful, And it was
good because if I had given my pastrami back, they
would have spit Loogi's all over the pastrami if I'd
given the food back. But I did not do that,
and fortunately everything was all right. But yeah, it was
it was uncomfortable and I've had my shared Danny of
uncomfortable situations, and I try to not make a scene.
(10:45):
I I attempt to be like a wall, like a
plant on a wall, A wallflower is what I try
to be, just in the background there. But occasionally I
get dragged in to these situations. So the Big John.
Speaker 4 (11:04):
But it backfired a little bit because by the time
he finally ate it, after he gave up, it was
probably cold.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
Yes, yes it was. I will have more on the
coldness at another point, possibly this podcast. I might even
have it on this podcast. Johnny SPASTROMI was the scene
of the crime, but not the scene of the crime,
if you know what I'm saying, Dan.
Speaker 4 (11:27):
Yeah, it sounds like a couple of overpriced places are
going to be mentioned on this Saturday edition of Our
Fifth Hour. If you remember back to two baseball seasons ago,
and I spoke about it on this very podcast. The
WiFi and I at the time, I think we were engaged.
We took the family to Opening Night at Dodger Stadium,
(11:51):
and we were so excited. The seats were pricey, but
you kind of expect that for Opening day slash Opening Night.
What we did expect was the price of parking, the
overpriced food, which you know it's been overpriced in the past,
but now it's gone up tenfold. We wound up that
(12:12):
night spending nine hundred and fifty.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
Dollars, Blank my blank, and blank you.
Speaker 4 (12:18):
A family of five for Dodger Stadium nine hundred and
fifty dollars.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
Yes, so reminds you when I was a kid and
they used to have commercials the greatest deal in town.
Dodger Baseball got out. Family of four could come out
for thirty dollars. Okay, yep.
Speaker 4 (12:35):
Obviously left a really bad taste in our mouth. We
have not gone back to the ballpark since because that
we can't afford that, and it's easier and better to
just watch on our big flat screen in the living room.
But somebody offered me some seats, got four comp seats
(12:58):
and it was will smithlehead night. But I have an
eight month pregnant woman who needs to get as close
to the seats as possible. So the first security person
told us where to go for special parking that would
put us right near our section. And when we finally
get around the stadium, it's the back end of the
(13:19):
stadium where you can see the La City Skyline. Two
rude security guards later, we finally found Bugs, who listens
to this podcast bat right Bugs Bugs? And you know
why because after I introduced myself and talked to Bugs,
I told him all about the fifth hour, and he
promised he was going to tune in on his phone.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
Right, And I said, give him a shout out. He
is the man.
Speaker 4 (13:45):
He runs the parking lot basically, so all the radio
calls were coming to him, and so he put us.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
In parking spot twenty.
Speaker 4 (13:54):
He stood there and blocked the traffic while he let
me back into the spot.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
It was beautiful.
Speaker 4 (14:00):
But then when we got out of the car and
we started walking into the stadium, another security guard was like,
oh yeah, you have to walk like three blocks that way.
So here's my pregnant wife waddling like a big penguin
and I'm like, okay, let's go slow.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
We're not in a hurry.
Speaker 4 (14:19):
First forty thousand get this bobblehead. But we'll definitely be
part of that first forty thousand. So we get in there,
we get our bobbleheads, and you know how it is
with bobblehead night, What a thrill to hold that up.
It's like you know Lion King where they're holding the
next king up to the sky?
Speaker 1 (14:38):
Heid you Jesus.
Speaker 4 (14:41):
Instead of nine hundred and fifty dollars I paid dinner,
I paid parking.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
What do you think it costs this time?
Speaker 1 (14:49):
Well, I actually happened to be at that game Tuesday night, Danny.
I didn't know you were there. What I would have
said low to you and your wife. But I did
walk around and I looked at the concessions, and my
my eyeballs literally popped out of my head when I
looked at the price of the food. So is you?
(15:10):
Your wife? Was it just and who?
Speaker 3 (15:13):
And two of the kids?
Speaker 1 (15:14):
The kids? And then the kids are they're cha teenagers? Okay,
so they eat a lot. I'm gonna say, for all
four of you food parking, did anyone get a souvenir?
Speaker 3 (15:31):
Uh? Just a clear carry bag for my wifey?
Speaker 1 (15:35):
Did you buy that outside the stadium? One of those
guys hacked hawking them outside of the station.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
No. I bought it inside the gift shop.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
Okay, so that costs you a lot more money. I'm
gonna say.
Speaker 4 (15:45):
Two point fifty really good, guess all right?
Speaker 3 (15:50):
Two and twenty five dollars for the whole night.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
All right, there you go. So as long as you
don't have to buy the tickets, you're you're, you're okay.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
I guess that's what I was saying.
Speaker 4 (16:00):
And I want to get some more seats and give
them away to our listeners that are in southern California,
because how in the hell can you bring your family
nowadays to a ballpark and pay for all of that.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
No, it's it's insane. It's absolutely insane. And uh yeah,
it's what did you eat? By the way, what did
you did you get the chicken? There's a bunch of
new restaurants at Dodger Stadium, like, there's all kinds.
Speaker 4 (16:24):
Of I found my way down to level two for
the food. It was like a Mexican spot racist carne
asada fries as well as nachos, and then a couple
of Dodger dogs and oh and a couple of carnea
sada tacos.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
See, all right, let me know the next time you
because I have a hookup with the Dodger Dogs. I
can get your free Dodger dogs. I can do that.
That's about all I can get you.
Speaker 4 (16:52):
Yeah, you have a long trench coat with Dodger dogs
stuffed inside the pocket.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
Yeah, I know I know a guy, all right, and
you know I know a guy that would would help
me with that. But that's about it. Yeah, all right,
Well there you go.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
So you go much much better experience.
Speaker 4 (17:11):
And we were like, wow, that was nice back after
a two year protest. It was like we were Oakland
A's fans for two years.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
Yeah, I have not been out that much. I think
I'm gonna get out there more now. You know, they're
they're forcing me against my will to come back to
the studio quite often. So I'm not in the north Woods.
It's a long drive and all that. Well, speaking of that,
I have my own Dodger related story to share and
we'll calling this fifteen point two miles. So I was
(17:42):
at the same Dodger game Danny was at. It was
on a Tuesday night, and so I have a whole routine,
It's a whole all this michigans I have to go
through to go to a game because I work at
night and I have to prepare for the show and
all this. So and I live so far away, it's
like when I come in, it's a hole to do.
So to go and plan out the whole night. I
was like, Okay. Originally I was going to eat it.
(18:04):
I get a bite to eat at the house, save
a little money. But my wife had worked an extra
long shift at the police station. She's a nine one
to one operator, so she worked an extra long shift.
And she normally normally have lunch together, or she'll make
food for me or whatever, because on workdays I don't
really cook. And so and I happened to be eating
this dance and I didn't want to get up early.
(18:25):
So I was like, all right, I'll go find some food.
So I was like, I go anywhere I want, you know.
And I was like, you know what I'm gonna do.
I love Tito's Tacos. Oh yeah, I know. I'm gonna
stop by Tito's. I'll pick up some tacos. I'll quickly
get back on the road and I'll make it to
(18:47):
Dodger Stadium. I'll then eat the tacos in the parking
lot at Dodger Stadium. I will then go in and
I will prepare for the show. I had all planned
out in my head, right, best laid plans of mice
men and gas bags. So and it happened to be
Taco Tuesday, not that it matters. And so Tito's Tacos
is so good that I will literally empty my wallet.
(19:09):
And it is the worst. The price gouge you. It's
like a hotel after a hurricane and there's one room available.
They just gouge you. It's so embarrassing what they do
at that place. Five sixty five for a taco with cheese.
One taco they charged like a dollar fifty for cheese.
(19:31):
That's obscene too, But for me, five sixty five's about
my limit. Yeah, taco and I got a few tacos
and they give you a big box. And the cool
thing about Tito's they give you a box and they
put chips in there and salsa.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
What did that used to cost you at Tito's.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
I used to go. I remember my order. I could
get five tacos and it was like, I think it
was like eighteen bucks or something like that one point
when I first started going there. And I'm the kind
of guy when I go to restaurants, like I'm back
when I was single, I would always count out, I'd cash.
I paid with cash. Now everyone pays with Curray cars.
(20:07):
But I'd always bring the exact amount. And I can't
tell you the number of times I would go to
Tito's and over the years, and I'd bring the exact amount,
and then it'd be like, well that's two dollars more.
Now we raised our prices, you know.
Speaker 3 (20:19):
I was like, wait a minute, So.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
Anyway, so I get to the point, please, so I
get my tacos. I'm excited. I now I couldn't eat
them at Tito's. And the reason I couldn't eat them
at Titos, Danny, is I have not a handicap. But
I had my gallbladder taken out a few years back.
I think it was twenty twenty nineteen. I believe it was,
So I had my gallbladder taken out. So when you
(20:42):
have your gallbladder taken out, if you eat greasy foods
and you fast, it is those are all the ingredients
to a cluster bomb coming right out of your banunca dunk.
So I have to be close to a bath. Not
could have. I could have eaten at Titos and just
waited about half an hour for the explosion to happen.
(21:04):
But I decided not to do that because I wanted
to be closer to Dodger stay in and I figured
traffic would pile up. So I got my tacos, I
get in the car, and I was literally only at
Tito's for like five minutes. There was no line because
why would there be aligned Most people don't want to
pay five sixty five for tacos. They used to always
be a line there, there'd be fifteen lines. Now every
(21:25):
time I go, there's no line whatever. So I get
in the car, I get set the GPS, I'm driving.
I'm driving, I'm cruising, and all of a sudden, oh no,
nothing but tail lights. Now, if you're not familiar with LA,
there's a freeway, the ten Freeway, which guy know goes
(21:45):
all the way across the country, but in La proper
it ends at the Pacific Ocean in Santa Monica. From
the west side of LA goes all the way through
like Brent Woods around there, Culver City, the West Way.
These are some of the most congested parts of Los Angeles.
Speaker 4 (22:06):
I would argue that that ten through Culver City is
the worst freeway in southern California, and.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
I wouldn't disagree. Somehow, I had so I had a
brain fog and I just typed in the GPS I
didn't really look at the time, and I got on
the ten Freeway and it was fifteen point two miles
from Tito's to Dodger Stadium. You want to take a
guess how long it took me to get from Tito's
(22:32):
Tacos three thirty in the afternoon on a Tuesday, to
enjoy my nice lunch and then go to work.
Speaker 4 (22:41):
What do you think, day, I'm going to say that
fifteen miles took an hour and fifty seven minutes.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
Well, you actually went over, so you don't win. The
showcase showed own. It took ninety minutes. To me, that
was in ninety minutes an hour and a half to
go fifteen point two two miles. Slap me around a
little bit. That included me getting off the freeway and
circumventing through surface streets some of that. So what do
you think happened to my nice, hot, warm Tito's tacos
(23:12):
that I paid five sixty five for each?
Speaker 3 (23:15):
Oh, they turned into cold, crappy.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
Soggy, gooey ice ice baby Tito's tacos And that was
my and I still ate them because there were five
sixty five each, Dandy, I still ate those those damn tacos.
I ate them, but my goodness, what a freakin' I'll
never do that again. I've now determined now I might
(23:39):
go to Tito's again because I'm addicted because I went
there for years and it brings me back to when
I a younger time in my life. But I will
only go to Sherman Oaks because you can get to
Sherman Oaks quicker, which is I don't know how many
miles that is, but it only takes like a half
an hour to get to Sherman Oaks, ninety minutes to
go to downtown. He blew me off at a hotel
(24:01):
near La x. All right, moving on, we have the
phrase of the week. I think we'll push pop culture
due to time reasons here because I am on time
mall or buy the clock four the clock evenly plausibly
about the clock. We'll push that to the Sunday pops.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
Did this start? Well?
Speaker 1 (24:16):
I just began. It just began actually today. I just
started it today and I thought that would be good.
So the phrase of the week, are you ready for it?
Not the word of the week, that's that's old phrase
of the week.
Speaker 3 (24:27):
Phrase of the week.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
Yes, phrase of the week. Here it is sex, drugs
and rock and roll. The phrase of the week, Danny
g sex drugs and rock and roll, which is an idiom,
and that came up with me. That came up on
the show. That that's it. That's an idiot, right, that's
(24:49):
a you know, old expression of colloquialism or whatever. So
it came up on the on the radio show, and
I was like, where did that come from? I know
rock and roll? The term rock and roll was a
d in Cleveland that is credited with coming up with that.
That's why the rock and Roll Hall of Fame is
in Cleveland, and so that's why they have that there.
I was like, what's up with the sex, drugs and
(25:12):
rock and roll? And I'd mentioned it for some reason
on the show, and I was like, what is going on?
And so I did a little search and I looked
it up. Do you know where that phrase came from?
Speaker 2 (25:27):
Then?
Speaker 1 (25:27):
Are you familiar with the phrase?
Speaker 3 (25:29):
No?
Speaker 4 (25:29):
No, I figured it was like from Chuck Berry doing
cocaine or something.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
A bunch of hookers and cocaine. Yeah, exactly. Well, the
phrase was actually coined by a British singer and a
musician named Ian Dewry. I think that's your pronounce his name,
do you r y? You ever heard of that guy?
Speaker 3 (25:50):
No?
Speaker 1 (25:50):
Yeah, I never heard him either. So he wrote and
released a single in nineteen seventy seven, that's when the
term started, nineteen seventy seven, and he called it sex,
Drugs and rock and Roll. And he released the song
under his own name. He had been part of a
punk band called Ian Dury and the Blockheads. That sounds
(26:14):
like that sounds like a good name for a punk bank.
My favorite part of the story, though, here's my favorite part.
Speaker 3 (26:19):
You're ahead.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
So this guy creates this song called sex, Drugs and
rock and Roll, and no one gave a fuck. Nobody
bought the song. The song was not a hit. It
sold in the entire world nineteen thousand copies. That's it. Wow,
(26:42):
that's all but the phrase, the title of the song,
what a rip? I know, right? How pissed must that
guy's dead now he died.
Speaker 3 (26:52):
He should have at least made some money off the
stupid song.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
I know, right. And maybe it's a terrible song. I
don't know, I've never heard.
Speaker 4 (26:59):
Yeah, so it was a good slogan, but not a
good song.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
Maybe, yeah, it's a good name for a restaurant, but
the food sucks. You know, It's like it's like Dick's
last resort. You're like, oh that food.
Speaker 3 (27:12):
I don't know about that.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
Yeah, anyway, So that is the phrase of the week. Sex,
drugs and rock and roll. Created nineteen seventy seven by
a random punk musician from Britain and singer, and the
song was a dud. Nobody bought it, but the term
has lived on. That guy died twenty he's got at
(27:34):
age fifty seven. He was, you know, relatively young. You're
not supposed to die at that age. And he died
in two thousands, so he's been gone for twenty three years,
and still to this day that term is used regularly.
Speaker 4 (27:45):
DJs have single handedly kept that phrase alive.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
How about absolutely So it is Saturday dandy and anything
you want to promote here your day of rest today.
Speaker 4 (27:59):
You know it's called adulting. People always say that term.
I've always fought back, so I'm not part of it.
But last weekend we were refrigerator shopping at best Buy.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
Oh that's fun.
Speaker 4 (28:13):
Oh god, I wanted to kill myself with a nail gun.
So with a stupid tape measure I'm like, you know,
looking at these refrigerators, and the refrigerator we ordered is
going to be dropped off today.
Speaker 3 (28:27):
Oh my goodness, how exciting.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
Now someone needs to be there and the delivery driver
will call and give you a five hour window.
Speaker 3 (28:34):
That you have. Oh no, you're gonna love this.
Speaker 4 (28:36):
Here's their window they gave us today, seven am to
seven pm.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
I don't care.
Speaker 4 (28:42):
I'm leaving goodbye a bunch of clowns.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
That's it's terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible terrible. Well, I have
nothing going on today, family day, wife day. I'm sure
we'll get into some and we'll tell you all about
it on the podcast next week. Have a wonderful rest
of your day whatever you're doing, and we will catch
(29:08):
you on the mailbag. And yeah, there's some pop goes
to the culture stories as well. An added bonus will
push that to Sunday.
Speaker 3 (29:15):
We'll catch you then later. Skater populations
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