March 1, 2024 • 28 mins
Ben Maller & Danny G. have another great Friday bonus broadcast! They talk: Fake Holidays, Ohtani Bomb, Face the Talent, Big Timber, Word of the Week, White Fish, Wendy's Tip of the Rip & more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:02):
If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes
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(00:23):
with Ben Mahller starts right now.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
In the air eywhere The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller
and Danny g As we kick off a bran spake
in new month, Happy March, as we flip the calendar
a brand new month here of fun, and we are
both celebrating a big day to day, Danny, as we
(00:49):
like to look at goofy holidays. It's National Day of
Unplugging today, which I don't think we're unplugging by doing
this podcast, and anyone who is listening to this podcast
is also not unplugging, so technically we're not celebrating National
Day of Unplugging. But it is today, the first day
of March twenty twenty four, so you're supposed to unplug
(01:13):
all of your devices.
Speaker 4 (01:15):
And just oh, I thought it was getting the plunger
and fixing your toilet.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
Well, you can do that also if you want, if
you want to eat a really hearty meal and just
clog up your toilet, you can do that.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
But it is.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
Technically a day to get off all those annoying devices
with you know, your iPhone or whatever, you know electric
device you're using when you're not.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
You don't have an iPhone, you have an Android, whatever
you might have.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
So it's a global day of unplugging, which is not
is not honored at all. Dan, how many days a
year do you actually unplug from electronic devices?
Speaker 5 (01:55):
Probably one week when you're on vacation and you try
your beat to do that. Yeah, you gotta have maybe
your phone on if you have kids, but other than that,
it's just that one week of vacation and you a
funny way to celebrate this, stay Ben, you should get
on all your platforms on social media and every hour
(02:16):
tweet about how you're unplugging.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
Yes, I am honoring National Day of Unplugging.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
I just want you to know that I am not
on these devices.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
Even though it looks like I'm on these devices, I
am not on these devices at all. It just appears
that way. But that is actually not what's going on
at all.
Speaker 5 (02:36):
So nice to unplug today dot dot dot and then
bring up a topic and keep tweeting about it.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Yeah, yeah, exactly. I also saw.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
And the only reason I bring this one up is
because there's a guy that calls the show randomly from
Arkansas who has this as his nickname, although he's got
many nicknames. It is national dad Gum, That's good day. Yeah,
and I don't even know what that is, but national Happy,
National dad Gum, that's good day, which I guess means
(03:05):
good food, good company, good times and all that, but
it also means a random truck driver from Arkansas that
calls the show promised us little Debbie cakes on the
overnight show.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
And we're still waiting.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
We're still waiting for those and used to be called
to scratch off and then you got hear a lot
of nicknames. Oh, by the way, I should also probably
mention before we get too far into this podcast. You
probably know by now if you're listening to the original
Recipe podcast, the Ben Mallor Show podcast, Not at My Watchtower,
Danny last night or this morning, depending how you look
(03:39):
at it, I was not there. You fired on assignment,
a secret assignment, I cannot say, but I was not
able to do the show, but somehow I'm able to
do the podcast. It's the magic of podcasting, Danny that
we're here.
Speaker 5 (03:54):
Yeah, because podcast it's us waking up at five am
for your live show.
Speaker 4 (04:01):
You have to be awake at ten pm.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
Yes, the never ending, never ending life of bloviation, full bloviation.
So I wanted to start here on the Friday Pod.
As we get into a new month and we'll have
regular season baseball, huh, We're gonna have Talking Bays ball.
These exhibition games, which are fine. I'm not against exhibition games,
(04:26):
but I'm not you know. I'll tune in for like
a couple of innings, but I'm not really sitting there
and watching him. I used to watch Back in the
old days, I would watch every exhibition game, but as
I've gotten more jaded and i've aged, I'll sample a
little bit, but I'm not watching anything past like the
third inning of these early exhibition games in Arizona and Florida,
(04:48):
I'm out.
Speaker 5 (04:49):
I know it must have put a smile on your face, though.
When Otani hit that bomb in his first Dodger preseason game, it.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
Was pretty good.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
Now he's only got to hit seven one hundred home
runs and then one million dollars for each home run.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Is that how it works?
Speaker 3 (05:06):
Is that the math on that is seven hundred and
then well he got seven hundred million. But it's all deferred, right,
most of it's deferred. I'm not a numbers guy, but
that doesn't seem to add up. You think Otani moved
or do you think he still lives? He lived in
Orange County. When he's playing for the Angels, you think
he moved to La or he probably not.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
He's in Arizona right now, but I wonder.
Speaker 5 (05:27):
When he gets back to southern California. I heard that
he hired Kobe's backup pilot.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
Oh good luck.
Speaker 4 (05:37):
To make he rest in peace?
Speaker 3 (05:39):
You know you should take is just have him like
fire him out of a cannon and they can fire
him over the traffic and then it's like, yeah, the
old circus back and he can land at Dodger State
or get a catapult, oh like like super Dave, Yeah, yeah,
super Dave Osmorne, the late great Super Dave Osmonn. But
Otani could also just get a catapult like the olden.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Days and they could.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
Just launch him over the five Freeway, the ninety one,
the fifty seven, the one oh one, all that and
just land right there at the pitching mountain. With the
technology they have today, Danny, that's an easy move. That's
an easy But I did enjoy watching Otani hit the
home run, and I like how everyone obsessed over it.
You know, that's always my I get a kick out
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of it. It's like the biggest thing of the world.
It's gonna be like that for a while though. With Otanio,
he's getting the rockstar treatment. He's the biggest thing in baseball.
He's reminds me of Barry Bonds when Bonds was getting
all the attention back in the day with the Giants.
Speaker 4 (06:36):
Yeah, and Super Dave was underrated by the way.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Oh yeah, he was great. And right up until the
end on Curb Your Enthusiasm.
Speaker 4 (06:42):
Ah yeah, he was a great character on that show.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
He was.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
He was absolutely great. So interesting week this week, obviously
not on the radio overnight here into Friday, but at
the Mothership. So it started out with a bang, let's
take you back in the hot tub time machine. We're
gonna go back to the beginning of the week. So
My week starts on Sunday night into Monday morning. We
do the podcast on Sunday and then I do whatever
(07:06):
I do during the day, and then at Sunday night
I come back into the radio station. So Sunday night
in a Monday and I have to drive in. The
company wants me to be there. I'm very honored the
company wants me to be this important for the company
to have me there. So I drive in long drive
from the north Woods. Most of the week I drive in,
so I go into the studio and Sunday night. There's
(07:30):
two things about Sunday night. When you go into the
radio station on Sunday night, there is this nice aroma
of rotting fish, chicken, and beef. Whatever the boys ate
over the weekend just sits in the trash and rots.
It's time for trash and get that nice aroma. It's
not that bad this time of the year, but comes summertimes,
(07:52):
even though we're indoors. For some reason, it seems to
smell more.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
In the summer. Not sure what that's about. The Other
thing on the weekends in there's the South any.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
Bey there it's just a bones type crew there, just
sculling bones, not much going on. So I go in there,
and I have to walk down the hall, around the
around the corner to prep in the back update studio
because the main studio we used to use is a
construction zone.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
So I'm not allowed in there.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
The big yellow tape not allowed in it, so I
don't go. I honor the yellow tape that says don't
go in, so I don't go in. So I go
to the one room I can sit in way in
the back, near the vending machine, which is the loudest
vending machine in the history of vending machines. I think
when they installed the vending machine, they said, can we
get the loudest possible vending machine we can get, and
then can we go even louder? And they've got that.
(08:41):
So I sit in there and I hear the hum
of the vending machine.
Speaker 4 (08:45):
Soda drops. It sounds like a bomb.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
Oh yeah, it's like the neutron bomb is dropping.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
So it's about fifteen minutes or so, ten or fifteen
minutes until my time to take over. The microphone owns
a Fox Sports tradio. The button has passed me, so
I flip on the programming in the studio and I
hear Arnie Spanier, but I don't hear Chris plain. Now,
Arnie is my lead in on Sunday Night and the
(09:12):
Monday Arnie Spanier and Chris Plank can.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
They do a great job.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
And so I'm used to hearing them, and I hear
a few minutes of their show usually on Sunday Night.
So I heard Arnie and then I heard someone. I
didn't regularly recognize the voice, and Arnie didn't reset and
say who it was. The person didn't say their names.
I had no idea who it was.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
I was just listening, and you know, I knew it
was a former athlete. I knew that, but I didn't
really know who it was.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
And so I'm like whatever, And so I walked over
to the to the air studio. I walked by the
vending machine, down the hall, make a right, go down
the hall, and then make another right. Then I go
down a little hall, make a left, and then I'm
in this little area where there's the main studio, and
then the engineer and the producer sit in the other room.
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So I go there and I look at the on
air studio. It is pitch black, right, completely dark, nothing
going on, right, So I'm like, all right, I guess
this guy, whoever it is, must must be on the
com Rex, the ISD and whatever. He's doing the show remote.
(10:18):
So I know Arnie's in Vermont, so he's not here.
So I'm like, all right, I'll go in there and
I'll set my stuff up and get ready. So I
walk over to this giant glass door which is the
door to the studio, and I pushed the door open.
I've got two bags, I've got my computer in one hand,
I've got the headphones in the other.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
And I open the door and I walk in and.
Speaker 4 (10:43):
Much to my shock, just like the time I walked
in on my mom going pe.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
Yeah, very similar.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
So I walked in and staring back at me in
the darkness is Ephraim Salaam from my boy from from
the the Broncos lineman from back in the day, who
was sitting.
Speaker 4 (11:06):
Oh oh no, and he worried member of the COVID team.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
Oh easy. I did not know that. I I don't
think i've met him.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
So I I did the Homer Simpson meme Danny, where
I quickly turned around. Uh, I was like, you gotta
be joking. I'm like, who's like, I sit in a
dark studio. I liked the studio with the lights turned down.
Speaker 4 (11:29):
I like the mood.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
I've never seen anyone work with all the lights completely off.
Speaker 4 (11:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
Anything.
Speaker 4 (11:37):
And it's not like he has pale skin like Brian Finley.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
Well, I'm not saying that.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
I just I just assumed because I looked at the
lights in the studio and there were none on.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
I said, well, there's no way there's anyone in there.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
So I was like, here's my time, and man, it
was a turnout the lights the parties over.
Speaker 4 (11:56):
So yeah, did his eyes get really big when he
saw you?
Speaker 3 (12:00):
Yeah, he looked at me and he gave me like
what the f are you doing here? Kind of looking
I and I gave him the same look I gave
him somebody.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
I was like, wait a minute, what are you doing here?
Speaker 5 (12:13):
I used to do some weekend shows with e from
So I produced he from every Saturday, and he's a
no nonsense guy Ben and he always would come in
with gloves, a face mask, a mask, COVID mask.
Speaker 4 (12:28):
Over his face.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
Oh boy, that's a regular mask.
Speaker 5 (12:31):
But also he used to do a show with your
boy Brian Know, and he loved that. Brian Know was
always remote because he would have the studio to himself
when he would come in, the show would leave and
he would spray lysol for about five minutes. He'd spend
ten minutes cleaning everything down, even though he was looking
(12:53):
like he had a hazmat suit on. And one of
the shows on the air, Brian tells him, Hey, by
the way, I'm in La next week, so I'm gonna
be broadcasting live with you there and he said, where
from the parking lot?
Speaker 4 (13:08):
You ain't coming into the studio.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
Oh man, I'm trying to block out that two and
a half years of my life, daddy, where everyone was
it was the apocalypse.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
My god.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
I still I've been going to the gym. We talked
about this in a previous episode of the podcast. I've
been going to the gym during the day now. I
used to always go after the show, and I'd go
in the morning and there was no one there and
it was a bunch of old people.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
So I go during the day. There's like younger people whatever.
I guess. No one works during the day.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
Maybe they all do overnight radio shows like I do,
and so they're available to go to the gym in
the middle of the day. And so I've been going
during the day, but I still see a good number
of people that are completely invested in like they think
it's like July of twenty twenty, which is you know
what you know gets you through life.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
But it's just odd. It's just still it's still odd.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
To me to see that, especially with all the the
data pointing one direction, not the not the other way.
That was my run in with literally a collig and
it was very nice. He did have a Bronco like
Jack and on, so he was still repping the Broncos stuff.
Speaker 5 (14:20):
Yeah, he said that he loved his time in Denver,
even though he wasn't there for very long. He spent
most of his career playing for the Texans.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
Okay, yeah, yeah, but he had he definitely had Bronco
Bronco merch.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 4 (14:34):
He was a Bronco homer on the air.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
There you go.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
Well, I you know, Coop likes the Broncos. He didn't
talk about m much of these days because they suck,
but if they're good, he'll be back.
Speaker 4 (14:45):
And the Raiders have beat you eight games in a row.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
I don't think Coop played for the Broncos though. I
don't think I mean, I'm not sure. Maybe maybe he
was like the backup kicker punter or something like that
back in the day.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
Cool gosh, not sure.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
So I did want to send a We don't do
shout outs on the radio show, but this is the podcast,
and this is not really a shout out. But Coach Mack,
the Coach Mack attack. Who Coach Mack. You don't know
Coach Mack. Never heard of him?
Speaker 1 (15:20):
Oh man, it's a bad job by you.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
So from Big Timber, Big Timber, Montana. Coach Mack is
a p one. He used to live in southern California
and he was a regular loyal minion, a p one
in the mal Or militia, and Coach Mack ended up
moving to Big Timber, Montana.
Speaker 4 (15:45):
Wait wait, I do remember this dude from back in
the day.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
Yeah. Yeah, he used to call the show and he's
a big fan. He wanted to get out of California
for because it's California. There's a lot of crazy things
going on in California he didn't agree with and so
he knew.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
He couldn't change him. So he's like, I'm going to
get out of here.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
And he's a coach and he ended up in Montana,
in Big Timber, Montana, and he is a coach at
sweet Grass County High School in Big Timber of Montana,
and he is a big fan of the show and
on this high school goes back to nineteen o five.
(16:25):
Imagine what Montana must have been like in nineteen oh five.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
Can only imagine.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
But the reason I bring this up is because coach
Max said, Hey, I like you guys. I want you
to I want you to know kind of support my
school and stuff. He's a coach there, and he sent
us a gift box filled with hats from the high school. Now,
normally I'd be like, Okay, it's a high school, why
would I wear that? But this is one of the coolest,
(16:53):
the coolest logos in an age where in my lifetime
we've had the Washington Bullets name canceled because that was
gonna end gun violence. Can you check to see how
gun violence is doing in DC since they got rid
of the Bullet's nickname?
Speaker 1 (17:06):
Is it all gone now? Maybe it is. I don't know.
They've gotten rid of the Redskins name, the Cleveland Indians name.
You know, this fixes the world one nickname at a time.
Speaker 3 (17:16):
So the Montana High School, Big the sweet Grass County
High School. Their mascot is just tremendous. It's just absolutely.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
Tremendo Let me see if I can send this. I
don't know if you've seen.
Speaker 4 (17:32):
It, Danny.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
I I posted some.
Speaker 3 (17:34):
Photos the other day, But their mascot, I believe they're
the Sheepherders.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
They're the Sheepherders, and their mascot.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
Danny is an old guy with a beard and an
old Montana Western hat smoking a pipe is the mascot.
And it's like, if you did that in California, seven
people would be fired and they'd bring in therapist for
the students to look at. I sent you a copy
(18:03):
of it on.
Speaker 5 (18:03):
Your Oh nice, yeah, yeah, it looks like an old
gold miner smoking.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
Yeah. Yeah, it's an old guy smoking a pipe.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
You know.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
Just that's that's wrong on so many levels, Danny, that
that mascot is wrong just about every way you can
slice a maskcot. So anyway, he was very kind, Coach Mack,
and he he sent us a gift pack of hats,
and then he wanted me to give some to Petrols
some money. But I see Petros maybe once or twice
(18:31):
a year. Maybe it's very random. Sometimes it'll be a
Dodger game. Sometimes I'll fill in. Usually once or twice
a year, I fill in for a guy named Fred
Rogan or I with Brett. I'll fill in for Rodney
Pete with Fred.
Speaker 4 (18:44):
We saw Petros at the racetrack.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
Yeah, we saw that's right.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
I caught up. I big a hog. You know, every
time I see Petros, we flashed back. We known each
other for a long time. I've known him since he
played at USC, so we've known each other a long
time before he got in the media.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
And I love Petrols and it's always great.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
And we're very similar, like we're around the same age,
me and Petros.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
We kind of look at sports similar.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
We like sports, but you know we're we like the
different perspective on things.
Speaker 5 (19:09):
Then, yeah, you both love to bachel lebron and you
both can suck the joy out of Disneyland.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
Yeah, I don't know what you're talking about.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
I have no idea, but so that's my relationship with Petros.
So I have some hats. I have a few extra
hats from Coach Mac and I plan on My intention
is to leave them in the car and then at
some point I'll run into Petros and hopefully I'll be
in that car and then I'll say, hey, Petros, here
you go ta Da and I'll give the spets. But
(19:42):
we don't broadcast from the same building. People don't know that.
Who are coach Mac? I just didn't know that. And
so anyway, thank you for the hats. Appreciate it. It
is really cool and that will be in my rotation, Danny.
I love it. It's it's a good looking hat. We
sent out some photos on the socials. I think we
posted something time flies here the other day, so you
(20:04):
can can check those out on the Facebook page and
also on Instagram and all that. It is now time
for you know what time it is, Danny. It is
time for the word of the week, the word of.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
The week, the word of the week. And this is
by request.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
And I do like that the minions and the Mala
militia are contacting me.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
Four words of the week.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
And this request coming from Pierre and he says here
here this is what I wrote, he said, and he
wants to hear.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
This as the word of the week. And what is
this announced? What this is? I will announce what this
is the word of the week.
Speaker 3 (20:53):
Is kerfluffle A fun word? Kerfluffle? Right, fun word kerfluffle.
I do use this word at least once or twice
a week in one form or another. Usually in a
mall of monologue. I will mix in the word kerfluffle.
So what the hell does the word kerfluffle me? Kerfluffle
(21:14):
is a state of being disordered or ruffled, hence agitation
and perturbation.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
That's a big word, the word. Now, my right hand
was getting a workout out, David. That was one of
the greatest commercials in the history of commercials.
Speaker 3 (21:34):
Okay, let me tell you something. Those people that sleep
numbers should still send me checks. Okay for those commercials
that I did for those sleep number beds back in
the day.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
I digress.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
So this word, now, we goes way back. If you
want to go way, way, way, way way back, it
goes to the fifteen hundreds. But in eighteen thirteen, according
to those that keep track of such things, the word
kerfluffle was actually spelled with a C. Now it's spelled
with a K, and it was first attested to Scottish writers.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
It's a Scottish word.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
And it comes from the verb meaning to disorder, dishevel
that's said to be from the fifteen eighties, so we're
going way back to the fifteen eighties. And the origin though,
is rather obscure. They think it came from another Scottish
word fuffle, that kerf fluffle. They just added the curve
(22:29):
onto fluffle and boom, you got a word. You can
just add that on top and put a little spice
on there, and you've got the word a fuffle, a
fluffle or kerf fluffle next it.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
So and that means to throw into disorder.
Speaker 3 (22:43):
That comes out all the way from the fifteen thirties,
but as normally happens, over time the term has been
sharpened and broadened and evolved, and it also involved military.
There's some military usage involved in this. But the word
(23:05):
is a kerfluffle. It's the word of the week, a
state of being disordered or ruffled. The modern usage of
this word dates back to the nineteen hundreds nineteen hundreds
and often used in Canada. So even though it originated
in Scotland and it's a Scottish word, it did end
(23:28):
up coming from the fine folks there in Canada the
way that we use so that is the word of
the week, kerfluffle and this is not a fishing podcast, Danny,
But did you see that story earlier in the week
that a fisherman reeled in a white sailfish in Guatemala.
(23:49):
That is amazing, Like this is like the one you
hear these fishing stories, but now because of social media.
I wanted to mention this before I forget, because I
saw this this week.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
It was crazy.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
I'm not a fish I'm not, but I do admire
oddities of the ocean. There's so much of the ocean
that we have no idea what's there. And if you
knew what was there, your head would probably explode thinking
about it.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
But these these odd.
Speaker 3 (24:15):
Ball fishing stories are pretty wild. And this guy in
Guatemala happy to catch a white sailfish. The odds of
this are insane to the member, and he was. The
guy was on a luxury fishing boat while he did it.
(24:35):
The billfish unicorn as it is called, one in a million.
It is an albino sailfish.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
Racist, I claim.
Speaker 3 (24:49):
And I'm not like, I'm not known. I don't know
everything about fish. Obviously, I'm an amateur when it comes
to that. But even as an amateur, this is this
like ridiculous. Now, do you think the other fish goof
on that fish? Do you think they're like fish bullies
out there? And well, wait a minute, you don't look
like us, so like what's going on with you? Or
you think they don't give a crap and they're like
(25:10):
like whatever, it is a good looking fish, Like it's
a it is a good looking fish.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
I'll give you that. So I don't know know how
that works.
Speaker 3 (25:19):
But there you go, so a fishtail and you like,
you're a fisherman though, Danny, you've told us that you
like to go fishing and that's your thing, right.
Speaker 5 (25:28):
Yeah, I mean I do that fishing derby at Bass
Lake where they have all those money tags on different fish.
If you catch a bass that has the ten thousand
dollars marker on it, then you know you're set for
the rest of the fishing season. But we've never even
reeled one end during that derby. We are convinced that
(25:50):
there are paid actors there on the lake showing you
the fish that they caught. We've seen a couple of
boats go by and it's the same guys holding up
their prize fish that they caught, and I'm like, those
are paid actors for the city.
Speaker 3 (26:02):
And that does have We've we've talked about stories like
that over the years. I think there was a big
scandal in the whole was it Ohio? Yep, you guys
were like weighing down fish and winning contests and doing
weird prap to to win contests.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
All right, we'll get out on that. We got another pod. Uh,
well tomorrow as we hit.
Speaker 5 (26:22):
Yeah, yeah, and I hope we have time for foody
fun tomorrow. I can't wait to hear your thoughts on
how Wendy's is testing out their new digital menus for
surge prices. The devil are you talking about? Oh man,
you're yeah, you're gonna hate to see this. Ben talk
about greed.
Speaker 3 (26:42):
Yeah, that's that is a no bueno no Wendy's. Oh
you have one price and that's the price. You don't
This is what do you think you're uber?
Speaker 1 (26:53):
Come on, what's wrong with you?
Speaker 3 (26:55):
You'd like the you like the airlines, So that means
you're gonna lower the prices at two in the morning
when they're there's no one there.
Speaker 5 (27:01):
Not to jump ahead to tomorrow's podcast. But the shitty
part is it's not like you're going to get a
discount during the off hours where they don't have a
lot of traffic, it'll just be regular prices, but it'll
surge like Lyft and Uber. When it's a busy time
for the restaurant, the prices will go way up.
Speaker 3 (27:18):
Yeah, I'm good because I will guarantee you wherever there
is a Windy's, there is another fast food restaurant which
is either as good or maybe even better, right next
door or a block away.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
So we'll get out you, Dan. I assume you've got
Covino and Rich today, Is that correct? Or Am I
wrong on that?
Speaker 5 (27:37):
Gonna be a fun Friday before our show has a
week off, so we're going to make today count all right.
Speaker 3 (27:45):
Very cool, got the VAK coming up, and I was
off last night, but we obviously here for the podcast
and I'll have a regional podcasts all weekend long. Have
a wonderful rest of your Friday, and we will talk
to you tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
Tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (28:05):
Asta pasta got a murder. I gotta go
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
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treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the
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(00:23):
with Ben Mahller starts right now.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
In the air eywhere The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller
and Danny g As we kick off a bran spake
in new month, Happy March, as we flip the calendar
a brand new month here of fun, and we are
both celebrating a big day to day, Danny, as we
(00:49):
like to look at goofy holidays. It's National Day of
Unplugging today, which I don't think we're unplugging by doing
this podcast, and anyone who is listening to this podcast
is also not unplugging, so technically we're not celebrating National
Day of Unplugging. But it is today, the first day
of March twenty twenty four, so you're supposed to unplug
(01:13):
all of your devices.
Speaker 4 (01:15):
And just oh, I thought it was getting the plunger
and fixing your toilet.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
Well, you can do that also if you want, if
you want to eat a really hearty meal and just
clog up your toilet, you can do that.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
But it is.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
Technically a day to get off all those annoying devices
with you know, your iPhone or whatever, you know electric
device you're using when you're not.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
You don't have an iPhone, you have an Android, whatever
you might have.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
So it's a global day of unplugging, which is not
is not honored at all. Dan, how many days a
year do you actually unplug from electronic devices?
Speaker 5 (01:55):
Probably one week when you're on vacation and you try
your beat to do that. Yeah, you gotta have maybe
your phone on if you have kids, but other than that,
it's just that one week of vacation and you a
funny way to celebrate this, stay Ben, you should get
on all your platforms on social media and every hour
(02:16):
tweet about how you're unplugging.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
Yes, I am honoring National Day of Unplugging.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
I just want you to know that I am not
on these devices.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
Even though it looks like I'm on these devices, I
am not on these devices at all. It just appears
that way. But that is actually not what's going on
at all.
Speaker 5 (02:36):
So nice to unplug today dot dot dot and then
bring up a topic and keep tweeting about it.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Yeah, yeah, exactly. I also saw.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
And the only reason I bring this one up is
because there's a guy that calls the show randomly from
Arkansas who has this as his nickname, although he's got
many nicknames. It is national dad Gum, That's good day. Yeah,
and I don't even know what that is, but national Happy,
National dad Gum, that's good day, which I guess means
(03:05):
good food, good company, good times and all that, but
it also means a random truck driver from Arkansas that
calls the show promised us little Debbie cakes on the
overnight show.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
And we're still waiting.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
We're still waiting for those and used to be called
to scratch off and then you got hear a lot
of nicknames. Oh, by the way, I should also probably
mention before we get too far into this podcast. You
probably know by now if you're listening to the original
Recipe podcast, the Ben Mallor Show podcast, Not at My Watchtower,
Danny last night or this morning, depending how you look
(03:39):
at it, I was not there. You fired on assignment,
a secret assignment, I cannot say, but I was not
able to do the show, but somehow I'm able to
do the podcast. It's the magic of podcasting, Danny that
we're here.
Speaker 5 (03:54):
Yeah, because podcast it's us waking up at five am
for your live show.
Speaker 4 (04:01):
You have to be awake at ten pm.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
Yes, the never ending, never ending life of bloviation, full bloviation.
So I wanted to start here on the Friday Pod.
As we get into a new month and we'll have
regular season baseball, huh, We're gonna have Talking Bays ball.
These exhibition games, which are fine. I'm not against exhibition games,
(04:26):
but I'm not you know. I'll tune in for like
a couple of innings, but I'm not really sitting there
and watching him. I used to watch Back in the
old days, I would watch every exhibition game, but as
I've gotten more jaded and i've aged, I'll sample a
little bit, but I'm not watching anything past like the
third inning of these early exhibition games in Arizona and Florida,
(04:48):
I'm out.
Speaker 5 (04:49):
I know it must have put a smile on your face, though.
When Otani hit that bomb in his first Dodger preseason game, it.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
Was pretty good.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
Now he's only got to hit seven one hundred home
runs and then one million dollars for each home run.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Is that how it works?
Speaker 3 (05:06):
Is that the math on that is seven hundred and
then well he got seven hundred million. But it's all deferred, right,
most of it's deferred. I'm not a numbers guy, but
that doesn't seem to add up. You think Otani moved
or do you think he still lives? He lived in
Orange County. When he's playing for the Angels, you think
he moved to La or he probably not.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
He's in Arizona right now, but I wonder.
Speaker 5 (05:27):
When he gets back to southern California. I heard that
he hired Kobe's backup pilot.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
Oh good luck.
Speaker 4 (05:37):
To make he rest in peace?
Speaker 3 (05:39):
You know you should take is just have him like
fire him out of a cannon and they can fire
him over the traffic and then it's like, yeah, the
old circus back and he can land at Dodger State
or get a catapult, oh like like super Dave, Yeah, yeah,
super Dave Osmorne, the late great Super Dave Osmonn. But
Otani could also just get a catapult like the olden.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Days and they could.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
Just launch him over the five Freeway, the ninety one,
the fifty seven, the one oh one, all that and
just land right there at the pitching mountain. With the
technology they have today, Danny, that's an easy move. That's
an easy But I did enjoy watching Otani hit the
home run, and I like how everyone obsessed over it.
You know, that's always my I get a kick out
(06:21):
of it. It's like the biggest thing of the world.
It's gonna be like that for a while though. With Otanio,
he's getting the rockstar treatment. He's the biggest thing in baseball.
He's reminds me of Barry Bonds when Bonds was getting
all the attention back in the day with the Giants.
Speaker 4 (06:36):
Yeah, and Super Dave was underrated by the way.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Oh yeah, he was great. And right up until the
end on Curb Your Enthusiasm.
Speaker 4 (06:42):
Ah yeah, he was a great character on that show.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
He was.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
He was absolutely great. So interesting week this week, obviously
not on the radio overnight here into Friday, but at
the Mothership. So it started out with a bang, let's
take you back in the hot tub time machine. We're
gonna go back to the beginning of the week. So
My week starts on Sunday night into Monday morning. We
do the podcast on Sunday and then I do whatever
(07:06):
I do during the day, and then at Sunday night
I come back into the radio station. So Sunday night
in a Monday and I have to drive in. The
company wants me to be there. I'm very honored the
company wants me to be this important for the company
to have me there. So I drive in long drive
from the north Woods. Most of the week I drive in,
so I go into the studio and Sunday night. There's
(07:30):
two things about Sunday night. When you go into the
radio station on Sunday night, there is this nice aroma
of rotting fish, chicken, and beef. Whatever the boys ate
over the weekend just sits in the trash and rots.
It's time for trash and get that nice aroma. It's
not that bad this time of the year, but comes summertimes,
(07:52):
even though we're indoors. For some reason, it seems to
smell more.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
In the summer. Not sure what that's about. The Other
thing on the weekends in there's the South any.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
Bey there it's just a bones type crew there, just
sculling bones, not much going on. So I go in there,
and I have to walk down the hall, around the
around the corner to prep in the back update studio
because the main studio we used to use is a
construction zone.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
So I'm not allowed in there.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
The big yellow tape not allowed in it, so I
don't go. I honor the yellow tape that says don't
go in, so I don't go in. So I go
to the one room I can sit in way in
the back, near the vending machine, which is the loudest
vending machine in the history of vending machines. I think
when they installed the vending machine, they said, can we
get the loudest possible vending machine we can get, and
then can we go even louder? And they've got that.
(08:41):
So I sit in there and I hear the hum
of the vending machine.
Speaker 4 (08:45):
Soda drops. It sounds like a bomb.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
Oh yeah, it's like the neutron bomb is dropping.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
So it's about fifteen minutes or so, ten or fifteen
minutes until my time to take over. The microphone owns
a Fox Sports tradio. The button has passed me, so
I flip on the programming in the studio and I
hear Arnie Spanier, but I don't hear Chris plain. Now,
Arnie is my lead in on Sunday Night and the
(09:12):
Monday Arnie Spanier and Chris Plank can.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
They do a great job.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
And so I'm used to hearing them, and I hear
a few minutes of their show usually on Sunday Night.
So I heard Arnie and then I heard someone. I
didn't regularly recognize the voice, and Arnie didn't reset and
say who it was. The person didn't say their names.
I had no idea who it was.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
I was just listening, and you know, I knew it
was a former athlete. I knew that, but I didn't
really know who it was.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
And so I'm like whatever, And so I walked over
to the to the air studio. I walked by the
vending machine, down the hall, make a right, go down
the hall, and then make another right. Then I go
down a little hall, make a left, and then I'm
in this little area where there's the main studio, and
then the engineer and the producer sit in the other room.
(09:57):
So I go there and I look at the on
air studio. It is pitch black, right, completely dark, nothing
going on, right, So I'm like, all right, I guess
this guy, whoever it is, must must be on the
com Rex, the ISD and whatever. He's doing the show remote.
(10:18):
So I know Arnie's in Vermont, so he's not here.
So I'm like, all right, I'll go in there and
I'll set my stuff up and get ready. So I
walk over to this giant glass door which is the
door to the studio, and I pushed the door open.
I've got two bags, I've got my computer in one hand,
I've got the headphones in the other.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
And I open the door and I walk in and.
Speaker 4 (10:43):
Much to my shock, just like the time I walked
in on my mom going pe.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
Yeah, very similar.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
So I walked in and staring back at me in
the darkness is Ephraim Salaam from my boy from from
the the Broncos lineman from back in the day, who
was sitting.
Speaker 4 (11:06):
Oh oh no, and he worried member of the COVID team.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
Oh easy. I did not know that. I I don't
think i've met him.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
So I I did the Homer Simpson meme Danny, where
I quickly turned around. Uh, I was like, you gotta
be joking. I'm like, who's like, I sit in a
dark studio. I liked the studio with the lights turned down.
Speaker 4 (11:29):
I like the mood.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
I've never seen anyone work with all the lights completely off.
Speaker 4 (11:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
Anything.
Speaker 4 (11:37):
And it's not like he has pale skin like Brian Finley.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
Well, I'm not saying that.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
I just I just assumed because I looked at the
lights in the studio and there were none on.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
I said, well, there's no way there's anyone in there.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
So I was like, here's my time, and man, it
was a turnout the lights the parties over.
Speaker 4 (11:56):
So yeah, did his eyes get really big when he
saw you?
Speaker 3 (12:00):
Yeah, he looked at me and he gave me like
what the f are you doing here? Kind of looking
I and I gave him the same look I gave
him somebody.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
I was like, wait a minute, what are you doing here?
Speaker 5 (12:13):
I used to do some weekend shows with e from
So I produced he from every Saturday, and he's a
no nonsense guy Ben and he always would come in
with gloves, a face mask, a mask, COVID mask.
Speaker 4 (12:28):
Over his face.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
Oh boy, that's a regular mask.
Speaker 5 (12:31):
But also he used to do a show with your
boy Brian Know, and he loved that. Brian Know was
always remote because he would have the studio to himself
when he would come in, the show would leave and
he would spray lysol for about five minutes. He'd spend
ten minutes cleaning everything down, even though he was looking
(12:53):
like he had a hazmat suit on. And one of
the shows on the air, Brian tells him, Hey, by
the way, I'm in La next week, so I'm gonna
be broadcasting live with you there and he said, where
from the parking lot?
Speaker 4 (13:08):
You ain't coming into the studio.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
Oh man, I'm trying to block out that two and
a half years of my life, daddy, where everyone was
it was the apocalypse.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
My god.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
I still I've been going to the gym. We talked
about this in a previous episode of the podcast. I've
been going to the gym during the day now. I
used to always go after the show, and I'd go
in the morning and there was no one there and
it was a bunch of old people.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
So I go during the day. There's like younger people whatever.
I guess. No one works during the day.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
Maybe they all do overnight radio shows like I do,
and so they're available to go to the gym in
the middle of the day. And so I've been going
during the day, but I still see a good number
of people that are completely invested in like they think
it's like July of twenty twenty, which is you know
what you know gets you through life.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
But it's just odd. It's just still it's still odd.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
To me to see that, especially with all the the
data pointing one direction, not the not the other way.
That was my run in with literally a collig and
it was very nice. He did have a Bronco like
Jack and on, so he was still repping the Broncos stuff.
Speaker 5 (14:20):
Yeah, he said that he loved his time in Denver,
even though he wasn't there for very long. He spent
most of his career playing for the Texans.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
Okay, yeah, yeah, but he had he definitely had Bronco
Bronco merch.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 4 (14:34):
He was a Bronco homer on the air.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
There you go.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
Well, I you know, Coop likes the Broncos. He didn't
talk about m much of these days because they suck,
but if they're good, he'll be back.
Speaker 4 (14:45):
And the Raiders have beat you eight games in a row.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
I don't think Coop played for the Broncos though. I
don't think I mean, I'm not sure. Maybe maybe he
was like the backup kicker punter or something like that
back in the day.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
Cool gosh, not sure.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
So I did want to send a We don't do
shout outs on the radio show, but this is the podcast,
and this is not really a shout out. But Coach Mack,
the Coach Mack attack. Who Coach Mack. You don't know
Coach Mack. Never heard of him?
Speaker 1 (15:20):
Oh man, it's a bad job by you.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
So from Big Timber, Big Timber, Montana. Coach Mack is
a p one. He used to live in southern California
and he was a regular loyal minion, a p one
in the mal Or militia, and Coach Mack ended up
moving to Big Timber, Montana.
Speaker 4 (15:45):
Wait wait, I do remember this dude from back in
the day.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
Yeah. Yeah, he used to call the show and he's
a big fan. He wanted to get out of California
for because it's California. There's a lot of crazy things
going on in California he didn't agree with and so
he knew.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
He couldn't change him. So he's like, I'm going to
get out of here.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
And he's a coach and he ended up in Montana,
in Big Timber, Montana, and he is a coach at
sweet Grass County High School in Big Timber of Montana,
and he is a big fan of the show and
on this high school goes back to nineteen o five.
(16:25):
Imagine what Montana must have been like in nineteen oh five.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
Can only imagine.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
But the reason I bring this up is because coach
Max said, Hey, I like you guys. I want you
to I want you to know kind of support my
school and stuff. He's a coach there, and he sent
us a gift box filled with hats from the high school. Now,
normally I'd be like, Okay, it's a high school, why
would I wear that? But this is one of the coolest,
(16:53):
the coolest logos in an age where in my lifetime
we've had the Washington Bullets name canceled because that was
gonna end gun violence. Can you check to see how
gun violence is doing in DC since they got rid
of the Bullet's nickname?
Speaker 1 (17:06):
Is it all gone now? Maybe it is. I don't know.
They've gotten rid of the Redskins name, the Cleveland Indians name.
You know, this fixes the world one nickname at a time.
Speaker 3 (17:16):
So the Montana High School, Big the sweet Grass County
High School. Their mascot is just tremendous. It's just absolutely.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
Tremendo Let me see if I can send this. I
don't know if you've seen.
Speaker 4 (17:32):
It, Danny.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
I I posted some.
Speaker 3 (17:34):
Photos the other day, But their mascot, I believe they're
the Sheepherders.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
They're the Sheepherders, and their mascot.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
Danny is an old guy with a beard and an
old Montana Western hat smoking a pipe is the mascot.
And it's like, if you did that in California, seven
people would be fired and they'd bring in therapist for
the students to look at. I sent you a copy
(18:03):
of it on.
Speaker 5 (18:03):
Your Oh nice, yeah, yeah, it looks like an old
gold miner smoking.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
Yeah. Yeah, it's an old guy smoking a pipe.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
You know.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
Just that's that's wrong on so many levels, Danny, that
that mascot is wrong just about every way you can
slice a maskcot. So anyway, he was very kind, Coach Mack,
and he he sent us a gift pack of hats,
and then he wanted me to give some to Petrols
some money. But I see Petros maybe once or twice
(18:31):
a year. Maybe it's very random. Sometimes it'll be a
Dodger game. Sometimes I'll fill in. Usually once or twice
a year, I fill in for a guy named Fred
Rogan or I with Brett. I'll fill in for Rodney
Pete with Fred.
Speaker 4 (18:44):
We saw Petros at the racetrack.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
Yeah, we saw that's right.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
I caught up. I big a hog. You know, every
time I see Petros, we flashed back. We known each
other for a long time. I've known him since he
played at USC, so we've known each other a long
time before he got in the media.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
And I love Petrols and it's always great.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
And we're very similar, like we're around the same age,
me and Petros.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
We kind of look at sports similar.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
We like sports, but you know we're we like the
different perspective on things.
Speaker 5 (19:09):
Then, yeah, you both love to bachel lebron and you
both can suck the joy out of Disneyland.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
Yeah, I don't know what you're talking about.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
I have no idea, but so that's my relationship with Petros.
So I have some hats. I have a few extra
hats from Coach Mac and I plan on My intention
is to leave them in the car and then at
some point I'll run into Petros and hopefully I'll be
in that car and then I'll say, hey, Petros, here
you go ta Da and I'll give the spets. But
(19:42):
we don't broadcast from the same building. People don't know that.
Who are coach Mac? I just didn't know that. And
so anyway, thank you for the hats. Appreciate it. It
is really cool and that will be in my rotation, Danny.
I love it. It's it's a good looking hat. We
sent out some photos on the socials. I think we
posted something time flies here the other day, so you
(20:04):
can can check those out on the Facebook page and
also on Instagram and all that. It is now time
for you know what time it is, Danny. It is
time for the word of the week, the word of.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
The week, the word of the week. And this is
by request.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
And I do like that the minions and the Mala
militia are contacting me.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
Four words of the week.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
And this request coming from Pierre and he says here
here this is what I wrote, he said, and he
wants to hear.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
This as the word of the week. And what is
this announced? What this is? I will announce what this
is the word of the week.
Speaker 3 (20:53):
Is kerfluffle A fun word? Kerfluffle? Right, fun word kerfluffle.
I do use this word at least once or twice
a week in one form or another. Usually in a
mall of monologue. I will mix in the word kerfluffle.
So what the hell does the word kerfluffle me? Kerfluffle
(21:14):
is a state of being disordered or ruffled, hence agitation
and perturbation.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
That's a big word, the word. Now, my right hand
was getting a workout out, David. That was one of
the greatest commercials in the history of commercials.
Speaker 3 (21:34):
Okay, let me tell you something. Those people that sleep
numbers should still send me checks. Okay for those commercials
that I did for those sleep number beds back in
the day.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
I digress.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
So this word, now, we goes way back. If you
want to go way, way, way, way way back, it
goes to the fifteen hundreds. But in eighteen thirteen, according
to those that keep track of such things, the word
kerfluffle was actually spelled with a C. Now it's spelled
with a K, and it was first attested to Scottish writers.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
It's a Scottish word.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
And it comes from the verb meaning to disorder, dishevel
that's said to be from the fifteen eighties, so we're
going way back to the fifteen eighties. And the origin though,
is rather obscure. They think it came from another Scottish
word fuffle, that kerf fluffle. They just added the curve
(22:29):
onto fluffle and boom, you got a word. You can
just add that on top and put a little spice
on there, and you've got the word a fuffle, a
fluffle or kerf fluffle next it.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
So and that means to throw into disorder.
Speaker 3 (22:43):
That comes out all the way from the fifteen thirties,
but as normally happens, over time the term has been
sharpened and broadened and evolved, and it also involved military.
There's some military usage involved in this. But the word
(23:05):
is a kerfluffle. It's the word of the week, a
state of being disordered or ruffled. The modern usage of
this word dates back to the nineteen hundreds nineteen hundreds
and often used in Canada. So even though it originated
in Scotland and it's a Scottish word, it did end
(23:28):
up coming from the fine folks there in Canada the
way that we use so that is the word of
the week, kerfluffle and this is not a fishing podcast, Danny,
But did you see that story earlier in the week
that a fisherman reeled in a white sailfish in Guatemala.
(23:49):
That is amazing, Like this is like the one you
hear these fishing stories, but now because of social media.
I wanted to mention this before I forget, because I
saw this this week.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
It was crazy.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
I'm not a fish I'm not, but I do admire
oddities of the ocean. There's so much of the ocean
that we have no idea what's there. And if you
knew what was there, your head would probably explode thinking
about it.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
But these these odd.
Speaker 3 (24:15):
Ball fishing stories are pretty wild. And this guy in
Guatemala happy to catch a white sailfish. The odds of
this are insane to the member, and he was. The
guy was on a luxury fishing boat while he did it.
(24:35):
The billfish unicorn as it is called, one in a million.
It is an albino sailfish.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
Racist, I claim.
Speaker 3 (24:49):
And I'm not like, I'm not known. I don't know
everything about fish. Obviously, I'm an amateur when it comes
to that. But even as an amateur, this is this
like ridiculous. Now, do you think the other fish goof
on that fish? Do you think they're like fish bullies
out there? And well, wait a minute, you don't look
like us, so like what's going on with you? Or
you think they don't give a crap and they're like
(25:10):
like whatever, it is a good looking fish, Like it's
a it is a good looking fish.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
I'll give you that. So I don't know know how
that works.
Speaker 3 (25:19):
But there you go, so a fishtail and you like,
you're a fisherman though, Danny, you've told us that you
like to go fishing and that's your thing, right.
Speaker 5 (25:28):
Yeah, I mean I do that fishing derby at Bass
Lake where they have all those money tags on different fish.
If you catch a bass that has the ten thousand
dollars marker on it, then you know you're set for
the rest of the fishing season. But we've never even
reeled one end during that derby. We are convinced that
(25:50):
there are paid actors there on the lake showing you
the fish that they caught. We've seen a couple of
boats go by and it's the same guys holding up
their prize fish that they caught, and I'm like, those
are paid actors for the city.
Speaker 3 (26:02):
And that does have We've we've talked about stories like
that over the years. I think there was a big
scandal in the whole was it Ohio? Yep, you guys
were like weighing down fish and winning contests and doing
weird prap to to win contests.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
All right, we'll get out on that. We got another pod. Uh,
well tomorrow as we hit.
Speaker 5 (26:22):
Yeah, yeah, and I hope we have time for foody
fun tomorrow. I can't wait to hear your thoughts on
how Wendy's is testing out their new digital menus for
surge prices. The devil are you talking about? Oh man,
you're yeah, you're gonna hate to see this. Ben talk
about greed.
Speaker 3 (26:42):
Yeah, that's that is a no bueno no Wendy's. Oh
you have one price and that's the price. You don't
This is what do you think you're uber?
Speaker 1 (26:53):
Come on, what's wrong with you?
Speaker 3 (26:55):
You'd like the you like the airlines, So that means
you're gonna lower the prices at two in the morning
when they're there's no one there.
Speaker 5 (27:01):
Not to jump ahead to tomorrow's podcast. But the shitty
part is it's not like you're going to get a
discount during the off hours where they don't have a
lot of traffic, it'll just be regular prices, but it'll
surge like Lyft and Uber. When it's a busy time
for the restaurant, the prices will go way up.
Speaker 3 (27:18):
Yeah, I'm good because I will guarantee you wherever there
is a Windy's, there is another fast food restaurant which
is either as good or maybe even better, right next
door or a block away.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
So we'll get out you, Dan. I assume you've got
Covino and Rich today, Is that correct? Or Am I
wrong on that?
Speaker 5 (27:37):
Gonna be a fun Friday before our show has a
week off, so we're going to make today count all right.
Speaker 3 (27:45):
Very cool, got the VAK coming up, and I was
off last night, but we obviously here for the podcast
and I'll have a regional podcasts all weekend long. Have
a wonderful rest of your Friday, and we will talk
to you tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
Tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (28:05):
Asta pasta got a murder. I gotta go
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