September 21, 2024 • 34 mins
Ben Maller & Danny G. have a fun Saturday pod for you! They talk: Mini Golf, The Brownie, OKC Heat, The YouTuber, Idiom of the Week, & more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 1 (00:29):
In the air every Way, A happy Saturday to you.
It is the Fifth Hour with me, Ben and Danny.
G Radio is back with us here on this Saturday
as we celebrate Miniature Golf Day today. Danny, and when
was the last time you went miniature golfing? Has it
(00:49):
been a.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
While, not that long ago? I think I was fifteen.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Yeah, that's Tue. It's only a couple of years, give
or take. I was. I was like the tiger Woods
of mini golf. I don't want to I don't want
to embellish, but I dominated the windmill. I owned the windmill.
My short game was amazing. Did you know miniature golf
goes back to it's over one hundred and I think
(01:14):
it's almost two hundred years old. It's like the eighteen hundreds,
they had miniature golf that was born at a club
in Saint Andrews. They created a game of minister golf.
So miniature golf has been part of the world since
like the eighteen sixties. This isn't This is part of
(01:34):
the fabric of what human beings are at this point,
unless it's not. I was when I was in when
I went went down to visit my father in law
and then my niece in North Carolina and South Carolina
and Myrtle Beach, they claimed to be the miniature golf
capital of America. And if not, maybe maybe it's a world.
(01:59):
But there's one stretch in Myrtle Beach that is like
nothing but designer, bougie miniature golf courses.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
On this podcast, the Saturday Extravagance that we've got the Brownie,
the Okay Heat or the Oka Sea Heats, the YouTuber
God of Garlic, and the Idiom of the week, all
of that content, assuming we have time to get to it.
We'll start with this. So if you follow the podcast,
(02:32):
you're obviously listening. Now, if you've been keeping up on
the pod, you know that because it's football season and
the TV shows on and all that. I've changed some
things in my regular routine and my cooking. We're really
my baking. I'm my cooking. My baking has been put
on a hiatus. It's been embargoed until February, and who
(02:56):
knows if all even go back to it. But you know,
sometime in February, that's it. The Super bowls mid February.
So after that I'm in. I might try it again,
but for right now, nah, no, no baking. Try to
avoid the extra sugar, just like you, Danny. We're getting old.
We can't have too much sugar, right, How boring is
our lives, my god? So I try to limit it,
(03:19):
even eating any kind of sugar. I know there's sugar
and everything, but like regular foods that we eat, but
I try to avoid sweets, except maybe on one day
on the weekends, I might have some M and m's
or something like that, or if it's rare and appropriate.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
A little extra cocaine to make up for the lack
of junk food.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
A bunch of hookers and cocaine exactly exactly. Yeah, you know,
you add some fentanyl whatever, But I only eat it,
you know, every now and again, and you get rare
and appropriate. But this past weekend was a rare and
appropriate situation. My wife, you had a big party here
(03:58):
at the house and a lot of family had come
in here, a lot of aunts, cousins on her side,
nobody from my family, nobody from you know, they're all
my people pretty much live you know far. I have
like one cousin that kind of lives in the area,
and everyone else is in other states. So I'm pretty
much on an island out here.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
We're just fine. Whatever.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
So they were all there hanging out a big hooton
nanny and tray toff during.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
People did you say hoot nanny?
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Yeah, hooton nanny. It's a great word, so it's wonderful. Anyway,
it was fun. We had a good time. You have
a lot of food and family and all that stuff,
and so big event. And my wife had requested but
my baking services because she came up with this whole menu. Now,
originally we were going to do like cheese steak. The
(04:48):
plan was to do cheese steak, but there were a
lot of people. Roughly fifteen to twenty people were here,
so it's a lot of people, and to make mass
quantities of cheese steak. You got to make each sandwich
kind of individually. Even though you make all the meat
and the onions and the bell peppers and all that
together like the the assembly line, it's a lot quicker
to make some other food. So we settled on a
(05:12):
menu that was easy to mass produce. But one of
the things my wife wanted was dessert, and so I
was deputized as Benny the brownie baker. Benny the brownie baker.
So I made homemade brownies. But good news, Danny, I
helped the family business. I used you know what kind
of brownie mix I used here to make these brownies?
Speaker 3 (05:34):
Sugar free?
Speaker 1 (05:36):
No, Garrett Delli Girt, Yes.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
The complete opposite, thank god, the complete opposite of sugar free.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Yeah, these are these are terrible for you. But then
I took it next level because I was like, I
don't I've made a lot of cookies. I don't think
i've I've ever made browns. Probably my mom, you know,
I I guarantee I mad it with my mom. But
as a grown up, you know, my mom passed years ago.
I haven't made brownies. And so this was like, Okay,
I'm studying. I am like a food scientist is what
(06:10):
I am. I'm going in there, and I'm like, I
don't want to make just basic bach brownies, Like I
want I want to.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
Go next left.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
If you're going to go in there, I want these
to be amazing, right. And so I was like I
started falling down a rabbit hole. And I was like, okay,
how I know. I got the mix, but that's just
the that's just the raw ingredients. Like, how can I
make this amazing right? How can I crank this up here?
(06:39):
So I went into the sweet science of a brownie
baking and there were a few hacks that I came
up with, you know, simple things like substituting water with buttermilk,
and I added some extra chocolate and whatnot. It wasn't
a lot, but it was enough to put them over
(07:00):
the top. And so they came out Chef's kiss just great.
And there was one error though, Danny with the brownies.
So we made the brownies. They took a little longer
to bake because I put some buttermilk instead of the water.
I think that's why. So took them, took them out
and out of the oven. And the normal protocol is
(07:25):
if you make brownies, you let them sit until they cool.
You don't cut them right away, because if you cut
them right away, that's problematic. You don't want to cut
them right away. My wife was in a hurry, so
she did not allow them to properly cool. So she's
trying to cut them while they're still warm. And it
made like quite the quite the crime scene, the brownie
(07:48):
crime scene. But they still taste me good. They didn't
look good. I wanted presentation, you know what I'm saying.
I wanted presentation.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
Yeah, that was in your error. That was hers, Yeah,
wasn't mine.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
So I felt fun. It was my mistake, Hey, my fault.
And then as far as the menu mentioned we were
gonna do cheese sticks, we didn't dow cheese stacks. We
ended up doing fihitas. I was back on the griddle
and we had like ten twelve. It was a lot
of chicken, a lot of chicken, chopped it all up
into little pieces, had rice, We had tortillas, had eat
(08:20):
those up, nacho bar, the malard mess hall was open
for business. It was an all evening situation, but it
was a good times. And the other gripe that I
had was the decision that was not my decision to
use instead of paper plates, actual plates, which caused me
(08:45):
a big hulla balloo on the other side because he
had to do all the dishes and so there was
a lot of oh that, but overall a fine, fine event.
It was hot in the kitchen, but it was not
like that, Okay, sea heat. It wasn't that kind of danny, dude.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
I mean that area they're obviously known for their thunder
and lightning and their tornadoes. They call it tornado. Ali.
The uber driver when I got to OKC last weekend,
was telling me all about how high the insurance rates
are there. Everything else is great, Like we landed in
the gasoline. Of course we pay attention to these things
(09:22):
because we're California people. Two dollars and sixty nine cents
a gallon.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
Say, what did you attempt to go to like home
depot and buy a jug that you could put gasoline
on for the flight back? Did you think, mate?
Speaker 3 (09:35):
They figured they might frown on that during airports security.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
Okay, fairpoint, fairpoint.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
But we got breakfast everything, you know, the eggs that
I'm like, do it up, the potatoes, the fruit, give
me a cup of fruit extra, all that, and the
bill came to the door for the room service and
we got these two huge breakfast plates and the bill
was twenty four bucks, and I was like, man, you know,
(10:02):
probably sucks being in the middle of nowhere, but the
prices are affordable. I knew that they were in Tornado Alley.
What I didn't know was it could get so damn
hot there, and it was that kind of heat where
it feels like your face is melting off hot nuts.
We get to we get to owe you our son,
(10:23):
he's just started there. He got there in August. Was
pretty cool. Getting to see the lay of the land.
We get to his frat house where he's pledging. It
looks like the movies everything you imagine from Revenge of
the Nerds on up to know the latest movie where
you might see college campuses. What a beautiful campus there
in Oklahoma, the Sooners. I can see why so many
(10:47):
of them brag about their campus. We do the family
Day thing there and there's a ton of people. The
only thing that was bad at Family Day bend your
food sounds way better at your party because they had
sloppy joes, eh, egg salad and yeah, stuff like that.
(11:08):
And so we get a couple of plates. Finally have
to wait in this big line because it was so
crowded there, and it's just the food stunk. So we're like, well,
we'll we'll eat at the stadium. It'll be better at
the stadium. I'm sure now. It was some gross hot
dogs that were thirteen bucks, barely edible, barely cooked, nachos
(11:28):
that looked like the high school nachos that you were
slinging a couple of weekends back.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
Yeah, it was.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
The only part that well, that wasn't the only part.
We get up to our seats. They're in the student
section because that's where our two kids were. They're telling
me and the wifey, Yeah, you guys got to stand
with us in the student section. These seats are way
up high and ben. When we got there, they're doing
their all their ou traditions and chants, and there was
(11:56):
an early touchdown scored, so the place is going nuts. Oh,
you looked like a juggernaut on the field that day,
but that sun just blazing in everybody's face. There was
about ten thousand Carrie Underwood lookalikes. In fact, I'm going
to text you right now a picture I took where
(12:17):
you'll be like, oh, Okay, I see what you're talking about.
When you're in that southern California heat at a stadium, Well,
I guess you may not know what it's like because
you're up in the media booth.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
No, I've been something. I've never sat outside in the
summer at Dodger Stadium or what I've been outside. I've
been at USC football games back in the day when
I was there all the time, when Pete Carroll was
coaching and they had Reggie Bush and those guys in
the different area. I mean, it was ridiculously hot. They
didn't even have an air conditioning in the press box.
(12:54):
But yeah, no, it's much. It's a different kind of
heat because you're like when you're in Oklahoma, arc saws
right across the way there on one side. You like, Amarillo,
Texas is not that far. I mean, that's are very
hot places. There's no water. It's like there's no massive
body of water, you know, anywhere near there.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
I'm surprised that they designed the stadium the way they did, too,
because there's not a lot of overhang. There's no shade
to be found. That was my biggest takeaway from the stadium.
Beautiful campus Great Stadium, but literally everybody was exposed to
the sun just shining right in your eyes, and there
(13:33):
were people being taken away on stretchers by paramedics. I
thought I was at a Michael Jackson concert in the
late eighties. It was insane how many people had to
have medical help. And you know, these kids are drinking alcohol.
They're not drinking water. So I think that was a
lot of the problem was just tons of dehydration all
(13:56):
around us. But these girls all were cake faced, and
they all had the same It was like they were
distributed the same uniform to wear here.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
And I have a plan, and I would like you
to invest in my plan. So I think what we'll do.
We will make cowboy boots for women, college age women,
will open up a couple of shops in Oklahoma, and
then we'll just retire. We'll be good.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
We'd be millionaires. We would be millionaires.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
Think of all wearing like jean shorts or well the
two and then they've got the cowboy cowboy Yeah.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
So they got the little shirts with the girls sticking
out so barely any top on ou hat or a
cowboy hat, a girl cowboy hat. The boots that they
were like usually red colored to match OU's colors. You
see that in the photo and these little jean shorts.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
Might I say, not a bad look, you know, not
a terrible look?
Speaker 3 (14:58):
Ten thousand at least of I mean, was there was
more than that? But I saw ten thousand personally, thank you?
Speaker 1 (15:06):
Like did I like at the memo, like, what's going
on here?
Speaker 3 (15:10):
I think they all looked like they had been cloned.
There was no individuality whatsoever. But at least they didn't
have so many clothes on that they were extra hot.
The problem was they all had a shit ton of
makeup on. Literally, their makeup was melting off in the sun.
We saw the girls next to us in the stands.
(15:32):
They had those personal fans, and they had the fans
right up to their face so that their makeup wouldn't melt,
and then they would rotate to the boobs to the face,
to the boobs to the face.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
Listen when in warm in Oklahoma.
Speaker 3 (15:51):
I'm sure that'll solve it.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
You sing the sooner born, sooner bread and when I die,
I'll be sooner dead like fight song.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
Thing.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
Did you do that? Did they do that?
Speaker 3 (15:59):
Did they they did a oh oh oh you okay?
And they Yeah, they kept doing that to that song
that oh oh oh oh.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
Still I assume they still have the super.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
Bump bump bump bum bum hello, oh oh oh. You
did that so many times it's been blazoned into my brain.
Really awesome home crowd, good experience. But we were not
able to make it to halftime in those seats. So
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what we did is we sat down by the concession
stands with the big monitors, the big flat screens, and
we weren't the only ones. There were hundreds of people
sitting down in the bowels of the stadium, and so
we got a bird's eye view of all the hundreds
of people being stretchered into the medical area. So at halftime,
(16:52):
we told the kids, we know you want to be
here for the Toby Keith Salute third quarter video tribute
to the late great Toby Keith, who famously was the
face of OU, their biggest celebrity fan. We didn't make
it that far, so we left at halftime. We weren't
the only ones. There were hundreds of people walking out
(17:14):
of the stadium at halftime because it was just too
damn hot for a football game. But we were able
to go to a steak dinner.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
You want for steak. You didn't go barbecue, you want steak.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
We went steak. We found a steakhouse. Okay, there were
four of us and a kid's menu, so five people
on the bill. We went all out with a steak.
How much do you think that final bill was?
Speaker 1 (17:36):
Well, you said the room service was like twenty four dollars.
So this was a good steak Oklahoma steakhouse.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
A chain steakhouse there in Oklahoma.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
All right, I mean five people, I mean a couple
hundred bucks.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
That's what we were thinking. We kind of had it
in our budget in our heads, like, all right, this
is our one big meal of the trip, celebrating the
ou victory. Bill comes to our table one hundred bucks. Nice,
Like Holly said, it was worth the heat. Man, really cool.
Stay there our son. He lives in a little bubble
(18:17):
there right off the campus. He's having the time of
his life, especially with his frat house. And it was
a good time all around. In my very first visit
to Oklahoma and OKC, we stayed at a nice hotel
in OKC at the Omni where the next day at
their sports bar, I got to see the Raiders upset
(18:37):
the Ravens, which was beautiful. So not only did we
get a OU win, we got a Raider win. And
OKC was nice. It really was. Yeah, there was a
lot of heat, but there were a lot of cool restaurants.
And that night before we left, we went to the
Oklahoma County Fair. Saw a lot of animals and animal
shit all over the ground, but we got to walk
(18:59):
around their county Fair, which was fun before we headed
back to California.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
Oh, that's great, awesome. You mentioned the Sooner fight thing
that they were doing. It reminds me. I went to
a Buffalo Bills game years ago and they kept playing.
Every time the Bills got a first down or did anything,
they would play Let's go Buffalo. The Bills make me
want to shout, you know, and they was endless. It was,
(19:27):
oh my god, it was so bad. I was like, man,
a nightmare. But I had I've been to Oklahoma to
years ago. I don't want to say when, but it
was a long time ago, and I did get to
do a radio broadcast from Oklahoma. But it was also
one of the eye opening experiences because I was working
college radio broadcast. I was the sideline reporter for Oklahoma
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played Nebraska. They used to be huge rivals, and so
Nebraska was kind of that. They had a dynasty in
college football in the nineties, but it was the tail
end of that and they were starting to suck. But
they still didn't completely suck. But Oklahoma had been bad
and they were starting to become good, and so I
was excited. Was like it was kind of a big
game and it was early in the college football season.
(20:11):
So we went down. They flew me into Oklahoma City.
That was the trip where the guy that paid for
the trip said, hey, I don't I can't give you
per diem. You can eat whatever you want at the
hotel though, so I just kept at the hotel and
then we drove out to Norman actually the day before
to it was Friday, to do some meetings with the
(20:32):
Oklahoma people. And that's where I saw Lee Corso walking
around in like jeans and he was old then now
he's still doing it, but very old.
Speaker 3 (20:41):
Everybody raves about the college football atmosphere, yeah, and they're
right on, it's amazing. The problem is in our age group,
you feel like the old people there.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
Yeah. Yeah, you don't want to feel.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
You feel no, And that that was the only thing
you feel left out a little bit because you're thinking
in your mind, Man, if I could just come back
here when I was twenty or twenty one, this would
be even more amazing. Like next weekend, I'm gonna be
with Covino and Rich at Auburn the day before their
big game for the graduate hotels. And it's kind of
(21:18):
going to be like a rally almost because it's the
day before the game. But I'm sure it's the same
kind of vibe. And everybody had told me, oh, man,
once you go to a college game, you're going to
want to go to another. And that might be the case,
but I'm not in my early twenties to get into
all that trouble with the ten thousand Carrie Underwoods. I saw.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
Yeah, if you were a little younger and single, you'd
be like I'm in You'd be on every weekend. You'd
be let's try Southern footballs to we'll do the big ten.
Speaker 3 (21:46):
Let's do what else would have did? A college football tour?
Speaker 1 (21:50):
Yeah, for sure. Now I was a cool, cool experience,
and that's really the only place I've been I've not been.
I'd like to get to it, says No Notre Dame,
but I don't know if I guarantee Notre Dame is
not like that LSU at night, LSU Night game. You
hear a lot about that.
Speaker 3 (22:08):
Yeah, I could see that.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
You know, there's some cool, cool spots. Most of them
are in the South. It's just just means more.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
Yeah, Michigan. I know they were talking about maybe sending
us to broadcast live out of Michigan game.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
Oh okay, Ann Arbor.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
Yeah, yeah, we might be a season too late for that, but.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
Yeah, it might be on the back side of it
on the way down. But they had the I think
we didn't come the sooner schooner. Did that come out
on the field?
Speaker 3 (22:40):
I saw it one time. I'm sure it came out
more than once, but we saw it one time while
we were in the stands and took a cool video
of it. And is this uh is this evil that
I was hoping it was going to flip over like
we've seen and I don't. I don't think it's happened
a lot, but the times it's happened, it's been caught
on video and has gone viral where the wagon is
(23:02):
just sliding on its side.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
Yeah. Yeah, when I the game, I was at and
it was crazy because I'm standing on the sidelines and
I didn't, you know, I didn't really know what to
I mean, i'd seen Oklahoma games on TV, but you're
you're there and you see it's like, whoa dude. That's
like what a bunch of dudes with cowboy hats running around?
Crap and you know, whole thing. But it was it
was pretty cool that I remember. Also Nebraska had they
(23:26):
had one of those blow up mascot things, you know,
that inflatable like it was a person, but they blew
up the costumes so they were like giant and they
were walking around and so I remember that from that
particular day. And also I was gonna mention this going
to the radio station and we had to record. We
did like an hour syndicated college football show, so we
(23:49):
had to go record at the radio station. So we
go to the radio station, and it was so at
that time, I'd only been to like big market radio stations.
I'd never been to a small market radio station. But
the guy he talked to the person that carried the
show in Oklahoma, like Norman. So we show up to the.
Speaker 3 (24:05):
Radio station, Danny.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
It's in a mobile home that like a trailer mobile
home thing that's parked right below the It's like parked
it is the right word, but it's set up right
underneath the transmitter the tower. I don't know if you noticed,
but they have very big towers there because it's flat.
(24:28):
There's not not a lot of hills in Oklahoma. So
we pull up and I was like, oh my god,
and they had all this really old radio equipment and
it kind of smelled musky, and it just was terrible.
And it wasn't even a double wide. They couldn't even
afford a double wide. And I remember going in there
and I'm like, oh man, It's like, how many of
these radio stations in these small towns are just like this?
(24:51):
It was wild.
Speaker 3 (24:52):
Yeah, I'm sure all those satellite rays and electricity there
right above your head is good for your health too.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
Doctors recommend it, Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
I'm a doctor.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
Well, I'm a YouTuber, not that kind of YouTuber. But
did something I'd never done before last last weekend, I
was the invited guest by my wife. My presence was
requested at the YouTube theater at Sofi Stadium. Now, I'd
never been to the YouTube theater at Sofi stadium, never
(25:24):
been until now I've been. My wife got tickets to see.
I wonder if you know who this is and see Danny.
I think you probably know who this person is, but
maybe not that familiar. Do you know who Steven Sanchez is?
You heard the name?
Speaker 3 (25:38):
No, I don't know who that is?
Speaker 1 (25:40):
Okay, good, you don't know. I'm not really familiar with
his work. Be This guy's a young cat, he's twenty one.
He was discovered on TikTok. So you remember Bieber was
discovered on the internet, And I guess that's the way
everyone's discovered now in music is on the internet.
Speaker 3 (25:54):
You just yeah, same as Taylor Swift.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
Yeah, used to be back in the day that you
had to go on the.
Speaker 3 (25:59):
Radio, but Caine Brown. Yeah. Now it's cover other people's
songs and put those videos on YouTube and then people
start following you.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
Yeah. So the wife got tickets for us and her
friend and her friend's husband from work. So we all
went together out in the hood in Inglewood. And my
wife really likes this guy's music or whatever, So not
really my jam, kind of old school like krooner love style,
(26:30):
love song type crap. But you know, it was cool
to be at the YouTube theater, and my wife enjoyed it.
We had pretty good seats. I don't want to know
how much they cost because I probably lose my lunch.
But this guy's from southern California originally. He's now based
in Nashville, and my wife swears that he's going to
(26:52):
just blow up in the next couple of years. He's
won a bunch of nominations from like iHeart the iHeart
Music Awards, the People's Choice Awards, a bunch of random
stuff that I've never heard of in that world. But
it's fine. Is there a lot of you know, good
looking people, much like you sent me the photo from Oklahoma.
People not wearing a lot of clothes. I think maybe
(27:13):
they thought the women that Steven Sanchez was going to
go go to the crowd and to start picking out women.
But they were all dressed up. Everyone seem to have a,
you know, a good time in the YouTube.
Speaker 3 (27:24):
Thah, just I just looked him up right now.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
Yeah, he's a young guy. I mean it's like you
look at that, You're like, whoa dude? I mean that's
now I feel like.
Speaker 3 (27:32):
Yeah, he was born in El Dorado Hills, California.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
Yeah, so, and I don't know much about him. There's
not a lot of information about where he went to
school or whatever. I don't know much. But he's I
guess doing all right. So that was the YouTuber part.
Speaker 3 (27:49):
It says it's easy to sway into the embrace of
his breezy baritone stylings.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
Yeah, I'm sure. Well, yet again, Danny, the God of
Garlic has saved the day.
Speaker 3 (28:06):
So follow up, Oh no, alleged allegedly.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
Oh no, no, there's no allegedly here. Let me let
me give you the backstory. So about ten days ago
or so the timeline, I'm not exactly sure in the
exact time, but my niece and nephew I think I
told the story on this pot because we hung out
with him and we went to I went to the
(28:30):
beach and had lunch or dinner and had a good time.
But my my nephew had strap throat. He was sick, right,
and they took him to the doctor. And so I'm
I'm freaking out.
Speaker 3 (28:43):
You.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
I can't miss the TV show, I can't miss the
radio show. I don't want miss any time. And I'm
paranoid about all that. So my wife's telling me she says, Oh,
it's probably nothing. He's a kid, you know, don't worry
about it. I'm freaking out. So then I kind of
started feeling sick. I woke up on last last Friday.
I woke up feeling a little, a little off. You
(29:03):
know how you get that feeling like you're about to
get sick, and you're like, oh, man, So I went
immediately to nature's antibiotic and I took two giant handfuls
of garlic, and I roasted this garlic. I went roasted
garlic because if used properly, it will kill most oncoming infections,
(29:31):
you know, old and stuff like that. I wouldn't treat
it for cancer. But anyway, so I went there, and
sure enough, the next day I fell back to my
old self. And so that proves that the Egyptians were right, Danny,
that when they worshiped garlic as a god and they
used it as currency, they were correct. And somewhere along
(29:54):
the way humanity has lost its way. Not only can
garlic be worshiped, can be money, could cure vampiresm right,
you could do that the whole thing. So anyway, I
was very nice. The god of garlic or garlic the
god however you want to say it helping me out,
and we have the idiom of the week and we'll
(30:16):
get out on this the idiom of the week. Are
you ready for the idiom of the week?
Speaker 3 (30:19):
Danny the of the week?
Speaker 1 (30:23):
The idiom of the week a request from Sarah who
is in Dallas or the Dallas area. She's actually in
a suburb, but thank you, sir. I'm guessing her husband
probably listens and not her, but she sent the email.
So anyway, the idiom of the week is ostracize. You
ever say, hey, you've been ostracized, or that person's gonna
get ostracized or anything like that. So that phrase, which
(30:47):
is a bit of an idiom. The original meaning of
the word ostracize, most of us know do exile, be
kicked out of a group, or something like that. But
it goes back to ancient Greece, the ancient Greeks, and
they had a practice of ostracism. And the word comes
from a Greek word that I'm not even going to
(31:07):
try to pronounce, but it means to banish. And if
you go back to those times, allegedly in ancient Greece,
citizens could be exiled if their power influence threatened the
leadership class in Greece among the Greeks, and so the
(31:29):
way it would work, as I understand it, falling down
the rabbit hole here for the word ostracized. The idiom
of the week is that there was a whole big
process of citizens who voted to banish other citizens. It's like,
you know how we go to HR to complain about somebody. Well,
(31:49):
back in Greece, they didn't have HR. So what they
did was people would write the name, the name of
the person they had an issue with on a not
a piece of paper. They don't have paper, but the
potchard or what is it potchard by the way, I
didn't even know what that is, but they beat their
name on this and then if enough citizens wrote the
(32:11):
same name, that person would be exiled from Greece for
ten years, you imagine. Yeah, And so the exiled person
was given ten days because like round numbers, so it
kicked out for ten years. But they were given ten
days to organize their affairs and then they had to
(32:33):
leave the city to never return to the region of
Attica in the next decade day to be away. Of course,
today we still use the word ostracize, which in modern jive.
Modern lingo means to exclude someone from a group or whatnot.
(32:56):
So that is the idiom of the week ostracized. I
thought that was a pretty interesting one, so thank you, Sarah.
If you would like to request in idiom for a
future show, you just want to hear us talk about it.
I mean, some of the stuff you can find on
your own, but if you want to hear us, go
down a rabbit hole and chat. You're lazy. We are
here Real fifth Hour and I love words anyway, so
(33:16):
it's kind of cool for me to learn new things
like this. So Real fifth Hour at gmail dot com
and we all kind of learned together, so it's a.
Speaker 3 (33:22):
Yeah, really cool, and you're featured as the idiot of
the week.
Speaker 1 (33:26):
It was idiom idiom. All right, we'll get out on
that anything, Dan. It's Saturday. I'm going to be watching
I mentioned this on yesterday's podcast. I'll be watching a
little bit of the UCLA game because Brian Finley is
doing the postgame show and UCLA is going to likely
lose by four touchdowns, so I want to see how
bad it. Guess they're playing LSU today, and then I'll
(33:48):
be checking out some of the other college games randomly.
But you got anything going on you want to promote here?
Speaker 3 (33:53):
No, last week I was recording podcasts with you and traveling.
This weekend, it's recording podcasts and trying to kick back
and relax a little bit with college football. And same thing.
Man going to be watching some college football and making
some nachos in the kitchen.
Speaker 1 (34:09):
Sounds good, sounds good. All right, have a wonderful rest
of your Saturday. Thank you. Remember Benny Versus the Penny
still airing all day today, all night today, multiple showings
on your local NBC Sports affiliate NBC Sports Boston, Philly,
San Francisco. We're on in Los Angeles today as well,
also available in several of the markets that I do
(34:31):
not have off the top of my head. And streaming nationally.
You do not have to have cable TV to watch
the show anymore. We have gone national this year. Benny
Versus the Penny is on Peacock, so help us out
on that. They do keep track all that, so that
really does help us out. If you watch that. We
have a cult following now. The numbers have been good,
so keep that up. Have a great day. We'll talk
to you tomorrow later skater my folation
Kubbooms.
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 sol fashion of fairness. He
treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the
rich pill poppers in the penthouse. Wow, the Clearinghouse of
hot takes break free for something special. The Fifth Hour
(00:23):
with Ben Maller starts right now.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
In the air every Way, A happy Saturday to you.
It is the Fifth Hour with me, Ben and Danny.
G Radio is back with us here on this Saturday
as we celebrate Miniature Golf Day today. Danny, and when
was the last time you went miniature golfing? Has it
(00:49):
been a.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
While, not that long ago? I think I was fifteen.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Yeah, that's Tue. It's only a couple of years, give
or take. I was. I was like the tiger Woods
of mini golf. I don't want to I don't want
to embellish, but I dominated the windmill. I owned the windmill.
My short game was amazing. Did you know miniature golf
goes back to it's over one hundred and I think
(01:14):
it's almost two hundred years old. It's like the eighteen hundreds,
they had miniature golf that was born at a club
in Saint Andrews. They created a game of minister golf.
So miniature golf has been part of the world since
like the eighteen sixties. This isn't This is part of
(01:34):
the fabric of what human beings are at this point,
unless it's not. I was when I was in when
I went went down to visit my father in law
and then my niece in North Carolina and South Carolina
and Myrtle Beach, they claimed to be the miniature golf
capital of America. And if not, maybe maybe it's a world.
(01:59):
But there's one stretch in Myrtle Beach that is like
nothing but designer, bougie miniature golf courses.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
On this podcast, the Saturday Extravagance that we've got the Brownie,
the Okay Heat or the Oka Sea Heats, the YouTuber
God of Garlic, and the Idiom of the week, all
of that content, assuming we have time to get to it.
We'll start with this. So if you follow the podcast,
(02:32):
you're obviously listening. Now, if you've been keeping up on
the pod, you know that because it's football season and
the TV shows on and all that. I've changed some
things in my regular routine and my cooking. We're really
my baking. I'm my cooking. My baking has been put
on a hiatus. It's been embargoed until February, and who
(02:56):
knows if all even go back to it. But you know,
sometime in February, that's it. The Super bowls mid February.
So after that I'm in. I might try it again,
but for right now, nah, no, no baking. Try to
avoid the extra sugar, just like you, Danny. We're getting old.
We can't have too much sugar, right, How boring is
our lives, my god? So I try to limit it,
(03:19):
even eating any kind of sugar. I know there's sugar
and everything, but like regular foods that we eat, but
I try to avoid sweets, except maybe on one day
on the weekends, I might have some M and m's
or something like that, or if it's rare and appropriate.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
A little extra cocaine to make up for the lack
of junk food.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
A bunch of hookers and cocaine exactly exactly. Yeah, you know,
you add some fentanyl whatever, But I only eat it,
you know, every now and again, and you get rare
and appropriate. But this past weekend was a rare and
appropriate situation. My wife, you had a big party here
(03:58):
at the house and a lot of family had come
in here, a lot of aunts, cousins on her side,
nobody from my family, nobody from you know, they're all
my people pretty much live you know far. I have
like one cousin that kind of lives in the area,
and everyone else is in other states. So I'm pretty
much on an island out here.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
We're just fine. Whatever.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
So they were all there hanging out a big hooton
nanny and tray toff during.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
People did you say hoot nanny?
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Yeah, hooton nanny. It's a great word, so it's wonderful. Anyway,
it was fun. We had a good time. You have
a lot of food and family and all that stuff,
and so big event. And my wife had requested but
my baking services because she came up with this whole menu. Now,
originally we were going to do like cheese steak. The
(04:48):
plan was to do cheese steak, but there were a
lot of people. Roughly fifteen to twenty people were here,
so it's a lot of people, and to make mass
quantities of cheese steak. You got to make each sandwich
kind of individually. Even though you make all the meat
and the onions and the bell peppers and all that
together like the the assembly line, it's a lot quicker
to make some other food. So we settled on a
(05:12):
menu that was easy to mass produce. But one of
the things my wife wanted was dessert, and so I
was deputized as Benny the brownie baker. Benny the brownie baker.
So I made homemade brownies. But good news, Danny, I
helped the family business. I used you know what kind
of brownie mix I used here to make these brownies?
Speaker 3 (05:34):
Sugar free?
Speaker 1 (05:36):
No, Garrett Delli Girt, Yes.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
The complete opposite, thank god, the complete opposite of sugar free.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Yeah, these are these are terrible for you. But then
I took it next level because I was like, I
don't I've made a lot of cookies. I don't think
i've I've ever made browns. Probably my mom, you know,
I I guarantee I mad it with my mom. But
as a grown up, you know, my mom passed years ago.
I haven't made brownies. And so this was like, Okay,
I'm studying. I am like a food scientist is what
(06:10):
I am. I'm going in there, and I'm like, I
don't want to make just basic bach brownies, Like I
want I want to.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
Go next left.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
If you're going to go in there, I want these
to be amazing, right. And so I was like I
started falling down a rabbit hole. And I was like, okay,
how I know. I got the mix, but that's just
the that's just the raw ingredients. Like, how can I
make this amazing right? How can I crank this up here?
(06:39):
So I went into the sweet science of a brownie
baking and there were a few hacks that I came
up with, you know, simple things like substituting water with buttermilk,
and I added some extra chocolate and whatnot. It wasn't
a lot, but it was enough to put them over
(07:00):
the top. And so they came out Chef's kiss just great.
And there was one error though, Danny with the brownies.
So we made the brownies. They took a little longer
to bake because I put some buttermilk instead of the water.
I think that's why. So took them, took them out
and out of the oven. And the normal protocol is
(07:25):
if you make brownies, you let them sit until they cool.
You don't cut them right away, because if you cut
them right away, that's problematic. You don't want to cut
them right away. My wife was in a hurry, so
she did not allow them to properly cool. So she's
trying to cut them while they're still warm. And it
made like quite the quite the crime scene, the brownie
(07:48):
crime scene. But they still taste me good. They didn't
look good. I wanted presentation, you know what I'm saying.
I wanted presentation.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
Yeah, that was in your error. That was hers, Yeah,
wasn't mine.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
So I felt fun. It was my mistake, Hey, my fault.
And then as far as the menu mentioned we were
gonna do cheese sticks, we didn't dow cheese stacks. We
ended up doing fihitas. I was back on the griddle
and we had like ten twelve. It was a lot
of chicken, a lot of chicken, chopped it all up
into little pieces, had rice, We had tortillas, had eat
(08:20):
those up, nacho bar, the malard mess hall was open
for business. It was an all evening situation, but it
was a good times. And the other gripe that I
had was the decision that was not my decision to
use instead of paper plates, actual plates, which caused me
(08:45):
a big hulla balloo on the other side because he
had to do all the dishes and so there was
a lot of oh that, but overall a fine, fine event.
It was hot in the kitchen, but it was not
like that, Okay, sea heat. It wasn't that kind of danny, dude.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
I mean that area they're obviously known for their thunder
and lightning and their tornadoes. They call it tornado. Ali.
The uber driver when I got to OKC last weekend,
was telling me all about how high the insurance rates
are there. Everything else is great, Like we landed in
the gasoline. Of course we pay attention to these things
(09:22):
because we're California people. Two dollars and sixty nine cents
a gallon.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
Say, what did you attempt to go to like home
depot and buy a jug that you could put gasoline
on for the flight back? Did you think, mate?
Speaker 3 (09:35):
They figured they might frown on that during airports security.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
Okay, fairpoint, fairpoint.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
But we got breakfast everything, you know, the eggs that
I'm like, do it up, the potatoes, the fruit, give
me a cup of fruit extra, all that, and the
bill came to the door for the room service and
we got these two huge breakfast plates and the bill
was twenty four bucks, and I was like, man, you know,
(10:02):
probably sucks being in the middle of nowhere, but the
prices are affordable. I knew that they were in Tornado Alley.
What I didn't know was it could get so damn
hot there, and it was that kind of heat where
it feels like your face is melting off hot nuts.
We get to we get to owe you our son,
(10:23):
he's just started there. He got there in August. Was
pretty cool. Getting to see the lay of the land.
We get to his frat house where he's pledging. It
looks like the movies everything you imagine from Revenge of
the Nerds on up to know the latest movie where
you might see college campuses. What a beautiful campus there
in Oklahoma, the Sooners. I can see why so many
(10:47):
of them brag about their campus. We do the family
Day thing there and there's a ton of people. The
only thing that was bad at Family Day bend your
food sounds way better at your party because they had
sloppy joes, eh, egg salad and yeah, stuff like that.
(11:08):
And so we get a couple of plates. Finally have
to wait in this big line because it was so
crowded there, and it's just the food stunk. So we're like, well,
we'll we'll eat at the stadium. It'll be better at
the stadium. I'm sure now. It was some gross hot
dogs that were thirteen bucks, barely edible, barely cooked, nachos
(11:28):
that looked like the high school nachos that you were
slinging a couple of weekends back.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
Yeah, it was.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
The only part that well, that wasn't the only part.
We get up to our seats. They're in the student
section because that's where our two kids were. They're telling
me and the wifey, Yeah, you guys got to stand
with us in the student section. These seats are way
up high and ben. When we got there, they're doing
their all their ou traditions and chants, and there was
(11:56):
an early touchdown scored, so the place is going nuts. Oh,
you looked like a juggernaut on the field that day,
but that sun just blazing in everybody's face. There was
about ten thousand Carrie Underwood lookalikes. In fact, I'm going
to text you right now a picture I took where
(12:17):
you'll be like, oh, Okay, I see what you're talking about.
When you're in that southern California heat at a stadium, Well,
I guess you may not know what it's like because
you're up in the media booth.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
No, I've been something. I've never sat outside in the
summer at Dodger Stadium or what I've been outside. I've
been at USC football games back in the day when
I was there all the time, when Pete Carroll was
coaching and they had Reggie Bush and those guys in
the different area. I mean, it was ridiculously hot. They
didn't even have an air conditioning in the press box.
(12:54):
But yeah, no, it's much. It's a different kind of
heat because you're like when you're in Oklahoma, arc saws
right across the way there on one side. You like, Amarillo,
Texas is not that far. I mean, that's are very
hot places. There's no water. It's like there's no massive
body of water, you know, anywhere near there.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
I'm surprised that they designed the stadium the way they did, too,
because there's not a lot of overhang. There's no shade
to be found. That was my biggest takeaway from the stadium.
Beautiful campus Great Stadium, but literally everybody was exposed to
the sun just shining right in your eyes, and there
(13:33):
were people being taken away on stretchers by paramedics. I
thought I was at a Michael Jackson concert in the
late eighties. It was insane how many people had to
have medical help. And you know, these kids are drinking alcohol.
They're not drinking water. So I think that was a
lot of the problem was just tons of dehydration all
(13:56):
around us. But these girls all were cake faced, and
they all had the same It was like they were
distributed the same uniform to wear here.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
And I have a plan, and I would like you
to invest in my plan. So I think what we'll do.
We will make cowboy boots for women, college age women,
will open up a couple of shops in Oklahoma, and
then we'll just retire. We'll be good.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
We'd be millionaires. We would be millionaires.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
Think of all wearing like jean shorts or well the
two and then they've got the cowboy cowboy Yeah.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
So they got the little shirts with the girls sticking
out so barely any top on ou hat or a
cowboy hat, a girl cowboy hat. The boots that they
were like usually red colored to match OU's colors. You
see that in the photo and these little jean shorts.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
Might I say, not a bad look, you know, not
a terrible look?
Speaker 3 (14:58):
Ten thousand at least of I mean, was there was
more than that? But I saw ten thousand personally, thank you?
Speaker 1 (15:06):
Like did I like at the memo, like, what's going
on here?
Speaker 3 (15:10):
I think they all looked like they had been cloned.
There was no individuality whatsoever. But at least they didn't
have so many clothes on that they were extra hot.
The problem was they all had a shit ton of
makeup on. Literally, their makeup was melting off in the sun.
We saw the girls next to us in the stands.
(15:32):
They had those personal fans, and they had the fans
right up to their face so that their makeup wouldn't melt,
and then they would rotate to the boobs to the face,
to the boobs to the face.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
Listen when in warm in Oklahoma.
Speaker 3 (15:51):
I'm sure that'll solve it.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
You sing the sooner born, sooner bread and when I die,
I'll be sooner dead like fight song.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
Thing.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
Did you do that? Did they do that?
Speaker 3 (15:59):
Did they they did a oh oh oh you okay?
And they Yeah, they kept doing that to that song
that oh oh oh oh.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
Still I assume they still have the super.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
Bump bump bump bum bum hello, oh oh oh. You
did that so many times it's been blazoned into my brain.
Really awesome home crowd, good experience. But we were not
able to make it to halftime in those seats. So
(16:31):
what we did is we sat down by the concession
stands with the big monitors, the big flat screens, and
we weren't the only ones. There were hundreds of people
sitting down in the bowels of the stadium, and so
we got a bird's eye view of all the hundreds
of people being stretchered into the medical area. So at halftime,
(16:52):
we told the kids, we know you want to be
here for the Toby Keith Salute third quarter video tribute
to the late great Toby Keith, who famously was the
face of OU, their biggest celebrity fan. We didn't make
it that far, so we left at halftime. We weren't
the only ones. There were hundreds of people walking out
(17:14):
of the stadium at halftime because it was just too
damn hot for a football game. But we were able
to go to a steak dinner.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
You want for steak. You didn't go barbecue, you want steak.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
We went steak. We found a steakhouse. Okay, there were
four of us and a kid's menu, so five people
on the bill. We went all out with a steak.
How much do you think that final bill was?
Speaker 1 (17:36):
Well, you said the room service was like twenty four dollars.
So this was a good steak Oklahoma steakhouse.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
A chain steakhouse there in Oklahoma.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
All right, I mean five people, I mean a couple
hundred bucks.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
That's what we were thinking. We kind of had it
in our budget in our heads, like, all right, this
is our one big meal of the trip, celebrating the
ou victory. Bill comes to our table one hundred bucks. Nice,
Like Holly said, it was worth the heat. Man, really cool.
Stay there our son. He lives in a little bubble
(18:17):
there right off the campus. He's having the time of
his life, especially with his frat house. And it was
a good time all around. In my very first visit
to Oklahoma and OKC, we stayed at a nice hotel
in OKC at the Omni where the next day at
their sports bar, I got to see the Raiders upset
(18:37):
the Ravens, which was beautiful. So not only did we
get a OU win, we got a Raider win. And
OKC was nice. It really was. Yeah, there was a
lot of heat, but there were a lot of cool restaurants.
And that night before we left, we went to the
Oklahoma County Fair. Saw a lot of animals and animal
shit all over the ground, but we got to walk
(18:59):
around their county Fair, which was fun before we headed
back to California.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
Oh, that's great, awesome. You mentioned the Sooner fight thing
that they were doing. It reminds me. I went to
a Buffalo Bills game years ago and they kept playing.
Every time the Bills got a first down or did anything,
they would play Let's go Buffalo. The Bills make me
want to shout, you know, and they was endless. It was,
(19:27):
oh my god, it was so bad. I was like, man,
a nightmare. But I had I've been to Oklahoma to
years ago. I don't want to say when, but it
was a long time ago, and I did get to
do a radio broadcast from Oklahoma. But it was also
one of the eye opening experiences because I was working
college radio broadcast. I was the sideline reporter for Oklahoma
(19:49):
played Nebraska. They used to be huge rivals, and so
Nebraska was kind of that. They had a dynasty in
college football in the nineties, but it was the tail
end of that and they were starting to suck. But
they still didn't completely suck. But Oklahoma had been bad
and they were starting to become good, and so I
was excited. Was like it was kind of a big
game and it was early in the college football season.
(20:11):
So we went down. They flew me into Oklahoma City.
That was the trip where the guy that paid for
the trip said, hey, I don't I can't give you
per diem. You can eat whatever you want at the
hotel though, so I just kept at the hotel and
then we drove out to Norman actually the day before
to it was Friday, to do some meetings with the
(20:32):
Oklahoma people. And that's where I saw Lee Corso walking
around in like jeans and he was old then now
he's still doing it, but very old.
Speaker 3 (20:41):
Everybody raves about the college football atmosphere, yeah, and they're
right on, it's amazing. The problem is in our age group,
you feel like the old people there.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
Yeah. Yeah, you don't want to feel.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
You feel no, And that that was the only thing
you feel left out a little bit because you're thinking
in your mind, Man, if I could just come back
here when I was twenty or twenty one, this would
be even more amazing. Like next weekend, I'm gonna be
with Covino and Rich at Auburn the day before their
big game for the graduate hotels. And it's kind of
(21:18):
going to be like a rally almost because it's the
day before the game. But I'm sure it's the same
kind of vibe. And everybody had told me, oh, man,
once you go to a college game, you're going to
want to go to another. And that might be the case,
but I'm not in my early twenties to get into
all that trouble with the ten thousand Carrie Underwoods. I saw.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
Yeah, if you were a little younger and single, you'd
be like I'm in You'd be on every weekend. You'd
be let's try Southern footballs to we'll do the big ten.
Speaker 3 (21:46):
Let's do what else would have did? A college football tour?
Speaker 1 (21:50):
Yeah, for sure. Now I was a cool, cool experience,
and that's really the only place I've been I've not been.
I'd like to get to it, says No Notre Dame,
but I don't know if I guarantee Notre Dame is
not like that LSU at night, LSU Night game. You
hear a lot about that.
Speaker 3 (22:08):
Yeah, I could see that.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
You know, there's some cool, cool spots. Most of them
are in the South. It's just just means more.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
Yeah, Michigan. I know they were talking about maybe sending
us to broadcast live out of Michigan game.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
Oh okay, Ann Arbor.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
Yeah, yeah, we might be a season too late for that, but.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
Yeah, it might be on the back side of it
on the way down. But they had the I think
we didn't come the sooner schooner. Did that come out
on the field?
Speaker 3 (22:40):
I saw it one time. I'm sure it came out
more than once, but we saw it one time while
we were in the stands and took a cool video
of it. And is this uh is this evil that
I was hoping it was going to flip over like
we've seen and I don't. I don't think it's happened
a lot, but the times it's happened, it's been caught
on video and has gone viral where the wagon is
(23:02):
just sliding on its side.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
Yeah. Yeah, when I the game, I was at and
it was crazy because I'm standing on the sidelines and
I didn't, you know, I didn't really know what to
I mean, i'd seen Oklahoma games on TV, but you're
you're there and you see it's like, whoa dude. That's
like what a bunch of dudes with cowboy hats running around?
Crap and you know, whole thing. But it was it
was pretty cool that I remember. Also Nebraska had they
(23:26):
had one of those blow up mascot things, you know,
that inflatable like it was a person, but they blew
up the costumes so they were like giant and they
were walking around and so I remember that from that
particular day. And also I was gonna mention this going
to the radio station and we had to record. We
did like an hour syndicated college football show, so we
(23:49):
had to go record at the radio station. So we
go to the radio station, and it was so at
that time, I'd only been to like big market radio stations.
I'd never been to a small market radio station. But
the guy he talked to the person that carried the
show in Oklahoma, like Norman. So we show up to the.
Speaker 3 (24:05):
Radio station, Danny.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
It's in a mobile home that like a trailer mobile
home thing that's parked right below the It's like parked
it is the right word, but it's set up right
underneath the transmitter the tower. I don't know if you noticed,
but they have very big towers there because it's flat.
(24:28):
There's not not a lot of hills in Oklahoma. So
we pull up and I was like, oh my god,
and they had all this really old radio equipment and
it kind of smelled musky, and it just was terrible.
And it wasn't even a double wide. They couldn't even
afford a double wide. And I remember going in there
and I'm like, oh man, It's like, how many of
these radio stations in these small towns are just like this?
(24:51):
It was wild.
Speaker 3 (24:52):
Yeah, I'm sure all those satellite rays and electricity there
right above your head is good for your health too.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
Doctors recommend it, Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
I'm a doctor.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
Well, I'm a YouTuber, not that kind of YouTuber. But
did something I'd never done before last last weekend, I
was the invited guest by my wife. My presence was
requested at the YouTube theater at Sofi Stadium. Now, I'd
never been to the YouTube theater at Sofi stadium, never
(25:24):
been until now I've been. My wife got tickets to see.
I wonder if you know who this is and see Danny.
I think you probably know who this person is, but
maybe not that familiar. Do you know who Steven Sanchez is?
You heard the name?
Speaker 3 (25:38):
No, I don't know who that is?
Speaker 1 (25:40):
Okay, good, you don't know. I'm not really familiar with
his work. Be This guy's a young cat, he's twenty one.
He was discovered on TikTok. So you remember Bieber was
discovered on the internet, And I guess that's the way
everyone's discovered now in music is on the internet.
Speaker 3 (25:54):
You just yeah, same as Taylor Swift.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
Yeah, used to be back in the day that you
had to go on the.
Speaker 3 (25:59):
Radio, but Caine Brown. Yeah. Now it's cover other people's
songs and put those videos on YouTube and then people
start following you.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
Yeah. So the wife got tickets for us and her
friend and her friend's husband from work. So we all
went together out in the hood in Inglewood. And my
wife really likes this guy's music or whatever, So not
really my jam, kind of old school like krooner love style,
(26:30):
love song type crap. But you know, it was cool
to be at the YouTube theater, and my wife enjoyed it.
We had pretty good seats. I don't want to know
how much they cost because I probably lose my lunch.
But this guy's from southern California originally. He's now based
in Nashville, and my wife swears that he's going to
(26:52):
just blow up in the next couple of years. He's
won a bunch of nominations from like iHeart the iHeart
Music Awards, the People's Choice Awards, a bunch of random
stuff that I've never heard of in that world. But
it's fine. Is there a lot of you know, good
looking people, much like you sent me the photo from Oklahoma.
People not wearing a lot of clothes. I think maybe
(27:13):
they thought the women that Steven Sanchez was going to
go go to the crowd and to start picking out women.
But they were all dressed up. Everyone seem to have a,
you know, a good time in the YouTube.
Speaker 3 (27:24):
Thah, just I just looked him up right now.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
Yeah, he's a young guy. I mean it's like you
look at that, You're like, whoa dude? I mean that's
now I feel like.
Speaker 3 (27:32):
Yeah, he was born in El Dorado Hills, California.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
Yeah, so, and I don't know much about him. There's
not a lot of information about where he went to
school or whatever. I don't know much. But he's I
guess doing all right. So that was the YouTuber part.
Speaker 3 (27:49):
It says it's easy to sway into the embrace of
his breezy baritone stylings.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
Yeah, I'm sure. Well, yet again, Danny, the God of
Garlic has saved the day.
Speaker 3 (28:06):
So follow up, Oh no, alleged allegedly.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
Oh no, no, there's no allegedly here. Let me let
me give you the backstory. So about ten days ago
or so the timeline, I'm not exactly sure in the
exact time, but my niece and nephew I think I
told the story on this pot because we hung out
with him and we went to I went to the
(28:30):
beach and had lunch or dinner and had a good time.
But my my nephew had strap throat. He was sick, right,
and they took him to the doctor. And so I'm
I'm freaking out.
Speaker 3 (28:43):
You.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
I can't miss the TV show, I can't miss the
radio show. I don't want miss any time. And I'm
paranoid about all that. So my wife's telling me she says, Oh,
it's probably nothing. He's a kid, you know, don't worry
about it. I'm freaking out. So then I kind of
started feeling sick. I woke up on last last Friday.
I woke up feeling a little, a little off. You
(29:03):
know how you get that feeling like you're about to
get sick, and you're like, oh, man, So I went
immediately to nature's antibiotic and I took two giant handfuls
of garlic, and I roasted this garlic. I went roasted
garlic because if used properly, it will kill most oncoming infections,
(29:31):
you know, old and stuff like that. I wouldn't treat
it for cancer. But anyway, so I went there, and
sure enough, the next day I fell back to my
old self. And so that proves that the Egyptians were right, Danny,
that when they worshiped garlic as a god and they
used it as currency, they were correct. And somewhere along
(29:54):
the way humanity has lost its way. Not only can
garlic be worshiped, can be money, could cure vampiresm right,
you could do that the whole thing. So anyway, I
was very nice. The god of garlic or garlic the
god however you want to say it helping me out,
and we have the idiom of the week and we'll
(30:16):
get out on this the idiom of the week. Are
you ready for the idiom of the week?
Speaker 3 (30:19):
Danny the of the week?
Speaker 1 (30:23):
The idiom of the week a request from Sarah who
is in Dallas or the Dallas area. She's actually in
a suburb, but thank you, sir. I'm guessing her husband
probably listens and not her, but she sent the email.
So anyway, the idiom of the week is ostracize. You
ever say, hey, you've been ostracized, or that person's gonna
get ostracized or anything like that. So that phrase, which
(30:47):
is a bit of an idiom. The original meaning of
the word ostracize, most of us know do exile, be
kicked out of a group, or something like that. But
it goes back to ancient Greece, the ancient Greeks, and
they had a practice of ostracism. And the word comes
from a Greek word that I'm not even going to
(31:07):
try to pronounce, but it means to banish. And if
you go back to those times, allegedly in ancient Greece,
citizens could be exiled if their power influence threatened the
leadership class in Greece among the Greeks, and so the
(31:29):
way it would work, as I understand it, falling down
the rabbit hole here for the word ostracized. The idiom
of the week is that there was a whole big
process of citizens who voted to banish other citizens. It's like,
you know how we go to HR to complain about somebody. Well,
(31:49):
back in Greece, they didn't have HR. So what they
did was people would write the name, the name of
the person they had an issue with on a not
a piece of paper. They don't have paper, but the
potchard or what is it potchard by the way, I
didn't even know what that is, but they beat their
name on this and then if enough citizens wrote the
(32:11):
same name, that person would be exiled from Greece for
ten years, you imagine. Yeah, And so the exiled person
was given ten days because like round numbers, so it
kicked out for ten years. But they were given ten
days to organize their affairs and then they had to
(32:33):
leave the city to never return to the region of
Attica in the next decade day to be away. Of course,
today we still use the word ostracize, which in modern jive.
Modern lingo means to exclude someone from a group or whatnot.
(32:56):
So that is the idiom of the week ostracized. I
thought that was a pretty interesting one, so thank you, Sarah.
If you would like to request in idiom for a
future show, you just want to hear us talk about it.
I mean, some of the stuff you can find on
your own, but if you want to hear us, go
down a rabbit hole and chat. You're lazy. We are
here Real fifth Hour and I love words anyway, so
(33:16):
it's kind of cool for me to learn new things
like this. So Real fifth Hour at gmail dot com
and we all kind of learned together, so it's a.
Speaker 3 (33:22):
Yeah, really cool, and you're featured as the idiot of
the week.
Speaker 1 (33:26):
It was idiom idiom. All right, we'll get out on
that anything, Dan. It's Saturday. I'm going to be watching
I mentioned this on yesterday's podcast. I'll be watching a
little bit of the UCLA game because Brian Finley is
doing the postgame show and UCLA is going to likely
lose by four touchdowns, so I want to see how
bad it. Guess they're playing LSU today, and then I'll
(33:48):
be checking out some of the other college games randomly.
But you got anything going on you want to promote here?
Speaker 3 (33:53):
No, last week I was recording podcasts with you and traveling.
This weekend, it's recording podcasts and trying to kick back
and relax a little bit with college football. And same thing.
Man going to be watching some college football and making
some nachos in the kitchen.
Speaker 1 (34:09):
Sounds good, sounds good. All right, have a wonderful rest
of your Saturday. Thank you. Remember Benny Versus the Penny
still airing all day today, all night today, multiple showings
on your local NBC Sports affiliate NBC Sports Boston, Philly,
San Francisco. We're on in Los Angeles today as well,
also available in several of the markets that I do
(34:31):
not have off the top of my head. And streaming nationally.
You do not have to have cable TV to watch
the show anymore. We have gone national this year. Benny
Versus the Penny is on Peacock, so help us out
on that. They do keep track all that, so that
really does help us out. If you watch that. We
have a cult following now. The numbers have been good,
so keep that up. Have a great day. We'll talk
to you tomorrow later skater my folation
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