08-20-25 Of The Day - Benjamin Allbright

Dad joke of the day, word of the day, Mandy's trivia question of the day & jeopardy! It's OF THE DAY! Today's opponent: Benjamin Allbright.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Now it's time for the most exciting segment on the radio.
Others kine.

Speaker 2 (00:08):
The day.

Speaker 1 (00:08):
You can back off that, MICUs Smith. You did you
leaned in? You leaned in on that one. Ben.

Speaker 3 (00:13):
That's all that for the next three hours.

Speaker 1 (00:17):
Sorry about your luck anyway. What is our dad joke
of the day?

Speaker 4 (00:20):
Please? Running into stationary objects can be painful. According to
a recent poll, I like that one.

Speaker 1 (00:29):
I like that one a lot. Okay, what's our word
of the day? Please?

Speaker 4 (00:32):
Is a verb? Okay?

Speaker 1 (00:33):
Et elate eto late et o late what I E
T I O l A t E. I have absolutely
no idea eto late. I'm going to say, what is
the root eto?

Speaker 3 (00:49):
What the root word is? So I'm going to try
and make it. Okay, you guess then, doesn't it means
like you you've lost your mojo, You lost take your
your strength, your vigor.

Speaker 1 (00:56):
Like you've petered out?

Speaker 4 (00:58):
Kind of this has to do with a plant? Oh, okay,
I'm going to.

Speaker 1 (01:03):
Say it's to up tank water from the roots.

Speaker 2 (01:05):
Then to cause a plant to whiten or grow pale
by excluding light.

Speaker 1 (01:10):
Oh, you starve them?

Speaker 2 (01:12):
Another another definition, I really do all right.

Speaker 1 (01:18):
Which famous American novelist worked as a reporter and writer
for the Kansas City newspaper when he was seventeen years old.
I feel like this is like a Hunter S. Thompson
thing here. Maybe let's see here. Oh I am wrong.
He was earlier than hunterress address.

Speaker 4 (01:34):
Reporter.

Speaker 1 (01:34):
Yes, and I hate his work.

Speaker 4 (01:39):
I'm no, I'm blanking.

Speaker 1 (01:40):
Ernest Hemingway, was it?

Speaker 2 (01:42):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (01:42):
And I don't like Ernest Hemingway. I hate the way
he writes women. It's it's literally insulting to my gender.
The way he writes women. I just I don't like it.

Speaker 3 (01:51):
It's like, what's that the Jack Nicholson lives as good
as it gets?

Speaker 4 (01:55):
How do you write women so well? I think of
a man in a takeaway reason and accountability. Oh boy,
that's pretty much.

Speaker 2 (02:03):
I mean.

Speaker 1 (02:04):
Anyway, what is our Jeopardy category?

Speaker 4 (02:06):
Let me channel my best Homer Simpson here.

Speaker 1 (02:08):
Okay, donuts don't.

Speaker 4 (02:13):
Don't what dough? Dough?

Speaker 1 (02:14):
Okay?

Speaker 2 (02:16):
According to legend, this holiday cookie with a manly shape
was created.

Speaker 1 (02:20):
By Ian What's a gingerbread man?

Speaker 4 (02:22):
Correct? It's just, by the way, no, no dough. That
one happened to.

Speaker 2 (02:26):
Okay because I was like trying to do things that
are now that I've roasted my marshmallow. I'll combine it
with either.

Speaker 1 (02:35):
What's am correct?

Speaker 4 (02:37):
Sir Isaac?

Speaker 2 (02:38):
Could you tell there are apple, strawberry, and fig varieties
of these?

Speaker 4 (02:43):
Did you get it?

Speaker 2 (02:44):
Then?

Speaker 4 (02:44):
Then? What are Newton the.

Speaker 2 (02:47):
It's the large American cookie company whose cookies are made
by Elvis.

Speaker 1 (02:53):
What is keeler?

Speaker 4 (02:53):
Correct?

Speaker 2 (02:55):
You can get your own messages put inside these dessert cookies.

Speaker 4 (02:58):
What a fortune cookie?

Speaker 3 (02:59):
That is?

Speaker 4 (03:01):
Here's the m in that one?

Speaker 1 (03:02):
Are my favorite favorite favorites?

Speaker 4 (03:04):
Yummy?

Speaker 1 (03:04):
Like favorite wedding favors? Ever? Were fortune cookies that on
the inside said it'll probably never last And I thought
that was the funniest. It actually was a wedding edic
of a comedian.

Speaker 4 (03:15):
So funny.

Speaker 3 (03:16):
Like I used to there was a Chinese restaurant that
my mom, who's an immigration attorney, helped immigrate them back
when I was in high school, and they would make
their fortune cookies fresh, Oh nice. They would do their
own type written scripts, so I would slip them a
couple of bucks. But if I took a date in there,
you've just met the man of your dreams or you know.
Put stuff like that inside these scamming.

Speaker 4 (03:35):
On the fortune cookies.

Speaker 2 (03:36):
So see the fortune I got before the inclines unreal. Yeah,
it was perfectly step by step, you will ascend the
staircase to success.

Speaker 4 (03:43):
Yeah, before I did the incline the.

Speaker 1 (03:44):
Week he was really incline.

Speaker 4 (03:45):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (03:46):
My favorite fortune ever, my dear and now departed friend Dave.
I loved this guy. He was super awkward and just
a complete nerd and I adored him. And we go
out to the Chinese restaurant. He got a Chinese he
got a fortune cookie, and the fortune was and I
quote never smell the inside of a hat. And it
was like, what's of course? Yeah, It's like when I

(04:10):
say your you know, your dog's feet smell like free Doo's,
You're gonna act like you're not gonna smell them later,
But you are. You totally are