Remembering Rush

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And he's met him several times over the years, and so he is he's the guy. So we did a cameo last week if you would like your own cameo Cameo. Cameo Cameo, we were on their personalized video message. It's not free, um, but it's not that much. It's not that much. You can check that out on cameo dot com. So on this edition to the podcast, We've got Bow the show Who's in Here? Bow occasionally fills in for

Cooper Loop. You were in the other night, although it was weird the other night, Bow, because you were not actually in the studio. You were at home, right, you were at home. Yeah, so things were a little wonky, right, things with a little wonky that. Yeah, No, it was different, but uh still a joy to listen and all that stuff. Well, thank you, bo, I appreciate that. Now you're gonna be singing because one of the your famous bits on our show was when you we had you sing a song

parody and you really got into it. You really just embraced that role. I mean, I gotta start charging when I do that. It's it's not right that I do that for free. So I don't know, we'll see, we'll see, yeah, no, I understand. Well, maybe we'll at the end, we'll have you do a little so on this podcast, We've got

Mega Dittos, the Tribute. We also have Fake Famous Fake Famous and we will we'll get into that, and we have pop Quiz al right, so we have all of those things and we will form this edition of The Fifth Hour, the Saturday edition of The Fifth Hour. Now

I wanted to start. We touched on this yesterday with Mike Harmon and the impact of Rush Limball on the broadcasting business and the fact that we we all work under the same roof here at the Premier Networks, which is Fox Sports Radio is a part of the Premiere Networks on I Heart Media, and some of the biggest

names in syndicated talk radio work at Premier. But the foundation, the bedrock of the company has been since I've been here, and before I was here, Rush Limball U, the conservative radio icon political pundit Rush Limbaugh, who died this week at the age of seventy after a fight with cancer. And I wanted to share a couple of stories about Rush uh And a lot of these are by proxy, um, but we've told it a few times. I to to kind of expand on where I'm at. He rushed at

the show from his house in Florida. And he had worked in New York for a long time, but he was in Florida for many many years and occasionally he had a lot of money. You would travel around and live his best life. And uh, he would work out of the premier studios in Los Angeles when he would come through, and he the studio Rush used was this massive studio. Was its bigger than the Fox Sports Radio studie? It is probably it is um and it was just

for Rush. It was just for Rush. And if you ever visit our shop, which I don't think you're allowed to do, but if you come in there and you go into the Fox Sports Radio studio, and then the first thing is if if you didn't come out of the the studio and you make a right turn, there's a very small hallway and then as you make a right turn out of there, and then you make a left turn and then there's a kind of a not really courtyard, but there's a couple of couches there and

there's doors to different studios, and then across to the right was the Rush studio. And uh, some some memories of that. I remember when it was Rush week because Rush would usually come out for a couple of days or a week, and it was Rush week, and people would be running around all hours of the day and night there to make sure everything was perfect for Rush when he when he arrived. Me, this is the big

star of the company. You would expect that, and they would roll out the red carpet, v I P. Status Um seeing the famous. If you're in radio and you're a radio nerd like me, the gold microphone that Rush used is a big deal. And he had his own private studio, which he didn't use all that much. It not like Rush was in Los Angeles all the time. He wasn't. He'd come out a few times a year,

and nobody else had access to it. As I remember, and one of my my famous Rush stories, and it's more about me than it is about Rush, of course, is that one night Russia had been there and I was coming into the overnight show, and so I even Rushi had been there for a couple of days. It was a Friday. I was doing a Friday night overnight show, and Russia had left to go back to Florida or wherever, and for some reason they forgot to close and lock the door to his studio. I guess maybe they were

cleaning it or something like that. And so I still remember it was like the middle of the night, and you know, it's like two or three in the morning. No one else is around, no one else, you know, weekend overnight. They're not cleaning. They don't clean on the weekends. So I said, you know what, I'm I'm gonna go in there. I want to see where the king works.

I want to look at the king his throne. Of course, realizing that, you know, I'm not really allowed in there, one's supposed to be there, but I went over there. I just want to look. I wanted, you know, because this guy's the god of radio, one of the the icons of the business, and I wanted to in there. So I I went over there, and I just I didn't really, I just want to look in the studio and uh and see what it was all about and all that. And that is when I saw it and

a little sparkle to it. What is it? And as your pronounced, uh, rush in the in the chair that he was doing the show from had left a pen behind uh and uh, so I went over there and uh, he had disguarded it. He didn't need the pen anymore, and that became my personal and I added this to my my Michigas is these pens. I am a big pen guy, and so I I have a Rush limball pen that he left behind, which I don't know that

anyone realizes is his pen other than me. Uh me know, I've picked up pens from different people that have quasi celebrities that have worked at Fox Sports Radio and in the Premier Building over the years, whether it's my guy p O B who we've had on the podcast, Tony Bruno who we've had on J More We've gotta get J on the podcast, uh, and whatnot? But uh, Rush

talent on Loan from God. Also, Mike Harmon brought up the the point of security and because Rush such a polarizing figure and a lot of whacka doodles outlooking to attack people who are on the other side politically, even you know years ago, it's gotten worse, but there would always be a lot of security and people with guns to make sure that nobody messed with with Rush back when he would visit the studio. And uh, the catch

phrase I mentioned Talent on Loan from God? Half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair, those kind of things. But when I was a young pop, and I mentioned this also in a pre vious episode, when I was a young pop, I wanted to learn as much as I could about people in the radio business. So my Mom's like, well, you gotta get some autobiographies, you gotta learn their stories and stuff. So I did.

I got as many as I could. I read about the legends when I was younger in radio, Rush Limball, Howard Stern, Paul Harvey, people along those lines who were the big titans of the business, and I just wanted to kind of learn what made them tick. And Rush Limball and his experience really resonated. And I mentioned this the college dropout DJ Vagabond, DJ Journeyman d J I

had a couple of names. He was Jeff Christy and Rusty Sharp, where his stage names as a top forty DJ, and he bounced around and then he got out of the radio business for a while. He got a job with Major League Baseball's Kansas City Royals very briefly. But once radios in your blood, and I know this having been in radio. Once it's in your blood, it's hard to get out of it. It's hard to get out of the it's in your inner being. And so Rush

eventually worked his way back to radio. He left the Royals. He was the promotions director, which gives out the the bobble heads and sets all that stuff up and that kind of crap. And who knows what they did in the nineteen seventies. I have no idea, but I assume it's much of the same stuff. And so he left. He went to Sacramento and then eventually he worked his magic. It's it's It is a little similar to Phil Henry, although Phil as good as Phil Henry has been in broadcasting,

did not reach the level that Rush reach. But but Phil Henry, you know, he went out kind of re He was a lifetime radio guy, and he just out of necessity, out of necessity. You know that that old line that the you know, the necessity is the mother of all invention, right, And so remember reading about the

voices of Phil Henry. And he did that because he was at a small, crappy radio station that nobody was listening to, and nobody was calling, and he was by himself, and so in order to make it seem like there was a lot going on. He created all these characters and these evil alter egos and all that, and it worked out and he he had a very popular syndicated show for years and he's still still doing some stuff there. Phil Henry, but Rush, the Rush Limbough shows, I understand it.

It it it just kind of organically happened after twenty years of being in the radio business and being a DJ, and it just kind of developed that. So rest in peace, Rush and uh tremendous impact. We'll see what happens to that type of radio, political talk radio. And there's other legends now and been able to meet some of them over the years here at Fox Sports Radio, Slash the

premier networks. But Harmon was mentioning all the different big names that have come through the building over the years, and I was trying to think of and I don't want to a list here because I do not do list podcasting or radio, but just off the top of my head, some of the people that came through I remember seeing and I'm not a big music person, but NICKI six did a syndicated show for a while out

of the building. But then I remember Slash with the distinctive trademark top hat and uh, it's a little lot when you pull up to work and uh, and Slash is walking around. Look at you know, there's an A T M in our building and he's going to get some cash out of the A T M. Uh. There used to be a country music show that was in the building and some of the big names. And I'm not a big country at that time. I wasn't a big country music. Right now, I actually like country music.

I listened to it some of the old style, like the old stuff, not so much the new stuff. But Reba McIntyre was in their big star in country music. More recently, Steve Harvey had a chance to to see him. And back in the old days when we used to have these big Galla Christmas parties, Premier Networks Christmas parties, like they'd bring in all the heavyweights. Dr Laura with a big star. Dr Laura did her advice show during

the day. Jim Rome would come in there, and Art Bell, the legendary Art Bell from Perempt, Nevada, And uh, you know still to this day the man that replaced Art Bell, George nor on Coast to Coast, is out of that building. And Steve Harvey his radio show. Remember the famous situation Steve Harvey, Uh liked the color of the Mallamobile. We bonded in the parking lot at three thirty in the morning. He walked in with his security guard and he pointed at the car. So I like the color of that car.

He enjoyed the color of the Mallamobile. So those are some of my stories about about Rush and recall also before I get off his off this topic, I I I do remember the one time I was supposed to meet Russia Limbaugh my ball loss the late grade Andrew Ashwood, May he rest in peace. He he was a radio junkie, also program director, a big legend in the business, bigger than life. Uh, Andrew Ashwood is a programmer. And I had mentioned, Hey, I want to meet you know Limbaugh,

and yeah, I'm gonna make that happen. Of course it was it was this weird deal. Even though Rush, you know, he listened, he was people that knew him, he was very great, you know, good person to people knew him. But if you didn't know him, he was kind of you know, anybody in in that genre. You know, it's a little bit of like, hey, you want to step on any toes, and certainly if you're in the company, you don't want to step on Russia's toes. But he's like, listen,

here's when Russia's It was Rush Week. It was gonna Rush Week in l A. And Rush was doing his show from l A. So so listen, here's when he shows up. You know that you're gonna get dropped off by a car service, and so he's gonna walk in it this time, so we're gonna meet him. He's got a few minutes. But when he walks in, so I'm like, okay, so I happen to be there. I think this is when I was working with Chris Myers. I was doing like a midday show all right, first of all, so

that I was doing that. So anyway, whatever, it was after our show, and Rush was gonna come in and and do do some of his programming. And so I guess he was recording something or something. I don't know, but anyway, so we were we were waiting around and Andrew, you know, he's like, all right, I'm gonna be there or whatever, and he got caught up, as I remember it, he got caught up in a meeting and by the time he got down two usher us and shepherd us

over to meet Rush. Uh the meeting went long, and Russhi had already arrived and he was prepping for whatever he was doing, whatever he was recording. And uh so I missed it by probably five to ten minutes from from meeting meeting Rush face to face. But yeah, that's the way life works, all right. Uh it is the fifth hour, as you know. And I wanted to get through this. Fake Famous. Now this is a Mallard documentary review,

that's right, a Mallard documentary review. Uh. Now, HBO has a new documentary I think came out a couple of weeks ago, called Fake Famous. It premiered, I watched it online. It was actually recommended by Coop de Loop. And I'm a big documentary junkie anyway, and this was right in

my wheelhouse. And so the premise of the documentary, if you did not hear us talk about it on the radio show, the premise was to show how ridunculously easy it is to manipulate minds in the world of social media, in that ecosystem, and how you can take someone who's a nobody, has no tangible skill and with the proper investment and the proper you know presentation. If you will, you can make them an online influence. So that was

the premise. And this this guy that the guy behind it, I guess his old newspaper guy, and he he walked you through in the documentary exactly what happened. The goal was to take some random schmo with no online footprint of any stature and turn them into someone who has influence. And the way they did this, I guess I'm gonna give the whole damn thing away, but you know it's still worth a watch, still worth a watch, and if you if you don't want to hear, then you can

turn off the podcast right now. What happened? So what happened is they they they had an audition. They brought people in that you know, l A just before the pandemic and there's auditions all the time. So they had like a casting call and they brought people in and they picked three ran them people. And these are people that don't working behind the scenes in l A. A A lot of people working odd jobs trying to make it

in the entertainment, in in show business. And so the guy picked three people, a woman and two dudes, and they then went out and went to different websites and purchased a bunch of bots as followers, fake social media followers. And the guy said he started out, he spent like a hundred and twenty bucks. He bought seven thousand, five hundred followers and a bunch of likes on Instagram. And they they use this and then trying to start with a base and it it really is the takeaway a

couple of take aways. One of them that I have right now is the band wagon effect, because what happened was they would buy these fake followers, and at least this is the way I interpret it. It's part of the bandwagon effect, which is a psychology psychological phenomenon. Right is the is the term, but it essentially is that people will do things when they they think it's cool.

They'll they'll be more like if you start a restaurant, right if you start a new restaurant, um, the way to get people interested in one of the ways is to fill the restaurant with people who are your friends and family or have a line or you know. Same thing works when you're opening a store. The herd mentality group think, which is very big right now, politically group think,

no individual opinions, and the bandwagon affect. Essentially, I can sum it up in one sentence is that most people are followers and they're not leaders, right, And you know, you see a group of people, you want to follow that group of people because you think there's something good there, there's something that's neat, and so you want to follow.

And so the same thing applies in the social media world, where you know, you have a bunch of fake followers and then other people like, oh, this person must be important. There's a lot of people following this person. But there's a lot of comments on this particular post I stumbled upon. So I know what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna follow and uh, and there's hundreds of millions of these bots online.

This is one of the things that and I had this epiphany a couple of years back that it is the matrix, right, that it is the matrix, this weird, weird world of social media and you know what Twitter is and all that, and uh, you know the algorithms, the Russian bots, the blue check marks, which I guess I'm part of, and the influences and all this and yeah, I mean and so so that's that's that's the world of social media. You don't know what's real or not.

And so watching this and all the bots and and whatnot, now there were this documentary wasn't perfect. Some of the political stuff I could have done without, but you know, I knew who made it, and I knew that some of that stuff was gonna be in there. That's just part of it. I overlook that I tuned that out and I took away what I felt was the important part of this documentary fake famous and uh, you know, they did point out that, you know, these these bought

a counts. The social media companies, even though occasionally they'll try to get rid of the fake accounts, they actually don't really mind them because it makes it seem like there's more people on their platforms. It gives the false illusion that these are these are very popular and more popular than they are, and it grows engagement, which helps

the price of the stock and all that. Anyway, So just to get back to the to the documentary, here they this guy kept buying followers until now the two guys didn't really work out, but the woman did and she got the two hundred fifty thousand followers, you know, slowly,

because you can't do it overnight. You got to do it a week at a time, you know, a couple of days a week, and you can add followers and then they The other part which was funny, is that to to help grow this woman's following in the documentary, they paid for some photo shoots. And you know, l A is such a fake place that there's a studio you can rent in l A that has a fake private jet to make it seem like you're on a private jet flying around. You can do that for fifty

bucks an hour. You can rent a mansion for like six hundred dollars a day or an afternoon and take a bunch of photos looking like you're living as an aristocrat. And people do that, and a lot of social people, social media influencers do this kind of crap to make it seem, of course misleading. That's that's social media rights. The matrix make it seem like they're they're living these extravagant lives and lifestyles and all that stuff. And so

it's really interesting look into that world. And eventually the woman who kept getting the fake followers, companies started giving her free crap jewelry and trips and you name it. And so it's a it's it's worth a watch there if you have a chance, if you're on social media, if you're not, I don't know how you can avoid being on social media at least one of the platforms there.

And does she end up getting a bunch of people that sent her different items and some people's one of the other guys got workouts for free sunglasses, jewelry, all that just because of some fake bought follow followers on social media. So, and what's the old line Cisco and Ebert back in the day, man they rest in peace? Two thumbs up an outdated reference, by the way, Cisco Leeber two thumbs up for the documentary Fake Famous, Fake Famous?

All right, Uh time now for pop Quiz And since a Gagon is too lazy to do the podcast again, this week we have Bow the show Bow. Would you like to be the person that I bounce off these questions too? And then you can answer? Or do you just want me to ask the questions to myself? I can answer That sounds like a sounds like a good time. Okay, alright, so now the way pop Quiz works, both the show

who's in for the gag on here this weekend. So the way this works, I I scour the internet to find interesting odd things and then I'll ask you, but I'm really asking the listener, and you can try to answer and then I'll tell you if you're right or wrong. Okay, okay, sound good? All right, So here we go. Uh. It seems that we throw away at least ten percent of this item every time we buy it, according to research. So what item that we almost all use about ten

of it? We just throw it away? Ah? Paper towels, paper towels. No, how about toothpaste? Okay, yeah that makes sense. Yeah yeah, you never get to the end of the tube. Yeah. Well and then if you do, you look like a douche, right. I mean it's always that person, you know what I mean, Like we've all we've all had that person. I had a roommate like that where you get to the end of two and they're just like rolling the tube trying

to get that final Yeah, that's not good. Uh. Seventy of Americans say they prefer the fake stuff to the real stuff. But what are we talking about? So it's a it's a food item. But but Americans like the fake stuff as opposed to the real, the real McCoy. I want like some kind of cheese, like maybe cheesewetz or something. Um, this is something that Arnie Spaniard, if you know Arnie has, it's a product associated with Arnie. Yeah,

maple syrup. Well, the fake because the fake maple syrup has it's like just pure pure sugar, right, yeah, not the syrup that Arnie gets us every year for Christmas. If he remembers, Uh, I love that stuff that I use. I use that whole bottle. Yeah, well that's because it's in his backyard. He gets he's goes, he goes out in the backyard, puts it in the box, and then's all right, here's some maple syrup. The stinking genius, that stinking genius. All right. Next one it is we don't

pop quizer. It's something quite small that many of us use nearly every day, and nearly every single one of them is made in a factory out west, a family factory out west. Oh God, I have no idea. All right, it's the you know those those plastic bread clips or tabs. Apparently there's a family in the West that has cornered the market on those. How great is that? Yeah? I would have I would have never guessed that. So that's a that's that's an interesting market to corner. But good

for them. Well you can you can be rich making plastic brick clips if no one else is doing it, right, No, that's ingenious. Family, what a family? Yeah? Alright? Next one about fift bow of the show about of cars on the road. Are driving around with this problem with this problem? What is the problem? Well, I I might have this problem. Is it gonna something like a tire light on? No, that's actually a good one because we've all done that, like the low air pressure on the tire or something

like that. But this is a cracked windshield. Yeah, yeah, that's not good. Yeah, Well when you get I've had I've had a few windshields replaced over the years, and usually what you do is you do a cost benefit analysis when you crack your windshield, you know what me like, You're you're like, okay, is it just gonna stay that size or is it gonna go bigger? You just sit and hope that it doesn't get bigger, and you check

every single day. Yeah, you put like yeah, you put like what I would do is I put like a little piece of scotch tape right where the end of the crack is, because that's the way you can judge, like if it's growing or not. But but inevitably my experiences when you start driving, you know, it's the crack just by the you don't even realize that the bumps, just driving on the highway, you end up cracking the windshield more so, no way around it. All Right, four

in ten people refuse to ever share this. It is food related. But this is something that people would never even consider sharing. Oh is it like a specific food item or just in general? It's a type of food. Yeah, it's a type of food. Oh do do do? Sup? Do do? Do? Do? Do? Do? Do Do do? No? Not? So, how about a sandwich? Take a bite of my sandwich? Really? Yeah?

You share? You share your sandwiches? Yeah, I mean I don't see the big deal obviously, like you know, things have changed in the last year in terms of that, but before that, I mean, I don't really have an issue with sharing a sandwich with someone. You know, just kind of have to be careful. But yeah, no, that's that's an interesting answer to me. You could strategically eat around where they ate and eventually you just be like here, you can finish this, but something like soup, I mean

you can't. You can't get around that. Well, that's the turd in the punch bowl theory, right, you know, it's it's hurt in the punch bowl. You know, it probably only ruins a small part of the soup, but it's in the entire pot of soup. So yeah, or punch or whatever. Yeah, or the other option. If you're at a restaurant, you could like cut part of the sandwich off, right, if if you've got yeah, if you've got that E B G B thing going on, tear it in half,

any any number of things. Yeah, alright. A new surveys is of people believe doing this activity is a good first date, but only seven percent of people like the idea in so it's gone up. What activity is it? Movies? No? No, man, but people hate like people hate movies because you can't. I love when I was dating. I love going to the movies because I didn't have to talk to anybody, but they usually you want to go somewhere you can talk about. This is karaoke, big, you're a big karaoke guy.

Bo I know you love to say I do love karaoke, um, especially when you can have one or two drinks prior to uh doing karaoke. But yeah, I don't. I don't think that would be very successful for first date unless you're really really confident in yourself. You got loosen up a little bit. Loosen up a little bit, you know,

liquid courage there. Yeah, absolutely all right. A new report claims if you're planning on you know, if you want someone to spend more money, like but you've got a house for sale, for example, if you want make you want to make people spend more money. This part regular smell is said to make people want to spend money more money than they normally would. What smell is it? Oh, dude, dude, dude, dude, dude. Let's say like fresh linen, fresh linen. That's actually a

good guess, fresh linen. You know it's a good smell. Uh, it's actually oranges, the smell of oranges. That's interesting. Yeah, it is interesting. I I like the smell of oranges. You know. I have actually on my desk here in the studio, the mobile studio I have my wife gave me because it's ourr Michig guess here, But it's a you know those oils, the essential oils, Yeah, essential if she gave me when it's an orange one. And I

actually I don't even put it on anywhere. I just use it sometimes as smelling salts and all like like right now I'm smith, I'm sniffing it. But it sounds like I'm stiffing something off. But it's but just it's just orange and uh, yeah, he wakes you up a little bit. Yeah, Citess is a great scent. That's just uh when when you mentioned, like, you know, trying to sell something, something about fresh linen just always feel so comfortable and makes it feel like it'd be easier to

spend money. But I can buy orange. Yeah, Now do you like I like the smell of gasoline? Do you like the smell of gasoline or Weirdly, it's not. It's not my least favorite thing. I don't you know, I don't seek it out, but if I do smell it, it's not like it bothers me or anything. I also like when you go to like a pet boys or

an auto zone, the smell of auto parts. I like, I enjoyed the smell of auto tires and my dad would take me to Auto Zone and stuff when I was a kid, So it always, uh brings back memories. I think that's part of it too, Like stuff that you smell can trigger old memories in your head. Oh absolutely, yeah, yeah, yeah, nostalgia. Nostalgia go back to a time when you were you were a kid, you didn't have to have a job, you didn't have to go to school, or you went

to school hardly at all, and all that stuff. The memories. Yeah, and food dishes, right, suiting foods your your parents served you when you were a kid, and you're like, oh, man, and that brings back memories, man, jeez, alright. Moving on thirty eight percent. Thirty eight percent of people say they always go to the same place for this particular service. What is it it's gotta be you gotta be like

gas or car services. No, it's actually a haircut. They have their favorite favorite barbershop and they go to the same barbershop. I'm not I'm not like that. First of all, I don't get my hair cut that off in anyway, but when I do, and I will tell you I I moved around a few times over the years, so I usually had my local go to barber. But if they were busy and couldn't take me or whatever, I just go to another barbershop. I didn't care, you know,

I didn't. I didn't have this loyalty. And plus now when I when I lived in near Dodger Stadium in Lincoln Heights, there was this old guy, this old Italian guy who was like a legendary barber and he did a lot of like the police officers the l a p D. Because the l a p D training facility right near Dodger Stadium there, um. And so but anyway, I just happened to stumble into the place. And I love the guy because he never talked to me. He

just cut my hair, you know. And some of these barber's bowl you go to and like I go, I just wanna get my hair cut. I don't want a small talk. I don't wanna, you know, go back and forth and all that, and a lot of the barbers love to talk. And this guy just just cut my hair and he said like three words to me, and that was it. And and but I but but it wasn't geographically desirable. So I stopped going there because I moved further away. And so that sounds that sounds like

the dream. Uh I I I'm the same way, Like, I really don't want to talk that much with my barber. I don't mind pleasantries, but it would always bug me when they'd ask what I do for a living, And as soon as I say, oh, yeah, I'm in sports radio, it's just instantly like every single sports question under the sun, and I just want to get my hair cut. Oh, it's who's gonna who's gonna win the super Bowl? Or who's gonna win the NBA Finals or yeah, yeah, yeah.

That's always the small talk you get when people find out you work in sports rading. So my move would be like when they ask you, you you know I do sales, I do sales, and which is technically true, right, because really what we do in radio is fill the time between the commercials. So that's pretty much what we're here for, to fill the time between the commercials. All right. A

couple more here on pop quiz. According to a new study, researchers say that to be on the safe side, you should eat this when it's less than twelve hours old, or it's not gonna be good for you. What is it? Oh god, no, no, no, no, No, that'd be tough, right from the cow to your mouth. Is it just some kind of baked good like a cake or pie or something. No, it's actually this is this is very appropriate for this week because it's Snowmageddon in the winter.

Are texts snow snow? They they say, if you're gonna eat snow, it's gotta be fresh, powdered snow that has fallen within the last twelve hours. And don't eat the yellow snow. Don't eat the yellow snow. I love, I love going to the stone, but I don't live in the snow. If I lived in the snow, I don't think I would love going to the snow. But I always look forward to going to the snow. I have just wonderful, beautiful winter wonderland. You was you a snow guy bow or do you avoid this night? You know?

I mean, I've been up in the Angelis Crest Mountains a couple of times, and it lightly snows there, but I've been I've been to Colorado once and got some actual snow while I was there, so it was fun. But yeah, I don't know if I could live in it. Yeah, well then you can make fun of people that don't

live in snow. If you live in snow. Yeah, like our friends in Minnesota who love love to mock and ridicule the people that live in warm weather places, as they were having a field there, our buddies in Minnesota with it. What happened in Texas with the snow, the unexpected snow and people freaking out and all that stuff. All right, when it comes to our phones, seventy of all of us are doing this more than ever. What is it? Texting? Not answering calls from unknown numbers? I

never answered calls some unknown numbers. He listen, they want to want to call up, leave a message. Maybe I'll check it, maybe I won't. But if I don't recognize the number, I'm not an answer. I'm out. There's somebody robo calls and all that. Yeah, all right, our last one of servers wish that their customers would stop doing this when they come and to eat. What is it? Oh? Man? Do do do? Do? Do? I can only I can only think of my grandmother who would lift her hands

up and snap her fingers to get their attention. So I'm gonna say that, so snap the thing like annoying? Yeah, uh no, it's actually sitting together on the same side of the booth or the table. Why do they hate that? What? What is that? I'm trying to think of the logistics and why that would be Yeah, a problem that I don't see why that would be an issue, But maybe serving the food you gotta shove it past the first person. I don't know, But I don't work in that business.

I don't work in the restaurant business, so I have no no concept of that. All right, well, both, thank you, and we've made it through the Saturday podcast and we have the Sunday mail Bag podcast. We have a big stack of juicy, wonderful questions and we will answer as many of those as we can possibly get through. Have a great rest of your Saturday, and we will catch you next time on the fifth thou