The Fifth Hour: Boom Shakalaka!

the next couple of days. On the weekend that Danny has been dealing with the fires and had to leave his home, there's some craziness out near him, and I didn't want to address that, but it is, by the way, National house Plant Appreciation Day to day before we get into the podcast, because we like these dopey holidays. It's appreciation Day, which is fogazy, but apparently houseplants were used by wealthy families back in five hundred BC. They go all the way back to five hundred BC to this day.

I remember back in the I think it was like the eighties or the nineties, there was a fad of fake houseplants. But that's pretty much all I know. Those plastic houseplants were everywhere. But I don't have any other information other than its National house Plant Appreciation Day. Today it's also Quitter's Day, so big day there. Quitter's Day

held the second Friday in January. It falls on January tenth today, and it is a new Year's resolution, which began four thousand years ago right the itching Babylon started the tradition of setting new Year's resolutions, and supposedly today Quitter's Day has set aside recognize those who set new goals and failed to achieve them. Yes, so if you planned on doing something and you're already doing the opposite, congratulations you are being honored today on National Quitter's Day.

A wonderful day. So on this edition of the Fifth Hour, we've got scramble Drill, Scramble drill. We have that we also have on the Oregon Trail and the idiom of the day, the idiom of the day. But we'll start with this. So I wanted to mention and we do promote Benny versus the Penny. Some of you get annoyed by the Oh I used to like your podcast, but you spend so much time telling you about Benny versus the Penny. Yes, Guilty as charged, Guilty as charged. I have a TV show that I am trying to get

people to watch. I will take every advantage I can to get people to watch said TV show. If you're annoyed by that, just fast forward in the podcast. But I actually have a good story to tell as I welcome you in to this edition of the Fifth Hour. Right, this is our happy place. We get to hang around. We can say bad words because it's only in the podcast format. We don't run into the roadblock of the FCC, where if we say a bad word we're in trouble.

Podcasts are like the old West. You can say whatever you want, knock it out of the park. So the other day, it was a normal, normal week. It started out a long long time ago, which really wasn't that long ago. It was a few days ago. I start getting ready for the next episode of the TV show, pretty much when the games kick off on Thursday during the season. So I'm watching the game on Thursday seeing what I did wrong. It's kind of like that coward bit,

what did Ben get right? What had been get wrong? This year, It's been a lot that I got wrong. Things that are supposed to happen haven't happened, and so I'm trying to outmaneuver the penny. And we've zoomed through the NFL regular season, so it's a constant thing watching football, looking at the numbers and all that, and it's a paralysis by analysis is generally what happens. I have too

much information. Now I try to whittle that down. There's certain key indicators that I look for, and that's kind of how we make the Fedicini alfredo. So that's how that goes together. You gotta have the sauce, you gotta have the noodles, and put all those together. So the week started somewhat normal. I start putting stuff together on Sunday night, and then more on Monday night, and Tuesday is a big day to kind of get everything together, and then Wednesday is the day that we put the

sausage into the two What becomes the sausage. We put our head down and then all of a sudden, so it was normal, and then all hell broke loose, Hot Diggity Dog, all hell broke loose. So I had put together. What I do is I send ideas. I pitch ideas to Vinnie, who's the producer of Bennie Versus the Penny and the team in Boston. But Vinnie's the guy that producers the show. So I spend Monday and Tuesday mostly cooking up ideas, and then Wednesday, starting in the morning,

is a production day. So that's the day on Wednesday where I throw all these eyes ideas down. I scribble them down with chicken scratch, and then I put some stats together, riveting stuff, right, riveting stuff. So I put all this stuff together, and I'm putting the show together, doing my thing. La la la la la la la la la la la la la. You know, nothing to see here, just putting the show together. And mentioned all hell broke loose because the fires actually started on Tuesday.

But we have fires all the time. In southern California. Fires are a regular thing, so you figure, okay, there's fires, it's fire seasons pretty much year round. We don't get much rain here, so fine, nothing to see here. Well, the fires On Wednesday morning, it was getting pretty pretty nasty, pretty gnarly, and it just kept getting worse and worse

and worse and worse. And by Wednesday afternoon I was getting emails from the people at Universal Studios saying, the lot is closed, the lot is closed today, We're not sure if the lot's going to be open on Thursday, which is the day that we record Benny Versus the Penny, and they were waiting for the next wave of fires, which they knew were apparently coming. I didn't know you could forecast fires. I guess there were a number of them that were started out, all of them, but a

number of them were started by homeless people. So wonderful. Anyway, So Wednesday I start I start getting messages saying, you know, we're not sure if the lot's gonna be open. Let's have a contingency plan. So I didn't really think much of it. I thought, well, it seems like it's pretty bad, but the planes are back up, the helicopters are back up to put out the fire, and so since that's going on, it should be okay, right, you know, you know what happened, you assume it should be okay. So fine,

that's that. And then about ninety minutes later, and don't hold me to that. I'd have to go back and check my my messages, but it felt like about ninety minutes later, they sent a message saying, all right, we've nailed down the contingency plan. If we can't do Thursday, we're we're gonna do. We're gonna do Friday. We'll do like, we'll do it Friday morning. We'll record many versus the Penny. And they asked me my availability, and then yeah, I

don't I don't care. I'll record the show at any time, any place, anywhere. Let's do it. I'm down. So I text him back. I said, whatever you need me to do, I will do. The show must go on. So fine, So they said, thank you. That's great. It's very kind of you. We appreciate you doing that. Wonderful. All right, fine, So then another ninety minutes goes by and I'm getting ready for the radio show, right, I'm doubling down on the radio show. I'm like, all right, I'm getting ready.

It's it's Wednesday. It's starting to be that time where I got to lock in on the on the radio show and figure out what I'm going to talk about, Mallard monologues and all that. And so now I get all right, lots closed contingency plan. We'll send a crew out from Universal Studios to where you are and we'll do your show remotely. So okay, And then there's some meetings going on in Boston. I mean, it's a total scramble scramble drill, people trying to figure out like what

are we doing? What are we doing? And I'm like, I don't care. And then I'm like, there was this talk. Well, maybe we'll send a crew out and I'll meet Looney because Looney's closer to Universal Studios where he lives then I do out in the north Woods. And so we're going through all this anyway, we determine, because of the situation, we would just do the show from our home studios. Looney has a studio he does some work at KBC, and I have the studio for Fox Sports Radio and

this podcast. I'm actually in the studio right now. So we're like, all right, we'll just do it on Thursday, but we'll just do it from the home studio and we'll figure it out and all that. So I said, all right, this will be different, and I'm curious how this is going to go. Never done a national TV show from my podcast studio, but here we were. We had no other option because Universal Studios has been closed because the fires and the fires pretty close. The studios

have had major fires over these Universal Studios. They've had some serious, serious fires that have caused tremendous damage to the back lot where we like to walk around and all that. So whatever it takes to keep Universal Studios in tech, I know they have some of their own fire crews out that way. So we ended up yesterday doing the TV show from our homes and if you watch it it already. The reason we had to do it on Thursday was because it starts airing Thursday evening.

So we needed a show because the show was scheduled to be broadcast in some markets on Thursday evening, and so we had to get the show out. People needed to show. People agreed to carry the show, and they had programming they needed to do the program. So we did the show and it was it was interesting. There were there were some obviously issues we had to work through, some technical stuff. I had a pretty good setup, though, I got to tell you, I don't think I don't

think it looked that bad. It looked pretty similar I think to the way the show does look on a normal weekly basis. There were some audio issues we had to work out. The great thing about NBC, and it's out of NBC Boston, they have all the bells and whistles that you need to do a show from your home. Considering that during COVID that's all they did. So they figured out during that pandemic, how can we have television from people's homes, And so they figured it all out

and it was it was great. Everything worked out, and so they had everything that we needed. The IFB hookup with the headphones, the way that we did the video and the backdrop and the lighting and everything was good to go. It was a chef's kiss. So I do want to thank Vinnie and the people over there at NBC Sports in Boston for making that a very smooth,

very smooth transition. There was one snaffo that we just got burned by because we were doing the show and about an hour after the show was put to bed and then sent out to the affiliates, the NFL stumbled through an announcement. There's a segment if you watch this week's episode of Benni Versus Penny, there's a segment where we stumbled through a portion of the show. We're talking about the Rams and the Vikings, and the Vikings fans were planning a hostile takeover, so we talked about that

during the show. Well, at the time we were talking about that. The NFL was scheduled to play the Ram Viking game on Monday night in Los Angeles in Inglewood, in the hood in Inglewood, and then out of an abundance of caution, okay, they decided to move the game. They didn't have to move the game. The game could have been played there. They chose to to move the game. So it's the it's only the second playoff game Playoffs in the history of the NFL where they've moved a

playoff game. The story behind that, the other one is fascinating, Like this one is just Hey, it's twenty twenty five, you know, we've we've got to let everyone know that we're more concerned about people than everyone else and and all that. Like, you could easily have played the game on Monday night and it would have actually been been fine. But I bring this up because the NFL has been in existence for over one hundred years. It's been a minute, right,

it's been a minute. And through all of the different events that have taken place in the history of America that have been intertwined, wrapped around, wrapped around the NFL like simultaneously, right, the NFL is being played, life goes on. There was the President Kennedy being assassinated. There's been shuttles that have exploded, There's been different events that have happened nine to eleven, and so the NFL's pawster and things.

But as far as the playoffs are concerned, incredibly, the Ram Viking game this weekend is only the second playoff game in the history of the one hundred plus year NFL to be moved to a different city. So I wanted to give you the first one. The first one was the nineteen thirty six NFL championship matchup between the Boston Redskins and the Green Bay Packers. Have you heard this story before? You have not? Okay, good. I actually was going to use this on the Overnight Show, and

for some reason I never got to it. Bad job. By me. So the Redskins and the Packers, we're going to play the NFL Championship game nineteen thirty six, but the game was moved out of Boston to New York. The reason the game was moved get to the point please. The reason is because the Redskins, the Boston Redskins, they were the one schedule to host the NFL Championship at Finnway Park, that was their home stadium. But the owner a guy that is notorious for being a bit of

a douche, George Preston Marshall. Now I never met him. Maybe he was a nice guy, but the history books, the people that write history have not been very kind to George Preston Marshall. So the owner of the Redskins decided, you know what, I don't want to play the game at Finnway Park. I want to move the game to the Polo Grounds in New York City. So a team from Boston played a team from Wisconsin at the Polo

Grounds in New York City. And the reason that George Preston Marshall did that is he was annoyed because the sports fans in Boston were not in they were not invested in that type of American football. In nineteen thirty six, baseball was popular, horse racing, boxing, and he didn't want the game to be played there because he was worried about he wanted to make money, he was worried about not selling enough tickets in Boston. So he's like, I got to get out of here now. It is interesting

to note that there's more to the story. As Paul Harvey would say, you know the news, but now you're about to find the found out the rest of the story. You're going to find out the rest of the story. So Marshall was planning on relocating what was the Boston Redskins, and in nineteen thirty seven. The following year, he took the Boston Redskins. He said bye bye to Boston and moved them to Washington, DC and they became the Washington

Redskins starting in nineteen thirty seven. That had They later around and played football for years and years, and then the Wolkesters got involved and couldn't say that anymore. I had to change the name of the team, and very offensive to say that, and the NFL completely gen reflected a few years back and got rid of the nickname. Now the team really didn't have a nickname. Yeah, I look at the team formerly know as the Redskins, I'm like, it's just kind of faceless team. It's like the Memphis

Grizzlies or the New Orleans Pelicans. They're just these teams that are just kind of there. They're filler teams. They don't really move the needle at all. The names are blah, the uniforms are blah. That's pretty much where I am on the Washington Commanders, if you will. Now turning the page on that. There was a moment about a week ago that I thought I would be doing this podcast from another state. I was convinced I was going to figure out a way to get it done. Unfortunately, much

to my dismay, I could not do it. We're talking about going on the Oregon Trail. Now, what is that all about? Let me explain. So I learned after the fact. Unfortunately, after the fact, I learned that somebody that I had been a friend with for a number of years passed away at the end of twenty twenty four. It actually happened in November November of twenty twenty four, and I didn't find out about it at the time, and I actually found out about it a little later than that.

But I got a text from some number I didn't recognize. No, normally I don't pay any attention to the text messages. I'm like, this is somebody, this is probably spam. It's probably spam. What am I doing? But this one had information where only certain people would know the information? You know. So and so I'm, you know, regarding the person I'm about to talk about, and he said, there will be another email coming. You have been invited to a celebration

of life for this particular person. So the person that died is former Portland Trailblazers broadcaster Brian Wheeler was the radio voice of the Portland Trailblazers from nineteen ninety eight to twenty nineteen and had become a good friend of mine for years. I met him shortly after he took over in nineteen ninety eight. Now, back in those days, I covered the NBA. I was there every night Clippers

Lakers games. I lived the NBA life. I probably went to eighty plus NBA games including the playoffs per year combined Clippers and even the Lakers, which I covered back in those days. And so I was friends with this guy, Tony, who was the engineer. He did the visiting teams, and Tony was a buddy of mine, and he introduced me to a lot of the play by play guys. He's like, hey, Ben, you got to meet this guy. And Wheels had just started out as the play by play guy for the Blazers.

He had replaced a gentleman who had been there for seemingly ever, the longtime play by play guy the Blazers. I forget his name. I forget his name right now, Shanelle, I believe his name, but he had been there a long time. So I immediately bonded with Brian Wheeler. He was kind of a bigger guy, and I was a much bigger guy at the time, and he was the radio voice of the Portland Trailblazers. The Blazers are some really good teams. Early on, they were in the Western

Conference Finals. They played the Lakers in the postseason one year, and I saw wheel a couple times a year. They probably four times a year. I would see him when the Blazers would come to La to play the Clippers, and likes always made sure I was out there when the Blazers were in town and Over the years we became friends. We talk on the phone. Sometimes we send text messages to each other. Occasionally, Wheels had an afternoon drive radio show in Portland and I would be a

guest on there. Occasionally called me up to fill in. Actually, I auditioned when I was out of work one of the jobs I lost years ago. I auditioned for the radio station. I got offered the afternoon drive show in Portland, and I turned it down. I was I couldn't do it because the a the money wasn't good enough, and it just felt like the wrong move in my career at that time. So I didn't do it. But our friendship continued, and Wheels and I we talked quite a bit.

And there's some stories. I don't know if it's appropriate to tell them right now. I might wait until after the celebration of life. I did want to thank that the Trailblazers and the people who were involved in Wheel's life for inviting me. I was honored to be invited. I really wanted to make it. The event is on Sunday. I was planning on trying to fly up. Actually today, I was gonna fly up today, and then my plan was to kind of hang out. I've never been to Portland.

I've flown over to go to Seattle. I was gonna come to port I'm gonna go to Portland. I'll hang out. My wife has a friend there. She'll visit her friend, and then maybe I'll do a mallor meet and greet on Saturday, and then I'll go to the event on Sunday and then I'll fly back. The problem was the logistics. I found out about this at the last minute, so

it pretty expensive to fly up there. But I could spend the money and I wouldn't really have an issue with that, but I would have had to miss a show. There were no flights out after the event. I would have to wait until Monday morning, so I would have missed the radio show. But it's like, yeah, I could have done that. But anyway, the flight thing, it just didn't work out. So I was pretty bummed out when I found out of it. I didn't find out right away.

There are some stories I want to tell. I feel like it's inappropriate to tell them right at this minute, but let's just say me and Wheels had a very good friendship and I'd made some moves. There was one moment and remind me on this. I'll get into it in the future podcast. If I forget remind me. I want to wait till after Sunday. But there was one situation that would have changed NBA broadcasting and would have been absolutely amazing. But I was involved in it. I

was helping Brian Wheeler. There was a job that was open and I knew some people and I attempted to help and then at the very last minute, somebody from the outside stepped in and messed everything up. And so it's unfortunate. But if you never heard Brian wheel he was the radio voice of the Trailblazers, and he was he was the guy that had a lot of catchphrases. The one that he was most famous for NBA Entertainment

on their vignette shows. Remember nineteen ninety eight, this is before social media, and really social media took off probably about twenty ten, So the last nine years Wheels was the voice of the Trailblazers, there was a lot of social media, but early on there was not. But he had all these catchphrase. The one that he was most recognized for was boom shacka laca. A lot of people say, well, boom shacka locke. He just took that from the video game NBA Jam. But no, Wheels was not a video

game player. He used to say that he only played like pac Man or Miss pac Man or something like that. He took boom shacka loca from He borrowed it from the movie Stripes with Bill Murray. He took boom shacka loaca from that. There was a yeah. He had a bunch of catchphrases. He had do it till You're satisfied, which he took out from from a funk song by DT Express. It's a great day to be a Blazer.

It was one of his catchphrases, and that was from John Rooney, the old White Sox broadcaster back in the day. That's a White Sox winner. So he took that and twisted around and you know, once again and then we can say it's a great day to be a Blazer. He said that after every Trailblazer victory. And I really appreciated what Wheels did. I told him this. You know, he died pretty young. He was sixty t too. But I told Wheels, I said, I love words, and I

love how you are able to work words. And in fact, I know Alf and some of the guys that have been listening a long time to the radio show. You know, from time to time I will quote Brian Wheeler and he would go on these rants this he would use a three word I don't know how to describe it, you know, adjectives, literation to describe the emotions of the opposing team. When the Blazers would go on a run and the other team would call it time out, it

would be like time out San Antonio. Greg Popovich is mystified, mesmerized and mortified. And it was so good to listen to. It was so awesome to listen to that, and I just I loved it. And you know, that's just just one example. There were a bunch. I mean I've quoted Wheels doing that from time to time because I think it's just just the alliterations of Brian Wheeler simply outstanding. Right.

The the Blazers are amazing, astonishing and astounding. You know, it's let's see, like the Clippers coach Bill Fitch, time out. Clippers Bill Fitch has bemused, bewildered, and bedeviled. Things like that. Just just great, absolutely great, And if somebody was doing very well, you know, certified, classified, gratified. Boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom. So that was his style. There were a bunch of

other catchphrases. When somebody would have a hammered dunk, he'd say, oh, that was nasty. And they're dancing in the aisles at the Rose Garden if something went great for the where the Troublazers. But I love Wheels. He was very kind to me. We would go out to lunch sometimes in the offseason. He was adopted. He grew up in southern California. He was adopted at birth, and he had a tough child that he stepfather was an asshole and had a tough tough time growing up. But he loved Vince Scully.

He loved chick Hern, Bob Miller, the great La play by play guys, and he told me stories about you wanted to be just like them. He planned on attending school at USC. He ended up going to college in Chicago, which it is interesting to note his he found his birth mother. And you know, it's always one of those weird things when you're adopted. You know, some people that are adopted, they want to find their birth parents. Other people that are adopted want nothing to do with their

birth parents. So it's a weird dynamic. But Brian wanted to meet his birth mother. He did end up meeting her a few years back and learned about what she was like and why she made the decision that she made and whatnot. And so anyway, Wheels grew up in southern California, but he went to college in Chicago. He

did some like studio work for the Bulls. He worked for the old Seattle SuperSonics back in the He bounced around, He lived the nomad life, and I just loved him, just loved the way he did the play by play. And he had stints with the Sacramento Kings and the Sonics. As I said, the Bulls, and he was the Oregon sportscaster of the Year in twenty oh seven. He had battled his weight his entire adult life. And I remember when I lost my weight, which was probably probably around

twenty twenty ten. Wheels and I had many conversations. He's trying to figure out how can he lose the weight, and what can you do? And he tried every fad diet and some of them worked. I remember he did my Man Wheels, did the Oprah winfree like liquid diet, and he lost a ton of weight. He was lost more weight than I lost. He was lean, mean, and a wrecking machine. The problem was traveling with an NBA team. You're getting in late. You're getting in late, right. Things

are not necessarily open. Good restaurants are not open, so you're eating late. You're not eating good food. You're drinking a fair amount because you're going out to bars and restaurants and you're having a social cocktail or whatever. So eventually he could not keep up with the liquid diet. He had to start eating solid food, and he put all of the weight back and then some. And it was just devastating when that happened. And so I tried to give him some advice. I said, do the intimute fasting.

He actually tried it for a while, but it was very difficult for him because again because of the schedule and being around food, traveling to different NBA cities and there's always like big piles of food all over the place, and it's not good food. It was either the end of twenty twenty three or early twenty twenty four. He was with the Blazers till twenty nineteen. We spoke probably once a year. After that, I didn't see him, obviously because he was no longer traveling with the Trail Blazers.

He did come to LA. Big Dodger fan, Wheels and so he would come down to La usually in the middle of the summer, catch a Dodger game game or two. But just a sweetheart of a guy and just really enjoyed enjoyers coming on bummed out. I was unable to make it. I hope to. I hope to get up to Portland at some point. I think there's gonna be some tributes that will be there for Wheels, and hope to see some of that stuff. But again, I was honored to be invited. I had a casual friendship with

Brian Wheeler, but I really appreciated his work. He was so good, and you know, from Boomshaka Laca to my eyes don't deceive. So I have to believe, and I hope to honor Wheels. And this is something that I've done a lot. Over the years. I've gotten older, more and more people have died, which is unfortunate, but that's part of life. Our number is going to come up,

all of us at some point. So I'm going to try to work into the monologue some of the catchphrases from Brian Wheeler as a tribute to Wheels, and so that that's my plan. That's my plan. Now whether whether that works, I'm not going to do it all the time, but I'll do it occasionally, just a small, small tribute to the great Brian Wheeler and Blazer fans were very lucky to have him. He was so good. It is

such a art that very few do well. There's a lot of people that can do play by play, and I watch a bunch of different TV broadcasts, I hear some radio broadcasts. A lot of these guys are just their jabs, just another broadcaster, their jabs, nothing special. But Wheels was special. He had whatever that is, the rasthma taz, he had it. And I was lucky to be able to hear some of his work. I was lucky enough

to know him. And he left this world. He should still be doing the Trailblazer games, and he had some health problems and he had to leave the Trailblazers, and you know, it's sad, but you know, that's a job he could have had. He'd still be doing it. He's probably doing another eight nine years still his seventies, but unfortunately he leaves this world at the age of sixty two. So rest in peace. Brian Wheeler, one of the great

play by play guys. I was so lucky to come across him and befriend him and have him as a guy in my circle over the years. Now, I was gonna do foodie fun, but there's not a lot of food news, and there's no really good transition from that, and it's kind of a slow week in foody fund so I think I'll skip that. I did want to mention the idiom of the day. We'll get out on this the idiom of the day on the fifth hour. So it's a phrase we've all used, man's best friend.

A dog is man's best friend. But is it true? Is it true that that phrase actually goes back back back, back, back, back, back back only to eighteen seventy, roughly eighteen seventy. Say what, yeah, let me explain this is a matter fascinating. Now, I love dogs. I'm a dog person. I'm not a cat person. My dog Moxie. I spend pretty much every day getting ready with the radio show with Moxie, my English bulldog, laying on my legs, snoring and farting while I'm watching

games and getting ready for the show. And it's just such a She's a sixty or fifty pound lap dog or whatever, fifty five pounds. So anyway, have you ever heard the phrase a dog is a man's best friend? Of course you have.

big news in eighteen seventy. So this is the story. I won't give you the whole story, but there was this a person named Lee ownedas Hornsby. Fortunately we don't use the name Lee owned us anymore. Really, it's an old name. So this guy shot his neighbor and brother in law, Charles Burden's hunting dog, the top hunting dog dog named Old Drum Old Drum. So Burden was very upset. Charles Burton's like, wait a minute, you a hole, what's

wrong with you? And threatened to kill Hornsby, but instead realized, well, I probably shouldn't kill him, so instead I'll sue this guy Hornsby for one hundred dollars. Well, Hornsby had been employing his nephew to guard his flock of sheep, denied giving any instruction to shoot the dog, Old Drum, so they went to court. Now, one hundred bucks in eighteen seventy was a lot of money. You want to play the game? How much money? How much money was one

hundred dollars in eighteen seventy money versus today? You want to play that game, Let's play that game. How much do you think one hundred bucks in eighteen seventy versus today? Here we are in twenty twenty five. So what would the map? They don't even go back to eighteen seventy. You know that they don't go back to eighteen seventy. Let's see. Let me let me tump, let me let me see last you. Maybe let me let me click

on this year. Hold on sake, listening to our live coverage on the fifth hour, and as we try to figure this out, No, it only goes back to the inflation calculator. It only goes back to like nineteen nineteen thirteen, nineteen thirteen, So there's no other information before. So we can't even play the game. Why it was a lot of money, I get to the point. So they went

to court and the lawsuit one hundred dollars. Hornsby had been employing the nephew to guard the flock, but again said I didn't tell this person to shoot Old Drum. So they had two trials. The jury found Hornsby guilty of ordering his nephew to kill Old Drum, awarded the

guy Burden, twenty five dollars. The judgment, though, was later reversed, so they had a third trial, and Burden's lawyer, George graham Vest George Graham Vest, delivered a tear jerking closing argument, considered one of the great closing arguments at that time and still talked about. Here we are one hundred and fifty years later one hundred and fifty five years later and it's still talked about. The closing argument was called Eulogy for a Dog, and when this lawyer, George Graham

Vest finished, the jurors were in tears. They were they awarded burden fifty dollars, so you didn't get the one hundred dollars, you got the fifty dollars. Hornsby appealed to the Supreme Court of Missouri, but the decision stood. But

best closing argument was so popular it became famous. It was printed in newspapers and saved because there was no internet in eighteen seventy and that is believed to be where the modern version of a dog is a Man's Best Friend came from from a closing argument in a Missouri courthouse called Eulogy for a Dog, and it is still available. You can read it. If you're interested in that,

check it out. We'll get out on that note. Hopefully Danny g will be okay and these fires will go away, and we will have a brand new episode of the Fifth Hour podcast tomorrow Wildcard Weekend, Wildcard Saturday, we'll have a brand new episode. Also tonight, we've got college football, so it's a good sports weekend. Got college football tonight Ohio State and Texas. The winner gets Notre Dome in the championship game of college football. Have a wonderful rest

of your Friday. Thank you for listening to the podcast. Tell a friend, tell a friend, spread the gospel of the Fifth Hour Podcast, and we will talk to you tomorrow. Tomorrow. Is it later, Skater Danny? Is that how it goes? Later? Skater? I think so wrong. Gotta murder, I gotta go