The Fifth Hour: Silenced Thumper

the show last night in the overnight. So the one that really popped up and I thought, oh man, that would have been great. We have the rest of the story. Remember the player on the Diamondbacks, Coutell Marte, who there was a fan in Chicago suspended for an indefinite period of time from every Major League ballpark, and the Internet was convinced that this fan had said the most vile thing imaginable about Coatel Marte's mother that caused him to cry. So I saw this yesterday and I was like, well,

I mean, what are we doing here? So the White Sox were playing the diamond Backs. If you if you didn't see this, maybe you missed it. So he was. The story was he was being taunted by a Chicago White Sox fan, and his mother had died in a car accident in the Dominican a number of years ago. I think I've been about eight ten years something like that.

I think it's eight years. And so this twenty two year old Jabbroni was given an indefinite band by the White Sox in Major League Baseball because of what he had said. And nobody knew what he had said, but people were assuming that it was the worst thing ever. And Marte did an interview and explained what happened. And when he was done explaining what happened, everyone had the same reaction. They're like, holy f what are you driving

a mister softy truck, like, what are you doing? So he said, in the seventh inning, he came to bat, he was at the plate. He heard a fan shouting at the top of the dugout and this is a quart I'm reading a quote here from Katel Marte the Diamondbacks, he said. Quote he yelled at me, saying stuff about

my mom. He was like, I sent your mom a text last night, and that is what triggered him to cry, which is for that reaction, for him to cry, that's one thing, But then for Baseball to decide that that is worthy of an indefinite banishment from every ballpark in the major leagues, like, what are you doing? My god? I mean, that is unreal. What an overreaction by everyone involved, by everyone involved, just just ridiculous. Anyway, I saw, I

saw that. You gotta be kidding me. And then I was not watching the NHL Draft because I'm anti draft and I didn't have to do a talk show on Friday, you know, Friday night into Saturday here, so I didn't have to talk show, so I didn't watch the draft. So I keep getting these messages on my phone. You've got to turn this on. Are you watching the draft? I'm not buying. I'm text back, I'm not watching the draft. Why when I watch the draft, I'm off tonight. I don't talk about it. And even if I was on,

I probably wouldn't talk about it anyway. So a couple of my buddies, one lives on the East coast, the other on the West coast, and they were both texting me, and it wasn't Eddie. By the way, it wasn't Eddie. And so they're texting me, is like, you gotta watch this. This is so bad. And so after like the fifth message, I flipped it on my phone. Holy crap, Holy crap. Wow. Now, I know you're supposed to try new things. I get that.

Don't you have to vet them a little bit? Don't you have to try to try to do some market research? And my god, So I'm gonna try to describe this as best I can. And I did not see did not see the beginning of it, and I did not see the end of it because I didn't stick around. I only saw a couple of picks. I saw the Boston Bruins pick I think, which was the seventh pick, and I watched a couple of selections, and I guess the draft was in in Los Angeles. I wonder if

Eddie went. Maybe Eddie went to the draft. I don't know. But they had this thing called the NHL Draft House, which is I mean, it was just forced awkward, cringe worthy. It was a boone doggle, a boone doggle where even people that like hockey, like, I'm casual with hockey, right, I like the Stanley Cup Final. I'll watch a game every now and again, but I don't watch too much hockey. I don't. I used to cover hockey and I was there every night and I enjoyed it. People were very

nice to me. But I've moved on. So they had this thing called the Draft House where they did interviews and it was on zoom and it just was way way to too cringe worthy.

don't ever do that again. And so apparently it started awkward. I didn't see the beginning of it, and I tuned in. I said, oh, yeah, you're right. I text back, I said, all right, you're you're correct that. I mean, there were technical issues, but watch and McCall it wasn't work and the thing of ajig didn't work, so there were issues on that, and then just the just really unnecessary, really really unnecessary. So you tried something new, it didn't work.

We'll just pretend it didn't happen and change it up. My goodness, Yeah, what else? Toda s all right? Ron Washington another baseball story. He's out, Well, he's not out as Angels manager. Does anyone think Ron Washington's gonna return as Angel manager? Everyone in baseball loves the guy. The baseball writers can't say enough good things about him. He's a great storyteller. People in baseball love him. Ron Washington had been the Angels manager. He had some kind of

health problem. He took a leave of absence this week and now the Angels have announced he will not be returning that that's it. He's done for this year and he will be Gonzo Gonzo Gonzo Gonzo for the rest of the year and at age seventy three, will he be back on this podcast though. Getting into the meat of the matter, we have the Military Education Silence, Thumper Sherlock, Pizza, and the phrase of the week. We'll begin with this now. A heartfelt thank you to every man, woman and child

that reached out a lot of great feedback. I told my story last week about my son who's gone to boot camp and now out of boot camp and joined the United States Marines, and I always knew we had a lot of military families and ex military veterans and active military that were fans of the show and part of our group, you know, the malad militia, but you don't really know until you know you tell this story.

And so many people reached out, from military guys, gals, people that are fans of Fox Sports Radio that listen to the Overnight. I heard from people that used to work the day shift, or it used to work the night shift, they're now on the day shift, the dreaded day shift, and they heard the podcast, and they were very excited about that, and so that whole mantra, once a marine, always a marine, it does run strong, and I did not right back there. When I apologize, I

get overwhelmed. I get so many messages from Blind Scott and a couple of other people that I just give up. I know I shouldn't do that, but if you saw the volume of mail that I email, it's impossible to serve through everything. So I usually start out writing back to a few people and then I just say that's it. I can't do it. So I hope you will take what I'm about to say as a heartfelt tip of the headphones, a thank you to you if you did reach out to me. I did get your messages, I

did read them. It was great to hear your story. So many of you shared your story, whether you were in the Marines years ago, as some hardy veterans who were in Vietnam. We had some of those guys called the show. Wayne from Missouri, for example, got on the air this week who was in Vietnam and told the story and I didn't even hear it because my headphones malfunctioned.

Alf pointed out, Hey, that guy his drill sergeant was the guy from you know, Full Metal Jacket or whatever they get the guy the famous, most famous drill sergeant of all time. So that was cool. Wayne from Missouri and several others emailed me and you know, retired guys that can't sleep because you got you know whatever, insomnia or medical problems, and you listened to the show, and

so you told me about your experience. Some of you guys were not on the Marines, who were in the army and other branches of the military, but it was wonderful to hear your stories. And some of you guys who also have kids in the military, and you were telling me how the Marine Corps in particular helped, you know, shape the life of your kids. Some of you your life as well. I'll give you an example. Some of I want to think Dale and Charleston. He sent a

nice note Mountain Mark, fan of the show. He says, congrats on your young man completing book camp. He says, what is his mos My son was a radio repairman. That's cool, got a great job in tech when he got out. The Marines have been a big part of his maturation process. Now we have a daughter in law

and two beautiful grandchildren. That's great, Mazeltov, congratulations mos. Now this is military jargon, something I did not know until until my guy Patrick joined the Marines, a military occupational specialty. And Patrick is going to be back at Camp Pendleton. His MOS is infantry. So the infantry is the ground forces, and they are you know, we all kind of know, even if you're not a military person, what that means. You locate, destroy the enemy wherever, anywhere you name it.

And so by land, by sea, the Marines do it all and hopefully will not be needed right all. We want a strong military. We don't want to have to actually use the military until it's the last option. But he is there if the United States Marine Corps need him. And from everything I've been told, the infantry is the backbone of the Marines, and so he will be right in the middle of everything. My military education has been ie open. Now, when I grew up, I grew up.

I'm not from a military family. I did grow up surrounded by military brats. I grew up literally in between two military bases. I think I told the story last last week. When I was a child, there was the Marine Corps Air Station El Toro, and then there was one in Tustin, which in Orange County, and I was literally grew up in the city in between both of them.

So when I went to school, a lot of my classmates were in the military, and I told the story about how every once in a while we get to go on base and it was like a big deal because everything was cheaper because you didn't have to pay taxes and we'd buy a crap ton of candy and other stuff like that on the base and you felt like you were like rich and all that stuff. So my military education, though since this has happened recently, I had no idea give you a couple examples, okay, and

I admit I'm naive to it. I had no idea that the Marines had to buy their uniforms like it comes out of your paycheck. I just assumed the position that, hey, you're working for the government, the government's got the money, they'll buy you the uniforms. I wonder if it's always been like that. I didn't really dig into it too deep, but I know for my son, he had to buy his uniforms and they take it out of the paycheck. Also, I thought, while you're in training, they would pay for

your food, and no, that's not the case. They have to pay for your food while you're you're working. I was really surprised by that. I know, with the size of the military budget, and I know that when you're in the Marines, you're not getting a lot of money or any branch in the military. You're not getting rich

in the military. So I just assumed that one of the perks would be, Hey, you're in the military, so we'll give you your gear that you're going to use for us will take care of it, and then I will also take care of your food, at least part of your food. But I'm told that is not the case. So which is wild. I mean, I'm all for a strong military and the I think I looked it up.

The Department of Defense their military budget in the fiscal year twenty twenty five, which we're in right now, eight hundred and fifty billion, and they can't even buy the like the uniforms. That is wild. It's sixteen percent of total federal spending according to the Internet in the United States, and that is I know this. I know there's a lot of people in the military and the army and the Navy and the Air Force and the Space Force

and the Coast Guard and all that stuff. But man, I mean, you think the US spends I think the stat I've seen this a few places, so I think it's true. If I'm wrong, you can correct me, and I know you will. But the US spends more on defense than any other country, more than the next ten nations combined. So it is extreme. So hey, you live and learn, and I didn't know that was the case. It is. You got to buy your own, your own stuff. So turning the page on that, we did have a

beach day yesterday. Whether it was great here in California, we don't have the heat dome. It's hot, but it's not the heat dome. So myself, the wife, the kid, kids on some leave time before he goes back, as we mentioned, go back to Camp Pendleton, and so we went to the beach, had a little family bonding there break after boot camp. And so we arrived at the beach in SoCal here in Newport, and we had a welcoming committee that was there for us. They were all

about it. Baby. They welcomed us with open arms, and not that we wanted this welcome. We were greeted by street evangelists, better known by their gangster name the God Squad. That's right, the God Squad. Now let me point out for those of you in the back of the room that we appreciate whatever your religious beliefs are I do. We have very happy that everyone bonds. We have one

common goal on the overnight. Whether you're non religious, whether you're atheist, whatever your background is super religious, you do you right, live and let live. Generally speaking, the rule is just don't you don't have to shove anything down my throat or somebody else's throat. You believe what you want to believe, and we'll all take care of ourselves and all this stuff. So anyway, I arrived at the beach.

We arrived at the beach, and we were greeted by a street evangelist also known as a Jackwagon who was out in front. Now the beach is packed, you know, it's summer. Kids are out of school, and this God Squad guy is out there just next lets evangelizing. We're talking. Let me paint the picture for a blind listeners. So imagine a like a two by four, but it goes up like eight feet in the sky and it's got signs from ground all the way up to eight feet

in the sky and it's you know, repent here. That whole thing is repent Jesus, this, that and the other thing. It was about eight ten feet tall in the air. And if that was not enough, which it wasn't, but wait, there's more. The guy had a bullhorn, so that seemed to be the problem. That seemed to be the problem. If you just hold the sign up, I'm like, there's much you can do. But this guy who greeted us there the welcoming Committee at the beach, he was he

was thumping, thumping the Bible. He had the bullhorn and shouting his version of the Gospel. And it was going well until it didn't go well. And now for the rest of the story, well, it was going all right until the men in blue arrived and it seems that he violated some kind of city code. I didn't get into the nitty gritty. I'm not sure exactly what the conversation was. All I know is that there were three members of law enforcement who had a chit chat with

this guy from the street evangelist community. He stopped shouting and his boorn he carried the sign to his car, and he and his friend there were encouraged to move along. Move along, now, move along. All the joy of relative peace and quiet as you sit there and watch the water, the beautiful sky, bright blue sky, the water, the mighty Pacific Ocean there, the better ocean. Can we all agree on that, like the Atlantic Ocean takes a backseat to

the Pacific, and it's not really all that close. It's not if you do a side by side breakdown, Pacific on one side, Atlantic on the other. I've been fortunate and I've been to both. Obviously, the Pacific a lot more because where I live. But the answer is Pacific and any other answer completely completely unacceptable. One thousand percent, one thousand percent. All right, turning the page on Hot Ocean Talk and we move on to the Great Pizza Caper. So let's go back in the hot tub time machine.

We will go back to the end of the work week, the last night of the original Recupe podcast and bar working away. They're doing the overnight show. No, I did go into the mothership. I went into the mothership. I was told there was a time sensitive package that was there that was sent in by listener Perito, who was a big fan of the show and he wanted us to have the gift of Deep Dish Chicago pizza. Now

I love Chicago pizza, and this was very nice. Had it overnighted from the Pizza Place in Chicago, one of the famous pizza chains in Chicago, and had it delivered to the Mothership. And so there were a couple of pies there. As I was told of this, there was one for Lorena and one one for me. So there were two pies. So I drove in far, far in from the north Woods, not normally a night I'm in. I was able to move my schedule around and work it all out. So I arrived at the studio and

there there they were. There were the two pizza pies, and so I did the show and then they were in the freezer. And then on the way out, I asked Loraine, I said, well, which one do you want? I'm not really picky, and I mean my wife will probably end up consuming it, and people at the house will consume it. So I said, which one do you want? And she said, you know, I don't really care either, but I'll take the She said, I'll take the pepperoni.

I said, okay, fine, you can have the pepperone, no problem. So I did the show, packed up my stuff, shot the crap with LeVar Arrington and Jonas Knox before their show started. For like three minutes we just talked. We solve all the world's problems in that three minutes. And then I went down the hall and grabbed I opened the freezer, I grabbed the pizza and that's it, and headed to the malormobile for the long drive back to the to the north Woods. So fine, I wake up

and there are all these messages from Lorena. She's really like upset, like what happened? Why would you take the pizza? I was my pizza? And she's like and so I was like, what is this about? So she thought I had taken both pizzas, but I only took one pizza because we had a deal. She got the pep I got the other one. That's it. So somebody apparently took the other pizza because it wasn't there. She said she could not find it. It was not in the freezer.

She thought I had taken it by mistake. I did not. I only took one pizza. So now we're trying to figure out, well, she's really trying to figure out, like where's the other pie? And there's a skeleton crew. You know, hardly anyone works in the building, and they can't even have live updates overnight, so it's hardly anyone there. And it's only a few people, so we're not sure. We don't know who took the pizza. Where the pizza went. I thought it may have still been in there, but

just in a different part of the freezer. But Lorraine is like na, na, no, she said, it's not there. She's had multiple people. Look, she wants to go to the cameras, to the security cameras in the kitchen to find out who did it. And so, and I did offer. I said, listen, I like the pizza. I will give you the other pizza. I don't mind, it's not that big a deal. But she did not did not respond to that, so I'm not sure exactly where that went. Again,

there's only a few people in the building. There are some employees that straddle in from another part of the building because there's one vending machine which is on our floor, which is I guess the better vending machine. So sometimes guys will walk through to go to the vending machine. But that would be pretty ballsy just to go into the freezer and grab a pizza like that. Like, I mean, that's that's a tough I mean, that is not not a solid move, especially when there's a camera that is

on top of you. It's like, what are you doing? I guess they didn't notice that it's a police state in that building. Their cameras all over. You are always on camera when you're in that building. Now to the phrase of the week. That's right, the phrase of the week. And this was sent in by who is it sent in by? Let's see page down, John in Dallas, Texas. Right, So he says, Ben, I don't know if this would be considered a word or phrase, but I was wondering.

John says, if you could please give us the lowdown on how boo became an expression of discontent. By the way, a well placed boot drop always works well on your show. Boomoo from John in Dallas. Well, John, your wish is my command. Your wish is my command. And it is interesting to note that the almighty, all powerful, all encompassing, omnipresent boo a single syllable that has been around for so long. I did not realize this that that expression

goes back to the fifteenth century wowie kauzawie. The roots of boo. They have been booing entertainers and athletes and politicians since the fifteenth century. Now, in the fifteenth century, boo was just a loud, startling noise, something you would shout to scare someone or to let them know you were there. And it's believed the term boo has Scottish or even Greek origins with ties to a words meaning to cry aloud or roar and all that. So the

word goes back to the fifteenth century. But by the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, boo had evolved into a weapon. It had been weaponized. The boo suddenly had magical powers, and the boo became something of a hammer. I'm going to drop the hammer on you, right, I'm going to boo you. So it goes way back and they claim that in the eighteenth nineteenth centuries that's when it really got going. But the opera goers in Parma, Italy, that

is the legend. People talk about the bronx chier and the booing of Yankee fans or fans in Philadelphia or Boston. But the opera go in Parma, Italy, where Parmersiana comes from, were notorious for booing, and also in London. The theater audience in London were also known to let people know that they were not happy with what they were what they were paying, and what they were getting in return and all that stuff. And the phrase boo that man has been in many many movies over the years, a

famous famous phrase. In fact, if you look and I futs around with famous movie quotes, I think it was water Boy. I think there was. I know, you know, I don't know. We suck again was in water Boy. I thought boo that man was in there. Maybe I'm maybe I'm conflating that with some other movies, but it has been in a bunch of of different movies where they say boo that man, and all, you know, you go through the whole thing and you're like, all right,

I kind of remember, I kind of remember that and all. Anyway, so that is the phrase, which is really just one word for John and Dallas. The phrase of the week booooooo, as in boo that man, boo that man. All right, We'll get out on that. Have a wonderful, glorious rest of your day. If you're listening early. If not, I hope you had a wonderful Saturday. If you're listening late in the day, I will have the mail bag on Sunday.

Sunday Sunday, we will talk to you then later. Skater Asta Pasta my folation