{"id":26079,"date":"2020-04-24T11:02:33","date_gmt":"2020-04-24T16:02:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=26079"},"modified":"2020-04-24T10:10:42","modified_gmt":"2020-04-24T15:10:42","slug":"the-source-of-that-thing-dad-always-says-x-or-xviii-depending-upon-your-accounting-methodology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/24\/the-source-of-that-thing-dad-always-says-x-or-xviii-depending-upon-your-accounting-methodology\/","title":{"rendered":"The Source of That Thing Dad Always Says (X or XVIII, Depending Upon Your Accounting Methodology)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For a very long time, whenever my children purposefully or accidentally knocked something down or broke into component parts a Lego or block creation, I would say, &#8220;Smash, Smash, Diggin&#8217; the Smash.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Which was the catch phrase of a radio personality in St. Louis around the turn of the century.  Well, not the catch phrase: something that radio listeners would say on the phone or whatnot, and the recordings were played on the air as promos or whatnot.<\/p>\n<p>I thought of this when I saw that he has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/news\/local\/columns\/joe-holleman\/the-smash-returning-to-stl-radio-next-week\/article_2fc957a5-f900-5fa4-874b-e5c838088dd9.html\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">returned to the St. Louis airwaves<\/a>.  Again.<\/p>\n<p>I looked (briefly) for something where people repeated the line, and all I found was a short documentary piece on his career until 2014:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iUx20622teo\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, the reason he can return to radio is that his wife, who had been ill for a while, passed away.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps the next time we pass through St. Louis, we can catch a bit of his one of his programs, and the boys can learn the source of that thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For a very long time, whenever my children purposefully or accidentally knocked something down or broke into component parts a Lego or block creation, I would say, &#8220;Smash, Smash, Diggin&#8217; the Smash.&#8221; Which was the catch phrase of a radio personality in St. Louis around the turn of the century. Well, not the catch phrase: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daddy-always-says"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26079"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26080,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26079\/revisions\/26080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}