Speaker 1: Kutbooms.
Speaker 2: If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes
Speaker 2: a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants
Speaker 2: of the Old Republic, a sol fastion of fairness. He
Speaker 2: treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the
Speaker 2: rich pill poppers in the penthouse.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 2: The Clearinghouse of Hot takes break free for something special.
Speaker 2: The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now in.
Speaker 3: The air everywhere. The Fifth Hour with me, Ben Mahler
Speaker 3: and Danny g Radio and a very happy, happy, happy,
Speaker 3: happy Happy Friday. It's the twenty seventh day of the
Speaker 3: month of September. This is our last Friday show here
Speaker 3: in the month of September.
Speaker 1: On the fifth Hour.
Speaker 3: Every weekend, new original audio content Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.
Speaker 3: This is a spinoff, as you know I would assume
Speaker 3: by now of the Overnight Show, the Original Recipe Podcast.
Speaker 3: This is not the Original Recipe Podcast. Instead, Extra Crispy,
Speaker 3: extra spicy, all the good stuff, and it's here all
Speaker 3: weekend long. Now, this is the Friday we celebrate National
Speaker 3: Horned Beef hash Day. Now, I do not eat breakfast.
Speaker 3: I know you're very concerned in about my culinary habits.
Speaker 3: Over the last couple of years on this podcast, we
Speaker 3: have laid out that I enjoy fasting. I usually eat
Speaker 3: once a day. I'll skip a day or two during
Speaker 3: the week. It's my michi gos. But when I eat breakfast,
Speaker 3: which is rare and appropriate normally when I'm on vacation,
Speaker 3: and I get dragged out because I'm normally not up
Speaker 3: the traditional time of breakfast doing the overnight show. But
Speaker 3: I love corn beef hash I absolutely, we love it
Speaker 3: wonderful and today is today. Now that does not mean
Speaker 3: I'm going to eat it because we record this podcast
Speaker 3: very early in the morning.
Speaker 1: By the way, Danny G will be back tomorrow.
Speaker 3: Some of you have reached out to me and you
Speaker 3: think that I am boguarding the podcast, that I am
Speaker 3: not allowing Danny G to talk, which AI found amusing
Speaker 3: and b could not be further than the truth. Fun
Speaker 3: the truth when I do the podcast. When we do this,
Speaker 3: Danny is not available at this time on Friday, so
Speaker 3: that's why you've got me and Danny. When he's available
Speaker 3: on Saturday and Sunday, we have him on, but he's
Speaker 3: got a lot going on with Colvino and rich and
Speaker 3: all that. So he's not being forced off the Friday Podcast.
Speaker 3: And every once in a while he'll appear on the
Speaker 3: Friday Podcast, but today is not one of those days.
Speaker 1: The microphone throttler.
Speaker 3: But as far as cornby fash, love it, love it,
Speaker 3: love it, love it. Now the origin of cornby fash,
Speaker 3: I know you're dying to know. I love this kind
Speaker 3: of stuff.
Speaker 1: I just eat it up.
Speaker 3: It's unknown. They don't really know when it began. There's
Speaker 3: some historians, not Laker fans, but real historians who claim
Speaker 3: that there's a fourteenth century recipe fourteenth century that is
Speaker 3: essentially what is today cornby fash. It's also believed that
Speaker 3: Jewish immigrants really brought it to America in the late
Speaker 3: nineteenth century when they were fleeing northern Europe. But I
Speaker 3: don't know who brought it. I always love it. It's
Speaker 3: my go to. It's a staple for me when I'm
Speaker 3: eating breakfast. I like my pancakes, but hornby fash, which
Speaker 3: is just corn beef diced up, throw some spices on there,
Speaker 3: some onions, some potatoes.
Speaker 1: What more do you need?
Speaker 3: It's easy to make, It's wonderful, and love it, love it.
Speaker 3: Love it, love it. It is also today, if that
Speaker 3: was not enough, it is National Hot Chocolate Day. This
Speaker 3: is the start of fall, the first weekend. I believe
Speaker 3: in fall. Autumn wind. The autumn wind is a racy
Speaker 3: as we head in the fall, So celebrate National Chocolate
Speaker 3: Milk Day. It's also Morning show host Day. I don't
Speaker 3: do a morning show, so I don't think I can
Speaker 3: celebrate that. But yeah, chocolate milk. I think we talked
Speaker 3: about this last year on this podcast. But chocolate milk
Speaker 3: is from Jamaica. Yeah, it's Jamaica. Ginger beer and chocolate
Speaker 3: milk from from Jamaica allegedly and goes all the way
Speaker 3: back to the fourteen hundreds and still to this day.
Speaker 3: The global chocolate milk market expected to grow by three
Speaker 3: point six percent over the next few years. So people
Speaker 3: love their chocolate milk. It makes you a little Tingley,
Speaker 3: a little Tingley. So on today's podcast, we've got a
Speaker 3: little trophy time, the old switcheroo, saw foody fun as well,
Speaker 3: and all of that. All of that we'll get to you,
Speaker 3: but here we begin with this. So I'm going to
Speaker 3: take you behind the Microphone, Behind the Microphone Companion Podcast,
Speaker 3: Behind the scenes the making of Benny Versus the Penny
Speaker 3: on and b see Peacock as well well. And if
Speaker 3: you didn't know, it is week four of the NFL.
Speaker 3: We had that riveting Cowboy game which I won. I
Speaker 3: had the Giants plus the points. Hallelujah.
Speaker 1: That's a good win.
Speaker 3: I'll take it. I need all the good wins I
Speaker 3: can get. But the Giants winning the bet. They lost
Speaker 3: the game last night because of a field goal that
Speaker 3: was just a little wide to the right, just a
Speaker 3: wee bit, just a little bit. So it's week four.
Speaker 3: Benny Versus the Penny is in the bank. We did
Speaker 3: it yesterday. It will start airing later this afternoon on
Speaker 3: the NBC regional cable sports channels in Boston, Philadelphia, San Francisco,
Speaker 3: and Los Angeles, so all of those places, and also
Speaker 3: nationally streaming on Peacock. So the big behind the scenes
Speaker 3: news involves my big fat mouth. Now I'm gonna flash
Speaker 3: back in the hot tub time machine. We're gona go
Speaker 3: back to Monday, Monday, Monday Night football. We had a
Speaker 3: double header on Monday Night. So I made a decision
Speaker 3: which I have regretted all week.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 3: I decided I'm gonna make some chicken. I'm gonna I'm
Speaker 3: gonna cook up some chicken, grilled chicken, and some rice.
Speaker 3: Now that's my normal, normal meal. But this was not
Speaker 3: a normal day. You're about to hear the rest of
Speaker 3: the story. And this is a story that I have
Speaker 3: not told. You don't know about it. Eddie doesn't Eddie
Speaker 3: didn't know about it. Coop doesn't know about it. The
Speaker 3: rainer doesn't know about it. Even Danny g who's not here,
Speaker 3: he doesn't know about it. So I normally make some
Speaker 3: kind of chicken dish and rice. But this day was
Speaker 3: different than most other days. Why in my effort to
Speaker 3: fast track the cooking process, I was in a rush
Speaker 3: to eat, and I brought the food back quickly to
Speaker 3: the sofa. So I'm sitting down watching the Monday game,
Speaker 3: the Bills Jacksonville game. So I tried to time it
Speaker 3: where I could eat right when the game began. So
Speaker 3: I sit down, I got my food, and I go
Speaker 3: for it. I'm like, all right, I haven't eaten since yesterday.
Speaker 3: Let me have a nice meal. So I chow down
Speaker 3: and nice big chop. And what happened in my haste
Speaker 3: to eat the food, I ended up biting a I
Speaker 3: ain't chunk, not completely out of my tongue, but it's
Speaker 3: really messed up.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So all week I have been dealing with the left
Speaker 3: side of my tongue, which is completely mutilated.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh.
Speaker 3: The very odd thing about this is that not a
Speaker 3: single listener, not even my my core p one guys,
Speaker 3: said Hey, Ben, I think there's something that will off
Speaker 3: with your voice. Every word that I have said this
Speaker 3: week has been painful.
Speaker 1: Every word.
Speaker 3: Now, I did get the last couple of days, I
Speaker 3: got some numbing like toothache, Joe, But it's not toothache.
Speaker 1: It's on my tongue. And the issue is this.
Speaker 3: And I've said for many years that there's only three
Speaker 3: things that can make what I do for a living painful.
Speaker 3: One is laryngitis. I've done radio with laryngitis. It's not fun.
Speaker 3: I don't recommend it. The other two are burning your
Speaker 3: tongue or what I've just done, biting my tongue, literally
Speaker 3: biting your tongue. Now, there's some other stuff, toothache or
Speaker 3: something like that. But if you remember several years back,
Speaker 3: it's been many years, but I famously burned my tongue
Speaker 3: eating pizza too fast, and I sounded on that one
Speaker 3: people did tell me I sounded weird. They said, something's
Speaker 3: weird about that. They said I sounded like Lou Holtz.
Speaker 3: I had a lisp when I talked, and I fortunately
Speaker 3: I don't with this. But the problem is I haven't
Speaker 3: been able to properly heal the tongue because every night
Speaker 3: I go into the studio and I talk for four
Speaker 3: hours and the left side of my tongue in the back,
Speaker 3: which there's no way around it, is very uh you know,
Speaker 3: it's it's in the recovery mode. So what ends up
Speaker 3: happening is I don't talk during the day. I'm quiet
Speaker 3: and I feel better. But then at night or here
Speaker 3: in the morning, and I did four hours of radio overnight.
Speaker 3: We had a few hours off, and I'm back with
Speaker 3: this podcast. And I'm not looking for a purple heart.
Speaker 3: By the way, I have a purple tongue because of
Speaker 3: the uh, because of the swelling and all that. But
Speaker 3: doing four plus hours of talk radio, a TV show
Speaker 3: and a podcast, uh yeah, it's I'm feeling it, and uh,
Speaker 3: I'm not looking for for anything other maybe a trophy.
Speaker 3: Maybe I actually hit a trophy. But other than that,
Speaker 3: I'm good.
Speaker 1: I'm okay.
Speaker 3: Now moving on from that wonderful story about my swollen,
Speaker 3: throbbing tongue that I'm an idiot, I am such a
Speaker 3: moron and I bitten my tongue. So we have the
Speaker 3: old switcheroo without giving too much away, because I want
Speaker 3: you to watch BVP Benny Versus the Penny, Episode four,
Speaker 3: season two of the show, which is actually episode five.
Speaker 3: It's week four, but we did a pre season show,
Speaker 3: so it's really episode five, season two of Benny Versus
Speaker 3: the Penny. But you'll notice if you watched this weekend
Speaker 3: show which will air today, Tomorrow and Sunday until one
Speaker 3: o'clock Eastern time on Peacock, that Tom Lody pulled a
Speaker 3: fast one.
Speaker 1: He did the looney switcheroo. Now I'm not going to
Speaker 1: tell you.
Speaker 3: I'm not going to sit here and tell you what
Speaker 3: he did. To watch the show and see if you
Speaker 3: can figure it out. But there was a dramatic change,
Speaker 3: if I remember, it was near the end of the show,
Speaker 3: so you can check that out. And the taping was
Speaker 3: rather smooth, good vibrations, didn't have to redo much of anything.
Speaker 3: There were no major snaff foos. There we were in
Speaker 3: the zone, but not at aut a zone, eating our
Speaker 3: mojo potatoes. We found our mojo. Now, speaking of that,
Speaker 3: speaking of that, there is some foody fun. Are you
Speaker 3: ready for foody fun? Foody fun? Let's do it all right,
Speaker 3: let's have some foody fun here. We'll start with this
Speaker 3: Burger King. Now, they have a one million dollars competition.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you've heard about this or not.
Speaker 3: It's amazing to me that Burger King is still in business.
Speaker 3: Every time I go to Burger King, or I don't
Speaker 3: even go to Burger King, but when I drive by
Speaker 3: Burger King, there's no one there, but someone must beating
Speaker 3: there anyway. Burger King has a one million dollar competition
Speaker 3: to try to find a new whopper flavor, and they
Speaker 3: have debuted three possible whopper flavors this week. They have
Speaker 3: fried pickle ranch Whopper, which sounds like everything I hate
Speaker 3: other than the fried part fried pickle, sorry, alf disgusting,
Speaker 3: and then the ranch the Devil's play, so I don't
Speaker 3: need that. They have the maple bourbon Barbecue Whopper, which
Speaker 3: actually sounds somewhat compelling. Of course, I would argue anything
Speaker 3: after the fried pickle ranch whopper would be compelling. Also,
Speaker 3: you have the Mexican streekhorn whopper. I don't know how
Speaker 3: that would play in the Upper Midwest, but hey, why
Speaker 3: not it sounds like it would be.
Speaker 1: All right?
Speaker 3: Now, what else do we have on foody fun? Jack
Speaker 3: in the Box has introduced a couple of new items.
Speaker 3: They have the new Red Bull gamer Box.
Speaker 1: What the hell is this? You ask? All right, I'll
Speaker 1: tell you. Well. First of all, I clicked this button
Speaker 1: right here.
Speaker 3: The Jack in the Box Red Bowl gamer Box includes
Speaker 3: not one, two tacos, thirteen tiny tacos, an order of
Speaker 3: hot and salty medium French fries. Right, that's not bad,
Speaker 3: order of medium seasoned curly fries, two dip cups they've got, unfortunately,
Speaker 3: buttermilk ranch and creamy avocado, and a can of Red Bull.
Speaker 3: Now price is very but the suggestion suggested real tail
Speaker 3: price I saw was about ten dollars.
Speaker 1: Ten dollars for that.
Speaker 3: Which sounds like a decent amount of food, and the
Speaker 3: tacos are not that much. Two tacos, thirteen tiny tacos,
Speaker 3: and a couple of fries. That seems a little pricey,
Speaker 3: I guess for you're not getting that much food when
Speaker 3: you break it down. Also, Jack in the Box has
Speaker 3: introduced the new smoke show. That's not a woman or
Speaker 3: man cheeseburger. It's in San Diego for a limit of times.
Speaker 3: So if you're in San Diego and you want to
Speaker 3: try this out, you got to hunt around your local
Speaker 3: Jack in the Box there and you Yes, you can
Speaker 3: be a guinea pig. It is available all a cart
Speaker 3: or as a combo with fries and a drink.
Speaker 1: What is it? What's five seventy nine? They they give
Speaker 1: you either a.
Speaker 3: Double or a single with a one beef patty as
Speaker 3: opposed to the eighty percent top with American cheese, lettuce, tomato,
Speaker 3: crispy onions all right, smoke house sauce, and a buttery
Speaker 3: bakery bun alright. So yeah, that sounds pretty good. I
Speaker 3: don't know if I want the lettuce with tomato, but
Speaker 3: the crispy onions, the sauce and everything else, why not
Speaker 3: making it up with the butt looks pretty good.
Speaker 1: All right?
Speaker 3: That sounds like a keeper. I don't know if it's
Speaker 3: as good good as the Outlaw Burger from back in
Speaker 3: the day. What else do we have on foody fun
Speaker 3: Wendy's taking direct aim at McDonald's and those broken mcflurry machines.
Speaker 1: They have a.
Speaker 3: One dollar, one dollar, one dollar, one dollar Frosty deal.
Speaker 3: Now I have a question. I used to eat it
Speaker 3: Wendy's quite a bit back.
Speaker 2: In the day.
Speaker 3: Not so much anymore, all right, I mostly eat at home,
Speaker 3: very expensive. But do the the Wendy's machines right, for
Speaker 3: the for the Frosty's and all that, do they break
Speaker 3: as often as the McDonald's ones.
Speaker 1: I'm just I'm asking for a friend.
Speaker 3: Also, if I remember correctly, we did a story on
Speaker 3: Foody Fun God it was a couple of years ago
Speaker 3: where there's a theory that the McDonald's soft served machines
Speaker 3: are not actually broken as often as the restaurants say that.
Speaker 3: What happens is there a pain in the tukis to clean, and.
Speaker 1: So a lot of restaurants so.
Speaker 3: Just there's people that are like lazy and they don't
Speaker 3: want to they don't want to have to clean them
Speaker 3: all the time, and so they'll just say they're out
Speaker 3: of service, when in reality any.
Speaker 1: Not exactly the case.
Speaker 3: What else do we have McDonald's snack wraps returning with
Speaker 3: the new Crispy strips nationwide rollout expected in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1: Hallelujah.
Speaker 3: Now some people have emailed me over the last couple
Speaker 3: of years we've been doing footy fun and they're like,
Speaker 3: what's going on with the McDonald's. I used to like
Speaker 3: the rabit's healthy. A. I don't think it's healthy. B.
Speaker 3: I don't work for McDonald's. And see, congratulations, it's back.
Speaker 3: What else do we have? Let's see, let's see any
Speaker 3: else that's probably good on that? How about now the
Speaker 3: phrase of the week. Are you ready for the phrase
Speaker 3: of the week? All right, Today's phrase of the week
Speaker 3: on this Friday, the twenty seventh day of September, on
Speaker 3: the Fifth Hour podcast, Born with a silver spoon in
Speaker 3: the mouth. You ever heard that before, like, for example,
Speaker 3: Bronnie James Lebron's kid born with a silver spoon in
Speaker 3: the mouth. So this goes way back. There's a claim
Speaker 3: I fell down a rabbit hole.
Speaker 1: By the way, Mike. I don't know where Mike lives.
Speaker 1: He didn't say where he lives.
Speaker 3: I guess he's embarrassed, but he sent me an email
Speaker 3: asking me about this one. So I went down a
Speaker 3: rabbit hole. Here's what I found. The claim is that
Speaker 3: in the Middle Ages, the silver spoon was very important
Speaker 3: for farmers and craftsmen to avoid being mistaken for an
Speaker 3: escape slave. So they had silver spoons. No, no, I'm not
Speaker 3: some escaped slave. So that was the first thing. Later
Speaker 3: on the baptism process, which I'm not too familiar with,
Speaker 3: giving a silver spoon as a baptism gift is a
Speaker 3: tradition that also goes back to the Middle Ages. The
Speaker 3: belief was that the silver spoon was something that was magical.
Speaker 3: There were magical properties in the silver that could keep
Speaker 3: away the evil spirits, oh, those evil spirits. And then
Speaker 3: you have the wealth part of it, where I think
Speaker 3: about it, Well, you're born entitled, You're born into a
Speaker 3: family that has a fair amount of money, like Bronnie
Speaker 3: James for example. So anyway, born with a silver spoon
Speaker 3: in one's mouth. It comes from the tradition of giving
Speaker 3: sterling silver to babies, and it is also it's a
Speaker 3: sign of doing well financially. And people had hoped that
Speaker 3: the wealth given to the little baby, the little baby
Speaker 3: would follow that child throughout their life.
Speaker 1: That if you were born with this silver spoon in
Speaker 1: your mouth, you would grow up to be successful. Of course,
Speaker 1: the argument could be made if you are with a
Speaker 1: family that could afford a sterling silver spoon, well chances
Speaker 1: are pretty good that you would be pretty successful. So
Speaker 1: and of course modern in modern times.
Speaker 3: It was first used as it is today, born with
Speaker 3: a silver spoon in your mouth about eighteen hundred, about
Speaker 3: eighteen hundred or so, and there it is. And I
Speaker 3: know in a colonial America. What they did is they
Speaker 3: took all these coins when the people came over from Europe,
Speaker 3: they started melting the coins down. And because they didn't
Speaker 3: want to waste the precious metal from the coins, they
Speaker 3: didn't need them anymore, they weren't going back to Europe,
Speaker 3: and so what they did was they would melt them
Speaker 3: down and make silver spoons. And so that is the
Speaker 3: phrase of the week, born with a silver spoon in
Speaker 3: the mouth. I did want to mention before I get
Speaker 3: the heck out of here. My thoughts are with so
Speaker 3: many of you that are in what I call Malar
Speaker 3: Country in the South. I've been watching the news here
Speaker 3: this morning and the hurricane tearing through parts of Florida
Speaker 3: there and there have already been a few people that
Speaker 3: have met their demise because of this hurricane and it
Speaker 3: hit landfall. Point of the news I have here in
Speaker 3: the studio I'm watching, it's a category four, so a
Speaker 3: cat for storm. And as of me doing this podcast
Speaker 3: this morning, they said there's already a couple million people
Speaker 3: without power across Florida, Georgia and the Carolinas. My father
Speaker 3: in law mostly lives in the Carolinas. I believe he's
Speaker 3: down there right now. So our thoughts are with you.
Speaker 3: And this thing's going to be going up through the
Speaker 3: eastern part of the United States the next couple of
Speaker 3: days here, So thoughts with you. I know many of
Speaker 3: you during hurricanes have these big elaborate parties and whatnot,
Speaker 3: and I didn't know about that until I started doing
Speaker 3: the overnight show. He's it's just an excuse to drink. Also,
Speaker 3: blizzard parties. We do very well in blizzard parties when
Speaker 3: you boys stay up all night and you're drinking and
Speaker 3: you're just waiting for the storm to pass with all
Speaker 3: the snow dumped on top of you, and then you've
Speaker 3: got to dig out of it. And for some reason,
Speaker 3: our show goes very well with massive.
Speaker 1: Amounts of alcohol.
Speaker 3: I am told the show is better with massive amounts
Speaker 3: of alcohol and at any even as we learned a
Speaker 3: couple weeks back on the Overnight Show, the amount of
Speaker 3: people that could be listening who are inebriated is amazingly large, right.
Speaker 3: The people that are completely schnockered, if you will, is
Speaker 3: a massive, a massive amount of people, and a lot
Speaker 3: of them obviously at night. But the the statistic that
Speaker 3: I saw at any given time, zero point seven percent
Speaker 3: of the global population is completely hammered, right obliterated.
Speaker 1: There.
Speaker 3: How many other ways can I say is they're they're
Speaker 3: pickled over, they're whiskey frisky. I don't know what else
Speaker 3: I can say anyway, zero point seven percent or zero
Speaker 3: point seven percent of the global population. So that means
Speaker 3: right now, as I am doing this podcast, there are
Speaker 3: roughly fifty seven million men and women, we hope not kids,
Speaker 3: but men and women who are hammered right now. All right,
Speaker 3: have a wonderful rest of your Friday, and Danny G
Speaker 3: will be back tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Tomorrow.
Speaker 3: Tomorrow is another day, and we will have brand spanking
Speaker 3: new podcast on Saturday and Sunday, our final couple of
Speaker 3: the shows for the month of September.
Speaker 1: So you know what to do.
Speaker 3: Click that like button on the podcast, Tell a friend
Speaker 3: and we'll talk to you next time.
Speaker 1: Got a murder, I gotta go.