Speaker 1: Kubbooms.
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Speaker 2: of the old Republic, a soul fashion of fairness. He
Speaker 2: treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the
Speaker 2: rich pill poppers in the penthouse.
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Speaker 2: The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now.
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Speaker 1: the Fifth Hour. We thank you for finding us. We
Speaker 1: are in the air everywhere? Is a podcast in the
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Speaker 3: It's like Ghostbusters. It's trapped and then it's released into
Speaker 3: the air everywhere. When the health inspector gets pissed off.
Speaker 1: Does that mean we're a slimer? Is that what we are? Yes,
Speaker 1: we are slimer. But then when it's broadcast, assuming that
Speaker 1: you put it on an audio device that has speakers,
Speaker 1: it is in the air like our voices in the
Speaker 1: air everywhere. But if you listen with headphones then is
Speaker 1: that still does that count as being I'm not sure
Speaker 1: how that works. I don't know.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it does count your head as the antenna. Don't
Speaker 3: worry though, It's totally healthy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, what could possibly go wrong? Nothing? Nothing. So what's
Speaker 1: on the menu at the bistro today? Well, Benny's Bistro
Speaker 1: no days off this Saturday, October twenty first, and here
Speaker 1: we are back at the salt mine of audio content.
Speaker 1: So on today's edition of the podcast. Now, I'm not
Speaker 1: going to beg you to watch the TV show. I
Speaker 1: did that on the Friday podcast, but it is still
Speaker 1: airing all day to day. Here on Saturday, I've got
Speaker 1: Espanol Payback. Walt would roll over foody fun backscratcher. And
Speaker 1: that's probably all we have time. That's probably all we
Speaker 1: have time for. But we will see, we will find out.
Speaker 1: Who knows, maybe we'll have time for other things. But
Speaker 1: we'll begin with this. The Chargers playing the Dallas Cowboys
Speaker 1: back on Monday Night Football this past Monday. It was
Speaker 1: big game Monday Night Football. I hadn't been to Monday
Speaker 1: Night Football in years. I usually don't go on Monday
Speaker 1: Night because I got get ready for the show. I
Speaker 1: got to watch a million things, but I wanted to
Speaker 1: see the Cowboys, I admit it. We talk a lot
Speaker 1: about the Cowboys. Not a Cowboy fan, I don't have
Speaker 1: any skin in the game. I'm not a Charger fan,
Speaker 1: but the Cowboys are a team. You do sports radio
Speaker 1: on a national network, you talk a lot about the
Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys. That's just the way it works. I don't
Speaker 1: make the rules. I just follow the rules. So I
Speaker 1: want to go out there and see the whole circus
Speaker 1: that is the Dallas Cowboys. So I went to the
Speaker 1: game on Monday night at Sofi Stadium. And another reason, Danny,
Speaker 1: I really want to thank our bosses because they've encouraged
Speaker 1: me to go to more games because they love me
Speaker 1: going into the studio, you know, not doing the show
Speaker 1: from home. So I go in the studio a lot,
Speaker 1: so that encourages me to get out in about I'm
Speaker 1: there prime time in the hood in Englewood Sofi Stadium.
Speaker 1: And the funniest thing happened. Went to a football game
Speaker 1: and a comedy show broke out. So I touched on
Speaker 1: this briefly on the radio show, but this is a
Speaker 1: much better platform to explain exactly what happened and go
Speaker 1: a little bit further in if you will go deeper
Speaker 1: in the weeds. And so the setup with the headline
Speaker 1: Soulfi Stadium and level seven we'll call it level seven.
Speaker 1: That's where the working press boxes at SOFI Stadium. Level
Speaker 1: seven sounds very high up, but Sofi Stadium is actually
Speaker 1: it's in the ground. It's built into the because it
Speaker 1: is right in the flight path of the flights going
Speaker 1: to Lax for landing at Lax they fly right over
Speaker 1: so far same so they couldn't have that high so
Speaker 1: that that's why it's built into the ground. So the
Speaker 1: four seven is where the press boxes that media free loading.
Speaker 3: Are they sure safe for big California earthquakes?
Speaker 1: No, it's safe until it's not. Isn't that how it works.
Speaker 1: It's safe until it's not. So hanging out there and
Speaker 1: working press box, so there's TV, radio and scribes ink
Speaker 1: stained wretches. We're no longer inkstained because they just do
Speaker 1: everything digitally. There's no cheering in the press box. And
Speaker 1: if you've never been to the press box, why would
Speaker 1: you be. You're not in the media chances are so
Speaker 1: it's kind of like an office with cubicles. That's the
Speaker 1: way I would describe It's like an office with cubicles.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of food, because they want to meet
Speaker 1: the media happy, so they fatten them up. There's no
Speaker 1: you're no hard liquor. There used to be. In the
Speaker 1: old days, they used to hand beer out after baseball games.
Speaker 1: They don't really do that much anymore. The windows are
Speaker 1: all closed, so it's a very trying to think with
Speaker 1: the proper proper word would be it's er. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's a good that's a good word.
Speaker 3: That's great. Way.
Speaker 1: It's lacking personality. You go to a stadium, you expect
Speaker 1: it to be full of spirit, and it is and
Speaker 1: nothing monotonous about it, full of joy. The press box is,
Speaker 1: as you said, sterile. It's can be called dreary, unexciting, bland.
Speaker 1: Those are all all words that you use, so that's
Speaker 1: the set. It's also very quiet normal. The only noise
Speaker 1: you normally hear is the murmur of the PA announcer,
Speaker 1: who after every play in the NFL game will say,
Speaker 1: you know, it's like the Chargers first and ten and
Speaker 1: a pass complete to the you know, the forty five
Speaker 1: yard line by X receiver, etcetera, etcetera. So that's about it,
Speaker 1: but not on this line. Normally it's like a library,
Speaker 1: but not on this line. It was different than all
Speaker 1: other nights. And here's why. I had nothing to do
Speaker 1: with Ed Werder being there or the Dallas Cowboys media.
Speaker 1: The reason this got crazy is because the Dallas Spanish
Speaker 1: language radio broadcast team were not given their own booth.
Speaker 1: I saw this online, yeah, so they set up inside
Speaker 1: the main press box. Fact that you probably saw the
Speaker 1: video from rash Marcazi, my old intern who was sitting
Speaker 1: right next to me, and we were fascinated by this.
Speaker 1: We were just blown away by this.
Speaker 3: So what this.
Speaker 1: Meant if you didn't see the video and you know
Speaker 1: doing the story. So everybody in the room was every
Speaker 1: one of the press box again normally. As Danny said,
Speaker 1: the great word, I wish I'd come up with it, sterile,
Speaker 1: right press, not a lot of color, soulless, lackluster, all
Speaker 1: those things, but full of energy, full of energy because
Speaker 1: we all got treated to a live play by play
Speaker 1: as the soundtrack. Somebody named Victor Villa Laba or Villa Laba,
Speaker 1: I believe it's his name, and Luis Perez I know
Speaker 1: how to say his name. The Spanish radio broadcasters for
Speaker 1: the for the Cowboys called the game it was wild.
Speaker 1: Victor and Luis our next level passion excitement. I speak Spanglish.
Speaker 1: I don't even really speak Spanish, but I made out
Speaker 1: a few things, and I just could tell how much
Speaker 1: how much fun they were having. It was great, and
Speaker 1: everyone in a while they'd have to say a word
Speaker 1: in English, like American Airlines or some sponsor of the Cowboys.
Speaker 1: But they were into right. But now now we give
Speaker 1: you some scoopage only available because I was boots on
Speaker 1: the ground just down the aisleway from where these guys reappen.
Speaker 1: So's here's the inside skin. A little birdie who likes
Speaker 1: to chirp and loves burritos and text Mechs tells me
Speaker 1: is it true that this was a case of Espanol payback?
Speaker 1: Say what?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: So here's here's what My source, who may or may
Speaker 1: not be connected to this situation, informs me that years ago,
Speaker 1: and was really that.
Speaker 3: Long ago, the.
Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys in Jerry's World forced the Chargers Spanish radio
Speaker 1: team to broad cast without a booth at Jerry's World.
Speaker 1: And so is it true that big shots with the
Speaker 1: Chargers decided to go with the eye for an eye strategy?
Speaker 1: Is it also true that it's hilarious that multi billion
Speaker 1: dollar NFL franchises would be so petty to have payback.
Speaker 1: I don't know, that's just what I'm hearing, but that
Speaker 1: is quite the tail.
Speaker 3: And it was.
Speaker 1: It was wild. It was so so good, especially when
Speaker 1: the Cowboys scored a touchdown or two. Oh my god,
Speaker 1: they didn't score very many points, neither team did. It
Speaker 1: was twenty to seventeen. But when the Cowboys scored some touchdowns,
Speaker 1: they really got they got going. They those boys got going.
Speaker 3: They did so and there were so many flags in
Speaker 3: that game. You should be able to say that in Spanish.
Speaker 1: I know, I know. It was you get a flag,
Speaker 1: you get a flag, You get a flag. Walt would
Speaker 1: roll over, Danny g Walt would roll over.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I don't know if Walt Disney was much of
Speaker 3: a football fan. No, although he was a baseball fan.
Speaker 3: Ben because a little known fact, Dodger Stadium consulted him
Speaker 3: and sat down with him way back in the day,
Speaker 3: and they based a lot of their structure on the
Speaker 3: way Disneyland looked. Yes, Dodger Stadium signage looks similar to Disneyland.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, I don't know that Walt Disney was a
Speaker 1: football fan. But the Oregon Ducks, who today I believe
Speaker 1: are wearing their their Oregon Duck, the old school Duck logo,
Speaker 1: which was that's Donald Duck.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: Disney loaned allowed they allowed them to use Donald Duck,
Speaker 1: but they couldn't make any money from selling the image
Speaker 1: of Donald Duck right on their on their uniforms.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 1: Nowt me ask you, does Walt Disney is he the
Speaker 1: reason that Dodger Stadium had no drinking fountains when it opened?
Speaker 1: Is that Walt Disney's the don't.
Speaker 3: Know about that one. Okay, I do know though that
Speaker 3: like you go, I forget what that's the suitet level
Speaker 3: in the broadcasting box level where you can see the
Speaker 3: Dodger Museum. Yeah, and I would suggest you do that
Speaker 3: if you ever visit Dodger Stadium, because you can see
Speaker 3: a lot of what Dodger Stadium first looked like, really
Speaker 3: cool photos and memorabilia all throughout that little museum.
Speaker 1: And they also have still I don't know if they'll
Speaker 1: have it next year because the season's over because the
Speaker 1: Dodgers sucked in the playoffs, But they have that bullpen
Speaker 1: cart from the nineteen seventies.
Speaker 3: That's right.
Speaker 1: You can check that.
Speaker 3: Out it's kind of cool. Yeah, jump inside of it
Speaker 3: and see what security does. So Walt Disney, though, Ben,
Speaker 3: I don't think he intended the park prices to be
Speaker 3: what they are right now. Now, I'm not going to
Speaker 3: rant on this. I just want no.
Speaker 1: You don't think Walt Disney wanted to rob and pillage
Speaker 1: the people go to Disneyland. You don't think Wall would
Speaker 1: have signed off on that.
Speaker 3: Now, I got a little quiz for you, because yesterday
Speaker 3: my girl she sat me down at the kitchen table
Speaker 3: and she said, got to talk to you about something. Oh.
Speaker 3: As a guy, You're like, uh, oh, what did I do?
Speaker 3: But it was just about Christmas. She said, I want
Speaker 3: to like start planning it now because I think it
Speaker 3: would actually save us some money if we just do
Speaker 3: a little family trip to Disneyland for Christmas, rather than
Speaker 3: all the presents and all that full blown Christmas tree stuff,
Speaker 3: we can do a Disney trip. And I said, okay,
Speaker 3: that sounds good. We've actually done that before. But prices
Speaker 3: have gone even higher. How much do you think it
Speaker 3: will cost to bring the four kids in? Obviously co
Speaker 3: is free, so four kids to Disneyland, we got to
Speaker 3: pay for three of them. So five of us got
Speaker 3: to pay for one day at California adventure Land in
Speaker 3: one day at Disneyland. These are not even park hoppers
Speaker 3: where you go back and forth if you want to.
Speaker 3: This is just one day at one one day at
Speaker 3: the other, a Saturday and a Sunday. How much do
Speaker 3: you think that is? All right?
Speaker 1: So there's five people. I have no idea how much
Speaker 1: this stuff costs. So I'm just gonna I'm gonna do
Speaker 1: some malor math back. I've got a pen here, and
Speaker 1: I've got a number in my head which I think
Speaker 1: it's going to cost. See, the problem is that I
Speaker 1: go too high. That ruins the bit times five. This
Speaker 1: is five paying customers, all right? You want me to
Speaker 1: give the full amount that I think just the ticket cost,
Speaker 1: all right?
Speaker 3: So look out for the tickets for the weekend.
Speaker 1: I think the tickets will be a I think I
Speaker 1: will buy what one hundred and seventy five? So I
Speaker 1: think at eight eight seventy five.
Speaker 3: Okay, eight seventy five, No, try fifteen hundred and sixty
Speaker 3: five dollars?
Speaker 1: What the are you kidding me? I'm not kidding Wait,
Speaker 1: So I wrote down here on the piece of paper.
Speaker 1: I wrote down one hundred and seventy five dollars a ticket,
Speaker 1: So how much? How much is the tickets?
Speaker 3: She just showed me the ticket.
Speaker 1: What's what's the number?
Speaker 3: Fifteen hundred and sixty five dollars is what she showed
Speaker 3: me on her calculator.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, no way, We'll do the divide. I
Speaker 1: haven't done this much mass as I was at Saddleback.
Speaker 1: So then you do the divide here divided by five.
Speaker 1: Holy shit, that's holy shit balls, dad gummt that is
Speaker 1: three hundred and twelve dollars per per member of the
Speaker 1: Danny g family.
Speaker 3: Yeah, welcome to Disneyland, ladies and gentlemen. Now it gets better. Well,
Speaker 3: let's do a little bit of Walt Disney trivia for you. Now, Yeah,
Speaker 3: all right, what did Walt charge on day one on
Speaker 3: opening day of the park.
Speaker 1: You know, I know this because my parents got to
Speaker 1: go to Disneyland when they were younger. It was like
Speaker 1: it was like fifty cents or something, some ridiculous amount
Speaker 1: of money. But I think you had to pay per ride.
Speaker 1: I think that's there were tickets. Yeah, there were ride tickets,
Speaker 1: but to get into the park.
Speaker 3: On July seventeenth, nineteen fifty five, Disneyland's opening day, the
Speaker 3: theme park entrance was one dollar per guest one dollar
Speaker 3: one dollar. Now, one dollar in nineteen fifty five would
Speaker 3: be equivalent to buying a ticket for eleven dollars and
Speaker 3: twelve cents last year.
Speaker 1: So I was gonna do the same thing. So let
Speaker 1: me see what I want to come up. So this
Speaker 1: was when did it open nineteen? What year was it?
Speaker 3: Nineteen fifty five?
Speaker 1: Nineteen fifty five?
Speaker 3: And it says it's the equivalent to buying a ticket
Speaker 3: for eleven dollars and twelve cents in the year twenty twenty.
Speaker 1: Two, okay, and I'll update it for twenty twenty three.
Speaker 1: I just I have a calculator here. It's on the interweb.
Speaker 1: It's Usinflation Calculator dot com. It's the website I'm using.
Speaker 1: So nineteen fifty five, if in nineteen fifty five I
Speaker 1: purchased an item for one dollar, then in twenty twenty three,
Speaker 1: the same item would cost eleven dollars and forty eight cents.
Speaker 1: What is going on?
Speaker 3: Oh man? So the tickets should actually be eleven dollars
Speaker 3: and forty eight cents to get into that park if
Speaker 3: they stayed true to Walt Disney's vision when he first
Speaker 3: opened it.
Speaker 1: Now or or if they had a CEO like Costco right,
Speaker 1: if they had, because Costco, the hot dog drink at
Speaker 1: Costco when they started that in nineteen eighty five was
Speaker 1: a dollar fifty. Today it's a dollar fifty. They will
Speaker 1: not raise the price. It's a loss leader at Costco.
Speaker 1: Clearly not run like the people at Disneyland. Or what's
Speaker 1: the other one that arizona iced tea. Isn't that the
Speaker 1: same price it's always been. They'd never raised the price
Speaker 1: of arizona iced tea.
Speaker 3: They're still in business. How do they do it?
Speaker 1: I know, I know. And the thing about these experiences,
Speaker 1: and I know the generations before us, Daddy, are all
Speaker 1: about the experience. I get that. You know, we're we're
Speaker 1: a little different. Although I don't mind a good experience.
Speaker 1: It just blows me, like I go to these baseball
Speaker 1: games and I see how much all these NFL games,
Speaker 1: and I see how much they charge will Last week
Speaker 1: we talked about it on the twenty dollars thing. I
Speaker 1: had twenty bucks to spend at the concession stand and
Speaker 1: everything was ridiculous, and I was like, this is offensive
Speaker 1: to me. This is terrible. So I ended up getting
Speaker 1: three pretzels because that was the most bang for my buck,
Speaker 1: three soft pretzels that took twenty dollars of my money.
Speaker 1: I am such a radio loser.
Speaker 3: I don't think it would bother all of us the
Speaker 3: way it does if our jobs kept up with the
Speaker 3: inflation and the uptick and all these prices, the cost
Speaker 3: of living keeps going up, wages seem to stay exactly
Speaker 3: the same.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, they know. Go and my experience over the years,
Speaker 1: and I'm not naming any companies, but some I've worked
Speaker 1: for over the years. When you ask for a raise,
Speaker 1: they they always have some kind of excuse. It's the economy,
Speaker 1: or we didn't get this, or we didn't get that.
Speaker 1: You know, it's always some. It's always some. So well,
Speaker 1: that's are you gonna now you're going to actually spend
Speaker 1: the fifteen hundred dollars? Are you going to get a
Speaker 1: third job?
Speaker 3: With four kids? I think that still is probably a
Speaker 3: better deal than doing a full blown Christmas with all
Speaker 3: the gifts. Probably will bite the bullet and do it.
Speaker 3: My WIFEI obviously wants a lot of baby pictures with
Speaker 3: CoA at the park, and I get that. My mom
Speaker 3: did that with me when I was a little kid,
Speaker 3: and you know, it's a family tradition. Disneyland is a
Speaker 3: big deal on my side of the family and my
Speaker 3: girl's side of the family. That's the thing, man, when
Speaker 3: it's kind of built into your family, you're going to
Speaker 3: pay the price. You're gonna pay the piper man.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And I want you to know, well, I grew
Speaker 1: up in Orange County and I went to Disneyland a
Speaker 1: lot because I lived close to it, and when I
Speaker 1: was a kid, it was somewhat reasonably priced to go
Speaker 1: to Disneyland. It was they had not completely gone off
Speaker 1: their rocker like they've done over the last twenty years
Speaker 1: or so. When I was younger, we would go quite
Speaker 1: a bit my passes because it was pretty affordable. It
Speaker 1: was close, and you're like, you live near Disneyland, you
Speaker 1: might as well take advantage of it. But I'm pretty
Speaker 1: much over it at this point. But my wife loves
Speaker 1: the holiday decorations at Disneyland, huge fan, and so she
Speaker 1: wants to go between Now She's even willing to do
Speaker 1: the Halloween thing, but I don't think that's going to
Speaker 1: happen because of my schedule.
Speaker 3: Of the work.
Speaker 1: So I think I'll maybe take a day in December
Speaker 1: and November or when they put the Christmas stuff up
Speaker 1: and you know all that crap. So I'll probably end
Speaker 1: up going around around then. So who knows, maybe we'll
Speaker 1: end up at the same same spot, same day, and ever.
Speaker 3: We could compare notes and you'll be like, I got
Speaker 3: another soft pretzel at this time at Disneyland, and it
Speaker 3: was seventeen dollars and it was five dollars for the
Speaker 3: melted cheese. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Well, and you know my and we've talked about this
Speaker 1: as well. I'm a very frugal man, very simple man,
Speaker 1: and I have with my wife, we have a agreement
Speaker 1: here with these kind of things. We take the old
Speaker 1: I think this was the old slogan they had in
Speaker 1: the military, don't ask, don't tell, which was I think
Speaker 1: that was the Bill Clinton in his years there in
Speaker 1: the military. It's like, don't and that come. I'm talking
Speaker 1: about prices. If I know how much I'm spending on something,
Speaker 1: I am not going to enjoy it as much because
Speaker 1: I'm gonna the whole time I want to be thinking
Speaker 1: about how much I'm spending. And there's no way to
Speaker 1: sugarcoat it. There's no way. Like we went in Vegas
Speaker 1: last weekend. We went to this pretty nice Italian restaurant
Speaker 1: that some fugazy TV chef in one of those places
Speaker 1: is they opened to put their name on it. I'm
Speaker 1: sure they had nothing to do with it. They put
Speaker 1: their name on it. So we went to this place
Speaker 1: and I happen to see how much the food was,
Speaker 1: and I was like, holy crap. I mean, shouldn't shouldn't
Speaker 1: I when I take a dump, shouldn't I get to
Speaker 1: take the dump and then take that to the bank
Speaker 1: as gold bars? You know, like that kind of thing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: because so, yeah, we'll see, we'll see how that goes.
Speaker 1: What I really need is the company. And don't they
Speaker 1: do Here's here's the way for you and the wife
Speaker 1: and and CoA to go a little cheat code, right,
Speaker 1: don't they do the radio company? The people at iHeart.
Speaker 1: Don't they do a night at Disneyland around the.
Speaker 3: Holidays inside California Adventure. It's not inside Disneyland. Oh it's
Speaker 3: a little bit of a bummer. Yeah, they hold their
Speaker 3: special company events inside the smaller park California Adventure. It's okay,
Speaker 3: but it's not Disneyland, not the original. You want the original,
Speaker 3: you want the og.
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, I guess you got some money here. Moving on,
Speaker 1: we got a little foody fun for you. And these
Speaker 1: are some random food stories. And this has become pretty popular,
Speaker 1: Danny and I've determined, after a minute's long malor investigation,
Speaker 1: the reason this is popular is because people like eat.
Speaker 1: That's what I've did.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and you're a guy who did the song yesterday
Speaker 3: that was on yesterday's podcast what's his name?
Speaker 1: Oh Joe from Richmond, our friend Joe Joe.
Speaker 3: I think you should limit your music down to like
Speaker 3: twenty seconds and do a foodie fun open.
Speaker 1: Okay, well, but then you're impeting on Ohio territory. But yeah,
Speaker 1: if Joe wants to send in a little short jingle
Speaker 1: for the food e fun hey something like that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And I don't think Ohio l would mind because
Speaker 3: he has like, you know, six of the seven opens
Speaker 3: right now pretty.
Speaker 1: Much pretty much Ohio al has provided us with great,
Speaker 1: great audio.
Speaker 3: And also I say that because the guy yesterday should
Speaker 3: only be singing in twenty second blocks.
Speaker 1: Now, that's not help all right, That's okay? Those are
Speaker 1: original lyrics, you know. Well, they're actually they're written to
Speaker 1: the ram song, but they were the lyrics were all his. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I couldn't write a song. I wouldn't know how
Speaker 1: to write a song at all.
Speaker 3: You could probably sing it better, but yeah, wow.
Speaker 1: Only one I can do. My only song is for
Speaker 1: He's a jolly good Fellow, For He's a jolly good fellow,
Speaker 1: For He's a jolly good fellow. Was nobody can and
Speaker 1: I arf erferf.
Speaker 3: I'm not buying that you could sing all the Blues
Speaker 3: Brothers songs.
Speaker 1: Well, rubber Biscuit. I knew that line. I did the
Speaker 1: Blues Brother's Rubber Biscuit back of there. You got two
Speaker 1: slices of bread and you wish you had some meat.
Speaker 2: Wow wow wow wow.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's the line that lie. I remember that line.
Speaker 3: Uh, maybe you shouldn't be singing in twenty second blocks either.
Speaker 1: Got your mouth? How dare you so foody? Fun? Well,
Speaker 1: this actually reference is something I said earlier. It must
Speaker 1: have been in the back of my head. Costco is
Speaker 1: getting a new CEO and people in the business world
Speaker 1: are freaking out here, the saying, wait a minute, is
Speaker 1: this new leadership at Costco going to kill the one
Speaker 1: dollar and fifty hot dog, the all beef hot dog
Speaker 1: combo with a drink, And nobody knows yet whether or
Speaker 1: not the UH Costco food court staple is going to
Speaker 1: go away. Now. I read a little bit about this
Speaker 1: guy because this is a story close to my heart.
Speaker 1: I love the Costco because, as we talked about, there's
Speaker 1: not much that's a deal anymore, and this is one
Speaker 1: of the places that's a deal. And so we dug around.
Speaker 1: I dug around on the dark web, and I am
Speaker 1: betting that it is a I'll put I put the
Speaker 1: odds on this. The Malor sportsbook gods ninety seven percent chance,
Speaker 1: ninety seven percent chance that the one dollar and fifty
Speaker 1: hot dog combo stays the same, that they're not going
Speaker 1: to raise the price. Now with inflation, since we like,
Speaker 1: let me, let me get the inflation calculator. So let's
Speaker 1: do the math on this. They started charging a dollar
Speaker 1: fifty in nineteen eighty five, so with let me do
Speaker 1: the math on this. Nineteen eighty five. Boy, this is
Speaker 1: a lot of math. Nineteen eighty five one dollar and
Speaker 1: fifty cents, so let's call that okay. So with inflation,
Speaker 1: the hot dog just based on normal inflation. The hot
Speaker 1: dog drink combo at Costco should cost you four dollars
Speaker 1: in twenty nine cents, but they have not.
Speaker 3: Raised and I don't think it's worth four dollars in
Speaker 3: whatever sense.
Speaker 1: No, it's a big hot dog, that's a that's you know.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but when you know what a hot dog is,
Speaker 3: it's only worth a dollar fifty. I hear, I hear.
Speaker 1: But the main reason I believe this guy is going
Speaker 1: to continue the tradition, much like Arizona iced tea ninety
Speaker 1: nine cents cans of iced tea, is because this guy
Speaker 1: the new CEO that takes over in February, not February.
Speaker 1: It's what I forget the date. I wrote it down somewhere.
Speaker 1: This guy has worked at Costco for more than forty years, okay,
Speaker 1: and he started as a forkliff driver.
Speaker 3: So if you're he gets it, DN he knows the vibe.
Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying. Like, if you're a forklet driver,
Speaker 1: you're you're a regular dude, even though you're a CEO.
Speaker 1: Now you know how important that dollar fifty hot dog
Speaker 1: and drink is, and you're not gonna You're not gonna
Speaker 1: give that away or get rid of that, you're not
Speaker 1: gonna do it. Well, here's something that is time sensitive.
Speaker 1: Danny on a foodie fund who doesn't like a good deal.
Speaker 1: So today, this is October twenty first here, if you're
Speaker 1: listening to it to us early and you love Wendy's,
Speaker 1: you like those square burgers from Wendy's and all the
Speaker 1: different chicken items they have there. So Windy's and door
Speaker 1: Dash are celebrating what they're calling the Ultimate Kickoff this weekend.
Speaker 1: This is right out of a promotional release and they're
Speaker 1: partnering to offer something called Dash Pass. And what this
Speaker 1: is members get twelve dollars off orders of twenty dollars
Speaker 1: or more today. So that means, what do you get
Speaker 1: it Wendy's for There's gonna be more math, Danny, what
Speaker 1: can you get for twenty bucks? My advice, here's my advice.
Speaker 1: Go on the Wendy's website or the app and just
Speaker 1: check out like what you get for that, Like what's
Speaker 1: the most stuff you can get for twenty bucks? And
Speaker 1: then get just order exactly twenty bucks. So then it
Speaker 1: only costs you eight and you're you're set up. So
Speaker 1: and it says here that the game Day deal is
Speaker 1: available exclusively for dash Pass members. I don't even know
Speaker 1: what that is, but it's a door dash app starts
Speaker 1: today during breakfast and runs until eleven fifty nine, so
Speaker 1: just before the witching hour there at midnight.
Speaker 3: I wonder if you have to sign up though, even
Speaker 3: if it's temporarily for the dash Pass.
Speaker 1: Here's here's what it says. It says if you are
Speaker 1: a dash what is I don't even know what the
Speaker 1: dash passes. If you're a dash pash memory, all you
Speaker 1: need to do is open the app anytime today and
Speaker 1: head to their their storefront, and then you add whatever
Speaker 1: you want in there.
Speaker 3: Ah, I knew it. Nine per month for a dash
Speaker 3: pass subscription. It costs nine dollars and ninety nine cents
Speaker 3: per month.
Speaker 1: Okay, so I retract my previous day. I would like
Speaker 1: to retract. I'd like to pump the brakes on that
Speaker 1: I didn't realize. Well, there you go, so you did
Speaker 1: the you did the legwork, Danny, there there.
Speaker 3: You So that's that's how they get you. Now you
Speaker 3: use their service all month, it will be worth it
Speaker 3: to sign.
Speaker 1: Up, yeah, because then it would only cost you like
Speaker 1: a couple yeah, a couple bucks. Yeah, well, if you
Speaker 1: like the Big Mac. You a fan of a Big Mac, Danny,
Speaker 1: you like that Big Mac?
Speaker 3: Uh back when it was really a big Mac, it's
Speaker 3: like a shriveled Mac nowadays when you order it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so the Big Mac sauce very pop there.
Speaker 3: Oh I like that. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah. So I've heard this in the past, and I
Speaker 1: think we talked about this on the podcast. But there's
Speaker 1: a former McDonald's corporate chef who of course is on TikTok,
Speaker 1: and he has announced that the people have been trying
Speaker 1: to find the Big Max sauce. You know, can you
Speaker 1: get the saw They love the sauce and all that,
Speaker 1: they can't get enough. So the guy claims that if
Speaker 1: you go to Walmart, they have the great value secret sauce,
Speaker 1: which is Big Max sauce. Interesting to this guy, if
Speaker 1: you want to make a homemade Big Mac, this ex
Speaker 1: McDonald's chef claiming you can find Big Max sauce at Walmart.
Speaker 1: He claims that they sell it. It's almost identical. It's
Speaker 1: got all the same ingredients. And this is what we
Speaker 1: heard last time we talked about these great value things
Speaker 1: at Walmart, they had a ripoff Chick fil a sauce
Speaker 1: and a ripoff raising cane sauce. So they're there. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's all and it's nondescript. It's just a I've been
Speaker 1: at Walmart many times and I've seen them right next
Speaker 1: to the name brand ketchups and all that. So you
Speaker 1: really got to love that big Max sauce though, to
Speaker 1: be like, I'm going to go to Walmart today to
Speaker 1: get some sauce.
Speaker 3: You know, I was gonna say this. The last time
Speaker 3: I stepped in a Walmart, I had to take a hot,
Speaker 3: a long hot shower afterwards.
Speaker 1: Yeah, my wife's not a fan of that. Don't mind
Speaker 1: my head down, head down, boots on the ground, one
Speaker 1: foot in front of the other, and.
Speaker 3: You move on.
Speaker 1: Well, Cheetos, here's a new item that is getting high
Speaker 1: reviews from the food critics. Cheetos pretzels, a savory snack.
Speaker 1: Any interest in eating a Cheetos pretzels?
Speaker 3: Interesting?
Speaker 1: There's the flaming hot version and then there's the regular, cheddared,
Speaker 1: cheddared version.
Speaker 3: They oh, so it must be hard pretzels, like little
Speaker 3: hard pretzels. Yeah, the little hard pretzels, gotcha? Nah, I
Speaker 3: don't think so. You're good on that, Yeah.
Speaker 1: But what's good though, is to combine the Cheetos, which
Speaker 1: and the good news about Cheetos is no cheese was
Speaker 1: actually harmed with Cheetos. That's a good thing that no
Speaker 1: cheese was actually harmed in any way. But you get
Speaker 1: the Cheetos and then you get like chocolate, like milk
Speaker 1: chocolate on the other side, like a Hershey's bar or
Speaker 1: something like that. That's a solid combo. That is a
Speaker 1: that is the right mix. But they're trying all kinds
Speaker 1: of new things apparently over there, the Cheetos people, and
Speaker 1: they're they're doing whatever they can, so that that's that's
Speaker 1: going on. What else do we have here, Well, here's
Speaker 1: a possible federal law violation in Foody Fun and this
Speaker 1: involves Reese's rappers that might have violated federal law. Hershey's
Speaker 1: there in some trouble with this Reese's rapper. It features
Speaker 1: the brand's mascot, Cuppy. Did you know Reese's pieces mascot
Speaker 1: was named Cuppy?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 1: No, you learned something new. That's why you're tuned in
Speaker 1: the podcast. Anyway, they're running I didn't know this either.
Speaker 1: They're running a twenty five thousand dollars sweepstakes under the
Speaker 1: name Reese's University, and it's advertised on the package on
Speaker 1: some of the products here. But according it's not your
Speaker 1: ordinary promotion because they're in some trouble here. It comes
Speaker 1: down to the fine print or the lack thereof of
Speaker 1: fine print. You know what this sounds like. Sounds like
Speaker 1: some of the other great scams we've had. There was
Speaker 1: a documentary it was the Was it the Pepsi Fighters?
Speaker 1: Was that? Yeah?
Speaker 3: It was the Pepsi Fighter jet promotion.
Speaker 1: Yeah. So here's the problem. It says no purchase necessary,
Speaker 1: and it says here we've all seen and heard the
Speaker 1: phrase a lot that's because state and ferral laws dictate
Speaker 1: the rules for sweepstakes and they require that no purchase
Speaker 1: is necessary in order to participate. If you had to
Speaker 1: buy something to enter the sweepstakes, then it becomes a
Speaker 1: lottery system, and lotteries have separate red tape. So the
Speaker 1: problem is that Reese's packaging advertising the sweepstakes does not
Speaker 1: make any reference, any clear reference that you don't have
Speaker 1: to buy the Reese's Pieces cup to enter the contest. Hello,
Speaker 1: you know what this sounds like to me? This sounds
Speaker 1: like lawsuit ambulance chasing lawsuits. What that sounds like to me.
Speaker 1: We'll we'll see what happens with that. I mean, there's
Speaker 1: a bunch of other random like the random thinks you
Speaker 1: with Jamal Murray's meal returns to KFC. I didn't even
Speaker 1: know Jamal Murray the Nuggets had a meal at KFC.
Speaker 1: How did that happen?
Speaker 3: That must be in the greater Denver area.
Speaker 1: It says limit edition leather jacket is part of this
Speaker 1: thing here and a new leather jacket with the number
Speaker 1: twenty seven on it. It says the meal is eclusely
Speaker 1: available on the KFC APPKFC dot com through December thirty. First,
Speaker 1: it does not say here in this story. I'm looking
Speaker 1: at that it's only in the Denver area, But maybe
Speaker 1: it is. I would think you'd be right, but who knows.
Speaker 1: And the Shakaroni pizza big news for the Danny g
Speaker 1: family there that the chacaroni pizza is back on the
Speaker 1: menu at Papa John's. So congratulations back on the minute
Speaker 1: you get away from me. Oh, you're never far away
Speaker 1: from Papa John's. You're never that far away from Papa
Speaker 1: John's at all. And we'll get out on that. It
Speaker 1: is Saturday, Danny, a day of rest, and today, if
Speaker 1: this goes as planned, my niece and nephew, my cousins
Speaker 1: will be at the Malor Mansion today. We're going to
Speaker 1: have the Monster Dinner in honor of Halloween.
Speaker 3: So very soon.
Speaker 1: The kids will be freaking out. Man, I'll tell ghost stories.
Speaker 3: The Sunday content should really sell itself because Ask Ben
Speaker 3: is a lot of fun.
Speaker 1: Example, Yeah, and we mix in also, pop goes the culture.
Speaker 1: It's like a it's a two for one special. Where
Speaker 1: else you get. There's nothing else on Sunday that gives
Speaker 1: you that kind of entertainment. Nothing.
Speaker 3: I like how you didn't even notice that, I said,
Speaker 3: ask Ben.
Speaker 1: Well, it's I don't get paid to listen. I got
Speaker 1: paid to talk. I'm not If they paid me to listen,
Speaker 1: I would have never never worked there at all. Anyway,
Speaker 1: all right.
Speaker 3: We'll get to that said. We'll be back tomorrow, same
Speaker 3: Sunday mail.
Speaker 1: Bag, same station, same time, same station.
Speaker 3: I'll make it available early again. Okay, everybody's help. Even
Speaker 3: though we're in the NFL season right now.
Speaker 1: Same bat time, same bat station, same Ben and Danny
Speaker 1: g time, same.
Speaker 3: Same Battle stations.
Speaker 1: We'll catch you there later.
Speaker 3: Skater baflation