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Speaker 1: break free for something special. The Fifth Hour with Ben

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Speaker 1: happy Friday to you. Another fresh edition piping Hot out

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Speaker 1: been a long week here, Danny, a long week, and

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Speaker 1: uh just had a major podcast blooper that unfortunately nobody heard. Danny.

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Speaker 1: lot of people. This is off the beaten path, but

426
00:24:21,920 --> 00:24:24,560
Speaker 1: a good time hanging out. And we had a good

427
00:24:24,560 --> 00:24:27,840
Speaker 1: turn out considering the location. All that, and only on

428
00:24:27,880 --> 00:24:31,040
Speaker 1: social media. Had some really cool people that showed up

429
00:24:31,880 --> 00:24:36,000
Speaker 1: and hang out have a drink at oh Sarios the

430
00:24:36,080 --> 00:24:40,600
Speaker 1: Latin fusion. Yeah, the Mexican restaurant. People were wondering, why

431
00:24:40,640 --> 00:24:43,240
Speaker 1: the hell did you go to a Mexican restaurant in Wisconsin.

432
00:24:43,280 --> 00:24:46,320
Speaker 1: Blah blah blah blah blah. Well the owners are actually

433
00:24:46,400 --> 00:24:48,520
Speaker 1: friends of the family, so I had a had a

434
00:24:48,600 --> 00:24:50,919
Speaker 1: hook up. If you just show up to a restaurant

435
00:24:50,960 --> 00:24:52,720
Speaker 1: and say, I'm gonna have a ton of people there,

436
00:24:53,840 --> 00:24:56,880
Speaker 1: sometimes they get alone and comfortable even though they want

437
00:24:56,880 --> 00:24:59,520
Speaker 1: the business. They're like, I don't know, you know, these

438
00:24:59,520 --> 00:25:02,959
Speaker 1: people are like cool. So I love learning about listeners

439
00:25:03,000 --> 00:25:07,000
Speaker 1: the show and what makes them tick and all that stuff.

440
00:25:07,400 --> 00:25:10,919
Speaker 1: But I was genuinely disappointed. I thought for sure that

441
00:25:11,119 --> 00:25:14,360
Speaker 1: at least a couple of people from Minnesota that live

442
00:25:14,400 --> 00:25:16,399
Speaker 1: on the border who had contacted me would make the

443
00:25:16,480 --> 00:25:19,800
Speaker 1: drive over and and they all ended up flaking, And

444
00:25:20,160 --> 00:25:25,760
Speaker 1: that was disappointing. Yeah, we did set right, Yeah, exactly.

445
00:25:25,800 --> 00:25:29,600
Speaker 1: I get it. I get it. And the thing about

446
00:25:29,640 --> 00:25:32,200
Speaker 1: that I noticed was a bunch of people are like, hey,

447
00:25:32,280 --> 00:25:35,679
Speaker 1: you should come to Nashville or come to Tampa, or like,

448
00:25:35,880 --> 00:25:39,160
Speaker 1: if I'm in the backyard, They're like, okay, I'll see it.

449
00:25:39,680 --> 00:25:41,119
Speaker 1: They I think they want me to just be a

450
00:25:41,160 --> 00:25:46,439
Speaker 1: hobo and travel around to various cities. You could be

451
00:25:46,480 --> 00:25:48,800
Speaker 1: like Brian No and just live in a different city

452
00:25:48,840 --> 00:25:52,000
Speaker 1: every other week. Yeah, exactly. I just live out of

453
00:25:52,000 --> 00:25:55,480
Speaker 1: a suitcase and just travel around and be a gypsy.

454
00:25:55,920 --> 00:25:59,800
Speaker 1: I'll be the new Gypsy kick. Why not? Anyway, So

455
00:25:59,840 --> 00:26:02,399
Speaker 1: I to the Mallard Meat and greet uh, and I

456
00:26:02,480 --> 00:26:03,840
Speaker 1: was I was bummed out. There was a guy that

457
00:26:03,920 --> 00:26:07,000
Speaker 1: said he lived in Appleton, Danny, and he listened to

458
00:26:07,040 --> 00:26:09,520
Speaker 1: me when I did the Ben and Dave show back

459
00:26:09,560 --> 00:26:13,480
Speaker 1: in the nineties, whoa long as time ago, And he

460
00:26:13,520 --> 00:26:15,720
Speaker 1: said he was gonna come out and hang out, and

461
00:26:15,760 --> 00:26:18,400
Speaker 1: he never did. He didn't show up. Unfortunate. I hope

462
00:26:18,400 --> 00:26:20,880
Speaker 1: he's all right. But if you listen to that show,

463
00:26:20,920 --> 00:26:24,159
Speaker 1: he must be an older gentleman. So how he probably

464
00:26:24,160 --> 00:26:30,560
Speaker 1: has a motorized scooter. Anyway, So I went back to

465
00:26:30,640 --> 00:26:35,200
Speaker 1: my brother's humble abode in Wisconsin. It is cool these

466
00:26:35,200 --> 00:26:37,640
Speaker 1: houses with these basements. I love the basements. We don't

467
00:26:37,640 --> 00:26:41,320
Speaker 1: have the basements in California because the earthquakes. But I

468
00:26:41,359 --> 00:26:44,000
Speaker 1: went back, said our goodbyes, hugged it out, packed up

469
00:26:44,040 --> 00:26:49,719
Speaker 1: the Mallard rental wagon, and headed south back down the

470
00:26:49,840 --> 00:26:53,359
Speaker 1: almost two hundred miles to Chicago. Where did you stay

471
00:26:53,359 --> 00:26:56,000
Speaker 1: when you were there? Oh, we were supposed to stay

472
00:26:56,040 --> 00:26:57,760
Speaker 1: with my brother, but he claimed he didn't have space,

473
00:26:57,800 --> 00:27:01,680
Speaker 1: and we had an airbnb in Appleton, which was cool.

474
00:27:01,720 --> 00:27:05,000
Speaker 1: It was a fine little house and not that expensive

475
00:27:05,000 --> 00:27:07,639
Speaker 1: being in Appleton, so it was very cost effective and

476
00:27:07,720 --> 00:27:11,439
Speaker 1: all that. And so then we headed back to Chicago

477
00:27:12,400 --> 00:27:15,600
Speaker 1: and my wife decided she wanted to treat herself to

478
00:27:15,680 --> 00:27:19,399
Speaker 1: a nice hotel. Daddy, I don't need to stay in

479
00:27:19,440 --> 00:27:23,280
Speaker 1: a nice hotel. I don't know about you. As long

480
00:27:23,320 --> 00:27:25,800
Speaker 1: as I don't have bed, you know, beg bugs and

481
00:27:25,880 --> 00:27:29,040
Speaker 1: fleas and all that, I don't need that. But just

482
00:27:29,119 --> 00:27:33,520
Speaker 1: give me a decent hotel. I don't need a great hotel. Yeah,

483
00:27:33,560 --> 00:27:36,199
Speaker 1: I say, as long as it's clean, it's in a

484
00:27:36,240 --> 00:27:39,560
Speaker 1: good location, and it's newer, it wasn't built in like

485
00:27:39,680 --> 00:27:42,840
Speaker 1: the fifties and it's falling apart. Yeah, as long as

486
00:27:42,840 --> 00:27:45,440
Speaker 1: I'm not going to get some kind of disease from

487
00:27:45,520 --> 00:27:48,280
Speaker 1: laying on the bed, I'm okay with it. And I'm

488
00:27:48,320 --> 00:27:50,600
Speaker 1: not gonna get poisoned from the water or the air

489
00:27:50,600 --> 00:27:53,639
Speaker 1: condition Anyway. She picked this place called the London House,

490
00:27:54,600 --> 00:27:59,480
Speaker 1: which is prime Chicago real estate, right on Michigan Avenue

491
00:28:00,280 --> 00:28:03,080
Speaker 1: at the corner of Michigan Avenue and Whacker Drive, which

492
00:28:03,119 --> 00:28:06,879
Speaker 1: is the big streets there in Chicago. Amazing location, right

493
00:28:06,920 --> 00:28:09,919
Speaker 1: in the belly of the Beast. So since I'm married

494
00:28:09,960 --> 00:28:12,199
Speaker 1: to her, I was along for the ride at the

495
00:28:12,240 --> 00:28:16,520
Speaker 1: London House and this time we we were successful at

496
00:28:16,600 --> 00:28:21,520
Speaker 1: getting lou mal Noddies deep dish pizza. Walked around. It

497
00:28:21,600 --> 00:28:25,159
Speaker 1: was freezing this entire time in milwauch in in a

498
00:28:25,280 --> 00:28:30,880
Speaker 1: Appleton and in Chicago, just nasty weather. But I did

499
00:28:30,880 --> 00:28:33,280
Speaker 1: get my birthday sunny Sunday. Danny. I know you very

500
00:28:33,280 --> 00:28:37,439
Speaker 1: concerned about that be at your Your family has a

501
00:28:37,520 --> 00:28:43,280
Speaker 1: restaurant there, Garratt Deli's Chocolate Shop, Danny garat Delli and

502
00:28:43,360 --> 00:28:49,080
Speaker 1: it looks over the Chicago River. Beautiful location. Yeah. So

503
00:28:49,200 --> 00:28:52,640
Speaker 1: I went in there and had my favorite chocolate cookie

504
00:28:52,680 --> 00:28:56,640
Speaker 1: Sunday and it was great, wonderful, love that thing. That's

505
00:28:56,720 --> 00:28:59,760
Speaker 1: my go to Sunday. So this was by the time

506
00:28:59,800 --> 00:29:01,560
Speaker 1: this happened, it was Tuesday. We got in Chicago like

507
00:29:01,600 --> 00:29:05,600
Speaker 1: one in the morning on on Monday. So on Tuesday

508
00:29:06,400 --> 00:29:09,400
Speaker 1: we had gotten tickets to the Cubs game at Wrigley

509
00:29:09,440 --> 00:29:12,720
Speaker 1: against the White Sox. Now, I've not been to Wrigley

510
00:29:12,760 --> 00:29:16,000
Speaker 1: Fields since they renovated it. Big props to my guy,

511
00:29:16,120 --> 00:29:19,840
Speaker 1: Jonas Knox. Jonas is a made man or colleague morning

512
00:29:19,840 --> 00:29:22,360
Speaker 1: guy at Fox pulls Ready. He's a made man in Chicago.

513
00:29:23,200 --> 00:29:25,160
Speaker 1: So he he reached out to me when he heard

514
00:29:25,200 --> 00:29:27,440
Speaker 1: I was going to Chicago. Says, hey, I got I

515
00:29:27,480 --> 00:29:28,600
Speaker 1: got a couple of tickets. You want to go to

516
00:29:28,640 --> 00:29:31,040
Speaker 1: the game. I said, yeah, give me a couple of days. Sure,

517
00:29:31,200 --> 00:29:34,400
Speaker 1: And I love that. And they were bleacher tickets and

518
00:29:34,480 --> 00:29:37,160
Speaker 1: so I got to sit in the bleachers at Wrigley Field.

519
00:29:38,040 --> 00:29:40,640
Speaker 1: And but I looked at the forecast and it said

520
00:29:40,640 --> 00:29:44,760
Speaker 1: it was rainy, It's gonna rain all night, very cold conditions.

521
00:29:44,760 --> 00:29:47,320
Speaker 1: I said, there's no way they're playing this game. It's

522
00:29:47,320 --> 00:29:49,680
Speaker 1: not gonna happen. In fact, I told I told the wife,

523
00:29:49,720 --> 00:29:51,840
Speaker 1: I said, listen, don't worry about it. She was concerned

524
00:29:51,840 --> 00:29:53,600
Speaker 1: about having to go to the cold weather. I said,

525
00:29:53,640 --> 00:29:56,600
Speaker 1: don't worry. They're not gonna play it. And so, in

526
00:29:56,720 --> 00:30:01,680
Speaker 1: classic Murphy's law of fashion, uh, they decide I will

527
00:30:01,720 --> 00:30:06,840
Speaker 1: play the game. So so you froze your balls off.

528
00:30:07,240 --> 00:30:11,120
Speaker 1: It was so bad. It was so bad. It was rain,

529
00:30:11,600 --> 00:30:13,880
Speaker 1: but it wasn't like a hard rain. It was a light,

530
00:30:14,080 --> 00:30:17,560
Speaker 1: misty rain like it was. It was the heavens just

531
00:30:17,720 --> 00:30:23,600
Speaker 1: spitting lightly at you. And it was very cold, windy.

532
00:30:23,720 --> 00:30:26,920
Speaker 1: The windshill said it was thirty degrees at Wrigley Field.

533
00:30:27,880 --> 00:30:31,480
Speaker 1: And we were not prepared. We did not bring the

534
00:30:31,480 --> 00:30:34,000
Speaker 1: the many things you need to sit in cold weather,

535
00:30:34,040 --> 00:30:36,800
Speaker 1: the gloves, the hot packs, the all that. So we

536
00:30:36,840 --> 00:30:40,560
Speaker 1: had none of that stuff there. And you know, but

537
00:30:40,640 --> 00:30:43,000
Speaker 1: we were at the game and you're in Chicago, You're like,

538
00:30:43,040 --> 00:30:47,360
Speaker 1: you know, why not and paid out of the out

539
00:30:47,360 --> 00:30:49,960
Speaker 1: of you know what, out of the key store for

540
00:30:50,040 --> 00:30:54,440
Speaker 1: parking because there's no parking lots around Wrigley Fields in

541
00:30:54,480 --> 00:30:58,320
Speaker 1: the middle of the city. The Mallard calculator must have

542
00:30:58,360 --> 00:31:03,200
Speaker 1: been going crazy. Oh my god. Yeah, So we just

543
00:31:03,480 --> 00:31:05,720
Speaker 1: we drove the rental car over and I was like,

544
00:31:06,160 --> 00:31:08,880
Speaker 1: let's let's just you know, pay for part or whatever.

545
00:31:09,080 --> 00:31:15,560
Speaker 1: So eighty five dollars to park eighty five dollars. Mainly

546
00:31:15,600 --> 00:31:17,840
Speaker 1: because my wife did not want to wait until the

547
00:31:17,840 --> 00:31:20,600
Speaker 1: game was over. She was she she had a premonition

548
00:31:20,600 --> 00:31:22,040
Speaker 1: that she probably wasn't gonna stay at the end of

549
00:31:22,040 --> 00:31:25,040
Speaker 1: the game, and if you pay a lesser amount, you're

550
00:31:25,200 --> 00:31:30,040
Speaker 1: boxed in. You can't get out anyway. So we we

551
00:31:30,120 --> 00:31:33,520
Speaker 1: headed walked around Wrigley the Cubby Bear, the famous bar

552
00:31:33,640 --> 00:31:38,120
Speaker 1: there which had been there forever. The late there was

553
00:31:38,200 --> 00:31:41,280
Speaker 1: a late arriving crowd. People always say Dodger fans arrived late.

554
00:31:41,600 --> 00:31:44,120
Speaker 1: It was a late arriving crowd because they're at the

555
00:31:44,160 --> 00:31:48,600
Speaker 1: bars exactly. Everyone was sauced when they showed up. But

556
00:31:48,800 --> 00:31:51,760
Speaker 1: Rigley had a much different vibe than I remember. I

557
00:31:51,840 --> 00:31:55,600
Speaker 1: was there before they renovated it, and I don't want

558
00:31:55,600 --> 00:31:58,920
Speaker 1: to say the charm was completely gone, but it was

559
00:31:59,000 --> 00:32:02,800
Speaker 1: much different green one out it had. It felt like

560
00:32:03,720 --> 00:32:09,600
Speaker 1: the the comp I would give it is like Disneyland

561
00:32:09,800 --> 00:32:11,560
Speaker 1: if you went to Disneyland back in the old days,

562
00:32:11,560 --> 00:32:16,480
Speaker 1: and then in Anaheim. And then they added that shopping

563
00:32:16,520 --> 00:32:20,360
Speaker 1: across the street, you know where Disney Downtown Disney. Yeah,

564
00:32:20,520 --> 00:32:23,480
Speaker 1: like the area around Wrigley Field felt like downtown Disney.

565
00:32:24,600 --> 00:32:27,200
Speaker 1: And I know they're in business and it's the free market,

566
00:32:27,440 --> 00:32:30,160
Speaker 1: and they bought a lot of the land around Wrigley

567
00:32:30,200 --> 00:32:36,719
Speaker 1: Field and the corporate ties the Cubbies to monetize the

568
00:32:36,760 --> 00:32:41,040
Speaker 1: tradition and it's progress, as they say, whoever they are.

569
00:32:41,160 --> 00:32:45,760
Speaker 1: But man, it's it's like going to Disneyland. So it's

570
00:32:45,760 --> 00:32:49,760
Speaker 1: somewhat turned into cubby Land. Yeah, yeah, it's it's It's

571
00:32:49,800 --> 00:32:51,840
Speaker 1: Cubby Lane, is what it is. That's right. And they

572
00:32:51,880 --> 00:32:56,560
Speaker 1: did a really nice job the way they renovated Wrigley.

573
00:32:56,600 --> 00:32:57,960
Speaker 1: I thought they did a good job. It's a little

574
00:32:57,960 --> 00:33:00,280
Speaker 1: too much for me because I remember the way used

575
00:33:00,320 --> 00:33:05,200
Speaker 1: to be, but progress things changed. Anyway, my wife was

576
00:33:05,280 --> 00:33:09,560
Speaker 1: so in so much agony from the cold weather. I

577
00:33:09,560 --> 00:33:12,600
Speaker 1: think she was getting ready to divorce me from making

578
00:33:12,600 --> 00:33:15,320
Speaker 1: her sit out there with the family. The wind, the

579
00:33:15,440 --> 00:33:18,239
Speaker 1: rain and all that. And like I said, we were

580
00:33:18,240 --> 00:33:21,760
Speaker 1: not ready. Didn't have gloves, didn't have scarfs. We did

581
00:33:21,800 --> 00:33:24,959
Speaker 1: have parkers. We went on and bought some parks in

582
00:33:25,000 --> 00:33:28,280
Speaker 1: Wisconsin because it was raining there too, But the problem

583
00:33:28,400 --> 00:33:31,640
Speaker 1: was the bleachers were soaking wet from the rain, so

584
00:33:31,720 --> 00:33:35,840
Speaker 1: we needed the parker is to sit on, so we couldn't.

585
00:33:36,160 --> 00:33:40,280
Speaker 1: It was. It was a total crap show. And uh

586
00:33:40,320 --> 00:33:42,280
Speaker 1: but but anyway, I had a chance to meet a

587
00:33:42,440 --> 00:33:46,440
Speaker 1: legendary caller to the show phase from Chicago. I put

588
00:33:46,440 --> 00:33:49,120
Speaker 1: out the message on Facebook. I said, anybody at the

589
00:33:49,120 --> 00:33:51,560
Speaker 1: the ballpark if you're a fan of the show, I'd

590
00:33:51,600 --> 00:33:53,880
Speaker 1: love to meet you. And Face said, I'll be there,

591
00:33:54,000 --> 00:33:55,840
Speaker 1: and he was there, and he was a man of

592
00:33:55,880 --> 00:33:58,120
Speaker 1: his word and he showed up and it was great.

593
00:33:58,480 --> 00:34:01,840
Speaker 1: He also had a birthday, so we coordinated things. It

594
00:34:01,880 --> 00:34:04,360
Speaker 1: was great to meet him and his I think his

595
00:34:04,480 --> 00:34:08,719
Speaker 1: wife or soon to be wife. Very cool people. And

596
00:34:09,520 --> 00:34:11,920
Speaker 1: she's a White Sox fan. He's a Cub fan and

597
00:34:11,960 --> 00:34:14,840
Speaker 1: so hard worker, drives a truck. He's got some comption

598
00:34:14,920 --> 00:34:18,399
Speaker 1: to him. I like people like that. And he called

599
00:34:18,480 --> 00:34:22,560
Speaker 1: up with the famous Windy's joke that's right a while

600
00:34:22,640 --> 00:34:25,120
Speaker 1: back there. So it was cool. I was like, people

601
00:34:25,120 --> 00:34:28,560
Speaker 1: that work hard and all that. So, uh, working the

602
00:34:28,560 --> 00:34:31,160
Speaker 1: third chef this is this is not for the faint

603
00:34:31,160 --> 00:34:33,480
Speaker 1: of heart. So we did end up leaving the Cub

604
00:34:33,800 --> 00:34:38,320
Speaker 1: White Sox game midway through. Otherwise I would be looking

605
00:34:38,640 --> 00:34:42,640
Speaker 1: for a divorce lawyer. What was the score when you left? Uh?

606
00:34:42,680 --> 00:34:46,920
Speaker 1: The White Sox were winning. I think it was like

607
00:34:47,160 --> 00:34:51,160
Speaker 1: two nothing or three nothing at that point. It wasn't

608
00:34:51,160 --> 00:34:54,120
Speaker 1: a high scoring game. Um. We headed over those two

609
00:34:54,200 --> 00:34:59,000
Speaker 1: Pete Quads Pizza in Chicago, home of the pan style

610
00:34:59,160 --> 00:35:06,399
Speaker 1: deep dish pete to caramelized crustating. Oh that sounds promising. Yeah. Now,

611
00:35:06,440 --> 00:35:10,080
Speaker 1: this place came highly recommended to us by some locals

612
00:35:10,200 --> 00:35:16,799
Speaker 1: and did not disappointed. Amazing pipe culinary arts. And so

613
00:35:16,840 --> 00:35:18,640
Speaker 1: we ended up watching trying to we were trying to

614
00:35:18,640 --> 00:35:21,799
Speaker 1: warm up. We watched the final few innings of the

615
00:35:21,840 --> 00:35:25,120
Speaker 1: game as the massive pie cooked, and that's when the

616
00:35:25,239 --> 00:35:30,880
Speaker 1: drama orama started. All right, So we leave the restaurant

617
00:35:30,880 --> 00:35:34,719
Speaker 1: in Chicago. We had parked on the street. There's no

618
00:35:34,800 --> 00:35:39,480
Speaker 1: parking lot for the restaurant, and we started walking to

619
00:35:39,560 --> 00:35:44,040
Speaker 1: where we thought our car was, and it wasn't where

620
00:35:44,040 --> 00:35:48,520
Speaker 1: we thought it was. It turned into a wild goose chase.

621
00:35:49,920 --> 00:35:53,200
Speaker 1: Could not, for the life of me. Remember I wasn't drunk,

622
00:35:53,239 --> 00:35:55,520
Speaker 1: mind you, we couldn't. We couldn't remember where the damp

623
00:35:55,600 --> 00:35:59,879
Speaker 1: car was located. You just had frost bite. Oh it's tera.

624
00:36:00,360 --> 00:36:03,120
Speaker 1: It was like a dude, where's my car? Remake? And

625
00:36:03,160 --> 00:36:08,120
Speaker 1: we were literally figured till we spent forty minutes walking around.

626
00:36:08,160 --> 00:36:11,640
Speaker 1: It's still raining. Mind in Chicago, it's still freezing and

627
00:36:11,719 --> 00:36:14,080
Speaker 1: we're walking around there. I wondered if my car had

628
00:36:14,120 --> 00:36:18,240
Speaker 1: been stolen, the rental car, and we're trying to retrace

629
00:36:18,320 --> 00:36:21,080
Speaker 1: the steps and all that and I got some help

630
00:36:21,120 --> 00:36:23,360
Speaker 1: from our from our buddy there. He was able to

631
00:36:23,400 --> 00:36:28,280
Speaker 1: find the vehicle. However, we had killed so much time, Danny,

632
00:36:28,320 --> 00:36:29,879
Speaker 1: that it was too late were I was playing going

633
00:36:29,880 --> 00:36:33,799
Speaker 1: to visit my my cousin, but if she lives in

634
00:36:33,800 --> 00:36:36,120
Speaker 1: the northern suburbs, and it was like an hour outside

635
00:36:36,120 --> 00:36:40,040
Speaker 1: of where we were, and so this sucked. And uh

636
00:36:40,360 --> 00:36:42,400
Speaker 1: so we went back to the hotel that admitted defeat

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00:36:42,480 --> 00:36:47,160
Speaker 1: for that day. Now did you just get turned around? Yeah,

638
00:36:47,520 --> 00:36:49,480
Speaker 1: like we a lot of the streets around I looked

639
00:36:49,480 --> 00:36:52,919
Speaker 1: the same, and I didn't really. I tried to jot

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00:36:53,000 --> 00:36:55,359
Speaker 1: down and take a picture of the street sign, but

641
00:36:55,440 --> 00:36:58,040
Speaker 1: I did remember the street, but I I it was

642
00:36:58,040 --> 00:37:00,160
Speaker 1: like three streets over from where the car was. We

643
00:37:00,160 --> 00:37:04,719
Speaker 1: were walking towards the restaurant. Anyway, it was. It was

644
00:37:04,800 --> 00:37:07,520
Speaker 1: a second city. Whether got the best of us and

645
00:37:07,560 --> 00:37:09,520
Speaker 1: all that all right, So really I have a lot

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00:37:09,520 --> 00:37:11,919
Speaker 1: of time. But the final full day in Chicago, which

647
00:37:12,000 --> 00:37:15,839
Speaker 1: was last Wednesday, we packed a lot into our day.

648
00:37:15,880 --> 00:37:20,640
Speaker 1: Started out on an architectural boat tour of the Windy City,

649
00:37:20,680 --> 00:37:23,520
Speaker 1: which I highly recommend. Very cool if you're from out

650
00:37:23,520 --> 00:37:25,799
Speaker 1: of Chicago or even in Chicago, hop on a boat

651
00:37:25,920 --> 00:37:30,480
Speaker 1: ninety minutes, your cruise all over the Chicago River. Amazing

652
00:37:30,560 --> 00:37:35,960
Speaker 1: skyscrapers in Chicago beautiful. I love the the concrete jungle

653
00:37:36,800 --> 00:37:40,279
Speaker 1: and the thing I took away from that, Danny, And

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00:37:40,320 --> 00:37:44,480
Speaker 1: I'm gonna use this on the show. The name Chicago,

655
00:37:45,080 --> 00:37:48,680
Speaker 1: do you know what that stands for? No? Alright, so

656
00:37:49,320 --> 00:37:51,399
Speaker 1: the origin according to the person on the boat, maybe

657
00:37:51,400 --> 00:37:55,280
Speaker 1: they were lying. The word Chicago is a French version

658
00:37:55,400 --> 00:38:01,360
Speaker 1: of the Miami, Illinois word Chicakawa, which means stinky onion.

659
00:38:02,880 --> 00:38:07,680
Speaker 1: Chicago is named after garlic, a garlic plant, not an onion. Actually,

660
00:38:08,239 --> 00:38:14,320
Speaker 1: the stinky onion is what Chicago is, right And anyway,

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00:38:14,320 --> 00:38:19,399
Speaker 1: another historic Chicago food stop we we headed after that,

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00:38:19,440 --> 00:38:23,239
Speaker 1: we we we went to Portillo's for some hot dogs,

663
00:38:23,239 --> 00:38:28,959
Speaker 1: but to the Mallard building located in the Yeah, said Mallards. Yeah,

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00:38:29,040 --> 00:38:32,360
Speaker 1: Mallage in the Jewelry district, right near Millennium Park. You

665
00:38:32,400 --> 00:38:37,759
Speaker 1: know that that big bean. Yes, yeah, it's right like

666
00:38:37,800 --> 00:38:41,200
Speaker 1: a couple of blocks away from that. Uh. People have asked,

667
00:38:42,400 --> 00:38:44,880
Speaker 1: does your family own the Mallard building? Not to my knowledge,

668
00:38:45,239 --> 00:38:47,239
Speaker 1: if they do own it, they didn't tell me about it.

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00:38:48,120 --> 00:38:51,080
Speaker 1: But it was cool seeing seeing the my surname on

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00:38:51,160 --> 00:38:53,520
Speaker 1: the side of the building. It was pretty neat. And uh,

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00:38:53,680 --> 00:38:55,560
Speaker 1: I don't know who it was named after. I don't

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00:38:55,560 --> 00:38:58,200
Speaker 1: know anything about it other than my name, family names

673
00:38:58,239 --> 00:39:01,360
Speaker 1: on it, and I there's a couple of different families

674
00:39:01,360 --> 00:39:03,640
Speaker 1: that have the same last name as I do, so

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00:39:04,760 --> 00:39:08,759
Speaker 1: who knows. And uh, my family was from Chicago. A

676
00:39:08,800 --> 00:39:10,799
Speaker 1: lot of my my dad's side of the family from

677
00:39:10,880 --> 00:39:14,800
Speaker 1: Chicago in the garment business. And in fact, my dad

678
00:39:14,880 --> 00:39:17,560
Speaker 1: was the first of the family relatives to be born

679
00:39:17,640 --> 00:39:22,600
Speaker 1: outside of Chicago. So yeah, our families have a lot

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00:39:22,640 --> 00:39:27,440
Speaker 1: in common. My mom was born in Springfield, Massachusetts. Oh cool.

681
00:39:27,680 --> 00:39:30,400
Speaker 1: She was there until middle school before she went to

682
00:39:30,440 --> 00:39:34,719
Speaker 1: San Jose, California. My dad was born in Chicago. Wow,

683
00:39:34,719 --> 00:39:38,000
Speaker 1: that's crazy. Yeah, my grandfather from Springfield, mass and my

684
00:39:38,920 --> 00:39:44,359
Speaker 1: my other grandfather from Chicago. Our families almost mirror each other.

685
00:39:44,600 --> 00:39:47,239
Speaker 1: Okay that it's a small world, after all, it's a

686
00:39:47,320 --> 00:39:51,640
Speaker 1: small small world. We did spent a little time at

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00:39:51,640 --> 00:39:54,319
Speaker 1: the London House, went back there, hung out this nice

688
00:39:54,400 --> 00:39:58,400
Speaker 1: rooftop restaurant which was pretty cool, very pricey, very expensive,

689
00:39:58,480 --> 00:40:02,440
Speaker 1: out of my my vell of comfort, but a lot

690
00:40:02,480 --> 00:40:05,399
Speaker 1: of great ambiance and all that. But but we then

691
00:40:05,560 --> 00:40:09,480
Speaker 1: finally finally got to meet up with my cousin who

692
00:40:09,520 --> 00:40:11,040
Speaker 1: I used to hang out with when she was a

693
00:40:11,040 --> 00:40:13,160
Speaker 1: little girl and I was a little, little little kid.

694
00:40:13,600 --> 00:40:15,880
Speaker 1: We were a little kids hanging out at bar Mitzvah's

695
00:40:15,960 --> 00:40:19,760
Speaker 1: and weddings and family reunions and all that, and uh

696
00:40:19,880 --> 00:40:23,480
Speaker 1: it was. She lives in Chicago, and I had lost

697
00:40:23,520 --> 00:40:25,719
Speaker 1: contact with her for a number of years, but we

698
00:40:26,120 --> 00:40:29,560
Speaker 1: reconnected a few years back and you got to meet

699
00:40:29,600 --> 00:40:33,600
Speaker 1: her husband. Very cool kiddos hanging out at their house.

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00:40:33,640 --> 00:40:38,800
Speaker 1: There this guy Joel who claims, according to my cousin,

701
00:40:38,880 --> 00:40:42,680
Speaker 1: Heidi listens to the podcast now, so we'll see if

702
00:40:42,719 --> 00:40:44,640
Speaker 1: he's if he hears this, if he reaches out to me.

703
00:40:44,680 --> 00:40:48,879
Speaker 1: But he's a typical Chicago sportsman. Loves the Cubs, Bears, Blackhawks,

704
00:40:49,160 --> 00:40:53,080
Speaker 1: some of the Bulls, all that stuff, and no Bears.

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00:40:54,400 --> 00:40:56,560
Speaker 1: In fact, he told me he's hoping the Bears move

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00:40:56,600 --> 00:40:59,279
Speaker 1: out because the Bears. There's a rumor the Bears are

707
00:40:59,320 --> 00:41:02,080
Speaker 1: gonna move out of Chicago proper and after the suburbs.

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00:41:02,960 --> 00:41:06,600
Speaker 1: If they do, it'll be right across in the neighborhood

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00:41:06,640 --> 00:41:10,000
Speaker 1: where my cousin lives. There's like a race track they're

710
00:41:10,000 --> 00:41:14,160
Speaker 1: gonna build a football stadium their version of Santa Clara

711
00:41:14,680 --> 00:41:18,160
Speaker 1: exactly exactly, but it was it was great to me,

712
00:41:18,320 --> 00:41:22,320
Speaker 1: my my second cousins and uh, I got a cousin

713
00:41:22,400 --> 00:41:24,520
Speaker 1: is going to be going to the University of Wisconsin

714
00:41:25,600 --> 00:41:30,000
Speaker 1: Badger next year. The middle kid reminded me of me

715
00:41:30,040 --> 00:41:32,520
Speaker 1: because he's in like baseball cars and stuff like that.

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00:41:32,520 --> 00:41:36,080
Speaker 1: That's pretty cool and plays hockey baseball. And then they

717
00:41:36,200 --> 00:41:39,000
Speaker 1: got a daughter that's a younger daughter is like in

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00:41:39,120 --> 00:41:42,600
Speaker 1: third grade. So but it was it was cool. I think, well,

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Speaker 1: we were there, Danny, and this will be the intermission

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Speaker 1: and you'll have to tune in tomorrow, same Mallard time,

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00:41:49,560 --> 00:41:53,360
Speaker 1: same Mallard channel for what happened with the wedding for

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00:41:53,440 --> 00:41:57,920
Speaker 1: the riveting conclusion of this two part mini series, The

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00:41:57,960 --> 00:42:02,160
Speaker 1: Mallard Mini Series. We've talked about Wisconsin in Illinois, but

724
00:42:02,360 --> 00:42:08,480
Speaker 1: what about Virginia and North Carolina. Stay tuned, Dot dot

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00:42:08,560 --> 00:42:13,560
Speaker 1: Dot can't wait later. Skater gott a murder, Gotta go