WEBVTT - The Fifth Hour: No Upcharge 0:00:00.680 --> 0:00:01.440 Kutbooms. 0:00:02.279 --> 0:00:05.360 If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes 0:00:05.400 --> 0:00:09.200 a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants 0:00:09.200 --> 0:00:12.480 of the Old Republic, a soul fashion of fairness. He 0:00:12.560 --> 0:00:15.480 treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the 0:00:15.600 --> 0:00:19.439 rich pill poppers in the penthouse. Wow to clearing House 0:00:19.520 --> 0:00:23.200 of hot takes, break free for something Special. The Fifth 0:00:23.200 --> 0:00:30.720 Hour with Ben Maller starts right now. 0:00:28.960 --> 0:00:35.000 In the air everywhere. The Fifth Hour with Me, Ben 0:00:35.080 --> 0:00:38.520 Mahler and Danny G Radio and a Happy Saturday. 0:00:39.200 --> 0:00:40.879 The fifteenth day. 0:00:41.400 --> 0:00:45.960 Of February, the day after Valentine's There was Valentine's Day weekend, right, 0:00:45.960 --> 0:00:47.600 so I don't know if you survived or not. You're here, 0:00:47.760 --> 0:00:51.560 you're listening, whether it's early or whenever you listen. We're 0:00:51.600 --> 0:00:55.480 recording this early on Saturday morning, but we are here 0:00:55.520 --> 0:00:58.520 hanging out with you on the Fifth Hour, myself, Danny 0:00:58.560 --> 0:01:01.360 G on assignment today. It must be the Valentine's Day thing, 0:01:01.360 --> 0:01:03.000 but he is scheduled to join us at some point, 0:01:03.040 --> 0:01:05.200 hopefully tomorrow. Because I don't think he's going to be 0:01:05.200 --> 0:01:08.319 on this podcast. You're stuck with me, but Danny will 0:01:08.360 --> 0:01:10.680 be producing this podcast. Should be with us tomorrow for 0:01:10.760 --> 0:01:14.360 the mail bag. And normally we start out by praising 0:01:14.400 --> 0:01:18.160 some dope holiday. Really not anything stands out today on 0:01:18.200 --> 0:01:20.920 the dopey holiday thing. The only thing that kind of 0:01:20.959 --> 0:01:23.400 got my attention this is more because my brother lives there. 0:01:23.959 --> 0:01:27.480 It is National Wisconsin Day today, and we have some 0:01:28.240 --> 0:01:30.679 regular p ones that listen to the show, whether it's 0:01:30.760 --> 0:01:34.360 live the Green Bay Gobbler for example, comes to mind, 0:01:34.680 --> 0:01:37.920 or we have podcast listeners, guys that email. We have 0:01:37.959 --> 0:01:41.520 some email guys from Milwaukee. We have some email guys 0:01:41.560 --> 0:01:47.760 from Wisconsin as well, from all over Wisconsin. Brandon, for example, 0:01:48.040 --> 0:01:51.960 sends emails so often, so listen, We're on in Wisconsin. 0:01:52.080 --> 0:01:53.400 It is National Wisconsin Day. 0:01:53.400 --> 0:01:55.400 So I thought, all right, let mean, I really did 0:01:55.400 --> 0:01:57.920 this to kind of send something to my brother because 0:01:57.920 --> 0:02:01.640 he lives in Appleton, my young brother and I don't 0:02:01.680 --> 0:02:04.480 talk to them that often, but I think of Wisconsin, 0:02:04.560 --> 0:02:09.800 you think of cheese, and you think of beer, and yeah, 0:02:10.320 --> 0:02:12.440 so I cooked up some fun facts about the state 0:02:12.440 --> 0:02:16.440 of Wisconsin. And these mayor may not be true. These 0:02:16.440 --> 0:02:18.040 mayor may not be true, but I believe them to 0:02:18.040 --> 0:02:21.360 be true. I believe them to be true. So ten 0:02:21.520 --> 0:02:25.080 thousand BC. They asked to me. Now, how the hell 0:02:25.120 --> 0:02:25.520 they know this? 0:02:25.600 --> 0:02:26.119 I don't know. 0:02:26.360 --> 0:02:32.600 Ten thousand BC. The Paleo Indians the first known inhabitants 0:02:33.400 --> 0:02:35.840 in Wisconsin. Now, I would argue that dinosaurs like we 0:02:35.880 --> 0:02:38.760 lived there way before the Indians got there. But they're 0:02:38.760 --> 0:02:43.160 claiming that was the beginning of humans in the. 0:02:43.080 --> 0:02:43.960 State of Wisconsin. 0:02:44.680 --> 0:02:49.040 And Wisconsin became US territory or I guess it was 0:02:49.080 --> 0:02:53.000 the Wisconsin Territory created by an Act of Congress in 0:02:53.080 --> 0:02:57.480 eighteen thirty six and became a state officially a state 0:02:57.600 --> 0:02:57.960 part of. 0:02:57.880 --> 0:02:59.720 The Union in eighteen forty eight. 0:03:00.120 --> 0:03:03.679 It's been a minute since Wisconsin's been part of the US. 0:03:03.760 --> 0:03:06.720 We stopped making states with Hawaii and Alaska. 0:03:06.880 --> 0:03:09.000 That was it. We don't need anymore, I guess. 0:03:09.000 --> 0:03:12.440 Sounds like President Trump, though's gung ho to get a 0:03:12.440 --> 0:03:13.360 couple more states. 0:03:13.480 --> 0:03:17.560 He wants to have some more states, Greenland and wherever. 0:03:17.639 --> 0:03:18.160 Who knows. 0:03:18.680 --> 0:03:21.800 Anyway, it's the National Wisconsin Date's Fun Fun Facts about Wisconsin. 0:03:22.400 --> 0:03:25.320 Fun facts about Wisconsin. Let's see what do I have? 0:03:25.480 --> 0:03:28.200 I have Wisconsin. Now, I did not know this. By 0:03:28.200 --> 0:03:29.880 the way, it is known as the Badger's state. I 0:03:29.919 --> 0:03:33.480 knew that, right, Wisconsin Badgers, the Big ten team there 0:03:33.480 --> 0:03:37.720 in Wisconsin. But did you know it is not called 0:03:37.720 --> 0:03:41.320 the Badger State because of the animal. I always thought, well, 0:03:41.360 --> 0:03:45.680 Wisconsin's mascot's a badger, and that's the badgerer animal, but 0:03:45.800 --> 0:03:49.440 no turns out. In the early days of Wisconsin the 0:03:49.480 --> 0:03:51.680 Badger State, the nickname a just goes back to the 0:03:51.680 --> 0:03:55.520 eighteen hundreds refers to the lead or the lead rather 0:03:55.640 --> 0:03:59.000 lead miners who used to travel and dig the tunnels 0:03:59.800 --> 0:04:02.440 and they would stay warm and sleep and all that. 0:04:02.480 --> 0:04:07.040 They were the Badgers, the lead, the lead group. And yeah, 0:04:07.080 --> 0:04:11.960 well I know that Harley Davidson's from Wisconsin. Uh, you know, 0:04:11.960 --> 0:04:14.120 they're not as popular as they used to be. When 0:04:14.160 --> 0:04:16.400 I was younger, Harley Davidson was like the end all 0:04:16.400 --> 0:04:19.240 be all. I don't think they're doing as well anymore. 0:04:19.720 --> 0:04:24.440 And the first ever ice cream Sunday we can thank 0:04:25.160 --> 0:04:29.159 because of the Twin Rivers Soda Shop. Some guy named 0:04:29.200 --> 0:04:33.960 George George George George George George of Twin Rivers. Yeah, 0:04:33.960 --> 0:04:37.960 at the Twin River Soda Shop. He asked in that 0:04:38.080 --> 0:04:41.160 soda shop for a dish of ice cream and sauces 0:04:41.279 --> 0:04:45.760 on a random Sunday, And that was the point of 0:04:45.839 --> 0:04:49.960 conception for the ice cream Sunday. So I'll send some 0:04:50.000 --> 0:04:55.520 of those over to my my brother. Today's National Wisconsin Day. 0:04:56.320 --> 0:04:58.560 Very very exciting. 0:04:58.800 --> 0:05:02.520 Indeed. Now in this podcast we have what do we have? 0:05:02.600 --> 0:05:06.720 We have the signs you have a work force problem, 0:05:07.040 --> 0:05:09.400 signs you have a workforce problem. 0:05:10.360 --> 0:05:10.919 We'll get to that. 0:05:11.040 --> 0:05:14.279 No up charge here, something that I'll likely get ripped 0:05:14.279 --> 0:05:20.120 for by you idiots and worse than the chiefs, if 0:05:20.120 --> 0:05:23.839 that's possible, worse than the chiefs. 0:05:24.680 --> 0:05:25.360 So we'll have that. 0:05:25.560 --> 0:05:28.120 And I actually wanted to start with the phrase of 0:05:28.200 --> 0:05:30.839 the week because I did not get to it on 0:05:30.880 --> 0:05:34.800 the Friday podcast. So the phrase all the work, oh 0:05:34.839 --> 0:05:36.440 here is the phrase of the week. The phrase of 0:05:36.440 --> 0:05:40.279 the week is with a grain of salt. Now there's 0:05:40.279 --> 0:05:41.840 a couple of ways to say this. You can say 0:05:41.839 --> 0:05:43.159 with a grain of salt, you can say with a 0:05:43.200 --> 0:05:47.320 pinch of salt. I use this on a semi regular basis. 0:05:47.360 --> 0:05:50.919 This is part of my lexicon, and it actually comes 0:05:50.960 --> 0:05:55.920 from a Latin phrase which translates and I'm not going 0:05:56.000 --> 0:05:59.279 to try to speak Latin x nay on the Latina. 0:06:00.640 --> 0:06:01.760 That's all the Latin I know. 0:06:02.080 --> 0:06:04.040 Although there's a fair amount of words that we use 0:06:04.080 --> 0:06:05.920 that are Latin, but we know how to use them. 0:06:06.040 --> 0:06:07.440 But anyway, get to the point. 0:06:07.480 --> 0:06:09.600 So with a grain of salt or a grain of 0:06:09.640 --> 0:06:13.800 salt translates the Latin phrase with a grain of salt 0:06:13.960 --> 0:06:16.839 or with a grain of wit, the phrases used to 0:06:16.880 --> 0:06:22.440 indicate that something should be taken with skepticism or reservation. 0:06:22.560 --> 0:06:26.159 The phrase is thought to originate it and be written 0:06:26.240 --> 0:06:28.719 around seventy seven a d. 0:06:30.160 --> 0:06:32.480 That's been a while, seventy seven a d. 0:06:33.440 --> 0:06:39.799 And in the book Plenty Plenty the Elder's Natural Historia, 0:06:40.120 --> 0:06:41.480 that was the name of the book. But in the 0:06:41.480 --> 0:06:45.719 book Penny described an antidote for poison that included a 0:06:45.839 --> 0:06:50.600 grain of salt, and that phrase that was taken from 0:06:50.680 --> 0:06:54.479 seventy seven AD. In this random book the phrase was 0:06:54.520 --> 0:07:00.200 adapted by English writers and oh there we go. And 0:07:00.400 --> 0:07:05.159 in Britain the phrase is used with a pinch of salt. 0:07:05.440 --> 0:07:10.400 In in America it's with a grain of salt. So 0:07:10.680 --> 0:07:13.800 obviously again you're you know, you don't believe it. You're like, 0:07:14.080 --> 0:07:16.840 that's not really true. And they're lying to us there, 0:07:16.880 --> 0:07:21.760 they're lying to us. Take it with a grain of salt. 0:07:22.400 --> 0:07:26.080 Now it is NBA all Star Weekend. Last night they 0:07:26.160 --> 0:07:32.480 had this for gazy rookie thing with run TMC and 0:07:32.680 --> 0:07:36.840 Team C. They got it done over Team T and 0:07:38.200 --> 0:07:40.400 you had the Golden State war influence. 0:07:40.400 --> 0:07:41.360 So of course these are the Warriors. 0:07:41.360 --> 0:07:43.080 When I was a kid, when they had Tim Hardaway, 0:07:43.120 --> 0:07:46.680 Mitch Richmond, and Chris Mullen and they were known as 0:07:46.760 --> 0:07:49.520 run TMC. It was an exciting team. It's fun team 0:07:49.600 --> 0:07:52.440 that was back in the late eighties. I think Sleepy 0:07:52.480 --> 0:07:55.760 Floyd was still part of that team. Good name anyway, 0:07:55.840 --> 0:07:59.960 they used that in the Rising Stars Challenge. 0:07:59.800 --> 0:08:02.360 I watched about two minutes of this. I'm not gonna 0:08:02.400 --> 0:08:05.360 lie and on that. I'm good. I'm all right. 0:08:05.720 --> 0:08:09.720 Uh yeah, Team T, Team M and Team C alongside 0:08:09.760 --> 0:08:13.600 the g League Crew, which was coached by Jeremy Lynn. 0:08:14.640 --> 0:08:17.480 Yeah, this is not for me. This is not for me. 0:08:18.640 --> 0:08:23.080 I did see after it all ended that Steph Castle 0:08:23.440 --> 0:08:29.640 of your San Antonio Spurs was the MVP. So congratulations 0:08:29.640 --> 0:08:32.480 on ringing the Rising Stars Towns. I gotta tell you, 0:08:33.240 --> 0:08:35.360 I didn't see a lot of Rising Stars the two 0:08:35.440 --> 0:08:37.480 minutes I watched. Maybe I missed the Rising Stars. I 0:08:37.520 --> 0:08:40.080 should have kept watching, right, I should have kept watching. 0:08:41.080 --> 0:08:44.880 I did see Dalton connect play a little bit and the. 0:08:44.880 --> 0:08:45.880 Lakers tried to trade him. 0:08:46.080 --> 0:08:47.679 But he's a rising star. Why would you trade a 0:08:47.800 --> 0:08:51.600 rising star? I don't understand. I have no idea. Now 0:08:51.800 --> 0:08:53.480 I did, I didn't want to mention that. I tease 0:08:53.600 --> 0:08:56.560 this and the story. This is one of those stories 0:08:56.559 --> 0:08:58.360 every once in a while, something happens on a Friday 0:08:58.480 --> 0:09:01.400 or Saturday where I was like, man, I would really 0:09:01.440 --> 0:09:03.320 love to do a monologue on that, and I'm not 0:09:03.320 --> 0:09:04.960 going to do it here because we try to avoid 0:09:05.040 --> 0:09:08.920 all sporty all the time. But there's something that I 0:09:09.040 --> 0:09:12.760 saw that my eyeballs popped out of my head a 0:09:12.800 --> 0:09:14.439 little bit when I saw it. Is that you gotta 0:09:14.440 --> 0:09:18.160 be joking, like this gotta be satire. This is something 0:09:18.440 --> 0:09:21.400 like Sports Talk Barry my guy who I've had on 0:09:21.440 --> 0:09:26.360 this podcast, or butt Crack Sports, or Babylon B came 0:09:26.480 --> 0:09:31.560 up with. Did you see that the NBA and the 0:09:31.600 --> 0:09:38.040 Players Association holding meetings with the All Star players, the 0:09:38.080 --> 0:09:43.000 top players in basketball, like the top guys, biggest names 0:09:43.000 --> 0:09:46.440 in the sport ahead of the All Star Game, which 0:09:46.480 --> 0:09:52.480 is tomorrow, and they were essentially evangelizing that it's very 0:09:52.520 --> 0:09:57.199 important to play hard for the fans. But then they 0:09:57.280 --> 0:09:59.920 tossed in and this is the most important part. 0:10:00.640 --> 0:10:01.480 For the business. 0:10:02.600 --> 0:10:06.960 For the business now, I would argue, I would argue, 0:10:07.200 --> 0:10:12.160 this is a sign that you have a workforce problem, 0:10:12.800 --> 0:10:20.560 that you as a business, something has gone sideways, something 0:10:20.960 --> 0:10:24.160 is off a little bit. You have people in your 0:10:24.240 --> 0:10:30.319 business that are so confident in their celebrity that they 0:10:30.600 --> 0:10:33.200 can rest all Star weekend. 0:10:33.240 --> 0:10:36.120 They don't want to hammer away and put on a show. 0:10:36.280 --> 0:10:42.400 And it's man, it's something that is across all sports. 0:10:42.440 --> 0:10:47.640 It has infected all of the sports. Drastic times require 0:10:47.720 --> 0:10:52.800 drastic measures. So you know something's drastic when the commissioner 0:10:52.920 --> 0:10:57.400 and the union are meeting with the players to say, hey, boys, 0:10:58.760 --> 0:11:01.240 you gotta kind of give us a little bit effort. 0:11:01.280 --> 0:11:04.079 You got to get off the inner tube and stop 0:11:04.200 --> 0:11:08.560 floating on on the lazy river. There they punch the 0:11:08.600 --> 0:11:13.400 clock guy mail it in and just coasting along. And 0:11:14.080 --> 0:11:17.199 in all those words, the NFL players did the same thing, right, 0:11:17.240 --> 0:11:20.600 They cut corner. They didn't want to tackle boo hoo hoo. 0:11:21.320 --> 0:11:24.600 And so the nfls has got rid of it. And 0:11:25.400 --> 0:11:27.880 the Pro Bowl is like now it's like a water 0:11:27.920 --> 0:11:29.640 balloon toss tic tac toe. 0:11:30.040 --> 0:11:34.640 It's like summer camp. The Pro Bowl. I mean this 0:11:35.400 --> 0:11:36.160 used to be an event. 0:11:36.440 --> 0:11:38.640 Now, the Pro Bowl was never great in football, but 0:11:38.679 --> 0:11:41.720 there was a point where guys actually hit. There's a 0:11:41.760 --> 0:11:45.040 certain safety that died way too young for the old 0:11:45.120 --> 0:11:47.679 Washington Redskins that laid out a punter in one of 0:11:47.679 --> 0:11:50.840 the great moments in Pro Bowl history. But across all 0:11:50.880 --> 0:11:55.160 of sports, the temperature for these All Star events is lukewarm. 0:11:55.640 --> 0:11:56.800 I rotate nuts. 0:11:58.320 --> 0:11:59.920 I have a couple of friends of mine that have 0:12:00.160 --> 0:12:02.760 and worked in that professional sports world for a long time, 0:12:02.800 --> 0:12:06.840 and they were explaining me the whole point of the 0:12:06.840 --> 0:12:12.040 All Star Game was to promote the business. 0:12:11.280 --> 0:12:13.000 And all these sports leagues. 0:12:13.000 --> 0:12:18.760 When they started, they weren't they weren't that well publicized, 0:12:18.920 --> 0:12:22.760 they weren't broadcast everywhere, and so you didn't have the 0:12:22.760 --> 0:12:25.760 internet obviously in the early days. And so in order 0:12:26.000 --> 0:12:29.320 to have an event where you could see everybody like, 0:12:29.400 --> 0:12:31.679 it's all the great it's an appetizer of all the 0:12:31.720 --> 0:12:33.360 greatest things you have to offer. 0:12:34.160 --> 0:12:35.400 That's the All Star Game. 0:12:36.080 --> 0:12:38.600 But now everyone can see anything anytime they want, and 0:12:38.640 --> 0:12:44.240 the players are so confident and so cocky, and they 0:12:44.400 --> 0:12:48.600 lack that toughness and that Frida and I often talk 0:12:48.679 --> 0:12:52.719 about the Code of the West, right, the Code of 0:12:52.760 --> 0:12:55.360 the West, which I have tried to model as much 0:12:55.360 --> 0:12:56.920 of it as I can. The main thing is to 0:12:56.960 --> 0:13:01.000 take pride in your work and always finish what you start, 0:13:01.360 --> 0:13:02.880 do what has to be done. 0:13:02.960 --> 0:13:04.720 Those are all parts of the Code of the West. 0:13:05.480 --> 0:13:09.120 And that doesn't exist when you're a pro bouncy ball 0:13:09.120 --> 0:13:12.080 player and you just want to go and party at 0:13:12.120 --> 0:13:13.040 the All Star Game. 0:13:13.120 --> 0:13:15.040 And I get it, it's fun, you know, you have 0:13:15.040 --> 0:13:16.080 a good time. Why not. 0:13:16.400 --> 0:13:18.319 You don't want to be bothered by having to play 0:13:18.400 --> 0:13:20.640 hard in the game, so you play grab ass on 0:13:20.720 --> 0:13:23.719 the court. But Adam Silver seems to think there'll be 0:13:23.760 --> 0:13:26.800 some kind of renaissance and we'll see tomorrow in the 0:13:26.800 --> 0:13:29.040 All Star Game. I know the three point shootout and 0:13:29.120 --> 0:13:33.160 the Dunk Contest, which is really the Witness Protection Program 0:13:33.320 --> 0:13:36.600 edition of the Dunk Contests that they continue to tweak 0:13:36.640 --> 0:13:38.440 and try to modify. And I don't even know the 0:13:38.440 --> 0:13:40.280 All Star Game thing. I got you have multiple teams 0:13:40.320 --> 0:13:45.040 in that dough Yeah, let me explain something. If you 0:13:45.320 --> 0:13:49.920 need someone to explain the instructions to you, and you're 0:13:49.960 --> 0:13:54.200 a die hard fan to watch a sporting event, something 0:13:54.320 --> 0:13:56.679 is not right there. I know you're trying to recalibrate 0:13:56.800 --> 0:14:00.360 this thing, right, You're trying to get some excitement back 0:14:00.400 --> 0:14:03.240 in the All Star Game. But if the customer needs 0:14:03.240 --> 0:14:07.160 someone to explain what is going on because you've got 0:14:07.200 --> 0:14:11.760 a business filled with players that just don't have the 0:14:11.800 --> 0:14:16.320 intestinal fortitude to play hard, I mean that is a 0:14:16.400 --> 0:14:19.240 tough sell. That it's hard enough to watch the All 0:14:19.240 --> 0:14:21.280 Star Game. I mean, I'll probably watch some of it 0:14:21.320 --> 0:14:24.120 because I've got a radio show to do and I'm 0:14:24.120 --> 0:14:27.080 looking for content. But that is I would have done 0:14:27.080 --> 0:14:29.680 a full monolog I'm not in two monologues if there 0:14:29.720 --> 0:14:35.040 was a show on Friday night into Saturday. Here about that, man, 0:14:35.240 --> 0:14:41.280 that is just insane. Yes, we're begging you, please please 0:14:41.480 --> 0:14:44.880 come on buy in to the Dogma, buy in. 0:14:45.040 --> 0:14:49.960 We need you. Wow. Anyway, I'm moving on from that, 0:14:51.280 --> 0:14:52.040 So about it. 0:14:52.080 --> 0:14:54.320 I'm gonna most likely get killed for this, but I'll 0:14:54.360 --> 0:14:57.840 tell you what happened. So Valentine's Day was yesterday and 0:14:57.880 --> 0:15:00.280 it was rather a quiet been married for a few 0:15:00.360 --> 0:15:03.120 years now and the wife wasn't feeling great. I'm still 0:15:03.120 --> 0:15:06.720 getting over this. The sniffles got a lot of phlegm. 0:15:06.840 --> 0:15:10.000 I'm the King of all phlem right now. So we 0:15:10.040 --> 0:15:13.040 were like, all right, Valentine's Days for the amateurs, right there. 0:15:13.360 --> 0:15:17.080 Valentine's Day for the people that are new and new relationships. 0:15:17.080 --> 0:15:20.240 You're dating, you're trying to impress your significant other, the 0:15:20.280 --> 0:15:20.720 whole thing. 0:15:21.400 --> 0:15:22.600 But we're pros. 0:15:22.720 --> 0:15:25.640 It's kind of like New Year's Eve is for the amateurs. 0:15:25.640 --> 0:15:27.800 If you're a real hard alcoholic, you don't need to 0:15:27.800 --> 0:15:29.640 go out in New Year's Eve because that's for the amateurs. 0:15:30.200 --> 0:15:32.080 So we thought about Valentine's Day's kind of same thing. 0:15:32.080 --> 0:15:34.400 And I've never been a big Valentine's Day guy anyway. 0:15:34.800 --> 0:15:37.080 Now Lorraina the other night, she was all fired up, 0:15:37.080 --> 0:15:38.880 but the wife and I were like, listen, we have 0:15:38.880 --> 0:15:39.720 to work a lot. 0:15:39.760 --> 0:15:41.400 We don't see each other much during the week. I'm 0:15:41.480 --> 0:15:42.360 running all over the place. 0:15:42.360 --> 0:15:44.880 We had the last TV show which you can still watch, 0:15:44.920 --> 0:15:47.360 Benny Versus the Penny on Peacock check that out. 0:15:47.840 --> 0:15:49.000 Help us out. 0:15:49.440 --> 0:15:52.120 So anyway, we were like, I will stay home, and 0:15:52.160 --> 0:15:55.400 I was like, okay, I'll make pizza. We'll make it 0:15:55.440 --> 0:15:58.760 from scratch. We had done this in the past, we 0:15:58.800 --> 0:16:00.920 have pizza time and all that. And then I had 0:16:00.960 --> 0:16:03.960 this light bulb go off in my head because I 0:16:04.000 --> 0:16:06.440 was reading some stories. I think I mentioned this on 0:16:06.480 --> 0:16:09.960 a previous edition of this podcast, but I read that 0:16:10.040 --> 0:16:14.000 a bunch of these pizza chains were up charging people 0:16:14.600 --> 0:16:18.640 for Valentine's Day, and not just pizza places. But the 0:16:18.680 --> 0:16:20.920 story is about pizza because I'm I'm gonna tell you 0:16:20.920 --> 0:16:23.320 I made pizza last night. But it was like I 0:16:23.640 --> 0:16:28.880 read that. I think it was Papa John's California Pizza Kitchen. 0:16:30.000 --> 0:16:32.440 There were some pizza hut I think was I think 0:16:32.480 --> 0:16:35.600 that was a big one. Anyway, they were like, all right, listen, 0:16:35.640 --> 0:16:38.960 if you it's limited time, limited time, you know, go 0:16:39.000 --> 0:16:41.640 to a pizza hut, you can get a heart shaped 0:16:42.560 --> 0:16:47.800 pizza for Valentine's Day. And so they were like charge 0:16:47.840 --> 0:16:51.000 an extra for that, and oh, I mean it's the 0:16:51.040 --> 0:16:52.640 same dough. 0:16:52.720 --> 0:16:55.760 You just shaped the dough. And I was like, what's 0:16:55.800 --> 0:16:58.520 going on with that? So I got this, you know, 0:16:59.120 --> 0:17:01.200 you know what up my I was, I'll do that, 0:17:01.360 --> 0:17:02.960 why not? You know? So I did. 0:17:03.080 --> 0:17:07.800 I made a heart shaped pizza for the wife on 0:17:07.920 --> 0:17:11.479 Valentine's Day and I have some photo. 0:17:11.480 --> 0:17:14.160 Now she was not feeling well. 0:17:13.960 --> 0:17:17.120 She was under the weather and she's still obviously day 0:17:17.119 --> 0:17:20.879 after so she's still in the other she refused. She 0:17:20.920 --> 0:17:24.200 said she was not photo ready, so no photos of her. 0:17:24.359 --> 0:17:26.439 But I took some photos. I was very proud of 0:17:26.480 --> 0:17:28.919 my work here, so I took some photos. It's not 0:17:29.000 --> 0:17:32.320 a perfect heart, but I saved the upcharge. There was 0:17:32.359 --> 0:17:35.399 no up charge. And I not only made the Valentine's 0:17:35.440 --> 0:17:37.600 Day pizza, we made it from scratch. I'm talking you know, 0:17:37.640 --> 0:17:40.080 the flour, the yeast, all that, the sugar. The I 0:17:40.080 --> 0:17:44.320 had a little honey and that was good that I 0:17:44.400 --> 0:17:47.480 mean that now on honey. I had a little, just 0:17:47.960 --> 0:17:52.280 a teaspoon of honey, and it adds a little twist 0:17:52.320 --> 0:17:54.879 to it. I put some corn meal under the crust. 0:17:55.320 --> 0:17:59.160 That's pretty solid, pretty solid. But I made some garlic 0:17:59.600 --> 0:18:04.280 butter parmersan twist. Now this is a ripoff of another 0:18:04.640 --> 0:18:08.320 very expensive food item and I am a big fan of, 0:18:09.200 --> 0:18:14.520 and that would be the garlic parmersan twist from Roundtable, 0:18:15.359 --> 0:18:20.320 which is wonderful, absolutely great. And so I found years 0:18:20.320 --> 0:18:23.679 ago how to make those a pretty good hybrid version 0:18:24.520 --> 0:18:28.640 of that counterfeit version for a lot less. So once 0:18:28.680 --> 0:18:31.440 I converted to that, I do that for big events. 0:18:31.920 --> 0:18:33.520 I do that for big events, and I try to 0:18:33.560 --> 0:18:36.320 spread the gospel. Let's say, you know, it's one of 0:18:36.320 --> 0:18:39.040 my hobbies on the weekends, futsing around in the kitchen. 0:18:39.200 --> 0:18:42.560 But it doesn't always go well. We go on the 0:18:42.600 --> 0:18:45.320 hot tub time machine now and we head back back, back, back, 0:18:45.359 --> 0:18:47.320 back back back, all the way back to Super Bowl 0:18:47.320 --> 0:18:55.240 Sunday and one of the great food tragedies of our time. Now, 0:18:55.280 --> 0:18:57.640 as I said, I like to futs around in the kitchen, 0:18:57.760 --> 0:18:59.040 something I've started. 0:18:58.640 --> 0:19:02.280 Doing, probably doing it for man, it's been a few years. 0:19:02.280 --> 0:19:04.879 It's not brand new I've been I started doing the 0:19:04.880 --> 0:19:07.360 baking stuff, and now I've moved on to pizza. 0:19:07.400 --> 0:19:09.879 And it's pretty much just food. I like, I know 0:19:09.880 --> 0:19:10.360 how to make. 0:19:10.960 --> 0:19:14.360 It's food, I like, you know, it's cheese, steak, it's burgers, 0:19:14.440 --> 0:19:17.679 it's it's a pizza, you know, those kind of thing 0:19:17.760 --> 0:19:20.439 chicken fingers, you know, which may annoy you. I'm not 0:19:20.520 --> 0:19:25.000 like a total foodie. I'm not making the foo foo food. No, 0:19:25.200 --> 0:19:29.720 I'm making stuff I want. And that's it, right, And 0:19:29.760 --> 0:19:32.479 so that's what most people woul do, right, you make 0:19:32.480 --> 0:19:35.800 stuff you like, you know, and all so Super Bowl Sunday, 0:19:37.000 --> 0:19:41.280 big day, a big day, fired up Chiefs and Eagles, 0:19:41.359 --> 0:19:46.200 last last Sunday, and I was like, I'm gonna break 0:19:46.200 --> 0:19:46.679 my diet. 0:19:47.320 --> 0:19:48.560 I am gonna go big. 0:19:48.880 --> 0:19:50.440 I am going to go big, big big big big 0:19:50.440 --> 0:19:52.080 big big big big big big big big big big 0:19:52.119 --> 0:19:55.440 big big big. In fact, I want to be a 0:19:55.480 --> 0:20:00.479 cartoon character. I would like to be Porky Pig from 0:20:00.560 --> 0:20:03.960 Looney Tunes, right, And that's what I want. I want 0:20:03.960 --> 0:20:08.560 to be Porky pick. I want to overeat so much 0:20:08.640 --> 0:20:10.840 that I flash back to my younger. 0:20:10.560 --> 0:20:14.040 Days and overdo it, you know. 0:20:14.280 --> 0:20:17.280 I mean, I want to be stuffed to the gills, 0:20:17.320 --> 0:20:21.360 but I want good food. I want people to look 0:20:21.400 --> 0:20:25.560 at me and say, that's a big fat cub of go. 0:20:26.119 --> 0:20:27.800 That's what I want. I want to be compared to 0:20:27.880 --> 0:20:28.479 Joey Chestney. 0:20:28.560 --> 0:20:31.080 Now keep in mind, I watched the game in solitude, 0:20:31.280 --> 0:20:33.879 and I'm by myself because I got to pay attention 0:20:33.920 --> 0:20:34.720 to what's going. 0:20:34.520 --> 0:20:36.280 On and all that. 0:20:36.359 --> 0:20:40.479 So anyway, I'm settling up and on Saturday, the day 0:20:40.520 --> 0:20:42.520 before the Super Bowl, I'm like, Okay, I'm planning my menu. 0:20:43.960 --> 0:20:46.159 Eagles are in. I picked the Chiefs that didn't go 0:20:46.280 --> 0:20:49.760 so well, but I'm gonna have I'm gonna have a 0:20:49.800 --> 0:20:54.040 Philly cheese steak because that's the perfect meal. The Eagles 0:20:54.080 --> 0:20:56.280 are in there, it's Philadelphia, why not. And I'll have 0:20:56.320 --> 0:20:59.959 some pretzels. Pretzel bites is my appetizer. I'll have some 0:21:00.359 --> 0:21:02.520 ice cream for dessert and it'll be really good. I'll 0:21:02.560 --> 0:21:04.920 mixing some snacks and that's gonna be a wonderful Super 0:21:04.960 --> 0:21:08.000 Bowl for me. So I go to the store to 0:21:08.040 --> 0:21:10.720 buy there's a certain type of bread. Now I blame 0:21:10.800 --> 0:21:14.200 the great Tony Bruno. It's an outrage because Tony schooled 0:21:14.240 --> 0:21:17.119 me when Tony worked at our shop at Fox. Tony 0:21:17.119 --> 0:21:20.240 Bruno the greatest sports talk radio host in my lifetime. 0:21:20.600 --> 0:21:24.399 But Tony Bruno's like, hey, you know, he explained to me, 0:21:24.440 --> 0:21:26.880 this is what you need. No cheese whiz, you got 0:21:26.880 --> 0:21:29.480 to have provolone. And then he talked about the bread, 0:21:29.760 --> 0:21:33.359 certain type of bread. You gotta have these rolls from Philadelphia. 0:21:33.840 --> 0:21:36.000 So the local store where I live out in the 0:21:36.040 --> 0:21:39.199 north Woods, there's a store, only one store that sells 0:21:39.200 --> 0:21:39.680 that bread. 0:21:39.800 --> 0:21:42.280 HOGI rolls, and they're authentic. 0:21:42.359 --> 0:21:45.239 They're the same ones that are used in Philadelphi, and 0:21:45.280 --> 0:21:47.800 I've only used those for years. When I make a 0:21:47.880 --> 0:21:52.359 cheese steak, a cheese steak Sammy, so I have some 0:21:52.520 --> 0:21:55.919 rabbi ready to go. I had the Provolone cheese, no 0:21:56.000 --> 0:21:57.359 cheese wizz Provolone cheese. 0:21:58.280 --> 0:22:01.320 I went to buy the bread. They're out of it, right, 0:22:01.400 --> 0:22:03.920