Speaker 1: Kubbooms.
Speaker 2: If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes
Speaker 2: a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants
Speaker 2: of the old republic, a sole fashion of fairness. He
Speaker 2: treats crackheads in the ghetto cutter the same as the
Speaker 2: rich pill poppers in the penthouse.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 2: The Clearinghouse of Hot takes break free for something special.
Speaker 2: The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now.
Speaker 1: In the air everywhere. The Fifth Hour with me, Ben
Speaker 1: Maller and Danny g Radio. We're hanging out with you
Speaker 1: on an NFL Saturday. A couple of games later today
Speaker 1: as we are doing this here early in the morning,
Speaker 1: but the NFL will be back the final weekend of
Speaker 1: the NFL for the regular season, and so the last
Speaker 1: chance to watch terrible teams play football today though we've
Speaker 1: got the Brownies and the Ravens. That is a massive
Speaker 1: point spread. The Ravens huge favorites in that game against Cleveland,
Speaker 1: and then later on at Bailey Zappi Zappie Mania for
Speaker 1: the Browns. Great, great for them, unless it's not. And
Speaker 1: then the Bengals and the Steelers, and that game is
Speaker 1: the late game, and I am planning a malor friend
Speaker 1: hangout to watch the games.
Speaker 3: Oh, the Ravens. That point spread has moved up to
Speaker 3: twenty one and a half points.
Speaker 1: Yeah, which is good because when we did the show
Speaker 1: and everything stops, when we did the Betty versus the Penny,
Speaker 1: it was like seventeen and a half was the point spread.
Speaker 1: So and I took I actually laid the points with
Speaker 1: the Ravens. This is one of those games the Ravens
Speaker 1: should win, like forty one to ten or something like that. Right,
Speaker 1: the only question is, well, you know, somebody gets hurt
Speaker 1: that obviously screws things up or something. This is the Browns.
Speaker 1: They're three and thirteen for obvious reasons. And some of
Speaker 1: the key guys are going to be playing I don't know.
Speaker 1: And then the Bengals and Stuards, as we mentioned now
Speaker 1: on this podcast, and we will celebrate National Trivia Day,
Speaker 1: and I still do trivia on the show. And I
Speaker 1: found some fun facts about National Trivia Day that the
Speaker 1: first book of Trivia is only about one hundred years old,
Speaker 1: little over one hundred years old, nineteen twenty. The book
Speaker 1: Trivialities Bits of Information of Little Consequence. What. Yeah, it
Speaker 1: was a one hundred and five years ago. That was
Speaker 1: the first one, and the ones that we remember probably
Speaker 1: damn we were little those bathroom reader remember the bathroom readers.
Speaker 4: Oh, of course, all our grandparents had those.
Speaker 1: You sit on there. And I remember when when I was,
Speaker 1: you know, dating myself, but when Trivial Pursuit came out,
Speaker 1: I was like, oh my god, this is mind boy.
Speaker 1: But that was back when people actually played board games
Speaker 1: and it became really really popular.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we have this tradition at the g House where
Speaker 3: every holiday, my wife he takes out a whole bunch
Speaker 3: of board games and none of them get used.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well that's about right, that's about right. I do
Speaker 1: recall because we didn't have no on TV, so Hollis
Speaker 1: we would play. We would play board games, and some
Speaker 1: of them, my memories of them are romantic and great.
Speaker 1: But I also I know there are memories that I
Speaker 1: have buried of playing Monopoly.
Speaker 4: In the game.
Speaker 1: You know, it was just a shit show. I know that.
Speaker 4: I know that.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, there's certain board games where there was always
Speaker 3: a family member screaming and crying and running out of
Speaker 3: the room.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we are planning this week and this is a
Speaker 1: podcast exclusive, a Fifth Hour.
Speaker 4: Exclusive, but watch out now.
Speaker 1: I was going to just a couple weeks ago, and
Speaker 1: it was actually the recommendation of an emailer to this podcast,
Speaker 1: so I was like, ah, you know what, I think
Speaker 1: we'll do it. And so this is supposed to be
Speaker 1: the week. We're still working out some of the kinks here,
Speaker 1: but the plan is Tommy, since he Tommy, and we're
Speaker 1: gonna play the game, are you smarter than the FSR
Speaker 1: Tech Queen? And we will we will ask These are
Speaker 1: not sports questions, Danny, but there'll be questions much like
Speaker 1: the TV show Basic first, second, third, fourth, fifth grade questions,
Speaker 1: And who do you think is smarter the random callers
Speaker 1: to overnight talk radio or Lorraine Uh. Now, we're not
Speaker 1: gonna give her the answers. She's gonna have to come
Speaker 1: up with the answers on her own. But who will
Speaker 1: do better? That's the question we'll find out. I'm not
Speaker 1: sure what night we'll play at one of these nights,
Speaker 1: so this is gonna be good, probably early.
Speaker 4: In the week.
Speaker 1: I'm thinking early in the week. So I saved some
Speaker 1: things yesterday we're here. I was here barking away and
Speaker 1: you were you were on assignment, So there were some
Speaker 1: things I didn't get to I was away for a
Speaker 1: few days. I think I took a total like five
Speaker 1: days over the two, you know, three weeks I think
Speaker 1: I was. I was here for most of the most
Speaker 1: of the shows. I'm not a numbers guy, but that
Speaker 1: doesn't seem to add up. We got family business, the
Speaker 1: Pink Eye, pal Anti Yankees, and Late Night Munchies with
Speaker 1: a surprise Late Night MUNCHI is a surprise that we'll
Speaker 1: get a lot of lots of stuff to get you.
Speaker 1: We'll start with this though. So where did I go
Speaker 1: on my time away? I was debating, do I go
Speaker 1: out of town? Do I stay in town? Had I
Speaker 1: couldn't really go that far because we're still doing the
Speaker 1: TV shows, so I only had a couple of days
Speaker 1: to play with. But we ended up making the drive
Speaker 1: from LA. We left LA at six point thirty at
Speaker 1: night on I think it was a Thursday, and drove
Speaker 1: to San Francisco from from LA and we got there.
Speaker 1: We stopped a few times. I think we got three
Speaker 1: in the more on day driving through it was raining,
Speaker 1: it was raining in central California. But we went to
Speaker 1: San Francisco.
Speaker 4: Washed away all the homeless that's there.
Speaker 1: Oh, no, no, they were still of course I did
Speaker 1: not stand the Tenderloin district, but it wasn't much better
Speaker 1: over in Fisherman's Wharf where we were staying. I told
Speaker 1: my wife, so listen, and I actually like San Francisco.
Speaker 1: It's cool city to visit. Beautiful city, the skyline, the bridges,
Speaker 1: I mean, it's really beautiful, but it's it's also a shithole.
Speaker 1: And so like I'm like, why don't we stay outside
Speaker 1: the city, And then it's probably cheaper, it's safer, we
Speaker 1: don't have to worry much about as much about our
Speaker 1: car getting broken into, and then we can drive into
Speaker 1: the city and take our chances and all that. And
Speaker 1: but my father in law actually drove up separately and
Speaker 1: he wanted to stay in the Fisherman's Wharf area. Uh
Speaker 1: so that's where we stayed. And the reason we went
Speaker 1: there is my brother in law bought a new house,
Speaker 1: makes a lot of money, works for the big internet company,
Speaker 1: one of the big internet companies up there, and he's,
Speaker 1: you know, he's obviously doing very well because, as you know, Danny,
Speaker 1: real estate in the Bay Area very very cheap, right, very.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And if you work for one of those big
Speaker 3: tech companies similar to radio money.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, very.
Speaker 1: Similar and unless it's not. And yeah, he's telling me,
Speaker 1: I don't know if I should say which internet company
Speaker 1: works for it's not you know, I don't know if
Speaker 1: he wants that out there. You don't know who he is,
Speaker 1: but it doesn't really matter. But he's like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: they like provide us free food.
Speaker 4: What is it rhyme with?
Speaker 1: Oh, it rhymes with Google is what it rhymes with.
Speaker 1: But yeah, so and those those Waymo things all over
Speaker 1: the Bay Area that that took a little getting used to.
Speaker 1: They have the those are creepy, right, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: those things were all over the place. Those self driving cars,
Speaker 1: the automated cars, the way Mos. I think they're Google.
Speaker 1: I think that's a Google product.
Speaker 4: I believe, I think so.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they were all over the place, and so we
Speaker 1: spent a couple of days there. I did have an
Speaker 1: opportunity in Nanny to go somewhere I had wanted to go.
Speaker 1: I watch a lot of these YouTube travel vlogs because
Speaker 1: I'm a loser and that's what I do. And I
Speaker 1: think we talked about it on this podcast a while back.
Speaker 1: There's a taco bell on the beach. I think we
Speaker 1: talked about this. I feel like we did. Maybe we didn't.
Speaker 1: Maybe I'm just imagining that we talked about this.
Speaker 3: And no, no, we've referenced it on the podcast before
Speaker 3: in Pacifica.
Speaker 1: Yes, all right, So now my brother in law lives
Speaker 1: in He just bought a house, not in Pacifica. However,
Speaker 1: I had this serendipitous moment. So we were at his
Speaker 1: house and we went out like a little diner. More
Speaker 1: on that in a minute. And we went out to
Speaker 1: the diner and for some reason, I said, I think
Speaker 1: this is within a few miles of that taco bell
Speaker 1: that looked very similar to the videos that I had seen,
Speaker 1: and so I brought it up in first day. Immediately, Yes,
Speaker 1: right down the road theready come on. Everyone knows where
Speaker 1: that taco bell is. So we we went there. I
Speaker 1: went to the taco bell on the beach in Pacifica
Speaker 1: and walked around.
Speaker 4: And uh, it was.
Speaker 1: It was really awesome. It was cool. I mean as
Speaker 1: cool as a taco bell can beat.
Speaker 4: Andy. I don't want to get to taco bell with
Speaker 4: a view.
Speaker 1: But I did look at the prices. I was like, well,
Speaker 1: this is on the beach and they must be charging like,
Speaker 1: you know, eight dollars a taco or something as the
Speaker 1: same prices as every other taco. Bell just happened to
Speaker 1: be that you walk outside, they have like a little deck,
Speaker 1: and then there's the Pacific Ocean.
Speaker 4: Diarrhea on the sand.
Speaker 1: Yeah, just go, you just go in the ocean and uh,
Speaker 1: you know, God God's toilet right there in the ocean,
Speaker 1: and knock yourself out. So I was only in San
Speaker 1: Francisco for a couple of days. We then we I
Speaker 1: think it was Saturday afternoon. We had you know, we'll
Speaker 1: get together Saturday afternoon and then hit the road and
Speaker 1: traveled well. We stopped in Los Gato's briefly because my
Speaker 1: mother in law wanted to stop at a bakery of
Speaker 1: all things. And then we drove down to San Louis Obispo,
Speaker 1: which is a three hour drive three and a half whatever.
Speaker 1: So we drove to San Luis Obispo to meet some
Speaker 1: other family that were driving up from La or like,
Speaker 1: spend the day with them. So we hung out. Now
Speaker 1: this whole trip, Danny, there was one thing. I can
Speaker 1: say this because none of these people listen to this podcast.
Speaker 1: So I feel like I'm safe. I'm in the Safe Harbor.
Speaker 1: My brother in law and my father in law both
Speaker 1: took their dogs with themf earf So that meant every
Speaker 1: restaurant we went to we had to sit outside. It's
Speaker 1: late December in the Bay Area. It was kind of rainy.
Speaker 3: I was like, what they got some bone chilling and
Speaker 3: cold too.
Speaker 4: People don't realize it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it's it's not so col It gets chili.
Speaker 1: And so we're sitting outside. I'm like, oh, what are
Speaker 1: we doing?
Speaker 4: You know?
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, Danny, I think we both look
Speaker 1: at restaurants. We like them, but when we look at
Speaker 1: the prices, we get a little a little crazy, right,
Speaker 1: So and my whole thing is that we're going to
Speaker 1: spend that money on food. I want a good experience
Speaker 1: and I want I want to not freeze my ass
Speaker 1: off while I'm eating my potatoes. And anyway, it was,
Speaker 1: it was interesting. So we had to find restaurants, and
Speaker 1: a lot of restaurants didn't have outdoor seating or you know,
Speaker 1: is this that and the other thing? The restaurants we
Speaker 1: wanted to go to, So it was a bit of
Speaker 1: a yeah.
Speaker 3: And then I had this other yeah at that price point,
Speaker 3: A waitress should come out, sit on your lap to
Speaker 3: keep you warm.
Speaker 1: Lap dance. So and at that point we're in San
Speaker 1: Luis Obispo and this gets very awkward. So my niece
Speaker 1: and nephew kids say the darness things. So my niece
Speaker 1: and nephew drove up from LA to me. All right,
Speaker 1: this is my sister in law. So everyone's together, right,
Speaker 1: everyone's together. We're in the hotel, we're sitting there. They
Speaker 1: come in to say hello. I say hello to uncle Benny.
Speaker 1: And the TV was on and we're trying to find
Speaker 1: something to watch and couldn't really find it on TV.
Speaker 1: And then my niece, God bless her, she did something
Speaker 1: that made me very uncomfortable. Danny, very very uncomfortable. She's reading,
Speaker 1: She's like eight years old. She's reading the screen, right,
Speaker 1: and she's like, hey, uncle Benny, that's your TV show.
Speaker 1: Let's watch it. Danny. The last thing I want to do, okay,
Speaker 1: the last thing I want to do is sit in
Speaker 1: a room with my in laws and watch the TV show. Hey.
Speaker 1: I love them. They don't know anything about sports. They're
Speaker 1: not sports people, right, that's number one. Number two. You
Speaker 1: know they're going to watch that and it's going to
Speaker 1: be very awkward. We're uncomfortable because they're going to ask
Speaker 1: more questions. And that's exactly what happened.
Speaker 4: Oh no turned into a Q and a oh yeah, so.
Speaker 1: Are you beating the penny? No, I'm not beating the pen?
Speaker 1: How are you not beating the penny? It's do you
Speaker 1: wear that same hat every week? Exactly?
Speaker 2: Well?
Speaker 1: Why why are you wearing a pull over? You don't
Speaker 1: usually wear that? What's up with that one?
Speaker 4: You know?
Speaker 3: Do you?
Speaker 4: How's a professional? Do your makeup?
Speaker 1: How much? Exactly? How much do you get paid for
Speaker 1: that show?
Speaker 4: Really?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 4: You feel me?
Speaker 1: Universal? Can I go with you? You know that whole?
Speaker 1: So that was and I love my niece and nephew. Really,
Speaker 1: my nephew had pink eye and was barfing five years old.
Speaker 1: He's so sick, but he had a great attitude. You know,
Speaker 1: puke can get up and just start start rolling along
Speaker 1: there and doing his thing. But I took my niece
Speaker 1: to the famous you've been there, I know, Danny Bubblegum
Speaker 1: Alley in San Luis Obispo. People it's a landmark. You
Speaker 1: just put their used bubblegum all over the place. And
Speaker 1: I think I must spend more time in Saint Louibiths,
Speaker 1: but it's cool. I've been there many times. We stop
Speaker 1: by the Madonna in the famous hotel there, very Gautti
Speaker 1: Hotel and all that. And I didn't see too many
Speaker 1: giants hats when I was in northern California. I don't
Speaker 1: blame them. I don't blame them. Although there are some
Speaker 1: people that I think are anti Yankees in the Bay,
Speaker 1: which is good, right, because we're anti Yankees because we're
Speaker 1: Dodger peak.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, I might want to call this anti Dodgers.
Speaker 4: I'll explain.
Speaker 3: So Covino and Rich were filling in for the Colin
Speaker 3: Cowherd Show this past Friday. I say, morning, it's noon
Speaker 3: to three pm on the East Coast, so our time
Speaker 3: it's nine to noon. But to get in front of
Speaker 3: the traffic, I'm like, well, I got to get on
Speaker 3: the road early, right, So I got on the road
Speaker 3: at seven am and it was okay. Get to the
Speaker 3: studios in Sherman Oaks, California early, hop on the computer,
Speaker 3: and I got all excited because the day before I
Speaker 3: had sent an email to the PR director of the Yankees. Hey,
Speaker 3: I introduced myself and I said, I produce Covino and
Speaker 3: Rich and we are filling in for the Great Colin
Speaker 3: Cowherd on Friday. We would love to have Aaron Judge
Speaker 3: on the show for ten minutes. And yeah, Ben, I
Speaker 3: send these emails out. As you know, I chased down
Speaker 3: Mike Tyson and the President. As you know from the
Speaker 3: Tyson story, sometimes it takes many, many, many, many emails
Speaker 3: a billion.
Speaker 1: It's deep sea fishing. You're fishing. You're going on a
Speaker 1: fishing condition hoping that you catch the white whale. Right,
Speaker 1: you want to catch the white whale, That's what you're
Speaker 1: trying to.
Speaker 4: Do for sure.
Speaker 3: But the Herd, which is heard on so many affiliates
Speaker 3: and obviously has the TV show and all of that.
Speaker 3: I see this email back early in the morning, and
Speaker 3: I'm excited because before I open it, I'm thinking to myself,
Speaker 3: Aaron Judge on the show. So I open up the
Speaker 3: email and it says, Hi, Danny, Happy New Year.
Speaker 1: Let me guess the off season. We're not doing interne
Speaker 1: interviews or something like that.
Speaker 3: Close it says happy new Year. Thanks for reaching out,
Speaker 3: but we are going to respectfully decline for Friday. Maybe
Speaker 3: we can set something up on one of your future programs.
Speaker 3: By the way, nice profile picture. Oh and then in
Speaker 3: the what is that called underneath the name where they
Speaker 3: have the signature, the digital signature.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I know what you're talking about.
Speaker 3: I don't Yeah, I know that's called either because I
Speaker 3: don't even have that on my email. I'm so old school.
Speaker 3: But their Twitter handle is there. So that made me think, oh, well,
Speaker 3: this person looked me up on Twitter and ben, what
Speaker 3: has been my long standing picture on my Twitter?
Speaker 1: Oh? Of course you haven't changed your your avatar and like,
Speaker 1: how long Danny it?
Speaker 3: Well, I've had it up since the Dodgers had cutouts.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean that's.
Speaker 4: My Dodger cutout that was at the stadium.
Speaker 3: You think, oh, is this anti Dodger because why the
Speaker 3: smart ass comment about my Dodger profile picture?
Speaker 1: Uhhh I looked you up the investigation.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so hey, I'm not going to change my profile
Speaker 3: picture for anybody.
Speaker 1: Last question, good question. Are you going to try to
Speaker 1: get Trump on again? You got him on as you
Speaker 1: mentioned with Clay Travis. I see that's on your you
Speaker 1: have that pin to the top of your You're yeah,
Speaker 1: are you going to try to get Trump on again?
Speaker 1: Now he's back as the president.
Speaker 4: In Uh, what is it?
Speaker 1: The sixteen days right, the sixteen days away from that?
Speaker 1: Unless they put him in jail, he'll be back.
Speaker 3: I mean, he obviously fit on Clay Travis's show, And
Speaker 3: I think anybody on our network would like to have
Speaker 3: a sitting president on the air. But I'm not exactly sure.
Speaker 3: Covino and Rich would have fun talking to him, but
Speaker 3: they don't talk any politics on their show. Yeah, it
Speaker 3: would definitely be out of left field on their program.
Speaker 1: I got you, Yeah, I would. I would love to
Speaker 1: have a have a president. Yeah, I even put Biden on.
Speaker 1: I don't care. I mean, he wouldn't know he was on,
Speaker 1: but I'd put him on.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 3: Oh man, that poor guy, that speech he recently gave.
Speaker 1: What a mess.
Speaker 4: Yeah, So I look, I'm.
Speaker 3: Gonna play the long game here like I did with
Speaker 3: the Tyson team. But I'm not sure what to say
Speaker 3: back to this lady. I didn't say anything back yet,
Speaker 3: So any advice on the reply?
Speaker 1: Uh? Yes, well, why don't we Why don't we get
Speaker 1: back when he gets back to spring training? You know,
Speaker 1: why don't we? Yeah, well, well the next month in
Speaker 1: spring training, will we'll pursue this? You know, how about.
Speaker 4: That and ps, sorry my Dodgers kicked your sorry ass Uh.
Speaker 1: Well, here's the thing too, like like a lot of
Speaker 1: those pr people heate doing in the heat, requesting players
Speaker 1: in the off season doing any interviews. So that's just
Speaker 1: like a no non starter. But then I've learned also
Speaker 1: in spring training, well it was very busy in the
Speaker 1: spring training, which is by the way, Bullshoy Danny. I.
Speaker 1: I've been to spring training with baseball teams over the years.
Speaker 1: Normally what happens in the morning, Yeah, they're a little
Speaker 1: busy and all that for a few hours they work out,
Speaker 1: but even when the spring training games are going on,
Speaker 1: they get one or two at batch and they're out
Speaker 1: of there by an hour into the game and they're
Speaker 1: on the golf course. So it's not the most grueling life.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I'm not sure by that, but you will
Speaker 1: if you This is the next one I met on
Speaker 1: this show. Remember we wanted Brian Billick and we finally
Speaker 1: our standard was Brian Billick and we got Blick on.
Speaker 1: You know this, this reminds me the story of I
Speaker 1: worked with the great Chris Meyer. So I need to
Speaker 1: get on this podcast. And Chris, because he hosted that show.
Speaker 1: Was it called up Close or something like that?
Speaker 4: Yes, I remember that show.
Speaker 1: Chris had the most ridiculous we call it roll the
Speaker 1: decks of anyone. Like I did a show with him.
Speaker 1: I was like with him for a few months, and
Speaker 1: we had like Coach k on, he has his number,
Speaker 1: Charles Barkley, IDT Barkley on, like all these amazing and
Speaker 1: they all knew Chris and they love Chris and they
Speaker 1: were like buddy buddy with him. And he's like, something
Speaker 1: would happen with some big name in sports and he'd
Speaker 1: be like, Hey, let's get that guy on. I have
Speaker 1: his number, give him a call, tell him so and so,
Speaker 1: and more times than not those people would come on so.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I don't have that kind of roll the
Speaker 1: decks I do. I don't unfortunately, But you were aggressive.
Speaker 1: It reminds me of the story out of Buddy of
Speaker 1: Mine and Radio that really his dream job was to
Speaker 1: work at canby R back in the day, right, and
Speaker 1: he wanted to work in the Bay area, big sports station,
Speaker 1: not as popular as the one we're on now, but
Speaker 1: he wanted to work at CANBYR. So he sent the
Speaker 1: program director every single month, he would send him an
Speaker 1: air check of his work, and eventually he got hired
Speaker 1: to work on what used to be called I think
Speaker 1: it was like sports phone sixty eight at night. Got
Speaker 1: a job there just by perseverance. They finally broke down
Speaker 1: the door and they hired. They were annoyed by by that, but.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you got it.
Speaker 3: You gotta push man, because I love the people in
Speaker 3: our business where they just talk about what they wish
Speaker 3: things could be.
Speaker 4: Like you got to get off your ass and make
Speaker 4: it happen.
Speaker 1: No, you do?
Speaker 4: You do?
Speaker 1: Now? I had another brief story I wanted to share
Speaker 1: with the class. So the other night we didn't go out.
Speaker 1: My wife had to work on New Year's Eve and
Speaker 1: I had to get ready for the TV show. So
Speaker 1: the day before New Year's Eve, my wife wanted to
Speaker 1: go dance, so we went dancing in La. Now this
Speaker 1: is her thing, not my thing, but you know, by marriage,
Speaker 1: I have to do these things. So I went dancing
Speaker 1: at this place I've been too many times in downtown LA.
Speaker 1: But we I got on the wrong at the La
Speaker 1: East LA interchange. I got on the wrong freeway, so
Speaker 1: I had to get off and drive through skid row
Speaker 1: to get there. And it was Sodom and Gomorrah Danny.
Speaker 1: There were people shooting up as we were driving by
Speaker 1: fires in the trash cans in the street to stay warm.
Speaker 4: It was wild.
Speaker 1: It was like a dystopian type horrible, like everyone's just
Speaker 1: out there in another dimension type situation. It was nut
Speaker 1: So so then after we went dancing, we're like, I
Speaker 1: don't really eat late because I'm on this fasting thing,
Speaker 1: but it's rare and appropriate, so let's go out have
Speaker 1: a nice meal. So when in la if you want
Speaker 1: a late night meal, there are two places you go,
Speaker 1: and we were trying to decide which of the two
Speaker 1: to go to. We decided to go to the famous
Speaker 1: Canter's Deli in La Ice School Stave. I used to
Speaker 1: live right near Canters. Love it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's a veteran move and.
Speaker 1: Been many movies that have been filmed there. So we
Speaker 1: go down to Canters. I'm just dreaming a Pastrne and
Speaker 1: Matza ball soup. So we get over to Cannor's Deli
Speaker 1: and we go in there and we're so excited. It's
Speaker 1: like eleven thirty or something like that, and we go
Speaker 1: in there and the very old lady who looks like
Speaker 1: she has worked there since the nineteen tens. She says,
Speaker 1: we're no longer open twenty four hours, only takeout after
Speaker 1: like eleven, so she wouldn't let us. They were not
Speaker 1: seating anyone in the restaurant. Come on, yeah, So I
Speaker 1: was like, what the f you know? I mean, this
Speaker 1: is a staple of Los Angeles, It's been in a
Speaker 1: bunch of movies. It's a famous deli twenty four hour joint,
Speaker 1: and they weren't open. So I got pised. So I said, well,
Speaker 1: all right, we'll go to the other option, Fat sALS.
Speaker 1: That's where we're gonna go get a nice sandwich. So
Speaker 1: we get in the car, we leave Canter's Delhi. We
Speaker 1: drive a few miles away, also in Hollywood, to Fats
Speaker 1: El and I turn the corner on a Highland. I
Speaker 1: turn right on the street Fat Seals is, and, much
Speaker 1: to my amazement, the entire shopping center where Fat Seals
Speaker 1: was burned down, the whole frickin thing.
Speaker 4: This is like a family vacation movie.
Speaker 1: Now, yeah, this is National Lampoon's family victage. And so
Speaker 1: I somehow missed this. No one in the mal Or
Speaker 1: militia told me, I'm shocked by that. Normally they know
Speaker 1: how much we love this restaurant. Somebody would say this,
Speaker 1: but around Thanksgiving, I believe it was Thanksgiving the AutoZone
Speaker 1: in that shopping center. There was a fire that broke
Speaker 1: out in the AutoZone, so I guess some of the chemicals.
Speaker 1: I don't know what happened, but it spread to the
Speaker 1: entire shopping center and Fat sALS is in there. Whole
Speaker 1: thing burned down. But here's the thing. So Fat Seals
Speaker 1: relocated like a block away, so they're in a new location.
Speaker 1: But there's no parking so that's a problem. So there's
Speaker 1: no parking lot. So we did end up getting to
Speaker 1: Fat Cells, but that was in the the span of
Speaker 1: half an hour. We went to the iconic canters w
Speaker 1: in La no longer opened twenty four hours, only take
Speaker 1: out after a certain hour, and then we went to
Speaker 1: Fat Sales and you're all excited, you pull up your
Speaker 1: think of that Texas sandwich and then then boom, the
Speaker 1: whole building burned out. It was wild. I was like,
Speaker 1: what the f and that was That was my time away.
Speaker 1: I think I'll post some photos probably later today of
Speaker 1: my by the way the travel stuff, just to prove
Speaker 1: I was at the Taco on the beach there in
Speaker 1: the bay and some other photos random photo that they
Speaker 1: took there of my trip. Let's get to the.
Speaker 3: Phrase of the week, the phrase of the week.
Speaker 1: Phrase of the week. I was thinking about this because
Speaker 1: I've used it on social media to pathetically promote the
Speaker 1: fledgling TV show of Benny Versus the Penny, and it's
Speaker 1: as scene on TV as scene on TV, the phrase
Speaker 1: of the week. It was obviously an advertising catch and
Speaker 1: it's still used very much today, although it's odd because
Speaker 1: of TikTok and Instagram and social media youtubeses as seen
Speaker 1: on YouTube is not a thing as seen on TikTok,
Speaker 1: nothing but products advertised once to goes back many many years. Obviously,
Speaker 1: as seen on TV. As seen on TV was used
Speaker 1: in advertising. At least nineteen point fifty they started using it,
Speaker 1: and that was when camera shops advertised the Polaroid Land camera.
Speaker 1: And there are several trademarks for as seen on TV.
Speaker 1: At the words sometimes shaped as if inside a television set.
Speaker 1: There's a whole line of products, whole line of products
Speaker 1: with that infomercial products. A guy named Philip Hives I
Speaker 1: believe is his name. He founded the Ktail Company, and
Speaker 1: they advertised a ton on television and used as seen
Speaker 1: as TV, as seen on TV as a catchphrase. But
Speaker 1: it was an infomercial product, an infomocial product. Vege Omadic.
Speaker 1: Vege Omadic was the product, and it was advertised as
Speaker 1: seen on TV in nineteen sixty three. And they did
Speaker 1: not coin the phrase, but they used the phrase and
Speaker 1: they became known for the phrase. So you can thank
Speaker 1: the vege Omadic. And let me point out, I've studied,
Speaker 1: I've read books on infomercials, and the vege Omadic not
Speaker 1: the only omadic. There was a whole line of products
Speaker 1: back in the eighties and the seventies that were all
Speaker 1: I mean, it was all about it man. They were
Speaker 1: all about that action boss. But anyway, there it is
Speaker 1: the phrase of the day or the week or whatever,
Speaker 1: as seen on TV. We'll get out on that, Danny, Annie,
Speaker 1: you would like to promote here it's a day of
Speaker 1: rest here on Saturday.
Speaker 3: Some NFL action as you talked about to start the show,
Speaker 3: and one little favor to ask to start twenty twenty five,
Speaker 3: Send this podcast to at least one friend or family
Speaker 3: member this weekend and we'll love you forever.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean we got to get keep those numbers
Speaker 1: high and get you know, we want you to be
Speaker 1: part of this, and then we'll come up with our
Speaker 1: own product, like not the chop omatic or the dialogue
Speaker 1: listen omadic. Can we get the listen omadic where you
Speaker 1: listen automatically, That would be pretty cool. I we'll get
Speaker 1: out of here. We'll have a new fresh email Bag podcast,
Speaker 1: the mail Bag Podcast.
Speaker 3: We keep changing the name of all our features right now, well,
Speaker 3: you know it's.
Speaker 4: It's a new year. You're freshening up all the imaging.
Speaker 1: Yeah, why not? All right, we'll get out there, have
Speaker 1: a wonderful arrest your Saturday here and we'll talk to
Speaker 1: you next time.
Speaker 4: Austa Pasta my relation