Speaker 1: Kabbooms.
Speaker 2: If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes
Speaker 2: a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants
Speaker 2: of the old republic, a sol fashion of fairness. He
Speaker 2: treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the
Speaker 2: rich pill poppers in the penthouse.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 2: The clearing House of Hot takes break free for something special.
Speaker 2: The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now here.
Speaker 3: We go in the air everywhere. The Fifth Hour with Me,
Speaker 3: Big Ben and Danny g Radio The Weekend kicks off.
Speaker 3: A Happy Friday to you the sixteenth day of August.
Speaker 1: But you are knew that?
Speaker 3: And Dan, are you wearing your Hawaiian shirt? It's Hawaiian
Speaker 3: Shirt Day today, big big holiday, Hawaiian Shirt Day. I
Speaker 3: don't look good in Hawaiian shirts. Of course you would argue,
Speaker 3: I don't look good in a lot of things, but
Speaker 3: Hawaiian shirts. I used to have a lot of them,
Speaker 3: and then people pointed out that they made me look
Speaker 3: like job of the hut, so I don't really have
Speaker 3: any at this particular point.
Speaker 4: Some of them look like tablecloths, so I actually only
Speaker 4: have one, and I got it there in Maui the
Speaker 4: last time we were on that island. I'm not a
Speaker 4: big Hawaiian shirt guy either.
Speaker 3: Yeah, when you're a bigger guy, it often looks like
Speaker 3: a moo MoU and it's not a great look. But
Speaker 3: I used to love them because they were very comfortable,
Speaker 3: and in my head because they had a call or
Speaker 3: the Hawaiian shirt, I was like, Okay, I must be
Speaker 3: looking good. And then other people say, you know, it's
Speaker 3: not a really good look. You know, it's not it's
Speaker 3: not particularly great there, and I'm like, all right, there
Speaker 3: you go. It was also National work from a Home
Speaker 3: for Wellness Day. That must be one of it. That
Speaker 3: sounds like a fugesy holiday. They must have just came
Speaker 3: up with that in like the last couple of years.
Speaker 5: Right, Oh, that's for sure from COVID.
Speaker 1: Gotta be gott to be definitely.
Speaker 4: Feel like Grudy Gobert invented that day.
Speaker 1: It's pretty pretty bad.
Speaker 3: I Hey, I I like, I have a remote studio,
Speaker 3: which I love. It's great, but I don't know that
Speaker 3: my wellness has improved my time. I have extra time,
Speaker 3: So I guess that's that's pretty important. You have extra
Speaker 3: time and all that. But yeah, that's that's that's another
Speaker 3: one of these these weird holies.
Speaker 1: Anyway, let's get into it right now. Let's not waste
Speaker 1: any time.
Speaker 3: A lot of email, Danny, I was on the East
Speaker 3: Coast doing my thing and so we are reunited on
Speaker 3: this podcast, and many people were wanting details on what
Speaker 3: was a mallor.
Speaker 1: How would you describe this now?
Speaker 3: It was it's not a malord meet and greet because
Speaker 3: it was just me and one other person, well, me
Speaker 3: and my wife and one other person. It was.
Speaker 1: It was like a military.
Speaker 3: Date. Man.
Speaker 1: It's like, I'm old.
Speaker 3: So you remember like the Flintstones and the Jetsons got
Speaker 3: together and it was like whoa. It's like mind blowing, right,
Speaker 3: you know when like shows crossover.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, it's crazy. It's like, whoa, how did that happen?
Speaker 3: It doesn't happen as much anymore because everything is compartmentalized,
Speaker 3: its streaming and all that. But I was on the
Speaker 3: East Coast last week for a fair amount of time.
Speaker 3: Fair amount of time as.
Speaker 1: Most of the week.
Speaker 3: Actually, I was in Boston, and I went to a
Speaker 3: bunch of Northeastern states they're the New England states. In fact,
Speaker 3: I made it to all of them outside of Rhode Island.
Speaker 3: I didn't get the Rhode Island this time. I know
Speaker 3: Redbreast Paul's likely devastated. And I did not get to Connecticut.
Speaker 3: But I made it to all the other states. And
Speaker 3: the only state I've been, I've been to Boston a
Speaker 3: lot over year, is the only state in that region
Speaker 3: that I had not been to. I had to cross
Speaker 3: that off, and I did, and that that box was
Speaker 3: the state of Vermont. And the only reason that was
Speaker 3: not the only reason. There were two reasons I went.
Speaker 3: Number one was I hadn't been there, and I was like, oh,
Speaker 3: you know, it's so close, it's not that far.
Speaker 1: Drive why not listen in my head it wasn't that far.
Speaker 1: I drive so fine.
Speaker 3: The other thing is I have a friend, old radio friend,
Speaker 3: that lives there and someone you know a little bit
Speaker 3: as well, Danny, our buddy Arnie Spanier, who lives in Burlington, Vermont.
Speaker 1: And so I was like, you know.
Speaker 3: I can kill two birds with one stone. I can
Speaker 3: go to Vermont. I don't know anything about Vermont, and
Speaker 3: then I can hang out with with Arnie. So it
Speaker 3: was like military exercises. It's malad militia and Arnie's Army.
Speaker 3: I got together and I had text Arnie and I said,
Speaker 3: you know, I'm going to be in Boston.
Speaker 1: I guess some stuff I gotta do there, and I
Speaker 1: I'd like to.
Speaker 3: Come by and say hello. And he wrote back a
Speaker 3: serious you know. He went back and forth and then
Speaker 3: the text exchange and we're going back and all that stuff.
Speaker 3: Yeah probably, you know, if something comes up, I might
Speaker 3: not make there, make it there, but I most likely
Speaker 3: will be there. And so we're going back and forth,
Speaker 3: and Arnie's recommending like hotels to stay at. He's telling
Speaker 3: me like all the things to do in Vermont. He's
Speaker 3: asking what my hobbies are and all that if I
Speaker 3: could go there, and I ended up having to brave
Speaker 3: The Element's more on that in a second.
Speaker 1: Actually almost I'll do it right now. I almost died
Speaker 1: on the way to Burlington, Vermont.
Speaker 3: So if you're not familiar to get from Boston up
Speaker 3: actually I was in Needham, Massachusetts, and the Boston suburbs
Speaker 3: that's where we're standing.
Speaker 5: Need them.
Speaker 3: To get from Needham to Burlington, Vermont is give or
Speaker 3: take a three and a half to four hour.
Speaker 1: Drive. It's a very lengthy drive. It's I guess the.
Speaker 3: Quickly would be like going from LA to not San Francisco,
Speaker 3: maybe San Jose in that area, you know, you're driving
Speaker 3: a fair amount and maybe it's not even that far,
Speaker 3: but but what either way, So, but I had things
Speaker 3: I had to do. Was I was in Boston, had
Speaker 3: some meetings and things that I cannot talk about. But
Speaker 3: hopefully we'll be able to talk about those things soon soon.
Speaker 3: Fingers crossed on that. So I had, I had, you know,
Speaker 3: adult stuff I had to do.
Speaker 1: Which I don't like being an adult and all that.
Speaker 3: And I had a dinner in Boston that I had
Speaker 3: to attend on Thursday, but I was gonna hang out
Speaker 3: with Arnie on Friday. And so we made a tactical decision,
Speaker 3: much to the chagrid of my wife. We decided, you know,
Speaker 3: to enjoy the day in Vermont. Why don't we just
Speaker 3: drive after the dinner and we'll just drive at night
Speaker 3: and we'll get to Burlington and we'll have all day
Speaker 3: two futts around in Burlington.
Speaker 1: It's like, that's a good idea. You know, we do
Speaker 1: this a lot.
Speaker 3: We get a Friday, we'll just hear, will get in
Speaker 3: the car and drive to Vegas on a whim.
Speaker 1: Let's go to Vegas. What the hell?
Speaker 3: So that's the same thing. Did not look at the
Speaker 3: weather app. Danny did not look at the weather app.
Speaker 3: Figured out, come on, who's worried about weather? Summer August. Yeah,
Speaker 3: So the dinner ended much later than I anticipated. Then
Speaker 3: I had another thing I had to do after the dinner.
Speaker 3: So now it's getting late. It's getting kind of late.
Speaker 3: And we ended up getting back to where we were
Speaker 3: staying at like eleven o'clock. I think it was eleven,
Speaker 3: if I remember doing this off the top of my head,
Speaker 3: so I think it was about eleven, maybe eleven thirty,
Speaker 3: got in the malor Mobile rental Malormobile typed in the
Speaker 3: name of the hotel in Burlington where we were going,
Speaker 3: and then we were on a way and off to
Speaker 3: the races. And we drove and drove and drove, and
Speaker 3: my wife was very tired. I was the driver. She
Speaker 3: fell asleep off and on and she does not know
Speaker 3: this because she was sleeping, but we almost slid off
Speaker 3: the road into the woods multiple times. Because once we
Speaker 3: got out of Boston, it wasn't raining in Boston. But
Speaker 3: we got out of Boston, got up to New Hampshire,
Speaker 3: which is just like it's a suburb of Boston, that
Speaker 3: part of New Hampshire. We got out there and it
Speaker 3: started raining and it rained the rest of the trip,
Speaker 3: the remnants of Hurricane Debbie, which I guess at that
Speaker 3: point was tropical Storm Debbi, and it was just pounding
Speaker 3: that part of the country. And the other thing I
Speaker 3: learned is that on Highway eighty three, which is the
Speaker 3: main drag that goes out to Burlington, Vermont, they don't.
Speaker 1: Believe in lights. They don't believe in lights. There are
Speaker 1: no lights.
Speaker 3: So I'm driving on a very small highway and it's
Speaker 3: raining off and on very hard.
Speaker 1: There are no lights. I don't know where the hell
Speaker 1: I'm going.
Speaker 3: And every like mile there's a sign of like a
Speaker 3: warning sign moose bears, you know, be alert all this
Speaker 3: all this crop and we what's the term I'm looking for?
Speaker 3: You know, when you hit water and you kind of
Speaker 3: like it's you take off. Hydro plane?
Speaker 1: Is that the term?
Speaker 5: I think that's it, right, yeah, hydro plane?
Speaker 1: Yeah. So this happened like many times.
Speaker 3: It's like, oh my god, we have all the ways
Speaker 3: to die on my way to see Arnie Spaniard did
Speaker 3: not have that on my big board that that would
Speaker 3: be how I met my demise. But obviously we made
Speaker 3: it there, and you guys.
Speaker 5: Have quite the history together when it involves water.
Speaker 1: Yes, unreal, absolutely unreal.
Speaker 3: So we got we got to the hotel like three
Speaker 3: point thirty four in the morning, and at hotels they
Speaker 3: don't care what time you check you check out at
Speaker 3: the same time. So they kicked us out at eleven
Speaker 3: in the morning. And you know, it takes a while
Speaker 3: to fall asleep, and I was kind of on adrenaline
Speaker 3: high from almost dying or at least having my night ruined.
Speaker 3: There wasn't really cell reception out there, and some of
Speaker 3: those some of those parts of the highway, and unfortunately
Speaker 3: there weren't many cars on the road because I think
Speaker 3: there's more I think this is true. There's more cows
Speaker 3: in Vermont than people by a wide margin, I believe.
Speaker 3: So we had to check out at eleven am, so
Speaker 3: I probably went to sleep around six or so, got
Speaker 3: up at like ten four hours and Arnie was so
Speaker 3: bright eyed and bushy tailed, the stinking genius that he
Speaker 3: drove up to the hotel to pick us up.
Speaker 1: And he was our chauffeur.
Speaker 3: He was the chamber of Commerce for Burlington and all
Speaker 3: of Vermont.
Speaker 5: Great to see.
Speaker 1: I love Arnie. I've known Arnie.
Speaker 3: We both were doing local radio in La a long
Speaker 3: time ago. We fought the good fight. He dragged me
Speaker 3: into a hot tub and ruined a chance for me
Speaker 3: to have, you know, nice nice time with some beautiful
Speaker 3: women there in Indianapolis. Went a single bad job by
Speaker 3: him because he started talking. But anyway, so it's great
Speaker 3: to see him. He picked us up. He drives a jeep,
Speaker 3: and I guess in Vermont you gotta have a jeep.
Speaker 3: So he's he's got all this planned out. I'm gonna
Speaker 3: show you all of Vermont. We're gonna go everywhere. I
Speaker 3: got zal planned out. I want to show you this,
Speaker 3: that and the other thing, you know, And I was okay.
Speaker 3: So the wife needed a coffee, so we went to
Speaker 3: this local Vermont coffee shop, which is like the the
Speaker 3: Ben and Jerry's of coffee. But I don't drink coffee,
Speaker 3: so I abstained. My wife got some.
Speaker 1: Arnie got some and then said it was disgusting. And
Speaker 1: then we went.
Speaker 3: On a pilgrimage driving around. We drove all over Burlington
Speaker 3: and some of the other towns around there. Arnie took us.
Speaker 3: You'd get a kick out of this. Danny Arnie takes
Speaker 3: us to the store. He buys all the Fox Sports
Speaker 3: radio producers maple syrup.
Speaker 1: We went in there and it's ah.
Speaker 5: You were at the source.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I was at the I was at ground
Speaker 3: zero for maple syrup. And uh we went in there
Speaker 3: and it was pretty impressive. Not gonna lie a massive
Speaker 3: gift shop. Uh, it was like the Walmart of or
Speaker 3: Costco of maple syrup in in Vermont.
Speaker 1: Let me see if I can find the name here.
Speaker 1: I didn't. I gotta I gotta look.
Speaker 3: At my photos. I didn't write down the name. If
Speaker 3: you're in Vermont, you know exactly what I'm what I'm
Speaker 3: discussing here. But the page down going those for the
Speaker 3: photos here, and it took took a few, took a few.
Speaker 3: Uh let's see it's uh oh yeah. We took one
Speaker 3: right out in front, which I posted on social media.
Speaker 3: It's a cold Hollow cider mill. If you're ever Inton, Vermont,
Speaker 3: Cold Hollow Cider Mill, that is the that is the place.
Speaker 3: So they have like a whole, like a mile of
Speaker 3: maple syrup. Might be exaggerating, Maybe it was two miles.
Speaker 3: And then they have souvenirs, Vermont souvenirs, you know, all
Speaker 3: the usual stuff like you're at the gift shop at
Speaker 3: Disneyland or disney World or whatever. So they had all that.
Speaker 3: They had maple donuts, which were okay, I.
Speaker 1: Mean, I'm not gonna lie. They weren't the greatest thing
Speaker 1: in the world.
Speaker 3: So then we my wife bought like, oh my god,
Speaker 3: she's oh my god, maple.
Speaker 1: Syrup, and she bought a time.
Speaker 3: We had to buy another suitcase just to put the
Speaker 3: maple syrup in the suitcase. That's how much maple syrup
Speaker 3: she bought. And I don't even know how much it cost.
Speaker 1: My god.
Speaker 3: So then we're driving around and we drove by the
Speaker 3: world headquarters of Ben and Jerry's ice.
Speaker 1: Cream, the Wolkesters, and.
Speaker 3: I am not a big fan of their politics or whatever,
Speaker 3: so we abstained from that. I didn't we didn't actually
Speaker 3: have time. My wife did want to go and get
Speaker 3: the Ben and Jerry's there. We ended up eating it
Speaker 3: at a different location. We went to Stove Vermont. You
Speaker 3: ever heard of Stove Vermont. There's a famous church. This
Speaker 3: is all within like forty minutes of Burlington and Stove,
Speaker 3: Vermont is the ski capital of the Eastern United States,
Speaker 3: and it is an amazing town. It's like you're living
Speaker 3: in a postcard. They have this old white church. In fact,
Speaker 3: if you type in Stove Vermont, I think that's the
Speaker 3: first thing that comes up the hills and then you'll
Speaker 3: see this famous white church that goes back many, many years.
Speaker 3: I don't know how it is, but it was very
Speaker 3: prominent in Stove Vermont, very prominent. And you know, we're
Speaker 3: moving around doing all that little snow because it was
Speaker 3: it's August.
Speaker 1: It was just last week.
Speaker 3: And uh, and Arnie's given us the whole deal, the
Speaker 3: whole information thing. He's like, oh, yeah, this is where
Speaker 3: they film the Hallmark movies. And he says there's a
Speaker 3: lot of movie productions that come here in Burlington, in
Speaker 3: Stoue Vermont. And since Arnie's the Chamber of Commerce guy,
Speaker 3: he's like breaking it all down, Like Arnie, I live
Speaker 3: in Hollywood. I mean, I'm not, you know, it's good
Speaker 3: for you. But and Arnie's from La so he gets it.
Speaker 3: But he was He's he told me, He's like, yeah,
Speaker 3: they want the locals that they don't. It's so expressive
Speaker 3: to get people to come out here. That when they
Speaker 3: film movies, they invite the locals to come down and
Speaker 3: be extras in the movies because they need bodies for
Speaker 3: the movies. And he said they filmed Beetlejuice too, was
Speaker 3: filmed in in that I think it was in Burlington,
Speaker 3: and he said he was invited.
Speaker 1: He said, I didn't do it.
Speaker 5: I didn't do it.
Speaker 1: So then we kept going around.
Speaker 3: We ended up at Church Street, which is like their
Speaker 3: famous I say famous. I'd never heard of it before
Speaker 3: Arnie told me about it, but they have a bunch
Speaker 3: of shops. It's kind of a cool vibe, hipster vibe
Speaker 3: in Burlington. And we did that, walked around there, a
Speaker 3: lot of against souvenirs, Nick Knacks stuff that will land
Speaker 3: up in the landfill, but it has Vermon on it.
Speaker 3: And there's actually there was another ben in Jerry's there.
Speaker 3: So my wife's like, I gotta get Berend and Jerry's whatever,
Speaker 3: Just get me, give me something with cookies and ice
Speaker 3: cream and I'll be good and so done.
Speaker 1: We did that.
Speaker 3: We walked by actually I would have real So we
Speaker 3: walked by the office what Arnie claimed this was his
Speaker 3: office Bernie Sanders office is in Burlington, and we walked by,
Speaker 3: and Arnie sad, oh, yeah, he's not here. You know,
Speaker 3: I've seen him before though he comes in here.
Speaker 1: Everyone here right now.
Speaker 3: And so I posted something on social media. I was like,
Speaker 3: I didn't I didn't see that whack a doodle Bernie say.
Speaker 3: And so, of course, with anything political, that's a.
Speaker 1: Third rail, Momma, that's a third rail.
Speaker 3: And it always starts like this anytime you mentioned anything political,
Speaker 3: it's I like your show, but you know, it's like,
Speaker 3: that's that whole thing.
Speaker 1: I like your show.
Speaker 3: But you know, right there, the but everything before the
Speaker 3: butt's a lie, as we like.
Speaker 4: To say, but your political views, I can't agree a
Speaker 4: line with my own.
Speaker 3: So therefore I must disown you, and I must send
Speaker 3: you to the hoo's gal. I would like to point out,
Speaker 3: maybe why don't we just do the phrase of the
Speaker 3: week right now.
Speaker 1: We'll do the phrase. Are you ready for the phrase
Speaker 1: of the week, Danny.
Speaker 5: The phrase of the week.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So the phrase of the week is whackadoo, because
Speaker 3: that's the word that triggered some of Bernie is who
Speaker 3: do they what do they call Bernie's fans?
Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm sure there's a nickname for him,
Speaker 1: but whatever, Who cares? Uh?
Speaker 3: So I called Bernie a wackadoodle. Some people got upset.
Speaker 3: I guess some angry emails. You know, that whole thing's
Speaker 3: just part of the job. You're not doing your job.
Speaker 3: If everyone loves you, some people have to hate you.
Speaker 5: Right.
Speaker 1: Isn't that the Howard Stern thing?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 1: The people that hated and listen longer and all that stuff.
Speaker 3: And anyway, wackadoodle is if you don't know what the
Speaker 3: true set the Bernie Bros.
Speaker 1: The Bernie Bros. There you go.
Speaker 3: So the whack a doodle describes someone who is a bizarre, foolish,
Speaker 3: you know, kind of in an amusing way, that kind
Speaker 3: of thing. Whack a doodle comes from the word wacky.
Speaker 3: It's kind of obvious. It goes back to the mid
Speaker 3: eighteen hundreds in England and it started out as wacky
Speaker 3: and it was called the fool simpleton, left handed person.
Speaker 1: There's a shot at lefties.
Speaker 3: And so from that point, advancing forward through the years
Speaker 3: in by the nineteen thirties, so roughly eighty years later,
Speaker 3: it became a way of describing someone who was eccentric,
Speaker 3: and by the nineteen fifties, wackadoo emerged and it kind
Speaker 3: of a playful addition.
Speaker 1: And here's a fun fact for you.
Speaker 3: I don't know if we can get this and play
Speaker 3: a little bit on the podcast here, Danny I fell
Speaker 3: down this wack a doodle. Hole was like, I didn't
Speaker 3: realize wackadoodle would trigger people. I was like, I use
Speaker 3: that term a lot. I didn't realize that was an
Speaker 3: offensive term to me. All politicians are whackadoodles. Otherwise, why
Speaker 3: would you become a politician? Normal people do not go
Speaker 3: into politics. Good people don't go into politics. Right, You've
Speaker 3: got to be a bit of a whack adoodle, right, Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 4: We actually spoke about this on the Afternoon Show, saying
Speaker 4: that the reason there's not a lot of good youngsters
Speaker 4: in that game right now is because there's not a
Speaker 4: lot in it for them. It's kind of all negative,
Speaker 4: you know, for you if you go take bullets in
Speaker 4: that industry.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's not it's not great.
Speaker 3: And now you can make a lot of money as
Speaker 3: a politician when you're done, like the amount of money,
Speaker 3: I mean a lot of I mean you go everyone
Speaker 3: that like goes into the political machine and leaves. I
Speaker 3: saw a story about like Barack Obama, who was kind
Speaker 3: of a regular guy, didn't have a lot of money
Speaker 3: when he went into politics, and now after he's been president,
Speaker 3: he's worth hundreds of millions of dollars. And you hear
Speaker 3: stories about congress people that go in and then they
Speaker 3: get side you know, side deals when they get out
Speaker 3: and they get but yeah, you're right, at a young age,
Speaker 3: it's a tough racket. But Bill Haley and his comments
Speaker 3: saying whack a do that was their song, which is
Speaker 3: a you know, whack a doodle, wack a do. It
Speaker 3: was a nineteen fifty six tune Razzle Dazzle, So it
Speaker 3: was in their razzle that they added that in there.
Speaker 1: So you know, there's a fun fact.
Speaker 3: The phrase of the week which triggered some what are
Speaker 3: they called Bernie Bros?
Speaker 1: Is that what they go? Yeah, whack a doodle, whack
Speaker 1: a doodle doo.
Speaker 5: I googled that really quick.
Speaker 4: I googled Bernie Sanders fans, and Bernie Bros Came up. Okay, honestly,
Speaker 4: politics are not my racket.
Speaker 3: Nor mine, nor mine, And uh yeah, I have been
Speaker 3: asked by people say will you cross over and do
Speaker 3: political radio. I said, well, if I can't get a
Speaker 3: job in sports and I need to put Ramen noodles
Speaker 3: on my plate, sure, But until that happens, until I
Speaker 3: run out of every venue to practice the dark arts
Speaker 3: of sports gas baggery, I will, I will abstain from
Speaker 3: that world.
Speaker 4: That would rather be a jock on the air playing
Speaker 4: classical music before I stepped my foot into politics on
Speaker 4: the radio.
Speaker 5: I would.
Speaker 4: I think I would fall asleep if I worked out
Speaker 4: a politics radio station.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it's it's a tough racket.
Speaker 3: But everything now has covered the same, to be honest
Speaker 3: with everything's got to be polarizing right now.
Speaker 1: Now people get offended.
Speaker 3: Sports takes and even sports things have become political in
Speaker 3: many ways.
Speaker 1: It's a bizarre thing.
Speaker 3: So just to put the ball on the travel log,
Speaker 3: the Malard travel log from my day with Arnie.
Speaker 1: We went by the big Lake there in.
Speaker 3: Oh god, I don't remember the name of it now,
Speaker 3: the Big Lake in Burlington, which I believe, No it's not,
Speaker 3: but it goes all the way into Canada. Saw a
Speaker 3: lot of a lot of good people. I don't know
Speaker 3: if they're good people, but people from Canada Arnie said
Speaker 3: that a lot of the Montreal is like an hour
Speaker 3: away or hour and a half away from Burlington. And
Speaker 3: Arnie's like, oh yeah, Lake Champlain, I believe is what
Speaker 3: it's called right there in Burlington. And Arnie's like, oh yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: we get a lot of Canadians that come down here,
Speaker 3: and true enough on Church Street filled with Canadians and
Speaker 3: we were going to go to Montreal. I was like,
Speaker 3: we're were this close to Montreal, why don't we go
Speaker 3: to Montreal? And we realized we didn't have passports, so
Speaker 3: we couldn't go, which sucks. You're not allowed to go
Speaker 3: into Canada unless you have a passport, right, yes, yeah,
Speaker 3: I mean years ago, before nine to eleven, you could
Speaker 3: go in there with a driver's license, but now you
Speaker 3: need to have a it's been twenty years, but over
Speaker 3: twenty years, but you have to have passport. So we
Speaker 3: were close a lot of Canadians there, a lot of
Speaker 3: that really quick.
Speaker 4: I was just going to say, cue the conspiracy music.
Speaker 4: Lake Champlain is home to the oldest known fossil reef
Speaker 4: in the world, and some think that there may still
Speaker 4: be a dinosaur in the lake. It's a mysterious creature
Speaker 4: called Champ, similar to the Lochness monster that many have
Speaker 4: claimed to see while enjoying the lake there.
Speaker 3: Yes, in fact, Artie took us by. There's a minor
Speaker 3: league baseball team that used to be affiliated but then
Speaker 3: Rob Manford in minor league baseball because he ruins everything.
Speaker 3: And they they're called like the River Monsters or something
Speaker 3: like that, or they've got some bizarre like monster name.
Speaker 1: And we went in. That's actually a funny story.
Speaker 3: So we went into the gift shop because Arnie is like,
Speaker 3: buy a hat, and they had like the River Monster
Speaker 3: was the logo of the team, and so I was
Speaker 3: looking at the hats. We go into the store and
Speaker 3: this is how this is how crazy Burlington Vermont is
Speaker 3: and you appreciate this Danny living in La Here. We
Speaker 3: go to the store and there's other customers in the store.
Speaker 3: There was no employee in the store. No one was
Speaker 3: there to like ring up the customers.
Speaker 1: Literally we were the the.
Speaker 3: Store was left open and there was no employee in
Speaker 3: the store, and we're like what the you know, But
Speaker 3: and then so we walked out because I was like,
Speaker 3: that's free. If they're not here, it's free, you know,
Speaker 3: Like I don't think that's how it works already. He
Speaker 3: was kidding, of course, but I didn't get a hat.
Speaker 1: I was gonna buy.
Speaker 3: One of these river monsters had things, but I didn't
Speaker 3: end up doing it. And so we got in the car.
Speaker 3: We were driving back down to Boston.
Speaker 5: She should have took it and just left a ten
Speaker 5: dollars bill on the counter.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that was an option.
Speaker 3: So we're driving back down through you know, you know,
Speaker 3: the the back roads there, through the back roads.
Speaker 1: Oh, I should have gone through Springfield. I didn't do that.
Speaker 1: But anyway, we're driving.
Speaker 3: We're driving, and we ended up driving through the capital
Speaker 3: of the beautiful state of Vermont. And this was the
Speaker 3: one state when I was a kid, I loved the
Speaker 3: you know, when you were in elementary school and you
Speaker 3: had to learn the capitals. Like your your son, little
Speaker 3: baby gree in a few years is going to have
Speaker 3: to learn the capital.
Speaker 1: I think they still make kids learn the capitals, don't they.
Speaker 5: I don't know.
Speaker 3: I'm sure maybe they know they hate America so much,
Speaker 3: you learn the you know, capitals of other countries.
Speaker 1: But but whatever, who cares?
Speaker 3: So som driving back and we drove by the capitol,
Speaker 3: and I told uh. Now, we drove back during the day,
Speaker 3: but again it was still raining because the storm was
Speaker 3: still hanging over that part of the country, the remnants
Speaker 3: of that tropical storm or hurricane whatever it was. So
Speaker 3: we're driving back down and we drive through Mont. Is
Speaker 3: it mont Pelier or how do you pronounce it? I
Speaker 3: don't even know how to pronounce.
Speaker 1: The capital over the month Peeler. No, I don't think
Speaker 1: that's it. They stole it from the French.
Speaker 3: And so we drove through there and I had heard
Speaker 3: it was a shithole, and I was like, wow, I
Speaker 3: had really nice capitol building with a golden dome, which
Speaker 3: was great, and that that was wonderful. It is the
Speaker 3: smallest capital city in the United States. It is the
Speaker 3: also the only US state capital without a McDonald's. This
Speaker 3: is it's just like a three roads and that's it.
Speaker 3: Three roads and that's it. And it would make sense
Speaker 3: because again, Vermont has the greatest number of dairy cows
Speaker 3: in the country and there are like five cities in
Speaker 3: Vermont larger than the.
Speaker 1: Capital of Vermona.
Speaker 3: I mean, it's beautiful because you've got the the Appalachian
Speaker 3: Mountain Range and there's other mountains that aren't part of that,
Speaker 3: but are there as well? And uh and great, and
Speaker 3: so drove through the capital, took a couple of photos,
Speaker 3: got back on the road and tried to avoid dying.
Speaker 3: A little easier with the sun up, however, still a
Speaker 3: long drive, more cars on the road because it was
Speaker 3: during the day, and uh, you know, it was a
Speaker 3: bit of an issue. And uh now we we then
Speaker 3: went through, uh, Dartmouth, which is a Ivy League institution.
Speaker 1: You've heard of Dartmouth, right famous, that's in New Hampshire.
Speaker 3: I went by, went by there pouring rain, stopped to
Speaker 3: get something to drink, and we were like, oh, let's walk.
Speaker 1: Around the Dartmouth campus.
Speaker 3: You know how often are you at dart So we
Speaker 3: start walking around and I was I was going to
Speaker 3: get I wanted to get a hat.
Speaker 1: I collect these hats.
Speaker 3: Dandy and the school gift shop that has all the
Speaker 3: hats is closed because it was like five thirty or
Speaker 3: six or something like that, so that was closed.
Speaker 1: Couldn't get a hat.
Speaker 3: We started walking towards the campus and then it just unloaded,
Speaker 3: just spit all over us. It was a total debacle,
Speaker 3: And so I didn't really see much of the Dartmouth campus.
Speaker 3: It looked beautiful, It looked just absolutely wonderful, but I
Speaker 3: couldn't really get into it because I.
Speaker 1: Was pouring rain. We didn't have umbrellas, didn't bring the
Speaker 1: malleor umbrella. Bad planning by me. We have fun. We
Speaker 1: have a fun fact, Danny, though I do have a
Speaker 1: fun fact.
Speaker 3: This.
Speaker 1: I jotted this down. Are you ready for a fun fact?
Speaker 5: And we have the whole world is ready for a
Speaker 5: ben mallor fun fact? All right?
Speaker 3: So mentioned McDonald's the Golden Arches there McDonald's. A couple
Speaker 3: of fun facts on McDonald's. Since there is no McDonald's
Speaker 3: in the state capitol, the only US state capital without
Speaker 3: McDonald's in Vermont, they did some math. This is the
Speaker 3: last data we have is some twenty twenty one, so
Speaker 3: it's a few years old. How many burgers per second?
Speaker 3: How many burgers per second does McDonald sell globally as
Speaker 3: of twenty twenty one? As of twenty twenty one, that
Speaker 3: is the question the esteem panel can now answer. Take
Speaker 3: a guess, and I don't go too crazy here, because
Speaker 3: again McDonald's they have locations all over the place, but
Speaker 3: per second, per second, and remember they're not open most
Speaker 3: locations aren't open twenty four hours a day.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'll say three hundred.
Speaker 3: I see what you've done now is you've ruined the game.
Speaker 3: We call that the Garcia. We call that, call that
Speaker 3: the ady Garcia.
Speaker 1: You ruined the game.
Speaker 3: No, McDonald's. I thought this was impressive. They sold seventy
Speaker 3: five burgers a second. Wow, eighty six thousand, four hundred
Speaker 3: seconds in a day. So if you do the math
Speaker 3: on that, and they have done it, I didn't do it.
Speaker 3: They did it, and then I just copied it. So
Speaker 3: McDonald sells six point four eight billion burgers per day.
Speaker 3: And then to get the second per second, you divide
Speaker 3: the six point four eight they said they were doing,
Speaker 3: no math, six point four eight million into the eighty
Speaker 3: six thousand, four hundred seconds, and you get seventy five
Speaker 3: burgers a second. And so that that breaks down to
Speaker 3: two point four billion burgers a year that they sell.
Speaker 1: That's when they.
Speaker 3: Say billions and billions of burgers on the sign. They
Speaker 3: ain't kidding two point four.
Speaker 4: Billion billions and billions and billions billions.
Speaker 3: We're telling you billions and billions and billions. Oh. Also,
Speaker 3: the first drive through the first McDonald's drive through.
Speaker 5: You know where it was for military person?
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, yes.
Speaker 3: The first McDonald's drive through was built in nineteen seventy five,
Speaker 3: which may or may not be the year I was
Speaker 3: built in Sierra Vista, Arizona. It was near a military
Speaker 3: base and the only reason they did it was because
Speaker 3: of the military They were not allowed to exit their
Speaker 3: vehicles off post while wearing their military uniform was against
Speaker 3: the rules, and so they wanted burgers, but they couldn't
Speaker 3: go into the store to get to burgers. So McDonald's like,
Speaker 3: all right, we'll put this drive through in and here
Speaker 3: you go and the rest is his door. Re all right,
Speaker 3: we'll get out on that note, no foody fund this week.
Speaker 3: I mean, there were some good food stories, but do
Speaker 3: we really want to hear about Cinnabon teaming up with
Speaker 3: warheads or stuff like that.
Speaker 1: I think we're good. I think with that.
Speaker 3: I had to get all the Arny stories, and I
Speaker 3: didn't get to all the Arni stories.
Speaker 1: I didn't didn't get to them all.
Speaker 3: But we will press on a full weekend here. This
Speaker 3: is our Friday pod obviously, but we'll have a new
Speaker 3: podcast on Saturday and Sunday and we'll get in I
Speaker 3: plan if we if we have time tomorrow, we'll get
Speaker 3: into a flash mob mal or meet and greet situation.
Speaker 3: Not a full Mallo meet and greet, but a flash
Speaker 3: mob Malla meet and greet. We'll get to that tomorrow.
Speaker 3: Have a wonderful Friday, Danny, You've got a weird schedule
Speaker 3: right this this Friday.
Speaker 1: You're not doing your normal schedule.
Speaker 3: My correcting that you're up early, but you've got you've
Speaker 3: got a bunch of stuff here shortly right.
Speaker 4: Well, we did finish the Dan Patrick hat trick. Okay,
Speaker 4: Thursday morning was our last morning filling for DP. So
Speaker 4: we're actually back for one day on the afternoon show,
Speaker 4: which is later today two to four pm on the
Speaker 4: West Side, and that is five to seven pm in
Speaker 4: beautiful Vermont.
Speaker 1: And that just proves I do not look at the schedule.
Speaker 1: I do not.
Speaker 5: I do not.
Speaker 3: That proves I have no idea when anyone's doing anything. Anyway,
Speaker 3: have a wonderful rest of your Friday. Hey, thank you
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Speaker 3: read something that you think is interesting.
Speaker 1: Send it to me.
Speaker 3: Maybe I'll use it, Maybe I want on the podcast
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Speaker 3: rest your Friday. Will catch you tomorrow.
Speaker 5: Austa Posta got a murder.
Speaker 1: I gotta go.