Speaker 1: Kutbooms.
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 soul fashion of fairness. He
Speaker 2: treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the
Speaker 2: rich pill poppers in the penthouse.
Speaker 3: 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 3: In the air emywhere just relax your mind because the
Speaker 3: weekend has begun, at least for me, and I don't
Speaker 3: know for Danny.
Speaker 1: He's still got other stuff to do.
Speaker 3: But it is the Fifth Hour with me, Ben Mahler
Speaker 3: and the man booing over there, Danny g. As we
Speaker 3: slide in to the extra Crispy not original recipe. This
Speaker 3: is the Extra Spicy Fifth Hour podcast. And it is Friday,
Speaker 3: the third day of May. As we head into the weekend,
Speaker 3: it's Kentucky Derby weekend, which means over the weekend we
Speaker 3: will have lots of photos on social media of really
Speaker 3: wealthy people and people that think they're very important wearing
Speaker 3: really funny hats.
Speaker 4: If you hadn't read the DraftKings, Kentucky Derby commercial of
Speaker 4: the past two weeks. Would you have known that it
Speaker 4: was coming up this weekend?
Speaker 3: No, We've done that National Thoroughbred Racing commercial a ton.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah for the safety, yeah, the improvements of the
Speaker 4: safety of the sport. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So I'm not that bright, I admit it. I don't
Speaker 1: really know that much.
Speaker 3: But I figured that since we were doing that, there
Speaker 3: must be a big horse race. And then I was like, well,
Speaker 3: it's I can't believe it's already May. That's usually what
Speaker 3: happens after April. And I was like, okay, so this
Speaker 3: is around the time we have the Kentucky Derby. And
Speaker 3: sure enough, the Kentucky Derby is this weekend, which at
Speaker 3: one point when I first started at the Premiere then
Speaker 3: it was called the Premiere Radio Networks. Now it's just
Speaker 3: called the Premiere Networks. I think, I think that's what
Speaker 3: it's called, but I don't even know the name of
Speaker 3: the company. But they carried they were the play by
Speaker 3: Blay home of the Kentucky Derby. They had the rights
Speaker 3: to the Kentucky Derby when I first started at the company.
Speaker 3: And it's the perfect sporting event for today's times cause
Speaker 3: it's the greatest two minutes.
Speaker 1: In sport, you can give two minutes to the Kentucky Derby.
Speaker 3: You don't have to sit there and watch all the
Speaker 3: nonsense before and the nonsense after. But you're fine for
Speaker 3: a couple minutes if you can time it, if you
Speaker 3: know when the post time is and you can get
Speaker 3: in there, it's perfect. You know, you can enjoy it
Speaker 3: and then move on with your day and you can
Speaker 3: watch it on your phone or whatever you want.
Speaker 4: Perfect.
Speaker 1: It's a perfect sporting event. Perfect.
Speaker 4: Yeah. I watch this every year, but the build up,
Speaker 4: the lead up to the race, it's so time consuming
Speaker 4: and I get kind of antsy. I'm like, I want
Speaker 4: to see the race already, and by the time they
Speaker 4: finally get to it, it's just man, talk about two
Speaker 4: three four hours of lead up for just two minutes.
Speaker 4: It feels like when you're at a theme park and
Speaker 4: you wait for two hours to get on a stupid
Speaker 4: roller coaster that lasts for thirty five seconds.
Speaker 3: Well, some have used the analogy, and this would be inappropriate.
Speaker 3: I should not say this, but some have used the analogy.
Speaker 3: To me, it's kind of like dating. You know, a
Speaker 3: lot of meals, a lot of you know, going out
Speaker 3: a lot of small talk for about two minutes.
Speaker 4: You know you can finish in eleven seconds, and you
Speaker 4: finally get with her exactly.
Speaker 3: He spent all this time, and then the payoff does
Speaker 3: not last all that long. Now, if Rob Manford ran
Speaker 3: the Kentucky Derby, he'd be like, all right, we got
Speaker 3: short in this race. It's too long. It's two and
Speaker 3: a half three minutes. We gotta get this thing down
Speaker 3: to sixty seconds or no one's gonna watch, dud.
Speaker 4: You're not kidding men. Can I tell you about that
Speaker 4: B game in Arizona? It's the extra innings. My wife,
Speaker 4: he walks in the bedroom. I have it on and
Speaker 4: she's like, why do they still have the stupid runner
Speaker 4: on second? And I say, you gotta ask your boy
Speaker 4: Rob Manfred about that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, man, fraud.
Speaker 4: They already sped it up. It's fast enough, get rid
Speaker 4: of that. I explain to her that in the postseason
Speaker 4: it goes away. She's like, that's stupid. The game's already
Speaker 4: fast enough. Now get rid of that altogether. Yeah.
Speaker 3: They just want to get everything over with as quickly
Speaker 3: as they possibly can. It's like once they get passed,
Speaker 3: they don't want to play past ten o'clock. Most of
Speaker 3: the games start at seven o'clock. Some of them now
Speaker 3: start a little bit before seven. In your local city,
Speaker 3: it'll start like six fifty or something like that. But
Speaker 3: they they don't want to go past ten, like something happens.
Speaker 3: It's like if you go past ten, you're in molten
Speaker 3: lava or something along those lines.
Speaker 1: Anyway, it is.
Speaker 3: It is May thirty, as we stated, and it is
Speaker 3: National Paranormal Day. That's not really that big for us,
Speaker 3: but if you're George Nori, this is a massive day,
Speaker 3: right if over there at coast to coast and all,
Speaker 3: it's a massive holiday and you try to figure out
Speaker 3: the paril normal, fascinated with the unknowable.
Speaker 1: The other side, there's.
Speaker 4: Like an a fool person beside it and another one inside,
Speaker 4: and it has big guys.
Speaker 2: They're looking at us.
Speaker 4: Yeah, big guys.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna go get some alien beef jerky on my
Speaker 3: way to Vegas, is what I'm gonna get. In beautiful Baker, California,
Speaker 3: it's International Wild Koaladay.
Speaker 4: Today, which is which is big.
Speaker 3: And my favorite Koala thing when I was a kid
Speaker 3: is a big deal. My mom spent about seven months,
Speaker 3: as I remember it's probably about a week, but for
Speaker 3: when I was a child, it was like seven months.
Speaker 1: She was so excited that they had koalas at.
Speaker 3: The San Diego Zoo and we were going to go
Speaker 3: on a family trip to the San Diego Zoo to
Speaker 3: see koalas. And she kept telling me about koalas and
Speaker 3: I was like, Oh, this is going to be the
Speaker 3: most exciting thing in the world. And we went to
Speaker 3: the San Diego Zoo to see quals when I was
Speaker 3: a kid, and A they were hiding, couldn't really find them,
Speaker 3: and B when we saw them, they were like sleeping, yawning.
Speaker 4: It was it was like the Yeah, it's a huge ripoff.
Speaker 4: It's like the famous otter at the Monterey Bay Aquarium.
Speaker 4: This otter is famous for dancing around and communicating with
Speaker 4: people through the glass. I mean, schools would bring their
Speaker 4: kids filled on buses to see this dumb otter. So
Speaker 4: I finally go there. I take my girlfriend. At the time,
Speaker 4: I'm showing off like yeah, wait to see this famous otter.
Speaker 4: We get there, this little bastard's curled up in a ball,
Speaker 4: sleeping the whole time. The whole time, and then I'm like, well,
Speaker 4: we'll come back, We'll come back at the end.
Speaker 1: Came back.
Speaker 4: The bastard was still asleep.
Speaker 3: They probably gave it adderall to do the commercial.
Speaker 4: You saw him after his morning crash.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but we did talk about this on this podcast.
Speaker 3: The greatest Koala bear thing is actually the video of
Speaker 3: them fighting in Australia.
Speaker 1: It's an old video. We thought it was new, but
Speaker 1: it's actually an old video.
Speaker 3: But they literally sleep like what was it fourteen fifteen
Speaker 3: sixteen hours a day or something like that, some ridiculous
Speaker 3: amount of time.
Speaker 1: They're hardly awake.
Speaker 3: And when they're awake, aren't they always drugged? Because of
Speaker 3: the eucalyptus they.
Speaker 4: Eat sounds like some of your listeners and what they
Speaker 4: do in the daytime?
Speaker 3: Ow dare you anyway? So international wild? The Koala day
Speaker 3: always big. They also we mentioned the Kentucky Derby. It
Speaker 3: is Kentucky Oaks Day today, which I'm told this is
Speaker 3: also part nobody talks about Kentucky Oaks. Have you you know,
Speaker 3: have you been to the Kentucky Derby.
Speaker 1: I've never been to the Kentucky You've never been.
Speaker 3: No, you know, a guy did college radio with you
Speaker 3: would not know this because how would you know this
Speaker 3: a guy did college radio with at ksb Ard Satify College,
Speaker 3: ended up becoming the public address announcer at Churchill Downs.
Speaker 3: He got into horse racing. I've told the story a
Speaker 3: few times over the years. I had an opportunity early
Speaker 3: in my radio career when I was working in San
Speaker 3: Diego to be the track radio reporter, and I did
Speaker 3: consider it. Now, I did not like horse racing at
Speaker 3: the time. I've grown to like it as i've gotten older.
Speaker 3: At the time, I didn't know anything about it. I
Speaker 3: didn't never been to the track. But the job was open.
Speaker 3: And if you remember, this is back in the Stone Age,
Speaker 3: before the Internet, and so the way it would work
Speaker 3: is the local race tracks, Hollywood Park and Santa Anita.
Speaker 3: They would pay someone a lot of money to call
Speaker 3: in every hour on a couple of different radio stations
Speaker 3: and give the results from the third race at Santa
Speaker 3: Anita or the fourth race at Hollywood Park. And you'd
Speaker 3: give the results and that was your gig, and you
Speaker 3: got paid a lot of money for it. At the time,
Speaker 3: it was a lot more money than I didn't have
Speaker 3: any money at the time.
Speaker 4: This was before ESPN the phone caught on.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was a long time ago, but I needless
Speaker 3: to say, I didn't a I didn't take the job
Speaker 3: and be that job doesn't exist anymore.
Speaker 1: But at the time, I was like, this is pretty.
Speaker 3: Attractive because there's money, but I do it because I
Speaker 3: didn't really care that much about horse racing. It's one
Speaker 3: of those decisions that in hindsight, I think I made
Speaker 3: the right call on that one.
Speaker 4: You know, you're you're a radio nerd, you would love this.
Speaker 4: So when San Francisco, when the Giants there had an
Speaker 4: opening for their voice, their public addresses, the public address. Yeah,
Speaker 4: the stadium public address announcer job was open. And as
Speaker 4: you know, these are very rare jobs to open because
Speaker 4: when people get in those jobs they stay until they croak. Yeah. Right,
Speaker 4: it's a high paying gig, and it's a high profile gig.
Speaker 4: As you can imagine, every radio guy within three hundred
Speaker 4: miles showed up and lined up for the tryouts. And
Speaker 4: I was just a kid at the time. So I
Speaker 4: go there. I line up with a couple of radio
Speaker 4: buddies from one of my first I think it was
Speaker 4: my very first radio station, and Ben it was so funny,
Speaker 4: the very first guy and you got they gave you
Speaker 4: lines to read, and so your voice this is booming
Speaker 4: through the stadium. The very first guy was like some
Speaker 4: famous DJ from like a big FM oldies station in
Speaker 4: the Bay Area. His voice boomed through the stadium Like God.
Speaker 4: Half the people got out of the line and went
Speaker 4: back to their cars. Yeah, I'm not competing with that, dude.
Speaker 4: Why And it turns out they hired in the very
Speaker 4: very San Francisco thing to do. They hired the very
Speaker 4: first female that MLB ever had as a public address announcer. Yeah,
Speaker 4: and let me tell you, and I'm not being yeah,
Speaker 4: not Neanderthals, but she was not the best who audition
Speaker 4: that day. She just was not.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So they gave it because they wanted to, you know,
Speaker 3: impress their friends, I guess.
Speaker 4: But I actually it's like what your rams did back
Speaker 4: in the day and what they'd still do with cheerleaders.
Speaker 3: All right, Well, I don't look at the cheerleaders. I'm
Speaker 3: there for the game. But anyway, I actually have a
Speaker 3: public address announcer a story that I indirectly know the
Speaker 3: public address announcer the New York Yankees, and we have
Speaker 3: a mutual friend and I've I've been introduced to him
Speaker 3: I've met him a few times. His name is Paul Olden, the.
Speaker 4: Great Ted so Yeah, I know that guy's name.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Ted Ted Soble and Paul Olden kind of grew
Speaker 3: up in LA radio together. They went to school together,
Speaker 3: and Paul Olden went on he went to Dorsey High
Speaker 3: School where my dad went by the way in l A.
Speaker 1: And was a play by play guy for.
Speaker 3: The Angels, the Devil Rays, the Cleveland and he's all
Speaker 3: these teams back in the day and and he he's
Speaker 3: most famous though for one question that he that he
Speaker 3: asked Tommy the sorta what's.
Speaker 1: Your opinion of Kingman's performed? How do you think my opinion?
Speaker 4: King Guy?
Speaker 3: Anyway, so that guy, Paul we gotta ask that question.
Speaker 3: He is now the public address announcer at Yankee Stadium.
Speaker 3: He replaced Bob Shephard. Bob Sheppard had been the Yankee
Speaker 3: Stadium announcers since the nineteen fifties, early nineteen fifties, so
Speaker 3: he was back when you know, Yogi, Bearra and all
Speaker 3: those legends, and Paul Olden replaced them. And I don't
Speaker 3: want to get too inside baseball, but from what I understand,
Speaker 3: Paul Olden makes a lot of money, more money than
Speaker 3: I make. And he just does the eighty one home
Speaker 3: games and then they send him to Florida for spring training.
Speaker 1: He does the games in March in Tampa.
Speaker 4: Like that's what I said. People hold onto those jobs
Speaker 4: until they croak.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he works roughly, and if the Yankees made the playoffs,
Speaker 3: they'll have to work a little bit more.
Speaker 1: God forbid. But he ends up working.
Speaker 3: Maybe one hundred and ten, one hundred and twenty, probably
Speaker 3: not even that many days a year and gets paid
Speaker 3: an unbelievable amount of money enough to live comfortably in
Speaker 3: New York work. I think they take care of some
Speaker 3: other expenses of the Yankees. They really take care of their
Speaker 3: public dress announcers. So and the Bob Shephard, if you remember,
Speaker 3: he was the guy who was like old school. He
Speaker 3: had the big announcing. He had the announcing voice, not
Speaker 3: a radio voice, more of a number two Jita Derek Jita.
Speaker 4: Almost like a Broadway.
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, that's like yes, like you know Broadway, New
Speaker 3: York Broadway. He had that kind of delivery. But his
Speaker 3: famous one was was Gita number two lead off hit
Speaker 3: number whatever he said, And it's on.
Speaker 1: You know YouTube if you want to look it up
Speaker 1: and all that.
Speaker 4: Well, here's a good question for you, because for a moment,
Speaker 4: you did Dodger talk.
Speaker 3: I did briefly, very briefly, probably bad at it.
Speaker 4: But yes, I remember being a little kid here in
Speaker 4: Los Angeles and you were on AM five seventy l
Speaker 4: A Sports doing Dodger Talk, Like, who's this guy? Little
Speaker 4: did I know years later be spending all these hours
Speaker 4: doing radio with you. Now, would you rather be a
Speaker 4: baseball play by play announcer or the public address announcer
Speaker 4: at a stadium?
Speaker 3: So it would be more fun to be the play
Speaker 3: by play guy you would have, I think today, based
Speaker 3: on the climate, you'd be more stable as a stadium announcer.
Speaker 3: I actually did do the stadium announcing for one Dodger
Speaker 3: Padre game.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 3: The public address announcer at the time, Mike Carlucci, was
Speaker 3: late to the ballpark. He was recording a video game.
Speaker 3: As I remember, Mike, one of the great guys, Mike Carlucci,
Speaker 3: a just wonderful.
Speaker 4: Guy, which is your voice was booming through Dodger Stadium.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so this is a great story, right, So I'm there,
Speaker 3: you know, I'm freeloading in the press spot.
Speaker 4: This is.
Speaker 1: Back in the days, I was there every night.
Speaker 3: Now I can't even get.
Speaker 1: A pass most nights.
Speaker 3: But back when I was, you know, cool, before Otani
Speaker 3: and all of Tokyo came in to cover the Dodgers racist. Well, no,
Speaker 3: I was there when No More Mania was going on
Speaker 3: and all that. But but so the public address announcer
Speaker 3: Mike Calucci supposed to get there an hour before the game.
Speaker 3: You're supposed to do all the pregame introductions and all this,
Speaker 3: you know, all this stuff. So they start doing the
Speaker 3: pregame stuff and he's not there, and so I get
Speaker 3: a tap on the shoulder from Ed Arnold. I don't
Speaker 3: know if you know who Ed Arnold is. Ed was
Speaker 3: on Channel five in l A great man. Ed Arnold
Speaker 3: sportscaster at Channel five and h and Ed says, Hey,
Speaker 3: the PA guy's not here. We need somebody, you know that,
Speaker 3: the Dodgers looking for somebody. I recommended you. And I'm
Speaker 3: looking at it, Ed, I'm like, why would you know
Speaker 3: what are you doing?
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, Ed was just so thoughtful. He
Speaker 1: knew this would be like a big thing.
Speaker 3: And so I went over there and they're like, yeah,
Speaker 3: we need you know, you got to do the starting
Speaker 3: lineup for the Padres and you have to introduce like
Speaker 3: the national anthem and read the pregame you know, note
Speaker 3: and all.
Speaker 4: Were there any names where you got nervous right away?
Speaker 4: Like Ship?
Speaker 3: Fortunately there were no names I could not pronounce.
Speaker 4: I would that would have been more, can you imagine.
Speaker 3: But here's a fun fact on that. The guy that
Speaker 3: was in the lineup that I remember it was Ross
Speaker 3: Newhan's son, David Newhan, I believe his name, the baseball
Speaker 3: writer was the lead baseball writer for the LA Times.
Speaker 3: His kid actually was a Major League baseball player and
Speaker 3: this was his first game at Dodger Stadium. And I'm
Speaker 3: doing the PA introducing introducing him. But by the time
Speaker 3: the game started he showed up. So I only did
Speaker 3: the pregame stuff. I didn't do do the game. But
Speaker 3: still did they pay you? Oh god, no, no, Although
Speaker 3: I did have a copy of it on a cart
Speaker 3: which I can't play anymore. I don't even know what
Speaker 3: the cart is, but I had. I did have a
Speaker 3: recording of it on a cart. We used to The
Speaker 3: guys on the station used to bust my balls because
Speaker 3: of how bad I was at it.
Speaker 1: But anyway, that was. That was something I did not
Speaker 1: plan on talking about.
Speaker 4: That's never I've heard just about every one of your stories.
Speaker 4: I've never heard that one.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was wild and Ken Caminetti, the late Ken Camanetti,
Speaker 3: was on the padres. I remember introducing his name. He's dead, John.
Speaker 3: I'd have to go back and look, I could, I could.
Speaker 3: I know the date. I have it written down somewhere.
Speaker 3: I'd have to go back and look at the date.
Speaker 4: Did you say no? Roid it up?
Speaker 3: They were all on roids in those days. Man, it
Speaker 3: was a steroid palooza. So now this week is Friday.
Speaker 3: We're having a good time here. I woke up, I
Speaker 3: want to say it was on Wednesday of this week,
Speaker 3: and I had the sniffles. And you know when you
Speaker 3: wake up and you have the sniffles, You're like, oh crap,
Speaker 3: this is a four shock. This is the beginning of
Speaker 3: an illness.
Speaker 4: Especially when you feel like scratchiness in your throat. Yeah,
Speaker 4: that's bad. I got to stave this off.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 4: You have five dollars for that word, so.
Speaker 3: It's a big word. So what I did is I activated.
Speaker 3: I activated my superpower. My right hand was getting a workout.
Speaker 3: How dare you I went into not the medicine count.
Speaker 3: I acted like an Egyptian. You know, the Egyptians worship this,
Speaker 3: and I'm like an Egyptian. I worship it too. I
Speaker 3: got a nice big handful of garlic, and I took
Speaker 3: my knife. Out of course, I peeled the garlic. I
Speaker 3: then cut the garlic in half and sucked on that
Speaker 3: thing like a jolly rauncher, jolly rancher candy. And and
Speaker 3: it worked. I did not I did not get sick.
Speaker 3: I continue to preach at the altar of the garlic.
Speaker 3: It is a super strong natural antibiotics, nature's antibiotic.
Speaker 1: Maybe you can suck on it and that'll make it better.
Speaker 3: If you can get it. You gotta get it early,
Speaker 3: because I have tried this after I've gotten all the
Speaker 3: way sick, and it doesn't work.
Speaker 1: It does shorten it a.
Speaker 3: Little bit, but it does kill the infection in your
Speaker 3: throat if you get.
Speaker 4: It right away.
Speaker 3: And so I tip of the headphones Danny to the garlic.
Speaker 1: And again we talked about this a couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 1: I think maybe it was last week.
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 3: It all runs together, but the Egyptians worshiping garlic as
Speaker 3: a god, and in this house, in the Malor House,
Speaker 3: I worship it.
Speaker 4: As I think that was on the tail of your
Speaker 4: Gilroy trip.
Speaker 3: Oh that's right, Yeah, in the Gilroy infact, we got
Speaker 3: some little garlic things, you know, different garlic stuff at
Speaker 3: the gift shop there, and I told my wife we
Speaker 3: had like garlic chips or not garlic chips, garlic bits
Speaker 3: that I hadn't seen anywhere else, not garlic powder, garlic bits.
Speaker 3: So I told my wife her brother, my brother in law,
Speaker 3: lives not far from Gilroy. That's why we went there.
Speaker 3: So I said, hey, we're gonna have to go see
Speaker 3: your brother again. It's got to go back and.
Speaker 4: Get more garlic as you spray on your garlic deodorant. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 4: it's just absolutely bathe in that. If you could, I
Speaker 4: probably would.
Speaker 3: I probably probably would do that. So the Malard Meet
Speaker 3: and greet is coming up. I can't promote this enough, Danny,
Speaker 3: because this is the last Friday before the Malor Meet
Speaker 3: and greet, which is next Friday.
Speaker 1: And it's gonna be a bit of a.
Speaker 3: Dicey thing because I'll be away from the watch Post
Speaker 3: most of next week because of my trip to visit
Speaker 3: family and it's a long trip and I have to
Speaker 3: visit family on both sides. My wife's family lives in
Speaker 3: North Carolina. My brothers are gonna be in town as well,
Speaker 3: So we're gonna be away for a little bit. But
Speaker 3: on next next Friday, May tenth, so a week from today.
Speaker 3: That would be a week today's May third, So week
Speaker 3: from today May tenth, three o'clock to five o'clock, Charleston,
Speaker 3: South Carolina, My Father's Mustache.
Speaker 1: We told the story last week.
Speaker 3: This guy Dale, big stud, great guy, big fan of
Speaker 3: the show. Dale's listened on the West Coast and the
Speaker 3: East coast. He moved to Charleston a couple of years back,
Speaker 3: and he's the one that kind of set this up
Speaker 3: for us, and so we we thank him for that.
Speaker 3: But it's an English pub, My Father's Mustache, James Island location.
Speaker 1: There's a couple of locations.
Speaker 4: Will be there.
Speaker 3: I'll be there from three o'clock to five o'clock.
Speaker 4: I hope there's no competing radio station across the street.
Speaker 4: At my mother's Sideburns.
Speaker 3: Well, we do have a guy lady Sideburns. There is
Speaker 3: a fan of the show on.
Speaker 4: On Oh yeah, yeah, I heard him on Ask Ben.
Speaker 3: So I was already getting ripped from some of the
Speaker 3: guys when I mentioned it was an English pub on
Speaker 3: the Overnight Show. People were sending me messages. You're going
Speaker 3: to South Carolina, you can't find a barbecue place.
Speaker 4: Really, there's no pub called General Lee odare. Yeah, by
Speaker 4: the way, is this true? I heard if Fifth Hour
Speaker 4: or Ben mallor Overnight listeners show up with Confederate battle flags,
Speaker 4: they get a free drink.
Speaker 3: Well, I did like that Duke's of Hazard when I
Speaker 3: was a kid, and I think they had that on
Speaker 3: General Lee. They had the flag. But no, I who
Speaker 3: knows what's going to show up. I'm told there's a
Speaker 3: lot of that was that was a long time ago.
Speaker 3: That was a low bloke, but I'm four years ago. Yeah,
Speaker 3: you know, it's the blink of an eye, but I am.
Speaker 3: I'm told there's a lot of x Now. They call
Speaker 3: them ex pats if they're from you know, America. But
Speaker 3: if you're from a state and you leave, what do
Speaker 3: they say for ex California?
Speaker 1: Like, what do they say? I don't know what the
Speaker 1: term for that?
Speaker 4: Assholes?
Speaker 1: Yeah that's what.
Speaker 4: Us. Yeah.
Speaker 3: I still remember the guy in Walmart when we were
Speaker 3: waiting on I was waiting online to return something. This
Speaker 3: guy from Texas was there online and was the whole
Speaker 3: time we were waiting online, was complaining about how people
Speaker 3: from California were going to Texas and they were voting
Speaker 3: the same lunatics into office that they voted in California,
Speaker 3: and he was like losing his mind.
Speaker 1: Was like, and I know.
Speaker 3: People in Carolina probably are feeling the same way. But
Speaker 3: it is an English pub, which makes sense. It's perfect
Speaker 3: for the show because when I did a Malard meat
Speaker 3: and greet couple of years ago in Appleton, Wisconsin, Danny,
Speaker 3: we met at a Mexican fusion restaurant in Appleton, Wisconsin.
Speaker 3: So we do Mexican food in Appleton, we do. We
Speaker 3: do English food in South Carolina. What's your favorite.
Speaker 4: English food, Danny?
Speaker 1: Favorite English food?
Speaker 4: You probably probably it's got to be the English muffin
Speaker 4: the Englishman.
Speaker 3: What about bangers and mash? What about that? They've got
Speaker 3: some fun name food in England. It all looks disgusting.
Speaker 3: They've got blood blood sausage. They've got that beef Wellington, which.
Speaker 1: I think I had. I've had that a few things.
Speaker 1: There's something called this is not on the menu. This
Speaker 1: is just English food.
Speaker 3: Devil's kidney or devil kidneys?
Speaker 1: Does that sound good?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 3: You know who'd like that is the guy in Vegas
Speaker 3: that ate the guy's That guy would like that. The cannibal, Well,
Speaker 3: he might have done that too. I don't know, but
Speaker 3: he was on camera. Remember he killed the guy and
Speaker 3: started chopping.
Speaker 4: Yeah, the ass was next.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Shepherd's pie.
Speaker 3: That's English.
Speaker 4: Yeah, cobbler. I don't know.
Speaker 3: But we'll have a good time, I think, I mean,
Speaker 3: I hope, hope you have a good time. I'm planning
Speaker 3: on having a good time. That's the the expectations. Well,
Speaker 3: see if that happens.
Speaker 4: But by the way, I think it's I think it's
Speaker 4: Nooks and Crannies.
Speaker 3: I said Nanny's Oh did you it's actually an adult
Speaker 3: movie with that name.
Speaker 4: So no, that's Brook.
Speaker 1: All right, tyd.
Speaker 3: But let's get to the phrase of the week.
Speaker 1: Are you ready for the phrase of the week? Danny
Speaker 1: g phrase? Yeah, on the fifth hour. We like words.
Speaker 1: We are word people.
Speaker 4: I don't know this is true. I've heard that you
Speaker 4: are a word Smith.
Speaker 3: Wrong. My grandfather's last name, my mom's last name, maiden
Speaker 3: name was Smith, So yeah, I could be a word smith.
Speaker 4: Oh, there's no question.
Speaker 3: The phrase of the week this week is good things
Speaker 3: come to those who wait. What do you think that
Speaker 3: came from Danny? You've heard that, right, Good things come
Speaker 3: to those.
Speaker 4: Who wait, probably from someone who waited for their life
Speaker 4: to get together and they died without anything.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a success. That's an uplifting story.
Speaker 4: No, usually that's crap. That's somebody that's just trying to
Speaker 4: paint a brighter day for you and they're full of shit. Yeah.
Speaker 3: It's kind of like money doesn't make happiness, you know,
Speaker 3: but it certainly can buy a lot of it.
Speaker 1: And it might not make it, but it can buy anyway.
Speaker 1: Good things come to those who wait.
Speaker 3: A lot of people think that came from the Bible.
Speaker 3: Doesn't that sound like it's from the Bible?
Speaker 4: Does? Right?
Speaker 1: But it's not.
Speaker 3: It's not from the Bible. It is a variation of
Speaker 3: a proverb all things come to those who wait, that
Speaker 3: originated from a famous poem, French poem from many many
Speaker 3: years back. But here's the thing I love about this.
Speaker 3: The reason I brought this up that the modern usage
Speaker 3: of the phrase good things come to those who wait
Speaker 3: can really be credited to a marketing company for a
Speaker 3: beer the people over at Guinness, and it's not that
Speaker 3: old in the modern lexicon. It goes back to nineteen
Speaker 3: ninety six. About that marketing people for Guinness came up
Speaker 3: in nineteen ninety six. They came up with the advertising
Speaker 3: slogan good Things come to those who wait, and it
Speaker 3: showed the slow pore of a frothy pint of Guinness beer,
Speaker 3: and it took off. I love Guinness, and ever since
Speaker 3: then it has become universal. It's said all over, not
Speaker 3: just in the United States in the UK, but all
Speaker 3: over the world. And so the Guinness has used that
Speaker 3: advertising slogan in many commercials over the decades since. And
Speaker 3: for me, and I assume for you, Danny, I don't
Speaker 3: speak for you. It doesn't seem like nineteen ninety six
Speaker 3: was like a long time ago, But that's almost thirty
Speaker 3: years ago. That's almost a generation and a half.
Speaker 1: Nineteen yeah, ninety six.
Speaker 4: Which is kind of like that was still like President
Speaker 4: Clinton time. Yeah, that was like the end of his run, right.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I was having fun with Monica Lewinsky in nineteen ninety six.
Speaker 3: I think I did not have a sexual relacense for
Speaker 3: that woman. A little foody fun and then we'll put
Speaker 3: the baby to bed. Little foody fun here. These are
Speaker 3: actual food stories from around the food universe. McDonald's complaining
Speaker 3: about their sales. The sales are not doing that well
Speaker 3: so far this year, which.
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I'm not a regular at Mickey D's.
Speaker 3: But in order to try to drum up artificial sales,
Speaker 3: they are going to step up the app deals, where
Speaker 3: we talked in a previous episode of this podcast Danny
Speaker 3: about how the fast food comes.
Speaker 4: Yes, yeah, there is the app. Their other plan they've
Speaker 4: been advertising on this very podcast.
Speaker 1: Good for them, Good for them, and we promote them.
Speaker 3: McDonald's in Japan they have a if you want this,
Speaker 3: you have to go to Japan. Good luck, A new
Speaker 3: pancake pie, a tastier sensation, a maple butter hot cake pot.
Speaker 4: Oh man, you had me at Maple isn't or anything
Speaker 4: with maple is delicious.
Speaker 1: It's hard to screw up maple.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I would bite into a maple tree. That is well.
Speaker 3: Subway has kicked off. It's of course we're in early
Speaker 3: May here. They've kicked off buy one foot long, get
Speaker 3: one free now through May thirteenth, so you've got another
Speaker 3: ten days or so to take advantage of that.
Speaker 1: How much is a foot long?
Speaker 4: Now?
Speaker 3: How much is a subway foot log in California? It's
Speaker 3: probably thirty I was gonna.
Speaker 4: Say, I want, I want to say, I'm going to
Speaker 4: look it up, but it's like nine dollars and fifty
Speaker 4: cents or something.
Speaker 1: I went in to.
Speaker 3: Get my Canniac Combo on my birthday because I know
Speaker 3: what else could you eat on your birthday? So I
Speaker 3: went in there to get my Caniat combo at my
Speaker 3: favorite place raising canes, and I went in there, and
Speaker 3: the price since I first got the Canniac combo a
Speaker 3: few years back, it is now my My total order
Speaker 3: was nineteen dollars and ninety cents just for the Caniata
Speaker 3: nineteen dollars and ninety cents. It's gone up almost seven
Speaker 3: dollars since I first bought it a few years man.
Speaker 4: By the way, Ben, I was nine cents off subway.
Speaker 4: Here on Uber eats for a Turkey Cali club nine
Speaker 4: dollars and fifty nine cents. Man, that is ridiculous. Well,
Speaker 4: if you buy ten dollar foot ten dollar foot long.
Speaker 3: Hey, isn't that guy Jared getting out of jail soon.
Speaker 3: I think he might be about to be.
Speaker 4: He got a ten dollar foot log inside jailh.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so Subway.
Speaker 3: They probably don't have that in California, I bet because
Speaker 3: of the fast food wages that they got to pay now.
Speaker 3: So I'm guessing they don't have that everywhere. But it
Speaker 3: says nationally. It says Nashally Wendy's in Canada adding new
Speaker 3: sausage Bacon Deluxe to the menu.
Speaker 4: Very exciting.
Speaker 3: And if you're listening to us on this podcast in
Speaker 3: Dallas or Chicago, make sure to go out to Taco
Speaker 3: Bell if you want to try the new turo chiller.
Speaker 3: Hell is that it's described as the ultimate Mexican inspired
Speaker 3: sipping snack. The new turo Chiller. They've got sweet vanilla
Speaker 3: Mexican chocolate. Du'l say something something wild strawberry.
Speaker 4: There you go. Solci and Gabana.
Speaker 3: I don't know, went in doubt, Danny, Yeah, leave it out.
Speaker 3: That's what I said, went in doubt, leave it out.
Speaker 1: Pause, Hey, this is you brought this up? I was
Speaker 1: it you that brought this up?
Speaker 3: I think you did on this podcast that you said
Speaker 3: with the increase in fast food wages, this will lead
Speaker 3: to a doom in.
Speaker 1: Yes, I saw. I was written a story this week.
Speaker 3: Denny's claims that they are now benefiting from the laws
Speaker 3: in California that you sit down restaurant. Mid level restaurant
Speaker 3: like Denny's is now benefiting because they don't have to
Speaker 3: their people make money off tips. I said, they get
Speaker 3: most of their money. Are people tipping big at Denny's.
Speaker 3: I don't know, Probably average tips, I would say. But
Speaker 3: Denny's hasn't had to raise wages like they have at
Speaker 3: the fast food restaurants in California, and so as a result,
Speaker 3: they are benefiting. And also all the fast food restaurants
Speaker 3: have raised the prices of the food. So it's like
Speaker 3: I just talked about me getting raising canes and it
Speaker 3: was twenty dollars for my combo.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I can go to Denny's and get a meal and
Speaker 3: an appetizer, probably for that, I don't know for sure
Speaker 3: about that, but it's close and you get a sit
Speaker 3: down meal.
Speaker 4: It's the way to go. Last Sunday had BJ's. He
Speaker 4: did brew house congratulations. Yeah, I'm not talking about After
Speaker 4: we got home and it was really good, new items
Speaker 4: on the menu. The place was jumping inside it was
Speaker 4: twenty dollars for each of us. I would rather do
Speaker 4: that than go through a stupid fast food crap drive through.
Speaker 3: Yeah, fast food's always hit and miss, and you got
Speaker 3: to eat it right away, like it self destructs. If
Speaker 3: you don't eat it right away, it doesn't taste nearly
Speaker 3: as good. And so that's that's problematic as well. All right,
Speaker 3: we'll get out on that. It's Friday, Danny. What you
Speaker 3: got going on Covino and Rich today?
Speaker 4: Yes, yeah, so a busy day, Ben, because I'm gonna
Speaker 4: produce this fine podcast, send it out to the world,
Speaker 4: then drive my ass to the studios in Sherman Oaks,
Speaker 4: California for Coveno and Rich fun Friday show there. And
Speaker 4: then right after Coveno and Rich, I'm gonna get in
Speaker 4: my car, suffer through traffic on the four h five
Speaker 4: to the one eighteen to get to the five to
Speaker 4: go through the Grapevine because I'm taking my butt to
Speaker 4: Fresno where I'm gonna crash, wake up early in the morning,
Speaker 4: and then drive to Bass Lake for the fishing derby.
Speaker 1: Oh, this is the weekend.
Speaker 4: This is the weekend.
Speaker 3: Okay, all right, we'll have to hear more more about
Speaker 3: that as we go through the weekend. Anyway, have a wonderful,
Speaker 3: wonderful rest of your day here on this Friday, and again,
Speaker 3: tell a friend if you're in the area there in
Speaker 3: South Carolina, North Carolina, Wilmington, North Carolina, anywhere in that area,
Speaker 3: or anything within reasonable driving business. Malard meet and greet
Speaker 3: week from today. I'm sure we'll talk more about it
Speaker 3: throughout the weekend.
Speaker 1: Anyway, have a wonderful day.
Speaker 4: We'll catch you next time later. Skater gotta murder, I
Speaker 4: gotta go.