1 00:00:00,680 --> 00:00:01,440 Speaker 1: Kabbooms. 2 00:00:02,279 --> 00:00:05,360 Speaker 2: If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes 3 00:00:05,400 --> 00:00:09,160 Speaker 2: a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants 4 00:00:09,200 --> 00:00:12,480 Speaker 2: of the Old Republic, a soul fashion of fairness. He 5 00:00:12,560 --> 00:00:15,480 Speaker 2: treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the 6 00:00:15,600 --> 00:00:17,480 Speaker 2: rich pill poppers in the penthouse. 7 00:00:18,040 --> 00:00:18,360 Speaker 1: Wow. 8 00:00:18,560 --> 00:00:22,280 Speaker 2: The clearing House of Hot takes break free for something special. 9 00:00:22,640 --> 00:00:30,840 Speaker 2: The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now. 10 00:00:28,960 --> 00:00:34,240 Speaker 1: In the air everywhere. The Fifth Hour with Me, Ben 11 00:00:34,320 --> 00:00:38,159 Speaker 1: Maller and Danny g Radio, who is on assignment but 12 00:00:38,240 --> 00:00:43,960 Speaker 1: will rejoin us for the Saturday and the Sunday podcast. 13 00:00:44,040 --> 00:00:46,960 Speaker 1: I know you're very excited about that. But here on 14 00:00:47,000 --> 00:00:50,040 Speaker 1: this Friday, our first podcast. You always remember your first 15 00:00:50,040 --> 00:00:53,120 Speaker 1: of twenty twenty five. What does the year hold? We'll 16 00:00:53,120 --> 00:00:57,680 Speaker 1: find out it is National fruit Cake Toss today on 17 00:00:57,720 --> 00:00:59,760 Speaker 1: this January third. I'm not sure what that is, but 18 00:00:59,840 --> 00:01:04,320 Speaker 1: aparently that's a thing. There's a lot of Fugazy Holidays, 19 00:01:04,319 --> 00:01:06,320 Speaker 1: which is appropriate. We actually had a guy call up 20 00:01:06,840 --> 00:01:12,040 Speaker 1: the Friday Morning original Recipe show, the Overnight Show, named 21 00:01:12,040 --> 00:01:14,600 Speaker 1: Fugazy was on his way to the airport there in 22 00:01:15,000 --> 00:01:18,160 Speaker 1: Minnesota at this Festival of Sleep Day. I don't know 23 00:01:18,200 --> 00:01:19,960 Speaker 1: a lot about that. The only way I get any 24 00:01:19,959 --> 00:01:23,280 Speaker 1: real sleep is if I take a Kirkland brand sleep aid. 25 00:01:23,920 --> 00:01:28,200 Speaker 1: Other than that, not so good, not so good. But 26 00:01:28,240 --> 00:01:33,160 Speaker 1: on this edition of the podcast, we've got six points 27 00:01:33,200 --> 00:01:38,720 Speaker 1: of greatness. Six points of greatness. Also the hoedown at 28 00:01:38,760 --> 00:01:45,000 Speaker 1: the hooton Nanny and late night Monchies as well, and 29 00:01:45,200 --> 00:01:48,080 Speaker 1: we'll probably have some foodie fun of the whole thing 30 00:01:48,120 --> 00:01:50,480 Speaker 1: before we get into all that. Though I didn't talk 31 00:01:50,520 --> 00:01:52,320 Speaker 1: about this this week, I was only on a couple 32 00:01:52,320 --> 00:01:55,200 Speaker 1: of nights as I returned from holiday. As my friends 33 00:01:55,200 --> 00:01:58,720 Speaker 1: in New Zealand say, but there are continuing to be 34 00:01:58,880 --> 00:02:00,720 Speaker 1: stories out of New Jersey. They're not getting a lot 35 00:02:00,760 --> 00:02:05,840 Speaker 1: of media attention on the mainstream media of drones. They're saying, 36 00:02:05,880 --> 00:02:11,680 Speaker 1: the size of buses are still hovering around Jersey. And 37 00:02:11,760 --> 00:02:15,640 Speaker 1: yet the story seems to have died down. It's mostly 38 00:02:15,680 --> 00:02:19,120 Speaker 1: gone silent, silent. It does not get the attention it 39 00:02:19,200 --> 00:02:22,639 Speaker 1: got a couple of weeks ago. And there's all kinds 40 00:02:22,639 --> 00:02:26,280 Speaker 1: of stories that are on the tabloids, not the mainstream media, 41 00:02:26,320 --> 00:02:30,120 Speaker 1: but the tabloids about this. There's people from the FAA. 42 00:02:30,160 --> 00:02:33,079 Speaker 1: They're still investigating all across the tri state area. They're 43 00:02:33,080 --> 00:02:37,000 Speaker 1: trying to figure out what's going on. There's a former 44 00:02:37,160 --> 00:02:41,359 Speaker 1: chief of the FBI Counter Drone unit who I saw 45 00:02:41,440 --> 00:02:45,320 Speaker 1: quoted in one of the London tabloids, and right away 46 00:02:45,360 --> 00:02:47,760 Speaker 1: people roll their eyes. Well, he's a former FBI, so 47 00:02:47,800 --> 00:02:51,079 Speaker 1: he's part of big government. You can't take this guy seriously. 48 00:02:51,400 --> 00:02:53,440 Speaker 1: But he's like, well, most of the sightings were errors 49 00:02:54,160 --> 00:02:56,320 Speaker 1: and hysteria. I was actually talking to a buddy of 50 00:02:56,360 --> 00:02:59,120 Speaker 1: mine is a big Coast to Coast fan and doesn't 51 00:02:59,120 --> 00:03:03,480 Speaker 1: even like sports, but we're friends and old ice love 52 00:03:04,440 --> 00:03:06,360 Speaker 1: Art Bell, and I still, you know, I don't get 53 00:03:06,400 --> 00:03:08,760 Speaker 1: to listen to George Norrie because we work at the 54 00:03:08,760 --> 00:03:10,959 Speaker 1: same time, but I like the content on Coast to 55 00:03:11,000 --> 00:03:13,040 Speaker 1: Coast anyway. This guy listens all the time. He's like, listen, 56 00:03:13,800 --> 00:03:16,080 Speaker 1: He's all, this is the most amazing thing this guy's 57 00:03:16,120 --> 00:03:19,080 Speaker 1: telling me. He's like, we are being invaded. He's convinced. 58 00:03:19,560 --> 00:03:21,520 Speaker 1: He's listening to Coast to Coast since like the in 59 00:03:21,520 --> 00:03:25,440 Speaker 1: the mid nineties. He's convinced that it's an alien invasion. 60 00:03:25,800 --> 00:03:29,320 Speaker 1: And because of all the technology that has been tossed 61 00:03:29,320 --> 00:03:33,239 Speaker 1: out there, we are being told it's drones, but it's 62 00:03:33,280 --> 00:03:37,040 Speaker 1: actually aliens. And they're investigating us, and people are being 63 00:03:37,040 --> 00:03:40,120 Speaker 1: captured and they're being treated like lab rats, and he's 64 00:03:40,160 --> 00:03:42,880 Speaker 1: got this like this whole thing, and I'm like, okay, 65 00:03:43,160 --> 00:03:45,080 Speaker 1: you know, I get it. You know, it sounds like 66 00:03:45,080 --> 00:03:47,160 Speaker 1: like a movie or something like that. I remember Art 67 00:03:47,160 --> 00:03:48,920 Speaker 1: Bell used to do shows back in the day about 68 00:03:49,000 --> 00:03:53,400 Speaker 1: animal animals being mutilated that were taking up the spaceships 69 00:03:53,400 --> 00:03:55,440 Speaker 1: and tossed back down their guts were on one side 70 00:03:55,440 --> 00:03:59,200 Speaker 1: and all that. Who knows it is a fascinating story. 71 00:03:59,240 --> 00:04:01,960 Speaker 1: And the fact that it's supposedly still going on and 72 00:04:02,000 --> 00:04:04,000 Speaker 1: you have to search the tabloids. It's not getting a 73 00:04:04,040 --> 00:04:08,080 Speaker 1: lot of attention in the old school mainstream or even 74 00:04:08,120 --> 00:04:11,480 Speaker 1: social media, and people are saying, well, there's fatigue now 75 00:04:11,520 --> 00:04:14,760 Speaker 1: the story. People's attention spans aren't that great, and so 76 00:04:15,400 --> 00:04:18,560 Speaker 1: the mystery drone fever has broken. Even though it's still 77 00:04:18,600 --> 00:04:23,440 Speaker 1: going on, people are like dealing with it and all that. Now, 78 00:04:23,440 --> 00:04:27,719 Speaker 1: as far as the show at hand, the fifth hour here, 79 00:04:28,279 --> 00:04:32,240 Speaker 1: I did want to mention that I cannot think of 80 00:04:32,320 --> 00:04:37,040 Speaker 1: a better way to start twenty twenty five than watching 81 00:04:37,320 --> 00:04:41,920 Speaker 1: good television. And for me, it's really a good flipping 82 00:04:41,960 --> 00:04:45,080 Speaker 1: time or a flipping good time Benny versus the Penny. 83 00:04:45,120 --> 00:04:48,000 Speaker 1: We have made it to week eighteen. No NFL on 84 00:04:48,080 --> 00:04:52,640 Speaker 1: Thursday night. We had that rivening Notre Dame win over 85 00:04:52,760 --> 00:04:56,400 Speaker 1: Georgia in the afternoon, but no NFL game on Thursday night. 86 00:04:56,440 --> 00:04:58,839 Speaker 1: It will be a couple of games tomorrow on Saturday 87 00:04:58,880 --> 00:05:02,600 Speaker 1: and then full Gauntlet on Sunday. But this is a 88 00:05:02,680 --> 00:05:06,640 Speaker 1: Week eighteen, Last Chance, Last Rites, the Last Supper. During 89 00:05:06,680 --> 00:05:08,680 Speaker 1: the regular season, the show will continue. I've been asked 90 00:05:08,720 --> 00:05:12,200 Speaker 1: we'll continue in the playoffs. Yes, the show will continue 91 00:05:12,200 --> 00:05:14,600 Speaker 1: the playoffs. So it's aired in the Bay Area, it's 92 00:05:14,640 --> 00:05:18,520 Speaker 1: aired in several other markets, and later today we point 93 00:05:18,520 --> 00:05:22,039 Speaker 1: this out for our listeners in the Commonwealth that it 94 00:05:22,200 --> 00:05:26,280 Speaker 1: will go back on TV live on tape after Felger 95 00:05:26,320 --> 00:05:28,400 Speaker 1: and Mass. Now, if you're not in Boston, you don't 96 00:05:28,400 --> 00:05:30,039 Speaker 1: know who Felger and Mass are. But they're like the 97 00:05:30,160 --> 00:05:33,360 Speaker 1: number one or sports radio show in Boston and their 98 00:05:33,360 --> 00:05:36,160 Speaker 1: show is simulcast. There's such big high falutin people that 99 00:05:36,160 --> 00:05:40,120 Speaker 1: their show is simulcast on NBC Sports Boston. So when 100 00:05:40,120 --> 00:05:44,760 Speaker 1: they get done, we are wedged between their show, which 101 00:05:44,800 --> 00:05:48,320 Speaker 1: does very well, and then that's at six o'clock their 102 00:05:48,360 --> 00:05:50,560 Speaker 1: show goes off TV at six o'clock, we go on 103 00:05:51,200 --> 00:05:54,000 Speaker 1: with this episode of Benny Versus depending live on tape, 104 00:05:54,200 --> 00:05:58,880 Speaker 1: and then we'll have encore showings after Celtics basketball. The 105 00:05:59,120 --> 00:06:01,880 Speaker 1: Celtics will be I think they're in Texas, I believe. 106 00:06:02,000 --> 00:06:04,880 Speaker 1: Don't hold me to that. I looked at the schedule 107 00:06:05,480 --> 00:06:08,320 Speaker 1: yesterday and I don't recall it exactly, but I do 108 00:06:08,400 --> 00:06:10,120 Speaker 1: know we're supposed to air the show depending on how 109 00:06:10,160 --> 00:06:14,200 Speaker 1: long the Celtics coverage goes at midnight in Boston and 110 00:06:14,240 --> 00:06:17,800 Speaker 1: then again at one am on NBC Sports Boston and 111 00:06:17,800 --> 00:06:22,360 Speaker 1: there all weekend airs a ton in the Bay Area. 112 00:06:23,480 --> 00:06:26,880 Speaker 1: I'll actually have some funny story about that at some point. 113 00:06:26,880 --> 00:06:28,960 Speaker 1: Maybe I'll save that for tomorrow. I have some other 114 00:06:28,960 --> 00:06:30,480 Speaker 1: things to get to today. But it'll be on all 115 00:06:30,520 --> 00:06:32,840 Speaker 1: the NBC regional cable channels. It's on stations I don't 116 00:06:32,839 --> 00:06:35,479 Speaker 1: even know about. I've done these mallor meet and greets. 117 00:06:35,520 --> 00:06:37,360 Speaker 1: I've gone to different places, like, hey, this show's on here. 118 00:06:37,480 --> 00:06:38,560 Speaker 1: I didn't know the show was on there. I had 119 00:06:38,560 --> 00:06:40,400 Speaker 1: no idea shows on there. It's on like Spectrum in 120 00:06:40,440 --> 00:06:42,280 Speaker 1: some places and whatnot. It's on in LA on the 121 00:06:42,320 --> 00:06:45,760 Speaker 1: Lakers station. So check it out. Would be cool now 122 00:06:46,360 --> 00:06:48,760 Speaker 1: for me, I love doing the show. It's a lot 123 00:06:48,760 --> 00:06:51,440 Speaker 1: of fun. I still pinch myself every time I walk 124 00:06:51,480 --> 00:06:54,760 Speaker 1: into the studio and have a TV show. It's crazy. 125 00:06:54,839 --> 00:06:56,599 Speaker 1: And I've done radio for so long it's like nuts 126 00:06:56,640 --> 00:06:59,039 Speaker 1: to me, right. But one of the things that we've 127 00:06:59,040 --> 00:07:01,360 Speaker 1: started to do recently, I would have done this last year, 128 00:07:01,400 --> 00:07:04,359 Speaker 1: but I will not name the person who is guilty 129 00:07:04,360 --> 00:07:07,359 Speaker 1: of this would not allow me to walk to this part. 130 00:07:07,760 --> 00:07:09,680 Speaker 1: Some guy I forget his name, he's he's like a 131 00:07:09,720 --> 00:07:12,520 Speaker 1: cartoon character. I would not allow me to walk to 132 00:07:12,600 --> 00:07:16,720 Speaker 1: this back part of Universal. So now we were meandering 133 00:07:16,760 --> 00:07:21,080 Speaker 1: around the back lot at Universal Studios in Hollywood, and 134 00:07:22,000 --> 00:07:26,920 Speaker 1: this week I found my way to Six Points, Texas. 135 00:07:26,960 --> 00:07:31,840 Speaker 1: I believe is what it's called. It's an old Western set. 136 00:07:31,920 --> 00:07:35,880 Speaker 1: Now there's debate about actually how old it is. Part 137 00:07:35,880 --> 00:07:41,239 Speaker 1: of it was used in the silent film era. That's 138 00:07:41,440 --> 00:07:45,120 Speaker 1: been a minute, that's been a minute, and it's it's 139 00:07:45,120 --> 00:07:48,320 Speaker 1: called six Points. I actually learned this from the tram 140 00:07:48,360 --> 00:07:50,960 Speaker 1: that kept going by every ten minutes. There was a tram, 141 00:07:51,240 --> 00:07:55,160 Speaker 1: so I was learning fun facts, which is very surreal, 142 00:07:56,360 --> 00:07:59,560 Speaker 1: very surreal when you're actually allowed to be there. And 143 00:07:59,600 --> 00:08:02,240 Speaker 1: the train with all these tourists are coming in there 144 00:08:02,280 --> 00:08:03,840 Speaker 1: and they stop and they're like, well, this is where 145 00:08:03,880 --> 00:08:05,320 Speaker 1: so and so was film blah blah. 146 00:08:05,160 --> 00:08:07,120 Speaker 2: Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah 147 00:08:07,120 --> 00:08:09,560 Speaker 2: blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. 148 00:08:09,600 --> 00:08:11,840 Speaker 1: But I picked up some nuggets. So it's called six 149 00:08:11,880 --> 00:08:16,160 Speaker 1: Points because it consists of six Western streets, all leading 150 00:08:16,160 --> 00:08:19,720 Speaker 1: to one point. Right, So thus that the name six points. 151 00:08:19,760 --> 00:08:21,560 Speaker 1: But it all leads to one point. And it's from 152 00:08:21,600 --> 00:08:25,360 Speaker 1: the early days of Universal. It was actually in a 153 00:08:25,360 --> 00:08:28,960 Speaker 1: different part of the lot. It's now kind of further back, 154 00:08:29,040 --> 00:08:32,480 Speaker 1: closer to the amusement park. And this is where they 155 00:08:32,520 --> 00:08:36,840 Speaker 1: would have crowds gather on these various Western streets. They 156 00:08:36,840 --> 00:08:40,640 Speaker 1: have a live crowd watching them film up to six 157 00:08:40,800 --> 00:08:45,280 Speaker 1: films being shot simultaneously. Say why, yeah, so the way 158 00:08:45,280 --> 00:08:48,480 Speaker 1: this works, apparently he has I understand it. Since this 159 00:08:48,600 --> 00:08:51,880 Speaker 1: was back in the silent film era, it didn't matter 160 00:08:51,960 --> 00:08:54,480 Speaker 1: if people were making noise and farting and burping and 161 00:08:54,520 --> 00:08:57,400 Speaker 1: all that and clapping and your kids crying, and so 162 00:08:58,000 --> 00:09:01,160 Speaker 1: the crowd was able to applaud the good guys and 163 00:09:01,200 --> 00:09:04,480 Speaker 1: they were able to boo the bad guys. Now, there 164 00:09:04,480 --> 00:09:09,960 Speaker 1: are two sets, two sets of doorways at the six 165 00:09:10,000 --> 00:09:14,560 Speaker 1: points part of Universal and some are larger than life, right, 166 00:09:14,600 --> 00:09:19,160 Speaker 1: to make the damsels in distress seem like they've got 167 00:09:19,280 --> 00:09:22,160 Speaker 1: you know, they're very vulnerable. Doors are massive, you know, 168 00:09:22,160 --> 00:09:26,240 Speaker 1: these little women, and some are a little smaller, and 169 00:09:26,280 --> 00:09:29,920 Speaker 1: those were used to make the hero the cowboys seem 170 00:09:30,040 --> 00:09:33,520 Speaker 1: more impressive, more machismo, more imposing. Right, So these little 171 00:09:33,520 --> 00:09:36,120 Speaker 1: tricks that they made in the silent film era, and 172 00:09:36,200 --> 00:09:39,680 Speaker 1: the thing that I didn't know at the time. I 173 00:09:39,760 --> 00:09:41,640 Speaker 1: did the little vignette which will be up later today 174 00:09:41,679 --> 00:09:45,360 Speaker 1: on my Facebook page and the Instagram page for the show, 175 00:09:45,440 --> 00:09:49,640 Speaker 1: and hopefully you're following so you can can see this stuff. 176 00:09:49,640 --> 00:09:51,719 Speaker 1: Otherwise it's rather pointless that I'm bringing this up. You're like, 177 00:09:51,760 --> 00:09:54,280 Speaker 1: lod are you brother? I have social media? Is the 178 00:09:54,360 --> 00:09:57,079 Speaker 1: way you bring that up. But anyway, let me let 179 00:09:57,080 --> 00:09:59,800 Speaker 1: me give the point. So I was there wandering around 180 00:10:00,000 --> 00:10:03,440 Speaker 1: and then went by a bunch of cool buildings, you know, 181 00:10:03,559 --> 00:10:07,480 Speaker 1: just a bunch of cool, cool things, and I was 182 00:10:07,480 --> 00:10:10,040 Speaker 1: trying to visualize like the movies that were filmed there, 183 00:10:11,200 --> 00:10:15,239 Speaker 1: and I'm wandering around and there's some legends of Hollywood. 184 00:10:15,360 --> 00:10:20,280 Speaker 1: James Stewart been dead for a while, John Wayne, John 185 00:10:20,320 --> 00:10:26,400 Speaker 1: Wayne regular film movies there, Andy Devine, all the way 186 00:10:26,440 --> 00:10:30,680 Speaker 1: up to Clint Eastwood and a few others. We're all regular. 187 00:10:30,800 --> 00:10:33,280 Speaker 1: You know. Clint Eastwood known, he's like a hundred order 188 00:10:33,280 --> 00:10:35,439 Speaker 1: I think still around. But he would make a lot 189 00:10:35,440 --> 00:10:38,679 Speaker 1: of Westerns, and so that's where they filmed a lot 190 00:10:38,720 --> 00:10:40,760 Speaker 1: of them. You didn't have to go far away right 191 00:10:40,760 --> 00:10:45,719 Speaker 1: there by a bing bout a boom, you're ready to go. 192 00:10:46,200 --> 00:10:49,480 Speaker 1: You're ready to go. So that's that's pretty neat. So 193 00:10:49,840 --> 00:10:52,520 Speaker 1: there's that. So I'm wandering around and then when I 194 00:10:53,000 --> 00:10:57,680 Speaker 1: was walking back to the garage to get out of there, 195 00:10:58,120 --> 00:11:01,000 Speaker 1: and then I stumbled on something. I was like, wait 196 00:11:01,000 --> 00:11:02,800 Speaker 1: a minute, here, by the way, if you want to 197 00:11:02,800 --> 00:11:05,920 Speaker 1: follow this show, I should probably point out Instagram, Ben 198 00:11:05,960 --> 00:11:11,800 Speaker 1: Maller on Fox Facebook show page, Ben Mahllor Show, Ben 199 00:11:11,880 --> 00:11:14,760 Speaker 1: Malors Show, and you can check that out. So I'm 200 00:11:14,920 --> 00:11:16,960 Speaker 1: wandering to my car and I stumbled on this gold 201 00:11:17,040 --> 00:11:22,000 Speaker 1: mine that the set that I was on was a 202 00:11:22,120 --> 00:11:25,280 Speaker 1: set used by one of my favorite people in old 203 00:11:25,280 --> 00:11:30,720 Speaker 1: school Hollywood. Someone my favorite quote and I've used if 204 00:11:30,760 --> 00:11:32,120 Speaker 1: you hear the show a lot. You know this. I 205 00:11:32,160 --> 00:11:33,679 Speaker 1: know Alf right now is rolling his eyes. I don't 206 00:11:33,679 --> 00:11:36,240 Speaker 1: know what true about to say, and Ferg Dog's like, yeah, yeah, 207 00:11:36,240 --> 00:11:39,040 Speaker 1: I just spin it out. But in the early days 208 00:11:39,040 --> 00:11:41,760 Speaker 1: of Hollywood, there was a comedian actor who was very 209 00:11:41,800 --> 00:11:47,400 Speaker 1: popular and a raging alcoholic named W. C. Fields. And 210 00:11:48,120 --> 00:11:51,319 Speaker 1: in that set, part of that set May West, another 211 00:11:51,400 --> 00:11:54,560 Speaker 1: legendary name in the golden era of Hollywood. May West 212 00:11:54,600 --> 00:11:59,360 Speaker 1: save W C. Fields life in my Little Chickapee and 213 00:11:59,400 --> 00:12:03,880 Speaker 1: that was filmed in that area. And the quote from W. C. Fields, 214 00:12:04,720 --> 00:12:08,280 Speaker 1: which to me sums up what our show is about, 215 00:12:08,360 --> 00:12:10,840 Speaker 1: which you're a part of. If you listen to the Overnight, 216 00:12:11,720 --> 00:12:15,280 Speaker 1: the quote is, if you can't dazzle them with brilliance, 217 00:12:16,120 --> 00:12:21,680 Speaker 1: baffle them with bullshit. And that just sums up what 218 00:12:21,720 --> 00:12:24,720 Speaker 1: we do. Right. I try to show you I'm smart. 219 00:12:24,760 --> 00:12:28,240 Speaker 1: Oftentimes I'm an idiot and my efforts are just to 220 00:12:28,679 --> 00:12:31,800 Speaker 1: baffle you with ridiculousness. But W. C. Fields, that's my 221 00:12:31,800 --> 00:12:35,040 Speaker 1: favorite quote. But he had some brilliant lines as a comedian. 222 00:12:35,080 --> 00:12:36,959 Speaker 1: He said, start every day off with a smile, get 223 00:12:36,960 --> 00:12:40,520 Speaker 1: that thing over with and you can pool some of 224 00:12:40,559 --> 00:12:42,280 Speaker 1: the people some of the time and that's enough to 225 00:12:42,280 --> 00:12:45,400 Speaker 1: make a decent living, which is a play on the 226 00:12:46,440 --> 00:12:49,959 Speaker 1: Abraham Lincoln famous quote from back in the day. Yeah, 227 00:12:50,040 --> 00:12:52,280 Speaker 1: I can give you all cuts. I have studied W. C. Fields. 228 00:12:52,320 --> 00:12:54,520 Speaker 1: There's a street I've talked about when you drive into 229 00:12:54,600 --> 00:12:59,000 Speaker 1: Universal that is named for W. C. Fields. So that's 230 00:12:59,000 --> 00:13:01,720 Speaker 1: why I'm driving on. Yeah. He probably was long gone 231 00:13:01,760 --> 00:13:05,160 Speaker 1: by the time they named that, but it's it's still great. 232 00:13:05,480 --> 00:13:07,480 Speaker 1: One of his other quotes, he said, remember a dead fish, 233 00:13:07,640 --> 00:13:10,080 Speaker 1: W C. Field said, can float downstream, but it takes 234 00:13:10,080 --> 00:13:13,839 Speaker 1: a live one to swim upstream upstream, so there's that. 235 00:13:14,679 --> 00:13:18,120 Speaker 1: He said children should neither be seen nor heard from 236 00:13:18,160 --> 00:13:22,720 Speaker 1: ever again was one of his quotes. And he also said, 237 00:13:22,760 --> 00:13:24,920 Speaker 1: this is a line that I had heard that has 238 00:13:24,920 --> 00:13:26,760 Speaker 1: been repacked. He's one of my buddies. It was a 239 00:13:27,080 --> 00:13:29,480 Speaker 1: was a basketball reporter from Germany and became an agent. 240 00:13:29,520 --> 00:13:31,360 Speaker 1: I don't know what happened to him. It was a 241 00:13:31,400 --> 00:13:33,240 Speaker 1: good dude. We used to hang out back in the day. 242 00:13:33,520 --> 00:13:36,120 Speaker 1: And this is a W. C. Field line. He said, 243 00:13:36,120 --> 00:13:39,560 Speaker 1: I never drink water. He says, that's that's the stuff 244 00:13:39,559 --> 00:13:43,200 Speaker 1: that Russ pipes, right, And then he also said I 245 00:13:43,200 --> 00:13:47,240 Speaker 1: don't drink water because that's where fish you know, screw yeah, 246 00:13:48,240 --> 00:13:50,520 Speaker 1: want that. Yeah. So I mean there were a bunch 247 00:13:50,559 --> 00:13:53,240 Speaker 1: of those things and from w C. Field. So it 248 00:13:53,280 --> 00:13:55,560 Speaker 1: was cool. You know. I as I was leaving, I'd 249 00:13:55,559 --> 00:13:58,720 Speaker 1: already left the studio, the set, but I'm walking through 250 00:13:58,760 --> 00:14:02,280 Speaker 1: there and and I'm like, wow, that's like, that's really neat. 251 00:14:02,320 --> 00:14:05,079 Speaker 1: I mean, that's a guy. It's like going to when 252 00:14:05,120 --> 00:14:07,480 Speaker 1: I was a young reporter. I walked into the press 253 00:14:07,480 --> 00:14:09,520 Speaker 1: box at Dodger Stadium. Was like last whe Vin Scully 254 00:14:09,600 --> 00:14:11,840 Speaker 1: does the games. And I watched Vin on TV and 255 00:14:12,040 --> 00:14:13,559 Speaker 1: I eventually got to know him a little bit, which 256 00:14:13,600 --> 00:14:16,800 Speaker 1: was really cool. But w C. Fields it was a 257 00:14:16,800 --> 00:14:20,000 Speaker 1: big deal, and it's kind of neat. You know, he's 258 00:14:20,000 --> 00:14:22,280 Speaker 1: been gone for a while, but that's where he worked. 259 00:14:22,480 --> 00:14:24,840 Speaker 1: That's where all these big stars back in the day 260 00:14:25,520 --> 00:14:28,280 Speaker 1: in Hollywood got her done. I didn't want to address 261 00:14:28,280 --> 00:14:30,160 Speaker 1: I wasn't planning on talking about this, but here we are. 262 00:14:31,200 --> 00:14:33,440 Speaker 1: So last night on the show, I think it was 263 00:14:33,600 --> 00:14:38,720 Speaker 1: Our three, late in hour three, if I'm right, and 264 00:14:39,160 --> 00:14:42,640 Speaker 1: I'm a little foggy, little foggy this morning here on 265 00:14:42,680 --> 00:14:44,920 Speaker 1: the Friday, But as I remember, it was, it was 266 00:14:44,960 --> 00:14:46,880 Speaker 1: Our three near the end of our three, we took 267 00:14:46,920 --> 00:14:51,480 Speaker 1: a call from Angry Bill. Now, Angry Bill has been 268 00:14:51,480 --> 00:14:54,080 Speaker 1: calling the show for many, many years, and normally what 269 00:14:54,240 --> 00:14:57,760 Speaker 1: happens is he gets on the air, he says something offensive, 270 00:14:57,800 --> 00:14:59,440 Speaker 1: he rips me, he takes a shot at me, and 271 00:14:59,480 --> 00:15:01,840 Speaker 1: then hangs up and we end up having to dump 272 00:15:01,920 --> 00:15:04,720 Speaker 1: him because he says something naughty and it ends up 273 00:15:04,720 --> 00:15:07,400 Speaker 1: on the podcast. And this happens. I mean, there was 274 00:15:07,440 --> 00:15:09,320 Speaker 1: a period for a while it was a roller coaster, right, 275 00:15:09,320 --> 00:15:11,080 Speaker 1: every time Angry Bill would call up, he would just 276 00:15:11,160 --> 00:15:13,080 Speaker 1: not even say anything. He just ripped me, and then 277 00:15:13,120 --> 00:15:15,960 Speaker 1: we'd dump him. And that ended a while ago, and 278 00:15:16,040 --> 00:15:19,760 Speaker 1: so he was really taken aback by Lorena. We were 279 00:15:19,800 --> 00:15:24,560 Speaker 1: talking about something. I forget exactly what it was, but oh, 280 00:15:24,600 --> 00:15:28,120 Speaker 1: you know what, you know what it was Marcel's West 281 00:15:28,160 --> 00:15:34,160 Speaker 1: Coast rival from Baltimore, helmet Man, the Great helmet Man. 282 00:15:34,160 --> 00:15:39,000 Speaker 1: So helmet Man. All right, he's watching the OJ trial. 283 00:15:39,280 --> 00:15:41,560 Speaker 1: He's been watching this for months, and so I had 284 00:15:41,640 --> 00:15:43,000 Speaker 1: him turn it up. I was like, I was just 285 00:15:43,240 --> 00:15:44,760 Speaker 1: goofing around. I was like, I turn that up. I 286 00:15:44,760 --> 00:15:46,280 Speaker 1: want to hear what they're saying. Right, you don't see 287 00:15:46,280 --> 00:15:48,560 Speaker 1: what's going on with the OJ trial. Maybe the outcome 288 00:15:48,560 --> 00:15:50,720 Speaker 1: will be different. So he turns it up. Right, We're like, well, 289 00:15:50,720 --> 00:15:52,920 Speaker 1: that guy's dead. This guy's dead, all these lawyers are dead. 290 00:15:53,280 --> 00:15:55,200 Speaker 1: And then we got to Robert Shift I believe was 291 00:15:55,240 --> 00:15:56,920 Speaker 1: the guy we were talking about. And then we looked 292 00:15:56,960 --> 00:16:00,120 Speaker 1: him up, still alive, and he was like seventy six 293 00:16:00,200 --> 00:16:03,600 Speaker 1: years old, and said Lorena started talking and she's, you know, 294 00:16:03,640 --> 00:16:06,600 Speaker 1: her father was a lot older when she was when 295 00:16:06,640 --> 00:16:09,800 Speaker 1: she was born, and an older father, and so her 296 00:16:09,880 --> 00:16:12,280 Speaker 1: father is in his mid seventies, I think she said, 297 00:16:12,320 --> 00:16:15,240 Speaker 1: seventy five. So Angry Bill calls up and it's on 298 00:16:15,280 --> 00:16:16,840 Speaker 1: the podcast. You can hear it. I don't need to 299 00:16:16,960 --> 00:16:20,280 Speaker 1: do the whole play by play on it, but it 300 00:16:20,320 --> 00:16:22,240 Speaker 1: blew me away. I mean, this is a different side 301 00:16:22,280 --> 00:16:26,680 Speaker 1: of angry Bill. Like he was very emotional. I know 302 00:16:26,760 --> 00:16:30,160 Speaker 1: he's had had trauma and unless a lot of people 303 00:16:30,240 --> 00:16:34,400 Speaker 1: that call the show life can be fed up and 304 00:16:34,640 --> 00:16:39,080 Speaker 1: people don't treat you right, you're not happy with your job, 305 00:16:39,240 --> 00:16:41,280 Speaker 1: or you've got family issues, and that really comes out 306 00:16:41,320 --> 00:16:42,600 Speaker 1: at the end of the year. Now we're into the 307 00:16:42,600 --> 00:16:46,240 Speaker 1: new year and you look back and Angry Bill's he said, 308 00:16:46,240 --> 00:16:50,480 Speaker 1: he's seventy seventy five I believe Lorraina's dad's like seventy six, 309 00:16:50,520 --> 00:16:53,400 Speaker 1: but he said seventy five. So he starts talking and 310 00:16:53,440 --> 00:16:55,360 Speaker 1: initially I'm like, Oh, he's going to say something creepy. 311 00:16:55,400 --> 00:16:57,800 Speaker 1: You know, he's going to say something creepy. And he didn't. 312 00:16:58,800 --> 00:17:02,600 Speaker 1: Much to my dazzlement, he did not say anything creepy. 313 00:17:02,680 --> 00:17:05,600 Speaker 1: He's like telling the story about how I know. He's like, listen, 314 00:17:05,720 --> 00:17:07,720 Speaker 1: call your dad, send him a message every once in 315 00:17:07,720 --> 00:17:10,119 Speaker 1: a while, tell some old story when you were a 316 00:17:10,119 --> 00:17:12,359 Speaker 1: little kid and what it was like and what it meant. 317 00:17:12,400 --> 00:17:16,399 Speaker 1: And he kept talking like that, and he's study getting 318 00:17:16,480 --> 00:17:22,280 Speaker 1: very emotional and started started crying. Now, my bullshit detector, 319 00:17:22,320 --> 00:17:26,359 Speaker 1: I think is pretty good. And unless Angry Bill is 320 00:17:26,359 --> 00:17:29,080 Speaker 1: gonna win an Oscar for that, that just felt real 321 00:17:29,160 --> 00:17:33,000 Speaker 1: to me. That felt like a guy that heard that story, 322 00:17:33,160 --> 00:17:35,560 Speaker 1: and Angry Bill's told us a little bit about him. 323 00:17:35,600 --> 00:17:37,480 Speaker 1: I don't know everything. It's not my business. If he 324 00:17:37,520 --> 00:17:38,920 Speaker 1: wants to bring it up, he can bring it up. 325 00:17:39,400 --> 00:17:42,399 Speaker 1: I'm not a trained therapist. I talk about balls on 326 00:17:42,480 --> 00:17:45,359 Speaker 1: the radio, right, I talk about overpaid athletes that are ungrateful. 327 00:17:45,359 --> 00:17:48,480 Speaker 1: That's what I do for a living anyway. But Bill 328 00:17:48,800 --> 00:17:53,320 Speaker 1: was piecing the puzzle pieces. Yeah, this is just what 329 00:17:53,359 --> 00:17:55,520 Speaker 1: I surmise. I could be completely wrong. What do I know. 330 00:17:55,560 --> 00:17:58,480 Speaker 1: I just do the overnight show, But putting the clues 331 00:17:58,520 --> 00:17:59,840 Speaker 1: together from what he had talked about in the past 332 00:18:00,040 --> 00:18:05,600 Speaker 1: would appear. The reason that resonated for Angrybill is because 333 00:18:05,640 --> 00:18:09,840 Speaker 1: he's got some kids, some family that have cut him off. 334 00:18:11,000 --> 00:18:13,920 Speaker 1: And I don't know whether that's true. And that's just 335 00:18:14,080 --> 00:18:19,679 Speaker 1: my interpretation of putting the puzzle pieces together. And so 336 00:18:20,240 --> 00:18:24,040 Speaker 1: I've heard this a lot over over the years. I mean, 337 00:18:24,040 --> 00:18:26,359 Speaker 1: there's a lot of a lot of our listeners that 338 00:18:26,400 --> 00:18:29,240 Speaker 1: are a little older, you know, because they can't sleep 339 00:18:29,280 --> 00:18:32,240 Speaker 1: and they love radio. And you know, some shows don't 340 00:18:32,240 --> 00:18:34,320 Speaker 1: put older callers on, and I put everyone on. I think, 341 00:18:34,359 --> 00:18:36,400 Speaker 1: you know, I want to be lucky enough to live 342 00:18:36,440 --> 00:18:38,400 Speaker 1: old to my old age, and I would hope somebody 343 00:18:38,440 --> 00:18:40,480 Speaker 1: would allow me to speak on the radio if they're 344 00:18:40,520 --> 00:18:44,040 Speaker 1: still calling radio shows. And people have a lot of 345 00:18:44,040 --> 00:18:45,920 Speaker 1: great story to me. The older you get, the greater 346 00:18:46,000 --> 00:18:48,240 Speaker 1: stories you have. You know, you've lived your life, You've 347 00:18:48,240 --> 00:18:51,480 Speaker 1: got great stories. You can tell us things, give us wisdom. 348 00:18:51,720 --> 00:18:53,719 Speaker 1: So I think that's cool. I admire you know, I 349 00:18:53,760 --> 00:18:55,800 Speaker 1: was kind of raised that way. You admire people who've 350 00:18:55,840 --> 00:19:00,200 Speaker 1: lived the life and can share that information with youth 351 00:19:00,320 --> 00:19:03,520 Speaker 1: that will make your life better. And so I've done 352 00:19:03,520 --> 00:19:05,600 Speaker 1: that and I've always I've had a lot of people 353 00:19:05,600 --> 00:19:07,520 Speaker 1: that have sent me very heartful of emails. A lot 354 00:19:07,520 --> 00:19:10,600 Speaker 1: of them don't even call in the hide behind the 355 00:19:10,760 --> 00:19:12,800 Speaker 1: X machine, and they've had issues with their kids where 356 00:19:13,280 --> 00:19:15,720 Speaker 1: they raised their kids. And you know, people think of 357 00:19:15,760 --> 00:19:18,040 Speaker 1: fathers and they ah, there's some brash dad, you know 358 00:19:18,040 --> 00:19:19,919 Speaker 1: who cares about his kids. But these guys really do. 359 00:19:19,960 --> 00:19:22,960 Speaker 1: They get really upset, you know. They you know, they 360 00:19:23,000 --> 00:19:24,600 Speaker 1: get to their sixties and their seventies and the kids 361 00:19:24,600 --> 00:19:28,840 Speaker 1: are assholes and don't call them, don't text them, they 362 00:19:29,240 --> 00:19:31,960 Speaker 1: don't spend time with them over the holidays. They cut 363 00:19:32,000 --> 00:19:35,159 Speaker 1: them out, and it's it's just terrible. And it's not 364 00:19:36,240 --> 00:19:41,240 Speaker 1: it's not even a message of I know I'm getting 365 00:19:41,320 --> 00:19:43,199 Speaker 1: getting seriously, I don't want to get too serious. But 366 00:19:43,880 --> 00:19:47,520 Speaker 1: because it's a it's a dopey weekend podcast, but it's 367 00:19:47,520 --> 00:19:50,159 Speaker 1: one of those things like you're not These guys have 368 00:19:50,200 --> 00:19:51,680 Speaker 1: told me, yeah, maybe they're lying. I don't know, I 369 00:19:51,680 --> 00:19:53,200 Speaker 1: don't know what's going on, but they're like, well, I 370 00:19:53,560 --> 00:19:55,040 Speaker 1: raised my kid this way and this kid. You know, 371 00:19:55,040 --> 00:19:57,040 Speaker 1: I did everything I thought was right, and the kid 372 00:19:58,440 --> 00:20:01,480 Speaker 1: ran away and wanted nothing to do. And it drives 373 00:20:01,520 --> 00:20:03,560 Speaker 1: them nuts, especially over the Holliday. And I totally get it. 374 00:20:03,600 --> 00:20:06,560 Speaker 1: I mean to me, you know, I know, I just 375 00:20:06,600 --> 00:20:09,960 Speaker 1: think you're an asshole if you do that I do. 376 00:20:10,040 --> 00:20:12,080 Speaker 1: And it's not that hard. You know, you don't have 377 00:20:12,119 --> 00:20:14,160 Speaker 1: to live with your parents, and you know, and again, 378 00:20:14,200 --> 00:20:15,959 Speaker 1: I was raised. That's just how I was raised. That's 379 00:20:15,960 --> 00:20:18,479 Speaker 1: my experience. Everyone's different. Maybe some of these guys were 380 00:20:18,520 --> 00:20:21,159 Speaker 1: beating their kids. I don't know, But all I know 381 00:20:21,280 --> 00:20:23,359 Speaker 1: is I was raised in a loving home. I was 382 00:20:23,440 --> 00:20:27,480 Speaker 1: lucky I did. I'm lucky. And my mom raised me, 383 00:20:28,040 --> 00:20:31,480 Speaker 1: you know Jewish mother that you know. I always she 384 00:20:31,520 --> 00:20:34,080 Speaker 1: would take care of me, but she wanted to hear 385 00:20:34,119 --> 00:20:36,600 Speaker 1: what was going on in my life. And she would 386 00:20:36,640 --> 00:20:38,240 Speaker 1: listen to every show that I did, no matter how 387 00:20:38,320 --> 00:20:40,639 Speaker 1: terrible the hours were. I would call her up after 388 00:20:40,680 --> 00:20:43,359 Speaker 1: every show. She would tell me what she liked. She 389 00:20:43,359 --> 00:20:45,959 Speaker 1: would tell me what she didn't like, whether it was 390 00:20:46,040 --> 00:20:49,359 Speaker 1: Pete and Pittsburgh or Blind Scott or Spoke and Gary 391 00:20:49,880 --> 00:20:52,240 Speaker 1: or trying to think of some of the other callers 392 00:20:52,800 --> 00:20:56,000 Speaker 1: back in the day, angel Fan Michelle, some of the 393 00:20:56,119 --> 00:20:59,000 Speaker 1: some of the great kid callers we had back then, 394 00:20:59,080 --> 00:21:01,639 Speaker 1: and she her break down what she liked, what she 395 00:21:01,680 --> 00:21:03,879 Speaker 1: didn't like, and she had a lot of health problems, 396 00:21:03,880 --> 00:21:07,720 Speaker 1: but she always answered the phone when I called, and 397 00:21:07,720 --> 00:21:09,600 Speaker 1: and she you know, I always made sure, even up 398 00:21:09,680 --> 00:21:12,920 Speaker 1: until the day she passed, I made sure to talk 399 00:21:12,960 --> 00:21:15,160 Speaker 1: to her. She couldn't talk back at the end there. 400 00:21:15,160 --> 00:21:18,000 Speaker 1: But so for me, it's so foreign that so many 401 00:21:18,080 --> 00:21:22,119 Speaker 1: people are like this. It's very upsetting. And hopefully, if 402 00:21:22,119 --> 00:21:25,000 Speaker 1: maybe you're in a situation like that where you've fallen 403 00:21:25,040 --> 00:21:27,920 Speaker 1: out of contact with your parents who are older, you 404 00:21:28,760 --> 00:21:31,600 Speaker 1: don't have to become buddy buddy with them. Just I 405 00:21:31,720 --> 00:21:33,680 Speaker 1: agree with angry Bill. Every once in a while, check 406 00:21:33,680 --> 00:21:36,919 Speaker 1: in how you doing, and I remember going to that 407 00:21:36,960 --> 00:21:40,040 Speaker 1: ball game with you or watching the game, and yeah, 408 00:21:40,280 --> 00:21:42,840 Speaker 1: because that's the little stuff. You don't have to send 409 00:21:42,880 --> 00:21:46,159 Speaker 1: them anything. But that's the stuff that really resonates with me. 410 00:21:46,200 --> 00:21:48,840 Speaker 1: But I just wanted to get that off my off 411 00:21:48,880 --> 00:21:52,280 Speaker 1: my chest. I did, And I think I'm gonna pivot 412 00:21:52,320 --> 00:21:53,920 Speaker 1: here because I was gonna tell a story about the 413 00:21:54,560 --> 00:21:56,080 Speaker 1: hoe down at the Hoot and Nanny, But I think 414 00:21:56,080 --> 00:21:59,359 Speaker 1: I'm gonna save that for tomorrow. Danny G's supposed to 415 00:21:59,400 --> 00:22:00,960 Speaker 1: be back with us the Saturday pot, so I think 416 00:22:00,960 --> 00:22:03,680 Speaker 1: I'll say that for tomorrow. I didn't want to get 417 00:22:03,680 --> 00:22:12,439 Speaker 1: the foody fun, foody fun, let's do it so KFC. 418 00:22:12,480 --> 00:22:16,000 Speaker 1: This caught my attention. KFC has opened a new restaurant 419 00:22:16,000 --> 00:22:21,000 Speaker 1: recently and it's all about sauce. It's Saucy, Yeah, I know, 420 00:22:22,000 --> 00:22:27,960 Speaker 1: very popular on social media. It's gone viral. It's named Saucy. 421 00:22:28,119 --> 00:22:31,960 Speaker 1: I'm not kidding. It's a new concept restaurant. It opened 422 00:22:32,040 --> 00:22:35,280 Speaker 1: up in late December. They cut one of those big 423 00:22:35,280 --> 00:22:39,760 Speaker 1: cartoon red ribbons late December called Saucy. Described as a 424 00:22:39,800 --> 00:22:43,480 Speaker 1: new concept store for Kentucky Fried Chicken. And it's a 425 00:22:43,600 --> 00:22:49,000 Speaker 1: very small, narrow focus for the KFC dining experience and 426 00:22:49,119 --> 00:22:53,119 Speaker 1: the very limited menu. The focus is on yes, you 427 00:22:53,200 --> 00:22:56,960 Speaker 1: guessed it, chicken tenders. And there's a total of eleven 428 00:22:57,240 --> 00:23:02,200 Speaker 1: distinct sauces to match up with the eleven herbs and spices. 429 00:23:03,160 --> 00:23:05,840 Speaker 1: So why not go with more than stop at eleven? 430 00:23:05,960 --> 00:23:08,920 Speaker 1: How about eleven plus a few more? Could they do that? 431 00:23:10,000 --> 00:23:11,959 Speaker 1: So I looked at this. They have everything from sweet 432 00:23:12,040 --> 00:23:15,920 Speaker 1: teriaki yum yum to a smoky bacon ranch. I don't 433 00:23:15,920 --> 00:23:20,480 Speaker 1: know about that. And this is in the Orlando area, 434 00:23:20,520 --> 00:23:22,600 Speaker 1: so if you're in Orlando, I got some listeners there 435 00:23:22,600 --> 00:23:26,639 Speaker 1: to this podcast. Let me know. It looks like, based 436 00:23:26,680 --> 00:23:29,439 Speaker 1: on what I've seen online, this is their way to 437 00:23:29,520 --> 00:23:33,280 Speaker 1: try to take down Raising canes. Like this is we 438 00:23:33,320 --> 00:23:35,920 Speaker 1: can take some of the market share from raising canes 439 00:23:36,600 --> 00:23:40,119 Speaker 1: because when these people have our creole honey mustard or 440 00:23:40,200 --> 00:23:44,320 Speaker 1: the sweet, Sweet and Saucy barbecue, they're going to go 441 00:23:44,400 --> 00:23:45,560 Speaker 1: to our store and they're not going to go to 442 00:23:45,640 --> 00:23:50,840 Speaker 1: Raising canes. That's a direct shot at raising canes. So 443 00:23:51,400 --> 00:23:53,440 Speaker 1: and I like CAFs. I used to at KFC a lot. 444 00:23:53,480 --> 00:23:55,840 Speaker 1: I have not eaten kfsin use. Once I found raising 445 00:23:55,880 --> 00:23:59,359 Speaker 1: canes game over right, that's it. And I still go 446 00:23:59,400 --> 00:24:02,560 Speaker 1: to chick fil I'm not a I'm not as obsessed 447 00:24:02,600 --> 00:24:04,760 Speaker 1: with Chick fil As at a lot of people in 448 00:24:04,800 --> 00:24:07,960 Speaker 1: my circle are. I don't hate it, but if I 449 00:24:07,960 --> 00:24:10,600 Speaker 1: have a choice between Raising canes a Chick fil A, 450 00:24:10,920 --> 00:24:14,960 Speaker 1: I'm going to Raising knes and twice on Sunday because listen, 451 00:24:15,800 --> 00:24:18,680 Speaker 1: Raising Canes is open and the other one isn't. Duncan 452 00:24:20,000 --> 00:24:22,119 Speaker 1: for only known as dunkin donuts. They have revealed they 453 00:24:22,160 --> 00:24:28,399 Speaker 1: knew Sabrina Carpenter shaking espresso drink a collab with the 454 00:24:28,440 --> 00:24:32,400 Speaker 1: pop star Sabrina Carpenter, who my wife listens to a lot, 455 00:24:32,440 --> 00:24:35,200 Speaker 1: her very own espresso drinking. You think there's any chance 456 00:24:35,200 --> 00:24:37,600 Speaker 1: that she actually had anything to do with this and 457 00:24:37,640 --> 00:24:39,560 Speaker 1: it wasn't just a bunch of people that are in 458 00:24:39,640 --> 00:24:43,959 Speaker 1: her circle that put this together. I'm skeptical. I mean, 459 00:24:43,960 --> 00:24:47,880 Speaker 1: it's possible, possible, but methinks there might be something else 460 00:24:47,920 --> 00:24:50,560 Speaker 1: going on there. But I don't know. I'm not a 461 00:24:50,560 --> 00:24:52,560 Speaker 1: coffee drinker, so I have nothing to do with that. 462 00:24:53,119 --> 00:24:54,800 Speaker 1: Try it on your own there. I'm a donut guy. 463 00:24:54,840 --> 00:24:57,359 Speaker 1: I like the donuts. I'm all about the donuts. How 464 00:24:57,359 --> 00:25:01,879 Speaker 1: about this on Foody Fun. How much McDonald's do McDonald's 465 00:25:01,920 --> 00:25:08,760 Speaker 1: franchise owners really make per year? You're curious. Yeah, when 466 00:25:08,760 --> 00:25:11,320 Speaker 1: I was in school, when I was in high school, 467 00:25:11,359 --> 00:25:14,959 Speaker 1: one of the kids in school, their parents owned like 468 00:25:15,200 --> 00:25:18,960 Speaker 1: three or four McDonald's. The family owned a bunch of 469 00:25:19,040 --> 00:25:21,359 Speaker 1: restaurants and they managed them, but they didn't really operate 470 00:25:21,400 --> 00:25:23,399 Speaker 1: them at meaning they did the business, but they obviously 471 00:25:23,440 --> 00:25:25,720 Speaker 1: I had other people to take care everything. And I 472 00:25:25,760 --> 00:25:27,399 Speaker 1: remember how interesting that was, and I said, wow, this 473 00:25:27,440 --> 00:25:29,879 Speaker 1: guy like he worked at McDonald's but his parents like 474 00:25:29,960 --> 00:25:32,240 Speaker 1: owned it. It was like the whole thing that was 475 00:25:32,280 --> 00:25:36,120 Speaker 1: a long time ago. But the average McDonald's restaurant, let's 476 00:25:36,160 --> 00:25:38,600 Speaker 1: do some malord math on this. Based on a minutes 477 00:25:38,640 --> 00:25:41,439 Speaker 1: long mallor of investigation, the average McDonald's restaurant takes in 478 00:25:41,480 --> 00:25:45,320 Speaker 1: around two point seven million per year in sales. That's 479 00:25:45,320 --> 00:25:48,000 Speaker 1: on average. Now, some make a lot more, some make 480 00:25:48,040 --> 00:25:51,480 Speaker 1: a lot less, but two point seven on average and 481 00:25:51,760 --> 00:25:54,920 Speaker 1: not quite as high as like Chick fil a or Panera, 482 00:25:55,119 --> 00:25:59,720 Speaker 1: So you're not making as much. But the McDonald's franchise 483 00:25:59,760 --> 00:26:03,439 Speaker 1: owner because of all the marketing and the McDonald's is 484 00:26:03,440 --> 00:26:09,359 Speaker 1: a legacy restaurant and all that. Most franchise owners at 485 00:26:09,400 --> 00:26:11,240 Speaker 1: the end of everything, when you spend all the money 486 00:26:11,359 --> 00:26:13,359 Speaker 1: on the food and you have to give money to 487 00:26:13,400 --> 00:26:16,639 Speaker 1: corporate McDonald's, you've got to pay everybody and bounce the books. 488 00:26:18,160 --> 00:26:21,840 Speaker 1: It's estimated yearly profit for each McDonald's restaurant is one 489 00:26:21,920 --> 00:26:24,960 Speaker 1: hundred and fifty thousand dollars for the owner. Now, one 490 00:26:25,000 --> 00:26:26,640 Speaker 1: hundred and five thousand dollars is a lot, but when 491 00:26:26,640 --> 00:26:28,080 Speaker 1: you own a restaurant, you said, I'm going to make 492 00:26:28,080 --> 00:26:30,679 Speaker 1: more than that. Right, I'm here. You're the owner. You 493 00:26:30,680 --> 00:26:33,920 Speaker 1: can manage a McDonald's and make ninety one hundred thousand 494 00:26:34,000 --> 00:26:36,639 Speaker 1: dollars or more. But they astidate one hundred and fifty 495 00:26:36,640 --> 00:26:41,000 Speaker 1: thousand dollars of profit after the two point seven million 496 00:26:41,080 --> 00:26:44,480 Speaker 1: in sales. That is not even six percent because of 497 00:26:44,520 --> 00:26:46,600 Speaker 1: the cost of food supplies. You got to pay the 498 00:26:46,640 --> 00:26:50,720 Speaker 1: payroll and all the other corporate costs that have to 499 00:26:50,720 --> 00:26:54,639 Speaker 1: be sent on to big golden arches, big golden arches. 500 00:26:54,680 --> 00:26:56,960 Speaker 1: But still so, and this is something I was so 501 00:26:56,960 --> 00:26:59,520 Speaker 1: I actually thought about getting into this years ago. I 502 00:26:59,800 --> 00:27:01,240 Speaker 1: had a little bit of money saved up, and I 503 00:27:01,280 --> 00:27:02,639 Speaker 1: was like, do I buy a house, or maybe I'll 504 00:27:02,680 --> 00:27:05,640 Speaker 1: spend this money and buy I'll invest in a fast 505 00:27:05,680 --> 00:27:07,520 Speaker 1: food restaurant. At that time, you could get in for 506 00:27:07,600 --> 00:27:09,720 Speaker 1: a reasonable amount of money, at least what I thought 507 00:27:09,720 --> 00:27:13,400 Speaker 1: was a reasonable amount of money. And so I investigated it, 508 00:27:13,440 --> 00:27:16,720 Speaker 1: and then I determined that to really make any real money, 509 00:27:17,240 --> 00:27:19,600 Speaker 1: you have to own I think the number at that time, 510 00:27:19,600 --> 00:27:22,320 Speaker 1: and don't hold me to this, do not hold me this, 511 00:27:22,359 --> 00:27:23,840 Speaker 1: but I think the number was like three. You had 512 00:27:23,960 --> 00:27:25,960 Speaker 1: at least three restaurants, which makes sense because if you 513 00:27:26,000 --> 00:27:27,439 Speaker 1: do the math on that, if it's McDonald's, you make 514 00:27:27,440 --> 00:27:30,200 Speaker 1: one hundred and thirty thousand, three of them, you're making 515 00:27:30,240 --> 00:27:33,119 Speaker 1: almost half a million. I'm not a numbers guy, but 516 00:27:33,160 --> 00:27:37,239 Speaker 1: that doesn't seem to add up. You two of them. 517 00:27:37,240 --> 00:27:39,080 Speaker 1: I think you're doing pretty well. I have three hundred thousand. 518 00:27:39,119 --> 00:27:42,240 Speaker 1: I think you're doing pretty well. So there is that. 519 00:27:42,359 --> 00:27:44,960 Speaker 1: Alf normally sends questions in on the mailbag, but Alf 520 00:27:44,960 --> 00:27:47,359 Speaker 1: sent me a couple of food stories. For food. He 521 00:27:47,480 --> 00:27:50,480 Speaker 1: fun our friend Alf the Alien of Pineter. He sent 522 00:27:50,520 --> 00:27:54,000 Speaker 1: this from a nearby Wooster, Mass and he says that 523 00:27:54,320 --> 00:28:01,240 Speaker 1: Chaney's Kosher Deli during Hallow, not Jerry Halloween, during during Hankkah, 524 00:28:01,359 --> 00:28:04,159 Speaker 1: not Alomy Hankah, it's early. What do you want? So 525 00:28:04,280 --> 00:28:12,000 Speaker 1: during during Honkkah, this kosher deli was selling pastrami donuts. Yeah, 526 00:28:12,040 --> 00:28:16,199 Speaker 1: on day one of Honukkah. Honka is now over. And 527 00:28:16,240 --> 00:28:18,040 Speaker 1: I think this is legit. I don't. I don't think 528 00:28:18,119 --> 00:28:20,560 Speaker 1: this is ai. I don't think this is fake. I 529 00:28:20,560 --> 00:28:22,840 Speaker 1: think this as far as I didn't really go deep 530 00:28:22,920 --> 00:28:24,280 Speaker 1: dive on this, and I looked at it and I 531 00:28:24,280 --> 00:28:28,199 Speaker 1: was like, oh, I gotta tell you that actually doesn't 532 00:28:28,200 --> 00:28:31,600 Speaker 1: look bad. My original thought when I saw the headline 533 00:28:31,640 --> 00:28:33,840 Speaker 1: from from alf I saw the story, I'm like, oh, 534 00:28:33,880 --> 00:28:38,000 Speaker 1: this is gonna be uh be terrible, right, But then 535 00:28:38,400 --> 00:28:40,720 Speaker 1: I was thinking about it, and I've talked about this 536 00:28:40,800 --> 00:28:44,360 Speaker 1: in the past on Foody Fund. But the whole key 537 00:28:44,440 --> 00:28:47,920 Speaker 1: to eating is there's three big food goops. You've heard 538 00:28:47,920 --> 00:28:49,760 Speaker 1: there's more than three food goops, but the big three 539 00:28:49,840 --> 00:28:54,560 Speaker 1: are salt, sugar, and fat. And these major food companies 540 00:28:54,800 --> 00:28:59,280 Speaker 1: spend millions in research in labs to try to find 541 00:28:59,280 --> 00:29:02,240 Speaker 1: out what they call well, the bliss point. If you've 542 00:29:02,240 --> 00:29:04,960 Speaker 1: heard this before, just fast forward in the podcast. But 543 00:29:05,040 --> 00:29:09,480 Speaker 1: the bliss point for each food it's this they call 544 00:29:09,520 --> 00:29:12,000 Speaker 1: it again, the bliss point. But there's this ratio of 545 00:29:12,280 --> 00:29:16,080 Speaker 1: just the right amount of sugar, salt, and fat, and 546 00:29:16,120 --> 00:29:20,760 Speaker 1: when you get there, food is irresistible. Now I've been 547 00:29:20,800 --> 00:29:22,760 Speaker 1: told by many that I have the palette of an 548 00:29:22,760 --> 00:29:27,080 Speaker 1: eight year old, and so that's my issue. But the 549 00:29:27,920 --> 00:29:31,720 Speaker 1: amount of salt, sugar and fat that optimizes everything. And 550 00:29:32,160 --> 00:29:35,160 Speaker 1: you've got the salt, and you've got a little pepper, 551 00:29:36,000 --> 00:29:37,959 Speaker 1: and you've got the fat from the pastrami, and then 552 00:29:38,000 --> 00:29:41,440 Speaker 1: you wrap that in a doughnut to change to change 553 00:29:41,440 --> 00:29:44,120 Speaker 1: a chain that sounds like a winner. Alf also sent 554 00:29:44,160 --> 00:29:46,440 Speaker 1: me a simple recipe that I am debating whether or 555 00:29:46,440 --> 00:29:49,560 Speaker 1: not to make. I mentioned my love of cinnamon, and 556 00:29:49,640 --> 00:29:51,560 Speaker 1: I said on the show, I believe my line was 557 00:29:51,600 --> 00:29:53,760 Speaker 1: and I believe this to be true that if you 558 00:29:53,800 --> 00:29:56,360 Speaker 1: do not like cinnamon rolls, freshly baked cinnamon rolls out 559 00:29:56,360 --> 00:30:00,200 Speaker 1: of the oven, you likely are a lizard person, a 560 00:30:00,280 --> 00:30:02,520 Speaker 1: lizard person. So he sent me this recipe. It's very 561 00:30:02,520 --> 00:30:09,440 Speaker 1: simple for heavenly cinnamon roll bread twists. And I'm I'm 562 00:30:09,440 --> 00:30:12,160 Speaker 1: debating whether I'm AMaGA I actually plan I was planning 563 00:30:12,200 --> 00:30:14,560 Speaker 1: on my next the michig As. I was gonna make 564 00:30:14,960 --> 00:30:17,600 Speaker 1: those are they called? What are they called? They have? 565 00:30:17,640 --> 00:30:21,520 Speaker 1: It's half chocolate chip cookie and half brownie. I knew 566 00:30:21,520 --> 00:30:23,160 Speaker 1: the name. I forgot. I have not made those. I 567 00:30:23,200 --> 00:30:26,440 Speaker 1: made brownies. I made cookies, but combine them together. So 568 00:30:26,520 --> 00:30:29,080 Speaker 1: I think I'm gonna I'm gonna do that. I think 569 00:30:29,720 --> 00:30:34,760 Speaker 1: I'm not, you know, I'm not sure debating it. And uh, anyway, 570 00:30:34,760 --> 00:30:37,000 Speaker 1: that's that's enough of that. Let's get before we get 571 00:30:37,000 --> 00:30:39,200 Speaker 1: out of here, let's get to the word all the wink. 572 00:30:40,240 --> 00:30:42,320 Speaker 1: Are you ready for the word all the week. The 573 00:30:42,400 --> 00:30:45,680 Speaker 1: word of the week is a word that we use 574 00:30:45,720 --> 00:30:47,920 Speaker 1: from time to time. Many sports fans believe in this 575 00:30:48,000 --> 00:30:52,720 Speaker 1: word jinx. Yeah, you're a jinx. I've been told over 576 00:30:52,720 --> 00:30:54,800 Speaker 1: the years that the curse of the Benbino is a 577 00:30:54,840 --> 00:30:58,520 Speaker 1: tremendous jinx, which might explain my picks being so bad 578 00:30:58,680 --> 00:31:00,840 Speaker 1: on the TV show, which is a bit all over 579 00:31:00,840 --> 00:31:03,920 Speaker 1: the place this weekend Benny versus Penny. But according to 580 00:31:03,960 --> 00:31:08,960 Speaker 1: the Dictionary, jinks is obviously for someone that brings bad luck. 581 00:31:09,000 --> 00:31:11,880 Speaker 1: The term can also be used as a verb describing 582 00:31:11,880 --> 00:31:15,080 Speaker 1: an act that brings bad luck, like a hex in 583 00:31:15,160 --> 00:31:20,160 Speaker 1: that case, and the noun jinks also refers to the 584 00:31:20,200 --> 00:31:25,880 Speaker 1: state or spell of bad luck brought on by said 585 00:31:26,280 --> 00:31:29,040 Speaker 1: said jinks. So they traced the word back, and it 586 00:31:29,280 --> 00:31:31,560 Speaker 1: appeared in print as early as the beginning of the 587 00:31:31,560 --> 00:31:36,960 Speaker 1: twentieth century. The Chicago Daily News in nineteen eleven used 588 00:31:36,960 --> 00:31:43,960 Speaker 1: the slang version of the word jinks for unlucky baseball players. Yeah, baseball, 589 00:31:44,000 --> 00:31:46,840 Speaker 1: it was a baseball term, But the word goes back 590 00:31:46,920 --> 00:31:52,600 Speaker 1: much further than baseball experts believe. The word evolved from 591 00:31:53,240 --> 00:32:00,120 Speaker 1: ryneck wrynck that evolved into jinks in the seventeenth century. 592 00:32:00,720 --> 00:32:02,880 Speaker 1: Around the time, the word also came to mean a 593 00:32:03,000 --> 00:32:06,640 Speaker 1: charm or a spell, putting a charm or a spell 594 00:32:06,720 --> 00:32:11,960 Speaker 1: on you, And the definition of that word far goes further, 595 00:32:12,120 --> 00:32:16,920 Speaker 1: much further back in time, meaning an unlucky, unlucky person. 596 00:32:17,880 --> 00:32:20,480 Speaker 1: And we go back to the nineteenth century. There are 597 00:32:20,480 --> 00:32:23,880 Speaker 1: a couple of characters, one name named Jinx that was 598 00:32:23,920 --> 00:32:26,840 Speaker 1: part of American culture, and that is believed to be 599 00:32:27,040 --> 00:32:30,920 Speaker 1: the character that helps solidify today's modern version. All us 600 00:32:30,960 --> 00:32:32,280 Speaker 1: you know, back in the nineteenth century, here we are 601 00:32:32,320 --> 00:32:35,200 Speaker 1: all these years later, and it's still used that way. 602 00:32:35,480 --> 00:32:40,000 Speaker 1: Captain Jinks of the Horse Marines was a popular vaudvillian 603 00:32:41,040 --> 00:32:45,480 Speaker 1: a tune that described a bumbling and stumbling soldier who 604 00:32:45,640 --> 00:32:49,280 Speaker 1: was kicked out of the army. And so they used 605 00:32:49,320 --> 00:32:52,400 Speaker 1: that word then. So the word of the week, the 606 00:32:52,640 --> 00:32:57,400 Speaker 1: word of the week is Jinx. You on that note, 607 00:32:58,240 --> 00:33:01,800 Speaker 1: have yourself a wonderful Friday. I'll have Danny, she will 608 00:33:01,800 --> 00:33:03,920 Speaker 1: be back. He's producing this podcast. But Danny will be 609 00:33:03,920 --> 00:33:07,280 Speaker 1: back tomorrow and we'll have him talk into the microphone. 610 00:33:07,280 --> 00:33:09,120 Speaker 1: And I have to remember, I'm gonna make a little 611 00:33:09,160 --> 00:33:11,760 Speaker 1: note here, okay, when I come back into the podcast 612 00:33:11,760 --> 00:33:15,720 Speaker 1: studio tomorrow. The hoe down at the hooton Nanny, the 613 00:33:15,800 --> 00:33:17,440 Speaker 1: hoe down at the hooton Nanny. And there's some other 614 00:33:17,440 --> 00:33:18,880 Speaker 1: stuff that I didn't get to, but I got carried 615 00:33:18,920 --> 00:33:23,360 Speaker 1: away giving my thoughts on the Angry Bill story. Anyway, 616 00:33:23,360 --> 00:33:26,000 Speaker 1: have a wonderful arrest of your day. And as Danny 617 00:33:26,000 --> 00:33:30,120 Speaker 1: would say, it was a lader skater something like that. Yeah, no, 618 00:33:30,680 --> 00:33:33,040 Speaker 1: all right, anyway, whatever he says, all right, how about 619 00:33:33,040 --> 00:33:37,400 Speaker 1: bye bye, be a fire, got a murder. I gotta go.