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. Wow to the clearing
Speaker 2: House of hot takes, break free for something special. The
Speaker 2: Fifth Hour with Ben Mahller starts right now.
Speaker 3: In the air everywhere, The Fifth Hour with Me, Ben
Speaker 3: Mahler and Danny g Radio.
Speaker 1: It is a Friday.
Speaker 3: Welcome, the weekend has begun, a very very busy time
Speaker 3: the first day of November. We have made it through Halloween,
Speaker 3: a rather uneventful Halloween for me. Danny, by the way,
Speaker 3: will join us for the Saturday and Sunday podcast. He's
Speaker 3: on assignment. He's actually on his way to Seattle right
Speaker 3: now for the Covino and Rich Show on Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 3: So you are stuck with just me, just little old
Speaker 3: me here today on the Fifth Hour podcast as we
Speaker 3: celebrate Extra Mile Day. That's one of those fugazy holidays
Speaker 3: today where you are supposed to roll up your sleeves,
Speaker 3: assuming you're wearing long sleeves, You roll up your sleeves
Speaker 3: and you go the extra mile. Yes, so that that
Speaker 3: is today. There's some other fugazee holidays as there are
Speaker 3: every day. It's deck the Everything Day today. I don't
Speaker 3: even know what that means. And what else is it?
Speaker 3: It's all Saints Day, World Vegan Day, always big National
Speaker 3: Author's Day as well. It's National cook for your Pet Day.
Speaker 1: I think I'm good on that.
Speaker 3: But today on the podcast, the Fifth Hour Podcast, where
Speaker 3: we've got a lot of business to get to. We've
Speaker 3: got the Rockets, red Glare. The tall at the time
Speaker 3: will be footy fun and the phrase of the week.
Speaker 3: But we begin with this a programming note. We are
Speaker 3: now in week nine of the NFL season. Now. Last
Speaker 3: night the Jets Suck, Suck, Suck, were horrific for the
Speaker 3: first thirty minutes and then came back and went hog
Speaker 3: wild in the second half.
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers actually looked like he knew what he was doing.
Speaker 3: That Cayenne Pepper kicked in and the Jets got it done.
Speaker 1: They won.
Speaker 3: They were a small favorite and one of those games
Speaker 3: the public was loading up on the Houston Texans picking again.
Speaker 3: It was like a broken atm machine. Free money. Everyone
Speaker 3: gets free money, and how did that work out?
Speaker 1: Not good? Not good.
Speaker 3: But with that being said, though, as we head into
Speaker 3: the football weekend, the meat and potatoes of the football
Speaker 3: Weekend later today, in fact, depending on when this podcast
Speaker 3: goes up, I'm recording it early in the morning here
Speaker 3: on Friday, the first of November. But it'll go up
Speaker 3: in a little bit. I don't know exactly when. I
Speaker 3: don't it's not my pay grade, but when it goes up,
Speaker 3: we will. We will advise you to watch Benny versus
Speaker 3: the pay I know all you do is promote the
Speaker 3: TV show. Well's yeah, it's a big deal. It's a
Speaker 3: big deal, and I'd love for you to be a
Speaker 3: part of it and we tell you stories behind the
Speaker 3: scenes and whatnot and the good news for the TV show.
Speaker 3: I've been getting absolutely cooked by the Penny. I'm like
Speaker 3: a munchkin compared to the Penny.
Speaker 1: This year.
Speaker 3: It's one of my worst seasons I've ever had, if
Speaker 3: not the worst, against the Penny.
Speaker 1: Picking NFL games.
Speaker 3: I'm doing the same thing, the same thing that I've
Speaker 3: done in terms of hand capping, and it just hasn't
Speaker 3: gone my way so far. This year, but it will
Speaker 3: even out as we go through the season. I will
Speaker 3: rack up some wins. So there were some signs of life.
Speaker 3: Now Benny Versus the Penny today in Philadelphia and BC
Speaker 3: Sports Philadelphia seven pm tonight, you'll be able to watch
Speaker 3: the show. In Boston. The Celtics are playing the Hornets,
Speaker 3: which is good for the Celtics because that's an easy game,
Speaker 3: but it's bad for the show because we get bumped.
Speaker 1: We're gonna be on late night. I think the.
Speaker 3: Show is gonna be on a ten thirty or eleven.
Speaker 3: It's after the Celtics Hornets game and the postgame coverage
Speaker 3: on NBC Sports Boston, so please check that out. That
Speaker 3: is the hub. That is where the show is produced. Benny,
Speaker 3: who is the man in charge day to day of
Speaker 3: Benny Versus the Penny. He lives in that area and
Speaker 3: in all the people at NBC Sports Boston have been
Speaker 3: so great. We go back there every year and tape
Speaker 3: a bunch of stuff and so put the show together.
Speaker 3: They produced the show during the week so that's on
Speaker 3: NBC Sports Boston and it's gonna be on after the
Speaker 3: Celtics tonight, but all weekend long they've been very good
Speaker 3: to us. They show the show over and over again
Speaker 3: on NBC Sports Boston in the Bay Area.
Speaker 1: This was pretty cool.
Speaker 3: So Alamta Lou sent me a message at the King
Speaker 3: Fisher Bar over in Oakland and Thursday night. I've not
Speaker 3: heard of this, bro. I didn't realize the show started
Speaker 3: airing on Thursday night. I thought it just started on Friday.
Speaker 3: But in some markets I know in the NBC Sports
Speaker 3: Bay Area, the show was broadcast on Thursday night, which
Speaker 3: is really cool.
Speaker 1: That's awesome. We do the.
Speaker 3: Show Thursday during the day and by Thursday night the
Speaker 3: show's being broadcast. That's outstanding. Obviously it's not a live show,
Speaker 3: but it's got to be edited and put together and
Speaker 3: all that, although it is live on tape, as Tom
Speaker 3: Looney likes say. Several showings, including tonight at six pm,
Speaker 3: nine to thirty pm on NBC Sports Bay Area obviously
Speaker 3: those times specific, and then on Saturday we hit La
Speaker 3: La Land on Spectrum Sportsnet LA. That'll be Saturday eight am,
Speaker 3: LA time there, three pm and five pm. And if
Speaker 3: you have not been paying attention, I don't know how
Speaker 3: you could have missed this. But Benny Versus the penny
Speaker 3: is now National on NBC's streaming platform Peacock. You can
Speaker 3: get the show starting later today on this Friday, sometime
Speaker 3: late afternoon, early evening throughout the weekend and enjoy Benny
Speaker 3: Versus the Penny whenever you want, watch it over and
Speaker 3: over again. Give the gift of Benny Versus the Penny
Speaker 3: to someone else. I do whatever you want with the show,
Speaker 3: but all of that will be available. So we're very
Speaker 3: excited about the show this week. And I did debut
Speaker 3: some new wardrobe. I know, try to stay Colm, try
Speaker 3: to stay new wardrobe.
Speaker 2: I know.
Speaker 1: It's exciting. Yeah.
Speaker 3: So that'll be today and all weekend long, Benny Versus
Speaker 3: the Penny. Now the Rockets Red Glare. Today is a
Speaker 3: big day. It is parade day in LA And while
Speaker 3: I am thrilled that the Lawyers won the World Series,
Speaker 3: I was floating.
Speaker 1: On air when they won. It's great, wonderful.
Speaker 3: I will not be in attendance at the Dodger Parade,
Speaker 3: which I believe starts at like eleven o'clock. There's a
Speaker 3: rally at Dodger Stadium. I will not be there because
Speaker 3: I do an overnight show and then a few hours
Speaker 3: later I record a podcast and at some point I
Speaker 3: have to sleep because I have things I have to do.
Speaker 3: I have like a day and a half off because
Speaker 3: I work Friday, and these are first world problems. But
Speaker 3: I'm off Friday night all day Saturday, and I'm back
Speaker 3: to work on Sunday night.
Speaker 1: So I have like a day and a half where
Speaker 1: I can kind of do what I want.
Speaker 3: And I obviously have this podcast, but other than that,
Speaker 3: I don't have to prepare for a four hour radio show.
Speaker 1: It's the fifth hour podcast.
Speaker 3: Which is normally you know, thirty thirty five minutes somewhere
Speaker 3: in that ballpark, and so that's typically how long the
Speaker 3: podcast is. So I will not be at the parade today.
Speaker 3: But the bums did it. After years of heartbreak mixed
Speaker 3: in with the most ridiculous, outstanding, marvelous championship run during
Speaker 3: a global pandemic, the Boys in Blue are back on top,
Speaker 3: the twenty twenty four world champions and they slayed the
Speaker 3: Mets and the Yankees and the Padres on their way
Speaker 3: to the championship. The parade this morning. Now, I want
Speaker 3: to go back to was it Wednesday?
Speaker 1: I guess it was Wednesday.
Speaker 3: It was Game five and on Wednesday, I don't eat.
Speaker 3: That's my day. I used to fast multiple days. I
Speaker 3: don't eat on Wednesday. And the reason I don't need
Speaker 3: on Wednesday is because the TV shows on Thursday. So
Speaker 3: I don't want to look bloated, and I'm very worried
Speaker 3: about my girlish figure. So what I did was I
Speaker 3: settled in on the sofa my laptop and I'm scanning around.
Speaker 3: I'm like looking for things that are interesting to me
Speaker 3: that I want to talk about from football and the
Speaker 3: different sports. And as I'm doing that, starting to get
Speaker 3: ready for the show. In my head, I'm trying to
Speaker 3: map out what's the show going to.
Speaker 1: Look like tonight.
Speaker 3: No, I don't know what's going to happen in the
Speaker 3: baseball game, and I don't know what's gonna happen to
Speaker 3: all these games and whatnot, but in my head I've
Speaker 3: mapped out. I'm like, all right, if the Dodgers lose,
Speaker 3: there's a game six. So in my head, I'm like,
Speaker 3: all right, we'll do one monologue on baseball. We'll get
Speaker 3: it all in to an hour of baseball, and then
Speaker 3: I'll move on to football. There's some other stories that
Speaker 3: I like. And then the Dodgers came back and I
Speaker 3: was like, all right, you know this is worthy of
Speaker 3: two hours. This is an hour on the Dodgers, and
Speaker 3: then I'll do a monologue on the Yankees. And so
Speaker 3: I switched up the show. I had some other stuff
Speaker 3: that I was going to talk about Wednesday night, and
Speaker 3: we didn't get to it, which is fine. I mean
Speaker 3: I had not put the show to bed, and as
Speaker 3: I made the decision, you know what we need to do.
Speaker 3: We need to talk baseball for a couple hours. And
Speaker 3: so we did, and then we talked to football and
Speaker 3: all that. But right as the game and I had
Speaker 3: a couple of text chains going. As I was getting
Speaker 3: ready for the show, I'm watching the Dodger game. It's
Speaker 3: called multitasking, compartmentalize. So I got the game on the TV,
Speaker 3: I got my laptop. People are texting me throughout the game.
Speaker 3: I got Yankee fans, I got Roberto the bus driver,
Speaker 3: some other Dodger fans. I've got some people that aren't
Speaker 3: baseball fans, that are just trolls.
Speaker 1: Hey, the Dodgers are down five nothing, are you getting worried?
Speaker 3: You know that kind of stuff. And then the tide turned.
Speaker 3: That's right, the tide turned. So how did it turn
Speaker 3: How did the whole thing turn? Side was well, if
Speaker 3: you forgot a big thanks to Freddie Freeman for the
Speaker 3: RBI hit, but Aaron Judge and the New York Yankees
Speaker 3: who fundamentally exploded and it was marvelous, the sizzle, the swagger,
Speaker 3: all those home runs early for the Yankees, and it.
Speaker 1: All went away. It all went away.
Speaker 3: And so, as I mentioned, after the game ended, I
Speaker 3: had to hop in the Malamobile because I knew things
Speaker 3: were going to get crazy in Southern California. I had
Speaker 3: a very long drive from the North Woods to the
Speaker 3: Mothership in Sherman Oaks. So I'm I'm driving and as
Speaker 3: I drove, I saw a spectacle that you see on
Speaker 3: the fourth of July. On each side of the highway.
Speaker 3: It was a rockets red clear We're talking Disney style fireworks.
Speaker 3: It reminded me of the COVID year, very similar when
Speaker 3: the Dodgers won in twenty twenty and everyone was under
Speaker 3: house arrest and people were going out and shooting.
Speaker 1: Off Disneyland fireworks.
Speaker 3: Now, one of the things if you're not in Southern California,
Speaker 3: based on the podcast numbers, a lot of you are not.
Speaker 3: We're obviously not that far away from Mexico and in Tijuana,
Speaker 3: just across the border from San Diego. They must make
Speaker 3: so much money selling these fireworks. It's got to be
Speaker 3: insane how much money they make. Because everyone all over
Speaker 3: southern California was shooting these things off, and I got
Speaker 3: a little video I try to record, which is you
Speaker 3: shouldn't do, you shouldn't do. I tried to record it
Speaker 3: on my phone. I got a little clip of it,
Speaker 3: but it didn't really do it justice how many people
Speaker 3: were shooting the fireworks off. They were everywhere. And then
Speaker 3: my phone starts blowing up and it's people celebrating the Dodgers, whining,
Speaker 3: people congratulating like I played a role in it, which
Speaker 3: was kind of cool. And then I started getting requests
Speaker 3: to do interviews, and I'm trying to get ready for
Speaker 3: the show, and I got two monologues. I still got
Speaker 3: to do put notes down. But my guy Darcy messages me,
Speaker 3: the Great Darcy walder Grave, New Zealand radio legend. He said, hey, mate,
Speaker 3: the Dodgers have won. I would like to have you
Speaker 3: on my show. I can't turn down Darcy. Darcy is
Speaker 3: my guy. I've known Darcy for years and he used
Speaker 3: to put me on every week and it was great
Speaker 3: and wonderful. So Darcy called me up. I said, all right,
Speaker 3: I'm in, and a couple of other people called and
Speaker 3: they wanted me to go on.
Speaker 1: I even went on.
Speaker 3: A podcast hosted by Ryan Burschinger Keep Trying, Ryan Bow
Speaker 3: the Show and Monsei. They have a baseball podcast like
Speaker 3: a Dodger podcast, And I was on with that. But
Speaker 3: I still had to get ready for my show, and
Speaker 3: so I went to the very back, very back of
Speaker 3: the old Fox Sports Radio studio.
Speaker 1: I sat there, lights down.
Speaker 3: I was just contemplating everything I wanted to throw out
Speaker 3: and things I wanted to say, and I was looking
Speaker 3: for more things that I thought were interesting that I
Speaker 3: could talk about. Put the bullet points down a lot
Speaker 3: of moving parts, but that view majestic driving down the highway,
Speaker 3: You're going sixty five seventy five mile an hour and
Speaker 3: on both sides as wild. And then as we did
Speaker 3: the show overnight, we were documenting all of the debauchery
Speaker 3: and there was a lot that bus that they burned
Speaker 3: up the lunatics. There were several stores that were looted,
Speaker 3: and it was it was terrible.
Speaker 1: Is what it was lawlessness.
Speaker 3: The animals were out running around running my I I
Speaker 3: think there were really Dodger fans. I mean, there's people
Speaker 3: looking for a reason to steal shoes or jewelry or whatever.
Speaker 1: They were stealing.
Speaker 3: But it's a shame because most of the people were
Speaker 3: just in a celebratory mood, want to have a good time,
Speaker 3: and then these knuckleheads go in there and they ruin
Speaker 3: everything and make everyone look bad. But that's the story
Speaker 3: of you know, the story of the world. I mean,
Speaker 3: it's just a preview of coming attractions. I hope I'm wrong,
Speaker 3: but the election is a few days away, and something
Speaker 3: tells me that there'll be more of that coming up
Speaker 3: next week. Now at the tone the time will be.
Speaker 3: If you're of a certain age, you know exactly what
Speaker 3: that is. That was a big deal. Before everyone had
Speaker 3: a watch on their phone. It was important. You needn't
Speaker 3: know the time. So I bring this up because we
Speaker 3: have new information out the malor meet and greet Canza
Speaker 3: City style. That's a week from Saturday. If you have
Speaker 3: not heard yet, we are going to Kansas City. I
Speaker 3: am traveling there now. I'm not going with Eddie. He's
Speaker 3: not going Coop's not going, Lorraine is not going. Just me.
Speaker 1: It's only me.
Speaker 3: Danny's not going to be there, It's only me. A
Speaker 3: week from Saturday, November ninth. Where is it the Landing? Now?
Speaker 3: The Landing is in the Kansas City here. It's in Liberty, Missouri,
Speaker 3: which is kind of near where the Chiefs play, kind
Speaker 3: of near where the Royals play. It's the Landing that
Speaker 3: is the home of the world famous Ben Mallard chicken fingers.
Speaker 3: I am going back to the Mecca. Now. Last time
Speaker 3: I was in Kansas City, the good people that own
Speaker 3: the Landing, there was a it was a different restaurant.
Speaker 3: It was the I think it's called the Brooksider if
Speaker 3: I remember correctly. But now it's the Landing. It's been
Speaker 3: the Landing for many men years and I'm very excited
Speaker 3: about that. I'm gonna go to Arrowhead Stadium for the
Speaker 3: first time. I've never been to Arrowhead. If you have
Speaker 3: any advice, if you're a listener in that area and
Speaker 3: you want to give me advice on what I need
Speaker 3: to know, where I need to go must do's in
Speaker 3: Kansas City. I already know there's the Ben Maller chicken
Speaker 3: Fingers which I'm dying to eat. And the greatest barbecue
Speaker 3: sandwich I've ever had was in Kansas City. It was
Speaker 3: at a place called Oklahoma Joe's, which has since changed
Speaker 3: their name to Kansas City Joe's. So at some point
Speaker 3: I'm going to hit Kansas City Joe's. I'm gonna do
Speaker 3: a lot of eating, a lot of eating, but at
Speaker 3: the tone the time will be. We now have the time.
Speaker 3: The time has been set. Myself and the Great Bob
Speaker 3: Fesco and his listeners from ninety six point five the
Speaker 3: fan will be there as well. It's a meet and
Speaker 3: greet get together myself, you guys in the mall militia,
Speaker 3: and then Bob and his many loyal listeners to his
Speaker 3: morning show. And I'm not sure if Dusty's going to
Speaker 3: be there, his sidekick on the morning show. But we
Speaker 3: will be at the landing from two pm till four
Speaker 3: pm at least, probably later than that, probably later than that,
Speaker 3: but at least for those two hours, and we'll see
Speaker 3: who shows up, and we'll have fun, we'll tell stories
Speaker 3: and just have a good old time, just have a
Speaker 3: great old time. And then the next day I'm going
Speaker 3: to Arrowhead for what's really a pretty big game, the
Speaker 3: Chiefs and the Broncos in the a f C West
Speaker 3: Hum nigger, Hum, nigger of the matchup. I'm excited at
Speaker 3: now several of you of RSVPED. I am reluctant to
Speaker 3: say any names. I know JT. The Wingman's been to
Speaker 3: the last three of these things, so I'm pretty sure
Speaker 3: he's going to show up. But we've had listeners from
Speaker 3: as far away as Iowa. There was a gentleman from
Speaker 3: Minnesota who's considering driving down a listener in Texas. How
Speaker 3: many of these people actually do it or not? As
Speaker 3: I say, with all of the malor meat and greets,
Speaker 3: and this was not planned, this is a last minute thing.
Speaker 3: I'm very excited to do it. I love Kansas City.
Speaker 3: You guys have been great, You've supported the show over
Speaker 3: the years, and I.
Speaker 1: Mean, they have chicken figures named after me. How can
Speaker 1: I go to Kansas City?
Speaker 3: However, in terms of who's showing up and who's not,
Speaker 3: you never know because people say they're going to be
Speaker 3: there and then life gets in the way and you
Speaker 3: can't make it. And so I hope you'll be able
Speaker 3: to attend everyone that's RSVPED. We'll have a great turnout,
Speaker 3: just a wonderful turnout if everyone shows up.
Speaker 1: But a lot of people have been tentative. They're like,
Speaker 1: I'm planning.
Speaker 3: On going, but my kid's got a soccer game, or
Speaker 3: my daughters in cheerleading and she's got this that or
Speaker 3: the other thing or banned or whatever.
Speaker 1: I understand.
Speaker 3: I totally get it. We're there if you can make it.
Speaker 3: I'd love to see you. Some of you I saw before.
Speaker 3: I hopefully Jeopardy Owl will be there. I don't know
Speaker 3: if you'll be.
Speaker 1: There or not. I'm not sure about that.
Speaker 3: But again, I'll be joined by my radio homeboy, Bob
Speaker 3: Fesco from ninety six point five to the fantasies of
Speaker 3: the morning show. There and that is the FM Blowtorch,
Speaker 3: the home of the Royals and the Chiefs. So it's
Speaker 3: gonna be a lot, a lot of fun time. Now
Speaker 3: for the phrase of the week. As you know, this
Speaker 3: is a big time podcast unless it's not. But I
Speaker 3: love words. I try to use different words. I'm not
Speaker 3: really book educated, meaning I wasn't a great student and
Speaker 3: had some issues with getting up in the morning to
Speaker 3: go to school. But I've continued to learn as i've
Speaker 3: gone further through life, and I try to learn something
Speaker 3: new every day.
Speaker 1: I love words though right, and I try to think
Speaker 1: that I'm not just whistling in the dark.
Speaker 3: That changing up my lexicon and adding new verbiage kind
Speaker 3: of fun. I enjoy it. And so you guys, you
Speaker 3: know who you are, have been wonderful. You've helped me out.
Speaker 3: For example, Marcus who is insane, Antonio rights and he says,
Speaker 3: dear Ben and Danny g. Growing up as a kid
Speaker 3: can be tough tough enough, but when you are a
Speaker 3: military brat and have a stepdad who is a hardcore
Speaker 3: army guy, it can be even harder. Over and over
Speaker 3: again over the years, I heard the phrase don't do
Speaker 3: a half assed job, do it right the first time.
Speaker 3: No matter what the chore was, it was never right
Speaker 3: the first time because I always apparently did it half asked.
Speaker 3: I've always wondered where that phrase came from. Can you
Speaker 3: please enlighten us? Thank you for not just being an
Speaker 3: entertain show, but an educational one as well. The Real
Speaker 3: Fifth Hour podcast deserves a Marconi Award for.
Speaker 1: That, if nothing else. I don't think they give the
Speaker 1: Marconi to podcasts.
Speaker 3: There's like podcast awards, but the only podcasts that ever
Speaker 3: seem to win those are like Joe Rogan, Travis Kelcey.
Speaker 3: Like the biggest named people win podcast awards. Even at
Speaker 3: our company, iHeart like the top money makers in terms
Speaker 3: of the people they pay the most money to. They're
Speaker 3: the ones that end up winning all the podcast awards.
Speaker 3: But I would love to win some dopey award. I
Speaker 3: feel like the chicken figures named after me is big enough.
Speaker 3: But thanks to Marcus. This is from Marcus in San Antonio.
Speaker 3: So Marcus, thank you, thank you, thank you. Now Marcus,
Speaker 3: to get to the meat of the matter, Marcus, the
Speaker 3: phrase again, don't do a half assed job, do it
Speaker 3: right the first time. So the half assed part refers
Speaker 3: to having your pants obviously not done up all the
Speaker 3: way blah blah blah.
Speaker 1: You're showing half your ass.
Speaker 3: If you are in that state, you are likely to
Speaker 3: be unprepared for the day's of work or whatever, and
Speaker 3: incompetent and all that. So here's what I found. The phrase,
Speaker 3: depending on which part of the dark web you look at,
Speaker 3: goes all the way back. The earliest instance of half
Speaker 3: asked being used was in a book by Thomas O'Brien
Speaker 3: and Oliver Dierfendorf General Orders of the US War Department,
Speaker 3: embracing the years eighteen sixty one, eighteen sixty two, and
Speaker 3: eighteen sixty three. So it does sound Marcus, you said
Speaker 3: your stepdad was in the military and you were a
Speaker 3: military brat. So and I know what that's like. By
Speaker 3: the way, not that I was in the military, but
Speaker 3: I grew up. When I was growing up, I was
Speaker 3: surrounded by two military bases, and I went to elementary
Speaker 3: school and junior high and high school with a lot
Speaker 3: of kids that were in the military, and they had
Speaker 3: lived all over like they you know, Germany and in Asia, Texas,
Speaker 3: South Carolina, And as a kid, it was like, wow, dude,
Speaker 3: you move every couple of years.
Speaker 1: That's wild. It was crazy.
Speaker 3: Anyway, back to the point here, the phrase don't do
Speaker 3: a half assed job, do it right the first time
Speaker 3: it does appear to come from US military slang all
Speaker 3: the way back to the eighteen sixties, although there was
Speaker 3: one one place I looked that said this actually goes
Speaker 3: back further than that that it goes it predates the
Speaker 3: US military. Now, most seemed to think that it was
Speaker 3: a mispro denunciation of half hazard, half ass, half hazard, whatnot.
Speaker 3: But it goes back to the early eighteen sixties. So
Speaker 3: you think about what was going on, what combat was
Speaker 3: going on, what America was like.
Speaker 1: In the eighteen sixties, and you can.
Speaker 3: Let your mind wander and I did look up. I
Speaker 3: fell down this rabbit hole of.
Speaker 1: Military slang. And there's a lot.
Speaker 3: Of people that love this podcast. You know who you are,
Speaker 3: in military whatever. There are so many phrases that started
Speaker 3: from the Army, Marines, the Air Force, the Navy and
Speaker 3: have become part of the lexicon. It's pretty remarkable when
Speaker 3: you think about, you know, stuff just in the military,
Speaker 3: and then it spreads out and it just becomes mainstream
Speaker 3: for people that have no affiliation at all with the military.
Speaker 3: So again the phrase of the week, don't do a
Speaker 3: half fast job, do it right the first time.
Speaker 1: The earliest reference there was one report said the.
Speaker 3: Seventeen notits but in modern context it is from a
Speaker 3: book by Thomas O'Brien and Oliver Diefendorf, General Orders of
Speaker 3: the US War Department, embracing the years eighteen sixty one,
Speaker 3: eighteen sixty two, and eighteen sixty three.
Speaker 1: Time now for some foody fun booty fun.
Speaker 3: Hooray for food. We all got to eat. So a
Speaker 3: couple stories here, and this one does relate to the
Speaker 3: World Series. Now, the Dodgers parade is later today. Maybe
Speaker 3: it's already happened by the time you hear this podcast,
Speaker 3: but it is today and or was today, And if
Speaker 3: you watch the World Series, you likely noticed that there
Speaker 3: were people that stole bases, but there was no promotion
Speaker 3: to get a taka. And that's because Taco Bell Steal
Speaker 3: a base, steal a taco. Not so fast, my friend,
Speaker 3: Yeah no, where's the beef. Taco Bell no longer an
Speaker 3: official sponsor of Major League Baseball, and as a result,
Speaker 3: the steel a base Steal a Taco promotion did not
Speaker 3: take place during the World Series. According to The Business Journal,
Speaker 3: the Sports Business Journal, which I always get my news from,
Speaker 3: they reported that Taco Bell was not on the sponsor
Speaker 3: roster and that partnership had lasted for twenty years, going
Speaker 3: back to the year twenty four They first started that
Speaker 3: steel a base Steal a Taco gimmick in twenty fourteen.
Speaker 3: So no more that I remember that there were years
Speaker 3: of his a big deal. Who is going to be
Speaker 3: the guy to steal the base and get everyone a
Speaker 3: taco and all that, but no more so they didn't
Speaker 3: have that during the World Series.
Speaker 1: You didn't miss it.
Speaker 3: Also, TGI Fridays now TGI Friday's at one point was
Speaker 3: a big deal, but not anymore. It's nearing bankruptcy now,
Speaker 3: so we'll see if it survives or completely goes away.
Speaker 3: Chipotle says, this is great. So remember this. We talked
Speaker 3: about this on Footy fund. This goes back maybe six
Speaker 3: or seven months, maybe longer. So there was this thing
Speaker 3: where food influencers basically you and I, but you hold
Speaker 3: the phone and record the people at Chipotle while they
Speaker 3: record while they're making their food, your food, the burritos
Speaker 3: or whatever.
Speaker 1: The bulls.
Speaker 3: So they they realized, the people realized who were doing this,
Speaker 3: that if you record the people at Chipotle, they'll give
Speaker 3: you more food. They'll give you a little more meat,
Speaker 3: a little more cheese, a little more lettuce, whatever you want, beans,
Speaker 3: and so the CEO of the company, I think it
Speaker 3: was in the CEO if I remember the story correctly,
Speaker 3: as I understand it, the person running Chipotle is like, listen,
Speaker 3: we are going to make sure everyone gets consistent and
Speaker 3: generous portions of our delicious food made a big deal
Speaker 3: about it. Everyone said, all right, this is great. Well,
Speaker 3: now the other shoe is dropped. No good deed goes unpunished.
Speaker 3: The people at Chipotle are now saying that ensuring consistent
Speaker 3: and generous portion sizes has taken a financial toll on profitability.
Speaker 3: On profitability, who knew? So actually giving the right amount
Speaker 3: of food, an honest amount of food, And now you're
Speaker 3: you're not You're.
Speaker 1: Not doing that well, So what's that about?
Speaker 3: Seven eleven In food he News seven eleven ramping up
Speaker 3: the fast casual strategy six hundred new food focused stores.
Speaker 1: We talked about this, I think it was last week.
Speaker 3: The guys and gals that go into seven eleven and
Speaker 3: they're like, hey, I want a hot dog, I want
Speaker 3: the nachos, Like I get going in there and getting
Speaker 3: a big gulp and a min a soda or a
Speaker 3: slurpee or whatever. But to eat there, to me, that's
Speaker 3: next level. Like I always thought the people that buy
Speaker 3: food at seven eleven, they're like, last minute, I'm hungry,
Speaker 3: but I can't wait to go somewhere else. I'the's gonna
Speaker 3: grab something here, But seven eleven is like, well, no,
Speaker 3: there's people that come in there and they just want
Speaker 3: to eat our food and they.
Speaker 1: Go there for the food. Okay, way to go, I guess.
Speaker 3: So we'll see if that works out for the fine
Speaker 3: folks at seven eleven Arby's. I know Danny if he
Speaker 3: was here, he sing the praises of Arby's. He loves
Speaker 3: Arby's unless he does not. Well, Arby's has welcome back
Speaker 3: deep Fried Turkey Gobbler and the Deep Fried Turkey Club
Speaker 3: Limited time. We've got the meats.
Speaker 1: Yeah, suppose you do. Suppose you have the meats.
Speaker 3: There you go. I think we'll get out on that.
Speaker 3: It is Friday. I got new podcast. Danny'll be with
Speaker 3: me on on Saturday and Sunday. And remember watch the
Speaker 3: TV show Benny Versus the Penny. And if you have
Speaker 3: people in your family, you got kids, grandkids, nieces, nephews,
Speaker 3: step children, whoever you might have, whoever's in your circle,
Speaker 3: please help us out.
Speaker 1: It would mean the world to me if you can
Speaker 1: have them.
Speaker 3: If they have peacock, watch the show or just watch
Speaker 3: it on regular TV. But with that said, have a
Speaker 3: wonderful rest of your Friday. I will likely pop on
Speaker 3: at some point this weekend. On Facebook or on x
Speaker 3: We'll do. We'll ask Ben at some point, but until then,
Speaker 3: I'll be back tomorrow with a new podcast in Sunday.
Speaker 3: And as Danny would say, later skater I think that's
Speaker 3: what he would say, later skater got a murder.
Speaker 1: I gotta go.