1 00:00:00,720 --> 00:00:01,480 Speaker 1: Kubbooms. 2 00:00:02,279 --> 00:00:05,400 Speaker 2: If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes 3 00:00:05,440 --> 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 sol fastion of fairness. He 5 00:00:12,600 --> 00:00:15,520 Speaker 2: treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the 6 00:00:15,640 --> 00:00:17,480 Speaker 2: rich pill poppers in the penthouse. 7 00:00:18,079 --> 00:00:18,439 Speaker 1: Wow. 8 00:00:18,600 --> 00:00:22,320 Speaker 2: The clearing House of Hot takes break free for something special. 9 00:00:22,680 --> 00:00:29,400 Speaker 2: The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now in. 10 00:00:29,240 --> 00:00:36,839 Speaker 1: The air eywhere the weekend has arrived, the final, the 11 00:00:36,880 --> 00:00:40,919 Speaker 1: final weekend of the month of February, and we are 12 00:00:41,040 --> 00:00:46,360 Speaker 1: back hanging out myself, Ben and Danny g right over 13 00:00:46,400 --> 00:00:50,599 Speaker 1: there as we celebrate on this Friday. What a day 14 00:00:50,600 --> 00:00:56,040 Speaker 1: it is. It's National Hospitality Workers Appreciation Day, who always 15 00:00:56,040 --> 00:00:58,960 Speaker 1: a big holiday in my house. I don't know about you, Danny, 16 00:00:59,120 --> 00:01:03,720 Speaker 1: but for me, it's it's almost I'm overwhelmed with emotion 17 00:01:03,800 --> 00:01:06,039 Speaker 1: because not only is it that, but it's National Banana 18 00:01:06,080 --> 00:01:09,000 Speaker 1: Bread Day. And that's that's a big one as well. 19 00:01:09,120 --> 00:01:11,360 Speaker 1: That's that's a big one as well. When's the last 20 00:01:11,360 --> 00:01:12,480 Speaker 1: time you had banana bread? 21 00:01:13,000 --> 00:01:15,880 Speaker 3: My grandma used to make it by the panful. 22 00:01:16,560 --> 00:01:21,000 Speaker 1: Oh did she? Yeah? The banana bread. I recall my 23 00:01:21,360 --> 00:01:23,880 Speaker 1: wife we get bananas sometimes and then as soon as 24 00:01:23,920 --> 00:01:30,600 Speaker 1: they turn like black, that's banana bread. Racist. When they 25 00:01:30,640 --> 00:01:33,480 Speaker 1: go bad, you make the banana bread because you can 26 00:01:33,480 --> 00:01:35,440 Speaker 1: still make banana bread with it. But yeah, I haven't 27 00:01:35,480 --> 00:01:38,920 Speaker 1: had banana bread in a while, but they I'll tell 28 00:01:38,920 --> 00:01:42,200 Speaker 1: you what. Though, freshly made banana bread, all baked goods taste, 29 00:01:42,240 --> 00:01:45,400 Speaker 1: you know, smell pretty good. But banana bread, oh yeah, 30 00:01:45,680 --> 00:01:47,960 Speaker 1: A loaf of banana bread coming out of that oven. 31 00:01:48,040 --> 00:01:50,720 Speaker 4: Oh man, it's like old people's food. 32 00:01:50,760 --> 00:01:58,280 Speaker 1: Though, yeah, are we old? I don't know, help, but 33 00:01:59,080 --> 00:02:02,240 Speaker 1: on this pot, we've got the Roger Rabbit of baseball, 34 00:02:03,240 --> 00:02:06,560 Speaker 1: hippity hop and uh yeah, you know, word of the week. 35 00:02:06,600 --> 00:02:08,280 Speaker 1: We'll see what else we have time for. But I 36 00:02:08,320 --> 00:02:10,360 Speaker 1: did want to start with this, so I had this 37 00:02:10,440 --> 00:02:11,760 Speaker 1: sent to me the other day and I was like, 38 00:02:11,760 --> 00:02:13,160 Speaker 1: I guess trying to I was abating whether or not 39 00:02:13,160 --> 00:02:15,480 Speaker 1: to do it on the radio show, but I wanted 40 00:02:15,520 --> 00:02:17,720 Speaker 1: to mention it here because we had brought this up. 41 00:02:18,320 --> 00:02:22,360 Speaker 1: I forget where there's a lot of microphones. But the Doyers, 42 00:02:23,040 --> 00:02:25,720 Speaker 1: the Dodgers have been talk for a number of years 43 00:02:25,760 --> 00:02:32,080 Speaker 1: about building this massive gondola like in the Alps that 44 00:02:32,120 --> 00:02:35,760 Speaker 1: would take people from down the hill. If you're not, 45 00:02:35,960 --> 00:02:37,760 Speaker 1: you know, most people listen to this podcasts aren't in LA. 46 00:02:37,800 --> 00:02:41,120 Speaker 1: But there's a Dodger Stames on a hill overlooking downtown LA, 47 00:02:41,200 --> 00:02:44,400 Speaker 1: and then below it is that is this neighborhood called Chinatown, 48 00:02:44,919 --> 00:02:48,320 Speaker 1: and then next to that is Union Station, which is 49 00:02:48,360 --> 00:02:52,440 Speaker 1: the train depot in LA. And so the plan, and 50 00:02:52,480 --> 00:02:53,800 Speaker 1: I'd heard about this a couple of years ago, and there 51 00:02:53,880 --> 00:02:56,400 Speaker 1: was actually a gondola at Dodgers Stadium out in the 52 00:02:56,440 --> 00:02:59,040 Speaker 1: outfit you could see what it would look like. And 53 00:02:59,080 --> 00:03:02,880 Speaker 1: it's a five one hundred million dollar plan to build 54 00:03:03,080 --> 00:03:07,600 Speaker 1: one point two miles of gondola between Union Station in 55 00:03:07,800 --> 00:03:11,880 Speaker 1: LA and Dodger Stadium. And so I didn't think much 56 00:03:11,919 --> 00:03:13,639 Speaker 1: of it. I thought it looked kind of cool. Like 57 00:03:13,760 --> 00:03:16,200 Speaker 1: I said that, I like, that's kind of neat, that's different. 58 00:03:16,200 --> 00:03:18,360 Speaker 1: Why not. I'd be fun to be in a gondola 59 00:03:18,840 --> 00:03:22,840 Speaker 1: unless there's an earthquake. But what the hell? So I 60 00:03:23,080 --> 00:03:27,440 Speaker 1: got sent this the other day and apparently the gondola plan. 61 00:03:27,639 --> 00:03:29,040 Speaker 1: I don't know if you heard of this, I heard 62 00:03:29,040 --> 00:03:31,000 Speaker 1: about this or not, Danny, but it's like the Roger 63 00:03:31,120 --> 00:03:33,480 Speaker 1: Rabbit of baseball. Now we're old, we know Roger REVV. 64 00:03:33,720 --> 00:03:37,240 Speaker 1: The plot of Roger Rabbit. If you remember who framed 65 00:03:37,280 --> 00:03:41,400 Speaker 1: Roger Rabbit? Classic film? Classic film, Who framed Roger Rabbit? 66 00:03:41,600 --> 00:03:45,800 Speaker 1: The plot was actually about replacing public transportation with a freeway. 67 00:03:46,360 --> 00:03:49,560 Speaker 1: But this is kind of the reverse because the person 68 00:03:49,600 --> 00:03:52,720 Speaker 1: you want to take a guess who's behind this plan? 69 00:03:53,640 --> 00:03:56,560 Speaker 1: And when I saw this name, I immediately turned my position 70 00:03:56,800 --> 00:03:57,600 Speaker 1: the other direction. 71 00:03:58,400 --> 00:04:00,440 Speaker 4: No, don't tell me. 72 00:04:00,640 --> 00:04:02,440 Speaker 3: It is the guy who made all the money off 73 00:04:02,480 --> 00:04:04,080 Speaker 3: the Dodgers parking lot. 74 00:04:04,040 --> 00:04:07,000 Speaker 1: Ding Ding, Ding, ding ding. Yes, this is the brainchild 75 00:04:07,240 --> 00:04:13,880 Speaker 1: of Frank McCourt. Frank McCourt who owned the Dodgers and 76 00:04:14,080 --> 00:04:17,160 Speaker 1: ran them into the ground from twenty oh four to 77 00:04:17,200 --> 00:04:17,960 Speaker 1: twenty twelve. 78 00:04:18,720 --> 00:04:21,360 Speaker 4: Eighth, he owed them all right, Yeah. 79 00:04:21,920 --> 00:04:24,320 Speaker 1: The big Dodger star then was he stopped Choy. No 80 00:04:24,400 --> 00:04:26,520 Speaker 1: disrespect to he stopped Choy, but he sopped Choy. Was 81 00:04:26,560 --> 00:04:28,920 Speaker 1: the big star of the Dodgers from twenty oh four 82 00:04:28,960 --> 00:04:31,960 Speaker 1: to twenty twelve. It was a disaster, a debacle, But 83 00:04:32,040 --> 00:04:35,680 Speaker 1: then the Dodger fans boycotted. It was one of the 84 00:04:35,720 --> 00:04:39,080 Speaker 1: few times that sports fans have successfully forced an owner 85 00:04:39,120 --> 00:04:41,800 Speaker 1: to sell the team. Major League Baseball stepped in the 86 00:04:41,920 --> 00:04:45,360 Speaker 1: used car salesman Bud Selik and the owners of baseball realizing, 87 00:04:45,400 --> 00:04:48,280 Speaker 1: wait a minute, this is one of our great cash cows, 88 00:04:48,320 --> 00:04:50,960 Speaker 1: the Dodgers. They have a license to print money, and 89 00:04:51,000 --> 00:04:53,679 Speaker 1: people are not going. The attendances down, the TV ratings 90 00:04:53,680 --> 00:04:58,479 Speaker 1: are down. Dodger fans were airing their grievances all over 91 00:04:58,480 --> 00:05:00,839 Speaker 1: the place, and in those days, social media was not 92 00:05:00,880 --> 00:05:02,840 Speaker 1: that big, so they were doing it like radio shows 93 00:05:02,880 --> 00:05:05,280 Speaker 1: and letters to the editor and the newspaper and all that. 94 00:05:05,760 --> 00:05:09,480 Speaker 1: So it was a big deal. And then Frank McCourt, 95 00:05:09,520 --> 00:05:11,720 Speaker 1: of course he didn't have any real money. He had 96 00:05:11,800 --> 00:05:14,400 Speaker 1: parking lots he had I think inherited from his family 97 00:05:14,440 --> 00:05:18,200 Speaker 1: in Boston and then flipped those to get the the Dodgers, 98 00:05:18,200 --> 00:05:22,640 Speaker 1: as I understand it, and so Frank McCourt made a deal. 99 00:05:23,320 --> 00:05:25,760 Speaker 1: He sold the team because Bud see looks like, all right, 100 00:05:25,760 --> 00:05:27,000 Speaker 1: you got to sell the team. They were like, you 101 00:05:27,040 --> 00:05:30,360 Speaker 1: got to get out of here. And he heavily leveraged 102 00:05:30,360 --> 00:05:33,640 Speaker 1: the team and he left it like they were kind 103 00:05:33,680 --> 00:05:35,960 Speaker 1: of like he was facing bankruptcy. It was a big mess. 104 00:05:36,520 --> 00:05:39,120 Speaker 1: But to get rid of him as the owner, they 105 00:05:39,160 --> 00:05:42,520 Speaker 1: gave him. He co owns the parking lots at Dodger Stadium. 106 00:05:43,400 --> 00:05:47,719 Speaker 1: And so the whole point of this Danny is it's 107 00:05:47,760 --> 00:05:50,679 Speaker 1: not Hey, we want public transportation to give Dodger fans 108 00:05:50,680 --> 00:05:52,880 Speaker 1: a chance to be like they're in the French Alps, 109 00:05:53,200 --> 00:05:55,560 Speaker 1: to go to a Dodger game to see Otani. No, 110 00:05:56,520 --> 00:06:00,680 Speaker 1: he wants to build a luxury hotel, shopping center complex 111 00:06:00,760 --> 00:06:02,800 Speaker 1: on the parking lots at Docta State, and they're going 112 00:06:02,839 --> 00:06:07,120 Speaker 1: to take out the parking lots at Dodger Stadium. And 113 00:06:07,160 --> 00:06:09,120 Speaker 1: that's why I said, it's kind of like Roger Rabbit, right, 114 00:06:09,120 --> 00:06:11,680 Speaker 1: because Roger Rabbit is like public transportation. People could use it, 115 00:06:11,680 --> 00:06:13,320 Speaker 1: and then they put the freeways in. But it was 116 00:06:13,320 --> 00:06:15,640 Speaker 1: for the oil companies, right, because they can make money 117 00:06:16,080 --> 00:06:19,760 Speaker 1: on the oil. But here it's the robber baron Frank McCort. 118 00:06:19,880 --> 00:06:23,279 Speaker 1: He can make money not only from the gondola, because 119 00:06:23,279 --> 00:06:25,320 Speaker 1: you're gonna it's not gonna be free. You gotta pay 120 00:06:25,400 --> 00:06:28,839 Speaker 1: for it. But then in addition to that, he's gonna 121 00:06:28,839 --> 00:06:32,960 Speaker 1: build a massive hotel. And you know these new outdoor 122 00:06:32,960 --> 00:06:35,040 Speaker 1: what not new they've been around for twenty five years, 123 00:06:35,040 --> 00:06:38,920 Speaker 1: these outdoor shopping complexes which are all all the rage. 124 00:06:39,360 --> 00:06:42,640 Speaker 3: So I mean there's a special place in parking lot hell. 125 00:06:42,760 --> 00:06:47,200 Speaker 3: For Frank McCort, Bell is a real place. It would 126 00:06:47,200 --> 00:06:50,640 Speaker 3: be awesome for him to just wander around a big, 127 00:06:50,680 --> 00:06:53,640 Speaker 3: abandoned parking lot trying to find his way out forever. 128 00:06:54,320 --> 00:06:57,640 Speaker 1: Yeah, and I knew him a little bit when he owned. 129 00:06:57,880 --> 00:07:02,200 Speaker 1: My favorite Frank McCourt story was when it was really 130 00:07:02,240 --> 00:07:05,160 Speaker 1: getting bad. I mean it was really bad that you 131 00:07:05,160 --> 00:07:07,360 Speaker 1: could tell the end was near where we were getting 132 00:07:07,360 --> 00:07:11,880 Speaker 1: towards a point of demarcation, that Frank was in some 133 00:07:11,960 --> 00:07:14,880 Speaker 1: serious trouble, and the fans that were booing, and it 134 00:07:14,960 --> 00:07:17,480 Speaker 1: was just nasty. And so I was at a game 135 00:07:17,560 --> 00:07:19,400 Speaker 1: it was like on a Tuesday or a Wednesday, if 136 00:07:19,440 --> 00:07:23,160 Speaker 1: I remember, and Frank McCourt, the owner of the team, 137 00:07:23,480 --> 00:07:27,960 Speaker 1: walked through the pavilion in right field at Dodger Stadium 138 00:07:28,040 --> 00:07:31,080 Speaker 1: like a politician trying to shake hands and kiss, you know, 139 00:07:31,160 --> 00:07:34,440 Speaker 1: kiss babies and all that to gain public support. And 140 00:07:34,480 --> 00:07:38,440 Speaker 1: then the next night Frank decided, you know, I need 141 00:07:38,440 --> 00:07:42,720 Speaker 1: the media on my side, so he brought a group 142 00:07:42,760 --> 00:07:48,160 Speaker 1: of US dopey media guys into his office at Dodgerston 143 00:07:48,200 --> 00:07:51,080 Speaker 1: the owner's office at Dodger Stateum. I felt like I 144 00:07:51,160 --> 00:07:53,440 Speaker 1: was in an episode of Seinfeld, you know, going to 145 00:07:53,520 --> 00:07:56,760 Speaker 1: the Steinbrenner's office. It was wild. It was just like 146 00:07:56,800 --> 00:07:59,600 Speaker 1: you would imagine the owner's office. It's it was the 147 00:07:59,680 --> 00:08:05,680 Speaker 1: corner down the left field line, massive high ceilings, window 148 00:08:05,920 --> 00:08:09,360 Speaker 1: view of Dodger Stadium. I mean, it was really cool. 149 00:08:09,400 --> 00:08:10,800 Speaker 1: I mean that was the highlight for me. It was 150 00:08:10,840 --> 00:08:12,280 Speaker 1: just being in there because I was like, won, I 151 00:08:12,320 --> 00:08:14,480 Speaker 1: wonder like O'Malley was in here and all the other 152 00:08:14,520 --> 00:08:16,280 Speaker 1: you know, the Fox people and all that, and that's 153 00:08:16,320 --> 00:08:19,920 Speaker 1: probably where Mark Walter and the current owners are. Obviously 154 00:08:19,920 --> 00:08:21,840 Speaker 1: that's the owner's office. But I remember in there and 155 00:08:21,880 --> 00:08:24,000 Speaker 1: Frank's like, he's like, listen, I'm not a bad guy. 156 00:08:24,080 --> 00:08:25,520 Speaker 1: I want to do well and all this stuff. And 157 00:08:25,520 --> 00:08:28,160 Speaker 1: then within like a couple of months he was forced 158 00:08:28,160 --> 00:08:30,640 Speaker 1: to sell the team. But what a deal for him, though, 159 00:08:31,200 --> 00:08:33,800 Speaker 1: I'd almost rather own the parking lots than the team. 160 00:08:35,400 --> 00:08:37,600 Speaker 1: The only problem with that, though, is that you only 161 00:08:37,640 --> 00:08:40,839 Speaker 1: make the revenue at Dodger Stadium for eighty one nights 162 00:08:40,880 --> 00:08:44,640 Speaker 1: a year, plus some exhibition games and some some playoff games, 163 00:08:44,679 --> 00:08:47,040 Speaker 1: and which lately hadn't been that many because the Dodgers 164 00:08:47,040 --> 00:08:49,600 Speaker 1: have not been going that deep in the playoffs. But 165 00:08:49,920 --> 00:08:53,000 Speaker 1: when I heard that, man, I was like, it seemed 166 00:08:53,000 --> 00:08:54,559 Speaker 1: like it seemed like a good gondola, was like, it 167 00:08:54,640 --> 00:08:56,960 Speaker 1: was cool. But then it's like, of all the places, 168 00:08:57,520 --> 00:08:59,920 Speaker 1: like of all the places to get rid of parking, 169 00:09:00,760 --> 00:09:05,040 Speaker 1: Southern California, Los Angeles, where everyone is in their car 170 00:09:05,520 --> 00:09:07,120 Speaker 1: all the time, it's like the only way to get 171 00:09:07,160 --> 00:09:08,559 Speaker 1: around is in your car, and they're going to take 172 00:09:08,559 --> 00:09:12,280 Speaker 1: away the parking lots to build a freaking hotel and 173 00:09:12,360 --> 00:09:15,280 Speaker 1: to build a cheesecake factory. Like, what are we doing? 174 00:09:15,600 --> 00:09:18,079 Speaker 4: Yeah? This also makes me think about Disneyland. 175 00:09:18,160 --> 00:09:21,760 Speaker 3: I saw the other day that there's big plans Disney 176 00:09:21,920 --> 00:09:25,880 Speaker 3: is starting to gobble up some of the properties around Disneyland. Oh, 177 00:09:26,120 --> 00:09:28,960 Speaker 3: they're going to bulldoze and expand the park. 178 00:09:30,040 --> 00:09:31,320 Speaker 1: Is that right? Wow? 179 00:09:31,480 --> 00:09:35,679 Speaker 3: That way they can jack up the ticket prices even higher. 180 00:09:36,240 --> 00:09:37,959 Speaker 1: How much higher can they go? Though? 181 00:09:38,360 --> 00:09:39,880 Speaker 4: I don't know what. 182 00:09:41,400 --> 00:09:44,960 Speaker 1: I remember when they bought the land for California Adventure. Well, 183 00:09:44,960 --> 00:09:47,439 Speaker 1: actually not necessarily California Adventure. It was land to put 184 00:09:47,480 --> 00:09:52,440 Speaker 1: the parking lots build California Adventure. But the area around 185 00:09:52,480 --> 00:09:54,120 Speaker 1: Anaheim and I used to go there all the time. 186 00:09:54,320 --> 00:09:58,040 Speaker 1: There were like crack hotels and stuff right across Disneyland. 187 00:09:58,320 --> 00:10:01,840 Speaker 1: In fact, the late Tony Phillips baseball player for the Angels, 188 00:10:02,080 --> 00:10:05,560 Speaker 1: he got busted doing crack at a hotel down the 189 00:10:05,600 --> 00:10:07,439 Speaker 1: street from from Disneyland. 190 00:10:07,640 --> 00:10:09,400 Speaker 4: Yeah, it was crack on Kotella. 191 00:10:11,160 --> 00:10:13,959 Speaker 1: And of course Disney bought that hotel and all the 192 00:10:14,000 --> 00:10:16,360 Speaker 1: other hotels and gave you destroyed them. 193 00:10:16,400 --> 00:10:19,600 Speaker 3: And in case you don't know, Kotella the main drag 194 00:10:19,640 --> 00:10:20,680 Speaker 3: there the name of the street. 195 00:10:21,280 --> 00:10:23,800 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I just wanted to get on a rant 196 00:10:23,960 --> 00:10:26,760 Speaker 1: when I saw Frank McCort's name. That's probably not appropriate 197 00:10:26,760 --> 00:10:28,640 Speaker 1: for this podcast because we don't normally don't even talk 198 00:10:28,640 --> 00:10:30,040 Speaker 1: about it. I don't either that's sports or not. 199 00:10:30,160 --> 00:10:32,400 Speaker 4: It's just that was a crazy story. 200 00:10:33,480 --> 00:10:36,559 Speaker 3: When he owned the Dodgers, I remember the fans booing 201 00:10:36,679 --> 00:10:40,000 Speaker 3: and how bad the team was, and how all he 202 00:10:40,040 --> 00:10:43,360 Speaker 3: cared about was making money hand over fist and the 203 00:10:43,400 --> 00:10:46,280 Speaker 3: prices kept getting jacked up in the parking lot. I 204 00:10:46,280 --> 00:10:48,400 Speaker 3: don't know if you remember this, but as soon as 205 00:10:48,440 --> 00:10:51,520 Speaker 3: he was pushed out, the new group brought in Magic 206 00:10:51,600 --> 00:10:55,000 Speaker 3: Johnson as a pr thing really for to be like 207 00:10:55,040 --> 00:10:58,280 Speaker 3: the friendly face of the new ownership, and the first 208 00:10:58,360 --> 00:11:01,520 Speaker 3: thing they did was lower the car parking at the stadium. 209 00:11:02,200 --> 00:11:04,360 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, well I think the prices have gone up. 210 00:11:04,360 --> 00:11:09,120 Speaker 3: But yeah, well since then, they've incredmentally jacked it back up. 211 00:11:09,160 --> 00:11:12,600 Speaker 3: But to kind of, you know, get the Dodger fans hyped. 212 00:11:12,920 --> 00:11:15,320 Speaker 3: They're like, not only are we going to sign some 213 00:11:15,360 --> 00:11:18,240 Speaker 3: real ballplayers, but we'll put the parking back down to 214 00:11:18,360 --> 00:11:21,400 Speaker 3: twenty bucks because McCort had jacked that up to like 215 00:11:21,480 --> 00:11:22,960 Speaker 3: sixty dollars to park there. 216 00:11:23,960 --> 00:11:26,800 Speaker 1: Yeah, it was. It was ridiculous. I mean, he's you know, 217 00:11:26,960 --> 00:11:30,920 Speaker 1: and he's he's for kind of an unsavory dude. He's 218 00:11:30,920 --> 00:11:33,840 Speaker 1: found ways to make a good amount of a good 219 00:11:33,880 --> 00:11:35,720 Speaker 1: amount of doubt. But when I saw his name, I'm like, 220 00:11:35,760 --> 00:11:37,440 Speaker 1: I'm out, Like I wouldn't mind a gone ola. But 221 00:11:37,440 --> 00:11:39,160 Speaker 1: then they were talking about complaining about it, like you 222 00:11:39,200 --> 00:11:41,840 Speaker 1: know that there's a big park, Danny, near Dodger Stadium 223 00:11:41,880 --> 00:11:44,400 Speaker 1: down the hill. I used to live right now. I 224 00:11:44,440 --> 00:11:46,640 Speaker 1: lived in Lincoln Heights, which is the next you next 225 00:11:46,760 --> 00:11:50,720 Speaker 1: town over from Dodger Stadium. And they built this massive park, 226 00:11:50,760 --> 00:11:52,480 Speaker 1: which is a state park. It's beautiful. 227 00:11:52,840 --> 00:11:56,520 Speaker 3: Yeah, Mexican family is barbecuing there before all the Dodger games. 228 00:11:56,640 --> 00:12:00,400 Speaker 1: Yeah, why not. That's a great park. Racist, but they 229 00:12:00,920 --> 00:12:03,160 Speaker 1: actually in order to build this gondola, they're going to 230 00:12:03,160 --> 00:12:06,920 Speaker 1: have to put a massive gondola station right in the 231 00:12:06,960 --> 00:12:11,319 Speaker 1: middle of this great outdoor space, totally screwing over the 232 00:12:11,360 --> 00:12:13,720 Speaker 1: people that live there that actually don't care about the 233 00:12:13,760 --> 00:12:16,680 Speaker 1: Dodgers and just want to use the public space. 234 00:12:16,760 --> 00:12:18,640 Speaker 4: So what are they going to do with the police 235 00:12:18,679 --> 00:12:19,840 Speaker 4: academy that's right there? 236 00:12:20,240 --> 00:12:24,920 Speaker 1: I know, right, it's pretty well. I guess the police 237 00:12:24,960 --> 00:12:26,680 Speaker 1: can go over to the cheesecake factory, they can go 238 00:12:26,679 --> 00:12:29,400 Speaker 1: over to the Dave and Busters and knock themselves out 239 00:12:29,480 --> 00:12:31,160 Speaker 1: or whatever is going to be at the shopping center. 240 00:12:31,200 --> 00:12:36,240 Speaker 1: There got a murder, the hip an the hop. Now 241 00:12:37,080 --> 00:12:40,360 Speaker 1: I did something a little different last weekend, Danny, I, uh, 242 00:12:40,440 --> 00:12:42,400 Speaker 1: me and the wife are you trying to? You know, 243 00:12:42,640 --> 00:12:45,240 Speaker 1: work a lot during the week with the TV. I 244 00:12:45,240 --> 00:12:46,959 Speaker 1: did do the TV show, but that's over with till 245 00:12:47,040 --> 00:12:49,760 Speaker 1: next football season. But we had the radio show. I'd 246 00:12:49,760 --> 00:12:51,600 Speaker 1: spent a lot of time on that obviously this podcast, 247 00:12:51,600 --> 00:12:54,120 Speaker 1: so I don't have a lot of time to myself, 248 00:12:54,160 --> 00:12:55,400 Speaker 1: and so on the weekends we try to go out 249 00:12:55,440 --> 00:12:57,839 Speaker 1: and do some different things. And so we saw there 250 00:12:57,880 --> 00:13:01,640 Speaker 1: was this hip hop pop up museum in Hollywood. They 251 00:13:01,640 --> 00:13:04,199 Speaker 1: had a big run in New York and traveling to 252 00:13:04,240 --> 00:13:07,160 Speaker 1: different cities, and so you know, I'm obviously not a 253 00:13:07,240 --> 00:13:10,000 Speaker 1: music guy. I'm not even a real big hip hop guy. 254 00:13:10,840 --> 00:13:12,400 Speaker 1: But I thought, you know, that's kind of cool. Why not. 255 00:13:12,600 --> 00:13:15,680 Speaker 1: I appreciate art And there's some actually the early days, 256 00:13:15,920 --> 00:13:18,560 Speaker 1: when I was younger, I did like some of the 257 00:13:18,600 --> 00:13:21,240 Speaker 1: og hip hop guys, like I couldn't. 258 00:13:20,960 --> 00:13:24,720 Speaker 4: I know, was it Mayor Curtis blow Guy? 259 00:13:25,400 --> 00:13:30,680 Speaker 1: No, No, no Fat Boys, No. But you know some 260 00:13:30,760 --> 00:13:32,920 Speaker 1: of the early it's like, you know, Snoop Doging, some 261 00:13:33,000 --> 00:13:35,120 Speaker 1: of those guys. When I was in school back in 262 00:13:35,160 --> 00:13:36,480 Speaker 1: the day, we listened to that stuff. So I was like, 263 00:13:36,520 --> 00:13:38,240 Speaker 1: all right, we'll go down there check it out, see 264 00:13:38,280 --> 00:13:41,160 Speaker 1: what it's about. It. It's some one of these interactive. 265 00:13:41,400 --> 00:13:44,640 Speaker 1: Immersive is the big word. They're immersive things. And so 266 00:13:44,720 --> 00:13:47,680 Speaker 1: we went down there to Hollywood, and I really thought, 267 00:13:47,720 --> 00:13:49,840 Speaker 1: you should go, Danny. It's only opened for another couple 268 00:13:49,880 --> 00:13:52,560 Speaker 1: of weeks here, but you and the wife take the 269 00:13:52,720 --> 00:13:56,240 Speaker 1: take the kid. You would love it because I remember 270 00:13:56,280 --> 00:14:00,760 Speaker 1: every Halloween, Danny for years, you would wear a certain mask. 271 00:14:01,679 --> 00:14:03,440 Speaker 4: I'd still do it, all right. 272 00:14:03,280 --> 00:14:07,680 Speaker 1: Well, your guy was well represented Tupac at the hip 273 00:14:07,679 --> 00:14:09,280 Speaker 1: Hop Museum, and I saw that. I should have sent 274 00:14:09,320 --> 00:14:11,080 Speaker 1: you a photo. I did see. There was a bunch 275 00:14:11,120 --> 00:14:13,920 Speaker 1: of stuff like, oh, there was photos and memorabilia. 276 00:14:14,559 --> 00:14:17,120 Speaker 3: This pop up looks cool. I saw the pictures that 277 00:14:17,200 --> 00:14:18,760 Speaker 3: you posted on social media. 278 00:14:19,000 --> 00:14:20,920 Speaker 1: Yeah, and I only put a few of them up there. 279 00:14:20,920 --> 00:14:23,600 Speaker 1: But they had the artifacts and stuff and it was 280 00:14:24,480 --> 00:14:26,640 Speaker 1: pretty wild because they you know, it goes through the 281 00:14:26,680 --> 00:14:29,080 Speaker 1: history of hip hop, fifty years of hip hop. And 282 00:14:29,120 --> 00:14:32,080 Speaker 1: this again, people love round numbers. Humans love round numbers. 283 00:14:32,360 --> 00:14:34,600 Speaker 1: So we don't celebrate the forty ninth, won't celebrate the 284 00:14:34,640 --> 00:14:36,680 Speaker 1: fifty first, but fifty that's a big deal, right, So 285 00:14:36,760 --> 00:14:39,440 Speaker 1: fifty years of hip hop. So they have this really 286 00:14:39,480 --> 00:14:41,880 Speaker 1: cool video thing where you go into this large room 287 00:14:42,800 --> 00:14:45,320 Speaker 1: and you stand in the videos on the walls all 288 00:14:45,360 --> 00:14:47,800 Speaker 1: around you. That's part of the immersive stuff. 289 00:14:47,920 --> 00:14:50,280 Speaker 3: I said, was that all the old school TVs that 290 00:14:50,320 --> 00:14:51,760 Speaker 3: were stacked on top of each other. 291 00:14:51,960 --> 00:14:53,480 Speaker 1: Yeah, that was one of the exhibits. They had a 292 00:14:53,480 --> 00:14:56,680 Speaker 1: bunch of the old school TVs. They had a payphone thing. 293 00:14:56,840 --> 00:14:59,600 Speaker 1: I took a photo with that was from you some 294 00:15:00,080 --> 00:15:02,760 Speaker 1: hip hop. I forget exactly where it's from, but it 295 00:15:02,840 --> 00:15:04,600 Speaker 1: goes tough like the roots of hip hop and they 296 00:15:04,600 --> 00:15:07,479 Speaker 1: have the all the big names and you know, signs 297 00:15:07,600 --> 00:15:11,240 Speaker 1: and whatnot. And it was for a guy that's not 298 00:15:11,320 --> 00:15:14,360 Speaker 1: really into hip hop and all that. I enjoyed it. 299 00:15:14,400 --> 00:15:16,480 Speaker 1: I thought it was pretty cool. And again I can 300 00:15:16,560 --> 00:15:19,920 Speaker 1: appreciate art and whatnot. And they had you know all 301 00:15:19,960 --> 00:15:22,680 Speaker 1: you know, grand Master Flash and you go, you know 302 00:15:23,200 --> 00:15:27,240 Speaker 1: Snoop dog jay Z, all those Nicki Minaj, all these 303 00:15:27,240 --> 00:15:30,800 Speaker 1: different random people come on, Pippin, get your tims on. 304 00:15:34,400 --> 00:15:37,040 Speaker 1: It was cool. And then I'm getting crap from people online, Dan, like, 305 00:15:37,080 --> 00:15:38,560 Speaker 1: what are you doing there? You shouldn't be going to 306 00:15:38,560 --> 00:15:40,280 Speaker 1: the well, I'm not supposed to go to hip hop. 307 00:15:40,400 --> 00:15:41,800 Speaker 1: I'm not allowed to go to the hip hop Museum 308 00:15:41,800 --> 00:15:44,440 Speaker 1: And what's up with that? What a bunch of schmucks? 309 00:15:44,920 --> 00:15:45,600 Speaker 1: How dare you? 310 00:15:46,240 --> 00:15:50,600 Speaker 3: I mean, it became mainstream decades and decades ago, and 311 00:15:50,800 --> 00:15:53,840 Speaker 3: you know, in the seventies and the eighties, especially the 312 00:15:53,880 --> 00:15:56,600 Speaker 3: first half of the eighties, there were so many parents 313 00:15:56,600 --> 00:15:58,840 Speaker 3: that were like, that's a fad that's going to be 314 00:15:58,880 --> 00:16:01,600 Speaker 3: gone in a few years, and so it was a 315 00:16:01,720 --> 00:16:05,360 Speaker 3: huge point of history to hit the fifty year mark. 316 00:16:05,840 --> 00:16:08,960 Speaker 3: Now you have hip hop bands like Run DMC that 317 00:16:09,000 --> 00:16:12,240 Speaker 3: have been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. 318 00:16:12,960 --> 00:16:15,400 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, for sure, for sure. I saw in the 319 00:16:15,400 --> 00:16:18,400 Speaker 1: gift shop they had little action figures of like Therreous 320 00:16:18,520 --> 00:16:22,760 Speaker 1: Big and Old Dirty Bastard and what it was. Really 321 00:16:22,880 --> 00:16:26,080 Speaker 1: it was quite amusing to me to see the little 322 00:16:26,120 --> 00:16:26,960 Speaker 1: action figures. 323 00:16:27,000 --> 00:16:29,440 Speaker 4: And it's funny to hear you say old dirty Bastard. 324 00:16:29,560 --> 00:16:31,760 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, oh yeah, you should. You should try to 325 00:16:31,760 --> 00:16:33,040 Speaker 1: go there. I got a couple of weeks ago. 326 00:16:33,040 --> 00:16:33,960 Speaker 4: I have my money. 327 00:16:36,760 --> 00:16:37,000 Speaker 2: It was. 328 00:16:37,480 --> 00:16:40,320 Speaker 1: It was pretty pretty neat, So I enjoyed that. I 329 00:16:40,400 --> 00:16:42,760 Speaker 1: try to do some different things from time to time. 330 00:16:42,880 --> 00:16:45,640 Speaker 1: Now I wanted to mention I looked this up because 331 00:16:45,680 --> 00:16:48,160 Speaker 1: I fell down a rabbit hole we had mentioned on 332 00:16:48,600 --> 00:16:51,760 Speaker 1: the Overnight show. This week, I did a little rift. 333 00:16:52,000 --> 00:16:56,880 Speaker 1: For some reason, infomercials popped up in conversation, and I 334 00:16:56,920 --> 00:17:01,480 Speaker 1: love infomercials. So I started doing my infomercial rant, and 335 00:17:01,520 --> 00:17:06,600 Speaker 1: I started giving fun facts about infomercials and all that 336 00:17:06,800 --> 00:17:08,960 Speaker 1: wonderful stuff, you know, set it and forget it, but wait, 337 00:17:09,000 --> 00:17:14,280 Speaker 1: there's more and all that, and so I'm doing that, 338 00:17:14,560 --> 00:17:17,400 Speaker 1: and then I went on and I was going back, 339 00:17:17,400 --> 00:17:18,639 Speaker 1: and I was looking through some of the stuff that 340 00:17:18,680 --> 00:17:21,200 Speaker 1: I had saved in the past that I had read 341 00:17:21,240 --> 00:17:26,119 Speaker 1: and about the pitchmen and the snake oil salesman, the 342 00:17:26,160 --> 00:17:29,680 Speaker 1: medical and the original the original original infomercials were the 343 00:17:30,280 --> 00:17:33,639 Speaker 1: snake oil Salesman. The actually the very first, if you know, 344 00:17:33,760 --> 00:17:38,200 Speaker 1: way back, the Kickapoo Indian Medicine company that would tour 345 00:17:38,240 --> 00:17:41,159 Speaker 1: the country. They'd go to boardwalks and street fairs and 346 00:17:41,240 --> 00:17:44,800 Speaker 1: county fairs, and these were total charlatans. They would sell 347 00:17:44,840 --> 00:17:48,160 Speaker 1: you cures for just about anything. And they had these 348 00:17:48,640 --> 00:17:52,840 Speaker 1: very exotic shows where they would strangle rattlesnakes on stage 349 00:17:52,920 --> 00:17:55,040 Speaker 1: and say this is the elixir, you just drink this, 350 00:17:55,119 --> 00:17:57,399 Speaker 1: and the crowd would go wild, right, And that's that 351 00:17:57,560 --> 00:18:00,600 Speaker 1: is actually where the term snake oil salesman come comes from. 352 00:18:01,000 --> 00:18:07,080 Speaker 1: From the Kickapoo Indian Medicine Company. That's where that term originated. 353 00:18:07,280 --> 00:18:10,119 Speaker 1: But that is not the first televised infomercial because there 354 00:18:10,119 --> 00:18:12,119 Speaker 1: was no TV when they were going around doing that, 355 00:18:12,160 --> 00:18:14,600 Speaker 1: they were just oohing and awe and getting oohs and 356 00:18:14,640 --> 00:18:18,320 Speaker 1: aws from the random people that were out there. So 357 00:18:18,400 --> 00:18:20,280 Speaker 1: I went and I looked down, I looked on the internet. 358 00:18:20,320 --> 00:18:22,719 Speaker 1: I did a quick dive down a rabbit hole and 359 00:18:22,760 --> 00:18:26,520 Speaker 1: I found The first infomercial is believed to be for 360 00:18:26,720 --> 00:18:33,960 Speaker 1: the Vita Mixed Blender. It first aired in nineteen forty nine, 361 00:18:34,320 --> 00:18:39,560 Speaker 1: so infomercials have been on the air for over seventy years. Actually, 362 00:18:39,680 --> 00:18:41,359 Speaker 1: I they do the math on that this will be 363 00:18:41,400 --> 00:18:44,040 Speaker 1: seventy five years of infomercials, right, we're in twenty twenty four. 364 00:18:44,080 --> 00:18:47,440 Speaker 1: While it's pretty wild. It aired on a local TV 365 00:18:47,560 --> 00:18:52,280 Speaker 1: station in Ohio. It was a thirty minute program and 366 00:18:52,359 --> 00:18:56,080 Speaker 1: it showed the amazing features and benefits of the Vita 367 00:18:56,160 --> 00:19:00,680 Speaker 1: mixed Blender. I was educating the viewers and forming them 368 00:19:01,119 --> 00:19:03,159 Speaker 1: how the product worked and what he could do. And 369 00:19:03,200 --> 00:19:07,480 Speaker 1: then in the nineteen fifties, shortly after that, it was 370 00:19:07,480 --> 00:19:11,200 Speaker 1: a year later the concept took off and you had 371 00:19:11,680 --> 00:19:16,320 Speaker 1: Chevrolet got involved in infomercials and watch companies and other things. 372 00:19:16,359 --> 00:19:19,359 Speaker 1: And then over the years it's gotten crazy and crazy. 373 00:19:19,359 --> 00:19:22,520 Speaker 1: Although I have been told that not as many infomercials 374 00:19:22,520 --> 00:19:26,640 Speaker 1: for television now they've moved to social media. But who 375 00:19:26,680 --> 00:19:30,080 Speaker 1: the hell is clicking on an infomercial on Instagram? You 376 00:19:30,160 --> 00:19:32,240 Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, Like our TikTok, I don't. I 377 00:19:32,280 --> 00:19:34,760 Speaker 1: don't know how that's actually working. But they're trying to 378 00:19:34,760 --> 00:19:40,359 Speaker 1: get into that space with the Yeah infomercials, they're too long. 379 00:19:40,520 --> 00:19:44,040 Speaker 3: I've seen pop ups and it'll be like a supplement 380 00:19:44,119 --> 00:19:47,159 Speaker 3: and I'm like, oh, that looks interesting, But then it 381 00:19:47,320 --> 00:19:49,639 Speaker 3: keeps going and going, And even when you try to 382 00:19:49,680 --> 00:19:52,360 Speaker 3: click ahead to see how much it costs, they want 383 00:19:52,400 --> 00:19:54,760 Speaker 3: you to sit through the video to see how it 384 00:19:54,840 --> 00:19:55,560 Speaker 3: was invented. 385 00:19:55,600 --> 00:19:58,760 Speaker 4: And they have doctors and scientists speaking. I don't give 386 00:19:58,760 --> 00:20:01,080 Speaker 4: a shit about that. How much is yeah? 387 00:20:01,119 --> 00:20:03,240 Speaker 1: Well, and the way they do it is it's a 388 00:20:03,280 --> 00:20:06,720 Speaker 1: simple formula, Like the sauce is kind of simple. It's 389 00:20:06,760 --> 00:20:09,359 Speaker 1: only a few ingredients. You. It's the oldest trick you 390 00:20:09,359 --> 00:20:09,679 Speaker 1: can use. 391 00:20:09,760 --> 00:20:09,879 Speaker 2: Right. 392 00:20:09,880 --> 00:20:13,479 Speaker 1: You create a problem, then sell the solution. That's all 393 00:20:13,480 --> 00:20:17,239 Speaker 1: you gotta do, Right, that's it, that's all you have 394 00:20:17,280 --> 00:20:22,480 Speaker 1: to do. Fashion and body industry, right, possible deal. A 395 00:20:22,520 --> 00:20:28,080 Speaker 1: makeup makes you look better, jewelry makes you more attractive, Clothes, dieting, exercise, 396 00:20:28,359 --> 00:20:31,479 Speaker 1: all the vices there, all the vices. No, you're right. 397 00:20:31,480 --> 00:20:33,960 Speaker 3: It's kind of like the hit TV show Shark Tank. 398 00:20:34,440 --> 00:20:36,800 Speaker 3: People come out to do their pitch about their product. 399 00:20:37,119 --> 00:20:40,000 Speaker 3: They always start with sharks. Have you ever had the 400 00:20:40,040 --> 00:20:43,480 Speaker 3: problem where this happens? Yeah, and then they have the 401 00:20:43,520 --> 00:20:44,400 Speaker 3: solution for it. 402 00:20:45,040 --> 00:20:46,919 Speaker 1: Yeah, that's the way it works, right. You've got to 403 00:20:46,960 --> 00:20:49,200 Speaker 1: have a problem and you have all the answers. It's 404 00:20:49,200 --> 00:20:52,880 Speaker 1: like that was what Billy Mays did. Hi, Billy Mays, here, 405 00:20:53,280 --> 00:20:56,160 Speaker 1: are you having problem shitting? Do you wish that your 406 00:20:56,200 --> 00:20:59,760 Speaker 1: shit would be smoother? Well? Good news. The fastest, easiest 407 00:20:59,800 --> 00:21:03,440 Speaker 1: way shit better is with my product, guaranteed order right now, 408 00:21:04,880 --> 00:21:09,119 Speaker 1: shit begone or whatever. Yeah, so back back in the 409 00:21:09,320 --> 00:21:12,160 Speaker 1: in the in the days. The word of the week. 410 00:21:12,200 --> 00:21:14,520 Speaker 1: Are you ready for the word of the week? 411 00:21:15,160 --> 00:21:17,440 Speaker 4: The word of the week? 412 00:21:18,359 --> 00:21:19,440 Speaker 1: A word of the week. The word of the week 413 00:21:19,520 --> 00:21:22,120 Speaker 1: this week is a word I use quite a bit 414 00:21:22,480 --> 00:21:27,120 Speaker 1: bughayzy for gayzey. Now there's a couple of different interpretations of. 415 00:21:27,040 --> 00:21:29,280 Speaker 4: The or some of your favorite words. 416 00:21:29,600 --> 00:21:32,159 Speaker 1: It is one of my favorite words. I've said it 417 00:21:32,160 --> 00:21:34,960 Speaker 1: for a number of years. It's a fun word. Any 418 00:21:34,960 --> 00:21:36,879 Speaker 1: words with Z are fun. There's not a lot of 419 00:21:36,880 --> 00:21:39,040 Speaker 1: words that have Z in them, So Z words are 420 00:21:39,080 --> 00:21:42,440 Speaker 1: fun and the highlight for it's a it's a fun word. 421 00:21:43,640 --> 00:21:47,040 Speaker 1: So uh. This is what is believed to be the 422 00:21:47,080 --> 00:21:51,080 Speaker 1: origin of the word fugazy. It's actually American military slang, 423 00:21:52,560 --> 00:21:55,879 Speaker 1: just kind of cool, right, kind of cool American military slang. 424 00:21:56,880 --> 00:21:59,720 Speaker 1: And it actually goes back to the to the Vietnam 425 00:21:59,840 --> 00:22:03,520 Speaker 1: You So, I know we have some listeners that fought 426 00:22:03,600 --> 00:22:06,240 Speaker 1: in Vietnam that were around in those days, some veterans. 427 00:22:06,240 --> 00:22:08,879 Speaker 1: I've gotten emails from some of the fellows over the 428 00:22:08,960 --> 00:22:11,239 Speaker 1: years that did their service to the country and we 429 00:22:11,720 --> 00:22:13,680 Speaker 1: obviously we appreciate that, and they're fans of the show, 430 00:22:13,720 --> 00:22:15,600 Speaker 1: and so maybe some of these guys can relate to this. 431 00:22:15,680 --> 00:22:19,920 Speaker 1: But it is an acronym for GAYZY that stands for 432 00:22:21,040 --> 00:22:27,840 Speaker 1: fucked up, got ambushed, zipped in. Is the what? Yeah, 433 00:22:28,200 --> 00:22:29,760 Speaker 1: isn't that crazy? 434 00:22:29,960 --> 00:22:32,879 Speaker 4: It's nuts. I had no idea that each letter stood 435 00:22:32,880 --> 00:22:33,399 Speaker 4: for something. 436 00:22:33,560 --> 00:22:35,560 Speaker 1: Yeah, it's from the Vietnam War. It's an acronym. It 437 00:22:35,600 --> 00:22:39,880 Speaker 1: stands for it fucked up, got ambushed, zipped in. And 438 00:22:39,920 --> 00:22:44,159 Speaker 1: the original meaning obviously, you know, situation was complete chaos. 439 00:22:44,200 --> 00:22:48,200 Speaker 1: It was a disaster, messed up beyond belief. And then 440 00:22:48,600 --> 00:22:52,160 Speaker 1: over the years, as time has gone by, the term 441 00:22:52,320 --> 00:22:57,480 Speaker 1: has been broadened and no longer just for the military, 442 00:22:57,640 --> 00:23:01,960 Speaker 1: and it's just part of some people's vernacular like me, 443 00:23:02,240 --> 00:23:05,440 Speaker 1: like it's the word I use because I didn't quite 444 00:23:05,440 --> 00:23:07,760 Speaker 1: realize that it meant exactly that. I knew it meant 445 00:23:07,800 --> 00:23:09,440 Speaker 1: you're kind of messed up, But I didn't know it 446 00:23:09,480 --> 00:23:13,480 Speaker 1: was the Vietnam angle to it. I had no no 447 00:23:13,600 --> 00:23:19,000 Speaker 1: concept of that, did not did not know that at all. 448 00:23:19,160 --> 00:23:21,359 Speaker 1: The Foodie Fund, we don't have too much time, so 449 00:23:21,359 --> 00:23:23,040 Speaker 1: I don't want to get too much into the foody Fund. 450 00:23:23,040 --> 00:23:24,560 Speaker 1: But I did see a couple of things that caught 451 00:23:24,560 --> 00:23:29,000 Speaker 1: my attention in the world of food, and one of them, 452 00:23:29,000 --> 00:23:31,600 Speaker 1: do you know what a chizza is? Do you know 453 00:23:31,680 --> 00:23:32,520 Speaker 1: what a cheezza is? 454 00:23:34,240 --> 00:23:36,600 Speaker 4: Anytime you eat a pizza during your diet? 455 00:23:36,840 --> 00:23:39,720 Speaker 1: Hey, there you go. How's the diet going? 456 00:23:39,760 --> 00:23:42,640 Speaker 3: By the way, me and the better half, we've been 457 00:23:42,640 --> 00:23:44,000 Speaker 3: doing really good on the diet. 458 00:23:44,480 --> 00:23:47,960 Speaker 1: Have you crossed the three month mark yet? 459 00:23:48,320 --> 00:23:48,639 Speaker 4: Yeah? 460 00:23:48,680 --> 00:23:52,080 Speaker 3: Definitely, probably into month four or the beginning of month 461 00:23:52,160 --> 00:23:52,960 Speaker 3: five right now? 462 00:23:53,720 --> 00:23:57,119 Speaker 1: All right, Well that's cool, yeah, Because it takes to 463 00:23:57,240 --> 00:24:01,439 Speaker 1: change habits. It takes six sixty to ninety day. You know, 464 00:24:01,440 --> 00:24:04,800 Speaker 1: old old habits die hard. Old habits die hard, so 465 00:24:04,840 --> 00:24:08,440 Speaker 1: it takes a couple of months to form new habits. 466 00:24:08,840 --> 00:24:12,159 Speaker 1: Although and if you can stay with it, is it 467 00:24:12,200 --> 00:24:13,880 Speaker 1: easier now or is it still paying the ass? When 468 00:24:13,880 --> 00:24:15,360 Speaker 1: you see cookies and all that. 469 00:24:16,040 --> 00:24:18,000 Speaker 4: It's not. Yeah, it's not as hard as it was 470 00:24:18,040 --> 00:24:18,920 Speaker 4: in the very beginning. 471 00:24:19,040 --> 00:24:21,840 Speaker 3: Although I told my wife yesterday I was like, man, 472 00:24:21,960 --> 00:24:25,359 Speaker 3: for some reason, I've been really craving a milkshake, that 473 00:24:25,560 --> 00:24:30,359 Speaker 3: good stuff, like whenever I feel like having sugar. For 474 00:24:30,400 --> 00:24:32,720 Speaker 3: some reason, all I can think about is like an 475 00:24:32,760 --> 00:24:34,000 Speaker 3: Oreo milkshake. 476 00:24:34,920 --> 00:24:37,040 Speaker 1: There's a jack in the box right down the street. Right. 477 00:24:37,320 --> 00:24:38,639 Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm not going to do it though, I'm not 478 00:24:38,640 --> 00:24:39,800 Speaker 4: going to give in to temptation. 479 00:24:40,640 --> 00:24:43,080 Speaker 1: My milkshake brings all the boys to the. 480 00:24:43,160 --> 00:24:46,880 Speaker 4: Art brings milk or milkshake, Yeah, cook shake. 481 00:24:47,960 --> 00:24:51,679 Speaker 1: So KFC Kentucky Fried Chicken, they go by their gangster 482 00:24:51,760 --> 00:24:56,640 Speaker 1: name KFC, and they announced this week they're introducing an 483 00:24:56,720 --> 00:25:01,600 Speaker 1: international smash head called the Chizza and it's going to 484 00:25:01,600 --> 00:25:04,880 Speaker 1: be starting in a few days here. I think Monday. 485 00:25:04,960 --> 00:25:07,840 Speaker 1: I believe Monday is when it starts. Now they say 486 00:25:08,680 --> 00:25:14,600 Speaker 1: KFC that chizza is not pizza. It's got white and meat, 487 00:25:14,680 --> 00:25:19,320 Speaker 1: extra crispy fried chicken filets top with zesty marinera sauce, 488 00:25:19,760 --> 00:25:25,640 Speaker 1: melti mozzarella, cheese, and crispy pepperoni. And this is an 489 00:25:25,640 --> 00:25:29,320 Speaker 1: item that was in the Philippines almost ten years ago, 490 00:25:29,359 --> 00:25:33,280 Speaker 1: starting the Philippines, and then they spread it KFC. It's 491 00:25:33,320 --> 00:25:38,040 Speaker 1: been served in Korea, Taiwan, India, Thailand, Germany, Spain, and 492 00:25:38,080 --> 00:25:41,919 Speaker 1: Mexico and now it's coming to the shores of the USA. 493 00:25:42,880 --> 00:25:47,200 Speaker 1: The chizza. Couldn't you just make that at home? 494 00:25:47,240 --> 00:25:51,120 Speaker 4: Though, I know you're going to oh yeah, I might. 495 00:25:50,920 --> 00:25:54,480 Speaker 1: Make a ripoff, ripoff or now McDonald's. This is good 496 00:25:54,480 --> 00:25:58,320 Speaker 1: for you, Danny. The McDonald's is desperately well. The owners, 497 00:25:58,359 --> 00:26:01,439 Speaker 1: the franchisees of McDonald they're trying to bring back the 498 00:26:01,560 --> 00:26:05,760 Speaker 1: snack Rap. One of the food websites was reporting this 499 00:26:05,760 --> 00:26:08,640 Speaker 1: week that a group of independent McDonald's operators has been 500 00:26:09,080 --> 00:26:11,359 Speaker 1: trying to convince the company to bring back the snack 501 00:26:11,480 --> 00:26:15,240 Speaker 1: rap to the menu. It's been gone for a while. Fans, 502 00:26:15,320 --> 00:26:17,080 Speaker 1: you know, people on the internet, have wanted it back. 503 00:26:17,720 --> 00:26:21,040 Speaker 1: They claim that it would actually be good for business, 504 00:26:21,600 --> 00:26:24,000 Speaker 1: the snack rap. That's of course, that's why they wanted back. 505 00:26:24,000 --> 00:26:28,919 Speaker 1: But McDonald's, the corporate side of McDonald's, has said they 506 00:26:28,920 --> 00:26:31,360 Speaker 1: don't want to do it, but it's it'd be something 507 00:26:31,359 --> 00:26:33,080 Speaker 1: you could actually eat at McDonald's. One of the few 508 00:26:33,960 --> 00:26:35,880 Speaker 1: healthy things I thought they got rid of most healthy 509 00:26:35,920 --> 00:26:37,120 Speaker 1: things to people didn't buy them. 510 00:26:37,480 --> 00:26:40,840 Speaker 3: They got rid of every healthy thing, and I thought 511 00:26:40,840 --> 00:26:43,199 Speaker 3: it was because they were being lazy, That's what it 512 00:26:43,320 --> 00:26:43,800 Speaker 3: felt like. 513 00:26:44,680 --> 00:26:48,440 Speaker 1: No, I was told by us, you know still, by 514 00:26:48,440 --> 00:26:52,320 Speaker 1: somebody that the the reason that was is because they 515 00:26:52,440 --> 00:26:54,879 Speaker 1: tried to streamline what was actually being sold and what 516 00:26:54,920 --> 00:26:58,320 Speaker 1: people weren't buying. Like they did a lot of those 517 00:26:58,320 --> 00:27:01,000 Speaker 1: healthy adams to get Congress off their back because there 518 00:27:01,040 --> 00:27:03,320 Speaker 1: was that period where they were attacking the fast food industry. 519 00:27:03,359 --> 00:27:05,639 Speaker 1: It's on healthy people are dying because of your food. 520 00:27:06,200 --> 00:27:08,359 Speaker 4: But that's weird, though, Ben, because so many of my 521 00:27:08,400 --> 00:27:12,520 Speaker 4: coworkers at radio stations would live on the McDonald's grilled 522 00:27:12,640 --> 00:27:17,000 Speaker 4: chicken salads with the ranch dressing your favorite, and you 523 00:27:17,040 --> 00:27:19,679 Speaker 4: could get the bag of apples, the slice the pre 524 00:27:19,800 --> 00:27:23,760 Speaker 4: sliced apples instead of French fries. So at least around me, 525 00:27:23,840 --> 00:27:25,719 Speaker 4: I saw a lot of people eating that stuff. 526 00:27:26,160 --> 00:27:29,200 Speaker 1: No, all right, Well, I mean I had heard it 527 00:27:29,200 --> 00:27:31,160 Speaker 1: didn't really sell that well, and so they were like, hey, 528 00:27:31,200 --> 00:27:33,080 Speaker 1: we can make more money, and it's maybe I. 529 00:27:33,080 --> 00:27:34,680 Speaker 4: Was hanging out with the wrong people. Yeah. 530 00:27:34,680 --> 00:27:36,520 Speaker 1: Absolutely, they're hanging out with the five people that were 531 00:27:36,520 --> 00:27:42,320 Speaker 1: eating the food there. Yeah, so I love that McDonald's 532 00:27:42,320 --> 00:27:44,280 Speaker 1: will not add onion rings because it would take away 533 00:27:44,320 --> 00:27:47,840 Speaker 1: from their French fries sale. I love that we had 534 00:27:47,880 --> 00:27:50,320 Speaker 1: that on the podcast a while a while back. You 535 00:27:50,400 --> 00:27:53,000 Speaker 1: ever been to Philadelphia? They have ever done time in Philly. 536 00:27:53,600 --> 00:27:54,520 Speaker 4: Never been to Philly. 537 00:27:54,640 --> 00:27:57,040 Speaker 1: Okay, So if you ever go to Philly, I've been 538 00:27:57,040 --> 00:28:00,600 Speaker 1: there before. There's this their local convenience stores, wah Wahs. 539 00:28:01,800 --> 00:28:04,720 Speaker 1: They love it. It's like a cult following in Philly. Wahwas. 540 00:28:05,359 --> 00:28:07,560 Speaker 4: Yeah, I've heard you mentioned that place before. Yeah. 541 00:28:07,600 --> 00:28:10,600 Speaker 1: Yeah, So wah Wahs is planning on expanding over the 542 00:28:10,680 --> 00:28:15,000 Speaker 1: next decade. The family plans to open two hundred and 543 00:28:15,000 --> 00:28:18,120 Speaker 1: eighty more wah Wahs. They're spreading out of Philly. They're 544 00:28:18,160 --> 00:28:23,720 Speaker 1: going now the Hogy Haven, which is Wahwas in Philly, 545 00:28:23,800 --> 00:28:25,840 Speaker 1: and they're going on it's all over Pennsylvania now, but 546 00:28:26,160 --> 00:28:29,119 Speaker 1: they're going to be spreading all over the eastern in 547 00:28:29,119 --> 00:28:31,800 Speaker 1: the south eastern part of the United States, mostly the 548 00:28:31,880 --> 00:28:39,760 Speaker 1: south actually, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Midwest Indiana, Kentucky, North Carolina, Ohio, 549 00:28:40,840 --> 00:28:44,920 Speaker 1: and Tennessee. So we'll see if those people below the 550 00:28:44,920 --> 00:28:50,040 Speaker 1: Mason Dixon line enjoy getting a HOGI from from wah wahs. 551 00:28:50,120 --> 00:28:52,800 Speaker 1: And do you ever go to Universal Studios, Danny in 552 00:28:53,160 --> 00:28:55,280 Speaker 1: La Universal Studios in Hollywood? Do you ever go there 553 00:28:55,280 --> 00:28:55,800 Speaker 1: at all? Or no? 554 00:28:56,400 --> 00:28:59,000 Speaker 4: Yeah? Our family when last summer. 555 00:28:59,600 --> 00:29:02,920 Speaker 1: Okay, well you should the whole thing with Universal if 556 00:29:03,240 --> 00:29:05,440 Speaker 1: you buy like a pass for the whole year, it's 557 00:29:05,440 --> 00:29:07,440 Speaker 1: like two days admission or something like that. So they 558 00:29:07,760 --> 00:29:10,680 Speaker 1: just give passes away. But I just heard they have 559 00:29:10,720 --> 00:29:15,800 Speaker 1: a secret menu at Universal Studios Hollywood and City Walk 560 00:29:15,840 --> 00:29:18,760 Speaker 1: by the way. I did not. I had no idea. 561 00:29:18,920 --> 00:29:25,400 Speaker 1: Had a bunch of weird, weird items. Mel's Diner. They 562 00:29:25,480 --> 00:29:28,840 Speaker 1: have Jurassic Park Cafe, a bunch of these things. They 563 00:29:28,840 --> 00:29:35,160 Speaker 1: have different items strawberry, a shortcake at one They've got 564 00:29:35,400 --> 00:29:39,720 Speaker 1: a cotton candy lemonade thing and another just. 565 00:29:39,680 --> 00:29:42,160 Speaker 3: Kind of like in and out secret menu, Like you 566 00:29:42,240 --> 00:29:45,240 Speaker 3: got to be part of the club, the secret society 567 00:29:45,280 --> 00:29:46,800 Speaker 3: to know what to order. 568 00:29:47,600 --> 00:29:51,840 Speaker 1: Yeah, there's a Voodoo Donut secret Is there a Voo 569 00:29:51,840 --> 00:29:52,600 Speaker 1: Donuts up there? 570 00:29:52,920 --> 00:29:53,400 Speaker 4: There is? 571 00:29:53,520 --> 00:29:58,040 Speaker 1: Yeah, that's the place out of Portland, right. Yes. I 572 00:29:58,040 --> 00:30:00,200 Speaker 1: haven't been a city walk in a while. Man, I 573 00:30:00,200 --> 00:30:01,880 Speaker 1: should have gone. We did the TV show at a 574 00:30:01,960 --> 00:30:03,880 Speaker 1: Universal Studios. I could have walked. I could have walked 575 00:30:03,960 --> 00:30:07,880 Speaker 1: up the hill to Universal Studios and done. That was 576 00:30:07,920 --> 00:30:09,400 Speaker 1: an eating though when I was doing the show. That's 577 00:30:09,400 --> 00:30:11,719 Speaker 1: the problem, like trying to fess all right, we'll get 578 00:30:11,760 --> 00:30:14,440 Speaker 1: out on that anything you want to promote. It's Friday. 579 00:30:14,560 --> 00:30:17,440 Speaker 1: We did the overnight show, So after this podcast, we're 580 00:30:18,080 --> 00:30:20,360 Speaker 1: done for the day for me, and then back on 581 00:30:20,440 --> 00:30:23,360 Speaker 1: Saturday and Sunday with new pots. Yeah. 582 00:30:24,120 --> 00:30:24,840 Speaker 4: What a week man. 583 00:30:24,920 --> 00:30:27,120 Speaker 3: It started out for me with a Dan Patrick show, 584 00:30:27,480 --> 00:30:29,600 Speaker 3: and then I moved in to fill in for Gottlieb 585 00:30:29,760 --> 00:30:32,920 Speaker 3: and CNR who stayed on the Dan Patrick Show. And 586 00:30:32,960 --> 00:30:37,600 Speaker 3: then yesterday we filled in for Colin Cowherd, and finally 587 00:30:37,720 --> 00:30:40,440 Speaker 3: today Friday, we're going to be back in our regular 588 00:30:40,600 --> 00:30:43,479 Speaker 3: five to seven pm in New York City time slot 589 00:30:43,760 --> 00:30:45,800 Speaker 3: for Covino and Rich Cool. 590 00:30:45,880 --> 00:30:47,680 Speaker 1: All right, and then and then the weekend and then 591 00:30:47,720 --> 00:30:48,160 Speaker 1: the weekend. 592 00:30:48,360 --> 00:30:51,240 Speaker 4: I can't wait, dude, this has felt like two weeks 593 00:30:51,280 --> 00:30:51,640 Speaker 4: in one. 594 00:30:52,360 --> 00:30:55,280 Speaker 1: Got you all right, Hey, I have a wonderful rest 595 00:30:55,400 --> 00:30:59,960 Speaker 1: of your Friday here, and we'll have another fresh pot. 596 00:31:00,040 --> 00:31:00,560 Speaker 1: We'll get to that. 597 00:31:01,120 --> 00:31:03,080 Speaker 4: I can't wait for the Saturday podcast. 598 00:31:03,240 --> 00:31:05,720 Speaker 1: That's right, talk to you that later. 599 00:31:05,800 --> 00:31:07,520 Speaker 4: Skater gotta murder. 600 00:31:07,560 --> 00:31:07,960 Speaker 1: I gotta go