Speaker 1: Kubbooms.
Speaker 2: If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes
Speaker 2: a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants
Speaker 2: of the old Republic, a sol fastion of fairness. He
Speaker 2: treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the
Speaker 2: rich pill poppers in the penthouse.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 2: The clearing House of Hot takes break free for something special.
Speaker 2: The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now in.
Speaker 1: The air eywhere the weekend has arrived, the final, the
Speaker 1: final weekend of the month of February, and we are
Speaker 1: back hanging out myself, Ben and Danny g right over
Speaker 1: there as we celebrate on this Friday. What a day
Speaker 1: it is. It's National Hospitality Workers Appreciation Day, who always
Speaker 1: a big holiday in my house. I don't know about you, Danny,
Speaker 1: but for me, it's it's almost I'm overwhelmed with emotion
Speaker 1: because not only is it that, but it's National Banana
Speaker 1: Bread Day. And that's that's a big one as well.
Speaker 1: That's that's a big one as well. When's the last
Speaker 1: time you had banana bread?
Speaker 3: My grandma used to make it by the panful.
Speaker 1: Oh did she? Yeah? The banana bread. I recall my
Speaker 1: wife we get bananas sometimes and then as soon as
Speaker 1: they turn like black, that's banana bread. Racist. When they
Speaker 1: go bad, you make the banana bread because you can
Speaker 1: still make banana bread with it. But yeah, I haven't
Speaker 1: had banana bread in a while, but they I'll tell
Speaker 1: you what. Though, freshly made banana bread, all baked goods taste,
Speaker 1: you know, smell pretty good. But banana bread, oh yeah,
Speaker 1: A loaf of banana bread coming out of that oven.
Speaker 4: Oh man, it's like old people's food.
Speaker 1: Though, yeah, are we old? I don't know, help, but
Speaker 1: on this pot, we've got the Roger Rabbit of baseball,
Speaker 1: hippity hop and uh yeah, you know, word of the week.
Speaker 1: We'll see what else we have time for. But I
Speaker 1: did want to start with this, so I had this
Speaker 1: sent to me the other day and I was like,
Speaker 1: I guess trying to I was abating whether or not
Speaker 1: to do it on the radio show, but I wanted
Speaker 1: to mention it here because we had brought this up.
Speaker 1: I forget where there's a lot of microphones. But the Doyers,
Speaker 1: the Dodgers have been talk for a number of years
Speaker 1: about building this massive gondola like in the Alps that
Speaker 1: would take people from down the hill. If you're not,
Speaker 1: you know, most people listen to this podcasts aren't in LA.
Speaker 1: But there's a Dodger Stames on a hill overlooking downtown LA,
Speaker 1: and then below it is that is this neighborhood called Chinatown,
Speaker 1: and then next to that is Union Station, which is
Speaker 1: the train depot in LA. And so the plan, and
Speaker 1: I'd heard about this a couple of years ago, and there
Speaker 1: was actually a gondola at Dodgers Stadium out in the
Speaker 1: outfit you could see what it would look like. And
Speaker 1: it's a five one hundred million dollar plan to build
Speaker 1: one point two miles of gondola between Union Station in
Speaker 1: LA and Dodger Stadium. And so I didn't think much
Speaker 1: of it. I thought it looked kind of cool. Like
Speaker 1: I said that, I like, that's kind of neat, that's different.
Speaker 1: Why not. I'd be fun to be in a gondola
Speaker 1: unless there's an earthquake. But what the hell? So I
Speaker 1: got sent this the other day and apparently the gondola plan.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you heard of this, I heard
Speaker 1: about this or not, Danny, but it's like the Roger
Speaker 1: Rabbit of baseball. Now we're old, we know Roger REVV.
Speaker 1: The plot of Roger Rabbit. If you remember who framed
Speaker 1: Roger Rabbit? Classic film? Classic film, Who framed Roger Rabbit?
Speaker 1: The plot was actually about replacing public transportation with a freeway.
Speaker 1: But this is kind of the reverse because the person
Speaker 1: you want to take a guess who's behind this plan?
Speaker 1: And when I saw this name, I immediately turned my position
Speaker 1: the other direction.
Speaker 4: No, don't tell me.
Speaker 3: It is the guy who made all the money off
Speaker 3: the Dodgers parking lot.
Speaker 1: Ding Ding, Ding, ding ding. Yes, this is the brainchild
Speaker 1: of Frank McCourt. Frank McCourt who owned the Dodgers and
Speaker 1: ran them into the ground from twenty oh four to
Speaker 1: twenty twelve.
Speaker 4: Eighth, he owed them all right, Yeah.
Speaker 1: The big Dodger star then was he stopped Choy. No
Speaker 1: disrespect to he stopped Choy, but he sopped Choy. Was
Speaker 1: the big star of the Dodgers from twenty oh four
Speaker 1: to twenty twelve. It was a disaster, a debacle, But
Speaker 1: then the Dodger fans boycotted. It was one of the
Speaker 1: few times that sports fans have successfully forced an owner
Speaker 1: to sell the team. Major League Baseball stepped in the
Speaker 1: used car salesman Bud Selik and the owners of baseball realizing,
Speaker 1: wait a minute, this is one of our great cash cows,
Speaker 1: the Dodgers. They have a license to print money, and
Speaker 1: people are not going. The attendances down, the TV ratings
Speaker 1: are down. Dodger fans were airing their grievances all over
Speaker 1: the place, and in those days, social media was not
Speaker 1: that big, so they were doing it like radio shows
Speaker 1: and letters to the editor and the newspaper and all that.
Speaker 1: So it was a big deal. And then Frank McCourt,
Speaker 1: of course he didn't have any real money. He had
Speaker 1: parking lots he had I think inherited from his family
Speaker 1: in Boston and then flipped those to get the the Dodgers,
Speaker 1: as I understand it, and so Frank McCourt made a deal.
Speaker 1: He sold the team because Bud see looks like, all right,
Speaker 1: you got to sell the team. They were like, you
Speaker 1: got to get out of here. And he heavily leveraged
Speaker 1: the team and he left it like they were kind
Speaker 1: of like he was facing bankruptcy. It was a big mess.
Speaker 1: But to get rid of him as the owner, they
Speaker 1: gave him. He co owns the parking lots at Dodger Stadium.
Speaker 1: And so the whole point of this Danny is it's
Speaker 1: not Hey, we want public transportation to give Dodger fans
Speaker 1: a chance to be like they're in the French Alps,
Speaker 1: to go to a Dodger game to see Otani. No,
Speaker 1: he wants to build a luxury hotel, shopping center complex
Speaker 1: on the parking lots at Docta State, and they're going
Speaker 1: to take out the parking lots at Dodger Stadium. And
Speaker 1: that's why I said, it's kind of like Roger Rabbit, right,
Speaker 1: because Roger Rabbit is like public transportation. People could use it,
Speaker 1: and then they put the freeways in. But it was
Speaker 1: for the oil companies, right, because they can make money
Speaker 1: on the oil. But here it's the robber baron Frank McCort.
Speaker 1: He can make money not only from the gondola, because
Speaker 1: you're gonna it's not gonna be free. You gotta pay
Speaker 1: for it. But then in addition to that, he's gonna
Speaker 1: build a massive hotel. And you know these new outdoor
Speaker 1: what not new they've been around for twenty five years,
Speaker 1: these outdoor shopping complexes which are all all the rage.
Speaker 3: So I mean there's a special place in parking lot hell.
Speaker 3: For Frank McCort, Bell is a real place. It would
Speaker 3: be awesome for him to just wander around a big,
Speaker 3: abandoned parking lot trying to find his way out forever.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I knew him a little bit when he owned.
Speaker 1: My favorite Frank McCourt story was when it was really
Speaker 1: getting bad. I mean it was really bad that you
Speaker 1: could tell the end was near where we were getting
Speaker 1: towards a point of demarcation, that Frank was in some
Speaker 1: serious trouble, and the fans that were booing, and it
Speaker 1: was just nasty. And so I was at a game
Speaker 1: it was like on a Tuesday or a Wednesday, if
Speaker 1: I remember, and Frank McCourt, the owner of the team,
Speaker 1: walked through the pavilion in right field at Dodger Stadium
Speaker 1: like a politician trying to shake hands and kiss, you know,
Speaker 1: kiss babies and all that to gain public support. And
Speaker 1: then the next night Frank decided, you know, I need
Speaker 1: the media on my side, so he brought a group
Speaker 1: of US dopey media guys into his office at Dodgerston
Speaker 1: the owner's office at Dodger Stateum. I felt like I
Speaker 1: was in an episode of Seinfeld, you know, going to
Speaker 1: the Steinbrenner's office. It was wild. It was just like
Speaker 1: you would imagine the owner's office. It's it was the
Speaker 1: corner down the left field line, massive high ceilings, window
Speaker 1: view of Dodger Stadium. I mean, it was really cool.
Speaker 1: I mean that was the highlight for me. It was
Speaker 1: just being in there because I was like, won, I
Speaker 1: wonder like O'Malley was in here and all the other
Speaker 1: you know, the Fox people and all that, and that's
Speaker 1: probably where Mark Walter and the current owners are. Obviously
Speaker 1: that's the owner's office. But I remember in there and
Speaker 1: Frank's like, he's like, listen, I'm not a bad guy.
Speaker 1: I want to do well and all this stuff. And
Speaker 1: then within like a couple of months he was forced
Speaker 1: to sell the team. But what a deal for him, though,
Speaker 1: I'd almost rather own the parking lots than the team.
Speaker 1: The only problem with that, though, is that you only
Speaker 1: make the revenue at Dodger Stadium for eighty one nights
Speaker 1: a year, plus some exhibition games and some some playoff games,
Speaker 1: and which lately hadn't been that many because the Dodgers
Speaker 1: have not been going that deep in the playoffs. But
Speaker 1: when I heard that, man, I was like, it seemed
Speaker 1: like it seemed like a good gondola, was like, it
Speaker 1: was cool. But then it's like, of all the places,
Speaker 1: like of all the places to get rid of parking,
Speaker 1: Southern California, Los Angeles, where everyone is in their car
Speaker 1: all the time, it's like the only way to get
Speaker 1: around is in your car, and they're going to take
Speaker 1: away the parking lots to build a freaking hotel and
Speaker 1: to build a cheesecake factory. Like, what are we doing?
Speaker 4: Yeah? This also makes me think about Disneyland.
Speaker 3: I saw the other day that there's big plans Disney
Speaker 3: is starting to gobble up some of the properties around Disneyland. Oh,
Speaker 3: they're going to bulldoze and expand the park.
Speaker 1: Is that right? Wow?
Speaker 3: That way they can jack up the ticket prices even higher.
Speaker 1: How much higher can they go? Though?
Speaker 4: I don't know what.
Speaker 1: I remember when they bought the land for California Adventure. Well,
Speaker 1: actually not necessarily California Adventure. It was land to put
Speaker 1: the parking lots build California Adventure. But the area around
Speaker 1: Anaheim and I used to go there all the time.
Speaker 1: There were like crack hotels and stuff right across Disneyland.
Speaker 1: In fact, the late Tony Phillips baseball player for the Angels,
Speaker 1: he got busted doing crack at a hotel down the
Speaker 1: street from from Disneyland.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it was crack on Kotella.
Speaker 1: And of course Disney bought that hotel and all the
Speaker 1: other hotels and gave you destroyed them.
Speaker 3: And in case you don't know, Kotella the main drag
Speaker 3: there the name of the street.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I just wanted to get on a rant
Speaker 1: when I saw Frank McCort's name. That's probably not appropriate
Speaker 1: for this podcast because we don't normally don't even talk
Speaker 1: about it. I don't either that's sports or not.
Speaker 4: It's just that was a crazy story.
Speaker 3: When he owned the Dodgers, I remember the fans booing
Speaker 3: and how bad the team was, and how all he
Speaker 3: cared about was making money hand over fist and the
Speaker 3: prices kept getting jacked up in the parking lot. I
Speaker 3: don't know if you remember this, but as soon as
Speaker 3: he was pushed out, the new group brought in Magic
Speaker 3: Johnson as a pr thing really for to be like
Speaker 3: the friendly face of the new ownership, and the first
Speaker 3: thing they did was lower the car parking at the stadium.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, well I think the prices have gone up.
Speaker 3: But yeah, well since then, they've incredmentally jacked it back up.
Speaker 3: But to kind of, you know, get the Dodger fans hyped.
Speaker 3: They're like, not only are we going to sign some
Speaker 3: real ballplayers, but we'll put the parking back down to
Speaker 3: twenty bucks because McCort had jacked that up to like
Speaker 3: sixty dollars to park there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was. It was ridiculous. I mean, he's you know,
Speaker 1: and he's he's for kind of an unsavory dude. He's
Speaker 1: found ways to make a good amount of a good
Speaker 1: amount of doubt. But when I saw his name, I'm like,
Speaker 1: I'm out, Like I wouldn't mind a gone ola. But
Speaker 1: then they were talking about complaining about it, like you
Speaker 1: know that there's a big park, Danny, near Dodger Stadium
Speaker 1: down the hill. I used to live right now. I
Speaker 1: lived in Lincoln Heights, which is the next you next
Speaker 1: town over from Dodger Stadium. And they built this massive park,
Speaker 1: which is a state park. It's beautiful.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Mexican family is barbecuing there before all the Dodger games.
Speaker 1: Yeah, why not. That's a great park. Racist, but they
Speaker 1: actually in order to build this gondola, they're going to
Speaker 1: have to put a massive gondola station right in the
Speaker 1: middle of this great outdoor space, totally screwing over the
Speaker 1: people that live there that actually don't care about the
Speaker 1: Dodgers and just want to use the public space.
Speaker 4: So what are they going to do with the police
Speaker 4: academy that's right there?
Speaker 1: I know, right, it's pretty well. I guess the police
Speaker 1: can go over to the cheesecake factory, they can go
Speaker 1: over to the Dave and Busters and knock themselves out
Speaker 1: or whatever is going to be at the shopping center.
Speaker 1: There got a murder, the hip an the hop. Now
Speaker 1: I did something a little different last weekend, Danny, I, uh,
Speaker 1: me and the wife are you trying to? You know,
Speaker 1: work a lot during the week with the TV. I
Speaker 1: did do the TV show, but that's over with till
Speaker 1: next football season. But we had the radio show. I'd
Speaker 1: spent a lot of time on that obviously this podcast,
Speaker 1: so I don't have a lot of time to myself,
Speaker 1: and so on the weekends we try to go out
Speaker 1: and do some different things. And so we saw there
Speaker 1: was this hip hop pop up museum in Hollywood. They
Speaker 1: had a big run in New York and traveling to
Speaker 1: different cities, and so you know, I'm obviously not a
Speaker 1: music guy. I'm not even a real big hip hop guy.
Speaker 1: But I thought, you know, that's kind of cool. Why not.
Speaker 1: I appreciate art And there's some actually the early days,
Speaker 1: when I was younger, I did like some of the
Speaker 1: og hip hop guys, like I couldn't.
Speaker 4: I know, was it Mayor Curtis blow Guy?
Speaker 1: No, No, no Fat Boys, No. But you know some
Speaker 1: of the early it's like, you know, Snoop Doging, some
Speaker 1: of those guys. When I was in school back in
Speaker 1: the day, we listened to that stuff. So I was like,
Speaker 1: all right, we'll go down there check it out, see
Speaker 1: what it's about. It. It's some one of these interactive.
Speaker 1: Immersive is the big word. They're immersive things. And so
Speaker 1: we went down there to Hollywood, and I really thought,
Speaker 1: you should go, Danny. It's only opened for another couple
Speaker 1: of weeks here, but you and the wife take the
Speaker 1: take the kid. You would love it because I remember
Speaker 1: every Halloween, Danny for years, you would wear a certain mask.
Speaker 4: I'd still do it, all right.
Speaker 1: Well, your guy was well represented Tupac at the hip
Speaker 1: Hop Museum, and I saw that. I should have sent
Speaker 1: you a photo. I did see. There was a bunch
Speaker 1: of stuff like, oh, there was photos and memorabilia.
Speaker 3: This pop up looks cool. I saw the pictures that
Speaker 3: you posted on social media.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I only put a few of them up there.
Speaker 1: But they had the artifacts and stuff and it was
Speaker 1: pretty wild because they you know, it goes through the
Speaker 1: history of hip hop, fifty years of hip hop. And
Speaker 1: this again, people love round numbers. Humans love round numbers.
Speaker 1: So we don't celebrate the forty ninth, won't celebrate the
Speaker 1: fifty first, but fifty that's a big deal, right, So
Speaker 1: fifty years of hip hop. So they have this really
Speaker 1: cool video thing where you go into this large room
Speaker 1: and you stand in the videos on the walls all
Speaker 1: around you. That's part of the immersive stuff.
Speaker 3: I said, was that all the old school TVs that
Speaker 3: were stacked on top of each other.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that was one of the exhibits. They had a
Speaker 1: bunch of the old school TVs. They had a payphone thing.
Speaker 1: I took a photo with that was from you some
Speaker 1: hip hop. I forget exactly where it's from, but it
Speaker 1: goes tough like the roots of hip hop and they
Speaker 1: have the all the big names and you know, signs
Speaker 1: and whatnot. And it was for a guy that's not
Speaker 1: really into hip hop and all that. I enjoyed it.
Speaker 1: I thought it was pretty cool. And again I can
Speaker 1: appreciate art and whatnot. And they had you know all
Speaker 1: you know, grand Master Flash and you go, you know
Speaker 1: Snoop dog jay Z, all those Nicki Minaj, all these
Speaker 1: different random people come on, Pippin, get your tims on.
Speaker 1: It was cool. And then I'm getting crap from people online, Dan, like,
Speaker 1: what are you doing there? You shouldn't be going to
Speaker 1: the well, I'm not supposed to go to hip hop.
Speaker 1: I'm not allowed to go to the hip hop Museum
Speaker 1: And what's up with that? What a bunch of schmucks?
Speaker 1: How dare you?
Speaker 3: I mean, it became mainstream decades and decades ago, and
Speaker 3: you know, in the seventies and the eighties, especially the
Speaker 3: first half of the eighties, there were so many parents
Speaker 3: that were like, that's a fad that's going to be
Speaker 3: gone in a few years, and so it was a
Speaker 3: huge point of history to hit the fifty year mark.
Speaker 3: Now you have hip hop bands like Run DMC that
Speaker 3: have been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, for sure, for sure. I saw in the
Speaker 1: gift shop they had little action figures of like Therreous
Speaker 1: Big and Old Dirty Bastard and what it was. Really
Speaker 1: it was quite amusing to me to see the little
Speaker 1: action figures.
Speaker 4: And it's funny to hear you say old dirty Bastard.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, oh yeah, you should. You should try to
Speaker 1: go there. I got a couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 4: I have my money.
Speaker 2: It was.
Speaker 1: It was pretty pretty neat, So I enjoyed that. I
Speaker 1: try to do some different things from time to time.
Speaker 1: Now I wanted to mention I looked this up because
Speaker 1: I fell down a rabbit hole we had mentioned on
Speaker 1: the Overnight show. This week, I did a little rift.
Speaker 1: For some reason, infomercials popped up in conversation, and I
Speaker 1: love infomercials. So I started doing my infomercial rant, and
Speaker 1: I started giving fun facts about infomercials and all that
Speaker 1: wonderful stuff, you know, set it and forget it, but wait,
Speaker 1: there's more and all that, and so I'm doing that,
Speaker 1: and then I went on and I was going back,
Speaker 1: and I was looking through some of the stuff that
Speaker 1: I had saved in the past that I had read
Speaker 1: and about the pitchmen and the snake oil salesman, the
Speaker 1: medical and the original the original original infomercials were the
Speaker 1: snake oil Salesman. The actually the very first, if you know,
Speaker 1: way back, the Kickapoo Indian Medicine company that would tour
Speaker 1: the country. They'd go to boardwalks and street fairs and
Speaker 1: county fairs, and these were total charlatans. They would sell
Speaker 1: you cures for just about anything. And they had these
Speaker 1: very exotic shows where they would strangle rattlesnakes on stage
Speaker 1: and say this is the elixir, you just drink this,
Speaker 1: and the crowd would go wild, right, And that's that
Speaker 1: is actually where the term snake oil salesman come comes from.
Speaker 1: From the Kickapoo Indian Medicine Company. That's where that term originated.
Speaker 1: But that is not the first televised infomercial because there
Speaker 1: was no TV when they were going around doing that,
Speaker 1: they were just oohing and awe and getting oohs and
Speaker 1: aws from the random people that were out there. So
Speaker 1: I went and I looked down, I looked on the internet.
Speaker 1: I did a quick dive down a rabbit hole and
Speaker 1: I found The first infomercial is believed to be for
Speaker 1: the Vita Mixed Blender. It first aired in nineteen forty nine,
Speaker 1: so infomercials have been on the air for over seventy years. Actually,
Speaker 1: I they do the math on that this will be
Speaker 1: seventy five years of infomercials, right, we're in twenty twenty four.
Speaker 1: While it's pretty wild. It aired on a local TV
Speaker 1: station in Ohio. It was a thirty minute program and
Speaker 1: it showed the amazing features and benefits of the Vita
Speaker 1: mixed Blender. I was educating the viewers and forming them
Speaker 1: how the product worked and what he could do. And
Speaker 1: then in the nineteen fifties, shortly after that, it was
Speaker 1: a year later the concept took off and you had
Speaker 1: Chevrolet got involved in infomercials and watch companies and other things.
Speaker 1: And then over the years it's gotten crazy and crazy.
Speaker 1: Although I have been told that not as many infomercials
Speaker 1: for television now they've moved to social media. But who
Speaker 1: the hell is clicking on an infomercial on Instagram? You
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, Like our TikTok, I don't. I
Speaker 1: don't know how that's actually working. But they're trying to
Speaker 1: get into that space with the Yeah infomercials, they're too long.
Speaker 3: I've seen pop ups and it'll be like a supplement
Speaker 3: and I'm like, oh, that looks interesting, But then it
Speaker 3: keeps going and going, And even when you try to
Speaker 3: click ahead to see how much it costs, they want
Speaker 3: you to sit through the video to see how it
Speaker 3: was invented.
Speaker 4: And they have doctors and scientists speaking. I don't give
Speaker 4: a shit about that. How much is yeah?
Speaker 1: Well, and the way they do it is it's a
Speaker 1: simple formula, Like the sauce is kind of simple. It's
Speaker 1: only a few ingredients. You. It's the oldest trick you
Speaker 1: can use.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: You create a problem, then sell the solution. That's all
Speaker 1: you gotta do, Right, that's it, that's all you have
Speaker 1: to do. Fashion and body industry, right, possible deal. A
Speaker 1: makeup makes you look better, jewelry makes you more attractive, Clothes, dieting, exercise,
Speaker 1: all the vices there, all the vices. No, you're right.
Speaker 3: It's kind of like the hit TV show Shark Tank.
Speaker 3: People come out to do their pitch about their product.
Speaker 3: They always start with sharks. Have you ever had the
Speaker 3: problem where this happens? Yeah, and then they have the
Speaker 3: solution for it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's the way it works, right. You've got to
Speaker 1: have a problem and you have all the answers. It's
Speaker 1: like that was what Billy Mays did. Hi, Billy Mays, here,
Speaker 1: are you having problem shitting? Do you wish that your
Speaker 1: shit would be smoother? Well? Good news. The fastest, easiest
Speaker 1: way shit better is with my product, guaranteed order right now,
Speaker 1: shit begone or whatever. Yeah, so back back in the
Speaker 1: in the in the days. The word of the week.
Speaker 1: Are you ready for the word of the week?
Speaker 4: The word of the week?
Speaker 1: A word of the week. The word of the week
Speaker 1: this week is a word I use quite a bit
Speaker 1: bughayzy for gayzey. Now there's a couple of different interpretations of.
Speaker 4: The or some of your favorite words.
Speaker 1: It is one of my favorite words. I've said it
Speaker 1: for a number of years. It's a fun word. Any
Speaker 1: words with Z are fun. There's not a lot of
Speaker 1: words that have Z in them, So Z words are
Speaker 1: fun and the highlight for it's a it's a fun word.
Speaker 1: So uh. This is what is believed to be the
Speaker 1: origin of the word fugazy. It's actually American military slang,
Speaker 1: just kind of cool, right, kind of cool American military slang.
Speaker 1: And it actually goes back to the to the Vietnam
Speaker 1: You So, I know we have some listeners that fought
Speaker 1: in Vietnam that were around in those days, some veterans.
Speaker 1: I've gotten emails from some of the fellows over the
Speaker 1: years that did their service to the country and we
Speaker 1: obviously we appreciate that, and they're fans of the show,
Speaker 1: and so maybe some of these guys can relate to this.
Speaker 1: But it is an acronym for GAYZY that stands for
Speaker 1: fucked up, got ambushed, zipped in. Is the what? Yeah,
Speaker 1: isn't that crazy?
Speaker 4: It's nuts. I had no idea that each letter stood
Speaker 4: for something.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's from the Vietnam War. It's an acronym. It
Speaker 1: stands for it fucked up, got ambushed, zipped in. And
Speaker 1: the original meaning obviously, you know, situation was complete chaos.
Speaker 1: It was a disaster, messed up beyond belief. And then
Speaker 1: over the years, as time has gone by, the term
Speaker 1: has been broadened and no longer just for the military,
Speaker 1: and it's just part of some people's vernacular like me,
Speaker 1: like it's the word I use because I didn't quite
Speaker 1: realize that it meant exactly that. I knew it meant
Speaker 1: you're kind of messed up, But I didn't know it
Speaker 1: was the Vietnam angle to it. I had no no
Speaker 1: concept of that, did not did not know that at all.
Speaker 1: The Foodie Fund, we don't have too much time, so
Speaker 1: I don't want to get too much into the foody Fund.
Speaker 1: But I did see a couple of things that caught
Speaker 1: my attention in the world of food, and one of them,
Speaker 1: do you know what a chizza is? Do you know
Speaker 1: what a cheezza is?
Speaker 4: Anytime you eat a pizza during your diet?
Speaker 1: Hey, there you go. How's the diet going?
Speaker 3: By the way, me and the better half, we've been
Speaker 3: doing really good on the diet.
Speaker 1: Have you crossed the three month mark yet?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Definitely, probably into month four or the beginning of month
Speaker 3: five right now?
Speaker 1: All right, Well that's cool, yeah, Because it takes to
Speaker 1: change habits. It takes six sixty to ninety day. You know,
Speaker 1: old old habits die hard. Old habits die hard, so
Speaker 1: it takes a couple of months to form new habits.
Speaker 1: Although and if you can stay with it, is it
Speaker 1: easier now or is it still paying the ass? When
Speaker 1: you see cookies and all that.
Speaker 4: It's not. Yeah, it's not as hard as it was
Speaker 4: in the very beginning.
Speaker 3: Although I told my wife yesterday I was like, man,
Speaker 3: for some reason, I've been really craving a milkshake, that
Speaker 3: good stuff, like whenever I feel like having sugar. For
Speaker 3: some reason, all I can think about is like an
Speaker 3: Oreo milkshake.
Speaker 1: There's a jack in the box right down the street. Right.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm not going to do it though, I'm not
Speaker 4: going to give in to temptation.
Speaker 1: My milkshake brings all the boys to the.
Speaker 4: Art brings milk or milkshake, Yeah, cook shake.
Speaker 1: So KFC Kentucky Fried Chicken, they go by their gangster
Speaker 1: name KFC, and they announced this week they're introducing an
Speaker 1: international smash head called the Chizza and it's going to
Speaker 1: be starting in a few days here. I think Monday.
Speaker 1: I believe Monday is when it starts. Now they say
Speaker 1: KFC that chizza is not pizza. It's got white and meat,
Speaker 1: extra crispy fried chicken filets top with zesty marinera sauce,
Speaker 1: melti mozzarella, cheese, and crispy pepperoni. And this is an
Speaker 1: item that was in the Philippines almost ten years ago,
Speaker 1: starting the Philippines, and then they spread it KFC. It's
Speaker 1: been served in Korea, Taiwan, India, Thailand, Germany, Spain, and
Speaker 1: Mexico and now it's coming to the shores of the USA.
Speaker 1: The chizza. Couldn't you just make that at home?
Speaker 4: Though, I know you're going to oh yeah, I might.
Speaker 1: Make a ripoff, ripoff or now McDonald's. This is good
Speaker 1: for you, Danny. The McDonald's is desperately well. The owners,
Speaker 1: the franchisees of McDonald they're trying to bring back the
Speaker 1: snack Rap. One of the food websites was reporting this
Speaker 1: week that a group of independent McDonald's operators has been
Speaker 1: trying to convince the company to bring back the snack
Speaker 1: rap to the menu. It's been gone for a while. Fans,
Speaker 1: you know, people on the internet, have wanted it back.
Speaker 1: They claim that it would actually be good for business,
Speaker 1: the snack rap. That's of course, that's why they wanted back.
Speaker 1: But McDonald's, the corporate side of McDonald's, has said they
Speaker 1: don't want to do it, but it's it'd be something
Speaker 1: you could actually eat at McDonald's. One of the few
Speaker 1: healthy things I thought they got rid of most healthy
Speaker 1: things to people didn't buy them.
Speaker 3: They got rid of every healthy thing, and I thought
Speaker 3: it was because they were being lazy, That's what it
Speaker 3: felt like.
Speaker 1: No, I was told by us, you know still, by
Speaker 1: somebody that the the reason that was is because they
Speaker 1: tried to streamline what was actually being sold and what
Speaker 1: people weren't buying. Like they did a lot of those
Speaker 1: healthy adams to get Congress off their back because there
Speaker 1: was that period where they were attacking the fast food industry.
Speaker 1: It's on healthy people are dying because of your food.
Speaker 4: But that's weird, though, Ben, because so many of my
Speaker 4: coworkers at radio stations would live on the McDonald's grilled
Speaker 4: chicken salads with the ranch dressing your favorite, and you
Speaker 4: could get the bag of apples, the slice the pre
Speaker 4: sliced apples instead of French fries. So at least around me,
Speaker 4: I saw a lot of people eating that stuff.
Speaker 1: No, all right, Well, I mean I had heard it
Speaker 1: didn't really sell that well, and so they were like, hey,
Speaker 1: we can make more money, and it's maybe I.
Speaker 4: Was hanging out with the wrong people. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, they're hanging out with the five people that were
Speaker 1: eating the food there. Yeah, so I love that McDonald's
Speaker 1: will not add onion rings because it would take away
Speaker 1: from their French fries sale. I love that we had
Speaker 1: that on the podcast a while a while back. You
Speaker 1: ever been to Philadelphia? They have ever done time in Philly.
Speaker 4: Never been to Philly.
Speaker 1: Okay, So if you ever go to Philly, I've been
Speaker 1: there before. There's this their local convenience stores, wah Wahs.
Speaker 1: They love it. It's like a cult following in Philly. Wahwas.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I've heard you mentioned that place before. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So wah Wahs is planning on expanding over the
Speaker 1: next decade. The family plans to open two hundred and
Speaker 1: eighty more wah Wahs. They're spreading out of Philly. They're
Speaker 1: going now the Hogy Haven, which is Wahwas in Philly,
Speaker 1: and they're going on it's all over Pennsylvania now, but
Speaker 1: they're going to be spreading all over the eastern in
Speaker 1: the south eastern part of the United States, mostly the
Speaker 1: south actually, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Midwest Indiana, Kentucky, North Carolina, Ohio,
Speaker 1: and Tennessee. So we'll see if those people below the
Speaker 1: Mason Dixon line enjoy getting a HOGI from from wah wahs.
Speaker 1: And do you ever go to Universal Studios, Danny in
Speaker 1: La Universal Studios in Hollywood? Do you ever go there
Speaker 1: at all? Or no?
Speaker 4: Yeah? Our family when last summer.
Speaker 1: Okay, well you should the whole thing with Universal if
Speaker 1: you buy like a pass for the whole year, it's
Speaker 1: like two days admission or something like that. So they
Speaker 1: just give passes away. But I just heard they have
Speaker 1: a secret menu at Universal Studios Hollywood and City Walk
Speaker 1: by the way. I did not. I had no idea.
Speaker 1: Had a bunch of weird, weird items. Mel's Diner. They
Speaker 1: have Jurassic Park Cafe, a bunch of these things. They
Speaker 1: have different items strawberry, a shortcake at one They've got
Speaker 1: a cotton candy lemonade thing and another just.
Speaker 3: Kind of like in and out secret menu, Like you
Speaker 3: got to be part of the club, the secret society
Speaker 3: to know what to order.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's a Voodoo Donut secret Is there a Voo
Speaker 1: Donuts up there?
Speaker 4: There is?
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's the place out of Portland, right. Yes. I
Speaker 1: haven't been a city walk in a while. Man, I
Speaker 1: should have gone. We did the TV show at a
Speaker 1: Universal Studios. I could have walked. I could have walked
Speaker 1: up the hill to Universal Studios and done. That was
Speaker 1: an eating though when I was doing the show. That's
Speaker 1: the problem, like trying to fess all right, we'll get
Speaker 1: out on that anything you want to promote. It's Friday.
Speaker 1: We did the overnight show, So after this podcast, we're
Speaker 1: done for the day for me, and then back on
Speaker 1: Saturday and Sunday with new pots. Yeah.
Speaker 4: What a week man.
Speaker 3: It started out for me with a Dan Patrick show,
Speaker 3: and then I moved in to fill in for Gottlieb
Speaker 3: and CNR who stayed on the Dan Patrick Show. And
Speaker 3: then yesterday we filled in for Colin Cowherd, and finally
Speaker 3: today Friday, we're going to be back in our regular
Speaker 3: five to seven pm in New York City time slot
Speaker 3: for Covino and Rich Cool.
Speaker 1: All right, and then and then the weekend and then
Speaker 1: the weekend.
Speaker 4: I can't wait, dude, this has felt like two weeks
Speaker 4: in one.
Speaker 1: Got you all right, Hey, I have a wonderful rest
Speaker 1: of your Friday here, and we'll have another fresh pot.
Speaker 1: We'll get to that.
Speaker 4: I can't wait for the Saturday podcast.
Speaker 1: That's right, talk to you that later.
Speaker 4: Skater gotta murder.
Speaker 1: I gotta go