Speaker 1: Kutbooms.
Speaker 2: If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes
Speaker 2: a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants
Speaker 2: of the old Republic, a 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 Clearinghouse of Hot takes break free for something special.
Speaker 2: The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now in.
Speaker 3: The air everywhere and Happy Friday, the last Friday of
Speaker 3: the month of January.
Speaker 1: The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller.
Speaker 3: And Danny g Radio on the twenty sixth day of January.
Speaker 3: I am told Danny it is National Fun at Workday.
Speaker 3: So are we gonna have fun while doing the podcast?
Speaker 3: I think we'll be okay, right, we usually have pretty
Speaker 3: good time, I think, boo.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we always have fun on this pot cast. January,
Speaker 4: though it feels like March already.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Well, you know, time time fly. We're gonna have a
Speaker 3: Super Bowl in a couple of weeks. We got then
Speaker 3: we get in the silly season in the NFL, which
Speaker 3: is nothing but made up rumors, which we have pretty
Speaker 3: much every day. Anyway, we don't really need the seat that.
Speaker 3: We pretty much have that NonStop as it is.
Speaker 4: Speaking of the Super Bowl, there's gonna be a lot
Speaker 4: of excitement in Vegas with the NFL. They put out
Speaker 4: a memo to every team and to everyone involved with
Speaker 4: the Super Bowl about gambling, and it was just one
Speaker 4: word in all capitals.
Speaker 1: It said, don't don't Yes, don't you go.
Speaker 3: You're going to a city that is designed on gambling,
Speaker 3: but do not gamble. Yeah, well that was done as
Speaker 3: a preemptive strike, Danny, to make sure to make sure
Speaker 3: that no one who does gamble costs the NFL money
Speaker 3: in a lawsuit. Right if somebody who were to try
Speaker 3: to fix the Super Bowl or something like that, which
Speaker 3: would take more than one person, but if the NFL
Speaker 3: got sued, they would be like, all right, well we tried.
Speaker 1: We told them not to do it. I didn't listen
Speaker 1: to us, but they told us.
Speaker 4: Yeah, this is the first Super Bowl ever where they
Speaker 4: encourage you to have a bunch of hookers in cocaine,
Speaker 4: but just stay away from dambling.
Speaker 1: A bunch of hookers and cocaine.
Speaker 3: It's funny because I was talking to a buddy of
Speaker 3: mine who does the stuff with the Chiefs, and if
Speaker 3: they win on Sunday, I was like, well, where are
Speaker 3: you going to be in Vegas?
Speaker 1: Like, what's the itinerary?
Speaker 3: And they have it all planned out of course, should
Speaker 3: they win, every team, the four teams that are left,
Speaker 3: all have the plan should they win, going to Vegas,
Speaker 3: And from what I understand, they're going to be staying
Speaker 3: pretty far away from the strip. There would be out
Speaker 3: like Henderson or some of the teams are going to
Speaker 3: stay there. There's also Red Rock, which is, you know,
Speaker 3: far away. That's where a ritzy part of Vegas is,
Speaker 3: the outskirts of Vegas. So the teams will not be staying.
Speaker 3: They're not gonna be staying at New York New York
Speaker 3: or the MGM or Caesar's Palace.
Speaker 1: I do not believe. I do not believe.
Speaker 3: By the way, it's National Peanut Brittle Day today, so
Speaker 3: I gotta make more peanut Maybe i'll make that later today.
Speaker 1: Peanut brittle. Yeah, that's so good. I love it. Dis
Speaker 1: bad for you, I think too, but it's good. He's amazing.
Speaker 1: So I wanted to start this being the Friday Show.
Speaker 3: It is championship weekend in the NFL, which is somewhat exciting.
Speaker 3: Oh yes, as we wind down and then wind up
Speaker 3: for the Super Bowl, and time is on our side.
Speaker 3: I'm gona call this time on our side because it
Speaker 3: was episode twenty. I've not done twenty TV shows on
Speaker 3: the NBC regional cable networks. At Benny Versus the Penny,
Speaker 3: the thirty Minute Show, which airs on Friday, Saturday, and
Speaker 3: Sunday morning and is syndicated. We taped our latest episode yesterday.
Speaker 3: Now I will tell you the degree of difficulty did
Speaker 3: go up. We normally break down as many games as
Speaker 3: time allows. We slice and dice the standard. Now during
Speaker 3: the NFL season, if nobody has a bye week, there's
Speaker 3: thirty two teams, so you slice that and have so
Speaker 3: that's sixteen games.
Speaker 1: But we don't do the Thursday game. Usually.
Speaker 3: I picked the Thursday game. That doesn't make the show
Speaker 3: because it's on Thursday. If they're Saturday games, that doesn't
Speaker 3: make it. So we focus in on Sunday and Monday.
Speaker 3: Those are the sweet spots because the show airs in
Speaker 3: New York on Sunday morning and we want to have
Speaker 3: as a fresh as show as possible. So now we're
Speaker 3: down to two games. You got one side of the bracket.
Speaker 3: The AFC which is the early game on Sunday with
Speaker 3: the Chiefs and the Lions, which has been mildly talked about,
Speaker 3: and then you have the forty nine Ers and the Lions.
Speaker 3: You have Chiefs, Ravens, Lions and forty nine Ers.
Speaker 1: I think I said that right, maybe not.
Speaker 3: It's early, but this is a double edged sword. Danny
Speaker 3: doing the TV show with only a couple of games.
Speaker 3: It is a blessing. It is a curse at the
Speaker 3: same time, because there's no need to rush. Time is
Speaker 3: on our side, right, time is on our side.
Speaker 4: Good thing for you guys. Both games are on Sunday
Speaker 4: this weekend.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we don't have to worry about that the rest
Speaker 3: of the there's only a couple of weeks ago in
Speaker 3: the show to worry about that. The other thing, which
Speaker 3: is great with a radio background, dealing with the people
Speaker 3: at NBC, and you'll appreciate this, Dan, he's a fellow
Speaker 3: radio guy. They're like, well, you know, I can you
Speaker 3: fill the time? They're like they want to know, like
Speaker 3: you know what's going to go into it.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 3: It's like, I guess TV people are not as your
Speaker 3: standard TV people are not used to having to fill
Speaker 3: time randomly.
Speaker 1: Spell of prompter readers. Yeah, well Looney is a prompter guy. Yeah.
Speaker 3: I have made it twenty weeks without using the prompter. Wow,
Speaker 3: I'm proud of that too. No prompter, no proplet Now
Speaker 3: Looney prompter guy. He's we call him. We call them
Speaker 3: presidential or we call them Obama or Biden or whatever.
Speaker 1: They all the guys that read.
Speaker 3: The prompter the president. So we did change it up
Speaker 3: a little bit. The episode will start airing later today.
Speaker 3: I'd love for you to watch it. That would be
Speaker 3: pretty cool if you were to you listening, were to
Speaker 3: check it out. And the first showing, let me check
Speaker 3: here the first showing today. I believe our first showing
Speaker 3: is actually in the BET's a tie because of the
Speaker 3: time difference. It's the Bay Area. Actually, I think Philadelphia wins.
Speaker 3: Philadelphia wins this week. Our first showing on NBC Sports
Speaker 3: Philly is at six point thirty this evening, so if
Speaker 3: you have a satellite, you watch it on the West
Speaker 3: Coast at three thirds on DirecTV. And then the Bay
Speaker 3: Area got a bunch of I have four showings in
Speaker 3: San Francisco of the TV show today just today.
Speaker 1: Alone, and we're on in Philly.
Speaker 3: We're on late night in Boston tonight on our flagship
Speaker 3: NBC Sports Boston. Benny Versus the Penneby on there at
Speaker 3: eleven pm and eleven thirty pm tonight, and so it's
Speaker 3: me on Chicago this evening, a couple of showings in Philadelphia,
Speaker 3: and we'll be on in Southern California two showings on
Speaker 3: Saturday Tomorrow, six am, right and early record that one,
Speaker 3: or if you're awake at three pm and you happen
Speaker 3: to be home on Spectrum Sportsnet so Cal in the
Speaker 3: LA market. And then we're on in New York our
Speaker 3: normal time on Sunday, and the show is like I'm
Speaker 3: just giving you some of them. This shows on all
Speaker 3: over the place, So there's other stations you can find
Speaker 3: the show on. Just type in Benny Versus the Penny,
Speaker 3: check your local listings and if you don't get it,
Speaker 3: then I can't help you. Tell complain to somebody. Don't
Speaker 3: complain to me. Don't complain to me, but you can
Speaker 3: complain to somebody else. Just don't complain to me. Time
Speaker 3: out for the work of the week, Danny. Are you
Speaker 3: ready for the word of the week?
Speaker 1: The word of the week.
Speaker 3: And I think this is an appropriate word. We've got
Speaker 3: a full moon going on right now, and we do
Speaker 3: this podcast on Friday. You get up pretty early. I'm
Speaker 3: up all night.
Speaker 1: I don't go to.
Speaker 3: Bed, do the overnight show, hangout for a few hours,
Speaker 3: come back at some point we do the podcast. We
Speaker 3: don't say specifically when we do the podcast, but we
Speaker 3: do the podcast early.
Speaker 1: We do the podcast early. So the word of the
Speaker 1: week is groggy. Like that word. Yeah, it's good work.
Speaker 1: It's good word. So everyone feels groggy.
Speaker 3: At one point or another, right at lethargic feeling my life.
Speaker 3: When I was in school, I always felt groggy. I'm
Speaker 3: not a morning person. I did one tour of duty
Speaker 3: on morning drive radio, which was the worst year and
Speaker 3: a half of my life.
Speaker 1: I hated it.
Speaker 3: I could not adjust my schedule. It was a freaking nightmare,
Speaker 3: and so that was terrible. I hated it getting him
Speaker 3: really early, and I was always kind of out of
Speaker 3: it and all that. But the term, the origin story
Speaker 3: this is an interesting one.
Speaker 1: That's why we picked it as the word of the week.
Speaker 1: The word groggy. It was Steve Grogan's nickname. That's right. Wow. Yeah.
Speaker 3: It originated in the eighteenth century when a former Fox
Speaker 3: Sports Radio Morning guy Mike North.
Speaker 1: Oh, there's no question teamed up with Andy Furman for
Speaker 1: the first time.
Speaker 2: No.
Speaker 3: Eighteenth century, there was this British dude named Admiral Vernon,
Speaker 3: who Admiral Vernon. Don't mess with Admiral Vernon. And the
Speaker 3: legend goes, and they believe this to be true. The
Speaker 3: legend goes that sailors gave this guy, General Admiral Vernon,
Speaker 3: the nickname.
Speaker 1: The Old Grog.
Speaker 3: And why is that, Well, he had a clue. Ok,
Speaker 3: all right, so they said because he had Old Grog,
Speaker 3: called it at the cloak, and that was made from
Speaker 3: material called grogrum that is a weather proof proof mixture
Speaker 3: of silk and wool.
Speaker 1: So this is.
Speaker 3: Eighteenth century, so weather proof, they called it grogrum. And
Speaker 3: then in seventeen forty, Admiral Vernon, nicknamed Old Grog, he
Speaker 3: decreed that his sailors should be served their rum diluted
Speaker 3: watered down with water, rather than than you know, the
Speaker 3: normal normal way they'd been doing it, and this was
Speaker 3: called Grog.
Speaker 1: Think he was the very first bar owner.
Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly, greedy guy, this Admiral Vernon. So this this beverage,
Speaker 3: he was named Old grog, and the combo that he
Speaker 3: came up with where he mixed together the rum with
Speaker 3: the water, diluted it with water that was called grog.
Speaker 3: And the feeling experienced by the sailors in the eighteenth
Speaker 3: century when they drank too much, they were groggy from
Speaker 3: the grog, and that spread. And here we are, all
Speaker 3: these years later, way past the eighteenth century, and to
Speaker 3: this day, the word groggy is in the lexicon of many,
Speaker 3: including us.
Speaker 1: We use the word groggy all the time, most people do.
Speaker 1: It's just the way it is. So that was interesting, right,
Speaker 1: you believe that.
Speaker 3: I don't know how has that because there was no
Speaker 3: internet in the eighteenth century.
Speaker 1: So cool.
Speaker 4: I was joking about it being somebody's nickname. It really
Speaker 4: was somebody's nickname.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 3: How does that spread them? Like I understand there's some sales.
Speaker 3: How many sailors were there that heard that and drank
Speaker 3: the grog and got drunk and called themselves groggy?
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 3: I mean that's what that's the origin the story. But
Speaker 3: there you go, the word of the week, believe it
Speaker 3: or not. I wasn't around in the eighteenth century, and
Speaker 3: neither were you.
Speaker 1: Neither were you. But the word of the week is groggy.
Speaker 4: Wow, oh my, oh my god.
Speaker 3: And we moved to the kitchen or the restaurant more
Speaker 3: like the restaurant with the foody fun, foody fun.
Speaker 4: I saw a lot of restaurant stories this past week.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's some good ones. Now this one is not fun.
Speaker 3: It is rather shocking. I had to do a double thing.
Speaker 3: I thought maybe this was a satire story.
Speaker 1: Uh huh. I think I know where you're going. I
Speaker 1: don't know. Maybe not, maybe, I don't know. It involves
Speaker 1: in and Out? Is that Okayah? The first time in
Speaker 1: seventy five years, right.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they're closing their first ever restaurant.
Speaker 1: In and Out.
Speaker 3: Burger announced this week that they're closing their first location.
Speaker 3: And I don't know that we talked about it. Did
Speaker 3: we talk about it on the podcast What's been going
Speaker 3: On There?
Speaker 1: No, we didn't.
Speaker 4: I want to point out that this location is near
Speaker 4: the Oakland Airport. I've eaten at this In and Out
Speaker 4: several times going up to Raider games.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So I got a couple of people who listen to
Speaker 3: this the radio show in the Bay area, and there's
Speaker 3: some video clips.
Speaker 1: Have you seen the video.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's super sad. What is happening to that city
Speaker 4: right now?
Speaker 3: Yeah, you'd think somebody in a position of power might
Speaker 3: like say, I know, you know, maybe we should do
Speaker 3: something about this.
Speaker 4: You lose the Warriors, the Raiders, then you lose the A's,
Speaker 4: and then you lose your In and Out?
Speaker 3: Are you fucking that's a little too far In and
Speaker 3: Out Burger? I mean, the one thing he lose a
Speaker 3: football team and a basketball team and a baseball team.
Speaker 3: But in and Out Burger. Come on, there are people
Speaker 3: that don't like sports that live in the Bay Area. Fine,
Speaker 3: but everyone loves a burger, even vegans loved.
Speaker 1: You go to In and Out.
Speaker 3: You can get a grilled cheese if you want. But
Speaker 3: this is insane. So if you don't know the story,
Speaker 3: as Danny says, right near the Oakland International Airport, and
Speaker 3: there are multiple videos that have been sent to me,
Speaker 3: I have seen these over the last couple of weeks.
Speaker 3: That guy think it was last week, last week or so,
Speaker 3: and it shows it is such a shithole Oakland that
Speaker 3: the criminals in the Bay Area they realize that most
Speaker 3: people they'll they'll fly into Oakland, they'll rent a car
Speaker 3: and before they even leave the airport area, where do
Speaker 3: they go?
Speaker 1: They stop in and out. I'm in Oakland. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: get a burger, you.
Speaker 3: Know, because these people are most probably aren't from California,
Speaker 3: where they're from a place that don't have in and
Speaker 3: out burger, so they're like, I'm gonna get an out burger.
Speaker 1: It's a West Coast thing.
Speaker 3: So they'll park their rental car in there in the
Speaker 3: parking lot and they'll go in and these guys are
Speaker 3: coming in, smashing the window, grabbing suitcases out of the trunk.
Speaker 1: They're like breaking.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Well, the one video I saw, I saw two with
Speaker 3: the one that was crazy. These guys would drive in,
Speaker 3: guys in hoodies. One would break the driver's window and
Speaker 3: then he'd reached down, raise up the thing to open
Speaker 3: the trunk and then grab the suitcases back in the
Speaker 3: car and gone in like twenty seconds. It's absolutely nuts.
Speaker 3: But yeah, the people that run in and out, they
Speaker 3: released a statement they said, we feel the frequency and
Speaker 3: severity of the crimes being encountered by our customers and associates,
Speaker 3: leave us no alternative.
Speaker 1: No.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and it's so said. The location was already boarded up. Yeah,
Speaker 4: we waved the white flag.
Speaker 1: It's done. Yeah.
Speaker 3: According to the San francisc Were Chronicle, there were thirteen
Speaker 3: hundred and thirty five incidents near the location since twenty nineteen.
Speaker 3: What There have been eleven hundred and seventy four car
Speaker 3: are breakings, nine robberies, two commercial burglaries, four domestic violence incidents.
Speaker 3: One employee described her own car being vandalized. They broke
Speaker 3: the window on both passenger sides, she said. Another person
Speaker 3: who worked near the restaurant call seeing two people stop
Speaker 3: in the drive through lane and rob each vehicle at gunpoint.
Speaker 3: It's like the fucking Old West. My god, excuse my language.
Speaker 1: Yoah, oh no, where's Wyatt Arp? Like? So honestly, like some.
Speaker 4: Renegades need to go in there for the good guys
Speaker 4: and clean that city up.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 4: I mean for everybody like me who loves the Bay Area,
Speaker 4: this is a sad day.
Speaker 1: Oh it's embarrassing.
Speaker 3: And you'd think the people again that were in charge
Speaker 3: that could actually do something about it, that are elected
Speaker 3: or people that are working for the city could do
Speaker 3: something about it.
Speaker 1: But everyone's like, you know, that's fine. What are they doing? Seriously,
Speaker 1: what are they doing?
Speaker 4: If somebody in power, got up at a podium and
Speaker 4: broadcasted on all the TV stations and radio stations up
Speaker 4: there and said, if you do this, you will be
Speaker 4: shot on site. Do you think that those criminals might
Speaker 4: crawl back in their holes?
Speaker 3: Well, then they know they're not going to do it now,
Speaker 3: because yeah, it would be better because they know now
Speaker 3: nothing's going to happen. Even they get caught, what happens,
Speaker 3: you know, you get some judges like, ohright, well, you know,
Speaker 3: don't do it again, you know.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: And recently there was a famous TikTok chef who scheduled
Speaker 4: this big trip to San Francisco to review some Bay
Speaker 4: Area restaurants. He was so excited and he gets there.
Speaker 4: What did he encounter? Tons of crime and problems. He
Speaker 4: had to cut his trip short and that made the
Speaker 4: rounds and a lot of Bay Area natives were sad
Speaker 4: seeing that story go viral.
Speaker 1: Well, we've told this story.
Speaker 3: I remember doing it on the podcast that there was
Speaker 3: a TV crew in San Francisco that was out doing
Speaker 3: a story on crime in San Francisco and they got
Speaker 3: robbed at gunpoint while doing a story about crime in
Speaker 3: San Francisco. They were you know, there's stuff taking so
Speaker 3: at gunpoint. So it's a wonderful place. It is actually
Speaker 3: a beautiful place. If they cleaned it up, it's a
Speaker 3: wonderful place to visit.
Speaker 4: But Mike, yeah, I mean this is going on in
Speaker 4: Berkeley too. And if you've ever been to the Berkeley
Speaker 4: Hills or the Oakland.
Speaker 1: Hills out of money, you don't know.
Speaker 4: There is millions and millions of dollars in those hills.
Speaker 4: But you go down to the flats and things are
Speaker 4: a nightmare with crime.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the thing that blows me away.
Speaker 3: And we see this, you know in La like in
Speaker 3: bel Air, Right, you have to come down from the
Speaker 3: hills to go shopping, right, there's no in those ritzy neighborhoods.
Speaker 3: There's no markets and things like that. Like, you have
Speaker 3: to go out and you have to go with the
Speaker 3: great unwashed. So if the great unwashed or robbing you
Speaker 3: at the store, what is that?
Speaker 1: I don't get it.
Speaker 4: I mean they've let it go for so many years
Speaker 4: that this is where we're at.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and this is not we're not doing politics here,
Speaker 3: but whatever they're doing is not working.
Speaker 1: How about that, Danny Well phrase it that way?
Speaker 4: Yes, we can we No, I mean I think I
Speaker 4: think that's more than fair. And as somebody who lived
Speaker 4: there for years, I can tell you that it's always
Speaker 4: been corrupt as far as politicians on both sides of
Speaker 4: the aisle and everything in between. Nothing has ever worked
Speaker 4: with anybody in their lip service. It's always been about
Speaker 4: the politicians and in that area lacing their own pockets
Speaker 4: and not giving a shit about the people who live there.
Speaker 3: But who's paying them to allow crime to happen? That's
Speaker 3: the part I've never understood. Like, if I understand they've
Speaker 3: got all these wonky moon bad ideas, that's fine, that's
Speaker 3: not my cup of tea. Whatever floats your boat. But
Speaker 3: like the crime thing, doesn't that hurt everyone? There are
Speaker 3: less businesses leave. That's less tax money for the politicians
Speaker 3: to spend frivolously, you know, pork bill spending and all that.
Speaker 1: I don't get it. Now, there is a positive in
Speaker 1: and out story.
Speaker 3: While they closed the one in Oakland near the airport,
Speaker 3: and I'll bet you they closed that because those videos
Speaker 3: went viral. Danny, you think that played a factor, because
Speaker 3: this has been going on since twenty.
Speaker 1: Nineteen, played a big factor.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, those videos all of us anyway, good
Speaker 3: news in Idaho.
Speaker 1: In and Out they opened, I think.
Speaker 3: Their first location this recently this week or so, and
Speaker 3: I was just reading a story here that there were
Speaker 3: people lined up at four point thirty in the morning
Speaker 3: wearing long John's, sleeping in the parking lot because they
Speaker 3: wanted to be the first at In and Out Burger.
Speaker 3: What would it take, Danny, for you to line up
Speaker 3: at four point thirty in the morning wearing long John's
Speaker 3: on a freezing Idaho morning to get in line for
Speaker 3: In and.
Speaker 1: Out a tasty double double. That's all it would take. Oh,
Speaker 1: there you go.
Speaker 3: My right hand was getting a workout. I was going
Speaker 3: to get in line. There was where I used to live.
Speaker 3: There was a raising canes that opened up, and I
Speaker 3: love raising canes, and they this thing like, if you
Speaker 3: get in line, the first hundred people are going to
Speaker 3: get like some gift card where they get free food for.
Speaker 1: A few months or something like that. I forget what
Speaker 1: it was.
Speaker 3: It was something like that, and I was like, man,
Speaker 3: I was doing the cost benefit of analysis, and I
Speaker 3: was like, well, I'll probably get fat again if I
Speaker 3: get that. And then I drove by because I was
Speaker 3: seriously thinking about doing this, because why not and there
Speaker 3: were when by the time I got there, there are
Speaker 3: already people lined up. I think there were already enough
Speaker 3: people there to get all the gift cards. So I
Speaker 3: was like, I've screw that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I told you about this when the Chick fil
Speaker 4: A finally opened in Burbank a few years back. Remember
Speaker 4: I got there early in the morning. People had tents
Speaker 4: set up in the new parking lot. They left overnight
Speaker 4: to get the year of free food.
Speaker 1: Well, I hope it was worth it for him. I
Speaker 1: hope they enjoyed their free food. Is there limits on
Speaker 1: every day?
Speaker 3: I know there's been I've met people that have that
Speaker 3: McDonald's Gold card where the Golden Arches card where you
Speaker 3: get free McDonald's.
Speaker 4: Chick fil A should have done given everybody a card there,
Speaker 4: and once they got the card, all excited, they go
Speaker 4: to the run to their car and drive away like, man,
Speaker 4: that was so worth it. I got my card. And
Speaker 4: then you look on the small print on the back
Speaker 4: of the card. Only valid on Sundays.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Well, a lot of these NFL teams are like
Speaker 3: Chick fil A. They don't work on Sunday, Danny. That's
Speaker 3: a lot of these these these coaching hires. I don't
Speaker 3: do sporty, but my god, some interesting hires. There are
Speaker 3: some other food news. We all need one story, I
Speaker 3: think McDonald's or two stories. Double double Big Mac is this?
Speaker 1: Have you seen this?
Speaker 3: The the double Big Mac four burger patties. It's got
Speaker 3: seven and eighty calories, eight grams of fat. The regular
Speaker 3: Big Mac has five hundred and ninety calories.
Speaker 1: So people have.
Speaker 3: Been chowing down on the double Big Mac, which, if
Speaker 3: you know, the Big Mac, even though it's got the
Speaker 3: two paddies, it's got the bread in the middle, so
Speaker 3: there's not that much meat in it. Cut that meat
Speaker 3: the two patties is more of a reasonable I think.
Speaker 1: I've also seen people on some.
Speaker 3: Videos online at Costco and they get the two chocolate
Speaker 3: chip cookies and the vanilla cone.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the vanilla ice cream.
Speaker 3: They make their own ice cream sandwich. But the problem
Speaker 3: with that is that ice cream. You got to eat
Speaker 3: that really quick. It melts so fast.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it was crumbling in this guy's hand and then
Speaker 4: he was feeding it to his friend out of his
Speaker 4: own hand.
Speaker 1: It was a pretty gross video that went viral.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's not it's not good. That has more calories
Speaker 3: than a big Mac, even a double big Mac. If
Speaker 3: you combine two chocolate chip cookies from Costco and the
Speaker 3: vanilla thing whatever, the ice cream, that's nothing. I don't
Speaker 3: really count calories though. I just don't eat. That's what
Speaker 3: I do. And then when I eat, I eat what
Speaker 3: I want, but I don't. I can't do You count
Speaker 3: calories now, I can't do it. If you can, you're
Speaker 3: a better person than me. I can't do it.
Speaker 4: I've tried with that my fitness app. Yeah, lasted for
Speaker 4: maybe a week or two, and then after that I
Speaker 4: have a pretty good sense of if I'm over eating,
Speaker 4: and so I know like what to do without having
Speaker 4: to type everything into the app.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Like I fast enough where I feel like I
Speaker 3: can eat what I want and I haven't gained any
Speaker 3: weight back.
Speaker 1: In a while.
Speaker 3: There was a period where I was making cookies every
Speaker 3: week and desserts it and it became it became a problem.
Speaker 3: But I cut back. I cut that back. I was
Speaker 3: also drinking a lot of juice. Like, I don't drink soda.
Speaker 3: I haven't had soda in years because I got fat
Speaker 3: based on soda, and I lost a lot of weight
Speaker 3: just knocking soda out of my diet. I just saved
Speaker 3: myself a lot of empty calories.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you pull the post alone and.
Speaker 3: I drink mostly water, But I like on the weekends,
Speaker 3: I'll go crazy. I've got this crystal light stuff which
Speaker 3: I don't even know it's good for you or not,
Speaker 3: but it's just a little flavor, little kick to the water.
Speaker 3: My favorite is the strawberry. They should sponsor this podcast.
Speaker 3: I freaking love that strawberry. It is amazing, absolutely wonderful.
Speaker 3: Here's an interesting story in the food world. It says
Speaker 3: Americans eating habits have changed in terms of their consumption
Speaker 3: of fast food. According to McDonald's and Chibotle, they say
Speaker 3: that their business has seen that customers now, instead of
Speaker 3: eating earlier in the day, now eat later in the day.
Speaker 3: That they now eat closer towards what is traditionally known
Speaker 3: as dinner time, according to the data.
Speaker 1: Take that for data. Put that in your pipe.
Speaker 3: So people are not chowing down like they used to
Speaker 3: get in there early for the breakfast and all that,
Speaker 3: they're going there more for dinner. I'm more of a
Speaker 3: lunch guy. Back in my fast food days, I'd eat
Speaker 3: lunch and dinner, but mostly lunch. That was my sweet Spot.
Speaker 1: I saw also Cosmic.
Speaker 3: We talked about Cosmic, this new competitor for Starbucks, which
Speaker 3: is McDonald's trying to take down Starbucks. And they've opened
Speaker 3: a few of these things and they're I love thing's
Speaker 3: only been open for a few weeks, and they're claiming
Speaker 3: that this cosmic is already tremendously popular with.
Speaker 1: People in their twenties and their thirties. It's only a couple.
Speaker 1: I don't only know that. Come on, and where have
Speaker 1: they tested it? We haven't seen any near us.
Speaker 3: I think they're in Chicago, which is where McDonald's headquarters are.
Speaker 3: I believe I've not seen a cosmic I have not.
Speaker 1: Chicago doesn't speak for the rest of us.
Speaker 3: That's right, Although remember that line, if it plays in
Speaker 3: Peoria can play anywhere which is not Chicago.
Speaker 1: That's a good points close to Chicago.
Speaker 3: Well, yes, closer than us, Yes, that's for sure. All right,
Speaker 3: we'll get out on that. I got the TV show tonight.
Speaker 3: We have another podcast tomorrow, another one on Sunday, The
Speaker 3: mail Bag on Sunday, Danny, what do you have going on.
Speaker 1: Today in your world?
Speaker 3: On this wonderful Friday, Covino and Rich This afternoon.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm gonna take a nice little snooze, a nice
Speaker 4: little nap because I'm still groggy from this long radio week,
Speaker 4: and then after that produce this fine podcast and then
Speaker 4: turn my wheels quickly to get to Sherman Oaks, California,
Speaker 4: the Fun Friday edition of Covino and Rich five to
Speaker 4: seven pm in Upstate New York.
Speaker 3: Beautiful upstate New York, which is where you can get
Speaker 3: bodies get dumped.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And then if you are further up, you can
Speaker 3: go to Cooperstown and see Adrian Beltray in the.
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame.
Speaker 3: All right, have a great day. Thank you for listening.
Speaker 3: Remember TV show tonight. Check your local Feeble TV listenings
Speaker 3: and we'll talk to you next time.
Speaker 1: Austa Pasta got a murder. I gotta go.
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