Speaker 1: Kabooms.
Speaker 2: If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes
Speaker 2: a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants
Speaker 2: of the old Republic, a soul fashion of fairness. He
Speaker 2: treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the
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Speaker 2: with Ben Maller starts right now.
Speaker 1: In the air evering where the Fifth Hour with Me,
Speaker 1: Big Ben and Danny g Radio Sunday. So it is
Speaker 1: also a holiday weekend. Should we point that out that
Speaker 1: we're doing fresh pods when we don't have to be
Speaker 1: doing fresh pods. It's a holiday weekend here it is
Speaker 1: also the first day of September, and here we are
Speaker 1: doing audio content. What is up with that? I can't
Speaker 1: believe it?
Speaker 3: And why is it still ninety degrees outside where we live.
Speaker 1: It's California. Global warming, Danny, global warming. It's all gonna die.
Speaker 1: Anything that happens is global warming. Clearly on this podcast
Speaker 1: we have the mailbag. But there was some stuff that
Speaker 1: I wanted to get to from the weekend Friday Saturday
Speaker 1: I didn't get to and I guess I'll start with
Speaker 1: this the wedding singers. So I mentioned yesterday that we
Speaker 1: had the nacho situation. I was doing some community service
Speaker 1: at the local high school snack bar for football and
Speaker 1: was the nacho guy, and then I tried to help
Speaker 1: weed man hippie out and was left very frustrated, very frustrated.
Speaker 1: So we had that. But then also I found out
Speaker 1: from the wife that we got VIP. We were offered
Speaker 1: a VIP all access passed to a wedding. Now I
Speaker 1: didn't want to go to the wedding because I you know,
Speaker 1: why would I do that. But my wife's like, she's like, listen,
Speaker 1: good news, you gotta get all dressed up. We're going
Speaker 1: to a wedding tonight. I'm like, oh boy. Now, keep
Speaker 1: in mind, I didn't know the person that was getting married.
Speaker 1: I didn't I maybe met that one time. It was
Speaker 1: one of the people my wife works with who it
Speaker 1: was her wedding, and fine, nice, nice woman whatever. But
Speaker 1: it's always like it's always weird to me, Like, you know,
Speaker 1: I feel like the whole wedding things like friends, close family,
Speaker 1: like close friends family. I'm not a friend. I'm not
Speaker 1: like close family. I don't it was. So I show
Speaker 1: up and it was a wedding in the lowest feelss
Speaker 1: neighborhood of Dodgers date. Now, if you heard the Friday podcast,
Speaker 1: you might remember potato again. Where I was leaving the
Speaker 1: TV show, the entire five freeway at Stadium Way near
Speaker 1: Dodger Stadium was closed for about twelve hours, maybe longer
Speaker 1: than that, because a truck had spilled over an entire
Speaker 1: load of fries and there were potatoes in the air everywhere,
Speaker 1: and it caused me to get By the time I
Speaker 1: got back home, you know where I lived, Nanny about
Speaker 1: two hours of sleep and then I had to get
Speaker 1: right back up and get ready for the radio.
Speaker 3: Show opening NFL night. You're going to have nachos and
Speaker 3: French fries.
Speaker 1: Oh my god. So as when I was younger, the
Speaker 1: idea of an entire truck spilling over and having fries everywhere,
Speaker 1: it would just be a dream. But this turned out
Speaker 1: to be a nightmare. But that was in lose Phelis,
Speaker 1: so this also kind of in that area. I put
Speaker 1: my church clothes, my temple clothes on, I went out
Speaker 1: and I went to the wedding and there were a
Speaker 1: couple of things that stood out to me. Now, the
Speaker 1: first thing that stood out was the presentation, I'm all
Speaker 1: about efficiency. I think you know that about me, Danny.
Speaker 1: I'm all about efficiency. Se I pity the fool that
Speaker 1: doesn't give me my burrito the quickest path that most
Speaker 1: humans are wired. I want the quickest path between two places.
Speaker 1: And at the wedding, you put up with the ceremony.
Speaker 1: It was a nice ceremony. They did a good job,
Speaker 1: but it's not my wedding. I didn't have anything to
Speaker 1: do with it. I was just there because of marriage
Speaker 1: my man. So after the wedding we have cocktails. It
Speaker 1: was like an open bar thing, which was nice. Open
Speaker 1: bar that's expensive, costs a lot of money. So then
Speaker 1: we have to go sit at the table or table nine.
Speaker 1: So we go to table nine, and I was a
Speaker 1: little hungry, wanted to have my meal. I know the
Speaker 1: food's not gonna be that good, but I want so
Speaker 1: at the wedding, they decide it's not only a wedding,
Speaker 1: it's a wedding and a show. So what they did
Speaker 1: was they had these people that were serving the food
Speaker 1: at this venue and I don't even know. I'd never
Speaker 1: been to the venue. I couldn't probably find the venue again.
Speaker 1: It looked like it was just this little nothing on
Speaker 1: the side of the road covered in ivy like it's
Speaker 1: Wrigley Field. And then walk through the ivy and it's
Speaker 1: like this palace, this mecca that they just hold weddings.
Speaker 1: I think that's all they hold in social events. So
Speaker 1: we're going there and table nine and they start serving
Speaker 1: the food. Well, somebody came out and spoke and said, hey,
Speaker 1: I'm here. You know, I'm the host and it's going
Speaker 1: to have a great time. And the wedding couple sits
Speaker 1: in the front. Everyone's staring at him and everyone's waiting.
Speaker 3: The person that spoke, Is that the one that paid
Speaker 3: for the wedding? Uh?
Speaker 1: No, they hired a DJ. Oh okay, a wedding DJ.
Speaker 3: Are you? Oh no, I've never done people's weddings, thank god,
Speaker 3: because that's more of like a strip club DJ where
Speaker 3: they talk in that fake voice like, hey, thanks for
Speaker 3: coming to the wedding.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, there was a there was a woman DJ,
Speaker 1: and she sounded just like that. She's so excited to
Speaker 1: see everybody. It's great to be Yeah, good time tonight.
Speaker 3: Coming up to the stage, chastitay.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so again I was looking for the food. I
Speaker 1: always saw the men, and the men you didn't look
Speaker 1: all that great.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: They come out with salad and then that's the first course.
Speaker 1: Don't want that, I mean, why would you want that?
Speaker 1: And then they have the meal, which is there was
Speaker 1: actually some bugogi and some rice. I was like, that
Speaker 1: can't be that bad. And then they had dessert. So anyway,
Speaker 1: get to the point. So the food people come out
Speaker 1: and it's table one and it's it's a show. What's
Speaker 1: the I'm trying to remember the name. Remember the restaurant
Speaker 1: where they put on a medieval Was it Medieval Times?
Speaker 1: Was that the name of it?
Speaker 3: Yeah, that is the name of it.
Speaker 1: Is it still around? I think it is, like you're
Speaker 1: not Sperry farmed. So they this, and I think it
Speaker 1: was in Orlando too. They might do in a few
Speaker 1: of them where they'd have a show. Right, they had
Speaker 1: a show and they present them. So these people came
Speaker 1: out from the kitchen area and they were like they
Speaker 1: were it was like a military like a North Korean
Speaker 1: military drill where they're all in lockstep and they're high
Speaker 1: stepping with the table. They come out, they have a
Speaker 1: wooden plank. They put that out. Then they walk back
Speaker 1: and they walk in order with the plates of salad.
Speaker 1: They then pick up the salad and walk and marching
Speaker 1: like they're in the military, and they wander over to
Speaker 1: present the salad. That's fine. I mean, it was nice
Speaker 1: to see the first time they did it. But this
Speaker 1: wedding had a couple hundred people at it. You can imagine, Danny,
Speaker 1: the amount of time that was wasted by them putting
Speaker 1: on the show at every fricking table. And I was
Speaker 1: getting annoyed because I knew I was gonna eat the salad,
Speaker 1: and I told I told my wife, and I probably
Speaker 1: embarrassed my wife and the people that were there. I said, listen,
Speaker 1: just do the show a couple of times.
Speaker 4: We get the show. We don't need the we need
Speaker 4: the food, we don't need the show. And they kept
Speaker 4: doing it the entire night, and then they brought out
Speaker 4: the main course. They did the same thing.
Speaker 3: This is like a nomar garciapara at bat with the
Speaker 3: batting glove. Come on, hit the damn ball.
Speaker 1: Or as I said, I felt like I was in
Speaker 1: Pyongyang and a North Korean military rally, and they were
Speaker 1: all high stepping and doing the I mean, it was unreal.
Speaker 1: So fine, we get but here's the other problem. So
Speaker 1: we get through the salad before the main course. They
Speaker 1: know what's gonna happen. You're at a wedding. You serve
Speaker 1: the main course. Half the crowd leaves, right, Danny, you're
Speaker 1: there for the food. Half the crowd leaves. So they
Speaker 1: do the salad. I didn't need it because I don't
Speaker 1: eat salad. It's against my religion. Other than the Canadian
Speaker 1: South all a lot of Canadians. This was not a
Speaker 1: Canadian sound. So fine, So the salad of syrup. Don't
Speaker 1: eat that. And then the DJ gets up there and
Speaker 1: they want to have the wedding party gives some speeches,
Speaker 1: some toast to the couple getting married. So the bride'smaids
Speaker 1: decide they want to start talking. Right, and we know
Speaker 1: a little bit about public speaking, doing broadcasting. What is
Speaker 1: the key to public speaking? Give me in your idea
Speaker 1: in your head. And we didn't go over this, but
Speaker 1: what do you think are a couple of important points
Speaker 1: of doing public speaking?
Speaker 3: What do you think they would be? I would say
Speaker 3: quick wit and brevity.
Speaker 1: Yes, the word I used is brevity. We like to
Speaker 1: say in our business, leave them wanting more. I leave
Speaker 1: them wanting more. Don't be long winded. We don't need
Speaker 1: the full dance remix.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 1: Don't give us up people tsunami.
Speaker 3: If you tell us story. We don't need the exact
Speaker 3: details of exactly what time it was in what restaurant,
Speaker 3: where the restaurant's located, the name of all the people
Speaker 3: that were at the party. We don't need all those
Speaker 3: sort of details.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's beginning, middle, and end, and get out of there.
Speaker 1: These women keeve every effing detail of these stories.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 1: I felt I felt like I was being persecuted. They
Speaker 1: had to enunciate everything, and it was a meandering and
Speaker 1: rambling and oh my god, I probably shouldn't have done this.
Speaker 1: But after the first one wouldn't shut up, and she
Speaker 1: kept preaching, and then another bridesmaid came up to deliver
Speaker 1: her sermon, and I then set the timer on my
Speaker 1: I have an Apple watch, and I set the timer
Speaker 1: and I was like, I told my wife, I said, listen,
Speaker 1: these things should be at the most ninety seconds. I
Speaker 1: think a minute, but I'll give you ninety seconds. Get
Speaker 1: in have thirty seconds to set up your story, the
Speaker 1: meat of the story for thirty thirty seconds to wrap up,
Speaker 1: get out, and this next lady that spoke, it was
Speaker 1: like seven minutes, seven minutes of being a squawk box.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and then it gets even better. So I thought, well,
Speaker 1: there'd be two speakers and that's it, and then we'd
Speaker 1: move on and we'd get the food.
Speaker 3: No. No, it was like they were each doing a podcast.
Speaker 1: Yes, it was like they were they were speaking. It
Speaker 1: was like the you know, the wedding was like a funeral,
Speaker 1: and they wanted to give their eulogy. And I was like,
Speaker 1: oh my god. So the third one gets up there,
Speaker 1: and this get's even better. Another part of public speed
Speaker 1: you have to be able to improvise a little bit.
Speaker 1: Now you have your speech planned out, you do beginning,
Speaker 1: middle end. But then the other part of it is
Speaker 1: if there's multiple speakers and someone gives a story, don't
Speaker 1: repeat part of the story because the story has already
Speaker 1: been told. And one of the people getting married is
Speaker 1: a huge was a huge Kobe Bryant fan, so they
Speaker 1: all had they The first person that spoke gave a
Speaker 1: Kobe Bryant quote from back in the day, and then
Speaker 1: the next person after that gave the same exact quote,
Speaker 1: and before they gave the quote, Danny said, I know
Speaker 1: this was already used, but I think I need to
Speaker 1: say it again, and then repeated it now. So at
Speaker 1: that point I had had enough.
Speaker 3: I can't.
Speaker 1: I mean, this is ridiculous. So then I said, I
Speaker 1: got to go to the bathroom. So I just I
Speaker 1: didn't even have to go to the bathroom. I just
Speaker 1: walked away. I left to be able to go to
Speaker 1: the bathroom. So then I come back and fortunately at
Speaker 1: that point the thing and end. I actually walked outside
Speaker 1: for a little bit to get some fresh air. So
Speaker 1: I came back and now they're back serving the food,
Speaker 1: but the same thing. Danny, I'm getting a show. I'm
Speaker 1: getting a show. I didn't want a show. I'm getting
Speaker 1: a show. And they bring out the food. They had
Speaker 1: the table, they put the plates down, they march around
Speaker 1: like they're in the North Korean military or whatever, and
Speaker 1: it was, oh my god. So I was waiting for
Speaker 1: the wedding singer to get out there, and we actually
Speaker 1: left after the dessert. The dessert was pretty good. They
Speaker 1: had this chocolate cook chocolate chip cookie with like cream
Speaker 1: in the It.
Speaker 3: Was really good.
Speaker 1: That was a good dessert.
Speaker 3: Who was all right?
Speaker 1: I mean, but the weight is too much.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the whole thing sounds like it was like five
Speaker 3: blocks just to go across the street.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was a little much. All let's get to
Speaker 1: the I got some other stuff, but let's get to
Speaker 1: the mailbag. What do you say you want to get
Speaker 1: to the mail bag. Here we go, Let's get to
Speaker 1: the mail bag. It's all right, thank you, OHIOO. These
Speaker 1: are actual letters by actual listeners. The first one is
Speaker 1: from Kevin in Kansas. He says, dear band and Danny g.
Speaker 1: Though I'm retired, I still know when a new school
Speaker 1: year starts. In school, we always ask students about career choices. Now,
Speaker 1: I'm sure you're both more famous than most. Where are
Speaker 1: you today as related to your school day choices? So
Speaker 1: I'll go first here. When I was in school, I
Speaker 1: always wanted to be as I remember, I wanted to
Speaker 1: be in broadcasting. I think as a child, I thought
Speaker 1: I was going to replace Vince Scully as the voice
Speaker 1: of the Dodgers. That never quite worked out, but I
Speaker 1: thought I'd be a play by play guy and I
Speaker 1: could travel around and call games, and boy, that would
Speaker 1: be awesome. And that would be my life. So I
Speaker 1: remember telling teachers that that was my dream, and many
Speaker 1: of them spat Lougi's at me, saying, that's not realistic.
Speaker 1: You know you shouldn't you know? Whatever? What about you, Danny?
Speaker 3: My first grade class took a field trip to a
Speaker 3: local firehouse and I thought it was the coolest thing ever.
Speaker 3: And they let some of us slide down the pole
Speaker 3: and look at the fire engines, of course, and the
Speaker 3: firefighters came out and spoke to us. I thought that
Speaker 3: was the coolest job. So as a little kid, that's
Speaker 3: what I thought would be were on.
Speaker 1: The pole was a little kid? Huh? I was attracted
Speaker 1: to the giant metalcock. Oh damn you.
Speaker 3: I thought that would be cool. But as I got older,
Speaker 3: radio called my name, and I remember what was it
Speaker 3: called Careers and Goals was the class my freshman year
Speaker 3: where we had to write an essay about the career
Speaker 3: path that we wanted to take. And when I wrote
Speaker 3: my paper about broadcasting, the response back from our teacher
Speaker 3: in the Careers and Goals class was that one in
Speaker 3: five hundred people make it big and broadcasting you might
Speaker 3: want to have a backup plan. Yeah, screw you.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I remember when I was taking classes and they
Speaker 1: were talking about broadcasting careers and I'm like, well, you know,
Speaker 1: you might make it, but you're gonna have to work
Speaker 1: in seven thousand different cities and you're gonna have to
Speaker 1: move around, which means you won't have any relationships. You
Speaker 1: won't ever get married, you won't be able to have,
Speaker 1: you know, a family or anything like that. They give
Speaker 1: the whole rap. And but you mentioned when I was little,
Speaker 1: But yeah, when I was very little, I wanted to
Speaker 1: be Gi Joe. I grew up near a lot of
Speaker 1: orange grows. When I was growing up in southern California
Speaker 1: and Orange County, it was actually Orange is there, so
Speaker 1: I was surrounded by orange grows. But we had two
Speaker 1: I was literally in between two military bases. We had
Speaker 1: the and both gone now we had the El Toro
Speaker 1: Marine Base and the Tustin Marine Base as well, both there,
Speaker 1: and I remember on the open house. My parents would
Speaker 1: always take us to the open house and it was
Speaker 1: such a different time. I think I've talked about this
Speaker 1: before in the podcast, but we would as little kids.
Speaker 1: They'd allow us to like go through the tanks and
Speaker 1: the fighter jets and sit we were like able to
Speaker 1: sit in the fighter jet and the cockpit of the
Speaker 1: fighter jet, and I'm thinking, like, imagine that they did.
Speaker 1: There's no way they would allow that, now, right they didn't.
Speaker 3: That's right. You told me before that the Gi Joe
Speaker 3: that you met let you shoot off the Bazuka. It was.
Speaker 1: It was insane, like like, I wonder whether that was
Speaker 1: allowed or these soldiers were just bored and they're like, hey,
Speaker 1: I don't care the kids sit in the tank. You
Speaker 1: know who cares?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm guessing that.
Speaker 1: It was a long time was I wanted to be
Speaker 1: that and then I was like after that, I think
Speaker 1: I was planning on playing sports, but I did like
Speaker 1: firemen and police officers, and I thought I could do that.
Speaker 3: I did.
Speaker 1: Never became Vincecully, but at least I met him and
Speaker 1: knew him a little bit, so that was cool. Well,
Speaker 1: and you did Dodger talk?
Speaker 3: I did?
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I did. And I'll never forget when I
Speaker 1: talked to Vin one time, I said, hey, Vin. In
Speaker 1: my head, I thought Vin Scully is listening to me
Speaker 1: driving home. Take calls about the time, and I said,
Speaker 1: you know, vinnam doing the post GiB show. What do
Speaker 1: you what do you listen to on your way out
Speaker 1: to the valley? He lives out, he used to live
Speaker 1: out when he's around obviously way out in the valley,
Speaker 1: he said, Well, Ben, I enjoy classical music when I
Speaker 1: am the definition of a loser. Oh well, Mike, and
Speaker 1: Fullerton says, Hello, Benny and the best penny of all
Speaker 1: time Danny g Radio. Let's go, he says, in response
Speaker 1: to Alf's question from last week. No, Fullerton does not
Speaker 1: have a sports book. We're not a town full of degenerates,
Speaker 1: so we don't need one. With that said, Mike points out,
Speaker 1: if gambling ever is legalized in California, sports gambling, you
Speaker 1: better believe the biggest, most beautiful sports book in the
Speaker 1: world will be built in the great city of Fullerton,
Speaker 1: he says. And now that you're helping listeners set up
Speaker 1: email accounts, are you worried you won't be able to
Speaker 1: keep up with the flood of questions sent into the
Speaker 1: fifth hour every week? Have you considered teaching people how
Speaker 1: to use radio as well? It could be a nice
Speaker 1: little side hustle from from Mike. Yeah, I think he's
Speaker 1: referring to a bit that we did on the actually
Speaker 1: got a couple emails about that Dave as well from
Speaker 1: Salt Lake. I wanted to know whether or not we
Speaker 1: were forced to do that or we did it on
Speaker 1: our Now I should announce what I'm talking about. So
Speaker 1: we I had a shtikola on the show the other night,
Speaker 1: Danny where and this was not playing. I want to
Speaker 1: be clear, this is not choreographed. Otherwise it would have
Speaker 1: been good. It was not choreographed. So we got this
Speaker 1: box and Eddie comes into the studio tosses me a box.
Speaker 1: He says, you got some mail. So I immediately ripped
Speaker 1: the box open. What's in the box? Well, it turns
Speaker 1: out one of our great listeners of the skuy A
Speaker 1: Reek in Minnesota had purchased some stuff for those of
Speaker 1: us on the show, but he had messed up the
Speaker 1: order and the wrong box came to the Fox, and
Speaker 1: so we had said, hey, if you get a box,
Speaker 1: make sure you send it back. And I apologize. Well,
Speaker 1: Eddie didn't know that, and I assumed that since Eddie
Speaker 1: gave me the mail that it was fine and had
Speaker 1: my name on it. So I opened it up and
Speaker 1: it was the wrong item. So it had to be
Speaker 1: taken back up to the mail room in the skyscraper.
Speaker 1: So I Coop didn't know how to find the mailroom,
Speaker 1: so I had to direct him, and I used the
Speaker 1: Rapid radio to direct him. And as our friend here
Speaker 1: in Utah in Salt Lake and Mike and some other people,
Speaker 1: I did not write your names down here we're trying
Speaker 1: to figure out. So I was directing him, was like, hey, Coop,
Speaker 1: you know you got to you go out of the elevator.
Speaker 1: You go in the elevator, Go out of the elevator,
Speaker 1: you know. I think it was like the fifth floor,
Speaker 1: go through the double doors, make a right, go to
Speaker 1: like the third door on the left. And I was
Speaker 1: doing the whole thing, and uh and so it was
Speaker 1: actually really good cause the Rapid Radio You'd thinking that
Speaker 1: giant skyscraper, the thing would stop working, but no, it
Speaker 1: was fine.
Speaker 3: It was one. Yeah, it's a national LTE coverage.
Speaker 1: Huh. Pretty cool.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think we'll get to actually meet some of the
Speaker 1: big shots from Rapid Radio coming up here. I'm looking
Speaker 1: forward to that later later this month.
Speaker 3: Here.
Speaker 1: Uh, who else do we have? We have alf from
Speaker 1: the gates of the Big e in West Springfield, mass
Speaker 1: He says, gentlemen, since you've both said that you have
Speaker 1: ties to Springfield, Old mass When did your relatives pick
Speaker 1: up sticks and move their wagons west? So if that's
Speaker 1: a that's a fair question. I don't have the exact year.
Speaker 1: I know that my grandfather from when I was a kid,
Speaker 1: the gentleman that spoke the Yiddish, and I know from
Speaker 1: when I was a child he told stories about living
Speaker 1: in Springfield during the Great Depression, so you can imagine
Speaker 1: around that time and then I think he moved out
Speaker 1: to California. I want to say, like the nineteen forties, so,
Speaker 1: and I don't know how long he was in Springfield,
Speaker 1: but I tried to find the house on the internet.
Speaker 1: I think I talked about this before alf and the
Speaker 1: house my We did find the address the house my
Speaker 1: grandfather lived in in Springfield, Mass but it's now an
Speaker 1: on ramp to a highway, so there's no there's no
Speaker 1: going in the old house there. That is that is
Speaker 1: got What about you, Danny, Have you gone back in
Speaker 1: the archives find out the date of relocating from Springfield
Speaker 1: heading out west.
Speaker 3: No, I've seen pictures for my mom's collection. They moved
Speaker 3: out to California in the mid sixties, so they they
Speaker 3: left Springfield. I think she said when she was in
Speaker 3: junior high school, my grandpa, I know the story that
Speaker 3: my grandpa bought a home in San Jose for thirty
Speaker 3: thousand dollars in the mid sixties. That, by the way,
Speaker 3: that house just sold for two million dollars.
Speaker 1: No, so you got two million dollars into the not me.
Speaker 3: My aunt is in charge of that estate. She's not
Speaker 3: sharing that money with me.
Speaker 1: No money for you. I did see though, in pine Bluff, Arkansas,
Speaker 1: you can buy a house there for four hundred dollars. Wow,
Speaker 1: you have to be in pine Bluff, Arkansas.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: And I'm told, though I didn't see. I'm told those
Speaker 1: houses need like thousands and thousands of dollars just to
Speaker 1: make them livable. But you can get the property for
Speaker 1: four hundred bucks. I told weed Man. I was like, hey,
Speaker 1: why don't you just go to Arkansas? Dude, you can
Speaker 1: get a house for four hundred bucks. And he's I
Speaker 1: almost to stay in Miami. He's anyway, I don't want
Speaker 1: to go back. I want to go back to that.
Speaker 1: Enough of that. Fred in spring Texas right since it
Speaker 1: has Ben and Danny Hello, he says that your meeting
Speaker 1: greets Ben, how close to he does your mental picture
Speaker 1: of folks you've talked with over the phone match up
Speaker 1: with the reality of meeting them in person. He says, well,
Speaker 1: I don't usually have that good an idea of what
Speaker 1: people look like. There's some people it's kind of obvious,
Speaker 1: like Surfer Todd the comedian, Like Server Todd the comedian,
Speaker 1: I kind of knew what he looked like. In my
Speaker 1: he looks just like what I thought he would look like.
Speaker 1: I've seen photos of the aforementioned Weed Man Mark the
Speaker 1: full name guys, so I know what they look like
Speaker 1: when I go in there open minded. I don't really
Speaker 1: have any preconceived ideas on what people look like. And
Speaker 1: there's usually a fair amount of good looking people, a
Speaker 1: fair amount of people that are average looking, and a
Speaker 1: fair amount of people that are like me that are ugly.
Speaker 1: I'd say, usually, how that is that these Mallard meet
Speaker 1: and greets? But I only go in fred thinking anything
Speaker 1: I would like to point out, though, And I don't
Speaker 1: know whether I should make a bigger deal about this
Speaker 1: or not. There is some chatter that an unexpected Malard
Speaker 1: meet and greet could end up happening during the football season.
Speaker 1: It will not be on the West coast. It will
Speaker 1: not be on the West coast. That's all I can say.
Speaker 1: It is not confirmed. I have no announcement, but there
Speaker 1: were some people that contacted me recently about a Malor
Speaker 1: meet and greet. They want to make it happen, and
Speaker 1: normally I don't do these things during football season, not
Speaker 1: traveling because I can't really go anywhere because of the gig.
Speaker 1: So we'll see whether or not this works. I just
Speaker 1: want to throw that out there. It's a possibility. Mike
Speaker 1: writes in from somewhere in Ohio. I don't recognize your town.
Speaker 1: You should probably name a bigger city. Anyway, Mike says,
Speaker 1: are you guys excited as I am about Windy's and
Speaker 1: their new SpongeBob item which is coming soon? Did you
Speaker 1: see this? No juice?
Speaker 3: All right?
Speaker 1: Well good, this will be new. I'll get your reaction.
Speaker 1: So Wendy's is doing a partnership with SpongeBob and they
Speaker 1: are making a big deal, but they haven't promoted it yet.
Speaker 1: They can be a bunch of commercials. They're doing the
Speaker 1: SpongeBob squarepan. It's mythical Crabby Patty Ah.
Speaker 3: I'm looking at it online right now, Yeah.
Speaker 1: Which seems kind of cool, but when you actually look
Speaker 1: at what it is, it's just the regular Wendy's hamburger
Speaker 1: with a special secret sauce that they're they're putting on it.
Speaker 3: I bet they have a secret sauce for that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a standard Yeah, it's a standard burger. Pungebob
Speaker 1: never revealed what sauce he used. So they just like
Speaker 1: cook something up and then they have some kind of
Speaker 1: pineapple thing. Did you see that. It's like a pineapple.
Speaker 1: I guess it's a pineapple frosty vanilla pineapple frosty.
Speaker 3: That's gonna be okay.
Speaker 1: Eh. Where does Wendy's rank on your big board of
Speaker 1: fast food, Danny.
Speaker 3: I'll be honest with you, I haven't been going there
Speaker 3: in the past few months because they just start charging
Speaker 3: way too much for what their food is.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's across the board, right, It's across.
Speaker 3: The pretty much. I mean, I think the only decent
Speaker 3: value out there is for our family at least, is
Speaker 3: we'll split bowls from Chipotle and three entree items from
Speaker 3: Panda Express. Have you ever ever?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 3: An in and Out? In and Out is the place
Speaker 3: that we go for burgers and fries.
Speaker 1: What about the endless pasta at Olive Garden?
Speaker 3: Have you been able to We are not an Olive
Speaker 3: Garden family because the times we have gone there and
Speaker 3: comes out of you. It's not I'll just say this,
Speaker 3: it's one of those places where you feel it for
Speaker 3: days after you eat there.
Speaker 1: I didn't realize that the Olive Gardens like Chinese food. Now,
Speaker 1: I thought it was Italian food. I know, yeah, exactly, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: but yeah, this has been I think till November seventeenth.
Speaker 1: They have thirteen ninety nine endless pasta along with unlimited
Speaker 1: amount of breadsticks, soup or south back in the day,
Speaker 1: my wife's grandfather, Luigi. This is a funny story. I've
Speaker 1: told this before, but there's new people listening, I hope.
Speaker 1: Otherwise we're just talking to the same people. So this guy,
Speaker 1: Luigi was like authentic Italian from Italy, grew up in Italy,
Speaker 1: moved when he was in his like third twenties, maybe
Speaker 1: mid twenties, he moved to America and he's still had
Speaker 1: an Italian accent and all that. I love. The guy
Speaker 1: who was great passed away couple years ago. But the
Speaker 1: funniest thing about Luigi, a guy that grew up eating
Speaker 1: Italian food. They just called it food in Italy. He
Speaker 1: loved the olive garden. We could not figure out why
Speaker 1: he loved the olive guard. It was the most bizarre
Speaker 1: thing in the world that he loved the olive garden.
Speaker 3: It's the same reason why Mexican people love Taco Bell.
Speaker 3: It's just like a cheap, unhealthy version of their food.
Speaker 3: Like if think about it, your Mexican and your mom
Speaker 3: makes pasole and homemade tamali's, Like you say, your mom
Speaker 3: and your grandmother, they're famous for their tamalis. Well, none
Speaker 3: of that stuff tastes like the crap at Taco Bell.
Speaker 3: I think that was probably the fast food version of
Speaker 3: what he grew up on.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you probably it sounds are you a psychologist?
Speaker 3: That sounds I'm a doctor what he grew up on,
Speaker 3: but way more fatty flavoredness.
Speaker 1: Yeah no, But it was the funniest thing. And I
Speaker 1: knew him the last few years of his life. Again,
Speaker 1: like a finny, proud Italian man just can't get enough
Speaker 1: spaghetti and fetucini at the the olive garden.
Speaker 3: It was pretty Yeah, well you and I we've never
Speaker 3: been We haven't had the opportunity to go to Europe
Speaker 3: or Italy or any of that. Yeah, we've not got
Speaker 3: to go to Sicily or Italy. But one thing you
Speaker 3: do hear from people when they come back, they say
Speaker 3: the food is good, but it's very simple.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's not like our version. It's like the Chinese food.
Speaker 1: I've heard stories that American Chinese food is nothing like
Speaker 1: the local delicacy in China because they just cover our
Speaker 1: version with sugar and.
Speaker 3: Yeah, sugars and sauces.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's that that sweet spot that everyone tries to get.
Speaker 1: There's that right combination where if you combine the right
Speaker 1: amount of fat, sugar, and salt, it is just Heaven
Speaker 1: tell me, it is just amazing, and everyone's trying to
Speaker 1: find it. I did see there was a foody story.
Speaker 1: This is not an email, but did you see McDonald's
Speaker 1: is I don't think they've done this before. The Chicken
Speaker 1: Big Mac is coming to the US.
Speaker 3: I didn't hear about this.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the McDonald's has decided why not, we will. Uh,
Speaker 1: this is a viral international McDonald's. McDonald's menu item coming
Speaker 1: to the US soon. The CEO of McDonald's recent confirmed
Speaker 1: that Americans will be able to get the chicken version
Speaker 1: of the Big Mac, just what you wanted. The Chicken
Speaker 1: Big Mac has landed coming soon.
Speaker 3: A couple of weekends ago, we were somewhere where there
Speaker 3: weren't a lot of options to eat, so I got
Speaker 3: some McDonald's. I looked for a grilled chicken sandwich. They
Speaker 3: don't even have that on the menu anymore. I had
Speaker 3: to get a fried chicken sandwich and it was over fried. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Well, they tried for a while McDonald's to sell all
Speaker 1: these healthy things, and they realized nobody wanted to buy them,
Speaker 1: because if you go to McDonald's, you don't want to
Speaker 1: buy a salad or a rat.
Speaker 3: Sucks. I would argue that a lot of us that
Speaker 3: was our go to there because we're like, well, if
Speaker 3: I have to eat here, let me get the healthy option.
Speaker 1: That's true. However, the people that do the book the
Speaker 1: bookkeeping for McDonald's, they're like, well, we're not selling enough
Speaker 1: to make this, you know, just a the cost.
Speaker 3: But yeah, let's just cater to all the fat asses.
Speaker 1: I saw a KFC. I was gonna do this yesterday
Speaker 1: with the foody thing. KFC has a new item, limited
Speaker 1: edition KFC ice bucket. You want to take a guess
Speaker 1: how much that's going to cost?
Speaker 3: Twenty dollars?
Speaker 1: All right, twenty bucks for a bucket to put ice in?
Speaker 3: All right?
Speaker 1: Well, it turns out that is is wrong. The KFC
Speaker 1: limited edition signature bucket.
Speaker 3: Oh wait, limited edition. Oh that's got to be forty
Speaker 3: dollars then.
Speaker 1: Night, Well, buckle up, buckeroo. It'll cost you one hundred
Speaker 1: and twenty nine dollars and ninety five cents. What one
Speaker 1: hundred and thirty dollars for an ice bucket? Does it
Speaker 1: come with a lifetime supply of ice? Yeah? Good luck,
Speaker 1: good luck on that a bunch of Oh they are?
Speaker 1: And Tina, which is that's fifty bucks? I guess that's
Speaker 1: a little a little cheaper. Wow, that is price gouging.
Speaker 1: I would say we'll get out on that. Danny. I
Speaker 1: it's a holiday, but I am back tonight. I'll be
Speaker 1: doing the show over the holiday tonight and tomorrow and
Speaker 1: all that. No days off, I got the TV show
Speaker 1: this week, so we got to get ready for the NFL.
Speaker 1: What about you, Danny? Any days off here with the holiday?
Speaker 1: You guys working throughout the week on Covino.
Speaker 3: And Rich Now, normally Covino and Rich would work on
Speaker 3: Labor Day, but the boss told them that he had
Speaker 3: coverage for them, and so the guys are taking the
Speaker 3: day off. So yeah, they returned to the airwaves along
Speaker 3: with me and Spotty Boy on Tuesday afternoon from two
Speaker 3: to four pm on the West Side and that's five
Speaker 3: to seven pm and beautiful Springfield, Massachusetts.
Speaker 1: Alf the Alien Opineer, all right, very good, have a
Speaker 1: wonderful rest of your day. Remember there's still a chance
Speaker 1: to watch Benny Versus the Penny. Unlike most weeks, since
Speaker 1: there's no NFL game, they usually kill the show once
Speaker 1: the NFL games start, which would be today and it's Sunday.
Speaker 1: But there's no games today until next week, So funny
Speaker 1: of time to catch Benny Versus the Penny, our season
Speaker 1: appetizer to get you ready for the entire year. And
Speaker 1: we have a lot of win totals and different props
Speaker 1: and whatnot we're doing on today's or this weekend's edition
Speaker 1: of Benny Versus the Penny.
Speaker 3: Oh.
Speaker 1: Also, before I forget Alf and my guys in Massachusetts,
Speaker 1: I recorded a special promo that will air on NBC
Speaker 1: Sports Boston tomorrow on the holiday, and I think it's
Speaker 1: going to air during Felger and Maz which is the
Speaker 1: top sports radio show in Boston, and it's on NBC
Speaker 1: Sports Boston. So check that out if you get a chance.
Speaker 1: Let me know how it looked, let me know if
Speaker 1: it was all right. It's a quick spot. It's just
Speaker 1: a little promo for Benny versus the penny. But any
Speaker 1: promotion we can get to bring new people to the crowd,
Speaker 1: I'm all about that. So have a wonderful rest of
Speaker 1: your Sunday, enjoy the holiday weekend, and hopefully it will
Speaker 1: be with me tonight on the radio, and we'll talk
Speaker 1: to you when we talk to you.
Speaker 3: Austa Pasta got a murder. I gotta go.