1 00:00:00,680 --> 00:00:02,240 Speaker 1: Cutbooms. 2 00:00:02,279 --> 00:00:05,360 Speaker 2: If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes 3 00:00:05,400 --> 00:00:09,200 Speaker 2: a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants 4 00:00:09,200 --> 00:00:12,480 Speaker 2: of the old Republic, a soul fashion of fairness. He 5 00:00:12,560 --> 00:00:15,480 Speaker 2: treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the 6 00:00:15,600 --> 00:00:19,439 Speaker 2: rich pill poppers in the penthouse. Wow to clearing House 7 00:00:19,480 --> 00:00:23,200 Speaker 2: of hot takes, break free for something special. The Fifth 8 00:00:23,200 --> 00:00:29,600 Speaker 2: Hour with Ben Maller starts right now in the. 9 00:00:29,600 --> 00:00:35,120 Speaker 1: Air everywhere The Fifth Hour with Me, Ben Mahler and 10 00:00:35,320 --> 00:00:39,800 Speaker 1: Danny g Radio Happy Friday. We have reached the weekend, 11 00:00:39,840 --> 00:00:41,320 Speaker 1: which is not the end of the line, as you know, 12 00:00:41,479 --> 00:00:46,800 Speaker 1: because everyday audio, every effing day audio here did the 13 00:00:46,920 --> 00:00:50,880 Speaker 1: radio show last night, up all night, waited a couple hours, 14 00:00:50,880 --> 00:00:54,760 Speaker 1: came back into the podcast studio, cut up here. We 15 00:00:54,800 --> 00:00:57,760 Speaker 1: are hopefully no speed bumps. Had a few speed bumps 16 00:00:57,760 --> 00:01:00,320 Speaker 1: this week. We'll get to that in the bar body 17 00:01:00,520 --> 00:01:05,039 Speaker 1: of the podcast later on. In this pod, we've got 18 00:01:05,080 --> 00:01:09,399 Speaker 1: strawberry shortcake. Unless it's not nine to one one, what's 19 00:01:09,440 --> 00:01:13,399 Speaker 1: your emergency? Lights camera action will have the phrase of 20 00:01:13,520 --> 00:01:16,440 Speaker 1: the week, and also, if we have time, some foodie fun. 21 00:01:16,520 --> 00:01:22,200 Speaker 1: But we begin with this. It is National Sewing Machine Day. 22 00:01:22,240 --> 00:01:24,120 Speaker 1: That's why we love these dopey holidays on the Fifth 23 00:01:24,160 --> 00:01:27,640 Speaker 1: Hour podcast. So it's National Sewing Machine Day. Now. When 24 00:01:27,640 --> 00:01:30,480 Speaker 1: I was a kid, my mom would futs around with 25 00:01:30,520 --> 00:01:33,320 Speaker 1: the sewing machine, and I remember that was like a 26 00:01:33,360 --> 00:01:36,080 Speaker 1: big thing. She would we would always f up. We 27 00:01:36,319 --> 00:01:38,880 Speaker 1: had had two brothers, so she was the mom of 28 00:01:38,959 --> 00:01:42,120 Speaker 1: three boys and we would f up our clothes tremendously. 29 00:01:42,200 --> 00:01:45,000 Speaker 1: And my mom would always be sewing crap together. And 30 00:01:45,040 --> 00:01:47,080 Speaker 1: she was really good, as I remember, she was good 31 00:01:47,120 --> 00:01:48,800 Speaker 1: at it. Now I don't know, maybe she was bad 32 00:01:48,840 --> 00:01:50,760 Speaker 1: at sewing, but as a kid, I thought, man, my 33 00:01:50,800 --> 00:01:53,320 Speaker 1: mom is like the greatest sewer of all time. So 34 00:01:53,360 --> 00:01:56,040 Speaker 1: it is National Sewing Machine Day and a major tip 35 00:01:56,040 --> 00:02:01,560 Speaker 1: of the cap to Elias Howe and Isaac Singer. Do 36 00:02:01,600 --> 00:02:03,840 Speaker 1: you know who that is? No, you've never heard of 37 00:02:03,840 --> 00:02:08,560 Speaker 1: the name Elias Howe or Isaac Singer. Well, it's a 38 00:02:08,600 --> 00:02:10,239 Speaker 1: bad job by you now. Back in the day, I 39 00:02:10,240 --> 00:02:12,840 Speaker 1: don't know if they still have home eck. When I 40 00:02:12,880 --> 00:02:15,160 Speaker 1: was I'm a dinosaur. When I was in school, they 41 00:02:15,160 --> 00:02:16,800 Speaker 1: had a home ex where you had to like learn 42 00:02:17,600 --> 00:02:20,040 Speaker 1: You didn't have to learn who Elias how and Isaac 43 00:02:20,120 --> 00:02:22,400 Speaker 1: Singer were, but you had to learn like stuff like 44 00:02:22,560 --> 00:02:25,679 Speaker 1: sewing and things like that. They tried to teach you, 45 00:02:25,680 --> 00:02:27,480 Speaker 1: you know, things that you need as a human being, 46 00:02:28,240 --> 00:02:32,600 Speaker 1: things like that. So it turns out that Elias Howe 47 00:02:32,600 --> 00:02:35,960 Speaker 1: and Isaac Singer are two of the more important people 48 00:02:36,520 --> 00:02:38,480 Speaker 1: in the history of the world. But nobody really cares 49 00:02:38,480 --> 00:02:41,440 Speaker 1: about them because they did not invent They did not 50 00:02:41,600 --> 00:02:46,279 Speaker 1: invent the wheel. They didn't come up with the telephone 51 00:02:46,480 --> 00:02:49,680 Speaker 1: or the internet or any of that stuff. No, no, no, no, no, 52 00:02:50,160 --> 00:02:53,040 Speaker 1: let's go all the way back in the hot tub 53 00:02:53,080 --> 00:02:55,000 Speaker 1: time machine. We're gonna go back to the year seventeen 54 00:02:55,160 --> 00:02:59,120 Speaker 1: ninety one, not seventeen ninety and not seventeen ninety two. 55 00:03:00,000 --> 00:03:04,000 Speaker 1: Teen ninety one. Very important. So in seventeen ninety one, 56 00:03:04,040 --> 00:03:10,240 Speaker 1: a guy named Thomas Saint. Thomas Saint patented the sewing machine. 57 00:03:10,639 --> 00:03:18,399 Speaker 1: The first sewing machine was patented in seventeen ninety one. Okay, wow, 58 00:03:18,800 --> 00:03:21,919 Speaker 1: it wasn't until eighteen thirty three, so we're looking at 59 00:03:22,080 --> 00:03:26,240 Speaker 1: forty forty years later or so. A guy named Walter 60 00:03:26,480 --> 00:03:33,120 Speaker 1: Hunt invented the lockstitch machine, but he didn't patent it. 61 00:03:33,880 --> 00:03:36,320 Speaker 1: Bad job by him. I guess the internet wasn't around 62 00:03:36,320 --> 00:03:39,040 Speaker 1: in eighteen thirty three. He said, well, you haven't said 63 00:03:39,040 --> 00:03:42,200 Speaker 1: the names. You didn't say. You didn't say the name. Okay, 64 00:03:42,440 --> 00:03:47,080 Speaker 1: calm down. So that's right. Thomas Saint and Walter Hunt 65 00:03:47,120 --> 00:03:51,520 Speaker 1: are not Elias Howe and Isaac Singer. So we move 66 00:03:51,600 --> 00:03:56,320 Speaker 1: ahead in this tale of sewing greatness. It was in 67 00:03:56,480 --> 00:04:00,680 Speaker 1: eighteen fifty one, March of eighteen fifty one, and that 68 00:04:00,840 --> 00:04:08,520 Speaker 1: is when Isaac Singer used other manufacturers' ideas. It was 69 00:04:08,560 --> 00:04:13,120 Speaker 1: not his idea to put together a foot pedal, and 70 00:04:13,320 --> 00:04:18,799 Speaker 1: was granted the first American patent, the very first one, 71 00:04:19,839 --> 00:04:24,240 Speaker 1: in eighteen fifty one, and off to the races we go, 72 00:04:24,600 --> 00:04:28,160 Speaker 1: and so so, so so so, and then in nineteen 73 00:04:28,240 --> 00:04:32,520 Speaker 1: forty six, Toyota, Toyota. You think of Toyota, you think 74 00:04:32,560 --> 00:04:36,320 Speaker 1: of cars, but they built their first sewing machine in 75 00:04:36,520 --> 00:04:44,200 Speaker 1: nineteen forty six. So there you go a little fun 76 00:04:44,320 --> 00:04:48,320 Speaker 1: fact on sewing the timeline, cause we're all about the history. 77 00:04:48,839 --> 00:04:52,440 Speaker 1: We're all about the history of the sewing machine. You say, well, what, 78 00:04:53,480 --> 00:04:56,000 Speaker 1: just he was involved in it. Okay, I was involved 79 00:04:56,040 --> 00:04:58,840 Speaker 1: in it. Just deal with it. That's it. And if 80 00:04:58,920 --> 00:05:01,520 Speaker 1: you want some other fun facts on that, go find 81 00:05:01,560 --> 00:05:04,320 Speaker 1: them yourself. I'm done on that now. It is also 82 00:05:05,240 --> 00:05:08,240 Speaker 1: a day that is important to me. It's National Kitchen 83 00:05:08,320 --> 00:05:11,320 Speaker 1: Clutch Day, one of these made up holidays. As you 84 00:05:11,360 --> 00:05:13,800 Speaker 1: may or may not know, in recent years, I have 85 00:05:13,880 --> 00:05:17,000 Speaker 1: taken up the hobby of cooking. It started out as baking, 86 00:05:17,080 --> 00:05:19,640 Speaker 1: and I still bake occasionally. But the problem with baking 87 00:05:19,800 --> 00:05:22,279 Speaker 1: is you end up eating most of the product that 88 00:05:22,360 --> 00:05:25,480 Speaker 1: you bake. And if you bake cookies and cakes and 89 00:05:25,520 --> 00:05:29,640 Speaker 1: things like that, brownies, you end up fat. So I'm 90 00:05:29,640 --> 00:05:31,880 Speaker 1: trying to avoid that, so I've cut back tremendously on 91 00:05:31,920 --> 00:05:34,919 Speaker 1: the baking. It's rare and appropriate. Now make a bunch 92 00:05:34,960 --> 00:05:38,000 Speaker 1: of cookies and do that whole thing, but rare inappropriate, 93 00:05:38,360 --> 00:05:42,680 Speaker 1: rare inappropriate. But it's National Kitchen Cluts of America Day 94 00:05:43,640 --> 00:05:47,360 Speaker 1: every June thirteenth. Why do we have this day? Well, 95 00:05:47,920 --> 00:05:51,880 Speaker 1: why do we have Father's Day? Right, the least popular holiday, 96 00:05:51,920 --> 00:05:54,960 Speaker 1: Father's Day, Mother's Day very important. Father's Day which is 97 00:05:55,040 --> 00:05:59,479 Speaker 1: this weekend, not that big a deal. I'm guessing when 98 00:05:59,520 --> 00:06:05,000 Speaker 1: they discovered fire, which this is the Stone Age, the 99 00:06:05,080 --> 00:06:08,280 Speaker 1: beginning parts of the Stone Age, back in the day, 100 00:06:09,360 --> 00:06:12,760 Speaker 1: there must have been some dude who had decided to 101 00:06:12,800 --> 00:06:15,160 Speaker 1: cook something over the fire and like drop the whole 102 00:06:15,200 --> 00:06:19,320 Speaker 1: thing into the fire, right, primitive Neanderthal type, you know, 103 00:06:19,360 --> 00:06:23,560 Speaker 1: half Neanderthal, half Homo sapey and just kind of throwing 104 00:06:23,600 --> 00:06:26,960 Speaker 1: the crap into the fire. It wasn't until seventeen twenty 105 00:06:27,000 --> 00:06:31,200 Speaker 1: five the world's very first restaurant opened up. Now I'm 106 00:06:31,200 --> 00:06:34,040 Speaker 1: guessing somewhere in like the sixteen tens or something there 107 00:06:34,080 --> 00:06:36,760 Speaker 1: might have been something there was a restaurant, but just 108 00:06:36,800 --> 00:06:39,560 Speaker 1: go with it, right, just go with it. So it 109 00:06:39,640 --> 00:06:44,040 Speaker 1: was in seventeen twenty five the world's first restaurant opened, 110 00:06:44,560 --> 00:06:47,280 Speaker 1: and it opened in Madrid. I think we've had that 111 00:06:47,320 --> 00:06:49,320 Speaker 1: before in the podcast. I feel like we've talked about 112 00:06:49,320 --> 00:06:53,480 Speaker 1: that on this podcast. And anyway, seventeen twenty five it opened, 113 00:06:53,839 --> 00:06:57,400 Speaker 1: and you know, somewhere in that kitchen at that nice 114 00:06:57,440 --> 00:07:01,000 Speaker 1: little restaurant in Madrid, they were they were affing around. 115 00:07:01,240 --> 00:07:05,760 Speaker 1: Stuff was not going right, and they dropped stuff. And 116 00:07:06,040 --> 00:07:10,080 Speaker 1: the history of klutz being a clutch, which I am 117 00:07:10,440 --> 00:07:13,080 Speaker 1: proudly a klutz I think most of us are, and 118 00:07:13,080 --> 00:07:15,600 Speaker 1: then the history of food go side by side and 119 00:07:15,920 --> 00:07:19,360 Speaker 1: some of the things that we used today. It always 120 00:07:19,400 --> 00:07:21,680 Speaker 1: blows me away, like the random things that are in 121 00:07:21,720 --> 00:07:25,800 Speaker 1: the kitchen where you go back and you're like, well, 122 00:07:25,800 --> 00:07:27,760 Speaker 1: how did that start. I'll give you an example. I 123 00:07:27,760 --> 00:07:30,000 Speaker 1: was reading a story this week. I know this is 124 00:07:30,000 --> 00:07:31,480 Speaker 1: a little bit off topic, but it doesn't kind of 125 00:07:31,480 --> 00:07:34,840 Speaker 1: involve food. So I was reading stories. Somewhere I fell 126 00:07:34,880 --> 00:07:37,400 Speaker 1: down this rabbit hole and I was getting ready for 127 00:07:37,440 --> 00:07:42,400 Speaker 1: the show, the radio show, and I started looking up. 128 00:07:43,160 --> 00:07:44,800 Speaker 1: I don't even remember what I was looking up. Somehow 129 00:07:44,840 --> 00:07:46,280 Speaker 1: I ended up down this rabbit hole where it was 130 00:07:46,280 --> 00:07:50,880 Speaker 1: like about foods that used to be medicine. And it's 131 00:07:50,920 --> 00:07:52,880 Speaker 1: a lot of stuff, but the one that stood out 132 00:07:53,200 --> 00:07:58,000 Speaker 1: was ketchup. Way back a couple hundred years ago, doctors 133 00:07:58,040 --> 00:08:04,800 Speaker 1: would prescribe ketchup to treat diarrhea and indigestion. You got 134 00:08:04,800 --> 00:08:07,800 Speaker 1: the mana Zuma's revenge, you go get some some ketchup, 135 00:08:07,920 --> 00:08:11,400 Speaker 1: get some Heinz ketchup, and you're good to go. That's 136 00:08:11,440 --> 00:08:14,040 Speaker 1: all you need, and that's it. Just put put little 137 00:08:14,080 --> 00:08:16,560 Speaker 1: ketchup in there. You'll be good. Now. I would I 138 00:08:16,560 --> 00:08:18,760 Speaker 1: would definitely go to the doctor Moore. If the doctor says, 139 00:08:18,760 --> 00:08:21,760 Speaker 1: you know, Ben, yeah, you don't feel right, there's something 140 00:08:21,800 --> 00:08:24,320 Speaker 1: wrong with you. Why don't you go eat a dozen 141 00:08:24,360 --> 00:08:27,960 Speaker 1: donuts and let's that's helped that that stomach for years. 142 00:08:28,000 --> 00:08:30,000 Speaker 1: You look like you need about a dozen donuts, a 143 00:08:30,000 --> 00:08:34,960 Speaker 1: combination of apple fritters and Sinmon rolls, and that will 144 00:08:34,960 --> 00:08:39,160 Speaker 1: take care of all of your props. That's it. That's 145 00:08:39,160 --> 00:08:43,600 Speaker 1: all you need. Make it happen, Okay, Doc, whatever you say. 146 00:08:44,840 --> 00:08:46,959 Speaker 1: All right, So, as far as the strawberry shortcake thing, 147 00:08:47,000 --> 00:08:49,160 Speaker 1: if you were listening to the Overnight Show, I've been 148 00:08:49,160 --> 00:08:52,480 Speaker 1: told by some of you idiots that this Friday podcast 149 00:08:52,520 --> 00:08:55,760 Speaker 1: is a retrospective on the week that was. And sometimes 150 00:08:55,760 --> 00:08:59,000 Speaker 1: that's true. Sometimes that's true, sometimes it's not. It just 151 00:08:59,040 --> 00:09:01,920 Speaker 1: depends on my mood. Today. I'm looking back at the 152 00:09:01,920 --> 00:09:04,679 Speaker 1: week that was. We had some zany things happen. I say, 153 00:09:04,720 --> 00:09:09,400 Speaker 1: strawberry shortcake. It's really strawberry moon. Our friend Andrea, she's 154 00:09:09,480 --> 00:09:13,520 Speaker 1: the astrology insider on the show, and she called up 155 00:09:13,559 --> 00:09:16,120 Speaker 1: and she pointed out she had the Farmer's Almanac out. 156 00:09:16,160 --> 00:09:20,080 Speaker 1: She said, hey, Ben, it's a strawberry moon. And so 157 00:09:20,160 --> 00:09:23,560 Speaker 1: I made a joke about strawberry donuts. She said, strawberry moon. 158 00:09:24,160 --> 00:09:28,880 Speaker 1: And we know from life experience doing overnight talk radio 159 00:09:28,920 --> 00:09:33,040 Speaker 1: when there's a full moon, people act differently. Things pop up. 160 00:09:33,880 --> 00:09:36,719 Speaker 1: I say, well, it's a quinky dink, Ben, It's not 161 00:09:36,760 --> 00:09:40,559 Speaker 1: really true. It's just your perception. And I would argue 162 00:09:40,600 --> 00:09:43,280 Speaker 1: that if that only happened a couple of times over 163 00:09:43,320 --> 00:09:50,800 Speaker 1: the course of my long winding road doing audio talk radio, 164 00:09:51,360 --> 00:09:53,920 Speaker 1: then I would say, Okay, you're right, it's just my interpretation. 165 00:09:55,240 --> 00:10:00,480 Speaker 1: That's not the case, though I have overwhelming I'm talking 166 00:10:00,640 --> 00:10:04,720 Speaker 1: twenty plus years of doing this, most of it overnight, 167 00:10:05,160 --> 00:10:07,600 Speaker 1: but it doesn't matter whether it's overnight or not. It 168 00:10:07,640 --> 00:10:10,920 Speaker 1: happens during the day too. People just and it doesn't 169 00:10:10,960 --> 00:10:12,960 Speaker 1: stand out as much during the day, but at night 170 00:10:13,000 --> 00:10:15,960 Speaker 1: it stands out more so. We had the Strawberry Moon 171 00:10:16,640 --> 00:10:21,319 Speaker 1: and on Q on Queue everything hit the fan. We 172 00:10:22,080 --> 00:10:28,120 Speaker 1: had the lunatics, the people out committing criminal acts against police, 173 00:10:28,200 --> 00:10:32,120 Speaker 1: throwing bricks at police and whatnot, and taking rocks and 174 00:10:32,200 --> 00:10:35,280 Speaker 1: chucking them at people and lighting cars on fire, you know, 175 00:10:35,360 --> 00:10:40,600 Speaker 1: normal activity in LA. And so that happened. The phone 176 00:10:40,640 --> 00:10:45,200 Speaker 1: lines clogged, which did coincide, as it was pointed out 177 00:10:45,200 --> 00:10:48,559 Speaker 1: to me by someone. I'm I'm not sure who pointed 178 00:10:48,600 --> 00:10:50,079 Speaker 1: this out. There might have been a couple of people 179 00:10:50,440 --> 00:10:53,880 Speaker 1: that it coincided with the LA curfews. More than that, 180 00:10:54,640 --> 00:10:57,840 Speaker 1: in a second. So it is a call in radio show, 181 00:10:57,920 --> 00:11:01,440 Speaker 1: as you know, and with one line. We had one line. 182 00:11:01,440 --> 00:11:03,600 Speaker 1: We have a bunch of phone lines coming into the mothership. 183 00:11:03,640 --> 00:11:07,520 Speaker 1: There was one line that was working. Every other phone 184 00:11:07,559 --> 00:11:10,560 Speaker 1: line was messed up and you had to call like 185 00:11:10,920 --> 00:11:14,840 Speaker 1: fifty times to get in. We heard that that you 186 00:11:14,840 --> 00:11:17,680 Speaker 1: had to keep calling, and it depending on what phone 187 00:11:17,720 --> 00:11:20,200 Speaker 1: company you had. If you had certain carriers, you couldn't 188 00:11:20,200 --> 00:11:24,920 Speaker 1: get through. So we tried resetting the phones. You know, 189 00:11:24,960 --> 00:11:27,320 Speaker 1: hit the thing of a jig and then you twist 190 00:11:27,320 --> 00:11:30,280 Speaker 1: the what you might call it, and then da da, 191 00:11:31,000 --> 00:11:33,920 Speaker 1: Well that didn't work, all right, that didn't work. Now. Fortunately, 192 00:11:34,840 --> 00:11:39,559 Speaker 1: because I am a loser, I have no life, type, 193 00:11:39,559 --> 00:11:42,080 Speaker 1: a personality, whatever you want to say, I over prepare 194 00:11:42,160 --> 00:11:45,360 Speaker 1: for every radio show. And I do that because early 195 00:11:45,400 --> 00:11:48,360 Speaker 1: in my career, I've told this story from time to time. 196 00:11:48,400 --> 00:11:49,880 Speaker 1: I'll share it with you right now. I'm not going 197 00:11:49,920 --> 00:11:52,240 Speaker 1: to give you the full dance remix. But the first 198 00:11:52,280 --> 00:11:55,880 Speaker 1: time I ever did talk radio by myself was a 199 00:11:55,960 --> 00:12:01,760 Speaker 1: Saturday morning show, and I had worked in San Diego 200 00:12:01,920 --> 00:12:04,360 Speaker 1: for a while at the mighty six ninety, which no 201 00:12:04,440 --> 00:12:06,520 Speaker 1: longer is in business and hasn't been in business for 202 00:12:06,559 --> 00:12:10,040 Speaker 1: probably twenty five years or twenty years, but anyway, So 203 00:12:10,120 --> 00:12:13,040 Speaker 1: I worked in the mighty sixth ninety I got transferred 204 00:12:13,080 --> 00:12:15,280 Speaker 1: to the station in Los Angeles, local station that was 205 00:12:15,280 --> 00:12:18,560 Speaker 1: owned by Jacore Media, which became a clear channel, which 206 00:12:18,600 --> 00:12:22,959 Speaker 1: became iHeart and I still work at iHeart. So anyway, 207 00:12:23,120 --> 00:12:26,559 Speaker 1: I'm doing my first radio show. The program director Bob Bennett, 208 00:12:27,320 --> 00:12:30,439 Speaker 1: you know, he he thought early on and the company 209 00:12:30,480 --> 00:12:33,400 Speaker 1: thought that I had a chance to not suck. Not 210 00:12:33,480 --> 00:12:35,480 Speaker 1: that I would be good, but they thought I did. 211 00:12:35,559 --> 00:12:37,719 Speaker 1: They didn't think I would suck, so that that made 212 00:12:37,760 --> 00:12:40,480 Speaker 1: me feel pretty good. That made me feel pretty good. 213 00:12:41,160 --> 00:12:42,920 Speaker 1: And he said, hey, I want to give you a shot, 214 00:12:43,040 --> 00:12:46,040 Speaker 1: and you got to pay your dues. You gotta pay 215 00:12:46,080 --> 00:12:48,120 Speaker 1: your dues. I said, okay, I'll pay my dues. So 216 00:12:48,160 --> 00:12:51,319 Speaker 1: we'll give you a slot on Saturday morning. And then 217 00:12:51,679 --> 00:12:54,480 Speaker 1: originally I did the show with other people. I had 218 00:12:54,559 --> 00:12:56,520 Speaker 1: other people. I did the show. It was I got 219 00:12:56,480 --> 00:12:59,480 Speaker 1: an hour or I think it started as an hour show, 220 00:12:59,559 --> 00:13:02,480 Speaker 1: and then as I remember, and then that was it. 221 00:13:02,520 --> 00:13:05,120 Speaker 1: So they said, we want to see what you sound 222 00:13:05,160 --> 00:13:08,360 Speaker 1: like by yourself. I said, okay, I'm in sign me up, coach, 223 00:13:08,520 --> 00:13:10,440 Speaker 1: I'm ready to go. Put me in center field I 224 00:13:10,440 --> 00:13:14,440 Speaker 1: can play. So they gave me the show on the Saturday. 225 00:13:14,600 --> 00:13:18,520 Speaker 1: And this is in the days before the modern internet, 226 00:13:18,760 --> 00:13:22,880 Speaker 1: you know, like AOL America online, and there was limited, 227 00:13:24,040 --> 00:13:27,920 Speaker 1: limited content. People were still reading newspapers and so it 228 00:13:28,040 --> 00:13:30,800 Speaker 1: wasn't the world that we're in today. It's a much 229 00:13:30,840 --> 00:13:34,839 Speaker 1: more difficult proposition to properly prepare for a radio show. 230 00:13:35,280 --> 00:13:38,199 Speaker 1: At least the way I prepare is whatever, because I'm 231 00:13:38,240 --> 00:13:41,480 Speaker 1: anal about this. So the first show I ever did, 232 00:13:42,080 --> 00:13:44,679 Speaker 1: I remember saying, I am just going to knock everyone's 233 00:13:44,720 --> 00:13:47,160 Speaker 1: socks off. I am just going to kill it. I 234 00:13:47,200 --> 00:13:50,600 Speaker 1: am going to kill it. And so I prepared, and 235 00:13:50,640 --> 00:13:53,840 Speaker 1: I prepared, and I spent two days putting my first 236 00:13:53,880 --> 00:13:57,320 Speaker 1: ever Mallard monologue together. And this was going to be 237 00:13:57,400 --> 00:14:00,760 Speaker 1: my moment. I was going to prove everyone to everyone 238 00:14:00,800 --> 00:14:04,160 Speaker 1: that gave me a shot, hey, you were right. And 239 00:14:04,200 --> 00:14:07,280 Speaker 1: for those that wouldn't give me a shot, screw you, 240 00:14:07,280 --> 00:14:11,760 Speaker 1: you suck you blew it. Okay, fine, So I put 241 00:14:11,800 --> 00:14:15,880 Speaker 1: this monologue together and it was a piece of poetry. 242 00:14:16,360 --> 00:14:18,240 Speaker 1: It was I had all my bullet points. I was 243 00:14:18,280 --> 00:14:21,000 Speaker 1: ready to go. I had practiced it. You know, the 244 00:14:21,040 --> 00:14:24,400 Speaker 1: whole thing got the timing rat a tat tat, ready 245 00:14:24,400 --> 00:14:28,560 Speaker 1: to go. I got on that microphone and I opened 246 00:14:28,600 --> 00:14:34,960 Speaker 1: the mic, and I nailed it. I absolutely nailed it, 247 00:14:35,280 --> 00:14:38,200 Speaker 1: ten out of ten. In fact, it was twenty out 248 00:14:38,200 --> 00:14:44,600 Speaker 1: of ten perfect. Gave out the number, did a tease boom, 249 00:14:45,640 --> 00:14:50,000 Speaker 1: went right to the commercials. So then five minutes of 250 00:14:50,000 --> 00:14:56,600 Speaker 1: commercials play back to the show, and I drowned. I 251 00:14:56,680 --> 00:15:01,600 Speaker 1: had only prepared for that opening monologue, not realizing that 252 00:15:01,760 --> 00:15:05,600 Speaker 1: was only ten or fifteen minutes. Shiver me timbers I 253 00:15:05,760 --> 00:15:07,880 Speaker 1: had at that time. I think that show was three hours, 254 00:15:07,920 --> 00:15:10,760 Speaker 1: so I had three hours I had. I had used 255 00:15:10,840 --> 00:15:14,440 Speaker 1: up all of my bullets in the first segment, and 256 00:15:15,160 --> 00:15:22,160 Speaker 1: I had this swat, this flop sweat. I was freaking out. 257 00:15:22,240 --> 00:15:24,920 Speaker 1: I didn't know. I don't know how I survived that. 258 00:15:25,280 --> 00:15:27,480 Speaker 1: I gave out the number. Nobody knew who I was, 259 00:15:27,600 --> 00:15:30,520 Speaker 1: no one was calling. It was a nightmare. So ever 260 00:15:30,560 --> 00:15:32,840 Speaker 1: since then, long story short, I said I was gonna 261 00:15:32,840 --> 00:15:34,320 Speaker 1: be the short version. I gave you a longer version 262 00:15:34,360 --> 00:15:36,520 Speaker 1: that was like the mid version, so long story short. 263 00:15:36,560 --> 00:15:41,400 Speaker 1: Because of that experience, I always over prepare for a 264 00:15:41,480 --> 00:15:43,800 Speaker 1: radio show. I never want to be in that situation 265 00:15:44,680 --> 00:15:47,840 Speaker 1: where I am not ready to go. I have to 266 00:15:47,880 --> 00:15:53,040 Speaker 1: prepare myself for all of the conceivable possibilities. And as 267 00:15:53,080 --> 00:15:55,480 Speaker 1: you know, especially these days on the Overnight Show, it's 268 00:15:55,480 --> 00:15:57,800 Speaker 1: a one man band. It's you know, just me, that's it. 269 00:15:58,160 --> 00:16:00,200 Speaker 1: You know. I don't even have a sidekick anymore. They 270 00:16:00,200 --> 00:16:03,840 Speaker 1: whacked Eddy, so I'm on my own. And so the 271 00:16:03,840 --> 00:16:06,480 Speaker 1: things I learned as a boy scout back in the day, 272 00:16:06,520 --> 00:16:09,120 Speaker 1: and we're confirmed when I did my first talk radio 273 00:16:09,160 --> 00:16:13,479 Speaker 1: show I still use today. Your work is your signature. 274 00:16:14,360 --> 00:16:17,160 Speaker 1: That is my product. You never sell. I believe in 275 00:16:17,240 --> 00:16:19,400 Speaker 1: never selling an inferior product. I wouldn't want to buy 276 00:16:19,400 --> 00:16:21,560 Speaker 1: an inferior product. Why would I want to sell an 277 00:16:21,600 --> 00:16:24,200 Speaker 1: inferior product? And this is all I have is my words, 278 00:16:24,720 --> 00:16:26,640 Speaker 1: So that's it. And I want to be like some 279 00:16:26,720 --> 00:16:29,440 Speaker 1: horse being sent to the glue factory. But it's the 280 00:16:29,440 --> 00:16:31,600 Speaker 1: code of the West. You take pride in your work, 281 00:16:32,000 --> 00:16:35,080 Speaker 1: you ride for the brand, and you finish what you start, 282 00:16:35,320 --> 00:16:37,880 Speaker 1: and those basic things. I feel like we could just 283 00:16:37,960 --> 00:16:41,360 Speaker 1: teach those basic things to people and they could follow them. 284 00:16:41,720 --> 00:16:44,440 Speaker 1: The world would be a better place. It just would, 285 00:16:44,600 --> 00:16:48,160 Speaker 1: and you wouldn't have that sinking feeling. Now nine to 286 00:16:48,200 --> 00:16:51,160 Speaker 1: one one, what's your emergency. This is not a story 287 00:16:51,160 --> 00:16:52,760 Speaker 1: about my wife, who you may or may not know, 288 00:16:52,880 --> 00:16:55,240 Speaker 1: is a nine to one one operator. No, no, no, 289 00:16:55,720 --> 00:16:59,560 Speaker 1: This is a recreation of what we think happened, what 290 00:16:59,640 --> 00:17:04,600 Speaker 1: we think happened earlier this week. This go back back, back, 291 00:17:04,640 --> 00:17:09,439 Speaker 1: back back back, and uh any a day that was 292 00:17:09,560 --> 00:17:12,240 Speaker 1: I don't know, was it was it Wednesday? Was it Thursday? 293 00:17:12,359 --> 00:17:15,280 Speaker 1: I don't know, A couple of days back, and we're 294 00:17:15,280 --> 00:17:17,680 Speaker 1: doing a recreation here. This is not the actual call. 295 00:17:17,760 --> 00:17:24,120 Speaker 1: This is a recreation ring ring ring nine one one. 296 00:17:24,160 --> 00:17:27,960 Speaker 1: What's your emergency? Yeah, my name is Scott. Hi, Scott, 297 00:17:28,000 --> 00:17:31,240 Speaker 1: what's your problem? I live on the North end of Boston. Well, Scott, 298 00:17:31,280 --> 00:17:35,399 Speaker 1: this is this is La PD Scott. Uh yeah, I'm 299 00:17:35,520 --> 00:17:39,240 Speaker 1: I'm calling because my favorite radio show's having an issue 300 00:17:39,280 --> 00:17:41,639 Speaker 1: with the phones. I feel like this is an emergency. 301 00:17:42,119 --> 00:17:44,960 Speaker 1: Uh but you're you're in Boston, We're in Los Angeles. 302 00:17:45,000 --> 00:17:48,399 Speaker 1: What are you doing? Uh? Yeah, it's it's called Scott, 303 00:17:48,400 --> 00:17:51,840 Speaker 1: It's Scott. Here's it's the Ben Malor Show. Yeah. So 304 00:17:51,960 --> 00:17:54,679 Speaker 1: if we are to believe Scott, now, Scott has is 305 00:17:54,800 --> 00:17:57,640 Speaker 1: he's admitted he has like multiple personalities and he's got 306 00:17:57,680 --> 00:17:59,520 Speaker 1: there's a lot going on I get a kick out 307 00:17:59,520 --> 00:18:02,520 Speaker 1: of Scott. Ninety five percent of the time I am 308 00:18:02,560 --> 00:18:06,160 Speaker 1: a fan of Blind Scott. The five percent I do 309 00:18:06,200 --> 00:18:08,800 Speaker 1: not like blind Scott is when he threatens to docks 310 00:18:08,840 --> 00:18:12,400 Speaker 1: me and he goes completely off the reservation. Not a fan, 311 00:18:12,840 --> 00:18:14,920 Speaker 1: But for the rest of it, I get a kick 312 00:18:14,920 --> 00:18:16,760 Speaker 1: out of him. The fact that he's on You don't 313 00:18:16,800 --> 00:18:20,200 Speaker 1: realize he's on hold every night, almost the entire show, 314 00:18:21,000 --> 00:18:23,720 Speaker 1: and I only usually use him one time on the show. 315 00:18:23,720 --> 00:18:25,480 Speaker 1: Sometimes I'll use him two or three times, but usually 316 00:18:25,480 --> 00:18:27,800 Speaker 1: it's only one time, and he says on oh, and 317 00:18:27,840 --> 00:18:30,000 Speaker 1: most of the time he doesn't complain. And the thing 318 00:18:30,040 --> 00:18:33,240 Speaker 1: about him, unlike most of the callers, like I'll take 319 00:18:33,280 --> 00:18:35,840 Speaker 1: calls and these are like regular star callers on the show. 320 00:18:35,840 --> 00:18:38,800 Speaker 1: These are legends, and they're gammering and they're not ready 321 00:18:38,800 --> 00:18:42,000 Speaker 1: to go. And Blind Scott always has a sharp tongue. 322 00:18:42,480 --> 00:18:47,040 Speaker 1: He's always ready to go, and he's he's listening somehow 323 00:18:47,119 --> 00:18:50,240 Speaker 1: to all the bull crap. So I appreciate that he 324 00:18:50,240 --> 00:18:52,760 Speaker 1: puts He's not getting paid, I don't think, but he's 325 00:18:52,760 --> 00:18:55,920 Speaker 1: putting work in so anyway, if we are to believe Scott, 326 00:18:56,800 --> 00:19:01,479 Speaker 1: the phones go down at FSR and he thinks this 327 00:19:01,560 --> 00:19:05,159 Speaker 1: is a police matter, and he says he called LAPD. No, 328 00:19:05,320 --> 00:19:07,680 Speaker 1: he didn't call nine one one. I added that I don't. 329 00:19:07,880 --> 00:19:09,520 Speaker 1: If you call nine one one, you get your local 330 00:19:09,600 --> 00:19:13,719 Speaker 1: nine one one. But he called the LAPD office like 331 00:19:13,800 --> 00:19:16,240 Speaker 1: some he went on the internet and found some number. 332 00:19:16,680 --> 00:19:19,560 Speaker 1: And keep in mind, he did this while the city 333 00:19:19,640 --> 00:19:22,760 Speaker 1: was under curfew. Downtown Los Angeles, the meat of LA 334 00:19:22,960 --> 00:19:26,359 Speaker 1: City Hall, that area one mile radius was under curfew, 335 00:19:26,680 --> 00:19:29,480 Speaker 1: and he ended up in the middle of that saying, Hey, 336 00:19:29,760 --> 00:19:33,120 Speaker 1: I'm gonna call the chat line here. I got a problem. 337 00:19:32,880 --> 00:19:39,560 Speaker 1: My radio show can't take calls and I'm a caller now, 338 00:19:39,760 --> 00:19:45,639 Speaker 1: piggybacking off that piggybacking off that you have lights, camera action. 339 00:19:47,200 --> 00:19:49,720 Speaker 1: That is what it was like for me a couple 340 00:19:49,800 --> 00:19:55,440 Speaker 1: nights this week, driving in to the radio studios from 341 00:19:55,520 --> 00:20:00,840 Speaker 1: the north Woods, making the long drive in. So I'm 342 00:20:00,920 --> 00:20:03,479 Speaker 1: driving into work. Now, the writing had been going on 343 00:20:03,560 --> 00:20:06,359 Speaker 1: for a couple of days, so that that's one issue. 344 00:20:06,960 --> 00:20:09,280 Speaker 1: Then you had the curfew, as we mentioned with the 345 00:20:09,320 --> 00:20:12,960 Speaker 1: blind Scott story, so you had that. So I'm making 346 00:20:13,000 --> 00:20:15,400 Speaker 1: the long drive in from the north Woods. Now keep 347 00:20:15,400 --> 00:20:18,960 Speaker 1: in mind, before this happened, I had I was watching 348 00:20:19,000 --> 00:20:22,560 Speaker 1: a game, and then I would flip over and they 349 00:20:22,640 --> 00:20:24,879 Speaker 1: had the news on, and they had the helicopters, and 350 00:20:24,920 --> 00:20:29,240 Speaker 1: there were people, uh, just a few few bad actors 351 00:20:29,280 --> 00:20:31,679 Speaker 1: I'm sure looked like a lot, but they were out 352 00:20:31,720 --> 00:20:34,040 Speaker 1: there causing havoc, you know, messing with the cops and 353 00:20:34,080 --> 00:20:37,800 Speaker 1: all that stuff and usual activity that happens in La 354 00:20:37,920 --> 00:20:40,560 Speaker 1: La Land. So I'm watching this and I'm like, well, 355 00:20:40,600 --> 00:20:42,119 Speaker 1: I drive it in, and the way I go in, 356 00:20:42,280 --> 00:20:44,640 Speaker 1: I take the one oh one. If you're not familiar 357 00:20:44,640 --> 00:20:46,920 Speaker 1: with Los Angeles, the one on one freeway, which slices 358 00:20:47,119 --> 00:20:50,880 Speaker 1: right in downtown, goes by Union Station is on the right, 359 00:20:51,440 --> 00:20:53,920 Speaker 1: and then on the other side is like the Men's 360 00:20:53,920 --> 00:20:56,200 Speaker 1: Central Jail. Actually, no, I think it's not the Men's 361 00:20:56,240 --> 00:20:58,480 Speaker 1: Central Jail. It's just the jail, the Men's Central Jails 362 00:20:58,520 --> 00:21:00,840 Speaker 1: on the other side. And then there there's a city hall. 363 00:21:00,880 --> 00:21:03,480 Speaker 1: There's Olavera Street, which is on the other side near 364 00:21:03,680 --> 00:21:07,760 Speaker 1: Union Station, and then there's this like this Walt Disney 365 00:21:08,200 --> 00:21:10,479 Speaker 1: Music Hall. There's a weird high school that has some 366 00:21:10,760 --> 00:21:14,199 Speaker 1: art thing, and then up ahead is the from the 367 00:21:14,200 --> 00:21:15,879 Speaker 1: one oh one to the one ten, and to the 368 00:21:15,960 --> 00:21:17,960 Speaker 1: right you can get to Dodger stadium. So this is 369 00:21:17,960 --> 00:21:20,439 Speaker 1: how I go to get to work. So I'm driving 370 00:21:21,480 --> 00:21:26,160 Speaker 1: and I'm getting near Union Station and I get thanks 371 00:21:26,200 --> 00:21:29,840 Speaker 1: to the incompetent mayor of Los Angeles, I get a 372 00:21:30,000 --> 00:21:34,600 Speaker 1: full on show. I end up driving right through the 373 00:21:34,640 --> 00:21:38,280 Speaker 1: heart of the knuckleheads. The only thing I was worried 374 00:21:38,280 --> 00:21:40,840 Speaker 1: about was that they would end up on the freeway, 375 00:21:40,880 --> 00:21:43,959 Speaker 1: because I've seen this happen a lot. They closed the 376 00:21:43,680 --> 00:21:47,160 Speaker 1: they walk down it's an old freeway, the one oh one, 377 00:21:47,280 --> 00:21:50,320 Speaker 1: or they'll close the one ten. There's a standard. So 378 00:21:50,359 --> 00:21:52,719 Speaker 1: we had on my way to work, I had lights 379 00:21:52,960 --> 00:21:56,679 Speaker 1: from the police helicopters I had, and also from like 380 00:21:56,800 --> 00:21:58,720 Speaker 1: it seemed like two hundred police carers. I have not 381 00:21:58,840 --> 00:22:02,120 Speaker 1: seen that many police cars and that many cops in 382 00:22:02,119 --> 00:22:06,280 Speaker 1: one place since the previous LA riots. I'm going way 383 00:22:06,280 --> 00:22:09,119 Speaker 1: back when I was a kid. So we had the 384 00:22:09,200 --> 00:22:11,480 Speaker 1: lights from the police helicopters, and then there were some 385 00:22:11,520 --> 00:22:14,080 Speaker 1: news helicopters that didn't have lights of police cars, and 386 00:22:14,119 --> 00:22:16,840 Speaker 1: they were actually what they had done is on the 387 00:22:16,960 --> 00:22:19,480 Speaker 1: on ramps to the freeway that was like the staging 388 00:22:19,520 --> 00:22:21,160 Speaker 1: area for the cops. So there was like a combination. 389 00:22:21,200 --> 00:22:23,720 Speaker 1: It wasn't just LAPD there was highway patrol. But there 390 00:22:23,720 --> 00:22:26,040 Speaker 1: were a ton of cops. I mean they were, well, 391 00:22:26,040 --> 00:22:28,320 Speaker 1: it was a lot. And then we had the cameras 392 00:22:28,359 --> 00:22:32,520 Speaker 1: provided by the media, the action from the lunatics that 393 00:22:32,560 --> 00:22:36,679 Speaker 1: were throwing things and mocking the cops and all that stuff, 394 00:22:36,680 --> 00:22:39,040 Speaker 1: many of them being arrested for violin and curfew. So 395 00:22:39,080 --> 00:22:42,920 Speaker 1: it was not just your normal drive in. It was 396 00:22:43,040 --> 00:22:45,560 Speaker 1: the drive with the lights, camera action and a bit 397 00:22:45,600 --> 00:22:47,800 Speaker 1: of a show. We had a bit of a show 398 00:22:48,680 --> 00:22:51,800 Speaker 1: on that one. All right. Time out for the phrase 399 00:22:52,200 --> 00:22:57,320 Speaker 1: of the week. The phrase of the week. Now, the 400 00:22:57,320 --> 00:23:03,840 Speaker 1: phrase of the week is really just two letters. It's 401 00:23:03,960 --> 00:23:09,080 Speaker 1: two letters or is it two letters? Well, let me 402 00:23:09,200 --> 00:23:10,679 Speaker 1: give it to you. The phrase of the week is 403 00:23:10,840 --> 00:23:16,639 Speaker 1: p you. Now, I do use this phrase on a 404 00:23:16,760 --> 00:23:20,800 Speaker 1: semi regular basis. In fact, you might have heard me 405 00:23:20,840 --> 00:23:24,640 Speaker 1: say something last night on the show, on the Overnight 406 00:23:24,680 --> 00:23:28,600 Speaker 1: Show about this, and we talked about things that are 407 00:23:29,400 --> 00:23:33,880 Speaker 1: are smelling. So I'll say, p you what stinks? Right? Well, 408 00:23:33,920 --> 00:23:38,760 Speaker 1: the phrase PU does not does not stand for pretty, 409 00:23:38,920 --> 00:23:47,320 Speaker 1: unsavory or putrid eh or please use as in deodorant. No, no, no. 410 00:23:48,520 --> 00:23:51,240 Speaker 1: In fact, if you if you go back and study 411 00:23:51,280 --> 00:23:54,080 Speaker 1: the origins, and I am not the one that did this, 412 00:23:54,240 --> 00:23:58,360 Speaker 1: but I did fall down an avenue that led me here. 413 00:24:00,040 --> 00:24:06,919 Speaker 1: So the phrase pu, it turns out likely it began 414 00:24:07,200 --> 00:24:11,760 Speaker 1: in the early seventeenth century. And it is not initials 415 00:24:11,760 --> 00:24:16,880 Speaker 1: for anything. It's not initials for you name it. It is 416 00:24:17,440 --> 00:24:23,560 Speaker 1: the word pew. Pew, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, 417 00:24:23,680 --> 00:24:30,080 Speaker 1: defines an expressing contempt, disgust, or derision division, and it is. 418 00:24:30,720 --> 00:24:34,119 Speaker 1: It's pew. It's spelled a few different ways, but the 419 00:24:34,200 --> 00:24:38,720 Speaker 1: way we'll use is pew. And there's different iterations and 420 00:24:38,760 --> 00:24:41,760 Speaker 1: all that stuff. And it's supposed to be pronounced with 421 00:24:41,840 --> 00:24:46,600 Speaker 1: one syllable. And so the theory is that over time, 422 00:24:47,359 --> 00:24:51,320 Speaker 1: to add a little rasmataz, add a little flair. Instead 423 00:24:51,320 --> 00:24:56,040 Speaker 1: of saying pew, they said p You like that, And 424 00:24:56,080 --> 00:25:02,400 Speaker 1: it's similar to you can say beautiful or be you ful? Right, 425 00:25:02,480 --> 00:25:07,280 Speaker 1: be be twoful? You can say that as well, Yeah, exactly, 426 00:25:07,880 --> 00:25:13,399 Speaker 1: And so pu sounds exactly like the letters PU. So 427 00:25:13,440 --> 00:25:17,440 Speaker 1: it's believed that that's how it happened. Now that being 428 00:25:17,440 --> 00:25:22,480 Speaker 1: pointed out, PW to pu isn't the only theory behind 429 00:25:22,480 --> 00:25:27,320 Speaker 1: the expression. It has also been suggested by competing wordsmith 430 00:25:27,880 --> 00:25:34,000 Speaker 1: a wordsmith out there that the phrase pu actually comes 431 00:25:34,000 --> 00:25:38,159 Speaker 1: from an Indo European word, which is pu, meaning to 432 00:25:38,440 --> 00:25:43,959 Speaker 1: rot or decay. There's also a Latin phrase that is 433 00:25:44,000 --> 00:25:47,840 Speaker 1: similar that means to stink. And it turns out there's 434 00:25:47,840 --> 00:25:52,919 Speaker 1: actually a number of phrases and other Latin words that 435 00:25:52,960 --> 00:25:55,440 Speaker 1: are are similar. And I don't need to give you two. 436 00:25:55,480 --> 00:25:59,199 Speaker 1: I don't speak Latin very well, but anyway, in short, 437 00:26:00,119 --> 00:26:02,160 Speaker 1: I just kind of sum this up. The letters PU 438 00:26:02,240 --> 00:26:06,080 Speaker 1: have been associated with stench, either from the seventeen hundreds 439 00:26:06,119 --> 00:26:09,600 Speaker 1: or even before that in the sixteenth century. So there 440 00:26:09,600 --> 00:26:14,680 Speaker 1: it is the phrase all the week pu, the phrase 441 00:26:14,880 --> 00:26:17,800 Speaker 1: of the week times for some food he fun, all right, 442 00:26:17,840 --> 00:26:21,880 Speaker 1: for food he fun. Now. I talked to my friend 443 00:26:21,920 --> 00:26:24,480 Speaker 1: Nico when I was in Vancouver and we had Nico 444 00:26:24,520 --> 00:26:27,360 Speaker 1: on the podcast recently, and he was great. We love 445 00:26:27,440 --> 00:26:31,320 Speaker 1: Nico and Nico enjoys the pod. He listens, and I realized, though, 446 00:26:31,359 --> 00:26:32,960 Speaker 1: we have people that listen all over the place. Not 447 00:26:33,000 --> 00:26:34,879 Speaker 1: most people listening are here in America, but we have 448 00:26:34,920 --> 00:26:37,240 Speaker 1: people all over Canada, as we learned, great audience in 449 00:26:37,320 --> 00:26:41,439 Speaker 1: Vancouver and other places around Canada. And so I have 450 00:26:41,560 --> 00:26:44,240 Speaker 1: the foodie fun and I just put together a slap 451 00:26:44,320 --> 00:26:47,359 Speaker 1: together some deals trap your boys out some new items 452 00:26:47,400 --> 00:26:50,960 Speaker 1: that are interesting. Realizing these are not available everywhere, so 453 00:26:52,320 --> 00:26:54,920 Speaker 1: as Nico said, well, you mentioned some restaurants and that's 454 00:26:54,920 --> 00:26:56,719 Speaker 1: not in Canada. We can't you know, I can't have that. 455 00:26:57,040 --> 00:26:59,840 Speaker 1: But these are some restaurants out. Even if these restaurants 456 00:26:59,880 --> 00:27:03,639 Speaker 1: are in your place, you might not get the item. 457 00:27:04,119 --> 00:27:07,720 Speaker 1: For example, McDonald's, they're everywhere. Just in time for the summer, 458 00:27:07,800 --> 00:27:13,159 Speaker 1: McDonald's offering all the flavors of the classic campfire treat, 459 00:27:13,440 --> 00:27:19,800 Speaker 1: the S'mores s'mores mcflurry. They partnered with Hershey's so you 460 00:27:20,640 --> 00:27:24,440 Speaker 1: can have that. I was never a big Smores guy, 461 00:27:24,800 --> 00:27:28,119 Speaker 1: did a few campouts in my younger days. Eh. The 462 00:27:28,200 --> 00:27:34,000 Speaker 1: problem was the melt of the chocolate and it didn't 463 00:27:34,040 --> 00:27:37,080 Speaker 1: match up. And then get one bite into the Graham cracker, 464 00:27:37,200 --> 00:27:39,760 Speaker 1: the marshmallow and the chocolate, and it was such an 465 00:27:39,920 --> 00:27:43,359 Speaker 1: f and mess. It was terrible. You had marshmallow all 466 00:27:43,400 --> 00:27:46,320 Speaker 1: over your hands and it would drip down on your shirt. 467 00:27:46,359 --> 00:27:48,919 Speaker 1: You were a pig. But anyway, if you're into that, 468 00:27:49,160 --> 00:27:54,359 Speaker 1: if that's your jam, McDonald's unveiling the new Hershey's S'mores mcflurry. 469 00:27:54,960 --> 00:27:57,920 Speaker 1: It's got four hundred and sixty calories if you're buying mcfluury, 470 00:27:57,960 --> 00:28:01,160 Speaker 1: who the hell cares? Come on, don't count on that. 471 00:28:02,000 --> 00:28:04,920 Speaker 1: But they say vanilla soft serve ice cream swirled with 472 00:28:04,960 --> 00:28:10,000 Speaker 1: Hershey milk, chocolate, Graham Cracker, and soft marshmallows available in 473 00:28:10,119 --> 00:28:13,240 Speaker 1: meni and regular size prices starting at dollars seventy nine. 474 00:28:13,280 --> 00:28:15,639 Speaker 1: That's probably for a thing the size of your thumb. 475 00:28:16,600 --> 00:28:20,879 Speaker 1: And the prices do vary based on location. And also 476 00:28:20,920 --> 00:28:22,960 Speaker 1: we're not sure if that's all over the place or 477 00:28:23,119 --> 00:28:27,320 Speaker 1: just in the US. Taco Bell on Foodie Fund. Taco 478 00:28:27,359 --> 00:28:31,840 Speaker 1: Bell has launched a new Crispy Chicken taco and burrito 479 00:28:32,440 --> 00:28:37,480 Speaker 1: featuring all new Crispy Chicken strips. Okay, is there getting 480 00:28:37,480 --> 00:28:40,800 Speaker 1: in on that? Like the fries, the Taco Bell fries. 481 00:28:40,880 --> 00:28:44,960 Speaker 1: That's a win and this doesn't sound bad. Although, hey, 482 00:28:45,720 --> 00:28:50,000 Speaker 1: the Malor Mansion, we have mastered the crunchy taco and 483 00:28:50,040 --> 00:28:54,120 Speaker 1: the rolled taco, which is a taketo. We're in it. 484 00:28:54,280 --> 00:28:57,360 Speaker 1: We have mastered that, and it only took a long 485 00:28:57,400 --> 00:28:59,960 Speaker 1: time to get there. But we are, we are here, 486 00:29:00,240 --> 00:29:03,600 Speaker 1: and boy are we happy to be here mastering that. 487 00:29:04,440 --> 00:29:09,480 Speaker 1: Papa John's has officially launched a new cheddar Crust pizza 488 00:29:09,600 --> 00:29:12,920 Speaker 1: nationwide in the US here, So if you're into that, 489 00:29:14,040 --> 00:29:16,280 Speaker 1: knock it out of the park. Culvers, which is in 490 00:29:16,320 --> 00:29:18,440 Speaker 1: my This is not a list, but my big board 491 00:29:18,480 --> 00:29:23,240 Speaker 1: of great fast food establishments. I've got Raising Canes, Got 492 00:29:23,280 --> 00:29:28,280 Speaker 1: In and Out, Burger, Culver's is in there, and bo Jangles. 493 00:29:28,680 --> 00:29:32,320 Speaker 1: Those are some of my favorites. But Culver's launching new 494 00:29:32,360 --> 00:29:36,160 Speaker 1: and improved chicken sandwiches. They have a new lineup of 495 00:29:36,240 --> 00:29:39,640 Speaker 1: chicken sandwiches at culver. I've never had a Culver's chicken sandwich. 496 00:29:39,680 --> 00:29:42,000 Speaker 1: I've only been there a few times. I'm not near 497 00:29:42,040 --> 00:29:47,240 Speaker 1: a Culver's. They have over a thousand locations, thousand locations, 498 00:29:48,440 --> 00:29:51,480 Speaker 1: and I'm not near one. I'm not. The next closest 499 00:29:51,520 --> 00:29:55,280 Speaker 1: is over in Arizona. There's none in La or in California, 500 00:29:55,280 --> 00:29:57,600 Speaker 1: where we do the show from. When I visit my 501 00:29:57,640 --> 00:30:01,200 Speaker 1: brother in Wisconsin, I go to anyone in the Midwest 502 00:30:01,200 --> 00:30:03,160 Speaker 1: they have a Culvers. I'll try to stop by, But 503 00:30:03,240 --> 00:30:07,960 Speaker 1: the Culvers, they say, based on fan feedback, a MULTII 504 00:30:08,320 --> 00:30:14,320 Speaker 1: year MULTII year program fan feedback and research, Culver's culinary 505 00:30:14,360 --> 00:30:18,280 Speaker 1: team has come up with the new grilled Chicken, the 506 00:30:18,400 --> 00:30:23,640 Speaker 1: Crispy Chicken, and the spicy crispy chicken, which sounds like 507 00:30:23,840 --> 00:30:28,800 Speaker 1: every other restaurants chicken lineup. It doesn't sound any different, 508 00:30:28,840 --> 00:30:32,280 Speaker 1: but it's culvers and you get the cheese curds, and 509 00:30:32,360 --> 00:30:35,360 Speaker 1: so you can go with that and have a fine time. 510 00:30:36,400 --> 00:30:41,440 Speaker 1: Just just absolutely knock yourself out there. And that's it, 511 00:30:41,520 --> 00:30:45,400 Speaker 1: all right. It is the Fifth Hour, and I want 512 00:30:45,440 --> 00:30:48,680 Speaker 1: to solicit some letters if you would like to send 513 00:30:48,840 --> 00:30:53,200 Speaker 1: a question in for the mail bag, which is not 514 00:30:53,200 --> 00:30:56,960 Speaker 1: not ask man. We've been so happy with the feedback. 515 00:30:58,040 --> 00:31:00,520 Speaker 1: And when I say feedback, I just mean like people 516 00:31:00,600 --> 00:31:03,640 Speaker 1: that are new, not that we don't love the old people, 517 00:31:04,080 --> 00:31:05,960 Speaker 1: because we love the regulars. You guys are the base. 518 00:31:06,120 --> 00:31:08,840 Speaker 1: We love the bass. But there are new people seemingly 519 00:31:08,880 --> 00:31:13,920 Speaker 1: finding the show. Other than Reggie in Detroit and Alf 520 00:31:14,080 --> 00:31:16,640 Speaker 1: and ferg Dog and those guys, there's new people that 521 00:31:16,680 --> 00:31:20,240 Speaker 1: are coming in, which is really cool because most people 522 00:31:20,800 --> 00:31:23,600 Speaker 1: that listen to a podcast like this will never actually 523 00:31:23,680 --> 00:31:26,400 Speaker 1: interact with the podcast. But Real fifth Hour at gmail 524 00:31:26,480 --> 00:31:30,800 Speaker 1: dot com, Real fifth Hour at gmail dot com if 525 00:31:30,840 --> 00:31:34,920 Speaker 1: you'd like to be part of this podcast. The mail 526 00:31:34,960 --> 00:31:37,920 Speaker 1: bag is on Sunday, so even if you can't listen 527 00:31:37,960 --> 00:31:39,520 Speaker 1: on Sunday, you can go back and listen to it 528 00:31:39,600 --> 00:31:42,960 Speaker 1: later and enjoy that and have a fine, fine time. 529 00:31:43,480 --> 00:31:46,440 Speaker 1: So Danny should be with me on the Saturday and 530 00:31:46,480 --> 00:31:52,760 Speaker 1: the Sunday podcast. We've got pro bouncy ball tonight. I 531 00:31:52,840 --> 00:31:55,600 Speaker 1: believe that is the case. Yeah, pro bouncy ball. So 532 00:31:56,040 --> 00:31:58,239 Speaker 1: we've got that to look forward to. Any have a 533 00:31:58,400 --> 00:32:02,120 Speaker 1: wonderful rest of your Friday. Here, maybe it's the end 534 00:32:02,160 --> 00:32:04,920 Speaker 1: of your Friday. Who knows. We put the pot out early. 535 00:32:04,960 --> 00:32:07,080 Speaker 1: It's up to you decide what you want to do, 536 00:32:07,080 --> 00:32:09,840 Speaker 1: how you want to consume the content. I'm sure that 537 00:32:09,920 --> 00:32:11,720 Speaker 1: Tony in the Bay Area will go back and listen 538 00:32:11,720 --> 00:32:14,160 Speaker 1: to this. He listens to stuff eight years ago, so 539 00:32:14,160 --> 00:32:17,160 Speaker 1: he'll go back and listen to this in twenty thirty three. 540 00:32:17,720 --> 00:32:19,960 Speaker 1: Holy crap, he'll be listening to this. But have a 541 00:32:20,040 --> 00:32:23,240 Speaker 1: wonderful Friday. We got fresh content all weekend. We got 542 00:32:23,240 --> 00:32:24,880 Speaker 1: you on Saturday and Sunday. So I'll talk to you 543 00:32:24,920 --> 00:32:30,240 Speaker 1: next time. And as Danny g would say, asta pasta pill. 544 00:32:30,360 --> 00:32:32,479 Speaker 1: Yeah gotta murder. I gotta go